Im pretty sure that the main point of prison..besides simple punishment..is to reform those to behave society's rules when they have shown that they cant. When they are released from prison, they are -supposed- to be considered a fully functional reformed member of society.
To label an EX-con as always a criminal kind of goes against the whole point of prisons, and general reform.
Sounds like you are trying to do exactly what cable from (here) shaw does. They deliver tv and radio content, plus internet, all for around 40 dollars a month, at least here in canada.
Cooling it is NOT a waste of power and it will NOT shorten the life of your cpu.
The cooler you run your cpu, the longer it will last. Yes, between -1 and -30 (celcius)you WILL be able to overclock more.
The reason you can overclock more is this: To get a higher clock speed out of your cpu, you need to increase the voltage its running at. The problem comes from the fact that when you raise the voltage, you substantially raise the temp your cpu is putting out, and if you dont dissipate this heat, you will get lockups and instability.
This way, if you have your cpu running at a crazy high voltage, you can get crazy high clockspeeds out of it.
Here is an example of a cpu that was clocked at around 2.2 ghz and got to over 3 ghz with a vapochill system.
You will never see that with watercooling (room temp) or aircooling.
So obviously there is reason to cool the cpu down past 0 degrees C.
Now it just comes to the question, do you want to spend that much money on cpu cooling.
For that price you could buy several new cpu's. On the other hand, you can use the vapochill system on any new cpu you buy, so i guess its up to you to decide:D
Remember in the original question, he says that the board isnt looking in terms of how good this will be for the students, only how good it will be for the school's wallet.
If it can be presented that running linux is cheaper overall than running microsoft, sounds like they would switch.
Since linux and a lot of it's programs are free, the only cost incurred by switching would be paying the technician/sysadmin to keep the system/network running fine.
Also, the learning potiential is definatly greater, because if any student wants to find out how a certain program works in terms of code, said student can almost always look and find out.
I really dont see how it would be costly to stop paying for software and switch to a free operating system.
With the donated money they could easily pay a whole team of lab techs etc to install and admin the *nix OS's.
You could even have different labs with different operating systems to give students a wide view on how things COULD be done.
i agree we shouldnt ever start killing people to contol population. But somethign we dont need are murderers. or child molesters (even worse in my book haha)
Not that 'justic' isnt 'revenge'. Some guy made a post down that further down the thread and it's an excellent one. I suggest your read it.
its.. even God if you believe, has the right to terminate another human being's life: the most precious matter (mentally speaking, not physically) in this universe.
Human life has got to be the least precious thing in the universe. Well, not least, but its down there. The earth is teeming with almost more human life than it can support, and soon there will be WAY more than it can support. We dont need to polute the gene pool by keeping murderers and child molesters in it. A human gives himself the right to live by beeing smart and good at what he needs to do to survive. He is helped with it by society. But if you plan to kill another human, then do it, your life is forfeit. No ifs ands or buts about it.
I can guarantee you that if someone killed my mother or father, or sister, etc, i would hunt them down and deliver my own justice.
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Well, for me, goatse.cx was the first hit.
No text or anything under it, or a cache offering, or anything, just the link to the page and a offer to find similar pages(which yields no results:( ).. Maybe you glossed over it?
Think how much the industry is making on Plasma screens. Do they have any real incentive to start selling a cheaper alternative?
Well, a plasma making company might not, or a lcd making company might not, but think. It only takes one company to start selling these amazing, low cost, great contrast, super thin, all around amazing monitors(or tvs) and the prices come crashing down. So does the competition. They will either adapt to sell what everyone wants, or they will die. All the beauty of competition. It only takes one success.
I dont know if you meant this to be funny or not, but it is VERY true. Damn that GBA is dark. Non-backlit lcd screen. With the low power consumption of OLED, you will have all the goodness of the battry life, tons more brightness, better viewing angle if that matters, etc. Might even make the unit a tad cheaper.
But even with all the explanations on how much better than LCD it is, its hard without at least a picture. Here is that picture. It was taken at the CES trade show.
WARNING: looking at this picture may make you realize how crappy your LCD monitor really is and what you have settled for:
It really shows the drawbacks of LCD's viewing angle and thickness because of backlighting. In the board the picture taker explains he has seen solid colour on this monitor there (demo running i guess) and the picture was perfectly even.
