Dr Touretsky also received a cease and desist letter from COS in an attempt to remove the material, but I guess he wasn't more worried about spending his dot com millions than setting a horrible precedent by caving.
"Hard drives are... very cost competative with CD's"
You can get a 100-pack of Maxell CDR's at CompUsa for $20 and $0 after rebate. That is 70GB for $20 or $0.28/GB, and $0/GB after rebate. HDD's are still around $1/GB.
"Removable hard drive bays should be standard on all PC's."
There is no need for that, most computers now have IEEE1394 and USB2.0 ports which are sufficient for connecting to external hard drives.
"As he was seeking political favors, a friend of Sen. Orrin Hatch bought a whopping 1,200 copies of Hatch's largely self-produced music CDs, for which Hatch receives $3 to $7 each.
Hatch, R-Utah, and his friend, Monzer Hourani, a Houston developer who twice before has landed Hatch into major ethics controversies, say he wasn't trying to buy political help with those CDs and they merely share a love of his music."
This is the asshole that wants to let the RIAA/MPAA 'destroy' your computer if they suspect your of violating their IP rights. Nice to see how he skirts campaign finance rules.
" How can you all afford to go to university?!? In the UK, tuition is ~ 1k/year, wherever you go. $30 / year ?!?!?!?!?!"
If you go to a large (state)government school in-state the tuition is usually less than $2,000/semester. There are plenty of smaller colleges that are around $1,000/sem. For example Georgia Tech has a tuition of $1,600/sem with another $400 in fees so about $2,000 total. And if you keep a 3.0GPA it is FREE.
"Why is it that both products we'll be looking at today, the [$725--128MB]ATi FireGL X1 and [$1500--256MB]NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000, share nearly identical hardware with their consumer counterparts, yet cost 3 to 5 times as much? The answer goes back to those highly specialized applications again, and optimizing the hardware and drivers to accelerate performance to the best of the core Graphics Processor's ability"
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It would have been nice if they also benchmarked a $400 GeForceFX5900-256MB and a $425 Radeon 9800Pro-256MB then. (current prices from pricewatch)
Anyone have a link to another review that includes these?
"so what will happen when we can make machines that can work for almost nothing, and start replacing human jobs?"
You mean like assembly line work? Those people will be free to fulfill more meaningful jobs that require thought instead of repeating a ten second process for 8 hours a day. What happened to all of the ditch diggers now that we have these new dang fangle backhoes? They are doing something more useful than digging ditches that's what.
Thank you very much for your fervent interest in Zalman's upcoming product.
Q: What about the price? A: It is very likely that the official retail price of TNN 500A cooling system will be determined as about 900~1,100 US dollars.
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Q: When (can I buy it) ? A: We are going to launch the TNN cooling system around September. Then, you will be able to order it via or to distributors in your country. Please be patient until the time comes. Thank you.
The California Energy Commission has some info on different types of distributed energy resources from solar/wind/fuelcells to good ole ICE and turbines; listing their fuel sources, efficiency, environmental hazards, production capabilities and current availability; along with best applications, costs, performance, strengths & weaknesses, future developments, and where to buy them.
The page for microturbines is currently down, but the rest are up.
Go to google and search for "god". They will be either 1 or 2.
They did this by having other sites link to them in reference to god, and their intent was obviously not malicious, but it shows how easily these rankings are manipulated once you know the system.
I learned this reading an article about how teoma.com is now one of the top search engines (they are now owned by askjeeves).
Slashdot Mirror
Our favorite dmca-flaunting professor Dr. David Touretzky has most of the decss implementations hosted at his site.
He also has the scientology documents that slashdot censors, which you can read here
Dr Touretsky also received a cease and desist letter from COS in an attempt to remove the material, but I guess he wasn't more worried about spending his dot com millions than setting a horrible precedent by caving.
Do I pay when they put it there? Because I sure as hell pay for bandwidth and storage space for my mail server.
They pay to send it. With spam YOU PAY TO RECEIVE IT. Spammers use open proxies and computers infected with sobig to send it for free.
"even though Douglas liked his w/ milk; I prefer lemon"
Tea without milk? How uncivilised.
"Hard drives are ... very cost competative with CD's"
You can get a 100-pack of Maxell CDR's at CompUsa for $20 and $0 after rebate. That is 70GB for $20 or $0.28/GB, and $0/GB after rebate. HDD's are still around $1/GB.
"Removable hard drive bays should be standard on all PC's."
There is no need for that, most computers now have IEEE1394 and USB2.0 ports which are sufficient for connecting to external hard drives.
When is MS going to sell the millions of shares they have been buying(through their investment firms) to prop up SCO?
" We later heard she had used a replacement battery"
I guess that when you buy cheap crap from the Ukraine you get burned, literally.
Dave Touretzky at Carnegie Melon keeps them hosted at his site.
