No, to get into the secret room, you need the bridge to get the magic dot, once you have the magic dot, a barrier will disappear allowing you access to the room!
I would not technically qualify that as indentity theft unless you consider the Speedpass part of your identity.
I have a Speedpass and from what I've understood from the contract agreement they supply with the device is any unauthorized charges should be handled in the same manner as an unauthorized charge to the credit card that the Speedpass is linked to. Meaning, call your CC company and dispute the charge with the added step of calling Speedpass and disabling the device. I've never actually had to do that yet though so YMMV.
I've wondered about combination products like this in the past and I do not see the advantage. Here is an example.. You can buy a string trimmer (weed whacker) that has a connection at the bottom that allows other sold seperately components to be attached, like a small saw, a lawn edger, a very small almost useless roto-tiller etc.. The problem is the attachments cost very close too and in some cases MORE a dedicated lawn edger, a small useless roto tiller and a small tree saw. I guess the advantage is one motor but that is also a very big disadvantage. If that one motor dies you lose everything and I can asure you that the next years model will be completely redesigned and not work with your existing attachments. On a smaller scale. Many kitchen mixers have a grinding attachment, great for grinding coffee beans, spices, etc. They start at a minimum of $30 depending on the mixer you have. I can by an electric coffee/spice grinder for $10 and all I have to do is plug it into the electrical outlet and go. What are the advantages of these types of products?
My county sells tickets to the annual county fair online. You print the resulting screen after your CC is charged and print the tickets right there from the screen. When you enter the fair, they scan the bar code and you show ID. This service costs nothing extra. If my county can do this, I'd venture a guess that TM could do it as well.
Wait a minute, your entire theory through this thread as been "let the market be free " and then you finish it up complaining about individuals selling tickets on E-Bay for a profit. I'm sorry but that is as free market as you can get.
I personally like AVG the best. It is easy to use, the updates are seemless, it works.
The negatives that turned me off of the others.
AntiVir Ignores anything on a shared drive. You can open eicar.txt from a shared drive without a problem which is a problem if you have shared storage. Not a show stopper for everyone though.
Avast Looks cool and provides a lot of functionality but I found it to be not nearly as simple to setup and use as the others. I like the standard options style configuration tabs all in one place, Avast looks more like a media player then an antivirus aplication with various popout buttons for configuration and to start scans. Once it is setup, it does work fine though. I can work through UI issues but an even bigger negative is you can not schedule scans with the free version, resident protection is always active but periodic full scans must be run manually.
Apple wins, consumer loses. That was my entire point and I expressed my confusion of why people (the consumers like yourself) defend or agree with that action. You do realize you are consumer that loses and Apple is the company that wins right?
We are all aware of the future processor roadmaps and have always been aware. Yes, your processor and graphics technology is "outdated" the day you buy it but you have the information in front of you to make a more informed buying decision. Future product release information about not having some firewire ports, what size monitor is included, the color of the case, what currently existing in the market processor or graphics card it will include, or wether or not it comes with a 60GB or 80GB HD is not the same thing you are implying. Overall, you have a very good point but one that does not apply to this situation.
but feel sorry for the people who rushed out and got a MacBook Pro
I don't feel bad at all.
Apple goes way above and beyond typical business practices to ensure potential customers do not know what and when a new product is going to be released until the day it is actually released. Be that as it is, it is even worse that many people around here seem to defend that practice.
SCMS is not required. SCMS is to prevent making digital copies of a digital copy that came from a digital source. The XM radios do not have the capability to make a second and further digital copies of that copy that is in the systems memory. The legel theory for SCMS at the time was... You could make a single digital copy from an original digital source but the RIAA wanted to prevent that copy from making further digital copies and SCMS was adopted. The RIAA at the time played the card that a digital source could be copied without quality loss and the second generation copies of that digital was an exact copy and could be further copied, all without any quality loss down the line. Analog was not a concern at the time and SCMS did not apply to the plain old analog output being recorded on that same equipment. Back in the day, the audio rags (Stereo Review and others) did quite a few tests making several generations of copies of various source material and determined that most people would not even notice the first copy being analog and making further digtial copies from that. Part of that determination they believed was that most source material back then was originally analog from the studio anyway (ADD or AAD) but even with a digital recording from the studio (DDD), the quality was very acceptable when compared to other readily available source material like the LP and open real tape. Well, not specifically related to this case but the RIAA has switched gears and now analog is a concern of theirs as well.
