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[QUOTE=Comrade General;24397837]I also saw them marketing this peice of tat mouse that detected air movements "Like a wii(Pronounced Wy) joystick" I just pictured the young executive accidentally bringing up hardcore scat porn he had in the middle of a presentation while using that. [editline]01:42AM[/editline] From what i heard(HEARD.) it's mainly used for warez purposes.[/QUOTE] I use it to back up my art files/various files I've bought and downloaded. My grandma burns disks of her geneology/old family pictures she's scanned.

[QUOTE=Comrade General;24397837] From what i heard(HEARD.) it's mainly used for warez purposes.[/QUOTE] And Linux Distros

[QUOTE=Comrade General;24397762]I saw on QVC they were advertising a £798 PC, And it came with a blu-ray drive(Which probably makes up six hundred of that price) And they claimed it can run any DVD/CD and can burn normal CD's/DVD's. 1. The blu-ray system atm can only burn blu-ray DVD's. 2. Who even burns anything nowadays with thumb drives? 3. Why would you want blu-ray? It's such a limited format right now.[/QUOTE] I still burn discs, I still keep almost everything as a hard copy, never know when your external electronic storage medium could fail.

[QUOTE=codenamecueball;24395099]Why don't we start an ISP. PunchNet, for gamers by gamers. Brohoster type site, niche market.[/QUOTE] It's not a terrible idea and there's a huge potential for profit and brand identity selling wholesale priced service at a marginal markup, but that's under the assumption you actually had the capital to become a wholesale ISP. Just buying wholesale from some random website or AT&T and reselling it doesn't solve anything. There's also the fact that, at least in the U.S., the rules on what company is allowed to provide service for different areas are...well, shit, entirely corrupt and make markets completely impenetrable. You'd only be able to service an area you were new to and limited bits beyond that. That said, it's not a bad idea and executed properly could service to do a bit of good for the telecom industry, it'd just be hard as hell to execute.

Come to Aus and set up an ISP. Then when you have enough money, start putting in fiber optics. Then sell it at realistic prices. The way it's going, abott will win and telstra or someone else will put it in and charge out of the arse for 12 gigs on it. Like they already do.

[QUOTE=teeheeV2;24398649]Come to Aus and set up an ISP. Then when you have enough money, start putting in fiber optics. Then sell it at realistic prices. The way it's going, abott will win and telstra or someone else will put it in and charge out of the arse for 12 gigs on it. Like they already do.[/QUOTE] I tell you what, you tell me where you're going to find all the start-up capital needed for that to be halfway feasible and I'll consider writing a business plan.

Keeping CD hard-copies of shit you don't access often is [i]very[/i] useful, especially when you've got a business to run and there's TONS of data to keep track of. [editline]08:37PM[/editline] Not real illiteracy, but (if you're a gold member) check out the conversation in [url=http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?p=24395991#post24395991]this thread from this post on[/url]. feels like every gaming conversation I used to hear at school ever.

My friend was on a MacBook and I was on a MacBook Pro in our common room at lunch (hurrdurr macs, was only using one because i had to). He mentions Facebook to another friend in conversation, and then some guy screams (hoping for the teacher to hear) "OMG THEY'RE ON FACEBOOK!!!!!!!!" I explain to the teacher that the wi-fi is out of range and passworded, and we don't have ethernet plugged in. She walks away. Just as she's about to leave the room, he screams "BUT HE'S A HACKER!!!!" (referring to me). I got in trouble, and was forced to stop the schoolwork I was doing while the rest of the room dicked around on Flash games.

[QUOTE=daijitsu;24398803]Keeping CD hard-copies of shit you don't access often is [i]very[/i] useful, especially when you've got a business to run and there's TONS of data to keep track of.[/QUOTE] Yup. I do 3D rendering with Daz3D. There's quite a few websites where you can buy skins/models. However, you have to keep the installation files ebcause if you lose them, you have to pay another $10, $20, $30 to get the files again..Provided the creator of the files is still selling them.

[QUOTE=Comrade General;24397837]From what i heard(HEARD.) it's mainly used for warez purposes.[/QUOTE] are you 12 or what I burn CDs all the time, not for warez.

meh, snip

Ever hear of a windows system recovery disk?

what sort of heretical nerd voodoo do you speak of windows doth not comme upon yon disque she be immaculately conceived from the aether by the sages of beste buye and requires immediate expedition of the artifact to their mysterious geeke squadron if one hopes to repair it

Bah i meant system repair

[QUOTE=Falubii;24395383]You're actually correct. People rated you dumb anyway of course. Most if not all heatpipes have mercury or something similar in them. When it heats up, it turns into gas and rises to the top of the heatpipe carrying away heat. When it cools at the top of the heatpipe it falls back down to the bottom, where it repeats the process.[/QUOTE] It's not mercury. Mercury's evaporation temperature is much greater than the average temperature of the CPU IHS on max load. It's a Halogen gas, but I don't remember the specific one.

[QUOTE=ProWaffle;24398974]My friend was on a MacBook and I was on a MacBook Pro in our common room at lunch (hurrdurr macs, was only using one because i had to). He mentions Facebook to another friend in conversation, and then some guy screams (hoping for the teacher to hear) "OMG THEY'RE ON FACEBOOK!!!!!!!!" I explain to the teacher that the wi-fi is out of range and passworded, and we don't have ethernet plugged in. She walks away. Just as she's about to leave the room, he screams "BUT HE'S A HACKER!!!!" (referring to me). I got in trouble, and was forced to stop the schoolwork I was doing while the rest of the room dicked around on Flash games.[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure you could have handled it in such a way that you wouldn't have gotten in trouble. Why was the guy calling you out? Don't be a pushover.

