I have a page or two of items in that index. The servers that try serve up pop-ups are one, I can still read the site but now there's less risk of pop-ups, regardless of what browser I am using. I also block sites that use Flash banner ads.
The goatse site isn't really a problem for me, because there are a lot of slashdot shiteheads I _always_ check the URL before clicking the link. I really don't know what makes those posters that try to pass the link think they are so cool.
considering that it took Intel some 30-40 years to reach those speeds.
Was Intel even in the business for thirty years? I thought they invented the microprocessor in 1972.
Anyhow, "catching up" to five years behind the times really isn't that hard to do as they are pulling from a pre-existing knowledge base, one that Intel had to start from scratch in some cases. In short, it's easier to copy than it is to truly start from scratch.
3) if they were engineering students they would well have directed the shredded output to a mini incinerator and used this to a run a cooling pump
Or find some way to just pump the motor heat directly to the paper. Unlikely.
Engineering students might have tried to up the motor and its drive circuitry too so that it has better torque. then one might need the blades and rollers made from stronger materials.
Or maybe improved on the design by building a better one from scratch, hopefully so that it mulches down to the fiber and composts in an automatic two stage process, it's pretty hard to put the fibers back to gether after that one.
A great deal of English words come from French, I think it is probably #3.
That's what is so frustrating for people learning English, to spell or pronounce something correctly, or to make the "correct" plural, you have to go back to the origins, but the thing is that much of English has German, Latin and French as its primary origins, then there are words from Greek and who the hell knows how many other languages.
Because of the diverse background, I think there are 3000+ phonetic sounds in English, which I think is the highest in the world. A lot of word meanings I think are subverted from their root meaning. I would love Japanese (~106 sounds) but they have a scary tendency to borrow a foriegn word, usually English and subvert _again_ to suit their own needs. I actually don't mind the Chinese characters, it is a lot more straightforward than English.
So the IMF sells well to politicians that want to better themselves economicly AND the politicians that go bleeding heart every time they see a picture of a poor person? If the story is true, then they have quite the racket.
Well, CD readers are pretty mature and the format can actually play pretty decently considering how badly people treat the discs. It is definitely possible to irreparably damage them, sometimes it takes a good deal of scratching and fingerprinting.
Somehow, DVDs aren't so forgiving yet. In this case, scratches hurt more but fingerprints and other oils really throw players for a loop. I often use a clean-wipe on discs I am renting before I even try to play them.
As for the DVD-X-Copy or whatever, I was surprised they even managed to sell some copies due to cartel interference. All I knew was that I wasn't going to buy one because of the obnoxious banner ads they had.
If the stream is already pre-compressed but is properly buffered and uncompressed on the recieving and, such as DiVX or DVDs, it _might_ work fine. I'd want 100bTX even though DVD is only about 10mbps.
If one has a 48" projection set, I really doubt that DivX will really hold water anyway, and some DVD encodings show drawbacks too.
Janitoirs all over the world must cringe at that form of advertising.
The ad goes on the wall above the urinal in front of the eyes, not IN the urinal. The point is one has something to stare at that's not a brick or tiled wall wall while one wees into the urinal.
FYE and many other mall stores is going to charge much more than others, which is typically at SRP, and should not be used as an indicator of average CD sell prices, because they pretty much are at the upper outliers.
Also, I don't believe most burners actually burn at anywhere near 40x for most of the CD... for the inside of the disc, they burn at a slower speed, then keep upping it until they hit 40x near the end. Basically the same thing most cheapo 52x readers do.
That's part of my beef with CD writers. They can't really spin the CD much faster without risking shattering the media, so obviously CLV type writing would only slow things down, and a 40x drive doesn't end up being anywhere nearly twice as fast as a 20x because they have to ramp-up. My solution is to find a quality product line and buy the slowest rated version. I can stand to wait an additional 10% of time on a CD burn to save even as much as $40. The higher speed rated media is sometimes more expensive too.
One benefit of a faster rated drive being released is that it does push down the prices of the slower drives.
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Simple voltage dividers is probably the absolutely worst method of step-down.
