Well I mean it wouldn't be hard to change the wording or style programmatically - and more importantly, to trick the spambot into thinking it had posted the comment. That way nothing weird would show up in logs, and it'd seem as though it's business as usual.
Has a lot more to do with the quality of the glass than the size - the size tends to have to do more with how fast you want the shot to be (smaller aperture number/"bigger aperture" -> much bigger lens with normal optics).
The quality of the glass though...there's a reason why the lenses for a Hasselblad H3 are $4k for the same "version" of a $1k 35mm lens. Resolving power, for one.
Actually, the Indexing Service has been in Windows for a while now. I've used it before trying to find stuff in messenger logs, etc.
The problem? It's ridiculously slow, direct access to the Indexer is impossible to find, and the normal find-files dialog is so poorly designed that you can't get the best possible use out of the index that was built!
It's all a little silly, but yes, it was in the OS.
This was actually addressed in a later book by Clarke - I think it might have been 2061 (there were four books).
Basically, a bunch of Chinese astronauts got chased around by some giant vine-critter that came out of the ice. Read the book, the rest of the series is actually interesting.
As with anything, ask to speak with a higher-tier representative. Escalation's the key to these matters.
There are some very bright people manning some phones at DirecTV, you simply have to get in touch with them by running through a fence of the usual CSRs. Other than that first-line-of-BOFH-defense folk, I've always been very happy with how flexible they're willing to be on many issues.
It's from the way the silicon ingots are drawn and cooled. Slicing it is a lot simpler than wasting a ton of possible product space making it square for a particularly OCD manager.
Bush fell off of the unit because it wasn't turned on in the first place. He never keyed the unit to power, nor switched it to what's called "Balance Mode" - most of the introductory material highlights this extremely well. He took it out of the box and then stood on it. You're also supposed to charge it before use to condition the batteries, which he also failed to do.
Also, "reverse torque" wouldn't cause him to fall -forward- unless he managed to have corrected it and somehow caused a wheel to spin out on flat, regular asphalt, which is nigh impossible.
I'm honestly not too concerned with this recall - it seems like it happened when people first started to learn how to use the units, where they would get freaked out by the unit tilting back to warn them of the unit's speed limitations, and then stepped off. Jump right back on, and bad things -can- happen, apparently.
I can tell you the only way to go for an upconverting DVD player is the OPPO with the Faroudja DCDi chipset. We use one with a 32" BRAVIA WXGA panel at our college apartment, thing's unbelievable, even with source like the Office Space or Sideways DVDs. With Superbit the results are very nice - beats out even Pioneer units I've seen.
The downside? The OPPO only puts out the upconverted video on DVI - and I believe the SXRD, like other Sony sets, has the shortsighted wonder of only one HDMI input. So you'll be down $200 for the player and another $400 for an all-digital HDMI switch.
Who cares? Half the fun is to get out there and enjoy yourself and push the limits of whatever it is you're driving.
I've got a G55 AMG that I'd love to tool around a track with, just to see if it would even be possible to do it (*chuckle*). Giant brickish SUVs like that don't even go over 135 considering that it has a Cd of like 0.54-0.58. Mad fun though : )
Cheers to that! I'm a student at WPI, and I use my 3.4 GHz Prescott running SETI@home and World Community Grid to keep my processor maxed out all the time - I haven't had to turn the heat on at all, and it's 30-40F outside. In fact, I have to keep the window open, otherwise it jumps above 75 real fast.
Also, the amount of a room you can heat with your P4 box depends on the case and airflow - I use a CMStacker with tons of fans, so it moves plenty of air to warm this place up - a 480W power supply doesn't hurt either : P
If by "better/faster ways to find more porn" you mean for them to donate their time to public (or private for that matter) schools in their area to help bolster their information technology resources, I'd agree.
In my opinion as a technophile highschooler who has done a lot with IT-related stuff, I'd suggest two things:
1) As I just said, donate your time to local schools. Personally I think your time is best spent on schools with great infrastructure but with bad implementation - show them how to use the equipment, and make sure the students use it, too.
