As a clocker with rounded cables, let me summarise for you:
* cutting and layering stiffens the cable.
* twisting the cable also shortens it.
SATA will have no more than 8 wires -- ATA/66+ uses 80 wires, and it's pretty fucking stiff without being rounded (something I don't recommend as a DIY). SATA will have a max cable length of 30 in, which is another foot longer than the maximum for IDE, which also means that it is even easier to route the cable around the airflow.
SATA is going to be awesome. The transition of technologies will be one of the best since the switch from FPM/EDO SIMM's to SDRAM DIMM's -- trust me.
RTFA -- or maybe C|Net skipped the important details, adn I'm just working off of what I know.
There is a steady phasing out of the 5V line in PC power supplies in favor of 12V only. More bandwidth -- it is widely believed that ATA/100 was the very last drop that could be squeezed out of parallel ATA -- improved cooling and cabling options, because the 6 or 8 wire cable with be sinificantly less obstructive to airflow, and becuase the cable can be twice as long and more flexible, it can be routed out of the way more easily.
You might be happy with your SCSI setup, but your wallet probably isn't. I went with an all SCSI rig a couple of years ago -- it performed *better*, but not enough to excuse the price. Wait until you see the $/GB divide of SCSI and IDE grow even wider. Wait until they stop making hard drives for your specific protocol and you're stuck with drives that once were big but are no longer as large as today's entry level drives...
Humans like base 10. Computers like binary. Nature likes base 3 (and binary). Why not compromise on base 60? A number with 12 factors should satisfy almost every number system.
I disagree. Ever notice that "primitive" is a euphemism to describe cultures of savages? Ever notice that peaceful tribes were considered "advanced"?
Western culture is now so "advanced" that we need governments, race, gender, and capitalism as excuses to conquer and destroy. Why not let the aliens do it for us?
The important thing is that HALF A MILLION YEARS have collectively been spent processing the data. It is outstanding for the quantity of contribution that has been given to the project, not the quality.
Every thousand years
This little sphere
Ten times the size of Jupiter
Floats just a few yards past the Earth
You climb on your roof
And take a swipe at it
With a single feather
Hit it once every thousand years
Till you've worn it down
To the size of a pea
Well, I say that's a long time
No it isn't -- there is a finite number of possibilities, and if you complete X number of them per day, it's not hard to guess when yo uare likely to solve it. You may calculate the first one to get it right, or the very last one, but more than likely, you will probably go through about half.
What do you get in the end? Cracked encryption -- w00t! Sounds pretty dull to me, even with the very remote chance of winning some money. Aliens are a lot cooler.
It's Eazel, as in "ease". It's just as cutesy as idiotic Mac names like Finder, Chooser, IRCle, and Fetch, along with stupid concepts like "suitcase" and "trash". Of course, every Mac user is also familiar with such dirty terms as "software conflicts", "need more RAM", and "troubleshoot". In any general conversation about computers with a stranger, you can sniff out a Mac user withing fifteen seconds because one of the above terms will fly out of their mouth.
I guess what they say is true -- every sheep needs a shepherd. Why is it necessary for you to reiterate what this crowd's common sense is already telling them before they believe it? Thanks for reigning in the/bots (for the millionth time)...
Screenshots are useful if I want to see what something looks like before downloading it. Snapshots are much handier when I decide I want to use something.
Save bandwidth, keep the screenshots coming. If it is early code, and the install amounts to anything more than: tar zxvf pacakge.tar.gz &&./configure && make && make install (without lots of weird dependencies) I want BINARIES, dammit!
It's not about throwing it away -- it's about lowering the entry cost. I paid ~$25 for Braveheart, even though I'll probably watch it only three or four times on a whim when I have company of the fairer sex. Five dollars for materials and four $2 views means would cut the price nearly in half! It's not throwaway -- it's economical.
I'd like a model similar to the way my phone company (US^H^HQwest) does last call return -- 75 cents per call isn't BAD when you really need it, but after a specified number of uses per month, they stop charging for it.
No, not the codec with that annoying winky thing in the name...
