Remember, you have to add the palladium to the hydronium, not the hydronium to the palladium. Oh, wait, that doesn't work? Um, add the hydronium to the palladium.
Many people might not know this, but Radio Shack employees get fired if they don't keep their Name/Address percentage up. My store required at least 80% of all purchases to have it (when I worked there). Naturally, MUCH less than 80% of all people would willingly give it. Everybody always thought they were so frickin' smart ("Cash; Johnny." "Simpson; Bart"). Radioshack didn't even use it for mailing. ^_^
Anyways, so myself and the other employees started entering these people as a 'Mr. Customer' who lived at (our store's address). After 3 months of this, our boss called a meeting where he printed a 28' long list of everything 'Mr. Customer' had purchased there from the reciept printer.
The moral of the story? I dunno, but I sure like being modded down!
More importantly this will spawn a whole new branch of medicine where you sell drugs/therapy to healthy people. We are already starting to see that practice today, look at the logic behind pepcid/ac, the heartburn medication you take over the counter *before* you have heartburn.
It always amazes me how some people think that medicine is still snake-oil being sold at the town fair. As somebody who suffers from acid reflux (which is becoming increasingly common), I take Pepcid/AC. People don't take it so that they won't develop heartburn; they take it because the know they'll suffer if they won't. The stuff takes effect in an hour, not over the course of a few weeks, or anything like that. And it makes a difference. Your statement is analogous to somebody not consuming any vitamin C until AFTER they've got scurvy.
So maybe science is getting better at stopping problems before they become painful. Is this a bad thing? Personally, if I knew that I was likely to have a heart attack, and there was medication that would prevent it, I'd take that too.
Yes, yes I know I'm feeding the trolls, but my integrity can't pass this one up.
if one phone can't work on another's network, how is roaming possible?
Roaming is when your phone goes off of the CDMA network (in which your phone is specifically tuned), and onto the more general purpose 800mhz analogue, which doesn't require anything special, as it's an analogue network.
My current provider said it was "not possible" to reprogram the phone to work on their network. He had no answer as to how the charities are able to reprogram them for battered women's shelters.
As sombody who used to sell cellular phones: Actually, the shelters don't need to reprogram the phone. Any cellphone in the 'states (not sure about other places) can call 911, regardless of provider, even without active service (as long as they have reception). So the all the shelters need to do is see that the phone gets a working battery, and distribute them.
Something else you might not know is that these phones actually _do_ use different hardware inside. The transmitting circuits, as well as the digital antenna, are precisely tuned to the chunk of the CDMA band occupied by each phone's provider. These settings cannot be changed any more than you could 'reprogram' an FM radio to pick up shortwave.
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What this article neglects to recognize is that engineering things nowadays is vastle more difficult than engineering in the time of, say, Edison. You could engineer a lightbulb on the back of an envelope. Think you engineer a CPU like that ?
Sure you can! It's easy! 1) Find a BIG envelope. 2) Take a piece of chewing gum and two paperclips, and... 3) ??? 4) Pentium 4!
At least, that's how I surmise the people at Intel are doing it:)
I've been waiting for this my entire life! Now those X(xx)-10 girls won't have anything to gloat about any more, and I'll feel better that I can't do anything of that sort myself with the camera!
Well, the Tacoma-Narrows Bridge collapse was hardly what I'd call a technical disaster. There was no technological, or mechanical failure of the bridge in any way. There was no fault, AFAIK, in it's engineering either. It was destroyed by a freakishly improbable random act of nature. Anyways, on the day it collapsed the winds of the sound just happened to blow at the exact frequency of the natural resonance of the bridge, causing it to resonate until its collapse.
In theory, this could happen to any bridge in America. Scary stuff, eh?
Have you upgraded to the newest firmware? It skips a lot less. Also, while the Archos manuals do indeed prohibit changing the batteries, this is listed as a typo of sorts on their website; you can indeed change the batteries without voiding your warranty.
My player, which is pretty new, does still skip a little though. It's not much though, and it only seems to do it on a few tracks (not sure why). That's my only complaint with it.
You clearly have no clue about battery technology. Over the life of a standard 1.5v Alkaline battery, it will actually average 1.2v. only new alkaline batteries are 1.5v. The volts will drop as soon as it starts being used.
