Some engineers already looked into the problem: they invented the dishwasher.:-) So after dinner, you can fill up the dishwasher and the fill up your girl *evil grin*
Are you crazy? The modern man *cooks*. I found out myself... First it's a relaxing hobby, and second girls love men that can cook. Well, I only found out after getting married but there isn't a day that goes by where she throws herself around my neck after dinner...:-P
Non-rhetorically, who would you recommend as a viable alternative to VIA?
Good question. Since I did not have a negative view on VIA, I actually only have VIA chipsets in my AMD machines. (Except for maybe one, which was an OEM machine, that I only opened once to add a WiFi card and extra RAM, but I didn't check which chipset it was) My server (jawtheshark.com) runs on a ASUS K8V SE Deluxe and it has a VIA chipset. It works and is perfectly stable (but it runs OpenBSD/amd64, other OSes may vary) I disabled all fluffy desktop stuff in the BIOS that I didn't need though.
One of the older AMD machines I have (K6-II 333MHz) has a SiS chipset, but the IDE performance was absolutely abysmal. An alternative might be the NVidia nForce chipset, but I have absolutely no experience with those. There must be alternatives: Perhaps others might fill in.
I don't understand the CuteFTP comment either. I don't see how it would be listening on any ports. Anyways: I used to use WS_FTP (Lite) exclusively for years. It was "good enough" for me. Recently, I changed to FileZilla. Give it a try: it's really worth it!
Uhm, now that I'm here anyway: does anyone knows how to configure firefox in such a way that it opens ftp:// with FileZilla? I'm sure it must be possible, but I have no clue about such things.
Hmmm... The speedtouch problem was related to USB 1.1 bug in VIA chipsets. I'm not claiming that that kind of problems don't exist anymore, but considering it is 1.1, we're talking a pretty much old motherboard.
The second one is about a VIA Epia system, that doesn't even use an AMD chip! Those use VIA C3 CPU's, which are an entirely other kind of processors. Also, the mailing list is from 2003. As said: VIA might still have problems. I don't know.
Besides, there are non-VIA AMD motherboards, and plenty of VIA Pentium motherboards (I have a P-III 800MHz OpenBSD machine, with a VIA chipset, running 24/7 without *any* trouble). Your main problem seems to reside with VIA, and not with AMD. VIA is not the only player in town.
LOL! Hehe, I hope they'll pay me. Nah, better not: I'll be in trouble because I'm not allowed to have a secondary job.:-) I actually meant "TV commercials"...
Well, I didn't know about Adobe Premiere using Intel Optimisations. On the other hand: why do you want a Sony? Fujitsu-Siemens and Acer both have very nice laptops featuring AMD64 mobile (Turion, I think), that aren't too expensive and look nice too.
Some of us use their computers for work
I agree, but people using Adobe Premiere are pretty much a nice market, right? There is still the saying: use the right tool for the job. If the right tool for you is Intel, so be it. My point was more that, by now, AMD offers cheaper processors with enough performance for "most" people.
When people come to me in order to ask to buy a new PC, I just tell them to get what is on sale at the local computer store. You know those 400€ PC's you all laugh at because they can't play Halflife2. For their needs they are good enough. The only thing I recommend is to get 512Meg RAM, which the shop will usually happily install for a small fee. (I also recommend the Apple Mini, but most people want Windows... Cope!) Those PC's usually feature AMD CPU's. (Typically Semprons, or whatever they are called these days)
The other end of the computer-buying public are gamers, who already know that they better go with a top-notch AMD64. Those people don't ask me anything anyway, but AMD is simply "the gamers choice".
Intels customer base only are OEM manufacturers that target the business market. They still get credit for being more stable, which I don't understand because all my AMD machines - from a K6-II 333Mhz, over 2xAMD MP 2400+ to a couple of AMD64 (2400+ to 3400+) just run perfectly fine.
The other consumers are those that don't ask their Geek friends and only know Intel from the commercials, so it "must be good". (They also think that "Centrino" is a processor, because of the sticker on their machine). That said: I never saw an AMD commercial in my whole life. Do they exist?
AMD just kicks in the performance/€ factor, and CPU performance has become less important in the last few years. So if you want to save some money, just buy a slower CPU. It's just that simple. Oh, I just see that it doesn't include OEM machines (sorry, didn't read the story entirely). Most definately AMD will kick in the self-buidling crowd. AMD is popular with them... (performance/€ + easy overclocking possibilities. Who builds a PC himself with an Intel CPU anyway?;-)
320x240 was a popular VGA resolution, but even it allowed a maximum of 256 colours.
