Because you are exploiting someone else's incompetence.
Thus you, must be less incompetant than someone else.
Whilst being less incompetant than someone else is not generally an indication of being clever, you will appear to be clever to someone else who is incompetant.
Going from this, if you are clever, you are merely less incompetant than someone else. This is an important basic principal of Management.
Normally, you only hook 'em up when your line's broken and you've just busted your only 250MW feed to a large industrial region full of customers who pay 1 million bucks a month for reliable site power.
Perhaps you could more easily educate the next generation of progammers if you weren't such an uptight and insulting fellow with an apparent superiority complex.
Your original post: "All "computer errors" are human errors."
To which people have replied , but what about hardware failures, etc.
To which you replied: That's not an error, it's a malfunction. Bah! Semantics.:-)
You're just the kind of computer geek I abhor, always looking for excuses instead of solutions to your own mistakes. A pretty sharp response to a person who questioned your definition of "error". I fail to see how you managed to classify the poster as a computer geek you abhor, for crying out loud, in just one post.
And you still haven't learned anything. You still haven't really taught anything. You have at this point however, been quite rude.
Go back under your rock, little troll..... I have no use for idiots like you who think they're infallible. Now you're just being abusive here. Besides, it looks to me like you think you're infallible as well;-)
How are you going to teach the next generation when in 4 posts you have shown that you're highly intolerant of people with different, albeit possibly wrong, views?
100km of venusian atmosphere outside the straw, 100km of venusian atmosphere inside the straw. Net pressure difference all the way up the straw? 0.
Seriously dude , don't post shit like that, people might believe you one day. God knows there's enough stupidity around already. ("Idiots! I'm surrounded by idiots!!")
You should try changing the ignition locks sometime.... much more fun
For example in Fords with "smartlock", you turn key to ignition, engine computer asks the lock for 3 codes and will start the car if only one code matches (albeit, with much blinking of the "smartlock" light)
To replace the ignition lock/switch, you have to hook up the new switch, put the key in and leave the ignition on for more than half an hour, and then the computer will accept the codes from the new lock as valid.
Oh, and make sure your interior light is working , as the smartlock system runs off the same fuse and it won't do squat if that fuse's blown.
Toyota's are worse. 100-series landcruisers have a security system from HELL to debug..... and zero factory info to boot. But, funnily enough, the diesel ones have all the 'smarts' located on a $500 module on the injector pump. This can be smashed (!!) off to reveal a standard fuel solenoid beneath which can be easily hooked to ignition.
Hot water systems and other off-peak switching devices are already controlled by tones of a few hundred Hz injected over the 'top of' standard 50/60Hz.
These would be far more audible than the MHz-scale interference, although they only happen briefly.
The most glaring problem with this "report" is that it doesn't give hacks vs the total number of installed systems, which makes the numbers meaningless.
To reiterate UVAblows point:
It's like saying my bank has had 35 confirmed break-ins this year, vs some other bank that has had 2. OH MY GOD! MY BANK IS INSECURE!!! MY MONEY'S NOT SAFE!!!
Oh wait, my bank has 4200 branches, the other bank has 3.
This last crucial piece of information is what's missing in this "report".
Just another reason to have earth leakage circuit breakers.
ELCB's measure the current between active and neutral and trip if difference exceeds a set level, about 30mA normally - if half your neutral current is returning via the earth wire it'll trip pretty quick.
When your $10K wrench is moving at 7km/s, that's a pretty big "oh no". Remember that (alleged) paint chip that left a big impact on one of the shuttle windows? Wouldn't want to meet that spanner head on, that's for sure:-)
Mind you, since most manned launches are to the ISS at the moment, your relative velocity to ISS debris in the same general orbit would be pretty small.
Prof. Frink: "Brace yourselves gentlemen.... according to the gas chromatograph, the secret ingredient is... love!? Ok, who's been screwing with the machine!"
It would appear that all you need to do to fuck this up is to have some extra chemcials on the paper.
They say that they have 70 different chemicals that all resonate at different frequencies, they assign each chemical to a certain position in a 70 bit string.
So if you want to mess with it, all you need to do is add a few drops of glue with (say) 15 of the chemicals in it onto the item, then the reader reads a 70 bit code with 15 extra 1's in it.... which is not the code that it's looking for, move along.
A correctly designed fuel injected car can run for 200,000k's without needing anything more than filters and oil. And after 200,000k's will still start/run/accelerate just fine.
Your van, on the other hand, will need a fair bit of maintenance and will drink a truckload more fuel than an equivalent fuel injected van would.
