Couldn't you say the same thing about any athlete? None of them are really creating anything, but they are contributing to society's entertainment, I guess (I don't enjoy watching sports, personally), similarly to the "cyberathletes".
There are plenty of professions that do not create or contribute to society in a clearly concrete way.
Thinkpads really aren't all that expensive anymore. Some users report that the quality is worse since it was sold to Lenovo, but I was just able to order a x61s with a top-end low voltage dual-core (L7500) and an LED screen for less than $900.
What kind of smartphone doesn't have support for 3rd party software? That pretty much defines a smartphone in my book. The ability to install your own software or software you've downloaded from another source.
The parent is speaking about a personal account. A premier account is equivalent of running a business using paypal as a means of transferring funds. Thus paypal is justified in charging you more, since you are using it as a primary tool in receiving payment.
haha, according to my personal account I can receive up to 500 dollars a month, and send an unlimited amount of money.
Really, anyone who receives more than 500 dollars a month using paypal should be charged on their transactions. They are clearly running a business. That's a part of paypal I consider completely fair.
Do you have a way in real life to receive payments from credit card holders personally, without owning a business? It's all logical to me, a 16 year old child.
90% of the country? Are you friggin kidding me? MAy I ask where you have gotten that statistic from?
The only way to take calculus in the majority of highschools is to take the AP, which has considerable requirements, a high overall math average, plus of course completing Math B.
2 years ago, I believe 50% of high school students (in New York) who took the math A regents failed. I believe that included seniors as well. Saying that the class is available to juniors isn't saying much at all, since 90% don't take it until college anyways.
Well, I wasn't talking about ambient temperature, I was talking about the temperature inside your system, a much more isolated environment. And I also have the luck of not living in, or near, a desert, so that doesn't apply to me whatsoever. With all these air conditioners and heaterns, well, modern technology, the the room temperature is generally stable. I wouldn't be very comfortable if the temperature in this apartment varied by more than 20 degrees. I was talking more about the temperature changes due to the load of the system. If they aren't high enough during the load of the system to do anything (unless you overclock, they generally aren't), and you have enough fans to warrant a manual fan controller, they generally aren't (unless of course you're overclocking). It only becomes a risk once they start reaching grade C, 60-80 degrees celcius. That's why I generally don't worry about the heat as much as the noise. So what 80mm fans would you say are "silent"?
My 3 year old asus mobo has Q-fan technology, and my dad's pc's five year old mobo has some sort of proprietary fan controlling system, so that's why I would think a lot of motherboards have some sort of fan control in bios, even if it doesn't vary but lets you just set a speed. Does temperature really vary that much in your system that your fans have to keep changing their rpm? Between idle and load, my system overall temperature change at most 2 or 3 degrees celcius. I just keep all of my fans at minimum speed using the fan controller, except the case 120mm ones since using them at max. and min. doesn't change the volume of the noise at all.(either they are very good quality, or the 80mm fans on my cpu and in my power supply are so crappy they drown them out completely. even at low speed, the cpu heatsink/fan keeps it cool, around 38-40 degrees on load while it's overclocked from 2500+ to 3200+).
I work with computers quite often, and I have yet to come upon a problem with the northbridge. Really, does anyone have heat problems with those things? Plenty of modern motherboards just have heatsinks on those things and I have yet to hear people complaining about that. Hehe, it's funny you should mention it, but I did replace 2 of the 80mm fans in my power supply, but it barely helped. Maybe I just got really crappy ones that are worse than the old ones that came with it.
Changing the 80mm fan on my current cpu hsf is impossible. It's a VANTEC AeroFlow VA4-C7040. Oops, just realized that's 74mm. Wasn't as informed when I bought that.
Zalman 120mm heatsink is actually fairly compatible, and usually the case is not the problem, the motherboard is. It has pretty high clearance so the components don't get in the way, but a few mobos have the video card slots right near the cpus.
I hate it when people gang up on Siberia... Wtf is wrong with Siberia? I was born there. Beautiful region, industrial, mucho resources, and much is powered by hydroelectricity. I don't know for sure, but at the age of 7, there didn't seem to be anything negative about it to me.
I guess those are good points, but I don't really believe that the 80mm fans can be silent (except some panaflo ones:]), and most motherboards already have automatic fan speed control built into them, and usually people who are this involved in air cooling their systems have fan controllers as well, so they can control the speed of any fan. I have yet to come about a loud 120mm fan. My antec super lanboy case came with 2 of them, and it isn't xactly a big case, plus there are a considerable amount of new high quality power supplies with 120mm fans, and then there's the zalman 120mm hsf for the cpu, so thats pretty much the whole system. You can also probably just put a heatsink on the video card gpu, and mount a 120mm in front of the hard drives blowing at the card with an opn pci slot in front of the heatsink for exhaust. At least that's what I'm doing now, and the overclocking is pretty damn nice. Right now, what's creating the most noise (which is obvious) in my system are the cpu heatsink/fan and the power supply, which both have 80mm fans in them, so I guess I'm biased towards the 120mm fans cause of that.
you wanna tell us those reasons? I, for one, am interested in what the advantages are for having an 80mm fan instead of 120mm fans, except to make them fit into small spaces...
umm, shacknews reviews it strictly as a gaming device, and it still comes out on top. the extras are just the frosting. and we all love frosting:)
but seriously, you can put any movie you want on a gigabyte memory stick, and considering there's always new music, I always preferred flash memory for mp3 players. I can play my favorites on my home stereo if I need to.
