So, wait. You drive a convertible with a huge blind spot when the top is up, and I'm supposed to know where that is?
Trucks, RVs, busses, no problem, I know where their blind spots are, because they're all essentially the same. But if you think I'm taking the time to learn the blind spot of every car on the road, think again. If your safety relies on everyone else knowing where your blind spots are, then you'd better drive something else or keep the top down.
You could just remove him as an editor in your profile and never see another story by him. What's the problem?
I don't understand. If you don't like kdawson's stories, don't read them. Slashdot even gives you an option that makes it really easy - click on Preferences, then Home Page, then uncheck the box next to kdawson.
Well, insurance prices jumped (at least here in the US) a couple years ago as the market slid. Insurance companies make money on the stock market, so when that experienced a downturn, all of our insurance rates went up, much more quickly than inflation.
This is one reason some restored steam locomotives in the US aren't out doing excursions - the insurance premiums doubled, or more - and some preservation groups couldn't afford the higher premiums. I'm sure there are other effects of this, but I follow railroad news so that's one I happen to know about.
I've heard that Vista has issues with Hibernation and Sleep mode with some laptops.
I haven't used Vista, but to be fair, Hibernation and Sleep mode don't work on my 3.5-year-old Fujitsu laptop running Linux. It's pretty frustrating, actually, and I switch to XP when I'm traveling to avoid having to boot it every time I use it. Every now and then I upgrade the kernel and go through all the ACPI settings again, to no avail. IIRC it'll go to sleep just fine but then won't wake up, but it's been a while since I've played with it.
No real point to this post other than Hibernation and Sleep aren't guaranteed in other operating systems, either.
Uh, most stores will ask you to leave if you're in there writing down prices on a lot of things. They fear that you are a competitor doing price comparisons. No story here.
Also, I assume the real engineering in the propellers is in the blade pitch, diameter, material, etc. You're not going to get much more than rough estimates of diameter from that Live Local picture. There's still a lot of engineering to go, even if you know there are 7 blades.
Are we going to start getting stories submitted about what someone says on their blog now?
I know you are not new here, by your UID.:) They've been doing that for years.
But more on topic - I recall a story a few months ago where Linux drivers for something made it into BSD. Didn't Theo go off on the guy that asked them to be removed or whatever? I assume that story is part of why this one got posted...
Not true. Hauppage Win TV DVR USB 2 (don't quote me on the name of it - but it's something like that, and it has to have ALL of those parts - DVR, USB, and 2 - or it's not the right one).
I have one, works great. I use it with my laptop in the RV when I want to watch TV (quite rare - I think the only time I've actually used it that way was when I was actually living out of the camper for a time), and the rest of the time it's at home serving as a second tuner for the MythTV setup.
Only downside: MythTV goes a little nuts if it looks for the tuner and it's not there. I suspect it would be okay if I had the tuner plugged into to a different backend and took that backend down when I wanted to use the tuner in the camper, however. Still, it'd be nice if it understood that a USB tuner may not be present and handled that more gracefully. (Or it may be something in the drivers for the tuner causing it, and not MythTV at all - I haven't really looked into the issue.)
Comcast used to provide a free guide channel, but they took that away and replaced it with another useless (to me) ethnic/religious/shopping channel. You can only get schedule data from them now, if you convert over to their digital service. Actually...I'm not sure what's going on, but I have it with analog service.
Backstory: When I moved into my house last year I wanted a DVR from Comcast (I had one when I was with Cox and loved it), but they were out of stock at the time, so I went with digital cable figuring I'd upgrade later. To save money, since I didn't have the DVR, and because I wasn't watching the channels above 100 anyway, I switched back to analog service - but I never returned the digital cable box.
I still get the guide and all the conveniences of the box. I can't access the On Demand channel, nor the channels above 100. The picture looks to be a digital signal, if the blocks that become visible when there's a lot of motion on screen are any indicator. Meanwhile, the analog tuner I have in the MythTV box works just fine, so the data coming into the cable box must be analog (or transmitted as both digital and analog).
I have a MythTV system set up, with two tuners, but I don't have a machine connected to the TV, so I don't use it a lot; I'd rather be on the couch when watching TV instead of sitting in front of the computer in an office chair. It does record The Simpsons for me religiously, though.:)
Or you could just run it before you shut down in the evening (updatedb || shutdown, or put it in the rc scripts). Or you could have it when you start up. Or you could have it run when you go eat lunch. Or...well, I think you get the idea. I didn't say anything about leaving your computer run 24/7, nor is it necessary to have an updated locate database.
Yep. In our new office building, the rooms with the copiers and high speed printers have special filtration and air handling systems, so we're told not to prop open the doors. We still have lasers out in the general area, though.
