"I know the significance of 0F as being the lowest acheivable temperature where salted water remains liquid, but can anyone explain the rest?"
If I am not mistaken, 100 degrees Fahrenheit was set at the internal body temperature of a healthy human. Later advances showed that the actual average internal temperature to be 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Oh well.
I only wish that they set the temperature of boiling water at 200 degrees Celsius rather than 100. That would make the resolution of degrees to be twice as fine as they are now. In Fahrenheit temperatures, you can more easily judge the weather. You can ask what the temperature will be today & you will get an answer like "in the 70s." That is far more useful to me than "in the 20s" (Celsius). The difference in 20 degrees C & 29 degrees is much more than 70 & 79 degrees Fahrenheit.
Do you pay a monthly fee to keep your computer working? No, I don't, unless you count electricity.
Do I pay a monthly fee to keep my ReplayTV unit working? No, I don't. I paid the lifetime subscription, remember?
Do you pay a monthly fee to watch cable television? What about a cell phone? Or a standard telephone line? Or Internet? Or electricity? Or heating oil? Or a mortgage? Or rent?
The reason you and other people pay month after month for these services is because they feel that the value they get is greater than the cost they pay. If you or anyone else felt otherwise, the service in question would be cancelled.
You want to feel like a lifetime corporate cash cow? Purchase a home. You pay month in & month out for 30 years & guess what? You still pay. You still have maintenance costs and taxes. Stop paying taxes on the house & you will soon stop paying maintenance costs, if you catch my drift. I for one enjoy the feeling of walking into "my" house, turning on my TV, & watching whatever show whenever I damn well feel like it. If that means I have to pay for a mortgage, electricity, cable TV subscription, & ReplayTV subscription then so be it. If you have found a way to reduce that equation for you by 10 bucks a month, I applaud your efforts. For me, the time it would take for me to research, build, troubleshoot, & maintain the device is worth far more than $10 a month.
It truly amazes me that people buy into this when there are alternatives that don't require becoming a lifetime corporate cash cow.
Perhaps I can make the decision to purchase one of these devices slightly less amazing to you. I, like you, enjoy technology & the benefits that it affords us. I am currently using my second ReplayTV unit. I bought the first one a few years ago & I upgraded once they added the Ethernet port. The first replay unit I bought was $250 more than a comparable TiVo unit, but I did not need to purchase a subscription. ReplayTV say which way the wind was blowing & altered there pricing to match the TiVo's. The general public only sees the initial price & TiVo appeared much cheaper. I bought the second replay unit & a lifetime subscription at the same time. I knew in the long run that the lifetime would be cheaper than a monthly subscription. You argue that losing my subscription causes my DVR becomes a paperweight. Well I understand that everything will eventually need to be replaced, tech items especially. I bought me DVR to provide a service, & I would have to say that I am very happy with the service it provides. I brought it hoe from the store, I took it out of the box, I plug it in, & it just WORKS. Any patches that are required are automatically applied. I'm sure I could find the hardware lying around my house to setup a machine to do what you suggest. I'm sure that, in time, I could get the OS & application running properly. To do what? Watch television? To me it isn't worth the time, money, & heartache to get a homegrown DVR running? The last time you wanted a new computer did you grab a fistful of ICs & a soldering iron? No, you drove down to the computer store & bought one. Did some corporation profit from your action? Yes, several did in fact. Like any transaction, it was an exchange of value. They traded money for raw materials & employee's time to produce a product. You then traded your money in exchange for the product they produced. You received your money when you provided a service for your employer. It's all just a circle of exchanging cash. For the cash I receive, I support quite a few computers & other electronic devices. When I come home, I do not even want to entertain the possibility of "supporting" a finicky DVR. I feel my time is far too valuable to consider that. You may be in a period of your life that is time-rich & cash-poor, or you may simply enjoy working on these projects more than I do. Regardless of the case, feel free to do as you wish. For myself, the money spent on this service is money well spent.
Log onto www.richdad.com . There you will find the game that Robert Kiyosaki made. He goes into detail how he made the game in the cd/tape series "You Can Choose To Be Rich." Mr. Kiyosaki explains what process he went though to get his books & game published. He and his advisers discuss what steps were taken from a business point of view. I think you will find the information this product contains very useful on many levels.
"We are so very sorry for landing on your asteroid. We will gladly pay all rental fees & damages. A check will be delivered to you at said asteroid with the utmost urgency. We appreciate your patience.
