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| 2003/8/9-10 [Computer/Companies/Google] UID:29287 Activity:moderate |
8/10 Dear google employees (and anyone else who may be in the know).
Does google penalize for having a bunch of sites on the same I.P.
Address? My google ranking just dropped through the floor and
the only change has been that A bunch of sites that i'm hosting
just got included in google that are all on my same I.P. I suspect
it must, since they all link to me so I would have expected their
inclusion to help, not hurt.
\_ Why do you care so much about your google ranking?
\_ i'm a business.
\_ What kind of business?
\_ there's only 2 kinds of small businesses on the net:
porn and spam.
\_ you're an idiot who needs to get out more.
\_ and candy. Buy more candy! -brain
\_ is that the stripper running for CA governor?
\_ shes not a stripper.. she an "actress" |
| 2003/8/9-10 [Computer/HW, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:29288 Activity:moderate |
8/8 I know this has been asked before but what is a good place to get
rid of a really really really old PC Case (not ATX)? BTW I'm keeping
the power supply just cuz it's cool.
\_ Sell? Try ebay or CL. Get rid of it? CL, motd, or throw it out.
\_ CL?
\_ craigslist
\_ Alameda County Computer Resource Center http://www.accrc.org
1501 Eastshore Avenue, near Gilman
\_ Thank you for this. It's the most useful thing I've seen
on motd in at least a decade. -pld |
| 2003/8/9-10 [Computer/SW/Apps] UID:29289 Activity:nil |
8/8 savvy Photoshop people: is this faked?
http://www.smuthosters.com/www/latinass/col/catch/mg/a.htm
\_ Completely. Don't even have to be an expert to tell (different
skin tones from face to body, shifting @ the neck). Who's that
supposed to be, anyway?
\_ not necessarily- sometimes the girl's foundation is lighter
than her tan in real life. Not very professional, but it
happens!
\_ It is real. the color of her face matches her breasts. |
| 2003/8/9-10 [Finance/Investment] UID:29290 Activity:nil |
8/8 Is there a good way to short tech stocks besides shorting QQQ
or shorting individual stocks? QQQ is too general and has some
non-tech stocks and is also overweighted by dell, intel and msoft
which I don't particularly want to short. Shorting individual
stocks is too much work and has high overhead. I see a whole
bunch of tech stocks that are overvalued but shorting just one
or two is too risky for me.
\_ Options. They are cheap to buy. --dim
\_ and easy to lose your shirt on
\_ You could short an exchange traded fund like IIH if you can find
one that trades over $5 still.
\_ Why must it be over $5? |
| 2003/8/9 [Politics/Domestic/Crime, Reference/History/WW2] UID:29291 Activity:nil |
8/8 A very informative and alarming RealPlayer video about the revival of
Communism in Venezuela and Latin America in general. The first
45 mins is all that isnecessary. Chavez has been providing air
support for FARC guerrillas in Colombia.
<DEAD>video.c-span.org:8080/ramgen/gdrive/15days/e080503_venezuela.rm<DEAD>
\_ oh no! GASP! COMMUNISM! yawn.
\_ Stalin, Pol Pot, the Stasi, the Cultural Revolution.
Yup. Communism is a laughing matter. Go read about
the purges, mass killings, prison camps and grow up.
\_ 20th Century Democide
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
Communists / Socialists resposible for 120 million deaths
last century.
