Although heatpipes are mainly utilised where things are cramped arround the heatsource, to move the heat to another spot where there's more room for a heatsink (hence its popularity in laptops, where they move the heat from the CPU to behind the screen, where there's room for a wide albit flat heatsink), there are a couple of Socket 7/370/A heatsinks that utilise the heatpipe effect. The "Zen Radiator", which uses the heatpipe as the core of a radiator like arrangement; & the "Coolermaster HHC-001 Heatpipe Copper Cooler", which has long (as in high) fins & uses heatpipes to help conduct heat to the top of the fins.
All this article shows is that PC World employs a laptop reviewer who doesn't know what he's talking about in regards to laptops.
Really if a tech mag is going to have someone write a blurb about laptop cooling they should employ someone who actually knows something about laptop cooling.
NT was their attack on the RISC-nixes, Linux half got in the way there.
XP is to take on Mac OSX
Pocket OS is their attempt to kill Palm
Now they want to take on "Symbian", a beaut little OS for PDA/cellphone crossover devices developed by little old Psion, the maker of the best PDAs in the world (maybe now past tense), & now taken on by Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia, Matsushita/Panasonic & Sony.
Can't they just be happy with owning the PC desktop?
......I think most of the companies that get sold on the idea of utilising a spam agency don't make anything out of it either.
They're like popups - no one clicks popups & they annoy the fuck out of everyone, but corporate marketeers assume they work because they assume people wouldn't hire popup agencies unless they do work, so they jump on the bandwagon & sign on with some popup agency too. But I very much doubt that they add to the bottom line the vast majority of the companies paying for the popups. Mind you the agencies might make a bit of dosh out of it.
That's why the bottom fell out of the banner add market - the corporate world relised that on average banner adds just don't add to the bottom line (ie they generally don't increase turnover, turnover of tangable products that is), consequently what many websites get for each banner add is less than 1% of what they were getting just 18 months ago.
Why should dole bludging criminals be able to use the same roads as us?
The world would be that much better if there were toll booths at the entry rampS of every highway & the highways were owned by Rupert Murdoch, Ross Perot & that Walmart bloke, etc.
They could charge what they deem is a fair price, if you don't like it you can always use the other tollway owned by UPS. Yes imagine how cheap & efficient it would be with 10 different competing tollways between SanDiego & LA.
The US system is a waste of money
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Actually you know that the US is the only nation in 'the West' that doesn't have a 'socialised' health system, & guess what? The US just so happens to have arguably the worst health system in the West too - its the most expensive health system in the world, both per capita, & as a percentage of GDP, plus in total too, even though 40 million Americans have no coverage what-so-ever.
That's the trouble with basing policy on ideaology, one loses flexibility.
Hence on balance, the most successful economies are the mixed economies, where they don't let themselves be restricted by ideaology & take policies from both the left & the right, depending on which is right for the job.
BTW, in other ways the US is a mixed economy - for example the US has a socialised highway system.
You see, compared with other sectors, demand for healthcare services are relative static in reaction to price - people do not get less sick just because prices go up. Consequently in a market based healthcare system like the US, relative speaking healthcare providers can charge what they want & mostly get away with it.
However in the rest of the OECD its different. Take the example of Canada. A couple of Years ago some doctors decided to opt out of the system & charge what they want, well the govt just said we won't pay them, & if patients wanted to see them they'd have to pay them themselves. Well what do you know, those doctors lost most of their business overnight & eventually they all gave in.
Here in Oz its similar, if doctors charge more than the schedule 'bulk billing' fee, its up to patients themselves to cover the balance. One can take out 'gap insurance', but insurers know if they covered the whole potential 'gap' doctors would be free to charge what they want, so even the insurers will only cover a proportion of the gap (a percentage of it, up to a certain maximum threshold). But because its much easier for doctors just to bulk bill the govt, rather than mail bills out & chase them up - where in the end they get a cheque from medicare (the govt agency that covers payements to healthcare providers) for the schedule fee bit & another cheque from an insurer that covers the insured part of the gap & then the balance in cash from the patient. Which means months of waiting because the patient has to 1st mail the bill to the govt healthcare agency to get the schedule fee cheque, then when they get it back they then mail it off to the insurer to get the 'part of the gap' cheque from them. So basically the govt makes it so inconvenient for either doctors or patients to go private, that the vast majority of both chose to go public, ie the doctor just bulk bills the govt & patients ddon't have to worry about bills at all.