The blanket statement of "I don't need IT" is just as bad a saying "I need to have IT". Every situation is different. There is nothing wrong with not using IT or other types of office helpers in a small business. The problem though is that system does not scale well if you are growing. You eventually will not be able to effectively run your business or maintain any consistent and accurate records yourself. You will either need another person or some type of technology or some combination of both. As the size increases even further, you will find that some amount of IT will be cheaper and more efficient then a dedicated employee for certain functions. If you are not growing, it doesn't matter if what you have works but you can not assume your current method will always be the best method.
My group think comment does not mean anything has dried up, it is an observation of what happens and the way I feel. It really is that simple. I do not get involved in politics and have never argued polictics other then to complain about something specific I did not like that happened. The only thing I do is occasionaly if there is a topic I feel stongly about, I write my representatives (school board, county, state etc depending on the situation) with my opinions on a matter. I do that about 2-5 times a year and I typcially receive the form letter response back acknowledging my letter. I am being 100% honest when I claim that I have NO idea what party any of my representatives belong too. I do not care either. You seem to be too caught up in the game.
Are you trolling or are you really that whacked? Is it that hard to comprehend that someone might not be a Democrat or a Rebublican or part of any political party? I choose and form my OWN opinions about individual issues and how our $current_leaders are performing myself. No group think required, requested, or needed.
Well you could look at it as $450 total but then I would not have had a computer for the first three years. So, I paid $200 and three years later I paid $250 more. I could have paid the total $450 three years ago but that computer would be obsolete as well now as well. I paid twice and had a pretty capable computer both times because the technology gets much better and much faster as time goes on. You do understand that concept right? Are you suggesting I would have been better off buying another complete computer 3 years later and somehow that is better and I should just throw the other one away? Should I have paid $450 or $1000 three years ago instead of $200? That $1000 computer would still be slower three years later then my $200 +$250 upgrade I have now (which also allowed two other computers to be upgraded as well) My file server runs 24x7 and has for about 10 years, no KB, no mouse and gets rebooted only when the power goes out and the UPS dies. I use it to collect my mail from my various accounts and it runs imap, updating my dynamic DNS, radius for my wireless auth, pulling usenet headers on a schedule, DHCP, everyones home directories (windows and Linux), my SSH server when connecting from remote, local Battlefield server, and does scheduled backups of the local machines on the network (my Windows and Linux desktops). It is basically an appliance for me and just sits there and runs and I don't think I've logged in locally to it in years. In fact, the entire OS is on an old 1GB drive and the other drives are just for storage. I can watch any of my movies or listen to any of my music on any computer, read any of my mail from any of my mail accounts on any computer locally or remote (another advantage of using IMAP+procmail+fetchmail is ONE set of filters and rules and any mail client local or remote that I use sees the same exact configuration and layout, no need to configure every computer with spam filters and rules and create folders). I can pull usenet headers on any usenet client from my local server and not have to pull from the internet for every different client I use, many different things. My second Linux machine is a desktop just like any other desktop system. It has a completely different purpose. Just because they are both Linux does not mean I have the same functions on each. Running what I do on the server machine would not be a good idea and stable on a Linux machine I use as a desktop on occasion.
