I used to work for an electronics recycling company, trueCycle.
Not the most scrupulous incorporation in the high desert, but we processed a LOT.
A good day would have us processing 10 tons (20,000 pounds) of various electronics, most of it selling to final-stage processors for $0.10 to somewhere $1.00 per pound, depending on which gaylord (motherboards, transformers, glass, CPUs, HDDs, etc) and of course the fluctuations in the volatile commodities market.
The biggest cash cow, of course, was leaded CRT glass - thanks to SB20 and SB50, our processing of CRT glass was subsidised and we received a flat rate of $0.48 per pound on just that, smashed or not smashed. This was lucrative due to the commonality of monitors and the density of the glass, as well as the fact that at any given time we had 10 guys with clawhammers and pneumatic screwdrivers absolutely tearing everything up that I let them get their hands on.
I worked as Quality Assurance, assessing pallets as they came in and rescuing the good stuff, as well as miscellaneous server and network administration work. You know, the usual stuff when your department knows more about computers than the entire rest of the company, which happened to be too cheap for a dedicated IT staff and commensurate payroll. While I did indeed fix up more than a few computers for eBay and local buyers, the 90% discount and the general poor condition of incoming electronics as well as poor working conditions, chronic understaffing, and a tragic lack of space made resurrecting computers a very small portion of the revenue stream.
Selling components was a lot more successful, and I always argued for doing this with my coworkers and supervisors. We would sell hundreds of thoroughly-tested HDDs, video cards, RAM sticks, and CPUs of all types at a time. It amazed me at the time (2005-2006) to see how many people were still interested in 10GB drives, 64MB PC100 sticks, and GeForce2 MX cards.
My favourite part of the job, however, was finding and rescuing antique/vintage computing equipment. The contract with Dreamworks was also pretty exciting, although 99% of it ended up as unrecognisable scrap. I found myself face to face with an SGI Iris 4D and an even larger system in bad shape that I could not identify, as well as several battered workstations (one labeled "FOONLY" in obvious homage).
I think the reason I couldn't recall it was because I conflated the general concept of fundamentalism with the current political situation. The way it's actually phrased is much more universally applicable.
I posted the above as kind of a joke, but I became curious and visited the official Gamerunner website.
Apparently the treadmill actually will sell for $495 plus S&H, once they get their store going.
And from looking at the actual manual for the thing (warning: PDF!) it looks like it uses two USB connectors (one for keyboard, one for mouse) and the display panel is powered by two AA batteries. You'd think there would be enough bus power in two connectors to power a low-end LCD display.
I'd like to know whether this USB Treadmill is bus-powered, or if I'll have to deal with the inconvenience of plugging yet another power brick into my surge suppressor...
Well, if you want to know if anyone takes the STR blog seriously, just check out some of the comments people leave. There seems to be quite a few that are not also satirical in nature.
It made me shudder even more than some of the crudest, most ignorant Youtube comments, which are basically the bottom of the barrel for human nature.
What was the name of that Internet "law" (more like an observation) that once you reach a point far enough to the political right, your viewpoint becomes indistinguishable from satire?
I assume you posted this in honour of the late Jerry Falwell.
There isn't really much in the first four pages that we didn't already know from The Inquirer. I also recall them linking to a recent and thorough benchmarking of the HD2900 XT by it-review.net - don't think that was a hoax, so this wouldn't be the first review of the R600 by any measure.
84 degrees Celsius actually isn't that bad - my MSI 7950GX2 starts throttling at 122C (never gets above 85 maxed out, less than 60C idle), and the 8800GTX in the system I'm building for a client throttles at 127C (also never gets near the double digits).
It's just like Tom's Hardware, plenty of fluff pages to increase adviews, and wasting our time while the site is slashdotted (or at least feigning it).
The reason for so few vetoes is Bush's innovative use of executive signing statements - he only vetoes when it's politically expedient. Recall that his first veto was the stem cell bill, the second one the Iraq timetable/budget.
Inability to replicate is what keeps most fringe sciences on the fringe. It's not taken lightly as you say, but very seriously as the concept of independent experiment replication is the foundation of the scientific method. These things take time, especially when even "hot" fusion hasn't reached the break-even point. How long did Phlogiston and Aether stay in the science books?
All that aside, how did you get Arthur C. Clarke to write the foreword to your new book?
The gunman's name was Gallandro, the books were by Brian Daley, and they're probably the three best Star Wars novels ever written. Daley's death in 1996 was rather tragic, as I believe he was planning on writing much more in the Star Wars universe.
