Reminds me of the sort of front end you'd see on lab lockdown software in an elementary school. How come closed source OS developers (MS and Apple) don't want to provide variety to their GUI? Why does it fall to third party folks to write hacks that let you customize a system. Yes, 95% of regular users will never think beyond their desktop pic and screen saver but for the rest of us...make it an admin thing or something. I don't care what you have to do to keep grandma from fscking up her machine, just don't lock the rest of us down.
RTFA! Company admins wanted (and got) a line installed to the monitoring equipment in the plant. That way, they could make more accurate proposals and such concerning energy usage and earn a few more cents for the company. When it comes to bottom line, the bean counters seem to be winning over engineers.
I just witnessed the recent cinematic effort of your studio titled "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life" and would like to convey my reaction to this film with the following missive: I have never come closer to tearing my own penis off and throwing it at the screen while watching a movie."
For real fun, go into the archives and browse by bomb level. The nukes are great!
Hell, wife and I are just glad we don't have to wear clothes to watch a movie. We've tried that at the movies and for some reason, the site of old, pale, computer geeks in the buff seems to cause riots and yelling and such. Go figure.
Here in Florida, we're on the same grid as the North-east and likely the rest of the south and midwest. It's one big grid from Canada down to Key West. The dominoe effect occurs due to how power is routed on the grid. Here in Florida, we're pretty self sufficient and usually sell power to the rest of the eastern US in winter, now that Crystal River Nuclear plant is back online.
It was freshmen registration yesterday. Later today (Saturday) we go back in to assist with dorm hookup. Yes, that's right, at my college, you get all the hand holding you need, so as not to drive down retention and lose all that juicy tuition money. This, of course, means that I can only devote the proper amount of concentration to/. at 3am.
There's a problem with the eMac's analog board. This board also handles the video. Last summer (July 02), the first school in the county to get eMacs had a 40% failure rate within the first 6 months. Even if the machine has gone out of warranty, you should be able to get a warranty repair out of Apple if you call and complain enough.
As for the laptop, if it looks like user damage to the screen, Apple'll fight you all the way on that issue.
But they now have the perfect excuse for a rate hike. A quarter or two will look bad but profits will be up in the near future (or so I surmise, based on my long experience playing Alpha Centauri, whacking people with sticks in the SCA and drinking large amounts of Guinness listening to Clan N'gal late at night).
Well, a couple of heads under my feet, two more (one under each hand) for my arms and one affixed to the top of my throne of despair (in my parent's garage in Tampa-Duh!) make for a pretty cushy thinking chair.
I am just a stoopid foreigner to the US legal system, but it seems to me that many lawsuits only brought to court in the US because the lawyers are able to enrich themselves massively.
Oh my God! You've uncovered the laywer's secret. Now that they've been exposed to light, they should whither, burst into flame and then have their dust piles artistically blow away.
I think that, back in the late '80's or early '90's, Gale Banks had a land speed car that used nitrous but only in an intercooler. The nitrous cooled down the incoming air and he was able to break 300mph with a naturally aspirated motor.
One of the old racing tricks back in Spokane (1/4 miles drags) was to pack snow or ice on your intake manifold. Again, cooler air is denser and has more O2. The more O2 and fuel you pack into the cylinders, the more power you make. Simple!
No, but what is a know fact is that cooler air is denser, thereby delivering more O2 per volume. As to the claims of 20HP, that can be a bit much. When you consider that underhood temperatures can reach over 150F, a drop of 60F (90F outside air) can provide a bit more power. A larger benefit of having a cooler intake charge is that there is less detonation in the cylinders.
If cold air intakes are bogus, why else would all major automakers now have cool air boxes, routing outside air as opposed to the easier and cheaper setup of having the motor ingest underhood air. GM and Ford are always looking for ways to trim costs on cars and they feel it's worthwhile to have cold air instakes.
Finally, you can see the difference different types of air intake make on a car when it's on a dyno. You can also study the output of mass air meters that can be included in fuel injection equipment. What you end up with are hard numbers, not 'seat of the pants, feels like 20hp' mumbo-jumbo.
I don't really know much about the import car scene, I hop up old Chevy's. Part of the problem with upgrading imports and newer 4 bangers is that modern 4 cylinder motors are already pretty efficient, producing around 1hp per cubic inch or better. You look at these set ups and you see aluminum blocks, cold air intakes, tubular headers, dual overhead cams, roller rockers, etc. With an efficient engine, you're going to see smaller gains for your $$$.