Many subway cars have "dynamic brakes" which is what you're describing. I do not know if they are wired to backfeed the system, however. There are certain issues that have to be addressed when doing that; for example I remember reading about one system in Europe that had to have special precautions in place because it was possible all (electric) locomotives on the line could be heading downhill at the same time, thus generating a lot of electricity that had nowhere to go.
Most railroad locomotives have dynamic brakes - and in fact the dynamic brakes can actually give more braking power then the locomotive has pulling power. It's pretty amazing how well it works. (Of course trains still have the air brake system, too.) However in the US most railroad track isn't electrified, so all the dynamic braking energy is bled away as heat using a bank of resistors and large fans.
*shrug* I have a '99 Mercury Cougar, and we ('99-'02 Cougar owners) get together every year for a couple days of fun, sometimes including track events, a car show, and other things. We have a great time every year doing it. As you say, we are pretty dedicated to that model car, but it's only partially about the car; it's also about hanging out with some cool people from around North America that we only see once a year. The car is just something we have in common.
Don't forget the DeLorean Car Show next summer. I'm not a DeLorean owner (or even a fan, really), but I think it'll be fun to see so many DeLoreans gathered in one place.
On your lifetime of LCD comment - I've never seen an LCD develop some "fatal flaw".
The one I've had at work for four years now (and I didn't get it new) has one dead pixel, and that was there when I got it. Here at work, we all have LCDs and I've never seen anyone have to get their LCD replaced. Computers, yes, but not the LCD.
My first laptop, purchased in 1998, still has a working screen (not that I can use a Pentium 133 for much these days).
Do you have evidence that LCDs are likely to fail after four or five years? Honestly, I can't think of a single one I've seen that has failed, but I have two CRTs at home with problems: my CRT with once crisp text is now blurry, and another CRT I have at home has a bizarre problem where the top eigth of the screen jumps up and down.
Don't forget his and his wife's stance on music. (Although the linked article talks about Tipper, Al did support his wife's work at the time it happened - and let's face it, she probably wouldn't have gotten any air time if he didn't - though he later backed away from it.)
Yeah, as the other person said, I used DataDirect and have never seen what you're talking about, and I've been using it for years. If they wanted more ad impressions, why would they offer the DataDirect service in the first place?
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Actually, it hasn't (question #4).
So, wait. You drive a convertible with a huge blind spot when the top is up, and I'm supposed to know where that is?
Trucks, RVs, busses, no problem, I know where their blind spots are, because they're all essentially the same. But if you think I'm taking the time to learn the blind spot of every car on the road, think again. If your safety relies on everyone else knowing where your blind spots are, then you'd better drive something else or keep the top down.
You could just remove him as an editor in your profile and never see another story by him. What's the problem?
I don't understand. If you don't like kdawson's stories, don't read them. Slashdot even gives you an option that makes it really easy - click on Preferences, then Home Page, then uncheck the box next to kdawson.
Well, insurance prices jumped (at least here in the US) a couple years ago as the market slid. Insurance companies make money on the stock market, so when that experienced a downturn, all of our insurance rates went up, much more quickly than inflation.
This is one reason some restored steam locomotives in the US aren't out doing excursions - the insurance premiums doubled, or more - and some preservation groups couldn't afford the higher premiums. I'm sure there are other effects of this, but I follow railroad news so that's one I happen to know about.
I haven't used Vista, but to be fair, Hibernation and Sleep mode don't work on my 3.5-year-old Fujitsu laptop running Linux. It's pretty frustrating, actually, and I switch to XP when I'm traveling to avoid having to boot it every time I use it. Every now and then I upgrade the kernel and go through all the ACPI settings again, to no avail. IIRC it'll go to sleep just fine but then won't wake up, but it's been a while since I've played with it.
No real point to this post other than Hibernation and Sleep aren't guaranteed in other operating systems, either.
Uh, most stores will ask you to leave if you're in there writing down prices on a lot of things. They fear that you are a competitor doing price comparisons. No story here.
Uh, I believe you can get cellphone service without a contract. Buy the phone outright then go monthly. Or get a prepaid cellular phone.
Also, I assume the real engineering in the propellers is in the blade pitch, diameter, material, etc. You're not going to get much more than rough estimates of diameter from that Live Local picture. There's still a lot of engineering to go, even if you know there are 7 blades.
I know you are not new here, by your UID. :) They've been doing that for years.
But more on topic - I recall a story a few months ago where Linux drivers for something made it into BSD. Didn't Theo go off on the guy that asked them to be removed or whatever? I assume that story is part of why this one got posted...
Not true. Hauppage Win TV DVR USB 2 (don't quote me on the name of it - but it's something like that, and it has to have ALL of those parts - DVR, USB, and 2 - or it's not the right one).
I have one, works great. I use it with my laptop in the RV when I want to watch TV (quite rare - I think the only time I've actually used it that way was when I was actually living out of the camper for a time), and the rest of the time it's at home serving as a second tuner for the MythTV setup.
