depends entirely on what kind of cpu fan you have. Spending a little more to replace the crappy whiny fan that came with your cpu is well worth it imo, aswell as letting it run at a constant speed (auto-regulating speed is much more annoying to me than a slightly higher average noise level).
HDD noise has decreased enormously in the last couple of years so this may be less of an issue than it used to be, still if I get a choice Ill take the silent one.
from TFA: "The past four months the Swedish company Eastpoint Media have sold ads for The Pirate Bay for an average of 60,000 per month." not sure how this became 20k/day...not to mention this is the selling price, not what eventually ends up at TPB (assuming the numbers are correct, which theyre probably not).
Anyway I hope they make a fortune, cant think of a more deserving site.
Both atari st and amiga were capable beasts, Id say the amiga got a boost from the huge c64 scene, which saw amiga as the natural successor. You wanted the same system as all your friends so you could swap demos and games.
Wonder what the world would look like now if they had managed to bundle cheap harddrives with either st or amiga early on, awesome os didnt help much when you had to run it from 880k floppies...*click*...*click*...*click*...
dodging the tv licence is a kind of national sport here, with some bizarre side effects, usually on the humorous side tho. In the 70/80s they would show a mysterious van with spinning dishes on the roof, which could zero in on unlicensed tvs:) Theyll send old people whose job it is to get invited inside (yes like vampires) to verify if you have a tv.
Im not sure what the implications of this are in Japan, if it ensures all parties get the same air time Id say its good. If used by the ruling parties to stifle others, ofcourse not so good. A totally open system will only favour the party with most money/biggest corporate backers.
Where I live political ads on tv are illegal, and I think most agree its for the best. Anyone wanting to sling mud on another candidate has to do so face to face in a debate, and be ready to back it up or be called on it.
reports are popping up that punters at the receiving end of a zune squirt are spontaneously changing behaviour, asserting "you are so feature-rich, baby" to dates and inquiring of random passers-by whether they are "people-ready".
"It would be nothing more then a hobby project by some fin."
Its a little harsh insinuating Linus is part of fishy anatomy, perhaps you meant FINN?:) I agree mostly with your comments fwiw. If the GPL has to tug a little hard on the rope thats fine, theres alot of heavyweights on the other side. In an ideal world there wouldnt be a need for the points Linus objects to, but then again in an ideal world (from my pov) there wouldnt be a need for the GPL at all. Consider it the API for angels to interface with the world;)
I may be off, but Id think using solid caps were to ensure reliability over time. Electrolytics dry up and change capacitance over time, they may work for a long time but a point will come where its value is so off it causes failure elsewhere. That said, cap types is a whole science and there may be other reasons why they use these particular types.
Would be nice to see some long term reliability study on power managed vs. free running systems. Changes in temperature means materials stretch and shrink accordingly, how does this affect components?
Personally I never use either power management or fan control, where I live the excess heat just means the thermostat heater needs to be on less:) I can live with a constant dB fan, one that changes pitch all the time drives me nuts tho.
as I see it, this isnt a question of whether lawyer X would get crushed by lawyer Y, its basically if copyright as we know it should exist at all.
There isnt some divine commandment handed down to a bearded mountain climber that says thou shalt not copy, its up to us to shape how information flows.
At one extreme you have free information, where any byte enjoys the same rights as the next, regardless of origin. At the other, a byte is wrapped in any number of legal layers, dictated solely by its origin.
I dont know where between these extremes we should land, but Im pretty sure I dont want some hollywood company deciding it based on a business model.
well the gulf stream is considerate enough to pass there, bringing Mexican heat. Not sure how many degrees it works out to but its huge. While maintenance is ofcourse best avoided, theres a pretty big industry already in place on Norways west coast servicing oil rigs, so shouldnt be too much of a problem.
the obvious solution here is laser. Each soldier is tethered by laser to a big, mobile generator. A collector on the back of each soldier, in the middle of a bullseye for convenience, converts the laser energy to the required electrical voltage.
I used to design modules very much like this for the oil biz, its a common way to provide office space, utilities, subsea control, temporary functions etc. for oil rigs and hazardous areas. You can order the shells pretty much any size/shape you want, especially if you dont have to worry about regulations.
Theyre not as sturdy as you might think tho, they get beat up something awful by transport, esp. offshore. Crane operators like to use the one in the sling to knock the others in place/out of the way:)
So if you look at this but need some other function/more room etc. there is already a huge number of solutions and alot of companies who can tailor them or rent you one.
As I see it, its just the next step in piratbyråns http://www.piratbyran.org/ campaign against copyright, although not officially linked. Theyve been pretty successful as political activists, much helped by blundering swedish police and white house pressure.
The logical next step after piratebay, which only stores links to copyrighted material, is to actually host it. Images is a nice way to dip the toe I guess.
Any media group who wants to try it in court face a group of highly motivated and well connected people.
Nature patented this under its Puberty (tm) label quite awhile ago. Good number of satisfied users, tho the uninstall is described as downright painful.
While I agree its very hard to make a good game, I think youre a little too pessimistic.
Open source can draw from a potentially limitless pool of resources with no money or time restraints.
Lots of games never "grow up" even tho they have experienced, motivated people behind it, the major difference between closed and open is with open source the assets are still there even if the game fails, added to the pool.
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depends entirely on what kind of cpu fan you have. Spending a little more to replace the crappy whiny fan that came with your cpu is well worth it imo, aswell as letting it run at a constant speed (auto-regulating speed is much more annoying to me than a slightly higher average noise level).
HDD noise has decreased enormously in the last couple of years so this may be less of an issue than it used to be, still if I get a choice Ill take the silent one.
from TFA: "The past four months the Swedish company Eastpoint Media have sold ads for The Pirate Bay for an average of 60,000 per month."
not sure how this became 20k/day...not to mention this is the selling price, not what eventually ends up at TPB (assuming the numbers are correct, which theyre probably not).
