The real problem with these monitors is that for $1,000, you could pick up a couple of nicer 19" LCDs yourself.
As far as your space problem, my personal recommendation (having a similarly small desk) is to wall mount your LCDs.
I picked up a mount for about $40 not too long ago, and I can extent the monitor out from the wall, tilt and pivot it, et cetera. Combined with a wireless mouse and an easily stored keyboard, I can regain use of my entire desk fairly quickly.
Without spoiling anything for those who haven't seen it yet, I have to say that it must be the writing. There are lines ("I won't believe it, I can't") worthy of a sixth grade English class in Idaho.
I enjoyed RotS, but I have to admit that I had to contain my laughter during the first scene between Padme and Anakin.
As amazing as it seems on/., it really is possible for people to not know a damn thing about Star Wars. Last night, after taking her to the midnight showing of Episode III, I discovered that my girlfriend's only exposure to Star Wars was Episode I, and RotS left her very confused because it pratically depends on a basic knowledge of the final three episodes.
I think he did spend that much money, and that's the issue.
I recently made the switch to an 8ms ViewSonic LCD, and while I find 1280x1024 fine for gaming, I was running everything at 1600x1200 before then.
Unfortuantely the "goddamn that's already enough" arguement doesn't hold for a lot of hardcore gamers. They'll split hairs over the difference between 100 and 150fps, as if anybody but the six million dollar man could really tell the difference.
The local store I bought games at when Doom 2 came out refused to sell it to me. I took my mom there, and she bought it without even touching the box. If she had realized what it was, there's no way I'd have played it.
I agree with you completely. Let me see if I can show you how similarly we're thinking.
If the ESRB ratings are taken seriously, then a 15 year old kid needs his parents to buy him that copy of GTA or whatever. That means they actually have to go to the store, look at the game, and see what it is.
I don't have a suggestion for how to make it being enforced more strictly. I certainly don't think stores should face monitary reprocusions like selling cigarettes to minors. I know that simply asking a retailer to go out of their way to limit their own sales isn't going to happen, but it seems that this solution would function if only the retail chains had an incentive.
Legally enforcing those ESRB ratings seems like the obvious choice to please both sides.
Hillary Clinton doesn't want an impressionable 15 year old playing GTA. I'm 22, and want to play whatever the hell I please because I'm an adult that's responsible for his own actions.
I know the ESRB rating system has been around for a while, but nobody enforces it. Nobody is preventing a 15 year old kid from buying a copy of GTA, BMX XXX, or any other game that *probably* isn't all that appropriate for younger kids, even if I played similar games at that age myself and have never physically harmed another human being.
The problem is that enforcing this screws the retail chains that carry these titles (in addition to screwing the under-18 market, but since they can't vote, I doubt Hilly cares anyway).
Both you and the grandparent poster are apparently idiots.
The PSP supports Memorystick DUO cards. It *comes with* a 32MB card to be used only for *storing saved games*.
For a little over $100 (and I've seen them as low as 70$ on zipzoomfly), you can get a 1GB DUO card that will... shockingly... hold 1GB.
Using pspvideo9, I was able to encode all of Napolean Dynamite in fairly good quality at right around 200mb. So, you're talking 4 full length movies in a 1GB card, or 1GB of mp3s.
As far as rebuying your DVDs, UMD movies aren't intended to replace DVDs. They lack special features, chapter selections, et cetera. It's just a marketing ploy. You should notice that the only movies coming out on UMD are "gamer" related movies (think Resident Evil, retarded action flics, et cetera).
There's this new thing out called a thumbdrive! It holds 1GB, is easy rewriteable, and there are at least 5x as many USB ports as CD drives in the world! Welcome to 2005!
All joking aside, that really is the best way to learn a language. I had taken two years of Russian and two years of Spanish in High School by my Junior year, but I could barely form a coherent sentence in either.
The summer of that year, I had the opportunity to spend two weeks in Spain with close friends, and by the end of our first day in Barcelona, I had learned more functional vocabulary than I had in those two years of studying. I was nervious at first--trying to follow those ridiculous scenarios in Spanish books when we stopped at a bar--but once you realize it's communicate or isolate yourself, it becomes second nature.
