Oddly enough, the fan in my power supply finally quit on Friday (I'd known it was getting noisier for a while...) The power supply released it's magic smoke a couple minutes later.
Buy yes, over the years I've seen far more CPU fans fail than PS fans.
I miss the good old days where all you needed t osolve heat problems was a fresh dab of thermal compound on your 6510 and little extra bend on the aluminum heat tabs.
Michael isn't interested in actually COMPETING with Microsoft. IMO he's just looking to generate enough buzz to get Lindows noticed by VC's. At that point, expect to see Lindows crash and burn, just after Michael walks off with another truckload of cash.
The similarities between these early days of Lindows, and the early days of mp3.com are striking.
Lindows CEO Michael Roberts, formerly CEO of mp3.com, was reported as saying "We have great faith in AOL's ability to fund me with another $100 million in venture capital, and I'm really sorry about that whole mp3.com blowout thing. Anyone want to go for a ride on my new yacht?"
I saw Hillary on CNBC saying that legislation was no longer being considered. Might have been the day before...
Two-faced lying little daughter of a....
Hi there. I still use C-Band. All the channels I want to watch (Discovery, TLC, Fox News) for $100 a year. Add a MPEG-FTA receiver and get lots more unencrypted channels.
Getting all the feedhorns properly in-phase on just one bird will be a major PITA. In order to aim at a different bird, the entire array would have to move together somehow in order to maintain the phase relationship of the combined antenna.
Best bet is to put up the biggest offset focus dish your covenant will allow (probably 1 meter, you might get away with a 1.2m dish) and get the most sensitive C-Band LNB you can get, which I believe is a 15 degree.
No guarantee though, bigger IS better. You want an offset focus dish so that the LNB is pointing at the sky instead of the ground. Less background noise in the sky...
Don't hold your breath. The (insert environmental wacko group here) would have a field day with a kelp farm proposal, let alone whale farming.
Hell, we can't even get fish farms approved here in the Gulf of Maine. Ruins the view...
Execs are always going to the board with schemes to get more company dollars in their pockets. Guaranteed bonuses, stock options and the like.
Why should they have all the fun?
"It costs NOTHING to produce a show's archive for sale"
Uh, bullshit.
Programmers might be smart, but they really ought to need to take a couple business/economics classes before getting their sheepskin.
1. Home video distribution rights. Who owns them? Can Nickelodeon acquire/license those rights?
2. Digital transfer. The masters for the show are probably in analog format. A DVD transfer must be made. Possibly new soundtracks must be created (5.1 surrond, etc.)
3. Additional content: Behind the scenes interviews, production stills, subtitles, etc. Authoring a DVD is a PITA, and the service doesn't come cheap.
4. Locomotion is an AWESOME cartoon channel. How come we can't get it in the states? (oops, way off topic, nevermind)
5. Packaging. Yeah, consumers still want packaging. Weird, I know.
6. Distribution.
7. Marketing.
8....
9....
So no, it doesn't cost "NOTHING".
Releasing on DVD has an "opportunity cost" as well. If it is available on DVD, then your cannibalizing your ad revenue for future showings/syndication.
But hey, if you really like the series, talk to the producers. I'm sure they'd love for someone to foot the bill for them continuing their work. Maybe you can even buy the home video rights from them...
I don't know about that. When Napster was alive and well, my mother (who is just computer-literate enough to check her e-mail) was having a great time downloading and burning all her favorite old-style country tunes.
I tried to tell her she was stealing, but she just told me to ph34r her 1337 ski11z.
...So getting oil from the ground was the next best thing.
Getting rid of oil for energy usage is cheap and (technologically) easy. Just tell me where would you like those new nuclear power plants located? Or which mountain ranges get the 100,000,000 windmills? Or which desert should we cover in photovoltaics? Or which rivers we should dam.
Finding suitable replacement for industrial use will be a bit of a challenge. Petrochemicals are used as a base material in so much of what we use every day.
