1) Antec Sonata case with Antec Tru-Power 330W power supply and low-noise 92mm case fan. Essentially silent. $90 at provantage.com
2) CoolerMaster DP5-7JD1B CPU cooler. Barely audible. $10 at directron.com
3) Any Maxtor hard drive with an FDB (fluid dynamic bearing) motor. Essentially silent. ~$100 at your favorite cheapo online store.
Unfortunately, Essentially silent + Barely Audible + Essentially silent = Sorta Loud. After months of messing with low speed panaflos, vibration damping mat, custom power supplies, etc. I bought a sonata with great anticipation and was dismayed when I turned it on and it was louder than my custom job. By a lot.
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Non-DirecTiVo units cost more and have a monthly service fee of $13.
With my laptop and a VPN connection, putting in a 60 hour week on a critical project no longer means that I have to spend 60 away from home. ... And as for price, it's not that big of a deal when you consider the cost of my time waiting for a simulation to finish or the price of the software that I actually run on the laptop.
Sorry, but why do you need more processing power to do sims if you're vpn'ing? You and I sound like we do a lot of the same stuff- I run a lot of verilog sims & do schematics & layout thru vpn, but the power of my computer doesent mean squat going thru vpn, since all the sims are running on the linux farm at work anyways.
I would love to have radio timeshifting capabilities, especially in my car. Mainly due to being spoiled by my TiVo, I'm always looking for the rewind button when listening to NPR.
Incidentally, TiVo is supposed to be putting in XM capability into one of their new receivers, does anyone know if you'll be able to timeshift it?
The only experience I've ever had with eMachines are two systems- one was my sisters' old P-166 machine- it lasted for 3 years without a hitch, till I blew it up by trying to put Win98 onto it (long time ago:)
The other one is one of those widescreen eMachines Athlon laptops- my friend bought it a while back- it's a really solidly made machine that has had no problems so far. YMMV
In Michigan (and a lot of other states, I'm guessing) Pihranas are illegal because there have been cases where pet pihranas have gotten into Lake Michigan and wreaked havoc.
RTFA. The article is about an isometric controller. The Powerpad just had a bunch of buttons. Dont get me wrong, I still think it will be a flop, especially at $700 a pop.
I'm curious as to how common this problem actually is. I've read lots about it recently (mainly on/.) but as of yet have not experienced it on my iBook (1.5 years old now). Am I one of the lucky ones, or is it something more on the order of the vocal minority? If it's the former, this would definitely affect my decision in buying another iBook.
The trip to Mars is considerably longer.. more fuel, more food, more things to go wrong. Plus, Mars has considerably higher gravity than the moon, and it acutally has an atmosphere, which makes it a lot harder to land a manned craft on. Then you have to think about getting off mars, what with the aforementioned gravity/atmosphere.
Actually they probably use a 3.3, 2.5, and 1.8 v rail in the ipod, but it's better to supply overvoltage and regulate it down, rather than depending on the battery to output a clean 3.3v source.
And what kind of minidisc player do you have? Mine runs on 1 AA. Geez.
If you're curious, anandtech has dissection pictures of the 3g ipod, you can see why they had to make the battery so thin.
And looking at the pics again, against the ipod on my desk & a ruler (I didnt have a ruler yesterday), it's more like 1.5" x 2.25"
Anyways, I really dont care to be in an argument about this. I dont have a problem charging my battery, and I also dont have a problem w/ replacing the battery later. I'm just telling you one of the (multiple) reasons why they probably didnt go with replaceable batteries, since you asked.
the ipod battery is about 2" x 3" and around 5mm thick. So yes, it's very small.
it's a 3.7v battery at 850mAh. So no, it obviously does not source as much current as your 2100mAh AA battery. OTOH, you would need 3 AA or AAA batteries to supply the 3.7 V that the ipod seems to use.
You have a good point... I've been looking at HDD-based players, and for the life of me, I can't figure out why they don't use standard AA batteries.
Size for one thing- the AA's are quite a bit bulkier than the extremely thin ipod battery. The other thing is (and I could be completely wrong about this) can standard Joe Shmo AA's source enough current? It would be sort of lame if you bought an MP3 player that required a certain kind of AA battery.
