[ot_caving] hydrogen fuel cell car

2008-06-16 Thread Justin Leigh Shaw
Honda anounced today the first commercialy produced hydrogen fuel cell vehicle. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/business/7456141.stm#top - Give this to a friend: ot-subscr...@texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[ot_caving] a DVD review

2008-06-16 Thread David
I spent Father's Day watching a very good DVD. This is a review. The remake of Doctor Zhivago ( 2002 ): http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5173D2EBJBL._SS500_.jpg The original movie Doctor Zhivago is one of my favorites. This remake is a low budget attempt to make a TV version

[ot_caving] Outsourcing news

2008-06-16 Thread David
This is the most incredible outsourcing news I have heard of so far. Imagine you are in the drive thru at your local fast food joint, Taco Bell, Jack-in-the-Box, etc. Now try to imagine that the person taking your order on that little speaker is not inside the building, but somewhere else (

[Texascavers] article on West Texas gypsum karst

2008-06-16 Thread Mixon Bill
There is an article on the International Journal of Speleology web site titled Epigene and Hypogene Gypsum Karst Manifestations of the Castile Formation: Eddy County, New Mexico, and Culberson County, Texas, USA by Kevin Stafford, Raymond Nance, Laura Rosales-Lagarde, and Penelope Boston.

[Texascavers] UT Grotto meeting – June 18, 2008

2008-06-16 Thread garyfranklin2
UT Grotto meeting – June 18, 2008 www.utgrotto.org The meeting is on Wednesday from 7:45 P.M. - 9:00 P.M. on the University of Texas Campus in 2.48 Painter Hall http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/pai.html David Ochel will be presenting Caving and Cave Rescue Training in TAG David

[ot_caving] computer news

2008-06-16 Thread David
You will soon be able to buy a video card for your computer with 2 processing chips. Expect to pay over $ 1,500 at first, but the price is supposed to get down to the $ 500 range. I remember about 10 years ago, I was doing computer-aided drafting on a PC that had a 2 megabyte video card. I

Re: [ot_caving] computer news

2008-06-16 Thread Charles Goldsmith
David, dual processor video cards are already here, I purchased this card a week ago: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10007730 I'm a gamer, so keeping up with the technology is a hobby of mine :) I thought I got a great deal on this card, but I didn't research it

Re: [ot_caving] computer news

2008-06-16 Thread Don Cooper
Geez Charles - What kind of games take so much video co-possessing power? I'd think it would take a whole lot less hardware to support very smooth display and accurate response of the very best flight simulators! -DC On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Charles Goldsmith wo...@justfamily.org wrote:

Re: [ot_caving] computer news

2008-06-16 Thread Charles Goldsmith
The latest flight sim X will eat modern video cards for lunch. Modern games need as much horsepower as possible for higher resolutions. Crysis is one, it wants multiple video cards at 1900x1200 resolution at a decent framerate :) On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Don Cooper wavyca...@gmail.com