The graphics fan is the noisiest component in my case. Those Gigacube Radeon 9600 XT Extremes are damn loud.
There are Radeon 9600 XT (well, even up to 9800XT actually) cards with passive cooling, probably bit more expensive than their regular counterparts with small whiny loud as hell fans, though.
Laws of Physics. There's not much point trying to argue with them, they don't tend to listen, even NASA's oversimplified web pages for Joe Average don't impress one of these guys very much.
Also note that the page lists the impact required for global damage as _million megatons of energy_.
Big rock in one chunk is going to discharge most of it's energy into the impact point, big rock ground into sand cloud is going to discharge all it's energy into the atmosphere, big rock in big and not-so-big chunks is going to do little bit of both, nevertheless, all the energy original big rock carried is still released to Earth, one way or another. What makes you think all that energy is only going to cause damage if it hits one specific point in ground or water?
Full atmospheric hit would first cause an enormous shock wave. Remember nuclear bombs are usually blown on air to maximize damage caused by the shock wave? Would you like to be underneath shockwave of 1000000 megaton nuke? Thought so... Additionally, there's no knowing what it would do to the upper atmosphere, bye bye ozone layer, perhaps? Ouch. As if that's not enough, all the heat released into atmosphere might royally screw up weather, it doesn't really matter if those billions of people are starving to death because of nuclear winter or some other weather anomaly.
For example, there may have been life on the Earth before the collision between the Earth and the very large asteroid that resulted in the creation of our Moon.
Mars-sized object is a wee bit big to be counted as a mere asteroid. Anyway, there could not have been life yet because that was mere few hundred million years after Earth's formation, the place was way too hot, even the crust hadn't stabilized yet.
Very obviously discriminating against non-GPL people. Why do those damn debian folks not only include these discriminatory licenses but base their distro around it! Bloody murder.
Now it's: Only GPL-Bob, PHP-Joe and Python-Matt (+shitload of other people) can do X.
Yeah, it's still got severe restrictions (otherwise it would be BSD, or in public domain) but against less people then previously. This is obviously more open, not less.
That's the whole goddamn POINT. MHz is only useful if you're comparing two identical processors. But in real world, you aren't.
Until you've grown in a barrel you might have noticed that the processors out there (P4, Athlon, G5) are NOT identical by any stretch of imagination, they're totally different architechtures, and are not even based on similar designs. MHz simply can't begin to cope with estimating the performance you will get from each one relative to others.
The way it is now, MHz helps no one but marketers, marketers of those who have highest clocked chips, even if they do way less work per cycle. PR ratings of all kinds are far from perfect but at least they're a lot better than trying to use clockspeed to compare totally different processors.
Where's the Star Trek fans?? Haven't you learned anything from Spock? "An ancestor of mine maintained, that if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
For those of us that live in the this world, not on Enterprise few hundred years into the future, that's first used by Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes (maybe Spock considers all other fictional characters his ancestors) and is more or less based on Occam's Razor.
Those dozens of extrasolar colonies full of humans won't just *POOF* into existence when you wait few years.
Few billion years is a frickin' *LONG* *LONG**LONG* time. It's so long it's totally incomprehensible for simple mortals like us. Worrying about something happening after billion years and trying to plan for it without intermediary steps is nuts. Eukaryotes were only born 1.5 billion years ago, and life didn't crawl out of oceans until 1 billion years ago. Maybe they shouldn't have bothered, after all, only four or so more billion years to go...
Biggest threats to our "immortality" are probably: blowing up/poisoning/whatever ourselves, followed by planetscale more or less natural catastrophes (asteroid strike, supervolcanos, climate change...), all of which can be significantly lessened or even eliminated by a number of terraformed planets, or even domed colonies or big space stations in solar system.
Solar system busting events are nothing we can do about right now, but given few thousand years of intersystem space travel, and harvesting resources...
Headache is not a normal state your supposed to be in always when you don't take drugs to suppress it.
Headache, or any continuing pain condition, is a sign about something being wrong. Be it withdrawal effect or something else, you're sure as hell NOT supposed to have constant headache just because you're not using painkillers on a daily basis.
Why is it that drag & drop fanatics are always trying to force their preference to everyone else?
EVERY TIME there's talk about file selectors, someone pops up and seriously suggests an option that not only encourages the need to use mouse, but actually requires it.
Especially for saving... instead of hitting ctrl-s (and quickly typing a name if it's the first time), I'm supposed to a) resize application window, b) locate file manager from open windows, or open one if it isn't running, c) drag icon somewhere? Excuse me, I think I need to puke.
Whole concept of winning gigantic amounts of money from someone who never did anything wrong in the first place just because you have better lawyer is just so totally insane it's incomprehensible for those who still remember what law is supposed to stand for, not the latest get rich quick scheme it seems to be in US nowadays.
Hiring a stupid lawyer is not a crime, it should not be needed in the first place on something this obvious and certainly shouldn't cost you millions of dollars.
