They call for a 600W or 750W PSU just because there are no-brand ones around there that will fry your hardware or make it unstable. A gold rated 500W PSU will be nice : PC actually eats about 300W (only when gaming with maybe an encoding job in the background) which is in the range for top efficiency (around 50% to 60%) which means lowish heating served by a high grade 140mm fan and the back of the PSU has " bee-hive" empty space for the air to go through (and these days even mid/low range cases can have a PSU-on-bottom scheme).
Ergo, high end 500W PSU will do the job of a 1050W one for a third the cost.
Really, pixels and crap don't matter that much and bigger screen might be too distracting even. The sound and its quality will matter much more if you're playing and wife is cooking or if you're cooking and wife is watching TV (or programming a raytracer for 3D fractals on her mechanical bluetooth keyboard).
Get your damn sound nice. That may be a pair of speakers (rather than 5.1 or 7.1 or 2.1) with a class D amp either un-equalized or well equalized with care for the room's acoustics and how it's heard both in front of the screen and out of the screen. That's my own bias for stereo here. But get sound that's both great, vivid, loud and unobstrusive when you don't care about it, and likewise for my tastes, display. Projector has qualities (bad black levels, but 100% angles of vision. Which a CRT would do with black level at zero to boost.. OLED panel will do everything in about year 2016 or 2017.)
There is then the option of a small living room PC (deemed as "HTPC" though an old Pentium III tower can be a quiet HTPC if it's just for movies and music) and the gaming crap may have say a GTX 970 - because it can stream in H265, do that on gig wired ethernet. Steam running on the small client PC is crap made for thin-clienting a bigger gaming PC (Valve made noise about "steam boxes" whereas nvidia calls it shadowplay. In the end there's nvidia lock-in in there)
Drop the watts and/or have more and bigger fans, you have noise because you wanted it (200W to 300W GPU). Get a GM107 GPU for instance, the board only uses around 65 watts max (and is around GTX 470 or GTX 480 graphics power) Go on with your plan about displays.. Use a 1080p 27" or 28" PC 1080p PC display as a "TV" : with the best you can find (very low black levels, very low or none input lag, and calilbrated colors with either a downloaded profile or a probe) it's better than a TV and "small' like a big CRT used to be.. Get or do not get a projector (LED projector would be great for decade life time but as time passes, the LED gets better with a Moore-like improvment).
Keep the PC fucking simple, either a Windoze theme or linux, or Windoze 10 or Windoze 7 and have the software not crappy. Custom interfaces are shit (in my opinion) and a file manager plus video player is simpler though a "TV" interface would be useful and by that I mean a PCI or PCIe tuner (cable, satelite, Hertzian antenna) where the interface consists of a remote with "channel 1, channel 2, chanel 3.." and "Volume up, Volume down, Mute".
Faliing that, follow the advice of about 40 preceding comments that say "put wife in cabinet".
Guess what getting raised on both metric and cursive is fine, learning wise. I believe you're australian as I seen in "Heartbreak High" TV series hilarious young prick gets in trouble while messing up rolling a carpet floor.. missed by a few inches or tens centimeters because they use inches in a metric country. This crap shortly predated the Mars probe fuck up.
.. it was done with ball pens and later maybe with ink pens but done the same as ball pens, and already it was quite not the same as writing in 1920 or 1883 was done. There was debate about this like two decades before I was born and frankly, people before learnt to write like they were the fucking US president or Duke of My Ass by varying letter thickness depending on pressure and direction. Modern cursive is already a compromise for ease and fastness (and lower cost even)
You got : learning, education, "social power" (imagine contracts, banking crap, invitations, applying for welfare programs, whatever). It's like a 3D printer expect for 2D printing. You stick it to the man for 1/100th of the cost. And pen is mightier than the sword. Main danger though is losing your paper stashes (from burning, homelessness or whatever) though ironically a thin and dirt cheap scanner plus outdated hard drive would back it up nowadays for less than the price of a hostel stay (or is it hotel).
I say fuck you to iphone and android, because this is what you're condemning people to (people is children like ten years later), you require people to have like $100 tech (plus yearly $200 for cell data and SIM card cost) to empower yet depower them. And they aren't computer litterate even (ROM, RAM, file, file manager, they don't know shit about it). And shit, Finland and neighbors, can't they get rid of their Angstrom and striked O lettters if they wish, before getting rid of cursive write. It will be a thorn in their ass.
