Eh, I'm from Australia and work a reasonable job, yet it would take a week to be paid the equilivent US$1,000.
So, personally, I think it's too much for a computer - but then I just fulled upgraded to the "bleeding edge" of low power with a VIA PC2500E which cost the whopping sum of ~US$80 including 2GB of DDR2 ram. So an extra ~$920 for bells and whistles doesn't really seem worthwhile in my book - but then I also only use my pc for general office/web/multimedia viewing.
One thing to remember is "great big" is actually only 45mm - that being said whilst the CPU on this board is low power, northbrigde is, uhm, not so sleek and low powered. That's why personally I favour VIA low power implementations as they pay attention to the entire motherboard power usage as opposed to just the CPU or just the north/south bridge, etc.
One thing to note also is, that some of these heatsinks are as small as 20mm x 20mm, so they simply don't have the heat dissipation of a standard cpu heatsink - you can actually swap a fanned via cpu cooler out for an old passive socket 370 cooler without issue due to the added surface area.
I have a via PC2500E board (same as what's in the GPC sold over there in the US), it's a low power cpu but they ship it with a tiny heatsink + fan as that's cheaper than a moderate sized heatsink with no fan. Simply remove puny heatsink, add on moderate sized heatsink and you're good to go.
Personally I find the bucket of old Socket 370 heatsinks I have laying about are great for this purpose, simply drill four mounting holes in them and you're good to go sans fan.
I think from my vague cloudy memory the 100 came with 16mb standard whereas the 110ct had 32mb, both were extendable to 64mb however (which the submitter should do if he ends up getting one, along with swapping out the 4.3GB hard disk for a larger capacity or SSD for even quicker boots).
I was quite a fan of my Toshiba Libretto 100CT when I had it, it's quite small (210 x 132 x 35 mm) and runs a 166mhz x86 intel pentium 1 mmx. In terms of networking/usb you can use PC Card expansion slots, or get the "Mini Card" (read docking station) which gives you a usb port and more PC Card expansion slots.
Quite a nifty machine for circa 1996, problem is now they fall into the "collector" catagory so some people are paying a fortune for them on ePay.
Yup, I have GTA 2,3,Vice City and I also have kids and guess what? To my kids Vice City is "the box with a car on it" That's all, because they never get to see it being played, or play it themselves.
Jack Thompson should try out this new technique called "parenting" it's worth promoting!
For the sake of our planet, I'm not going to sing.;)
I've just spent the last half our building a 'cranky' the crane out of LEGO for my boy (it towers an impressive 1 metre high with half metre crane arm complete with lego counterweight) but to me this sort of constructive action doesn't benefit the world at large. All my skills are basically spent doing things that in 1-2 days will be inconsequential to the world at large (beyond father-son relationship/family experience etc).
The options that I would like to dedicate myself to simply aren't available: helping the poor, helping eradicate world poverty, assisting with meaningful & large scale environmental improvement. Heck I'd enjoy making linux suitable for widespread desktop adoption but as the last thing I coded was in IBM BASIC that's just not a reality either.
So yeah, to me, making the world more interesting than it was 5 minutes ago doesn't really qualify as putting ones mind to use and the financial skills I possess are unused and therefore wasted so the surplus is lost as it's not matched with demand. Therefore I could be off watching tv all day and the world/society would be no worse off.
The problem is however, there needs to be somewhere to use the cognitive surplus, just like gold it's useless if no one wants it or the surplus can't be matched with demand.
Heck, I've got ample free time right now yet have nothing constructive to do other than literally waste time so the surplus here is simply wasted.
LAWYER: Well your honour we made a good faith effort to find the copyright holder, but as we couldn't contact the holder we released an exact copy of all their work in a box set for $59.99 as it was no longer covered by copyright.
JUDGE: What efforts did you undertake?
LAWYER: Well, *cough* we looked for the most obscure and most likely to be out of date address and mailed in alleged copyright owner in the plainest and blandest envelope we could possibly find with a covering letter sounding as much like a 419 scam as possible.... and they just didn't get back to us!
Because if they tell their shareholders that their major sales dollars are coming from a now obselete product & not the new product developed at a cost of millions of dollars those shareholders will be none to happy.
