...occurred when I somehow plugged up the power on a 3.5" hard drive incorrectly. I have no idea how this was possible given that the shape of the male and female plugs are keyed to prevent this, but it happened. That was the first (and hopefully last) time that smoke ever came out of my PC. Worst of all, it also toasted every other hard drive sharing the same power supply cable.
I'm a rabid ReplayTV owner/fanboy {insert shameless plug for a PVR that does stuff out of the box that requires "hacking" to achieve on a Tivo} and the thing I always tell to people is "I can't imagine how I ever watched TV without a PVR."
To see someone on Slashdot calling TiVo a "glorified VCR/TV Guide hybrid" is quite a surprise to me. Does the prospect of never missing an episode of a show not appeal to you? Or the ability to pause live television? Or the power to skip past commercials with a button press (or with 0 button presses on a ReplayTV)?
Hey Mod, kiss my shiny metal ass--it was a lame attempt at humor. It's a good thing I consistently metamoderate people like you DOWN...
In response to the gent who actually got it: yeah, after 12-14 hours wrapped around my sweaty dogs, my socks generally DO count as hardware rather than software:-)
This might be a more informative post if it mentioned the fact that the new Mini has not been on the market that long! IIRC, every single Mini on the road should still be under factory warranty! Why would you want to pay someone to work on your car when BMW will do it for free?
As far as installing anything that's not officially sanctioned by BMW, I have a sneaking suspicion that the poster is talking about performance modifications i.e. alterations to the engine, suspension, etc. Many manufacturers will not provide warranty service with these sorts of mods installed.
I'm less interested in what Darl will get out of it and more interested in what I will get out of it...
..and it looks to me like that's a free breakfast and probably some ebay-able SCO freebies. WOO HOO!
Me: "I'll have a Darl McOmlette, please" Drone: "Sir, this is continental breakfast." Me: "In that case, I need a license for your bottomless cup of SCOffee."
...that Apple is the only company on the planet capable of delivering on a minimally crippled digital audio player?
I call shenanigans on that!:)
Seriously, iRiver has a history of producing great MP3 gear and I'm going to have faith in their ability to do this right. Do you think it's a coincidence that they describe the predecessor to this model as a "Portable Storage Device & Multi-Codec Juke Box"?
but that didn't amount to squat in terms of the company's long-term viability and market share, did it?
Compaq had to get bought out by HP just to survive, and I wouldn't be surprised if Dell completely forces them out of the desktop market in the next couple of years.
"Who Invented FireWire" From the book "FireWire Filmmaking" by Scott Smith.
"Although technically Apple is the legal guardian of this closely protected property, six of the eight key patents issued for FireWire technology cite Michael D. Jonas Teener as the chief architect responsible for their advancements. In fact, when Teener left National Semiconductor in 1986 to join Apple Computer, he had already begun early efforts on a low-cost technology to connect hard drives to one another."
"Working nights and weekends on his pet project, Teener became the founding chair and editor of the international standard (IEEE-1394), a blueprint for the exchange of high-bandwidth digital audio. He was also instrumental in recruiting ideas from other innovators and in expanding the ambitions of the multimedia technology to include video streaming."
"As the technical lead during the years when Apple was suffering through layoffs and dozens of threatened cancellations, Teener had to fight to keep the FireWire project alive for nearly a decade. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, Teener urged him to implement the technology on all Macintosh computers, essentially kick-starting the desktop video revolution."
It's like the fascist bullshit I endure whenever I want to take my unregistered, uninsured, uninspected, unmaintained 1972 Pinto out on the highway and Joe Law hassles me. I mean, who are these Nazis to tell me that a taxpayer like myself (well, sales tax anyway...cuz after all, everyone knows Uncle $ham has no legal authority to collect income tax) can't pilot his beloved Pinto at 85mph in the HOV lane.
Shit, all I'm trying to do is commute, and just because my tires are bald and I've only got one headlight working these sunzabeeyatches are totally oppressing me!
They're all like "Sir, are you aware that it is against the law to operate this motor vehicle?"...
...and I'm all like "Dude, I work for a living and have no time to waste on compliance with your Draconian mandates!"
Your viewpoint is extremely naive. There is no one in Washington, including past administrations, who hasn't done the same or worse. Time to accept the fact that it's politicians in general--and not the guy who currently calls the White House his home--who are to blame for everything you're railing against.
I'm not sure what you mean by "that is the point". I was just responding to the chap who said "It is generally accepted that Intel chips have not been capable of being passivly cooled since the early Pentium days. I'd say the pentium 166(??) was the last passivly coolable design before active cooling became mandintory."
Even mid-90's vintage P75 machines I have in storage use a heat sink. I don't think I've ever seen a Pentium running in bare-chip "ultimately conservative" mode as you describe. IIRC, the P200MMX desktop I mentioned had about a 1/2" high heat sink that wasn't much large than the ZIF socket. The PII I mentioned, however, had a huge heatsink on it at least 2" high.
I've personally worked on Compaq desktops that use nothing but heatsinks for P200MMX and even PII-233. I'm pretty sure that there were even some sub-1GHz PIII desktops from major vendors that used passive cooling.
I've come to expect nothing but crap from Hollywood. The real crime here is that yet another PKD story has been twisted beyond recognition; turned from a quirky, cerebral tale into an action flick.
B.O. is so foul there already that they'd gladly endure a slight increase of the collective funk quotient in exchange for improved memory and intelligence.
Hey, on the plus side, maybe then the French would finally start remembering how the U.S. saved their cheese-eating-surrender-monkey selves!
we see the first traffic fatality caused by some asshat paying too much attention to their TrafficGauge(tm) and not enough to TheRealTrafficRightInFrontOfYou(tm).
