It would be refreshing to see some crazy underclocks too. For example, if you ran Sandy Bridges at 500MHz they would still be quite fast and not require much cooling.
I also used 5500K fluorescents which indeed have a daylight color, but that applies mostly to a "crispy winter day". When I see the mid-summer sun painting my walls, to my eye it's actually more like 3500K, I guess? Good choice, still.
What's for sure, the 2700K CFLs are quite crappy incandescent imitations. One will be happier just using the real thing. The cheapest ones have even some harsh green tones. I think the whole fluorescent technology is not very well suited for low color temperatures.
Another good rule of thumb is to use yellow light for darker lighting and white for brighter. That's how it goes in nature too.
I'm all for energy efficiency, but I've yet to find a CFL or LED that feels as good as the light from an incandescent bulb. It just brings the most natural experience. The best ones I've seen are the 100W lamps with neodymium (purple) coating which corrects the spectrum to be more white. There's also 60W versions of those, but as the filament burns cooler, it creates a bit too yellow/red light.
I've also tried a plethora of different CFLs including the "hifi" full spectrum ones, but they always give a bit of synthetic experience. The spectrum is still lacking. The modern HF ones are flicker-free, but I maybe can still sense some kind of subliminal flicker. Things like that. They just give the body a message that "something is wrong". Then again, there might be some other industrial high-power lamp types that give good results.
So, I've been in search for great lighting in the same sense like someone seeks the ultimate IPS display. After all I would probably be better off just moving to some sunny country.:)
There's also the other form where the links are spread over the words such as "There is many techwebsites".:)
Not a big deal, but people could give it just a little thought in general. It forces you to hover over all the links and makes the page harder to read if it's printed. A good rule of thumb could be that the same text should also work completely without the links around the words.
Why under the keyboard? If someone breaks into my house, the last thing I will worry about is them stealing my passwords.
Isn't that a bit contradictory statement? I mean, under a keyboard is after all a pretty carefree place, and could exactly be chosen by someone who doesn't worry much about his passwords being stolen.
That's why I usually skip the fries and soda when I eat at McDonalds.
Not only that... it's usually fun to watch their faces when you say you don't want fries. A lot of them look like they're debating whether to call security.
I do the same but never get such looks. I think the key is to say kind of the opposite, i.e:
"I'd like to have casgdbfu to drink and a plain sfsdhguio burger"
rather than
"I'd like to have a sbycukwa burger meal with a dzvhifdz drink, without fries".
Yes, they should be all free. Maybe add some data caps per session to avoid the worst leeches. Then again, 3G price and coverage is getting pretty good these days, which might render public WiFi a bit useless.
What has struck me odd is also some of those rare laptops which have 1680x945 resolution, in other words, an uneven amount of scanlines. I don't know if there's any downsides to it, but it always somehow bugs me.
Looking at the numbers very roughly, one could say that the ARM is about half slower than the Atom, but uses only one third of the power. So if we normalize either the processing speed or power consumption to the same level, it can be concluded that ARM is 50% more energy efficient while making the same amount of work than Atom.
So...how's the performance per watt if we compare these recent ARM and Intel offerings?
I was also thinking that the Atoms probably have more all sorts of acceleration units. I'm not sure how important would those be on a tablet or a phone though. Anyway, there was an interesting discussion pondering if it would be possible to run Folding@Home on a phone. It ended by realizing that the ARMs wouldn't have the same kind of FPU power.
The Atom's have always had a reasonable core power consumption... but the external chipsets that ruin the system power consumption figure. Will be curious to see what the total system consumption is going to be with these new one, maybe time to look towards a nice replacement for my Asus eeebox B202's for the desktop.
I thought that problem was only with the early Atoms paired the 945GSE, and then later Pine Trail included the power-proper NM10 chipset.
If/when something bad happens in my life and, something awesome happens later after that, it makes me easier to accept the sucky occurance reasoned with the butterfly effect, as without it the great thing might not ever have happened.:)
Anyway, it's always amazing to think how the current state of world is a result of millions small things coming together. Without everything going exactly like this, even the probability of me existing would be extremely low.
Regarding analog cables, I've found that the OEM "there ya go" cables included with LCDs and set-top-boxes have usually bested the more robust looking cables that I've bought separately.
Another option could be to use 2.5" disks as they suck many times less power. Before the floods the Samsung 1TB one was on sale for 90€. I recall there being mounts which allow you to put two of them into a 3.5" slot, too.
You know, I've always been a fan of pure C, it being so clean, minimal and "the real deal". But I'm getting a bit tired of this fundamentalism and maybe want to extend my skillset. What language(s) would bring on a similarly nice and clean environment, and be worth learning, maybe even get me employed? Python,.NET, etc? Java and C++ feel so bloated...:S
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My personal opinion is that Linux is better than XP, but 7 is better than Linux (and 2000 is better than XP).
It would be refreshing to see some crazy underclocks too. For example, if you ran Sandy Bridges at 500MHz they would still be quite fast and not require much cooling.
Try putting "book review" in the Slashdot search box and see if it comes up.
