You have got to be JOKING! Apple has NO customer service. It takes them a minimum of 3 weeks to replace a DOA Machine. They make you give them a credit card # before they will give you telephone tech support. When you order a new mac, you get it AFTER they lower their prices(up to a month later), so you pay for a computer that costed you 2,000 but is only worth 1,700.
Gateway, Dell, IBM, Compaq: Free telephone tech support. You can get your machine fixed anywhere if it breaks. If its DOA, replacement comes in less than 1 week(i dont know about compaq tho). And about the doa's, I work for the computer store that has contract with my university on new machines. we get more DOA mac's than any other computer. and the mac's are 3rd place in volume (Dell first, and gateway second).
their Panaflo 120mm fans are really nice. they move a LOT of air, and are quiet and slower than most 80mm fans that push less air. Don't even bother with anything smaller than a 60mm fan on your CPU, i suggest 80mm or even 120mm fan on your CPU, some can get by without any fan on the CPU at all if you have a good enough heatsink, and the PSU pulls off enough air from it. (most computer builders do this such as Dell, Gateway, and Compaq for their workstations/desktop models)
As far as cases are concerned, I do not really know where you can buy them with 120mm Fan slots. they all come with slots for 80mm fans. however, some cases on the net do come with a 120mm slot in the front, and/or a 120mm slot in the back, however they are usually much more expensive than standar high quality cases and are of lower quality metals/design. I think somoene could make a lot of money designing cases, and nobody does. Its a shame really if you ask me
You need to use larger fans. If you use small cpu fans, small case fans, and spin them as fast as a fucking hard drive, you will get a loud as fuck case.
I have a single 120mm fan running in the front of my case, an 80mm CPU fan, and a 120mm fan blowing out of my case. This all required a case mod, but it was worth it. I get 2x more airflow through my case than the same case with louder [read: faster] 80mm case fans. To top it off, my ambient case temperature is 10c cooler than it was with high speed 80mm fans, and my cpu temperature is 15c cooler with the big heatsink, and big, slower 80mm fan (big compared to standard 50 and 60mm cpu fans).
As a nice side affect, bigger fans can spin slower and push the same or more air, this means less power. with the same case, when i switched to 120mm case and 80mm cpu fans, it use 5% less power[than old cooling setup] when the machine is at full load. This is a very good setup. I have the quietest computer on the block, and my fans costed me like $2 more than standard fans.
some other tips on keeping your case quiet:
Screw down your hard drives using ALL the screws, and do it firmly. I use rubber washers in between my HDD and case. thin cardboard cutouts also do this job quite well.(this decreases the heat that can come off the hdd, so be carefull if you have high speed hdd's such as 10k and 15k RPM models) This decreases the amount of vibration your hard drive sends to your case, and can REALLY quiet things up.
Make sure your CDROM drive is screwed down firmly! this drastically reduces noise when a 50x cdrom is spinning off its bearings!
Replace your fans when they get noisy. Ball bearing fans last longer, and only cost 1 or 2 dollars more than sleave bearing fans.
I really wish ATX cases came standard with 120mm fan spaces. there is PLENTY of space on the case to cut a bigger hole, but they do not and expect people to settle with 80mm. You all wonder why the Mac G4 desktop is so quiet? Simple, insted of using multiple fans (60mm cpu fan, 80mm PSU fan, 80mm case fan like dell, gateway) they use a SINGLE 120mm heat sensitive fan mounted on the case directly over their oversized heatsink. the fan exausts air out of the case, and pulls it from the hot cpu. there is no need for 50 fans in a case if you use proper air direction, and hardware placement.
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The government does allow copying of the law during hours that the court houses are open. You can simply go there, find the law, and make copies on the copy machine free of charge or coyprite burden, but if you take those copies home, and re-copy them, then you are in violation (this is what the courts are saying, not what my interpretation of current law is)
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To legally develop and sell a product on the microsoft platform, you must pay $150 for a windows license, and another 900 for the MSVC++ license. this is close to the price of QT for a single developer. To top it off, if you use QT, you can port your application to all the platforms QT supports for the same price, something you cannot do with the lockdown that is known as MS.
Has anybody over at kernel.org thought about inserting the kernel into Freenet at the same time they post it on their FTP site? They could link it right from their website http://www.kernel.org and save themselves lots of bandwidth. Of they could link it off their mirrors page.
