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Yes this is very true. $500 is nothing to laugh at. It will usually pay for your books for 2 semesters (depending on major and place of purchace).
$500 will usually pay for a 1 to 2 credit course (depending on your college, at mine it would pay for a 1.2 credit course, not that they offered one).
So don't just go complaining that it is some small amount. EVERY BIT COUNTS!!!
You might also just want to think about applying to other colleges (ones that offer more financial support). I don't believe that the deadline has been reached yet, so you should still have some time to do that as well.
There is no rule out there that says you are forced to go to only that college. I went to the one that offered me the most money. Grant it, it was in my top 5 list that I had narrowed it down to, but it wasn't the number 1 choice until they gave me $25,000 more then the other schools.
I agree with this completely. On average, we were getting about 10-15 calls a day as well. Over the last month or so, I can not remember ANY call. From my standpoint, this has been great!
One thing to look at was the fact that all the "sex" shown in the mini-series was actually between human and cyclon (well there were one or two kisses between humans, but the "sex scenes" were between human and cyclons).
Yes, but that only has a very limited capability to edit the video as well as only burn using a single format (in pioneers case, DVD-R/RW) whereas I can do DVD -/+ R/RW. Also, don't forget that the ability to apply low pass filters to the audio and video before burning to DVD does a great job in cleaning up the video/audio signal before putting it on media.
I agree. Personally, I did it because I wanted to be able to burn DVD's of what I watch/record. Now when you take that into consideration (and the fact that a stand-alone DVD burner/recorder is still about $800), and add in the fact that I have TiVo abilities as well (with over 500 gigs of storage space), I feel that my setup more then surpasses the abilities that I could get with a consumer product. I also have the added bonus of it being a kicking system for gaming and video editing as well. Now grant it I paid about $2500 in total (6 months ago), but once you take into account the fact that it would be $600 for the TiVo parts (with only 1/3 the hard drive space) and the $800 for it being able to produce DVD's of TV shows, there is more then 1/2 the costs right there. The bonuses of it also being able to then edit the video as well as do heavy gaming more then makes up for the rest of the costs.
You can probably make a scalled down version for $800 - $1000 to do capture and burning to DVD's now (especially with DVD burners being only $100 now as opposed to the $300 when I built mine).
...as a last resort, pull out an emergency AOL CD, the one with 910 free hours of connection to the AOL service. Take the CD in one hand...and slash it across your wrist! Suicide will probably be a better alternative than connecting to that service.
Now that is just too funny. What else is there to do:P
Well someone may beat me to this but use linux dd. Best would be to use something like knoppix (bootable linux CD with no need for installing anything to the system), and then use:
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=//disk.image
Then when you need to restore the image on the system:
dd if=//disk.image of=/dev/hda1
(where the disk.image is the one you created above.) Best way would be to store the images on a networked linux server on a nfs share. That way you just mount the share on the localhost once you boot up into knoppix and then issue the dd command.
Too bad the computer is what does the major work now on any modern jet-liner. You don't even need the pilot to land it anymore... Basically they are there as a backup to the computer system now.
ummm... I don't know why you even brought Arnold into this, as he has yet to take office. Yes he won the vote, but Davis is still in office. As well as the fact that Arnold would have had little say in allowing for this initiative as it would have started months if not years ago to get the research and prototype built and in place for the test. Think before you start pointing your finger at people.
Only 4-5 hours? Thanks but no thanks... my PDA gets 3 days before I have to put it back on the charge cradle. Which is about the minimum amount of battery life that I find acceptable from a PDA (my Palm III went for 2-4 weeks on a single set of batteries).
If you had read my statement more carefully, you whould have noticed that I said "as well as WiFi and/or Bluetooth wireless access." Meaning that the 4-5 hours time frame was with wireless connection. Some systems do better, but the average (at least in terms of Pocket PC based PDA's which I used as the Antelope is a MS Windows CE.Net device and the Pocket PC 2003.Net have similar capabilities...well, not quite, but it is a better comparison then Palm OS or a micro linux build) is in the 4-5 hours range with WiFi enabled. Networking in general is a big battery drain.
I have been following this off and on for a few months now. It is still a little immature for it to truely make big gains in the market (at least in my opinion). The system throttles performance of the processor down to pda speeds when on battery (i.e. about 400mHz). When on battery, it still only has an expected battery life of 3-4 hours. Laptops get easily as much battery power and they have a huge display as well as run at usually around 800 mHz or faster while on battery. Now grant it mHz doesn't mean everything in terms of performance, but a laptop's CPU is easily on par performance wise to the CPU in the Antelope, and the laptop's are running easily 2-4 times the clock speed.
