If the conduit is mostly straight, yes. If, however, you have to do a 90 angle... fish tape may work, then again, it may be a huge pain in the ass. Pulling is always easier than pushing.
hear hear... well said. As for string... string dessicates. It will become brittle over time. Just use plain old insulated wire, instead.
Also, keep in mind the fact that insects and rodents can't seem to resist those tasty tasty wire casings. There may come a time when some segments fail inexplicably.
In the bygone halycon days of the internet, there was no problem in saying, "Okay, suckers, we're switching over at midnight, no ifs, ands, or buts. Anyone not adopting the new protocol will be screwed." (ie, the universal adoption of tcp/ip in 1982 and the debut of the dns system in 1983). That worked then because there weren't millions of people in every country depending of this thing for their livelihood. Alas, you can't do that anymore. Things will break. LOTS of things will break if you tried that now. Sure, it might be possible to coordinate an effort to completely switch everyone over (for the sake of argument; i don't actually believe this), but can we afford the days, weeks, or months of instability while everyone in the world tries to cope with ironing out the wrinkles introduced by a forced, non-compatible upgrade?
And don't forget... the whole point of the internet in the first place was to connect very many disparate networks, so that they could all communicate with each other even if they didn't use the same hardware or protocols. There must be a certain degree of compatibility in any replacement.
A better solution than turning your resolution down, is to turn your resolution up, and increase the default sizes of all your gui stuff (display fonts, text zooming, icon sizes, menu width, etc, etc), turn on AA, and increase your refresh rate, as has already been said.
My mother is a text editor (no, really... she edits medical texts), and for years she suffered from the eye strain bit, with the whole 800x600 resolution crap, cause that made everything bigger. I helped her upgrade last year to an LCD with a proper refresh, 1280x1024, and fixed all the font sizes and layouts, etc etc. She saw immediate improvement in ease of use.
Low resolution introducies jaggies, which just worsens the eye-strain. (in my experience)
Ah, there you go. Thank you for clarifying your points. I am more likely to agree with you based on that.
Each half hour of TV usually conatins 8 minutes of ads (thank you, trivial pursuit). That's 25% right there. Yes, i think that's excessive (but remember, broadcast tv is free).
As for the whole free-will thing that i probably shouldn't have brought up... I do agree that a constant deluge of glitz and glam influences a consumer-oriented mind. However, saying that that is the sole cause for a materialistic outlook is not accurate, and is akin to saying that living in an inner-city region is the sole cause for higher crime rates.
Interesting topic to explore, but there are some issues i think you need to address.
"80 percent of television is devoted to commercials and stories about violence and war." : Lumping together a History Channel documentary about WWII along with the latest infomercial about Ron Popeil's juicer/dehydrater/rehydrater doesn't seem fair or accurate.
As for 0.7% of airtime for public service announcements... that averages 10 minutes a day. Frankly, when I watch tv, I don't see ANY public service announcements, unless you count the crawl detailing the latest winter storm advisory. At any rate, I get the feeling that 10 minutes a day might be adequate air time to announce any public emergency information.
As for 250 billion hours in front of the TV annually... for 250 million people in the US (that's an outdated figure), that's 1000 hours a year. About 2.75 hours a day per person. Seems reasonable to me.
Additionally, commercials don't cause materialism. People still have free will, mind you. The TV isn't that bad.
That should read, "Go to your nearest independant place near a college campus" for cheap, strung-out coffee and obnoxious, pretentious patrons.
Look at me, mama! I'm a college boy now! I drink 'expresso' with the girlies! w00t!
If you want REALLY good coffee, get in your car... go out on the highway... drive to the middle of nowhere and stop at the dirtiest, dingiest truck stop you can find. When coffee is a neccessity for your livelihood and personal safety , you can be damn sure they'll do it right.
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Statistically significant != majority
a majority is anything greater that 50%.
statistically significant varies depending on your analysis; could be as little as 1% or less, or maybe clocks in at 10%.
For example, if a million people bought the muvo2, and 1% were scratching it for the storage hack, that's 10,000 people right there. At 200$ a pop... i'd call that significant.
Don't knock NNTP... if there's one thing I absolutely HATE about blogs, news sites, forums in general, it's the absolutely shitty implementation of the board layout. (slashdot aside, na klar) WHERE ARE MY THREADS????? And this 'private message' shit? Send me a damned e-mail, goofus.
I will now return to a.a.v.f.f.f and alt.flame. Thank you.
Maybe because that's e-mail? You can hardly call it an instant message, anymore... and the concept of downloading missives left at your electronic address by others sounds oddly familiar...
In the investors' telecast this morning, darl pronounced it as both "S-C-O" and "SKO". Also, there was some guy i couldn't identify who kept calling darl "daarrell."
Linux version.01 was launched in September 1991. (timeline) Try 12.5 years.
Rather, if you mean the relative amount of time it seems that I've been thrashing around in the 'quirkiness' (to be polite) that is the linux desktop... then I think you've underestimated that figure by a few decades.
Innocent until proven guilty, my friend. If you want to refute them, post evidence. Otherwise, you're doing the same thing that they are.
