This makes the assumption that it's the scale of the noise or EM that causes the problem. However, there are many things that in a single large dose are quickly shrugged off, whereas continual small doses can ramp up.
There are lots of other factors too, frequency, etc. Let's take sound for awhile. A loud boom (lightning or whatever) will certainly shake me up for a moment, but unless it's popped my eardrum I will recover. Sitting around something that is giving off a "static" sound (for example an off-channel TV or radio) drives me bloody nuts in a relatively short period of time.
This isn't to say that EM is killing somebody, or even necessarily having a physically damaging effect. But there definately could be psycological or other comulative effects associated with EM or "electric noise" (as in actual sound, whether subsonic or supersonic) effects of modern electronics. We're not talking about brain-baking cellphone radiation here, but rather something that induces nervous pressure.
Want to experiment... sit somebody down in a room with one of those nice little portable water fountains. They're rather pleasant and soothing. Sit that same person in the room with a dripping tap. Aggravation may ensue.... even though both are water-related they are not the same in cumulative effect.
True enough when the sound was in the audible range. Nobody likes static. But these sounds were not perceptible to the subjects, or at least not on a level where they could consciously pick it out. I don't doubt their ears were picking something up, but not enough that the brain itself would recognize it other than to suffer from headaches and other issues.
Hmm, well in the case of "monitor while," I've noticed many that only whine at a particular refresh rate or resolution. 640x480... no whine. 1024x768, there's a high-pitched squeal (or vise versa). Different refresh rates can have similar results
Where I used to work, one of the new monitors we got for the secretary's desk came with a whine. Most people in the office couldn't hear it, but she definately could. I was able to notice it as well in most cases (depending on background noise) and also noticed that it came and went depending on the monitor's position. This led me to experiment and I discovered that the power plug would move a bit depending on monitor orientation, and the monitor whine would go away if I jiggled it enough. Unfortunately it usually came back again, and it aggravated her enough that we sent the monitor in for a-fixing. Apparently a bad solder job on the ground will be enough to cause this problem as well, which makes sense as I've often heard whines in my car stereo etc from a back ground-loop feedback before I was able to isolate the problem.
There are existing cases to show that bombarding individuals with various frequencies of sound can have adverse effect. In some tests, using sound-waves beyond the human range of hearing still induced many dementia-like effects over time.
This would probably be the opposite of the effect many try to achieve by adding "soothing" environmental sounds (like water from those little water fountain things)... unpleasant noise, even noise that doesn't consciously register, may cause behavioral, mood, or personality alterations.
I know that I find myself rather irritated when I hear the whine of a monitor or TV (bad capacitors). Many people can't hear the sound at all without it being pointed out, but it is something that drives me crazy. In the case of devices that have been ready to go due to caps, I myself may not hear anything but at times I could swear I *felt* the damn thing going...
What I would wonder about is how this would work for heat. From a software perspective dual-core chips appear as multiple processors, as it seems to essentially be having multiple processing units in a single die (correct me if I'm a bit off here, searching for the simplest answer).
The issue I see with this is:
Multiple processors generate more heat, and consume more power. Would it not be the same for multiple cores, thus making such a machine a power-chugging space-heater? Are special cooling devices required when you start hitting so many cores?
My first thoughts were graphics applications, particularly 3d and rendering apps. This could be especially useful when it comes to things like raytracing for an animation, where you could dedicate parts of the work to different cores. Kinda like having a server farm all in one machine...
In the last job and some others I've worked, the ones with ponytails were generally the big-boys in admin. Really, one generally didn't notice it, as their attitudes were still professional. Sandals I'm not so keen on (who wears those, anyways), but a ponytail is hardly as damaging as the lack of professionalism some people have. Moreover, I've met quite a few geeks that had rather unpleasant hygiene (see: body odor), which is far worse than the ponytail and sandals.
As for myself, I'm hardly a shirt-and-tie person. I'm not sitting here with a kokanee shirt and shorts, but when your job often involves crawling under desks and in other various recesses where computer parts dwell, a white shirt and tie are hardly functional for the position at hand.
