They were not going to ALLOW any blade that locks. Note box cutters lock. If you have ever used a knife, a locking mechanism is what makes a knife safe to use. A knife without a locking blade is almost always more dangerous to the wielder than the foe. Only thing a non-locking knife is good for is cutting apples.
They are not engineered to handle that kind of constant abuse. Downshifting without rev matching can be extremely taxing on the drivetrain, particularly if you are moving from an engine speed of 2000 RPM up to 6000RPM.
Synchromesh gearboxes removed the requirement to double clutch, they also made it possible to downshift without rev matching, however it is still rough on the drivetrain to send such a large impulse through the system.
Wouldn't such a system make toe-n-heel impossible? While most drivers of a manual do not know how or even why to do such a maneuver, it is required in order to properly downshift a manual transmission. If you do not rev match when downshifting it not only makes for a rough ride but is also very rough on the drivetrain.
If you have a septic system, many people tell you to avoid anti-bacterial soaps and reduce the usage of bleech. Because the two works against the bacteria in the system that help break down the solid waste. It is very difficult to find liquid hand soaps that do not contain anti-bacteria.
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Well actually I think what he is trying to say but because he is not a tech guy words it incorrectly. Browsers handle caching the CSS file seperate from the html file (if you link css) and if you change the CSS and the user gets the latest html version but the browser uses the older cached CSS you will have problems.
Also the fact that the ALL 3 next gen consoles will be using IBM chips kinda helps. What do you think makes IBM more money? The sale of chips powering an Apple PC, or the sale of EVERY game console under the christmas tree this christmas?
Well this is the downside to most DVRs and more so if you have to connect to an settop box like digital cable or sat.
The delay becomes a non-issue once you become fully addicted to TIVO since you will never want to watch live TV. I hate channel surfers.
However things to make the blasters work better is to build a fort around them and the ir receiver on the set top box. I just wrap the whole thing in electrical tape. You need to make sure the IR is aligned with the reciever well too, and make sure you have the timings set right.
Well you should have first researched a little better before attempting such a feat. There are many things you would have found to prevent doing permament damage. I have flashed my router with DD-WRT many many times with no issues, however I read over and over about possible issues and how to avoid them.
I have an iPod and I am not locked in. Buying any DRM music locks you in. Just cause you have an IPOD does not mean you have to buy DRM music.
Rule is dont buy music with DRM on it in the first place. Most of my music that I have is from CDs that I rip. The others is from live concerts from free legal sites.
An iPod is actually a pretty decent player, I have had 2 other hardware based players, a Creative Nomad, and an iRiver. The iPod has a much better UI and much better 3rd party support than either of the other 2 I have had.
See this is where an ssh install is most useful. Just pop in the CD at the colo, define your root password and start up sshd. Then go home ssh in and do the install.
Or even better, if said machine already has a distro on it with a free partition. Do the upgrade completely remotely, without having to bring down the current system! Just setup the free partition, download the tar.gz and chroot your environment and go to town. After the install is done, reboot the machine to the new Gentoo system. Only down time is the time required to reboot once, and never once having to go to the physical server. This part requires some balls, and extreme confidents in your skill to do it right the first time.
Most raw formats on modern cameras is compressed using a lossless format. Take Nikons nef format, a 6.1mp image in raw is only about 4-5 MB, if this was not compressed it would be closer to 10 MB.
You can not tweak certain settings as easily once the image is convert to another format, even a lossless one like tiff. Best example is white balance.
"Hard drives make noise. Pick a quiet one. Invest in a baggie of small rubber grommets and use them on every screw you use. In fact, you might want to use them on as many screws as you can, anywhere in your computer."
I do not see how this would help? If the screw makes contact with the harddrive and makes direct contact with the case, having a piece of rubber around the screw will not prevent ANY transfer of energy into the case. Now if the actually use an isolator where you do not have ANY direct metal contact then yes it would help
As a recent owner of one of those Cable DVRs and being a previous tivo owner.
I hope that is not the case. Since my experience with the cable service DVR is extremely poor. Even though the Cable one can record HD channels and has Dual Tuners, its user interface is down right awful to the point of being almost unuseable. It is slow to react, trying to FF through commericals is almost more painful than watching the commercials. Its conflict management is just plain dumb. If one episode of a show you have as a favorite conflicts with a movie you want to watch you tell it to record the movie and not the favorite show, well it stops recording ALL future shows of that favorite TOO.
