Even though I really like my (older) Denon receiver, I will never buy another one because of that "audiophile grade" Denon Link cable. If they'll rip someone off for 6' of cat 5 (with directionality arrow!!) I have to believe that they're ripping me off at least a little bit on anything I buy. I was really quite bummed when I saw it: I had always assumed that when I bought a better receiver I'd just get another Denon and not have to worry about it.
Then you're doing it wrong! The plugin you want for 12-page reviews is AutoPager. It works like the/. home page, loading 'next' pages as you get near the bottom. It's even smart enough to strip off headers and footers.
The last one I participated in was the first one. The page is broken, but it was a program to play arbitrary sized Pousse by taking an input board and outputting your next move. It's hard to believe that was 10 years ago!
And for those who are talking about language discrimination: Of course they discriminate! It's a *functional* programming contest, so the problems are very slanted. The format of the Pousse contest made that pretty clear, but the next year I think the contest was to optimize s-expressions or something equally unsubtle.
I have a Denon receiver (several generations back) and I really like it. I'm very disappointed by this cable because I thought Denon was an audio brand I could trust. Until I saw this stupid cable, I would have been happy to choose a new AV receiver by picking any Denon model that had the inputs and outputs I needed. Now I'm wondering if I have to add them to my list of "avoid!" companies like HP...
...I plan to put this URL on a shirt so I can point to it whenever anyone tells me I shouldn't be writing in C because it makes me manage my own memory!
Those kinds of upgrade problems are very subtle. I have a FreeBSD box with filesystem continuity back to 1994 (I think it was 1.1 or 1.1.5 when I installed). At some point sysctl moved from/usr/sbin to/sbin and for more than a year I just thought sysctl was oddly broken, when really I just had one that did not match my kernel in my path.
Just a warning for those thinking, "how bad could it be??"
I was in the pattern at McMinville yesterday and a blue & white supercub departed to the east. They said where they were going a few times but I couldn't understand the word until today -- "Amity"! I should have followed them!
Ok, I downloaded this and tried it. It's not freaking awesome. You don't have to take my word for it -- just listen to the beginning. Since it's not awesome, you don't have to worry about spoilers. It's just a guy with an annoying voice describing the action with unfunny ad-libs.
When you first enter the room, try to always stay one knight's jump away from her. You never know if she has a wand. If she zaps you and the Kops come you will be cleaning up the house for weeks.
Power supplies put out a lot of current at relatively low voltage. Typical power supplies use 18AWG copper wire on the pigtails going to the motherboard. At about 6.5ohms/1000' I figure about a.035V drop on a 1' pigtail with 4 +5V wires (5V @ 22A, an old PS I have here, at max load). If you just extended that to 15' you'd have 15x the drop, or about.5V. So your "5V" would be 4.5V, which is probably out of spec. The problem is worse at lower voltages or higher currents (I think the latest motherboards use mostly 12V partly for this reason).
You'd need a gang of 4+ 12ga or 10ga wires to keep the drop reasonable over a 15' distance. Now you're starting to see why power is distributed across the country at hundreds of thousands of volts, and newer cars are going to 24V or 48V systems.
Muuuch easier to get a supply with only one fan (no need for a 550wa monster for a small system!) and if necessary replace it with a quiet fan. I got some panaflos and replaced several of mine and they were silent.
Since TiVo doesn't auto-skip, I watch the whole commercial break, albiet at quadruple speed.
While playing something, hit select - play - select - 3 - 0 - select on the remote to enable 30 second skip. Now that button opposite the 8 second rewind skips 30 seconds instantly. It's much easier (and requires almost no concentration, unlike 60x ffw) to skip commercials that way. You can just mash it 4 or 5 times right into the break (ok, 4 or 500 if you're on a Turner network) and if you land in a commercial, hit it again. Fine tune with some 8s-back.
As a bonus, you know whenever your Tivo upgrades because you have to turn it on again.
Another thing I like about compact fluorescents is the reduced heat. We have some ceiling fixtures that take 2 bulbs under a glass dome. If you put two incandescent bulbs in it's survival of the fittest. The extra heat kills the weaker bulb and you live with dim light until you replace it. Two CF bulbs are perfectly happy in there.
TiddlyWiki is an improvement on the Big Text File. It's still one file, self-contained, but it gives you some structure and the ability to see your notes from multiple views. Right after I discovered it I converted about a dozen Big Text Files (many of which overlapped to some degree) into a tiddlywiki.
(won't work? Go look up studies about people who watch TiVo'ed commericals on muted fast-forward. They often have *better* ad retention than those who watch the commericals at normal speed with sound.)
That's why I'm a slave to 30 second skip (while playing, hit Select-Play-Select-3-0-Select). At 60x fast forward you have to really concentrate on the commercials to detect the precise moment to jump back to regular play. Even with Tivo's clever auto-rewind you have to pay a lot of attention when a commercial goes by in one half to one second. With 30 second skip I immediately hit it 4-5 times and only stop hitting it when I clearly land in a station promo (for some reason those are always last -- I expect that the popularity of Tivo will make this slot much more valuable to advertisers).
