Repeat after me: the signal bars don't tell you the absolute signal level, just relative, and the scale is merely monotonic, nothing more. Two signal bars might be a miniscule increase over one, while three might be twice the signal. And it can differ across phones.
Consumer report couldn't have illustrated it simpler. You put your finger *here* and the signal strength drops by 15 to 20% or whatever the number was.
What is this Consumer Report and Consumers Report I keep reading about? Two recent Slashdot summaries have referred to it, and yet another reference.
Thank you for this injection of sanity. I was beginning to be swayed by this "it's all relative" of other posts, but yours is a clear line. A couple of days ago I hooked an old Linksys router that said 5V to a 12V (which measured more like 15V) transformer. Immediate burning smell. Now it hangs with the red light on, gets hot even at 5V. I'd call it very bricked. Yet, if someone desoldered the chips I fried, they could probably revive it. But your definition makes it clear: the case must be opened and parts desoldered to fix it.
And now I'm regaining more sanity here (thanks again)... we already had a word for what I did: I broke the hell out of it. It needs to be repaired. Bricked is a term describing breakage done entirely by software, which requires special tools (hardware, or perhaps special signed binaries), or even hardware repair, to remedy. The point is that you screwed it up beyond something you as an average user can remedy, merely by doing things in software, or maybe hooking the wrong adaptor to it, without forcing anything. THAT is a useful concept, because usually such simple things don't render a device unusable to yourself. Ahhhh, now the word has regained a useful meaning for me again.
There, fixed that for you. Bricked is permanent. Non-permanent "bricking" isn't bricking at all. If you can revive it, it was never bricked in the first place.
I either have some slow degenerative neural disease, or have just been slowly losing my attention for spelling. I've seen it go downhill over the past several years. It's kind of worrying.
The technology, which has already sparked interest from companies such as BT and IBM, is already in its first phase and boasts an impressive 2.5 terabytes capacity, double the capacity of the London phone system.
Meh, my hard drive can store almost that much already.
designing a fail-back plan for a BOP failure is like designing a plan for what to do if North America suddenly sank into the ocean. though important to think about, no amount of prep is ever going to make it a smooth operation.
Thanks a lot. Now I won't be able to sleep at night. All along I thought we had a plan to handle this.
I wonder what unintended consequences this will have? Like causing malaria to mutate into something that can infect these mosquitos, or something bad the mosquitos do.
I imagine the idea is that you have to pay so that you'll use a credit card, which will reveal a name that they know isn't entirely made up. Their ultimate goal is to have your name on your comments, so that you'll self-moderate, and they won't have to. Allowing you to use a nickname for the posts would defeat this. So you get to pay them so that you can moderate yourself. I imagine this will work, in that most everyone will moderate themselves, that is, they won't use their credit card and they won't get any comments.
Best of luck to them. I say 12 months down the line, they're in business sitting on their asses as nobody is buying music anymore. Why buy it a second time when I've already bought it once with my levy payment and thus paid them to do nothing?
Wake me when they have remote memory, or even remote CPU. Hell, they could have a fully remote computer that has just air space between me and it. Oh, wait...
Plasma TVs (PTV) is a great unit, because it covers so many things. You could have weight/mass in PTVs, price in PTVs, size in PTVs, resolution in PTVs, bandwidth in PTVs, and finally, power usage in PTVs.
Isn't that the simpler solution? Just cut off all Internet access in Boston, and let anyone who doesn't want that bullshit move elsewhere. Pretty soon nobody will be left there, and the problem will be solved.
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I was asking about Consumer Report and Consumers Report, not Consumer Reports. I keep seeing these referenced yet have never heard of them before.
Meh, when they make the whole UI in Adobe Flash, it will be truely synergistically interfaced.
Finally, a Linux distro from Microsoft. It took them long enough.
I'd prefer Case 3: The soldiers find another way, to avoid becoming the fucking enemy themselves.
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. If it doesn't emit light, it's not a laser; as you say, it's a MASER.
Repeat after me: the signal bars don't tell you the absolute signal level, just relative, and the scale is merely monotonic, nothing more. Two signal bars might be a miniscule increase over one, while three might be twice the signal. And it can differ across phones.
What is this Consumer Report and Consumers Report I keep reading about? Two recent Slashdot summaries have referred to it, and yet another reference.
Give it a break; it was just in the pool.
I'd like to see a house built of bricked devices. Then you could definitively say that they were literally bricked.
And now I'm regaining more sanity here (thanks again)... we already had a word for what I did: I broke the hell out of it. It needs to be repaired. Bricked is a term describing breakage done entirely by software, which requires special tools (hardware, or perhaps special signed binaries), or even hardware repair, to remedy. The point is that you screwed it up beyond something you as an average user can remedy, merely by doing things in software, or maybe hooking the wrong adaptor to it, without forcing anything. THAT is a useful concept, because usually such simple things don't render a device unusable to yourself. Ahhhh, now the word has regained a useful meaning for me again.
There, fixed that for you. Bricked is permanent. Non-permanent "bricking" isn't bricking at all. If you can revive it, it was never bricked in the first place.
I either have some slow degenerative neural disease, or have just been slowly losing my attention for spelling. I've seen it go downhill over the past several years. It's kind of worrying.
And to talk of pounds in space is rather silly. Most things weigh neirly nothing.
Meh, my hard drive can store almost that much already.
Thanks a lot. Now I won't be able to sleep at night. All along I thought we had a plan to handle this.
I wonder what unintended consequences this will have? Like causing malaria to mutate into something that can infect these mosquitos, or something bad the mosquitos do.
Yeah, let's just hope the relief well doesn't blow out. That'd really suck. Really.
I imagine the idea is that you have to pay so that you'll use a credit card, which will reveal a name that they know isn't entirely made up. Their ultimate goal is to have your name on your comments, so that you'll self-moderate, and they won't have to. Allowing you to use a nickname for the posts would defeat this. So you get to pay them so that you can moderate yourself. I imagine this will work, in that most everyone will moderate themselves, that is, they won't use their credit card and they won't get any comments.
Fixed that for you.
Wake me when they have remote memory, or even remote CPU. Hell, they could have a fully remote computer that has just air space between me and it. Oh, wait...
The name of the publication is Consumer Reports. Just yesterday, a summary here listed it as Consumer Report.:
Once again, it's Consumer Reports.
Hmmm...
1. Get sued by RIAA
2. RIAA bankrupts itself in lawyers' fees
3. ???
4. Profit!!!
Unfortunately you don't profit, but the rest of humanity does.
...therefore I am (and use terrible subject lines).
Plasma TVs (PTV) is a great unit, because it covers so many things. You could have weight/mass in PTVs, price in PTVs, size in PTVs, resolution in PTVs, bandwidth in PTVs, and finally, power usage in PTVs.
Isn't that the simpler solution? Just cut off all Internet access in Boston, and let anyone who doesn't want that bullshit move elsewhere. Pretty soon nobody will be left there, and the problem will be solved.