Only downside: MythTV goes a little nuts if it looks for the tuner and it's not there. I suspect it would be okay if I had the tuner plugged into to a different backend and took that backend down when I wanted to use the tuner in the camper, however. Still, it'd be nice if it understood that a USB tuner may not be present and handled that more gracefully. (Or it may be something in the drivers for the tuner causing it, and not MythTV at all - I haven't really looked into the issue.)
You can get them to put a block on (at least with Verizon). The only problem is that the sender never knows that you didn't receive the message.
Who said anything about Ubuntu or AmigaOS? The orignal post was commenting about how people seem to like XP more than they like Vista.
No, people hate XP, too. They just hate it less than they hate Vista, and given only those two options, they would rather use XP.
Shades of gray, not black and white.
Also, different people posting means different opinions, etc. There are over a million accounts here now.
Backstory: When I moved into my house last year I wanted a DVR from Comcast (I had one when I was with Cox and loved it), but they were out of stock at the time, so I went with digital cable figuring I'd upgrade later. To save money, since I didn't have the DVR, and because I wasn't watching the channels above 100 anyway, I switched back to analog service - but I never returned the digital cable box.
I still get the guide and all the conveniences of the box. I can't access the On Demand channel, nor the channels above 100. The picture looks to be a digital signal, if the blocks that become visible when there's a lot of motion on screen are any indicator. Meanwhile, the analog tuner I have in the MythTV box works just fine, so the data coming into the cable box must be analog (or transmitted as both digital and analog).
I have a MythTV system set up, with two tuners, but I don't have a machine connected to the TV, so I don't use it a lot; I'd rather be on the couch when watching TV instead of sitting in front of the computer in an office chair. It does record The Simpsons for me religiously, though.
...Nostradamus...
:) )
No, wait, that's not right!
(I say this as a big fan of the Priest.
Or you could just run it before you shut down in the evening (updatedb || shutdown, or put it in the rc scripts). Or you could have it when you start up. Or you could have it run when you go eat lunch. Or...well, I think you get the idea. I didn't say anything about leaving your computer run 24/7, nor is it necessary to have an updated locate database.
No.
You could schedule the update (updatedb) to run at a more convenient time.
Locate is a pretty useful command - locate file, and it shows you instantly where it is. I don't use it a lot but when I do it's VERY handy to have.
Or perhaps he was using it in the sense of "paycheck"? It's pretty common to drop the "pay" from "paycheck".
Yep. In our new office building, the rooms with the copiers and high speed printers have special filtration and air handling systems, so we're told not to prop open the doors. We still have lasers out in the general area, though.
Many subway cars have "dynamic brakes" which is what you're describing. I do not know if they are wired to backfeed the system, however. There are certain issues that have to be addressed when doing that; for example I remember reading about one system in Europe that had to have special precautions in place because it was possible all (electric) locomotives on the line could be heading downhill at the same time, thus generating a lot of electricity that had nowhere to go.
Most railroad locomotives have dynamic brakes - and in fact the dynamic brakes can actually give more braking power then the locomotive has pulling power. It's pretty amazing how well it works. (Of course trains still have the air brake system, too.) However in the US most railroad track isn't electrified, so all the dynamic braking energy is bled away as heat using a bank of resistors and large fans.
*shrug* I have a '99 Mercury Cougar, and we ('99-'02 Cougar owners) get together every year for a couple days of fun, sometimes including track events, a car show, and other things. We have a great time every year doing it. As you say, we are pretty dedicated to that model car, but it's only partially about the car; it's also about hanging out with some cool people from around North America that we only see once a year. The car is just something we have in common.
Don't forget the DeLorean Car Show next summer. I'm not a DeLorean owner (or even a fan, really), but I think it'll be fun to see so many DeLoreans gathered in one place.
On your lifetime of LCD comment - I've never seen an LCD develop some "fatal flaw".
The one I've had at work for four years now (and I didn't get it new) has one dead pixel, and that was there when I got it. Here at work, we all have LCDs and I've never seen anyone have to get their LCD replaced. Computers, yes, but not the LCD.
My first laptop, purchased in 1998, still has a working screen (not that I can use a Pentium 133 for much these days).
Do you have evidence that LCDs are likely to fail after four or five years? Honestly, I can't think of a single one I've seen that has failed, but I have two CRTs at home with problems: my CRT with once crisp text is now blurry, and another CRT I have at home has a bizarre problem where the top eigth of the screen jumps up and down.
Don't forget his and his wife's stance on music. (Although the linked article talks about Tipper, Al did support his wife's work at the time it happened - and let's face it, she probably wouldn't have gotten any air time if he didn't - though he later backed away from it.)
Yeah, as the other person said, I used DataDirect and have never seen what you're talking about, and I've been using it for years. If they wanted more ad impressions, why would they offer the DataDirect service in the first place?