ehm, there is very little difference between taking a laptop with you in the cabin and putting it in you're luggage. The only between the cabin and the luggage is a very thin floor.
The problem is with it being on, no I don't know either why aircraft electronics are not shielded either. Of course how would the airline staff check that an laptop in a bag is on or off? Or off but the wifi network card on listining for a wake up call?
On the other hand this is nothing new. Phones have to be switched off and so far there have only been a couple of near accidents. So maybe we will be lucky. Of course there are still a number of unexplained accidents.
There is a little know obscure religious holiday called "christmas" or something. Many of hollywood's people are secret worshippers of this fanatical cult and they insist on celebrating it by making the release dates of the biggest movies coincide with it. Strange but true.
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I wish, but the simple fact is that you forget the vital ingredient in a setup like this. The consumer.
The consumer is a moron, a clutch, blind and deaf asshole. Ordering a Happy Meal or Double whopper may not be much of a chore to you and me but there are whole herds out there who really need 10 minutes to make such a vast order. Just take you're seat close to the till next time and prepare to be amazed.
So why does this prevent machines? How to deal with people sticking in their cards in the wrong slot, not knowing how to open the tray, getting confused with the buttons. Better plant a 16 year old behind a counter. Then at least the consumer will have someone he can relate to on his own level.
For whatever reason my managers keep trying to get me to be normal well adjusted human being. I am not and never shall be and sending me on motivational or management courses is a waste of time and money.
Tech courses are impossible to get and when they are offered they are so esoteric that you will never be able to use the skills in a later job yet they still want you to sign a contract that you pay it back if you leave before the end of time.
So far I have just refused training or avoided it and it worked fine so far. Just throw me some books and I will pick it up soon enough. I guess most geeks do.
The heliopause is not quite the end of the suns influence I think. There are is a comet like could that lays far beyond it that is barely held there by the suns gravity. If I remember correctly it is called oorts cloud and it will take voyager a bit more time to get there. 200 centuries or so.
What I find most amazing is that the voyager is still going on a computer system that you could buy, in proccessing power terms, in kids toys but that the stability has yet to be equaled. Would love to have a look at that source code.
Well ati has got only itself to blaim, and matrox has let a few balls drop with its new card since it cannot keep up with the ati and nvidia (although its linux support is great!). So if you want a powerfull GPU on linux, nvidia is the only choice for the gamer market.
As to the two others considering it a challenge, well for desktop matrox is the king and ati probably got other things to worry about then a fraction of a niche market.
Copy protection for DATA as opposed to AUDIO?
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Since some kind of key needs to be transmitted in order to decrypt the encrypted data I can't see how this would work with the standard audio players.
The only way this could work, unless I missed something, if a program knew that it had to get the decryption key from a certain place on the CD-rom.
What I am puzzled by, and the site does not explain, is what would prevent anyone from reading the key transmitten then creating a cracked program that gets the key from some other place. This doesn't seem to much different from using a dongle and we all know why they have disappeared. To bloody inconvenient. It reminds me of the old dos gaming days, when legitimate gamers had to type a word from a certain page every so often while people with illegal version just could keep playing.
This in fact seems sligtly worse since how would the CD be capable of reliable recording on how many "different" machines at the "same" time I have the program installed? MS might not like it but it is perfectly legal for me to install software on more then 1 machine so long as it is not on more then 1 at the same time.
Oh well no doubt this will go the way of all the other protection schemes. The legitimate users pay for protection wich hampers only our ease of use and nothing else.
Apart from it's constant freezes, security holes, lousy support of standards, no support for popup blocking, no cross-platform capability, no tabbed display and huge memory footprint yeah it is pretty good.
Depends, for static pages on a fast machine it don't really matter since the download time will be longer then the rendeing time. If on the other hand you have a dynamic page then redraw time gets very important. You wouldn't accept it in a regular app if you can see it redraw parts so why should you in you're browser?
As for not wanting popup adds they block them all now wich apperantly can be overkill (I hate popups period so I like it). At least they have it unlike IE and unlike Netscape(unless you look in the config file).
As for OS zealots, let them. We need zealots to keep on top of things while the rest of us go about our daily lives.
