Why do people continually associate the maximum wattage a PSU can provide with how much it draws at the wall? This isn't engines, folks, where all that displacement burns gas no matter what. A higher wattage PSU will typically be MORE efficient than a lower wattage one, if your load is any significant percentage of the small PSU's capacity. Efficiency suffers badly, and heat production ramps up sharply as you approach a PSU's maximum wattage. The amount drawn at the wall is system draw + PSU efficiency overhead + wire loss. It is NOT PSU max capacity. If I have a 550W system, and two PSUs, one 1KW and 80% efficiency, one 600W and 80% efficiency, you'll find that using the lower wattage unit consumes MORE power at the wall. As a PSU heats up, it wastes more and more juice just running itself. By having no overhead, you COST MORE POWER.
That said, most little Shuttle boxes are sub-200W loads anyways, so your main point is valid; it is a low-draw device. Your logic in making that determination (it only has a 220W PSU) is the suspect part.
I'm paying $55/month for their Speeed Tier service. Standard service was 6/768 and Speed Tier was 8/1Mbps when I worked there briefly, they periodically give small increments to the speed.
Speed testing websites aside, I always hit GigaNews at a very solid 3MB/s (MB not Mb) for as many GB as I want, and my CS:S pings are often single digit.
I'm fairly happy with my service.
Thus why Picard is bald, Geordi is blind, and Worf is still Klingon.
Not everyone can afford every treatment.
However, I for one, welcome our new scientifically bred overlords! After all, stupid people breed LESS, right?
Actually, thanks to some ancient badness, x64 OSes are needed by anyone requiring more than 2-3GB of RAM!!11!one
All of your PCI devices take a bite out of that 4GB space long before it gets matched to your physical RAM. It's a corner case, but if you have two GeForce 7950 GX2s, that's 2GB of address space gone. Throw in another PCI device or two and you won't even get 2GB of usable physical memory without x64.
It's time. Anyone claiming x64 is unneeded just hasn't paid attention to all the little details.
DDR3 is worthless so far. It's hotter, burns more juice, same speed, and expensive. In time it'll become desirable, but that time is still quite a ways off.
If you're really horny for 1333FSB (which isn't the second coming of performance Christ, BTW), you can do what I did two months ago:
Core 2 Duo e6600. I got it for about 220$.
eVGA nForce 680i. All the checkboxes, official 1333FSB, and as low as 150$ with a good mail-in rebate.
2GB or more of DDR2-667. I got DDR2-800 because I hadn't done all the math first, and I like headroom.
Once set to 1333FSB, your e6600@2.4 magically becomes an e6850@3GHz. Say hello to 1333. While you're here, you'll want to make sure your ram is set to sync with the FSB, which puts it at 666MHz. What's that you say? You simply must have DDR3-1333? Hell no. The FSB is QDR, the ram is DDR. FSB=RAM*2 for a proper sync. Your FSB won't be able to meaningfully use more than that, you'll just be nudging the FSB saturation up from 99% to 99.5%, for a performance gain of near 0.
The price cuts next month will rework this a bit, mainly I'll swap out the e6600 for a q6600 and attempt to get the same settings. 4 cores at 3GHz each ought to be possible, and I'm looking forward to it.
WinXP x64 always passes WGA, no matter what. Vista x64 doesn't, so it's not a bitness thing. I'd imagine, as you seem to conclude, that MS never implemented XP x64 ready versions of WGA, so in case of no result, it errs to the valid. I'd bet the Ubuntu install is falling into something similar.
Funny, I use an unsecured WAP, and apparently one of my neighbors recently got one as well. Just yesterday I realized my WAP was out, but I was browsing from my laptop. Seems my computer had switched APs at some point, and since they're both unsecured and functional, I never even got asked nor noticed.
Which hand do you think they should cut off, since you're so sure I'm now a thief??
If it follows the Enterprise formula, the next episode will take place in an alternate universe. We'll get to watch Tricia Helfer, Grace Park, and maybe even Xena in scanty clothing, vamping around, at least.
Funny though, Tricia Helfer was in Playboy, and I found her to be *more* attractive on the show, with her clothes on, albeit skin-tight, than when she was wandering around in panties in PB.
I have to agree. My middle school got computers just before I left, within a few weeks we had multiplayer Doom deathmatches going on in between classes and during study hall. Our one fairly intelligent teacher inquired as to what we were doing, verified that it was the freely-redistributable demo version, and wanted to try a round. The other teachers continued to studiously avoid those EVIL BOXES as they had been doing.
What teacher can educate a child on uses of technology if the highest tech item they use is a can opener?
The real difference here is that when you crack one safe, they don't ALL open their doors.
