If you want to effectively fight fire employ fire... That's progress.
I'd recommend instead Aqueous Fire-Fighting Foam, Halon, water mists, Mars water bombers, and electronic-safe extinguishers, depending on the type, severity, and location of the fire.
Now THAT'S progress.
In terms of your analogy, which is what you really meant -- the people using fire can recognize fire and will take counter-measures. Come at them sideways, get them to fall into their own traps, and they won't see it coming.
Same thing here. I'm not going to pay hundreds of dollars to watch Battlestar Galactica one time when I could just get it from the library. Neither would I want to wait for 12 months for the DVD release of "V" to catch up on the first four episodes.
I blame scour.net since it let me get mp3s for free in 1999. They should be shut down.
I live on an island -- it's $160 and 3 hours on just the ferry, then another 2 hours (return) plus gas to visit the US.
Also, you can bring back $200 worth of stuff if you're over the border for less than 24 hours, so you weren't actually pulling anything on the Border Agents. You forgot to buy some booze while you were down there so it looks like you were only fooling yourself.
For the Americans, our alcohol is heavily taxed in Canada -- the cheapest wine on the shelf will be $10 here.
The problem is that the chips will work, but they won't work as well.
Let's look at two amplifiers, a 741 and a 5534. They are both pin-compatible op-amps that do the same job. The LM is $0.56 ($0.13 in bulk) and the 5534 is $1.73 ($0.80 in bulk). The 5534 is a high-performance, low-noise amplifier.
Now, these are both CONSUMER grade chips and two that I just happened to know off the top of my head. Frankly, chips don't get much cheaper than that but you can already see a large price discrepancy. ($670 per 1000 chips.)
Performance under ideal conditions isn't the biggest issue here. They aren't subject to the military or aerospace standards for robustness. Hell, they're probably not even "industrial" grade. Will they withstand a 200G shock? How about extreme temperatures or humidity? Are these chips RoHS or not and marked differently?
Systems using these fraudulent chips would be plagued by problems and would cause the vendors, contractors, and the Navy a huge amount of anguish. It puts people at risk, and the motherfucker should be tried for sedition.
I have to ask, "why bother"? It's not like they wouldn't be making tons of cash from the contract in the first place.
Even your best white urban chef won't be washing his or her hands aseptically, and the rule for chefs is "if it's not bad enough to be in the hospital, it's not bed enough to miss work."
I have two kids in daycare and I bike to work. (Biking gets mud and puddle water on my face regularly.) I also SCUBA dive, and we don't treat our sewage here. (Primary screening, but no secondary treatment.)
I eat in pubs, work out at the Y, hardly ever wash out my water bottle, and I just licked my keyboard.
Amazon.ca doesn't have nearly the selection of amazon.com. We can't get any electronics, for example. It's a good resource for reviews, but that's it. I prefer to use USPS for cross-border shipping, but let's face it, it's only a matter of time before they have the same realization at UPS -- hey, we can charge everyone in an entire country $45 and there's NOTHING. THEY. CAN. DO. ABOUT. IT.
I usually go to my FL?S to buy stuff, but we've beaten this to death, then so hard the integer wrapped, and then to death again on scubaboard. (and likely, every other hobby board in the universe)
As an example, I can get a Dive-Alert Plus in town for about $160. For the same money at ScubaToys, I can also get an SMB, a strobe, a whistle, a slate, a reel, and a pocket.
I just apply "under-rated" to the first five posts in a thread I don't care about. It's much easier than actually modding and you don't get meta-modded for under/over.
I also try to mod up trolls. It makes/. a much better place.
You think that's bad? Try being in Canada. It's like a whole other country.;) For most stores, the online policy is "you should order lube too, because Customs is going to ream you with a cheese grater".
Add 12% tax, $5 customs handling, $45 brokerage, ~$20 shipping, and 6% duty onto just about anything you buy from the US online. Then wait 4-6 weeks for the item to arrive.
The vast majority of "middle east" folks who are here are here because they're tired of all the shit in their home countries. The guy next to me is Iranian; he's here now with his family because he's not going to get dragged into the street by the secret police or arrested because he went to University.
Most people, no matter where they are from, don't want to blow things up or destroy buildings. (Personally, I realize that some buildings have to be blown up, but that's because of the work I do. Frankly, if you're getting shot at by the Navy, then it's probably not a big loss if we kick you off the planet.) They want to go about their lives without the fear of being blown up or shot at.