Ehm, well depends on what you call a case. You apperently don't agree with him that a domain registration is like any other product you can buy that does not involve the physical transfer of an item. Lets take a bank account or credit account for example. If someone through fraud draws money from my account the bank has to reimburse me for the money lost. In the article the example of stocks is made.
Verisign is accountable to moment you stop thinking of a domain name as some geeky gadget. Whole companies need to be sure that they can rely on having that name once they pay for it. If verisign can't handle that they should get out of the registar business. Just like any bank that can not meets its obligations and indeed any company that cannot must cease to trade.
Years ago I found out through an employment agency that I had brains (yeah who would have guessed). I could enroll into HBO (Tech school one rank below university) if only I passed the maths exam. I only ever did low tech school (One rank above highschool) so I needed some training.
Here comes the relevant bit. Experts from the employment agency looked at the options including self-studie, evening school, online studie and tutoring. Online studie was dismissed first for the simple reason that unless you already know the subject matter and are just tuning up or are simply brilliant you will need that teachers aid. Now the point of online is that the teacher is supposed to be there, when I looked it was still phone based. The experts just had never seen it work out. I took the experts advise and took a evening self-studie class where there was a professor who helped each in turn. I passed with flying colors.
You are looking to continue a course so perhaps you already know most of it and only need to prepare for the exam, then it may work for you.
There still is market for this provided you do it right. Just like their are still small specialist movie houses despite massive movie plexes and DVD/VHS. Just like their are still small specialist bookshops despite massive volume super bookstores.
The trick is to bind you're customers to you. A bar is a stupid place to go to to get drunk. You can get you're alcohol much cheaper at home, you can get it at home 24/7 and there is no problem with getting home afterwards. So why do bars still exist?
Well they are more fun, they will have a lot more different drinks then you have at home, potential to meet new people and so on.
A good lan center would allow you to play new games without first having to buy them. (Lawyer check!) It should make it a lot easier to simply go gaming and find other people ready, biggest headache of home lan parties is getting all the people on the same date.
One little tip that I have seen many cyber-cafe type setups make here. Keep the entry level low. Sure having regular game freak players may seem nice but if they create an atmosphere where newbies are turned off you will eventually run out of players as the freaks grow up.
Neat but a real case of "It worked for me(tm)" syndrome. Problem for me seemed to be that the combined heat of cpu, psu, gfx and hd just was to much, the local heatwave might have helped to. So I had a case of "It didn't work for me(tm)".
Kooleance (sorry it is late and am a bit to lazy to do spell checking) makes complete cases but also sells seperate parts including HD coolers, look like plates you fix on top.
Klax also does some that seem to fix to the sides making a HD the width of a cd-rom. http://www.xxlcases.nl/ has those. I can't past the link and the site is in dutch but in the left menu klik on "Waterkoeling" and then on "Koelblokken" and it's the fifth down. Can't tell if HD is any good but the block that is on top worked for me(tm).
Not to brag or anything but I could easily afford it and buying it from a highstreet shop is a lot easier then buying it from the internet even if that would have been an option for me. As for homemade well it has been years since I done something like this. I wanted parts that fit and I could yell at a person if they didn't.
If I could have paid 500 to a shop to do it all for me I would have.
The radiator can only be cooled (in regular setups) by room temperature air. So the water in it will not decrease below ambient. Water and air can be used to go below ambient by evaporation (like air blowing over wet skin) but this is unlikely to occur.
Condensation therefore does not cause any problems. Once you start cooling the water with say a fridge or use a peltier between the cooling block and the heat source then of course condensation becomes a very real problem but this is hardly needed for a quit PC.
I have now tested a basic setup for myself(see other comment) and hope soon to start building my own case with the aim of being completly silent. Yes even the bloody DVD-rom. Removing all fans however will not be needed. Just for them to be replaced by slow moving big ones. These don't have to make anymore noise then the hum of the electronics itself.
Apart from "From the tests you can see that you get basically the same cooling from a Volcano 9 heatsink, but the Volcano 9 is ten times louder than the Iceberg 1." indeed little diffence. Personally I like those quit spooky times in shooters not to be interrupted by the constant drone of fans. Others might think differently.
