I seem to recall reading somewhere that when the whole ATX form factor was dreamed up, putting the CPU near the power supply and having the power supply fan move air (I forget in which direction) over the CPU for added cooling was an intentional part of the design.
Of course I'm convinced that the real reason for introducing a replacement for the AT form factor was to make those bulletproof old cases and power supplies obsolete in order to force people to buy entire new computers instead of upgrading piece by piece.
As someone without an unlimited supply of funds who has a desire to avoid feeding landfills any more than absolutely necessary as well as an affection for old hardware (but precious little room available for adopting any more), I feel perfectly justified in assuming that they did it just to annoy me.:-)
Anybody know where I can get a mid to full tower ATX case with power supply for about $20 USD including shipping to coastal NC?
Someone should explain that whole horse-barn door thing to Congress.
There's no way a foreign company is going to put up with the US government being able to read their stuff like it was a plain text postcard. "Why no, Airbus, we didn't pass on the amount of your bid to the people at Boeing who donate millions to our campaign funds. You can trust us. Really."
Do they expect OBL to stop using whatever crypto he uses now and to change to the new improved with a backdoor built in version?
Bin Laden used to use cell phones and satellites, now he uses the internet the way it was originally designed to be used, as a military communications tool. If they can find his messages but not read them, will they shut down the internet to block his messages? What happens when AOL starts screaming about being put out of business? Or do they have a plan for a different type of internet, one where they provide and charge for the content, just like cable television, and all the user stuff sent back upstream goes through the NSA computers before the government allows it to get where it's supposed to go?
If they were told that they were going to die, instead of being told some lie about ransom or negotiations, why didn't they resist? Having seen Barbara on television shows so often that I have to remind myself that I didn't know her personally, I'd have expected her to have clawed their eyes out.
When you're on the air it is considered very unprofessional to not be in control. Your job is to deliver the news and let the audience decide for themselves how they are supposed to feel about it.
If you get a chance sometime, watch the clip of Walter Cronkite announcing the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. You see him start to choke up, you see it get to him (and this was a guy who had seen plenty of World War II's horrors), but then you see him pull himself together and act like a professional broadcaster. Not a robot, a human, but one that knows how to do his job.
The idea may have been to get Air Force One headed back to Andrews at top speed, where it would have been a bright blue and white target for what would have been a human guided missle.
What I'm a little concerned about is who is collecting all those loose financial documents blown out of those offices and possibly harvesting info they have no business having.
Televsion doesn't have ads unless someone actually does some switching and button pushing. Web pages automatically have ads unless someone re-writes them.
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I'm glad that Ms. Levy isn't in the news as in "The body of Chandra Levy was found today in...".
It must be especially difficult for her parents, with the media attention they hoped would help find her taken away by the suffering of others.
It's sort of a relief not to be hearing about Gary Condit all the time, but this sure ain't the way I'd have chosen to get the focus off of him.
Something that did cross my mind yesterday-the House Intelligence Committee is apparently going to be quite busy, too busy to take time to worry about removing him from that committee, and nobody has the time to talk about calling on him to resign any more. He just may salvage his political career while we're all looking elsewhere. (Unless his political enemies find a way to tie him to Osama Bin Laden)
What would the news media do if they had to report on 2 or 3 big stories at once?
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"I'm proud to be American and I hate Arabs and I always have," said 19-year-old Colin Zaremba, who marched with the group.
Several other incidents were reported in Canada, where five school children with Arabic-sounding names were assaulted in Oakville, Ontario.
Sounds like Zaremba should be glad he doesn't live in Oakville.
How come nobody went out to harrass the idiot jerk rednecks when we found out it was McVeigh?
Oh, wait.
Never mind.
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Shocked, but unfortunately not exactly surprised.
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There may not be platoons of lawyers out there salivating while they try to think of every possible angle for lawsuits against any and every deep pocket out there in connection with this tragedy, but that would be more miraculous than the rescue of those 5 firefighters in the SUV under the rubble just now, 3 of whom were able to walk out on their own power once they got the doors open.
Oh well, let's just hope for more miracles of the latter nature and have negative thoughts about lawyers later.
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Apparently I'm not the only one wondering if Katz is planning to get his next book out of this.:-)
What's left of the Russian Army probably contains a lot of lifers who would love to go back to Afghanistan for a little (from their point of view) "payback".
It would be very tempting to let the Russian military do a lot of the dangerous and dirty work in Afghanistan instead of risking our military, but they would be doing it in our name and the atrocities they would commit against the Afghans would make *every* Afghan for the next 100 years the cold blooded mortal enemy of the United States.
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But it wasn't inconceivable. Some idiot tried to crash a light plane into the White House a few years ago. Tom Clancy and others have created fictional accounts of these kinds of attacks in books and movies. We already knew that here in the real world there are people willing to coldly and calmly die to do these kinds of things.
