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I have a Vita mix that I love, but I bought this for my trailer. I actually like the way it blends better than my Vita Mix. Also much easier to get the food out No waste. Very happy, and who can beat the cost?
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Saudi Arabia is a despotic , insolent, selfisf and fiercefully country.
Who should they emulate?
Time and Tide waits for none and there is no way fight them. Things are changing and dictators are being phased out. Tunisia, Egypt, Lybia are good examples. As a collateral effect of 9/11 number of students from the middle east studying in the west had considerably gone down. Many of the Western Universities have opened up their campus in the region to recoup the lost revenue. The students took advantage of this situation and these universities has started producing professionals. These enlightened young people is already proving to be a force to recon with.
Here is another take on Saudi Arabia by a Londoner... you know, like TE itself...
Was he raped by a catholic priest?
Seriously doubt it. That would have given him more ammunition against the Catholic Church - not that he needed any; he feels pretty much the same way about all religions and all religious fanatics...
Does Arab princess marries foreigners?
I will assume you mean Saudi Princess? If so, then the answer is no. In fact, no Saudi citizen may marry a foreigner without the permission of the king. Otherwise their citizenship (and all the benefits that go along with it) gets dropped.
This is not true. Saudi citizens are allowed to marry foreigners but their spouses will not be granted the Saudi citizenship unless approved by the ministry of interior affairs. Dropping the citizenship hardly happens in Saudi
Regardless of how hard the dictators or the apartheid regime in Israel (with the help of the neocons and AIPAC) are trying to prevent it, democracy is starting to develop in the Middle East. Nothing can now stop the floods. Even if it is the last one, the Arabian peninsula will one day establish democracy as well and get rid of the illegitimate saudi family with their extremist and perverse wahabi traditions. The saudis are the key source of terror funding and brutality throughout the world. Shame on the American government to protect them.
Libya: warlord fiefdoms, failed state; Egypt: continued military dictatorship, albeit under new dictators, with a PR veneer of democracy; Yemen: see Libya; Syria: see Yemen.
Arab culture is dominated by values which are geometrically opposed to democracy: first clan, then tribe, then sect, and above all else, women are chattel.
Do you know what Islam means in Arabic? Submission. That is their societal conception of one's relation to power. Absolute, unconditional submission. There'll be timeshare condos on the moon before the middle east sees true democracy. It's just not in their cultural DNA.
Watch this get pulled for insufficient political correctness.
It should actually get pulled for insufficient political knowledge.
Islam is about submission to GOD; Democracy is about submission to MAN.
Yeah, but who gets to gets to decide what God wants? An ayatollah or an imam. You're parsing here; it still comes down to submitting unconditionally to a religious tyrant with the full power and authority of the modern police state. Pull that.
And then regale us with your admiration for the gentle practice of honor killings.
Who gets to decide what the 'demos' wants in a "democracy" like the US? Doesn't it come down to unconditional submission to an Atheist judge?
Honor killings have nothing to do with Islam--otherwise Christians & Jews & Hindus & Sihks wouldn't do it as well.
Please, don't start up the Religion vs. Atheism and science war again. If we can all arrive at a solution for this underlying issue 50% of the world's problems will be solved.
Actually it was Ron-Courtney that started the Relgion v Atheism war. He was the one trying to blame all this on religion.
Ron, Islam is an Arabic word and it means "Peace".And in Islam submission is ONLY to God. But you know the politics...it has made the differences everywhere.I donot think, barring a microscopic lunatics at one hand and the Politician-Beaurucatic nexus at the other, any Muslim or Christian or Jew wants to kill other...everyone wants that they and their children get education, employment, a house and a respectable retired life and death.
I think for everyone, the Case of Ghaddafi is the most visible one. At one end he described those against him as Al-Qaeda people, and at the other he was talking of 'Crusaders' or 'western Imperialism'....
On the other hand did you see the the lies flown across the board to dislodge a tyrant named Saddam ? Real Weapons of Mass Destructions were unleashed to destroy the non-existing Weapons of Mass destruction....The Liars are relaxing now in Ranches and some are employed as image builders by Govts...Muslim Govts.
History is the mother of all facts & truths....and I remember only one Sanskrit shlok : "Satyameva Jayate" which is Government of India official motto: 'Truth Alone Triumphs". Long Live Truths.
One of the problems I see with the Saudi family is that they continue to be manipulated by the Bush family and their related underpinnings of International Investors. Consistently the Bush family and related investors have manipulated the Saudi family to make small wins but larger losses in relation to their overall influence. The Saudi family has been manipulated into tearing apart their own ethical foundations (ethical systems provides for accumulating opportunities), and as such has cut themselves off from economic and political opportunities. Dubai, Kuwait, and Iraq have been tools systematically developed to promote prosperity for a few in Saudi Arabia, at the expense of the country's wealth.
Small minds manipulated by the Bush family; puppets of a syndicate.
Yeah, right. I'm guessing if someone breaks wind near you, it's Bush's fault. Saudi Arabia is such a puppet of the U.S. it kicked out all the American oil companies, played a key role in founding OPEC and bankrupting the rest of the world, and continues to fund madrassas to spread islamic hatred and terrorism. Damn that Bush, he's such a bad man.
Have you sought help?
It wasn't the Bush family that trained and equipped the Saudis so they could conquer the Hejaz in the first place; that was the Rothschilds.
Kicked-out the American oil companies? Dude, you are daft (and dumb). What do you think the -AM- in ARAMCO stands for?
Wiki: "Saudi Aramco, officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, is the national oil company of Saudi Arabia."
ARAMCO stands for Arab-American Corporation. It is JOINTLY OWNED--and always has been.
Citing Wikipedia? Really?
It's no longer called that. That is a historical acronym, it's now called the Saudi Arabian Oil Company. It's no longer a US puppet, it never was. But the neocons, who ostensibly care about democracy worldwide, won't do anything there because Saudi Arabia's continued predictability under autocratic rulers is an important part of American interests.
End this misconception that Wikipedia is always 100% wrong. If it's based on a reliable reference the information is legitimate.
Anyone else notice the reference to a song by that most amazing of British bands, The Who?
"The beards have all grown longer", "the world looks just the same", "a bow for the new revolution"...
