Are you kidding me? The Celery and Allendale run at 1.6 GHz, the X2 is clocked 50% higher for the same price. And I'll take an Abit board over MSI any day. Your example is notably slower and less good.
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I've built a very good number of machines for people lately with Abit micro-ATX boards, with built-in graphics (d-sub and DVI). Throw in a 2.4 GHz X2 and 4 gigs of memory, a hard drive, and a burner, and the hardware comes to something like $300. Good, fast, and CHEAP.
One of the offices was broken into lately, and the thieves bypassed the "wimpy" micro-ATX cases and stole big, heavy machines... which happened to be older, slower stuff.
Yeah. Like when those lousy jack-booted thugs tried to tell us that smoking was bad for you, despite the tobacco companies' hirin of doctors to tell us that they were GOOD for us. Stupid gubmint.
This is a very big step up from what you now have. I worked for some time in the client-server programming department of a health care organization with 20,000+ employees, on projects ranging from inventory management to patient records to corporate salaries. This company did much better than most, and I can tell you that your privacy is not terribly secure.
When you're dealing with a situation which requires thousands of people (doctors and nurses) immediate access to your records, from anywhere in the organization (spannint numerous states), even if you ruled out network security, system security, etc., the possibilities for social engineering are absolutely ENORMOUS. And more than that, with that many employees, it's simply a given that some of them will misuse their power. Just within my friends who work for the company, I know of a very good number of times when information of others was accessed, used, or disseminated for personal use or amusement. Never anything nefarious, but still, not only unethical, but against the law as well.
Google has a much better idea of how to warehouse data, manage access to it, and audit usage and access than any of the individual health care companies out there. They may not be perfect, but they'll probably do a whole lot better than what we/you have now.
What I, as the artist, see in a photograph is what is ultimately important. And if I want to reproduce the image, then it is vitally important that what I see is accurately represented mathematically, so that all of the conversion and output can take place.
Try telling a painter that what they see doesn't really important, but rather some numbers on the side of their oil paints. Be prepared for laughter.
That would involve Adobe doing some work, and they don't like that.
Don't forget that despite being one of the largest drivers of memory sales, and a HUGE number of their users begging for it, they still haven't bothered to make a 64-bit version of Photoshop.
I know a very good number of people who would buy a new machine and put 8 gigs (or more) in it in a heartbeat if Photoshop could use it. With DDR2 prices so freaking low and new chipsets supporting huge amounts of memory, Adobe is the only thing holding them back.
Wow. Let me guess, you don't take or print pictures, do you?
Sure, you can mathematically go from RGB to CMYK. But if what you see on the screen only vaguely represents what was there in the RGB data, and what you get out of the printer only vaguely represents the CMYK data that was sent to it, then that does you no good.
Working on a calibrated vs. uncalibrated setup is the difference between walking into a car dealership and saying "I'd like car X, in color Y, with option package Z", and getting it - maybe with a couple of tiny differences - and getting back car A in color B, with something sort of like option package Z.
If you can't hit "print" and get something out that is very nearly what you saw on the screen, then you might as well quit the game. You'll have horribly pictures, and go through insane amounts of money in time and materials.
Etiquette in general has, over the past hundred years, decayed continually. And it's spead up in the last few decades. And when you talk about etiquette in email, where you're not face-to-face with someone, it's going to be much worse. Yes, it's dead. And it will continue to rot.
I don't think it's terribly different in power. Here, if you have central air, the power company asks you every month if they can install a gadget to let them turn your AC off whenever they feel like it, in "rolling blackout" fashion. They're not installing a dedicated line, which leaves either a signal over the powerline, or radio, either of which is likely to be VERY vulnerable.
It's been a looooong time since companies were interested in the best possible solution, these days when something like only making a 25% profit instead of a 27% profit can cause emotional investors to dump your stock, dropping the price, and causing your company a loss of net worth in the millions, they're mostly interested in just spending the least amount that they can.
A lot of places already ask you if they can install power controls to your central air, so they can switch it off whenever they feel like it. They make no bones about it, they tell you that your house temp will go up a few degrees.
You're forgetting that the up-and-coming generation believes that they are entitled to *everything*. If anything goes against what they want to do, they get downright pissy. They just can't handle it when they don't get their way. They should be able to walk into other people's private property, and still have everything just the way they want it.
Wow. I don't own a single record, and haven't bought a CD in almost 10 years, and my high-freq hearing is loooong since shot (14 khz? Can't hear a thing)... but even I can tell the obvious difference between an MP3 (even at 256 or 320 kbit) and a CD. I imagine that the difference going to a record would be above that.
