These guys have been selling this for a long time: http://www.calmpc.com/. There biggest problem may be the lack of distribution in the US, but ordering from Korea went very smooth in my experience.
OK, maybe this doesn't support a 4GHz P4, but I'm running a 1 GHz PIII in one of these with a high end ATI video card and using CompactFlash for a harddrive.
There's special heat dispensers for the power supply, CPU and graphics card.
It's just amazing. You hit the power on button and nothing happens. Then all of a sudden, there's video, and the OS starts booting. You stick your head in the enclosure and you can just hear NOFFINK.
So, HP thought they might as well stick in some Radeon 9000 and no one would tell the difference.
So they would also sell the following then:
CPU x at 2GHz = 400MHz front side bus CPU y at 1.4GHz = 200MHz front side bus chipset z= 200MHz front side bus
System advertised as CPU at 2GHz, but since they used chipset z, CPU at 2GHz can only perform as CPU at 1.4GHz. Therefore they would just install CPU at 1.4GHz, because no-one would tell the difference.
Seriously though, I actually think this is very cool and I would not mind if it cost me some money personally. Even if there's no scientific value to it.
It's pretty funny that the 'even better' mockups have a 'New Folder' button on a 'Open File' dialog box.
Surely the intention of this button is to make absolutely 100% sure that the user can select a file that doesn't exist. I mean, what other file could a user possibly want to open?
There is simply no better file to open then the one that remains in a directory that doesn't exist yet.
For those who can't be bothered reading the article;
What the FUCK is wrong with you moderators? Is this the new Karma whoring? Claiming people don't read the article and then 'reluctantly' quoting it so as to shed some light on the whole situation?
I mean, what the hell is Insightful about this freaking post?
Or is it the trailing comment:
This does not mean that they'll be going after every DVR producer, only those who copied TiVo without adding any thought of their own.
I mean, how the hell do you know? I agree it doesn't mean that, but it may very well happen, there's nothing said that precludes Tivo from going after DVR producers that DID put a lot of thought into their product.
OK, I'll have a go at it, don't take it too seriously, I just wanted to point out some paradigm shifts:
explain how I can use one vcr to record one show while I watch a previously taped show?
You use the other VCR? Did I win? (you get it, wink wink, nudge nudge?? You said one VCR, I said 'the other'! Get it, get it?! Wink wink, nudge nudge!)
Or how I can pause live tv without having a tape running constantly 24/7?
Easy. You wouldn't have to run the tape constantly. You can pause live tv by starting the recording when you hit pause. The problem is that when you come back from your crack dealer, you can't hit play, because the show is still going and now you are either faced with the 'watch the end now and the stuff prior to it later' or 'let the VCR tape until the show is over so you can watch it in sequence, although you wont because you don't know when the show is over so you end up watching the end now and watching the stuff prior to it later anyways' kinda dilemma.
Or how I can decide after the fact to record a show after it's already started (assuming that I do it in the first half hour or so)?
Technically Tivo doesn't do this. Tivo doesn't record it after it's started, it records it while it's running.
Or how I can keep one show for months on a tape while recording around it?
Well... Actually my mom does that all the time. Yes, actually, she used to be an accountant.
or erasing shows from the middle of the tape while still being able to record shows in the unused spots?
Good point. I don't think I've ever seen a VCR with an erase function.
As much as I like Google, their popup blocker does not work terribly well. It will ocasionally let popups through, which really should not happen.
I always liked Meaya Popup Ad Filter which works a lot better, but I'd have to agree with the Mozilla crowd, why pay for that if you can get it for free?
Btw. I don't think software has to be free, but $25.- for a popup killer is just too much, like $20.- for a music CD or $200.- for M$ Office is...
My friend, who likes to discuss this subject (claiming there never was a moon landing), asked a question that I couldn't answer.
Since the astronauts could see the earth from the moon, we should have line of sight of the landing site, from earth. Is it possible to see the moon rover from here, using a significantly strong telescope?
