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    Resale value of 7-year old tech

    I have a PC that I use every day, and after a few upgrades over the years it still plays all the current video games on decent graphics settings. I want to upgrade sometime next year, and instead of cannibalizing my current computer, I want to start fresh and perhaps sell my current box...
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    Why does Israel need settlements in the West Bank?

    Why can't Israel simply agree to stop settlements altogether? What purpose do they serve? From what I've read, it's just another major source of unnecessary violence. Just stop the settlements, let Palestine become its own state like the UN wants, and then no one will have any moral excuse for...
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    Should I unplug my electronics?

    I'm leaving my apartment for about two months. Should I unplug all my expensive electronics? I was told that this leaves them susceptible to damage if there's a lightning strike on the building, being that they'd be ungrounded. I know I can save a little bit on electricity if I do this, but...
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    Looking to start casual biking

    Hey ATers I don't know if this is the correct forum for this, but I've recently developed a small but noticeable (to me) midsection (and abhor running), so I'm looking to start biking around town instead of driving. I imagine I can buy a used, cheap bicycle for this purpose, but I was...
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    Looking for a surround-sound setup, budget ~$500

    Hey AT-ers, I'm interested in setting up surround-sound in my apartment. I have a nice 50-inch plasma, but the sound output is less than ideal. So instead of getting just two speakers and a sub, I might as well get the whole experience. I would like to spend less than $500, although if...
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    PS3 Randomly stops output for a few seconds

    I have this very annoying problem with my PS3. Watching a Blu-Ray, or playing a game, at some random point the video and sound will cut out for 2 seconds, and it will come back with the resolution displayed. This can happen with 45 minutes between 'flickers', or 45 seconds. It's completely...
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    HOT: Firefly Complete Series (Blu Ray) $27.99 on Amazon

    You're not going to see a price this low for a very long time. For those who don't know, Firefly is a short, 13-episode series about a band of misfits and petty criminals aboard a 'Firefly'-class freighter. Even though it only lasted half a season, it created a following on the level of...
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    10%-30% off select titles and $10 off future purchase at Gamestop.com

    http://www.gamestop.com/browse/ProductMerch.aspx?groupid=847&loc=ps3feat Games are: Mario Kart Wii Borderlands (PS3) Bayonetta (PS3) Uncharted 2 (PS3) Battlefield Bad Company 2 (PS3, X360) Mass Effect 2 (X360) Heavy Rain (PS3) Call of Duty: MW2 (X360) Wii Sports Resort Just Cause...
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    In the market for a 50" 1080p Plasma

    Normally I would just go with Panasonic, but with the news of them not even trying to fix their rising black levels problem, I think I'm going to steer away from them. I don't need a great TV (looking to spend around $1000), I'm not a videophile, but I don't want my plasma to look like an LCD...
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    Emerson brand plasma TV?

    I saw a very cheap Emerson brand plasma TV in Walmart the other day. Is this a brand worth buying, or is it a horrible cheap brand? I know Emerson itself is an established and respected electronics company.
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    Is there such a thing as a receiver that just outputs audio?

    I don't need anything special. I just need a receiver capable of outputting 5.1 audio. I don't need any video handling. I've been looking around the web for something that just does audio, thinking it would be fairly inexpensive, but haven't found anything. Does such a thing exist, or does it...
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    Sounds coming from drivers side front wheel

    Here's the situation: Oftentimes (not all the time), when I turn the steering wheel even slightly left, I get a slight metalish-squealing sound coming from the drivers side front wheel area. Sometimes, when I make a slow, hard right turn (like making a 90-degree turn from a stop), I get...
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    What motherboards will POST with a 45nm CPU right out of the box?

    The reason I ask which motherboards will run with a 45nm CPU right out of the box is because I don't have any other 775-socket chips to be able to post with it if it has issues. I'm looking at this board. Is it guaranteed to POST with my Q9450? If not, what boards are guarantees? Are there any?
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    New mid-high range computer

    Well, my computer is somehow 3 years old already. I skimped on some parts last time around because I was a new college student, but now that I've got an internship and a lot of money to spare, I'm ready to go all-out (within reason). Here's what how my new build currently stands, parts with...
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    Building a budget PC

    So I'm going to be building my parents a new PC after 7 years of dealing with this Dell desktop. 1.8 GHz P4 (pre-northwood), 512MB RDRAM, GeForce 3 Ti200, lots of old crap. EDIT: Forgot the prerequisite stuff: 1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be...
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    Should I sell my 3-year old computer?

    I have a dilemma on my hands. I'm going to be building myself a new computer around the middle of the year. June, July. Obviously I need an entire new motherboard, and I really want the Antec P182 in place of my P160. I also have my old Geforce 6800GT lying around, replaced by a 8800GT. So I...
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    Composite/Component to DVI/VGA cable?

    I want to hook up my Wii to my computer monitor...an LCD that has two DVI inputs (although I have a couple VGA to DVI converters). So is this possible?
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    Upgrading Just Video Card

    Hey all - I recently upgraded from a Geforce 6800GT to a 8800GT, and boy the difference was amazing. My system still only consists of these parts: A64 3200+ (Venice core, overclocked to 2.4 GhZ, this is only a single core) 1 GB DDR SDRAM (not DDR2) Antec 550W TruPower Even with...
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    Should I upgrade now, or wait?

