If you just start touch-toning it in it will accept it. I've had to reactivate my student copy on here severeal times during upgrades and reinstalls and anymore i just hammer it in 5 digits at a time on the keypad. Automation is just there for the idiots. if you punch the numbers right it works everytime.
I'm not a contractor. Never said i was. However i do know a few, and i know of lots of houses with full basements who never have leaks, condensation, or sewage backups. Apparently they did something right!
Any basement built in teh last 15 years by somebody who knows jack shit about construction, ventilation, drains, runoff, and concrete will be watertight. I know of more houses than i can count right now that have full (i.e. the basement area is roughly the same area as the first floor) finished (meaning they have drywall, carpet, ceilings, COMPUTERS, Home theaters, etc) basements. So long as they put a good base under the house to prevent shifting, and they landscaped the house so that water actually doesn't run into it (i know some old houses who's basements are like pools becasue the jackasses built it in a valley inside of a ravine near a river).
That said, i would bear no mind to putting electronics in many basements, so long as they are fairly new, or at least have no serious problems. But i woudlnt' mess with a false floor, at least not on a large scale. dropping a framework of 4x4 or 6x6 blocks cut to 1-3" lengths tacked to a piece of luon (spelling? it's 1/4" plywood) simply for positioning sake, then doing a network of tiles of some form on top that would allow you to pass cabling through or whatever. The only thing fancy i'd bother with is the tiles. Just so long as you ahve some sort of ghetto framework benethe it with blocks closely spaced enough to support the weight i'd say you'll be fine.
a 6GB ipod Mini for that cheap...it would almost be worth it to relegate my 4G 40GB 'pod to my vehicle, and keep the mini with me. I've pondered that since i got it, epecially with the lackluster battery life (my day usually lasts much more than 8 hours without seeing the charger, and recently i've noticed it has gotten even shorter...it's only 6-7 months old now...) I would have to dock the 6GB player nightly for recharging and reloading, but the 40GB would be teathered to a cigarette lighter adapter and has enough damned songs on it now they only time i'd need to dock it would be to update the firmware (at which point it'd pick up any new music i updated since...). So tempting...
so a mini may be on the horizon:) Along with a Powerbook G5, two mac minis and a dual 3Ghz G5, oh and pigs with wings too! but the pod mini may be a reality:-)
I saw maybe 5 or so positive, actually on topic responses, 100 or so saying "Google it you idiot" and another 20ish stating something along the lines of "you #@*#$ Stop wasting my time!".
If you feel this is waste of time/space etc, don't waste everybody else's time and space by posting a reply. Just STFU and STFO. The man asked a question. If you're not going to answer him, keep your shit to yourself. He's not just looking for hardware from the sound of it. He wants something specific from a vendor. Googling, or searching Newegg and Dell aren't viable options. Dell.com sucks, IMHO, even the business side, because there's too much that i know they can do that they don't list. And calling them without knowing somebody there to talk to who knows his shit will only elicit the comments like the poster said "Why would you need 16GB of RAM?!"
I will grant that more information needed to be provided, such as intended use, why it has to have a 16x PCIe slot, etc. But with the abbreviated space slashdot gives each post i can see the reason for being brief.
A wisecrack is one thing, but a) most of you got modded up for things that should have been modded down as redundant. b) most of you got modded up for saying nothing prevailent or helpful concerning the original question. c) most of you just need to quit trolling posts and go do some real work.
As far as i can tell i have 9 or 10 years before i have to worry about this problem, unless i stumble across a winning lottery ticket someplace, but i am probably going to marry a veternarian, so all is well:) I have put a lot of though into house construction and how to geek proof things. Right now i'm looking at something between 2000 and 2500 sq ft, 2 story with a full basement. First off, my long-term girlfriend and i have already agreed that she gets an office on the ground floor, near the exit (in case we end up putting her practice on property) which can be converted to a fouth bedroom should the need arise, i get half of the basement for my purposes, which includes me 'geek' room which will be like 15'x15' with anti-static tiles, wired like a pinball machine, with several desks, tables, both sitting and standing height and my chest of computer tools. Plus a separate, attached 7x7 wiring closet (or bigger) on one side that will be the nerve center for the entire house. Also doing probably a 10x10 section with 1' concrete walls and a lot of insulation along with a fireproof door.
I figure by then fibre will be to our doors (it's already to mine, and i live in podunk, Indiana, the only way Sprint lets us use it right now is DSL, but my whole county and the surrounding counties have had massive installs of fiber in the past couple of years.). This leads me to conclude that each room is getting two runs of 3/4" or 1" conduit (covering two walls with data outlets), each room with the exception of bathrooms, but including kitchen, living room, maybe cable TV to the master closet. Each conduit may terminate on its own in the wiring closet in the basement (tagged with it's room and wall) or the two pipes for each room may merge and run via a single 2" to the closet, not sure. I like making seperate runs for each, would make new pulls easier, but i don't plan on doing it too often, so not sure. Right now i'm looking to run gigabit fiber AND cat6, cable, and if i end up getting a PBX (there may be a small one on property if there's a vet clinic there...) a 2nd cat6 for phone use.
