Aha, but only an idiot would even have a lock, no matter the combination, on their luggage. TSA will happily shred open your cases with a knife if you lock them and they can't get in.
I know Wikipedia isn't the most reliable source to quote, but some people actually seem to think the Earth / Moon is a "double planet" arrangement:
The Earth-Moon system is sometimes considered to be a double planet rather than a planet-moon system. This is due to the exceptionally large size of the Moon relative to its host planet; the Moon is a quarter the diameter of Earth and 1/81 its mass. However, this definition is criticised by some, since the common centre of mass of the system (the barycentre) is located about 1700 km beneath the surface of the Earth, or about a quarter of the Earth's radius.
I haven't finished it yet and I can't see how anyone could enjoy it in 5 hours. I tend to spread my play of these sorts of games over a few months. I still haven't finished Ep 1 but decided to get Ep 2 anyway:) On Chapter 2 or 3 now and I must have put in at least 5 hours. Got quite a few achievements though!
Good post, but as you're a user whose requirements are a couple of years behind the curve it doesn't make sense for you to buy cutting edge products.
Regarding your question, nearly all of the Core 2 Duo 6x and 4x series processors are 65W. Depending on your supplier, you should be able to get a 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo on your budget which would vaguely be able to keep up with an X2 6000+ but still have significant overclocking potential (even on stock cooler - these chips work so well that they almost seem designed to overclock). I've seen lots of people raving about even jacking the 1.8GHz Core 2 Duos up to 2.67GHz, although heat would definitely be a consideration!
Much is made of the AMD OverDrive utility, by which the THG labs were able to OC the Spider platform by 25% (3.0GHz) using air cooling alone.
And almost everyone with a Q6600 can get it up to 3GHz on air too, even on the stock heatsink. With something a little more special, like a Thermalight air cooler, speeds of 3.4->3.6GHz are not uncommon. If we look at the benchmarks in the TomsHardware article, the Phenom gets its ass kicked nearly everywhere across the board. It can be argued that this is because most apps are not optimized to work on quad-core chips yet, but even in the benchmarks where quad-core is clearly a benefit, Intel still edges out a respectable lead with their reasonably older technology.
The advantages of the Spider platform are that you won't need to buy a new board for future processors
We've heard that before! Okay, AMD has done something pretty clever with making the chips compatible across the board.. but I'm willing to wager that the percentage of PC owners who actually upgrade their machines year by year is reasonably low. There are a lot of enthusiasts who do it, and this is likely AMD's market if their performance wasn't so poor compared to Intel nowadays, but computer parts are cheap enough to get a new machine every couple of years instead. Certainly this won't be of any interest to the main manufacturers.
Still, I'm glad AMD's there. Their presence is helping to keep Intel honest and the prices generally low, but as an ex-AMD diehard, I'm not seeing any reason to go back to them yet.
If Vista was 3 years late, why would anyone trust Microsoft's projections now? If "Windows 7" is going to hit in 2009, that's probably going to mean 2012 or 2011 at best.
How useful is 1 million dollars if, in 5 years, the wealth of a nation can be wiped out by irresponsible government?
If you gained 1 million dollars, why would you leave it sitting around in cash? Most people would probably buy a home outright, etc, which would be/very/ useful during a major economic crisis as millions others are thrown on the streets (more extreme than we're seeing in places like Cleveland, OH now).
I'd happily sell my permanent right to vote for $10k, and only for that much because it means I can't sell the right again, even if the value of that right goes up. I don't need 10k for anything, but if you can sell something that you consider worthless, why not? So.. if anyone wants it, let me know. I'll happily vote for anyone you demand. I just go along and spoil ballots as it is now, so I'm not fussy.
There's an old J G Ballard sci-fi story that uses road markings causing noises as its main plot point. As far as I recall, the tire companies are in league with the government and get the roads relaid every year or so so that everyone has to buy new tires that match the profile of the road, otherwise the car becomes noisy and undriveable. I also seem to recall the rumbling is something to do with subliminal advertising too, but would have to read it again. Perhaps another/. reader with a better memory could follow up!
You're right, in a gas-focused world.. but if we'd focused on other technologies earlier, then we'd likely be in a far better situation. The same goes for different types of chipsets. If we'd gone RISC in the early 90s, who knows where we'd be now?
