I watch the news from about four sources and then search for another John Wayne movie. I find a new one every week, and I think I have seen about 10,000 so far. Now and then I wonder if my memory is going and I just keep watching the same ones over and over.
Seriously, I use mozilla and have firefox setup to goto the same email as Mozilla. Isn't it nice to know that the "not designed here" sysdrome is still prevalent. All mozilla and netscape managed to use "Preferences" under the Edit tab. Firefox could not be both consistant and new so someone decided that new was better.
Wouldn't it be nice to setup your email so that it can easily be viewed by either Mozilla or Thunderbird?
For the past 25 years, I have watched the Intel vs Competitor battle, in both memory products and CPU products. Intel products always cost more than their competitor's similar product. I am not convinced that AMD can build a product at a lower manufacturing cost than Intel, yet their product always has a lower cost. Now that AMD has equalled or surpassed Intel in processor design and is gaining market share, Intel seems to be following in the footsteps of Microsoft. As a design engineer,I stopped specifying Intel parts long ago when I realized that they were price-gouging their customers. They have a good part, and as long as people are willing to pay more for a label that says "Intel Inside" then that is fair. Paying a rebate or bribe to keep customers is illegal and considered unethical.
Consider this, "If you buy 100,000 of our product your price will be $1,000,000 for the lot. However if you agree to buy fewer or none of the competing AMD product, we will sell you the lot for $900,000."
Companies set their real prices based on the manufacturing cost of the product and the profit they must make on each to stay in business. Their sell price is NOT supposed to be based on whether the the buyer is also obtaining products from a competitor. Giving rebates or discounts based no that principle is similar to a bribe, and is illegal nearly everywhere [unless you are receiving the bribe;) ].
When I read it, I got the impression some lawyer decided to write a law to protect individuals and estates from auctioneers that do not know how to run an auction and get the best deal for the estate owners. The fact that it applies to something on the internet may be purely unintended.
Also, the person who sells on ebay is not an auctioneer. He is the owner of a product that has been taken to ebay to be auctioned off. EBAY is the auctioneer and probably the only entity covered by this law. Again, however, as laws get put on the books, their unintended audience will be found if it means that some fee can be extracted.
If you have given your personal word (oath) to someone that you will not disclose their name in exchange for information they provide, it has nothing to do with whether or not you are a Journalist, no matter how you define "being a journalist". It is a verbal contract based on your integrity.
In cases like this, and in mostly all cases in which a judge requires handover of a person's name, the "journalist" has to determine whether he will violate his own personal ethics and let someone else be hurt, or whether he will go to jail to protect someone. So far as I know, there is no law involved, only precedence.
...along with the W-2 (including SSN and salary data) of every other one-time PayMaxx customer..
I crossed my fingers and clicked on that link, thinking, maybe , maybe this time, my ship has come in! 100,000 good email addresses and a cut of all the uh... references, that is it, references. Looks like I'll be back at work again next week instead.
"They immediately started swimming when the ice melted," Hoover told LiveScience, adding that the cryopreserved bacteria were instantly ready to eat and multiply.
Sounds like a very old frozen dinner that can do math!
I worked like hell all day yesterday and did not get to read slashdot at all. Today, I log in and find a very interesting story, and for me it's the first time to see it. These stories inspire some people to write their congressmen/women instead of just ranting and raving about slashdot's editors. Your philosophy would mean that TV news stories that were first reported in the morning would never be aired again at night. Use your head before you spout off at the keyboard and start back to doing your five minutes's of work that is equal to some editor's full day of work!
Most of the world uses IE because it came on their computer, so if they try to see this site there will be a problem. Has anyone thought about just putting up a banner that says something like
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Why must every software package remain on my computer forever?
Last year I kept all my email at work for 6 months. I called all mail that I had not personally signed up for to be SPAM and that includes conference announcements.
Approximately 51% was SPAM of about 3000 total. I don't have the exact numbers in front of me anymore. During the summer and fall, I let some graduate students use my computer, and now I get approximately 75 % SPAM. I don't read it all, but I also get email to my computer that has a different user name and email address.
Some guy out in CA is a Republican, and a good friend of the president. That ties him and the state to the Bush administration. Not only that, my mama makes better apple pie than yours!
Ask me why I my state taxes went up after Bush gave me a tax reduction. One administration cuts taxes so that the states have to pick up the difference and the deficit increases. The next administration adds the taxes back on to pay down the deficit, but they have to tax more to pay off the interest. Sooner or later, there will be no reason to file a tax return as the governments will already have it all. Plan ahead and plant a garden for when you can no longer buy food.
