One of the tests that many techs seem to like for power supplies is weight. While it doesn't really indicate the quality as per will-it-fry-my-components basis, it does seem a somewhat good indicated as to whether a supply will dish out near the indicated wattage on a regular basis (as opposed to a once-on-a-blue-moon basis).
My newest power supply really dishes it out. I can't remember the brand name offhand, but I will repost with it when I get home. My previous power supply didn't come near to giving out its supposed "350 W", which gave me a lot of issues while running DVD-ROM and CDRW etc at the same time. When I swapped the supplies I noticed that the newest one was about 1.5 to 2 times heavier.
Again, this isn't to say that all heavy power supplies are good, but if your supply is feather-light, it may be an indicator that it's not so powerful as stated.
On the flip side, the millions of simultaneous transitions in synchronous logic begs for a better way, and that may well be asynchronous logic
The advantage outlined here seems to be independant functionality between different areas of the PC. It would be nice if the components could work independently and time themselves, but is there really a huge loss in sustained synchonous data transfer?
From what I've understood, in most aspects of computing, synchronous data communication is preferable. IE, network cards, sound-cards, printers, etc. Don't better models support bi-directional synchronous communication?
They want ratings on google, let's give it to 'em...
If we could blog a bunch of links into google containing "Lawsuit Crazy Morons" and link to search king's site...
This would be something like the "talentless hack" trick (mentioned some time ago on slashdot). In fact, we could do this for a number of sites... who wants to blog Microsoft up as "absolute evil?"
"Error: The system has reported that you have a small penis, do you have a small penis?"
The "No" button has a mouseover that switched it with the "Yes" button. The coder missing the tab button (you could tab to no), but only clicking "Yes" would exit the app anyways.
There was another funny one, not an error, that turned the user's desktop into a mosaic puzzle that had to solved before he/she could continue.
In other words, the stronger (of both mind and body) would prevail, while the weaker would not be able to survive, and thus would die before creating offspring and passing along similar inferior (a nasty word, but I cannot think of a better one) DNA.
One of the ways life has seemed to work lately is that the higher-end bits of society (higher paying job, better education, etc) are so damn busy that they have less time to breed. I wouldn't entirely discount the possibility that being able to afford a house full of electronic gismo's isn't subjecting them to all sorts of fun partial-sterility-causing radiation either.
Now, on the other hand, you can take somebody who is not quite as smart, maybe works his butt off 9-5 and then goes home. Then, instead of going to shopping, social clubs, blah blah blah, he either grabs a little TV or hops in bed and makes a few kids.
The other end to this is that those with Harvard educations and etc etc also often seem to see children as an obstacle to personal success in life (my question, what do you have to show for life at 70 with $2mil and nobody to inherit it?).
Anyhow, this is not a rant. The final point is this:
Almost all humans, despite deficiencies, have an ability to breed
The more intellectually capable often tend to breed less
The less capable tend to have more time to breed
Society often supports those whose who cannot so well fend for themselves
Children will often either inherit the DNA of their parents, or the social condition (less available nutrients=less smart) of the parents
Poor atmospheric conditions affect both ends of this spectrum
I know *somebody* will want to flame me on this. Disclaimer: I'm not rich in any way, nor do I believe that those with such opportunity should be allowed to have children any more than those of lesser. I'm not a scientist. These conclusions are only on a basis of independent reading and some researching and may not be entirely applicable to autism.
This may have been mention earlier, but I didn't see actual numbers. My question would be, how big does this have to be to be useful. I'm assuming that a larger cantilever with a material emitting more radioisotopes (try saying that five times fast) will produce more power.
I suppose it would also be assumed that many such configurations could be joined to produce a cumulative charge? But how big would it need to be, for example, to produce a charge equivilent to a small li-ion battery, or maybe even a standard house socket?
I've seen some fairly large UPS boxes (not the postal service, the power supply). A continuous long-lasting power supply of that size would probably embraced with open arms. Enough power to fuel a small electronics array would also do wonders for areas without power lines.
I think this might only apply to prestablished business relationships or a researched target audience?
It would be very hard to prove that promoting penile enlargment to somebody's 70-yr-old widowed granny or a 13-yr-old with a hotmail account would be considering a viable commercial activity.
It may be more intended as a spy-plane than as a fighter. A better guess might be a bomber. With today's weaponry, it doesn't take a bomb of huge size to make a large crater.
The name "bird of prey" indicates it to be a hunt-and-destroy type aircraft as well.
