If you want it that badly, write it yourself or run something that can handle it.
I would imagine writing it yourself isn't an option without a lot of very messy reverse-engineering. I haven't seen LA specs anywhere, have you?
Besides, why would you pay for encumbered, useless downloadable music when you can get MP3's for free? Ok, it's illegal. But how many people do you know who have gone to jail for downloading MP3's? If the record companies want people to switch from pirating MP3's to patronizing their services, they'll have to provide something everyone can use, something as convenient as MP3. Since MP3 is the de-facto compressed audio format, they ought to just use it. What kind of protection are they getting from Liquid if you can burn it to CD? All someone has to do is rip it to MP3 next anyway.
Um, I'm against having to try to change the format into something I can play in my DVD, Rio, Car, etc in a compressed format.
You could burn to a CD, then rip to MP3. No, I'm not going to go through that either - I'd rather pay $12.99 for a CD from CDNow (luckily most of the stuff I would buy is in that price range) than $9.99 for some BS compressed format that I can only play on Windows (right now, that means my wife's laptop, and those speakers blow ass).
If the building needs heating anyway then the heat isn't really waste.
No, but the energy used by the light bulbs and dissipated as heat is probably more than the energy that would be consumed by your central heating unit for the same amount of heat, since the heating unit is designed to produce heat and the bulb isn't. So it's still likely that you would save energy by using CFL lighting and having to run the heat pump a tiny bit more. Even if it's a break-even or a slight loss, you will make up for it when it gets warm again, unless you live somewhere where you never need cooling.
Heh heh. You must be a troll (hmm, then why am I replying?). The other day I read a post about goatse.cx and BSD, which prompted me to post the following in a vain attempt to get a +1 Funny:
Hey, I thought the big selling point of BSD was that there are no holes in it. That looks like a pretty big hole on the
goatse.cx page!
Of course, some dork moderator decided that was offtopic. But that's not really important. More interesting was this reply:
The site goatse.cx is running Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) on Linux
While the interactions between the buttered toast and the cat seem feasible to yield a perpetual motion antigravity machine, in practice the effect is useless. It can be shown mathematically that the force required to attach a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat can only be acheived by tossing cat and toast into a black hole.
My own experimentation supports the hypothesis that building a Buttered Cat Antigrav Engine is impossible. I plan to publish the results as soon as the lacerations have healed.
My point was if I'm going to replace the CPU soon, I'm not as worried about the quality of the heatsink. After all, the CPU I'm protecting will be worthless in 6 months.
I agree that the designs that engage all 6 little tabs are probably OK. In fact, I'm using a Dragon Orb on the board with the broken tabs, and it seems to have held up just fine for the past year or so. Even it was a bit more money than I wanted to spend. Why can't someone make a cheap heatsink that either clips to all the tabs or screws in?
How much damage could heat do in 500ms, or even 1s? That's not enough time to do a full shutdown, but it is enough time to do an emergency flush of critical disk buffers.
Good point. Depending on the size of the buffers and the speed of the disk, it could work. There's not a whole lot of time to work with if the heatsink actually comes off, probably a few seconds before an Athlon burns up.
At any rate, there ought to be a BIOS setting for 'what to do with thermal overload'. Perhaps it could be a two-stage thing, where if it's only moderately too hot the system does an orderly shutdown, but if it's way out of control power is cut off. It must be possible to disable this for servers, where (hopefully) the heatsinks will be secured by the screws and fan failure is the concern.
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greed is the only motivation that most Americans can understand
So, American greed is the reason we haven't found a cure for cancer, eh? If this is the case, why hasn't a cure been discovered in another country, where everyone is so altruistic?
Just drop the USA-bashing mentality for a few minutes and realize that cancer is a very complex topic. Oversimplifying the problem to make a quick jab at America does a disservice to the reesearchers who are dedicating their lives to fighting cancer, as well as the millions suffering from the disease worldwide.
Besides, the Enterprise is no longer operational. If my memory is correct, it's become a museum piece in Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Enterprise was never operational. It was a test platform. The first shuttle to see service was Columbia in 1981. I still remember waking up early that morning to watch the launch on TV, it doesn't seem like 20 years ago.
BTW, Enterprise is at the Smithsonian now, not Kennedy. See this page for more.
Stupid ass moderators. If they don't get the joke, boom: it's -1 Offtopic. Use your mod points to promote the useful discussions; don't waste your time modding down jokes, even if they are bad.
