The thing is though that there ~are~ republican guilds, democrat guilds, anti-bush guilds, christian guilds, and jewish guilds. These are apparently all acceptable, but gay guilds apparently are not.
Sure, dial up might, technically be a little more secure for those reasons, but at what cost? The upsides of a 24/7 high speed connection far outway any percieved decrese in security.
Saying sticking with dial up is a good idea for security is like saying that the best defense against burglary is homelessness.
How much should they be required to do if the information in question is already publically available and relatively easy to access? If a company is using Red Hat and wants to know who owns Red Hat and a shareholder wants to know who owns Red Hat it is very easy for the shareholder to find this information on the internet. If they want to know the owner of an individual component piece of open source code, the code's stated owner should be in the comments (the source is available, right?), shouldn't it?
I would take the more expensive one (though, as pertains to this argument, it might not be a Mac), because I am reasonably bright and am willing to spend money for quality.
Keep in mind, though, that on the other hand, 90% of the world's population are idiots and fairly cheap.
While I agree with a few of your points, some of the others seem to be a little off.
>Noise: silent. There's no point in listening to FLAC files if you have to overpower the
>machine with the music.
Where'd you rip your FLAC files from? CDs, right?
Let's see... the way things were originally designed, you played CDs by spinning them on a motor in a CD player. Was it hard for you to hear the details in your music over the roar of your CD player's optical drive? No, it didn't matter because you had music on and the player was halfways across the room. Modern hard drives are at leas as quiet as optical drives, providing you buy from a quality manufacturer (*cough* Seagate *cough*). So playing 44.1 khz, 16 bit audio from a player using a hard drive should be no worse than playing 44.1 khz, 16 bit audio from a player using an optical drive.
>2) Availability of parts - I don't want to build one of these until we have solid-state
>storage that has the capacities I want, and at a moderate price.
How is flash advantageous over a hard drive for a media centre PC? Flash's main advantage is that it's got no moving parts, which is useful when you're A) moving the device around with you and require it to be resitant to drops/bumps, or possibly B) sitting right beside it and likely to notice the noise. The disadvantage is that it costs more per gigabyte, and this is likely to remain the case for at least a little while longer. With a media centre device, you are neither carrying it with you or sitting right beside it, so being quiet and resistant to bumps isn't that useful., you're better off spending the same money on a hard drive and getting more sace per dollar, since that actually benefits you in this situation. A hard drive spinning across the room is already an improvement noise wise compared to an optical drive spinning or VHS tape spinning across the room, and people never seemed to have any problem with the noise that generated. And bump resistance provides very little benefit when the device is going to basically be sitting motionless for months (if not years) at a time.
>1) Price - it's too expensive for a college student to have a PSU that doesn't need a fan,
>and good sound cards cost too much money for said group. With the parts available today
>(which I wouldn't even want to use, read #2), I would have to spend over $700, which is a
>lot of money right now for me to listen to music.
They're not ~that~ expensive. I mean, really, you can grab a SST-ST365 for about 40$ or so and they're damn quiet.
Open your start menu. Right click on 'My Documents'. In the first tab, there should be a single setting available, entitled 'Target folder location'. Hopefully you can figure out the rest from here.
If these become popular it will be a dream come true for the RIAA. Hard, physical proof that someone is a music pirate! "Officer, arrest this man, he's carrying intellectual property theft devices!"
So you're suggesting that the telcos allow spies free access to their records?
It probably wouldn't be good for security if anyone could just walk in and say 'Hey, spy for the Reds, lemme see the files'.
So he's benchmarked two different file systems on two almost completely different hardware setups (different drives, different raid controllers, different ammounts of RAM) and produced completely meaningless results? This is news how?
Why not get the code from these guys, read it through, and code in anything you'd thought of that they've missed? If you've been studying this for a while you should probably be able to make yourself into a useful contributer to their project.
Not that I intend to try this (well, at least not yet, I just bought a very nice power supply), but just to be clear, you're moving the fan deeper into the power supply? Or moving it out so it sticks out of the case via a foam tape tube?
Does the 'Foreground applications get priority' option still exist in XP Professional? If so, where is the setting for it?