What you say is directly comparable to the internal combustion engine, say. It makes a lot of sense (and has done so for a lonnnnnng time now) not to use gasoline and to instead work on alternative engine technologies, compressed air, hydrogen, ethanol, and so forth.. but these things are still sideline projects. The engine / automotive industry is far more fragmented (in terms of suppliers and target markets) than the PC industry and a lot older.. and if they haven't learned the lessons, I can't see alternative instruction set technologies taking off until a transition becomes entirely seamless and transparent to the average user (Apple made a great step in this direction with the PPC/x86 "Universal" stuff).
I don't want to cite references, so just take this as anecdotal, but judging from comments from people who've left Google, and some other Silicon Valley commentators, I've recently been getting the impression that working at Google isn't really that great (at least, no better than MS). Supposedly there are too many people for too few profitable projects (remember where 95%+ of Google's revenue comes from) and thousands of people are, allegedly, working on projects that are going nowhere. I've also heard that since the IPO, a two-tier kind of environment has built up between the rich, old employees and the new ones.
Precisely. It's not as if before having sex, a mug of beer, or call your mom you think.. damn, I'm going to lose $5.69 of potential income in those 3 minutes!
so why should anyone have sympathy for organizations/individuals trying to profit from charity to society?
Charity? I don't think sports teams are being "charitable" per-se for selling tickets at under market rate.. they do it to enforce their brand and keep up the excitement in customers who can't get tickets due to overdemand and who will then try to fight for them next time.
They should just sell the damn things for market rate. I don't see beachside condos or Mercedes Benz cars being sold at under market simply to keep the proles happy.
I think Jeremy Clarkson may be more recognized in the US than you think, at least amongst netheads, especially with the popularity of Top Gear. Even if they don't know him by name, they'll know the face.
And Chris Moyles as the British Michael Richards? Nah, he's more Howard Stern:)
They're talking about import taxes, you can't skirt around those. They'd be paid by whoever brought the camera into the country, whether that's an individual or a big business.
Legally (in most countries anyway), barter is taxable.. and it doesn't make much difference whether the "currency" is stamps, Mars bars, cans of Red Bull, or actual "cash".
That said, hardly anyone actually declares barter to tha tax man.. so the question really should go to the taxman.. are they going to enforce taxes on bartering of virtual cash, or not?
part of that is that I watch a lot of DVDs at 1.2x to 2x speed
How do you do that? I haven't seen a DVD player that continues to show subtitles while on fast forward, so I'm interested to know how you have this going.. sounds like a great idea!
Good point; it would be totally impossible to make the table tilt to various positions. Nothing like that has ever been attempted, and if it were, it would surely not work. Tilting surfaces is beyond our mechanical abilities as a species.
Y'know.. there's a really good reason why television screens are situated in the vertical plane.. because we can sit on chairs and watch them without getting back ache. That's also a good reason why our computer monitors are situated the same way. So.. going to something that's horizontal is a recipe for uber-bad ergonomics and back ache with any sort of extended use.
When people come round and you want to show them photographs, home movies, or some crap that's on your computer or network.. who in their right mind is going to hunch over a table? It's about as convenient as reading a newspaper together.
The whole "why aren't there more women in IT?" question is framed with a whole "IT is so super, so why doesn't everyone want to do it?" angle. Let me assure you, my girlfriend can't think of anything WORSE to do as a job. To her, thinking of actually sitting down most of the day at a desk is like hell on earth. This is not particularly unusual thinking amongst women in the main. Note that, generally, even office jobs with high ratios of women to men involve a lot of moving around and social behavior, such as secretarial and executive assistant jobs, even management. Women are rarely seen in jobs with low levels of social interaction and immobility.. so why should they be in IT?
This isn't some status thing either.. there are significant numbers of women in areas like medicine and law, both of which have a far higher status than IT. Women aren't in IT because IT is compared to most other forms of work boring, loner work compared to other forms of work, even at the best of times. Working in kitchens, courts, or hospitals is far more sociable and rewarding.. so they're there.
If we're meant to be doing the whole "equality" thing nowadays, why is the question even being raised? We shouldn't even be looking at gender really if we're "all the same". It's like asking, say, why there aren't many black people in IT (and there aren't, in my experience). We don't ask those sorts of questions because it's pointless and points out biases that don't actually exist. Why aren't there many male nursery carers? Why aren't there many white rappers? Why aren't there many fat marathon runners? These questions are irrelevant.
Slashdot Mirror
What's really scary is that most of the readership doesn't really seem to notice, judging by the amount of new comments given on this post.
