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Completely Silent Media PC

Posted by timothy on from the nothing's-completely-silent dept.

Kez writes "Zalman's first completely fanless PC case, the TNN 500 was an impressive piece of engineering, but it was very bulky. Aiming their new chassis at those looking to build multimedia PCs and who don't want noisy fans to spoil their experience, the TNN 300 is smaller than its predecessor. From the Hexus.net review: 'It's a niche product that will appeal, in no uncertain terms, to a select bunch of users that value silence above all else. If you happen to be one of them, the TNN 300 is a pretty unique product that will appeal to you.'"

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  1. Silent servers... by Tune · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hmm.

    It seems the linked site has decided to demonstrate its ultra-silent page server after being slashdotted.

  2. Grammar Nazi by darkitecture · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    If you happen to be one of them, the TNN 300 is a pretty unique product that will appeal to you.

    Sorry to be the annoying English teacher from 9th grade here but something can't be "pretty unique" or "very unique". It's either unique or it isn't. Yes, informally it can be used with an adverbial modifier but that doesn't mean it's proper English.

    1. Re:Grammar Nazi by Epistax · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike unique.

    2. Re:Grammar Nazi by rossifer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Sorry to be the annoying English teacher from 9th grade here but something can't be "pretty unique" or "very unique". It's either unique or it isn't.

      Proper English should be left in the classroom where it is taught. What people speak (and write) in the real world is what matters. Pretty much everyone except the pedants understand that something different is meant by "pretty unique" (the design is not really unique, but it is original in that it brings together many existing good ideas) instead of just saying "unique".

      When people use modifiers to "unique", they are describing or qualifying those aspects that make the subject unique. If someone describes another person's hair as "extremely unique", they mean to communicate that the hair is unique in a way that is worth describing differently from how the other person's fingerprints are unique.

      There are degrees of uniqueness, even if the grammar nazi's haven't yet gotten around to modifying "Proper English" to acknowledge it yet. The same goes for ending sentences in prepositions, using the passive tense in sentences (up yours, Microsoft grammar check!), and all sorts of other ways in which english continues to change over time.

      Trying to force people to use yesterday's rules for their verbal and written communication simply doesn't work. The rules will eventually change to match how people communicate. And that's the way things ought to work.

      Regards,
      Ross

  3. Re:The sound of silence by Device666 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you would have news coverage of the Discovery landing succesfully, stop wining, you good actually do something about it yourselves! Slashdot has a feature (a link) which enables you to submit news yourselves. You answer has (in my modest opinion) no relevance to this topic. You might as well could put this message as a reply on all the other topics as well.. In communities, these things doesn't work this way (at least not if you want something to be done) Communities thrive by contribution, so before you start complaining, at least contribute something! Whining is only a solution for powerless babies who cannot speak.. So why should you?

  4. Re:Silent Media PC by OwnedByTwoCats · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I would mod this up, but I wanna post. I like it. Much funny. I'll throw some karma to the author anyway...