I guess we need to start writing kiddie porn collection programs, jetliner hijacking software, FBI infiltrating programs and whatnot and ratting out our employers for owning such software. Maybe then they will take that little jewel out of their contracts.
And bitcoin wallets cannot be stolen by a pickpocket. Well, OK, I guess technically it is a distant possibility, but the chances that somebody happens to have an unencrypted wallet file on a flash drive in their pocket AND the pickpocket knows what to do with it is almost zero.
Well, I figure the faster they bankrupt Social Security, the sooner we can stop worrying about Social Security going bankrupt. Then they can stop taking Social Security out of our paychecks and give us an effective 10.4% raise.
Even if the dog didn't go with them on the vacation, I still think that it is total BS that the president gets to go on several vacations a year while the rest of us can't afford to go anywhere or do anything.
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Don't know about you, but I don't think most people want to hear fans running at full tilt.
The fans aren't running full tilt, the CPU and the GPU are. But the fans are able to keep them sufficiently cool while not running full tilt. My fans are temperature controlled and the environment never gets hot enough for them to spool all the way up, even when I am running bitcoin mining or Flight Simulator.
In my system, the GPU fan is the noisiest item. The case fans are relatively quiet (because they are bigger). GPU cooling is severely limited by case design. Basically all they can do is a squirrelcage type approach. it would probably be better to just have a big fan on the back plane blowing across the GPUs, but it is hard to suddenly change case design, and until that changes GPU designers have to assume there is no external backplane cooling.
It must suck to have to watch TV or movies then. Especially cartoons. Most movie theater films are shown at 24 FPS, and cartoons are often shown at 24 FPS, but they show the same frame twice in a row, and sometimes three or even four, so you are only really getting as little as 12 or even down to 6 changes per second. I am not sure if any of the high resolution digital cable channels are yet using 1080p. They are mostly, if not all 1080i, which effectively means the whole picture only changes 30 times per second, but it looks more fluid because they change have the screen lines 60 times per second.
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200W is really hard (and expensive) to cool.
Maybe so, but once you get up to 600W it gets much easier, apparently. I use the stock fans that came with my case and the CPU stays in the 60s Celsius running full tilt with a 6990 graphics card in the same case.
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I bought the i2600k CPU because it could be overclocked. I also bought the Asus Maximus IV Extreme because it makes overclocking easy and has a lot of built-in safety features to prevent stuff from blowing up. All that said, I have never actually overclocked the system. However, the fact that I could is worth the extra money to me. To me it is important that my system is not locked down or walled in. If I want to mess with it, I can, and if I don't want to, I don't have to. I don't like the vendor making that decision for me.
After reading a few more posts, it appears that the particular drives I buy (WD Caviar Black) are still covered by 5 years and are much more reliable than the cheapest 5400 RPM drives. I avoided those on purpose, so that may be why I have had better luck. There is a "get what you pay for" aspect at work in the hard drive market.
Just so you know, warranty decisions are always made by "bean counters" (accountants) and actuaries.
Correct. A warranty is basically an insurance policy that they throw in included in the price of the product. By reducing the warranty period, they are saying that their company feels that they are unwilling to bear the risk of making sure a product lasts five years. And since they are not willing to bear that risk, neither am I.
The company that I used to work for (in the Banking industry) changed is policies about BYOD about three years ago. They used to issue everyone a cell phone and pay for a certain monthly minute plan depending on your position. Then, they changed it to where they no longer issued you a phone or paid for a plan or reimbursed the plan, but you were required to have a cell phone so that they can contact you 24/7. Quite clearly was just a cost cutting move. They did not pay the employees any more money when they stopped providing phones.
Actually, Canadian tax law says that almost all expenses incurred by an employee and not reimbursed by their employer are not deductible, even if they are related to their job.
Wow. I guess there ARE pluses to the US's tax system.
Although, I would say there should be no need for this. No one should ever have to file anything under "unreimbursed business expense." It should instead be filed in a police report.
The idea that simply shifting this hardware costs to employees will save money could not be further from the truth. This is done as a service for employees for their convenience.
So, IT has to spend more to support these devices and the employees have to spend more to obtain these devices. Why are we doing this?
We also demand they wear clothes and occasionally bathe, but we do not buy them clothes nor hose them down if they cannot handle it themselves.
I assume that since you demand they wear clothes and don't buy them clothes that you also don't hold them to any particular style or type of clothes?
Example, say Manager asks Developer how long he will take to do XYZ. Developer says 5 days. Manager tells Developer to do XYZ. But then Manager asks Developer to do PQR as well. Meanwhile Manager is asked to attend a few meetings, Manager drags Developer (and team) in for those meetings too. And the Manager _still_ expects XYZ in 5 days.
