Speaking of PETA.COM, shouldn't the judge have yanked its non-profit tax status for having registered as a "dot com" instead of a "dot org" in the first place?:)
Seriously, didn't PETA have anyone on the ball enough to have registered Peta.org first? The other guy only got it in '95.
S/he's probably a starving student because her/his college forced her/him to buy the laptop. And apparently what little money was left went for "expensive stereo speakers and sub-woofers".
The 8-track is a thrift shop/yard sale bargain with an amp as good as a lot of sound cards, but in the future it'll be a valuable nostalgia collector's item 'cause there won't be many left.
"I used to think that IBM's 9ES series of 7200RPM drives were quiet, until I recently bought and installed a more recent revision and noticed that it was no longer the case..."
You should have returned them for a full refund and made sure that IBM heard about it. If the previous models lead you to expect quiet operation and you made your purchase on that basis then you didn't get what you paid for. If you don't make some noise about wanting quiet products and not paying for anything else, manufacturers won't feel the need to provide them. Besides, if those drives are noisier now, it's likely not a sign that the quality of workmanship and materials has gone up since the previous version.
As others have pointed out, one name for these is Cannon plugs, but that's the name of one of the first companies to make them, artillery isn't involved. They're also known as XLR connectors and are fairly standard in professional audio for balanced lines (that's where you have 2 wires in addition to the grounded shield).
"thermal heat transfer compound" (what's the difference between thermal heat and any other kind?) is often refered to as "heat sink grease", not because of any lubricatng properties (I don't think it has any, it's actually kind of sticky), but because it goes between a semiconductor's casing and its heat sink (that metal thing with fins)and looks kinda like some sort of grease. The guy who fixes your TV or VCR can probably sell you a dab, or you can buy a tube from Radio Shack if there aren't any *real* electronics parts houses nearby. Any kind of tape attached to a fan is probably just there to keep the fan attached to the heat sink (faster and cheaper on the assembly line than screws), but you aren't looking to transfer heat to the fan body, you just want it (the fan) to move air past the heat sink fins. Or the tape might be to keep the heat sink attached to the semiconductor's casing (cheaper and faster than some sort of spring clip arrangement). For best results, some way of keeping the "greased" heat sink tight against the semiconductor's casing is necessary. In some cases the heat sink is epoxied to the semiconductor's casing, which is probably best left undisturbed unless you can afford a new CPU and don't mind getting stabbed by whatever you use to pry them apart when it slips.
"That scares me. Does electricity actually work that way?"
The way electricity works is that the difference between 12 volts and 5 volts is 7 volts, not 9.
But seriously, the +5V is 7V more negative (from the point of view of the +12V) than the +12V. This presupposes that both use the same common point ("ground"). Voltage, which is the "pressure" that causes current to flow, is the difference in potential between two points, so Point A can be negative with respect to Point B but positive with respect to Point C.
"...my car is currently registered in my dad's name."
If it's registered in your father's name, then, legally, it's his car and not yours and the DMV is perfectly correct in not issuing plates for his car to you or any one else except him.
Two years ago would be May of 1998. I've only been here since October of 1998 and my user # is less than half what yours is. Too bad you aren't as good with a calendar as you are with a computer:-) But seriously, the Slashdot crowd is a lot of people from a wide variety of bakgrounds so there are probably a lot of them who are learning something from this discussion, and many of them probably consider the discussions where you learn something to be remedial from their point of view. When you have something for everyone, everything isn't going to be to the tastes of the one.
...could MS's implanting of Outlook in nearly everything actually be more damaging than their inclusion of IE in DOS?
I think IE only runs in the version of DOS with all the little pictures and the bright, pretty colors. You know, Windows.:-)
But seriously, some guy from Symantec was just on the tube saying that anti-virus software wasn't optional anymore, that you had to have it (of course *he* would say that), but as I waited in vain for him to go on to say that it was now as necessary as the operating system itself, I suddenly wondered if Microsoft had been planning to make an anti-virus program, for which you would have to download regular updates at a price, an "essential part of the operating system", and then had to back off to avoid further raising the ire of the DOJ.
