i know the story, and i know it was a work around (which idiots decided on two seperate types of filter in the first place?), but that wasnt just hacking to make something better out of the nerdiness of your heart, it was hacking something to prevent 3 guys from getting poisoned.
valid scenario, but not a counter-example to the "If it isnt broke Dont Fuck with it", you were replying too
yeah, because obviously the reason intel doesnt just double their prices overnight (or introduces new techs and stops dropping prices when new stuff arrives) is VIA, with their C7 cpus!
get real, intel might not have to work very hard to keep ahead of AMD enough to keep their #1 position, but the stock-holders would revolt if AMD died out and intel didnt raise their prices
at this point AMD is just fingered as a target by a third party analyst, but it was enough to sink in deeply with me, since AMD is my prefered chip maker (and they provide much-needed competition to intel), so this would be horror for me too
If that were to happen, oracle will have taken over my two most favorite tech companies, and probably gut out the good parts and leave the burning carcas to rot... (or whatever, shitty metaphor, i know, it's late)
Yea Oracle! I didn't already have enough reasons to loathe thee.
Rumors are going round that Oracle wants to aquire a chip-manufacturer, candidates apparently are AMD and NVIDIA, i guess Larry Elison wont rest untill he single handled destroyed the IT world as we know it.. (i can imagine it now, AMD in oracle hands, sharp focus on VERY expensive server CPUs, a quickly dying line of consumer chips leaving both intel and Nvidia without real competition, halting all serious evolution in both GPU and CPU products)
if OO was that dependant on Sun goodwill, they are right to cut away and run. Oracle will probably (if it hasnt already) cut those developers working on company time anyway.
I can only hope they can get enough goodwill from the current developers to somewhat transfer it over to a real community-supported project.
yup, i knew they had two (buran and ptichka), but i just found out they had three more orbiters in various stages on construction (among which this K4), and about a dozen static full scale models for structural testing etc...
So yeah, if i had tripped over that thing in moscow, i would have screamed "buran" too (and crawled inside to pretend to be a cosmonaut)
It is a bleeding shame to see these historical artifacts left in the junk-yard like they are, Ptichka apparently is stored at baikonur together with K3, i wonder if they are tourist-viewable (although i dont really like the idea of a trip to kazachstan)
here in the netherlands we just started getting those adds on tv
the shaky bit is, you send them your gold (by regular snailmail even...), they determine its worth, and deposit the money in your account. They could be ripping people of hugely, not to mention the risk of the mail-people losing (or even stealing, the return envelopes are clearly marked) your stuff before it gets there.
I did use a "send us your phone and we give you money" service once, but they give you the value of your phone up-front, so they cant stiff you by bait-switching the value, so i knew what i was getting into.
However, unlike serialized bills, gold coins can be melted and re-poured to essentially make theft untraceable.
just a thought here, but wouldnt it be possible to "paint" a batch of gold with certain isotopes? put a certain combination/ratio of a very rare isotope in there, so you can identify gold as being processed by party X for batch Y sold to company Z
not sure how hard it is to purify gold though, but makings in physical appearance isnt the only trick in the book
wikipedia lists 5 russian orbiters at least partially constructed:
- Buran, destroyed in hangar collapse - Ptichka, 95% completed, stored at the baikonur facility in kazachstan - Baikal, incomplete, located at baikonur - 11F35K4, partially dismantled, located outside the Tushino machine building plant near Moscow - 11F35K5, dismantled
i'd say this might be 11F35K4
i didnt know about Buran being destroyed though, such a shame
the brick itself is simple, with six sides of two polys each, but the nubs on top, which are round, probably eat up a lot of polys. And in this day and age they probably felt make the round nub an octogon just isnt good enough anymore, the bottom shape is even more complicated
i doubt this will happen, considering lego actually sells crossbows themselves (and spears, swords, axes, maces, rifles, pistols, blasters... etc) Sure Lego never really openly built modern warfare type stuff, but they always have opposing factions in their medieval/pirate/ninja/space themes, with copious amounts of weaponry thrown in. They may not make a main battle-tank, but they ship a mean catapult!
And short of making a few 1940s wehrmacht sets, i'm not sure if they can make sets more "evil" then the platoon of storm-troopers (dark-troopers, generals, imperial guards, AT-STs, tie fighters..) set up in my office.
i fully agree with your assertion that fucking with stuff is what we do, but your apollo 13 story to me sounds like a clear case of fixing something that IS broken
something like a macbook pro or other machine with a metal shell would probably be a good idea, the more metal you have surrounding your soft silicon bits, the less change of any radation/disturbance getting through, same for harddrives, those things are basically a big metal box, with stuff in it.
but yeah, you dont want a consumer grade cpu running life support / station keeping on your spaceship
yeah, i am seriously drooling over the thought of a mini-itx amd system as well, i have in my head:
mini-itx, quad core (can be a low power chip for all i care, just want 4 threads), 4gb of ram (preferably non-sodimm), a SSD for bootdisk, a 500gb laptop hdd for local storage (rest goes on the fileserver anyway), all of that stuffed in a case half the size of a shuttle barebone
too bad there arent any decent AM2+ boards for sale (i could reuse my 4gb of ddr2), well zotac has a dirt-cheap am2 board which would work, but is only sold in the states...
