So in essence you're replying that "Yes, the Intel stock CPU fan is quieter than the AMD stock CPU fan." Funny, that sounds a lot like my criticism of your initial post.
My lights hum in this office and my CPU fan makes noise, but my CPU sure doesn't. Nice little dance and smoke and mirrors in the post but the CPU still isn't noticeably quieter.
Also, since you said it so well yourself, I thought I'd repeat it: "loudness is not a feature of 'fans...' as [I stated...]; even the minutest amount of effort spend [sic.] designing fan blade profiles and venturi would do absolute bloody wonders." Sounds like it really is about fans, airflow and vibration. That is afterall, what proper design of fan blade profiles changes, right?
Oh, and I work as a computer professional as well as being a trained sound board operator. I've worked with professional sound engineers in designing rooms for proper recording accoustics and doing room equalizing for making best use of the speaker systems available to it.
The PS2 being backward compatible was awefully smart. Look at how great their sales were when it came out because they had hundreds of titles already playable. For all the people who never bought a PS1, a PS2 was a great deal -- you get a next gen game platform *and* you get to play those PS1 games you never played while waiting for new games to come out.
I think one of the main points of the XBox was to be able to attract all those PC gaming companies to make quick DirectX-based ports of their games available to both markets simultaneously.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have worked out like that. Also, the PC gaming industry, accustomed to doing upgrades, patches, etc. hasn't been able to do the same thing on XBox (at least not yet). Perhaps online connectivity would have allowed them downloadable hard-drive updates, but it doesn't seem to yet.
I'm not sure better partical graphics on the XBox are worth the hype.
You're probably thinking of the levy we pay on blank media sold here. There's a levy on most forms of blank media (recordable DVDs are currently exempt, as are hard drives not used in MP3 players) which is then supposed to be redistributed to artists as a payment for the implied Copyright violations being perpetrated by the people buying some of said media.
That said, these levies make private personal copying of music legal in Canada as I understand the re-ruling in Jan 2004 (search historical Slashdot postings).
Remember that you can get DSL service anywhere in Canada if your local 'Bell' offers it, from any ISP partnered with 'Bell' for distribution.
Many DSL service providers in Northern Ontario can service you anywhere in the province, some anywhere in the country, using relaying through the local 'Bell' system nearest you.
You claim to know more about hardware than "Tom's" and you comment on a CPU/platform being quieter?
Go buy yourself an Antec Sonata computer case with an AMD CPU in it and tell me how loud it is.
Loudness is a feature of fans, airflow and vibration, not a CPU.
If what you're trying to insinuate is that AMD chips run hotter and therefore need better cooling, that may or may not be true at a given performance-point, but say so or you come off being to inexact to be able to back up your statements.
Copyright falls under international treaties. There are various treaties and arrangements in place (not the least of which is the Berne convention). Many countries in the world (AU possibly included?) have signed on to agree on what Copyright means with possible local modifications.
The DMCA is for example a USA-only modification to international Copyright laws. However, Canada, the USA and many other countries all agree that an author has Copyright on a creation of theirs not made as a work-for-hire (or otherwise signed away) without the need to register it and what rights this gives that author.
These agreements are part of the basis for the international upset at China (for example) ignoring Copyrights and illegally duplicating product then reselling it since its not illegal *there*.
Just what modern kids need; less exercise and sunlight. It causes cancer, after all (unlike any left-over radioactivity).
You *did* buy the combo fire / CO / giger counter detection system, right?:)
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I purposely have a couple spam E-mail collection addresses at the bottoms of all my websites (see link above). They are routinely collected by spam bots. If I receive a message to one of those addresses, the E-mail is not only auto-reported to Spam Cop but the sender IP is temporarily blacklisted on my mailserver.
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My wife had the fast Linux learning curve dealt to her the day I replaced the Windows boot screen with a LILO: prompt that defaulted to Linux. I still regret not making 'hell' the name for the Windows boot, but that's beside the point.
Recently she got a job where she was working with Windows computers and came home to tell me all the "problems" they have that we don't have at home with our computer. I pointed out that these were all 'normal' things for Windows and to ask any of her coworkers; they all agreed.
Ugh.
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A lot of that comes with familiarity and education as much as anything else. A lot of people from a given generation did or did not grow up with certain things or concepts and don't "get" them; and that's fine. Education's difficult sometimes.