I also vehemently profess, that Jesus was a woman, smoked pot, and lived to bear 18 children, the bloodlines of which are present in all of our governments' heads.
People believe that, too. I swear, it's true. Don't belive me? Look it up yourself.
It's the oldest trick in the book... (including the Bible). Say something, offer no proof.
Yeah, but they've been dicking the fans around for ages about this. It wasn't so much a question of if ("You know, we're doing okay these days... we don't really need the billion dollars the dvd box set will bring in") as of when ("Really, we should have released these by now. Who's going to be fired?") and how often ("Three different sets? Okay, I take it back... you're not fired, you're promoted.")
If bandwidth is the issue, then selective rate limiting is probably your only sane option. And I'm not talking about quashing speeds to 3K/s. It sounds like you want to be reasonable, and that's good; the students will respect you more, and will be less likely to try to overthrow their fascist IT overlords.
If piracy is the issue, (and it sounds from your notes like it is), there really is nothing you can do about it except block those ports. Even if you provide them with free & legal file-trading resources, the piracy will still continue.
And remember: no matter what you do, there will always be some smart stundent who finds a way around it.
You can do whatever you want with the image of a public figure, as long as it's clearly presented as 'not true'. AND if it is indeed actually an authentic picture, the subject has little grounds for protest, and should have thought better about molesting that donkey...
That said, and even tho the Supreme Court has ruled on this, you still have to take into consideration copyright, fair use, and legal age laws.
Of course, if you photoshopped the president riding a train crossing a bridge in front of a nuclear power plant, may heaven have mercy on you.
'Updating' to a different distro is bad. I don't think it'd even work.
Even upgrading in the same distro is generally not a good idea. I remember, each of my transitions between Redhat 5->6->7->8->9 were nightmares. I just had to hose the system every time and start over, things got left in a nigh unusable mess due to the upgrades. (Although I would always at least try the upgrade option.)
Someone please correct me if this is no longer the case. I dumped RH last year.
This is news for the reason that people find it interesting.
Why is your comment insightful? If things have always been this way (for 15 years), then obviously everyone knows this. You should obviously have been modded as -1 Redundant.
Why did you bother even reading and commenting if it doesn't interest you?
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If the conduit is mostly straight, yes. If, however, you have to do a 90 angle
hear hear ... well said. As for string ... string dessicates. It will become brittle over time. Just use plain old insulated wire, instead.
Also, keep in mind the fact that insects and rodents can't seem to resist those tasty tasty wire casings. There may come a time when some segments fail inexplicably.
In the bygone halycon days of the internet, there was no problem in saying, "Okay, suckers, we're switching over at midnight, no ifs, ands, or buts. Anyone not adopting the new protocol will be screwed." (ie, the universal adoption of tcp/ip in 1982 and the debut of the dns system in 1983). That worked then because there weren't millions of people in every country depending of this thing for their livelihood. Alas, you can't do that anymore. Things will break. LOTS of things will break if you tried that now. Sure, it might be possible to coordinate an effort to completely switch everyone over (for the sake of argument; i don't actually believe this), but can we afford the days, weeks, or months of instability while everyone in the world tries to cope with ironing out the wrinkles introduced by a forced, non-compatible upgrade?
... the whole point of the internet in the first place was to connect very many disparate networks, so that they could all communicate with each other even if they didn't use the same hardware or protocols. There must be a certain degree of compatibility in any replacement.
And don't forget
A better solution than turning your resolution down, is to turn your resolution up, and increase the default sizes of all your gui stuff (display fonts, text zooming, icon sizes, menu width, etc, etc), turn on AA, and increase your refresh rate, as has already been said.
... she edits medical texts), and for years she suffered from the eye strain bit, with the whole 800x600 resolution crap, cause that made everything bigger. I helped her upgrade last year to an LCD with a proper refresh, 1280x1024, and fixed all the font sizes and layouts, etc etc. She saw immediate improvement in ease of use.
My mother is a text editor (no, really
Low resolution introducies jaggies, which just worsens the eye-strain. (in my experience)
Ah, there you go. Thank you for clarifying your points. I am more likely to agree with you based on that.
... I do agree that a constant deluge of glitz and glam influences a consumer-oriented mind. However, saying that that is the sole cause for a materialistic outlook is not accurate, and is akin to saying that living in an inner-city region is the sole cause for higher crime rates.
Each half hour of TV usually conatins 8 minutes of ads (thank you, trivial pursuit). That's 25% right there. Yes, i think that's excessive (but remember, broadcast tv is free).
As for the whole free-will thing that i probably shouldn't have brought up
And now we are completely off topic.
Interesting topic to explore, but there are some issues i think you need to address.
... that averages 10 minutes a day. Frankly, when I watch tv, I don't see ANY public service announcements, unless you count the crawl detailing the latest winter storm advisory. At any rate, I get the feeling that 10 minutes a day might be adequate air time to announce any public emergency information.
... for 250 million people in the US (that's an outdated figure), that's 1000 hours a year. About 2.75 hours a day per person. Seems reasonable to me.
