Right then. Hope you're happy with your 286's performance then. And make sure you don't drive a car, or even ride public transit, as all those emissions of hot gases are just a waste. Or sit in a heated building in winter or cooled building in the summer, because it'd be much less wasteful to have the inside the same temperature as the outside. Or use a CRT television or monitor, as those use much more energy than an LCD.
What you refer to as "waste" is simply a by-product of adding more energy to the system to get more work done, and some of that energy being shunted off as heat, rather than useful work, which is pretty much just obeying the second law of thermodynamics. I'm all for system efficiency, but they haven't really made things that inefficient (except for the Pentium 4). They're just running into physical limits of materials and energy that we have no way around any more. For the amount of wattage that a computer draws now, you get MUCH more work done that you did for a similar wattage draw in the 386/486 era.
In short, nothing is as simple as you'd like to make it, and you're just delusional:) Go take your meds.
But you're making the choice between "silent" and "high performance", because if you stick a lot of high-spec parts in your machine, you'll need active cooling of some sort. You can't cool a GeForce 8800GTX combined with a Quad Core chip passively. Hence, the water cooling allows you the best of both worlds. But it's all a choice.
Until you're overvolting your RAM to speed up timings just like you do with your CPU. Then you might want some extra cooling for the extra heat being created...
Actually, most household dust is just flaked off skin, which is pretty non-conductive itself. If you had metal shavings or something else soluble in the dust, I'd worry, but it's very unlikely.
Yeah, well... I'll see your Heroes reference, and raise you a Firefly quote (that is vaguely, but not really at all, related):
Dr. Simon Tam: Uh, her... her medications are erratic. There's-there's not one that her system can eventually break down, and...
Mal: When want a lot of medical jargon, I'll talk to a doctor.
Dr. Simon Tam: You are talking to a doctor.
Man, I can't WAIT to get back to the days of unprotected memory, where any program can access any other program's address space, and do all kinds of NEAT hacks!!!! Just don't connect it to the Internet.
The Amiga was a great system for it's time, and had some very good design choices with the co-processors and the like. But it's not feasible in today's malware (and crapware, and buggy-beta-ware, and...) infested world. I think these designs, that are backed by the two central players in the desktop CPU/architecture market (and heavy players in the small to mid-size server market), will be a good compromise between the robustness and speed of recent technologies with older ideas. Not to mention it's actually better having a general-purpose bus, so things are more configurable, rather than just having a system with separate chips for different tasks.
And stop using that backwards, pointless drive lettering thing while you're at it. You can already mount a drive at a folder... why oh why do you insist on having drive letters? It does nothing but confuse your users (ever plug in a multi-card reader and have to guess which newly created "drive" actually has your flash card in it?), and has no place in a modern system. Not to mention it limits you to 26 devices, a few of which are reserved for pointless legacy reasons (A and B). C'mon MS, learn from your mistakes.
So, wait... you've never had a random game on Windows misbehave? My friend told me that the C&C3 installer almost locked up on his computer, and took forever to install. Mine acted just like any normal install. My computer's a little newer, but other than that, they're very comparable (especially for just a freakin' installer). But that's just a glitch, right? Whereas Linux must be unplayable because it's not 100% perfect in every regard, especially running a non-native implementation of a retarded API? Y'all can't have your cake and eat it too, you know.
There's almost always a "key" pin, one that's all by itself, that you can use to orient yourself to any diagram of those jumper blocks in which "up" is a non-specific direction.
GAH! My brain is trying to escape! Dude, get a recent version of Firefox. It'll put red dotted lines under like, half the words in your post there. Then right click on those, and choose the correct version. The purpose is dual: other people can read it easier, and they also no longer assume that you're a 14 year old pothead who landed on his (or her, gotta be PC) head falling off his skateboard one too many times.
Meh. I'm working on a contract at a company and another BIG consultant is doing a contract for them, $30mil, and they're going to be overdue by almost double the time. The project was supposed to take 1.5yrs, it's looking like they won't be out until 3. And they're just throwing bodies at it, and said bodies seem to just talk about the weather when I overhear them, not the project. Kinda makes you BLUE... fortunately it's a fixed price for the contractee.
And then there are the people that catch up to you and then just stay in your blind spot (they must think they're geese or something... definitely birdbrains of some sort). Happens a lot to me, driving lots of miles on the highway. I can only imagine what it's like for truckers who have even more limited visibility (you do realize some vehicles don't afford you the full 360 view by turning your head, right?). If you didn't watch them come all the way up and stop, they're almost invisible. It's not entirely his fault necessarily.
