If I told you I live in Surrey but before that I lived in Sheffield, Yorkshire you wouldn't have a hope in hell of knowing where that was.
Don't know about Surrey, but IIRC Yorkshire is up in the northwest (go further north and you're in Scotland).
You wouldn't even be able to pronounce some of the couties. Berkshire
First syllable is pronounced "bark," not "burk," and the second syllable is pronounced "sure."
Bukinghamshire
Lived just outside this one for a couple of years. Head out of Brackley to the west or south and you're in Oxfordshire. Head out to the east and you're in Buckinghamsire. Head out to the north and you remain in Northamptonshire.
As for pronunciation, the third syllable sounds more like "hum" than "ham."
Gloucestershire
First syllable is pronounced "gloss." (Someone who's lived in Virginia should know this.)
Worcestershire
I'd guess the first two syllables would be "wuss-ter," but that's projecting a bit from a Massachusetts pronunciation (except they'd probably say "wuss-tah").
Anyway, point is... mod parent down.
People who tell moderators to "mod parent down" should themselves be modded down.:-) If you disagree with something, don't mod down...reply.
SDIO doesn't provide a lot of power. That's been the biggest stumbling block to date for getting WiFi cards on Palms.
SDIO 802.11b cards have been around for a year or so already...Google turns up a bunch of links to products and sellers. The sticking point has been a lack of support for these cards on Palm OS devices.
I'm disappointed that, apparently, it won't work on other models such as the Treo 600.
The supported-products list is disturbing. I have to wonder why it wouldn't work with the Tungsten T or T2, or if the marketdroid who put together the press release only bothered to list current models that work. It's almost enough to make you want to just say "fsck Palm" and switch over to WinCE (or whatever Microsoft is calling it this month)...no small move when you've been using Palms for the past six or seven years.
It is colonization. We are building a 50,000 man embassy/military command/oil control center, and we are not leaving.
Get real. By your definition, Germany and Japan have been American "colonies" since the end of WWII. I suspect that they would disagree with that characterization.
Remember what happened in 1968 and 1999 when a small group of anarchists turned what was supposed to be peaceful protest into violent confrontations with the police and causing quite a lot of property damage?
Yeah, nothing says FREEDOM like shooting unarmed students at Kent State
For "unarmed" students, they managed to pull off a fair amount of damage (for starters, they burned the ROTC building to the ground). The violence and mayhem in which they engaged gave the lie to their "peaceful" intentions. The punks at Kent State got what they deserved.
Your comment about warming indicates your age, your lack of historical knowledge, and lack of general education on the environment.
Well, aren't you the pot calling the kettle black? Maybe you weren't around in the '70s, when the predominant theory was that we were headed into another ice age. Global warming isn't something that's likely to cause an ice age, is it? Didn't think so. There's probably a crackpot or two who can somehow connect the dots and say the two are somehow related, but twisting facts to fit into a preconceived notion is the m.o. of the junk scientist. The rest of us know there's nowhere near enough evidence one way or the other to start making indisputable claims that if we do (or don't do) X, Y will (or won't) happen.
The first question that comes to mind is, does plasma research benefit from being carried out in a natural vacuum environment rather than needing apparatus to create one artificially? How does the degree of evacuation inside a fusion containment vessel compare with that in LEO, far orbit, or on the Moon?
This page states a typical pressure of 10^-7 atm for the interior of an operating fusion containment vessel. It refers to this condition as a hard vacuum, which this page defines as "a vacuum that approximates the vacuum of space." This page states an atmospheric pressure of 3*10^-9 atm at an altitude of 150 km, which isn't even LEO. (Al Shepard went more than 3x higher, and that was still a suborbital flight.) IANAHEP, but this would seem to indicate that taking advantage of the vacuum of space wouldn't be a bad idea. (The sticking point would be getting the other heavy equipment up there, along with a power supply.)
Does she have local dialup numbers in nearly all parts of the US?
It seems a fair number of dialup ISPs anymore are little more than resellers of access that's provided nationwide by a handful of companies. The last time I fired up a dialup connection, MaGlobe (a prepaid dialup ISP I used as a backup) had numbers damn near everywhere.
(On more recent trips I've taken, I've used free net access through my cellphone. The speed is comparable to dialup, and you don't get stuck paying hotel-phone charges (charges of $1-$2 per call, even for local calls, are not uncommon). It's a bit of an unadvertised feature of T-Mobile's service, but it kicks ass.)
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Most important feature, that.
