Not true. With all the Sarbanes-Oxley stuff, you're often required to keep it MUCH longer. Also, if your company works in the personal-care fields, making band-aids, female products and such that contact skin & blood (or anything that needs FDA validation for that matter), the retention requirements are disturbingly high.
Depends on your definition of "proper". MS put out an XP power tool called "Virtual Desktop Manager." While it's nigh-impossible to move apps from one desktop to another and apps running out of the tasktray (like IM clients or winamp) seem to persist across all desktops, it still works pretty well. It may not have EVERYTHING you'd ask for, but it does its job and beats a sharp stick in the eye.
...for those of you that had chem at 8am on a monday, when you combine those two you get salt @ water. I just had to point that out because I thought it a particularly funny nerd-joke and I didn't want anyone to miss it.
"Bass, however, still is a problem no matter what design you choose. Because lower frequencies have longer wavelengths, the object producing said waves needs to have a great enough range of vibration to produce those wavelengths. (mountains and weather systems can produce massive kilometers-long sound waves that are able to literally circle the globe, but I digress...) Because flat panel speakers are by their very nature, flat, the range of motion for the panel is limited to the depth of the cabinet, which typically isn't that much."
Not entirely true. To create sound, all you need is air displacement; a total "swept volume". If you're limited on your ability to move back-and-forth, you just need to make the radiating area bigger. That's why a 12" woofer can play lower than a 6" woofer (assuming similar efficiencies and voice coil travel).
Mangepan has been vibrating large sheets of mylar for a good 30 years. These designs have less than.5mm of "excursion" and yet can often play down to 120hz. The downside? Well, they're about 2' wide by 5' tall. Still, it CAN be done if you've got the surface from which to radiate.
I dunno if you were being tongue in cheek, but black holes are noisy, at least when they're eating. When "stuff" falls into them, it falls in in very close proximity to other "stuff". Not all that stuff can get eaten that fast, so some of it splashes back out as jets of particles with enough angular velocity to escape at the poles. I think.
Yes, the Earth did survive just fine previously with all that carbon in the atmosphere. However, on a planetary level, whether or not there are glaciers and whether or not there are mass extinctions is a minor thing. It has happened frequently over the course of tens (hundreds!) of millions of years. Life is (in general) a tenacious thing. What we humans have basically done is taken a dump on our living room carpet. It might affect the house's resale value today, but when the carpet's replaced, it's no big deal.
The big problem is that we're FOND of the carpet and the way it allows us to just kind of lounge around. And the carpet store dreadfully slow to deliver new carpet.
Yep. Muscles are like solenoids. Apply some current, and they contract. With AC, your muscles have 60 chances a second to flail you around and dislodge yourself from the electrical source (in the US, anyway). With DC, you kinda just lock on...
If it was going to remain on the phone with a telemarketer, then it won't pass the Turing test. To pass a Turing test, the computer must show not only natural language & knowledge, but also reason.
And willfully engaging a telemarketer is about the most unreasonable thing one can do.
I can only hope they've fired this at test animals.
The ECU can be anywhere. I've seen them under the hood, in the dash, behind the glove box... They've got to basically spray the whole car. In fact, I've most often found them under the passenger's side dash (there's a lot more space on that side without the console & steering column). So if there's a passenger in the car, you're aiming a potentially lethal device at a human.
No. Aeroplanes use entirely shielded electronics gear. Missiles (especially the nuclear type) are likely to be used in an environment with a high probability of an EMP burst and are built to withstand it (which is why "mil spec" usually equates to badass). Satellites? They contend with a helluvalot more than 100J of energy on a daily basis.
Which also makes me wonder why, if someone were intent on illegality, they couldn't put their own little faraday cage around the car's ECU. A little box made of copper with a drain wire to the car frame too hard to implement?
The various laws of conservation say energy in == energy out. So we'd have to first gather up enough energy to make everything go kablooey before we'd be able to pack it into a ball. As it is, we can't even gather enough energy to start off a fusion reaction capable of powering a DeLorean!
I don't remember what it says in the profile when your karma isn't "excellent". Time to find out.
Why am I not surprised that the majority of the comments here are personal outrage?
This guy did something that was BOTH wreckless and utterly effin' cool. These things aren't entirely incompatible. Anyone remember James Dean?