Ok, I look over my right shoulder... how do I figure out how close I am to the 1' high curb(maybe you spell it kerb?) on my left hand side? Stick my head out the window over my left shoulder? Or just use my mirror, and still be able to see cars beside me when I'm driving because I have it set to as wide an angle as possible while still keeping the very edge of my car in view?
I may be an asshole, but I've never caused an accident in well over 10 years of driving, and I've stopped a couple chain-reactions from people rear-ending me while I was stopped from going any further because I stopped back far enough. I also quite often drive larger vehicles where the ONLY way to look behind you is through the side mirrors (ever think of that, retard?), and trailers, which are a little bit of a trick to back up and pretty much REQUIRE you to use the mirrors in many cases.
"The sky reflects back blue, but there's this strangely dark spot moving against it... shoot it!"
Just because it doesn't reflect light doesn't mean that it also doesn't block light. In the dark, it'd be very hard to see an object, but it would be the strange completely black spot against the backlight if you ever saw it silhouetted against a light source. It'd be awesome if they could use this as an anti-glare coating on binoculars or something, though.
If you're already running stuff that old... why not try out Ubuntu with Wine for Office? No need to pay for upgraded hardware, no need to antivirus software, and it'll almost certainly run Office 2000 without a hiccup.
But... what if I'm backing up close to something that's near the driver's side (or passenger side) of my car? Or it's below the level of the door panels and such? Mirrors are pretty much the only way to see those obstacles reliably, and judge your distance from them.
Maybe the idiot moniker was misplaced, and should have been self-attributed?
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And Microsoft knows that gamers are typically the "little Billy down the street that knows EVERYTHING about computers", so people take his advice that Vista is "AwsUm3!1", paying lots of cash, and then getting a barely functioning machine loaded down with shitware (and spyware once little Suzy and her Cometcursor/Weatherbug/shiny crapware infatuation get ahold of it). But they just assume this is how computers are supposed to function, and they just need to buy a faster one (according to Billy, that is).
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Naah. It's more like cache poisoning. You aren't trying to take them offline, you're just sending them bad information.
Right then. Hope you're happy with your 286's performance then. And make sure you don't drive a car, or even ride public transit, as all those emissions of hot gases are just a waste. Or sit in a heated building in winter or cooled building in the summer, because it'd be much less wasteful to have the inside the same temperature as the outside. Or use a CRT television or monitor, as those use much more energy than an LCD.
:) Go take your meds.
What you refer to as "waste" is simply a by-product of adding more energy to the system to get more work done, and some of that energy being shunted off as heat, rather than useful work, which is pretty much just obeying the second law of thermodynamics. I'm all for system efficiency, but they haven't really made things that inefficient (except for the Pentium 4). They're just running into physical limits of materials and energy that we have no way around any more. For the amount of wattage that a computer draws now, you get MUCH more work done that you did for a similar wattage draw in the 386/486 era.
In short, nothing is as simple as you'd like to make it, and you're just delusional
But you're making the choice between "silent" and "high performance", because if you stick a lot of high-spec parts in your machine, you'll need active cooling of some sort. You can't cool a GeForce 8800GTX combined with a Quad Core chip passively. Hence, the water cooling allows you the best of both worlds. But it's all a choice.
Until you're overvolting your RAM to speed up timings just like you do with your CPU. Then you might want some extra cooling for the extra heat being created...
Actually, most household dust is just flaked off skin, which is pretty non-conductive itself. If you had metal shavings or something else soluble in the dust, I'd worry, but it's very unlikely.
Pita@Pita:~$ ls -l /etc/localtime /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Mountain
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2006-03-27 11:33
It's a symlink. Makes it a lot easier than dealing with copying over with that tzinfo stuff.
That's what I'm saying. We DON'T want an Amiga. We can learn some lessons from offloading some processing tasks, but that's it.
And computers have been around for over 30. But Microsoft hasn't. Maybe that's why Unix-like OS's have had such an easy time with this...
Yeah, well... I'll see your Heroes reference, and raise you a Firefly quote (that is vaguely, but not really at all, related): Dr. Simon Tam: Uh, her... her medications are erratic. There's-there's not one that her system can eventually break down, and... Mal: When want a lot of medical jargon, I'll talk to a doctor. Dr. Simon Tam: You are talking to a doctor.
You really don't need an excuse to delete that stuff. I mean it.
Man, I can't WAIT to get back to the days of unprotected memory, where any program can access any other program's address space, and do all kinds of NEAT hacks!!!! Just don't connect it to the Internet.