I also used 5500K fluorescents which indeed have a daylight color, but that applies mostly to a "crispy winter day". When I see the mid-summer sun painting my walls, to my eye it's actually more like 3500K, I guess? Good choice, still.
What's for sure, the 2700K CFLs are quite crappy incandescent imitations. One will be happier just using the real thing. The cheapest ones have even some harsh green tones. I think the whole fluorescent technology is not very well suited for low color temperatures.
Another good rule of thumb is to use yellow light for darker lighting and white for brighter. That's how it goes in nature too.
I'm all for energy efficiency, but I've yet to find a CFL or LED that feels as good as the light from an incandescent bulb. It just brings the most natural experience. The best ones I've seen are the 100W lamps with neodymium (purple) coating which corrects the spectrum to be more white. There's also 60W versions of those, but as the filament burns cooler, it creates a bit too yellow/red light.
I've also tried a plethora of different CFLs including the "hifi" full spectrum ones, but they always give a bit of synthetic experience. The spectrum is still lacking. The modern HF ones are flicker-free, but I maybe can still sense some kind of subliminal flicker. Things like that. They just give the body a message that "something is wrong". Then again, there might be some other industrial high-power lamp types that give good results.
So, I've been in search for great lighting in the same sense like someone seeks the ultimate IPS display. After all I would probably be better off just moving to some sunny country. :)
There's also the other form where the links are spread over the words such as "There is many tech web sites". :)
Not a big deal, but people could give it just a little thought in general. It forces you to hover over all the links and makes the page harder to read if it's printed. A good rule of thumb could be that the same text should also work completely without the links around the words.
Why under the keyboard? If someone breaks into my house, the last thing I will worry about is them stealing my passwords.
Isn't that a bit contradictory statement? I mean, under a keyboard is after all a pretty carefree place, and could exactly be chosen by someone who doesn't worry much about his passwords being stolen.
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Aggh. Why're people so in love with links that only read "here"? They're not quite informative.
But hey, happy new year. :)
That's why I usually skip the fries and soda when I eat at McDonalds.
Not only that... it's usually fun to watch their faces when you say you don't want fries. A lot of them look like they're debating whether to call security.
I do the same but never get such looks. I think the key is to say kind of the opposite, i.e:
"I'd like to have casgdbfu to drink and a plain sfsdhguio burger"
rather than
"I'd like to have a sbycukwa burger meal with a dzvhifdz drink, without fries".
Yes, they should be all free. Maybe add some data caps per session to avoid the worst leeches. Then again, 3G price and coverage is getting pretty good these days, which might render public WiFi a bit useless.
What has struck me odd is also some of those rare laptops which have 1680x945 resolution, in other words, an uneven amount of scanlines. I don't know if there's any downsides to it, but it always somehow bugs me.
Which HP model, by the way? I like their SFF boxes.
Very true.
Looking at the numbers very roughly, one could say that the ARM is about half slower than the Atom, but uses only one third of the power. So if we normalize either the processing speed or power consumption to the same level, it can be concluded that ARM is 50% more energy efficient while making the same amount of work than Atom.
So...how's the performance per watt if we compare these recent ARM and Intel offerings?
I was also thinking that the Atoms probably have more all sorts of acceleration units. I'm not sure how important would those be on a tablet or a phone though. Anyway, there was an interesting discussion pondering if it would be possible to run Folding@Home on a phone. It ended by realizing that the ARMs wouldn't have the same kind of FPU power.
The Atom's have always had a reasonable core power consumption... but the external chipsets that ruin the system power consumption figure. Will be curious to see what the total system consumption is going to be with these new one, maybe time to look towards a nice replacement for my Asus eeebox B202's for the desktop.
I thought that problem was only with the early Atoms paired the 945GSE, and then later Pine Trail included the power-proper NM10 chipset.
If/when something bad happens in my life and, something awesome happens later after that, it makes me easier to accept the sucky occurance reasoned with the butterfly effect, as without it the great thing might not ever have happened. :)
Anyway, it's always amazing to think how the current state of world is a result of millions small things coming together. Without everything going exactly like this, even the probability of me existing would be extremely low.
Regarding analog cables, I've found that the OEM "there ya go" cables included with LCDs and set-top-boxes have usually bested the more robust looking cables that I've bought separately.
Another option could be to use 2.5" disks as they suck many times less power. Before the floods the Samsung 1TB one was on sale for 90€. I recall there being mounts which allow you to put two of them into a 3.5" slot, too.
Here's even a nice mini-ITX case that can take 6 drives in it.
You know, I've always been a fan of pure C, it being so clean, minimal and "the real deal". But I'm getting a bit tired of this fundamentalism and maybe want to extend my skillset. What language(s) would bring on a similarly nice and clean environment, and be worth learning, maybe even get me employed? Python, .NET, etc? Java and C++ feel so bloated... :S
Not a bad replacement. With both cores utilized, I'd say the Atom has 10x the speed of your previous CPU.
It's that you should be using HTML paragraphs.
I haven't heard of such, but one idea could be to fire up a virtual machine to safely do the testing over there.
I would have also liked screenshots of the many configurations presented here. That should have been encouraged in the summary.