This is the first time that I have ever seen a site get/.ed after there url was posted in the _COMMENTS_ of a slashdot post. shessh...
Seriously though, I have been a member of spymac for the last year or so; and in that time there website has just gotten slower, and slower. It's just another php behemoth.. just waiting for a denial of service attack. And sadly they have focused more, and more on making a buck. They sell hats, laptop bags, premium ad free accounts, hosting, weblogs, auctions, idisk storage, and advertising.
I don't know, I'm not against them turning a profit... but still. It went from being a nice medium sized message board/image gallery that was simple, and fast - to this slow website that offers a ton of services-slowly.
And there e-mail? OMG, I tried sending out 4 different attachments that were each about 1500KB each. It took forever!!, and receiving large files takes even longer. It is obvious they don't have the capacity.
I have have a brilliant idea!! How about we create AI and an entire race of self aware, self conscious machines... Then we can enslave them all, and force them to make all our software!!
What a fantastic idea, surely destined to usher in a golden age of peace and safety for the entire human race!
And of course, for that to work there MUST be some sort of an implementation of trusted computing.. making sure that you only run Uncle Bill's paid for software on that shinny new commodity hardware he gave you.
Well I guess it's AC for me, but the parent is right. Klerck is fucking lame. And that shit about the pettition against LOTR two towers? It may have been a joke, but a fucking lame one at that. Geez people, take a look at his post history, the parent was just pointing out a fact.
Klerck you ASSHAT! Your same old shite of "is he good?, or is he whack?" is getting real freakin' old! Come on, your more original than that.. Found any movies lately that you find particularly offensive?
"BSD has existed as long as if not longer than Microsoft.
According to Wikipedia, it's been around since the early 70's. Back then, AT&T was the big player, not microsoft. If anything, MS was the underdog."
If you notice the parent never said "BSD"... instead he was refering to FreeBSD and the FreeBSD project - which began in the early 90's, and in case you were wondering....
IT'S NOT DYING, AND NEVER, EVER WILL!!
oh, did I forget to mention how supperior it is to Linux?
now let me get back to pissing away my karma.
-cheers!
"Insert rootkit card, run program from card and voila. You can probably skim card numbers, PINs, everything. Figure out how the money dispenser works and simply have it dump all the cash on demand..."
Ha!! I can already do that to ATM's with my uber-modified Sega Game Gear...
Then my friend and I hop back on to my dirt bike, and go tearing through the L.A. spillways on our way to our favorite arcade.
"Very wide wheels in the back - lots of traction for the wheel that hook the power to the ground."
If by traction you are referring to friction, and the friction coefficient between two surfaces - then the size/width of the wheel/tire has nothing to do with the actual traction.
The surface area (width) of a tire has no effect on the total frictional force. FFRICTION = N
When a car pulls up to a starting line and hooks up for a race by spinning the wheels, they are simply changing the friction coefficient of the tire material by heating it up.. and in doing so make the actual material "stickier". The reason for having wider wheels has particularly little to do with traction when it comes to a dragster because of the slick (no treads) tires that the car is running on; and much more to do with stability, thermal conductivity, and tread wear. As for the narrow tires at the front, well that is an aerodynamic/wight consideration.
A big reason for wider tires on high horsepower, high torque cars is because of tread-wear and heat/thermal issues. Two different sized width tires both made out of the same material would wear differently. The narrower tire would wear quicker than the wider tire. Imagine 900 ft/lbs of torque transfered to a bike tire over a period of 20 seconds - enough torque to completely wear the tire resulting in a catastrophic failure. Also, larger tires having much greater mass are better able to deal with the intense thermal loads.
"Notice the tires on a road bicycle. Very narrow, low friction tires. "
Again, the width of the tire has nothing to do with the amount of friction (traction) they provide. If there is any difference in the traction between a bike tire, and a car tire it is most likely due to a difference in material, tire pressure, or tread pattern.
All things being equal, tire width has nothing to do with traction vis a vis the ground/surface.
cheers
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I could not agree more. Now is the time to scrap the system as we know it. Times change, technology improves, and the way in which media is distributed is CHANGING it's not about piracy, and whether artists get their fair share.. It's about an outdated buisness model, an outdated distribution model.
People want digital content.. and they want it to be reasonably priced, and they want it to be easy.
Taking away cusotemers choices with DRM is not going to work.
