That writ says NOTHING! I read it to article 9 and didn't see anything resembling a real statement for or agains something. Each and every passage that really says something "may or may not" be implemented by "a party". I'm considering moving to a place where there are real LAWS not lax guidelines. When I'm being shot for something, I want to know WHY!
You sure have a point there, but sadly most of the systems in jeopardy are home-run amateur machines, and those are mostly cooled by either some high-performance copper-with-sticks-on-it heatsink or by pumping water through a copper/aluminiom block on the processor. And those water cooling rigs sometimes even use aquarium equipment for pumps and piping which isn't built for that purpose and should not be considered failsafe.
But using oil is indeed an idea worth pondering... at least it would save me from/.ers trying to shoot me because of a silly post I wrote;-))
Tolerance for heatsink application seems to be not-too-bad. A friend had his 1.4's cooler on and off constantly for about a week and about 2.5g of thermal compound and no problems so far. Of course, you have to get a good cooler. Preferrably one that makes use of the mounting holes in AMD's specification. strange enough there are only two of them on the market (made by Alpha and Swiftech). They might be a little harder to install than the rest but that should be worth it. A nice bonus is that they're big enough to use 80mm fans which are a little quieter than the little turbines on most of the other ones.
And of course, a little attention to details never hurts.
The bad thing is that there are so many ways to screw up. You could get fooled into using one of those neat spacers which might happen to be too thick, resulting in inadequate cooling, thus frying the processor. The Athlon processors can burn before the POST is through, so if your heatsink has fallen off or shifted during transport, you're up for some quick, expensive fun.
Also, you could be one of those freaks using a water cooling system (please shoot me when I start pumping water into my computer!). There's a nice article over at Dans Data about a burnt Intel Celeron(!!) after a cooling failure.
A third problem is the limited use of most monitoring programs or a bad configuration. Motherboard protection can be configured so that all you get out of a failed fan is a nice beeping noise. I tell you something: no one can hear you scream in a dark cellar. I have an old Slot A Athlon 750 running nonstop, and if the fan fails, I'll most probably lose it. The only solution would be to have a monitoring program slow down and/or even shut down the system. Some BIOSs/Mainboards don't support this, so it would be pretty much impossible to prevent an incident directly after switching on, because when the speaker starts beeping it might be too late.
So far, the only solution I've seen to this is an extension to the VapoChill rigs. The system is held in reset state until the cooling system has reached its (sub-zero) working temperature. Only then, the reset bridge is opened and the system is allowed to start up. I have not seen any comparable functionality on a mainboard so far and I don't know whether it would actually help or if the processor produces enough heat even in reset state.
OK, here goes my karma, but... well, I have to say it. You are an ignorant asshole (and a coward, sometimes the title just fits). Anybody accepting civil deaths "for a good cause" is.
But that's not all. You're an asshole because you're interrupting a discussion with some bullshit that doesn't belong just because you're either too stupid to know it, or because you're simply an asshole running around crying for revenge. Revenge always leads to escalation. Escalation is what lead to what you're crying about.
I know I will regret answering to each and every stupid troll cropping up, but... hey, eventually the author of one will read what I wrote and be really pissed off. That's gonna be my moment of triumph.
I've watched fresh college grads who happen to know Java develop a database application from scratch, and it was really sad. No recoverable transactions. No real data structure design. No programming discipline. No documentation. No nothing. I truly feel sorry for the customer who has paid for nothing.
I'm beginning to like what I learn (or at least what our Profs try to teach us). We're being taught database design by someone who worked at PARC and actually helped design the whole mess. Furthermore, we're being taught the principles ou software design for larger projects, which includes documentation. Of course, you can't teach discipline. That's something that has to be learned.
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Or whatever the series is originally called. Here in Germany, we just had a re-run of an episode with the words "The American people just voted off their freedom" in it. (Don't blame me if you don't recognize it, I'm translating it back on the spot. FYI, it's the episode in which Doors gets blamed for an assassination attempt on his competitor in the elections for President after which there's a big action against the resistance.)
