I've never opened up a PS2, but I have worked on a few Playstations. They're really accessible, especially the oldest model with the composite outs and the "expansion port". You had your power board over here, motherboard over here, CD assembly sat on these posts over here, plugs in the front and back, and that was about it. Oh, and they used Phillips head screws, as I recall.
The most common cause of a "dead" PSX (okay, maybe second most common after the worm gear) was bad focus tracking on the CD. To fix that, you'd open it up, turn it on, put a meter across two test points, and twist a pot with a pencil eraser until the meter read the right value. Then pop a disc onto the spindle, and adjust a different pot until the same test point read a different right value. Then unplug it, close it up, and enjoy some Final Fantasy. I thought it was pretty cool, and to me it seemed like the kind of thing that the TV and radio repairmen did "back in the day" when those things were considered repairable.
There's a difference here, and that is that this new monitor will draw enough power to wake itself out of standby, and then not draw anymore power. Except of course that that's not really possible since it needs to draw power to know when to come out of standby. That's where the constant draw comes from. The key to this is the solar panels they mention, which keep the caps topped off against leakage current. Without them, the design seems worthless to me, but with them you have an "alternative energy" monitor that puts photovoltaics to a use where, amazingly enough, they actually work.
It proves (well suggests) that there's a concept that relates quantity and numeral, which is called "number". It doesn't necessarily have to be so. No one's suggesting that we're hardwired for a given numeral system, that would be pretty stupid. It's just as you say, that the numeral "3" is being related to the result of counting three things -- you're just missing out on the significance of that. Or at least the significance that the researchers think it has -- the experiment could, of course, be flawed:)
OK, I'm confused. Don't you guys, the shining light of Global Democracy, have a saying regarding governance "By the people, for the people"? Yes. It's a fantastic lie and pretty much always has been. Democracy, as practiced in the real world, isn't a way to give power to the people. It's a way to give token power to the people, in order that those in positions of real power can draw more and more of it to themselves without also drawing complaint.
I mean, really, just look at the awesome power of the voting public. In a country where two-thirds of the population feel that the "leader of the free world' is doing an unsatisfactory job, we have the power to
Elect a bunch of incompetent nitwits (and some as-yet-undiscovered evil bastards) to the legislature to replace a crop of more competent types, on the grounds that an ineffective government will at least screw you more slowly;
Suffer quietly for years, waiting for the opportunity to choose from among two carefully-groomed replacements, one of whom is hopefully more acceptable than the current leader -- at least, to 50.01% of the people (less if you factor in the "electoral college" system of electing a US president which says you really only need the support of twenty-some percent of voters to win),
But given a field that narrow, we can't expect to find anyone we support on a broad range of issues. Instead, it's critical to rabidly focus on a single hot topic.
Bah, who am I kidding? It's not about issues, it's about character.
And by character, I mean the right clothes, a winning smile, and never giving a frank opinion within earshot of a tape recorder. Oh, and I hear lapel pins are a biggie.
A method that would allow us to choose between more than two players would, of course, be too complicated for us wielders of Ultimate Democratic Power to comprehend, as would the possibility of making choices directly related to the issues at hand, instead of merely choosing the least-undesirable candidate and hoping that he or she likes reading your letters. (Referenda don't solve the problem that many things shouldn't be legislated, but should instead be defined by custom and upheld by the community, but that gets even further afield...)
And ironically you forgot the most common use of the Troll moderation, which was the one that applied to you: "your pointless post with every other word misspelled causes slashdot readers pain to gaze upon. For this crime, it will be buried and your karma diminished."
If the sequence number was invalid, then the TCP stack would ignore the RST in the first place, no? I'm betting Comcast does enough snooping at the border to spoof the sequence number as well.
False dichotomy, asshole. Some people understand real morality, instead of the childish behavior of trying to avoid a spanking from an imaginary Daddy In The Sky.
As I understand it, 1) It's a layer for accessing FAT filesystems 2) The patcher is acting essentially as a linker, patching in the correct code for whichever sort of device you have 3) This is necessary because there isn't any code to do dynamic linking onboard the DS (and a dynamic loader, if written, would probably be a serious waste of memory)
Colors uses DLDI, so it's slightly more involved than some other apps, but briefly: Get some sort of flash cart (I've used the M3 DS Simply), get a microSD card if necessary, format the card if necessary, follow the instructions that came with the cart for files that need to be copied to the flash, download Colors and a DLDI patcher, run the Colors NDS file through the DLDI patcher, copy the output file to the flash, put the card in the cart (if necessary), put the cart in the DS, turn it on, select your app from the menu, and enjoy.
I do value a piece of software that actually works -- and GIMP does everything I want when it comes to photo processing and web graphics, with an interface that I happen to really like, thank you very much, and which doesn't hide the useful features behind a ton of cutesy useless crap. (Actually these days I use it in conjunction with Bibble, which has a similar no-nonsense attitude toward raw development and photo adjustment, plus some pretty good workflow stuff.)