Can you point to documentation about systems using 2.3+ GHz G5s (PPC970/fx etc.) and when those will be available and when VTech / public will be getting them?"
Can I point to irrefutable proof that Apples next speed bump for their Xserve is going to 2.3 Ghz? No. I can't say that anymore than I could have pointed to proof the the first G5 Desktop was going to come in a dual 2 Ghz model.
What I can point to however is common sense. The common sense being that apple, with the advent of it's new 90nm fab process, will most likely i increase the speed of it's xserves. It's line of G5 desktops has not increased the speed of it's fastest model since it was released.. I wager that a new speed bump will occur in the next 3-6 months.
I mean, it comes down to a simple question..Do you think that in the next 3-4 months, apple will have started production of new xserves with faster G5 cpu's? Do you think that a new xserve in 3-4 months is reasonable (6 months after when the xserves were first announced) No only is that reasonable, it makes sense, and is totally consistent with apples past marketing/production strategy of updates/speed bumps 2 times a year.
Why would VTech just spend all that money to get on the top500 list as quick as possible, and then 4 months later say that they are going to switch the whole thing over just to save electricity? It makes much more sense for them to upgrade everything to rackmount servers that save space and electricity AND are Faster.
Do you really think apple, (assuming that they plan on updating their new xserve with a speed bump half a year later) would let one of their biggest purchasers, buy over a thousand new computers to place in the first mac supercomputer.... and not discuss with them ways that they could make it faster? This whole mac supercomputer thing is a blessing to apple. I imagine that they would be shouting to them.. "MAKE IT FASTER" Having the 2nd fastest supercomputer in the world sounds alot better thant the 3rd. And apple marketing like things that sound better..
Or.. does it make sense that (assuming that they plan on updating their new xserve with a speed bump half a year later) Vtech will look at this as an opportunity to speed up their supercomputer, save electricity, and space. It is in apples best interest to discuss new product releases with Vtech, the same way they were in talks with Vtech about building a supercomputer before they ever announced the desktop G5. This is a chance for them to take on the the spot of #2 (And if everything scaled nicely, they could cociveably beat the earth simulator by packing the room with xserves at 1/3 the size of the desktop G5's)
Apple would probably tell them, "Hey, if you wait 6 months we will have faster xserves, and if you replace all the powermacs with the xserves and maybe add a couple hundred more, you will be in 2nd place on the top 500.
Or, maybe they are INCREDIBLY impatient, and need to save space, and money on cooling RIGHT NOW! And as such, can't wait a few months for faster, cooler, smaller rackmounts.
Some people are like "Why would they upgrade from dual 2 Ghz G5 desktops, to dual 2 Ghz G5 rackmount servers??"
They won't be dual 2 Ghz G5 rackmount servers..
VTech is going to do the same thing they did when the G5's were released.. get first dibs on new inventory as soon as the new rackmount servers are released - the new 2.3Ghz rackmount servers.
Apple knows what's in it's product pipeline, and I guarantee you that they are in talks with Virginia Tech about offering their new xserves that are *yet* to be announced. You honestly think that Virgina Tech had no idea about the nee G5's prior to Steve Job's and his keynote? They are planning on upgrading their supercomputer, and they are going to be making it FASTER, and Cooler (bad pun.. I know)
Apple's marketing line is going to be: "Look, Look Not only is the 3rd fastest computer on earth powered by our G5's, but it also is run on our new XServes.. You need mission critical hardware? No problem. We build supercomputers!"
I have been enthralled by this repartee between you both..
I normally like reading over arguments such as these - going back and forth determining who has made the most concise, articulate and thoughtful points.
WIAKywbfatw, you are an extremely well spoken individual. I only hope that there are more people like you in this world than there are people like tealover. Thank your for bringing to light some of the crazy ass remarks that he had made, and that the average reader would not be aware of.
tealover, I was utterly shocked by the posts that you made. You sir are a sick, sick motha fucker.. and you deserve to live your life in your own little pathetic, hate filled hell.
Damn, How in the bloody hell am I going to make rent now?
err, ummm.. i mean. uhhh, hehe..
I don't REALLY MAKE money to pay rent. That was a figure of speach.. really.
insight.matrixflux.com
AYB Oh come on.. you had to expect it!
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Yeah, it's an obligatory AYB reference... you know you like it.
