I think this proves that/. doesn't judge the source, onlly the article submitted.
In all fairness, not every Toms article sucks, but the only ones I see now are the ones that are posted here on/. I don't go there on my own anymore. The ones that have been posted as articles here on/. lately have not been up to snuff, and instead tend to be alot of words that cause you to go from page to page and look at ads. Toms is not alone in this fact, since the shakeout of 2000+, lots of sites have gone downhill or out of business since the investors and business owners are finally insisting on making money with the sites. IMHO, we seem to still have more tech/hardware sites than the market will support, thus the quality is not great../ itself is one of the few exceptions. Many bitch about the lamers and flamers here, but I have been on/. for quite some time, and the % of noise hasn't changed that much, mainly due to moderation. Now, I'm not saying/. is perfect, just has stayed stable in the % of lamers.;D
What cracks me up about the whole thing is reporters talking about how terrible losing electrical power is for a day- shops closed, food spoiling, no transporation...
And it was 75 degrees last night, hardly a killer night. Keep in mind that millions lose power for 1 to 4 days every year during ice storms, etc. Granted, not all at once, but still, that is worse.
It happened at 4.15pm, on Thursday, half of NY is taking a three day weekend now, so all and all, its a BIG inconvenience, but not a tragedy. Like I said, the only people making a big deal of it is the media. The citizens seem to be dealing quite well. Remember, this is August, the SLOWEST news month of the year since Congress is not in session.
I could be wrong, but last I heard Yakov was still doing his act in Branson, Missouri, which is like Las Vegas...without the gambling, alcohol, ladies and fun. Lots of 700 Club'ers.
If this little blighter is thriving at 121C, how high can it actually survive. The article mentions that temperatures in this guy's home top out at about 400C. How much heat can these guys actually take before cooking?
And once you have cooked these little iron eating bugs, what kind of wine do you serve with them? Red or white?
I understand that extremophile microbes demonstrate that our conception of a life-supporting environment has heretofore been a little narrow, but recent discoveries keep turning up organisms that live in hot, high-pressure envirtonments, kind of the exact opposite of the conditions on Mars.
Not to mention (or rather TO mention) the fact that the majority of the surface of Mars suffers from terrible temperature swings, and we haven't seen many organisms that can handle temperature swings very well, except some viruses, and most viruses need other organisms as hosts.
The russian comedian, Yakof Schmirnof (spelling is surely wrong) was well known in the 80s I think, and that was a running gag for him. He lasted slightly longer than the "You can call me Ray" guy....
And these drives with higher rotational speeds could alleviate the last severe bottleneck to good laptop performance.
And they will not help power consumption a bit. Having power consumption "within tolorance" usually means on the high end of tolorance. For a desktop replacement, I agree wholeheartedly. For a notebook, I would prefer more effert put into acceptable speeds at half the power.
It's the whirring sound and the "kerchink" as I swap floppies 3 times per mp3 that adds depth to the listening experience.
If you love the "kerchink" of an older floppy drive, I have some older ZIP drives for you that you will LOVE, with a quite distict "CLICK" sound....price negociable or best offer.:D
It will lead lots of different things Like smaller desktop PC'S etc.
Yea, and hover cars. We have been promised smaller computers for 20 years now and the closest thing we have in mass production is a Dell Opti (not bad, I have one). 98% of all pci cards are still the same height as the original ISA (and S100 for that matter). The industry has put more energy into mod cases than smaller designs, and really we have to blame ourselves, since they make what we will buy. While having an aquarium built into your case has a certain degree of cool factor (inverse pun intended) we won't see smaller desktops until people DEMAND them.
We already have the technology and components to make very small and still powerful computers (ie: laptops) but people would rather spend the extra $300 (for the same power) on case mods or better speakers. Perhaps once LCD screens become standard equipment, smaller computers will become more in vogue. Until then, the size of a mid tower doesn't look so big compared to a 19" CRT. Personally I can't wait for computers the size of a CDROM drive, with midlevel+ power, I'm just not holding my breath.
What's impressive to me is that Tom's HG is still this fast , even with all of us checking out the drives. Tom must be the hardware king...