And as for your nissan, first,clean the injectors. Second, get a good diagnostic manual for it - computer controlled injection isn't that hard to grasp, and most computers these days (sadly probably not your nissan) can tell you where a problem lies. Third - as much as you love your old iron, the new generation is here. EFI's come a long way since the 70's analog computer and it's a lot more reliable than anything mechanical on your engine.
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Unless his car's overinjecting like crazy, then you get excessive soot and crap economy.
With regards to you MPG comment - If you want more power from your engine, and all you're doing is reprogramming a chip...... you'll pretty much need more fuel from *somewhere*.
If you want real performance with diesels, I'd probably look into LPG injection. From what I've heard, it gives you 20-30% more power straight up, and less soot to boot.
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I remember reading someplace that the picture tube can hold a built up charge of 20,000 volts for a time after a unit is unplugged.
That's right, your TV is a particle accelerator. Electrons are emitted from the guns at the back of the tube and are drawn by about a 20-30kV charge to the front of the tube. There, they smack into the phosphor coating on the glass, causing the phosphor to become excited and glow. A small amount of electrons also smack into the metal shadow mask at the front of the tube, exciting the metal atoms, which instead of glowing, release their energy as x-rays and promptly drop back to their normal state.
TV's have a lot of HV protection circuitry and shielded tubes because if the HV becomes excessive, a large amount of x-rays (mainly directed out the back of the set) could be produced.
But going back to your statement, picture tubes have a small amount of capacitance (due to internal the metal coatings) and a very high operating voltage, thus they can store a lot of energy for quite a period of time.
1) Write on the side of your CPU heatsink the words "If you can see this , it's too hot!"
2) Paint that side with black thermochromic ink that changes temperature at 60 degrees C.
3) Profit!!!
Or, as the temperature drops from the bottom to the top of the heatsink, you could put things like "cool..." "warm..." "warmer..." "Hot..." "FUCK!" up the side of the heatsink. One glance and you'd know. Handy for those clear cases;-)
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Because you are exploiting someone else's incompetence.
Thus you, must be less incompetant than someone else.
Whilst being less incompetant than someone else is not generally an indication of being clever, you will appear to be clever to someone else who is incompetant.
Going from this, if you are clever, you are merely less incompetant than someone else. This is an important basic principal of Management.
probably it's all the ions in your body jiggling at 60Hz ;-)
Normally, you only hook 'em up when your line's broken and you've just busted your only 250MW feed to a large industrial region full of customers who pay 1 million bucks a month for reliable site power.
As posted up a bit :
16kV shock to person on power pole
Case in point: Guy high on PCP tries to kill self with 16kV
As long as you don't actually activate your reactor until you reach a safe orbit, the amount of radioactivity is small.
Once you start the thing and get all the active fission products, well then it gets messy.
Is there a simpsons reference there? I think there is!
:"You
Chief Clancy Wiggum (watching state lottery draw)
got the wrong number. This is 912." (click)
Perhaps you could more easily educate the next generation of progammers if you weren't such an uptight and insulting fellow with an apparent superiority complex.
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: :-)
;-)
Your original post
"All "computer errors" are human errors."
To which people have replied , but what about hardware failures, etc.
To which you replied
That's not an error, it's a malfunction.
Bah! Semantics.
You're just the kind of computer geek I abhor, always looking for excuses instead of solutions to your own mistakes.
A pretty sharp response to a person who questioned your definition of "error". I fail to see how you managed to classify the poster as a computer geek you abhor, for crying out loud, in just one post.
And you still haven't learned anything.
You still haven't really taught anything. You have at this point however, been quite rude.
Go back under your rock, little troll..... I have no use for idiots like you who think they're infallible.
Now you're just being abusive here. Besides, it looks to me like you think you're infallible as well
How are you going to teach the next generation when in 4 posts you have shown that you're highly intolerant of people with different, albeit possibly wrong, views?
Except for that niggling problem of *gravity*.
100km of venusian atmosphere outside the straw, 100km of venusian atmosphere inside the straw. Net pressure difference all the way up the straw? 0.
Seriously dude , don't post shit like that, people might believe you one day. God knows there's enough stupidity around already. ("Idiots! I'm surrounded by idiots!!")
Unless you own an early pentium.
You should try changing the ignition locks sometime.... much more fun
;-)
For example in Fords with "smartlock", you turn key to ignition, engine computer asks the lock for 3 codes and will start the car if only one code matches (albeit, with much blinking of the "smartlock" light)
To replace the ignition lock/switch, you have to hook up the new switch, put the key in and leave the ignition on for more than half an hour, and then the computer will accept the codes from the new lock as valid.
Oh, and make sure your interior light is working , as the smartlock system runs off the same fuse and it won't do squat if that fuse's blown.