On an iPod with cheap earphones, the difference isn't much. But you don't have to go to very expensive stuff before the difference is quite obvious.
That's why the scheduler and other parts of the Linux kernel have just been chucked right out the door entirley in favor of newer, better versions. You see that sort of thing aaaaalllll the time in closed-source stuff, right?
Pretending to be Worf? Obviously, you've never seen the dentists' family on "Trekkies", and heard what people really do when they're pretending to be Data...
I am a BIG fan of books. Real books. I have stacks, stacks, boxes, and more boxes of them. And I've never liked reading e-books on a computer.
But, if there was an e-book reader with a decently-sized display, I'd be very tempted. The thought of having a good number of books on hand seems VERY attractive. I could lay down in bed, grab the reader... "Let's see, what will it be tonight, 'The Whale Warriors', 'The Dirt on Clean', 'The Loved Dog', or 'A History of Pirates'?
Plus, I wouldn't have to keep filling up boxes with more books. I just have to keep my data backed up!
It was 7 or 8 years ago when I did a search for a domain one day, and the next day, when I went to register it, it was taken. I mentioned it to a coworker, and he said "Oh, yeah. The whois sites sell their search queries to squatters."
I figured by now it would be common knowledge that things like that would be happening. Ah, well.
We looked at some new office space, and it was a relatively large space, with windows all the way around, with a relatively wide sill, somewhere around a foot. I suggested that we extend it another two feet, and have it lined with strippers.
A while ago, there was a large development that generated a lot of controversy. The mayor had tried to pass it through without any discussion, but after petitions, a referendum was put on the ballot. A group of people started campaigning visibly but mildly against the project, but a few weeks before the election, they publicly reversed their decision, and campaigned *for* the development.
After the election, it was discovered that the group was funded and backed by the developer himself, the entire switcharoo was just a PR stunt.
The company I work for had that happen almost two year ago. We noticed a little funny traffic, and traced it back to a Chinese outfit which had a similar domain name, and acted as a proxy: When you went to their site, they would parse the request, get the real info from our page, fix the links, and send it back to the user. We didn't figure they wanted to actually follow through on the order fulfilment, but rather just wanted to get credit cards as people tried to check out.
A lot of folks will tell you that trying to block based on geo isn't very productive, but I can tell you from experience that every/8 that you block from Apnic, AFRINIC, and LACNIC will correlate to a direct decrease in headaches, fraud, and costs - while having only an insignificant impact on profits. Unfortunately, the Aussies and New Zealanders suffer from getting addresses from APNIC, too. You want to keep them in the loop, they're good folks.
This reminds me of the non-compete and terms-of-employment contracts we signed at a job waaaaaay back in the day. All of the new recruits were brought into a room, and a very flustered, scatterbrained, obviously-late-for-something HR girl came in and told us to sign all of the forms that she'd hand us quickly, and give them back to her.
She handed them all out, and everyone in the room noticed that all of the papers were already filled out and signed by other people - presumably, the last room she was in. Everyone exchanged glances, shrugged their shoulders, and quietly handed them all back. The girl didn't notice, and happily went on her way.
The industrial espionage thingy that happened only affected a certain number of caps over a limitted amount of time... yet caps continue to fail, and perhaps even more often than before.
It's not that the caps are bad, it's that they're just under-specced. Electrolytics only have a certain lifetime, and temperature rise plays a TREMENDOUS part in that. Low-ESR caps which can handle more ripple without heating as much cost nickels (or even dimes!) more than cheap capacitors. And since they'll still probably last a year or so, they use them.
In opening power supplies, you IMMEDIATELY notice the difference in capacitors. I see some that are so grossly underspecced that I am surprised they even lasted a few months.
Integration is actually a good thing. It's not often that that 100+ BGA chip is what fails. When you're dealing with failure rate, dropping the component count by a factor of 100 (or more) is a very, very good thing.
Most modern electronics are sufficiently reliable that the principle failures are either dead battery, or physical damage. Look at cell phones - they're perhaps the most disposable of our electronics, and of all of my circle of friends, I think that every failure I've heard of can be attributed to dropping the things in water, abusing the battery, or just smashing the thing.
