Fact is, humans tend to go as fast as they can, and as result they need to stop equally fast too.
Hehe, so true. Porsche realized this many many moons ago. The 911 Turbos (930s for you Yan-kees) have always had far better performance braking than acceleration. The early 80s models would do 0-60 in say 5 seconds, but 60-0 in about 2 and a half.
You sure get peoples attention when you pull one of those. (not only the people inside the car;))
Anyways, back to this Embryo concept;- it's an absolute joke. A dream of someone who has never taken a physics class. Even if they used a computer to move the CG to the most optimal point in case of emergency braking (which would be pretty much exactly far enough backwards to have the driver's ass on the street) then the thing would still be uncontrolable. Which is not always desireable in case of emergencies...
why don't they then make it so that your cell phone can tell YOU where you are?
I mean, how hard could it be (have been) to reverse this technology? So not like GPS, but if I request my location (by dialing a certain number), I will receive it through an SMS. See how much nicer that would be? Hell, I wouldn't even mind if they automated it to the point of when I dial 911, my phone will automagically send my coordinates.
But for some reason, it has been decided that THEY will track you, wether you like it or not.
Guess where the power to drive that decission came from; the 911 call-centers, or perhaps big brother, dare I suggest?
I use auction magic: http://www.merlinsoftware.com/auctionmagic/
This is software you run on your own computer. It's still actively maintained, it appears. Works well for me, but you do have to have a reliable connection. The software will sync your time to eBay's time, so that's pretty easy.
The only times that it didn't work was my own fault for not having my computer on a network *doh*
Hey, no offense, I was just goofin around.:-) I totally understand the problem with people being able to look through your history (especially for eBayers with special interests as you talked about).
On the other hand, I don't think shill bidding has ended and it can be a pain in the ass. I've been watching some higher priced auctions recently (cars) and I noticed a lot have private bidding. I also noticed that that's particularly true when the auctions have no reserve (and are grandly advertised as such). And then there always seems to be shady bidding going on at those auctions, or they get pulled 7 seconds prior to end.
Now I don't care too much about people shill bidding (it's their choice, I already have a price set, in my snipe software), but it _is_ just wasting peoples time. (it's particularly silly when the seller in question calls himself the 'most honest car dealer in Florida' or something).
Anyways, my reply was just a silly remark, don't take it seriously.:-)
Just a couple of signs of a company going down: - pretending something is a real product, when all they have is a rendered image - a new years message written 13th of January still being on the front page, in November, from a guy that has now been arrested.
I don't know what it is that the same shit keeps coming up on/. but this is just silly. There's nothing new to report, and a quick look at the home page would suggest a company that's in the shit.
A 40F change in the tempurature AT the probe in 30 seconds isn't likely.
No offense, but actually you'd be surprised about how much the die temperature rises in only a few seconds. 40F in 30 seconds is NOT strange at all.
I know because we develop boards and we do lots of measurements like this. I'm not saying that your readings are ok, but you can't calibrate the temperature sensor by booting the machine and assuming it should still be close to ambient.
Are overclocked CPUs more sensitive to heat, or is this just a "to be safe" recommendation? AMD says they're good up to 85C.
Overclocking is all about temperature.
So long as you don't mess with the Vcore, overclocking does not make a CPU more sensitive to heat. It just will get hotter. If you can keep the temperature of the die under control by dissapating the extra generated heat, there's no problem with overclocking, but it's instrumental that you have accurate temp readings.
I'm only familiar with Intel CPUs and they have an on-die temp sensor which generally is fairly accurate. The embedded CPUs I work with are rated up to 100C and generally work fine up to that temperature. I wouldn't want to run it continuously at that temperature for a very long time though.
Overclocking may result in a loss in stability but that generally doesn't mean you are about to damage the CPU (so long as the temp is not out of spec), it is more likely related to timing issues.
Now increasing the Vcore sounds like a very bad idea to me. I'm not an EE by education, but I would think that you could seriously shorten the lifespan of the CPU by doing this.
btw. What I don't understand in the "NEVER LET IT GET ABOVE 55C IN MY OPINION ON AIRCOOLING, OR 42C USING WATERCOOLING." statement is why the hell would it be depending on what type of cooling is used? This implies that they are not talking about die temperature, because for the die 55C is 55C, doesn't matter how it got there...
Imagine that you found yourself in a position to write a resume for the whole human species
Still not evolved enough to quit killing its own species.
(until that threshold is reached we should consider taking ourselves less seriously. hint: several other species seem to be able to get by without killing eachother...)
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Fact is, humans tend to go as fast as they can, and as result they need to stop equally fast too.
;))
Hehe, so true. Porsche realized this many many moons ago. The 911 Turbos (930s for you Yan-kees) have always had far better performance braking than acceleration. The early 80s models would do 0-60 in say 5 seconds, but 60-0 in about 2 and a half.