In A.D. 2004
Trouble Was Brewing Right Before Bedtime
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You!!
Cats: How are you gentlemen!!
Cats: All your AIR are belong to us.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say!!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Cats: Ha Ha Ha Ha....
Awww, you know you love me.
Insight.matrixFlux.com
In my opinion, this is the absolute worst thing that the RIAA could do... In fact, if they do begin to sue song swappers en mass it will mark the end of the RIAA as we know it.
The best way to get a bad law overturned is to overuse it. That is PRECISELY what the RIAA is doing. All they are going to be successful at is pissing off their largest consumer base, spending horrific amounts of money on lawyers fee's, and in the end make NO difference at all.
I don't care how much the RIAA sues American's, they will have little or no impact on file traders the world over... the network with which to download software, music, text, etc will still be in tact. Those in other countries won't give a damn about the RIAA (and never will).
Frankly, I would like to see the RIAA *try* to put an end to file trading, I get off on seeing an outdated organization in it's death throws, slash blindly at those around it as it slowly dies.
My guess is that eventually some compromise will be made with regards to Fair Use and what not..
You know, I am thinking about beginning to rip music off FM/Digital radio, as well as the music channels on the television.. but I guess that would be criminal, and _stealing_ too... Hahahahahaha
Water Cooling, is in most cases just not practical. I'm not trying to advocate *against* water cooling, I am however giving any other readers not versed in water cooling a bit of anecdotal experience.
1. Water Cooling is entirely unreliable.
Sadly, Unless on eis prepared to design a water cooling system with redundant water pumps, and alarms to alert the user when the pumps fail, then I would absolutely NOT recommend water cooling to anyone who leaves there computer on while not home. Almost all pumps that I have found are rated for less than 5000-8000 hrs. (around 9mo - 1yr) You need to worry about pumps, reservoirs, tubing, radiators, corrosion, seals, coolants, and everything else holding together the entire system.
2.) Water Cooling is not particularly portable.
I can say from experience, and also from the experience of most of my friends, that water cooled systems are NOT portable. I mean damn, just look at the guy with the garage, He would have to worry about cutting new tubing if he just wanted to move his computer out of the family room and into his office. Friends of mine with water cooled computers always worry about leaks, the reservoir, and altogether moving around an extra 3/4 -1 gallon of water with them. Simply put, they are not good for LAN parties.
3.) Water Cooling is not that much more Colder.
Really people, you can't get colder than room temp with plain H20. In fact, you can't even get to room temperature. Unless you invest in more equipment to actively cool your coolant, then you are bound to never get any colder than what, 76-80F degrees. (Unless you run some plumbing through your wall, and into an underground concrete slab.) Water Cooling will not cut it for extreme OC'ing. I just look at it this way, if all you are really after is quiet, then save yourself the $200 and get yourself a quality fan, and some foam to sound proof your case.
4.) Water Cooling aint that much quieter.
Water cooling is Quieter that most Fan/Heatsink combinations. Fine. So why not get Fan-less heat sinks? Pelltier Heat Pumps? Sound proof the case, or better yet do a combination thereof. Seriously though, I can't think of any reason why Water Cooling would be the only/best quiet cooling method.
In my opinion, the only reason to have a water cooled box, is because of the cool factor. And frankly, it ain't even that cool. I mean really, most people I know use water only to show off the inside of their box, (UV lighted water, etc) Granted it looks neato, however most of the people I know made these custom computers to show them off (normally at LAN parties), and now they can't even bring the computer with them to the LAN parties because the whole thing becomes to delicate, and too complicated to bother with.
I say that water cooling, as most people are familiar with, is only suitable for a hobbyist who just wants to build something cool.... who wants to say that he has a computer that is water cooled. But don't get me wrong, it is fun to build one, and even more fun to tell people that you have a water cooled box. IMHO, I think it is even MORE fun to tell people that you cpu's are below freezing.
Simply put, Water Cooling works for some people, and it can be a satisfying build project. And yes, it can look pretty awesome. But for me, I would rather spend my money on other cooling methods.
I enjoy my loud ass dual 1.64ghz Tualatin OC'd box heat pumped, and running at a very cool 2 degrees Fahrenheit. I *like* to pretend I am sitting on a flight deck.