Also i WANT to run pulls for wired cameras at the enterance ways, shop, drive way, my computer room, her office door, and any others i can find a place and purpose for. (just have to convince the missus there's a purpose) and do outdoor plugs / weatherproof boxes outside in a variety of locations low and high, roof and ground for outdoor lighting, etc.
Gonna end up with a lot of money in a house, but oh da-hell well. If i'm going to spend 2/3 of that to buy somebody else's problems i may as well go a little further in debt and build what i want, then i have nobody to blame problems on but me!
Performance gains from going 16x on both slots? In WHAT?! Very few benchmarks can saturate the AGP bus, let alone the PCIe bus. an 8x slot gives you 2GB/s bandwidth, almost matching AGP 8x, except that PCIe is bi-directional. Meaning 4GB/s total bandwidth. At least that's how i read the stuff i've seen. But back to my point, games today barely utilize the slots from last generation, how in the hell are we going to saturate double the bandwidth?
Also two more things, if you buy an AMD64 board, with AGP so you can reuse a 4 year old graphics card, you may as well break out the Astroglide. Unless it's PCI that is, then more power to you, so long as you don't do something foolish like buy a Socket 754 board with an AGP slot.
Next being the performance gains you speak of. They will come with more mature drivers that can better take advantage of the dual cards, and eleminate some of the overhead. The losses mentioned in FarCry earlier are attributed to a loss of efficiency, not loss of bandwidth along the channels. My major is ComputerTech, not ElectricEng so i can't point out the differences short of what i've read from nvidia's own literature and the reviews i've seen so far.
At the moment, the upgrade path actually requires two identical cards, so you'd have to choose your initial purchase extra carefully to make sure your model is still around when it's time to upgrade.
Actually you don't need identical boards, they have to be identical chipsets. You can mix and match vendors, so long as the chips and configs are the same. You can't run a 6600 and a 6600GT in SLI mode, but you COULD (in theory) run them to power 4 DVI displays. I say in theory because everyone is still so hung up on SLI i haven't seen anybody try this yet. The main outline of the spec is that you can run cards from different vendors, they just have to be the same configs. Many of you know that already, but i felt obligated to clarify for those who haven't been keeping up;)
Personally i'm looking at SLI capable boards for my next mobo upgrade for that reason above, not for the SLI portion, but the fact that i may be able to run dual vid cards and not have one on the slow ass PCI bus. With most integrated mobo periphials moving to PCIe anyway, this isn't so much an issue, but if you have firewire, any kind of hdd access, audio, etc moving on the 133MB/s PCI bus you're going to be hearing pops and skips in your audio, looking for lost packets, and pulling your hair out with IRQ conflicts. I don't want to add video to the mess that already exists. dual PCIe x16 slots seem a VERY nice solution:)
I buried this below a minute ago, figured i'd bring it to the top.
Umm...just FYI, i don't know what that other guy is talking about, but there is no pass through cable or anything. These aren't Voodoo2s, the SLI is done completely through the PCIe slots and a daughter card that bridges the two cards together inside the case. With two PCIe cards in you can run a quad monitor set up, so says the latest issues of MaxPC. Anandtech says different, though they used beta boards. Your mileage may vary. Regardless, you're not going to lose a video output on either card because of SLI. Like i said, these ain't Voodoo2s.
Umm...just FYI, i don't know what that other guy is talking about, but there is no pass through cable or anything. These aren't Voodoo2s, the SLI is done completely through the PCIe slots and a daughter card that bridges the two cards together inside the case. With two PCIe cards in you can run a quad monitor set up, so says the latest issues of MaxPC. Anandtech says different, though they used beta boards. Your mileage may vary. Regardless, you're not going to lose a video output on either card because of SLI. Like i said, these ain't Voodoo2s.
The new features are all well and good, but i just priced a loaded 15" Powerbook with everything i want (add 128 Graphics, subtract DVD-R) for less than $2100 (with student discount) This similar setup on prior models ran me almost $2800.
THAT to me is the selling point. Add on my bluetooth apple keyboard, and ordering another 512MB of memory plus a logitech MX900 from Newegg and i'm friggin set. I have my fully featured powerbook ready to take o nthe world for less tahn 2300, 2400 if i grab an extra battery which i probably will when i order.
now all i have to do is come up with $2400...anybody willing to help a poor college kid live the dream of OSX?
Hmmm...built in Bluetooth 2.0 + Apple Bluetooth keyboard + Logitech MX900 = Wireless keyboard mouse. so you'd plug in the 1 cable, unless you need firewire for an ipod, ext harddrive, etc.
the 'offical' response i've heard is that a) people tend to sit closer to their laptop screens, thereby increasing the detail is a suitable sacrifice for viewabilty over distance, whereas on a desktop CRT you sit farther from and its harder to read. b) laptop's LCDs and graphics drivers are set to do one resolution really well, while other desktop's LCDs have to be able to accomidate multiple congfigs, this somehow hampers their resolutions. it kinda pisses me off that you can get a 1600x1200 monitor in a 19" config but oh well. by middle of summer i'll be running dual 17" Samsungs @ 1280x1024 each. I'm halfway there now, just have to replace this damned CRT that's providing the second stream now...
