[urbatronik]

i dont know where to post.

im about to buy an ipod so i want to convert 4 dvds of mp3's to aac.

my question is if this could damage at any point of my imac processor (g4 800 mhz) if i let it working at night until finished (??)

thanx..

[SafariX]

never use a computer for more than 15 minutes at a time, or it might melt. seriously. stop using it now.

are you serious?

[Randman]

No. Just to be safe, make sure the room is cooled so the iMac won't get too hot.

[Lateralus]

[urbatronik]

Originally posted by SafariX:
never use a computer for more than 15 minutes at a time, or it might melt. seriously. stop using it now.

are you serious?

lol yes, im serious...really, all this cabme because a person told my brother that his wintel comp. was dead after 6 days of being on playing music...soo....it was just a question just to feel good hehehe

anways thanx!



(btw im feeling like a dumb lol)

[urbatronik]

Originally posted by Lateralus:

dont make me feel worstt!! haha

[Psychonaut]

No necesitar�s convertirlos en AAC para reproducirlos por tu iPod. El iPod puede usar los dos formatos igualmente. Si los conviertes, vas a perder su cualidad de sonido. Y casi nada puede da�ar el procesador de tu iMac a excepci�n de "overclock"lo.

[moonmonkey]

Get a cross eyed boy to chew up some sage leaves at a crossroads and rub them along the power cable.

I do this everytime and have never had a problem.

[phantomdragonz]

and just to add a real response to this...


Keep them in MP3 format and dont convert them again, you will always lose MORE audio data when you re-compress. and the answer to your original question, no.

zach

[Psychonaut]

Originally posted by phantomdragonz:
and just to add a real response to this...


Keep them in MP3 format and dont convert them again, you will always lose MORE audio data when you re-compress. and the answer to your original question, no.

zach

�Ya he dicho eso! Hay que aprender el segundo idioma de nuestro pa�s.

[phantomdragonz]

Originally posted by Psychonaut:
I have already said that one! It is necessary to learn the second language of our country

Screw Spanish, I failed that in school...

Zach

[anthonyvthc]

Originally posted by Psychonaut:
�Ya he dicho eso! Hay que aprender el segundo idioma de nuestro pa�s.

Es la lingua primera adonde yo vivo!

(Mi espanol no es bueno )

[Randman]

Originally posted by phantomdragonz:
and just to add a real response to this...

Uhh, read a few posts above your "real" answer.

[PurpleGiant]

More to the point, don't convert them to AAC. There is no point. MP3s play just fine on your iPod. And converting from one lossy format to another (mp3 to aac) will actually make them sound *worse*.

If you want to use AAC on your files, use it straight from the CD, not another MP3.

[analogika]

Originally posted by Randman:
Uhh, read a few posts above your "real" answer.

I'm happy to know that you can read Spanish.

[Randman]

Mi espanol es un poco pobre esta dias porque no hablar la idioma y no oir gente hablando la idioma. Pero mi familia venir de Espana y ellos vivir hoy in Nuevo Mexico. Albuquerque es la ciudad de mi nacimeiento y my escuela es la Universidad de la Estado de Nuevo Mexico.

[analogika]

Deine Mutter muss so stolz sein.

Dummbatz.

[E's Lil Theorem]

�Que pasa aqu�?

Actually, I have nothing to add; I just wanted to show off my nifty Spanish skills like many above have already

[Kenneth]

Nope.

[CharlesS]

It will damage your processor just like having MIDI files and Word docs on the same floppy disk will cause the files to "conflict" with each other - the real reason floppy disks get bad sectors.

(yes, it's sarcasm! the sad thing is, I once had a prof that was actually teaching his students this)

[moodymonster]

as long as its ventilated, it'll be fine.

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/...=DRPPCDUALCORE

says the processors have a life of 10 years running at 105�C.

think about people who run SETI@home etc, their computers run all the time.

If you change the orientation of the machine it can mess up its thermal layout and overheat though.

[Psychonaut]

Originally posted by analogika:
Deine Mutter muss so stolz sein.

Dummbatz.

Ich wollte nie sein wie ihr,
Keiner hats verstanden.
keiner von den Freunden,
auch keiner von den Verwandten
nur meine Mutter hat immer hinter mir gestanden.
Sie bereut's auch nicht
Mama ist stolz auf dich.

[pathogen]

Originally posted by moonmonkey:
Get a cross eyed boy to chew up some sage leaves at a crossroads and rub them along the power cable.

I do this everytime and have never had a problem.

I'll second that. It's pretty much the first thing I organize every morning, too.

