I can't wait until next week, when my processor is so fast that Microsoft decides that my single processor is the "equivalent of a quad processor," so that I need Windows 2k Server instead of 2k Pro.
You realize they are already doing that with hyperthreading processors, right?
I roll my own cigarettes, and used google to find the shops I order from. Lack of ads wasn't a big problem though.
I don't particularly agree with Google's content based ad censorship, but it's their company, and as long as they don't start censoring search results similarily*, then I am happy with them.
*Yes, I know about the cases where they were forced to take stuff down under legal threat. That's not quite the same thing as editorial censorship.
Rather than wasting all that time and money, and opening up your PSU, you could just do this.
Buy a relay, one that is rated to switch the amps you need on the switching side at 120volts (or 240 if you are from a third world country:) ) Make sure the "coil" voltage is 5 or 12 volts.
Simply wire the coil side to your power supply's +5 or +12 and ground, and run the hot side of the power to the pump through the switching side.
Now, was that difficult? If you want it to delay when you turn it off, use a 5V relay and get a 1farad 5V super capacitor (the kind they use for CMOS memory backup) and wire it in parallel with the coil side, noting polarity. This will hold the relay closed for quite a while when the power is turned off (up to a minute or two), assuming the coil on the relay has sufficiently high ohmage.
Total cost: About $4 in parts, and 10 minutes reading about ohm's law if you don't already know it.
Isn't that dangerous though? No one knows what the citations are really about more than the people that wrote them. If you cite a reviewer's paper without reading the paper first, you risk looking like an ass when your paper hits their desk!
There is no exploit, at least not in the normal sense. It's just the way TCP/IP is designed.
IMHO, this is really a trivial problem, one that nearly all cable modem networks were always subject to. They can do some stuff to mitigate it on the network side, but really this isn't anywhere near the gravity that the Slashdot blurb makes it out to be.
It's good to disclose these possible conflicts of interest (something real journalists do), but couldn't it also be possible that Chris, being involved in the MMORPG world, is just more in touch with what is going on there? Wouldn't it make sense for someone involved in MMORPGs to post stories about same?
UNIVAC came out in 1951 and ran over 2Mhz serial bit rate with about 12K storage. It doesn't seem unreasonable to have a 300khz computer with 2k RAM in the 50s.
I don't like your example. Shooting someone with a gun is fairly clean, hands-off, from a distance. You could even be up to a mile away. Contrast that with the close up and personal contact involved with gouging someone's eyes, blood spattering all over you, squishing noises, etc, etc.
One in inherently more involved and personal that the other. Of course one is going to be more repulsive than the other. I don't think your argument is very strong based on this example.
Carpe: You can put me in as number 4 on your list of prolific posters. Of course, instead of running that spider, if you would have asked one of the staff nicely, I'm sure they would have run "SELECT * FROM users WHERE commentsposted > 3000 SORT BY commentsposted DESC LIMIT 10"... It would have saved everyone a lot of time and bandwidth. Now that you have pissed them off, it's not likely they will be too receptive.
That much (little) paper... is actually lighter than a terrabyte of digital storage!
I doubt it, 200GB hard disks are out now, that's about 5 hard disks per TB. 320GB will be out in a couple months, that's a little more than 3 drives per TB. In another year we will have 500GB+ drives most likely. All ATA of course, I doubt SCSI will keep up with the size increases, it's been lagging further and further behind over the last year. (Those huge 181GB SCSI drives don't count, they don't fit in most normal drive bays).
I'm pretty convinced that there are brain chemical issues involving seratonin that do predispose you toward certain mood disorders.
That's entirely possible. It's when people start talking about hard causality and treating symptoms as if it were "curing" the disorder that gets my dander up.
I stopped the Choline--that can't really be written off to placebo effect, since I expected something quite the opposite.
Hmm, I doubt there were any permanant effects from Choline, it's a necessary and natural nutrient that you need to live, and is found in many foods.
I don't doubt your claim that you were mis-diagnosed, but please don't try to claim that ADHD doesn't exist.
I don't doubt you believe you have it (or believe someone you are close to does), but don't try to claim it does exist (in a medical root-cause sense) on this alone.
My son is supposed to have it, at least some people believe that. I could have probably been diagnosed with it when I was younger. Guess what? Discipline worked on both parts, at least thus far in my son's case, and I'd say pretty well in my case.