The Amiga was a great system for it's time, and had some very good design choices with the co-processors and the like. But it's not feasible in today's malware (and crapware, and buggy-beta-ware, and...) infested world. I think these designs, that are backed by the two central players in the desktop CPU/architecture market (and heavy players in the small to mid-size server market), will be a good compromise between the robustness and speed of recent technologies with older ideas. Not to mention it's actually better having a general-purpose bus, so things are more configurable, rather than just having a system with separate chips for different tasks.
And stop using that backwards, pointless drive lettering thing while you're at it. You can already mount a drive at a folder... why oh why do you insist on having drive letters? It does nothing but confuse your users (ever plug in a multi-card reader and have to guess which newly created "drive" actually has your flash card in it?), and has no place in a modern system. Not to mention it limits you to 26 devices, a few of which are reserved for pointless legacy reasons (A and B). C'mon MS, learn from your mistakes.
So, wait... you've never had a random game on Windows misbehave? My friend told me that the C&C3 installer almost locked up on his computer, and took forever to install. Mine acted just like any normal install. My computer's a little newer, but other than that, they're very comparable (especially for just a freakin' installer). But that's just a glitch, right? Whereas Linux must be unplayable because it's not 100% perfect in every regard, especially running a non-native implementation of a retarded API? Y'all can't have your cake and eat it too, you know.
There's almost always a "key" pin, one that's all by itself, that you can use to orient yourself to any diagram of those jumper blocks in which "up" is a non-specific direction.
GAH! My brain is trying to escape! Dude, get a recent version of Firefox. It'll put red dotted lines under like, half the words in your post there. Then right click on those, and choose the correct version. The purpose is dual: other people can read it easier, and they also no longer assume that you're a 14 year old pothead who landed on his (or her, gotta be PC) head falling off his skateboard one too many times.
Does the one in your town also pay higher property taxes, or are sales taxes in your area higher, or included or something?
Meh. I'm working on a contract at a company and another BIG consultant is doing a contract for them, $30mil, and they're going to be overdue by almost double the time. The project was supposed to take 1.5yrs, it's looking like they won't be out until 3. And they're just throwing bodies at it, and said bodies seem to just talk about the weather when I overhear them, not the project. Kinda makes you BLUE... fortunately it's a fixed price for the contractee.
Sucks? It's FRAUD. Pure and simple.
And then there are the people that catch up to you and then just stay in your blind spot (they must think they're geese or something... definitely birdbrains of some sort). Happens a lot to me, driving lots of miles on the highway. I can only imagine what it's like for truckers who have even more limited visibility (you do realize some vehicles don't afford you the full 360 view by turning your head, right?). If you didn't watch them come all the way up and stop, they're almost invisible. It's not entirely his fault necessarily.
Ok, I look over my right shoulder... how do I figure out how close I am to the 1' high curb(maybe you spell it kerb?) on my left hand side? Stick my head out the window over my left shoulder? Or just use my mirror, and still be able to see cars beside me when I'm driving because I have it set to as wide an angle as possible while still keeping the very edge of my car in view?
I may be an asshole, but I've never caused an accident in well over 10 years of driving, and I've stopped a couple chain-reactions from people rear-ending me while I was stopped from going any further because I stopped back far enough. I also quite often drive larger vehicles where the ONLY way to look behind you is through the side mirrors (ever think of that, retard?), and trailers, which are a little bit of a trick to back up and pretty much REQUIRE you to use the mirrors in many cases.
In short, go fuck yourself, and have a nice day!
"The sky reflects back blue, but there's this strangely dark spot moving against it... shoot it!" Just because it doesn't reflect light doesn't mean that it also doesn't block light. In the dark, it'd be very hard to see an object, but it would be the strange completely black spot against the backlight if you ever saw it silhouetted against a light source. It'd be awesome if they could use this as an anti-glare coating on binoculars or something, though.
But what kind of money would you budget for replacing/fixing drive failure in each case? That's the rub.
If you're already running stuff that old... why not try out Ubuntu with Wine for Office? No need to pay for upgraded hardware, no need to antivirus software, and it'll almost certainly run Office 2000 without a hiccup.
But... what if I'm backing up close to something that's near the driver's side (or passenger side) of my car? Or it's below the level of the door panels and such? Mirrors are pretty much the only way to see those obstacles reliably, and judge your distance from them.
Maybe the idiot moniker was misplaced, and should have been self-attributed?
And Microsoft knows that gamers are typically the "little Billy down the street that knows EVERYTHING about computers", so people take his advice that Vista is "AwsUm3!1", paying lots of cash, and then getting a barely functioning machine loaded down with shitware (and spyware once little Suzy and her Cometcursor/Weatherbug/shiny crapware infatuation get ahold of it). But they just assume this is how computers are supposed to function, and they just need to buy a faster one (according to Billy, that is).