I've never understood the hype for water-cooled cases, or even fans for that matter. I would be more excited if I heard of a P4 designed for PCs that runs without water, a fan, a heatsink larger than a novel, etc, etc. Cooling is all fun and games until the coolant dies from mechanical failure or otherwise. I'd feel more comfortable knowing that my system will never die from overheating rather than showing off my phat array of 71 fans in my case.
So I look at the BBC article..
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and I notice a picture towards the bottom. A guy is throwing a ball up into the air and the caption reads "Nasa's Michael Watkins: A new map every month." What does that picture have to do with anything?
Yes.. Hopefully "similar technology" does not involve Intel coming out with a 2.2GHz CPU 3 months from now but with a water-cooled system or some-such other hack. I would rather see processors run cooler than this constant neck and neck race for processor speed while the number of fans in my case jumps from 1 to 12.
1) Get a sturdy pedestal
2) Attach a flashlight to the pedestal
3) Find the object you wish to repel
4) Aim the flashlight at the object mentioned in step 3.
5) Turn on the light
Believe it or not, the light shining on that object is repelling it! Even more controversial: What is the "backforce" from doing this? Well, if your pedestal is FIRMLY attached to the Earth, it is altering the rotation of the Earth.
"The remains" of Ion Storm are now working on Deus Ex 2 and Thief 3. I don't know if that was a poor choice of words or if you were expressing subjective opinion.
Deus Ex is one of the most involved first-person I've ever experienced. To me, it set a new standard for what a first-person game should be. It didn't assume that the player was mentally retarded in terms of storyline, nor did it need to be sprinkled here and there with toilet humour/strippers to remain interesting.
If "Warren Spector," creator of Deus Ex, System Shock, Ultima Underworld, Thief -- a consistently GOOD game designer is considered a remnant of a company, then I'd love to see the state of a full-fledged gaming company.
This article caught my interest and rang a bell somewhere in my mind. I recalled reading such a discussion in an older issue of Nature (the month escapes me.. sometime in 98-99) with an article entitled "Does Nyquist have a limit?" Despite the article's tantalizing title, it made quite a few interesting points:
1) Is our current understanding of "physical upper limits" of a medium such as copper a correct one? IE: Are we considering all variables when coming up with an upper limit. Past experiments have shown that (possibly constant!) factors such as quantum-level cross-talk may cause us to re-evaluate past limit measurements and scale them with respect to these until-now undectable, unavoidable "noises."
2) If we ever do find a suitable upper bound, how will factors such as "Information Entropy" allow co-existence between a medium's electromagnetic spectra emissions and future attempts at compression via medium microdeformities?
The audacity of this article is quite unnerving. But like the poster said, it wasn't exactly technically based.
Be in their own special space? IE: A read-only space? What more could possibly be contributed to this? 400 quotes from spammers saying "YAHAHAHA I DOSSED SLASHDOT?" A special in-depth report from the field about how it was fixed? Some karma whore posting 10 URL's about other routers that have crashed for various "hub" sites of the internet?
P.S. Just as an "in advance" thing.. If you reply and say "You had something to say about this, so you can see some comments are needed." My reply is: If this topic were read-only, I wouldn't need to be posting this.
I need to be 100% clear on this. Is RedHat essentially repackaging some other group's code and selling it as their own with some token of financial support to the original coding team?
I was under the impression (yesterday? 2 days ago?) that they would be starting a DB project from scratch. If what I'm saying is correct, why is this fucking steaming pile even being mentioned? All they are going to do is wrap a customized installer around someone else's hard work.
OK. I'm going to stick my neck out and say that this is a good thing. Now, before you press page down to get to the next post, let's take this argument through step by step. Once you hit a flaw in the flow of logic, please reply and state the point you disagree with. Any generalizations about my post will be ignored.
1) The alt.* newsgroups are maintained in a hierarchy where the front elements of the hierarchy categorize what you expect to find in the lower parts.
2) The alt.binaries.* hierarchy indicates files that have been encoded in such a manner that they are converted from high-ascii to plaintext while retaining their original data.
Given 1) and 2), we can ascertain that any posting in the alt.binaries.* newsgroups will be of some form of data (read: not discussion) nature. The only exception to this are alt.binaries.*.d newsgroups.
3) @ Home has banned a subset of alt.binaries.* newsgroups, none of which are alt.binaries.*.d
4) Of the newsgroups banned, they are all either geared towards copyrighted magazines, or deal with groups that distribute copyrighted media.
Given 1, 2, 3, 4, we can now conclude that these newsgroups were set up to SOLELY facilitate the distribution of these copyrighted items. (Again, no alt.binaries.*.d group was removed).
Where exactly is the counter-argument? How can you defend yourself against this? Your rights are not at stake when you consider points 1), 2), 3), and 4). Arguing that these groups serve a legitimate purpose is like arguing a booth on a street corner selling pirated CD's is a boon to the community because they sell matches as well.
20 hardcore source contributers.
300 source contributers who want their name in the CREDITS file so they can add it to their resume.
2 gatekeepers.
