Much as you'd certainly agree were I to bitch slap you with my left hand & then claim that the rest of me was innocent of wrongdoing, the difference is insignificant.
For stuff like Cisco gear that gets left in a cabinet for years, I'd find it more likely for pads to be used in spite of poorer themals but for longevity because they never need to be changed. Every comparison I've seen where pads win was for life cycle costs & not for superior thermals unless the paste was handicapped by poor application.
As anyone who has read into the history of machining or astronomy knows, you do not need machines to produce parts with very high tolerances. It takes lots of practice & having access to a mentor helps immensely but it can be done.
My first job was at a tool & die shop & the first project was to make a one inch cube by hand with files & sandpaper. Then the old hands showed us how bad we were & how good they could do with the same tools.
I've also looked into how people used to grind their own lenses
Please give a better way of making sure that corporations do not ride roughshod over our rights because it seems to me & indeed most of the population on slashdot that making sure that Sony gets dinged for this horrendous lapse each and every time it comes up on slashdot & indeed IRL is what in part what is making sure that neither they nor anyone else attempts to abuse us as Sony did.
Letting bygones be bygones does not work in an environment where Sony & their allies are pushing for the abolition of our rights & the extension without limits of theirs
Correctly applied paste is superior to thermal pads until proof to the contrary is given. TFA is useless in this regard as no details are given on how the thermal paste was applied.
Applying paste correctly may be a small PITA but it pays off better thermal performance & isn't something one needs to do often unless you are a serial system builder/tweaker. Even having a longer lifespan for the pads is suspect as the only machines I have ever had problems with in this regard were some servers that had been dropped & I was able to fix them by pulling the coolers off, cleaning the old dried out paste off, reapplying paste correctly & reinstalling the coolers.
In a military context? No, crowd sourcing, aka mob rule has never worked compared to a military structure with a well defined chain of command. You can run through history from Romans vs the germanic tribes through the french revolutionary units where all decisions were discussed before implementation to the Russian units that were overrun at the beginning of WWII because of Stalins purges of his officer corps, the mobs all lost to adversaries who could decide quickly and exploit this advantage.
Now if you're not in a life/death competition, yeah crowd sourcing can indeed produce things that would not have existed otherwise, but you cannot blindly apply that to a completely different context without displaying an ignorance of history.
If decision making is so spread out that there is no consistent leadership then the entity has degenerated into a mob with the consequent problems of indecision and cross-purpose acts. This is precisely the objective of the US in decapitating the Taliban's leadership. Technology will not change this.
Lol, if you think that the taliban are unorganized you have a world of education to catch up on. Many are confusing guerrilla tactics with mob tactics. Guerrilla warfare has the advantage of melding back into the background but is anything but disorganized. Mobs have no tactics.
EPEAT makes it a precondition that the PC be easily dissembled. Apples having a very good recycling program for units that are returned counts less than being able to pull the battery out yourself & throw it in the trash so it ends up in a landfill.
Prefix that with "some" & I'd agree but the few people I know who want/have the rMBP want the semi-air package. The people who just want the screen are waiting for Apple to make a MBP or for someone else to use an equivalent screen. I wouldn't hold my breath (& didn't as I bought a rMBP) because, much like they did with the retina iPhones & iPads, Apple has a lock on suppliers capable of delivering these quality hi-def screens that looks like it'll last for a year or two.
My last 2 PC's had 15" WUXGA screens so I've had "hi def" screens for a while. I moved to the rMBP because in part because the whole package is a real improvement.
You can keep your heavy power-hungry fragile rotating device. I'll use the apple 500Gb flash drive for a few years until something better comes out in a few years, just as it did for the Airs...
The robust design, reduced dimensions & weight are a large part of the reason why people want the rMBP. If you want my old Dell e6500 you can have it. Its huge, heavy, slow, starting to fall apart & the motherboard is showing signs of imminent failure thanks to NVidia. On the positive side you can take it apart, but I wish you luck with Dell's support in trying to get the individual pieces like hinges, plastic screen bezel, speaker grills that lost their paint long ago & a new motherboard that you'd need to make it useful again.
It's not that Apple doesn't care about the environment, it's that Apple doesn't think that non-apple repairs are good for the environment. Batteries and other components are recycled by Apple easily because repair centers do enough volume to do so efficiently.
Many/most people performing their own repairs just toss the old components into the trash in large part because most people do not have access to facilities that will effectively recycle them or are unaware what solutions are available to them.
I understand the urge to take all our toys apart but easy disassembly without available circuits to effectively recycle the recovered elements is no greener than leaving your worn out lead-acid battery by the side of the road. Yeah, some third party repair centers may actually be greener than Apple but I bet that most won't be & users clearly will not be.
