Actually, I got an "Evercase" screwless case from newegg, with a hefty 300 watt PS (I say hefty because sometimes you can tell they overrate the supplies by the light weight of them), for like $40.
No sharp edges, and you can even take the front panel off without a screwdriver (and with access to only one side of the computer), something I have never seen before.
Space for like 6 hard disks, in two little trays that slide out, one of them is mounted on the floor of the case. All drives can be mounted without screws, or rails, including CDROM and such. You can add screws for extra stability if you want, there are places for that too.
All metal edges are rolled over, and a neat feature is that even the PCI cards can be screwless, there is a little rail that snaps in overtop of them, and you don't have to screw it down (but again, you can if you want to).
Newegg still has these cases as their front page item, above the fold, as it were. Go check them out. Inexpensive, and very nice. Surprisingly nice.
The market for aluminum was strong when Alcoa was a monopoly too, just because there is strong demand doesn't mean there isn't a monopoly hurting the industry with anti-competitive tactics.
That's the point, once there is a monopoly and anticompetitive practices, there is no longer a free market, and market forces no longer work.
I'm a Libertarian, but only as far as I believe in promoting free markets. Once business takes up the task of destroying free markets, then, even as a Libertarian, I think it's time for some government interference.
I call the laissez faire Libertarians "Simplistic Libertarianism", since their philosophy would destroy what they seek to promote as a basic tenent.
He didn't generate any electricity, it wasn't a "reactor", any more than my stomach is a "chemical processing factory". I just disagree with the hype surrounding this whole episode.
I'm a little worried to where this is heading. If these MS-DOS computers are intended for low budget novice consumers...
How many novice users are going to buy a PC that they think will run all the programs that a CP/M system will?
Giving novice users a choice between MS-DOS and PC-DOS seems strange to me. How will most novice users be able to choose the most appropriate? I think we might just confuse them out of buying a computer, or they will probably choose the MS-DOS box just because the name sounds familiar.
Hmmm, That wasn't an April Fool's story after all. I guess blatent referrer links in a story to a vendor we are all supposedly boycotting isn't advertisement?
I know a lot of people whine about Slashdot going downhill, but this really takes the cake.
I also noticed that Sourceforge is attaching ads for ThinkGeek onto all mailing list messages for projects housed at Sourceforge. Is LNUX in that much trouble that you all have to stoop this low?
But isn't calling it a "breeder reactor" very excessive? He basically just got a pile of nasty stuff and mushed it together in his shed, right?
As it is, Americium, an alpha emittor, is a decay product of Plutonium, not the other way around. And according to pages I have read, it would take 5000 or more smoke detectors to amass a single gram (the stuff sells for over $1000 a gram).
That would possibly be a good idea, if Slashdot have a search capability. I'm not sure what that little box labelled "search" at the bottom of the page is supposed to do, but it sure doesn't search. Try it sometime, I'm sure you'll agree it's the worst "search" you have ever tried.
I think he's talking about the anecdote that is in some forms of this urban legend, that the kid drove in front of an antiques store and picked up the dial on a radium clock from his car mounted geiger counter.
Same goes for what you assumed though, ever heard of the inverse square law? For an omnidirectional radiation source located 30 feet away to register much higher than background on any normal geiger counter, it would have to be incredibly strong, like enough to make you very sick, very fast.
It is fake, when you say he had some sort of "breeder reactor". He got a pile of low-level radioactive stuff together, and mushed it up and pretended he was doing something scientific.
Bush allowed stem cell research to continue, he banned public money from being spent on it.
It was a smart move. He got to basically end the debate over stem cell research, letting the anti-stem-cell people think they had won, all the while real research can continue in private industry.
I'm not a conservative, but I think he handled this one pretty well. (Of course, as a Libertarian, I am all for ending government handouts of any kind).
I think at some point, if it isn't already happening, people will start taking larger chances with their bodies and health, because of this insurance policy.
While I think the research is great, and should continue, it should be interesting to see if people start really living longer and healthier, or after a point, people just become complacent with their health, trusting technology to fix them if something goes wrong.
I assume there will still be a niche market for security cameras and camcorder type cameras.
