You might as well say that heaven exists X meters from here because of the probability that there is an equivalent 100 ly radius of space where I exist but my puppy dog is still alive and their is no war and I eat ice-cream everyday.
I am intrigued by what you say. Where can I sign up for your newsletter?
I don't have to like it, nor will I ever be impressed that some hot dog thinks it's 'cool.'
Whatever. Depending on your processor, not overclocking is foolish. If you do your homework and make smart choices, you will save money.
My current home system is officially a P3/600. Using the stock fan I have been running it at 800 for years with only a couple degree increase in temperature (still well within the safety limits). At the time the P3/600 cost me $250; the P3/800 cost over $450!
Furthermore, for someone so concerned about what the spec sheet says, I'm surprised you buy x86 processors at all. The fact is that both Intel and AMD often run their processors so dreadfully close to being out of spec that it should terrify someone like you anyway.
What do you think Intel processors are warrantied against? Spontaneous evaporation? No - since they already run incredibly hot and close to being over-spec, the most common failure is going to be a heat related one. And, lo and behold, that's exactly the same type of failure that would happen when a processor is overclocked too far.
The bottom line is that Intel currently cannot tell if a processor died from overclocking related heat death or any other type of heat death (such as the temporary failure of a fan).
Why the hell do you think they're looking into clock-locking?
However, suddenly, while watching a recorded episode of "Enterprise" on Sunday, January 19th, about halfway through the episode, the ReplayTV got stuck, with no movement whatsoever.
That's a new feature in the latest PVRs. They can detect when you've been laying around in Cheetos-stained underwear watching Star Trek for more then 7 hours. They're doing this to avoid lawsuits from fat people for ruining their lives.
Maybe, but you know that if Sony buys TiVo you can kiss TiVo's cool hackableness goodbye.
Sony would replace that little picket security fence that the TiVo developers put up with a big-ass "GET THE FUCK OUT" sign. And the recordings will surely be smothered in DRM.
The biggest boon of Freenet, not to mention other efforts an anonymous P2P, is for people in countries with oppressive regimes.
Do you really think that a country with an oppressive regime wouldn't just outlaw Freenet? Hell, it'll probably get outlawed here in the U.S. [Save the non-funny Ashcroft jokes.]
Out of curiosity, have you ever tried Debian? I'd be pretty surprised if it also didn't fit your operating system requirements of "Simple, Stable, and Secure".
Of course, it's not source based like the *BSDs, but that's why I'm playing with Gentoo now.
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I hate AOL and all their users
That's okay - I'm sure they still respect you, 1337 h4x0r.
You might as well say that heaven exists X meters from here because of the probability that there is an equivalent 100 ly radius of space where I exist but my puppy dog is still alive and their is no war and I eat ice-cream everyday.
I am intrigued by what you say. Where can I sign up for your newsletter?
We could also return their bloody disks right back to them while we're at it.
No you can't. Bulk mail marked "return to sender" just gets thrown in the local post office dumpster.
As an European I find it amusing that you can actually get arrested for possessing pornography...
As an American I find it disgusting that it is legal for you to possess child pornography...
(Hint: In case you haven't figured it out, child pornography is the only kind that's illegal here.)
1000w of bass power?
You are a fucking dumbass. Period.
How about the "Death Clock" or maybe the "Smellescope"?
[Yes - I watched Futurama on TiVo last night.]
I was under the impression that LCDs sucked for fast motion video like an FPS (Quake). Is this not the case anymore?
Out of curiousity, do you truncate all your lines to 80 characters because you have a 15" monitor? ;-)
Yes - let's squat on all the .iq domains. That should help them immensely.
And if you consider PBS to be unbiased, what exactly do you call liberal?
You know you're talking to Michael Moore, right?
I've never understood the need to print stuff out. It's hard to grep a dead tree.
It's also hard to balance that notebook on your knees while you take a shit.
Maybe they would answer you if you'd stop spitting on them.
"We just signed a contract to provide xxx training..."
Man - I wish my company provided that kind of training.
At my university:
Classes tought with C#: 0
Classes tought with Java: 6
Classes tought with spell-checker: 0
Is that you, Comic Book Guy?
I don't have to like it, nor will I ever be impressed that some hot dog thinks it's 'cool.'
Whatever. Depending on your processor, not overclocking is foolish. If you do your homework and make smart choices, you will save money.
My current home system is officially a P3/600. Using the stock fan I have been running it at 800 for years with only a couple degree increase in temperature (still well within the safety limits). At the time the P3/600 cost me $250; the P3/800 cost over $450!
Furthermore, for someone so concerned about what the spec sheet says, I'm surprised you buy x86 processors at all. The fact is that both Intel and AMD often run their processors so dreadfully close to being out of spec that it should terrify someone like you anyway.
Wrong.
What do you think Intel processors are warrantied against? Spontaneous evaporation? No - since they already run incredibly hot and close to being over-spec, the most common failure is going to be a heat related one. And, lo and behold, that's exactly the same type of failure that would happen when a processor is overclocked too far.
The bottom line is that Intel currently cannot tell if a processor died from overclocking related heat death or any other type of heat death (such as the temporary failure of a fan).
Why the hell do you think they're looking into clock-locking?
Yes, overclocking voids the warranty. However, I've found a secret method to getting around this. When Intel asks you if you overclock - you say "no".
Now maybe you understand why they'd like to "lock" the processor speed?
However, suddenly, while watching a recorded episode of "Enterprise" on Sunday, January 19th, about halfway through the episode, the ReplayTV got stuck, with no movement whatsoever.
That's a new feature in the latest PVRs. They can detect when you've been laying around in Cheetos-stained underwear watching Star Trek for more then 7 hours. They're doing this to avoid lawsuits from fat people for ruining their lives.
Maybe, but you know that if Sony buys TiVo you can kiss TiVo's cool hackableness goodbye.
Sony would replace that little picket security fence that the TiVo developers put up with a big-ass "GET THE FUCK OUT" sign. And the recordings will surely be smothered in DRM.
Just put your Palm Pilot in the microwave for 30 seconds. Works for me.
Oh wait - I didn't say turn it on!
Yea! No more banner ads! Welcome to the Internet circa 1993.
The biggest boon of Freenet, not to mention other efforts an anonymous P2P, is for people in countries with oppressive regimes.
Do you really think that a country with an oppressive regime wouldn't just outlaw Freenet? Hell, it'll probably get outlawed here in the U.S. [Save the non-funny Ashcroft jokes.]
Out of curiosity, have you ever tried Debian? I'd be pretty surprised if it also didn't fit your operating system requirements of "Simple, Stable, and Secure".
Of course, it's not source based like the *BSDs, but that's why I'm playing with Gentoo now.