But I must agree that this review is nothing new. Now if the poster had given links to all the different kits both air and waterbased that would have been worth it.
I did that. Went from a PIII overclocked from 500something to 700+mhz to a "normal" AMD XP 2100. Where the P3 was extremly happy running at the high speed with some very silent fans the XP just wouldn't keep cool even with a much heavier cpu fan and case fans. I also had real stability problems with all 3D games. Temps measured in at 70 celcius.
This weekend I added a simple water cooling set.
A common fountain pump
1 cooling block
a reservoir
a radiator
1 12cm fan
Tubing
Chemicals for the water
Oh and if you use this as a shopping list(don't ask people in the shop or look at plenty of sites) add some spring to keep the tubing from folding up.
Anyway it came to about 300 euro's total.
First I put the radiator inside the case. This cooled the cpu nicely for a while but the water kept getting hotter and hotter. Soon I was back at 70 celcius. I then drilled two big holes and mounted the radiator outside. With a single 12cm softly blowing on it I now have my cpu at 40 degrees after 3 hours of RTCW. Previous five minutes was about max. I am not sure how water cooling could possible make 3D games not crash to the desktop but my problem is solved.
Next weekend I will add a cooler for my graphics card and chipset and maybe even for the HD, 3 more fans on the radiator should take care of the extra heat and I will have a silent stable cool machine.
So the answer is why don't I just spend money on a faster chip? The XP 2300 or so isn't available yet and that thing is bound to be even hotter. Yeah I spend the same on the cooling as on the chip itself(pardon me if I got prices slightly off, I make enough money not to really have to take notice) but now the chip finally operates as it should. Of course I could now overclock the 2100 to 2300 and up, but how many more frames do I really need? Basiclly with chips (x86) running hotter and hotter people who want to run their machines without installing a windtunnel to cool it will have to go the watery way.
The cost is a big one but not more then say a big HD for all you're movies and half of a top vid card. When you have already got the latest cpu, lots of ram, a big HD and the latest vid card a simple water cooling set rounds it of nicely.
To those considering buying the kit advertised, don't. You are messing around with equipment that pumps water around INSIDE you're computer. Buy the best you can find, one fried motherboard and you will have made the money back.
I am an anime fan wich means I frequent those with anime in the title. In all of them porn spam appears. The subject are so low that it is easy to spot them, filter them and avoid them but nonetheless I sometimes find images that are extreme live action, not even japanese. The worst by far was what had to be child porn. I am pretty sure, 100% in fact, that alt.binaries.anime.repost (could have spelled it wrong) does not contain the word sex.
If apple produces a product that works right out of the box then please explain OSX to me and why you have to pay for point fixes/upgrades? Even MS doesn't have the nerve to charge for service packs.
Perhaps you are not aware of this because you don't have to be on call but theaters and such places have long since had protocols for dealing with such events. You give homebase the number of the theater you will be at and the theater will send an usher to get you. This was needed long before mobile phones and works very well. (Almost nobody complains about a quite usher calling a doctor to the hospital)
Not that I don't agree with you're conclusion but the reasoning behind it is a bit wrong.
Opera is a closed source commercial browser (an excellent one but not in anyway opensource). With its contract to supply the browser for symbian (the phone os) it is a big boy. It is also avaible on almost any platform including of course windows so you could have started using it without ever having heard of linux.
So how exactly what did opensource have to do with this?
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Yeah but his house has to be rebooted every week and the furniture reinstalled every season and he must keep all the receipts or he will be evicted.
The problem is with it being on, no I don't know either why aircraft electronics are not shielded either. Of course how would the airline staff check that an laptop in a bag is on or off? Or off but the wifi network card on listining for a wake up call?
On the other hand this is nothing new. Phones have to be switched off and so far there have only been a couple of near accidents. So maybe we will be lucky. Of course there are still a number of unexplained accidents.
Of course in the real world we all know geeks rarely inspire terror except in girls at the thought they may ever have to touch one.
There is a little know obscure religious holiday called "christmas" or something. Many of hollywood's people are secret worshippers of this fanatical cult and they insist on celebrating it by making the release dates of the biggest movies coincide with it. Strange but true.
