This seems silly. Thermal grease (at least the "popular" brands - I have never used the cheap stuff) cause no adverse effects to your CPU. I accidentally put globs of the shit on two of my previous CPUs (a Pentium 3 800mhz that I clocked to 900mhz, and an Athlon XP 1800 that I got to like 1753mhz, I can't remember) and it didn't do squat. I used the P3 like that for 2 years, and the XP 1800 for about 6 months.
*** As a side note, I contacted AMD tech support concerning thermal grease and got an answer just three days ago, and the support rep was the person that told me to just use a "smidgeon" (his word for "a tiny bit"). This absurd decree is coming from high up in marketing somewhere, not from the actual "know people". At least that's my guess. I would copy and paste the email, but I'm not sure how they would react, and my employer has a nice partnership with AMD, so.......
I think that it would be a good idea for you to make partnerships with Codeweavers and Transgaming. You could bundle the CodeWeaver's plugin and WineX in a one year license, perhaps call it the "Lindows Extended Media Package". You could then sell a few popular Windows based games pre-installed with the system, as well as offer Microsoft Office support. This would make your Linux distribution much more desirable.
The entire collection of required parts is a mere $500, imagine, for only $500 you get seven fiendishly action packed minutes of zany flight time! (unless you pay an extra $100 for the better battery, which will buy you 12 minutes)
I'm sorry, but I could have a lot more fun with $500:
1. A night out with my girl
2. A GeForce 4 ti4200
3. 256MB more RAM
4. The new issue of Maxim with Tyra Banks on the cover
5. Jergen's Extra Silky Smooth Antibacterial lotion
5. An eight ball of white
6. A better web host because The Effect made my mini-PC-heli fan page go bye-bye
I routinely took STD tests from ages 16 to 20 (after that I got into CS, and well, the sex life sorta took a nose dive). Burns like a son of a bitch if it "gets in there".
Much to the contridictary behest of the Labor Party, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced that he fully supports the military actions of GNOME. Despite swelling support within his own ranks to "allow the KDE inspectors more time", Blair has decided that it is in his nation's best interest to support a full, all out GNOME invasion against the rogue college. Early reports from the battlefield place the GNOME armies at the steps of the MIT intelligence officials' walls just days after initial operations began. It is said that a jubilant crowd erupted from at least two dormitories from the North Eastern MIT desert.
Iraqi intelligence quickly refuted the claims on Abu Dhabi and Al Jazeera, claiming that the imperialist GNOME crusaders have been meeting swift ends well before reaching the university level. "We have already plunged the burning spear of Allah deep into the hearts of thousands of infidels. KDE shall prove victorious"
1. "We have competed with things that had no price attached with them before."
Rough translation: "We have used our monopoly status to unjustly defeat competition before, even those that were forced to release their software for free. We haven't figured out how to do that to Linux."
2. "Innovation is not something that is easy to do in the kind of distributed environment that the open-source/Linux world works in."
A distributed environment of thousands of creative developers, from volunteers to huge corporate contributors like IBM and Sun can't innovate? Ballmer is confusing innovation with "buying companies that made something new and then calling it ours, and then crafting the software in a manner that insures customers continue spending money (and in greater lump sums)."
3. "Linux itself is a clone of an operating system that is 20-plus years old."
I thought Ballmer was done using that blatant untruth. It is clear that Linux is a completely different operating system then UNIX, and is developed in a completely different way, with entirely different strengths. Ballmer is still a FUD afficianado.
4. "The Linux world in some sense is a lot like the Unix world. There is not much communality. There is this distribution; there is that distribution. There is this user interface, there is that. Some people might see some advantages to that."
Ballmer still clearly doesn't understand the concept of the open source development model, is still not used to the concept of competition.
5. "If you want a fix now, we may need to perform better, but you know where to go. There is nobody to turn to if you as a (Linux) customer...."
That statement is truly laughable. Even people that are only vaguely famailar with the consistency of Windows and Linux software upgrades, patches, and hot fixes would scoff at that claim.
Name recognition and patents - the reason why R&D demands so much attention from the marketing folks.