However, now, they can "sell" XP whilst ticking up a Vista sale thereby making sales look nice on paper and giving them figures to refute claims that people are holding out and keeping XP.
I'm an avid Windows User (yes, I said it) and run Win2000 on one of the computers here and WinXP on the other two. I have tried Redhat, Mandrake, Ubunutu, Kbunutu, DSL, Mepis between 1998 - 2006, but nothing really felt right, even after a few weeks use.
I can honestly say some of that was because I had difficulty adapting to the file system, but some was the difficulty in setting up port forwarding & a firewall - didn't really have someone who could pop over to the house and discuss the problem and got 6 different solutions to the 1 problem in forums and none of them worked.
The primary show stopper overall is I require Internet Explorer for access to some mandatory websites & also in 2006 which was when I last tried a linux flavour out, I couldn't get emule working properly which killed the deal. Another minor annoyance I had was OO.org's inability to sort spreadsheet columns whilst not moving a split's heading - thereby burying a column header somewhere down within 6000 rows of data.
I really hope one day there's a version that I can pop in and use as I don't have the time to tinker to get it working, I need something that will work after an initial hour of install/setup.
Sadly currently that seems to be Win2000/XP only at this stage - as much as I hate Microsoft. I certainly won't be looking at Vista - even if any of the PCs here could handle it.
There is a solution: park it in space - and just use it up there, when something needs a repair - lift the components up.
Sure, it may be a little more time consuming as you need to pull in the sat, check it, then bring up the required components. The ISS or whether is was parked out need to be boosted, but that still wouldn't use as much fuel as a terrafirma launch. We've also got the existing cargo lifting capacities to lift up everything it needs to maintain it in service without bringing it back to Earth - whilst still coming out alot cheaper than keeping the shuttle at ground launch capability.
"They cost way too much" is another way to say "although everyone thinks this technology is based on the US technology we probably smuggled out in some clandestine Cold War era caper we don't really want to rub it everyone's faces as we've currently got something else on the back burning that's going to cause enough diplomatic tension without this"
Interesting part is that Daimler took care of haulage free of charge so they could use the stunt as an advertisement for their 'new' heavy haulage truck the Actros SLT.
In Australia, if you have a record you shipped the item to where the person asked you to ship it (ie tracking) a chargeback cannot be made by the credit institution as you have met your end of the contract.
Chargebacks are for when you have failed to meet your end of the contract by not providing goods, or providing goods not fit for trade.
Hate to burst your bubble but the Reserve Bank or Government don't guarantee bank deposits currently if a bank falls over.
The RBA is attempting to make such law, but no one actually appears interested same as when it was brought up in the 60s, 90s or 2001 - maybe because it's only the poor peoples money.
More Info: http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,23444519-462,00.html
I'm a parent and I think this has no valid use. In fact, I think it's appalling.
As a parent there's this wonderful tool that was invented by our ancestors, however these days it appears that it has been lost as it's passed down from generation to generation.
It's called PARENTAL SUPERVISION.
Leave a child alone on the computer and they will look at things you don't want them looking at through choice or accident, when you are sitting next to them or hovering about they won't pull a swifty and look at unsuitable material and also you can prevent any following of improper links, as well as teaching them other handy things like avoiding spam/stealth advertising.
I have this board at home - took off the heatsink and put on a huge silent server heatsink, threw on 2gb of ram and it's a great machine - our main pc is on 24/7 with emule/work apps it used to be an Athlon 2ghz but that's been retired and this handles everything a-ok. With ample ram firefox etc boots nice and fast (well 3.0 beta 2 does anyway).
Obviously huge FPS games aren't suitable unless you like pain but titles like OpenTTD etc are fine.
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Eh, I'm from Australia and work a reasonable job, yet it would take a week to be paid the equilivent US$1,000.
So, personally, I think it's too much for a computer - but then I just fulled upgraded to the "bleeding edge" of low power with a VIA PC2500E which cost the whopping sum of ~US$80 including 2GB of DDR2 ram. So an extra ~$920 for bells and whistles doesn't really seem worthwhile in my book - but then I also only use my pc for general office/web/multimedia viewing.
