Maybe it's because codec packs are a grab-bag of inconsistency. You get more than you need/want, and they make it damn hard to troubleshoot problems, since you have so much crap in your filter chain.
Insane, yes! But think of it as a distinctive mark, a way to sort business into two categories: Infidels, and Non-Infidels.
I'm thinking million-TV-mirror-tardbox goes into the "Infidels" column. I mean come on, the american way is to buy a ginormous plasma, or a projector at the very least.
Now am I suggesting we blow up the infidels ?/sarcasm?
Yep this gel-mounting is disaster waiting to happen.
Hard drives put out a staggering amount of heat. By sealing the drive inside a blob of gel, he's effectively created a pressure cooker! Now there are some exotic drive coolers that envelop the drive in a liquid-filled sleeve, but those kits actually cool the liquid via radiators and natural convection, a huge difference!
If I see a hard drive without airflow nearby, I tense up because I know that thing's going to die prematurely. When a hard drive is running hotter than the CPU, failure is inevitable.
It used to be, the clackity-clack of seeking heads was an indicator of work getting done. The difference between a crashed PC and a swap-thrashing PC was the noise it made.
Nowadays, I have to glance down at the HDD activity light, though my reflex is to start mashing CTRL-C as soon as the mouse skips a beat, since I can't hear anything happening:P Killed a lot of otherwise-fine processes that way...
You've apparently not heeded the GP's advice to buy a modern hard drive. Every single SATA drive I've owned (>100 in the last 5 years), from ex-Maxtor, Seagate and WD, have all been perfectly silent during operation.
I should know, not only am I in the business of building and selling quiet PCs, but I'm also a musician. The last thing I want is background noise from a PC - I get enough already from the goddamned windows and the building's natural sway.
If your apartment is so quiet that an 18db computer is noisy to you, you could probably afford to buy or build a dead-silent computer.
Silent PC Review is the mecca of silence freaks. Devour it whole!
I'd say there's a big difference between the 15.75 khz (and 47khz harmonic) whine of a TV's flyback transformer, and the 7200hz whir of hard drive spindles. They're more than an octave apart.
Most adults can't hear the 15.75 khz noise, it simply exceeds their hearing range. Just about anyone who isn't functionally deaf can hear the 7200hz noise.
Actually you can have a silent PC with silent fans. The standard is 20dB at one metre (3 ft). Those 3 feet are what enable a quiet PC to become a silent PC.
Turn just about any good fan down to 800rpm or less, and it becomes nearly inaudible in free air. Once you combine such a quiet fan with the PC's chassis resonance (on a good chassis), the chassis' acoustic properties will effectively shape the noise (like a bandpass speaker box). Some of that noise gets muffled internally, some of it gets dispersed at the vents, and ideally very little sound will reach your ears.
Making a quiet PC is easy, because off-the-shelf components have gotten very quiet over the years. Making a silent PC is more like building an awesome loudspeaker - there's a lot of planning, acoustic measurements and math involved to meet your sonic goal.
Same here. Hard drive noise is a non-issue for me, despite having a dozen under my desk. Now, older hard drives had an annoying whine, but today's gear is near-silent.
Take any consumer drive from the last 2-3 years, mount it sanely, either via grommets or elastic suspension as the parent suggested, and the only time you might hear something is when it is spinning up at power-on. Once it reaches normal operating revs, that thing should be noiseless.
I just built a bunch of office machines, simple little things really. Core-2 Duo, WD 500gb drive, Antec chassis... Those cheap little things are perfectly noiseless, I shit you not. You could stick your ear right up to the hard drive and barely hear the modest clicking of the heads seeking around. In fact, the Antec 120mm fan, even at 800rpm, is easily the loudest component. Now, Antec doesn't make the quietest fans, but they're certainly in the Top 5.
Good candy to have at work too. No one steals it, at least not after the first piece.
How can you call it candy if it tastes like shit ? If you're so concerned about people stealing your candy that you have to eat nasty stuff, maybe you should, I dunno, NOT bring candy to work:P (or beat the living snot out of your coworkers)
Actually, throwing it backwards would be the worst. We're talking about orbits here, so it will do a loop around the planet and smack you in the face.