[urbatronik]

Originally posted by Psychonaut:
No necesitar�s convertirlos en AAC para reproducirlos por tu iPod. El iPod puede usar los dos formatos igualmente. Si los conviertes, vas a perder su cualidad de sonido. Y casi nada puede da�ar el procesador de tu iMac a excepci�n de "overclock"lo.

si, yo se que tambi�n puede reproducir mp3, pero como tengo casi 70 gigas de m�sica en mp3, (a 320), estoy convirtiendo todo a aac (128), pero primero quiero tener esos 4 dvd's convertidos.

s� he notado que se pierde calidad, pero desde mi punto de vista no es mucha porque cuando est�en mi casa pienso usar los mp3 en mi imac.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Randman:
Mi espanol es un poco pobre esta dias porque no hablar la idioma y no oir gente hablando la idioma. Pero mi familia venir de Espana y ellos vivir hoy in Nuevo Mexico. Albuquerque es la ciudad de mi nacimeiento y my escuela es la Universidad de la Estado de Nuevo Mexico. [/QUOTE

it's not poor, i can understand what you said...just let me correct some stuff and i hope some people correct my english too

"Mi espa�ol es un poco pobre hoy en dia debido a que no hablo y no escucho a gente hablando el idioma. Mi familia viene de Espa�a y hoy viven en Nuevo Mexico. Albuquerque es la ciudad donde nac� y mi escuela es la Universidad del Estado de Nuevo Mexico"

[demograph68]

lama mis bolas
lecken Sie meine Kugeln
l�chez mes boules

[paul w]

Originally posted by analogika:
Deine Mutter muss so stolz sein.

Dummbatz.

Mein Hut, der hat drei Ecken,
drei Ecken hat mein Hut.
Und h�tt' er nicht drei Ecken,
so w�r' er nicht mein Hut!

[Oisín]

Originally posted by Randman:
Mi espanol es un poco pobre esta dias porque no hablar la idioma y no oir gente hablando la idioma. Pero mi familia venir de Espana y ellos vivir hoy in Nuevo Mexico. Albuquerque es la ciudad de mi nacimeiento y my escuela es la Universidad de la Estado de Nuevo Mexico.

Tengo una palabre muy importante para t�: Conjugaci�n. Es el mismo problema que muchos de mis amigos de clase ten�an cuando est�bamos estudiando en el instituto, el de no conjugar los verbos. S�lo porque en ingl�s y dan�s (casi) no se conjugan los verbos no es decir que en espa�ol tambi�n es as�



(And ROFLMAO'ing at Paully's 'geeckete Hut' )

[historylme]

Muy bien chicos, ahora abran sus libros a la pag�na 42.

[Oisín]

Originally posted by demograph68:
lama mis bolas
lecken Sie meine Kugeln
l�chez mes boules

Slik mine nosser
舔我的睾丸儿
Ligh mo mhagairl�

(Completely random, off-topic fact: The Irish word for an orchid is 'lus na magairl�' or 'magairl�n', meaning 'testicle plant' and 'small testicle' respectively)

[DeathToWindows]

1. Why convert? You'll just dump data.
2. Believe me, I've run nastier tasks for days at a time on my boxen... worry not. Fool.

[Millennium]

As others have said, this should not damage your processor. Macs don't run as hot as PCs do, and the heat-dissipation technologies tend to be better out of the box, so it's difficult to make a Mac run so hot that it actually damages the processor.

To be on the safe side, you should make sure the room is well-ventilated. If you have a cooling system such as air conditioning in the same room as the computer, it will help greatly; most professional computer rooms have their own separate air-conditioning systems for this reason. You can also set up a fan to blow through the computer's air vents. Combining the two is even better.

I don't know how hot it is in your area at this time of the year, but it can be a good idea to run harder processes at night, when it's cooler. This is particularly important in the summer if you don't have a system for cooling the room, but even if you have air conditioning then this can help save on energy costs.

[ReggieX]

No, but it'll damage your hearing and common sense.


El yoyo es muy grande por favor.

[E's Lil Theorem]

Oi, oi, el queso est� rancio en esta "thread"

[Randman]

Originally posted by Ois�n:
Tengo una palabre muy importante para t�: Conjugaci�n. Es el mismo problema que muchos de mis amigos de clase ten�an cuando est�bamos estudiando en el instituto, el de no conjugar los verbos. S�lo porque en ingl�s y dan�s (casi) no se conjugan los verbos no es decir que en espa�ol tambi�n es as�

Dway dway dway. Wode xibania bu hao jin tien. Dui bu chi.

[Oisín]

Originally posted by Randman:
Dway dway dway. Wode xibania bu hao jin tien. Dui bu chi.