Price is dropping. the 17" i just recieved has dropped some 80 bucks since it's debut. Congrats on running at such high resolution. When is your next eye appointment again? What you save now by straiting your eyes AND running a CRT you're going to pay for in eye glasses in your later years.
I have a huge desk that i can't seem to keep clean anyway. having my CRT gone would work wonders for spreading my clutter out.
Samsung has just implemented a 0 dead pixels policy, where if any of htem are dead they replace it.
And it's not necessairly quailty control. Pixels will die over time. you can runa monitor for days or weeks or months with no problem but you switch it on one morning and you'll see one dead center. Not much you can do about it.
I wasn't scared payin 419 for my SyncMaster 710T a few days ago. Got it and it was well worth the money. Dual inputs (DVI and analog) Currently using it in tandem with my old CRT, a 19" Sony MultiScan G400 but i'm replacing it with another identical syncmaster this summer. i am straight up in love with it. if only it had a built in KVM switch and not just source switching, plus maybe some onboard Usb ports (which could serve the same purpose as the KVM if they'd make'em switch with the source) it woudl be absolutely perfect.
HALO hasn't looked better, my desktop is clear and sharp. i swear, sitting side by side i can see the difference and i'm amazed this CRT hasn't blinded me yet by the horrible picture. Actual screen size, the flat panel is about half and inch smaller diagonally. Not bad for a 2" cut.
Ok, #1, genetically engineering seeds for crops is a far cry from engineered steriods or drugs. It is finding the genes that tell a crop when to stop growing, or when to trigger certain events. Once we identify those genes it's just a matter of manipulating. Same thing with "roundup ready" soybeans (the same crop being sued over) which is genetically resistant to a particular herbicide that kills all the other weeds in the field, allowing the beans to grow tall. I grew up on a farm, was in FFA in high school, and go to one of, if not THE top Agriculture schools in the nation/world (though my major is technology at said school). I know people whose majors are horticulture, i've heard lectures from researchers and professors who know this stuff on the genetic level. There is nothing wrong with properly engineering crops for higher yields.
#2) The entire point of Monsanto suing the farmers is wrong. They pride themselves on helping to feed teh world. Now if any of you tech geeks would have worked a labor-type job at some point in your life, you'd know the extortion they have on the market. Both the round-up you spray to kill the weeds, and the seeds themselves. Chances are the farmers who were reusing their crops were still using MONSANTO BRANDED WEED KILLER. This is a case of straight up greed, no other way around it.
I'm the same way, i dual boot WinXP pro, and 2000 and never have problems. How do i know? well for one thing, i know what executeables run on my computer, any idiot who knows taskmanager can check that on a regular basis and notice something out of whack. I run Sysmetrix and have it set to monitor my network bandwidth in and out. What? 50k/s upload speed? nothing running but winamp? Somethings wrong! Lets check the firewall overview and see what program is uploading all teh data! Sysmetrix also monitors my CPU usage right on the screen, where i can see it at all times without having to go looking. Doesn't do much good when i'm running Folding@Home, but it does help when i'm not.
Personally, i find linux lacking. It's jsut as insecure as Windows, unless you take teh same precautions you should with Windows. To stomp your next question, then why dont' i get viruses and spyware on mine?! it's because there is no money and no glory in your platform. For a worm to sweep across Linux networks world wide, it's not going to be memorable. You cut the knees out of Windows with a virus and you'll be on the news for weeks as everybody from teh government to the guy next door is frustrated with yoru handywork. This makes it attractive to hunt for weeks to find a new security flaw in Windows or IE. OSX has the same handicap as Linux, no money in exploiting holes, except OSX has, what i feel is, a more firm base under it, being backed by a single entity. So what if it's not open source. I can live without open source. Oh yeah, it's so much better, if you like writing your own code for everything you do, or using programs that are half finished. Personally I'm switching to a mac and OSX at the earliest opportunity, but until then i'm fairly content with my Window's box. The only *bad* crash i've had was the fault of an IBM Deathstar and not Windows. Even with a Mac in the house i'll still use my Windows box, unless i win teh lottery and can get that dream G5 i want.
All said, teh only reason people get spam, viruses, malware, etc etc is because they're either diong shit they shouldn't be, or they're really damned stupid, and usually one goes hand in hand with the other. Oh, and lets not forget that the only way spyware adn popup ads can be profitable is if people click on them! Who in the hell has been buying that much of those herbal *enhancement* drugs to support the advertising they do?!
My copy of WC Prophecy is messed up, i haven't the energy to set WCIV up on here, and WCIII is just a bitch without a dedicated DOS Box, i miss simulated piloting:(
Gee...you really haven't been around a lot of Tablets apparently. Every one i have ever seen has had a screen protector in some form.
But waht if you want to take notes during a class digitally? use a Palm with a 1.x" screen? Yeah right.
Tablets weren't made to do coding or writing a novel, they're made to give you information you need as rapidly as possible. THink about this: You have your bookmarks, mail, iCal, everything you use on a daily basis, synced with.Mac from your G3/4/5 at home. You walk into work, class, etc wherever a wireless connection is present, everythign syncs from.Mac. Think about it, how much typing do you really ahve to do to get the latest news? (slashdot bookmark or just set to safari home?)
