Wow. Just wow. I stop in here to kill a little time at work, and see this.
Thanks, Woz. For showing me what true class and humility looks like. And reminding me how much room there is for me to grow and be a better person.
BitZtream is not off base. I was very athletic in school with letters and trophies and all. 15 years ago I could run a marathon. After a spinal injury I have not kept in good shape and I let my weight go too, so this will be hard for me. But it's not about dancing. It's about ratings and attracting viewers. You never know what pranks I might find a way to pull on the show.
I don't mind it when people treat me badly. I wish I had no fame and no money, and I do my best to limit both. But I'm not cool enough to turn down the producers to DWTS. By the way, I had never seen the show until I watch a DVD last night.
What percentage of Tivo customers are upset that they can't hack their Tivo?
I don't care that I cannot hack my Tivo.
I do care that the current system allows Tivo to change my system's features at any time, without my permission
I paid fully for both my system and the lifetime schedule data. I should decided whether I want to accept a change to my hardware or not. Today I do not have that option. It's entirely possible that Tivo will choose to revoke a current feature of my system at some future date. That is unacceptable to me, and I should have the right to over ride any update to the system.
There's a big difference. Millikan's work was a brilliant piece of pure physics coupled with inspired instrument building that is still recognized more than a century later. The jargon file is a glorified FAQ.
I would find these reviews a lot more useful if there was more disclosure of the reviewers biases.
How do I know the author isn't benefiting from writing his glowing review here in some way? I'm not accusing the reviewer of any misbehavior here, but when the only negative of a book is that "But, be forewarned. You're going to want your sticky notes and your highlighting markers nearby" I have to question the bias of the reviewer.
Sample review checklist 1. Have you contributed to this book or been cited within the text? 2. Do you have a personal or business relationship with the author(s) or publisher? 3. Do you sell services related to the books topic?
Do yourself a favor. Replace that water heater NOW!
A dead furnace can be a real inconvienence; Coming home from a week in Bermuda to find the water heater burst 5 days ago could be the end of your house as an inhabitable space.
Sadly there are times in life when you simply MUST get a lawyer. This is one of them.
Canada's labour laws are considerably more favorable than the United States. You may not be required to sign anything to get your severance. In fact, you should consult with a lawyer just to be certain they are offering a reasonable amount of severance. Do a ROI analysis and see if it is worthwhile fighting. A short letter on the letterhead of a law firm can change people's attitudes remarkably fast.
It isn't to protect the equipment.
That static discharge generates an RF signal and when you're listening to signals people don't want you to hear, you need to keep the background noise to a minimum.
In order for the heat sink to bow it must be constrained on both sides. I have NEVER seen a heat sink that wasn't free to expand in the plane of the processor/heatsink interface.
Even if the heatsink was constrained in this manner, the expansion would then propogate as stress in the material that is constraining the sink itself. The stress on the heatsink could indeed cause the sink to bow out, but the amount of bowing is now a function of the strength of the heatsink structure. It will be _lots_ less than what you are estimating.
Nuclear landmines were deployed in Germany by the US.
As for genetically selective weapons, well that sounds like a remarkable strech to me. But consider the diseases that occur in nature but only affect specific racial groups before you completely rule it out.
I probably shouldn't jump into this since I'm likely to get flamed to hell and back by the morons who know nothing about signal processing beyond Nyquist-Shannon theory but here goes. Discrete Fourier transforms are nowhere near as 'perfect' as Shannon-Nyquist would lead you to believe. It works fine if your signal is very well behaved. (Basically it needs to be composed of uniformly spaced sine waves). The catch works like this: When you select a sampling rate for your DFT you have decided on a basis set of frequencies that you will use for your representation of the signal. If your signal has a wavelenghth of 4.5 times the sampling rate, shannon-nyquist says you can perfectly reproduce the signal. In fact you can't. What you get is ~50% of the signal at 4x, ~50% at 5x and then significantly lower signals at EVERY other wavelength in your DFT. A good rule of thumb is that you need to sample at around 7x your frequency cutoff to accurately represent signals that aren't well behaved.
Someone should track down the web sites they mention here and tell the nice mechanics and flight attendants about Scramdisk ScramDisk Web Site
It's a lovely virutal disk tool for windoze with strong encryption. I use it for all my MS data.
Personally I'd be awfully careful after getting my computer back from the nice lawyers. Who knows what trojans might have 'accidently' been transferred to my disks?
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Dumb chicks put out in spring when they are horny.
Smart chicks put out when the crops are mature and it's clear there will be enough resources to feed another mouth.
It's amazing how much human behavior is hard wired into us.
Wow. Just wow. I stop in here to kill a little time at work, and see this.
Thanks, Woz. For showing me what true class and humility looks like. And reminding me how much room there is for me to grow and be a better person.
