no diving watch is guaranteed to its original tested depth after it's been opened by anyone but the manufacturer. When they open it, they replace the seals. The problem with the seals are they deform when you screw it shut, and then they stick in that position, and seal well. But when you open them, by that time they've lost some of their elasticity and get warped in the opposite direction, and then back again. So the original seal will never be nearly as good as it was when installed. Mine's not a really high end one, it's only good to 300m, but with the battery changes, it's probably down to 100-150. But I don't dive. I just used to break watches regularly with water. I shower with this one on and it's surviving fine. When they changed the battery last time she said the seal was getting kinda mangled and I should replace it next battery.
This is a casio dw-5600. I got my first similar one 25 years ago, and it was damaged by a 35 ft fall onto asphalt, which broke the backlight, the speaker, and two segments on the display. (shattered the internal frame) It still kept perfect time. I replaced it, and the new model has "g-shock" armor on it, to prevent falls like that from breaking it. I suppose it's indestructible now with that upgrade? I expect them to bury me with this one. They are still selling this exact same model today, it was on sale at wal-mart 4 months ago when I got a battery When you come up with a good idea, stick with it I guess. Oh I did have to order a new g-shock cover a couple years ago because it was cracking. $4 each, I bought a spare. Not many watches you can just order replacement parts for cheaply?
If I received a forced pat down followed by attempted removal of objects from under my underwear, I know *I* would be engaging in some disorderly conduct.
They went waaay overboard. An escalated response on her part was justified. I rather doubt they had permission to strip search their students.
the ipods are a little different story. Apple would like you to occasionally buy a new product from them. They make very little on upgrades, if anything at all. iPods are meant to be replaced every 2-3 years, and computers every 3-5 years. We replace batteries for iPods here all the time. Or you can go to one of several web sites and buy replacement battery kits. FastMac and iFixIt are our two biggest suppliers for ipod batteries, screens, etc.
As previously mentioned several times, Apple is installing a battery with very long runtime and is adding a little capacity by not installing a latch. There's extra space savings by not having a hinged latch or cover too. Not a lot, but every bit helps.
If your battery does get used a lot and wears out (high cycle count) Apple will replace it for a reasonable cost. Or you will soon be able to get replacement battery kits same as the iPods.
My wristwatch requires a special tool to open up because it's a diving watch. I can't change the battery myself. I've been in twice since I bought it to get a replacement battery. At wal-mart of all places. I don't want to sacrifice what it takes to make my battery replaceable.
It was meant more to stop the network from failing due to LOST nodes, not malfunctioning nodes. But that doesn't say much for its ability to withstand sabotage which is expected in wartime.
I suppose it also depends on WHERE they collided. Certainly out somewhere in the atlantic it's not going to happen unless they're playing tag or hide n seek, but near a port there's a choke point of where you'd prefer to go if you're a sub. Get enough of them running through the same small area all the time and eventually the odds will get you.
Need to think in 3-D here too. It's not just a longitude/latitude that have to coincide, they have to match depth too. It's like a mid-air collision. And I suppose my point is, it becomes a lot more likely if you're flying near an airport...
didn't the local phone companies already get into trouble for "forced bundling"? With what you've said I was considering this and they are very similar. But that's a case of where you have a clear cut monopoly.
Always important to remember, monopolies are not illegal... but abusing your monopoly is illegal.
I was wondering why the OP says that too. It's already got about everything you'd need for an extended stay in space, and it's a proven technology. The only serious problem I see for it is it's not designed to be rapidly accelerated for a fast trip, structurally wise. But having all that gear already in orbit surely would give things a head start. Getting an interplanetary ship into earth orbit is the majority of the time and expense involved and we already have a lot of that done if we try to recycle the ISS.
I was just going to ask about that. But then I am trying to envision the antenna necessary for this. I've read about someone that designed a mechanical antenna for circular modulation for CW, and was entertained by the description of one radial flying off and embedding itself elsewhere.
