It looked to me lke he said in the laundry room, which would be *behind* the wall. The insulated wall would prevent any noise from the laundry room penetrating into the theatre room.
Exactly why do the USB flask keys need to be preformatted??? The device that uses them can format them. They are media, and don't need to be linked to any specific format type out of the box. That being said, many consumers (joe sixpacks) may readily chip in an extra $.25 when they buy one to get one preformatted. In the olden days you used to be able to buy Floppies unformatted or preformatted. Preformatted usually cost more. Then again formatting those took a bit longer than it takes to format a flash drive;)
Yup, Bling. Rice. Nasty as putting a big heavy do-nothing-wing on your civic, along with a fart-can exhaust. It 'looks' like performance to posers, but actually degrades the performance of the car. In this case, they slap on a big piece of plastic and LEDs on top of their RAM. Plastic is rotten at transferring heat. Not only that, it blocks air flow, preventing heat transfer from the RAM, as well as impeding it to other components in the case. Anyone who cares about heat in their system would never use that RAM. The only reason I can think Hexus had those in the case was that Corsair was giving them a kickback for putting them in the article as well.
This is why I have a hard time associating Corsair with good cooling. Ricers and real performance just don't go together.
If you are buying a gaming rig with essentially 4 Geforce 7800 cards with 512 MB of RAM each in it,... I don't think $128 over a year for electricity is really going to put you off.
Right, because all those Japanese and Korean, etc, car makers employees all joined the UAW. Oh wait, US unions don't migrate well to the rest of the world, but the jobs sure do.
Because it is better for society if you are nice. I'm sure ants don't even have a concept of 'god', let alone worship him. But they cooperate for the benefit of their group/society/species. Being good benefits your offspring or your close genetic relatives. It follows Darwinism. More progress can be made working together than fighting each other. That's why you will see so many species have social rules they go by keep things relatively orderly and peaceful. For example: many species fight for mates, etc, but most don't fight to the death, just to determine dominance. Many rear the young of others from their group, etc, etc.
Most atheists and agnostics realize this early on, developing a set of ethics that usually makes them a lot better members of society than many/most self proclaimed 'Christians' are. They are good because that's what is right to do, not simply because they fear punishment from some god. That makes them a hell of a lot better people in my book than someone like you who would go on a rampage if your fear of god didn't keep you in check.
Well, I'm an AMD fan and agree about the Intel heat machines however,..
To be fair, there are a few more changes in the BTX layout from the average ATX layout that are smart moves. If you look at the majority of ATX boards, the RAM is usually aligned vertically on the motherboard. Since in most cases, air is taken in from the front of the machine and blown out the back, the DIMMs going up and down act as a wall, preventing good airflow from the front to the back of the case. This is not a good thing. BTX makes it standard to have the memory aligned horizontally, so that air from the front of the machine blows between the DIMMS, allowing for a lot better airflow for all the RAM, not just the first DIMM it hits, as well as for other components farther back on the motherboard. That's just one example.
I much prefer cool AMD chips to Intel ovens, but that's no reason to ignore some of the real improvements to layout that BTX brings to the table, no matter which CPU you want to use on the board.
So if someone writes a cool utility for Linux, I should just ignore it and say it doesn't matter until it's migrated to Windows, because Linux has such a small amount of folks using it compared to Windows.
Sorry, it is of use. Even if it isn't on the OS YOU choose to run.
American beer, for similar reasons, is best served in small glasses, and chilled to the extreme to kill the taste.
It has taste? I started drinking only European beer and stuff from microbreweries because most American beer has no taste. There is a reason they say American beer is like making love in a canoe.
How the hell did an anonymous coward not reading the fucking article, and getting the jist of the article wrong, get modded interesting???
The superfluidity isn't new. Duh. The experiment described looks within a superfluid at what happens when you have an uneven match of spins of particles in the fluid. The results: when the number of extra (unpaired) particles with up spins was under 10%, they mixed throughout the superfluid. When they increased the number of unpaired particles above 10%, the extra-'up'-spin particles got kicked out to the periphery of the fluid, while the center of the superfluid was composed of matched particles.
Like anyone should ever trust a/. blurb to get the jist of an article right.
Science doesn't ignore awareness. There have been many studies on it. If you'd like to do some reading, you can find studies looking at how higher primates all seem to have self-awareness, however not that many other species of animals do. Don't think science ignores something just because you yourself haven't looked at the science done on a subject.
