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KaareKanin

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  1. Again, did people have problems understanding "to keep us cool". My whole point was that whatever (solar) energy we collect in space and brought back to earth must be offset by us removing heat away from earth again. Also, I felt that a heat pipe was an obvious joke to cater to the computer part of this forum. Maybe I should have said RGB hardline tubing and industrial Noctua fans... Why do I even bother... :-/
  2. Yup, still don't see how that relates to what I said. I don't recall ever mentioning work, what I said was that whatever energy we would collect in space and bring back to earth would only lead to rising temperatures, unless we at the same time would find a way to offset this by removing heat from the planet
  3. I guess this won't be your kind of thing, but you could always build an active sound cancelling speaker system. "They" tell me it's quite easy
  4. This ^^ is the proper way of doing it, you could look into those triangular shaped foam thingies that Total Biscuit use, like the ones they use in echo chambers (I think)
  5. Totally not on topic, but I find it kinda funny how Linus whines about YTs crackdown on what kind of content they want to monetise and how much they want to spread the wealth, when his own TECH forum clearly tries to muffle even the slightest mention of what probably is a quite good tech channel. Anyways, just something to think about. Linus protects his interest, YouTube protects their interests... not saying there's any double standards here or anything
  6. Heat pipe was a joke, kinda figured there wasn't much mass to do heat convection to up there... should have thrown in a bit of hard line tubing, thick radiators and Noctua fans to make it more obvious ;-) That said, I love where the thread ran with it... HL3 pattern has after all shown to be the most effective at radiating energy, so much so that Valve hasn't been able to do enough work to actually complete it That's not how what works? Heat pipe? Or energy eventually becoming heat?
  7. First off, the usual disclaimer, I tried finding a thread about this, but no luck, so if this has been said before, I'm sorry... Anyways, in that TechQuickie video, I feel they should have touched on where all that energy would end up... What I'm getting at is this: Energy has a tendency to become heat sooner or later, and my understanding of popular scientific topics nowadays is that we kinda already have enough heat on earth as it is. I know, I know, this isn't something we'll se happen (in the foreseeable future), but it is an important point and something I feel lacked from the video. A solution could be a massive heat pipe running up to space along with the space elevator to keep us cool, we PC folk like that kind of stuff
  8. I think it's great they managed to sort out the issues, I have no doubt he's an integral member of the team. However, I don't think he's very good as a video host, I'd much prefer it if they used any Nick, Tarran or Colton as replacement host or stand in...
  9. Intro of that turn it off and on again video was hilarious, so much fun at Logan's expense!
  10. Nicely done! Best benchmark video of a new game you've done. Easy to follow, Graphs that were easy to read. Relevant information. Good conclusions. Liked the inclusion of a GTX660, could be a nice thing to keep testing something like a 660 or similar in future videos
  11. @LinusTech I never really got why the dongle for mini jack is such an annoyance to carry around... if you intend to use it, it's because you also carry headphones... leave the dongle attached to the headphones and pretend they are a part of each other, and you'll be carrying the same amount of stuff around as before. And why do you need to be able to use the home button with a glove? You can't do anything on the phone while wearing gloves anyway, unless they are of the touch screen friendly kind, but then they'll work on the home button too And yes, WTF apple? No T9 dialling? T9 dialling has been a thing for over a decade now...
  12. 6700K has a 200MHz advantage over plain 6700 at max turbo (non OC). 6600K has recorded speeds at 5GHz OC, at whch point you'll kick i7 non OC ass in everything that doesn't need more than 4 threads. Then the question then becomes: What do you indend on doing with your build? Does the 200MHz warrant the extra price for the K part? What about fan (which does not come with the K-part)?
  13. More importantly, what motherboard are you using?
  14. To put it like this... Your initial post has a point, you'll save money with the i7 option you layed out over the i5 option you layed out. If you want advice, however, go with the 6700, not 6700k, as it'll save you more money (and not be a waste of a good K-part)
  15. Mash DEL as fast as you can from the moment you power on (but do make sure that DEL is the right key, and not for instance F2) Look for a boot into bios option in the OS, that might work. See if there's a boot to bios button on your MoBo
  16. But the point being, as you brought up the waste of money point of view, 6700K non OC and non Z-MoBo will be a waste of money over a plain 6700
  17. Yes and no, would be my guess. Not because they really want to cheat people, but because newer, faster phones makes older, slower phones even slower. Give a dev more power to play with, and he/she will use more power, and applications gets heavier. They might achieve more, they might just optimise worse, who can tell? But compare the feature set of iOS 4 and iOS 9, which is the range that the iPad 2 has lived through and try to make the argument that the iPad 2 should be just as snappy today as it was at launch. Not a chance. Now, should apple have pushed the latest updates (iOS 7 and onwards) to the iPad 2, considering how slow it gets? Some would argue that the software support is a great service. At the moment, I'm rocking a One M8, which has had an OK track record with updates. That phone went down the drain on performance way faster than any iOS device I've ever used... The notion that high margins over BOM cost equals a ripp off is ignorant at best. It would have been a ripp off if Apple had sold all the components loose for the same price, without any integration, design, software or any other value add, but as it stands, Apple makes products in a highly competitive market place and the price reflects the value their customers finds in their products. The only way to use the BOM cost as an indication of whether a price is a ripp off or not is if you could go out, buy the same components yourself, figure out how to assemble them and end up with the same product. Isn't it weird that a phone is closing in on the same amount of RAM as a perfectly good PC? I mean, my main/gaming rig only has 8 GB of RAM (don't worry, my productivity rig has more), and in day to day use I never experience any slowdowns that I would attribute to a lack of RAM. Since when does a handheld device need anywhere near the same amounts of RAM as a fully fledged PC?
