haha, I know exactly how you feel. I've submitted more than a couple articles to Slashdot and they got denied, a week later, they magically show up, submitted by a person other than myself.
I don't know if it's proof positive that they like me (if anyone hasn't discovered I'm the one that submitted the article), they don't even know me beyond my user information.
You are about the millionth person that has said this. I used to frequent and help operate an IRC channel he attended for a short while. It should be noted the reason why it was a short time, is that we banned him with a quickness. You should just learn to take whatever Bowie says with less than a grain of salt.
Can anyone let me know how exactly a bird in a wind tunnel is considered "new and exciting technology" or "something nerds will like hearing about"? What, have some birds lost the ability to fly and we need to figure out why? I've submitted far more interesting stories than this and they got rejected.
I did something like this myself. But I was the 4th employee, the one before me did php stuff, he was hired by and left to work at mp3.com. Here's my usual day at a small shop:
~10:00am - arrive to work an hour late
12:00pm - stop writing perl code before insanity sets in
1:00pm - stop playing subspace online and eat lunch
1:10pm - play more subspace
3:00pm - look busy and finish up the perl code
4:00pm - leave work an hour early
I never leave early on paydays, that's the key. The reason why I could hold this type of schedule is because the two people above me had full-time jobs elsewhere, so they could only come back to where I worked early in the mornings (which was rare) or in the afternoons (which was likely). I used to be on the straight and narrow, but when it became 10am and I finished all of my assigned work, what else should I do for 7 hours?
I've seen a show on the Discover Channel dedicated to this about 5 years ago.
Whoever was researching it at the time talked to natives in the area of the blast, especially to this elderly woman that was alive when the blast occured. He got her description of the blast and found it to be concurrent to a meteorite blast in ultra-low orbit.
What makes this so mysterious is that all the trees in a cardiod (polar graph) were flattened, but in the center, the trees were standing up.
The researcher did an experiment and recreated the conditions on a miniature scale model. He had a big table with pins with white flags on them to represent the trees. He proved that it was a blast (assuming from an asteroid) from the air. He also figured out at what height and angle from the ground the specific asteroid was coming from at the point of it's explosion.
Can anyone tell me what music is playing at the end of the video after the heatsink is turned off but still on the chip all the way to the end? I have this same music in this skate video but there are no words so I can't search for it.
If you actually thought about the article for more than 2 seconds, you'd realize that the article isn't about "would your processor survive the absence of a heatsink", you should have interpreted it to mean "this is how much your processor manufacturer engineers protect their devices". Any cretin can agree that realistically, a heat sink isn't going to just fall off.
To respond to your very first question, it's this thing AMD can't let happen. AMD needs to innovate and make their products even more feature-filled than Intels if they want to compete, if they are going to let their processors overheat and fry themselves, they obviously don't want to put in the effort needed. If you read the tomshardware.com article in the original post, they tested the AthlonXP processor that just came out a few days ago, and if AMD still hasn't written temperature protection in current-model processors, they can say bye to their substantial market share.
That's just healthy competition and I'm all for that. It produces better goods and services at a lower price. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad AMD is in the business, I'd support any companies' entry into any industry where they think they have a chance, especially when there's Intel which is much bigger than they are.
As their positions are, Intel could easily make many processors that are bogus, but Gateway and Dell and prefab computer companies will put those in because they are the "new, fastest processor yet!", AMD doesn't have that luxury, every processor they make has to grab at as much marketshare as possible. They are fighting an uphill battle, but I respect them for trying.
You don't need to tell me about the advantages and disadvantages of market competition and capitalism, I already had my Economy classes.
The difference is if my radiator was made by Intel and it was removed, either the engine would automatically limit the rev's (in the case of P4's) or turn off the car nicely before I threw a rod or burned my rings (Pentium 3). If my car had a radiator built by AMD and it went bad, I wouldn't even have a chance to put on the brakes before my engine block was ruined. If you don't catch onto that metaphor, they should have kept you back in 3rd grade.