Sorry, I'm an agnostic, not an atheist. And basic fabric of the univers/a-multiverse/something-wilder may just exist, and always have existed. In 'empty' space bits of matter and anti-matter may spontaneously pop up. It's thought that that happens and explains some of the radiation comeing from black holes. Our universe might just be some bubble that popped into existance like those particles do. Time may only exist in this universe, so there is no worry about thinking about a 'before'. I don't know. And neither do the 'believers' or 'non-believers'. We have absolutely no way of knowing since those things are entirely out of our scope of our physics/existance. Perhaps some day we will have the tools to probe more deeply into it, but we simply aren't equipped for it today. However, that said, the springing forth into existance of an all-knowing all-powereful sentient existance would seem much more unlikely than the springing forth of simple matter, the with complexity slowly added/evolving into the system.
At some point in time an intelligent being had to be involved. The elements that created everything had to come from somewhere.
Where did the Intelligent being come from? The elements that comprise the being had to come from somewhere.
Whatever you reply to this "he always existed" or whatever, is the same reply I'll give you to you about where the elements came from. It's just as logical as yours.
There certainly copies of windows, but how many copies of the COMPLETE source code to it are there?
Even if they were to get ahold of complete source from some MS partner, don't you think it would have a chilling effect on corporate development of software in the EU? "If we don't like what you are doing we will just seize your source code and start another company with it". I don't think that would make me want to start up any software firms in the EU.
All they would have to do is start quietly moving bits and pieces out of the EU, then have the remaining employees destroy any code in the EU offices. Eactly how are you going to get their IP then?
As of today, when it comes to standard size drives (3.5", not retail kits, not external) the warranty from Maxtor, Hitachi, Samsung, and Western Digital is 3 years on "desktop" class drives and 5 years on "enterprise" class drives.
Retail products:
ATA/SATA hard drives: 1 year
SCSI hard drives: 5 years
External hard drives: 1 year
Network Storage: 1 year
'Stand-Alone' drives:
Fireball/Diamondmax drives: 3 years
MaxLine drives: 5 years
Atlas SCSI drives: 5 years
MaxLine drives: 5 years
Maxtor Personal Storage 3000LS and PS3100 drives: 90 Days!!!
Most Maxtors only have a 1 year warranty.
Just look at Maxtor's retail packaged products. Those that you'll find on the shelf in stores to put in your machine. Unless you are getting a SCSI drive, it's a 1 year warranty.
Of those:
Maxtor Fireball®, DiamondMax have a 3 year.
Maxtor MaXLine have a 5 year
Maxtor branded retail hard drive kits have a 1 year
Maxtor Network Storage products have a 1 yaer
Looks like by far most of their drives have a 1 year warrenty. There is a reason. They are crap drives. If you'll notice, the only lines by maxtor with decent warranties are the ones that they got from Quantom (I've got a number of old quantom fireballs that are still chugging along).
Mod parent up. It sounds like the grandparent is basing his judgement off of a handfull of hard drives he has personally owned. Statistics off of such a low sample number are very bad. Talk to someone who works at a large corp in is charge of hundreds or thousands of drives. I think you will quickly revise your attitude towards Seagate. There is a reson they have a 5 year warrenty and Maxtor only has a 1 year.
It has a number of side effects, as does pretty much every other drug out there.
Yes, it can cause drowsiness at higher levels, so can that Sudafed you probably have on a self in your house. It's still considered relatively safe for most people at low doses.
As far as the other effects, the nerve damage is extremely dose dependent. Yes, at higher levels it can cause damage. High doses of almost any drug are bad for you. It's hardly shocking that high doses of Thalidomide have bad effects. High doses of aspirin can cause liver damage. Aspirin can also cause tinnitus, hearing loss, vertigo, headaches, dizziness, angioedema, bronchospasm, upset stomach, and excessive bleeding in patients with bleeding ulcers. Aspirin might also cause Reye's syndrome in children. I guess you think aspirin is far from "absolutely fine" too. I still think asparin is perfectly safe drug for most people, and I've got a bottle of it in my medicine cabinet to back that up.:)
Right. Test that anti-morning sickness medicine on adult men. I'm sure that will show you if it prevents morning sickness or not.
Ok, maybe it won't. But it will show it causes problems in fetal development. Oh wait. No it won't.
The drug is absolutely fine for folks who aren't pregnant. It's a good treatment for those with leprosy. The drug has no apparent side effects on normal people, so they tested it for another use in other patients and found out it had a huge negative effect. That happens a lot in drug testing.
This is the problem with drug development. You never know what kind of side effects a drug might have. Every drug has two sets of effects. Those you know about, and those you don't. When testing a drug you never know for sure that you have to for instance, exclude anyone with diabetes because it will cause diabetics problem, exclude folks with heart disease becasue it can cause heart problems, exclude anyone with liver problems, because it cause liver damage, exclude anyone with a family history of yadda, yadda....
