I have Many CD-R's more than 5 years old that still read fine. I have several over 10 years old that I can still read. Unless physically damaged I have never had a problem reading a disc. Sometimes I have to get out an older/slower/less picky drive to manage it, but I have always managed to get a good read.
One of the channels being pulled is Comedy Central, I just canceled my Dish Membership today because of that.
You think the Cable Company would be falling over themselves to get me back, but they're making me wait 5 days to get Cable!!!
you probably could have gotten Comedy Central back faster by staying with Dish, I wouldn't expect this to go on too long, Viacom doesn't want to lose the advertising points.
And while on the subject of digital camcorders, lets not forget that digital cameras are more than adequate for most people, these days. Just today, Canon announced their Powershot S1 IS which comes equipped with "DV quality" movie recording and digital image stabilization. Add an 8GB Flash Card and you've got 8 hours of DV recording capability.
How do you get 8 hours on 8Gig? My MiniDV gets 1 hour in 12 Gig. If you compress 1 hour into 1 gig you won't even get VHS quality, That is around VCD quality and unacceptable to most.
I don't get their paranoia, though. What stops anybody of scanning a book in plain, good ol' ascii text and releasing it on the internet (else that this is illegal, of course)?
Nothing check out alt.binaries.ebook and other groups like that. Books are just the right size for binaries groups.
Just to be difficult, though, I'd mention that most construction is done in 'tenths of feet', even the surveying equipment is marked this way. Has nothing to do with the metric system, it just makes the math easier...
I wonder why anyone would do that, give up the best reason for using feet, that they can be evenly divided into 2, 3, 4, and 6 pieces pieces while a metric measure only has 2 and 5 as factors. Base 12 numbering would be so cool, we should all switch.
2500 watts each? Now consider a three phase 480 volt power for the living room with a 14,400 oil cooled substation transformer feeding the circuit breaker panel and I'll believe these specifications.
2500 Watts would only be around 34 amps using the standard %65 V*A to Watt conveersion, That is a special circuit, but nothing that special. Probably lying like the 2500 Watt microwaves you can buy.
Don't worry, it's a gaming platform. And unless they're stupid, they'll have a D-pad on the left and buttons on the right, like a real controller.
Why is it that the D-pad is on the left and the buttons on the right, are all gamers left handed? I wish all d-pads were like my gravis that can be switched from left-handed to right-handed.
Parenthood can be the easiest and hardest thing you will ever do at the same time. My wife had an extremely hard time having our daughter, she had nausea from day one until she checked into the hospital at month 6 for her 6 week stay until she delivered (by emergency C-section).
The fun didn't stop there, our new daughter developed a antibiotic resistant staph infection and spent 6 weeks in the Neonatal ICU. Half-way through the stay in the NICU I was laid off. My wife's C-section incision diddn't close properly requiring daily trips to the hospital to get it packed for 10 weeks.
Then we start to notice she is progressing a little slower than she should be. Our Pediatrician said to not worry about it and that it was probably just because she was early. The developmental delays continued and did not improve with the ped telling us not to worry. My mom asked if she could get a second opinion and she volunteered to take our daughter to another ped.
He had another complete opinion, and after consulting with him we started getting shots for RSV and our daughter now has a collection of therapists that come to our house every week to give our daughter therapy for the Cereberal Palsy that our original pediatrician completely missed.
The therapists say that our nearly 1 year old is physically at around 5-7 months, but mentally at around 14-16 months. With therapy, splints, and possibly surgeries she should have no troubles and catch up with her peers eventually, but what if we hadn't gotten that second opinion.
Even with all her problems she is the happiest baby I and all her therapists have ever seen, she always has a smile on her face, has slept 7-10 hours nightly since we brought her home from the hospital, can play independently for hours at a time, and is generally a joy to have around. Sometimes it is a little painful to see her with her cousins who are developmentally normal, but her smiling face and giggles make up for it.
She was a complete OOPS, but I wouldn't go back and change it and neither would my wife.
