The thing is, Canadians have been Spocking their five dollar bills for decades. What surprised me was that they're still doing it after the bill was redesigned.
And after doing a google image search, it seems there have been a few people who tried it with the US five dollar bill too. Abe Lincoln's beard makes him look like Mirror Spock though. And the new Canadian five has also been Snaped.
Corn syrup is probably why I stopped drinking Coca-Cola and switched to (aspartame) Diet Coke. It just didn't taste as good, though in recent years I've heard that may be because its flavor is more temperature-sensitive, and aspartame isn't. (Then I gave up DC so I wouldn't have to maintain a consistent caffeine dosage to avoid headaches, but I do get CFDC in the gold cans from time to time.)
But I also liked the original formula (with sucrose), enough that I could tell the difference in an unexpected blind test. When "New Coke" was about six months old, my mom took me along to a car repair place. They apparently were big on buying sodas by the case. I opened a can of Coca-Cola, took a sip, my eyes got big, and then I noticed the promo offer on the can from just before New Coke. Supposedly switching to HFCS was in fact not the motivation for making New Coke, it just happened to be at the same time.
I think the main thing needed is LBA support. It's a bit hard to configure CHS on a device with no user interface. 160MB is probably large enough, any smaller might not be. It can be confirmed by going into the BIOS and seeing if the drive was configured with CHS or LBA (though it might still support LBA even if configured with CHS). Also, the adaptors generally don't have 44-pin laptop IDE connectors, so he'll either need to get an external case or a 40-to-44-pin adapter.
The drives were unrecoverable and just went "click click" when later mounted back in the original PCs.
Even if your FUD was true, I don't think he particularly cares about putting it back into his Windows 3.1 386 laptop. I've never had anything like this happen, and I've done everything short of throwing drives in the air and juggling with them. Perhaps you're just "magneto-static" and shit breaks whenever you touch it.
As always, I'm sure it's one guy trying to justify being on the payroll (I'm presuming he doesn't do it for free) by constantly making changes to the HTML, "See what I did today!" Yeah, I see what you didn't do today, which was put the changes on a test server first and try it out with multiple browsers. "Oh look at me, I can make buttons that don't look like buttons until your mouse goes over them!" I see he didn't try it out with Android/IOS either. Hooray for Stupid CSS Tricks. And stop with that fixed width garbage, some of us want a larger font size.
On the other hand, Beta was a manager trying to justify being on the payroll by forcing a major site re-design.
This might be tricky if the hard drive is pre-LBA. The easy way to check is to go into BIOS and see how the hard drives are defined. If there are cylinders/heads/sectors numbers, a USB adapter is probably not going to work. 160MB should be big enough to support LBA.
And don't forget to get the adapter from standard 40-pin IDE to the 44-pin laptop IDE connector. (or get an IDE external laptop drive case, I know there's still a few on the shelf at Fry's)
I'd like to see a video of a 3D printer working on a truck while the truck is moving. Especially up north where they have a lot of potholes. Especially a day with extreme weather. It should be worth the price of the popcorn.
And if they say "Well, uhhhhh, we'll print it in the truck before driving out there!", then I'd like to know why they think it's more efficient to have the truck and driver sitting around for a couple of hours while a 3D printer runs, rather than just leave the printer in a non-vibrating environmentally-controlled building and deliver the objects after they finish printing.
Yes, I remember Apple and Carl Sagan. And it had nothing to do with patents or other IP laws, but instead about implied endorsement. They used "Carl Sagan" as an internal codename for a particular model of Power Mac. So they renamed it BHA, which stood for Butt-Head Astronomer.
Sosume was completely unrelated to Carl Sagan, being instead about Apple Records, which was due to a settlement about a trademark issue. Part of the agreement was that they wouldn't produce "music".
And for that matter, neither is a standard 2x4 ABS Lego brick worth making on a 3D printer, even on a super high resolution SLS printer. Injection molding gives a much more accurate and faster way to make thousands or millions of the same part. Just because a 3D printer can make something doesn't mean you should (or should want to) use it as a substitute for existing mass-production methods.
Where 3D printers are useful is in making customized parts, such as obsolete designs or new designs. Make a custom Lego-compatible brick of exactly the shape you need, make a 2x4 Lego brick out of metal, or make a part that is no longer manufactured.
I'm disappointed that the headline wasn't written as a question, because then we could invoke Betteridge.
I call it the "85/85" fad. It started about 10 years or so ago, where normal body text was set via CSS to 85% gray and 85% of your configured font size. Presumably it was to make headlines look bigger instead of, you know, just increasing the size of headline text? I'm sure it must even be a default in new Wordpress configurations. And suddenly everybody is doing that crap. But I took a quick look at the linked site, and it's more like 75/75. And it even has a tag cloud, something that I hear was first invented as a joke.