"...the kingdom's most important alliance, with America, may face increased pressure. The United States is no longer reliant on Saudi Arabia for more than a small fraction of its energy needs...This raises doubts about its strategic intentions."
What exactly makes the Kingdom's alliance with America its "most important" is the real story here. The troops the Kingdom sent to Kuwait during the first gulf war ran away in fear from the advancing Iraqi Army. Saudi Arabia has no real defense of its own to speak of. Left on its own, one of its more powerful neigbhors would overrun the country in a matter of days...Iran, which certainly has the means and the motive, or Turkey, which at least has the means. The only thing standing in their way is Saudi partnership with the U.S. which dates back to the beginning of their royal dynasty.
So, all these fat idle men and their corruption is thanks in large part to U.S. largess. The same was true of Hosni Mubarek in Egypt and a host of other Middle Eastern tyrants. The Saudis are stockpiling weapons now not because they fear Iran but because they realize the US won't protect them from a popular uprising. They will turn those weapons on their own people like Bashar Al Assad has is doing. And where do you think most of the weapons are coming from? And what will the U.S. do when the day comes?
If Bahrain is any indication, the US will turn a blind eye. Bahrain, where there have been almost daily protests on a similar scale as those in Egypt, gets no coverage in the media. Why? We know the Bahrain government is suppressing protests, in some cases violently, with help from the Saudis, which can only offer Bahrain US bought weapons and resources. So, by extension the US is helping to suppress a popular uprising in Bahrain through the Saudis. Yet Syria receives almost 24 hour coverage in the US media.
Americans like to think they live in an open society with a free press. While the press may not be controlled by the State, it is certainly deferential to state interests. The US has an interest in sustaining the corrupt monarchies of the gulf states because otherwise Islamists and Iran would have a field day.
There are two ways reform can come to Saudi Arabia. One is through the house of Saud and the other is through Islamists like Osama bin Laden. If the Islamists take control of reform, guess who will be their number one supporters...Iran.
It's a chess game and the U.S. would like to think it's Bobby Fisher but we all know what happened to Bobby Fisher.
Saudi INVITED the US in during the first gulf war, the US responded with overkill, half a million US troops, where 100,000 would have been enough. 30 other nations participated, 50k from UK, 20k from Egypt and France, 10k Syria, Moroco, Kuwait, Oman, and a dozen countries bringing the coaltion to over 30 nations.
The second largest army was the Saudi army, 100k, they participated in air raids and lost 3 jets.
Pre gulf war, military spending was non existent, today its 7th in the world at 50$ billion thanks the Saddam era Iraq and currently Iran.
The Saudi military is twice as strong as Turkey, and 10 times stronger than paper tiger Iran.
As for Saudi military pointing weapons at their own people, dream on.
Having Planes and Tanks is one thing, but havinf the guts to use them, or even fit inside in case of the saudis and using them against paper tigers is another thing!
The Saudis Army is totally dependent on foreign weapons and western strategies. They have a close military treaty with US and are very vulnerable in any regional war without the full support of US & UK.
But Iran developed surprisingly its conventional and unconventional arsenal alongside its efficient asymmetrical capabilities in the post Iran-Iraq war period with her national/local potentialities and experts.
Above these, in any probable clashes in the region, the number, effectiveness and motives of Iranian Army and IRGC personnel are far higher than their Saudi counterparts.
All the Saudi's Infrastructure, oil refineries and its main cities can demolished severely in the first few hours of war under the heavy-load rockets rain from Iranian southern provinces :)
Already used, AKA Saudi-Yemini border. Neither Yemen or the US were involved. The houthis were defeated by Saudi and Iran and its proxies HUMILIATED, AGAIN.
I totally grok that you feel obligated to defend Saudi honor here. I'd do the same if I were in your shoes. But do you really believe the Saudi military is in the same league with Turkey's or Iran's?
Secondly, do you really feel Saudi Kingdom is sustainable the way she's going? I ask since you say you're a Saudi-American, someone who has seen things that many (most?) Saudis have not seen and felt. Or are you one of those privileged Saudis with no conception of how the Saudi equivalent of regular joe goes about lives?
Thanks for the groking!
The military is in a higher league, more spending, more training, fighter pilots clock the highest flight
hours compared with world average, tons of suppliers selling high end jets and tanks: US, China, Russia,
Germany, England, Spain, Brazil. But its always US deals that makes the most headlines! Israel objected to
the 1992 sales deal and objected again 2 decades later when the Saudis decided to upgrade!
Iran can have millions of soldiers but modern battles are won by air superiority which is overwhelmingly on
Saudi's side. Saudi has the capability to initiate a supression of enemey air defenses and then ground forces are open
As for the economy, it is slowly but surely moving away from oil exports, there is exports in refining, petrochemicals, fertilisers, plastics. Ranked 11th globally in ease of doing bussiness and dozens of global companies are opening offices, ranked in the top 10 for foreign global investment, money inflows reaching 40 billion. It tells me outsiders have confidence in the stability and future of the economy.
Falling unemployment from the 20% a decade ago to 10% currently is a huge achievement, there was a time when the country heavily needed foregin labor due to lack of skills and manpower, today the country reached self suffecieny in the labor market and there is slow but growing unease at anyone foreign because "they take our jobs!". Anyone who knows of the H1B and how US corporations prefer cheaper foreign labor over domestic can understand the similar situtation in Saudi.
The "average joe" is well educated and the 100,000+ on US scholarships will only add to the skillpool since most don't have immigration on their mind and the country will not have a "brain drain" anytime soon.
Saudi came a long way, it just needs better PR! Its better at self criticisim than self agrandizing in news papers and the general public psyche.
The royals have broad public support and allegiance, out of love, not fear. There are talks by many royals of turning the country into a constituional monrachy, once the necessary civil instututions have matured. Saudi does not need a messy revolution, but a clean and smooth evolution.
right right, defeating a group of people with some AK's is big victory for khademein haramein sharifeins army!
Really? If they are 10 times stronger than Iran, as you say, why are they so afraid of the Persians? Why do they need the US as their protector? If Saudi Arabia didnt have oil, they would be sub-Saharan Africa right now. A country run by a king is so 15th century, they should get with the times and introduce a little democracy.
