There are *plenty* of "SOHO" routers for hackers. Linksys were always jut the "crappy but well marketed" ones. Lots of Netgear and ZyXel routers are plenty hackable, run linux, use the same processors as the linksys routers, have more features, and are signifigantly cheaper.
Release yourself from the grip of the Linksys fanboys.
I did read your response, and contemplated replying to it, but ran out of time...
It seems to me that your iris airlock wouldn't work. Imagine what the air rushing in would do to the speed of your projectile when you opened it. How does your projectile transition from the evacuated region to the non-evacuated region without hitting this problem? You would need a theoretical airlock that could open instantaniously and at the last second.
One way or the other I have gotten some wildly variant responses in terms of the acceleration required and its effects, which tell me that a lot of people really have no idea.
Check their math and you'll know which are correct. There is no way this works for human payloads without additional thrust after you leave the tube.... not that such a design would be undesireable compared to current technologies, but if you can't get up to full speed within your structure's length, why not do away with the tube entirely? People are working on exactly such a design, but it's non trivial to accelerate beyond certain speeds using maglev style propulsion.
If you add even a small amonut of extra thrust (nowhere near what the shuttle uses) you can go just about anywhere you like.
Again, you could make this much more simple in this case. If you're not reaching orbital velocity without independant thrust, you don't need the evacuated tube.
its worth mentioning that this system would effectively shelve any space elevator ambitions for the forseeable future, so I am getting a lot of flak from that crowd
I'm not in that crowd. Hell, for the most part I was defending some of what you're talking about.
Some serious research shall be done.
Serious research starts with a sanity check on what you've already got. Why are you attacking the people doing just that? I didn't say this couldn't be done... Just that it wasn't really a "current technology" kind of project.
Do you replace your carpet if it can just be steam-cleaned back to "presentable"?
You really probably don't want to know the answers to those questions.
Most people have been well trained by marketeers to do both of those things you describe.
Regardless, they're not doing what the parent suggests. They're switching to the fiber because the aging copper lines are getting more expensive to maintain than the new fiber is to install. They only want to use legacy wires on the parts of the network they don't own or pay to maintain. It's an added bonus that they can use the new technology to move into other markets. Given how many signals you can multiplex over the fiber, and how easy it is to splice compared to hundreds of pairs of copper (the fusion splicers they have in almost every Verizon truck these days are impressive, and practically automated), they'll probably recoup their investment in trench digging through splicer overtime savings *very* quickly.
Maybe for some people. For me it was FIOS->"It's on the side of my house, now get the fuck out".
I don't understand why people want the phone company in their house messing with their stuff, especially considering how messy their wiring usually turns out. They never clean the bits of wire up off the floor either.
Dreamcast was more of a last-ditch attempt from a company that hadn't turned a profit in 10 years
Yeah, I'm sure Sega was thinking that when they designed it... "Well, we're done for. Let's blow a whole bunch of money on one last failed console before closing the doors."
We don't build rediculously tall structures not because it's technically difficult, but because it doesn't make any economic sense. Designs for buildings well over a kilometer in hight have been proposed decades ago, but there is always a problem with cost, and usable space (the taller your building, the more space is taken up by getting people up and down). Those aren't really concerns when the primary purpose is to be tall, and to move people up. It would be even easier if you didn't care that the structure was particularly rigid...
Of course your points about acceleration and evacuation are more than enough to kill the "with current technology" part of the idea.
The downside of this kind of "honest" preview is that it makes it less likely that devs are going to be willing to hand over ANY kind of preview before it's completely done.
Wait, I thought you said there was a downside....?
The real reason is that the publishers and legal departments, the people with little or no technical knowledge, decide what gets protected. They base their decision on knowlegde provided by the copy protection vendor's sales team.
Were the decision made by developers, a much more simple, much less expensive method that has been used for decades would be used to prevent demos from being converted to full pirated versions.
what occupied the PCI slot below my Sapphire Radeon X1900 XT was practically a very big heatsink with a fan inside...
