Oh so you have one of those fancy-pants hard drives that doesn't have a motor in it then? or your current hd cooler fans don't have motors?:)
Seriously, I would imagine that they must have dealt with that problem, maybe the mag field is very low, and I would suspect that hd itself has magnetic sheilding - there's so many sources of magnetics already inside your box, I doubt these would make any difference... but I could be wrong:)
These sound great, I hope that the magnetic motors will improve the lifetime of fans. It sounds like they should be more reliable, but I'm no mechanical engineerI'm sick of having to replace some fan or another every few months because the bearings start wearing and make the fan really loud.
I'm really looking forward to getting hold of these.
Hmmn, auto-locking after inactivity? Not sure how you expect this to work - if you want it to prevent buttons being pressed when it's in your pocket, well, it's not going to be inactive if the buttons keep getting pressed...
Like the ac said, if you have a Nokia, you can lock the keypad with the menu * combination. You don't have to unlock it to take a call, just to make one. I always hit Menu/* ater making a call, it's second nature now,a nd it only takes a second:)
the 128k service is only 15 quid a month - In my case, I had a second phone line and a demon account. The cost of both of those was more than the 24 quid I pay for the 512 service - so I saved money by getting a 10x faster service!
NTL is excellent for braodband. I'm using the 512k service and consistantly get >=60kps transfer rates, it's dhcp but effectivly static - I've had the same ip address since day 1. I've had 10 minutes of downtime in the 4 months I've been using it and I see none of the webcache problems you report. I've had to call tech support twice and both times found them helpful (not a premium rate number either). They're also launching a 1MBit service this month. I have nothing but praise for NTL broadband - and no, I don't work for them:)
Nope. I work next door to the building that has the cell antenna on it. There's just one little spot on the train line that I can't get a signal, that lasts for about 30 seconds so I can live with that.
Thanks for the excellent explanation, now increased battery life and smaller power output I would defineitly go for! As to phone size, they're already way too small for a lot of people (including my wife) - my llast phone was the Motorola v3688 which was tiny (but crap battery life) and now they're making them even smaller - unless you want to walk around with a headset/mic all day long, most curreny phones are too small.
My phone is already tiny enough - but maybe there's mileage in reducing the size of integrated pda/phone type devices - but even with those the limit is the screen size, you can't make that too small.
Possibly when we get truly wearable computers where the image is projected directly onto your retina (which would be really cool for me as I'm already a spectacle wearer) and the cpu etc is a little box in your pocket, then I can understand how it would be beneficial.
interesting points - but here in the uk, there is already an awful lot of overlap between cells and we're almost at 100 % coverage - I guess they could tear down some cells to save on running costs.
We have cable tv so the roof analagy doesn't apply to me but I take your point:)
Yes I am, I'm in the UK where we have 4 excellent GSM networks, each with over 99 % coverage of the UK. I understand the situation in the rest of Europe is pretty much the same.
My Nokia 3330 (and I believe most nokias) already doesn't have an external antenna, so what's the big deal? Perhaps the antenna would effectivly be larger but again, I don't see a great deal of point in that, it's very rare that I get less than about 75% signal strength already, and there's more cells going up all the time.
Check your offcie supplys store, I bought one a couple of weeks ago from viking direct on the uk, but it's not listed on their website, and yes it is the new flat projection as shown in the bbc article. It's awesome.
This is so cool, although the guys are obviously not that great at darts strategy - look at the stas for the doubles. Double 20 is at the top as expected but double 16 is way down the bottom. Watch the pros play, they will always try and leave themselves double 20 or double 16 to finish. The logic should be obvious to most slashdotters - you can keep splitting the double 16 all the way down to double one if you miss the double and hot the single. Double 1 is the next highest double in the stats so maybe they are doing tjis, but just not very good at getting the doubles!!!
So, when we've run out of fossil fuels and each nation has their orbiting lasers up there generating H2, wouldn't it be incredibly easy for a hostile nation to take out another Nation or Nation's energy source? A few quick zaps and bamb! The hydorgen lasers are knocked out of alignement or disabled and ooops - no power! - and no quick and easy way to restore the power either.
Those lasers won't be very easy to defend, unlike oilfields and power stations. Well, ok, you can drop a few nukes to take out the powerstations but the country woulnd't be habitable afterwards.