The consumer is a moron, a clutch, blind and deaf asshole. Ordering a Happy Meal or Double whopper may not be much of a chore to you and me but there are whole herds out there who really need 10 minutes to make such a vast order. Just take you're seat close to the till next time and prepare to be amazed.
So why does this prevent machines? How to deal with people sticking in their cards in the wrong slot, not knowing how to open the tray, getting confused with the buttons. Better plant a 16 year old behind a counter. Then at least the consumer will have someone he can relate to on his own level.
For whatever reason my managers keep trying to get me to be normal well adjusted human being. I am not and never shall be and sending me on motivational or management courses is a waste of time and money.
Tech courses are impossible to get and when they are offered they are so esoteric that you will never be able to use the skills in a later job yet they still want you to sign a contract that you pay it back if you leave before the end of time.
So far I have just refused training or avoided it and it worked fine so far. Just throw me some books and I will pick it up soon enough. I guess most geeks do.
What I find most amazing is that the voyager is still going on a computer system that you could buy, in proccessing power terms, in kids toys but that the stability has yet to be equaled. Would love to have a look at that source code.
As to the two others considering it a challenge, well for desktop matrox is the king and ati probably got other things to worry about then a fraction of a niche market.
The only way this could work, unless I missed something, if a program knew that it had to get the decryption key from a certain place on the CD-rom.
What I am puzzled by, and the site does not explain, is what would prevent anyone from reading the key transmitten then creating a cracked program that gets the key from some other place. This doesn't seem to much different from using a dongle and we all know why they have disappeared. To bloody inconvenient. It reminds me of the old dos gaming days, when legitimate gamers had to type a word from a certain page every so often while people with illegal version just could keep playing.
This in fact seems sligtly worse since how would the CD be capable of reliable recording on how many "different" machines at the "same" time I have the program installed? MS might not like it but it is perfectly legal for me to install software on more then 1 machine so long as it is not on more then 1 at the same time.
Oh well no doubt this will go the way of all the other protection schemes. The legitimate users pay for protection wich hampers only our ease of use and nothing else.
Apart from it's constant freezes, security holes, lousy support of standards, no support for popup blocking, no cross-platform capability, no tabbed display and huge memory footprint yeah it is pretty good.
As for not wanting popup adds they block them all now wich apperantly can be overkill (I hate popups period so I like it). At least they have it unlike IE and unlike Netscape(unless you look in the config file).
As for OS zealots, let them. We need zealots to keep on top of things while the rest of us go about our daily lives.
Verisign is accountable to moment you stop thinking of a domain name as some geeky gadget. Whole companies need to be sure that they can rely on having that name once they pay for it. If verisign can't handle that they should get out of the registar business. Just like any bank that can not meets its obligations and indeed any company that cannot must cease to trade.
Here comes the relevant bit. Experts from the employment agency looked at the options including self-studie, evening school, online studie and tutoring. Online studie was dismissed first for the simple reason that unless you already know the subject matter and are just tuning up or are simply brilliant you will need that teachers aid. Now the point of online is that the teacher is supposed to be there, when I looked it was still phone based. The experts just had never seen it work out. I took the experts advise and took a evening self-studie class where there was a professor who helped each in turn. I passed with flying colors.
You are looking to continue a course so perhaps you already know most of it and only need to prepare for the exam, then it may work for you.
About the same amount of time that 3,25 inch floppies have been available? Or indeed 5.5 inch ones.
The trick is to bind you're customers to you. A bar is a stupid place to go to to get drunk. You can get you're alcohol much cheaper at home, you can get it at home 24/7 and there is no problem with getting home afterwards. So why do bars still exist?
Well they are more fun, they will have a lot more different drinks then you have at home, potential to meet new people and so on.
A good lan center would allow you to play new games without first having to buy them. (Lawyer check!) It should make it a lot easier to simply go gaming and find other people ready, biggest headache of home lan parties is getting all the people on the same date.
One little tip that I have seen many cyber-cafe type setups make here. Keep the entry level low. Sure having regular game freak players may seem nice but if they create an atmosphere where newbies are turned off you will eventually run out of players as the freaks grow up.
Neat but a real case of "It worked for me(tm)" syndrome. Problem for me seemed to be that the combined heat of cpu, psu, gfx and hd just was to much, the local heatwave might have helped to. So I had a case of "It didn't work for me(tm)".