They did that two years ago...have a look at this if you don't believe me.:-)
Oh, boy. I get FREQUENT very slow operations of all sorts. Go into the todo list and delete some individual shows. Painful. Just hitting record can be a very slow operation taking over 30 seconds before it's all set.
Maybe DirecTV is doing something weird with its TiVos...additional background processes or something else like that. Mine's a standalone (a Philips HDR112, upgraded with a bigger HD, more memory, and a network interface) and it doesn't behave like that. Some have suggested the number of active channels might have something to do with it, but I have mine set up to use digital cable (with a number of channels comparable to what you'd get with DirecTV) and it's not perceptibly slower than when I just had the coax from the wall jack going straight into the tuner.
As for memory, I went ahead and upgraded mine from 16 MB to 32 (had to solder two chips to the motherboard and bring up the diagnostic menu on the serial port). For normal use, it wouldn't have made a difference. It mainly reduced the thrashing a little bit when tyindex (part of TyStudio) is active.
Base Tivo is nice, but as you say, it could do a lot more. I just wish the processor was faster and that it had more ram
What more does it need? MPEG encoding and decoding is done with dedicated hardware. Everything else is just displaying menus and whatnot, and that doesn't take much at all. Sure, Series 1 TiVos have less processing power than an old Power Macintosh 6100, but how often are you stuck waiting on it? The only operation I know of that can take an inordinate amount of time is changing the priorities on your Season Passes, which isn't exactly something that you do every day. Browsing the list of stuff that's already recorded or stuff that's coming up is fast enough.
I was about to try that, but it looks like T-Mobile has lobotomized its WAP service so that you have to pay $$$ for it now. GPRS data still works and is still free, so while I might not be able to pull up a (presumably) lower-bandwidth version/. on my T610, I can connect my notebook to my phone, fire up Mozilla, and bring up regular/. (broken HTML, icky IT color scheme, and all) that way. Try figuring that one out.
Abuse of trademark is typically tolerated in the case where the abuse involves meaningful civl discourse.
...the key word in the above sentence being "meaningful," of course. Intent to deceive and disparage doesn't constitute meaningful civil discourse. (In what alternate reality would "Jerry Falwell is teh suck" be considered insightful?)
WHOA -- I have to be honest with you, I'm not going to trust an update of my operating system to something I drag off a BitTorrent site. Perhaps someone can alleviate the apprehension -- what are the odds that some jerkweed is going to attach backdoor warez to that download?
FWIW, I just had my parents' computer (they're out of town, so I can't just head over after work with a CD) download SP2 directly from Microsoft after having downloaded it from BitTorrent at work. The MD5 sums match: 59a98f181fe383907e520a391d75b5a7 on both, with a length of 278927592 bytes each. Looks like the BitTorrent distribution is safe as long as you get this sum (plus you can bring up the file's properties and use Authenticode to verify it).
The example I will continue to use is
http://slashdot.org/. When it stops forcing a refresh to fix the sidebar then I will believe Firefox is "acceptable". It's amazing how many Firefox zealots ignore this with a brush off. General Windows users will not.
I think you would be better off blaming the incompetence of the Slash coders than an alleged browser shortcoming for this, especially when it's only/. (IME) that b0rks Mozilla. If you grind out non-standards-compliant "HTML," you shouldn't be surprised if it doesn't render properly.
Don't know if it's just a fluke, but anytime I got a 503 with a direct connection, I just tried through a proxy service and I always got through...
I have a proxy server at work. I don't at home. At both locations, I'm getting 50x errors. It also doesn't seem to matter much what browser I use. Mozilla got a 500 earlier, but IE got a 503 just a couple of minutes ago. At least the secure server is still working, or we'd all be posting as ACs right about now (if at all).
That law governs warranties, and forbids companies from requiring customers to buy service from them as a condition of the warranty. How does this keep the fastener guys from keeping the fastener codes secret?
The original post suggested that a product manufacturer might use these "smart" fasteners as a way to restrict who can service the product and who can make replacement parts that will work with that product. Magnuson-Moss prohibits both of those, and I doubt that the feds would take kindly to the use of technical measures to attempt an end run around it. With few exceptions, a manufacturer can't require use of its parts or supplies as a condition of keeping the warranty in effect. An automaker can't void your warranty because you used a third-party replacement oil filter for your last oil change. A printer manufacturer can't void your warranty because you used a third-party ink cartridge or toner cartridge in your printer. For the most part, the only way the manufacturer can require use of its parts/supplies is if it provides them free of charge.
(I probably should've picked a better link...there are several useful links here. The text of the act is here, and you can find some interpretations of it here and here.)