Actually, that's not true: There is one other failure mode I've seen more often in digital cameras, but also in some phones. The power and/or data connectors (whether they're mini-USB or proprietary) are surface-mount, and often can't stand up to the mechanical stresses of having a cord attached that gets pulled or jerked. But that's not a matter of integration, that's a matter of a weak connector.:-D
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Are you kidding me? The Celery and Allendale run at 1.6 GHz, the X2 is clocked 50% higher for the same price. And I'll take an Abit board over MSI any day. Your example is notably slower and less good.
I've built a very good number of machines for people lately with Abit micro-ATX boards, with built-in graphics (d-sub and DVI). Throw in a 2.4 GHz X2 and 4 gigs of memory, a hard drive, and a burner, and the hardware comes to something like $300. Good, fast, and CHEAP.
One of the offices was broken into lately, and the thieves bypassed the "wimpy" micro-ATX cases and stole big, heavy machines... which happened to be older, slower stuff.
Yeah. Like when those lousy jack-booted thugs tried to tell us that smoking was bad for you, despite the tobacco companies' hirin of doctors to tell us that they were GOOD for us. Stupid gubmint.
This is a very big step up from what you now have. I worked for some time in the client-server programming department of a health care organization with 20,000+ employees, on projects ranging from inventory management to patient records to corporate salaries. This company did much better than most, and I can tell you that your privacy is not terribly secure.
When you're dealing with a situation which requires thousands of people (doctors and nurses) immediate access to your records, from anywhere in the organization (spannint numerous states), even if you ruled out network security, system security, etc., the possibilities for social engineering are absolutely ENORMOUS. And more than that, with that many employees, it's simply a given that some of them will misuse their power. Just within my friends who work for the company, I know of a very good number of times when information of others was accessed, used, or disseminated for personal use or amusement. Never anything nefarious, but still, not only unethical, but against the law as well.
Google has a much better idea of how to warehouse data, manage access to it, and audit usage and access than any of the individual health care companies out there. They may not be perfect, but they'll probably do a whole lot better than what we/you have now.
That's a big load of feces.
What I, as the artist, see in a photograph is what is ultimately important. And if I want to reproduce the image, then it is vitally important that what I see is accurately represented mathematically, so that all of the conversion and output can take place.
Try telling a painter that what they see doesn't really important, but rather some numbers on the side of their oil paints. Be prepared for laughter.
That would involve Adobe doing some work, and they don't like that.
Don't forget that despite being one of the largest drivers of memory sales, and a HUGE number of their users begging for it, they still haven't bothered to make a 64-bit version of Photoshop.
I know a very good number of people who would buy a new machine and put 8 gigs (or more) in it in a heartbeat if Photoshop could use it. With DDR2 prices so freaking low and new chipsets supporting huge amounts of memory, Adobe is the only thing holding them back.
Wow. Let me guess, you don't take or print pictures, do you?
Sure, you can mathematically go from RGB to CMYK. But if what you see on the screen only vaguely represents what was there in the RGB data, and what you get out of the printer only vaguely represents the CMYK data that was sent to it, then that does you no good.
Working on a calibrated vs. uncalibrated setup is the difference between walking into a car dealership and saying "I'd like car X, in color Y, with option package Z", and getting it - maybe with a couple of tiny differences - and getting back car A in color B, with something sort of like option package Z.
If you can't hit "print" and get something out that is very nearly what you saw on the screen, then you might as well quit the game. You'll have horribly pictures, and go through insane amounts of money in time and materials.
Etiquette in general has, over the past hundred years, decayed continually. And it's spead up in the last few decades. And when you talk about etiquette in email, where you're not face-to-face with someone, it's going to be much worse. Yes, it's dead. And it will continue to rot.
I don't think it's terribly different in power. Here, if you have central air, the power company asks you every month if they can install a gadget to let them turn your AC off whenever they feel like it, in "rolling blackout" fashion. They're not installing a dedicated line, which leaves either a signal over the powerline, or radio, either of which is likely to be VERY vulnerable.
It's been a looooong time since companies were interested in the best possible solution, these days when something like only making a 25% profit instead of a 27% profit can cause emotional investors to dump your stock, dropping the price, and causing your company a loss of net worth in the millions, they're mostly interested in just spending the least amount that they can.
A lot of places already ask you if they can install power controls to your central air, so they can switch it off whenever they feel like it. They make no bones about it, they tell you that your house temp will go up a few degrees.
Shouldn't that be "Commands want to be free!"?
You're forgetting that the up-and-coming generation believes that they are entitled to *everything*. If anything goes against what they want to do, they get downright pissy. They just can't handle it when they don't get their way. They should be able to walk into other people's private property, and still have everything just the way they want it.