With old musclecars, the motors are pretty crude. Originally, they sucked on hot, underhood air, had restrictive intake and exhaust manifolds, low power coils and point distributors. Throw on a set of headers and free flowing exhaust (ya' don't need big tips on little pipes-just run 3" all the way), good intake, new distributor and a cam to take advantage of it all and you've added close to 100 horses and even more torque. If you really want to get into things, get better flowing heads with larger valves, up the compression and improve the cooling so that you can run high compression with pump gas.
For goofy automotive products, check out the inline superchargers offered for sale on eBay. They're basically marine exhaust fans that cost around $5 and are sold for $50 on up.
At least with cars, it's all down to physics; weight of car, required energy to accelerate it, etc. With chassis dynos, quarter mile times, land speed records, etc. you have hard data to play with.
Maybe audiophiles need to come up with some kind of ISO Audio listening box. This will be a controlled, replicated listening environment with a multitude of audio analysis gear hooked up so that everyone can evenly compare the latest cables made of extruded pig shit or whatever is the must have of the week.
Thanks for the tips on beer. There's a beer place here (Clearwater, Fl, across from the original Hooters) that'll order in just about anything that can meet Florida's really stupid bottle laws. Florida only allows beer to be sold in about 5 different size bottles (8oz, 12oz, 16oz, 24oz, and 32oz). For some good Belgium stuff, I have to drive up to Atlanta. Go figure.
Don't forget the joys of removing the heads from you BBC while leaning across the 4' span of fenders on a '70 Impala. Then there's the fun of trying to loosen 1 1/4" bolts on the front suspension while pulling with your arms and pushing with your legs, hoping the bolt will break free before you back does.
When it comes to beer, try making your own. Tossing around 5 gallon batchs of beer gives you a good workout. Just make sure you make 5 gallons a week to get a regular workout. The easiest part is the consumption. Speaking of which, my latest beer (Erik Bloodaxe Strong Red Ale) should be ready. Ta.
There's been rumors of Apple shipping quad processor Macs for the last year. As for competition between Apple's dual proc XServe and IBM's PPC970 boxes, most XServe users that I've seen will stick with Apples. Why? Because all the installs have been in school systems. Know who's rolling out these boxes? Teachers, Media Specialists and overworked tech support people (where they haven't been fired from budget crunches). These are people who have spent their whole professional career with Apple ]['s and Macs. With as little time as they have (in some cases one person has to support 600+ computers ranging from ][GS's up to G4 towers), they are not going to be interested in learning another system (Linux).
It's not flamebait, it's sarcasm. Sorry to have left off the tags. I'm from Spokane. I've gone hunting in Canada. Was having a little fun in a too serious slashdot post fest. Sheesh! That's why no one in the world like Canadians. No sense of humor. When's the last time anyone ever even heard of a Canadian comedian? It's a shame, really, as Canadian comedian rolls off the tounge like some ancient Roman political office.
ps: I didn't include the tags again. Can you guess where they go?
At least 'blue-coller' tech support jobs are here. Yeah, they don't pay as much as 'fun' programing but there's not much chance they'll be going away.
Just like manufacturing has been moving out of country while design stays here, large scale coding is leaving the States. Best bet is for coders to become good designers.
Was in the same situation. I'd tried hanging out at bookstores (expensive hobby-can't leave without buying at least one book), joined a church (not religous-couldn't fake it), online dating (lot's of weird women just as turned off by me as I by them), took up art (art chicks are either totally into their art (you're a sideline) or also doing it for the wrong reasons). I'd just about resigned myself to spending the rest of my life with a cat when a friend dragged me along to a party. I was doing my usual sit in a corner and looked bored when I decided it was time to go. Tracked down my friend; found him talking to this belly dancing chick I'd seen around before. Next thing I know, we're talking about the migration of proto-Celtic people into China. She'd studied it from a textile standpoint (she's a weaver) and I from the linguistic.
We went on one date after that and decided to get married by the end of the date. That was four years ago, we've had a kid, bought a house and are generally grooving right along.
By the way, my wife had just about given up hope of settling down with a guy. She was 42. You never know just when you're going to meet the right person.
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Reminds me of the sort of front end you'd see on lab lockdown software in an elementary school. How come closed source OS developers (MS and Apple) don't want to provide variety to their GUI? Why does it fall to third party folks to write hacks that let you customize a system. Yes, 95% of regular users will never think beyond their desktop pic and screen saver but for the rest of us...make it an admin thing or something. I don't care what you have to do to keep grandma from fscking up her machine, just don't lock the rest of us down.
