Fortunately (?) a lot of DDR2-era motherboards were affected by that huge batch of bad capacitors, so it might not be a bad idea to replace your mainboard before one of them fail.
Of course, I'd still feel compelled to pull together enough spare parts to build a machine around the old mainboard anyway... 'sigh' the many trappings of spending money on things computer-related:-/
Why would such a fragile, crappy connector become a standard? Is it really that much smaller than mini-USB? It's even harder/impossible to figure out in the dark which way to plug it in.
I kinda assumed the connectors would technically get better and not worse. Especially when fumbling with the charger connection while trying to drive, just to have it fall out *again*, or connect too loosely to start charging.
I'm not a litigious guy, but I really wish someone would outlaw the micro-USB connector, FFS. It's a freaking liability! This is terrible news:-P
Are there any good sci-fi movies that have a positive view of the future? Most recent things I've seen paint the world / galaxy as some sort of war-torn dystopian nightmare.
Best I've found so far was AstroBoy... I'm even renting out ST:TNG, though it's annoying because I feel socially compelled to filter out some of the softporn situations:-P
So you would have preferred that Congress remained deadlocked, and not passed the 9/11 first responders health care legislation?
The two-party system sorta ensures that only the stuff that both sides agree on goes to pass. It's sort of a yin-yang thing.
Of course, when they're in hyper-reactionary mode, both parties agree to go on and create some monstrosities such as the Patriot Act and the TSA. But occasionally they do good stuff too.
As much as I'd like to see something "positive" happen with regards to NN, I'd just as soon see less legislation pass until they've got it figured out. In the mean time, the internet is doing just fine without them... though I'm sure monopoly-bustin' time will eventually come round again.
-- Anarchy might not be the best form of government, but it's better than no government at all.
Heh, pretty much. I'm actually not all that dissatisfied with the current state of affairs. The best Congress is a deadlocked Congress. So just don't waste any time, energy, and especially money on them or any other administrative overhead.
If the politicians aren't successful at legislating the net, then the technologists will remain in control, as they should be.
Politics is a waste of time... should be minimized, like administrative overhead. At best, it's a form of entertainment.
I think I might consider myself a conservative in theory, but a liberal in practice. But as long as both sides are doing what they're good at and not doing what they're bad at, things are fine by me.
As for my friends, ironically the conservatives tend to be the nicer people, while the bleeding-heart liberals tend to be 4$$holes. But I love them all the same.
From RTFA ( http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/159 instead of the click-thru announcement / ad page linked in the summary:P ), only a tiny amount of performance is gained by enabling the disabled shaders... (from the graphic only 2 out of 24 are disabled).
Most of the performance match is accomplished by overclocking it 10% to match the higher spec card. The higher spec cards appear to have a beefier cooling hardware, though.
They needed to raise (effectively eliminating) the "PowerTune" limit to achieve identical / maximum performance, which pushes both cards to higher temperatures and power consumption. Otherwise, PowerTune appears to throttle the performance to keep power consumption down: the lower spec card throttles performance slightly more, perhaps due to less cooling. They show the GPU temperature as similar on both cards, but I've never known those thermistors to be very accurate.
It's probably not bad to be able to get a 10% improvement in a card that costs $60 less. I wouldn't mind the 5% increase in performance from enabling the extra shaders just on principle. But the rest of it doesn't seem worthwhile to reduce the life of the PC / GPU.
Heh, if you're reading news for nerds, then your SO probably doesn't need to worry about you getting any extracurricular action whether she trusts you or not:-P
/ has all of my wife's password(s). // she gave them willingly. Mostly so I could read / respond to her important emails over the phone:-P /// doesn't have any of my passwords. I tell myself it's because I don't want anyone to threaten / extort them out of her:-P //// doesn't trust me to install / update anything on her laptop / smartphone . That's the only thing that really hurts. Ouch.
In that situation, we'd both do what we do already: avoid lawyers and courts like the plague. Once they get involved, we pretty much accept that we're both screwed.
Oh, you mean computer stuff? I got nothing. It's faster to just recreate my work from scratch. As in they still look like chicken scratchings when I'm done with them.
