Warranties aside, there is no reason to treat any computer like a black box. We don't need to know all of the details of how it is supposed to do what it is doing. We just need to know what it is supposed to do, come up with a better way of doing it (with usually means cutting fewer corners than they did), and trick the old system into accepting the new one.
Of course you're right. No need to treat the G5 like a black box. However, once you go mucking around with the fans, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple instantly puts all fans at their highest speed. This is what happens the moment you open the case, or if certain components are joggled a little.
I still think you do need to treat the cooling system in the G5 like a black box. If you want to improve it, you'll probably have to tear out all the fans and replace them with things that you can configure via hardware. I'm only saying that it is not "just about the easiest thing you can do on a computer." It might be really really involved, expensive, and difficult.
Assuming Apple has a great setup and assuming they have optimized fan usage for silence (which it doesn't seem like, seeing as how people seem to be complaining that it is the loudest component), there is still the option of replacing the faster running fans with a liquid cooled system and a large radiator.
Most people aren't complaining about the noise of their G5. Most of them are saying that they do not suffer the same problems as this guy. I'd suggest that either he is running distributed.net in the background and he's got his G5 pushed up against a wall in such a way that it can't get proper airflow, or his hardware is broken. The only reason a G5 should be loud is under extreme CPU load with poor ventilation. Or if you've done something ill-advised with your very expensive hardware.
Right. But fans on Apple machines have three (visibly) identical black electrical wires.
Fan speed on Apple machines are controlled by Apple. There is no way to choose "Two fans at 1/2 speed" instead of "one fan at full speed".
Also, Apple has a huge amount of case fans in the G5. They are supposed to run at very low RPM. I believe they have already made the decision to go with "two fans at 1/2 speed":
To that end, the Power Mac G5's anodized aluminum alloy enclosure is designed around four independently controlled thermal zones for intelligently channeled airflow. To make the Power Mac G5 even cooler, a see-through internal air deflector channels airflow over the processor heat sinks and the expansion slots.
Each of the four thermal zones is equipped with its own dedicated, low-speed fans. Apple engineered seven of the nine fans to spin at very low speeds for minimum acoustic output. Using 21 different sensors, Mac OS X constantly monitors component temperatures in each zone, dynamically adjusting individual fan speeds to the appropriate levels for the quietest possible operation. As a result, the Power Mac G5 runs two times quieter than the previous Power Mac G4 enclosure.
I realize that's marketing speak, but unless a whole bunch of new stuff has come out about Apple's heat management on G5s, we still need to treat it like a black box. Do you read me now?
All of his books are very centrally based on the time in which he wrote them. Neuromancer is a throwback to ~1982. It's not dated, because it's about 1982.
Pattern Recognition is the same way for me. It's about 2002. It is an interesting look at 2002. He didn't write it because it was the future. He had every element he needed to do his thing, right there in the present day.
I don't know if that's because the present day really changed so much or because he changed as a watcher of it.
If you call me stupid to my face I'll shut you up one way or the other. Not with a gun. That's simply a inanimate object you're apparently you're scared of. But you're not the type that has that much balls ton confront me to my face. Posting to the Internet will be the most you do in life. About the violence...it works. It sure as hell will shut you up.
Glad to hear how strongly you believe in the rule of law.
The only thing that prevents them is anti-trust law, not proprietary licensing.
Also, the GPL would guarantee that Sun can rejoin the WOOSJAVA fork whenever they like, and gain all the benefits. As someone pointed out, Microsoft could use make their open source implementation call some closed source DLL, but at least Sun would also be able to release a version of OSJava that called that closed source DLL just the same. The API would be pretty obvious.
Maybe those 900 samples were all from one or two label's libraries, and they were able to approve the album wholesale.
I seem to remember an artist who worked exclusively with samples, and could only ever release his work as vinyl in runs of 500 or so, until he eventually got hired by a label to work exclusively with their material and produce a few tracks for promotions.
Yes, Bill would be wild about it, because it would be:
1) More likely to be purchased by the government, since they have vetted it's security.
2) More secure for all their customers, just like SELinux.
3) You are a complete jackass.
Ok, 3 was superfluous. But it is ALREADY just as "impossible" to verify that the Windows binaries don't have any trapdoors. Do you honestly see a problem with the NSA sending a (SOURCE!) patch to Microsoft and saying "Hey, Billy G, your operating system has a hole. This is the code to fix it."
Billy G would go, "Oh, thanks." And that's a good thing. Then Microsoft would deploy the modified version of Windows in their next security update, worldwide.
I guarantee you that the NSA has a licensed copy of the complete source to many Microsoft products. This is how it should be, as Microsoft makes essential security software for the vast majority of computers in America. The NSA is responsible for our information security.
I wasn't trying to say that NSA has a backdoor in Windows. I was trying to say that if NSA wants to modify Windows, Microsoft has shown that they are happy to do it.
Great grandparent poster said that maybe the NSA was using Linux just because it was the only thing they could modify. I was just giving lie.
