Jabra BT200: 60 quid from CPW at the moment. Got a better review than the HBH30 and the Nokia ones - I've got one. They rule.
Leave it in your car in the ashtray, leave your phone in your bag. Get in car - phone rings - pick up teeny headset and talk. Make a call? put in teeny headset, press button and speak a name.
I guess they're one of those things that you only appreciate how nice they are when you use it. I've had numerous handsfree kits for cars and digging out a tangle of wire from your doorpocket and trying to get it connected and in your ear before the caller rings off is no fun at all...
See how long it is after you do this before someone comes knocking, mentioning the problems airliners are having near your house and offering to point out the error of your ways with a boot.
stick it in the microwave, shut the door. don't turn it on, unless you want this to be a terminal experiment. microwave frequencies are in the same rough ball park (at least as far as shielding goes) to GSM frequencies and it'll stop reception!
and when I scan a photo with a digital copier the result is a compressed jpg - it's still a digital copy. just not a perfect one. it's a copy, it's digital. what more do you want?
If only we could have someone who could *really kick ass* and get him out. Someone who could use a shotgun whilst riding a motorbike. Hang on, he's running, isn't he...
...a bit anal, (hey, this IS slashdot!, but the reason they go "One, Two...T-T-T-Two" is because it's a phrase that tests low frequencies and high frequencies so you can check the PA. The "Wuu-hun" bit sweeps the lows, and the "TCH-OOO" bit has a lot of sibilance to test the tweeters.
AMD vary the heatsinks/fans quite a bit actually. Currently, anything over a 2.2 has been shipping with really quite nice retail heatsinks/fans - copper-cored, hologram on the fan and they really are pretty quiet...the old green plastic ones were a bit on the unsubtle side but current ones from the last six months are actually very good. there are some excellent aftermarket ones out there, though - personally for really quiet, i'd say either go passive if you can, or if not stick an 80mm fan on there with an 80-60mm adaptor. a larger fan is quieter for the same amount of air moved...
...not a call for wiring classrooms. There are plenty of psychology department's who'd like this data provided it's done ethically, and similar observational experiments go on via one-way glass and the like all the time, with informed consent.
I don't really see this as any different - it's just done with better observational tools
Now, if they'd wanted to install it without consent for long term monitoring, that would be different.
I'd presume this is because the opto drive has to be able to spin up and be controlled without the PC being on - this probably either uses some new features on the drive, or more likely depends on some ones in the standard that other manufacturer's have since dropped.
It'll only affect the cool "play CDs with the PC off" bit, nothing else. It's not imposing DRM on your MP3's*
did it cost you 200UKP for the barebones, and is it tiny and neat? if this was a post about a new linux distro, would you be saying "but mine does that already"? it's just a cool gadget, ok - a nice SFF box that you can buy to out-geek the guy with the shuttle cube
With respect, "Balls". I've built countless (well, OK, over 50 anyway) AMD Athlon systems and this just isn't true - it's FUD.
If yours have been overheating like this then you've installed it incorrectly, simple as that. The current retail (read, cheap) heatsink/fan combos AMD ship with are already quiet - and plenty of aftermarket quieter ones are available if you want near-silent.
I've had 1700's overclocked to 2200 speeds running in a normal mini tower with only a single case fan to ventilate the case and they typically hit mid-fifties *at the most* under load, well within normal specs. They also work fine up into the 80s if you really want to push them.
If you want to get really paranoid about heat, make sure your case is well vented and stick a zalman flower passive cooler on it.
stability vs temperature is a bell-curve - this is how AMDs production lines work, for example.
two different brands of paste, correctly applied, will *not* give you 5 degrees heat differential, though, in case you didn't know.
i don't give a flying fsck what anyone uses. i've got a sachet of generic cpu aluminium oxide stuff that came free with a heatsink that's enough to treat about 30 CPUs at a guess, that i've been using. arctic silver's easy to get hold of - it may be much more expensive than a tub of generic heat paste from an electrical components shop, but it's still only a couple of quid.
a milspec number might indicate quality, but the converse is not true. plenty of good things don't have a military spec number on them...
so if i don't use the keyboard shortcuts, i'm not proficient? so the disabled guy down the hall can never say he's proficient in, say, dragon dictate? you're confusing speed with skill.
is your production environment a japanese game show or something?
the problem is that *anyone* can plug a wireless access point into a live network socket and leak your network. IS don't always know if it's out there - some PHB can go to PC world, pickup a WAP and plug it in for his laptop and there's not a lot we can do about it apart from take them out when we find them...
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if you ever work for IBM (hint: don't) or Shell, then you'll use one of these everyday for food, drinks and in shell's case, logon to your PC
i would have thought. we don't have to get the truth involved, do we?
