Yes. But "undervolting" any more means running it at an accepted voltage by the machine, just a lower voltage than the default for that speed. Speedstep changes the voltage to the chip when it's running at lower speeds, so if those voltages aren't ever dropped below, I have a REALLY hard time believing that any harm will come from undervolting. The transistors are MADE to run at that voltage. They just aren't set to that voltage by default.
And eventually, we'll start realizing that we are ALL assholes at one point or another, and we'll get on with our lives;) No one can be holier-than-thou because you have proof that they aren't, so the playing field is equalized.
I'm completely talking out of my ass, but I don't think it's an entirely BAD thing that people will be forced to admit to their mistakes. We all make them... how we deal with them is how we should be defined (as in, did we learn from them?).
I guess I'm lucky that a lot of other people with my name are more famous than I am for various things. Any googling of my name leads to them, rather than me;) Actually... googling my pseudonym is MORE likely to get accurate info on me than my real name is.
Something else was going on, then. I can't think of any physical/electronic mechanism or find any reliable references to undervolting causing damage other than your anecdote.
Undervolting is nice in some cases. That's the only way I'll skew voltages. It keeps your fans from coming on as often because it doesn't get as hot, uses less power which is REALLY nice when running on battery in a laptop...
But I agree, upping voltages to get things to go faster is just asking for trouble.
They're not at a lower quality than the ones that operate at spec voltage... if anything, they're HIGHER quality. The point of running at higher voltages is to get faster timings and more bandwidth out of them, not to just run. Most of the enthusiast memory will run at a higher frequency, which directly translates into an argument against your bulk data transfer speed argument. It just needs the faster timings to operate at that speed.
That's funny... I know Google Maps on my Blackberry (T-Mobile) will find me by the tower I'm connected to first (and give an accuracy of about 1500 meters) before it starts tracking in on the GPS signal, if I get the GPS signal at all. Phones most definitely get more than ephemeris data from the cell towers, and the author's description had at least as many facts right as your post does.
1. That's not the only reason. SMS works on the signaling channels, which are never "used" except for a very short period of time. Voice calls work over the... wait for it... voice channels! Sometimes those channels fill up, but you can still get through on the signaling channels.
2. RTFA... not purely based on the distance from the tower. It's also based on the number of phones in the vicinity that use the same bands and are fighting for signals, meaning they need to transmit a "I'm here!" type message much more often, even at the same distance from a tower.
3. No, it'll cause havoc with the cell system in GENERAL having them going on in the plane. The "paranoid ignoramuses" obviously are much less ignorant than you are.
4. See #1. Voicemail notifications works over the same notification channels as SMS (it was actually for voicemail notification first), and thus has the same benefits and pitfalls. You were right, but you didn't grasp the connection between the two, something you'd know if you read the fine article.
Being vociferous about things you "know" can often end up in you looking like a fool. Even if the mods give you points on your patently wrong information.
What kinda crappy cell phone do you have? Mine calls my wife when I hit one button that's easily locatable by touch and say "Call wife". And even better, it can "read" the address book entries, so I don't have to spend time training it. I just say "call " where is in my address book, and it does! Even the "free" phones you get with service any more do that.
Under most circumstances. Many states have started enacting curfews and passenger limits on under 18 drivers, but that's not universal. When I turned 16, I could drive anywhere without restrictions (and I've been in 3 accidents... one sliding off the road that was covered in ice, two where other people rear-ended me when I was stopped for either a sign or a light. I've been driving for 11 years now.) Being that Finland has a much higher population density in most areas, you can get away with not needing a car before you're 18. In the US with our "car culture", it's almost necessary to have a car to have any kind of freedom from your parents, to go do things without imposing on them for transportation. There's nothing wrong with letting kids drive at 16, unless they don't have a proper sense of responsibility.
When I was learning my Dad took me onto the Interstate my second or third time in the driver's seat. I've never understood why parents keep their kids from going on the highway... it's no different than any other street except for the speed limit. Still gotta watch out for the same retards no matter how fast you're going, and if you give people the right amount of room, you still have the exact same amount of time to react.