These "Muslims" (and just for the record, not everyone from the middle east is a Muslim.) emigrating to the Western world are often highly-educated (like the non-Muslim Professional Engineer next to me that I referred to earlier), young, and wanting to make a solid contribution to the countries that they are now calling home.
We were not attacked by Muslims. The attacks on the Cole, the Twin Towers, and the Pentagon were performed by brainwashed puppets controlled by a billionaire megalomanic sociopath who convinced them that they would be better off dead. They were no more Muslim than the Branch Davidians or Manson's followers were whatever religion they purported to be. The Koran is pretty clear about the "Thou Shalt Not Kill" rule, same as the Torah and the Bible. (There are parts like Leviticus in the other texts as well, so don't cut and paste something out of context from a website.) I've had Muslim co-workers, and they are as opposed to violence as anyone else. This includes hating Hamas for rocketing Israel and condemning 9/11 as a travesty.
The TSA is bullshit security theater, plain and simple.
We got into this mess from political gaming, not from "liberals". Liberals want the government out of people's lives, smaller government, and no deficit budgets.
It's like the creator of COPS said about why he doesn't go after corporate crooks.
"It doesn't make good TV. When the police go to arrest someone like that, they act like he's on city council, which he may or may not be, and it's all very polite. Now, if you could get that same guy to rip his shirt off and jump out the window when the police show up, then that's good TV."
At 60Hz, yes, it's an eyesore. If the refresh rate is high enough, then no. I suspect it's to do with the residual glow of the screen after the electron gun has passed.
I fully agree with you. I've had real problems with LCD TVs -- the ghosting drives me up the wall.
"So this is the most advanced LCD TV you have in the store?"
"Yes."
"You can't see that flickering?"
"Well, let's watch an HD feed... how's that?"
"You can't see that either?"
"It's refreshing at 600Hz; you can't possibly see it."
"Well, I know what I'm seeing. You can't see this, here (pointing) flickering and ghosting?"
"It's very subtle."
Needless to say, I have a tube TV and a CRT at home. Work has supplied 2 LCD monitors, so I'm stuck with those. I'm the kind of guy who can see the flickering on Plasma TVs (it looks like stop-motion) or line voltage LEDs.
For audio, you can try a nifty trick:
***WARNING: DO NOT DO THIS.*** Take your cheapo amp apart and replace a few critical components. Those critical components are the capacitor on the power supply, the various solid-state amplifiers, and the potentiometer for the volume control.
Usually they'll use a handful of LM741 amps, which are cheap and ubiquituous. If you instead use a series of pin-compatible 5534s, you get way better sound out of the system. (A 5534 has 4nV / (Hz)^(1/2) ). A quick poke with a soldering station and you've got better performance. (You're not actually doing this, are you?)
You can just open up the case, replace parts of the guts, and you get better stuff. Amplifier design is established; the difference in quality is part selection. (And trace position, but that's a different story.)
You can get $1500 performance out of a $20 amp if you use the good components. The good components are more expensive, so they don't put them in. If you've got the skills and tools, it's a trivial afternoon project. (You can do this with just about any cheap electronics device.)
I use 14 AWG shielded flexible wire for speaker wire. It's cheaper than "speaker wire" and works much better. If you do get into shielding, remember that ***you must only shield one end***.
Credit vs. Cash -> depends, I vote Debit Card (best of both worlds)
Be careful -- I used to put everything on debit until my parents' info was stolen from a hancked PIN pad. I switched to credit, and the advantages are:
1. Reward points (1% cash back) 2. Deferral of all expenses by one month (extra interest in bank account) 3. Buffer between "real" money and "public" money. (like a throw-away email address) 4. Recovery of assets is faster. (Bank: "Maybe you took a flight to Georgia this afternoon." CC: "Oh, sorry, we'll reverse the charge and send you a new card.")
There is no downside IF you pay off the balance every month. Okay, you do have to carry around one extra card, but that's it.
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No, the fifth element was gold, not Gauldi.
And I assume you said verb instead of noun on purpose too :-) *hug*
... yes.
Sometimes I use the wrong verbs on purpose just so someone will correct me. It's like bumping into a stranger on the sidewalk just to get a hug.
Thanks for the correction. *hug*
I see meta-moderating as more like this:
http://images.google.ca/images?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=darth%20vader%20brita&lr=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
If you want to effectively fight fire employ fire... That's progress.
I'd recommend instead Aqueous Fire-Fighting Foam, Halon, water mists, Mars water bombers, and electronic-safe extinguishers, depending on the type, severity, and location of the fire.
