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- Sun Apr 21, 2013 2:03 pm
- Forum: Green Computing
- Topic: My house idles at 75W
- Replies: 29
- Views: 55926
Re: My house idles at 75W
Neat thread idea! I'm one person in an almost 500 sq ft apartment. I don't believe I have access to my meter directly, but I do get down-to-an-hour power usage numbers to nearest 10 watts from my provider ( pic1 pic2 ). According to that data, my apartment idles at around 60-70 W, including fridge, ...
- Wed May 02, 2012 12:30 am
- Forum: System Advice / Troubleshooting
- Topic: Ginormous CPU coolers?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6006
Re: Ginormous CPU coolers?
I don't know if you noticed this but many CPU coolers that are supposed to be the best and are recommended are freaking huge, like scythe mugen series, not only that but have even 2 fans. Isn't that really disruptive to the airflow in the case and increases noise subtantially, they actually have th...
- Sat Apr 28, 2012 7:51 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Projectors, pico projectors, and quiet
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6737
Projectors, pico projectors, and quiet
Hi! Long time no write here. (Not sure if this should go in Video Cards & Monitors? Are projectors monitors? Mods, feel free to move.) I have a project in mind that would use one or more smallish projectors to display basic data (time, weather, bus schedules, etc) on empty stretches of wall to get m...
- Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:53 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Non-optical USB mouse?
- Replies: 78
- Views: 154027
Unfortunately, if someone is bothered by an infrared LED they are likely to have larger problems than computer mice. Could you please rephrase this so I can understand exactly what you are saying? The amount of EM radiation from an infrared LED of the kind that would be found in a wheeled mouse is ...
- Sun May 16, 2010 10:04 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico - Historic Disaster
- Replies: 226
- Views: 108760
- Sat May 15, 2010 5:13 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Non-optical USB mouse?
- Replies: 78
- Views: 154027
Ball mice don't have optical sensors... Some did; I had a few myself in the past. I found a page with some good pictures of such a mouse . As washu says, this sort of mechanism is standard in all ball mice as it is by far the most compact, simple way of counting a disk's rotations. Unfortunately, i...
- Fri Apr 30, 2010 6:34 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Non-optical USB mouse?
- Replies: 78
- Views: 154027
- Sat Apr 24, 2010 2:49 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Lenovo ThinkStation E20: A Quiet Entry-level Workstation
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8264
- Mon Apr 19, 2010 7:30 pm
- Forum: Video Cards & Monitors
- Topic: Own a flat panel? Don't go to this link.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 15512
- Sat Apr 17, 2010 6:17 pm
- Forum: Deals, Vendors and Classifieds
- Topic: Crucial 64GB SSD F/S $140 shipped....
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3519
- Sat Apr 17, 2010 6:17 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: iPad??? WTF, Are the Apple execs complete idiots?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 99876
A Mercedes will get you to work just as any old (still functional car) will..Why do ppl buy them instead of Nissan Micras and other el cheapo cars out there ? Answer is because they CAN afford them and they know that Micra ppl look up to them. They envy them and their money just like you envy ppl t...
- Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:58 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Dice Job Expo in the big city.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7132
- Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:57 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: If you could ask God one question ...
- Replies: 357
- Views: 572901
- Wed Apr 07, 2010 8:08 am
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: smartphones are silent
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9960
Unfortunately, Verizon will not let you have a Smart phone *without* buying a data service.... :x So, my wife and I have to make some decisions: get a basic phone, and a GPS if we need that, and have PDA (like an iPod Touch) for those functions... nothing seems to integrate things very well (on Ver...
- Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:43 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: American-English speakers question
- Replies: 64
- Views: 41739
I've also noticed in a number of forums that non-native English speakers write significantly better English than many Americans. Abstracting from the definition of "better" English*, it occurred to me this might be a twist on confirmation bias. Non-native English speakers have to have the motivatio...
- Tue Mar 23, 2010 12:21 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Asus UL30A & Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 13 CULV Notebooks
- Replies: 21
- Views: 31975
Lenovo keyboards are quite good amongst other laptop keyboards, but there's still one thing I hate about them: the placement of the Fn key. I always mix up the Fn key for the Ctrl key! Why oh why does Lenovo always put the Fn on the left of the Ctrl key? I would fine it much more natural (when comi...
- Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:01 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Appeals Court says 'Under God' not a prayer
- Replies: 73
- Views: 28490
- Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:05 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: American-English speakers question
- Replies: 64
- Views: 41739
- Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:24 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: American-English speakers question
- Replies: 64
- Views: 41739
(ie. centre vs center, did anybody read the Oscar Wilde statement about those differences?). The glorious thing is that "center" and "centre" are pronounced absolutely the same way when speaking normally, which is insane if you think about it from the perspective of someone used to phonetic scripts...
- Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:38 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: American-English speakers question
- Replies: 64
- Views: 41739
"Most words in the English language are pronounced the same way they are spelt", the only exception in that sentence is the word language Compare the "o" in "most" with the second "o" in "pronounced", compare "a" in "same" with the a in "are", compare first and last "e"s in "sentence", etc. Isn't E...
- Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:18 pm
- Forum: SPCR Article Discussion
- Topic: Asus UL30A & Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 13 CULV Notebooks
- Replies: 21
- Views: 31975
This was an excellent review -- thank you. Another thought, it would be interesting to know how much quieter the laptop can be if set to use passive cooling and the hard drive was replaced with an SSD. I too am wondering about the SSD angle. In my experience with my laptops, the hard drive noise is ...
- Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:04 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: I don't like doctors...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 11314
Re: I don't like doctors...
I'd rather hear plain english: "You have thing called ADHD, which means you cannot concentrate due way your brains produce dopamine in your left frontal lobe of your brain. This can be treated with medicine.... etc...." What is dopamine? What is a left frontal lobe? Where do you draw the line, and ...
- Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:44 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: American-English speakers question
- Replies: 64
- Views: 41739
- Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:42 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: I don't like doctors...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 11314
Re: I don't like doctors...
/rant on ... One reason why I don't like doctors is that they speak that jargon and letter combination that I don't understand anything. Would you rather hear "ADHD" or "that thing where people can't concentrate on stuff they want to do because some stuff in their stuff in their body is making them...
- Sun Mar 07, 2010 2:25 pm
- Forum: SPCR Announcements
- Topic: Spam via Private Messaging
- Replies: 12
- Views: 27394
- Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:12 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Not a hero, not even close.
- Replies: 36
- Views: 25898
Where do you live that has 20 minute Christian masses?aristide1 wrote:Once a person who did not go to church was questioned about his beliefs by a priest. He replied, "I live my beliefs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, not just for a 20 minute period on Sundays." The priest felt the person was just fine.
- Sun Feb 28, 2010 3:31 pm
- Forum: The Silent Front
- Topic: Buying something from Canada - taxes, duties?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5574
- Fri Feb 26, 2010 4:11 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Not a hero, not even close.
- Replies: 36
- Views: 25898
- Thu Feb 25, 2010 11:19 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Not a hero, not even close.
- Replies: 36
- Views: 25898
It's apparent from reading his manifesto that this guy was an atheist. He rails against any type of church, saying they are all conning people out of their money, basically that you're an idiot if you believe in God. So how do you atheists reconcile such things? The atheists here always maintain th...
- Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:58 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: 2010 Olympics USA live coverage workaround?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14355
Thats bullcrap, Ice Dancing barely a sport in my eyes, in the same way that dancing is not a sport, Ice Dancing only just makes it because its dancing on a flat smooth slippery substance whilst standing on 2 razor thin blades - that takes some skill. Anyway skiing is far more entertaining than Ice ...