For web surfing, checking email, taking notes, and many other activities, a touch screen / tablet interface makes much more sense. The only thing i could see getting in the way would be instant message, but once handwriting recog picks up i can see a lot of things being fixed. And hell, even today's HR usually deciphers my writing, with as many or fewer mistakes as i'd make typing it myself.
To each his own, but you made very little ground by citing coding and writing novels and an excuse to not have a keyboard.
If *crosses fingers* Apple comes out with a tablet i'd make a huge wager it will be of the converable type with the screen attached to a swivel hinge that allows you to use it as a tradition laptop or as a tablet. If they'd do this, they WOULD have the market, no questions askes. OSX's interface would be soooo much easier ot manipulate than Windows' when you're using a stylus.
I would love to be able to take digital notes. The guy who sat next to me in physics class had one made by Gateway, it was soo nice.
Sorry i kinda snapped there. i trolled this post on several fronts, wasn't a good morning i guess. i agree that modeling is what needs to be done and the children will mimic their parents in ways most people don't realize when they have kids. I also agree that with kids you should cater to their moods.
I'm still stuck on this: a couple of weekends ago my girlfriend and i were bored on saturday, we didn't have the spare cash to go out, but we did need to go get the weekly groceries and since we didnt' have anythign else to do we went together (we lead a boring, boring life...) it's like 11:30PM on a saturday night, we're walking into walmart, there are several moms in there with their kids, about half were screaming their heads off the other half sound were asleep. There are even more whole families in there with small kids, most screaming, some sleeping, and there was a group of what i estimated to be 15 mexicans walking around, like a 3 generation family, 5 of those people being small children (
point of it all is i'm not saying beat the kid because YOU screwed up and they didn't like the outcome. if it' syour fault it's your fault and the child shouldn't be punished. And i'm not saying rule them by fear either, but a little fear of consequences never hurt anyone. It's a fine line, but your child should fear the consequences on their actions as delievered by you, they shouldn't fear you based on teh consequences of their actions, if that makes sense.
I agree that being consistant is right, and that time-outs aren't a bad thing. There are some things that just dont' warrent a spanking, but those things you still shoudn't be doing, so taking toys away or giving a time out is a good punishment for the little things. But in teh real world when you do things you're not supposed to, there are going to be repercussions, and most little kids don't understand that, and there is no amount of reason that will make them comprehend that. What they do understand is the same thing any primitive species understands, and from a biological aspect most dogs are more concious than many infants, and have more ability to reason than many toddlers. They understand that doing this, this happens. You throw a toy across the room in a fit and break something that isn't another toy, you get your ass blistered and maybe a time out. You hit mommy or daddy, you get your ass blistered and you go to bed early for the next week. They understand negative reinforcement, i do this, mom and dad are upset, i get a spanking, it hurts. You do the right the first few times and there won't be any more occurances of this. Your kid throws a fit in the store (which you really shouldn't be in a situation like that anyway...my nephews are usually well behaved, only thing you have to promise them is a small set of legos or a Hot Wheels car and they're happy as a clam no matter what extravagant toy they see and desire) you 1) give one quick slap on the ass, 2) MOVE AWAY FROM THE SPOT THAT IT HAPPENED, don't linger and 3) Bribe if necessary. Like i said, something small, cheap, possibly collectable, and most kids will behave like angels.
You have some people who think that when parents say they whip their kids they chain them to the wall naked, an beat them with a cane until the kid passes out from the pain. You do it hard, fast, and usually once with an open hand contacting the general area of the butt and the message is conveyed. The worse the crime, the worse the punishment, just as it is in real life. Time outs are fine, if YOU have the time to enforce them. But parent or not, when you're in WalMart getting groceries and the kid is throwing a fit, promising a time out when you get home isn't going to do much good, and there isn't really a way to instigate it in the store. Most parents i've seen get around thi sproblem by just letting the child cry, scream, fuss and generally annoy everybody in that region of the store. This is one of those pet peeves of mine. But back to my point, a time out is not always convienent, and just like you said, consistancy is the key. A spanking is quick, it conveys the message, and it doesn't require you to take 20 mins out of your day to see the punishment is enforced. both parent and child shouldn't be punished because the child did somethign wrong (unless it was defacing property or something). So if you're going to be consistent, why not go with the punishment that allows you to be consistent and stay consistent, regardless of the location or situation.
On a side note, my dad was 6'5" 220lbs. I had two brothers, 18 years OLDER tahn me, and 13 years older than me. When your brother, this big strong guy who can pick you up one handed and spin you around, who opens jars for mom when dad's not around etc., is scared of your father, it makes a lasting impression. I never dared challenge my father, based on fear and respect for that fear. Hell i still fear the man today 'cause he could snap me like a twig, but i respect him because he doesn't abuse that. I rarely got a 'severe' punishment 'cause i was always too scared of consequences of things. But looking back my limits were very reasonable, and i had plenty of lee-way to push them. Maybe count it towards teh fact that by my time my parents had plenty of experience, they had been there, done that and had the t-shirt to prove it. i don't know. but i know that when i have kids i will seek and respect advice from my parents on anything that i need help with, because i see hwo my br
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If you just start touch-toning it in it will accept it. I've had to reactivate my student copy on here severeal times during upgrades and reinstalls and anymore i just hammer it in 5 digits at a time on the keypad. Automation is just there for the idiots. if you punch the numbers right it works everytime.