Wow. I don't own a single record, and haven't bought a CD in almost 10 years, and my high-freq hearing is loooong since shot (14 khz? Can't hear a thing)... but even I can tell the obvious difference between an MP3 (even at 256 or 320 kbit) and a CD. I imagine that the difference going to a record would be above that.
On an iPod with cheap earphones, the difference isn't much. But you don't have to go to very expensive stuff before the difference is quite obvious.
Isn't their core business providing SRPMS to CentOS?
That's why the scheduler and other parts of the Linux kernel have just been chucked right out the door entirley in favor of newer, better versions. You see that sort of thing aaaaalllll the time in closed-source stuff, right?
Pretending to be Worf? Obviously, you've never seen the dentists' family on "Trekkies", and heard what people really do when they're pretending to be Data...
I am a BIG fan of books. Real books. I have stacks, stacks, boxes, and more boxes of them. And I've never liked reading e-books on a computer.
But, if there was an e-book reader with a decently-sized display, I'd be very tempted. The thought of having a good number of books on hand seems VERY attractive. I could lay down in bed, grab the reader... "Let's see, what will it be tonight, 'The Whale Warriors', 'The Dirt on Clean', 'The Loved Dog', or 'A History of Pirates'?
Plus, I wouldn't have to keep filling up boxes with more books. I just have to keep my data backed up!
It was 7 or 8 years ago when I did a search for a domain one day, and the next day, when I went to register it, it was taken. I mentioned it to a coworker, and he said "Oh, yeah. The whois sites sell their search queries to squatters."
I figured by now it would be common knowledge that things like that would be happening. Ah, well.
We looked at some new office space, and it was a relatively large space, with windows all the way around, with a relatively wide sill, somewhere around a foot. I suggested that we extend it another two feet, and have it lined with strippers.
A while ago, there was a large development that generated a lot of controversy. The mayor had tried to pass it through without any discussion, but after petitions, a referendum was put on the ballot. A group of people started campaigning visibly but mildly against the project, but a few weeks before the election, they publicly reversed their decision, and campaigned *for* the development.
After the election, it was discovered that the group was funded and backed by the developer himself, the entire switcharoo was just a PR stunt.
The company I work for had that happen almost two year ago. We noticed a little funny traffic, and traced it back to a Chinese outfit which had a similar domain name, and acted as a proxy: When you went to their site, they would parse the request, get the real info from our page, fix the links, and send it back to the user. We didn't figure they wanted to actually follow through on the order fulfilment, but rather just wanted to get credit cards as people tried to check out.
A lot of folks will tell you that trying to block based on geo isn't very productive, but I can tell you from experience that every
This reminds me of the non-compete and terms-of-employment contracts we signed at a job waaaaaay back in the day. All of the new recruits were brought into a room, and a very flustered, scatterbrained, obviously-late-for-something HR girl came in and told us to sign all of the forms that she'd hand us quickly, and give them back to her.
She handed them all out, and everyone in the room noticed that all of the papers were already filled out and signed by other people - presumably, the last room she was in. Everyone exchanged glances, shrugged their shoulders, and quietly handed them all back. The girl didn't notice, and happily went on her way.
The industrial espionage thingy that happened only affected a certain number of caps over a limitted amount of time... yet caps continue to fail, and perhaps even more often than before.
It's not that the caps are bad, it's that they're just under-specced. Electrolytics only have a certain lifetime, and temperature rise plays a TREMENDOUS part in that. Low-ESR caps which can handle more ripple without heating as much cost nickels (or even dimes!) more than cheap capacitors. And since they'll still probably last a year or so, they use them.
In opening power supplies, you IMMEDIATELY notice the difference in capacitors. I see some that are so grossly underspecced that I am surprised they even lasted a few months.
Integration is actually a good thing. It's not often that that 100+ BGA chip is what fails. When you're dealing with failure rate, dropping the component count by a factor of 100 (or more) is a very, very good thing.
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Most modern electronics are sufficiently reliable that the principle failures are either dead battery, or physical damage. Look at cell phones - they're perhaps the most disposable of our electronics, and of all of my circle of friends, I think that every failure I've heard of can be attributed to dropping the things in water, abusing the battery, or just smashing the thing.
Actually, that's not true: There is one other failure mode I've seen more often in digital cameras, but also in some phones. The power and/or data connectors (whether they're mini-USB or proprietary) are surface-mount, and often can't stand up to the mechanical stresses of having a cord attached that gets pulled or jerked. But that's not a matter of integration, that's a matter of a weak connector.