Yep. If you peeled off that pad first, you would have probably gotten another 2-3 degrees. The pad uses a "wax-like" substance (i.e. a solid a room temperature, but liquid when lightly heated). The problem is with pads is that once you heat them after being installed, the wax-like substance just imbedded itself into all the microscopic cracks and holes on the top of both your processor and heatsink (doing its job). But now it is there, it doesn't just come off when you peel off that pad. It is there, and there pretty much for good, acting as a barrier between your heatsink and CPU and any other better thermal compound you use aftward.
Now, I didn't say it was there perminent, but it is close to it. You can get it off the heatsink, as you simply need to heat up the heatsink (a very hot hair-dryer will do this). Once you heat it up, you can start wiping the heatsink down with a cloth. Or you can lap your heatsink (use several grades of sandpaper to get a polished, flat, smooth surface, usually starting with 100-300 grit paper and working your way up to 1000-3000 grit paper, depending on how "anal" you are:) ). This will remove the outer layer of the heatsink metal as well as the microscopic cracks and holes on it, which will include your heat-pad substance.
The CPU is almost impossible to fully remove the heat-pad substance. You don't want to lap a modern day CPU, as all you will do is "create" microscopic cracks and holes. Modern CPU's are laser cut and pretty much perfectly flat. There are "some" cracks, but they are much smaller/finer then almost any sand paper you will ever find. You also risk damaging the CPU as the manufacturers now have traces and transistors located micrometers from the top of the CPU surface. Heating the CPU can easily damage it if you are not careful about how hot you let it get. So it is usually very dangerous for you to try to remove the substance from the CPU if you have not already done it several times (or don't mind wasting whatever you spend on that CPU when you need to go out and buy a new one).
And magnetic strip writers are now just as easily obtanible. Its not too much more difficult to log a magetic strip on a system then it is to log a password.
Jiang did not sign people up for GoToMyPC. That is just how he was caught! Someone HAD GoToMyPC and because Jiang logged on and did what that person had done, he wound up starting the GoToMyPC services, with which, actually controls your home PC. The person who's accounts were being accessed happened to be at home at the time that Jiang used his/her account and immediatly knew that someone had gained access through the GoToMyPC service and contacted the authorities. That is how they caught him... Not him signing people up for GoToMyPC...
"A system or collection of software functions and/or programs which instruct a computer's processing unit(s) to perform a specified task or set of tasks defined by either a human operator or another computer system or software."
There that should cover just about anything you can do with a computer (aside from using it as a paper weight or a foot rest...)
Just wondering if they were tablet PC's or regular PC's (laptop or desktop, doesn't really matter). At Drexel University, we just started using tablet PC's in several classes, but the main one non-computer science/engineering related would be for math courses. The tablet PC's enable students to easily work out problems using the ability to "write-out" the math problems quickly and easily save into Word documents as image files by using the pens to free-hand the symbols, etc., used in math courses.
Not sure how else you would use them in an english class per say, but it at least would elliminate the need for typing in on the keyboard (not that it would make it easier for the instructor to read later on:P )
especially in children. I feel that ADHD was really invented as a means for drug companies to make money and school districts and parents to give excuses for their children, and drug them up to keep kids from actually being kids.
Seriously, look at the "symptoms". Fidgity, lacks attention to school subjects, easily distracted while at school, hyper. Ok, now if you can't easily explain away ALL of those symptoms with the fact that most school really is uninteresting to most students under the age of 18, and the fact that American's have a general diet which contains 2-5 times more sugar then most other parts of the world, then I don't know what you are smoking, but it sure isn't a legal substance in the USA.