I just got a 10g iPod for my birthday which my friends pitched in and bought. Even with more than double the space, I would still like to have an iPodMini. As I type, I keep glancing over at my 10g iPod next to one of my business cards (the size of the iPodMini, if you didn't RTFA) and I really dig the size. Plus, try as I might, I just cannot find more than 3 gigs of my 25 gig music collection that I even want on my iPod.
I would sell my current iPod and get one of the minis, but it's pretty lame to sell a birthday present, and also my lovely friends used Apple's recent free laser engraving promotion to let the world know that "i eat poo".
I am also a big proponent of "You Gets What You Pays For"- however, this does not necessarily apply to electronics. When manufacturing & R&D costs drop, margins go down. Period.
I bought a 12x CD-R burner (AOpen, in fact) as soon as they hit the sub $100 price- that was probably 3 or more years ago- and it's still chugging along fine.
I'm ready and willing to shell out some cash to play a well-done version of the same basic game, set in the origonal and new trilogies. I think for this type of game, where there can't really be a plot, setting it in the same time-line as the films makes it BETTER.
Although I would tend to agree with that statement, it has been done before. Pretty much the exact same game as MS's Age of Empires, set in the SW universe, with Darth Vader and stuff. For some reason, I just didn't find it as fun as AoE, though.
I'm suprised I haven't seen a comment about this yet: no native ogg support in win32 iTunes. Not a big problem, I just downloaded the ogg quicktime codec, and iTunes picks up on them now. They take a lot longer to add to the library (seconds) and that's on a 3200+, but it's a small price to pay. Also, they dont get shared, but you can burn them with the iTunes burner (which is fricking awesome).
That's a clear indication that the studios have no respect for the viewers; why should I have any respect for them?
Firefly the movie is being released by Universal, who bought the rights from Fox. So you can still not respect Fox and enjoy the Firefly movie.
The only thing I'm worried about is whether or not Joss will have enough clout with the studio to make the movie HE wants, not the one that Universal wants. He has a track record of getting screwed over by Hollywood (albeit in the role of the writer, not as director.)
Alamo Drafthouse In Austin, Texas. It's been mentioned a couple times on/., but it's an awesome movie theater where you can sit & watch your movie while enjoying a cool one and a tasty alfredo chicken pizza. They are quite geek friendly there, what with the 802.11b access, and the frequent live performances from the Mr. Sinus crew. They are like Mystery Science Theater 3000, but with movies like Top Gun & the Terminator.
Ah, well I apologize for being an ass. You have to understand my position, however. I've been on Atkins for some time now, and most of the time I just want to mind my own business, and want others to mind theirs. However, there have been a choice few who feel the need to berate me for my choice of diet, telling me how unhealthy it is to eat butter soaked lard etc. etc. Essentially, they know nothing about Atkins aside from the fact that you eat some meat and fat.
The ironic thing is, I really dont care what these people think, but somehow they wont shut up, and that usually ends with me being curt and short with them.
My understanding of the Atkins diet is that it wants you to limit carbs to virtually nothing.
Well then, your understanding of the Atkins diet is severely flawed. Maybe you should read the book/website for more information before spreading Atkins FUD. You limit your carbs to 20g a day for the first 2 WEEKS, at which point, you begin to slowly introduce them back into your diet. The idea is to do this until you are at the final stage of the diet- lifetime maintenance- in which the average person should consume about 1/3 the USRDA of recommended carbs (i.e. 100g). Keep in mind, these are LOW GLYCEMIC INDEX carbs such as whole grains, veggies, nuts, and berries. You can never eat refined sugar/white flour again. So please do some extra research on top of your extra research before posting next time.
Overseas Telemarketers are covered under this law.
Q: Are telemarketing calls from overseas covered?
A: Yes. Any telemarketers calling U.S. consumers are covered, regardless of where they are calling from. If a company within the U.S. solicits sales through an overseas professional telemarketer, that U.S. company is liable for any violations by the telemarketer. The FTC can initiate enforcement actions against such companies.
