unless you're talking about a shop in middle Africa or even Outback, China that proposes to utilise such a system in a mesh network to bring remote communities one step closer to being Facebook zombies.
Hell, for that matter - how much processing power do you need to run a DHCP router? Or a DVR? Or a home automation system? Something as simple as an automatic garage door opener? An RFID reader?
There's a BUNCH of uses for low power/small iron that Big Iron would be utterly WASTED on. The aforementioned is not, by any means, exhaustive.
yeah but the half life of 40K is something like 1.27 billion years. That's not enough of a curve to estimate the age of a nonfossilised biological sample. The half life of 14C is 5280 years, which is good up to around 60,000 years. We know to a fair degree of precision how much 14C is in the environment and the rate at which it is produced and absorbed, and we also know precisely how it decays and into what: alpha decay to 14N at the rate of 14 events per gram of pure carbon per second (Libby). The mechanism of production is so well known in fact that an accurate estimation can be made of the date of birth of any living individual simply by looking at the relative amount of 14C in their teeth*.
(*according to Choppin Liljenzin and Rydberg, there is more 14C in the biosphere due to the decay products resulting from nuclear testing (ie from thorium and radium fallout following atmospheric detonations) than from any other source - including n + 14N -> 14C + p in the upper atmosphere which is the main natural source).
actually, thanks to NCLB they have been afforded the same opportunities in education as everybody else. The fault of their being dumbasses lies solely and entirely on them. Ergo, the funpokery is entirely justified, in my opinion.
banana bread. Contains bananas which are yellow when very ripe (for some definition of "yellow", they're actually about as banana-like as gourds - the modern yellow bent banana didn't actually exist before 1840, it's an entirely artificial cultivar). Bananas of course, being high in potassium which is slightly radioactive.
The US Dollar is backed against itself. It is a fiat, or debt currency. As is Sterling (which used to be backed by the Gold Standard, then it was the Silver Standard, now it's backed by guarantee of the Treasury which means about as much as... well, not a lot, actually). As is the Euro.
The last time any Western economy had a real currency was 1914 when the Bradbury was issued. This was backed by the authority of the Crown, hence everything owned by the Crown, and was initially intended solely to prevent a run on Sterling and enable the purchase of war materials. It was replaced by the Bank of England fiat note in 1928.
this is it. This is the ORIGINAL Trackman Marble. The USB model actually came out before the PS/2 model (I know this because I had to buy a PS/2 adapter, having only two USB ports at the time which were both already in use and hubs cost a fortune back then)
tells you how low slashdot has gotten, when it says at the top, instead of "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" (why has this gone?), now "Become a fan of Slashdot on Facebook". Er, how about "NO!"?
you're a rum one, I'd first look at the direction they came from to see if I could spot smoke, alien spaceships or giant lizards I really should be running away from. If not, then I'm staying put.
Logitech Marble. Ambidextrous, bloody huge ball (I mean it's like off a kangaroo or something, handy when you've got hands the size of dinner plates like I have), 4 buttons (UI configurable, you don't need ANY extra software), lasts for fucking ever. I have several, had 'em for well over ten years and they've never given me a jot of trouble through daily use.
remember when they put out the MS Optical 3 button "Business 200"? OYG that was an amazing piece of kit. Best £8 I ever spent, right there. It has a well behind the scroll wheel which helps prevent accidental scrolling (somehow you have to have your finger directly on the wheel to move it, glancing it doesn't work), and the 3rd button is actually under the well. A later model (with an LED out the back just to let you and the rest of the office know your mouse is plugged in) has button 3 as a thumb switch (and annoyingly only comes in right handed variant)
I have a collection of Logitech Marble trackballs that I've had for well over ten years now, they get used on a daily basis and with zero issues. The model has a modifier button above each of the main buttons (1 and 2) which I have assigned both as 3. The only time 3 gets used is on one particular game, as a modifier switch for the marble that causes it to zoom instead of pan.
XP Mode uses a framework that's already there in Windows 7, basically all that's missing is the 5.1.2600 kernel. Virtualbox adds another framework. So if you use XP Mode, you don't need to throw in another AV - it's already there in the host. XP Mode is to Windows 7 what 386 Protected Mode was to Windows 95 - a shared memory sandbox.
not least of which, allowing an organisation that is answerable to none but the United States Supreme Court to regulate a virtual currency that is in direct competition with its own pet, the Almighty Dollar.
Run everything in a VM, such as Windows XP Mode (for Windows 7) or VirtualBox (cross platform). The difference between the two being, that in Virtualbox you need to have the applications installed on the virtual machine image, whereas in Windows XP Mode all you need is the XP VM installed and that is invoked from the program shortcut via a shell extension.
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unless you're talking about a shop in middle Africa or even Outback, China that proposes to utilise such a system in a mesh network to bring remote communities one step closer to being Facebook zombies.
Hell, for that matter - how much processing power do you need to run a DHCP router?
Or a DVR?
Or a home automation system? Something as simple as an automatic garage door opener?
An RFID reader?