I would also throw out a little pointer that probably one of the major reasons that the NSA is working on the Linux Kernel is simply because they can. I'm almost certain that if they had the ability to tweak security in MS, they would do so.
The NSA can do whatever the hell they want with Microsoft's products, and they do. This might be because MS lets them, but Iduno. Remember the NSAKey boondoggle?
There are many reasons that they must deploy Windows in government. They spend quite a bit of money doing penetration testing on NT platforms. Once they figure out a security flaw, they figure out how to correct it. If it's something that would risk economic damage to our country (cause power outages, lord knows what else), I'd suspect they'd even tell the vendor.
Dr. Dre hires musicians to play baselines differently so that it will fit the legal requirements and he will not be required to pay royalties to the person he is "sampling".
If he copies a baseline verbatim (or actually samples their record), he pays them a royalty.
This isn't his decision, this is the decision made by the politicians that made the laws so restrictive. Paul's Boutique could never be made today, because the sampling is too extensive and it would be impossible for the record company to clear the record legally.
Advertisers must license every song that they use in their advertisements. Unlike "sampling," advertising has always worked this way, afaik. I see very little wrong with The Rolling Stones charging Billy G so many millions to use "Start Me Up."
So, go white boy go white boy go white boy go. Take those fat cats down. They knew they were supposed to get a license.
What is easier and more intuitive? To RIGHT CLICK using a mouse, or to right click using a KEYBOARD?
Given that we're talking about laptops, maybe you should think a little harder. I agree, right clicking with a mouse is more convenient than with a keyboard. This is why I have a Microsoft mouse plugged into my mac. However, right clicking with a trackpad is significantly less convenient than anything up to and including typing with your tongue. While mobile, I am happy to use my left hand to hold the control key. When using PC laptops, right clicking is very very difficult to me. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
Every laptop PC I've ever seen has had a second mouse button that is completely broken by design.
It is impossible to conveniently use the second mouse button on a trackpad. There is no good way to do it. With a mouse, obviously, you can put your index finger on the left button and your middle finger on the right button, and it's totally effortless to click, or click and drag with either finger. I cannot defend Apple's regular mice except to say that they look cooler. And that they are forced to use them because of their OS's focus on laptops.
But advocating a PC trackpad? Are you kidding? I'd *rather* be forced to use it with two hands (like with the control key), but unfortunately two handed operation is also impossible. I usually have to use my ring finger if I want to right-click-drag.
Yes, I do disagree with you. Because eventually, that person you hired would learn that they didn't need to read the text of some of the email, and they would start deleting messages without reading them (or without reading them carefully).
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Jiminy Christmas. He's not redundant. It's a failed correction:
Neither of you can get the damn joke right?
Heads I win.
Tails you lose.
If I call that, way no matter what the toss is, I win. Ok, ok maybe "joke" is an overstatement.
I still think you do need to treat the cooling system in the G5 like a black box. If you want to improve it, you'll probably have to tear out all the fans and replace them with things that you can configure via hardware. I'm only saying that it is not "just about the easiest thing you can do on a computer." It might be really really involved, expensive, and difficult.Most people aren't complaining about the noise of their G5. Most of them are saying that they do not suffer the same problems as this guy. I'd suggest that either he is running distributed.net in the background and he's got his G5 pushed up against a wall in such a way that it can't get proper airflow, or his hardware is broken. The only reason a G5 should be loud is under extreme CPU load with poor ventilation. Or if you've done something ill-advised with your very expensive hardware.
Fair enough. I did pretty well considering I've never seen GTA.
Fan speed on Apple machines are controlled by Apple. There is no way to choose "Two fans at 1/2 speed" instead of "one fan at full speed".
Also, Apple has a huge amount of case fans in the G5. They are supposed to run at very low RPM. I believe they have already made the decision to go with "two fans at 1/2 speed":I realize that's marketing speak, but unless a whole bunch of new stuff has come out about Apple's heat management on G5s, we still need to treat it like a black box. Do you read me now?
Increasing case temps in a G5 will increase fan RPM.
Also, replacing the fans isn't easy, afaik.
You're right. They're all amalgams anyway, I guess.
C'mon.
Liberty City = New York City
Vice City = Las Vegas
San Andreas = San Francisco
All of his books are very centrally based on the time in which he wrote them. Neuromancer is a throwback to ~1982. It's not dated, because it's about 1982 .
Pattern Recognition is the same way for me. It's about 2002. It is an interesting look at 2002. He didn't write it because it was the future. He had every element he needed to do his thing, right there in the present day.
I don't know if that's because the present day really changed so much or because he changed as a watcher of it.
If you call me stupid to my face I'll shut you up one way or the other. Not with a gun. That's simply a inanimate object you're apparently you're scared of. But you're not the type that has that much balls ton confront me to my face. Posting to the Internet will be the most you do in life. About the violence...it works. It sure as hell will shut you up.
Glad to hear how strongly you believe in the rule of law.
Thanks for that link. I had forgotten what an asshole ESR can be.
They can do that anyway, open source or not.
The only thing that prevents them is anti-trust law, not proprietary licensing.