    Been lurking for a while, but the numbers for the new 8800GT have me so impressed it got me thinking a video card upgrade. I built my current computer in May 2005 and haven't upgraded one bit of it since: A64 3200+ (overclocked to about 2.4 GHz) 2 x 512 GB DDR Antec TruePower 2.0 550W (I...
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    Buy.com: Niko 2206 - 22" LCD Monitor $190

    Price before MIR $240 http://www.buy.com/prod/niko-2...203868965.html#cRevSec This looks like a pretty sweet deal, being that this monitor is $300 elsewhere. Has anyone heard anything about this company? I'm in the market for an LCD (my DiamondPro 940SB had been flickering, it stopped...
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    They Just Don't Get It, Part II

    First the Daily Show, now YouTube. Apparently Republicans can't handle the fact that their opinion is in the vast minority. QubeTV is really just a highly politicized, bogus, whiny, and shrill political video site. It's funny, because YouTube doesn't really have much of a bias at all, it just...
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    Maybe we deserve to be ripped off by Bush's billionaires

    http://www.alternet.org/story/48278 This article is about how stupid the average American must be, or at least how stupid the media outlets think they are, but it's also about how Bush is still trying to push through his tax cuts by other means, repealing the estate tax. A bad idea? You bet...
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    Duke Professors try to cover their arses

    http://www.concerneddukefaculty.org/ Uh huh. I don't understand why these schmucks just admit it: they got duped. Their racism towards the rich, white aristocrat forced them to make assumptions about the actions of said aristocrats based on their own prejudiced views. Why can't they just...
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    Dear Cheney, From Bob Dylan

    I was listening to this masterpiece today, and I thought wow, how weird how it's as applicable today as it was during Vietnam: Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind...
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    Free AR: Kingston 1GB Flash card

    http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=202743519&adid=17070&dcaid=17070 It's OOS at the moment, but if it ever goes back in stock jump on it, with the $45 MIR it's free minus shipping. --- [b]It is such a good deal that another member beat you to posting it. :) Mod
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    Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii) $39.00 at Amazon

    http://www.amazon.com/Legend-Zelda-Twil...CQ/ref=pd_sim_vg_1/104-2398969-9819130 It's in stock as I post this. Couple that with the Wii you may get and you might be having a sweet, sweet after-Christmas this year.
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    WARM: SD 1GB Flash Card 14.99

    http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=3960168 Buy two along with some other cheapo thing to take advantage of both $6.95 ground shipping (that's the minimum, I think you'd have to buy like 15 of these to actually go over that amount) and the $10 off $30 purchase when you use Google...
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    Crowds Force Israel to Cancel Airstrikes

    http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2006/11/19/ap3188376.html Death to Israel, huh? Guess you sheep just signed your death warrants when your heroes fire more rockets into Israeli towns. Glad though that Israel showed restraint. Too bad no one will notice and instead 'praise' those...
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    Waterboarding

    I know Republicans love the idea of torture against not only terrorists, but accused terrorists and pretty much anyone Bush and Co thinks could be a threat, but do we really want to become like our enemies? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co...rticle/2006/10/04/AR2006100402005.html...
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    Arab states decide to break sanctions to Palestinians

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200611/s1786951.htm What I want to know is: why did they ever comply with the sanctions in the first place? If they really cared about the Palestinians plight, they would have sent money long ago. They probably just see peace talks developing because...
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    Rush "Doughboy" Limbaugh reveals his softness to the world

    I literally can't believe this. http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52857 So now he feels 'liberated'? Yeah right. He just wants to be 'right'. There is no loyalty among hacks like him. Just because his ideals now are in direct opposition to the American people, he changes them to...
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    Digital Camera

    Anyone who reads this, I'm looking for a fairly cheap (but not cheap in quality) camera that I'll use just for taking pictures of friends and family and cool 'artsy' things I might see when I'm walking around. Like a dog. Or a leaf. Anyway, I don't know much about the digital camera world...
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    October Surprise #324

    http://www.drudgereport.com/flashaw.htm Straight from Drudge. Webb is a sicko. I wouldn't vote for either of them.
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    Senate GOP torpedoes proposed limits on Bush wiretaps

    http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/13/congress.terrorism.ap/ Huzzah, hooray for Republicans controlling all three branches of the government! This is why people, even honest-to-god republicans should be rooting for Democratic victory this fall. The best of times are when one party doesn't...
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    Pentagon Gives Gloomy Iraq Report.

    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/...LATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-09-01-19-58-45 Sounds like we created the next Rwanda singlehandedly. It's time to cut our losses and get out of there. Bush's plan failed, and not just failed, but failed spectacularly. In fact, I would be willing to make it...
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    What did you do in the war, UNIFIL?

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/622bqwjn.asp Read the rest. I don't know if this is some crap piece, or if he's blowing things way out of proportion. He does provide a horrifying story about UNIFIL, for the sake of 'partiality', stonewalling an Israeli...
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    Hizbullah 'victory' boosts extremists

    http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?...&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull These people are going to run the Middle East right into the ground. Or below it. It's pretty much in the ground as it is. Obviously there's no appeasing them, they want Israel gone. Not just for their...
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    Nasrallah indirectly admits to effectiveness of Israeli assault

    http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060809/D8JD2LIG0.html So there you go. Terrorist group is beginning to concede, in favor of them not being completely obliterated. Not tolerating terrorist attacks FTW.
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    Olmert tells Europe to stop preaching to Israel

    http://reuters.myway.com/article/200608...T_0_NEWS-MIDEAST-OLMERT-EUROPE-DC.html Damn right. This offensive has been one of the most restrained in human history. Usually when countries invade another, there are thousands upon thousands of deaths. Israel, in spite of Hezbollah has made sure...
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    Finally, some sense re: Israel and Lebanon

    http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Internation...concern_over_Israel-Hezbollah_conflict I wholeheartedly agree. Unfortunately, probably through lack of communication between Israel and these groups, Israel had just bombed one such aid convoy. I don't agree with that, and I hope it was only a...