In my browsing the page I notice you never see ANY cables coming out of the case. They really ARE that ugly, and I bet the case wouldn't be as cool if you could see them.
Watercooling requires a way to move that water, ie, a pump. Moving parts that require power, and the problem is that you still have to get x watts of heat out of the water at the other end. I think the current use of a heat pipe is much better than watercooling. The only "movement" is the phase change powered by the heat itself, and so there is less chance of failure.
How did this get modded up? Check www.sandpile.org. The P4 maxed out at 99 watts and the Athlon maxed out at 75 watts. Maybe AMD should add huge plastic brackets to their spec so people can use freakin huge heat sinks and then maybe they'll shut up about trying to cool a "megar" T-bird 1.4 gig@75 watts.
Except their website says:
Sorry, still working on a version that supports Netscape and other browsers.
Check back later. This site works only on IE5 or Later.
Like I haven't heard that before
"Windows sucks! Open Source is good! But since everybody else uses Windows there is no point in developing for multiplatforms."
Does this make sense? I think that once everyone's mailboxes get saturated with x emails, they'll stop reading them. Lets say I'm a normal computer user and I get 3 pieces of spam a day. I might not understand the concept of spam, read those emails, and buy something. However, if I'm a normal computer user and I get 1400 emails a day, I'll probably ask my friends to start calling me on the phone again.
My point is, I don't think it is a monotonic increasing graph of spam versus time, because at some point the spam will be so overwhelming to their target that the person will just ignore all of them instead of looking at the few that they currently get.
Perhaps we should start password protecting our inboxes in that to send me an email you have to supply a password.
If AOL makes Red Hat big, then hardware and software people won't be able to ignore linux, and while the general sentiment will be to avoid the "sell outs" linux as a whole might benefit
I've posted this before, but if you want a use-specific case, you often have to do it yourself or pay $$ for a custom job.
If you are looking for something small and easy to move around yet is upgradable, consider doing something like this:
my server
Built into a small briefcase, I can carry it to school and have it running without even opening it. Running linux I can ssh in and do everything I need. It runs a generic Slot1 mobo with 3 pci slots so you can conceivably throw in your favorite PCI Radeon or GF2, a 1 gig PIII, 3 slots worth of RAM, and have a pretty good machine.
Unfortunately, AMD apparently isn't ready to move the Duron to a 266MHz bus just yet. That's really a pity, but AMD wants to differentiate between the Athlon and Duron
They're not ready because to put the Duron and Athlon at the same bus speed would make their performance levels nearly equal. With the hardware prefetch and SSE we've already seen the 1 gig duron keeping up with the 200mhz fsb 1 gig Athlons. To put the cheaper Duron at 266 would give little incentive to buy an Athlon of the same grade (save for the cache).
People use the new Napster, and the RIAA make money where they wouldn't have otherwise.
People don't use Napster, and the RIAA claims we are a bunch of pirating hoolagins and therefore justifies more laws and restrictions.
Start hording those copy protections free hard drives and CD burners...
Re:Why not just make cooler running chips?
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At first it would seem like a good idea, but of all my friends whom I've convinced to buy 1.4 gig thunderbirds, they've all complained of the noise, but none of them are willing to underclock. They argue that if they paid for a 1.4 gig, they're going to run at 1.4 gig. Hard to convince people to pay a $100+ premium for a top of the line chip only to run it at a mediocre speed when the only consequence is a little bit of noise.
My Athlon had some heat and manufacturing issues (this is my second chip because the first one was DOA), and really isn't any faster in the real world than my P4.
That's crap. P4s produce more heat than Athlons any day.
Here's the P4 max power chart. 1.3gigs put out almost 70watts
66.68 W (1.3 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.70 V)
71.05 W (1.4 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.70 V)
75.25 W (1.5 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.70 V)
69.65 W (1.3 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.75 V)
73.85 W (1.4 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.75 V)
78.75 W (1.5 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.75 V)
83.48 W (1.6 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.75 V)
87.85 W (1.7 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.75 V)
88.55 W (1.8 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.75 V)
92.23 W (1.9 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.75 V)
96.25 W (2.0 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.75 V)
76.13 W (1.5 GHz 0.18 m PGA478 @ 1.75 V)
80.33 W (1.6 GHz 0.18 m PGA478 @ 1.75 V)
84.18 W (1.7 GHz 0.18 m PGA478 @ 1.75 V)
88.20 W (1.8 GHz 0.18 m PGA478 @ 1.75 V)
96.60 W (1.9 GHz 0.18 m PGA478 @ 1.75 V)
100.45 W (2.0 GHz 0.18 m PGA478 @ 1.75 V)
70.89 W (1.4 GHz 0.18 m PGA603 @ 1.70 V)
75.14 W (1.5 GHz 0.18 m PGA603 @ 1.70 V)
83.98 W (1.7 GHz 0.18 m PGA603 @ 1.70 V)
97.24 W (2.0 GHz 0.18 m PGA603 @ 1.70 V)
The Thunderbirds of course were AMD's hottest processors, and here is their chart:
1000 MHz TB: 54 W
1100 MHz TB: 60 W
1100 MHz TB: 63 W
1200 MHz TB: 66 W
1300 MHz TB: 68 W
1333 MHz TB: 70 W
1400 MHz TB: 72 W
Oh look. The 1.4gig Tbird produces less heat than the 1.4 gig P4, and of course schools the hell out of it.
