Welcome to the wide world of the tech aftermarket - where stock goes after its no longer desirable. I'm sure there are a couple thousand old scsi drives @ 2GB just waiting to be snapped up by some jackass corporate buyer who wants to renew the exact components he got 5 years ago. Try Ebay, try your local pawnshop(Just got a really old SMP server to tinker with that had dual hotswap raid SCSI 500meg drives, $250, new it would have been $10,000 @ time of purchase), try online OEM's clearance aisles.
Density is Density, no matter the die size. If Intel comes out with a new chip that is basically a 300mm wafer of Xeons with SMP interconnects at each junction, it has the same transistor density has a normal Xeon, its just that since the die size went up, so did the transistor count.
Transistor density=transistors per area. Die size, or transistor count, are irrelevant seperately, but jointly, are synonymous to density.
I guess you are one of those people who have a chemical imbalance in your brain precluding you from understanding subtlety or sarcasm. I suggest you discuss therapy with a licensed cynic, applied during an hour-long George Bush speech with a cattle prod.
We used a much more powerful variant of that. Bunker-Busting Bombs(tm) are actually hyperbaric weapons. First they hit the land, sink down a bit, then when they hit free air, they explode(probably via pressurized air or something) into a large cloud of dust. A second explosion ignites the high-explosive dust. The speed with which this happens over such a large surface area causes gigantic pressures and temperatures. The air literally ignites, causing anything not destroyed in the enormous overpressure situation to both choke on non-oxygenated air and to breath in fire.
Thats how it works in theory, anyway.
I think that this is a great deal as compared to the competition - this is basically a carbon-copy(A legally ambiguous one, too) of the VapoChill system(Their website uses the same flash animation of the phase-change system). The Vapochill retails at around 750-1000USD, so this is a good deal. One does not pay 250-500USD more for a midtower case.
I have a system under which all copyright, patent, and trademark issues would be solved.
Noone will have to compromise.
Everyone will get what they want.
The US legal system will get a giant burden lifted off of it.
Poor countries will hold parades in celebration of the fact that they can now join the information age without having to worry about greedy wallstreet capitalists
Venture capitalists will stand in awe of how this fixes everything wrong with their job.
Patent lawyers will recieve giant pensions, and no longer have to worry about their ulcers, now that they will have all gone into early retirement with full benefits.
The world will gaze at this idea in utter disbelief as such a simple proclamation makes everything wrong with the possession of ideas right again.
Unfortunately, I can't discuss how it works, as it is currently in the process of reaching patent-pending status.
The majority of programmers are not writing compilers. They are the ones that have to answer to the fact that their software is slow. And a 2-page function is not always that hard to understand, as long as it is formatted and commented well.
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Agreed, very cheesy, but come on, the series finale is not exactly the time for subtlety. They already spent untold hundreds of thousands for attack helicopters, how in hell could they not milk them for all they're worth?
In order to send the mail, the spammer had to pay for a computer, an internet connection, and some method of sending email. This is the same as postage.
The payment of Intel for their mail-servers is analogous to my payment for my mailbox or for a PO box.
Experiment: Count the number of conversations on slashdot where each side exaggerates their rhetoric, each side selectively picks their statistics and quotes, and each side plays with facts as if they were play-dough. Keep counting. And counting. What? You havnt found an argument where this doesnt happen? Interesting.
The point is that the ice in the largest ice caps is 2+ miles thick. Ice is usually thicker on land than on the north pole, because snow falls much more at higher elevations, and since something like 93%(forget where I read this) of the ice stays below water when floating, the ice gets big, but not as big as similar ones do inland. In addition, tides, currents, and the seasonal change in temperature affect things covered by water much more than things coverred by insulating snow.
Anyway, back to my point:
Lets do a little experiment.
Say a 50km by 50km chunk of ice, 3km thick, suddenly melts. This size ice cover is not very much, and many times this exists in a place the size of antartica, or even greenland(well, maybe just a couple over greenland, but you get the point).
50km x 50km x 3km = 750 km^3 of ice
The earth has about 362,000,000 km^2 of water cover. Divide this up(assuming equal volume of ice/water and a bunch of other simplified timesavers) and you get aproximately 2 meters more of water over the entire ocean. This is enough to drown a large percentage of the human population of earth. Check your map. Every major city in the world was founded at the intersection of two bodies of water. The ocean forms a nice junction, so most of the cities on earth will either be underwater or have nice new beachfront property.