There's a BUNCH of uses for low power/small iron that Big Iron would be utterly WASTED on. The aforementioned is not, by any means, exhaustive.
citations needed.
yeah but the half life of 40K is something like 1.27 billion years. That's not enough of a curve to estimate the age of a nonfossilised biological sample. The half life of 14C is 5280 years, which is good up to around 60,000 years. We know to a fair degree of precision how much 14C is in the environment and the rate at which it is produced and absorbed, and we also know precisely how it decays and into what: alpha decay to 14N at the rate of 14 events per gram of pure carbon per second (Libby). The mechanism of production is so well known in fact that an accurate estimation can be made of the date of birth of any living individual simply by looking at the relative amount of 14C in their teeth*.
(*according to Choppin Liljenzin and Rydberg, there is more 14C in the biosphere due to the decay products resulting from nuclear testing (ie from thorium and radium fallout following atmospheric detonations) than from any other source - including n + 14N -> 14C + p in the upper atmosphere which is the main natural source).
actually, thanks to NCLB they have been afforded the same opportunities in education as everybody else. The fault of their being dumbasses lies solely and entirely on them. Ergo, the funpokery is entirely justified, in my opinion.
what should terrify you is that these fuckers breed.
banana bread. Contains bananas which are yellow when very ripe (for some definition of "yellow", they're actually about as banana-like as gourds - the modern yellow bent banana didn't actually exist before 1840, it's an entirely artificial cultivar). Bananas of course, being high in potassium which is slightly radioactive.
define "real money"?
The US Dollar is backed against itself. It is a fiat, or debt currency.
As is Sterling (which used to be backed by the Gold Standard, then it was the Silver Standard, now it's backed by guarantee of the Treasury which means about as much as... well, not a lot, actually).
As is the Euro.
The last time any Western economy had a real currency was 1914 when the Bradbury was issued. This was backed by the authority of the Crown, hence everything owned by the Crown, and was initially intended solely to prevent a run on Sterling and enable the purchase of war materials. It was replaced by the Bank of England fiat note in 1928.
the New York Stock Exchange seems to be doing well, even on the back of all that banking fraud that you seeem to have slept through.
Hate to break it to you, but that is the TRACKMAN MARBLE PLUS (THE PAGE YOU LINKED!!). Mine is the TRACKMAN MARBLE. http://www.logitech.com/en-gb/...
yep. Noticed for some reason slashdot dropped the amazon link. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trackm...
addendum: the DOM on one of the trackballs I have is 2002.04.01, the label on the other one that's immediately to hand is too worn to read.
this is it. This is the ORIGINAL Trackman Marble. The USB model actually came out before the PS/2 model (I know this because I had to buy a PS/2 adapter, having only two USB ports at the time which were both already in use and hubs cost a fortune back then)
tells you how low slashdot has gotten, when it says at the top, instead of "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" (why has this gone?), now "Become a fan of Slashdot on Facebook". Er, how about "NO!"?
you're a rum one, I'd first look at the direction they came from to see if I could spot smoke, alien spaceships or giant lizards I really should be running away from. If not, then I'm staying put.
so what happened to your old thumbball?
Logitech Marble. Ambidextrous, bloody huge ball (I mean it's like off a kangaroo or something, handy when you've got hands the size of dinner plates like I have), 4 buttons (UI configurable, you don't need ANY extra software), lasts for fucking ever. I have several, had 'em for well over ten years and they've never given me a jot of trouble through daily use.
remember when they put out the MS Optical 3 button "Business 200"? OYG that was an amazing piece of kit. Best £8 I ever spent, right there. It has a well behind the scroll wheel which helps prevent accidental scrolling (somehow you have to have your finger directly on the wheel to move it, glancing it doesn't work), and the 3rd button is actually under the well. A later model (with an LED out the back just to let you and the rest of the office know your mouse is plugged in) has button 3 as a thumb switch (and annoyingly only comes in right handed variant)
I have a collection of Logitech Marble trackballs that I've had for well over ten years now, they get used on a daily basis and with zero issues. The model has a modifier button above each of the main buttons (1 and 2) which I have assigned both as 3. The only time 3 gets used is on one particular game, as a modifier switch for the marble that causes it to zoom instead of pan.
XP Mode uses a framework that's already there in Windows 7, basically all that's missing is the 5.1.2600 kernel. Virtualbox adds another framework. So if you use XP Mode, you don't need to throw in another AV - it's already there in the host. XP Mode is to Windows 7 what 386 Protected Mode was to Windows 95 - a shared memory sandbox.
as opposed to a random guy in the United States? Or Europe?
Here's a completely crazy idea: how about we let the user community regulate it?
It worked for a bloody long time to pretty much fix the value of salt against any other given commodity.
if your friends run off a cliff, do you follow them?
one word:
LINDOWS.
That is all.
not least of which, allowing an organisation that is answerable to none but the United States Supreme Court to regulate a virtual currency that is in direct competition with its own pet, the Almighty Dollar.
easy.
Run everything in a VM, such as Windows XP Mode (for Windows 7) or VirtualBox (cross platform). The difference between the two being, that in Virtualbox you need to have the applications installed on the virtual machine image, whereas in Windows XP Mode all you need is the XP VM installed and that is invoked from the program shortcut via a shell extension.
I have a little cry to myself every time because it shortens the life of the hardware, and right now I can't afford to replace ANY of it.