Why is it everyone wants AMD to pull some magic processor out of it's pants and to kill of Intel? Intel could start a pricewar at any time and price AMD right out of business with a quickness. True, variety and anti-monopolistic practices are good things, but Intel got to where they are because they did some things right. Some people are pulling for AMD because they are the underdogs, others are doing it because they want to jump on the bandwagon.
Those left, those people that say AMD is undeniably better than Intel in all categories are wrong, Intel and AMD have their own set of advantages and disadvantages over the other.
I am reading a tomshardware.com article on how AMD and Intel's previous and latest processors handle heat. The AMD processors failed horribly, they had zero heat protection. Not only are the processors worthless (burned up or not), but the motherboard could be damaged too. They even used a motherboard that the manufacturer guaranteed wouldn't fry an AthlonXP (a brand new processor). Guess what? In less than a second, you wasted hundreds of dollars. I'll just say that Intel's processors, Pentium 3 and 4, they didn't have any damage. You can read about it on tomshardware.com, there is an article called How Modern Processors Cope With Heat Emergencies, they even published their very first lab video demonstrating exactly what they did here.
AMD can't let things like this occur, they have to give customers something that none of the competition can, they need to innovate. Before AMD has enough weight to kick Intel around, it has to have much more support from it's customers. It'll take more than hopes and dreams to push Intel out of the #1 CPU slot. (pun intended)
First of all, for my rant: Anyone stupid enough to wait out in the miserable cold to watch a movie for the glory of seeing it first should be hit in the crotch many times. I'll go to the local movie theater and do it myself. If you hear someone attacking a bunch of people's genitailia, that'll be me. Taking a line from Lewis Black, "If you know anyone that has done this, take a pencil, sharpen it, and shove it in [their] eye."
Second of all, the Fun Thing: Take a bunch of your friends, preferably the huge (read: well-built) friends with you to the theater a few hours before they sell tickets for Lord Of The Rings. Walk up near the front of the line and subtly slip in line about 7 or 8 people behind the front. If anyone says "get to the back of the line", just ignore them. If they try and get an attitude, get your huge friends to step in (preferably with a "Guns don't kill people, I kill people" Happy Gilmore shirt) and say "Is there a problem here?" In the end, see how many self-righteous nerds turn off their laptops in the middle of playing M:TG, and then step in, so they are 15th in line, not 8th.
The manager at the local 18-theater-a-plex lives across the hall from me and we're really good friends. If I wanted, I could see the movie for free, and without waiting out in the cold to do it. I could also get free popcorn and Dr. Pepper.
I submitted this same article 7 hours before this was posted. Don't even tell me it took them over 7 hours to post this article on slashdot.org. This is one of many other times Slashdot has rejected my article and then posted someone else's. I demand satisfaction!
Soul Calibur for the Dreamcast is very addicting. It's not only addicting but I've played many other fighting games and nothing touches Soul Calibur. Street Fighter, Killer Instinct, All Mortal Kombat's, the Tekkens and crossovers don't hold a candle to the Dreamcast Soul Calibur.
No way, having two different trademarks and everyone behaving nicely would be the simple and civil thing to do. We have to go forth in a ridiculous lawsuit to show people how frivolous lawsuits can be.
Did anyone else besides me notice that yomegaman said "There" instead of "They're", just when he's joining someone else is mocking people not getting "you're" correct. I think before yomegaman should begin mocking people, he should spell correctly himself.
I think people shouldn't have expected to walk into Zoolander expecting Good Will Hunting, The Shawshank Redemption or any other "critically acclaimed" movie. I got into the movie for free (a friend of mine is a manager at the local theater), I did laugh and enjoy the movie. I'm glad I went and I'm glad I didn't drop any money for the movie.
Yeah, but the Palm Pilot can't send IR that far. I tried one, it was alright, but you had to be like 5 or 6 feet from the receiver. I have a TC1000 (a damned fine remote), it works at 20 feet behind the wall.
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I feel sorry for the guy who kicks over the wrong plug in that place. :-)
They should be glad I'm not in Sweden because I would get a group of people and go there and shutdown the power.
haha, I know exactly how you feel. I've submitted more than a couple articles to Slashdot and they got denied, a week later, they magically show up, submitted by a person other than myself.