I agree. Saudi Arabia looks like a timing bomb. Her rulers are not in touch with population at all.
Its half way to appease conservative but to fight extremism makes , in pratice, nobody happy.
Ultra-religious see the government as slave of the West, and ordinary people are oppressed by the lack of freedom and opportunities.
Not to mention the origin of the royal family and his bizarre dynastic succession amongst supposed half-brothers. It might take 15,20,25 years but this regime is going to be challenged , shaken and who knows...perhaps ousted,if it won t be able to reform itself radically.
"PRAISE be to Allah" that sorcery and blasphemy are still punishable crimes under the House of Saud! Must get back to rubbing my lamp...
The real threat to the Saudis is natural gas, hydrogen and lithium. In 1905 most people had no idea how quickly we were about to move away from horse-powered transportation. Similarly, very few can visualize a world in the short-term future where petroleum is a relic of the past. But it's going to happen, slowly at first and then, like television, PC's and cellphones, very very suddenly.
And then? You'll have 30+ million people living in a desert with no viable economy, and the "royals" will have long-since deplaned with their swiss bank accounts for greener pastures. Add to this the effect global warming is going to have on food prices, and these people are doomed.
Nah, they're not doomed, if the so called international community knows to act rationally.
The UN should withdraw funds from Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and assist Saudis who - you're right here - will face a real catastrophe. After all, there is no such thing as Palestine Refugees in Near East for quite some time, they've all passed away years and years ago, and their progeny were born out of "that place", so they're naturalized citizens of other countries.
As to global warming, if such animal exists, it will force food prices down: warmer climate in formerly inhospitable areas will bring more crops and pastures. Long live global warming! Carbon dioxide is the best friend of humankind!
Actually, global warming will significantly increase the frequency of extreme weather events. Which by the way destroy crops. This has already started; the spike in grain prices (caused by extreme weather events in Russia, Australia, Brazil and Argentina) was one of the main factors in the riots which kicked off the Arab Spring.
Except for the fact that they are NOT naturalized citizens in these foreign lands.
Aw, you don't say so! How come that fellow Arabs don't grant citizenship to several generations of their own born in their countries? It wouldn't happen in the evil West, no way...
However, that doesn't change the fact that people born out of Palestine cannot and are not Palestinian Refugees.
Are you citing some mediocre undergraduate student essay written for BA in "environmental technology" (or is it now "climate changability", or "environmental sustainability"?) at East Anglia University?
They maintain their Palestinian identities and, more importantly, property deeds.
Very nice, there're great many people maintaining their ancestral identity in different countries, in the US they have this funny fashion to call them hyphenated Americans... you know, Spanish- Americans, African-Americans, Phoenician-Americans and so on.
Egyptian-Palestinians, or Lebanese-Palestinians sounds great to me.
Property deeds? Well, a lot of people have property in foreign countries, it doesn't entitle them to much, certainly to no political rights whatsoever.
Coming from a Saudi, I am ashamed of what is happening in my country. If I only had one wish, I would like to know when possibly the government will wake up. Words cannot even describe what i feel. It seems like all what matters to the government is that they still in power, regardless of the outcome. I truly believe that we have wasted 50 years worth of oil revenue on NOTHING. Only the fat pockets, got fatter.
My father's advice (who have worked for the government for 30 years and never missed a day of work) don't work for the government.
I would like to say sorry, for my sons and grandsons, for what is coming in the future.
Thank you,
A Helpless Saudi from the heart of Najd.
If any of you are interested, I got to know Ibn Saud somewhat. Do any of you remember when the Italians bombed a town near by from the airfield we engineers built there during WW-ll? It took over a year for us to get it done and I got to know the Saudis real well.
There was a huge difference between the Arabs in Saudi Arabia and those in north Africa. There is no doubt Ibn Saud loved his people and I was forced to work with them and treat them well. They were a proud people. Any questions?
Thanks. Interesting. You must be quite the old geezer!
Yes, I am possibly one of the few left and I still have a good memory.
Good for you. All the best, Sir.
Solomon was not a magician, he was a prophet. Otherwise, interesting article.
To you, he was a prophet. In other traditions, he was a magician. And the article was citing a story from that other tradition.
Look, the lawyer in this story cited Koran, and Koran is something like poor, sometimes lampoonish paraphrase of Jewish and Christian originals. That is how King Solomon, The Prophet, becomes a magician. All pagan cults are heavily influenced by magic.
What tradition was it citing from, I wonder? It seems reasonable that in an article about Saudi Arabia the tradition in question is the Islamic one. In the Koran, Solomon is a prophet, not a magician. In the Islamic way of seeing things, calling an honored prophet like Solomon a magician is a grave insult.
If you are reluctant to pollute, how about just refraining altogether? Obviously you have no knowledge of the Koran nor Islam, but you are right in implying that making assertions about something you have no knowledge of is a form of pollution.
You are a moron!
The Arab world has stories, just as the Christian world does. consider the stories in the Arabian Nights, and the stories of djinns that have made it into Western literature.
They are not formally part of Islam -- and, as I understand it, some Muslim clerics (especially fundamentalist ones) object strongly to them. But they have been around a long time.
How d'yuh know that? Feeling a kinship maybe?
Wasn't he actually a bastard, adulterer, and miscegenist, according to Judeo-Christian scripture?
You confuse him with Muhammad, the Prophet, who wasn't even a magician - that requires some skills which that illiterate crook didn't possess.
Saudi Arabia is an inexcusable sycophant state which just happens to have a plethora of what the world needs, as a Country it has no substance,its cowardly its misogynist and has no backbone, it seemingly has no agenda for joining the human race, thus far its achievements to the world apart from living on top of vast oil fields amounts to a holed bucket in the sand ,and a lesson to all that have opulent wealth thrust upon them that money alone doesn't make you a class.act.. or indeed even a likable one.MJC
Your hatred is completely unjustifiable. I think people like you need to join the human race.
Saudi Arabia is regressive, corrupt and illiberal. Its rulers are barbarous gluttons, grown fat and idle. Their Wahabi fanaticism is responsible for the extremist Islam pervading the Middle East.