2) Help students with grassroots technology efforts. This may mean getting in touch with the local school district's department of Academic Services (here in Miami-Dade they call it the Advanced Academic office) to throw yourself on their feet as internship mentors, or maybe just trying to assist students with projects somehow.
I think with the growing hardcore academic nature of a lot of the techies in school trying to focus on research or big projects, your assistance may be more useful than just your enthusiasm (although always mix the two - just one isn't all that helpful).
So get out there and help my fellow trodden highschoolers-in-arms!
Yeah, every single MB manufactured nowadays uses the SmartKey system (or the extended form using the prox-card-like "Keyless Go"). Quite a neat feature.
The way to steal a MB is to use the mechanical key - first disable the TeleAid antennas and the alarm, then you're pretty much home free. Although, any thief who steals a MB worth that time and effort should also know that the owner isn't dumb enough not to have LoJack or another system on it.
Distributed would be neat, but I have two other questions:
a) What about TeleAid? You mentioned it was a Mercedes-Benz...how old are we talking? We have a 2004 G-Class, and I know one of the big reasons we got TeleAid was for the recovery feature. Of course, that leads me to point b..
b) What about LoJack (or a similar product in the EU) or Smart Dots (the paint tags)? While I don't know if this is an A190 CDI we're talking about here or a S63 AMG, a car is a car - and a car is a 5-figure sum (sometimes six, proving my point even to a greater degree) of money on four (or more) wheels. We have LoJack on both of our cars (we're in the USA) because we know that being in Miami, we're minutes away from a major cargo port.
Best of luck in finding your car, laptop, and cell, my friend. I'll keep my eye out around here, although I have a feeling an EU MB won't be finding its way to a suburb of Miami in the USA.
Alrighty, time for me to chime in with discussions on well designed objects!
I have a real passion for good design as well as functionality and durability in anything I own or purchase, and usually what's in this cubicle (and the cubicle itself), as well as my office, reflect that rule.
As much as people might rant and/or rave that the Segway HT is a completely useless or fattening device even though I commute with one, heh, the fact is that it has to be one of the simplest and yet most attractive products from an industrial design perspective. It's entirely gray, with a preponderance of odd things, and yet the ID team managed to pull it off, and quite well I might add.
Then we have my own little monolith. My NetShelter VX 25U rack. APC did wonders with the server rack, imho. It was sitting in my living room for a good month while I set up my office, and during that time it wasn't really that much of an eyesore (yeah, maybe I'm just bizarre) - the folks over at APC had turned a lump of steel and aluminum into a piece of black-powder-coat art, albeit very professionally.
And the list goes on, but I can certainly say that proper design makes the difference between a buyer and a window-shopper.
This summer we decided that having a 1' deep cable pile over half of my bedroom wasn't a wise idea. So we renovated the old guest bedroom into an office for me. We quickly came to the conclusion that my bedroom was about "-" that close to an electrical fire as-is, so we made sure that there was enough E running to the room for peak power demand of all the systems.
We currently have one 15-amp circuit (120) and three 20-amp (120) circuits run in here. That's about 9 kW of power if I need it. I strongly recommend with all computing projects that you never, ever, ever scrimp on your electrical budget - it will serve you well.
Oh yeah, and major points for adding a battery backup - they own.
Seriously though, this leaves only the odd tribal languages of African (and perhaps South American?) tribes that are comprised entirely of clicks and gutteral sounds as not easily comprehended. Could this system's approach finally result in a Babelfish-like universality even for languages such as Chinese and Japanese? The added complexity makes it much more challenging for things like Babelfish, but if this system can do it, it's going to be a landfall discovery.
Anybody have any further research by this guy? I'm interested! Who knows, maybe I could have gotten a better grade in French thanks to this research...
I use a 2000FP as well. The beauty of high-end LCD panels like these is that their scaling hardware is a bit better than others, and you also have picture-in-picture.
