Don't talk bad about Win-95. I have an old machine with a Hayes 56k external. The computer runs Win95 loaded from about 12 floppy disks and has never been patched. I don't try to load the latest software or do any updates/upgrades except the virus and firewall. It never, never, never crashes or has a problem of any kind. (Well, it will crash if I run Netscape and ACDSee and Photoshop at the same time - so I don't.) I use it for all my "emergency" needs when my new fast gee whizz tiger will not run a program I need. I often wonder what MS could have done if they had fixed the few problems in W-95 had instead of making everyone pay more and more for upgraded bloatware>
Those phone cameras don't have tripod mounts do they now? So again, if possible hold the camera/phone steady against something, even if it leaves a phone print against your face.
The article leaves the "Hold the camera still" to near the bottom of the list. If you practice holding the camera still, braced against your face, a wall, frame or nearly anything, chances that your picture will have much better focus and that you will have at least a chance of a good picture. If you move the camera, it doesn't matter which brand you choose or how well you compose the picture. If you really have a problem with that, then consider a camera with automatic movement correction. (I have not tried them yet, but H Keppler gave it good marks.)(Pop-Photo)
Why spend all that energy carrying a big battery around? Get one of those Weeble-People segway thingies (they wobble, but they don't fall down!) and let it carry the battery and you around. (use the built-in battery)
Even the dashboard button on the old Ford Model-A had the double function. If you pressed the button for a short time it made a noise. If you pressed it for a long time the engine started. How many of you worked with teletypes and typewriters that had the short long keyboard functions?
Some of you are forgetting that by cutting down test time for each chip feature, you get the benefits of a higher yield and less time involved with testing. Intel and Motorola and most likely AMD also, have setup so that if one part of the cache is bad they can still use the chip as a different product. I believe you will find that the S86 from a few years back,the Celeron and Duron are due to this volume vs features approach. Additionally, at one time, and most likely still, memory chips had extra arrays that could be selectively deleted to make sure the final version had the advertised size. Canon could very easily use this same approach for cameras, and have a somewhat lowercost product by disabling features they don't want to test and warrant to the end user. Hack at your own risk, and I am sure some of us will end up with a product with features that do not work properly.
I wanted to comment on this, but based on the responses so far, I don't believe there is a single sane person reading all this.
It's ok though, It's past my bedtime and I'm still up. Does that make sense?
But would you pay $40?, and can you get the computer manufacturer to mount the fan so it stays quite? If the rotor blades are smashing the air against an obstacle or holes in a panel, it becomes noisy again. On the other hand, can you find another 100,000 people to go in with you so the production price will be low enough for the company to sell you that fan for $20. If materials and manufacturing cost more than about $8.00, they can barely afford to package and ship it for $20.
Well, that's easier said than done. First of all the Brushless DC fan has a rotating magnet inside the rotor, and its position is sensed to determine when to turn on the driving transistors. The driving transistors turn on a fixed electromagnet to oppose the permanent magnet at the proper position and push it around. In order to have nagnetic bearings, the existing magnet would have to be taken into account. Secondly, the suspension magnet require enough mangetic force to overcome the force of the blades against the air; Otherwise the fan would push into the end of the shaft. Thirdly, the suspension system would need two ring magnetice at each end to hold the rotor in place without touching the sides. So far, we have six magnets. I bought some rare earth magnetics last week, and they are not cheap. Now the $4.00 fan has half its cost in magnets, and it has become a $6.00 fan. Need I say more?
Let's not get the cart in front of the horse here, and for those non-USA people, that means "Let's get things in the proper order".
Maybe we should look at the fan design first.
When Brushless-DC fans were first introduced in the early 1980's I evaluated most of the major brands. Blade shape and contour were major contributors to noise, but by far the worst was mounting the fan up against the panel wall with holes or a grill. Running slow also reduces noise.
One company's blade design removed the high pitch wind noise and just left a low pitch rumble that sounded quieter than it was.
Centrifugal "squirrel-cage" fans were much quieter than axial fans. Sleeve bearings were a little quieter than ball bearings, but had a much shorter life and will "freeze-up" once the oil dissipates. (I actually had this happen to my old computer.)Ball bearings get louder over time, but you'll replace your computer before then.
Power supplies can reduce airflow requirements considerably by better heatsinks and/or using the chassis for moving the heat away from the hot components. Once the real design issues are tackled, the bell-and-whistles approach could then be used to further reduce sound levels as necessary.