Having it on by default in a release like NT 4.0 Server is pretty dumb, but I can see how the option could be useful in some situations, such as on my gaming machine, for instance.
It's older, but it's not stuff that's ever been known for being low on power consumption. P4s have prettymuch always been hot, power-draining things, and the older Radeon cores weren't necessarily the most efficient chips either, and I'd figure the extra hard drives would help swing the balance to the point where I'd have dificulty believing that a modern machine could consume more than maybe double, max, what this one does.
A few days ago, I installed a Thermaltake TWV-480 in one of my machines. This is a power supply that inclues a front bay panel with an LCD display telling you how many watts of power are currently being used. The machine is a Pentium 4 2.4ghz with a Radeon 9600 Pro, a CD burner, four hard drives and several USB devices.
Since installing the panel, the machine idles around 50 watts or so, spikes up to perhaps 55 if I turn up the fan speeds (which is rarely necessary), and maybe 60-75 or so for a few brief moments when I'm doing something that requires heavy disk access like openning a large file (or group of files).
I can't possibly imagine that newer, more powerful hardware would consume a full two orders of magnitude more power than this machine, especially given the great work we've all heard being done recently in heat and power efficiency with AMD's newer chips Cool 'n' Quiet tech and Intels Pentium Ms. So given that, who needs this much power?
You know, it just sounds like you did a good job of describing Linux. I mean, take away all that stuff you described, and what's left? A kernel, prettymuch... and the 'OEMs' you describe, are, in this case, the distributions. Taking an operating system core with nothing else attached and packaging in all these extra tools you mention is ~exactly~ what the people Red Hat, Debian, Slackware, Ubuntu, and so on do as a matter of course. It's their primary job.
The highest profile 'choke points' are Pirate Bay, Torrentspy, and Mininova. Everyone I know uses these. The www.bittorrent.com search engine was never very good and I've only heard of people using it after failing to find what they wanted at one of the aforementioned sites.
They're going after it not because it's a high profile choke point but because it's the only one Bram can personally control.
Just for fun: ZipZoomFly currently lists a Athlon XP 3200+ at $259 (OEM).
Oh, please. Could you not deliberately pick one of the worst CPUs currently listed as far as price/performance goes for your example? Yes, an XP 3200+ goes for 259$ because it's old technology that is no longer being produced in the quantities it once was. XP's are a rarity in the stores now, and you'll find very few new machines shipping with them.
Prices from the same site: Athlon XP 3200+, 259$. Athlon 64 3200+, 152$ Sempron 3300+, 114$. Celeron D 345J (3.06 ghz), 121$. Pentium D 820 (2.80 ghz, dual core), 245$.
Looking at these prices, you'll see that you don't have to pay anywhere near 259$ for 3.2 ghz (or the equivelant on AMD's scale, since you used it too) of processing power, and if you don't have to then Microsoft certainly doesn't either. Considering you can get a dual core 2.8 ghz CPU using the x86 architecture for 245$ and factoring in that the cores used in the XBox 360 aren't quite as individually complex as x86 cores, I certainly wouldn't be at all suprised if the price for a triple core 3.2 ghz CPU could be negotiated down to 150$ or less in quantities of (insert very, very large number here).
You could have attempted the same argument with a more reasonable choice of CPU, and it would, if anything, have held more weight. Using an obsolete, overpriced relic of a CPU as your example just makes you look like an idiot.
He 'jumped to his death while reenacting a scene from the game'?
I play World of Warcraft, and you know what we call people who jump of cliffs and kill themselves? Idiots. Or 'N00bs', if we're feeling a bit less mean-spirited.
This guy obviously had no clue what he was doing, and if he played the game, he most likely played it very poorly and didn't really understand the entire concept too well. I hardly think he's a very good example of
the typical World of Warcraft player.
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The thing is though that there ~are~ republican guilds, democrat guilds, anti-bush guilds, christian guilds, and jewish guilds. These are apparently all acceptable, but gay guilds apparently are not.
Sure, dial up might, technically be a little more secure for those reasons, but at what cost? The upsides of a 24/7 high speed connection far outway any percieved decrese in security. Saying sticking with dial up is a good idea for security is like saying that the best defense against burglary is homelessness.