The large heatsink is to keep the noise down. A smaller heatsink would work just fine. You think the big fan/heatsink was bad? Imagine the same volume but higher pitched. Also, that heatsink probably cools the memory too, and was probably signifigant overkill. Believe it or not, those big-assed heatsinks sell product, because bigger is better, right? If it's getting that hot, maybe your case has poor circulation (just as easily caused by too many fans as too few), or maybe the manufacturer sucks.
probably because sticking a thermal pad between these two is easier in the manufacturing process.
It may be easier. It probably also works better. The melting type pads are generally more effective than compound, and are much less likely to be installed improperly.
I mean two 1000 watt supplies, though 750's are common too. I have yet to see a name brand 1U dual Xeon server with 500's. By name brand, I mean Intel whitebox, IBM, Dell, etc... The Supermicro 1U dual Xeons use two 750's inserted from the back. The Intel whitebox servers (rebranded by tons of places) use dual 1000's, one in the front and the other in the rear, but they may offer 750's as an option.
Just because there's a 1000 watt supply in there doesn't mean the machine is pulling 1000 watts. Without any accessories, fans on low, etc, they only pull about 190 watts.
What is the point? He'll have to pay court fees and spend hours, if not days, on this and when he gets them
$2000 is a small-claim. Small claims court fees are usually under $100. A $2000 claim may not even be contested by the bank, because their lawyers will cost more than that, but you won't have to pay a lawyer at all. They don't have to catch the guy, he just needs to prove that the bank gave his two grand to somebody who wasn't authorized to withdraw it. I don't know how much you make per hour, but getting $2000 back is worth a little more than a couple days of effort to most people.
What? First of all you used 'then' twice in that sentence. Second of all, I said you shouldn't need to, not that you shouldn't be able to.
In other words, Tivo would still be excelent if it didn't have channel number buttons.
People do watch Live TV sometimes, you know.
Unfortunatly, that's true. There isn't any good reason to except for live events though. So, either you know what show you want to watch (pick it by name), or you're channel surfing (channel up and down buttons). If your PVR is doing it's job right, you should be forgetting which number is associated with which channel after a few months. If you're using Tivo, and you're still dealing with channel numbers, you're not using your Tivo to it's fullest capabilities.
any moron thats ever built a computer at all knows that modern CPU's and GPU's need big fat heatsinks...with thermal compound in between.
It's a good thing you used 'moron' in there. Plenty of modern GPUs work just fine with rather small heatsinks. Practically no video card manufacturers use compound on their chips.
You seem to have bought into the 'performance cooling' crap that has sprung out of the overclocking craze in the late '90s. There are plenty of transfer materials that work as well or better than thermal compounds. Even though the conventional wisdom amongst hobbiests is that compound is the best, especially the expensive ones... In reality there are a variety of thermal pads that work better, but in a more permanent way. Usually they melt on first use to flow into surfaces, or they glue themselves to the chip and the heatsink.
The foil probably works fine until after the first time you remove it.
Some people even have to do it when they have the actual game, because SF is too damn picky.
Some people have to do it when they bought the actual game because they want to play on a machine with no optical drive, or one that has an optical drive, but they want to get better than 40 minutes of battery life.
Copy protection is the bane of laptop gaming... At least it would be if anybody ever came up with one that wasn't easily crackable.
That's a short lived reason. How long do you think before low end video on PCs passes the 360? It took about 18 months for the original Xbox, and it would have been less if not for contract terms with nVidia.
You buy consoles for the games. They're only the "latest tech" for the first few months, so that's a stupid reason to buy one, or use it for something. (The games go to the consoles for ease of development and the captive audience)
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There are *plenty* of "SOHO" routers for hackers. Linksys were always jut the "crappy but well marketed" ones. Lots of Netgear and ZyXel routers are plenty hackable, run linux, use the same processors as the linksys routers, have more features, and are signifigantly cheaper.
Release yourself from the grip of the Linksys fanboys.
I did read your response, and contemplated replying to it, but ran out of time...
It seems to me that your iris airlock wouldn't work. Imagine what the air rushing in would do to the speed of your projectile when you opened it. How does your projectile transition from the evacuated region to the non-evacuated region without hitting this problem? You would need a theoretical airlock that could open instantaniously and at the last second.
