Unless you're a vegan, I don't think you can really talk about the morality of hunting. Considering that vegans are a -very- small minority in this country, you have no point.
There's a big difference between arguing to maintain our constitutional rights and promoting/romanticising violence. If the NRA is getting blocked because they talk about guns, so should anti-gun sites. Really, check out the NRA website, other than a knee-jerk "guns are bad" response, please tell me what's objectionable there.
But when they say they're protecting your children from pornography and decide that, along the way decide to slip in, unknown to the consumer, protecting your children from pro-guns in order to further their own political views, the story changes.
There's a big difference between the NRA's website and somebody talking about slaughtering people with assault rifles. Last I checked, gun control was not a 'solved' issue, and is still a valid subject for papers in civics classes.
What's next, blocking websites that provide information on non-Christian religions, simply because the community is primarily Xtian?
I'm running an AthlonXP 1500+ at stock speeds and it's almost silent. To start with, I picked up an oversized heatsink with a 80mm fan (nothign fancy, just a $10ish low-noise model). Then I got myself a -good- PSU (350W Vantec with dual temp-controlled fans) and one of those oh-so-sexy Zalman fan speed controllers.
I'm sure, if I wanted, I could've gone even more extreme, but as it is (coupled with my fanless graphics card) I can barely hear it. I'm sure with something like an Antec Sonata and one of those oversized Zalman heatsinks.
Doubtful, unless you get yorself a socket-adaptor. The 1.4GHz chips (based on the Tualatin core) use a slightly different pin-out (FC/PGA2) than the older chips.
Just imagine a beowulf of these legged servers chasing Natalie Portman with a bucket of hot grits while screaming "In soviet Russia all your new overlords are welcome to us!".
Unfortunately, doing this would prevent pre-release reviews. One of the big reasons that hardware review sites get _any_ free hardware is that pre-release reviews are free advertising, and help create desire for the product when it launches.
Essentially, it's a small electronic device that plugs into your computer (such as into the parallel or serial ports) that some software required to be present in order to function. It's a form of copy protection that, unlike licence keys, is very difficult to duplicate, however can still easily be cracked by anyone competant in the art.
The only software that comes to my mind that required a dongle to function was Autocad (at least in the early 90s).
Well, you've got 2 different requests there; to remove the legacy crap and to put on high-end goodies. PATA's going to stay until you can find SATA CD drives and have SATA drives that perform better for less money (Raptor's are sweet, but too damned expensive right now).
As for the rest of the stuff, you're not looking at the right end of the product line; the Athlon64 is the low-end of the 64bit lineup. Look towards the Athlon64FX and Opteron for your high-end workstation & server needs, you'll find more of those things there.
The Athlon64 is primarily marketed at gamers who want more performance out of their 32bit apps; being 64bit is just a nice bonus that might come in handy some time down the line. It's closest competition from Intel isn't the Xeon or the Itanium but the P4 Extreme Edition.
In either case, the heatsink is perfectly capable of running things at stock speeds, however, for a serious overclocker, even the mobo's northbridge needs better cooling than a simple passive HS stuck on with thermal tape can provide.
While the observation isn't terribly scientific, it's probably drawn from some experience with OCing other similar designs.
It makes sense to me; for SCO to show what lines of code were misappropriated there would need to be somebody at the company that understood computers. From what I gather, there's nothing but lawyers and MBAs left.
Production systems aren't supposed to innovate; they're supposed to implement the ideas that have been proven in more experimental systems, often in a somewhat dumbed-down/weakened/safer version. It would be pretty shocking if any major vendor implemented any radical, unheard of, unproven programming concepts into a commercial system.
As a good example, look at garbage collection. How many years had non-mainstream languages been doing it well before it was adopted into 'serious' language used by a significant number of people doing 'real work'? If you want more examples of mainstream programing systems ignoring proven innovations just go to Lisp fanatic Paul Graham's webzit, even though he sounds like an Amiga user in many cases.