In 50 years we'll still be selling safes. In 50 years the AACSLA will be defunct and forgotten.
You think you're special, but you're only a figment of my imagination.
As for self as origin point of measurement: Duh. We've all been doing that since roughly birth. Where is the telephone? Two feet TO THE LEFT OF ME. Where is the beer? It's about twenty feet FROM ME.
Everybody thinks they're the first to discover masturbation, and everyone on/. thinks they're the first to discover egotism or sociopathy.
I believe the accepted technical term you are looking for is 'microgravity'. It's generally accepted as a replacement for the previous and inaccurate 'zero G'.
Of course, now there's going to be a 30 to 40 post subthread of flames and flamebait to debate the merits, the ancestry of the participants, and the necessity of the previous posts.
Enjoy.
Actually, while the 'not many' part is true, a large number of folks grow some or all of the tobacco that they personally use, and many more roll their own cigarettes. Not a majority, to be sure, but it does happen, and it would happen the same way if Marijuana could be legally grown openly.
Because even if it's not costing you cash money, you are giving Microsoft money. The money those nagware vendors give Dell goes straight to Microsoft, so MS is getting paid.
Even more importantly, that's one more Windows sale. Why do you HAVE to have Windows? Because everyone else does. Why does everyone else have Windows? Because you did!
Unless you really enjoy having Windows force-fed to you with every PC you buy, then you really do need to agitate for naked PCs, or at least ones with something other than Windows on them.
You're supposed to use your finger to push the buttons, not protruding pieces of furniture. I'm pretty rough on my electronics, but I also decline to operate them via hammers and chisels, so my PSP and iPod have gotten through a year and over three years with minor cosmetic scuffs at most.
Don't use hammers to hit the buttons. You'll be fine if you avoid that.
What I find really amusing is how many MS fans will say 'Oh, obviously; DX10 depends on LDDM, and XP doesn't have Longhorn's nifty new driver model!'.... Yet 98SE supported both WDM and it's predecessor, at the same time.
What's keeping MS from backporting some of the new Longhorn kernel/driver niftiness to XP? Oh, right. Money. There's no money in adding new things to an already-sold product. It's all about selling the new hotness.
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Why do people continually associate the maximum wattage a PSU can provide with how much it draws at the wall? This isn't engines, folks, where all that displacement burns gas no matter what. A higher wattage PSU will typically be MORE efficient than a lower wattage one, if your load is any significant percentage of the small PSU's capacity. Efficiency suffers badly, and heat production ramps up sharply as you approach a PSU's maximum wattage. The amount drawn at the wall is system draw + PSU efficiency overhead + wire loss. It is NOT PSU max capacity. If I have a 550W system, and two PSUs, one 1KW and 80% efficiency, one 600W and 80% efficiency, you'll find that using the lower wattage unit consumes MORE power at the wall. As a PSU heats up, it wastes more and more juice just running itself. By having no overhead, you COST MORE POWER. That said, most little Shuttle boxes are sub-200W loads anyways, so your main point is valid; it is a low-draw device. Your logic in making that determination (it only has a 220W PSU) is the suspect part.
I'm paying $55/month for their Speeed Tier service. Standard service was 6/768 and Speed Tier was 8/1Mbps when I worked there briefly, they periodically give small increments to the speed. Speed testing websites aside, I always hit GigaNews at a very solid 3MB/s (MB not Mb) for as many GB as I want, and my CS:S pings are often single digit. I'm fairly happy with my service.
Thus why Picard is bald, Geordi is blind, and Worf is still Klingon. Not everyone can afford every treatment. However, I for one, welcome our new scientifically bred overlords! After all, stupid people breed LESS, right?
Actually, thanks to some ancient badness, x64 OSes are needed by anyone requiring more than 2-3GB of RAM!!11!one All of your PCI devices take a bite out of that 4GB space long before it gets matched to your physical RAM. It's a corner case, but if you have two GeForce 7950 GX2s, that's 2GB of address space gone. Throw in another PCI device or two and you won't even get 2GB of usable physical memory without x64. It's time. Anyone claiming x64 is unneeded just hasn't paid attention to all the little details.