With regard to using wireless phone co. networks, prepare for SLOW connections (28k) so it may be worth your while to find the higher speed WiFi hotspots.
not necessarily that slow, with sprintPCS vision's 3G network you can get up to 144k (in fact I am considering it as a replacement for my 26.4K maximum modem link at home)
The real problem is that the local stations don't have he rights from the networks to show the programming anywhere but their local area. The local station in each area has an exclusive right to transmit networks to the local users. If distant locals are allowed it violates the exclusive distribution contract with the local stations.
This is one advantage of libing out in the sticks. We can't get broadband affordably, but we can get distant networks. Personally I would take the broadband.
Actually they did pull this kind of thing, you got a great deal on MS-DOS if you pre-installed windows 3.1 (to the level that MS-DOS+Win 3.1 was cheaper than MS-DOS alone).
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>Only, none of this is true. Linux doesn't run very >well at all on modest hardware. Try it. Try running >GNOME and Galeon on a 233MHz laptop. Then >try Windows 95. You'll find that the Linux >installation is much slower than the Windows >installation.
You can run Linux quite happily without GNOME and Galeon, try fvwm and opera instead then you will be happy with MUCH less resources
Actually the CG of the original flyer was all wrong for canard flight, infact it was behind the center of lift of the main wing so the leading control surface had to push down. In later models of the flyer they wrights added as much as 70Lbs to the leading control surface and extended it further from the main wing trying to get better control. In the end their first successful commercial model (Flyer Model B) used trailing control surfaces.
>Well, on one of my systems, EVERYTHING is a
> module (Mandrake 8.1). No recompilaton necessary
How can EVERYTHING be a module? You need boot devices and filesystems built into the kernel or you can't boot. Say I use an all SCSI system and don't need those crufty IDE drivers anymore (the IDE ports on my system are disabled), I can't remove them in the standard kernel because someone thought it would be a good idea to boot from them. The only way to get rid of devices like that is to recompile your kernel.
Actually SCSI works just fine with my old ST11200N on it, SCSI negotiates transfer rates with each device individually. My hard drives and burner share a scsi bus just fine. The only reason to use IDE is price.
The real difference is that the new Fossil version has a battery life of only 1.5-3 months. My Timex is going strong on a 4 year old battery. What are they doing to make it eat batteries so fast?
I tried to enter my hard drives into their reliability database, but they don't accept any drives older than 1998. How can you get any reliability information on a drive so new?
None of my drives are that new. I wanted to enter my CDC 94171-307 in the database, it is the drive I have been the happiest with, it has given me no problems in the 9 years I have had it, and it was used when I acquired it.
So you'd rather believe "war stories" than the scientific predictions by physicists and medical doctors who say that the airframe will probably break from the stress and people will lose their consciousness in a few seconds
OK lets stick to passenger liners
UAL Flight 811, lost cargo door at 23,000 ft, big hole in aircraft, passengers sucked out, but no crash.
Many more examples avilable, just search google.
Also, why would I lose consciousness in a few seconds? Minutes yes, but seconds?
I'm probably providing a big ol' heap of Purina Troll Chow here, but you ARE aware of what happens if you fire a weapon in a pressurized cabin and your slug somehow misses its intended target, right?
I post a comment I found on a newsgroup I read (Yes, newsgroups are not just collections of SPAM):
Relating a story that was told to me by a retired B-29 pilot:
"We got hit once by a fighter and once by flak. Both times in the pressurized sections. The very first thing that happened was that everything in the cockpit flashed over white... from the instant condensation... we were probably at 25,000 to 30,000 ft. And then the pressure went out and stuff blew all over hell and we got real cold. But that was about it... nothing exploded
or anything. No really serious damage to the plane. We took a lot worse hits in the B-24 the year before" (during the Pacific island hopping campaign.)
It would be very interesting to see Boeing and Airbus do some testing in this area and publish the results. It might make a whole lot of people feel better about flying.
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I have Many CD-R's more than 5 years old that still read fine. I have several over 10 years old that I can still read. Unless physically damaged I have never had a problem reading a disc. Sometimes I have to get out an older/slower/less picky drive to manage it, but I have always managed to get a good read.
James
One of the channels being pulled is Comedy Central, I just canceled my Dish Membership today because of that.
You think the Cable Company would be falling over themselves to get me back, but they're making me wait 5 days to get Cable!!!
you probably could have gotten Comedy Central back faster by staying with Dish, I wouldn't expect this to go on too long, Viacom doesn't want to lose the advertising points.