Now THAT'S progress.
In terms of your analogy, which is what you really meant -- the people using fire can recognize fire and will take counter-measures. Come at them sideways, get them to fall into their own traps, and they won't see it coming.
Same thing here. I'm not going to pay hundreds of dollars to watch Battlestar Galactica one time when I could just get it from the library. Neither would I want to wait for 12 months for the DVD release of "V" to catch up on the first four episodes.
I blame scour.net since it let me get mp3s for free in 1999. They should be shut down.
Yep, he's burning up the fuse up there alone.
Not anymore.
http://www.debtclock.ca/
Not as many figures as the American one, but it ticks over pretty steadily nonetheless.
Good idea, but I'm 8000 km away from New York. ;)
I live on an island -- it's $160 and 3 hours on just the ferry, then another 2 hours (return) plus gas to visit the US.
Also, you can bring back $200 worth of stuff if you're over the border for less than 24 hours, so you weren't actually pulling anything on the Border Agents. You forgot to buy some booze while you were down there so it looks like you were only fooling yourself.
For the Americans, our alcohol is heavily taxed in Canada -- the cheapest wine on the shelf will be $10 here.
The problem is that the chips will work, but they won't work as well.
Let's look at two amplifiers, a 741 and a 5534. They are both pin-compatible op-amps that do the same job. The LM is $0.56 ($0.13 in bulk) and the 5534 is $1.73 ($0.80 in bulk). The 5534 is a high-performance, low-noise amplifier.
Now, these are both CONSUMER grade chips and two that I just happened to know off the top of my head. Frankly, chips don't get much cheaper than that but you can already see a large price discrepancy. ($670 per 1000 chips.)
Performance under ideal conditions isn't the biggest issue here. They aren't subject to the military or aerospace standards for robustness. Hell, they're probably not even "industrial" grade. Will they withstand a 200G shock? How about extreme temperatures or humidity? Are these chips RoHS or not and marked differently?
Systems using these fraudulent chips would be plagued by problems and would cause the vendors, contractors, and the Navy a huge amount of anguish. It puts people at risk, and the motherfucker should be tried for sedition.
I have to ask, "why bother"? It's not like they wouldn't be making tons of cash from the contract in the first place.
Get a Hep A shot.
Even your best white urban chef won't be washing his or her hands aseptically, and the rule for chefs is "if it's not bad enough to be in the hospital, it's not bed enough to miss work."
I have two kids in daycare and I bike to work. (Biking gets mud and puddle water on my face regularly.) I also SCUBA dive, and we don't treat our sewage here. (Primary screening, but no secondary treatment.)
I eat in pubs, work out at the Y, hardly ever wash out my water bottle, and I just licked my keyboard.
Mortal germs can't live in here.
Amazon.ca doesn't have nearly the selection of amazon.com. We can't get any electronics, for example. It's a good resource for reviews, but that's it. I prefer to use USPS for cross-border shipping, but let's face it, it's only a matter of time before they have the same realization at UPS -- hey, we can charge everyone in an entire country $45 and there's NOTHING. THEY. CAN. DO. ABOUT. IT.
I usually go to my FL?S to buy stuff, but we've beaten this to death, then so hard the integer wrapped, and then to death again on scubaboard. (and likely, every other hobby board in the universe)
As an example, I can get a Dive-Alert Plus in town for about $160. For the same money at ScubaToys, I can also get an SMB, a strobe, a whistle, a slate, a reel, and a pocket.
That would have been an awesome response.
The son-of-a-bitch only posts at lunchtime. Come on, man, some of us can't have pizza every day!
I just apply "under-rated" to the first five posts in a thread I don't care about. It's much easier than actually modding and you don't get meta-modded for under/over.
I also try to mod up trolls. It makes /. a much better place.
You think that's bad? Try being in Canada. It's like a whole other country. ;) For most stores, the online policy is "you should order lube too, because Customs is going to ream you with a cheese grater".
Add 12% tax, $5 customs handling, $45 brokerage, ~$20 shipping, and 6% duty onto just about anything you buy from the US online. Then wait 4-6 weeks for the item to arrive.
Tim, Terry, and Ted would like a word with you.
That word would be "kaboom".
The vast majority of "middle east" folks who are here are here because they're tired of all the shit in their home countries. The guy next to me is Iranian; he's here now with his family because he's not going to get dragged into the street by the secret police or arrested because he went to University.
