Are you smoking crack? What the hell kind of bank do you know of that gives credit cards to minors? You can't even get a checking account until you're an adult. Not to mention, when something is delivered that is of any value, a signature is usually required by the courier. Do you think DHL, UPS or FedEx are going to turn over a case of alcohol to a fourteen year old kid at the door?!
UPS would likely just leave it on the steps just like everything else. Signature required and otherwise. If not left on the steps, then left around back without a note, or in the bushes what ever they feel like. FedEx is a tad better... they ask you to sign a waver... then they always leave crap on the steps no matter the value. I have no clue about DHL.
But I can't say ordering spirits online resulted in FedEx... DHL... or UPS but rather a private carrier that charged an arm and a leg.
Because it is against the company policy of carriers such as UPS and FedEx to ship beer, we ship beer via Yellow Freight. Our minimum order is 3 cases, but the minimum freight fee will cover approximately 5-6 cases, so you may find it cost effective to order more.
Not to be confused by DivX I'm refering to DIVX the format sold at Circuit City and failed.
You buy a disc... DIVX, RFID enabled or otherwise, and you gotta wait for network authorization to play it. So no chance of the kids watching it on the road in your SUV, no chance of watching the flick on that flight with your laptop. I can only suspect loss resale rights assuming the RFID tag is locked into your DVD player.
DIVX at least had the added benifit that it was like a rental but no late fee. Cool in that respect but not cool you had to plop down money for a special DVD player that attached to your phone line, assuming you even had a phone line near your TV.
RFID enabled discs might carry with it the benifit of watching an early release, but I don't see that being enough to give up the rights we presently have with regular DVDs.
A rule of thumb in business -- one unhappy customer will tell 10 other people how unhappy they are. My guess is that this rule probably applies to this case too.
That's unhappy, not apathetic.
For example, there is much bad TV like the long slew of reality shows, recycled sit-coms, and uninteresting dramas. I'm far too apathetic to even take notice on how good or bad they are. I don't know the names of most of the crap that is on.
On the other hand.. If a friend i trusted and knew had similar taste to me told me a movie was good, i might pay to watch it.. If that same friend told me it was crap, i definately wouldnt pay for it, and would be very unlikely to download it..
This assumes your trusted friend takes the time to see something you might otherwise be interested in.
For example... I know nothing about most of primetime NBC/CBS/ABC. I never even heard of Supernanny(ABC), The Scholar (ABC), Yes Dear (CBS) , Listen Up (CBS), Joey (NBC), or Medium (NBC). There are a few things I either know are crap, or suspect are crap but I can't think of any time I bought them up in conversation. I know there is a slew of reality TV shows but I hardly even know the names in the strange event that I might start bitching about television.
What would have happened if people had downloaded the show, watched it, hated it, and told their friends not to tune in? Viewing figures would be down, and piracy could be held accountable. This sort of result works both ways, folks
Ask your self what are you more likely to do in the event of crap.
1. Download something new, discover it's crap, tell all your friends it's crap. 2. Download something new, discover it's crap, and just delete it.
Let's assume you take the time to tell your friends it's crap. It's still advertising... they might take the time to watch the crap to see how crappy the crap is.
Can I, as a license paying Brit, download episodes which have already been broadcast without fear of legal action?
The last time I checked the BBC faq... there was a question similar to yours, but it was more along the lines of asking the BBC for a copy of something someone missed. The answer was unless you were a contribuiter they couldn't provide copies due to copyright restrictions, but a contribuiter and their family could get one under the Contributor Access Scheme [contact info] for a copy duplication fee. This leads me to believe that the BBC can not grant you license to get a copy from equipment not under your domain.
Whether they the BBC or the copyright holders who license to the BBC would send out their teenage mutent ninga lawyers after you is unknown.
I know last year I could buy an enlight atx desktop for about $50 or so. I complained that was a touch spendy for a beige in contrast to all the midtowers priced at $20 or so. But now the phrase "home theater PC" has been coined... the old style desktop case is now a "media center". Now you're lucky to find the desktop style for under $65.
But all is not lost. The old Gateway Destination PCs are starting to hit the used market for under $75 or so. The last one I looked at could take a standard 6 slot ATX board so long as you pulled out the two bubbles the slot one retention bracket screwed into. While the original product was so underpowered it couldn't do what it was advertised to do, I have to admit the case was nice and fit in a normal stereo stack.