Just how do you accomplish this ? Some form of virtual antenna? The concept works well with dopplers, I got to build one of those some years ago. Four elements works surprisingly well with a proper tuned tank and digital filter if you can keep the switching noise down. (which really bites into sensitivity)
Theoretically, they have to refund the cost of Vista,
That's what I was wondering about... we see stories around these parts from time to time about users trying to get a refund for the price of their bundled windows. On the rare occasion they manage it, it's a pittance, like $38 or some insulting amount. (they get back the "wholesale" cost, not the "retail" cost) Now MS has no obligation to return the retail cost, but then Dell needs to foot the remainder that they took as markup, and I don't think they ever have. So that model doesn't work.
Retailers (like Dell etc or call them OEMs) should be required to be the ones to handle the return, not MS. MS shouldn't even be involved. Dell should refund them the cost of the license, and then Dell should go to MS to get THEIR compensation. But are they paying per license, or do they have a bulk sublicensing agreement? I bet the latter, in which case they couldn't ask MS for a penny back. No wonder they don't want to try this. That turns the $250 refund less $38 from MS, into just a $250 loss.
The whole thing's a scam, and I don't blame MS. I blame the OEMs and their greed.
Thank you for the link - I had a suspicion there were one or two proof of concept viruses for the mac, and now I can see one.
But I do have to argue your point about browser exploits. Here you are requiring the user's active assistance, and are only spreading "one step" per user assist.
For practical purposes, they behave almost identical to trojan horse applications, or possibly email-payload viruses. I suppose browser exploits sit in the middleground between trojans and viruses. Not as automatic, but certainly requiring very little assistance from the user. This by virtue of not requiring the user to double click as if to open something. But then a trojan app that looks like a word document or jpeg could fit that description too.
The difference being a great one, where worms can (as we have seen with code red) spread across the planet in a matter of minutes, actively infecting user computers. I don't even see how a browser exploit can spread more than one step... from the infected/rigged web server to the user's computer... where does it go from there, unless the user is running a web server?
That link is to what appears to be a bluetooth worm. I've never even really considered that, it's an interesting angle. Do you know of any internet worms for the mac, proof-of-concept or otherwise?
Lets hope Palm will use this new product to beta-test a brand new feature called support.
Speaking of that, does anyone else find it deliciously ironic that they say they are just now claiming to discontinue support? That happened a long, long time ago.
Now OS X has been less vulnerable to worms spreading automatically compared to Window
Please provide one example of a worm that spreads automatically on OS X.
Saying "less vulnerable" makes it sound like windows and os x even have some remote similarity. "hundreds of examples" vs "no examples" hardly qualifies you to say "less vulnerable".
Hearing someone say my right shoe is merely "less likely to spontaneously explode" than an unexploded munition from WW2. leads an uninformed observer to question the safety of my shoe. It's deceptive.
When I first read this and the comments made about it I was thinking this was MS trying to make an apology for Vista. It looks instead like they are trying to provide assistance to the OEMs that are having an impossible time selling machines curs... er... PREINSTALLED with Vista because users want to wait for Windows 7 to get a new machine. (I don't blame them...)
So once again MS isn't looking out for the good of their customers, for the public, but for their business partners. *sigh* Just once you'd think they would try something that shown them in a positive light to their users?
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no diving watch is guaranteed to its original tested depth after it's been opened by anyone but the manufacturer. When they open it, they replace the seals. The problem with the seals are they deform when you screw it shut, and then they stick in that position, and seal well. But when you open them, by that time they've lost some of their elasticity and get warped in the opposite direction, and then back again. So the original seal will never be nearly as good as it was when installed. Mine's not a really high end one, it's only good to 300m, but with the battery changes, it's probably down to 100-150. But I don't dive. I just used to break watches regularly with water. I shower with this one on and it's surviving fine. When they changed the battery last time she said the seal was getting kinda mangled and I should replace it next battery.