They average 1.2V. Ther START, however, at 1.5 volts and gradually work down to about 0.9V at their minimum useful lives, averaging at 1.2V ((1.5+0.9)/2). However, it only takes a few seconds of 6VDC to destroy a hard-drive.
I really don't know have any intention of getting into a flame war with you, but I'd be doing us both a disservice if I didn't point out the (IMHO) obvious about your player: to the right and left of the control panel are two small slots, exactly halfway down the player (next to your battery covers). Those tabs can be popped open with a screwdriver, an ordinary flathead.
Oh, and the running with standard 1.5V AA batteries would indeed ruin your player, because it would be supplying 6VDC to a 5VDC hard-drive, which would fry it like a cheap side of bacon. the 1.2V batteries supply 4.8 volts, which, while on the low side, is sitll acceptable to run the drive off of.
There are a bunch of drawbacks with the Archos. First the idiots hardwired the batteries into the case. So even though the batteries are standard AA NiMh batteries you have to carry arround a screwdriver and void your warranty to change them. I get about 4 hours actual use from the things so I often want to change batteries in mid flight and I doubt my scrwdriver is compatible with the new security regulations.
You've obviously never owned an Archos player in your life, or you're dumber than you're letting on. I have an Archos JB6000, myself (which I love, by the way). First, the battery life, fully charged, is about 8 hours (or 9 if you don't push the buttons much).Second, the batteries are NOT hardwired into the case; they are covered by flaps on either side of the player which can be opened with a key, a screwdriver, or any other small pointed obejct. You do NOT have to open the case, nor does changing the batteries void your warranty, since you need to put them in in the first place.
It would be much better if Archos et al adopted a common standard form factor for a smallish LiIon battery. Nikon have already developed a camera battery in a form factor that matches one of the new alkaline battery form factors.
If you owned an Archos, you'd know that the batteries used are indeed standard, run-of-the-mill rechargeable 1.2V NiMH AA batteries; they can be replaced with Radioshack's off-the-shelf ones. And besides, I doubt you'd want to 'change batteries in mid flight', since you'd need to be carrying around charged NiMH batteries (which don't hold a charge for all that long, if not being used), because regular 1.5 volt batteries would destroy the player.
Do everybody a favor, and the next time you want to talk about something that you know nothing of, don't.
Why do all of these karma-whores seem to think that hating a company equates to not buying their stuff? Last summer, when California was in the middle of their energy crisis (I'm a Bay-area res myself), did anybody stop using all electricity to spite PG&E and the energy providers? No. Did they still hate the companies? Possibly.
My point is that there is a HUGE difference between these random 'boycotts' of the MPAA, and actually pushing for change (which, IMO, won't be accomplished by these fickle boycotts). In my eyes, it's perfectly OK to use something you dislike, while still working to change it.
I think that TiVo's rate hike, that and the temporary lowering of the lifetime registration fee by $50, is intended to convince customers to spend the dough on a lifetime registration. If Joe Customer spends the money($150?) to register his TiVo for life NOW, then he'll end up still paying if he gets a new v2 TiVo, since the subscription is non-transferrable. Seems like a plot by TiVo to gain some extra funds.
The TiVo's are VERY easily modified, a factor not easily discounted. For the grand total of $150 (I got a deal on the HD), I got all the parts needed to upgrade my TiVo from a cheap 20hr model to a 105hr model. Say what you will about 'basic' recording quality (and I'd probably agree), but I can't complain about a TiVo that holds 30hr of 'best' quality, for the combined price for about $280.
Oh, and it's moronically easy to upgrade TiVo too... all you need to do is buy an IDE disk, plug it into your computer and boot a bootdisk, run a program, then take it out and pop it in TiVo! there's even an IDE cable ready for it inside.
AFAIK, it's pretty damn hard to upgrade the Replay TV's.
I don't know if I'd say they were being nice so much as they were worried. If they pissed the guy off, I've got a hunch that copies of the ROM would begin to 'appear' all across the internet.
I already know what it's gonna sound like...
