Since it's usually wide open, I don't see too much harm, but these cheap boxes that never get opened and cleaned have to be a hazard right?
It should be noted than a open computer case will likely run hotter than one properly closed up.
Fans are designed to move air - like any fluid motion, air will move along the path of least resistance. In the case of a case fan, where the case is left open, you're pulling air from a very small area right in front of the fan before exhausting it out the back. The heat generating components (CPUs, hard drives, video chips, etc) tend to be far enough away from these fans that you'll see almost 0 airflow over them.
I used to work for a major hard drive manufacturer, and would get complains from users who said our drives were running too hot. Quite often, they said "I even leave the case off, and it's still too hot!". Many times, just putting the case on solved their heat problems. By creating essentially a duct for the air to flow through, the fan was able to pull air from the front of the case, across the heat generating components, and then exhaust it out the back.
In the case of components with their own fans (CPUs, video chips), this is still important - while you've exhausted the hot air from around the component, without a properly functioning (read: case on) case cooling system, that hot air is never removed from the general area around the component, and just gets sucked back in on the intake side of the fan.
They don't do that to people who are law-abiding citizens. If they were doing that to everybody then we would have a problem, but they aren't.
Well, I'm glad you live in a utopian society... unfortunately, the rest of us live in the real world.
If I understand your point, you're saying that invasion of privacy is OK as long as the person being invaded is already guilty - so the presumption of innocence is already tossed out the window. The potential for abuse is what's being argued, not the potential for good.
Saying that we can invade the privacy of anyone, as long as it's not ME, well... that's just short-sighted.
If you are worried about he FBI, NSA or CIA using an aircraft to spy on you then you are definitely doing something very very bad or very very suspicious.
So it's ok for the police to come stand on your front lawn, peek in through your windows, as long as you have nothing to hide? Or are you saying that if the police are peeking through your windows, you obviously are already guilty of something?
So where do you draw the line about how much privacy is "enough"? Why is that reading your e-mail is bad, but watching what you do in you backyard is ok? Is reading the screen of your laptop through the window of your house ok? Where does it stop?
Its only the lazy people who order groceries from the web and don't want to go down to the local used book store to look around.
My question is... so?
Seriously, as a business person, why NOT cater to a group that lets you maintain low overhead (only computers, internet connection, and storage space - instead of a retail presence, etc) and GLADLY pays you top dollar for your products? Who cares if this is only 2% of the population - niche markets make people rich every day. I think you underestimate the number of lazy people who are willing to pay to have products delivered to them.
Did you actually read that article you linked to? It says that Clear Channel entered an agreement to promote and resell - it did not say that Clear Channel owned, controlled, or otherwise influenced the TLD.
So if I start moving all my domains to ".sr" (the assigned country code of Suriname), and promote them as "Silly Rabbit", this somehow changes who owns the TLD?
Clear Channel does *not* control the.cc TLD, VeriSign (through one of it's subsidiaries) does. It doesn't matter how many domains CC has registered, or what they say it means, the fact is that it's *not* theirs.
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Does anybody else remember the "CC" commercials on the radio, emploring people to register internet domains that end in.cc? Guess what "CC" stands for! That's right! Clear Channel. That was their bid to get into the internet business, and from what I hear, it failed. But just think about that... Every radio station that your heard those commercials on was controlled by Clear Channel.
Did you even think to research this before you spewed it out?
The.cc tld is the ISO country code for the Cocos Islands - who sold the rights to the tld to eNic, one of the VeriSign companies. Clear Channel had nothing to do with it. Nice conspiracy theory, though. Maybe the tin-foil hat isn't working?
Agreed - you can get qualified tech talent in other places too. Seeing as I have lived at worked in the Silicon Valley, and now live and work in the Dallas area, I can tell you that the sheer number of people who are in California gives Silicon Valley the edge. That's not to say that the problems are insurmountable - obviously I've found work here, and find the conditions more favorable than California. As another poster in this thread commented, there are certain intangibles that make a certain area popular for a given industry... Detroit (autos), Los Angeles (movies), New York (media), and the Silicon Valley (tech) all come to mind.