Meh, after reading http://time.com/poy 's spread on Zuckerberg, (hey, I was on a 5-hour flight, and had first read all the runner-ups and practically all of the other articles), I actually don't feel so badly about him anymore. I still don't really care for FB, but people use it, so that's why I maintain a presence there. But the TIME article helped vet out some of the theory and philosophy behind it, which was more useful than most of the third-hand descriptions I get about Zuckerberg from the various protests and even "The Social Network" movie I didn't bother seeing.
Oh, I'd say that most employers are looking for self-educating employees as well. The only on-the-job-training I've really seen in the industry was just trivial timecharging and other legally mandated training. They like to see you take some of your own initiative in developing the "skills that pay the bills".
The most important thing I learned from AP Chem was to self-educate from the textbook. Then you can pretty much have fun at the lectures and labs, and socialize and build the real relationships that matter.
Most of the stuff you do in your undergrad curricula is pretty straightforward, so I'd argue that you'd want to learn all the learning stuff on your own as swiftly as possible so you can take advantage of as much of the extracurriculars as practical... project teams, research opportunities, interesting peoples... all of which a "name school" tend to have more of.
If you're just to school to go to lectures and TA study hall to get forcefed learning, and you resent your classmates for being dumb jocks / preps / drunks / potheads, then you're probably not making very good use of your time and resources. This is probably your one chance in life to be able to choose the quality of the people you work and live with, so try to find the group most likely to share your interests and zest for life.
Meh, there are research universities, and there are teaching universities. The name brands tend to be the former, so they can have their flashy press releases and stuff.
I think the name universities are probably nice in that you could end up starting a neat business with some of your classmates. I feel like I kinda squandered my Ivy League education by climbing the career ladder from the bottom rung. But OTOH, it's nice to have decent job security these days. It gives you some iota of extra leverage or choice, sort of like having a +1 negotiation modifier without needing to grind at any additional charisma skill.
That said, I never really flaunt it anywhere outside of my resume. The only window sticker I've ever placed on my college beater was for the "Borg Institute of Technology", and I only wear the T-shirts I got for free.
-- Regarding health care, preventative maintenance sounds much cheaper than emergency roadside assistance.
Meh, the US right-wingers are ruled by fear... fear of socialism, fear of {black|hispanic|muslim|different} people, fear of progress and change.
I actually agree with just about everything the AC GP says... most of the core values of the Republicans and Libertarians sound great in theory. But I tend to side with the socialist Democrats in practice, if only because I tend to favor intelligence over, um, projected image.
Healthcare is socialism, socialism is good, without it we'd have a pretty crappy existence without SS and medicare. A lot of it seems like corporate welfare for the pharmaceuticals, though.
My wife teaches in schools with lots of immigrants, many of them illegal. She's interviewed a few of them for her PhD. Yes, most are here for free education, to give their children a window of opportunity. They aren't getting free cars, houses, food, or healthcare, though. They work hard at multiple jobs. Without education, they join gangs and become a problem. Other than that, they're an asset. Immigration was always what made this country strong. Not being able to accommodate it is a wasted resource.
The government has blown lots of taxpayer money. Unfortunately, leave it to the terrorists to be the only ones who bothered to punish Wall Street for their excesses and failures.
I don't see what the French have to do with anything. But they're cool. Anti-French sentiment is just more xenophobia, I guess.
I'm disappointed in Obama in that so far that it's pretty much looked like GWBush's third term, as far as the economy is concerned. But at least I don't wince and cringe every time he opens his mouth and says something. I'm with the late Douglas Adams, in that the President is just there to draw attention away from who really controls the government.
Meh, just about all news (and politics, for that matter) is entertainment. I've started listening to some of the conservative AM talk stations, like Savage Nation and the Laura Ingram show. I thought it was pretty hard to believe that people could fail to see the satire in the Colbert Report, but now I'm not so sure... Mike and Laura are every bit as funny! Stephen Colbert has the easiest job in comedy, he just needs to listen to people like them and repeat the same thing to a different audience.
heh, yeah... I remember looking for some I6-powered cars after reading about them... seems like BMWs and some Volvos are the most commonly available. Unfortunately, that seems to fit into the "nice car, but you'll pay more for maintenance" sort of thing:P
I like how I6 configuration is pretty typical for use as ginormous internal combustion engines, like in factories and large ships. But beyond that, the most efficient combustion engines seem to be the gas turbines... which are even more delicate and heavy on preventative maintenance.
