a very small grinder could be used to cut it open, if you don't go to fast and make a light cut it won't heat up much (only a fraction of what it heated up to weld it shut).
the lifetime of interface specs is getting shorter and shorter, if your reputation is on the line then betting that a certain interface is still available 25 years from now is not too clever.
he's spot on. Anybody that has ever welded anything at all will confirm that the inside of whatever you're welding tends to get a little warm, especially if it is a sealed container.
Cold rolling it shut would be a better option, evacuating it and using a simple seal would be even better, especially since that would stop the medium from being attacked by oxygen.
just stick it on a stack of cd's. And evacuate the vessel. Welding it shut might *not* be such a good idea because you will not be able to check if the heat affected your datastore after the welding.
The reason for a stack of cd's is that in a vacuum they should last a long long time and a whole bunch of them will allow you to do error recovery.
Yes, that may be so, but it's so fucking *messy* that I'd hate to use it. Also do not underestimate the complexities of a housing a column of fluid that's 7' (2.10 meters) tall...
Oh, come on. They were just really smart and spent it all on strippers, now they have to come up with a justification of where all the dough went. Look! Blinkenleuchtz...
That's just deliberately confusing the issue, which is synonymous for trolling. Slashdot uses a pretty clever moderation/metamoderation tool to separate the weath from the chaff, Wikipedia uses a system of editors with various rights to allow half the world (those with internet) to contribute to what is probably the largest encyclopedia of general knowledge that has ever existed in a single volume.
Google has pretty much destroyed dejanews, I used it pretty much all the time before and since google took over it's been like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
It won't be long and they can drop that tab from the google homepage.
Riiiigght... and surely google isn't capable of taking your and everybody elses data and aggregate that.
Google is an expert at gathering data, and you can bet your knickers on them doing this not for your amusement or to give you a nifty feature but simply because they are harnessing your brain to do a part of their work.
Maybe. I do notice that regular car batteries are also somewhat standardized, so maybe they wouldn't all be exactly equal, but equal within a small enough range to still be swappable.
Laptop and cellphone batteries are a good example of what you are referring to, but those do not need to be swapped, once swapping is a requirement standardization more or less follows automatically.
hehe, surprise, surprise, who would have thought that:)
Good thing we don't have clipart then or I would not have caught it.
There is an indian site as well, and I swear I was not aware that zataka.in is a search engine. I actually wanted to make it sound japanese and one of my favorite cartoons when I was a kid was called 'taka takata' about a (totally stereotype) Japanese soldier. Takata was already gone, hence zataka...
the more people invest in an environment, the smaller the chance that they'll destroy it. To spend time on ranking pages which can be undone by *one* single click by a google employee means that all your contributions are undoable at any one moment.
I think people will think twice before they will invest a lots of time and money into gaming a system with such a powerful rollback mechanism.
We have done the exact same thing with daz.com and to date I have yet to see my first spam attempt. The barrier to entry is simply too high.
what bugs me most is the sites that clone forum questions, load them up with ads and recycle them so that if you type in a question in to google one of these sites will come up with a perfect match but there is no answer or follow up to the question.
It seems like google has found out that Yahoo maybe had a point after all when they questioned the ability of algorithms to rank results.
Google has thus far always held that the only way to deal with this problem is automation, I find it really interesting to see them turn around like this and yield to the 'wisdom of the crowds'.
In the end this will probably result in just one more element in their ranking formula, the human factor. I still very much welcome this trend.
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a very small grinder could be used to cut it open, if you don't go to fast and make a light cut it won't heat up much (only a fraction of what it heated up to weld it shut).
that's called 'cloaking' and should be a really good reason to get them banned permanently.
the lifetime of interface specs is getting shorter and shorter, if your reputation is on the line then betting that a certain interface is still available 25 years from now is not too clever.
oh, you've got the karma, just no modpoints... and neither do I ...
mod parent up please...
he's spot on. Anybody that has ever welded anything at all will confirm that the inside of whatever you're welding tends to get a little warm, especially if it is a sealed container.
