Which is one of the reasons I don't use them. Both McD and BK are painfully slow with long queues, even in the drive ins. At KFC it is fast though, I always get what I order instantly. Don't have to wait in queue 5-10 minutes and then another 5 minutes for them to make what I order(usually how it goes at McD). At least at McD they are good at finding the table I am sitting at when they finally have made what I ordered.
Most of my friends see the irony that McD is called fast food. And now I only visit them once or twice every year. They are not fast enough when I am in a hurry to make up for the low quality meal you are getting.
Fine, if you want a limited internet connection, so be it. I am not interested in a "internet light" edition. I just want a connection that transports packets for me. I don't have any kids, nor will I ever get any. I can't see why I should have "opt-out" of the nannyweb, If you must sell crippled lines then sell them as nannynet connections instead of internet connections.
When I looked at the pictures, my first thought was that it would not be more silent, since it still would have to move the same heat, while it might be good for overclocking. But I guess that there is a possibility of it running quietly since there are a bigger surface area for the air to move the heat than on a normal GPU cooling fan and heatsink.
I made my own PC watercooled about 1½ year ago with the purpose to make it more silent. My idea was to cool the CPU and GPU using both passive and active cooling. I got a radiator from Innovatek.de for passive cooling inside and a small deep one for the inside for active cooling with a Papst fan. Then I got a microcontroller that can run on its own, measure the water temperature and control fans, as well a a emergency shutdown if the water gets too hot or the pump fails. The end result were fantastic, the PC runs almost silent when doing anything than playing games(which I don't do much anymore) but when playing games it still have the power. It manages to run mostly with passive cooling when not playing games. It is so silent that you have to look at the power LED to make sure that you have turned the PC on. When I do play games and the water starts heating up, the microcontroller starts the watercooling fan and adjusts the speed to keep the temperature down. On mistake that I did make was that I went into it with my usual approach of reading tons of reviews on the internet to find the best cooling CPU/GPU heads and generally getting parts from different vendors that I determined would make the best solution. Exept from the internal radiator that was deeper than any other I could find, I can now see that it didn't matter which parts I used when I was not going to do overclocking. It is better to stick with parts from one vendor so you don't have problems getting them to fit or work together. Like different sizes of tubes etc. Also the microcontroller from one vendor could not monitor the pump for another.
Heh, me too. I thought my X800 were cool, but I must admit that the latest year, I have found other things in life that were more important to me than having the latest grahics card. I don't even play games much anymore, so my purchase of the X800 ended up in being a waste of money, plus have this "funny" bug of the 2 pixels in the lower right of the screen, being duplicated across the first line on my HP LCD screen.(Problem first shows when installing the ati drivers).
Second, it seems that all new cards are PCI-Express. I have a 3.2 GHz machine with AGP and with the lack of development in processing speeds(and the lack of more speed for non-gaming purposes) it seems unlikely that I would upgrade my motherboard.
I agree, I would REALLY like a Mac Mini as PVR, but I don't think it is usable for me.
I have been searching for info about it's PVR features, but I haven't found any.
It seems to lack two things: I want to be able to record two channels at one time and I guess that can be solved by two USB tuners. I want TV schedules so it can record series without me having to specify recording times. And I doubt that it will be possible to get TV schedules for Scandinavia.
I have a Media Center right now and with the rollup package 2 which works fine for me. It is the only PVR I can buy that has TV schedules for my country. Even the harddisk recorders does not have it.
I could go for a opensource solution, which I tried, but I am not in the mood for a box that requires lots of configuration on my part(like figuring out how to get TV schedules on it, getting the remote to work etc).
But it seems like the right thing for Apple to make a PVR now. With possibility to subscribe and download TV series(US only, so I can't use it) from Itunes(?), this device fits nicely into their with their current products.
Yes but it never did help Novell to appeal to the tech guys, now did it? They should have learned something from Microsoft 10 years, never mind the tech people having to work with it, but clever marketing directed at the suits (to which Novell sounds old). (And when you got them, THEN you can make a reliable product, but that is another story:D)
Indeed, there were a lot of details that was included. I think it was good.