Heat is a non issue in chip performance anyway. People just use it as an excuse to say something is better.
Manufacturing issues are irrelevant too. You have a sample size too small to be able to say that AMD chips have manufacturing issues based on one DOA. It could just as easily have been the Intel chip that was bad.
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Tiger Direct seems to have a mixed reputation for service /quote
Here is Tiger Direct's Reseller Ratings rating table:
Overall Score for Tiger Direct:2.8/7.0
These are in yes/no form:
Do you feel that you received a fair/competitive price for the item that you purchased from the company? 110/22
Were the salespeople courteous, knowledgable, and helpful? 43/72
If the product you purchased was shipped to you, did it arrive as expected without any delivery problems or delays caused by the company? 72/60
If you returned a product to the company for exchange or refund, did they exchange the product without a big hassle or refund your money without a large restocking fee? 10/64
Would you buy any products from the company again? 41/90
Would you recommend the company to a friend? 37/93
Overall, were you satisfied with this company? 43/92
Now if something like this is possible, it would finally sell me on those multi-CD devices.
Of course it would be cool to throw all your CDs in a 50 CD changer and have it auto rip.. but would you buy one? The real question is, would you use it a second time?
Once you rip your collection, you only need to rip your new CDs (likely purchased one at a time) as you buy them. This you can do with a conventional CD drive.
I think at the cost that mp3 home audio is going for now, it isn't worth it to market or purchase something that is designed for this type of single use convienence.
They break the screen, break the dongles, drop them, one actually ran over his with his car, and these are all PhD's, imagine what these kids are going to do with these things!
By your argument, nobody should have laptops. I don't think having a PhD is relevant to the ability to own a laptop. I think with proper training and respect for expensive provided equipment, any teenager can properly handle a laptop.
(Of course I've dropped my laptop but that's because the zipper on my backpack decided to break the one time I put my laptop in there:) )
How cool is this guy?
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He also owns an island off the coast of Connecticut. He calls it North Dumpling, and he considers it a sovereign state. It has a flag, a navy, a currency (one bill has the value of pi) and a mutual nonaggression pact with the U.S., signed by Kamen and the first President Bush
I don't care what "IT" is, Kamen owns an island with a monetary denomination of pi!
I'm not sure I see the point..
I see two reasons that LAN parties at your/friend's housees are better than playing on the internet:
1. See people you know and test their skills while talking to them
2. Meet new people and test their skills while talking to them
However at this large a scale, this seems almost to become as anonymous as the internet. If you join a game, you probably don't know who you're playing against and the transaction cost of finding them would be pretty high. At best you talk to the people immediately next to you.
Most of them are probably better off playing online from home where at least they don't have to walk a mile to go to the bathroom.
Touretzsky took part in a debate this afternoon about the DMCA in which one of his slides was the DCSS code and the caption was "It is illegal to show this slide.":)
DMCA debate on campus
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At Carnegie Mellon University on Friday there is going to be a moderated debate between David Touretzky of DCSS webpage fame, and Michael Shamos who defended the DMCA in court against Touretzky.
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It's not theft, it is an innovative way to acquire resources.
It's not murder, it is an innovative way to use a gun.
I call it "proof by I call it something else so it isn't bad"
In my browsing the page I notice you never see ANY cables coming out of the case. They really ARE that ugly, and I bet the case wouldn't be as cool if you could see them.
Watercooling requires a way to move that water, ie, a pump. Moving parts that require power, and the problem is that you still have to get x watts of heat out of the water at the other end. I think the current use of a heat pipe is much better than watercooling. The only "movement" is the phase change powered by the heat itself, and so there is less chance of failure.