The thing is, VB.NET isn't just an incremental upgrade to VB6 and Win2k/XP aren't incremental upgrades to win9x. They're very different systems using the same name.
VB6 and VB.NET are -very- different things. Calling them the same language is almost absurd; not only was the syntax radically altered, but VB.NET should really be using a completely different set of libraries (the.NET API) to do nearly everything. The problem is that VB6 applications are becomming legacy apps (in the sense that Cobol apps are legacy apps) quickly. Part of the draw of VB6 was that any monkey off the street could quickly learn to make something that works in it; what happens when all the monkeys know VB.NET and have never seen VB6?
NT/2K/XP, other than having the win32 API, don't really share much with win9x systems; under the hood there's a completely different kernel at work & the resource requirements are such that very few systems that shipped with 95/98 would even be capable of running XP properly (I doubt ME ever got into the corporate environment in any major way, so we can ignore it).
CPU speed doesn't have to be the latest one out, right now your best bet is to get at least a 2.4GHz with a 800MHz front side bus, that way you will have hyperthreading and the operating system will see 1 physical processor and say that you have 2 CPU's
2.4GHz AMD or Intel? Bit of a difference.
You were doing so well and then you say something stupid like this. Please show me an AthlonXP with a (stock) 800MHz FSB and Hyperthreading. In the AMD world, your best bet is to go with the XP2500+ (Barton) which is the low end of the 400MHz FSB parts.
Granted, we're really talking about the same 200MHz signal, just that one is a quad-speed and the other is only double, but the end result is some -major- differences in memory bandwidth.
Talk about out of touch... Yes, this is possibly the cheapest rig you can toss together, but for only a few dollars more you can get -far- more performance.
Duron's (200 (100x2)FSB) are dead, pick up at least a 266(133x2)FSB Athlon XP, if not the 333 or 400; when you're dealing with clock multipliers that are over 10x, FSB is a -major- bottleneck, and DDR prices are pretty constant up to PC3000.
No-name mobo with AC97? Can you say "Snap - crackle - pop"? At the same price point, you could at least suggest a first-gen nForce board, getting better performance -and- better sound.
A copper heatsink? Please. For a low end rig, Al ones are going to work just fine; you should have no problem picking up something with a slow & silent 80mm or 92mm fan for under $10; I doubt you'll find any Cu parts for under $20.
"Any noname nvidia Geforce 4MX"? There's 2 things wrong with this: First, GF4mx boards can be SDR or DDR and dif't speeds, this is important to performance (not so much to price); secondly - the low-end Radeon 9x00 line (9000, 9100, 9200) are going to significantly outperform the GeForce at the same price-point. The only reason I'd go with an nVidia card is for their Linux support.
Only 256MB of RAM? At the price it's running right now, 512MB is painless enough to buy, and, considering that you'll likely be running win2k or XP on a gaming rig, is well worth the extra $40.
Of course, we're still pinching pennies here, check out this article for a slightly more optimized reccomendation.
The downside to customer reviews at NewEgg (don't get me wrong, I love the place...) is that any fanboy with a NewEgg account can rate -anything-. Things like "I read the reviews and this sucks: 1 star" or "I got some bad kit made by this company 5yr ago - 1 star" are common.
Just the other day, I was looking at some high-end DDR memory and one of the reviews said "I got this a while back but the mobo was DOA, so when I RMAed I decided to get a dif't brand of DDR : 1 star"; WTF?
If you want the rest of the story, check out the manga. With over 1000 pages, there's a lot more depth and details. I'm not knocking the movie, it's great; putting everything in the would've result in an overwhelming epic film.
The situation with the book being gutted to make a movie is very similar to something like Dune or Contact. I'm sure, with a little work, you could draw a few more parallels...
What kind of upstream can you contribute to the torrent? Especially when a lot of people are joining (such as when slashdot posts it), there's not a lot of 'spare' bandwidth available so you'll be limited by your upstream contribution.
