If the number started at 60 40 years means ~27 doubling of 60 so today's processores should have 8 billion tansistors 200 doublings of 8 billion is about 1.32*10^74 According to answers.com earth is composed of roughly 10^50 atoms and the Observable universe is estimated at 10^80 to 10^85 which is 335-356 years from now, not 300-400 Also, composing a transistor out of a single atom it pretty tough. plus you have to have gates etc. And if the whole observable universe is the processor, where is the rest of the system?;) obviously you could make a system on a chip, but even then valuable atoms are being used and taking away from moore's law. plus the atoms of the device used to fabricate the observable universe into a giant processor... on the plus side, with that many transistors, you can probabbly encode the entire history of the universe into a mathmatically lossless codec that can achieve fit the entire sum of knowledge into a single byte of data. Some people believe this already happened, and the resulting processing caused the universe to collapse into a singularity and expolode into a new universe.
Well, technically "FairUse" is 10 pounds for the unrestricted version. but the 'light edition' which is restricted to 700MB is free.. you seem to have a fairly simple setup going there, but you're relying on a program that is currently free as in beer, and which could at anyday restrict itself to pay versions. I think I'll try this out on a few of the DVDs I actually own, to see if i like it or not, but I tend to be very picky on quality etc.
My 50 cent method is 'faster than realtime' most movies are done in about 30 minutes, all told. you only need DVD shrink and DVD burning software, or if you have nero installed you only need DVD shrink*. I don't think you can get any easier than 1 program ripping and copying a movie in ~30 minutes all told.
You have a faster machine than mine in terms of encoding to mpeg-4, but I need to update my main system soon. A three year old custom built gaming rig can only hold it's own for so long in this computing world.
*= unless the DVD's protections scheme isn't working with dvd shrink, which may happen with newer releases etc.
There is need and then there is NEED;) I know people who have enormous legitimate DVD collections, in the thousands of movies category, and to be honest I rarely see them watch movies... copying movies for the sake of having a gigantic archive of movies to choose from is actually pretty sweet. you always have a movie that's just right for the situation... So the reason to copy all those movies is for the situation where you need to play a copy of a movie for a date that fits your plans, er, well if you ever get a date that is ^^; As for how many movies can I watch in a week, I think my record was about 35. I normally only watch 2-5 a week though.
Bandwith is still too expensive, get a netflix or wal-mart DVD rental account, DVDs come by mail, DeCrypt them, DVD shrink em, Burn em on 50 cent blank DVD-r. pop em back in mailbox with flag up, wait to get more. the furthest you have to walk is to your mailbox, it costs under $20 a month, (walmart is even cheaper) and you can't beat the price of bandwith (~168 Gbit/~$1) Which is all covered under your subscription (they expect you to be able to make about 8-12 rentals a month or less, however, if you drop them off the day after they come you could average as many as 12-18 per month, depending on factors like USPS speed etc) And with all those TV shows coming out on DVDs, chances are you can even get popular TV shows via netflix. Best of all, the big studios make Some money (although not as much as if you bought the DVDs) so they'll never crack down on your supplier of almost free* movies (netflix/wal-mart etc.)
Anything you can't get via netflix you can DL, which will drastically cut down on how much you want/need to DL greatly. Others have mentioned myth TV, which is Yet Another option, but it won't cut out the ads, however there are splitting/merging tools that can be manually used to clip out ads, without recoding.
*= $1.50, to $3.50 depending on how often you return discs cost of media etc. If you actuall bother to DivX encode(which is a pain, and not worth my time) them, you can fit about 4-6 times the movies per disc, cutting media cost...
ummmm two things wrong there... A..NET IS Java (1.3) Numerous lawsuits were filed, some lost, some won, but ultimately, Microsoft is still producing.NET
Secondly the very site you link to has links to 15 FOSS JVMs Some of which attempt to ensure full Java 2.0 suport.. (read JRE 1.5)
So what's the issue here? FOSS has a harder time keeping up with Sun's Java development, but because mono was ripped off by a fleet of laywers, FOSS developers can more perfectly implement it?
