You can't switch off silicon either. You can turn it down quite a bit so it's almost off, but it's not like it's a magic box that shuts off completely and turns on instantly when you supply exactly 0.7V across the base.
Besides, anyone on here with an ounce of hardware knowledge knows that on and off are a range. They don't switch from +- rail or to 0 instantly and accept nothing else.
The kerosene used for fuel will still work for lighting fires but can very well crash your bird once it gets old. One of my friends found a barrel near a helipad while camping, and saw that it was expired. They grabbed some and used it for their stoves.
Apparently the company does that with their old fuel because that's a way of disposing it -- letting campers grab what they want -- and they can't use it for anything at all.
My first thought was to call my friend who owns a metal shop. He can make any shape out of metal, and then it's just a matter of making a cast. Cast it up, make a bunch of heads that fit onto a standard bit screwdriver and holy shit, moenies! The prototype would run about $150 shop time, and then the cast ones would be about a buck a piece. Sell them for $20 online and watch the checks sail in.
But sadly, the FA has an "Apple Liberation Kit" for sale for $10 that includes the screwdriver, two phillips #0 screws, and a phillips screwdriver. iFixit's already got this one suitcased.
Also, look up the difference between a Robertson and Square-head screw.
Average lifetime for Flash read was infinite, write was 100k cycles. So if you made RAM out of Flash it would be destroyed in, assuming a 400MHz FSB -- which is slow by acceptable for the example -- 250 nanoseconds. MTBF is unacceptably low for all but the fastest system administrators.
So, you might ask, how do they make a SSD? My answer would be "dunno. Look it up."
Yes, I remember playing Duke Nukem when they were just side scrollers, launched as an adult's version of Commander Keen. (At least that's how I remember it...) I remember playing Halloween Harry as well; that one was pretty fun and the music was fun. DN2 was when you started to see his attitude really start coming together, including the showing of his autobiography, titled, "Why I'm so Great."
I remember playing DN3D in the mall back when I was working retail. They had a setup with a headset so you could put it on and use that for control.
If this actually launches, I might even upgrade my PC so I can play it.
The cliche might have been valid when the site launched, but most of us are probably married professionals by now. I've been married for 13 years and I've got two kids.
"Sign this form which gives an unnamed private contractor carte blanche to investigate your personal life or else we will fire you."
See, that's not okay. I was under the impression that it would be someone appropriate. My work clearance was done by a public official. The one for the Y is done by the police. When my forms were all filled in they were considered "Protected B" and could only be viewed by people with a security clearance. Releasing them or using them for any purpose other than saying "yep, cleared" or "nope, put him in a box" was against the law.
If it was going to be done by "Jimmy's Background Checks, a Totally Legitimate Company!" then that's absolutely not okay.
I'm a military contractor. It took about 8 months to get my clearance so I could get onto the base, but so far (and I'd like to keep it this way) I don't know anything Classified. Obviously that's private industry, and while you're right that a lot of innovation is happening in the private places, they are incredibly unstable and I've worked for four places that have gone bankrupt. Your best bet is to find a place with a generous personal IP policy and hone your skills at a place where there's no worries about your next direct deposit not showing up.
I've only had to give a "cup sample" for personal reasons. (post-vas check)
However, the most extensive check was for volunteering at the YMCA. I had to get fingerprinted and have that checked out to make sure I wasn't a suspect in any violent crimes. Hell, they have better gates there than at the military base down the road -- you have to sign in with a scanner, go through a turnstile, and your picture is displayed on the computers. By contrast, I could fake a better base pass with a laser printer and nobody knows who is on the base.
They don't care if you're gay, they care if you're ashamed of it.
"Oh, wouldn't it be terrible if your boss and dad found out that you were gay? If you got me a copy of MIL-TFD-41 I'd be too busy reading it to mail this picture to them."
It takes up to a year to complete a clearance. Maybe there was something else coming up that these guys aren't going to be working on, at least not now.
For my wife's machine, she had a Vista->7 upgrade. It was always buggy (I blame the shovelware) so I got her a clean Win7 DVD and the improvement was remarkable.
The boot time went from 3 minutes to 30 seconds, and the updates actually worked. Hibernation and resume started working properly (2min -> 5 seconds) and a reduction in desktop idle of almost 200MB.
They simply aren't for sale in my area, and if I want to buy something online, I've got to add an extra $100 minimum for shipping, duty, brokerage, and taxes.