One way or the other I have gotten some wildly variant responses in terms of the acceleration required and its effects, which tell me that a lot of people really have no idea.
Check their math and you'll know which are correct. There is no way this works for human payloads without additional thrust after you leave the tube.... not that such a design would be undesireable compared to current technologies, but if you can't get up to full speed within your structure's length, why not do away with the tube entirely? People are working on exactly such a design, but it's non trivial to accelerate beyond certain speeds using maglev style propulsion.
If you add even a small amonut of extra thrust (nowhere near what the shuttle uses) you can go just about anywhere you like.
Again, you could make this much more simple in this case. If you're not reaching orbital velocity without independant thrust, you don't need the evacuated tube.
its worth mentioning that this system would effectively shelve any space elevator ambitions for the forseeable future, so I am getting a lot of flak from that crowd
I'm not in that crowd. Hell, for the most part I was defending some of what you're talking about.
Some serious research shall be done.
Serious research starts with a sanity check on what you've already got. Why are you attacking the people doing just that? I didn't say this couldn't be done... Just that it wasn't really a "current technology" kind of project.
Do you replace your car before you need to?
Do you replace your carpet if it can just be steam-cleaned back to "presentable"?
You really probably don't want to know the answers to those questions.
Most people have been well trained by marketeers to do both of those things you describe.
Regardless, they're not doing what the parent suggests. They're switching to the fiber because the aging copper lines are getting more expensive to maintain than the new fiber is to install. They only want to use legacy wires on the parts of the network they don't own or pay to maintain. It's an added bonus that they can use the new technology to move into other markets. Given how many signals you can multiplex over the fiber, and how easy it is to splice compared to hundreds of pairs of copper (the fusion splicers they have in almost every Verizon truck these days are impressive, and practically automated), they'll probably recoup their investment in trench digging through splicer overtime savings *very* quickly.
Perhaps you say that in jest, but I bet tons of people hook up their TiVo over Vonage. I know I do.
Now: FIOS->New CAT5
Maybe for some people. For me it was FIOS->"It's on the side of my house, now get the fuck out".
I don't understand why people want the phone company in their house messing with their stuff, especially considering how messy their wiring usually turns out. They never clean the bits of wire up off the floor either.
Dreamcast was more of a last-ditch attempt from a company that hadn't turned a profit in 10 years
Yeah, I'm sure Sega was thinking that when they designed it... "Well, we're done for. Let's blow a whole bunch of money on one last failed console before closing the doors."
We don't build rediculously tall structures not because it's technically difficult, but because it doesn't make any economic sense. Designs for buildings well over a kilometer in hight have been proposed decades ago, but there is always a problem with cost, and usable space (the taller your building, the more space is taken up by getting people up and down). Those aren't really concerns when the primary purpose is to be tall, and to move people up. It would be even easier if you didn't care that the structure was particularly rigid...
Of course your points about acceleration and evacuation are more than enough to kill the "with current technology" part of the idea.
The downside of this kind of "honest" preview is that it makes it less likely that devs are going to be willing to hand over ANY kind of preview before it's completely done.
Wait, I thought you said there was a downside....?
Your post caused my irony detector to overload and explode violently.
You will be receiving a bill.
The real reason is that the publishers and legal departments, the people with little or no technical knowledge, decide what gets protected. They base their decision on knowlegde provided by the copy protection vendor's sales team.
Were the decision made by developers, a much more simple, much less expensive method that has been used for decades would be used to prevent demos from being converted to full pirated versions.
what occupied the PCI slot below my Sapphire Radeon X1900 XT was practically a very big heatsink with a fan inside...
The large heatsink is to keep the noise down. A smaller heatsink would work just fine. You think the big fan/heatsink was bad? Imagine the same volume but higher pitched. Also, that heatsink probably cools the memory too, and was probably signifigant overkill. Believe it or not, those big-assed heatsinks sell product, because bigger is better, right? If it's getting that hot, maybe your case has poor circulation (just as easily caused by too many fans as too few), or maybe the manufacturer sucks.
probably because sticking a thermal pad between these two is easier in the manufacturing process.