Divx, the subsription-based DVD format. In theory, at least, the thought of never having to return movies was nice. Maybe if they had changed it so that you owned it outright after X number of rentals or could buy full rights to it at a reasonable price. Maybe if they hadn't added so much cost to a relatively new product that naturally cost quite a bit. Maybe if you could get them at the neighborhood video store, and not just Circuit Shitty...
Then again, I could be wrong. People have a tendency to resist using certain things when the meter is running (see: taxis, long distance).
Wouldn't.5 meter resolution have 4x higher quality than 1 meter?
I'm just playing with the "Zoom In" power toy for IE, and at 4x resolution I think you could have a chance of at least identifying the make of a few of those cars...
I've been carrying a Mag-Lite around in my backpack for years, and something that was smaller, weighed less and lasted longer would be awesome. If voltage is important, you could just use three smaller cells, but if it isn't, you could just run off one "D". The extra LED's might also come in handy, but I kind of wonder if that isn't more available, if at all, because of diminishing returns and/or the sticker shock it would cause?
Do either of you have anything to do with the FOX Network? Chris Elliot's Get A Life and Seth Macfarlane's The Family Guy are two of the best shows that network ever made.
I'm sorry, I know asking about a joke will often kill the humor.
Yep, it does. Now let me drive this thing into the ground:
I didn't really know where that comment was going until the end (as indicated by the poor editing). Had I not found a conclusion, it could have been a spam or a troll just as easily. Like you, I had been looking to find some some kind of logic, but decided to say "the hell with it" because the punchline was good enough and it was time to leave work, catch the bus, and go home.
NVIDIA has long claimed that they cannot release the source to their drivers because it contains licensed IP that they cannot distribute. This is old news that everyone deliberately forgets because they just like to complain about it.
Perhaps NVIDIA will open up their drivers for the REAL reason they have been obfuscating or withholding the code to their drivers for so long: 50% of their technology really is stolen from 3dfx.
Slashdot Mirror
is that you don't talk about Page Creators...
I heard that Linus said that for each time he is asked when kernel 2.4 was coming out, he would delay the release by 24 hours ...
Oh wait, that was someone else.
Ever notice that you're a troll if you mention KDE and GNOME in the same breath and exhibit a preference for one over the other?
KDE has done something really cool, now GNOME wil copy it - gee, creativity just seems to flow from that group...
As a clocker with rounded cables, let me summarise for you:
* cutting and layering stiffens the cable.
* twisting the cable also shortens it.
SATA will have no more than 8 wires -- ATA/66+ uses 80 wires, and it's pretty fucking stiff without being rounded (something I don't recommend as a DIY). SATA will have a max cable length of 30 in, which is another foot longer than the maximum for IDE, which also means that it is even easier to route the cable around the airflow.
SATA is going to be awesome. The transition of technologies will be one of the best since the switch from FPM/EDO SIMM's to SDRAM DIMM's -- trust me.
RTFA -- or maybe C|Net skipped the important details, adn I'm just working off of what I know.
There is a steady phasing out of the 5V line in PC power supplies in favor of 12V only. More bandwidth -- it is widely believed that ATA/100 was the very last drop that could be squeezed out of parallel ATA -- improved cooling and cabling options, because the 6 or 8 wire cable with be sinificantly less obstructive to airflow, and becuase the cable can be twice as long and more flexible, it can be routed out of the way more easily.
You might be happy with your SCSI setup, but your wallet probably isn't. I went with an all SCSI rig a couple of years ago -- it performed *better*, but not enough to excuse the price. Wait until you see the $/GB divide of SCSI and IDE grow even wider. Wait until they stop making hard drives for your specific protocol and you're stuck with drives that once were big but are no longer as large as today's entry level drives...
Shit, I'm late for work.
Cool, someone caught the reference...
Humans like base 10. Computers like binary. Nature likes base 3 (and binary). Why not compromise on base 60? A number with 12 factors should satisfy almost every number system.
I disagree. Ever notice that "primitive" is a euphemism to describe cultures of savages? Ever notice that peaceful tribes were considered "advanced"?
Western culture is now so "advanced" that we need governments, race, gender, and capitalism as excuses to conquer and destroy. Why not let the aliens do it for us?