McDonald's coffee was so hot that, if spilled, it could cause third degree burns, which would burn through skin and down to the muscle in less than three seconds.
So don't spill it! It's usually called common sense to avoid, for example, pouring near boiling liquid over yourself. You don't need lawyers for that, and you certainly don't deserve $400000 reward for proven lack of it.
Well, you're perfectly free to buy flash memory instead of magnetic media. Of course it costs n times more, but hey, anything to kill the dinosaur! And it's bound to fail after a number (very big, admittedly) of cycles too even though it hasn't got any moving parts.
You know, the reason why it's still used is that there is nothing that comes even close to size/price ratio of hard drives, or the maximum size when it comes to big ones. Whip out something comparable if you think it's that easy, you're about guaranteed to become very rich, fast.
Usually, bigger is better in terms of efficiency and pollution.
And it makes sense. It's much easier to fit one powerplant with filters and max its design for efficiency, it's also running at optimal speed for the sweet spot of the machinery all the time... Of course the electricity could also come from nuclear plant, wee bit hard to compare in that case.
On the other hand there would be thousands and thousands of small car engines, and every one of them needs all those same things... and must do in varying conditions and speeds instead of running optimal all the time.
Not always, though, ancient powerplant with lousy design etc would definitely do worse than new cars.
You can't moderate and post in the same thread (maybe even story), so clearly he wasn't.
Since when tomshardware and "relevant" fit in same sentence? Besides, future upgrades or no, chips with gigantic cache will _ALWAYS_ be very, very expensive.
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Odd? It's not like Sci-Fi channel does not have a lot of shows more fitting to fantasy or horror categories than pure Science Fiction.
It's got pretty much every aspect of speculative fiction covered, it's just a name, not definition of policy.
The graphics fan is the noisiest component in my case. Those Gigacube Radeon 9600 XT Extremes are damn loud.
There are Radeon 9600 XT (well, even up to 9800XT actually) cards with passive cooling, probably bit more expensive than their regular counterparts with small whiny loud as hell fans, though.
Umm. Says who?
Laws of Physics. There's not much point trying to argue with them, they don't tend to listen, even NASA's oversimplified web pages for Joe Average don't impress one of these guys very much.
Also note that the page lists the impact required for global damage as _million megatons of energy_.
Big rock in one chunk is going to discharge most of it's energy into the impact point, big rock ground into sand cloud is going to discharge all it's energy into the atmosphere, big rock in big and not-so-big chunks is going to do little bit of both, nevertheless, all the energy original big rock carried is still released to Earth, one way or another. What makes you think all that energy is only going to cause damage if it hits one specific point in ground or water?
Full atmospheric hit would first cause an enormous shock wave. Remember nuclear bombs are usually blown on air to maximize damage caused by the shock wave? Would you like to be underneath shockwave of 1000000 megaton nuke? Thought so... Additionally, there's no knowing what it would do to the upper atmosphere, bye bye ozone layer, perhaps? Ouch. As if that's not enough, all the heat released into atmosphere might royally screw up weather, it doesn't really matter if those billions of people are starving to death because of nuclear winter or some other weather anomaly.
For example, there may have been life on the Earth before the collision between the Earth and the very large asteroid that resulted in the creation of our Moon.
Mars-sized object is a wee bit big to be counted as a mere asteroid. Anyway, there could not have been life yet because that was mere few hundred million years after Earth's formation, the place was way too hot, even the crust hadn't stabilized yet.
Big rocks don't cause massive life-ending destruction on a worldwide scale.
Kinetic energy does. And that rock has every Joule of it's kinetic energy left even if you reduce it to nothing but a cloud of sand.
Well, it's been like that all along.
Before it was like your: Only GPL-Bob can do X.
Very obviously discriminating against non-GPL people. Why do those damn debian folks not only include these discriminatory licenses but base their distro around it! Bloody murder.
Now it's: Only GPL-Bob, PHP-Joe and Python-Matt (+shitload of other people) can do X.
Yeah, it's still got severe restrictions (otherwise it would be BSD, or in public domain) but against less people then previously. This is obviously more open, not less.
That's the whole goddamn POINT. MHz is only useful if you're comparing two identical processors. But in real world, you aren't.
Until you've grown in a barrel you might have noticed that the processors out there (P4, Athlon, G5) are NOT identical by any stretch of imagination, they're totally different architechtures, and are not even based on similar designs. MHz simply can't begin to cope with estimating the performance you will get from each one relative to others.
The way it is now, MHz helps no one but marketers, marketers of those who have highest clocked chips, even if they do way less work per cycle. PR ratings of all kinds are far from perfect but at least they're a lot better than trying to use clockspeed to compare totally different processors.
Huh? It's GPL.
If they also open it up a bit for someone else, it suddenly becomes somehow "discriminatory"?
Where's the Star Trek fans?? Haven't you learned anything from Spock? "An ancestor of mine maintained, that if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
For those of us that live in the this world, not on Enterprise few hundred years into the future, that's first used by Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes (maybe Spock considers all other fictional characters his ancestors) and is more or less based on Occam's Razor.