considering you say you like lotus, i guess my sarcasm detector must be on the fritz...
anyway, i prefer AMD, but that is not to say i will ONLY buy AMD, that wouldnt make sense anyway (in fact, my file server is a core 2 Duo, my small experimentel webserver is a dothan based celeron)
They were bought out by nvidia i think, after they did a last hura for the amd 64, with a chipset which had both PCI-e and native AGP, asrock built some very good boards with their chips.
anyway, as long as you stick to the pick of the day, AMD has some good chips, in the athlon days, VIA KT266/333, Athlon XP > Nforce 2, amd 64 > Nforce 3/4, after that ATI picked up the gauntlet, and these days you just want an AMD/ATI chipset, excellent integrated graphics and performance.
Just keep in mind that picking the right chipset isnt enough if the mobo was designed crappy, i've had a MSI nforce 2 mobo which was SHIT, despite previous good experiences with the NF2 chipset
for the price segments where both AMD and intel are active in (so, that is the below $250 segment), $/performance is roughly equal, with AMD stealing some leads (and in some cases, very significant leads, in some segments intel only offers some insanely slow old celeron, where amd offers a x3 or so). AMD mostly wins because they are offering more cores/$. In single threaded performance, a c2d chip might just beat that athlon II x3, but as soon as threading comes into play, the 3rd core wins the battle for AMD
Taking all things into account (cpu/mobo), a performance equivalent AMD system will be somewhat cheaper then a comparable intel build
Personally i prefer AMD for that reason (not to mention i got into PC building in the amd 64 days, which might have contributed to my AMD preference)
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i know the story, and i know it was a work around (which idiots decided on two seperate types of filter in the first place?), but that wasnt just hacking to make something better out of the nerdiness of your heart, it was hacking something to prevent 3 guys from getting poisoned.
valid scenario, but not a counter-example to the "If it isnt broke Dont Fuck with it", you were replying too
yeah, because obviously the reason intel doesnt just double their prices overnight (or introduces new techs and stops dropping prices when new stuff arrives) is VIA, with their C7 cpus!
get real, intel might not have to work very hard to keep ahead of AMD enough to keep their #1 position, but the stock-holders would revolt if AMD died out and intel didnt raise their prices
Yeah, they bought Sun, but apparently SPARC isnt what they were really looking for...
anyway, bloomberg link to back this shit up:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-23/oracle-plans-to-buy-chip-companies-industry-specific-software.html
i wasnt trolling, that rumor showed up on some tech-news sites, just traced it back to bloomberg:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-23/oracle-plans-to-buy-chip-companies-industry-specific-software.html
at this point AMD is just fingered as a target by a third party analyst, but it was enough to sink in deeply with me, since AMD is my prefered chip maker (and they provide much-needed competition to intel), so this would be horror for me too
If that were to happen, oracle will have taken over my two most favorite tech companies, and probably gut out the good parts and leave the burning carcas to rot... (or whatever, shitty metaphor, i know, it's late)
and how many meanings does the term "whoosh" have?
wow, if the radiation from that thing was strong enough to be tracked from a large distance that must have been one hot piece of loot
Yea Oracle! I didn't already have enough reasons to loathe thee.
Rumors are going round that Oracle wants to aquire a chip-manufacturer, candidates apparently are AMD and NVIDIA, i guess Larry Elison wont rest untill he single handled destroyed the IT world as we know it.. (i can imagine it now, AMD in oracle hands, sharp focus on VERY expensive server CPUs, a quickly dying line of consumer chips leaving both intel and Nvidia without real competition, halting all serious evolution in both GPU and CPU products)
it is also spanish... which a significant amount of 'the population' (i assume you mean you americans) do speak.
(also, get over yourself, encountering a single word which isnt in the american dictionary is no reason to panic)
if OO was that dependant on Sun goodwill, they are right to cut away and run. Oracle will probably (if it hasnt already) cut those developers working on company time anyway.
I can only hope they can get enough goodwill from the current developers to somewhat transfer it over to a real community-supported project.
yup, i knew they had two (buran and ptichka), but i just found out they had three more orbiters in various stages on construction (among which this K4), and about a dozen static full scale models for structural testing etc...
So yeah, if i had tripped over that thing in moscow, i would have screamed "buran" too (and crawled inside to pretend to be a cosmonaut)
It is a bleeding shame to see these historical artifacts left in the junk-yard like they are, Ptichka apparently is stored at baikonur together with K3, i wonder if they are tourist-viewable (although i dont really like the idea of a trip to kazachstan)
here in the netherlands we just started getting those adds on tv
the shaky bit is, you send them your gold (by regular snailmail even...), they determine its worth, and deposit the money in your account. They could be ripping people of hugely, not to mention the risk of the mail-people losing (or even stealing, the return envelopes are clearly marked) your stuff before it gets there.
