The most reliable drives I ever remember seeing were the old Iomega Bernoulli drives. I used to have two of the 90 meg drives that I used to move files between home and work. So I usually had a couple of cartridges in my briefcase. One time, in a pinch I had to use a Bernoulli cartridge as an ice scraper on my car's windshield.
Years ago, an Iomega rep came to town to demo a Bernoulli drive. During the demo, he popped the disk with his presentation out of the drive and literally threw it out into the audience. It got dropped on the floor, bounced off the wall, etc. for a minute or two. Eventually, the disk got sent back to the front of the room. It was put back in the drive and the presentation continued where it was left off. That is durability.
It's happened before, remember SyQuest? They made removable storage similar to the zip and Jaz drives, only theirs were virtually indestructable
I know some people have reported problems with Zip drives (though mine have never given me any trouble), but have you never heard of the EZ135? IIRC, those caused far more problems than Zip drives ever did. Look at 'em funny and they were toast.
Actually, I think they discovered water closets a ways back.
...otherwise known as toilets. Those aren't the closets of which I wrote. A closet is built into a wall (usually in a bedroom, though you can have them in hallways, bathrooms, etc.), usually has a door (sliding or hinged) on it, and usually has a bar for hanging stuff and a shelf for boxes and other stuff that can be stacked. If it's attached to a kitchen or is used mainly to store food, it's a pantry...otherwise, it's a closet. Sometimes it's just big enough to hold some clothes, while some others are big enough that you can walk around inside them. I've seen bedroom closets that were larger than the entire bedroom I had in England (a dinky 8x8' cube).
Those clothing storage units that things hang in are called wardrobes.
...as distinguished from closets, which the Brits don't seem to have discovered yet. (We brought a couple of wardrobes back from there...I think my parents have them in the garage now, as that's the only part of the house where they're needed. Now that I think about it, I don't think the house in Germany had closets either...maybe the lack of closets is a European thing.)
However; I've got quite a few early vinyl calssical recordings (pre-1955) from a variety of labels which have stood up to wear very well indeed, while many recordings from the 1980s are effectively worn out.
Are you sure those older recordings were pressed in vinyl? 78s were usually made with a harder material (shellac?) that could stand up to the significant tracking force (ounces instead of grams) of a wind-up record player that used a big horn instead of an amplifier. If you tried playing a newer record on one of those it would (1) sound like the Chipmunks on crack and (2) be ruined after one play...assuming the fat needle didn't just slide all over the surface.
What village are you from that still uses 7-digit numbers?
Las Vegas, with a population closing in on 1.5 million (if it isn't there already).
(My parents moved to Phoenix last year...they're stuck with 10-digit dialing there. I doubt that anywhere near the 91% of the country you quoted is on 10-digit dialing.)
I don't like the looks of that at all. Before long, my address will be PV8DC 795CX BFB65 QV4NX PDPWV. It will be useful to send me letters, AND I can use it to install Windows and MS Office.
I don't know if I should admit this, but I actually had one of those CD keys memorized...it was for OEM Win98SE. I had a batch of ~20 machines to set up one day (back when I was working as a tech @ Best Buy) and four workstations with which to do it, so I scribbled down the first CD key I pulled out on some masking tape and put it over each workstation. Halfway through the job, I had it memorized...and I kept using it for probably the next couple of years or so, even after I had left Best Buy and moved on to bigger/better things.
Who wants to write (or can even remember!) 10-digit codes like that?
You mean like a phone number?:)
Phone numbers are just that..numbers, not numbers and letters. You have two fewer bits per character.:-) Besides, the numbers most people use on a daily basis are only 7 digits (you only need the area code for long distance).
Is the recent mistreatment of the Dixie Chicks. The head of Cumulus Media, which owns 41 radio stations, decided himself that none of the stations would play the Dixie Chicks any more.
When you have a large number of your listeners calling/writing/emailing to say they won't listen if you keep playing something that they find offensive, what are you supposed to do? You can keep playing it and risk losing your audience, or you can give your listeners what they want. Which approach is more likely to keep you in business?
since they stand for what we are NOT wanting to happen to US media.
Why? As you can see the "free market" thing isn't working that well.
In fact chances are you get a more balanced view of the world by a government funded news agency (that is as long as same is in a "democratic" state) than you will get from commercial news media.
You might ask the crew of the HMS Ark Royal what they think of the "balanced" reporting they were getting from that "government funded news agency."
Also, if you buy a CVD and expect it work in your DVD player, then tough luck.
