Actually, the gap not being tightened is a very common mistake. I can certainly imagine that they might have updated the firmware to be more tolerant of such an error. Monitor the fuel level to watch for refills. If the pressure problem ocurrs not long after a tank is refilled, then wait until it is refilled again (to see if the problem "goes away") before actually reporting the error.
As for why the mechanic didn't replace it himself? Usually it's not a mechanical failure, but operator error.
I've never heard of that, but I just did some searching and indeed its true...at least for older models, around 2000 or so...I couldn't confirm exact numbers. But they seem to have fixed it in new years. Now it has the VIN# encoded into the radio, and if the radio's VIN doesn't match the cars computer's VIN, it shuts down the radio. Loss of power doesn't cause a problem any more.
Thanks for your post...it was interesting to learn about this.
Really? I can't see anywhere in either of the linked articles that mentions 800 passengers. Both of them say 555. I guess michael didn't feel there was enough misinformation in the submission to measure up to the usual standard, so he added some of his own.
If you don't buy the theory, do a google search for "hindenburg paint" (without the quotes) and see the great many people that do. The cloth covering the hindenburg was waterproofed with a flammable substance, and then it was painted with a paint containing aluminium powder, which helped to cause the spark that lit it. Oh, and don't forget that aluminum powder is also highly flammable (it's used in rocket fuel). Those few facts might shed some light on what happened.
The difference, according to the studios, is that you can make a one-for-one copy of the original. With VHS recording, you got a copy that was a poor replication of the original, and would inevitably degrade. With Tivo to DVD recording, this degradation does not occur.
No, the degredation doesn't occur in the TiVo->DVD stage. It occurs in the original->broadcast and the broadcast->TiVo stages. And it's a HUGE difference. I TiVo'd the Deep Space Nine series last year, and then I missed an episode and borrowed the DVD from a friend. HUGE difference in quality.
I used one of these machines yesterday. You just put in a credit card and you get stamps. No person to check your ID (even if they only do it 0.001% of the time anyway), no IP address to track you back to, and no physical address that the goods were shipped to.
In other words, this would be a great target for someone to use a stolen credit card to buy a bunch of stamps and then sell them. Taking your photo just provides a layer of protection to at least put this on par with (if not better than) stores and online retailers when it comes to dealing with fraud.
By the way, I didn't think the photo was any big secret. When I used the machine yesterday, I saw a little pannel of dark glass/plastic like you see covering store security cameras or the IR sensors on home stereos/TVs. I looked at it and instantly thought..."must be a camera there". It's right there on the front of the machine...not really disguised at all. Seemed fairly obvious to me.
Of course, it's not cheap. Looking that te site for a price....ooops, it seems the've halted the program until the USPS evaluates whether or not to continue with it again. Hopefully they will reinstate it.
It seemed to me that when I looked at it before, it was like $1 per stamp. Not something you'd want to use everyday, but would be neat for special events (ex: wedding invitations).
Each card renders half of the same image. So each card needs access to the full texture set
Well, not always. That is definitely true when using the 3dfx style SLI, where both cards are rendering pretty much the entire screen. However, in the case of this type of SLI, where the first card renders the top, the second one the bottom, you can end up with optimizations. Assuming the sky only appears at the top of the screen, your skydome textures only need to be loaded on one card. Sure, it's not 100% efficient, but it's not 100% redundant either.
Hunting is about working alone, or in a group, to achieve a difficult goal.
Difficult goal, my ass! What is so difficult about: 1) Once a week for a month before hunting season, pour a bag of carrots or corn on the ground (and maybe a block of salt). 2) When hunting season begins, go back to that spot. 3) When animal returns to feed, blow it's brains out....wait, if you do that you can't throw your trophy up on the wall....shoot it through the heart.
If anything, the goal is tedious and boring, not difficult (though maybe difficult staying awake).
I will grant you that there are the occasional hunters that go out and track the animal without baiting them, but the above 1..2..3 is what at least 95% of hunters do. There are also bow hunters, which require a bit more skill than gun hunting, but still they usually play the same bating game.
Look at the pages history, it's being constantly vandalised
Thanks for the info. I knew anyone could contribute to Wiki, but I didn't know they could edit the live content of the page. That seems like a really bad idea to me....kinda like troll heaven.
I'm not sure what you are referring to, but that link has given me some odd contents. The first time I clicked I got the Wikipedia sidebar and the "Hindenburg disaster" caption, and then the first paragraph it showed was from this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Nigger_Ass ociatio n_of_America
I closed the browser, started again, clicked the link and got the correct page. I clicked refresh and THEN I started getting pages with the Wiki sidebar and correct caption, but the body looked like a pda version of Google.