But while the KSA controls the oil, the West and media outlets such as the Economist will pander obsequiously to this dreadful Kingdom.
How is the weather there in Tel Aviv?
How is the weather like in Riyadh?
The Economist again embraces same opinions and chooses same faces. The deep understand is still away.
Interesting to see so less comments on such an intriguing article ..... Do people in Saudi have access to economist online ? .... If not then only 3 words for them ..."IGNORANCE IS BLISS" .... enjoy the oil while it lasts .
Hey buddy, I'm Saudi. And I'm also Saudi-American. So my understanding of the middle east and the west is vast.
We shake our heads whenever we get verbal assaults from people who've never been in the kingdom. Visit it, live in it, get opinions from westerners living in it, then form your opinions.
Saudi Arabia is the most advanced country in that part of the world, a global economical power house, at the price of 100$ for oil, only 55% of Saudi Arabia GDP is from oil revenues!! Saudi Arabia by the day is becoming stronger and more influential regardless all of the enmity & conspiracies from backwards terrorists regimes in Israel, Iran, Syria Iran and the soviets, Saudi managed to over come them, Actually manye arab & muslim states are very much dependent on the aids and generosity of the Saudis.
Saudi Arabia just needs to to get rid of corruption and the sky is the limit for them, a civilization that ruled the world for 10 centuries came from there and will come from there again, regardless of all the envy and jealousy the face from their primitive poor neighbors, who couldn't run thier countries succefully
I'm most curious as to which civilization you speak of that 'came from there'
Do you refer perhaps to the ottoman empire? To the old islamic empires (those were hardly under one republic and certainly never 'ruled the world,' and their power largely diminished by the 15th century)? I would hardly call all your neighbors primitive economically or politically. As one of the few remaining monarchies on the planet, I would hardly call Saudi Arabia the most advanced either. Great potential? Yes. Over half the economy based on oil extraction? Not a good portent for the medium/long term.
Also, btw: the soviet union no longer exists. Just thought I'd give you that little heads up!
Fact is Saudis have been doing other interesting things like buying billions and billions of arms and weapons when they hardly ever do any fighting, relying on Americans and NATO to defend their borders and royals.
Good one, my man. Yes, you should use that material for your next stand-up act; it is hilarious...
Unfortunately, they do not "just need to get rid of corruption." The Saudis I have known who are executives and managers are generally bright and hard-working guys. But the bulk of the Saudis simply act entitled -- even if they have jobs, they don't expect to actually work, just to get paid.
So it won't just take an end to corruption. It will take a significant cultural change for Saudi Arabia to become strong and influential once the oil runs low. And cultural changes happen only slowly and reluctantly. Most likely, it will take a generation or two of being poor to make it happen. (And meanwhile, the brightest Saudis will take their expertise elsewhere.)
I don't think a society that conducts public executions, engages in polygamy & bans women from driving qualifies as a Civilization!
Nice try though.
.. . . yes remember the 911 attackers were mostly Saudis . . so there were smart and technically skilled . . .
Advanced is just ignorance
!0 million misogynist religeos biggots served by 10 million foregners too desperate or afraid to stand u for the real victims 10 million Saudi women.
Advanced Ive been there,Compare to Qatar Israel or Oman its like the middle ages with mobile phones and fast food.
Who will power the air conditiners at Granada Mall and the whorehouse when the oil runs out.
Maybe he was referring to the civilization that invented mathematics and vanquished the Roman Empire from the Levant and Magreb.
I still wait eagerly for you to actually name an empire. The Romans in the West collapsed for foreign invasions and economic decline (fall in trade primarily), while the Eastern-Roman Empire, headed in Constantinople continued under the Byzantine-line until the Ottoman Empire finally sacked the capital and renamed it Istanbul in the 15th century. I'm under the impression you are referring to the Arab culture in general, and to the invention and use of Algebra (not mathematics in general, to which I'm aggrieved to inform you no one can claim to have 'invented').
Algebra IS mathematics. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions are all ARITHMETIC if there is no ZERO.
The Arabs drove the ROMANS out of the Levant within 30 years of the Prophet's death; and out of the Magreb within another 30. And then they crossed the Strait and kicked the crap out of the Visigoths.
(The term 'Byzantine Empire' was coined by 19th century British historians for the sole purpose of denying Romanhood to the Eastern Roman Empire, making them 'The Other,' in order to strengthen the French/British claim to Roman inheritance; the 'Byzantines' called themselves ROMAN.)
While i believe we are straying slightly off point, I shall respond nonetheless.
Algebra is a *branch* of mathematics, no argument there. But there are plenty of other branches other civilizations have contributed to or created. Statistics, calculus, geometry being some of the innumerable others that make up the whole of shining subject of mathematics.
"The Arabs" is not a civilization, it is a collective group or culture based on religion, region, or self-identity. The Romans were a civilization with a capital and government. I have yet to hear the answer to my original question, if you please.
A name is in the end only a name, you know what i meant thus the meaning is conveyed. Eastern Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, does it really matter in this context? It existed for over a thousand years, I think it'd be understandable if they changed names or if it was simply lost in translation. Denying romanhood? plausible, someone wanted to be the only 'roman,' quite the brand you see. Strengthen French/British claims to roman inheritance? Where did you come up with that? Italians like to remember their glorious ancient history, the Holy Roman Empire that represented the dozens of fractious german states claimed some inheritance, but Britain? France? Really? You just lost some of my respect kind sir.
Saudi Arabia is almost entirely a backward land of Bedouin goat herders who understand nothing about science or technology, nor do they want to; they just understand their Koranic superstitions & the are deepest of Islam's hubris & abhorrence of self-critique.
Iran actually has a huge % of the young population who are engineers & computer programmers.
And Israel has by far the most engineers per capita of any country (check Wiki page "list of Israeli inventions & discoveries"),develops+exports endless computer & medical technologies that impderove people's lives all over the world. Plus they have always had real elections, & tolerate terrorist acts that which would've made Arab gov'ts kill 100s of 1000s of their own (as they did in Algeria, Sudan, & Iraq over the past 2-3 decades)
Imagine if Saudi Arabia was run as well as Norway. It would be an economic beacon, driving global demand. It is nowhere as rich as it should be, but it's monarch are more concerned with staying in power than actual economic development. If its humna cpital were developed they would rebel. Saudi Arabia should be one of the best R&D areas in the world, with lots of engineers and PHD's backed by government funded research, instead it's government funds religous zealots.