And should I add, this is mostly about trivialities. I welcome you pushing Ubuntu LTS Mate. Even Ubuntu Unity has some qualities (seen friends running it on their own, it is made for the 1366 by 768 laptop)
Who's the middle man making the theme and wallpaper then. Well, I'll certainly have to try it but if it's like the old days of totem player as default, "warning : do you want to install the mp3 codecs" and no flash plug-in, it's not my kind of thing anymore. On the other hand Ubuntu is excellent if you "roll your own" (between quotes as every installation of everything is brain-dead easy and automated) : use the pxe or netinstall installer, get the base command line system (that has most everything for such an environment) and add what you want. It's about a better debian. I only wish it had a clean state "ubuntu + lxde" iso as debian does, because I am not fond of what lubuntu does (theme and additional software)
I believe mathematical work has shown that with congestion, a general slow down improves traffic. The human factor is of course, er, what it is. It should be slowish all the way, sensible speed depending on conditions, and well just keeping the distances should do it.
Even telling that I know I might drive like a prick if I were in a hurry (such as being late on morning). Does your big road has decreasing speed signs, aerial text displays and the like? (before 40 mph choke point and especially before your crazy OCR camera). What about campaigns asking drivers to keep calm, let the steam blow off and just drive gently (like teaching the benefits of not tailgating). I am naïve but fuck, can't these people forget about the race and angst. Driving a car to/from work puts them in the world's 10% most well off already and they can't fucking manage to be happy.
I'd say in general, stay away from the 3D accelerated desktops (all of them) if you aren't 100% sure you have the right graphics and driver. Better safe than sorry, then you only have to worry about the other issues.
Check out Mint 17.1 Mate, it's about Ubuntu LTS (where you don't really need to leave to default repos for the most part) and still refining Gnome 2.
Linux is sadly stuck in endless cycles of waiting for better software and better drivers, that will never end even though we might find a (temporary) sweet spot sometimes. There once was a cycle of well supported, just works, ever improving releases. Ubuntu 8.04, debian lenny, Ubuntu 10.04, debian squeeze (ignoring some debates about the 8.04 launch). I'd say Mint is about the same and the 17.x series is about staying on LTS with a bit more hardware support and desktop features/stability each time.
Anyway I'm sure your "2.0 TDI" and "2.0 TSI" both have high performance, when both options are powerful I don't believe the difference matters that much.
France is very slanted towards diesel for biggers cars (and you have e.g. BMW catering to the diesel market a lot, in addition to French makes) while a small car maybe ought to be gas powered but perhaps uniquely the French buy a ton of small diesel cars (e.g. Peugeot 205, 206, 207 over the years). It's most dumb for short commute and groceries kind of use, as it hardly has time to warm up. If I really had a need or want for a car I'd choose a cheap high-mileage gas one (but sucks to pay for insurance and inspections if I want to use it as little as possible)
Right now France uses 96.76% of nuclear and 15.73% of hydro, which adds up to 112.49%, plus 3.90% of gas giving 116.39%, plus the other shit.
hey, this site is nice at least. bookmarks. The six neighbors (ignoring Luxembourg) use 1.77% to 5.59% of our demand each. Pumped hydro uses only 0.11% (there's a grand total of only one dam doing it).
About 122% of demand is produced, so nuclear is only doing a bit under 80% of the production.
For your issue of making your crap work, the future solution (or present solution) is probably to have hardware with IOMMU support and a VM that has your firewire controller in there. Then outdated linux can run with your firewire (hopefully!). Something like debian lenny maybe works if antiquated enough (else it was modern and piece of cake easy to install and use, like Ubuntu). I had installed a proprietary driver for TNT2 M64 on it - that made me jumps through hoops - and also xmms 1 (which in the end sucked regarding non-mp3 playback and russian / "illegal" characters) and I wonder if lenny would run on your hardware even.
I suppose there will be wind and solar backed by natural gas generators, leading to a small CO2 emissions increase. Nat gas at least burns really clean, we tolerate burning it indoors.
