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Thanks for the offer, but the needs analysis I needed the survey for is complete; well, unless my professor tells me to get more information.

If anyone else is interested in helping, I still have a little bit of time left to do survey analysis.

So far I've gotten one response (thanks Zwinmar!). If I can get two or three (or preferable four) more, I'll be all set.

Wow. It's been a while since I last post here, I know. :oops: Anyway, since I last posted, I've been working on getting a Masters in Systems Engineering, which is almost done. I just need to take one more elective and do my Masters Project, and to do my project, I first need to gather some needs and...

It's not all bad, but I wouldn't get used to the life you're living now and go into denial. The problem with humans is they have a very poor grasp of how things can change so quickly, and as human existence is a blip in geological time, so is the oil age within the confines of the human civilisatio...

I'd like to thank Admiral Valdemar for ruthlessly crushing any optimism I might have had about peak oil not being too bad. Now I'm really fucking depressed...

Just out of curiosity, what is an absolute best case scenario? Say the public suddenly wakes up and immiediete, heartfelt efforts are made to cut off oil use entirely? The best case scenario is that the USGS and Big Oil reports that AV cited earlier are right and we don't hit peak oil until 2040. B...

So isn't something similar happening in the US? There is, but probably not to the extent you're describing. BP had a primetime ad going on about clean coal a couple of nights ago, and the NBC Nightly News had a segment on Green Houses last night. There's also a lot of low-emission, fuel efficient c...

After reading through the SLAM threads, I think there still be an IT industry. While there will be unemployment, economic depression, little/no private travel by car and the suburbs will die off, there will still be electricity to power big cities, and governments and big corporations that need to u...

For those in the US, which presidential candidate has the best energy policy, especially when peak oil is factored in. I've looked at Obama, Clinton and Edwards, and while none mention peak oil (I couldn't even find an energy policy on Clinton's site), Edwards seems have the most focus on local, ren...

I live about forty miles from DC, and I commute thirty five miles to work (the other direction to Pax NAS). I'm five miles from the nearest full-up town (which existed before suburbs), not even ten miles from a coal fired power plant (about 1GW output, IIRC), a mile from the railroad, and across the...

It looks like if I click the link in my notification emails, I'm logged out and I can't log back in until I close and re-open browser, and then get into the board from the main page.

I that case I may switch from a contractor to government position in a couple of years. Yeah, I'm a software engineer, but I can learn to do something else quickly. Honestly, I hope the oil companies are right and the peak oil date is farther out, because this scares me shitless.

What sort of consequences would a straight up artificial gravity generator have, one intended to provide gravity in ships without having spinning sections and to provide inertia compensation?

I thought I saw a mushroom cloud. I did! I did!

This one is on my must buy list!

(now if I could just figure why the fuck punkbuster keeps losing key packets in CoD2MP...)

Pwnage!

Does Jack actually think the FBI will do anything (other than laugh)? No threat was made, at least not in the text he quoted.

I just hope he gets disbarred or thrown in jail for contempt this time around.

When I bought my Ford Escape last year, I was also looking at the Toyota Highlander. The local Ford dealer made me an offer I couldn't refuse, however (discounts and 0% financing for the term of the loan - sold!). While I know Ford isn't the best quality brand, it's served my family well. My mom's E...

But I wouldn't pay a dime for the upgrade. XP is too darn stable at this point if you set it up properly, relatively speaking. So is Vista, as long as your using newer hardware and software. From my experience, 99% of the problems Vista users have is due to third party software and drivers not bein...

2 gigabytes By the context of your post, I take it you uninstalled Vista? Assuming you only used it for a couple of days, then it might be Vista doing its caching and indexing. I've done a couple of Vista reinstalls, and I've noticed it gets good bit faster after a couple of days. Also, you might w...

His Divine Shadow wrote:I found vista to be a bit slow at times. On my brand fucking new E6600 Core 2 Duo system I will not tolerate that!

And how much ram did you get with your system?

How will my Nvidia card run on an intel system? They seem to support ATI cards better. Nvidia cards run fine on Intel systems. The only "favor" Intel gave ATI was official crossfire support, and now that AMD bought ATI, you won't see that happen again. And for single card usage, you'll ge...

My E6600 has a 33% overclock on it (to 3.2 GHz), and if I was to switch to water cooling, I know this chip would easily do a 50% overclock (to 3.6GHz; it will load Vista on aircooling, but it overheats too quickly to really do anything). The newer bins should get better overclocking results. Unlike ...

I've been using Vista Ultimate 64-bit since it came out (through my office's MSDN account). It's interface is a damn sight better than XP's, and good bit more responsive. It runs good on 2GB of RAM, but it loves 4GB. I currently have UAC off, since I'm using a beta sound driver, but even when its on...

Good ol' Jack has already found another windmill to tilt at: Bill Gates. Link Mr. Gates, your company is potentially legally liable the harm done at Virginia Tech. Your game, a killing simulator, according to the news that used to be in the Post, trained him to enjoy killing and how to kill. You kne...

I'm getting some minor (inside 10% voltage fluctuations) whenever I run CPU/GFX/RAM intensive software. I'm not sure what might be using the 3.3V channel that's reporting the issue so am asking for some help so I can try and find the source of the issue. The CPU and RAM would more than likely be dr...