karl

Frame-packed 3d is essentially 2 x 1080p. 4k is 4 x 1080p. If HDMI 1.3/1.4 supports 3840 x 2160 (4k) at 30fps (and it does, I've seen it), then shouldn't it be able to do frame-packed 1080p 3d at 60fps?

I dun geddit.

I mean, what does it have to do with religion?

I'm personally strongly against abortion because I believe that killing babies is not justified under any circumstances. This has absolutely nothing to do with my religious views. If I became an atheist tomorrow, my views on the value of human life would not change in the slightest.

Are the pro-choice benefactors artificially making this issue a religious one to recruit those who disapprove of religion?

I just don't see the correlation here.

Do you believe that, theoretically, the laws of physics would absolutely prohibit a godlike being to exist?

If not, then god should exist, thanks to the laws of quantum mechanics.

(If you say 'yes', please provide the physical laws that would prevent it. And when I say 'omnipotent', I mean of our universe.)

Do you believe that, theoretically, the laws of physics would absolutely prohibit a godlike being to exist?

If not, then god should exist, thanks to the laws of quantum mechanics.

(If you say 'yes', please provide the physical laws that would prevent it. And when I say 'omnipotent', I mean of our universe.)

Do you believe that, theoretically, the laws of physics would absolutely prohibit a godlike being to exist?

If not, then god should exist, thanks to the laws of quantum mechanics.

(If you say 'yes', please provide the physical laws that would prevent it. And when I say 'omnipotent', I mean of our universe.)

It seems as if most 'intellectual' atheists are at a point in their journey of knowledge that they think themselves able to use science to 'explain away' god.

Unfortunately, if they knew more, they'd realize just how little they, and we as a species, truly do know.

People say that there is no evidence for god, but I believe that science itself is sufficient evidence for god's existence, as our universe simply cannot exist based soley on the science we currently possess. Will we learn more in the future? Undoubtedly. Will it ever 'explain away' the need for a higher power?

I'm not so confident.

Thoughts?

I am looking to get a monitor setup for my new 'ultimate gaming rig', and I can't decide between the following options:

1x 27" 1440p display (Korean brands cost as little as $450 with perfect pixel)

Or

3x 1080p in nvidia surround. 3 x $200 = ~$600

So, in your opinion, which would provide the better experience? I have worked with 27" 1080p displays before, and I'm never thrilled with the image clarity/pixel density. However, this lower pixel density might not be as noticeable in games... and the surround setup looks cool.

But a 1440p setup would be cheaper and possibly crisper...

What to you think is better?

I am looking to build an "ultimate gaming rig". However, I also want to do it in a smart and economical way; not just go "OMGz BuY ALL ThE RAMS!" and whatnot.

So I recently considered going with an i7 3770K CPU rather than a 3930k for the $200 savings.

However, the 3770 uses the LGA1155 socket, and I am having trouble finding an ATX 1155 MoBo that also has decent PCI3.0 x16 throughput.

I want to eventually be able to run Titans in quad-sli (in the future, when prices come down; I figure this is a good way to future-proof my rig)

However, the best I can find with the LGA1155 socket are more like this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...

That board has only 3 PCI3.0 slots, and in tri-sli, they only run in x16/x4/x4 mode. Would this throttle triple- or even dual-titans?

And do you know of any good ATX 1155 mobos that support quad SLI with good PCI3 throughput?

Thanks!

So I am setting up a Minecraft server, and I have heard that Linux is a far more efficient solution than Windows for the task. However, I am not very experienced with Linux, and I would prefer to use, say, Ubuntu Desktop.

My question is this: would Ubuntu Server (command line only) be significantly faster than Ubuntu Desktop (full GUI)?

I intend to run 2 or 3 servers simultaneously (one FTB, one or two bukkit vanilla). I am worried that setting up/managing multiple servers to run simultaneously would be difficult in the single-track interface that is the command line.

What should I do?

So I'm setting up a minecraft server, and I have two drives for it. One is an older SATA/150 128gb drive, and the other is a newer SATA/300 500gb drive. In performance tests, the 500gb drive is about twice as fast as the 128.

So my question is:

Should I run the OS on the slow drive and the server off the fast one, or vise versa?

I know the OS is important, but I feel like a lot of the activity will be on the server/map files.

What should I do?

If you've ever been to a remote region, far from any major cities (the U.P. of Michigan, for example),

have you ever had the experience of simply staring into the sky at night, and wondering if, somewhere in that breathtaking ocean of stars, someone else might be gazing in awe back up at you, wondering the very same thing?

