Then I guess we could argue matters of degree: do we get bigger benefit from space-related research or, say, stem-cell research, investing in social programs or basic education.
And I'd have to say 'I don't know, so let's find a way to invest in all of them, and hopefully reduce the need for investment in the digging ditches/filling them in, etc.'
Hm, I seem to recollect calculating and verifying fields with check digits in the 70s, regardless of the expense of the bits (bit expensive?), but I haven't seen it for years.
Your argument would seem to imply that we should be seeing it more often...
Well, I suppose several points have been made here:
- my sense of humour is apparently opague to you. - I have had no viruses, despite not running an AV suite on Windows (I do have an SMC router/firewall, though). - if you turn a number of features off, is it entirely surprising that the load on your system is reduced?
It was meant to be light-hearted, but you turned it cold-hearted, apparently due to your mastery of cranial-rectal insertion techniques.
Further, since almost every bug around is immune to it until we stop using it for a couple decades or more, there are reasons to restrict prescribing it to qualified professionals. It can be dangerous and it is rarely useful. Other members are still dangerous, but for those not allergic may still be useful (although other penicillin-like drugs have fallen or are falling to resistant strains).
Odd. My doctor still prescribes it. Do you have a credible source for your claims of 'almost every bug... is resistant' and 'rarely useful'? Or are you just upset that your Mother is allergic to it? "I've told you a million times not to exaggerate."
My wife and her Mother are allergic to it, too, BTW.
Clearly, I'm a novice in this area, otherwise it would be obvious to me, too. I checked out this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-sideband_modulation but I can't say I'm much the wiser on the reason, or where to go next. Got any useful references that might help?
It would seem to me that if the picture is of pretty good quality, then the sound should be too. Is my expectation of 'pretty good' set too high for the audio, then? Audio quality degrades much faster than video quality when compressed/sent from space?
When I shoot video on my camera, the sound is relatively crystal-clear, and is a small portion of the total size of the resulting video file. So, how come the audio from the space station/space shuttle sounds so lo-fi, yet the pictures are quite noiseless, full-colour?
I think not. Can anyone explain why we saw colour pictures in some fidelity, yet the sound was worse than CB quality? And still is, even from the latest projects?
Save power on your overclocked PC by not overclocking it.
Also, reducing the power consumption of your PC will reduce the power consumption of your PC by JiggaWatts per Fortnight.
Conclusion: A meaningful way to save power/money is: Turn off your computer at the power strip, and go out for a conditioning bike-ride, and be ready to bike-commute. Certainly, do not waste your time using your computer to complain about not being able to read the article.
> our antiquated Sun servers run almost 6 figures a year between software and hardware support.
Well, the problem is that they are antiquated, probably, and therefore cost significantly more to support than new products. Sun doesn't want to continue manufacturing replacement parts for old designs, so they raise the price as the equipment ages.
It's not just Sun that has this pricing strategy on hw & sw support, either.
Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion.
My house should have between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdown for each configuration so that I can arbitrarily pick one.
Keep in mind that the house I ultimately choose must cost less than the one I am currently living in. Make sure, however, that you correct all the deficiencies that exist in my current house (the floor of my kitchen vibrates when I walk across it, and the walls don't have nearly enough insulation in them).
As you design, also keep in mind that I want to keep yearly maintenance costs as low as possible. This should mean the incorporation of extra-cost features like aluminum, vinyl, or composite siding. (If you choose not to specify aluminum, be prepared to explain your decision in detail.)
Please take care that modern design practices and the latest materials are used in construction of the house, as I want it to be a showplace for the most up-to-date ideas and methods. Be alerted, however, that kitchen should be designed to accommodate, among other things, my 1952 Gibson refrigerator.
To insure that you are building the correct house for our entire family, make certain that you contact each of our children, and also our in-laws. My mother-in-law will have very strong feelings about how the house should be designed, since she visits us at least once a year. Make sure that you weigh all of these options carefully and come to the right decision. I, however, retain the right to overrule any choices that you make.
Please don't bother me with small details right now. Your job is to develop the overall plans for the house: get the big picture. At this time, for example, it is not appropriate to be choosing the color of the carpet. However, keep in mind that my wife likes blue.
Also, do not worry at this time about acquiring the resources to build the house itself. Your first priority is to develop detailed plans and specifications. Once I approve these plans, however, I would expect the house to be under roof within 48 hours.
While you are designing this house specifically for me, keep in mind that sooner or later I will have to sell it to someone else. It therefore should have appeal to a wide variety of potential buyers. Please make sure before you finalize the plans that there is a consensus of the population in my area that they like the features this house has.
