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So is he re-animated, or did he just escape death? This is an important philosophical issue.

That's a generic report telling you that the terminal error. you would need to either read through the memory dump, or send it to someone (tech support) to read it for you, to ascertain what the cause was. My best guess, based on the paucity of information supplied, is that you have a virus (more than one internet application being affected). You can also check the AIM/MSN/whatever website for any issues, but I use both protocols and have had no problems. It's a local issue, to your PC.

Nope. PPUs are different hardware. GPUs do a gazillion burst instructions on a texture (read-only, loads of bandwidth), whereas the PPU is a self-updating set of nested calculations (read/write, loads of bandwidth). Just because the GPU has loads more bandwidth (even several orders of magnitude more: the new ATi X1950 has DDR4 RAM, for example), it still isn't capable of completing the basic calculations PROPERLY.

The latest gen ATi use a lot more juice, so they do run hotter (larger die, as well, to nVidia). But they are faster, chip-for-chip (excluding the dual-GPU-on-a-single-card 7950GX2).

Depends how big the infinity is, I guess, too ... I mean, can you imagine trying to check the work? The monkeys 16869987339975 x 2^171960

Not to mention it has the coolest function EVA, being a hyperlink to the wikipedia for any word mentioned in the chat window! /not an advert

Assuming you are serious, and I don't believe you are, there are ways and means around your fundamentalist viewpoint. How about Melvyn Bragg, 12 Books That Changed the World, published

... cheap comic arc cash-in rip-offs?

So is Bush a mastermind puppeteer controlling the US populace ... or a moron that can't eat a pretzel? Curiouser and curiouser! Maybe the FBI are really running the govenment, for the Illuminati and the Masons ...

Yeah, but calling a (presumably) cute puppy Pluto is either ironic or invokes the original Roman latin cognate of the Greek word "Ploutos" (wealth), and was considered by the Romans as the giver of gold, silver, and other subterranean substances (and only later conflated with the Greek god of the spiritual underworld (Hades), and then the Christian Satan). So Neptune would be fine, except the dog would probably need to eat a lot more, to get bigger. Also, Mickey should really get another dog called Charon, and the two puppies be inseperable ... unless Pluto had a sibling that we haven't been told about yet ... ZOMG! Story! ©!

Hardware bikinis?

Who's end? Barbara Bach's?

We're not there yet, the Persians just attacked Greece (I think, I need to check my notes). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 300 Spartans and the Battle of Thermopyl

I watched Force 10 From Navarone instead: Harrison Ford, Carl Weathers, Robert Shaw, Barbara Bach and Richard "Jaws" Kiel. Gratuitous Bach image

My laptop can run at a higher resolution than the built-in screen (IBM seems to think this is a good idea, it's called "windowing, I think, as you can move the underlying window around on the smaller LCD "portal"); so (apart from the admin overhead mentioned by Baneblade, above), the GPU sets the resolution to what it is told to (up to the maximum it can manage). I can run both monitor and screen with stretched graphics on one.

They're releasing it on ever console simultabeously, as well, though ...

Maybe they're waiting for Vista ...

That isn't my job, but if you want I'll delete all your topics for you, to assist you.

Less than usual.

Are you piping the same image, or spanning multiple monitors? The former is no extra GPU strain (vertex shaidng, bump mapping, etc), the latter is (bigger image to process).

Or another one in SLI. The RAM isn't a dealbreaker.

I have detailed files.

Don't forget Italy for the Rings of Saturn ...