So if aliens make robots, they aren't robots? Then what are they?
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There's another sci-fi story out there somewhere, not necessarily by Aldiss, but possibly, it's been a long time since I read it, featuring a boy (a real one) and his robot teddy bear, but its plot goes in an entirely different direction.
According to the article Hauben coined the term Netizen in a 1992 article entitled "The Net and Netizens: The Impact the Net Has on People's Lives", and contributed to the IEEE's Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet.
Isn't line of sight basically a 2 node network? Does it really make sense to use a protocol that worries about polling and collision detection when RTR and RTS should handle it just fine?
Could you name the community where this happened? Or better yet provide a link to a news story about it? I'd like to know more, if only to avoid ever passing through there.
Wouldn't anything that divides a byte by powers of ten be an imaginary concept anyway? You can divide it into 8 bits, but smaller than that isn't it like discussing the "integer-ness" of pi?
Yeah, right, the guy who came up with the idea of geo-synchronous satellites and bouncing radio signals off the moon wasn't a scientist. Your definition of scientist must be very narrow.
That's actually quite an interesting notion, but if congresscritters wanted to spend most of their time in their own home districts where their constituents could come around and bug them in person all the time they wouldn't run for office in the first place.
You're both misinformed. A decibel is one-tenth of a Bel. One Bel is equal to ten decibels. Two and one-half Bels is equal to 10 decibels times 2 and one-half. 10 * 2.5 = 25. 2.5 Bels is 25 decibels.
The prefix "deci" means "one-tenth". The prefix "deca" means "times ten". One hundred millimeters is ten centimeters is one decimeter is one-tenth of a meter is one-one-hundredth of a decameter. Yes, those are units of length, not sound pressure levels. It's an example.
The caddy probably has a lot less to do with it than the drive itself. Plextors are supposedly of higher quality than most, they're certainly priced as though they were.
Unfortunately my budget only allows me to explore the quality level of whatever off-brand Staples or Circuit City is offering a rebate on, some of which are almost as quiet as your average helicopter.
My experience with caddy-type audio CD drives (but not enough caddies for all the CDs) back when I worked in radio only re-inforced my opinion that whoever decided that CDs should be sold "bare" instead of in a rugged shuttered case like a 3.5 inch floppy should have their own special torment awaiting in the afterlife.
And since hard drives actually aren't air tight, but have a little air filter, once the oil displaces the air inside the drive it will be very, very quiet. Forever.
"As more and more customers come to us with new ideas that require new technology, but find that Management has kept the IT department from being current in the newer technologies,..."Management will turn around and blame it all on the IT department.
Did you think Dilbert was the result of Scott Adams having a good imagination?
Of course if you don't know about Greenlee punches you probably aren't familiar with the Hawaiian Punch commercials I made fun of in the subject line either.
If anybody knows about (and makes the equipment for) making holes in cases for electrical and electronic gear, it's Greenlee.
I'm not sure where to tell you to find them overseas (relative to my U.S. mainland location), but check with any amateur radio operators you can find, ask radio-television repair shops where they buy their parts and supplies, stuff like that.
You'll be able to tell by the price that Greenlee stuff is designed to be used much more often than once or twice, so maybe you can modify cases for other people in your situation and get some of your money back.
Good luck, e-mail me if I can help (except with paying for them, of course:-)
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So if aliens make robots, they aren't robots? Then what are they?
There's another sci-fi story out there somewhere, not necessarily by Aldiss, but possibly, it's been a long time since I read it, featuring a boy (a real one) and his robot teddy bear, but its plot goes in an entirely different direction.
Read the Register article before you make up your mind about him.
According to the article Hauben coined the term Netizen in a 1992 article entitled "The Net and Netizens: The Impact the Net Has on People's Lives", and contributed to the IEEE's Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet.
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We also install lightning rods
The scariest part is that cloning means even more of these type people.
Isn't line of sight basically a 2 node network? Does it really make sense to use a protocol that worries about polling and collision detection when RTR and RTS should handle it just fine?
If you really were the time would be 25 or 6 to 4.
Could you name the community where this happened? Or better yet provide a link to a news story about it? I'd like to know more, if only to avoid ever passing through there.
Wouldn't anything that divides a byte by powers of ten be an imaginary concept anyway? You can divide it into 8 bits, but smaller than that isn't it like discussing the "integer-ness" of pi?
Try googling for "kibibyte" or even for "kibble byte".
It might even be an actual standard by now but everybody just feels entirely too silly saying them.
Yeah, right, the guy who came up with the idea of geo-synchronous satellites and bouncing radio signals off the moon wasn't a scientist. Your definition of scientist must be very narrow.
That's actually quite an interesting notion, but if congresscritters wanted to spend most of their time in their own home districts where their constituents could come around and bug them in person all the time they wouldn't run for office in the first place.
No doubt when she got older she learned that you feed a mouse cheese, not peanut butter. :-)
Aren't the advertisers smart enough to only pay for the ads that are actually reponded to?
I'm sure she would have been quite happy not to have received it.
The prefix "deci" means "one-tenth". The prefix "deca" means "times ten". One hundred millimeters is ten centimeters is one decimeter is one-tenth of a meter is one-one-hundredth of a decameter. Yes, those are units of length, not sound pressure levels. It's an example.
If you set yourself on fire, the world will pay to watch you burn."
Unfortunately the government of South Vietnam just laughed and made barbecue jokes.
Yes, that was way off-topic. Excellent Clancy parody, btw.
Unfortunately my budget only allows me to explore the quality level of whatever off-brand Staples or Circuit City is offering a rebate on, some of which are almost as quiet as your average helicopter.
My experience with caddy-type audio CD drives (but not enough caddies for all the CDs) back when I worked in radio only re-inforced my opinion that whoever decided that CDs should be sold "bare" instead of in a rugged shuttered case like a 3.5 inch floppy should have their own special torment awaiting in the afterlife.
And since hard drives actually aren't air tight, but have a little air filter, once the oil displaces the air inside the drive it will be very, very quiet. Forever.
Did you think Dilbert was the result of Scott Adams having a good imagination?
How come even with the bursting of the internet bubble there's always plenty of money for buying cheap crack for the moderators?
If anybody knows about (and makes the equipment for) making holes in cases for electrical and electronic gear, it's Greenlee.
Check out http://www.greenlee.textron.com/products/holemakin g.html
One place that carries them is Mouser
I'm not sure where to tell you to find them overseas (relative to my U.S. mainland location), but check with any amateur radio operators you can find, ask radio-television repair shops where they buy their parts and supplies, stuff like that.
You'll be able to tell by the price that Greenlee stuff is designed to be used much more often than once or twice, so maybe you can modify cases for other people in your situation and get some of your money back.
Good luck, e-mail me if I can help (except with paying for them, of course :-)
Not only is the above post about smart tags not off-topic, it should have been modded up as both funny and insightful.