*hand up*
I have an IBM T41 w/ extended battery, 1gig DDR ram, and a couple other little features (dvd burner, etc.) while my boss is on a T20 which barely keeps up with all his power point presentations. For the most part (and FWIW) my company sees the value in giving the DEVs the new stuff (makes the geeks happy and software/VHDL/OrCad all run gobs faster (which really counts). Think of all the time I saved by compiling my app in under 2 minutes rather than 10 (have to compile many times a day to track down those little bugs). Yup. . . . all that saved time to post on slashdot. . .
At least I'm a happy geek:-)
Not entirly terrible.
I used to be a car salesman and if you can get your FICO score over 720 you can essentially write your own deal on a car (new or used), same goes for getting the best deal on a home loan. The catch is that if the credit companies know you are reliable but not profitable your score will top out at the low 700's. Now as a previous poster mentioned, he got in over his head, as did I (which is why I'm an uneducated nitwit, I couldn't afford even JC tuition). The one thing I did right is covered in #3 of GP post, Never i>EVER let the credit companies loose money off you. If your FICO gets below 600 you are destined to live in an apartment the rest of your life.
just my 2c
-nB
My wife is a cultural Anthro and Soch dual major, I'm an (officially) uneducated nitwit working in the semiconductor industry. We had to come to an armed truce that she would quit studying me after she took the psych classes related to her majors. Se wasn't using the @$$ to manipulate, just plain 'ol psych. I don't even think it was a conscious decision, just good "training" so to ggggp post I agree with everyone else here: stay away from the psych chicks and be wary of the anthropology and sociology chicks too!
-nB
not that far fetched, it would make much more sense on desktop anyways than their balls-cut-off-celeron line does anyways... internal politics..
NOT internal politics . . . business
The M costs more to produce than the Celeron
The point of the Celeron is to be cheap, not low power.
bad argument.
Banias or Dothan, (both of which are named after rivers in Israel) not surprising given Intel's penchant for naming things after geographical landmarks, and the fact that a large portion of the design team being in Israel
A Pentium M desktop would be great, and it looks like Alviso is that very desktop. While I agree on the first part, there is no reason it can't be done with the current chipsets, just add a miniPCI NIC for the A/B/G 802.11 access. The reason I don't agree about the chipset, if you add full size PCIe video then you no longer have light weight, low power, or small size (due to power requirements of the video card being higher that those of the MB)
Intel should look towards Micro-ITX and Nano-ITX applications [...] ideal for such mini-boxen. with you 100% here
-nB
My reply was that someone creating this would not need a compressor to pump the cooling fluid through the channels of the die, as the thermal energy present would be more than adequate. I did note that you would need a fan for bulk airflow as you do today. In breif, my point was that you need not add more equipment to do what he suggested. -nB
I don't have the article on me at the moment, but IIRC the caller ID info is sent on something like a 300 baud modem signal mux'd with the ring (ring_caller-ID_ring). That's why you have to wait sometimes 2 or three rings to get the info. All they have to do is
1) Tell the telco they want Caller ID blocking (disables telco caller ID info)
2) Send the *spoofed* info between rings with the appropriate format
3) Profit! (i know there should have been ???)
Eventually, cooling the ceramic covering of the silicon CPU will not be sufficient. Perhaps they could consider cooling via small microscopic channels through the CPU. This would require a small compressor, but these channels could be made of a standard size. Thus heatsink companies can produce a fan/compressor unit that mates with the CPU channels and provides cooling. Yes, this does rip-off the mechanical engineering version of cooling an automobile engine, but the idea could work.
While I personally think this idea will suffer from many, many challenges, it is an interesting idea none the less. You don't need a compressor, however, as all the energy you need is provided by the heat in the die, simply build the apparatus heat-pipe style and *poof* no need for more expense, the entire cooling mechanism could be passive (other than bulk air flow).
-nB
that tends to imply skill. The monkey reference is negative in it's connotations. So IMHO if you are a Router Jockey I will enjoy working with you, if you are a [field of work] monkey, I'll likely consider the worse of the two alternatives of hanging myself with cat5 from a ladder rack, or bludgeoning you to death with a sufficently massive object (box you just mis-configured, my desk, etc.) or maybe a death of a thousand cuts from bare single mode fibre lashings:)
-nB
OFFTOPIC: You may be dyslexic when reading English So for kicks I read the articles and it would seem that if learning to read right to left were to fix the person in question I would be very worried for their general health for if a hematoma bursts in the brain you're in really deep schnizzit, and anything else causing that lingual defect can only be worse...