What impresses me is that/. is still quoting Tom's HG here. The last several articles I have read have caused me to lose all respect for them. All fluff, no facts, lots of generalizations, and no real useful information. This has been discussed here previously, and many are like me, and no longer bothering reading Tom's reviews.
They used to be the king, but the king has no clothes. Sorry about the OT, but it's relevent enough if it keeps anyone else from wasting their time.
You do realize that your average athalon can easily double as a heater, don't you? I can't imagine that any Intel technology can keep up with the heat produced by the dual athalon machine in my office without melting the plastic in the case.
Intel chips have been running hotter (mhz to mhz) than AMD for a few years now. This is well documented and has been talked about ad nausium here and elsewhere.
Apple doesn't make the G5 and as you mentioned it is a PPC 970 which is made by IBM. IBM is happy to include it in other machines with the Non-G5 name.
IBM will be making servers with the 970 once they catch up with demand for apple. They are anticipating Quad 970s starting at $3500 for an empty box, which is very cost effective. All of this on IBM's site.
I submitted a couple of stories, plus several other/.ers as well, on this subject. Including benchmarks, etc. My understanding is that Linux is pretty much 970 ready, although some tweaking will go on. The 970 is based on their Power4 chip, and so far has shown to be a real badass. Even Apple's commercials are claiming "the most powerful home computer in the world" about their dual 2.0 box, and the benchmarks seem to back them up.
DARPA started the internet, and DARPA is funded as congress damn well pleases, and funds can be earmarked for certain projects. So yes, Al gore did have a role in creating the internet.
DARPA was started in 1969, while Al Gore was a photographer in Vietnam. He had no role in funding DARPA/Internet at that time, obviously, and anything significantly after that time would not be considered origination. All that Algore created was a great running gag for late night TV.
Well, it is, do not forget it, only a power outage.
Lets not forget the power outage in the 70s. Looting galore. I think since 9-11, the people's attitudes have changed, and riots/looting are much less likely. Fortunately, all the hospitals have generators (77 hospitals in NY city i believe) so it wasn't a problem. Ironically, the generators at the airports failed.
Its not panic thats the real problem, its the Lemming effect. Someone starts looting, others join, and pretty soon everyone has a brand new TV but no electricity.
Reminds me of the LA riots/Rodney King: People were driving up to stores to loot, but they would park perfectly in the designated parking places. I guess they wanted to make sure they didn't get a parking ticket:D A perfect example of how exactly people were not really mad, it was just a great excuse to get a new TV.
They did show a few segments with happy, calm people. One was with a man carying a radio and another was with a party of people holding beers, all cheering, eating some treats and having a good time. They also mentioned that everyone was very calm numerous times. Even now they're interviewing a guy who played a game on his cell phone (who sounds calm, btw).
Actually, that is exactly my point!
Reporter: Are you mad about the power outage? Don't you think more could have been done? Who do you think is at fault?
Person: I don't know, I mean, it happens. We are just checking our neighbors making sure everyone is ok. No big deal, I'm sure they are working on the problem.
Over and over. The newsroom is talking about anger and frustration of people, but they can't seem to show anyone frustrated or mad. Of course they are showing people calmly dealing with it. The news channels don't have a choice: Everyone IS dealing with it calmly, but the newsroom reporting is saying something else. Now at 5.21am EST, the news channels are finally focusing on this. Only took them 12 hours. The news channels starting out trying to hype it, trying to show dispair and anger, and in reality, people are firing up BBQ grills and sharing, using it as an excuse to do a bit of partying.
Ironically, I think 9-11 brought this sharing/caring attitude out in most of us, especially NYers.
Well, to be honest, if it didn't sell, the media wouldn't report it that way. People LOVE catastrophe and doomsday predictions, for some odd reason.
On a similar not, I am witnessing tv hype disaster now. All the power is out in NY, and people have been calmly walking down the street to leave town. Others are "volunteering" to direct traffic, and people are obeying. People are out together in the street with candles, checking on neighbors, almost everyone is calm, even tho with the power out, getting news in was slow and difficult (like 9-11, but much milder). Sure, some will take advantage of the situation, but burglaries happen every night. On the whole, I am pleasantly surprised at how well organized it is, and how well its going so far. Its a success story on dealing, again.
