I distinctly remember being told about "psycho-kinetic" watches...
What you actually heard was the phrase "Seiko Kinetic"; their advertisements clearly showed the mechanical parts of the charging mechanism, and made no reference to "psycho" power, whatever that might be. There's more info on it on Seiko's website.
The best article on this subject, if only because of the absolutely spectacular flowchart attached to it, appeared on GameRevolution back in April. It kinda makes you consider tinfoil hats from a different perspective.
I've just tried it with Firefox, which can optionally prevent JavaScript code from disabling context menus, and the usual right-click menu appeared with the AJAX-generated tooltip beneath it.
On that note, I want to know when the promised System On A Chip computers will be hitting Walmart, etc.
Oh, man, where have you been all of this time? The system-on-a-chip has come and gone already, in at least the form of the Cyrix MediaGX series of processors. It integrated graphics, audio, memory and PCI controllers into the CPU die. Compaq sold a few machines with them, IIRC, but they sucked badly since users could not upgrade the soldered-on-the-motherboard processors. I've not seen any other devices that use the MediaGX or derivatives since those days.
Does this mean you have to top up the oil at the same time as the fuel (or indeed, mix oil in with the fuel) as with a 2-stroke?
No, the rotary engine is planted firmly in four-stroke land. What the Mazda 13B does is inject a small amount of oil onto the apex seals of the rotors via a port on the inside of the rotor housing. It's really sort of a controlled drip instead of a squirt, so that when the seals go over the oil port, they literally "squeegee" the oil around the interior surfaces of the engine. The oil is sourced from the regular supply of oil used to lubricate the rest of the engine. Yes, it needs to be topped off regularly, but it's on the order of 1L/2000km for an engine in good condition, which is not much different from many reciprocating engines. Take a look at this page for an illustration.
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"*Zonk finds an Uwe Boll interview that he hasn't posted before and runs the story*"
Hahaha, that is so fake. A Slashdot editor checking for dupes? Surely you jest!
The Register has a link to the company's press release with a few pictures. The so-called "Quantum II" processor shown in the "processor compartment" bears a striking resemblance to a mobile Pentium III chip with a heat pipe and fan assembly arranged almost identically to those in Dell laptops. The various
I wish Linus would just stick with fixing bugs in stable releases and leave major changes to development versions, but I guess that'd take finding him a new toy to play with.
You might want to consider DShield -- it works very nicely once scripts are set up to download fresh lists and upload filtered logs for redistribution. Plus, it's free.
Stationary print heads... that seems so much like the old-as-balls HP line printers that we have here that I'm wondering if they're going to have it print on fanfold greenbar paper. Maybe they'll rediscover batch processing too.
You know the machine has been tampered with when the poor sod on the stage whips out 31 different versions of "Why did the chicken cross the road?" and the laugh track has been replaced with Nelson Muntz's "Ha ha!".
If you spend enough time with NT-derived versions of Windows, you'll find that a lot of software simply assume that it is running under Windows 95/98/ME or require that you do some fiddling with permissions on the filesystem or registry to run properly. This causes me no end of grief as I try to keep our PCs sufficiently protected from stupidity while being functional enough to avoid receiving support calls.
All of the examples given can be duplicated in commercial software. MS Office 2000 won't stop displaying the "please register" nag dialogue box until an admin dismisses it. Regular users can't install plugins in Internet Explorer either, although I guess one could set the plugins directory to Everyone:F, but that's big security hole. One little commercial programme we use here to track fixed assets won't run under a regular user account unless its registry key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE is set to full access to everyone because it keeps running state information there. Nero Burning ROM will not burn dics under a regular account without installing an extra utility that grants disc burning privileges to admin-specified users or groups. Palm Desktop, even in its current iteration, keeps user data in its programme directory, which requires the admin to set the directory's permissions to Everyone:F - again, another gaping hole. The list goes on and on, and it goes to show that a good part of the crappy Windows user experience is caused by the lousy software that runs on it.
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I distinctly remember being told about "psycho-kinetic" watches...
What you actually heard was the phrase "Seiko Kinetic"; their advertisements clearly showed the mechanical parts of the charging mechanism, and made no reference to "psycho" power, whatever that might be. There's more info on it on Seiko's website.
Illiad foresaw this over eight years ago. Just don't try to do the same with Windows NT CDs.
Hey, don't laugh, F/OSS fanbois have had such a tool available for decades. See touch(1) for more details.
it's not full-proof.
Is it empty-proof, then?
Yeah! They could get their inspiration from the AS400/iSeries/System i servers, that'll surely show IBM who's better!
