BTX form factor has volumetric spaces for components to ensure optimal air flow through the case. It also has a much more efficient power supply specification.
The problem is that BTX introduces nothing that can't be introduced on ATX instead.
My Compaq worksation is an eATX case with three cooling duct-like zones.
The card cage (PCI, AGP) has its own fan.
The power supply has a 12cm fan that also draws air directly across the hard drives.
The memory, chipset and CPUs have its own third duct, with one intake and one exhaust fan, and the heat sinks don't have a fan bolted to it. Interestingly enough, the RAM slots run parallel to the air flow, unlike a lot of motherboards.
Except with optical drives on modern controllers, sharing the channel hardly matters.
I found it does.
I was copying a CD between two optical drives on the same channel, the best it could do was 12x, at 16x it would have to stop several times to reload the buffers. When I had each drive on its own channel, the buffers stayed full at 16x the whole time. My DVD writer doesn't write CDs faster than 16x.
With old office buildings, I think it would still be worth wiring even if you wanted people to wander with laptops.
The more people you have on the network, the more of an issue available bandwidth will be. Everyone getting their own dedicated 100mbps wire is better than dozens sharing 108mbps common wireless bandwidth.
It only costed me about $100 worth of materials to connect two computers 140ft away from a switch, and a third one about 50 ft away from same switch. The cost counts metal conduit, metal boxes, plates, wire and ends. That is less than the additional cost of wireless networking hardware, and you don't have to worry about the microwave in the break room screwing everyone up.
Don't get me wrong, I love to see newer/faster/better, but I know why companies would want to create a faster transfer method for a device which barely uses the capability of the bus provided anyway.
Not all users are solely concerned with speed. I'd get it just to clean up the cables.
I end up using one optical drive per channel anyway, because I've found that I do get noticably better speed on optical-to-optical copies rather than making both drives share a channel.
I'm with you. I bought a computer case which nowhere did I get an indication that the LED was blue. I would have probably bought it anyway unless I knew how tight the beam focus was. The damn thing was bright enough to shine through a layer of diffuse celophane tape AND two layers of masking tape. It would still project a visible beam onto the opposite wall.
I have to say that if a market didn't exist for embedded linux, why would they feel compelled to say anything about it?
Microsoft didn't say much about Linux until it started becoming a threat.
Linux certainly isn't always the best tool for the job, it is inappropriate to say that Linux can do every job as much as it is inappropriate to say it can't be trusted for any job.
The interesting thing is that GPL protects against one organization from monopolizing the Linux kernel and most of the software built around it.
Even if a Linux company approached being a "monopoly", another company can come along and do the same thing with the same software and take some of that away.
it is after all unreasonable to punish someone for being good. for being successful.
Sounds like business as usual.
A tax is a fine for doing good, a fine is a tax on doing wrong.
Frankly, people ARE "punished" for being successful, check out the tax schedules, the tax percentage increases as the income increases. I am NOT arguing against progressive tax schedules, although sometimes they are abused because politicians can exploit class envy.
In civil lawsuits, there are compensatory damages and there are punitive damages.
Compensatory damages are intended to compensate for the losses incurred by the plaintiff.
Punitive damages are intended to punish.
If there were only compensatory damages then there would not be any disincentive to spammers, they'd compensate the plaintiff and be off and to it again because the net earnings are still pretty good.
It is possible that the punitive damages were excessive, I really don't know, but I thought this guy ran a pretty large operation, so compensatory damages might be pretty high.
A difference being that I can still go to Target, K-Mart and my local grocery store without a heavy penalty, I can walk out with my money and buy somewhere else. It isn't as if buying at Walmart has such a big impact on the register reciept.
Switching from Microsoft to Apple, Linux or BSD has a much higher penalty because necessary software and usability know-how must be ported.
I question the safety of suddenly shifting the lights on speeders. A speeder probably is less likely to stop than a non-speeder.
One thing that has bugged me is 55MPH zones getting 40 light MPH timings. If you don't want to hit a red light, you either have to poke at 40MPH or zoom along at maybe 75MPH to beat the next red light.
As long as it doesn't make a new copy, I don't think it is technically a derivative work any more than waving a poster in front of the screen or the owner of the home theater system randomly muting the audio.