Face it, this is the cop-out way of dealing with a child growing up, put him/her on drugs to dull their minds and calm them down, this way we don't have to deal with the fact that the parents/caretakers/teachers don't have the time or means necessary to actually deal with an active child. I see no reason to ever medicate a child for behavior that is and always has been the norm for children. When was the last time you believed that an eight year old will not get bored in a math class and get distracted by something that is happening outside the window? Do you seriously believe that most kids want to sit at a desk for 8 hours a day? Hell no. They want to go outside and run around. They want to play with other kids, not listen to the adult. They want to do things that interest them, which usually does not include sitting through history, or algebra, or science classes in which the majority of the time is spent listening to lectures and theory, or droning over "busy work" meant to waste their time doing a chore which is truely non-productive past the first 3 iterations as the benefits of repetitive learning quickly reach a saturation point. ADHD in children is absolutly a farse.
In adults on the other hand, you might be able to make a case that it exists, but even then I still feel it hard to prove. Maybe, just maybe the person's job/life really isn't satisfying to the person. I can see many jobs that I would absolutly hate, in which just about anything else happening around me would cause me to want to pay attention to those events instead of my job, since my job is completely repetitive and boring to me. The real solution in many of these cases could easily be find a new line of work, something that you are actually interested in, but doing this is usually not possible for economic or other reasons (i.e. you can't be a doctor without a PhD, or a pilot without knowing how to fly, or heaven forbid, a lawyer without a law degree and/or passing the bar).
Drexel University has been doing this for years. As a matter of fact, it is required for ALL engineers, not just EE, CE, or ECE. All engineers are required to take 3 terms of hands on lab courses dealing with building and testing cicuits and electrical devices. This gives the students practical experience with several tools such as power supplies, volt meters, etc., so they know how to use them later on in other classes as well as projects throughout the life at Drexel. Besides, its fun:) Where else can a Freshman get a chance to melt several houndred thousand dollars worth of equipment by using DecaAmps instead of DeciAmps:)
Enforcement will still only begin in October, and even then with the way it is written, the telemarketers will not need to actually look at the list until January 2004, as they only need to check against the list once every 3 months.
Well, it is probably close to that amount. Depending on location, they can probably stop paying the lease on one or two buildings, as well as the electric, water, and insurance on those buildings as well. For decent office space, I wouldn't be surprised if they were paying 2-5 mill a year on the buildings.
And remember, its not just the actual salary that they will save, its also the benefits as well (no decent company is without good health care, etc). And it is also counting in the interest they will earn on the money they are saving as well. That is another 3-7% right there.
So that means the average salary+benefits package only needs to be about $85,000 or so per person. And to be honest, that number is probably about right. Especially if these people are engineers or programmers.
No, really. How could anyone seriously be surprised by this? SGI's products are inordinantly expensive for what you get. Their "maintainance" alone on their systems could buy a brand new Sun system of equal or better power EACH and EVERY YEAR. And lets not even compair them to standard PC hardware costs. You could buy a small cluster of high end PC's and run Linux on them cheaper then getting an SGI.
The only reason SGI still exists is because their name is ingrained into the heads of many people in managment as being "the thing to buy for graphics workstations" when in reality they are by FAR definitly NOT the thing to buy, especially if you are being told to cut back on cost.
It was only a matter of time before SGI started to cut staff. What they really need to do is cut the price of the maintaince on their systems, and maybe then will more companies ramp up purchasing of their (SGI's) products. But as is, they are completely overpriced given the current market.
... at least for now..NET is a "good" idea in theory. But it's performance is just not up to par compared to the execution times of applications using.NET vs C++.
It is the equivelent of placing another abstraction layer on the executable code before it is executed. This inherently decreses performance of the application (its something like the equivelent of writing a game in perl... it relies on the perl interpreter to create the actual executable code which is why something written in perl takes longer to execute then something written in C++ (I know there is a debate on this, but for the majority of cases this is true, however, it is also true that it may be 1000x easier to "code" the application in perl vs C++))
If MS optimizes their interpreter, then in theory, it will eventually become almost as fast as C++, and at that time, it may be worth the benefits of coding in.NET for the applications..NET is fairly easy to code many types of applications, but when performance of the final executable is your major goal, then.NET is really not the language for you.
