I second that. In fact I have a Cryis M2 300 (233Mhz) sitting right here on my shelf. Sure its great for average applications, but the fpu is so poor do not even think about playing games, programming your own games, or running a large number crunching program. I had better luck with a 133 MMX Pentium for these types of work.
I will admit AMD chips usually run a higher base temperature, especially compared to a P4. However, P4's of about the same speed with the same heat sink will usually run hotter when loaded up beyond 50-60%. So if you want to heat your house, just let the P4 run a nice number crunching program such as seti@home. I have found this the case in several systems I have had the pleasure of observing.
Blocking ports and throttling really don't help at all. Sure it gets the lower computer user off, but upper ones will realize they can just use proxy servers to hide there work. And there are lots of proxy servers running on many different ports. Plus, there are a lot of users which use P2P to get pdf, txt's, and other assorted files, which have been released into public domain for free.
Using a computer to copy or store any copyrighted material (text, images, music, movies, etc.) is a violation of the law, and leaves you liable, on conviction, to heavy fines. - Drake University. Wow, I just stored this on both slashdot's computer, my computer, and Google's. Hope it wasn't copyrighted.;-)
good luck doing scientific calculations on a Geforce Wha? Someone didn't tell you 3D accelerators do lots of math that requires very intensive scientific calculations, even if there implementation isn't the most accurate results. Infact, much of the math they use is used by physicist, engineers, and mathematicians everyday. Unfortunalty, getting the information in a way so as to permenatly store it, or know what the exact results are could be quite difficult other then seeing it as graphics on your screen. BTW, I do think that that CPU's still need to have great ability to do computationaly expensive instructions. There is enough math in the form of collision detection and game physics amoung other things to still need lots of processing power on the cpu.
Its because its coded in Java. Everything major in Java which requires a gui is extra slow. I don't think anyone can fix this short of coding a Java compiler in some native compiling language such as C\C++. Now there is an interesting thought, would it disrespect Java to have its IDE built in another language.
In it he states you can't see the drive headers move to high frequencies because our inferior human eyes can't pick this movement up. I'm thinking it could be more of a problem dealing with mechanical responce time or more precisely physics. The coil energizes one way and then the other before the head can even start to move. So the head just kind of stays in place.
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The process that happens inside a refrigeration system is based on physics. It does not matter which gas. In fact, water, alchohol, and even good old CO2 all can be used as refrigerents and do just a good a job cooling food as Freon did. Well, I should note that water wouldn't be that good for freezing stuff, however for cooling you house it would work fine.
Why do these all work fine? Because they are based on physics. Physics which say temperature and pressure are directly related. Physics which say that as a substance changes state it must either gain heat or loose heat. That said, there are many substances which can be used safely in place of Freon.
That said, I should note that many new refrigerents can be quite flammable under certain conditions. Plus lets not forget what CFC based refrigents do to the ozone layer. A problem much worse for everyone then the ammonia.
But this smacks to me of guys caught with acid who are spending 30 years in jail.
We have no idea how much time (if any) they will actually get. But lets be clear about really happened. Some guys were unhappy with what they were getting for what they paid. Instead of shopping around for better service, or complaining, or taking acceptable actions to get better service they used technological measures to use more of the service than they were paying for. Not only did they do that, but some of them used truly excessive amounts of bandwidth. 250k is a lot of bandwidth.
Interesting you should say this. Some people only have access to one broadband company. This leaves them no choice but to use one company unless they want to go back to the dialup. In addition, I've had dealing with companies such as this where people where getting a max of 20Kb download and 10Kb upload nearly around the clock and being charged $60 a month. Thats not cutting edge or broadband. Asking the company if they could improve the service resulted sure, for $150 a month.
If anyone happened to catch an Opera doing a segment on Minority Report a while back while flipping through the channels, she is actually a proponent of this type of technology and such usage. She would infact like to see it used everywhere to stop all the evil terrorist and criminals. I imagine since like many things she has said her viewers would second this opnion. Unfortunatly, their are many of those viewers out there. Infact, many people around the world are for such technologies. I assume it is because they are not yet enlightened enough to see any of the dark sides of the technology. Or perhaps, I'm just being nieve, and its natural for humans to want to be monitered 24/7 with constant streams of advertisements, etc into there eyes.
I find myself having to disagree. While they are great for being easily moved, I will not give up my CRT's. LCD's have poor refresh rates. If you don't believe me run a opengl or direct3d game with syncing turned on and see what you get for a frame rate. Secondly the picture is ghosty and doesn't provide the bright and sharp contrasting colors I've found with crt's. In addition CRT's usually have a much better defining size. The reason a LCD doesn't flicker like a CRT when running non interlaced, is that the pixels are staying lit a lot longer. While this is good for reducing flicker, it really messes up gaming, movie watching, or animation developement.
Damn, I thought thats what.Net was. One big virus to make your machine run slower and allow people to right even crappier code. Hell all my friends have the.NET fever now. Whats more they redicule me cause I stick to my old trust C\C++, Java, PHP, Perl, Lisp, and SQL.
