Re:at an old data center I was at..
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The company I work at had a similar problem with the personal Solaris boxes. Apperently the hard disks had some bad berrings and the company was to cheap to replace them all. This ment that if for some reason the machine was powered off, about 40% of the time, it would refuse to boot. When you called the Help Desk you were told to:
1) Lift the front right side of the case 3 inches above the desk. 2) Drop
This almost always fixed it on the first try. I myself never had it fail to work.
What Best Buy needs to consider
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BestBuy needs to think about the future. The people in charge need to realize that in the long run they will make more money by not pissing customers off. My guess would be that none of those 2000 people will ever regularly shop at BestBuy again. However, if they just sold the cards at the advertised price they would have gained 2000 happy customers who would, using word of mouth, tell others to shop there. This would make BestBuy more money in the long run.
There is a volenteer group in Dayton, OH which specializes in takeing donated incomplete computers, and other parts and combining them into full working computers. They then donate the 'new' old computers to local organizations and chuches and such as well as train the people there on using computers. It's a great group of people. I gave them 4 or 5 old boxes about a year ago when I cleaned out my basement.
This is the worst idea I have heard in my life. If anything violent games are a good way to reduce stress and take out your violent tendancys safely without hurting anyone. I think the real questions that need to be asked are: "Where were the parents for the months and even years that led up to this tragedy" and not nececerally more importantly but certainly a equally important question is: "Where were the school administrators in the months and even years that led up to this tragedy". It was put so well on slashdot recently in the "Sean in the Middle" story here.
Let me just quote a few parts:
"It is illegal in this country to verbally threaten someone with harm. It is illegal in this country to touch someone without their permission. It is illegal in this country to molest other people's belongings without their permission. It is illegal in this country to band together in a group for the purpose of engaging in other illegal activities. All of this, and more, is illegal, everywhere but inside of a school!...The schools are loathe to get rid of problem students not because they want to educate those kids, or think that they belong in class, but because the schools get paid to keep them. The school administrations are consciously choosing to allow kids to continue to be abused daily because the school administration gets more money that way."
That is just wrong, and something needs to be done about it. The point of this rant is that it's not the gaming companys and the media who are to blame. It is the parents of the children that they are ignoring and the school administrators that look the other way when a child is being teased and bullied on mercelesly. That is what drive the children who do tarible things like the columbine masacre to do them, and both parents and school administrators look the other way untill it is too late.
While you would have to use winbloze there is a great page here with directions on how to do all of wireing to use the orignal JAMMA systems with your PC. They have even written a program they call ArcadeOS which does what your GTK Perl menu system does. The instructions are quite detailed although you have to sacrifice a keyboard to work the joysticks. A little knowledge of basic circitry will be usefull too.
I seem to remember a ethics standard that was mentioned in the ethics class that I was required to tack from my colletge. You could try looking credibility/ethics up with the IEEE or contacting them. I think that they have a clause in the agreement that most employers agree with that the employer will not require an employe to do something that is moraly wrong and or illegal. So you might be able to find a way out that way.
The way that I understand Califonia's law (which is the only on that I know of) voting none of the above just counts as a null vote unless a majority is reached.
Ex1: bar=20% foo=35% and None=45% than foo wins the election.
however,
Ex2: bar=10% foo=30% and None=60% than there is a second election in which, you gessed it the SAME PEOPLE RUN.
If your books do get wet like mine did (the basement had a foot and a half of water in it) I found that the microwave for short amounts of time with time in between for the books to dry out will slowly dry them out. No more that 20 or so sec on high though or you will melt the cheap glue that they use.
Also if your books are still dripping wet the freazer will freeze the excess water out and then you can use the microwave method.
shouldn't you also be looking for the mpaa having the text http://www.2600.com
or does that not count as a link. I would think it should as it gives a location to go to.
Just a thought
Patents are awarded to people who invent something new even if they are obvious. One of the reasons that getting a patent takes so long is that the US Patent Office gives time for everyone who wants to to challenge the patent and if no one can PROVE that they did it first the person who applied for the patent gets it no matter how obvious it was or how commonly used the idea is. It is one of the major faults with the patent system today.
This is more a case of the Patent Office awarding a patent that should not have been awarded because it wasn't a new idea.
I am sure that others have noticed this but a two year old computer that was worth 2000 bucks when it was bought after 2 years in only worth like 200 due to better technology. This seems like a great way to get a new computer every two years, break it your self, declare it a lemon and make them give you the equivilant. Since the companys will not be making two year old computers they will have to give them a new one (that equal or greater value bit). And since I have never had a computer (that I owned) where every part lasted for two years it would work for me (most of the ones I build and then sell to people work fine and I fix the ones that don't), I tinker with them, I don't OC but the case is rarly on the computer.