I think you could make a pretty decent mockery of any billboard using this with a leafblower...or an industrial vacuum: "hey, mcdonalds! you *suck*"
Get S-Man for your P800 and bluejack all those discoverable devices...
Leave it in your car in the ashtray, leave your phone in your bag. Get in car - phone rings - pick up teeny headset and talk. Make a call? put in teeny headset, press button and speak a name.
I guess they're one of those things that you only appreciate how nice they are when you use it. I've had numerous handsfree kits for cars and digging out a tangle of wire from your doorpocket and trying to get it connected and in your ear before the caller rings off is no fun at all...
See how long it is after you do this before someone comes knocking, mentioning the problems airliners are having near your house and offering to point out the error of your ways with a boot.
stick it in the microwave, shut the door. don't turn it on, unless you want this to be a terminal experiment. microwave frequencies are in the same rough ball park (at least as far as shielding goes) to GSM frequencies and it'll stop reception!
In that case, is it impossible to copy a signature? To copy to tape? To copy a DVD?
and when I scan a photo with a digital copier the result is a compressed jpg - it's still a digital copy. just not a perfect one. it's a copy, it's digital. what more do you want?
If only we could have someone who could *really kick ass* and get him out. Someone who could use a shotgun whilst riding a motorbike. Hang on, he's running, isn't he...
...they were so coked off their heads they wanted you to know how great they were...
I always look at people with buzz cuts and camo suspiciously. I don't *do* anything though. That would be dumb. They're the army...
AMD vary the heatsinks/fans quite a bit actually. Currently, anything over a 2.2 has been shipping with really quite nice retail heatsinks/fans - copper-cored, hologram on the fan and they really are pretty quiet...the old green plastic ones were a bit on the unsubtle side but current ones from the last six months are actually very good. there are some excellent aftermarket ones out there, though - personally for really quiet, i'd say either go passive if you can, or if not stick an 80mm fan on there with an 80-60mm adaptor. a larger fan is quieter for the same amount of air moved...
...not a call for wiring classrooms. There are plenty of psychology department's who'd like this data provided it's done ethically, and similar observational experiments go on via one-way glass and the like all the time, with informed consent.
I don't really see this as any different - it's just done with better observational tools
Now, if they'd wanted to install it without consent for long term monitoring, that would be different.
It'll only affect the cool "play CDs with the PC off" bit, nothing else. It's not imposing DRM on your MP3's*
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did it cost you 200UKP for the barebones, and is it tiny and neat? if this was a post about a new linux distro, would you be saying "but mine does that already"? it's just a cool gadget, ok - a nice SFF box that you can buy to out-geek the guy with the shuttle cube
If yours have been overheating like this then you've installed it incorrectly, simple as that. The current retail (read, cheap) heatsink/fan combos AMD ship with are already quiet - and plenty of aftermarket quieter ones are available if you want near-silent.
I've had 1700's overclocked to 2200 speeds running in a normal mini tower with only a single case fan to ventilate the case and they typically hit mid-fifties *at the most* under load, well within normal specs. They also work fine up into the 80s if you really want to push them.
If you want to get really paranoid about heat, make sure your case is well vented and stick a zalman flower passive cooler on it.
"Fast...uh...uhm, cheap er Cee-Pee-Ewes for Eve......oh, I give up"
What if it was 26%? 36%? 97%? Maybe if we squeeze it on *reeeeal sloooow* we'll get a perpetual motion machine!
stability vs temperature is a bell-curve - this is how AMDs production lines work, for example.
two different brands of paste, correctly applied, will *not* give you 5 degrees heat differential, though, in case you didn't know.
that's going to *shred* my render times! thank you! a THREE percent improvement?
i don't give a flying fsck what anyone uses.
i've got a sachet of generic cpu aluminium oxide stuff that came free with a heatsink that's enough to treat about 30 CPUs at a guess, that i've been using. arctic silver's easy to get hold of - it may be much more expensive than a tub of generic heat paste from an electrical components shop, but it's still only a couple of quid.
a milspec number might indicate quality, but the converse is not true. plenty of good things don't have a military spec number on them...
so if i don't use the keyboard shortcuts, i'm not proficient? so the disabled guy down the hall can never say he's proficient in, say, dragon dictate? you're confusing speed with skill. is your production environment a japanese game show or something?
the problem is that *anyone* can plug a wireless access point into a live network socket and leak your network. IS don't always know if it's out there - some PHB can go to PC world, pickup a WAP and plug it in for his laptop and there's not a lot we can do about it apart from take them out when we find them...
...precisely!