1. Simple paradox explained by faulty design of the English language (all paradoxes devolve to faults in syntax).
2. No, it's true, only the people who get to run it from time to time realize they can make more money by using it to hurt you. That's your fault, for believing their propaganda. YOU are the real government of America. So stop voting for corporatists who line their own pockets.
3. It went to a page of photos at the moment the submitter clicked "Submit". It's not his fault if they were vaporized 90 ms later.
Just about any set of self-amplified multimedia speakers can detect cell-phone transmission bursts if the phone is held reasonably close (within a foot or so).
Designing an RF section to cover the cell bands would easily give the thing range in the 10's of meters.
>Sorry, I digress -- I'm full of gin, tonic, and Italian food. Back OT -- they got their best RAM up to 275MHz FSB (DDR550). The Kingston I got works stable up to 325MHZ (DDR650!!) and it's not much more (a few cents/MB) than the reviewed RAM.
You got lucky. Sometimes low-latency memory doesn't even work at lower than rated speed with more than one module installed if you don't buy matched, pretested pairs.
>5. 512MB is the ideal system total memory. 384 is required, 1GB is nice, but the difference is negligible.
The value of the extra 512MB in a 1GB setup isn't for improving gameplay, it's for getting back your computer within seconds instead of minutes after you quit.
Swap out an entire OS and you'll have to swap it back in, see.
I buy a cell-phone, I have 14 days to evaluate it, but I like it immediately so I file for the rebate, but two days later I realize that the cell-service sucks really bad, so I cancel the service within the 14-day mandatory federal evaluation period (still paying the first month and the activation fee but avoiding a hefty early-termination fee) and return the phone. The rebate takes an inexpliciable 8-10 weeks to "process", so when it arrives, it's mine.
You got a problem with that, you give me the "rebate" at the register so it's on the receipt when I return the phone.
Raid is a backup solution as much as having a backup is a backup solution. You will lose all your backups sooner or later with roughly the same probability that you will lose the ability to recover your RAID.
If downtime is your biggest problem, use RAID-1 (plain-vanilla mirroring) so you can just switch to RAID-0 (non-RAID operation) when one fails.
It's predicated on the idea that the humans are in error, but human error will hose your backups, too, in ways you never dreamed ("no, I didn't notice the tape wasn't moving...it's always just made that clicking noise, and I've been here for years" (gestures to huge rack of tapes...)). If you didn't make a verified backup before installing the RAID in the first place, you're too stupid to live.
Put them all in the box and get a RAID running on them and USE THE ERROR CORRECTION modes (R1 or R5 depending on whether you want to keep the most speed or space).
You'll never have to "back up" again, because your data is backed up automatically with every read or write.
I guess two things changed. How much money you can make in computing, and how much some people will tolerate being told they'll be wage slaves to their corporate masters forever.
>why an Athlon 2.0GHz (2400+) out performs the Celeron 2.6GHz.
Because the Celeron is a deliberately crippled version of the Pentium designed to run slower than the Athlon to attract the same price point while carrying Intel's goodwill, while the Athlon is the best AMD can market?
What's inside the machine doesn't matter any more. There are so many configurations of pipeline, cache, core, memory i/o, etc. that nobody should give the first thought to the numbers of the chip.
Especially when the rest of the mobo and i/o and MII and video disk system are bottlenecking those theoretical burst-rates.
We should be working towards a benchmark of a whole computer, that gauges how all of those parts add up to "hot" or "value" or everything in between.
Instead we have corporate-empire sycophants on all sides whining at each other about the semantics of the flim rate on the franistan.
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Blackadder III wore this trope out ten years ago.
Is there anyone who hasn't posted a joke along the lines of "Windows 3.1 still rough around the edges?"
1. Simple paradox explained by faulty design of the English language (all paradoxes devolve to faults in syntax).
2. No, it's true, only the people who get to run it from time to time realize they can make more money by using it to hurt you. That's your fault, for believing their propaganda. YOU are the real government of America. So stop voting for corporatists who line their own pockets.
3. It went to a page of photos at the moment the submitter clicked "Submit". It's not his fault if they were vaporized 90 ms later.
Just about any set of self-amplified multimedia speakers can detect cell-phone transmission bursts if the phone is held reasonably close (within a foot or so).
Designing an RF section to cover the cell bands would easily give the thing range in the 10's of meters.
So it's obvious, and you get nada.
