(1) "Access" means to approach, instruct, communicate with, store data in, retrieve data from, or otherwise make use of any resources of a computer, computer system, or computer network.
(2) "Computer" means an internally programmed, automatic device that performs data processing.
(4) "Computer network" means any system that provides communications between one or more computer systems and its input or output devices, including, but not limited to, display terminals and printers that are connected by telecommunication facilities.
(7) "Computer system" means a device or collection of devices, including support devices, one or more of which contain computer programs, electronic instructions, or input data and output data, and which perform functions, including, but not limited to, logic, arithmetic, data storage, retrieval, communication, or control. The term does not include calculators that are not programmable and that are not capable of being used in conjunction with external files.
Note the broad definitions that effectively outlaw the internet. I can not remember the last time I visited a web site that I had previous written or verbal permission to access.
Well, Heres to hoping I dont get arrested for illegally accessing slashdot!
No, think about that again. If Apple makes the "switch" to Intel, they now have good reason to invest in WINE. Lots of people would love to switch to Apple, if it werent for one or more pesky windows applications they must have. Instead of requiring costly software to slowly emulate an entire x86 system, now they can natively run Windows apps by simply configuring a wrapper to fire up WINE when a user trys to run something.exe
On the other hand, the reverse is also true. Now instead of legacy native OSX applications running natively, those would be emulated.
`-O3'
Optimize yet more. `-O3' turns on all optimizations specified by
`-O2' and also turns on the `-finline-functions', `-fweb' and
`-frename-registers' options.
Ohh yeah.. Thats "two relatively minor flags" allright. I personally count three.
"Are we moving to a society that fears anything that could potentially look like a bomb to an uneducated twit?"
Yes. Yes we are.
Back in 97, When I was in highschool, I brought one of my computer mice in to school. My intentions were to clean the rollers during my spare time in detention. As I was scraping off the crud, some twit in the back of the room screamed out "He's got a bomb!" The ex-army detention teacher heard this, evacuated the class, called the police, and I was arrested.
After about 6 hours of questioning by the police, I assumed they figured it wasnt a bomb because I was released. Six months later I recieved a summons to appear in court on the charge of hoax bomb threat. I immediately contacted an attourney, and after a while, I was basically told even though I did nothing of the sort, it would have cost me upwards of $12,000 to defend myself. Not able to afford that in the least, I contacted another attourney who told me the same thing. My options were somehow get a loan for $12,000 so I could defend myself, or just $1,500 for the retainer, and plead no contest and get a year of probation.
So, I'll just say it. I got fucked out of $1,500, and a year of my fucking life on probation because some dumb motherfucker thought my computer mouse was a bomb, and I couldnt afford my attourney defending me in a trial.
You say we're moving to become a society of halfwits who cant tell the diffrence between a computer mouse and a bomb, I say we're allready there.
Well, since I odviously cant mod the parent any higher then +5, Im going to reply to this.
Iv gone through 7 diffrent notebooks over the last 5 years, and the only one to ever last longer then 9 months was my old Fujitsu Lifebook 520T.
Infact it was still in service up untill last year, when it finally met its demise when a drunk friend decided to see if it was waterproof (!) and threw it in my (saltwater) pool.
I cant say enough about Fujitsu build quality. IIRC, one of foundations of Fujitsu Eight (Fujitsu-PC) is "Never sacrifice quality". That may have just been BS late 90s marketing, but from my experience, it sounds about right of the company.
From the article, it appears that they are filing suit on random small companies just to get themselves on higher ground to go after bigger fish. For once I'd love to see one of these lawyers forced to file suit against one of their parents. Imagine one of these lawyers had a mother running a small website selling knitted sweaters. "Im sorry mom, but mister bigshot made me do it! I never would have sued you, but he made me! I swear!"
Any company that goes after little mom and pop shops for patent violations should have its upper management gagged and tortured. I just cant believe this kind of legal abuse.. Whats going to happen next? Are people going to just pick people at random and sue them for looking at them funny? Ohh wait, they allready do that. Our legal system has completely gone to shit. Would it be any better if the patent office had never granted these patents in question? I think not.
