The recent Newegg suckage is discussed at length over at OverClockers.com
I too concur that something happened at Newegg last November that has greatly increased their suck factor. After 10 years and over $100k in purchases, only since last November has it become difficult placing orders, receiving items predictably, previously opened boxes, wrong items, etc. They are not horrible, just not any better than the other big shops.
He quickly realized that she does seem to do non-profit work for disabled children and he told GoDaddy to reinstate her sites while he worked it out with her.
The moment he did this he opened a huge can of worms. Had he not communicated anything beyond "Remove copyrighted works that are on your site without license." A good 99% of the crazy would have stayed contained in her world and not entered his. You give crazy an inch, they take 100 miles. The only blame to pass around here is to the person that took a gamble and used a photo without permission.
I honestly don't give a crap what party he's in - if he can get at least some good tech/engineer representation in that parliament of whores that we call Congress, it's win-win as far as I'm concerned.
The only way to do this is to spend 1.5 hours a month in your political party as a Precinct Committeeman. PC's are the gatekeepers of politics, they are the ones that decide who gets on the ballot, who leads the party, from local leaders to national. If you meetup with other likeminded PC's, encourage others to become PC's your small contribution now does make huge waves of difference later on. This is exactly how the Tea Party made huge waves in the last election. We can continue to spend hours complaining about it, listening to talking heads complain about it, or actually do something about it. We can not expect corrupt leaders and talking heads to make changes to a system they depend on, but we can become part of the system and change it for them.
The camel's nose was allowed in the tent with the initial 250GB cap. Now comes the head with the 'reasonable' tiered plan. I guarantee that if the camel isn't pushed out now the tired caps will be continuously lowered to whatever level is required to make up for lost cable TV revenues and then some.
In short: hitching your finances to goldbuggery and silverbuggery is insanity.
As apposed to the exponentially growing debt based fiat money we all enjoy now? How sustainable is this system exactly? When it does fail, will it be worse than gold and silver could ever had? Were economies supposed to grow as fast as they did in the last 100 years? I don't know the answers to these but it would reinforce your case against gold and silver a lot more than just saying it is insane. However, I do agree that gold and silver as money are insane but much less so than the magic show we have now.
Two main reasons for shorter than advertised CFL life:
1. Build quality. The first bulbs to the mass market were larger, slow starting low frequency bulbs. I still have two of these on my garage door opener since 1999. Despite the GDO vibrating them 4 times a day or more and AZ summer heat they still work. The capacitor plague infected CFLs badly throughout the 2000s. This combined with higher frequency quick starting bulbs made many do live a shorter life than incandescents.
2. Non-optimal usage. CFL life is significantly shortened when not cooled down for at least 15 minutes prior to restart. Using CFLs in high traffic areas such as hallways, kitchens, etc will see shortest life. Consider using LED lighting in these areas.
...how many KWh can it deliver in 15 mins? Everything else is secondary.
I think another important question is how many charging stations can be run simultaneously at service station? My guess is one or two unless it is near thicker legs on the grid. What is it going to be like when there are 8 cars in front of you needing charged? How many EVs charging in peoples garages at night will be enough to require peak power generation for this duration at higher rates? What steps have local utilities taken? I only ask this because I remember very well when the western US lost power in the summer of 97 and here in sunny AZ power could not be restored until very late in the night because of too many home HAVC units trying to start simultaneously. I sure hope the right people are asking this, because if not we are in for a world of hurt when gas is +$9/gal and rolling blackouts occur and/or skyrocketing utility rates due to mass adoption of EVs. Don't get me wrong, this is a good start, but I don't hear much talk this. I hope all goes smoothly as I plan on owning an EV as my next vehicle in a few years.
Is another 9/11 worth it so we can learn this lesson AGAIN, and forget it barely 10 years later?
You do realize that short of ending plane travel there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop a terrorist dedicated enough. This type of thinking applied to areas where other deaths occur would also end all travel by any means, even by foot. It would mean that every citizen of this country be locked in individual padded rooms for their own safety. How far are you willing to go? Do you really want TSA agents sticking fingers in your anal cavity? In children, infants, grandparents? Even this won't be enough for the safety you seek. Guess what? The SCOTUS ruled last month that any law enforcement can do this for any reason they see fit.
omg, your saw it and didn't record it with one of the million electronic devices that have a camera in it?
all of which take a significant amount of time to start recording and have horrible sensitivity at night. If he had managed to record it, it would have been a shaky blurry blob of light and we'd be hearing even more complaints. I would not have bothered to record it either unless I happened to be carrying an EOS with a proper lense, sitting on a tripod already, and configured properly for a night shot.