Every thousand years
This little sphere
Ten times the size of Jupiter
Floats just a few yards past the Earth
You climb on your roof
And take a swipe at it
With a single feather
Hit it once every thousand years
Till you've worn it down
To the size of a pea
Well, I say that's a long time
No it isn't -- there is a finite number of possibilities, and if you complete X number of them per day, it's not hard to guess when yo uare likely to solve it. You may calculate the first one to get it right, or the very last one, but more than likely, you will probably go through about half.
What do you get in the end? Cracked encryption -- w00t! Sounds pretty dull to me, even with the very remote chance of winning some money. Aliens are a lot cooler.
It's Eazel, as in "ease". It's just as cutesy as idiotic Mac names like Finder, Chooser, IRCle, and Fetch, along with stupid concepts like "suitcase" and "trash". Of course, every Mac user is also familiar with such dirty terms as "software conflicts", "need more RAM", and "troubleshoot". In any general conversation about computers with a stranger, you can sniff out a Mac user withing fifteen seconds because one of the above terms will fly out of their mouth.
Looking at what's happening to tech stocks, I predict that Sun will have a new slogan very soon...
$ man strip
I guess what they say is true -- every sheep needs a shepherd. Why is it necessary for you to reiterate what this crowd's common sense is already telling them before they believe it? Thanks for reigning in the /bots (for the millionth time)...
Save bandwidth, keep the screenshots coming. If it is early code, and the install amounts to anything more than: tar zxvf pacakge.tar.gz && ./configure && make && make install (without lots of weird dependencies) I want BINARIES, dammit!
I'd like a model similar to the way my phone company (US^H^HQwest) does last call return -- 75 cents per call isn't BAD when you really need it, but after a specified number of uses per month, they stop charging for it.
No, not the codec with that annoying winky thing in the name...
Divx, the subsription-based DVD format. In theory, at least, the thought of never having to return movies was nice. Maybe if they had changed it so that you owned it outright after X number of rentals or could buy full rights to it at a reasonable price. Maybe if they hadn't added so much cost to a relatively new product that naturally cost quite a bit. Maybe if you could get them at the neighborhood video store, and not just Circuit Shitty...
Then again, I could be wrong. People have a tendency to resist using certain things when the meter is running (see: taxis, long distance).
QA and BT? Aren't those things mutually exclusive?
Wouldn't .5 meter resolution have 4x higher quality than 1 meter?
I'm just playing with the "Zoom In" power toy for IE, and at 4x resolution I think you could have a chance of at least identifying the make of a few of those cars...
Is any one making flashlights like that?
I've been carrying a Mag-Lite around in my backpack for years, and something that was smaller, weighed less and lasted longer would be awesome. If voltage is important, you could just use three smaller cells, but if it isn't, you could just run off one "D". The extra LED's might also come in handy, but I kind of wonder if that isn't more available, if at all, because of diminishing returns and/or the sticker shock it would cause?
Of course that guy has heard of it!!!
http://www.slashdot.org/users.pl?nick=drwiii (for the goat sex paranoid)
http://www.microsoff.com/linux
http://www.microsoff.com/linux/ (for the goat sex paranoid)
With these duplicated efforts, you'd think they'd go with BSD instead...
/me ducks
Do either of you have anything to do with the FOX Network? Chris Elliot's Get A Life and Seth Macfarlane's The Family Guy are two of the best shows that network ever made.
Yep, it does. Now let me drive this thing into the ground:
I didn't really know where that comment was going until the end (as indicated by the poor editing). Had I not found a conclusion, it could have been a spam or a troll just as easily. Like you, I had been looking to find some some kind of logic, but decided to say "the hell with it" because the punchline was good enough and it was time to leave work, catch the bus, and go home.
NVIDIA has long claimed that they cannot release the source to their drivers because it contains licensed IP that they cannot distribute. This is old news that everyone deliberately forgets because they just like to complain about it.
Perhaps NVIDIA will open up their drivers for the REAL reason they have been obfuscating or withholding the code to their drivers for so long: 50% of their technology really is stolen from 3dfx.