A single bomb light years away could destroy all life on earth if you are sufficiently lax in your definition of bomb. Theoretical limits & bombs bigger than those that existed in the 60s are not germane to the context.
The minerals are theirs; why shouldn't they keep them?
Because They agreed not to perform such shenanigans when they petitioned to become part of the WTO. The WTO is not just opening the rest of the worlds markets to the Chinese.
GP cogently used an example where there is no doubt that a crime has been committed to refute the GGP argument that committing a crime in one country from another is a grey area.O'Dwyer is being treated a s criminal because the crimes O'Dwyer is accused of are criminal in the US & the extradition treaty between the two counties does not make exceptions that apply here.
ISTR that Ubunto has decided to abandon Grub to be able to run on new Win8 EFI PCs that will only boot from MS signed bootloaders. Does this announcement change any of that or is Grub2 to be a tool for those not using Win8 compatible PCs?
Nobody said that the wood that had the carbon 14 spikes was in trees still alive today nor that only Japanese trees show the spike, just that wood that has been reliably dated to 775 in japan has the spike.
Suuure, Iran is the most perfect democracy on the planet and anyone disputing this universal fact is a jingoistic whiner. Thanks for the chuckle, I haven't laughed so hard since Marchais said that East Germany wasn't a police state because he never say any secret police when he was there on vacation. What, you have no idea who Marchais was? That's because you have no idea who I am but no matter how ignorant you are you still feel capable of judgment, you dimwit
Listen, I'm generally a critic of Microsoft but you have to recognize reality accusing MS of being lax.where they were not & where Linux is no better does not help Linux.
First off, Siemens developed for windows because mos clients specified that the control platform be delivered on Windows & most that didn't specify a choice were happy with windows.
Secondly, you're saying that they should have developed for Linux when it is clear that the crackers had the resources of a state behind them. The only difference it would have made had the control environment been Linux based instead of windows is that it would be Linux in the news with the "bad security" & not Windows. I have no doubt that even FreeBSD, the only OS to have been globally audited searching for security holes would have fallen.
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Much as you'd certainly agree were I to bitch slap you with my left hand & then claim that the rest of me was innocent of wrongdoing, the difference is insignificant.
For stuff like Cisco gear that gets left in a cabinet for years, I'd find it more likely for pads to be used in spite of poorer themals but for longevity because they never need to be changed. Every comparison I've seen where pads win was for life cycle costs & not for superior thermals unless the paste was handicapped by poor application.
Says an AC...
As anyone who has read into the history of machining or astronomy knows, you do not need machines to produce parts with very high tolerances. It takes lots of practice & having access to a mentor helps immensely but it can be done.
My first job was at a tool & die shop & the first project was to make a one inch cube by hand with files & sandpaper. Then the old hands showed us how bad we were & how good they could do with the same tools.
I've also looked into how people used to grind their own lenses
Please give a better way of making sure that corporations do not ride roughshod over our rights because it seems to me & indeed most of the population on slashdot that making sure that Sony gets dinged for this horrendous lapse each and every time it comes up on slashdot & indeed IRL is what in part what is making sure that neither they nor anyone else attempts to abuse us as Sony did.
Letting bygones be bygones does not work in an environment where Sony & their allies are pushing for the abolition of our rights & the extension without limits of theirs
Correctly applied paste is superior to thermal pads until proof to the contrary is given. TFA is useless in this regard as no details are given on how the thermal paste was applied.
Applying paste correctly may be a small PITA but it pays off better thermal performance & isn't something one needs to do often unless you are a serial system builder/tweaker. Even having a longer lifespan for the pads is suspect as the only machines I have ever had problems with in this regard were some servers that had been dropped & I was able to fix them by pulling the coolers off, cleaning the old dried out paste off, reapplying paste correctly & reinstalling the coolers.
and the problem is that TFA is useless fluff devoid of any details on how the paste was applied.
In a military context? No, crowd sourcing, aka mob rule has never worked compared to a military structure with a well defined chain of command. You can run through history from Romans vs the germanic tribes through the french revolutionary units where all decisions were discussed before implementation to the Russian units that were overrun at the beginning of WWII because of Stalins purges of his officer corps, the mobs all lost to adversaries who could decide quickly and exploit this advantage.
Now if you're not in a life/death competition, yeah crowd sourcing can indeed produce things that would not have existed otherwise, but you cannot blindly apply that to a completely different context without displaying an ignorance of history.
