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    Anyone here actually watch the news on TV?

    I gave up on TV news years ago. Now, I just read it online. I'm subscribed to the Wall Street Journal, and I regularly peruse CNN. I quit watching it on TV for several reasons: - There's much less content. - The news you get is decided for you--it's much harder to "pick and choose" the...
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    Woohoo, just switched to wind power

    Power in this area (Wisconsin) typically comes from coal. The local utility offered wind power for 2.6 cents more per KWH, so I switched. Now I can feel warm and fuzzy inside :) Where does your power come from?
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    Summer internships

    Tomorrow is my first day at a certain semiconductor manufacturer with which we're all quite familiar. I'm just a grunt summer intern, and will only be there the next 13 weeks, but I'm certainly looking forward to it as a change of pace from school. Any other summer interns on here? Anyone...
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    Visual Studio 2005

    Do you think it's worth an immediate upgrade, or no? I'm not sure what it really brings to the table.
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    NegaScout search algorithm -- any information?

    Hey everyone, I'm working on a computer opponent for a simple turn-based game with perfect/complete information (e.g. chess, checkers, tic-tac-toe) and am implementing several different algorithms to solve the problem. I've already got a basic MiniMax solver, and a MiniMax w/ Alpha Beta...
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    Adding 2x1gb-->what to buy?

    System: P4 2.4C @ 2.91 2x512mb Corsair XMS @ 2-3-3-6 Running at 3:2 divider, which puts the RAM at ~161 mhz. Reason is running at 5:4 divider is unstable for some reason. I have been doing a lot of work with VMware and Photoshop lately (deadly combination), and have determined that adding...
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    Do you accept evolution as fact? Yes/No?

    AT readers are pretty liberal imho, so most of you can likely answer yes to all these. But for those who aren't up with the times, please take it so we can see why you think that way :-p Let me know if this quiz is missing anything or if anything should be rephrased. It's a bit of a first...
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    Any good FPS cooperative games lately?

    So, anyone played any fun cooperative first person shooters for PC lately? The last I played was serious sam, and that was some time ago. There are some in development for games I already own, but none are done yet: Doom 3: http://lms.d3files.com/main.php Far Cry...
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    Any good news from the right?

    Are there any links to any articles and news stories about good things that have happened since the election that the conservatives can take credit for? Any of the same about bad things the dems have done and should be ashamed of? Just wondering, since I can't seem to find any. ;) Please tell...
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    Is your system unique?

    Do you think your computer is unique, at least on a hardware level? There are millions of PCs sold every year. Many are of the cookie cutter variety: they roll off the assembly line and use the cheapest, crummiest parts available. But the systems most of us use--the ones we build...
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    Ram disks

    Hello everyone, I figured I'd download one of these RAM disk programs to see how it worked. Obviously, it's very fast and can do anything a regular disk can (except retain data when the power goes off). But, since they're so small--being limited by the amount of available RAM--what kind of...