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Upgrades in modern combat armor?

everman, it was actually UC Berkely that developed the BLEEX (Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton) system (http://www.berkeley.edu/news/m.../2004/03/03_exo.shtml). Gamingphreek, I suggest that Gannon has a valid point. He isn't suggesting stopping military developement, just limiting it...
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- Post #51
- Dec 19, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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I NEED SUGGESTION PLS

It isn't a question of what AGP is good enough to handle. Yes, PCIe won't help you run the card faster but graphics card makers aren't going to be making AGP cards in the mid to high end ranges. If Todorov wants to game on his rig then the main thing to upgrade will be the graphics card. Even...
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- Post #41
- Dec 19, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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How to enable UDMA mode 6 on VNF3-250 MOBO?

If I were you I wouldn't worry about it. It won't affect performance noticeably and because the only thing that'll possibly slow are burst transfer rates and it won't even affect those much (think about it...8 meg cache at either 100MB/sec or 133MB/sec takes less than a 30/th of a second which...
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- Post #10
- Dec 18, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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Minimize Ghosting on my Samsung 710T LCD

Ummm, you should never use VGA if DVI is available for an LCD. If you use VGA all that is happening is a conversion of digital data into analog and then a conversion of the analog back into digital that won't quite be the same as the original digital image. There are other advantages to DVI...
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- Post #6
- Dec 18, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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Upgrades in modern combat armor?

Actually, medieval armor got quite good at stopping swords. Well, at least the rich knight's armor. Most of the army was peasants who were much less well equipped. The reason medieval swords got so big was that they had to apply more force to hurt someone through the armor. Actually, maces...
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- Post #45
- Dec 18, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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instead of creating a single pill that would give you all your food for the day

I'm going to reply to a few people here at once. 1)sao123 it is very possible to eat food that hasn't been processed and added to. It's called organic and it's generally quite tasty. Also, there's nothing wrong with milk fortified with vitamins A&D. 2)I think the original point of...
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- Post #18
- Dec 17, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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what back-ups rating needed for 600W psu?

You should never make the mistake of thinking there is a relationship between VA requirements in a backup and PSU wattage. You should figure out how much power your system draws and then figure out how much time you want to run your computer for on backup. If Alptraum gets over half an hour...
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- Post #5
- Dec 17, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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Wiring Help Needed

Ok, the 1394 one is straightforward enough, just a bit annoying. Vp goes to the 12V labeled pins, VG goes to any ground pin, as does the GROUND pin. TPA* and TPB* ought to be the same as TPA+ and TPB+ so try that. You won't hurt a firewire device plugging in the signal wires backwards so...
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- Post #2
- Dec 17, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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Upside down hard drive

Hard drives are actually vertically symmetrical, at least as far as the heads and platters go. Both sides of the platter are used so running it upside down is exactly like running right side up. Actually, unless you have a really really old hard drive (if it holds more than a few hundred...
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- Post #9
- Dec 17, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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witch headphones?

Specs really tend to be lies when it comes to audio equipment. From big names like Sennheiser down to no-name brands you buy for $6 they claim things like 20Hz-10kHz response but generally the only audible response is between 200Hz and 2,000Hz or even less. If all you ever used are cheap...
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- Post #6
- Dec 17, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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storing PC in very low temp

If you do a quick check for condensation you turn it on you should be fine. Gurck, I really wouldn't put a CRT anywhere there would be condensation. There are a bunch of tens of thousands of volt capacitors that ought to pretty happily send a current through water and that'll probably fry...
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- Post #13
- Dec 17, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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Headphones, What ones to buy for the money I have.

In general the best place to look for bass is in sealed headphones of some type. Either canalphones or big huge wrap around your ears headphones. Headphones.com has pretty good information about what they sell and you can actually call em up and ask question if you want (it's that service...
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- Post #33
- Dec 17, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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RAID 0?

Ok, couple things about your RAID. Number one: you probably don't have to worry about backing up as much as people have been saying because you are using Raptors. RAID 0 doubles your chance of failure for the volume but Western Digital warranties Raptors to be almost twice as reliable as...
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- Post #10
- Dec 17, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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I NEED SUGGESTION PLS

If you are into gaming then graphics are paramount and you really should go with a PCIe motherboard because it gives you the ability to upgrade the most important part of your system. The biggest point of slowdown in gaming is your graphics card (at least if you like resolutions above 800x600...
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- Post #20
- Dec 17, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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Some advice on my new gaming rig

I have to agree with Transistor that graphics cards are far and away the most important item in a gamer's rig. Despite what review sites say I have never in my life experienced CPU bottlenecks playing games (up until summer 2003 I was using a PIII 600 and now I've got a crappy P4 2.4C that only...
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- Post #6
- Dec 17, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building

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