Active use, especially in a situation where the other party doesn't have your primary language to fall back on, is a great way to learn; unfortunately, I'm not sure this applies as the poster has an obsession with languages that nobody speaks anymore.
I agree completely, but I understand what the grandparent poster is getting at.
He thinks that.NET is a fair comparison because if you intended to write a "real," non-web application in.NET, you could C# yourself to death until it worked. The same is true for Java. Both can be used in specific ways (ie JSP and ASP.NET) to produce web applications.
PHP is a serious competitor when it comes to web applications. After coding both for a number of years, I don't believe pre-.NET ASP has a single advantage to PHP.
In my opinion, using C# or Java for an average e-commerce site or groupware application is similar to using a handgrenade to kill a cockroach.
It gets the job done, but goddamn was it excessive.
Where did it even mention that Apple had seen this, let alone stuck their lawyers on Google?
More importantly, do you really believe that the machine that is Google would simply cowtow to Apple over javascript rollovers with larger mouseover images? I think not.
I'm curious what kind of grills you're actually looking into. I agree completely--I dremel out all of my stamped fan grills--but I tend to use less restrictive wire grills afterwards to keep myself/my cat from losing limbs. You only need to stick your hand in the back of a 120mm Panaflo M1A once to realize the importance of grills:D
More importantly however, I assume you mean the northbridge fan is what's making all the noise. I had that problem with my last motherboard. Even though I had the ability to turn down the fan speed on it with software, at the lowest speed the whine of a 40mm or 60mm (or whatever) fan was enough to stand out above the rest.
Here's a solution that's a lot cheaper than a new board: http://www.jab-tech.com/customer/product.php?produ ctid=1829&cat=93&page=1
It's Zalman's passive northbridge heatsink. Depending on where your northbridge is in reference to your CPU (and the size of your CPU cooler), it may be too tall--but you can definitely find something similar for less than 10$.
Don't know where you're shopping, but have you taken a look at jab-tech.com? They've got a great selection of stuff like this for less.
There's actually a pretty wide range. If you're not looking to setup a fan controller or anything, Panaflo's are the way to go. The L1A series is whisper quiet, and still pushes a good deal of air. Their 120mms are huge too... really thick... I once had the misfortune of sticking my hand in the back of one while it was running full blast, and it nearly took off a couple of fingers.
Right now, I'm actually using Thermaltake fans though. A few of the models they sell come with the ability to have them run based on temperatures or by a manual controller. They can push a ton of air (72cfm for the 80mm at full blast), so they still perform well once you've turned them down until they're whisper quiet.
The Thermaltake Smart fans I'm using right now are something like 17dbA at the lowest setting. The ambient noise in my office is a little louder than that though, so I'm able to run it at about 1/3 up or so and it's still like a whisper.
However, you're still absolutely right about going bigger and slower. It's the essential solution. It's just possible to find the right brand that will allow you to move a little faster than the others and push a little more cfm without really increasing the noise.
Silent air cooling doesn't mean the removal of fans. There are a lot of simple tricks--for example a 120mm fan at very low speeds will be extremely quiet, and may push nearly as much air as an 80mm that's going at a roaring speed.
Of course, the simplest thing to do is buy new fans that have close to the same cfm rating while having a lower dbA rating.
My home machine is just on the other side of silent (excluding one annoying 80mm fan that's literally custom built into the steel frame of the case at a weird angle), and I have no problems keeping my Athlon64 3000+ @ 2529 with my load temps in the mid-40s.
If you want a really good example of this, look up the Arctic Cooler Silencer series. They do a better job of cooling the outrageously hot GPUs that are out now, and they're so quiet it's hard to tell if it's running or not.
Yeah, that's why I was reluctant to make the post. I knew some jackass would ignore the fact that I specifically stated I was only the most intelligent among my personal cliche and troll.
Good try. Enjoy the Troll home game, and try reading the rest of the post next time!
