I personally want my OS involved with the actual writing of the data as little as possible. It has less chance of messing with it. Hand it off to the hardware with as little tampering as possible.
Hackers - please don't spread the "how" until the 3.0 firmware is released. Don't give Apple time to fix the "bug" or "hole". I'd like to use this feature. Does it work on the 1st gen iPhones (EDGE) as well, or only the 3G models?
I don't think the machine was built for quiet, I think liquid cooling was used to get more cooling (and this more overclockability) than fan cooling alone would. The machine was built for speed, not noise reduction. Otherwise, why would there be so many fans in addition to the liquid cooling?
The iPod Touch/iPhone kindle application also supports color graphics in eBooks that use it. Kindle only has I think 16 shades of gray. This can make a lot of technical documentation look WAY better. Anything with charts or graphs (for you management folk) I assume would be the same way.
Perhaps if it were released for consoles it may take off, but I don't think the penetration of 120Mhz TVs is large enough to justify it.
Dude, I want to know where you are getting your TVs that can refresh 120 million times per second. That seems like it would eliminate flicker, for sure!
Yeah, but you have to think long term. After 10 years, you'll save 433 minutes! That's almost a full day's work! If you make 100K/yr, that's almost $400 of salary time wasted! The HORROR!
So roughly a 20-25% improvement, when you update to Ubuntu 9 and EXT4. Why couldn't the summary say that, instead of giving "21.4 seconds" with no mention of the time being compared to or any mention of hardware. They could have just swapped a 5400RPM drive to a 10K. I know the editors can't be expected to read the articles, but can they at least make the posts somewhat meaningful?
I have AT&T in Indianapolis. At my house, I normally have at least 4 bars of service. Last month, it went to complete "No Service", because apparently the tower servicing my area was having issues. When I called AT&T, it took going to seven different support representatives before I could actually find someone who could look at their network monitoring data and tell me a tower went down. Knowing that they knew it was a problem, I figured it would be quickly resolved. NO SIR! They said it would be 2 weeks before they could get someone to fix the tower. If a major carrier such as AT&T can't get a single tower fixed in under 2 weeks, I really have zero faith that they'd be able to respond quickly to an emergency situation such as this. I suspect it will take months if not years before service is back to normal, if their service times they told me are accurate.
I have a Q9450 at home (2.66 x4 stock) which I have OC'ed to 3.2GHz. I have actually been able to do this while LOWERING the stock voltages of the chip. It runs completely stable on prime stress testing. I have just a mid-range copper and fan heat sink which keeps the CPU at a lower temperature than it was at the stock speeds and voltages on the heatsink assembly that came with it.
By my math (which you should not trust, I suck at math), that is around a 20% increase, and may even prolong the life of the chip as compared to if I had used defaults for hardware and settings. Besides just the CPU speed, I am able to run a stable 1600MHz QDR FSB. This also improves efficiency of the entire system. I have 8GB (4 x 2GB) 1066 DDR2 that is running at 5-5-5-15 2T timings at stock voltages as well. Combined with 2 x GTS 260 in SLi and RAID'ed WD 300GB 10K drives, the system can push pixels for games and HD video authoring alike (I do both).
All this overclocking, because I have paid attention to case cooling (not having to resort to water cooling) has given me a dramatic increase in speed over the stock setups, and has not increased temperatures or voltages beyond any manufacturers limits. People who want to overclock, however, should always keep in mind that if you can't afford to replace it, don't overclock it. No one says you have to, but if done right, it can yield a significant savings over buying more expensive faster hardware.
Seriously, right now we're an unorganized group of people bitching to each other about issues we agree on as opposed to an organized group expressing our opinion to the appropriate parties.
Why didn't NASA include a device similar to windshield wipers on the solar panels? It seems that they knew mars was dusty, and it would be a simple thing to add (I'd imagine). Solar panels getting dusty? Turn on the wipers to dust them off!
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That's why I run my memory in RAID mode (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Dram)!
I personally want my OS involved with the actual writing of the data as little as possible. It has less chance of messing with it. Hand it off to the hardware with as little tampering as possible.
Hackers - please don't spread the "how" until the 3.0 firmware is released. Don't give Apple time to fix the "bug" or "hole". I'd like to use this feature. Does it work on the 1st gen iPhones (EDGE) as well, or only the 3G models?
I don't think the machine was built for quiet, I think liquid cooling was used to get more cooling (and this more overclockability) than fan cooling alone would. The machine was built for speed, not noise reduction. Otherwise, why would there be so many fans in addition to the liquid cooling?