In fairness to EA, though, the window for shipping annual sports games is a lot tighter than for a new FPS
How the hell did this get modded insightful? It's an artificially imposed deadline. You can't get NHL 2003 out on time? Easy solution...rename it to NHL 2004? You don't have to have a product with every model year? There was no Windows 96/97/99, was there? The people don't care WHAT the game is called, they just want it. It's the greedy management/investors that insist a version has to be shipped EVERY year, no matter what the cost.
But then the Democrats stuffed Dean down a mineshaft
Actually, to me it seemed more like the media that stuffed Dean down the mineshaft. After their screwup in over-hyping the microphone incident, by the time they figured out their mistake and realized it was they, not Dean, who were the raving lunatics, it was far too late...they had irreparably damaged Deans image. Dean dropped like a fly. Of course, had the sheeple stopped and actually used their brains (did they really think that a presidential candidate would be screaming uncontrollably?) instead of taking the media as gospel, there wouldn't have been a problem, so maybe it's a shared blame.
Well, the real reason I can't blame this is because the article that was linked to was the one with the mistake...slashdot just replicated it. I noticed it because I've done a lot of 3D work, and planning just didn't make sense to me. I actually thought it was supposed to be "planing", like maybe to project a sphere into plane or something.
According to the filing, the patent is "Method and apparatus for spherical panning".
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how do you prove that you don't have something
Well, its not so much a matter of proving that he doesn't have them. It was already proven during the Gulf war that he had them. He was then ordered to destroy them, and he should have evidence to prove that they were destroyed, but as far as I heard he hadn't presented that evidence.
Maybe you are trolling, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and answer you.
I had elective heart surgery. It wasn't open heart surgery (they didn't cut me open) but it was heart surgery none the less. First a little background.
I was born with a few heart problems. I had a bicuspid aortic valve which was gradually failing me. It wasn't an emergency situation (I probably had another 2-5 years to live with it), but I had it replaced when I was 11 years old (I'm 29 now). That solved that problem (until I need to get it replaced again...probably in the next 5-10 year).
Aside from that more serious problem, I also had a bunch of hair-like fibers that were hanging off of one of the electrical nodes in my heart. They had a tendency to short out my heart's electrical system every now and then, inducing tachycardia, which is a fast heart rate...for me, it was usually between 140 and 180 beats per minute (around 90 was my normal heart rate). When this happened, I had to sit down and rest and wait for it to correct itself. It would always resolve itself within 5-30 minutes (except for one time when I was 8 years old, it got up to 250bpm, and I had to go to the hospital to get it to stop, and even they had difficulty stopping it). In general, it was nothing serious at all, just a MAJOR inconvenience (it's very tiring and uncomfortable when it happens).
Anyway, about 10 years or so ago, there was a relatively new procedure to fix it via radio frequency ablation. Basically they use a catheter to emit high frequency waves to burn the fibers away. Again, I was in no real danger from this, so it was completely elective surgery.
I chose to have it done, and it has increased my quality of life dramatically. Instead of getting tachycardia several times a week, I now get it less than once a month (once every 2-4 months is probably more accurate....but it's so infrequent now that I don't really keep track of how often). In addition, when I do get an attack, instead of 140-180bpm, my heart rate is usually around 120bpm. Instead of it lasting 5-30 minutes, it almost always goes away within 60 seconds.
Can we say Divx? I don't know...can TiVo decode divx (or be made to decode it)? I certainly realize there are plenty of compression algorithms that can get great quality at 1GB/hour (the DirectTiVo is proof of that). It's just a matter of what can the TiVo decode?
Yes, but the 1GB/hour quality is horrendous (at least for stand alone, not DirectTiVo). I would NEVER pay to rent stuff that crappy. You get better quality renting an abused 5 year old VHS cassette that has been through way too many hungry VCRs. The only hope there is if they can do better compression on the server end (compression which would be too CPU intensive for the TiVo to do real time, yet the TiVo is capable of decompressing on the fly)
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Actually, the gap not being tightened is a very common mistake. I can certainly imagine that they might have updated the firmware to be more tolerant of such an error. Monitor the fuel level to watch for refills. If the pressure problem ocurrs not long after a tank is refilled, then wait until it is refilled again (to see if the problem "goes away") before actually reporting the error.
As for why the mechanic didn't replace it himself? Usually it's not a mechanical failure, but operator error.