THe version numbers are based on the number of lines and bytes of code that had to be modified or added since the last revision, expressed as base 2 number. In this case 6.8.2 means (2^6)*(2^8)*(2^2). The reason it is always increasing is that developers are hesitant to keep releasing tidbits of code so they just wait until they have a little more than the previous time. THe only company that has violated that hs been Microsoft as they moved Word from 2 to 6. At that time they were not making money at the rate Bill wanted, so they started this deal that everyone should have to pay for the newer version. By jumping from 2 to 6, they were able to convince people that the old version should be discarded and only the new, highter priced version should be used. They also made it not backwards compatible so that users of the old version would not be able to tell if the new one was worth the money until after they had bought it and installed it. Microsoft also used base 10, since they have never had to deal with small numbers in order to correct previous mistakes.
The power supply nameplate ratings are not based on output power but input power. This is a requirement by the international product safety agencies. Look on the nameplate and you will find the CE mark, a UL mark, and other symbols related to requirements imposed by various countries around the world.
The output power rating, which is what you need for operation, is based on a combination of the outputs that can be simultaneously loaded.
The efficiency of a power supply is also dependent on the load being used. For instance, the main regulation feedback loop probably has the highest efficiency and the other outputs have secondary post-regulators that require more background power to operate.
Power supplies operate from a 120 volt or 220 volt input AC wall plug/outlet and undergo some severe transients at turn-on and turn-off. Some of the supplies have automatic voltage sensing circuits to operate from either of these inputs automatically. Nearly all power supplies operate from an internal 340 VDC. This voltage has to start from zero and return to zero when unplugged. Most present power supplies have a keep-alive circuit to allow instant on from a standby condition. (The green wire on the output side.) Don't mess with the green wire with yellow stripe that is on the input side. That one is a safety wire for the input protection.
A WORD of CAUTION: Give your power supply a chance! Design engineers cannot anticipate and design in protection for all conditions and still give you a power supply you can afford. When you turn it off, wait 10 seconds before restarting so that capacitors can discharge and voltages can settle to stable conditions. You may never be able to make a power supply fail if you don't, but you will not be happy if you do. I have designed power supplies, purchased, and tested PC and custom power supplies. I have two bad hard drives from a system I bought from DELL last year. A friend could not tell that the system turned on (too quiet) so he pushed the power on/off too rapidly and too many times. Twenty years ago,my first computer suffered a power supply failure when I turned it off and immediately changed my mind and turned it back on.
Are you new at this? 1. The good wireless mics are analog FM, not digital. 2. The studios have no need for wireless. You can make a system as good as wires, but no better. Why pay, and why take a chance on interference?
3. Digital with the same "audio quality" as analog could be designed, but is far too expensive and complex, and can be proved, theoretically to have much better response than the human ear can hear, but like Betamax, there is a lowercost solution.
4. Bandwidth is defined as the frequency at which the impedance is the same as the resistance for a first order system. Well, at least it was prior to 1914 in the Wiley EE Handbook. The accepted definition of bandwidth as the half power point followed from the use of voltage to make the measurements. 5. Like you, I prefer to see the curves, and have the frequency response clearly defined. However, Unless specified otherwise, the accepted value has been the -3db points of a first order system and that has been used for the past 90 years in all handbooks and textbooks. (Wiley, EE Handbook, 1914)
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I get about 40 hours of sleep per week. I don't know if I am addicted to sleep, but I sure am tired! (and sleepy)
Seriously, I use mozilla and have firefox setup to goto the same email as Mozilla. Isn't it nice to know that the "not designed here" sysdrome is still prevalent. All mozilla and netscape managed to use "Preferences" under the Edit tab. Firefox could not be both consistant and new so someone decided that new was better.
Wouldn't it be nice to setup your email so that it can easily be viewed by either Mozilla or Thunderbird?
For the past 25 years, I have watched the Intel vs Competitor battle, in both memory products and CPU products. Intel products always cost more than their competitor's similar product. I am not convinced that AMD can build a product at a lower manufacturing cost than Intel, yet their product always has a lower cost. Now that AMD has equalled or surpassed Intel in processor design and is gaining market share, Intel seems to be following in the footsteps of Microsoft. As a design engineer,I stopped specifying Intel parts long ago when I realized that they were price-gouging their customers. They have a good part, and as long as people are willing to pay more for a label that says "Intel Inside" then that is fair. Paying a rebate or bribe to keep customers is illegal and considered unethical.
Companies set their real prices based on the manufacturing cost of the product and the profit they must make on each to stay in business. Their sell price is NOT supposed to be based on whether the the buyer is also obtaining products from a competitor. Giving rebates or discounts based no that principle is similar to a bribe, and is illegal nearly everywhere [unless you are receiving the bribe ;) ].
You must be new to slashdot!