Can anyone enlighten us? He wants to see the pictures and/or go to an observatory.
If "jberg" is actually the person who wrote Jitux, it wouldn't be the first time that a worm (if you'd call Jitux a worm) contains dead giveaways as to its author.
That would be no surprise considering the fact that the program is written in Visual Basic...
Downloading those MP3s... is definitely legal in some countries. Don't assume everyone lives in the US, please.
Please enlighten us which countries those are exactly? Practically every western country has copyright laws _very_ similar to the US.
There's no need to get into the whole debate over who is responsible or whatever, but at the end of the day, if you end up with a copied version of a song and you did not pay for it, it is in most countries likely to be illegal.
Yes there are exception, yes some musicians are fine with it, yes whatever. Let's be honest and realistic for once for fucks sake.
We've already established that moderate proficiency in a high-level language with a good optimizing compiler is worth far more than mastery of assembly in today's environment, what with the size and scope of most programming tasks nowadays
Hehe, yeah, ya'll just keep shouting that, while I'm getting 6 figures a year and jobs to choose from, writing x86 assembler.
Seriously though, I'm no assembler zealot (I prefer C[++]), but it is amazing how inefficient some software is. And a little knowledge of how it translates to how the CPU processes it, could improve things a lot.
I remember reading that Torvalds would look at the assembler output of the compiler to see what it generated. I do that a lot too, and it really helps...
But anyways, don't get me wrong, I appreciate the need for higher-level programming languages and machine independent binaries.
I always idly thought: one reason all this UFO crap can't be true is: the design doesn't make sense.
Guess that argument doesn't work any more:)
No, I think it' still true all right. It's just that the Wired people got suckered into a deal where someone showed some poor quality photos and insisted they were from some 'new' Russian airplane.
I mean, sorry, but those pictures are funny as hell. They look like scans from pictures that someone took in 1962. I'm pretty sure that Russia has come to advanced digital photography by now. (hehe, yeah that's on purpose)
In other words, if they had a program like this, we'd see something better than a bad picture of a model 'UFO' airplane and a few pictures that look worse than the best UFO sightings ever recorded...
3. You lost your job. But we're hiring, and we have a hell of a lot more fun than should be legal. Jobless security professionals and analysts, feel free to reply.
Heh, looking at your website (or more accurately, not looking at your website), I can see another job opening coming up soon.;-)
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Right, if you consider your own time worth $0.- (but that subject has been beaten to death on/.)
the 1.2GHz box can be built new for around $200 (1300 Duron, 256MB RAM, 40GB disk)
Not on pricewatch at least.
and the rest of them are dumpster-diving fodder
Riiiiight. Just like how homeless people would argue that a diner can be had for free then, eh?
(no offense to homeless people, I don't think any of us has any idea how hard it must be...)
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These guys have been selling this for a long time:
http://www.calmpc.com/. There biggest problem may be the lack of distribution in the US, but ordering from Korea went very smooth in my experience.
OK, maybe this doesn't support a 4GHz P4, but I'm running a 1 GHz PIII in one of these with a high end ATI video card and using CompactFlash for a harddrive.
There's special heat dispensers for the power supply, CPU and graphics card.
It's just amazing. You hit the power on button and nothing happens. Then all of a sudden, there's video, and the OS starts booting. You stick your head in the enclosure and you can just hear NOFFINK.
Ok, here's a simple question: what is this doing on Slashdot?
Seriously, I don't understand. Is there a correlation between News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters, and this particular disease (or whatever it is)?
No, this is not meant as a Troll or Flamebait.
I'm just curious, because I've got some medical related questions of my own. I just would have never thought this was the place.
In fact, considering that most EULAs provide virtually no protection for the end user in the event that a proprietary vendor is using stolen code
What sort of protection are you talking about here? Protection from what?
although I agree with you in certain ways, I'd have to ask one thing: would you write the same if the guy had registered windows.com?