[3,8] clock cycles at 500 MHz = [6,16] ns
2 clock cycles at 400 MHz = 5 ns
[6,16]ns/5ns = [1.2,3.2]
The 500-MHz 3-4-4-8 takes between 20% and 220% longer than the 400-MHz 2-2-2-2 for comparable accesses.
So if your point was that the 500-MHz 3-4-4-8 couldn't be slower than the 400-MHz 2-2-2-2, then it was wrong.
schedule.
If I have to explain that...
Yep. The D3 benchmark will start showing up in hardware comparison tests, and it'll be interesting to see double-digit FPS numbers again.
It was called an X-Y plotter.
>Sorry, I digress -- I'm full of gin, tonic, and Italian food. Back OT -- they got their best RAM up to 275MHz FSB (DDR550). The Kingston I got works stable up to 325MHZ (DDR650!!) and it's not much more (a few cents/MB) than the reviewed RAM.
You got lucky. Sometimes low-latency memory doesn't even work at lower than rated speed with more than one module installed if you don't buy matched, pretested pairs.
>5. 512MB is the ideal system total memory. 384 is required, 1GB is nice, but the difference is negligible.
The value of the extra 512MB in a 1GB setup isn't for improving gameplay, it's for getting back your computer within seconds instead of minutes after you quit.
Swap out an entire OS and you'll have to swap it back in, see.
There is nothing preventing me from being creative or learning on my personal computer.
The distractions there are the same as in life, but I manage in life as on the computer.
It's a tool. Not a jailer. Do what you want with it.
Has America run out of INTERESTING things to do?
I buy a cell-phone, I have 14 days to evaluate it, but I like it immediately so I file for the rebate, but two days later I realize that the cell-service sucks really bad, so I cancel the service within the 14-day mandatory federal evaluation period (still paying the first month and the activation fee but avoiding a hefty early-termination fee) and return the phone. The rebate takes an inexpliciable 8-10 weeks to "process", so when it arrives, it's mine.
You got a problem with that, you give me the "rebate" at the register so it's on the receipt when I return the phone.
Cool.
I stuck slashdot into my bookmark list...
Let's set up the Greenpeace ship with a seive-shaped hull.
Infrared Security Camera
Okay, that's three words. What're you gonna do, throw me out? I paid for this seat, buddy.
Star Wars Kid strikes again.
Raid is a backup solution as much as having a backup is a backup solution. You will lose all your backups sooner or later with roughly the same probability that you will lose the ability to recover your RAID.
If downtime is your biggest problem, use RAID-1 (plain-vanilla mirroring) so you can just switch to RAID-0 (non-RAID operation) when one fails.
And I take issue with this statement:
RAID is not a substitute for frequent, regularly scheduled backup.
It's predicated on the idea that the humans are in error, but human error will hose your backups, too, in ways you never dreamed ("no, I didn't notice the tape wasn't moving...it's always just made that clicking noise, and I've been here for years" (gestures to huge rack of tapes...)). If you didn't make a verified backup before installing the RAID in the first place, you're too stupid to live.
Swap, schmop.
Put them all in the box and get a RAID running on them and USE THE ERROR CORRECTION modes (R1 or R5 depending on whether you want to keep the most speed or space).
You'll never have to "back up" again, because your data is backed up automatically with every read or write.
RAID is also available for Windows.
Why do I even subscribe to Wired anymore
So your neighbors will think you're as cool as we do...
it's the only way to fly
I guess two things changed. How much money you can make in computing, and how much some people will tolerate being told they'll be wage slaves to their corporate masters forever.
Ashcroft is saying he doesn't know how without opening up the computer and copying it all using pencil and paper.
It's the only reason graffiti happens.
If you want to make a statement, make it on your own house.
I'm going to come to regret leaving out the "and" I accidentally just left out, but first, I'm going to enjoy the noobs it trolls up...
>why an Athlon 2.0GHz (2400+) out performs the Celeron 2.6GHz.
Because the Celeron is a deliberately crippled version of the Pentium designed to run slower than the Athlon to attract the same price point while carrying Intel's goodwill, while the Athlon is the best AMD can market?
What's inside the machine doesn't matter any more. There are so many configurations of pipeline, cache, core, memory i/o, etc. that nobody should give the first thought to the numbers of the chip.
Especially when the rest of the mobo and i/o and MII and video disk system are bottlenecking those theoretical burst-rates.
We should be working towards a benchmark of a whole computer, that gauges how all of those parts add up to "hot" or "value" or everything in between.
Instead we have corporate-empire sycophants on all sides whining at each other about the semantics of the flim rate on the franistan.