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jacobnavia
Jul 29, 2018, 5:30:25 PM7/29/18
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My computer?
I love it thin, very thin.
Elegant, it has a loooooook that kills everyone at the office.
How nice, slim, modern, light, ready to be carried in your big pockets
since it is, of course, over-priced and under-clocked.
Unable to cool it because of its stupid design, apple hardware like the
new Macbook pro starts GREAT and is incredible fast... the first 3-4
minutes. But under any heavy load (and sometimes even without it) it
must be throttled down (underclocked) to avoid a meltdown.
A meltdown like the fated Samsung phone, that caught fire everywhere and
was an industrial accident of huge proportions. I promess to you, I did
not laugh.
:-)
But it was somehow comic, excuse me.
It was thin, bigest screen, biggest CPU etc. It was aesthetically
correct but... caught fire sometimes!
Or the Mac Pro 2013, that had the same problem, happily it was so
overpriced that I couldn't afford it. Some years later an Apple engineer
admitted that they had "painted themselves in a thermal corner".
But it had a GREAT look, one user reported that his grandmother filled
it with water thinking it was some flower pot.
Aesthetically correct hardware for trendy users with big pockets that
doesn't work, but that's not so important. It looks great.
For heavy use, if you want the screaming fast CPU at full speed, buy a
big machine that can evacuate the heat produced by your brand new CPU.
For instance you can impress your friends with a liquid cooled machine
(the tubes are iluminated in green or red to better impress them). That
big machine will make them understand that they are talking to a real geek.
Happily for me, those machines are over-clocked but also over-priced. I
can't afford them.
So, I have to limit myself to low end gaming PCs that do not impress
anyone. I try to find some relief with the fact that my machines are
just as fast as the gamer ones, except the "special effects" of course.
But the CPU is screaming fast, never under-clocked because of heat
problems. And they are quite cheap, available everywhere...
This is another sign of the triumph of form over functionality. Of looks
over substance, an example of our time.
I love it thin, very thin.
Elegant, it has a loooooook that kills everyone at the office.
How nice, slim, modern, light, ready to be carried in your big pockets
since it is, of course, over-priced and under-clocked.
Unable to cool it because of its stupid design, apple hardware like the
new Macbook pro starts GREAT and is incredible fast... the first 3-4
minutes. But under any heavy load (and sometimes even without it) it
must be throttled down (underclocked) to avoid a meltdown.
A meltdown like the fated Samsung phone, that caught fire everywhere and
was an industrial accident of huge proportions. I promess to you, I did
not laugh.
:-)
But it was somehow comic, excuse me.
It was thin, bigest screen, biggest CPU etc. It was aesthetically
correct but... caught fire sometimes!
Or the Mac Pro 2013, that had the same problem, happily it was so
overpriced that I couldn't afford it. Some years later an Apple engineer
admitted that they had "painted themselves in a thermal corner".
But it had a GREAT look, one user reported that his grandmother filled
it with water thinking it was some flower pot.
Aesthetically correct hardware for trendy users with big pockets that
doesn't work, but that's not so important. It looks great.
For heavy use, if you want the screaming fast CPU at full speed, buy a
big machine that can evacuate the heat produced by your brand new CPU.
For instance you can impress your friends with a liquid cooled machine
(the tubes are iluminated in green or red to better impress them). That
big machine will make them understand that they are talking to a real geek.
Happily for me, those machines are over-clocked but also over-priced. I
can't afford them.
So, I have to limit myself to low end gaming PCs that do not impress
anyone. I try to find some relief with the fact that my machines are
just as fast as the gamer ones, except the "special effects" of course.
But the CPU is screaming fast, never under-clocked because of heat
problems. And they are quite cheap, available everywhere...
This is another sign of the triumph of form over functionality. Of looks
over substance, an example of our time.
Paavo Helde
Jul 30, 2018, 3:03:34 AM7/30/18
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On 30.07.2018 0:30, jacobnavia wrote:
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> This is another sign of the triumph of form over functionality. Of looks
> over substance, an example of our time.
Beauty requires sacrifice, eh?
>
> This is another sign of the triumph of form over functionality. Of looks
> over substance, an example of our time.
Nothing new here, women have used neck rings, lip plates and foot
binding for ages. Not to speak about peacock tails. Not to speak about
all those tall church towers which used to catch the lightning so well.
Manfred
Jul 30, 2018, 7:22:19 AM7/30/18
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On 7/29/2018 11:30 PM, jacobnavia wrote:
> This is another sign of the triumph of form over functionality. Of looks
> over substance, an example of our time.
But back in time Aristotle considered /form/ and /matter/ as the
> This is another sign of the triumph of form over functionality. Of looks
> over substance, an example of our time.
constituents of /substance/, i.e. the indivisible union of form and matter.
This because the union of the form of and object and its matter are the
defining factors of the object itself.
Ironically, this is not just theoretical old philosophy, it sounds like
something that nowadays' marketing guys know very very well ;)
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