Replying a bit late.. Isn't there some upsampling + filtering in the DAC?, where it's the better place to do it. Also, if you want to filter the PCM signal, 48KHz will give you a bit more headroom. From what stuff I've read 48KHz audio ought to be enough for any playback (that a non CD Audio source of course) and 16bit is enough too (dithered from higher and enough already to hear both the bangs and those annoying breathes, whispers, page turning lol)
As was said in one comment before the real issue has got to do with crude refinement. Not only we use too much diesel and not enough gasoline.. These days, we can generate more gasoline in proportion from the crude. And the demand for diesel fuel from hauling trucks and the like will not go away. So the French have gone too far in favoring diesel cars (from a high amount of diesel cars, the trend has only increased for the past decade or two). I would favor reducing car use and number of cars but policy will be to incentivize people to burn more gasoline and less diesel.
Not that smoggy though Paris is and maybe a few more places. Most places are smog free, though highest traffic streets and urban highways are not very nice of course. General lack of fossil fuel burning power plants and widespread electric heating do wonders.
Indeed, those were some weird ass PCIe SSD. Had to install linux on a friend's one which had 4GB + 8GB and the memory upgraded to 2GB, very good survival could be achieved ( / on ext2 on the 4GB,/home on 8GB, no swap )
The new stuff coming is a bit different as they're a System-on-Chip instead of a CPU + chipset, so they make it more integrated on a very small motherboard and everything is soldered like on a tablet (or those stupid macbook pro and 2014 macmini). Hoping a manufacturer with basic respect for human feelings and the underclass will make one but with an additional SO-DIMM slot and M.2 or mSATA.
Try something like 60-100kph or 40-100. Diesel often wins for these real-world accelerations because of torque at low rpms, while the acceleration figures for gasoline is some dragster type of driving revving up to the red zone which no one does unless they're psychopaths.
Happens sort of in announced $200 laptops. You get 32GB eMMC soldered on the motherboard and can't add or change anything - beware of what you ask for lol.
And then I question that 100us figure. It's the actual current latency for accessing an SSD including the software/OS requesting the data, the driver, latency from the AHCI protocol (soon to be replaced with much lower latency NVMe), the SSD controller accessing the physical flash.
Some people play their music upsampled to 192KHz, so they can then play it at 192KHz on their DAC which is not only useless but causes a subtle degradation (probably inaudible anyway)
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They call for a 600W or 750W PSU just because there are no-brand ones around there that will fry your hardware or make it unstable.
A gold rated 500W PSU will be nice : PC actually eats about 300W (only when gaming with maybe an encoding job in the background) which is in the range for top efficiency (around 50% to 60%) which means lowish heating served by a high grade 140mm fan and the back of the PSU has " bee-hive" empty space for the air to go through (and these days even mid/low range cases can have a PSU-on-bottom scheme).
Ergo, high end 500W PSU will do the job of a 1050W one for a third the cost.
Really, pixels and crap don't matter that much and bigger screen might be too distracting even.
The sound and its quality will matter much more if you're playing and wife is cooking or if you're cooking and wife is watching TV (or programming a raytracer for 3D fractals on her mechanical bluetooth keyboard).
Get your damn sound nice. That may be a pair of speakers (rather than 5.1 or 7.1 or 2.1) with a class D amp either un-equalized or well equalized with care for the room's acoustics and how it's heard both in front of the screen and out of the screen. That's my own bias for stereo here. But get sound that's both great, vivid, loud and unobstrusive when you don't care about it, and likewise for my tastes, display. Projector has qualities (bad black levels, but 100% angles of vision. Which a CRT would do with black level at zero to boost.. OLED panel will do everything in about year 2016 or 2017.)
There is then the option of a small living room PC (deemed as "HTPC" though an old Pentium III tower can be a quiet HTPC if it's just for movies and music) and the gaming crap may have say a GTX 970 - because it can stream in H265, do that on gig wired ethernet. Steam running on the small client PC is crap made for thin-clienting a bigger gaming PC (Valve made noise about "steam boxes" whereas nvidia calls it shadowplay. In the end there's nvidia lock-in in there)
Drop the watts and/or have more and bigger fans, you have noise because you wanted it (200W to 300W GPU). Get a GM107 GPU for instance, the board only uses around 65 watts max (and is around GTX 470 or GTX 480 graphics power)
Go on with your plan about displays.. Use a 1080p 27" or 28" PC 1080p PC display as a "TV" : with the best you can find (very low black levels, very low or none input lag, and calilbrated colors with either a downloaded profile or a probe) it's better than a TV and "small' like a big CRT used to be.. Get or do not get a projector (LED projector would be great for decade life time but as time passes, the LED gets better with a Moore-like improvment).