Young people's minds are meant to wander, most grow out of it, some do not. It's really a question of willpower and discipline.
I'm a believer that most mental and mood disorders are controllable through behaviour modification alone. Whether the individual is capable of mustering that willpower is another issue entirely. The mother of my son has been diagnosed with just about ever mental disorder there is, so don't say I am not familiar with them, I know them well. I've suffered through the consequences of being in a relationship with someone who is very mentally unstable.
The pharmacutical companies are trying to sell the public a bill of goods, that these are "medical problems" with little animations of frowny neurons and synaspes firing. They invented terms like "chemical imbalance", "social anxiety disorder", and "PMDD". They show pictures of serotonin levels in brains of "normal" people vs "sick" people.
They want you to mistake the effect for the cause. That is the great lie. They want you to think that treating the symptom is the cure. That way they can sell you their Gleemonex for the rest of your life. Don't buy into their junk science like so many doctors have.
It's easier to just boot off known good read-only media, mount the file systems in a mount directory and use the utilities from that. Most distros have bootable install CDs these days that you can use for this.
It started out innocently enough, a drink here or there at the water fountain in school. Then all my friends started doing it too. It was hard to resist the urge to drink.
Luckily I found this site before it was too late. I have since quit drinking water, and am proud to say I only drink rum or vodka these days.
However if this is a publicly traded company then they owe it to there investors to keep there IP offlimits. They can be sued bigtime if they did this.
What the hell are you talking about? Red Hat GPLs nearly everything they write, and no one has ever even thought about suing them for it.
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I can't wait until next week, when my processor is so fast that Microsoft decides that my single processor is the "equivalent of a quad processor," so that I need Windows 2k Server instead of 2k Pro.
You realize they are already doing that with hyperthreading processors, right?
I roll my own cigarettes, and used google to find the shops I order from. Lack of ads wasn't a big problem though.
I don't particularly agree with Google's content based ad censorship, but it's their company, and as long as they don't start censoring search results similarily*, then I am happy with them.
*Yes, I know about the cases where they were forced to take stuff down under legal threat. That's not quite the same thing as editorial censorship.
Rather than wasting all that time and money, and opening up your PSU, you could just do this.
:) ) Make sure the "coil" voltage is 5 or 12 volts.
Buy a relay, one that is rated to switch the amps you need on the switching side at 120volts (or 240 if you are from a third world country
Simply wire the coil side to your power supply's +5 or +12 and ground, and run the hot side of the power to the pump through the switching side.
Now, was that difficult? If you want it to delay when you turn it off, use a 5V relay and get a 1farad 5V super capacitor (the kind they use for CMOS memory backup) and wire it in parallel with the coil side, noting polarity. This will hold the relay closed for quite a while when the power is turned off (up to a minute or two), assuming the coil on the relay has sufficiently high ohmage.
Total cost: About $4 in parts, and 10 minutes reading about ohm's law if you don't already know it.
Isn't that dangerous though? No one knows what the citations are really about more than the people that wrote them. If you cite a reviewer's paper without reading the paper first, you risk looking like an ass when your paper hits their desk!
I'm a Computer Engineering student,
Surely you realize digital logic is really just a FSM in most cases. I'm surprised you have never studied it that way.
There is no exploit, at least not in the normal sense. It's just the way TCP/IP is designed.
IMHO, this is really a trivial problem, one that nearly all cable modem networks were always subject to. They can do some stuff to mitigate it on the network side, but really this isn't anywhere near the gravity that the Slashdot blurb makes it out to be.
Well, I work for the highest level of support at Adelphia and you're fired!
No, just kidding, but really I doubt your company would appreciate you posting messages like that, should have went AC at least.
It's good to disclose these possible conflicts of interest (something real journalists do), but couldn't it also be possible that Chris, being involved in the MMORPG world, is just more in touch with what is going on there? Wouldn't it make sense for someone involved in MMORPGs to post stories about same?
It's really less than 1% increase in speed, since there is a fixed overhead time to burning CDs that isn't going down.
UNIVAC came out in 1951 and ran over 2Mhz serial bit rate with about 12K storage. It doesn't seem unreasonable to have a 300khz computer with 2k RAM in the 50s.
I don't like your example. Shooting someone with a gun is fairly clean, hands-off, from a distance. You could even be up to a mile away. Contrast that with the close up and personal contact involved with gouging someone's eyes, blood spattering all over you, squishing noises, etc, etc.