However, it doesn't quite work the same way. Light can be blocked by a solid object, but putting a wall between you and a gravity-generating object does not block gravity. Along the same lines, though, two gravity-generating bodies may in fact interfere with each other. Therefore, while it might not be possible to create something that blocks gravity, you could create something that creates a gravitational force in opposition to - say - the earth's gravity.
The trick would be in creating something that created such a gravitational force so that it was:
a) Done with a portable mass (i.e. a large moon/planet would create gravity, but such as large mass isn't easily creatable nor portable/useful)
b) Directional. The first use might be to create artificial gravity on, say, spacecraft. However, creating something that could be directed in opposition to celestial or planet-generated gravity would be something else.
c) In creation of such a device, stability would also be a somewhat unpredictable factor at first.
The website is *still* displaying the default CentOS page. I'm not going to link as it likely wouldn't survive a slashdotting, but one of the users of the forum mentioned this and I did confirm that it is still no showing the city's homepage.
I wonder if all this negative press will affect their stock price [yahoo.com] in trading today
Not as much as if Vista was released and immediately barfed and/or succumbed to massive virus infection out of the box...
If I were waiting on Vista I'd be annoyed that it wasn't out, but then if I was such as big MS Software user then XP would still likely be doing ok for me, although lacking improved 64-bit/dual-core support. If I got a bunch of Vista machines that immediately started crashing or were infected in the new few weeks, I'd be a lot more pissed than annoyed.
I'd say taking the time to fix things is not a bad plan, and 60% sounds like BS to me. As the article seems to focus a lot on multimedia components it could be that 60% of the multimedia core needs revamping.
after all, you wouldn't expect a Grand Theft Auto crack dealer to drop in for a barbecue with the Sims
When I pictured this in my head, it was one of the funniest damn concepts I'd seen in awhile. I wonder if somebody could make such a similar game, where various groups work happily at creating little people and families and others play as the carjackers and dealers. Imagine that you log on onto to find that your car has been jacked by local online-gaming hoodlums, or perhaps your wife abducted, and you could persue a form of quest in which you have to hunt them down a-la hollywood style. This could be fun for both those playing the 'criminals' and those playing the 'citizens'.
Perhaps one could through legitimate playing work up to the level of mayor or congressman, making you a target of the darker elements but also allowing you to hire bodyguards and/or accept bribes. Interesting ide.
I've been looking at the cost of upgrading to a 64-Bit Opteron in the 3000+ range with dual cores. Currently these suckers seem to be running around $500CAD. Through in the board and you're up around $600-$700CAD.
That's just for the CPU and board. RAM and other components might still also be required for the upgrade.
In the last while I've been spoiled with most of my upgrades costing
(and yes, I know I could go non-Opteron, but they're better in dealing with heat issues etc and I'm tired of my space-heater XP2500+ CPU)
18-23 sounds like an adult-ish age range to me. In Canada at 18/19 you're pretty much legal age for anything, 21 in most of the USA. At 21-22 I was done 2.5yr of college, at 23 I was making as much as or more than many of the older generation.
While region-encoding seems to be a valid-practice, aren't there laws in many places against preventing such shipping. It *is* a free market after all. And even so, there's always sites like ebay, etc for downloading out-of-region DVD's, games, etc.
I was in Australia (which generally uses PAL) a few years back and my friend there had a TV which handled both NTSC and PAL signals. They also had DVD players which would handle both, or at least they happily handled my NTSC DVD's I brought from Canada.
They would still bork at region-encoding though, so I had to rip and then reburn the DVD's without the region handles. Annoying!
Well the article title does say "learning words," so this would be more along the lines of learning to pronounce (in an understandable manner) a word and/or possibly associate that word with a particular object, action, etc.
Moreover, young children like to repeat the things they hear, so even at this young age you should probably put 'em in another room next time you have to devirus a $#@)($*! computer in your office:-)
Is that it can be hard in general to keep up with note-taking and listening. You'll be wasting an equal amount of time in paper, plus possibly missing stuff because it's taking you longer to record.