Dell mounts one fan deep inside the computer and the PS fan is quiet but near a wall. Six weeks ago I bought a Systemax and a Dell computer. Systemax sounded normally obnoxiously loud. Dell was so quiet, I thought it was not working, so I opened it to see if I could tell what was wrong. I was fooled by the sudden start of noise and then quiet.
You just hit the nail on the head there. We bash MS because they are bad, but we don't care much about helping to REPLACE the bad parts.
Your response gives your alternate to Windows, but without more insite, users like me do not or cannot use it because my system already has Windows, and we don't know how to replace it without screwing up all that mail etc., that we have put there for the past 3-5 years.
The general Windows user might change over to linux with wine and crossover but only with help and with complete choice of backing out.
Provide me with a CD or two that starts by helping me backup my windows system and data. Re partition my HD as necessary to add linux and anything else I need. Install Linux and Wine and Crossover and anything else I need. Find my old data, programs, and setup links so I do not have to do that either. And. dang it, unlike the new secure MOZILLA, give me the options of putting my address book, inbox, and bookmarks in any directory I choose so that with just a link, I can temporarily go back to my old set of files IF I NEED TO! (Is there some reason for not having address book as a simple text file that can be updated with Word or VI??)
AT NCR I told the patent group representative that I would not spend 20-40 hours of time writing up and reviewing patent write-ups for $100. I don't know if it was just me, but soon the total went to about $500, split into submittal, company approval, submittal to US Patent dept and Patent issuance. I only had one before the big layoff after AT&T bought the company.
All the large companies I have worked with over the last 30 years require that individuals transfer patent rights to the company as a condition of employment. Even the university here is considering the same. What they don't realize is that the requirement stifles patent applications.
Without considering acceleration: An expansion speed of 100,000 miles per hour = 877e6 mi/year. (1e6 = 1 times 10^6) Speed of light is 186,000 mi/sec =5.9e12 mi/yr =1 light yr. Universe is 13 billion years old. Expansion at 100,000 mi/hr gives 11.4e18 miles, or about 2 million light years. Expansion at 186,000 mi/sec gives 76.3e21 miles, or obviously, 13 billion light years.
If we are in the middle nearly, we, and the nearest star may not be moving away from each other very fast, but for other bodies, a space ship moving at 100,000 mi/hr may just keep getting further away from its destination instead of closer.
Try to imagine our universe as we know it expanding at an ever increasing rate, and no matter how fast you go or how far you go, you can never run into anything, not even in a trillion years. It gives one reason to pause and consider that somewhere we just might be missing some important ingredient in our understanding of the universe. Dark energy? - No big deal!
Well,my first thought was that a Google is one of those ugly cats that they put on high points of castles to keep the demons and goblins away. Then I thought, "No, maybe that is a Garfield!", then I thought "Geeze, I sure would like to take a nap after lunch!"
Perhaps Kerry can come up with a way for the rich to pay for these instead of raising their taxes. THen they get a tax write-off and still pay for something to benefit the general public.
Just keep in mind that even the presidents who have not raised taxes have changed deductions and benefits so that you get much less back. It's the same thing as a higher tax, but it gets hidden as "No new taxes!!"
At least one LARGE city in the US west sells reclaimed sewage manure to a local company for use in their fertilizer products. I don't know if the fertilizer gets sold to the general public or to a controlled market, but the fertilizer is a well known brand. So: Fertilizer(human) to grow the grass to feed the cow to make the manure(cow) to make the electricity to cook the meat and vegetables which are used to make more manure (human). (Did I miss something here other than that the cow also provides milk and meat?)
Here are the paragraphs that were removed, (per the Washington Post) [The dispute over the ACLU's April 28 news release centered on two paragraphs. The first laid out the court's schedule for receiving legal briefs and noted the name of the New York-based judge in the case, U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero.
The second paragraph read: "The provision under challenge allows an FBI agent to write a letter demanding the disclosure of the name, screen names, addresses, e-mail header information, and other sensitive information held by 'electronic communication service providers.' " ]
Sorry, it was a joke. Obviously, any non-USA country can be an "outsourced" country. I consider Canada such a friendly next door neighbor that it is hard for me to think of it as a different country. I am sure that your company and many others are just like the many USA companies that do not outsource.
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Don't talk bad about Win-95. I have an old machine with a Hayes 56k external. The computer runs Win95 loaded from about 12 floppy disks and has never been patched. I don't try to load the latest software or do any updates/upgrades except the virus and firewall.
