> If you take a photo of a TV screen, it comes out black..
That depends on many factors including the speed of the film, apreature on your camera, shutter speed..... It is quite possible to take a good picture of a TV screen, you just have to make sure the shutter speed is long enough to get a whole frame and the aperature is wide enough to expose the film completely.
There's actually a pretty simple way around this dilemma, Taco. Get a relative/friend/willing slashdotter/etc who lives out in the middle of nowhere to let you use their address for the bills. You're then considered out of range of local broadcasters and they'll let you have your local channels. After that, you can get all the Family Guy and That 70's Show you can TiVO
With dishNetwork you can get an "RV" waiver to allow you to get distant local networks so you can watch networks when you are out in your RV. All you need is a trailer registration (I have heard that even a boat trailer registration works).
What I don't understand is why we don't have electric cars yet. No emissions, no high gas prices. Is it because of the influence of oil companies? lack of electricity (ex. rolling blackouts)? I just don't get it. Environmentally it makes so much sense- unless there is some huge problem with electric cars I am missing.
There are many huge problems but the ones causing the most problem are range and slow fill ups.
I can get in my car and drive 400 miles on a fillup, stop in a station and do another 400 miles after a 5 minute operation. Once an electric car can do that they MAY be more feasable.
>If the binaries groups crossposted significantly it would bring usenet to it's knees.
A crossposted article is only sent once and delivered to multiple groups at the server, in most usenet servers it is only stored once with links in the cross posted directories.
Why does the ISS computer system have 3,000,000 lines of code? What possible excuse is there for that except for bloat. What are the responsibilities of these lines that are so critical? Shouldn't these functions be decentralized into programmable contollers instead? That way is one fails the rest continue on happily. Why put all your eggs into one fragile basket?
As for the deathtrap analogy the Soyuz spacecraft is safer than anything we have built in a fatality/launch basis. Solid rocket boosters are not my idea of a safe launch vehicle for human passengers, the only way to abort is detonation.
Windows also freaks out when it doesn't see the hardware it expects. I had to re-enable the IDE ports on my PC (all SCSI machine) to get Windows 98 to install on it because the IDE drivers kept loading and hooking onto the SCSI interrupts hanging the box. Once 98 was installed I re-disabled the IDE ports and all was fine.
Actually using the terminal emulator 2 cartridge you could use the system to get the speech module to say anything you wanted it to say (sometimes requiring creative spelling).
but doesn't allow OLD IE users to connect (NT 4.0 starts with IE 2.0). You have to download SP-3 by FTP so you can install IE-5 (downloaded by FTP) so you can get SP-6.
There are other cars that get 50 mpg, aren't wimpy, and are very safe (among the safest in their class)--namely, the Volkswagen New Beetle, Golf, and Jetta with the TDI engine, the current incarnation of the VW diesel. Performance isn't earth-shaking, but it's comparable to the standard gas engine.
I drove a TDI Jetta and found it to be woefully underpowered, my parent's 2 liter 4 banger Contour has more power. Just getting up to interstate speed was a struggle. That is probably because of the small size of the engine chosen, if it had been blessed with a larger engine the efficiency would have likely been slightly lower, but at least it could have gotten out of its own way at interstate speeds. From a stop it wasn't too bad, but at speed it just couldn't accelerate. It's short power band diddn't help either.
If you want me to look at mail it must not be formatted. Any mail in MIME or HTML format gets deleted without me even attempting to decipher the contents. Repeat offenders get added to my local sendmail filter and get appropriate responses from future mail.
Right now, my main Linux server is whining and rumbling like a banshee on testosterone, and it's not the power supply fan, so it must be the old 17 gig hard drive. So it looks like I'll have a few hours of downtime to get a new one in there.
I have a problem with OLD beging used for the label of a 17 gig hard drive. Possibly you could describe an old CDC Wren III 300 Meg drive as old (I still have one in service), but by no stretch of the imagination could I imagine a 17 gig drive as old. Especially interesting considering the topic we are under.
I especially love the ones that stake out the moral high ground as responsible parents because their wives (not them, but their wives) have cut back their hours or stayed home to raise the kids.
I would love to be able to stay home and raise the kids, but because of my higher earning potenital it has fallen to me to be the breadwinner. If you choose to have children I believe that there should be a parent (whatever one is up to you) that stays home to raise them.
My parents made a similar choice, mom did not work until the last kid was in HS, then she went back to work (mostly because she got bored without 5 kids to handle).
This whole topic has become a very good example of what is wrong with Slashdot. I am amazed but not surprised at the 1950s-throwback nature of the vast majority of posters here. "Have wifey stay at home" seems to be the solution everyone is proposing. Yeah, right. Even on coders' salaries that is usually impossible. Get your fsckn heads out of TV Land and get real.