  18. My whole point was still the fact that the swedes do this already, this is basically Norway granting themselves the same rights to spy on the same data Sweden does in the first place...
  19. Not quite true. The GTX 660 had a GK 106 core, the 660Ti had a GK 104 core, same as the faster GTX 670 and GTX 680. That was very much a locked down Ti
  20. Username: KaareKanin Vids I watched, liked and commented: https://www.vessel.com/videos/LCoY5zfFf https://www.vessel.com/videos/JemZ8O7Hy Must say, I like the one year free deal.
  21. Are we forced to use the terrible Day or Night Themes? Why? Slick
  22. I'm thinking about stuff like gestures on the trackpad, integration of the function keys on the keyboard directly into the OS (a lot of third party stuff going on in MS-world here)... stuff like that. With MacBooks there's always the sense that the HW was designed for the OS and the OS was designed for the HW. In windows there's more a feeling of one size fits all. Plenty of DSLR and mirrorless cameras has WiFi nowadays For the file transfer - it might be slower to use DB or BT Sync, but how long does it take to transfer spread sheets or word documents anyway? And lastly, feel your pain bro.
  23. Well, I have Those might be one of the reasons why. Some (me) enjoy the form factor for productivity I tend to close the lid when docked. But I would still think the on-board graphics would deal with a measly 1080p alongside the built in display (Intel HD 5300) Smudges. Phones are easy to wipe. I get touch as long as I can hold it in my hands. But each to his own... Is this the one (http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-13-9333/pd?oc=fncwp1512h%C2'> ? Because I don't see it. Sure it has an Aluminium body and costs less in its base config. But it's bigger and quite a lot heavier. But sure, it's nice and all. No denying that. I guess we're an an impasse on this one, but that's taste for you. Portability: loads of options in small laptops, yes, but for a laptop, the new MacBook seems to be at the top right now. Integration: I have never used any laptops where software integrate as gracefully with the hardware as with a Mac. Of course every thing works in any laptop, but the way it all works together in an Apple laptop is IMO unmatched by anyone Design: i was thinking about looks, worth a small premium, not a huge one. Printer - WiFi. Camera - WiFi. SD card - not really, not for ages anyway. Manage phone/tablet - remotely, if I ever connect my phone to a computer, it's for charging purposes. External mouse/keyboard - not as long as the computer isn't connected to an external monitor anyways, but BlueTooth. External hard drive - network storage at home. for file transfer (lets say in a school situation) DropBox or BT Sync. External CD/DVD/BluRay drive - not for ages. I think apple had a thing where you could rely on other computers in the network if anything should arise, though I might be mistaken. Not that I think I'll ever need it... Keep in mind, for lots of stuff, I would still be using my regular desktop system.
  24. What it's referring to and what it's misused as are two entirely separate things. Have you really never seen the PCMR card used against Macs? What has savvy to do with anything? It all boils down to needs. Exactly what should they be plugging into their computers? OK, so your logic is that it can run the retina display in the MacBook, but not a regular desktop monitor, which almost universally always will have lower resolutions? Each to his own, I would never touch a computer screen, and I would knock away any hands that tried to touch my screen. As I said, value comes in a lot more forms than just spec. If you're in the market for a small laptop, 15" will never cut it. And why would i need a discrete GPU in my laptop? I want a laptop that's portable, takes up a small amount of space and gets the job done. To me, the borders in Windows are nasty, the newer designs (win 8 and forwards) are hideous, and the integration with hardware seems totally absent. I'm referencing portability, integration, user experience. Design is a plus, I would pay a little bit extra for design, but not a lot. Having an all aluminium body, on the other hand, worth a lot. Having OSX, worth a lot. Why would I be limited by the I/O with the things I do on a laptop? I can only think of one thing I might be wanting to plug into that machine, and I don't see why I would have to go to Apple to get a USB-C to regular USB adapter if I ever saw the need to plug it in...
  25. GPU or CPU? If it ends with and X, then it's also overclockable. And if it starts with AMD
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