The problem with LEDs in traffic lights, in my experience just driving around, is that the main problem is the light module itself somehow fails such that some of the LEDs can't get electricity. This results in part of the LEDs not lighting. New Orleans is right on the ocean, so the salt water in the air is more likely to cause corrosion problems. The equivalent would be blaming incandescent lights because the bases of the lamps fell apart after wind shook the signals around too much.
And then there is the problem up north, where incandescent traffic light lamps would keep the winter snow melted. When they were changed to LEDs, the lights started to freeze over from the lack of heat.
LEDs aren't perfect for traffic lights, but at least they're actually monochromatic.
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If something bad happens to the one of the synced copies, expect it to propagate to the rest of your synced copies. This happens often enough to be a problem.
It's still better than nothing, but it's no substitute for a backup to somewhere without a live update that overwrites the only previous copy of your data, and preferably somewhere completely off-line.
Round it up to 16 PID size blocks. That's 4096 per VID. That's also $40K per VID instead of $5K. So eight times the price, and they'll probably never run out of VIDs due to classful allocation. Clearly, money is not much of a motivator for them.
They didn't. They used U-Matic. (which was also from Sony)
If they used any sort of Beta, it was BetaCam (and later DigiBeta) which used the same tapes, but a different recording method... and double the tape speed.
Does it? Remember that time you used wd-40 and duct tape to fix that little problem with your homes front door?
Implementing a fix in a manor not intended by the original manufacturer is the definition of hacking, thus you sir are a hacker.
But what if you implement a fix in a cottage not intended by the original manufacturer?
All I want to know is if we will be able to compile the kernel someday without the fucktardery of requiring a casesensitivefilesystem for the netfilter source code. (So this is from the same guys who gave us that, huh?)
The anti-Latino prejudices of today are no different than the anti-Asian, anti-Jew, anti-Irish, and anti-German prejudices of the past.
Except for, you know, that part where the Asians, Jews, Irish, Germans, etc. did their paperwork to get in. If they didn't, they weren't let in. Apparently Spanish-speaking immigrants are "more special" and don't have to immigrate properly.
Of course the new/. will attach a large animated.gif with the Facebook logo to balance out how small TFS is. Because a picture is worth a thousand words, right?
Japanese has only like two irregular verbs (one of which only has one irregular form, iirc) and one group of around ten honorific verbs that use the same different conjugation.
Of course all that is more than offset by combining Chinese word parts into new words (like English takes Greek and Latin), while flattening the pronunciation (from a tonal language to only five vowel sounds) so that you can't tell without context which one it really is, and giving multiple readings for many kanji. A couple of dozen kanji alone are simply pronounced "shin".
But then again, unless it's powered by a nuclear reactor, it's not a "nuclear, missile, or chemical or biological weapon". Score!
And the OS X EULA only says that it's "not intended for use in" a list of things which doesn't specifically include naval navigation! (Except when failure of the Apple software could lead to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage. So that depends on if getting stuck on a reef counts.)
Not that it helps make it look less like phishing, but I seem to recall that m0.net is a big bulk remailer for non-spam e-mail. I'm sure I've gotten stuff via them before, possibly from Apple. But nothing else in that mail path looks kosher.
There's a difference between minor things like breath rising when you're at least making an effort to film zero-gee scenes in a Vomit Comit plane, versus basing the whole premise and plot of the movie on a complete misunderstanding of orbital physics. Simply changing orbital inclination that much is effectively impossible (it requires so much energy you might as well go down and launch another mission), but doing that with a backpack MMU? Not to mention how easily someone can operate a foreign space station that you've never trained for, with button labels in Chinese, in a "I know this it's Unix!" sort of way. Oh yeah, and there's that little problem about the Hubble being at a much higher altitude than the ISS.
As a beautiful CGI movie and action thriller it's supposed to be a pretty good movie, but it's not even science fantasy, it's science pulled out someone's ass-tasy.
To gamers: I guess that at the end of the day though, if you really want that unnatural jaw-vibrating bass boost for your explosions and dubstep soundtracks (and who wouldn't want that for their entertainment!!) you will probably want to start with good headphones that reach down very low and boost that bass with active electronics like an EQ or old DFX box.
If they really want that very low bass with their headphones, they should get a sub-woofer speaker body harness thingy. LFE is for your gut, not your ears.
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The problem with LEDs in traffic lights, in my experience just driving around, is that the main problem is the light module itself somehow fails such that some of the LEDs can't get electricity. This results in part of the LEDs not lighting. New Orleans is right on the ocean, so the salt water in the air is more likely to cause corrosion problems. The equivalent would be blaming incandescent lights because the bases of the lamps fell apart after wind shook the signals around too much.
And then there is the problem up north, where incandescent traffic light lamps would keep the winter snow melted. When they were changed to LEDs, the lights started to freeze over from the lack of heat.
LEDs aren't perfect for traffic lights, but at least they're actually monochromatic.