Overall folks, get the highest resolution, nicest LCD you can find, and run it at a even multiple of the resolution. i.e. 800x600 for a 1600x1200 display (2x2 pixels to one)
Something I discovered is replacing soda (or in your case beer), with bottled water. It's just as convenient, and is more filling and actually serves a purpose.
Also, a high water intake (just as long as you don't start killing off your kidneys) will help to detox you a bit, always nice in cubeville.
Chances are it'll be a Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass Prison, and not a fun experience, but I could care less. The point is that I could blow up a bus full of kindergarteners and receive a lesser sentence than if I shared all of my hard drives, even on an open wi-fi node.
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Well I mean it wouldn't be hard to change the wording or style programmatically - and more importantly, to trick the spambot into thinking it had posted the comment. That way nothing weird would show up in logs, and it'd seem as though it's business as usual.
Has a lot more to do with the quality of the glass than the size - the size tends to have to do more with how fast you want the shot to be (smaller aperture number/"bigger aperture" -> much bigger lens with normal optics).
The quality of the glass though...there's a reason why the lenses for a Hasselblad H3 are $4k for the same "version" of a $1k 35mm lens. Resolving power, for one.
Actually, the Indexing Service has been in Windows for a while now. I've used it before trying to find stuff in messenger logs, etc.
The problem? It's ridiculously slow, direct access to the Indexer is impossible to find, and the normal find-files dialog is so poorly designed that you can't get the best possible use out of the index that was built!
It's all a little silly, but yes, it was in the OS.
You obviously don't watch Top Gear, do you...?
This was actually addressed in a later book by Clarke - I think it might have been 2061 (there were four books).
Basically, a bunch of Chinese astronauts got chased around by some giant vine-critter that came out of the ice. Read the book, the rest of the series is actually interesting.
You obviously forgot Florida and the Weird Magnet.
As with anything, ask to speak with a higher-tier representative. Escalation's the key to these matters.
There are some very bright people manning some phones at DirecTV, you simply have to get in touch with them by running through a fence of the usual CSRs. Other than that first-line-of-BOFH-defense folk, I've always been very happy with how flexible they're willing to be on many issues.
It's from the way the silicon ingots are drawn and cooled. Slicing it is a lot simpler than wasting a ton of possible product space making it square for a particularly OCD manager.
Bush fell off of the unit because it wasn't turned on in the first place. He never keyed the unit to power, nor switched it to what's called "Balance Mode" - most of the introductory material highlights this extremely well. He took it out of the box and then stood on it. You're also supposed to charge it before use to condition the batteries, which he also failed to do.
Also, "reverse torque" wouldn't cause him to fall -forward- unless he managed to have corrected it and somehow caused a wheel to spin out on flat, regular asphalt, which is nigh impossible.
I'm honestly not too concerned with this recall - it seems like it happened when people first started to learn how to use the units, where they would get freaked out by the unit tilting back to warn them of the unit's speed limitations, and then stepped off. Jump right back on, and bad things -can- happen, apparently.
-Jordan
I can tell you the only way to go for an upconverting DVD player is the OPPO with the Faroudja DCDi chipset. We use one with a 32" BRAVIA WXGA panel at our college apartment, thing's unbelievable, even with source like the Office Space or Sideways DVDs. With Superbit the results are very nice - beats out even Pioneer units I've seen.
The downside? The OPPO only puts out the upconverted video on DVI - and I believe the SXRD, like other Sony sets, has the shortsighted wonder of only one HDMI input. So you'll be down $200 for the player and another $400 for an all-digital HDMI switch.
Enjoy!
Who cares? Half the fun is to get out there and enjoy yourself and push the limits of whatever it is you're driving.
I've got a G55 AMG that I'd love to tool around a track with, just to see if it would even be possible to do it (*chuckle*). Giant brickish SUVs like that don't even go over 135 considering that it has a Cd of like 0.54-0.58. Mad fun though : )
Cheers to that! I'm a student at WPI, and I use my 3.4 GHz Prescott running SETI@home and World Community Grid to keep my processor maxed out all the time - I haven't had to turn the heat on at all, and it's 30-40F outside. In fact, I have to keep the window open, otherwise it jumps above 75 real fast.