Conservation, however well intentioned, will not by itself save us. 3/4 of the world's population wants the standard of living the western world enjoys, and the western world isn't about to voluntarily reduce its standard of living. Don't believe me? Try telling your neighbor that he should give up his SUV because it isn't fair to sub-Saharan Africans. But do it from a safe distance.
A sufficient number of people are willing to pay the price.
Corporations don't have morals. They exist for one purpose only - to return value to shareholders. If HP thought they'd make more by charging less for the ink, then they'd be selling for less.
What can you do? Don't buy printers which use "smart" non-refillable cartridges. Buy refill kits. Use a laser printer instead. (Brother printers seem to have the most inexpensive toner cartridges.) If sales plummet then the industry behavior will change.
Additionally, race car drivers don't generally face sustained big G's. Champ and F1 cars can corner and decellerate somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.5-2 G's.
OTOH, they can be subject to very large G forces for very short periods of time. As in 200+km/hr->0km/hr in a few milliseconds during a head-on collision with a wall. Of course, track design is such that this is a very rare occurrence.
"Welcome to the Days of Thunder coaster. Before the ride begins, everyone must put on their full-face helmets, close their visor, and put on their HANS device."
Hell, every time we convert energy from one form to another, we're contributing to the heat death of the universe. (See also, the simplified laws of thermodynamics: You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't quit.)
Earth, schmerth. We're talking about the entire universe here. See what your evil SUV is doing! What kind of universe are we leaving to our grand(2.35x10^14)children!
--
If enviromentalists *really* cared about the environment, they'd kill themselves.
"Usuable web application"
Yeah, waiting around for 5 minutes while the custom navigation system loads across a rural internet connection really helps usability...
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Oddly enough, the fan in my power supply finally quit on Friday (I'd known it was getting noisier for a while...) The power supply released it's magic smoke a couple minutes later. Buy yes, over the years I've seen far more CPU fans fail than PS fans. I miss the good old days where all you needed t osolve heat problems was a fresh dab of thermal compound on your 6510 and little extra bend on the aluminum heat tabs.
Someone did, it's just that you just missed the reference...
Michael isn't interested in actually COMPETING with Microsoft. IMO he's just looking to generate enough buzz to get Lindows noticed by VC's. At that point, expect to see Lindows crash and burn, just after Michael walks off with another truckload of cash.
The similarities between these early days of Lindows, and the early days of mp3.com are striking.
Lindows CEO Michael Roberts, formerly CEO of mp3.com, was reported as saying "We have great faith in AOL's ability to fund me with another $100 million in venture capital, and I'm really sorry about that whole mp3.com blowout thing. Anyone want to go for a ride on my new yacht?"
I saw Hillary on CNBC saying that legislation was no longer being considered. Might have been the day before... Two-faced lying little daughter of a ....
Hi there. I still use C-Band. All the channels I want to watch (Discovery, TLC, Fox News) for $100 a year. Add a MPEG-FTA receiver and get lots more unencrypted channels. Getting all the feedhorns properly in-phase on just one bird will be a major PITA. In order to aim at a different bird, the entire array would have to move together somehow in order to maintain the phase relationship of the combined antenna. Best bet is to put up the biggest offset focus dish your covenant will allow (probably 1 meter, you might get away with a 1.2m dish) and get the most sensitive C-Band LNB you can get, which I believe is a 15 degree. No guarantee though, bigger IS better. You want an offset focus dish so that the LNB is pointing at the sky instead of the ground. Less background noise in the sky...
Does this mean that Streambox will be able to resume development of the Streambox Ripper?
Don't hold your breath. The (insert environmental wacko group here) would have a field day with a kelp farm proposal, let alone whale farming. Hell, we can't even get fish farms approved here in the Gulf of Maine. Ruins the view...
Execs are always going to the board with schemes to get more company dollars in their pockets. Guaranteed bonuses, stock options and the like. Why should they have all the fun?