How did this get modded up? Check www.sandpile.org. The P4 maxed out at 99 watts and the Athlon maxed out at 75 watts. Maybe AMD should add huge plastic brackets to their spec so people can use freakin huge heat sinks and then maybe they'll shut up about trying to cool a "megar" T-bird 1.4 gig@75 watts.
but I usually get death threats and restraining orders.
Except their website says:
Sorry, still working on a version that supports Netscape and other browsers.
Check back later. This site works only on IE5 or Later.
Like I haven't heard that before
"Windows sucks! Open Source is good! But since everybody else uses Windows there is no point in developing for multiplatforms."
To me, that destroys the spirit of Open Source.
Does this make sense? I think that once everyone's mailboxes get saturated with x emails, they'll stop reading them. Lets say I'm a normal computer user and I get 3 pieces of spam a day. I might not understand the concept of spam, read those emails, and buy something. However, if I'm a normal computer user and I get 1400 emails a day, I'll probably ask my friends to start calling me on the phone again.
My point is, I don't think it is a monotonic increasing graph of spam versus time, because at some point the spam will be so overwhelming to their target that the person will just ignore all of them instead of looking at the few that they currently get.
Perhaps we should start password protecting our inboxes in that to send me an email you have to supply a password.
If AOL makes Red Hat big, then hardware and software people won't be able to ignore linux, and while the general sentiment will be to avoid the "sell outs" linux as a whole might benefit
I've posted this before, but if you want a use-specific case, you often have to do it yourself or pay $$ for a custom job.
If you are looking for something small and easy to move around yet is upgradable, consider doing something like this:
my server
Built into a small briefcase, I can carry it to school and have it running without even opening it. Running linux I can ssh in and do everything I need. It runs a generic Slot1 mobo with 3 pci slots so you can conceivably throw in your favorite PCI Radeon or GF2, a 1 gig PIII, 3 slots worth of RAM, and have a pretty good machine.
Unfortunately, AMD apparently isn't ready to move the Duron to a 266MHz bus just yet. That's really a pity, but AMD wants to differentiate between the Athlon and Duron
They're not ready because to put the Duron and Athlon at the same bus speed would make their performance levels nearly equal. With the hardware prefetch and SSE we've already seen the 1 gig duron keeping up with the 200mhz fsb 1 gig Athlons. To put the cheaper Duron at 266 would give little incentive to buy an Athlon of the same grade (save for the cache).
A paypal link on the front page, and a brief explaination as to why you should donate next to the download link
For paypal users, helping the company has a nearly zero transaction cost. I think it is a good idea that more freeware projects should embrace.
People use the new Napster, and the RIAA make money where they wouldn't have otherwise.
People don't use Napster, and the RIAA claims we are a bunch of pirating hoolagins and therefore justifies more laws and restrictions.
Start hording those copy protections free hard drives and CD burners...
At first it would seem like a good idea, but of all my friends whom I've convinced to buy 1.4 gig thunderbirds, they've all complained of the noise, but none of them are willing to underclock. They argue that if they paid for a 1.4 gig, they're going to run at 1.4 gig. Hard to convince people to pay a $100+ premium for a top of the line chip only to run it at a mediocre speed when the only consequence is a little bit of noise.
You forgot the
"There are x standard replies everytime blah" rant that gets posted every time a new kernel is released.
If the ban is justified, then an abnormally high percentage of people who bought the game and don't return it will steal real cars, right?
If you put pop tarts in the toaster for too long you get a 20 inch flame!
http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/~pmichaud/toast/
My Athlon had some heat and manufacturing issues (this is my second chip because the first one was DOA), and really isn't any faster in the real world than my P4.
That's crap. P4s produce more heat than Athlons any day.