So on the high end, if you are looking for performance, a laptop blows this away. If you are looking for portability, a PDA easily wins. PDA's will give you easily 4-5 hours on battery as well as WiFi and/or Bluetooth wireless access. As well as cost 1/8 the price.
I just don't see the market for this device at this time. It isn't very small, or very powerfull. And it is very expensive especially considering you can get a high end laptop AND a high end PDA for the same price (or less!) then an Antelope.
I mean seriously, how many science fiction books, shows, movies, etc., have already come to the same conclusions. Earth2 is a prominant one that comes to my mind right now. Settlers on the new planet were given treatments/augmentation to stave off infections, repair broken bones, and quickly heal other injuries.
Most decent science fiction pulls from science fact and just simply extrapolates on the passage of time with reguards to development of technologies and society. I can't believe that they needed to post a paper about this. It is pretty much a "no brainer" type of answer to the question. Of course we need these things before we do long term, deep space missions. Its like saying that "we need to have an oxygen supply for the ISS for people to live and work there."
I think you posted to the wrong story. This time they're working against spammers i.e. bettering the lives of Americans. This isn't just another DMCA or something.
And I am sure you will be the first to sign up for the national "Do Not Spam List" which will be little more then the ultimate SPAMMERS PARADISE! What more could they ask for then a huge list of legit email addresses. There is no way to enforce this law outside of the US, and thus, any and all spammers who's operations reside outside of the US have the perfect list of people to spam. For why else put your email on the list if you didn't actually use it to read email?
I don't know if that is a good thing. On one hand it keeps lots of people from getting suckered into this crappy spyware, but the real question becomes, if they block that site, what other ones are blocked as well:) Luckily you get a decent "Access Denied" message. It could just as easily been a "404 Error, Page Not Found".
Always be careful with censors, for who censors the censors?
Too bad the Austin Business Journal didn't realize that the cluster is only 1/4 the power and 7x the price as the Apple G5 cluster just created. Now imagine if they spent all that money on an Apple G5 cluster, it would easily be the faster super computer cluster in the world. Now if only people would give Apple credit when it is due, because it is certainly due at this point in time.
Lets just hope Apple can keep up the good work and keep the G5 line updated and in pace with the x86 lines from Intel and AMD. This in my mind has always been Apple's real problem. They always release a decent product, but never seem to keep pace after they make the initial release. If they finally manage to do it this time, it should be a real boon to the IT business.
I agree. There are about 3-4 songs that are worth listening to on that CD, and I also agree that the radio is playing the wrong ones. They just want to shovel the crap down our throats...err... ears, mainly because they don't want to play good music for the fear of people recognising that 90% of the stuff being released now is just plain utter crap. If they played good music, no one would buy the crap anymore, and thus, RIAA would make less money. That, or they don't want the decent songs played because people would tape/record them and thus no longer need to buy the CD....
I purchased it myself. Mostly because I still think they have better potential for great music and I want them to make another CD. It would be nice for them to drop the whole grung bass/guitar crap and get back to metal with awe inspiring guitar riffs.
I'll bite as well. Now I agree that piracy "may" be contributing to some loss of sales, I also propose that it is also generating sales as well. The truely sad part of the matter is that they are even telling their employees that the problems they are facing are all because of piracy. Now, I don't buy that BS at all. There are just as many studies out there that support the case that P2P and music downloading are generating CD sales as there are case studies that say the opposite.
The real issue here is the fact that thier business model was forced to change due to technological developments, and they don't want to change at all. They feel that they should continue to mass produce the same style songs as they have been for the last 10-12 years and still have people eat up everything they lay on the plate. Well, P2P and Napsture has changed that. No more can they just place 1 or 2 decent songs on an album and expect everyone to go out and purchase that album for $20 just for those 2 songs. The music industry needs to actually redesign the way they produce and sell their music now. They can no longer expect people to buy the $20 album for those 2 songs with another 7-8 of pure filler. P2P has caused this problem, and that, I will concede.
No more will customers continually overpay for the product, as they know that CD's are easily created (physically created), and they also know how easy it is to mix songs that they (the customers) like to listen to. They want to be able to purchase a "custom" CD with the tracks that they select, not what they are told they "must" buy. People will no longer stand for purchasing something at full price for only wanting to listen to 16% of the product.