And I don't even know where the hell you pulled that stupid 40k figure out of. ZipZoomFly had a sandisk memory stick pro duo 1gb for 67 dollars a couple of days ago. I even got myself one. Too bad it's sold out now.
I'd say reliability and security is not such a small benefit when switching from Windows. You'd think casual users wouldn't care much, but believe me, they are annoyed by having their windows crash cause of spyware all the time too.
thank you! it's so frustrating having people decide what is good for you or not. How will it be possible to play any great games when they're banned from you. Gaming industry is going to fail if all that the children below 18 are allowed to play are Sims 2 and Barney's ABC 123 learning superduper game, cause by the time they grow up, they'll be sick of games.
Most awesome games have real life situations which teenagers are affected by as well. They don't grow up in a fantastical world with fairies, chu chu trains, and "what is sex?".
by the time children are 10 or older, most likely games with real life content, wont permanently disturb them. It's impossible to judge though, and not all parents go and buy video games for their children, or even want to, especially 15 and 16 year olds which have their own money for those kinds of things. My parents never bought me a computer game as far as I can remember.
im 15, and i'm not yet affected by that ESR rating system, mostly thanks to piracy, but I'd pity the future generations if they were so simply generalized.
hehe, I love playing NFS:U by the way. Amazing driving game, without exotic cars you would probably never acquire.
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You've never seen fat, drunk guys playing football? =)
Couldn't you say the same thing about any athlete? None of them are really creating anything, but they are contributing to society's entertainment, I guess (I don't enjoy watching sports, personally), similarly to the "cyberathletes". There are plenty of professions that do not create or contribute to society in a clearly concrete way.
I believe one has to be US-born in addition to being a US citizen...
Thinkpads really aren't all that expensive anymore. Some users report that the quality is worse since it was sold to Lenovo, but I was just able to order a x61s with a top-end low voltage dual-core (L7500) and an LED screen for less than $900.
What kind of smartphone doesn't have support for 3rd party software? That pretty much defines a smartphone in my book. The ability to install your own software or software you've downloaded from another source.
Guess what operating system holds the majority of the market for PC multiplayer gaming.
Wow, it took me only 10 seconds to forget that he said he had an iPod.
How would you know? There are plenty of people without iPods. Like me.
I am greatly disappointed though that the iPhone won't have any third-party software development.
Copy the box, select a bunch of cells, and press Ctrl-D?
The parent is speaking about a personal account. A premier account is equivalent of running a business using paypal as a means of transferring funds. Thus paypal is justified in charging you more, since you are using it as a primary tool in receiving payment.
I'm very happy for you, but I gess that means your writing never quite improved, did it?
haha, according to my personal account I can receive up to 500 dollars a month, and send an unlimited amount of money. Really, anyone who receives more than 500 dollars a month using paypal should be charged on their transactions. They are clearly running a business. That's a part of paypal I consider completely fair. Do you have a way in real life to receive payments from credit card holders personally, without owning a business? It's all logical to me, a 16 year old child.
90% of the country? Are you friggin kidding me? MAy I ask where you have gotten that statistic from? The only way to take calculus in the majority of highschools is to take the AP, which has considerable requirements, a high overall math average, plus of course completing Math B. 2 years ago, I believe 50% of high school students (in New York) who took the math A regents failed. I believe that included seniors as well. Saying that the class is available to juniors isn't saying much at all, since 90% don't take it until college anyways.
You CAN drive at 16. Even here in new york you can drive at 16, and I'm fairly sure other states have even more lenient restrictions.
Well, I wasn't talking about ambient temperature, I was talking about the temperature inside your system, a much more isolated environment. And I also have the luck of not living in, or near, a desert, so that doesn't apply to me whatsoever. With all these air conditioners and heaterns, well, modern technology, the the room temperature is generally stable. I wouldn't be very comfortable if the temperature in this apartment varied by more than 20 degrees. I was talking more about the temperature changes due to the load of the system. If they aren't high enough during the load of the system to do anything (unless you overclock, they generally aren't), and you have enough fans to warrant a manual fan controller, they generally aren't (unless of course you're overclocking). It only becomes a risk once they start reaching grade C, 60-80 degrees celcius. That's why I generally don't worry about the heat as much as the noise. So what 80mm fans would you say are "silent"?