Keep the PC fucking simple, either a Windoze theme or linux, or Windoze 10 or Windoze 7 and have the software not crappy.
Custom interfaces are shit (in my opinion) and a file manager plus video player is simpler though a "TV" interface would be useful and by that I mean a PCI or PCIe tuner (cable, satelite, Hertzian antenna) where the interface consists of a remote with "channel 1, channel 2, chanel 3.." and "Volume up, Volume down, Mute".
Faliing that, follow the advice of about 40 preceding comments that say "put wife in cabinet".
Guess what getting raised on both metric and cursive is fine, learning wise. I believe you're australian as I seen in "Heartbreak High" TV series hilarious young prick gets in trouble while messing up rolling a carpet floor.. missed by a few inches or tens centimeters because they use inches in a metric country. This crap shortly predated the Mars probe fuck up.
.. it was done with ball pens and later maybe with ink pens but done the same as ball pens, and already it was quite not the same as writing in 1920 or 1883 was done. There was debate about this like two decades before I was born and frankly, people before learnt to write like they were the fucking US president or Duke of My Ass by varying letter thickness depending on pressure and direction.
Modern cursive is already a compromise for ease and fastness (and lower cost even)
You got : learning, education, "social power" (imagine contracts, banking crap, invitations, applying for welfare programs, whatever). It's like a 3D printer expect for 2D printing. You stick it to the man for 1/100th of the cost. And pen is mightier than the sword. Main danger though is losing your paper stashes (from burning, homelessness or whatever) though ironically a thin and dirt cheap scanner plus outdated hard drive would back it up nowadays for less than the price of a hostel stay (or is it hotel).
I say fuck you to iphone and android, because this is what you're condemning people to (people is children like ten years later), you require people to have like $100 tech (plus yearly $200 for cell data and SIM card cost) to empower yet depower them. And they aren't computer litterate even (ROM, RAM, file, file manager, they don't know shit about it).
And shit, Finland and neighbors, can't they get rid of their Angstrom and striked O lettters if they wish, before getting rid of cursive write. It will be a thorn in their ass.
And should I add, this is mostly about trivialities. I welcome you pushing Ubuntu LTS Mate. Even Ubuntu Unity has some qualities (seen friends running it on their own, it is made for the 1366 by 768 laptop)
Who's the middle man making the theme and wallpaper then.
Well, I'll certainly have to try it but if it's like the old days of totem player as default, "warning : do you want to install the mp3 codecs" and no flash plug-in, it's not my kind of thing anymore. On the other hand Ubuntu is excellent if you "roll your own" (between quotes as every installation of everything is brain-dead easy and automated) : use the pxe or netinstall installer, get the base command line system (that has most everything for such an environment) and add what you want. It's about a better debian. I only wish it had a clean state "ubuntu + lxde" iso as debian does, because I am not fond of what lubuntu does (theme and additional software)
I believe mathematical work has shown that with congestion, a general slow down improves traffic.
The human factor is of course, er, what it is. It should be slowish all the way, sensible speed depending on conditions, and well just keeping the distances should do it.
Even telling that I know I might drive like a prick if I were in a hurry (such as being late on morning). Does your big road has decreasing speed signs, aerial text displays and the like? (before 40 mph choke point and especially before your crazy OCR camera). What about campaigns asking drivers to keep calm, let the steam blow off and just drive gently (like teaching the benefits of not tailgating). I am naïve but fuck, can't these people forget about the race and angst. Driving a car to/from work puts them in the world's 10% most well off already and they can't fucking manage to be happy.
I'd say in general, stay away from the 3D accelerated desktops (all of them) if you aren't 100% sure you have the right graphics and driver. Better safe than sorry, then you only have to worry about the other issues.
Check out Mint 17.1 Mate, it's about Ubuntu LTS (where you don't really need to leave to default repos for the most part) and still refining Gnome 2.
Linux is sadly stuck in endless cycles of waiting for better software and better drivers, that will never end even though we might find a (temporary) sweet spot sometimes.
There once was a cycle of well supported, just works, ever improving releases. Ubuntu 8.04, debian lenny, Ubuntu 10.04, debian squeeze (ignoring some debates about the 8.04 launch). I'd say Mint is about the same and the 17.x series is about staying on LTS with a bit more hardware support and desktop features/stability each time.