Oh yeah the problem here is someone is actually using Sun's Java in an Open Source app, which means it isn't FOSS... FOSS is an ideal, and you can build entire distro's off of it, but it's not going to appeal to everyone. I have Sun Java Installed on Debian Oh nooo... IMO your efforts are wasted trying to make the _entire_ open source community embrace FOSS principals. It's a lost cause, because free as in beer will always be embraced by part of the community.
-march=pentium4 Apples to oranges... He's talking a pentium-2 which is a glorfied Pentium MMX reneamed as 'pentium 2' and give some higher clockspeeds. the difference for a Pentium 4 user is going to be negligable. However, for users of slower processors, there is a hell of a lot of performance tweaking that can be done, that many distros completely ignore. a lot of code has been added to make programs run better and faster on MMX2 and MMX3 cpus like the Pentium-4 all that codebase, slows the program down greatly when running on a legacy MMX CPU. So in short, there is a ton that gentoo maintainers can do to make their system run cleaner and faster ona pentium 2, and all resulting binaries will run tragically slower on a pentium 4. (some over 200% slower) so you see, it's not something that 'mainstream' distros can do easily without forking a whole Pentium MMX version, while all gentoo has to do is set some options because it detected you have a pentium-2. I realize there are other distros that specilize in older hardware too, but not everyone has a pentium 4 class cpu. Myself, I have an athlon XP, and gentoo might run faster, and certaintly would be easier to keep programs up to date with, but the compile time isn't worth it to me, binaries download much faster.. although nowhere near the 5 minutes you're talking about I've got 3 mbit cable service, and installing from the net-install disc took about 2 hrs all told. (including reboots etc) compiling an entire os would have taken me more along the line of 4 hours plus (I have a lot of games installed)
You should try a lower overhead codec like MPEG-2... MPEG-2 requires only a pentium MMX (120 MHz released 10/97) to decode and playback. (with a fully optomized player) Yeah it takes more space, but the advantage is that it comes already in use on DVD Videos they sell in handy dandy retail packages. Holywood Magic+ cards were so cheap for a reason, they took that 120 mhz of general cpu use and put it to work on a gpu specific to mpeg decoding. They were really only needed in non-mmx era PCs, although low end systems gained the benefit of being able to do other tasks besides playing the movie.
Spam is clearly sustained after all this time, because of the layer of jellied fat on the top. I realize all SPAM was canned in 1933, when it was originally invented, so of course some people are mystified that all that SPAM has managed to maintain 'good' up until today... but that jellied fatlayer keeps the spam frozen in time, so it can never go bad.
So clearly donations must be made to improve the 'solar deathray' into a weapon that can truly exceed the destructive capacity of a a stove burner cranked to medium high! While you're busy correcting him, remind that paper ignites at 451 Degrees Fahrenheit, his page incorrectly lists the temperature as '450' degrees, as he got the 'initial' temp from an incorrectly rounded down celcius temp. I don't know how any geek worth his measure could have not heard of ray bradbury, or at least imdb'ed the movie.. but ah well.
Jeez, WD used to be pretty bad, but in the 80+GB range I haven't had a problem with them. In fact the only 80gig drives I've had any issues with were IBM drives. and those weren't even my 80 gig ibm drives;) get over the 1-10 GB era people, EVERY 1-10GB drive had serious reliabilty issues, because drives couldn't detect bad sectors automatically and rewrite the date in 'clean' off partition sectors, things chage, hardware companies change... reliabilty varies by model, always research the model number before buying a super cheap drive off an online e-tailer.
It usually takes a bit of research to catch up if you've been out of the loop for a few years. Fortunately I rarely go through an entire year without building a new system for at least _one_ of my family members (or at least repairing the craputer they got from a mega-chain last week, and everytime they bring it back something 'new' gets broken) Keep up to speed, build your mom's PC, convince your sister to wait an extra week to get a PC she won't be returning 20 times the first month for 'repairs.' It's not that hard, to stay in the loop. if you build for 4 other people, and manage to get them convieniently spaced out so you're building a new pc every year, you should never have to be totally out of the loop, and and that's 4 people you're sparing from the crap that is being sold as 'stock' PCs.