One issue to consider is maybe drives of differing models or manufacturers. Perhaps there is a speed difference in reading certain parts of the platters or performing some actions. Say for instance, there is three areas of a hard drive, A, B, and C. Drive manufacturer 1 drives' might perform actions in area A much better than average but perform poorly in area C. Drive manufacturer 2 drives' might perform actions in area A poorly but average in areas B and C.
If you were to put drives from manufacturers 1 and 2 into a RAID-0 array. You would have the worst of both worlds because one drive would be waiting for the other drive two thirds of the time. Perhaps the identical setup in a RAID-1 would be at an advantage.
Because of this theory of mine, I would recommend that you use identical drives from the same batch in a RAID-0. Who cares if you got them from a bad batch? 1 dead drive will destroy that copy of the data anyway.
In a RAID-1 array I guess you are on you own. I guess I would try to get identical hard drives from different manufacturing runs. Not too different though, I have noticed slight changes in the hardware between drives that I thought were the same. I don't know if it made a difference, but the doubt did bother me a bit.
If you were standing on the hull of a spaceship during an explosion, you would hear it. The sound would be transmitted through the hull of the craft & through your body to your ears. But that would not explain many sci-fi movie explosions.
Think like that, and you'll practically be in Bill's head.
Bill's head, in my opinion has already left. He is looking for greener pastures. He had 651,749,300 shares of MSFT stock on or around November 1st, 2001. He currently has 172,612,893 shares as of 8/5/03. He knows that if he sells any faster, the media will catch on, as they did when Mr. Balmer unloaded around 12 million shares around the 5/30/03. Follow the money. The smart money is leaving Microsoft.
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"I know the significance of 0F as being the lowest acheivable temperature where salted water remains liquid, but can anyone explain the rest?"
If I am not mistaken, 100 degrees Fahrenheit was set at the internal body temperature of a healthy human. Later advances showed that the actual average internal temperature to be 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Oh well.
I only wish that they set the temperature of boiling water at 200 degrees Celsius rather than 100. That would make the resolution of degrees to be twice as fine as they are now. In Fahrenheit temperatures, you can more easily judge the weather. You can ask what the temperature will be today & you will get an answer like "in the 70s." That is far more useful to me than "in the 20s" (Celsius). The difference in 20 degrees C & 29 degrees is much more than 70 & 79 degrees Fahrenheit.
Tivo looks prime for the picking...
They already tried that, a swing and a miss on that one.
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But you're right, 2004 should be rather interesting.
Do you pay a monthly fee to keep your computer working?
No, I don't, unless you count electricity.
Do I pay a monthly fee to keep my ReplayTV unit working?
No, I don't. I paid the lifetime subscription, remember?
Do you pay a monthly fee to watch cable television? What about a cell phone? Or a standard telephone line? Or Internet? Or electricity? Or heating oil? Or a mortgage? Or rent?
The reason you and other people pay month after month for these services is because they feel that the value they get is greater than the cost they pay. If you or anyone else felt otherwise, the service in question would be cancelled.
You want to feel like a lifetime corporate cash cow? Purchase a home. You pay month in & month out for 30 years & guess what? You still pay. You still have maintenance costs and taxes. Stop paying taxes on the house & you will soon stop paying maintenance costs, if you catch my drift. I for one enjoy the feeling of walking into "my" house, turning on my TV, & watching whatever show whenever I damn well feel like it. If that means I have to pay for a mortgage, electricity, cable TV subscription, & ReplayTV subscription then so be it. If you have found a way to reduce that equation for you by 10 bucks a month, I applaud your efforts. For me, the time it would take for me to research, build, troubleshoot, & maintain the device is worth far more than $10 a month.
It truly amazes me that people buy into this when there are alternatives that don't require becoming a lifetime corporate cash cow.
Perhaps I can make the decision to purchase one of these devices slightly less amazing to you. I, like you, enjoy technology & the benefits that it affords us. I am currently using my second ReplayTV unit. I bought the first one a few years ago & I upgraded once they added the Ethernet port. The first replay unit I bought was $250 more than a comparable TiVo unit, but I did not need to purchase a subscription. ReplayTV say which way the wind was blowing & altered there pricing to match the TiVo's. The general public only sees the initial price & TiVo appeared much cheaper. I bought the second replay unit & a lifetime subscription at the same time. I knew in the long run that the lifetime would be cheaper than a monthly subscription.
You argue that losing my subscription causes my DVR becomes a paperweight. Well I understand that everything will eventually need to be replaced, tech items especially. I bought me DVR to provide a service, & I would have to say that I am very happy with the service it provides. I brought it hoe from the store, I took it out of the box, I plug it in, & it just WORKS. Any patches that are required are automatically applied. I'm sure I could find the hardware lying around my house to setup a machine to do what you suggest. I'm sure that, in time, I could get the OS & application running properly. To do what? Watch television? To me it isn't worth the time, money, & heartache to get a homegrown DVR running?
