Yes, and the makers of Scantron machines, not that I used to service them or anything. *cough*
Also, copiers: Ricoh, Xerox, Canon, Imagistics (Pitney Bowes), Kyocera, etc etc etc. Every single copier maker cripples their low-end copiers by locking out embedded functions. The fuller-featured models are often mechanically identical, just deliberately lobotomized.
Unless your time is worthless to you, you'll spend more time screwing with it and derive little, if any benefit.
Just go get a new one. We replaced a 17-year old Kenmore, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that new dishwashers are super quiet and have more cycles than we could possibly make use of (kind of silly, really).
They use less energy, but often they don't clean as well with lower-temp hot water. It's a trade off. We replaced our water heater recently and get much hotter water at a lower cost, so we can crank up the incoming water temp a bit and it cleans just fine.
It also makes a world of difference with the new ones how you position the plates and bowls. Older dishwashers had bigger motors and so it didn't matter so much how stuff was placed inside, everything got blasted clean no matter what.
But with the lame-ass Energy Star bullshit all the motors and pumps they use now are smaller, so they just don't do as good a job. Just take an extra minute to make sure that the plates and bowls and stuff aren't blocking each other. Once you do that it'll be fine.
The new ones are as quiet as can be, though- if not for the lights we could barely tell ours is on and washing. And as long as the water is hot enough it'll clean everything just fine.
Heh... Everett. They've got a Naval base there. I have been there but I don't recall any Bikini workers. This was the late 1970s. They only had whores.
Oh, there are lots of Bikini Baristas around, you hardly have to even look for them. Probably 50% of the little independent places feature cute gals wearing nothing but undies or bikinis or whatever.
I mean, that's what I hear, I certainly wouldn't know from *cough* personal experience.
Meanwhile the tunnels Sound Transit has been recently digging in Seattle, following ho-hum old smaller bore twin-tunnel principles, are going well - they're under budget and ahead of schedule
Those bastards. What can we do about this? Can we involve them in some awesome new-technology pilot project that costs billions, or are we doomed to have a successful outcome?
Artificial scarcity is what it is all about these days.
Yep, dry up or kill off a resource, then charge to provide it back to the victims you took it from. That'll be the new hot business model for the next couple of decades, until the people that think this shit up are stuffed into 55-gallon drums and dropped overboard on a dark moonless night.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I have stuff to do. Building cabinets for the downstairs room, fixing a lamp, and finishing some molding for a presentation case I'm making. I have some coding I need to get to later, but my point is that some of us actually do things with our hands besides masturbating and fondling our iPads.
Seattle's taxpayers have to be the most stupid motherfuckers on Earth.
Yeah, like we have a fucking choice? The Seattle city council and the jackoffs in Olympia spend our money however they feel like it with ZERO responsibility to the citizens and taxpayers here. Pretty much like most cities, frankly. They do what they want, when they want, and ignore anything we tell them.
Witness the fucking toll lanes on 405- NO ONE wanted these fucking things, they government went back on their promise to add a 3rd lane to make up for the two lanes they took away, and now traffic is a nightmare every day. They take away two entire lanes from a major freeway, and whaddya know, now traffic in the remaining lanes is a nightmare all day long. Gee, who could have seen that coming? This is artificial scarcity at it's best.
Sometimes the tolls to use those lanes (only about 8 miles long) are almost $10 one way. Trust me, no one in the voting public voted for this shit. Now there's an initiative to scrap the tolling, but do you think that DOT or the government will listen? Of course not, they don't give a shit because either they never have to use those lanes or they can afford to pay the money to drive in the Princess Lanes.
As a Seattleite, Bertha has been a huge, expensive disappointment so far, but we all hope in our hearts that eventually this *&$%@ thing will get the job done.
And maybe, just maybe they'll come away with some lessons learned form this kabillion dollar, 0.5mph joyride.
I am kind of OK with kids solving something using iPad etc but don't you think at her age she should be building/solving something with her hands?
Obviously he does not, as judging by his defensive response. He's probably the kind of guy who's never actually held a screwdriver in his hands, built anything more complicated than a sandwich, and needs help from benevolent strangers to get his gas cap off.
My daughter loves ScratchJr on my iPad. And also Monument Valley (check it out)
Well goody for her, not having to get her hands dirty actually doing something with physical objects (Ewwwwww!)
Seriously, fuck off. Your whiny response just shows that you AND the daughter you think is yours are both going to grow up to be humorless fucktards with a pedantic streak as wide as Alabama. So please, go play with your new shiny toys and let the rest us of make a fucking joke in peace, you jackoff.
Uh, you would be wrong... For the right applications this alloy could be very good. Just don't make barbecue grilles out of it.