Yet the news channels are TRYING to make it out to be worse than it is. They are saying how people are mad and want to know why this happened, but they can't SHOW someone saying that, they just report that its true. fox/cnn all the same.
The real irony is how calm everyone is, how they are seem to have a "oh well, can't help it, no reason to freak out" attitude even while the news reporters are almost trying to get them to.
On a similar note: We are almost done with the new building, the new PBX is installed, and I went over to their UPS (pitiful small) and noticed the entire system was plugged into the sockets on the UPS marked "accessory". In otherwords, NON BACKUP POWER. By the PBX installers.
Not only do you have to have a UPS, but you have to have the unit plugged into the right juice holes. Dumbasses.
The reason they do not have a specific catagory for SCO (they do for Caldera) is because SCO will not be in business very long, thus the catagory will become a dead one anyway.
If they change their minds and DO make a SCO catagory, I would suggest a jester's head for a logo.
The GPL is being formally challenged in court. I fail to see how that *couldn't* be "News for Nerds" or "Stuff that Matters". This affects *everyone* here, and hundreds of millions of people that don't read/. . The future of Free Software is contingent on the outcome of this allegation.
One point many people miss is that free software is more than Linux. I use Apache for testing on my xp laptop, cygwin, activestate perl, and lots of other free software on my xp boxes. It affects them as well, since the claim is that the GPL is invalid. Lots of people that have never seen linux use free software. This would include GPL, BSD or even home spun licensing that allow free distribution.
In essence, this could bring the entire IT insdustry to a screeching halt for the next five years while everybody figures out who owns what and sues each others bankrupt carcasses over it.
Not at all. Thankfully, we can still continue developing and installing servers thanks to SCO, who will issue you a guaranteed legal license to use your free software. Act now and save! Only $699 per cpu!
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I think this proves that /. doesn't judge the source, onlly the article submitted.
/. I don't go there on my own anymore. The ones that have been posted as articles here on /. lately have not been up to snuff, and instead tend to be alot of words that cause you to go from page to page and look at ads. Toms is not alone in this fact, since the shakeout of 2000+, lots of sites have gone downhill or out of business since the investors and business owners are finally insisting on making money with the sites. IMHO, we seem to still have more tech/hardware sites than the market will support, thus the quality is not great. ./ itself is one of the few exceptions. Many bitch about the lamers and flamers here, but I have been on /. for quite some time, and the % of noise hasn't changed that much, mainly due to moderation. Now, I'm not saying /. is perfect, just has stayed stable in the % of lamers. ;D
In all fairness, not every Toms article sucks, but the only ones I see now are the ones that are posted here on
I, for one, welcome our new Martian Viral overlords....
(sorry, couldn't resist)
What cracks me up about the whole thing is reporters talking about how terrible losing electrical power is for a day- shops closed, food spoiling, no transporation...
And it was 75 degrees last night, hardly a killer night. Keep in mind that millions lose power for 1 to 4 days every year during ice storms, etc. Granted, not all at once, but still, that is worse.
It happened at 4.15pm, on Thursday, half of NY is taking a three day weekend now, so all and all, its a BIG inconvenience, but not a tragedy. Like I said, the only people making a big deal of it is the media. The citizens seem to be dealing quite well. Remember, this is August, the SLOWEST news month of the year since Congress is not in session.
I could be wrong, but last I heard Yakov was still doing his act in Branson, Missouri, which is like Las Vegas...without the gambling, alcohol, ladies and fun. Lots of 700 Club'ers.
and for the first time, a score of: -1 Informative makes sense.
If this little blighter is thriving at 121C, how high can it actually survive. The article mentions that temperatures in this guy's home top out at about 400C. How much heat can these guys actually take before cooking?
And once you have cooked these little iron eating bugs, what kind of wine do you serve with them? Red or white?
I understand that extremophile microbes demonstrate that our conception of a life-supporting environment has heretofore been a little narrow, but recent discoveries keep turning up organisms that live in hot, high-pressure envirtonments, kind of the exact opposite of the conditions on Mars.
Not to mention (or rather TO mention) the fact that the majority of the surface of Mars suffers from terrible temperature swings, and we haven't seen many organisms that can handle temperature swings very well, except some viruses, and most viruses need other organisms as hosts.