Not really... What you think of is MCGA and it was only 320x200x8bit (paletted, you had a selection of 262,144 colours). ( Wikipedia.org link ) It was possible to make VGA card display 320x240, but you needed dirty hacks. (I just read in the Wikipedia article that this mode is called "Mode X". I had a very few games that used it) VGA supported MCGA and had a colour 640x480x4bit capacity (plus the EGA 640x350x4bit resolution, in which many popular games ran). ( Wikipedia.org link )
By now "VGA" has become a generic term to indicate it's maximum resolution (being 640x480), without the colour component. Hence, the QVGA (Quater VGA) refers to 320x240 at any colour depth. The "VGA" resolution has been extended with stuff like XVGA (eXtendend Graphics Array, also known as "Super VGA"), meaning a resolution of 1024x768. Currently one often finds stuff like WXGA, SXGA, SXGA+, WSXGA+, UXGA, WUXGA, QXGA, WQXGA, QSXGA. Nobody really knows what that means while shopping for a new Graphics Card/Monitor and I copy/pasted them from Wikipedia right now.
I know about the "original" VGA because, I actually had a PS/2 Model 50 which came with a 256KByte VGA adapter. (The memory amount can easily be used to determine it's max resolution + colour depth) That card served me well for years (we had it in the EGA days) and only became "old" when the first SVGA Graphic Adapters came popular and when many games only ran in 640x480x8bit modes. That was in the 486 days, and I can assure that the PS/2 Model 50 was old by then: it only featured a 286.
I surfed again to that site: it's not even the most expensive one.
Personally I wouldn't buy me such things either if I was mega rich. I have a fast car and we (my wife and I) are looking to find a house in the (distant) future. Still, I think that your perspective on expensive might change a lot if you don't really have to look at your money flow anymore. Not sure, but I think it's one of the symptoms of being "mega rich": the value of money becomes foreign to you.
Well, I didn't know they existed until I was at an airport with too much time on my hands looking around in the shopping area. Ever heard of Vertu ? Neither did I...
Glad I could help you in finding your next cellphone;-) (I'm myself an owner of a 75€ Siemens cellphone, so I'm not in the market for these kind of phones)
Yet it did not stop Ford and GM from converting gas V8 engines to diesel
I hope I understand correctly: they took the design of a gas engine and modified it into a Diesel engine? That's what I understand from your post. However, I could have misinterpreted, and they really took physical gas engines and converted them to Diesel.
The second is something a hobby mechanic could do (if it were technically possible) the first is on design level and hence completely impossible for the hobby mechanic. I think the second case was what the grandparent poster meant.
As for lawnmovers: I'm not up to date on European lawnmovers. I don't have a lawn and my parents have an electric lawnmover. I know that when I was a kid we had a two-cycle (thank for the translation!) lawnmover, but that's over 20 years ago;-)
Their illustration makes the injector look very much like a....spark plug!
Well, it may look like a spark plug in the schema, but it isn't: Diesels use the compression to ignite the fuel. That's why they are often called "Selbstzunder" in Germany. "Selbstzunder" means as much as "Self-igniting". So the explosion is completely independent from a spark. A gas engine uses sparks to ignite the gas: the fuel does not explode on itself as it does in a diesel.
Note: I do not live in Germany, nor do I write German well. I may have made a spelling mistake.:-/
Do diesel exhausts heat up like those of gas engines? Do diesels have catalytic converters, and do they heat up to the excessively high temps found in gas engine cats?
They do heat up. At least, I wouldn't touch one. Diesels do not have catalytic convertors...
is it possible to hack a small (lawnmower) gas engine to run on diesel?
No! Diesel engines are fundamentally different from gas engines and cannot be modded. You can make your lawnmover run on LPG if you want, but you can forget diesel. (Not 100% sure about the LPG, because lawnmovers typically are 2-takt engines) If it would be possible, you would have seen a Ferrari Diesel by now. I would kill to have a Diesel these days, because my roadster is a gas guzzeler an it's not funny here in Europe. (25MPG... *sigh*)
Go over to "how stuff works" to get up to date on how Diesel engines work (and pass a little while to read about the regular "Otto" motors too)
I know that: it has mainly to do with resolution of the screen (after all a computer monitor at 1600x1200 would be pretty much HDTV) and digital input. Still, I suspect that if my TV would have been HDTV, it would have been written in big labels all over it.
