Since I hate almost everything you post, it's only fair that I note that this particular post, though an off-topic troll, is still funny enough to deserve positive mod points as well. See, you don't have to be vulgar or annoying to be witty.
E=electromotive force (measured in Volts)in Ohm's Law (although I've never figured out why current in Amperes is represented by I). In E=MC^2 the E stands for energy, measured in somethingortheothers, but not necessarily electrical energy.
"In particular, history and other time-based attributes will become more important. When did I last touch this object? What other things were I doing at the time?" I thought Microsoft already had a way to turn a 1K text file into 10K of overhead.
And somewhat more off-topic, from the reputation manager link he gave - "If a few Belgians become sick from drinking a soft drink, then the manufacturer may lose billions on Wall Street five minutes later. Another reason reputation managers will contribute to highly improved product quality and customer service." Am I the only one who thinks this sounds like a frighteningly easy way to use rumours to manipulate stock prices?
To bring an informative AC post (#164) up to a 1, I hereby quote "hate to tell you this but its not a controller problem. The problem is a nice little program given you by the kind folks at gateway called ez-drive. a drive manager blindly installed on all gateway pc's. makes the drive useless without a fdisk/mbr followed by an fdisk, follwed by a format. i spent days with this before i discovered the source of the problem." Can anybody tell me why post #72 is an AC but gets a +1 without any indication of moderation?
The difference is that the 10 Ohm would let 10 times as much current flow, which might not be desirable. By the way, Ohm is capitalized, as it is in honor of one of the many whose contributions to science allow us to have these wonderful playthings.
Like I said, I'm sure you already thought of this but just in case, do you need to disable your mobo's regular primary ide port or otherwise free up an IRQ and/or DMA ?
"The ATA66 controllers are cheap (esp. compared to the RAID controller)..." I thought that was the whole point, getting a raid controller at the much lower price of the ATA66. I assumed moving the pull-up (pull-down?) resistor from R10 to R9 was to tell the chip to think of itself as a raid controller instead of as a 66. Where would you attach a capacitor and why?
Because you didn't make it clear that you were using the word as your reaction to the story rather than just using the word to be vulgar in public (which seems to be the motive of a increasing number of posters anymore). You should have said "I really don't have anything to say about this story other than the subject heading.".
persona non grata--person you aren't grateful to see. Going beyond guessing for a moment, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, which happened to be a few feet from me 'cause I haven't gotten around to putting it back in the bookcase in the other room, says that "persona grata" is an adjective meaning "Fully acceptable or welcome, especially to a foreign government", so persona non grata would be person not acceptable or welcome. For example: "Ever since I threw up on the pool table in the middle of the tournament, I've been persona non grata at the bar I used to hang out in." (made up example, complete with grammatical error))
You should have that prediction signed with your real name, dated, notarized, and locked away somewhere so that you can bring it out and say "I told you so!". If I were currently moderating I'd give you an "insightful". The high access Time-Warner Cable is interested in is only their access to your wallet.
The purpose of sites like those is to get people to look at the ads and to access the parent company's main organ (cable channel or newspaper) in the future where they will be exposed to further ads. That's how they make a living. The purpose of Slashdot? That'll need an article and thread all its own.
In order to let AOL use Time-Warner Cable's physical infrastructure to offer cable access without some other government agency jumping on them for being a monopoly, they have to open it up to ISP's other than AOL. They'll still find a way to make the situation more favorable for AOL than anybody else, followed by the other biggies (MSN, Mindspring, etc), with the local mom and pop ISP and their customers getting screwed the most, although the cable company's desire to keep the phone company out of the video (TV, not picture phone) delivery business will be one of the jokers in the deck.
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My guess would rely heavily on the use of the word "adolescent".
Since I hate almost everything you post, it's only fair that I note that this particular post, though an off-topic troll, is still funny enough to deserve positive mod points as well. See, you don't have to be vulgar or annoying to be witty.
Ya gotta get up pretty early in the morning to find a first post that actually says something worthwhile instead of "First Post".
No, I think they will have cooled off by then.