I've seen Debbie Does Dallas. It has all the high production value of an SCTV skit. Unlike toady's 'gonzo' pr0n, it does have a plot and an actual attempt at acting, but it's closer to a film school project than to a big budget production like Caligula.
Thanks for the info... I'm not seen it personaly only bits and pieces of the spinoffs that to me seem pretty well done... well hollywood b grade movie level. I would have thought with all the hype it had a high production value.
If you're interested in DDD and have the appropriate moral/ethical temperment, there's a torrent floating around
Thank you... I think i'll pass on either. I would be nice to be able to say i've seen it, but it takes too much bother and effort to sort past all those gential close ups and establish what the plot is.
Another fun pr0n industry nugget, #1 company in dirty movies? Marriott. All that in-room PPV adds up.
I don't know if it was a Marriott, Best Western, or a Hilton at the time... but near as I could tell the hotel offered soft porn. I believe most cable networks offer playboy on a PPV basis or as a subscription, as well as Spice and a number of PPV porn channels. The little i've seen from playboy leads me to believe they actually employ decent cinematographers and take care in post production.
Nope, unfortunately, I live about 8 hours away from the border.
1. Get it from the newsgroup [alt.binaries.drwho]. This may require a subscription to giganews or supernews if your ISP doesn't carry it. Your choice of Divx, Xvid, HQ Xvid, or straight 1.3gig(or so) mpeg-2.
2. Ask your local cable company to carry CBC. If you watch the olympics it's reccomended.
3. Get a region free player that will play pal and buy the discs from the UK.
I'd pay for a "good" TV show without commercials if I could download it for a reasonable amount.
Hell, i'd download it with the commercials intact.
At it stands, I have to go to the local home improvement store, buy some damn 75ohm cable and re-do the run to my PC just so I can get a signal that's worth a crap. Been meaning to do this for some time, but I haven't bothered because downloading provides a more than adquate image without fuzz.
Think about it. You pay a guy and a girl $500 for a 18 minute video, which may take all of 2 hours to shoot and an evening to mix/produce, then you have a lot of revenue for a long time if marketed correctly.
Not all porn is simple guy girl getting it on with a cum shot at the end. You have things like Caligula by Penthouse films starring Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, and Helen Mirren. Even Debbie Does Dallas from my understanding had a high production value though i've not seen it. Playboy has it's own channel for pete's sake.
She then gave me the spiel about how useful a cell phone would be if I was ever to find myself stranded on the side of the road, my car refusing to start, in the cold Canadian winter.
I'm not sure how it is in Canada but in the USA at least even a non-activated cell phone is required to be able to dial 911. Not to speak of all the pay as you go plans that so long as you have a credit card and a power source you can dial anyone you need too. No need for $20/$40/$60 a month plans.
The pay phone is somewhat an endangered species. And even then you gotta have coin or a calling card, and sometimes those calling cards won't work on some pay phones. For my nieces the whole call collect "come pick me up" thing cost more than it would to buy a damn pay as you go phone.
Personally, I don't want a combined pda, phone, camera and mp3-player since all such devices seem to be bad at everything they do. Big, clunky things with poor batery life, a horrible UI, low reolution camera, limited storage, etc. These 'convergence' devices are a compromise, and all compromises are a combination of the worst of two (or more) worlds.
This would explain why the Nokia 3300 didn't sell all that well.
As far as the portable revolution goes, it won't be too long before mobile dataplans get fast enough that you can stream your music from home.
why? Wouldn't a visa card be functionally the same no matter where you get it?
IIRC from the 2600 mags I read when I was younger, the first few digits denote credit card type and the bank it was issued. It's unclear to me whether anyone pays attention to this bit of info, but in theory one could have a database of offical US banks. I tried to give such a list to an ISP who had issues with someone logging on and using a checksum generator so they could at least have someone to contact to verify the name on the card, but alas they were not interested. But when ever you order anything via credit card on a website they normally require your name and address.
If you take a first tier manufacturer case and try to fit a generic motherboard into it later - well, you get what you paid for.... They're not designed to be upgradeable - they're designed to be cheap to make.
Who said I paid for it?
This is true for the most part. Once and a while you can find some nice gems from the pre-made market. Gateway at one point for example used all screws and no rivits which means you can attach and detach just about everything inside without a problem including the slot cage and drive bays. Every aftermarket case I have met uses rivits.
