It seems contrary to scientific logic that the time periods of greatest spawning of new species happens after a great die-out. I would think that the time when the most new species come into existence would be when you have the highest number of creatures roaming the Earth, not the times when it wa...

"This initiative, which would be offset at every step with a reduction in income taxes". Just who do you expect to believe that? It ain't gonna happen. If there ever should be a "carbon tax", it will be on top of a rise in income taxes. Get real.... It's worked well enough in Sweden, although the t...

As much as I'd like to say Tom's is wrong, if you read up to the last page of the review they clarify that " t can run at speeds between 5,400 RPM and 7,200 RPM, which WD defines at the factory, to save energy whenever high performance isn't needed", so the word "dynamically" is kinda misleading. Ba...

I talked to these guys and they gave me a patch but to be honest I don't have the faintest clue what to do with it. I only know a few things about computer hardware but none whatsoever about software. When it comes to Ubuntu all I know is how to use the terminal and follow step-by-step Howto's. If ...

Maybe you could try with the still rather untested kernel patches from here , the centrino version works good with my pentium M laptop and I see that they recently added stuff for amd cpus. It requires building a custom kernel, possibly with these patches checked out from svn, so it'll be rather inv...

KansaKilla wrote:Any ideas if 3.2GHz at 355x9 would run cooler than 400x8?

The northbridge should be a little cooler if nothing else, or less hot is probably a better word.

But fahrenheit?? yuck. I just convert by typing "45 F in C" in google. And for quick conversions, I just know that -40 are the same in both, and a 400° oven is the same as a 200° oven, and of course 32 is zero. And I kinda keep in mind that 90 is hot, just like 30 is hot, even though they're not ...

mexell wrote:Your strange units make me always confused Miles are OK, gallons also, mpg gets slightly difficult... but these are still linear conversions!

mpg to l/100km is actually inverted (D/V compared to V/D)

OK, but seriousness aside, storing solar heat in batteries or carbon actually cools the world down (until you use the power again). Sure, but considering the scales, if we'd be able to get 10% of our energy use from solar, that'd still be ~15ppm of the energy we receive from the sun, hardly enough ...

djkest wrote:Liberal... some American liberals are about about more rules and more control. Maybe the word doesn't suit the movement anymore.

Fixed that for ya

Drug liberals, anyone? More control, yes?

Any linux and easytag, possibly available on live-CDs.

djkest wrote: Maybe I am wrong here, but this just seems very unfair and exceptionally liberal.

That's some serious misunderstanding of the word liberal right there.

And Tzupy, we don't need unlimited energy. You miss the recycling amount of the carbon we would be recovering... I'd be willing to bet that energy would be much less than the amounts required to mine or extract the equivalent amount using normal methods. No, it would not. Let's assume that we stop ...

aaa wrote:You can clock down the video card like a CPU.It's called PowerPlay for ATI, dunno the nVidia name.

Yes, and with most cards that saves maybe 10% of the power used by the card. Ati is better with the latest series, but in general both of them have a long way to go.

I don't also like nVidia's decision so far to limit 3 Sli only GTX and Ultra cards, making tri-sli super-priced luxory only. I mean who really wouldn't like to get 9600 GT tri-sli in future? There is still hope nVidia will revert this decision and makes tri-sli availeble also for budget and mainstr...

My last post did not have the desired effect at all. That's probably because we were still trying to bash into LinuxSam's head what is the real issue ;) Of the 5 items that I have listed above, CO2 gets all of the limelight. H2O has not been studied a great deal as far as I know when it comes to gl...

I recommend measuring your current PSU before buying a new one. ATX PSUs are 150x140x86mm (WxDxH), mATX are significantly smaller.

Yes, I'm well aware global temperatures on Earth have been higher. And they have been plenty higher than that too, if you go back longer than the last million years. Noone serious is claiming that we will kill all life or all humans, but our current society has only existed in a relatively stable cl...

So according to you (Floffe), the oceans are rising and someday they will cause millions of people to become homeless. Then it seems that the smart move would be to start the moving process now. I certainly don't believe of the oceans rising thingy, it just seems that anyone who does believe it sho...

Sam, the only "proof" anybody can show you is from core samples, to show that, yes, indeed, the planet has heated up and cooled off on its very own long before humans were here. :) Sure. But then there weren't 6 billion humans living on the planet, many of them almost at sea level. The threat isn't...

AuraAllan wrote:Raptor? silent?

Well, it's on the SPCR recommended list, so it can't be too bad.

Amusingly, what you're now talking about is the one mechanism by which we do, in fact, permanently change one element into another - nuclear reactions. However, the situation you describe, where we supposedly create unstable isotopes from stable ones, which naturally decay back into stable ones eve...

Install GIMPS and run mprime, it's the linux version of prime95

Maybe you haven't heard. IGP will be on ALL future chipsets from Nvidia and AMD/ATI. This scenario won't happen in the near future. But of course I'd like to see some proof/sources for this claim. For nvidia: Hybrid SLI will be here within a couple of months, including IGPs in all nvidia chipsets f...

You're not "on a server" for more time that it takes to download a WU, every time you request a new one it connects to the same server (or it might be mirrored now, I think they were having load issues a while back), which distributes you out to a fitting server to get a WU from.

There's no support for nvidia cards planned as far as I know.

Further south in Sweden (Linköping, to be specific), we have a few centimeters of snow, which doesn't particularly differ from normal this time of the year. Some years there can be 30 cm, others are still clear well into January. We had quite a bit of snow (10cm!) in November though, which was a bi...

One or two years do not a (climatic) trend make.

You could just make the Nac Mac Feegle find it for you

The Celeron 440 in conjunction with the HD 2600 Pro should handle most HD discs comfortably although it may struggle with Blu-ray discs encoded with MPEG2 HD. AFAIK MPEG2 is the least demanding of the codecs used for HD. I'd rather think the issue would be disc speeds here since MPEG2 is also the o...