Toyota's are worse. 100-series landcruisers have a security system from HELL to debug..... and zero factory info to boot. But, funnily enough, the diesel ones have all the 'smarts' located on a $500 module on the injector pump. This can be smashed (!!) off to reveal a standard fuel solenoid beneath which can be easily hooked to ignition.
Don't ask me how I came to know that
Hot water systems and other off-peak switching devices are already controlled by tones of a few hundred Hz injected over the 'top of' standard 50/60Hz.
These would be far more audible than the MHz-scale interference, although they only happen briefly.
Man this looks like a lot of text... wait, did I see a reference to hot girls? No... that said hot grits... You expect us to read all of this?
Typical slashdot user with all the attention span of a.... hey look , a poodle!
The most glaring problem with this "report" is that it doesn't give hacks vs the total number of installed systems, which makes the numbers meaningless.
:
To reiterate UVAblows point
It's like saying my bank has had 35 confirmed break-ins this year, vs some other bank that has had 2. OH MY GOD! MY BANK IS INSECURE!!! MY MONEY'S NOT SAFE!!!
Oh wait, my bank has 4200 branches, the other bank has 3.
This last crucial piece of information is what's missing in this "report".
ain't quite what? ;-)
Just another reason to have earth leakage circuit breakers.
ELCB's measure the current between active and neutral and trip if difference exceeds a set level, about 30mA normally - if half your neutral current is returning via the earth wire it'll trip pretty quick.
It's! their! highly! irritating! use! of! the! exclamation! mark! in! their! name! and! all! their! propaganda!
Kind of like Divx;-).
Nonsense!
You just need a very sharp chisel.
When your $10K wrench is moving at 7km/s, that's a pretty big "oh no". Remember that (alleged) paint chip that left a big impact on one of the shuttle windows? Wouldn't want to meet that spanner head on, that's for sure :-)
Mind you, since most manned launches are to the ISS at the moment, your relative velocity to ISS debris in the same general orbit would be pretty small.
Prof. Frink: "Brace yourselves gentlemen.... according to the gas chromatograph, the secret ingredient is... love!? Ok, who's been screwing with the machine!"
It would appear that all you need to do to fuck this up is to have some extra chemcials on the paper.
They say that they have 70 different chemicals that all resonate at different frequencies, they assign each chemical to a certain position in a 70 bit string.
So if you want to mess with it, all you need to do is add a few drops of glue with (say) 15 of the chemicals in it onto the item, then the reader reads a 70 bit code with 15 extra 1's in it.... which is not the code that it's looking for, move along.
A correctly designed fuel injected car can run for 200,000k's without needing anything more than filters and oil. And after 200,000k's will still start/run/accelerate just fine.
Your van, on the other hand, will need a fair bit of maintenance and will drink a truckload more fuel than an equivalent fuel injected van would.
And as for your nissan, first,clean the injectors.
Second, get a good diagnostic manual for it - computer controlled injection isn't that hard to grasp, and most computers these days (sadly probably not your nissan) can tell you where a problem lies.
Third - as much as you love your old iron, the new generation is here. EFI's come a long way since the 70's analog computer and it's a lot more reliable than anything mechanical on your engine.
Unless his car's overinjecting like crazy, then you get excessive soot and crap economy.
With regards to you MPG comment - If you want more power from your engine, and all you're doing is reprogramming a chip...... you'll pretty much need more fuel from *somewhere*.
If you want real performance with diesels, I'd probably look into LPG injection. From what I've heard, it gives you 20-30% more power straight up, and less soot to boot.
I remember reading someplace that the picture tube can hold a built up charge of 20,000 volts for a time after a unit is unplugged.
That's right, your TV is a particle accelerator.
Electrons are emitted from the guns at the back of the tube and are drawn by about a 20-30kV charge to the front of the tube. There, they smack into the phosphor coating on the glass, causing the phosphor to become excited and glow. A small amount of electrons also smack into the metal shadow mask at the front of the tube, exciting the metal atoms, which instead of glowing, release their energy as x-rays and promptly drop back to their normal state.
TV's have a lot of HV protection circuitry and shielded tubes because if the HV becomes excessive, a large amount of x-rays (mainly directed out the back of the set) could be produced.
But going back to your statement, picture tubes have a small amount of capacitance (due to internal the metal coatings) and a very high operating voltage, thus they can store a lot of energy for quite a period of time.
If I was a heatsink manufacturer, I'd .....
;-)
1) Write on the side of your CPU heatsink the words "If you can see this , it's too hot!"
2) Paint that side with black thermochromic ink that changes temperature at 60 degrees C.
3) Profit!!!
Or, as the temperature drops from the bottom to the top of the heatsink, you could put things like "cool..." "warm..." "warmer..." "Hot..." "FUCK!" up the side of the heatsink. One glance and you'd know. Handy for those clear cases