Which way do you prefer or "Have it your way."

[commodorejohn]

If you have a girlfriend/wife and you're not getting to appreciate said hottie in person, you need to reassess your priorities

[Iggy]

If you have a girlfriend/wife and you're not getting to appreciate said hottie in person, you need to reassess your priorities

Point well taken.

Note to self: Spend more time at home.:laughing:

[Mrs Beanbag]

On the subject of loud or quiet fans, I've got an AMD 4850e (45W TDP) with a Scythe Ninja 2 on it. Which is kind of silly. At idle the fan spins at 400rpm. Sometimes. When it can be bothered. If I really push the CPU it goes up to a whisper.

The only other fan in the system is in the PSU, which was a pretty quiet Antec one even though it's only an 8cm fan. I swapped it for a Nexus one anyway. The HDD is in a Xilence silencer/cooler sitting on a sheet of foam on the bottom of the case.

Now I've gone and bought a Cherry G80 mechanical keyboard though. CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK!

[Iggy]

Now I've gone and bought a Cherry G80 mechanical keyboard though. CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK!

I like the keyboard. As long as you don't use it late into the evening somewhere near the bedroom.

[royalcrown]

On the subject of loud or quiet fans, I've got an AMD 4850e (45W TDP) with a Scythe Ninja 2 on it. Which is kind of silly. At idle the fan spins at 400rpm. Sometimes. When it can be bothered. If I really push the CPU it goes up to a whisper.

The only other fan in the system is in the PSU, which was a pretty quiet Antec one even though it's only an 8cm fan. I swapped it for a Nexus one anyway. The HDD is in a Xilence silencer/cooler sitting on a sheet of foam on the bottom of the case.

Now I've gone and bought a Cherry G80 mechanical keyboard though. CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK!

There is no quietness with a Coolermaster Quickfire TM with blues either...click click..

[royalcrown]

What if she is hot, but a pain in your ____, maybe the priorities are okay

[Iggy]

What if she is hot, but a pain in your ____, maybe the priorities are okay

Hot or not, sooner or later they are going to be a pain in the ___.
But I don't want to seem sexist, because this works both ways.

I guess its only with computers and burgers that you can always "have it your way".

[Mrs Beanbag]

I like the keyboard. As long as you don't use it late into the evening somewhere near the bedroom.

Yeah I think I'll stick to the old one for everyday typing. I actually got this one to take to bits. It's cheaper to buy the whole keyboard than just the Cherry MX Keyswitches. And a full set of keycaps to go with them will cost about the same again.

I've a plan to mod it into Amiga layout, will need to replace a few keycaps with custom jobs, and I'll build a new frame and circuit board. Next door neighbour has a CNC machine. There's also the laser cutter at the Edinburgh hacklab.

So what was the question again... do you like everything ready made or build your own? I guess that's that question answered.

Seriously though I think there should be all-in-one systems that are guaranteed to work with AROS or whatever. But maybe not just one model. There were always big box Amigas and low-end wedge case Amigas, I think that's not such a bad idea. Support essentially two different models, a basic one and a bells-and-whistles one, but the former can be upgraded into the latter if you want, one bit at a time, later on.

[Iggy]

For AROS this would be an excellent idea.
Someone ought to pick it up and run with it.
No OS cost, not to demanding on the hardware specs.

And, of course, MorphOS only supports a few specific systems.

So you've convinced me on one point, NG OS' benefit from fewer choices.
In fact, you are never going to see an NG OS with as many drivers as Windows ships with.

[Mrs Beanbag]

Everyone should read this book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Paradox-Choice-Why-More-Less/dp/0060005696

The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less

The author of The Battle for Human Nature explains why too much choice  has led to the ever increasing complexity of everyday decisions, why too  much of a good thing has become detrimental to human psychological and  emotional well-being, and how to focus our lives on making the right  choices.

[Psy]

No, that's still stupid, sorry. The only practical purpose for live-streaming of video over the Internet is for remote-desktop access, and framerate requirements are much lower on that.

Steaming of desktop works fine for broadcasting TV through a capture card over the Internet.  It it clear even the most modern television one could buy today is obsolete for anything other then a display for a PC as it is only a matter of time before streaming video replaces TV.

[Mrs Beanbag]

"Obsolete" is a silly word. It's just another way of saying something stopped being popular, but with a delusion of objectivity.

[commodorejohn]

Steaming of desktop works fine for broadcasting TV through a capture card over the Internet.  It it clear even the most modern television one could buy today is obsolete for anything other then a display for a PC as it is only a matter of time before streaming video replaces TV.

That's as may be; I still don't consider TV-watching to be an essential part of the computing experience when there's perfectly adequate dedicated hardware available.

And I have absolutely no idea what you propose to accomplish by broadcasting TV over the Internet through a capture card...?

(And anyway there hasn't been anything that worth watching on TV since The Red Green Show finale.)

"Obsolete" is a silly word. It's just another  way of saying something stopped being popular, but with a delusion of  objectivity.

Quoted for truth. But if there weren't a pretense of objectivity, how could self-described "futurists" imply that they were objectively better than the rest of us for fetishizing new technology?

[Mrs Beanbag]

We don't even have a TV in the house, we just watch DVDs on an Xbox for our entertainment.

Watching TV on your PC makes some kind of sense though. It saves space -- means you don't need two screens. Mind you I was using a TV as my Amiga monitor back in the day. It's only because PCs needed their own special monitors that it even became an issue. I have a Genlock too. If only I could have used the Amiga as a remote control, through software, it would have been perfect.

[Psy]

That's as may be; I still don't consider TV-watching to be an essential part of the computing experience when there's perfectly adequate dedicated hardware available.

And I have absolutely no idea what you propose to accomplish by broadcasting TV over the Internet through a capture card...?

(And anyway there hasn't been anything that worth watching on TV since The Red Green Show finale.)

The downside to television is that its quantity of programming pales in comparison to the Internet, even if you have 1,000 channels that a drop in the buck compared to video programming on the Internet.  It also makes it easier for people to provide video content.

[Iggy]

"We just watch DVDs on our XBOX360"?
Then you are kind of watching TV.
Its splitting hairs.
And I still value news access.
Primarily because no matter how biased broadcast journalism is, the internet is uniformly worse.

I don't watch TV, but I have a monitor.
Sorry, that just sounds dumb.