I think it would be better for the BIOS to signal a shutdown to the OS to permit a graceful shutdown.
If you lose your heatsink, there isn't time for the OS to shutdown before the chip fries. If just the fan fails, there might be. But what if the OS fails to respond to the signal? Oh come on, don't tell me you've never seen a Windows box that has the power saving features enabled but mysteriously doesn't go into sleep mode every other Tuesday?
You don't have to be a moron to get burned (heh heh). I have actually seen the Socket A heatsink clips break - it happened on a motherboard of mine and left me with a dead 1GHz T-bird. The weird thing was, it happened while I was at work. The computer wasn't being moved or jarred or anything like that, and it had been installed for a couple months already.
That said, it's not AMD's fault that no heatsink manufacturer is making a reasonably priced heatsink that screws into the mounting holes found on virtually every Socket A board. The only ones I've seen are nearly as expensive as a new CPU, and since you're going to replace the CPU in 6 months anyway, why spend that much for the heatsink?
Actually you can do wireless with a Handspring. And it has a cellphone module, too. It's up to you if you want to buy a module that costs more than the actual PDA though.
Umm, you only have to buy the $249 module if you want Sprint PCS for your service. If you want GSM service, you can get the VisorPhone module for $99, or free with new service activation.
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When he really dies, no one on slashdot is going to believe it.
There are plenty of large vehicles that get 35+ mpg, and also have very good braking systems that can stop just as quickly as smaller cars.
Can you name a couple? I can't think of any large cars that do 35+ off the top of my head. Perhaps some in the midsize category.
There is nothing inherently wrong with an suv.
Well, I would consider the high cost of purchasing and operating them, the poor handling, and the risk of rollover as things 'wrong' with them, but that is IMO. Your mileage (pun intended) may vary.
Your attitude is that people don't have the right to drive what they like, simply because other people drive smaller vehicles.
Hey, don't put words in my mouth. People have the right to drive whatever they like, as long as they don't interfere with public safety or a reasonable degree of environmental protection. In a lot of cases, though, people buy SUV's as status symbols when they probably would be better served by a decent size car, station wagon, or even minivan. Also, I'm a bit concerned that "SUV = safety" is getting ingrained in public opinion when it isn't necessarily true. The driver who thinks he's invlunerable can be very dangerous to those with whom he shares the road.
I just hate the Red Wings. I could care less who their goalie is at the time. I actually kinda like Hasek, but I'd much rather see the Canes win, even though I know that's unlikely.
Roy may be the winningest goalie of all time, but when he's off, boy is he off. What the hell happened to him in Game 7? And why does he constantly pull bonehead moves like that Statue-Of-Liberty-look-at-my-great-save-oops-i-dro pped-the-puck-damn-its-in-the-net thing he did in game(5? 6? whichever)?
One thing I noticed about American roads (I am from Canada) is that the police enforcement of speed limits is much more thorough than North of the border. Does it span a similar spectrum as the driving skill? Typically on Canadian highways that I have driven on you drive 20-40% above the speed limit as a rule.
The one time I was in Toronto, I noticed that people drove a lot closer to the speed limits than they do 'back home'. Of course, my 'back home' is Alabama, where half the population thinks theit job in a car is to emulate Dale Earnhardt. The enforcement of speed limits here is basically random.
Other states in the US seem to have drivers that stick closer to the limits, and I assumed that probably drivers would have been different in other provinces in Canada as well... wherabouts are you?
Part of the problem is the insurance industry, which, instead of giving a person a single-car rate for owning two cars (which he obviously can't be driving at the SAME time)
Well, the insurance company is still assuming the risk for both vehicles. It is theoretically possible for you to wreck one car one day, then while it's in the shop you drive the other vehicle and wreck it. Statistically, it would be unlikely, but it's still possible.
They are also still at risk (at least, in Alabama, maybe not all states) if the person lets someone else drive his car, so both cars can be in use simultaneously.
Some insurance companies may offer discounts for rarely-used vehicles. Unfortunately, the hypothetical person who wants to be efficient and still be able to tow his boat would have to buy the commuter car and the SUV, which is expensive. It probably makes more economic sense to buy just the SUV and pay for the extra gasoline, and gas will have to become much more expensive for that to no longer be true.
