I worked for a large financial institution in Canada where we have hundreds of Blackberry devices. At the time when I was hired, all of the Rogers documentation stated "Unlimited", with lower data buckets saying "10mb". There were no asterisks indicating hidden meanings. About 8 months into my job, Rogers sneakily updated all of their pricing tables with a * and fine print saying it was Unlimited to 25 MB (or was it 50? I can't remember).
This was after months of complaining from the users directly with Rogers, and with my group complaining to our Rogers representatives. Our reps even acknowledged the unlimited not being unlimited and that's probably what got the fine print. A $1000 bill for a single month is RIDICULOUS when we were forced to phase out an old system that only cost $50 a month (financial data streaming to handheld device).
If you'd ever taken the time to actually try lapping the heatsink and heat spreaders rather than making fun, you would notice a significant drop in temperatures.
Even today with the new Core 2 Duo CPUs, the IHS have been found to be concave. Personally having lapped my CPU, the load temperatures dropped 10 C - nothing to sneeze at.
This article is more about the refinement of a technique. Notice how the article states "micrometer-length trenches", and not surfaces filled with ridges you can feel by running along it with your finger nail.
Most overclockers know that you get diminishing returns the further you polish the surfaces anyway.
Or, *gasp* they'll start putting "license" plates on the front and back of each car!
Seriously though, if you're close enough for the tag to be read ( 3 to 5 meters, according to the article ), you would be able to read the plate numbers just fine.
By doing so, us reckless Humans are just going to destroy yet another ecosystem. What happens the concentration of CO2 in the water starts increasing? Fish, sharks, whales, and who knows what else will start to suffocate.
Also, I don't think it would be very cost effective either, not to mention machines that would harvest CO2 from the air would just create more waste (most likely in the form of CO2 either directly, or indirectly).
The current approach of dealing with CO2 emissions by REDUCING them seems to be the most logical solution, right now.
Unfortunately, for those who have basements underneath their kitchens, you'd have to explain why there is a trap door and ladder where the old fridge used to be... And if you wanted a freezer, you'd have to wait until winter, as burrowing further down won't help much =)
I make up for the lack of fridge in my dorm room by putting my drinks near the cold, uninsulated windows. Works pretty well.
Yeah... I just remembered I also wrote a "Classification" for this game a few months ago as an in-class writing assignment for English. My TA really liked it:)
I just bought an old computer to play the DOS version!!!!!!!!!
Seriously, I did go out and buy an old computer JUST for this game... I recently moved to school (thus leaving behind many of my old 386, 486 and Pentiums). During one of my procrastination breaks, I had the urge to play StarCon2.. I found DOSBox, but it would periodically crash for me.
If you spray the cartridge connector with Windex(tm) and keep plugging/unplugging a cart in for a min or two then let it dry for 20 odd minutes, it'll work great. I restored three systems using this method and they all work infinitely better than before!
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I worked for a large financial institution in Canada where we have hundreds of Blackberry devices.
At the time when I was hired, all of the Rogers documentation stated "Unlimited", with lower data buckets saying "10mb". There were no asterisks indicating hidden meanings. About 8 months into my job, Rogers sneakily updated all of their pricing tables with a * and fine print saying it was Unlimited to 25 MB (or was it 50? I can't remember).
This was after months of complaining from the users directly with Rogers, and with my group complaining to our Rogers representatives. Our reps even acknowledged the unlimited not being unlimited and that's probably what got the fine print. A $1000 bill for a single month is RIDICULOUS when we were forced to phase out an old system that only cost $50 a month (financial data streaming to handheld device).
If you'd ever taken the time to actually try lapping the heatsink and heat spreaders rather than making fun, you would notice a significant drop in temperatures.
Even today with the new Core 2 Duo CPUs, the IHS have been found to be concave. Personally having lapped my CPU, the load temperatures dropped 10 C - nothing to sneeze at.
This article is more about the refinement of a technique. Notice how the article states "micrometer-length trenches", and not surfaces filled with ridges you can feel by running along it with your finger nail.
Most overclockers know that you get diminishing returns the further you polish the surfaces anyway.
The snap would come when something like this pulls the socket off :)
Or, *gasp* they'll start putting "license" plates on the front and back of each car!
Seriously though, if you're close enough for the tag to be read ( 3 to 5 meters, according to the article ), you would be able to read the plate numbers just fine.
By doing so, us reckless Humans are just going to destroy yet another ecosystem. What happens the concentration of CO2 in the water starts increasing? Fish, sharks, whales, and who knows what else will start to suffocate.
Also, I don't think it would be very cost effective either, not to mention machines that would harvest CO2 from the air would just create more waste (most likely in the form of CO2 either directly, or indirectly).
The current approach of dealing with CO2 emissions by REDUCING them seems to be the most logical solution, right now.
Unfortunately, for those who have basements underneath their kitchens, you'd have to explain why there is a trap door and ladder where the old fridge used to be...
And if you wanted a freezer, you'd have to wait until winter, as burrowing further down won't help much =)
I make up for the lack of fridge in my dorm room by putting my drinks near the cold, uninsulated windows. Works pretty well.
Since that's 1 pixel by 1 pixel, it is still 2-D. =P
Yeah... I just remembered I also wrote a "Classification" for this game a few months ago as an in-class writing assignment for English. My TA really liked it :)
I just bought an old computer to play the DOS version!!!!!!!!!
Seriously, I did go out and buy an old computer JUST for this game... I recently moved to school (thus leaving behind many of my old 386, 486 and Pentiums). During one of my procrastination breaks, I had the urge to play StarCon2.. I found DOSBox, but it would periodically crash for me.
I believe the game you're referring to is Blockout.
:O
My father brought it home from work one day, and I played it for the next few months. Took me a while to finally see the 3D blocks. =\
It's scary watching Tetris blocks fill up to the screen TOWARDS you.
If you spray the cartridge connector with Windex(tm) and keep plugging/unplugging a cart in for a min or two then let it dry for 20 odd minutes, it'll work great. I restored three systems using this method and they all work infinitely better than before!
"has released DesqView/x into public domain"
Looks like you need an editor too =)
Check out www.thebbs.org. Large files archive, BBS support forums, and monthly BBS news. BTW, for all you old school BBSers, check out the following: Legend Of the Red Dragon (LORD) is available at www.lordlegacy.org BRE and the like available at www.johndaileysoftware.com and my own page www.elysoft.org/zoob =)