I've heard it said that Open Source is only free if your time has no value.
It has been quite painful to get Ubuntu working on my netbook. Same with kub and mint; they're just not playing nice at all.
Out of the box, the Fn keys don't work and jam the keyboard. That's a relatively easy fix though, just editing a few files. The problem is that the OS doesn't send the release signal to the Fn key combo for some reason.
I have to use the.27 kernel if I want the wireless to work because some idiot thought that putting random values in the driver would work. I don't know, did that get tested? I can't see how. I can also rmmod and modprobe the ath9k driver and that fixes it.
Screen brightness control doesn't work. At least not with the.27 kernel, so I have to choose between being not able to use my computer because I can't see the screen or being not able to use the computer because I can't connect to the Internet.
The kernel doesn't recognize the new line of synaptics touchpads, and because one guy said there was a workaround (which doesn't work) there's no more work being done on the bug. It's a multi-touch side and bottom scrolling pad that identifies as a generic PS/2 mouse.
There are band competitions, so yes, you can bring ribbons home from a concert.
You can also "win" a concert. I've got two CDs at home; one's a great arrangement done okay, the other is a great arrangement done beautifully. We really "won" on the second one. We were all on our "A" game and performed a spectacular show.
I was telling this to my daughter the other day. "No, a dog isn't really the opposite of a cat. They're very similar. An octopus would be closer to the opposite, but they're both animals, right?
"So the opposite of a cat would be a boulder or maybe an airplane. Something totally different."
Then we snacked on apples and oranges and pedantry.
Humans have never really had a need to outrun any of our prey animals. We have relied on intelligence, stamina and weapons to take them down, not speed and strength.
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You can't switch off silicon either. You can turn it down quite a bit so it's almost off, but it's not like it's a magic box that shuts off completely and turns on instantly when you supply exactly 0.7V across the base.
Besides, anyone on here with an ounce of hardware knowledge knows that on and off are a range. They don't switch from +- rail or to 0 instantly and accept nothing else.
Yes we did.
How about a helicopter analogy?
The kerosene used for fuel will still work for lighting fires but can very well crash your bird once it gets old. One of my friends found a barrel near a helipad while camping, and saw that it was expired. They grabbed some and used it for their stoves.
Apparently the company does that with their old fuel because that's a way of disposing it -- letting campers grab what they want -- and they can't use it for anything at all.
My first thought was to call my friend who owns a metal shop. He can make any shape out of metal, and then it's just a matter of making a cast. Cast it up, make a bunch of heads that fit onto a standard bit screwdriver and holy shit, moenies! The prototype would run about $150 shop time, and then the cast ones would be about a buck a piece. Sell them for $20 online and watch the checks sail in.
But sadly, the FA has an "Apple Liberation Kit" for sale for $10 that includes the screwdriver, two phillips #0 screws, and a phillips screwdriver. iFixit's already got this one suitcased.
Also, look up the difference between a Robertson and Square-head screw.
How about "When Linux is fully documented"?
Average lifetime for Flash read was infinite, write was 100k cycles. So if you made RAM out of Flash it would be destroyed in, assuming a 400MHz FSB -- which is slow by acceptable for the example -- 250 nanoseconds. MTBF is unacceptably low for all but the fastest system administrators.
So, you might ask, how do they make a SSD? My answer would be "dunno. Look it up."
Yes, I remember playing Duke Nukem when they were just side scrollers, launched as an adult's version of Commander Keen. (At least that's how I remember it...) I remember playing Halloween Harry as well; that one was pretty fun and the music was fun. DN2 was when you started to see his attitude really start coming together, including the showing of his autobiography, titled, "Why I'm so Great."
I remember playing DN3D in the mall back when I was working retail. They had a setup with a headset so you could put it on and use that for control.
If this actually launches, I might even upgrade my PC so I can play it.
The cliche might have been valid when the site launched, but most of us are probably married professionals by now. I've been married for 13 years and I've got two kids.
"Sign this form which gives an unnamed private contractor carte blanche to investigate your personal life or else we will fire you."
See, that's not okay. I was under the impression that it would be someone appropriate. My work clearance was done by a public official. The one for the Y is done by the police. When my forms were all filled in they were considered "Protected B" and could only be viewed by people with a security clearance. Releasing them or using them for any purpose other than saying "yep, cleared" or "nope, put him in a box" was against the law.