My 3 year old asus mobo has Q-fan technology, and my dad's pc's five year old mobo has some sort of proprietary fan controlling system, so that's why I would think a lot of motherboards have some sort of fan control in bios, even if it doesn't vary but lets you just set a speed. Does temperature really vary that much in your system that your fans have to keep changing their rpm? Between idle and load, my system overall temperature change at most 2 or 3 degrees celcius. I just keep all of my fans at minimum speed using the fan controller, except the case 120mm ones since using them at max. and min. doesn't change the volume of the noise at all.(either they are very good quality, or the 80mm fans on my cpu and in my power supply are so crappy they drown them out completely. even at low speed, the cpu heatsink/fan keeps it cool, around 38-40 degrees on load while it's overclocked from 2500+ to 3200+).
I work with computers quite often, and I have yet to come upon a problem with the northbridge. Really, does anyone have heat problems with those things? Plenty of modern motherboards just have heatsinks on those things and I have yet to hear people complaining about that. Hehe, it's funny you should mention it, but I did replace 2 of the 80mm fans in my power supply, but it barely helped. Maybe I just got really crappy ones that are worse than the old ones that came with it.
Changing the 80mm fan on my current cpu hsf is impossible. It's a VANTEC AeroFlow VA4-C7040. Oops, just realized that's 74mm. Wasn't as informed when I bought that.
Zalman 120mm heatsink is actually fairly compatible, and usually the case is not the problem, the motherboard is. It has pretty high clearance so the components don't get in the way, but a few mobos have the video card slots right near the cpus.
Siberia is a fairly large region. Where I lived it was a pretty temperate climate, as in, hot summers, cold winters (snow helped though).
I hate it when people gang up on Siberia... Wtf is wrong with Siberia? I was born there. Beautiful region, industrial, mucho resources, and much is powered by hydroelectricity. I don't know for sure, but at the age of 7, there didn't seem to be anything negative about it to me.
I guess those are good points, but I don't really believe that the 80mm fans can be silent (except some panaflo ones :]), and most motherboards already have automatic fan speed control built into them, and usually people who are this involved in air cooling their systems have fan controllers as well, so they can control the speed of any fan. I have yet to come about a loud 120mm fan. My antec super lanboy case came with 2 of them, and it isn't xactly a big case, plus there are a considerable amount of new high quality power supplies with 120mm fans, and then there's the zalman 120mm hsf for the cpu, so thats pretty much the whole system. You can also probably just put a heatsink on the video card gpu, and mount a 120mm in front of the hard drives blowing at the card with an opn pci slot in front of the heatsink for exhaust. At least that's what I'm doing now, and the overclocking is pretty damn nice. Right now, what's creating the most noise (which is obvious) in my system are the cpu heatsink/fan and the power supply, which both have 80mm fans in them, so I guess I'm biased towards the 120mm fans cause of that.
you wanna tell us those reasons? I, for one, am interested in what the advantages are for having an 80mm fan instead of 120mm fans, except to make them fit into small spaces...
uh, you forgot about the usb host port tada: http://www.gameseek.co.uk/productdetail/PSPfhyaqce 6he5x223r/
umm, shacknews reviews it strictly as a gaming device, and it still comes out on top. the extras are just the frosting. and we all love frosting :)
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but seriously, you can put any movie you want on a gigabyte memory stick, and considering there's always new music, I always preferred flash memory for mp3 players. I can play my favorites on my home stereo if I need to.
And I don't even know where the hell you pulled that stupid 40k figure out of. ZipZoomFly had a sandisk memory stick pro duo 1gb for 67 dollars a couple of days ago. I even got myself one. Too bad it's sold out now.
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp
damn fox. such an awesome show and they cancelled it after 4 seasons... Why can't some network bring it back?
I'd say reliability and security is not such a small benefit when switching from Windows. You'd think casual users wouldn't care much, but believe me, they are annoyed by having their windows crash cause of spyware all the time too.
thank you! it's so frustrating having people decide what is good for you or not. How will it be possible to play any great games when they're banned from you. Gaming industry is going to fail if all that the children below 18 are allowed to play are Sims 2 and Barney's ABC 123 learning superduper game, cause by the time they grow up, they'll be sick of games.
Most awesome games have real life situations which teenagers are affected by as well. They don't grow up in a fantastical world with fairies, chu chu trains, and "what is sex?".
by the time children are 10 or older, most likely games with real life content, wont permanently disturb them. It's impossible to judge though, and not all parents go and buy video games for their children, or even want to, especially 15 and 16 year olds which have their own money for those kinds of things. My parents never bought me a computer game as far as I can remember.
im 15, and i'm not yet affected by that ESR rating system, mostly thanks to piracy, but I'd pity the future generations if they were so simply generalized.
hehe, I love playing NFS:U by the way. Amazing driving game, without exotic cars you would probably never acquire.