Consequently in the rest of 'the West' healthcare costs are only about 8% of GDP, or something, while in the US its nearly about 15% & rising. As a percentage of GDP the discrepancy is even higher. Plus in the rest of 'the West' there's 100% coverage, while in the US, 40 million Americans have no coverage.
BTW, how often do you lobby the US govt to privatise its socialist highway system? Afterall the fall of the Soviet Union shows that socialism doesn't work, which means US highways are bound to be more efficient if they were all privacised & there were tollbooths on every entry ramp.
& imagine the efficencies that could come with increased competition, you could have a dozen different companies all operating different tollways between San Diego & LA. That would be real efficient. Afterall increasing choice always makes things better - look at the 60 TV channels, that's much better than just having BBC 1, 2 & 3 & a couple of token private channels like they have in the UK. Mind you how does that Pink Floyd song go? '40 channels of shit on the TV' or something?
If a company uses an propietry custom built in house developed embedded OS that the 'hacker community' has had fuckall experiance with, while no tools or compilers are publically avaliable for it, I'd say odds on, with everything else being equall, it would be more secure than otherwise.
....the software vender demands that you sign license agreement at the point of sale, agreeing not to sell on, its just as sale, which means you can sell it on yourself when you know longer need it.
No end user in NSW (AFAIK) has been prosecuted for reselling old software they didn't need, because when you resell it you just sell the license with it (ie keep the original retail shrinkwrap box or OEM CD box with it)
No retailer wirth his salt will sell a regionlocked DVD players. Consequently they are all designed to be piss easily unlocked (like have a miniscre switch on the PCB & a tiny access hole at the back that lines up with it). They only charge $100 for unlocking a DVD player when they think they are dealing with a complete moron who'll let him get away with charging him $100 extra.
Gez, right now they are selling DVD/MP3 players at the computer markets for about$170, unlocked (multi-region, not region-free, which makes them compatible with the latest Sony Studios DVDs too - the latest Sony DVDs won't work on DVD players set to regin 0, which is the regionfree setting, so you have to have a DVD player with a multi-region setting, where it automatically changes the region to match the DVD)
No software developer loses out by people using ripped software if they would never have bought that software regardless of whether a rip was avaliable.
Besides on about half the planet its only illegal to manufacture or distribute pirated software, while using or possesing pirated software is not illegal. That the way it is in my country
Do either MacOS 9 or MacOS X support the articia chipsets? IOW Do they have Articia chipset drivers pre-loaded in Mac OS? Because even if someone releases a MacOS VIA like 4in1 chipset driver set for Articia chipsets one still has to install the OS 1st, which is very difficult unless there are rudimentry compatible chipset drivers built into the install.
I don't think it would be that difficult as (I think) the Articia chipsets are (part licensed) clones of IBM chipsets. Hence its compatibility with Mips, PPC & X86 CPUs, although what type I don't know, ie is it compatible with the GTL+ bus (the p6 bus of the Pentium Pro, PII, Celeron & P!!!), the EV7 bus (the bus the Durons & Athlons use), 'Netburst' (the p7, AKA P4, BUS), or the p5/686/K6 bus whatever that's called?.
However IMAO I think that Apple will go out of its way to make sure any system drivers that are pre-loaded into MacOS are totally incompatible with the Articia chipsets.
You can by these plastic films that just have a ring of gum arround the inner hole. You can stick them on both the front (to stop scratching from fucking up the transperant plastic the laser has to penetrate) & the back (to protect the label that has the track underneath). When the bottom one gets so warn it starts to intefer with the laser tracking, you just peel it off & stick a new one on.
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Lets face it, Gnutella is a bandwidth hog & its as slow as all buggery
Even when the computer's doing nothing.
...with both the 'Union' & 'League' varieties.
Soccer fans riot because of the lack of violence in the actual game.
Gez every 2nd laptop currently being made has a heatpipe - its no big deal
"Heatpipes" are nothing new.
Although heatpipes are mainly utilised where things are cramped arround the heatsource, to move the heat to another spot where there's more room for a heatsink (hence its popularity in laptops, where they move the heat from the CPU to behind the screen, where there's room for a wide albit flat heatsink), there are a couple of Socket 7/370/A heatsinks that utilise the heatpipe effect. The "Zen Radiator", which uses the heatpipe as the core of a radiator like arrangement; & the "Coolermaster HHC-001 Heatpipe Copper Cooler", which has long (as in high) fins & uses heatpipes to help conduct heat to the top of the fins.