Then again, maybe you find having a room full of computers in your house with no designated users to be kinda cool. Yeah, you have everyone figured out don't you, I live in my own house, not a room in my parents basement. The way you live and do things is not the only way and anyone who does something different is not stupid or confused. I was simply replying to the parent. I happen to enjoy working on computers and I do it for a living as well so it is a hobby and profession for me. I am lucky enough to have a hobby and a profession where my experience in each helps the other. None of them are required and I could get by without a single computer in the house at all but I do not have to. I have 7 machines and a modified Xbox and four people in the house. Everyone has there own PC and or laptop and I have a Windows box at my entertainment center connected only to the TV and my reciever. If you want to automate and maintain those machines and provide services for those computers with your one MAC that you also use as your primary machine as well, have at it. That is your choice.
For the average mom and pop, upgrading as you described is not something they are going to do. For everyone else, those older components are not lost. I just upgraded my sons computer. He started with a $200 complete package that included a 1.3 Duron and an MSI MB. For $185 dollars, I got a socket 754 AMD64 3000 cpu and an Asus pci-e MB with built in Nvidia video (which isn't too bad but waiting for the 7600GT to get below $150 which is getting very close). I added 1 GB I had left over from my upgrade (in all fairness that would be another ~$60. So, for roughly $250 he has a machine about 10x faster then the previous one. Now I placed his Duron/MB and memory in my 24x7 headless Linux jack of all trades file server and his old GF4 in my daughters computer (also a Duron 1.3) and put the P3/600 that was in that Linux machine into my other Linux machine. I retired the AMD 450 that was in there. So, for $250, I have upgraded 3 machines a decent amount. That jack of all trades Linux machine started out as a DX2/66 in 1995. Granted every single part has been swapped out many times over but other then HD's and god only knows how many different versions of Linux it has had on it but I've never actually bought anything for it (and I still have the same home directory, I see a lynx.cfg from 1997).
I am completely confused by your points in your post.
The fact that we have a "digital age" and more communications now then in the past has nothing to do with a loss of privacy. In fact, you could agrue that it could be more secure. Instead of Suzy operator knowing who you called because she had to patch you through, now, no human touches it. My bank does not have a human going through my transactions seeing what I bought and where and how much money I deposited from my job. The governments and businesses tapping into those resources and extracting information from those services is where the loss of privacy comes from, not the technology itself. That information extraction CAN be controlled with laws and making sure people obey those laws. The fact that the lines moves as you stated is the problem, it does not HAVE too move.
I wish there were people out there who opposed the NSA operations logically and rationally because all you idiots make those of us who are actually interested in the trade-off going on have that much less credibility when we decide we don't want to trade off x amount of privacy for y amount of security in a given situation.
The idea of privacy vs security is very basic. You and everyone else already knows why many people are frustrated. Because the line they have for themselves was crossed long ago and crossed again this time in yet another secretive behind the scenes manner without using existing legal procedures. Give the people that are frustrated credit, this was not the first major privacy vs security event that has popped up in the last few years, and I doubt it will be the last. Think about tolerance. The days of sitting around drinking coffee and taking turns going around the table taking input from others on this subject is not meeting a lot of peoples need to get the word out on how they feel. That may have worked for the first few instances of privacy going away for those people but it is not working now. This is normal human nature, not a sign of being irrational or immature. It sounds like you do not agree or are unaware of the lower line others have set for themselves or the situation is getting close to your own line so you are taking interest now but keep in mind, many people have been dealing with this issue for years and are beyond the desire to express a logical and rational opinion to every new Tom, Dick, and Harry that gets involved later. Wait a few years after your own line is crossed and you will be one of the idiots you speak of to people with a higher line then yours.
To add to your comment but not directly a reply to you...
The purpose of thermal paste. If you could have two perfectly flat and perfectly smooth surfaces and mate them together, you would not need thermal paste. The problem is you can not achieve that level of smoothness. Thermal paste is used to fill the void and flatten out the peaks and valleys between the two surfaces. In theory, you should still have some metal to metal contact throughout the mating surfaces. Here is a link to a PDF of a guy that ran some tests that shows that even a layer of.003 inch thick layer (thickness of 1 sheet of paper) of thermal paste was worse then no paste at all on a power transistor. In fact, they calculated that the transistor running at 30W with the.003in layer of thermal grease, the temperature was 20C higher.
