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of course there are drivers for monitors, I remember my old sony trinitron 15" worked much better with an updated driver, rather than with the one windows offered. you should get also get an updated driver for your graphics card, as proposed above by Silencer... that might help too I just recalled the game I had this problem with and that was the good old Settlers 4; when I run it it just said scan out of range or something similar. I figured that the starting resolution in game was greater than my monitor could support, so all I did was edit the config file... Did you try playing with monitor options under display->advanced settings? Even though I think it really won't help but it doesn't hurt to change a few options and see. What I'd do if I was you is talk to these guys: HELP VIA TELEPHONE/FAX OR MAIL IN THE U.S. & CANADA For phone assistance, call Infogrames Interactive Tech Support at (425) 951-7108. Our Interactive Voice Response and Faxback system is generally available 24/7, providing automated support and allowing FAQ documents to be faxed to you immediately. If you've already done that then I don't know mate, I resign

strange, I would never expect monitor to be the problem, but anyway, so it's windows you're trying to run it on.. I see. Well, I presume that's not original copy of civ3 you've got there, otherwise you'd be probably emailing customer support... Do you hear any sounds coming from the speakers? Is the game running while the monitor is not able to display it? If so then try to find the latest driver for your monitor from http://www.driverguide.com/ -I'm sure they'll have something for you. If the game is not running at all then try downloading latest updates for the game from http://www.civ3.com . If you've done both and the monitor still displays frequency out of range then I'm not sure what else you could do. Oh wait, do you have latest directx?

your problem is not likely to be in the monitor, I'd say more in game options or linux settings. my monitor used to give "out of range" warning when the screen resolution in game was greater than the maximum supported by the monitor. what you can try to do is run civ3 settings without running the game - if that option's available, if it is not then try looking into some config files in the game's directory. the section of a config file from half life looks like this: (the file is .cfg (different in other games...) so you need to open it with notepad) m_side "0.8" m_forward "1" m_yaw "0.022" m_pitch "0.022000" sensitivity "5.800000" lookstrafe "0.000000" lookspring "0.000000" cl_skyname "2desert" cl_backspeed "400" cl_forwardspeed "400" cl_himodels "0.000000" rate "2500.000000" ... so there should be option named resolution and probably it's value; something like "2048x1536", IF you find this option change it to something you know your monitor will support, try "800x600". I'm not saying this will fix your problem but you can try. If it's not the resolution try looking for freqency in the options... if you can't find anything at all then its up to linux, but the last thing you should look at is your monitor - very unlikely the monitor's causing problems...

first time reading about proximity keys... interesting, nice invention; http://www.home-technology-store.com/detail.aspx?ID=397

I was just thinking about computer security (authentication section) for a while and after examining all the security measures used for authentication I find the following: Username and password Magnetic cards + passwords Username and password + voice recognition Username and password + voice rec. + fingerprint auth. Usern. & pass. + voice r. + fingerprint auth. + eye auth. and that's about it, as much as I could come up with... can't recall any more, so if there are any other forms please add them. i also thought of a possible new addition to the auth. security and that be the signature of the user. i'm not sure if this already exists or not but it just occured to me that it might be a good idea.

you can try guessing, helps sometimes

just did a quick search on google and got this; if you REALLY trully want to use modems - this is your tutorial!: http://www.jagshouse.com/modem.html

oh i see what you're aiming at, although i think that with a masterful piece of software (which probably does exist somewhere on the net) it could all be arranged in a few clicks. ethernet cards may be another option?? they are the only good option he's got if he wants quick, efficient, cheap and easy file transfer and net sharing, unless he wants to use latest Wi-Fi which i highly doubt... so there you go Edward, the best option for you is to get yourself ethernet cards/ lan cards (pcmcia for laptop) and a meter of cross-over cable (be careful not to go on and buy patch cable instead of crossover, it's what happened to me when i first tried to setup a network, took me 2 days to actually figure out there are 2 different cables.. lol, that was some 3 years back). you can get it all for a few bucks on ebay i myself will stick to the modem idea tho - just from the curiosity i'll try to set it up next week.

i'm not sure what do you mean, BUT, (if he really wanted to try modem connection) he can just disable "wait for dial tone" in the connection options. also, i'm not familiar with the systems they use in hotels and other institutions or some home-offices etc... so i'll guess here...; for example in hotel you could (maybe) connect one laptop in room 119 to the phone line coming into that room and another laptop in room 332 and you could then just put the dialing number e.g. 119 and dial into that other computer in room 119 (provided the accepting computer is set as server and has some sort of software which accepts incoming connections (some games feature this option) ... so i presume you could setup a similar system in your home... ..actually i'd like to try this out , i'll let you know if i succeeded next week because i dont have much time right now

hi, i was wondering if it would be possible (which i think it would:) to determine the amount of sugar in say 250mL of pepsi by gravimetric means? if it would could anyone tell me how could it be done? right now i have a bottle of pepsi light, caffeine free, it states 0.0g of sugar per serve(250mL), nevertheless i still want to test it