I had a tiny little 8" screen notebook-PC which was great for tapping away notes, and I managed to get my thoughts and the teachers thoughts into notes, without losing track of class.
Using paper, I'd often miss some things because my pencil was too busy catching up to my brain on the prior topic, somewhat of a buffer overflow/underflow issue, eh?
The intelligent answer is the person with the computer. As the content is not automatically transferred, the user therefore initiated the action which connected his state to the computer in the other state.
Really, it's simple if you look at the initiator:
Did the site owner dial into a site in the other state: no
Did the ISP direct the user's computer to connect to the site, or the hosting site to the user... through a deliberate automated process or by direction of somebody at the ISP: no
Did the end user (person at the computer) choose to access the site and the content therein: yes
I'm not much on the stock trade so I don't know much about this. What exactly would the violation be? Would it be any different if they had released the Vista news before X-Box?
It's somewhat of a fact of life that companies and even people do try to mix good news with bad, or am I missing something?
Which documentation, exactly, are you using? I've played with stuff from the wiki, but it's always seemed to me that it was starting partway through. For example, telling you to use various already-built functions which load a prebuilt mesh. However, as the failure seems to be in loading the mesh... it's not very helpful to use the provided functions.
I was actually trying previously with 2.6.15, which has missing links in regards to ATI_AGP (and thus causes crashes etc when the main ATI driver loads on top of the normal AGP driver).
Perhaps others have had some luck, but I haven't had any success with 2.6.16 either..
And you know for sure this is true? Moreover, you know that they haven't, in fact, petitioned the government? There's nothing that says just because you do one thing you to make an impact can't (or haven't) done another as well. Personally, I think it's a lot better than the usual sit-on-your-@ss-and-take-it method most people have, as it might help spread awareness.
On the other hand, I don't see the game lasting long as it probably infringes on varying aspects of monopoly...
I have a laptop with an ATI mobility (X600) chipset. I've consistently had issues compiling the ATI-provided drivers in various 2.6.x kernels, but I've heard from many that it should compile cleanly under 2.6.16. I'll try to update this post when I know more, as the kernel is currently compiling as I write, and the driver will soon (hopefully) follow.
OK, well first of all I'll have to comment that I don't really see what the big deal is. This isn't cops busting in and demanding information, it's a warranted search. If they wanted, they could likely also go through your bank records, Visa records, and a lot of other potentially more personal things.
And as for the "deleted" mail and/or any archives of it, there is no guarantee that any such archive exists. Personally, if I were running a big outfit like google I'd very likely have some sort of process to skim off any 'deleted' records... otherwise there is simply too much accumulation of crap. A lot of the users here love to delete things without emptying trash (I don't auto-empty because they also accidentally delete shit and come back a week later). They then complain when their trashbox is slow because it's got 25,000 items in it. Multiply that by a whole lotta users on gmail and it would be an insane amount of extra processing, storage to back up.
The other thing I wonder about is "filtered" mail. If a spam mail got routed off, it is still archived somewhere. If so, depending on the user in question the cops might have a whole lotta crap to sift through if they're looking for anything useful. The flip side to that, of course, is that a lot of spam can be explicit or imply and/or outright advertise illegal acts... possibly enough to make somebody look back if you were looking for any little bit of 'evidence' that put them into disrepute.
Different CPU's have different heat tolerences. While over 90c is extreme for CPU, and over 80c moreso for a motherboard, it's not impossible. I can't remember exactly where, but AMD has specs on their chips heat-tolerance on the website, which various by model and can be matched using the number on the CPU (or at least they used to have the specs on there).
Mine was rated I believe tolerant up to somewhere between 80c and 90c. Meeting or even exceeding such will not necessarily fry the chip immediately, but is certainly not recommended especially for any long duration. I have in fact, had some fan issues once where my machine reached 101c... essentially enough to boil water, and more than enough to trip off some thermal throttling/shutdown if they exist, but apparently not enough to frag the CPU and it is happily running to this day (with the fan turned up, some of those XP2500 CPU's get really hot for some reason).
