If there are no particles moving at all, how does empty space have energy? It's the textbook definition of lack of energy. Empty space cannot impart energy on matter and it can't spontaneously create matter. There's some theory about virtual particles but their net energy is zero when they combine so that's not it. Can anyone explain why empty space has energy?
"Microsoft specified it would only be free for the first year, indicating Windows would be software that users subscribe to, rather than buy outright."
They also announced the Xbox One will spy on you with its mic and camera while it's powered off and disallow used game sales. How'd that go, Microsoft?
Here's why this is stupid. It takes an immense amount of battery power to beam a signal back to a satellite. So if you're out in Argentina in the forest, you better have brought a car battery along to power that laptop's satellite transmitter.
And yet nothing is done about the 10+ year ongoing fraud from iyogi and other pretend support companies. Go ahead, type "Hp support" or "microsoft support" or "samsung support" into google and look at the ads.
AI can be programmed to kill people and it can be programmed to adapt and alter itself and I don't think I need to mention that programming can have flaws and glitches. So yes, you should be afraid of AI! It has the power, means, and potential to attack and kill a lot of humans if something goes wrong. Think of a Toyota accelerating out of control due to some bad code except a robot that's more intelligent, can move around more, has fewer weaknesses, and is designed to kill humans as a military device. It is absolutely, 100% realistic to think it might be dangerous.
Not if they get a nuke. Since Islam is an incredibly violent, sexist, evil false religion (source cited: the Quran) it should simply be outlawed everywhere. I don't give a fuck about religious freedom. All that does is allow Scientology to exist.
The golden rule of most investments is "it's only a loss when you sell it." I mined 43 BTC about 3 years ago and I was mining at a 2:1 loss on electricity for most of it but I just held the coins. Then I sold them and my rig hardware when BTC was at $5.20 or so and made a slight profit. If you're mining at a loss or profits are down, just wait to sell the coins!
Oh good, 2025 is just in time. Just ask any scientist. What they should do is get that damn fusion reactor working before 2020 so we don't have to dig up or process the oil (or burn it) in the first place!
Here's what I do to set up a new PC with IMGBurn and a couple other bundled software that I still want on every PC I build. Put the installer on a flash drive, drop the computer off the internet for a bit, run the installer. Any installer I've ever seen contacts to the internet to see what the top-bid scam of the month is that it should download and if it can't immediately contact the internet, it simply skips the malware installation step. Then reconnect to the internet and configure the software to never check for an update.
This is ridiculous. Win7 is all I sell on new PCs at my shop. Nobody wants 8.1. No business with a brain rolled it out. They damn well better extend support past 2020 as well because our business just got rid of XP needlessly on single purpose desktops.
Why the hell are we waiting? We have like a dozen volcanic eruptions worth of climate change data just from the last 200 years or so to prove it works. If a mountain and arbitrarily launch dust into the atmosphere and we record worldwide temperature drops, that's all the experimenting I need. The miscalculation risk repercussions of any method would be what, wild climate changes? Oh no! That's almost like the exact same thing that will happen if we do nothing.
I think these scientists should stop watching Snowpiercer, which wouldn't happen in reality unless we launched the entire Hawaiian island into the atmosphere, and start spraying something up there.
Apple's entire product history is filled with overheating devices because that idiot Jobs hates fans. Laptops made by apple, as of 2009, are in 6th place for least number of defects and they're now built by Foxconn, who makes the worst everything in the electronics world. So are you referring to some other "apple" I don't know about?
Well enjoy your walled garden that doesn't run anything useful, breaks all its software every update, and costs triple for no reason. Apple will be bankrupt and out of business within 5 years so buying a Mac probably isn't the greatest idea right now.
More boards come with a 16x PCI-E 3.0 port for graphics than a 3.0-capable 4x slot. In fact, the big ones built for multiple graphics cards have 16x slots that reduce to 8x when both are in use or sometimes just the 2nd slot runs at 8x. They're all PCI-E 3.0 though. The problem is, you drop in that SSD in more basic but modern boards and there goes your aftermarket graphics card. You can never add one because you're taking up the only PCI-E slot that isn't 1x or 2.0.
