I started overclocking with a Celeron 300A. I ran it at 450 Mhz with the Intel fan. The only extra expense? I had to buy a Abit motherboard (BH6) and PC100 memory. Both were ~$35 more TOTAL than PC66 and a 440LX board This summer, I took that same board and got a Celeron 566 chip from Ebay for $145 shipped. With the slocket, heatsink/fan, and thermal grease that came with the processor(all for $145), I use that SAME board that housed my Celeron 300 and the same RAM and now run at 850 Mhz. The advantages to this route?
I stayed at a 100 Mhz system bus, meaning all my PCI cards stayed at 33 mhz, which means stability as thats the PCI spec.
This was much cheaper than a P2 (for the 300) and P3 (for the 566) and much faster.
Your mileage may vary, but I have had nothing but good to say about the Celeron line (overclocked of course!)
Whether He be the Son of God, I know not, but this I know: whereas I was blind, now I see.
Ok, so this device is supposed to work at over 2,000 feet?
How is this supposed to hit a single target accurately at 2,000 feet? I see no mentioning of any real precision. Is this designed just to spray everyone in a group with pain at long range? In that case, I can see human rights people protesting over this device if it indiscriminantly hits groups.
Also, how would a aircraft system work? To maintain an accurate bead on a target from 2000 feet away from a helicopter that is constantly in motion seems to me impossible. Even at closer ranges, it seems to me to be a difficult task to keep this fired at the proper target.
Whether He be the Son Of God, I know not, but this I know: whereas I was blind, now I see.
I attend the State University of New York at Buffalo as a CE major.
How did I decide the matter?
UB offers CS, EE, and CE (my three possibilities), and I used elimination:
I personally dont want to be a programmer for life, which ruled out CS (in my mind). Also, I love hardware in addition to software.
I considered EE but felt there was not enough computer information in the major.
That left me with CE, which is harder here at UB than either CS or EE; I take nearly every CS course and nearly every EE course and have a much busier schedule than CS and a slightly busier schedule than that of an EE major.
While I was reading the article on make your own X-Ray machine, I saw a banner ad that fit perfectly:
Cluelessness: There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots.
I see a few problems with this.
a: How can an erasure system erase the videotape and allow you to rerecord and not erase what you recoded after 2 watchings?
b: I dont see it taking long at all before pirates figure out how to bypass the 2 plays thing and broadcast it over the net
c: Blockbuster tried something like this with software: you installed a game CD that you bought as a rental and the software didnt let you play after a few days unless you bought it. Problem was, if you patched the game, the copy protection went away as it was just a patch to the.exe file. It soon failed.
NB:I am American.
You claim that the values with which you define success are superior to our values.
What makes your choices of values better than our choices? From what I see, they are fairly equal: you choose to measure success by "class, breeding, and manners", the first two which are assigned at birth.
You claim that we measure success by the skill we have at "run or how good they are at throwing a ball around." Those, also, are somewhat determined at birth, less so admittedly than class or breeding, but you get the point: what you call value is determined at birth, as what you claim we value is also. (whether I agree that sports = value is another point, but I am merely discussing your post)
I ask, then, what makes breeding and class better values than skill at running or throwing? You attack the values of our society (whether they are really our values or not) without providing any basis for your claim that yours are better than ours.
In fact, I would go as far as to say that I would rather have athletic prowess as a measure of success than breeding or class. I would rather have a trait that requires some work to develop (though it depends somewhat on birth) than one that depends entierly on your birth and the merits of others!
Even disregarding my opinion on the matter, the objective fact is that your opinion on the definition of success is flawed logically as your definition of success is based on grounds that have little difference from ours.
"C++, on the other hand, has lost some ground to Java."
I program in both languages, and my experience has been the opposite: I find C++ far better than Jave. I have no desire to start a flame war, but does anyone have any good ideas on why this may be/is true? This statement the author posits seems to be awful shaky at best. Ideas?
To paraphrase this whole MPAA ruckus, "It's the control, stupid!"
The MPAA demands control over what people do with their DVDs after they buy them. It is the same old song-and-dance we have seen from the RIAA:
content control after the sale. They demand it.
People, naturally, resent it, but apparantly the MPAA/RIAA has found that people are willing to give up their freedoms and rights to protect the delicate industries from the evil,bad,and nasty pirates. (*cough* dmca *cough*)
So, when the MPAA (or RIAA) starts waxing eloquently about how we need to protect the, against piracy of movies (or music), just remember: its a secret verbal encryption engine:
What the MPAA is really saying is : "We want to charge people multiple times for the same item and clean them out not only in the price of the movie, at the theater, but also in the licensing fees for DVD players, and for the DVD movies themselves. And we want to tell people what they can and can't do with our media"
However, that sounds really bad. They know this and encrypt their output so that instead, what you hear is their encrypted output:
"We need content control to prevent piracy which threatens the artist and ultimately harms the consumer."
"Our business is protecting kids. We never would, never have, and never will jeopardize anyone's privacy."
