Suspension gives you most of the reduction. Encasing the drive may reduce the whine very slightly, but suspension reduces the seek noises and "case ring". The easiest way to suspend the drive is using elastic ties, and nothing else, like in the article I linked.
For a time LEGO sold a few grey-scale mosaics, but even better you could upload an image and they'd send you pieces in black, white and three shades of grey, and instructions to create your image. If you just wanted the pieces (they were 1x1 plates) you could upload an image that had shades in the proportions you needed. And since they sent you bags (of IIRC 270) and not exact counts, you could create an image that maximized the number of pieces you'd receive. If your image required 271 dark grey pieces, for example, you'd get two bags of 270.
People seem to think they're smart. Testing other people empowers them. Of course they aren't really smart, so they test for things that are easy to learn, and wouldn't recognize things that are hard to learn if smacked upside the head with them.
Twenty years ago I said I'd take an accomplished COBOL programmer who could follow instructions and solve problems over someone who knew the exact skills I was looking for but had a big ego and no imagination. I haven't changed my mind. Smarty-pants syntax testers can eat my shorts.
At 34 years old if drinking is important enough that you mention it in your blog (I have no idea if you do) then you probably haven't grown up. That's a reasonable thing to consider in the hiring process.
The compressor is the noisy part of a refrigerator, right? If you could make a refrigerator without one you'd have market differentiation over a desirable feature (quietness). Problem being, the heat differential is not great enough to work for the freezer, so if that's the best that's possible then your fridge would still have to have a compressor.
I had AT&T long distance on my home line for perhaps 15 years because I was too lazy to comparison shop. It got to the point, however, where the miscellaneous fees were ridiculous. And they were charging me 10 cents per minute on a plan that also had a regular monthly charge ($10 or something) at a time when others were charging 5 cents. I think with the fees, charges, assessments, taxes and kickbacks, my long distance bill was about $25 even if I didn't make any calls.
I called to ask if they had a lower-priced plan for someone who didn't use long distance much and was told I had the cheapest plan. So I canceled long distance altogether and started using prepaid calling cards that were less than four cents per minute with no other fees. Ironically, they were AT&T cards.
After I canceled they tried selling me cheaper plans. So, they were lying when they said they didn't have cheaper plans.
I won't get an iPhone as long as it comes with AT&T. I now use a non-AT&T cell phone for all calls.
Best bet would be to --if ever possible-- give said robot the tools to be sentient, but don't even think of giving them any power to actually do more than talk (verbal soundwaves, not data distribution) and think.
And if that's a good idea, you can bet there will be some who will not do it that way, precisely because not doing it that way is a bad idea, and some will not do it that way because, of course, they're smarter than everyone else.
I don't see technology rendering evil or ego obsolete. I see it making evil and ego more efficient and dangerous.
When you boil it down, humans are just collection carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen (and some other trace elements). What difference does it make if an intelligence is made of mostly "natural" carbon entities vs. mostly "unnatural" silicon entities?
Thinking by the numbers. Comparing specs. That's the same dispassionate thinking that insists a PC is a better value than a Mac and an iPod is lame because...well, you know the joke. The same thinking that values speed and power and low cost and cool and hasn't a clue about grace or elegance or beauty or class.
You may have done the conversion to miles incorrectly, or not at all. In the US 15K miles/year is pretty normal, and I think Americans drive more than most Europeans.
For the majority of people 4TB, 8TB and 16TB are no more useful than 128GB. So, cost/capacity improvements in spinning discs will be relevant to a smaller and smaller number of people.
In 1958, cheap prepared food was not a reality for most people. It now is.
This is not progress. Check the ingredients of that cheap prepared food. You mention quality of life in one of your other items. Not everyone thinks manufactured food enhances the quality of life. If anything, cheap prepared food has removed food as a source of joy, pride and community for most people.
TV shorts? Pants rip? Telephone on the fritz? Buy a new one.
This, again, is not progress.
Most everything on your list amounts to things getting cheaper. How much of it is actually life-changing? For the better? Google "simple living" for an opposing view.
Yes, consumerism has fared well these last 40 years. Aren't we masters of the universe.
We use Linux because we think we're smarter than most people. We can't demonstrate that doing things the same way everyone else does, so we pick things that are unusual, even if we'd be better served with what everyone else has.
Could it also be that "illegal filesharing" is used to distinguish the activity in question from "legal filesharing", and that those with a guilty conscience don't recognize that "legal filesharing" is, indeed, being acknowledged as a class separate from "illegal filesharing"?
Wanna know why Linux ain't going anywhere on the desktop?
Who do you know who likes Linux? Yeah, those slashdot guys. The guys who bring you, and enjoy reading, slashdot. The guys who think there's a huge market of people just like them. The guys who think a "Next Generation ajaxified, buzzword compliant comment system" is something other than a disfunctional piece of crap. Let's examine their handiwork.