If you had read the article you would know that they do mean you need optomized code for the GeforceFX to get good performance.
He (the author of the article) gives the example by quoting Carmack. Carmack talks about how there are various pixel shader code paths in the doom 3 engine. When the GefFX is running proprietary code and the 9700pro is running standard code, the nvidia card is faster. BUT if they are both running the exact same standard code, the nvidia card is quite a bit slower.
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In its current state, LCD seems to be a horrible technology. I go to futureshop or its equivelant and look at the flat screen lcd tvs. There is a dvd playing on it, but it looks fuggin terrible.
LCD monitors generally have less viewing quality, and of course the horrible response time, bad viewing angle, poor contrast, and fixed resolution. I havent seen that many desks that were in such dire need of desk space that they needed to settle for LCD. A guy will buy a lcd tv or monitor and tell himself that the ghosting really isnt thaaat bad, or the viewing angle doesnt bother him thaaat much. These people are just fooling themselves because LCD is really the only real flatscreen tech on the market right now.
I believe when OLEDs hit the market LCD will pretty much be useless obslete technology. OLED has a fixed resolution, true, but suffers from none of the other disadvantages.
After seeing something that amazing from a prototype, i really dont see a future for LCD in the computing world. Maybe somewhere in the embedded arena where a non-backlit LCD would suffice, but other than that, where?
Plus if these things hit 40-60 inches..that pretty much boots plasma out the door too.
I am only worried that since OLED will junk such a big area of displays, manufactuerers will be hesitant to deploy it, or will deploy it expensively and with low supply. The good thing is i guess it only takes one company to do it right, and the prices will come crashing down.
I guess as long as the manufacturers dont jack the prices up too much, i dont see a barrier to wide spread acceptance.
Like someone said, all that effort isnt neccesary. I took my motherboard out (of the nes), wrapped very fine grit sandpaper around a half popsicle stick and rubbed those connectors down. Blow it out good (canned air works well.) Then i dipped the edge connector slot in some tinning solution so it wouldnt corrode again. Wash with some distilled water, let dry, put it back together and it has lasted untill so far. No problems with games booting or losing saved games.
Yes, i was helping a sysadmin with some security for his winnt machines. I told him that within the next couple days i'd have his admin password.
His network worked in the way that if you leave a machine alone for too long, it locks itself and you need either the password of the person logged in or an admin password to unlock it. He did this so people couldnt just walk up to the machine while it is unattended and install keyloggers, whatever. Thought he was so clever..
I downloaded some cheap program that simulates a winnt lock screen, called another sysadmin over and told him that someone had left the lab and forgot to logout and i need to use this computer.
He types in his pwd, goes away, and i read the log file the thing makes, blammo, there is the password. I emailed him his password and he was pretty stunned. And this any stupid user could do.
The moral of this story is, for every fix, there is something else to break, so never be confident, always keep your eyes open because some smartass kid is probly going to figure out a way to get around all your careful preperations.
Yes....kissing....thats the bitter thing we want to make taste better. I think girls could really use this technology. Could improve my sex life. (Again, not like III have one)
Maybe that says that we should be concentrating on fast solid state storage rather than trying to minimize the stuff we have now. Hard drives are currently the slowest and most unreliable equipment in our PCs today. Sounds like thats the bottleneck scientists should be working on.
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Im pretty sure that the main point of prison..besides simple punishment..is to reform those to behave society's rules when they have shown that they cant. When they are released from prison, they are -supposed- to be considered a fully functional reformed member of society.
To label an EX-con as always a criminal kind of goes against the whole point of prisons, and general reform.
Sounds like you are trying to do exactly what cable from (here) shaw does. They deliver tv and radio content, plus internet, all for around 40 dollars a month, at least here in canada.
How is what you are proposing different?
I dont know how this will apply or if Creative will somehow get rid of it, but..
On my live 5.1 mixer software, I've got a recording source of 'what you hear'.
I can go into a game, play for a bit and come back and have a mp3 sitting there of me playing (just for example)
The point is, it makes a perfect recording, why should i screw around with a patch cable.