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...occurred when I somehow plugged up the power on a 3.5" hard drive incorrectly. I have no idea how this was possible given that the shape of the male and female plugs are keyed to prevent this, but it happened. That was the first (and hopefully last) time that smoke ever came out of my PC. Worst of all, it also toasted every other hard drive sharing the same power supply cable.
I couldn't help but notice that today was also the day that the HIPAA health privacy standards are supposed to be in place at all medical providers.
To see someone on Slashdot calling TiVo a "glorified VCR/TV Guide hybrid" is quite a surprise to me. Does the prospect of never missing an episode of a show not appeal to you? Or the ability to pause live television? Or the power to skip past commercials with a button press (or with 0 button presses on a ReplayTV)?
Are you sure you even own a TV? :-)
It worked for me. Maybe they're just throwing up the old "Due to an overwhelming Slashdotting..." message when slashdot.org is the HTTP-Referrer.
Hey Mod, kiss my shiny metal ass--it was a lame attempt at humor. It's a good thing I consistently metamoderate people like you DOWN...
:-)
In response to the gent who actually got it: yeah, after 12-14 hours wrapped around my sweaty dogs, my socks generally DO count as hardware rather than software
Are you kidding?? I have socks that are like 5-10 times older than that... :-)
Easy solution: Don't call anyone until you're sure.
As far as installing anything that's not officially sanctioned by BMW, I have a sneaking suspicion that the poster is talking about performance modifications i.e. alterations to the engine, suspension, etc. Many manufacturers will not provide warranty service with these sorts of mods installed.
I've got $50 that says it's Mr. Hit Any Key. Takers?
Me: "I'll have a Darl McOmlette, please"
Drone: "Sir, this is continental breakfast."
Me: "In that case, I need a license for your bottomless cup of SCOffee."
I call shenanigans on that! :)
Seriously, iRiver has a history of producing great MP3 gear and I'm going to have faith in their ability to do this right. Do you think it's a coincidence that they describe the predecessor to this model as a "Portable Storage Device & Multi-Codec Juke Box"?
What about threatening to change Kpatience to a non-GPL license?
the baby Jesus cries.
Sounds like someone needs a hug :)
but that didn't amount to squat in terms of the company's long-term viability and market share, did it?
Compaq had to get bought out by HP just to survive, and I wouldn't be surprised if Dell completely forces them out of the desktop market in the next couple of years.
"Who Invented FireWire"
From the book "FireWire Filmmaking" by Scott Smith.
"Although technically Apple is the legal guardian of this closely protected property, six of the eight key patents issued for FireWire technology cite Michael D. Jonas Teener as the chief architect responsible for their advancements. In fact, when Teener left National Semiconductor in 1986 to join Apple Computer, he had already begun early efforts on a low-cost technology to connect hard drives to one another."
"Working nights and weekends on his pet project, Teener became the founding chair and editor of the international standard (IEEE-1394), a blueprint for the exchange of high-bandwidth digital audio. He was also instrumental in recruiting ideas from other innovators and in expanding the ambitions of the multimedia technology to include video streaming."
"As the technical lead during the years when Apple was suffering through layoffs and dozens of threatened cancellations, Teener had to fight to keep the FireWire project alive for nearly a decade. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, Teener urged him to implement the technology on all Macintosh computers, essentially kick-starting the desktop video revolution."
Exactly! I've never even heard of this guy...
Sheesh... How sad is it when someone on Slashdot, bastion of MS haters everywhere, is too much of a pussy to sign their name to a post bashing MS?
It's like the fascist bullshit I endure whenever I want to take my unregistered, uninsured, uninspected, unmaintained 1972 Pinto out on the highway and Joe Law hassles me. I mean, who are these Nazis to tell me that a taxpayer like myself (well, sales tax anyway...cuz after all, everyone knows Uncle $ham has no legal authority to collect income tax) can't pilot his beloved Pinto at 85mph in the HOV lane.
Shit, all I'm trying to do is commute, and just because my tires are bald and I've only got one headlight working these sunzabeeyatches are totally oppressing me!
They're all like "Sir, are you aware that it is against the law to operate this motor vehicle?"...
Vive la revolution!
Your viewpoint is extremely naive. There is no one in Washington, including past administrations, who hasn't done the same or worse. Time to accept the fact that it's politicians in general--and not the guy who currently calls the White House his home--who are to blame for everything you're railing against.
I'm not sure what you mean by "that is the point". I was just responding to the chap who said "It is generally accepted that Intel chips have not been capable of being passivly cooled since the early Pentium days. I'd say the pentium 166(??) was the last passivly coolable design before active cooling became mandintory."
Even mid-90's vintage P75 machines I have in storage use a heat sink. I don't think I've ever seen a Pentium running in bare-chip "ultimately conservative" mode as you describe. IIRC, the P200MMX desktop I mentioned had about a 1/2" high heat sink that wasn't much large than the ZIF socket. The PII I mentioned, however, had a huge heatsink on it at least 2" high.
I've personally worked on Compaq desktops that use nothing but heatsinks for P200MMX and even PII-233. I'm pretty sure that there were even some sub-1GHz PIII desktops from major vendors that used passive cooling.
I've come to expect nothing but crap from Hollywood. The real crime here is that yet another PKD story has been twisted beyond recognition; turned from a quirky, cerebral tale into an action flick.
Hey, on the plus side, maybe then the French would finally start remembering how the U.S. saved their cheese-eating-surrender-monkey selves!
we see the first traffic fatality caused by some asshat paying too much attention to their TrafficGauge(tm) and not enough to TheRealTrafficRightInFrontOfYou(tm).