exactly. dont do it with telephone cable and modems' date=' i've tried it before - without much success, i think you would need to get some sort of pogram 'cause windows doesn't have anything to aid you in that - i think... one pc has to accept-answer the calls while the other has to dial your first pc. the only reason i see for this connection would be pure curiosity and experimentation but belive me you won't have much use from it. what? you already have 1 ethernet cable running into your room? where is this cable coming from? if it's coming from a hub/switch then just get another patch cable and connect your laptop to the hub too. if it's coming from another pc then you already have a crossover connection - and in this case - just borrow that ethernet cable thats coming into your room and use it for laptop-pc crossover connection. (first buy pcmcia lan card for your laptop, get one from ebay.com) for the broadband thing you need to put the connection on shared to be able to use that computer's broadband connection. for example if you have a machine running windows xp just run network setup wizard and in one of the questions it will ask you whether you want to allow other users on the network to use your internet connection (this computer will then become internet gateway for all the other computers on the network, its just that you have to run the same wizard on your xp cd on all other computers). with windows 98se its a bit more of a complicated process. in summary i recommend you to buy pcmcia lan card for laptop and let me know where is this other ethernet cable coming from?

oh, thanks YT2095, nicely explained - now i have some idea of how it works

i sure will remember the name meissner effect, quite fascinating, i wonder if it could be done in a larger scale... i'm going to have to buy one of those kits for the experiment, cant wait to test it myself

according to the string theory there are 11 existing dimensions, we are just not able to see/feel those. there are some complex maths examples in which it is not possible to solve the problem unless we take in fact that there are more than 4 dimensions, and then the problem is solvable; now i'm not sure of those examples but maybe someone else knows.. {sorry, i'm too lazy to press shift button :}

About an hour ago I saw something quite interesting on one of the science channels. An experiment with superconductor, liquid nitrogen and a magnet was done - and it was amazing. What they did is put this 1inch circular superconductor in place and then poured liquid nitrogen over it and after that they put this little cubic magnet on top. What happened is that the magnet was hovering above the surface of the superconductor and it was suprisingly stable, it could even keep spinning in the 'air' above the surface at about 2cm... It might be that you have already seen this but it's the first time I see it and I have no idea of how it works, so I thought if anyone could fire a few words about it ps. Also, I do not know if this is related more to physics or chemistry, or maybe both, but since it involves superconductors and magnets I'll leave it here. Anyway, here are some pictures; http://www.fieldlines.com/other/superconductor.html

true, many others too... but they still can't be put on the same scale as those two I mentioned earlier... at least not for me...

oh, sorry, I meant, of course, Improved Lighting, just a typo error, I've corrected it (there are few other typing errs... but this one was crucial) and here is what I meant by "Improved Lighting" : http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ins/lab_imlight.html (this is the pbs website, you can find pretty much info about Tesla there BUT not all of it for sure) There are extra links for you to read at the end of this post... ok, Einstein's was great, I'm not saying he wasn't, but what I'm trying to say here is that amongst all other physicists of the 20th century, in my opinion, Tesla was the only one whom I would give the same respect as to Einstein. The reason I rank them in the same sort of category is that they were the only 2 true "mad" physicists/scientists who worked with some super-cool-amazing ideas and trying to somehow bring those to life. If there are others who dealt with such ideas please let me know. It might be that I just missed some other great scientists. As for Edison, he used to try to come up with solutions by brute-forcing his ideas - and that's something I don't like - inefficient and could've been done by many and not only him. It still counts - greatly - towards physics and life applications, but for me, it's just not original so to say. ed84c, AC motors before Tesla were only pure guesses and experiments and nobody really knew how to make a stable AC motor - how to get it to work, even though they had some basic idea they just couldn't get it completed. And Tesla didnt' "improve" those inventions because they were basically never invented in the first place, there were just some ideas and speculations and a proof that it could be done... Tesla however came up with new, better ideas and so invented a first stable AC motor. After that, in the next 2 years, he developed various modifications of his invention which in turn launched electrical age of heavy industry. [Tycho?] mentioned consipracy theories. The major conspiracy theory and a supposedly fictional story which involves Tesla, Einstein and some other physicists is a so called "Philadephia Experiment" which was performed by US Navy in 1943. I've read some claims that at the time of the experiment Tesla was one of the attendants and it didnt' involve Einstein at all, while in some other they said that the experiment was performed by US Navy using the documents which were taken from Tesla's safe and which were used by Einstein himself. I've read numerous stories about Philadelphia Experiment and in my conclusion I believe that this is what happened: On January 7, 1943 Tesla died. "They" came on Jan 9th, took the documents, and went away. It took them 1 month to translate Tesla's "english" handwriting, and here is a quote from official FBI papers (image file from pbs.org(they took it from fbi.gov) so I'll retype): "... After Tesla's death, scientists from from the navy and OSS performed a cursory examination of the diary and notes, which if my memory serves me correctly, was one month long, hardly enough time to decipher Tesla's torturous handwriting. Though Tesla wrote in English, his penmanship was small, blurred, and as difficult to translate as foreign language. ..." original: http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/fbi_04.html After they found schematics of Tesla's work on magnetism and electricity they decided to test it on a US Navy ship. There was no Einstein or Tesla at the time it happened but I believe that something did happen there, not quite sure what. Well, it's gone too far to fiction now and I'll leave it there... Also to mention that Tesla had many friends in US and other countries, Tesla received congratulatory letters from more than 70 pioneers in science and engineering including Albert Einstein and Mark Twain. These letters were mounted and presented to Tesla in the form of a testimonial volume. Today the Nikola Tesla Award is one of the most distinguished honors presented by the Institute of Electrical Engineers. The award has been given annually since 1976. I'd like to ask the moderators not to remove the thread from "Relativity" section, it is associated with Einstein and since he's the one responsible for relativity leave it as is, also this section seemed like a "20th century physicists" so I put it here Here are extra links for you to read about Tesla: probably the best link here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla biography: http://tntn.essortment.com/nikolateslaalt_myf.htm here are a few links to Philadelphia experiment for those interested: philadelphia ex: http://skepdic.com/philadel.html chat with researcher Marshall Barnes: http://users.cihost.com/ata/chat.htm navy response: http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq21-1.htm