Some of it has to do with the physical area - California has a nice climate, etc. In the case of tech, however, you want to be near other tech companies - you have a common pool of resources, other local companies with which to do business, etc. Sure this process could be started over somewhere else, but by the time you've amassed the same kind of resources (technical talent, other tech companies, etc), you've recreated the same artificial cost increases by increasing demand.
"Sorry, a 1000x increase in a $300 console just isn't possible. Best we can do is 100x. So... just buy 10 of them and link them together with our officially licensed Beu-station cables..."
At least in the last several years, it's because that's where you could find the best (or already experienced) technical talent. That's not to say that technically talented people don't exist in other parts of the world, but they certainly do concentrate in that area. Take, for example, technical support. Not a highly skilled position, but one requiring a certain skill level and generally some previous experience. In the Silicon Valley, you had NO problem finding qualified and experienced technicians. When my previous company moved it's technical support operations to a midwest location, recruiting became VERY difficult (even with the stellar wages, for the area anyway) - finding any quantity of technically skilled and experienced people was very difficult.
So, why, you ask? You set up shop where you can find and retain people.
Since when is a REASONABLE opinion "flame-bait"? Oh, that's right... anytime someone has an opinion that's not gushing over about the revered few, they MUST be trolling.
Moderators - do your job and evaluate the post on it's merits, not whether or not you agree with it.
I used to work for a company who did just that... transfered me from San Jose to OKC to work in a call center. That company (and it's call center) is still there. They've systematically eliminated most of the original CA transplants (and their associated CA salaries) after getting local "monkies" (as you call them) trained to do the work at less than half the cost.
Oklahoma (and similar states) also tend to offer HUGE tax incentives to companies like AOL to open call centers, since it creates lots of jobs for the local populous that would not have otherwise exist.
Luckily, I escaped the hell that is Oklahoma, and am now living in the hell that is Texas. *grin*
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Fans are designed to move air - like any fluid motion, air will move along the path of least resistance. In the case of a case fan, where the case is left open, you're pulling air from a very small area right in front of the fan before exhausting it out the back. The heat generating components (CPUs, hard drives, video chips, etc) tend to be far enough away from these fans that you'll see almost 0 airflow over them.
I used to work for a major hard drive manufacturer, and would get complains from users who said our drives were running too hot. Quite often, they said "I even leave the case off, and it's still too hot!". Many times, just putting the case on solved their heat problems. By creating essentially a duct for the air to flow through, the fan was able to pull air from the front of the case, across the heat generating components, and then exhaust it out the back.
In the case of components with their own fans (CPUs, video chips), this is still important - while you've exhausted the hot air from around the component, without a properly functioning (read: case on) case cooling system, that hot air is never removed from the general area around the component, and just gets sucked back in on the intake side of the fan.
Just my $.02.
Well, I'm glad you live in a utopian society... unfortunately, the rest of us live in the real world.
If I understand your point, you're saying that invasion of privacy is OK as long as the person being invaded is already guilty - so the presumption of innocence is already tossed out the window. The potential for abuse is what's being argued, not the potential for good.
Saying that we can invade the privacy of anyone, as long as it's not ME, well... that's just short-sighted.
So it's ok for the police to come stand on your front lawn, peek in through your windows, as long as you have nothing to hide? Or are you saying that if the police are peeking through your windows, you obviously are already guilty of something?
So where do you draw the line about how much privacy is "enough"? Why is that reading your e-mail is bad, but watching what you do in you backyard is ok? Is reading the screen of your laptop through the window of your house ok? Where does it stop?
My question is... so?
Seriously, as a business person, why NOT cater to a group that lets you maintain low overhead (only computers, internet connection, and storage space - instead of a retail presence, etc) and GLADLY pays you top dollar for your products? Who cares if this is only 2% of the population - niche markets make people rich every day. I think you underestimate the number of lazy people who are willing to pay to have products delivered to them.
Seeing as how I'm a senior admin (who *can* script), in a team of 5, for a major transportation company, I wonder if you're my boss? *grin*
Holy crap, a well reasoned argument! What are you doing posting on Slashdot?
