Wrong. I built and repaired circuit cards for five years. Fixed everything from XBox's to radar systems and land mine detectors, with every problem from too much dust inside to getting having been hit by an IED. We used isopropyl alcohol and a small brush for everything, and wiped the residue off with chemwipes.
If you are savvy enough, you could disassemble everything and clean all the circuit cards with isopropyl alcohol. Be sure to get the wire connections as well. The wood/particle board casing is going to be hit-or-miss, meaning either it's still good or has to be replaced.
BNFL really F'ed up the whole reprocessing idea at Windscale, err, Selafield, by occasionally "accidently" dumping radioactive waste into the Irish Sea (which is now the most radioactive in the world). The sea spray contains measurable levels of plutonium. Cancer levels are something like 100 times background levels. A burst pipe contaminated so much of the infrastructure of THORP that it is unclear if it can ever be made safe. And this is the center that was taking radioactive waste from nuclear power stations across the globe, on account of nobody else wanting something like that in their backyard.
Nuclear reprocessing is a must. At the current rate of development and fuel use, uranium ore will run out 25+ years before we are due to have a commercially viable fusion reactor, never mind enough such reactors that fission reactors can all be replaced. Well, either reprocessing is a must, or we need to invest an order of magnitude more in fusion research, but Governments don't like funding speculative research much and the decades of fuel we currently have will outlast the career of any politician currently with sufficient influence to actually bring about radical funding programs.
However, if we do have reprocessing, it absolutely needs to be far better managed than BNFL can do. Oh, and don't get Group 4 to carry the nuclear fuel, either. They tend to lose things a lot.
I remember just a few years ago seeing Mandriva and SuSE at Best Buy. I remember back in the day, purchasing a boxed copy of Corel Linux from Sam Goody of all places. Ubuntu is the buzzword distro at the moment; it will disappear from the shelves just as soon as another distro takes its place (or people realize that they can get the same thing for free online). I can't even believe this is a story.
Maybe she could have had Linux Mint installed, which is basically ubuntu with better hardware support, artwork, and all multimedia codecs installed by default? I've had no trouble converting various friends and family members over to mint, especially on machines that don't have permanent internet connections from which extra packages can be downloaded.
Needless to say, we no longer purchase Thinkpads. It's truly a shame to see a quality product go down the tubes.
The whole T4x line is infamous for the GPU coming loose, with symptoms ranging from sporadic reboots to catastrophic failure. Normal use as a "lap" top will cause case flex so bad that the solder connections break loose. This has been known about for YEARS without a recall. Quality went down the tubes long before Lenovo took over.
The US military did not lose a single battle in Vietnam, nor have they lost a single battle in Iraq. The only "beatings" are political decisions made on the home front.
Most of the Korean War. Look up the Battle of Chosin Reservoir or Heartbreak Ridge.
Note that this was before the US started using a 5.56 round. Every war since then has seen enemies using the 7.62 size round, while Americans use the 5.56 to appease NATO regulations. It's no small secret that the AK-47 is a superior weapon to the M16/M4; one could make the argument that the insurgent is better equipped than the soldier.
What there needs to be is a way to check that write-in candidates are counted properly. This last election, I voted for Michael Jordan, Dave Mustaine, Ford Bronco, and Global Warming for the school board. There's no way to know if my votes got counted, or if someone thought it was a joke and threw it out (along with my "real" votes).
'Michael Einziger, the 30-year-old guitarist for the hard-rock band Incubus, says he was "shocked at how hard it was" to play the videogame's version of his song "Stellar."
In a related story, thirteen year old "Guitar Heroes" are shocked at how hard it is to play Randy Rhoads' "Suicide" solo on a real guitar. Give me a break. When I first heard of this game, I was fascinated at the idea that something so popular might also be educational. I was thinking something along the lines of you plug your guitar into the PS2 and play along, maybe like Guitar Pro. Then I saw that the 'guitar' was really a reshaped video game controller with four buttons. What a waste. Then again, having to learn scales and reading sheet music wouldn't sell now would it?
So let's see here... The Mozilla foundation provides an open source browser. A good one. For free. And basically says, do what you want, just don't change our logo, since it's our logo. And Debian has a problem with that. Sounds like some Debian developers need to be hit with a cluestick.