How many people know how to program their own VCR? How many people know how to milk a cow? How many of you can change your own spark plugs? How about recompile a kernel?
I have a few professional clients who look at it very intelligently I think; one's a doctor who pointed out that he has no problems paying me to fix up his computer for him just as I'd have no problem paying him to fix me up on an O.R. table. Neither of us would try to do the other's work and we'd both be happier and less frustrated for it.
Its amazing how many of my clients don't report (Windows) server problems to me because its "normal". Its 'normal' that the backup has an error message, they just click the ok button (ack!), its 'normal' that the machine is out of virtual memory, they just reboot it (ack!).
Etc. Its amazing what the Windows computing culture has done to people.
Its a source-level patch. See `man patch`. I understand the sarcasm inherent in your statement and yet I don't see peoples' problem with doing a quick recompile and reboot. Its really that simple.
I didn't mind paying $300 for an inkjet printer that lasted almost 10 years (HP 540C). I wouldn't mind doing so again. Buying "throw-away" $50 printers with $80 cartridges is just a marketing ploy. If it stops working, sure, it'll swing back, good for us; we'll pay for what we're supposed to pay for.
I'd love to buy high-quality photo ink from one company and use it in the high-quality photo printer from the other company.
Who says the same people develop both the best print technology and the best ink?
I don't want the casual users of the software I write for them to be able to modify the software because (in my experience), they'd screw it up and I'd have to fix it.
As much as I charge an hour, I'd prefer not to constantly get calls about how to fix a problem someone else caused.
That said, the software's source code is fully available on the servers at the client locations and their own technical people are briefed on how it works and what they should look for if there are problems. I've often answered questions like "which class should I check for an unsigned / signed mismatch? I've got an invoice for 4.2billion dollars here which is obviously wrong..."
They can then fix the problems they figure out how to fix, or, more likely, tell me what they find and I can tell them what to change if necessary or do it myself given the time and need.
If I hear a nasty sound under the hood of my car, I open the hood and look. If I don't see anything, I don't see anything. If I see a belt that's shredded into oblivion, I tell the mechanic that I've got a belt shredded into oblivion.
I've diagnosed my own car with "is spraying oil on the inside of the hood", "has a shredded belt", "has a seized alternator", "the radiator fan is touching the frame" and of course, "has a dead battery" at least.
I can't fix most of those problems, but I want to be able to look.
(targetted at original article, not poster above)... whereas I've been married for 6 years and have had two children and worked at three major computer jobs doing mostly FOSS work. At the most recent I was hired specifically for my GNU/Linux expertise.
I own my own car, I'm saving to buy a house and I have a loving family and good work. What's your point?;-)
In other words, the switched bus technology they licensed from DEC payed off. This was what they hyped years ago as one of their main advantages over Intel in the not-so-distant (at the time) future.
1) Microsoft is a major Opteron supporter; they had a freely downloadable Opteron Windows XP beta available for some time now that I have an ISO of here.
2) IBM would probably support uber-numa patched kernels as you put it, since they are one of the main proponents of Linux-on-massively-parallel-supercomputers anyway.
The only people I've noticed *not* liking Google lately who are excited about Yahoo's new engine are SEOs. People who actually *use* search engines all day should be very happy with how Google works.
I was reading an SEO discussion on a programming site earlier today and everyone was complaining about how buying keyword ads on Google didn't help their ranking for those keywords in the search results (of course not; it just buys you ad-space).
For what its worth, wires-only DSL is available from my old employer anywhere in Canada. See TyeNet. Tell him his old programmer Michael sent you (I don't use the service, so I don't get free credits or anything; I'm on 5Mbit cable... upgrading to 10Mbit soon).
Using a window manager that supports grouping, etc. (like Enlightenment) is highly recommended as well I might add. Just because Windows likes to make big EXEcutables with meta-data and resources built-in and big MDI windows with lots of sub-windows doesn't make it the right way to do things.
I love being able to arrange my desktop of Gimp windows the way I want and not have a big blank "GIMP" window taking up space on my desktop.
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So in essence you're replying that "Yes, the Intel stock CPU fan is quieter than the AMD stock CPU fan." Funny, that sounds a lot like my criticism of your initial post.
...]; even the minutest amount of effort spend [sic.] designing fan blade profiles and venturi would do absolute bloody wonders." Sounds like it really is about fans, airflow and vibration. That is afterall, what proper design of fan blade profiles changes, right?
