I don't over-clock because it's not worth it. I ran my K6-2-300 at 350 for a while, and every time I ran anything CPU intensive it crashed. When I went back down to 300 everything worked perfectly and it seemed faster. 2 GHz is so fast now, I'd rather have it run cooler by running it at 1500MHz than deal with overheating by running it at 2200MHz.
The warranty doesn't have anything to with over-heating. I've used thermal compound since my 486 CPUs. With an early pentium I had to explain to the person at the store that it wasn't glue. (The parallel port blew on a 2 week old MB).
All other factors being equal (no over-clocking), using thermal compound is better for the CPU than not using it. Every heatsink I've ever installed on anything (going back to power transistors in the 70's) used it. Now this stupid company says it voids the warranty. WHY?
AMD does not have the legal right to prevent you from using 3rd party heatsinks as long as they're designed for the AMD CPUs. This is the same as saying using 3rd party ink in the printer will void the warranty. In both cases, the company is still legally obligated to honor the warranty, but fighting them in court for it is another matter.
It looks like the lawsuit is totally justified. The Strawberry Shortcake comic is damaging to the trademark-holder's reputation, and the US has an enforce it or lose it trademark system.
The follow-up strip is just so pathetically stupid that it's almost funny that the writers are such idiots.
If you're a whistleblower, they have a reason not to trust you. If you tell their secrets to the government, maybe you'll tell them to the competition for money. Since they can't trust you and can't fire you, they have to shift you to something where you don't have access to their secrets...like scrubbing toilets.
It's like the ADA, they can't fire you, but if you can't do the job, they can find something else for you.
Sure, but do you want to work at a company where you've blown the whistle? Management can make life very miserable for you. They can't fire you, but they can re-assign you to scrub toilets with a toothbrush.
If a letter costs $20k, a catalog will be a lot more. It might be cheaper to pay the $20 Million to have it hand delivered. Maybe by one of the models:).
The poster said cars were a more efficient means of transportation, not more energy efficient.
I asked in what way he meant they were more efficient and then listed responses to is various possibilities.
If roads and parking lots are a huge waste, what would you prefer in their place?
How about bicycle trails and places to lock the bikes? That would take up so much less space that most things within a city would be within biking range. For things that aren't, there are busses with bike racks. There would be a system of roads between cities for the busses and acting as major arteries within the cities.
How are you measuring efficiency? Horses are far more energy efficient, they are just slower and require more work to keep "operational".
The automobile is one of the least efficient things ever made. It needs more calories of energy to go 5 miles than an average person used in a day 200 years ago. It also is a huge waste of land for roads and parking lots. The wasted land also has the side effect of spreading everything out so you waste more fuel and time going farther to get where you're going. That also cuts into the speed advantage since it now takes you longer to get where you're going.
More tonnes of water evaporate off the oceans every day than man pumps CO into the air. A few million tonnes of water is nothing to the oceans. The water level wouldn't even measurably change.
Good points, when I read Asimov's earlier works, I found it hard to believe people would really be that stupid, and with robots, they don't seem to be. But you're right, that's exactly how people react to GM foods.
As far as one person making a difference in a sample group of billions, what about Hussein, Bin Laden, and Hitler? On the good side, Gorbechov and Einstein?
Psychohistory is essentially Econometric Modeling, I took an undergrad course on that. The prof even mentioned that it was the same idea as Asimov's Psychohistory.
Even if Econometrics is much less precise or sophisticated, it is still a lot more than a first step towards it, and compared to Econometrics, the article is nothing.
Amazon.com can get out of this just by using their normal business strategy. Patent protecting children online. Then they can counter-sue all these groups for violating the patent.
I hope Bezos doesn't read slashdot, I don't want to give him any ideas.
The only way to get 75% to the artists is to cut out the middlemen. I've recently gotten involved in the board game development industry. The numbers I've seen are that 50% of the retail price goes to the retailer, 25% goes to the wholesaler, the rest has to go into manufacturing, and possibly paying an agent. You're lucky to see a 5% royalty.