You learn a lot by driving an unreliable car;) At least, I did. I think it's made me a better driver in general now, since I can tell when things are going wrong with the vehicle before they blow up, and can do preventative maintenance to keep it going. A beater is a great learning experience, IMHO.
Wow. That's insane... my laptop that has about 2GB of RAM used at any given time because of our massive Java server that starts up every time I boot only takes 40 seconds to start up. There is no excuse for a 10 minute boot time.
Not to mention the main difference between subs and airplanes apparently being weight, which is a horribly stupid and flat-out wrong statement.
Want more weight? Bring some water into the machine, compress some air so you can blow it out later, and you're set. The MAIN difference between airplanes and subs is that airplanes are made to operate in 0.5-1atm of pressure (yes, I know it's an archaic unit of measure... it's easier than actually looking this stuff up). Just 30ft down, a sub has to handle 2atm of pressure, so subs are designed to the tens of atmospheres at a minimum. Basically 1-20atm. That's the main difference, and why it's so hard to make something that flies AND submerges.
Speak for yourself, weakling:P All kidding aside, there's no reason a geek shouldn't at least be moderately fit. It's as easy as parking far out in the parking lot instead of right next to the door, and ordering a nice sandwich with veggies and such on it instead of pizza.
Athleticism isn't purely genetic... it takes practice and work, just like every other skill.
By your statement, electric cars were "here" in the 1830's. That's just stupid... the concept hasn't arrived until it's become mainstream, where normal people can afford and use them.
As for the telephone, Bell invented it in 1876. The first commercial telephone service (also started by Bell) had 230 phones in 1887. 230 phones basically in the world, and that was 10 years after Bell built it. That's not "arrived". Most people still hadn't even heard of a telephone at the time... it would almost be 1900 before phone systems were truly rolled out widely, and even then, they were still primarily the domain of the rich and privileged.
They're in 4th grade. "Working with computers" is as specific as you need to get, because that's all they can really handle. It's an introductory presentation. You're not hiring any of them any time soon... so yes, you are "selling the product". Anything you do to get them interested in computers, just thinking about them as a career path, is good. It's like explaining physics to a 4th grader... you say "gravity is what keeps the ball on the ground". You don't start them with trajectory calculus.
People don't pay $10 only for the content. They pay for the experience of watching it in the theater setting, big screen, good speakers, etc. For your $2, you have to provide your own screen, seating, etc. It's not as much of a steal as you seem to imply, unless you have an awesome home theater system.
Get more RAM (cheap), and install xubuntu-desktop, boot to xfce. That's about all you can do to make it faster other than using lighter-weight tools, like using kazehakase instead of Firefox if you can get away with it, etc. (kazehakase is in the *buntu repositories)
I don't like them either, but they power devices for so much longer and deal much better with "random" charging, where you don't charge it all the way or discharge it all the way. I'll take a short lifetime for the flexibility of being able to not kill it by only partially charging it.
The OS doesn't just randomly "throw away" memory. There is no mechanism for doing so, asking programs to relinquish RAM they previously allocated. What the OS IS doing is dropping file caches from memory, stuff Firefox has read for rendering pages, and leaving them just on the disk. But that's not Firefox's memory... that's the operating system's memory. It can't throw out OpenOffice memory at all. The ONLY thing an OS can do is say "no, you can't have more memory" when a program wants more, or kill the program entirely. It can't find "safe" places to reclaim RAM.
Go take an OS design course, or at least read up on it. There is nothing in your post based in fact.
So, going 5mph on a busy street is acceptable? If you don't know where you're going, pull over and look at a map. If you're going slow, stay out of other people's way. Just because you want (or need) to go slow does not entitle you to create a blockage for everyone else who needs to use the same roads you do.
Yes, you are allowed to drive slow. If you need to do so for safety, that's understandable. But you should also realize that you're being a complete asshole doing so, and should drive during times that aren't as heavy with traffic if you can't keep up with the flow of traffic. It's the whole tragedy of the commons idea... it only takes one asshole driving like an idiot to create a traffic jam for everyone else.
