I won't even mention the marginal quality control in some reloads
Heh, that can be a big issue. I know my dad had trouble for a while with humidity in the loading area really messing with the ability to consistantly get the same load.
99% of the people overclocking don't understand how a CPU works.
They get away with it because a CPU has a nice failure mode, it corrupts data, and the computer usually crashes, or doesn't boot, and you know to clock it lower.
An engine doesn't have such inexpensive ways of telling you that you are pushing it too hard.
That's what I'm saying. The only external energy in this system is solar energy used to grow the corn or grain or whatnot.
Therefore, if it is an efficient enough way to collect solar energy, we can spend less energy creating the fuel than we get out of it, there will be a net gain in energy, and it's sustainable, we can start using this fuel to power the processing of more fuel, and it will be self-sufficient.
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No different than overclocking and many people have been very successful doing this...
Because we all know an internal combustion engine, with hundreds of moving parts, metals with critical temperature points, etc, is exactly like a CPU.
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That doesn't cover damage you cause by dicking with the computer.
And when your engine wears out sooner, it's not hard to argue that the changes you made to the computer caused it, if those changes pushed the engine harder than normal.
That act is mostly applied to replacement parts, not performance tweaks, especially potentially damaging ones.
What matters is if there is a net gain in energy, i.e. if it is an efficient enough way to collect solar energy, that we don't wind up using more energy to produce the fuel than we get from using it.
Except for nuclear power, all our energy comes from the Sun, so to evaluate any new source of energy, all you have to do is frame it in terms of how well it collects solar energy, and puts it into a form we can use.
If we discover another way to harness a truely novel source of energy, then all bets are off, but nuclear power is the only exception right now.
If you lived in a small, isolated, town, the shopkeepers there would know far more about you than these corporations will ever be able to milk from audit trails.
You don't hear people complaining when their waitress remembers what they like to drink...
I'm mostly playing devil's advocate here, I value my privacy as much as anyone.
I heard a rumor that many larger MS applications actually have a lot of kernel changes involved in them, which is why, for example, when you install Office, you might get a kernel/OS upgrade too.
It seems they have made changes with a real lack of foresight when it comes to breaking their abstractions just to get a certain job done.
This all stems from MS's push a while back to move to a "document centric desktop".
The idea was "everything is a document", and the user shouldn't know what program is used to open what document, they should just click on the document and go.
The side effect was blurring the line between executable and data, something that the Mac is also guilty of.
With all the "great ideas" in making a computer easier to use, it seems that most of them have backfired. I wish people would just accept that general purpose computers are inherently complicated devices, and deal with it. There is no silver bullet.
RentACoder allows employers to attach an NDA to the deal, and make the contract dependant on that NDA.
If the employer didn't use an NDA, and turned over data like that, they are stupid, and deserve no recourse. If they used an NDA, they have recourse, even though that recourse might be costly, and yield little from an individual coder with little cash.
Of course, you always have the option of only accepting work from companies rather than individuals, it's all on their RentACoder profile.
RentACoder isn't all offshore labor either, it's a place where anyone can go bid on work. You might be undercut by offshore stuff, but a company might appreciate someone in a nearby time zone, it makes coordinating things much easier.
The magnify button scales up text and images, nice for zooming in on artwork I browse. (Porn too!)
There's a mozilla bug number for this one, but as is normal for mozilla, it's a 3 year long discussion with various people talking about how it can't be done, instead of someone just doing it.
Heh. So you admit you are lying... First you say it never crashed, and then you say that you know it auto-saves your session after a crash.
I used Opera on Linux, I've paid for Opera since version 4 (which I used on Windows). I started using it on Linux around version 6.
It started crashing all the damn time, since about version 7 on Linux... earlier versions were pretty stable. I was very glad when Firebird really started to become viable, because I sure as hell wasn't going to use slow-ass Mozilla.
I use Firebird now (Linux), and it's fast enough, and a lot more stable than Opera(Linux).
One problem is that CRTs lose brightness as they age. Eventually you squeeze the dynamic range when you compensate by turning the brightness knob up.
A good place to look at some code for this is cpercep.c in the gimp source code. I'm not sure if the gimp even uses this code (yet), but it's got a lot of the functions and algorithms to do perceptual colorspace transformations taking into account gamma and color temperature of the display device.
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I won't even mention the marginal quality control in some reloads
Heh, that can be a big issue. I know my dad had trouble for a while with humidity in the loading area really messing with the ability to consistantly get the same load.
99% of the people overclocking don't understand how a CPU works.
They get away with it because a CPU has a nice failure mode, it corrupts data, and the computer usually crashes, or doesn't boot, and you know to clock it lower.
An engine doesn't have such inexpensive ways of telling you that you are pushing it too hard.
That's what I'm saying. The only external energy in this system is solar energy used to grow the corn or grain or whatnot.
Therefore, if it is an efficient enough way to collect solar energy, we can spend less energy creating the fuel than we get out of it, there will be a net gain in energy, and it's sustainable, we can start using this fuel to power the processing of more fuel, and it will be self-sufficient.
No different than overclocking and many people have been very successful doing this...