Perhaps I should file a patent for a method of protecting ideas and sue the patent office. Or possibly file a patent covering the actual filing of lawsuits and sue all the lawyers!
I think an overhaul of our legal system and patent review process is way overdue. If I can file a lawsuit against any random person at will, with no legal basis what so ever, there is definately something wrong. Likewise, if I can file a patent for something thats been in use since the beginning of time, (Like, say, copy a chapter out of a highschool science textbook dealing with nuclear fusion in stars) and have it granted, There is definately something really wrong. Now, If we combind the two, and I file suit against everyone for "ilegally" reciving light from "my" solar fusion device, Something isn't wrong... Its completely fucked.
Speaking of lighting things on fire with a tesla coil..
I recently purchased a "mini" tesla coil. Its about 10 inches high, with a ball on top rather then a toroid. Now odviously its not going to shoot 6 foot streamers across the room, but it will do 2 - 3 inch ones.
The cool thing is because the streamers are soo small, it actually makes a pretty cool toy. (Its also much lower voltage. around 60,000 volts.) When I cant find a lighter, I just fire it up, tune it to 13 clicks past start, stick my cigarette about half an inch away from the ball, and in about 10 seconds, I have a lit cig.:) One of the other cool things to do with this insanely small tesla, is fire it up within about 10 feet of someones comptuer. Computers are pretty well RFI shielded, but keyboards and mice sure as hell arent. Watch your friends freak as their mouse cursor flys randomly across the screen, Programs opening and closing at random, and text appearing out of nowhere that looks like it came out of a random number generator. One small drawback is that when they realize whats going on, you normally either get completely bitched out, or the crap beaten out of you. (depending on whom your playing this little gag on)
Also, if you place a 100 watt or higher incandecent light bulb on top of the thing, You have a mini plazma globe.. Even more fun for your stoned girlfriend, Or your acid tripping self for that matter.
Now, while I truely hate to fuel a flame, I have a few issues with your comment.
First off, Bush never signed anyones death papers. The people that signed these "Death orders" were Judges, who were acting on a conviction of CRIMINALS by a jury of their peers. As I understand it, the way the death sentance is carried out in Texas is the governer is given a form a couple days before the sentance, with two choices: A) Let em die. B) Give them a pardon. Dubba just decided to allways go with option A.
Also, theres a reason everyone is scared shitless of the good'ol US. We have to keep all these crazy fuck nations in check, before they start WW3. I dont see anyone else trying to keep these whack job nations from nuking each other, causing a chain reaction of "Hey, India nuked pakistan, Lets go nuke someone just for the hell of it."
The problem is, without the fear of someone totally fucking your day up if you decide to do something stupid, or pick on someone else, your just going to go ahead and do it. In the context of international politics, such actions can and often will open a whole 'nother can of worms.
Well hell. I *DID* work at Worldcom! I got laid off early last year. Unfortunately my mother still works there as a manager, and our small group has 3 managers (!!) and only 12 people under them now. Every day she has to go into work praying she doesnt get laid off that day.
This kind of corperate bullshit doesnt just affect the stockholders like ohh so many people seem to believe, but it affects *EVERYONE* envolved in/with the company in any way. Worldcom outsources most of the IT to EDS, and Iv made a few friends from the EDS people that were allways coming to our site fixing the NT server. (I sure as hell wasnt touching it:) ) Iv spoken with them, and their just as scared as my mother about getting laid off, since EDS employees dealing with Worldcom full time have been notified that if Worldcom goes under, they *will* be terminated.
Yet most people dont know, or dont care. All they care about is "Well shit, I lost $5,000 out of my 401K because of Worldcom. Fuck them." Imagine if they got laid off because of this crap, had to file for unemployment that barely pays your water bill, let alone anything else. Imagine them spending the next year and a half in complete poverty trying to find another job, not knowing if they'll loose the house because unemployment wont pay the morgage.
