A sample of one is never ever enough to conclude anything statistical. Hard drive makers fully expect to get some percentage of drives back within a certain time frame. They just attempt to balance the cost of better electronic components against the cost of RMAs within warantee periods. Now, what the move to 1 year warantees implies about this balance, is left as an exercise for the reader.
"NyQuil is the secret for all you twelve step recovery program people. Yes, all you AA people, NyQuil is the key! It's the thirteenth fucking step! You can drink it! It's over the counter! Drink as much as you want. ''Are you drunk?'' ''No! I have a cold. Same cold I've had for two years. I just can't seem to shake it. I'm high as a kite and my teeth are green. Merry fucking Christmas!"
Coffee is more kick than just the caffine. There was a story here a while back that talked about a study that showed even decaf has a good kick to it. Caffine is apparently just one of the active ingrediants. It's the same as pot and THC, a lot of people who try to use the THC pills rather than medical MJ say it's not nearly as effective, even compared to eating MJ, which is a fair comparision since it eliminates the smoking aspect.
As technologically advanced as we are, we still don't know a lot about the things we eat and drink every day, especially with regard to their effect on the brain.
Blasting, billowing, bursting forth With the power of ten billion butterfly sneezes, Man with his flaming pyre Has conquered the wayward breezes, Climbing to tranquility far above the cloud, Conceiving the heaven clear of misty shroud.
Higher and higher, Now we've learned to play with fire, We go higher And higher And higher.
Vast vision must improve our sight, And perhaps at last we'll see An end to our home's endless blight And the beginning of the free. Climb to tranquility, finding its real worth, Conceiving the heavens, flourishing on Earth.
"Higher and Higher" From Moody Blues Album "To Our Children's Children's Children"
The police already do this. There have been numerous cases of rape and domestic violence against women, usually minorities, and when the woman calls the cops, they search her house and find drugs, and arrest her rather than the person perpetrating the crime.
Perhaps if you were to try to believe in his power
Why should we try to believe in your God? I tried believing in Santa Clause and the Tooth Fairy once, that didn't make them any more real and less fabricated.
instead of assuming... God who is infinitly wise does not
Now, who here is doing the assuming??
I have seen the power of prayer
I've seen the power of the John Edward the so-called "psychic" to convince people of total fabrications too. It's amazing how gullible some people are.
I have felt the love of God and it is something that is incredible.
Like cocaine?
No atheist/agnostic is trying to tell you the "perfect way things are supposed to be". Things just are the way they are. We see no need for an external omnipotent entity to explain the way things are.
It looks like plasma doesn't matter with regard to Rh positive or negative, but for ABO compatibility, it's the exact opposite of red blood cells, O is the universal reciever, and AB is the universal donor of plasma.
drugged/brainwashed from birth, taught that it is only appropriate to be led around in chains 24/7 by strange men, was often sold to the highest bidder, beaten whenever she spoke up, was given no choices or significant decision-making privileges, and then woke up in the strange bed.
I find your ideas intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
One thing, do the power supplies run hot? On some computer products I have bought recently (like Linksys switches), they use extremely cheap switching power supplies that are underpowered, and run so hot as to scorch and make burn marks on the label of the wall wart. I've seen similar recalls on some DSL and cable modems recently.
Really, heat is the main long term killer of power supplies. I do agree with you, it seems that overall, in the last year to two electronics, especially power electronics, have been really falling in quality.
I agree, it's normal for a wall wart or power brick type linear to be unregulated and be much higher open circuit voltage than rated.
Also, that recall is for a physical defect, a power cord that can crack open and expose live contacts, not for an electronic flaw.
So what is this post about really, some sort of smear campaign against HP?
That thing with the voltage is the sort of think like the SULFNBK.EXE thing, where people tell their friends, then their friends go "Oh Man, Mine is 37 volts too!!?!?" and then it spreads, none of them smart enough to know it's a normal thing.:)
The fees are huge. Many companies that make > $10 million gross a year barely break even. Note that they are based on gross profit, not net. Also it doesn't seem to differentiate between income related to the web site and other income.
Even discussing this is ludricrous, the dickwads have claimed to patent frames for god's sake. I'd just tell them to fuck off.
Gartner further estimates that there are approximately 90,000 COBOL programmers in the U.S. and the annual growth of COBOL code over the next four years is 5 billion lines.
That's 55,000 lines of new code per coder. Pretty aggressive estimate there.
And I assume they are, then don't sweat it man, both of those languages are usually taught in an extremely simple way in intro classes. Especially VB. I wound up having to take two semesters of VB (even after already taking advanced data structures in C++), and I lost points for not changing the background of my windows from grey to something like pink or orange. In the second semester class. I'm not kidding. And people wonder why I dropped out.
The only way you will learn anything remotely useful is to work with the language you want to learn extensively on your own. You actually still think you go to college to learn things??
