Jamie Said:

Pausing a thread indefinitely in Java?

We Answered:

You should use thread.interrupt

Viola Said:

Hardcore Gaming desktop?

We Answered:

OMG! OMG! - ......!!!!!! You absolutely have to be out of your mind to put this thing together for him...this is like so over done it is incredible! What is this, an $8,000 computer? I haven't tried to put this together in cost, but just looking at some of the parts this could easily run $8,000 - $10,000 for this computer.

First of all, have YOU DONE ANY PRICE COMPARISONS? Have you run the prices on these things against Newegg.Com and TigerDirect.Com? Who is going to put this thing together?

Listen, Windows Vista is a HUGE MISTAKE! You don't want to put Vista on this computer...Vista has too many driver problems and restrictions. If you are going to build this MONSTER, you need to have Windows 7 Ultimate Edition as a minimum.

I think that 24 Gigabytes of memory is WAY TOO MUCH! No game on Planet Earth is going to require that much memory - and in fact, if you have that much memory on this thing, it may well slow this computer down! I would recommend backing OFF on the memory to 12 Gigs Maximum.
I don't know a single game on the planet that needs such an exhorbitant amount of memory - unless he happens to want to play War Games with the Pentagon.

Did he put this thing together? It must have one of everything on Planet Earth on here - and the new Intel 6 Core i7 980x cannot really be taken advantage of - there are no games I know of that will access all 6 cores due to a lack of multithreading in the code of the games. It is certainly NOT worth $1000 to buy that CPU!

My opinion is that you could well get along with a high end gamer computer for about $1800 maximum...that is where almost every other high end game player is at, unless of course, you just have to throw money away on purpose because you like to burn it up. This computer is not being built for gaming friend, this thing is total bragging rights - he may be the ONLY kid in the United States to own such a rig. But if the whole point is just to have the very VERY best of everything that exists right now at this instant in computing is the point, well, maybe that is the point.

The problem is, that in 6 months, this computer will no longer be top of the line. Some other things will come along to take its place. And in 2-1/2 years, this computer will be "OLD" technology. Computers are not an investment, they are a depreciable item and that means, like a car, when you drive it off the lot, it jus dropped by 1/2 the value that you just paid out.

There is no point in putting this computer together as far as I am concerned, it is TOTALLY overkill and TOTALLY unnecessary to build this in order to even play Crysis on the very highest settings that exist. He could well get along with a computer less than 1/4 of the cost of these parts and still have bragging rights - this computer is just plain overkill...why do it?

My recommendation is to completely back off of this this and to re-evaluate. Do some really hard study on some gamer sites and get recommendations for a realistic rig. Straight "A" or not, this computer is worth more than a car is in terms of parts cost alone.

Whatever you do, DO NOT INSTALL VISTA! INSTALL WINDOWS 7.

Bessie Said:

Why am i hated in School? (10 points best answer thanks)?

We Answered:

It may be because you wore black all the time in your first 3 years of highschool and they probably found it weird. You know the saying first impressions last and it takes awhile (or sad to say forever) for some people to get over it and change their perspective on things.

Just continue to be nice and try your best not to be affected by how they treat you. Don't stoop down to their level. All these bullying or even these kind of know it all attitude just really isn't cool. It seems that you are better than them, if you're not hurting anyone or offending anyone in any way, then just continue to be yourself. If anyone tries to hurt you, then I'd rather you tell your parents or the school principal and if you can avoid it, don't retaliate.

I hope when you said "would have killed her" is a joke and that you really didn't mean it. You don't have to have a hundred friends, you just need one that you can trust. I do hope you find one at your school. If it is still bothering go and talk to somehow that you can at least trust and confide in.

Good luck and wish you all the best.

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Douglas Said:

Is there really a ghost on myspace?

We Answered:

at first I thought another spook tale and as I was
reading this my coffee spoon on the desk shifted
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Ruth Said:

Mac mini for gaming helllplp?

We Answered:

LOL! Thats rich, The high priced macs cant handle games! Spend that money on a REAL computer. You'll get twice as much computer for half the price

Teresa Said:

Is my computer good?

We Answered:

The fact that this is a Compaq negates your computer as a good computer regardless of specs which isn't that good either. Low ram, crappy graphics card, onboard sound, hard drive is irrelevant. As long as you are happy with it does not matter?

For internet browsing and general applications this computer will perform to your needs. If you are a gamer you are looking at some serious upgrades