Every time you vote to reduce taxes, and vote for politicians who say the government is too big, this is what you're voting for.
Yeah, that must be it. Let's see what happens when we throw billions at 'securing' our airports. It will be better for sure. Let's spend billions more in education. Test scores will skyrocket and dropouts will become rare.
No, when I am voting to reduce the size of government and taxes I am voting my lack of confidence in government to solve problems and to do anything meaningful with my hard earned money. When I vote for someone to a particular office I vote on their integrity, leadership, and qualifications. People like this can get much more done on much less of a budget, I promise. Sadly the media likes to ignore these fine folks due to a lack of scandal. Scandal is what keeps them in business. Perhaps those that write their paychecks (advertisers and stakeholders) are also enjoying things the way they are too. Perhaps it is the appetite of the viewer for this trash. While my example is more on the federal level, the same applies locally. As long as incompetent people are in power, problems will not get solved no matter how much money is thrown at it. Just look at the Charlie Foxtrot we are in now. Can you honestly say that the trillions that have been pissed away have really solved anything? Do you really believe that more money given to incompetent people to expand more incompetence will work? Has it ever worked?
No, the real problem is millions of uninformed people like you thinking that you are doing your civic duty by not researching for yourself who is actually qualified before voting for them. Letting the tv, newspaper, or whatever media tell you what rich guy to vote for. By ignoring the many more qualified candidates on the ballot that scarce get mentioned in any form of media and choosing only amung the options given to you by them. Allowing them to persuade you to vote for the 'lesser of the evils' while marginalizing integrity.
Please don't take this as an attack on you personally, I don't know who you are and am posting in response to those that would agree with your quoted statement. Also karma tends to take a hit when disagreeing with low uid's like yourself.
99% of the time a very loud siren will stop the theif from spending much time in your property. Even if you had the most expensive ADT setup it still takes minutes for police to do anything about it anyway. You can pay ADT $45/mo for 5 years to install $200 worth of equipment and feel better. But you can get better results installing your own system and hooking up with something like NextAlarm for $17/mo no contract and get email/SMS notification when anything goes wrong, check event history such as who armed and disarmed and even get SMS when your housekeeper disarms/rearms, etc. This combined with a cheap Lorex/Swann net connected DVR system from Costco that lets you instantly see 8/16 channels of video from your smartphone will be more than adequate.
There is a small learning curve when programming your own alarm panel, but since you are asking Slashdot, you probably know how to google already. Hopefully.
Out of the many many years I've been using TPB only once did I ever download a torrent that was an infection.
Perhaps this is true of only the infections that manifest themselves? To really qualify this statement you would have had to carefully analyze your system state prior to the download and after deploying it. Not very many people have the expertise, time, resources to do this. What if the trojan's payload was time delayed? Would you know where and when the infection took place? I only bring this up because I've encountered a few stealth malware that were completely undetectable using conventional tools. Even connecting the HDD to a clean system for a battery of scans revealed nothing. The computer operated perfectly normal to the user but firewall logs continued to report massive amounts of outbound port 25 connections to every country on the planet to spread the word of Viagra. It would do it in random 10 minute spurts every few hours in an effort to not raise alarm or it was trying to be funny. You are downloading untrusted software from an untrusted source and base your trust in the reputation of someone on a pirate website and comments posted by other downloaders. How many of these commenters would have actually noticed the above malware or even cared? If only a few did actually post a warning would anyone take it seriously? If it activated months later would they have even known what download it came from to report it? The bottom line is, unless every piece of code running on your PC came from trusted media/sources you cannot be certain that you did not infect your system. The moment a single piece of code is executed from an untrusted source you can have no certainty.
I just replaced a logic board in an XPS laptop, Wow what a breath of fresh air that was. I have never completely disassembled and reassembled a laptop in less than an hour, but I had this XPS done in mere minutes. I sure hope this trend continues.