It never, never, never crashes or has a problem of any kind. (Well, it will crash if I run Netscape and ACDSee and Photoshop at the same time - so I don't.) I use it for all my "emergency" needs when my new fast gee whizz tiger will not run a program I need.
I often wonder what MS could have done if they had fixed the few problems in W-95 had instead of making everyone pay more and more for upgraded bloatware>
Those phone cameras don't have tripod mounts do they now? So again, if possible hold the camera/phone steady against something, even if it leaves a phone print against your face.
The article leaves the "Hold the camera still" to near the bottom of the list. If you practice holding the camera still, braced against your face, a wall, frame or nearly anything, chances that your picture will have much better focus and that you will have at least a chance of a good picture. If you move the camera, it doesn't matter which brand you choose or how well you compose the picture. If you really have a problem with that, then consider a camera with automatic movement correction. (I have not tried them yet, but H Keppler gave it good marks.)(Pop-Photo)
Why spend all that energy carrying a big battery around? Get one of those Weeble-People segway thingies (they wobble, but they don't fall down!) and let it carry the battery and you around. (use the built-in battery)
Even the dashboard button on the old Ford Model-A had the double function. If you pressed the button for a short time it made a noise. If you pressed it for a long time the engine started. How many of you worked with teletypes and typewriters that had the short long keyboard functions?
Some of you are forgetting that by cutting down test time for each chip feature, you get the benefits of a higher yield and less time involved with testing. Intel and Motorola and most likely AMD also, have setup so that if one part of the cache is bad they can still use the chip as a different product. I believe you will find that the S86 from a few years back,the Celeron and Duron are due to this volume vs features approach. Additionally, at one time, and most likely still, memory chips had extra arrays that could be selectively deleted to make sure the final version had the advertised size. Canon could very easily use this same approach for cameras, and have a somewhat lowercost product by disabling features they don't want to test and warrant to the end user.
Hack at your own risk, and I am sure some of us will end up with a product with features that do not work properly.
Seems long enough to me! I don't think I'd want you around much longer than that anyway!
I wanted to comment on this, but based on the responses so far, I don't believe there is a single sane person reading all this. It's ok though, It's past my bedtime and I'm still up. Does that make sense?
But would you pay $40?, and can you get the computer manufacturer to mount the fan so it stays quite?
If the rotor blades are smashing the air against an obstacle or holes in a panel, it becomes noisy again.
On the other hand, can you find another 100,000 people to go in with you so the production price will be low enough for the company to sell you that fan for $20. If materials and manufacturing cost more than about $8.00, they can barely afford to package and ship it for $20.
Well, that's easier said than done. First of all the Brushless DC fan has a rotating magnet inside the rotor, and its position is sensed to determine when to turn on the driving transistors. The driving transistors turn on a fixed electromagnet to oppose the permanent magnet at the proper position and push it around. In order to have nagnetic bearings, the existing magnet would have to be taken into account. Secondly, the suspension magnet require enough mangetic force to overcome the force of the blades against the air; Otherwise the fan would push into the end of the shaft. Thirdly, the suspension system would need two ring magnetice at each end to hold the rotor in place without touching the sides. So far, we have six magnets. I bought some rare earth magnetics last week, and they are not cheap. Now the $4.00 fan has half its cost in magnets, and it has become a $6.00 fan. Need I say more?
ING is that company name on TV ads these days. However, you-ing is mor funn-ing.
Maybe we should look at the fan design first. When Brushless-DC fans were first introduced in the early 1980's I evaluated most of the major brands. Blade shape and contour were major contributors to noise, but by far the worst was mounting the fan up against the panel wall with holes or a grill. Running slow also reduces noise. One company's blade design removed the high pitch wind noise and just left a low pitch rumble that sounded quieter than it was. Centrifugal "squirrel-cage" fans were much quieter than axial fans. Sleeve bearings were a little quieter than ball bearings, but had a much shorter life and will "freeze-up" once the oil dissipates. (I actually had this happen to my old computer.)Ball bearings get louder over time, but you'll replace your computer before then.
Power supplies can reduce airflow requirements considerably by better heatsinks and/or using the chassis for moving the heat away from the hot components. Once the real design issues are tackled, the bell-and-whistles approach could then be used to further reduce sound levels as necessary.