I've had better luck with first tier than aftermarket $20.00 v1.0 atx cases in terms case quality. My last $20.00 case got dented when my cat sat on it.
Your case is non-spec and you're complaining because current motherboards won't fit. Get angry at HP, or drop $20 on a whitebox case.
You find me a whitebox desktop (not a tower) for $20.00 and chances are i'd buy it, power supply or not. The desktop style is pretty limited to "multimedia centers" and at my local indy shop or even newegg start at $90.00 taxed/shipped. Even whitebox desktops are $50 if you're lucky, $70 to $100 mail normaly.
BTW, I put an A7V333 inside that ATX 1.0 case, so I know what you're talking about - your backplate hole is way too short
It is, I agree. I can either dremmel it, plop down $90.00 for a new one, or buy a motherboard with the Intel Caymen layout. I did go with the Intel Caymen solution but that board wasn't stable at 166mhz fbs so I had to swap it out. But needless to say that was rather my point, there are cases (pardon the pun) where a standard layout is desired.
Main reason i have seen that they are re-arangeing the backplate is to remove serial/parellel ports and add extra usb/lan/1394.
Do you REALLY see this as a bad thing?
I really don't. In fact, I think it's great! I hated the early 90s when every port on your machine required either a card or a cable making one big huge mess.
Never the less, there are isolated cases where one might want a type V or type C.
I see lots of advice that say buy a motherboard with extra stuff and if you need to disable it in the bios. But many new motherboards are making a choice to go with a non-standard IO layout. While usually this means it comes with the ATX plate you need, there are those of us who bought into cases that use an older style of ATX back plate, non-standard size ATX back plate, or in even more rare and cheaper cases no plate what so ever.
For example... my case is an HP Vectra desktop with that Asus a7v333 motherboard. I'm odd I know. In order to get the provided plate to fit properly I'd need to cut the hole larger by about 10cm or so. Further, the audio jacks extend above the size of the hole making the top jack unuseable.
Looks like a 120 mm fan to me. They're becoming fairly common now, especially among the silent PC crowd. I even come across 90mm fans now and then...
The 90mm fan size was common on IBM power supplies that fit in their full sized AT case. They were huge, about twice the size of our current standard, and typically the cover had a hole cut into it so you could actually use the big ass switch. It was normal for me to see the hole for the big switch on clone power supplies covered with a plate with wires coming out for the front switch.
90mm was also very common on systems that had no dedicated CPU fan but rather employed the use of a shroud and placed the fan on the lower part of the power supply.
Can anyone identify the size of the fan being used on that server? I'm used to seeing 60mm and 80mm fans but not one that big. (Although when I had an AMD K-5 computer back in 1997, I would open up the case during the summer and use a 20" floor fan to keep it cool.) I think have the front end open like defeats the purpose of cooling down that many hard drives.
As others have pointed out, 120mm (4.72 inches). This is pretty much the perfect size to mount in three 5.25 inch bays. I have one mounted on my system right where the brackets for the extra large cards go at 5v. Both my 120mm fans were pulls. One was from a Compaq 386 server which employed the use backplane and motherboard card. The other is a 120V was from an odd 8086 systems with linear power supply... i.e. not a switching power supply.
The front cover is likely to be off due to there being no room for it as there's a fan in the way. Either that or no vent holes in the front cover.
Why don't they just get DSL? Even a symmetrical line is cheaper than $500/month, especially in a large city.
Last time I checked the price range for SDSL 1.5/1.5 was there and abouts of $250/month or so, so you are correct SDSL would be about 1/2 the price. Nice option if you are lucky enough to be able to get SDSL. There are many dead zones between COs and some areas within a 5 mile radius of the Space Needle that you simply can't get anything above and beyond 192K SDSL. Not to speak of database errors that result in hitting a brick wall when trying to subscribe to the service, and even if you qualify you have to wait for some guy to hook you up at the CO which could be as little as a week, a month, or longer.
In Seattle, there's probably enough coffee shops to blanket the entire city with wi-fi. Who do they think is actually going to pay those rates?
Businesses in the industrial area that are in line of site of the space needle? Those towers on the Space Needle side of Capital Hill? Or how about those coffee shops that provide wifi access them selves.
Well, I've just followed your link and compared Dell prices in the UK and the USA. It's shocking how cheap you have everything over there. A Dell desktop that goes for $499 over there is sold here for £409. Check it yourself, it's hard to believe.