And while on the subject of digital camcorders, lets not forget that digital cameras are more than adequate for most people, these days. Just today, Canon announced their Powershot S1 IS which comes equipped with "DV quality" movie recording and digital image stabilization. Add an 8GB Flash Card and you've got 8 hours of DV recording capability.
How do you get 8 hours on 8Gig? My MiniDV gets 1 hour in 12 Gig. If you compress 1 hour into 1 gig you won't even get VHS quality, That is around VCD quality and unacceptable to most.
Raise your hand if you ever had a "bang-path" email address. For that matter, raise your hand if you know what a bang-path address is.
Not only did I have a !path email, I still do.
I don't get their paranoia, though. What stops anybody of scanning a book in plain, good ol' ascii text and releasing it on the internet (else that this is illegal, of course)?
Nothing check out alt.binaries.ebook and other groups like that. Books are just the right size for binaries groups.
Just to be difficult, though, I'd mention that most construction is done in 'tenths of feet', even the surveying equipment is marked this way. Has nothing to do with the metric system, it just makes the math easier...
I wonder why anyone would do that, give up the best reason for using feet, that they can be evenly divided into 2, 3, 4, and 6 pieces pieces while a metric measure only has 2 and 5 as factors. Base 12 numbering would be so cool, we should all switch.
2500 watts each? Now consider a three phase 480 volt power for the living room with a 14,400 oil cooled substation transformer feeding the circuit breaker panel and I'll believe these specifications.
2500 Watts would only be around 34 amps using the standard %65 V*A to Watt conveersion, That is a special circuit, but nothing that special. Probably lying like the 2500 Watt microwaves you can buy.
Don't worry, it's a gaming platform. And unless they're stupid, they'll have a D-pad on the left and buttons on the right, like a real controller.
Why is it that the D-pad is on the left and the buttons on the right, are all gamers left handed? I wish all d-pads were like my gravis that can be switched from left-handed to right-handed.
Parenthood can be the easiest and hardest thing you will ever do at the same time. My wife had an extremely hard time having our daughter, she had nausea from day one until she checked into the hospital at month 6 for her 6 week stay until she delivered (by emergency C-section).
The fun didn't stop there, our new daughter developed a antibiotic resistant staph infection and spent 6 weeks in the Neonatal ICU. Half-way through the stay in the NICU I was laid off. My wife's C-section incision diddn't close properly requiring daily trips to the hospital to get it packed for 10 weeks.
Then we start to notice she is progressing a little slower than she should be. Our Pediatrician said to not worry about it and that it was probably just because she was early. The developmental delays continued and did not improve with the ped telling us not to worry. My mom asked if she could get a second opinion and she volunteered to take our daughter to another ped.
He had another complete opinion, and after consulting with him we started getting shots for RSV and our daughter now has a collection of therapists that come to our house every week to give our daughter therapy for the Cereberal Palsy that our original pediatrician completely missed.
The therapists say that our nearly 1 year old is physically at around 5-7 months, but mentally at around 14-16 months. With therapy, splints, and possibly surgeries she should have no troubles and catch up with her peers eventually, but what if we hadn't gotten that second opinion.
Even with all her problems she is the happiest baby I and all her therapists have ever seen, she always has a smile on her face, has slept 7-10 hours nightly since we brought her home from the hospital, can play independently for hours at a time, and is generally a joy to have around. Sometimes it is a little painful to see her with her cousins who are developmentally normal, but her smiling face and giggles make up for it.
She was a complete OOPS, but I wouldn't go back and change it and neither would my wife.
With regard to using wireless phone co. networks, prepare for SLOW connections (28k) so it may be worth your while to find the higher speed WiFi hotspots.
not necessarily that slow, with sprintPCS vision's 3G network you can get up to 144k (in fact I am considering it as a replacement for my 26.4K maximum modem link at home)
> The only real disadvantage to RISC is the larger code size.
Isn't there also a cost in context switching saving all those registers?
>>As far as I know, sea levels are rising in some
>>areas and falling in others.
> How, should that be possible? Take a soup plate
> fill it wit water, then let it raise at one side
> and fall at the other, show me how you do that.