This is a casio dw-5600. I got my first similar one 25 years ago, and it was damaged by a 35 ft fall onto asphalt, which broke the backlight, the speaker, and two segments on the display. (shattered the internal frame) It still kept perfect time. I replaced it, and the new model has "g-shock" armor on it, to prevent falls like that from breaking it. I suppose it's indestructible now with that upgrade? I expect them to bury me with this one. They are still selling this exact same model today, it was on sale at wal-mart 4 months ago when I got a battery When you come up with a good idea, stick with it I guess. Oh I did have to order a new g-shock cover a couple years ago because it was cracking. $4 each, I bought a spare. Not many watches you can just order replacement parts for cheaply?
but since they install it for free, and the battery is like $3, who in their right mind would buy the tool?
If I received a forced pat down followed by attempted removal of objects from under my underwear, I know *I* would be engaging in some disorderly conduct.
They went waaay overboard. An escalated response on her part was justified. I rather doubt they had permission to strip search their students.
the ipods are a little different story. Apple would like you to occasionally buy a new product from them. They make very little on upgrades, if anything at all. iPods are meant to be replaced every 2-3 years, and computers every 3-5 years. We replace batteries for iPods here all the time. Or you can go to one of several web sites and buy replacement battery kits. FastMac and iFixIt are our two biggest suppliers for ipod batteries, screens, etc.
As previously mentioned several times, Apple is installing a battery with very long runtime and is adding a little capacity by not installing a latch. There's extra space savings by not having a hinged latch or cover too. Not a lot, but every bit helps.
If your battery does get used a lot and wears out (high cycle count) Apple will replace it for a reasonable cost. Or you will soon be able to get replacement battery kits same as the iPods.
My wristwatch requires a special tool to open up because it's a diving watch. I can't change the battery myself. I've been in twice since I bought it to get a replacement battery. At wal-mart of all places. I don't want to sacrifice what it takes to make my battery replaceable.
#0 philips a and the occasional T6 torx. Found at pretty much any hardware store. Sorry probably not wal-mart.
They are not counting the overhead to keep the thing alive. They've doubled the amount of power available for science etc.
can't we just deport most of our lawyers to them? benefits both.
so what happened to the quotable, "the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it"?
but at that point the duct tape gets crusty and the bailing wire starts to rust...
if any of their nodes are forwarding DHCP offers from ANYTHING besides their own DHCP server, they deserve every bit of what they get.
I can click one check box to turn on DHCP server on my laptop, and if that takes down your network, you've got issues to work on.
(said with broken english indian accent) Hav yu tryed restartink your computr?
It was meant more to stop the network from failing due to LOST nodes, not malfunctioning nodes. But that doesn't say much for its ability to withstand sabotage which is expected in wartime.
*nod*
I've built and further modified a Roanoke Dopplar so I've touched on this, just not on this particular aspect. (awesome for foxhunts)
73 de N0Z..
I suppose it also depends on WHERE they collided. Certainly out somewhere in the atlantic it's not going to happen unless they're playing tag or hide n seek, but near a port there's a choke point of where you'd prefer to go if you're a sub. Get enough of them running through the same small area all the time and eventually the odds will get you.
Need to think in 3-D here too. It's not just a longitude/latitude that have to coincide, they have to match depth too. It's like a mid-air collision. And I suppose my point is, it becomes a lot more likely if you're flying near an airport...
didn't the local phone companies already get into trouble for "forced bundling"? With what you've said I was considering this and they are very similar. But that's a case of where you have a clear cut monopoly.
Always important to remember, monopolies are not illegal... but abusing your monopoly is illegal.
I was wondering why the OP says that too. It's already got about everything you'd need for an extended stay in space, and it's a proven technology. The only serious problem I see for it is it's not designed to be rapidly accelerated for a fast trip, structurally wise. But having all that gear already in orbit surely would give things a head start. Getting an interplanetary ship into earth orbit is the majority of the time and expense involved and we already have a lot of that done if we try to recycle the ISS.