One in inherently more involved and personal that the other. Of course one is going to be more repulsive than the other. I don't think your argument is very strong based on this example.
Mod this down.
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Carpe:
You can put me in as number 4 on your list of prolific posters. Of course, instead of running that spider, if you would have asked one of the staff nicely, I'm sure they would have run "SELECT * FROM users WHERE commentsposted > 3000 SORT BY commentsposted DESC LIMIT 10"... It would have saved everyone a lot of time and bandwidth. Now that you have pissed them off, it's not likely they will be too receptive.
That much (little) paper... is actually lighter than a terrabyte of digital storage!
I doubt it, 200GB hard disks are out now, that's about 5 hard disks per TB. 320GB will be out in a couple months, that's a little more than 3 drives per TB. In another year we will have 500GB+ drives most likely. All ATA of course, I doubt SCSI will keep up with the size increases, it's been lagging further and further behind over the last year. (Those huge 181GB SCSI drives don't count, they don't fit in most normal drive bays).
I'm pretty convinced that there are brain chemical issues involving seratonin that do predispose you toward certain mood disorders.
That's entirely possible. It's when people start talking about hard causality and treating symptoms as if it were "curing" the disorder that gets my dander up.
I stopped the Choline--that can't really be written off to placebo effect, since I expected something quite the opposite.
Hmm, I doubt there were any permanant effects from Choline, it's a necessary and natural nutrient that you need to live, and is found in many foods.
I don't doubt your claim that you were mis-diagnosed, but please don't try to claim that ADHD doesn't exist.
I don't doubt you believe you have it (or believe someone you are close to does), but don't try to claim it does exist (in a medical root-cause sense) on this alone.
My son is supposed to have it, at least some people believe that. I could have probably been diagnosed with it when I was younger. Guess what? Discipline worked on both parts, at least thus far in my son's case, and I'd say pretty well in my case.
Young people's minds are meant to wander, most grow out of it, some do not. It's really a question of willpower and discipline.
I'm a believer that most mental and mood disorders are controllable through behaviour modification alone. Whether the individual is capable of mustering that willpower is another issue entirely. The mother of my son has been diagnosed with just about ever mental disorder there is, so don't say I am not familiar with them, I know them well. I've suffered through the consequences of being in a relationship with someone who is very mentally unstable.
The pharmacutical companies are trying to sell the public a bill of goods, that these are "medical problems" with little animations of frowny neurons and synaspes firing. They invented terms like "chemical imbalance", "social anxiety disorder", and "PMDD". They show pictures of serotonin levels in brains of "normal" people vs "sick" people.
They want you to mistake the effect for the cause. That is the great lie. They want you to think that treating the symptom is the cure. That way they can sell you their Gleemonex for the rest of your life. Don't buy into their junk science like so many doctors have.
How does the ACLU count to 10?
:)
1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
How does the NRA count to 10?
2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4.....
You forgot the obligitory link to Adaware for all 10 people who do not know about it yet. :)
persuade the Mutant Ninja Turtles to lay the cables? They've had nothing to do since the show got cancelled
:)
Just think, in 15 years they can make a come back as the "Middle-aged Mutant Ninja Turtles".
This is a cross between Pi, 2001, and Junkyard Wars.
The robots go slightly insane, take over the sewers, and then drill holes into their brain with a cordless drill?
It's easier to just boot off known good read-only media, mount the file systems in a mount directory and use the utilities from that. Most distros have bootable install CDs these days that you can use for this.
Do you know about the free electronics text book?
e x. htm
http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/electricCircuits/ind
Blatent plug: It's also linked on the "links" page of my electronicschat.org site.
while MP3 is in that analogy similar to GIF, using LZW compression patented by Unisys.
Just a note, that patent runs out in a couple months, then GIF will be patent free!
Imagine that, an end to the GIF bitching.
Hi,
I'm GigsVT, and I'm addicted to water.
It started out innocently enough, a drink here or there at the water fountain in school. Then all my friends started doing it too. It was hard to resist the urge to drink.
Luckily I found this site before it was too late. I have since quit drinking water, and am proud to say I only drink rum or vodka these days.
However if this is a publicly traded company then they owe it to there investors to keep there IP offlimits. They can be sued bigtime if they did this.
What the hell are you talking about? Red Hat GPLs nearly everything they write, and no one has ever even thought about suing them for it.