One thing to remember is "great big" is actually only 45mm - that being said whilst the CPU on this board is low power, northbrigde is, uhm, not so sleek and low powered. That's why personally I favour VIA low power implementations as they pay attention to the entire motherboard power usage as opposed to just the CPU or just the north/south bridge, etc.
One thing to note also is, that some of these heatsinks are as small as 20mm x 20mm, so they simply don't have the heat dissipation of a standard cpu heatsink - you can actually swap a fanned via cpu cooler out for an old passive socket 370 cooler without issue due to the added surface area.
I have a via PC2500E board (same as what's in the GPC sold over there in the US), it's a low power cpu but they ship it with a tiny heatsink + fan as that's cheaper than a moderate sized heatsink with no fan. Simply remove puny heatsink, add on moderate sized heatsink and you're good to go.
Personally I find the bucket of old Socket 370 heatsinks I have laying about are great for this purpose, simply drill four mounting holes in them and you're good to go sans fan.
Except that board is huge, whereas this is tiny, and this boards power useage is far, far lower.
Small refined things always cost more, even if they aren't as powerful as the 'normal' sized item.
TriPeaks is actually my favourite card game on the pc.
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Although yes, it's rather depressing noting how pathetic I am at the game thanks to it's lifetime statistics records
I think from my vague cloudy memory the 100 came with 16mb standard whereas the 110ct had 32mb, both were extendable to 64mb however (which the submitter should do if he ends up getting one, along with swapping out the 4.3GB hard disk for a larger capacity or SSD for even quicker boots).
I was quite a fan of my Toshiba Libretto 100CT when I had it, it's quite small (210 x 132 x 35 mm) and runs a 166mhz x86 intel pentium 1 mmx. In terms of networking/usb you can use PC Card expansion slots, or get the "Mini Card" (read docking station) which gives you a usb port and more PC Card expansion slots.
Quite a nifty machine for circa 1996, problem is now they fall into the "collector" catagory so some people are paying a fortune for them on ePay.
See also: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/bv/computers/products/notebooks/libretto100ct/index.shtm
Yup, I have GTA 2,3,Vice City and I also have kids and guess what? To my kids Vice City is "the box with a car on it" That's all, because they never get to see it being played, or play it themselves.
Jack Thompson should try out this new technique called "parenting" it's worth promoting!
For the sake of our planet, I'm not going to sing. ;)
I've just spent the last half our building a 'cranky' the crane out of LEGO for my boy (it towers an impressive 1 metre high with half metre crane arm complete with lego counterweight) but to me this sort of constructive action doesn't benefit the world at large. All my skills are basically spent doing things that in 1-2 days will be inconsequential to the world at large (beyond father-son relationship/family experience etc).
The options that I would like to dedicate myself to simply aren't available: helping the poor, helping eradicate world poverty, assisting with meaningful & large scale environmental improvement. Heck I'd enjoy making linux suitable for widespread desktop adoption but as the last thing I coded was in IBM BASIC that's just not a reality either.
So yeah, to me, making the world more interesting than it was 5 minutes ago doesn't really qualify as putting ones mind to use and the financial skills I possess are unused and therefore wasted so the surplus is lost as it's not matched with demand. Therefore I could be off watching tv all day and the world/society would be no worse off.
The problem is however, there needs to be somewhere to use the cognitive surplus, just like gold it's useless if no one wants it or the surplus can't be matched with demand.
Heck, I've got ample free time right now yet have nothing constructive to do other than literally waste time so the surplus here is simply wasted.
Yep, and then it will be a case of;
LAWYER: Well your honour we made a good faith effort to find the copyright holder, but as we couldn't contact the holder we released an exact copy of all their work in a box set for $59.99 as it was no longer covered by copyright.
JUDGE: What efforts did you undertake?
LAWYER: Well, *cough* we looked for the most obscure and most likely to be out of date address and mailed in alleged copyright owner in the plainest and blandest envelope we could possibly find with a covering letter sounding as much like a 419 scam as possible.... and they just didn't get back to us!
Because if they tell their shareholders that their major sales dollars are coming from a now obselete product & not the new product developed at a cost of millions of dollars those shareholders will be none to happy.
However, now, they can "sell" XP whilst ticking up a Vista sale thereby making sales look nice on paper and giving them figures to refute claims that people are holding out and keeping XP.