I'm sure different thermal coumpounds and different surface areas would result in different temperatures and the link I provided is one persons single test but the point is, less thermal paste is better then more. We were shown that concept in Electronics 1 in high school.
I'm not a Nascar fan by any stretch of the imagination and I fully agree with you on that. I prefer rally, drift and 1/4 mile in about that order. I can and do participate and watch 1/4 mile and some drifing from my local area tracks alnong with some dirt track events but the US does not have much for rally. I'm forced to use the web or whatever the Speed channel has for that.
Anyone can slam down their foot and go a short distance in a straight line. No skill is involved. As opposed to the launch control, traction control, abs, stability control, tire pressure and temperature monitoring, and adjustments that can be made to the car from the engineering room with a laptop during a race that is present or was present on formula 1 cars. Yeah, I see your point
I don't think return receipts is the answer. This would fall under the "user sending email does not know how it really works catagory". In our office, we default to using Outlook with the forced option of send read reciepts when requested. That works great internal to our offices but do you know how many times users are confused or frustrated or feel there is a technical problem on our end because they did not recieve a RR from user@someothercompany.com? I would say this is about the same amount of complaints we get when someone uses colors or special formatting in an email and the recipient who uses a different screen resolution or non html enabled email client and did not get the email in the exact form our user sent it to them.
I guess if you do get a read receipt back from a user at another company, you would have a very good chance they did get your email and read it, but not getting one does not mean they did not get it.
My daily commuter car has 57hp and I can easily maintain 80mph on the highway. It does not satisify the strong desire to "impress the other guy" criteria but it was cheap and gets great gas milage.
I'll ask anyone in Formula 1 if I can pay them enough to talk to me. I would be surprised if they actually spoke with thier mouth though. I assume there is a button on thier steering wheel that can do the talking for them so they do not have to do it for themselves. Your opinion on pussies is relative.
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No, to get into the secret room, you need the bridge to get the magic dot, once you have the magic dot, a barrier will disappear allowing you access to the room!
I would not technically qualify that as indentity theft unless you consider the Speedpass part of your identity.
I have a Speedpass and from what I've understood from the contract agreement they supply with the device is any unauthorized charges should be handled in the same manner as an unauthorized charge to the credit card that the Speedpass is linked to. Meaning, call your CC company and dispute the charge with the added step of calling Speedpass and disabling the device. I've never actually had to do that yet though so YMMV.
I thought Kitchaid also had a specific high speed grinder attachment for coffee, nuts, and spices but obviously not.
I've wondered about combination products like this in the past and I do not see the advantage. Here is an example..
You can buy a string trimmer (weed whacker) that has a connection at the bottom that allows other sold seperately components to be attached, like a small saw, a lawn edger, a very small almost useless roto-tiller etc.. The problem is the attachments cost very close too and in some cases MORE a dedicated lawn edger, a small useless roto tiller and a small tree saw. I guess the advantage is one motor but that is also a very big disadvantage. If that one motor dies you lose everything and I can asure you that the next years model will be completely redesigned and not work with your existing attachments.
On a smaller scale. Many kitchen mixers have a grinding attachment, great for grinding coffee beans, spices, etc. They start at a minimum of $30 depending on the mixer you have. I can by an electric coffee/spice grinder for $10 and all I have to do is plug it into the electrical outlet and go.
What are the advantages of these types of products?
My county sells tickets to the annual county fair online. You print the resulting screen after your CC is charged and print the tickets right there from the screen. When you enter the fair, they scan the bar code and you show ID. This service costs nothing extra. If my county can do this, I'd venture a guess that TM could do it as well.
Wait a minute, your entire theory through this thread as been "let the market be free " and then you finish it up complaining about individuals selling tickets on E-Bay for a profit. I'm sorry but that is as free market as you can get.
I've used all three of the referenced products.
I personally like AVG the best. It is easy to use, the updates are seemless, it works.
The negatives that turned me off of the others.
AntiVir
Ignores anything on a shared drive. You can open eicar.txt from a shared drive without a problem which is a problem if you have shared storage. Not a show stopper for everyone though.