I think ChromeOS has a chance, perhaps if it ends up like Steam.
Most people don't want to do IT. ChromeOS pretty much does all the IT stuff for you.
I've gotten pretty spoiled by Steam. I used to spend tons of time trying to get games tweaked and working under Linux, or migrating my saved games from one disk to another. Now I just sign into Steam, tell it what games I want installed, and let it go.
I think ChromeOS could potentially deliver that kind of experience to users. Sort of like a LiveCD that updates itself, and always has your files and customizations on a built-in thumbdrive. Better yet, maybe you won't even need to carry around even a nettop anymore, just walk up to a ChromeOS kiosk in a library or wherever and you're in. (I used to do a similar thing with VNC on my home system).
I'll still probably be rocking eeebuntu on my netbook (works great with compiz-fusion compositing, Google Earth, etc.... but it would be nice to have ChromeOS as another boot option for the lulz.
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Fortunately (?) a lot of DDR2-era motherboards were affected by that huge batch of bad capacitors, so it might not be a bad idea to replace your mainboard before one of them fail.
Of course, I'd still feel compelled to pull together enough spare parts to build a machine around the old mainboard anyway... 'sigh' the many trappings of spending money on things computer-related :-/
Yeesh, this.
Why would such a fragile, crappy connector become a standard? Is it really that much smaller than mini-USB? It's even harder/impossible to figure out in the dark which way to plug it in.
I kinda assumed the connectors would technically get better and not worse. Especially when fumbling with the charger connection while trying to drive, just to have it fall out *again*, or connect too loosely to start charging.
I'm not a litigious guy, but I really wish someone would outlaw the micro-USB connector, FFS. It's a freaking liability! This is terrible news :-P
Are there any good sci-fi movies that have a positive view of the future? Most recent things I've seen paint the world / galaxy as some sort of war-torn dystopian nightmare.
Best I've found so far was AstroBoy... I'm even renting out ST:TNG, though it's annoying because I feel socially compelled to filter out some of the softporn situations :-P
I dunno. I've always used "w/" or "w/o"
The TTIULWOP variation is conspicuously absent from: ... but it's not like I'm trying to be correct or even pedantic about it 8,]
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/TTIUWOP
Man I've never wanted to Godwin a thread so bad ^_^
TTIUWOP
Oh, wait, this isn't Fark...
So you would have preferred that Congress remained deadlocked, and not passed the 9/11 first responders health care legislation?
The two-party system sorta ensures that only the stuff that both sides agree on goes to pass. It's sort of a yin-yang thing.
Of course, when they're in hyper-reactionary mode, both parties agree to go on and create some monstrosities such as the Patriot Act and the TSA. But occasionally they do good stuff too.
As much as I'd like to see something "positive" happen with regards to NN, I'd just as soon see less legislation pass until they've got it figured out. In the mean time, the internet is doing just fine without them... though I'm sure monopoly-bustin' time will eventually come round again.
--
Anarchy might not be the best form of government, but it's better than no government at all.
Heh, pretty much. I'm actually not all that dissatisfied with the current state of affairs. The best Congress is a deadlocked Congress. So just don't waste any time, energy, and especially money on them or any other administrative overhead.
If the politicians aren't successful at legislating the net, then the technologists will remain in control, as they should be.
Heh, not bad.
Politics is a waste of time... should be minimized, like administrative overhead. At best, it's a form of entertainment.
I think I might consider myself a conservative in theory, but a liberal in practice. But as long as both sides are doing what they're good at and not doing what they're bad at, things are fine by me.
As for my friends, ironically the conservatives tend to be the nicer people, while the bleeding-heart liberals tend to be 4$$holes. But I love them all the same.
Uh, dude, you're doing it wrong.
Just donate ~$5 to slashdot, then you get a ~15-minute preview of new posts and the time they are set to go "live".