All this article shows is that PC World employs a laptop reviewer who doesn't know what he's talking about in regards to laptops.
Really if a tech mag is going to have someone write a blurb about laptop cooling they should employ someone who actually knows something about laptop cooling.
than windows (98SE, 2K, XP)
& the whole installer works without having to reboot half a dozen times like the Windows installer does.
You just boot the CD, click ok about 20 times or somthing, then it reboots & you are on the desktop with everything configured.
Well that's a bit simplified, but you know what I mean.
NT was their attack on the RISC-nixes, Linux half got in the way there.
XP is to take on Mac OSX
Pocket OS is their attempt to kill Palm
Now they want to take on "Symbian", a beaut little OS for PDA/cellphone crossover devices developed by little old Psion, the maker of the best PDAs in the world (maybe now past tense), & now taken on by Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia, Matsushita/Panasonic & Sony.
Can't they just be happy with owning the PC desktop?
......I think most of the companies that get sold on the idea of utilising a spam agency don't make anything out of it either.
They're like popups - no one clicks popups & they annoy the fuck out of everyone, but corporate marketeers assume they work because they assume people wouldn't hire popup agencies unless they do work, so they jump on the bandwagon & sign on with some popup agency too. But I very much doubt that they add to the bottom line the vast majority of the companies paying for the popups. Mind you the agencies might make a bit of dosh out of it.
That's why the bottom fell out of the banner add market - the corporate world relised that on average banner adds just don't add to the bottom line (ie they generally don't increase turnover, turnover of tangable products that is), consequently what many websites get for each banner add is less than 1% of what they were getting just 18 months ago.
It works.
My brother did the exact thing to some businesses that have fucked with him, over money.
& guess what? They stopped fucking with him. Mind you the looping faxes were only a small part of a whole military style operation.
Why should dole bludging criminals be able to use the same roads as us?
The world would be that much better if there were toll booths at the entry rampS of every highway & the highways were owned by Rupert Murdoch, Ross Perot & that Walmart bloke, etc.
They could charge what they deem is a fair price, if you don't like it you can always use the other tollway owned by UPS. Yes imagine how cheap & efficient it would be with 10 different competing tollways between SanDiego & LA.
Actually you know that the US is the only nation in 'the West' that doesn't have a 'socialised' health system, & guess what? The US just so happens to have arguably the worst health system in the West too - its the most expensive health system in the world, both per capita, & as a percentage of GDP, plus in total too, even though 40 million Americans have no coverage what-so-ever.
That's the trouble with basing policy on ideaology, one loses flexibility.
Hence on balance, the most successful economies are the mixed economies, where they don't let themselves be restricted by ideaology & take policies from both the left & the right, depending on which is right for the job.
BTW, in other ways the US is a mixed economy - for example the US has a socialised highway system.
You see, compared with other sectors, demand for healthcare services are relative static in reaction to price - people do not get less sick just because prices go up. Consequently in a market based healthcare system like the US, relative speaking healthcare providers can charge what they want & mostly get away with it.
However in the rest of the OECD its different. Take the example of Canada. A couple of Years ago some doctors decided to opt out of the system & charge what they want, well the govt just said we won't pay them, & if patients wanted to see them they'd have to pay them themselves. Well what do you know, those doctors lost most of their business overnight & eventually they all gave in.
Here in Oz its similar, if doctors charge more than the schedule 'bulk billing' fee, its up to patients themselves to cover the balance. One can take out 'gap insurance', but insurers know if they covered the whole potential 'gap' doctors would be free to charge what they want, so even the insurers will only cover a proportion of the gap (a percentage of it, up to a certain maximum threshold). But because its much easier for doctors just to bulk bill the govt, rather than mail bills out & chase them up - where in the end they get a cheque from medicare (the govt agency that covers payements to healthcare providers) for the schedule fee bit & another cheque from an insurer that covers the insured part of the gap & then the balance in cash from the patient. Which means months of waiting because the patient has to 1st mail the bill to the govt healthcare agency to get the schedule fee cheque, then when they get it back they then mail it off to the insurer to get the 'part of the gap' cheque from them. So basically the govt makes it so inconvenient for either doctors or patients to go private, that the vast majority of both chose to go public, ie the doctor just bulk bills the govt & patients ddon't have to worry about bills at all.
Consequently in the rest of 'the West' healthcare costs are only about 8% of GDP, or something, while in the US its nearly about 15% & rising. As a percentage of GDP the discrepancy is even higher. Plus in the rest of 'the West' there's 100% coverage, while in the US, 40 million Americans have no coverage.