I think the efficiency of DC step-up or step-down is possible at up to 90%, which, granted, isn't as efficient as an AC transformer, which might be 99%, at least it isn't a simple divider.
Some of the better DC steppers break up DC into something like a pulsed wave form and use inductive or capacitive networks.
Better AC-DC supplies also tend to break up AC into a higher frequency so it doesn't require such a large transformer.
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IIRC, most components don't draw nearly 10A. If you do the math and pay attention, it shouldn't be a problem. My wiring is mostly 20A rating but that was a b!tch to install the outlets when the wire is so stiff.
I do agree, a $20 "Craftsman Auto Switch" from Sears (at least in the US) will probably do better, costs less and you don't get the possible liablility of letting people tingle themselves.
The article also neglected to point out some other alternatives, such as using the female IEC connector on the back of some power supplies. They used to be used a lot as a switched "outlet" to power CRT displays.
Are you seriously recommending a return to RCA SelectaVision?
OMG. I heard about those. That was an electrostatic contact storage system wasn't it? Did it even beat the quality of VHS? I can't really imagine it being competitive with Laserdisc on quality.
A lot of people will say that vinyl is much better than CD quality sound.
I am not going to take sides on sound quality directly, I really don't know, I really don't have time to scout for rare LPs and I really haven't listened to a good LP playback system, but my mom does have an antique wind-up Victrola:).
The one thing I've noticed is that LP proponents people ignore playback degradation and scratches. Being a contact medium, LPs do suffer some small amount of wear every time it is played. I read rumors of a laser-based pickup but I haven't looked it up to confirm.
Another thing is that sometimes the mastering / digitizing equipment is substandard so analog recordings don't transfer as well as they could have. There are so many variables that an apples to apples comparison is practically impossible. Any bandwidth, sample rate or sample depth issues are practically moot with SACD and DVD-Audio, so it becomes an issue of how well the mastering effort was handled.
Then there is the portability issue. The big cover art is often nice though.
It's not an absolute. There are some people that have had difficulties when running CPU munching background processes. Sometimes the clients don't behave properly.
Some (most?) CPUs also consume more power when running at 100% than they would at 50% or 0% usage.
I have started dnet on my two fastest machines, when playing video, background clients cause a faint, yet noticable judder in video playback.
My impression that this thing is a lot more efficient than others, particularly at the CPU, so there would be a relative power savings over more conventional systems even when the system is running full bore.
You have a point, but so does the parent post to yours.
If something such as perpetual motion is known to be false, fine, but I read about the difficulties in convincing the scientific community that meteorite theories could be valid, even when comparing existing craters with profiles of ballistic craters.
I do agree that this hydrogen theory is dubious at best, how long does it take to perform the experiment? I have to admit that the anti-social looking brush-offs by existing scientists don't exactly improve public confidence as it often does look like scientists simply don't think the public is worth educating. It's all a psychology thing, the person doing the denying almost always looks guilty, which is admittedly a tough thing to break.
I get it,... so we are supposed to wait until they do have a nuke and use it before we take measures to protect ourselves?
Did you read it? Try consider it a priority of known threats vs. theoretical threats. Or a case for balance. Or a rearrangeing of order of operations, as a gaping present day vulnerability is apparent.
Conventional bombs are a known threat, so why don't we make sure that the weapons detectors can sniff those out _first_ and _now_, and then once those systems are installed, worry about weapons that these people might, in theory, develop or aquire a few years in the future? So far, all that I have read that they have installed is rad detectors, which is useless against easily made and easily aquired conventional bombs, and the only thing they've managed to do with it is harass cancer patients, when conventional bombs could be passing through there every day.
My case is also for turning down the meter sensitivity just a tad as it sounds like the level it trips at is not that far above natural radiation.
Was your grandfather in charge of Pearl Harbour's defenses by chance?
No, but it's not relevant. The world was very different then, but that was still another interesting case of political bungling of people not having the right priorities and systematically poor foreign policies, it's not a newly developed problem.
The detectors are set at their most sensitive levels. Small price to pay for making the terrorists use some conventional explosives.
Maybe IHBT, but all these "evil terrorists" have used are just conventional explosives, are there even any equivalent technologies in use now that detect these?
