The gains are still there, it's just not as easy as the legendary Celeron-300A, which itself was an anomaly[1]. I've OC'd my i5-2500K by around 1 GHz, which isn't as big a percent gain (vs. stock 3.3 GHz) as the old Celery, but is still "free"; granted I had to pay around $10 more for an OCable processor, but it's small enough vs the cost of a system to be essentially free.
Even a non-OCing i5 will automatically overclock one or two cores if you're running a program that's not sufficiently multithreaded to use all four cores but is close to saturating the cores it can use.
[1] Srsly, why do you think people always get starry-eyed about that processor? Nothing else in its time would OC near as well, especially at that price point, and/especially/ with that Abit motherboard that let you run two CPUs which were never intended for SMP. I kind of regret going for a standard P2-350 at the time.
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200W is really hard (and expensive) to cool. Not many people want to deal with a lot of loud fans or a big liquid-cooling unit, or the expense of paying for same.
The people that do can overclock the shit out of a more pedestrian CPU and take their own risks.
Yup. I went to my five-year. Hardly anyone there and only one person I was on social terms with. Didn't bother going to the ten-year and probably won't do others.
I might be more interested in going if I'd see people from a year or two ahead and behind me as well, because there are more of them I want to see again, but that doesn't seem to be easily done.
Windows takes a fuckton longer than 5 sec to come from sleep (at least S3, only an idiot does ACPI S1, and forget fresh boot or hibernate) and get a live wireless connection again - my conventional Acer 11.6" laptop takes over 30 sec with Win7. OSX isn't much better. Half the time Linux is lucky if S3 and resume works because of shitty ACPI implementations. From a cold shutdown I'll get back on within 10 sec or so.
As to "just works": this is the secret sauce. It's virus proof. It's luser proof. If you screw up the system, the absolute worst you'd have to do is pull the battery, flip the switch to dev mode, boot up, and once it's done wiping the stateful partition put the switch back and seal up. Now you've got a fresh stateful partition (no user data on device) and provided you've got Chrome Sync set up (which you really should do) in a few minutes you'll have your bookmarks, etc. back; the only things of consequence that's not saved are cookies and system preferences. Also it's got two independent copies of the operating system, so if one gets screwed up (bad update, for example) the system should detect it and reload the good copy. Your grandfather can't break this thing.
It's not for everyone though. It's really only good for use as a second or third computer because of all its limitations, but as a Web terminal you can't beat it.
Absolutely. Being able to tell Opera to not load images over a slow 33.6 or 53k line was a wonderful feature, especially if the remote server was laggy.
It was a bit later (I bought v3 and v4 licenses, and that started IIRC with v5). Trouble with the ad-supported version was that the ad took up a decent bit of screen real estate on a 640x480 monitor, which I had back then, so I stuck with the older version and then switched to Mozilla once that got up to a late beta.
This was on my parents' Windows 98 computer. At the time you could get Opera on Linux, but you had to buy a separate license for each operating system (the other OS supported being OS/2, I think) and I didn't have quite so much extra cash. On my Debian box I had to use Lynx + zgv (for pix), then once the milestones got to M18 I started using that sometimes; Debian was stuck on M18 for ages (well over a year) until Woody was released.
Back in the day Opera/was/ worth the $39 license fee. This was in the days of Netscape 4 (ptui!) and Internet Explorer 4 (bletch), and it was really the only decent browser; didn't crash your system on a regular basis or bring it to a crawl.
In terms of hours used, my Cr-48's been my primary computer since around the time I got it a year ago. I just can't beat its combination of "just works"[1] and coming back from sleep to live connection in about 5 seconds.
[1] Now that they've fixed the touchpad driver and some crash and rendering bugs.
So does mine. Tomato Firmware has native support for DynDNS so as long as I don't leave the router off for a month it should keep renewing automatically.
I'm curious why they chose to kill certain subdomains for free accounts and keep others; what were the criteria?
I don't think my network connexion would handle HD streaming very well; as it is, Netflix on my Wii has to drop the display quality down a noticeable amount and even then it sometimes has to stop to buffer.
HD would be nice, but it's not going to happen in the near future even if my hardware supported it.
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Inside a computer case, with other stuff creating heat as well and only so many places for the heat to go.
The gains are still there, it's just not as easy as the legendary Celeron-300A, which itself was an anomaly[1]. I've OC'd my i5-2500K by around 1 GHz, which isn't as big a percent gain (vs. stock 3.3 GHz) as the old Celery, but is still "free"; granted I had to pay around $10 more for an OCable processor, but it's small enough vs the cost of a system to be essentially free.
Even a non-OCing i5 will automatically overclock one or two cores if you're running a program that's not sufficiently multithreaded to use all four cores but is close to saturating the cores it can use.