I wasn't talking about things that are great philosophical, religious, or political questions. I'm talking about things that are cold hard facts, even if unimportant ones. One night I was talking about how amazing it was that the Monkees were actors hand picked to be in a TV show about a band, but in the end they ended up becoming a pretty talented band with some serious hits. My friend insists that this isn't true, and that they never even sang their own songs--which simply isn't true.
While I understand both your direct reply and your original one, and I believe that my followup question doesn't fit your particular situation, doesn't it seem probable that most genuinely intelligent people at some point feel that people should just accept what they're saying in a particular arguement?
I hate to say that I'm intelligent at this point, because in the current context it makes me appear to be the asshole-with-the-Mensa-ring, so let's just say that in my particular circle of contact, it's accepted that I'm the most intelligent.
I have a close friend who is/was a genuinely intelligent person, but now they're totally lost. I don't want to sound like an antidrug commercial comdemning everything here, but this kid's life has revolved around getting fucked up out of his mind for half a decade now, and even though his synapses seem to fire at the same velocity, his train of thought has left the realm of "nonstupid."
There are times when he wants to debate me on a particular issue where his side *is* absolutely insane--not my opinion, it's literally insane--and regardless of what arguement I put forth, he continues on in an endless circle of bologna. There are times I'll find myself so frustrated that all I can think in my head is "The sheer fact that I'm more intelligent than you should make what comes out of my mouth strike like thunder. I'm smarter, listen to me."
Doesn't it seem that even the most humble, genuinely intelligent person would have internal moments like this?
I do think that people who have to actively convince others that they're intelligent are trying to cover up the fact that they may only be a half step above the rest--if that--but it seems almost as probable that a genius with a short temper would run around insisting the same.
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Absolutely. To think otherwise, while more true to life, is discriminatory.
;D
That's like not being OK with a lawyer who was outrageously flaming. Just because he's super doesn't mean he can't do a super job
The real problem with these monitors is that for $1,000, you could pick up a couple of nicer 19" LCDs yourself.
As far as your space problem, my personal recommendation (having a similarly small desk) is to wall mount your LCDs.
I picked up a mount for about $40 not too long ago, and I can extent the monitor out from the wall, tilt and pivot it, et cetera. Combined with a wireless mouse and an easily stored keyboard, I can regain use of my entire desk fairly quickly.
Can't recommend it highly enough.
Without spoiling anything for those who haven't seen it yet, I have to say that it must be the writing. There are lines ("I won't believe it, I can't") worthy of a sixth grade English class in Idaho.
I enjoyed RotS, but I have to admit that I had to contain my laughter during the first scene between Padme and Anakin.
As amazing as it seems on /., it really is possible for people to not know a damn thing about Star Wars. Last night, after taking her to the midnight showing of Episode III, I discovered that my girlfriend's only exposure to Star Wars was Episode I, and RotS left her very confused because it pratically depends on a basic knowledge of the final three episodes.
I think he did spend that much money, and that's the issue.
I recently made the switch to an 8ms ViewSonic LCD, and while I find 1280x1024 fine for gaming, I was running everything at 1600x1200 before then.
Unfortuantely the "goddamn that's already enough" arguement doesn't hold for a lot of hardcore gamers. They'll split hairs over the difference between 100 and 150fps, as if anybody but the six million dollar man could really tell the difference.
Thanks captain science. In next week's episode, maybe you can explain the relevence of your post.
Maybe you should check out FCBD and find out. They are free after all.
What the fuck, exactly, is wrong with PHP again?
Since when does Carrot Top try out new material on Slashdot?
You are a fucking idiot. Go blow your high UID out your ass.
You raise a wonderful point.
The local store I bought games at when Doom 2 came out refused to sell it to me. I took my mom there, and she bought it without even touching the box. If she had realized what it was, there's no way I'd have played it.
You beat me to it.
I also think its safe to mention that GTA came out when I was 16 (1998, right?), and I sure as hell played it.
But yeah, I owned Wolf3D and Spear of Destiny on 5.25"s. Human on human violence was pretty old hat before GTA hit the map.
I agree with you completely. Let me see if I can show you how similarly we're thinking.