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Now, I don't know all that much C yet, but it seems to me that it might be possible to make a closed-source driver that compiled on various different kernel versions and achitechures. Maybe (again, I might not know what I'm talking about here) the company in question could release a binary library of the actual functions of the driver, and then provide source for a kernel module that called up the library to do the real functions. Thus, the secrecy would be preserved, but yet so would the portability. What do you think?
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Remember, you have to add the palladium to the hydronium, not the hydronium to the palladium. Oh, wait, that doesn't work? Um, add the hydronium to the palladium.
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Sorry Dr. Fleischmann, it doesn't work
Don't mod it if you don't get it.
Many people might not know this, but Radio Shack employees get fired if they don't keep their Name/Address percentage up. My store required at least 80% of all purchases to have it (when I worked there). Naturally, MUCH less than 80% of all people would willingly give it. Everybody always thought they were so frickin' smart ("Cash; Johnny." "Simpson; Bart"). Radioshack didn't even use it for mailing. ^_^
Anyways, so myself and the other employees started entering these people as a 'Mr. Customer' who lived at (our store's address). After 3 months of this, our boss called a meeting where he printed a 28' long list of everything 'Mr. Customer' had purchased there from the reciept printer.
The moral of the story? I dunno, but I sure like being modded down!
So, this'll be like the NEXT Step in space colonization, right?
So maybe science is getting better at stopping problems before they become painful. Is this a bad thing? Personally, if I knew that I was likely to have a heart attack, and there was medication that would prevent it, I'd take that too.
Two cents won't even buy you a gumball today.
"Damn, this bread is a bit moldy."
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"Well, just feed it to the TV, dear."
You _do_ know how they found penecillin, right?
Roaming is when your phone goes off of the CDMA network (in which your phone is specifically tuned), and onto the more general purpose 800mhz analogue, which doesn't require anything special, as it's an analogue network.
And yes, I agree with you about the charger.
Something else you might not know is that these phones actually _do_ use different hardware inside. The transmitting circuits, as well as the digital antenna, are precisely tuned to the chunk of the CDMA band occupied by each phone's provider. These settings cannot be changed any more than you could 'reprogram' an FM radio to pick up shortwave.
1) Find a BIG envelope.
2) Take a piece of chewing gum and two paperclips, and...
3) ???
4) Pentium 4!
At least, that's how I surmise the people at Intel are doing it
Hmm, a mirror in the bathroom. Please, don't speak!
I've been waiting for this my entire life! Now those X(xx)-10 girls won't have anything to gloat about any more, and I'll feel better that I can't do anything of that sort myself with the camera!
Well, the Tacoma-Narrows Bridge collapse was hardly what I'd call a technical disaster. There was no technological, or mechanical failure of the bridge in any way. There was no fault, AFAIK, in it's engineering either. It was destroyed by a freakishly improbable random act of nature. Anyways, on the day it collapsed the winds of the sound just happened to blow at the exact frequency of the natural resonance of the bridge, causing it to resonate until its collapse.
In theory, this could happen to any bridge in America. Scary stuff, eh?
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"In second place........Halo!"
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Have you upgraded to the newest firmware? It skips a lot less. Also, while the Archos manuals do indeed prohibit changing the batteries, this is listed as a typo of sorts on their website; you can indeed change the batteries without voiding your warranty.
My player, which is pretty new, does still skip a little though. It's not much though, and it only seems to do it on a few tracks (not sure why). That's my only complaint with it.
You clearly have no clue about battery technology. Over the life of a standard 1.5v Alkaline battery, it will actually average 1.2v. only new alkaline batteries are 1.5v. The volts will drop as soon as it starts being used.
They average 1.2V. Ther START, however, at 1.5 volts and gradually work down to about 0.9V at their minimum useful lives, averaging at 1.2V ((1.5+0.9)/2). However, it only takes a few seconds of 6VDC to destroy a hard-drive.
Still, that's a good read. Thanks for the link.
I really don't know have any intention of getting into a flame war with you, but I'd be doing us both a disservice if I didn't point out the (IMHO) obvious about your player: to the right and left of the control panel are two small slots, exactly halfway down the player (next to your battery covers). Those tabs can be popped open with a screwdriver, an ordinary flathead.