And even if you limit your test group to people with absolutely nothing wrong with them, and no family history of anything (almost no one you'll ever meet will be in that group) it might cause problems in perfectly healthy people. Plus not many perfectly healthy folks are going to want to try a new drug. It's the folks with something wrong with them that have a motivation to try a new drug to fix the problem.
And as far as animal models go, they help, but the animal model is never an exact match for what goes on in a human. Slight changes in certain genes, slight chemistry differences can cause huge differences in how a drug is tolerated.
Anyone who things this stuff is easy, or the decisions are simple, has never thought long and hard about drug testing. If you want to complain about drug costs and priorities of drug research, you can have a real arguement, but a blanket claim that texting on group X is absurdly bad shows you don't know the first thing about drug research.
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Those are off the top of my head. There are more.
A toy database with less features and reliability than a number of other free OSS databases.
It looked to me lke he said in the laundry room, which would be *behind* the wall. The insulated wall would prevent any noise from the laundry room penetrating into the theatre room.
Exactly why do the USB flask keys need to be preformatted??? The device that uses them can format them. They are media, and don't need to be linked to any specific format type out of the box. That being said, many consumers (joe sixpacks) may readily chip in an extra $.25 when they buy one to get one preformatted. In the olden days you used to be able to buy Floppies unformatted or preformatted. Preformatted usually cost more. Then again formatting those took a bit longer than it takes to format a flash drive ;)
This is why I have a hard time associating Corsair with good cooling. Ricers and real performance just don't go together.
If you are buying a gaming rig with essentially 4 Geforce 7800 cards with 512 MB of RAM each in it,... I don't think $128 over a year for electricity is really going to put you off.
Unionizing IT would be dumb.
Most atheists and agnostics realize this early on, developing a set of ethics that usually makes them a lot better members of society than many/most self proclaimed 'Christians' are. They are good because that's what is right to do, not simply because they fear punishment from some god. That makes them a hell of a lot better people in my book than someone like you who would go on a rampage if your fear of god didn't keep you in check.
To be fair, there are a few more changes in the BTX layout from the average ATX layout that are smart moves. If you look at the majority of ATX boards, the RAM is usually aligned vertically on the motherboard. Since in most cases, air is taken in from the front of the machine and blown out the back, the DIMMs going up and down act as a wall, preventing good airflow from the front to the back of the case. This is not a good thing. BTX makes it standard to have the memory aligned horizontally, so that air from the front of the machine blows between the DIMMS, allowing for a lot better airflow for all the RAM, not just the first DIMM it hits, as well as for other components farther back on the motherboard. That's just one example.
I much prefer cool AMD chips to Intel ovens, but that's no reason to ignore some of the real improvements to layout that BTX brings to the table, no matter which CPU you want to use on the board.
Sorry, it is of use. Even if it isn't on the OS YOU choose to run.
It has taste? I started drinking only European beer and stuff from microbreweries because most American beer has no taste. There is a reason they say American beer is like making love in a canoe.
And the fact that it is modded Informative is both informative, funny, sad, and scary. All at once. ;)
The superfluidity isn't new. Duh. The experiment described looks within a superfluid at what happens when you have an uneven match of spins of particles in the fluid. The results: when the number of extra (unpaired) particles with up spins was under 10%, they mixed throughout the superfluid. When they increased the number of unpaired particles above 10%, the extra-'up'-spin particles got kicked out to the periphery of the fluid, while the center of the superfluid was composed of matched particles.
Like anyone should ever trust a /. blurb to get the jist of an article right.
http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Har rison/BlackHoleThermo/BlackHoleThermo.html
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answer s/011125b.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/C007571/english/adva nce/core3.htm
Science doesn't ignore awareness. There have been many studies on it. If you'd like to do some reading, you can find studies looking at how higher primates all seem to have self-awareness, however not that many other species of animals do. Don't think science ignores something just because you yourself haven't looked at the science done on a subject.
Sorry, I'm an agnostic, not an atheist. And basic fabric of the univers/a-multiverse/something-wilder may just exist, and always have existed. In 'empty' space bits of matter and anti-matter may spontaneously pop up. It's thought that that happens and explains some of the radiation comeing from black holes. Our universe might just be some bubble that popped into existance like those particles do. Time may only exist in this universe, so there is no worry about thinking about a 'before'. I don't know. And neither do the 'believers' or 'non-believers'. We have absolutely no way of knowing since those things are entirely out of our scope of our physics/existance. Perhaps some day we will have the tools to probe more deeply into it, but we simply aren't equipped for it today. However, that said, the springing forth into existance of an all-knowing all-powereful sentient existance would seem much more unlikely than the springing forth of simple matter, the with complexity slowly added/evolving into the system.