Im sick and tired of people who once they find out I worked at worldcom saying "Your company fucked up my portfolio. Fuck them". I wish these people would end up in the same position as some of the people I know at worldcom, not knowing if they'll have a job tommorow.
While I agree with allmost all the points you raised, I still have to comment on something.
I hope that was sarcastic, heh.
What you dont seem to realize is that the MPAA/RIAA consider anything with a hard drive, and a net connection to be of no other use then to pirate movies/music. And no, Im not kidding. Their current stance seems to be take down every possible path to access "Their media" thats not a $500 player with a DRM "v-chip" in it. Slowly but surely, bill by bill, their going to nickle and dime us with these laws that slowly erode our fair-use freedoms.
Watch, if they get their way, soon it will be illegal to use your old TV with a DVD player. Your going to need the latest and greatest DRM tv, that uses some propriatary connection, thats most likely going to degrade quality back to single head VCR days, while costing YOU, the consumer, thousands of dollars in upgrades just to use.
Now if only we could figure a way to make it illegal for congressmen to accept any single kind of "donation", perhaps we could put an end to this nonsence.
Well, my guess as to why China is having a hard time censoring their citizens viewing, is simply that of manpower. With how fast content is created and updated on the internet, even with active filtering software, would require a fulltime staff of tens of thousands of people just to find blockable content.
I imagine the Chinese goverment is slacking in their efforts to completely block "objectional" content, just by not throwing enough manpower at it. Now, I in no way condone censoring any information, but lets get real... If the chinese goverment wants to control what their citizens think, their going to.
Now, what needs to be done, is some of that new-fangled "electronic warfare".:) What I mean by that, is for people who care about censorship to setup free speech propoganda websites wherever they can. There going to have to be diffrent, so the automatic software doesnt automatically filter it. And its going to need to have real information.
If you care about billions of people being censored, stand up, and do something about it. If not, sit down, go back to whatever you were doing, and forget that anything ever happened.
Strangely enough, This reminds me of the war on drugs commercial where they have multitudes of teenage children proclaiming "I support terrorists" and "I killed those cops", and at the end gives a message something to the effect of "If you use drugs, Your supporting terrorism."
Now Id really like to see a new mastercard commerical along those same lines:
Hotel room in Jordan: $125 a night. Crispy waffle breakfast: $5 Knowing your MasterCard helped Al Qaeda terrorists buy weapons: Priceless.
Well, Most likely it would be a Dual Triode tube such as a 12AX7. Dual Triode tubes are basically 2 tubes in one envelope.
From the looks of the photo, It uses a 9pin octal socket, which means the tube is easily replacable to your favorate, and also, most 9pin tubes just happen to be dual triodes. Hint Hint.
While it may not be standard practice to use a single tube for stereo operation, its easily accoplished with non-balanaced audio.
Well, the way I see it, is this: You dont have to start a company to make millions. Perhaps they decided, "Hey, we have a viable product here, and we can sell it for a modest profit."
If you have something that people want, Even a few people at that, When you sell them the item, sure you make a small profit in the process, but what youre really doing, is providing them with a service they need.
Well, after viewing this, I just HAD to try it out. =)
I grabbed an old scsi maxtor 200 meg drive, and began ripping its guts out.
Now, this old drive is kinda clamshelled inside of the case,
with the heads, actuator, platters, and motor all in a case within the case.
I probed and probed the connectors on the ribbon cable attached to the heads,
Finally I found two with low enough impedance to be the coil for the actuator.
Next I grabbed some old 20AWG crap speaker cable and soldered it onto the the ribbon cable.
After checking again with the multimeter to make sure there were no shorts I hooked it up.
To my amazement, it actually worked!
After a few seconds, I could feel the drive getting quite hot.
So I grabbed a tiny heatsink I had lying around, and thermal epoxied it onto the exposed part of the.. err.. voicecoil:)
Much cooler now.