Modern MSI g-series are the only ones that don't get very hot, depending on the configuration. You absolutely should switch to SSDs since they take a fraction of the power and 5400RPM drives are unacceptably slow. ASUS ROG ones overheat like crazy. Anything Dell or HP makes is a portable oven. Even Toshiba S-series models get fairly hot, as do the Qosmio ones.
One solution I used on an older overheating model was putting aluminum VRM coolers with 3M thermally conductive adhesive on all the VRMs on the laptop's motherboard and around the copper plate covering the chipset and CPU on all 4 corners. That cooled it down another 11F on average and they cost about $6 for a whole bag (imported from Hong Kong on ebay). You can also find low profile RAM coolers that attach directly to each ram module, at least on one side.
What irony that those are the one stripping off DIMM slots, putting in the wrong frequency RAM in single sticks instead of pairs, using garbage chipsets, adding in onboard graphics from 8 years ago, and refusing to put SSDs in anything.
Nobody accepts openly carried firearms. It's just stupid, insecure men trying to show off. I think almost everyone should have a gun but CONCEALED on them. Otherwise guess who the criminal is shooting first. There's no point in carrying a gun unless nobody knows it's there.
But the real question is, are they going to be underclocked, slow, pathetic pieces of garbage like the first gen mobile Haswells? Plus, some I come across from the 3rd or 4th gen are soldered to the board! If you think I'm exaggerating, the most commonly used 3rd gen celeron mobile CPU had a passmark rating of around 1900-2000. The most common N-series celeron mobile Haswell CPUs is rated barely 1000. That's half the speed.
Last summer in Wisconsin, believe it or not, it got around 100F for several days and it knocked out our internet. It wasn't some morons with inadequate server cooling though. Apparently Time Warner equipment runs on 90V lines and our energy company's equipment that drops to 90V was overheating. Unbelievable! Our digital phones were down too.
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If there are no particles moving at all, how does empty space have energy? It's the textbook definition of lack of energy. Empty space cannot impart energy on matter and it can't spontaneously create matter. There's some theory about virtual particles but their net energy is zero when they combine so that's not it. Can anyone explain why empty space has energy?
"Microsoft specified it would only be free for the first year, indicating Windows would be software that users subscribe to, rather than buy outright."
They also announced the Xbox One will spy on you with its mic and camera while it's powered off and disallow used game sales. How'd that go, Microsoft?
Parachutes? Isn't the atmosphere like 98% thinner than Earth? That'd work about as well as parachuting onto the moon.
So they're playing Starcraft II against each other?
Here's why this is stupid. It takes an immense amount of battery power to beam a signal back to a satellite. So if you're out in Argentina in the forest, you better have brought a car battery along to power that laptop's satellite transmitter.
And yet nothing is done about the 10+ year ongoing fraud from iyogi and other pretend support companies. Go ahead, type "Hp support" or "microsoft support" or "samsung support" into google and look at the ads.
AI can be programmed to kill people and it can be programmed to adapt and alter itself and I don't think I need to mention that programming can have flaws and glitches. So yes, you should be afraid of AI! It has the power, means, and potential to attack and kill a lot of humans if something goes wrong. Think of a Toyota accelerating out of control due to some bad code except a robot that's more intelligent, can move around more, has fewer weaknesses, and is designed to kill humans as a military device. It is absolutely, 100% realistic to think it might be dangerous.
Not if they get a nuke. Since Islam is an incredibly violent, sexist, evil false religion (source cited: the Quran) it should simply be outlawed everywhere. I don't give a fuck about religious freedom. All that does is allow Scientology to exist.
The golden rule of most investments is "it's only a loss when you sell it." I mined 43 BTC about 3 years ago and I was mining at a 2:1 loss on electricity for most of it but I just held the coins. Then I sold them and my rig hardware when BTC was at $5.20 or so and made a slight profit. If you're mining at a loss or profits are down, just wait to sell the coins!
Oh good, 2025 is just in time. Just ask any scientist. What they should do is get that damn fusion reactor working before 2020 so we don't have to dig up or process the oil (or burn it) in the first place!
They're still idiots and now the owner of the garden is spying on them and rerouting their searches and sending them spam instead. Wow, big upgrade.
