It was hot as hell in there! At least 85. But still, it was a computer lab classroom so it was 1 mac surrounded by about 30 PCs all with socket 775 Pentium 4 w/HT (and those run HOT!) and not a single PC overheated. Just the 2 inch thick, fanless mac. And this was like 5 years ago so no, it did not have fans, person who attempted to correct me above. We all put our hands around it. It had no air coming out of anywhere.
They do seem to cap the upper limit at a VERY low level. You can't just skyrocket it then post offensive stuff with the padding, lol. I don't know if it's variable or not but this new account (lol) seems to have a lot more padding against hater mod-downs than my old one.
Acer made a shockingly similar one several years ago but with an Atom chip (so no overheating problems, lol) and it was slow, the touchscreen was sluggish, and overall it sucked lol.
I know that ITX cases almost always have fans. I just threw that in there because Steve Jobs made the same mistake in like 1982 as he did in 2011 with style over function causing severe overheating problems.
We got in a 27" iMac at my college and because Steve Jobs liked to cram everything into an impossibly small box and didn't like fans, it didn't work so well. It shut itself down an average of 3 times per class period due to overheating and they got rid of it after a week. So, why exactly would I want to make the same mistake with my build? Also,
highly integrated systems like the iMac have traditionally made it difficult to replace or upgrade parts
Yeah! I can just about park my car inside my Coolermaster Centurion, thank you.
They know damn well that trade ins fund new games. What they really want is a cut. Well, guess what. Gamestop makes money off used games so that's a huge "NO" from them and if they pursue legal means, well, that's a dead end. Autodesk (makers of AutoCAD) attempted to stop everyone from reselling their software after its initial purchase and completely and utterly lost that court case. They must have thought they were some sort of magical exemption from a free market economy.
Why, you ask? To embed ads in it. They would have to name it "ad-fucked Linux." Every time I close a game I paid big money for, it shows me multiple ads for other games. That is ridiculous! They're greedy assholes. Also, every piece of software they themselves write SUCKS. It's obvious they put no effort into it or testing it and possibly have foreigners write it to save money. People on slashdot lately really seem to be thinking Valve and Dell and HP and a bunch of other primarily evil companies should handle Linux because they definitely won't ever mishandle it...you know, like everything else they touch gets mishandled.
I don't want Dell or HP or any of those clueless, evil assholes anywhere near Linux. They'd have to charge for support so Linux would effectively not be free anymore. Their support is HORRIBLE and they'd have 10x the call-ins because people are used to Windows so they'd effectively turn the entire world against Linux solely by their clueless support staff. They'd load all that free trial garbage-ware on the system too and all their crappy, barely working utilities. Leave it up to small shops like the one I own to distribute Linux, which is not "commercial" really. Then we're working with free and the big guys are working with a $50/copy Windows license. That evens up the odds A LOT considering right now people like me pay $100 each Windows license. Hey look, it's exactly the opposite $50 unfair advantage.
It fails to state just how not good we are at detecting neutrinos. If all the matter across the interior of the planet doesn't stop/defelct the neutrino, some little foot long antenna or something isn't going to either. They're not nearly that easily detectable. Let's see...what do I know of that we have right now that already solves this problem? Oh yeah, entangled particles. I think the record is like 10 feet away from each other but if we can get them 15,000 miles away from each other, tada, a delay of 0. Nobody seems to have any explanation for why we can't move them farther away from each other but once we get that fixed, there isn't a whole lot more to it than that.
I don't know this technology inside and out but it sounds to me like it's such a simplistic BIOS change, just programming an alternate BIOS is simple. It wouldn't be some custom $300 motherboard. I could see them tacking an extra $5-10 tops on a board like that.