No idea about IN SOVIET RUSSIA though mate.
The russian comedian, Yakof Schmirnof (spelling is surely wrong) was well known in the 80s I think, and that was a running gag for him. He lasted slightly longer than the "You can call me Ray" guy....
And these drives with higher rotational speeds could alleviate the last severe bottleneck to good laptop performance.
And they will not help power consumption a bit. Having power consumption "within tolorance" usually means on the high end of tolorance. For a desktop replacement, I agree wholeheartedly. For a notebook, I would prefer more effert put into acceptable speeds at half the power.
It's the whirring sound and the "kerchink" as I swap floppies 3 times per mp3 that adds depth to the listening experience.
:D
If you love the "kerchink" of an older floppy drive, I have some older ZIP drives for you that you will LOVE, with a quite distict "CLICK" sound....price negociable or best offer.
It will lead lots of different things
Like smaller desktop PC'S etc.
Yea, and hover cars. We have been promised smaller computers for 20 years now and the closest thing we have in mass production is a Dell Opti (not bad, I have one). 98% of all pci cards are still the same height as the original ISA (and S100 for that matter). The industry has put more energy into mod cases than smaller designs, and really we have to blame ourselves, since they make what we will buy. While having an aquarium built into your case has a certain degree of cool factor (inverse pun intended) we won't see smaller desktops until people DEMAND them.
We already have the technology and components to make very small and still powerful computers (ie: laptops) but people would rather spend the extra $300 (for the same power) on case mods or better speakers. Perhaps once LCD screens become standard equipment, smaller computers will become more in vogue. Until then, the size of a mid tower doesn't look so big compared to a 19" CRT. Personally I can't wait for computers the size of a CDROM drive, with midlevel+ power, I'm just not holding my breath.
But he did have a role in turning it over for civilian use.
I am guessing that Jesse Helms also voted to turn it over to civilians, but I don't see anyone praising him for it.
What's impressive to me is that Tom's HG is still this fast , even with all of us checking out the drives. Tom must be the hardware king...
/. is still quoting Tom's HG here. The last several articles I have read have caused me to lose all respect for them. All fluff, no facts, lots of generalizations, and no real useful information. This has been discussed here previously, and many are like me, and no longer bothering reading Tom's reviews.
What impresses me is that
They used to be the king, but the king has no clothes. Sorry about the OT, but it's relevent enough if it keeps anyone else from wasting their time.
You do realize that your average athalon can easily double as a heater, don't you? I can't imagine that any Intel technology can keep up with the heat produced by the dual athalon machine in my office without melting the plastic in the case.
Intel chips have been running hotter (mhz to mhz) than AMD for a few years now. This is well documented and has been talked about ad nausium here and elsewhere.
Apple doesn't make the G5 and as you mentioned it is a PPC 970 which is made by IBM. IBM is happy to include it in other machines with the Non-G5 name.
/.ers as well, on this subject. Including benchmarks, etc. My understanding is that Linux is pretty much 970 ready, although some tweaking will go on. The 970 is based on their Power4 chip, and so far has shown to be a real badass. Even Apple's commercials are claiming "the most powerful home computer in the world" about their dual 2.0 box, and the benchmarks seem to back them up.
IBM will be making servers with the 970 once they catch up with demand for apple. They are anticipating Quad 970s starting at $3500 for an empty box, which is very cost effective. All of this on IBM's site.
I submitted a couple of stories, plus several other
DARPA started the internet, and DARPA is funded as congress damn well pleases, and funds can be earmarked for certain projects. So yes, Al gore did have a role in creating the internet.
DARPA was started in 1969, while Al Gore was a photographer in Vietnam. He had no role in funding DARPA/Internet at that time, obviously, and anything significantly after that time would not be considered origination. All that Algore created was a great running gag for late night TV.
Well, it is, do not forget it, only a power outage.
:D A perfect example of how exactly people were not really mad, it was just a great excuse to get a new TV.
Lets not forget the power outage in the 70s. Looting galore. I think since 9-11, the people's attitudes have changed, and riots/looting are much less likely. Fortunately, all the hospitals have generators (77 hospitals in NY city i believe) so it wasn't a problem. Ironically, the generators at the airports failed.