Avast
Looks cool and provides a lot of functionality but I found it to be not nearly as simple to setup and use as the others. I like the standard options style configuration tabs all in one place, Avast looks more like a media player then an antivirus aplication with various popout buttons for configuration and to start scans. Once it is setup, it does work fine though. I can work through UI issues but an even bigger negative is you can not schedule scans with the free version, resident protection is always active but periodic full scans must be run manually.
Apple wins, consumer loses. That was my entire point and I expressed my confusion of why people (the consumers like yourself) defend or agree with that action. You do realize you are consumer that loses and Apple is the company that wins right?
We are all aware of the future processor roadmaps and have always been aware. Yes, your processor and graphics technology is "outdated" the day you buy it but you have the information in front of you to make a more informed buying decision. Future product release information about not having some firewire ports, what size monitor is included, the color of the case, what currently existing in the market processor or graphics card it will include, or wether or not it comes with a 60GB or 80GB HD is not the same thing you are implying. Overall, you have a very good point but one that does not apply to this situation.
but feel sorry for the people who rushed out and got a MacBook Pro
I don't feel bad at all.
Apple goes way above and beyond typical business practices to ensure potential customers do not know what and when a new product is going to be released until the day it is actually released. Be that as it is, it is even worse that many people around here seem to defend that practice.
SCMS is not required. SCMS is to prevent making digital copies of a digital copy that came from a digital source. The XM radios do not have the capability to make a second and further digital copies of that copy that is in the systems memory.
The legel theory for SCMS at the time was... You could make a single digital copy from an original digital source but the RIAA wanted to prevent that copy from making further digital copies and SCMS was adopted. The RIAA at the time played the card that a digital source could be copied without quality loss and the second generation copies of that digital was an exact copy and could be further copied, all without any quality loss down the line. Analog was not a concern at the time and SCMS did not apply to the plain old analog output being recorded on that same equipment. Back in the day, the audio rags (Stereo Review and others) did quite a few tests making several generations of copies of various source material and determined that most people would not even notice the first copy being analog and making further digtial copies from that. Part of that determination they believed was that most source material back then was originally analog from the studio anyway (ADD or AAD) but even with a digital recording from the studio (DDD), the quality was very acceptable when compared to other readily available source material like the LP and open real tape. Well, not specifically related to this case but the RIAA has switched gears and now analog is a concern of theirs as well.
The blanket statement of "I don't need IT" is just as bad a saying "I need to have IT". Every situation is different.
There is nothing wrong with not using IT or other types of office helpers in a small business. The problem though is that system does not scale well if you are growing. You eventually will not be able to effectively run your business or maintain any consistent and accurate records yourself. You will either need another person or some type of technology or some combination of both. As the size increases even further, you will find that some amount of IT will be cheaper and more efficient then a dedicated employee for certain functions. If you are not growing, it doesn't matter if what you have works but you can not assume your current method will always be the best method.
My group think comment does not mean anything has dried up, it is an observation of what happens and the way I feel. It really is that simple. I do not get involved in politics and have never argued polictics other then to complain about something specific I did not like that happened. The only thing I do is occasionaly if there is a topic I feel stongly about, I write my representatives (school board, county, state etc depending on the situation) with my opinions on a matter. I do that about 2-5 times a year and I typcially receive the form letter response back acknowledging my letter. I am being 100% honest when I claim that I have NO idea what party any of my representatives belong too. I do not care either. You seem to be too caught up in the game.
Then again, maybe you find having a room full of computers in your house with no designated users to be kinda cool.
It seemed you were implying that I only one room available to me.
Are you trolling or are you really that whacked?
Is it that hard to comprehend that someone might not be a Democrat or a Rebublican or part of any political party? I choose and form my OWN opinions about individual issues and how our $current_leaders are performing myself. No group think required, requested, or needed.