Because the US site doesn't include the cost of delivery, nor tax if applicable (states where dell has a point of presence are required to pay the local tax). You are still paying more, about double in tax, and another £50 as this week. When looking at the US dell site, add +$100 and about 5% to 10% to the price you see.
I just checked the UK site and the Dimension 2400 base system (D05245) [Evalue 305 - D05245]is £299.00 shipped in the UK, £205.47 before VAT and shipping. The US edition is £227.53 shipped taxed, £157.13 before. So the £48.34 more you would spend is just slightly above the 20% (-£39.37) sale Dell has going on. No free printer in the UK today, which is basically a Lexmark with keyed carts that you must buy from Dell unless you cut your printer in the right way.
But for the most part we are in total agreement, neither you nor I nor that hard core gamer would likely buy a Dell or other pre-packaged system. A typical home user may. I would argue that your typical home user isn't getting the shaft buying a new PC if their current one requires service, which happens often enough due to Windows screwing up, misc software conflicts, spyware/virus infection, or just users screwing up. While that £200.00 PC (£300.00 shipped/vatted) might cost a tad more than service, it will be newer and faster.
Not sure where you got the £200 figure for a new Dell from, however.
Ummm, xe currency conversion And Dell A new Dell starts under USD $400 depending on the season. At present the base PC with monitor and printer is $299 + $100 shipping +$30 tax... so today £225.00. Sometimes shipping is free, sometimes it's not. Sometimes rebates sometimes not.
Late last December however, I caved in and bought a 2.0GHz Semperon with accompanying motherboard and RAM.... something like £150 all together
My point exactly. The text book slashdot fanboy (pardon the term) is far more likely to spend £150 on an upgrade than £225 on a new base machine. So getting someone like Dell to sponsor a slashdot fanboy show (pardon the term) would be silly. But someone like intel, AMD, HP, or Asus would be more likely to sponsor a show who's audience fits into their demographic. Like your self they spend money, just not on pre-packaged solutions.
I don't know about that - the more ignorant you are, the more you succumb to marketing. This morning I put together a 300MHz 64MB desktop system for someone who needed e-mail, web and minimal word-processing. Total cost: £30. And I could have got it down further but at some point, my time becomes more valuable than my money
The question is... how did you spend on your system? More or less than a £180.00-£200.00 Dell?
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UPS would likely just leave it on the steps just like everything else. Signature required and otherwise. If not left on the steps, then left around back without a note, or in the bushes what ever they feel like. FedEx is a tad better... they ask you to sign a waver... then they always leave crap on the steps no matter the value. I have no clue about DHL.
But I can't say ordering spirits online resulted in FedEx... DHL... or UPS but rather a private carrier that charged an arm and a leg.
Not to be confused by DivX
I'm refering to DIVX the format sold at Circuit City and failed.
You buy a disc... DIVX, RFID enabled or otherwise, and you gotta wait for network authorization to play it. So no chance of the kids watching it on the road in your SUV, no chance of watching the flick on that flight with your laptop. I can only suspect loss resale rights assuming the RFID tag is locked into your DVD player.
DIVX at least had the added benifit that it was like a rental but no late fee. Cool in that respect but not cool you had to plop down money for a special DVD player that attached to your phone line, assuming you even had a phone line near your TV.
RFID enabled discs might carry with it the benifit of watching an early release, but I don't see that being enough to give up the rights we presently have with regular DVDs.
A rule of thumb in business -- one unhappy customer will tell 10 other people how unhappy they are. My guess is that this rule probably applies to this case too.
That's unhappy, not apathetic.
For example, there is much bad TV like the long slew of reality shows, recycled sit-coms, and uninteresting dramas. I'm far too apathetic to even take notice on how good or bad they are. I don't know the names of most of the crap that is on.
On the other hand.. If a friend i trusted and knew had similar taste to me told me a movie was good, i might pay to watch it.. If that same friend told me it was crap, i definately wouldnt pay for it, and would be very unlikely to download it..
This assumes your trusted friend takes the time to see something you might otherwise be interested in.
For example... I know nothing about most of primetime NBC/CBS/ABC. I never even heard of Supernanny(ABC), The Scholar (ABC), Yes Dear (CBS) , Listen Up (CBS), Joey (NBC), or Medium (NBC). There are a few things I either know are crap, or suspect are crap but I can't think of any time I bought them up in conversation. I know there is a slew of reality TV shows but I hardly even know the names in the strange event that I might start bitching about television.