And a quick protip: your browser probably has a way to turn off CSS rendering. In Mozilla Seamonkey it's View -> Use Style -> None. Of course excessive formatting and hidden fields and pop-up menus and facebutt logins turn into a jumble all over the page, and this one seems to be worse than others. The most interesting is how every word in headline text is in there twice. "The The Ten Ten Lies Lies..."
The good news is, having a throat designed for speaking is a different gene. They'd still be going ook-ook, but they might be a lot more social (the problem with adult chips around humans is that they STAY at that 2-3yo level of socialization) and better at using tools. But we know they can learn sign language, so lack of speech won't be enough to stop them from having a revolution and taking over the planet.
Not only that, but life would have been unlikely to survive the event that split the moon away from the earth even if it had already started. There would be tremendous rock-melting heat involved, and fossils would have been destroyed on both the earth and moon.
Not only is it less likely for earth rocks to end up on the moon than the reverse (higher escape velocity), but the question wasn't if earth rocks ended up on the moon, it was fossils. Would the energy it took to get fossil-bearing rocks past escape velocity be so much that the fossils are likely to get damaged? That would further reduce the chance of find earth fossils on the moon.
Because writing code to do balanced (as opposed to unbalanced) binary trees is a "homework assignment" level question (with multiple branching decision points and subtasks) vs a "test question" level question. Traversing linked linked lists is an idiom that should be internalized if you're going to be messing with data structures and pointers.
If you're just trying to get it to work, taping off the switches is more sensible than ripping the switches out of the wall, then having to put everything back when you realize the system you chose had basic flaws.
The big problems with wiring a house for remotely-controlled switches are that 1) the wall switches may only have the hot wire go through the box, leaving you without a good way to power your "smart" switches other than ground leakage, and that 2) wires to the lamps and outlets are on the same branch, so you can't put the relays in a box next to the breakers, and the relays basically need to be put at or in the lamp itself, and any on/off smarts (occupancy detection and on/off schedules) need to also be at the relay.
Then you need some way to get a signal from the switch to the relay (assuming you don't do the old X-10 thing with the relay in the switch). Fortunately, wireless technology has significantly improved in the past decade or so.
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Sharks, hell, where's the popcorn?
The thing is, Canadians have been Spocking their five dollar bills for decades. What surprised me was that they're still doing it after the bill was redesigned.
And after doing a google image search, it seems there have been a few people who tried it with the US five dollar bill too. Abe Lincoln's beard makes him look like Mirror Spock though. And the new Canadian five has also been Snaped.
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Don't forget to scrub those EXIF tags! Otherwise it might end up automatically pegged on Google Maps.
Corn syrup is probably why I stopped drinking Coca-Cola and switched to (aspartame) Diet Coke. It just didn't taste as good, though in recent years I've heard that may be because its flavor is more temperature-sensitive, and aspartame isn't. (Then I gave up DC so I wouldn't have to maintain a consistent caffeine dosage to avoid headaches, but I do get CFDC in the gold cans from time to time.)
But I also liked the original formula (with sucrose), enough that I could tell the difference in an unexpected blind test. When "New Coke" was about six months old, my mom took me along to a car repair place. They apparently were big on buying sodas by the case. I opened a can of Coca-Cola, took a sip, my eyes got big, and then I noticed the promo offer on the can from just before New Coke. Supposedly switching to HFCS was in fact not the motivation for making New Coke, it just happened to be at the same time.
Of course by that time, none of the kids knew who that bald guy was.
I think it's time for another Ask Slashdot about backups...
I think the main thing needed is LBA support. It's a bit hard to configure CHS on a device with no user interface. 160MB is probably large enough, any smaller might not be. It can be confirmed by going into the BIOS and seeing if the drive was configured with CHS or LBA (though it might still support LBA even if configured with CHS). Also, the adaptors generally don't have 44-pin laptop IDE connectors, so he'll either need to get an external case or a 40-to-44-pin adapter.
The drives were unrecoverable and just went "click click" when later mounted back in the original PCs.
Even if your FUD was true, I don't think he particularly cares about putting it back into his Windows 3.1 386 laptop . I've never had anything like this happen, and I've done everything short of throwing drives in the air and juggling with them. Perhaps you're just "magneto-static" and shit breaks whenever you touch it.
Great, except he has a laptop drive, and I'll bet yours is for a regular 40-pin desktop drive.
As always, I'm sure it's one guy trying to justify being on the payroll (I'm presuming he doesn't do it for free) by constantly making changes to the HTML, "See what I did today!" Yeah, I see what you didn't do today, which was put the changes on a test server first and try it out with multiple browsers. "Oh look at me, I can make buttons that don't look like buttons until your mouse goes over them!" I see he didn't try it out with Android/IOS either. Hooray for Stupid CSS Tricks. And stop with that fixed width garbage, some of us want a larger font size.
On the other hand, Beta was a manager trying to justify being on the payroll by forcing a major site re-design.