The thing is, no one considers the third option, buying the commuter car and renting an SUV when you need it. This is probably in most cases the most economical option. Part of the problem is that recently, owning an SUV has become a status symbol - a marketable thing. No one has ever explained to me why driving a pickup truck with more seats instead of a cargo area is supposed to be 'cooler' than driving, say, a minivan or a regular car, but apparently it is.
- people who hate SUV's because they can't see over them.... or just get mad when they see someone in a bigger car.
Vehicles that obstruct the view of the road for drivers behind them increase the risk of accidents for themselves and everyone else. In the case of large transport trucks it's unavoidable, but passenger vehicles can avoid this consequence.
- "Limousine environmentalists" who rail against SUV's and "greenhouse gases" while driving one themselves. Al Gore is one of these.
Agreed. I have little respect for those who don't practice what they preach.
- People who want to force automakers to make smaller flimsier dangerous cars with less passenger and cargo capacity that get more miles per gallon.
Smaller cars are only dangerous because they risk being involved in an accident with larger cars. If everyone's cars were smaller, everyone would be safer because collisions would, on average, be less energetic. Also, since smaller cars have shorter braking distances and better handling, the absolute number of accidents might be reduced as well. As far as cargo capacity, I can get myself, my wife, our kid, and a month's worth of groceries in our Honda Civic which gets >35mpg. People who claim they 'need' an SUV to go grocery shopping are lying, plain and simple. It might be useful for buying furniture, but that's not something you do on a regular basis. Rent a truck when you do, it's cheaper than paying for the gas you'll burn in the meantime.
- Centers for science in no-ones interest who perpetuate tentative and unproven manmade global warming theories.
There's a lot of good and bad science thrown around in the debate, but if there's even a chance that it's correct, it seems prudent to look for ways to reduce emissions - if it can be done without excessive cost. Driving more efficient cars is hardly excessively costly, in fact it generally has a negative cost.
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If you want it that badly, write it yourself or run something that can handle it.
I would imagine writing it yourself isn't an option without a lot of very messy reverse-engineering. I haven't seen LA specs anywhere, have you?
Besides, why would you pay for encumbered, useless downloadable music when you can get MP3's for free? Ok, it's illegal. But how many people do you know who have gone to jail for downloading MP3's? If the record companies want people to switch from pirating MP3's to patronizing their services, they'll have to provide something everyone can use, something as convenient as MP3. Since MP3 is the de-facto compressed audio format, they ought to just use it. What kind of protection are they getting from Liquid if you can burn it to CD? All someone has to do is rip it to MP3 next anyway.
Um, I'm against having to try to change the format into something I can play in my DVD, Rio, Car, etc in a compressed format.
You could burn to a CD, then rip to MP3. No, I'm not going to go through that either - I'd rather pay $12.99 for a CD from CDNow (luckily most of the stuff I would buy is in that price range) than $9.99 for some BS compressed format that I can only play on Windows (right now, that means my wife's laptop, and those speakers blow ass).
If the building needs heating anyway then the heat isn't really waste.
No, but the energy used by the light bulbs and dissipated as heat is probably more than the energy that would be consumed by your central heating unit for the same amount of heat, since the heating unit is designed to produce heat and the bulb isn't. So it's still likely that you would save energy by using CFL lighting and having to run the heat pump a tiny bit more. Even if it's a break-even or a slight loss, you will make up for it when it gets warm again, unless you live somewhere where you never need cooling.
Change your dollar amount. $33.50 is $21h.50.
No it isn't, you retard. It's $21.8h, because 0.5 decimal is one half, or 8h / 10h. If you're going to advocate hex, you need to learn to use it.
Of course, some dork moderator decided that was offtopic. But that's not really important. More interesting was this reply:
So, Mr. Microsoft/BSD troll, you have been refuted. HAND.
Heh, Chick tract. Cool. But this one is a much better read if you go through this link.
While the interactions between the buttered toast and the cat seem feasible to yield a perpetual motion antigravity machine, in practice the effect is useless. It can be shown mathematically that the force required to attach a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat can only be acheived by tossing cat and toast into a black hole.
My own experimentation supports the hypothesis that building a Buttered Cat Antigrav Engine is impossible. I plan to publish the results as soon as the lacerations have healed.
Ah, like what happens over a chunk of cavorite...
H.G. Wells, eh? Cool.