The worst part is they need a machine this powerful to keep up with how fast the national debt is increasing.
How about a Beowulf Cluster of Woombas?
The iPod Touch/iPhone kindle application also supports color graphics in eBooks that use it. Kindle only has I think 16 shades of gray. This can make a lot of technical documentation look WAY better. Anything with charts or graphs (for you management folk) I assume would be the same way.
They were turned into Slurm.
Perhaps if it were released for consoles it may take off, but I don't think the penetration of 120Mhz TVs is large enough to justify it.
Dude, I want to know where you are getting your TVs that can refresh 120 million times per second. That seems like it would eliminate flicker, for sure!
"Fly big D! FLY!"
"The captain has scared the Americans out of the water!"
Thank you. I was having a shitty day until I read this, now I'm laughing my ass off. Thank you, kind sir or madam.
It is hard to tax something so easily grown at home.
And doesn't want to go outside where it can meet up with nice hot little software numbers. Just maybe.
This is one of my pet peeves: why can't computers boot in a second or less?
Why do computers need to reboot at all?
Yeah, but you have to think long term. After 10 years, you'll save 433 minutes! That's almost a full day's work! If you make 100K/yr, that's almost $400 of salary time wasted! The HORROR!
So roughly a 20-25% improvement, when you update to Ubuntu 9 and EXT4. Why couldn't the summary say that, instead of giving "21.4 seconds" with no mention of the time being compared to or any mention of hardware. They could have just swapped a 5400RPM drive to a 10K. I know the editors can't be expected to read the articles, but can they at least make the posts somewhat meaningful?
Oh like citigroup buying a spanish highway construction company with 7bn euros in bailout money from our taxes?
Well, you can't fix a Citi without heavy construction equipment! Sheesh! </sarcasm>
Maybe it should be IZOD: indigo zune of death. There may be a trademark on that already though.
I have AT&T in Indianapolis. At my house, I normally have at least 4 bars of service. Last month, it went to complete "No Service", because apparently the tower servicing my area was having issues. When I called AT&T, it took going to seven different support representatives before I could actually find someone who could look at their network monitoring data and tell me a tower went down. Knowing that they knew it was a problem, I figured it would be quickly resolved. NO SIR! They said it would be 2 weeks before they could get someone to fix the tower. If a major carrier such as AT&T can't get a single tower fixed in under 2 weeks, I really have zero faith that they'd be able to respond quickly to an emergency situation such as this. I suspect it will take months if not years before service is back to normal, if their service times they told me are accurate.
I have a Q9450 at home (2.66 x4 stock) which I have OC'ed to 3.2GHz. I have actually been able to do this while LOWERING the stock voltages of the chip. It runs completely stable on prime stress testing. I have just a mid-range copper and fan heat sink which keeps the CPU at a lower temperature than it was at the stock speeds and voltages on the heatsink assembly that came with it.
By my math (which you should not trust, I suck at math), that is around a 20% increase, and may even prolong the life of the chip as compared to if I had used defaults for hardware and settings. Besides just the CPU speed, I am able to run a stable 1600MHz QDR FSB. This also improves efficiency of the entire system. I have 8GB (4 x 2GB) 1066 DDR2 that is running at 5-5-5-15 2T timings at stock voltages as well. Combined with 2 x GTS 260 in SLi and RAID'ed WD 300GB 10K drives, the system can push pixels for games and HD video authoring alike (I do both).
All this overclocking, because I have paid attention to case cooling (not having to resort to water cooling) has given me a dramatic increase in speed over the stock setups, and has not increased temperatures or voltages beyond any manufacturers limits. People who want to overclock, however, should always keep in mind that if you can't afford to replace it, don't overclock it. No one says you have to, but if done right, it can yield a significant savings over buying more expensive faster hardware.
Sadly, corrupted politicians count as people to.
Count as people to whom, exactly? Certainly not their vertebrate counterparts.
It's just super, thanks for asking!
Seriously, right now we're an unorganized group of people bitching to each other about issues we agree on as opposed to an organized group expressing our opinion to the appropriate parties.
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Why didn't NASA include a device similar to windshield wipers on the solar panels? It seems that they knew mars was dusty, and it would be a simple thing to add (I'd imagine). Solar panels getting dusty? Turn on the wipers to dust them off!
And why have a Korean play a Japanese character (Sulu)? WTF? I guess they are depending on the old cracker saying "what's the difference?"
Picard was an English Frenchman. They're just continuing the storyline...