"80 percent of television is devoted to commercials and stories about violence and war." : Lumping together a History Channel documentary about WWII along with the latest infomercial about Ron Popeil's juicer/dehydrater/rehydrater doesn't seem fair or accurate.
As for 0.7% of airtime for public service announcements
As for 250 billion hours in front of the TV annually
Additionally, commercials don't cause materialism. People still have free will, mind you. The TV isn't that bad.
That should read, "Go to your nearest independant place near a college campus" for cheap, strung-out coffee and obnoxious, pretentious patrons.
... go out on the highway ... drive to the middle of nowhere and stop at the dirtiest, dingiest truck stop you can find. When coffee is a neccessity for your livelihood and personal safety , you can be damn sure they'll do it right.
Look at me, mama! I'm a college boy now! I drink 'expresso' with the girlies! w00t!
If you want REALLY good coffee, get in your car
Statistically significant != majority
a majority is anything greater that 50%.
statistically significant varies depending on your analysis; could be as little as 1% or less, or maybe clocks in at 10%.
For example, if a million people bought the muvo2, and 1% were scratching it for the storage hack, that's 10,000 people right there. At 200$ a pop
Don't knock NNTP ... if there's one thing I absolutely HATE about blogs, news sites, forums in general, it's the absolutely shitty implementation of the board layout. (slashdot aside, na klar) WHERE ARE MY THREADS????? And this 'private message' shit? Send me a damned e-mail, goofus.
I will now return to a.a.v.f.f.f and alt.flame. Thank you.
That's called a Google Bomb, and is an actual concerted effort to raise results on google. Not stealing.
Maybe because that's e-mail? You can hardly call it an instant message, anymore
In the investors' telecast this morning, darl pronounced it as both "S-C-O" and "SKO". Also, there was some guy i couldn't identify who kept calling darl "daarrell."
Linux version .01 was launched in September 1991. (timeline) Try 12.5 years.
... then I think you've underestimated that figure by a few decades.
Rather, if you mean the relative amount of time it seems that I've been thrashing around in the 'quirkiness' (to be polite) that is the linux desktop
Innocent until proven guilty, my friend. If you want to refute them, post evidence. Otherwise, you're doing the same thing that they are.
... (including the Bible). Say something, offer no proof.
I also vehemently profess, that Jesus was a woman, smoked pot, and lived to bear 18 children, the bloodlines of which are present in all of our governments' heads.
People believe that, too. I swear, it's true. Don't belive me? Look it up yourself.
It's the oldest trick in the book
Right. Because the government has a great track record of respecting the environment and listening to scientists.
/and yes, i'm mostly joking. mostly.
If it is the sort of "mars can support life" thing, you can expect SimMars style terraforming to begin any minute now.
If it has ANYTHING to do with money (the manufacture of), you can bet the gov't will be all over that like stink on shit.
Yeah, but they've been dicking the fans around for ages about this. It wasn't so much a question of if ("You know, we're doing okay these days ... we don't really need the billion dollars the dvd box set will bring in") as of when ("Really, we should have released these by now. Who's going to be fired?") and how often ("Three different sets? Okay, I take it back ... you're not fired, you're promoted.")
mp3 in not unrestricted. You have to license it and pay royalties. See here.
If bandwidth is the issue, then selective rate limiting is probably your only sane option. And I'm not talking about quashing speeds to 3K/s. It sounds like you want to be reasonable, and that's good; the students will respect you more, and will be less likely to try to overthrow their fascist IT overlords.
If piracy is the issue, (and it sounds from your notes like it is), there really is nothing you can do about it except block those ports. Even if you provide them with free & legal file-trading resources, the piracy will still continue.
And remember: no matter what you do, there will always be some smart stundent who finds a way around it.
You can do whatever you want with the image of a public figure, as long as it's clearly presented as 'not true'. AND if it is indeed actually an authentic picture, the subject has little grounds for protest, and should have thought better about molesting that donkey ...
That said, and even tho the Supreme Court has ruled on this, you still have to take into consideration copyright, fair use, and legal age laws.
Of course, if you photoshopped the president riding a train crossing a bridge in front of a nuclear power plant, may heaven have mercy on you.
'Updating' to a different distro is bad. I don't think it'd even work.
Even upgrading in the same distro is generally not a good idea. I remember, each of my transitions between Redhat 5->6->7->8->9 were nightmares. I just had to hose the system every time and start over, things got left in a nigh unusable mess due to the upgrades. (Although I would always at least try the upgrade option.)
Someone please correct me if this is no longer the case. I dumped RH last year.
It tastes better that way, and yes.
This is news for the reason that people find it interesting.
Why is your comment insightful? If things have always been this way (for 15 years), then obviously everyone knows this. You should obviously have been modded as -1 Redundant.
Why did you bother even reading and commenting if it doesn't interest you?
How is the exploitation of incompetence in any way clever?
You don't become a hero by beating up on those weaker than yourself.
And a sizeable percentage of your 14-cent CD-Rs will go bad within a year.
I learned my lesson with uber-discount blanks. There's a reason why they couldn't sell them at higher prices.
It's baseball idiom. You are naturally both correct.
Now kiss and make up.
And in the words of the immortal yogi bera, "You can observe a lot by watching."