One of the major features touted in the article is security, as in "you can't remove the fasteners without the secret code". As in "you can't install replacement parts unless you buy them from the original maker".
Forget DMCA tricks. This will force you to get all your parts and service from a single source, the company that originally made the product.
There's already a law on the books that prohibits them from doing that.
Of course, the really dumb part of their pricing is that the wireless routers they sell are even cheaper and have a lot more hardware.
What's even worse is that routers are frequently cheaper than access points, even though routers need more hardware (WAN port) and software (routing stuff) to do their job. You would think that a router should be able to serve as an access point, but I have an SMC 802.11b router gathering dust here for which routing couldn't be disabled. (It got replaced with a Linksys access point and signal booster, which provide a more reliable connection here anyway.)
It just looks like the Celeron still gains when it comes to encoding videop streams...
If you're doing any substantial amount of video encoding, you'd have to be insane to do that with any kind of "budget" processor. You want as fast a processor as you can get.
anyone else amused that this article was posted on slashdot? a site who's HTML is so bad they've blocked validator? I'm amused.
I'd swear that it worked just a couple of days ago. I tried it and was surprised that it worked...instead of a 403, it cranked out a lengthy list of errors. Maybe the block was switched off for some reason while they were updating Slash.
(Still had to hit reload six times to get the preview of this message to display properly. That's just lame.)
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Last time I checked, there was no blank in the 1040 for that...probably because the feds don't collect sales tax.
(Having no state income tax rules.)
Don't know about Surrey, but IIRC Yorkshire is up in the northwest (go further north and you're in Scotland).
First syllable is pronounced "bark," not "burk," and the second syllable is pronounced "sure."
Lived just outside this one for a couple of years. Head out of Brackley to the west or south and you're in Oxfordshire. Head out to the east and you're in Buckinghamsire. Head out to the north and you remain in Northamptonshire.
As for pronunciation, the third syllable sounds more like "hum" than "ham."
First syllable is pronounced "gloss." (Someone who's lived in Virginia should know this.)
I'd guess the first two syllables would be "wuss-ter," but that's projecting a bit from a Massachusetts pronunciation (except they'd probably say "wuss-tah").
People who tell moderators to "mod parent down" should themselves be modded down. :-) If you disagree with something, don't mod down...reply.
SDIO 802.11b cards have been around for a year or so already...Google turns up a bunch of links to products and sellers. The sticking point has been a lack of support for these cards on Palm OS devices.
The supported-products list is disturbing. I have to wonder why it wouldn't work with the Tungsten T or T2, or if the marketdroid who put together the press release only bothered to list current models that work. It's almost enough to make you want to just say "fsck Palm" and switch over to WinCE (or whatever Microsoft is calling it this month)...no small move when you've been using Palms for the past six or seven years.
Get real. By your definition, Germany and Japan have been American "colonies" since the end of WWII. I suspect that they would disagree with that characterization.
For "unarmed" students, they managed to pull off a fair amount of damage (for starters, they burned the ROTC building to the ground). The violence and mayhem in which they engaged gave the lie to their "peaceful" intentions. The punks at Kent State got what they deserved.
Well, aren't you the pot calling the kettle black? Maybe you weren't around in the '70s, when the predominant theory was that we were headed into another ice age. Global warming isn't something that's likely to cause an ice age, is it? Didn't think so. There's probably a crackpot or two who can somehow connect the dots and say the two are somehow related, but twisting facts to fit into a preconceived notion is the m.o. of the junk scientist. The rest of us know there's nowhere near enough evidence one way or the other to start making indisputable claims that if we do (or don't do) X, Y will (or won't) happen.
This page states a typical pressure of 10^-7 atm for the interior of an operating fusion containment vessel. It refers to this condition as a hard vacuum, which this page defines as "a vacuum that approximates the vacuum of space." This page states an atmospheric pressure of 3*10^-9 atm at an altitude of 150 km, which isn't even LEO. (Al Shepard went more than 3x higher, and that was still a suborbital flight.) IANAHEP, but this would seem to indicate that taking advantage of the vacuum of space wouldn't be a bad idea. (The sticking point would be getting the other heavy equipment up there, along with a power supply.)
It seems a fair number of dialup ISPs anymore are little more than resellers of access that's provided nationwide by a handful of companies. The last time I fired up a dialup connection, MaGlobe (a prepaid dialup ISP I used as a backup) had numbers damn near everywhere.
(On more recent trips I've taken, I've used free net access through my cellphone. The speed is comparable to dialup, and you don't get stuck paying hotel-phone charges (charges of $1-$2 per call, even for local calls, are not uncommon). It's a bit of an unadvertised feature of T-Mobile's service, but it kicks ass.)
