I work on my cars. I have a '59 Volkswagen Beetle, a '74 Porsche 914, An '85 Audi Quattro, and a '96 Porsche 911.
Everyone knows that German cars are recognised around the world for their engineering excellence and technical superiority. Slashdot geeks, who tend to be highly technical people, would appreciate this. In case you aren't familar with them, the "Big 5" German car brands are Audi, Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes, and Porsche.
On a side note, I just realized that windows media 9 kicks ass. If you go to amazon to listen to a song off a cd, listen to it in windows media, then real player. There's no comparison.
If you listen to the two side by side then that would be a comparison. If there isn't a comparison then I don't understand what you're trying to do.
I see a problem with this. His CPU block is the highest up componenent in the system, thus that is where air will want to get trapped. And you don't want air to be trapped in your block - it will not work as well. He needs to come up with some sort of air trap system above the cpu block.
And as other posters have commented, corrosion can be a problem in these systems. Particularly when you are using different metals e.g. copper cpu block and brass fittings, and aluminum radiator. (I know that's not what this guy is using!). My solution to this problem has been to mix 2 parts water with 1 part VW/Audi G12 engine coolant. G12 is the currently sold vw/audi coolant and it is pink in color. I have watercooling rigs running for over a year that I've dissassembeled and found not even a tiny bit of corrosion! And that's with dissimilar metal components!
Check out the "Vision" service from Sprint. It's an extra $10 a month for unlimited usage. There is a USB data cable which lets your sprint phone (I have a Sanyo 4900) work as a USB modem - and yes, it works with Linux. The Sprint Vision service gives you a digital connection at about 56k.
They don't advertise it any more and they don't sell the cable any more. Check ebay for the cable and make sure you have a compatible phone.
I'm not big fan of baseball (Soccer and lacrosse baby!) but I think adding robot umps would be a bad idea. This is a human game, with human factors and human margins of error. To introduce some type of a robot, even for umpire functions, would take away from that.
Why don't we add robot base coaches and robot pitchers while we're at it? Aw heck, and robot batters and fielders too. Let's just make it one big battlebot arena with leather gloves and four bases.
Basically what the Nmap people are showing me is that if I implement an OSS product in my company, I have to worry about the developers dropping support for the platform I'm running it on if they have a personal grudge against the company that makes it. I'll be sure to take that into account next time I'm evaluating software.
Suppose a closed-source application company has a "Business Alliance" with a platform vendor; i.e. they get money upfront from the platform vendor to develop applications for that platform. If the vendor gets upset with the application company and the business alliance ends, they may not write for that platform anymore. This is no surprise.
This is true, but you are missing the whole point of OSS! Even if the developers of these OSS projects drop support for SCO, the apps themselves are still open source! I.e. Someone else can pick up the slack and maintain a SCO port - you can't do that with closed source software!!
As an example - Microsoft dropped support for Windows OS on the Alpha long ago. Sucks to be you if you're running Windows NT on Alpha. RedHat also dropped support for Alpha long ago. Doesn't suck to be me because I can download Mozilla 1.4b2, gnome 2.x, and any of the latest and greatest from the OSS world and build it myself! I.e. I can pick up the slack and still have a modern, up to date system! You can't do that with closed source.
USB 2.0 "Hi-Speed" ports will be painted bright yellow, come with custom rims, and include VTEC stickers. They may not quite put out 480Mbps, but they sure will look like they do.
Don't forget the silly keg-sized muffler - to handle all that "hi-speed" data!;-)
Why they would actually want to sell more 1.1's is beyond me though.
Probably so that "demand" catches up to supply. There's probably a taiwanese warehouse with a mountain of USB 1.1 chips that they are trying to get rid of.
Sony equipment is over-priced junk. You're buying a name and nothing else. I recommend that people buy any other Japanese knock-off brand. You'll be happier and have more dollars left in your pocket.
I've always bought Sony. The few times I bought other lesser brands, I've been disappointed with the lack of quality, and missed the top-notch fit and finish I've come to expect from Sony.
Don't get me wrong, just because it says "Sony" doesn't mean it is the best thing in the world - but it certainly means that it isn't junk. I personlly prefer Blaupunkt for their superior car audio products.
