Assuming that you really are ignorant here (not stupid, just not yet informed on the particular topic under discussion), or that other's reading this are, there's an old saying/proverb/parable/old wives tale/whatever about boiling frogs. If you stick one in a pan of boiling water he'll do his best to jump out, same as would you or I. If you stick one in a pan of room temperature water and slowly raise the heat under the pan, he'll sit there not realizing anything is wrong and eventually cook to death. Don't know if it's really true or not, but the concept of gradually imposing something undesirable so that you don't realise that it's being done until it's too late is very real and happens all the time.
Drives aren't air-tight, they have a little superfine filter that lets the air pressure inside and outside equalize. If you freeze the drive, the moisture in the air inside the drive will condense. Probably not a good thing.
What freezing does is contract all the metal parts, and of course different metals contract different amounts, so this changes the physical location of them relative to one another, breaking the "stiction" bond.
You can accomplish the same thing in the other direction by causing all the metal parts to expand (at different amounts for different metals) by heatng the drive. Just set it over the vents on top of a monitor for a few hours and let it slowly bake. Disconnect the drive from the computer and all electrical connectors first, of course. After it's good and warm, take it off of the monitor and let it cool. Set it on a flat surface and play "spin the bottle". The heads will move with the body but the platters can spin independently, and will, which will break any remaining adherence between the heads and the platters.
Sometmes this method will not only let you rescue your data, but return the drive to good operating condition and let you keep on using it for another year or two or three.
Also, this method keeps the heads and/or platters from bouncing up and down in the vertical plane and only causes them to move relative to each other in the horizontal plane, which, of course, they are designed to do.
I've had the best luck not having problems in the first place with Maxtors and Western Digitals, the worst with Conners, and Quantums and Seagates somewhere in the middle. That's with the drives themselves. What MS software does to the data I don't blame the hardware for. There's nothing quite like having to hex edit 8.4 G:-(
C'mon now. Radio DJs don't make the kind of money that lets them indulge in all the latest fads like scooters. They borrowed it from a rich relative when their old Pinto or Vega broke down (again).
Conclusive evidence that the moderation system is totally hosed is that the above has been up for almost half a day without being modded up as informative, interesting, or insightful.
I hope you aren't laboring under the misapprehension that any of those elements you cite, or even the combination of them, are something that Stern was the first, or even one of the first, to do.
As Paradise_Pete pointed out in comment #261 the contraction was of "it has", not "it is", however the sic (Latin for "thus", as in "Thus did I find this written, so don't blame me for accurately quoting someone else's mistake.") should have immediately followed, in parentheses, the alleged mistake and not have been placed at the end of the sentence leaving the reader unclear as to exactly to what it refers.
As far as that monkey is concerned, it is Dave's or Microsoft's. Either way, be sure to clean up after it. And the chicken, too.
As far as using the letter s at the end of a word to form the plural, to create the possessive, and for contractions involving "is" or "has", the responsible parties should have been ashamed at creating such a linguistic and typographic minefield.
Amen, brother. I spent a lot of years making the proverbial "$50 a week and all the records you can eat".
As far as major market salaries are concerned, it may have changed now, but about 20 years ago I saw a survey in one of the trade mags and except for a few big names (Imus, Kid Leo, like that) even the major market talent wasn't hauling down very big bucks relative to cost of living and salaries in other lines of work in whichever market they worked in.
What you really need is a way to tell which internet listener is located where geographically and tailor the spot break content accordingly. (I can hear your IT people groaning now.) Sort of the radio version of the televised baseball games where one or more of the signs along the outfield wall gets different ads digitally imposed depending on which city the broadcast is being viewed in.
If I remember correctly they only run the Arbs in big enough markets and smaller ones get their ratings from another outtfit whose name doesn't spring to mind at the moment. MediaStat or some such.
Just a few moments before getting far enough down the thread to read your post I sent the following email to AFTRA (and was looking for a good post nearer the top than the bottom to attach it to:-) ).
There seems to be some confusion as to exactly why radio stations are discontinuing their internet "simulcasts". Does AFTRA represent announcers, i.e., DJs, and is it asking the stations for more money for them, or is it asking for more money for the voice talent used in producing advertising, which is usually recorded and then sent to advertising agencies who then send dubs to the stations they buy time from. Why shouldn't the advertising agencies (who control who is or isn't hired to be in a particular ad) be the ones to pay the actors more instead of the radio stations who have no control over the creation of the ad. Do radio stations who simulcast on the internet get to charge the clients who are buying the air time more for the time than if they don't simulcast? Does the guy running the car lot in Hartford or Phoenix really feel that getting "airplay" for his commercial on somebody's computer in Tallahassee or Des Moines is worth paying extra for? Thank you in advance for a prompt, informative reply.