On the plus side, if anyone is looking for a good security camera program that is open source, I recommend "Motion". I was going to use a VHS based security setup, but went with it instead, with VHS as a backup un case the computer crashes.
A decision was made not too many years ago for that place to standardize on MS software. It may have been as late as 1996-1998, as that was around the time MS had their last big push into dominance (in the Office suite/browser area at least). Easy come, easy go. MS isn't as entrenched as you think.
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All this because you want to keep driving to SUVs...
Don't make assumptions. I own an electric bike. I'm installing an alternative energy system in my house within the next few years, with a solar trickle charge (It won't be for primary power, but hey, it's a start). Be careful with assumptions. Just because I don't believe causation has been established in global warming, doesn't mean I think pollution and alternative energy research doesn't matter.
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What are you going to use as an energy source to make your precious hydrogen? Hydrogen generally costs more energy to produce than it releases when you burn it, which means it is not an energy source, merely a storage method.
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but to take you seriously, you have to state WHY
Why would the burdon of proof be on me? I can't prove a negative... I can't prove those things don't have an effect. The burdon of proof is on you, you are asserting that those local effects have a climatological impact.
To tie this back to the point of the original post, ham licenses require knowledge of how the radio works, I should have stressed that more.
It's not just about operations, though that is one part of the license. A better analogy is answering questions on how to adjust valve timing, and explaining a DOHC engine, to get a better class driver's license. Each one has progressively more testing on the internals of radio and RF electronics.
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Actually, I got an "Evercase" screwless case from newegg, with a hefty 300 watt PS (I say hefty because sometimes you can tell they overrate the supplies by the light weight of them), for like $40.
No sharp edges, and you can even take the front panel off without a screwdriver (and with access to only one side of the computer), something I have never seen before.
Space for like 6 hard disks, in two little trays that slide out, one of them is mounted on the floor of the case. All drives can be mounted without screws, or rails, including CDROM and such. You can add screws for extra stability if you want, there are places for that too.
All metal edges are rolled over, and a neat feature is that even the PCI cards can be screwless, there is a little rail that snaps in overtop of them, and you don't have to screw it down (but again, you can if you want to).
Newegg still has these cases as their front page item, above the fold, as it were. Go check them out. Inexpensive, and very nice. Surprisingly nice.
I'm not trying to prove anything. I said "I'll let the numbers speak for themselves".
From Google Adwords Stats:
Keyword Matches
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614,500 impressions
Estimated cost per day: US$9,217.50
Keyword Matches
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250,300 impressions
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Keyword Matches
redhat
47,100 impressions
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I'll let the numbers speak for themselves. Numbers are searches PER DAY that include the keyword, case insensitive.
Nice troll.
The market for aluminum was strong when Alcoa was a monopoly too, just because there is strong demand doesn't mean there isn't a monopoly hurting the industry with anti-competitive tactics.
That's the point, once there is a monopoly and anticompetitive practices, there is no longer a free market, and market forces no longer work.
I'm a Libertarian, but only as far as I believe in promoting free markets. Once business takes up the task of destroying free markets, then, even as a Libertarian, I think it's time for some government interference.
I call the laissez faire Libertarians "Simplistic Libertarianism", since their philosophy would destroy what they seek to promote as a basic tenent.
So, because you in particular adopted a proprietary technology, it's OK that RMBS abused the standards process with criminal acts for their own ends?
As far as I know, Microtel is the one preloading these things.
He didn't generate any electricity, it wasn't a "reactor", any more than my stomach is a "chemical processing factory". I just disagree with the hype surrounding this whole episode.
I'm a little worried to where this is heading. If these MS-DOS computers are intended for low budget novice consumers...
How many novice users are going to buy a PC that they think will run all the programs that a CP/M system will?
Giving novice users a choice between MS-DOS and PC-DOS seems strange to me. How will most novice users be able to choose the most appropriate? I think we might just confuse them out of buying a computer, or they will probably choose the MS-DOS box just because the name sounds familiar.
Install is irrelevant. Didn't you read the title of the story?