Basically you are paying 2 to 3 times more and getting less quality solution then if you just bought things like a digital camera and pda, and cell phone seperatly. Just about all cell phones will have the ability to access the internet, and most decent pda's can connect to your cell phone as well as connect to your digital camera, thus being able to send "pictures" through your cell phone (at much higher quality at that).
Yeah yeah there is the "prestige" of owning the all in one device, but until that all in one device is as good in all its functions as the other devices are seperatly, I would rather own the devices seperatly (I'm just a power freak, I prefer quality over compactness almost every time).
The chips given to the hardware reviewers were unlocked, and you could change the multiplyer on the chip however you wanted. They might have forgotten to change it back...
Its called Hyper Threading. This is why all CPU's with HT are actually detected as 2 CPU's by Windows and Linux alike. It is not completely 2 CPU's, but the execution of instructions in the pipeline can be "bypassed" in a sense by allowing other instruction threads to execute while other threads are waiting on things like I/O.
Also, there was no performance increase in the CPU (well sort of, but not really). Just that the bus speed was boosted. This only changes the speed at which data and instructions can be sent to the CPU, but the CPU itself is still limited to the same amout of theoritical instructions per second as it was origionally (in fact, its a little slower 3.0 GHz vs 3.06 GHz). The increase in bandwidth will really only affect operations which are data heavy (wasting CPU cycles while waiting for the data). Anything that was CPU cycle dependent will actually perform slightly worse on the new 3.0 Ghz chip compaired to the 3.06 GHz (since we lose 60 cycles per second, that is 60 more operations that it can not complete).
A real SATA implementation is one of the real benefits to the Canterwood systems. Tests are showing RAID0 systems using SATA are scaling at almost 70-85% performance of each disk in the raid volume. Non-raided SATA disks are also benefitting from the south bridge integrated controler. Initial tests are showing the new Maxtor disks to reaching over 100MBps vs 80-88MBps when used on a PCI bus based SATA controler.
The CSA bus is also a great improvement with the use of gig-ethernet. Only a few of the canterwood manufacturers are actually using the CSA bus (Gigabyte, Abit, MSI, and IWILL), all the others are not using this new bus. The necessity for the CSA bus will become very apparent with the use of math. If a gig-ethernet solution is placed onto a system on the PCI bus, you will actually max the PCI bus itself with this card, and that is not taking into account all the other devices that share this bandwidth (sound cards, RAID cards, etc). The only reason not to use CSA is price. The CSA bus was designed to use Intel chips. The Intel chips are more expensive then some other gig-ethernet chips out there, but anyone who has used the Intel chips will easily see the performance/value of their solution (this is even without the CSA bus, Intel's ethernet chips are by far one of the best available). The motherboard manufacturers who are not using the CSA bus will try and tell people that it is really not needed as the overall bottleneck will be your hard drive for transfering data, but this is really not the case with reguards to the systems this motherboard will be used. Almost all of these systems will have large amounts of RAM that will easily be able to cache the data communications for streaming to the hard drives (the intended use of the Canterwood chipset is for workstation and small server class systems, hence the support for ECC checked RAM) and these systems will usually have at least a few gig's of RAM (mine will have 2).
Basically this chipset fixes SEVERAL bottlenecks in the overall system (integration of SATA to remove it from the PCI bus, use of CSA to remove ethernet from the PCI bus, increase of bandwidth between CPU, RAM and hard disks). The main bottleneck that was not addressed by this chipset was the use of the PCI bus. Even though the PCI bus's usage was offloaded to other buses, the PCI bus is very much outdated and should have been replaced with a new bus. PCI Express is a new viable option, and including it would have been a very good move on Intel's part. It should have done what they did when the ISA bus became outdated, included the PCI bus along with the ISA bus on the board, thus allowing people to still use their old PCI cards for the next few generations of systems while all the hardware manufacturers can start migrating to the new bus architecture (can't remember if PCIX is backwards compatible or not, or if it was another bus which was not compatible). In any case, this should have been included in this chipset to start pushing the hardware manufacturers to start changing their production.