So, actually, I'm not wrong.:)
For most applications it wouldn't be an issue. I can't remember how many times my cellphone has caught fire, maybe because the number is "0". Yes, yes Lion batteries, danger, etc etc etc but it just doesn't really happen all that much in real life. But it would be fine for a lot of the things I mentioned- knives, antennas, bike frames, most tools (ever had a hammer catch fire? Me neither.), tablet cases, etc etc.
So yeah, there are definitely places you wouldn't want to use it, but lots and lots of places you would.
And frankly, anyone that designed a grill using magnesium (!!) is either an idiot or has a brain injury, or both. I mean really, why not just make your grill out of compressed gunpowder?
We'd save off a program to cassette for storage, and it usually worked the next time you tried to load the program.
For very small values of "usually", in my experience.:(
I can't even count how many times I went to go load a program lovingly and laboriously saved on a cassette tape, only to find it was gone or just plain didn't #*$%! load.
Unfortunately, they didn't improve it on the later models, such as the 64 KB 800XL. I had an 800XL, and even programs designed to fit into 48 KB could easily take over 15 minutes to load!:-(
Oh yeah...start the tape, then wait, and wait, and wait...
Did you ever have something called the "Happy Drive", a modified floppy drive that let you copy almost any copy-protected disk? Best investment I ever made for the Atari 800 that I had (I didn't have the XL version, just the regular "clunker" version).
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Yes, and the makers of Scantron machines, not that I used to service them or anything. *cough*
Also, copiers: Ricoh, Xerox, Canon, Imagistics (Pitney Bowes), Kyocera, etc etc etc. Every single copier maker cripples their low-end copiers by locking out embedded functions. The fuller-featured models are often mechanically identical, just deliberately lobotomized.
Unless your time is worthless to you, you'll spend more time screwing with it and derive little, if any benefit.
Just go get a new one. We replaced a 17-year old Kenmore, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that new dishwashers are super quiet and have more cycles than we could possibly make use of (kind of silly, really).
They use less energy, but often they don't clean as well with lower-temp hot water. It's a trade off. We replaced our water heater recently and get much hotter water at a lower cost, so we can crank up the incoming water temp a bit and it cleans just fine.
It also makes a world of difference with the new ones how you position the plates and bowls. Older dishwashers had bigger motors and so it didn't matter so much how stuff was placed inside, everything got blasted clean no matter what.
But with the lame-ass Energy Star bullshit all the motors and pumps they use now are smaller, so they just don't do as good a job. Just take an extra minute to make sure that the plates and bowls and stuff aren't blocking each other. Once you do that it'll be fine.
The new ones are as quiet as can be, though- if not for the lights we could barely tell ours is on and washing. And as long as the water is hot enough it'll clean everything just fine.
And maybe, just maybe they'll come away with some lessons learned form this kabillion dollar, 0.5mph joyride.
Don't you mean 0.5mpy joyride?
Uhh, yeah. That's probably more like it. Thank god that thing costs a fortune or I'd really feel cheated.
Heh... Everett. They've got a Naval base there. I have been there but I don't recall any Bikini workers. This was the late 1970s. They only had whores.
Oh, there are lots of Bikini Baristas around, you hardly have to even look for them. Probably 50% of the little independent places feature cute gals wearing nothing but undies or bikinis or whatever.
I mean, that's what I hear, I certainly wouldn't know from *cough* personal experience.
Meanwhile the tunnels Sound Transit has been recently digging in Seattle, following ho-hum old smaller bore twin-tunnel principles, are going well - they're under budget and ahead of schedule
Those bastards. What can we do about this? Can we involve them in some awesome new-technology pilot project that costs billions, or are we doomed to have a successful outcome?
Artificial scarcity is what it is all about these days.
Yep, dry up or kill off a resource, then charge to provide it back to the victims you took it from. That'll be the new hot business model for the next couple of decades, until the people that think this shit up are stuffed into 55-gallon drums and dropped overboard on a dark moonless night.
Oh wait, did I say that last part out loud?
Maybe look up quilling set...
Thanks for the suggestion, but I have stuff to do. Building cabinets for the downstairs room, fixing a lamp, and finishing some molding for a presentation case I'm making. I have some coding I need to get to later, but my point is that some of us actually do things with our hands besides masturbating and fondling our iPads.
Reminds me of the time when someone described me on Usenet as a "height challenged bald old man with glasses" :-)
I wouldn't be offended. Some of the most powerful and influential people in history have been "height challenged bald old men with glasses".
How many idiots are there with $19,900 to blow on a gadget that they'll be bored with after the battery runs out the first time?
And more importantly, how does an idiot get $19,900 in the first place??
Yeah but they have baristas dressed in bikinis in drive-thru coffee stands!