You sure get peoples attention when you pull one of those. (not only the people inside the car
Anyways, back to this Embryo concept;- it's an absolute joke. A dream of someone who has never taken a physics class. Even if they used a computer to move the CG to the most optimal point in case of emergency braking (which would be pretty much exactly far enough backwards to have the driver's ass on the street) then the thing would still be uncontrolable. Which is not always desireable in case of emergencies...
This can save lives too, you know....
That's all nice and swell, BUT
why don't they then make it so that your cell phone can tell YOU where you are?
I mean, how hard could it be (have been) to reverse this technology? So not like GPS, but if I request my location (by dialing a certain number), I will receive it through an SMS. See how much nicer that would be? Hell, I wouldn't even mind if they automated it to the point of when I dial 911, my phone will automagically send my coordinates.
But for some reason, it has been decided that THEY will track you, wether you like it or not.
Guess where the power to drive that decission came from; the 911 call-centers, or perhaps big brother, dare I suggest?
Actually if you read the headlines you'll see that cars are responsible not people. "SUV runs over child", "Sedan plows into house"...
That's because the truth is politically incorrect:
"Woman in SUV runs over child", "Woman plows Sedan into house"
*ducks*
I use auction magic: http://www.merlinsoftware.com/auctionmagic/
This is software you run on your own computer. It's still actively maintained, it appears. Works well for me, but you do have to have a reliable connection. The software will sync your time to eBay's time, so that's pretty easy.
The only times that it didn't work was my own fault for not having my computer on a network *doh*
Hey, no offense, I was just goofin around. :-) I totally understand the problem with people being able to look through your history (especially for eBayers with special interests as you talked about).
:-)
On the other hand, I don't think shill bidding has ended and it can be a pain in the ass. I've been watching some higher priced auctions recently (cars) and I noticed a lot have private bidding. I also noticed that that's particularly true when the auctions have no reserve (and are grandly advertised as such). And then there always seems to be shady bidding going on at those auctions, or they get pulled 7 seconds prior to end.
Now I don't care too much about people shill bidding (it's their choice, I already have a price set, in my snipe software), but it _is_ just wasting peoples time. (it's particularly silly when the seller in question calls himself the 'most honest car dealer in Florida' or something).
Anyways, my reply was just a silly remark, don't take it seriously.
I have several ebay accounts and therefore have received each of the ones mentioned in the article
;-)
Huh, really? You wouldn't end up accidentally be bidding on your own auctions, ever, would you?
So true.
/. but this is just silly. There's nothing new to report, and a quick look at the home page would suggest a company that's in the shit.
Just a couple of signs of a company going down:
- pretending something is a real product, when all they have is a rendered image
- a new years message written 13th of January still being on the front page, in November, from a guy that has now been arrested.
I don't know what it is that the same shit keeps coming up on
Just an other toop doop tee du-dupe.
Uhm... Either that guy has really small hands or my credit card is much larger than what the submitter of the article is used to...
(I mean c'mon, there's no need for such sensationalist type-a headlines)
A 40F change in the tempurature AT the probe in 30 seconds isn't likely.
No offense, but actually you'd be surprised about how much the die temperature rises in only a few seconds. 40F in 30 seconds is NOT strange at all.
I know because we develop boards and we do lots of measurements like this. I'm not saying that your readings are ok, but you can't calibrate the temperature sensor by booting the machine and assuming it should still be close to ambient.
Are overclocked CPUs more sensitive to heat, or is this just a "to be safe" recommendation? AMD says they're good up to 85C.
Overclocking is all about temperature.
So long as you don't mess with the Vcore, overclocking does not make a CPU more sensitive to heat. It just will get hotter. If you can keep the temperature of the die under control by dissapating the extra generated heat, there's no problem with overclocking, but it's instrumental that you have accurate temp readings.
I'm only familiar with Intel CPUs and they have an on-die temp sensor which generally is fairly accurate. The embedded CPUs I work with are rated up to 100C and generally work fine up to that temperature. I wouldn't want to run it continuously at that temperature for a very long time though.
Overclocking may result in a loss in stability but that generally doesn't mean you are about to damage the CPU (so long as the temp is not out of spec), it is more likely related to timing issues.
Now increasing the Vcore sounds like a very bad idea to me. I'm not an EE by education, but I would think that you could seriously shorten the lifespan of the CPU by doing this.
btw. What I don't understand in the "NEVER LET IT GET ABOVE 55C IN MY OPINION ON AIRCOOLING, OR 42C USING WATERCOOLING." statement is why the hell would it be depending on what type of cooling is used? This implies that they are not talking about die temperature, because for the die 55C is 55C, doesn't matter how it got there...
Imagine that you found yourself in a position to write a resume for the whole human species
Still not evolved enough to quit killing its own species.
(until that threshold is reached we should consider taking ourselves less seriously. hint: several other species seem to be able to get by without killing eachother...)