Given the prevalence of behavior-logging spyware on most end-consumer computers, I'm not sure if the average person's data would be more secure on their own PC, or even their work PC. Of course it's nice to feel that you're responsible for your own data, and it's sitting there safe on your hard drive, but Microsoft is Microsoft, rootkits are rootkits, and Chinese hackers are Chinese hackers.
My first impression as a good non-article-reading Slashdotter was that Jenni Engebretsen was nothing but a career RIAA thug, but after reading the articles and her Wikipedia entry it seems that this is merely a return to the status quo - people should have been more alarmed when Jenni went from the Democrats over to the RIAA in the first place! I blame Boing Boing's inflammatory and sensationalist headline and Slashdot's repetition of it for most of the posts below.
While I worked at a computer recycling company, we had a contract with a large monitor manufacturer (birds logo) and I had the opportunity to see and test many different types of LCD TVs, monitors, and some LCD displays that were very suitable for both. In short, you might want to avoid the rash sweeping generalizations that characterised your post.
Development of Windows NT 4.0 (and Windows 2000!) for Alpha continued up until 1999, and NT 4.0 as well as NT 3.51 was released with support for MIPS and PPC. A SPARC port was also made, but just as a one-off for one company. I had thought that the PowerPC port of Windows NT was more famous, but I guess not!
Windows Server 2003, the successor to Windows NT and 2000, is still available for IA64 (Itanium) as well as AMD64. I found that out on the Microsoft website, where they take great pains to distinguish the two architectures. Apparently it does well in some specialised applications...I personally despise the architecture.
Speaking of the AMD64 port of Windows, I'm not sure you understand entirely the degree to which the operating system has been altered to accommodate 64-bit hardware. Your ignorance may have something to do with the fact that the Athlon 64 chip will run any 32-bit operating system, while Itanium does not, and suffers a performance penalty, like you mentioned, for running 32-bit in 64-bit mode. I've been using 64-bit Windows for AMD64 since October 2005 and I can say that it's noticeably different. You can't use any 32-bit drivers, or run any 16-bit or DOS software, and when the system gives the Blue Screen of Death, the memory addresses are given with 16 hex characters instead of 8 (that amuses me for some reason). There's a new folder in C:\WINDOWS called \SYSWOW64\ which contains all kinds of new DLLs, the registry has been given a freshening up, and there are a few bona fide new features unrelated to the 64-bitness as well.
Also note that the Xbox 360, a PPC system, apparently runs a modified Windows 2000 kernel.
Vehicles with one structure point (pretty much anything you'll find in a standard Codex) can be destroyed in one shot by most weapons, given the right roll of the dice.
Vehicles do not have 'wounds' as infantry and other units do - the strength of a vehicle is represented by front, side, and rear armour values, which are rolled against by weapon strength, ending up on either glancing or penetrating hit tables. It's significantly harder to destroy a vehicle with a weak weapon, but an unlucky roll on the glancing hit table can bring your zillion-point Land Raider to a permanent demise. The worst-case scenario for multi-wound models like Ogryns or Crisis Suits is losing one wound, unless the weapon's strength is at least double its toughness. With truly large vehicles such as the Baneblade, you have multiple structure points, each of which is about as tough to destroy as a normal vehicle, and which are roughly equivalent to 'wounds'. Most walkers follow vehicle armour rules, but others, like the Wraithlord, have an infantry-style stat profile.
Oh, and in tabletop, a Falcon Grav Tank is just as durable as a Fire Prism - Dawn of War exaggerates the latter's armor greatly as it is a late-tier vehicle.
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I used to work for an electronics recycling company, trueCycle.
Not the most scrupulous incorporation in the high desert, but we processed a LOT.
A good day would have us processing 10 tons (20,000 pounds) of various electronics, most of it selling to final-stage processors for $0.10 to somewhere $1.00 per pound, depending on which gaylord (motherboards, transformers, glass, CPUs, HDDs, etc) and of course the fluctuations in the volatile commodities market.
The biggest cash cow, of course, was leaded CRT glass - thanks to SB20 and SB50, our processing of CRT glass was subsidised and we received a flat rate of $0.48 per pound on just that, smashed or not smashed. This was lucrative due to the commonality of monitors and the density of the glass, as well as the fact that at any given time we had 10 guys with clawhammers and pneumatic screwdrivers absolutely tearing everything up that I let them get their hands on.
