Since when did Copyright Infringement become an issue for Homeland Security to work directly with a specific corporation?
At the time it came to being. Anything done to harm the economy is in DHS domain. Remember the story from about 3 years ago a shop owner got a visit from DHS people because she was selling knock-off (Disney as I recall) products? As I recall the argument is the knock-off products would fund the bad guys.
The knock-off OJ from Mexico being sold here is a problem if did not realize what you were buying. Sales of fake Tropicana OJ, fake Donald Duck or fake Rolex watches are not going to ruin the US economy. I do not like the idea of DHS pounding on doors to stop sales, but that seems that is where it is.
Antarctica is the coldest place on earth, therefore it is less likely that thunderstorms will occur in Antarctica, and less ozone will be produced in that area.
Consequently, we can assume that global warming would reduce the size of the ozone hole if that warming could be focused on Antarctica, or was at least proportional.
Stratospheric [15-30 mi up] ozone is created by the sun's radiation. Lightening is does produce O3, but it is the sun is responsible for the Ozone layer in the atmosphere. Ozone absorbs far ultra violet, and far ultra violet light Ionizes organic molecules and inorganic molecules. So you do not want too much of the far UV to reach the surface.
Ground level Ozone from Lightening [O3 is byproduct of pollution as well] is a problem for us because O3 really wants to give up an Oxygen atom. I hope you see that Oxygen atoms randomly inserted into organic molecules as bad, because it is really unhealthy when your cells oxidize from the outside in. Ground level Ozone is bad because it can filter out too much UV and that is bad for photosynthesis.
I agree with you. I see the treo has a stylus, but no graffiti? A graffiti version would make the treo 650 very tempting for me.
Palm, I got by with graffiti just great since the spring of 1998.
From the inbox select: -Options -Custom Filters -New Filter -Identify Incoming Messages Which: [offending address here]@hotmail.com, Deliver These Messages to the Following Folder: Delete These Messages -Check box for the new filter, and live happily ever after.
Back in the old days, read early 90's, we had keyboards with a decent sized return key. I miss them.
These keyboards with no alphanumerics are not a motivator for me. It seems the best suited for a person wanting others to stay away from their stealth keyboard.
Thankfully there is at least one company that still makes the big return key Northgate style keyboards.
What character reference is implied if a guy builds a gay robot. Then the same guy pals around with a old devious man. Too bad it landed him in the lap of thousands and thousands of clones of a man [storm troopers].
like everything else on the Wikipedia site, is editable, by anyone. How can you trust an artilce from Wikipedia? I can if I am an expert on the article at hand.
Accuracy requires peer review. A professor at MIT or a 14 year old at your local highschool are peers on Wikipedaia
The story describes the N Korean official website. Makes a person think the site is in N Korea. Alas, not the case.
Tracing route to www.kcckp.net [194.29.229.125] over a maximum of 30 hops:.... 22 150 ms 151 ms 150 ms ipb-gw.de.gatel.net [212.20.156.251] 23 151 ms 140 ms 150 ms kcc.cust-gw.ipberlin.com [194.29.225.46] 24 150 ms 150 ms 151 ms 194.29.229.125
DE is Germany as is where Berlin is located.
Have you never watched German and Russian athletes
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They are the Russian and German olympian swimmers.
I read through several posts like this comparing the 386 to 486. The 486 had on chip cache. It made a huge difference in processor performance.
The first 486s had 8k instruction, 8k data - yeah there were 386s with external cache, and there were 486s with external cache as well.
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but the 486 was the last CPU from intel in the x86 line that ran substantially faster than the previous. IOW, the pentium 60 was slower than the fastest 486s [esp. AMD DX 133MHz].
But its creators say their system works, and it uses cheap components to do work currently done by exotic -- and often dangerous -- chemicals.
And all this time I thought it was the loads of cholesterol and sucrose in the ice cream that was dangerous. It took Ben and Jerry's work to show us where the real dangers are lurking.
From the article.... "Overclocking has been around since the early 1990s"
In 1984 I OCed my 5MHz 8088 to 7.5MHz with an aftermarket part. It was about 50$ - ouch.
Kinda cool as it had a switch you mounted on the back of the PC in one of he empty DB25 or DB9 ports. I installed it on an origional Zenith Z-100 bought the year before.