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It wasn't Forgent Networks that won the 25m, it was St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants Inc.. It just happens to be that the Forgent Networks patent lisence fees that Sony began paying allowed St. Clair to win the case.
Seriously, if they get a patent on banner ads, and charge people for using the patent, everyone who uses banner ads will have to stop as I am sure they do not make enough money to cover the costs along with the patent costs. So in the end, NO MORE BANNER ADS!!! YEA!!!!!!!! CHEERS!!!!! JOY!!!!!
Nods to the "Old good programmers get sent off to pature in research." That is one of the reasons I still stayed IT even though I studied Comp Sci. Well, I studied comp sci mainly because I DIDN'T know how to program. I knew computer hardware inside out, as well as how the software worked in theory, but I didn't know how to code. And since I learned more about networks and managing computers in my co-ops then classes would ever teach me, I decided that I wanted to actually learn something I didn't know for the several thousand bucks I was spending each term.
Mainly because you managing or working on the computer systems that run the school and thus, hold your grades and financial information, is too much of a risk for the school. Only a few places even allow it and even then, in a very limited fashion. You do more gunt work then actual real work, but then again, that is usually the case of an internship at most places anyway.
I had a slightly different experience, but it was more by chance then anything else, I just happened to be the co-op who had the most knowledge on my resume dealing with computers. One of the IT departments at the company I had accepted to work for as a co-op lost 2 of their 4 main admins right as I was about to start. I didn't even interview for the position that I wound up in, they just looked through the list of co-ops who had been hired and pulled my name since I had the most things writen down on my resume (and in extra-ciricular activities I had "makes a mean hoggie"). That extra-ciricular activity was what got me the job. It made the other 2 admins laugh, got their attention, told them a little about me and my personallity (that I could joke a little and take one as well) and fit in well with them personally. It got me the job which later changed my major from electrical engineering to computer science. I honestly don't know how things would be in my life right now had I not had that one line on my resume, and to think that the Career Management Office took 20 points off on my final grade in the "co-op prepairedness" course for having that line on the resume I had to hand in for that course. It GOT me the job, it also changed my career path, and 10 months later, my major, and now 5 years later, my life. I luckily still have a job with that same company as I write this. In all this downsizing, I was actually hired full time by them, and mainly, because of one line on the resume.
It is strange how something so small can make such a big difference in life. Most of my friends are either continuing with grad school, or painfully job searching, or have given up for the time being and persuing other things in life (exploring the world). I help manage approx 100 servers and 500 clients as well as write internal software tools because I could make a mean hoggie.
Just wondering this. If the person sending the packet pays a bill for that packet and the person recieving that packet also pays a bill, they are both paying on that same packet. Why not just shift the price so that only sending packets are paid for?
I know its a stupid question, but why not? Other then the fact that somewhere someone is saying "Shit, people finally woke up and realized they are paying twice for the same thing, there goes half our revenue." Why ARE we paying twice? Either pay for outgoing, or pay for incomming. If somewhere someone already paid to send that packet to the net, then the reciver should not have to pay for recieving that packet, or vice-versa.
The only real problem I can see with this is that you have clients and you have servers. With clients sending few packets to recive back several thousands (or millions). A new pricing model should really be setup for the whole system, but that will never happen unless everyone stops making money off the current system.
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Yep. If you peeled off that pad first, you would have probably gotten another 2-3 degrees. The pad uses a "wax-like" substance (i.e. a solid a room temperature, but liquid when lightly heated). The problem is with pads is that once you heat them after being installed, the wax-like substance just imbedded itself into all the microscopic cracks and holes on the top of both your processor and heatsink (doing its job). But now it is there, it doesn't just come off when you peel off that pad. It is there, and there pretty much for good, acting as a barrier between your heatsink and CPU and any other better thermal compound you use aftward.