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Yes. But "undervolting" any more means running it at an accepted voltage by the machine, just a lower voltage than the default for that speed. Speedstep changes the voltage to the chip when it's running at lower speeds, so if those voltages aren't ever dropped below, I have a REALLY hard time believing that any harm will come from undervolting. The transistors are MADE to run at that voltage. They just aren't set to that voltage by default.
And eventually, we'll start realizing that we are ALL assholes at one point or another, and we'll get on with our lives ;) No one can be holier-than-thou because you have proof that they aren't, so the playing field is equalized.
I'm completely talking out of my ass, but I don't think it's an entirely BAD thing that people will be forced to admit to their mistakes. We all make them... how we deal with them is how we should be defined (as in, did we learn from them?).
I guess I'm lucky that a lot of other people with my name are more famous than I am for various things. Any googling of my name leads to them, rather than me ;) Actually... googling my pseudonym is MORE likely to get accurate info on me than my real name is.
Something else was going on, then. I can't think of any physical/electronic mechanism or find any reliable references to undervolting causing damage other than your anecdote.
Undervolting is nice in some cases. That's the only way I'll skew voltages. It keeps your fans from coming on as often because it doesn't get as hot, uses less power which is REALLY nice when running on battery in a laptop...
But I agree, upping voltages to get things to go faster is just asking for trouble.
They're not at a lower quality than the ones that operate at spec voltage... if anything, they're HIGHER quality. The point of running at higher voltages is to get faster timings and more bandwidth out of them, not to just run. Most of the enthusiast memory will run at a higher frequency, which directly translates into an argument against your bulk data transfer speed argument. It just needs the faster timings to operate at that speed.
And then there are those of us who under-volt to squeeze more battery life out on the airplane...
That's funny... I know Google Maps on my Blackberry (T-Mobile) will find me by the tower I'm connected to first (and give an accuracy of about 1500 meters) before it starts tracking in on the GPS signal, if I get the GPS signal at all. Phones most definitely get more than ephemeris data from the cell towers, and the author's description had at least as many facts right as your post does.
1. That's not the only reason. SMS works on the signaling channels, which are never "used" except for a very short period of time. Voice calls work over the... wait for it... voice channels! Sometimes those channels fill up, but you can still get through on the signaling channels.
2. RTFA... not purely based on the distance from the tower. It's also based on the number of phones in the vicinity that use the same bands and are fighting for signals, meaning they need to transmit a "I'm here!" type message much more often, even at the same distance from a tower.
3. No, it'll cause havoc with the cell system in GENERAL having them going on in the plane. The "paranoid ignoramuses" obviously are much less ignorant than you are.
4. See #1. Voicemail notifications works over the same notification channels as SMS (it was actually for voicemail notification first), and thus has the same benefits and pitfalls. You were right, but you didn't grasp the connection between the two, something you'd know if you read the fine article.
Being vociferous about things you "know" can often end up in you looking like a fool. Even if the mods give you points on your patently wrong information.
What kinda crappy cell phone do you have? Mine calls my wife when I hit one button that's easily locatable by touch and say "Call wife". And even better, it can "read" the address book entries, so I don't have to spend time training it. I just say "call " where is in my address book, and it does! Even the "free" phones you get with service any more do that.
Under most circumstances. Many states have started enacting curfews and passenger limits on under 18 drivers, but that's not universal. When I turned 16, I could drive anywhere without restrictions (and I've been in 3 accidents... one sliding off the road that was covered in ice, two where other people rear-ended me when I was stopped for either a sign or a light. I've been driving for 11 years now.) Being that Finland has a much higher population density in most areas, you can get away with not needing a car before you're 18. In the US with our "car culture", it's almost necessary to have a car to have any kind of freedom from your parents, to go do things without imposing on them for transportation. There's nothing wrong with letting kids drive at 16, unless they don't have a proper sense of responsibility.
When I was learning my Dad took me onto the Interstate my second or third time in the driver's seat. I've never understood why parents keep their kids from going on the highway... it's no different than any other street except for the speed limit. Still gotta watch out for the same retards no matter how fast you're going, and if you give people the right amount of room, you still have the exact same amount of time to react.
