Right... have you tried to buy PC100 memory? freaking expensive... US$70 for 256MB pc100 vs US$70 for 1GB pc3200
I am stuck with a Piii 450 because I want to upgrade the memory but its pc100:(. Its probably faster to upgrade to a socket A... oh but wait... I really liked the Duron 1.8 for a cheap system. however all socket A is gone..gone...gone and we are left with expensive low end procesors. A year ago I was able to build systems with the Duron 1.8+mobo+512MB for about 110 US$. now the cheapest processors available start at around 80US$ + mobo 50US$ + memory 40US$ = US$170! for the lowest end possible. I tought computers should get cheaper with time!.
I just got me some PIII 450 MHZ 128 MB for US$60 with tv capture cards and they all had 98se. The speed was vary decent and I also noticed the same where a lot of software will run on it.
Why do you belive that the fridge does not use any or very little electricity?
The AC units are designed to cool air and are very efficient at that. fridges are design for something else and you will end up using more electricity. The cooling unit of fridge will be running all the time if you run pipes inside of it. In addition, the fridge is design to cool things slowly and very good insulation to keep them cool. The water will be cooling very slow.
Also, the fridge is a heat pump that pumps heat from inside the fridge into the back radiator so actually your room is getting hotter while inside the fridge is getting colder (the AC has to pump out that heat outside your house. When you turn on your oven, the AC has to pump all the heat generated by the oven!!!).
Try leaving the door of the fridge open for a week and check your electricity bill.
You seriously need to review your thermodynamics and specially the second law. (and i need to review my spelling lool)
Why do you belive that the fridge does not use any electricity?
The AC units are designed to cool air and are very efficient at that. fridges are design for something else and you will end up using more electricity.
The problem with the swamp cooler is that it will dramatically increase the humidity. (no free lunch)
You could have a system where:
1. isolated reservoir of water
2. pump the water outside of the house into a swamp radiator with a fan (like a radiator with wet rags on top blown by the fan maybe?
3. water goes inside the house to the second radiator with another fan
4. water returns to reservoir
You could even remove the pump and just use density differences due to temp
It might be cheap to construct but not to run:
- You will need a huge amount of ice that takes a lot of energy if you want to make it in your refrigerator.
- You will need a huge amount of water to run the system if using tab water $$$.
- More electricity to run the fan.
If you are close to a lake or the ocean you might have an alternative but it will need a lot of piping and a pump (which usually runs on electricity).
My dad worked on a mine where they did not have electricity for refrigeration and the place was really hot (in the 40C or 105+F for the "different ones"). You would not have any cold drinks for lunch or dinner, so they would put water in bottles in a shadowed area and then cover them with wet rags. The water would evaporate from the rags taking some heat with it and cool it. It was great for drinking and taking cold showers.
You could have a system with no ice and a fan blowing on some wet rags or something. The only problem is that you would dramatically increase the humidity of the place (read as there is no free lunch... or is it beer?)
and then I got my girlfriend all "why do you like pr0n? why are those pictures in the cache? do you like blondes? what is that suicidegirls website? blah blah..." Man that was a pain. I setup firefox to delete the history every day just in case because the "what is the reason why you never have history links???" is better than the other interrogation...
Yeah, maybe i am doing something wrong... Like last time, my hard drive went into flames (literally). Later my power supply started smoking(literally again). It turned out the power supply was bad from the beginning and it damaged the hard drive. After a new hard drive, the power supply finally went puff.
Ohh. and before that, i had an nvidia 440 and upgrade to a pro 9800 pro (see the pattern? 9800 pro requires a looot of power) so i had to upgrade the drivers in linux from nvidia to ati and for that i pretty much had to reinstall linux. Then the 9800 went puff. While I was getting the RMA i used the nvidia for a while. I tried to do a quick change to the drivers in linux and i figured that it would be a huge deal so i did not bother and use the generic in the mean time. Switching drivers in windows xp was a breaze compared to linux.