I advise you to run up and look at my neighbor's house he constructed last year. We like it a great deal. It has many features that we would also like in our new home, particularly the 75-foot swimming pool. With careful engineering, I believe that you can design this into our new house without impacting the final cost.
Please prepare a complete set of blueprints. It is not necessary at this time to do the real design, since they will be used only for construction bids. Be advised, however, that you will be held accountable for any increase of construction costs as a result of later design changes.
You must be thrilled to be working on as an interesting project as this! To be able to use the latest techniques and materials and to be given such freedom in your designs is something that can't happen very often. Contact me as soon as possible with your complete ideas and plans.
PS: My wife has just told me that she disagrees with many of the instructions I've given you in this letter. As architect, it is your responsibility to resolve these differences. I have tried in the past and have been unable to accomplish this. If you can't handle this responsibility, I will have to find another architect.
PPS: Perhaps what I need is not a house at all, but a travel trailer. Please advise me as soon as possible if this is the case.
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You should have had anything you wanted off your work computer already backed up at home.
At many places, you can get fired for that.
How about tweeting when my mother-in-law pulls into my street?
You'll know it's her when the mice start throwing themselves on the traps... (Les Dawson)
Agreed.
Then I guess we could argue matters of degree: do we get bigger benefit from space-related research or, say, stem-cell research, investing in social programs or basic education.
And I'd have to say 'I don't know, so let's find a way to invest in all of them, and hopefully reduce the need for investment in the digging ditches/filling them in, etc.'
I'll keep posting this, too, I guess:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_window_fallacy
Why is this in the Technology section, and not the garbage, er, Idle section?
Actually, I'd like twit-related stories in an opt-in twit section.
And get off my lawn!
... a Company is different from a Cooperative...
You mean, the People's Front of Mozilla, as opposed to the Mozillan People's Front, or any other form of anarcho-syndicalist commune?
When you are a passenger in a car, do you have the same rules on dress? After all, if a car is on fire, guess who is going to have the worst burns?
On a ship, do you wear a life-vest at all times?
Have you not seen the other replies pointing out the stats. on the various risks of types of transportation?
I'm as amazed as you, I suppose.
Hm, I seem to recollect calculating and verifying fields with check digits in the 70s, regardless of the expense of the bits (bit expensive?), but I haven't seen it for years.
Your argument would seem to imply that we should be seeing it more often...
Ah! The power of the wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_digit
There is no check digit, so no further math is required to validate it.
Whatever happened to check digits?
Seemed like a good idea to catch typos at source.
What did I miss? Why did they fall out of favour?
Well, I suppose several points have been made here:
- my sense of humour is apparently opague to you.
- I have had no viruses, despite not running an AV suite on Windows (I do have an SMC router/firewall, though).
- if you turn a number of features off, is it entirely surprising that the load on your system is reduced?
It was meant to be light-hearted, but you turned it cold-hearted, apparently due to your mastery of cranial-rectal insertion techniques.
Yep, I installed an anti-virus, and turned it off, too.
My machine runs almost as fast as without any AV at all.
And in the 2 years I haven't been using it, I've never once had a problem with viruses.
I believe that future Russian female lunar science explorers will resent your poor choice of words; they may be bipedal, but they are NOT mad.
Did you read the review that you linked to?
My wife and sons have this phone, and the call quality is *awful*, as the article says, multiple times.
The phone better be unbreakable, because it's going to be thrown against the wall in frustration more than a few times.
It's a phone - come on, make it possible to conduct a conversation, at least...
Tsk.
Further, since almost every bug around is immune to it until we stop using it for a couple decades or more, there are reasons to restrict prescribing it to qualified professionals. It can be dangerous and it is rarely useful. Other members are still dangerous, but for those not allergic may still be useful (although other penicillin-like drugs have fallen or are falling to resistant strains).
Odd. My doctor still prescribes it. Do you have a credible source for your claims of 'almost every bug... is resistant' and 'rarely useful'? Or are you just upset that your Mother is allergic to it? "I've told you a million times not to exaggerate."
My wife and her Mother are allergic to it, too, BTW.
How about a hyphen within spaces - like that?
Sheesh.
Rose-coloured, or rose-water filtered?
:P
I still think the audio from the space-station sounds crappy
Thanks for the detailed explanation ;-)
Clearly, I'm a novice in this area, otherwise it would be obvious to me, too.
I checked out this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-sideband_modulation but I can't say I'm much the wiser on the reason, or where to go next. Got any useful references that might help?
It would seem to me that if the picture is of pretty good quality, then the sound should be too. Is my expectation of 'pretty good' set too high for the audio, then? Audio quality degrades much faster than video quality when compressed/sent from space?