The Last of The Mohicans DVD was absolute garbage when it came out in 99. LD was way better. Only when The Matrix came out on DVD and I saw the difference of anamorphic video through component connection did I make the jump. Matrix was the last LD I was able to buy anyway. I didn't really understand at the time the lengths studios actually go through when compressing a DVD. Last of The Mohicans (1st DVD release) was likely just done with a standard encoder that paid no attention to the content and what compression methods to use in certain scenes. It was also a crappy letterbox transfer. Seriously, it was unwatchable if you've enjoyed the LD version. The Matrix DVD OTH was a work of art. I never noticed a single artifact while watching this disc. I can still hear the opening title menu sequence and remember vividly the chills it sent down my spine.
Why even have a TV? Since I had my tablet I noticed that I watched the big tv much less. My wife and daughter do the same with their tablets. When we moved to our new house last month we never bothered getting a new tv. The nice thing about a tablet is that it is the same as a 50" TV 8ft from the sofa when it is within reach plus the added benefit that you can take it everywhere you go. Now the living room is much cleaner and quieter.
Not often discussed but I would think that any pilot that thought their cabin was about to be overrun would not hesitate to manipulate gravity as needed.
Every tow truck I've called over the last 15 years were a flat bed type. One of my cars ejected a wheel while driving. The tow truck had no problem dragging the car 15ft onto the flatbed and returning it to the dealer. Unless Teslas have some magical tires the permanently grip the road when their batteries die I don't see any reason why any tow truck company could not easily tow it. Dragging a car 15 ft up a ramp isn't going to regenerate anything significant.
Makes some sense actually. This cost seems more likely to cover the actual cost of the processor (the die on the wafer). The $1000 that the enthusiast paid is more of a license and the processor is merely the media.
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The recent Newegg suckage is discussed at length over at OverClockers.com
I too concur that something happened at Newegg last November that has greatly increased their suck factor.
After 10 years and over $100k in purchases, only since last November has it become difficult placing orders, receiving items predictably, previously opened boxes, wrong items, etc.
They are not horrible, just not any better than the other big shops.
He quickly realized that she does seem to do non-profit work for disabled children and he told GoDaddy to reinstate her sites while he worked it out with her.
The moment he did this he opened a huge can of worms. Had he not communicated anything beyond "Remove copyrighted works that are on your site without license." A good 99% of the crazy would have stayed contained in her world and not entered his. You give crazy an inch, they take 100 miles.
The only blame to pass around here is to the person that took a gamble and used a photo without permission.
I honestly don't give a crap what party he's in - if he can get at least some good tech/engineer representation in that parliament of whores that we call Congress, it's win-win as far as I'm concerned.
The only way to do this is to spend 1.5 hours a month in your political party as a Precinct Committeeman. PC's are the gatekeepers of politics, they are the ones that decide who gets on the ballot, who leads the party, from local leaders to national. If you meetup with other likeminded PC's, encourage others to become PC's your small contribution now does make huge waves of difference later on. This is exactly how the Tea Party made huge waves in the last election.
We can continue to spend hours complaining about it, listening to talking heads complain about it, or actually do something about it.
We can not expect corrupt leaders and talking heads to make changes to a system they depend on, but we can become part of the system and change it for them.
The camel's nose was allowed in the tent with the initial 250GB cap. Now comes the head with the 'reasonable' tiered plan. I guarantee that if the camel isn't pushed out now the tired caps will be continuously lowered to whatever level is required to make up for lost cable TV revenues and then some.
In short: hitching your finances to goldbuggery and silverbuggery is insanity.
As apposed to the exponentially growing debt based fiat money we all enjoy now? How sustainable is this system exactly? When it does fail, will it be worse than gold and silver could ever had? Were economies supposed to grow as fast as they did in the last 100 years?
I don't know the answers to these but it would reinforce your case against gold and silver a lot more than just saying it is insane. However, I do agree that gold and silver as money are insane but much less so than the magic show we have now.
Two main reasons for shorter than advertised CFL life:
1. Build quality.
The first bulbs to the mass market were larger, slow starting low frequency bulbs. I still have two of these on my garage door opener since 1999. Despite the GDO vibrating them 4 times a day or more and AZ summer heat they still work.