That choice (stay at home) is the one my wife decided on before ever consulting me, and I agree completely. If you can't make it on one tech salary then either reduce expenses or move to somewhere where the living is cheaper. Not that we have children yet, but when it happens she already planned on staying home to take care of them. If she was the breadwinner I would gladly stay home to care for them, but I make dramatically more than her earning potential.
"The two industry leaders cannot be mentioned by name because their restrictive licensing agreements prohibit anyone who buys their closed source products from publishing their company names in benchmark testing results without the companies' prior approval."
Not all SUV's have truck suspension, my wife's full sized montero has torsion bar front and coil rear suspension and rides better than most cars out there. We primarily bought it to pull our boat, when a little fuel efficient car can handle a 3000lb boat call me back. My car is a Taurus SHO and is much more fun to drive though.
Doesn't a raindrop form some sort of a flattened disk, then dome as it gets larger, then break up? Raindrops are only the typical raindrop shape on a surface.
------------------------------------ It's now illegal to produce in the US any toilet bowls that have the classic 5 gal tank. They aren't illegal in Canada. Therefore, lots of people cross the border, buy Canadian, and bring them back, duty free, into the US. Does anybody seriously think that the eco-nazis really like this and would stop it if they could? ------------------------------------
Not produce, sell or install. Most of those "Illegal" toilets are made here and shipped to Canada for sale to consumers.
How to make money? Simple, just charge the OS division for it since they can't remove it from the OS (as they have often stated) they will have to pay. It's not like the OS division would get to use IE's code for free.
Now what we all need is EXT3 so we can have > 2GB filesystems and files!
Interesting, I was under the impression that ext2 is quite happy with > 2G Partitions (I have one at home) and that 64bit systems don't have the 2G file-size limit because a signed integer can hold a value greater than 2G. Or was I wrong?
Yeah right - if you're going to force MS not to announce products before they're done, you have to do the same for everyone. Like that would EVER happen...
Why, IBM lived under such a rule for years after a DOJ trial and concent decree.
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> If you take a photo of a TV screen, it comes out black..
That depends on many factors including the speed of the film, apreature on your camera, shutter speed..... It is quite possible to take a good picture of a TV screen, you just have to make sure the shutter speed is long enough to get a whole frame and the aperature is wide enough to expose the film completely.
There's actually a pretty simple way around this dilemma, Taco. Get a relative/friend/willing slashdotter/etc who lives out in the middle of nowhere to let you use their address for the bills. You're then considered out of range of local broadcasters and they'll let you have your local channels. After that, you can get all the Family Guy and That 70's Show you can TiVO
With dishNetwork you can get an "RV" waiver to allow you to get distant local networks so you can watch networks when you are out in your RV. All you need is a trailer registration (I have heard that even a boat trailer registration works).
Into the chamber was injected pure hydrogen, the spark ignites the hydrogen, and the hydrogen completely ignites the fuel
How do you light this pure Hydrogen? Doesn't it need some Oxygen for combustion?
What I don't understand is why we don't have electric cars yet. No emissions, no high gas prices. Is it because of the influence of oil companies? lack of electricity (ex. rolling blackouts)? I just don't get it. Environmentally it makes so much sense- unless there is some huge problem with electric cars I am missing.
There are many huge problems but the ones causing the most problem are range and slow fill ups.
I can get in my car and drive 400 miles on a fillup, stop in a station and do another 400 miles after a 5 minute operation. Once an electric car can do that they MAY be more feasable.
Are old addresses cryptic, or family? What about name + old telephone numbers? That way you get Alpha and numeric, and still can remember them.
> Mind you with a postal code they can narrow
> down to exactly what block you live on
HUH? My Zip covers many square miles, just don't give them a +4 even if they ask for one (not everyone has one).
>If the binaries groups crossposted significantly it would bring usenet to it's knees.
A crossposted article is only sent once and delivered to multiple groups at the server, in most usenet servers it is only stored once with links in the cross posted directories.
> These features include: a cinema mode "2-3 Pull
> Down" function for high vision 1080i
Isn't it 3-2 pull down? It has been a while since I worked in the MPEG encoding/Movie/Video world, but I remember it being 3-2 pull down.
(3-2 pull down is the process of converting a 24 FPS movie back and forth to 30 FPS NTSC video, using a ratio of 3 movie frames=2 video frames).
2-3 pull would be pull up.
Why does the ISS computer system have 3,000,000 lines of code? What possible excuse is there for that except for bloat. What are the responsibilities of these lines that are so critical? Shouldn't these functions be decentralized into programmable contollers instead? That way is one fails the rest continue on happily. Why put all your eggs into one fragile basket?
As for the deathtrap analogy the Soyuz spacecraft is safer than anything we have built in a fatality/launch basis. Solid rocket boosters are not my idea of a safe launch vehicle for human passengers, the only way to abort is detonation.
Windows also freaks out when it doesn't see the hardware it expects. I had to re-enable the IDE ports on my PC (all SCSI machine) to get Windows 98 to install on it because the IDE drivers kept loading and hooking onto the SCSI interrupts hanging the box. Once 98 was installed I re-disabled the IDE ports and all was fine.