Its not panic thats the real problem, its the Lemming effect. Someone starts looting, others join, and pretty soon everyone has a brand new TV but no electricity.
Reminds me of the LA riots/Rodney King: People were driving up to stores to loot, but they would park perfectly in the designated parking places. I guess they wanted to make sure they didn't get a parking ticket
They did show a few segments with happy, calm people. One was with a man carying a radio and another was with a party of people holding beers, all cheering, eating some treats and having a good time. They also mentioned that everyone was very calm numerous times. Even now they're interviewing a guy who played a game on his cell phone (who sounds calm, btw).
Actually, that is exactly my point!
Reporter: Are you mad about the power outage? Don't you think more could have been done? Who do you think is at fault?
Person: I don't know, I mean, it happens. We are just checking our neighbors making sure everyone is ok. No big deal, I'm sure they are working on the problem.
Over and over. The newsroom is talking about anger and frustration of people, but they can't seem to show anyone frustrated or mad. Of course they are showing people calmly dealing with it. The news channels don't have a choice: Everyone IS dealing with it calmly, but the newsroom reporting is saying something else. Now at 5.21am EST, the news channels are finally focusing on this. Only took them 12 hours. The news channels starting out trying to hype it, trying to show dispair and anger, and in reality, people are firing up BBQ grills and sharing, using it as an excuse to do a bit of partying.
Ironically, I think 9-11 brought this sharing/caring attitude out in most of us, especially NYers.
Well, to be honest, if it didn't sell, the media wouldn't report it that way. People LOVE catastrophe and doomsday predictions, for some odd reason.
On a similar not, I am witnessing tv hype disaster now. All the power is out in NY, and people have been calmly walking down the street to leave town. Others are "volunteering" to direct traffic, and people are obeying. People are out together in the street with candles, checking on neighbors, almost everyone is calm, even tho with the power out, getting news in was slow and difficult (like 9-11, but much milder). Sure, some will take advantage of the situation, but burglaries happen every night. On the whole, I am pleasantly surprised at how well organized it is, and how well its going so far. Its a success story on dealing, again.
Yet the news channels are TRYING to make it out to be worse than it is. They are saying how people are mad and want to know why this happened, but they can't SHOW someone saying that, they just report that its true. fox/cnn all the same.
The real irony is how calm everyone is, how they are seem to have a "oh well, can't help it, no reason to freak out" attitude even while the news reporters are almost trying to get them to.
On a similar note: We are almost done with the new building, the new PBX is installed, and I went over to their UPS (pitiful small) and noticed the entire system was plugged into the sockets on the UPS marked "accessory". In otherwords, NON BACKUP POWER. By the PBX installers.
Not only do you have to have a UPS, but you have to have the unit plugged into the right juice holes. Dumbasses.
Is that related to Bill Gates having been last seen in N.Y. with a pair of pliers is his hand and a silly grin on his face ?
No. The pliers were from his recent self inflicted hair cut. The silly grin is purely OEM.
The reason they do not have a specific catagory for SCO (they do for Caldera) is because SCO will not be in business very long, thus the catagory will become a dead one anyway.
If they change their minds and DO make a SCO catagory, I would suggest a jester's head for a logo.
Actualy, this is the same lawyer who defended Napster, and prosecuted Microsoft.
And after all, he did a great job with those two, didn't he? Don't forget his participation in the 2000 election.
The GPL is being formally challenged in court. I fail to see how that *couldn't* be "News for Nerds" or "Stuff that Matters". This affects *everyone* here, and hundreds of millions of people that don't read /. . The future of Free Software is contingent on the outcome of this allegation.
One point many people miss is that free software is more than Linux. I use Apache for testing on my xp laptop, cygwin, activestate perl, and lots of other free software on my xp boxes. It affects them as well, since the claim is that the GPL is invalid. Lots of people that have never seen linux use free software. This would include GPL, BSD or even home spun licensing that allow free distribution.
Free software > Linux
In essence, this could bring the entire IT insdustry to a screeching halt for the next five years while everybody figures out who owns what and sues each others bankrupt carcasses over it.
Not at all. Thankfully, we can still continue developing and installing servers thanks to SCO, who will issue you a guaranteed legal license to use your free software. Act now and save! Only $699 per cpu!