I've never heard of that, but I just did some searching and indeed its true...at least for older models, around 2000 or so...I couldn't confirm exact numbers. But they seem to have fixed it in new years. Now it has the VIN# encoded into the radio, and if the radio's VIN doesn't match the cars computer's VIN, it shuts down the radio. Loss of power doesn't cause a problem any more.
Thanks for your post...it was interesting to learn about this.
Really? I can't see anywhere in either of the linked articles that mentions 800 passengers. Both of them say 555. I guess michael didn't feel there was enough misinformation in the submission to measure up to the usual standard, so he added some of his own.
If you don't buy the theory, do a google search for "hindenburg paint" (without the quotes) and see the great many people that do. The cloth covering the hindenburg was waterproofed with a flammable substance, and then it was painted with a paint containing aluminium powder, which helped to cause the spark that lit it. Oh, and don't forget that aluminum powder is also highly flammable (it's used in rocket fuel). Those few facts might shed some light on what happened.
The difference, according to the studios, is that you can make a one-for-one copy of the original. With VHS recording, you got a copy that was a poor replication of the original, and would inevitably degrade. With Tivo to DVD recording, this degradation does not occur.
No, the degredation doesn't occur in the TiVo->DVD stage. It occurs in the original->broadcast and the broadcast->TiVo stages. And it's a HUGE difference. I TiVo'd the Deep Space Nine series last year, and then I missed an episode and borrowed the DVD from a friend. HUGE difference in quality.
You can currently reshrinkwrap the box too. What's the difference?
I used one of these machines yesterday. You just put in a credit card and you get stamps. No person to check your ID (even if they only do it 0.001% of the time anyway), no IP address to track you back to, and no physical address that the goods were shipped to.
In other words, this would be a great target for someone to use a stolen credit card to buy a bunch of stamps and then sell them. Taking your photo just provides a layer of protection to at least put this on par with (if not better than) stores and online retailers when it comes to dealing with fraud.
By the way, I didn't think the photo was any big secret. When I used the machine yesterday, I saw a little pannel of dark glass/plastic like you see covering store security cameras or the IR sensors on home stereos/TVs. I looked at it and instantly thought..."must be a camera there". It's right there on the front of the machine...not really disguised at all. Seemed fairly obvious to me.
You can already do that:
http://photo.stamps.com/
Of course, it's not cheap. Looking that te site for a price....ooops, it seems the've halted the program until the USPS evaluates whether or not to continue with it again. Hopefully they will reinstate it.
It seemed to me that when I looked at it before, it was like $1 per stamp. Not something you'd want to use everyday, but would be neat for special events (ex: wedding invitations).
Each card renders half of the same image. So each card needs access to the full texture set
Well, not always. That is definitely true when using the 3dfx style SLI, where both cards are rendering pretty much the entire screen. However, in the case of this type of SLI, where the first card renders the top, the second one the bottom, you can end up with optimizations. Assuming the sky only appears at the top of the screen, your skydome textures only need to be loaded on one card. Sure, it's not 100% efficient, but it's not 100% redundant either.
Hunting is about working alone, or in a group, to achieve a difficult goal.
Difficult goal, my ass! What is so difficult about:
1) Once a week for a month before hunting season, pour a bag of carrots or corn on the ground (and maybe a block of salt).
2) When hunting season begins, go back to that spot.
3) When animal returns to feed, blow it's brains out....wait, if you do that you can't throw your trophy up on the wall....shoot it through the heart.
If anything, the goal is tedious and boring, not difficult (though maybe difficult staying awake).
I will grant you that there are the occasional hunters that go out and track the animal without baiting them, but the above 1..2..3 is what at least 95% of hunters do. There are also bow hunters, which require a bit more skill than gun hunting, but still they usually play the same bating game.
Since when did Dick Clark stop shooting $100,000 Pyramid and get into politics???
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No, not Dick Clark. Were talking about Richard Clark. You know, the hi-fi audio guy/god that built the worlds largest subwoofer:
http://www.autosound2000.com/gallery/images/Richa
http://www.autosound2000.com/WhoWeAre.htm
Though the question still stands: when did he get into politics?
No, there have been plenty of video game patent cases, including some silly patent claims against small developers:h tml
http://www.asharewarelife.com/2004_01_01_archive.
Look at the pages history, it's being constantly vandalised
Thanks for the info. I knew anyone could contribute to Wiki, but I didn't know they could edit the live content of the page. That seems like a really bad idea to me....kinda like troll heaven.