The capacitor plague infected CFLs badly throughout the 2000s. This combined with higher frequency quick starting bulbs made many do live a shorter life than incandescents.
2. Non-optimal usage.
CFL life is significantly shortened when not cooled down for at least 15 minutes prior to restart. Using CFLs in high traffic areas such as hallways, kitchens, etc will see shortest life. Consider using LED lighting in these areas.
...how many KWh can it deliver in 15 mins? Everything else is secondary.
I think another important question is how many charging stations can be run simultaneously at service station?
My guess is one or two unless it is near thicker legs on the grid. What is it going to be like when there are 8 cars in front of you needing charged?
How many EVs charging in peoples garages at night will be enough to require peak power generation for this duration at higher rates?
What steps have local utilities taken?
I only ask this because I remember very well when the western US lost power in the summer of 97 and here in sunny AZ power could not be restored until very late in the night because of too many home HAVC units trying to start simultaneously.
I sure hope the right people are asking this, because if not we are in for a world of hurt when gas is +$9/gal and rolling blackouts occur and/or skyrocketing utility rates due to mass adoption of EVs.
Don't get me wrong, this is a good start, but I don't hear much talk this. I hope all goes smoothly as I plan on owning an EV as my next vehicle in a few years.
Is another 9/11 worth it so we can learn this lesson AGAIN, and forget it barely 10 years later?
You do realize that short of ending plane travel there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop a terrorist dedicated enough.
This type of thinking applied to areas where other deaths occur would also end all travel by any means, even by foot. It would mean that every citizen of this country be locked in individual padded rooms for their own safety.
How far are you willing to go? Do you really want TSA agents sticking fingers in your anal cavity? In children, infants, grandparents? Even this won't be enough for the safety you seek. Guess what? The SCOTUS ruled last month that any law enforcement can do this for any reason they see fit.
Either end the TSA or get your lube ready.
Insurance doesn't work like that.
We just need to protect and defend the constitution. That is all.
I just wish there were a candidate for president running right now that would actually do something about it.
Oh wait.
omg, your saw it and didn't record it with one of the million electronic devices that have a camera in it?
all of which take a significant amount of time to start recording and have horrible sensitivity at night. If he had managed to record it, it would have been a shaky blurry blob of light and we'd be hearing even more complaints. I would not have bothered to record it either unless I happened to be carrying an EOS with a proper lense, sitting on a tripod already, and configured properly for a night shot.
Every time you vote to reduce taxes, and vote for politicians who say the government is too big, this is what you're voting for.
Yeah, that must be it.
Let's see what happens when we throw billions at 'securing' our airports. It will be better for sure.
Let's spend billions more in education. Test scores will skyrocket and dropouts will become rare.
No, when I am voting to reduce the size of government and taxes I am voting my lack of confidence in government to solve problems and to do anything meaningful with my hard earned money. When I vote for someone to a particular office I vote on their integrity, leadership, and qualifications. People like this can get much more done on much less of a budget, I promise. Sadly the media likes to ignore these fine folks due to a lack of scandal. Scandal is what keeps them in business. Perhaps those that write their paychecks (advertisers and stakeholders) are also enjoying things the way they are too. Perhaps it is the appetite of the viewer for this trash.
While my example is more on the federal level, the same applies locally.
As long as incompetent people are in power, problems will not get solved no matter how much money is thrown at it. Just look at the Charlie Foxtrot we are in now. Can you honestly say that the trillions that have been pissed away have really solved anything? Do you really believe that more money given to incompetent people to expand more incompetence will work? Has it ever worked?
No, the real problem is millions of uninformed people like you thinking that you are doing your civic duty by not researching for yourself who is actually qualified before voting for them. Letting the tv, newspaper, or whatever media tell you what rich guy to vote for. By ignoring the many more qualified candidates on the ballot that scarce get mentioned in any form of media and choosing only amung the options given to you by them. Allowing them to persuade you to vote for the 'lesser of the evils' while marginalizing integrity.
Please don't take this as an attack on you personally, I don't know who you are and am posting in response to those that would agree with your quoted statement. Also karma tends to take a hit when disagreeing with low uid's like yourself.
...plus you are asking tax payers, many who make less money than you to subsidize an additional $10,000 or more of your auto purchase.