[1] Srsly, why do you think people always get starry-eyed about that processor? Nothing else in its time would OC near as well, especially at that price point, and /especially/ with that Abit motherboard that let you run two CPUs which were never intended for SMP. I kind of regret going for a standard P2-350 at the time.
200W is really hard (and expensive) to cool. Not many people want to deal with a lot of loud fans or a big liquid-cooling unit, or the expense of paying for same.
The people that do can overclock the shit out of a more pedestrian CPU and take their own risks.
Please. Lockheed will be getting upgrade contracts for years to come.
Not me. You must have done it wrong.
Yup. I went to my five-year. Hardly anyone there and only one person I was on social terms with. Didn't bother going to the ten-year and probably won't do others.
I might be more interested in going if I'd see people from a year or two ahead and behind me as well, because there are more of them I want to see again, but that doesn't seem to be easily done.
I'm trying to forget about floppies, you bastard.
Except they haven't.
Windows takes a fuckton longer than 5 sec to come from sleep (at least S3, only an idiot does ACPI S1, and forget fresh boot or hibernate) and get a live wireless connection again - my conventional Acer 11.6" laptop takes over 30 sec with Win7. OSX isn't much better. Half the time Linux is lucky if S3 and resume works because of shitty ACPI implementations. From a cold shutdown I'll get back on within 10 sec or so.
As to "just works": this is the secret sauce. It's virus proof. It's luser proof. If you screw up the system, the absolute worst you'd have to do is pull the battery, flip the switch to dev mode, boot up, and once it's done wiping the stateful partition put the switch back and seal up. Now you've got a fresh stateful partition (no user data on device) and provided you've got Chrome Sync set up (which you really should do) in a few minutes you'll have your bookmarks, etc. back; the only things of consequence that's not saved are cookies and system preferences. Also it's got two independent copies of the operating system, so if one gets screwed up (bad update, for example) the system should detect it and reload the good copy. Your grandfather can't break this thing.
It's not for everyone though. It's really only good for use as a second or third computer because of all its limitations, but as a Web terminal you can't beat it.
Don't bother your elders, kid. You don't know the difference until you've tried one.
Absolutely. Being able to tell Opera to not load images over a slow 33.6 or 53k line was a wonderful feature, especially if the remote server was laggy.
It was a bit later (I bought v3 and v4 licenses, and that started IIRC with v5). Trouble with the ad-supported version was that the ad took up a decent bit of screen real estate on a 640x480 monitor, which I had back then, so I stuck with the older version and then switched to Mozilla once that got up to a late beta.
This was on my parents' Windows 98 computer. At the time you could get Opera on Linux, but you had to buy a separate license for each operating system (the other OS supported being OS/2, I think) and I didn't have quite so much extra cash. On my Debian box I had to use Lynx + zgv (for pix), then once the milestones got to M18 I started using that sometimes; Debian was stuck on M18 for ages (well over a year) until Woody was released.
Back in the day Opera /was/ worth the $39 license fee. This was in the days of Netscape 4 (ptui!) and Internet Explorer 4 (bletch), and it was really the only decent browser; didn't crash your system on a regular basis or bring it to a crawl.
In terms of hours used, my Cr-48's been my primary computer since around the time I got it a year ago. I just can't beat its combination of "just works"[1] and coming back from sleep to live connection in about 5 seconds.
[1] Now that they've fixed the touchpad driver and some crash and rendering bugs.
If you've installed Tomato Firmware into your router you get an even larger pool of dyndns services to choose from.
So does mine. Tomato Firmware has native support for DynDNS so as long as I don't leave the router off for a month it should keep renewing automatically.
I'm curious why they chose to kill certain subdomains for free accounts and keep others; what were the criteria?
Dyndns's subscription cost, while it isn't epsilon, certainly is delta. A one-year subscription is $20, or you could do monthly for $2.
$20. If you really need the service, you could practically find that in the couch cushions over the course of a year.
It's for bloody kid's toys. For most things a velcro dot would be good enough for a toy.
Better than DVD quality, isn't it? I believe DVDs are 480i for compatibility with older TVs.
I don't think my network connexion would handle HD streaming very well; as it is, Netflix on my Wii has to drop the display quality down a noticeable amount and even then it sometimes has to stop to buffer.
HD would be nice, but it's not going to happen in the near future even if my hardware supported it.
I said the thing about Taco for teh funniez.
Funny story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Inland_Revenue_v_Haddock
The basic unit of communication on the Net is the flame.
Which service were you in? When?
Without that level of detail your statement is valueless.
Probably on account of Jedi being derived from a space opera movie that was never intended as anything but entertainment.
It's on a level of seriousness with Scientology, albeit not as harmful.
That's where the mental health authorities come in.