I'm not a contractor. Never said i was. However i do know a few, and i know of lots of houses with full basements who never have leaks, condensation, or sewage backups. Apparently they did something right!
Bloody hell, mess with = mind, started to bash the drop ceiling and apparently forgot to edit it out...my bad.
Any basement built in teh last 15 years by somebody who knows jack shit about construction, ventilation, drains, runoff, and concrete will be watertight. I know of more houses than i can count right now that have full (i.e. the basement area is roughly the same area as the first floor) finished (meaning they have drywall, carpet, ceilings, COMPUTERS, Home theaters, etc) basements. So long as they put a good base under the house to prevent shifting, and they landscaped the house so that water actually doesn't run into it (i know some old houses who's basements are like pools becasue the jackasses built it in a valley inside of a ravine near a river).
That said, i would bear no mind to putting electronics in many basements, so long as they are fairly new, or at least have no serious problems. But i woudlnt' mess with a false floor, at least not on a large scale. dropping a framework of 4x4 or 6x6 blocks cut to 1-3" lengths tacked to a piece of luon (spelling? it's 1/4" plywood) simply for positioning sake, then doing a network of tiles of some form on top that would allow you to pass cabling through or whatever. The only thing fancy i'd bother with is the tiles. Just so long as you ahve some sort of ghetto framework benethe it with blocks closely spaced enough to support the weight i'd say you'll be fine.
a 6GB ipod Mini for that cheap...it would almost be worth it to relegate my 4G 40GB 'pod to my vehicle, and keep the mini with me. I've pondered that since i got it, epecially with the lackluster battery life (my day usually lasts much more than 8 hours without seeing the charger, and recently i've noticed it has gotten even shorter...it's only 6-7 months old now...) I would have to dock the 6GB player nightly for recharging and reloading, but the 40GB would be teathered to a cigarette lighter adapter and has enough damned songs on it now they only time i'd need to dock it would be to update the firmware (at which point it'd pick up any new music i updated since...). So tempting...
:) Along with a Powerbook G5, two mac minis and a dual 3Ghz G5, oh and pigs with wings too! but the pod mini may be a reality :-)
so a mini may be on the horizon
I saw maybe 5 or so positive, actually on topic responses, 100 or so saying "Google it you idiot" and another 20ish stating something along the lines of "you #@*#$ Stop wasting my time!".
If you feel this is waste of time/space etc, don't waste everybody else's time and space by posting a reply. Just STFU and STFO. The man asked a question. If you're not going to answer him, keep your shit to yourself. He's not just looking for hardware from the sound of it. He wants something specific from a vendor. Googling, or searching Newegg and Dell aren't viable options. Dell.com sucks, IMHO, even the business side, because there's too much that i know they can do that they don't list. And calling them without knowing somebody there to talk to who knows his shit will only elicit the comments like the poster said "Why would you need 16GB of RAM?!"
I will grant that more information needed to be provided, such as intended use, why it has to have a 16x PCIe slot, etc. But with the abbreviated space slashdot gives each post i can see the reason for being brief.
A wisecrack is one thing, but a) most of you got modded up for things that should have been modded down as redundant. b) most of you got modded up for saying nothing prevailent or helpful concerning the original question. c) most of you just need to quit trolling posts and go do some real work.
As far as i can tell i have 9 or 10 years before i have to worry about this problem, unless i stumble across a winning lottery ticket someplace, but i am probably going to marry a veternarian, so all is well :) I have put a lot of though into house construction and how to geek proof things. Right now i'm looking at something between 2000 and 2500 sq ft, 2 story with a full basement. First off, my long-term girlfriend and i have already agreed that she gets an office on the ground floor, near the exit (in case we end up putting her practice on property) which can be converted to a fouth bedroom should the need arise, i get half of the basement for my purposes, which includes me 'geek' room which will be like 15'x15' with anti-static tiles, wired like a pinball machine, with several desks, tables, both sitting and standing height and my chest of computer tools. Plus a separate, attached 7x7 wiring closet (or bigger) on one side that will be the nerve center for the entire house. Also doing probably a 10x10 section with 1' concrete walls and a lot of insulation along with a fireproof door.
I figure by then fibre will be to our doors (it's already to mine, and i live in podunk, Indiana, the only way Sprint lets us use it right now is DSL, but my whole county and the surrounding counties have had massive installs of fiber in the past couple of years.). This leads me to conclude that each room is getting two runs of 3/4" or 1" conduit (covering two walls with data outlets), each room with the exception of bathrooms, but including kitchen, living room, maybe cable TV to the master closet. Each conduit may terminate on its own in the wiring closet in the basement (tagged with it's room and wall) or the two pipes for each room may merge and run via a single 2" to the closet, not sure. I like making seperate runs for each, would make new pulls easier, but i don't plan on doing it too often, so not sure. Right now i'm looking to run gigabit fiber AND cat6, cable, and if i end up getting a PBX (there may be a small one on property if there's a vet clinic there...) a 2nd cat6 for phone use.