My point was if I'm going to replace the CPU soon, I'm not as worried about the quality of the heatsink. After all, the CPU I'm protecting will be worthless in 6 months.
I agree that the designs that engage all 6 little tabs are probably OK. In fact, I'm using a Dragon Orb on the board with the broken tabs, and it seems to have held up just fine for the past year or so. Even it was a bit more money than I wanted to spend. Why can't someone make a cheap heatsink that either clips to all the tabs or screws in?
How much damage could heat do in 500ms, or even 1s? That's not enough time to do a full shutdown, but it is enough time to do an emergency flush of critical disk buffers.
Good point. Depending on the size of the buffers and the speed of the disk, it could work. There's not a whole lot of time to work with if the heatsink actually comes off, probably a few seconds before an Athlon burns up.
At any rate, there ought to be a BIOS setting for 'what to do with thermal overload'. Perhaps it could be a two-stage thing, where if it's only moderately too hot the system does an orderly shutdown, but if it's way out of control power is cut off. It must be possible to disable this for servers, where (hopefully) the heatsinks will be secured by the screws and fan failure is the concern.
greed is the only motivation that most Americans can understand
So, American greed is the reason we haven't found a cure for cancer, eh? If this is the case, why hasn't a cure been discovered in another country, where everyone is so altruistic?
Just drop the USA-bashing mentality for a few minutes and realize that cancer is a very complex topic. Oversimplifying the problem to make a quick jab at America does a disservice to the reesearchers who are dedicating their lives to fighting cancer, as well as the millions suffering from the disease worldwide.
Besides, the Enterprise is no longer operational. If my memory is correct, it's become a museum piece in Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Enterprise was never operational. It was a test platform. The first shuttle to see service was Columbia in 1981. I still remember waking up early that morning to watch the launch on TV, it doesn't seem like 20 years ago.
BTW, Enterprise is at the Smithsonian now, not Kennedy. See this page for more.
Stupid ass moderators. If they don't get the joke, boom: it's -1 Offtopic. Use your mod points to promote the useful discussions; don't waste your time modding down jokes, even if they are bad.
I think it would be better for the BIOS to signal a shutdown to the OS to permit a graceful shutdown.
If you lose your heatsink, there isn't time for the OS to shutdown before the chip fries. If just the fan fails, there might be. But what if the OS fails to respond to the signal? Oh come on, don't tell me you've never seen a Windows box that has the power saving features enabled but mysteriously doesn't go into sleep mode every other Tuesday?
You don't have to be a moron to get burned (heh heh). I have actually seen the Socket A heatsink clips break - it happened on a motherboard of mine and left me with a dead 1GHz T-bird. The weird thing was, it happened while I was at work. The computer wasn't being moved or jarred or anything like that, and it had been installed for a couple months already.
That said, it's not AMD's fault that no heatsink manufacturer is making a reasonably priced heatsink that screws into the mounting holes found on virtually every Socket A board. The only ones I've seen are nearly as expensive as a new CPU, and since you're going to replace the CPU in 6 months anyway, why spend that much for the heatsink?
Actually you can do wireless with a Handspring. And it has a cellphone module, too. It's up to you if you want to buy a module that costs more than the actual PDA though.
Umm, you only have to buy the $249 module if you want Sprint PCS for your service. If you want GSM service, you can get the VisorPhone module for $99, or free with new service activation.
When he really dies, no one on slashdot is going to believe it.
There are plenty of large vehicles that get 35+ mpg, and also have very good braking systems that can stop just as quickly as smaller cars.
Can you name a couple? I can't think of any large cars that do 35+ off the top of my head. Perhaps some in the midsize category.
There is nothing inherently wrong with an suv.
Well, I would consider the high cost of purchasing and operating them, the poor handling, and the risk of rollover as things 'wrong' with them, but that is IMO. Your mileage (pun intended) may vary.
Your attitude is that people don't have the right to drive what they like, simply because other people drive smaller vehicles.
Hey, don't put words in my mouth. People have the right to drive whatever they like, as long as they don't interfere with public safety or a reasonable degree of environmental protection. In a lot of cases, though, people buy SUV's as status symbols when they probably would be better served by a decent size car, station wagon, or even minivan. Also, I'm a bit concerned that "SUV = safety" is getting ingrained in public opinion when it isn't necessarily true. The driver who thinks he's invlunerable can be very dangerous to those with whom he shares the road.