If it was going to be done by "Jimmy's Background Checks, a Totally Legitimate Company!" then that's absolutely not okay.
Well then that's totally different. If there's a requirement for work that requires that kind of check, then yes, it should be done.
If someone's being a nosy fucking busybody then they should be fired.
Out of a cannon, into the sun.
You're right, it's the "Vulnerable Sector Screening" but I was simplifying it for /.
Okay, AC:
Please provide a link to a Linux distributor that will ship to Canada and has a dual-core netbook.
Price limit: $320 including shipping, taxes, duty, and brokerage.
Oh, there aren't any anywhere at all? Huh.
Sorry, I meant .37
It's funny you'd say that.
I'm a military contractor. It took about 8 months to get my clearance so I could get onto the base, but so far (and I'd like to keep it this way) I don't know anything Classified. Obviously that's private industry, and while you're right that a lot of innovation is happening in the private places, they are incredibly unstable and I've worked for four places that have gone bankrupt. Your best bet is to find a place with a generous personal IP policy and hone your skills at a place where there's no worries about your next direct deposit not showing up.
I've only had to give a "cup sample" for personal reasons. (post-vas check)
However, the most extensive check was for volunteering at the YMCA. I had to get fingerprinted and have that checked out to make sure I wasn't a suspect in any violent crimes. Hell, they have better gates there than at the military base down the road -- you have to sign in with a scanner, go through a turnstile, and your picture is displayed on the computers. By contrast, I could fake a better base pass with a laser printer and nobody knows who is on the base.
They don't care if you're gay, they care if you're ashamed of it.
"Oh, wouldn't it be terrible if your boss and dad found out that you were gay? If you got me a copy of MIL-TFD-41 I'd be too busy reading it to mail this picture to them."
It takes up to a year to complete a clearance. Maybe there was something else coming up that these guys aren't going to be working on, at least not now.
For my wife's machine, she had a Vista->7 upgrade. It was always buggy (I blame the shovelware) so I got her a clean Win7 DVD and the improvement was remarkable.
The boot time went from 3 minutes to 30 seconds, and the updates actually worked. Hibernation and resume started working properly (2min -> 5 seconds) and a reduction in desktop idle of almost 200MB.
That would be great if I could do it.
They simply aren't for sale in my area, and if I want to buy something online, I've got to add an extra $100 minimum for shipping, duty, brokerage, and taxes.
I live in that far-off exotic country of Canada.
I've heard it said that Open Source is only free if your time has no value.
It has been quite painful to get Ubuntu working on my netbook. Same with kub and mint; they're just not playing nice at all.
Out of the box, the Fn keys don't work and jam the keyboard. That's a relatively easy fix though, just editing a few files. The problem is that the OS doesn't send the release signal to the Fn key combo for some reason.
I have to use the .27 kernel if I want the wireless to work because some idiot thought that putting random values in the driver would work. I don't know, did that get tested? I can't see how. I can also rmmod and modprobe the ath9k driver and that fixes it.
Screen brightness control doesn't work. At least not with the .27 kernel, so I have to choose between being not able to use my computer because I can't see the screen or being not able to use the computer because I can't connect to the Internet.
The kernel doesn't recognize the new line of synaptics touchpads, and because one guy said there was a workaround (which doesn't work) there's no more work being done on the bug. It's a multi-touch side and bottom scrolling pad that identifies as a generic PS/2 mouse.
All of those things worked flawlessly on Win7.
"Candygram!"
I'll bet all the hot chicks in highschool were just dying to go out with you...
The choir had a gender ratio of 20:1, so I was just fine in HS.
There are band competitions, so yes, you can bring ribbons home from a concert.
You can also "win" a concert. I've got two CDs at home; one's a great arrangement done okay, the other is a great arrangement done beautifully. We really "won" on the second one. We were all on our "A" game and performed a spectacular show.
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Sorry, I was drafting. Let's try that again.
I was telling this to my daughter the other day. "No, a dog isn't really the opposite of a cat. They're very similar. An octopus would be closer to the opposite, but they're both animals, right?
"So the opposite of a cat would be a boulder or maybe an airplane. Something totally different."
Then we snacked on apples and oranges and pedantry.
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Humans have never really had a need to outrun any of our prey animals. We have relied on intelligence, stamina and weapons to take them down, not speed and strength.
Okay.