The elements that created everything had to come from somewhere.
Where did the Intelligent being come from? The elements that comprise the being had to come from somewhere.
Whatever you reply to this "he always existed" or whatever, is the same reply I'll give you to you about where the elements came from. It's just as logical as yours.
Even if they were to get ahold of complete source from some MS partner, don't you think it would have a chilling effect on corporate development of software in the EU? "If we don't like what you are doing we will just seize your source code and start another company with it". I don't think that would make me want to start up any software firms in the EU.
All they would have to do is start quietly moving bits and pieces out of the EU, then have the remaining employees destroy any code in the EU offices. Eactly how are you going to get their IP then?
Bzzzzzt. Not entirely true. See my other post From Maxtor's own website:
Retail products:
ATA/SATA hard drives: 1 year
SCSI hard drives: 5 years
External hard drives: 1 year
Network Storage: 1 year
'Stand-Alone' drives:
Fireball/Diamondmax drives: 3 years
MaxLine drives: 5 years
Atlas SCSI drives: 5 years
MaxLine drives: 5 years
Maxtor Personal Storage 3000LS and PS3100 drives: 90 Days!!!
And yes, my typing sucks. It's Quantum.
You appear to have bought their Standalone hard drives.
Of those:
Maxtor Fireball®, DiamondMax have a 3 year.
Maxtor MaXLine have a 5 year
Maxtor branded retail hard drive kits have a 1 year
Maxtor Network Storage products have a 1 yaer
Looks like by far most of their drives have a 1 year warrenty. There is a reason. They are crap drives. If you'll notice, the only lines by maxtor with decent warranties are the ones that they got from Quantom (I've got a number of old quantom fireballs that are still chugging along).
Mod parent up. It sounds like the grandparent is basing his judgement off of a handfull of hard drives he has personally owned. Statistics off of such a low sample number are very bad. Talk to someone who works at a large corp in is charge of hundreds or thousands of drives. I think you will quickly revise your attitude towards Seagate. There is a reson they have a 5 year warrenty and Maxtor only has a 1 year.
Yes, it can cause drowsiness at higher levels, so can that Sudafed you probably have on a self in your house. It's still considered relatively safe for most people at low doses.
As far as the other effects, the nerve damage is extremely dose dependent. Yes, at higher levels it can cause damage. High doses of almost any drug are bad for you. It's hardly shocking that high doses of Thalidomide have bad effects. High doses of aspirin can cause liver damage. Aspirin can also cause tinnitus, hearing loss, vertigo, headaches, dizziness, angioedema, bronchospasm, upset stomach, and excessive bleeding in patients with bleeding ulcers. Aspirin might also cause Reye's syndrome in children. I guess you think aspirin is far from "absolutely fine" too. I still think asparin is perfectly safe drug for most people, and I've got a bottle of it in my medicine cabinet to back that up. :)
Ok, maybe it won't. But it will show it causes problems in fetal development. Oh wait. No it won't.
The drug is absolutely fine for folks who aren't pregnant. It's a good treatment for those with leprosy. The drug has no apparent side effects on normal people, so they tested it for another use in other patients and found out it had a huge negative effect. That happens a lot in drug testing.
This is the problem with drug development. You never know what kind of side effects a drug might have. Every drug has two sets of effects. Those you know about, and those you don't. When testing a drug you never know for sure that you have to for instance, exclude anyone with diabetes because it will cause diabetics problem, exclude folks with heart disease becasue it can cause heart problems, exclude anyone with liver problems, because it cause liver damage, exclude anyone with a family history of yadda, yadda....
And even if you limit your test group to people with absolutely nothing wrong with them, and no family history of anything (almost no one you'll ever meet will be in that group) it might cause problems in perfectly healthy people. Plus not many perfectly healthy folks are going to want to try a new drug. It's the folks with something wrong with them that have a motivation to try a new drug to fix the problem.
And as far as animal models go, they help, but the animal model is never an exact match for what goes on in a human. Slight changes in certain genes, slight chemistry differences can cause huge differences in how a drug is tolerated.
Anyone who things this stuff is easy, or the decisions are simple, has never thought long and hard about drug testing. If you want to complain about drug costs and priorities of drug research, you can have a real arguement, but a blanket claim that texting on group X is absurdly bad shows you don't know the first thing about drug research.