With about 27.5 million people in Saudi Arabia, I would hesitate to say it could 'drive global demand.' It certainly could be an economic and research beacon, as those need not be populous places. But even the most developed country, for instance let's take Norway with 4.8 million people, cannot effect the global demand for lack of- lets say economic heft. If I were to extrapolate Norway's GDP-per-person to Saudi Arabia, it would represent an economy of 2.4 trillion dollars (about a five fold increase in size). Taking that against the world economy, this Saudi Arabia still only represents 3% of the economic pie, against 23% for the US or 9.4% for China.
Norway (and Sweden and Denmark for that matter) are only as peaceful as they are because they got their butts kicked for so long.
Norway was on the verge of world conquest in 1066--until Stamford Bridge.
Saudi Arabia produces a lot of useless engineers and PhDs because these educated people don't need to use their brains and work hard for living or pay back their student loans because their king will give them wellfare money so they don't revolt as said in the article.
Many Saudis are immensely rich as stated in article and they hire maid and drivers. They don't even know how to wash their clothes, cook, or wash their own toilets, or don't even know how to drive or even recognize directions.
They are a bunch of useless people.
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Tour de SuisseThis is also going to be shown on One HD. I'm not going to make any "Live" claims this time
Between SBS and One we're getting a pretty decent crack on free to air FPR Ragamuffin
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How long ? Highlights package delayed ?
Re: Tour de SuisseNot sure Michael, it has been on their adds for what's coming up in June. I made a feeble attempt to garner more info on One's site, but after about 3" of half ar$#d navigation I clicked off. Will post more info if I hear/see it.
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Hi They have a sports e-newsletter so hopefully that will have more details when it comes out. I see they are also covering the World Championships (that might be on Ten but). Regards Andrew
Re: Tour de SuisseGreat coverage last year of the WCS but dunno if i like Phil anymore after listening to the euro sport guys
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Thank you, finally someone else who likes Dave Harmon & Sean Kelly over the Phil and Paul Lance love & cliche-a-thon. Really if you want to listen to those guys all you need is a recording with a few sayings on it like 'he's cracked' or 'Big George Hincapie' or 'He's dancing on the pedals' or 'The heads of state are coming to the fore' and then just play that back and interject some random piece of info about Lance every 30sec. I will admit though that they do cater for the casual viewer very well explaining everything so they can understand almost to the point of nauseation for someone who actually follows cycling. But if you want to listen to decent commentary by people in the know that commentate on more than 2 or 3 events a year than someone like Harmon & Kelly are very good even if Sean is quite monotone. If you speak dutch then i highly recommend the Sporza commentators, they really know their stuff. Regarding OneHD covering the Tour de Suisse, they will probably just get the same feed they got for Romandie. The commentators are Rob Hatch and Johnathon Harris-Bass. I'm not sure if they are free lance commentators or actually commentate for a station and we just get their feed (sort of like how Phil and Paul commentate for multiple stations at once) but they are quite knowledgeable but could do with putting some excitement into their commentary. It is good though that there is finally a bit of competition for showing cycling now
Re: Tour de Suissethe tour de suisse ad on one hd shows footage of ITU triathlon
at least the got the add for the Le Mans 24 hour race right (Shown live!)
Re: Tour de SuisseIt starts this weekend, but the telecast times are all over the place.
11pm one day, 10:10pm the next and 4:45 another Lucky I can set them to record automaticcally
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tivo? can't use the "series link" function on foxtel for some reason
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Yep. Have set it so it records anything "cycling" related. Means it gets the MTB and BMX stuff , but also Track as well.
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Re: Tour de SuisseOuch!!!.
Re: Tour de SuisseWhat a mess. Boonen ended up riding straight over the top of Cav. Haussler's out and afaik no comment from Cav. Which is a shame, as he's usually good for that.
Re: Tour de SuisseMore crashes again At least HH got a stage win.
The riding has been interesting, but held my breath in the 1st stage when Brutt almost went into the house on one of the descents !!!! Looks like some nice riding around there !!!
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oh FFS!!! any word on injuries? great win for him in stage 2. hope he hasn't done his knee...again.
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No mention of knee, but apparently a deep wound to his elbow requiring stitches and a few days rest. Here's hoping. Was challenging for the stage win when Cavendish and hime went for the same spot of road. Cavendish penalised (30 sec) for irregular sprinting.
Re: Tour de Suissei suppose that's, good news about HH, thankfully he was wearing a helmet
and fined (a whole 200 euros) and docked points...a good kick in the arse is what he really needs
Re: Tour de SuisseBe nice to hear how that AG2R rider pulled up after flipping over Cav, he hit the ground hard enough to smash one of the wheels off the bike!
Its times like this that being a hill climber would seem a great idea
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Nothing broken, but he needed some stitches in his elbow & some road rash. Boonen banged up his injured knee again, but hasn't pulled out. No word on the AG2R La Mondial riders, and the Caisse D'Epargne rider, Arnaut something or other, suspected broken hip.
Tour of SwitzerlandCheck this out. Happened in last nights Stage 4 sprint finish at the Tour of Switzerland...
Unbelievable... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RNAYR3KPIg
Re: Tour de Suisseshame for heinrich! i wonder who he's going for in the world cup. inflammatory statement or idea
Re: Tour de SuisseFirst thread I look at this morning...can't wait for the carbon wheels threads popping up everywhere else.But in this instance the speed with which that wheel collapsed is insane!.
Crazy crash...luckily no one too badly hurt (that we know of yet).
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There was a twitter post saying that his team lost the first world cup match the other night... guess he's on our side now Nasty nasty crash! caavendouche does it again - You'd never pick him as the worlds best road sprinter with amateur riding like that! Shame Boonen hit the skids and softened the blow. Cav should give himself a good upper cut for that effort! I have to ride early in the morning, before my brain figures out what I'm doing...