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Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Look at all the guys that were doing steroids to build muscle and didn't find out that it was bad for over a decade...
Unless you're a vegan, I don't think you can really talk about the morality of hunting. Considering that vegans are a -very- small minority in this country, you have no point.
There's a big difference between arguing to maintain our constitutional rights and promoting/romanticising violence. If the NRA is getting blocked because they talk about guns, so should anti-gun sites. Really, check out the NRA website, other than a knee-jerk "guns are bad" response, please tell me what's objectionable there.
But when they say they're protecting your children from pornography and decide that, along the way decide to slip in, unknown to the consumer, protecting your children from pro-guns in order to further their own political views, the story changes.
There's a big difference between the NRA's website and somebody talking about slaughtering people with assault rifles. Last I checked, gun control was not a 'solved' issue, and is still a valid subject for papers in civics classes.
What's next, blocking websites that provide information on non-Christian religions, simply because the community is primarily Xtian?
It doesn't take much, really...
I'm running an AthlonXP 1500+ at stock speeds and it's almost silent. To start with, I picked up an oversized heatsink with a 80mm fan (nothign fancy, just a $10ish low-noise model). Then I got myself a -good- PSU (350W Vantec with dual temp-controlled fans) and one of those oh-so-sexy Zalman fan speed controllers.
I'm sure, if I wanted, I could've gone even more extreme, but as it is (coupled with my fanless graphics card) I can barely hear it. I'm sure with something like an Antec Sonata and one of those oversized Zalman heatsinks.
Doubtful, unless you get yorself a socket-adaptor. The 1.4GHz chips (based on the Tualatin core) use a slightly different pin-out (FC/PGA2) than the older chips.
Well, we can still talk about how much we dislike Bush, his cronies and (currently) the PATRIOT Act.
Just imagine a beowulf of these legged servers chasing Natalie Portman with a bucket of hot grits while screaming "In soviet Russia all your new overlords are welcome to us!".
I thought that, due to massive popularity of the program, SETI already had an excess of computing power...
Unfortunately, doing this would prevent pre-release reviews. One of the big reasons that hardware review sites get _any_ free hardware is that pre-release reviews are free advertising, and help create desire for the product when it launches.
Sure.
Essentially, it's a small electronic device that plugs into your computer (such as into the parallel or serial ports) that some software required to be present in order to function. It's a form of copy protection that, unlike licence keys, is very difficult to duplicate, however can still easily be cracked by anyone competant in the art.
The only software that comes to my mind that required a dongle to function was Autocad (at least in the early 90s).
Well, you've got 2 different requests there; to remove the legacy crap and to put on high-end goodies. PATA's going to stay until you can find SATA CD drives and have SATA drives that perform better for less money (Raptor's are sweet, but too damned expensive right now).
As for the rest of the stuff, you're not looking at the right end of the product line; the Athlon64 is the low-end of the 64bit lineup. Look towards the Athlon64FX and Opteron for your high-end workstation & server needs, you'll find more of those things there.
The Athlon64 is primarily marketed at gamers who want more performance out of their 32bit apps; being 64bit is just a nice bonus that might come in handy some time down the line. It's closest competition from Intel isn't the Xeon or the Itanium but the P4 Extreme Edition.
In either case, the heatsink is perfectly capable of running things at stock speeds, however, for a serious overclocker, even the mobo's northbridge needs better cooling than a simple passive HS stuck on with thermal tape can provide.
While the observation isn't terribly scientific, it's probably drawn from some experience with OCing other similar designs.
It makes sense to me; for SCO to show what lines of code were misappropriated there would need to be somebody at the company that understood computers. From what I gather, there's nothing but lawyers and MBAs left.
Production systems aren't supposed to innovate; they're supposed to implement the ideas that have been proven in more experimental systems, often in a somewhat dumbed-down/weakened/safer version. It would be pretty shocking if any major vendor implemented any radical, unheard of, unproven programming concepts into a commercial system.