Okay, he greased himself in his Porsche. Bad example.
BUT maybe you can still get my point. Should he endanger others on the road, blah blah blah? Of course he shouldn't have. If you set down your righteous indignance and stop to read, TFA was about setting a record. Doing something that, because of our increasing nanny-stateness, would likely be impossible to attempt again, let alone beat. And he did it with style! Thermal imagers! Jammers! Mil-spec gyroscopic binocs! By all accounts, he's done such drives before; he's logged tens of thousands of miles of experience in avoidance driving on open roads. And I'm certain that he and his codriver knew that mistakes would make the kind of mess best cleaned up with a hose. Roy is not some kid with a poorly tricked-out import and 3 years of driving experience.
Get down off your high horses; I'm sure plenty of you are getting saddle-sores. Fer chrissake, a couple of the "that's so illegal" comments I read had the HD-DVD encryption key listed in their sigs. So if you are the type to commit selective rebellion, you have to admit to yourself that, even just a little bit, it was still really effin' cool.
Did you actaully read through those bug reports? The problem is CFQ. Choose a different one. Unlike the CPU schedulers, the IO schedulers *are* pluggable. Try anticipatory or deadline.
Huh. That seems to make no sense. I mean, cable companies are the ones in the best position to go all digital, having a handy supply of boxes in homes already up to the task. Then again, the FCC seems rather anti-cable-box. Could this be because, thus far, cableCARD initiatives have, well, sucked?
And I think the people most likely to be cut off from transmissions are the low-tech rural areas, not people living in a metro area who can afford at least basic cable.
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Well, that was '59, so we can have that fusion reactor any time now...
Not true. With all the Sarbanes-Oxley stuff, you're often required to keep it MUCH longer. Also, if your company works in the personal-care fields, making band-aids, female products and such that contact skin & blood (or anything that needs FDA validation for that matter), the retention requirements are disturbingly high.
Pwned by my laziness. Way back when /. started UIDs, I didn't see the benefit of logging in to make my snarky comments. Now I know. :-)
So are you. ;-)
Depends on your definition of "proper". MS put out an XP power tool called "Virtual Desktop Manager." While it's nigh-impossible to move apps from one desktop to another and apps running out of the tasktray (like IM clients or winamp) seem to persist across all desktops, it still works pretty well. It may not have EVERYTHING you'd ask for, but it does its job and beats a sharp stick in the eye.
...says a guy who hails from the mother of all nanny states.
...for those of you that had chem at 8am on a monday, when you combine those two you get salt @ water. I just had to point that out because I thought it a particularly funny nerd-joke and I didn't want anyone to miss it.
"Bass, however, still is a problem no matter what design you choose. Because lower frequencies have longer wavelengths, the object producing said waves needs to have a great enough range of vibration to produce those wavelengths. (mountains and weather systems can produce massive kilometers-long sound waves that are able to literally circle the globe, but I digress...) Because flat panel speakers are by their very nature, flat, the range of motion for the panel is limited to the depth of the cabinet, which typically isn't that much."
.5mm of "excursion" and yet can often play down to 120hz. The downside? Well, they're about 2' wide by 5' tall. Still, it CAN be done if you've got the surface from which to radiate.
Not entirely true. To create sound, all you need is air displacement; a total "swept volume". If you're limited on your ability to move back-and-forth, you just need to make the radiating area bigger. That's why a 12" woofer can play lower than a 6" woofer (assuming similar efficiencies and voice coil travel).
Mangepan has been vibrating large sheets of mylar for a good 30 years. These designs have less than
I think that question has already been raised. However, Hitler remains unavailable for comment.
WTF are 4 speakers and a subwoofer doing in a laptop?
Does the ThinkPad line come with fewer gimmicks?
I dunno if you were being tongue in cheek, but black holes are noisy, at least when they're eating. When "stuff" falls into them, it falls in in very close proximity to other "stuff". Not all that stuff can get eaten that fast, so some of it splashes back out as jets of particles with enough angular velocity to escape at the poles. I think.
