So I just built my first computer and I want to go on a little rant about MSI.
MSI Sucks. First, I got a bad motherboard from them. I sent it back and ended up getting an ASUS motherboard, other than the power connection being in a wrong spot, it performs wonderfully.
The other MSI problem I had are the graphics cards. I got 2 650meg GeForce 8800 graphics cards from MSI and for some reason they do not work with a DVI to HDMI cord for my LCD TV.
MSI sucks. If you are building a PC avoid it. Get ASUS and ATI.
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7:00:00 PM.
Many of my friends that were at UF are graduating this spring. Some are getting married. Girls I knew in high school have had babies. There are many things currently in my life that make me feel old, in contrast to this would be that the aforementioned would make me feel young, but it doesn’t; they make me feel as if life has passed me by. There are people that are in your life for various segments, as if life came in certain segments tied together with glue that fades over time. People you randomly hang out with in your past, once you move to various other locations, fade away and only a handful of really good friends remain, but talking on the phone and hanging out every so often is not the same as being in the same city as them. I have recently moved to a very small town, a town no one would go to if they didn’t plan on going to it. The people here are fun but I have ties in my past to good people, people who I would want to hang out with all the time. Life comes, it goes.
However, the friends I met at UF I never would have met if I didn’t go there, and now I miss them greatly. The friends I met at BMHS I never would have met if I went instead to the high school I was districted to. I have realized that although I miss my friends at UF and many of them may fade away (except for the good ones :D) in this new location I may make new friends as well, ones that possibly if I move from this location I will miss too. It is time to make the best of the location I am in both physically and in time.
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8:44:00 AM.
In May, the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) announced that the province's grid could not safely accommodate more than 900 megawatts of wind-power generation, a target that will be met late next year. Proposals for 3,000 more MW of production have been thrown into indefinite limbo at an estimated cost to producers of $6-billion; meanwhile, the province is already spending $1-billion to strengthen the transmission system so that even the 900-MW cap can be reached. In Ontario, meanwhile, the grid operator warned late last month that 5,000 MW -- about one-fifth of the province's current peak consumption -- is probably the absolute technological limit. (A total of 1,280 MW of wind capacity is already in operation or being built.)
It is starting to look as though wind cannot meet more than a fraction of our energy demand even if other issues with the technology, like esthetics and wildlife impacts, are ignored. The problem, as engineers skeptical of wind power have been yelping for decades, is that power usage and production constantly have to be balanced in an electrical grid. Adding too much unstable, unpredictable power to the system creates a risk of failure and cascading blackouts. In fact, the EU is investigating the possible role of Germany's heavy wind-dependence in causing a Nov. 6 blackout that hit 10 million Europeans.
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1:53:00 PM.
Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze. It maketh me to wake in green pastures: It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses. It restoreth my buzz: It leadeth me in the paths of consciousness for its name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of addiction, I will fear no Equal: For thou art with me; thy cream and thy sugar they comfort me. Thou preparest a carafe before me in the presence of The Starbucks: Thou anointest my day with pep; my mug runneth over. Surely richness and taste shall follow me all the days of my life: And I will dwell in the House of Mochas forever.
-Props to Alicia for this
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7:33:00 PM.
You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."
So I had my doubts about Casino Royale and Daniel Craig, a blond haired blue eyed James Bond... All doubts were answered, Daniel Craig makes an awesome James Bond and this movie is incredible! It's such a great movie on so many different levels.
Go see it! :D
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6:20:00 AM.
