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Technology & Information / Re: Joining the PC master race

« on: February 09, 2015, 01:43:00 PM »

So based on what everyone has said I'm going to guess he went with the seasonic power supply.

So he plugged the GPU end of the cable into the PCI-E 8 pin and the Perhipheral port on the PSU while putting the 8 pin into his GPU.

So his GPU got WAY too much power in one port.  So it could be fried.

Also, you NEED to plug in one cable per slot for your GPU.  This ensures proper power to your GPU because I'm not convinced the PSU puts out enough watts in each 8 pin port for your entire card.

5202

Technology & Information / Re: Joining the PC master race

« on: February 09, 2015, 01:04:13 PM »

No, I think he's using the same one, now correctly plugged in. He's just not getting any signal to his monitor. He's tried with both a VGA cable and a DVI to HDMI cable.

Did he consider that the single GPU port doesn't provide enough power to the card and that he should plug two cables in so each power port on his GPU has dedicated power on the PSU?

5203

Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change

« on: February 09, 2015, 12:20:55 PM »

I did read the article but it did not give me answers.  At least until I went through a link or two.

Anyway, Paul Homewood's argument is compelling but I'm going to stick to my original thought process:
Adding a lot of CO2 and carbon into the air faster than the world can handle can't be good.

There's only so much you can do with a thought process of making things up, Dave. Either the evidence shows it is good or that it is bad. If people really cared about the environment, they'd be worried about the methane (cow) farms polluting the air, not the carbon dioxide polluters.

What have I made up?

5204

Technology & Information / Re: Joining the PC master race

« on: February 09, 2015, 12:06:15 PM »

What are you getting on your monitor, the same thing you get if you have no cable plugged in?  (ie. it can't even detect that a cable exists)

"can't seem to connect" is pretty vague. Not sure if he has it plugged in properly.

I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt on being able to put a uniquely shaped plug into the only slot it'll go.

One of his plugs on the power cable for the GPU would not fit at one point, but Saddam said it did fit when he bent some of the pins out of the way.  You should be more mindful on who you give the benefit of the doubt to.

6 or 8 pin GPU power adapter

I assume something like that.

No, his GPU has two sockets for power, the cable has two plugs on one end, and one on the other end.  Saddam decided that the two plugs need to be plugged into the PSU to feed power to one of the sockets on the GPU.

Oooohhh, I see. 
He's using two power cables now, yes?

5205

Technology & Information / Re: Joining the PC master race

« on: February 09, 2015, 11:20:36 AM »

What are you getting on your monitor, the same thing you get if you have no cable plugged in?  (ie. it can't even detect that a cable exists)

"can't seem to connect" is pretty vague. Not sure if he has it plugged in properly.

I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt on being able to put a uniquely shaped plug into the only slot it'll go.

One of his plugs on the power cable for the GPU would not fit at one point, but Saddam said it did fit when he bent some of the pins out of the way.  You should be more mindful on who you give the benefit of the doubt to.

6 or 8 pin GPU power adapter

I assume something like that.

Yes, he put the two ends that should go into the graphics card into the PSU. He probably should have gotten a regular PSU instead of a modular.

I see...

Well, I'll wait back to hear from Saddam on the subject.

5206

Technology & Information / Re: Joining the PC master race

« on: February 09, 2015, 11:02:06 AM »

He was getting a "no signal" message at one point with VGA. I'm not sure if that was before or after he turned his graphics card's power cable the right way around, though.

He put the power cable backwards?  That was possible?

5207

Technology & Information / Re: Joining the PC master race

« on: February 09, 2015, 11:01:13 AM »

What are you getting on your monitor, the same thing you get if you have no cable plugged in?  (ie. it can't even detect that a cable exists)

"can't seem to connect" is pretty vague. Not sure if he has it plugged in properly.

I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt on being able to put a uniquely shaped plug into the only slot it'll go.

5208

Technology & Information / Re: Joining the PC master race

« on: February 09, 2015, 10:36:04 AM »

Behold, the PC that I can't seem to connect to my monitor:



As soon as I get a chance, I'm going to buy an HDMI cable and see if that works.  If it doesn't, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

What are you getting on your monitor, the same thing you get if you have no cable plugged in?  (ie. it can't even detect that a cable exists)

5209

Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change

« on: February 09, 2015, 03:12:39 AM »

I just have one questions:
How does he know records have been altered if he's looking at the weather stations that have been altered?  Where was he getting the original data?  How was he getting the original data?  Was it the real original data?  And if so, why wasn't THAT altered instead of whatever data he compared it to?

All of these questions are, hilariously enough, answered by the article.

I did read the article but it did not give me answers.  At least until I went through a link or two.

Anyway, Paul Homewood's argument is compelling but I'm going to stick to my original thought process:
Adding a lot of CO2 and carbon into the air faster than the world can handle can't be good.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change

« on: February 09, 2015, 12:43:27 AM »

Some news has come out today re-affirming that I believe all global warming data interpretation to be manipulated these days and that it because they want environmental taxes.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever.html

I just have one question:
How does he know records have been altered if he's looking at the weather stations that have been altered?  Where was he getting the original data?  How was he getting the original data?  Was it the real original data?  And if so, why wasn't THAT altered instead of whatever data he compared it to?

That isn't one question, Dave.

Fine, I altered my post.  Sheeesh.