Perhaps businesses in Des Moines might still benefit from your hearing of their ads (you might buy something from them when you go back to visit, etc.), but for the most part I can't see where there's any great value added for local businesses when their ad is heard in some other media market far, far away. Perhaps I'm wrong, I last worked in broadcasting a couple or three years before commercial radio via the internet amounted to anything, but I can just hear the local merchants saying "I'm paying extra for what?"
I was expecting a funny, not an insightful, but us kw's'll take it anyway we can get it. That extra point actually bumped my karma back up from 44 to 45. Too bad that wasn't going on when I got stung by 20 or so down mods, but got no points from 30 or 40 up mods. Oh well.
You know it's bad enough that you can't use AMD or Intel in the same motherboard anymore, and I wonder if the hardware companies are happy about that or not, but now it's getting to where upgrading your motherboard with a better CPU is going to be an exercise in futility. I wonder how soon we're going to see motherboard, power supply and case form factors only compatible with certain CPUs from certain companies, not to mention all the overtime work they're going to do to make your current RAM useless.
Wait'll they find out that, according to an article in The Register the other day, Pentium IV prices are coming down big time and that they just lost a big chunk of re-sale or trade-in value.
Nowadays it seems that it's the place where artistic (or allegedly artistic) works used to go. Don't look for Mickey Mouse to show up there any century soon.
Government employees who violate the privacy protections promised by the Bureau of the Census get to go to jail. Anybody think Microsoft and their accomplices in this will stand idly by while Congress passes laws that protect our info with jail for the humans and financial ruin for the corporations?
It's called "Hailstorm" 'cause of the hailstorm of targeted spam that you'll be subjected to from Microsoft's "Enterprise Partners", or whatever they decide to call them.
Whether the technology behind this particular scheme is workable or not, it illustrates the stupidity of auctioning spectrum instead of leasing it. You never know when another, perhaps better use for a particular chunk of spectrum is going to come along, including uses that benefit the public without providing an opportunity for some business to make a profit, so that the government will need to reclaim that particular chunk of bandwidth. If it's leased, it's a lot less of a problem than having to institute condemnation proceedings in an area (unreal estate?) where that concept has never existed before.
Didn't know there were any other Slashdotters in town except the guy who went up to New Bern when Coastalnet bought out toddalan. Did they ever get the VR trainer for the Osprey installed out there? I was out there a couple of summers ago but forget the building number.
I get modded up a time or two per week but it doesn't gain me any points. I do lose points when modded down, and apparently when one of my mods gets meta-modded "unfair", but having high karma doesn't seem to mean much anymore anyway. Don't know why anybody worries about preserving it.
Are you sure that the pilot panicked? If he really had, that Osprey might well have crashed on my house (which air traffic between Camp Lejune and the New River Air Station passes over all the time) instead of a few miles away in Hoffman Forest.
A story in yesterday or today's (Raleigh, N.C.) News and Observer (the people who started Nando), and possibly in the local fish wrapper as well, indicates that the military knew about the problem with the wiring bundle rubbing against the hydraulic lines 18 months ago. The military may be at fault here, but not the aircrew.
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Not enough computer-illiterate relatives to keep you busy? :-)
Assuming that you really are ignorant here (not stupid, just not yet informed on the particular topic under discussion), or that other's reading this are, there's an old saying/proverb/parable/old wives tale/whatever about boiling frogs. If you stick one in a pan of boiling water he'll do his best to jump out, same as would you or I. If you stick one in a pan of room temperature water and slowly raise the heat under the pan, he'll sit there not realizing anything is wrong and eventually cook to death. Don't know if it's really true or not, but the concept of gradually imposing something undesirable so that you don't realise that it's being done until it's too late is very real and happens all the time.
Are you still using electrical current? Don't you know photons are what's happenin' now?
What freezing does is contract all the metal parts, and of course different metals contract different amounts, so this changes the physical location of them relative to one another, breaking the "stiction" bond.
You can accomplish the same thing in the other direction by causing all the metal parts to expand (at different amounts for different metals) by heatng the drive. Just set it over the vents on top of a monitor for a few hours and let it slowly bake. Disconnect the drive from the computer and all electrical connectors first, of course. After it's good and warm, take it off of the monitor and let it cool. Set it on a flat surface and play "spin the bottle". The heads will move with the body but the platters can spin independently, and will, which will break any remaining adherence between the heads and the platters.
Sometmes this method will not only let you rescue your data, but return the drive to good operating condition and let you keep on using it for another year or two or three.
Also, this method keeps the heads and/or platters from bouncing up and down in the vertical plane and only causes them to move relative to each other in the horizontal plane, which, of course, they are designed to do.
I've had the best luck not having problems in the first place with Maxtors and Western Digitals, the worst with Conners, and Quantums and Seagates somewhere in the middle. That's with the drives themselves. What MS software does to the data I don't blame the hardware for. There's nothing quite like having to hex edit 8.4 G :-(
C'mon now. Radio DJs don't make the kind of money that lets them indulge in all the latest fads like scooters. They borrowed it from a rich relative when their old Pinto or Vega broke down (again).