We are currently implementing a similar wireless solution over my campus. They are piloting the system in the library right now, but they plan on putting enough "base stations" around the campus to allow access from any building and surrounding roads that the University police patrol on. (this is a joint effort with the police department and computer guys on campus).
to think that some good might actually come from those pigs.
This charge MUST be backed strongly by the president of the US. He may claim it doesn't affect American interests. He may claim the corporations have a right to their patents. Or he may do the right thing. Time will tell.
while we are at it, why dont we just drill an oil well right through the polar bear and tribe leaders. This will help offset the cost of the drug and make it almost free to everyone!
Here are a few things I found while reading about this a few months ago. What's interesting is this stuff is already in prototype in China and some other medical institutions. enjoy!
worry about hardware conflicts? sorry, that has nothing to do with it. Game makers dont have anything to do with hardware. The closest they get is a bit of cpu asm. Everything else is wrapped inside an API. Specifically, for pc games, that would be OpenGL and Direct3D for video and DirectSound for audio (or on *nix, OpenAL, OSS, ALSA for sound)
Game developers are stuck into microsoft's proprietary API's (mostly directx) but the beauty is that almost all PC games will be available on this system due to being portable from windows to.. windows.
Another thing that makes the cost a lot less is that the video processor does not have to be as powerfull on a game consol as it does on a PC. rendering on a TV is a LOT lower resolution than a PC monitor, and rendering on your monitor at anything less than 1024 nowadays is unacceptable to a hardcore FPS gamer like me. on a TV, sub 640x480 resolutions rule, and it doesnt take much power to make it look "awesome".
I have been following the development of this XboX crap from microsoft. This isnt flame bait or anything like that.
All this thing is:
- intel p3 cpu
- rambus RDRAM
-nvidia integrated chipset:
"3d" sound
2d and 3d video
network
memory controller
What is so funny about the nvidia part is this. They will be releasing the same thing to the general public as a north and south bridge for intel and amd platforms! Whats more interesting is that this "next generation nvidia chip" is nothing more than what will be in my AGP slot a few months from now. There really isnt anything special about this box except it is proprietary, small, and will cost you a little less than my entire system. But then again, it can do a whole lot less than my entire system.
Well, Is it so supprising this would happen? Canada's new network, our own Internet-2, euorpe doing a new network, of course china is gona do it. anyway, heres some info I found out and about in my past readings of china's network:
what are you talking about? all the motherboards with onboard RAID and onboard 4 IDE channels use a SEPERATE pci IDE chip. the most comon are promise's ATA/66 and ATA/100 and the Highpoint ATA/66 and ATA/100 chips. These are the same EXACT chips that are used on the addon PCI IDE raid and non raid cards. and the motherboard integrates them as a PCI device. whereever you got your information, please post some documentation to back that up.
Supprisingly, this guy had some big named sponsors.. From Pepsi, to ThinkGeek, to Walmart, and even Amazon.com.
It looks like these people are just back-turning on him. I cannot imagine that these big named companies are going to go back on their word after a year of a man's life. I can see if maybe a DotCom Startup (TM) went bankrupt, but this is just rediculous.
the contacts are copper. they get wet, touch oxygen, and turn brown. the contacts are no longer any good..
you blow on them (breathing on them works better, adds more moisture to the game) this causes the contacts to temperarily work better.
the permanet fix: take a bottle of rubbing alcohol and a q-tip. dip the q-tip into the bottle. rub the q-tip on the contacts of the video game cartrige. you can also clean the NES consol with the same method, but there are easier ways for it (buy one of those NES cleaners. that is what they really do, they clean the contacts. it doesnt hurt the fuggin consol like all the nerds say)
anyhow, once you rub alcohol on the cartrige, you will notice green and brown shit all over yoru q-tip. that is all the shit that was up on there...
now your game is fixed. it should work perfect untill it gets moisture to it again. i seem to have to clean my games once every few months to keep them from locking up.
the reason sega genesis and newer games do not lock up and need blowing is because the manufacturers used higher quality contacts such as gold plated, etc.. the same principle here is like pc100 memory, the contacts get corroded, if you use a pencil eraser to clean them, then they work better.
idiot, organic foods means no pesitcides were used in their production..
it also means there was no genetic engineering done to make that food grow larger.. (50% of grocery store vegetables are genetically engineered)
organic usually costs more cos there is more wasted food from pesticides, but they are wAY better for you..