Klax also does some that seem to fix to the sides making a HD the width of a cd-rom. http://www.xxlcases.nl/ has those. I can't past the link and the site is in dutch but in the left menu klik on "Waterkoeling" and then on "Koelblokken" and it's the fifth down. Can't tell if HD is any good but the block that is on top worked for me(tm).
Not to brag or anything but I could easily afford it and buying it from a highstreet shop is a lot easier then buying it from the internet even if that would have been an option for me. As for homemade well it has been years since I done something like this. I wanted parts that fit and I could yell at a person if they didn't.
If I could have paid 500 to a shop to do it all for me I would have.
Condensation therefore does not cause any problems. Once you start cooling the water with say a fridge or use a peltier between the cooling block and the heat source then of course condensation becomes a very real problem but this is hardly needed for a quit PC.
I have now tested a basic setup for myself(see other comment) and hope soon to start building my own case with the aim of being completly silent. Yes even the bloody DVD-rom. Removing all fans however will not be needed. Just for them to be replaced by slow moving big ones. These don't have to make anymore noise then the hum of the electronics itself.
But I must agree that this review is nothing new. Now if the poster had given links to all the different kits both air and waterbased that would have been worth it.
This weekend I added a simple water cooling set.
- A common fountain pump
- 1 cooling block
- a reservoir
- a radiator
- 1 12cm fan
- Tubing
- Chemicals for the water
Oh and if you use this as a shopping list(don't ask people in the shop or look at plenty of sites) add some spring to keep the tubing from folding up. Anyway it came to about 300 euro's total.First I put the radiator inside the case. This cooled the cpu nicely for a while but the water kept getting hotter and hotter. Soon I was back at 70 celcius. I then drilled two big holes and mounted the radiator outside. With a single 12cm softly blowing on it I now have my cpu at 40 degrees after 3 hours of RTCW. Previous five minutes was about max. I am not sure how water cooling could possible make 3D games not crash to the desktop but my problem is solved.
Next weekend I will add a cooler for my graphics card and chipset and maybe even for the HD, 3 more fans on the radiator should take care of the extra heat and I will have a silent stable cool machine.
So the answer is why don't I just spend money on a faster chip? The XP 2300 or so isn't available yet and that thing is bound to be even hotter. Yeah I spend the same on the cooling as on the chip itself(pardon me if I got prices slightly off, I make enough money not to really have to take notice) but now the chip finally operates as it should. Of course I could now overclock the 2100 to 2300 and up, but how many more frames do I really need? Basiclly with chips (x86) running hotter and hotter people who want to run their machines without installing a windtunnel to cool it will have to go the watery way.
The cost is a big one but not more then say a big HD for all you're movies and half of a top vid card. When you have already got the latest cpu, lots of ram, a big HD and the latest vid card a simple water cooling set rounds it of nicely.
To those considering buying the kit advertised, don't. You are messing around with equipment that pumps water around INSIDE you're computer. Buy the best you can find, one fried motherboard and you will have made the money back.
I am an anime fan wich means I frequent those with anime in the title. In all of them porn spam appears. The subject are so low that it is easy to spot them, filter them and avoid them but nonetheless I sometimes find images that are extreme live action, not even japanese. The worst by far was what had to be child porn. I am pretty sure, 100% in fact, that alt.binaries.anime.repost (could have spelled it wrong) does not contain the word sex.
If apple produces a product that works right out of the box then please explain OSX to me and why you have to pay for point fixes/upgrades? Even MS doesn't have the nerve to charge for service packs.
Perhaps you are not aware of this because you don't have to be on call but theaters and such places have long since had protocols for dealing with such events. You give homebase the number of the theater you will be at and the theater will send an usher to get you. This was needed long before mobile phones and works very well. (Almost nobody complains about a quite usher calling a doctor to the hospital)
Opera is a closed source commercial browser (an excellent one but not in anyway opensource). With its contract to supply the browser for symbian (the phone os) it is a big boy. It is also avaible on almost any platform including of course windows so you could have started using it without ever having heard of linux.
So how exactly what did opensource have to do with this?