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As of 2005, PCI Express appears to be well on its way to becoming the new backplane standard in personal computers. There are several explanations for this, but the principal reason is that it was designed to be completely transparent to software developers - an operating system designed for PCI can boot in a PCI Express system without any code modification. Other secondary reasons include its enhanced performance and strong brand recognition. Almost all of the high end graphics cards being released today from ATI Technologies and NVIDIA use PCI Express. NVIDIA uses the high-speed data transfer of PCIe for its newly developed Scalable Link Interface (SLI) technology, which allows two graphics cards of the same chipset and model number to be run at the same time, allowing increased performance. ATI Technologies has also developed a dual-GPU system based on PCIe called Crossfire.

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Story and background

The game portrays a hypothetical war in the near future between three powerful factions: the United States Marines Corps (USMC), China's People's Liberation Army (PLA), and the fictional Middle Eastern Coalition (MEC). The battles, however, only feature USMC versus MEC and USMC versus China; the MEC and China are presumably allied or neutral, as they are never seen attacking each other. There is little background to the war aside from what can be gleaned from map briefings, and certain questions, such as why mutually assured destruction did not prevent the countries from attacking each other and if any of the countries retaliated using weapons of mass destruction, remain unanswered.

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Like previous games in the series, Final Fantasy X is presented in third person perspective, with players directly navigating the main character, Tidus, around the world to interact with objects and people. Unlike in previous games, however, the world and town maps have been fully integrated, with terrain outside of cities rendered to scale. When an enemy is encountered, the environment switches to a turn-based "battle area" where characters and enemies must await their turn to attack.

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* Windows Aero: a re-designed user interface, named Windows Aero – an acronym for Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open. The new interface is intended to be cleaner and more aesthetically pleasing than previous Windows, including new transparencies, animations and eye candy.
* Windows Shell: The new Windows shell is significantly different from Windows XP, offering a new range of organization and search capabilities. The Start menu has changed as well; it no longer uses ever-expanding boxes when navigating through Programs. Even the word "Start" itself has been removed in favor of a blue Windows "Pearl". (Though not in the Costumer Preview Beta 2) (Circular control buttons, or "pearls", are likely to appear in many other Windows Vista-era applications. A similar "pearl" is present in Office 2007.)

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Windows XP is a line of operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on general-purpose computer systems, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. The letters "XP" stand for experience.[1] Codenamed Whistler during its development, Windows XP is the successor to both Windows 2000 and Windows Me, and is the first consumer-oriented operating system produced by Microsoft to be built on the Windows NT kernel and architecture. With the release of Windows XP the Windows 95/98 architecture was finally discontinued. Windows XP was first released on October 25, 2001, and as of 2006 continues to be the most recent consumer version of Microsoft Windows available, with over 400 million copies in use, according to an estimate by an IDC analyst.[2]

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The next-generation Sony PlayStation 3 is a graphical powerhouse with an impressive array of extra features

Sony has stated that the PlayStation 3 will have backward compatibility with the PlayStation and PlayStation 2, and that every PS1 and PS2 game that observes its respective system's TRC (Technical Requirements Checklist) will be playable on PS3 at launch.[1]

At the 2006 PlayStation Business Briefing, SCE president Ken Kutaragi asked developers to adhere to the TRC to facilitate compatibility with future PlayStations, stating that the company was having some difficulty getting backward compatibility with games that had not followed the TRCs. "Either it's accidental or on purpose; there's actually a lot of games that don't follow the TRC."[18].

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Features

Introduced about a year after the system launched, Wi-Fi compatibility on the DS is surprisingly solid for a free service hosted by a company known for its aversion to online gaming. Whether on the original DS or the DS Lite, the Wi-Fi setup is simple, as the system can spot most wireless connections. If there are none nearby, you can create one from a broadband-connected PC by attaching the Nintendo USB Wi-Fi Connector to it. Without an external online network such as Xbox Live, finding friends is unwieldy -- you have to enter 12-digit 'friend codes' for each game for which you wish to create a buddy list.

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Console and PC gamers have long been divided into two camps. Certainly, there are those of us who play on multiple platforms, but hard-core PC gamers tend to eschew 'mainstream' console games, while committed console gamers can sometimes be heard bashing PC gamers as elitist nerds. While there's nothing wrong with drawing your own distinction, what's clear -- at least for the moment, anyway -- is that Microsoft's Xbox 360 makes the line between PC and console gaming a good deal fuzzier.