"C" and "D" are next to each other on the keyboard, and any reasonable person should be able to figure out it was a typo.
Umm...CVD is the name of a disc-based video format, different from VCD, SVCD, and DVD. It's most similar to SVCD, but its 352-pixel horizontal resolution (vs. 480 for SVCD) is DVD-compatible. (You can rip the video from a CVD and author it to DVD without reencoding.)
Mopeds have pedals like bicycles. Hence 'ped' in the name.
Most states have some legal definition of "moped" that covers any self-propelled two-wheel vehicle (or maybe even a three-wheel vehicle) that falls within certain speed, power, and/or engine-displacement limits (in Nevada, for instance, it's a top speed of 30 mph and a maximum displacement of 50 cc). This covers everything from the mopeds you saw people riding in the 80s to gas-/electric-powered scooters to bicycles with engines/motors attached to them. This definition is usually for purposes of setting license and registration requirements (here, you need a driver's license (doesn't have to be a motorcycle license), but a moped doesn't have to be registered or insured).
Of course, if you are like the freezer manufacturer who quoted their product's power consumption in 'kilowatt hours per week'
Considering that electricity is sold by the kWh, this isn't unreasonable...you can multiply kWh/wk by the $/kWh given on your last bill and get $/wk fairly easily, which is what you would want to know when you're in the market for a fridge.
(That said, the article's usage of kWh was incorrect. Furthermore, given that we're dealing with a mechanical device and not an electric device, they probably should've said 3.5 hp instead of 2.6 kW...engine power is normally expressed in horsepower.)
On an engine with sequential multipoint injection (one injector per cylender, near the intake valve), could one modify the ECU so that, when the engine is under minimal load, instead of firing the injector on every intake stroke, it would fire on every other intake stroke - in effect changing a four stroke engine into an eight stroke engine?
That'd be more like turning your V8 into a 4-banger. Cadillac tried something like it ~20 years ago with the V8-6-4, which ended up not going over too well with drivers. (Their current Northstar V8 has a similar capability, but while the V8-6-4 used it in normal operation to try to squeeze better mileage out of a big engine, the Northstar only uses it as an emergency measure. If the engine loses coolant and starts overheating, the engine computer limits vehicle speed (to 50 mph, IIRC) and shuts down half of the cylinders at a time, cycling through them in turn so they can cool down a bit. Basically, it allows what's normally a water-cooled engine to run as an air-cooled engine long enough to get to the nearest garage and fix the problem.)
Unless you had a way to hold the intake and exhaust valves open when you didn't want the cylinder to operate (really big solenoids, perhaps?), running each cylinder half as often would rob lots of power...you'd compress a chunk of air, but wouldn't have a combustion cycle to make any use of it. With some engines, holding the valves open would more than likely result in the piston slamming into them on the compression and exhaust strokes, which would be a Bad Thing. (My understanding is that some imports have this problem when the timing belt breaks.)
Because of this, I'd claim that [driving] is more akin to a right, rather than a priviledge (such as owning a weapon, etc.)
Better check your copy of the Constitution again...last time I checked, there was an amendment that said "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
I'll agree with your other point that driving ought not be considered a privilege...especially in hotter climates, it's damn near impossible to get anything done if you're stuck biking (or worse, walking) everywhere.
There's a jewelry-store chain in Las Vegas that uses those as timeclocks...a company for which I used to work sold them. The company that builds them even pitches their use for such a mundane role.
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Years ago, an Iomega rep came to town to demo a Bernoulli drive. During the demo, he popped the disk with his presentation out of the drive and literally threw it out into the audience. It got dropped on the floor, bounced off the wall, etc. for a minute or two. Eventually, the disk got sent back to the front of the room. It was put back in the drive and the presentation continued where it was left off. That is durability.
I know some people have reported problems with Zip drives (though mine have never given me any trouble), but have you never heard of the EZ135? IIRC, those caused far more problems than Zip drives ever did. Look at 'em funny and they were toast.
Wrong...2 is prime. (It is the only even prime.)
Are you sure those older recordings were pressed in vinyl? 78s were usually made with a harder material (shellac?) that could stand up to the significant tracking force (ounces instead of grams) of a wind-up record player that used a big horn instead of an amplifier. If you tried playing a newer record on one of those it would (1) sound like the Chipmunks on crack and (2) be ruined after one play...assuming the fat needle didn't just slide all over the surface.
You'll be pleased to know that Jar Jar doesn't even show up in Episode 4...