I worked as Quality Assurance, assessing pallets as they came in and rescuing the good stuff, as well as miscellaneous server and network administration work. You know, the usual stuff when your department knows more about computers than the entire rest of the company, which happened to be too cheap for a dedicated IT staff and commensurate payroll. While I did indeed fix up more than a few computers for eBay and local buyers, the 90% discount and the general poor condition of incoming electronics as well as poor working conditions, chronic understaffing, and a tragic lack of space made resurrecting computers a very small portion of the revenue stream.
Selling components was a lot more successful, and I always argued for doing this with my coworkers and supervisors. We would sell hundreds of thoroughly-tested HDDs, video cards, RAM sticks, and CPUs of all types at a time. It amazed me at the time (2005-2006) to see how many people were still interested in 10GB drives, 64MB PC100 sticks, and GeForce2 MX cards.
My favourite part of the job, however, was finding and rescuing antique/vintage computing equipment. The contract with Dreamworks was also pretty exciting, although 99% of it ended up as unrecognisable scrap. I found myself face to face with an SGI Iris 4D and an even larger system in bad shape that I could not identify, as well as several battered workstations (one labeled "FOONLY" in obvious homage).
Yes, that's exactly it.
I think the reason I couldn't recall it was because I conflated the general concept of fundamentalism with the current political situation. The way it's actually phrased is much more universally applicable.
I posted the above as kind of a joke, but I became curious and visited the official Gamerunner website.
Apparently the treadmill actually will sell for $495 plus S&H, once they get their store going.
And from looking at the actual manual for the thing (warning: PDF!) it looks like it uses two USB connectors (one for keyboard, one for mouse) and the display panel is powered by two AA batteries. You'd think there would be enough bus power in two connectors to power a low-end LCD display.
I'd like to know whether this USB Treadmill is bus-powered, or if I'll have to deal with the inconvenience of plugging yet another power brick into my surge suppressor...
Well, if you want to know if anyone takes the STR blog seriously, just check out some of the comments people leave. There seems to be quite a few that are not also satirical in nature.
It made me shudder even more than some of the crudest, most ignorant Youtube comments, which are basically the bottom of the barrel for human nature.
What was the name of that Internet "law" (more like an observation) that once you reach a point far enough to the political right, your viewpoint becomes indistinguishable from satire?
I assume you posted this in honour of the late Jerry Falwell.
There isn't really much in the first four pages that we didn't already know from The Inquirer. I also recall them linking to a recent and thorough benchmarking of the HD2900 XT by it-review.net - don't think that was a hoax, so this wouldn't be the first review of the R600 by any measure.
84 degrees Celsius actually isn't that bad - my MSI 7950GX2 starts throttling at 122C (never gets above 85 maxed out, less than 60C idle), and the 8800GTX in the system I'm building for a client throttles at 127C (also never gets near the double digits).
It's just like Tom's Hardware, plenty of fluff pages to increase adviews, and wasting our time while the site is slashdotted (or at least feigning it).
>FEED TROLL
You have fed the troll. It gains 500 pounds.
The reason for so few vetoes is Bush's innovative use of executive signing statements - he only vetoes when it's politically expedient. Recall that his first veto was the stem cell bill, the second one the Iraq timetable/budget.
Nobody "ditched" his post. It was born that way.
Inability to replicate is what keeps most fringe sciences on the fringe. It's not taken lightly as you say, but very seriously as the concept of independent experiment replication is the foundation of the scientific method. These things take time, especially when even "hot" fusion hasn't reached the break-even point. How long did Phlogiston and Aether stay in the science books?
All that aside, how did you get Arthur C. Clarke to write the foreword to your new book?
The gunman's name was Gallandro, the books were by Brian Daley, and they're probably the three best Star Wars novels ever written. Daley's death in 1996 was rather tragic, as I believe he was planning on writing much more in the Star Wars universe.
At least two posters above you got it, and spelled his name right to boot.
Guaranteed his problem was an IRQ conflict, probably against LPT1. Should've been an easy fix even in OS/2 (this was Warp, right?).
+1 funniest post that won't get modded funny on Slashdot
Given the prevalence of behavior-logging spyware on most end-consumer computers, I'm not sure if the average person's data would be more secure on their own PC, or even their work PC. Of course it's nice to feel that you're responsible for your own data, and it's sitting there safe on your hard drive, but Microsoft is Microsoft, rootkits are rootkits, and Chinese hackers are Chinese hackers.
