The problem is that it's not a simple optimization. It's been shown that ATI traded off image quality for performance in Quake 3..
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VIA chipsets still do have stability problems. Particularly with AGP video cards - VIA's AGP implementations always have and still do stink in terms of reliability & compatibility compared to Intel's, or probably even AMD's.
Seems like VIA puts out new AGP drivers every week, and yet people still have problems trying to get their video cards to not lock up in games, etc.
You could just ensure it had enough warning to allow it to back the data up before the battery died. Or have a second reserve battery with enough power to do this even if the first one dies.
@Home and Excite@Home are one and the same. The basic cable modem service is provided by the local cable company, @Home provides the email and newsgroup servers and what passes for "content", as well as the backbone for most of their users, which is leased from AT&T.
Also, they're not out of business or bankrupt, they're in bankruptcy protection, there's a difference..
I have seen some info to the effect that it's pretty much impossible for reasonable abuse (even dropping on the floor from a few feet up) of the system case to damage the drive once it's installed. However, banging the bare drive around could cause greater shock and potentially more damage.
Also, IBM uses a system that actually moves the heads off the platters when the drive is spun down - most other manufacturers just park them in a landing zone on the disks. Apparently a lot of shock damage is from the heads bouncing up and down on the platters because of the impact, IBM's system wouldn't allow that to happen.
I don't get why people would make a big deal out of MS taking the World Trade Center out of Flight Simulator. It's supposed to be a realistic simulation. The World Trade Center no longer exists. Why would they keep it in there?
These CPUs put out about 40-50 watts or more of heat over a small area. Think of the filament inside a 40 watt light bulb. It only takes a fraction of a second for the filament to heat up white hot, so it is not surprising that an object the size of a CPU core could reach 300 degrees with the same heat input..
Did you read the article? The board he used on the AMD chips had that feature, and it didn't work because the temperature sensor is too slow to respond. Without a heatsink the CPU will burn up in 1 second or less, there is little software can do.
Apparently the sender screwed up their MIME settings in OE, they probably set the encoding to quoted-printable instead of None. However, that is a valid encoding method, if Netscape doesn't know how to interpret that it's Netscape's problem.
That's not true for the switching power supply in a PC, if the system draws less power the PS will certainly pull less. (Think about it, if it didn't the thing would melt down - 250W is a lot of heat!) Only the crappiest-designed power cubes will use the same amount of power regardless of the consumption of the device (of course there will always be some wasteage).
I thought the Linux kernel did that by default (use the HLT instruction whenever the CPU is idle)? I think Windows does that too, at least if ACPI power management is enabled.
Monitors may consume as much power as the rest of the system combined (for an average system anyway). Using the DPMS suspend mode cuts that power usage to near zero. Not mention also increasing the life of the picture tube (it deteriorates all the time the monitor is on - eventually they start to get dimmer and fuzzier).
Someone just posted their feelings on the matter above. They don't mind "spam" being used for junk email but they don't like it in all caps (SPAM) and they don't like the product picture being used (like Slashdot does, actually..)
I don't think that much actually comes directly from.kr and.jp, it's just that those countries have large numbers of open mail relays, some of which are so badly configured that they don't even bother to say where the message originally came from..
The reason that the web pages are so often dead is that they're usually shut down for TOS violations too - SpamCop, for one, reports the admins of any web sites and email addresses linked to in spams it processes. Free web providers like Angelfire and Geocities, in particular, don't seem very hesitant at all to nuke spammer pages..
It's not just big companies.. in some areas, homeowners could/can get the power company to connect a device to things like their air conditioner or water heater that would turn them off during a high demand period in response to a power company signal, in exchange for this they get a reduced rate.
I must disagree. You can't compare a CRT to a light bulb. The electron-emitting cathode from a CRT doesn't really care how many times it's been on and off, it cares how many hours it's on, and that's what causes monitors to become dim and fuzzy after long use - the cathode wears out. A CRT does have a filament which can burn out, but it operates at much lower temperatures than a light bulbs', so this almost never happens. Turning off the monitor, or at least using DPMS sleep mode to shut it down mostly after some period of inactivity, can increase its life quite significantly.
I think you can do it with some kind of white noise generator, for starters. I think that the Intel 815 chip set has a hardware random number generator in it..
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The problem is that it's not a simple optimization. It's been shown that ATI traded off image quality for performance in Quake 3..
VIA chipsets still do have stability problems. Particularly with AGP video cards - VIA's AGP implementations always have and still do stink in terms of reliability & compatibility compared to Intel's, or probably even AMD's.