DDR3 is worthless so far. It's hotter, burns more juice, same speed, and expensive. In time it'll become desirable, but that time is still quite a ways off. If you're really horny for 1333FSB (which isn't the second coming of performance Christ, BTW), you can do what I did two months ago: Core 2 Duo e6600. I got it for about 220$. eVGA nForce 680i. All the checkboxes, official 1333FSB, and as low as 150$ with a good mail-in rebate. 2GB or more of DDR2-667. I got DDR2-800 because I hadn't done all the math first, and I like headroom. Once set to 1333FSB, your e6600@2.4 magically becomes an e6850@3GHz. Say hello to 1333. While you're here, you'll want to make sure your ram is set to sync with the FSB, which puts it at 666MHz. What's that you say? You simply must have DDR3-1333? Hell no. The FSB is QDR, the ram is DDR. FSB=RAM*2 for a proper sync. Your FSB won't be able to meaningfully use more than that, you'll just be nudging the FSB saturation up from 99% to 99.5%, for a performance gain of near 0. The price cuts next month will rework this a bit, mainly I'll swap out the e6600 for a q6600 and attempt to get the same settings. 4 cores at 3GHz each ought to be possible, and I'm looking forward to it.
WinXP x64 always passes WGA, no matter what. Vista x64 doesn't, so it's not a bitness thing. I'd imagine, as you seem to conclude, that MS never implemented XP x64 ready versions of WGA, so in case of no result, it errs to the valid. I'd bet the Ubuntu install is falling into something similar.
Funny, I use an unsecured WAP, and apparently one of my neighbors recently got one as well. Just yesterday I realized my WAP was out, but I was browsing from my laptop. Seems my computer had switched APs at some point, and since they're both unsecured and functional, I never even got asked nor noticed.
Which hand do you think they should cut off, since you're so sure I'm now a thief??
If it follows the Enterprise formula, the next episode will take place in an alternate universe. We'll get to watch Tricia Helfer, Grace Park, and maybe even Xena in scanty clothing, vamping around, at least.
Funny though, Tricia Helfer was in Playboy, and I found her to be *more* attractive on the show, with her clothes on, albeit skin-tight, than when she was wandering around in panties in PB.
I have to agree. My middle school got computers just before I left, within a few weeks we had multiplayer Doom deathmatches going on in between classes and during study hall. Our one fairly intelligent teacher inquired as to what we were doing, verified that it was the freely-redistributable demo version, and wanted to try a round. The other teachers continued to studiously avoid those EVIL BOXES as they had been doing. What teacher can educate a child on uses of technology if the highest tech item they use is a can opener?
The real difference here is that when you crack one safe, they don't ALL open their doors. In 50 years we'll still be selling safes. In 50 years the AACSLA will be defunct and forgotten.
You think you're special, but you're only a figment of my imagination. As for self as origin point of measurement: Duh. We've all been doing that since roughly birth. Where is the telephone? Two feet TO THE LEFT OF ME. Where is the beer? It's about twenty feet FROM ME. Everybody thinks they're the first to discover masturbation, and everyone on /. thinks they're the first to discover egotism or sociopathy.
I believe the accepted technical term you are looking for is 'microgravity'. It's generally accepted as a replacement for the previous and inaccurate 'zero G'. Of course, now there's going to be a 30 to 40 post subthread of flames and flamebait to debate the merits, the ancestry of the participants, and the necessity of the previous posts. Enjoy.
Actually, while the 'not many' part is true, a large number of folks grow some or all of the tobacco that they personally use, and many more roll their own cigarettes. Not a majority, to be sure, but it does happen, and it would happen the same way if Marijuana could be legally grown openly.
Obviously any Vista security bugs should be rated less severe... I mean, nobody's running that OS, right? Minimal impact!
Because even if it's not costing you cash money, you are giving Microsoft money. The money those nagware vendors give Dell goes straight to Microsoft, so MS is getting paid. Even more importantly, that's one more Windows sale. Why do you HAVE to have Windows? Because everyone else does. Why does everyone else have Windows? Because you did! Unless you really enjoy having Windows force-fed to you with every PC you buy, then you really do need to agitate for naked PCs, or at least ones with something other than Windows on them.
You're supposed to use your finger to push the buttons, not protruding pieces of furniture. I'm pretty rough on my electronics, but I also decline to operate them via hammers and chisels, so my PSP and iPod have gotten through a year and over three years with minor cosmetic scuffs at most. Don't use hammers to hit the buttons. You'll be fine if you avoid that.
You do realize that kissing ass alone won't get you the job, right? You also have to wipe it.
Jesus H Christ, can you PLEASE put some periods in? They go at the end of a thought, to help the rest of us follow your ranting.
Seriously, punctuation is your friend, and you're making him very angry.
Sokath, his eyes uncovered! Rai and Jiri at Lungha. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
What I find really amusing is how many MS fans will say 'Oh, obviously; DX10 depends on LDDM, and XP doesn't have Longhorn's nifty new driver model!'.... Yet 98SE supported both WDM and it's predecessor, at the same time.
What's keeping MS from backporting some of the new Longhorn kernel/driver niftiness to XP? Oh, right. Money. There's no money in adding new things to an already-sold product. It's all about selling the new hotness.