Ah, the copper ring, perfect for people who like turning their fingers green. It also dents easily, which makes it perfect for something you're going to wear on your hand all day and bang into things. Pretty soon you'll have a moonscape replica for a ring, which is what everybody wants.
Disclosure: I actually went for the Titanium ring because I figured it would hold up under the daily stresses of my life, and I wouldn't have to clean/polish it. The only downside is that you cannot get a Titanium ring resized if your finger changes because Titanium is a real bitch to machine.
The problem is that once your bands start getting played on the radio they'll suddenly be mainstream and you won't be allowed to like them anymore. It's tough being hip.
Because there is no space in the IP header for that, and no router support. This means you'd have to extend the IP packet header by creating a new protocol number and once you get all of that stuff done and implemented, you have done just as much work as you would have done to switch over to IPv6 (which is afterall just another protocol number). One of the primary design goals of IPv6 was to avoid ever having to make this transition again (look how painful it has been already), so halfassed solutions that will require us to make yet another transition down the road are less than appealing.
IPv6 has better security provisions within the protocol itself, making the usual run of D- through to F- on Federal security audits less likely.
This has not been my experience with it. IPv6 is way more complex and poorly understood than IPv4 and as a result it is a lot more likely to have an unexpected security hole when set up by actual human beings than IPv4.
Yeah, this has been the major stumbling block for me. Since my ISP does not support it why should I bother trying to switch over? Sure there are 4to6 gateways, but that requires someone else on the other end running another gateway. There are solutions for home users on the internet, but they're mostly designed for people who have static IP addresses (not your average home user). Until ISP support is such that you can flip on the IPv6 switch and have it work (a switch that is on by default in most major OSes these days I might add), then IPv6 support is of course going to be slow.
Right now for most people IPv6 support is a "you can make your network way more complicated and hard to secure for no benefit to you. Enjoy setting up tunnels!" feature. It's no surprise people are reluctant to upgrade it.
Heh, I was noticing at the local cable company that all of the set top boxes they had on display had firewire ports. I asked about it and they're all disabled, always have been always will be, it's an option the cable company can request and they always do.
Has anybody had any good experiences with eSATA yet? Thus far my experiences have been that the cables tend to fall out easily and it's hit or miss if an eSATA port on an external enclosure actually works at all. When it does work the hotplugging is a bit touchy and the driver support could be better. Oh, and the cables that ship with the enclosures tend to be hilariously short (like a foot or two long) and rather stiff.
Given all of the praise I've seen in this article about eSATA I figure people must be having better luck with it than me, but I've had enough trouble to swear off of it for at least a year or two at this point.
Nor does it make sense to use what is designed to be a high speed data streaming pipe for something like a keyboard or a mouse. I don't see why people think these serial buses are like the Highlander. I also don't think it was some massive conspiracy to keep Firewire ports off of regular computers (although Intel certainly didn't do anything to reduce the appearance of some major conspiracy), rather USB ports were common because people almost always need to hook up keyboards and mice where external HDDs and camcorders are defiantly more specialized and not something everybody (or even the majority of people) are going to have. Plus, if you find you need a port later you can buy a Firewire card for like $20 at Best Buy and less online.
The thing is, USB2 (and USB1 for that matter) were built on the same assumption: That by the time they were mature CPU speeds would be so fast that it would not matter if they had a lot of overhead. In practice that has left USB straggling behind Firewire because even though you have a fast CPU, if it is busy doing things then the transfer (and the stuff you're doing) is going to suffer. Also, although the CPUs get faster, the amount of data you want to send tends to grow as well and some of the gains on the CPU are negated.
Exactly, they might have started off making it the number of days in a year, but then realized that it was a pain in the butt to deal with (only evenly divisible by 5 and 73) and rounded it to an easier to work with number. There's no reason to tightly bind your unit of circumference to the number of days in a year unless you're making solar calenders anyway (although that could very well have been the first application for this field of math).
This is all pure speculation on my part of course, but it does explain why the ancient people used such a relatively large number for this one application. People don't normally like dealing with largish numbers like this out in the field and you'd normally think they'd aim for something like 60.
The thing is, if you use 360 for the number of days in a year it'll be pretty wrong after only a few years (6 years and you're a whole month off). I can't help but to think it might have started out as the number of days in the year, but was rounded to the nearest convenient number.
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The advantage of using 60 is that it's an abundant number so it is easy to split your hour in 2 parts, or 3, or 4, or 5, or 6, or 10, etc... This comes up a lot in the middle ages when people need to precisely measure stuff but have only relatively crude instruments with only integral markings on them. That's also why there are 12 inches in a foot instead of 10, because it's a lot easier to split 12 into 3 or 4 parts (a common operation) than 10.
No, people just think they work differently because they've never read the documentation that comes with their debit cards. Really, debit cards generally have the same liability policies that credit cards have, although it's a little cheaper for the merchant because it's assumed that if you require someone to punch in a PIN to make the transaction then it's less likely to be fraudulent (the signatures on Credit Cards really don't offer much protection at all).