I don't know if it's proof positive that they like me (if anyone hasn't discovered I'm the one that submitted the article), they don't even know me beyond my user information.
What else do you expect from people that think one mouse button is (still) a good idea?
You should probably die.
You are about the millionth person that has said this. I used to frequent and help operate an IRC channel he attended for a short while. It should be noted the reason why it was a short time, is that we banned him with a quickness. You should just learn to take whatever Bowie says with less than a grain of salt.
... or an individual (who goes to slam-me-in-the-ass prison for YOUR freeloading).
Don't you mean "Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass Prison"?
Can anyone let me know how exactly a bird in a wind tunnel is considered "new and exciting technology" or "something nerds will like hearing about"? What, have some birds lost the ability to fly and we need to figure out why? I've submitted far more interesting stories than this and they got rejected.
I never leave early on paydays, that's the key. The reason why I could hold this type of schedule is because the two people above me had full-time jobs elsewhere, so they could only come back to where I worked early in the mornings (which was rare) or in the afternoons (which was likely). I used to be on the straight and narrow, but when it became 10am and I finished all of my assigned work, what else should I do for 7 hours?
I've seen a show on the Discover Channel dedicated to this about 5 years ago.
Whoever was researching it at the time talked to natives in the area of the blast, especially to this elderly woman that was alive when the blast occured. He got her description of the blast and found it to be concurrent to a meteorite blast in ultra-low orbit.
What makes this so mysterious is that all the trees in a cardiod (polar graph) were flattened, but in the center, the trees were standing up.
The researcher did an experiment and recreated the conditions on a miniature scale model. He had a big table with pins with white flags on them to represent the trees. He proved that it was a blast (assuming from an asteroid) from the air. He also figured out at what height and angle from the ground the specific asteroid was coming from at the point of it's explosion.
Can anyone tell me what music is playing at the end of the video after the heatsink is turned off but still on the chip all the way to the end? I have this same music in this skate video but there are no words so I can't search for it.
If you actually thought about the article for more than 2 seconds, you'd realize that the article isn't about "would your processor survive the absence of a heatsink", you should have interpreted it to mean "this is how much your processor manufacturer engineers protect their devices". Any cretin can agree that realistically, a heat sink isn't going to just fall off.
To respond to your very first question, it's this thing AMD can't let happen. AMD needs to innovate and make their products even more feature-filled than Intels if they want to compete, if they are going to let their processors overheat and fry themselves, they obviously don't want to put in the effort needed. If you read the tomshardware.com article in the original post, they tested the AthlonXP processor that just came out a few days ago, and if AMD still hasn't written temperature protection in current-model processors, they can say bye to their substantial market share.
Well, hey, life's a bitch, isn't it? But I'm not going to cry over spilled milk.
That's just healthy competition and I'm all for that. It produces better goods and services at a lower price. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad AMD is in the business, I'd support any companies' entry into any industry where they think they have a chance, especially when there's Intel which is much bigger than they are.
As their positions are, Intel could easily make many processors that are bogus, but Gateway and Dell and prefab computer companies will put those in because they are the "new, fastest processor yet!", AMD doesn't have that luxury, every processor they make has to grab at as much marketshare as possible. They are fighting an uphill battle, but I respect them for trying.
You don't need to tell me about the advantages and disadvantages of market competition and capitalism, I already had my Economy classes.
The difference is if my radiator was made by Intel and it was removed, either the engine would automatically limit the rev's (in the case of P4's) or turn off the car nicely before I threw a rod or burned my rings (Pentium 3). If my car had a radiator built by AMD and it went bad, I wouldn't even have a chance to put on the brakes before my engine block was ruined. If you don't catch onto that metaphor, they should have kept you back in 3rd grade.
Why is it everyone wants AMD to pull some magic processor out of it's pants and to kill of Intel? Intel could start a pricewar at any time and price AMD right out of business with a quickness. True, variety and anti-monopolistic practices are good things, but Intel got to where they are because they did some things right. Some people are pulling for AMD because they are the underdogs, others are doing it because they want to jump on the bandwagon.