Now that I think of it... I've never seen HDTV advertised here at all. Not even for the typical HDTV formfactors (meaning LCD and Plasma) Perhaps Europe isn't up to snuff on that technology (not that I care, regular TV is pretty much everything I need *grin*)
My spousal unit wasn't around when I bought the 1000€ set, because she was still in "girlfriend mode" back then. Also, having a defect TV makes a nice excuse for, errrm, "not watching TV", if you catch my drift.
I suspect that my spousal unit would think that 1000€ would be too much for a TV too. First, beware: Mine complains that it's too bulky.... So if yours does too, show her the price of the leaner alternatives.
Second, remind her that the several trips to her favourite clothing store amounts for much more in two months than what the new TV would cost.
Note also: try to take into account what kind of space you have available: in my 80 square metre apartment, the TV is actually too big. I easily could have settled for a 70cm version.:-)
Since the first HDTVs appeared in 1998, high-definition television has been on the mind of every TV buyer.
Huh? Really? HDTV didn't spring to mind at all when about a year ago the hand-down TV from my parents died. Well, I still wanted a TV at my place and these were the criteria:
16:9 screen
Preferably big
Good screen quality
Price should be payable without a loan
In the end, I bought a CRT 83cm 16:9 "flat" screen for about 900€. The thing weights over 80kg, but I don't move it every day, do I? I understand that these days, such a TV is even less expensive because they're pushing Plasma and LCD screens.
In my eyes price/quality of a good CRT cannot be beaten by the newer technologies (yet). Of course, I could just as well not have bought a TV, because if I use it once a week it'll be a lot.
If you want to learn about computer science (which is for a big part just maths), you're in the right program. However, computer science doesn't teach you to be a software engineer, or a programmer. It teaches you the sience behind it all, the foundations of "how this stuff" works. (Which is mostly theory, by the way) It isn't all that useful for your job, but an academic degree doesn't make you ready for "a job". It makes sure that you can handle what comes after that. The ability to adapt, to learn and research on yourself when your job requires you to do so. Sometimes the stuff you learn there seems completely and utterly unimportant for day to day usage. Still, often you suddenly get into a situation where no other non-CS guy can't find a certain bug because they lack the understanding of the background. I've been in the stuation myself where I was able to fix a bug that resulted out of the use of floating-point numbers. The guy that implemented the routine just didn't know about the mathematical boundaries of floating point numbers. It's just an example...
If you just want to become a programmer, just follow some evening courses... That's all you need... Programming isn't all that hard, but don't come complaining to me because the sorting routine you wrote is too slow and don't know why.
I said the same about Windows NT4, and I said the same about Windows 2000. I would never migrate beyond them. I did. With NT4 it was the lack of USB support. With W2k it was the support that is going to end soon and I have to admit that in a family environment "fast user switching" really is useful. So now I'm upgrading my machines from W2K to WinXP. I don't like it either, but I don't feel as if I have a choice. If the next Rockstar game isn't going to run on W2K, I have a big problem. That big problem is called "my brother" and he's much stronger than me.:-/ (Okay, he wouldn't hit me but he's going to bitch and moan until I give in)
Slashdot Mirror
This is better, right....NOT!
Some engineers already looked into the problem: they invented the dishwasher. :-) So after dinner, you can fill up the dishwasher and the fill up your girl *evil grin*
Are you crazy? The modern man *cooks*. I found out myself... First it's a relaxing hobby, and second girls love men that can cook. Well, I only found out after getting married but there isn't a day that goes by where she throws herself around my neck after dinner... :-P
Forget knitting... It's a dead end ;-)
Good question. Since I did not have a negative view on VIA, I actually only have VIA chipsets in my AMD machines. (Except for maybe one, which was an OEM machine, that I only opened once to add a WiFi card and extra RAM, but I didn't check which chipset it was) My server (jawtheshark.com) runs on a ASUS K8V SE Deluxe and it has a VIA chipset. It works and is perfectly stable (but it runs OpenBSD/amd64, other OSes may vary) I disabled all fluffy desktop stuff in the BIOS that I didn't need though.
One of the older AMD machines I have (K6-II 333MHz) has a SiS chipset, but the IDE performance was absolutely abysmal. An alternative might be the NVidia nForce chipset, but I have absolutely no experience with those. There must be alternatives: Perhaps others might fill in.