If it's price, then it's questionable whether you'll be able to beat a huge distributor like Dell I can beat dell on price any day, i can get the same $10 PSU for $6 on scam watch*, i can get the same $20 case for $20, with afore mentioned $6 PSU on *=pricewatch. I can get the same $30 korean motherboard, and the same $75 budget CPU, and the same $10 DIMM, and the same $39 HD What am i up to? $174 or so? now i can go ahead and add in the same $120 flat panel and a Legit copy of windows and the 29 printer for $399 It's gonna be the same total nightmare to own, the PSU is lucky to make it through installing windows, but hell, I can build em just as cheap, using the same quality components at Dell. And if you wink right**, I might be able to save you $100 on the windows install, and include about another $600 in warez... No the difference is, I can actually take the time to make sure the components going into your system aren't total garbage that cost $6 shipped individually, and they sell in lots of 20 for $19. If I'm selling you garbage I tell you up front what I think of your attempts to 'save money' are doing to your hardware selection. Dell, claims to offer that service too, but they try to con you into overpriced systems, that are made with equally shoddy PSUs/cases etc whenever possible (maybe they have the $20 ram, or the $85 HD, possibly a $300 LCD monitor) if you're in northern wisconsin, I can even offer you in home setup and support****;)
Actually i usually omit the $29 printer, with the $48 ink cartridges.. I usually reccomend online printing services for casual printing anyways, as the costs associated with owning and operating inkjet printers are steep, and it's better off that you shop for a printer based on needs than have a cheap basic one crammed down your throat, but I will offer help in selecting a printer, for people in dire need.. But i usually extol the virtues of laser printers and say that 'if you're printing 2-3 times a year, why are you paying $48 a year for that privaledge? you could be paying officemax/etc $2-3 each time you print, and pick it up free, or pay another $0.50 to have them snail mail it to you.. if you're printing 100 pages a month, you're gonna be paying $50 a month in ink costs with a jet, or $100 a year in toner prices with a laser***, covering the higher cost of the laser printer in only a year or two..'
**= Okay, If you're Family;) but 95% of my customer base is family, but then I only do about 2-3 systems a year... because I'm lazy:D ***= Most laser printer toner cartridges will last for at least 1 full ream (500 pages) and cost anywhere from $48-$150 So I'm rounding a bit;) ****= milage fees may apply;) and if you pay enough my range is only limited by your desire to pay me potentially exhorbinant mileage fees.
I thought it was kinda a fluff piece myself, but consider the audience he's catering to. Overclocking gamers, who build custom rigs because they can't afford alienware systems every 2-3 years;) I thought it was basic 101 to get good ram and good PSU... a good quality PSU can last you 2-3 upgrades, especially if you you're going on a 2-year cycle, before the industry adds new fangled power connectors to muck you up and make you buy a new one. My ram and PSU are so good, that even though I bought them 3 years ago they're still good enough to go into a gaming rig today. (although the psu lacks SATA power connectors, they do make SATA power adapters.) As for the ram, it doesn't have the memory bandwith of today's ram, but the latency Still is the lowest you can buy in a system ram module, keeping it a choice selection for gamers... (and 3 years later, you still pay the exact same price I paid for the ram new back then, how's about that for RAM holding it's dollar value)
I reject your assumption that leaching off one's parents means one has money for toys. I for one don't have a dime to spare for either portable. Maybe that's because I play video games in my parents basement all day instead of 'working' but me and 'working' never got along especially the part about 'paying taxes' I hated that.
go buy a $1000 system at [insert online or brick-and-mortar computer retailer] Dude, you're telling/. to shop at a place like Worst buy? CompLusa? Circuit Shitty? or Fried? Spare me, I build custom systems hand selecting every component, Hell I even pull out the dremel and custom mod. I break out the front door paints and paint custom art (with stencils, because I suck.) The sad thing is I built a PC in 2002 that blows rings around your 2003 '$1,000' complusa PC and It only cost $950, And that was with a $400 graphic card. And warrenty? the warrenty ran out this year on everything, but the graphic card, and the power supply. Everything had a 3-5 year warrenty. Nothing was shoddy, nothing burned out. You buy your POS from the Worst Buy, I'll be using froogle and scam-watch (er price watch) to find the best prices I can, on the best parts I can get to build a better system than can be found on any shelf in any store period.