Lately I have seen a ad/teaser/whatever-it-is-called-in-english for The Simpsons with a clip from Homer in space, only he eats the tv station logo instead of chips. Is that something that is done worldwide? Like when some from a sitcom says "you are watching Fjeård TV(or whatever)".
Norton can be a pain in the ass. specially if you run websites that features URLs(or images) with big numbers, like fx. a slashdot page url. Then you get to talk to people that thinks that one of your sites has transmitted their creditcard number or at least a part of it.
It doesn't seem to be any problems for the teens of today. The thumb are just flying over the keys, it is not exactly one letter pr. second. I guess it is just a matter of getting used to it. I am too old for that crap.
Exactly, I am NOT going to buy a single player game that requires online activation. I want a box with disc and a serial number so that I can install and play the game no matter if I have internet or not, or have forgotten one of the 1000 passwords I have to remember these days.
but [on] the other [hand], one can't [say] that your average [linux] distribution [runs] [great] on all graphic [cards]. While [it] runs on many [chipsets], unlike [windows], the [performance] are [dog] slow [unless] you [have] a [proper] graphics [card], specially [in] high [resolutions],
No one I know of wants to watch it. I think it will be in the middle of the night or something here. But there are some who thinks it is cool, so they sit and watch it and drink some american beer(god knows why, if it had to be exotic I'd choose some microbrewery instead, local or imported, instead of fx. Budwiser). Some channels have also started showing american football the last years. But it is kind of like RSS. It is supposed to be cool, but I can't find anyone who uses it. In the case of american football it seems like some tv channels like to hype it. Now the poker fad has set in and there are tons of poker shows on tv. yawn, I'd rather take american football instead.
Personally I have watched some of a game or two. And it seemed rather comical to me. There like 20 seconds of gameplay and then they players left the field. and you were watching the show hosts talk for a couple of minutes. then another 20 seconds of players falling into each other. But I guess it is perfect for american tv with all their comercial breaks. There are a lot of cultural differences when it comes to sport, even between the western countries. I think it is great for americans that they have a big event that they all join in on, every country has that. I just don't think anyone outside USA cares much about it.
I bet that in the beginning, it will run on many platforms. So there is no excuse for not using it. Then, when they have killed Flash, there will come a new version that only runs on a Microsoft platform because of some feature. Of course the inner workings will be closed due to some DRM thing or whatever so no you can't make a 100% compatible open source version.
At least that is how the normally do it, so why shouldn't they do it with Mr. Sparkle?
"People make no effort to save energy," That might be true in England, I don't know But I am sick and tired of powersaving lightbulbs(the light are awful, lacks colors), water saving showerheads, cold houses, offices etc because 19c should be enough. Big houses with tiny windows to keep the heat in. I sure think about how much I drive and try to car pool when i have to pay 2$ for 1 liter fuel for my car(would that be 7$ for a gallon?).
And what was the reward for saving water? The price doubled. A funny sidenote was that the water was flowing so slow in some places that the waterworks were concerned about the water not being fresh when arriving. But city expansions should take care of that.
Bring back the spirit of the old seasons, although The Simpsons have been in a worse state than today, they still seem to have lost their edge. But maybe it is just the world that has changed.:) I used to watch each and every episode, I even drove an hour to a friend to se the latest episodes. He had a satellite dish with a decoder for a UK channel that we couldn't get unless you knew someone in England who would buy it and send it to you. We saw the latest episodes there instead of having to wait 2-3 years before our own channels picked it up. So I had quite a dedication to see the show.
It really shows the sad state most "news media" are in. I guess most of them have no real journalists any more. Why does no one asks what serious damage this could do or why the are overreacting so much? It's rare these days to see any asking questions instead of just running with the hysteria of a given event. sigh. Maybe it is just news for stupid people and I am looking at the wrong media.
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Which is one of the reasons I don't use them. Both McD and BK are painfully slow with long queues, even in the drive ins. At KFC it is fast though, I always get what I order instantly. Don't have to wait in queue 5-10 minutes and then another 5 minutes for them to make what I order(usually how it goes at McD). At least at McD they are good at finding the table I am sitting at when they finally have made what I ordered.