As for the sound, the quality of this "speaker" is quite poor.
Its alot like listening to overdriven headphones from across the room.
Then again, at some high frequencies, it actually rivals my Dynaudio home thearter speakers.
Honestly, I dont believe AMD will be issuing replacement CPUs for such a small (and easily software patchable) bug.
Think about it this way:
Currently, a large portion of AMDs income is from microprocessors.
Now, if they were to issue a recall on the Athlon, they would have to supply enough fixed CPUs to replace every Athlon they have sold in the last few years.
If you think about that for a second, that would mean AMD would take a huge financial loss, potentially leading to a complete bankrupcy.
Not to be a troll or anything, but do you think its really in AMDs best intrest to issue a recall on their flagship product, because of an easily software correctable bug?
No. I think not.
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Is this scenareo against the law?
d e=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0815/SEC06. HTM&Title=-%3E2004-%3ECh0815-%3ESection%2006#0815. 06
In Florida, Yes. Yes it is.
http://www.flsenate.gov/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mo
Specifically, (1)(a):
(1) Whoever willfully, knowingly, and without authorization:
(a) Accesses or causes to be accessed any computer, computer system, or computer network;
Chapter 815.03 defines "Access", "Computer", "Computer network", and "Computer system" as:
(1) "Access" means to approach, instruct, communicate with, store data in, retrieve data from, or otherwise make use of any resources of a computer, computer system, or computer network.
(2) "Computer" means an internally programmed, automatic device that performs data processing.
(4) "Computer network" means any system that provides communications between one or more computer systems and its input or output devices, including, but not limited to, display terminals and printers that are connected by telecommunication facilities.
(7) "Computer system" means a device or collection of devices, including support devices, one or more of which contain computer programs, electronic instructions, or input data and output data, and which perform functions, including, but not limited to, logic, arithmetic, data storage, retrieval, communication, or control. The term does not include calculators that are not programmable and that are not capable of being used in conjunction with external files.
Note the broad definitions that effectively outlaw the internet.
I can not remember the last time I visited a web site that I had previous written or verbal permission to access.
Well, Heres to hoping I dont get arrested for illegally accessing slashdot!
-Una
No, think about that again.
If Apple makes the "switch" to Intel, they now have good reason to invest in WINE.
Lots of people would love to switch to Apple, if it werent for one or more pesky windows applications they must have.
Instead of requiring costly software to slowly emulate an entire x86 system, now they can natively run Windows apps by simply configuring a wrapper to fire up WINE when a user trys to run something.exe
On the other hand, the reverse is also true. Now instead of legacy native OSX applications running natively, those would be emulated.
Sorry, the flash version doesnt count.
`-O3'
Optimize yet more. `-O3' turns on all optimizations specified by
`-O2' and also turns on the `-finline-functions', `-fweb' and
`-frename-registers' options.
Ohh yeah.. Thats "two relatively minor flags" allright.
I personally count three.
"Are we moving to a society that fears anything that could potentially look like a bomb to an uneducated twit?"
Yes.
Yes we are.
Back in 97, When I was in highschool, I brought one of my computer mice in to school.
My intentions were to clean the rollers during my spare time in detention.
As I was scraping off the crud, some twit in the back of the room screamed out "He's got a bomb!"
The ex-army detention teacher heard this, evacuated the class, called the police, and I was arrested.
After about 6 hours of questioning by the police, I assumed they figured it wasnt a bomb because I was released.
Six months later I recieved a summons to appear in court on the charge of hoax bomb threat.
I immediately contacted an attourney, and after a while, I was basically told even though I did nothing of the sort, it would have cost me upwards of $12,000 to defend myself.
Not able to afford that in the least, I contacted another attourney who told me the same thing.
My options were somehow get a loan for $12,000 so I could defend myself, or just $1,500 for the retainer, and plead no contest and get a year of probation.
So, I'll just say it. I got fucked out of $1,500, and a year of my fucking life on probation because some dumb motherfucker thought my computer mouse was a bomb, and I couldnt afford my attourney defending me in a trial.