How much should they be required to do if the information in question is already publically available and relatively easy to access? If a company is using Red Hat and wants to know who owns Red Hat and a shareholder wants to know who owns Red Hat it is very easy for the shareholder to find this information on the internet. If they want to know the owner of an individual component piece of open source code, the code's stated owner should be in the comments (the source is available, right?), shouldn't it?
I would take the more expensive one (though, as pertains to this argument, it might not be a Mac), because I am reasonably bright and am willing to spend money for quality. Keep in mind, though, that on the other hand, 90% of the world's population are idiots and fairly cheap.
While I agree with a few of your points, some of the others seem to be a little off.
>Noise: silent. There's no point in listening to FLAC files if you have to overpower the
>machine with the music.
Where'd you rip your FLAC files from? CDs, right?
Let's see... the way things were originally designed, you played CDs by spinning them on a motor in a CD player. Was it hard for you to hear the details in your music over the roar of your CD player's optical drive? No, it didn't matter because you had music on and the player was halfways across the room. Modern hard drives are at leas as quiet as optical drives, providing you buy from a quality manufacturer (*cough* Seagate *cough*). So playing 44.1 khz, 16 bit audio from a player using a hard drive should be no worse than playing 44.1 khz, 16 bit audio from a player using an optical drive.
>2) Availability of parts - I don't want to build one of these until we have solid-state >storage that has the capacities I want, and at a moderate price.
How is flash advantageous over a hard drive for a media centre PC? Flash's main advantage is that it's got no moving parts, which is useful when you're A) moving the device around with you and require it to be resitant to drops/bumps, or possibly B) sitting right beside it and likely to notice the noise. The disadvantage is that it costs more per gigabyte, and this is likely to remain the case for at least a little while longer. With a media centre device, you are neither carrying it with you or sitting right beside it, so being quiet and resistant to bumps isn't that useful., you're better off spending the same money on a hard drive and getting more sace per dollar, since that actually benefits you in this situation. A hard drive spinning across the room is already an improvement noise wise compared to an optical drive spinning or VHS tape spinning across the room, and people never seemed to have any problem with the noise that generated. And bump resistance provides very little benefit when the device is going to basically be sitting motionless for months (if not years) at a time. >1) Price - it's too expensive for a college student to have a PSU that doesn't need a fan, >and good sound cards cost too much money for said group. With the parts available today >(which I wouldn't even want to use, read #2), I would have to spend over $700, which is a >lot of money right now for me to listen to music. They're not ~that~ expensive. I mean, really, you can grab a SST-ST365 for about 40$ or so and they're damn quiet.
Open your start menu. Right click on 'My Documents'. In the first tab, there should be a single setting available, entitled 'Target folder location'. Hopefully you can figure out the rest from here.
If these become popular it will be a dream come true for the RIAA. Hard, physical proof that someone is a music pirate! "Officer, arrest this man, he's carrying intellectual property theft devices!"
So you're suggesting that the telcos allow spies free access to their records? It probably wouldn't be good for security if anyone could just walk in and say 'Hey, spy for the Reds, lemme see the files'.
So he's benchmarked two different file systems on two almost completely different hardware setups (different drives, different raid controllers, different ammounts of RAM) and produced completely meaningless results? This is news how?
'Core Duo'? How long before we see the 'Pentium' branding fade away entirely?
Given the speed they've been releasing them at lately, summer 2007 sounds a bit more realistic.
Nuclear.
Why not get the code from these guys, read it through, and code in anything you'd thought of that they've missed? If you've been studying this for a while you should probably be able to make yourself into a useful contributer to their project.
They're comparing a 'layer to display widgets on' to Adobe Photoshop? Something really doesn't seem right here.
I'm so glad they're putting so much work into shaving off the bloat in KDE4.
Not that I intend to try this (well, at least not yet, I just bought a very nice power supply), but just to be clear, you're moving the fan deeper into the power supply? Or moving it out so it sticks out of the case via a foam tape tube?
