But then again, the clock source for the on-board real time clock, which was likely used to obtain the timings of the system clock, may not be that accurate. Grandparent is correct in questioning the accuracy of the clock reported in CPU-Z. I wouldn't think it would be off by as much as 1%, though. That would be about 14.4 minutes per day of error.
And when my car's speedometer says its running 65 MPH, it should be running at 65 MPH. (Many speedometers are grossly inaccurate.)
A 1% difference is negligible. No one should base their buying decision on such a small difference. The fact that the ASUS mobo changed the timing from what was specified did make a difference. Any substantial performance improvements that may have been observed in the testing were likely the result of changing the memory timing.
I think most mobo bios's these days normally automaically try to detect the best timings for the memory you've installed. If one bios decides the memory will work with faster timings, then it could well be that the motherboard is actually better, having a design where the signal delays between the cpu and memory are shorter than the other mobos.
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FYI, the frequencies of the clocks on computer boards would typically be accurate to about.001% or better. A clock difference of 1%, such as that seen, would be huge.
NASA has actually demonstrated that reusable is practical...
I disagree. The turnaround costs to get the shuttle ready for the next mission were far, far greater than the estimated costs. I'm aware of how NASA got jerked around by congress and how the shuttle as implemented was not the shuttle that was conceived. But even so, the cost to turn the shuttle around turned out to be so much more than what they anticipated that putting up single shot spacecraft would have been less costly.
What they should be doing is designing a re-launcable manned capsule which is separate from non-reusable payload module. The reduced launch weight and reduced turnaround rework (compared with shuttle) would make this a good option. You wouldn't be throwing away the expensive life support systems. The payload area would be pretty much structural components, making it fairly inexpensive. It wouldn't have any complicated electronic or mechanical systems.
You'd have thought that they would have learned enough not to deploy a reusable shuttle based on the bad experience of NASA with these things. It's just not a cost effective way to run a space program.
So, what's so special about a rouge bacterial colony? Why not vert or cyan colored ones? (I think the word you were looking for was 'rogue').
Aside from that, the parent poster was complaining about those that were against it because of religious reasons, not because of the potential ecological resons, one of which you mentioned. Think about and understand what the parent poster said before criticizing.
Well, I haven't hear too many people talking about Artificial Insemenation lately. It seems to be pretty mundane these days. I suppose the cattle breeders and the hog breeders talk about it occasionally.
And I'm going to do something similar with my house. Microsoft will have to pay me to run their XBox. Sony will have to pay me if they want to run their playstation in my house. Dell will have to pay me if they want to run their computer in my home.
No, most of the midwest has underground telephone. The power lines are above ground in rural areas, but newer developments in towns usually have them underground as well. This is for reliability. Those occasional ice storms can really wreck havoc on lines above ground. Those linemen really don't like to be out in sub-zero wind chill weather replacing mile after mile of poles and wires that get broken off. The maintenance of above ground wires is too high.
Having the arm without a hand capable of catching it once it's in position wouldn't be very helpful.
Neither is having the hand without the being able to move and position it with an arm. The hard part is moving the hand in position to catch the ball. I'm not terribly impressed by just the hand alone, especially since they're still only using soft balls, like foam rubber balls. They're not even softballs, which aren't really all that soft, by the way.
As it might be clear to the average US citizen by now, is that monopolies are detested by the US goverment
You're joking, right? The U.S. government doesn't seem to mind monopolies as long as they're not too out of line. Take for instance commercial airlines. At Minneapolis and Detroit, Northwest Airlines has a virtual monopoly and charges rates pretty much as they see fit.
Are you saying your phone lines are still above ground on poles? Man I thought that went out over 30 years ago. You're quality of service must be horrendous.
Although space is indeed a vacuum, this doesn't mean that an uncovered hand won't either gain or lose heat. Heat is also gained and lost through radiation. The side of your hand facing the sun will over a few minutes get very very warm, while the side not facing the sun will get very very cold. A thin reflective coating solves most of this problem. (That's why the glass liner in thermos bottles is reflectively coated.)