ok people, let me tell you this; Tesla and Einstein, in my opinion, have been the two most successful physicist of the 20th century. The problem is that Tesla didn't get what he deserved, while Einstein's name lived out to be the most popular name of the 20th Century (and if I've been informed accurately Tesla is not mentioned much in US school textbooks nor Australian or UK textbooks and most of the students wouldn't have idea of who the hell Nikola Tesla is - and probably many who are reading this thread would've asked themselves the same question). Well, I'm using Einstein just for a comparison in this thread, the main character here is Nikola Tesla. Let's just have a look at some of his main inventions: - AC Motor - Tesla Coil - Radio - Remote Control - Improved Lighting and not to mention many of his secret experiments which were never finished and many of his papers which he kept in a locked safe and which have been preserved by the FBI on the same day he died... wonder what U.S. Govt did with the papers? (some of it was returned to Tesla Museum in Belgrade but certainly not all of it) I would also like to mention that Tesla has been offered a Noble Prize to share with Edison which he rejected for a well-known reason, and here is a piece of the story: "...Tesla was hired by the French branch of the Edison Company and assigned the job of repairing an electrical plant in Strassburg. Upon completion of the repairs, however, the Edison Company refused to pay the money it had promised. Tesla quit, and set his hopes on obtaining work in America. Strangely enough, once in America, he went to work for Edison. After promising $50,000 to Tesla if he would improve DC motors, Edison reneged on his word, dismissing the promise as "American humor." Tesla was furious and quit immediately. Unfortunately, Tesla was not able to find other work, so he was forced to dig ditches for two years. ..." Like Einstein(with his quest for unification theory), Tesla had a quest to develop a device which would transfer power wirelessly. Here is a piece from pbs.org: "...There are some reports that he did transmit a signal several miles powerful enough to illuminate vacuum tubes planted in the ground. But this can be attributed to conductive properties in the ground at Colorado Springs. Another approach pursued by Tesla was to transmit extra-low-frequency signals through the space between the surface of the earth and the ionosphere. Tesla calculated that the resonant frequency of this area was approximately 8-hertz. It was not until the 1950s that this idea was taken seriously and researchers were surprised to discover that the resonant frequency of this space was indeed in the range of 8-hertz. A third approach for wireless power transmission was to transmit electrical power to the area 80-kilometers above the earth known as the ionosphere. Tesla speculated that his region of the atmosphere would be highly conductive and again his suspicions were correct. What he needed was the technical means to send electrical power to such a high altitude. One night in his laboratory, Tesla noticed a repeating signal being picked-up by his transmitter. To his own amazement, he believed that he was receiving a signal from outer space. Tesla was widely ridiculed when he announced this discovery, but it is possible that he was the first man to detect radio waves from space. A great deal of mystery still surrounds Tesla's work at Colorado Springs. It is not clear from his notes or his comments exactly how he intended to transmit wireless power. But it is clear that he returned back to New York City fully convinced that he could accomplish it. ..." There is much more to say about this great Yugoslav physicist but I'll leave it for later... and if I used some sort of "best physicist scale" this is how it would look like: Einstein 5000 points Tesla 4990 p Edison 3500 p (remember - this ranking list is just my personal opinion) most importantly; let me know what you think... ps. sorry for putting it in relativity section, seemed like the most appropriate place

i'm curious; were there any high-res colour cameras onboard huygens, something like the one used to photograph mars?

NASA will explain more deeply when Kepler mission comes to play but in the meantime they have already explained a few things; they consider earth-like planet a planet that is in size similar to our earth and that there is a jupiter sized planet which will be a shield for that earth-like planet, now i'm not sure if they will be able to detect anything else besides that (what else can they possibly detect using only transit method? I was at first thinking of temperature, but doesnt sound like a possibility...) but you can have a look at this story: http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/Kepler/kepler_index.html

does anyone know how long does it take to get all the data back from cassini (pictures from titan)... so far only 6 have been received