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This makes the assumption that it's the scale of the noise or EM that causes the problem. However, there are many things that in a single large dose are quickly shrugged off, whereas continual small doses can ramp up.
There are lots of other factors too, frequency, etc. Let's take sound for awhile. A loud boom (lightning or whatever) will certainly shake me up for a moment, but unless it's popped my eardrum I will recover. Sitting around something that is giving off a "static" sound (for example an off-channel TV or radio) drives me bloody nuts in a relatively short period of time.
This isn't to say that EM is killing somebody, or even necessarily having a physically damaging effect. But there definately could be psycological or other comulative effects associated with EM or "electric noise" (as in actual sound, whether subsonic or supersonic) effects of modern electronics. We're not talking about brain-baking cellphone radiation here, but rather something that induces nervous pressure.
Want to experiment... sit somebody down in a room with one of those nice little portable water fountains. They're rather pleasant and soothing. Sit that same person in the room with a dripping tap. Aggravation may ensue.... even though both are water-related they are not the same in cumulative effect.
True enough when the sound was in the audible range. Nobody likes static. But these sounds were not perceptible to the subjects, or at least not on a level where they could consciously pick it out. I don't doubt their ears were picking something up, but not enough that the brain itself would recognize it other than to suffer from headaches and other issues.
Hmm, well in the case of "monitor while," I've noticed many that only whine at a particular refresh rate or resolution. 640x480... no whine. 1024x768, there's a high-pitched squeal (or vise versa). Different refresh rates can have similar results
Where I used to work, one of the new monitors we got for the secretary's desk came with a whine. Most people in the office couldn't hear it, but she definately could. I was able to notice it as well in most cases (depending on background noise) and also noticed that it came and went depending on the monitor's position. This led me to experiment and I discovered that the power plug would move a bit depending on monitor orientation, and the monitor whine would go away if I jiggled it enough. Unfortunately it usually came back again, and it aggravated her enough that we sent the monitor in for a-fixing. Apparently a bad solder job on the ground will be enough to cause this problem as well, which makes sense as I've often heard whines in my car stereo etc from a back ground-loop feedback before I was able to isolate the problem.
There are existing cases to show that bombarding individuals with various frequencies of sound can have adverse effect. In some tests, using sound-waves beyond the human range of hearing still induced many dementia-like effects over time.
This would probably be the opposite of the effect many try to achieve by adding "soothing" environmental sounds (like water from those little water fountain things)... unpleasant noise, even noise that doesn't consciously register, may cause behavioral, mood, or personality alterations.
I know that I find myself rather irritated when I hear the whine of a monitor or TV (bad capacitors). Many people can't hear the sound at all without it being pointed out, but it is something that drives me crazy. In the case of devices that have been ready to go due to caps, I myself may not hear anything but at times I could swear I *felt* the damn thing going...
What I would wonder about is how this would work for heat. From a software perspective dual-core chips appear as multiple processors, as it seems to essentially be having multiple processing units in a single die (correct me if I'm a bit off here, searching for the simplest answer).
The issue I see with this is:
Multiple processors generate more heat, and consume more power. Would it not be the same for multiple cores, thus making such a machine a power-chugging space-heater? Are special cooling devices required when you start hitting so many cores?
My first thoughts were graphics applications, particularly 3d and rendering apps. This could be especially useful when it comes to things like raytracing for an animation, where you could dedicate parts of the work to different cores. Kinda like having a server farm all in one machine...
In the last job and some others I've worked, the ones with ponytails were generally the big-boys in admin. Really, one generally didn't notice it, as their attitudes were still professional. Sandals I'm not so keen on (who wears those, anyways), but a ponytail is hardly as damaging as the lack of professionalism some people have. Moreover, I've met quite a few geeks that had rather unpleasant hygiene (see: body odor), which is far worse than the ponytail and sandals.
As for myself, I'm hardly a shirt-and-tie person. I'm not sitting here with a kokanee shirt and shorts, but when your job often involves crawling under desks and in other various recesses where computer parts dwell, a white shirt and tie are hardly functional for the position at hand.