:) ). This will remove the outer layer of the heatsink metal as well as the microscopic cracks and holes on it, which will include your heat-pad substance.
Now, I didn't say it was there perminent, but it is close to it. You can get it off the heatsink, as you simply need to heat up the heatsink (a very hot hair-dryer will do this). Once you heat it up, you can start wiping the heatsink down with a cloth. Or you can lap your heatsink (use several grades of sandpaper to get a polished, flat, smooth surface, usually starting with 100-300 grit paper and working your way up to 1000-3000 grit paper, depending on how "anal" you are
The CPU is almost impossible to fully remove the heat-pad substance. You don't want to lap a modern day CPU, as all you will do is "create" microscopic cracks and holes. Modern CPU's are laser cut and pretty much perfectly flat. There are "some" cracks, but they are much smaller/finer then almost any sand paper you will ever find. You also risk damaging the CPU as the manufacturers now have traces and transistors located micrometers from the top of the CPU surface. Heating the CPU can easily damage it if you are not careful about how hot you let it get. So it is usually very dangerous for you to try to remove the substance from the CPU if you have not already done it several times (or don't mind wasting whatever you spend on that CPU when you need to go out and buy a new one).
And magnetic strip writers are now just as easily obtanible. Its not too much more difficult to log a magetic strip on a system then it is to log a password.
Jiang did not sign people up for GoToMyPC. That is just how he was caught! Someone HAD GoToMyPC and because Jiang logged on and did what that person had done, he wound up starting the GoToMyPC services, with which, actually controls your home PC. The person who's accounts were being accessed happened to be at home at the time that Jiang used his/her account and immediatly knew that someone had gained access through the GoToMyPC service and contacted the authorities. That is how they caught him... Not him signing people up for GoToMyPC...
"A system or collection of software functions and/or programs which instruct a computer's processing unit(s) to perform a specified task or set of tasks defined by either a human operator or another computer system or software."
There that should cover just about anything you can do with a computer (aside from using it as a paper weight or a foot rest...)
Just wondering if they were tablet PC's or regular PC's (laptop or desktop, doesn't really matter). At Drexel University, we just started using tablet PC's in several classes, but the main one non-computer science/engineering related would be for math courses. The tablet PC's enable students to easily work out problems using the ability to "write-out" the math problems quickly and easily save into Word documents as image files by using the pens to free-hand the symbols, etc., used in math courses.
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Not sure how else you would use them in an english class per say, but it at least would elliminate the need for typing in on the keyboard (not that it would make it easier for the instructor to read later on
especially in children. I feel that ADHD was really invented as a means for drug companies to make money and school districts and parents to give excuses for their children, and drug them up to keep kids from actually being kids.
Seriously, look at the "symptoms". Fidgity, lacks attention to school subjects, easily distracted while at school, hyper. Ok, now if you can't easily explain away ALL of those symptoms with the fact that most school really is uninteresting to most students under the age of 18, and the fact that American's have a general diet which contains 2-5 times more sugar then most other parts of the world, then I don't know what you are smoking, but it sure isn't a legal substance in the USA.
Face it, this is the cop-out way of dealing with a child growing up, put him/her on drugs to dull their minds and calm them down, this way we don't have to deal with the fact that the parents/caretakers/teachers don't have the time or means necessary to actually deal with an active child. I see no reason to ever medicate a child for behavior that is and always has been the norm for children. When was the last time you believed that an eight year old will not get bored in a math class and get distracted by something that is happening outside the window? Do you seriously believe that most kids want to sit at a desk for 8 hours a day? Hell no. They want to go outside and run around. They want to play with other kids, not listen to the adult. They want to do things that interest them, which usually does not include sitting through history, or algebra, or science classes in which the majority of the time is spent listening to lectures and theory, or droning over "busy work" meant to waste their time doing a chore which is truely non-productive past the first 3 iterations as the benefits of repetitive learning quickly reach a saturation point. ADHD in children is absolutly a farse.