Anyway I'm sure your "2.0 TDI" and "2.0 TSI" both have high performance, when both options are powerful I don't believe the difference matters that much.
France is very slanted towards diesel for biggers cars (and you have e.g. BMW catering to the diesel market a lot, in addition to French makes) while a small car maybe ought to be gas powered but perhaps uniquely the French buy a ton of small diesel cars (e.g. Peugeot 205, 206, 207 over the years). It's most dumb for short commute and groceries kind of use, as it hardly has time to warm up.
If I really had a need or want for a car I'd choose a cheap high-mileage gas one (but sucks to pay for insurance and inspections if I want to use it as little as possible)
Right now France uses 96.76% of nuclear and 15.73% of hydro, which adds up to 112.49%, plus 3.90% of gas giving 116.39%, plus the other shit.
hey, this site is nice at least. bookmarks. The six neighbors (ignoring Luxembourg) use 1.77% to 5.59% of our demand each. Pumped hydro uses only 0.11% (there's a grand total of only one dam doing it).
About 122% of demand is produced, so nuclear is only doing a bit under 80% of the production.
For your issue of making your crap work, the future solution (or present solution) is probably to have hardware with IOMMU support and a VM that has your firewire controller in there. Then outdated linux can run with your firewire (hopefully!). Something like debian lenny maybe works if antiquated enough (else it was modern and piece of cake easy to install and use, like Ubuntu). I had installed a proprietary driver for TNT2 M64 on it - that made me jumps through hoops - and also xmms 1 (which in the end sucked regarding non-mp3 playback and russian / "illegal" characters) and I wonder if lenny would run on your hardware even.
I suppose there will be wind and solar backed by natural gas generators, leading to a small CO2 emissions increase. Nat gas at least burns really clean, we tolerate burning it indoors.
Replying a bit late.. Isn't there some upsampling + filtering in the DAC?, where it's the better place to do it.
Also, if you want to filter the PCM signal, 48KHz will give you a bit more headroom.
From what stuff I've read 48KHz audio ought to be enough for any playback (that a non CD Audio source of course) and 16bit is enough too (dithered from higher and enough already to hear both the bangs and those annoying breathes, whispers, page turning lol)
As was said in one comment before the real issue has got to do with crude refinement. Not only we use too much diesel and not enough gasoline.. These days, we can generate more gasoline in proportion from the crude. And the demand for diesel fuel from hauling trucks and the like will not go away. So the French have gone too far in favoring diesel cars (from a high amount of diesel cars, the trend has only increased for the past decade or two).
I would favor reducing car use and number of cars but policy will be to incentivize people to burn more gasoline and less diesel.
Not that smoggy though Paris is and maybe a few more places. Most places are smog free, though highest traffic streets and urban highways are not very nice of course. General lack of fossil fuel burning power plants and widespread electric heating do wonders.
i assumed you meant "Rouen", for readers. (Normandy, place where Jeanne d'Arc's trial happened)
Indeed, those were some weird ass PCIe SSD. Had to install linux on a friend's one which had 4GB + 8GB and the memory upgraded to 2GB, very good survival could be achieved ( / on ext2 on the 4GB, /home on 8GB, no swap )
The new stuff coming is a bit different as they're a System-on-Chip instead of a CPU + chipset, so they make it more integrated on a very small motherboard and everything is soldered like on a tablet (or those stupid macbook pro and 2014 macmini). Hoping a manufacturer with basic respect for human feelings and the underclass will make one but with an additional SO-DIMM slot and M.2 or mSATA.
Try something like 60-100kph or 40-100. Diesel often wins for these real-world accelerations because of torque at low rpms, while the acceleration figures for gasoline is some dragster type of driving revving up to the red zone which no one does unless they're psychopaths.
Happens sort of in announced $200 laptops. You get 32GB eMMC soldered on the motherboard and can't add or change anything - beware of what you ask for lol.
And then I question that 100us figure. It's the actual current latency for accessing an SSD including the software/OS requesting the data, the driver, latency from the AHCI protocol (soon to be replaced with much lower latency NVMe), the SSD controller accessing the physical flash.
They could provide great catastrophic discharges.
None at all, then!
Some people play their music upsampled to 192KHz, so they can then play it at 192KHz on their DAC which is not only useless but causes a subtle degradation (probably inaudible anyway)