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- The universe is formed in the instantaneous expansion that scientists call the "Big Bang". The "Big Bang" has been theorized to be caused by destabilizing Omega molecules. (VOY: "The Omega Directive")
- This point in time represents a hideout for members of the Q Continuum. The USS Voyager was briefly transported here by Quinn in order to escape Q, but he too had once used this hideout and was thus able to find the ship. (VOY: "Death Wish")
The age of the universe was given in VOY: "Good Shepherd" as 16 billion years, which was the estimated age during the filming of the episode. Current real-world scientific evidence indicates the age of the universe to be 13.798 ± 0.037 billion years.
9 billion years ago Edit
- Hundreds of protostars collapsed in close proximity to one another forming the astronomical phenomenon later known as a black cluster. (TNG: "Hero Worship")
7 billion years ago Edit
- The Theta 116 system begins the process of becoming a planetary system. (TNG: "The Royale")
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- The star Sol begins to form out of nebular dust and interstellar gases. (VOY: "Death Wish")
- Female Q is born. (VOY: "The Q and the Grey")
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- The Guardian of Forever had been asked its last question (until 2267, when it told Captain James T. Kirk and Spock it had awaited a question "since before your Sun burned hot in space"). (TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever")
- The star Sol takes form.
- The ancient humanoids, one of the oldest known sentient species, seeded the oceans of many worlds with DNA codes, directing the evolution of life towards a physical pattern similar to their own. The varieties of lifeforms that carried this seed code to fruition include the Humans, Vulcans, Klingons and Cardassians, and likely many other humanoid species of the galaxy. (TNG: "The Chase")
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- Q and Q begin their romantic involvement around this time. (VOY: "The Q and the Grey")
- The planet Pollux IV forms in the Beta Geminorum system. (TOS: "Who Mourns for Adonais?")
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- On Earth, in a region later known as France, amino acids combine to form the first proteins. (TNG: "All Good Things...")
According to current real-world science, there is evidence that early life already flourished in the oceans at least 3.7 billion years ago. [1]
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- The Slaver Empire is the master of all intelligent beings in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Slavers and all of their subjects were exterminated in a massive war which caused all intelligent life to re-evolve. (TAS: "The Slaver Weapon")
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- In the Permian period, Eryops, the last common ancestor of cold-blooded and warm-blooded organisms, lives on Earth. (VOY: "Distant Origin")
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- An alien ship of unknown beings is invaded by a magnetic organism. Trapped in orbit of Questar M-17, the crew disable their own ship to prevent the spread of the entity. (TAS: "Beyond the Farthest Star")
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- Earth's dominant reptile superorder, the dinosaurs, are wiped out when an asteroid impacts the planet. (VOY: "Distant Origin"; ENT: "Azati Prime")
- Some of Earth's dinosaurs survive the asteroid impact and continue to develop and name themselves the Voth. Sometime thereafter they leave Earth and travel to the Delta quadrant where they create one of the first interstellar empires in the quadrant. (VOY: "Distant Origin")
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- On Earth, the ancestors of Humans begin to distinguish themselves from their primate ancestors by their intelligence and reasoning skills. (TOS: "A Taste of Armageddon")
- Construction of the vast city around the Guardian of Forever, stretching out to the horizon of its planet. Spock estimated the age of the ruins to be "on the order of ten thousand centuries" in 2267. (TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever")
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- The inhabitants of Organia evolve to beings of pure energy. (TOS: "Errand of Mercy")
Ayelborne said that his people had evolved beyond the need for physical bodies millions of years ago.
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- The Tkon Empire collapses. (TNG: "The Last Outpost")
- The humanoid ancestors of Sargon's race colonized the galaxy. Their colonists may have caused, or influenced, the rise of intelligent life on Vulcan. (TOS: "Return to Tomorrow")
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard stated in his log that the ancient Bajorans had flourished "when Humans were not yet standing erect". Homo Erectus existed on Earth from about 1.8 million years to about 200,000 years ago. Homo Sapiens began to emerge at about 200,000 years ago.
- Sargon's species is destroyed in a massive civil war when the atmosphere is ripped from their planet. Only a few survivors escape by preserving their consciousnesses in a cave deep below the surface. (TOS: "Return to Tomorrow")
- The planet Exo III becomes nearly uninhabitable after its sun begins to fade. The inhabitants resettle beneath the surface and construct androids to serve them. (TOS: "What Are Little Girls Made Of?")
According to Star Trek: Star Charts, on page 34, the Talosians became warp capable.
200,000 years ago Edit
- The Iconians, a highly developed civilization, are presumed destroyed in an orbital bombardment of their homeworld. (TNG: "Contagion"; DS9: "To the Death")
- The large bioplasmic organism, dubbed as the "telepathic pitcher plant" is born in the Delta Quadrant. (VOY: "Bliss")
- By at least this point, the Borg have begun their evolution into cybernetic beings. (TNG: "Q Who")
Star Trek: Destiny presents a different point of origin for the Borg.
