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The CEO is basically telling people that this tech will be able to take people "off the grid" in 5-10 years once the price for residential units comes down to 3k. Essentially, there will be no need for distribution/transmission lines in our future. There are several serious drawbacks with his...

Hello, I'm (voluntarily) creating a web page for a friend who runs a small business (he doesn't really know much about computing). He basically just wants a website that he can display images on; but the problem is that he wants to be able to add/remove these images without going into the HTML...

Yeah, this is also the one I use. It has a very nice layout for a free editor.

From the perspective of being an ATI fan, I agree that it would be sad to see this happen. But AMD is hardly an "unknown" name. I mean, anyone who cares enough about video cards to know the difference between ATI and Nvidia is almost certainly going to know who AMD is. In fact, AMD's...

Well it can't be his PSU that's causing the problem (the idea of two PSU's having the exact same problem is not realistic). It must be something else. As Jonny mentioned, if the CPU HSF isn't mounted properly then your system BIOS may be cutting power to prevent the CPU from burning out...

Since Intel has their own graphics line (which accounts for over 50% of the total market share in the GPU industry), I hardly see how AMD acquiring ATI and Nvidia would be monopolistic.

I definitely agree that if hardware did stop advancing, we would be seeing a huge change in how software was developed. However, software would also become significantly more expensive then it is now (probably to the point of overshadowing the money saved from not upgrading hardware). For...

To my knowledge, there really isn't any performance difference between AGP 4x and 8x, so I can't imagine it impacting the heat output of the card. If the shutdowns are truly a result of heat or PSU failure then the lockups are most likely intermittent (so you probably just got lucky when it...

If the max is 1280x1024 then it's definitely a 17 inch CRT, not a 19 inch. If it is actually a 19 inch then 1400x1600 shouldn't be much of a stretch considering that my 19 inch CRT is rated to perform up to 1920x1440. Also, I wouldn't recomend pushing it past 1280x1024 if that's actually its...

running an X1800XL with an a8n-e, no problems. However, I used to have a 9600XT. Originally, I was running it on a via SocketA motherboard and had no troubles, however when I switched over to a A7N8X-E (nf2) I had all kinds of driver problems that I was never able to resolve. This, however...

As was mentioned earlier, most of the people who post reviews about products have had bad experiences; and this effect is amplified when a product is more popular. For example, there was a massive sticky on these forums a while back that was simply devoted to covering the problems with the...

I don't believe that it would relate to the PSU. I mean, would a CD drive put that much strain on the power supply on startup? Perhaps if you were booting a disc from it or something. As long as there isn't anything in the drive, however, I can't imagine how the CD drive could put a...

Are you sure that it's a power issue? I mean, CRT's can get messed up when they're too close to other electronic devices (like having your speakers too close to your monitor). A microwave uses the same type of radiation as your CRT uses to create an image on the phosphor sheet. Maybe some...

I don't believe the OP is using pci-e; everybody else just started assuming stuff. There are, however, AGP to pci-e adapters available; so it's still an option.

google Rainlendar. It's an excellent piece of freeware that provides countless calendar skins. I'm pretty sure that most of the people who have desktop calendar's are using that software. BTW, kudos to the person above who's started using an HTML shell ;) .