You say we're moving to become a society of halfwits who cant tell the diffrence between a computer mouse and a bomb, I say we're allready there.
Surely you mean Intel, right?
Prescott set for 90-100W power draw - Intel
Well, since I odviously cant mod the parent any higher then +5, Im going to reply to this.
Iv gone through 7 diffrent notebooks over the last 5 years, and the only one to ever last longer then 9 months was my old Fujitsu Lifebook 520T.
Infact it was still in service up untill last year, when it finally met its demise when a drunk friend decided to see if it was waterproof (!) and threw it in my (saltwater) pool.
I cant say enough about Fujitsu build quality.
IIRC, one of foundations of Fujitsu Eight (Fujitsu-PC) is "Never sacrifice quality".
That may have just been BS late 90s marketing, but from my experience, it sounds about right of the company.
Forget the lawyers.
We need to sick RMS on them.
After listening to RMS for 10 minutes, they'll most likely all commit mass suicide.
Problem solved.
Dont even bother using the google cache of the pdf.
Its completely unreadable.
If you dont believe me, look for yourself:
here
Whoo!
It looks like we're on our way to having full length video cards again.
Now when we have 5-1/4" full height hard drives as standard again, we'll have come full circle.
I wonder when they'll come out with the 13" CGA LCDs to match?
Heh, Why do I get the feeling Wil Wheaton is going to flame you for this?
-Una
From the article, it appears that they are filing suit on random small companies
just to get themselves on higher ground to go after bigger fish.
For once I'd love to see one of these lawyers forced to file suit against one of their parents.
Imagine one of these lawyers had a mother running a small website selling knitted sweaters.
"Im sorry mom, but mister bigshot made me do it!
I never would have sued you, but he made me! I swear!"
Any company that goes after little mom and pop shops for patent violations should have its upper management gagged and tortured.
I just cant believe this kind of legal abuse..
Whats going to happen next?
Are people going to just pick people at random and sue them for looking at them funny?
Ohh wait, they allready do that.
Our legal system has completely gone to shit.
Would it be any better if the patent office had never granted these patents in question? I think not.
Perhaps I should file a patent for a method of protecting ideas and sue the patent office.
Or possibly file a patent covering the actual filing of lawsuits and sue all the lawyers!
I think an overhaul of our legal system and patent review process is way overdue.
If I can file a lawsuit against any random person at will, with no legal basis what so ever,
there is definately something wrong.
Likewise, if I can file a patent for something thats been in use since the beginning of time,
(Like, say, copy a chapter out of a highschool science textbook dealing with nuclear fusion in stars) and have it granted,
There is definately something really wrong.
Now, If we combind the two, and I file suit against everyone for "ilegally" reciving light from "my" solar fusion device,
Something isn't wrong... Its completely fucked.
This is where we currently stand.
What a shame.
-Una
Speaking of lighting things on fire with a tesla coil..
:)
I recently purchased a "mini" tesla coil.
Its about 10 inches high, with a ball on top rather then a toroid.
Now odviously its not going to shoot 6 foot streamers across the room, but it will do 2 - 3 inch ones.
The cool thing is because the streamers are soo small, it actually makes a pretty cool toy.
(Its also much lower voltage. around 60,000 volts.)
When I cant find a lighter, I just fire it up, tune it to 13 clicks past start,
stick my cigarette about half an inch away from the ball, and in about 10 seconds, I have a lit cig.
One of the other cool things to do with this insanely small tesla, is fire it up within about 10 feet of someones comptuer.
Computers are pretty well RFI shielded, but keyboards and mice sure as hell arent.
Watch your friends freak as their mouse cursor flys randomly across the screen,
Programs opening and closing at random, and text appearing out of nowhere that looks like it came out of a random number generator.
One small drawback is that when they realize whats going on, you normally either get completely bitched out, or the crap beaten out of you. (depending on whom your playing this little gag on)
Also, if you place a 100 watt or higher incandecent light bulb on top of the thing, You have a mini plazma globe..