Yes, the Earth did survive just fine previously with all that carbon in the atmosphere. However, on a planetary level, whether or not there are glaciers and whether or not there are mass extinctions is a minor thing. It has happened frequently over the course of tens (hundreds!) of millions of years. Life is (in general) a tenacious thing. What we humans have basically done is taken a dump on our living room carpet. It might affect the house's resale value today, but when the carpet's replaced, it's no big deal.
The big problem is that we're FOND of the carpet and the way it allows us to just kind of lounge around. And the carpet store dreadfully slow to deliver new carpet.
Yep. Muscles are like solenoids. Apply some current, and they contract. With AC, your muscles have 60 chances a second to flail you around and dislodge yourself from the electrical source (in the US, anyway). With DC, you kinda just lock on...
If it was going to remain on the phone with a telemarketer, then it won't pass the Turing test. To pass a Turing test, the computer must show not only natural language & knowledge, but also reason.
And willfully engaging a telemarketer is about the most unreasonable thing one can do.
I can only hope they've fired this at test animals. The ECU can be anywhere. I've seen them under the hood, in the dash, behind the glove box... They've got to basically spray the whole car. In fact, I've most often found them under the passenger's side dash (there's a lot more space on that side without the console & steering column). So if there's a passenger in the car, you're aiming a potentially lethal device at a human.
No. Aeroplanes use entirely shielded electronics gear. Missiles (especially the nuclear type) are likely to be used in an environment with a high probability of an EMP burst and are built to withstand it (which is why "mil spec" usually equates to badass). Satellites? They contend with a helluvalot more than 100J of energy on a daily basis.
Which also makes me wonder why, if someone were intent on illegality, they couldn't put their own little faraday cage around the car's ECU. A little box made of copper with a drain wire to the car frame too hard to implement?
Stop trying to use lynx.
Air travel is like hot dogs. Ignorance is bliss.
Seriously though, I try to remind myself that the pilots are just as interested in getting to the destination in one piece as I am.
Indeed. He got it bass-ackwards.
The proper way to do it is to write out numbers below 100 and to use digits for 100 and above.
This attempt at whoring for a "+5 Informative" brought to you today by the letters W, T and F and by the numbers eighty-four and 328.
The various laws of conservation say energy in == energy out. So we'd have to first gather up enough energy to make everything go kablooey before we'd be able to pack it into a ball. As it is, we can't even gather enough energy to start off a fusion reaction capable of powering a DeLorean!
I don't remember what it says in the profile when your karma isn't "excellent". Time to find out.
Why am I not surprised that the majority of the comments here are personal outrage?
This guy did something that was BOTH wreckless and utterly effin' cool. These things aren't entirely incompatible. Anyone remember James Dean?
Okay, he greased himself in his Porsche. Bad example.
BUT maybe you can still get my point. Should he endanger others on the road, blah blah blah? Of course he shouldn't have. If you set down your righteous indignance and stop to read, TFA was about setting a record. Doing something that, because of our increasing nanny-stateness, would likely be impossible to attempt again, let alone beat. And he did it with style! Thermal imagers! Jammers! Mil-spec gyroscopic binocs! By all accounts, he's done such drives before; he's logged tens of thousands of miles of experience in avoidance driving on open roads. And I'm certain that he and his codriver knew that mistakes would make the kind of mess best cleaned up with a hose. Roy is not some kid with a poorly tricked-out import and 3 years of driving experience.
Get down off your high horses; I'm sure plenty of you are getting saddle-sores. Fer chrissake, a couple of the "that's so illegal" comments I read had the HD-DVD encryption key listed in their sigs. So if you are the type to commit selective rebellion, you have to admit to yourself that, even just a little bit, it was still really effin' cool.
Never looked into the concept of home ownership? I thought they made it obvious that you could pretty much buy a house in each town.
This single post will keep you from ever holding public office. Well, U.S. Senate might still be an option.
Did you actaully read through those bug reports? The problem is CFQ. Choose a different one. Unlike the CPU schedulers, the IO schedulers *are* pluggable. Try anticipatory or deadline.
Huh. That seems to make no sense. I mean, cable companies are the ones in the best position to go all digital, having a handy supply of boxes in homes already up to the task. Then again, the FCC seems rather anti-cable-box. Could this be because, thus far, cableCARD initiatives have, well, sucked?
And I think the people most likely to be cut off from transmissions are the low-tech rural areas, not people living in a metro area who can afford at least basic cable.