\_ yeah all that money we spent to crush the soviets and hold
them back was wasted. we just should've explained to them
that all we wanted was peace and a mcdonald's in red square
and they'd pull the tanks back from eastern europe, free
hungary and the czechs and hey what the hell, let the
ukranians go, too! oh wait, all that only happened after
our system proved superior to their system and we were on
the verge of total war until then and would've been wiped
out if we hadn't destoyed them utterly. i like your
deep and well thought out line of reasoning. you're
special. very special. special K! |
| 2003/8/9 [Computer/Theory, Politics] UID:29292 Activity:nil |
8/8 <DEAD>www.arghnold.com<DEAD> \_ A spanking ? Yeah.. shows their intelligence / maturity level. \_ What, did you get your sense of humor amputated at your bris? |
| 2003/8/9-10 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:29293 Activity:high |
8/10 http://m2.doubleclick.net/790463/mrs02112_itdm_wav_336x280_23k.gif What a funny load of crap. Clearly they haven't heard of FREEbsd. \_ go ahead and laugh. In the end, technology alone will not get you cookies. Took me 10 years to realize that -former linux/bsd/tech fanatic \_ Did I say it would? \_ Wait another 10 years. Microsoft will not be a monoploy. What is the key to cookies, oh enlightened cynical one? \_ OS2 was a superior technology but it lost. There are many other factors such as the user base, development base, marketing, and many many others. Superior technology alone makes engineers happy and proud but does not make it a great product. \_ don't forget many other factors such as ease of use (for grandmas grandpas), visual appeal, support, peer pressure, etc etc. \_ i'd make a comment on this, but i have to go watch a movie on my betamax now. \_ Why did OS2 loose? because mircosoft made things incompatible. I believe free software will overcome all non-technical obstacles because it is free and developers and users like it. Companies like IBM and Oracle are doing the advertising for Linux. And most tech companies hate Microsoft. Was OS2 free? \_ If Sony had only licensed it to Porn companies, then Beta would have succeeded. Alas, since VHS sucks so much, it made DVD more appealing. \_ VHS won because it was better in ways that people cared about. Why would you want to use a format that wouldn't let you record a two-hour movie? \_ Why did OS2 loose? I believe free software will overcome all non-technical obstacles because it is free and developers and users like it. Companies like IBM and Oracle are doing the advertising for Linux. And most tech companies hate Microsoft. Was OS2 free? \_ many reasons, not the least of which was it needed several more megs worth of memory to run at any decent speed and at the time that was 100s of dollars worth of computer equipment. Plus it was UGLY in a way that made windows look pretty. \_ Sounds like OS2 was not "superior". |
| 2003/8/9-11 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:29294 Activity:moderate |
8/10 I just build a AMD2500+ computer and overall I'm pretty happy with
it. However it seems to output a lot more heat than my P4. Is this
normal?
\_ yes AMD cpus consume more power and run hotter
\_ I hope you're not settling for a stock fan, and you have at least
2-3 case fans.
\_ 2 blowing in (with filter), 2 blowing out, and 1
circulating inside. It's still pretty... warm. Is it
mostly from the CPU? My MB has a fan for its chipset,
my AMD has a huge ass heat sink with fan, and even my
ATI All-In-Wonder Card has a fan.
Actually I'm kind of disappointed now with the
power consumption. Do AMD & Intel publish their power
(wattage) somewhere?
\_ Exhaust fans are generally more effective than
fans blowing in. I think it has to do with turbulence
fans blowing in. I think it has to do with turbulence
vs lamnar air flow. to get the heat out. AMD CPU's
chips are hotter.
vs lamnar air flow. to get the heat out.
\- hello, it's perhaps not intuitively obvious but
this is a case where you dont want completely
laminar flow. the pressure differential you can
achive is linear in air flow and exponential in
a factor based on turbulence. this is why some
fans have non-smooth blades to increase turbulence.
mirco design issues [like fan blade shape] as well
as macro ones [location of fans and components
demending on their heat properties ... tolerance
and production] is a big design problem. i used to
work on modeling flows at IBM Almaden. so in
disk drived you want laminar flow to avoid platter
vibration and for cooling you wanted more turb flow
for greater heat capacity. it's a pretty cool [NPI]
area to see real applications of theory/math. --psb
\_ Wow, interesting! Thanks.
\_ Did you design anything we would have heard
of or used?
\- I worked mostly on models and design tools
[first doing what you might call conservation
law drivien aggregate calculations and then
describing the components in sort of a
black box fashion only exposing the char-
acteristics relevant to thermal modeling
from where you'ld sort of interatively
converge on a couple of designs you'ld
evaluate in greater depth]. BTW, this isnt
a bad WEEB pg on this: http://csua.org/u/3w6
BTW, this was written in a pretty crazy
way ... it was all controlled by some codes
in common lisp, which built some stuff in
C but also used the c pre-processor to
build some fortran codes from some canned
parallel libraries for some special big
machines at livermore. --psb |
| 2003/8/9-11 [Recreation/Computer/Games] UID:29295 Activity:kinda low |
8/10 Rise of Nations, yay or nay?
\_ Is it like Civilization?
\_ I hear it is a good game, but I never played it myself.
\_ It is awesome, especially if you like RTS games. Two
thumbs up. |