My lights hum in this office and my CPU fan makes noise, but my CPU sure doesn't. Nice little dance and smoke and mirrors in the post but the CPU still isn't noticeably quieter.
Also, since you said it so well yourself, I thought I'd repeat it: "loudness is not a feature of 'fans...' as [I stated
Oh, and I work as a computer professional as well as being a trained sound board operator. I've worked with professional sound engineers in designing rooms for proper recording accoustics and doing room equalizing for making best use of the speaker systems available to it.
Uploading is definately illegal; read the canadian copyright act(s). See the FAQ posted above.
The PS2 being backward compatible was awefully smart. Look at how great their sales were when it came out because they had hundreds of titles already playable. For all the people who never bought a PS1, a PS2 was a great deal -- you get a next gen game platform *and* you get to play those PS1 games you never played while waiting for new games to come out.
I think one of the main points of the XBox was to be able to attract all those PC gaming companies to make quick DirectX-based ports of their games available to both markets simultaneously.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have worked out like that. Also, the PC gaming industry, accustomed to doing upgrades, patches, etc. hasn't been able to do the same thing on XBox (at least not yet). Perhaps online connectivity would have allowed them downloadable hard-drive updates, but it doesn't seem to yet.
I'm not sure better partical graphics on the XBox are worth the hype.
You're probably thinking of the levy we pay on blank media sold here. There's a levy on most forms of blank media (recordable DVDs are currently exempt, as are hard drives not used in MP3 players) which is then supposed to be redistributed to artists as a payment for the implied Copyright violations being perpetrated by the people buying some of said media.
That said, these levies make private personal copying of music legal in Canada as I understand the re-ruling in Jan 2004 (search historical Slashdot postings).
Remember that you can get DSL service anywhere in Canada if your local 'Bell' offers it, from any ISP partnered with 'Bell' for distribution.
Many DSL service providers in Northern Ontario can service you anywhere in the province, some anywhere in the country, using relaying through the local 'Bell' system nearest you.
Intel is quieter?
You claim to know more about hardware than "Tom's" and you comment on a CPU/platform being quieter?
Go buy yourself an Antec Sonata computer case with an AMD CPU in it and tell me how loud it is.
Loudness is a feature of fans, airflow and vibration, not a CPU.
If what you're trying to insinuate is that AMD chips run hotter and therefore need better cooling, that may or may not be true at a given performance-point, but say so or you come off being to inexact to be able to back up your statements.
While you're at it, pick up one of their copper-based CPU Coolers and maybe their heat-sensitive SmartCool case fans.
Copyright falls under international treaties. There are various treaties and arrangements in place (not the least of which is the Berne convention). Many countries in the world (AU possibly included?) have signed on to agree on what Copyright means with possible local modifications.
The DMCA is for example a USA-only modification to international Copyright laws. However, Canada, the USA and many other countries all agree that an author has Copyright on a creation of theirs not made as a work-for-hire (or otherwise signed away) without the need to register it and what rights this gives that author.
These agreements are part of the basis for the international upset at China (for example) ignoring Copyrights and illegally duplicating product then reselling it since its not illegal *there*.
Mmm, LAN party day camp.
:)
Just what modern kids need; less exercise and sunlight. It causes cancer, after all (unlike any left-over radioactivity).
You *did* buy the combo fire / CO / giger counter detection system, right?
I purposely have a couple spam E-mail collection addresses at the bottoms of all my websites (see link above). They are routinely collected by spam bots. If I receive a message to one of those addresses, the E-mail is not only auto-reported to Spam Cop but the sender IP is temporarily blacklisted on my mailserver.
My wife had the fast Linux learning curve dealt to her the day I replaced the Windows boot screen with a LILO: prompt that defaulted to Linux. I still regret not making 'hell' the name for the Windows boot, but that's beside the point.
Recently she got a job where she was working with Windows computers and came home to tell me all the "problems" they have that we don't have at home with our computer. I pointed out that these were all 'normal' things for Windows and to ask any of her coworkers; they all agreed.
Ugh.
A lot of that comes with familiarity and education as much as anything else. A lot of people from a given generation did or did not grow up with certain things or concepts and don't "get" them; and that's fine. Education's difficult sometimes.
How many people know how to program their own VCR?