Your point is well spoken, and taken.
Promotion/resale != ownership
Did you actually read that article you linked to? It says that Clear Channel entered an agreement to promote and resell - it did not say that Clear Channel owned, controlled, or otherwise influenced the TLD.
So if I start moving all my domains to ".sr" (the assigned country code of Suriname), and promote them as "Silly Rabbit", this somehow changes who owns the TLD?
.cc TLD, VeriSign (through one of it's subsidiaries) does. It doesn't matter how many domains CC has registered, or what they say it means, the fact is that it's *not* theirs.
Clear Channel does *not* control the
Did you even think to research this before you spewed it out?
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I think God got the last word on that debate.
Example: April 1, 2002
Why not log in with one of the numerous "public" accounts? Like username nospam, password nospam.
Not bashing Microsoft, but...
Why limit yourself to a Windows desktop? You specifically mention Java, isn't the point of Java to be platform independent?
Shouldn't the goal be accessability from any type of machine?
And you think this will be less costly than the other method of meat production - you know, actually breeding the bloody fish?
Uniform size and shape isn't an issue... just ask Van De Kamps or Gorton's.
Agreed - you can get qualified tech talent in other places too. Seeing as I have lived at worked in the Silicon Valley, and now live and work in the Dallas area, I can tell you that the sheer number of people who are in California gives Silicon Valley the edge. That's not to say that the problems are insurmountable - obviously I've found work here, and find the conditions more favorable than California. As another poster in this thread commented, there are certain intangibles that make a certain area popular for a given industry... Detroit (autos), Los Angeles (movies), New York (media), and the Silicon Valley (tech) all come to mind.
Some of it has to do with the physical area - California has a nice climate, etc. In the case of tech, however, you want to be near other tech companies - you have a common pool of resources, other local companies with which to do business, etc. Sure this process could be started over somewhere else, but by the time you've amassed the same kind of resources (technical talent, other tech companies, etc), you've recreated the same artificial cost increases by increasing demand.
"Sorry, a 1000x increase in a $300 console just isn't possible. Best we can do is 100x. So... just buy 10 of them and link them together with our officially licensed Beu-station cables..."
At least in the last several years, it's because that's where you could find the best (or already experienced) technical talent. That's not to say that technically talented people don't exist in other parts of the world, but they certainly do concentrate in that area. Take, for example, technical support. Not a highly skilled position, but one requiring a certain skill level and generally some previous experience. In the Silicon Valley, you had NO problem finding qualified and experienced technicians. When my previous company moved it's technical support operations to a midwest location, recruiting became VERY difficult (even with the stellar wages, for the area anyway) - finding any quantity of technically skilled and experienced people was very difficult.
So, why, you ask? You set up shop where you can find and retain people.
Well, here goes some karma, but...
Since when is a REASONABLE opinion "flame-bait"? Oh, that's right... anytime someone has an opinion that's not gushing over about the revered few, they MUST be trolling.
Moderators - do your job and evaluate the post on it's merits, not whether or not you agree with it.
That Dave guy sounds pretty smart.
Already here.
www.archos.com
Pre-alpha? Doesn't that mean it's not yet been written?
And then the AADMCA, then the AAADMCA, then the AAAADMCA, etc...
Why not work on REPEALING the law, instead of just slapping another layer of complexity on top?
HOLLISTER: OK. Just one thing before the disco, Holly tells me that he's sensed a non-human life form aboard.
LISTER: Sir, it's Rimmer!
I used to work for a company who did just that... transfered me from San Jose to OKC to work in a call center. That company (and it's call center) is still there. They've systematically eliminated most of the original CA transplants (and their associated CA salaries) after getting local "monkies" (as you call them) trained to do the work at less than half the cost.
Oklahoma (and similar states) also tend to offer HUGE tax incentives to companies like AOL to open call centers, since it creates lots of jobs for the local populous that would not have otherwise exist.
Luckily, I escaped the hell that is Oklahoma, and am now living in the hell that is Texas. *grin*