Quick! run to the ER (this is not medical advice, IANAD)
-nB
"Low power-- 6kWatts per rack, and 60kWatts for the whole system" The whole system being a petabyte I presume. In reality that's not bad, but I don't think it (6 _Thousand_ Watts per rack) qualifies as "low power" either:-) -nB
Not only should they be noisily arrested, they should be put in front of the media as "an alledged spammer" and such. Nothing wrong in this country (US) with character asassination(sp?) by the media, they do it every day to some poor (or rich:-) smuck it seems. I think it's simply time we use this "feature" for the better good. Everyone I know hates SPAM and the related e-mails. If these peoples' faces were plastered and vilified in the media then the'd hopefully become social outcasts and (hoping too much maybe) hopfully lynched. [/rant] Just my 2c -nB
Very few people actually pull their signals for free from the air these days.
I still do. I have no cable no sat dish, just POBCTV (Plain Old BroadCast TeleVision) and I get my DSL connection over my POTS. That's all I need. I don't watch a lot of movies, hardly any TV, and have found myself too busy to justify the added expense of pay TV as I would never use it. To me the adverts are fine. If the software followed a similar model with adverts bundled in the free stuff and commercial content reduced/eliminated in the pay version (wasn't the point of cable TV to be ad free?) then I have no real issue with this. I may even play the ad supported version (as long as Claria/Gator is not the ad provider) to muck about with their demographics (I'm in the wrong age group).
I've never programmed in anything but PERL and C (really I don't count logo) and never had the itch to learn Java.
"Int's can't evaluate to boolean" Now I know that I never, ever, will [have the itch].
Re:Unions do this already...
on
IT Myths
·
· Score: 1
should have been: They went on strike to not have [the cost of] their benies (sp?)raised. -nB
rather large bit of real estate, and it runs in realtime
HAaaa
I damn near fell outa my chair (which I was spinning in to rack up royalty debt to another slashdot comment about patents)
Thankyou for making my friday afternoon good. I'm going home now.
-nB
Tips for successful karma-whoring: #63 if you're going to reuse an ancient joke that was dodgy the first time round, at least try not to post it directly in reply to the exact same joke....
I think you're wrong here b/c as I write this he is at +3 informative Yikes!
btw: funny begets no karma IIRC
-nB
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I see no reason why "pseudogeeks" would be much more eager to give up their tech job than "real geeks" would. A paycheck is a paycheck.
True as far as it goes, but the psudo-geeks were part of the involuntary turnover.
-nB
*hand up* :-)
I have an IBM T41 w/ extended battery, 1gig DDR ram, and a couple other little features (dvd burner, etc.) while my boss is on a T20 which barely keeps up with all his power point presentations. For the most part (and FWIW) my company sees the value in giving the DEVs the new stuff (makes the geeks happy and software/VHDL/OrCad all run gobs faster (which really counts). Think of all the time I saved by compiling my app in under 2 minutes rather than 10 (have to compile many times a day to track down those little bugs).
Yup. . . . all that saved time to post on slashdot. . .
At least I'm a happy geek
-nB
Not entirly terrible.
I used to be a car salesman and if you can get your FICO score over 720 you can essentially write your own deal on a car (new or used), same goes for getting the best deal on a home loan. The catch is that if the credit companies know you are reliable but not profitable your score will top out at the low 700's. Now as a previous poster mentioned, he got in over his head, as did I (which is why I'm an uneducated nitwit, I couldn't afford even JC tuition). The one thing I did right is covered in #3 of GP post, Never i>EVER let the credit companies loose money off you. If your FICO gets below 600 you are destined to live in an apartment the rest of your life.
just my 2c
-nB
My wife is a cultural Anthro and Soch dual major, I'm an (officially) uneducated nitwit working in the semiconductor industry. We had to come to an armed truce that she would quit studying me after she took the psych classes related to her majors. Se wasn't using the @$$ to manipulate, just plain 'ol psych. I don't even think it was a conscious decision, just good "training" so to ggggp post I agree with everyone else here: stay away from the psych chicks and be wary of the anthropology and sociology chicks too!
-nB
not that far fetched, it would make much more sense on desktop anyways than their balls-cut-off-celeron line does anyways... internal politics..
NOT internal politics . . . business
The M costs more to produce than the Celeron
The point of the Celeron is to be cheap, not low power.
bad argument.
-nB
Banias or Dothan, (both of which are named after rivers in Israel)
not surprising given Intel's penchant for naming things after geographical landmarks, and the fact that a large portion of the design team being in Israel
A Pentium M desktop would be great, and it looks like Alviso is that very desktop.
While I agree on the first part, there is no reason it can't be done with the current chipsets, just add a miniPCI NIC for the A/B/G 802.11 access. The reason I don't agree about the chipset, if you add full size PCIe video then you no longer have light weight, low power, or small size (due to power requirements of the video card being higher that those of the MB)
Intel should look towards Micro-ITX and Nano-ITX applications [...] ideal for such mini-boxen.
with you 100% here
-nB
My reply was that someone creating this would not need a compressor to pump the cooling fluid through the channels of the die, as the thermal energy present would be more than adequate. I did note that you would need a fan for bulk airflow as you do today. In breif, my point was that you need not add more equipment to do what he suggested.