It's a startlingly surreal experience.

can anyone here relate?

I am building a Minecraft server on which I want to run multiple (2 or 3) servers simultaneously. I am currently debating between purchasing 4GB or 8GB of ram, the cost difference being $23. I know that RAM is often a relative non-issue with Minecraft, despite what most people think (that you should have copious amounts of it), as MC does not use *that* much memory, and Java only allocates so much of it anyways.

However, I'm not quite sure how much 2 or 3 servers will eat up, especially if some are, say, FTB or Tekkit.

Does anyone have any experience with this?

Should I spend the extra money for the 8gb, or is 4 plenty?

Keeping in mind that this is a lowest-possible-cost build, and $20 is almost a 10% overall price increase.

Thanks in advance!

So I am building a cheapo server; Ivy B. Pentium, basic mobo and RAM, no discrete GPU. This is what I was looking at for the case/PSU solution, for maximal cost-efficiency:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...

I figured that I'd use the cheap PSU until it died, then buy a better one.

However, I have the nagging fear that, when it dies, it'll do a 'suicide run' and take as much of the rest of the machine as it can with it.

So, I was alternately looking at this PSU:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...

Itself, it costs more than that other case and PSU combined, and it's [i]still[/i] just a bargain-level unit.

So my question is this: Is it a condemnably-bad decision to go with the cheap PSU? Is it worth, say, $40 extra for a *different* low-end PSU such as the Rosewill, especially since the entire build only totals $160?

Cost is a major factor in this build.

Thanks for the advice!

I have a PC acting as a remote server, controlled through Teamviewer. However, the network/internet connection periodically drops out, requiring a restart to fix. Problem is, if there's no internet connection, I can't connect to Teamviewer, meaning I can't tell the PC to restart.

Is there a tool I can use so that the PC will automatically restart when it loses internet connectivity for a certain period of time?

Thanks!

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This must be solved with only basic integration rules; substitution, IBP, etc.

NO Taylor series.

Also you must show the steps used to arrive at the conclusion.

This confuses me. According to cpubenchmark.net:

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php

The AMD a6-5600k performs significantly WORSE than the a6-3650, despite that the 3650 is previous generation and is based on the old Llano architecture (and runs at a lower clock speed).

Why is this? It doesn't make sense. Is real-world performance better?

I is confuse.

GNU Altered Genetics

vs.

Neversummer Proto CTX (wide)

vs.

Burton Nug

I really like the feature set of the Alt. Genetics, but I wear a size 12 boot, and have always ridden wides, and the AG does not come in wide - although it isn't skinny, either.

The Proto comes in a wide, but doesn't have the serrated edges of the other two, about which I've heard great reviews.

Finally, the Nug is something totally different. I wasn't really considering Burton, but the Nug seems to have near universal critical acclaim. I like the idea of an ultra-low spin weight, but the board is straight rocker, and I'd prefer the camber-rocker hybrid found in the first two.

Any suggestions?

I'm looking to write a function that calculates an 'n'-th term of the Fibonacci sequence, tail recursively.

To be clear, this is calculating only *one* term, not a sequence.

And it *must* be tail-recursive.

Any insights?

Thanks!

So I ordered 2 pairs of headphones off of Amazon.com.

I want to compare the two and send back the lesser one.

Does anyone know if Amazon is picky about whether returns of things like headphones have been opened?

(In order to test them, I'd need to open the packaging)

Thanks!

I have a MacBook with:

a 2.3ghz, 8Mb Sandy bridge i7,

AMD Raedon HD 6750M

8gb ram.

I know PCers laugh about Macs at gaming, but here is my dilemma:

I have both this PC (err, mac) and a PS3.

Will the computer run Skyrim at a detail level lower than, equal to, or above that of the PS3?

I dislike PC games in that I am always worried about fiddling with the performance, trying to get the best graphics and being frustrated by laggy framerates, or turning down the graphics and being annoyed by the turned-down graphics.

It makes it much more difficult to enjoy a game.

I would normally just get it for PS3, since the PS3 is generally pretty respectable, graphically, and I have said bias toward consoles. But I've heard a ton of people saying stuff like, "Ahhghg! Elder scrolls = PC game! No consoles Consoles bad!!" and whatnot.

I'm sure there are a lot of people facing the same dilemma as me, so what do you think?