Actually using the terminal emulator 2 cartridge you could use the system to get the speech module to say anything you wanted it to say (sometimes requiring creative spelling).
but doesn't allow OLD IE users to connect (NT 4.0 starts with IE 2.0). You have to download SP-3 by FTP so you can install IE-5 (downloaded by FTP) so you can get SP-6.
There are other cars that get 50 mpg, aren't wimpy, and are very safe (among the safest in their class)--namely, the Volkswagen New Beetle, Golf, and Jetta with the TDI engine, the current incarnation of the VW diesel. Performance isn't earth-shaking, but it's comparable to the standard gas engine.
I drove a TDI Jetta and found it to be woefully underpowered, my parent's 2 liter 4 banger Contour has more power. Just getting up to interstate speed was a struggle. That is probably because of the small size of the engine chosen, if it had been blessed with a larger engine the efficiency would have likely been slightly lower, but at least it could have gotten out of its own way at interstate speeds. From a stop it wasn't too bad, but at speed it just couldn't accelerate. It's short power band diddn't help either.
>Neutrinos travel through Earth all the time without being detected.
>This should read: Most Neutrinos travel through Earth all the time without being detected.
To be truly pedantic MOST Neutrinos don't travel through the earth at all, the earth being so small in relation to the size of the universe.
If you want me to look at mail it must not be formatted. Any mail in MIME or HTML format gets deleted without me even attempting to decipher the contents. Repeat offenders get added to my local sendmail filter and get appropriate responses from future mail.
Right now, my main Linux server is whining and rumbling like a banshee on testosterone, and it's not the power supply fan, so it must be the old 17 gig hard drive. So it looks like I'll have a few hours of downtime to get a new one in there.
I have a problem with OLD beging used for the label of a 17 gig hard drive. Possibly you could describe an old CDC Wren III 300 Meg drive as old (I still have one in service), but by no stretch of the imagination could I imagine a 17 gig drive as old. Especially interesting considering the topic we are under.
I especially love the ones that stake out the moral high ground as responsible parents because their wives (not them, but their wives) have cut back their hours or stayed home to raise the kids.
I would love to be able to stay home and raise the kids, but because of my higher earning potenital it has fallen to me to be the breadwinner. If you choose to have children I believe that there should be a parent (whatever one is up to you) that stays home to raise them.
My parents made a similar choice, mom did not work until the last kid was in HS, then she went back to work (mostly because she got bored without 5 kids to handle).
This whole topic has become a very good example of what is wrong with Slashdot. I am amazed but not surprised at the 1950s-throwback nature of the vast majority of posters here. "Have wifey stay at home" seems to be the solution everyone is proposing. Yeah, right. Even on coders' salaries that is usually impossible. Get your fsckn heads out of TV Land and get real.
That choice (stay at home) is the one my wife decided on before ever consulting me, and I agree completely. If you can't make it on one tech salary then either reduce expenses or move to somewhere where the living is cheaper. Not that we have children yet, but when it happens she already planned on staying home to take care of them. If she was the breadwinner I would gladly stay home to care for them, but I make dramatically more than her earning potential.
they aren't afrain, they are not allowed:
"The two industry leaders cannot be mentioned by name because their restrictive licensing agreements prohibit anyone who buys their closed source products from publishing their company names in benchmark testing results without the companies' prior approval."
Not all SUV's have truck suspension, my wife's full sized montero has torsion bar front and coil rear suspension and rides better than most cars out there. We primarily bought it to pull our boat, when a little fuel efficient car can handle a 3000lb boat call me back. My car is a Taurus SHO and is much more fun to drive though.
> More likely a raindrop.
Doesn't a raindrop form some sort of a flattened disk, then dome as it gets larger, then break up? Raindrops are only the typical raindrop shape on a surface.
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It's now illegal to produce in the US any toilet bowls that have the classic 5 gal tank. They aren't illegal in Canada. Therefore, lots of people cross the border, buy Canadian, and bring them back, duty free, into the US. Does anybody seriously think that the eco-nazis really like this and would stop it if they could?
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Not produce, sell or install. Most of those "Illegal" toilets are made here and shipped to Canada for sale to consumers.
How to make money? Simple, just charge the OS division for it since they can't remove it from the OS (as they have often stated) they will have to pay. It's not like the OS division would get to use IE's code for free.
Now what we all need is EXT3 so we can have > 2GB filesystems and files!
Interesting, I was under the impression that ext2 is quite happy with > 2G Partitions (I have one at home) and that 64bit systems don't have the 2G file-size limit because a signed integer can hold a value greater than 2G. Or was I wrong?
Yeah right - if you're going to force MS not to announce products before they're done, you have to do the same for everyone. Like that would EVER happen...
Why, IBM lived under such a rule for years after a DOJ trial and concent decree.