It may be easier. It probably also works better. The melting type pads are generally more effective than compound, and are much less likely to be installed improperly.
Oh, 190 watts is at idle, of course.
I mean two 1000 watt supplies, though 750's are common too. I have yet to see a name brand 1U dual Xeon server with 500's. By name brand, I mean Intel whitebox, IBM, Dell, etc... The Supermicro 1U dual Xeons use two 750's inserted from the back. The Intel whitebox servers (rebranded by tons of places) use dual 1000's, one in the front and the other in the rear, but they may offer 750's as an option.
Just because there's a 1000 watt supply in there doesn't mean the machine is pulling 1000 watts. Without any accessories, fans on low, etc, they only pull about 190 watts.
What is the point? He'll have to pay court fees and spend hours, if not days, on this and when he gets them
$2000 is a small-claim. Small claims court fees are usually under $100. A $2000 claim may not even be contested by the bank, because their lawyers will cost more than that, but you won't have to pay a lawyer at all. They don't have to catch the guy, he just needs to prove that the bank gave his two grand to somebody who wasn't authorized to withdraw it. I don't know how much you make per hour, but getting $2000 back is worth a little more than a couple days of effort to most people.
Even dual processor 1U Xeon boxes typically have dual-redundant 1000W power supplies.
You never know what an enterprise user is going to stick in the expansion slots.
What? First of all you used 'then' twice in that sentence. Second of all, I said you shouldn't need to, not that you shouldn't be able to.
In other words, Tivo would still be excelent if it didn't have channel number buttons.
People do watch Live TV sometimes, you know.
Unfortunatly, that's true. There isn't any good reason to except for live events though. So, either you know what show you want to watch (pick it by name), or you're channel surfing (channel up and down buttons). If your PVR is doing it's job right, you should be forgetting which number is associated with which channel after a few months. If you're using Tivo, and you're still dealing with channel numbers, you're not using your Tivo to it's fullest capabilities.
You know, it's the lying that causes the divorce, not the porn.
If you want to look at porn, your signifigant other should know about it. Then they'll never be surprised, or 'catch you in the act'.
any moron thats ever built a computer at all knows that modern CPU's and GPU's need big fat heatsinks...with thermal compound in between.
It's a good thing you used 'moron' in there. Plenty of modern GPUs work just fine with rather small heatsinks. Practically no video card manufacturers use compound on their chips.
You seem to have bought into the 'performance cooling' crap that has sprung out of the overclocking craze in the late '90s. There are plenty of transfer materials that work as well or better than thermal compounds. Even though the conventional wisdom amongst hobbiests is that compound is the best, especially the expensive ones... In reality there are a variety of thermal pads that work better, but in a more permanent way. Usually they melt on first use to flow into surfaces, or they glue themselves to the chip and the heatsink.
The foil probably works fine until after the first time you remove it.
at least 10 extra buttons are there because you need to change channels!
If you *ever* need to change channels on your PVR in the traditional manner, your PVR sucks. That is an unqualified statement.
A breakthrough in stretchy paper technology would break that 12 fold barrier.
Some people even have to do it when they have the actual game, because SF is too damn picky.
Some people have to do it when they bought the actual game because they want to play on a machine with no optical drive, or one that has an optical drive, but they want to get better than 40 minutes of battery life.
Copy protection is the bane of laptop gaming... At least it would be if anybody ever came up with one that wasn't easily crackable.
You talk like every game is protected with this stuff.
Play all the other games instead. If you *have* to have the games that treat you like a criminal, well, suck it up and deal with what they dish out.
Uh, no.
Rip the game with CloneCD, and mount the image with Daemon tools 4. Enable the Starforce emulation mode, and Starforce is broken.
It only hurts people who use the game the way the publisher intended.
That's a short lived reason. How long do you think before low end video on PCs passes the 360? It took about 18 months for the original Xbox, and it would have been less if not for contract terms with nVidia.
You buy consoles for the games. They're only the "latest tech" for the first few months, so that's a stupid reason to buy one, or use it for something. (The games go to the consoles for ease of development and the captive audience)
Oh, one last thing.
NewEgg has the X1900 All-in-wonder version for $419 right now.