Raceways are a great idea, though you can also go the cheap route and use ziptie loops that have screw holes.
Use vinyl storm drain! Less than 25cents/ft, a variety of colors (provided you count beige and white as colors, and "2" as "variety"), and you can get even angled connectors for that anal-tidy look.
You can get fancy brackets, or just buy extra-long drywall screws and drive them through the middle.
Depending on how often you recable, you can either put runs of twine inside for expansion, or cut a lengthwise slit
Better yet, they could actually solve the problem, by parsing for and removing the javascipt shenanigans that made links suspect in the first place. Besides being ugly, the safety-link is no help if the author links to Google's cache or anonymizer.com or some random IP.
That's like describing golf as "swing-swear-walk". Quake or Golf: as a beginner it's chaos with random bouts of unexpected good luck.
But watch two good players in a rocket duel on a fast, jumpy map... it's as artful as swordplay, or as close as you'll get on a computer. They'll dodge and feint, probing for holes in the opposite's guard, suffering small wounds for better position, and then sacrificing the position to inflict greater injury.
It's hard to recognize innovation while it's happening. Before Q3, shooters were about aim and item management. Number three introduced technique as an integral game element.
This guy expresses the same point, better than I can. I put my words first anyway, because he's dead:
Let me explain in terms of the martial arts. As a beginner you know nothing of stance or sword position, so you have nothing in yourself to dwell on mentally. If someone strikes at you, you just fight, without thinking of anything. Then when you learn various things like stance, how to wield a sword, where to place the attention, and so on, your mind lingers on various points, so you find yourself all tangled up when you try to strike. But if you practise day after day and month after month, eventually stance and swordplay don't hang on your mind any more, and you are like a beginner who knows nothing... . The cogitating side of your brain will vanish and you will come to rest in a state where there is no concern.
-- Takuan, 16th Century Japanese Zen teacher, in explaining the shift from unconscious incompetence, through conscious incompetence and conscious competence, to unconscious competence.
I have now recieved 1.1
gigabytes of sircam virus email attachments.
It's the twenty-first century; you no longer need to italicize the word "gigabytes". In related news, you also needn't follow its use with a parenthetical "one thousand megabytes!"
The article didn't say this, but along with the launch codes, they released the rest of the contents of the Gamecube Football, including the Gamecube 'playbook', to be used by Nintendo's CEO in case of a decision to deploy the 'Cube and a secure SATCOM radio handset.
In releasing the launch codes, Nintendo has given mankind a powerful and terrifying weapon in the war against boredom. Let us pray these launch numbers are never needed.
That measure will defeat itself. Canadian net pricing is absurdly low and dropping. Bell just backed out of a $2 increase that would only affect those without touch-tone because of the backlash.
People hate random arbitrary increases in their monthly expenses, and a $3 jump justified by saying, "well, citizen, you're a thief! Pay up!" will not be well-received.
MSN will disconnect your modem if there is no web activity within 10 minutes, a feature that ruins gaming.
That's an easy fix. Start with an appropriate Google Search, then visit a page like this one, which loads every few seconds an is pretty small. A webcam would work too, if you disable images to save bandwidth.
They list five ways to buy your way into a search engine. The first three all refer to clearly-marked advertiser content (their vague descriptions make the practices sound more underhanded than they actually are).
The fourth is a semi-legitimate beef, but the only perpetrator is Inktomi/Linksmart (whom they list a total of eight times in a goofy effort to inflate the severity of the 'problem').
The fifth (paying for editorials) is a gray area, since editorials (unlike correctly ordered search results) aren't free, and someone has to pay the electric bill. As long as you can't pay for a good editorial, who cares? Reviewers have been getting freebies since forever -- the will to honestly criticize a benefactor's product is what separates good reviewers from bad.
There are kernels of truth in the article, but they are fully obscured by the stool.
If this page was any more slanted, Nader and his consumer watchdogs could go after its authors for kinking people's necks. "Paid placement"? In a "sponsored links" box? How deceitful!
You know what else I head, you can advertise cars... in the newspaper's "Wheels" section! For money! Therefore, all journalists are whores.
A whole new generation of irritating fans! It looked, for a while, like their numbers would taper off as they succumbed to acne-medicine overdoses and lynchings. I now know I'll be long dead before the last nonsensical "Ni!" is injected into an otherwise-enjoyable conversation.
Of course, if it's an insanely rare and expensive motorcycle at the Rock Store, the rider is usually Jay Leno,...
The first impression this motorcycle makes is that turbine sound, which exits the engine via twin exhaust pipes as big around as my thigh.... writers have invariably failed to convey the true intensity of the engines sound- and I'm about to follow that precedent. That's due to the visceral nature of the sound- it tears through you like a buzzsaw.
A good read and lots more pictures than the parent link.
Would you work for a company that boasts about its 'mean time to bankruptcy', or hire someone
who's improving their 'mean time between felonious drunken assaults'?