The last time you wanted a new computer did you grab a fistful of ICs & a soldering iron? No, you drove down to the computer store & bought one. Did some corporation profit from your action? Yes, several did in fact. Like any transaction, it was an exchange of value. They traded money for raw materials & employee's time to produce a product. You then traded your money in exchange for the product they produced. You received your money when you provided a service for your employer. It's all just a circle of exchanging cash.
For the cash I receive, I support quite a few computers & other electronic devices. When I come home, I do not even want to entertain the possibility of "supporting" a finicky DVR. I feel my time is far too valuable to consider that. You may be in a period of your life that is time-rich & cash-poor, or you may simply enjoy working on these projects more than I do. Regardless of the case, feel free to do as you wish. For myself, the money spent on this service is money well spent.
subscription-based digital VCR makes you a TV sharecropper.
Could you explain the reasoning behind your statement?
Log onto www.richdad.com . There you will find the game that Robert Kiyosaki made. He goes into detail how he made the game in the cd/tape series "You Can Choose To Be Rich." Mr. Kiyosaki explains what process he went though to get his books & game published. He and his advisers discuss what steps were taken from a business point of view. I think you will find the information this product contains very useful on many levels.
They've outgrown breaking my network
:)
Have they really outgrown cracking your computer? Or have they outgrown your ability to detect it?
My biggest PC annoyance is my father.
Apparently you are not the only one.....
Macboy
I am your brother you insensitive clod.
"We are so very sorry for landing on your asteroid. We will gladly pay all rental fees & damages. A check will be delivered to you at said asteroid with the utmost urgency. We appreciate your patience.
Love,
NASA"
bull999999 - -1, Duh!
:)
999998 Bottles of Bull on the wall!
One issue to consider is maybe drives of differing models or manufacturers. Perhaps there is a speed difference in reading certain parts of the platters or performing some actions. Say for instance, there is three areas of a hard drive, A, B, and C. Drive manufacturer 1 drives' might perform actions in area A much better than average but perform poorly in area C. Drive manufacturer 2 drives' might perform actions in area A poorly but average in areas B and C.
If you were to put drives from manufacturers 1 and 2 into a RAID-0 array. You would have the worst of both worlds because one drive would be waiting for the other drive two thirds of the time. Perhaps the identical setup in a RAID-1 would be at an advantage.
Because of this theory of mine, I would recommend that you use identical drives from the same batch in a RAID-0. Who cares if you got them from a bad batch? 1 dead drive will destroy that copy of the data anyway.
In a RAID-1 array I guess you are on you own. I guess I would try to get identical hard drives from different manufacturing runs. Not too different though, I have noticed slight changes in the hardware between drives that I thought were the same. I don't know if it made a difference, but the doubt did bother me a bit.
Doh!
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but instead will resemble more of a kaleidoscope, thousands of streams of content, some indistinguishable as actual channels.
You mean like the Internet?
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead & that's just the way I likes it!
I guess that email that already been deleted. :)
Reduce your masturbation time by a factor of 1000. You might want to get some lotion & some gloves.
If you were standing on the hull of a spaceship during an explosion, you would hear it. The sound would be transmitted through the hull of the craft & through your body to your ears. But that would not explain many sci-fi movie explosions.
Often better than shorting is to buy "put" options on the stock.
:)
Sorry, SCOX is not optionable. I already looked.
Wouldn't the resultant increase in the rates the 200 year old plumbers charge pretty much absorb all the economic benefits?
Eeeww! 200 year old plumber asscrack. I think I'm going to be sick.
Invested in other companies.
Think like that, and you'll practically be in Bill's head.
Bill's head, in my opinion has already left. He is looking for greener pastures. He had 651,749,300 shares of MSFT stock on or around November 1st, 2001. He currently has 172,612,893 shares as of 8/5/03. He knows that if he sells any faster, the media will catch on, as they did when Mr. Balmer unloaded around 12 million shares around the 5/30/03.
Follow the money. The smart money is leaving Microsoft.
link
I liked the old Keystone State plates.
:)
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I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
Really? I would prefer your sig on the plates.
That is only true if you are unable to drastically alter your aerodynamics.
See what birds and insects do. Many have stable configurations.
Wouldn't you need a computer (or brain) in order to 'drastically alter your aerodynamics?'