20 distributions that do nothing but add an installer front-end and offer tech support for an obfuscated OS.
1 obfuscated lightweight editor
1 less-obfuscated bloated editor
1 standardized windowing system struggling to keep up with a certain competitor -- driver-wise and enhancement-wise (anti-aliased fonts came to mind at one point).
Kernel modules/drivers with the same struggles.. (again, USB compatibility came to mind at one point).
2,000,000 zealots
You can moderate this down, but I challenge you to find proof that this situation is otherwise.
The Internet + Commercialism are truly a revolution...
Websites that once contained gargantuan amounts of content are now replaced with websites with mediocre amounts of content and bucketloads of ad banners.
Websites that used to be run out of peoples love for the content they were posting are now run by fools trying to make the quickest buck possible, and when it doesn't work out they threaten that the site is being shut down.
Websites that used to have (god forbid) nine paragraphs of content dealing with a review, a commentary, etc on one webpage Are now replaced with three webpages of content, each filled with ad banners.
Obfuscation is now the key. What used to be plain text and easy to navigate is now obfuscated because someone decided to take some abstract artistic license with their Shockwave Flash program they just warezed.
My access to information is no longer free. I now have to sign up for a mailing list through a dummy account to receive information about new offers that are happening. I have to weave my eyes everywhere trying to differentiate between content and paid-for bullshit posing as content.
People aren't ready for "compiling" and "command lines" because they don't want to know "compiling" and "command lines." If you want to appeal to the mainstream, you go for simplicity and stability. Could you imagine if people in every other industry thought like you did? You'd rent an apartment and have the wiring exposed for you to alter. Every car you buy would basically have the engine untuned and unplugged waiting for you to optimize it. Instead of buying clothing you'd buy a design pattern. Guess what? People don't neccessarily have "advanced" knowledge in something which you happen to enjoy specializing in.
1) If "dat dem dere guv'rment" chose to take your ass over, they'd do it with about 100 men in the middle of the night and your double barreled would do nothing. 2) If you require your gun for sustenance because you don't wish to buy your food from elsewhere, do you also have a large farming area to sustain yourself with fruits, grains, etc?
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I've never understood the hype for water-cooled cases, or even fans for that matter. I would be more excited if I heard of a P4 designed for PCs that runs without water, a fan, a heatsink larger than a novel, etc, etc. Cooling is all fun and games until the coolant dies from mechanical failure or otherwise. I'd feel more comfortable knowing that my system will never die from overheating rather than showing off my phat array of 71 fans in my case.
and I notice a picture towards the bottom. A guy is throwing a ball up into the air and the caption reads "Nasa's Michael Watkins: A new map every month." What does that picture have to do with anything?
I'm looking forward to the 3-dimensional traffic jams..
Can we harness the hot air that Jon Katz spews once every week or so?
Yes.. Hopefully "similar technology" does not involve Intel coming out with a 2.2GHz CPU 3 months from now but with a water-cooled system or some-such other hack. I would rather see processors run cooler than this constant neck and neck race for processor speed while the number of fans in my case jumps from 1 to 12.
the only catch is that ADDing and SUBTracting take over 4000 clock cycles to complete.
1) Get a sturdy pedestal 2) Attach a flashlight to the pedestal 3) Find the object you wish to repel 4) Aim the flashlight at the object mentioned in step 3. 5) Turn on the light Believe it or not, the light shining on that object is repelling it! Even more controversial: What is the "backforce" from doing this? Well, if your pedestal is FIRMLY attached to the Earth, it is altering the rotation of the Earth.
I'm registering slashdot.biz and info as we speak.
"The remains" of Ion Storm are now working on Deus Ex 2 and Thief 3. I don't know if that was a poor choice of words or if you were expressing subjective opinion.
Deus Ex is one of the most involved first-person I've ever experienced. To me, it set a new standard for what a first-person game should be. It didn't assume that the player was mentally retarded in terms of storyline, nor did it need to be sprinkled here and there with toilet humour/strippers to remain interesting.
If "Warren Spector," creator of Deus Ex, System Shock, Ultima Underworld, Thief -- a consistently GOOD game designer is considered a remnant of a company, then I'd love to see the state of a full-fledged gaming company.
This article caught my interest and rang a bell somewhere in my mind. I recalled reading such a discussion in an older issue of Nature (the month escapes me.. sometime in 98-99) with an article entitled "Does Nyquist have a limit?" Despite the article's tantalizing title, it made quite a few interesting points:
1) Is our current understanding of "physical upper limits" of a medium such as copper a correct one? IE: Are we considering all variables when coming up with an upper limit. Past experiments have shown that (possibly constant!) factors such as quantum-level cross-talk may cause us to re-evaluate past limit measurements and scale them with respect to these until-now undectable, unavoidable "noises."
2) If we ever do find a suitable upper bound, how will factors such as "Information Entropy" allow co-existence between a medium's electromagnetic spectra emissions and future attempts at compression via medium microdeformities?
The audacity of this article is quite unnerving. But like the poster said, it wasn't exactly technically based.
"If I wanted to pay, I wouldn't be using Napster."