It just seems to me that two years is a little long for a computer and while a large computer company might not feel it that much a small computer company like mine would die a horible death if three times a year I had to give someone a new computer to replace his "lemon"
Think about it. When you are searching 10 billion pages of text finding 891000(google finds "ABOUT 2,230,000 which if you trust all the web is off by a million or so) hits in less than a sec is pretty impressive. Ranking 1-891000 in less than a sec is damn near impossible and all the web ranks them all. Google on the otherhand with it's default settings stoped for me at 134 and woudn't display more untill I removed the filter. After doing this I could go to 100 pages of 10 hits per page or 1000 hits at which point you could go no further. All the Web you can look at all 891000(actully 891075) hits.
Searching for one word in 10 billion pages you are going to get hits no matter what you type(fo example I typed "sdfhk" into All the Web and only found four hits but still random letters...)
If you like Google because it has a lite image load and a few adds you should try All The Web. Working as a programer for Lexis-Nexis as a programer I have become VERY familiar with search engines. Some benifits and cool things of All the Web are:
The low number of images(two small ones)
FAST search time ( my average search time is.12 sec(it tells you)
All the web tells you how many documents/web pages it finds
I have found that All the web is superior to google.
In the middle 80's there was an series of experiments that followed the same guidlines. The scientests were looking for a chemical that could carry the oxygen to the cells that was not blood. At the time the best thing they found was a form of a flourocarbon that was liquod at room temperature. As I recall they drained the blood from a dog and replaced it with the flourocarbon and three days later they put the dogs blood back and the dog suffered no side effects. But them CFC's were found to be a carcinogyen (damn spelling) and the idea was droped due to the chemical symilarities. I guess they finally got over it because oxygent is a perflourocarbon.
On a sidenote the stuff that they used in the abyss is also a oxygenated perflourocarbon emulsion and it really does exist. See here for deatails on the early experiments.
Also see here under the technology heading for more info on reasearch into sythetic blood. Untill now PFC have been toxic which was a major downside to using them.
AID's is only thought to have come from primate origin but most scientests agree that we don't really know where it came from other than somewhere in africa. And Mad Cow disease is a spongiforum of which there are plenty. It is basically a string of proteins outside of a viral shell that can get through the filters that blood goes through on its way to your brain. In order to get mad cow disease you must eat a cow that has eaten another cows brain. There was a simmilar outbreak with pigs in the late 1800's when as part of the slop that pigs got fed they also get fed pig. This is why you are still supposed to cook pork more than any other meat. Cross-Species infections have been happening for hundreds of years(black plague is the most nutorious but you also have cow pox[from which small pox probably evolved) and there isn't any evidance that Xenotransplantation will increase the likelyhood of them happening.
dlgreen
I don't have a problem with the FBI going after criminals Emails either. What I do have a problem with is that carnivore to get the criminals emails MUST record ALL trafic on a system that it is connected to. That would be like a phone tap of one guys phone line recording every conversation in the city. BAD IDEA.
In terms of Books there are libraries that keep copies of books. And is push comes to shove there is the library of congress which has every book published in the last 50 year and older. (I don't know exactly how long the library has existed) Software on the other hand does not have a place to get it if it no longer published. I know that if a publisher was willing to sell me a download of old software if I needed it that I would pay for it. But publishers are not willing to do that. Thus abandonware sites.
On a side not abandonware is exactly why copyright laws need to be modified for software. Maybe something along the lines as "as long as the program can still be purchased from the original manufacture" 70 years is a bit long for software. Also copyright laws are 40 years plus a renewal of 30 years OR the life of the author. Many of the companies that wrote games 10 years ago are no longer in business although the publisher is but the copyright laws are for the benefit of the author not the publishers.
The Dayton Daily News and Cincinnati Post reported last week that the Cincinatti, OH and northern Kentucy bus transit system will begin useing a mixture of used oil from fast food resurants and diesel later this month as part of a test of a new way to fuel diesel engines. It drops the price that the bus system pays for their fuel to 50 cents a gallon. Read the Cincinnati Posts story here.
'All Intel has to do is cut prices to squeeze transmeta out of the market' But wouldn't that be the same as M$ trying to 'squeeze' netscape out of the market. So then the government slaps restrictions on Intel like they did to IBM in the 70's. (cource that is only if it notices.
Seeing as how the water that NASA found evidence of on the moon, and what it turned out to be they may be jumping to conclusions again. For those of you that don't know the water on the moon turned out to be astronaut urine from the Apollo missions urine dumps that had found its way to the surface of the moon. Although admittedly we haven't been to mars yet.
