Whats funny is that Prius owners give almost the EXACT opposite advice! (aside from not riding the break; but you shouldn't do that anyway). I realize its because of the design differences between the two.
No, I got my CDs for free. Glad to hear eMachines have got real power supplies these days.
Frankly, sir, you sound like a consumer whose pride was wounded when someone else criticized the manufacturer you bought your machine from and then had the temerity to back it up!
Its not so much that my pride is/was wounded; its more like people bitching about comcast cable modem service. What it comes down to is YMMV, plain and simple. Speaking of which: We had a crazy thunderstorm last night- power was off and on, surges and spurts, the works. Cable Modem went out. I didn't even bother calling it in because I knew it'd be fixed by the time I woke up. 6am this morning- all the lights happily blinking on the cablemodem.
So do I curse comcast that my service was down for more than an hour?
As for my "temerity", you sound like every other "Big Corporations are Bad!" ex-retail worker; Are you complaining that they shaved off a few bucks by not including the CDs? (The restore partition is actually a really good idea for the clueless) Are you complaining because people brought the machines back? How many came back to complain? How many came back to laud the machine? Usually, you (as a retail associate) would only hear about those who complain. You are hardly statistically significant yourself. Whats your sample size? Under 1000?
oh, no no no! I don't mean that its competing against iPod! I mean that Apple uses iTunes to sell iPods- sort of a value added service and a reason to buy an iPod over a Nomad jukebox.
In the sameway, downloadable roms that are legitimate is the vapour- and quite an enticing vapour, too.
You can talk all you want, and thats great. But I don't believe Sony until its in my hands. Sure, I love it once I can buy it, but promises from never-never land mean nothing.
I wonder if they hired any ex-chicago post office workers. That might explain the bad service and the run-around.;)
Comcast service is a mixed bag- I've had technicians game the system for me* (they told me to schedule a service call, which would raise the priority of my neighborhood problem and get it fixed that night. 3 hours later, fixed.) and I've had good service. Search the bulletin boards and you'll see messages from people all over complaining. It almost makes sense to find a job and a place to live based on the good comcasts!
Second: Circuit City by me has a comcast at home deal where you get the modem FREE after rebate. Yeah. So you recoup in 0 months.
Third: Their service has been top-notch for the past 2 years (last major outtage was 10 months ago, for a couple of hours). However YMMV- I don't know what things are like where you live.
Fourth: when it snows and the roads are a wreck, I don't miss a day of work. 1 day alone has more than paid for it.
1)I have comcast cable modem service. 2) I have my own modem. 3)I save $4 a month. 4)Profit!!
The idea is for comcast to load something extra onto the box; like wifi (which I may or may not already have, I'm not saying;) to make this work for them.
Look at current cable service. Do you need a cable box? NO: plenty of cable ready TVs. However if I want the special channels, or the DVR, I need their box.
Currently as long as they have my MAC address I don't need any of their equipment in my house.
Your code needs to be 99.999% reliable. How the heck do you do that? Probability and Statistics.
You want to figure out system load from network usuage; how do you do it? Model network traffic as a laplacian distribution.
I'm not saying you need to calculate the autocorrelation of two random processes, but if you want to prove to others that your design has merit, throw some math at it.
Apparently not as much of a nerd as you'd like to think, since you forgot to factor in frequency and duration.
I didn't have time to include freq. and duration, this dumbass is still "doing the math!";)
High currents can be passed through (over) the human body at higher frequency a) because they tend to travel over the surface of the body and b) because the nervous system is less likely to react to frequencies 100Hz and upwards.
okay, but if we aren't getting any AC from the engine we're left with DC from the battery. So I wasn't factoring in frequency.
How/why do I say what? My assumed resistance? Shot in the dark, really, based upon the info from the link. Engineer's gotta draw a line in the sand somewhere and let the margin of error take the rest!
That being said, I've heard the way to a man's heart is through is stomach, and if you've got a big stomach, thats probably the path of least resistance; then its only a hop skip and a jump to the heart.;)
Ohhhhh, good point. assuming 500-1000 ohms *(source: grandparent link), you'd need 50,000 to 100k volts to get 10 amps, and 5,000 to 10,000 to get a deadly ampere.
at 500 volts, thats approx.5 an ampere- still nothing to sneeze at.
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They were only trying to protect you from the terrible secret of pollutants.
Pushing will protect you.
that is incorrect. Shoving will protect you.
From the terrible secret of space!^W Water!
Whats funny is that Prius owners give almost the EXACT opposite advice! (aside from not riding the break; but you shouldn't do that anyway). I realize its because of the design differences between the two.
Google it. (look at the 5/13/2003 update on NiN Hotline). Heck, you can even find it in French and German!
No, I got my CDs for free.
Glad to hear eMachines have got real power supplies these days.
Frankly, sir, you sound like a consumer whose pride was wounded when someone else criticized the manufacturer you bought your machine from and then had the temerity to back it up!
Its not so much that my pride is/was wounded; its more like people bitching about comcast cable modem service. What it comes down to is YMMV, plain and simple. Speaking of which: We had a crazy thunderstorm last night- power was off and on, surges and spurts, the works. Cable Modem went out. I didn't even bother calling it in because I knew it'd be fixed by the time I woke up. 6am this morning- all the lights happily blinking on the cablemodem.