Isn't it amazing how close to reality some of that stuff is when you think about it for some time? I sincerely hope and pray that other governments don't follow if something like this comes to pass, but when I see how stupid our current chancellor ist starting to act, talking of "military support", I wouldn't be amazed. The only politician I know who opposes this and changes of basic law (especially religious freedom) is someone from a party that was built from the remnants of the former Eastern Germany regimen. Go figure.
Personally, I'm seeing a certain tendency that some countries try to get away from that very grasp. The Climate Protection stuff, the continuing steps against Echelon and others. As a (not so proud) citizen of the E.U., I think the spineless bastards at Bruxelles need to show some strength lest they lose all credibility.
The european region is a large enough market not to be ignored, even by shmocks like the celluloid-waste producers or the advocates of bad taste on shiny discs (film- and music producing business), plus with that damn Euro, it's a good market to import from - guess who's got all your dollars right now;-). So if the U.S. decide to do the long walk, they'd better hope that no-one considers biting off that cliff.
Perhaps this could lead to something good. It could severely impede American economy in a way that rips the government out of the complacent feeling of being all alone on the planet.
The more laws of this kind are passed (and since this one is backed by a strong lobby, I guess it will be passed), the more resistance will be created. Not only by "underground criminals", but also by hard- and software producers outside the U.S. who just don't want to follow stupid rules.
I only hope that other governments don't get infected by ALD (American Lawmaking Desease) and decide to follow lead and that the U.S. procceed on their path quickly enough to create a certain degree of isolation
And never forget - don't tie your alligator to the fire hydrant or let your horse eat it. It's not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
Sorry, my fault. But apparently Blizzard had a close look at it when designing LoD (they made LoD, their logo is all over the box;-)). The difference is about the same, it's an experience-gathering-slaughterfest which looks a great deal more synthetic than the original game.
The main problem with 1.07 and 1.08 is that it makes the game almost multiplayer only. Especially the changes made to difficulty-based mali on resistances make it almost impossible for some single characters to survive. I know of several people who couldn't make it past Act 1/Hell despite having rather good characters because there were lightning anchanted monsters there. Now, with the decreased resistances, you have even less chance to get past that point.
Another severe flaw is the introduction of spell delays, especially when you have a look at the reason why they did it. The reason is, that they wanted to increase framerate in multiplayer matches. So, they changed game mechanics to cover their inability to write a decent engine (you have to admit, the engine sucks big time and even did so when the game was first released).
Next: Runewords work in closed b.net only. Why? Someone on the net had a rather good explanation: if Blizzard made them available in any other game type, they had to store them on the players' machines which would make them vulnerable to evil hackers. I spoke about that with a lot of people, not a single one did mind a complete listing of runewords being available on the 'net.
There are some more minor flaws in the patches, but these should have been the major ones. The expansion pack itself sports poor cutscenes and rather badly rendered monsters, but the worst thing here is the obscene amount of experience points that can be made there. I got a Necromancer from level 37 to level 40 by playing the first two levels of the Worldstone Keep four times. It's a very small area of the game and for achieving such a gain otherwise, I'd have to play several hours instead of a little over 45 minutes.
I'm talking about Diablo 2 here. Hell, was that a hype! And it was a great game, at least until patch 1.07. From then on, it went downhill. The expansion pach is somewhat low-quality, kinda like the Hellfile add-on to the original Diablo. Somehow, they lose it when it comes to product maintenance.
AFAIK, modems have fuses for exactly this purpose. It's because phone lines are - in most cases - highly susceptible for lightning. The standard wall plug however should be protected by a separate overvoltage protection either as a separate plugin device or by a central (per building) device in the fusebox.
These assumptions are made by motherboard producers. This and the strong belief that each and every device is built to safety standards leads to blown ICs. In most cases when some onboard interface gets an overdose, it's some diode or even IC that blows.
<anecdote> The worst thing I had was a fried memory chip on a graphics adapter. I still owe my vendor big time for handling this as a warranty case and - judging by some labels on the card when it returned - ASUS soldered a new memory chip to the card. </anecdote>
... of a lot of forged data in the passport-system. I mean, if someone told me to give up my privacy, he'd better not expect true answers.