"In the end, the massive design flaws resulted in the death or injury to six people receiving treatment for cancer. The costs, it seems, for safeguards independent of the Therac-25 were far too much to be considered for use in the final product.
After the July 26, 1985 incident at the Ontario Cancer Foundation in Hamilton, the manufacturer could not reproduce the problem and ultimately The overdoses have generally been attributed to the flaws in the software that would allow operators to override errors that would arise, many fatal to those patients being treated. The amount of the overdose was, more often than not, many times more that the recommended therapeutic dose that eventually culminated in severe trauma or death."
A CRT is hardWARE, btw. A monitor often has a lot more wear in it than most people get from them.
How to make a monitor last longer:
1) Keep the brightness down at the level that black is black, not gray.
2) Adjust the contrast well below the point that you note the white dots from blooming [expanding].
The net of this is you are stressing the circuitry less [IE the image will maybe somewhat dimmer than you are used to]. The natural process of phosphor darkening that occurs over time progresses more slowly at lower brightness levels.
I have been using the same 17" monitor since 1997, and the image still looks near perfect. I have a cheap Samtron 14" that I used for 5 years continuously [purchased in 1992, and now used occasionally] that still has a sharp and bright image.
The only reason I have bought new monitors is for analog capabilities or for the larger display area.
Lastly, the monitors I use at work [1994, 1996 Mfg dates] and still have very good images.
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Since when did Copyright Infringement become an issue for Homeland Security to work directly with a specific corporation?
At the time it came to being. Anything done to harm the economy is in DHS domain. Remember the story from about 3 years ago a shop owner got a visit from DHS people because she was selling knock-off (Disney as I recall) products? As I recall the argument is the knock-off products would fund the bad guys.
The knock-off OJ from Mexico being sold here is a problem if did not realize what you were buying. Sales of fake Tropicana OJ, fake Donald Duck or fake Rolex watches are not going to ruin the US economy. I do not like the idea of DHS pounding on doors to stop sales, but that seems that is where it is.
faaak... Richard C. Hoagland had this story in 2004.
:-|
I cannot wait for Richard C. Hoagland to write another diatribe about Hyperdimensional Hurricanes.
http://www.enterprisemission.com/hurricane1.htm
Antarctica is the coldest place on earth, therefore it is less likely that thunderstorms will occur in Antarctica, and less ozone will be produced in that area.
Consequently, we can assume that global warming would reduce the size of the ozone hole if that warming could be focused on Antarctica, or was at least proportional.
Stratospheric [15-30 mi up] ozone is created by the sun's radiation. Lightening is does produce O3, but it is the sun is responsible for the Ozone layer in the atmosphere. Ozone absorbs far ultra violet, and far ultra violet light Ionizes organic molecules and inorganic molecules. So you do not want too much of the far UV to reach the surface.
Ground level Ozone from Lightening [O3 is byproduct of pollution as well] is a problem for us because O3 really wants to give up an Oxygen atom. I hope you see that Oxygen atoms randomly inserted into organic molecules as bad, because it is really unhealthy when your cells oxidize from the outside in. Ground level Ozone is bad because it can filter out too much UV and that is bad for photosynthesis.
MS had to? No, they chose to.
XP is the last MS OS for me.
I agree with you. I see the treo has a stylus, but no graffiti? A graffiti version would make the treo 650 very tempting for me. Palm, I got by with graffiti just great since the spring of 1998.
You can block the effing hotmail staff emails:
From the inbox select:
-Options
-Custom Filters
-New Filter
-Identify Incoming Messages Which: [offending address here]@hotmail.com, Deliver These Messages to the Following Folder: Delete These Messages
-Check box for the new filter, and live happily ever after.
Back in the old days, read early 90's, we had keyboards with a decent sized return key. I miss them.
These keyboards with no alphanumerics are not a motivator for me. It seems the best suited for a person wanting others to stay away from their stealth keyboard.
Thankfully there is at least one company that still makes the big return key Northgate style keyboards.
What character reference is implied if a guy builds a gay robot. Then the same guy pals around with a old devious man. Too bad it landed him in the lap of thousands and thousands of clones of a man [storm troopers].
Where are the real stories today?
At least this one is really funny.
