One other note about older AMD CPU's. Well realy it's a not about thier motherboards. If you take the northbridge heatsink off you will find (usually) 1) it's warped 2) The etruded surface has big gouges in it 3) it was mounted with some kind of TIM tape that is ineffective. If you sand down the northbridge heatsink until it is flat, sand it out to 600 grit so it is smooth, and remount it with a decent thremal paste, the memory controller will actually be cooled and you wont get memory errors. Same is true of the bus controller.
If you want before and after confirmataion just put your finger on the heatsink. Before you will feel almost no warmth because not much heat transfer is going on. After it will be warmish to the touch. Its actually conducting heat.
There's no real difference between the two papers anymore. The PI was a more progressive paper once upon a time - and some percieve it to be today. The Times has a larger subscription base - I think because it was the morning paper and the PI was the afternoon paper.
While I think quad-cores are important for the server rooms, I just don't see the business case for personal use. It'll just be more wasted energy. Now if you could fully shut off cores [not just gate off] when it's idle, then yeah, hey bring it on. But so long as they sit there wasting 20W per core or whatever at idle, it's just wasted power.
AMD's cool & quiet tech will shut down individual cores when you are not using them. I believe this is all new for the Barcelona. It idles down cores when you are not using them fully. It shuts off parts of cores that you aren't using (eg the FPU if you are only using integer instructions).
My uncle could read 700 words per minute. He would look a section of a page and grab part of 3 or 4 lines at once. He brain would be putting the lines back together while he was scaning the next section. He always read that way. He was a farmer - he almost no time for reading in the summer but long stretches in the winter. He could easily read over 100 books in that time.
In other words the effect that this process is fighting can be used to read much faster than most of us do. I can't do it for more than a few minutes but if you trained early enough or hard enough I think you could get there.
I agree - DX10 is still on the horizon. Once its here (i.e. there are games you can buy that you want to play that use DX10) the graphics cards will be better and cheaper. Maybe the drivers will get fixed by then too.
Instead building it in space we could build it down here. If we were to freeze a bunch of sea water so that its really white perhaps that would reflect enough sun light to keep the sea water frozen year round. Something like this might just work in that body of water up there north of Canada...
Algea could make enough oil for biodiesel to replace petroleum for transportation in a fraction of the surface area that is going into corn production this year. And it wouldn't have to be good farm land either. This could be done for roughly twice what the US spends to import oil each year. There are no big technical hurdles to overcome.
A rotary Stirling engine has three moving parts. It could be built into the heatsink where the fan motor now lives. The fan would cool the cool side of the engine the warm side would, of course be heated by the CPU. A 20 degree temp differential is plenty to drive a Stirling engine.
The M-Audio's Revolution 7.1 http://techreport.com/reviews/2003q2/maudio-rev/in dex.x?pg=1 is powered by Via and has better sound quality than a comparibly priced Creative card. Creative is not for audio quality as much as it is for 3D games acceleration. The on-board Via sound you may have heard is the little brother to this chip.
For high-end audio I think most people use a Via sound codex.
I think Creative's biggest advantage over on board sound is that they use hardware acceleration for 3D sound effects. If you are a gamer then the reduced load on the CPU might be worth a few $$ for the card. You also are unlikely (if you are a gamer) to mind proprietary drivers etc.
You don't remember tring to get ultra DMA to work. Or super 7 motherboards - all of which were but that wasn't quite 10 years ago. 10 years ago we were anticipating this new thing called AGP (ATX cases were still very new). Over clocking was running your pentium at 66 MHz FSB instead of 60.
'Parents think the computer is the only way for their kids to get porn on the internet. Unfortunately, they are dead wrong,' In my day we had to get ahold of magazines. Infact Oui was an excellent source of porn. Coinsidence? I think not.
You'd be shocked at the number of people that just draw a blank when you say:
"describe how you'd test a coffee maker" Given the number of people that take the last cup and don't make another pot in the coffee rooms - I'd say a number of these people already work here.
Lag is a huge problem. If you are just starting a new character you will start in a system where it can take several seconds just to jump gates. I could see new players quiting after a few gate jumps. Running those first missions just to get going is painful.
Lag in 0.0 is deadly. Blob warfare is all about abusing lagged out opponents before you lag out and they get you.
The real issue is that some Devs used their intimate knowledge of the game mechanics to benifit them selves and ultimately their "team". These were undocumented features in the game that would take other players months to discover (if they were all discovered). They were able to secure a huge amount of items that were very valuable - items that are limited in number and nearly impossible for a player to get. This gave their "team" an enormous advantage in combat.
Most EVE players are all good with 'anythings fair in love or war' - but they expect an even playing field. Most players feel the Devs should play but not be involved in the management of 0.0 alliances and certainly shouldn't be contributing huge amounts to the economic make-up of an alliance
CCP's response didn't address this at all. Nor did it address the problem of Devs having access to server information that would provide tactical info in battle that would not usually be available to a non-Dev player.
I favor a sales tax on old style light bulbs so its cheaper to buy a compact flourescent at the point of sale. Its already cheaper over the life of the bulb but many people don't get this. Thus you could still buy incandescent bulbs if you need them. I would use the tax revinue to further energy conservation and develop new energy sources.
I know several people who can't use compact flourescents for one reason or another.
OK - you have a point that RMT is not in your current list of accronyms but if you read the article that this article is a follow up to you will see RMT defined for you in the first paragraph.
They did link to an article that was posted 4 days ago here on slashdot that was all about RMT. Perhaps they gave us credit for being able to remember that far back.