Also, the GPL would guarantee that Sun can rejoin the WOOSJAVA fork whenever they like, and gain all the benefits. As someone pointed out, Microsoft could use make their open source implementation call some closed source DLL, but at least Sun would also be able to release a version of OSJava that called that closed source DLL just the same. The API would be pretty obvious.
Maybe those 900 samples were all from one or two label's libraries, and they were able to approve the album wholesale.
I seem to remember an artist who worked exclusively with samples, and could only ever release his work as vinyl in runs of 500 or so, until he eventually got hired by a label to work exclusively with their material and produce a few tracks for promotions.
Iduno. Maybe I'm full of shit.
Yes, Bill would be wild about it, because it would be:
1) More likely to be purchased by the government, since they have vetted it's security.
2) More secure for all their customers, just like SELinux.
3) You are a complete jackass.
Ok, 3 was superfluous. But it is ALREADY just as "impossible" to verify that the Windows binaries don't have any trapdoors. Do you honestly see a problem with the NSA sending a (SOURCE!) patch to Microsoft and saying "Hey, Billy G, your operating system has a hole. This is the code to fix it."
Billy G would go, "Oh, thanks." And that's a good thing. Then Microsoft would deploy the modified version of Windows in their next security update, worldwide.
I guarantee you that the NSA has a licensed copy of the complete source to many Microsoft products. This is how it should be, as Microsoft makes essential security software for the vast majority of computers in America. The NSA is responsible for our information security.
Hey, smart guy.
I wasn't trying to say that NSA has a backdoor in Windows. I was trying to say that if NSA wants to modify Windows, Microsoft has shown that they are happy to do it.
Great grandparent poster said that maybe the NSA was using Linux just because it was the only thing they could modify. I was just giving lie.
I would also throw out a little pointer that probably one of the major reasons that the NSA is working on the Linux Kernel is simply because they can. I'm almost certain that if they had the ability to tweak security in MS, they would do so.
The NSA can do whatever the hell they want with Microsoft's products, and they do. This might be because MS lets them, but Iduno. Remember the NSAKey boondoggle?
There are many reasons that they must deploy Windows in government. They spend quite a bit of money doing penetration testing on NT platforms. Once they figure out a security flaw, they figure out how to correct it. If it's something that would risk economic damage to our country (cause power outages, lord knows what else), I'd suspect they'd even tell the vendor.
You seem to have completely misunderstood me.
Dr. Dre has a choice. He must either pay a royalty, or change the melody and have someone make a new performance of that different melody.
I'm not trying to say that he would be forced to do both.
Thanks to that 10 year old girl, he won't be able to buy his own gold-plated shark tank this year. :(
I think his representation prefers platinum.
Dr. Dre hires musicians to play baselines differently so that it will fit the legal requirements and he will not be required to pay royalties to the person he is "sampling".
If he copies a baseline verbatim (or actually samples their record), he pays them a royalty.
This isn't his decision, this is the decision made by the politicians that made the laws so restrictive. Paul's Boutique could never be made today, because the sampling is too extensive and it would be impossible for the record company to clear the record legally.
Advertisers must license every song that they use in their advertisements. Unlike "sampling," advertising has always worked this way, afaik. I see very little wrong with The Rolling Stones charging Billy G so many millions to use "Start Me Up."
So, go white boy go white boy go white boy go. Take those fat cats down. They knew they were supposed to get a license.
Just THINK for a minute.
What is easier and more intuitive? To RIGHT CLICK using a mouse, or to right click using a KEYBOARD?
Given that we're talking about laptops, maybe you should think a little harder. I agree, right clicking with a mouse is more convenient than with a keyboard. This is why I have a Microsoft mouse plugged into my mac. However, right clicking with a trackpad is significantly less convenient than anything up to and including typing with your tongue. While mobile, I am happy to use my left hand to hold the control key. When using PC laptops, right clicking is very very difficult to me. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
Lighten up, sammy. I got it.
Yeah, but if they change their mind, you're fucked. And you can't even be sure they'll always hold the copyright.
So you have to be sure that all of your rights are explicitly described by your license.
US patent no.55120313, "Describing a device to repeat a text at the end of comment."
Your sig made me giggle like a schoolgirl.
Oh. Good point. My criticism definitely only applies to trackpads.
Every laptop PC I've ever seen has had a second mouse button that is completely broken by design.
It is impossible to conveniently use the second mouse button on a trackpad. There is no good way to do it. With a mouse, obviously, you can put your index finger on the left button and your middle finger on the right button, and it's totally effortless to click, or click and drag with either finger. I cannot defend Apple's regular mice except to say that they look cooler. And that they are forced to use them because of their OS's focus on laptops.
But advocating a PC trackpad? Are you kidding? I'd *rather* be forced to use it with two hands (like with the control key), but unfortunately two handed operation is also impossible. I usually have to use my ring finger if I want to right-click-drag.
Yes, I do disagree with you. Because eventually, that person you hired would learn that they didn't need to read the text of some of the email, and they would start deleting messages without reading them (or without reading them carefully).
People make mistakes.