Well, not really...
There are many common stable products that do not react to organic matter. Remember, organic just means its made of carbon in the molecule. These displays are very stable with a estimated life of 20 years or so.. you shouldnt have any problems with these LED's breaking down any time within the life of the laptop... Like said earlier, they are so cheeply made that breakdown after 20 years is a mute point.
Just because something is organic doesnt mean its an organism/living/going to take over the world. It is just something that chemist's like to call organic. You can find more out about organic material reations here. I duno I guess they get off on making up cool names for their job?
As a general rule, these LED's take up about 1/4 the power of conventional LCD cells. This means longer battery life. As for hurting eyes and stuff, LCD and this new LED technology has always used the reflection principle. rather than emmiting colored light at you, the laptop emmits true white lite (backlite) and the light filters through to produce colored light. If you ever looked at a broken laptop with the backlight burnt out or broken you would be able to tell this..
This is how the brightness is controlled too. just the brightness of the backlight.. Overall, the backlight takes up the majority of the power required to run a LCD, but these new LED's will virtually eliminate what power requirements were actually there to power the data filter that actually creates the picture.
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Customer Service?
You have got to be JOKING! Apple has NO customer service. It takes them a minimum of 3 weeks to replace a DOA Machine. They make you give them a credit card # before they will give you telephone tech support. When you order a new mac, you get it AFTER they lower their prices(up to a month later), so you pay for a computer that costed you 2,000 but is only worth 1,700.
Gateway, Dell, IBM, Compaq: Free telephone tech support. You can get your machine fixed anywhere if it breaks. If its DOA, replacement comes in less than 1 week(i dont know about compaq tho). And about the doa's, I work for the computer store that has contract with my university on new machines. we get more DOA mac's than any other computer. and the mac's are 3rd place in volume (Dell first, and gateway second).
Some is a good website to buy big fans:
http://www.2cooltek.com/
http://www.2cooltek.com/ (for those safe surfers)
their Panaflo 120mm fans are really nice. they move a LOT of air, and are quiet and slower than most 80mm fans that push less air. Don't even bother with anything smaller than a 60mm fan on your CPU, i suggest 80mm or even 120mm fan on your CPU, some can get by without any fan on the CPU at all if you have a good enough heatsink, and the PSU pulls off enough air from it. (most computer builders do this such as Dell, Gateway, and Compaq for their workstations/desktop models)
As far as cases are concerned, I do not really know where you can buy them with 120mm Fan slots. they all come with slots for 80mm fans. however, some cases on the net do come with a 120mm slot in the front, and/or a 120mm slot in the back, however they are usually much more expensive than standar high quality cases and are of lower quality metals/design. I think somoene could make a lot of money designing cases, and nobody does. Its a shame really if you ask me
You need to use larger fans. If you use small cpu fans, small case fans, and spin them as fast as a fucking hard drive, you will get a loud as fuck case.
I have a single 120mm fan running in the front of my case, an 80mm CPU fan, and a 120mm fan blowing out of my case. This all required a case mod, but it was worth it. I get 2x more airflow through my case than the same case with louder [read: faster] 80mm case fans. To top it off, my ambient case temperature is 10c cooler than it was with high speed 80mm fans, and my cpu temperature is 15c cooler with the big heatsink, and big, slower 80mm fan (big compared to standard 50 and 60mm cpu fans).
As a nice side affect, bigger fans can spin slower and push the same or more air, this means less power. with the same case, when i switched to 120mm case and 80mm cpu fans, it use 5% less power[than old cooling setup] when the machine is at full load. This is a very good setup. I have the quietest computer on the block, and my fans costed me like $2 more than standard fans.
some other tips on keeping your case quiet:
Screw down your hard drives using ALL the screws, and do it firmly. I use rubber washers in between my HDD and case. thin cardboard cutouts also do this job quite well.(this decreases the heat that can come off the hdd, so be carefull if you have high speed hdd's such as 10k and 15k RPM models) This decreases the amount of vibration your hard drive sends to your case, and can REALLY quiet things up.
Make sure your CDROM drive is screwed down firmly! this drastically reduces noise when a 50x cdrom is spinning off its bearings!
Replace your fans when they get noisy. Ball bearing fans last longer, and only cost 1 or 2 dollars more than sleave bearing fans.