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The company I work at had a similar problem with the personal Solaris boxes. Apperently the hard disks had some bad berrings and the company was to cheap to replace them all. This ment that if for some reason the machine was powered off, about 40% of the time, it would refuse to boot. When you called the Help Desk you were told to:
1) Lift the front right side of the case 3 inches above the desk.
2) Drop
This almost always fixed it on the first try. I myself never had it fail to work.
BestBuy needs to think about the future. The people in charge need to realize that in the long run they will make more money by not pissing customers off. My guess would be that none of those 2000 people will ever regularly shop at BestBuy again. However, if they just sold the cards at the advertised price they would have gained 2000 happy customers who would, using word of mouth, tell others to shop there. This would make BestBuy more money in the long run.
There is a volenteer group in Dayton, OH which specializes in takeing donated incomplete computers, and other parts and combining them into full working computers. They then donate the 'new' old computers to local organizations and chuches and such as well as train the people there on using computers. It's a great group of people. I gave them 4 or 5 old boxes about a year ago when I cleaned out my basement.
This is the worst idea I have heard in my life. If anything violent games are a good way to reduce stress and take out your violent tendancys safely without hurting anyone. I think the real questions that need to be asked are: "Where were the parents for the months and even years that led up to this tragedy" and not nececerally more importantly but certainly a equally important question is: "Where were the school administrators in the months and even years that led up to this tragedy". It was put so well on slashdot recently in the "Sean in the Middle" story here.
Let me just quote a few parts:
"It is illegal in this country to verbally threaten someone with harm. It is illegal in this country to touch someone without their permission. It is illegal in this country to molest other people's belongings without their permission. It is illegal in this country to band together in a group for the purpose of engaging in other illegal activities. All of this, and more, is illegal, everywhere but inside of a school!...The schools are loathe to get rid of problem students not because they want to educate those kids, or think that they belong in class, but because the schools get paid to keep them. The school administrations are consciously choosing to allow kids to continue to be abused daily because the school administration gets more money that way."
That is just wrong, and something needs to be done about it. The point of this rant is that it's not the gaming companys and the media who are to blame. It is the parents of the children that they are ignoring and the school administrators that look the other way when a child is being teased and bullied on mercelesly. That is what drive the children who do tarible things like the columbine masacre to do them, and both parents and school administrators look the other way untill it is too late.
While you would have to use winbloze there is a great page here with directions on how to do all of wireing to use the orignal JAMMA systems with your PC. They have even written a program they call ArcadeOS which does what your GTK Perl menu system does. The instructions are quite detailed although you have to sacrifice a keyboard to work the joysticks. A little knowledge of basic circitry will be usefull too.
I seem to remember a ethics standard that was mentioned in the ethics class that I was required to tack from my colletge. You could try looking credibility/ethics up with the IEEE or contacting them. I think that they have a clause in the agreement that most employers agree with that the employer will not require an employe to do something that is moraly wrong and or illegal. So you might be able to find a way out that way.
AOL has had a linux beta out for a few months now. You can find it here
Probably actualy like this one.
MrP- posted it in this article earlier here
The way that I understand Califonia's law (which is the only on that I know of) voting none of the above just counts as a null vote unless a majority is reached.
Ex1: bar=20% foo=35% and None=45% than foo wins the election.
however,
Ex2: bar=10% foo=30% and None=60% than there is a second election in which, you gessed it the SAME PEOPLE RUN.
If your books do get wet like mine did (the basement had a foot and a half of water in it) I found that the microwave for short amounts of time with time in between for the books to dry out will slowly dry them out. No more that 20 or so sec on high though or you will melt the cheap glue that they use.
Also if your books are still dripping wet the freazer will freeze the excess water out and then you can use the microwave method.
shouldn't you also be looking for the mpaa having the text http://www.2600.com or does that not count as a link. I would think it should as it gives a location to go to. Just a thought
Patents are awarded to people who invent something new even if they are obvious. One of the reasons that getting a patent takes so long is that the US Patent Office gives time for everyone who wants to to challenge the patent and if no one can PROVE that they did it first the person who applied for the patent gets it no matter how obvious it was or how commonly used the idea is. It is one of the major faults with the patent system today. This is more a case of the Patent Office awarding a patent that should not have been awarded because it wasn't a new idea.
I am sure that others have noticed this but a two year old computer that was worth 2000 bucks when it was bought after 2 years in only worth like 200 due to better technology. This seems like a great way to get a new computer every two years, break it your self, declare it a lemon and make them give you the equivilant. Since the companys will not be making two year old computers they will have to give them a new one (that equal or greater value bit). And since I have never had a computer (that I owned) where every part lasted for two years it would work for me (most of the ones I build and then sell to people work fine and I fix the ones that don't), I tinker with them, I don't OC but the case is rarly on the computer.