Most people, no matter where they are from, don't want to blow things up or destroy buildings. (Personally, I realize that some buildings have to be blown up, but that's because of the work I do. Frankly, if you're getting shot at by the Navy, then it's probably not a big loss if we kick you off the planet.) They want to go about their lives without the fear of being blown up or shot at.
These "Muslims" (and just for the record, not everyone from the middle east is a Muslim.) emigrating to the Western world are often highly-educated (like the non-Muslim Professional Engineer next to me that I referred to earlier), young, and wanting to make a solid contribution to the countries that they are now calling home.
We were not attacked by Muslims. The attacks on the Cole, the Twin Towers, and the Pentagon were performed by brainwashed puppets controlled by a billionaire megalomanic sociopath who convinced them that they would be better off dead. They were no more Muslim than the Branch Davidians or Manson's followers were whatever religion they purported to be. The Koran is pretty clear about the "Thou Shalt Not Kill" rule, same as the Torah and the Bible. (There are parts like Leviticus in the other texts as well, so don't cut and paste something out of context from a website.) I've had Muslim co-workers, and they are as opposed to violence as anyone else. This includes hating Hamas for rocketing Israel and condemning 9/11 as a travesty.
The TSA is bullshit security theater, plain and simple.
We got into this mess from political gaming, not from "liberals". Liberals want the government out of people's lives, smaller government, and no deficit budgets.
It's like the creator of COPS said about why he doesn't go after corporate crooks.
"It doesn't make good TV. When the police go to arrest someone like that, they act like he's on city council, which he may or may not be, and it's all very polite. Now, if you could get that same guy to rip his shirt off and jump out the window when the police show up, then that's good TV."
At 60Hz, yes, it's an eyesore. If the refresh rate is high enough, then no. I suspect it's to do with the residual glow of the screen after the electron gun has passed.
My laptop is a Thinkpad 600E:
P2 366
64MB RAM
6G HDD.
Wireless via PCMCIA
no sound
no USB
CD-ROM
So yes, I would take a free upgrade from Google. Maybe it'll run Puppy...
Read carefully:
It's a HADRON collider.
I fully agree with you. I've had real problems with LCD TVs -- the ghosting drives me up the wall.
"So this is the most advanced LCD TV you have in the store?"
"Yes."
"You can't see that flickering?"
"Well, let's watch an HD feed... how's that?"
"You can't see that either?"
"It's refreshing at 600Hz; you can't possibly see it."
"Well, I know what I'm seeing. You can't see this, here (pointing) flickering and ghosting?"
"It's very subtle."
Needless to say, I have a tube TV and a CRT at home. Work has supplied 2 LCD monitors, so I'm stuck with those. I'm the kind of guy who can see the flickering on Plasma TVs (it looks like stop-motion) or line voltage LEDs.
For audio, you can try a nifty trick:
***WARNING: DO NOT DO THIS.***
Take your cheapo amp apart and replace a few critical components. Those critical components are the capacitor on the power supply, the various solid-state amplifiers, and the potentiometer for the volume control.
Usually they'll use a handful of LM741 amps, which are cheap and ubiquituous. If you instead use a series of pin-compatible 5534s, you get way better sound out of the system. (A 5534 has 4nV / (Hz)^(1/2) ). A quick poke with a soldering station and you've got better performance. (You're not actually doing this, are you?)
You can just open up the case, replace parts of the guts, and you get better stuff. Amplifier design is established; the difference in quality is part selection. (And trace position, but that's a different story.)
You can get $1500 performance out of a $20 amp if you use the good components. The good components are more expensive, so they don't put them in. If you've got the skills and tools, it's a trivial afternoon project. (You can do this with just about any cheap electronics device.)
I use 14 AWG shielded flexible wire for speaker wire. It's cheaper than "speaker wire" and works much better. If you do get into shielding, remember that ***you must only shield one end***.
Credit vs. Cash -> depends, I vote Debit Card (best of both worlds)
Be careful -- I used to put everything on debit until my parents' info was stolen from a hancked PIN pad. I switched to credit, and the advantages are:
1. Reward points (1% cash back)
2. Deferral of all expenses by one month (extra interest in bank account)
3. Buffer between "real" money and "public" money. (like a throw-away email address)
4. Recovery of assets is faster. (Bank: "Maybe you took a flight to Georgia this afternoon." CC: "Oh, sorry, we'll reverse the charge and send you a new card.")
There is no downside IF you pay off the balance every month. Okay, you do have to carry around one extra card, but that's it.
I ride a bike to work, you insensitive clod!