Never overestimate the invariability of large systems. Sea level is 8 inches higher on the Pacific side of Panama than the Atlantic side
The real problem is that the local stations don't have he rights from the networks to show the programming anywhere but their local area. The local station in each area has an exclusive right to transmit networks to the local users. If distant locals are allowed it violates the exclusive distribution contract with the local stations.
This is one advantage of libing out in the sticks. We can't get broadband affordably, but we can get distant networks. Personally I would take the broadband.
Actually they did pull this kind of thing, you got a great deal on MS-DOS if you pre-installed windows 3.1 (to the level that MS-DOS+Win 3.1 was cheaper than MS-DOS alone).
>Only, none of this is true. Linux doesn't run very
>well at all on modest hardware. Try it. Try running
>GNOME and Galeon on a 233MHz laptop. Then
>try Windows 95. You'll find that the Linux
>installation is much slower than the Windows
>installation.
You can run Linux quite happily without GNOME and Galeon, try fvwm and opera instead then you will be happy with MUCH less resources
So in the future when you look at the packaging your replacement organs come in it will say...
"Made in China"
Actually the CG of the original flyer was all wrong for canard flight, infact it was behind the center of lift of the main wing so the leading control surface had to push down. In later models of the flyer they wrights added as much as 70Lbs to the leading control surface and extended it further from the main wing trying to get better control. In the end their first successful commercial model (Flyer Model B) used trailing control surfaces.
>Well, on one of my systems, EVERYTHING is a
> module (Mandrake 8.1). No recompilaton necessary
How can EVERYTHING be a module? You need boot devices and filesystems built into the kernel or you can't boot. Say I use an all SCSI system and don't need those crufty IDE drivers anymore (the IDE ports on my system are disabled), I can't remove them in the standard kernel because someone thought it would be a good idea to boot from them. The only way to get rid of devices like that is to recompile your kernel.
I will update this with my personal experience
Linux ATI Radeon Drivers:
Open Source, fully featured, cause complete hangs of my system whenever GLX is accessed.
Linux NVIDIA GeForce Drivers:
Binary only, fully featured, work completely and perfectly with my system.
Considering that patriot missiles were designed to intercept and destroy planes, it is surprising that they came close to incomming missiles at all.
Actually SCSI works just fine with my old ST11200N on it, SCSI negotiates transfer rates with each device individually. My hard drives and burner share a scsi bus just fine. The only reason to use IDE is price.
The real difference is that the new Fossil version has a battery life of only 1.5-3 months. My Timex is going strong on a 4 year old battery. What are they doing to make it eat batteries so fast?
I tried to enter my hard drives into their reliability database, but they don't accept any drives older than 1998. How can you get any reliability information on a drive so new?
None of my drives are that new. I wanted to enter my CDC 94171-307 in the database, it is the drive I have been the happiest with, it has given me no problems in the 9 years I have had it, and it was used when I acquired it.
So you'd rather believe "war stories" than the scientific predictions by physicists and medical doctors who say that the airframe will probably break from the stress and people will lose their consciousness in a few seconds
OK lets stick to passenger liners
UAL Flight 811, lost cargo door at 23,000 ft, big hole in aircraft, passengers sucked out, but no crash.
Many more examples avilable, just search google.
Also, why would I lose consciousness in a few seconds? Minutes yes, but seconds?
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I'm probably providing a big ol' heap of Purina Troll Chow here, but you ARE aware of what happens if you fire a weapon in a pressurized cabin and your slug somehow misses its intended target, right?
I post a comment I found on a newsgroup I read (Yes, newsgroups are not just collections of SPAM):
Relating a story that was told to me by a retired B-29 pilot:
"We got hit once by a fighter and once by flak. Both times in the pressurized sections. The very first thing that happened was that everything in the cockpit flashed over white... from the instant condensation... we were probably at 25,000 to 30,000 ft. And then the pressure went out and stuff blew all over hell and we got real cold. But that was about it... nothing exploded
or anything. No really serious damage to the plane. We took a lot worse hits in the B-24 the year before" (during the Pacific island hopping campaign.)
It would be very interesting to see Boeing and Airbus do some testing in this area and publish the results. It might make a whole lot of people feel better about flying.