Say you have a common alias, at a large domain name. The time spent blocking, fighting, dragging, deleting email (even with training filters) adds up. It adds up quickly. Particularly if you rely on email for fast communication and every SPAM that gets through is one less cycle on something more important. SPAM senders are bandwidth, CPU, and brain cycle theives.
It's running WindowsGE (geological edition). When you get a protection fault in the pacific, folks in Japan get the BWOD (blue wave of death). This was fixed in later revisions (code named Mars) Mars has no oceans, and hence no BWOD, but probe() calls tend to hang or crash on it.
We decided that for a change this holiday we'd work on big iron - the earth. Using polar cap cooling and using two atoms instead of one in the atomic clock, we managed to accelerate the earth by 1 second. System is perfectly stable. Except in California. And Iran.
This is a amusing article, but kind of misses the point. So one problem with running processors faster is that they get too hot and we can get around that by cooling it with liquid nitrogen. Cool, but CPU heat is just one design element contributing to the effective speed of the computer.
This is like saying that I should cool my VW with liquid nitrogen so that I can run the engine faster. Sure, I'll pick up some speed, but honestly there are lots of other factors preventing my VW from running at a more productive speed than how fast I can get the engine spinning. The shape (like the bus on a PC), the steering (peripherals), and mostly that the cops don't appreciate me going 328mph through the school zone.
I read an article (long, long ago) that mentioned the flash was actually due to the fact that the IO chip also did video (and two other functions, not mentioned). I had one of these, and the 2k ram pack for it. Laugh if you will, but I started down the road to programming on a TS bought for eighteen dollars at a rummage sale. It was a terrible machine, manufactured from pure pain as much as sillicon. Late in the evenings when the membrane became hot the pain leaked out, cramping the fingers and twinging the eyes. Only once did I get it to load the pac man clone from tape. The machine taunted me by loading that program, "see, I can do it. I just won't." A few years back, I saw one in a thrift shop. It was like meeting the school bully when you've put on 200 pounds and two and a half feet. Take that, TS 1000.
Sounds like Apple could start a whole new line of "accessories", like the iProd - a vibrator with a sleek classy plastic case and a nice wavy curve shape. Now, the commercials for that would be something to talk about at the water cooler.
Sea monkeys are also an effective way to ward off visitors. Keep a nine volt battery near the tank and every time a co-worker interupts, shcok a few. Then say "This little guy just paid for your interruption." You won't have to do this often. If the answer is documented somewhere, shock them twice.
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Say you have a common alias, at a large domain name. The time spent blocking, fighting, dragging, deleting email (even with training filters) adds up. It adds up quickly. Particularly if you rely on email for fast communication and every SPAM that gets through is one less cycle on something more important. SPAM senders are bandwidth, CPU, and brain cycle theives.
It's running WindowsGE (geological edition). When you get a protection fault in the pacific, folks in Japan get the BWOD (blue wave of death). This was fixed in later revisions (code named Mars) Mars has no oceans, and hence no BWOD, but probe() calls tend to hang or crash on it.
We decided that for a change this holiday we'd work on big iron - the earth. Using polar cap cooling and using two atoms instead of one in the atomic clock, we managed to accelerate the earth by 1 second. System is perfectly stable. Except in California. And Iran.
This is a amusing article, but kind of misses the point. So one problem with running processors faster is that they get too hot and we can get around that by cooling it with liquid nitrogen. Cool, but CPU heat is just one design element contributing to the effective speed of the computer.
This is like saying that I should cool my VW with liquid nitrogen so that I can run the engine faster. Sure, I'll pick up some speed, but honestly there are lots of other factors preventing my VW from running at a more productive speed than how fast I can get the engine spinning. The shape (like the bus on a PC), the steering (peripherals), and mostly that the cops don't appreciate me going 328mph through the school zone.
removing those goatse.cx mental scars.
I read an article (long, long ago) that mentioned the flash was actually due to the fact that the IO chip also did video (and two other functions, not mentioned). I had one of these, and the 2k ram pack for it. Laugh if you will, but I started down the road to programming on a TS bought for eighteen dollars at a rummage sale. It was a terrible machine, manufactured from pure pain as much as sillicon. Late in the evenings when the membrane became hot the pain leaked out, cramping the fingers and twinging the eyes. Only once did I get it to load the pac man clone from tape. The machine taunted me by loading that program, "see, I can do it. I just won't." A few years back, I saw one in a thrift shop. It was like meeting the school bully when you've put on 200 pounds and two and a half feet. Take that, TS 1000.
Sounds like Apple could start a whole new line of "accessories", like the iProd - a vibrator with a sleek classy plastic case and a nice wavy curve shape. Now, the commercials for that would be something to talk about at the water cooler.
Sea monkeys are also an effective way to ward off visitors. Keep a nine volt battery near the tank and every time a co-worker interupts, shcok a few. Then say "This little guy just paid for your interruption." You won't have to do this often. If the answer is documented somewhere, shock them twice.