If the ESRB ratings are taken seriously, then a 15 year old kid needs his parents to buy him that copy of GTA or whatever. That means they actually have to go to the store, look at the game, and see what it is.
I don't have a suggestion for how to make it being enforced more strictly. I certainly don't think stores should face monitary reprocusions like selling cigarettes to minors. I know that simply asking a retailer to go out of their way to limit their own sales isn't going to happen, but it seems that this solution would function if only the retail chains had an incentive.
Legally enforcing those ESRB ratings seems like the obvious choice to please both sides.
Hillary Clinton doesn't want an impressionable 15 year old playing GTA. I'm 22, and want to play whatever the hell I please because I'm an adult that's responsible for his own actions.
I know the ESRB rating system has been around for a while, but nobody enforces it. Nobody is preventing a 15 year old kid from buying a copy of GTA, BMX XXX, or any other game that *probably* isn't all that appropriate for younger kids, even if I played similar games at that age myself and have never physically harmed another human being.
The problem is that enforcing this screws the retail chains that carry these titles (in addition to screwing the under-18 market, but since they can't vote, I doubt Hilly cares anyway).
Both you and the grandparent poster are apparently idiots.
The PSP supports Memorystick DUO cards. It *comes with* a 32MB card to be used only for *storing saved games*.
For a little over $100 (and I've seen them as low as 70$ on zipzoomfly), you can get a 1GB DUO card that will... shockingly... hold 1GB.
Using pspvideo9, I was able to encode all of Napolean Dynamite in fairly good quality at right around 200mb. So, you're talking 4 full length movies in a 1GB card, or 1GB of mp3s.
As far as rebuying your DVDs, UMD movies aren't intended to replace DVDs. They lack special features, chapter selections, et cetera. It's just a marketing ploy. You should notice that the only movies coming out on UMD are "gamer" related movies (think Resident Evil, retarded action flics, et cetera).
Don't be so retarded.
There's this new thing out called a thumbdrive! It holds 1GB, is easy rewriteable, and there are at least 5x as many USB ports as CD drives in the world! Welcome to 2005!
All joking aside, that really is the best way to learn a language. I had taken two years of Russian and two years of Spanish in High School by my Junior year, but I could barely form a coherent sentence in either.
The summer of that year, I had the opportunity to spend two weeks in Spain with close friends, and by the end of our first day in Barcelona, I had learned more functional vocabulary than I had in those two years of studying. I was nervious at first--trying to follow those ridiculous scenarios in Spanish books when we stopped at a bar--but once you realize it's communicate or isolate yourself, it becomes second nature.
Active use, especially in a situation where the other party doesn't have your primary language to fall back on, is a great way to learn; unfortunately, I'm not sure this applies as the poster has an obsession with languages that nobody speaks anymore.
In that case, this must be your second or third year learning English.
I agree completely, but I understand what the grandparent poster is getting at.
.NET is a fair comparison because if you intended to write a "real," non-web application in .NET, you could C# yourself to death until it worked. The same is true for Java. Both can be used in specific ways (ie JSP and ASP.NET) to produce web applications.
He thinks that
PHP is a serious competitor when it comes to web applications. After coding both for a number of years, I don't believe pre-.NET ASP has a single advantage to PHP.
In my opinion, using C# or Java for an average e-commerce site or groupware application is similar to using a handgrenade to kill a cockroach.
It gets the job done, but goddamn was it excessive.
Where did it even mention that Apple had seen this, let alone stuck their lawyers on Google?
More importantly, do you really believe that the machine that is Google would simply cowtow to Apple over javascript rollovers with larger mouseover images? I think not.
I'm curious what kind of grills you're actually looking into. I agree completely--I dremel out all of my stamped fan grills--but I tend to use less restrictive wire grills afterwards to keep myself/my cat from losing limbs. You only need to stick your hand in the back of a 120mm Panaflo M1A once to realize the importance of grills :D
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More importantly however, I assume you mean the northbridge fan is what's making all the noise. I had that problem with my last motherboard. Even though I had the ability to turn down the fan speed on it with software, at the lowest speed the whine of a 40mm or 60mm (or whatever) fan was enough to stand out above the rest.
