Is there any truth to the rumor that the author of the article originally started working with dry ice to ease the throbbing in what must be the worst case of blue balls on the planet?
Anyone that spends this much time on cooling a computer chip really needs to get out more.
I agree to a point. Anyone that spends 5 minutes reading their web site and the comments therein (as I just did) will:
1. Want their wasted 5 minutes back
2. Will see what a bunch of whiners the parents on that site appeat to be. Most of the comments seem to be insulting each others' grammar and spelling. The rest are complaining about pet issues ("The principal told my daughter to take off her jacket").
Whoever started that company picked the wrong business to be in. Their primary customer appears to have way too much time on their hands.
For anyone at work on this fine Saturday, be advised that the link in the summary labeled "coverage and plenty of eye candy" is not safe for my work, and likely many others.
I found out the hard way - it would be better to put a disclaimer in the summary.
I'm all for pushing technology forward, but integrating so many functions into one device can have a downside..
I don't think we're too far off from having spyware for mobile phones that sends advertising SMS messages to everyone in your phone address book. Or even calls everyone and plays a pre-recorded message. As these things become more ubiquitous, they'll be a larger and larger target.
There are many references to "low cost" when talking about the solar sail. For anyone curious, the price is about $4 million which relatively speaking, is low cost.
I've only been a member of the Planetary Society for two years, but I'm proud that they're accomplishing this.
For example, calls from anybody but close family could be routed straight to voicemail between 6pm and 11pm.
That way, when a family member has been arrested for sharing too many files on the Internet and they make their one phone call from jail to you, they'll get your voice mail.
But seriously... I know most people do it but I've never gotten screening one's phone calls. My experience with the federal and state "do not call lists" has been very positive so I literally get no sales calls any more. The only thing I have to watch out for now is the occasional annoying friend that calls, but even that's not bad enough for me to screen.
"Come to our site, give us free publicity, do something that likely you are the only one in the world that knows how to do and then teach us how to do it. If you do, there's a console game in it for you! Wouldn't you rather have a console game than the tens of thousands of dollars you could sell this information for?"
Let's all sell fake copies of Windows XP to each other. Then we can report each other and get real copies!
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You are a liar. My pay as a developer has gone significantly up since Republicans took office.
Keep doomsaying and maybe you'll be back in power. That's a lot easier than coming up with your own ideas and presenting them in a way that brings people to your side.
If you're looking for something that covers topics like these, but don't want to waste your time searching the Internet for answers, this book is for you.
Isn't the playing of video games all about wasting time?
I would like to volunteer to be a tester for this graphics card. An unfunded project done in a few engineer's spare time sounds like something that I want to be a part of! Go ahead and burn my house down... I'm insured! If I can finally get better driver support for my Red Hat installation, it will be worth it.
But seriously, I don't see much need for this. Can someone explain it better than Timothy Miller? Although I was impressed with the fancy Gantt chart
If you're under the impression that I'm an ignorant Microsoft basher, you're incorrect. I've formerly held an MCSE certification (NT 4.0 track) and currently hold an MCSD (VB6 track) and MCDBA (SQL Server 2000 track). I'm working on my MCSD C#.Net track as we speak.
The company I work for full-time is an all-Microsoft shop. You know what though? Every Windows operating system today (up to and including Windows Server 2003) has to be rebooted frequently whether you install software or not. If you don't admit that, then you're blindly evangelizing Microsoft's operating systems.
One thing to keep in mind is that for the most part, Novell in its 3.x days (about 12 years ago) was used mostly for file and print serving. You didn't have to update the kernel very often to support that, and since they generally weren't connected to public networks you didn't have to worry as much about security updates.
It's nice that I won't have to reboot to upgrade my video driver. Now if they could fix the memory leaks that seem to be so rampant in Windows Server and its applications I might have an average uptime that is longer than 1 month.
I remember in my old Novell file server days that it was common to have Novell 3.12 servers with an uptime of 2 years or more. From what I understand, this is common among just about every operating system other than Windows Server (which is the primary operating system I deal with).
Bite your tongue! How in the world could anyone ever get bored with cooling CPUs with water? I've thrown dozens of water-cooled-CPU-themed parties in the last several years and my guests have never wanted for excitement!
Once there was this time at one of the parties that this one CPU got up to 68 degrees celcius. Way too hot! We put a custom water cooler job on that guy and got it down to 45 degrees celcius in no time. Good times.
"We are investigating this mishap and we are doing everything possible to make sure unscrupulous parties are not able to program the robot to bitch slap children in the future," an unnamed Sony source said on condition on anonymity.
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It was just about a month ago that it was reported that blackholes don't exist.
I wish physicists could make up their mind.
Is there any truth to the rumor that the author of the article originally started working with dry ice to ease the throbbing in what must be the worst case of blue balls on the planet?
Anyone that spends this much time on cooling a computer chip really needs to get out more.
I agree to a point. Anyone that spends 5 minutes reading their web site and the comments therein (as I just did) will:
1. Want their wasted 5 minutes back
2. Will see what a bunch of whiners the parents on that site appeat to be. Most of the comments seem to be insulting each others' grammar and spelling. The rest are complaining about pet issues ("The principal told my daughter to take off her jacket").