I'm not sure what you are referring to, but that link has given me some odd contents. The first time I clicked I got the Wikipedia sidebar and the "Hindenburg disaster" caption, and then the first paragraph it showed was from this page:s ociatio n_of_America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Nigger_As
I closed the browser, started again, clicked the link and got the correct page. I clicked refresh and THEN I started getting pages with the Wiki sidebar and correct caption, but the body looked like a pda version of Google.
Wikipedia sure is acting strange today.
In fairness to EA, though, the window for shipping annual sports games is a lot tighter than for a new FPS
How the hell did this get modded insightful? It's an artificially imposed deadline. You can't get NHL 2003 out on time? Easy solution...rename it to NHL 2004? You don't have to have a product with every model year? There was no Windows 96/97/99, was there? The people don't care WHAT the game is called, they just want it. It's the greedy management/investors that insist a version has to be shipped EVERY year, no matter what the cost.
But then the Democrats stuffed Dean down a mineshaft
Actually, to me it seemed more like the media that stuffed Dean down the mineshaft. After their screwup in over-hyping the microphone incident, by the time they figured out their mistake and realized it was they, not Dean, who were the raving lunatics, it was far too late...they had irreparably damaged Deans image. Dean dropped like a fly. Of course, had the sheeple stopped and actually used their brains (did they really think that a presidential candidate would be screaming uncontrollably?) instead of taking the media as gospel, there wouldn't have been a problem, so maybe it's a shared blame.
Well, the real reason I can't blame this is because the article that was linked to was the one with the mistake...slashdot just replicated it. I noticed it because I've done a lot of 3D work, and planning just didn't make sense to me. I actually thought it was supposed to be "planing", like maybe to project a sphere into plane or something.
According to the filing, the patent is "Method and apparatus for spherical panning".
how do you prove that you don't have something
Well, its not so much a matter of proving that he doesn't have them. It was already proven during the Gulf war that he had them. He was then ordered to destroy them, and he should have evidence to prove that they were destroyed, but as far as I heard he hadn't presented that evidence.
And who the heck has "Elective" heart surgery?
Maybe you are trolling, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and answer you.
I had elective heart surgery. It wasn't open heart surgery (they didn't cut me open) but it was heart surgery none the less. First a little background.
I was born with a few heart problems. I had a bicuspid aortic valve which was gradually failing me. It wasn't an emergency situation (I probably had another 2-5 years to live with it), but I had it replaced when I was 11 years old (I'm 29 now). That solved that problem (until I need to get it replaced again...probably in the next 5-10 year).
Aside from that more serious problem, I also had a bunch of hair-like fibers that were hanging off of one of the electrical nodes in my heart. They had a tendency to short out my heart's electrical system every now and then, inducing tachycardia, which is a fast heart rate...for me, it was usually between 140 and 180 beats per minute (around 90 was my normal heart rate). When this happened, I had to sit down and rest and wait for it to correct itself. It would always resolve itself within 5-30 minutes (except for one time when I was 8 years old, it got up to 250bpm, and I had to go to the hospital to get it to stop, and even they had difficulty stopping it). In general, it was nothing serious at all, just a MAJOR inconvenience (it's very tiring and uncomfortable when it happens).
Anyway, about 10 years or so ago, there was a relatively new procedure to fix it via radio frequency ablation. Basically they use a catheter to emit high frequency waves to burn the fibers away. Again, I was in no real danger from this, so it was completely elective surgery.
I chose to have it done, and it has increased my quality of life dramatically. Instead of getting tachycardia several times a week, I now get it less than once a month (once every 2-4 months is probably more accurate....but it's so infrequent now that I don't really keep track of how often). In addition, when I do get an attack, instead of 140-180bpm, my heart rate is usually around 120bpm. Instead of it lasting 5-30 minutes, it almost always goes away within 60 seconds.
http://polara.whirlpool.com/
And you don't turn it on remotely. You program it to switch from refridgerate to cook at a set time
Can we say Divx?
I don't know...can TiVo decode divx (or be made to decode it)? I certainly realize there are plenty of compression algorithms that can get great quality at 1GB/hour (the DirectTiVo is proof of that). It's just a matter of what can the TiVo decode?
But 80's rock is feel good music. It makes you want to live life, not end it.
Unless it's Judas Priest
Yes, but the 1GB/hour quality is horrendous (at least for stand alone, not DirectTiVo). I would NEVER pay to rent stuff that crappy. You get better quality renting an abused 5 year old VHS cassette that has been through way too many hungry VCRs. The only hope there is if they can do better compression on the server end (compression which would be too CPU intensive for the TiVo to do real time, yet the TiVo is capable of decompressing on the fly)
Correct. The submitter meant "Chicken or Egg", not "Catch-22"