A braindead user can use Slackware (for example), if a competant admin has set up nice icons on a auto-loading desktop for them to click.
Hmmm, That wasn't an April Fool's story after all. I guess blatent referrer links in a story to a vendor we are all supposedly boycotting isn't advertisement?
I know a lot of people whine about Slashdot going downhill, but this really takes the cake.
I also noticed that Sourceforge is attaching ads for ThinkGeek onto all mailing list messages for projects housed at Sourceforge. Is LNUX in that much trouble that you all have to stoop this low?
He didn'tpick out just the dial, but a whole can of the radium-rich paint used to make those glow in dark dials.
Wow, this story keeps changing and growing. In most accounts of this urban legend, it's a vial of radium paint inside the clock.
But isn't calling it a "breeder reactor" very excessive? He basically just got a pile of nasty stuff and mushed it together in his shed, right?
As it is, Americium, an alpha emittor, is a decay product of Plutonium, not the other way around. And according to pages I have read, it would take 5000 or more smoke detectors to amass a single gram (the stuff sells for over $1000 a gram).
That would possibly be a good idea, if Slashdot have a search capability. I'm not sure what that little box labelled "search" at the bottom of the page is supposed to do, but it sure doesn't search. Try it sometime, I'm sure you'll agree it's the worst "search" you have ever tried.
One can generate small, fairly stable, plasma balls in the microwave. That must be where the parent poster got his confused and ignorant factoid from.
I think he's talking about the anecdote that is in some forms of this urban legend, that the kid drove in front of an antiques store and picked up the dial on a radium clock from his car mounted geiger counter.
Same goes for what you assumed though, ever heard of the inverse square law? For an omnidirectional radiation source located 30 feet away to register much higher than background on any normal geiger counter, it would have to be incredibly strong, like enough to make you very sick, very fast.
It is fake, when you say he had some sort of "breeder reactor". He got a pile of low-level radioactive stuff together, and mushed it up and pretended he was doing something scientific.
Bush allowed stem cell research to continue, he banned public money from being spent on it.
It was a smart move. He got to basically end the debate over stem cell research, letting the anti-stem-cell people think they had won, all the while real research can continue in private industry.
I'm not a conservative, but I think he handled this one pretty well. (Of course, as a Libertarian, I am all for ending government handouts of any kind).
holy grail of immunology
Interesting implications of that.
Moral Hazard.
I think at some point, if it isn't already happening, people will start taking larger chances with their bodies and health, because of this insurance policy.
While I think the research is great, and should continue, it should be interesting to see if people start really living longer and healthier, or after a point, people just become complacent with their health, trusting technology to fix them if something goes wrong.
I assume there will still be a niche market for security cameras and camcorder type cameras.
On the plus side, if anyone is looking for a good security camera program that is open source, I recommend "Motion". I was going to use a VHS based security setup, but went with it instead, with VHS as a backup un case the computer crashes.
A decision was made not too many years ago for that place to standardize on MS software. It may have been as late as 1996-1998, as that was around the time MS had their last big push into dominance (in the Office suite/browser area at least). Easy come, easy go. MS isn't as entrenched as you think.
All this because you want to keep driving to SUVs...
Don't make assumptions. I own an electric bike. I'm installing an alternative energy system in my house within the next few years, with a solar trickle charge (It won't be for primary power, but hey, it's a start). Be careful with assumptions. Just because I don't believe causation has been established in global warming, doesn't mean I think pollution and alternative energy research doesn't matter.
What are you going to use as an energy source to make your precious hydrogen? Hydrogen generally costs more energy to produce than it releases when you burn it, which means it is not an energy source, merely a storage method.
but to take you seriously, you have to state WHY
Why would the burdon of proof be on me? I can't prove a negative... I can't prove those things don't have an effect. The burdon of proof is on you, you are asserting that those local effects have a climatological impact.
To tie this back to the point of the original post, ham licenses require knowledge of how the radio works, I should have stressed that more.
It's not just about operations, though that is one part of the license. A better analogy is answering questions on how to adjust valve timing, and explaining a DOHC engine, to get a better class driver's license. Each one has progressively more testing on the internals of radio and RF electronics.