the active ingredient in antifreeze tastes sweet naturally. they add a bad taste to it because it is also poison naturally... they don't have to add that part!
Quantum doesn't mean instantaneous either, it's all about the amount of a change. A "quantum leap" is one that cannot be subdivided -- electron energy levels are quantized. Likewise, a photon's energy level is quantized, and does not have an infinite number of possibile states.
I used to think the EC was silly too. But after the last election I started doing some research, and now I appreciate it. Do a google search for "electoral college defense" and you will find some interesting articles.
In a nutshell, without the EC the few most populous states would carry every presidential election, and that ain't right. This isn't a pure democracy, it's a republic.
since the OS is more-or-less designed for only one button. Hence, there isn't anything for the extra buttons to do.
Not true. There are many places in the Mac OS where a control-click is useful -- map one of your extra mouse buttons to control-click and you will see all kinds of shortcuts.
The OS doesn't require >1 button, but it CAN benefit from it. I use it all the time.
Any ideas why my PIII Win2k box (Abit BH6) occasionaly "loses" the USB mouse when a screen saver runs? I have tried to disable ALL power-related stuff, but I have had the same problem on 98SE and Win2k. SOmetimes it's really bad, where the cursor disappears after a few minutes of sleep. Sometimes it goes for weeks with no trouble. (unplugging/plugging the mouse does NOT bring it back. The box must be rebooted.)
I know there is some "power saving" crap still running, I suspect that is part of the USB problem, and I don't know how to kill it. Here's an interesting data point:
Say the screen saver is running and the monitor is off -- like I turn the display off when I go to bed. In the morning, if I wiggle the mouse and then turn the monitor on, the screen saver is still running. I have to wiggle the mouse AFTER the monitor is on. Why is the damn computer monitoring the state of the monitor? Is there any way to stop this?
The McDonald's coffee case is actually kind of interesting. From what I have read, they deserved to get sued. I've since stopped using this as the classic example of a frivolous lawsuit.
While I wholeheartedly agree with the principle, in practice I recommend against a uATX system. I went that route for my server and I have often regretted it. While I got exactly the mobo I wanted back then, the variety available isn't as great which might make an upgrade harder today. Also, it is harder to find uATX power supplies, and I expect that to be the first component to fail.
I also recommend against systems with components built into the mobo. The aforementioned system -- I chose a mobo with built-in video... Well, no matter what I do, I can't get it to work with my other PCI cards... I had to disable the onboard video and put an old Matrox card in anyway.
I guess the specific topic today is all about a "thin" client, but for those of you building complete jukeboxes from junker computers, check this software out. I looked long and hard at jukebox applications before I chose Webplay, though the critical feature for me was LOCAL play, not streaming. But it does both.
Wow, if you are that serious about your data, why are you using a Zip? Switch to CD-RW with packet writing, the disc is treated like a big floppy. Very easy to use, cheap media, and most importantly, it's durable. Zip disks give me the creeps. Too many have died on me.
You can buy a gig of space spread out over the net to store some extra files on, and your files end up in tiny fragments on hundreds or thousands of other computers like yours.
And how is that a GOOD thing?
If I need a gig of space, I throw out a gig of crap.
If I am out of crap, I can spend $50 on an extra hard drive. Or $0.20 on a CD-R.
The only way to make distributed storage appealing is to make it so vast that nothing I can reasonably buy will compare with it, and that seems unlikely. And if it DID happen, I'd need a fat pipe to match.
In the end, I want to keep my computer to myself, except for the http server I run.
How is the Season Pass different than Replay's "record every episode of this show" or "record any show with X in the name, description, actors or directors?"
I know Tivo is smart enough to not record reruns. Replay can't do that, at least not the 2000/3000 series. I don't know about the 4000s.
This is the most common argument given by satellite pirates. $50/mo. for over three-hundred channels is not going to break the average consumer, especially those with enough money to be investing in satellite hacking equipment.
I do not want to get into the piracy argument, but I do want to point out that sat hacking gear is not expensive: you can start hacking echostar for less than $50, assuming you have a computer to maintain the gadget with... so you can't fairly say that $50/month is comparable to the cost of the hacker gear. It's not, it's a hell of a lot more. There is a substantial savings for pirates. (though in the case of Echostar maintaining a minimal sub makes things easier.)
I have a friend that's the same way. He was able to put his finger on one additional thing: "those guys with the hair." You know who I mean.
I think that the whole Centauri thing was far and away the best part of the show... the Londo/G'kar relationship, the shenannigans in in the royal court back on Centauri Prime, the mad emperor... Man, that stuff was cool. Too bad my buddy could never see past the hair.
Good job, Canuck punk, you have made me rethink the thoughtful message of congratulations I put on my web site immediately after the game. You're making your country look fantastic.
That's easy. There is no shortage of positions where you can make money playing Quake III. Just find a company with a project that has no clear direction and poor management.There are countless thousands of these situations available at any given time.
Man, I have been looking for one of those jobs for a year, since my last one laid me off! Post if you know of any such clueless companies in the Seattle area.