Brittanica attacking wikipedia again, the Gonzales pic. Hell even homestar runner made the story.
april fools stories
goddamn it
From the article:
like everything else on the Wikipedia site, is editable, by anyone. How can you trust an artilce from Wikipedia? I can if I am an expert on the article at hand.
Accuracy requires peer review. A professor at MIT or a 14 year old at your local highschool are peers on Wikipedaia
The story describes the N Korean official website. Makes a person think the site is in N Korea. Alas, not the case.
....
Tracing route to www.kcckp.net [194.29.229.125]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
22 150 ms 151 ms 150 ms ipb-gw.de.gatel.net [212.20.156.251]
23 151 ms 140 ms 150 ms kcc.cust-gw.ipberlin.com [194.29.225.46]
24 150 ms 150 ms 151 ms 194.29.229.125
DE is Germany as is where Berlin is located.
They are the Russian and German olympian swimmers.
I can see the gold medals now.
Hotmail is how my invite arrived.
Is the article author positive they do not have one of hotmails spam filters turned on?
IIRC, 486 had a larger cache too.
I read through several posts like this comparing the 386 to 486. The 486 had on chip cache. It made a huge difference in processor performance.
The first 486s had 8k instruction, 8k data - yeah there were 386s with external cache, and there were 486s with external cache as well.
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but the 486 was the last CPU from intel in the x86 line that ran substantially faster than the previous. IOW, the pentium 60 was slower than the fastest 486s [esp. AMD DX 133MHz].
Before the MERa and MERb Bill Nye said he was looking forward to the Martian spring and expected the MER mission would continue.
I am not a big fan of Bill, but it was the first time I heard the idea about them lasting much longer than the 90 day mission period.
Props to the engineers who designed them to last.
But its creators say their system works, and it uses cheap components to do work currently done by exotic -- and often dangerous -- chemicals.
And all this time I thought it was the loads of cholesterol and sucrose in the ice cream that was dangerous. It took Ben and Jerry's work to show us where the real dangers are lurking.
This is what stylish looks like.
http://www.hp41.org/41Drawing.jpg
Not saying the 41 is better as I have not reviewed the new TI. I still find it the best looking calculator ever designed.
Wow - just stop the BS - please
.
No kidding
The first dumb/fake story waw more than enough. They need to stop posting this crap.
From the article....
"Overclocking has been around since the early 1990s"
In 1984 I OCed my 5MHz 8088 to 7.5MHz with an aftermarket part. It was about 50$ - ouch.
Kinda cool as it had a switch you mounted on the back of the PC in one of he empty DB25 or DB9 ports. I installed it on an origional Zenith Z-100 bought the year before.
http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/lib/Safety/therac 25.html
"In the end, the massive design flaws resulted in the death or injury to six people receiving treatment for cancer. The costs, it seems, for safeguards independent of the Therac-25 were far too much to be considered for use in the final product.
After the July 26, 1985 incident at the Ontario Cancer Foundation in Hamilton, the manufacturer could not reproduce the problem and ultimately The overdoses have generally been attributed to the flaws in the software that would allow operators to override errors that would arise, many fatal to those patients being treated. The amount of the overdose was, more often than not, many times more that the recommended therapeutic dose that eventually culminated in severe trauma or death."
A CRT is hardWARE, btw. A monitor often has a lot more wear in it than most people get from them.
How to make a monitor last longer:
1) Keep the brightness down at the level that black is black, not gray.
2) Adjust the contrast well below the point that you note the white dots from blooming [expanding].
The net of this is you are stressing the circuitry less [IE the image will maybe somewhat dimmer than you are used to]. The natural process of phosphor darkening that occurs over time progresses more slowly at lower brightness levels.
I have been using the same 17" monitor since 1997, and the image still looks near perfect. I have a cheap Samtron 14" that I used for 5 years continuously [purchased in 1992, and now used occasionally] that still has a sharp and bright image.
The only reason I have bought new monitors is for analog capabilities or for the larger display area.
Lastly, the monitors I use at work [1994, 1996 Mfg dates] and still have very good images.
That is funny.
I gotta buff it up, buff it up, buff it up, buff it up, buff it up - Ted Nugent
http://www.lyricsmp3.net/D22000/kk21083.htm