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*Digs out his Atari 800xl*
*Plugs it in.*
*Turns it on.*
Wow it still boots up after sitting in my room for 10 years. Hmm This I have to play with.
Oh my god I used "has" rather then "have" on that last sentance. Also lots of bad grammer in that post. *Sarcasticly says to self* >> Perhaps its time I take another English literature that my university forces me to take. All that English literature really helps me to learn proper programming techniques.
Glad to see another book on PHP and MySQL usage. Maybe now I can make some site that kicks the blank out of my friends who has all have caught the.Net virus.
Another thing producing radiation at 2.4GHZ. I wonder how many things have to be around before I start getting cancer. My HAM radio book says I should try to limit individuals exposure to radiation at frequencies this high up in the spectrum. Now it seems that every one potentionally is going to be producing radiation at this range, although at a lower total output level. However, if I have 400 people around me producing 1 watt, I could end up with getting 0 or 1000's of watts of energy at this frequency depending on where I'm standing. Perhaps I should go and purchase a Tempest suit or make my own.
You: Senator, why did my tax money support terrorism?
Senator: I have no knowledge of that fact.
You: Is it not true that currently TV shows are running commercials claiming that drugs support terrorism?
Senator: That would be true.
You: Well, says that my taxes, taxes which you helped passed went to support Afgan freedom fighters who later became terrorist to us.
Senator: Umm.
You: Therefore if this is true, should I not stop paying taxes since they went to support terrorist?
Senator: umm... umm.. umm. Your un American!
Looks like parts of the movie Toy's will soon be a reality, where soilders get metals for how many points they rack up killing people and vehicles. Actually, I am wondering how exactly such a system would work, as there would be a certain amount of lag inherent in the system. Would we end up with the same problem with lag as we do with video games?
I agree about the sensationalistic journalism. A plane shouldn't be solely picked cause its pretty. Its capabilities are far more important. Example would be the A-10's. They may be ugly but as conflicts have proved, they are invaluable at close combat support.
Ouch. Actually, because of a departmental change at the university I attend we have to do them by hand again. While this is not really a problem for basic calculus, it can become a real pain trying to graph a several variable calculus problem without the aid of a CAS. I'm not saying you can't do it. Its just a major pain in the arse.
The more I use Mozilla, the more cool features I find. All I can say is Mozilla rocks my friggin world. It is now my browser of choice on all OS's. The only reason I ever use IE anymore is if I have to access a page that only works with IE. Usually, I manage to complain to the webmaster about his inability to preform code with is compliant with the web standards.
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I second that. In fact I have a Cryis M2 300 (233Mhz) sitting right here on my shelf. Sure its great for average applications, but the fpu is so poor do not even think about playing games, programming your own games, or running a large number crunching program. I had better luck with a 133 MMX Pentium for these types of work.
I will admit AMD chips usually run a higher base temperature, especially compared to a P4. However, P4's of about the same speed with the same heat sink will usually run hotter when loaded up beyond 50-60%. So if you want to heat your house, just let the P4 run a nice number crunching program such as seti@home. I have found this the case in several systems I have had the pleasure of observing.
Blocking ports and throttling really don't help at all. Sure it gets the lower computer user off, but upper ones will realize they can just use proxy servers to hide there work. And there are lots of proxy servers running on many different ports. Plus, there are a lot of users which use P2P to get pdf, txt's, and other assorted files, which have been released into public domain for free.
Using a computer to copy or store any copyrighted material (text, images, music, movies, etc.) is a violation of the law, and leaves you liable, on conviction, to heavy fines. - Drake University. ;-)
Wow, I just stored this on both slashdot's computer, my computer, and Google's. Hope it wasn't copyrighted.
good luck doing scientific calculations on a Geforce Wha? Someone didn't tell you 3D accelerators do lots of math that requires very intensive scientific calculations, even if there implementation isn't the most accurate results. Infact, much of the math they use is used by physicist, engineers, and mathematicians everyday. Unfortunalty, getting the information in a way so as to permenatly store it, or know what the exact results are could be quite difficult other then seeing it as graphics on your screen. BTW, I do think that that CPU's still need to have great ability to do computationaly expensive instructions. There is enough math in the form of collision detection and game physics amoung other things to still need lots of processing power on the cpu.
Its because its coded in Java. Everything major in Java which requires a gui is extra slow. I don't think anyone can fix this short of coding a Java compiler in some native compiling language such as C\C++. Now there is an interesting thought, would it disrespect Java to have its IDE built in another language.
In it he states you can't see the drive headers move to high frequencies because our inferior human eyes can't pick this movement up. I'm thinking it could be more of a problem dealing with mechanical responce time or more precisely physics. The coil energizes one way and then the other before the head can even start to move. So the head just kind of stays in place.
The process that happens inside a refrigeration system is based on physics. It does not matter which gas. In fact, water, alchohol, and even good old CO2 all can be used as refrigerents and do just a good a job cooling food as Freon did. Well, I should note that water wouldn't be that good for freezing stuff, however for cooling you house it would work fine.