So do I curse comcast that my service was down for more than an hour?
As for my "temerity", you sound like every other "Big Corporations are Bad!" ex-retail worker; Are you complaining that they shaved off a few bucks by not including the CDs? (The restore partition is actually a really good idea for the clueless) Are you complaining because people brought the machines back? How many came back to complain? How many came back to laud the machine? Usually, you (as a retail associate) would only hear about those who complain. You are hardly statistically significant yourself. Whats your sample size? Under 1000?
Whatever. My HP doesn't catch on fire like eMachines do. (or used to. Have they gotten better?)
Also I got restore CD's from HP. Sure, I had to call for them, but I got them.
My HP has been everything I wanted it to be: cheap, decent, no compatibility problems, and has handled all the "upgrades" I've added into it.
This was my first x86 PC and I just wanted an inexpensive box that worked.
R stands for Rand. And 18 mil R approx equals 2.5 mil USD.
Still, not bad.
oh, no no no! I don't mean that its competing against iPod! I mean that Apple uses iTunes to sell iPods- sort of a value added service and a reason to buy an iPod over a Nomad jukebox.
In the sameway, downloadable roms that are legitimate is the vapour- and quite an enticing vapour, too.
Copy apple with iTunes/iPod, that sounds great.
Show me the money. Err, downloads.
You can talk all you want, and thats great. But I don't believe Sony until its in my hands. Sure, I love it once I can buy it, but promises from never-never land mean nothing.
I wonder if they hired any ex-chicago post office workers. That might explain the bad service and the run-around. ;)
Comcast service is a mixed bag- I've had technicians game the system for me* (they told me to schedule a service call, which would raise the priority of my neighborhood problem and get it fixed that night. 3 hours later, fixed.) and I've had good service. Search the bulletin boards and you'll see messages from people all over complaining. It almost makes sense to find a job and a place to live based on the good comcasts!
first off: 55/4 is 13 months; so about a year.
Second: Circuit City by me has a comcast at home deal where you get the modem FREE after rebate. Yeah. So you recoup in 0 months.
Third: Their service has been top-notch for the past 2 years (last major outtage was 10 months ago, for a couple of hours). However YMMV- I don't know what things are like where you live.
Fourth: when it snows and the roads are a wreck, I don't miss a day of work. 1 day alone has more than paid for it.
food for thought.
1)I have comcast cable modem service.
;) to make this work for them.
2) I have my own modem.
3)I save $4 a month.
4)Profit!!
The idea is for comcast to load something extra onto the box; like wifi (which I may or may not already have, I'm not saying
Look at current cable service. Do you need a cable box? NO: plenty of cable ready TVs. However if I want the special channels, or the DVR, I need their box.
Currently as long as they have my MAC address I don't need any of their equipment in my house.
This is slashdot. We've dated Oil of Olay, Crisco, and Vaseline. WE have no shame!
While you're at it, call up the FTC. I'm sure they'd love to fine Verizon.
oooof. I had to see that movie as part of my "Computer and the Bomb" class.
Here's a spoiler: the electronic brain loses, but hepburn is actually a robotic android who dreams of eletric sheep and Spencer Tracy. Juicy!
Dunno, Slug Tag sounds pretty fun.
it is, unless you're the slug!
"wait up, guys!"
I think you meant Flugtag.
Being the Other guy who actually knows a little bit about the theory behind parallel processing, your anecdote gave me great pleasure!
I love how management types says "well, we'll give you a 4-processor computer, so your program will run 4 times faster!" [groan]
Your code needs to be 99.999% reliable. How the heck do you do that? Probability and Statistics.
You want to figure out system load from network usuage; how do you do it? Model network traffic as a laplacian distribution.
I'm not saying you need to calculate the autocorrelation of two random processes, but if you want to prove to others that your design has merit, throw some math at it.
great point! Who says you can't learn a lot from reading the comments in slashdot?!
Apparently not as much of a nerd as you'd like to think, since you forgot to factor in frequency and duration.
;)
I didn't have time to include freq. and duration, this dumbass is still "doing the math!"
High currents can be passed through (over) the human body at higher frequency a) because they tend to travel over the surface of the body and b) because the nervous system is less likely to react to frequencies 100Hz and upwards.
okay, but if we aren't getting any AC from the engine we're left with DC from the battery. So I wasn't factoring in frequency.
How/why do I say what? My assumed resistance? Shot in the dark, really, based upon the info from the link. Engineer's gotta draw a line in the sand somewhere and let the margin of error take the rest!
;)
That being said, I've heard the way to a man's heart is through is stomach, and if you've got a big stomach, thats probably the path of least resistance; then its only a hop skip and a jump to the heart.
Ohhhhh, good point. assuming 500-1000 ohms *(source: grandparent link), you'd need 50,000 to 100k volts to get 10 amps, and 5,000 to 10,000 to get a deadly ampere.
.5 an ampere- still nothing to sneeze at.
at 500 volts, thats approx
Is there anyway of getting AC out of the engine?!
vs. dumb-asses.
500 volts? 45 volts is enough to kill you... at 10 amperes!
Seriously, aren't we nerds, or something?!
Mum! Quick! I have to go jewty!
nah, that doesn't really work.