Cooling it is NOT a waste of power and it will NOT shorten the life of your cpu.
:D
The cooler you run your cpu, the longer it will last. Yes, between -1 and -30 (celcius)you WILL be able to overclock more.
The reason you can overclock more is this: To get a higher clock speed out of your cpu, you need to increase the voltage its running at. The problem comes from the fact that when you raise the voltage, you substantially raise the temp your cpu is putting out, and if you dont dissipate this heat, you will get lockups and instability.
This way, if you have your cpu running at a crazy high voltage, you can get crazy high clockspeeds out of it.
Here is an example of a cpu that was clocked at around 2.2 ghz and got to over 3 ghz with a vapochill system.
You will never see that with watercooling (room temp) or aircooling.
So obviously there is reason to cool the cpu down past 0 degrees C.
Now it just comes to the question, do you want to spend that much money on cpu cooling.
For that price you could buy several new cpu's. On the other hand, you can use the vapochill system on any new cpu you buy, so i guess its up to you to decide
lcuky you can just roll up an oled display with no adverse effects
heheh
Remember in the original question, he says that the board isnt looking in terms of how good this will be for the students, only how good it will be for the school's wallet.
If it can be presented that running linux is cheaper overall than running microsoft, sounds like they would switch.
Since linux and a lot of it's programs are free, the only cost incurred by switching would be paying the technician/sysadmin to keep the system/network running fine.
Also, the learning potiential is definatly greater, because if any student wants to find out how a certain program works in terms of code, said student can almost always look and find out.
I really dont see how it would be costly to stop paying for software and switch to a free operating system.
With the donated money they could easily pay a whole team of lab techs etc to install and admin the *nix OS's.
You could even have different labs with different operating systems to give students a wide view on how things COULD be done.
Just my 2c.
i agree we shouldnt ever start killing people to contol population. But somethign we dont need are murderers. or child molesters (even worse in my book haha)
That is such a load of crap.
Not that 'justic' isnt 'revenge'. Some guy made a post down that further down the thread and it's an excellent one. I suggest your read it.
its..
even God if you believe, has the right to terminate another human being's life: the most precious matter (mentally speaking, not physically) in this universe.
Human life has got to be the least precious thing in the universe. Well, not least, but its down there. The earth is teeming with almost more human life than it can support, and soon there will be WAY more than it can support. We dont need to polute the gene pool by keeping murderers and child molesters in it. A human gives himself the right to live by beeing smart and good at what he needs to do to survive. He is helped with it by society. But if you plan to kill another human, then do it, your life is forfeit. No ifs ands or buts about it.
I can guarantee you that if someone killed my mother or father, or sister, etc, i would hunt them down and deliver my own justice.
Well, for me, goatse.cx was the first hit.
:( ).. Maybe you glossed over it?
No text or anything under it, or a cache offering, or anything, just the link to the page and a offer to find similar pages(which yields no results
IBM eh..
Know the engineer's names? Their families names? I have TEN GOD DAMN YEARS of frustration to take out.
The new WOOD5000 router!
I sure hope that improves. Thats barely better than my current celeron 633 laptop. If better at all. Certainly not at idle.
:|
I dont relish paying a lot of money for a battery that doesnt last any longer than my current one.
Well, then again filling it is a lot quicker than charging a battery.
Ignore me i guess, i must be in a bitching mood.
Think how much the industry is making on Plasma screens. Do they have any real incentive to start selling a cheaper alternative?
Well, a plasma making company might not, or a lcd making company might not, but think. It only takes one company to start selling these amazing, low cost, great contrast, super thin, all around amazing monitors(or tvs) and the prices come crashing down. So does the competition. They will either adapt to sell what everyone wants, or they will die. All the beauty of competition. It only takes one success.
I dont know if you meant this to be funny or not, but it is VERY true. Damn that GBA is dark. Non-backlit lcd screen. With the low power consumption of OLED, you will have all the goodness of the battry life, tons more brightness, better viewing angle if that matters, etc. Might even make the unit a tad cheaper.
There are people who have explained OLED, etc.