Also, the person who sells on ebay is not an auctioneer. He is the owner of a product that has been taken to ebay to be auctioned off. EBAY is the auctioneer and probably the only entity covered by this law. Again, however, as laws get put on the books, their unintended audience will be found if it means that some fee can be extracted.
In cases like this, and in mostly all cases in which a judge requires handover of a person's name, the "journalist" has to determine whether he will violate his own personal ethics and let someone else be hurt, or whether he will go to jail to protect someone. So far as I know, there is no law involved, only precedence.
I crossed my fingers and clicked on that link, thinking, maybe , maybe this time, my ship has come in! 100,000 good email addresses and a cut of all the uh... references, that is it, references. Looks like I'll be back at work again next week instead.
I heard that!
IANAAMDE ?? Man, next time use spellcheck!
Sounds like a very old frozen dinner that can do math!
I worked like hell all day yesterday and did not get to read slashdot at all. Today, I log in and find a very interesting story, and for me it's the first time to see it. These stories inspire some people to write their congressmen/women instead of just ranting and raving about slashdot's editors. Your philosophy would mean that TV news stories that were first reported in the morning would never be aired again at night. Use your head before you spout off at the keyboard and start back to doing your five minutes's of work that is equal to some editor's full day of work!
Tell that to Aunt Susie.
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Why must every software package remain on my computer forever?
Alas, still just a copy!
Last year I kept all my email at work for 6 months. I called all mail that I had not personally signed up for to be SPAM and that includes conference announcements. Approximately 51% was SPAM of about 3000 total. I don't have the exact numbers in front of me anymore. During the summer and fall, I let some graduate students use my computer, and now I get approximately 75 % SPAM. I don't read it all, but I also get email to my computer that has a different user name and email address.
Ask me why I my state taxes went up after Bush gave me a tax reduction. One administration cuts taxes so that the states have to pick up the difference and the deficit increases. The next administration adds the taxes back on to pay down the deficit, but they have to tax more to pay off the interest. Sooner or later, there will be no reason to file a tax return as the governments will already have it all. Plan ahead and plant a garden for when you can no longer buy food.
It's too bad I don't have mod points today because I really liked the one about the cops.
Now you know!
I thought Chick was from either North Corea or South Corea!
The output power rating, which is what you need for operation, is based on a combination of the outputs that can be simultaneously loaded.
The efficiency of a power supply is also dependent on the load being used. For instance, the main regulation feedback loop probably has the highest efficiency and the other outputs have secondary post-regulators that require more background power to operate.
Power supplies operate from a 120 volt or 220 volt input AC wall plug/outlet and undergo some severe transients at turn-on and turn-off. Some of the supplies have automatic voltage sensing circuits to operate from either of these inputs automatically. Nearly all power supplies operate from an internal 340 VDC. This voltage has to start from zero and return to zero when unplugged. Most present power supplies have a keep-alive circuit to allow instant on from a standby condition. (The green wire on the output side.) Don't mess with the green wire with yellow stripe that is on the input side. That one is a safety wire for the input protection.
A WORD of CAUTION: Give your power supply a chance! Design engineers cannot anticipate and design in protection for all conditions and still give you a power supply you can afford. When you turn it off, wait 10 seconds before restarting so that capacitors can discharge and voltages can settle to stable conditions. You may never be able to make a power supply fail if you don't, but you will not be happy if you do. I have designed power supplies, purchased, and tested PC and custom power supplies. I have two bad hard drives from a system I bought from DELL last year. A friend could not tell that the system turned on (too quiet) so he pushed the power on/off too rapidly and too many times. Twenty years ago,my first computer suffered a power supply failure when I turned it off and immediately changed my mind and turned it back on.
AFLAC??
Once it gets flagged into the "eery" category they jump in with both feet to check out both you and the transaction destination.
Nope, still not! It will take more than that to make IT be art.
Are you new at this?
1. The good wireless mics are analog FM, not digital.
2. The studios have no need for wireless. You can make a system as good as wires, but no better. Why pay, and why take a chance on interference?
3. Digital with the same "audio quality" as analog could be designed, but is far too expensive and complex, and can be proved, theoretically to have much better response than the human ear can hear, but like Betamax, there is a lowercost solution.
4. Bandwidth is defined as the frequency at which the impedance is the same as the resistance for a first order system. Well, at least it was prior to 1914 in the Wiley EE Handbook. The accepted definition of bandwidth as the half power point followed from the use of voltage to make the measurements.
5. Like you, I prefer to see the curves, and have the frequency response clearly defined. However, Unless specified otherwise, the accepted value has been the -3db points of a first order system and that has been used for the past 90 years in all handbooks and textbooks. (Wiley, EE Handbook, 1914)