If out of a $15 CD, 75% goes to the artist that means there's only $3.75 to cover the cost of manufacturing, and profits along the distribution channel. Even if you deal directly with resellers so there's only one link in the chain, that means the retailer is paying $$12.25 (75% plus a $1 manufacturing fee) for an item they can only make $2.75 on. Out of the $2.75, the retailer still has to pay their costs to keep the store open. Rental of the location, employees, cash register ink, etc. If the artist takes 75%, the retailers will go bankrupt, then the artists won't have anywhere to sell their material and they will get 0%.
I cancelled my subscription to the star years ago. They have turned into a very bitter, ultra-left wing rant page. Just read some of the other articles up there now. Lots of articles blaming people for SARS, Critisizing the government for causing a double load of students entering university, an article saying how abusive the government is for having enforced quarantines.
The breaking point for me was when they had an article pretending to be a list of all the great stuff you can do at the CNE that turned out to be a very rude insult saying the CNE can't do anything right so they should abolish it (the CNE was great that year).
How does that improve on the current system. The only disadvantage is that we have a leapday every 4 years. Your way sounds confusing; how will you make an appointment for 2:30pm on Sept 19th when it's April?
But most of the people making the buying decisions in the private sector are idiots who don't know what they're buying. They buy MS because they're following the pack, not because they think it's good.
The problem with leap days has nothing to do with the Roman calendar. It is because the time it takes the Earth to revolve around the Sun is not an integer multiple of the time it takes the Earth to rotate on its axis. The Lunar calendars you mention have leap-months.
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ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI.
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How did you solve the halting problem? Or does it not check for potential infinite loops?
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I don't over-clock because it's not worth it. I ran my K6-2-300 at 350 for a while, and every time I ran anything CPU intensive it crashed. When I went back down to 300 everything worked perfectly and it seemed faster. 2 GHz is so fast now, I'd rather have it run cooler by running it at 1500MHz than deal with overheating by running it at 2200MHz.
The warranty doesn't have anything to with over-heating. I've used thermal compound since my 486 CPUs. With an early pentium I had to explain to the person at the store that it wasn't glue. (The parallel port blew on a 2 week old MB).
All other factors being equal (no over-clocking), using thermal compound is better for the CPU than not using it. Every heatsink I've ever installed on anything (going back to power transistors in the 70's) used it. Now this stupid company says it voids the warranty. WHY?
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AMD does not have the legal right to prevent you from using 3rd party heatsinks as long as they're designed for the AMD CPUs. This is the same as saying using 3rd party ink in the printer will void the warranty. In both cases, the company is still legally obligated to honor the warranty, but fighting them in court for it is another matter.
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It looks like the lawsuit is totally justified. The Strawberry Shortcake comic is damaging to the trademark-holder's reputation, and the US has an enforce it or lose it trademark system.
The follow-up strip is just so pathetically stupid that it's almost funny that the writers are such idiots.
Jason
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If you're a whistleblower, they have a reason not to trust you. If you tell their secrets to the government, maybe you'll tell them to the competition for money. Since they can't trust you and can't fire you, they have to shift you to something where you don't have access to their secrets...like scrubbing toilets.
It's like the ADA, they can't fire you, but if you can't do the job, they can find something else for you.
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Sure, but do you want to work at a company where you've blown the whistle? Management can make life very miserable for you. They can't fire you, but they can re-assign you to scrub toilets with a toothbrush.
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As long as the employees were getting a big enough piece of the pie, they kept quiet. They should be charged with aiding in the crime.
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They get paid with a cheque for some small token amount, and most don't cash the cheque, they frame it and put it on their wall.
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If a letter costs $20k, a catalog will be a lot more. It might be cheaper to pay the $20 Million to have it hand delivered. Maybe by one of the models :).
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The poster said cars were a more efficient means of transportation, not more energy efficient.
I asked in what way he meant they were more efficient and then listed responses to is various possibilities.
If roads and parking lots are a huge waste, what would you prefer in their place?