Whoever started that company picked the wrong business to be in. Their primary customer appears to have way too much time on their hands.
For anyone at work on this fine Saturday, be advised that the link in the summary labeled "coverage and plenty of eye candy" is not safe for my work, and likely many others.
I found out the hard way - it would be better to put a disclaimer in the summary.
I'm all for pushing technology forward, but integrating so many functions into one device can have a downside..
I don't think we're too far off from having spyware for mobile phones that sends advertising SMS messages to everyone in your phone address book. Or even calls everyone and plays a pre-recorded message. As these things become more ubiquitous, they'll be a larger and larger target.
There are many references to "low cost" when talking about the solar sail. For anyone curious, the price is about $4 million which relatively speaking, is low cost.
I've only been a member of the Planetary Society for two years, but I'm proud that they're accomplishing this.
I think that broadcast flags are actually a good idea. Let's start with a "crap flag" that refuses to let me watch shows that are crap.
For example, calls from anybody but close family could be routed straight to voicemail between 6pm and 11pm.
That way, when a family member has been arrested for sharing too many files on the Internet and they make their one phone call from jail to you, they'll get your voice mail.
But seriously... I know most people do it but I've never gotten screening one's phone calls. My experience with the federal and state "do not call lists" has been very positive so I literally get no sales calls any more. The only thing I have to watch out for now is the occasional annoying friend that calls, but even that's not bad enough for me to screen.
Poor little Heisinger... Always taking credit for his cousin Heiseinberg's work.
"There is no OpenSolaris," read an anonymous post on operating systems news Web site OSNews.com. "Show us the code or quit mentioning it."
Who gets infuriated by anonymous comments with no substance at all?
You shouldn't spend too much brain power responding. The proper response is to respond anonymously with some stock comebacks:
"Says you!"
"Your mom!"
That'll learn'em.
Who said anything about illicit profit? Such information could even more easily be sold in an effort to patch systems.
Where would we be without the obligatory paperclip jokes? I actually laughed out loud on this one.
"Come to our site, give us free publicity, do something that likely you are the only one in the world that knows how to do and then teach us how to do it. If you do, there's a console game in it for you! Wouldn't you rather have a console game than the tens of thousands of dollars you could sell this information for?"
Can you tell me where Bob's store is? I need to paint my house and the ladder you speak of would sure be handy.
Let's all sell fake copies of Windows XP to each other. Then we can report each other and get real copies!
On second thought...
You are a liar. My pay as a developer has gone significantly up since Republicans took office.
Keep doomsaying and maybe you'll be back in power. That's a lot easier than coming up with your own ideas and presenting them in a way that brings people to your side.
If you're looking for something that covers topics like these, but don't want to waste your time searching the Internet for answers, this book is for you.
Isn't the playing of video games all about wasting time?
I would like to volunteer to be a tester for this graphics card. An unfunded project done in a few engineer's spare time sounds like something that I want to be a part of! Go ahead and burn my house down... I'm insured! If I can finally get better driver support for my Red Hat installation, it will be worth it.
But seriously, I don't see much need for this. Can someone explain it better than Timothy Miller? Although I was impressed with the fancy Gantt chart
If you're under the impression that I'm an ignorant Microsoft basher, you're incorrect. I've formerly held an MCSE certification (NT 4.0 track) and currently hold an MCSD (VB6 track) and MCDBA (SQL Server 2000 track). I'm working on my MCSD C# .Net track as we speak.
The company I work for full-time is an all-Microsoft shop. You know what though? Every Windows operating system today (up to and including Windows Server 2003) has to be rebooted frequently whether you install software or not. If you don't admit that, then you're blindly evangelizing Microsoft's operating systems.
One thing to keep in mind is that for the most part, Novell in its 3.x days (about 12 years ago) was used mostly for file and print serving. You didn't have to update the kernel very often to support that, and since they generally weren't connected to public networks you didn't have to worry as much about security updates.
It's nice that I won't have to reboot to upgrade my video driver. Now if they could fix the memory leaks that seem to be so rampant in Windows Server and its applications I might have an average uptime that is longer than 1 month.
I remember in my old Novell file server days that it was common to have Novell 3.12 servers with an uptime of 2 years or more. From what I understand, this is common among just about every operating system other than Windows Server (which is the primary operating system I deal with).
Bored with water cooling?
Bite your tongue! How in the world could anyone ever get bored with cooling CPUs with water? I've thrown dozens of water-cooled-CPU-themed parties in the last several years and my guests have never wanted for excitement!
Once there was this time at one of the parties that this one CPU got up to 68 degrees celcius. Way too hot! We put a custom water cooler job on that guy and got it down to 45 degrees celcius in no time. Good times.
How could you ever be bored!?
Send them emails with executable attachments. If they click on the attachments, ban them from the network for a week.
Send these out frequently. Soon they'll instinctually hit the DEL key when something with an attachment comes in.
"We are investigating this mishap and we are doing everything possible to make sure unscrupulous parties are not able to program the robot to bitch slap children in the future," an unnamed Sony source said on condition on anonymity.
"And people, I can't stress this enough. Put your garbage in the garbage can."
"Garbage in the garbage can. Hmm. Makes sense."