Another thing: Tom's hardware did not observe a flaw in the motherboard spec. They observed the fact that since a major percentage of people buying their own motherboards were going to overclock them, it seemed stupid to not have any kind of thermal protection, when it was perfectly possible to. And I quote:
Nevertheless, it must be said that the facts as shown in the video remain plausible and can be reproduced at any time. At the moment, none of the mainboard manufacturers offer a solution to this. Even highly reputable companies such as Asus and Gigabyte offer no support for this particular problem.
Lately, this has been somewhat remedied, as some manufacturers have taken his advice and added thermal protection (Soltek comes to mind, with their Anti-Burn-Shield).
At the time the THG article was written, thermal protection was about the same kind of problem that accurate thermal detection is now(Palaminos have a built-in thermal diode, unused by any consumer motherboard, except perhaps the Soltek I mentioned earlier), prompting this type of fix. Motherboard manufacturers, for whatever reason, didn't include what seemed like an obvious, cheap feature.
Actually, I was only looking for a link to a burnt proc, but the reason it was burnt doesn't matter all that much.
When any surface is pumping out 70+ watts of heat, it doesn't take much to get it to over 100 degrees fahrenheit, almost guarenteed thermal death(most temp ranges say 50-100=unsafe). Although C/W ratings are vastly different for the same cooler in different conditions, lets take the one that I linked to. 2.67C/w. At 70 watts, thats 186.9 degrees celsius. More than twice what is required to fry a proc.
"You can replace these with passive heatsinks"
Meaning passive as in passive. The Zalman, while being a bit closer to the way a passive heatsink works, is still a Heatsink Fan Unit(HSF). Try taking the fan away. The fan, if you look closely at installation pix, isn't that far from the fins anyway. It just isn't supported by a frame that is part of the heatsink.
BTW, the reason I plan to use one of the YSTech TMD fans is that they put some airflow much closer to the center of the CPU, with only a small aerodynamic center to the fan instead of a full-on ball-bearing motor. I hope that this improves performance enough to OC it from 1600mhz to 2ghz. I'm unsure, as the only spec I have seen is 2040 stable, 2100 unstable on a Vapochill. I'll probably have to unlock it.
Riiiiiiiight.
While water cooling is becoming more and more popular, it is relatively labor-intensive. Also, it's much more expensive. For my new rig:Tbred 2000 or 2100+ @ 2.0Ghz, fsb 166 syncronous w/ 512meg PC2700Cas2 dimm, I plan on using something like an Alpha 8045 or an SLK-600 with one of the higher-power versions of the new YSTech TMD-fans. The best way to cool a normal(non-overclocked system) quietly and cheaply is to take out any 60mm case fans, replace with quiet 80mm ones, then replace the heatsink with a good, modern, competitive heatsink, and replace the fan unit with a quiet case-fan that still gets 20-40CFM. At stock speeds, the overkill of the heatsink balances out the underpowered fan.
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I now know a lot about Nethack, Netrek, and others. What other kinds of early, innovative games that are still going on are there?
Am I the only one that thinks that writing useless laws that could potentially restrict our rights, unless X situation exists is bad? The next president will go after X situation, and there will be no more violent videogames for kids. Take the example of a legislator that puts a bill onto the pile that bans, say, swearing, in his district. The other legislators owe him a favor, and so they pass it, knowing it will be unenforceable. The next legislator decides that swearing is the world's greatest evil, and puts the entire police force out to arrest anyone that swears. It is challenged in the supreme court, and upheld because there is precedant from some other bible belt judge in another state.
The issue at hand is the gnawing away at our liberties that is happening day-in and day-out. In any normal empire, a revolution would eventually happen, but with our leadership, not even elected by plural rule, and flaunting his non-existant mandate left and right, many of us are likely to die first, because of some !#@$up in the military that wants to preserve his industry against a world of poor uneducated 3rd-world countries. Superpowers that decide to make a goal out of opressing their citizens through the institution of laws that tread closer and closer to thoughtcrime have a tendency of dying. Go read 1984 and tell me something you find wrong with the situation presented within. "It's socialist" seems to be the only consistant objection of the majority, ignoring the fact that the US's government is becoming more and more socialist every day.I am so SICK of the MAJORITY!!! One of the things that keeps being repeated is that the movie industry self-regulates. Right... And a couple years back, when Lieberman finally realized his kids were raving pr0n addicts, and decided to speak out against the un-enforcement of movie rating systems, just because that is the sexually-repressive, conservativist bullshzt attitude that most of our politicians have, who was dictating the rules of the game? The political power we give our leaders can be used by them for pseudolegal proclamations that could never be defended against, merely because the PR departments of large corporations can't seem to argue with politicians in front of other politicians that had become supreme court judges. Go look at the PMRC if you want a government-attempted takeover of the rating system(yes, I said government, because how the hell would they have gotten airtime if they were not married to senators).