Here's a solution that's a lot cheaper than a new board: http://www.jab-tech.com/customer/product.php?prod
It's Zalman's passive northbridge heatsink. Depending on where your northbridge is in reference to your CPU (and the size of your CPU cooler), it may be too tall--but you can definitely find something similar for less than 10$.
Good luck!
Don't know where you're shopping, but have you taken a look at jab-tech.com? They've got a great selection of stuff like this for less.
There's actually a pretty wide range. If you're not looking to setup a fan controller or anything, Panaflo's are the way to go. The L1A series is whisper quiet, and still pushes a good deal of air. Their 120mms are huge too... really thick... I once had the misfortune of sticking my hand in the back of one while it was running full blast, and it nearly took off a couple of fingers.
Right now, I'm actually using Thermaltake fans though. A few of the models they sell come with the ability to have them run based on temperatures or by a manual controller. They can push a ton of air (72cfm for the 80mm at full blast), so they still perform well once you've turned them down until they're whisper quiet.
The Thermaltake Smart fans I'm using right now are something like 17dbA at the lowest setting. The ambient noise in my office is a little louder than that though, so I'm able to run it at about 1/3 up or so and it's still like a whisper.
However, you're still absolutely right about going bigger and slower. It's the essential solution. It's just possible to find the right brand that will allow you to move a little faster than the others and push a little more cfm without really increasing the noise.
Silent air cooling doesn't mean the removal of fans. There are a lot of simple tricks--for example a 120mm fan at very low speeds will be extremely quiet, and may push nearly as much air as an 80mm that's going at a roaring speed.
Of course, the simplest thing to do is buy new fans that have close to the same cfm rating while having a lower dbA rating.
My home machine is just on the other side of silent (excluding one annoying 80mm fan that's literally custom built into the steel frame of the case at a weird angle), and I have no problems keeping my Athlon64 3000+ @ 2529 with my load temps in the mid-40s.
If you want a really good example of this, look up the Arctic Cooler Silencer series. They do a better job of cooling the outrageously hot GPUs that are out now, and they're so quiet it's hard to tell if it's running or not.
Yeah, that's why I was reluctant to make the post. I knew some jackass would ignore the fact that I specifically stated I was only the most intelligent among my personal cliche and troll.
Good try. Enjoy the Troll home game, and try reading the rest of the post next time!
I wasn't talking about things that are great philosophical, religious, or political questions. I'm talking about things that are cold hard facts, even if unimportant ones. One night I was talking about how amazing it was that the Monkees were actors hand picked to be in a TV show about a band, but in the end they ended up becoming a pretty talented band with some serious hits. My friend insists that this isn't true, and that they never even sang their own songs--which simply isn't true.
But thanks for being a cock anyway!
While I understand both your direct reply and your original one, and I believe that my followup question doesn't fit your particular situation, doesn't it seem probable that most genuinely intelligent people at some point feel that people should just accept what they're saying in a particular arguement?
I hate to say that I'm intelligent at this point, because in the current context it makes me appear to be the asshole-with-the-Mensa-ring, so let's just say that in my particular circle of contact, it's accepted that I'm the most intelligent.
I have a close friend who is/was a genuinely intelligent person, but now they're totally lost. I don't want to sound like an antidrug commercial comdemning everything here, but this kid's life has revolved around getting fucked up out of his mind for half a decade now, and even though his synapses seem to fire at the same velocity, his train of thought has left the realm of "nonstupid."
There are times when he wants to debate me on a particular issue where his side *is* absolutely insane--not my opinion, it's literally insane--and regardless of what arguement I put forth, he continues on in an endless circle of bologna. There are times I'll find myself so frustrated that all I can think in my head is "The sheer fact that I'm more intelligent than you should make what comes out of my mouth strike like thunder. I'm smarter, listen to me."
Doesn't it seem that even the most humble, genuinely intelligent person would have internal moments like this?
I do think that people who have to actively convince others that they're intelligent are trying to cover up the fact that they may only be a half step above the rest--if that--but it seems almost as probable that a genius with a short temper would run around insisting the same.