Dusty Chalk

There's no such thing as a vegetarian lion, and if a lion says he's a vegetarian, don't believe him. He's a-probably a lion.

Oh, nForce == mobo. Sorry, I thought you were recommending me a graphics card.

So it sounds like I should just get a really cheap video card for now that can handle the resolution requirements.

Yeah, me too. I must start the day with MEAT!!!1! I must have the meat. (pictures a biker wearing fur...thinks, "pimp")

You mean GeForce? nForce looks like it's all SLI: PDF link

But any attraction that watching the video may have stems from the guilty thrill of actually seeing death. I mean, why else would anyone click on that link? I agree it's not on par, but I know some militant vegetarians...

AGP. Sounds like the first thing I need to upgrade is my motherboard then? (...& CPU & memory and probably case and PS while I'm at it...) Dagnabit!!!

Kind of a bestial "snuff film". Kinda underwhelming. A friend of mine fed a rat to his pet snake once. I imagine it would not go over well on something like YouTube, but in real life, it was quite interesting.

First of all: sorry about the previous post -- wrong thread. In case you don't know, I watch what others listen to quite a bit, and found that I usually end up liking what you two listen to quite a bit, as well. I'm just not as vocal about it...I think I might have used to be, but not so much any more. I ended up getting the Stolen Babies because of its frequency on the NP list, and I have that DSO on my wishlist. It's just that I don't use Last.FM -- practically the only thing I listen to on the computer is Pandora and YouTube.

Okay, so I got a new monitor, this one, and found out that my graphics card is so old, it doesn't have a 1680x1050 resolution. It has higher, but not widescreen. And it's old enough that it's no longer being supported. So the short answer is I need a new computer. The longer answer is I ain't gettin' one right away, I was going to build it piecemeal -- a case here, a power supply the next month, motherboard and CPU the following, memory, etc. So what I want is a graphics card that will fit in my current computer, but will be good enough for my new computer. Note: I am not a gamer! I do not need dual SLI thisthatorthother. I won't even be watching DVDs on this thing (the new computer), but I do watch the occasional YouTube video and whatnot. So I just need a decent graphics card. If that's still not enough information, ask me questions, I'll try to answer. What other features do I want? I don't know. What other ones are out there? Do I need/want digital? This thing has a DVI input... Oh oh oh oh oh ... I do remember one thing: the main thing I will be trying to accomplish with my next computer is "quiet". So graphics cards with great big horkin' noisy fans are out. But ones that will adapt to a water cooler are in.

The new Therion album coming out in February.

I really like my Etymotic ER-6i's. I've heard good things about the ER-4's, though I don't know which ones are best unamped. Sony MDR-V6/-7506's are pretty good unamped as well.

Capacitance.

So, (a) grawk was right, the inner is the signal; ( I was right, he's using air as the dielectric, but © there's more to it than that (see the "...at close to a 90 degree angle from each other..." statement). EDIT: And after looking at the image again, I have to agree that the inner looks thinner.

They look the same to me. Thickness of the two wires in one interconnect, that is. Any differences in thickness are probably just an optical illusion.

I just emailed him and asked him. The whole concept behind the anti-cables is using air as the insulator (because it has minimal dielectric effect), so I presume the coil is to force spacing between the two wires. But that's just my theory, I'll post his answer when I get it.

I didn't realize that, but based on the pictures, I agree that there's no way there's a shielded. And yes, I like shielded. We live in a RF-dirty world. There are quite a few high-end cables that aren't shielded, but for every one that you can cite, I can probably find one that is. I know the Outlaws are shielded. And there's no excuse for not shielding a balanced cable. But I still intend to try them. The lack of shielding may be outweighed by everything else, if it is as good as it says it is. And yes, those pics are hot.

I've been meaning to try something called Anti-Cables -- I've heard good things about them at, for example, audiokarma.org.

And here I always thought that was a pocketknife. But now that I look at it more closely, I can see that it's a closeup of a nib...and that's pretty much all I can see. Well, I can see that it's at least partially made out of gold...or gold-plated... Goddamnit!

Okay, that just means I need to re-read it.

I should also mention the last thing I read (after the Baroque cycle -- which is excellent beyond words, but is a long and difficult read for some reason, probably the language) was the 30 Days of Night -related novel, Rumors of the Undead. Took me about ten days to read/finish. Probably not the best place to start in the 30 Days of Night world, but a good read if you've already read everything else (30 Days of Night, Dark Days, Return to Barrow, Bloodsucker Tales, etc.), as most, if not all of those other stories are spoiled in this one. ...oh, hot shit, they're making it into a movie...

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So...you hated Dante's Inferno? I don't mind suffering as long as it is ultimately either redemptive or tragic or somehow else dramatic.

Mm...no promises. It does have a certain amount of a VR world in it. Forewarned is forearmed and all that. I don't remember much nanotech, but I could be wrong. It's been long enough that I could probably re-read that book right now.

Diamond Age is a completely different story from Snowcrash, and in some ways, I like it better. It's not "cyberpunk" the way Snowcrash is, but it's still sci-fi. I don't think you'll have the same trouble getting into it the way you did with Snowcrash. You might have different trouble, but you won't have the same trouble.