It seems to me that relying on this tech for power makes you a hell of a lot more vunerable.
Hmmmn Interesting - it has me working in Greece with an 80 % certainty, and living in Netherlands witha 0% certainty. I'm actually in the UK with 100% certainty!
How about just storing the fact that a user has read a comment. This would take a lot less data - of those 2 million users, how many log in on any one day? 1 %? less? I dunno - and of those that do, how many read every story ? I probably am interested in half the articles. So, assuming 1% users log in on any one day and read 1/2 the comments - 9 billion rows drops to 45 million rows. Hmmmm. Still a lot, but I dunno what the horsepower of slashdot's databases are, or if they have enough processing power to check comment by comment if a row for this user exists - that would slow retrieval down a bit. But still, maybe it's do-able? Especially if data for any one user is only retained for say, 24 hours...
Thanks for taking the time to write, I'd never thought of the expression "steep learning curve" in a mathematical sense before, I used it as most people seem to - steep implying "hard to climb". You're right though!
I do think that you have to be motivated to learn the intricasies of vi, as you say, the operational threshold is low and a lot of coders I've come across get by with the basic dozen commands they learn in the first couple of days in using vi and never invest the time in learning the more powerful commands. I had a spell where I determined to learn one new vi command a day. It's not often I have to "man vi" these days!
I have used Vi for years - I dodn't want to invest time in emacs because I'm a short term contractor and move from site to site a lot. You can always gurantee that vi or vim will be installed, but not many sites I've worked at have emacs - and were not willing to install emacs.
Vi is very very powerful, but it does have a steep learning curve. However, if you're willing to invest the time to become proficient, you probably will use it as editor of choice on unix systems. There's stuff you can do in vi that is very hard to do in other editors (with the possible exception of emacs:) )
Oh, and it'a actually SHIFT ZZ (or:wq ) to save and exit...
... and you can click fast enough on the faces/images so no-one can remember which ones you clicked on. At least on real user you click on your 5 faces sequentially. I can click through the 5 faces in less than a second per face, about 3 or 4 seconds total. Not enough time for someone unfamiliar with my faces to recognize them - I've tried it!
If you try the realuser faces system, you will see that you have to click one face out of nine and repeat that 4 times. On each grid, the face is in a different position each time. I can click through them fast enough so anyone watching over my shoulder wouldn't remember the faces - I'm familiar with my five faces, they aren't. It's very hard to remember an unfamiliar face, the training/demo on realuser takes a while but when you're familiar enough with the faces, you can click through them very rapidly. Rapidly enough to prevent anyone watching to remember them for next time.
No, with the realuser faces system, you have to click on 1 face out of a grid of 9 and then repeat a further 4 times. If you complete the sequence of 5 clicks incorrectly three times in a row, you're locked out completely for 5 minutes. Not sure what happens if you get it wrong after the 5 minute wait, I suspect that the account you're trying to log into will be locked completely.
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Seriously, I would imagine that they must have dealt with that problem, maybe the mag field is very low, and I would suspect that hd itself has magnetic sheilding - there's so many sources of magnetics already inside your box, I doubt these would make any difference... but I could be wrong :)
I'm really looking forward to getting hold of these.
Umm no, it was in Israel. DMCA doesn't apply...
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valid googlewhacks have to be unquoted word searches - otherwise it's just too easy :) Read the rules on the gw page...
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Like the ac said, if you have a Nokia, you can lock the keypad with the menu * combination. You don't have to unlock it to take a call, just to make one. I always hit Menu/* ater making a call, it's second nature now,a nd it only takes a second :)
the 128k service is only 15 quid a month - In my case, I had a second phone line and a demon account. The cost of both of those was more than the 24 quid I pay for the 512 service - so I saved money by getting a 10x faster service!
NTL is excellent for braodband. I'm using the 512k service and consistantly get >=60kps transfer rates, it's dhcp but effectivly static - I've had the same ip address since day 1. I've had 10 minutes of downtime in the 4 months I've been using it and I see none of the webcache problems you report. I've had to call tech support twice and both times found them helpful (not a premium rate number either). They're also launching a 1MBit service this month. I have nothing but praise for NTL broadband - and no, I don't work for them :)
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Nope. I work next door to the building that has the cell antenna on it. There's just one little spot on the train line that I can't get a signal, that lasts for about 30 seconds so I can live with that.
