Giant heatsinks are fun. I remember when I first strapped a Scythe Ninja to a Q6600. At first I was worried the case wouldn't close. Then I worried that the sheer mass of the thing (and both 120mm fans I strapped to it) would just pull the processor right out of it's socket. Then I closed the case and started to worry that I would never be able to open the thing again if it did fall off.
Fortunately, it never did break. And, of course, after about a year I ripped the puny stock HSF off the 8800GT (in the same box), and replaced it with a monster GPU heatsink from Arctic Cooling. Strapped two 120mm fans to that thing also.
I loved that box. It had lots of everything. Power, airflow, noise, dust... Good times.
Wait, I thought our standard unit of measurement around here was the LOC? So, just how much damage does a LOC, when dropped from a great height, do to an urban area? Anyone know? This is Slashdot... someone knows.
Actually, I remember reading somewhere that, according to the head of BMW's M division, there is more demand for a row-your-own M5 in the US than in Europe. Apparently the dual-clutch "manumatics" are really popular across the pond.
Supporting the 'legacy' would legitimize it. That is, it would (or may) encourage others to tread the same road to success. Not that I completely agree (or disagree...) with GP's sentiment. Just sayin.
C'mon. It's Bill Nye the muddafuggin Science Guy, Neil deFrikkinGrasse Tyson, the Slacker Astronomy chick, and the physicist who wrote "The Physics of Star Trek". Bill is awesome (as always), Tyson and Krauss spend half their time lobbing verbal jabs at each other, and Dr. Gay throws in a couple insightful points.
The fuck else do you need here to buy in? A flashing neon sign saying "Naked Ladies" ? Trust me, It's an hour well spent.:)
Sort of. The second rule was "You aren't nearly as clever as you think you are." Implying that you should always be trying to use tools/libraries/examples/asking_for_help rather than writing everything on your own in the dark. Because the alternative to following this rule was a fun little acronym my prof liked to use: "BFAI" - Brute Force And Ignorance. "You can solve anything with BFAI! But it's probably going to suck. Others will laugh at you."
"Beware, you who seek first and final principles, for you are trampling the garden of an angry God and he awaits you just beyond the last theorem." -Sister Miriam Godwinson
Sorry, everything reminds me of a SMAX quote after i've been playing.:)
I mean, if six guys can change four tires, fill a tank of gas, clean the grill and take a round of wedge out the ass end of a car in ~15 seconds then surely we can figure out how to switch a battery pack (or two) in a couple minutes.
Blame the consoles. Since everything nowadays is a port, the consoles have been holding the minimum specs waay down for quite a while. The next generation if and when it arrives should be interesting for the PC world too.
What's really going to fuck with your head is when you realize that OnStar is *always* on, weather or not you have (ever had) a subscription. Just hit the button twice for an operator.
Yeah, and they're giant, overpriced ripoffs. Back in the day you could buy a mid-range processor, gamble on getting a good chip, strap a fan the size of your face to the sucker, and crank that multiplier into the stratosphere. Then intel wizened up because people were taking their midgrade offerings and turning them into steroid injected beasts that would utterly crush their own top-of-the-line offerings. Enter the land of the locked multiplier for no reason other than to push people towards the "XTREEEEEM POWAAAH" processors with a great margin. It's like if Chevy started building 350's with a fracture in the block so you couldn't get more than 450hp out of them unless you ponied up for their big crate motors. Car enthusiasts would scream murder, but over in PC-hobbiest land we just shrug and take it. Bah. I understand it from a business sense, but still... it frustrates me.
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Hello?
Hellloooo?
Oh shit! The zombies got him!!
Everyone panic!
"Good alternative" is entirely dependent on your must-have feature list.
Giant heatsinks are fun. I remember when I first strapped a Scythe Ninja to a Q6600. At first I was worried the case wouldn't close. Then I worried that the sheer mass of the thing (and both 120mm fans I strapped to it) would just pull the processor right out of it's socket. Then I closed the case and started to worry that I would never be able to open the thing again if it did fall off.