You need to start somewhere.
Those dozens of extrasolar colonies full of humans won't just *POOF* into existence when you wait few years.
Few billion years is a frickin' *LONG* *LONG* *LONG* time. It's so long it's totally incomprehensible for simple mortals like us. Worrying about something happening after billion years and trying to plan for it without intermediary steps is nuts. Eukaryotes were only born 1.5 billion years ago, and life didn't crawl out of oceans until 1 billion years ago. Maybe they shouldn't have bothered, after all, only four or so more billion years to go...
Biggest threats to our "immortality" are probably: blowing up/poisoning/whatever ourselves, followed by planetscale more or less natural catastrophes (asteroid strike, supervolcanos, climate change...), all of which can be significantly lessened or even eliminated by a number of terraformed planets, or even domed colonies or big space stations in solar system.
Solar system busting events are nothing we can do about right now, but given few thousand years of intersystem space travel, and harvesting resources...
Huh?
Headache is not a normal state your supposed to be in always when you don't take drugs to suppress it.
Headache, or any continuing pain condition, is a sign about something being wrong. Be it withdrawal effect or something else, you're sure as hell NOT supposed to have constant headache just because you're not using painkillers on a daily basis.
Why is it that drag & drop fanatics are always trying to force their preference to everyone else?
EVERY TIME there's talk about file selectors, someone pops up and seriously suggests an option that not only encourages the need to use mouse, but actually requires it.
Especially for saving... instead of hitting ctrl-s (and quickly typing a name if it's the first time), I'm supposed to a) resize application window, b) locate file manager from open windows, or open one if it isn't running, c) drag icon somewhere? Excuse me, I think I need to puke.
What should they say? And why?
The patch was released right after vuln, pretty much on the same day.
Example exploit is released only now, to make sure everyone is already patched.
Take a look at that, any idea why a TON more people run Windows?
Dunno. Why is that? Because they saw something one guy or another posted on Slashdot and automatically thought it was the only way?
Well, you just managed to make up his point.
Whole concept of winning gigantic amounts of money from someone who never did anything wrong in the first place just because you have better lawyer is just so totally insane it's incomprehensible for those who still remember what law is supposed to stand for, not the latest get rich quick scheme it seems to be in US nowadays.
Hiring a stupid lawyer is not a crime, it should not be needed in the first place on something this obvious and certainly shouldn't cost you millions of dollars.
McDonald's coffee was so hot that, if spilled, it could cause third degree burns, which would burn through skin and down to the muscle in less than three seconds.
So don't spill it!
It's usually called common sense to avoid, for example, pouring near boiling liquid over yourself. You don't need lawyers for that, and you certainly don't deserve $400000 reward for proven lack of it.
Well, you're perfectly free to buy flash memory instead of magnetic media. Of course it costs n times more, but hey, anything to kill the dinosaur! And it's bound to fail after a number (very big, admittedly) of cycles too even though it hasn't got any moving parts.
You know, the reason why it's still used is that there is nothing that comes even close to size/price ratio of hard drives, or the maximum size when it comes to big ones.
Whip out something comparable if you think it's that easy, you're about guaranteed to become very rich, fast.
Yeah, it's horrible they actually assume you might read the recipe beforehand and then proceed to get the listed things.
Should it perhaps read your mind and list only recipes you have necessary ingredients for?
Usually, bigger is better in terms of efficiency and pollution.
And it makes sense. It's much easier to fit one powerplant with filters and max its design for efficiency, it's also running at optimal speed for the sweet spot of the machinery all the time...
Of course the electricity could also come from nuclear plant, wee bit hard to compare in that case.
On the other hand there would be thousands and thousands of small car engines, and every one of them needs all those same things... and must do in varying conditions and speeds instead of running optimal all the time.
Not always, though, ancient powerplant with lousy design etc would definitely do worse than new cars.
I mean, let's be honest here, if you're carrying around a coffee cup full of this stuff and...
Now, I know you guys prefer strong coffee but isn't that going bit over the edge?
You can't moderate and post in the same thread (maybe even story), so clearly he wasn't.
Since when tomshardware and "relevant" fit in same sentence? Besides, future upgrades or no, chips with gigantic cache will _ALWAYS_ be very, very expensive.
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The setting you're looking for is mousewheel.withcontrolkey.action, integer for zooming text is 3, it should be that as a default, thouh.
If it is, and still doesn't work, maybe your mouse driver is doing something nuts?
I haven't tried firefox yet. I see the file is about half the size of mozilla 1.6. Maybe that means it's sans-other-programs-like-news/mail.
That's exactly what it means. It also has prettier default theme (smaller buttons, too).
Working for free on something on your free time is usually called a "hobby". Most people have (at least) one.
Pretty tough times, almost everyone wasting their valuable time on something they're not being paid for.
It looks like you're an idiot and are trying to write a letter to save your sorry companys ass, would you like help?