The problem is that many motherboards are not designed to take anything BUT the stock cooler.
Well, hopefully that will change when there is no longer a "stock" cooler.
I suspect that the motherboards you are referring to are ones that most DIYers would not be installing in anyway. I know that the one I bought for my 2600k had ample room all around the CPU, and I bought an aftermarket cooler for mine which fit in just fine, and in fact had mounts designed to go through to the backside of a motherboard for extra support, and the motherboard also had those holes, so there is at least some standardization out there.
Of course, when I am spending a kilobuck or more on components to build a system myself, I spend literally dozens of hours thinking of various configurations and making sure that everything is going to be compatible.
I still haven't gotten Firefox 5 completely back to the old 3.6 look and feel, which was more workable and required fewer button clicks. The last nagging issue is the one that Firefox no longer displays in the drop-down the history of links in the current tab, so you can't quickly go back to the top of a rabbit trail that you started down. Sometimes that was my only way out of stupid sites that disable the back button.
Oh, and the Federal Student Aid site (FAFSA.gov) only supports Firefox 3.5 and 3.6, one of which is no longer supported by FF and the other of which will also soon be not supported.
This is sort or reminiscent of how everybody who is involved with HIPAA has to take pee tests...except doctors. Somehow they are above the law. Oh, some hospitals require them to take pee tests, but there is no general requirement.
Of course, various studies have shown that 8-15% of doctors have substance abuse problems, so they would flunk a pee test. Rather than suffer the embarrassment of making them flunk the pee test, we just don't make them do it.
This should be launched in conjunction with the program where terrorists are required to wear badges and identification identifying them as terrorists. Then if they came in with the pilots badge, and also had a terrorists badge, the TSA could go "Aha! Caught you!" and make them go to the back of the line.
and hundreds of millions of impoverished workers in the developing world would be happy to take your non-union job.
If they have the means to shinny up a pole on the east coast within 15 minutes of a call being received, then my hats off to 'em.
$200 billion is supposed to be a lot of deductions, right? Well, when you divide it by the 31 million companies that exist in the United States, that is less than $7,000 each. I had more tax deductions than that myself and so does anybody with a couple of kids and a house.
.will not be between Black and White, or White and Hispanic, or even Rich and Poor. It will be between those who get pensions and employer-provided healthcare and those who don't.
I know which side I want to be on. I want to be on the side where they don't give me any pension or employer-provided healthcare and instead pay me what they would have spent on that and let me choose my own health plan and retirement benefits.
Please explain to me why the "job creators" would like to invest in an economy that is in the shitters. If I were to sit on a few million bucks, I would wait it out. Most people are like me.
Smart people realize that the best time to invest is when the price is low. The most successful companies are ones that gear up while gearing up is weak and are ready to grow when the market comes back. Companies that sit back and wait for the market to rebound will be years late to market because they gear up when the economy is already rebounding and labor and goods prices are higher.
You've never actually met a poor person, have you?
Sure I have. As a property manager, most of the people I rent to make less than $25,000 a year, and yet most of them have smartphones with internet, big screen TVs with full cable, Xbox Live, etc. etc.
Now, if you are talking homeless level of poor, they usually only have a basic cell phone plan, but then if you are homeless what is the point of $9.95 high speed internet.
People value the convenience of not being tied to the wall and don't know or don't care that it is less efficient. The phone is a good example though. If you did use a corded phone, then your electricity costs for the phone would be exactly $0.00 (at least here in the states). Whereas an estimate I saw for cordless phone electric usage was about 16 cents per month. That is so small that nobody cares, yet percentagewise, it is infinitely more expensive.
A better example would be a caller ID unit. There are battery powered ones and hardwired ones. The hardwired ones we could assume use the same electricity as a phone (almost certainly less, though). So figure 16 cents a month. The battery powered ones use batteries that must be replaced about every 3 months. At about 60 cents each, you would have used 48 cents worth of electricity (probably less) and have to pay 1.20 for new batteries.
My couple of hours of mowing the lawn tends to be chock full of going over things in my head. Mowing the lawn is something that requires almost no brain power, so I am free to pontificate to my hearts content.
Three hours would probably be a bit much, but he says he enjoys it. I would say, if he enjoys it that much, maybe he should start cutting other people's lawns. I've had several offers from people on cutting my lawn, which is an acre plot, but ends up being about half an acre of lawn thanks to the house, the pool, the large shed, and copious concrete. Generally, if you get a kid to do it, they want about $50 for the half acre. The professionals, want about $100. If this guy could drop in somewhere between the kids rate and the professionals rate, he could easily rake in more than your average IT worker, and he will be doing something he enjoys.
Unfortunately, you usually stop enjoying something once you are getting paid to do it and have to meet some sort of commitment.
Batteries increase by two the number of conversions before the electricity is applied. Every conversion costs power, and as a bonus, the battery also slowly loses power just sitting there.
aside of some few fetishes that are illegal pretty much everywhere (pretty much anything rape related,
Plenty of rape stuff on the internet. I'm not into it, but I see a lot of it out there just browsing. Many sites will put "Simulated" in front of tags like rape or incest, even if it is not simulated. It is my estimation that most of the extreme stuff is, in fact, staged, and there is not a whole lot of actual rape or incest video out there, but I could be wrong.