If you start watching a recorded show that is not done recording it starts you at LIVE time, not the beginning of the show. If you rewind to the beginning which is what you have to do, and the show finishes recording before you finish watching the show it JUMPS you forward to LIVE TV. And it does not remember where you were in the show when you go back to watch it.
Trying to find something to record is damn near impossible. The only search ability is by Title FIRST LETTER, so for say Simpson you have to weed through all of the shows that begin with "S". It has Genre search but is equally useless.
And for recorded duplicate shows, even if you tell only get first runs, it records every airing of a show. This also make the poor conflict management even worse since it wants to records shows that have repeat showings in a week too.
I will be dropping this POS, as soon as I get my money together to build a HTPC.
Its only saving grace is price. However that is big for alot of people and means we will soon see more crappy PVRs in the future.
Well one example would be someone running Gentoo. Each programs compile times do not take very long, but if you try to compile everything that makes up the system. Well distcc can greatly reduce the time.
Do not bash the Gentoo remark, any source based distro could use this. Or anyone running RedHat and for some reason needs to compile all the code for a certain compile time flag.
I have no issues with the phone company charging for LNP.
What I have an issue with is that they charged me for well over a year BEFORE it was available. On top of that I really could care less about having LNP.
Ever see a LP player for a car? Or a portable LP player you can jog with?
Sure you had tapes for those devices, however tapes sounded very poor even with Dolby helping them out. Also if you had a favorite tape you listened to over and over it was not long before it was trash. And tapes are a pain to skip through and rewinding is no fun.
CDs are much more durable than tapes, sound much better, and sound just as a good as LPs and usually better for most people. LPs only sound good if they are babied and used with a top end player.
I have the BroadQ software for my PS2. While it is nice start, the developers and company really dropped the ball on this one. Check out the forums, they have had little development since about 1 year ago. They promised early buyers that the faulty load discs would be replaced free over a year ago. It has not happened.
The UI for broadq is beyond poor, and they have little info on even thinking of improving it. The biggest faults are in mp3 playback. You can not modify your playlist WITHOUT stopping the music, my old 5-disc cd player lets me change CDs without stopping the music. The music is only searchable by filename and searchable in this case means scrolling though the files in folder - alphabetical order. This is not useable with any sizeable media collection.
I did not use the DIVX playback support much, however many people complained of its lack of support for higher-end resolutions.
Besides the fact that a hydrogen powered Fuel-Cell vehicle would be a hybrid vehicle. Hydrogen has really crapy energy denisty. Shit I think if you look it up water actually has a higher energy denisty than hydrogen!
Here is a cood compasion chart of fuels: http://www.hyweb.de/Knowledge/w-i-energiew -eng2.ht ml
Liquid Hydrogen only has an energy density of 2.36kWh/l versus gasoline of 8.76kWh/l. Note you are not going to store liquid hydrogen in a small car. Best you can do is compressed gas and the denisty for compressed H2 is about 0.75 kWh/l.
Which means if the fuel carry capacity is the same for H2 car as a gasoline car, the fuel effeciency of the H2 car has to be 10 times better than the gasoline car to get the same range per tank!
Hybrids are used because they can run the ICE at its most efficient range. ICE vehicles are most effiencient when running at a constant load at a specfic RPM that the engine was tuned for. These conditions normally are not possible to achieve when driving, however if the engine is disconnected from the drive train such as a hybrid they can be achieved.
P.S. regen. braking for the most part is just icing on the cake for hybrids and mostly a marketing plow. With current battery techs, the energy produced under braking can not efficiently be captured. Sure you get some energy back, but not much. Batteries do not like to be charge with LARGE spikes of power in short bursts.
Another thing a nice analog watch gives a user that a digital watch does not.
Time perspective. You use an analog watch you get a feeling for "how long away" a certain time is. When you use a digital watch you only know exactly what time is currently is, it does not give you a relation to time. This is the primary reason why digital speedometer displays in cars did not work well with people. Current speedos are still digitally signalled in most cars however they display in a nice analog fashion.
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They were not going to ALLOW any blade that locks. Note box cutters lock. If you have ever used a knife, a locking mechanism is what makes a knife safe to use. A knife without a locking blade is almost always more dangerous to the wielder than the foe. Only thing a non-locking knife is good for is cutting apples.