In adults on the other hand, you might be able to make a case that it exists, but even then I still feel it hard to prove. Maybe, just maybe the person's job/life really isn't satisfying to the person. I can see many jobs that I would absolutly hate, in which just about anything else happening around me would cause me to want to pay attention to those events instead of my job, since my job is completely repetitive and boring to me. The real solution in many of these cases could easily be find a new line of work, something that you are actually interested in, but doing this is usually not possible for economic or other reasons (i.e. you can't be a doctor without a PhD, or a pilot without knowing how to fly, or heaven forbid, a lawyer without a law degree and/or passing the bar).
Drexel University has been doing this for years. As a matter of fact, it is required for ALL engineers, not just EE, CE, or ECE. All engineers are required to take 3 terms of hands on lab courses dealing with building and testing cicuits and electrical devices. This gives the students practical experience with several tools such as power supplies, volt meters, etc., so they know how to use them later on in other classes as well as projects throughout the life at Drexel. Besides, its fun :) Where else can a Freshman get a chance to melt several houndred thousand dollars worth of equipment by using DecaAmps instead of DeciAmps :)
Enforcement will still only begin in October, and even then with the way it is written, the telemarketers will not need to actually look at the list until January 2004, as they only need to check against the list once every 3 months.
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That is my whole point. Management still thinks they SHOULD BUY SGI FOR GRAPHICS!!!! This is the whole problem!
Well, it is probably close to that amount. Depending on location, they can probably stop paying the lease on one or two buildings, as well as the electric, water, and insurance on those buildings as well. For decent office space, I wouldn't be surprised if they were paying 2-5 mill a year on the buildings.
And remember, its not just the actual salary that they will save, its also the benefits as well (no decent company is without good health care, etc). And it is also counting in the interest they will earn on the money they are saving as well. That is another 3-7% right there.
So that means the average salary+benefits package only needs to be about $85,000 or so per person. And to be honest, that number is probably about right. Especially if these people are engineers or programmers.
No, really. How could anyone seriously be surprised by this? SGI's products are inordinantly expensive for what you get. Their "maintainance" alone on their systems could buy a brand new Sun system of equal or better power EACH and EVERY YEAR. And lets not even compair them to standard PC hardware costs. You could buy a small cluster of high end PC's and run Linux on them cheaper then getting an SGI.
The only reason SGI still exists is because their name is ingrained into the heads of many people in managment as being "the thing to buy for graphics workstations" when in reality they are by FAR definitly NOT the thing to buy, especially if you are being told to cut back on cost.
It was only a matter of time before SGI started to cut staff. What they really need to do is cut the price of the maintaince on their systems, and maybe then will more companies ramp up purchasing of their (SGI's) products. But as is, they are completely overpriced given the current market.
... to realise that it costs more to do things 2, 3, or 4 times then if they had done it right the first time...
And that is costs more to have a new programmer look at and try to modify code that wasn't written by himself/herself...
Amazing reality breakthrough!
... at least for now. .NET is a "good" idea in theory. But it's performance is just not up to par compared to the execution times of applications using .NET vs C++.
.NET for the applications. .NET is fairly easy to code many types of applications, but when performance of the final executable is your major goal, then .NET is really not the language for you.
It is the equivelent of placing another abstraction layer on the executable code before it is executed. This inherently decreses performance of the application (its something like the equivelent of writing a game in perl... it relies on the perl interpreter to create the actual executable code which is why something written in perl takes longer to execute then something written in C++ (I know there is a debate on this, but for the majority of cases this is true, however, it is also true that it may be 1000x easier to "code" the application in perl vs C++))
If MS optimizes their interpreter, then in theory, it will eventually become almost as fast as C++, and at that time, it may be worth the benefits of coding in
Basically you are paying 2 to 3 times more and getting less quality solution then if you just bought things like a digital camera and pda, and cell phone seperatly. Just about all cell phones will have the ability to access the internet, and most decent pda's can connect to your cell phone as well as connect to your digital camera, thus being able to send "pictures" through your cell phone (at much higher quality at that).