-nB
I don't have the article on me at the moment, but IIRC the caller ID info is sent on something like a 300 baud modem signal mux'd with the ring (ring_caller-ID_ring). That's why you have to wait sometimes 2 or three rings to get the info. All they have to do is
1) Tell the telco they want Caller ID blocking (disables telco caller ID info)
2) Send the *spoofed* info between rings with the appropriate format
3) Profit! (i know there should have been ???)
-nB
Eventually, cooling the ceramic covering of the silicon CPU will not be sufficient. Perhaps they could consider cooling via small microscopic channels through the CPU. This would require a small compressor, but these channels could be made of a standard size. Thus heatsink companies can produce a fan/compressor unit that mates with the CPU channels and provides cooling. Yes, this does rip-off the mechanical engineering version of cooling an automobile engine, but the idea could work.
While I personally think this idea will suffer from many, many challenges, it is an interesting idea none the less. You don't need a compressor, however, as all the energy you need is provided by the heat in the die, simply build the apparatus heat-pipe style and *poof* no need for more expense, the entire cooling mechanism could be passive (other than bulk air flow).
-nB
Props man,
props.
Am I the only one who read that and instantly thought "There are a million reasons why that's a bad idea"?
/.'ers thought of at least two million reasons :p.
no you are not, though most
-nB
modify and sell the source code is still alien to most Windows users
what's this source stuff you guys are always ranting about and how do I modify solitare's source to show the cards face up?
[/dumb humor]
-nB
I prefer the term "router jockey," myself.
:)
-nB
that tends to imply skill. The monkey reference is negative in it's connotations. So IMHO if you are a Router Jockey I will enjoy working with you, if you are a [field of work] monkey, I'll likely consider the worse of the two alternatives of hanging myself with cat5 from a ladder rack, or bludgeoning you to death with a sufficently massive object (box you just mis-configured, my desk, etc.) or maybe a death of a thousand cuts from bare single mode fibre lashings
What else would we all do at work on a Friday, though?
Company picnic to celebrate not being in the red anymore. Yea me. . . uh . . . us!
-nB
OT, comment on sig
[snip]
Linux: SCO is dead.
--
Isn't it annoying that Slashdot has no signature delimitator ?
So remind me again what those two hyphens are?
-nB
OFFTOPIC:
You may be dyslexic when reading English
So for kicks I read the articles and it would seem that if learning to read right to left were to fix the person in question I would be very worried for their general health for if a hematoma bursts in the brain you're in really deep schnizzit, and anything else causing that lingual defect can only be worse...
Quick! run to the ER (this is not medical advice, IANAD)
-nB
Apply enough thrust to a brick, and it will fly
Like the space shuttle on takeoff then?
[/dry humor]
-nB
"Low power-- 6kWatts per rack, and 60kWatts for the whole system" :-)
The whole system being a petabyte I presume. In reality that's not bad, but I don't think it (6 _Thousand_ Watts per rack) qualifies as "low power" either
-nB
You know what really sucks about your comment . . .
you're right.
Not only should they be noisily arrested, they should be put in front of the media as "an alledged spammer" and such. Nothing wrong in this country (US) with character asassination(sp?) by the media, they do it every day to some poor (or rich :-) smuck it seems. I think it's simply time we use this "feature" for the better good. Everyone I know hates SPAM and the related e-mails. If these peoples' faces were plastered and vilified in the media then the'd hopefully become social outcasts and (hoping too much maybe) hopfully lynched.
[/rant]
Just my 2c
-nB
Very few people actually pull their signals for free from the air these days.
I still do. I have no cable no sat dish, just POBCTV (Plain Old BroadCast TeleVision) and I get my DSL connection over my POTS. That's all I need. I don't watch a lot of movies, hardly any TV, and have found myself too busy to justify the added expense of pay TV as I would never use it. To me the adverts are fine. If the software followed a similar model with adverts bundled in the free stuff and commercial content reduced/eliminated in the pay version (wasn't the point of cable TV to be ad free?) then I have no real issue with this. I may even play the ad supported version (as long as Claria/Gator is not the ad provider) to muck about with their demographics (I'm in the wrong age group).
I've never programmed in anything but PERL and C (really I don't count logo) and never had the itch to learn Java.
"Int's can't evaluate to boolean"
Now I know that I never, ever, will [have the itch].
should have been: They went on strike to not have [the cost of] their benies (sp?)raised.
-nB
rather large bit of real estate, and it runs in realtime
HAaaa
I damn near fell outa my chair (which I was spinning in to rack up royalty debt to another slashdot comment about patents)
Thankyou for making my friday afternoon good. I'm going home now.
-nB
Tips for successful karma-whoring: #63 if you're going to reuse an ancient joke that was dodgy the first time round, at least try not to post it directly in reply to the exact same joke....
I think you're wrong here b/c as I write this he is at +3 informative Yikes!
btw: funny begets no karma IIRC
-nB