Why do these all work fine? Because they are based on physics. Physics which say temperature and pressure are directly related. Physics which say that as a substance changes state it must either gain heat or loose heat. That said, there are many substances which can be used safely in place of Freon.
That said, I should note that many new refrigerents can be quite flammable under certain conditions. Plus lets not forget what CFC based refrigents do to the ozone layer. A problem much worse for everyone then the ammonia.I believe Atari tried doing just that a couple of years before. We see where that got them at.
Interesting you should say this. Some people only have access to one broadband company. This leaves them no choice but to use one company unless they want to go back to the dialup. In addition, I've had dealing with companies such as this where people where getting a max of 20Kb download and 10Kb upload nearly around the clock and being charged $60 a month. Thats not cutting edge or broadband. Asking the company if they could improve the service resulted sure, for $150 a month.
If anyone happened to catch an Opera doing a segment on Minority Report a while back while flipping through the channels, she is actually a proponent of this type of technology and such usage. She would infact like to see it used everywhere to stop all the evil terrorist and criminals. I imagine since like many things she has said her viewers would second this opnion. Unfortunatly, their are many of those viewers out there. Infact, many people around the world are for such technologies. I assume it is because they are not yet enlightened enough to see any of the dark sides of the technology. Or perhaps, I'm just being nieve, and its natural for humans to want to be monitered 24/7 with constant streams of advertisements, etc into there eyes.
I believe what your talking about is .Net. Web services over httpd.... what idiot came up with this idea. httpd is slow and resource hungry enough!!!!
I find myself having to disagree. While they are great for being easily moved, I will not give up my CRT's. LCD's have poor refresh rates. If you don't believe me run a opengl or direct3d game with syncing turned on and see what you get for a frame rate. Secondly the picture is ghosty and doesn't provide the bright and sharp contrasting colors I've found with crt's. In addition CRT's usually have a much better defining size. The reason a LCD doesn't flicker like a CRT when running non interlaced, is that the pixels are staying lit a lot longer. While this is good for reducing flicker, it really messes up gaming, movie watching, or animation developement.
Damn, I thought thats what .Net was. One big virus to make your machine run slower and allow people to right even crappier code. Hell all my friends have the .NET fever now. Whats more they redicule me cause I stick to my old trust C\C++, Java, PHP, Perl, Lisp, and SQL.
*Digs out his Atari 800xl*
*Plugs it in.*
*Turns it on.*
Wow it still boots up after sitting in my room for 10 years. Hmm This I have to play with.
Oh my god I used "has" rather then "have" on that last sentance. Also lots of bad grammer in that post. *Sarcasticly says to self* >> Perhaps its time I take another English literature that my university forces me to take. All that English literature really helps me to learn proper programming techniques.
Oh shit I'm talking to myself again.Glad to see another book on PHP and MySQL usage. Maybe now I can make some site that kicks the blank out of my friends who has all have caught the .Net virus.
Actually, I was trying to make a point. Never mind though.
Another thing producing radiation at 2.4GHZ. I wonder how many things have to be around before I start getting cancer. My HAM radio book says I should try to limit individuals exposure to radiation at frequencies this high up in the spectrum. Now it seems that every one potentionally is going to be producing radiation at this range, although at a lower total output level. However, if I have 400 people around me producing 1 watt, I could end up with getting 0 or 1000's of watts of energy at this frequency depending on where I'm standing. Perhaps I should go and purchase a Tempest suit or make my own.
You: Senator, why did my tax money support terrorism?
Senator: I have no knowledge of that fact.
You: Is it not true that currently TV shows are running commercials claiming that drugs support terrorism?
Senator: That would be true.
You: Well, says that my taxes, taxes which you helped passed went to support Afgan freedom fighters who later became terrorist to us.
Senator: Umm.
You: Therefore if this is true, should I not stop paying taxes since they went to support terrorist?
Senator: umm... umm.. umm. Your un American!
Looks like parts of the movie Toy's will soon be a reality, where soilders get metals for how many points they rack up killing people and vehicles. Actually, I am wondering how exactly such a system would work, as there would be a certain amount of lag inherent in the system. Would we end up with the same problem with lag as we do with video games?
I agree about the sensationalistic journalism. A plane shouldn't be solely picked cause its pretty. Its capabilities are far more important. Example would be the A-10's. They may be ugly but as conflicts have proved, they are invaluable at close combat support.
Ouch. Actually, because of a departmental change at the university I attend we have to do them by hand again. While this is not really a problem for basic calculus, it can become a real pain trying to graph a several variable calculus problem without the aid of a CAS. I'm not saying you can't do it. Its just a major pain in the arse.
As Yoda would say, "Of American business practices, you speak wise words." Sorry couldn't resist the Yoda. ;-)
The more I use Mozilla, the more cool features I find. All I can say is Mozilla rocks my friggin world. It is now my browser of choice on all OS's. The only reason I ever use IE anymore is if I have to access a page that only works with IE. Usually, I manage to complain to the webmaster about his inability to preform code with is compliant with the web standards.