So far it hasn't been demonstrated or even claimed that they even HAVE nuclear explosives, and I bet if they did they'd want to use amounts that would peg the meter, not be mistakable for cancer patients.
The best I've read they can do is just make a "dirty" bomb, which can be a conventional bomb that merely spreads radioactive material rather than megaton destruction, and the only way to make a dirty bomb any sort of a threat is to put in enough material to peg any standard meter.
So it sounds like another case where the people "protecting" us are simply building more roadblocks that prevent normal living.
As for the stability of Windows, I managed to get NT 4 to stay up 100+ days, every day I used IE, AutoCAD, Outlook Express, WordPerfect Office and so on. Granted, that was on an Alpha, the only reason I rebooted was that the RAS daemon leaked to be as big as my physical RAM. The only _one_ time that machine BSOD'd in the last four years was because I used the wrong video driver.
My Xeon system hasn't given me any problems either. I don't use XP so I can't say much about that.
I quit doing the "uptime" game because I realized it's just a waste of electricity. Unless the machine a server or you are doing overnight rendering, it is only wasteful.
Sorry. No. I think it is basically a lie to get away from fixing the damn movie.
I don't think video should be "calibrated" to make it look good just for one kind of uncalibrated TV.
There are color standards and each set and each movie should be calibrated adhere as closely as possible to the original master. If a particular kind of set has faults in the color FIX THE SET, NOT THE MOVIES. Don't screw up a movie for someone that uses a CRT or DLP or what not, and blame those owners for not having a thin display that has bad colorimetry.
I dunno if I should be posting, but, in this situation, did anyone consider just nodding and implementing RAID 5 anyway, hoping that no one would notice? No one took the time to explain why RAID 0 is just a plain bad idea?
As for the backup thing, yeah, it is sometimes hard to get people to buy something for the contingencies. I wasn't able to convince my boss to buy a tape backup machine until _after_ a drive failed with a month's worth of work on it.
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That's one I've forgotten to put in.
I have a page or two of items in that index. The servers that try serve up pop-ups are one, I can still read the site but now there's less risk of pop-ups, regardless of what browser I am using. I also block sites that use Flash banner ads.
The goatse site isn't really a problem for me, because there are a lot of slashdot shiteheads I _always_ check the URL before clicking the link. I really don't know what makes those posters that try to pass the link think they are so cool.
considering that it took Intel some 30-40 years to reach those speeds.
Was Intel even in the business for thirty years? I thought they invented the microprocessor in 1972.
Anyhow, "catching up" to five years behind the times really isn't that hard to do as they are pulling from a pre-existing knowledge base, one that Intel had to start from scratch in some cases. In short, it's easier to copy than it is to truly start from scratch.
3) if they were engineering students they would well have directed the shredded output to a mini incinerator and used this to a run a cooling pump
Or find some way to just pump the motor heat directly to the paper. Unlikely.
Engineering students might have tried to up the motor and its drive circuitry too so that it has better torque. then one might need the blades and rollers made from stronger materials.
Or maybe improved on the design by building a better one from scratch, hopefully so that it mulches down to the fiber and composts in an automatic two stage process, it's pretty hard to put the fibers back to gether after that one.
A great deal of English words come from French, I think it is probably #3.
That's what is so frustrating for people learning English, to spell or pronounce something correctly, or to make the "correct" plural, you have to go back to the origins, but the thing is that much of English has German, Latin and French as its primary origins, then there are words from Greek and who the hell knows how many other languages.
Because of the diverse background, I think there are 3000+ phonetic sounds in English, which I think is the highest in the world. A lot of word meanings I think are subverted from their root meaning. I would love Japanese (~106 sounds) but they have a scary tendency to borrow a foriegn word, usually English and subvert _again_ to suit their own needs. I actually don't mind the Chinese characters, it is a lot more straightforward than English.
and another stupid slashdot pick
Isn't "stupid" redundant to "slashdot pick"?
So the IMF sells well to politicians that want to better themselves economicly AND the politicians that go bleeding heart every time they see a picture of a poor person? If the story is true, then they have quite the racket.
Well, CD readers are pretty mature and the format can actually play pretty decently considering how badly people treat the discs. It is definitely possible to irreparably damage them, sometimes it takes a good deal of scratching and fingerprinting.