PCI will do it just fine, you just need 66MHz and/or 64 bit PCI slots. Sadly, most motherboards, even for Athlon 64, and a lot for Opteron don't have anything better than 33MHz/32 bit slots. Xeon systems have been shipping with 66/64 PCI standard for four years now, so I've been playing with some cast-off workstations.
Why that price? I think the emulator assumes you already own a powerful enough computer. The combined street value of used parts that will work should be less than that of an XBox.
A system with a PIII chip, motherboard, 10 GB drive, ethernet card, GeForce 4 card has to be about $100 or so.
One thing that hasn't been noted so much in this thread is that in the last few years, the music industry has supposedly been signing fewer new bands and investing less money in putting new titles out.
One thing I've heard is that average per-title sales have been up and increasing the past few years, but when there are fewer titles being introduced, that limits growth.
I wonder if bands are starting to wise up and avoiding the whole label-signing thing, and that is why the RIAA can't recruit as many new bands as they had before. It could also be possible that the RIAA is trying to reduce or slow the number of new titles to help them create their ruse to gain control of internet music.
My understanding is that premium fuel should improve things if the manual suggests using it, and even if the car can take the lowest grade at the pump. What an engine computer does with lower grades of fuel is detunes the engine timing and such so that it doesn't knock.
With one car, my dad did find the most bang for the buck at midgrade, by I think 5% or so versus low and premium grades.
It sounds a lot like software version of the tagged command queueing that SCSI and high-end ATA drives have. I think having it in the OS would sort of defeat the drive's feature but the OS has more memory and horsepower available to it to reduce average access time.
I think this would work to minimize the impact of a slow access drive in a heavily multitasking system too.
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BTX form factor has volumetric spaces for components to ensure optimal air flow through the case. It also has a much more efficient power supply specification.
The problem is that BTX introduces nothing that can't be introduced on ATX instead.
My Compaq worksation is an eATX case with three cooling duct-like zones.
The card cage (PCI, AGP) has its own fan.
The power supply has a 12cm fan that also draws air directly across the hard drives.
The memory, chipset and CPUs have its own third duct, with one intake and one exhaust fan, and the heat sinks don't have a fan bolted to it. Interestingly enough, the RAM slots run parallel to the air flow, unlike a lot of motherboards.
Except with optical drives on modern controllers, sharing the channel hardly matters.
I found it does.
I was copying a CD between two optical drives on the same channel, the best it could do was 12x, at 16x it would have to stop several times to reload the buffers. When I had each drive on its own channel, the buffers stayed full at 16x the whole time. My DVD writer doesn't write CDs faster than 16x.
With old office buildings, I think it would still be worth wiring even if you wanted people to wander with laptops.
The more people you have on the network, the more of an issue available bandwidth will be. Everyone getting their own dedicated 100mbps wire is better than dozens sharing 108mbps common wireless bandwidth.
It only costed me about $100 worth of materials to connect two computers 140ft away from a switch, and a third one about 50 ft away from same switch. The cost counts metal conduit, metal boxes, plates, wire and ends. That is less than the additional cost of wireless networking hardware, and you don't have to worry about the microwave in the break room screwing everyone up.
Don't get me wrong, I love to see newer/faster/better, but I know why companies would want to create a faster transfer method for a device which barely uses the capability of the bus provided anyway.
Not all users are solely concerned with speed. I'd get it just to clean up the cables.
I end up using one optical drive per channel anyway, because I've found that I do get noticably better speed on optical-to-optical copies rather than making both drives share a channel.
I'm with you. I bought a computer case which nowhere did I get an indication that the LED was blue. I would have probably bought it anyway unless I knew how tight the beam focus was. The damn thing was bright enough to shine through a layer of diffuse celophane tape AND two layers of masking tape. It would still project a visible beam onto the opposite wall.
I have to say that if a market didn't exist for embedded linux, why would they feel compelled to say anything about it?
Microsoft didn't say much about Linux until it started becoming a threat.
Linux certainly isn't always the best tool for the job, it is inappropriate to say that Linux can do every job as much as it is inappropriate to say it can't be trusted for any job.
The interesting thing is that GPL protects against one organization from monopolizing the Linux kernel and most of the software built around it.
Even if a Linux company approached being a "monopoly", another company can come along and do the same thing with the same software and take some of that away.
it is after all unreasonable to punish someone for being good. for being successful.
Sounds like business as usual.
A tax is a fine for doing good, a fine is a tax on doing wrong.