You would want to push something off to a different altitude, so that your orbits do not cross at all. In this particular case, they would have pushed it down toward Earth.
I'm more than a little concerned about what happens if this debris falls ON something, you know, like one of the 6 billion humans that inhabit this wretched mound of dirt. I'm secretly wishing it would crash right in the middle of the pentagon (tee-hee!)... just to see what kind of bullshit terrorist propaganda they'd make up to explain it.
Why would they get screwed ? Because that's what they've been doing forever. People also have a very distorted perception of the value of electronics. They sincerely believe they're getting a $400 phone or gadget for $200, when in reality the phone company is simply eating their profit margin on the sale.
If Asus can sell you an EEE for $299 today, that means it cost $120 to make. If they make a $199 model, building it cost less than $80. That's just the nature of the global distribution model, where most of the sticker price goes to infrastructure, marketing and resale.
I'm just going to posit this theory, that people from these "lower" income brackets are buying iPhones, not because they need them, but because they're not so smart with their cash.
Do they _need_ an expensive communications device ? Is it helping them get ahead in life ? Hell no. They just want them cuz they're shiny, so they can go brag to the next bum "Betcha can't afford one of these thingers!". I'd say there's more causation between credit-card debt and iPhones, than with actual income levels.
That's kind of what.Net was supposed to be, yet in all but the simplest apps, you ended up tripping on weird or obscurely intrusive behavior and spent the other 90% of development time working around the framework's quirks.
This will surely be no different. It's just like every other framework in the universe - works for some, fails for most.
Then how do you explain Exchange Server ? Not that the average postfix setup is any more elegant, but at least those don't crash every couple of weeks.
Microsoft's consumer apps may be somewhat reliable, consistent and intuitive, but on the server-side it is a clusterfuck of poorly documented functionality and mish-mash interfaces, seemingly designed so that you NEED that stupid MCSE (book) just to know which icon to click.
Again, so-called "cloud" services are only cost-effective under certain conditions. A good sysadmin with cheap bandwidth can run circles around any hosted setup, and you get much more reliable throughput that way (if your sysadmin's any good).
Cloud computing being cheaper is a MYTH. It is billed in more granular fashion, which is great for attention-deficit developers who write the app-of-the-week, get their Digg and/. rush then fade away. Those people are not the driving force of the internet.
What's the legality of such a move ? If I'm paying a monthly fee to an ISP for internet connectivity, I expect them to do what's needed for me to have access to the entire internet. If they decide to drop a huge chunk of the world out of spite, I call that breach of contract.
If I'm just a residential user with options, I'd switch to a competitor. If I'm a business with premium services and real money on the line, I'd sue 'til their ears bleed.
Sprint is not the morality police. If they don't like Cogent, they should route their traffic around them. Pretending they don't exist is sheer criminal malice.
And that's why you expose the swiss cheese they call "evidence".
Let's use the Yellow Pages as an analogy. It's a public directory where you can find people that offer a certain product or service, much like a public tracker is a directory where you can find people sharing the files you want.
Now if some idiot were to publish your name and number in the phone book under "proctologists", even though you're just a bitter techie, you'd probably start getting a bunch of weird phone calls for prostate exams from creepy old gay men. Ok whatever. Now if tomorrow someone declared "Proctologists are all criminals!", could they use the Yellow Pages directory as evidence that you're a proctologist ?
If I start a tracker today, where all it does is publish fake torrents with every possible IP address, can someone use my intentionally bogus lists in court to sue every internet-connected human on the globe ?
Judges may not be technical wizards, but they're usually not retarded.
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Maybe it's because codec packs are a grab-bag of inconsistency. You get more than you need/want, and they make it damn hard to troubleshoot problems, since you have so much crap in your filter chain.
It's impossible, but wouldn't it be cool to be able to jam those video feeds and insert good old anti-Wal-Mart propaganda ?
"Welcome to the American Dream, now give us your first born!"
Insane, yes! But think of it as a distinctive mark, a way to sort business into two categories: Infidels, and Non-Infidels.