I really wish ATX cases came standard with 120mm fan spaces. there is PLENTY of space on the case to cut a bigger hole, but they do not and expect people to settle with 80mm. You all wonder why the Mac G4 desktop is so quiet? Simple, insted of using multiple fans (60mm cpu fan, 80mm PSU fan, 80mm case fan like dell, gateway) they use a SINGLE 120mm heat sensitive fan mounted on the case directly over their oversized heatsink. the fan exausts air out of the case, and pulls it from the hot cpu. there is no need for 50 fans in a case if you use proper air direction, and hardware placement.
The government does allow copying of the law during hours that the court houses are open. You can simply go there, find the law, and make copies on the copy machine free of charge or coyprite burden, but if you take those copies home, and re-copy them, then you are in violation (this is what the courts are saying, not what my interpretation of current law is)
To legally develop and sell a product on the microsoft platform, you must pay $150 for a windows license, and another 900 for the MSVC++ license. this is close to the price of QT for a single developer. To top it off, if you use QT, you can port your application to all the platforms QT supports for the same price, something you cannot do with the lockdown that is known as MS.
Has anybody over at kernel.org thought about inserting the kernel into Freenet at the same time they post it on their FTP site? They could link it right from their website http://www.kernel.org and save themselves lots of bandwidth. Of they could link it off their mirrors page.
just a thought
We are currently implementing a similar wireless solution over my campus. They are piloting the system in the library right now, but they plan on putting enough "base stations" around the campus to allow access from any building and surrounding roads that the University police patrol on. (this is a joint effort with the police department and computer guys on campus).
to think that some good might actually come from those pigs.
WRONG!
Independence of the code is all that is needed. YANAL (you are not a lawyer) you are thinking of patent law. copyrite law is completely different.
while we are at it, why dont we just drill an oil well right through the polar bear and tribe leaders. This will help offset the cost of the drug and make it almost free to everyone!
Here are a few things I found while reading about this a few months ago. What's interesting is this stuff is already in prototype in China and some other medical institutions. enjoy!
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http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/24/robot.heart.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/regionalnews/easta
http://www.abcnews.go.com/local/wabc/oncall/40340
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_69581.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2000/
http://www.office.com/global/0,2724,61-17731,FF.h
http://dross38040.users2.50megs.com/page28.html
worry about hardware conflicts? sorry, that has nothing to do with it. Game makers dont have anything to do with hardware. The closest they get is a bit of cpu asm. Everything else is wrapped inside an API. Specifically, for pc games, that would be OpenGL and Direct3D for video and DirectSound for audio (or on *nix, OpenAL, OSS, ALSA for sound)
Game developers are stuck into microsoft's proprietary API's (mostly directx) but the beauty is that almost all PC games will be available on this system due to being portable from windows to.. windows.
Another thing that makes the cost a lot less is that the video processor does not have to be as powerfull on a game consol as it does on a PC. rendering on a TV is a LOT lower resolution than a PC monitor, and rendering on your monitor at anything less than 1024 nowadays is unacceptable to a hardcore FPS gamer like me. on a TV, sub 640x480 resolutions rule, and it doesnt take much power to make it look "awesome".
I have been following the development of this XboX crap from microsoft. This isnt flame bait or anything like that.
All this thing is:
- intel p3 cpu
- rambus RDRAM
-nvidia integrated chipset:
"3d" sound
2d and 3d video
network
memory controller
What is so funny about the nvidia part is this. They will be releasing the same thing to the general public as a north and south bridge for intel and amd platforms! Whats more interesting is that this "next generation nvidia chip" is nothing more than what will be in my AGP slot a few months from now. There really isnt anything special about this box except it is proprietary, small, and will cost you a little less than my entire system. But then again, it can do a whole lot less than my entire system.
Well, Is it so supprising this would happen? Canada's new network, our own Internet-2, euorpe doing a new network, of course china is gona do it. anyway, heres some info I found out and about in my past readings of china's network:
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http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/htm/2000cbh339
http://dawning.iist.unu.edu/china/bjreview/98Nov/
http://www.bjreview.com.cn/BeijingReview/Spanish/
I have been doing a reserch paper on this stuff, some great resources also found at:
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http://www.piezo.com/kgs.html
http://www.avxcorp.com/prodinfo_productdetail.asp
http://www.ndt.net/article/yosi/yosi.htm
http://www.tokin.com/Tokin_America_Products/37/p3
http://www.biospec.com/HomePage/Review.html
http://www.morganelectroceramics.com/pzmat1.html
Have fun...