Intel has renamed their 2.8 Ghz Pentium IV chip the 5 Ghz "Full Speed" Pentium IV chip*.
* "5 Ghz" does not correspond to "actual" operating frequency. Your milage may vary. Contact your reseller for details. Void where prohibited. All rights reserved. Pat. Pending.
ok so you don't buy it and then you don't watch the movies either... Sorry but once all DVDs are re-released under DRM no classics will be able to be used.
Excuse me but I would prefer not to live in a world without entertainment.
You assume the glass is "half empty", and that it is too late to effect change.
My glass is "half full" and I'm saying that now is the time to voice your opinion to the record/movie companies who choose to use DRM.
I suppose that if you were IBM, you would just settle with SCO and pay them the $3 Billion because you would prefer not to live in a world without UNIX?
When you give up before the fight has even begun, you've already lost.
I personally despise the recent trend towards DRM protected media. How the hell am I supposed to make a backup of my CD or DVD? We all know that they designed the damn things to be so scratched up, that within a year they become unusuable;-)
Seriously tho, I vote with my dollars and urge you to do the same. The solution is simple - Don't buy it!. I refuse the purchase a CD or DVD that I am not able to make a backup copy of.
I know that Linux had SMP on certain limited motherboards VERY early on and as early as v0.27, 05 may 1998,
Um... Linux had SMP support way before May '98. I was in College in 1997 and my desktop computer was running SMP Linux on a Dual P133 at the time. Don't remember the mobo maker tho... maybe tyan?
With the stock explorer emissions, you'd run out of gas before you could give yourself carbon monoxide poisioning in the garage.
This is an absurd statement. First of all, SUV's are considered "light trucks" and don't have to pass nearly the same emissions standards as a car - which means your Ford Explorer produces significantly more exhaust emissions than any 4 door sedan out there.
Secondly, I live in Washington DC. The smog here has been so bad in the past 5 years, that they say that Los Angeles-like emissions laws may have to be passed soon. They attribute this recent increase to the recent SUV fad - Since SUV's produce significantly more tailpipe emissions than cars do.
So go ahead pal, close the garage door, fire up the Explorer, and take a nap. Be my guest.
This is a completely asinine comment. The Ford Model T did far more damage to the environment than 100 explorers. There were NO emissions controls on that engine, which means your hydrocarbons and NOx and all those nasties were off the chart. Cars of today are hundreds of times cleaner than cars back then. If everyone drove that model T today, you think smog is bad now? You'd have to leave the cities. With the stock explorer emissions, you'd run out of gas before you could give yourself carbon monoxide poisioning in the garage. Low mileage != bad for the environment. If you burn 10 gallons of gas in a clean matter, it turns into CO2 and water for the most part, and the C02 is soaked up by plants and algae in the ocean.
There's nothing asinine about it. It's a pure statement of fact. I included no subjective opinions whatsoever!
Secondly, the model T did NOT do more damage than 100 explorers. I wish I had the link handy, but the Ford CEO claimed that the Ford Focus produced 1/4 the tailpipe emissions as the Model T. That's really far from the > 100x figure you propose. Now that's asinine!
Now I do agree that low milage != bad for the environment. For instance, the Porsche 911 twin turbo gets something like 16 miles per gallon, but it is rated as a ULEV (Ultra Low Emissions Vehicle) - making it cleaner than the Honda Civic! The Explorer is not even a LEV (low emissions vehicle) so it is hardly an example to follow for EITHER gas milage or tailpipe emissions.
Let's face it - Given Ford's safety record, their fleet gas milage, and the very low/old technology that the use in their cars - Ford vehicles aren't jack shit.
Again, no, because it would make far more sense to just implant the tracking devices in those people who were murder suspects or convicts, so that the only people being monitored were those who actually posed a threat to society. Note that I'm not condoning this by any meansâ"I'm merely stating that you're taking it a step too far because there are far less drastic measures that the government could take, and at a far lower cost to themselves. But you already said something very much to that point.
In the same spirit then, couldn't the government mandate the automobile speed recorded function only in the vehicles belonging to convicted traffic offenders?
Why should Tom, who has a perfect driving record, be subject to this invasion of privacy when Harry, has been convicted of excessive speeding and reckless driving? Would it not make more sense to mandate the enabling of this feature in Harry's vehicle computer but not in Tom's?