I use ask.com anytime google pulls up too many sites to sift through.. the Ask engine is designed to anylize english sentances, and return the best matches that are relevant to an ENTIRE sentance. Google is good, but it's just a really fast keyword search tool. keywords will often times return too many results, which is why google has Page Rank technology, which extended the life and value of keyword searching... but it's still a primative form of searching... it's like going to a card catalog of the entire knowledge of the human existance and asking for everything with the term 'free money' in it... Asking google for 'free money' returns a ton of various sites, in order of popularity, Ask.com when asked "how can i earn free money?" after about 20 advertised links (which are clearly marked) it lists ONLY free money websites. no links to books, no links to gambling sites... nothing but what you were looking for.. Ask.com has the next generation of search engine technology, if you combined ask.com's technology with page ranking technology, you'd have the best possible search technology.
I always wanted to do a mini-fridge pc;) but frankly my favorite mod of all is the Ice Drive I know, it's a 'parody' of extreme overclocking sites, but you really can embed a hard drive in ice, and it should work, at least intil the ice melts enough to fry it out (the 'greasing' step is to keep the water out prior to it's freezing, as well as to prevent any that might melt from entering the drive during 'normal' operation)
That's only to compile the binary, to run the win 32 binary if you download the dlls and the exes alone it's like 6 MB to run a text based browser on win32. i was too lazy to find a site that had pre-compiled lynx win32
Lynx and if you download the source code version it's 3.1 megabytes... plus you need cygwin which is another 160 MB... The actual binary file itself is probablly a lot smaller, but if you've still got DOS lying around http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/ that site has the dos version which is only 2.4 megabytes.
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If the number started at 60 40 years means ~27 doubling of 60 so today's processores should have 8 billion tansistors 200 doublings of 8 billion is about 1.32*10^74 According to answers.com earth is composed of roughly 10^50 atoms and the Observable universe is estimated at 10^80 to 10^85 which is 335-356 years from now, not 300-400 Also, composing a transistor out of a single atom it pretty tough. plus you have to have gates etc. And if the whole observable universe is the processor, where is the rest of the system? ;) obviously you could make a system on a chip, but even then valuable atoms are being used and taking away from moore's law. plus the atoms of the device used to fabricate the observable universe into a giant processor... on the plus side, with that many transistors, you can probabbly encode the entire history of the universe into a mathmatically lossless codec that can achieve fit the entire sum of knowledge into a single byte of data. Some people believe this already happened, and the resulting processing caused the universe to collapse into a singularity and expolode into a new universe.
So that we can sit in out chair all day without needing to get up to go to the bathroom!
Well, technically "FairUse" is 10 pounds for the unrestricted version. but the 'light edition' which is restricted to 700MB is free..
you seem to have a fairly simple setup going there, but you're relying on a program that is currently free as in beer, and which could at anyday restrict itself to pay versions.
I think I'll try this out on a few of the DVDs I actually own, to see if i like it or not, but I tend to be very picky on quality etc.
My 50 cent method is 'faster than realtime' most movies are done in about 30 minutes, all told. you only need DVD shrink and DVD burning software, or if you have nero installed you only need DVD shrink*. I don't think you can get any easier than 1 program ripping and copying a movie in ~30 minutes all told.
You have a faster machine than mine in terms of encoding to mpeg-4, but I need to update my main system soon. A three year old custom built gaming rig can only hold it's own for so long in this computing world.
*= unless the DVD's protections scheme isn't working with dvd shrink, which may happen with newer releases etc.
There is need and then there is NEED ;)
I know people who have enormous legitimate DVD collections, in the thousands of movies category, and to be honest I rarely see them watch movies... copying movies for the sake of having a gigantic archive of movies to choose from is actually pretty sweet. you always have a movie that's just right for the situation... So the reason to copy all those movies is for the situation where you need to play a copy of a movie for a date that fits your plans, er, well if you ever get a date that is ^^;
As for how many movies can I watch in a week, I think my record was about 35. I normally only watch 2-5 a week though.