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If only the Kindle developers had heard of Nagle's algorithm which addressed an almost identical problem in TCP in 1984.
Even though I really like my (older) Denon receiver, I will never buy another one because of that "audiophile grade" Denon Link cable. If they'll rip someone off for 6' of cat 5 (with directionality arrow!!) I have to believe that they're ripping me off at least a little bit on anything I buy. I was really quite bummed when I saw it: I had always assumed that when I bought a better receiver I'd just get another Denon and not have to worry about it.
I use adblock primarily for these sites.
Then you're doing it wrong! The plugin you want for 12-page reviews is AutoPager. It works like the /. home page, loading 'next' pages as you get near the bottom. It's even smart enough to strip off headers and footers.
You get an achievement if you post here? ok! Pay a little karma, get an achievement.
If the benefit is so "heavily skewed" then it should be a no-brainer to ask Google not to index your news site.
I'm pretty sure Steve Martin lives in a mansion...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrlqQ1_vZVE
The last one I participated in was the first one. The page is broken, but it was a program to play arbitrary sized Pousse by taking an input board and outputting your next move. It's hard to believe that was 10 years ago!
And for those who are talking about language discrimination: Of course they discriminate! It's a *functional* programming contest, so the problems are very slanted. The format of the Pousse contest made that pretty clear, but the next year I think the contest was to optimize s-expressions or something equally unsubtle.
I have a Denon receiver (several generations back) and I really like it. I'm very disappointed by this cable because I thought Denon was an audio brand I could trust. Until I saw this stupid cable, I would have been happy to choose a new AV receiver by picking any Denon model that had the inputs and outputs I needed. Now I'm wondering if I have to add them to my list of "avoid!" companies like HP...
...I plan to put this URL on a shirt so I can point to it whenever anyone tells me I shouldn't be writing in C because it makes me manage my own memory!
Those kinds of upgrade problems are very subtle. I have a FreeBSD box with filesystem continuity back to 1994 (I think it was 1.1 or 1.1.5 when I installed). At some point sysctl moved from /usr/sbin to /sbin and for more than a year I just thought sysctl was oddly broken, when really I just had one that did not match my kernel in my path.
Just a warning for those thinking, "how bad could it be??"
I want a USB Bayonet.
I was in the pattern at McMinville yesterday and a blue & white supercub departed to the east. They said where they were going a few times but I couldn't understand the word until today -- "Amity"! I should have followed them!
Ok, I downloaded this and tried it. It's not freaking awesome. You don't have to take my word for it -- just listen to the beginning. Since it's not awesome, you don't have to worry about spoilers. It's just a guy with an annoying voice describing the action with unfunny ad-libs.
[*] Assuming you meant an analog millenium, not a digital millenium, which would be MiY.
(I was really torn between that and suggesting that, like the original poster, you wanted to layer...)
When you first enter the room, try to always stay one knight's jump away from her. You never know if she has a wand. If she zaps you and the Kops come you will be cleaning up the house for weeks.
Power supplies put out a lot of current at relatively low voltage. Typical power supplies use 18AWG copper wire on the pigtails going to the motherboard. At about 6.5ohms/1000' I figure about a .035V drop on a 1' pigtail with 4 +5V wires (5V @ 22A, an old PS I have here, at max load). If you just extended that to 15' you'd have 15x the drop, or about .5V. So your "5V" would be 4.5V, which is probably out of spec. The problem is worse at lower voltages or higher currents (I think the latest motherboards use mostly 12V partly for this reason).
You'd need a gang of 4+ 12ga or 10ga wires to keep the drop reasonable over a 15' distance. Now you're starting to see why power is distributed across the country at hundreds of thousands of volts, and newer cars are going to 24V or 48V systems.
Muuuch easier to get a supply with only one fan (no need for a 550wa monster for a small system!) and if necessary replace it with a quiet fan. I got some panaflos and replaced several of mine and they were silent.
Therefore, by induction, this comment number is also prime!
As a bonus, you know whenever your Tivo upgrades because you have to turn it on again.
They're just splitting up Time Warner into four new "collectable" pieces[*] to make them more attractive to Google.
* While supplies last. No purchase necessary. See store for official rules.
I'd upgrade, but I have a stability problem:
4.9-STABLE #2: Sun Jun 13 01:36:14 PDT 2004
1:00PM up 489 days, 20:21, 9 users, load averages: 0.03, 0.07, 0.07
No way I'm taking down a machine that's been up nearly 500 days to upgrade it!
Another thing I like about compact fluorescents is the reduced heat. We have some ceiling fixtures that take 2 bulbs under a glass dome. If you put two incandescent bulbs in it's survival of the fittest. The extra heat kills the weaker bulb and you live with dim light until you replace it. Two CF bulbs are perfectly happy in there.
Great, I never wanted to install Flash, and finally that's just what is required by the EULA.
TiddlyWiki is an improvement on the Big Text File. It's still one file, self-contained, but it gives you some structure and the ability to see your notes from multiple views. Right after I discovered it I converted about a dozen Big Text Files (many of which overlapped to some degree) into a tiddlywiki.