Here's the P4 max power chart. 1.3gigs put out almost 70watts
66.68 W (1.3 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.70 V)
71.05 W (1.4 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.70 V)
75.25 W (1.5 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.70 V)
69.65 W (1.3 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.75 V)
73.85 W (1.4 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.75 V)
78.75 W (1.5 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.75 V)
83.48 W (1.6 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.75 V)
87.85 W (1.7 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.75 V)
88.55 W (1.8 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.75 V)
92.23 W (1.9 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.75 V)
96.25 W (2.0 GHz 0.18 m PGA423 @ 1.75 V)
76.13 W (1.5 GHz 0.18 m PGA478 @ 1.75 V)
80.33 W (1.6 GHz 0.18 m PGA478 @ 1.75 V)
84.18 W (1.7 GHz 0.18 m PGA478 @ 1.75 V)
88.20 W (1.8 GHz 0.18 m PGA478 @ 1.75 V)
96.60 W (1.9 GHz 0.18 m PGA478 @ 1.75 V)
100.45 W (2.0 GHz 0.18 m PGA478 @ 1.75 V)
70.89 W (1.4 GHz 0.18 m PGA603 @ 1.70 V)
75.14 W (1.5 GHz 0.18 m PGA603 @ 1.70 V)
83.98 W (1.7 GHz 0.18 m PGA603 @ 1.70 V)
97.24 W (2.0 GHz 0.18 m PGA603 @ 1.70 V)
The Thunderbirds of course were AMD's hottest processors, and here is their chart:
1000 MHz TB: 54 W
1100 MHz TB: 60 W
1100 MHz TB: 63 W
1200 MHz TB: 66 W
1300 MHz TB: 68 W
1333 MHz TB: 70 W
1400 MHz TB: 72 W
Oh look. The 1.4gig Tbird produces less heat than the 1.4 gig P4, and of course schools the hell out of it.
Heat is a non issue in chip performance anyway. People just use it as an excuse to say something is better.
All data from www.sandpile.org
Manufacturing issues are irrelevant too. You have a sample size too small to be able to say that AMD chips have manufacturing issues based on one DOA. It could just as easily have been the Intel chip that was bad.
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e ndone.cgi?TigerDirect
Tiger Direct seems to have a mixed reputation for service
/quote
Here is Tiger Direct's Reseller Ratings rating table:
Overall Score for Tiger Direct:2.8/7.0
These are in yes/no form:
Do you feel that you received a fair/competitive price for the item that you purchased from the company? 110/22
Were the salespeople courteous, knowledgable, and helpful? 43/72
If the product you purchased was shipped to you, did it arrive as expected without any delivery problems or delays caused by the company? 72/60
If you returned a product to the company for exchange or refund, did they exchange the product without a big hassle or refund your money without a large restocking fee? 10/64
Would you buy any products from the company again? 41/90
Would you recommend the company to a friend? 37/93
Overall, were you satisfied with this company? 43/92
Link:
http://www.resellerratings.com/cgi-bin/reseller/v
Note: I've never used Tiger Direct nor do I know anything about them. I'm merely stating the information found on the website mentioned above.
Now if something like this is possible, it would finally sell me on those multi-CD devices.
Of course it would be cool to throw all your CDs in a 50 CD changer and have it auto rip.. but would you buy one? The real question is, would you use it a second time?
Once you rip your collection, you only need to rip your new CDs (likely purchased one at a time) as you buy them. This you can do with a conventional CD drive.
I think at the cost that mp3 home audio is going for now, it isn't worth it to market or purchase something that is designed for this type of single use convienence.
They break the screen, break the dongles, drop them, one actually ran over his with his car, and these are all PhD's, imagine what these kids are going to do with these things!
:) )
By your argument, nobody should have laptops. I don't think having a PhD is relevant to the ability to own a laptop. I think with proper training and respect for expensive provided equipment, any teenager can properly handle a laptop.
(Of course I've dropped my laptop but that's because the zipper on my backpack decided to break the one time I put my laptop in there
He also owns an island off the coast of Connecticut. He calls it North Dumpling, and he considers it a sovereign state. It has a flag, a navy, a currency (one bill has the value of pi) and a mutual nonaggression pact with the U.S., signed by Kamen and the first President Bush
I don't care what "IT" is, Kamen owns an island with a monetary denomination of pi!
I'm not sure I see the point..
I see two reasons that LAN parties at your/friend's housees are better than playing on the internet:
1. See people you know and test their skills while talking to them
2. Meet new people and test their skills while talking to them
However at this large a scale, this seems almost to become as anonymous as the internet. If you join a game, you probably don't know who you're playing against and the transaction cost of finding them would be pretty high. At best you talk to the people immediately next to you.
Most of them are probably better off playing online from home where at least they don't have to walk a mile to go to the bathroom.
I think I see a girl in that picture.. but I'm probably mistaken.
Touretzsky took part in a debate this afternoon about the DMCA in which one of his slides was the DCSS code and the caption was "It is illegal to show this slide." :)
At Carnegie Mellon University on Friday there is going to be a moderated debate between David Touretzky of DCSS webpage fame, and Michael Shamos who defended the DMCA in court against Touretzky.
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Here's the link: http://calendar.cs.cmu.edu/scsEvents/demo/554.htm