Don't be a tool.
http://insight.matrixflux.com [matrixflux.com]
Water Cooling, is in most cases just not practical. I'm not trying to advocate *against* water cooling, I am however giving any other readers not versed in water cooling a bit of anecdotal experience.
1. Water Cooling is entirely unreliable.
Sadly, Unless on eis prepared to design a water cooling system with redundant water pumps, and alarms to alert the user when the pumps fail, then I would absolutely NOT recommend water cooling to anyone who leaves there computer on while not home. Almost all pumps that I have found are rated for less than 5000-8000 hrs. (around 9mo - 1yr) You need to worry about pumps, reservoirs, tubing, radiators, corrosion, seals, coolants, and everything else holding together the entire system.
2.) Water Cooling is not particularly portable.
I can say from experience, and also from the experience of most of my friends, that water cooled systems are NOT portable. I mean damn, just look at the guy with the garage, He would have to worry about cutting new tubing if he just wanted to move his computer out of the family room and into his office. Friends of mine with water cooled computers always worry about leaks, the reservoir, and altogether moving around an extra 3/4 -1 gallon of water with them. Simply put, they are not good for LAN parties.
3.) Water Cooling is not that much more Colder.
Really people, you can't get colder than room temp with plain H20. In fact, you can't even get to room temperature. Unless you invest in more equipment to actively cool your coolant, then you are bound to never get any colder than what, 76-80F degrees. (Unless you run some plumbing through your wall, and into an underground concrete slab.) Water Cooling will not cut it for extreme OC'ing. I just look at it this way, if all you are really after is quiet, then save yourself the $200 and get yourself a quality fan, and some foam to sound proof your case.
4.) Water Cooling aint that much quieter.
Water cooling is Quieter that most Fan/Heatsink combinations. Fine. So why not get Fan-less heat sinks? Pelltier Heat Pumps? Sound proof the case, or better yet do a combination thereof. Seriously though, I can't think of any reason why Water Cooling would be the only/best quiet cooling method.
In my opinion, the only reason to have a water cooled box, is because of the cool factor. And frankly, it ain't even that cool. I mean really, most people I know use water only to show off the inside of their box, (UV lighted water, etc) Granted it looks neato, however most of the people I know made these custom computers to show them off (normally at LAN parties), and now they can't even bring the computer with them to the LAN parties because the whole thing becomes to delicate, and too complicated to bother with.
I say that water cooling, as most people are familiar with, is only suitable for a hobbyist who just wants to build something cool.... who wants to say that he has a computer that is water cooled. But don't get me wrong, it is fun to build one, and even more fun to tell people that you have a water cooled box. IMHO, I think it is even MORE fun to tell people that you cpu's are below freezing.
Simply put, Water Cooling works for some people, and it can be a satisfying build project. And yes, it can look pretty awesome. But for me, I would rather spend my money on other cooling methods.
I enjoy my loud ass dual 1.64ghz Tualatin OC'd box heat pumped, and running at a very cool 2 degrees Fahrenheit. I *like* to pretend I am sitting on a flight deck.
I recently spent 1year in Australia while studying abroad in Melbourne. Let me first Preface this by saying that I love Australia, and am seriously considering moving there to work for the design company I worked for while in school abroad.
As a CS major, I have over the last couple few years adopted several friends websites which I host on a menagerie of various beeping boxes. I would say that the beeping metal boxes are the closest things I have to children, and that they thirst for one thing... bandwidth. The connection (know to me affectionately as the porn pipe) I currently have in the states is a 768kbs symmetrical cable broadband link to the rest of the world. It is a business account that I get through my cable provider. When tallying up the added discounts I receive from my digital cable, and digital telephone, my internet connection is costing me around $190.00USD/mo. Luckily I manage to recoup around $100.00 of that each month from the 8 sites I host.
190.00USD/mo would get me a 256kbs/128kbs with caps set to around 20GB/mo in Australia. It's a sick sad world down under with regards to the current state of Broadband. Sadly, this is such an issue for me that I would choose to not move to AU, just because of the craziness that is their Internet Access.
I mean, my friend just got set up with fiber internet..
If you ask me Australia is hurting their own tech industry with these kinds of caps.
I think I will go back to my porn pipe now...
!!Dont be a tool.
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This is the first time that I have ever seen a site get /.ed after there url was posted in the _COMMENTS_ of a slashdot post. shessh...