Making people drive cars safely has little detriment, and a tremendous benefit -- a huge number of people are killed in auto accidents each year. I'm all for government keeping out of private lives unless there's a darn good reason, but auto safety qualifies.
This is ignorance at work folks.
What do you consider a "darn good reason"? What if there were government installed cameras on every street corner and inside every home? The more they can see, the better they can prevent terrorism - and preventing terrorism is a "darn good reason" isnt it?
Or what if the government required you to implant a GPS tracking device into all citizens? Then they could see who goes where, and find all those nasty escaped convicts and murder suspects? Isn't that a "darn good reason"?
Sure these two examples are extreme big brother scenarios, but there are diminishing returns and very negative side effects to monitoring the people on such a minute level of detail.
There are much better ways to make people drive better. Education for one - Ever try to get a drivers license in the state of Virginia? A monkey could do it. You don't even have to be able to read, write, or speak English, or any language for that matter. It's really stupid. I think much better drivers education is the key here. For example, if they showed large close-up photos of herpes diseased dicks in high school sex ed classes, kids would wear condoms more. but they dont. so they dont. but I digress.
Think a little...
Whoops... meant to say 100th anniversary. Which makes this fact even more pathetic.
On the topic of gas milage, Right now today, Volkswagen sells their turbo direct-inject diesel Lupo model in europe which gets BETTER milage than the honda electric hybric car!
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I work on my cars. I have a '59 Volkswagen Beetle, a '74 Porsche 914, An '85 Audi Quattro, and a '96 Porsche 911.
Everyone knows that German cars are recognised around the world for their engineering excellence and technical superiority. Slashdot geeks, who tend to be highly technical people, would appreciate this. In case you aren't familar with them, the "Big 5" German car brands are Audi, Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes, and Porsche.
I have a SAMSUNG 171v
It's a 17" analog flat panel LCD screen. I've had the same desktop "image" displayed for an entire weekend one time (with no DPMS to power it off).
Checked it on Monday and it was like new. not even a slight ghost of a burn in.
This problem must be dependant on certain factors because it isn't universal.
I can finally Workout the task without noisy PC!!
Although I'm still unclear on how Internet shrinking the world?
Oh well.
Yellow dog Linux has had similarly sized Ultra small machines called the "briQ" for a long time now.
The only real difference here is that this "Nimble" thing is x86 compatible. whoop-tee doo.
On a side note, I just realized that windows media 9 kicks ass. If you go to amazon to listen to a song off a cd, listen to it in windows media, then real player. There's no comparison. If you listen to the two side by side then that would be a comparison. If there isn't a comparison then I don't understand what you're trying to do.
Actually, WMA doesn't kick ass.
We already have proven that OGG kicks WMA and MP3's ass.
Ploy shmoy. These guys are our friends arent they?? They are just trying to help us by giving us new and innovative technology!! This is so wonderful!
*ARGH!* Stop throwing things at me! *OUCH!* I was just joking, *ACK!* I swear!
I see a problem with this. His CPU block is the highest up componenent in the system, thus that is where air will want to get trapped. And you don't want air to be trapped in your block - it will not work as well. He needs to come up with some sort of air trap system above the cpu block.
And as other posters have commented, corrosion can be a problem in these systems. Particularly when you are using different metals e.g. copper cpu block and brass fittings, and aluminum radiator. (I know that's not what this guy is using!). My solution to this problem has been to mix 2 parts water with 1 part VW/Audi G12 engine coolant. G12 is the currently sold vw/audi coolant and it is pink in color. I have watercooling rigs running for over a year that I've dissassembeled and found not even a tiny bit of corrosion! And that's with dissimilar metal components!
Someday naming your daughter Hillary will be as favorable as naming your son Adolph.
Amen. We've seen some real dumb shit Hillarys in the news over the past few years.
I think that "someday" is upon us.
Maybe this is going to signal a change in the way record companies think about file sharing?
;-)
No, it will just signal a change (read: increase) in the amount of negative media attention that file swapping gets
Check out the "Vision" service from Sprint. It's an extra $10 a month for unlimited usage. There is a USB data cable which lets your sprint phone (I have a Sanyo 4900) work as a USB modem - and yes, it works with Linux. The Sprint Vision service gives you a digital connection at about 56k.