Here's what I do to set up a new PC with IMGBurn and a couple other bundled software that I still want on every PC I build. Put the installer on a flash drive, drop the computer off the internet for a bit, run the installer. Any installer I've ever seen contacts to the internet to see what the top-bid scam of the month is that it should download and if it can't immediately contact the internet, it simply skips the malware installation step. Then reconnect to the internet and configure the software to never check for an update.
This is ridiculous. Win7 is all I sell on new PCs at my shop. Nobody wants 8.1. No business with a brain rolled it out. They damn well better extend support past 2020 as well because our business just got rid of XP needlessly on single purpose desktops.
1. Find out which salesman caused it
2. Fire them
They shouldn't have bought that discount flash from China after all I guess.
Why the hell are we waiting? We have like a dozen volcanic eruptions worth of climate change data just from the last 200 years or so to prove it works. If a mountain and arbitrarily launch dust into the atmosphere and we record worldwide temperature drops, that's all the experimenting I need. The miscalculation risk repercussions of any method would be what, wild climate changes? Oh no! That's almost like the exact same thing that will happen if we do nothing.
I think these scientists should stop watching Snowpiercer, which wouldn't happen in reality unless we launched the entire Hawaiian island into the atmosphere, and start spraying something up there.
Apple's entire product history is filled with overheating devices because that idiot Jobs hates fans. Laptops made by apple, as of 2009, are in 6th place for least number of defects and they're now built by Foxconn, who makes the worst everything in the electronics world. So are you referring to some other "apple" I don't know about?
Well enjoy your walled garden that doesn't run anything useful, breaks all its software every update, and costs triple for no reason. Apple will be bankrupt and out of business within 5 years so buying a Mac probably isn't the greatest idea right now.
More boards come with a 16x PCI-E 3.0 port for graphics than a 3.0-capable 4x slot. In fact, the big ones built for multiple graphics cards have 16x slots that reduce to 8x when both are in use or sometimes just the 2nd slot runs at 8x. They're all PCI-E 3.0 though. The problem is, you drop in that SSD in more basic but modern boards and there goes your aftermarket graphics card. You can never add one because you're taking up the only PCI-E slot that isn't 1x or 2.0.
Modern MSI g-series are the only ones that don't get very hot, depending on the configuration. You absolutely should switch to SSDs since they take a fraction of the power and 5400RPM drives are unacceptably slow. ASUS ROG ones overheat like crazy. Anything Dell or HP makes is a portable oven. Even Toshiba S-series models get fairly hot, as do the Qosmio ones.
One solution I used on an older overheating model was putting aluminum VRM coolers with 3M thermally conductive adhesive on all the VRMs on the laptop's motherboard and around the copper plate covering the chipset and CPU on all 4 corners. That cooled it down another 11F on average and they cost about $6 for a whole bag (imported from Hong Kong on ebay). You can also find low profile RAM coolers that attach directly to each ram module, at least on one side.
Who the hell is serious about computers and uses a Mac? Those are overpriced, hard to service, pretty toys for rich morons. Get a real computer.
What irony that those are the one stripping off DIMM slots, putting in the wrong frequency RAM in single sticks instead of pairs, using garbage chipsets, adding in onboard graphics from 8 years ago, and refusing to put SSDs in anything.
Nobody accepts openly carried firearms. It's just stupid, insecure men trying to show off. I think almost everyone should have a gun but CONCEALED on them. Otherwise guess who the criminal is shooting first. There's no point in carrying a gun unless nobody knows it's there.
But the real question is, are they going to be underclocked, slow, pathetic pieces of garbage like the first gen mobile Haswells? Plus, some I come across from the 3rd or 4th gen are soldered to the board! If you think I'm exaggerating, the most commonly used 3rd gen celeron mobile CPU had a passmark rating of around 1900-2000. The most common N-series celeron mobile Haswell CPUs is rated barely 1000. That's half the speed.
Last summer in Wisconsin, believe it or not, it got around 100F for several days and it knocked out our internet. It wasn't some morons with inadequate server cooling though. Apparently Time Warner equipment runs on 90V lines and our energy company's equipment that drops to 90V was overheating. Unbelievable! Our digital phones were down too.