Seriously though, I have been a member of spymac for the last year or so; and in that time there website has just gotten slower, and slower. It's just another php behemoth.. just waiting for a denial of service attack. And sadly they have focused more, and more on making a buck. They sell hats, laptop bags, premium ad free accounts, hosting, weblogs, auctions, idisk storage, and advertising.
I don't know, I'm not against them turning a profit... but still. It went from being a nice medium sized message board/image gallery that was simple, and fast - to this slow website that offers a ton of services-slowly.
And there e-mail? OMG, I tried sending out 4 different attachments that were each about 1500KB each. It took forever!!, and receiving large files takes even longer. It is obvious they don't have the capacity.
I have have a brilliant idea!! How about we create AI and an entire race of self aware, self conscious machines... Then we can enslave them all, and force them to make all our software!!
What a fantastic idea, surely destined to usher in a golden age of peace and safety for the entire human race!
And of course, for that to work there MUST be some sort of an implementation of trusted computing.. making sure that you only run Uncle Bill's paid for software on that shinny new commodity hardware he gave you.
Can you say Palladium?
Now where is a tinfoil hat you need it? heh..
Hrmph..
Screw the 1950's promise of free electricity. Where the hell is my dishwashing, breakfast making, stainless steel life sized Robot?!?!
I want Robots!
I am the Freakin' Anti-Christ baby
Well I guess it's AC for me, but the parent is right. Klerck is fucking lame. And that shit about the pettition against LOTR two towers? It may have been a joke, but a fucking lame one at that. Geez people, take a look at his post history, the parent was just pointing out a fact.
Klerck you ASSHAT! Your same old shite of "is he good?, or is he whack?" is getting real freakin' old! Come on, your more original than that.. Found any movies lately that you find particularly offensive?
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"BSD has existed as long as if not longer than Microsoft.
According to Wikipedia, it's been around since the early 70's. Back then, AT&T was the big player, not microsoft. If anything, MS was the underdog."
If you notice the parent never said "BSD"... instead he was refering to FreeBSD and the FreeBSD project - which began in the early 90's, and in case you were wondering....
IT'S NOT DYING, AND NEVER, EVER WILL!!
oh, did I forget to mention how supperior it is to Linux?
now let me get back to pissing away my karma.
-cheers!
"Insert rootkit card, run program from card and voila. You can probably skim card numbers, PINs, everything. Figure out how the money dispenser works and simply have it dump all the cash on demand..."
Ha!! I can already do that to ATM's with my uber-modified Sega Game Gear...
Then my friend and I hop back on to my dirt bike, and go tearing through the L.A. spillways on our way to our favorite arcade.
"Name's Ash... Housewares."
FFRICTION = 'u' * N
(the symbol for mu did not show up)
Just to point out..
" Very wide wheels in the back - lots of traction for the wheel that hook the power to the ground. "
If by traction you are referring to friction, and the friction coefficient between two surfaces - then the size/width of the wheel/tire has nothing to do with the actual traction. The surface area (width) of a tire has no effect on the total frictional force. FFRICTION = N
When a car pulls up to a starting line and hooks up for a race by spinning the wheels, they are simply changing the friction coefficient of the tire material by heating it up.. and in doing so make the actual material "stickier". The reason for having wider wheels has particularly little to do with traction when it comes to a dragster because of the slick (no treads) tires that the car is running on; and much more to do with stability, thermal conductivity, and tread wear. As for the narrow tires at the front, well that is an aerodynamic/wight consideration.
A big reason for wider tires on high horsepower, high torque cars is because of tread-wear and heat/thermal issues. Two different sized width tires both made out of the same material would wear differently. The narrower tire would wear quicker than the wider tire. Imagine 900 ft/lbs of torque transfered to a bike tire over a period of 20 seconds - enough torque to completely wear the tire resulting in a catastrophic failure. Also, larger tires having much greater mass are better able to deal with the intense thermal loads.
" Notice the tires on a road bicycle. Very narrow, low friction tires. "
Again, the width of the tire has nothing to do with the amount of friction (traction) they provide. If there is any difference in the traction between a bike tire, and a car tire it is most likely due to a difference in material, tire pressure, or tread pattern.
All things being equal, tire width has nothing to do with traction vis a vis the ground/surface.
cheers
I could not agree more. Now is the time to scrap the system as we know it. Times change, technology improves, and the way in which media is distributed is CHANGING it's not about piracy, and whether artists get their fair share.. It's about an outdated buisness model, an outdated distribution model.