Aha, but only an idiot would even have a lock, no matter the combination, on their luggage. TSA will happily shred open your cases with a knife if you lock them and they can't get in.
I know Wikipedia isn't the most reliable source to quote, but some people actually seem to think the Earth / Moon is a "double planet" arrangement:
The Earth-Moon system is sometimes considered to be a double planet rather than a planet-moon system. This is due to the exceptionally large size of the Moon relative to its host planet; the Moon is a quarter the diameter of Earth and 1/81 its mass. However, this definition is criticised by some, since the common centre of mass of the system (the barycentre) is located about 1700 km beneath the surface of the Earth, or about a quarter of the Earth's radius.
From here.
Of course it's a rarity, there's only one moon belonging to the Earth.
I haven't finished it yet and I can't see how anyone could enjoy it in 5 hours. I tend to spread my play of these sorts of games over a few months. I still haven't finished Ep 1 but decided to get Ep 2 anyway :) On Chapter 2 or 3 now and I must have put in at least 5 hours. Got quite a few achievements though!
Good post, but as you're a user whose requirements are a couple of years behind the curve it doesn't make sense for you to buy cutting edge products.
Regarding your question, nearly all of the Core 2 Duo 6x and 4x series processors are 65W. Depending on your supplier, you should be able to get a 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo on your budget which would vaguely be able to keep up with an X2 6000+ but still have significant overclocking potential (even on stock cooler - these chips work so well that they almost seem designed to overclock). I've seen lots of people raving about even jacking the 1.8GHz Core 2 Duos up to 2.67GHz, although heat would definitely be a consideration!
Much is made of the AMD OverDrive utility, by which the THG labs were able to OC the Spider platform by 25% (3.0GHz) using air cooling alone.
And almost everyone with a Q6600 can get it up to 3GHz on air too, even on the stock heatsink. With something a little more special, like a Thermalight air cooler, speeds of 3.4->3.6GHz are not uncommon. If we look at the benchmarks in the TomsHardware article, the Phenom gets its ass kicked nearly everywhere across the board. It can be argued that this is because most apps are not optimized to work on quad-core chips yet, but even in the benchmarks where quad-core is clearly a benefit, Intel still edges out a respectable lead with their reasonably older technology.
The advantages of the Spider platform are that you won't need to buy a new board for future processors
We've heard that before! Okay, AMD has done something pretty clever with making the chips compatible across the board.. but I'm willing to wager that the percentage of PC owners who actually upgrade their machines year by year is reasonably low. There are a lot of enthusiasts who do it, and this is likely AMD's market if their performance wasn't so poor compared to Intel nowadays, but computer parts are cheap enough to get a new machine every couple of years instead. Certainly this won't be of any interest to the main manufacturers.
Still, I'm glad AMD's there. Their presence is helping to keep Intel honest and the prices generally low, but as an ex-AMD diehard, I'm not seeing any reason to go back to them yet.
If Vista was 3 years late, why would anyone trust Microsoft's projections now? If "Windows 7" is going to hit in 2009, that's probably going to mean 2012 or 2011 at best.
That's the one, thanks!
How useful is 1 million dollars if, in 5 years, the wealth of a nation can be wiped out by irresponsible government?
/very/ useful during a major economic crisis as millions others are thrown on the streets (more extreme than we're seeing in places like Cleveland, OH now).
If you gained 1 million dollars, why would you leave it sitting around in cash? Most people would probably buy a home outright, etc, which would be
I'd happily sell my permanent right to vote for $10k, and only for that much because it means I can't sell the right again, even if the value of that right goes up. I don't need 10k for anything, but if you can sell something that you consider worthless, why not? So.. if anyone wants it, let me know. I'll happily vote for anyone you demand. I just go along and spoil ballots as it is now, so I'm not fussy.
There's an old J G Ballard sci-fi story that uses road markings causing noises as its main plot point. As far as I recall, the tire companies are in league with the government and get the roads relaid every year or so so that everyone has to buy new tires that match the profile of the road, otherwise the car becomes noisy and undriveable. I also seem to recall the rumbling is something to do with subliminal advertising too, but would have to read it again. Perhaps another /. reader with a better memory could follow up!
You're right, in a gas-focused world.. but if we'd focused on other technologies earlier, then we'd likely be in a far better situation. The same goes for different types of chipsets. If we'd gone RISC in the early 90s, who knows where we'd be now?
