You are obviously not a hardware enthusiast (this may sound like a flame but i just feel too strongly about this)... You can easily overclock for economical reasons without sacrificing cpu life. I've done this for years and continue to do so. As long as you know what your doing and have proper data from research (from reviews like this)you can take a sub $100 dollar processor and have it run like one for over $400 for years). The best part is that if you have the right components and you know how to tune your system you may even run more reliabley then systems running in spec with lower quality hardware (mobos, heatsinks, powersupplies, etc.)
Example: I've overclocked processors by 50% (in terms of prices... a sub $100 dollar to a $500+) an example of such a processor that has been running for a year is by tbred b aiuhb core xp 2100 from 1700 or so mhz to 2400 mhz and a 66 mhz gain in fsb (which is huge as it's from 133-200 mhz). Note that no athlon xp that amd released ever surpassed the 2300 mhz level or the 200 mhz fsb (even the 3200 + barton) so that tells you much money i've saved. I bought in mid december of 2002.
The processor has been active for most of it's life either folding(when i'm not doing anything), gaming, or divx encoding.
If it is really that popular, why in hell did sun shut it down.
I mean those servers were extremely expensive for the hardware they used so their must have been a good margin there.
These statistics may be derived by bandwidth alone in which i'd probably give it some credibility as video and audio streaming can be extremely bandwidth intensive (especially the former).
One 3 minute streamed video clip at 300 kbps may require as much bandwidth as 100 webpages.
I only wish that we could get the winner will eventually be the highest capacity dual layer blue laser type drive. I don't want to see a lesser dvd winning because of popularity among major companies.
I'm a small webhost and transfering 350 megs i can tell you will cost less then.35 USD. It's pretty easy to get 1.0 gigs for less then a dollar for quality bandwidth.
And hardware costs have dropped so much that transfering such files is no hard task. There was a time that high-end servers in the webworld consisted of a dual 300 mhz setup that in todays world is weaker then a 2.0 ghz celeron.
It's definately the Odyssey's onboard missle system which fired as soon as the thing went overhead. NASA didn't want the British to find our super secret martian underground lab.
Excellent advice but if your not one to make neoprene sleeves yourself you'll find a good selection of backpacks with such laptop sleeves built in at ebags.com Some are way cheaper then jansport but have excellent build quality (samsonite ones too.. i have one of those).
In any case you don't want to simply put a laptop unprotected in a regular backpack.
Umm no as a gamer i can tell you... the thing is that to play at 1024X768 you'd still need at least 2x the amount at $150 for a decent performing DX9 card (with hardware support for the new shaders). By far at this range is ATI with their radeon 9600 pro and even better is their older model the 9500pro if you can find it.
Yes, it is sad... But I'm also sad that you are posting posting as an AC--why am i the only one sacrificing karma:(. I dunno maybe you are the wiser person.
More importantly I'm somewhat surprised by Slashdot's reaction almost as much as i found my original parent to be marked insightful. Should I continue to question the wisdom of of our great moderators or should I continue to really express my thoughts?
Mr. GuyMannDude, do you truly believe you should have been modded up to insightful? I'm sure you know of Bill Gates personally? everyone here likes to hate him but you just posted some stereotypical tycoon rant and were modded insightful. Bravo.
I just got my first job... and it's at sam's club which also happens to be the highest paying part time job in the area. I dunno but i guess the tactics my boss may use against unions is the high pay ($8.50 per hour for complete newbies like me and a raise after 3 months and every six months thereafter for about 40 cents to 50 cents depending on performance).
Honestly i'm surprised to be defending microsoft again but...
Your surprised that content using the wm9 formats won't work on older versions of windows media? It's the same thing with the server... Sure it's crappy if you have an old system but more then likely if your machine can't handle wmp9 (10 mb without the extra junkett) then it probably can't handle others either.
I don't know what's up but you either didn't read your parent carefully or haven't been paying attention. When you specifically go to the add/remove WINDOWS COMPONENTS area you can definately remove the FILES not just shortcuts of wmp.
It's not difficult at all some people just forget about the existence of that section.
More importantly can it last 100 years with its existing power cells, take hits from just about any gun, resist damage from high temperature fire, and ride a motorcycle like a badass that sound Austrian?
Yes, 100 million would be 4x the sales as this much and would have a greater reason to be posted. I just thought that 25 million wasn't amazing news for the moment because it isn't surprising they reached this ammount as we knew they were doing awesome months ago with just macs.