Hardware failure is inevitable and (generally) unpredictable. Gross statistical measures are one of the few meaningful ways to plan and budget for failures. Security is not the same way -- breaches can be avoided through vigilance and good management. Talking about 'mean time to exploit' is a cop-out -- it's surrendering responsibility to the whim of fate.
When I create something here at work I take marvel in it's simplicity, creativity, ability to do what it was designed for, etc.
So do I, with what I do. But I still expect a paycheck for it.
Me too. Once. I write software as part of my job, but the idea of being paid over and over for it is as alien to me as paying Black & Decker every time I drill a hole. The GPL is completely compatible with a write-once-pay-once model.
> media only costs a fraction more than current CD-R media
$10 per 2-pack, according to another post. 1500% is a pretty large fraction. Note that's more than the 8x difference I cited for 2.88MB vs. 1.44MB floppies.
> drive itself is competitively priced with existing CD-R only drives
$250 vs. $80 -- that's stretching the definition of "competitive". And again, that's more than the 3x difference cited for floppy drive prices.
> this drive is bi-format
2.88MB drives had that; it wasn't enough. My money still says I won't be eating my shoe anytime soon.
... you could buy the drives from a tiny handful of vendors (check), for about 3x the money (check), with media prices only eight times higher than the 1.44MB counterparts (check), and of course they weren't readable on the massive installed base of drives (check).
And after you went to all that trouble, your stack of 600 floppies was now... only half as high! 300 floppies!
If 700MB isn't enough, then 1.xGB won't be that great, either. Certainly not enough of an improvement to throw away compatibility and incredibly low commodity prices. If this sells more than a token number of units, I'll eat my shoe.
John C. Dvorak summarizes the TiVo: "It's a way to steal programming."
I summarize Dvorak: "He's an idiot."
Having taken the trouble to read some of his recent columns, I will say this: his accuracy has improved a lot. That's because he's gone from wild-ass, obviously incorrect guesses, to predicting things that have already happened.
Here's a highly insightful column, written two years after the iMac debut, that opines "design is going to be BIG!".
He talks about the imminent demise of the "beige box" with childlike excitement. I wonder how intrigued he'd be to learn that big chain computer stores haven't sold square beige boxes for four years.
The one actual prediciton he makes (that battery life is not important in portables) is, of course, wild-assed and obviously incorrect.
Moving on, here's another gem which covers in painful, book-report-like detail Dvorak's latest epiphany: a high-end 3D gaming machine is faster than a midrange business machine(!!!)
Then he drops the twin bombshells: A. the non-gamer isn't benefitting from gaming-driven advances (of course, $80 Durons, effective CPU fans, jumperless motherboards, and GeForce2Go don't count); and B. this widening chasm will get wider, unless of course something changes, in which case it will not get wider.
Spare me. This imbecile barely rates a geocities page, much less mention in a Slashdot headline.
Slashdot Mirror
cheers,
mike
Use vinyl storm drain! Less than 25cents/ft, a variety of colors (provided you count beige and white as colors, and "2" as "variety"), and you can get even angled connectors for that anal-tidy look.
You can get fancy brackets, or just buy extra-long drywall screws and drive them through the middle.
Depending on how often you recable, you can either put runs of twine inside for expansion, or cut a lengthwise slit
cheers,
mike
Perhaps when a post is moderated to and above +3
Better yet, they could actually solve the problem, by parsing for and removing the javascipt shenanigans that made links suspect in the first place. Besides being ugly, the safety-link is no help if the author links to Google's cache or anonymizer.com or some random IP.
That's like describing golf as "swing-swear-walk". Quake or Golf: as a beginner it's chaos with random bouts of unexpected good luck.
But watch two good players in a rocket duel on a fast, jumpy map... it's as artful as swordplay, or as close as you'll get on a computer. They'll dodge and feint, probing for holes in the opposite's guard, suffering small wounds for better position, and then sacrificing the position to inflict greater injury.
It's hard to recognize innovation while it's happening. Before Q3, shooters were about aim and item management. Number three introduced technique as an integral game element.
This guy expresses the same point, better than I can. I put my words first anyway, because he's dead:
The article didn't say this, but along with the launch codes, they released the rest of the contents of the Gamecube Football, including the Gamecube 'playbook', to be used by Nintendo's CEO in case of a decision to deploy the 'Cube and a secure SATCOM radio handset.
In releasing the launch codes, Nintendo has given mankind a powerful and terrifying weapon in the war against boredom. Let us pray these launch numbers are never needed.
That measure will defeat itself. Canadian net pricing is absurdly low and dropping. Bell just backed out of a $2 increase that would only affect those without touch-tone because of the backlash.
People hate random arbitrary increases in their monthly expenses, and a $3 jump justified by saying, "well, citizen, you're a thief! Pay up!" will not be well-received.
That's an easy fix. Start with an appropriate Google Search, then visit a page like this one, which loads every few seconds an is pretty small. A webcam would work too, if you disable images to save bandwidth.
After all those hours spent sitting on my ass playing games, any suggestion that it was a good use of my time will be warmly welcomed.