How many people know how to milk a cow?
How many of you can change your own spark plugs?
How about recompile a kernel?
I have a few professional clients who look at it very intelligently I think; one's a doctor who pointed out that he has no problems paying me to fix up his computer for him just as I'd have no problem paying him to fix me up on an O.R. table.
Neither of us would try to do the other's work and we'd both be happier and less frustrated for it.
Its amazing how many of my clients don't report (Windows) server problems to me because its "normal". Its 'normal' that the backup has an error message, they just click the ok button (ack!), its 'normal' that the machine is out of virtual memory, they just reboot it (ack!).
Etc. Its amazing what the Windows computing culture has done to people.
Proceeds of a crime is a crime itself in the US and Canada.
Its a source-level patch. See `man patch`. I understand the sarcasm inherent in your statement and yet I don't see peoples' problem with doing a quick recompile and reboot. Its really that simple.
I didn't mind paying $300 for an inkjet printer that lasted almost 10 years (HP 540C). I wouldn't mind doing so again. Buying "throw-away" $50 printers with $80 cartridges is just a marketing ploy. If it stops working, sure, it'll swing back, good for us; we'll pay for what we're supposed to pay for.
I'd love to buy high-quality photo ink from one company and use it in the high-quality photo printer from the other company.
Who says the same people develop both the best print technology and the best ink?
That's exactly what I was thinking.
..."
I don't want the casual users of the software I write for them to be able to modify the software because (in my experience), they'd screw it up and I'd have to fix it.
As much as I charge an hour, I'd prefer not to constantly get calls about how to fix a problem someone else caused.
That said, the software's source code is fully available on the servers at the client locations and their own technical people are briefed on how it works and what they should look for if there are problems. I've often answered questions like "which class should I check for an unsigned / signed mismatch? I've got an invoice for 4.2billion dollars here which is obviously wrong
They can then fix the problems they figure out how to fix, or, more likely, tell me what they find and I can tell them what to change if necessary or do it myself given the time and need.
If I hear a nasty sound under the hood of my car, I open the hood and look. If I don't see anything, I don't see anything. If I see a belt that's shredded into oblivion, I tell the mechanic that I've got a belt shredded into oblivion.
I've diagnosed my own car with "is spraying oil on the inside of the hood", "has a shredded belt", "has a seized alternator", "the radiator fan is touching the frame" and of course, "has a dead battery" at least.
I can't fix most of those problems, but I want to be able to look.
(targetted at original article, not poster above) ... whereas I've been married for 6 years and have had two children and worked at three major computer jobs doing mostly FOSS work. At the most recent I was hired specifically for my GNU/Linux expertise.
;-)
I own my own car, I'm saving to buy a house and I have a loving family and good work. What's your point?
In other words, the switched bus technology they licensed from DEC payed off. This was what they hyped years ago as one of their main advantages over Intel in the not-so-distant (at the time) future.
1) Microsoft is a major Opteron supporter; they had a freely downloadable Opteron Windows XP beta available for some time now that I have an ISO of here.
2) IBM would probably support uber-numa patched kernels as you put it, since they are one of the main proponents of Linux-on-massively-parallel-supercomputers anyway.
Do some research.
This is what Google was originally designed for, fwiw.
The only people I've noticed *not* liking Google lately who are excited about Yahoo's new engine are SEOs. People who actually *use* search engines all day should be very happy with how Google works.
I was reading an SEO discussion on a programming site earlier today and everyone was complaining about how buying keyword ads on Google didn't help their ranking for those keywords in the search results (of course not; it just buys you ad-space).
For what its worth, wires-only DSL is available from my old employer anywhere in Canada. See TyeNet. Tell him his old programmer Michael sent you (I don't use the service, so I don't get free credits or anything; I'm on 5Mbit cable ... upgrading to 10Mbit soon).
Using a window manager that supports grouping, etc. (like Enlightenment) is highly recommended as well I might add. Just because Windows likes to make big EXEcutables with meta-data and resources built-in and big MDI windows with lots of sub-windows doesn't make it the right way to do things.
I love being able to arrange my desktop of Gimp windows the way I want and not have a big blank "GIMP" window taking up space on my desktop.
As I happen to own licenses to SCO Unixware 7, I'm not worried in the least. *I* won't be the Linux user sued.
That said, I replaced my Unixware machine with Linux years ago.