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High-Definition television (HDTV) means broadcast of television signals with a higher resolution than traditional formats (NTSC, SECAM, PAL) allow. Except for early analog formats in Europe and Japan, HDTV is broadcast digitally, and therefore its introduction sometimes coincides with the introduction of digital television (DTV): this technology was first introduced in the USA during the 1990s, by the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance (grouping together AT&T, General Instrument, MIT, Philips, Sarnoff, Thomson, and Zenith)[1].

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TV tuner cards

A TV tuner card is a computer component that allows television signals to be received by a computer. Most TV tuners also function as video capture cards, allowing them to record television programs onto a hard disk.

While typically a PCI-bus expansion card, they can also be a USB device. Some video cards double as TV tuners, notably the ATI All-In-Wonder series. The card contains a receiver, tuner, demodulator, and a analog-to-digital converter for analog TV. Like TV sets, each version is designed for the radio frequencies and video formats used in each country. However, many TV tuners used in computers use DSP, so a firmware upgrade is often all that's necessary to change the supported video format. Many newer TV tuners have Flash memory big enough to hold the firmwares for decoding several different video formats, making it possible to use the tuner in many countries without having to flash the firmware. In addition to the frequency tuner, many include a composite video input. Many TV tuners can function as FM radios: this is because the FM radio spectrum lies between television channels 6 and 7, and the DSP can be easily programmed to decode FM.

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Flat panel display
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Flat panel displays encompass a growing number of technologies enabling video displays that are lighter and much thinner than traditional television and video displays using cathode ray tubes, usually less than 10 cm (4 inches) thick. These include:

Flat panel displays requiring continuous refresh:

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History

File sharing is one of the original applications of the internet, preceding even email. FTP evolved as a common standard for file sharing and is still used to this day. Having said that, when people use the term 'file sharing' they are usually referring to the exchange of files over peer-to-peer file sharing networks.

File sharing first came into the public eye with the popularisation of MP3 files in the mid- to late 1990s. MP3s would commonly be uploaded to free webspace accounts such as Geocities and Tripod. This practice lasted for a short time until the webhosts realised what their webspace was being used for. Sites hosting MP3s uploaded to free webspace would often only last a very short while before the files were removed. MP3 sites counteracted this by uploading MP3s using fake file extensions which, again, worked for a short time until the webhosts realised what was happening. It wasn't until the advent of peer-to-peer software that file sharing became easily available to the average internet user. In 1999 Napster, originally a centralized system, became the first major P2P file-sharing tool, popularizing file sharing. Napster was a localized index for MP3 files shared by the users logged into the system. It included IRC-like chat and instant messenger features. Many new major clients now follow its example in design. An MP3-only sharing system, Napster was finally shut down by legal attacks from the music industry. It was openly attacked by some artists (notably Dr. Dre, Metallica) and supported by others (Mötley Crüe, Limp Bizkit, Courtney Love, Dave Matthews, David Crowder Band).

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A personal video recorder (PVR)) is a device that records video without videotape to a hard drive-based digital storage medium. The term includes stand-alone set-top boxes and software for personal computers which enables video capture and playback to and from disk.

Hardware Features

Hardware features of security DVRs vary between manufacturers and may include but are not necessarily limited to:

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list of smallville episodes

SEASON 01
1.01 Premiere
1.02 Metamorphasis
1.03 Hothead
1.04 X-ray
1.05 Cool
1.06 Hourglass
1.07 Craving
1.08 Jitters
1.09 Rogue
1.10 Shimmer
1.11 Hug
1.12 Leech
1.13 Kinetic
1.14 Zero
1.15 Nicodemus
1.16 Stray
1.17 Reaper
1.18 Drone
1.19 Crush
1.20 Obscura
1.21 Temptest

SEASON 02
2.01 Vortex
2.02 Heat
2.03 Duplicity
2.04 Red
2.05 Nocturne

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Smallville has got to be the best tv show ever

This is complete list of episode up until the 5th season

SEASON 01
1.01 Premiere
1.02 Metamorphasis
1.03 Hothead
1.04 X-ray
1.05 Cool
1.06 Hourglass
1.07 Craving
1.08 Jitters
1.09 Rogue
1.10 Shimmer
1.11 Hug
1.12 Leech
1.13 Kinetic
1.14 Zero
1.15 Nicodemus
1.16 Stray
1.17 Reaper
1.18 Drone
1.19 Crush
1.20 Obscura
1.21 Temptest

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