I was just going to ask about that. But then I am trying to envision the antenna necessary for this. I've read about someone that designed a mechanical antenna for circular modulation for CW, and was entertained by the description of one radial flying off and embedding itself elsewhere.
Just how do you accomplish this ? Some form of virtual antenna? The concept works well with dopplers, I got to build one of those some years ago. Four elements works surprisingly well with a proper tuned tank and digital filter if you can keep the switching noise down. (which really bites into sensitivity)
Theoretically, they have to refund the cost of Vista,
That's what I was wondering about... we see stories around these parts from time to time about users trying to get a refund for the price of their bundled windows. On the rare occasion they manage it, it's a pittance, like $38 or some insulting amount. (they get back the "wholesale" cost, not the "retail" cost) Now MS has no obligation to return the retail cost, but then Dell needs to foot the remainder that they took as markup, and I don't think they ever have. So that model doesn't work.
Retailers (like Dell etc or call them OEMs) should be required to be the ones to handle the return, not MS. MS shouldn't even be involved. Dell should refund them the cost of the license, and then Dell should go to MS to get THEIR compensation. But are they paying per license, or do they have a bulk sublicensing agreement? I bet the latter, in which case they couldn't ask MS for a penny back. No wonder they don't want to try this. That turns the $250 refund less $38 from MS, into just a $250 loss.
The whole thing's a scam, and I don't blame MS. I blame the OEMs and their greed.
Okay, I want Windows 98 on my computer. I'll sue Microsoft to get it too.
The difference here is that there was not anywhere near the percentage of people that preferred 98 over 2000 as there are that prefer xp over vista.
Also back when 2000 came out, it was very easy to still obtain a machine bundled with 98se, for a long time.
it would appear that the primary concern of the RIAA/MPAA is whether or not they are being paid for other peoples' works.
Thank you for the link - I had a suspicion there were one or two proof of concept viruses for the mac, and now I can see one.
But I do have to argue your point about browser exploits. Here you are requiring the user's active assistance, and are only spreading "one step" per user assist.
For practical purposes, they behave almost identical to trojan horse applications, or possibly email-payload viruses. I suppose browser exploits sit in the middleground between trojans and viruses. Not as automatic, but certainly requiring very little assistance from the user. This by virtue of not requiring the user to double click as if to open something. But then a trojan app that looks like a word document or jpeg could fit that description too.
The difference being a great one, where worms can (as we have seen with code red) spread across the planet in a matter of minutes, actively infecting user computers. I don't even see how a browser exploit can spread more than one step... from the infected/rigged web server to the user's computer... where does it go from there, unless the user is running a web server?
That link is to what appears to be a bluetooth worm. I've never even really considered that, it's an interesting angle. Do you know of any internet worms for the mac, proof-of-concept or otherwise?
Lets hope Palm will use this new product to beta-test a brand new feature called support.
Speaking of that, does anyone else find it deliciously ironic that they say they are just now claiming to discontinue support? That happened a long, long time ago.
That is THE BEST use of that tag I've seen all year.
I live in Iowa, and I think I have a few phonecalls to make today. And so do you.
Now OS X has been less vulnerable to worms spreading automatically compared to Window
Please provide one example of a worm that spreads automatically on OS X.
Saying "less vulnerable" makes it sound like windows and os x even have some remote similarity. "hundreds of examples" vs "no examples" hardly qualifies you to say "less vulnerable".
Hearing someone say my right shoe is merely "less likely to spontaneously explode" than an unexploded munition from WW2. leads an uninformed observer to question the safety of my shoe. It's deceptive.
When I first read this and the comments made about it I was thinking this was MS trying to make an apology for Vista. It looks instead like they are trying to provide assistance to the OEMs that are having an impossible time selling machines curs... er... PREINSTALLED with Vista because users want to wait for Windows 7 to get a new machine. (I don't blame them...)
So once again MS isn't looking out for the good of their customers, for the public, but for their business partners. *sigh* Just once you'd think they would try something that shown them in a positive light to their users?