Yeah, and wire fraud or check fraud is a PITA too, since unlike credit or debit cards there is very little protection beyond what your bank feels like giving you. That's also why it took 2 years to get these guys I suspect.
I've always thought of Roundabouts or Traffic Circles as one of those things that works great on paper, but has serious issues in the real word when people have to actually use it. The combination of precision driving (why are the lanes so danged narrow most of the time?!?) with rapid and constant merging always seemed like a recipe for disaster to me. 4 way stops may be less efficient, but at least I don't have to worry about the jackhole who stays in the outside lane for the entirely of the circle. Traffic circles also have starvation problems when a feeder road gets too busy and starves the cross street. Usually this is fixed by adding stoplights to the traffic circle, but then you have the worst of both worlds (the artificial delay introduced by the lights combined with the complex driving problem of the circle).
This is one of those assertions that always has me scratching my head. According to the statistic I find online, approximately 1 in 4 women is raped before graduating college. This means a quarter of the population is incapable of forming relationships? I know people are lonely and alone out there, but from my own personal experience it's hard to believe that a full quarter of the developed world's women are spinsters.
On the other hand "meaningful relationship" is a pretty vague term. I'm not entirely sure how you would measure that.
Heh, it's always annoyed me when a microwave makes you press a button before entering the time when you're just cooking something on high for N seconds. IMHO, every microwave should let you just punch in the time and press start, since 90% of the time that's all people are doing with it anyway. If you want different power levels or modes or whatnot then it's perfectly fine to press a button to switch it into that mode, but the default should exist and be useful. There is no reason for the "Time Cook" button to exist outside of possibly those programmable microwaves.
There is a plugin you can get for iTunes that lets it support ogg, but last time I tried it there were problems with it (you couldn't stream music to another copy of iTunes for instance because it would stream at the wrong rate and break up every couple of seconds, nor could you stream to an Airport Express).
As I understand it, Putin has been reasonably effective at crushing the Oligarchies that were running rampant throughout Russia, this has made him a bit unpopular with the current US government because a lot of those Oligarchs were business partners. Unfortunately, his method of stamping them out has been largely to just take over the businesses directly. This has been a boon for the government's bottom line, but in the long run it stifles growth, however the people love it because they're finally seeing some of their country's wealth and frankly I can't blame them. I have no doubt in a few years Putin (or his successor) will finally toss away the pretense of being a Democracy and really start putting the screws to the people, but in the short term they are way better than the previous owners.
There are pretty good C64 emulators available these days. I'd say that's a far less frustrating route than trying to find working original hardware (those stupid power supplies always died). Plus, who wants to load in something off of a 1540 again?
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Ah, the copper ring, perfect for people who like turning their fingers green. It also dents easily, which makes it perfect for something you're going to wear on your hand all day and bang into things. Pretty soon you'll have a moonscape replica for a ring, which is what everybody wants.
Disclosure: I actually went for the Titanium ring because I figured it would hold up under the daily stresses of my life, and I wouldn't have to clean/polish it. The only downside is that you cannot get a Titanium ring resized if your finger changes because Titanium is a real bitch to machine.
The problem is that once your bands start getting played on the radio they'll suddenly be mainstream and you won't be allowed to like them anymore. It's tough being hip.
Because there is no space in the IP header for that, and no router support. This means you'd have to extend the IP packet header by creating a new protocol number and once you get all of that stuff done and implemented, you have done just as much work as you would have done to switch over to IPv6 (which is afterall just another protocol number). One of the primary design goals of IPv6 was to avoid ever having to make this transition again (look how painful it has been already), so halfassed solutions that will require us to make yet another transition down the road are less than appealing.
Yeah, this has been the major stumbling block for me. Since my ISP does not support it why should I bother trying to switch over? Sure there are 4to6 gateways, but that requires someone else on the other end running another gateway. There are solutions for home users on the internet, but they're mostly designed for people who have static IP addresses (not your average home user). Until ISP support is such that you can flip on the IPv6 switch and have it work (a switch that is on by default in most major OSes these days I might add), then IPv6 support is of course going to be slow.
Right now for most people IPv6 support is a "you can make your network way more complicated and hard to secure for no benefit to you. Enjoy setting up tunnels!" feature. It's no surprise people are reluctant to upgrade it.
Heh, I was noticing at the local cable company that all of the set top boxes they had on display had firewire ports. I asked about it and they're all disabled, always have been always will be, it's an option the cable company can request and they always do.
Has anybody had any good experiences with eSATA yet? Thus far my experiences have been that the cables tend to fall out easily and it's hit or miss if an eSATA port on an external enclosure actually works at all. When it does work the hotplugging is a bit touchy and the driver support could be better. Oh, and the cables that ship with the enclosures tend to be hilariously short (like a foot or two long) and rather stiff.
Given all of the praise I've seen in this article about eSATA I figure people must be having better luck with it than me, but I've had enough trouble to swear off of it for at least a year or two at this point.
I am curious how they're going to retain USB 2 and 1 backwards compatibility when they switch over to an optical cable.