Does the 'Foreground applications get priority' option still exist in XP Professional? If so, where is the setting for it? Having it on by default in a release like NT 4.0 Server is pretty dumb, but I can see how the option could be useful in some situations, such as on my gaming machine, for instance.
It's older, but it's not stuff that's ever been known for being low on power consumption. P4s have prettymuch always been hot, power-draining things, and the older Radeon cores weren't necessarily the most efficient chips either, and I'd figure the extra hard drives would help swing the balance to the point where I'd have dificulty believing that a modern machine could consume more than maybe double, max, what this one does.
A few days ago, I installed a Thermaltake TWV-480 in one of my machines. This is a power supply that inclues a front bay panel with an LCD display telling you how many watts of power are currently being used. The machine is a Pentium 4 2.4ghz with a Radeon 9600 Pro, a CD burner, four hard drives and several USB devices.
Since installing the panel, the machine idles around 50 watts or so, spikes up to perhaps 55 if I turn up the fan speeds (which is rarely necessary), and maybe 60-75 or so for a few brief moments when I'm doing something that requires heavy disk access like openning a large file (or group of files).
I can't possibly imagine that newer, more powerful hardware would consume a full two orders of magnitude more power than this machine, especially given the great work we've all heard being done recently in heat and power efficiency with AMD's newer chips Cool 'n' Quiet tech and Intels Pentium Ms. So given that, who needs this much power?
You know, it just sounds like you did a good job of describing Linux. I mean, take away all that stuff you described, and what's left? A kernel, prettymuch... and the 'OEMs' you describe, are, in this case, the distributions. Taking an operating system core with nothing else attached and packaging in all these extra tools you mention is ~exactly~ what the people Red Hat, Debian, Slackware, Ubuntu, and so on do as a matter of course. It's their primary job.
With progress like this, it shouldn't be longer before Firefox achieves full 'It runs Doom!' certification. Good job guys.
The highest profile 'choke points' are Pirate Bay, Torrentspy, and Mininova. Everyone I know uses these. The www.bittorrent.com search engine was never very good and I've only heard of people using it after failing to find what they wanted at one of the aforementioned sites. They're going after it not because it's a high profile choke point but because it's the only one Bram can personally control.
Just for fun: ZipZoomFly currently lists a Athlon XP 3200+ at $259 (OEM).
Oh, please. Could you not deliberately pick one of the worst CPUs currently listed as far as price/performance goes for your example? Yes, an XP 3200+ goes for 259$ because it's old technology that is no longer being produced in the quantities it once was. XP's are a rarity in the stores now, and you'll find very few new machines shipping with them.
Prices from the same site:
Athlon XP 3200+, 259$.
Athlon 64 3200+, 152$
Sempron 3300+, 114$.
Celeron D 345J (3.06 ghz), 121$.
Pentium D 820 (2.80 ghz, dual core), 245$.
Looking at these prices, you'll see that you don't have to pay anywhere near 259$ for 3.2 ghz (or the equivelant on AMD's scale, since you used it too) of processing power, and if you don't have to then Microsoft certainly doesn't either. Considering you can get a dual core 2.8 ghz CPU using the x86 architecture for 245$ and factoring in that the cores used in the XBox 360 aren't quite as individually complex as x86 cores, I certainly wouldn't be at all suprised if the price for a triple core 3.2 ghz CPU could be negotiated down to 150$ or less in quantities of (insert very, very large number here).
You could have attempted the same argument with a more reasonable choice of CPU, and it would, if anything, have held more weight. Using an obsolete, overpriced relic of a CPU as your example just makes you look like an idiot.
He 'jumped to his death while reenacting a scene from the game'? I play World of Warcraft, and you know what we call people who jump of cliffs and kill themselves? Idiots. Or 'N00bs', if we're feeling a bit less mean-spirited. This guy obviously had no clue what he was doing, and if he played the game, he most likely played it very poorly and didn't really understand the entire concept too well. I hardly think he's a very good example of the typical World of Warcraft player.
>Microsoft Competes In Supercomputer Market
I think you mispelled 'Fails To Compete'.
Indeed. Judging from the pictures your links provide, the puma clearly has much larger breasts than a leopard.