Back on topic, lets look through the crystal ball:
2003:Congress passes a law against selling violent games to minors. Walmart, Kmart, Bestbuy, Fries, CompUSA, and others announce that they will put all their effort into complying with the regulations
2004:The EFF challenges the sale of "Barny's Fun Bop" to minors because it depicts rather violently a character hitting another with a toy Barney inflatable bat
2005:The major retailers decide that ever since their game sections lost 70% of the revenue from the law passed back in '03, it is no longer wise to continue carrying games, considderring the promotional costs associated with their marketting.
2006:NBA Basketball 2007 banned because of gratuitous fouling
2007:Makers of violent movies finally get what's coming to them, and are forced to ban PG-13 movies to anyone below 13. The rationale for the law involves the fact that since kids can't drink, do drugs, smoke, talk about death/murder/hurting, or carry a compass(deadly weapon), why should they be able to see a movie involving, horror of horrors, someone DYING!?
2008:Guns banned for anyone under 21, except for the military, who gets its peacetime draft extended to 16-year-olds. Any child who sees a gun without a flag on its face must undergo psychological conditioning.
The problem with laws like these is that they are rarely a large mistep for justice. They are merely small parts of a larger movement. The reason for the movement is the formation of those small parts. I am tired of people trying to legislate daycare through possible punishment. Soon, if you see a child playing in the street, it will be illegal to not pick him up and find his parents. The Good Samaritan Streets act of 2010, in honor of little Billy Watson, who died while others watched him play basketball at a busy intersection, wondering where his parents are. One day, I would have expressed hope that somehow, somewhere, legislators would sit up and think "Wait a minute here. What right do I have to foist my will upon these people?"That day has passed. All hope for a just, normal, non-repressive legal movement for more liberties, more freedoms, etc is gone. I just hope that when the revolution comes, I can be part of it.
We have already tested this. Depictions of aliens are not considerred human. Take *tries to think* the Chameleon in X-men showed full-frontal nudity (human like enough, though it was blue), and the movie only got PG-13
Done. Gamecubes use a unified base of SRAM(what modern proc's use as cache) for the proc AND the vid card. Dimms will not be on the proc chip in the forseeable future purely because of size.
The problem with your whole argument is that the way it is used, people ONLY refer to people from the US as Americans, when two continents have rights to the word. At a UN meeting, when someone asks all the Europeans to raise their hands, can Norwegians or can't they? I believe a continental name is more powerful than a national one, as the people of Myanmar know. Regardless of who is the ruling force, the geographical designation given to a people by the rest of the world should not be taken away because one nation has 50% of global wealth and only 6% of global population, and so gets the idea that they are more important than a title which all the people of two continents can rightfully claim.
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Welcome to the wide world of the tech aftermarket - where stock goes after its no longer desirable. I'm sure there are a couple thousand old scsi drives @ 2GB just waiting to be snapped up by some jackass corporate buyer who wants to renew the exact components he got 5 years ago. Try Ebay, try your local pawnshop(Just got a really old SMP server to tinker with that had dual hotswap raid SCSI 500meg drives, $250, new it would have been $10,000 @ time of purchase), try online OEM's clearance aisles.
Density is Density, no matter the die size. If Intel comes out with a new chip that is basically a 300mm wafer of Xeons with SMP interconnects at each junction, it has the same transistor density has a normal Xeon, its just that since the die size went up, so did the transistor count. Transistor density=transistors per area. Die size, or transistor count, are irrelevant seperately, but jointly, are synonymous to density.
This is NOT JANE!! It is, however, very close to how people talked to jane(minus the ansible comlink).
I guess you are one of those people who have a chemical imbalance in your brain precluding you from understanding subtlety or sarcasm. I suggest you discuss therapy with a licensed cynic, applied during an hour-long George Bush speech with a cattle prod.
Hrmmmm.
Pesticide - Poison
Herbicide - Poison
Insecticide - Poison
Care to guess what spermicide qualifies as?
We used a much more powerful variant of that. Bunker-Busting Bombs(tm) are actually hyperbaric weapons. First they hit the land, sink down a bit, then when they hit free air, they explode(probably via pressurized air or something) into a large cloud of dust. A second explosion ignites the high-explosive dust. The speed with which this happens over such a large surface area causes gigantic pressures and temperatures. The air literally ignites, causing anything not destroyed in the enormous overpressure situation to both choke on non-oxygenated air and to breath in fire. Thats how it works in theory, anyway.