What would have happened if people had downloaded the show, watched it, hated it, and told their friends not to tune in? Viewing figures would be down, and piracy could be held accountable. This sort of result works both ways, folks
Ask your self what are you more likely to do in the event of crap.
1. Download something new, discover it's crap, tell all your friends it's crap.
2. Download something new, discover it's crap, and just delete it.
Let's assume you take the time to tell your friends it's crap. It's still advertising... they might take the time to watch the crap to see how crappy the crap is.
The MPAA must really hate the BBC then :) No commercial ads on it - at all.
Why would the MPAA hate the BBC? It's not like they don't pay for programing like everyone else.
The MPAA near as I'm aware doesn't hate HBO, Showtime, or any other pay network. Why would the BBC be the odd man out?
Can I, as a license paying Brit, download episodes which have already been broadcast without fear of legal action?
The last time I checked the BBC faq... there was a question similar to yours, but it was more along the lines of asking the BBC for a copy of something someone missed. The answer was unless you were a contribuiter they couldn't provide copies due to copyright restrictions, but a contribuiter and their family could get one under the Contributor Access Scheme [contact info] for a copy duplication fee. This leads me to believe that the BBC can not grant you license to get a copy from equipment not under your domain.
Whether they the BBC or the copyright holders who license to the BBC would send out their teenage mutent ninga lawyers after you is unknown.
I know last year I could buy an enlight atx desktop for about $50 or so. I complained that was a touch spendy for a beige in contrast to all the midtowers priced at $20 or so. But now the phrase "home theater PC" has been coined... the old style desktop case is now a "media center". Now you're lucky to find the desktop style for under $65.
But all is not lost. The old Gateway Destination PCs are starting to hit the used market for under $75 or so. The last one I looked at could take a standard 6 slot ATX board so long as you pulled out the two bubbles the slot one retention bracket screwed into. While the original product was so underpowered it couldn't do what it was advertised to do, I have to admit the case was nice and fit in a normal stereo stack.
I've seen Debbie Does Dallas. It has all the high production value of an SCTV skit. Unlike toady's 'gonzo' pr0n, it does have a plot and an actual attempt at acting, but it's closer to a film school project than to a big budget production like Caligula.
Thanks for the info... I'm not seen it personaly only bits and pieces of the spinoffs that to me seem pretty well done... well hollywood b grade movie level. I would have thought with all the hype it had a high production value.
If you're interested in DDD and have the appropriate moral/ethical temperment, there's a torrent floating around
Thank you... I think i'll pass on either. I would be nice to be able to say i've seen it, but it takes too much bother and effort to sort past all those gential close ups and establish what the plot is.
Another fun pr0n industry nugget, #1 company in dirty movies? Marriott. All that in-room PPV adds up.
I don't know if it was a Marriott, Best Western, or a Hilton at the time... but near as I could tell the hotel offered soft porn. I believe most cable networks offer playboy on a PPV basis or as a subscription, as well as Spice and a number of PPV porn channels. The little i've seen from playboy leads me to believe they actually employ decent cinematographers and take care in post production.
Nope, unfortunately, I live about 8 hours away from the border.
1. Get it from the newsgroup [alt.binaries.drwho]. This may require a subscription to giganews or supernews if your ISP doesn't carry it. Your choice of Divx, Xvid, HQ Xvid, or straight 1.3gig(or so) mpeg-2.
2. Ask your local cable company to carry CBC. If you watch the olympics it's reccomended.
3. Get a region free player that will play pal and buy the discs from the UK.
I'd pay for a "good" TV show without commercials if I could download it for a reasonable amount.
Hell, i'd download it with the commercials intact.
At it stands, I have to go to the local home improvement store, buy some damn 75ohm cable and re-do the run to my PC just so I can get a signal that's worth a crap. Been meaning to do this for some time, but I haven't bothered because downloading provides a more than adquate image without fuzz.
Think about it. You pay a guy and a girl $500 for a 18 minute video, which may take all of 2 hours to shoot and an evening to mix/produce, then you have a lot of revenue for a long time if marketed correctly.
Not all porn is simple guy girl getting it on with a cum shot at the end. You have things like Caligula by Penthouse films starring Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, and Helen Mirren. Even Debbie Does Dallas from my understanding had a high production value though i've not seen it. Playboy has it's own channel for pete's sake.