A last thought is, of course, that perhaps it has something really cool like a "frickin laser beam", or perhaps some photon torpedos?
Side note: How many people who make these things grew up having a lower sense of limits because of star-trek etc. If one day we have an actual cloaking device and warp drive, it will probably be made by trekkies or ex-trekkies.
America's most powerful weapon.
You are, of course, referring to the DaisyCutter?
No, it's the K10 b*tchslapper - killfrog.com
It's not such a bad thing. If he sold out the patents, lucky would still likely support the anti-corporate anti-MS community.
Which leaves us with what: A guy with brains, who likes the hacker community, and has a lot of money to donate...
If he gets the patents, even if he sells out we're not really losing anything. If the attempt wasn't made, MS would have pushed the Palladium software licensing button anyways.
Just in note to the previous, 1.5Gigs per second of data seems a lot for a TV-type signal. Can we actually see anything resembling this coming in to our TV.
Is this right? Did I see Gigabit per second? I assume that it's actually 1.5Mbps?
Regardless, am I the only one who gets scared when a company says "max" or "up to." How about a average/nominal rating, so that we can see what most users get on a normal day, as opposed to every-second-sunday-when-the-moon-is-full. On a lot of devices, max rating is crap, as it rarely indicates the transfer speed achieved in most cases.
The CD's make decent coasters. If you have some acrylic paint you can paint 'em and they actually look quite cool. Getting a whole crapload of these in a month is annoying though. However, on to use #2
My last AOL CD came with a rather nice thick plastic black case. This case is similar to the ones used with most DVD's. I wish they'd send me more CD's with these cases, as I tend to have a case shortage (buy my CD-R's in 50-packs) quite often. Take off the logo'ed AOL paper and these are great for putting discs in when I lend them to friends etc.
AOL disks. The most useful things that AOL used to send. While I rarely use disks anymore, I used to have a small stack of post-AOL formatted diskettes.
Can anyone tell me where I sign up for more free coasters/cases/disks, I'm running low again?
p.s. AOL CD-holders were also nice for storing disks that you don't want people to pick up, few people open an AOL CD-case.
Actually, most people hate MS for crashing, and don't mind the GUI. MS also tends to rip their ideas off from the best of others anyhow.
Users are probably quite accustomed to the Microsoft look and feel (without the bluescreen look-and-feel) would probably do quite well using a GUI of this variety.
Building a modular program with a GUI frontend would work nicely if done right, but it's good to keep in mind that this is what made some of the earlier windows suck. If the back-end is designed to accept the GUI it should work nicely however.
Not just for sending mail.
In this case, you could probably also use this for a telnet-type terminal. Depending on the cost (yes, what's the cost) of a typical setup, this could be convenient for sending telnet-type command strings to remote hardware,etc.
My new Mac has a super-XXX ultrafast processor. Does it run my software
Er, most of it. Those expensive custom apps won't run but I'm sure there's a Mac alternative. But enough about that, notice the fancy chrome design Can I play my games on it?
Ummm, no, probably not. But hey, check the battery life on thi... I think I'm just going to buy a cheaper windows box and play my games, thanks anyways
doh!
If we had a Mac which could run all that nice windows software, or a win machine that ran more like a Mac, yes, I would be happy.
For now, I'll be content with periodic crashes and weird errors. I can run my software and with a little tweaking 95% of it works fine.
Is there a definitive list of known class A/B addresses? It would be interesting to see who is hoarding numbers, and how long they've been held. Not that some people shouldn't have rights to those numbers.
I always thought that IP addresses were organized by some sort of area-cluster format. I guess not, though. It's too bad, it would be cool if you could determine most clients' area by their IP address, although this would also likely end up with people being more easily block by IP mask.
That really depends if you're doing a cost-per-performance comparison though. Mac is still often expensive.
A lot of windows people I know build gaming machines though, so I suppose if there were a comparison there (if Mac could run all my games) then the cost of expensive video accelerators, etc could be factored in. While I suppose Mac would factor in such costs as well, most of the Mac people I know didn't buy their systems to run Doom3 and the newest UT.
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One of the tests that many techs seem to like for power supplies is weight. While it doesn't really indicate the quality as per will-it-fry-my-components basis, it does seem a somewhat good indicated as to whether a supply will dish out near the indicated wattage on a regular basis (as opposed to a once-on-a-blue-moon basis).