You learn a lot by driving an unreliable car ;) At least, I did. I think it's made me a better driver in general now, since I can tell when things are going wrong with the vehicle before they blow up, and can do preventative maintenance to keep it going. A beater is a great learning experience, IMHO.
Wow. That's insane... my laptop that has about 2GB of RAM used at any given time because of our massive Java server that starts up every time I boot only takes 40 seconds to start up. There is no excuse for a 10 minute boot time.
Not to mention the main difference between subs and airplanes apparently being weight, which is a horribly stupid and flat-out wrong statement.
Want more weight? Bring some water into the machine, compress some air so you can blow it out later, and you're set. The MAIN difference between airplanes and subs is that airplanes are made to operate in 0.5-1atm of pressure (yes, I know it's an archaic unit of measure... it's easier than actually looking this stuff up). Just 30ft down, a sub has to handle 2atm of pressure, so subs are designed to the tens of atmospheres at a minimum. Basically 1-20atm. That's the main difference, and why it's so hard to make something that flies AND submerges.
Speak for yourself, weakling :P All kidding aside, there's no reason a geek shouldn't at least be moderately fit. It's as easy as parking far out in the parking lot instead of right next to the door, and ordering a nice sandwich with veggies and such on it instead of pizza.
Athleticism isn't purely genetic... it takes practice and work, just like every other skill.
By your statement, electric cars were "here" in the 1830's. That's just stupid... the concept hasn't arrived until it's become mainstream, where normal people can afford and use them.
As for the telephone, Bell invented it in 1876. The first commercial telephone service (also started by Bell) had 230 phones in 1887. 230 phones basically in the world, and that was 10 years after Bell built it. That's not "arrived". Most people still hadn't even heard of a telephone at the time... it would almost be 1900 before phone systems were truly rolled out widely, and even then, they were still primarily the domain of the rich and privileged.
You know what you have when the RIAA lawyers are buried up to their necks in sand?
Not enough sand.
They're in 4th grade. "Working with computers" is as specific as you need to get, because that's all they can really handle. It's an introductory presentation. You're not hiring any of them any time soon... so yes, you are "selling the product". Anything you do to get them interested in computers, just thinking about them as a career path, is good. It's like explaining physics to a 4th grader... you say "gravity is what keeps the ball on the ground". You don't start them with trajectory calculus.
People don't pay $10 only for the content. They pay for the experience of watching it in the theater setting, big screen, good speakers, etc. For your $2, you have to provide your own screen, seating, etc. It's not as much of a steal as you seem to imply, unless you have an awesome home theater system.
Get more RAM (cheap), and install xubuntu-desktop, boot to xfce. That's about all you can do to make it faster other than using lighter-weight tools, like using kazehakase instead of Firefox if you can get away with it, etc. (kazehakase is in the *buntu repositories)
I don't like them either, but they power devices for so much longer and deal much better with "random" charging, where you don't charge it all the way or discharge it all the way. I'll take a short lifetime for the flexibility of being able to not kill it by only partially charging it.
The OS doesn't just randomly "throw away" memory. There is no mechanism for doing so, asking programs to relinquish RAM they previously allocated. What the OS IS doing is dropping file caches from memory, stuff Firefox has read for rendering pages, and leaving them just on the disk. But that's not Firefox's memory... that's the operating system's memory. It can't throw out OpenOffice memory at all. The ONLY thing an OS can do is say "no, you can't have more memory" when a program wants more, or kill the program entirely. It can't find "safe" places to reclaim RAM.
Go take an OS design course, or at least read up on it. There is nothing in your post based in fact.
So, going 5mph on a busy street is acceptable? If you don't know where you're going, pull over and look at a map. If you're going slow, stay out of other people's way. Just because you want (or need) to go slow does not entitle you to create a blockage for everyone else who needs to use the same roads you do.
Yes, you are allowed to drive slow. If you need to do so for safety, that's understandable. But you should also realize that you're being a complete asshole doing so, and should drive during times that aren't as heavy with traffic if you can't keep up with the flow of traffic. It's the whole tragedy of the commons idea... it only takes one asshole driving like an idiot to create a traffic jam for everyone else.
Twice the porn? My god... that's like, 120% of the bytes being filled with porn...