Also i WANT to run pulls for wired cameras at the enterance ways, shop, drive way, my computer room, her office door, and any others i can find a place and purpose for. (just have to convince the missus there's a purpose) and do outdoor plugs / weatherproof boxes outside in a variety of locations low and high, roof and ground for outdoor lighting, etc.
Gonna end up with a lot of money in a house, but oh da-hell well. If i'm going to spend 2/3 of that to buy somebody else's problems i may as well go a little further in debt and build what i want, then i have nobody to blame problems on but me!
Performance gains from going 16x on both slots? In WHAT?! Very few benchmarks can saturate the AGP bus, let alone the PCIe bus. an 8x slot gives you 2GB/s bandwidth, almost matching AGP 8x, except that PCIe is bi-directional. Meaning 4GB/s total bandwidth. At least that's how i read the stuff i've seen. But back to my point, games today barely utilize the slots from last generation, how in the hell are we going to saturate double the bandwidth?
Also two more things, if you buy an AMD64 board, with AGP so you can reuse a 4 year old graphics card, you may as well break out the Astroglide. Unless it's PCI that is, then more power to you, so long as you don't do something foolish like buy a Socket 754 board with an AGP slot.
Next being the performance gains you speak of. They will come with more mature drivers that can better take advantage of the dual cards, and eleminate some of the overhead. The losses mentioned in FarCry earlier are attributed to a loss of efficiency, not loss of bandwidth along the channels. My major is ComputerTech, not ElectricEng so i can't point out the differences short of what i've read from nvidia's own literature and the reviews i've seen so far.
At the moment, the upgrade path actually requires two identical cards, so you'd have to choose your initial purchase extra carefully to make sure your model is still around when it's time to upgrade.
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Actually you don't need identical boards, they have to be identical chipsets. You can mix and match vendors, so long as the chips and configs are the same. You can't run a 6600 and a 6600GT in SLI mode, but you COULD (in theory) run them to power 4 DVI displays. I say in theory because everyone is still so hung up on SLI i haven't seen anybody try this yet. The main outline of the spec is that you can run cards from different vendors, they just have to be the same configs. Many of you know that already, but i felt obligated to clarify for those who haven't been keeping up
Personally i'm looking at SLI capable boards for my next mobo upgrade for that reason above, not for the SLI portion, but the fact that i may be able to run dual vid cards and not have one on the slow ass PCI bus. With most integrated mobo periphials moving to PCIe anyway, this isn't so much an issue, but if you have firewire, any kind of hdd access, audio, etc moving on the 133MB/s PCI bus you're going to be hearing pops and skips in your audio, looking for lost packets, and pulling your hair out with IRQ conflicts. I don't want to add video to the mess that already exists. dual PCIe x16 slots seem a VERY nice solution
I buried this below a minute ago, figured i'd bring it to the top.
Umm...just FYI, i don't know what that other guy is talking about, but there is no pass through cable or anything. These aren't Voodoo2s, the SLI is done completely through the PCIe slots and a daughter card that bridges the two cards together inside the case. With two PCIe cards in you can run a quad monitor set up, so says the latest issues of MaxPC. Anandtech says different, though they used beta boards. Your mileage may vary. Regardless, you're not going to lose a video output on either card because of SLI. Like i said, these ain't Voodoo2s.
Umm...just FYI, i don't know what that other guy is talking about, but there is no pass through cable or anything. These aren't Voodoo2s, the SLI is done completely through the PCIe slots and a daughter card that bridges the two cards together inside the case. With two PCIe cards in you can run a quad monitor set up, so says the latest issues of MaxPC. Anandtech says different, though they used beta boards. Your mileage may vary. Regardless, you're not going to lose a video output on either card because of SLI. Like i said, these ain't Voodoo2s.
Thanks for the advice! I was thinking monetary donations but i'll take waht i can get ;)
The new features are all well and good, but i just priced a loaded 15" Powerbook with everything i want (add 128 Graphics, subtract DVD-R) for less than $2100 (with student discount) This similar setup on prior models ran me almost $2800.
THAT to me is the selling point. Add on my bluetooth apple keyboard, and ordering another 512MB of memory plus a logitech MX900 from Newegg and i'm friggin set. I have my fully featured powerbook ready to take o nthe world for less tahn 2300, 2400 if i grab an extra battery which i probably will when i order.
now all i have to do is come up with $2400...anybody willing to help a poor college kid live the dream of OSX?
Hmmm...built in Bluetooth 2.0 + Apple Bluetooth keyboard + Logitech MX900 = Wireless keyboard mouse. so you'd plug in the 1 cable, unless you need firewire for an ipod, ext harddrive, etc.
the 'offical' response i've heard is that a) people tend to sit closer to their laptop screens, thereby increasing the detail is a suitable sacrifice for viewabilty over distance, whereas on a desktop CRT you sit farther from and its harder to read. b) laptop's LCDs and graphics drivers are set to do one resolution really well, while other desktop's LCDs have to be able to accomidate multiple congfigs, this somehow hampers their resolutions. it kinda pisses me off that you can get a 1600x1200 monitor in a 19" config but oh well. by middle of summer i'll be running dual 17" Samsungs @ 1280x1024 each. I'm halfway there now, just have to replace this damned CRT that's providing the second stream now...
