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by polshaw 15y ago
Because a solder layer would have much higher thermal transfer rate per area than thermal paste. And the IHS is bigger than the die, resulting in better cooling (because there is more 'bandwidth' (=area) at the point where TIM is used).. wh
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by polshaw 15y ago
The '>20 W/mK' claimed by this method, while a lot better than the 5 W/mK of regular TIM, is still a fair way off the 80 W/mK that the article claimed for a soldered solution.
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by polshaw 15y ago
The logical next step, sadly unexplored, would have surely been to do some testing without the IHS? E: turns out it doesn't really help[0], though that doesn't mean it wouldn't have been better if soldered. 0. http://www.overclock.net/t/12
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by polshaw 15y ago
Yes, because they are not mature products. If i had suggested in 2003 we took the tablet PC, swapped in an arm processor and took away all the ports, i'm sure you wouldn't have thought it was such a great idea either. The basic problem is t
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by polshaw 15y ago
>So people really want things like laptops with touch screens and laptops with detachable keyboards, despite those things selling really poorly YES. They sell poorly because they are crap and expensive. Exactly like tablets were befo
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by polshaw 15y ago
I am not an expert, but my understanding is that it would have some effect (worse than UK hosting, presumably better than outside EU), but I doubt very much. Faster hosting should have a positive effect, too.
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by polshaw 15y ago
Value your time appropriately is good advice, but it does not exist in a vacuum-- the author is just working backwards here to post-justify his decision. If anyone actually used this logic (note the expectation of 4-9 failures per success t
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by polshaw 15y ago
Quite disappointing gains considering the move to 22nm, 3d transistors, and being delayed (from Jan). I could live with the overclocking/heat issues if it meant more undervoltage headroom- but this doesn't seem to be the case either.. odd.
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by polshaw 15y ago
yes
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by polshaw 15y ago
> OK Computer and In Rainbows are 10 years apart and are intended to be listened together, a binary joke on the rest of us. This is just a myth, and it's wrong. And none of these things have anything to do with why anyone likes Radiohea
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by polshaw 15y ago
I don't agree at all with this article, imo loving music has nothing to do with the things in the article. But to claim Radiohead fans aren't big music fans is massively closed-minded. You might not like them, and that's fine. However, Radi
492.
by polshaw 15y ago
* between Palo Alto/Monterey/Santa Barbara/LA. pretty huge caveat there!
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by polshaw 15y ago
Well it is a barrier that has stopped me participating too. It is very easy to dismiss these when you, and all those around you, are beyond them.
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by polshaw 15y ago
I am guessing that most PCB/PS -like electronics would pass this without any specific attention, given there were no major manufacturing defects? I'm a little unsure why TI made efforts to avoid it.. or just because they could?
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by polshaw 15y ago
You also have to consider if you think apple could continue to keep their margins in an established tablet market, and a smartphone market approaching 'good enough' like that of PCs today, and whether consumers will continue to accept a 'wa
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by polshaw 15y ago
What are your products? PCBs?
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by polshaw 15y ago
Can we use this opportunity to actually discuss what is involved in CE certification in this case? It doesn't have any radios so electromagnetic compatibility directive shouldn't apply, and the low-voltage directive states it's for 'equipme
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by polshaw 15y ago
Neat. Jetpac actually shipped as a playable sub-game in Donkey Kong 64, so I guess this emulator was ultimately used there.
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by polshaw 15y ago
Anyone looking to learn a different keyboard layout to qwerty should look broader than dvorak. Others have mentioned colemak, which is decent but QGMLWY layout[0] does better in testing[1], and with reduced pinky use. 0. The carpalx layouts
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by polshaw 15y ago
They have some of the best internet in the world (started as literally running cat5 between homes in urban areas IIRC), despite being one of the poorest countries in Europe, which might have some effect on that. Also, technical + low wages
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by polshaw 15y ago
I hate to hijack this comment, but this topic really highlights an issue with the HN comments. It is now virtually impossible to have any broader discussion since this thread filled the page. A topic that is massively more broad than discus
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by polshaw 15y ago
Faster, more efficient and cheaper than their AMD rival.. it has been a long time since you could say that! Hopefully Nvidia's move to 28nm starts some price competition. More in depth anandtech review: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5699/n
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by polshaw 15y ago
Requirements? All i am getting is the bottom of a box that i can move around, and high CPU use.
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by polshaw 15y ago
Yes, it is wanting to avoid encoding and the associated delay and/or disk space. If I could re-encode and immediately stream with insignificant latency, with a weak CPU, then that might be a reasonable option.
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by polshaw 15y ago
Very neat. What i don't understand- probably to do with the jPlayer- is that it seems to know the length of the song before it has all loaded (because of the seekbar lengths), yet it only increases the time string as the file is loaded.
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by polshaw 15y ago
No, it would be for LAN use with a web-app.
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by polshaw 15y ago
I don't see it as manipulative. I'm not a massive fan of the phrasing, but the question is just a differently-dressed version of 'what are your priorities'. If you get worked up about that, then it would be a definite black mark against emp
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by polshaw 15y ago
I know it isn't the typical use case but is there anything similar that (also) supports flac? (or even wma?)
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by polshaw 15y ago
It bothers me too (especially this case), but i think it's relevant to note that the US has never refused an extradition to the UK, but the UK has refused several to the US. OTOH, the US has made more requests, and capital punishment.
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by polshaw 15y ago
I would have preferred they sold directly. It is not so much the logistics, but that they have lost control. And lets not pretend that these companies are doing it for love-- they are taking money that could have gone to the charity. On the

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