Nor does it make sense to use what is designed to be a high speed data streaming pipe for something like a keyboard or a mouse. I don't see why people think these serial buses are like the Highlander. I also don't think it was some massive conspiracy to keep Firewire ports off of regular computers (although Intel certainly didn't do anything to reduce the appearance of some major conspiracy), rather USB ports were common because people almost always need to hook up keyboards and mice where external HDDs and camcorders are defiantly more specialized and not something everybody (or even the majority of people) are going to have. Plus, if you find you need a port later you can buy a Firewire card for like $20 at Best Buy and less online.
The thing is, USB2 (and USB1 for that matter) were built on the same assumption: That by the time they were mature CPU speeds would be so fast that it would not matter if they had a lot of overhead. In practice that has left USB straggling behind Firewire because even though you have a fast CPU, if it is busy doing things then the transfer (and the stuff you're doing) is going to suffer. Also, although the CPUs get faster, the amount of data you want to send tends to grow as well and some of the gains on the CPU are negated.
Exactly, they might have started off making it the number of days in a year, but then realized that it was a pain in the butt to deal with (only evenly divisible by 5 and 73) and rounded it to an easier to work with number. There's no reason to tightly bind your unit of circumference to the number of days in a year unless you're making solar calenders anyway (although that could very well have been the first application for this field of math).
This is all pure speculation on my part of course, but it does explain why the ancient people used such a relatively large number for this one application. People don't normally like dealing with largish numbers like this out in the field and you'd normally think they'd aim for something like 60.
You have much better experiences with Wine than I do then. Usually Wine errors result in the application crashing for me.
The thing is, if you use 360 for the number of days in a year it'll be pretty wrong after only a few years (6 years and you're a whole month off). I can't help but to think it might have started out as the number of days in the year, but was rounded to the nearest convenient number.
The advantage of using 60 is that it's an abundant number so it is easy to split your hour in 2 parts, or 3, or 4, or 5, or 6, or 10, etc... This comes up a lot in the middle ages when people need to precisely measure stuff but have only relatively crude instruments with only integral markings on them. That's also why there are 12 inches in a foot instead of 10, because it's a lot easier to split 12 into 3 or 4 parts (a common operation) than 10.
No, people just think they work differently because they've never read the documentation that comes with their debit cards. Really, debit cards generally have the same liability policies that credit cards have, although it's a little cheaper for the merchant because it's assumed that if you require someone to punch in a PIN to make the transaction then it's less likely to be fraudulent (the signatures on Credit Cards really don't offer much protection at all).
Yeah, and wire fraud or check fraud is a PITA too, since unlike credit or debit cards there is very little protection beyond what your bank feels like giving you. That's also why it took 2 years to get these guys I suspect.
I've always thought of Roundabouts or Traffic Circles as one of those things that works great on paper, but has serious issues in the real word when people have to actually use it. The combination of precision driving (why are the lanes so danged narrow most of the time?!?) with rapid and constant merging always seemed like a recipe for disaster to me. 4 way stops may be less efficient, but at least I don't have to worry about the jackhole who stays in the outside lane for the entirely of the circle. Traffic circles also have starvation problems when a feeder road gets too busy and starves the cross street. Usually this is fixed by adding stoplights to the traffic circle, but then you have the worst of both worlds (the artificial delay introduced by the lights combined with the complex driving problem of the circle).
This is one of those assertions that always has me scratching my head. According to the statistic I find online, approximately 1 in 4 women is raped before graduating college. This means a quarter of the population is incapable of forming relationships? I know people are lonely and alone out there, but from my own personal experience it's hard to believe that a full quarter of the developed world's women are spinsters.
On the other hand "meaningful relationship" is a pretty vague term. I'm not entirely sure how you would measure that.
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Not to mention the sweet sweet licensing fees.
vim is clearly the emacs of vi clones.
Heh, it's always annoyed me when a microwave makes you press a button before entering the time when you're just cooking something on high for N seconds. IMHO, every microwave should let you just punch in the time and press start, since 90% of the time that's all people are doing with it anyway. If you want different power levels or modes or whatnot then it's perfectly fine to press a button to switch it into that mode, but the default should exist and be useful. There is no reason for the "Time Cook" button to exist outside of possibly those programmable microwaves.
There is a plugin you can get for iTunes that lets it support ogg, but last time I tried it there were problems with it (you couldn't stream music to another copy of iTunes for instance because it would stream at the wrong rate and break up every couple of seconds, nor could you stream to an Airport Express).
As I understand it, Putin has been reasonably effective at crushing the Oligarchies that were running rampant throughout Russia, this has made him a bit unpopular with the current US government because a lot of those Oligarchs were business partners. Unfortunately, his method of stamping them out has been largely to just take over the businesses directly. This has been a boon for the government's bottom line, but in the long run it stifles growth, however the people love it because they're finally seeing some of their country's wealth and frankly I can't blame them. I have no doubt in a few years Putin (or his successor) will finally toss away the pretense of being a Democracy and really start putting the screws to the people, but in the short term they are way better than the previous owners.
There are pretty good C64 emulators available these days. I'd say that's a far less frustrating route than trying to find working original hardware (those stupid power supplies always died). Plus, who wants to load in something off of a 1540 again?