I'm thinking million-TV-mirror-tardbox goes into the "Infidels" column. I mean come on, the american way is to buy a ginormous plasma, or a projector at the very least.
Now am I suggesting we blow up the infidels ? /sarcasm?
Deaf people don't need sound. I think it's the sound that's most annoying. You can avoid looking at something, but you can't avoid hearing.
Yep this gel-mounting is disaster waiting to happen.
Hard drives put out a staggering amount of heat. By sealing the drive inside a blob of gel, he's effectively created a pressure cooker! Now there are some exotic drive coolers that envelop the drive in a liquid-filled sleeve, but those kits actually cool the liquid via radiators and natural convection, a huge difference!
If I see a hard drive without airflow nearby, I tense up because I know that thing's going to die prematurely. When a hard drive is running hotter than the CPU, failure is inevitable.
I hear you *rimshot*
It used to be, the clackity-clack of seeking heads was an indicator of work getting done. The difference between a crashed PC and a swap-thrashing PC was the noise it made.
Nowadays, I have to glance down at the HDD activity light, though my reflex is to start mashing CTRL-C as soon as the mouse skips a beat, since I can't hear anything happening :P Killed a lot of otherwise-fine processes that way...
You've apparently not heeded the GP's advice to buy a modern hard drive. Every single SATA drive I've owned (>100 in the last 5 years), from ex-Maxtor, Seagate and WD, have all been perfectly silent during operation.
I should know, not only am I in the business of building and selling quiet PCs, but I'm also a musician. The last thing I want is background noise from a PC - I get enough already from the goddamned windows and the building's natural sway.
If your apartment is so quiet that an 18db computer is noisy to you, you could probably afford to buy or build a dead-silent computer.
Silent PC Review is the mecca of silence freaks. Devour it whole!
I'd say there's a big difference between the 15.75 khz (and 47khz harmonic) whine of a TV's flyback transformer, and the 7200hz whir of hard drive spindles. They're more than an octave apart.
Most adults can't hear the 15.75 khz noise, it simply exceeds their hearing range. Just about anyone who isn't functionally deaf can hear the 7200hz noise.
Actually you can have a silent PC with silent fans. The standard is 20dB at one metre (3 ft). Those 3 feet are what enable a quiet PC to become a silent PC.
Turn just about any good fan down to 800rpm or less, and it becomes nearly inaudible in free air. Once you combine such a quiet fan with the PC's chassis resonance (on a good chassis), the chassis' acoustic properties will effectively shape the noise (like a bandpass speaker box). Some of that noise gets muffled internally, some of it gets dispersed at the vents, and ideally very little sound will reach your ears.
Making a quiet PC is easy, because off-the-shelf components have gotten very quiet over the years. Making a silent PC is more like building an awesome loudspeaker - there's a lot of planning, acoustic measurements and math involved to meet your sonic goal.
Same here. Hard drive noise is a non-issue for me, despite having a dozen under my desk. Now, older hard drives had an annoying whine, but today's gear is near-silent.
Take any consumer drive from the last 2-3 years, mount it sanely, either via grommets or elastic suspension as the parent suggested, and the only time you might hear something is when it is spinning up at power-on. Once it reaches normal operating revs, that thing should be noiseless.
I just built a bunch of office machines, simple little things really. Core-2 Duo, WD 500gb drive, Antec chassis... Those cheap little things are perfectly noiseless, I shit you not. You could stick your ear right up to the hard drive and barely hear the modest clicking of the heads seeking around. In fact, the Antec 120mm fan, even at 800rpm, is easily the loudest component. Now, Antec doesn't make the quietest fans, but they're certainly in the Top 5.
Good candy to have at work too. No one steals it, at least not after the first piece.
How can you call it candy if it tastes like shit ? If you're so concerned about people stealing your candy that you have to eat nasty stuff, maybe you should, I dunno, NOT bring candy to work :P (or beat the living snot out of your coworkers)
Two trains leave the station at the same time, heading in opposite directions.
If train A is moving at 80 mph, and train B is moving at 50 mph, why the hell are you wearing that stupid looking hat ?
Maybe he lives in Rhode Island. I'll take my chances with that space garbage, thank you!