I did use a "send us your phone and we give you money" service once, but they give you the value of your phone up-front, so they cant stiff you by bait-switching the value, so i knew what i was getting into.
However, unlike serialized bills, gold coins can be melted and re-poured to essentially make theft untraceable.
just a thought here, but wouldnt it be possible to "paint" a batch of gold with certain isotopes? put a certain combination/ratio of a very rare isotope in there, so you can identify gold as being processed by party X for batch Y sold to company Z
not sure how hard it is to purify gold though, but makings in physical appearance isnt the only trick in the book
Tried it once, but it kept ignoring me, i ate it out of spite..
*BA-DUM TSSSSH*
i'll be here all night etc..
Better yet, hack into the network to make it think the gold is FREE
makes moe sense to me this way...
wikipedia lists the craft in gorky park as the OK-TVA, a static full scale test model built for load/heat/stress/vibration testing
wikipedia lists 5 russian orbiters at least partially constructed:
- Buran, destroyed in hangar collapse
- Ptichka, 95% completed, stored at the baikonur facility in kazachstan
- Baikal, incomplete, located at baikonur
- 11F35K4, partially dismantled, located outside the Tushino machine building plant near Moscow
- 11F35K5, dismantled
i'd say this might be 11F35K4
i didnt know about Buran being destroyed though, such a shame
the brick itself is simple, with six sides of two polys each, but the nubs on top, which are round, probably eat up a lot of polys. And in this day and age they probably felt make the round nub an octogon just isnt good enough anymore, the bottom shape is even more complicated
"we don't want you building LEGO crossbows"
i doubt this will happen, considering lego actually sells crossbows themselves (and spears, swords, axes, maces, rifles, pistols, blasters... etc) Sure Lego never really openly built modern warfare type stuff, but they always have opposing factions in their medieval/pirate/ninja/space themes, with copious amounts of weaponry thrown in. They may not make a main battle-tank, but they ship a mean catapult!
And short of making a few 1940s wehrmacht sets, i'm not sure if they can make sets more "evil" then the platoon of storm-troopers (dark-troopers, generals, imperial guards, AT-STs, tie fighters..) set up in my office.
i fully agree with your assertion that fucking with stuff is what we do, but your apollo 13 story to me sounds like a clear case of fixing something that IS broken
something like a macbook pro or other machine with a metal shell would probably be a good idea, the more metal you have surrounding your soft silicon bits, the less change of any radation/disturbance getting through, same for harddrives, those things are basically a big metal box, with stuff in it.
but yeah, you dont want a consumer grade cpu running life support / station keeping on your spaceship
yeah, i am seriously drooling over the thought of a mini-itx amd system as well, i have in my head:
mini-itx, quad core (can be a low power chip for all i care, just want 4 threads), 4gb of ram (preferably non-sodimm), a SSD for bootdisk, a 500gb laptop hdd for local storage (rest goes on the fileserver anyway), all of that stuffed in a case half the size of a shuttle barebone
too bad there arent any decent AM2+ boards for sale (i could reuse my 4gb of ddr2), well zotac has a dirt-cheap am2 board which would work, but is only sold in the states...
considering you say you like lotus, i guess my sarcasm detector must be on the fritz...
anyway, i prefer AMD, but that is not to say i will ONLY buy AMD, that wouldnt make sense anyway (in fact, my file server is a core 2 Duo, my small experimentel webserver is a dothan based celeron)
ALI/ULI
They were bought out by nvidia i think, after they did a last hura for the amd 64, with a chipset which had both PCI-e and native AGP, asrock built some very good boards with their chips.
anyway, as long as you stick to the pick of the day, AMD has some good chips, in the athlon days, VIA KT266/333, Athlon XP > Nforce 2, amd 64 > Nforce 3/4, after that ATI picked up the gauntlet, and these days you just want an AMD/ATI chipset, excellent integrated graphics and performance.
Just keep in mind that picking the right chipset isnt enough if the mobo was designed crappy, i've had a MSI nforce 2 mobo which was SHIT, despite previous good experiences with the NF2 chipset
The 1075T is a new chip, but the 1055T and 1090T have been out for months, same six cores, same cache, just a slightly lower/higher clock speed
for the price segments where both AMD and intel are active in (so, that is the below $250 segment), $/performance is roughly equal, with AMD stealing some leads (and in some cases, very significant leads, in some segments intel only offers some insanely slow old celeron, where amd offers a x3 or so). AMD mostly wins because they are offering more cores/$. In single threaded performance, a c2d chip might just beat that athlon II x3, but as soon as threading comes into play, the 3rd core wins the battle for AMD
Taking all things into account (cpu/mobo), a performance equivalent AMD system will be somewhat cheaper then a comparable intel build
Personally i prefer AMD for that reason (not to mention i got into PC building in the amd 64 days, which might have contributed to my AMD preference)