Now that is only the start of the problem that the music industry is facing. The other problem is the fact that they have been signing fewer and fewer new bands and creating less and less new music. There was a great study posted here before (sorry, too lazy to look it up), which delt with compairing the number of new bands signed (and their respective new songs produced) with the overall sales generated that year for the music industry. The study showed that there was a very high correlation between the number of new bands to the number of sales. Over the past 3 years, there has been approximately 30-40% decline in the number of new bands being signed. According to the numbers in that study, at least 20% of the "lost" sales over the last 3 years should be attributed to the fact that there are 30-40% less new bands being singed and thus less "new" styles of music out there that people might sample.
You can also chalk up a minumum of 10% more of the "lost" sales to the major economic troubles being faced in this country as well. You yourself should be able to realise this, especially with your wife lossing her job. Well, she isn't the only one out of work, or working in a job that pays far less then the prievious one. What is the first thing that you stop purchasing when you suddenly loose a major part of your income? Well you cut out non-essential purchases, i.e. anything that is not related to shelter, food, and health. Well, guess what doesn't fall under any of those 3 categories, $20 music CDs. With so many fresh-out-of-college students unable to find a job in the industry they just spent upwards of $100,000 over the last 4-5 years, and can only get work in the same summer job industries they could be imployed BEFORE they got that degree, you seriously think they will have the extra cash to purchase music CD's for $15-20 a pop?
The RIAA needs to seriously look at the above problem. They want to blame P2P and piracy for everything. Well, it isn't the real cause. The problem is and always has been their business model. P2P in a sense could be blamed, but only because it showed people that they should have to be forced purchase 100% of a product for only wanting to use 8% of that product.
I won't even get into the issue of P2P actually helping sales by introducing people to music that they never
Ahhh... See the point is that under 3500 rpms, you are only using as much fuel as a normal 4 cylinder car. Thus, unless you drive it like a race car, you get fairly decent gas milage.
Well, its gas driven, but like I mentioned, its a hell of a lot more fun then the electrics available. I just got a 2004 Subaru Impreza WRX, but if I was to purchace a car now (and not 3 months ago), I would get the 2004 Subaru Impreza STI.
Its not gonna cost you much more then any electric/hybred would (i.e. $30,000 range), and it has one monster of a powerful engine. Its the most powerful 4 cylinder engine available! Talk about acceleration! I know it isn't the most environmental friendly, but its friendlier then the SUV's.
To my knowledge this is NOT the case. Now, it might be an issue with the OS that they are using (i.e. the OS might not be able to run 32bit applications in 64bit mode, and vice-versa).
Sorry to be bringing up a MS product, but their new 64bit Windows will be able to run 32bit programs with in 64bit OS mode, but not 64bit programs in 32bit mode (at least from my current understanding of the new product line). However, there was some performance hits, at least at the time that I read about these features (a few months back), so it may or may not still be the case now.
I am sure it won't be long for Linux to be able to run 32bit applications and 64bit applications within the 64bit OS version. Especially since MS figured out a way to do this, it shouldn't be too hard for Linux to be able to do so as well.
Sorry I didn't get back sooner to comment on this, but Mooncaller got most of the points that I would have made. The WHOLE reason the manufacturers use pads are because they are pretty much foolproof. The person installing the CPU doesn't have anything he/she has to do in order to do it correctly. All he/she has to do is clip the heatsink on correctly. Thermal paste is a lot harder to do correctly. Way to many people apply WAY TOO MUCH of the compound on their CPU, thinking that "it is better to apply too much then not enough", but the reality of it is that too much is easily as bad as not enough. Your metal heatsink is a much better conductor of heat then just about all the thermal compounds that are available. The only reason for the thermal compound at all is that the thermal compound is a much better conductor of heat then air is. You use the compound to displace the microscopic amounts of air that fill the microscopic holes and scratches on the heatsink and CPU. And I MEAN MICROSCOPIC! When I apply thermal compound, I usually place a drop about the size of a small grain of rice on the center of the CPU and then use a piece of plastic to spread it across most of the chip. I then clip on the heatsink and then remove it, and look to see if there was thermal compound that pushed its way across the entire face of the CPU. If it did, I usually remove some of the compound and then repeat the process. Basically, I am removing any and all eccess compound from the jointing of the heatsink and the CPU. Now others use a different approch (basically just placing a small amount and then mount the heatsink and check without spreading the compound first), but I have found that with some compounds, you can wind-up in a situation where the center of the heatsink is correctly mounted, but the rest is not in contact with the CPU, but that isn't really as much an issue with higher quality heatsinks that are available now as it was even 1 or 2 years ago. Modern, high quality heatsinks are now usually already at a polished, flat surface.