Anyway I hope they make a fortune, cant think of a more deserving site.
Ill 2. that, they brought up some interesting stuff. Well worth watching.
www.UtterBlackle.se it uses black text aswell for even more savings.
Both atari st and amiga were capable beasts, Id say the amiga got a boost from the huge c64 scene, which saw amiga as the natural successor.
You wanted the same system as all your friends so you could swap demos and games.
Wonder what the world would look like now if they had managed to bundle cheap harddrives with either st or amiga early on, awesome os didnt help much when you had to run it from 880k floppies...*click*...*click*...*click*...
off topic but I wonder what would happen if you put http://ubuntusatanic.org/ on dual boot with http://www.whatwouldjesusdownload.com/christianubu ntu
dodging the tv licence is a kind of national sport here, with some bizarre side effects, usually on the humorous side tho. :)
In the 70/80s they would show a mysterious van with spinning dishes on the roof, which could zero in on unlicensed tvs
Theyll send old people whose job it is to get invited inside (yes like vampires) to verify if you have a tv.
I hope this ends setting some kind of precedent, where lawyers everywhere are forced to reference the Winklevoss-Zuckerberg case with a straight face.
Im not sure what the implications of this are in Japan, if it ensures all parties get the same air time Id say its good.
If used by the ruling parties to stifle others, ofcourse not so good.
A totally open system will only favour the party with most money/biggest corporate backers.
Where I live political ads on tv are illegal, and I think most agree its for the best. Anyone wanting to sling mud on another candidate has to do so face to face in a debate, and be ready to back it up or be called on it.
reports are popping up that punters at the receiving end of a zune squirt are spontaneously changing behaviour, asserting "you are so feature-rich, baby" to dates and inquiring of random passers-by whether they are "people-ready".
"It would be nothing more then a hobby project by some fin."
:) ;)
Its a little harsh insinuating Linus is part of fishy anatomy, perhaps you meant FINN?
I agree mostly with your comments fwiw.
If the GPL has to tug a little hard on the rope thats fine, theres alot of heavyweights on the other side.
In an ideal world there wouldnt be a need for the points Linus objects to, but then again in an ideal world (from my pov) there wouldnt be a need for the GPL at all. Consider it the API for angels to interface with the world
I may be off, but Id think using solid caps were to ensure reliability over time.
Electrolytics dry up and change capacitance over time, they may work for a long time but a point will come where its value is so off it causes failure elsewhere.
That said, cap types is a whole science and there may be other reasons why they use these particular types.
Would be nice to see some long term reliability study on power managed vs. free running systems.
:)
Changes in temperature means materials stretch and shrink accordingly, how does this affect components?
Personally I never use either power management or fan control, where I live the excess heat just means the thermostat heater needs to be on less
I can live with a constant dB fan, one that changes pitch all the time drives me nuts tho.
polled bacteria cites child support issues as the number 1 matrimony deterrant.
as I see it, this isnt a question of whether lawyer X would get crushed by lawyer Y, its basically if copyright as we know it should exist at all.
There isnt some divine commandment handed down to a bearded mountain climber that says thou shalt not copy, its up to us to shape how information flows.
At one extreme you have free information, where any byte enjoys the same rights as the next, regardless of origin.
At the other, a byte is wrapped in any number of legal layers, dictated solely by its origin.
I dont know where between these extremes we should land, but Im pretty sure I dont want some hollywood company deciding it based on a business model.
"If you see an apartment in a rough part of L.A., and the door has six locks on it, you're not breaking into that apartment," Doherty said
Hes right, thats probably a crack house, and them dudes are dangerous!
seriously tho, the logic is kinda flawed as the DRM would be the ONLY door, no?
well the gulf stream is considerate enough to pass there, bringing Mexican heat. Not sure how many degrees it works out to but its huge.
While maintenance is ofcourse best avoided, theres a pretty big industry already in place on Norways west coast servicing oil rigs, so shouldnt be too much of a problem.
the obvious solution here is laser. Each soldier is tethered by laser to a big, mobile generator. A collector on the back of each soldier, in the middle of a bullseye for convenience, converts the laser energy to the required electrical voltage.
check if the ups guy answers to "Mario".
Im almost certain India predates Zelda.
I used to design modules very much like this for the oil biz, its a common way to provide office space, utilities, subsea control, temporary functions etc. for oil rigs and hazardous areas.
:)
You can order the shells pretty much any size/shape you want, especially if you dont have to worry about regulations.
Theyre not as sturdy as you might think tho, they get beat up something awful by transport, esp. offshore.
Crane operators like to use the one in the sling to knock the others in place/out of the way
So if you look at this but need some other function/more room etc. there is already a huge number of solutions and alot of companies who can tailor them or rent you one.
As I see it, its just the next step in piratbyråns http://www.piratbyran.org/ campaign against copyright, although not officially
linked.
Theyve been pretty successful as political activists, much helped by blundering swedish police and white house pressure.
The logical next step after piratebay, which only stores links to copyrighted material, is to actually host it.
Images is a nice way to dip the toe I guess.
Any media group who wants to try it in court face a group of highly motivated and well connected people.
Nature patented this under its Puberty (tm) label quite awhile ago.
Good number of satisfied users, tho the uninstall is described as downright painful.
While I agree its very hard to make a good game, I think youre a little too pessimistic.
Open source can draw from a potentially limitless pool of resources with no money or time restraints.
Lots of games never "grow up" even tho they have experienced, motivated people behind it, the major difference between closed and
open is with open source the assets are still there even if the game fails, added to the pool.
add re-plumbing to colonization cost