No, Mozilla says do what you want, as long as you don't change anything. Even something as simple as changing the default homepage constitutes rebranding, meaning you can't use the "Mozilla" name or logo.
Most people are used, I think, to giong online and surfing over to their usual bouquet of sites and checking those. The content provider effectively has to "pull" the content consumers in to the content.
RSS on the other hand, is "pushed" out to the recipients. Sure, people still have to surf to the site to get the feed URL, but it's still broadly a push content strategy.
You hit the nail on the head. For those who don't remember, the first time around, "push technology" was embedded in Windows 98 as Active Desktop. "Push" failed the first time around, and now it's popped up redisguised as "RSS." It's not a problem with the consumer; it's a problem with people trying to force a new technology on consumers which they don't want.
For one, even on Windows, it uses multiple windows for the same app. That doesn't make ANY sense from a UI perspective, and means that I often have to click more than four times in order to bring GIMP back up to focus when it's behind other Windows.
Okay, I'll bite. The reason that Gimp uses multiple windows and not a MDI is because on UNIX, most window managers default to either "focus follows mouse" or "sloppy" focus. the Gimp's SDI makes sense if you are using virtual desktops or multiple monitors, but not if you're confined to a single workspace with click to focus windows.
Interestingly enough, Photoshop for Windows uses a MDI while Photoshop for OSX uses a SDI (MDI on Windows was originally a hack to make up for Mac OS's global menu bar). To see GIMP in action with a MDI, try downloading GIMPshop, a fork of the GIMP which copies the Photoshop interface.
I wonder if they can use this knowledge to do the opposite: turn fear way up? How might that be used & abused? Say around election time?
The idea is... scary.
Sure. Just develop a way to alter the DNA of already living specimens, make it such that it only works around election time, make it only instill fear into one's political judgement, and oh yeah, find a way to apply it to large populations without their knowledge. That's about as plausible as witchcraft.
Relax. Current politicians (at least here in the US) have almost perfected the technique of instilling fear into the masses. For the right wing, it's an applied fear of being attacked by terrorism. For the left, politicians use a fear of losing individual rights. And for all, a fear of change, for both Democrats and Republicans are evil in that they are really two extremes of a one party system determined to keep itself in control by crushing third parties when they make the points mentioned above.
It isn't out for Firefox, but Multizilla is probably the most useful extension that I've seen. It allows drag/drop tab placement, double clicking to close a tab, changing website permissions for each separate tab (Image loading, for example), and tons of other shit that the Tabbrowser extension for Firefox seems to miss. Multizilla and Adblock have made my browsing experience a pleasant one for years. Unfortunately, I can't switch to Firefox until Multizilla is ported over. Well, Multizilla and the integrated mail client. Okay fuck it, I have no plans of moving away from the suite.
Fuck that shit, if the only thing that resulted from this contest was that Multizilla was ported to Firefox, not only would I be a happy man, but I'd finally be able to move over to Firefox from the Suite. No extension currently out there handles the features that Multizilla does; Tab Browser Extensions doesn't even come close.
In fact it will only get worse as technology coverage is handed to newer, less-qualified observers who simply cannot use a Microsoft Windows computer.
As opposed to the current "qualified" observers who cannot be bothered to use anything besides a Windows computer? Maybe like you, John, who admitted that you didn't understand Creative Commons, and therefore it must be worthless. Or saying that large hard drive storage only serves as a replacement for the VCR. Or that the PC has become bland, boring, useless? Maybe it has, if your nose is stuck up the ass of Microsoft.
If it's anything different from the current "Microsoft can do no wrong" mainstream press, I'm all for it. The real question should be can PC Magazine survive?
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe this will help?
http://www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/otard.html
For me, the only option is to install it on the roof of the apartment building, as our patio faces away from the towers.
Wrong. I built and repaired circuit cards for five years. Fixed everything from XBox's to radar systems and land mine detectors, with every problem from too much dust inside to getting having been hit by an IED. We used isopropyl alcohol and a small brush for everything, and wiped the residue off with chemwipes.
If you are savvy enough, you could disassemble everything and clean all the circuit cards with isopropyl alcohol. Be sure to get the wire connections as well. The wood/particle board casing is going to be hit-or-miss, meaning either it's still good or has to be replaced.