I just hate the Red Wings. I could care less who their goalie is at the time. I actually kinda like Hasek, but I'd much rather see the Canes win, even though I know that's unlikely.
o pped-the-puck-damn-its-in-the-net thing he did in game(5? 6? whichever)?
Roy may be the winningest goalie of all time, but when he's off, boy is he off. What the hell happened to him in Game 7? And why does he constantly pull bonehead moves like that Statue-Of-Liberty-look-at-my-great-save-oops-i-dr
But, the X-Files episode had at least aired somewhere when /. plooped out the story. So MTV's gaffe is a bit worse than /.'s
One thing I noticed about American roads (I am from Canada) is that the police enforcement of speed limits is much more thorough than North of the border. Does it span a similar spectrum as the driving skill? Typically on Canadian highways that I have driven on you drive 20-40% above the speed limit as a rule.
The one time I was in Toronto, I noticed that people drove a lot closer to the speed limits than they do 'back home'. Of course, my 'back home' is Alabama, where half the population thinks theit job in a car is to emulate Dale Earnhardt. The enforcement of speed limits here is basically random.
Other states in the US seem to have drivers that stick closer to the limits, and I assumed that probably drivers would have been different in other provinces in Canada as well... wherabouts are you?
Normally I would be a sarcastic dick and say 'about when Mozilla 1.0 comes out', but that won't work anymore.
Don't worry, though. You can still refer to indefinitely long time periods as 'about when the Hurd is released'.
Part of the problem is the insurance industry, which, instead of giving a person a single-car rate for owning two cars (which he obviously can't be driving at the SAME time)
Well, the insurance company is still assuming the risk for both vehicles. It is theoretically possible for you to wreck one car one day, then while it's in the shop you drive the other vehicle and wreck it. Statistically, it would be unlikely, but it's still possible.
They are also still at risk (at least, in Alabama, maybe not all states) if the person lets someone else drive his car, so both cars can be in use simultaneously.
Some insurance companies may offer discounts for rarely-used vehicles. Unfortunately, the hypothetical person who wants to be efficient and still be able to tow his boat would have to buy the commuter car and the SUV, which is expensive. It probably makes more economic sense to buy just the SUV and pay for the extra gasoline, and gas will have to become much more expensive for that to no longer be true.
The thing is, no one considers the third option, buying the commuter car and renting an SUV when you need it. This is probably in most cases the most economical option. Part of the problem is that recently, owning an SUV has become a status symbol - a marketable thing. No one has ever explained to me why driving a pickup truck with more seats instead of a cargo area is supposed to be 'cooler' than driving, say, a minivan or a regular car, but apparently it is.
Hmm...
- people who hate SUV's because they can't see over them.... or just get mad when they see someone in a bigger car.
Vehicles that obstruct the view of the road for drivers behind them increase the risk of accidents for themselves and everyone else. In the case of large transport trucks it's unavoidable, but passenger vehicles can avoid this consequence.
- "Limousine environmentalists" who rail against SUV's and "greenhouse gases" while driving one themselves. Al Gore is one of these.
Agreed. I have little respect for those who don't practice what they preach.
- People who want to force automakers to make smaller flimsier dangerous cars with less passenger and cargo capacity that get more miles per gallon.
Smaller cars are only dangerous because they risk being involved in an accident with larger cars. If everyone's cars were smaller, everyone would be safer because collisions would, on average, be less energetic. Also, since smaller cars have shorter braking distances and better handling, the absolute number of accidents might be reduced as well. As far as cargo capacity, I can get myself, my wife, our kid, and a month's worth of groceries in our Honda Civic which gets >35mpg. People who claim they 'need' an SUV to go grocery shopping are lying, plain and simple. It might be useful for buying furniture, but that's not something you do on a regular basis. Rent a truck when you do, it's cheaper than paying for the gas you'll burn in the meantime.
- Centers for science in no-ones interest who perpetuate tentative and unproven manmade global warming theories.
There's a lot of good and bad science thrown around in the debate, but if there's even a chance that it's correct, it seems prudent to look for ways to reduce emissions - if it can be done without excessive cost. Driving more efficient cars is hardly excessively costly, in fact it generally has a negative cost.
I'd love to see a way to harness lightning too. Billions of megawatts (I think) that just get grounded destructively.
No, a lightning bolt is 1.21 gigawatts. Didn't you see Back To The Future?