If you don't use it to turn off banner ads, it apparently never expires. At least mine hasn't for the past 10 years...
Well look on the bright side, we could be saving $200 million!
http://www.theonion.com/articles/nasa-announces-plan-to-launch-700-million-into-spa,1950/
(kudos to Soulskill on the memerrific taglines lately)
From RTFA ( http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/159 instead of the click-thru announcement / ad page linked in the summary :P ), only a tiny amount of performance is gained by enabling the disabled shaders... (from the graphic only 2 out of 24 are disabled).
Most of the performance match is accomplished by overclocking it 10% to match the higher spec card. The higher spec cards appear to have a beefier cooling hardware, though.
They needed to raise (effectively eliminating) the "PowerTune" limit to achieve identical / maximum performance, which pushes both cards to higher temperatures and power consumption. Otherwise, PowerTune appears to throttle the performance to keep power consumption down: the lower spec card throttles performance slightly more, perhaps due to less cooling. They show the GPU temperature as similar on both cards, but I've never known those thermistors to be very accurate.
It's probably not bad to be able to get a 10% improvement in a card that costs $60 less. I wouldn't mind the 5% increase in performance from enabling the extra shaders just on principle. But the rest of it doesn't seem worthwhile to reduce the life of the PC / GPU.
Heh, if you're reading news for nerds, then your SO probably doesn't need to worry about you getting any extracurricular action whether she trusts you or not :-P
/ has all of my wife's password(s).
// she gave them willingly. Mostly so I could read / respond to her important emails over the phone :-P
/// doesn't have any of my passwords. I tell myself it's because I don't want anyone to threaten / extort them out of her :-P
//// doesn't trust me to install / update anything on her laptop / smartphone . That's the only thing that really hurts. Ouch.
In that situation, we'd both do what we do already: avoid lawyers and courts like the plague. Once they get involved, we pretty much accept that we're both screwed.
The original was in pretty bad shape, the location wasn't even identifiable, but I did my best churning out a nice reprint for:
http://msgboard.snopes.com/politics/graphics/birth.jpg
Oh, you mean computer stuff? I got nothing. It's faster to just recreate my work from scratch. As in they still look like chicken scratchings when I'm done with them.
Meh, after reading http://time.com/poy 's spread on Zuckerberg, (hey, I was on a 5-hour flight, and had first read all the runner-ups and practically all of the other articles), I actually don't feel so badly about him anymore. I still don't really care for FB, but people use it, so that's why I maintain a presence there. But the TIME article helped vet out some of the theory and philosophy behind it, which was more useful than most of the third-hand descriptions I get about Zuckerberg from the various protests and even "The Social Network" movie I didn't bother seeing.
Heh, I stopped by GA Tech when I was college hunting. Their fight song "I'm a rambling wreck from Georgia Tech" seems apropos with what they produce :P
Oh, I'd say that most employers are looking for self-educating employees as well. The only on-the-job-training I've really seen in the industry was just trivial timecharging and other legally mandated training. They like to see you take some of your own initiative in developing the "skills that pay the bills".
The most important thing I learned from AP Chem was to self-educate from the textbook. Then you can pretty much have fun at the lectures and labs, and socialize and build the real relationships that matter.
Most of the stuff you do in your undergrad curricula is pretty straightforward, so I'd argue that you'd want to learn all the learning stuff on your own as swiftly as possible so you can take advantage of as much of the extracurriculars as practical... project teams, research opportunities, interesting peoples... all of which a "name school" tend to have more of.
If you're just to school to go to lectures and TA study hall to get forcefed learning, and you resent your classmates for being dumb jocks / preps / drunks / potheads, then you're probably not making very good use of your time and resources. This is probably your one chance in life to be able to choose the quality of the people you work and live with, so try to find the group most likely to share your interests and zest for life.
Meh, there are research universities, and there are teaching universities. The name brands tend to be the former, so they can have their flashy press releases and stuff.
I think the name universities are probably nice in that you could end up starting a neat business with some of your classmates. I feel like I kinda squandered my Ivy League education by climbing the career ladder from the bottom rung. But OTOH, it's nice to have decent job security these days. It gives you some iota of extra leverage or choice, sort of like having a +1 negotiation modifier without needing to grind at any additional charisma skill.