;-)
btw. Tokkien???? I'm not a fan, but I know better than that.
Radeon 9000 = AGP 4X
Radeon 9200 = Radeon 9000 + AGP 8X
Centrino = AGP 4X
So, HP thought they might as well stick in some Radeon 9000 and no one would tell the difference.
So they would also sell the following then:
CPU x at 2GHz = 400MHz front side bus
CPU y at 1.4GHz = 200MHz front side bus
chipset z= 200MHz front side bus
System advertised as CPU at 2GHz, but since they used chipset z, CPU at 2GHz can only perform as CPU at 1.4GHz. Therefore they would just install CPU at 1.4GHz, because no-one would tell the difference.
Pretty clear case of misleading advertising.
and hastily write the Versailles Treaty which causes WWII
Yep, that about sums it up for WWII.
Gotta love the attention to detail on that conclusion.
All this would require is a small lead coffin/shield at some point on the ship
Then why not travel in that coffin for the duration of the flight?
I'm sure he's got the cash laying around, right?
Seriously though, I actually think this is very cool and I would not mind if it cost me some money personally. Even if there's no scientific value to it.
Magnified view of carbon nanotube grown on silicon MOS circuitry.
.... Oh, never mind.
You should see the stuff that's been growing on MY circuitry. I've got enough prior art stacked up here to
Y U Won Mek Fun Of Us?
Srashdot, vely good site. But many peopor lasist!
It's pretty funny that the 'even better' mockups have a 'New Folder' button on a 'Open File' dialog box.
Surely the intention of this button is to make absolutely 100% sure that the user can select a file that doesn't exist. I mean, what other file could a user possibly want to open?
There is simply no better file to open then the one that remains in a directory that doesn't exist yet.
For those who can't be bothered reading the article;
What the FUCK is wrong with you moderators? Is this the new Karma whoring? Claiming people don't read the article and then 'reluctantly' quoting it so as to shed some light on the whole situation?
I mean, what the hell is Insightful about this freaking post?
Or is it the trailing comment:
This does not mean that they'll be going after every DVR producer, only those who copied TiVo without adding any thought of their own.
I mean, how the hell do you know? I agree it doesn't mean that, but it may very well happen, there's nothing said that precludes Tivo from going after DVR producers that DID put a lot of thought into their product.
Sjeesh....
OK, I'll have a go at it, don't take it too seriously, I just wanted to point out some paradigm shifts:
explain how I can use one vcr to record one show while I watch a previously taped show?
You use the other VCR? Did I win? (you get it, wink wink, nudge nudge?? You said one VCR, I said 'the other'! Get it, get it?! Wink wink, nudge nudge!)
Or how I can pause live tv without having a tape running constantly 24/7?
Easy. You wouldn't have to run the tape constantly. You can pause live tv by starting the recording when you hit pause. The problem is that when you come back from your crack dealer, you can't hit play, because the show is still going and now you are either faced with the 'watch the end now and the stuff prior to it later' or 'let the VCR tape until the show is over so you can watch it in sequence, although you wont because you don't know when the show is over so you end up watching the end now and watching the stuff prior to it later anyways' kinda dilemma.
Or how I can decide after the fact to record a show after it's already started (assuming that I do it in the first half hour or so)?
Technically Tivo doesn't do this. Tivo doesn't record it after it's started, it records it while it's running.
Or how I can keep one show for months on a tape while recording around it?
Well... Actually my mom does that all the time. Yes, actually, she used to be an accountant.
or erasing shows from the middle of the tape while still being able to record shows in the unused spots?
Good point. I don't think I've ever seen a VCR with an erase function.
Uh except that MS got it from Mac!
This is hardly informative (and neither is the 'and Mac got it from Xerox'). In fact it's kinda stupid, because it's admitting to the fact.