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1) Antec Sonata case with Antec Tru-Power 330W power supply and low-noise 92mm case fan. Essentially silent. $90 at provantage.com
2) CoolerMaster DP5-7JD1B CPU cooler. Barely audible. $10 at directron.com
3) Any Maxtor hard drive with an FDB (fluid dynamic bearing) motor. Essentially silent. ~$100 at your favorite cheapo online store.
Unfortunately, Essentially silent + Barely Audible + Essentially silent = Sorta Loud. After months of messing with low speed panaflos, vibration damping mat, custom power supplies, etc. I bought a sonata with great anticipation and was dismayed when I turned it on and it was louder than my custom job. By a lot.
Non-DirecTiVo units cost more and have a monthly service fee of $13.
With my laptop and a VPN connection, putting in a 60 hour week on a critical project no longer means that I have to spend 60 away from home.
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And as for price, it's not that big of a deal when you consider the cost of my time waiting for a simulation to finish or the price of the software that I actually run on the laptop.
Sorry, but why do you need more processing power to do sims if you're vpn'ing? You and I sound like we do a lot of the same stuff- I run a lot of verilog sims & do schematics & layout thru vpn, but the power of my computer doesent mean squat going thru vpn, since all the sims are running on the linux farm at work anyways.
I would love to have radio timeshifting capabilities, especially in my car. Mainly due to being spoiled by my TiVo, I'm always looking for the rewind button when listening to NPR.
Incidentally, TiVo is supposed to be putting in XM capability into one of their new receivers, does anyone know if you'll be able to timeshift it?
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Some highlights- 60GB hard drive, 512MB PC2700 RAM, Mobility Radeon 9600, 15" widescreen display
The only experience I've ever had with eMachines are two systems- one was my sisters' old P-166 machine- it lasted for 3 years without a hitch, till I blew it up by trying to put Win98 onto it (long time ago :)
The other one is one of those widescreen eMachines Athlon laptops- my friend bought it a while back- it's a really solidly made machine that has had no problems so far. YMMV
In Michigan (and a lot of other states, I'm guessing) Pihranas are illegal because there have been cases where pet pihranas have gotten into Lake Michigan and wreaked havoc.
RTFA. The article is about an isometric controller. The Powerpad just had a bunch of buttons. Dont get me wrong, I still think it will be a flop, especially at $700 a pop.
try playing Soul Calibur II with a Dance Dance Revolution pad.
I'm curious as to how common this problem actually is. I've read lots about it recently (mainly on /.) but as of yet have not experienced it on my iBook (1.5 years old now). Am I one of the lucky ones, or is it something more on the order of the vocal minority? If it's the former, this would definitely affect my decision in buying another iBook.
The trip to Mars is considerably longer.. more fuel, more food, more things to go wrong. Plus, Mars has considerably higher gravity than the moon, and it acutally has an atmosphere, which makes it a lot harder to land a manned craft on. Then you have to think about getting off mars, what with the aforementioned gravity/atmosphere.
Actually they probably use a 3.3, 2.5, and 1.8 v rail in the ipod, but it's better to supply overvoltage and regulate it down, rather than depending on the battery to output a clean 3.3v source.
And what kind of minidisc player do you have? Mine runs on 1 AA. Geez.
If you're curious, anandtech has dissection pictures of the 3g ipod, you can see why they had to make the battery so thin.
And looking at the pics again, against the ipod on my desk & a ruler (I didnt have a ruler yesterday), it's more like 1.5" x 2.25"
Anyways, I really dont care to be in an argument about this. I dont have a problem charging my battery, and I also dont have a problem w/ replacing the battery later. I'm just telling you one of the (multiple) reasons why they probably didnt go with replaceable batteries, since you asked.
the ipod battery is about 2" x 3" and around 5mm thick. So yes, it's very small.
it's a 3.7v battery at 850mAh. So no, it obviously does not source as much current as your 2100mAh AA battery. OTOH, you would need 3 AA or AAA batteries to supply the 3.7 V that the ipod seems to use.
You have a good point... I've been looking at HDD-based players, and for the life of me, I can't figure out why they don't use standard AA batteries.
Size for one thing- the AA's are quite a bit bulkier than the extremely thin ipod battery. The other thing is (and I could be completely wrong about this) can standard Joe Shmo AA's source enough current? It would be sort of lame if you bought an MP3 player that required a certain kind of AA battery.