Bandwith is still too expensive, get a netflix or wal-mart DVD rental account, DVDs come by mail, DeCrypt them, DVD shrink em, Burn em on 50 cent blank DVD-r. pop em back in mailbox with flag up, wait to get more. the furthest you have to walk is to your mailbox, it costs under $20 a month, (walmart is even cheaper) and you can't beat the price of bandwith (~168 Gbit/~$1) Which is all covered under your subscription (they expect you to be able to make about 8-12 rentals a month or less, however, if you drop them off the day after they come you could average as many as 12-18 per month, depending on factors like USPS speed etc)
And with all those TV shows coming out on DVDs, chances are you can even get popular TV shows via netflix.
Best of all, the big studios make Some money (although not as much as if you bought the DVDs) so they'll never crack down on your supplier of almost free* movies (netflix/wal-mart etc.)
Anything you can't get via netflix you can DL, which will drastically cut down on how much you want/need to DL greatly. Others have mentioned myth TV, which is Yet Another option, but it won't cut out the ads, however there are splitting/merging tools that can be manually used to clip out ads, without recoding.
*= $1.50, to $3.50 depending on how often you return discs cost of media etc. If you actuall bother to DivX encode(which is a pain, and not worth my time) them, you can fit about 4-6 times the movies per disc, cutting media cost...
ummmm two things wrong there... A. .NET IS Java (1.3) Numerous lawsuits were filed, some lost, some won, but ultimately, Microsoft is still producing .NET
Secondly the very site you link to has links to 15 FOSS JVMs Some of which attempt to ensure full Java 2.0 suport.. (read JRE 1.5)
So what's the issue here? FOSS has a harder time keeping up with Sun's Java development, but because mono was ripped off by a fleet of laywers, FOSS developers can more perfectly implement it?
Oh yeah the problem here is someone is actually using Sun's Java in an Open Source app, which means it isn't FOSS... FOSS is an ideal, and you can build entire distro's off of it, but it's not going to appeal to everyone. I have Sun Java Installed on Debian Oh nooo... IMO your efforts are wasted trying to make the _entire_ open source community embrace FOSS principals. It's a lost cause, because free as in beer will always be embraced by part of the community.
-march=pentium4
Apples to oranges... He's talking a pentium-2 which is a glorfied Pentium MMX reneamed as 'pentium 2' and give some higher clockspeeds. the difference for a Pentium 4 user is going to be negligable. However, for users of slower processors, there is a hell of a lot of performance tweaking that can be done, that many distros completely ignore. a lot of code has been added to make programs run better and faster on MMX2 and MMX3 cpus like the Pentium-4 all that codebase, slows the program down greatly when running on a legacy MMX CPU. So in short, there is a ton that gentoo maintainers can do to make their system run cleaner and faster ona pentium 2, and all resulting binaries will run tragically slower on a pentium 4. (some over 200% slower) so you see, it's not something that 'mainstream' distros can do easily without forking a whole Pentium MMX version, while all gentoo has to do is set some options because it detected you have a pentium-2. I realize there are other distros that specilize in older hardware too, but not everyone has a pentium 4 class cpu.
Myself, I have an athlon XP, and gentoo might run faster, and certaintly would be easier to keep programs up to date with, but the compile time isn't worth it to me, binaries download much faster.. although nowhere near the 5 minutes you're talking about I've got 3 mbit cable service, and installing from the net-install disc took about 2 hrs all told. (including reboots etc) compiling an entire os would have taken me more along the line of 4 hours plus (I have a lot of games installed)
You should try a lower overhead codec like MPEG-2...
MPEG-2 requires only a pentium MMX (120 MHz released 10/97) to decode and playback. (with a fully optomized player) Yeah it takes more space, but the advantage is that it comes already in use on DVD Videos they sell in handy dandy retail packages. Holywood Magic+ cards were so cheap for a reason, they took that 120 mhz of general cpu use and put it to work on a gpu specific to mpeg decoding. They were really only needed in non-mmx era PCs, although low end systems gained the benefit of being able to do other tasks besides playing the movie.
Spam
is clearly sustained after all this time, because of the layer of jellied fat on the top. I realize all SPAM was canned in 1933, when it was originally invented, so of course some people are mystified that all that SPAM has managed to maintain 'good' up until today... but that jellied fatlayer keeps the spam frozen in time, so it can never go bad.