3)... Okay, yeah, that'd be useful. Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but it is indeed a very useful feature. No sarcasm.
5) Affects every computer program ever made that uses a mouse. A drag is not a click. If you leave the widget before you release the mouse button, you don't register a click. The solution is to not do that. On the contrary, these toolbar buttons don't have a 'drag' action, so being able to drag-select, as opposed to immediately activating the button regardless of any dragging going on, is a bad design. I humbly note that Photoshop has exactly this behaviour: any click (left or right) over a toolbutton immediately selects that tool, dragging has no effect. (the submenu that opens is a result of holding down the button, not dragging) Okay, maybe that's nice, but Photoshop is being nonstandard in that regard, and you can't automatically assume that GIMP is braindead because it doesn't follow suit. Go ahead and "drag" the Submit button while replying to me -- you won't send a message. The buttons in GIMP's toolbox are no different.
3)... Okay, yeah, that'd be useful. Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but it is indeed a very useful feature. No sarcasm.
5) Affects every computer program ever made that uses a mouse. A drag is not a click. If you leave the widget before you release the mouse button, you don't register a click. The solution is to not do that. On the contrary, these toolbar buttons don't have a 'drag' action, so being able to drag-select, as opposed to immediately activating the button regardless of any dragging going on, is a bad design. I humbly note that Photoshop has exactly this behaviour: any click (left or right) over a toolbutton immediately selects that tool, dragging has no effect. (the submenu that opens is a result of holding down the button, not dragging) Okay, maybe that's nice, but Photoshop is being nonstandard in that regard, and you can't automatically assume that GIMP is braindead because it doesn't follow suit. Go ahead and "drag" the Submit button while replying to me -- you won't send a message. The buttons in GIMP's toolbox are no different.
1) A decent suggestion but probably not one easily implemented. Personally I think the problem is focus-follows-mouse, which is like, so last century. If you had to interact with a window to focus it, there would be no problem.:) 2) Some valid (if, I think, pretty minor) criticisms. Tell the request tracker about them, and meanwhile, learn to press enter, or to make the two clicks necessary to do something. 3) I'm not sure if I'm interpreting this right, but basically you just want the scroll bars to be able to go "past" the edge of the image so that you can see some of the "dead space" like you get when the image view is smaller than the image window? Okay, yeah, that'd be useful. 4) Non-issue, as already pointed out. 5) Affects every computer program ever made that uses a mouse. A drag is not a click. If you leave the widget before you release the mouse button, you don't register a click. The solution is to not do that.
Contrast this with the US where you can use your phone up until the plane gets to the runway and again as soon as the plane is taxiing to the gate Last I checked the rule was still "only when at the gate with the door open". I've seen it stretched to the taxiway a few times but I don't think they're "supposed to";)
The real question to ask is what impact have these particular tax cuts had on the overall growth rate of the economy. . The answer to which is "fuck the economy". Look at the effects of tax burdens on people, look at the tax wedge, the efficiency of government work, the effects on freedom and dignity. Look at things that are a whole lot more important than completely imaginary and worthless "size of the economy" figures.
Sarcasm aside, that is exactly the same reason why unlockers shouldn't bitch if their iPhones become iBricks. They are using them in a way the manufacturer hadn't intended them to be used.
From the iPhone warranty: [irrelevant crap] What the fuck does a warranty have to do with it? Suppose I have an unlocked iPhone (I don't). I don't expect Apple to provide me warranty coverage. But I do expect them to refrain from knowingly delivering software that will ruin the device that I own. If a software update conflicts with the unlocking scheme completely out of chance and breaks the phone, that's a risk I ran by modding it. If they're in their back rooms cooking up software that will break unlocked phones, that's scummy. If they're deliberately breaking phones and they're using it as ammunition to make threats then not only are they morally bankrupt, but they're liable. There's no way around it.
I type at 90+ AWPM (okay, that's perfect conditions... for note-taking we'll call it 70-80). I write at something like 10WPM if I want to be able to read it later on. Even the Graffiti input method (the original one, not the Jot abomination), while it doesn't compare to typing, is a good deal faster than writing on paper for me. So given that there aren't a whole lot of diagrams or anything, what would you suggest?:)
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I've never opened up a PS2, but I have worked on a few Playstations. They're really accessible, especially the oldest model with the composite outs and the "expansion port". You had your power board over here, motherboard over here, CD assembly sat on these posts over here, plugs in the front and back, and that was about it. Oh, and they used Phillips head screws, as I recall.
The most common cause of a "dead" PSX (okay, maybe second most common after the worm gear) was bad focus tracking on the CD. To fix that, you'd open it up, turn it on, put a meter across two test points, and twist a pot with a pencil eraser until the meter read the right value. Then pop a disc onto the spindle, and adjust a different pot until the same test point read a different right value. Then unplug it, close it up, and enjoy some Final Fantasy. I thought it was pretty cool, and to me it seemed like the kind of thing that the TV and radio repairmen did "back in the day" when those things were considered repairable.