My favorite pop-up blocker is google's toolbar.
As much as I like Google, their popup blocker does not work terribly well. It will ocasionally let popups through, which really should not happen.
I always liked Meaya Popup Ad Filter which works a lot better, but I'd have to agree with the Mozilla crowd, why pay for that if you can get it for free?
Btw. I don't think software has to be free, but $25.- for a popup killer is just too much, like $20.- for a music CD or $200.- for M$ Office is...
My friend, who likes to discuss this subject (claiming there never was a moon landing), asked a question that I couldn't answer.
Since the astronauts could see the earth from the moon, we should have line of sight of the landing site, from earth. Is it possible to see the moon rover from here, using a significantly strong telescope?
Can anyone enlighten us? He wants to see the pictures and/or go to an observatory.
If "jberg" is actually the person who wrote Jitux, it wouldn't be the first time that a worm (if you'd call Jitux a worm) contains dead giveaways as to its author.
That would be no surprise considering the fact that the program is written in Visual Basic...
Downloading those MP3s... is definitely legal in some countries. Don't assume everyone lives in the US, please.
Please enlighten us which countries those are exactly? Practically every western country has copyright laws _very_ similar to the US.
There's no need to get into the whole debate over who is responsible or whatever, but at the end of the day, if you end up with a copied version of a song and you did not pay for it, it is in most countries likely to be illegal.
Yes there are exception, yes some musicians are fine with it, yes whatever. Let's be honest and realistic for once for fucks sake.
Farsi is written RIGHT to LEFT. not the other way around. fix please
Damn!
And I thought we had a real break-through story here.
I mean common, you mean you don't have a Lubric Erector Set yet?
Didn't you get that memo? We've only been emailing you about it for 5 years.
We've already established that moderate proficiency in a high-level language with a good optimizing compiler is worth far more than mastery of assembly in today's environment, what with the size and scope of most programming tasks nowadays
Hehe, yeah, ya'll just keep shouting that, while I'm getting 6 figures a year and jobs to choose from, writing x86 assembler.
Seriously though, I'm no assembler zealot (I prefer C[++]), but it is amazing how inefficient some software is. And a little knowledge of how it translates to how the CPU processes it, could improve things a lot.
I remember reading that Torvalds would look at the assembler output of the compiler to see what it generated. I do that a lot too, and it really helps...
But anyways, don't get me wrong, I appreciate the need for higher-level programming languages and machine independent binaries.
I always idly thought: one reason all this UFO crap can't be true is: the design doesn't make sense.
:)
Guess that argument doesn't work any more
No, I think it' still true all right. It's just that the Wired people got suckered into a deal where someone showed some poor quality photos and insisted they were from some 'new' Russian airplane.
I mean, sorry, but those pictures are funny as hell. They look like scans from pictures that someone took in 1962. I'm pretty sure that Russia has come to advanced digital photography by now. (hehe, yeah that's on purpose)
In other words, if they had a program like this, we'd see something better than a bad picture of a model 'UFO' airplane and a few pictures that look worse than the best UFO sightings ever recorded...
3. You lost your job. But we're hiring, and we have a hell of a lot more fun than should be legal. Jobless security professionals and analysts, feel free to reply.
;-)
Heh, looking at your website (or more accurately, not looking at your website), I can see another job opening coming up soon.
Right, if you consider your own time worth $0.- (but that subject has been beaten to death on /.)
the 1.2GHz box can be built new for around $200 (1300 Duron, 256MB RAM, 40GB disk)
Not on pricewatch at least.
and the rest of them are dumpster-diving fodder
Riiiiight. Just like how homeless people would argue that a diner can be had for free then, eh?
(no offense to homeless people, I don't think any of us has any idea how hard it must be...)
For those who are wondering...
...
A NOC is a Network Operations Center
You mean for those that don't understand the first words on the first line of the article? -- The Network Operations Center or NOC
Oh, never mind...