Now, the thing with the vacuum. Ever give someone a hickey, or been given a hickey? If you're planning to be out in that vacuum for more than a minute or two, I'ld suggest some kind of pressure suit. It doesn't have to be at one atmosphere, probably 2/3 or 1/2 atmosphere pressure would be ok. The trick is to design a glove so that the fingers don't want to pop straight because of the pressure inside. You want to be able to move your fingers with not too much difficulty. So basically you want a glove that fits snugly around the fingers, and such that when a finger is bent, the glove does not change much in volume.
Way back when, in the days of the Apple II. Apple had an open architecture. You could add in your own boards and peripherals to the system. Then they made the mistake of making their architeture closed. They lost market share big time because of this. Big time. What's Apple's market share these days?
Just drill another hole in that 939 socket. That shouldn't be too hard to do. What's one pin left unconnected anyway. I doubt if you'ld ever notice it wasn't connected.
Yeah, They've upped the power on the socket too, but what the hey, run a few more 12 guage wires to the socket from the power supply. That ought to do it. Up the voltage on that CPU cooling fan a bit as well. That will make the blades turn faster. That should be about all you need to dissipate a few more watts.
Were you around in the early '90s when standard templates were just being added to C++. Holy c2*)_#^! You quickly learned to avoid them like the plague. If you did something a little bit wrong, you got three screens of error message with names 200 characters long, none of which corresponded to any type or variable in your program. Because the line number, and even source code file scrolled off the screen so far, you wouldn't even have a *_)# clue where the error occured. The only thing you could deduce was:
'You got an error in your program somewhere, and it's got something to do with using templates.'
Can you, in Windows, with one a one line command parse through all your source files for your project and substitute one substring of text with another?
What about sorting a group of lines in the file you're currently editing? Can you do that without exiting the editor?
Not quite. There are these USB ports on the 'puter nowdays. Also there's a difference in how the CPU's work, with all their branch prediction logic. The graphics cards these days are much faster as well. And, the old 3 1/2" diskette is almost history, replaced by the USB flash devices and CD-RW or DVD-RW.
The appearance of the box hasn't changed all that much. And the devices that we use to interact with the computer have changed basically very little.
Changes happen, they just aren't as obvious. I expect to see a lot of smaller form factor desktop PC's coming out in the next several years.
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But then again, the clock source for the on-board real time clock, which was likely used to obtain the timings of the system clock, may not be that accurate. Grandparent is correct in questioning the accuracy of the clock reported in CPU-Z. I wouldn't think it would be off by as much as 1%, though. That would be about 14.4 minutes per day of error.
A 1% difference is negligible. No one should base their buying decision on such a small difference. The fact that the ASUS mobo changed the timing from what was specified did make a difference. Any substantial performance improvements that may have been observed in the testing were likely the result of changing the memory timing.
I think most mobo bios's these days normally automaically try to detect the best timings for the memory you've installed. If one bios decides the memory will work with faster timings, then it could well be that the motherboard is actually better, having a design where the signal delays between the cpu and memory are shorter than the other mobos.
A waist watch FYI, the frequencies of the clocks on computer boards would typically be accurate to about .001% or better. A clock difference of 1%, such as that seen, would be huge.
By 'they', I meant the EU and Russia, not NASA.
NASA has actually demonstrated that reusable is practical...
I disagree. The turnaround costs to get the shuttle ready for the next mission were far, far greater than the estimated costs. I'm aware of how NASA got jerked around by congress and how the shuttle as implemented was not the shuttle that was conceived. But even so, the cost to turn the shuttle around turned out to be so much more than what they anticipated that putting up single shot spacecraft would have been less costly.
What they should be doing is designing a re-launcable manned capsule which is separate from non-reusable payload module. The reduced launch weight and reduced turnaround rework (compared with shuttle) would make this a good option. You wouldn't be throwing away the expensive life support systems. The payload area would be pretty much structural components, making it fairly inexpensive. It wouldn't have any complicated electronic or mechanical systems.
You'd have thought that they would have learned enough not to deploy a reusable shuttle based on the bad experience of NASA with these things. It's just not a cost effective way to run a space program.
I think they're getting close to getting the back half done.