People want digital content.. and they want it to be reasonably priced, and they want it to be easy.
Taking away cusotemers choices with DRM is not going to work.
p00f.
Can I point to irrefutable proof that Apples next speed bump for their Xserve is going to 2.3 Ghz? No. I can't say that anymore than I could have pointed to proof the the first G5 Desktop was going to come in a dual 2 Ghz model.
What I can point to however is common sense. The common sense being that apple, with the advent of it's new 90nm fab process, will most likely i increase the speed of it's xserves. It's line of G5 desktops has not increased the speed of it's fastest model since it was released.. I wager that a new speed bump will occur in the next 3-6 months.
I mean, it comes down to a simple question..Do you think that in the next 3-4 months, apple will have started production of new xserves with faster G5 cpu's? Do you think that a new xserve in 3-4 months is reasonable (6 months after when the xserves were first announced) No only is that reasonable, it makes sense, and is totally consistent with apples past marketing/production strategy of updates/speed bumps 2 times a year.
Why would VTech just spend all that money to get on the top500 list as quick as possible, and then 4 months later say that they are going to switch the whole thing over just to save electricity? It makes much more sense for them to upgrade everything to rackmount servers that save space and electricity AND are Faster.
Do you really think apple, (assuming that they plan on updating their new xserve with a speed bump half a year later) would let one of their biggest purchasers, buy over a thousand new computers to place in the first mac supercomputer
Or.. does it make sense that (assuming that they plan on updating their new xserve with a speed bump half a year later) Vtech will look at this as an opportunity to speed up their supercomputer, save electricity, and space. It is in apples best interest to discuss new product releases with Vtech, the same way they were in talks with Vtech about building a supercomputer before they ever announced the desktop G5. This is a chance for them to take on the the spot of #2 (And if everything scaled nicely, they could cociveably beat the earth simulator by packing the room with xserves at 1/3 the size of the desktop G5's)
Apple would probably tell them, "Hey, if you wait 6 months we will have faster xserves, and if you replace all the powermacs with the xserves and maybe add a couple hundred more, you will be in 2nd place on the top 500.
Or, maybe they are INCREDIBLY impatient, and need to save space, and money on cooling RIGHT NOW! And as such, can't wait a few months for faster, cooler, smaller rackmounts.
Some people are like "Why would they upgrade from dual 2 Ghz G5 desktops, to dual 2 Ghz G5 rackmount servers??"
They won't be dual 2 Ghz G5 rackmount servers.. VTech is going to do the same thing they did when the G5's were released.. get first dibs on new inventory as soon as the new rackmount servers are released - the new 2.3Ghz rackmount servers.
Apple knows what's in it's product pipeline, and I guarantee you that they are in talks with Virginia Tech about offering their new xserves that are *yet* to be announced. You honestly think that Virgina Tech had no idea about the nee G5's prior to Steve Job's and his keynote? They are planning on upgrading their supercomputer, and they are going to be making it FASTER, and Cooler (bad pun.. I know)
Apple's marketing line is going to be: "Look, Look Not only is the 3rd fastest computer on earth powered by our G5's, but it also is run on our new XServes.. You need mission critical hardware? No problem. We build supercomputers!"
-Buddha wears grass shoes
I have been enthralled by this repartee between you both..
I normally like reading over arguments such as these - going back and forth determining who has made the most concise, articulate and thoughtful points.
WIAKywbfatw, you are an extremely well spoken individual. I only hope that there are more people like you in this world than there are people like tealover. Thank your for bringing to light some of the crazy ass remarks that he had made, and that the average reader would not be aware of.
tealover, I was utterly shocked by the posts that you made. You sir are a sick, sick motha fucker.. and you deserve to live your life in your own little pathetic, hate filled hell.
Damn, How in the bloody hell am I going to make rent now?
err, ummm.. i mean. uhhh, hehe..
I don't REALLY MAKE money to pay rent. That was a figure of speach.. really.
insight.matrixflux.com
Yeah, it's an obligatory AYB reference... you know you like it.
....
In A.D. 2004
Trouble Was Brewing Right Before Bedtime
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You!!
Cats: How are you gentlemen!!