I think that this is a great deal as compared to the competition - this is basically a carbon-copy(A legally ambiguous one, too) of the VapoChill system(Their website uses the same flash animation of the phase-change system). The Vapochill retails at around 750-1000USD, so this is a good deal. One does not pay 250-500USD more for a midtower case.
I have a system under which all copyright, patent, and trademark issues would be solved. Noone will have to compromise. Everyone will get what they want. The US legal system will get a giant burden lifted off of it. Poor countries will hold parades in celebration of the fact that they can now join the information age without having to worry about greedy wallstreet capitalists Venture capitalists will stand in awe of how this fixes everything wrong with their job. Patent lawyers will recieve giant pensions, and no longer have to worry about their ulcers, now that they will have all gone into early retirement with full benefits. The world will gaze at this idea in utter disbelief as such a simple proclamation makes everything wrong with the possession of ideas right again. Unfortunately, I can't discuss how it works, as it is currently in the process of reaching patent-pending status.
The majority of programmers are not writing compilers. They are the ones that have to answer to the fact that their software is slow. And a 2-page function is not always that hard to understand, as long as it is formatted and commented well.
Agreed, very cheesy, but come on, the series finale is not exactly the time for subtlety. They already spent untold hundreds of thousands for attack helicopters, how in hell could they not milk them for all they're worth?
In order to send the mail, the spammer had to pay for a computer, an internet connection, and some method of sending email. This is the same as postage. The payment of Intel for their mail-servers is analogous to my payment for my mailbox or for a PO box.
Experiment: Count the number of conversations on slashdot where each side exaggerates their rhetoric, each side selectively picks their statistics and quotes, and each side plays with facts as if they were play-dough. Keep counting. And counting. What? You havnt found an argument where this doesnt happen? Interesting.
The point is that the ice in the largest ice caps is 2+ miles thick. Ice is usually thicker on land than on the north pole, because snow falls much more at higher elevations, and since something like 93%(forget where I read this) of the ice stays below water when floating, the ice gets big, but not as big as similar ones do inland. In addition, tides, currents, and the seasonal change in temperature affect things covered by water much more than things coverred by insulating snow. Anyway, back to my point: Lets do a little experiment. Say a 50km by 50km chunk of ice, 3km thick, suddenly melts. This size ice cover is not very much, and many times this exists in a place the size of antartica, or even greenland(well, maybe just a couple over greenland, but you get the point). 50km x 50km x 3km = 750 km^3 of ice The earth has about 362,000,000 km^2 of water cover. Divide this up(assuming equal volume of ice/water and a bunch of other simplified timesavers) and you get aproximately 2 meters more of water over the entire ocean. This is enough to drown a large percentage of the human population of earth. Check your map. Every major city in the world was founded at the intersection of two bodies of water. The ocean forms a nice junction, so most of the cities on earth will either be underwater or have nice new beachfront property.
Another thing: Tom's hardware did not observe a flaw in the motherboard spec. They observed the fact that since a major percentage of people buying their own motherboards were going to overclock them, it seemed stupid to not have any kind of thermal protection, when it was perfectly possible to. And I quote: Nevertheless, it must be said that the facts as shown in the video remain plausible and can be reproduced at any time. At the moment, none of the mainboard manufacturers offer a solution to this. Even highly reputable companies such as Asus and Gigabyte offer no support for this particular problem. Lately, this has been somewhat remedied, as some manufacturers have taken his advice and added thermal protection (Soltek comes to mind, with their Anti-Burn-Shield). At the time the THG article was written, thermal protection was about the same kind of problem that accurate thermal detection is now(Palaminos have a built-in thermal diode, unused by any consumer motherboard, except perhaps the Soltek I mentioned earlier), prompting this type of fix. Motherboard manufacturers, for whatever reason, didn't include what seemed like an obvious, cheap feature. Actually, I was only looking for a link to a burnt proc, but the reason it was burnt doesn't matter all that much.