Agree. So in other words, if we read between the lines, if they had replaced their older spinning disk with new spinning disk, they would have reduced their rack space by 20 times.
Should we also go door to door and make sure that no students unfairly have home computers while others do not, and that no students unfairly have encyclopedias while others do not, or subscribe to newspapers, or magazines, or have a tutor?
Does this mean that I as an engineer may at some point in the future be able to make millions off of my inventions instead of having to hand them over to my employer?
I started doing one, but couldn't finish. I got as far as
3.1415926535897
93238462643383
27950288419716
93993751058209
74944592307816
40628620899862
80348253421170 but then I got bored. Meaningless gibberish. I did sneak a peek at the last page though. Turns out the last digit is 8.
I doubt that the editors would need to drum up support to sell their bitcoins given that they are selling for over $14 and there are literally 30 to 40 thousand bitcoin buy offers in the $10 to $14 range.
They can identify you, but what proof do they have that you are the owner of that post, that e-mail address or that bitcoin wallet?
This is what scares me about companies that do internet searches for prospective hires internet activity. Anybody can go on the internet and ruin anybody's life simply by posting pretending to be them.
Hear! Hear! There are literally millions of things in the world that I care absolutely nothing about, but would still consider purchasing at the right price in order to sell them to fools who are willing to pay more than I can get it for plus consideration for time and transaction costs.
Bitcoin happens to be one of those things for me. I mine bitcoin, but I don't hold onto it hoping it will make me rich, and I don't care if it ever takes off as a currency. I just get a nice paycheck when I cash them in to someone else.
I used to be a futures trader. I had no interest in a railcar full of cattle, or a boxcar full of corn, yet at any given time I might have held contracts for dozens or hundreds of both. Their was no intent to do anything with the underlying commodities, just a desire to hopefully sell the contract for more than I bought it for.
And if we want to completely remove the physical tie, I also used to trade in foreign currencies. We didn't care what any particular currency could buy, just whether we expected it to go up or down relative to another currency. Holding Yen was the same as holding Bitcoin. I can't pay my mortgage with Yen, or my utilities, without exchanging it to U.S. Dollars.
Can I pay my utility bills with them?
Funny you should mention that. That is precisely what I intend to do with the bitcoins that I have amassed this month.
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The problem is that many motherboards are not designed to take anything BUT the stock cooler.
Well, hopefully that will change when there is no longer a "stock" cooler.
I suspect that the motherboards you are referring to are ones that most DIYers would not be installing in anyway. I know that the one I bought for my 2600k had ample room all around the CPU, and I bought an aftermarket cooler for mine which fit in just fine, and in fact had mounts designed to go through to the backside of a motherboard for extra support, and the motherboard also had those holes, so there is at least some standardization out there.
Of course, when I am spending a kilobuck or more on components to build a system myself, I spend literally dozens of hours thinking of various configurations and making sure that everything is going to be compatible.
I still haven't gotten Firefox 5 completely back to the old 3.6 look and feel, which was more workable and required fewer button clicks. The last nagging issue is the one that Firefox no longer displays in the drop-down the history of links in the current tab, so you can't quickly go back to the top of a rabbit trail that you started down. Sometimes that was my only way out of stupid sites that disable the back button.
Oh, and the Federal Student Aid site (FAFSA.gov) only supports Firefox 3.5 and 3.6, one of which is no longer supported by FF and the other of which will also soon be not supported.
And you know this how?
Because it is impossible to hijack a plane and crash it into a building while you are rolling on the floor with laughter.
This is sort or reminiscent of how everybody who is involved with HIPAA has to take pee tests...except doctors. Somehow they are above the law. Oh, some hospitals require them to take pee tests, but there is no general requirement.
Of course, various studies have shown that 8-15% of doctors have substance abuse problems, so they would flunk a pee test. Rather than suffer the embarrassment of making them flunk the pee test, we just don't make them do it.
This should be launched in conjunction with the program where terrorists are required to wear badges and identification identifying them as terrorists. Then if they came in with the pilots badge, and also had a terrorists badge, the TSA could go "Aha! Caught you!" and make them go to the back of the line.
Is there another word for 'radioactive' we can use to get rid of the negative connotation?
How about "Steam Engine"?
and hundreds of millions of impoverished workers in the developing world would be happy to take your non-union job.
If they have the means to shinny up a pole on the east coast within 15 minutes of a call being received, then my hats off to 'em.
$200 billion is supposed to be a lot of deductions, right? Well, when you divide it by the 31 million companies that exist in the United States, that is less than $7,000 each. I had more tax deductions than that myself and so does anybody with a couple of kids and a house.
.will not be between Black and White, or White and Hispanic, or even Rich and Poor. It will be between those who get pensions and employer-provided healthcare and those who don't.
I know which side I want to be on. I want to be on the side where they don't give me any pension or employer-provided healthcare and instead pay me what they would have spent on that and let me choose my own health plan and retirement benefits.