What you say is directly comparable to the internal combustion engine, say. It makes a lot of sense (and has done so for a lonnnnnng time now) not to use gasoline and to instead work on alternative engine technologies, compressed air, hydrogen, ethanol, and so forth.. but these things are still sideline projects. The engine / automotive industry is far more fragmented (in terms of suppliers and target markets) than the PC industry and a lot older.. and if they haven't learned the lessons, I can't see alternative instruction set technologies taking off until a transition becomes entirely seamless and transparent to the average user (Apple made a great step in this direction with the PPC/x86 "Universal" stuff).
I don't want to cite references, so just take this as anecdotal, but judging from comments from people who've left Google, and some other Silicon Valley commentators, I've recently been getting the impression that working at Google isn't really that great (at least, no better than MS). Supposedly there are too many people for too few profitable projects (remember where 95%+ of Google's revenue comes from) and thousands of people are, allegedly, working on projects that are going nowhere. I've also heard that since the IPO, a two-tier kind of environment has built up between the rich, old employees and the new ones.
Precisely. It's not as if before having sex, a mug of beer, or call your mom you think.. damn, I'm going to lose $5.69 of potential income in those 3 minutes!
so why should anyone have sympathy for organizations/individuals trying to profit from charity to society?
Charity? I don't think sports teams are being "charitable" per-se for selling tickets at under market rate.. they do it to enforce their brand and keep up the excitement in customers who can't get tickets due to overdemand and who will then try to fight for them next time.
They should just sell the damn things for market rate. I don't see beachside condos or Mercedes Benz cars being sold at under market simply to keep the proles happy.
I think Jeremy Clarkson may be more recognized in the US than you think, at least amongst netheads, especially with the popularity of Top Gear. Even if they don't know him by name, they'll know the face.
:)
And Chris Moyles as the British Michael Richards? Nah, he's more Howard Stern
They're talking about import taxes, you can't skirt around those. They'd be paid by whoever brought the camera into the country, whether that's an individual or a big business.
There used to be a 15 inch iMac too, and I think there were similar complaints when that was removed too ;-)
Legally (in most countries anyway), barter is taxable.. and it doesn't make much difference whether the "currency" is stamps, Mars bars, cans of Red Bull, or actual "cash".
That said, hardly anyone actually declares barter to tha tax man.. so the question really should go to the taxman.. are they going to enforce taxes on bartering of virtual cash, or not?
part of that is that I watch a lot of DVDs at 1.2x to 2x speed
How do you do that? I haven't seen a DVD player that continues to show subtitles while on fast forward, so I'm interested to know how you have this going.. sounds like a great idea!
Good point; it would be totally impossible to make the table tilt to various positions. Nothing like that has ever been attempted, and if it were, it would surely not work. Tilting surfaces is beyond our mechanical abilities as a species.
If it tilts, it's not a very useful table, is it?
Y'know.. there's a really good reason why television screens are situated in the vertical plane.. because we can sit on chairs and watch them without getting back ache. That's also a good reason why our computer monitors are situated the same way. So.. going to something that's horizontal is a recipe for uber-bad ergonomics and back ache with any sort of extended use.
When people come round and you want to show them photographs, home movies, or some crap that's on your computer or network.. who in their right mind is going to hunch over a table? It's about as convenient as reading a newspaper together.
The whole "why aren't there more women in IT?" question is framed with a whole "IT is so super, so why doesn't everyone want to do it?" angle. Let me assure you, my girlfriend can't think of anything WORSE to do as a job. To her, thinking of actually sitting down most of the day at a desk is like hell on earth. This is not particularly unusual thinking amongst women in the main. Note that, generally, even office jobs with high ratios of women to men involve a lot of moving around and social behavior, such as secretarial and executive assistant jobs, even management. Women are rarely seen in jobs with low levels of social interaction and immobility.. so why should they be in IT?
This isn't some status thing either.. there are significant numbers of women in areas like medicine and law, both of which have a far higher status than IT. Women aren't in IT because IT is compared to most other forms of work boring, loner work compared to other forms of work, even at the best of times. Working in kitchens, courts, or hospitals is far more sociable and rewarding.. so they're there.
If we're meant to be doing the whole "equality" thing nowadays, why is the question even being raised? We shouldn't even be looking at gender really if we're "all the same". It's like asking, say, why there aren't many black people in IT (and there aren't, in my experience). We don't ask those sorts of questions because it's pointless and points out biases that don't actually exist. Why aren't there many male nursery carers? Why aren't there many white rappers? Why aren't there many fat marathon runners? These questions are irrelevant.