So clearly donations must be made to improve the 'solar deathray' into a weapon that can truly exceed the destructive capacity of a a stove burner cranked to medium high!
While you're busy correcting him, remind that paper ignites at 451 Degrees Fahrenheit, his page incorrectly lists the temperature as '450' degrees, as he got the 'initial' temp from an incorrectly rounded down celcius temp.
I don't know how any geek worth his measure could have not heard of ray bradbury, or at least imdb'ed the movie.. but ah well.
Actually I think Beaker is more popular with the slashdot crowd.
Jeez, WD used to be pretty bad, but in the 80+GB range I haven't had a problem with them. In fact the only 80gig drives I've had any issues with were IBM drives. and those weren't even my 80 gig ibm drives ;) get over the 1-10 GB era people, EVERY 1-10GB drive had serious reliabilty issues, because drives couldn't detect bad sectors automatically and rewrite the date in 'clean' off partition sectors, things chage, hardware companies change... reliabilty varies by model, always research the model number before buying a super cheap drive off an online e-tailer.
It usually takes a bit of research to catch up if you've been out of the loop for a few years. Fortunately I rarely go through an entire year without building a new system for at least _one_ of my family members (or at least repairing the craputer they got from a mega-chain last week, and everytime they bring it back something 'new' gets broken) Keep up to speed, build your mom's PC, convince your sister to wait an extra week to get a PC she won't be returning 20 times the first month for 'repairs.' It's not that hard, to stay in the loop. if you build for 4 other people, and manage to get them convieniently spaced out so you're building a new pc every year, you should never have to be totally out of the loop, and and that's 4 people you're sparing from the crap that is being sold as 'stock' PCs.
If it's price, then it's questionable whether you'll be able to beat a huge distributor like Dell ;)
;) but 95% of my customer base is family, but then I only do about 2-3 systems a year... because I'm lazy :D ;) ;) and if you pay enough my range is only limited by your desire to pay me potentially exhorbinant mileage fees.
I can beat dell on price any day, i can get the same $10 PSU for $6 on scam watch*, i can get the same $20 case for $20, with afore mentioned $6 PSU on *=pricewatch. I can get the same $30 korean motherboard, and the same $75 budget CPU, and the same $10 DIMM, and the same $39 HD What am i up to? $174 or so? now i can go ahead and add in the same $120 flat panel and a Legit copy of windows and the 29 printer for $399 It's gonna be the same total nightmare to own, the PSU is lucky to make it through installing windows, but hell, I can build em just as cheap, using the same quality components at Dell. And if you wink right**, I might be able to save you $100 on the windows install, and include about another $600 in warez... No the difference is, I can actually take the time to make sure the components going into your system aren't total garbage that cost $6 shipped individually, and they sell in lots of 20 for $19. If I'm selling you garbage I tell you up front what I think of your attempts to 'save money' are doing to your hardware selection. Dell, claims to offer that service too, but they try to con you into overpriced systems, that are made with equally shoddy PSUs/cases etc whenever possible (maybe they have the $20 ram, or the $85 HD, possibly a $300 LCD monitor) if you're in northern wisconsin, I can even offer you in home setup and support****
Actually i usually omit the $29 printer, with the $48 ink cartridges.. I usually reccomend online printing services for casual printing anyways, as the costs associated with owning and operating inkjet printers are steep, and it's better off that you shop for a printer based on needs than have a cheap basic one crammed down your throat, but I will offer help in selecting a printer, for people in dire need.. But i usually extol the virtues of laser printers and say that 'if you're printing 2-3 times a year, why are you paying $48 a year for that privaledge? you could be paying officemax/etc $2-3 each time you print, and pick it up free, or pay another $0.50 to have them snail mail it to you.. if you're printing 100 pages a month, you're gonna be paying $50 a month in ink costs with a jet, or $100 a year in toner prices with a laser***, covering the higher cost of the laser printer in only a year or two..'
