If you are not aware of the work of Weston Price into nutrition and the effects of following the dangerous path we currently walk as a society you should be! His book is available from the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation.
As for Vitamin D, try eating shrimp (and other sea foods) and the organ meats of animals (liver, kidney, etc. which were all commonly eaten in the recent past). These are the best sources, and they are available all year round.
The links between criminality and nutrition are absolutely fascinating. Things are not as they are meant to be. Things we call food are often no such thing.
And for any serious Linux user, it gets VERY hard to justify using an ATI card due to their drivers. I've had my share of ATIs: Rage Pros (wooo!), 9700 Pro, 9800XT etc. My best years were with my Geforce 256 DDR and now my 6600 GT. Long live nvidia!
What stops you from OCing, then reading the BIOS temp monitor after its been sitting a while. When its in the BIOS the CPU temp usually rises enough to see what its like under load.
Overclocking is BRILLIANT, I mean you take a stock part from the manufacturer, they never quite clock all of their chips as high as they can, and they cut corners. So what ya gonna do? Crank it up a bit and get more performance for free, right??
Wrong. Theres a damn good reason why people who have something SERIOUS to do with computer hardware dont overclock their systems. Why?? Because you dont get extra speed for nothing. It's running faster - but - it's GETTING THINGS WRONG!
Thats right. The error rate in the calculations your system's pushing goes up. By the time you notice BSODs and games crashing, your PC is working so far over what its capable of, that its fricking retarded.
Manufacturers VERY rarely give away free chips. So what if your processor is a 2500+ and its got the same core as a 3000+... Know why its clocked slower? It's not cos the manufacturers lazy. They designed a chip to do 3000+, they they produce them by the truck load. Each chip gets tested, if it doesnt pass at 3000+ clock rates, they'll lower it, until they find the speed it can work at.
Manufacturers arent stupid. They want money. Why throw defective (not as high quality) cutting edge chips in the bin if they can be sold at a slightly reduced speed? Thats the old step 3, proffit.
SO yes you might get that 2500+ and ramp up the juice and it claims to be running at 3000. There is a slim chance it failed the testing and that was a one off. Maybe. More likely your getting reduced overall ability (speed vs correctness) and you just arent pushing it hard enough. Try compiling source code on it for a couple of days and look for random bail outs. Try complex rendering that takes weeks. If it works, great, you got lucky.
I'd love to be able to do that too. The only problem is the way our society works, its quite likely that employers everywhere would contractually oblige you to spend those hours doing work!
Haha like the old power supply pass through on PCs except in reverse!!
Of course you could buy a UPS, and that would come with a socket for a montor and the mini as well. Still thats not what this guy was doing.
But... all he has really done is put a small battery in the case. What would be good is apple combined a real UPS with their macs, and to swap the battery it had a small compartment on the underside so you could swap the battery. Charges from a power cable yes, but you could yank that out and carry it away if you wanted to show it worked.
Theres NO advertising on the BBC, not one damn second of it! No coke ads, no nike no ads, nothing!!
I pay for a TV license, and this is what you get. We pay for innovation and programmes without and commerical bias or slant. BBC television is absolutely brilliant. In fact Ill openly admit I have BBC News 24 on for most of the day.
This isnt some "oh no RIAA" crap. This is offering innovative services that we want, and finding ways to improve the way license payers view tv.
If I've got a car and I dont know much about how it works, and so I dont maintain it and over time it becomes unroadworthy. If I go and drive my car on the roads, and because I didnt maintain it and make sure it was roadworthy, I get in an accident. That's my fault isn't it?
Going back to the computers. If the user doesnt protect themself and secure their computer. Say it's compromised and shares illegal files with other people. That's their fault.
Here's another one. Say I've got a gun and I don't know how to act responsibly with it. I go wandering round with the gun, and it goes off and shoots someone. Again, that would be my fault.
What I'm getting at here is that it's THEIR responsiblity to look after THEIR computer and make sure it isn't offering up illegal files on the internet.
Now that might sound harsh. I mean, they're just users right? Well no. No-one is forcing them to have a computer. They can just not use one. Not learning about their computer sufficiently to keep it from landing them in trouble with the authorities IS their problem and its THEIR fault that happened. After all, you need a license to drive a car.
You'll find idiots wherever you look. There are idiots using gentoo as well.
I and lot of the other gentoo users, don't need that sort of thing aimed at us.
The reason I like gentoo so much is because when its installed, theres no crap running, and no unneeded services. It's ready to make do what I want - not what some wizardy one size fits all style installer thinks I want.
But then I pay more for organic food, I build PCs with good quality parts and pay more for an elegant case rather than one that looks like a chav car.... and would prefer a government that plans for the long term.
Well hey, money isnt everything. Id quite like a job I enjoy with not much stress and enough money to tide me by - so I can spend my spare time doing something I want, not slaving to some corporation for my entire life like most of the other blind sods out there.
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If you are not aware of the work of Weston Price into nutrition and the effects of following the dangerous path we currently walk as a society you should be! His book is available from the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation.
As for Vitamin D, try eating shrimp (and other sea foods) and the organ meats of animals (liver, kidney, etc. which were all commonly eaten in the recent past). These are the best sources, and they are available all year round.
The links between criminality and nutrition are absolutely fascinating. Things are not as they are meant to be. Things we call food are often no such thing.
And for any serious Linux user, it gets VERY hard to justify using an ATI card due to their drivers. I've had my share of ATIs: Rage Pros (wooo!), 9700 Pro, 9800XT etc. My best years were with my Geforce 256 DDR and now my 6600 GT. Long live nvidia!