100,000 years ago Edit
- The subspace network which will be later claimed by the Hirogen is constructed by an unknown race. (VOY: "Message in a Bottle", "Hunters")
- The ocean planet, later home of the Monean civilization, is created by extracting all water from a Class M planet and containing it inside an immense force field. (VOY: "Thirty Days")
Tens of thousands of years ago Edit
50,000 years ago Edit
- The Horta of Janus VI begin their latest cycle of rebirth. (TOS: "The Devil in the Dark")
- Bele begins to chase Lokai, who has led a revolution on the planet of Cheron. (TOS: "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield")
45,000 years ago Edit
- Around 42,600 BC, extraterrestrial visitors, known as the "Sky Spirits", visit a people on Earth who become the indigenous inhabitants of South America. (VOY: "Tattoo")
30,000 years ago Edit
- The Verathan civilization, originally from the Verath system in the Gamma Quadrant, reaches its height, spanning two dozen star systems. (DS9: "Q-Less")
- An ancient city was built on Bajor with walls and a tablet that were dated to be over thirty millennia old. This city was inhabited until twenty-five thousand years ago after which, sediment buried the ruins and the ancient city of B'hala was built on top of it. (DS9: "The Reckoning")
28,000 years ago Edit
- On Earth, the Neanderthals become extinct. (ENT: "Dear Doctor")
22,000 years ago Edit
- The first of at least 947 archaeological expeditions is conducted at the ancient ruins on Tagus III. (TNG: "Qpid")
- The Trill begin their life as a joined species. (TNG: "The Host")
20,000 years ago Edit
- The Bajorans begin celebrating the Bajoran Gratitude Festival. (DS9: "Fascination")
12,000 years ago Edit
- An artisan known only as the Master of Tarquin Hill on Kurl, during the Third Dynasty, creates small ceramic figurines, called naiskos, that embody that culture's belief that within each person is a community of individuals, each with its own desires, views, and voices. (TNG: "The Chase")
10,000 years ago Edit
- According to Quinn, this was the last time that "ordinary" Q in the Q Continuum had to speak with each other. (VOY: "Death Wish")
- When their sun is about to go nova, the Fabrini leave their system on a propelled asteroid known as the Yonada. (TOS: "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky")
- The machine-god Vaal on Gamma Trianguli VI is built. (TOS: "The Apple")
- The civilization on Sigma Draconis VI which is currently at its technological peak, advanced well beyond 23rd century Federation capabilities, experiences a catastrophic glacial age. As a result, the inhabitants of the planet begin to de-evolve to a primitive level, and the male and female inhabitants experience a great schism in their society. (TOS: "Spock's Brain")
- A species of intelligent spacefaring organisms which form symbiotic relationships with humanoid lifeforms that live within their bodies become nearly extinct. Gomtuu is the last known survivor. (TNG: "Tin Man")
- The first of the Orbs is discovered by the Bajorans in the sky above their planet. Over the next ten millennia, a total of nine of these extraordinary objects are discovered, inspiring revelations that shape Bajoran religion. (DS9: "Emissary")
- The Founders establish a new homeworld in the Omarion Nebula to escape prejudice and persecution founding the Dominion. (DS9: "The Search, Part II")
- The Ferengi discover currency and the concept of profit. (DS9: "Little Green Men") The first Grand Nagus, Gint writes the Rules of Acquisition during this time. (DS9: "Body Parts")
- The Bajoran archaeologists begin their unsuccessful, ten thousand year search for the lost city of B'hala, which is not uncovered until the year 2373. (DS9: "Rapture")
Thousands of years ago Edit
9,000 years ago Edit
- The Zakdorn earned a reputation as brilliant strategists. (TNG: "Peak Performance")
6,000 years ago Edit
- The Aldeans build a massive cloaking device that shields their planet, Aldea, from outside detection. (TNG: "When The Bough Breaks")
- circa 4000 BC
- Unknown aliens take or abduct several Humans from Earth to be eugenically bred on a distant planet, lest humanity destroy itself in its early technological age. Gary Seven, Agent 201 and Agent 347 will be among their descendants. (TOS: "Assignment: Earth")
- Akharin is born in Mesopotamia on Earth. A soldier felled in battle, he soon realizes that no injury can kill him. He goes on through many aliases, becoming the immortal known as Flint. (TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah")
- circa 3733 BC
- Landru of Beta III preaches peace and coexistence among his people, ending a period of savagery. He creates a powerful computer to guide and protect his people after his death. (TOS: "The Return of the Archons")
5,000 years ago Edit
- circa 2700 BC
- Earth is visited by aliens who settle in the region near Greece and the Mediterranean, where they are worshiped by the Greeks as gods. (TOS: "Who Mourns for Adonais?")
- Sarpeidon experiences an ice age. Zarabeth is exiled to this time period, and Spock and Leonard McCoy are briefly stranded here as well. (TOS: "All Our Yesterdays")
- By this time, Vulcans are still barbaric, war-like and "nearly killing themselves off with their own passions". (TOS: "All Our Yesterdays")
- circa 2600 BC
- The Egyptians build the pyramids of Giza. They are observed by anthropologists from the future (specifically, the year 2769). (ENT: "Cold Front")
- circa 2500 BC
- Vulcans begin to mentally train themselves to suppress their emotions. (VOY: "Random Thoughts")
4,000 years ago Edit
- circa 1800 BC
- The Xindi-Avians build a concealed fortress on a planet that will one day become the home of the Xindi Council. (ENT: "The Council")
- circa 1735 BC
- According to Spock, this is when Humans begin to glorify organized violence. (TOS: "Dagger of the Mind")
- Humans on Earth begin the tradition of confining law-breakers to prisons. (TOS: "Dagger of the Mind")
3,000 – 2,000 years ago Edit
- circa 950 BC
- Flint lives the life of King Solomon on Earth. (TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah")
- circa 850 BC
- The Vulcan monastery on P'Jem is built. (ENT: "The Andorian Incident")
- circa 730 BC
- The Kalandan outpost planet, "a few thousand years old" in 2268, may be constructed around this time. (TOS: "That Which Survives")
- circa 500 BC
- The Bajoran prophet Trakor first encounters the Orb of Prophecy and Change, and writes a series of prophecies concerning the Emissary of the Prophets. (DS9: "Destiny")
- The Battle of Thermopylae is fought on Earth between the Spartans and the Persians. (DS9: "What You Leave Behind")
- circa 400 BC
- Survivors from the Sahndara system supernova arrive on Earth. Their sojourn coincides with the time of the philosophers Socrates and Plato. "After the death of the Greek civilization they idolized" they move on to the planet Platonius.(TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren")
- Flint lives the life of Alexander the Great on Earth. (TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah")
- Construction begins on the Great Wall of China on Earth. (VOY: "11:59")
- Parmen, future leader of the Sahndaran refugee community, is born on Platonius. (TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren")
- Philana, future wife of Parmen, is born on Platonius. (TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren")
- Philana, now 30, stops aging. (TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren")
Indeterminate past Edit
- An unknown race, possibly of extragalactic origin, builds a massive planet killer. (TOS: "The Doomsday Machine")
- The population of Talos IV is largely wiped out in a war. Forced to live beneath the surface, the Talosians develop their mental powers, while neglecting their technological knowledge and skills. (TOS: "The Cage", "The Menagerie, Part I", "The Menagerie, Part II")
- According to Klingon mythology, Kortar, the first Klingon, destroys the gods who created him. (DS9: "Homefront"; VOY: "Barge of the Dead")
- A neutron star in a binary star system in the Kavis Alpha sector begins exploding every 196 years. (TNG: "Evolution")
- A power struggle occurs within the highest ranks of a race called the Saltah'na, which ultimately destroys them. Before their extinction, the Saltah'na create a collection of energy spheres which preserve a record of the events leading to the species' destruction via a telepathic matrix, which can be transferred into the minds of some humanoid species, causing them to reenact the power struggle. (DS9: "Dramatis Personae")
- A scientist named Lazarus discovers the alternative warp, constructing a space-time vehicle which can transverse the corridor between two universes over both time and space. He begins his relentless pursuit of his nemesis "the thing" across centuries of time, who is fact Lazarus's own counterpart from the alternate universe. (TOS: "The Alternative Factor")
External links Edit
- Thousands of years ago at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Millions of years ago at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Billions of years ago at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
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Computer Motherboards
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Motherboards Buying Guide
Motherboards are very aptly named as t...