Well you could look at it as $450 total but then I would not have had a computer for the first three years. So, I paid $200 and three years later I paid $250 more. I could have paid the total $450 three years ago but that computer would be obsolete as well now as well. I paid twice and had a pretty capable computer both times because the technology gets much better and much faster as time goes on. You do understand that concept right? Are you suggesting I would have been better off buying another complete computer 3 years later and somehow that is better and I should just throw the other one away? Should I have paid $450 or $1000 three years ago instead of $200? That $1000 computer would still be slower three years later then my $200 +$250 upgrade I have now (which also allowed two other computers to be upgraded as well)
My file server runs 24x7 and has for about 10 years, no KB, no mouse and gets rebooted only when the power goes out and the UPS dies. I use it to collect my mail from my various accounts and it runs imap, updating my dynamic DNS, radius for my wireless auth, pulling usenet headers on a schedule, DHCP, everyones home directories (windows and Linux), my SSH server when connecting from remote, local Battlefield server, and does scheduled backups of the local machines on the network (my Windows and Linux desktops). It is basically an appliance for me and just sits there and runs and I don't think I've logged in locally to it in years. In fact, the entire OS is on an old 1GB drive and the other drives are just for storage.
I can watch any of my movies or listen to any of my music on any computer, read any of my mail from any of my mail accounts on any computer locally or remote (another advantage of using IMAP+procmail+fetchmail is ONE set of filters and rules and any mail client local or remote that I use sees the same exact configuration and layout, no need to configure every computer with spam filters and rules and create folders). I can pull usenet headers on any usenet client from my local server and not have to pull from the internet for every different client I use, many different things. My second Linux machine is a desktop just like any other desktop system. It has a completely different purpose. Just because they are both Linux does not mean I have the same functions on each. Running what I do on the server machine would not be a good idea and stable on a Linux machine I use as a desktop on occasion.
Then again, maybe you find having a room full of computers in your house with no designated users to be kinda cool.
Yeah, you have everyone figured out don't you, I live in my own house, not a room in my parents basement. The way you live and do things is not the only way and anyone who does something different is not stupid or confused. I was simply replying to the parent. I happen to enjoy working on computers and I do it for a living as well so it is a hobby and profession for me. I am lucky enough to have a hobby and a profession where my experience in each helps the other. None of them are required and I could get by without a single computer in the house at all but I do not have to.
I have 7 machines and a modified Xbox and four people in the house. Everyone has there own PC and or laptop and I have a Windows box at my entertainment center connected only to the TV and my reciever. If you want to automate and maintain those machines and provide services for those computers with your one MAC that you also use as your primary machine as well, have at it. That is your choice.
For the average mom and pop, upgrading as you described is not something they are going to do. For everyone else, those older components are not lost. I just upgraded my sons computer. He started with a $200 complete package that included a 1.3 Duron and an MSI MB. For $185 dollars, I got a socket 754 AMD64 3000 cpu and an Asus pci-e MB with built in Nvidia video (which isn't too bad but waiting for the 7600GT to get below $150 which is getting very close). I added 1 GB I had left over from my upgrade (in all fairness that would be another ~$60. So, for roughly $250 he has a machine about 10x faster then the previous one. Now I placed his Duron/MB and memory in my 24x7 headless Linux jack of all trades file server and his old GF4 in my daughters computer (also a Duron 1.3) and put the P3/600 that was in that Linux machine into my other Linux machine. I retired the AMD 450 that was in there. So, for $250, I have upgraded 3 machines a decent amount.
That jack of all trades Linux machine started out as a DX2/66 in 1995. Granted every single part has been swapped out many times over but other then HD's and god only knows how many different versions of Linux it has had on it but I've never actually bought anything for it (and I still have the same home directory, I see a lynx.cfg from 1997).
I am completely confused by your points in your post.
The fact that we have a "digital age" and more communications now then in the past has nothing to do with a loss of privacy. In fact, you could agrue that it could be more secure. Instead of Suzy operator knowing who you called because she had to patch you through, now, no human touches it. My bank does not have a human going through my transactions seeing what I bought and where and how much money I deposited from my job. The governments and businesses tapping into those resources and extracting information from those services is where the loss of privacy comes from, not the technology itself. That information extraction CAN be controlled with laws and making sure people obey those laws. The fact that the lines moves as you stated is the problem, it does not HAVE too move.