She then gave me the spiel about how useful a cell phone would be if I was ever to find myself stranded on the side of the road, my car refusing to start, in the cold Canadian winter.
I'm not sure how it is in Canada but in the USA at least even a non-activated cell phone is required to be able to dial 911. Not to speak of all the pay as you go plans that so long as you have a credit card and a power source you can dial anyone you need too. No need for $20/$40/$60 a month plans.
The pay phone is somewhat an endangered species. And even then you gotta have coin or a calling card, and sometimes those calling cards won't work on some pay phones. For my nieces the whole call collect "come pick me up" thing cost more than it would to buy a damn pay as you go phone.
Personally, I don't want a combined pda, phone, camera and mp3-player since all such devices seem to be bad at everything they do. Big, clunky things with poor batery life, a horrible UI, low reolution camera, limited storage, etc. These 'convergence' devices are a compromise, and all compromises are a combination of the worst of two (or more) worlds.
This would explain why the Nokia 3300 didn't sell all that well.
As far as the portable revolution goes, it won't be too long before mobile dataplans get fast enough that you can stream your music from home.
why? Wouldn't a visa card be functionally the same no matter where you get it?
IIRC from the 2600 mags I read when I was younger, the first few digits denote credit card type and the bank it was issued. It's unclear to me whether anyone pays attention to this bit of info, but in theory one could have a database of offical US banks. I tried to give such a list to an ISP who had issues with someone logging on and using a checksum generator so they could at least have someone to contact to verify the name on the card, but alas they were not interested. But when ever you order anything via credit card on a website they normally require your name and address.
If you take a first tier manufacturer case and try to fit a generic motherboard into it later - well, you get what you paid for. ... They're not designed to be upgradeable - they're designed to be cheap to make.
Who said I paid for it?
This is true for the most part. Once and a while you can find some nice gems from the pre-made market. Gateway at one point for example used all screws and no rivits which means you can attach and detach just about everything inside without a problem including the slot cage and drive bays. Every aftermarket case I have met uses rivits.
I've had better luck with first tier than aftermarket $20.00 v1.0 atx cases in terms case quality. My last $20.00 case got dented when my cat sat on it.
Your case is non-spec and you're complaining because current motherboards won't fit. Get angry at HP, or drop $20 on a whitebox case.
You find me a whitebox desktop (not a tower) for $20.00 and chances are i'd buy it, power supply or not. The desktop style is pretty limited to "multimedia centers" and at my local indy shop or even newegg start at $90.00 taxed/shipped. Even whitebox desktops are $50 if you're lucky, $70 to $100 mail normaly.
BTW, I put an A7V333 inside that ATX 1.0 case, so I know what you're talking about - your backplate hole is way too short
It is, I agree. I can either dremmel it, plop down $90.00 for a new one, or buy a motherboard with the Intel Caymen layout. I did go with the Intel Caymen solution but that board wasn't stable at 166mhz fbs so I had to swap it out. But needless to say that was rather my point, there are cases (pardon the pun) where a standard layout is desired.
Main reason i have seen that they are re-arangeing the backplate is to remove serial/parellel ports and add extra usb/lan/1394.
Do you REALLY see this as a bad thing?
I really don't. In fact, I think it's great! I hated the early 90s when every port on your machine required either a card or a cable making one big huge mess.
Never the less, there are isolated cases where one might want a type V or type C.
I see lots of advice that say buy a motherboard with extra stuff and if you need to disable it in the bios. But many new motherboards are making a choice to go with a non-standard IO layout. While usually this means it comes with the ATX plate you need, there are those of us who bought into cases that use an older style of ATX back plate, non-standard size ATX back plate, or in even more rare and cheaper cases no plate what so ever.
For example... my case is an HP Vectra desktop with that Asus a7v333 motherboard. I'm odd I know. In order to get the provided plate to fit properly I'd need to cut the hole larger by about 10cm or so. Further, the audio jacks extend above the size of the hole making the top jack unuseable.
Looks like a 120 mm fan to me. They're becoming fairly common now, especially among the silent PC crowd. I even come across 90mm fans now and then...
The 90mm fan size was common on IBM power supplies that fit in their full sized AT case. They were huge, about twice the size of our current standard, and typically the cover had a hole cut into it so you could actually use the big ass switch. It was normal for me to see the hole for the big switch on clone power supplies covered with a plate with wires coming out for the front switch.