The best article on this subject, if only because of the absolutely spectacular flowchart attached to it, appeared on GameRevolution back in April. It kinda makes you consider tinfoil hats from a different perspective.
"I love the Power Glove. It's so bad."
YAFI, YGI.
So you're still using Internet Explorer, then?
I've just tried it with Firefox, which can optionally prevent JavaScript code from disabling context menus, and the usual right-click menu appeared with the AJAX-generated tooltip beneath it.
On that note, I want to know when the promised System On A Chip computers will be hitting Walmart, etc.
Oh, man, where have you been all of this time? The system-on-a-chip has come and gone already, in at least the form of the Cyrix MediaGX series of processors. It integrated graphics, audio, memory and PCI controllers into the CPU die. Compaq sold a few machines with them, IIRC, but they sucked badly since users could not upgrade the soldered-on-the-motherboard processors. I've not seen any other devices that use the MediaGX or derivatives since those days.
Did you just step out of an IKEA store?
I was waiting for someone to bring this one up.
Kernel configuration. It's not just a job, it's an adventure!
Does this mean you have to top up the oil at the same time as the fuel (or indeed, mix oil in with the fuel) as with a 2-stroke?
No, the rotary engine is planted firmly in four-stroke land. What the Mazda 13B does is inject a small amount of oil onto the apex seals of the rotors via a port on the inside of the rotor housing. It's really sort of a controlled drip instead of a squirt, so that when the seals go over the oil port, they literally "squeegee" the oil around the interior surfaces of the engine. The oil is sourced from the regular supply of oil used to lubricate the rest of the engine. Yes, it needs to be topped off regularly, but it's on the order of 1L/2000km for an engine in good condition, which is not much different from many reciprocating engines. Take a look at this page for an illustration.
"*Zonk finds an Uwe Boll interview that he hasn't posted before and runs the story*"
Hahaha, that is so fake. A Slashdot editor checking for dupes? Surely you jest!
You know, I'm beginning to doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
What's the point of using Perl if your code suddenly becomes intelligible? After all, there is more than one way to obfuscate it.
The limit for 32-bit is 4 GB, and the limit for 64-bit is 128 GB.
Ha ha, you so funny me laugh lots. A 64-bit bus can address 16 exabytes of memory.
Ignore the oops there. I was bereft of intracraneal activity when the incommodious event recorded above occurred.
The Register has a link to the company's press release with a few pictures. The so-called "Quantum II" processor shown in the "processor compartment" bears a striking resemblance to a mobile Pentium III chip with a heat pipe and fan assembly arranged almost identically to those in Dell laptops. The various
I wish Linus would just stick with fixing bugs in stable releases and leave major changes to development versions, but I guess that'd take finding him a new toy to play with.
You might want to consider DShield -- it works very nicely once scripts are set up to download fresh lists and upload filtered logs for redistribution. Plus, it's free.
Stationary print heads... that seems so much like the old-as-balls HP line printers that we have here that I'm wondering if they're going to have it print on fanfold greenbar paper. Maybe they'll rediscover batch processing too.
PairOn... Pron... PairOn... Pron...
I don't know, but that chair seems designed exclusively for eXtreme Pr0n-watching with the SO.
Oh, wait; I'm on Slashdot... nevermind.
You know the machine has been tampered with when the poor sod on the stage whips out 31 different versions of "Why did the chicken cross the road?" and the laugh track has been replaced with Nelson Muntz's "Ha ha!".
If you spend enough time with NT-derived versions of Windows, you'll find that a lot of software simply assume that it is running under Windows 95/98/ME or require that you do some fiddling with permissions on the filesystem or registry to run properly. This causes me no end of grief as I try to keep our PCs sufficiently protected from stupidity while being functional enough to avoid receiving support calls.
All of the examples given can be duplicated in commercial software. MS Office 2000 won't stop displaying the "please register" nag dialogue box until an admin dismisses it. Regular users can't install plugins in Internet Explorer either, although I guess one could set the plugins directory to Everyone:F, but that's big security hole. One little commercial programme we use here to track fixed assets won't run under a regular user account unless its registry key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE is set to full access to everyone because it keeps running state information there. Nero Burning ROM will not burn dics under a regular account without installing an extra utility that grants disc burning privileges to admin-specified users or groups. Palm Desktop, even in its current iteration, keeps user data in its programme directory, which requires the admin to set the directory's permissions to Everyone:F - again, another gaping hole. The list goes on and on, and it goes to show that a good part of the crappy Windows user experience is caused by the lousy software that runs on it.
Yeah, yeah, it's Slashdot and all, but when expanding an acronym for those who don't know, it's best to spell it correctly -- "incumbent".
What's an incubant? A person who sits on eggs, perhaps?