IANAL, but I doubt it's as bad as the article makes it sound. I wouldn't be surprised if there are some serious misconceptions resulting from a false application of US terminology and system of law to a European one. Maybe some (Austrian) lawyer can shed some light on it.
Maybe I'm biased, but I found the article to be kind of terrible overall - the writing is very confused, it repeats itself all the time and there doesn't seem to be any internal logic or progression, just random bits of (mis-)information. For instance: Airbus is owned by British and Dutch companies; yes, well, EADS which holds an 80% share of Airbus (apparently) is legally a Dutch company but I'm sure the French and my some of my fellow Germans would disagree with the notion that it's Dutch.
Seems to me that cleaning the filters every couple months and cleaning the computer itself every couple months is about the same thing.
No, not at all. If you've got a case with integrated filters, cleaning them takes about a minute, if that. I used to just remove the front bezel which just snaps off and on, take out the filters, blow the dust out of the window and I'm done. These days I've removed the filters for an increase in airflow - I'm not too worried about the dust - but it certainly worked fine. In comparison, cleaning an entire case takes a lot longer, the better part of an hour if you're thorough.
I would have probably never found the article because I'm not generally into web comics. All I read is PA.
Amusingly enough, I am 99% sure the story submitter found this article via Penny Arcade. Gabe links to it in todays news article, saying: "Overall the article treats us extremely well. Probably better than we deserve." That said, the comic history article really is awesome. I'm at a loss for words, actually, it's just really good and has opened to my eyes to some characteristics on comics I have been reading every day for months or years. I also don't know how to feel about the fact that virtually every comic I ended up reading daily made their review list - for one thing, I never knew that 8-bit theater was quite that popular. And I still don't really understand why I keep reading UF.
What's not loud to you is really loud to others. You can't run most modern PCs fanless, but you can run them with just one or two fans at a REALLY low voltage, so that they are very quiet and effectively silent at one metre. You really can't say whether or not the fan on the graphics card is loud or not unless you already have taken great care choosing the other components.
Interesting. I've found the opposite to be true, especially with the Start/K menu.
Your Start menu isn't responsive? I didn't even realise that the responsiveness was under discussion on a somewhat modern system. I'm running an "1800+", and it's just instant, doesn't get more responsive than that. Programs submenu isn't quite instant, but very close.
Konquerer doesn't need anything shoehorned into it by default. But they should offer an easy-to-use and easy-to-develop-for plugin architecture. It should be made really easy to extend Konquerer in the way TortoiseSVN and WinRAR (etc.) extend Explorer. Of course, for all I know such a plugin architecture already exists... (But is it used a lot? If not, why?)
The most powerful PC in this test on Silent PC Review draws 214W. Granted, you can built a machine that draws more: two graphics cards, four or six HDs instead of just two,elaborate lighting setups. It probably still won't draw 500W, though...
Well, many people don't read the article. It would have been useful to mention it in the summary. (Note: I knew all about the Phantom 500 before, anyway, I thought everybody did.)
It's still silent if the fan never turns on when you use it the way you use it. Besides, not even passively cooled PSUs are totally silent, the actual conversion has been known to create a sort of hum, buzz or ticking, especially on bad models. (Used to be worse than it is these days.)
Also, PSUs with 2 fans can still be very quiet. There's one brand of PSUs where the inner fan starts to spin up earlier than the exhaust fan (which is more easily heard). Creates positive pressure, very nice idea and apparently it really works.
Fortunately, pretty much no modern PC needs anywhere near 500W. Of course, the PSU does have a fan that kicks in when it gets too hot, so it's a moot point.
The lungs, since they are open to the outside, can easily disperse of increased volumes of gas -- this is why divers exhale so much when rising to the surface.
Like Th0th already pointed out, there are problems when you don't exhale, because the lungs are actually fairly fragile when you cut off the only way for the gas to disperse. It's something you need to be aware of when doing an emergency resurfacing - or that's what I was taught, anyway.
It doesn't sound like it's fun, though: "At NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center (now renamed Johnson Space Center) we had a test subject accidentally exposed to a near vacuum (less than 1 psi) in an incident involving a leaking space suit in a vacuum chamber back in '65. He remained conscious for about 14 seconds, which is about the time it takes for O2 deprived blood to go from the lungs to the brain. The suit probably did not reach a hard vacuum, and we began repressurizing the chamber within 15 seconds. The subject regained consciousness at around 15,000 feet equivalent altitude. The subject later reported that he could feel and hear the air leaking out, and his last conscious memory was of the water on his tongue beginning to boil."
Humans' lungs would implode underwater, and explode in space.
That really depends on what's inside them. Divers survive because they fill their lungs with air at the same pressure as their surroundings. Thus the lungs don't collapse. Of course, if the air inside your lungs is at 1 bar while you're in the deep, bad things happen. But the far more common accident AFAIK is actually the converse: you resurface while your lungs still hold air pressurized for 5, 10, 20 metres. Your lungs get stretched (ie they "explode"), and you're in a world of pain.