They don't advertise it any more and they don't sell the cable any more. Check ebay for the cable and make sure you have a compatible phone.
Here's a HOWTO for it.
I'm not big fan of baseball (Soccer and lacrosse baby!) but I think adding robot umps would be a bad idea. This is a human game, with human factors and human margins of error. To introduce some type of a robot, even for umpire functions, would take away from that.
Why don't we add robot base coaches and robot pitchers while we're at it? Aw heck, and robot batters and fielders too. Let's just make it one big battlebot arena with leather gloves and four bases.
Leave the robots out of sports.
MeanMF said:
Basically what the Nmap people are showing me is that if I implement an OSS product in my company, I have to worry about the developers dropping support for the platform I'm running it on if they have a personal grudge against the company that makes it. I'll be sure to take that into account next time I'm evaluating software.
Suppose a closed-source application company has a "Business Alliance" with a platform vendor; i.e. they get money upfront from the platform vendor to develop applications for that platform. If the vendor gets upset with the application company and the business alliance ends, they may not write for that platform anymore. This is no surprise.
This is true, but you are missing the whole point of OSS! Even if the developers of these OSS projects drop support for SCO, the apps themselves are still open source! I.e. Someone else can pick up the slack and maintain a SCO port - you can't do that with closed source software!!
As an example - Microsoft dropped support for Windows OS on the Alpha long ago. Sucks to be you if you're running Windows NT on Alpha. RedHat also dropped support for Alpha long ago. Doesn't suck to be me because I can download Mozilla 1.4b2, gnome 2.x, and any of the latest and greatest from the OSS world and build it myself! I.e. I can pick up the slack and still have a modern, up to date system! You can't do that with closed source.
Just my 2 cents.
USB 2.0 "Hi-Speed" ports will be painted bright yellow, come with custom rims, and include VTEC stickers. They may not quite put out 480Mbps, but they sure will look like they do.
;-)
Don't forget the silly keg-sized muffler - to handle all that "hi-speed" data!
Why they would actually want to sell more 1.1's is beyond me though.
Probably so that "demand" catches up to supply. There's probably a taiwanese warehouse with a mountain of USB 1.1 chips that they are trying to get rid of.
Sony equipment is over-priced junk. You're buying a name and nothing else. I recommend that people buy any other Japanese knock-off brand. You'll be happier and have more dollars left in your pocket.
I've always bought Sony. The few times I bought other lesser brands, I've been disappointed with the lack of quality, and missed the top-notch fit and finish I've come to expect from Sony.
Don't get me wrong, just because it says "Sony" doesn't mean it is the best thing in the world - but it certainly means that it isn't junk. I personlly prefer Blaupunkt for their superior car audio products.
Intel has renamed their 2.8 Ghz Pentium IV chip the 5 Ghz "Full Speed" Pentium IV chip*.
* "5 Ghz" does not correspond to "actual" operating frequency. Your milage may vary. Contact your reseller for details. Void where prohibited. All rights reserved. Pat. Pending.
ok so you don't buy it and then you don't watch the movies either... Sorry but once all DVDs are re-released under DRM no classics will be able to be used. Excuse me but I would prefer not to live in a world without entertainment.
You assume the glass is "half empty", and that it is too late to effect change.
My glass is "half full" and I'm saying that now is the time to voice your opinion to the record/movie companies who choose to use DRM.
I suppose that if you were IBM, you would just settle with SCO and pay them the $3 Billion because you would prefer not to live in a world without UNIX?
When you give up before the fight has even begun, you've already lost.
I personally despise the recent trend towards DRM protected media. How the hell am I supposed to make a backup of my CD or DVD? We all know that they designed the damn things to be so scratched up, that within a year they become unusuable ;-)
Seriously tho, I vote with my dollars and urge you to do the same. The solution is simple - Don't buy it!. I refuse the purchase a CD or DVD that I am not able to make a backup copy of.
I know that Linux had SMP on certain limited motherboards VERY early on and as early as v0.27, 05 may 1998,
Um... Linux had SMP support way before May '98. I was in College in 1997 and my desktop computer was running SMP Linux on a Dual P133 at the time. Don't remember the mobo maker tho... maybe tyan?