Actually, throwing it backwards would be the worst. We're talking about orbits here, so it will do a loop around the planet and smack you in the face.
You would want to push something off to a different altitude, so that your orbits do not cross at all. In this particular case, they would have pushed it down toward Earth.
I'm more than a little concerned about what happens if this debris falls ON something, you know, like one of the 6 billion humans that inhabit this wretched mound of dirt. I'm secretly wishing it would crash right in the middle of the pentagon (tee-hee!)... just to see what kind of bullshit terrorist propaganda they'd make up to explain it.
Why would they get screwed ? Because that's what they've been doing forever. People also have a very distorted perception of the value of electronics. They sincerely believe they're getting a $400 phone or gadget for $200, when in reality the phone company is simply eating their profit margin on the sale.
If Asus can sell you an EEE for $299 today, that means it cost $120 to make. If they make a $199 model, building it cost less than $80. That's just the nature of the global distribution model, where most of the sticker price goes to infrastructure, marketing and resale.
I'm just going to posit this theory, that people from these "lower" income brackets are buying iPhones, not because they need them, but because they're not so smart with their cash.
Do they _need_ an expensive communications device ? Is it helping them get ahead in life ? Hell no. They just want them cuz they're shiny, so they can go brag to the next bum "Betcha can't afford one of these thingers!". I'd say there's more causation between credit-card debt and iPhones, than with actual income levels.
That's kind of what .Net was supposed to be, yet in all but the simplest apps, you ended up tripping on weird or obscurely intrusive behavior and spent the other 90% of development time working around the framework's quirks.
This will surely be no different. It's just like every other framework in the universe - works for some, fails for most.
Then how do you explain Exchange Server ? Not that the average postfix setup is any more elegant, but at least those don't crash every couple of weeks.
Microsoft's consumer apps may be somewhat reliable, consistent and intuitive, but on the server-side it is a clusterfuck of poorly documented functionality and mish-mash interfaces, seemingly designed so that you NEED that stupid MCSE (book) just to know which icon to click.
Again, so-called "cloud" services are only cost-effective under certain conditions. A good sysadmin with cheap bandwidth can run circles around any hosted setup, and you get much more reliable throughput that way (if your sysadmin's any good).
Cloud computing being cheaper is a MYTH. It is billed in more granular fashion, which is great for attention-deficit developers who write the app-of-the-week, get their Digg and /. rush then fade away. Those people are not the driving force of the internet.
Ooooh burrrrn!
What's the legality of such a move ? If I'm paying a monthly fee to an ISP for internet connectivity, I expect them to do what's needed for me to have access to the entire internet. If they decide to drop a huge chunk of the world out of spite, I call that breach of contract.
If I'm just a residential user with options, I'd switch to a competitor. If I'm a business with premium services and real money on the line, I'd sue 'til their ears bleed.
Sprint is not the morality police. If they don't like Cogent, they should route their traffic around them. Pretending they don't exist is sheer criminal malice.
And that's why you expose the swiss cheese they call "evidence".
Let's use the Yellow Pages as an analogy. It's a public directory where you can find people that offer a certain product or service, much like a public tracker is a directory where you can find people sharing the files you want.
Now if some idiot were to publish your name and number in the phone book under "proctologists", even though you're just a bitter techie, you'd probably start getting a bunch of weird phone calls for prostate exams from creepy old gay men. Ok whatever. Now if tomorrow someone declared "Proctologists are all criminals!", could they use the Yellow Pages directory as evidence that you're a proctologist ?
If I start a tracker today, where all it does is publish fake torrents with every possible IP address, can someone use my intentionally bogus lists in court to sue every internet-connected human on the globe ?
Judges may not be technical wizards, but they're usually not retarded.
Great! Move to the UK and start seeding a zillion torrents on TPB. Just don't forget to destroy your hard drive with thermite when the tards come.
I'd love to see your independent research on the stupidity metrics of conmen.
Yes, there are a few clever bastards out there. Most of them are 2-bit morons who can't even spellcheck their shit.
You get your entertainment in church, and your sermon at the movies ?
I guess that's not too far from today's reality... sad!