Several companies are currently marketing FRAM as a rugged replacement for Flash. http://www.e-insite.net/electronicnews/ind ex.asp?l ayout=article&articleid=CA257740
We will never know what percentage of the too-numerous-to-count security holes are actually caused by malice.
Even if they caught the person, they would have a very hard time proving it wasn't just ineptitude. MS code being so bloated doesn't help. Lets assume Windows is 1GB of source, which isn't unlikely, that's about 25 million lines of code.
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"Script kiddies" won't answer to that label. They consider themselves "hackers"
Script kiddies don't write worms though, at least not the sophisticated kind. Sure, they might turn out Melissa v24.0 in VB, but these advanced attacks are written by people with much more skill.
This is not a dig at you, but since when did DMZ mean "completely unrestricted access to and from the Internet"?
I'm seeing this a lot lately, I think I first saw it when there were some of those home hardware NAT/router/dhcp boxes, if you put a server in "DMZ", it really means totally unprotected.
At work, I use a two firewall setup, and I call the area between the two firewalls the DMZ. The computers there have real routable IPs, but most of their ports are filtered, except the ones they need open. Every doc I read about firewall setup a few years back referred to these filtered hosts as DMZ also.
Why would you query the root servers for that? The root servers only know the name servers for the top level domains, not second level domains like you would own.
While I agree there are strong economic factors preventing adoption of RDRAM, I think ultimately, if there was high enough demand for the RDRAM, producers would carry it, loss in margin or no loss in margin.
I think a large part of the lack of demand was an informal boycott by geeks.
Anyway, the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle. I think we do have an effect, it may not always be a large effect, but every now and then I think it sets off a snowballing of public opinion for or against something. Think Communications Decency Act.
It's not even a criminal problem in reality. I've be willing to bet that 99.9% of criminals don't know how to pick locks, and don't care. There is usually little point in picking a lock when a door can be kicked in, a window broken, a lock drilled, or a padlock cut.
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Electronics fail. Sometimes for no reason.
A sample of one is never ever enough to conclude anything statistical. Hard drive makers fully expect to get some percentage of drives back within a certain time frame. They just attempt to balance the cost of better electronic components against the cost of RMAs within warantee periods. Now, what the move to 1 year warantees implies about this balance, is left as an exercise for the reader.
Don't knock the green death flavor man.
"NyQuil is the secret for all you twelve step recovery program people. Yes, all you AA people, NyQuil is the key! It's the thirteenth fucking step! You can drink it! It's over the counter! Drink as much as you want. ''Are you drunk?'' ''No! I have a cold. Same cold I've had for two years. I just can't seem to shake it. I'm high as a kite and my teeth are green. Merry fucking Christmas!"
There are several substances to do just that, unfortunately, they are all illegal. :)
Coffee is more kick than just the caffine. There was a story here a while back that talked about a study that showed even decaf has a good kick to it. Caffine is apparently just one of the active ingrediants. It's the same as pot and THC, a lot of people who try to use the THC pills rather than medical MJ say it's not nearly as effective, even compared to eating MJ, which is a fair comparision since it eliminates the smoking aspect.
As technologically advanced as we are, we still don't know a lot about the things we eat and drink every day, especially with regard to their effect on the brain.
Blasting, billowing, bursting forth
With the power of ten billion butterfly sneezes,
Man with his flaming pyre
Has conquered the wayward breezes,
Climbing to tranquility far above the cloud,
Conceiving the heaven clear of misty shroud.
Higher and higher,
Now we've learned to play with fire,
We go higher
And higher
And higher.
Vast vision must improve our sight,
And perhaps at last we'll see
An end to our home's endless blight
And the beginning of the free.
Climb to tranquility, finding its real worth,
Conceiving the heavens, flourishing on Earth.
"Higher and Higher" From Moody Blues Album "To Our Children's Children's Children"
The police already do this. There have been numerous cases of rape and domestic violence against women, usually minorities, and when the woman calls the cops, they search her house and find drugs, and arrest her rather than the person perpetrating the crime.
come the conclusion that neither of us are going to change our minds.
I agree, these kinds of conversations rarely change anyone's mind.
I just had to get some of the stuff off my chest
Same here.
I am sorry that I brought up something that has brought such harm to you
No harm done. Just a rebuttal.
I suppose one day one of us will be proven the fool here
Indeed.
Have a nice day.
Perhaps if you were to try to believe in his power
... God who is infinitly wise does not
Why should we try to believe in your God? I tried believing in Santa Clause and the Tooth Fairy once, that didn't make them any more real and less fabricated.
instead of assuming
Now, who here is doing the assuming??
I have seen the power of prayer
I've seen the power of the John Edward the so-called "psychic" to convince people of total fabrications too. It's amazing how gullible some people are.
I have felt the love of God and it is something that is incredible.
Like cocaine?