With the stock explorer emissions, you'd run out of gas before you could give yourself carbon monoxide poisioning in the garage.
This is an absurd statement. First of all, SUV's are considered "light trucks" and don't have to pass nearly the same emissions standards as a car - which means your Ford Explorer produces significantly more exhaust emissions than any 4 door sedan out there.
Secondly, I live in Washington DC. The smog here has been so bad in the past 5 years, that they say that Los Angeles-like emissions laws may have to be passed soon. They attribute this recent increase to the recent SUV fad - Since SUV's produce significantly more tailpipe emissions than cars do.
So go ahead pal, close the garage door, fire up the Explorer, and take a nap. Be my guest.
This is a completely asinine comment. The Ford Model T did far more damage to the environment than 100 explorers. There were NO emissions controls on that engine, which means your hydrocarbons and NOx and all those nasties were off the chart. Cars of today are hundreds of times cleaner than cars back then. If everyone drove that model T today, you think smog is bad now? You'd have to leave the cities. With the stock explorer emissions, you'd run out of gas before you could give yourself carbon monoxide poisioning in the garage. Low mileage != bad for the environment. If you burn 10 gallons of gas in a clean matter, it turns into CO2 and water for the most part, and the C02 is soaked up by plants and algae in the ocean.
There's nothing asinine about it. It's a pure statement of fact. I included no subjective opinions whatsoever!
Secondly, the model T did NOT do more damage than 100 explorers. I wish I had the link handy, but the Ford CEO claimed that the Ford Focus produced 1/4 the tailpipe emissions as the Model T. That's really far from the > 100x figure you propose. Now that's asinine!
Now I do agree that low milage != bad for the environment. For instance, the Porsche 911 twin turbo gets something like 16 miles per gallon, but it is rated as a ULEV (Ultra Low Emissions Vehicle) - making it cleaner than the Honda Civic! The Explorer is not even a LEV (low emissions vehicle) so it is hardly an example to follow for EITHER gas milage or tailpipe emissions.
Let's face it - Given Ford's safety record, their fleet gas milage, and the very low/old technology that the use in their cars - Ford vehicles aren't jack shit.
Again, no, because it would make far more sense to just implant the tracking devices in those people who were murder suspects or convicts, so that the only people being monitored were those who actually posed a threat to society. Note that I'm not condoning this by any meansâ"I'm merely stating that you're taking it a step too far because there are far less drastic measures that the government could take, and at a far lower cost to themselves. But you already said something very much to that point.
In the same spirit then, couldn't the government mandate the automobile speed recorded function only in the vehicles belonging to convicted traffic offenders?
Why should Tom, who has a perfect driving record, be subject to this invasion of privacy when Harry, has been convicted of excessive speeding and reckless driving? Would it not make more sense to mandate the enabling of this feature in Harry's vehicle computer but not in Tom's?
We already know about the convergence of computing and biology. ;-)
Making people drive cars safely has little detriment, and a tremendous benefit -- a huge number of people are killed in auto accidents each year. I'm all for government keeping out of private lives unless there's a darn good reason, but auto safety qualifies.
This is ignorance at work folks.
What do you consider a "darn good reason"? What if there were government installed cameras on every street corner and inside every home? The more they can see, the better they can prevent terrorism - and preventing terrorism is a "darn good reason" isnt it?
Or what if the government required you to implant a GPS tracking device into all citizens? Then they could see who goes where, and find all those nasty escaped convicts and murder suspects? Isn't that a "darn good reason"?
Sure these two examples are extreme big brother scenarios, but there are diminishing returns and very negative side effects to monitoring the people on such a minute level of detail.
There are much better ways to make people drive better. Education for one - Ever try to get a drivers license in the state of Virginia? A monkey could do it. You don't even have to be able to read, write, or speak English, or any language for that matter. It's really stupid. I think much better drivers education is the key here. For example, if they showed large close-up photos of herpes diseased dicks in high school sex ed classes, kids would wear condoms more. but they dont. so they dont. but I digress. Think a little...
on it's 25th aniversary
Whoops... meant to say 100th anniversary. Which makes this fact even more pathetic.
On the topic of gas milage, Right now today, Volkswagen sells their turbo direct-inject diesel Lupo model in europe which gets BETTER milage than the honda electric hybric car!