When I shoot video on my camera, the sound is relatively crystal-clear, and is a small portion of the total size of the resulting video file. So, how come the audio from the space station/space shuttle sounds so lo-fi, yet the pictures are quite noiseless, full-colour?
Wait - we were watching pictures sent and broadcast live - and we still do, on the NASA channel - and so 16mm film really has nothing to do with it.
So, no, that's not an explanation, is it?
And the audio is in HD?
I think not. Can anyone explain why we saw colour pictures in some fidelity, yet the sound was worse than CB quality? And still is, even from the latest projects?
Summary:
Save power on your overclocked PC by not overclocking it.
Also, reducing the power consumption of your PC will reduce the power consumption of your PC by JiggaWatts per Fortnight.
Conclusion:
A meaningful way to save power/money is:
Turn off your computer at the power strip, and go out for a conditioning bike-ride, and be ready to bike-commute.
Certainly, do not waste your time using your computer to complain about not being able to read the article.
"Read the article" - what are you thinking?
> our antiquated Sun servers run almost 6 figures a year between software and hardware support.
Well, the problem is that they are antiquated, probably, and therefore cost significantly more to support than new products. Sun doesn't want to continue manufacturing replacement parts for old designs, so they raise the price as the equipment ages.
It's not just Sun that has this pricing strategy on hw & sw support, either.
Either you wrote the King James version of the bible OR
your Shift-key is faulty?
Or is this William Shatner evangelizing again?
> Trying to win an auction at a good price is almost a fools errant at this point.
True for rare items, or those in demand.
Not true for low-demand/common items, though. Late, low-ish bids may well be successful, due to the fixed end-date.
Am I missing something?
The problem was reported in November and fixed in early February.
Clearly, this is longer than one day.
Following the links in other posts to the mozilla issue tracking, it apparently took a while to fix.
The Opera guys would have liked a little more heads-up than one day, that's all, and that doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
Why all the high-and-mighty whining about 'if they really cared they would have fixed it'?
Dear Mr. Architect:
Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion.
My house should have between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdown for each configuration so that I can arbitrarily pick one.
Keep in mind that the house I ultimately choose must cost less than the one I am currently living in. Make sure, however, that you correct all the deficiencies that exist in my current house (the floor of my kitchen vibrates when I walk across it, and the walls don't have nearly enough insulation in them).
As you design, also keep in mind that I want to keep yearly maintenance costs as low as possible. This should mean the incorporation of extra-cost features like aluminum, vinyl, or composite siding. (If you choose not to specify aluminum, be prepared to explain your decision in detail.)
Please take care that modern design practices and the latest materials are used in construction of the house, as I want it to be a showplace for the most up-to-date ideas and methods. Be alerted, however, that kitchen should be designed to accommodate, among other things, my 1952 Gibson refrigerator.
To insure that you are building the correct house for our entire family, make certain that you contact each of our children, and also our in-laws. My mother-in-law will have very strong feelings about how the house should be designed, since she visits us at least once a year. Make sure that you weigh all of these options carefully and come to the right decision. I, however, retain the right to overrule any choices that you make.
Please don't bother me with small details right now. Your job is to develop the overall plans for the house: get the big picture. At this time, for example, it is not appropriate to be choosing the color of the carpet. However, keep in mind that my wife likes blue.
Also, do not worry at this time about acquiring the resources to build the house itself. Your first priority is to develop detailed plans and specifications. Once I approve these plans, however, I would expect the house to be under roof within 48 hours.
While you are designing this house specifically for me, keep in mind that sooner or later I will have to sell it to someone else. It therefore should have appeal to a wide variety of potential buyers. Please make sure before you finalize the plans that there is a consensus of the population in my area that they like the features this house has.
I advise you to run up and look at my neighbor's house he constructed last year. We like it a great deal. It has many features that we would also like in our new home, particularly the 75-foot swimming pool. With careful engineering, I believe that you can design this into our new house without impacting the final cost.
Please prepare a complete set of blueprints. It is not necessary at this time to do the real design, since they will be used only for construction bids. Be advised, however, that you will be held accountable for any increase of construction costs as a result of later design changes.
You must be thrilled to be working on as an interesting project as this! To be able to use the latest techniques and materials and to be given such freedom in your designs is something that can't happen very often. Contact me as soon as possible with your complete ideas and plans.
PS: My wife has just told me that she disagrees with many of the instructions I've given you in this letter. As architect, it is your responsibility to resolve these differences. I have tried in the past and have been unable to accomplish this. If you can't handle this responsibility, I will have to find another architect.
PPS: Perhaps what I need is not a house at all, but a travel trailer. Please advise me as soon as possible if this is the case.