When record companies pay radio stations to play their records it's called payola. It's not legal.
Conclusive evidence that the moderation system is totally hosed is that the above has been up for almost half a day without being modded up as informative, interesting, or insightful.
I hope you aren't laboring under the misapprehension that any of those elements you cite, or even the combination of them, are something that Stern was the first, or even one of the first, to do.
As far as that monkey is concerned, it is Dave's or Microsoft's. Either way, be sure to clean up after it. And the chicken, too.
As far as using the letter s at the end of a word to form the plural, to create the possessive, and for contractions involving "is" or "has", the responsible parties should have been ashamed at creating such a linguistic and typographic minefield.
As far as major market salaries are concerned, it may have changed now, but about 20 years ago I saw a survey in one of the trade mags and except for a few big names (Imus, Kid Leo, like that) even the major market talent wasn't hauling down very big bucks relative to cost of living and salaries in other lines of work in whichever market they worked in.
If I remember correctly they only run the Arbs in big enough markets and smaller ones get their ratings from another outtfit whose name doesn't spring to mind at the moment. MediaStat or some such.
There seems to be some confusion as to exactly why radio stations are discontinuing their internet "simulcasts". Does AFTRA represent announcers, i.e., DJs, and is it asking the stations for more money for them, or is it asking for more money for the voice talent used in producing advertising, which is usually recorded and then sent to advertising agencies who then send dubs to the stations they buy time from. Why shouldn't the advertising agencies (who control who is or isn't hired to be in a particular ad) be the ones to pay the actors more instead of the radio stations who have no control over the creation of the ad. Do radio stations who simulcast on the internet get to charge the clients who are buying the air time more for the time than if they don't simulcast? Does the guy running the car lot in Hartford or Phoenix really feel that getting "airplay" for his commercial on somebody's computer in Tallahassee or Des Moines is worth paying extra for? Thank you in advance for a prompt, informative reply.
Perhaps businesses in Des Moines might still benefit from your hearing of their ads (you might buy something from them when you go back to visit, etc.), but for the most part I can't see where there's any great value added for local businesses when their ad is heard in some other media market far, far away. Perhaps I'm wrong, I last worked in broadcasting a couple or three years before commercial radio via the internet amounted to anything, but I can just hear the local merchants saying "I'm paying extra for what?"
Or was that supposed to be NBT (Next Big Thing)?
You know it's bad enough that you can't use AMD or Intel in the same motherboard anymore, and I wonder if the hardware companies are happy about that or not, but now it's getting to where upgrading your motherboard with a better CPU is going to be an exercise in futility. I wonder how soon we're going to see motherboard, power supply and case form factors only compatible with certain CPUs from certain companies, not to mention all the overtime work they're going to do to make your current RAM useless.
Anybody want to buy some 5volt DIMMs?
Intel to cut up to 60 per cent off P4 prices
Nowadays it seems that it's the place where artistic (or allegedly artistic) works used to go. Don't look for Mickey Mouse to show up there any century soon.
How did it work? Magic."
How silly of me to think it was capacitance or inductance or both.
If you count stuff produced for in-house use instead of just what's offered for sale to the general public I think the Xerox Alto got there first.
Government employees who violate the privacy protections promised by the Bureau of the Census get to go to jail. Anybody think Microsoft and their accomplices in this will stand idly by while Congress passes laws that protect our info with jail for the humans and financial ruin for the corporations?
It's called "Hailstorm" 'cause of the hailstorm of targeted spam that you'll be subjected to from Microsoft's "Enterprise Partners", or whatever they decide to call them.
Do thermonuclear booby traps count?
Whether the technology behind this particular scheme is workable or not, it illustrates the stupidity of auctioning spectrum instead of leasing it. You never know when another, perhaps better use for a particular chunk of spectrum is going to come along, including uses that benefit the public without providing an opportunity for some business to make a profit, so that the government will need to reclaim that particular chunk of bandwidth. If it's leased, it's a lot less of a problem than having to institute condemnation proceedings in an area (unreal estate?) where that concept has never existed before.
Didn't know there were any other Slashdotters in town except the guy who went up to New Bern when Coastalnet bought out toddalan. Did they ever get the VR trainer for the Osprey installed out there? I was out there a couple of summers ago but forget the building number.
I get modded up a time or two per week but it doesn't gain me any points. I do lose points when modded down, and apparently when one of my mods gets meta-modded "unfair", but having high karma doesn't seem to mean much anymore anyway. Don't know why anybody worries about preserving it.
A story in yesterday or today's (Raleigh, N.C.) News and Observer (the people who started Nando), and possibly in the local fish wrapper as well, indicates that the military knew about the problem with the wiring bundle rubbing against the hydraulic lines 18 months ago. The military may be at fault here, but not the aircrew.