As a good example, look at garbage collection. How many years had non-mainstream languages been doing it well before it was adopted into 'serious' language used by a significant number of people doing 'real work'? If you want more examples of mainstream programing systems ignoring proven innovations just go to Lisp fanatic Paul Graham's webzit, even though he sounds like an Amiga user in many cases.
The thing is, VB.NET isn't just an incremental upgrade to VB6 and Win2k/XP aren't incremental upgrades to win9x. They're very different systems using the same name.
.NET API) to do nearly everything. The problem is that VB6 applications are becomming legacy apps (in the sense that Cobol apps are legacy apps) quickly. Part of the draw of VB6 was that any monkey off the street could quickly learn to make something that works in it; what happens when all the monkeys know VB.NET and have never seen VB6?
VB6 and VB.NET are -very- different things. Calling them the same language is almost absurd; not only was the syntax radically altered, but VB.NET should really be using a completely different set of libraries (the
NT/2K/XP, other than having the win32 API, don't really share much with win9x systems; under the hood there's a completely different kernel at work & the resource requirements are such that very few systems that shipped with 95/98 would even be capable of running XP properly (I doubt ME ever got into the corporate environment in any major way, so we can ignore it).
You were doing so well and then you say something stupid like this. Please show me an AthlonXP with a (stock) 800MHz FSB and Hyperthreading. In the AMD world, your best bet is to go with the XP2500+ (Barton) which is the low end of the 400MHz FSB parts.
Granted, we're really talking about the same 200MHz signal, just that one is a quad-speed and the other is only double, but the end result is some -major- differences in memory bandwidth.
Talk about out of touch... Yes, this is possibly the cheapest rig you can toss together, but for only a few dollars more you can get -far- more performance.
Duron's (200 (100x2)FSB) are dead, pick up at least a 266(133x2)FSB Athlon XP, if not the 333 or 400; when you're dealing with clock multipliers that are over 10x, FSB is a -major- bottleneck, and DDR prices are pretty constant up to PC3000.
No-name mobo with AC97? Can you say "Snap - crackle - pop"? At the same price point, you could at least suggest a first-gen nForce board, getting better performance -and- better sound.
A copper heatsink? Please. For a low end rig, Al ones are going to work just fine; you should have no problem picking up something with a slow & silent 80mm or 92mm fan for under $10; I doubt you'll find any Cu parts for under $20.
"Any noname nvidia Geforce 4MX"? There's 2 things wrong with this: First, GF4mx boards can be SDR or DDR and dif't speeds, this is important to performance (not so much to price); secondly - the low-end Radeon 9x00 line (9000, 9100, 9200) are going to significantly outperform the GeForce at the same price-point. The only reason I'd go with an nVidia card is for their Linux support.
Only 256MB of RAM? At the price it's running right now, 512MB is painless enough to buy, and, considering that you'll likely be running win2k or XP on a gaming rig, is well worth the extra $40.
Of course, we're still pinching pennies here, check out this article for a slightly more optimized reccomendation.
The downside to customer reviews at NewEgg (don't get me wrong, I love the place...) is that any fanboy with a NewEgg account can rate -anything-. Things like "I read the reviews and this sucks: 1 star" or "I got some bad kit made by this company 5yr ago - 1 star" are common.
Just the other day, I was looking at some high-end DDR memory and one of the reviews said "I got this a while back but the mobo was DOA, so when I RMAed I decided to get a dif't brand of DDR : 1 star"; WTF?
If you want the rest of the story, check out the manga. With over 1000 pages, there's a lot more depth and details. I'm not knocking the movie, it's great; putting everything in the would've result in an overwhelming epic film.
The situation with the book being gutted to make a movie is very similar to something like Dune or Contact. I'm sure, with a little work, you could draw a few more parallels...
No. You're not.
What kind of upstream can you contribute to the torrent? Especially when a lot of people are joining (such as when slashdot posts it), there's not a lot of 'spare' bandwidth available so you'll be limited by your upstream contribution.
...and preparing for retirement.