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  1. The most important thing to check is the college's accreditation in your degree field.

    Find out of the accreditation they have is recognized by the business or other universities you're interested in.

    Many online universities are not accredited and are little more than diploma mills. The gray area comes in with colleges that are accredited, but is that accreditation nationally or internationally recognized?

    Actually, believe it or not, but in most cases, it is preferable to go to a school that is regionally accredited. It is very difficult to transfer credits from a naionally accredited university to a regoinally accredited university. Most of the larger colleges are regionally accreditied, not nationally. University of Phoenix is regionally accredited.

    I don't know how this applies to someone in Dubai, however.

  2. I might be missing something here, but why do you even need a computer for Apple TV? Doesn't it have its own interface to the iTunes store? Or can you actually stream files from another computer to it? Either way, it shouldn't have anything to do with any computer connected on the network, as long as the Apple TV itself is able to connect.

  3. Well, what I just bid on anyway. It will probably be a week or so until they arrive. I know these are computer speakers, but it doesn't seem like anybody ever looks in that area, so I thought I'd show them off here. These are SWS subwoofers designed to go with the ProMedia Ultra 5.1 system. I've been trying to buy these for some time, but they have gone for crazy prices. I know it's kinda insane to have four of these. I don't know if I'll keep them all, but the price was right.

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  4. I don't know why this program would elicit such a strong reaction from you? I took it as, if you are going to buy a gun, learn how to use it. I agree that their little experiment didn't prove anything, but at least everyone tried to fight back, and the blonde, as you said, may have actually taken the shooter out.

    At any rate, I can't imagine too many people watch 20/20 on a Friday night, and those that do probably take it with a grain of salt. News programs like that always exaggerate, and scew the results to their liking.

    And the shootout in the convenience store? They made a big deal out of the fact that nobody got hit. How about what didn't happen? The store clerk wasn't killed, as is often the case in these situations, and he didn't get robbed. So in that case, it was good that he had the gun, wasn't it?

  5. Wow, I wasn't trying to start a fight about monopoles vs.
    WDST/bipole/dipoles. I have RS-3s now, which I'm happy with. I was
    thinking about upgrading to 7.1 (I had 7.1 years ago, but scaled
    back). I never upgraded to RS-7s because of the price. I've been
    watching ebay, but the prices for both RS-7s and RS-3s are out of line
    for a used speaker.

    So I was thinking about going to the new RS
    series speakers and was wondering what people would recommend. Folks
    have said that RS-42 or 62 would be okay, so I'll probably look into
    those.

    I used to work at an electronics store, so it kills me
    to pay retail prices for speakers. I've still got some friends in the
    industry that will give me the hook-up. So for me, I can probably get
    a better deal on new surrounds than buying them used.

    Thanks everyone for the help.

    And if I may:

    Ever look at the walls in your local
    theaters lately at all? I can assure you that you won't find sound
    sprayers in there but an array of monoples. To each his own I guess if
    that is what you like. Me I will stick to my 4 Cornwalls in the rear
    that will easily outperform 4 sound sprayers from any series.

    You are right, you don't see "sound sprayers" in movie theaters, but
    you do see a lot more than just 2 or 4 surround speakers. I'm pretty sure that is how the whole bi/dipole/WDST concept came about, trying to reproduce that effect.
  6. That SWS connect is actually an output. I've never tried it, but you could probably run an RCA to mini-jack to the promedia sub, but I'm not sure how it would work with/without the volume control?

  7. It's true what they say, you never forget. The fact that he was an expert bicyclist, though? It's funny, though, right before he grabbed the bike, I was thinking "it would be funny if he grabbed a bike."

    I read a Ka-Zar comic book where that happened once, it was funny then, too.



  8. I'm not clear on what you did. Were you already using the Monster cable and switched it out, or were you using the generic 14-gauge? Which cable gave you the lower volume level?

    Were there other differences, like in clarity, bass response, musical transient response, pleasant or unpleasant sound?

    I started out using the 14 ga regular wire, which gave me the "comfortable" listening level. I then switched to the Monster cable, where I had the apparent decrease in volume. I couldn't pick out any other real differences, I consider my self pretty tin-earred and like I said, it was just a quickie little test. Nothing scientific.

    Speakerfritz, I'm not exactly sure what you were getting at there. Are you saying their so called "flux tube" should produce results, or not?

    Your first post wasn't very clear at all. I thought you meant exactly the opposite and was wondering why you'd be complaining that the thin wire was more quiet. Somehow I doubt the speaker wire would make that kind of difference, but if you say so...

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