I only have 2... 1. Old Games that I bring back and forth from my friends house 2. I own a 90s car with no usb/iphone, only CD/Tape player, burning music cd's?

[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;24400931]It's not mercury. Mercury's evaporation temperature is much greater than the average temperature of the CPU IHS on max load. It's a Halogen gas, but I don't remember the specific one.[/QUOTE] Don't call me crazy. From Wikipedia: A typical heat pipe consists of a sealed pipe or tube made of a material with high thermal conductivity such as copper or aluminum at both hot and cold ends. A vacuum pump is used to remove all air from the empty heat pipe, and then the pipe is filled with a fraction of a percent by volume of working fluid (or coolant) chosen to match the operating temperature. Examples of such fluids include water, ethanol, acetone, sodium, or [b]mercury[/b].

I can guarentee you that you'll NEVER find mercury in heatpipes, at least not for the conventional ones used for general cooling purposes. Most PC heatsink manufacturers would only fill up heatpips with halogen gas, to reduce costs

I undestand that, I just knew that I heard mercury was in some of them from somewhere. From what I've looked at in the last couple of minutes it seems most just use water.

Apparently this guy is planning to get a mac and a PS3. I started advising against it until he told me about the computer he got for his birthday 2 years ago. It was a [i]"gamer PC"[/i] for $150. Needless to say, I laughed out loud so fucking hard. I understand it when people don't want to go overboard when getting birthday gifts. Usually, $100 is the general max, but you should invest [i]AT LEAST[/i] $250 or $300 before looking to buy a general computer (there are a few exceptions, like oh, you want to get a cheap PC to use a server). Oh, and a bonus - he even told me that he could only have one game or so installed at a time due to his [b]30GB HDD.[/b] [editline]12:12AM[/editline] By the way, this PC was a build by some family friend of his.

Sorry he probably couldn't afford a gaming computer. What about if i said this "HAHA, that african thinks that that brown stuff is water? lololol" [editline]06:00AM[/editline] Nvm, misread that he was getting a mac and ps3

[QUOTE=Comrade General;24397762]I saw on QVC they were advertising a £798 PC, And it came with a blu-ray drive(Which probably makes up six hundred of that price) And they claimed it can run any DVD/CD and can burn normal CD's/DVD's. 1. The blu-ray system atm can only burn blu-ray DVD's. 2. Who even burns anything nowadays with thumb drives? 3. Why would you want blu-ray? It's such a limited format right now.[/QUOTE] I love it when content comes into the thread on its own

[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;24400931]It's not mercury. Mercury's evaporation temperature is much greater than the average temperature of the CPU IHS on max load. It's a Halogen gas, but I don't remember the specific one.[/QUOTE] Yeah that's substantially more deadly :tinfoil: Because mercury only slowly damages/kills you.

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[QUOTE=DOG-GY;24400994]I'm pretty sure you could have handled it in such a way that you wouldn't have gotten in trouble. Why was the guy calling you out? Don't be a pushover.[/QUOTE] The more I tried to explain, the more I got in trouble. As soon as I was labelled as a "hacker" I was in deep shit. I don't know why he did that, he's generally a troublemaker.

I fucking hate people who do that. I was writing BASIC (it's part of the course, I was doing some revision in the library) and some guy shouts "MISS HE'S HACKING OUR BITNETS" and she came over, looked at me, said leave the library and I got a detention and 1 week ban. Didn't even get to explain myself.

[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;24400931]It's not mercury. Mercury's evaporation temperature is much greater than the average temperature of the CPU IHS on max load. It's a Halogen gas, but I don't remember the specific one.[/QUOTE] Halogens are gasses at room temperature though, right?

[QUOTE=codenamecueball;24404731]I fucking hate people who do that. I was writing BASIC (it's part of the course, I was doing some revision in the library) and some guy shouts "MISS HE'S HACKING OUR BITNETS" and she came over, looked at me, said leave the library and I got a detention and 1 week ban. Didn't even get to explain myself.[/QUOTE] hate stupid people with power over me.

[QUOTE=teeheeV2;24404745]Halogens are gasses at room temperature though, right?[/QUOTE] Bromine isn't: it's one of two elements that are liquid at room temperature. Although frankly, I highly doubt they use it, because it's corrosive. Why not just believe the wikipedia article? [QUOTE]The materials chosen depend on the temperature conditions in which the heat pipe must operate, with coolants ranging from liquid helium for extremely low temperature applications (2–4 K) to mercury (523–923 K) & sodium (873–1473 K) and even indium (2000–3000 K) for extremely high temperatures. The vast majority of heat pipes for low temperature applications use some combination of ammonia (213–373 K), alcohol (methanol (283–403 K) or ethanol (273–403 K)) or water (303–473 K) as working fluid. Since the heat pipe contains a vacuum, the working fluid will boil and hence take up latent heat at well below its boiling point at atmospheric pressure. Water, for instance, will boil at just above 273 K (0 degrees Celsius) and so can start to effectively transfer latent heat at this low temperature.[/QUOTE] So it looks like it would be possibly water, but most likely an alcohol, which has an appropriate temperature range and is very cheap. As opposed to a corrosive, expensive halogen.