Frankly, people ARE "punished" for being successful, check out the tax schedules, the tax percentage increases as the income increases. I am NOT arguing against progressive tax schedules, although sometimes they are abused because politicians can exploit class envy.
In civil lawsuits, there are compensatory damages and there are punitive damages.
Compensatory damages are intended to compensate for the losses incurred by the plaintiff.
Punitive damages are intended to punish.
If there were only compensatory damages then there would not be any disincentive to spammers, they'd compensate the plaintiff and be off and to it again because the net earnings are still pretty good.
It is possible that the punitive damages were excessive, I really don't know, but I thought this guy ran a pretty large operation, so compensatory damages might be pretty high.
A difference being that I can still go to Target, K-Mart and my local grocery store without a heavy penalty, I can walk out with my money and buy somewhere else. It isn't as if buying at Walmart has such a big impact on the register reciept.
Switching from Microsoft to Apple, Linux or BSD has a much higher penalty because necessary software and usability know-how must be ported.
If there's any people who genuinely use the service...sorry, we just can't afford to spend hours wading through these phone calls to get to you.
Thankfully, legitimate deaf people can use the internet to make their orders, a lot quicker I would guess.
I question the safety of suddenly shifting the lights on speeders. A speeder probably is less likely to stop than a non-speeder.
One thing that has bugged me is 55MPH zones getting 40 light MPH timings. If you don't want to hit a red light, you either have to poke at 40MPH or zoom along at maybe 75MPH to beat the next red light.
I can take a good deal of rumbling, but no amount of exposure to high pitched whines and such has desensitized me to them.
Unfortunately, bringing anti-trust cases doesn't neccessarily fix anything, take a long time and costs a lot of money to do so.
As long as it doesn't make a new copy, I don't think it is technically a derivative work any more than waving a poster in front of the screen or the owner of the home theater system randomly muting the audio.
PCI will do it just fine, you just need 66MHz and/or 64 bit PCI slots. Sadly, most motherboards, even for Athlon 64, and a lot for Opteron don't have anything better than 33MHz/32 bit slots. Xeon systems have been shipping with 66/64 PCI standard for four years now, so I've been playing with some cast-off workstations.
comments like this lend weight to the argument that slashdot needs "-1 retarded" moderation
I thought the metaphor fits. It was also on topic and a witty quote.
Or have I been trolled?
I'll need a $2000 computer
Why that price? I think the emulator assumes you already own a powerful enough computer. The combined street value of used parts that will work should be less than that of an XBox.
A system with a PIII chip, motherboard, 10 GB drive, ethernet card, GeForce 4 card has to be about $100 or so.
Do you know any Japanese company which has a >80% worldwide marketshare and has been abusing it?
Sony, Matsushita and Mitsubishi might count, they each have a huge corner in some market somewhere and have been pretty beligerent at times.
Note: a lot of this is speculation and heresay.
One thing that hasn't been noted so much in this thread is that in the last few years, the music industry has supposedly been signing fewer new bands and investing less money in putting new titles out.
One thing I've heard is that average per-title sales have been up and increasing the past few years, but when there are fewer titles being introduced, that limits growth.
I wonder if bands are starting to wise up and avoiding the whole label-signing thing, and that is why the RIAA can't recruit as many new bands as they had before. It could also be possible that the RIAA is trying to reduce or slow the number of new titles to help them create their ruse to gain control of internet music.
Think Janet Jackson's breast will help sales,
I really don't see how, unless the CD includes a bonus clip of footage from the high-definition cameras.
there's gonna be assets left in SCO?
I would guess not much more than office equipment, furniture and an unread copy of "Litigation for Dummies".
My understanding is that premium fuel should improve things if the manual suggests using it, and even if the car can take the lowest grade at the pump. What an engine computer does with lower grades of fuel is detunes the engine timing and such so that it doesn't knock.
With one car, my dad did find the most bang for the buck at midgrade, by I think 5% or so versus low and premium grades.
It sounds a lot like software version of the tagged command queueing that SCSI and high-end ATA drives have. I think having it in the OS would sort of defeat the drive's feature but the OS has more memory and horsepower available to it to reduce average access time.
I think this would work to minimize the impact of a slow access drive in a heavily multitasking system too.
I'd say it gets them PR. They need it badly, and they need to convince people to try Real again.