Fortunately, it never did break. And, of course, after about a year I ripped the puny stock HSF off the 8800GT (in the same box), and replaced it with a monster GPU heatsink from Arctic Cooling. Strapped two 120mm fans to that thing also.
I loved that box. It had lots of everything. Power, airflow, noise, dust... Good times.
Wait, I thought our standard unit of measurement around here was the LOC?
So, just how much damage does a LOC, when dropped from a great height, do to an urban area? Anyone know? This is Slashdot... someone knows.
Actually, I remember reading somewhere that, according to the head of BMW's M division, there is more demand for a row-your-own M5 in the US than in Europe. Apparently the dual-clutch "manumatics" are really popular across the pond.
Supporting the 'legacy' would legitimize it. That is, it would (or may) encourage others to tread the same road to success. Not that I completely agree (or disagree...) with GP's sentiment. Just sayin.
Yeah, me too. Here I was just thinking about buying a dedicated NAS box for my place to cut back on the power bill. Fuck.
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Verbal contract.
Problem solved.
C'mon. It's Bill Nye the muddafuggin Science Guy, Neil deFrikkinGrasse Tyson, the Slacker Astronomy chick, and the physicist who wrote "The Physics of Star Trek". Bill is awesome (as always), Tyson and Krauss spend half their time lobbing verbal jabs at each other, and Dr. Gay throws in a couple insightful points.
The fuck else do you need here to buy in? A flashing neon sign saying "Naked Ladies" ? :)
Trust me, It's an hour well spent.
The PDF mentions accessing "approximately" 568 accounts.
iWhoosh.
Not only that, but the triangle is spinning inside a peanut!
Who *wouldn't* want a triangle-peanut powered car?
Sort of. The second rule was "You aren't nearly as clever as you think you are." Implying that you should always be trying to use tools/libraries/examples/asking_for_help rather than writing everything on your own in the dark. Because the alternative to following this rule was a fun little acronym my prof liked to use: "BFAI" - Brute Force And Ignorance. "You can solve anything with BFAI! But it's probably going to suck. Others will laugh at you."
I like that rule too. :)
My intro CS prof always told us that "The first rule of programming is.... the user is an idiot."
And so far that rule has served me well. :)
Oblig:
You wouldn't download a car...
Fuck you! I would if I could!
"Beware, you who seek first and final principles, for you are trampling the garden of an angry God and he awaits you just beyond the last theorem."
-Sister Miriam Godwinson
Sorry, everything reminds me of a SMAX quote after i've been playing. :)
You could always just swap them out.
I mean, if six guys can change four tires, fill a tank of gas, clean the grill and take a round of wedge out the ass end of a car in ~15 seconds then surely we can figure out how to switch a battery pack (or two) in a couple minutes.
What's "Goodnight sweet prince" in german? ;)
I don't care when i'm at home either.
But at the moment i'm at school, working off a 512mb netbook.
Now I care.
Blame the consoles. Since everything nowadays is a port, the consoles have been holding the minimum specs waay down for quite a while. The next generation if and when it arrives should be interesting for the PC world too.
What's really going to fuck with your head is when you realize that OnStar is *always* on, weather or not you have (ever had) a subscription. Just hit the button twice for an operator.
IANAL but i'm pretty sure, under Canadian law, that you can't contract someone into *not* suing you for fraud (specifically)
Imagine if it hit a clown car.
Or a clown car convention!
It would be like 9/11 times one hundred!
Yes. Ninety-one thousand one hundred...
Yeah, and they're giant, overpriced ripoffs. Back in the day you could buy a mid-range processor, gamble on getting a good chip, strap a fan the size of your face to the sucker, and crank that multiplier into the stratosphere. Then intel wizened up because people were taking their midgrade offerings and turning them into steroid injected beasts that would utterly crush their own top-of-the-line offerings. Enter the land of the locked multiplier for no reason other than to push people towards the "XTREEEEEM POWAAAH" processors with a great margin. It's like if Chevy started building 350's with a fracture in the block so you couldn't get more than 450hp out of them unless you ponied up for their big crate motors. Car enthusiasts would scream murder, but over in PC-hobbiest land we just shrug and take it. Bah.
I understand it from a business sense, but still... it frustrates me.