But even with all the explanations on how much better than LCD it is, its hard without at least a picture. Here is that picture. It was taken at the CES trade show.
WARNING: looking at this picture may make you realize how crappy your LCD monitor really is and what you have settled for:
Ta da!
It really shows the drawbacks of LCD's viewing angle and thickness because of backlighting. In the board the picture taker explains he has seen solid colour on this monitor there (demo running i guess) and the picture was perfectly even.
Anyways, thought i'd share! Enjoy.
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If you had read the article you would know that they do mean you need optomized code for the GeforceFX to get good performance.
He (the author of the article) gives the example by quoting Carmack. Carmack talks about how there are various pixel shader code paths in the doom 3 engine. When the GefFX is running proprietary code and the 9700pro is running standard code, the nvidia card is faster. BUT if they are both running the exact same standard code, the nvidia card is quite a bit slower.
In its current state, LCD seems to be a horrible technology. I go to futureshop or its equivelant and look at the flat screen lcd tvs. There is a dvd playing on it, but it looks fuggin terrible.
LCD monitors generally have less viewing quality, and of course the horrible response time, bad viewing angle, poor contrast, and fixed resolution. I havent seen that many desks that were in such dire need of desk space that they needed to settle for LCD. A guy will buy a lcd tv or monitor and tell himself that the ghosting really isnt thaaat bad, or the viewing angle doesnt bother him thaaat much. These people are just fooling themselves because LCD is really the only real flatscreen tech on the market right now.
I believe when OLEDs hit the market LCD will pretty much be useless obslete technology. OLED has a fixed resolution, true, but suffers from none of the other disadvantages.
Look at this picture.
After seeing something that amazing from a prototype, i really dont see a future for LCD in the computing world. Maybe somewhere in the embedded arena where a non-backlit LCD would suffice, but other than that, where?
Plus if these things hit 40-60 inches..that pretty much boots plasma out the door too.
I am only worried that since OLED will junk such a big area of displays, manufactuerers will be hesitant to deploy it, or will deploy it expensively and with low supply. The good thing is i guess it only takes one company to do it right, and the prices will come crashing down.
I guess as long as the manufacturers dont jack the prices up too much, i dont see a barrier to wide spread acceptance.
Lucky this thing didnt happen in the kill the commies days...
"Soviet and Russia are very popular words on this particular news discussion site. Start recording IP's and dispatch the SWAT teams!"
Like someone said, all that effort isnt neccesary.
I took my motherboard out (of the nes), wrapped very fine grit sandpaper around a half popsicle stick and rubbed those connectors down. Blow it out good (canned air works well.)
Then i dipped the edge connector slot in some tinning solution so it wouldnt corrode again. Wash with some distilled water, let dry, put it back together and it has lasted untill so far. No problems with games booting or losing saved games.
Yes, i was helping a sysadmin with some security for his winnt machines. I told him that within the next couple days i'd have his admin password.
His network worked in the way that if you leave a machine alone for too long, it locks itself and you need either the password of the person logged in or an admin password to unlock it. He did this so people couldnt just walk up to the machine while it is unattended and install keyloggers, whatever. Thought he was so clever..
I downloaded some cheap program that simulates a winnt lock screen, called another sysadmin over and told him that someone had left the lab and forgot to logout and i need to use this computer.
He types in his pwd, goes away, and i read the log file the thing makes, blammo, there is the password. I emailed him his password and he was pretty stunned. And this any stupid user could do.
The moral of this story is, for every fix, there is something else to break, so never be confident, always keep your eyes open because some smartass kid is probly going to figure out a way to get around all your careful preperations.
Yes and like the parent poster said, its lots of computers clustered together, not just one linux os handling 1024 cpus.
And remember the athlon k7 core (athlon, athlon xp, etc) is based on an alpha. So i wouldnt exactly say alpha failed in the x86 arena, heheh
Yes....kissing....thats the bitter thing we want to make taste better. I think girls could really use this technology. Could improve my sex life. (Again, not like III have one)
Maybe that says that we should be concentrating on fast solid state storage rather than trying to minimize the stuff we have now. Hard drives are currently the slowest and most unreliable equipment in our PCs today. Sounds like thats the bottleneck scientists should be working on.