Oh, and the running with standard 1.5V AA batteries would indeed ruin your player, because it would be supplying 6VDC to a 5VDC hard-drive, which would fry it like a cheap side of bacon. the 1.2V batteries supply 4.8 volts, which, while on the low side, is sitll acceptable to run the drive off of.
Some people....
There are a bunch of drawbacks with the Archos. First the idiots hardwired the batteries into the case. So even though the batteries are standard AA NiMh batteries you have to carry arround a screwdriver and void your warranty to change them. I get about 4 hours actual use from the things so I often want to change batteries in mid flight and I doubt my scrwdriver is compatible with the new security regulations.
You've obviously never owned an Archos player in your life, or you're dumber than you're letting on. I have an Archos JB6000, myself (which I love, by the way). First, the battery life, fully charged, is about 8 hours (or 9 if you don't push the buttons much).Second, the batteries are NOT hardwired into the case; they are covered by flaps on either side of the player which can be opened with a key, a screwdriver, or any other small pointed obejct. You do NOT have to open the case, nor does changing the batteries void your warranty, since you need to put them in in the first place.
It would be much better if Archos et al adopted a common standard form factor for a smallish LiIon battery. Nikon have already developed a camera battery in a form factor that matches one of the new alkaline battery form factors.
If you owned an Archos, you'd know that the batteries used are indeed standard, run-of-the-mill rechargeable 1.2V NiMH AA batteries; they can be replaced with Radioshack's off-the-shelf ones. And besides, I doubt you'd want to 'change batteries in mid flight', since you'd need to be carrying around charged NiMH batteries (which don't hold a charge for all that long, if not being used), because regular 1.5 volt batteries would destroy the player.
Do everybody a favor, and the next time you want to talk about something that you know nothing of, don't.
Mod me up!
Why do all of these karma-whores seem to think that hating a company equates to not buying their stuff? Last summer, when California was in the middle of their energy crisis (I'm a Bay-area res myself), did anybody stop using all electricity to spite PG&E and the energy providers? No. Did they still hate the companies? Possibly.
My point is that there is a HUGE difference between these random 'boycotts' of the MPAA, and actually pushing for change (which, IMO, won't be accomplished by these fickle boycotts). In my eyes, it's perfectly OK to use something you dislike, while still working to change it.
I think that TiVo's rate hike, that and the temporary lowering of the lifetime registration fee by $50, is intended to convince customers to spend the dough on a lifetime registration. If Joe Customer spends the money($150?) to register his TiVo for life NOW, then he'll end up still paying if he gets a new v2 TiVo, since the subscription is non-transferrable. Seems like a plot by TiVo to gain some extra funds.
If you guys think DDR isn't fast enough, just TRY to pass Paranoia on maniac mode... It's got more steps than a ladder to the moon. :D
Woah, you meant RAM?
Heh, you'll just have to watch episode 4 again to regain it.
The TiVo's are VERY easily modified, a factor not easily discounted. For the grand total of $150 (I got a deal on the HD), I got all the parts needed to upgrade my TiVo from a cheap 20hr model to a 105hr model. Say what you will about 'basic' recording quality (and I'd probably agree), but I can't complain about a TiVo that holds 30hr of 'best' quality, for the combined price for about $280.
Oh, and it's moronically easy to upgrade TiVo too... all you need to do is buy an IDE disk, plug it into your computer and boot a bootdisk, run a program, then take it out and pop it in TiVo! there's even an IDE cable ready for it inside.
AFAIK, it's pretty damn hard to upgrade the Replay TV's.
Well, Morpheus will let you download gigs of these so-called "Game Demoz" for free from multiple sources at the same time!
I don't know if I'd say they were being nice so much as they were worried. If they pissed the guy off, I've got a hunch that copies of the ROM would begin to 'appear' all across the internet.
*TSZST* "Ohh yeah, that's the stuff!"
Now, I don't know all that much C yet, but it seems to me that it might be possible to make a closed-source driver that compiled on various different kernel versions and achitechures. Maybe (again, I might not know what I'm talking about here) the company in question could release a binary library of the actual functions of the driver, and then provide source for a kernel module that called up the library to do the real functions. Thus, the secrecy would be preserved, but yet so would the portability. What do you think?