90mm was also very common on systems that had no dedicated CPU fan but rather employed the use of a shroud and placed the fan on the lower part of the power supply.
Can anyone identify the size of the fan being used on that server? I'm used to seeing 60mm and 80mm fans but not one that big. (Although when I had an AMD K-5 computer back in 1997, I would open up the case during the summer and use a 20" floor fan to keep it cool.) I think have the front end open like defeats the purpose of cooling down that many hard drives.
As others have pointed out, 120mm (4.72 inches). This is pretty much the perfect size to mount in three 5.25 inch bays. I have one mounted on my system right where the brackets for the extra large cards go at 5v. Both my 120mm fans were pulls. One was from a Compaq 386 server which employed the use backplane and motherboard card. The other is a 120V was from an odd 8086 systems with linear power supply... i.e. not a switching power supply.
The front cover is likely to be off due to there being no room for it as there's a fan in the way. Either that or no vent holes in the front cover.
Why don't they just get DSL? Even a symmetrical line is cheaper than $500/month, especially in a large city.
Last time I checked the price range for SDSL 1.5/1.5 was there and abouts of $250/month or so, so you are correct SDSL would be about 1/2 the price. Nice option if you are lucky enough to be able to get SDSL. There are many dead zones between COs and some areas within a 5 mile radius of the Space Needle that you simply can't get anything above and beyond 192K SDSL. Not to speak of database errors that result in hitting a brick wall when trying to subscribe to the service, and even if you qualify you have to wait for some guy to hook you up at the CO which could be as little as a week, a month, or longer.
In Seattle, there's probably enough coffee shops to blanket the entire city with wi-fi. Who do they think is actually going to pay those rates?
Businesses in the industrial area that are in line of site of the space needle? Those towers on the Space Needle side of Capital Hill? Or how about those coffee shops that provide wifi access them selves.
Well, I've just followed your link and compared Dell prices in the UK and the USA. It's shocking how cheap you have everything over there. A Dell desktop that goes for $499 over there is sold here for £409. Check it yourself, it's hard to believe.
Because the US site doesn't include the cost of delivery, nor tax if applicable (states where dell has a point of presence are required to pay the local tax). You are still paying more, about double in tax, and another £50 as this week. When looking at the US dell site, add +$100 and about 5% to 10% to the price you see.
I just checked the UK site and the Dimension 2400 base system (D05245) [Evalue 305 - D05245]is £299.00 shipped in the UK, £205.47 before VAT and shipping. The US edition is £227.53 shipped taxed, £157.13 before. So the £48.34 more you would spend is just slightly above the 20% (-£39.37) sale Dell has going on. No free printer in the UK today, which is basically a Lexmark with keyed carts that you must buy from Dell unless you cut your printer in the right way.
But for the most part we are in total agreement, neither you nor I nor that hard core gamer would likely buy a Dell or other pre-packaged system. A typical home user may. I would argue that your typical home user isn't getting the shaft buying a new PC if their current one requires service, which happens often enough due to Windows screwing up, misc software conflicts, spyware/virus infection, or just users screwing up. While that £200.00 PC (£300.00 shipped/vatted) might cost a tad more than service, it will be newer and faster.
Not sure where you got the £200 figure for a new Dell from, however.
... something like £150 all together
Ummm, xe currency conversion And Dell A new Dell starts under USD $400 depending on the season. At present the base PC with monitor and printer is $299 + $100 shipping +$30 tax... so today £225.00. Sometimes shipping is free, sometimes it's not. Sometimes rebates sometimes not.
Late last December however, I caved in and bought a 2.0GHz Semperon with accompanying motherboard and RAM.
My point exactly. The text book slashdot fanboy (pardon the term) is far more likely to spend £150 on an upgrade than £225 on a new base machine. So getting someone like Dell to sponsor a slashdot fanboy show (pardon the term) would be silly. But someone like intel, AMD, HP, or Asus would be more likely to sponsor a show who's audience fits into their demographic. Like your self they spend money, just not on pre-packaged solutions.
I don't know about that - the more ignorant you are, the more you succumb to marketing. This morning I put together a 300MHz 64MB desktop system for someone who needed e-mail, web and minimal word-processing. Total cost: £30. And I could have got it down further but at some point, my time becomes more valuable than my money
The question is... how did you spend on your system? More or less than a £180.00-£200.00 Dell?