I just got a 10g iPod for my birthday which my friends pitched in and bought. Even with more than double the space, I would still like to have an iPodMini. As I type, I keep glancing over at my 10g iPod next to one of my business cards (the size of the iPodMini, if you didn't RTFA) and I really dig the size. Plus, try as I might, I just cannot find more than 3 gigs of my 25 gig music collection that I even want on my iPod.
I would sell my current iPod and get one of the minis, but it's pretty lame to sell a birthday present, and also my lovely friends used Apple's recent free laser engraving promotion to let the world know that "i eat poo".
I am also a big proponent of "You Gets What You Pays For"- however, this does not necessarily apply to electronics. When manufacturing & R&D costs drop, margins go down. Period.
I bought a 12x CD-R burner (AOpen, in fact) as soon as they hit the sub $100 price- that was probably 3 or more years ago- and it's still chugging along fine.
I'm ready and willing to shell out some cash to play a well-done version of the same basic game, set in the origonal and new trilogies. I think for this type of game, where there can't really be a plot, setting it in the same time-line as the films makes it BETTER.
Although I would tend to agree with that statement, it has been done before. Pretty much the exact same game as MS's Age of Empires, set in the SW universe, with Darth Vader and stuff. For some reason, I just didn't find it as fun as AoE, though.
I'm suprised I haven't seen a comment about this yet: no native ogg support in win32 iTunes. Not a big problem, I just downloaded the ogg quicktime codec, and iTunes picks up on them now. They take a lot longer to add to the library (seconds) and that's on a 3200+, but it's a small price to pay. Also, they dont get shared, but you can burn them with the iTunes burner (which is fricking awesome).
It's the Gates Foundation, not Microsoft, people. Here is a list of grant money distribution from the Gates foundation for 2002.
That's a clear indication that the studios have no respect for the viewers; why should I have any respect for them?
Firefly the movie is being released by Universal, who bought the rights from Fox. So you can still not respect Fox and enjoy the Firefly movie.
The only thing I'm worried about is whether or not Joss will have enough clout with the studio to make the movie HE wants, not the one that Universal wants. He has a track record of getting screwed over by Hollywood (albeit in the role of the writer, not as director.)
They all look like they were designed by Mike Brady.
Alamo Drafthouse In Austin, Texas. It's been mentioned a couple times on /., but it's an awesome movie theater where you can sit & watch your movie while enjoying a cool one and a tasty alfredo chicken pizza. They are quite geek friendly there, what with the 802.11b access, and the frequent live performances from the Mr. Sinus crew. They are like Mystery Science Theater 3000, but with movies like Top Gun & the Terminator.
Ah, well I apologize for being an ass. You have to understand my position, however. I've been on Atkins for some time now, and most of the time I just want to mind my own business, and want others to mind theirs. However, there have been a choice few who feel the need to berate me for my choice of diet, telling me how unhealthy it is to eat butter soaked lard etc. etc. Essentially, they know nothing about Atkins aside from the fact that you eat some meat and fat.
The ironic thing is, I really dont care what these people think, but somehow they wont shut up, and that usually ends with me being curt and short with them.
Anyways, sorry.
My understanding of the Atkins diet is that it wants you to limit carbs to virtually nothing.
Well then, your understanding of the Atkins diet is severely flawed. Maybe you should read the book/website for more information before spreading Atkins FUD. You limit your carbs to 20g a day for the first 2 WEEKS, at which point, you begin to slowly introduce them back into your diet. The idea is to do this until you are at the final stage of the diet- lifetime maintenance- in which the average person should consume about 1/3 the USRDA of recommended carbs (i.e. 100g). Keep in mind, these are LOW GLYCEMIC INDEX carbs such as whole grains, veggies, nuts, and berries. You can never eat refined sugar/white flour again. So please do some extra research on top of your extra research before posting next time.
Overseas Telemarketers are covered under this law.
Q: Are telemarketing calls from overseas covered?
A: Yes. Any telemarketers calling U.S. consumers are covered, regardless of where they are calling from. If a company within the U.S. solicits sales through an overseas professional telemarketer, that U.S. company is liable for any violations by the telemarketer. The FTC can initiate enforcement actions against such companies.