Chapter 1: Water and other liquids are bad for computers Chapter 2: So are magnets Chapter 3: Installing everything you find on the Internet is bad Chapter 4: Yelling at your kids when your infested computer stops working wont help anything etc.
I had an R/C car in the 80's that had regenerative breaking. In fact, just about ALL electronic speed controllers had regenerative breaking back then - since the little cars don't have break pads they either regenerate or short out the motor
I cannot believe how he ended that episode. That is the saddest cartoon I have seen in my entire life, if not the saddest story ever. I get misty just thinking about it. And I thought "Feed the Kitty" was a tear-jerker.
Of the football I watch - the occasional Patriot's game that is not scheduled when some terrible "local" team is playing here in Texas - at least half have run over their scheduled time. I know this because I record the "3" hour game and then watch it in 45 minutes thanks to the auto commercial skipping and 30-second skip (almost the exact time between plays) on my ReplayTV. Very early in the season I discovered what happens when you record the first 3 hours of a 3:45 game. You get to see the first 3 quarters, and then cry yourself to sleep when you hear it was one of the greatest comebacks.
But then you find some kind soul made a bit torrent of the directv game summary and your world has color again. I wish that kind soul would do it for every game.
This painting was not made in one sitting. Or two. Or ten.
It was never even finished.
The subject, ASSUMING THERE WAS ONE, sat for one or several sessions and then Leonardo continued to work on the painting off and on for the rest of his life.
There is speculation as to who the subject was, but perhaps there was none, and some think it's actually a self portrait in drag (perhaps the cause of the mostly amused but 9% disgusted?)
1) If something is well known and common knowledge, it will probably be correct on wikipedia.
2) If it is realatively unknown, wikipedia might have it right, or might not, and who'd know unless an expert read the article? Even then, nobody seems to list references used so there is no way to double check. An entry on electron orbits comes to mind.
3) If something it well known and common knowledge BUT UNTRUE, it will be all out war on wikipedia and whichever user is more stubborn is the one who wins.
Thus, we have an encyclopedia listing urban legends as fact.
Now, I LOVE the idea of wikipedia. I have made suggestions and may make additions to technical entries that will hopefully save someone hours of debugging in the future. This could be incredibly useful. But if someone stays up late and vandalizes every entry I make, what can I do about it? Nothing. Maybe some sort of reputation system would help.
Anything that can hold wires in neat bunches is a plus. Wire ties are not so convenient, but I love those velcro wire-wraps. Once your cables are neat, it doesn't matter if you have 20 as you can easily tell where they all go.
Unless there's a complete overhaul of the electronics industry forcing everyone to use the same voltage and same connector for devices, there's not much more I can tell you. Just buy a big power strip and put all the wall-worts on it and kick it under a desk where it can happily raise your power bill whether you have a device charging or not.
Oh, I recently saw a wall outlet that lets you twist the plug sideways so you can fit two wall-worts on one outlet. All you have to do is rewire your room...
Don't be hard on him, he's just a software guy. At least he didn't call himself a systems *engineer*/would love to see a sys admin try to do a systems engineer's work (how's your physics and mechanical engineering skills?)
After buying a Sony Receiver that needs to be rebooted occasioanlly, and a Sony DVD player that (like 50% of other owners reported) died right outside of the warantee because they attached a heatsink with double-sided sticky tape, I already refused to buy Sony products ever again. I called Sony on both problems and they denied ever hearing about them before, refused to let me send links to hundreds/thousands of users having the exact same problems, and wanted me to pay them $180 just to LOOK at the DVD player, plus parts plus labor, when I could buy a new one for $50.
Sony is dead. Their only product with any quality left - their Trinitron CRT - is going the way of the dinosaurs.
Requiring a CD is so stupid. At home I have to have piles of CDs around for all my games, and on the road I have to remove one of my batteries (halfing play time) to insert the CDROM drive which just spins and wastes more power, resulting in my batteries dying halfway into a plane ride. Obviously that is unacceptable, so I end up downloading a possibly infected crack from russia just so I can play on a long plane ride. Thanks Firaxis!
I could point out that this car will produce many times more polution than a conventional car given how much coal-generated electricty it takes to turn aluminum oxide into aluminum, but I think this subject is dead.
The Hydrogen Economy is a myth, and it's a dead myth.
Pretending you can get rid of fossil fuels by storing fossil-fuel-generated energy in hydrogen is rediculous. It's like claiming you can get a free lunch by converting all you dollars to Euros (and pay a 200% fee in the process) and then buy a lunch with those Euros. You didn't spend any dollars, right? So it must be free.
If just looking at the source could tell you if it worked or not, there would be no such thing as bugs and no need for testing and QA as long as the programmer looked at his code while he typed it.
If you think the machine doesn't work, prove it with a test case.
Years ago I pulled out my key chain with a little globe compass on it at the super market I worked at. It blew the minds of several of my adult co-workers. They stared at it and played with it and spun it around and asked how it knows which way to point.