PHP: a fractal of bad design
It's like when you put the gate on your shifter upside-down. So instead of first gear, you get fourth. And reverse? Ouuuuuch.
Sync != backup
If something bad happens to the one of the synced copies, expect it to propagate to the rest of your synced copies. This happens often enough to be a problem.
It's still better than nothing, but it's no substitute for a backup to somewhere without a live update that overwrites the only previous copy of your data, and preferably somewhere completely off-line.
Round it up to 16 PID size blocks. That's 4096 per VID. That's also $40K per VID instead of $5K. So eight times the price, and they'll probably never run out of VIDs due to classful allocation. Clearly, money is not much of a motivator for them.
They didn't. They used U-Matic. (which was also from Sony)
If they used any sort of Beta, it was BetaCam (and later DigiBeta) which used the same tapes, but a different recording method... and double the tape speed.
Does it? Remember that time you used wd-40 and duct tape to fix that little problem with your homes front door? Implementing a fix in a manor not intended by the original manufacturer is the definition of hacking, thus you sir are a hacker.
But what if you implement a fix in a cottage not intended by the original manufacturer?
All I want to know is if we will be able to compile the kernel someday without the fucktardery of requiring a case sensitive filesystem for the netfilter source code. (So this is from the same guys who gave us that, huh?)
Big useless pictures with every article and a broken comment system, SLASHDOT BETA!
Still, it's got nothing on the total douchebaggery that is vertical video. TURN. YOUR. CELLPHONE. SIDEWAYS. YOU. MORON.
The anti-Latino prejudices of today are no different than the anti-Asian, anti-Jew, anti-Irish, and anti-German prejudices of the past.
Except for, you know, that part where the Asians, Jews, Irish, Germans, etc. did their paperwork to get in. If they didn't, they weren't let in. Apparently Spanish-speaking immigrants are "more special" and don't have to immigrate properly.
Now if I can just send 600VAC back up the internets to e-mail spammers, it would be an awesome day.
Of course the new /. will attach a large animated .gif with the Facebook logo to balance out how small TFS is. Because a picture is worth a thousand words, right?
Japanese has only like two irregular verbs (one of which only has one irregular form, iirc) and one group of around ten honorific verbs that use the same different conjugation.
Of course all that is more than offset by combining Chinese word parts into new words (like English takes Greek and Latin), while flattening the pronunciation (from a tonal language to only five vowel sounds) so that you can't tell without context which one it really is, and giving multiple readings for many kanji. A couple of dozen kanji alone are simply pronounced "shin".
Indeed, it should be "Nothing of value was loosed."
(If you're going to use the wrong word, at least use the right wrong word!)
That's iTunes.
But then again, unless it's powered by a nuclear reactor, it's not a "nuclear, missile, or chemical or biological weapon". Score!
And the OS X EULA only says that it's "not intended for use in" a list of things which doesn't specifically include naval navigation! (Except when failure of the Apple software could lead to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage. So that depends on if getting stuck on a reef counts.)
Linux doesn't kill people, Windows NT kills people!
(Or at least it kills ships... got to watch out for those divide by zero errors!)
Not that it helps make it look less like phishing, but I seem to recall that m0.net is a big bulk remailer for non-spam e-mail. I'm sure I've gotten stuff via them before, possibly from Apple. But nothing else in that mail path looks kosher.
Subtle troll is way too subtle. Needs some references to FFXI/FFXIV payment problems.
The physics in Gravity is just as -- possibly more -- accurate as that in 2001.
...except when you get to orbital mechanics. Which is pretty much the whole premise of the movie.
There's a difference between minor things like breath rising when you're at least making an effort to film zero-gee scenes in a Vomit Comit plane, versus basing the whole premise and plot of the movie on a complete misunderstanding of orbital physics. Simply changing orbital inclination that much is effectively impossible (it requires so much energy you might as well go down and launch another mission), but doing that with a backpack MMU? Not to mention how easily someone can operate a foreign space station that you've never trained for, with button labels in Chinese, in a "I know this it's Unix!" sort of way. Oh yeah, and there's that little problem about the Hubble being at a much higher altitude than the ISS.
As a beautiful CGI movie and action thriller it's supposed to be a pretty good movie, but it's not even science fantasy, it's science pulled out someone's ass-tasy.
TL;DR: orbits don't work that way
You set up your mail server to send it out via your ISP's outbound mail server. It sees that you are from an "inside" address and happily sends it on.
Four, if you count the one try where you pushed it into the Ethernet jack.
To gamers: I guess that at the end of the day though, if you really want that unnatural jaw-vibrating bass boost for your explosions and dubstep soundtracks (and who wouldn't want that for their entertainment!!) you will probably want to start with good headphones that reach down very low and boost that bass with active electronics like an EQ or old DFX box.
If they really want that very low bass with their headphones, they should get a sub-woofer speaker body harness thingy. LFE is for your gut, not your ears.