How do I read all the comments that have been collapsed to single-liners under a post? Used to be I clicked on the first one and I'd get all the posts on the same level. Now I apparently have to click on them one at a time. And when I do so, the scroll button on my mouse becomes useless. Hey, look at that, scroll the wheel and one of the one-liners scrolls up out of view. A scroll wheel for a single line of text. Neat.
But look at the neat map of posts in the left column. Oh, wait, I thought it was there...[scroll]...nope. Let me check another page. There it is, on top of previously-useful menus. On another page it's the only thing in the left column. On another it scrolls with the page (and covers the previously-useful menus).
According to the FAQ there's three comment formats. How do I switch? It must be so obvious I'm just missing it. Thresholds? The FAQ mentions sliders. Those must be so obvious I don't see them.
Maybe the guys who are responsible for this aren't people I can expect to hold an insightful discussion of why Linux isn't going anywhere on the desktop?
Yeah, I know, it's my fault. I shouldn't want it to work the way I want it to work, and it must be something I have misconfigured, and I should read more geekspeak FAQs and do some googling, and it must be I'm just trolling, and it must be this and it must be that. Anything, but it's certainly not that the new system just sucks rocks. Can't be that.
In my area, Comcast offers a $15 discount on internet for TV subscribers. They also offer tiered basic cable TV, where the bottom tier costs less than $15. It's called Basic-A and includes pretty much only the broadcast networks plus a few other channels. Basic-B is a few useless channels, but you need it if you want Basic-C, which is what most people want with basic cable (MTV, ESPN, CNN, etc).
If you just get "basic cable" they'll sell you all three. They don't advertise that you can just get Basic-A. When I first signed up, Basic-A was $10/mo and gave me a $15/mo discount on internet. This is why I have cable TV, though it isn't connected to anything. Nowadays, though, Basic-A is about $13. I'll cancel when it reaches $15.
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How long will it take you to complete this project? How many times could you walk to the basement in that amount of time?
Suspension gives you most of the reduction. Encasing the drive may reduce the whine very slightly, but suspension reduces the seek noises and "case ring". The easiest way to suspend the drive is using elastic ties, and nothing else, like in the article I linked.
It's easier yet to suspend hard drives to silence them.
For a time LEGO sold a few grey-scale mosaics, but even better you could upload an image and they'd send you pieces in black, white and three shades of grey, and instructions to create your image. If you just wanted the pieces (they were 1x1 plates) you could upload an image that had shades in the proportions you needed. And since they sent you bags (of IIRC 270) and not exact counts, you could create an image that maximized the number of pieces you'd receive. If your image required 271 dark grey pieces, for example, you'd get two bags of 270.
This guy has been doing LEGO mosaics for years, and if you google a bit you'll find others and the code for creating them.
People seem to think they're smart. Testing other people empowers them. Of course they aren't really smart, so they test for things that are easy to learn, and wouldn't recognize things that are hard to learn if smacked upside the head with them.
Twenty years ago I said I'd take an accomplished COBOL programmer who could follow instructions and solve problems over someone who knew the exact skills I was looking for but had a big ego and no imagination. I haven't changed my mind. Smarty-pants syntax testers can eat my shorts.
At 34 years old if drinking is important enough that you mention it in your blog (I have no idea if you do) then you probably haven't grown up. That's a reasonable thing to consider in the hiring process.
This samzenpus is easily amused, no?
PWTTWIFOVWAATUTS (people who think the world is full of vidiots just like themselves who are anxious to use these services) can F' off.
The compressor is the noisy part of a refrigerator, right? If you could make a refrigerator without one you'd have market differentiation over a desirable feature (quietness). Problem being, the heat differential is not great enough to work for the freezer, so if that's the best that's possible then your fridge would still have to have a compressor.
I had AT&T long distance on my home line for perhaps 15 years because I was too lazy to comparison shop. It got to the point, however, where the miscellaneous fees were ridiculous. And they were charging me 10 cents per minute on a plan that also had a regular monthly charge ($10 or something) at a time when others were charging 5 cents. I think with the fees, charges, assessments, taxes and kickbacks, my long distance bill was about $25 even if I didn't make any calls.
I called to ask if they had a lower-priced plan for someone who didn't use long distance much and was told I had the cheapest plan. So I canceled long distance altogether and started using prepaid calling cards that were less than four cents per minute with no other fees. Ironically, they were AT&T cards.
After I canceled they tried selling me cheaper plans. So, they were lying when they said they didn't have cheaper plans.
I won't get an iPhone as long as it comes with AT&T. I now use a non-AT&T cell phone for all calls.
Best bet would be to --if ever possible-- give said robot the tools to be sentient, but don't even think of giving them any power to actually do more than talk (verbal soundwaves, not data distribution) and think.