So, yes, I agree that smart people 2000 years ago were probably smarter than the average adult today. Even if the compass hadn't been invented yet 2000 years ago... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass
Sony will pay for the fix? Sony is famous for denying problems exist with their flaky products, even when 50% of customers experience the problems. My DVD player overheated and shut off within seconds of use after a year, as it did for about half the other people who reviewed it online (google DVP-S530D heatsink problem) but Sony denied ever hearing about the problem (most revies said thet called Sony) they would not let me send them proof, and they wanted $180 to LOOK at the problem, plus labor and parts and shipping. Same with my Sony reciever which randomly crashes and needs to be rebooted.
First my own nitpick: money is good, and free time is better, but don't forget other issues like cost of living. I could earn twice as much in Boston, NYC, Seattle, or somewhere in CA, but the cost of living here in San Antonio is 2 to 8 times less than those cities. A house with a pool has a lower mortgage than the rent on studio appt in those cities.
But I wanted to comment on your main-ish point. My uncle is a (sleazy) car salesman. He is always sharing stories about how the most slovenly guy on the lot that no salesman wants to talk to is the richest person who wants to pay cash, and the flashy doctors and lawyers in fine suits who want to upgrade their convertible Corvette or SLK are living paycheck to paycheck and have terrible credit scores.
Someone I know who works for a gigantic defense firm recently solved a problem that opened up billions to 10's of billions in business for the company. I believe his reward was $2,000 and paperweight.
Nobody will look out for you but you. Make yourself un-firable, or quit and be a consultant. I think the latter is what that somebody plans on doing. My long term plan is to be the owner and CEO, so I can fire myself and get a billion dollar severance.
Will the "auto" feature of this Civ be like the last one, in which on a giant map every worker will take 30 seconds to think about what to do (a long time when you have 100+ workers), and then every worker will decide to go do the exact same thing on the other side ofthe planet and take the next 400 years to get there, just to turn around?
*cough*
What I mean to say is: will you TEST your product BEFORE you sell it this time, and will any thought be put into the most important unit, the worker.
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Chapter 1: Water and other liquids are bad for computers
Chapter 2: So are magnets
Chapter 3: Installing everything you find on the Internet is bad
Chapter 4: Yelling at your kids when your infested computer stops working wont help anything
etc.
solar flares.
What I would do is go to my toolbox and get my $2 outlet tester and bring it to work the next day. If that turned up nothing, I'd go with an exorcist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot
I had an R/C car in the 80's that had regenerative breaking. In fact, just about ALL electronic speed controllers had regenerative breaking back then - since the little cars don't have break pads they either regenerate or short out the motor
Are you trying to correct me or out-nerd me?
I found an error in the article:
"Signing on with Planet Express, a space courier service, he befriends a one-eyed alien, Leela (Katey Sagal)..."
She's not an alien, she's a mutant. DUH.
I cannot believe how he ended that episode. That is the saddest cartoon I have seen in my entire life, if not the saddest story ever. I get misty just thinking about it. And I thought "Feed the Kitty" was a tear-jerker.
I DEMAND he remedy the situation NOW.
So, millions of mac users using old, unsupported, unpatched versions of IE = more secure?
Overtimes are indeed rare.
Not running over time is even rarer.
Of the football I watch - the occasional Patriot's game that is not scheduled when some terrible "local" team is playing here in Texas - at least half have run over their scheduled time. I know this because I record the "3" hour game and then watch it in 45 minutes thanks to the auto commercial skipping and 30-second skip (almost the exact time between plays) on my ReplayTV. Very early in the season I discovered what happens when you record the first 3 hours of a 3:45 game. You get to see the first 3 quarters, and then cry yourself to sleep when you hear it was one of the greatest comebacks.
But then you find some kind soul made a bit torrent of the directv game summary and your world has color again. I wish that kind soul would do it for every game.
Delphi forever
This painting was not made in one sitting. Or two. Or ten.
It was never even finished.
The subject, ASSUMING THERE WAS ONE, sat for one or several sessions and then Leonardo continued to work on the painting off and on for the rest of his life.
There is speculation as to who the subject was, but perhaps there was none, and some think it's actually a self portrait in drag (perhaps the cause of the mostly amused but 9% disgusted?)
83% happy
9% disgusted
8% confused as to why anyone would take a COMPUTER'S word about EMOTIONS
Yes, I'm serious.
There are 3 cases, the third explains my title:
1) If something is well known and common knowledge, it will probably be correct on wikipedia.
2) If it is realatively unknown, wikipedia might have it right, or might not, and who'd know unless an expert read the article? Even then, nobody seems to list references used so there is no way to double check. An entry on electron orbits comes to mind.
3) If something it well known and common knowledge BUT UNTRUE, it will be all out war on wikipedia and whichever user is more stubborn is the one who wins.
Thus, we have an encyclopedia listing urban legends as fact.