My newest power supply really dishes it out. I can't remember the brand name offhand, but I will repost with it when I get home. My previous power supply didn't come near to giving out its supposed "350 W", which gave me a lot of issues while running DVD-ROM and CDRW etc at the same time. When I swapped the supplies I noticed that the newest one was about 1.5 to 2 times heavier.
Again, this isn't to say that all heavy power supplies are good, but if your supply is feather-light, it may be an indicator that it's not so powerful as stated.
On the flip side, the millions of simultaneous transitions in synchronous logic begs for a better way, and that may well be asynchronous logic
The advantage outlined here seems to be independant functionality between different areas of the PC. It would be nice if the components could work independently and time themselves, but is there really a huge loss in sustained synchonous data transfer?
From what I've understood, in most aspects of computing, synchronous data communication is preferable. IE, network cards, sound-cards, printers, etc. Don't better models support bi-directional synchronous communication?
Try looking up "Internet Search" on this site.
Hmmm, no link to google on page 1
How about page 2, um, nope
Oh the irony - phorm
They want ratings on google, let's give it to 'em...
If we could blog a bunch of links into google containing "Lawsuit Crazy Morons" and link to search king's site...
This would be something like the "talentless hack" trick (mentioned some time ago on slashdot). In fact, we could do this for a number of sites... who wants to blog Microsoft up as "absolute evil?"
Canadians are friendly, most countries like us, so we don't really need such protection as we don't piss people off on a regular basis.
Except for the US of course, but who's going to protect us from them, or their patent-systems either for that matter?
A few ones we had fun with in the lab...
"Error: The system has reported that you have a small penis, do you have a small penis?"
The "No" button has a mouseover that switched it with the "Yes" button. The coder missing the tab button (you could tab to no), but only clicking "Yes" would exit the app anyways.
There was another funny one, not an error, that turned the user's desktop into a mosaic puzzle that had to solved before he/she could continue.
One of the ways life has seemed to work lately is that the higher-end bits of society (higher paying job, better education, etc) are so damn busy that they have less time to breed. I wouldn't entirely discount the possibility that being able to afford a house full of electronic gismo's isn't subjecting them to all sorts of fun partial-sterility-causing radiation either.
Now, on the other hand, you can take somebody who is not quite as smart, maybe works his butt off 9-5 and then goes home. Then, instead of going to shopping, social clubs, blah blah blah, he either grabs a little TV or hops in bed and makes a few kids.
The other end to this is that those with Harvard educations and etc etc also often seem to see children as an obstacle to personal success in life (my question, what do you have to show for life at 70 with $2mil and nobody to inherit it?).
Anyhow, this is not a rant. The final point is this:
I know *somebody* will want to flame me on this. Disclaimer: I'm not rich in any way, nor do I believe that those with such opportunity should be allowed to have children any more than those of lesser. I'm not a scientist. These conclusions are only on a basis of independent reading and some researching and may not be entirely applicable to autism.
I got this on my google search...
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I'm not sure it's about nanotechnology, but I think it mentioned midgets, does that count?
One man's +1 Funny is anothers -1 Troll : phorm
This may have been mention earlier, but I didn't see actual numbers. My question would be, how big does this have to be to be useful. I'm assuming that a larger cantilever with a material emitting more radioisotopes (try saying that five times fast) will produce more power.
I suppose it would also be assumed that many such configurations could be joined to produce a cumulative charge? But how big would it need to be, for example, to produce a charge equivilent to a small li-ion battery, or maybe even a standard house socket?
I've seen some fairly large UPS boxes (not the postal service, the power supply). A continuous long-lasting power supply of that size would probably embraced with open arms. Enough power to fuel a small electronics array would also do wonders for areas without power lines.
Using somebody else's open relay could also constitute something along theft or abuse of property (trying to think of correct term here)?
In some cases, it one might be able to throw fraud into the list as well.
I think this might only apply to prestablished business relationships or a researched target audience?
It would be very hard to prove that promoting penile enlargment to somebody's 70-yr-old widowed granny or a 13-yr-old with a hotmail account would be considering a viable commercial activity.
Above: Self Explanatory?
Anti-spam cases with large amounts of spam and good $/spam could prove to be the mother-load for lawyers working on a percentage basis.
And polite enough not enough to swear outright except in abbreviation. Much appreciated, despite some others arguements, thanx
It may be more intended as a spy-plane than as a fighter. A better guess might be a bomber. With today's weaponry, it doesn't take a bomb of huge size to make a large crater.
The name "bird of prey" indicates it to be a hunt-and-destroy type aircraft as well.