When any surface is pumping out 70+ watts of heat, it doesn't take much to get it to over 100 degrees fahrenheit, almost guarenteed thermal death(most temp ranges say 50-100=unsafe). Although C/W ratings are vastly different for the same cooler in different conditions, lets take the one that I linked to. 2.67C/w. At 70 watts, thats 186.9 degrees celsius. More than twice what is required to fry a proc. "You can replace these with passive heatsinks" Meaning passive as in passive. The Zalman, while being a bit closer to the way a passive heatsink works, is still a Heatsink Fan Unit(HSF). Try taking the fan away. The fan, if you look closely at installation pix, isn't that far from the fins anyway. It just isn't supported by a frame that is part of the heatsink. BTW, the reason I plan to use one of the YSTech TMD fans is that they put some airflow much closer to the center of the CPU, with only a small aerodynamic center to the fan instead of a full-on ball-bearing motor. I hope that this improves performance enough to OC it from 1600mhz to 2ghz. I'm unsure, as the only spec I have seen is 2040 stable, 2100 unstable on a Vapochill. I'll probably have to unlock it.
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On a modern CPU.
Riiiiiiiight. While water cooling is becoming more and more popular, it is relatively labor-intensive. Also, it's much more expensive. For my new rig:Tbred 2000 or 2100+ @ 2.0Ghz, fsb 166 syncronous w/ 512meg PC2700Cas2 dimm, I plan on using something like an Alpha 8045 or an SLK-600 with one of the higher-power versions of the new YSTech TMD-fans. The best way to cool a normal(non-overclocked system) quietly and cheaply is to take out any 60mm case fans, replace with quiet 80mm ones, then replace the heatsink with a good, modern, competitive heatsink, and replace the fan unit with a quiet case-fan that still gets 20-40CFM. At stock speeds, the overkill of the heatsink balances out the underpowered fan.I now know a lot about Nethack, Netrek, and others. What other kinds of early, innovative games that are still going on are there?
Seconded by a non-nazi non-AC non-multi-poster.
- 2003:Congress passes a law against selling violent games to minors. Walmart, Kmart, Bestbuy, Fries, CompUSA, and others announce that they will put all their effort into complying with the regulations
- 2004:The EFF challenges the sale of "Barny's Fun Bop" to minors because it depicts rather violently a character hitting another with a toy Barney inflatable bat
- 2005:The major retailers decide that ever since their game sections lost 70% of the revenue from the law passed back in '03, it is no longer wise to continue carrying games, considderring the promotional costs associated with their marketting.
- 2006:NBA Basketball 2007 banned because of gratuitous fouling
- 2007:Makers of violent movies finally get what's coming to them, and are forced to ban PG-13 movies to anyone below 13. The rationale for the law involves the fact that since kids can't drink, do drugs, smoke, talk about death/murder/hurting, or carry a compass(deadly weapon), why should they be able to see a movie involving, horror of horrors, someone DYING!?
- 2008:Guns banned for anyone under 21, except for the military, who gets its peacetime draft extended to 16-year-olds. Any child who sees a gun without a flag on its face must undergo psychological conditioning.
The problem with laws like these is that they are rarely a large mistep for justice. They are merely small parts of a larger movement. The reason for the movement is the formation of those small parts. I am tired of people trying to legislate daycare through possible punishment. Soon, if you see a child playing in the street, it will be illegal to not pick him up and find his parents. The Good Samaritan Streets act of 2010, in honor of little Billy Watson, who died while others watched him play basketball at a busy intersection, wondering where his parents are. One day, I would have expressed hope that somehow, somewhere, legislators would sit up and think "Wait a minute here. What right do I have to foist my will upon these people?"That day has passed. All hope for a just, normal, non-repressive legal movement for more liberties, more freedoms, etc is gone. I just hope that when the revolution comes, I can be part of it.We have already tested this. Depictions of aliens are not considerred human. Take *tries to think* the Chameleon in X-men showed full-frontal nudity (human like enough, though it was blue), and the movie only got PG-13
Like spiderman, this bill stinks and I don't like it.
Done. Gamecubes use a unified base of SRAM(what modern proc's use as cache) for the proc AND the vid card. Dimms will not be on the proc chip in the forseeable future purely because of size.
The problem with your whole argument is that the way it is used, people ONLY refer to people from the US as Americans, when two continents have rights to the word. At a UN meeting, when someone asks all the Europeans to raise their hands, can Norwegians or can't they? I believe a continental name is more powerful than a national one, as the people of Myanmar know. Regardless of who is the ruling force, the geographical designation given to a people by the rest of the world should not be taken away because one nation has 50% of global wealth and only 6% of global population, and so gets the idea that they are more important than a title which all the people of two continents can rightfully claim.
Hrrrmmmm... Entry-level Enermax power supply: 350 watts Entry-level 17" monitor: 120-150 watts