I'd like to see this succeed as the next person but...
Apple is probably the largest seller of online music and 25 million doesn't sound like a lot compared to the billions that other formats like CD's make (sure they cost more to sell but the actual physical medium is worth a lot less then the $13+ amount they are sold for).
Note that I'm not discounting the ability of Apple to increase but this news story was not as amazing as the editorial seems to suggest. We all knew apple was doing well but so far $25 mil (25 million songs * 99cents) is not big in it self.
Although, some companies may have NOC's for no good reason... NOC's do have their places. I am a webhost (a small one) and our servers are in datacenters with thousands (in many cases tens of thousands) of other such machines. There are always at least one or two techs around in the wee hours of the night and a NOC is most certainly necessary to monitor all these machines and the network.
There is NO way a laptop can replace a NOC in such a case. You need a centralized area where everything is monitored. As for remote administration, it's always been pretty decent with Unix (and in our case it's linux mostly) but that just helps the NOC become more useful for us.
I remember using OS X from version 10.0-10.2.x (haven't gotten around to panther yet). I remember updating it using the update utility and there were some for security as well so this can't be the first and only one.
A lot of it was for individual applications BUT most windows flaws seem to related to programs like IE which are also application flaws.
Windows corrupting sounds like it might be a hardware issue if it's your files getting corrupted. Either a bad hard drive or ram/cpu/mobo issues. Don't worry apple was a good choice as you'll surely get quality hardware.
Running pc's ain't that hard, especially in a controlled setting like a lab.
What... looks like you can charge for support for a open source product yet still offer it for free? OMG, somebody tell Redhat (I'm extremely disappointed that the only linux they offer for free is considered bleeding edge, semi-stable, and subject to be unsupported by them software wise after three months).
LOL... I don't really mean to poke fun at you but... He mentioned twice that ping requests were BLOCKED on purpose by the router. Name resolution was an issue here but it wouldn't have allowed the developer to use ping.
It would have to be for public service as you only have access to boring University servers and nodes... NOT the internet as this is a separate network.
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You are obviously not a hardware enthusiast (this may sound like a flame but i just feel too strongly about this)... You can easily overclock for economical reasons without sacrificing cpu life. I've done this for years and continue to do so. As long as you know what your doing and have proper data from research (from reviews like this)you can take a sub $100 dollar processor and have it run like one for over $400 for years). The best part is that if you have the right components and you know how to tune your system you may even run more reliabley then systems running in spec with lower quality hardware (mobos, heatsinks, powersupplies, etc.)
Example:
I've overclocked processors by 50% (in terms of prices... a sub $100 dollar to a $500+) an example of such a processor that has been running for a year is by tbred b aiuhb core xp 2100 from 1700 or so mhz to 2400 mhz and a 66 mhz gain in fsb (which is huge as it's from 133-200 mhz). Note that no athlon xp that amd released ever surpassed the 2300 mhz level or the 200 mhz fsb (even the 3200 + barton) so that tells you much money i've saved. I bought in mid december of 2002.
The processor has been active for most of it's life either folding(when i'm not doing anything), gaming, or divx encoding.
If it is really that popular, why in hell did sun shut it down. I mean those servers were extremely expensive for the hardware they used so their must have been a good margin there.
Wow you've made a belieger out of me... No, i've not felt such a rush ever from drinking coffee.
These statistics may be derived by bandwidth alone in which i'd probably give it some credibility as video and audio streaming can be extremely bandwidth intensive (especially the former).
One 3 minute streamed video clip at 300 kbps may require as much bandwidth as 100 webpages.
I only wish that we could get the winner will eventually be the highest capacity dual layer blue laser type drive. I don't want to see a lesser dvd winning because of popularity among major companies.
I'm a small webhost and transfering 350 megs i can tell you will cost less then .35 USD. It's pretty easy to get 1.0 gigs for less then a dollar for quality bandwidth.
And hardware costs have dropped so much that transfering such files is no hard task. There was a time that high-end servers in the webworld consisted of a dual 300 mhz setup that in todays world is weaker then a 2.0 ghz celeron.
It's definately the Odyssey's onboard missle system which fired as soon as the thing went overhead. NASA didn't want the British to find our super secret martian underground lab.
Eh... the gerbal would already be suffering/dying/dead if it was stuffed in something of that sort (multiple boxes getting smaller and smaller).