Yes, yes we do. :)
Although we call them "Horizontal Hospitality Workers".
Seattle's taxpayers have to be the most stupid motherfuckers on Earth.
Yeah, like we have a fucking choice? The Seattle city council and the jackoffs in Olympia spend our money however they feel like it with ZERO responsibility to the citizens and taxpayers here. Pretty much like most cities, frankly. They do what they want, when they want, and ignore anything we tell them.
Witness the fucking toll lanes on 405- NO ONE wanted these fucking things, they government went back on their promise to add a 3rd lane to make up for the two lanes they took away, and now traffic is a nightmare every day. They take away two entire lanes from a major freeway, and whaddya know, now traffic in the remaining lanes is a nightmare all day long. Gee, who could have seen that coming? This is artificial scarcity at it's best.
Sometimes the tolls to use those lanes (only about 8 miles long) are almost $10 one way. Trust me, no one in the voting public voted for this shit. Now there's an initiative to scrap the tolling, but do you think that DOT or the government will listen? Of course not, they don't give a shit because either they never have to use those lanes or they can afford to pay the money to drive in the Princess Lanes.
As a Seattleite, Bertha has been a huge, expensive disappointment so far, but we all hope in our hearts that eventually this *&$%@ thing will get the job done.
And maybe, just maybe they'll come away with some lessons learned form this kabillion dollar, 0.5mph joyride.
Boring.
You're just digging yourself into a a hole with those puns,
Let me be the first to say, "No shit."
I am kind of OK with kids solving something using iPad etc but don't you think at her age she should be building/solving something with her hands?
Obviously he does not, as judging by his defensive response. He's probably the kind of guy who's never actually held a screwdriver in his hands, built anything more complicated than a sandwich, and needs help from benevolent strangers to get his gas cap off.
My daughter loves ScratchJr on my iPad. And also Monument Valley (check it out)
Well goody for her, not having to get her hands dirty actually doing something with physical objects (Ewwwwww!)
Seriously, fuck off. Your whiny response just shows that you AND the daughter you think is yours are both going to grow up to be humorless fucktards with a pedantic streak as wide as Alabama. So please, go play with your new shiny toys and let the rest us of make a fucking joke in peace, you jackoff.
Well duh, an iPad of course, because downloading and "installing" apps is all that any kid needs to learn these days.
Wait..you mean propagating #hashtags don't really change anything? OMG, mind blown!
Uh, you would be wrong...
For the right applications this alloy could be very good. Just don't make barbecue grilles out of it.
So, actually, I'm not wrong. :)
For most applications it wouldn't be an issue. I can't remember how many times my cellphone has caught fire, maybe because the number is "0". Yes, yes Lion batteries, danger, etc etc etc but it just doesn't really happen all that much in real life. But it would be fine for a lot of the things I mentioned- knives, antennas, bike frames, most tools (ever had a hammer catch fire? Me neither.), tablet cases, etc etc.
So yeah, there are definitely places you wouldn't want to use it, but lots and lots of places you would.
And frankly, anyone that designed a grill using magnesium (!!) is either an idiot or has a brain injury, or both. I mean really, why not just make your grill out of compressed gunpowder?
The metal is mostly (86%) magnesium
There are some inherent risks, but I doubt it would be all that easy to get it to start burning in most typical consumer applications.
On the downside, magnesium can be bear to put out when it gets going.
This stuff has limitless possibilities. Everything from knives to bumpers to bike frames....the list of potential applications is endless.
Better cellphone cases. Better engines and electric motors. Better ballistic armor. Better tools. Better antennas. Better vehicles that fly/float/roll.
By the way, I just noticed I never finished my draft. ;-) I'll get that finished when I kick the kids out for the day.
No worries, whenever you get the time. It's been busy all over the last few days.
We'd save off a program to cassette for storage, and it usually worked the next time you tried to load the program.
For very small values of "usually", in my experience. :(
I can't even count how many times I went to go load a program lovingly and laboriously saved on a cassette tape, only to find it was gone or just plain didn't #*$%! load.
Unfortunately, they didn't improve it on the later models, such as the 64 KB 800XL. I had an 800XL, and even programs designed to fit into 48 KB could easily take over 15 minutes to load! :-(
Oh yeah...start the tape, then wait, and wait, and wait...
Did you ever have something called the "Happy Drive", a modified floppy drive that let you copy almost any copy-protected disk? Best investment I ever made for the Atari 800 that I had (I didn't have the XL version, just the regular "clunker" version).
I had the tape deck for the Atari, and it was nothing but a trail of tears.
Spend 30 minutes "loading" a program and when it was done...no program.
Spend the same amount of time "saving" a program, and later find out it saved nothing. :(