It proves (well suggests) that there's a concept that relates quantity and numeral, which is called "number". It doesn't necessarily have to be so. No one's suggesting that we're hardwired for a given numeral system, that would be pretty stupid. It's just as you say, that the numeral "3" is being related to the result of counting three things -- you're just missing out on the significance of that. Or at least the significance that the researchers think it has -- the experiment could, of course, be flawed :)
I mean, really, just look at the awesome power of the voting public. In a country where two-thirds of the population feel that the "leader of the free world' is doing an unsatisfactory job, we have the power to
A method that would allow us to choose between more than two players would, of course, be too complicated for us wielders of Ultimate Democratic Power to comprehend, as would the possibility of making choices directly related to the issues at hand, instead of merely choosing the least-undesirable candidate and hoping that he or she likes reading your letters. (Referenda don't solve the problem that many things shouldn't be legislated, but should instead be defined by custom and upheld by the community, but that gets even further afield...)
And ironically you forgot the most common use of the Troll moderation, which was the one that applied to you: "your pointless post with every other word misspelled causes slashdot readers pain to gaze upon. For this crime, it will be buried and your karma diminished."
If the sequence number was invalid, then the TCP stack would ignore the RST in the first place, no? I'm betting Comcast does enough snooping at the border to spoof the sequence number as well.
Added in 2.6.19.
False dichotomy, asshole. Some people understand real morality, instead of the childish behavior of trying to avoid a spanking from an imaginary Daddy In The Sky.
As I understand it,
1) It's a layer for accessing FAT filesystems
2) The patcher is acting essentially as a linker, patching in the correct code for whichever sort of device you have
3) This is necessary because there isn't any code to do dynamic linking onboard the DS (and a dynamic loader, if written, would probably be a serious waste of memory)
Colors uses DLDI, so it's slightly more involved than some other apps, but briefly: Get some sort of flash cart (I've used the M3 DS Simply), get a microSD card if necessary, format the card if necessary, follow the instructions that came with the cart for files that need to be copied to the flash, download Colors and a DLDI patcher, run the Colors NDS file through the DLDI patcher, copy the output file to the flash, put the card in the cart (if necessary), put the cart in the DS, turn it on, select your app from the menu, and enjoy.
I do value a piece of software that actually works -- and GIMP does everything I want when it comes to photo processing and web graphics, with an interface that I happen to really like, thank you very much, and which doesn't hide the useful features behind a ton of cutesy useless crap. (Actually these days I use it in conjunction with Bibble, which has a similar no-nonsense attitude toward raw development and photo adjustment, plus some pretty good workflow stuff.)
1) A decent suggestion but probably not one easily implemented. Personally I think the problem is focus-follows-mouse, which is like, so last century. If you had to interact with a window to focus it, there would be no problem. :)
2) Some valid (if, I think, pretty minor) criticisms. Tell the request tracker about them, and meanwhile, learn to press enter, or to make the two clicks necessary to do something.
3) I'm not sure if I'm interpreting this right, but basically you just want the scroll bars to be able to go "past" the edge of the image so that you can see some of the "dead space" like you get when the image view is smaller than the image window? Okay, yeah, that'd be useful.
4) Non-issue, as already pointed out.
5) Affects every computer program ever made that uses a mouse. A drag is not a click. If you leave the widget before you release the mouse button, you don't register a click. The solution is to not do that.
You, sir, are an idiot. :)
The great-xn grandparent post asserted that you never hear about the routine missions, only the spectacular successes or failures.
I've heard plenty about Cassini and Galileo. Galileo was the great success of the 90s. I'll admit to being mostly ignorant of Magellan though :)
plz to learn fundamental physics kthxbye
From the iPhone warranty:
[irrelevant crap] What the fuck does a warranty have to do with it? Suppose I have an unlocked iPhone (I don't). I don't expect Apple to provide me warranty coverage. But I do expect them to refrain from knowingly delivering software that will ruin the device that I own. If a software update conflicts with the unlocking scheme completely out of chance and breaks the phone, that's a risk I ran by modding it. If they're in their back rooms cooking up software that will break unlocked phones, that's scummy. If they're deliberately breaking phones and they're using it as ammunition to make threats then not only are they morally bankrupt, but they're liable. There's no way around it.
Please turn in your /. account on the way out the door. Thank you.
I type at 90+ AWPM (okay, that's perfect conditions... for note-taking we'll call it 70-80). I write at something like 10WPM if I want to be able to read it later on. Even the Graffiti input method (the original one, not the Jot abomination), while it doesn't compare to typing, is a good deal faster than writing on paper for me. So given that there aren't a whole lot of diagrams or anything, what would you suggest? :)
Who cares if UT2k4 plays? UT:GOTY plays and that's a hell of a lot more important!