Now, I LOVE the idea of wikipedia. I have made suggestions and may make additions to technical entries that will hopefully save someone hours of debugging in the future. This could be incredibly useful. But if someone stays up late and vandalizes every entry I make, what can I do about it? Nothing. Maybe some sort of reputation system would help.
Anything that can hold wires in neat bunches is a plus. Wire ties are not so convenient, but I love those velcro wire-wraps. Once your cables are neat, it doesn't matter if you have 20 as you can easily tell where they all go.
Unless there's a complete overhaul of the electronics industry forcing everyone to use the same voltage and same connector for devices, there's not much more I can tell you. Just buy a big power strip and put all the wall-worts on it and kick it under a desk where it can happily raise your power bill whether you have a device charging or not.
Oh, I recently saw a wall outlet that lets you twist the plug sideways so you can fit two wall-worts on one outlet. All you have to do is rewire your room...
Don't be hard on him, he's just a software guy. At least he didn't call himself a systems *engineer* /would love to see a sys admin try to do a systems engineer's work (how's your physics and mechanical engineering skills?)
After buying a Sony Receiver that needs to be rebooted occasioanlly, and a Sony DVD player that (like 50% of other owners reported) died right outside of the warantee because they attached a heatsink with double-sided sticky tape, I already refused to buy Sony products ever again. I called Sony on both problems and they denied ever hearing about them before, refused to let me send links to hundreds/thousands of users having the exact same problems, and wanted me to pay them $180 just to LOOK at the DVD player, plus parts plus labor, when I could buy a new one for $50.
Sony is dead. Their only product with any quality left - their Trinitron CRT - is going the way of the dinosaurs.
Requiring a CD is so stupid. At home I have to have piles of CDs around for all my games, and on the road I have to remove one of my batteries (halfing play time) to insert the CDROM drive which just spins and wastes more power, resulting in my batteries dying halfway into a plane ride. Obviously that is unacceptable, so I end up downloading a possibly infected crack from russia just so I can play on a long plane ride. Thanks Firaxis!
I could point out that this car will produce many times more polution than a conventional car given how much coal-generated electricty it takes to turn aluminum oxide into aluminum, but I think this subject is dead.
The Hydrogen Economy is a myth, and it's a dead myth.
Pretending you can get rid of fossil fuels by storing fossil-fuel-generated energy in hydrogen is rediculous. It's like claiming you can get a free lunch by converting all you dollars to Euros (and pay a 200% fee in the process) and then buy a lunch with those Euros. You didn't spend any dollars, right? So it must be free.
If just looking at the source could tell you if it worked or not, there would be no such thing as bugs and no need for testing and QA as long as the programmer looked at his code while he typed it.
If you think the machine doesn't work, prove it with a test case.
Years ago I pulled out my key chain with a little globe compass on it at the super market I worked at. It blew the minds of several of my adult co-workers. They stared at it and played with it and spun it around and asked how it knows which way to point.
So, yes, I agree that smart people 2000 years ago were probably smarter than the average adult today. Even if the compass hadn't been invented yet 2000 years ago... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass
Sony will pay for the fix? Sony is famous for denying problems exist with their flaky products, even when 50% of customers experience the problems. My DVD player overheated and shut off within seconds of use after a year, as it did for about half the other people who reviewed it online (google DVP-S530D heatsink problem) but Sony denied ever hearing about the problem (most revies said thet called Sony) they would not let me send them proof, and they wanted $180 to LOOK at the problem, plus labor and parts and shipping. Same with my Sony reciever which randomly crashes and needs to be rebooted.
First my own nitpick: money is good, and free time is better, but don't forget other issues like cost of living. I could earn twice as much in Boston, NYC, Seattle, or somewhere in CA, but the cost of living here in San Antonio is 2 to 8 times less than those cities. A house with a pool has a lower mortgage than the rent on studio appt in those cities.
But I wanted to comment on your main-ish point. My uncle is a (sleazy) car salesman. He is always sharing stories about how the most slovenly guy on the lot that no salesman wants to talk to is the richest person who wants to pay cash, and the flashy doctors and lawyers in fine suits who want to upgrade their convertible Corvette or SLK are living paycheck to paycheck and have terrible credit scores.
Someone I know who works for a gigantic defense firm recently solved a problem that opened up billions to 10's of billions in business for the company. I believe his reward was $2,000 and paperweight.
Nobody will look out for you but you. Make yourself un-firable, or quit and be a consultant. I think the latter is what that somebody plans on doing. My long term plan is to be the owner and CEO, so I can fire myself and get a billion dollar severance.
Will the "auto" feature of this Civ be like the last one, in which on a giant map every worker will take 30 seconds to think about what to do (a long time when you have 100+ workers), and then every worker will decide to go do the exact same thing on the other side ofthe planet and take the next 400 years to get there, just to turn around?
*cough*
What I mean to say is: will you TEST your product BEFORE you sell it this time, and will any thought be put into the most important unit, the worker.
I'm shocked, SHOCKED I say. What's next, acting as a mouthpiece for government talking points/propoganda?