Are you sure you don't mean "Jane, his wife" rather than "daughter Judy"?
ApostropheColon is humourous and intelligent. All the grits stuff is just sophmoric.
"it's the coolness that counts, not the practicality!"
Congratulations, jd. You've just written yourself a perfect sig line for yourself.
E=electromotive force (measured in Volts)in Ohm's Law (although I've never figured out why current in Amperes is represented by I).
In E=MC^2 the E stands for energy, measured in somethingortheothers, but not necessarily electrical energy.
I thought Microsoft already had a way to turn a 1K text file into 10K of overhead.
And somewhat more off-topic, from the reputation manager link he gave -
"If a few Belgians become sick from drinking a soft drink, then the manufacturer may lose billions on Wall Street five minutes later. Another reason reputation managers will contribute to highly improved product quality and customer service." Am I the only one who thinks this sounds like a frighteningly easy way to use rumours to manipulate stock prices?
To bring an informative AC post (#164) up to a 1, I hereby quote /mbr followed by an fdisk, follwed by a format. i spent days with this before i discovered the source of the problem."
"hate to tell you this but its not a controller problem. The problem is a nice little program given you by the kind folks at gateway called ez-drive. a drive manager blindly installed on all gateway pc's. makes the drive useless without a fdisk
Can anybody tell me why post #72 is an AC but gets a +1 without any indication of moderation?
Still trying to get people to look at that picture of your face?
The difference is that the 10 Ohm would let 10 times as much current flow, which might not be desirable.
By the way, Ohm is capitalized, as it is in honor of one of the many whose contributions to science allow us to have these wonderful playthings.
Like I said, I'm sure you already thought of this but just in case, do you need to disable your mobo's regular primary ide port or otherwise free up an IRQ and/or DMA ?
"The ATA66 controllers are cheap (esp. compared to the RAID controller)..."
I thought that was the whole point, getting a raid controller at the much lower price of the ATA66.
I assumed moving the pull-up (pull-down?) resistor from R10 to R9 was to tell the chip to think of itself as a raid controller instead of as a 66. Where would you attach a capacitor and why?
Go to Google and search for Tucker Automobile. You should find enough to keep you busy the rest of the day.
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Not to mention Slippery Rock and Hotchkiss.
Remember "Nixon is a Cox shucker"? (referring to Archibald Cox).
Because you didn't make it clear that you were using the word as your reaction to the story rather than just using the word to be vulgar in public (which seems to be the motive of a increasing number of posters anymore). You should have said "I really don't have anything to say about this story other than the subject heading.".
persona non grata--person you aren't grateful to see.
Going beyond guessing for a moment, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, which happened to be a few feet from me 'cause I haven't gotten around to putting it back in the bookcase in the other room, says that "persona grata" is an adjective meaning "Fully acceptable or welcome, especially to a foreign government", so persona non grata would be person not acceptable or welcome. For example: "Ever since I threw up on the pool table in the middle of the tournament, I've been persona non grata at the bar I used to hang out in." (made up example, complete with grammatical error))
"Combining the Slashdot Effect with the CNBC Effect" will result in -insert your favorite bad outcome here-
You should have that prediction signed with your real name, dated, notarized, and locked away somewhere so that you can bring it out and say "I told you so!". If I were currently moderating I'd give you an "insightful". The high access Time-Warner Cable is interested in is only their access to your wallet.
The purpose of sites like those is to get people to look at the ads and to access the parent company's main organ (cable channel or newspaper) in the future where they will be exposed to further ads. That's how they make a living.
The purpose of Slashdot? That'll need an article and thread all its own.
Yeah, who'da thought Barrons would be branching out into light fiction.
In order to let AOL use Time-Warner Cable's physical infrastructure to offer cable access without some other government agency jumping on them for being a monopoly, they have to open it up to ISP's other than AOL. They'll still find a way to make the situation more favorable for AOL than anybody else, followed by the other biggies (MSN, Mindspring, etc), with the local mom and pop ISP and their customers getting screwed the most, although the cable company's desire to keep the phone company out of the video (TV, not picture phone) delivery business will be one of the jokers in the deck.