Regards,
Bill Gates,
CEO IBM Munich,
Monthly income: $500,000 or greater
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... when plutonium drops into the atmsphere, it may be shattered, killing several million people by cancer. AM, however, would - did it scatter - cause a rather violent fireball high up in the atmosphere or if it reached the surface as a whole, cause a rather big explosion. Counting in the fact that only a very minor part of the earth is actually populated, this would mean a greatly reduced risk.
An example of this might be the Tunguska meteorite that lait waste quite some area, killing only one or two people. Now imagine the potential had it consisted of plutonium; the meteorite exploded in midair, so the dust would have been blown only god knows where and it would probably have caused a lot more pain than the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki did; and wer're still sorry about these.
Here in good ol' Germany the at the time only TelCo thought it was smart to have fibre lines running all the way to the customer. It was meant to carry phone calls and stuff (most of all, it was a PR gag, though). Turns out that what was buried 5ft deep isn't suitable for high speed communications or even 56k modems, so in order to have those folks equipped with fast connections, they'd have to rewire whole neighbourhoods and exchange transcievers on both ends.
I made some non-animated gifs of the given sizes. they weighed between 70kB and over 100kB. WTF? Size alone does it here. I don't mind shockwave ads since most of the time I can't see 'em since I'm too lazy for copying the plugin files to the Mozilla plugin folder, an impossible feat deemed impossible by the installer. Next thing I'm gonna do is installing an ad filter on my NAT router.
"I think most people would like to be legal in their music listening but are sick of the bullshit tyranny"
Amen, brother! But let me tell you one thing: I'm also tired of buying CD's for DM 40 (EUR 20) with one good song on it. As long as the Quality/Filler ratio stays like this, you can bet I'll stay with mp3's. What the record companies are doing is pure theft. I also like legal, high quality music, but I haven't seen too much of that during the last year. In that period, I bought about 3 CD's and I wish it would only have been two.
To the record industry: If you'd take screwing your customers literally, we'd all walk around with 6ft. [censored]... uhm... rectums!
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That writ says NOTHING! I read it to article 9 and didn't see anything resembling a real statement for or agains something. Each and every passage that really says something "may or may not" be implemented by "a party". I'm considering moving to a place where there are real LAWS not lax guidelines. When I'm being shot for something, I want to know WHY!
Well, once in a while, my sig makes sense.
You sure have a point there, but sadly most of the systems in jeopardy are home-run amateur machines, and those are mostly cooled by either some high-performance copper-with-sticks-on-it heatsink or by pumping water through a copper/aluminiom block on the processor. And those water cooling rigs sometimes even use aquarium equipment for pumps and piping which isn't built for that purpose and should not be considered failsafe.
But using oil is indeed an idea worth pondering... at least it would save me from /.ers trying to shoot me because of a silly post I wrote ;-))
Tolerance for heatsink application seems to be not-too-bad. A friend had his 1.4's cooler on and off constantly for about a week and about 2.5g of thermal compound and no problems so far. Of course, you have to get a good cooler. Preferrably one that makes use of the mounting holes in AMD's specification. strange enough there are only two of them on the market (made by Alpha and Swiftech). They might be a little harder to install than the rest but that should be worth it. A nice bonus is that they're big enough to use 80mm fans which are a little quieter than the little turbines on most of the other ones.
And of course, a little attention to details never hurts.
The bad thing is that there are so many ways to screw up. You could get fooled into using one of those neat spacers which might happen to be too thick, resulting in inadequate cooling, thus frying the processor. The Athlon processors can burn before the POST is through, so if your heatsink has fallen off or shifted during transport, you're up for some quick, expensive fun.
Also, you could be one of those freaks using a water cooling system (please shoot me when I start pumping water into my computer!). There's a nice article over at Dans Data about a burnt Intel Celeron(!!) after a cooling failure.
A third problem is the limited use of most monitoring programs or a bad configuration. Motherboard protection can be configured so that all you get out of a failed fan is a nice beeping noise. I tell you something: no one can hear you scream in a dark cellar. I have an old Slot A Athlon 750 running nonstop, and if the fan fails, I'll most probably lose it. The only solution would be to have a monitoring program slow down and/or even shut down the system. Some BIOSs/Mainboards don't support this, so it would be pretty much impossible to prevent an incident directly after switching on, because when the speaker starts beeping it might be too late.