This kind of use (generally) isn't allowed now. There just isn't a mechanism to enforce it.
"It costs NOTHING to produce a show's archive for sale"
...
...
Uh, bullshit.
Programmers might be smart, but they really ought to need to take a couple business/economics classes before getting their sheepskin.
1. Home video distribution rights. Who owns them? Can Nickelodeon acquire/license those rights?
2. Digital transfer. The masters for the show are probably in analog format. A DVD transfer must be made. Possibly new soundtracks must be created (5.1 surrond, etc.)
3. Additional content: Behind the scenes interviews, production stills, subtitles, etc. Authoring a DVD is a PITA, and the service doesn't come cheap.
4. Locomotion is an AWESOME cartoon channel. How come we can't get it in the states? (oops, way off topic, nevermind)
5. Packaging. Yeah, consumers still want packaging. Weird, I know.
6. Distribution.
7. Marketing.
8.
9.
So no, it doesn't cost "NOTHING".
Releasing on DVD has an "opportunity cost" as well. If it is available on DVD, then your cannibalizing your ad revenue for future showings/syndication.
But hey, if you really like the series, talk to the producers. I'm sure they'd love for someone to foot the bill for them continuing their work. Maybe you can even buy the home video rights from them...
I don't know about that. When Napster was alive and well, my mother (who is just computer-literate enough to check her e-mail) was having a great time downloading and burning all her favorite old-style country tunes.
I tried to tell her she was stealing, but she just told me to ph34r her 1337 ski11z.
...So getting oil from the ground was the next best thing. Getting rid of oil for energy usage is cheap and (technologically) easy. Just tell me where would you like those new nuclear power plants located? Or which mountain ranges get the 100,000,000 windmills? Or which desert should we cover in photovoltaics? Or which rivers we should dam. Finding suitable replacement for industrial use will be a bit of a challenge. Petrochemicals are used as a base material in so much of what we use every day. Conservation, however well intentioned, will not by itself save us. 3/4 of the world's population wants the standard of living the western world enjoys, and the western world isn't about to voluntarily reduce its standard of living. Don't believe me? Try telling your neighbor that he should give up his SUV because it isn't fair to sub-Saharan Africans. But do it from a safe distance.
A sufficient number of people are willing to pay the price. Corporations don't have morals. They exist for one purpose only - to return value to shareholders. If HP thought they'd make more by charging less for the ink, then they'd be selling for less. What can you do? Don't buy printers which use "smart" non-refillable cartridges. Buy refill kits. Use a laser printer instead. (Brother printers seem to have the most inexpensive toner cartridges.) If sales plummet then the industry behavior will change.
...their netblock becomes blackholed by network operators woldwide due to the volume of spam being piped through the unauthenticated connection.
Additionally, race car drivers don't generally face sustained big G's. Champ and F1 cars can corner and decellerate somewhere in the neighborhood of 1.5-2 G's.
OTOH, they can be subject to very large G forces for very short periods of time. As in 200+km/hr->0km/hr in a few milliseconds during a head-on collision with a wall. Of course, track design is such that this is a very rare occurrence.
"Welcome to the Days of Thunder coaster. Before the ride begins, everyone must put on their full-face helmets, close their visor, and put on their HANS device."
Detailed Sprint PCS coverage maps, by city
Hell, every time we convert energy from one form to another, we're contributing to the heat death of the universe. (See also, the simplified laws of thermodynamics: You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't quit.) Earth, schmerth. We're talking about the entire universe here. See what your evil SUV is doing! What kind of universe are we leaving to our grand(2.35x10^14)children! -- If enviromentalists *really* cared about the environment, they'd kill themselves.
"Usuable web application" Yeah, waiting around for 5 minutes while the custom navigation system loads across a rural internet connection really helps usability...
110VAC across the smartcard contacts tends to sufficiently obfuscate the stored PIN number.