5211

Science & Alternative Science / Re: Anthropogenic Climate Change

« on: February 08, 2015, 10:39:50 PM »

Some news has come out today re-affirming that I believe all global warming data interpretation to be manipulated these days and that it because they want environmental taxes.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever.html

I just have one questions:
How does he know records have been altered if he's looking at the weather stations that have been altered?  Where was he getting the original data?  How was he getting the original data?  Was it the real original data?  And if so, why wasn't THAT altered instead of whatever data he compared it to?

5212

Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Keurig's Coffee DRM is Unpopular

« on: February 07, 2015, 09:15:41 AM »

Call Keurig customer service and ask to speak to a supervisor. You may be talking to someone you know online.

I literally just tried this. Got a supervisor and asked if it was Vauxy. It was not. You lie, therefore I assume you have no job.

You should have asked for Hugh Jass. That's my real name.

Huge ass!  I'm looking for a huge ass!

5213

Earth Not a Globe Workshop / Re: Welcome to the Workshop

« on: February 06, 2015, 11:28:08 PM »

Posting in this board for testing purposes.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Keurig's Coffee DRM is Unpopular

« on: February 06, 2015, 03:23:54 AM »

Well, I didn't expect this.  I guess they're suffering from cup pirating.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Speed of light is variable.

« on: February 05, 2015, 01:06:21 AM »

If photons are massless, then why are they affected by gravity?

Mass has nothing to do with gravity. It just so happens that mass correlates with energy and the energy itself spurs gravity. Photons have energy, therefore they have gravity. Newton's gravity equation is still useful for most gravity calculations, but the equation itself is not theoretically sound and it falls apart when relativistic or quantum physics comes into play.

Most high school curriculums still deem Newton's equation as "good enough" but using it for precise calculations is a Very Bad Idea.

I thought photons weren't affected by gravity so much as they followed the curve of space, which is distorted in strong gravity.

5216

Technology & Information / Re: Server Build

« on: January 30, 2015, 12:25:50 AM »

I bet government agencies do shit like this all the time, wasting money on overblown systems just for shits and giggles. What a jackass move.

I am not entirely sure you are understanding what I am doing... The law requires I (my company) archive and retain these files, as they are medical documents. There will be 80TB of real data stored on it over the next 18 months or so. My options are to purchase an enterprise SAN solution, which on the cheap side for this capacity will run over $200K, or I build something custom for significantly less. The extra processor and compatible board added a total of $600 to the total cost of the build, and I get a significantly better motherboard for the server. If this was a government agency, they would have contracted with EMC or Dell/Compellant and dropped 2-3 million dollars on a tiered SAN system.

As someone who works for a government agency (albeit a school district) I can assure you that we would do no such thing as we don't have the funds.
Our e-mail is archived via google.
Our student records are archived via both paper and eSchool Data, our student database program (cloud based).

So yeah, we went the cheap solution.

Yeah, I was mostly thinking of the Federal Government, specifically DoD. I know school districts and local governments don't have that kind of scratch.

Oh yeah.  Except the IRS.
Worse part: The companies who contract will over charge....

5217

Technology & Information / Re: Server Build

« on: January 30, 2015, 12:12:59 AM »

I bet government agencies do shit like this all the time, wasting money on overblown systems just for shits and giggles. What a jackass move.

I am not entirely sure you are understanding what I am doing... The law requires I (my company) archive and retain these files, as they are medical documents. There will be 80TB of real data stored on it over the next 18 months or so. My options are to purchase an enterprise SAN solution, which on the cheap side for this capacity will run over $200K, or I build something custom for significantly less. The extra processor and compatible board added a total of $600 to the total cost of the build, and I get a significantly better motherboard for the server. If this was a government agency, they would have contracted with EMC or Dell/Compellant and dropped 2-3 million dollars on a tiered SAN system.

As someone who works for a government agency (albeit a school district) I can assure you that we would do no such thing as we don't have the funds.
Our e-mail is archived via google.
Our student records are archived via both paper and eSchool Data, our student database program (cloud based).

So yeah, we went the cheap solution.

5218

Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Groundhog Day Crime

« on: January 26, 2015, 06:12:27 PM »

It's a loop in that the Groundhog day one ends and he wakes up the day after.

You say that when you reset you have done nothing, but you obviously don't see it that way if your other half has cheated but then erased it from history. If you would still feel hurt about an erased timeline, would you prosecute someone if it were revealed that they had been using their powers to abuse children before erasing that timeline?

If not, why would you feel hurt at the cheating, if so, where would we draw the line on erased crimes? Someone could be hurt and made to feel vulnerable if it were discovered that the Looper had brutally tortured and murdered them in an erased timeline.

I'm not trying to make a larger point about morality or guilt (but if the topic moves that way I'm not against it), just exploring the morality of an impossible situation.

Better question:
What if you lied about cheating, saying you did when you did not?
Same result as erasing history.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Groundhog Day Crime

« on: January 26, 2015, 03:29:21 PM »

No.
If you change time, what occurred previously, even if you remember it, is irrelevant.

Personal guilt is another matter.

But really, it's like asking if you should be arrested because you shoot at characters in a video game that look like your boss.

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Technology & Information / Re: Joining the PC master race

« on: January 24, 2015, 06:36:59 PM »

Dave, we were all doing a great thing, that is we were ignoring Thork's shitposts. Please proceed to do the same and not allow Thork to turn this thread into a garbage heap.

I'm sorry.  I had a moment of weakness.