That was the oddest mixture of Pinyin and Wade-Giles (and something else... what is 'dway'?) I've seen in a long time... but I got what you meant

[Randman]

Originally posted by urbatronik:
"Mi espa�ol es un poco pobre hoy en dia debido a que no hablo y no escucho a gente hablando el idioma. Mi familia viene de Espa�a y hoy viven en Nuevo Mexico. Albuquerque es la ciudad donde nac� y mi escuela es la Universidad del Estado de Nuevo Mexico"

Muchas gracias. I've been working in Asia for a few years now so I almost never hear Spanish much less get the chance to speak it or write. I was actually pretty proud that I was able to write that sentence (poor grammar notwithstanding) without looking any words up and I've been able to read what everyone has said.

I'l be going to visit the folks at the end of the month and am taking my fiancee to Mexico during the trip (her first time ever) so I can have a little opportunity to practice.

Also, despite what I wrote above, my spoken Mandarin is a little bit (just a little though) better than my hanyu right now.

[kmkkid]

Originally posted by urbatronik:
lol yes, im serious...really, all this cabme because a person told my brother that his wintel comp. was dead after 6 days of being on playing music...

Not likely unless his cooling mechanism broke and left the cpu to fry. And most cpu's will shutdown the computer if they start to overheat.


Chris

[zerock]

Originally posted by urbatronik:
i dont know where to post.

im about to buy an ipod so i want to convert 4 dvds of mp3's to aac.

my question is if this could damage at any point of my imac processor (g4 800 mhz) if i let it working at night until finished (??)

thanx..

cuanto RAM tiene?

how RAM does it have?

[Goldfinger]

Zerock your sig is too big.

[historylme]

Originally posted by Goldfinger:
Zerock your sig is too big.

Zerock tu simbol es muy grande.
Zerock ton image est trop grand.

[just practicing]

[Oisín]

Originally posted by history1me:
Zerock tu simbol es muy grande.
Zerock ton image est trop grand.

[just practicing]

*cough* demasiado *cough*

Oh yeah, and: "Zerock, dit signaturbillede er for stort", just to stay on, er, 'topic'...

[historylme]

Originally posted by Ois�n:
*cough* demasiado *cough*

*cough* you're right, that is the better word.*cough*

[badidea]

Originally posted by Psychonaut:
Ich wollte nie sein wie ihr,
Keiner hats verstanden.
keiner von den Freunden,
auch keiner von den Verwandten
nur meine Mutter hat immer hinter mir gestanden.
Sie bereut's auch nicht
Mama ist stolz auf dich.

[Oisín]

While we're on the topic of German classics, here's another one, this time in an Under Byen [Danish group] cover:

Totmacher

In Hannover an der Leine
Neue Strasse Nummer acht
Hat der Massenm�rder Haarmann
Viele Menschen umgebracht
Warte warte nur ein Weilchen
Dann kommt Haarmann auch zu Dir
Mit dem kleinen Hackebeilchen
Macht er Hackefleisch aus dir

Aus den Kopft da macht er S�lze
Aus dem Bauch da macht er Speck
Aus dem Arsch da macht er Schinken
Und das anderes schmei�t er weg
Warte warte nur ein Weilchen
Dann kommt Haarmann auch zu Dir
Mit dem kleinen Hackebeilchen
Macht er Hackefleisch aus dir
Und dir

Und dir

[iREZ]

...tengo flan, churros, y pescado dulce. Yum.

[Busemann]

This shows why you should avoid that little project! Even if you convert to a much higher bit-rate, the quality can really suffer

[Athens]

Originally posted by urbatronik:
lol yes, im serious...really, all this cabme because a person told my brother that his wintel comp. was dead after 6 days of being on playing music...soo....it was just a question just to feel good hehehe

anways thanx!



(btw im feeling like a dumb lol)

prob had a defective fan and 6 days later cooked. Thats not normal.

[Psychonaut]

Originally posted by Athens:
prob had a defective fan and 6 days later cooked. Thats not normal.

Yeah, the operative phrase in what he said was "wintel computer."

But my fans have lasted for five years, and they're OEM from Gateway; though to help I've taken off one of the sides of my case (can't see it, so it's not ugly.)

I don't invest much in my PC and I've only made gradual upgrades from the original model. It still has the same processor and motherboad (a 933mhz Pentium III) as when I bought it 5 years ago. But it performs wonderfully and I really don't need a faster computer at all.

The secret is: buy nothing from eMachines. And once you've bought a computer, there are things called screwdrivers. Screw the warranty. F*ck it up. It's not like it's anything sacred like a Mac.

[turtle777]

+1

-t

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

This is one of my favourite threads.