**= Okay, If you're Family
***= Most laser printer toner cartridges will last for at least 1 full ream (500 pages) and cost anywhere from $48-$150 So I'm rounding a bit
****= milage fees may apply
you forgot "Read firing squad for all your harware information so I still have a job next week"
Otherwise, good 'condensed' version.
I thought it was kinda a fluff piece myself, but consider the audience he's catering to. Overclocking gamers, who build custom rigs because they can't afford alienware systems every 2-3 years ;)
I thought it was basic 101 to get good ram and good PSU... a good quality PSU can last you 2-3 upgrades, especially if you you're going on a 2-year cycle, before the industry adds new fangled power connectors to muck you up and make you buy a new one.
My ram and PSU are so good, that even though I bought them 3 years ago they're still good enough to go into a gaming rig today. (although the psu lacks SATA power connectors, they do make SATA power adapters.) As for the ram, it doesn't have the memory bandwith of today's ram, but the latency Still is the lowest you can buy in a system ram module, keeping it a choice selection for gamers... (and 3 years later, you still pay the exact same price I paid for the ram new back then, how's about that for RAM holding it's dollar value)
I reject your assumption that leaching off one's parents means one has money for toys. I for one don't have a dime to spare for either portable. Maybe that's because I play video games in my parents basement all day instead of 'working' but me and 'working' never got along especially the part about 'paying taxes' I hated that.
I've got a Score to settle with the Conductor of all this..
go buy a $1000 system at [insert online or brick-and-mortar computer retailer] /. to shop at a place like Worst buy? CompLusa? Circuit Shitty? or Fried? Spare me, I build custom systems hand selecting every component, Hell I even pull out the dremel and custom mod. I break out the front door paints and paint custom art (with stencils, because I suck.)
Dude, you're telling
The sad thing is I built a PC in 2002 that blows rings around your 2003 '$1,000' complusa PC and It only cost $950, And that was with a $400 graphic card.
And warrenty? the warrenty ran out this year on everything, but the graphic card, and the power supply. Everything had a 3-5 year warrenty. Nothing was shoddy, nothing burned out.
You buy your POS from the Worst Buy, I'll be using froogle and scam-watch (er price watch) to find the best prices I can, on the best parts I can get
to build a better system than can be found on any shelf in any store period.
I use ask.com anytime google pulls up too many sites to sift through.. the Ask engine is designed to anylize english sentances, and return the best matches that are relevant to an ENTIRE sentance. Google is good, but it's just a really fast keyword search tool. keywords will often times return too many results, which is why google has Page Rank technology, which extended the life and value of keyword searching... but it's still a primative form of searching... it's like going to a card catalog of the entire knowledge of the human existance and asking for everything with the term 'free money' in it... Asking google for 'free money' returns a ton of various sites, in order of popularity, Ask.com when asked "how can i earn free money?" after about 20 advertised links (which are clearly marked) it lists ONLY free money websites. no links to books, no links to gambling sites... nothing but what you were looking for..
Ask.com has the next generation of search engine technology, if you combined ask.com's technology with page ranking technology, you'd have the best possible search technology.
I always wanted to do a mini-fridge pc ;) but frankly my favorite mod of all is the Ice Drive I know, it's a 'parody' of extreme overclocking sites, but you really can embed a hard drive in ice, and it should work, at least intil the ice melts enough to fry it out (the 'greasing' step is to keep the water out prior to it's freezing, as well as to prevent any that might melt from entering the drive during 'normal' operation)
That's only to compile the binary, to run the win 32 binary if you download the dlls and the exes alone it's like 6 MB to run a text based browser on win32. i was too lazy to find a site that had pre-compiled lynx win32
Lynx and if you download the source code version it's 3.1 megabytes... plus you need cygwin which is another 160 MB... The actual binary file itself is probablly a lot smaller, but if you've still got DOS lying around http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/ that site has the dos version which is only 2.4 megabytes.
there are people who go around (when they get moderator points) and filter to look for funny mods they don't find funny, and then mod them down, because they think /. is lame, but the mod system is set to pretty much never give those ppl mod points again, so... they make new accounts, get karma up with whoring, and get mod points again, to do it again.. until they get subnet banned.
Warning: write failed: No space left on device. ;)
ah well, time to upgrade to a hard drive that can save my soul!