Aside from that, the parent poster was complaining about those that were against it because of religious reasons, not because of the potential ecological resons, one of which you mentioned. Think about and understand what the parent poster said before criticizing.
Well, I haven't hear too many people talking about Artificial Insemenation lately. It seems to be pretty mundane these days. I suppose the cattle breeders and the hog breeders talk about it occasionally.
And I'm going to do something similar with my house. Microsoft will have to pay me to run their XBox. Sony will have to pay me if they want to run their playstation in my house. Dell will have to pay me if they want to run their computer in my home.
No, most of the midwest has underground telephone. The power lines are above ground in rural areas, but newer developments in towns usually have them underground as well. This is for reliability. Those occasional ice storms can really wreck havoc on lines above ground. Those linemen really don't like to be out in sub-zero wind chill weather replacing mile after mile of poles and wires that get broken off. The maintenance of above ground wires is too high.
Yes, they're circling above the airstrip. One humongous circle that takes them all the way around the earth.
Neither is having the hand without the being able to move and position it with an arm. The hard part is moving the hand in position to catch the ball. I'm not terribly impressed by just the hand alone, especially since they're still only using soft balls, like foam rubber balls. They're not even softballs, which aren't really all that soft, by the way.
You're joking, right? The U.S. government doesn't seem to mind monopolies as long as they're not too out of line. Take for instance commercial airlines. At Minneapolis and Detroit, Northwest Airlines has a virtual monopoly and charges rates pretty much as they see fit.
Are you saying your phone lines are still above ground on poles? Man I thought that went out over 30 years ago. You're quality of service must be horrendous.
There was/is also another busines-to-busines startup, Commerce One, that was highly capitalized and wanted to take advantage of the internet as well.
Now, the thing with the vacuum. Ever give someone a hickey, or been given a hickey? If you're planning to be out in that vacuum for more than a minute or two, I'ld suggest some kind of pressure suit. It doesn't have to be at one atmosphere, probably 2/3 or 1/2 atmosphere pressure would be ok. The trick is to design a glove so that the fingers don't want to pop straight because of the pressure inside. You want to be able to move your fingers with not too much difficulty. So basically you want a glove that fits snugly around the fingers, and such that when a finger is bent, the glove does not change much in volume.
The letter i appears to be worth quite a lot to Apple.
Way back when, in the days of the Apple II. Apple had an open architecture. You could add in your own boards and peripherals to the system. Then they made the mistake of making their architeture closed. They lost market share big time because of this. Big time. What's Apple's market share these days?
Yeah, They've upped the power on the socket too, but what the hey, run a few more 12 guage wires to the socket from the power supply. That ought to do it. Up the voltage on that CPU cooling fan a bit as well. That will make the blades turn faster. That should be about all you need to dissipate a few more watts.
Were you around in the early '90s when standard templates were just being added to C++. Holy c2*)_#^! You quickly learned to avoid them like the plague. If you did something a little bit wrong, you got three screens of error message with names 200 characters long, none of which corresponded to any type or variable in your program. Because the line number, and even source code file scrolled off the screen so far, you wouldn't even have a *_)# clue where the error occured. The only thing you could deduce was:
'You got an error in your program somewhere, and it's got something to do with using templates.'
Can you, in Windows, with one a one line command parse through all your source files for your project and substitute one substring of text with another?
What about sorting a group of lines in the file you're currently editing? Can you do that without exiting the editor?
Not quite. There are these USB ports on the 'puter nowdays. Also there's a difference in how the CPU's work, with all their branch prediction logic. The graphics cards these days are much faster as well. And, the old 3 1/2" diskette is almost history, replaced by the USB flash devices and CD-RW or DVD-RW.
The appearance of the box hasn't changed all that much. And the devices that we use to interact with the computer have changed basically very little.
Changes happen, they just aren't as obvious. I expect to see a lot of smaller form factor desktop PC's coming out in the next several years.
Really? Last week it was just 86.488315%.
Because it is ARM based, they were going to call the thing an 'ArmPit'. But marketers thought that name kind of stunk.
Are you shure they weren't thinking president? sets a very bad president? Maybe they meant elected a very bad president?