They are not engineered to handle that kind of constant abuse. Downshifting without rev matching can be extremely taxing on the drivetrain, particularly if you are moving from an engine speed of 2000 RPM up to 6000RPM.
Synchromesh gearboxes removed the requirement to double clutch, they also made it possible to downshift without rev matching, however it is still rough on the drivetrain to send such a large impulse through the system.
Wouldn't such a system make toe-n-heel impossible? While most drivers of a manual do not know how or even why to do such a maneuver, it is required in order to properly downshift a manual transmission. If you do not rev match when downshifting it not only makes for a rough ride but is also very rough on the drivetrain.
Too bad that is Mazda's slogan.
If you have a septic system, many people tell you to avoid anti-bacterial soaps and reduce the usage of bleech. Because the two works against the bacteria in the system that help break down the solid waste. It is very difficult to find liquid hand soaps that do not contain anti-bacteria.
Well actually I think what he is trying to say but because he is not a tech guy words it incorrectly. Browsers handle caching the CSS file seperate from the html file (if you link css) and if you change the CSS and the user gets the latest html version but the browser uses the older cached CSS you will have problems.
Also the fact that the ALL 3 next gen consoles will be using IBM chips kinda helps. What do you think makes IBM more money? The sale of chips powering an Apple PC, or the sale of EVERY game console under the christmas tree this christmas?
Well this is the downside to most DVRs and more so if you have to connect to an settop box like digital cable or sat.
The delay becomes a non-issue once you become fully addicted to TIVO since you will never want to watch live TV. I hate channel surfers.
However things to make the blasters work better is to build a fort around them and the ir receiver on the set top box. I just wrap the whole thing in electrical tape. You need to make sure the IR is aligned with the reciever well too, and make sure you have the timings set right.
Well you should have first researched a little better before attempting such a feat. There are many things you would have found to prevent doing permament damage. I have flashed my router with DD-WRT many many times with no issues, however I read over and over about possible issues and how to avoid them.
Do not blame the people here for your dead box.
I have an iPod and I am not locked in. Buying any DRM music locks you in. Just cause you have an IPOD does not mean you have to buy DRM music.
Rule is dont buy music with DRM on it in the first place. Most of my music that I have is from CDs that I rip. The others is from live concerts from free legal sites.
An iPod is actually a pretty decent player, I have had 2 other hardware based players, a Creative Nomad, and an iRiver. The iPod has a much better UI and much better 3rd party support than either of the other 2 I have had.
See this is where an ssh install is most useful. Just pop in the CD at the colo, define your root password and start up sshd. Then go home ssh in and do the install.
Or even better, if said machine already has a distro on it with a free partition. Do the upgrade completely remotely, without having to bring down the current system! Just setup the free partition, download the tar.gz and chroot your environment and go to town. After the install is done, reboot the machine to the new Gentoo system. Only down time is the time required to reboot once, and never once having to go to the physical server. This part requires some balls, and extreme confidents in your skill to do it right the first time.
Most raw formats on modern cameras is compressed using a lossless format. Take Nikons nef format, a 6.1mp image in raw is only about 4-5 MB, if this was not compressed it would be closer to 10 MB.
You can not tweak certain settings as easily once the image is convert to another format, even a lossless one like tiff. Best example is white balance.
"Hard drives make noise. Pick a quiet one. Invest in a baggie of small rubber grommets and use them on every screw you use. In fact, you might want to use them on as many screws as you can, anywhere in your computer."
I do not see how this would help? If the screw makes contact with the harddrive and makes direct contact with the case, having a piece of rubber around the screw will not prevent ANY transfer of energy into the case. Now if the actually use an isolator where you do not have ANY direct metal contact then yes it would help
Sweet Maria's has been my source of green beans for about a year now. Great beans, and great people who run it.
Roasting your own beans is simple and can be inexpensive.
As a recent owner of one of those Cable DVRs and being a previous tivo owner.
I hope that is not the case. Since my experience with the cable service DVR is extremely poor. Even though the Cable one can record HD channels and has Dual Tuners, its user interface is down right awful to the point of being almost unuseable. It is slow to react, trying to FF through commericals is almost more painful than watching the commercials. Its conflict management is just plain dumb. If one episode of a show you have as a favorite conflicts with a movie you want to watch you tell it to record the movie and not the favorite show, well it stops recording ALL future shows of that favorite TOO.