Yeah, 'cause 'sysadmins' don't need to worry about the precise use of characters when using computers. They can just point and click.
RTFA! Company admins wanted (and got) a line installed to the monitoring equipment in the plant. That way, they could make more accurate proposals and such concerning energy usage and earn a few more cents for the company. When it comes to bottom line, the bean counters seem to be winning over engineers.
There's Mr. Cranky!
Sample:
"Dear Ms. Lansing,
I just witnessed the recent cinematic effort of your studio titled "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life" and would like to convey my reaction to this film with the following missive: I have never come closer to tearing my own penis off and throwing it at the screen while watching a movie."
For real fun, go into the archives and browse by bomb level. The nukes are great!
Hell, wife and I are just glad we don't have to wear clothes to watch a movie. We've tried that at the movies and for some reason, the site of old, pale, computer geeks in the buff seems to cause riots and yelling and such. Go figure.
Here in Florida, we're on the same grid as the North-east and likely the rest of the south and midwest. It's one big grid from Canada down to Key West. The dominoe effect occurs due to how power is routed on the grid. Here in Florida, we're pretty self sufficient and usually sell power to the rest of the eastern US in winter, now that Crystal River Nuclear plant is back online.
It was freshmen registration yesterday. Later today (Saturday) we go back in to assist with dorm hookup. Yes, that's right, at my college, you get all the hand holding you need, so as not to drive down retention and lose all that juicy tuition money. This, of course, means that I can only devote the proper amount of concentration to /. at 3am.
There's a problem with the eMac's analog board. This board also handles the video. Last summer (July 02), the first school in the county to get eMacs had a 40% failure rate within the first 6 months. Even if the machine has gone out of warranty, you should be able to get a warranty repair out of Apple if you call and complain enough.
As for the laptop, if it looks like user damage to the screen, Apple'll fight you all the way on that issue.
But they now have the perfect excuse for a rate hike. A quarter or two will look bad but profits will be up in the near future (or so I surmise, based on my long experience playing Alpha Centauri, whacking people with sticks in the SCA and drinking large amounts of Guinness listening to Clan N'gal late at night).
Well, a couple of heads under my feet, two more (one under each hand) for my arms and one affixed to the top of my throne of despair (in my parent's garage in Tampa-Duh!) make for a pretty cushy thinking chair.
Depends if you're at the local coffee bar or curled up under the covers.
I am just a stoopid foreigner to the US legal system, but it seems to me that many lawsuits only brought to court in the US because the lawyers are able to enrich themselves massively.
Oh my God! You've uncovered the laywer's secret. Now that they've been exposed to light, they should whither, burst into flame and then have their dust piles artistically blow away.
The Cat Detector Van! It can pinpoint a purr at 800 meters!
I think that, back in the late '80's or early '90's, Gale Banks had a land speed car that used nitrous but only in an intercooler. The nitrous cooled down the incoming air and he was able to break 300mph with a naturally aspirated motor.
One of the old racing tricks back in Spokane (1/4 miles drags) was to pack snow or ice on your intake manifold. Again, cooler air is denser and has more O2. The more O2 and fuel you pack into the cylinders, the more power you make. Simple!
No, but what is a know fact is that cooler air is denser, thereby delivering more O2 per volume. As to the claims of 20HP, that can be a bit much. When you consider that underhood temperatures can reach over 150F, a drop of 60F (90F outside air) can provide a bit more power. A larger benefit of having a cooler intake charge is that there is less detonation in the cylinders.
If cold air intakes are bogus, why else would all major automakers now have cool air boxes, routing outside air as opposed to the easier and cheaper setup of having the motor ingest underhood air. GM and Ford are always looking for ways to trim costs on cars and they feel it's worthwhile to have cold air instakes.
Finally, you can see the difference different types of air intake make on a car when it's on a dyno. You can also study the output of mass air meters that can be included in fuel injection equipment. What you end up with are hard numbers, not 'seat of the pants, feels like 20hp' mumbo-jumbo.
I don't really know much about the import car scene, I hop up old Chevy's. Part of the problem with upgrading imports and newer 4 bangers is that modern 4 cylinder motors are already pretty efficient, producing around 1hp per cubic inch or better. You look at these set ups and you see aluminum blocks, cold air intakes, tubular headers, dual overhead cams, roller rockers, etc. With an efficient engine, you're going to see smaller gains for your $$$.