This is actually major news to some people
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First HDTV Camcorder
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· Score: 5, Interesting
For those of you that are not "in the know" (I work for arguebly the most successful photography and digital imaging company in history) such a pioneering effort by an industry "under dog" is profound, and highly acknowledged by the industry. I caught wind of JVC's development about two months ago, and it had alot of corporate folk racing to beat them to the punch. There are at least two other major companies that will make press releases very soon concerning similar accomplishments, and if JVC plays their cards right, they can make alot of coin if they properly manage their patents.
Believe it or not, such specs on a camcorder, at that price, will be most highly prized by the adult film industry. Don't ask me why I know that, because frankly, I'm not allowed to tell.
"...modeling the dynamics of marital conversations.."
Most marital conversations I witness involve ditching the kids, how much the man drank with his buddies last night, why the hell is he always looking at her bimbo sister with big boobs, and for what reason did the woman decide that it would be a good idea to pay $100 for that purse.
I hope that the actors in any film inspired by the Unreal Tournament series of video games would accurately portray it's players and their odd, unique language, such as:
"LOL fkcu U awp fag"
or
"OMFG camping fag!"
"ff on?"
and the line that I heard during a session of UT2003 just last night:
"j00 fucking wALL hakc lamer!"
The "Unreal Experience" immerses you in an amazing epoch of stunning dialect and culture that any movie rendition has to stay loyal to if it wishes to be successful.
In a scheduled press conference, British Prime Minister Tony Blair will announce that he fully supports the US action against the moon, much to the behest of the Labor Party.
Iraqi intelligence officials are reporting that the moon intends on defending itself against the crusaders to the end, and has already prepared the graves for thousands of imperialist satans.
ATM machines, online banking and credit mechanisms, and online traders made it easier for people to invest and work the stock market. Now many, many more people perform the above.
Voter participation should likewise increase through the use of varied voting methods, including one that can be easily done from home.
They better hope that their web server won some kind of a "best in show", because here we come!!
I saw this coming
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Linus on DRM
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· Score: 4, Informative
What our Finnish friend is saying: Linux should be able to utilize all computing options, including DRM. It shouldn't be forced on you, nor should it be denied to you. Linux shouldn't be guided by the ethics or philosophy of either the majortiy or the minority (he got rms there).
It's hard to argue with that logic, especially when you step back and take a look at why Linux was so wildly successful over the past three years.
UIt would be remarkably easy to start your own software company at home. Just use your tax refund next year to pay for the salaries of 10 Indian programmers.
Sounds like something we joke about: getting to see Carrie Anne Moss in that dashingly dirty and hormone punishing leather outfit, stretching out in a leaping attack in slow and glorious "in bullet time".
Sometimes Blockbuster doesn't have the movie I want in. Burger King screws up your order 50% of the time. Walmarts are usually filthy. Netflix has a finite amount of movies to rent out, and a desire to lure new customers to their service - hence, new customers that are less active have a better chance at getting the movies they want, which increases the likelyhood that they will remain Netflix customers. Wow, stop the press.
If the crackers would stop writing viruses and hacking systems, then people would stop going to jail for computer crimes. Using more secure languages and operating systems won't change the habits or motivations of the crackers. It is also "beside the point" to ask the actual law abiding citizens to change their development and/or computing habits in order to accomodate the crackers.
I liken this to the current state of American jails. People are always complaining that we have too many people in jail, and that [insert %] of inmates are [insert race here], and that isn't right. The same people doing the complaining always offer solutions that place the burden of the criminals' behavior upon the tax payers and law abiders. The real answer is: stop breaking the damn law!
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Big deal, it still isn't Linux.
*** As a side note, I contacted AMD tech support concerning thermal grease and got an answer just three days ago, and the support rep was the person that told me to just use a "smidgeon" (his word for "a tiny bit"). This absurd decree is coming from high up in marketing somewhere, not from the actual "know people". At least that's my guess. I would copy and paste the email, but I'm not sure how they would react, and my employer has a nice partnership with AMD, so.......
Slashdot: On The Collapse of Complex Web Servers
What do you think?
I'm sorry, but I could have a lot more fun with $500:
1. A night out with my girl
2. A GeForce 4 ti4200
3. 256MB more RAM
4. The new issue of Maxim with Tyra Banks on the cover
5. Jergen's Extra Silky Smooth Antibacterial lotion
5. An eight ball of white
6. A better web host because The Effect made my mini-PC-heli fan page go bye-bye
You don't say....