However, it doesn't quite work the same way. Light can be blocked by a solid object, but putting a wall between you and a gravity-generating object does not block gravity. Along the same lines, though, two gravity-generating bodies may in fact interfere with each other. Therefore, while it might not be possible to create something that blocks gravity, you could create something that creates a gravitational force in opposition to - say - the earth's gravity.
The trick would be in creating something that created such a gravitational force so that it was:
a) Done with a portable mass (i.e. a large moon/planet would create gravity, but such as large mass isn't easily creatable nor portable/useful)
b) Directional. The first use might be to create artificial gravity on, say, spacecraft. However, creating something that could be directed in opposition to celestial or planet-generated gravity would be something else.
c) In creation of such a device, stability would also be a somewhat unpredictable factor at first.
The website is *still* displaying the default CentOS page. I'm not going to link as it likely wouldn't survive a slashdotting, but one of the users of the forum mentioned this and I did confirm that it is still no showing the city's homepage.
Rather amusing all-in-all.
I wonder if all this negative press will affect their stock price [yahoo.com] in trading today
Not as much as if Vista was released and immediately barfed and/or succumbed to massive virus infection out of the box...
If I were waiting on Vista I'd be annoyed that it wasn't out, but then if I was such as big MS Software user then XP would still likely be doing ok for me, although lacking improved 64-bit/dual-core support. If I got a bunch of Vista machines that immediately started crashing or were infected in the new few weeks, I'd be a lot more pissed than annoyed.
I'd say taking the time to fix things is not a bad plan, and 60% sounds like BS to me. As the article seems to focus a lot on multimedia components it could be that 60% of the multimedia core needs revamping.
after all, you wouldn't expect a Grand Theft Auto crack dealer to drop in for a barbecue with the Sims
When I pictured this in my head, it was one of the funniest damn concepts I'd seen in awhile. I wonder if somebody could make such a similar game, where various groups work happily at creating little people and families and others play as the carjackers and dealers. Imagine that you log on onto to find that your car has been jacked by local online-gaming hoodlums, or perhaps your wife abducted, and you could persue a form of quest in which you have to hunt them down a-la hollywood style. This could be fun for both those playing the 'criminals' and those playing the 'citizens'.
Perhaps one could through legitimate playing work up to the level of mayor or congressman, making you a target of the darker elements but also allowing you to hire bodyguards and/or accept bribes. Interesting ide.
I've been looking at the cost of upgrading to a 64-Bit Opteron in the 3000+ range with dual cores. Currently these suckers seem to be running around $500CAD. Through in the board and you're up around $600-$700CAD.
That's just for the CPU and board. RAM and other components might still also be required for the upgrade.
In the last while I've been spoiled with most of my upgrades costing
(and yes, I know I could go non-Opteron, but they're better in dealing with heat issues etc and I'm tired of my space-heater XP2500+ CPU)
18-23 sounds like an adult-ish age range to me. In Canada at 18/19 you're pretty much legal age for anything, 21 in most of the USA. At 21-22 I was done 2.5yr of college, at 23 I was making as much as or more than many of the older generation.
While region-encoding seems to be a valid-practice, aren't there laws in many places against preventing such shipping. It *is* a free market after all. And even so, there's always sites like ebay, etc for downloading out-of-region DVD's, games, etc.
I was in Australia (which generally uses PAL) a few years back and my friend there had a TV which handled both NTSC and PAL signals. They also had DVD players which would handle both, or at least they happily handled my NTSC DVD's I brought from Canada.
They would still bork at region-encoding though, so I had to rip and then reburn the DVD's without the region handles. Annoying!
Well the article title does say "learning words," so this would be more along the lines of learning to pronounce (in an understandable manner) a word and/or possibly associate that word with a particular object, action, etc.
:-)
Moreover, young children like to repeat the things they hear, so even at this young age you should probably put 'em in another room next time you have to devirus a $#@)($*! computer in your office
Is that it can be hard in general to keep up with note-taking and listening. You'll be wasting an equal amount of time in paper, plus possibly missing stuff because it's taking you longer to record.