Most of my friends see the irony that McD is called fast food. And now I only visit them once or twice every year. They are not fast enough when I am in a hurry to make up for the low quality meal you are getting.
you can bet your house on it will be in beta(the online version of being afraid of commitment). :)
Fine, if you want a limited internet connection, so be it.
I am not interested in a "internet light" edition. I just want a connection that transports packets for me. I don't have any kids, nor will I ever get any. I can't see why I should have "opt-out" of the nannyweb, If you must sell crippled lines then sell them as nannynet connections instead of internet connections.
When I looked at the pictures, my first thought was that it would not be more silent, since it still would have to move the same heat, while it might be good for overclocking. But I guess that there is a possibility of it running quietly since there are a bigger surface area for the air to move the heat than on a normal GPU cooling fan and heatsink.
I made my own PC watercooled about 1½ year ago with the purpose to make it more silent. My idea was to cool the CPU and GPU using both passive and active cooling.
I got a radiator from Innovatek.de for passive cooling inside and a small deep one for the inside for active cooling with a Papst fan.
Then I got a microcontroller that can run on its own, measure the water temperature and control fans, as well a a emergency shutdown if the water gets too hot or the pump fails.
The end result were fantastic, the PC runs almost silent when doing anything than playing games(which I don't do much anymore) but when playing games it still have the power. It manages to run mostly with passive cooling when not playing games. It is so silent that you have to look at the power LED to make sure that you have turned the PC on. When I do play games and the water starts heating up, the microcontroller starts the watercooling fan and adjusts the speed to keep the temperature down.
On mistake that I did make was that I went into it with my usual approach of reading tons of reviews on the internet to find the best cooling CPU/GPU heads and generally getting parts from different vendors that I determined would make the best solution. Exept from the internal radiator that was deeper than any other I could find, I can now see that it didn't matter which parts I used when I was not going to do overclocking.
It is better to stick with parts from one vendor so you don't have problems getting them to fit or work together. Like different sizes of tubes etc. Also the microcontroller from one vendor could not monitor the pump for another.
I hear some people complaning that their ambilight emits a buzzing sound after some time after getting the TV, could that be part of the same problem?
Heh, me too.
I thought my X800 were cool, but I must admit that the latest year, I have found other things in life that were more important to me than having the latest grahics card. I don't even play games much anymore, so my purchase of the X800 ended up in being a waste of money, plus have this "funny" bug of the 2 pixels in the lower right of the screen, being duplicated across the first line on my HP LCD screen.(Problem first shows when installing the ati drivers).
Second, it seems that all new cards are PCI-Express. I have a 3.2 GHz machine with AGP and with the lack of development in processing speeds(and the lack of more speed for non-gaming purposes) it seems unlikely that I would upgrade my motherboard.
I agree, I would REALLY like a Mac Mini as PVR, but I don't think it is usable for me.
I have been searching for info about it's PVR features, but I haven't found any.
It seems to lack two things:
I want to be able to record two channels at one time and I guess that can be solved by two USB tuners.
I want TV schedules so it can record series without me having to specify recording times. And I doubt that it will be possible to get TV schedules for Scandinavia.
I have a Media Center right now and with the rollup package 2 which works fine for me. It is the only PVR I can buy that has TV schedules for my country. Even the harddisk recorders does not have it.
I could go for a opensource solution, which I tried, but I am not in the mood for a box that requires lots of configuration on my part(like figuring out how to get TV schedules on it, getting the remote to work etc).
But it seems like the right thing for Apple to make a PVR now. With possibility to subscribe and download TV series(US only, so I can't use it) from Itunes(?), this device fits nicely into their with their current products.
Yes but it never did help Novell to appeal to the tech guys, now did it? :D)
They should have learned something from Microsoft 10 years, never mind the tech people having to work with it, but clever marketing directed at the suits (to which Novell sounds old).
(And when you got them, THEN you can make a reliable product, but that is another story
Indeed, there were a lot of details that was included. I think it was good.
Lately I have seen a ad/teaser/whatever-it-is-called-in-english for The Simpsons with a clip from Homer in space, only he eats the tv station logo instead of chips. Is that something that is done worldwide? Like when some from a sitcom says "you are watching Fjeård TV(or whatever)".