Belo's 17 television stations are also considering a version of the technology that uses sounds instead of symbols. To open a Web page, a television program could emit an audible tone that would send a signal to a computer that was connected to the television via audio cables.
Kinda left out the part where you decide whether or not you *want* to do this, didn't they? Or is this just a way to simultaneously generate page hits and track your TV viewing?
In order to sell out, you have to convince "the establishment" that you have something worth buying, so you may be off the hook on that one.
I mean, really, you used to work for CBS (which is currently being swallowed by Viacom or the other way around), but you don't even understand that "must carry, must pay" rules that the broadcasters bribed Congress into passing mean that it's not entirely the fault of Satan's little helpers at Time-Warner cable that Satan's other little helpers at ABC-Disney expect the cable company to pay even more (passing the cost on to cable customers of course) to the local broadcast stations (who use the airwaves that *we* own) to be allowed to deliver to cable subscribers the exact same programming (and advertising) that those subscribers could get for free if they used an antenna instead of paying the cable company to act as an antenna for them.
By the way, whose that pleasant, intelligent chap who plays you on C-SPAN?
x10 allows electronically operated (i.e., you can program a computer to do it or use a computer to do it) remote control of all sorts of stuff with your house wiring serving as the transmission medium. I can certainly see how this could be useful to a handicapped person.
How is anybody going to be able to use Napster to tell that she has a Metallica song on her hard drive if that's not the song she submitted to Napster as available for download? Unless Napster somehow makes her whole hard drive viewable by others, in which case it's a bit much to complain about privacy invasion by Metallica.
I live in Eastern N.C. where we've already experienced "a little flooding" last fall. If you'd been here for that you'd be taking a very different tone.
If the original site owners screwed up, sue 'em for emotional distress and all that good stuff for being so nasty to you. If NSI screwed up, you and the original site owners should both sue them for everything your lawyers can dream up. Then you should sue the original site owners for being so nasty to you. After all, what if their site had been bought by someone actively looking to hurt them instead of a kind soul such as yourself?
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Most, however, say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Apparently they too are mistaken (as was I), as Bartlett's has it thus:
Imitation is the sincerest flattery. C. C. Colton (1780-1832): The Lacon.
No matter what the ideology, people who feel that they have to run other people's lives always wind up acting the same.
Seriously, didn't PETA have anyone on the ball enough to have registered Peta.org first? The other guy only got it in '95.
The 8-track is a thrift shop/yard sale bargain with an amp as good as a lot of sound cards, but in the future it'll be a valuable nostalgia collector's item 'cause there won't be many left.
Actually I think it's tied for ugliest with the Barbie PC (same case, different paint job).
installed a more recent revision and noticed that it was no longer the case..."
You should have returned them for a full refund and made sure that IBM heard about it.
If the previous models lead you to expect quiet operation and you made your purchase on that basis then you didn't get what you paid for.
If you don't make some noise about wanting quiet products and not paying for anything else, manufacturers won't feel the need to provide them.
Besides, if those drives are noisier now, it's likely not a sign that the quality of workmanship and materials has gone up since the previous version.
As others have pointed out, one name for these is Cannon plugs, but that's the name of one of the first companies to make them, artillery isn't involved. They're also known as XLR connectors and are fairly standard in professional audio for balanced lines (that's where you have 2 wires in addition to the grounded shield).
Probably the hottest Pentiums were the first ones, the Socket 4 60 and 66 MHz chips with the epoxied-on heat sink.
Think minature waffle iron.
"thermal heat transfer compound" (what's the difference between thermal heat and any other kind?) is often refered to as "heat sink grease", not because of any lubricatng properties (I don't think it has any, it's actually kind of sticky), but because it goes between a semiconductor's casing and its heat sink (that metal thing with fins)and looks kinda like some sort of grease. The guy who fixes your TV or VCR can probably sell you a dab, or you can buy a tube from Radio Shack if there aren't any *real* electronics parts houses nearby.
Any kind of tape attached to a fan is probably just there to keep the fan attached to the heat sink (faster and cheaper on the assembly line than screws), but you aren't looking to transfer heat to the fan body, you just want it (the fan) to move air past the heat sink fins.
Or the tape might be to keep the heat sink attached to the semiconductor's casing (cheaper and faster than some sort of spring clip arrangement).