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/index.html
He also has all of the scientology documents that slashdot removed.
http://www.desnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,510048824,00 .html
"As he was seeking political favors, a friend of Sen. Orrin Hatch bought a whopping 1,200 copies of Hatch's largely self-produced music CDs, for which Hatch receives $3 to $7 each.
Hatch, R-Utah, and his friend, Monzer Hourani, a Houston developer who twice before has landed Hatch into major ethics controversies, say he wasn't trying to buy political help with those CDs and they merely share a love of his music."
This is the asshole that wants to let the RIAA/MPAA 'destroy' your computer if they suspect your of violating their IP rights. Nice to see how he skirts campaign finance rules.
" How can you all afford to go to university?!?
In the UK, tuition is ~ 1k/year, wherever you go.
$30 / year ?!?!?!?!?!"
If you go to a large (state)government school in-state the tuition is usually less than $2,000/semester. There are plenty of smaller colleges that are around $1,000/sem. For example Georgia Tech has a tuition of $1,600/sem with another $400 in fees so about $2,000 total. And if you keep a 3.0GPA it is FREE.
How about you map out a nice future home for the Russian_Mars nuclear reactor. I hear they have almost completed the technical drawings.
"I wonder if the "hardware optimizations" are FUD"
I had similar thoughts which is why I would be curious to see their consumer level counterparts benchmarked along side them.
"Why is it that both products we'll be looking at today, the [$725--128MB]ATi FireGL X1 and [$1500--256MB]NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000, share nearly identical hardware with their consumer counterparts, yet cost 3 to 5 times as much? The answer goes back to those highly specialized applications again, and optimizing the hardware and drivers to accelerate performance to the best of the core Graphics Processor's ability"
---
It would have been nice if they also benchmarked a $400 GeForceFX5900-256MB and a $425 Radeon 9800Pro-256MB then. (current prices from pricewatch)
Anyone have a link to another review that includes these?
"so what will happen when we can make machines that can work for almost nothing, and start replacing human jobs?"
You mean like assembly line work? Those people will be free to fulfill more meaningful jobs that require thought instead of repeating a ten second process for 8 hours a day. What happened to all of the ditch diggers now that we have these new dang fangle backhoes? They are doing something more useful than digging ditches that's what.
".Net Passport .NET Passport participating sites and services."
You can use your Hotmail or MSN e-mail address and password to sign in to all
Makes me want to run out and sign up for one of these.
http://www.windys.com.br/files/tnn2b.jpg
21Kg (46 lbs.)
"What does it cost?"
$1,000(US)
"Does it fit under my Desk?"
Dimensions: 400(L) x 286(W) x 607(H) mm
more:
Marketing Material.jpg
high res images
http://www.ask-corp.jp/pic/zalman/tnn500a-3.jpg
http://www.ask-corp.jp/pic/zalman/tnn500a-2.jpg
http://www.ask-corp.jp/pic/zalman/tnn500a-1.jpg
Zalman TNN 500A - Complete Heatpipe Cooled Case
From Zalman's site:
Will they offer a discount on 5L of 3M Fluorinert?
$100/L might be fine for Cray, but not for me.
I don't think many people with $600 cpus and $400 video cards want to watch things go up in smoke when a clamp fails.
Are there any tests that show how well a machine holds up if deionized water leaks from this type of system onto the motherboard and processor?
"Deep Blue was not dismantled"
Then why does everyone seem to think that it is?
Wired: Deep Blue has since been dismantled
ChessCenter: Deep Blue was dismantled after beating Garry Kasparov in 1997
Nature: Blue was dismantled after the '97 contest
Kasparov: it was quickly dismantled after the event.
What is the current status of this machine and its software?
"at least a quarter of the energy in the US is produced by coal"
Actually it is over 50%.
Total Electric Power Industry Summary Statistics
Energy Production (Thousand MWh)
All Energy Sources: 303,091
Coal: 154,690
GigaJoule Per Tonne
s .p df
chicken shit: 8.8
wood: 10.0
meat & bone: 18.6
coal: 30.0
tires: 32.0
diesel: 45.6
propane: 49.4
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http://www.lowpay.gov.uk/energy/inform/calvalue
Maybe that is why they have 300 pre-orders in New Jersey?
The California Energy Commission has some info on different types of distributed energy resources from solar/wind/fuelcells to good ole ICE and turbines; listing their fuel sources, efficiency, environmental hazards, production capabilities and current availability; along with best applications, costs, performance, strengths & weaknesses, future developments, and where to buy them.
The page for microturbines is currently down, but the rest are up.
Actually PHP-Nuke.org explits this flaw.
Go to google and search for "god". They will be either 1 or 2.
They did this by having other sites link to them in reference to god, and their intent was obviously not malicious, but it shows how easily these rankings are manipulated once you know the system.
I learned this reading an article about how teoma.com is now one of the top search engines (they are now owned by askjeeves).