Again, the pad came into use as well because the heatsinks themselves were not usually perfectly flat, but manytimes had a definite curve and/or bowl-like shape. The pad, being thick (especially compaired to paste), came into use because it easily handled the problem with the heatsink not always being flat, by compressing/expanding to the shape of the heatsink and CPU. Thermal paste can NOT perform this function. It requires that the overall surface be flat for both the CPU and the heatsink (or otherwise be the same, i.e. if the CPU is bowl shaped, the heatsink must be an inverse bowl/bulge of the same diameter, etc. to exactly join/bond with the CPU). But, like I said, this is no longer a major problem with modern CPU's and heatsinks. A few years ago, the end user/installer was left with the decision to have to lap their heatsink themselves or live with it as is and lose some performance.
Like I said, lapping is no longer a required thing to do with your heatsinks, as the heatsink manufacturers already do some lapping, especially on the high quality heatsinks. Any of the high end heatsinks from Zalman or Thermalright will already have a shiny, polished surface. This isn't a polished surface in the sense that they used some wax, or other agent, it is simply polished flat by using a high grit sandpaper or polishing stone (a similar process used to make real mirrors for optical telescopes, etc., just not a concave or convex mirror surface, but one flat instead).
I am probably being redundant at this point, but the whole idea is that paste is used because it has a higher thermal conductivity then air. Good paste has much higher thermal conductivity then a pad if only because the layer of paste is only microscopically thin, where-as the pad can usually be measured in fractions or whole millimeters. The metal of the heatsink is simply a much better heat conductor then the pads or pastes that we currently use (although there are some new pastes that are comming very close by using cerami
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Yes this is very true. $500 is nothing to laugh at. It will usually pay for your books for 2 semesters (depending on major and place of purchace).
$500 will usually pay for a 1 to 2 credit course (depending on your college, at mine it would pay for a 1.2 credit course, not that they offered one).
So don't just go complaining that it is some small amount. EVERY BIT COUNTS!!!
You might also just want to think about applying to other colleges (ones that offer more financial support). I don't believe that the deadline has been reached yet, so you should still have some time to do that as well.
There is no rule out there that says you are forced to go to only that college. I went to the one that offered me the most money. Grant it, it was in my top 5 list that I had narrowed it down to, but it wasn't the number 1 choice until they gave me $25,000 more then the other schools.
I agree with this completely. On average, we were getting about 10-15 calls a day as well. Over the last month or so, I can not remember ANY call. From my standpoint, this has been great!
One thing to look at was the fact that all the "sex" shown in the mini-series was actually between human and cyclon (well there were one or two kisses between humans, but the "sex scenes" were between human and cyclons).
Yes, but that only has a very limited capability to edit the video as well as only burn using a single format (in pioneers case, DVD-R/RW) whereas I can do DVD -/+ R/RW. Also, don't forget that the ability to apply low pass filters to the audio and video before burning to DVD does a great job in cleaning up the video/audio signal before putting it on media.
I agree. Personally, I did it because I wanted to be able to burn DVD's of what I watch/record. Now when you take that into consideration (and the fact that a stand-alone DVD burner/recorder is still about $800), and add in the fact that I have TiVo abilities as well (with over 500 gigs of storage space), I feel that my setup more then surpasses the abilities that I could get with a consumer product. I also have the added bonus of it being a kicking system for gaming and video editing as well. Now grant it I paid about $2500 in total (6 months ago), but once you take into account the fact that it would be $600 for the TiVo parts (with only 1/3 the hard drive space) and the $800 for it being able to produce DVD's of TV shows, there is more then 1/2 the costs right there. The bonuses of it also being able to then edit the video as well as do heavy gaming more then makes up for the rest of the costs.
You can probably make a scalled down version for $800 - $1000 to do capture and burning to DVD's now (especially with DVD burners being only $100 now as opposed to the $300 when I built mine).
...as a last resort, pull out an emergency AOL CD, the one with 910 free hours of connection to the AOL service. Take the CD in one hand...and slash it across your wrist! Suicide will probably be a better alternative than connecting to that service.
