Being battered around in a washing machine for a half an hour probably isn't something the iPod was designed for.
My daugher ran my flat little radio shack camera through the wash last summer (in her pants pocket). For some strange reason, it no longer worked.
After finding that the credit card I bought it with didn't have "stupidity coverage," I took it to radio shack. I told them that we'd had an "unfortunate incident," and they took it back without even asking what the incident was.
Netscape's businsess to that point was actually selling server software. The browsers were necessary so that people could be victimized by, err, see, the netscape extensions such as "blink."
In theory, there was always a price for netscape. In practice, it was hard not to fall into one of the exceptions that let you have the browser without charge. And if you didn't fall into any, ther was something like a 90 day evaluation period, after which you were supposed to send them a check.
I added 10M to the 4M that came with my powerbook 180 (yes, I know I'm dating myself).
The size was just fine for a lap, but it couldn't be worn without heavy pants due to the heat put out by that memory. Not merely uncomfortable, but just plain too hot.
And then there's the original MacPortable. Decked out in its carrying case, it came to 26 pounds. I hurt my shoulder lugging it through an airport . ..
BMW did extensive research something like 20 years ago. They found that "accellerate hard, shift low" gave the best mileage.
The internal combustion engine produces the most energy per fuel at open throttle (at a given engine speed, the reistance is about the same regardless of the amount of fuel burned).
At open throttle, you *can* shift lower than you otherwise could. If, however, you're not accellerating that hard, it's another story.
Do that with a gasoline engine, and it'll blow up (cylinder temps get too high without the atomization of the fuel to help cool the cylinder prior to the combustion of the fuel).
The Caddi Northstar engine has a mode that works that way. When it "panics," such as for running out of coolant, it only runs fuel through the cylinders on alternate stroke, pumping through air to cool them on the other. (It also limits the amount of fuel). That's how they achieve the "50 miles in the desert with an empty radiator" bit.
hey, he points out that these are "unique prime factors." Clearly a knowledgeable source, distinguishing between unique primes and those cheap redundant non-unique prime factors . ..
I'd have to check his exact age, but I'm pretty sure I was writing programs before Torvalds was born . . . and custom software made my law office more profitable . ..
And, yes, like the uid says, I first read slashdot back when it was a source of up to date tech news . . .:)
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you get your legal advice on slashdot, you're likely to end up as a "guest" of the government.
This is the stronger of the two main ways that the court could have struck down the ruling. Often, it's the *form* of the rule, in paraticular the way the administrative agency chose to make the rule, that gets struck down. This leaves the agency free to pass the same rule through the proper process. (Similar to the way the appellate court struck down the judge's behavior in the microsoft case--the governmet could have sought another order splitting microsoft.)
In this case, it's the *substance* of the rule that was stricken. The FCC *cannot* regulate in this area, and cannot try again.
However, this didn't adress the question of whether or not Congress could grant the power to regulate in such an area, nor whether Congress could pass such a law itself.
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Being battered around in a washing machine for a half an hour probably isn't something the iPod was designed for.
My daugher ran my flat little radio shack camera through the wash last summer (in her pants pocket). For some strange reason, it no longer worked.
After finding that the credit card I bought it with didn't have "stupidity coverage," I took it to radio shack. I told them that we'd had an "unfortunate incident," and they took it back without even asking what the incident was.
hawk
hawk
hawk
Why, everyone sitting back with a bag of fresh popcorn and a beer, of course!
hawk, who remembers when flaming was an art form . .
Netscape's businsess to that point was actually selling server software. The browsers were necessary so that people could be victimized by, err, see, the netscape extensions such as "blink."
In theory, there was always a price for netscape. In practice, it was hard not to fall into one of the exceptions that let you have the browser without charge. And if you didn't fall into any, ther was something like a 90 day evaluation period, after which you were supposed to send them a check.
hawk
>The flash plugin not working right is the other,
:)
You say that like it's a bad thing
hawk, who removed the flash plugin entirely from his main machine
Ok, so that sounds like IE's early days. I say "early days" because its flaws are nothing less than eyepopping these days.
Ahh, you mean back while the code was still heavily Mosaic?
hawk
hawk
Ahh, yes. The heat machines.
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I added 10M to the 4M that came with my powerbook 180 (yes, I know I'm dating myself).
The size was just fine for a lap, but it couldn't be worn without heavy pants due to the heat put out by that memory. Not merely uncomfortable, but just plain too hot.
And then there's the original MacPortable. Decked out in its carrying case, it came to 26 pounds. I hurt my shoulder lugging it through an airport . .
hawk
hawk
hawk
BMW did extensive research something like 20 years ago. They found that "accellerate hard, shift low" gave the best mileage.
The internal combustion engine produces the most energy per fuel at open throttle (at a given engine speed, the reistance is about the same regardless of the amount of fuel burned).
At open throttle, you *can* shift lower than you otherwise could. If, however, you're not accellerating that hard, it's another story.
hawk
Do that with a gasoline engine, and it'll blow up (cylinder temps get too high without the atomization of the fuel to help cool the cylinder prior to the combustion of the fuel).
The Caddi Northstar engine has a mode that works that way. When it "panics," such as for running out of coolant, it only runs fuel through the cylinders on alternate stroke, pumping through air to cool them on the other. (It also limits the amount of fuel). That's how they achieve the "50 miles in the desert with an empty radiator" bit.
hawk
After all that, it would be far more inefficient to *not* eat that juicy, cooked burger :)
hawk
This is actually why I don't use firefox--I can't middle click a link to get a new window.
(No, I *don't* like tabs!)
hawk
hawk
I take it they're going to go the way of Microsoft's long forgotten "Windows" and "Officee"?
hawk
> end user create a deep space mod for it.
:)
I suppose that would be a better idea than the "NASA cratering mars" mod
hawk
Yes. Generally, the DC ciricuit handles regulatory agencies.
hawk
I'd have to check his exact age, but I'm pretty sure I was writing programs before Torvalds was born . . . and custom software made my law office more profitable . . .
:)
And, yes, like the uid says, I first read slashdot back when it was a source of up to date tech news . . .
hawk, recovering esq.
I want a B-chip. That damned purple monster has done far more damage to children than all the violent programs put together.
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When the late Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Rogers *both* came out and publicly condemned it as not good for children . .
hawk
I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice. If you get your legal advice on slashdot, you're likely to end up as a "guest" of the government.
This is the stronger of the two main ways that the court could have struck down the ruling. Often, it's the *form* of the rule, in paraticular the way the administrative agency chose to make the rule, that gets struck down. This leaves the agency free to pass the same rule through the proper process. (Similar to the way the appellate court struck down the judge's behavior in the microsoft case--the governmet could have sought another order splitting microsoft.)
In this case, it's the *substance* of the rule that was stricken. The FCC *cannot* regulate in this area, and cannot try again.
However, this didn't adress the question of whether or not Congress could grant the power to regulate in such an area, nor whether Congress could pass such a law itself.
hawk, esq.
hawk
Have you gotten bored with your old corporation???
hawk
>So those tresury bonds in the SS trust fund are effectively worthless,
No, they're not worthless.
They are, however, irrelevant--any payments to them come out of general revenue as surely as if they hadn't existed.
(They do, however, mean that the feds don't borrow even more which would have debt service costs in the future).
hawk