How about bicycle trails and places to lock the bikes? That would take up so much less space that most things within a city would be within biking range. For things that aren't, there are busses with bike racks. There would be a system of roads between cities for the busses and acting as major arteries within the cities.
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How are you measuring efficiency? Horses are far more energy efficient, they are just slower and require more work to keep "operational".
The automobile is one of the least efficient things ever made. It needs more calories of energy to go 5 miles than an average person used in a day 200 years ago. It also is a huge waste of land for roads and parking lots. The wasted land also has the side effect of spreading everything out so you waste more fuel and time going farther to get where you're going. That also cuts into the speed advantage since it now takes you longer to get where you're going.
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More tonnes of water evaporate off the oceans every day than man pumps CO into the air. A few million tonnes of water is nothing to the oceans. The water level wouldn't even measurably change.
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Good points, when I read Asimov's earlier works, I found it hard to believe people would really be that stupid, and with robots, they don't seem to be. But you're right, that's exactly how people react to GM foods.
As far as one person making a difference in a sample group of billions, what about Hussein, Bin Laden, and Hitler? On the good side, Gorbechov and Einstein?
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Psychohistory is essentially Econometric Modeling, I took an undergrad course on that. The prof even mentioned that it was the same idea as Asimov's Psychohistory.
Even if Econometrics is much less precise or sophisticated, it is still a lot more than a first step towards it, and compared to Econometrics, the article is nothing.
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When do the bookies start taking bets on which chain will be the first to expand to the moon? Hilton Storms? Best Western - Sea of Tranqulity?
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Amazon.com can get out of this just by using their normal business strategy. Patent protecting children online. Then they can counter-sue all these groups for violating the patent.
I hope Bezos doesn't read slashdot, I don't want to give him any ideas.
Jason
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The only way to get 75% to the artists is to cut out the middlemen. I've recently gotten involved in the board game development industry. The numbers I've seen are that 50% of the retail price goes to the retailer, 25% goes to the wholesaler, the rest has to go into manufacturing, and possibly paying an agent. You're lucky to see a 5% royalty.
If out of a $15 CD, 75% goes to the artist that means there's only $3.75 to cover the cost of manufacturing, and profits along the distribution channel. Even if you deal directly with resellers so there's only one link in the chain, that means the retailer is paying $$12.25 (75% plus a $1 manufacturing fee) for an item they can only make $2.75 on. Out of the $2.75, the retailer still has to pay their costs to keep the store open. Rental of the location, employees, cash register ink, etc. If the artist takes 75%, the retailers will go bankrupt, then the artists won't have anywhere to sell their material and they will get 0%.
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Those database people should've never named their program the same thing as the browser
They should have never named it after the car and then expected that nobody would do the same to them.
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MS has more advertising dollars. If we reclaim the language and make trusted computing mean something good, it makes palladium sound good.
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Secure Debian sounds like a good name for it. The first thing I thought of when I read Trusted Debian was that it will be like palladium.
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I cancelled my subscription to the star years ago. They have turned into a very bitter, ultra-left wing rant page. Just read some of the other articles up there now. Lots of articles blaming people for SARS, Critisizing the government for causing a double load of students entering university, an article saying how abusive the government is for having enforced quarantines.
The breaking point for me was when they had an article pretending to be a list of all the great stuff you can do at the CNE that turned out to be a very rude insult saying the CNE can't do anything right so they should abolish it (the CNE was great that year).
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How does that improve on the current system. The only disadvantage is that we have a leapday every 4 years. Your way sounds confusing; how will you make an appointment for 2:30pm on Sept 19th when it's April?
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But most of the people making the buying decisions in the private sector are idiots who don't know what they're buying. They buy MS because they're following the pack, not because they think it's good.
Jason
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The problem with leap days has nothing to do with the Roman calendar. It is because the time it takes the Earth to revolve around the Sun is not an integer multiple of the time it takes the Earth to rotate on its axis. The Lunar calendars you mention have leap-months.
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