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Now that is just too funny. What else is there to do
Well someone may beat me to this but use linux dd. Best would be to use something like knoppix (bootable linux CD with no need for installing anything to the system), and then use:
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=//disk.image
Then when you need to restore the image on the system:
dd if=//disk.image of=/dev/hda1
(where the disk.image is the one you created above.) Best way would be to store the images on a networked linux server on a nfs share. That way you just mount the share on the localhost once you boot up into knoppix and then issue the dd command.
Too bad the computer is what does the major work now on any modern jet-liner. You don't even need the pilot to land it anymore... Basically they are there as a backup to the computer system now.
Arrg.. They be slashdotted there mattey.
Even though its not "talk like a pirate day", it still beats talking like a landlubber.
ummm... I don't know why you even brought Arnold into this, as he has yet to take office. Yes he won the vote, but Davis is still in office. As well as the fact that Arnold would have had little say in allowing for this initiative as it would have started months if not years ago to get the research and prototype built and in place for the test. Think before you start pointing your finger at people.
Only 4-5 hours? Thanks but no thanks... my PDA gets 3 days before I have to put it back on the charge cradle. Which is about the minimum amount of battery life that I find acceptable from a PDA (my Palm III went for 2-4 weeks on a single set of batteries).
.Net device and the Pocket PC 2003 .Net have similar capabilities...well, not quite, but it is a better comparison then Palm OS or a micro linux build) is in the 4-5 hours range with WiFi enabled. Networking in general is a big battery drain.
If you had read my statement more carefully, you whould have noticed that I said "as well as WiFi and/or Bluetooth wireless access." Meaning that the 4-5 hours time frame was with wireless connection. Some systems do better, but the average (at least in terms of Pocket PC based PDA's which I used as the Antelope is a MS Windows CE
I have been following this off and on for a few months now. It is still a little immature for it to truely make big gains in the market (at least in my opinion). The system throttles performance of the processor down to pda speeds when on battery (i.e. about 400mHz). When on battery, it still only has an expected battery life of 3-4 hours. Laptops get easily as much battery power and they have a huge display as well as run at usually around 800 mHz or faster while on battery. Now grant it mHz doesn't mean everything in terms of performance, but a laptop's CPU is easily on par performance wise to the CPU in the Antelope, and the laptop's are running easily 2-4 times the clock speed.
So on the high end, if you are looking for performance, a laptop blows this away. If you are looking for portability, a PDA easily wins. PDA's will give you easily 4-5 hours on battery as well as WiFi and/or Bluetooth wireless access. As well as cost 1/8 the price.
I just don't see the market for this device at this time. It isn't very small, or very powerfull. And it is very expensive especially considering you can get a high end laptop AND a high end PDA for the same price (or less!) then an Antelope.
I mean seriously, how many science fiction books, shows, movies, etc., have already come to the same conclusions. Earth2 is a prominant one that comes to my mind right now. Settlers on the new planet were given treatments/augmentation to stave off infections, repair broken bones, and quickly heal other injuries.
Most decent science fiction pulls from science fact and just simply extrapolates on the passage of time with reguards to development of technologies and society. I can't believe that they needed to post a paper about this. It is pretty much a "no brainer" type of answer to the question. Of course we need these things before we do long term, deep space missions. Its like saying that "we need to have an oxygen supply for the ISS for people to live and work there."
I think you posted to the wrong story. This time they're working against spammers i.e. bettering the lives of Americans. This isn't just another DMCA or something.
And I am sure you will be the first to sign up for the national "Do Not Spam List" which will be little more then the ultimate SPAMMERS PARADISE! What more could they ask for then a huge list of legit email addresses. There is no way to enforce this law outside of the US, and thus, any and all spammers who's operations reside outside of the US have the perfect list of people to spam. For why else put your email on the list if you didn't actually use it to read email?
I don't know if that is a good thing. On one hand it keeps lots of people from getting suckered into this crappy spyware, but the real question becomes, if they block that site, what other ones are blocked as well :) Luckily you get a decent "Access Denied" message. It could just as easily been a "404 Error, Page Not Found".
Always be careful with censors, for who censors the censors?
Too bad the Austin Business Journal didn't realize that the cluster is only 1/4 the power and 7x the price as the Apple G5 cluster just created. Now imagine if they spent all that money on an Apple G5 cluster, it would easily be the faster super computer cluster in the world. Now if only people would give Apple credit when it is due, because it is certainly due at this point in time.