A last thought is, of course, that perhaps it has something really cool like a "frickin laser beam", or perhaps some photon torpedos?
Side note: How many people who make these things grew up having a lower sense of limits because of star-trek etc. If one day we have an actual cloaking device and warp drive, it will probably be made by trekkies or ex-trekkies.
America's most powerful weapon.
You are, of course, referring to the DaisyCutter?
No, it's the K10 b*tchslapper - killfrog.com
It's not such a bad thing. If he sold out the patents, lucky would still likely support the anti-corporate anti-MS community.
Which leaves us with what: A guy with brains, who likes the hacker community, and has a lot of money to donate...
If he gets the patents, even if he sells out we're not really losing anything. If the attempt wasn't made, MS would have pushed the Palladium software licensing button anyways.
I've never seen the stainless steel case. Damn, now I really want to be on the list!
Any possibility you could post or email a picture?
The scary part is the amount of money they're throwing out there on fancy advertisement casings.
Just in note to the previous, 1.5Gigs per second of data seems a lot for a TV-type signal. Can we actually see anything resembling this coming in to our TV.
non-compressed HDTV-quality (1.5Gbps)
Is this right? Did I see Gigabit per second? I assume that it's actually 1.5Mbps?
Regardless, am I the only one who gets scared when a company says "max" or "up to." How about a average/nominal rating, so that we can see what most users get on a normal day, as opposed to every-second-sunday-when-the-moon-is-full. On a lot of devices, max rating is crap, as it rarely indicates the transfer speed achieved in most cases.
Every so often for no reason, the beer would turn blue and go flat...
mmm... blue beer - phorm
The CD's make decent coasters. If you have some acrylic paint you can paint 'em and they actually look quite cool. Getting a whole crapload of these in a month is annoying though. However, on to use #2
My last AOL CD came with a rather nice thick plastic black case. This case is similar to the ones used with most DVD's. I wish they'd send me more CD's with these cases, as I tend to have a case shortage (buy my CD-R's in 50-packs) quite often. Take off the logo'ed AOL paper and these are great for putting discs in when I lend them to friends etc.
AOL disks. The most useful things that AOL used to send. While I rarely use disks anymore, I used to have a small stack of post-AOL formatted diskettes.
Can anyone tell me where I sign up for more free coasters/cases/disks, I'm running low again?
p.s. AOL CD-holders were also nice for storing disks that you don't want people to pick up, few people open an AOL CD-case.
Actually, most people hate MS for crashing, and don't mind the GUI. MS also tends to rip their ideas off from the best of others anyhow.
Users are probably quite accustomed to the Microsoft look and feel (without the bluescreen look-and-feel) would probably do quite well using a GUI of this variety.
Building a modular program with a GUI frontend would work nicely if done right, but it's good to keep in mind that this is what made some of the earlier windows suck. If the back-end is designed to accept the GUI it should work nicely however.
Not just for sending mail. In this case, you could probably also use this for a telnet-type terminal. Depending on the cost (yes, what's the cost) of a typical setup, this could be convenient for sending telnet-type command strings to remote hardware,etc.
Indeed, it's the old arguement.
My new Mac has a super-XXX ultrafast processor.
Does it run my software
Er, most of it. Those expensive custom apps won't run but I'm sure there's a Mac alternative. But enough about that, notice the fancy chrome design
Can I play my games on it?
Ummm, no, probably not. But hey, check the battery life on thi...
I think I'm just going to buy a cheaper windows box and play my games, thanks anyways
doh!
If we had a Mac which could run all that nice windows software, or a win machine that ran more like a Mac, yes, I would be happy.
For now, I'll be content with periodic crashes and weird errors. I can run my software and with a little tweaking 95% of it works fine.
and my mouse has 3 buttons, I like that - phorm
Is there a definitive list of known class A/B addresses? It would be interesting to see who is hoarding numbers, and how long they've been held. Not that some people shouldn't have rights to those numbers.
I always thought that IP addresses were organized by some sort of area-cluster format. I guess not, though. It's too bad, it would be cool if you could determine most clients' area by their IP address, although this would also likely end up with people being more easily block by IP mask.
That really depends if you're doing a cost-per-performance comparison though. Mac is still often expensive.
A lot of windows people I know build gaming machines though, so I suppose if there were a comparison there (if Mac could run all my games) then the cost of expensive video accelerators, etc could be factored in. While I suppose Mac would factor in such costs as well, most of the Mac people I know didn't buy their systems to run Doom3 and the newest UT.