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Sure, it does. I wouldn't call it rawer myself, but eh that's okay. I also ripped the audio from games (and often the music from demos) a decade or so ago, BTW, not on the Amiga but on the PC. I admit I didn't do it by hand, though, I used tools.
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What sound format is rawer than PCM WAV files? (Or: What does rawer mean in this context?)
The thing is, typically PSUs are most efficient at something like 80% of their rated power. At lower power - and most PCs use less than 200W most of the time - their efficiency gets worse. All things being equal, a PSU rated for up to 350W uses less power to deliver 250W than a PSU rated for up to 600W. Of course, a modern 600W PSU might beat an old 350W PSU due to overall increases in efficiency; some modern PSUs get 80% efficiency and above under nearly any load, no PC PSU did this 5 or 10 years ago.
That's very strange. From what I read, a new Nano should easily exceed the given battery life. The same was true for the revision 2 iPod mini. Unless you are running with the backlight always-on, I would assume that something is wrong with your player...
There is incredible diversity in the number of species on Earth and again that's been no problem for science.
Nope, no problems. But plenty of weirdness, one example: "Agathidium bushi, A. cheneyi and A. rumsfeldi Miller and Wheeler, 2005 (slime mold beetles) Named after the U.S. president, vice president, and defense secretary." I think there was even a case of two taxonomists naming species in a way to ridicule each other, although I couldn't find it mentioned on the site.
That's correct. From Wikipedia: "Honey is laid down by bees as a food source. In cold weather or when food sources are scarce, bees use their honey as their sole source of nutrition."
Did you read his essay? He makes no such assertion. The main point he makes (in abstract terms): "The unbridled use of the go to statement has an immediate consequence that it becomes terribly hard to find a meaningful set of coordinates in which to describe the process progress."
Really? Weird, most chess matches I've seen so far seem to end just one move short of the king being captured. I guess the players just didn't have the guts to see it through.
I assume that when saying open source you actually mean GPL'd software. Microsoft would have to provide source code to the GPL'd software they ship and to any other software that is considered a derivative work, such as a fork of a GPL project. Microsoft would not have to provide the source code to any software that is shipped along but not based on the GPL'd software.
So if Microsoft decided to fork The GIMP into Microsoft Imagevendor CS and ship it along with Windows, they'd have to release the MS Imagevendor CS code, but certainly not the Windows source.
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IANAL, but I doubt it's as bad as the article makes it sound. I wouldn't be surprised if there are some serious misconceptions resulting from a false application of US terminology and system of law to a European one. Maybe some (Austrian) lawyer can shed some light on it.
Maybe I'm biased, but I found the article to be kind of terrible overall - the writing is very confused, it repeats itself all the time and there doesn't seem to be any internal logic or progression, just random bits of (mis-)information. For instance: Airbus is owned by British and Dutch companies; yes, well, EADS which holds an 80% share of Airbus (apparently) is legally a Dutch company but I'm sure the French and my some of my fellow Germans would disagree with the notion that it's Dutch.
Seems to me that cleaning the filters every couple months and cleaning the computer itself every couple months is about the same thing.
No, not at all. If you've got a case with integrated filters, cleaning them takes about a minute, if that. I used to just remove the front bezel which just snaps off and on, take out the filters, blow the dust out of the window and I'm done. These days I've removed the filters for an increase in airflow - I'm not too worried about the dust - but it certainly worked fine. In comparison, cleaning an entire case takes a lot longer, the better part of an hour if you're thorough.
I would have probably never found the article because I'm not generally into web comics. All I read is PA.
Amusingly enough, I am 99% sure the story submitter found this article via Penny Arcade. Gabe links to it in todays news article, saying: "Overall the article treats us extremely well. Probably better than we deserve." That said, the comic history article really is awesome. I'm at a loss for words, actually, it's just really good and has opened to my eyes to some characteristics on comics I have been reading every day for months or years. I also don't know how to feel about the fact that virtually every comic I ended up reading daily made their review list - for one thing, I never knew that 8-bit theater was quite that popular. And I still don't really understand why I keep reading UF.
What's not loud to you is really loud to others. You can't run most modern PCs fanless, but you can run them with just one or two fans at a REALLY low voltage, so that they are very quiet and effectively silent at one metre. You really can't say whether or not the fan on the graphics card is loud or not unless you already have taken great care choosing the other components.
Interesting. I've found the opposite to be true, especially with the Start/K menu.
Your Start menu isn't responsive? I didn't even realise that the responsiveness was under discussion on a somewhat modern system. I'm running an "1800+", and it's just instant, doesn't get more responsive than that. Programs submenu isn't quite instant, but very close.
Konquerer doesn't need anything shoehorned into it by default. But they should offer an easy-to-use and easy-to-develop-for plugin architecture. It should be made really easy to extend Konquerer in the way TortoiseSVN and WinRAR (etc.) extend Explorer. Of course, for all I know such a plugin architecture already exists... (But is it used a lot? If not, why?)