Norton can be a pain in the ass. specially if you run websites that features URLs(or images) with big numbers, like fx. a slashdot page url.
Then you get to talk to people that thinks that one of your sites has transmitted their creditcard number or at least a part of it.
It doesn't seem to be any problems for the teens of today. The thumb are just flying over the keys, it is not exactly one letter pr. second. I guess it is just a matter of getting used to it. I am too old for that crap.
Exactly, I am NOT going to buy a single player game that requires online activation. I want a box with disc and a serial number so that I can install and play the game no matter if I have internet or not, or have forgotten one of the 1000 passwords I have to remember these days.
but [on] the other [hand], one can't [say] that your average [linux] distribution [runs] [great] on all graphic [cards]. While [it] runs on many [chipsets], unlike [windows], the [performance] are [dog] slow [unless] you [have] a [proper] graphics [card], specially [in] high [resolutions],
No one I know of wants to watch it. I think it will be in the middle of the night or something here.
But there are some who thinks it is cool, so they sit and watch it and drink some american beer(god knows why, if it had to be exotic I'd choose some microbrewery instead, local or imported, instead of fx. Budwiser). Some channels have also started showing american football the last years. But it is kind of like RSS. It is supposed to be cool, but I can't find anyone who uses it. In the case of american football it seems like some tv channels like to hype it.
Now the poker fad has set in and there are tons of poker shows on tv. yawn, I'd rather take american football instead.
Personally I have watched some of a game or two. And it seemed rather comical to me. There like 20 seconds of gameplay and then they players left the field. and you were watching the show hosts talk for a couple of minutes. then another 20 seconds of players falling into each other. But I guess it is perfect for american tv with all their comercial breaks.
There are a lot of cultural differences when it comes to sport, even between the western countries. I think it is great for americans that they have a big event that they all join in on, every country has that. I just don't think anyone outside USA cares much about it.
heh. Well I was in a hurry.
hmm a 486x60000 CPU or at 486x60010 drop in replacement for that 7% performance gain.
I bet that in the beginning, it will run on many platforms. So there is no excuse for not using it. Then, when they have killed Flash, there will come a new version that only runs on a Microsoft platform because of some feature. Of course the inner workings will be closed due to some DRM thing or whatever so no you can't make a 100% compatible open source version.
At least that is how the normally do it, so why shouldn't they do it with Mr. Sparkle?
I'll bet it won't be displaying annoying ads on my Linux desktop. :)
So they defined 468x60?
Well, that school site, is still down it seems.
Could be fun with a follow up to that. I'll bet they find some lame excuse and blame everyone.
"People make no effort to save energy,"
That might be true in England, I don't know
But I am sick and tired of powersaving lightbulbs(the light are awful, lacks colors), water saving showerheads, cold houses, offices etc because 19c should be enough. Big houses with tiny windows to keep the heat in. I sure think about how much I drive and try to car pool when i have to pay 2$ for 1 liter fuel for my car(would that be 7$ for a gallon?).
And what was the reward for saving water? The price doubled. A funny sidenote was that the water was flowing so slow in some places that the waterworks were concerned about the water not being fresh when arriving. But city expansions should take care of that.
Bring back the spirit of the old seasons, although The Simpsons have been in a worse state than today, they still seem to have lost their edge. But maybe it is just the world that has changed. :)
I used to watch each and every episode, I even drove an hour to a friend to se the latest episodes. He had a satellite dish with a decoder for a UK channel that we couldn't get unless you knew someone in England who would buy it and send it to you. We saw the latest episodes there instead of having to wait 2-3 years before our own channels picked it up. So I had quite a dedication to see the show.
It really shows the sad state most "news media" are in. I guess most of them have no real journalists any more. Why does no one asks what serious damage this could do or why the are overreacting so much?
It's rare these days to see any asking questions instead of just running with the hysteria of a given event. sigh.
Maybe it is just news for stupid people and I am looking at the wrong media.
It came with the machine sadly. I have been thinking about moving back to w2k. At least with w2k you had some control with the task manager.
people who cares a about karma should get a life. :D
blah blah blah blah just some random text to mod down BLAH!
Come on, burn my points.