Cold rolling it shut would be a better option, evacuating it and using a simple seal would be even better, especially since that would stop the medium from being attacked by oxygen.
so, use an old computer, ebay has plenty of them...
just stick it on a stack of cd's. And evacuate the vessel. Welding it shut might *not* be such a good idea because you will not be able to check if the heat affected your datastore after the welding.
The reason for a stack of cd's is that in a vacuum they should last a long long time and a whole bunch of them will allow you to do error recovery.
Yes, that may be so, but it's so fucking *messy* that I'd hate to use it. Also do not underestimate the complexities of a housing a column of fluid that's 7' (2.10 meters) tall...
HFE ? What kind of amplification factor does it have ?
Oh, come on. They were just really smart and spent it all on strippers, now they have to come up with a justification of where all the dough went. Look! Blinkenleuchtz...
That's just deliberately confusing the issue, which is synonymous for trolling. Slashdot uses a pretty clever moderation/metamoderation tool to separate the weath from the chaff, Wikipedia uses a system of editors with various rights to allow half the world (those with internet) to contribute to what is probably the largest encyclopedia of general knowledge that has ever existed in a single volume.
Myspace is a collection of garbage.
oh, silly me they already did just that...
never even noticed it, which says enough I guess. Google groups is pretty much officially dead.
Google has pretty much destroyed dejanews, I used it pretty much all the time before and since google took over it's been like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
It won't be long and they can drop that tab from the google homepage.
Riiiigght... and surely google isn't capable of taking your and everybody elses data and aggregate that.
Google is an expert at gathering data, and you can bet your knickers on them doing this not for your amusement or to give you a nifty feature but simply because they are harnessing your brain to do a part of their work.
Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Image_Labeler
If you think that's farfetched.
Maybe. I do notice that regular car batteries are also somewhat standardized, so maybe they wouldn't all be exactly equal, but equal within a small enough range to still be swappable.
Laptop and cellphone batteries are a good example of what you are referring to, but those do not need to be swapped, once swapping is a requirement standardization more or less follows automatically.
hehe, surprise, surprise, who would have thought that :)
Good thing we don't have clipart then or I would not have caught it.
There is an indian site as well, and I swear I was not aware that zataka.in is a search engine. I actually wanted to make it sound japanese and one of my favorite cartoons when I was a kid was called 'taka takata' about a (totally stereotype) Japanese soldier. Takata was already gone, hence zataka...
wikipedia is proof positive that you can get > 0 output by harvesting the output of a lot of users, slashdot is another proof.
And I don't think it unlikely that google can come up with something a little bit more sophisticated than /. ...
the more people invest in an environment, the smaller the chance that they'll destroy it.
To spend time on ranking pages which can be undone by *one* single click by a google employee means that all your contributions are undoable at any one moment.
I think people will think twice before they will invest a lots of time and money into gaming a system with such a powerful rollback mechanism.
We have done the exact same thing with daz.com and to date I have yet to see my first spam attempt. The barrier to entry is simply too high.
the links are a way to refine the results.
Not sure which clipart lady you are referring to ?
that site is f'ing disgusting.
what bugs me most is the sites that clone forum questions, load them up with ads and recycle them so that if you type in a question in to google one of these sites will come up with a perfect match but there is no answer or follow up to the question.
Second that. This hick has been doing this for over a year now and the effect is starting to accumulate
(see 'zataka.com' for what I've been up to).
good point!
about.com
youtube
anything that has sedoparking on it
It seems like google has found out that Yahoo maybe had a point after all when they questioned the ability of algorithms to rank results.
Google has thus far always held that the only way to deal with this problem is automation, I find it really interesting to see them turn around like this and yield to the 'wisdom of the crowds'.
In the end this will probably result in just one more element in their ranking formula, the human factor. I still very much welcome this trend.
Humans are a lot harder to game than algorithms.
that only happens when the recipient is in the chinese embassy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_the_Chinese_embassy_in_Belgrade