Even more fun for your stoned girlfriend, Or your acid tripping self for that matter.
--Una
Now, while I truely hate to fuel a flame, I have a few issues with your comment.
First off, Bush never signed anyones death papers.
The people that signed these "Death orders" were Judges, who were acting on a conviction of CRIMINALS by a jury of their peers.
As I understand it, the way the death sentance is carried out in Texas is the governer is given a form a couple days before the sentance, with two choices:
A) Let em die.
B) Give them a pardon.
Dubba just decided to allways go with option A.
Also, theres a reason everyone is scared shitless of the good'ol US.
We have to keep all these crazy fuck nations in check, before they start WW3.
I dont see anyone else trying to keep these whack job nations from nuking each other, causing a chain reaction of "Hey, India nuked pakistan, Lets go nuke someone just for the hell of it."
The problem is, without the fear of someone totally fucking your day up if you decide to do something stupid, or pick on someone else, your just going to go ahead and do it.
In the context of international politics, such actions can and often will open a whole 'nother can of worms.
Theres reasons for everthing... Whats yours?
--Una
Well hell.
I *DID* work at Worldcom!
I got laid off early last year.
Unfortunately my mother still works there as a manager, and our small group has 3 managers (!!) and only 12 people under them now.
Every day she has to go into work praying she doesnt get laid off that day.
This kind of corperate bullshit doesnt just affect the stockholders like ohh so many people seem to believe,
but it affects *EVERYONE* envolved in/with the company in any way.
Worldcom outsources most of the IT to EDS,
and Iv made a few friends from the EDS people that were allways coming to our site fixing the NT server.
(I sure as hell wasnt touching it:) )
Iv spoken with them, and their just as scared as my mother about getting laid off,
since EDS employees dealing with Worldcom full time have been notified that if Worldcom goes under,
they *will* be terminated.
Yet most people dont know, or dont care.
All they care about is "Well shit, I lost $5,000 out of my 401K because of Worldcom. Fuck them."
Imagine if they got laid off because of this crap, had to file for unemployment that barely pays your water bill, let alone anything else.
Imagine them spending the next year and a half in complete poverty trying to find another job,
not knowing if they'll loose the house because unemployment wont pay the morgage.
Im sick and tired of people who once they find out I worked at worldcom saying "Your company fucked up my portfolio. Fuck them".
I wish these people would end up in the same position as some of the people I know at worldcom, not knowing if they'll have a job tommorow.
Ugh.. well.. enough ranting for today.
--Una
While I agree with allmost all the points you raised, I still have to comment on something.
I hope that was sarcastic, heh.
What you dont seem to realize is that the MPAA/RIAA consider anything with a hard drive,
and a net connection to be of no other use then to pirate movies/music.
And no, Im not kidding.
Their current stance seems to be take down every possible path to access "Their media" thats not a $500 player with a DRM "v-chip" in it.
Slowly but surely, bill by bill, their going to nickle and dime us with these laws that slowly erode our fair-use freedoms.
Watch, if they get their way, soon it will be illegal to use your old TV with a DVD player.
Your going to need the latest and greatest DRM tv, that uses some propriatary connection,
thats most likely going to degrade quality back to single head VCR days, while costing YOU,
the consumer, thousands of dollars in upgrades just to use.
Now if only we could figure a way to make it illegal for congressmen to accept any single kind of "donation", perhaps we could put an end to this nonsence.
--Una
Well, my guess as to why China is having a hard time censoring their citizens viewing, is simply that of manpower.
:)
With how fast content is created and updated on the internet, even with active filtering software, would require a fulltime staff of tens of thousands of people just to find blockable content.
I imagine the Chinese goverment is slacking in their efforts to completely block "objectional" content, just by not throwing enough manpower at it.
Now, I in no way condone censoring any information, but lets get real...
If the chinese goverment wants to control what their citizens think, their going to.
