> "How long is a foot?" > > "About the size of my shoe." > > "How long is a meter?" > > "One ten-millionth of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole along the Prime Meridian." > > "... which is how long exactly?" > > "Ten million meters." > > *sound of slapping forehead*
Let's try it the other way around...
"How long is a meter?"
"About the length of my arm."
"How long is a foot?"
"1 five thousand two hundred and eightyth of a mile"
"...which is how long exactly?"
"five thousand two hundred and eighty feet"
*sound of slapping forehead*
The major benefit of the metric system over the bastardised imperial system used in the US is that I always know how many [obscure unit]s there are in a kilo[obscure unit]. Or how many micro[other obscure unit]s there are in an [other obscure unit]. I don't need to have ever come across them before. I doubt there's many slashdotters who could tell me how many fluid ounces there are to the barrel without having to resort to a conversion chart...
Slot A was also used for some 'thunderbird' cores (.18 micron), but these only went to OEMs.
I recently replaced my slot A board to upgrade, and only had to replace memory, mainboard and cpu - cost me around £250. Certainly cheaper than buying a new PC:)
Liam
Re:None are QUIET! All are noisy! Biased site.
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One hardware tweakers site that features noise levels quite heavily is overclockers.com. When reviewing heatsinks they pretty much always compare performance/noise levels with different makes of fan. A while back some guy submitted a feature on a noiseless PC you may be interested in.
Unfortunately with the increased wattage of modern processors, there's a load more waste heat to be removed - if you want air cooling that means more airflow which means more noise. A decent water cooled setup can be virtually silent, though. Larger fans are a lot more 'noise efficient' for the same flow rate as small fans - a lot of these cases use multiple 80mm fans where one 120mm fan would do the trick. I don't understand why case manufacturers haven't leapt on the market for silent 'off the shelf' parts - a lot of people are interested in them.
I recently upgraded my aging Slot A system, and thought the increase in noise was going to drive me insane until I put a couple of potentiometers in line with the fans. These are really easy to make with even my soldering skills. Okay, so my case/cpu temps are a bit higher, but at least I can listen to music without having to wake my neighbours up drowning out the noise of my fans!
I can't believe there's so few digital projectors in the US. I live in Manchester UK, with a population of about 500,000, and there's three digital screens in the city centre alone. According to another post I read, that's half as many as there are in California.
I know population density tends to be a bit higher over here, but surely you guys should have a few more digital screens by now...
I had no intention of implying Canadian University degrees are of low worth, and I apologize to anyone who got that impression (it's late here, and my misguided sense of humour normally activates past 4am:)
I take your point that the problem itself is difficult if you don't brute-force it, or if you haven't done much pure maths. However, I still believe they should have made cracking the code at least a little more challenging. I would imagine that easily 95% of those who attempted it managed to crack the code and read the puzzle.
Saying all that, though, as a method of filtering out those who can't really be bothered, it was a fantastic idea.
I'm about middle of my course of 400 CompScis, and it took me all of five minutes to 'crack' the code, and solve the puzzle. Any kid who's done GCSE Computation (aged 14-16) should be able to work it out in less than half an hour.
Are degree courses that easy to get on to in Canada? I had to get three A levels at grade C or above (and my Uni's not particularly prestigous)!
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> "How long is a foot?"
>
> "About the size of my shoe."
>
> "How long is a meter?"
>
> "One ten-millionth of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole along the Prime Meridian."
>
> "... which is how long exactly?"
>
> "Ten million meters."
>
> *sound of slapping forehead*
Let's try it the other way around...
"How long is a meter?"
"About the length of my arm."
"How long is a foot?"
"1 five thousand two hundred and eightyth of a mile"
"...which is how long exactly?"
"five thousand two hundred and eighty feet"
*sound of slapping forehead*
The major benefit of the metric system over the bastardised imperial system used in the US is that I always know how many [obscure unit]s there are in a kilo[obscure unit]. Or how many micro[other obscure unit]s there are in an [other obscure unit]. I don't need to have ever come across them before. I doubt there's many slashdotters who could tell me how many fluid ounces there are to the barrel without having to resort to a conversion chart...
Liam
Slot A was also used for some 'thunderbird' cores (.18 micron), but these only went to OEMs.
:)
I recently replaced my slot A board to upgrade, and only had to replace memory, mainboard and cpu - cost me around £250. Certainly cheaper than buying a new PC
Liam
One hardware tweakers site that features noise levels quite heavily is overclockers.com. When reviewing heatsinks they pretty much always compare performance/noise levels with different makes of fan. A while back some guy submitted a feature on a noiseless PC you may be interested in.
Unfortunately with the increased wattage of modern processors, there's a load more waste heat to be removed - if you want air cooling that means more airflow which means more noise. A decent water cooled setup can be virtually silent, though. Larger fans are a lot more 'noise efficient' for the same flow rate as small fans - a lot of these cases use multiple 80mm fans where one 120mm fan would do the trick. I don't understand why case manufacturers haven't leapt on the market for silent 'off the shelf' parts - a lot of people are interested in them.
I recently upgraded my aging Slot A system, and thought the increase in noise was going to drive me insane until I put a couple of potentiometers in line with the fans. These are really easy to make with even my soldering skills. Okay, so my case/cpu temps are a bit higher, but at least I can listen to music without having to wake my neighbours up drowning out the noise of my fans!
Liam
I can't believe there's so few digital projectors in the US. I live in Manchester UK, with a population of about 500,000, and there's three digital screens in the city centre alone. According to another post I read, that's half as many as there are in California.
I know population density tends to be a bit higher over here, but surely you guys should have a few more digital screens by now...
I had no intention of implying Canadian University degrees are of low worth, and I apologize to anyone who got that impression (it's late here, and my misguided sense of humour normally activates past 4am :)
I take your point that the problem itself is difficult if you don't brute-force it, or if you haven't done much pure maths. However, I still believe they should have made cracking the code at least a little more challenging. I would imagine that easily 95% of those who attempted it managed to crack the code and read the puzzle.
Saying all that, though, as a method of filtering out those who can't really be bothered, it was a fantastic idea.
I'm about middle of my course of 400 CompScis, and it took me all of five minutes to 'crack' the code, and solve the puzzle. Any kid who's done GCSE Computation (aged 14-16) should be able to work it out in less than half an hour.
Are degree courses that easy to get on to in Canada? I had to get three A levels at grade C or above (and my Uni's not particularly prestigous)!