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Motherboards Buying Guide
Motherboards are very aptly named as they truly are the 'mother' of any computer system, they are the base on which to build and design your system. There are numerous types and sizes of motherboards available today, but the specific one that you choose will be determined by your needs or the needs of the system you are building.
There are few main factors that will go into your choice of a motherboard:
Type of System:
What is the main thing you want to do with this computer? Are you a gamer? Is it going to be primarily for multi-media like a Home Theater PC (HTPC)? Or are you just going to be surfing the internet? Or maybe it's for your home based business, these are all things to keep in mind when considering your motherboard purchase as this will ultimately be the deciding factor for the motherboard you choose.
Size of the system:
This is one that people overlook, depending on what you want to do with your computer you may not need a full-sized system or motherboard for your needs. Let's say you want to build an HTPC, well you'll certainly be thinking about keeping it small as not many people want a large tower PC cluttering up their entertainment center. So of course you'll be looking at smaller form factor style motherboards for these needs.
Is the Motherboard for an Upgrade?:
If you're intending on purchasing a motherboard to upgrade a pre-existing system you'll need to make sure all of your 'older' parts will be compatible with the new motherboard. So this of course beings about quite a few more decisions in your choice of a motherboard. Depending on how old your components are it might not be worth upgrading the motherboard as your components could hold back the overall performance of the system.
Types of Motherboards:
There are many types of motherboards on the market today and for the most part each style or form factor does have it's own purposes.
The two most popular motherboard styles for consumers are:
ATX or Full-ATX Motherboards are the most common size or form factor of motherboards on the market today, these are also the largest and designed to fit inside tower style cases, but some desktop cases can fit them as well.
-ATX boards are usually the most powerful boards on the market and they have all of the latest and greatest features that anyone could want or need. If you're looking to build a powerful gaming computer then this form factor is what you'll want to focus your attention to as it will feature the latest and fastest chipsets, along with many other additional features like surround sound, SLI, and Crossfire capabilities.
-You'll find ATX form factor motherboards are the most versatile as well, you can find them specifically built to be used in gaming with additional special cooling systems built directly onto the board. On some you'll fine elaborate heatpipe cooling for the chipsets and some motherboards even come equipped with water blocks to be integrated into a liquid cooling system. These boards are usually the most expensive as well. Of course you can find ATX motherboards that are meant to be servers with two or more CPU sockets integrated into them, you'll also find them specifically built to be the center of your multi-media experience as well.
microATX style motherboards are about 25% smaller than the standard ATX is, and these are the second most popular form factor available today. The microATX is popular because of it's small size, and the fact that even though it's small it can be as powerful as a standard ATX motherboard can. These are great for HTPC systems and gaming systems where you want to be able to take your computer with you to game with others at LAN parties etc. There are several companies out there that make small PC cases specifically designed for the microATX format, some are meant to be used as an HTPC and feature things like remote controls and controls on the front of the case for your multi-media, while others are meant specifically for gamers with flashy looks, windows and lights.
-Many microATX motherboards feature an on-board graphics chip as well that can be used instead of having to purchase a separate video card, these can be used for a great base for a budget computer, or something even for children where video processing power isn't something that is required or needed.
There are several other types of motherboards out there today like the ITX format that can come in many sizes, these are usually expensive and generally for a specialized uses and not really for the end consumer, though I have seen many people build fine systems around these formats as well.
Other Thoughts on Purchasing a Motherboard:
If you intend your motherboard purchase to be an upgrade for your current hardware be sure to check to make sure it's all going to be compatible, don't rely on what the retailer tells you about the specifications of the motherboard, always visit the manufacturers website to find the exact specifications of the motherboard you are intending on buying. Many times I've run across wrong specs listed on a website selling a board I was thinking of buying, had I not double-checked the specifications and purchased the board I would have had the hassle of having to return the board and most likely incur a restocking fee as well from the retailer. You can avoid many headaches by just doing a bit more research by visiting the manufacturers website and finding out the correct information for the product you intend to purchase.
With the popularity of SATA drives, you'll find that on many new motherboards you are limited to the IDE connections, if you've got older IDE hard drives or other IDE style devices that you wish to use with your new motherboard make sure there's enough connections for what you need.
You can also come to find that with newer motherboards you'll need to update the BIOS even before you can use the board, especially with newer CPUs being released all the time. The motherboard you intend to purchase might not be listed as being compatible with your CPU, but there could be a BIOS upgrade available that makes it compatible with it.
Closing Thoughts:
Purchasing a motherboard isn't really as difficult as it sounds, it might take some time to find the right one for you, but in the end you'll be happy you took the time to research all of your options to make sure you are getting exactly what you want and need. You can avoid quite a few hassles just by doing a little bit of research!
When you finally decide on what motherboard you need for your uses be sure to shop around as many stores have different prices for the exact same thing, and since there are several manufacturers of motherboards out there you can have many choices as well for basically the same motherboard, with only subtle differences between the manufacturers.
Of course after you decide what motherboard you want, look around at the reviews for it, many motherboards have the same chipsets in them but might not offer the same performance, so you might find a better performing motherboard from a different manufacturer for the same price that has the same specs you are looking for.


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