I can even cite precedent on the realism level of my assessment. A decent amount of customers want to overclock their computers. I've never, ever seen a motherboard from any manufacturer like Dell or HP or Acer that lets you overclock it. It's a custom BIOS that locks you out of those options. You'd be hard pressed to find a motherboard bought separately retail that doesn't let you overclock it. It started with just a hand full, now everyone offers it. So ASUS will be like "Oh crap, MSI released a non-EUFI secure boot board and now we lost half our customers!" and they'll make one too. Then Gigabyte will be like "oh crap, they both released one! Don't want to get left behind or we'll lost customers too!" and soon everyone can overclock their products and everyone can boot whatever they want on their products.
You forgot ghosts! If it detects vaguely moving, inaccurately shaped blobs through a wall but isn't real clear if something is really there or not and it can't tell the difference between an owl, a coffee table, and a human, the Ghost Hunters will be all over it! This will spark a whole new series of their show! ERMEHGERD!!! BLOB! MUST B GHOSTZ!
That's just what they want you to think. It's actually the antigravity drive reverse engineered from the alien spaceship at Area 51 causing air molecules to "fall up" out of their lungs:-P
This is the stupidest made up bullshit I've ever heard. At 50 year intervals, the sample size is like 3 or something. That's well within the range of coincidence! Since people going totally apeshit doesn't happen for no reason, I'd say it's more reason based than some natural recurring phenomenon based on time.
Hey, speaking of Apple, weren't they the ones that locked everyone's OSes out of their hardware and locked their hardware out of everyone else's OSes for like a decade? They're still around and nobody seemed to have a problem with them doing that, which pisses me off.
Your future prediction is unrealistic. Where there's a demand, there's a product. One of the major motherboard manufacturers will release a linux-capable board without all this locked down bullshit loaded onto it. You ever hear of these things called cell phones? The makers unlock them so damn fast when their carrier exclusivity contract runs out, it's insane. So with a limited number of boards, then Linux devs will only have a worry about a very narrow amount of drivers to support, which will be a huge improvement over the situation right now. Linux will vastly improve in performance because of it, MS will probably have multiple glitches that lock itself out of booting, viruses will infect the MBR anyway (or whatever this was allegedly supposed to prevent) and Linux will take over the world.
I can't imagine how one word of that would be inaccurate.
Rumor is, if you turn off all the lights in your bathroom and spin around three times, every time saying "Bing," then turn on the lights, Google will ban your Google+ account.
The correct answer is: to waste all Zynga's money on legal fees to the point where it's not actually profitable to operate the game anymore.
By the way, you don't mess with EA. You piss them off, they'll ride a helicopter to your house and drop a bomb on it. EA gets pretty pissy about pretty stupid shit lol. Just search "EA" on slashdot to get a good idea how they react to just about anything.
I don't understand one bit of this, and since there's less than 25 replies thus far, slashdot rules state I have to post without RTFA lol. So NASA gets government funding and now they're using it to make commercial products to sell and make money on (like satellite launches I assume) which is almost another Solindra. Then they take the majority of the money and hand it over to completely private companies, which is another Solindra.
Sounds like a great use of my tax dollars to me...oh wait no, the other thing. It's bullshit. If someone is going to make a profit, get a fucking loan or something and don't touch my tax dollars. That's not what they're for! They're basically for the government buying stuff for me like roads and the FBI and army protection, not free investment capital for a company that won't ever pay me back in any way shape or form.
Is it still homophobic if actual homosexuals hate the term and hate guys who "act metro" because they see it as a useless parody of an actual gay person or it's someone totally living in the closet? Oops, did I just tear a hole on your angry gay rights post's logic? Maybe you should think before you post instead of just raging.
And I'm sure it had absolutely nothing to do with bad connotations to the more popular definition of the word, an extremely effeminate but not gay male.
People aren't mad over Wikipedia's overall accuracy level, which I'm sure is fantastic. They're mad that they can edit any single specific thing to say whatever they want. I don't care if Wikipedia is 99.999999% accurate if I can hit edit and say Barack Obama was born on Mars. It's importance of information combined with ease of editing it that makes Wikipedia lose all respect.