Dell mounts one fan deep inside the computer and the PS fan is quiet but near a wall. Six weeks ago I bought a Systemax and a Dell computer. Systemax sounded normally obnoxiously loud. Dell was so quiet, I thought it was not working, so I opened it to see if I could tell what was wrong. I was fooled by the sudden start of noise and then quiet.
I know what ING means. What does shrug mean?
You just hit the nail on the head there. We bash MS because they are bad, but we don't care much about helping to REPLACE the bad parts.
Your response gives your alternate to Windows, but without more insite, users like me do not or cannot use it because my system already has Windows, and we don't know how to replace it without screwing up all that mail etc., that we have put there for the past 3-5 years.
The general Windows user might change over to linux with wine and crossover but only with help and with complete choice of backing out.
Provide me with a CD or two that starts by helping me backup my windows system and data.
Re partition my HD as necessary to add linux and anything else I need.
Install Linux and Wine and Crossover and anything else I need.
Find my old data, programs, and setup links so I do not have to do that either.
And. dang it, unlike the new secure MOZILLA, give me the options of putting my address book, inbox, and bookmarks in any directory I choose so that with just a link, I can temporarily go back to my old set of files IF I NEED TO! (Is there some reason for not having address book as a simple text file that can be updated with Word or VI??)
AT NCR I told the patent group representative that I would not spend 20-40 hours of time writing up and reviewing patent write-ups for $100. I don't know if it was just me, but soon the total went to about $500, split into submittal, company approval, submittal to US Patent dept and Patent issuance. I only had one before the big layoff after AT&T bought the company.
All the large companies I have worked with over the last 30 years require that individuals transfer patent rights to the company as a condition of employment. Even the university here is considering the same. What they don't realize is that the requirement stifles patent applications.
Without considering acceleration:
An expansion speed of 100,000 miles per hour = 877e6 mi/year. (1e6 = 1 times 10^6)
Speed of light is 186,000 mi/sec =5.9e12 mi/yr =1 light yr.
Universe is 13 billion years old.
Expansion at 100,000 mi/hr gives 11.4e18 miles, or about 2 million light years.
Expansion at 186,000 mi/sec gives 76.3e21 miles, or obviously, 13 billion light years.
If we are in the middle nearly, we, and the nearest star may not be moving away from each other very fast, but for other bodies, a space ship moving at 100,000 mi/hr may just keep getting further away from its destination instead of closer.
Try to imagine our universe as we know it expanding at an ever increasing rate, and no matter how fast you go or how far you go, you can never run into anything, not even in a trillion years.
It gives one reason to pause and consider that somewhere we just might be missing some important ingredient in our understanding of the universe.
Dark energy? - No big deal!
Did you get your Linux License from that 3-letter company?? C'mon, admit it, you got scared and ran, didn't you!
Well,my first thought was that a Google is one of those ugly cats that they put on high points of castles to keep the demons and goblins away. Then I thought, "No, maybe that is a Garfield!", then I thought "Geeze, I sure would like to take a nap after lunch!"
Perhaps Kerry can come up with a way for the rich to pay for these instead of raising their taxes. THen they get a tax write-off and still pay for something to benefit the general public.
Just keep in mind that even the presidents who have not raised taxes have changed deductions and benefits so that you get much less back. It's the same thing as a higher tax, but it gets hidden as "No new taxes!!"
At least one LARGE city in the US west sells reclaimed sewage manure to a local company for use in their fertilizer products. I don't know if the fertilizer gets sold to the general public or to a controlled market, but the fertilizer is a well known brand.
So:
Fertilizer(human) to grow the grass to feed the cow to make the manure(cow) to make the electricity to cook the meat and vegetables which are used to make more manure (human). (Did I miss something here other than that the cow also provides milk and meat?)
Here are the paragraphs that were removed, (per the Washington Post)
[The dispute over the ACLU's April 28 news release centered on two paragraphs. The first laid out the court's schedule for receiving legal briefs and noted the name of the New York-based judge in the case, U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero.
The second paragraph read: "The provision under challenge allows an FBI agent to write a letter demanding the disclosure of the name, screen names, addresses, e-mail header information, and other sensitive information held by 'electronic communication service providers.' " ]
Sorry, it was a joke. Obviously, any non-USA country can be an "outsourced" country. I consider Canada such a friendly next door neighbor that it is hard for me to think of it as a different country.
I am sure that your company and many others are just like the many USA companies that do not outsource.
That's because IT in Canada IS outsourcing.
I woke up with a massive headache and a funny feeling bump over my eye. 'Must have gotten into a fight!