Please explain to me why the "job creators" would like to invest in an economy that is in the shitters. If I were to sit on a few million bucks, I would wait it out. Most people are like me.
Smart people realize that the best time to invest is when the price is low. The most successful companies are ones that gear up while gearing up is weak and are ready to grow when the market comes back. Companies that sit back and wait for the market to rebound will be years late to market because they gear up when the economy is already rebounding and labor and goods prices are higher.
You've never actually met a poor person, have you?
Sure I have. As a property manager, most of the people I rent to make less than $25,000 a year, and yet most of them have smartphones with internet, big screen TVs with full cable, Xbox Live, etc. etc.
Now, if you are talking homeless level of poor, they usually only have a basic cell phone plan, but then if you are homeless what is the point of $9.95 high speed internet.
Most poor people already have internet, on their smartphones that they pay $100 a month for.
People value the convenience of not being tied to the wall and don't know or don't care that it is less efficient. The phone is a good example though. If you did use a corded phone, then your electricity costs for the phone would be exactly $0.00 (at least here in the states). Whereas an estimate I saw for cordless phone electric usage was about 16 cents per month. That is so small that nobody cares, yet percentagewise, it is infinitely more expensive.
A better example would be a caller ID unit. There are battery powered ones and hardwired ones. The hardwired ones we could assume use the same electricity as a phone (almost certainly less, though). So figure 16 cents a month. The battery powered ones use batteries that must be replaced about every 3 months. At about 60 cents each, you would have used 48 cents worth of electricity (probably less) and have to pay 1.20 for new batteries.
My couple of hours of mowing the lawn tends to be chock full of going over things in my head. Mowing the lawn is something that requires almost no brain power, so I am free to pontificate to my hearts content.
Three hours would probably be a bit much, but he says he enjoys it. I would say, if he enjoys it that much, maybe he should start cutting other people's lawns. I've had several offers from people on cutting my lawn, which is an acre plot, but ends up being about half an acre of lawn thanks to the house, the pool, the large shed, and copious concrete. Generally, if you get a kid to do it, they want about $50 for the half acre. The professionals, want about $100. If this guy could drop in somewhere between the kids rate and the professionals rate, he could easily rake in more than your average IT worker, and he will be doing something he enjoys.
Unfortunately, you usually stop enjoying something once you are getting paid to do it and have to meet some sort of commitment.
Batteries increase by two the number of conversions before the electricity is applied. Every conversion costs power, and as a bonus, the battery also slowly loses power just sitting there.
aside of some few fetishes that are illegal pretty much everywhere (pretty much anything rape related,
Plenty of rape stuff on the internet. I'm not into it, but I see a lot of it out there just browsing. Many sites will put "Simulated" in front of tags like rape or incest, even if it is not simulated. It is my estimation that most of the extreme stuff is, in fact, staged, and there is not a whole lot of actual rape or incest video out there, but I could be wrong.
Agree. So in other words, if we read between the lines, if they had replaced their older spinning disk with new spinning disk, they would have reduced their rack space by 20 times.
Should we also go door to door and make sure that no students unfairly have home computers while others do not, and that no students unfairly have encyclopedias while others do not, or subscribe to newspapers, or magazines, or have a tutor?
Does this mean that I as an engineer may at some point in the future be able to make millions off of my inventions instead of having to hand them over to my employer?
I started doing one, but couldn't finish. I got as far as 3.1415926535897 93238462643383 27950288419716 93993751058209 74944592307816 40628620899862 80348253421170 but then I got bored. Meaningless gibberish. I did sneak a peek at the last page though. Turns out the last digit is 8.
I'm in the 35% that wants the iphone 5 to be an unseen sight.
I doubt that the editors would need to drum up support to sell their bitcoins given that they are selling for over $14 and there are literally 30 to 40 thousand bitcoin buy offers in the $10 to $14 range.
They can identify you, but what proof do they have that you are the owner of that post, that e-mail address or that bitcoin wallet?
This is what scares me about companies that do internet searches for prospective hires internet activity. Anybody can go on the internet and ruin anybody's life simply by posting pretending to be them.
Hear! Hear! There are literally millions of things in the world that I care absolutely nothing about, but would still consider purchasing at the right price in order to sell them to fools who are willing to pay more than I can get it for plus consideration for time and transaction costs.
Bitcoin happens to be one of those things for me. I mine bitcoin, but I don't hold onto it hoping it will make me rich, and I don't care if it ever takes off as a currency. I just get a nice paycheck when I cash them in to someone else.
I used to be a futures trader. I had no interest in a railcar full of cattle, or a boxcar full of corn, yet at any given time I might have held contracts for dozens or hundreds of both. Their was no intent to do anything with the underlying commodities, just a desire to hopefully sell the contract for more than I bought it for.
And if we want to completely remove the physical tie, I also used to trade in foreign currencies. We didn't care what any particular currency could buy, just whether we expected it to go up or down relative to another currency. Holding Yen was the same as holding Bitcoin. I can't pay my mortgage with Yen, or my utilities, without exchanging it to U.S. Dollars.
Can I pay my utility bills with them?
Funny you should mention that. That is precisely what I intend to do with the bitcoins that I have amassed this month.