So, ehm, honestly... you got me on that one. :-)
Uhm, now that I'm here anyway: does anyone knows how to configure firefox in such a way that it opens ftp:// with FileZilla? I'm sure it must be possible, but I have no clue about such things.
The second one is about a VIA Epia system, that doesn't even use an AMD chip! Those use VIA C3 CPU's, which are an entirely other kind of processors. Also, the mailing list is from 2003. As said: VIA might still have problems. I don't know.
Besides, there are non-VIA AMD motherboards, and plenty of VIA Pentium motherboards (I have a P-III 800MHz OpenBSD machine, with a VIA chipset, running 24/7 without *any* trouble). Your main problem seems to reside with VIA, and not with AMD. VIA is not the only player in town.
LOL! Hehe, I hope they'll pay me. Nah, better not: I'll be in trouble because I'm not allowed to have a secondary job. :-) I actually meant "TV commercials"...
Some of us use their computers for work
I agree, but people using Adobe Premiere are pretty much a nice market, right? There is still the saying: use the right tool for the job. If the right tool for you is Intel, so be it. My point was more that, by now, AMD offers cheaper processors with enough performance for "most" people.
The other end of the computer-buying public are gamers, who already know that they better go with a top-notch AMD64. Those people don't ask me anything anyway, but AMD is simply "the gamers choice".
Intels customer base only are OEM manufacturers that target the business market. They still get credit for being more stable, which I don't understand because all my AMD machines - from a K6-II 333Mhz, over 2xAMD MP 2400+ to a couple of AMD64 (2400+ to 3400+) just run perfectly fine.
The other consumers are those that don't ask their Geek friends and only know Intel from the commercials, so it "must be good". (They also think that "Centrino" is a processor, because of the sticker on their machine). That said: I never saw an AMD commercial in my whole life. Do they exist?
AMD just kicks in the performance/€ factor, and CPU performance has become less important in the last few years. So if you want to save some money, just buy a slower CPU. It's just that simple. ;-)
Oh, I just see that it doesn't include OEM machines (sorry, didn't read the story entirely). Most definately AMD will kick in the self-buidling crowd. AMD is popular with them... (performance/€ + easy overclocking possibilities. Who builds a PC himself with an Intel CPU anyway?
Not really... What you think of is MCGA and it was only 320x200x8bit (paletted, you had a selection of 262,144 colours). ( Wikipedia.org link ) It was possible to make VGA card display 320x240, but you needed dirty hacks. (I just read in the Wikipedia article that this mode is called "Mode X". I had a very few games that used it) VGA supported MCGA and had a colour 640x480x4bit capacity (plus the EGA 640x350x4bit resolution, in which many popular games ran). ( Wikipedia.org link )
By now "VGA" has become a generic term to indicate it's maximum resolution (being 640x480), without the colour component. Hence, the QVGA (Quater VGA) refers to 320x240 at any colour depth. The "VGA" resolution has been extended with stuff like XVGA (eXtendend Graphics Array, also known as "Super VGA"), meaning a resolution of 1024x768. Currently one often finds stuff like WXGA, SXGA, SXGA+, WSXGA+, UXGA, WUXGA, QXGA, WQXGA, QSXGA. Nobody really knows what that means while shopping for a new Graphics Card/Monitor and I copy/pasted them from Wikipedia right now.
I know about the "original" VGA because, I actually had a PS/2 Model 50 which came with a 256KByte VGA adapter. (The memory amount can easily be used to determine it's max resolution + colour depth) That card served me well for years (we had it in the EGA days) and only became "old" when the first SVGA Graphic Adapters came popular and when many games only ran in 640x480x8bit modes. That was in the 486 days, and I can assure that the PS/2 Model 50 was old by then: it only featured a 286.
Personally I wouldn't buy me such things either if I was mega rich. I have a fast car and we (my wife and I) are looking to find a house in the (distant) future. Still, I think that your perspective on expensive might change a lot if you don't really have to look at your money flow anymore. Not sure, but I think it's one of the symptoms of being "mega rich": the value of money becomes foreign to you.
Well, I didn't know they existed until I was at an airport with too much time on my hands looking around in the shopping area. Ever heard of Vertu ? Neither did I...
Be sure to be seated before you click this link
Glad I could help you in finding your next cellphone ;-) (I'm myself an owner of a 75€ Siemens cellphone, so I'm not in the market for these kind of phones)
I hope I understand correctly: they took the design of a gas engine and modified it into a Diesel engine? That's what I understand from your post. However, I could have misinterpreted, and they really took physical gas engines and converted them to Diesel.