Lets not forget the $250,000 that tax payers have already paid in advance for each Volt produced thus far.
Why is this modded as troll?
99% of the time a very loud siren will stop the theif from spending much time in your property. Even if you had the most expensive ADT setup it still takes minutes for police to do anything about it anyway.
You can pay ADT $45/mo for 5 years to install $200 worth of equipment and feel better. But you can get better results installing your own system and hooking up with something like NextAlarm for $17/mo no contract and get email/SMS notification when anything goes wrong, check event history such as who armed and disarmed and even get SMS when your housekeeper disarms/rearms, etc.
This combined with a cheap Lorex/Swann net connected DVR system from Costco that lets you instantly see 8/16 channels of video from your smartphone will be more than adequate.
There is a small learning curve when programming your own alarm panel, but since you are asking Slashdot, you probably know how to google already. Hopefully.
Out of the many many years I've been using TPB only once did I ever download a torrent that was an infection.
Perhaps this is true of only the infections that manifest themselves?
To really qualify this statement you would have had to carefully analyze your system state prior to the download and after deploying it. Not very many people have the expertise, time, resources to do this. What if the trojan's payload was time delayed? Would you know where and when the infection took place?
I only bring this up because I've encountered a few stealth malware that were completely undetectable using conventional tools. Even connecting the HDD to a clean system for a battery of scans revealed nothing. The computer operated perfectly normal to the user but firewall logs continued to report massive amounts of outbound port 25 connections to every country on the planet to spread the word of Viagra. It would do it in random 10 minute spurts every few hours in an effort to not raise alarm or it was trying to be funny.
You are downloading untrusted software from an untrusted source and base your trust in the reputation of someone on a pirate website and comments posted by other downloaders. How many of these commenters would have actually noticed the above malware or even cared? If only a few did actually post a warning would anyone take it seriously? If it activated months later would they have even known what download it came from to report it?
The bottom line is, unless every piece of code running on your PC came from trusted media/sources you cannot be certain that you did not infect your system. The moment a single piece of code is executed from an untrusted source you can have no certainty.
Don't forget that Monster also makes some headphones that are endorsed by a doctor.
I just replaced a logic board in an XPS laptop, Wow what a breath of fresh air that was. I have never completely disassembled and reassembled a laptop in less than an hour, but I had this XPS done in mere minutes.
I sure hope this trend continues.
The Last of The Mohicans DVD was absolute garbage when it came out in 99. LD was way better. Only when The Matrix came out on DVD and I saw the difference of anamorphic video through component connection did I make the jump. Matrix was the last LD I was able to buy anyway.
I didn't really understand at the time the lengths studios actually go through when compressing a DVD. Last of The Mohicans (1st DVD release) was likely just done with a standard encoder that paid no attention to the content and what compression methods to use in certain scenes. It was also a crappy letterbox transfer. Seriously, it was unwatchable if you've enjoyed the LD version. The Matrix DVD OTH was a work of art. I never noticed a single artifact while watching this disc. I can still hear the opening title menu sequence and remember vividly the chills it sent down my spine.
Why even have a TV? Since I had my tablet I noticed that I watched the big tv much less. My wife and daughter do the same with their tablets. When we moved to our new house last month we never bothered getting a new tv. The nice thing about a tablet is that it is the same as a 50" TV 8ft from the sofa when it is within reach plus the added benefit that you can take it everywhere you go. Now the living room is much cleaner and quieter.
Not often discussed but I would think that any pilot that thought their cabin was about to be overrun would not hesitate to manipulate gravity as needed.
Comparing based on Rs and Ds alone at this stage is like deciding if deck chairs on the port or starbord side of the Titanic are better.
Every tow truck I've called over the last 15 years were a flat bed type. One of my cars ejected a wheel while driving. The tow truck had no problem dragging the car 15ft onto the flatbed and returning it to the dealer.
Unless Teslas have some magical tires the permanently grip the road when their batteries die I don't see any reason why any tow truck company could not easily tow it.
Dragging a car 15 ft up a ramp isn't going to regenerate anything significant.
Makes some sense actually. This cost seems more likely to cover the actual cost of the processor (the die on the wafer). The $1000 that the enthusiast paid is more of a license and the processor is merely the media.