I'm an avid Windows User (yes, I said it) and run Win2000 on one of the computers here and WinXP on the other two. I have tried Redhat, Mandrake, Ubunutu, Kbunutu, DSL, Mepis between 1998 - 2006, but nothing really felt right, even after a few weeks use.
I can honestly say some of that was because I had difficulty adapting to the file system, but some was the difficulty in setting up port forwarding & a firewall - didn't really have someone who could pop over to the house and discuss the problem and got 6 different solutions to the 1 problem in forums and none of them worked.
The primary show stopper overall is I require Internet Explorer for access to some mandatory websites & also in 2006 which was when I last tried a linux flavour out, I couldn't get emule working properly which killed the deal. Another minor annoyance I had was OO.org's inability to sort spreadsheet columns whilst not moving a split's heading - thereby burying a column header somewhere down within 6000 rows of data.
I really hope one day there's a version that I can pop in and use as I don't have the time to tinker to get it working, I need something that will work after an initial hour of install/setup.
Sadly currently that seems to be Win2000/XP only at this stage - as much as I hate Microsoft. I certainly won't be looking at Vista - even if any of the PCs here could handle it.
There is a solution: park it in space - and just use it up there, when something needs a repair - lift the components up.
Sure, it may be a little more time consuming as you need to pull in the sat, check it, then bring up the required components. The ISS or whether is was parked out need to be boosted, but that still wouldn't use as much fuel as a terrafirma launch. We've also got the existing cargo lifting capacities to lift up everything it needs to maintain it in service without bringing it back to Earth - whilst still coming out alot cheaper than keeping the shuttle at ground launch capability.
But then, hey, I'm no rocket scientist.
Or,
"They cost way too much" is another way to say "although everyone thinks this technology is based on the US technology we probably smuggled out in some clandestine Cold War era caper we don't really want to rub it everyone's faces as we've currently got something else on the back burning that's going to cause enough diplomatic tension without this"
*hides shiny new ICBM behind back*.
Interesting part is that Daimler took care of haulage free of charge so they could use the stunt as an advertisement for their 'new' heavy haulage truck the Actros SLT.
They put out a nice press release with cuddly photos of the action: http://jalopnik.com/383099/daimler-tugs-soviet-buran-spaceship-self
In Australia, if you have a record you shipped the item to where the person asked you to ship it (ie tracking) a chargeback cannot be made by the credit institution as you have met your end of the contract. Chargebacks are for when you have failed to meet your end of the contract by not providing goods, or providing goods not fit for trade.
Hate to burst your bubble but the Reserve Bank or Government don't guarantee bank deposits currently if a bank falls over. The RBA is attempting to make such law, but no one actually appears interested same as when it was brought up in the 60s, 90s or 2001 - maybe because it's only the poor peoples money. More Info: http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,23444519-462,00.html
Here in Australia it's called Third Line Forcing and, yes, it's illegal.
The secret code is: Hug the landing gear. Remember to wear a parka, it gets a bit fresh up there.
Internet/parents basement - it's all the same ;)
I'm a parent and I think this has no valid use. In fact, I think it's appalling. As a parent there's this wonderful tool that was invented by our ancestors, however these days it appears that it has been lost as it's passed down from generation to generation. It's called PARENTAL SUPERVISION. Leave a child alone on the computer and they will look at things you don't want them looking at through choice or accident, when you are sitting next to them or hovering about they won't pull a swifty and look at unsuitable material and also you can prevent any following of improper links, as well as teaching them other handy things like avoiding spam/stealth advertising.
I have this board at home - took off the heatsink and put on a huge silent server heatsink, threw on 2gb of ram and it's a great machine - our main pc is on 24/7 with emule/work apps it used to be an Athlon 2ghz but that's been retired and this handles everything a-ok. With ample ram firefox etc boots nice and fast (well 3.0 beta 2 does anyway).
Obviously huge FPS games aren't suitable unless you like pain but titles like OpenTTD etc are fine.
Cheap laptops from the majors like the eee pc thats due out soon? http://event.asus.com/eeepc/
I wonder if it counts as "colliding with other boats" if say, a automated proximity mine 'accidently' falls off your boat...