Somehow, DVDs aren't so forgiving yet. In this case, scratches hurt more but fingerprints and other oils really throw players for a loop. I often use a clean-wipe on discs I am renting before I even try to play them.
As for the DVD-X-Copy or whatever, I was surprised they even managed to sell some copies due to cartel interference. All I knew was that I wasn't going to buy one because of the obnoxious banner ads they had.
I am more partial to "FrankenTosh".
If the stream is already pre-compressed but is properly buffered and uncompressed on the recieving and, such as DiVX or DVDs, it _might_ work fine. I'd want 100bTX even though DVD is only about 10mbps.
If one has a 48" projection set, I really doubt that DivX will really hold water anyway, and some DVD encodings show drawbacks too.
Janitoirs all over the world must cringe at that form of advertising.
The ad goes on the wall above the urinal in front of the eyes, not IN the urinal. The point is one has something to stare at that's not a brick or tiled wall wall while one wees into the urinal.
FYE and many other mall stores is going to charge much more than others, which is typically at SRP, and should not be used as an indicator of average CD sell prices, because they pretty much are at the upper outliers.
This is redundant.
Frankly, I don't know where I can find a $20 CD audio. Canada? Likely more, I am guessing. In the US, I usually spend between $12 and $15.
Also, I don't believe most burners actually burn at anywhere near 40x for most of the CD... for the inside of the disc, they burn at a slower speed, then keep upping it until they hit 40x near the end. Basically the same thing most cheapo 52x readers do.
That's part of my beef with CD writers. They can't really spin the CD much faster without risking shattering the media, so obviously CLV type writing would only slow things down, and a 40x drive doesn't end up being anywhere nearly twice as fast as a 20x because they have to ramp-up. My solution is to find a quality product line and buy the slowest rated version. I can stand to wait an additional 10% of time on a CD burn to save even as much as $40. The higher speed rated media is sometimes more expensive too.
One benefit of a faster rated drive being released is that it does push down the prices of the slower drives.
Simple voltage dividers is probably the absolutely worst method of step-down.
I think the efficiency of DC step-up or step-down is possible at up to 90%, which, granted, isn't as efficient as an AC transformer, which might be 99%, at least it isn't a simple divider.
Some of the better DC steppers break up DC into something like a pulsed wave form and use inductive or capacitive networks.
Better AC-DC supplies also tend to break up AC into a higher frequency so it doesn't require such a large transformer.
IIRC, most components don't draw nearly 10A. If you do the math and pay attention, it shouldn't be a problem. My wiring is mostly 20A rating but that was a b!tch to install the outlets when the wire is so stiff.
I do agree, a $20 "Craftsman Auto Switch" from Sears (at least in the US) will probably do better, costs less and you don't get the possible liablility of letting people tingle themselves.
The article also neglected to point out some other alternatives, such as using the female IEC connector on the back of some power supplies. They used to be used a lot as a switched "outlet" to power CRT displays.
Are you seriously recommending a return to RCA SelectaVision?
OMG. I heard about those. That was an electrostatic contact storage system wasn't it? Did it even beat the quality of VHS? I can't really imagine it being competitive with Laserdisc on quality.
A lot of people will say that vinyl is much better than CD quality sound.
:).
I am not going to take sides on sound quality directly, I really don't know, I really don't have time to scout for rare LPs and I really haven't listened to a good LP playback system, but my mom does have an antique wind-up Victrola
The one thing I've noticed is that LP proponents people ignore playback degradation and scratches. Being a contact medium, LPs do suffer some small amount of wear every time it is played. I read rumors of a laser-based pickup but I haven't looked it up to confirm.
Another thing is that sometimes the mastering / digitizing equipment is substandard so analog recordings don't transfer as well as they could have. There are so many variables that an apples to apples comparison is practically impossible. Any bandwidth, sample rate or sample depth issues are practically moot with SACD and DVD-Audio, so it becomes an issue of how well the mastering effort was handled.
Then there is the portability issue. The big cover art is often nice though.
It hurts NOTHING, but could do a lot of good.