My first impression as a good non-article-reading Slashdotter was that Jenni Engebretsen was nothing but a career RIAA thug, but after reading the articles and her Wikipedia entry it seems that this is merely a return to the status quo - people should have been more alarmed when Jenni went from the Democrats over to the RIAA in the first place! I blame Boing Boing's inflammatory and sensationalist headline and Slashdot's repetition of it for most of the posts below.
Yes - that's why scientists have been able to extract limitless energy from his sepulchral rotation since Richard Nixon became president.
Yeah, I thought I was reading the Daily Kos or an RMS/FSF article when I loaded Slashdot and this was on top.
At least "left-wing" and "blogosphere" are in a quote from someone else...but the editor still chose to use those words.
Oh well, it wasn't exactly going to make me happy no matter how it was phrased, so maybe it's better this way!
That's not actually how it goes. Pastor Niemöller was quite the anti-Semite, actually.
Ouch! I just paid $308 for an E6600 from Newegg. Oh well. $224 would put it at the same price as the 3GHz Athlon 64 X2...
You're so wrong I wish it was funny.
I've seen many 19" (and 20") LCD monitors with a native resolution of 1600x1200.
In fact, here's a great Guide to Choosing the Right 19" LCD Monitor, from 3 years ago that reviews 19" LCD monitors with various aspect ratios.
As for 16:9 LCD monitors, here's another great article.
While I worked at a computer recycling company, we had a contract with a large monitor manufacturer (birds logo) and I had the opportunity to see and test many different types of LCD TVs, monitors, and some LCD displays that were very suitable for both. In short, you might want to avoid the rash sweeping generalizations that characterised your post.
As a classically-trained singer, I heartily endorse this software in the hopes that it will raise cultural awareness of the musical art form.
Development of Windows NT 4.0 (and Windows 2000!) for Alpha continued up until 1999, and NT 4.0 as well as NT 3.51 was released with support for MIPS and PPC. A SPARC port was also made, but just as a one-off for one company. I had thought that the PowerPC port of Windows NT was more famous, but I guess not!
(just confirming what I already knew, nice to see that)
Windows Server 2003, the successor to Windows NT and 2000, is still available for IA64 (Itanium) as well as AMD64. I found that out on the Microsoft website, where they take great pains to distinguish the two architectures. Apparently it does well in some specialised applications...I personally despise the architecture.
Speaking of the AMD64 port of Windows, I'm not sure you understand entirely the degree to which the operating system has been altered to accommodate 64-bit hardware. Your ignorance may have something to do with the fact that the Athlon 64 chip will run any 32-bit operating system, while Itanium does not, and suffers a performance penalty, like you mentioned, for running 32-bit in 64-bit mode. I've been using 64-bit Windows for AMD64 since October 2005 and I can say that it's noticeably different. You can't use any 32-bit drivers, or run any 16-bit or DOS software, and when the system gives the Blue Screen of Death, the memory addresses are given with 16 hex characters instead of 8 (that amuses me for some reason). There's a new folder in C:\WINDOWS called \SYSWOW64\ which contains all kinds of new DLLs, the registry has been given a freshening up, and there are a few bona fide new features unrelated to the 64-bitness as well.
Also note that the Xbox 360, a PPC system, apparently runs a modified Windows 2000 kernel.
Vehicles with one structure point (pretty much anything you'll find in a standard Codex) can be destroyed in one shot by most weapons, given the right roll of the dice.
Vehicles do not have 'wounds' as infantry and other units do - the strength of a vehicle is represented by front, side, and rear armour values, which are rolled against by weapon strength, ending up on either glancing or penetrating hit tables. It's significantly harder to destroy a vehicle with a weak weapon, but an unlucky roll on the glancing hit table can bring your zillion-point Land Raider to a permanent demise. The worst-case scenario for multi-wound models like Ogryns or Crisis Suits is losing one wound, unless the weapon's strength is at least double its toughness. With truly large vehicles such as the Baneblade, you have multiple structure points, each of which is about as tough to destroy as a normal vehicle, and which are roughly equivalent to 'wounds'. Most walkers follow vehicle armour rules, but others, like the Wraithlord, have an infantry-style stat profile.
Oh, and in tabletop, a Falcon Grav Tank is just as durable as a Fire Prism - Dawn of War exaggerates the latter's armor greatly as it is a late-tier vehicle.