I wish there were people out there who opposed the NSA operations logically and rationally because all you idiots make those of us who are actually interested in the trade-off going on have that much less credibility when we decide we don't want to trade off x amount of privacy for y amount of security in a given situation.
The idea of privacy vs security is very basic. You and everyone else already knows why many people are frustrated. Because the line they have for themselves was crossed long ago and crossed again this time in yet another secretive behind the scenes manner without using existing legal procedures. Give the people that are frustrated credit, this was not the first major privacy vs security event that has popped up in the last few years, and I doubt it will be the last. Think about tolerance. The days of sitting around drinking coffee and taking turns going around the table taking input from others on this subject is not meeting a lot of peoples need to get the word out on how they feel. That may have worked for the first few instances of privacy going away for those people but it is not working now. This is normal human nature, not a sign of being irrational or immature. It sounds like you do not agree or are unaware of the lower line others have set for themselves or the situation is getting close to your own line so you are taking interest now but keep in mind, many people have been dealing with this issue for years and are beyond the desire to express a logical and rational opinion to every new Tom, Dick, and Harry that gets involved later. Wait a few years after your own line is crossed and you will be one of the idiots you speak of to people with a higher line then yours.
To add to your comment but not directly a reply to you...
.003 inch thick layer (thickness of 1 sheet of paper) of thermal paste was worse then no paste at all on a power transistor. In fact, they calculated that the transistor running at 30W with the .003in layer of thermal grease, the temperature was 20C higher.
The purpose of thermal paste.
If you could have two perfectly flat and perfectly smooth surfaces and mate them together, you would not need thermal paste. The problem is you can not achieve that level of smoothness. Thermal paste is used to fill the void and flatten out the peaks and valleys between the two surfaces. In theory, you should still have some metal to metal contact throughout the mating surfaces. Here is a link to a PDF of a guy that ran some tests that shows that even a layer of
I'm sure different thermal coumpounds and different surface areas would result in different temperatures and the link I provided is one persons single test but the point is, less thermal paste is better then more. We were shown that concept in Electronics 1 in high school.
I'm not a Nascar fan by any stretch of the imagination and I fully agree with you on that. I prefer rally, drift and 1/4 mile in about that order. I can and do participate and watch 1/4 mile and some drifing from my local area tracks alnong with some dirt track events but the US does not have much for rally. I'm forced to use the web or whatever the Speed channel has for that.
Anyone can slam down their foot and go a short distance in a straight line. No skill is involved.
As opposed to the launch control, traction control, abs, stability control, tire pressure and temperature monitoring, and adjustments that can be made to the car from the engineering room with a laptop during a race that is present or was present on formula 1 cars. Yeah, I see your point
I don't think return receipts is the answer. This would fall under the "user sending email does not know how it really works catagory". In our office, we default to using Outlook with the forced option of send read reciepts when requested. That works great internal to our offices but do you know how many times users are confused or frustrated or feel there is a technical problem on our end because they did not recieve a RR from user@someothercompany.com? I would say this is about the same amount of complaints we get when someone uses colors or special formatting in an email and the recipient who uses a different screen resolution or non html enabled email client and did not get the email in the exact form our user sent it to them.
I guess if you do get a read receipt back from a user at another company, you would have a very good chance they did get your email and read it, but not getting one does not mean they did not get it.
My daily commuter car has 57hp and I can easily maintain 80mph on the highway. It does not satisify the strong desire to "impress the other guy" criteria but it was cheap and gets great gas milage.
I'll ask anyone in Formula 1 if I can pay them enough to talk to me. I would be surprised if they actually spoke with thier mouth though. I assume there is a button on thier steering wheel that can do the talking for them so they do not have to do it for themselves. Your opinion on pussies is relative.