The same reason people go out into the wilderness with nothing but a knife to learn how to survive instead of going to the local Tesco
What stops you from OCing, then reading the BIOS temp monitor after its been sitting a while. When its in the BIOS the CPU temp usually rises enough to see what its like under load.
Allright I couldn't let this one go past.
Overclocking is BRILLIANT, I mean you take a stock part from the manufacturer, they never quite clock all of their chips as high as they can, and they cut corners. So what ya gonna do? Crank it up a bit and get more performance for free, right??
Wrong. Theres a damn good reason why people who have something SERIOUS to do with computer hardware dont overclock their systems. Why?? Because you dont get extra speed for nothing. It's running faster - but - it's GETTING THINGS WRONG!
Thats right. The error rate in the calculations your system's pushing goes up. By the time you notice BSODs and games crashing, your PC is working so far over what its capable of, that its fricking retarded.
Manufacturers VERY rarely give away free chips. So what if your processor is a 2500+ and its got the same core as a 3000+... Know why its clocked slower? It's not cos the manufacturers lazy. They designed a chip to do 3000+, they they produce them by the truck load. Each chip gets tested, if it doesnt pass at 3000+ clock rates, they'll lower it, until they find the speed it can work at.
Manufacturers arent stupid. They want money. Why throw defective (not as high quality) cutting edge chips in the bin if they can be sold at a slightly reduced speed? Thats the old step 3, proffit.
SO yes you might get that 2500+ and ramp up the juice and it claims to be running at 3000. There is a slim chance it failed the testing and that was a one off. Maybe. More likely your getting reduced overall ability (speed vs correctness) and you just arent pushing it hard enough. Try compiling source code on it for a couple of days and look for random bail outs. Try complex rendering that takes weeks. If it works, great, you got lucky.
I'd love to be able to do that too. The only problem is the way our society works, its quite likely that employers everywhere would contractually oblige you to spend those hours doing work!
Just stick two CS 500s side by side and balance it on the top!
Haha like the old power supply pass through on PCs except in reverse!!
Of course you could buy a UPS, and that would come with a socket for a montor and the mini as well. Still thats not what this guy was doing.
But... all he has really done is put a small battery in the case. What would be good is apple combined a real UPS with their macs, and to swap the battery it had a small compartment on the underside so you could swap the battery. Charges from a power cable yes, but you could yank that out and carry it away if you wanted to show it worked.
That solves the RIAA problem then.
"Yes lets go sue a battle hardened group of men armed to the teeth with guns, tanks, ships and aircraft!!!"
I dont have any files you insensitive clod!!
Id say its a pretty safe bet noone who reads "Florida Today" reads Slashdot!
This is exactly why we pay a license!
Theres NO advertising on the BBC, not one damn second of it! No coke ads, no nike no ads, nothing!!
I pay for a TV license, and this is what you get. We pay for innovation and programmes without and commerical bias or slant. BBC television is absolutely brilliant. In fact Ill openly admit I have BBC News 24 on for most of the day.
This isnt some "oh no RIAA" crap. This is offering innovative services that we want, and finding ways to improve the way license payers view tv.
Long live the BBC!
A computer thats the size of tv remote, as fast as a mainframe, uses as much power as a wrist watch....
and is programmed entirely in assembler!!!
They call it i386 for a reason you know!
BTs appalling sevice and lack of decent internet would go hand in hand with the Chineese governments oppression and censorship!
lets look at that another way.
If I've got a car and I dont know much about how it works, and so I dont maintain it and over time it becomes unroadworthy. If I go and drive my car on the roads, and because I didnt maintain it and make sure it was roadworthy, I get in an accident. That's my fault isn't it?
Going back to the computers. If the user doesnt protect themself and secure their computer. Say it's compromised and shares illegal files with other people. That's their fault.
Here's another one. Say I've got a gun and I don't know how to act responsibly with it. I go wandering round with the gun, and it goes off and shoots someone. Again, that would be my fault.
What I'm getting at here is that it's THEIR responsiblity to look after THEIR computer and make sure it isn't offering up illegal files on the internet.
Now that might sound harsh. I mean, they're just users right? Well no. No-one is forcing them to have a computer. They can just not use one. Not learning about their computer sufficiently to keep it from landing them in trouble with the authorities IS their problem and its THEIR fault that happened. After all, you need a license to drive a car.
You'll find idiots wherever you look. There are idiots using gentoo as well.
I and lot of the other gentoo users, don't need that sort of thing aimed at us.
The reason I like gentoo so much is because when its installed, theres no crap running, and no unneeded services. It's ready to make do what I want - not what some wizardy one size fits all style installer thinks I want.
use Internet Explorer...
You insensitive clod!!!
Blame it on Microsoft... or SCO or Sun hahahah ... or IBM!!!
oh wait no.... forget the last one.
due to new contradictions introduced, religious fanatics can sometimes take control of your religion and use it for their own purposes
its two candy bars :)
all of my personal details....
But then I pay more for organic food, I build PCs with good quality parts and pay more for an elegant case rather than one that looks like a chav car.... and would prefer a government that plans for the long term.
Ooooh look at me I'm in the minority.
You bad man! I am afraid i CANNOT recommend that book from amazon to anyone else.
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Dear me
Well hey, money isnt everything. Id quite like a job I enjoy with not much stress and enough money to tide me by - so I can spend my spare time doing something I want, not slaving to some corporation for my entire life like most of the other blind sods out there.