And if that's a good idea, you can bet there will be some who will not do it that way, precisely because not doing it that way is a bad idea, and some will not do it that way because, of course, they're smarter than everyone else.
I don't see technology rendering evil or ego obsolete. I see it making evil and ego more efficient and dangerous.
When you boil it down, humans are just collection carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen (and some other trace elements). What difference does it make if an intelligence is made of mostly "natural" carbon entities vs. mostly "unnatural" silicon entities?
Thinking by the numbers. Comparing specs. That's the same dispassionate thinking that insists a PC is a better value than a Mac and an iPod is lame because...well, you know the joke. The same thinking that values speed and power and low cost and cool and hasn't a clue about grace or elegance or beauty or class.
You may have done the conversion to miles incorrectly, or not at all. In the US 15K miles/year is pretty normal, and I think Americans drive more than most Europeans.
For the majority of people 4TB, 8TB and 16TB are no more useful than 128GB. So, cost/capacity improvements in spinning discs will be relevant to a smaller and smaller number of people.
Life expectancy measured from birth for US males is up 10 years
Unimpressive compared to the previous 40 years.
In 1958, cheap prepared food was not a reality for most people. It now is.
This is not progress. Check the ingredients of that cheap prepared food. You mention quality of life in one of your other items. Not everyone thinks manufactured food enhances the quality of life. If anything, cheap prepared food has removed food as a source of joy, pride and community for most people.
TV shorts? Pants rip? Telephone on the fritz? Buy a new one.
This, again, is not progress.
Most everything on your list amounts to things getting cheaper. How much of it is actually life-changing? For the better? Google "simple living" for an opposing view.
Yes, consumerism has fared well these last 40 years. Aren't we masters of the universe.
We use Linux because we think we're smarter than most people. We can't demonstrate that doing things the same way everyone else does, so we pick things that are unusual, even if we'd be better served with what everyone else has.
Could it also be that "illegal filesharing" is used to distinguish the activity in question from "legal filesharing", and that those with a guilty conscience don't recognize that "legal filesharing" is, indeed, being acknowledged as a class separate from "illegal filesharing"?
5. Could you please restore my internet connection so I can carry on my legal filesharing?
Except that "mulslim terrorist" describes a minority whereas "illegal filesharing" describes a majority.
Better pictures can be found here.
Wanna know why Linux ain't going anywhere on the desktop?
Who do you know who likes Linux? Yeah, those slashdot guys. The guys who bring you, and enjoy reading, slashdot. The guys who think there's a huge market of people just like them. The guys who think a "Next Generation ajaxified, buzzword compliant comment system" is something other than a disfunctional piece of crap. Let's examine their handiwork.
How do I read all the comments that have been collapsed to single-liners under a post? Used to be I clicked on the first one and I'd get all the posts on the same level. Now I apparently have to click on them one at a time. And when I do so, the scroll button on my mouse becomes useless. Hey, look at that, scroll the wheel and one of the one-liners scrolls up out of view. A scroll wheel for a single line of text. Neat.
But look at the neat map of posts in the left column. Oh, wait, I thought it was there...[scroll]...nope. Let me check another page. There it is, on top of previously-useful menus. On another page it's the only thing in the left column. On another it scrolls with the page (and covers the previously-useful menus).
According to the FAQ there's three comment formats. How do I switch? It must be so obvious I'm just missing it. Thresholds? The FAQ mentions sliders. Those must be so obvious I don't see them.
Maybe the guys who are responsible for this aren't people I can expect to hold an insightful discussion of why Linux isn't going anywhere on the desktop?
Yeah, I know, it's my fault. I shouldn't want it to work the way I want it to work, and it must be something I have misconfigured, and I should read more geekspeak FAQs and do some googling, and it must be I'm just trolling, and it must be this and it must be that. Anything, but it's certainly not that the new system just sucks rocks. Can't be that.
Lunux in '08! This is the year! Go, Team!
Dicrimination to those of us who do not watch TV?
In my area, Comcast offers a $15 discount on internet for TV subscribers. They also offer tiered basic cable TV, where the bottom tier costs less than $15. It's called Basic-A and includes pretty much only the broadcast networks plus a few other channels. Basic-B is a few useless channels, but you need it if you want Basic-C, which is what most people want with basic cable (MTV, ESPN, CNN, etc).
If you just get "basic cable" they'll sell you all three. They don't advertise that you can just get Basic-A. When I first signed up, Basic-A was $10/mo and gave me a $15/mo discount on internet. This is why I have cable TV, though it isn't connected to anything. Nowadays, though, Basic-A is about $13. I'll cancel when it reaches $15.
CDs will go away when it is no longer profitable to sell them, whether there's an adequate replacement available or not.
Hey, a discussion of intellectual property on slashdot! This will surely cover new ground. I can't wait to learn what slashdot thinks!