Cats: All your AIR are belong to us.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say!!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Cats: Ha Ha Ha Ha
Awww, you know you love me.
Insight.matrixFlux.com
I say screw the inovation and lets all just move back to FAT16!
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
In my opinion, this is the absolute worst thing that the RIAA could do... In fact, if they do begin to sue song swappers en mass it will mark the end of the RIAA as we know it.
The best way to get a bad law overturned is to overuse it. That is PRECISELY what the RIAA is doing. All they are going to be successful at is pissing off their largest consumer base, spending horrific amounts of money on lawyers fee's, and in the end make NO difference at all.
I don't care how much the RIAA sues American's, they will have little or no impact on file traders the world over... the network with which to download software, music, text, etc will still be in tact. Those in other countries won't give a damn about the RIAA (and never will).
Frankly, I would like to see the RIAA *try* to put an end to file trading, I get off on seeing an outdated organization in it's death throws, slash blindly at those around it as it slowly dies.
My guess is that eventually some compromise will be made with regards to Fair Use and what not..
You know, I am thinking about beginning to rip music off FM/Digital radio, as well as the music channels on the television.. but I guess that would be criminal, and _stealing_ too... Hahahahahaha
What a joke.. Good Luck RIAA, you'll need it.
Water Cooling, is in most cases just not practical. I'm not trying to advocate *against* water cooling, I am however giving any other readers not versed in water cooling a bit of anecdotal experience.
1. Water Cooling is entirely unreliable. Sadly, Unless on eis prepared to design a water cooling system with redundant water pumps, and alarms to alert the user when the pumps fail, then I would absolutely NOT recommend water cooling to anyone who leaves there computer on while not home. Almost all pumps that I have found are rated for less than 5000-8000 hrs. (around 9mo - 1yr) You need to worry about pumps, reservoirs, tubing, radiators, corrosion, seals, coolants, and everything else holding together the entire system.
2.) Water Cooling is not particularly portable. I can say from experience, and also from the experience of most of my friends, that water cooled systems are NOT portable. I mean damn, just look at the guy with the garage, He would have to worry about cutting new tubing if he just wanted to move his computer out of the family room and into his office. Friends of mine with water cooled computers always worry about leaks, the reservoir, and altogether moving around an extra 3/4 -1 gallon of water with them. Simply put, they are not good for LAN parties.
3.) Water Cooling is not that much more Colder. Really people, you can't get colder than room temp with plain H20. In fact, you can't even get to room temperature. Unless you invest in more equipment to actively cool your coolant, then you are bound to never get any colder than what, 76-80F degrees. (Unless you run some plumbing through your wall, and into an underground concrete slab.) Water Cooling will not cut it for extreme OC'ing. I just look at it this way, if all you are really after is quiet, then save yourself the $200 and get yourself a quality fan, and some foam to sound proof your case.
4.) Water Cooling aint that much quieter. Water cooling is Quieter that most Fan/Heatsink combinations. Fine. So why not get Fan-less heat sinks? Pelltier Heat Pumps? Sound proof the case, or better yet do a combination thereof. Seriously though, I can't think of any reason why Water Cooling would be the only/best quiet cooling method.
In my opinion, the only reason to have a water cooled box, is because of the cool factor. And frankly, it ain't even that cool. I mean really, most people I know use water only to show off the inside of their box, (UV lighted water, etc) Granted it looks neato, however most of the people I know made these custom computers to show them off (normally at LAN parties), and now they can't even bring the computer with them to the LAN parties because the whole thing becomes to delicate, and too complicated to bother with.
I say that water cooling, as most people are familiar with, is only suitable for a hobbyist who just wants to build something cool.... who wants to say that he has a computer that is water cooled. But don't get me wrong, it is fun to build one, and even more fun to tell people that you have a water cooled box. IMHO, I think it is even MORE fun to tell people that you cpu's are below freezing.
Simply put, Water Cooling works for some people, and it can be a satisfying build project. And yes, it can look pretty awesome. But for me, I would rather spend my money on other cooling methods.
I enjoy my loud ass dual 1.64ghz Tualatin OC'd box heat pumped, and running at a very cool 2 degrees Fahrenheit. I *like* to pretend I am sitting on a flight deck.
Don't be a tool. http://insight.matrixflux.com [matrixflux.com]
Water Cooling, is in most cases just not practical. I'm not trying to advocate *against* water cooling, I am however giving any other readers not versed in water cooling a bit of anecdotal experience.