Thanks for the excellent explanation, now increased battery life and smaller power output I would defineitly go for! As to phone size, they're already way too small for a lot of people (including my wife) - my llast phone was the Motorola v3688 which was tiny (but crap battery life) and now they're making them even smaller - unless you want to walk around with a headset/mic all day long, most curreny phones are too small.
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Possibly when we get truly wearable computers where the image is projected directly onto your retina (which would be really cool for me as I'm already a spectacle wearer) and the cpu etc is a little box in your pocket, then I can understand how it would be beneficial.
We have cable tv so the roof analagy doesn't apply to me but I take your point :)
Yes I am, I'm in the UK where we have 4 excellent GSM networks, each with over 99 % coverage of the UK. I understand the situation in the rest of Europe is pretty much the same.
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My Nokia 3330 (and I believe most nokias) already doesn't have an external antenna, so what's the big deal? Perhaps the antenna would effectivly be larger but again, I don't see a great deal of point in that, it's very rare that I get less than about 75% signal strength already, and there's more cells going up all the time.
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Check your offcie supplys store, I bought one a couple of weeks ago from viking direct on the uk, but it's not listed on their website, and yes it is the new flat projection as shown in the bbc article. It's awesome.
This is so cool, although the guys are obviously not that great at darts strategy - look at the stas for the doubles. Double 20 is at the top as expected but double 16 is way down the bottom. Watch the pros play, they will always try and leave themselves double 20 or double 16 to finish. The logic should be obvious to most slashdotters - you can keep splitting the double 16 all the way down to double one if you miss the double and hot the single. Double 1 is the next highest double in the stats so maybe they are doing tjis, but just not very good at getting the doubles!!!
Disk 1, Episode 1 - special features, Decontamination Gel - Uncut....
Now THAT would get my $$$
Those lasers won't be very easy to defend, unlike oilfields and power stations. Well, ok, you can drop a few nukes to take out the powerstations but the country woulnd't be habitable afterwards.
It seems to me that relying on this tech for power makes you a hell of a lot more vunerable.
Hmmmn Interesting - it has me working in Greece with an 80 % certainty, and living in Netherlands witha 0% certainty. I'm actually in the UK with 100% certainty!
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How about just storing the fact that a user has read a comment. This would take a lot less data - of those 2 million users, how many log in on any one day? 1 %? less? I dunno - and of those that do, how many read every story ? I probably am interested in half the articles. So, assuming 1% users log in on any one day and read 1/2 the comments - 9 billion rows drops to 45 million rows. Hmmmm. Still a lot, but I dunno what the horsepower of slashdot's databases are, or if they have enough processing power to check comment by comment if a row for this user exists - that would slow retrieval down a bit. But still, maybe it's do-able? Especially if data for any one user is only retained for say, 24 hours...
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I do think that you have to be motivated to learn the intricasies of vi, as you say, the operational threshold is low and a lot of coders I've come across get by with the basic dozen commands they learn in the first couple of days in using vi and never invest the time in learning the more powerful commands. I had a spell where I determined to learn one new vi command a day. It's not often I have to "man vi" these days!
Vi is very very powerful, but it does have a steep learning curve. However, if you're willing to invest the time to become proficient, you probably will use it as editor of choice on unix systems. There's stuff you can do in vi that is very hard to do in other editors (with the possible exception of emacs :) )
Oh, and it'a actually SHIFT ZZ (or :wq ) to save and exit...
You're probably thinking of real user
If you try the realuser faces system, you will see that you have to click one face out of nine and repeat that 4 times. On each grid, the face is in a different position each time. I can click through them fast enough so anyone watching over my shoulder wouldn't remember the faces - I'm familiar with my five faces, they aren't. It's very hard to remember an unfamiliar face, the training/demo on realuser takes a while but when you're familiar enough with the faces, you can click through them very rapidly. Rapidly enough to prevent anyone watching to remember them for next time.
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No, with the realuser faces system, you have to click on 1 face out of a grid of 9 and then repeat a further 4 times. If you complete the sequence of 5 clicks incorrectly three times in a row, you're locked out completely for 5 minutes. Not sure what happens if you get it wrong after the 5 minute wait, I suspect that the account you're trying to log into will be locked completely.