So far, the only solution I've seen to this is an extension to the VapoChill rigs. The system is held in reset state until the cooling system has reached its (sub-zero) working temperature. Only then, the reset bridge is opened and the system is allowed to start up. I have not seen any comparable functionality on a mainboard so far and I don't know whether it would actually help or if the processor produces enough heat even in reset state.
It's exactly what's said in the linked article on mozilla.org. Well, I'm not a moderator today.
OK, here goes my karma, but... well, I have to say it. You are an ignorant asshole (and a coward, sometimes the title just fits). Anybody accepting civil deaths "for a good cause" is.
But that's not all. You're an asshole because you're interrupting a discussion with some bullshit that doesn't belong just because you're either too stupid to know it, or because you're simply an asshole running around crying for revenge. Revenge always leads to escalation. Escalation is what lead to what you're crying about.
I know I will regret answering to each and every stupid troll cropping up, but... hey, eventually the author of one will read what I wrote and be really pissed off. That's gonna be my moment of triumph.
Hmmm... when we're at it, we could just reintroduce the good old ICBM addressing ;-)
I'm beginning to like what I learn (or at least what our Profs try to teach us). We're being taught database design by someone who worked at PARC and actually helped design the whole mess. Furthermore, we're being taught the principles ou software design for larger projects, which includes documentation. Of course, you can't teach discipline. That's something that has to be learned.
You're sick. Get a brain.
Or whatever the series is originally called. Here in Germany, we just had a re-run of an episode with the words "The American people just voted off their freedom" in it. (Don't blame me if you don't recognize it, I'm translating it back on the spot. FYI, it's the episode in which Doors gets blamed for an assassination attempt on his competitor in the elections for President after which there's a big action against the resistance.)
Isn't it amazing how close to reality some of that stuff is when you think about it for some time? I sincerely hope and pray that other governments don't follow if something like this comes to pass, but when I see how stupid our current chancellor ist starting to act, talking of "military support", I wouldn't be amazed. The only politician I know who opposes this and changes of basic law (especially religious freedom) is someone from a party that was built from the remnants of the former Eastern Germany regimen. Go figure.
Personally, I'm seeing a certain tendency that some countries try to get away from that very grasp. The Climate Protection stuff, the continuing steps against Echelon and others. As a (not so proud) citizen of the E.U., I think the spineless bastards at Bruxelles need to show some strength lest they lose all credibility.
The european region is a large enough market not to be ignored, even by shmocks like the celluloid-waste producers or the advocates of bad taste on shiny discs (film- and music producing business), plus with that damn Euro, it's a good market to import from - guess who's got all your dollars right now ;-). So if the U.S. decide to do the long walk, they'd better hope that no-one considers biting off that cliff.
Perhaps this could lead to something good. It could severely impede American economy in a way that rips the government out of the complacent feeling of being all alone on the planet.
The more laws of this kind are passed (and since this one is backed by a strong lobby, I guess it will be passed), the more resistance will be created. Not only by "underground criminals", but also by hard- and software producers outside the U.S. who just don't want to follow stupid rules.
I only hope that other governments don't get infected by ALD (American Lawmaking Desease) and decide to follow lead and that the U.S. procceed on their path quickly enough to create a certain degree of isolation
And never forget - don't tie your alligator to the fire hydrant or let your horse eat it. It's not just a good idea, it's the LAW!
Sorry, my fault. But apparently Blizzard had a close look at it when designing LoD (they made LoD, their logo is all over the box ;-)). The difference is about the same, it's an experience-gathering-slaughterfest which looks a great deal more synthetic than the original game.
The main problem with 1.07 and 1.08 is that it makes the game almost multiplayer only. Especially the changes made to difficulty-based mali on resistances make it almost impossible for some single characters to survive. I know of several people who couldn't make it past Act 1/Hell despite having rather good characters because there were lightning anchanted monsters there. Now, with the decreased resistances, you have even less chance to get past that point.