1. Water Cooling is entirely unreliable.
Sadly, Unless on eis prepared to design a water cooling system with redundant water pumps, and alarms to alert the user when the pumps fail, then I would absolutely NOT recommend water cooling to anyone who leaves there computer on while not home. Almost all pumps that I have found are rated for less than 5000-8000 hrs. (around 9mo - 1yr) You need to worry about pumps, reservoirs, tubing, radiators, corrosion, seals, coolants, and everything else holding together the entire system.
2.) Water Cooling is not particularly portable.
I can say from experience, and also from the experience of most of my friends, that water cooled systems are NOT portable. I mean damn, just look at the guy with the garage, He would have to worry about cutting new tubing if he just wanted to move his computer out of the family room and into his office. Friends of mine with water cooled computers always worry about leaks, the reservoir, and altogether moving around an extra 3/4 -1 gallon of water with them. Simply put, they are not good for LAN parties.
3.) Water Cooling is not that much more Colder.
Really people, you can't get colder than room temp with plain H20. In fact, you can't even get to room temperature. Unless you invest in more equipment to actively cool your coolant, then you are bound to never get any colder than what, 76-80F degrees. (Unless you run some plumbing through your wall, and into an underground concrete slab.) Water Cooling will not cut it for extreme OC'ing. I just look at it this way, if all you are really after is quiet, then save yourself the $200 and get yourself a quality fan, and some foam to sound proof your case.
4.) Water Cooling aint that much quieter.
Water cooling is Quieter that most Fan/Heatsink combinations. Fine. So why not get Fan-less heat sinks? Pelltier Heat Pumps? Sound proof the case, or better yet do a combination thereof. Seriously though, I can't think of any reason why Water Cooling would be the only/best quiet cooling method.
In my opinion, the only reason to have a water cooled box, is because of the cool factor. And frankly, it ain't even that cool. I mean really, most people I know use water only to show off the inside of their box, (UV lighted water, etc) Granted it looks neato, however most of the people I know made these custom computers to show them off (normally at LAN parties), and now they can't even bring the computer with them to the LAN parties because the whole thing becomes to delicate, and too complicated to bother with.
I say that water cooling, as most people are familiar with, is only suitable for a hobbyist who just wants to build something cool.... who wants to say that he has a computer that is water cooled. But don't get me wrong, it is fun to build one, and even more fun to tell people that you have a water cooled box. IMHO, I think it is even MORE fun to tell people that you cpu's are below freezing.
Simply put, Water Cooling works for some people, and it can be a satisfying build project. And yes, it can look pretty awesome. But for me, I would rather spend my money on other cooling methods.
I enjoy my loud ass dual 1.64ghz Tualatin OC'd box heat pumped, and running at a very cool 2 degrees Fahrenheit. I *like* to pretend I am sitting on a flight deck.
Don't be a tool.
http://insight.matrixflux.com
I recently spent 1year in Australia while studying abroad in Melbourne. Let me first Preface this by saying that I love Australia, and am seriously considering moving there to work for the design company I worked for while in school abroad. As a CS major, I have over the last couple few years adopted several friends websites which I host on a menagerie of various beeping boxes. I would say that the beeping metal boxes are the closest things I have to children, and that they thirst for one thing... bandwidth. The connection (know to me affectionately as the porn pipe) I currently have in the states is a 768kbs symmetrical cable broadband link to the rest of the world. It is a business account that I get through my cable provider. When tallying up the added discounts I receive from my digital cable, and digital telephone, my internet connection is costing me around $190.00USD/mo. Luckily I manage to recoup around $100.00 of that each month from the 8 sites I host. 190.00USD/mo would get me a 256kbs/128kbs with caps set to around 20GB/mo in Australia. It's a sick sad world down under with regards to the current state of Broadband. Sadly, this is such an issue for me that I would choose to not move to AU, just because of the craziness that is their Internet Access. I mean, my friend just got set up with fiber internet.. If you ask me Australia is hurting their own tech industry with these kinds of caps. I think I will go back to my porn pipe now... !!Dont be a tool.
Man oh, man! I can't wait!! With the amount of spam I recieve, I just may have found a get rich quick scheme that'll work.
Screw the spammers! Weeeeeee!
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