Price is dropping. the 17" i just recieved has dropped some 80 bucks since it's debut. Congrats on running at such high resolution. When is your next eye appointment again? What you save now by straiting your eyes AND running a CRT you're going to pay for in eye glasses in your later years.
I have a huge desk that i can't seem to keep clean anyway. having my CRT gone would work wonders for spreading my clutter out.
Samsung has just implemented a 0 dead pixels policy, where if any of htem are dead they replace it.
And it's not necessairly quailty control. Pixels will die over time. you can runa monitor for days or weeks or months with no problem but you switch it on one morning and you'll see one dead center. Not much you can do about it.
I wasn't scared payin 419 for my SyncMaster 710T a few days ago. Got it and it was well worth the money. Dual inputs (DVI and analog) Currently using it in tandem with my old CRT, a 19" Sony MultiScan G400 but i'm replacing it with another identical syncmaster this summer. i am straight up in love with it. if only it had a built in KVM switch and not just source switching, plus maybe some onboard Usb ports (which could serve the same purpose as the KVM if they'd make'em switch with the source) it woudl be absolutely perfect.
HALO hasn't looked better, my desktop is clear and sharp. i swear, sitting side by side i can see the difference and i'm amazed this CRT hasn't blinded me yet by the horrible picture. Actual screen size, the flat panel is about half and inch smaller diagonally. Not bad for a 2" cut.
Ok, #1, genetically engineering seeds for crops is a far cry from engineered steriods or drugs. It is finding the genes that tell a crop when to stop growing, or when to trigger certain events. Once we identify those genes it's just a matter of manipulating. Same thing with "roundup ready" soybeans (the same crop being sued over) which is genetically resistant to a particular herbicide that kills all the other weeds in the field, allowing the beans to grow tall. I grew up on a farm, was in FFA in high school, and go to one of, if not THE top Agriculture schools in the nation/world (though my major is technology at said school). I know people whose majors are horticulture, i've heard lectures from researchers and professors who know this stuff on the genetic level. There is nothing wrong with properly engineering crops for higher yields.
#2) The entire point of Monsanto suing the farmers is wrong. They pride themselves on helping to feed teh world. Now if any of you tech geeks would have worked a labor-type job at some point in your life, you'd know the extortion they have on the market. Both the round-up you spray to kill the weeds, and the seeds themselves. Chances are the farmers who were reusing their crops were still using MONSANTO BRANDED WEED KILLER. This is a case of straight up greed, no other way around it.
I'm the same way, i dual boot WinXP pro, and 2000 and never have problems. How do i know? well for one thing, i know what executeables run on my computer, any idiot who knows taskmanager can check that on a regular basis and notice something out of whack. I run Sysmetrix and have it set to monitor my network bandwidth in and out. What? 50k/s upload speed? nothing running but winamp? Somethings wrong! Lets check the firewall overview and see what program is uploading all teh data! Sysmetrix also monitors my CPU usage right on the screen, where i can see it at all times without having to go looking. Doesn't do much good when i'm running Folding@Home, but it does help when i'm not.
Personally, i find linux lacking. It's jsut as insecure as Windows, unless you take teh same precautions you should with Windows. To stomp your next question, then why dont' i get viruses and spyware on mine?! it's because there is no money and no glory in your platform. For a worm to sweep across Linux networks world wide, it's not going to be memorable. You cut the knees out of Windows with a virus and you'll be on the news for weeks as everybody from teh government to the guy next door is frustrated with yoru handywork. This makes it attractive to hunt for weeks to find a new security flaw in Windows or IE. OSX has the same handicap as Linux, no money in exploiting holes, except OSX has, what i feel is, a more firm base under it, being backed by a single entity. So what if it's not open source. I can live without open source. Oh yeah, it's so much better, if you like writing your own code for everything you do, or using programs that are half finished. Personally I'm switching to a mac and OSX at the earliest opportunity, but until then i'm fairly content with my Window's box. The only *bad* crash i've had was the fault of an IBM Deathstar and not Windows. Even with a Mac in the house i'll still use my Windows box, unless i win teh lottery and can get that dream G5 i want.
All said, teh only reason people get spam, viruses, malware, etc etc is because they're either diong shit they shouldn't be, or they're really damned stupid, and usually one goes hand in hand with the other. Oh, and lets not forget that the only way spyware adn popup ads can be profitable is if people click on them! Who in the hell has been buying that much of those herbal *enhancement* drugs to support the advertising they do?!
My copy of WC Prophecy is messed up, i haven't the energy to set WCIV up on here, and WCIII is just a bitch without a dedicated DOS Box, i miss simulated piloting :(
http://www.theapplecollection.com/design/macdesign /iNewt2.html
Gee...you really haven't been around a lot of Tablets apparently. Every one i have ever seen has had a screen protector in some form.
.Mac from your G3/4/5 at home. You walk into work, class, etc wherever a wireless connection is present, everythign syncs from .Mac. Think about it, how much typing do you really ahve to do to get the latest news? (slashdot bookmark or just set to safari home?)
But waht if you want to take notes during a class digitally? use a Palm with a 1.x" screen? Yeah right.