So this adds an interesting twist on the old "I've got your nose" gag.
BNFL really F'ed up the whole reprocessing idea at Windscale, err, Selafield, by occasionally "accidently" dumping radioactive waste into the Irish Sea (which is now the most radioactive in the world). The sea spray contains measurable levels of plutonium. Cancer levels are something like 100 times background levels. A burst pipe contaminated so much of the infrastructure of THORP that it is unclear if it can ever be made safe. And this is the center that was taking radioactive waste from nuclear power stations across the globe, on account of nobody else wanting something like that in their backyard.
Nuclear reprocessing is a must. At the current rate of development and fuel use, uranium ore will run out 25+ years before we are due to have a commercially viable fusion reactor, never mind enough such reactors that fission reactors can all be replaced. Well, either reprocessing is a must, or we need to invest an order of magnitude more in fusion research, but Governments don't like funding speculative research much and the decades of fuel we currently have will outlast the career of any politician currently with sufficient influence to actually bring about radical funding programs.
However, if we do have reprocessing, it absolutely needs to be far better managed than BNFL can do. Oh, and don't get Group 4 to carry the nuclear fuel, either. They tend to lose things a lot.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/06/0143244
I'm pretty sure it was discussed earlier than that as well.
I remember just a few years ago seeing Mandriva and SuSE at Best Buy. I remember back in the day, purchasing a boxed copy of Corel Linux from Sam Goody of all places. Ubuntu is the buzzword distro at the moment; it will disappear from the shelves just as soon as another distro takes its place (or people realize that they can get the same thing for free online). I can't even believe this is a story.
Maybe she could have had Linux Mint installed, which is basically ubuntu with better hardware support, artwork, and all multimedia codecs installed by default? I've had no trouble converting various friends and family members over to mint, especially on machines that don't have permanent internet connections from which extra packages can be downloaded.
More FUD. Can you substantiate this?
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=33952 Describes a T42 with the problem. It's common enough to be a sticky on the Thinkpad forum.
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=thinkpad+gpu&search_type= Shows R40's and T41p's with the same problem, as well as a solution, so apparently it wasn't confined to the T40.
For the record, I have this issue with my T42p FireGL (which has been sent off for a reflow) and the T41 Radeon 7500 that I am typing on now.
Needless to say, we no longer purchase Thinkpads. It's truly a shame to see a quality product go down the tubes.
The whole T4x line is infamous for the GPU coming loose, with symptoms ranging from sporadic reboots to catastrophic failure. Normal use as a "lap" top will cause case flex so bad that the solder connections break loose. This has been known about for YEARS without a recall. Quality went down the tubes long before Lenovo took over.
The US military did not lose a single battle in Vietnam, nor have they lost a single battle in Iraq. The only "beatings" are political decisions made on the home front.
Most of the Korean War. Look up the Battle of Chosin Reservoir or Heartbreak Ridge.
Note that this was before the US started using a 5.56 round. Every war since then has seen enemies using the 7.62 size round, while Americans use the 5.56 to appease NATO regulations. It's no small secret that the AK-47 is a superior weapon to the M16/M4; one could make the argument that the insurgent is better equipped than the soldier.
What there needs to be is a way to check that write-in candidates are counted properly. This last election, I voted for Michael Jordan, Dave Mustaine, Ford Bronco, and Global Warming for the school board. There's no way to know if my votes got counted, or if someone thought it was a joke and threw it out (along with my "real" votes).
They didn't make a Pentium II 75.
'Michael Einziger, the 30-year-old guitarist for the hard-rock band Incubus, says he was "shocked at how hard it was" to play the videogame's version of his song "Stellar."
In a related story, thirteen year old "Guitar Heroes" are shocked at how hard it is to play Randy Rhoads' "Suicide" solo on a real guitar. Give me a break. When I first heard of this game, I was fascinated at the idea that something so popular might also be educational. I was thinking something along the lines of you plug your guitar into the PS2 and play along, maybe like Guitar Pro. Then I saw that the 'guitar' was really a reshaped video game controller with four buttons. What a waste. Then again, having to learn scales and reading sheet music wouldn't sell now would it?