It's not an absolute. There are some people that have had difficulties when running CPU munching background processes. Sometimes the clients don't behave properly.
Some (most?) CPUs also consume more power when running at 100% than they would at 50% or 0% usage.
I have started dnet on my two fastest machines, when playing video, background clients cause a faint, yet noticable judder in video playback.
My impression that this thing is a lot more efficient than others, particularly at the CPU, so there would be a relative power savings over more conventional systems even when the system is running full bore.
You have a point, but so does the parent post to yours.
If something such as perpetual motion is known to be false, fine, but I read about the difficulties in convincing the scientific community that meteorite theories could be valid, even when comparing existing craters with profiles of ballistic craters.
I do agree that this hydrogen theory is dubious at best, how long does it take to perform the experiment? I have to admit that the anti-social looking brush-offs by existing scientists don't exactly improve public confidence as it often does look like scientists simply don't think the public is worth educating. It's all a psychology thing, the person doing the denying almost always looks guilty, which is admittedly a tough thing to break.
I get it,... so we are supposed to wait until they do have a nuke and use it before we take measures to protect ourselves?
Did you read it? Try consider it a priority of known threats vs. theoretical threats. Or a case for balance. Or a rearrangeing of order of operations, as a gaping present day vulnerability is apparent.
Conventional bombs are a known threat, so why don't we make sure that the weapons detectors can sniff those out _first_ and _now_, and then once those systems are installed, worry about weapons that these people might, in theory, develop or aquire a few years in the future? So far, all that I have read that they have installed is rad detectors, which is useless against easily made and easily aquired conventional bombs, and the only thing they've managed to do with it is harass cancer patients, when conventional bombs could be passing through there every day.
My case is also for turning down the meter sensitivity just a tad as it sounds like the level it trips at is not that far above natural radiation.
Was your grandfather in charge of Pearl Harbour's defenses by chance?
No, but it's not relevant. The world was very different then, but that was still another interesting case of political bungling of people not having the right priorities and systematically poor foreign policies, it's not a newly developed problem.
The detectors are set at their most sensitive levels. Small price to pay for making the terrorists use some conventional explosives.
Maybe IHBT, but all these "evil terrorists" have used are just conventional explosives, are there even any equivalent technologies in use now that detect these?
So far it hasn't been demonstrated or even claimed that they even HAVE nuclear explosives, and I bet if they did they'd want to use amounts that would peg the meter, not be mistakable for cancer patients.
The best I've read they can do is just make a "dirty" bomb, which can be a conventional bomb that merely spreads radioactive material rather than megaton destruction, and the only way to make a dirty bomb any sort of a threat is to put in enough material to peg any standard meter.
So it sounds like another case where the people "protecting" us are simply building more roadblocks that prevent normal living.
As for the stability of Windows, I managed to get NT 4 to stay up 100+ days, every day I used IE, AutoCAD, Outlook Express, WordPerfect Office and so on. Granted, that was on an Alpha, the only reason I rebooted was that the RAS daemon leaked to be as big as my physical RAM. The only _one_ time that machine BSOD'd in the last four years was because I used the wrong video driver.
My Xeon system hasn't given me any problems either. I don't use XP so I can't say much about that.
I quit doing the "uptime" game because I realized it's just a waste of electricity. Unless the machine a server or you are doing overnight rendering, it is only wasteful.
Sorry. No. I think it is basically a lie to get away from fixing the damn movie.
I don't think video should be "calibrated" to make it look good just for one kind of uncalibrated TV.
There are color standards and each set and each movie should be calibrated adhere as closely as possible to the original master. If a particular kind of set has faults in the color FIX THE SET, NOT THE MOVIES. Don't screw up a movie for someone that uses a CRT or DLP or what not, and blame those owners for not having a thin display that has bad colorimetry.
I dunno if I should be posting, but, in this situation, did anyone consider just nodding and implementing RAID 5 anyway, hoping that no one would notice? No one took the time to explain why RAID 0 is just a plain bad idea?
As for the backup thing, yeah, it is sometimes hard to get people to buy something for the contingencies. I wasn't able to convince my boss to buy a tape backup machine until _after_ a drive failed with a month's worth of work on it.