Seems like VIA puts out new AGP drivers every week, and yet people still have problems trying to get their video cards to not lock up in games, etc.
You could just ensure it had enough warning to allow it to back the data up before the battery died. Or have a second reserve battery with enough power to do this even if the first one dies.
@Home and Excite@Home are one and the same. The basic cable modem service is provided by the local cable company, @Home provides the email and newsgroup servers and what passes for "content", as well as the backbone for most of their users, which is leased from AT&T.
Also, they're not out of business or bankrupt, they're in bankruptcy protection, there's a difference..
Not necessarily just crippled - it may be a way for them to salvage a platter if one side has too many defects to be usable..
I have seen some info to the effect that it's pretty much impossible for reasonable abuse (even dropping on the floor from a few feet up) of the system case to damage the drive once it's installed. However, banging the bare drive around could cause greater shock and potentially more damage.
Also, IBM uses a system that actually moves the heads off the platters when the drive is spun down - most other manufacturers just park them in a landing zone on the disks. Apparently a lot of shock damage is from the heads bouncing up and down on the platters because of the impact, IBM's system wouldn't allow that to happen.
I don't get why people would make a big deal out of MS taking the World Trade Center out of Flight Simulator. It's supposed to be a realistic simulation. The World Trade Center no longer exists. Why would they keep it in there?
These CPUs put out about 40-50 watts or more of heat over a small area. Think of the filament inside a 40 watt light bulb. It only takes a fraction of a second for the filament to heat up white hot, so it is not surprising that an object the size of a CPU core could reach 300 degrees with the same heat input..
Did you read the article? The board he used on the AMD chips had that feature, and it didn't work because the temperature sensor is too slow to respond. Without a heatsink the CPU will burn up in 1 second or less, there is little software can do.
Moral of the story: Just say no to cheap sleeve-bearing fans..
It's my understanding that Windows 9x and ME will halt the CPU on idle if ACPI is in use. Why only then, I don't know..
I don't think that IE runs in kernel space. That would imply that the app would be a VXD, I think, which it's not..
Apparently the sender screwed up their MIME settings in OE, they probably set the encoding to quoted-printable instead of None. However, that is a valid encoding method, if Netscape doesn't know how to interpret that it's Netscape's problem.
That's not true for the switching power supply in a PC, if the system draws less power the PS will certainly pull less. (Think about it, if it didn't the thing would melt down - 250W is a lot of heat!) Only the crappiest-designed power cubes will use the same amount of power regardless of the consumption of the device (of course there will always be some wasteage).
I thought the Linux kernel did that by default (use the HLT instruction whenever the CPU is idle)? I think Windows does that too, at least if ACPI power management is enabled.
Monitors may consume as much power as the rest of the system combined (for an average system anyway). Using the DPMS suspend mode cuts that power usage to near zero. Not mention also increasing the life of the picture tube (it deteriorates all the time the monitor is on - eventually they start to get dimmer and fuzzier).
I think that if they were trying to transmit to the probe, they'd pump out something more like 8,000,000 watts from the dish..
Someone just posted their feelings on the matter above. They don't mind "spam" being used for junk email but they don't like it in all caps (SPAM) and they don't like the product picture being used (like Slashdot does, actually..)
I don't think that much actually comes directly from .kr and .jp, it's just that those countries have large numbers of open mail relays, some of which are so badly configured that they don't even bother to say where the message originally came from..
The reason that the web pages are so often dead is that they're usually shut down for TOS violations too - SpamCop, for one, reports the admins of any web sites and email addresses linked to in spams it processes. Free web providers like Angelfire and Geocities, in particular, don't seem very hesitant at all to nuke spammer pages..
Trust me, a room full of say, 30 computers does need some form of cooling, even if they are iMacs..
It's not just big companies.. in some areas, homeowners could/can get the power company to connect a device to things like their air conditioner or water heater that would turn them off during a high demand period in response to a power company signal, in exchange for this they get a reduced rate.
I must disagree. You can't compare a CRT to a light bulb. The electron-emitting cathode from a CRT doesn't really care how many times it's been on and off, it cares how many hours it's on, and that's what causes monitors to become dim and fuzzy after long use - the cathode wears out. A CRT does have a filament which can burn out, but it operates at much lower temperatures than a light bulbs', so this almost never happens. Turning off the monitor, or at least using DPMS sleep mode to shut it down mostly after some period of inactivity, can increase its life quite significantly.
I think you can do it with some kind of white noise generator, for starters. I think that the Intel 815 chip set has a hardware random number generator in it..
Highly unlikely, I doubt any of the processor's instruction logic is at all connected to the multiplier locking.