Lets just hope Apple can keep up the good work and keep the G5 line updated and in pace with the x86 lines from Intel and AMD. This in my mind has always been Apple's real problem. They always release a decent product, but never seem to keep pace after they make the initial release. If they finally manage to do it this time, it should be a real boon to the IT business.
I agree with this. There goes our perfect test case for proving the DMCA is have chilling effects on free speach rights.
I agree. There are about 3-4 songs that are worth listening to on that CD, and I also agree that the radio is playing the wrong ones. They just want to shovel the crap down our throats...err... ears, mainly because they don't want to play good music for the fear of people recognising that 90% of the stuff being released now is just plain utter crap. If they played good music, no one would buy the crap anymore, and thus, RIAA would make less money. That, or they don't want the decent songs played because people would tape/record them and thus no longer need to buy the CD....
I purchased it myself. Mostly because I still think they have better potential for great music and I want them to make another CD. It would be nice for them to drop the whole grung bass/guitar crap and get back to metal with awe inspiring guitar riffs.
I'll bite as well. Now I agree that piracy "may" be contributing to some loss of sales, I also propose that it is also generating sales as well. The truely sad part of the matter is that they are even telling their employees that the problems they are facing are all because of piracy. Now, I don't buy that BS at all. There are just as many studies out there that support the case that P2P and music downloading are generating CD sales as there are case studies that say the opposite.
The real issue here is the fact that thier business model was forced to change due to technological developments, and they don't want to change at all. They feel that they should continue to mass produce the same style songs as they have been for the last 10-12 years and still have people eat up everything they lay on the plate. Well, P2P and Napsture has changed that. No more can they just place 1 or 2 decent songs on an album and expect everyone to go out and purchase that album for $20 just for those 2 songs. The music industry needs to actually redesign the way they produce and sell their music now. They can no longer expect people to buy the $20 album for those 2 songs with another 7-8 of pure filler. P2P has caused this problem, and that, I will concede.
No more will customers continually overpay for the product, as they know that CD's are easily created (physically created), and they also know how easy it is to mix songs that they (the customers) like to listen to. They want to be able to purchase a "custom" CD with the tracks that they select, not what they are told they "must" buy. People will no longer stand for purchasing something at full price for only wanting to listen to 16% of the product.
Now that is only the start of the problem that the music industry is facing. The other problem is the fact that they have been signing fewer and fewer new bands and creating less and less new music. There was a great study posted here before (sorry, too lazy to look it up), which delt with compairing the number of new bands signed (and their respective new songs produced) with the overall sales generated that year for the music industry. The study showed that there was a very high correlation between the number of new bands to the number of sales. Over the past 3 years, there has been approximately 30-40% decline in the number of new bands being signed. According to the numbers in that study, at least 20% of the "lost" sales over the last 3 years should be attributed to the fact that there are 30-40% less new bands being singed and thus less "new" styles of music out there that people might sample.
You can also chalk up a minumum of 10% more of the "lost" sales to the major economic troubles being faced in this country as well. You yourself should be able to realise this, especially with your wife lossing her job. Well, she isn't the only one out of work, or working in a job that pays far less then the prievious one. What is the first thing that you stop purchasing when you suddenly loose a major part of your income? Well you cut out non-essential purchases, i.e. anything that is not related to shelter, food, and health. Well, guess what doesn't fall under any of those 3 categories, $20 music CDs. With so many fresh-out-of-college students unable to find a job in the industry they just spent upwards of $100,000 over the last 4-5 years, and can only get work in the same summer job industries they could be imployed BEFORE they got that degree, you seriously think they will have the extra cash to purchase music CD's for $15-20 a pop?
The RIAA needs to seriously look at the above problem. They want to blame P2P and piracy for everything. Well, it isn't the real cause. The problem is and always has been their business model. P2P in a sense could be blamed, but only because it showed people that they should have to be forced purchase 100% of a product for only wanting to use 8% of that product.
I won't even get into the issue of P2P actually helping sales by introducing people to music that they never
Ahhh... See the point is that under 3500 rpms, you are only using as much fuel as a normal 4 cylinder car. Thus, unless you drive it like a race car, you get fairly decent gas milage.
Well, its gas driven, but like I mentioned, its a hell of a lot more fun then the electrics available. I just got a 2004 Subaru Impreza WRX, but if I was to purchace a car now (and not 3 months ago), I would get the 2004 Subaru Impreza STI.