Laserdisc was niche because of the price of the player's perhaps, which were $100 or so more than a VCR back then (on up to THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS for the top of the line ones). Honestly I think the side-flipping thing was more of a deterrent. A good player would flip sides FOR you, but if the movie was over 2 hours you still had to change discs once because you got a max 2 hours per platter. No getting around that disc swap without a $3000 2-drawer Pioneer Elite player!
The price of the media more than made up for a couple hundred bucks extra for the player, though. Consider the movie situation at the end of the 80's.
- Die Hard on VHS for $100 - Die Hard on laser for $50 - RoboCop on VHS for $100 - RoboCop on laser for $30
It seems crazy now, but once the idea of OWNING a shrink-wrapped VHS movie was absurd; movies were for renting, silly rabbit! If you wanted to BUY a movie, you paid the same $100 that the video store did, or you waited for a video store to sell a worn-out copy. (Even that didn't happen a lot then as I recall, because the rental biz was smaller and they would get in a FEW tapes, not 50 when a new title came out. They tended to keep what they first got.)
You didn't have to buy a lot of movies to make a laserdisc player a good deal. If you were into movies, anyway. And nearly EVERY US movie was available in the format. Many of them had exotic collector'e editions with the deleted scenes and stuff we take for granted on DVDs now.
It was in this climate that laserdiscs flourished. OK, flourished is an exaggeration. It was definitely a niche. They never got huge, but they were big enough that every movie came out on laser, there were scads of players to choose from, and every city had a few specialty retailers to support the format.
We laser jocks were enjoying near-DVD quality movies at comparatively bargain prices over a decade ago. So I have to post this same rant every time someone slights the format, in your case due to a misunderstanding of the price factor.:)
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the active ingredient in antifreeze tastes sweet naturally. they add a bad taste to it because it is also poison naturally... they don't have to add that part!
Quantum doesn't mean instantaneous either, it's all about the amount of a change. A "quantum leap" is one that cannot be subdivided -- electron energy levels are quantized. Likewise, a photon's energy level is quantized, and does not have an infinite number of possibile states.
I used to think the EC was silly too. But after the last election I started doing some research, and now I appreciate it. Do a google search for "electoral college defense" and you will find some interesting articles.
In a nutshell, without the EC the few most populous states would carry every presidential election, and that ain't right. This isn't a pure democracy, it's a republic.
since the OS is more-or-less designed for only one button. Hence, there isn't anything for the extra buttons to do.
Not true. There are many places in the Mac OS where a control-click is useful -- map one of your extra mouse buttons to control-click and you will see all kinds of shortcuts.
The OS doesn't require >1 button, but it CAN benefit from it. I use it all the time.
Salary is unsecured debt. I know, I have been there, got taken for about $2k of salary in a bankruptcy.
I think it is backwards too.
The fat bastard somehow managed to hang on to the company name, he is probably defrauding someone else right now...
Excellent post.
Off on a tangent...
Any ideas why my PIII Win2k box (Abit BH6) occasionaly "loses" the USB mouse when a screen saver runs? I have tried to disable ALL power-related stuff, but I have had the same problem on 98SE and Win2k. SOmetimes it's really bad, where the cursor disappears after a few minutes of sleep. Sometimes it goes for weeks with no trouble. (unplugging/plugging the mouse does NOT bring it back. The box must be rebooted.)
I know there is some "power saving" crap still running, I suspect that is part of the USB problem, and I don't know how to kill it. Here's an interesting data point:
Say the screen saver is running and the monitor is off -- like I turn the display off when I go to bed. In the morning, if I wiggle the mouse and then turn the monitor on, the screen saver is still running. I have to wiggle the mouse AFTER the monitor is on. Why is the damn computer monitoring the state of the monitor? Is there any way to stop this?
Ditto, BH6 here.
I think we need a few points for putting any part of the "paper" in ALL CAPS. Random boldface and underlining should net a few points too.
Which looks nuttier?
"... those who fail to recognize that I am a modern-day Galileo are the same thugs who make up the new Inquisition trying to suppress my ideas."
or...
"... those who FAIL TO RECOGNIZE that I am a modern-day Galileo are the same thugs who make up the NEW Inquisition trying to suppress my ideas."
In conclusion, the Timecube rules us all. Thank you.
when they have enough neutrons to kill a sloppy lab assistant, let me know
HILARIOUS. That should be the new benchmark for fusion-related research. I love it.
The McDonald's coffee case is actually kind of interesting. From what I have read, they deserved to get sued. I've since stopped using this as the classic example of a frivolous lawsuit.
Just try the long line-out first. It's cheap, and if it works well enough for you, you're set.
While I wholeheartedly agree with the principle, in practice I recommend against a uATX system. I went that route for my server and I have often regretted it. While I got exactly the mobo I wanted back then, the variety available isn't as great which might make an upgrade harder today. Also, it is harder to find uATX power supplies, and I expect that to be the first component to fail.