BitZtream is not off base. I was very athletic in school with letters and trophies and all. 15 years ago I could run a marathon. After a spinal injury I have not kept in good shape and I let my weight go too, so this will be hard for me. But it's not about dancing. It's about ratings and attracting viewers. You never know what pranks I might find a way to pull on the show.
I don't mind it when people treat me badly. I wish I had no fame and no money, and I do my best to limit both. But I'm not cool enough to turn down the producers to DWTS. By the way, I had never seen the show until I watch a DVD last night.
What percentage of Tivo customers are upset that they can't hack their Tivo?
I don't care that I cannot hack my Tivo.
I do care that the current system allows Tivo to change my system's features at any time, without my permission
I paid fully for both my system and the lifetime schedule data. I should decided whether I want to accept a change to my hardware or not. Today I do not have that option. It's entirely possible that Tivo will choose to revoke a current feature of my system at some future date. That is unacceptable to me, and I should have the right to over ride any update to the system.
The best part of that story:
...all of the methods attributed to Bohr are more accurate than the method the professor considered to be the 'right' solution.
(delta P on the barometer will be so small that error in reading the difference will dominate the result)
I strongly reccomend that anyone thinking of using this material request an MSDS first.
We were evaluating some material like this and it turned out to be composed of 30% Class 1 carcinogen. Would you store PCBs in your home?
There's a big difference. Millikan's work was a brilliant piece of pure physics coupled with inspired instrument building that is still recognized more than a century later. The jargon file is a glorified FAQ.
I would find these reviews a lot more useful if there was more disclosure of the reviewers biases.
How do I know the author isn't benefiting from writing his glowing review here in some way? I'm not accusing the reviewer of any misbehavior here, but when the only negative of a book is that "But, be forewarned. You're going to want your sticky notes and your highlighting markers nearby" I have to question the bias of the reviewer.
Sample review checklist
1. Have you contributed to this book or been cited within the text?
2. Do you have a personal or business relationship with the author(s) or publisher?
3. Do you sell services related to the books topic?
Computing Custodian....
And look forward to your salary matching other building custodians shortly...
Do yourself a favor. Replace that water heater NOW!
A dead furnace can be a real inconvienence; Coming home from a week in Bermuda to find the water heater burst 5 days ago could be the end of your house as an inhabitable space.
I think I'll give mine back now...
Sadly there are times in life when you simply MUST get a lawyer. This is one of them.
Canada's labour laws are considerably more favorable than the United States. You may not be required to sign anything to get your severance. In fact, you should consult with a lawyer just to be certain they are offering a reasonable amount of severance. Do a ROI analysis and see if it is worthwhile fighting. A short letter on the letterhead of a law firm can change people's attitudes remarkably fast.
I see absolutely no proof that Intel is involved. Their name appears no where on this group's web site.
Intel is very much in favor of open source.
It isn't to protect the equipment. That static discharge generates an RF signal and when you're listening to signals people don't want you to hear, you need to keep the background noise to a minimum.
Actually a Ph.D. at my school [http://www.carc.uncc.edu/metrology.htm ] built a stage that could position within a few atoms at room temperature.
It's still an order magnitude off from single atom positioning, but the technology isn't as far away as you might think.
Your analysis is naive.
In order for the heat sink to bow it must be constrained on both sides. I have NEVER seen a heat sink that wasn't free to expand in the plane of the processor/heatsink interface.
Even if the heatsink was constrained in this manner, the expansion would then propogate as stress in the material that is constraining the sink itself. The stress on the heatsink could indeed cause the sink to bow out, but the amount of bowing is now a function of the strength of the heatsink structure. It will be _lots_ less than what you are estimating.
Nuclear landmines were deployed in Germany by the US.
As for genetically selective weapons, well that sounds like a remarkable strech to me. But consider the diseases that occur in nature but only affect specific racial groups before you completely rule it out.
I probably shouldn't jump into this since I'm likely to get flamed to hell and back by the morons who know nothing about signal processing beyond Nyquist-Shannon theory but here goes.
Discrete Fourier transforms are nowhere near as 'perfect' as Shannon-Nyquist would lead you to believe. It works fine if your signal is very well behaved. (Basically it needs to be composed of uniformly spaced sine waves). The catch works like this: When you select a sampling rate for your DFT you have decided on a basis set of frequencies that you will use for your representation of the signal. If your signal has a wavelenghth of 4.5 times the sampling rate, shannon-nyquist says you can perfectly reproduce the signal. In fact you can't. What you get is ~50% of the signal at 4x, ~50% at 5x and then significantly lower signals at EVERY other wavelength in your DFT. A good rule of thumb is that you need to sample at around 7x your frequency cutoff to accurately represent signals that aren't well behaved.
Someone should track down the web sites they mention here and tell the nice mechanics and flight attendants about Scramdisk
ScramDisk Web Site
It's a lovely virutal disk tool for windoze with strong encryption. I use it for all my MS data.
Personally I'd be awfully careful after getting my computer back from the nice lawyers. Who knows what trojans might have 'accidently' been transferred to my disks?