So let's see here... The Mozilla foundation provides an open source browser. A good one. For free. And basically says, do what you want, just don't change our logo, since it's our logo. And Debian has a problem with that. Sounds like some Debian developers need to be hit with a cluestick.
No, Mozilla says do what you want, as long as you don't change anything. Even something as simple as changing the default homepage constitutes rebranding, meaning you can't use the "Mozilla" name or logo.
29.5, but I can bench press twice my body weight and squat 3x. Like you, I'm no track star, but I can run at a decent pace.
Most people are used, I think, to giong online and surfing over to their usual bouquet of sites and checking those. The content provider effectively has to "pull" the content consumers in to the content.
RSS on the other hand, is "pushed" out to the recipients. Sure, people still have to surf to the site to get the feed URL, but it's still broadly a push content strategy.
You hit the nail on the head. For those who don't remember, the first time around, "push technology" was embedded in Windows 98 as Active Desktop. "Push" failed the first time around, and now it's popped up redisguised as "RSS." It's not a problem with the consumer; it's a problem with people trying to force a new technology on consumers which they don't want.
For one, even on Windows, it uses multiple windows for the same app. That doesn't make ANY sense from a UI perspective, and means that I often have to click more than four times in order to bring GIMP back up to focus when it's behind other Windows.
Okay, I'll bite. The reason that Gimp uses multiple windows and not a MDI is because on UNIX, most window managers default to either "focus follows mouse" or "sloppy" focus. the Gimp's SDI makes sense if you are using virtual desktops or multiple monitors, but not if you're confined to a single workspace with click to focus windows.
Interestingly enough, Photoshop for Windows uses a MDI while Photoshop for OSX uses a SDI (MDI on Windows was originally a hack to make up for Mac OS's global menu bar). To see GIMP in action with a MDI, try downloading GIMPshop, a fork of the GIMP which copies the Photoshop interface.
I wonder if they can use this knowledge to do the opposite: turn fear way up? How might that be used & abused? Say around election time?
... scary.
The idea is
Sure. Just develop a way to alter the DNA of already living specimens, make it such that it only works around election time, make it only instill fear into one's political judgement, and oh yeah, find a way to apply it to large populations without their knowledge. That's about as plausible as witchcraft.
Relax. Current politicians (at least here in the US) have almost perfected the technique of instilling fear into the masses. For the right wing, it's an applied fear of being attacked by terrorism. For the left, politicians use a fear of losing individual rights. And for all, a fear of change, for both Democrats and Republicans are evil in that they are really two extremes of a one party system determined to keep itself in control by crushing third parties when they make the points mentioned above.
It isn't out for Firefox, but Multizilla is probably the most useful extension that I've seen. It allows drag/drop tab placement, double clicking to close a tab, changing website permissions for each separate tab (Image loading, for example), and tons of other shit that the Tabbrowser extension for Firefox seems to miss. Multizilla and Adblock have made my browsing experience a pleasant one for years. Unfortunately, I can't switch to Firefox until Multizilla is ported over. Well, Multizilla and the integrated mail client. Okay fuck it, I have no plans of moving away from the suite.
Fuck that shit, if the only thing that resulted from this contest was that Multizilla was ported to Firefox, not only would I be a happy man, but I'd finally be able to move over to Firefox from the Suite. No extension currently out there handles the features that Multizilla does; Tab Browser Extensions doesn't even come close.
In fact it will only get worse as technology coverage is handed to newer, less-qualified observers who simply cannot use a Microsoft Windows computer.
As opposed to the current "qualified" observers who cannot be bothered to use anything besides a Windows computer? Maybe like you, John, who admitted that you didn't understand Creative Commons, and therefore it must be worthless. Or saying that large hard drive storage only serves as a replacement for the VCR. Or that the PC has become bland, boring, useless? Maybe it has, if your nose is stuck up the ass of Microsoft.
If it's anything different from the current "Microsoft can do no wrong" mainstream press, I'm all for it. The real question should be can PC Magazine survive?
Had you bothered to pay attention in school, you would know that this "democracy" is actually a "republic."
This reminds me of a comic strip I saw one time:
Allen, the Hungry Alligator
Actually, this entire series is hilarious. Check out the Perry Bible Fellowship if you have some spare time.