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  1. Cole

    Computer Wont Start

    This actual mobo wasn't used without standoffs. However two other ones of mine(A8N-SLI Deluxe and A8N-SLI were). Both worked fine afterwards, but broke down to other various reasons and uhh..learning experiences on my part. 1.)Yes, one of the first things i checked. 2.)Wouldn't explain whats...
  2. Cole

    Computer Wont Start

    Been there with GPU's. My old computer didn't start up cuz of a faulty GPU. So that was the first thing I checked. Not the problem. It seems like its short circuting. I've installed a mobo without the brass standoffs...lol...horrible smell...mobo still worked though. Yeah i've had the mobo on...
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    Help me understand atheism

    1)Your wrong. While it does mean without, it is also not and a few other words. 2)The point still stands. Theist = God Without-God If you're theist you have a belief in god if you're atheist you are without-the belief in god. Therefor you are still allowed to have no belief in god. Therefor our...
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    Help me understand atheism

    http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2838/6/?spage=1&letter=A a-, an- + (Greek: a prefix meaning: no, absence of, without, lack of, not) http://www.lexfiles.com/basic-grk-m-z.html theo-, the-, -theism, -theist, -theistic (Greek: God, god, deity, divine). I'm sorry, but what?
  5. Cole

    Help me understand atheism

    He is not combing hobies and religion. He is applying your logic to hobbies and religion. An Atheist is someone who is not a theist. A is derived from greek. It means not. Theist means believes in god. Atheist doesn't define anything beyond you not being a theist. That could mean you believe...
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    Help me understand atheism

    No you are wrong. An Atheist by definition is the lack of belief in a god. Not the belief that there is no god. However people with the belief that there is no god classify themselves as Atheists, therefor we group Atheists into two categories. Strong and Weak. Strong hold a belief there is no...
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    Help me understand atheism

    Atheist covers both weak and strong atheism. Strong Atheist would say "God don't exist". because, he believes god does not exist. Weak Atheist could say "not say anything", "uhh whats a god?", "what are you talking about", "i do not know" because he doesn't have a belief in a god. Essentially...
  8. Cole

    What's going to be Valve's next latest and greatest?

    Doom 3 and HL2 also target different places in the market. Could I go buy a $500 computer and expect to run Doom 3 with full out dynamic lighting smoothly in an open enviroment? Keep in mind Doom 3 kept to small corridors and its shadows had hard edges that wouldn't really look to good in a nice...
  9. Cole

    Help me understand atheism

    Agnostic and Weak Atheist both essentially do the same thing. Not answer the question. But they do it differently. An atheist would simply say nothing to the answer. An agnostic would say "could be either".
  10. Cole

    Vista gaming

    1.)Hool, vista is not preloading anything into memory when you are in a full screen application. In fact it dumps a lot of pre-fetched memory to make room for heavy-ram intensive applications. 2.)You simply have a bad hardware combination for Vista. Thats what it all comes down to. My guess is...
  11. Cole

    In God We Trust... or, do we?

    We share a common ancestor. For example, there are animals with vertebraes and animals without. All animals with vertebraes share a common ancestor that first developed the vertebrae.
  12. Cole

    water = fatness?

    Heres the thing. You are mostly water. You're essentially a sponge. For instance, my physics teacher. When he wasn't drinking that much water for a week you could notice that his hands were smaller. His wedding ring was a lot looser. When he drinks lots of waterhis wedding ring fits really tight...
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    Help me understand atheism

    Actually the weak atheist has it most correct. You see, the weak atheist essentially does not answer the question if there is a god. It is both illogical to assume there is or isn't a god because of a high degree of uncertaintiy for both. Therefor the weak atheist wins out on the most logical...
  14. Cole

    Computer Wont Start

    So I gave my other computer to my brother a few months ago. Anyway about a week ago it simply stopped working. I got it from him and have been unable to diagnois the problem. I built it, the specs were: A8N-SLI 7800GTX Amd Athlon 3500+ TruPower 2 550Watt When you try turning it on, nothing...
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    What's going to be Valve's next latest and greatest?

    Completely true. However, lets say Valve does start going over an entirely new map format that relies and makes really good use of lightmaps. So it's a year later, and HL2: Ep3 comes out making use of this new format. But then 2 years later down the line they end up having to design an entirely...
  16. Cole

    What's going to be Valve's next latest and greatest?

    I pointed this out with the map format. I would say your reasoning is flawed. I would say once both lighting and shadows are completely calculated in real time on source(which is when the average hardware can support it), Valve will switch to a new system. Right now by pre-computing the shadows...
  17. Cole

    Heaven and hell

    Heaven: Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty! Hell: There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure And you know sometimes words have two meanings In a tree by the brook there's a songbird who sings Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven
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    What's going to be Valve's next latest and greatest?

    Actually only the Xbox 360 does. Ps3, Wii, Ps2, Gamecube, Ps1(i think), and N64(i think) all use customized variants of Open Gl.
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    Help me understand atheism

    Atheism is often applied to, (weak atheist)"the lack of belief in a god" or (strong atheist)"the belief a god does not exist". Those definitions are different. For example you were a weak atheist at one time in your life. When you were born and you could barely think, you had no idea what god...
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    What's going to be Valve's next latest and greatest?

    No one said Dynamic Shadows were revoltuionarly. However, theres no point in completely adding them and getting rid of pre-calculated map shadows unless most of Valves market base and Valves expanding market has the hardware to run it. The only "effect" in Ep2 they added would be cinematic...
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