Those left, those people that say AMD is undeniably better than Intel in all categories are wrong, Intel and AMD have their own set of advantages and disadvantages over the other.
I am reading a tomshardware.com article on how AMD and Intel's previous and latest processors handle heat. The AMD processors failed horribly, they had zero heat protection. Not only are the processors worthless (burned up or not), but the motherboard could be damaged too. They even used a motherboard that the manufacturer guaranteed wouldn't fry an AthlonXP (a brand new processor). Guess what? In less than a second, you wasted hundreds of dollars. I'll just say that Intel's processors, Pentium 3 and 4, they didn't have any damage. You can read about it on tomshardware.com, there is an article called How Modern Processors Cope With Heat Emergencies, they even published their very first lab video demonstrating exactly what they did here.
AMD can't let things like this occur, they have to give customers something that none of the competition can, they need to innovate. Before AMD has enough weight to kick Intel around, it has to have much more support from it's customers. It'll take more than hopes and dreams to push Intel out of the #1 CPU slot. (pun intended)
Wait till you get to second order non-linear coefficient ordinary differential equation...
First of all, for my rant: Anyone stupid enough to wait out in the miserable cold to watch a movie for the glory of seeing it first should be hit in the crotch many times. I'll go to the local movie theater and do it myself. If you hear someone attacking a bunch of people's genitailia, that'll be me. Taking a line from Lewis Black, "If you know anyone that has done this, take a pencil, sharpen it, and shove it in [their] eye."
Second of all, the Fun Thing: Take a bunch of your friends, preferably the huge (read: well-built) friends with you to the theater a few hours before they sell tickets for Lord Of The Rings. Walk up near the front of the line and subtly slip in line about 7 or 8 people behind the front. If anyone says "get to the back of the line", just ignore them. If they try and get an attitude, get your huge friends to step in (preferably with a "Guns don't kill people, I kill people" Happy Gilmore shirt) and say "Is there a problem here?" In the end, see how many self-righteous nerds turn off their laptops in the middle of playing M:TG, and then step in, so they are 15th in line, not 8th.
The manager at the local 18-theater-a-plex lives across the hall from me and we're really good friends. If I wanted, I could see the movie for free, and without waiting out in the cold to do it. I could also get free popcorn and Dr. Pepper.
I submitted this same article 7 hours before this was posted. Don't even tell me it took them over 7 hours to post this article on slashdot.org. This is one of many other times Slashdot has rejected my article and then posted someone else's. I demand satisfaction!
Soul Calibur for the Dreamcast is very addicting. It's not only addicting but I've played many other fighting games and nothing touches Soul Calibur. Street Fighter, Killer Instinct, All Mortal Kombat's, the Tekkens and crossovers don't hold a candle to the Dreamcast Soul Calibur.
Also, maybe George Lucas will learn a thing or two about suing some medical company for naming syringes "Light Sabers". [slashdot.org].
No way, having two different trademarks and everyone behaving nicely would be the simple and civil thing to do. We have to go forth in a ridiculous lawsuit to show people how frivolous lawsuits can be.
You are the biggest idiot I've seen in a long time.
It's better to be thought of a geek, rather than to wear clothes and prove it.
Did anyone else besides me notice that yomegaman said "There" instead of "They're", just when he's joining someone else is mocking people not getting "you're" correct. I think before yomegaman should begin mocking people, he should spell correctly himself.
Yes, I'm aware of the tautologous statement.
I think people shouldn't have expected to walk into Zoolander expecting Good Will Hunting, The Shawshank Redemption or any other "critically acclaimed" movie. I got into the movie for free (a friend of mine is a manager at the local theater), I did laugh and enjoy the movie. I'm glad I went and I'm glad I didn't drop any money for the movie.
Yeah, but the Palm Pilot can't send IR that far. I tried one, it was alright, but you had to be like 5 or 6 feet from the receiver. I have a TC1000 (a damned fine remote), it works at 20 feet behind the wall.