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Agreed, they stood the impact of the jets admirably, and when they fell, they "failed safe" as much as possible under the circumstances, but, as bjb wrote, "The stairs are only wide enough for two people abreast...".
Sounds like some bean counter had the influence on the design that an engineer should have. Could be the basis of a huge class action wrongful death suit.
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Of course I'm convinced that the real reason for introducing a replacement for the AT form factor was to make those bulletproof old cases and power supplies obsolete in order to force people to buy entire new computers instead of upgrading piece by piece.
As someone without an unlimited supply of funds who has a desire to avoid feeding landfills any more than absolutely necessary as well as an affection for old hardware (but precious little room available for adopting any more), I feel perfectly justified in assuming that they did it just to annoy me. :-)
Anybody know where I can get a mid to full tower ATX case with power supply for about $20 USD including shipping to coastal NC?
There's no way a foreign company is going to put up with the US government being able to read their stuff like it was a plain text postcard. "Why no, Airbus, we didn't pass on the amount of your bid to the people at Boeing who donate millions to our campaign funds. You can trust us. Really."
Do they expect OBL to stop using whatever crypto he uses now and to change to the new improved with a backdoor built in version?
Bin Laden used to use cell phones and satellites, now he uses the internet the way it was originally designed to be used, as a military communications tool. If they can find his messages but not read them, will they shut down the internet to block his messages? What happens when AOL starts screaming about being put out of business? Or do they have a plan for a different type of internet, one where they provide and charge for the content, just like cable television, and all the user stuff sent back upstream goes through the NSA computers before the government allows it to get where it's supposed to go?
What are you doing, making a compilation for snuff film fans?
If they were told that they were going to die, instead of being told some lie about ransom or negotiations, why didn't they resist? Having seen Barbara on television shows so often that I have to remind myself that I didn't know her personally, I'd have expected her to have clawed their eyes out.
If you get a chance sometime, watch the clip of Walter Cronkite announcing the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. You see him start to choke up, you see it get to him (and this was a guy who had seen plenty of World War II's horrors), but then you see him pull himself together and act like a professional broadcaster. Not a robot, a human, but one that knows how to do his job.
The idea may have been to get Air Force One headed back to Andrews at top speed, where it would have been a bright blue and white target for what would have been a human guided missle.
Of course, to be fair, if MS provides the necessary help desk support for that software, *that* will cost them a fortune.
They could probably use new underwear, blue jeans, and work shirts too.
It took me a moment to realise that "underware" wasn't the proper spelling. Been messin' with computers too long.
What I'm a little concerned about is who is collecting all those loose financial documents blown out of those offices and possibly harvesting info they have no business having.
Televsion doesn't have ads unless someone actually does some switching and button pushing. Web pages automatically have ads unless someone re-writes them.
It must be especially difficult for her parents, with the media attention they hoped would help find her taken away by the suffering of others.
It's sort of a relief not to be hearing about Gary Condit all the time, but this sure ain't the way I'd have chosen to get the focus off of him.
Something that did cross my mind yesterday-the House Intelligence Committee is apparently going to be quite busy, too busy to take time to worry about removing him from that committee, and nobody has the time to talk about calling on him to resign any more. He just may salvage his political career while we're all looking elsewhere. (Unless his political enemies find a way to tie him to Osama Bin Laden)
What would the news media do if they had to report on 2 or 3 big stories at once?
Several other incidents were reported in Canada, where five school children with Arabic-sounding names were assaulted in Oakville, Ontario.
Sounds like Zaremba should be glad he doesn't live in Oakville.
How come nobody went out to harrass the idiot jerk rednecks when we found out it was McVeigh?
Oh, wait.
Never mind.
Shocked, but unfortunately not exactly surprised.
Oh well, let's just hope for more miracles of the latter nature and have negative thoughts about lawyers later.
Apparently I'm not the only one wondering if Katz is planning to get his next book out of this. :-)
It would be very tempting to let the Russian military do a lot of the dangerous and dirty work in Afghanistan instead of risking our military, but they would be doing it in our name and the atrocities they would commit against the Afghans would make *every* Afghan for the next 100 years the cold blooded mortal enemy of the United States.
But it wasn't inconceivable. Some idiot tried to crash a light plane into the White House a few years ago. Tom Clancy and others have created fictional accounts of these kinds of attacks in books and movies. We already knew that here in the real world there are people willing to coldly and calmly die to do these kinds of things.
Sounds like some bean counter had the influence on the design that an engineer should have. Could be the basis of a huge class action wrongful death suit.
I find that alphabetically usually works better.
Now whether to ground the shield at one end (and if so, which one) or both, now there's a good way to start up a red hot holy war.
It actually made it into the Billboard Top 100, perhaps even the top 40, but it's been awhile since I had the Whitburn book handy.
Exactly. What's the point of bombing them back to the stone age? The Taliban has already taken them there.
Whoever still has petroleum to sell at $100 or so per barrel.
The term that rather sour dispositioned individual should have used was firetruck chasing.