Excellent advice but if your not one to make neoprene sleeves yourself you'll find a good selection of backpacks with such laptop sleeves built in at ebags.com Some are way cheaper then jansport but have excellent build quality (samsonite ones too.. i have one of those).
In any case you don't want to simply put a laptop unprotected in a regular backpack.
Umm no as a gamer i can tell you... the thing is that to play at 1024X768 you'd still need at least 2x the amount at $150 for a decent performing DX9 card (with hardware support for the new shaders). By far at this range is ATI with their radeon 9600 pro and even better is their older model the 9500pro if you can find it.
Yes, it is sad... But I'm also sad that you are posting posting as an AC--why am i the only one sacrificing karma :(. I dunno maybe you are the wiser person.
More importantly I'm somewhat surprised by Slashdot's reaction almost as much as i found my original parent to be marked insightful. Should I continue to question the wisdom of of our great moderators or should I continue to really express my thoughts?
Mr. GuyMannDude, do you truly believe you should have been modded up to insightful? I'm sure you know of Bill Gates personally? everyone here likes to hate him but you just posted some stereotypical tycoon rant and were modded insightful. Bravo.
I just got my first job... and it's at sam's club which also happens to be the highest paying part time job in the area. I dunno but i guess the tactics my boss may use against unions is the high pay ($8.50 per hour for complete newbies like me and a raise after 3 months and every six months thereafter for about 40 cents to 50 cents depending on performance).
Honestly i'm surprised to be defending microsoft again but...
Your surprised that content using the wm9 formats won't work on older versions of windows media? It's the same thing with the server... Sure it's crappy if you have an old system but more then likely if your machine can't handle wmp9 (10 mb without the extra junkett) then it probably can't handle others either.
I don't know what's up but you either didn't read your parent carefully or haven't been paying attention. When you specifically go to the add/remove WINDOWS COMPONENTS area you can definately remove the FILES not just shortcuts of wmp.
It's not difficult at all some people just forget about the existence of that section.
More importantly can it last 100 years with its existing power cells, take hits from just about any gun, resist damage from high temperature fire, and ride a motorcycle like a badass that sound Austrian?
Yes, 100 million would be 4x the sales as this much and would have a greater reason to be posted. I just thought that 25 million wasn't amazing news for the moment because it isn't surprising they reached this ammount as we knew they were doing awesome months ago with just macs.
I'd like to see this succeed as the next person but...
Apple is probably the largest seller of online music and 25 million doesn't sound like a lot compared to the billions that other formats like CD's make (sure they cost more to sell but the actual physical medium is worth a lot less then the $13+ amount they are sold for).
Note that I'm not discounting the ability of Apple to increase but this news story was not as amazing as the editorial seems to suggest. We all knew apple was doing well but so far $25 mil (25 million songs * 99cents) is not big in it self.
Although, some companies may have NOC's for no good reason... NOC's do have their places. I am a webhost (a small one) and our servers are in datacenters with thousands (in many cases tens of thousands) of other such machines. There are always at least one or two techs around in the wee hours of the night and a NOC is most certainly necessary to monitor all these machines and the network.
There is NO way a laptop can replace a NOC in such a case. You need a centralized area where everything is monitored. As for remote administration, it's always been pretty decent with Unix (and in our case it's linux mostly) but that just helps the NOC become more useful for us.
I remember using OS X from version 10.0-10.2.x (haven't gotten around to panther yet). I remember updating it using the update utility and there were some for security as well so this can't be the first and only one.
A lot of it was for individual applications BUT most windows flaws seem to related to programs like IE which are also application flaws.
Windows corrupting sounds like it might be a hardware issue if it's your files getting corrupted. Either a bad hard drive or ram/cpu/mobo issues. Don't worry apple was a good choice as you'll surely get quality hardware.
Running pc's ain't that hard, especially in a controlled setting like a lab.
Also it doesn't mean you can't use the ex pass either. You can keep it around and point it up if you ever need it.
What... looks like you can charge for support for a open source product yet still offer it for free? OMG, somebody tell Redhat (I'm extremely disappointed that the only linux they offer for free is considered bleeding edge, semi-stable, and subject to be unsupported by them software wise after three months).
LOL... I don't really mean to poke fun at you but... He mentioned twice that ping requests were BLOCKED on purpose by the router. Name resolution was an issue here but it wouldn't have allowed the developer to use ping.
It would have to be for public service as you only have access to boring University servers and nodes... NOT the internet as this is a separate network.