It just seems to me that two years is a little long for a computer and while a large computer company might not feel it that much a small computer company like mine would die a horible death if three times a year I had to give someone a new computer to replace his "lemon"
Just my thoughts
Think about it. When you are searching 10 billion pages of text finding 891000(google finds "ABOUT 2,230,000 which if you trust all the web is off by a million or so) hits in less than a sec is pretty impressive. Ranking 1-891000 in less than a sec is damn near impossible and all the web ranks them all. Google on the otherhand with it's default settings stoped for me at 134 and woudn't display more untill I removed the filter. After doing this I could go to 100 pages of 10 hits per page or 1000 hits at which point you could go no further. All the Web you can look at all 891000(actully 891075) hits.
Searching for one word in 10 billion pages you are going to get hits no matter what you type(fo example I typed "sdfhk" into All the Web and only found four hits but still random letters...)
Some benifits and cool things of All the Web are:
The low number of images(two small ones)
FAST search time ( my average search time is .12 sec(it tells you)
All the web tells you how many documents/web pages it finds
I have found that All the web is superior to google.
In the middle 80's there was an series of experiments that followed the same guidlines. The scientests were looking for a chemical that could carry the oxygen to the cells that was not blood. At the time the best thing they found was a form of a flourocarbon that was liquod at room temperature. As I recall they drained the blood from a dog and replaced it with the flourocarbon and three days later they put the dogs blood back and the dog suffered no side effects. But them CFC's were found to be a carcinogyen (damn spelling) and the idea was droped due to the chemical symilarities. I guess they finally got over it because oxygent is a perflourocarbon.
On a sidenote the stuff that they used in the abyss is also a oxygenated perflourocarbon emulsion and it really does exist. See here for deatails on the early experiments.
Also see here under the technology heading for more info on reasearch into sythetic blood. Untill now PFC have been toxic which was a major downside to using them.
AID's is only thought to have come from primate origin but most scientests agree that we don't really know where it came from other than somewhere in africa. And Mad Cow disease is a spongiforum of which there are plenty. It is basically a string of proteins outside of a viral shell that can get through the filters that blood goes through on its way to your brain. In order to get mad cow disease you must eat a cow that has eaten another cows brain. There was a simmilar outbreak with pigs in the late 1800's when as part of the slop that pigs got fed they also get fed pig. This is why you are still supposed to cook pork more than any other meat. Cross-Species infections have been happening for hundreds of years(black plague is the most nutorious but you also have cow pox[from which small pox probably evolved) and there isn't any evidance that Xenotransplantation will increase the likelyhood of them happening. dlgreen
I don't have a problem with the FBI going after criminals Emails either. What I do have a problem with is that carnivore to get the criminals emails MUST record ALL trafic on a system that it is connected to. That would be like a phone tap of one guys phone line recording every conversation in the city. BAD IDEA.
In terms of Books there are libraries that keep copies of books. And is push comes to shove there is the library of congress which has every book published in the last 50 year and older. (I don't know exactly how long the library has existed) Software on the other hand does not have a place to get it if it no longer published. I know that if a publisher was willing to sell me a download of old software if I needed it that I would pay for it. But publishers are not willing to do that. Thus abandonware sites. On a side not abandonware is exactly why copyright laws need to be modified for software. Maybe something along the lines as "as long as the program can still be purchased from the original manufacture" 70 years is a bit long for software. Also copyright laws are 40 years plus a renewal of 30 years OR the life of the author. Many of the companies that wrote games 10 years ago are no longer in business although the publisher is but the copyright laws are for the benefit of the author not the publishers.
The Dayton Daily News and Cincinnati Post reported last week that the Cincinatti, OH and northern Kentucy bus transit system will begin useing a mixture of used oil from fast food resurants and diesel later this month as part of a test of a new way to fuel diesel engines. It drops the price that the bus system pays for their fuel to 50 cents a gallon. Read the Cincinnati Posts story here.
Nasa's press release is here. It basically states that the launch was successful and that for the next few weeks they will be testing the module before they let Zvezda dock itself with the rest of ISS.
'All Intel has to do is cut prices to squeeze transmeta out of the market' But wouldn't that be the same as M$ trying to 'squeeze' netscape out of the market. So then the government slaps restrictions on Intel like they did to IBM in the 70's. (cource that is only if it notices.
Seeing as how the water that NASA found evidence of on the moon, and what it turned out to be they may be jumping to conclusions again. For those of you that don't know the water on the moon turned out to be astronaut urine from the Apollo missions urine dumps that had found its way to the surface of the moon. Although admittedly we haven't been to mars yet.