No atheist/agnostic is trying to tell you the "perfect way things are supposed to be". Things just are the way they are. We see no need for an external omnipotent entity to explain the way things are.
You are correct
It looks like plasma doesn't matter with regard to Rh positive or negative, but for ABO compatibility, it's the exact opposite of red blood cells, O is the universal reciever, and AB is the universal donor of plasma.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010823. html
drugged/brainwashed from birth, taught that it is only appropriate to be led around in chains 24/7 by strange men, was often sold to the highest bidder, beaten whenever she spoke up, was given no choices or significant decision-making privileges, and then woke up in the strange bed.
I find your ideas intriguing and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Thanks for responding.
One thing, do the power supplies run hot? On some computer products I have bought recently (like Linksys switches), they use extremely cheap switching power supplies that are underpowered, and run so hot as to scorch and make burn marks on the label of the wall wart. I've seen similar recalls on some DSL and cable modems recently.
Really, heat is the main long term killer of power supplies. I do agree with you, it seems that overall, in the last year to two electronics, especially power electronics, have been really falling in quality.
I agree, it's normal for a wall wart or power brick type linear to be unregulated and be much higher open circuit voltage than rated.
:)
Also, that recall is for a physical defect, a power cord that can crack open and expose live contacts, not for an electronic flaw.
So what is this post about really, some sort of smear campaign against HP?
That thing with the voltage is the sort of think like the SULFNBK.EXE thing, where people tell their friends, then their friends go "Oh Man, Mine is 37 volts too!!?!?" and then it spreads, none of them smart enough to know it's a normal thing.
The fees are huge. Many companies that make > $10 million gross a year barely break even. Note that they are based on gross profit, not net. Also it doesn't seem to differentiate between income related to the web site and other income.
Even discussing this is ludricrous, the dickwads have claimed to patent frames for god's sake. I'd just tell them to fuck off.
Gartner further estimates that there are approximately 90,000 COBOL programmers in the U.S. and the annual growth of COBOL code over the next four years is 5 billion lines.
That's 55,000 lines of new code per coder. Pretty aggressive estimate there.
And I assume they are, then don't sweat it man, both of those languages are usually taught in an extremely simple way in intro classes. Especially VB. I wound up having to take two semesters of VB (even after already taking advanced data structures in C++), and I lost points for not changing the background of my windows from grey to something like pink or orange. In the second semester class. I'm not kidding. And people wonder why I dropped out.
The only way you will learn anything remotely useful is to work with the language you want to learn extensively on your own. You actually still think you go to college to learn things??
You might be better served by looking at the source code for grep if you can bear it. Why reinvent the wheel?
http://www.howstuffworks.com/mram.htm
d ex.asp?l ayout=article&articleid=CA257740
Several companies are currently marketing FRAM as a rugged replacement for Flash.
http://www.e-insite.net/electronicnews/in
We will never know what percentage of the too-numerous-to-count security holes are actually caused by malice.
Even if they caught the person, they would have a very hard time proving it wasn't just ineptitude. MS code being so bloated doesn't help. Lets assume Windows is 1GB of source, which isn't unlikely, that's about 25 million lines of code.
"Script kiddies" won't answer to that label. They consider themselves "hackers"
Script kiddies don't write worms though, at least not the sophisticated kind. Sure, they might turn out Melissa v24.0 in VB, but these advanced attacks are written by people with much more skill.
I hope the people who are responsible for this attack (which is technically terrorism) are thrown in jail. It will likely be a long sentence.
I seriously doubt Bill Gates and other Microsoft programmers will spend any time in jail at all over this.
This is not a dig at you, but since when did DMZ mean "completely unrestricted access to and from the Internet"?
I'm seeing this a lot lately, I think I first saw it when there were some of those home hardware NAT/router/dhcp boxes, if you put a server in "DMZ", it really means totally unprotected.
At work, I use a two firewall setup, and I call the area between the two firewalls the DMZ. The computers there have real routable IPs, but most of their ports are filtered, except the ones they need open. Every doc I read about firewall setup a few years back referred to these filtered hosts as DMZ also.
So when did the meaning change?
Why would you query the root servers for that? The root servers only know the name servers for the top level domains, not second level domains like you would own.
MCA was IBM's failed replacement for the ISA bus.
While I agree there are strong economic factors preventing adoption of RDRAM, I think ultimately, if there was high enough demand for the RDRAM, producers would carry it, loss in margin or no loss in margin.
I think a large part of the lack of demand was an informal boycott by geeks.
Anyway, the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle. I think we do have an effect, it may not always be a large effect, but every now and then I think it sets off a snowballing of public opinion for or against something. Think Communications Decency Act.
It's not even a criminal problem in reality. I've be willing to bet that 99.9% of criminals don't know how to pick locks, and don't care. There is usually little point in picking a lock when a door can be kicked in, a window broken, a lock drilled, or a padlock cut.