The second is something a hobby mechanic could do (if it were technically possible) the first is on design level and hence completely impossible for the hobby mechanic. I think the second case was what the grandparent poster meant.
As for lawnmovers: I'm not up to date on European lawnmovers. I don't have a lawn and my parents have an electric lawnmover. I know that when I was a kid we had a two-cycle (thank for the translation!) lawnmover, but that's over 20 years ago ;-)
Well, it may look like a spark plug in the schema, but it isn't: Diesels use the compression to ignite the fuel. That's why they are often called "Selbstzunder" in Germany. "Selbstzunder" means as much as "Self-igniting". So the explosion is completely independent from a spark. A gas engine uses sparks to ignite the gas: the fuel does not explode on itself as it does in a diesel.
Note: I do not live in Germany, nor do I write German well. I may have made a spelling mistake. :-/
They do heat up. At least, I wouldn't touch one. Diesels do not have catalytic convertors...
is it possible to hack a small (lawnmower) gas engine to run on diesel?
No! Diesel engines are fundamentally different from gas engines and cannot be modded. You can make your lawnmover run on LPG if you want, but you can forget diesel. (Not 100% sure about the LPG, because lawnmovers typically are 2-takt engines) If it would be possible, you would have seen a Ferrari Diesel by now. I would kill to have a Diesel these days, because my roadster is a gas guzzeler an it's not funny here in Europe. (25MPG... *sigh*)
Go over to "how stuff works" to get up to date on how Diesel engines work (and pass a little while to read about the regular "Otto" motors too)
Yup, Europe is pretty much not up to date at all on HDTV. I don't really see the point in having HDTV. Many Europeans have a 100Hz 16:9 screen, and seem to be happy with that. I am happy with that. ;-)
Now that I think of it... I've never seen HDTV advertised here at all. Not even for the typical HDTV formfactors (meaning LCD and Plasma) Perhaps Europe isn't up to snuff on that technology (not that I care, regular TV is pretty much everything I need *grin*)
I suspect that my spousal unit would think that 1000€ would be too much for a TV too. First, beware: Mine complains that it's too bulky.... So if yours does too, show her the price of the leaner alternatives.
Second, remind her that the several trips to her favourite clothing store amounts for much more in two months than what the new TV would cost.
Note also: try to take into account what kind of space you have available: in my 80 square metre apartment, the TV is actually too big. I easily could have settled for a 70cm version. :-)
I ruled out rear projection CRT immediately because I find the image in general much "darker" than CRT. That is of course a thing of personal taste.
Huh? Really? HDTV didn't spring to mind at all when about a year ago the hand-down TV from my parents died. Well, I still wanted a TV at my place and these were the criteria:
In the end, I bought a CRT 83cm 16:9 "flat" screen for about 900€. The thing weights over 80kg, but I don't move it every day, do I? I understand that these days, such a TV is even less expensive because they're pushing Plasma and LCD screens.
In my eyes price/quality of a good CRT cannot be beaten by the newer technologies (yet). Of course, I could just as well not have bought a TV, because if I use it once a week it'll be a lot.
Try doing a search on "free webbrowser". Number one is not what you expect... :-(
Now I'm curious what a "live chicken leftover" looks like ;-)
Sometimes the stuff you learn there seems completely and utterly unimportant for day to day usage. Still, often you suddenly get into a situation where no other non-CS guy can't find a certain bug because they lack the understanding of the background. I've been in the stuation myself where I was able to fix a bug that resulted out of the use of floating-point numbers. The guy that implemented the routine just didn't know about the mathematical boundaries of floating point numbers. It's just an example...
If you just want to become a programmer, just follow some evening courses... That's all you need... Programming isn't all that hard, but don't come complaining to me because the sorting routine you wrote is too slow and don't know why.
I said the same about Windows NT4, and I said the same about Windows 2000. I would never migrate beyond them. I did. With NT4 it was the lack of USB support. With W2k it was the support that is going to end soon and I have to admit that in a family environment "fast user switching" really is useful. So now I'm upgrading my machines from W2K to WinXP. I don't like it either, but I don't feel as if I have a choice. If the next Rockstar game isn't going to run on W2K, I have a big problem. That big problem is called "my brother" and he's much stronger than me. :-/ (Okay, he wouldn't hit me but he's going to bitch and moan until I give in)
Thank you... Thank you very much. This made my day! My wife is going to be pissed, but it still made my day.