Be in their own special space? IE: A read-only space? What more could possibly be contributed to this? 400 quotes from spammers saying "YAHAHAHA I DOSSED SLASHDOT?" A special in-depth report from the field about how it was fixed? Some karma whore posting 10 URL's about other routers that have crashed for various "hub" sites of the internet?
.. If you reply and say "You had something to say about this, so you can see some comments are needed." My reply is: If this topic were read-only, I wouldn't need to be posting this.
P.S. Just as an "in advance" thing
I need to be 100% clear on this. Is RedHat essentially repackaging some other group's code and selling it as their own with some token of financial support to the original coding team?
I was under the impression (yesterday? 2 days ago?) that they would be starting a DB project from scratch. If what I'm saying is correct, why is this fucking steaming pile even being mentioned? All they are going to do is wrap a customized installer around someone else's hard work.
OK. I'm going to stick my neck out and say that this is a good thing. Now, before you press page down to get to the next post, let's take this argument through step by step. Once you hit a flaw in the flow of logic, please reply and state the point you disagree with. Any generalizations about my post will be ignored.
1) The alt.* newsgroups are maintained in a hierarchy where the front elements of the hierarchy categorize what you expect to find in the lower parts.
2) The alt.binaries.* hierarchy indicates files that have been encoded in such a manner that they are converted from high-ascii to plaintext while retaining their original data.
Given 1) and 2), we can ascertain that any posting in the alt.binaries.* newsgroups will be of some form of data (read: not discussion) nature. The only exception to this are alt.binaries.*.d newsgroups.
3) @ Home has banned a subset of alt.binaries.* newsgroups, none of which are alt.binaries.*.d
4) Of the newsgroups banned, they are all either geared towards copyrighted magazines, or deal with groups that distribute copyrighted media.
Given 1, 2, 3, 4, we can now conclude that these newsgroups were set up to SOLELY facilitate the distribution of these copyrighted items. (Again, no alt.binaries.*.d group was removed).
Where exactly is the counter-argument? How can you defend yourself against this? Your rights are not at stake when you consider points 1), 2), 3), and 4). Arguing that these groups serve a legitimate purpose is like arguing a booth on a street corner selling pirated CD's is a boon to the community because they sell matches as well.
20 hardcore source contributers.
300 source contributers who want their name in the CREDITS file so they can add it to their resume.
2 gatekeepers.
20 distributions that do nothing but add an installer front-end and offer tech support for an obfuscated OS.
1 obfuscated lightweight editor
1 less-obfuscated bloated editor
1 standardized windowing system struggling to keep up with a certain competitor -- driver-wise and enhancement-wise (anti-aliased fonts came to mind at one point).
Kernel modules/drivers with the same struggles.. (again, USB compatibility came to mind at one point).
2,000,000 zealots
You can moderate this down, but I challenge you to find proof that this situation is otherwise.
or does that guy in the cartoon have a beowulf cluster of lamps? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
1) Giving to the cancer society
2) Volunteering time to the local food bank.
3) Helping Spindl3top go nonprofit.
The Internet + Commercialism are truly a revolution...
Websites that once contained gargantuan amounts of content are now replaced with websites with mediocre amounts of content and bucketloads of ad banners.
Websites that used to be run out of peoples love for the content they were posting are now run by fools trying to make the quickest buck possible, and when it doesn't work out they threaten that the site is being shut down.
Websites that used to have (god forbid) nine paragraphs of content dealing with a review, a commentary, etc on one webpage Are now replaced with three webpages of content, each filled with ad banners.
Obfuscation is now the key. What used to be plain text and easy to navigate is now obfuscated because someone decided to take some abstract artistic license with their Shockwave Flash program they just warezed.
My access to information is no longer free. I now have to sign up for a mailing list through a dummy account to receive information about new offers that are happening. I have to weave my eyes everywhere trying to differentiate between content and paid-for bullshit posing as content.
People aren't ready for "compiling" and "command lines" because they don't want to know "compiling" and "command lines." If you want to appeal to the mainstream, you go for simplicity and stability. Could you imagine if people in every other industry thought like you did? You'd rent an apartment and have the wiring exposed for you to alter. Every car you buy would basically have the engine untuned and unplugged waiting for you to optimize it. Instead of buying clothing you'd buy a design pattern. Guess what? People don't neccessarily have "advanced" knowledge in something which you happen to enjoy specializing in.
1) If "dat dem dere guv'rment" chose to take your ass over, they'd do it with about 100 men in the middle of the night and your double barreled would do nothing. 2) If you require your gun for sustenance because you don't wish to buy your food from elsewhere, do you also have a large farming area to sustain yourself with fruits, grains, etc?
So what you're implying is that the crime rates in restaurants, etc. Were higher before cell phones were in common use? Thank God for the cells!
Why was this scored as offtopic?
How about one which doesn't contain any reference to that penguin?
You shouldn't have posted this reply anonymously. I think it contains wisdom in it comparable to Aesop's fables.
Actually, I intended for the above post to be a joke. Back to the drawing board for me :(