This is why I give my estimates on development time, not elapsed time. In Mid November, I was asked how long a project would take. I said 6 weeks of development. Now, 5 weeks later, there are about 4 weeks of development left, because in the mean time we have moved offices, dragged me off to look at network issues, and a hundred other things that resulted in me only getting to spend two weeks of development on the project during the last 5 weeks. Since it is not possible to anticipate how much of your actual time you are going to be allowed to spend doing your job, development time is the only estimate you can really give.
Sounds like you have idiot IT managers and practitioners.
Or , they have clients. Our IT policies are dictated by our clients, who each have their own, often contradictory, interpretation of HIPAA and other regulations.
Not believing in anything requires absolutely no faith whatsoever.
That is true. And believing in something does require faith.
You have no faith in god existing, but you have faith in believing that god does not exist.
The term abomination was used to mean "against ritual" or not in common practice. It gets cherry picked by religious fundamentalists to further their prejudices, since the word sounds like a condemnation when it is not.
So Satan is the "against ritual or not in common practice" that causes desolation?
Citation needed.
Del City Couple Arrested in Fire Deaths.
Update: It appears that their bail was reduced to $35,000 each and they were able to make bail now, so they are back out.
Oh don't forget lawn darts, the "Hey lets throw sharp stakes at each other!" toy for the whole family,
I remember the lawn darts, but I don't remember the part about throwing them at the rest of the family. The way we played it, there was a circular hoop on the ground about 30 feet away and you tried to throw your dart into that hoop. The family was all behind the thrower.
Funny how you can still buy chemistry sets on ebay so easily then isn't it?
Yes, and Amazon.com and toys-r-us, and scientificsonline, but why spoil the fun when we're having a good old fashioned "get off my lawn" party?
There's the really hard part. It is natural that people just want to do something in response to a bad situation; and, even with the best of intentions, they sometimes make things worse.
In my town, a portable electric heater started a fire (as they are occasionally known to do), and killed three children. The mother received third degree burns trying to save her children. Now, in addition to the unthinkable loss of all her children, she must also deal with the fact that she and her husband, who was at work at the time, are both rotting away in jail. After all, it was a freak accident so you gotta send SOMEBODY to jail.
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I guess we need to start writing kiddie porn collection programs, jetliner hijacking software, FBI infiltrating programs and whatnot and ratting out our employers for owning such software. Maybe then they will take that little jewel out of their contracts.
And bitcoin wallets cannot be stolen by a pickpocket. Well, OK, I guess technically it is a distant possibility, but the chances that somebody happens to have an unencrypted wallet file on a flash drive in their pocket AND the pickpocket knows what to do with it is almost zero.
Well, I figure the faster they bankrupt Social Security, the sooner we can stop worrying about Social Security going bankrupt. Then they can stop taking Social Security out of our paychecks and give us an effective 10.4% raise.
Even if the dog didn't go with them on the vacation, I still think that it is total BS that the president gets to go on several vacations a year while the rest of us can't afford to go anywhere or do anything.
Don't know about you, but I don't think most people want to hear fans running at full tilt.
The fans aren't running full tilt, the CPU and the GPU are. But the fans are able to keep them sufficiently cool while not running full tilt. My fans are temperature controlled and the environment never gets hot enough for them to spool all the way up, even when I am running bitcoin mining or Flight Simulator.
In my system, the GPU fan is the noisiest item. The case fans are relatively quiet (because they are bigger). GPU cooling is severely limited by case design. Basically all they can do is a squirrelcage type approach. it would probably be better to just have a big fan on the back plane blowing across the GPUs, but it is hard to suddenly change case design, and until that changes GPU designers have to assume there is no external backplane cooling.
It must suck to have to watch TV or movies then. Especially cartoons. Most movie theater films are shown at 24 FPS, and cartoons are often shown at 24 FPS, but they show the same frame twice in a row, and sometimes three or even four, so you are only really getting as little as 12 or even down to 6 changes per second. I am not sure if any of the high resolution digital cable channels are yet using 1080p. They are mostly, if not all 1080i, which effectively means the whole picture only changes 30 times per second, but it looks more fluid because they change have the screen lines 60 times per second.
200W is really hard (and expensive) to cool.
Maybe so, but once you get up to 600W it gets much easier, apparently. I use the stock fans that came with my case and the CPU stays in the 60s Celsius running full tilt with a 6990 graphics card in the same case.
I bought the i2600k CPU because it could be overclocked. I also bought the Asus Maximus IV Extreme because it makes overclocking easy and has a lot of built-in safety features to prevent stuff from blowing up. All that said, I have never actually overclocked the system. However, the fact that I could is worth the extra money to me. To me it is important that my system is not locked down or walled in. If I want to mess with it, I can, and if I don't want to, I don't have to. I don't like the vendor making that decision for me.