I had a tiny little 8" screen notebook-PC which was great for tapping away notes, and I managed to get my thoughts and the teachers thoughts into notes, without losing track of class.
Using paper, I'd often miss some things because my pencil was too busy catching up to my brain on the prior topic, somewhat of a buffer overflow/underflow issue, eh?
The intelligent answer is the person with the computer. As the content is not automatically transferred, the user therefore initiated the action which connected his state to the computer in the other state.
Really, it's simple if you look at the initiator:
Did the site owner dial into a site in the other state: no
Did the ISP direct the user's computer to connect to the site, or the hosting site to the user... through a deliberate automated process or by direction of somebody at the ISP: no
Did the end user (person at the computer) choose to access the site and the content therein: yes
There's the answer folks.
I'm not much on the stock trade so I don't know much about this. What exactly would the violation be? Would it be any different if they had released the Vista news before X-Box?
It's somewhat of a fact of life that companies and even people do try to mix good news with bad, or am I missing something?
Which documentation, exactly, are you using? I've played with stuff from the wiki, but it's always seemed to me that it was starting partway through. For example, telling you to use various already-built functions which load a prebuilt mesh. However, as the failure seems to be in loading the mesh... it's not very helpful to use the provided functions.
I was actually trying previously with 2.6.15, which has missing links in regards to ATI_AGP (and thus causes crashes etc when the main ATI driver loads on top of the normal AGP driver).
Perhaps others have had some luck, but I haven't had any success with 2.6.16 either..
And you know for sure this is true? Moreover, you know that they haven't, in fact, petitioned the government? There's nothing that says just because you do one thing you to make an impact can't (or haven't) done another as well. Personally, I think it's a lot better than the usual sit-on-your-@ss-and-take-it method most people have, as it might help spread awareness.
On the other hand, I don't see the game lasting long as it probably infringes on varying aspects of monopoly...
I have a laptop with an ATI mobility (X600) chipset. I've consistently had issues compiling the ATI-provided drivers in various 2.6.x kernels, but I've heard from many that it should compile cleanly under 2.6.16. I'll try to update this post when I know more, as the kernel is currently compiling as I write, and the driver will soon (hopefully) follow.
OK, well first of all I'll have to comment that I don't really see what the big deal is. This isn't cops busting in and demanding information, it's a warranted search. If they wanted, they could likely also go through your bank records, Visa records, and a lot of other potentially more personal things.
And as for the "deleted" mail and/or any archives of it, there is no guarantee that any such archive exists. Personally, if I were running a big outfit like google I'd very likely have some sort of process to skim off any 'deleted' records... otherwise there is simply too much accumulation of crap. A lot of the users here love to delete things without emptying trash (I don't auto-empty because they also accidentally delete shit and come back a week later). They then complain when their trashbox is slow because it's got 25,000 items in it. Multiply that by a whole lotta users on gmail and it would be an insane amount of extra processing, storage to back up.
The other thing I wonder about is "filtered" mail. If a spam mail got routed off, it is still archived somewhere. If so, depending on the user in question the cops might have a whole lotta crap to sift through if they're looking for anything useful. The flip side to that, of course, is that a lot of spam can be explicit or imply and/or outright advertise illegal acts... possibly enough to make somebody look back if you were looking for any little bit of 'evidence' that put them into disrepute.
Different CPU's have different heat tolerences. While over 90c is extreme for CPU, and over 80c moreso for a motherboard, it's not impossible. I can't remember exactly where, but AMD has specs on their chips heat-tolerance on the website, which various by model and can be matched using the number on the CPU (or at least they used to have the specs on there).
Mine was rated I believe tolerant up to somewhere between 80c and 90c. Meeting or even exceeding such will not necessarily fry the chip immediately, but is certainly not recommended especially for any long duration. I have in fact, had some fan issues once where my machine reached 101c... essentially enough to boil water, and more than enough to trip off some thermal throttling/shutdown if they exist, but apparently not enough to frag the CPU and it is happily running to this day (with the fan turned up, some of those XP2500 CPU's get really hot for some reason).