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It was hot as hell in there! At least 85. But still, it was a computer lab classroom so it was 1 mac surrounded by about 30 PCs all with socket 775 Pentium 4 w/HT (and those run HOT!) and not a single PC overheated. Just the 2 inch thick, fanless mac. And this was like 5 years ago so no, it did not have fans, person who attempted to correct me above. We all put our hands around it. It had no air coming out of anywhere.
They do seem to cap the upper limit at a VERY low level. You can't just skyrocket it then post offensive stuff with the padding, lol. I don't know if it's variable or not but this new account (lol) seems to have a lot more padding against hater mod-downs than my old one.
Acer made a shockingly similar one several years ago but with an Atom chip (so no overheating problems, lol) and it was slow, the touchscreen was sluggish, and overall it sucked lol.
I know that ITX cases almost always have fans. I just threw that in there because Steve Jobs made the same mistake in like 1982 as he did in 2011 with style over function causing severe overheating problems.
highly integrated systems like the iMac have traditionally made it difficult to replace or upgrade parts
Yeah! I can just about park my car inside my Coolermaster Centurion, thank you.
I think Scripps Local News broadcast building is about to have a satellite or rocket land on it. Don't fuck with NASA lol.
They know damn well that trade ins fund new games. What they really want is a cut. Well, guess what. Gamestop makes money off used games so that's a huge "NO" from them and if they pursue legal means, well, that's a dead end. Autodesk (makers of AutoCAD) attempted to stop everyone from reselling their software after its initial purchase and completely and utterly lost that court case. They must have thought they were some sort of magical exemption from a free market economy.
Why, you ask? To embed ads in it. They would have to name it "ad-fucked Linux." Every time I close a game I paid big money for, it shows me multiple ads for other games. That is ridiculous! They're greedy assholes. Also, every piece of software they themselves write SUCKS. It's obvious they put no effort into it or testing it and possibly have foreigners write it to save money. People on slashdot lately really seem to be thinking Valve and Dell and HP and a bunch of other primarily evil companies should handle Linux because they definitely won't ever mishandle it...you know, like everything else they touch gets mishandled.
I don't want Dell or HP or any of those clueless, evil assholes anywhere near Linux. They'd have to charge for support so Linux would effectively not be free anymore. Their support is HORRIBLE and they'd have 10x the call-ins because people are used to Windows so they'd effectively turn the entire world against Linux solely by their clueless support staff. They'd load all that free trial garbage-ware on the system too and all their crappy, barely working utilities. Leave it up to small shops like the one I own to distribute Linux, which is not "commercial" really. Then we're working with free and the big guys are working with a $50/copy Windows license. That evens up the odds A LOT considering right now people like me pay $100 each Windows license. Hey look, it's exactly the opposite $50 unfair advantage.
It fails to state just how not good we are at detecting neutrinos. If all the matter across the interior of the planet doesn't stop/defelct the neutrino, some little foot long antenna or something isn't going to either. They're not nearly that easily detectable. Let's see...what do I know of that we have right now that already solves this problem? Oh yeah, entangled particles. I think the record is like 10 feet away from each other but if we can get them 15,000 miles away from each other, tada, a delay of 0. Nobody seems to have any explanation for why we can't move them farther away from each other but once we get that fixed, there isn't a whole lot more to it than that.
I don't know this technology inside and out but it sounds to me like it's such a simplistic BIOS change, just programming an alternate BIOS is simple. It wouldn't be some custom $300 motherboard. I could see them tacking an extra $5-10 tops on a board like that.
I can even cite precedent on the realism level of my assessment. A decent amount of customers want to overclock their computers. I've never, ever seen a motherboard from any manufacturer like Dell or HP or Acer that lets you overclock it. It's a custom BIOS that locks you out of those options. You'd be hard pressed to find a motherboard bought separately retail that doesn't let you overclock it. It started with just a hand full, now everyone offers it. So ASUS will be like "Oh crap, MSI released a non-EUFI secure boot board and now we lost half our customers!" and they'll make one too. Then Gigabyte will be like "oh crap, they both released one! Don't want to get left behind or we'll lost customers too!" and soon everyone can overclock their products and everyone can boot whatever they want on their products.