Because we all know an internal combustion engine, with hundreds of moving parts, metals with critical temperature points, etc, is exactly like a CPU.
That doesn't cover damage you cause by dicking with the computer.
And when your engine wears out sooner, it's not hard to argue that the changes you made to the computer caused it, if those changes pushed the engine harder than normal.
That act is mostly applied to replacement parts, not performance tweaks, especially potentially damaging ones.
You would think with all the xtra time
Yeah, don't you hate it when people half-ass things because they are too lazy to make it presentable to other people?
Heh, I have to partially retract, geothermal energy could also be considered an exception, as well as tidal energy.
It doesn't matter if it uses fossil fuels or not.
What matters is if there is a net gain in energy, i.e. if it is an efficient enough way to collect solar energy, that we don't wind up using more energy to produce the fuel than we get from using it.
Except for nuclear power, all our energy comes from the Sun, so to evaluate any new source of energy, all you have to do is frame it in terms of how well it collects solar energy, and puts it into a form we can use.
If we discover another way to harness a truely novel source of energy, then all bets are off, but nuclear power is the only exception right now.
When you work for a company, the company is basically your customer, they are buying your labor.
If you don't want them as a customer, quit selling your labor to them. Don't whine and bitch and look for someone to sue.
Should it though?
If you lived in a small, isolated, town, the shopkeepers there would know far more about you than these corporations will ever be able to milk from audit trails.
You don't hear people complaining when their waitress remembers what they like to drink...
I'm mostly playing devil's advocate here, I value my privacy as much as anyone.
The puzzle game icon already looks like a tetris piece, how much closer than that can you get?
Worse, when I went to see it, several young children who had parents that let them stay and watch it.
Well, it's already been done. In epsiode DABF22 ("How I Spent My Strummer Vacation") the "couch gag" was Homer waterskiing and jumping over a shark.
:)
You are the real life comic book guy, aren't you?
I feel the power!
Half of those CSS's render with tiny unreadable fonts on Mozilla at my resolution.
Nice!
I wonder how much of this shit they just made up when they realized they screwed up in earlier episodes. :)
I think you have got something there.
I heard a rumor that many larger MS applications actually have a lot of kernel changes involved in them, which is why, for example, when you install Office, you might get a kernel/OS upgrade too.
It seems they have made changes with a real lack of foresight when it comes to breaking their abstractions just to get a certain job done.
This all stems from MS's push a while back to move to a "document centric desktop".
The idea was "everything is a document", and the user shouldn't know what program is used to open what document, they should just click on the document and go.
The side effect was blurring the line between executable and data, something that the Mac is also guilty of.
With all the "great ideas" in making a computer easier to use, it seems that most of them have backfired. I wish people would just accept that general purpose computers are inherently complicated devices, and deal with it. There is no silver bullet.
I'm glad you don't know how to write proper HTML, it spared me from having to read an entire message in bold.
What's up with all the [] stuff anyway? How did people get the idea that's valid HTML?
There's an overflow in the stupidity of the users, who are willing to unzip and run unexpected EXE files from strangers.
Seriously.
I'm sure a RedHat/SuSE/Gentoo user could devise similarly trivial solutions for their systems as well.
Nope... On Red Hat at least, the dependancies are not given as the same name as the package.
Yes, it's really fucking annoying. Apt-rpm and up2date are a godsend.
Cheap, low enough porosity, able to stand up to the abuse.
I'd think it would be a pretty big challange to find a better material, that didn't include at least some tradeoffs in reliability or protection.
I'm a registered employer with RentACoder.
RentACoder allows employers to attach an NDA to the deal, and make the contract dependant on that NDA.
If the employer didn't use an NDA, and turned over data like that, they are stupid, and deserve no recourse. If they used an NDA, they have recourse, even though that recourse might be costly, and yield little from an individual coder with little cash.
Of course, you always have the option of only accepting work from companies rather than individuals, it's all on their RentACoder profile.
RentACoder isn't all offshore labor either, it's a place where anyone can go bid on work. You might be undercut by offshore stuff, but a company might appreciate someone in a nearby time zone, it makes coordinating things much easier.
The magnify button scales up text and images, nice for zooming in on artwork I browse. (Porn too!)
There's a mozilla bug number for this one, but as is normal for mozilla, it's a 3 year long discussion with various people talking about how it can't be done, instead of someone just doing it.
Heh. So you admit you are lying... First you say it never crashed, and then you say that you know it auto-saves your session after a crash.
I used Opera on Linux, I've paid for Opera since version 4 (which I used on Windows). I started using it on Linux around version 6.
It started crashing all the damn time, since about version 7 on Linux... earlier versions were pretty stable. I was very glad when Firebird really started to become viable, because I sure as hell wasn't going to use slow-ass Mozilla.
I use Firebird now (Linux), and it's fast enough, and a lot more stable than Opera(Linux).
There are standards.
One problem is that CRTs lose brightness as they age. Eventually you squeeze the dynamic range when you compensate by turning the brightness knob up.
A good place to look at some code for this is cpercep.c in the gimp source code. I'm not sure if the gimp even uses this code (yet), but it's got a lot of the functions and algorithms to do perceptual colorspace transformations taking into account gamma and color temperature of the display device.