For best results, some way of keeping the "greased" heat sink tight against the semiconductor's casing is necessary.
In some cases the heat sink is epoxied to the semiconductor's casing, which is probably best left undisturbed unless you can afford a new CPU and don't mind getting stabbed by whatever you use to pry them apart when it slips.
The way electricity works is that the difference between 12 volts and 5 volts is 7 volts, not 9.
But seriously, the +5V is 7V more negative (from the point of view of the +12V) than the +12V. This presupposes that both use the same common point ("ground"). Voltage, which is the "pressure" that causes current to flow, is the difference in potential between two points, so Point A can be negative with respect to Point B but positive with respect to Point C.
That blank space at the top must make the diplomas look strange, or do they use the symbol that Prince recently ceased to need?
Would that be like the needs I suspect were being addressed by the unsolicited e-mails I recently got about "hot escorts"?
If it's registered in your father's name, then, legally, it's his car and not yours and the DMV is perfectly correct in not issuing plates for his car to you or any one else except him.
Two years ago would be May of 1998. I've only been here since October of 1998 and my user # is less than half what yours is. Too bad you aren't as good with a calendar as you are with a computer :-)
But seriously, the Slashdot crowd is a lot of people from a wide variety of bakgrounds so there are probably a lot of them who are learning something from this discussion, and many of them probably consider the discussions where you learn something to be remedial from their point of view.
When you have something for everyone, everything isn't going to be to the tastes of the one.
I think IE only runs in the version of DOS with all the little pictures and the bright, pretty colors. You know, Windows. :-)
But seriously, some guy from Symantec was just on the tube saying that anti-virus software wasn't optional anymore, that you had to have it (of course *he* would say that), but as I waited in vain for him to go on to say that it was now as necessary as the operating system itself, I suddenly wondered if Microsoft had been planning to make an anti-virus program, for which you would have to download regular updates at a price, an "essential part of the operating system", and then had to back off to avoid further raising the ire of the DOJ.
Kinda left out the part where you decide whether or not you *want* to do this, didn't they? Or is this just a way to simultaneously generate page hits and track your TV viewing?
Don't worry, I'm sure she doesn't think any less of you than she already did. Mostly 'cause it wouldn't be possible.
In order to sell out, you have to convince "the establishment" that you have something worth buying, so you may be off the hook on that one.
I mean, really, you used to work for CBS (which is currently being swallowed by Viacom or the other way around), but you don't even understand that "must carry, must pay" rules that the broadcasters bribed Congress into passing mean that it's not entirely the fault of Satan's little helpers at Time-Warner cable that Satan's other little helpers at ABC-Disney expect the cable company to pay even more (passing the cost on to cable customers of course) to the local broadcast stations (who use the airwaves that *we* own) to be allowed to deliver to cable subscribers the exact same programming (and advertising) that those subscribers could get for free if they used an antenna instead of paying the cable company to act as an antenna for them.
By the way, whose that pleasant, intelligent chap who plays you on C-SPAN?
x10 allows electronically operated (i.e., you can program a computer to do it or use a computer to do it) remote control of all sorts of stuff with your house wiring serving as the transmission medium. I can certainly see how this could be useful to a handicapped person.
Don't see how this makes his post redundant, though.
How is anybody going to be able to use Napster to tell that she has a Metallica song on her hard drive if that's not the song she submitted to Napster as available for download? Unless Napster somehow makes her whole hard drive viewable by others, in which case it's a bit much to complain about privacy invasion by Metallica.
Apparently Katz doesn't even respect his audience here enough to proofread this drivel before posting it.
I live in Eastern N.C. where we've already experienced "a little flooding" last fall. If you'd been here for that you'd be taking a very different tone.
Even if some of those "peans" are "Euro-peans"? Or did you mean "peons"?
If the original site owners screwed up, sue 'em for emotional distress and all that good stuff for being so nasty to you.
If NSI screwed up, you and the original site owners should both sue them for everything your lawyers can dream up.
Then you should sue the original site owners for being so nasty to you.
After all, what if their site had been bought by someone actively looking to hurt them instead of a kind soul such as yourself?