The one I just worked on was the HP Pavilion DV9000. I was 'upgrading' the customers Vista Home to XP Pro.
As for the guy who thinks this will break everything good about SATA (post about two messages up), he could always download the supporting drivers into XP after it's installed and happy. Still lots easier (and faster) than creating a custom CD.
just bought a "1TB External Hard Drive", formatted it and was delighted to find I had 920GB available. I love being sold products with accurate packaging. Imagine cars were sold like this? "Gas tank capacity: 50L", then you find out you can only put 42L in the tank..
I just bought a new ladder to clean my gutters. The big colorful bold-face signs all over it say "20' Ladder", which should be plenty long. After quite a bit of searching the sides of the ladder, I found the 2"x3" B&W sticker on the side that had product weight and dimensions including real height of a little less than 17' The ladder assumes a 5'10 person on the highest safe rung with an additional 12" reach when calculating it's 20' length.
So, yeah... lots of this going around. Difference with hard drives is that it's been going on since day one, and most anyone with enough of a clue to install their own hard drive should reasonably know this...
Perhaps I can start a lawsuit because the last batch of 2x4's I bought at the lumber store was actually NOT 2x4 ?
Thanks, that was a great read. Nice to see things like that in writing every once in a while. (instead of loose jumbled thoughts in my head). If had had some mod points, they would be yours.
One thing though... Seems like ANY percentage of rouge 'self replicating machines' can very quickly become a problem. But I suppose we'll just have to develop other robots to terminate them,eh?
$79 at Fry's for the Kworld 115 TV card. It does Analog, ATSC, and Digital Cable. Since I'm a Comcast customer, the digital channels it picks up are only the Basic cable channels. (But including the hi-def channels) Between that card and a firewire to my cable box, I've got all the channels, and two tuners. (1-1/2 tuners I suppose) Even on the Firewire I find some content like HBO/Showtime channels are blocked. That's about the only downside I've seen to MythTv, and it's really more of a downside to Comcast not playing nice with their signals.
Upside is my Myth box runs 1080p, and seems to do a great job of making lesser signals look pretty nice. When I'm tired of TV, browing the Interweb on a 42" LCD is pretty nice, too. (Does Tivo have Firefox, can it bring you naked women?)
The Video actually IS a lot better than the Gamecube though. Biggest difference there is probably that they have an entire disc to store graphics on, instead of the little mini-discs that CG had. Incremental difference, but I think it'll go a long way.
Have a PS/2, have an X-Box, mostly it's the Wii that gets played. (Played by my kids of course, I'm a busy adult with adult things to do. Places to see, People to do.)
>> Gravity doesn't obey Newton's laws on the very small scale (atomic)... > >What gives you that idea?
Quantum Gravity "the first quantum-mechanical corrections to graviton-graviton scattering and Newton's law of gravitation have been explicitly computed (although they are so astronomically small that we may never be able to measure them)"
Besides Dark Matter, isn't a change to the laws of gravity a bit more elegant solution to why galaxy's don't fly apart? Gravity doesn't obey Newton's laws on the very small scale (atomic), so why should they be expected to on the very large scale (galactic)?
Every time I see this stuff I'm always curious if there is a dark matter explanation of why Voyager is slowing down more than Newtonian gravity would predict. If not, is some physicist going to come up with some more imaginary unsee-able stuff to explain that away, too?
Great article, but WHICH BANKS are the problem? I'd love to complain to my bank if it is guilty of these lapses, but how would I know?
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What jobs were the Cent servers doing? How well did they integrate into Windows Active Directory? I sometimes think about adding some Linux machines to Windows networks, but worry about passing security back and forth.
The Impact on the environment is in processing/refining materials to get to the desired end product. Recycle all of the silicon you want. You're still making a heck of an impact turning raw materials into a purified silicon wafer. Same goes with any highly processed item. Energy into fabrication of materials = harm to the environment in general... I think this is what he meant by impact from the specialized metals in these caps.
I understand the Russians get Millions to launch him there, but we spent quite a bit of our cash to build the station. Do we get anything for hosting him for the time he's up there?
Did they provide gene therapy to the mice which then gained color vision, or did they alter the mice before birth? Is it possible to insert genes into an adult organism and permanently change their DNA structure?
Does anyone know anything about this, besides it's the same sort of thing we've been reading about for years. (Dissolving Hydrogen into another substance then realsing it at will).
Is there something different here? What materials are they using. Is 9% actually a GOOD number?
Yes, that's kind of the problem it's facing seeing as there no no patent possibilities, therefore no funding to run the clinical trials... Where are your charity dollars now?
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The one I just worked on was the HP Pavilion DV9000. I was 'upgrading' the customers Vista Home to XP Pro.
As for the guy who thinks this will break everything good about SATA (post about two messages up), he could always download the supporting drivers into XP after it's installed and happy. Still lots easier (and faster) than creating a custom CD.
You can go into BIOS on the HP laptops, and set SATA up for standard mode. Then XP install will see it.
3 second fix.
just bought a "1TB External Hard Drive", formatted it and was delighted to find I had 920GB available.
I love being sold products with accurate packaging.