That said, I never really flaunt it anywhere outside of my resume. The only window sticker I've ever placed on my college beater was for the "Borg Institute of Technology", and I only wear the T-shirts I got for free.
--
Regarding health care, preventative maintenance sounds much cheaper than emergency roadside assistance.
Meh, the US right-wingers are ruled by fear... fear of socialism, fear of {black|hispanic|muslim|different} people, fear of progress and change.
I actually agree with just about everything the AC GP says... most of the core values of the Republicans and Libertarians sound great in theory. But I tend to side with the socialist Democrats in practice, if only because I tend to favor intelligence over, um, projected image.
Healthcare is socialism, socialism is good, without it we'd have a pretty crappy existence without SS and medicare. A lot of it seems like corporate welfare for the pharmaceuticals, though.
My wife teaches in schools with lots of immigrants, many of them illegal. She's interviewed a few of them for her PhD. Yes, most are here for free education, to give their children a window of opportunity. They aren't getting free cars, houses, food, or healthcare, though. They work hard at multiple jobs. Without education, they join gangs and become a problem. Other than that, they're an asset. Immigration was always what made this country strong. Not being able to accommodate it is a wasted resource.
The government has blown lots of taxpayer money. Unfortunately, leave it to the terrorists to be the only ones who bothered to punish Wall Street for their excesses and failures.
I don't see what the French have to do with anything. But they're cool. Anti-French sentiment is just more xenophobia, I guess.
I'm disappointed in Obama in that so far that it's pretty much looked like GWBush's third term, as far as the economy is concerned. But at least I don't wince and cringe every time he opens his mouth and says something. I'm with the late Douglas Adams, in that the President is just there to draw attention away from who really controls the government.
Where's the survey of Daily Show/Colbert Report viewers? I doubt we score much better than MSNBC on politics but our marks on puns are sky high.
I think this is the one you were looking for:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/16/daily-show-fox-knowledge/
Well, I'm a Liberal-leaning, Socialist-lovin' UMCP grad.
Anyone want to be counterpoint?
I too, but thanks to this, we now have an extremely effective rally cry...
"No Internet Blacklists No! You Don't Want To Be Like France, Do You?!"
Of course, the most impact it could possibly have is that they'd probably just implement a freedomwall instead of a firewall :-/
Je t'aime, au revoir! ;-)
Meh, just about all news (and politics, for that matter) is entertainment. I've started listening to some of the conservative AM talk stations, like Savage Nation and the Laura Ingram show. I thought it was pretty hard to believe that people could fail to see the satire in the Colbert Report, but now I'm not so sure... Mike and Laura are every bit as funny! Stephen Colbert has the easiest job in comedy, he just needs to listen to people like them and repeat the same thing to a different audience.
heh, yeah... I remember looking for some I6-powered cars after reading about them... seems like BMWs and some Volvos are the most commonly available. Unfortunately, that seems to fit into the "nice car, but you'll pay more for maintenance" sort of thing :P
I like how I6 configuration is pretty typical for use as ginormous internal combustion engines, like in factories and large ships. But beyond that, the most efficient combustion engines seem to be the gas turbines... which are even more delicate and heavy on preventative maintenance.
I think ChromeOS has a chance, perhaps if it ends up like Steam.
Most people don't want to do IT. ChromeOS pretty much does all the IT stuff for you.
I've gotten pretty spoiled by Steam. I used to spend tons of time trying to get games tweaked and working under Linux, or migrating my saved games from one disk to another. Now I just sign into Steam, tell it what games I want installed, and let it go.
I think ChromeOS could potentially deliver that kind of experience to users. Sort of like a LiveCD that updates itself, and always has your files and customizations on a built-in thumbdrive. Better yet, maybe you won't even need to carry around even a nettop anymore, just walk up to a ChromeOS kiosk in a library or wherever and you're in. (I used to do a similar thing with VNC on my home system).
I'll still probably be rocking eeebuntu on my netbook (works great with compiz-fusion compositing, Google Earth, etc.... but it would be nice to have ChromeOS as another boot option for the lulz.