Now, what needs to be done, is some of that new-fangled "electronic warfare".
What I mean by that, is for people who care about censorship to setup free speech propoganda websites wherever they can.
There going to have to be diffrent, so the automatic software doesnt automatically filter it.
And its going to need to have real information.
If you care about billions of people being censored, stand up, and do something about it.
If not, sit down, go back to whatever you were doing, and forget that anything ever happened.
Anyways, thats just my take on things.
-Una
Strangely enough, This reminds me of the war on drugs commercial where they have multitudes of teenage children proclaiming "I support terrorists" and "I killed those cops", and at the end gives a message something to the effect of "If you use drugs, Your supporting terrorism."
Now Id really like to see a new mastercard commerical along those same lines:
Hotel room in Jordan: $125 a night.
Crispy waffle breakfast: $5
Knowing your MasterCard helped Al Qaeda terrorists buy weapons: Priceless.
-Una
Now, Correct me if I'm wrong, but does verisign even offer a voice service?
I havent seen a single thing on their site about offering a voice service.
Would this be some sort of insight that their planning on offering some sort of VOIP service?
Or perhaps their just letting big brother listen in on people calling to bitch about why their domain is suddenly under their control. *snicker*
-Una
So how do they get stereo out of a single tube?
Well, Most likely it would be a Dual Triode tube such as a 12AX7.
Dual Triode tubes are basically 2 tubes in one envelope.
From the looks of the photo, It uses a 9pin octal socket, which means the tube is easily replacable to your favorate, and also, most 9pin tubes just happen to be dual triodes. Hint Hint.
While it may not be standard practice to use a single tube for stereo operation, its easily accoplished with non-balanaced audio.
-Una
Man...
If you had ever seen the Hudson, you'd think twice about posting such a comment.
I dont care what kind of filtration they did to that, Id sure as hell never drink tap water again if they were to get water from the Hudson.
Thats some naaaasty ass water there.
--Una
Well, the way I see it, is this:
You dont have to start a company to make millions. Perhaps they decided, "Hey, we have a viable product here, and we can sell it for a modest profit."
If you have something that people want, Even a few people at that, When you sell them the item, sure you make a small profit in the process, but what youre really doing, is providing them with a service they need.
--Una
This is totally O/T
But you wouldnt happen to be the same 2MuchC0ffeeMan from Clan Victory would you?
--Una
Well, after viewing this, I just HAD to try it out. =)
:)
I grabbed an old scsi maxtor 200 meg drive, and began ripping its guts out.
Now, this old drive is kinda clamshelled inside of the case,
with the heads, actuator, platters, and motor all in a case within the case.
I probed and probed the connectors on the ribbon cable attached to the heads,
Finally I found two with low enough impedance to be the coil for the actuator.
Next I grabbed some old 20AWG crap speaker cable and soldered it onto the the ribbon cable.
After checking again with the multimeter to make sure there were no shorts I hooked it up.
To my amazement, it actually worked!
After a few seconds, I could feel the drive getting quite hot.
So I grabbed a tiny heatsink I had lying around, and thermal epoxied it onto the exposed part of the.. err.. voicecoil
Much cooler now.
As for the sound, the quality of this "speaker" is quite poor.
Its alot like listening to overdriven headphones from across the room.
Then again, at some high frequencies, it actually rivals my Dynaudio home thearter speakers.
Simply amazing!
--Una
Honestly, I dont believe AMD will be issuing replacement CPUs for such a small (and easily software patchable) bug.
Think about it this way:
Currently, a large portion of AMDs income is from microprocessors.
Now, if they were to issue a recall on the Athlon, they would have to supply enough fixed CPUs to replace every Athlon they have sold in the last few years.
If you think about that for a second, that would mean AMD would take a huge financial loss, potentially leading to a complete bankrupcy.
Not to be a troll or anything, but do you think its really in AMDs best intrest to issue a recall on their flagship product, because of an easily software correctable bug?
No. I think not.
--Una