Now everything is up and running but i ended up with this funky taste in my mouth from reinstalling linux to the point that i wanted.
I decided to keep a log of applications that i install into windows xp (and also linux).
Then when i run into some crap where i have to reinstall (often...). I just go trough the list of programs that i need to install to be where I was before the failure. It takes a couple of days tough.
My linux list is a little more complicated. Because its not only install the new application but then check that all the drivers are working, configure it, fix the broken parts, maybe reconfigure and recomplie the kernel. And then if your system crashes and you have to reinstall, the packages might have changed and the list is useless. Somebody would say that is a rapid development enviroment but why do i need to read the 123,322 man pages every time that i need to reinstall? I am to the point that i just want the applications to work so i am runnning more windows than linux than i used to. I really would like to run more linux but expending the whole weekend just to make the computer to be able to run opengl or correct sound does not strike me as fun any more.
I am locked at the office with Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) and a 2.4.20-20.7smp kernel with a very old kde and old gnome.
I am a simple user but i managed to install applications by compiling them and creating my own/usr and/local in my home directory. I have not been able to get gtk+ 2.6.7 to work and i am stuck with gtk+ 1.2 so no fancy kde or gnome for me:(. I ended up installig enlightenment with a new version of freetype and that works ok for now.
Dependency is really hell installing applications like that.
The administrators have not bother me so far.
Open source movement has been called comunist, so I guess those free wireless poping up everywhere might be soon called comunists too...
Hmm soon I guess service companies would want to charge for the air we breathe. they would say something like, if you want fresh air and want those plants next to your house closed, you should pay us monthly this fee:.... Now that I think about it: IT COULD HAPPEN!!!
Fixing some bugs in OO would mean that the software would evolve into a better application. Sorry Kansas, I guess you just outlaw this fine alternative to MSOffice.
I think that a God that come up with a set of laws of physics instead of constantly tweek the universe would kick ass sooooo much better...
Just think about it, design everything from the beginning, gravity, quantum physics, electromag, etc. and then let everything run for some trillion years allowing everything to evolve... That would be an elegant solution with no bugs to fix or anything.
The funny part is going to happen in a couple of million years in the future where humans would evolve into something different from what they are today. Then lets see what Kansas has to say.
The not so funny part is that humans are not challenged by the natural enviroment anymore so there is no more forward evolution. We will probably turn weaker, more likely to get sick (due to advances in medicine; it sounds contradicting but when medicine fixes the human body, then there is no pressure for it to evolve. And then the 'fixed' people can go out and have more kids with the same desease) and more dumb. There is no natural pressure in humans to become more inteligent.
After I made the post, I remmembered how when I delete the file or rename it, all the links are broken. It would be cool to get it to automatically update all the links. Maybe there is something out there that does that...
Slashdot Mirror
>neither of which are anywhere near expensive.
:(. Its probably faster to upgrade to a socket A... oh but wait... I really liked the Duron 1.8 for a cheap system. however all socket A is gone..gone...gone and we are left with expensive low end procesors. A year ago I was able to build systems with the Duron 1.8+mobo+512MB for about 110 US$. now the cheapest processors available start at around 80US$ + mobo 50US$ + memory 40US$ = US$170! for the lowest end possible. I tought computers should get cheaper with time!.
Right... have you tried to buy PC100 memory? freaking expensive...
US$70 for 256MB pc100
vs
US$70 for 1GB pc3200
I am stuck with a Piii 450 because I want to upgrade the memory but its pc100
All this makes me wonder how much wanking is going on inside ISS...
What kind of hardware are you using?
I just got me some PIII 450 MHZ 128 MB for US$60 with tv capture cards and they all had 98se. The speed was vary decent and I also noticed the same where a lot of software will run on it.
Now you have the slashdot crowd registering in the gay-torrent website...
In the news july 4: Dramatic increase of worldwide gay comunity read more...