Yeah yeah there is the "prestige" of owning the all in one device, but until that all in one device is as good in all its functions as the other devices are seperatly, I would rather own the devices seperatly (I'm just a power freak, I prefer quality over compactness almost every time).
The chips given to the hardware reviewers were unlocked, and you could change the multiplyer on the chip however you wanted. They might have forgotten to change it back...
Its called Hyper Threading. This is why all CPU's with HT are actually detected as 2 CPU's by Windows and Linux alike. It is not completely 2 CPU's, but the execution of instructions in the pipeline can be "bypassed" in a sense by allowing other instruction threads to execute while other threads are waiting on things like I/O.
Also, there was no performance increase in the CPU (well sort of, but not really). Just that the bus speed was boosted. This only changes the speed at which data and instructions can be sent to the CPU, but the CPU itself is still limited to the same amout of theoritical instructions per second as it was origionally (in fact, its a little slower 3.0 GHz vs 3.06 GHz). The increase in bandwidth will really only affect operations which are data heavy (wasting CPU cycles while waiting for the data). Anything that was CPU cycle dependent will actually perform slightly worse on the new 3.0 Ghz chip compaired to the 3.06 GHz (since we lose 60 cycles per second, that is 60 more operations that it can not complete).
A real SATA implementation is one of the real benefits to the Canterwood systems. Tests are showing RAID0 systems using SATA are scaling at almost 70-85% performance of each disk in the raid volume. Non-raided SATA disks are also benefitting from the south bridge integrated controler. Initial tests are showing the new Maxtor disks to reaching over 100MBps vs 80-88MBps when used on a PCI bus based SATA controler.
The CSA bus is also a great improvement with the use of gig-ethernet. Only a few of the canterwood manufacturers are actually using the CSA bus (Gigabyte, Abit, MSI, and IWILL), all the others are not using this new bus. The necessity for the CSA bus will become very apparent with the use of math. If a gig-ethernet solution is placed onto a system on the PCI bus, you will actually max the PCI bus itself with this card, and that is not taking into account all the other devices that share this bandwidth (sound cards, RAID cards, etc). The only reason not to use CSA is price. The CSA bus was designed to use Intel chips. The Intel chips are more expensive then some other gig-ethernet chips out there, but anyone who has used the Intel chips will easily see the performance/value of their solution (this is even without the CSA bus, Intel's ethernet chips are by far one of the best available). The motherboard manufacturers who are not using the CSA bus will try and tell people that it is really not needed as the overall bottleneck will be your hard drive for transfering data, but this is really not the case with reguards to the systems this motherboard will be used. Almost all of these systems will have large amounts of RAM that will easily be able to cache the data communications for streaming to the hard drives (the intended use of the Canterwood chipset is for workstation and small server class systems, hence the support for ECC checked RAM) and these systems will usually have at least a few gig's of RAM (mine will have 2).
Basically this chipset fixes SEVERAL bottlenecks in the overall system (integration of SATA to remove it from the PCI bus, use of CSA to remove ethernet from the PCI bus, increase of bandwidth between CPU, RAM and hard disks). The main bottleneck that was not addressed by this chipset was the use of the PCI bus. Even though the PCI bus's usage was offloaded to other buses, the PCI bus is very much outdated and should have been replaced with a new bus. PCI Express is a new viable option, and including it would have been a very good move on Intel's part. It should have done what they did when the ISA bus became outdated, included the PCI bus along with the ISA bus on the board, thus allowing people to still use their old PCI cards for the next few generations of systems while all the hardware manufacturers can start migrating to the new bus architecture (can't remember if PCIX is backwards compatible or not, or if it was another bus which was not compatible). In any case, this should have been included in this chipset to start pushing the hardware manufacturers to start changing their production.