*ducks*
Death to the moist towelette infindels.
The Online Museum
Vintage Moist Towelette
The Moist Towlettel page
20 seconds!!! God be with you!!!!
Iraqi intelligence quickly refuted the claims on Abu Dhabi and Al Jazeera, claiming that the imperialist GNOME crusaders have been meeting swift ends well before reaching the university level. "We have already plunged the burning spear of Allah deep into the hearts of thousands of infidels. KDE shall prove victorious"
Rough translation: "We have used our monopoly status to unjustly defeat competition before, even those that were forced to release their software for free. We haven't figured out how to do that to Linux."
2. "Innovation is not something that is easy to do in the kind of distributed environment that the open-source/Linux world works in."
A distributed environment of thousands of creative developers, from volunteers to huge corporate contributors like IBM and Sun can't innovate? Ballmer is confusing innovation with "buying companies that made something new and then calling it ours, and then crafting the software in a manner that insures customers continue spending money (and in greater lump sums)."
3. "Linux itself is a clone of an operating system that is 20-plus years old."
I thought Ballmer was done using that blatant untruth. It is clear that Linux is a completely different operating system then UNIX, and is developed in a completely different way, with entirely different strengths. Ballmer is still a FUD afficianado.
4. "The Linux world in some sense is a lot like the Unix world. There is not much communality. There is this distribution; there is that distribution. There is this user interface, there is that. Some people might see some advantages to that."
Ballmer still clearly doesn't understand the concept of the open source development model, is still not used to the concept of competition.
5. "If you want a fix now, we may need to perform better, but you know where to go. There is nobody to turn to if you as a (Linux) customer...."
That statement is truly laughable. Even people that are only vaguely famailar with the consistency of Windows and Linux software upgrades, patches, and hot fixes would scoff at that claim.
Name recognition and patents - the reason why R&D demands so much attention from the marketing folks.
Believe it or not, such specs on a camcorder, at that price, will be most highly prized by the adult film industry. Don't ask me why I know that, because frankly, I'm not allowed to tell.
JVC made a real accomplishment here, no doubt.
The first, it's mine. 20 seconds!!! god be with you!!!!
Most marital conversations I witness involve ditching the kids, how much the man drank with his buddies last night, why the hell is he always looking at her bimbo sister with big boobs, and for what reason did the woman decide that it would be a good idea to pay $100 for that purse.
"LOL fkcu U awp fag"
or
"OMFG camping fag!"
"ff on?"
and the line that I heard during a session of UT2003 just last night:
"j00 fucking wALL hakc lamer!"
The "Unreal Experience" immerses you in an amazing epoch of stunning dialect and culture that any movie rendition has to stay loyal to if it wishes to be successful.
Terrific idea. I assert that we should also award the power to draft anti-monopoly legistlation to Microsoft Corporation.
Iraqi intelligence officials are reporting that the moon intends on defending itself against the crusaders to the end, and has already prepared the graves for thousands of imperialist satans.
Voter participation should likewise increase through the use of varied voting methods, including one that can be easily done from home.
They better hope that their web server won some kind of a "best in show", because here we come!!
It's hard to argue with that logic, especially when you step back and take a look at why Linux was so wildly successful over the past three years.
*ducks*
Sounds like something we joke about: getting to see Carrie Anne Moss in that dashingly dirty and hormone punishing leather outfit, stretching out in a leaping attack in slow and glorious "in bullet time".
Sometimes Blockbuster doesn't have the movie I want in. Burger King screws up your order 50% of the time. Walmarts are usually filthy. Netflix has a finite amount of movies to rent out, and a desire to lure new customers to their service - hence, new customers that are less active have a better chance at getting the movies they want, which increases the likelyhood that they will remain Netflix customers. Wow, stop the press.
I liken this to the current state of American jails. People are always complaining that we have too many people in jail, and that [insert %] of inmates are [insert race here], and that isn't right. The same people doing the complaining always offer solutions that place the burden of the criminals' behavior upon the tax payers and law abiders. The real answer is: stop breaking the damn law!