Its not gonna cost you much more then any electric/hybred would (i.e. $30,000 range), and it has one monster of a powerful engine. Its the most powerful 4 cylinder engine available! Talk about acceleration! I know it isn't the most environmental friendly, but its friendlier then the SUV's.
To my knowledge this is NOT the case. Now, it might be an issue with the OS that they are using (i.e. the OS might not be able to run 32bit applications in 64bit mode, and vice-versa).
Sorry to be bringing up a MS product, but their new 64bit Windows will be able to run 32bit programs with in 64bit OS mode, but not 64bit programs in 32bit mode (at least from my current understanding of the new product line). However, there was some performance hits, at least at the time that I read about these features (a few months back), so it may or may not still be the case now.
I am sure it won't be long for Linux to be able to run 32bit applications and 64bit applications within the 64bit OS version. Especially since MS figured out a way to do this, it shouldn't be too hard for Linux to be able to do so as well.
IBM did that.
Sorry I didn't get back sooner to comment on this, but Mooncaller got most of the points that I would have made. The WHOLE reason the manufacturers use pads are because they are pretty much foolproof. The person installing the CPU doesn't have anything he/she has to do in order to do it correctly. All he/she has to do is clip the heatsink on correctly. Thermal paste is a lot harder to do correctly. Way to many people apply WAY TOO MUCH of the compound on their CPU, thinking that "it is better to apply too much then not enough", but the reality of it is that too much is easily as bad as not enough. Your metal heatsink is a much better conductor of heat then just about all the thermal compounds that are available. The only reason for the thermal compound at all is that the thermal compound is a much better conductor of heat then air is. You use the compound to displace the microscopic amounts of air that fill the microscopic holes and scratches on the heatsink and CPU. And I MEAN MICROSCOPIC! When I apply thermal compound, I usually place a drop about the size of a small grain of rice on the center of the CPU and then use a piece of plastic to spread it across most of the chip. I then clip on the heatsink and then remove it, and look to see if there was thermal compound that pushed its way across the entire face of the CPU. If it did, I usually remove some of the compound and then repeat the process. Basically, I am removing any and all eccess compound from the jointing of the heatsink and the CPU. Now others use a different approch (basically just placing a small amount and then mount the heatsink and check without spreading the compound first), but I have found that with some compounds, you can wind-up in a situation where the center of the heatsink is correctly mounted, but the rest is not in contact with the CPU, but that isn't really as much an issue with higher quality heatsinks that are available now as it was even 1 or 2 years ago. Modern, high quality heatsinks are now usually already at a polished, flat surface.
Again, the pad came into use as well because the heatsinks themselves were not usually perfectly flat, but manytimes had a definite curve and/or bowl-like shape. The pad, being thick (especially compaired to paste), came into use because it easily handled the problem with the heatsink not always being flat, by compressing/expanding to the shape of the heatsink and CPU. Thermal paste can NOT perform this function. It requires that the overall surface be flat for both the CPU and the heatsink (or otherwise be the same, i.e. if the CPU is bowl shaped, the heatsink must be an inverse bowl/bulge of the same diameter, etc. to exactly join/bond with the CPU). But, like I said, this is no longer a major problem with modern CPU's and heatsinks. A few years ago, the end user/installer was left with the decision to have to lap their heatsink themselves or live with it as is and lose some performance.
Like I said, lapping is no longer a required thing to do with your heatsinks, as the heatsink manufacturers already do some lapping, especially on the high quality heatsinks. Any of the high end heatsinks from Zalman or Thermalright will already have a shiny, polished surface. This isn't a polished surface in the sense that they used some wax, or other agent, it is simply polished flat by using a high grit sandpaper or polishing stone (a similar process used to make real mirrors for optical telescopes, etc., just not a concave or convex mirror surface, but one flat instead).
I am probably being redundant at this point, but the whole idea is that paste is used because it has a higher thermal conductivity then air. Good paste has much higher thermal conductivity then a pad if only because the layer of paste is only microscopically thin, where-as the pad can usually be measured in fractions or whole millimeters. The metal of the heatsink is simply a much better heat conductor then the pads or pastes that we currently use (although there are some new pastes that are comming very close by using cerami
"...They don't want to be reminded that they're idiots or lack hand-eye coordination..."
I mean seriously, that certainly sounds like a MAJOR INSULT to me, luckily he (Nixon), was not talking about me.