Las Vegas, with a population closing in on 1.5 million (if it isn't there already).
(My parents moved to Phoenix last year...they're stuck with 10-digit dialing there. I doubt that anywhere near the 91% of the country you quoted is on 10-digit dialing.)
I don't know if I should admit this, but I actually had one of those CD keys memorized...it was for OEM Win98SE. I had a batch of ~20 machines to set up one day (back when I was working as a tech @ Best Buy) and four workstations with which to do it, so I scribbled down the first CD key I pulled out on some masking tape and put it over each workstation. Halfway through the job, I had it memorized...and I kept using it for probably the next couple of years or so, even after I had left Best Buy and moved on to bigger/better things.
Phone numbers are just that..numbers, not numbers and letters. You have two fewer bits per character. :-) Besides, the numbers most people use on a daily basis are only 7 digits (you only need the area code for long distance).
The crew were disgusted by the Beeb's blatantly pro-Iraq war coverage, so they shut it off.
When you have a large number of your listeners calling/writing/emailing to say they won't listen if you keep playing something that they find offensive, what are you supposed to do? You can keep playing it and risk losing your audience, or you can give your listeners what they want. Which approach is more likely to keep you in business?
You might ask the crew of the HMS Ark Royal what they think of the "balanced" reporting they were getting from that "government funded news agency."
There is a brand of duct tape called "Duck Tape."
Umm...CVD is the name of a disc-based video format, different from VCD, SVCD, and DVD. It's most similar to SVCD, but its 352-pixel horizontal resolution (vs. 480 for SVCD) is DVD-compatible. (You can rip the video from a CVD and author it to DVD without reencoding.)
Most beer glasses wouldn't fit in one of those, and drinking beer straight from the bottle/can is uncivilized. :-P
Most states have some legal definition of "moped" that covers any self-propelled two-wheel vehicle (or maybe even a three-wheel vehicle) that falls within certain speed, power, and/or engine-displacement limits (in Nevada, for instance, it's a top speed of 30 mph and a maximum displacement of 50 cc). This covers everything from the mopeds you saw people riding in the 80s to gas-/electric-powered scooters to bicycles with engines/motors attached to them. This definition is usually for purposes of setting license and registration requirements (here, you need a driver's license (doesn't have to be a motorcycle license), but a moped doesn't have to be registered or insured).
Considering that electricity is sold by the kWh, this isn't unreasonable...you can multiply kWh/wk by the $/kWh given on your last bill and get $/wk fairly easily, which is what you would want to know when you're in the market for a fridge.
(That said, the article's usage of kWh was incorrect. Furthermore, given that we're dealing with a mechanical device and not an electric device, they probably should've said 3.5 hp instead of 2.6 kW...engine power is normally expressed in horsepower.)
That'd be more like turning your V8 into a 4-banger. Cadillac tried something like it ~20 years ago with the V8-6-4, which ended up not going over too well with drivers. (Their current Northstar V8 has a similar capability, but while the V8-6-4 used it in normal operation to try to squeeze better mileage out of a big engine, the Northstar only uses it as an emergency measure. If the engine loses coolant and starts overheating, the engine computer limits vehicle speed (to 50 mph, IIRC) and shuts down half of the cylinders at a time, cycling through them in turn so they can cool down a bit. Basically, it allows what's normally a water-cooled engine to run as an air-cooled engine long enough to get to the nearest garage and fix the problem.)
Unless you had a way to hold the intake and exhaust valves open when you didn't want the cylinder to operate (really big solenoids, perhaps?), running each cylinder half as often would rob lots of power...you'd compress a chunk of air, but wouldn't have a combustion cycle to make any use of it. With some engines, holding the valves open would more than likely result in the piston slamming into them on the compression and exhaust strokes, which would be a Bad Thing. (My understanding is that some imports have this problem when the timing belt breaks.)
Better check your copy of the Constitution again...last time I checked, there was an amendment that said "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
I'll agree with your other point that driving ought not be considered a privilege...especially in hotter climates, it's damn near impossible to get anything done if you're stuck biking (or worse, walking) everywhere.
Is it their fault you're still using IE? Switch to a real browser and you won't have that problem.
What do you think 9/11 was, asshole?
(Yes, this is flamebait. Boo-fucking-hoo.)
There's a jewelry-store chain in Las Vegas that uses those as timeclocks...a company for which I used to work sold them. The company that builds them even pitches their use for such a mundane role.
Take one of these to Battlebots and you're sure to win. :-)