If this brings us closer to movie clips of computers slamming into barriers, I'm all for it.
Munitions regulations forbid exporting this software to Kansas.
You can buy a wireless phone for, umm... nothing. Stealing one from the middle of a half-ton of concrete sounds like a lot of effort to me.
When designing a protocol, I guess the issue would be what data gets passed around and such.
And when writing a book, the issue would be what words go where and such.
They list five ways to buy your way into a search engine. The first three all refer to clearly-marked advertiser content (their vague descriptions make the practices sound more underhanded than they actually are).
The fourth is a semi-legitimate beef, but the only perpetrator is Inktomi/Linksmart (whom they list a total of eight times in a goofy effort to inflate the severity of the 'problem').
The fifth (paying for editorials) is a gray area, since editorials (unlike correctly ordered search results) aren't free, and someone has to pay the electric bill. As long as you can't pay for a good editorial, who cares? Reviewers have been getting freebies since forever -- the will to honestly criticize a benefactor's product is what separates good reviewers from bad.
There are kernels of truth in the article, but they are fully obscured by the stool.
cheers,
mike
If this page was any more slanted, Nader and his consumer watchdogs could go after its authors for kinking people's necks. "Paid placement"? In a "sponsored links" box? How deceitful!
You know what else I head, you can advertise cars... in the newspaper's "Wheels" section! For money! Therefore, all journalists are whores.
Oh, you mean they were clothed. Never mind.
cheers,
mike
Gates: OK boys, buy 'em out!
[wanton destruction ensues]
Xbox: What happen?
Gates: You don't think I got rich by writin' a lot of cheques, do ya?
cheers,
mike
A whole new generation of irritating fans! It looked, for a while, like their numbers would taper off as they succumbed to acne-medicine overdoses and lynchings. I now know I'll be long dead before the last nonsensical "Ni!" is injected into an otherwise-enjoyable conversation.
cheers,
mike
Where do I get 9.2 megapixel porn?
What's that you say? It doesn't exist? Well, what's this contraption good for then?
cheers,
mike
A good read and lots more pictures than the parent link.
cheers,
mike
Would you work for a company that boasts about its 'mean time to bankruptcy', or hire someone
who's improving their 'mean time between felonious drunken assaults'?
Hardware failure is inevitable and (generally) unpredictable. Gross statistical measures are one of the few meaningful ways to plan and budget for failures. Security is not the same way -- breaches can be avoided through vigilance and good management. Talking about 'mean time to exploit' is a cop-out -- it's surrendering responsibility to the whim of fate.
cheers,
mike
Me too. Once. I write software as part of my job, but the idea of being paid over and over for it is as alien to me as paying Black & Decker every time I drill a hole. The GPL is completely compatible with a write-once-pay-once model.
cheers,
mike
> media only costs a fraction more than current CD-R media
$10 per 2-pack, according to another post. 1500% is a pretty large fraction. Note that's more than the 8x difference I cited for 2.88MB vs. 1.44MB floppies.
> drive itself is competitively priced with existing CD-R only drives
$250 vs. $80 -- that's stretching the definition of "competitive". And again, that's more than the 3x difference cited for floppy drive prices.
> this drive is bi-format
2.88MB drives had that; it wasn't enough. My money still says I won't be eating my shoe anytime soon.
cheers,
mike
... you could buy the drives from a tiny handful of vendors (check), for about 3x the money (check), with media prices only eight times higher than the 1.44MB counterparts (check), and of course they weren't readable on the massive installed base of drives (check).
And after you went to all that trouble, your stack of 600 floppies was now... only half as high! 300 floppies!
If 700MB isn't enough, then 1.xGB won't be that great, either. Certainly not enough of an improvement to throw away compatibility and incredibly low commodity prices. If this sells more than a token number of units, I'll eat my shoe.
cheers,
mike
I summarize Dvorak: "He's an idiot."
Having taken the trouble to read some of his recent columns, I will say this: his accuracy has improved a lot. That's because he's gone from wild-ass, obviously incorrect guesses, to predicting things that have already happened.
Here's a highly insightful column, written two years after the iMac debut, that opines "design is going to be BIG!".
He talks about the imminent demise of the "beige box" with childlike excitement. I wonder how intrigued he'd be to learn that big chain computer stores haven't sold square beige boxes for four years.
The one actual prediciton he makes (that battery life is not important in portables) is, of course, wild-assed and obviously incorrect.
Moving on, here's another gem which covers in painful, book-report-like detail Dvorak's latest epiphany: a high-end 3D gaming machine is faster than a midrange business machine(!!!)
Then he drops the twin bombshells: A. the non-gamer isn't benefitting from gaming-driven advances (of course, $80 Durons, effective CPU fans, jumperless motherboards, and GeForce2Go don't count); and B. this widening chasm will get wider, unless of course something changes, in which case it will not get wider.
Spare me. This imbecile barely rates a geocities page, much less mention in a Slashdot headline.
cheers,
mike