"a ricer" is actually a reference to another blog that I am on, forgot to remove it when I ported the list here. Basically there was a post that was a quote unquote to sell "ricers", i.e. those kitchen gadgets that "rice" or "mince" difference things. Primarily used to make spatzel (a German type of noodle). Basically it became a long going thread that lasted several thousand posts of people either complaining about the product once they got it, or others just plain not letting the subject die, so it became just something that people called others when someone wouldn't let something die. Again, sorry about missing that one, thought I had ported the list over fairly well (first time I decided to post it here obviously).
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It wasn't Forgent Networks that won the 25m, it was St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants Inc.. It just happens to be that the Forgent Networks patent lisence fees that Sony began paying allowed St. Clair to win the case.
Seriously, if they get a patent on banner ads, and charge people for using the patent, everyone who uses banner ads will have to stop as I am sure they do not make enough money to cover the costs along with the patent costs. So in the end, NO MORE BANNER ADS!!! YEA!!!!!!!! CHEERS!!!!! JOY!!!!!
I submitted this 3 days ago....
Here are your recent submissions to Slashdot, and their status within the system:
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Guess someone felt otherwise now. Feel free to mod me down.
Nods to the "Old good programmers get sent off to pature in research." That is one of the reasons I still stayed IT even though I studied Comp Sci. Well, I studied comp sci mainly because I DIDN'T know how to program. I knew computer hardware inside out, as well as how the software worked in theory, but I didn't know how to code. And since I learned more about networks and managing computers in my co-ops then classes would ever teach me, I decided that I wanted to actually learn something I didn't know for the several thousand bucks I was spending each term.
Mainly because you managing or working on the computer systems that run the school and thus, hold your grades and financial information, is too much of a risk for the school. Only a few places even allow it and even then, in a very limited fashion. You do more gunt work then actual real work, but then again, that is usually the case of an internship at most places anyway.
I had a slightly different experience, but it was more by chance then anything else, I just happened to be the co-op who had the most knowledge on my resume dealing with computers. One of the IT departments at the company I had accepted to work for as a co-op lost 2 of their 4 main admins right as I was about to start. I didn't even interview for the position that I wound up in, they just looked through the list of co-ops who had been hired and pulled my name since I had the most things writen down on my resume (and in extra-ciricular activities I had "makes a mean hoggie"). That extra-ciricular activity was what got me the job. It made the other 2 admins laugh, got their attention, told them a little about me and my personallity (that I could joke a little and take one as well) and fit in well with them personally. It got me the job which later changed my major from electrical engineering to computer science. I honestly don't know how things would be in my life right now had I not had that one line on my resume, and to think that the Career Management Office took 20 points off on my final grade in the "co-op prepairedness" course for having that line on the resume I had to hand in for that course. It GOT me the job, it also changed my career path, and 10 months later, my major, and now 5 years later, my life. I luckily still have a job with that same company as I write this. In all this downsizing, I was actually hired full time by them, and mainly, because of one line on the resume.
It is strange how something so small can make such a big difference in life. Most of my friends are either continuing with grad school, or painfully job searching, or have given up for the time being and persuing other things in life (exploring the world). I help manage approx 100 servers and 500 clients as well as write internal software tools because I could make a mean hoggie.
Just wondering this. If the person sending the packet pays a bill for that packet and the person recieving that packet also pays a bill, they are both paying on that same packet. Why not just shift the price so that only sending packets are paid for?
I know its a stupid question, but why not? Other then the fact that somewhere someone is saying "Shit, people finally woke up and realized they are paying twice for the same thing, there goes half our revenue." Why ARE we paying twice? Either pay for outgoing, or pay for incomming. If somewhere someone already paid to send that packet to the net, then the reciver should not have to pay for recieving that packet, or vice-versa.
The only real problem I can see with this is that you have clients and you have servers. With clients sending few packets to recive back several thousands (or millions). A new pricing model should really be setup for the whole system, but that will never happen unless everyone stops making money off the current system.