I also recommend against systems with components built into the mobo. The aforementioned system -- I chose a mobo with built-in video... Well, no matter what I do, I can't get it to work with my other PCI cards... I had to disable the onboard video and put an old Matrox card in anyway.
YMMV.
Every time the subject of jukeboxes comes up I post the same thing:
Webplay rocks.
I guess the specific topic today is all about a "thin" client, but for those of you building complete jukeboxes from junker computers, check this software out. I looked long and hard at jukebox applications before I chose Webplay, though the critical feature for me was LOCAL play, not streaming. But it does both.
No, gunpowder kills people.
Um...
No, nitrocellulose kills people.
Um...
No, nitric acid kills people.
Um...
No, nitrogen kills people.
See how quickly we can get to the real root of the problem this way?
Wow, if you are that serious about your data, why are you using a Zip? Switch to CD-RW with packet writing, the disc is treated like a big floppy. Very easy to use, cheap media, and most importantly, it's durable. Zip disks give me the creeps. Too many have died on me.
You can buy a gig of space spread out over the net to store some extra files on, and your files end up in tiny fragments on hundreds or thousands of other computers like yours.
And how is that a GOOD thing?
If I need a gig of space, I throw out a gig of crap.
If I am out of crap, I can spend $50 on an extra hard drive. Or $0.20 on a CD-R.
The only way to make distributed storage appealing is to make it so vast that nothing I can reasonably buy will compare with it, and that seems unlikely. And if it DID happen, I'd need a fat pipe to match.
In the end, I want to keep my computer to myself, except for the http server I run.
How is the Season Pass different than Replay's "record every episode of this show" or "record any show with X in the name, description, actors or directors?"
I know Tivo is smart enough to not record reruns. Replay can't do that, at least not the 2000/3000 series. I don't know about the 4000s.
This is the most common argument given by satellite pirates. $50/mo. for over three-hundred channels is not going to break the average consumer, especially those with enough money to be investing in satellite hacking equipment.
I do not want to get into the piracy argument, but I do want to point out that sat hacking gear is not expensive: you can start hacking echostar for less than $50, assuming you have a computer to maintain the gadget with... so you can't fairly say that $50/month is comparable to the cost of the hacker gear. It's not, it's a hell of a lot more. There is a substantial savings for pirates. (though in the case of Echostar maintaining a minimal sub makes things easier.)
I'm sick of people like you who are always trying to stop me fron finding the seventh spirit form!
I still really liked the show, but I can easily agree that the Space Elve Mystics were the worst part of the ensemble!
Hrm, you don't normally suspect Showtime to be airing a sci-fi series.
Stargate
Outer Limits
Total Recall
off the top of my head...
I have a friend that's the same way. He was able to put his finger on one additional thing: "those guys with the hair." You know who I mean.
I think that the whole Centauri thing was far and away the best part of the show... the Londo/G'kar relationship, the shenannigans in in the royal court back on Centauri Prime, the mad emperor... Man, that stuff was cool. Too bad my buddy could never see past the hair.
Good job, Canuck punk, you have made me rethink the thoughtful message of congratulations I put on my web site immediately after the game. You're making your country look fantastic.
That's easy. There is no shortage of positions where you can make money playing Quake III. Just find a company with a project that has no clear direction and poor management.There are countless thousands of these situations available at any given time.
Man, I have been looking for one of those jobs for a year, since my last one laid me off! Post if you know of any such clueless companies in the Seattle area.
Laserdisc was niche because of the price of the player's perhaps, which were $100 or so more than a VCR back then (on up to THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS for the top of the line ones). Honestly I think the side-flipping thing was more of a deterrent. A good player would flip sides FOR you, but if the movie was over 2 hours you still had to change discs once because you got a max 2 hours per platter. No getting around that disc swap without a $3000 2-drawer Pioneer Elite player!
The price of the media more than made up for a couple hundred bucks extra for the player, though. Consider the movie situation at the end of the 80's.
- Die Hard on VHS for $100
- Die Hard on laser for $50
- RoboCop on VHS for $100
- RoboCop on laser for $30
It seems crazy now, but once the idea of OWNING a shrink-wrapped VHS movie was absurd; movies were for renting, silly rabbit! If you wanted to BUY a movie, you paid the same $100 that the video store did, or you waited for a video store to sell a worn-out copy. (Even that didn't happen a lot then as I recall, because the rental biz was smaller and they would get in a FEW tapes, not 50 when a new title came out. They tended to keep what they first got.)
You didn't have to buy a lot of movies to make a laserdisc player a good deal. If you were into movies, anyway. And nearly EVERY US movie was available in the format. Many of them had exotic collector'e editions with the deleted scenes and stuff we take for granted on DVDs now.
It was in this climate that laserdiscs flourished. OK, flourished is an exaggeration. It was definitely a niche. They never got huge, but they were big enough that every movie came out on laser, there were scads of players to choose from, and every city had a few specialty retailers to support the format.
We laser jocks were enjoying near-DVD quality movies at comparatively bargain prices over a decade ago. So I have to post this same rant every time someone slights the format, in your case due to a misunderstanding of the price factor.
Now to await the flames and mods!