Damn... My whole city is covered with clouds... How come we have better coverage of satellite pictures from mars than earth???
I live in Houston... 100F + 100% humidity in the summer... :$
Why do you belive that the fridge does not use any or very little electricity?
The AC units are designed to cool air and are very efficient at that. fridges are design for something else and you will end up using more electricity. The cooling unit of fridge will be running all the time if you run pipes inside of it. In addition, the fridge is design to cool things slowly and very good insulation to keep them cool. The water will be cooling very slow.
Also, the fridge is a heat pump that pumps heat from inside the fridge into the back radiator so actually your room is getting hotter while inside the fridge is getting colder (the AC has to pump out that heat outside your house. When you turn on your oven, the AC has to pump all the heat generated by the oven!!!).
Try leaving the door of the fridge open for a week and check your electricity bill.
You seriously need to review your thermodynamics and specially the second law. (and i need to review my spelling lool)
Why do you belive that the fridge does not use any electricity?
The AC units are designed to cool air and are very efficient at that. fridges are design for something else and you will end up using more electricity.
The problem with the swamp cooler is that it will dramatically increase the humidity. (no free lunch)
You could have a system where:
1. isolated reservoir of water
2. pump the water outside of the house into a swamp radiator with a fan (like a radiator with wet rags on top blown by the fan maybe?
3. water goes inside the house to the second radiator with another fan
4. water returns to reservoir
You could even remove the pump and just use density differences due to temp
It might be cheap to construct but not to run:
- You will need a huge amount of ice that takes a lot of energy if you want to make it in your refrigerator.
- You will need a huge amount of water to run the system if using tab water $$$. - More electricity to run the fan.
If you are close to a lake or the ocean you might have an alternative but it will need a lot of piping and a pump (which usually runs on electricity).
My dad worked on a mine where they did not have electricity for refrigeration and the place was really hot (in the 40C or 105+F for the "different ones"). You would not have any cold drinks for lunch or dinner, so they would put water in bottles in a shadowed area and then cover them with wet rags. The water would evaporate from the rags taking some heat with it and cool it. It was great for drinking and taking cold showers.
You could have a system with no ice and a fan blowing on some wet rags or something. The only problem is that you would dramatically increase the humidity of the place (read as there is no free lunch... or is it beer?)
Man that wsas fast.... any mirrors?
What about websites like:
6 15221&tid=153&tid=10 and ,
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/27/19 32201&tid=153&tid=10 links in the article are not office safe ).
...
boingboing.net
and
slashdot.org
that links to suicidegirls.com? And also some other interesting websites that link to pr0n or look for s3x in your area?
I went once into the suicidegirls site (because of the nintendo thing posted in slashdot http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/29/0
and then I got my girlfriend all "why do you like pr0n? why are those pictures in the cache? do you like blondes? what is that suicidegirls website? blah blah..." Man that was a pain. I setup firefox to delete the history every day just in case because the "what is the reason why you never have history links???" is better than the other interrogation
Should slashdot be in the banned list???? LOOOL
Yeah, maybe i am doing something wrong... Like last time, my hard drive went into flames (literally). Later my power supply started smoking(literally again). It turned out the power supply was bad from the beginning and it damaged the hard drive. After a new hard drive, the power supply finally went puff.
Ohh. and before that, i had an nvidia 440 and upgrade to a pro 9800 pro (see the pattern? 9800 pro requires a looot of power) so i had to upgrade the drivers in linux from nvidia to ati and for that i pretty much had to reinstall linux. Then the 9800 went puff. While I was getting the RMA i used the nvidia for a while. I tried to do a quick change to the drivers in linux and i figured that it would be a huge deal so i did not bother and use the generic in the mean time. Switching drivers in windows xp was a breaze compared to linux.
Now everything is up and running but i ended up with this funky taste in my mouth from reinstalling linux to the point that i wanted.