Tablets weren't made to do coding or writing a novel, they're made to give you information you need as rapidly as possible. THink about this: You have your bookmarks, mail, iCal, everything you use on a daily basis, synced with
For web surfing, checking email, taking notes, and many other activities, a touch screen / tablet interface makes much more sense. The only thing i could see getting in the way would be instant message, but once handwriting recog picks up i can see a lot of things being fixed. And hell, even today's HR usually deciphers my writing, with as many or fewer mistakes as i'd make typing it myself.
To each his own, but you made very little ground by citing coding and writing novels and an excuse to not have a keyboard.
If *crosses fingers* Apple comes out with a tablet i'd make a huge wager it will be of the converable type with the screen attached to a swivel hinge that allows you to use it as a tradition laptop or as a tablet. If they'd do this, they WOULD have the market, no questions askes. OSX's interface would be soooo much easier ot manipulate than Windows' when you're using a stylus.
I would love to be able to take digital notes. The guy who sat next to me in physics class had one made by Gateway, it was soo nice.
Sorry i kinda snapped there. i trolled this post on several fronts, wasn't a good morning i guess. i agree that modeling is what needs to be done and the children will mimic their parents in ways most people don't realize when they have kids. I also agree that with kids you should cater to their moods.
I'm still stuck on this: a couple of weekends ago my girlfriend and i were bored on saturday, we didn't have the spare cash to go out, but we did need to go get the weekly groceries and since we didnt' have anythign else to do we went together (we lead a boring, boring life...) it's like 11:30PM on a saturday night, we're walking into walmart, there are several moms in there with their kids, about half were screaming their heads off the other half sound were asleep. There are even more whole families in there with small kids, most screaming, some sleeping, and there was a group of what i estimated to be 15 mexicans walking around, like a 3 generation family, 5 of those people being small children (
point of it all is i'm not saying beat the kid because YOU screwed up and they didn't like the outcome. if it' syour fault it's your fault and the child shouldn't be punished. And i'm not saying rule them by fear either, but a little fear of consequences never hurt anyone. It's a fine line, but your child should fear the consequences on their actions as delievered by you, they shouldn't fear you based on teh consequences of their actions, if that makes sense.
LOL, that deserves a Funny mod...can't give it to ya though :(
I agree that being consistant is right, and that time-outs aren't a bad thing. There are some things that just dont' warrent a spanking, but those things you still shoudn't be doing, so taking toys away or giving a time out is a good punishment for the little things. But in teh real world when you do things you're not supposed to, there are going to be repercussions, and most little kids don't understand that, and there is no amount of reason that will make them comprehend that. What they do understand is the same thing any primitive species understands, and from a biological aspect most dogs are more concious than many infants, and have more ability to reason than many toddlers. They understand that doing this, this happens. You throw a toy across the room in a fit and break something that isn't another toy, you get your ass blistered and maybe a time out. You hit mommy or daddy, you get your ass blistered and you go to bed early for the next week. They understand negative reinforcement, i do this, mom and dad are upset, i get a spanking, it hurts. You do the right the first few times and there won't be any more occurances of this. Your kid throws a fit in the store (which you really shouldn't be in a situation like that anyway...my nephews are usually well behaved, only thing you have to promise them is a small set of legos or a Hot Wheels car and they're happy as a clam no matter what extravagant toy they see and desire) you 1) give one quick slap on the ass, 2) MOVE AWAY FROM THE SPOT THAT IT HAPPENED, don't linger and 3) Bribe if necessary. Like i said, something small, cheap, possibly collectable, and most kids will behave like angels.
You have some people who think that when parents say they whip their kids they chain them to the wall naked, an beat them with a cane until the kid passes out from the pain. You do it hard, fast, and usually once with an open hand contacting the general area of the butt and the message is conveyed. The worse the crime, the worse the punishment, just as it is in real life.
Time outs are fine, if YOU have the time to enforce them. But parent or not, when you're in WalMart getting groceries and the kid is throwing a fit, promising a time out when you get home isn't going to do much good, and there isn't really a way to instigate it in the store. Most parents i've seen get around thi sproblem by just letting the child cry, scream, fuss and generally annoy everybody in that region of the store. This is one of those pet peeves of mine. But back to my point, a time out is not always convienent, and just like you said, consistancy is the key. A spanking is quick, it conveys the message, and it doesn't require you to take 20 mins out of your day to see the punishment is enforced. both parent and child shouldn't be punished because the child did somethign wrong (unless it was defacing property or something). So if you're going to be consistent, why not go with the punishment that allows you to be consistent and stay consistent, regardless of the location or situation.
On a side note, my dad was 6'5" 220lbs. I had two brothers, 18 years OLDER tahn me, and 13 years older than me. When your brother, this big strong guy who can pick you up one handed and spin you around, who opens jars for mom when dad's not around etc., is scared of your father, it makes a lasting impression. I never dared challenge my father, based on fear and respect for that fear. Hell i still fear the man today 'cause he could snap me like a twig, but i respect him because he doesn't abuse that. I rarely got a 'severe' punishment 'cause i was always too scared of consequences of things. But looking back my limits were very reasonable, and i had plenty of lee-way to push them. Maybe count it towards teh fact that by my time my parents had plenty of experience, they had been there, done that and had the t-shirt to prove it. i don't know. but i know that when i have kids i will seek and respect advice from my parents on anything that i need help with, because i see hwo my br