Uh....doesn't that contradict Bess' plan of selling (even aggregate) user data?
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I ran it at 450 Mhz with the Intel fan. The only extra expense? I had to buy a Abit motherboard (BH6) and PC100 memory. Both were ~$35 more TOTAL than PC66 and a 440LX board
This summer, I took that same board and got a Celeron 566 chip from Ebay for $145 shipped. With the slocket, heatsink/fan, and thermal grease that came with the processor(all for $145), I use that SAME board that housed my Celeron 300 and the same RAM and now run at 850 Mhz.
The advantages to this route?
I stayed at a 100 Mhz system bus, meaning all my PCI cards stayed at 33 mhz, which means stability as thats the PCI spec.
This was much cheaper than a P2 (for the 300) and P3 (for the 566) and much faster.
Your mileage may vary, but I have had nothing but good to say about the Celeron line (overclocked of course!)
Whether He be the Son of God, I know not, but this I know: whereas I was blind, now I see.
How is this supposed to hit a single target accurately at 2,000 feet? I see no mentioning of any real precision. Is this designed just to spray everyone in a group with pain at long range? In that case, I can see human rights people protesting over this device if it indiscriminantly hits groups.
Also, how would a aircraft system work? To maintain an accurate bead on a target from 2000 feet away from a helicopter that is constantly in motion seems to me impossible. Even at closer ranges, it seems to me to be a difficult task to keep this fired at the proper target.
Whether He be the Son Of God, I know not, but this I know: whereas I was blind, now I see.
I personally dont want to be a programmer for life, which ruled out CS (in my mind). Also, I love hardware in addition to software.
I considered EE but felt there was not enough computer information in the major.
That left me with CE, which is harder here at UB than either CS or EE; I take nearly every CS course and nearly every EE course and have a much busier schedule than CS and a slightly busier schedule than that of an EE major.
While I was reading the article on make your own X-Ray machine, I saw a banner ad that fit perfectly: Cluelessness: There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots.
I see a few problems with this. a: How can an erasure system erase the videotape and allow you to rerecord and not erase what you recoded after 2 watchings? b: I dont see it taking long at all before pirates figure out how to bypass the 2 plays thing and broadcast it over the net c: Blockbuster tried something like this with software: you installed a game CD that you bought as a rental and the software didnt let you play after a few days unless you bought it. Problem was, if you patched the game, the copy protection went away as it was just a patch to the .exe file. It soon failed.
NB:I am American. You claim that the values with which you define success are superior to our values. What makes your choices of values better than our choices? From what I see, they are fairly equal: you choose to measure success by "class, breeding, and manners", the first two which are assigned at birth. You claim that we measure success by the skill we have at "run or how good they are at throwing a ball around." Those, also, are somewhat determined at birth, less so admittedly than class or breeding, but you get the point: what you call value is determined at birth, as what you claim we value is also. (whether I agree that sports = value is another point, but I am merely discussing your post) I ask, then, what makes breeding and class better values than skill at running or throwing? You attack the values of our society (whether they are really our values or not) without providing any basis for your claim that yours are better than ours. In fact, I would go as far as to say that I would rather have athletic prowess as a measure of success than breeding or class. I would rather have a trait that requires some work to develop (though it depends somewhat on birth) than one that depends entierly on your birth and the merits of others! Even disregarding my opinion on the matter, the objective fact is that your opinion on the definition of success is flawed logically as your definition of success is based on grounds that have little difference from ours.
What about foxtrot? www.foxtrot.com great comic
"C++, on the other hand, has lost some ground to Java." I program in both languages, and my experience has been the opposite: I find C++ far better than Jave. I have no desire to start a flame war, but does anyone have any good ideas on why this may be/is true? This statement the author posits seems to be awful shaky at best. Ideas?
To paraphrase this whole MPAA ruckus, "It's the control, stupid!" The MPAA demands control over what people do with their DVDs after they buy them. It is the same old song-and-dance we have seen from the RIAA: content control after the sale. They demand it. People, naturally, resent it, but apparantly the MPAA/RIAA has found that people are willing to give up their freedoms and rights to protect the delicate industries from the evil,bad,and nasty pirates. (*cough* dmca *cough*) So, when the MPAA (or RIAA) starts waxing eloquently about how we need to protect the, against piracy of movies (or music), just remember: its a secret verbal encryption engine: What the MPAA is really saying is : "We want to charge people multiple times for the same item and clean them out not only in the price of the movie, at the theater, but also in the licensing fees for DVD players, and for the DVD movies themselves. And we want to tell people what they can and can't do with our media" However, that sounds really bad. They know this and encrypt their output so that instead, what you hear is their encrypted output: "We need content control to prevent piracy which threatens the artist and ultimately harms the consumer."
"Our business is protecting kids. We never would, never have, and never will jeopardize anyone's privacy." Uh....doesn't that contradict Bess' plan of selling (even aggregate) user data?