You forgot ghosts! If it detects vaguely moving, inaccurately shaped blobs through a wall but isn't real clear if something is really there or not and it can't tell the difference between an owl, a coffee table, and a human, the Ghost Hunters will be all over it! This will spark a whole new series of their show! ERMEHGERD!!! BLOB! MUST B GHOSTZ!
And how about you go type that statement you just gave out on an ipad's touch keyboard, Tim Cook. You might change your mind halfway through.
That's just what they want you to think. It's actually the antigravity drive reverse engineered from the alien spaceship at Area 51 causing air molecules to "fall up" out of their lungs :-P
This is the stupidest made up bullshit I've ever heard. At 50 year intervals, the sample size is like 3 or something. That's well within the range of coincidence! Since people going totally apeshit doesn't happen for no reason, I'd say it's more reason based than some natural recurring phenomenon based on time.
Hey, speaking of Apple, weren't they the ones that locked everyone's OSes out of their hardware and locked their hardware out of everyone else's OSes for like a decade? They're still around and nobody seemed to have a problem with them doing that, which pisses me off.
Your future prediction is unrealistic. Where there's a demand, there's a product. One of the major motherboard manufacturers will release a linux-capable board without all this locked down bullshit loaded onto it. You ever hear of these things called cell phones? The makers unlock them so damn fast when their carrier exclusivity contract runs out, it's insane. So with a limited number of boards, then Linux devs will only have a worry about a very narrow amount of drivers to support, which will be a huge improvement over the situation right now. Linux will vastly improve in performance because of it, MS will probably have multiple glitches that lock itself out of booting, viruses will infect the MBR anyway (or whatever this was allegedly supposed to prevent) and Linux will take over the world.
I can't imagine how one word of that would be inaccurate.
Rumor is, if you turn off all the lights in your bathroom and spin around three times, every time saying "Bing," then turn on the lights, Google will ban your Google+ account.
The correct answer is: to waste all Zynga's money on legal fees to the point where it's not actually profitable to operate the game anymore.
By the way, you don't mess with EA. You piss them off, they'll ride a helicopter to your house and drop a bomb on it. EA gets pretty pissy about pretty stupid shit lol. Just search "EA" on slashdot to get a good idea how they react to just about anything.
I don't understand one bit of this, and since there's less than 25 replies thus far, slashdot rules state I have to post without RTFA lol. So NASA gets government funding and now they're using it to make commercial products to sell and make money on (like satellite launches I assume) which is almost another Solindra. Then they take the majority of the money and hand it over to completely private companies, which is another Solindra.
Sounds like a great use of my tax dollars to me...oh wait no, the other thing. It's bullshit. If someone is going to make a profit, get a fucking loan or something and don't touch my tax dollars. That's not what they're for! They're basically for the government buying stuff for me like roads and the FBI and army protection, not free investment capital for a company that won't ever pay me back in any way shape or form.
Is it still homophobic if actual homosexuals hate the term and hate guys who "act metro" because they see it as a useless parody of an actual gay person or it's someone totally living in the closet? Oops, did I just tear a hole on your angry gay rights post's logic? Maybe you should think before you post instead of just raging.
Are you aware that metro basically means "acting gay" and is short for metrosexual and everyone in America knows that but you apparently?
And I'm sure it had absolutely nothing to do with bad connotations to the more popular definition of the word, an extremely effeminate but not gay male.
People aren't mad over Wikipedia's overall accuracy level, which I'm sure is fantastic. They're mad that they can edit any single specific thing to say whatever they want. I don't care if Wikipedia is 99.999999% accurate if I can hit edit and say Barack Obama was born on Mars. It's importance of information combined with ease of editing it that makes Wikipedia lose all respect.
The judge's job is to judge the case in court.
And yet when Apple illegally showed the F700 which was equally non-admissible she did...what? Oh yeah, nothing. She's one crooked bitch.