> ..Nemeara.. wrote:

> Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

there s no such thing as negative calories -_- it has very few calories though, indeed, but not negative ones

he said that it takes more calories to consume celery then the calories you get eating it, so that the net intake of calories received from consuming celery is negative... he didnt say inside the celery there was negative calories...

well, he was alive well past the time we started building nuclear weapons and any physicist could of told you how powerful nuclear weapons would be able to become... and because its talking about wwiii, i would bet it was after the 2nd world war, so i dont think thats the case.

85% of statistics are made up.

"You see, I have difficulty imagining a real scientist daring to waste funding trying to answer a question that anyone who has ever imbibed alcohol, and anyone who has not, could answer. Here, watch:

  Why are drunk people aggressive, stupid, and incapable of differentiating between accidental eye contact and a proposal of marriage? Because they are drunk!"

the study was looking at the longterm effects of drinking, not how people act while drunk " Excessive alcohol consumption irreversibly damages the temporal lobes and, as a result, alcoholics are left with 'a wide array of behavioural problems, including disinhibition and disregard for social norms', said experts in California."

lulz

basically he is saying if people didnt exist, would killing someone still be wrong. this is the stupidest thread ever made.

"painfully true. these days i avoid conversations about correlation of race and intelligence. for some people it is simply impossible to even consider the possibility that blacks are generally less intelligent than whites"

i think the main reason i have a problem with this, is i dont think theres an accurate way to measure intelligence.

"I think the vast majority of the deals the Chinese have with S.America are purely commercial with at most insignificant military/strategic overtones overall."

and you are basing this off of what? that Americans are evil and are always wrong with foreign policy?

the case is kinda important but more expensive isnt better always. basically, the case is gonna have an impact on how noisy the computer is, how heavy it is, how cool the parts are, how many drives can fit in the case and how much dust gets on the parts.

you know what blue ray is, right? its basically the new dvd; right now its only really used for high def movies; if you dont plan on watching blue ray movies i wouldnt buy it right now, its really expensive in the future it will go down in price and you could buy it later and add it to your computer. just go to new egg look at the cheapeast dvd burners, get the cheapest, highly rated dvd burner.

if you do not plan on overclocking your cpu, the coolers that give you with your cpu should be more then enough. just dont buy the cpu oem, oem cpu's dont come witht he stock cooler.

another thing to look at different videocards have different PCIe sockets. some have 2x3 some 2x4. some have multiple some only have 1. make sure your powersupply has the connectors your videocard needs. also make sure your dvd drive and hard drive has the connectors your motherboard is compatible with.

ah, misread your post the same thing is true about OCZ and corsair, its been awhile since i did the research forgot how to distinguish the quality corsairs and OCZ's from the mediocre ones.

read alot, look alot of becnhmarks, find out what you want, and then you will be able to find the best deal whether its a pre-built pc or one that you build yourself.

as for the motherboards; the upgrade ability is really gonna be dependant on the sockets. the so either get an intel with a i7 or an amd with the am3 socket. probably the am3 socket would be a better choice, i think Amd is more determined to make things backwards compatible.  also, if you want upgradability, building your own will almost definately be the best choice, most companies that sell their own pc's use cheap psu's and have weird mounts that make upgrading the psu near impossible.

and while on the topic of psu's not every antec is a good psu. there are several really good psu brands; i think the one that provides the best performance for the most reasonable price is Antec's "earthwatts". and when it comes to psu's, brand is everything; a 500W psu from a good brand can smoke 1000W psu's from bad brands. i think Antec has a 650W earthwatts psu, for around $80, you could probably get it on sale for $70 more maybe even less that would provide upgrade ability, but also fairly priced; the only problem it would have would be if you try to run multiple videocards. a 500W earthwatts psu is enough for any pc with any single videocard on the market right now; so 650W earthwatts would provide plenty of headroom for upgrades. and multiple videocards is very rarely a good choice for upgrades, so dont have to worry about the psu not being substantial enough for multiple videocards.

the most important thing for upgrade abillity of a computer is not the motherboard, its the psu. without a strong psu, not only will you not have the power for new components, a bad psu is probably the most common hardware failure for a computer, and a bad psu not only keeps the computer from working until its replaced, it can damage and kill other pc componants such as the processor, motherboard, videocard; or even start a fire and burn down your house.