One standard for comparing health systems is life expectancies. M'nn "it appears all those countries with 'socialist health systems' have better life expectancy rates than the US". Ecen Cuba's almost matches the US's.
BTW, how often do you lobby the US govt to privatise its socialist highway system? Afterall the fall of the Soviet Union shows that socialism doesn't work, which means US highways are bound to be more efficient if they were all privacised & there were tollbooths on every entry ramp.
& imagine the efficencies that could come with increased competition, you could have a dozen different companies all operating different tollways between San Diego & LA. That would be real efficient. Afterall increasing choice always makes things better - look at the 60 TV channels, that's much better than just having BBC 1, 2 & 3 & a couple of token private channels like they have in the UK. Mind you how does that Pink Floyd song go? '40 channels of shit on the TV' or something?
"Better than heroin they reckon"
Australia, Austria & Argentine Would be at the top. Afterall the list is alphabetical.
If a company uses an propietry custom built in house developed embedded OS that the 'hacker community' has had fuckall experiance with, while no tools or compilers are publically avaliable for it, I'd say odds on, with everything else being equall, it would be more secure than otherwise.
If they don't have a DVD emblem on the front they don't have to be 100% complient with Philips.
There the ones wanting legislation to intefer in peoples personal lives, a la the drug war & morality laws, & keep wanting the military expanded
....the software vender demands that you sign license agreement at the point of sale, agreeing not to sell on, its just as sale, which means you can sell it on yourself when you know longer need it.
No end user in NSW (AFAIK) has been prosecuted for reselling old software they didn't need, because when you resell it you just sell the license with it (ie keep the original retail shrinkwrap box or OEM CD box with it)
No retailer wirth his salt will sell a regionlocked DVD players. Consequently they are all designed to be piss easily unlocked (like have a miniscre switch on the PCB & a tiny access hole at the back that lines up with it). They only charge $100 for unlocking a DVD player when they think they are dealing with a complete moron who'll let him get away with charging him $100 extra.
Gez, right now they are selling DVD/MP3 players at the computer markets for about$170, unlocked (multi-region, not region-free, which makes them compatible with the latest Sony Studios DVDs too - the latest Sony DVDs won't work on DVD players set to regin 0, which is the regionfree setting, so you have to have a DVD player with a multi-region setting, where it automatically changes the region to match the DVD)
Its a old Hoover toploader, & it comes with a 2 big square plastic punchcards with notchs on all 4 edges given 8 different cycle settings.
I just use it on the maximum setting, so I haven't pulled the card out & turned it arround in years.
Man is causing extinctions at a thousand times faster than species could evolve naturally to cope with us.
But the grocer loses out then.
No software developer loses out by people using ripped software if they would never have bought that software regardless of whether a rip was avaliable.
Besides on about half the planet its only illegal to manufacture or distribute pirated software, while using or possesing pirated software is not illegal. That the way it is in my country
I downloaded it for free & as I did not have to sign an agreement I'm not beholden to any agreement.
& besides in this country only manufacturing or distributing pirated software is illegal, its not illegal to posess or use pirated software here.
Do either MacOS 9 or MacOS X support the articia chipsets? IOW Do they have Articia chipset drivers pre-loaded in Mac OS? Because even if someone releases a MacOS VIA like 4in1 chipset driver set for Articia chipsets one still has to install the OS 1st, which is very difficult unless there are rudimentry compatible chipset drivers built into the install.
I don't think it would be that difficult as (I think) the Articia chipsets are (part licensed) clones of IBM chipsets. Hence its compatibility with Mips, PPC & X86 CPUs, although what type I don't know, ie is it compatible with the GTL+ bus (the p6 bus of the Pentium Pro, PII, Celeron & P!!!), the EV7 bus (the bus the Durons & Athlons use), 'Netburst' (the p7, AKA P4, BUS), or the p5/686/K6 bus whatever that's called?.
However IMAO I think that Apple will go out of its way to make sure any system drivers that are pre-loaded into MacOS are totally incompatible with the Articia chipsets.
'40 channels of shit on the TV'
You can by these plastic films that just have a ring of gum arround the inner hole. You can stick them on both the front (to stop scratching from fucking up the transperant plastic the laser has to penetrate) & the back (to protect the label that has the track underneath). When the bottom one gets so warn it starts to intefer with the laser tracking, you just peel it off & stick a new one on.