For what its worth, here are some decent sites containing current NASA and other country's position, and progress on civilian space travel:
_ space_travel_and_tourism_volume_2.shtml
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http://www.reston.com/nasa/tourism.html
http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/general_public
http://www.nss.org/alerts/releases/release36.html
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/space/civilian_space
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what are you talking about? all the motherboards with onboard RAID and onboard 4 IDE channels use a SEPERATE pci IDE chip. the most comon are promise's ATA/66 and ATA/100 and the Highpoint ATA/66 and ATA/100 chips. These are the same EXACT chips that are used on the addon PCI IDE raid and non raid cards. and the motherboard integrates them as a PCI device. whereever you got your information, please post some documentation to back that up.
thanks.
Supprisingly, this guy had some big named sponsors.. From Pepsi, to ThinkGeek, to Walmart, and even Amazon.com.
It looks like these people are just back-turning on him. I cannot imagine that these big named companies are going to go back on their word after a year of a man's life. I can see if maybe a DotCom Startup (TM) went bankrupt, but this is just rediculous.
here is a good link that tells you details on viewing the shower:r antids.html
http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/showers/quad
very interesting reading on this particular shower can be fond here and here.
For those of you that care, here is the real link:
http://cryptome.org/nacsim-5000.htm
also, here is a really neat site with an analysis on what this stuff really means:
http://eskimo.com/~joelm/tempest.html
and yet more great reading:
http://www.austinlinks.com/Crypto/tempest.html
http://www.thecodex.com/c_tempest.html
http://www.spyking.com/datascan.html
ok people... think about it.
the contacts are copper. they get wet, touch oxygen, and turn brown. the contacts are no longer any good..
you blow on them (breathing on them works better, adds more moisture to the game) this causes the contacts to temperarily work better.
the permanet fix: take a bottle of rubbing alcohol and a q-tip. dip the q-tip into the bottle. rub the q-tip on the contacts of the video game cartrige. you can also clean the NES consol with the same method, but there are easier ways for it (buy one of those NES cleaners. that is what they really do, they clean the contacts. it doesnt hurt the fuggin consol like all the nerds say)
anyhow, once you rub alcohol on the cartrige, you will notice green and brown shit all over yoru q-tip. that is all the shit that was up on there...
now your game is fixed. it should work perfect untill it gets moisture to it again. i seem to have to clean my games once every few months to keep them from locking up.
the reason sega genesis and newer games do not lock up and need blowing is because the manufacturers used higher quality contacts such as gold plated, etc.. the same principle here is like pc100 memory, the contacts get corroded, if you use a pencil eraser to clean them, then they work better.
Nice question. too bad its answered in a previous post.
idiot, organic foods means no pesitcides were used in their production.. it also means there was no genetic engineering done to make that food grow larger.. (50% of grocery store vegetables are genetically engineered) organic usually costs more cos there is more wasted food from pesticides, but they are wAY better for you..
Well, not really...
There are many common stable products that do not react to organic matter. Remember, organic just means its made of carbon in the molecule. These displays are very stable with a estimated life of 20 years or so.. you shouldnt have any problems with these LED's breaking down any time within the life of the laptop... Like said earlier, they are so cheeply made that breakdown after 20 years is a mute point.
Just because something is organic doesnt mean its an organism/living/going to take over the world. It is just something that chemist's like to call organic. You can find more out about organic material reations here. I duno I guess they get off on making up cool names for their job?
LOL that is so fucking funny.. mod this up!
As a general rule, these LED's take up about 1/4 the power of conventional LCD cells. This means longer battery life. As for hurting eyes and stuff, LCD and this new LED technology has always used the reflection principle. rather than emmiting colored light at you, the laptop emmits true white lite (backlite) and the light filters through to produce colored light. If you ever looked at a broken laptop with the backlight burnt out or broken you would be able to tell this..
This is how the brightness is controlled too. just the brightness of the backlight.. Overall, the backlight takes up the majority of the power required to run a LCD, but these new LED's will virtually eliminate what power requirements were actually there to power the data filter that actually creates the picture.