Another severe flaw is the introduction of spell delays, especially when you have a look at the reason why they did it. The reason is, that they wanted to increase framerate in multiplayer matches. So, they changed game mechanics to cover their inability to write a decent engine (you have to admit, the engine sucks big time and even did so when the game was first released).
Next: Runewords work in closed b.net only. Why? Someone on the net had a rather good explanation: if Blizzard made them available in any other game type, they had to store them on the players' machines which would make them vulnerable to evil hackers. I spoke about that with a lot of people, not a single one did mind a complete listing of runewords being available on the 'net.
There are some more minor flaws in the patches, but these should have been the major ones. The expansion pack itself sports poor cutscenes and rather badly rendered monsters, but the worst thing here is the obscene amount of experience points that can be made there. I got a Necromancer from level 37 to level 40 by playing the first two levels of the Worldstone Keep four times. It's a very small area of the game and for achieving such a gain otherwise, I'd have to play several hours instead of a little over 45 minutes.
I'm talking about Diablo 2 here. Hell, was that a hype! And it was a great game, at least until patch 1.07. From then on, it went downhill. The expansion pach is somewhat low-quality, kinda like the Hellfile add-on to the original Diablo. Somehow, they lose it when it comes to product maintenance.
AFAIK, modems have fuses for exactly this purpose. It's because phone lines are - in most cases - highly susceptible for lightning. The standard wall plug however should be protected by a separate overvoltage protection either as a separate plugin device or by a central (per building) device in the fusebox.
These assumptions are made by motherboard producers. This and the strong belief that each and every device is built to safety standards leads to blown ICs. In most cases when some onboard interface gets an overdose, it's some diode or even IC that blows.
<anecdote>
The worst thing I had was a fried memory chip on a graphics adapter. I still owe my vendor big time for handling this as a warranty case and - judging by some labels on the card when it returned - ASUS soldered a new memory chip to the card.
</anecdote>
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... of a lot of forged data in the passport-system. I mean, if someone told me to give up my privacy, he'd better not expect true answers.
Regards,
Bill Gates,
CEO IBM Munich,
Monthly income: $500,000 or greater
... when plutonium drops into the atmsphere, it may be shattered, killing several million people by cancer. AM, however, would - did it scatter - cause a rather violent fireball high up in the atmosphere or if it reached the surface as a whole, cause a rather big explosion. Counting in the fact that only a very minor part of the earth is actually populated, this would mean a greatly reduced risk.
An example of this might be the Tunguska meteorite that lait waste quite some area, killing only one or two people. Now imagine the potential had it consisted of plutonium; the meteorite exploded in midair, so the dust would have been blown only god knows where and it would probably have caused a lot more pain than the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki did; and wer're still sorry about these.
Here in good ol' Germany the at the time only TelCo thought it was smart to have fibre lines running all the way to the customer. It was meant to carry phone calls and stuff (most of all, it was a PR gag, though). Turns out that what was buried 5ft deep isn't suitable for high speed communications or even 56k modems, so in order to have those folks equipped with fast connections, they'd have to rewire whole neighbourhoods and exchange transcievers on both ends.
I made some non-animated gifs of the given sizes. they weighed between 70kB and over 100kB. WTF? Size alone does it here. I don't mind shockwave ads since most of the time I can't see 'em since I'm too lazy for copying the plugin files to the Mozilla plugin folder, an impossible feat deemed impossible by the installer. Next thing I'm gonna do is installing an ad filter on my NAT router.
Have a look at Schlock Mercenary. There you'll learn how to treat them. The server already has problems, so be nice... *g*
That's the question.
- "I think most people would like to be legal in their music listening but are sick of the bullshit tyranny"
Amen, brother! But let me tell you one thing: I'm also tired of buying CD's for DM 40 (EUR 20) with one good song on it. As long as the Quality/Filler ratio stays like this, you can bet I'll stay with mp3's. What the record companies are doing is pure theft. I also like legal, high quality music, but I haven't seen too much of that during the last year. In that period, I bought about 3 CD's and I wish it would only have been two.To the record industry: If you'd take screwing your customers literally, we'd all walk around with 6ft. [censored]... uhm... rectums!