The most powerful PC in this test on Silent PC Review draws 214W. Granted, you can built a machine that draws more: two graphics cards, four or six HDs instead of just two,elaborate lighting setups. It probably still won't draw 500W, though...
Well, many people don't read the article. It would have been useful to mention it in the summary. (Note: I knew all about the Phantom 500 before, anyway, I thought everybody did.)
It's still silent if the fan never turns on when you use it the way you use it. Besides, not even passively cooled PSUs are totally silent, the actual conversion has been known to create a sort of hum, buzz or ticking, especially on bad models. (Used to be worse than it is these days.)
Also, PSUs with 2 fans can still be very quiet. There's one brand of PSUs where the inner fan starts to spin up earlier than the exhaust fan (which is more easily heard). Creates positive pressure, very nice idea and apparently it really works.
Fortunately, pretty much no modern PC needs anywhere near 500W. Of course, the PSU does have a fan that kicks in when it gets too hot, so it's a moot point.
The lungs, since they are open to the outside, can easily disperse of increased volumes of gas -- this is why divers exhale so much when rising to the surface.
Like Th0th already pointed out, there are problems when you don't exhale, because the lungs are actually fairly fragile when you cut off the only way for the gas to disperse. It's something you need to be aware of when doing an emergency resurfacing - or that's what I was taught, anyway.
It doesn't sound like it's fun, though: "At NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center (now renamed Johnson Space Center) we had a test subject accidentally exposed to a near vacuum (less than 1 psi) in an incident involving a leaking space suit in a vacuum chamber back in '65. He remained conscious for about 14 seconds, which is about the time it takes for O2 deprived blood to go from the lungs to the brain. The suit probably did not reach a hard vacuum, and we began repressurizing the chamber within 15 seconds. The subject regained consciousness at around 15,000 feet equivalent altitude. The subject later reported that he could feel and hear the air leaking out, and his last conscious memory was of the water on his tongue beginning to boil."
Thanks for the link.
Humans' lungs would implode underwater, and explode in space.
That really depends on what's inside them. Divers survive because they fill their lungs with air at the same pressure as their surroundings. Thus the lungs don't collapse. Of course, if the air inside your lungs is at 1 bar while you're in the deep, bad things happen. But the far more common accident AFAIK is actually the converse: you resurface while your lungs still hold air pressurized for 5, 10, 20 metres. Your lungs get stretched (ie they "explode"), and you're in a world of pain.
Sure, it does. I wouldn't call it rawer myself, but eh that's okay. I also ripped the audio from games (and often the music from demos) a decade or so ago, BTW, not on the Amiga but on the PC. I admit I didn't do it by hand, though, I used tools.
What sound format is rawer than PCM WAV files? (Or: What does rawer mean in this context?)
You wouldn't? I would. I have! Not much of a computer nerd, are you. Maybe hardware.slashdot.org isn't for you.
The thing is, typically PSUs are most efficient at something like 80% of their rated power. At lower power - and most PCs use less than 200W most of the time - their efficiency gets worse. All things being equal, a PSU rated for up to 350W uses less power to deliver 250W than a PSU rated for up to 600W. Of course, a modern 600W PSU might beat an old 350W PSU due to overall increases in efficiency; some modern PSUs get 80% efficiency and above under nearly any load, no PC PSU did this 5 or 10 years ago.
That's very strange. From what I read, a new Nano should easily exceed the given battery life. The same was true for the revision 2 iPod mini. Unless you are running with the backlight always-on, I would assume that something is wrong with your player...
There is incredible diversity in the number of species on Earth and again that's been no problem for science.
Nope, no problems. But plenty of weirdness, one example: "Agathidium bushi, A. cheneyi and A. rumsfeldi Miller and Wheeler, 2005 (slime mold beetles) Named after the U.S. president, vice president, and defense secretary." I think there was even a case of two taxonomists naming species in a way to ridicule each other, although I couldn't find it mentioned on the site.
That's correct. From Wikipedia: "Honey is laid down by bees as a food source. In cold weather or when food sources are scarce, bees use their honey as their sole source of nutrition."
Let me venture a guess: you don't often read academic papers on mathematics or computer science, do you? ;)
Did you read his essay? He makes no such assertion. The main point he makes (in abstract terms): "The unbridled use of the go to statement has an immediate consequence that it becomes terribly hard to find a meaningful set of coordinates in which to describe the process progress."
Really? Weird, most chess matches I've seen so far seem to end just one move short of the king being captured. I guess the players just didn't have the guts to see it through.
That's insane. Thank you.
I assume that when saying open source you actually mean GPL'd software. Microsoft would have to provide source code to the GPL'd software they ship and to any other software that is considered a derivative work, such as a fork of a GPL project. Microsoft would not have to provide the source code to any software that is shipped along but not based on the GPL'd software.
So if Microsoft decided to fork The GIMP into Microsoft Imagevendor CS and ship it along with Windows, they'd have to release the MS Imagevendor CS code, but certainly not the Windows source.