If you start watching a recorded show that is not done recording it starts you at LIVE time, not the beginning of the show. If you rewind to the beginning which is what you have to do, and the show finishes recording before you finish watching the show it JUMPS you forward to LIVE TV. And it does not remember where you were in the show when you go back to watch it.
Trying to find something to record is damn near impossible. The only search ability is by Title FIRST LETTER, so for say Simpson you have to weed through all of the shows that begin with "S". It has Genre search but is equally useless.
And for recorded duplicate shows, even if you tell only get first runs, it records every airing of a show. This also make the poor conflict management even worse since it wants to records shows that have repeat showings in a week too.
I will be dropping this POS, as soon as I get my money together to build a HTPC.
Its only saving grace is price. However that is big for alot of people and means we will soon see more crappy PVRs in the future.
What are you talking about. The guy just did the conversion from Pounds to US dollars. The site posts 44.99 pounds.
Current conversion is 1 USD = 0.544 pounds
Well one example would be someone running Gentoo. Each programs compile times do not take very long, but if you try to compile everything that makes up the system. Well distcc can greatly reduce the time.
Do not bash the Gentoo remark, any source based distro could use this. Or anyone running RedHat and for some reason needs to compile all the code for a certain compile time flag.
I have no issues with the phone company charging for LNP.
What I have an issue with is that they charged me for well over a year BEFORE it was available. On top of that I really could care less about having LNP.
Ever see a LP player for a car? Or a portable LP player you can jog with?
Sure you had tapes for those devices, however tapes sounded very poor even with Dolby helping them out. Also if you had a favorite tape you listened to over and over it was not long before it was trash. And tapes are a pain to skip through and rewinding is no fun.
CDs are much more durable than tapes, sound much better, and sound just as a good as LPs and usually better for most people. LPs only sound good if they are babied and used with a top end player.
HP released the rights to their HP48 ROMS some time ago, so it is now freely available to anyone to download. Same with the HP49 ROMs.
I have the BroadQ software for my PS2. While it is nice start, the developers and company really dropped the ball on this one. Check out the forums, they have had little development since about 1 year ago. They promised early buyers that the faulty load discs would be replaced free over a year ago. It has not happened.
The UI for broadq is beyond poor, and they have little info on even thinking of improving it. The biggest faults are in mp3 playback. You can not modify your playlist WITHOUT stopping the music, my old 5-disc cd player lets me change CDs without stopping the music. The music is only searchable by filename and searchable in this case means scrolling though the files in folder - alphabetical order. This is not useable with any sizeable media collection.
I did not use the DIVX playback support much, however many people complained of its lack of support for higher-end resolutions.
Besides the fact that a hydrogen powered Fuel-Cell vehicle would be a hybrid vehicle. Hydrogen has really crapy energy denisty. Shit I think if you look it up water actually has a higher energy denisty than hydrogen!
w -eng2.ht ml
Here is a cood compasion chart of fuels:
http://www.hyweb.de/Knowledge/w-i-energie
Liquid Hydrogen only has an energy density of 2.36kWh/l versus gasoline of 8.76kWh/l. Note you are not going to store liquid hydrogen in a small car. Best you can do is compressed gas and the denisty for compressed H2 is about 0.75 kWh/l.
Which means if the fuel carry capacity is the same for H2 car as a gasoline car, the fuel effeciency of the H2 car has to be 10 times better than the gasoline car to get the same range per tank!
Hybrids are used because they can run the ICE at its most efficient range. ICE vehicles are most effiencient when running at a constant load at a specfic RPM that the engine was tuned for. These conditions normally are not possible to achieve when driving, however if the engine is disconnected from the drive train such as a hybrid they can be achieved.
P.S. regen. braking for the most part is just icing on the cake for hybrids and mostly a marketing plow. With current battery techs, the energy produced under braking can not efficiently be captured. Sure you get some energy back, but not much. Batteries do not like to be charge with LARGE spikes of power in short bursts.
Someone mod this parent down, they linked to goatsex!
Another thing a nice analog watch gives a user that a digital watch does not.
Time perspective. You use an analog watch you get a feeling for "how long away" a certain time is. When you use a digital watch you only know exactly what time is currently is, it does not give you a relation to time. This is the primary reason why digital speedometer displays in cars did not work well with people. Current speedos are still digitally signalled in most cars however they display in a nice analog fashion.