If decision making is so spread out that there is no consistent leadership then the entity has degenerated into a mob with the consequent problems of indecision and cross-purpose acts. This is precisely the objective of the US in decapitating the Taliban's leadership. Technology will not change this.
Lol, if you think that the taliban are unorganized you have a world of education to catch up on. Many are confusing guerrilla tactics with mob tactics. Guerrilla warfare has the advantage of melding back into the background but is anything but disorganized. Mobs have no tactics.
I fail to see the advantage of mob rule.
"Democratic" leadership in military units have ever worked beyond very small units.
EPEAT makes it a precondition that the PC be easily dissembled. Apples having a very good recycling program for units that are returned counts less than being able to pull the battery out yourself & throw it in the trash so it ends up in a landfill.
Prefix that with "some" & I'd agree but the few people I know who want/have the rMBP want the semi-air package. The people who just want the screen are waiting for Apple to make a MBP or for someone else to use an equivalent screen. I wouldn't hold my breath (& didn't as I bought a rMBP) because, much like they did with the retina iPhones & iPads, Apple has a lock on suppliers capable of delivering these quality hi-def screens that looks like it'll last for a year or two.
My last 2 PC's had 15" WUXGA screens so I've had "hi def" screens for a while. I moved to the rMBP because in part because the whole package is a real improvement.
You can keep your heavy power-hungry fragile rotating device. I'll use the apple 500Gb flash drive for a few years until something better comes out in a few years, just as it did for the Airs...
The robust design, reduced dimensions & weight are a large part of the reason why people want the rMBP. If you want my old Dell e6500 you can have it. Its huge, heavy, slow, starting to fall apart & the motherboard is showing signs of imminent failure thanks to NVidia. On the positive side you can take it apart, but I wish you luck with Dell's support in trying to get the individual pieces like hinges, plastic screen bezel, speaker grills that lost their paint long ago & a new motherboard that you'd need to make it useful again.
It's not that Apple doesn't care about the environment, it's that Apple doesn't think that non-apple repairs are good for the environment. Batteries and other components are recycled by Apple easily because repair centers do enough volume to do so efficiently.
Many/most people performing their own repairs just toss the old components into the trash in large part because most people do not have access to facilities that will effectively recycle them or are unaware what solutions are available to them.
I understand the urge to take all our toys apart but easy disassembly without available circuits to effectively recycle the recovered elements is no greener than leaving your worn out lead-acid battery by the side of the road. Yeah, some third party repair centers may actually be greener than Apple but I bet that most won't be & users clearly will not be.
A single bomb light years away could destroy all life on earth if you are sufficiently lax in your definition of bomb. Theoretical limits & bombs bigger than those that existed in the 60s are not germane to the context.
Mcnamara was prone to exaggeration, in this case wild exaggeration....
The minerals are theirs; why shouldn't they keep them?
Because They agreed not to perform such shenanigans when they petitioned to become part of the WTO. The WTO is not just opening the rest of the worlds markets to the Chinese.
GP cogently used an example where there is no doubt that a crime has been committed to refute the GGP argument that committing a crime in one country from another is a grey area.O'Dwyer is being treated a s criminal because the crimes O'Dwyer is accused of are criminal in the US & the extradition treaty between the two counties does not make exceptions that apply here.
ISTR that Ubunto has decided to abandon Grub to be able to run on new Win8 EFI PCs that will only boot from MS signed bootloaders. Does this announcement change any of that or is Grub2 to be a tool for those not using Win8 compatible PCs?
Nobody said that the wood that had the carbon 14 spikes was in trees still alive today nor that only Japanese trees show the spike, just that wood that has been reliably dated to 775 in japan has the spike.
Et alors?
Suuure, Iran is the most perfect democracy on the planet and anyone disputing this universal fact is a jingoistic whiner. Thanks for the chuckle, I haven't laughed so hard since Marchais said that East Germany wasn't a police state because he never say any secret police when he was there on vacation. What, you have no idea who Marchais was? That's because you have no idea who I am but no matter how ignorant you are you still feel capable of judgment, you dimwit
Listen, I'm generally a critic of Microsoft but you have to recognize reality accusing MS of being lax.where they were not & where Linux is no better does not help Linux.
First off, Siemens developed for windows because mos clients specified that the control platform be delivered on Windows & most that didn't specify a choice were happy with windows.
Secondly, you're saying that they should have developed for Linux when it is clear that the crackers had the resources of a state behind them. The only difference it would have made had the control environment been Linux based instead of windows is that it would be Linux in the news with the "bad security" & not Windows. I have no doubt that even FreeBSD, the only OS to have been globally audited searching for security holes would have fallen.
Keep talking, maybe you'll end up convincing yourself...