I decided to keep a log of applications that i install into windows xp (and also linux). Then when i run into some crap where i have to reinstall (often...). I just go trough the list of programs that i need to install to be where I was before the failure. It takes a couple of days tough. My linux list is a little more complicated. Because its not only install the new application but then check that all the drivers are working, configure it, fix the broken parts, maybe reconfigure and recomplie the kernel. And then if your system crashes and you have to reinstall, the packages might have changed and the list is useless. Somebody would say that is a rapid development enviroment but why do i need to read the 123,322 man pages every time that i need to reinstall? I am to the point that i just want the applications to work so i am runnning more windows than linux than i used to. I really would like to run more linux but expending the whole weekend just to make the computer to be able to run opengl or correct sound does not strike me as fun any more.
I am locked at the office with Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) and a 2.4.20-20.7smp kernel with a very old kde and old gnome. I am a simple user but i managed to install applications by compiling them and creating my own /usr and /local in my home directory. I have not been able to get gtk+ 2.6.7 to work and i am stuck with gtk+ 1.2 so no fancy kde or gnome for me :(. I ended up installig enlightenment with a new version of freetype and that works ok for now.
Dependency is really hell installing applications like that.
The administrators have not bother me so far.
What about Slashdot addiction? For me is even worse than e-mail...
Open source movement has been called comunist, so I guess those free wireless poping up everywhere might be soon called comunists too...
.... Now that I think about it: IT COULD HAPPEN!!!
Hmm soon I guess service companies would want to charge for the air we breathe. they would say something like, if you want fresh air and want those plants next to your house closed, you should pay us monthly this fee:
So I guess I cannot use my RC car while I am typing anymore?
r eqUS.htm
These RC cars use one of the following channels:
1 - 26.995 MHZ - Brown
2 - 27.045 MHZ - Red
3 - 27.095 MHZ - Orange
4 - 27.145 MHZ - Yellow
5 - 27.195 MHZ - Green
6 - 27.255 MHZ - Blue
Source: http://rcvehicles.about.com/cs/frequencies/p/airf
There are also some el cheapo electric RC airplanes using this 27 MHZ channels.
Ok RC car, turn left (asdkljfhl;asdkfa) ups... where did that garbage on my computer come from?
Hmmm.. Could you control the RC car with the keyboard???? This might turn interesting
You are assuming that the people that writes GPL code and defend it also illegaly downloads music and movies.
How can you support that?
You forgot to mention the "Left Behind" series....
Fixing some bugs in OO would mean that the software would evolve into a better application. Sorry Kansas, I guess you just outlaw this fine alternative to MSOffice.
I think that a God that come up with a set of laws of physics instead of constantly tweek the universe would kick ass sooooo much better...
Just think about it, design everything from the beginning, gravity, quantum physics, electromag, etc. and then let everything run for some trillion years allowing everything to evolve... That would be an elegant solution with no bugs to fix or anything.
The funny part is going to happen in a couple of million years in the future where humans would evolve into something different from what they are today. Then lets see what Kansas has to say.
The not so funny part is that humans are not challenged by the natural enviroment anymore so there is no more forward evolution. We will probably turn weaker, more likely to get sick (due to advances in medicine; it sounds contradicting but when medicine fixes the human body, then there is no pressure for it to evolve. And then the 'fixed' people can go out and have more kids with the same desease) and more dumb. There is no natural pressure in humans to become more inteligent.
Ok, lets start burning books and people to shut up that science nonsence...
We should start also to send people like Brian Greene and Stephen Hawking to jail for Witchcraft and Black Magic and maybe burn them later too.
All jokes aside, we should be really carefull not to fall into another "Dark Age". It took us almost 1000 years to get out of the last one...
Well,
After I made the post, I remmembered how when I delete the file or rename it, all the links are broken. It would be cool to get it to automatically update all the links. Maybe there is something out there that does that...
ability to have files in more than one folder simultaneously
Isn't that the same as?
ln -s
Is been in unix/linux for decades now...