They did that two years ago...have a look at this if you don't believe me. :-)
Maybe DirecTV is doing something weird with its TiVos...additional background processes or something else like that. Mine's a standalone (a Philips HDR112, upgraded with a bigger HD, more memory, and a network interface) and it doesn't behave like that. Some have suggested the number of active channels might have something to do with it, but I have mine set up to use digital cable (with a number of channels comparable to what you'd get with DirecTV) and it's not perceptibly slower than when I just had the coax from the wall jack going straight into the tuner.
As for memory, I went ahead and upgraded mine from 16 MB to 32 (had to solder two chips to the motherboard and bring up the diagnostic menu on the serial port). For normal use, it wouldn't have made a difference. It mainly reduced the thrashing a little bit when tyindex (part of TyStudio) is active.
What more does it need? MPEG encoding and decoding is done with dedicated hardware. Everything else is just displaying menus and whatnot, and that doesn't take much at all. Sure, Series 1 TiVos have less processing power than an old Power Macintosh 6100, but how often are you stuck waiting on it? The only operation I know of that can take an inordinate amount of time is changing the priorities on your Season Passes, which isn't exactly something that you do every day. Browsing the list of stuff that's already recorded or stuff that's coming up is fast enough.
I was about to try that, but it looks like T-Mobile has lobotomized its WAP service so that you have to pay $$$ for it now. GPRS data still works and is still free, so while I might not be able to pull up a (presumably) lower-bandwidth version /. on my T610, I can connect my notebook to my phone, fire up Mozilla, and bring up regular /. (broken HTML, icky IT color scheme, and all) that way. Try figuring that one out.
At least you got karma points...sounds like the mod was doing you a favor.
Indeed...after the fiascoes that were Easy CD Creator 4 & 5, does anybody still use Roxio's CD-burning products anymore?
FWIW, I just had my parents' computer (they're out of town, so I can't just head over after work with a CD) download SP2 directly from Microsoft after having downloaded it from BitTorrent at work. The MD5 sums match: 59a98f181fe383907e520a391d75b5a7 on both, with a length of 278927592 bytes each. Looks like the BitTorrent distribution is safe as long as you get this sum (plus you can bring up the file's properties and use Authenticode to verify it).
KHAAAAAN!!
I think you would be better off blaming the incompetence of the Slash coders than an alleged browser shortcoming for this, especially when it's only /. (IME) that b0rks Mozilla. If you grind out non-standards-compliant "HTML," you shouldn't be surprised if it doesn't render properly.
I have a proxy server at work. I don't at home. At both locations, I'm getting 50x errors. It also doesn't seem to matter much what browser I use. Mozilla got a 500 earlier, but IE got a 503 just a couple of minutes ago. At least the secure server is still working, or we'd all be posting as ACs right about now (if at all).
Netcraft confirms it: Slashdot is dying.
The original post suggested that a product manufacturer might use these "smart" fasteners as a way to restrict who can service the product and who can make replacement parts that will work with that product. Magnuson-Moss prohibits both of those, and I doubt that the feds would take kindly to the use of technical measures to attempt an end run around it. With few exceptions, a manufacturer can't require use of its parts or supplies as a condition of keeping the warranty in effect. An automaker can't void your warranty because you used a third-party replacement oil filter for your last oil change. A printer manufacturer can't void your warranty because you used a third-party ink cartridge or toner cartridge in your printer. For the most part, the only way the manufacturer can require use of its parts/supplies is if it provides them free of charge.
(I probably should've picked a better link...there are several useful links here. The text of the act is here, and you can find some interpretations of it here and here.)
There's already a law on the books that prohibits them from doing that.
What's even worse is that routers are frequently cheaper than access points, even though routers need more hardware (WAN port) and software (routing stuff) to do their job. You would think that a router should be able to serve as an access point, but I have an SMC 802.11b router gathering dust here for which routing couldn't be disabled. (It got replaced with a Linksys access point and signal booster, which provide a more reliable connection here anyway.)
If you're doing any substantial amount of video encoding, you'd have to be insane to do that with any kind of "budget" processor. You want as fast a processor as you can get.
I don't know who down here would be "shocked" by hat...is there a state where right-on-red is not legal? I've not heard of it.
I'd swear that it worked just a couple of days ago. I tried it and was surprised that it worked...instead of a 403, it cranked out a lengthy list of errors. Maybe the block was switched off for some reason while they were updating Slash.
(Still had to hit reload six times to get the preview of this message to display properly. That's just lame.)