Dear Leader makes Chuck Norris nervous.
And A+ certified, and a 6-Sigma black belt, and he set the world's record for solving the Rubik's cube blindfolded with his feet
After reading a few more posts, it appears that the particular drives I buy (WD Caviar Black) are still covered by 5 years and are much more reliable than the cheapest 5400 RPM drives. I avoided those on purpose, so that may be why I have had better luck. There is a "get what you pay for" aspect at work in the hard drive market.
Western Digital is also my drive of choice.
Just so you know, warranty decisions are always made by "bean counters" (accountants) and actuaries.
Correct. A warranty is basically an insurance policy that they throw in included in the price of the product. By reducing the warranty period, they are saying that their company feels that they are unwilling to bear the risk of making sure a product lasts five years. And since they are not willing to bear that risk, neither am I.
The company that I used to work for (in the Banking industry) changed is policies about BYOD about three years ago. They used to issue everyone a cell phone and pay for a certain monthly minute plan depending on your position. Then, they changed it to where they no longer issued you a phone or paid for a plan or reimbursed the plan, but you were required to have a cell phone so that they can contact you 24/7. Quite clearly was just a cost cutting move. They did not pay the employees any more money when they stopped providing phones.
Actually, Canadian tax law says that almost all expenses incurred by an employee and not reimbursed by their employer are not deductible, even if they are related to their job.
Wow. I guess there ARE pluses to the US's tax system.
Although, I would say there should be no need for this. No one should ever have to file anything under "unreimbursed business expense." It should instead be filed in a police report.
The idea that simply shifting this hardware costs to employees will save money could not be further from the truth. This is done as a service for employees for their convenience.
So, IT has to spend more to support these devices and the employees have to spend more to obtain these devices. Why are we doing this?
We also demand they wear clothes and occasionally bathe, but we do not buy them clothes nor hose them down if they cannot handle it themselves.
I assume that since you demand they wear clothes and don't buy them clothes that you also don't hold them to any particular style or type of clothes?
Example, say Manager asks Developer how long he will take to do XYZ. Developer says 5 days. Manager tells Developer to do XYZ. But then Manager asks Developer to do PQR as well. Meanwhile Manager is asked to attend a few meetings, Manager drags Developer (and team) in for those meetings too. And the Manager _still_ expects XYZ in 5 days.
This is why I give my estimates on development time, not elapsed time. In Mid November, I was asked how long a project would take. I said 6 weeks of development. Now, 5 weeks later, there are about 4 weeks of development left, because in the mean time we have moved offices, dragged me off to look at network issues, and a hundred other things that resulted in me only getting to spend two weeks of development on the project during the last 5 weeks. Since it is not possible to anticipate how much of your actual time you are going to be allowed to spend doing your job, development time is the only estimate you can really give.
Sounds like you have idiot IT managers and practitioners.
Or , they have clients. Our IT policies are dictated by our clients, who each have their own, often contradictory, interpretation of HIPAA and other regulations.
Not believing in anything requires absolutely no faith whatsoever.
That is true. And believing in something does require faith.
You have no faith in god existing, but you have faith in believing that god does not exist.
The term abomination was used to mean "against ritual" or not in common practice. It gets cherry picked by religious fundamentalists to further their prejudices, since the word sounds like a condemnation when it is not.
So Satan is the "against ritual or not in common practice" that causes desolation?
Citation needed.
Del City Couple Arrested in Fire Deaths.
Update: It appears that their bail was reduced to $35,000 each and they were able to make bail now, so they are back out.
Oh don't forget lawn darts, the "Hey lets throw sharp stakes at each other!" toy for the whole family,
I remember the lawn darts, but I don't remember the part about throwing them at the rest of the family. The way we played it, there was a circular hoop on the ground about 30 feet away and you tried to throw your dart into that hoop. The family was all behind the thrower.
Funny how you can still buy chemistry sets on ebay so easily then isn't it?
Yes, and Amazon.com and toys-r-us, and scientificsonline, but why spoil the fun when we're having a good old fashioned "get off my lawn" party?
There's the really hard part. It is natural that people just want to do something in response to a bad situation; and, even with the best of intentions, they sometimes make things worse.
In my town, a portable electric heater started a fire (as they are occasionally known to do), and killed three children. The mother received third degree burns trying to save her children. Now, in addition to the unthinkable loss of all her children, she must also deal with the fact that she and her husband, who was at work at the time, are both rotting away in jail. After all, it was a freak accident so you gotta send SOMEBODY to jail.