Imagine cars were sold like this? "Gas tank capacity: 50L", then you find out you can only put 42L in the tank..
I just bought a new ladder to clean my gutters.
The big colorful bold-face signs all over it say "20' Ladder", which should be plenty long.
After quite a bit of searching the sides of the ladder, I found the 2"x3" B&W sticker on the side that had product weight and dimensions including real height of a little less than 17'
The ladder assumes a 5'10 person on the highest safe rung with an additional 12" reach when calculating it's 20' length.
So, yeah... lots of this going around. Difference with hard drives is that it's been going on since day one, and most anyone with enough of a clue to install their own hard drive should reasonably know this...
Perhaps I can start a lawsuit because the last batch of 2x4's I bought at the lumber store was actually NOT 2x4 ?
Thanks, that was a great read. Nice to see things like that in writing every once in a while. (instead of loose jumbled thoughts in my head).
,eh?
If had had some mod points, they would be yours.
One thing though... Seems like ANY percentage of rouge 'self replicating machines' can very quickly become a problem. But I suppose we'll just have to develop other robots to terminate them
Even an easier way to remember that photons have mass:
-Gravitational_Lensing-
(Astronomers are using it all the time these days)
My $2.44 transfered perfectly. Woo Hoo!
DVI has no audio signal, though.
$79 at Fry's for the Kworld 115 TV card. It does Analog, ATSC, and Digital Cable.
Since I'm a Comcast customer, the digital channels it picks up are only the Basic cable channels. (But including the hi-def channels)
Between that card and a firewire to my cable box, I've got all the channels, and two tuners. (1-1/2 tuners I suppose)
Even on the Firewire I find some content like HBO/Showtime channels are blocked. That's about the only downside I've seen to MythTv, and it's really more of a downside to Comcast not playing nice with their signals.
Upside is my Myth box runs 1080p, and seems to do a great job of making lesser signals look pretty nice. When I'm tired of TV, browing the Interweb on a 42" LCD is pretty nice, too. (Does Tivo have Firefox, can it bring you naked women?)
The Video actually IS a lot better than the Gamecube though. Biggest difference there is probably that they have an entire disc to store graphics on, instead of the little mini-discs that CG had. Incremental difference, but I think it'll go a long way.
Have a PS/2, have an X-Box, mostly it's the Wii that gets played. (Played by my kids of course, I'm a busy adult with adult things to do. Places to see, People to do.)
>> Gravity doesn't obey Newton's laws on the very small scale (atomic)...
>
>What gives you that idea?
Quantum Gravity
"the first quantum-mechanical corrections to graviton-graviton scattering and Newton's law of gravitation have been explicitly computed (although they are so astronomically small that we may never be able to measure them)"
Besides Dark Matter, isn't a change to the laws of gravity a bit more elegant solution to why galaxy's don't fly apart? Gravity doesn't obey Newton's laws on the very small scale (atomic), so why should they be expected to on the very large scale (galactic)?
Every time I see this stuff I'm always curious if there is a dark matter explanation of why Voyager is slowing down more than Newtonian gravity would predict. If not, is some physicist going to come up with some more imaginary unsee-able stuff to explain that away, too?
Sure did... 30 seconds elapsed without a glimpse of revelation.
Thanks for your input though.
Great article, but WHICH BANKS are the problem?
I'd love to complain to my bank if it is guilty of these lapses, but how would I know?
What jobs were the Cent servers doing? How well did they integrate into Windows Active Directory?
I sometimes think about adding some Linux machines to Windows networks, but worry about passing security back and forth.
The Impact on the environment is in processing/refining materials to get to the desired end product.
Recycle all of the silicon you want. You're still making a heck of an impact turning raw materials into a purified silicon wafer. Same goes with any highly processed item. Energy into fabrication of materials = harm to the environment in general... I think this is what he meant by impact from the specialized metals in these caps.
It's OK. Tiger Woods will keep me going until their 9-12 month development cycle is over....
Only if you count the 15 that Beve Stalmer bought
I understand the Russians get Millions to launch him there, but we spent quite a bit of our cash to build the station. Do we get anything for hosting him for the time he's up there?
Did they provide gene therapy to the mice which then gained color vision, or did they alter the mice before birth? Is it possible to insert genes into an adult organism and permanently change their DNA structure?
Does anyone know anything about this, besides it's the same sort of thing we've been reading about for years. (Dissolving Hydrogen into another substance then realsing it at will).
Is there something different here? What materials are they using. Is 9% actually a GOOD number?
Yes, that's kind of the problem it's facing seeing as there no no patent possibilities, therefore no funding to run the clinical trials...
Where are your charity dollars now?
Didn't they already cure cancer with dichloroacetate? http://www.wanderings.net/notebook/Main/CheapSafeD rugKillsMostCancers/
They are going a long ways out of their way to find patentable treatments that are more profitable.
"My new computer's got the clocks; it rocks, but it was obsolete before I opened the box"
Wouldn't IQ 200 be Twice as smart as average, IQ 50 be half as smart as average?
Then the opposite of 180 would be appx 55-60...?
"Knowledge Knot"
(That's what a kid in grade school called it.)