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One other note about older AMD CPU's. Well realy it's a not about thier motherboards. If you take the northbridge heatsink off you will find (usually) 1) it's warped 2) The etruded surface has big gouges in it 3) it was mounted with some kind of TIM tape that is ineffective. If you sand down the northbridge heatsink until it is flat, sand it out to 600 grit so it is smooth, and remount it with a decent thremal paste, the memory controller will actually be cooled and you wont get memory errors. Same is true of the bus controller.
If you want before and after confirmataion just put your finger on the heatsink. Before you will feel almost no warmth because not much heat transfer is going on. After it will be warmish to the touch. Its actually conducting heat.
The OED has it as a verb as well. It's been in use as such since the 1600's.
Office 2007.
..."
They ever so helpfully rearanged everything. "Now how do I
I'm pretty sure that if they had an option to go back to the 1997 interface more than 90% of office users would select that.
There's no real difference between the two papers anymore. The PI was a more progressive paper once upon a time - and some percieve it to be today. The Times has a larger subscription base - I think because it was the morning paper and the PI was the afternoon paper.
AMD's cool & quiet tech will shut down individual cores when you are not using them. I believe this is all new for the Barcelona. It idles down cores when you are not using them fully. It shuts off parts of cores that you aren't using (eg the FPU if you are only using integer instructions).
My uncle could read 700 words per minute. He would look a section of a page and grab part of 3 or 4 lines at once. He brain would be putting the lines back together while he was scaning the next section. He always read that way. He was a farmer - he almost no time for reading in the summer but long stretches in the winter. He could easily read over 100 books in that time.
In other words the effect that this process is fighting can be used to read much faster than most of us do. I can't do it for more than a few minutes but if you trained early enough or hard enough I think you could get there.
I'd probably take Civ 4 but I would really miss Civ 2.
I agree - DX10 is still on the horizon. Once its here (i.e. there are games you can buy that you want to play that use DX10) the graphics cards will be better and cheaper. Maybe the drivers will get fixed by then too.
Instead building it in space we could build it down here. If we were to freeze a bunch of sea water so that its really white perhaps that would reflect enough sun light to keep the sea water frozen year round. Something like this might just work in that body of water up there north of Canada ...
Of course the Mariners will spend three times as much on payroll and be right there with the Pirates.
You mean like 12.5% of the Sonoran Desert: http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html
Algea could make enough oil for biodiesel to replace petroleum for transportation in a fraction of the surface area that is going into corn production this year. And it wouldn't have to be good farm land either. This could be done for roughly twice what the US spends to import oil each year. There are no big technical hurdles to overcome.
A rotary Stirling engine has three moving parts. It could be built into the heatsink where the fan motor now lives. The fan would cool the cool side of the engine the warm side would, of course be heated by the CPU. A 20 degree temp differential is plenty to drive a Stirling engine.
When will someone get a clue and power CPU fans with Stirling Engines?
The M-Audio's Revolution 7.1 http://techreport.com/reviews/2003q2/maudio-rev/in dex.x?pg=1 is powered by Via and has better sound quality than a comparibly priced Creative card. Creative is not for audio quality as much as it is for 3D games acceleration. The on-board Via sound you may have heard is the little brother to this chip.
For high-end audio I think most people use a Via sound codex.
I think Creative's biggest advantage over on board sound is that they use hardware acceleration for 3D sound effects. If you are a gamer then the reduced load on the CPU might be worth a few $$ for the card. You also are unlikely (if you are a gamer) to mind proprietary drivers etc.
You don't remember tring to get ultra DMA to work. Or super 7 motherboards - all of which were but that wasn't quite 10 years ago. 10 years ago we were anticipating this new thing called AGP (ATX cases were still very new). Over clocking was running your pentium at 66 MHz FSB instead of 60.
"describe how you'd test a coffee maker" Given the number of people that take the last cup and don't make another pot in the coffee rooms - I'd say a number of these people already work here.
Lag is a huge problem. If you are just starting a new character you will start in a system where it can take several seconds just to jump gates. I could see new players quiting after a few gate jumps. Running those first missions just to get going is painful.
Lag in 0.0 is deadly. Blob warfare is all about abusing lagged out opponents before you lag out and they get you.
What happened to "Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister"?
The real issue is that some Devs used their intimate knowledge of the game mechanics to benifit them selves and ultimately their "team". These were undocumented features in the game that would take other players months to discover (if they were all discovered). They were able to secure a huge amount of items that were very valuable - items that are limited in number and nearly impossible for a player to get. This gave their "team" an enormous advantage in combat.
Most EVE players are all good with 'anythings fair in love or war' - but they expect an even playing field. Most players feel the Devs should play but not be involved in the management of 0.0 alliances and certainly shouldn't be contributing huge amounts to the economic make-up of an alliance
CCP's response didn't address this at all. Nor did it address the problem of Devs having access to server information that would provide tactical info in battle that would not usually be available to a non-Dev player.
My Landlord's lightbulbs are in a sack under the sink. When I move out I'm taking my bulbs with me.
I favor a sales tax on old style light bulbs so its cheaper to buy a compact flourescent at the point of sale. Its already cheaper over the life of the bulb but many people don't get this. Thus you could still buy incandescent bulbs if you need them. I would use the tax revinue to further energy conservation and develop new energy sources.
I know several people who can't use compact flourescents for one reason or another.
OK - you have a point that RMT is not in your current list of accronyms but if you read the article that this article is a follow up to you will see RMT defined for you in the first paragraph.
They did link to an article that was posted 4 days ago here on slashdot that was all about RMT. Perhaps they gave us credit for being able to remember that far back.
When you see a blue screen you want to:
a) press cntrl-alt-del
b) smash your monitor to tiny bits
c) insert your Knoppix CD