This might be tricky if the hard drive is pre-LBA. The easy way to check is to go into BIOS and see how the hard drives are defined. If there are cylinders/heads/sectors numbers, a USB adapter is probably not going to work. 160MB should be big enough to support LBA.
And don't forget to get the adapter from standard 40-pin IDE to the 44-pin laptop IDE connector. (or get an IDE external laptop drive case, I know there's still a few on the shelf at Fry's)
Near where I lived for a while, there was a "Saint John Neumann" church. I always amused myself by reading it as Saint John von Neumann.
I'd like to see a video of a 3D printer working on a truck while the truck is moving. Especially up north where they have a lot of potholes. Especially a day with extreme weather. It should be worth the price of the popcorn.
And if they say "Well, uhhhhh, we'll print it in the truck before driving out there!", then I'd like to know why they think it's more efficient to have the truck and driver sitting around for a couple of hours while a 3D printer runs, rather than just leave the printer in a non-vibrating environmentally-controlled building and deliver the objects after they finish printing.
Yes, I remember Apple and Carl Sagan. And it had nothing to do with patents or other IP laws, but instead about implied endorsement. They used "Carl Sagan" as an internal codename for a particular model of Power Mac. So they renamed it BHA, which stood for Butt-Head Astronomer.
Sosume was completely unrelated to Carl Sagan, being instead about Apple Records, which was due to a settlement about a trademark issue. Part of the agreement was that they wouldn't produce "music".
But the best aspire to be like Mel. Well, more or less.
I'm sure Lars will have something to say about it being the end of the world.
And for that matter, neither is a standard 2x4 ABS Lego brick worth making on a 3D printer, even on a super high resolution SLS printer. Injection molding gives a much more accurate and faster way to make thousands or millions of the same part. Just because a 3D printer can make something doesn't mean you should (or should want to) use it as a substitute for existing mass-production methods.
Where 3D printers are useful is in making customized parts, such as obsolete designs or new designs. Make a custom Lego-compatible brick of exactly the shape you need, make a 2x4 Lego brick out of metal, or make a part that is no longer manufactured.
I'm disappointed that the headline wasn't written as a question, because then we could invoke Betteridge.
I call it the "85/85" fad. It started about 10 years or so ago, where normal body text was set via CSS to 85% gray and 85% of your configured font size. Presumably it was to make headlines look bigger instead of, you know, just increasing the size of headline text? I'm sure it must even be a default in new Wordpress configurations. And suddenly everybody is doing that crap. But I took a quick look at the linked site, and it's more like 75/75. And it even has a tag cloud, something that I hear was first invented as a joke.
And a quick protip: your browser probably has a way to turn off CSS rendering. In Mozilla Seamonkey it's View -> Use Style -> None. Of course excessive formatting and hidden fields and pop-up menus and facebutt logins turn into a jumble all over the page, and this one seems to be worse than others. The most interesting is how every word in headline text is in there twice. "The The Ten Ten Lies Lies..."
The good news is, having a throat designed for speaking is a different gene. They'd still be going ook-ook, but they might be a lot more social (the problem with adult chips around humans is that they STAY at that 2-3yo level of socialization) and better at using tools. But we know they can learn sign language, so lack of speech won't be enough to stop them from having a revolution and taking over the planet.
It was called The Last One
Not only that, but life would have been unlikely to survive the event that split the moon away from the earth even if it had already started. There would be tremendous rock-melting heat involved, and fossils would have been destroyed on both the earth and moon.
Not only is it less likely for earth rocks to end up on the moon than the reverse (higher escape velocity), but the question wasn't if earth rocks ended up on the moon, it was fossils. Would the energy it took to get fossil-bearing rocks past escape velocity be so much that the fossils are likely to get damaged? That would further reduce the chance of find earth fossils on the moon.
You would be able to tell because the background music would get more dramatic whenever you looked into the night sky.
Because writing code to do balanced (as opposed to unbalanced) binary trees is a "homework assignment" level question (with multiple branching decision points and subtasks) vs a "test question" level question. Traversing linked linked lists is an idiom that should be internalized if you're going to be messing with data structures and pointers.
If you're just trying to get it to work, taping off the switches is more sensible than ripping the switches out of the wall, then having to put everything back when you realize the system you chose had basic flaws.
The big problems with wiring a house for remotely-controlled switches are that 1) the wall switches may only have the hot wire go through the box, leaving you without a good way to power your "smart" switches other than ground leakage, and that 2) wires to the lamps and outlets are on the same branch, so you can't put the relays in a box next to the breakers, and the relays basically need to be put at or in the lamp itself, and any on/off smarts (occupancy detection and on/off schedules) need to also be at the relay.
Then you need some way to get a signal from the switch to the relay (assuming you don't do the old X-10 thing with the relay in the switch). Fortunately, wireless technology has significantly improved in the past decade or so.
But indeed, this "isn't for everyone".