With old musclecars, the motors are pretty crude. Originally, they sucked on hot, underhood air, had restrictive intake and exhaust manifolds, low power coils and point distributors. Throw on a set of headers and free flowing exhaust (ya' don't need big tips on little pipes-just run 3" all the way), good intake, new distributor and a cam to take advantage of it all and you've added close to 100 horses and even more torque. If you really want to get into things, get better flowing heads with larger valves, up the compression and improve the cooling so that you can run high compression with pump gas.
For goofy automotive products, check out the inline superchargers offered for sale on eBay. They're basically marine exhaust fans that cost around $5 and are sold for $50 on up.
At least with cars, it's all down to physics; weight of car, required energy to accelerate it, etc. With chassis dynos, quarter mile times, land speed records, etc. you have hard data to play with.
Maybe audiophiles need to come up with some kind of ISO Audio listening box. This will be a controlled, replicated listening environment with a multitude of audio analysis gear hooked up so that everyone can evenly compare the latest cables made of extruded pig shit or whatever is the must have of the week.
Thanks for the tips on beer. There's a beer place here (Clearwater, Fl, across from the original Hooters) that'll order in just about anything that can meet Florida's really stupid bottle laws. Florida only allows beer to be sold in about 5 different size bottles (8oz, 12oz, 16oz, 24oz, and 32oz). For some good Belgium stuff, I have to drive up to Atlanta. Go figure.
Don't forget the joys of removing the heads from you BBC while leaning across the 4' span of fenders on a '70 Impala. Then there's the fun of trying to loosen 1 1/4" bolts on the front suspension while pulling with your arms and pushing with your legs, hoping the bolt will break free before you back does.
When it comes to beer, try making your own. Tossing around 5 gallon batchs of beer gives you a good workout. Just make sure you make 5 gallons a week to get a regular workout. The easiest part is the consumption. Speaking of which, my latest beer (Erik Bloodaxe Strong Red Ale) should be ready. Ta.
Didn't Tolkien base the rules of Elvish on ancient languages he was studying?
There's been rumors of Apple shipping quad processor Macs for the last year. As for competition between Apple's dual proc XServe and IBM's PPC970 boxes, most XServe users that I've seen will stick with Apples. Why? Because all the installs have been in school systems. Know who's rolling out these boxes? Teachers, Media Specialists and overworked tech support people (where they haven't been fired from budget crunches). These are people who have spent their whole professional career with Apple ]['s and Macs. With as little time as they have (in some cases one person has to support 600+ computers ranging from ][GS's up to G4 towers), they are not going to be interested in learning another system (Linux).
But unemployment is rising. It seems that the growth has been due to corporate downsizing and one time benefits that result.
It's not flamebait, it's sarcasm. Sorry to have left off the tags. I'm from Spokane. I've gone hunting in Canada. Was having a little fun in a too serious slashdot post fest. Sheesh! That's why no one in the world like Canadians. No sense of humor. When's the last time anyone ever even heard of a Canadian comedian? It's a shame, really, as Canadian comedian rolls off the tounge like some ancient Roman political office.
ps: I didn't include the tags again. Can you guess where they go?
I think you guys...are indoctrinated to believe that everywhere outside of the US is full of bizarre savages.
That's what we get from living next to Canada. Try it sometime.
At least 'blue-coller' tech support jobs are here. Yeah, they don't pay as much as 'fun' programing but there's not much chance they'll be going away.
Just like manufacturing has been moving out of country while design stays here, large scale coding is leaving the States. Best bet is for coders to become good designers.
Was in the same situation. I'd tried hanging out at bookstores (expensive hobby-can't leave without buying at least one book), joined a church (not religous-couldn't fake it), online dating (lot's of weird women just as turned off by me as I by them), took up art (art chicks are either totally into their art (you're a sideline) or also doing it for the wrong reasons). I'd just about resigned myself to spending the rest of my life with a cat when a friend dragged me along to a party. I was doing my usual sit in a corner and looked bored when I decided it was time to go. Tracked down my friend; found him talking to this belly dancing chick I'd seen around before. Next thing I know, we're talking about the migration of proto-Celtic people into China. She'd studied it from a textile standpoint (she's a weaver) and I from the linguistic.
We went on one date after that and decided to get married by the end of the date. That was four years ago, we've had a kid, bought a house and are generally grooving right along.
By the way, my wife had just about given up hope of settling down with a guy. She was 42. You never know just when you're going to meet the right person.