Also, the amount of a room you can heat with your P4 box depends on the case and airflow - I use a CMStacker with tons of fans, so it moves plenty of air to warm this place up - a 480W power supply doesn't hurt either : P
But can you make a Beowulf cluster out of them?
Well, actually, you're not too far off.
If by "better/faster ways to find more porn" you mean for them to donate their time to public (or private for that matter) schools in their area to help bolster their information technology resources, I'd agree.
In my opinion as a technophile highschooler who has done a lot with IT-related stuff, I'd suggest two things:
1) As I just said, donate your time to local schools. Personally I think your time is best spent on schools with great infrastructure but with bad implementation - show them how to use the equipment, and make sure the students use it, too.
2) Help students with grassroots technology efforts. This may mean getting in touch with the local school district's department of Academic Services (here in Miami-Dade they call it the Advanced Academic office) to throw yourself on their feet as internship mentors, or maybe just trying to assist students with projects somehow.
I think with the growing hardcore academic nature of a lot of the techies in school trying to focus on research or big projects, your assistance may be more useful than just your enthusiasm (although always mix the two - just one isn't all that helpful).
So get out there and help my fellow trodden highschoolers-in-arms!
Yeah, every single MB manufactured nowadays uses the SmartKey system (or the extended form using the prox-card-like "Keyless Go"). Quite a neat feature.
The way to steal a MB is to use the mechanical key - first disable the TeleAid antennas and the alarm, then you're pretty much home free. Although, any thief who steals a MB worth that time and effort should also know that the owner isn't dumb enough not to have LoJack or another system on it.
Distributed would be neat, but I have two other questions:
a) What about TeleAid? You mentioned it was a Mercedes-Benz...how old are we talking? We have a 2004 G-Class, and I know one of the big reasons we got TeleAid was for the recovery feature. Of course, that leads me to point b..
b) What about LoJack (or a similar product in the EU) or Smart Dots (the paint tags)? While I don't know if this is an A190 CDI we're talking about here or a S63 AMG, a car is a car - and a car is a 5-figure sum (sometimes six, proving my point even to a greater degree) of money on four (or more) wheels. We have LoJack on both of our cars (we're in the USA) because we know that being in Miami, we're minutes away from a major cargo port.
Best of luck in finding your car, laptop, and cell, my friend. I'll keep my eye out around here, although I have a feeling an EU MB won't be finding its way to a suburb of Miami in the USA.
Alrighty, time for me to chime in with discussions on well designed objects!
I have a real passion for good design as well as functionality and durability in anything I own or purchase, and usually what's in this cubicle (and the cubicle itself), as well as my office, reflect that rule.
As much as people might rant and/or rave that the Segway HT is a completely useless or fattening device even though I commute with one, heh, the fact is that it has to be one of the simplest and yet most attractive products from an industrial design perspective. It's entirely gray, with a preponderance of odd things, and yet the ID team managed to pull it off, and quite well I might add.
Then we have my own little monolith. My NetShelter VX 25U rack. APC did wonders with the server rack, imho. It was sitting in my living room for a good month while I set up my office, and during that time it wasn't really that much of an eyesore (yeah, maybe I'm just bizarre) - the folks over at APC had turned a lump of steel and aluminum into a piece of black-powder-coat art, albeit very professionally.
And the list goes on, but I can certainly say that proper design makes the difference between a buyer and a window-shopper.
Errr...it had better not. Trolls have acute senses of hearing - they'll eat whatever comes across their wa*AAAIIIEE!!!*
This summer we decided that having a 1' deep cable pile over half of my bedroom wasn't a wise idea. So we renovated the old guest bedroom into an office for me. We quickly came to the conclusion that my bedroom was about "-" that close to an electrical fire as-is, so we made sure that there was enough E running to the room for peak power demand of all the systems.
We currently have one 15-amp circuit (120) and three 20-amp (120) circuits run in here. That's about 9 kW of power if I need it. I strongly recommend with all computing projects that you never, ever, ever scrimp on your electrical budget - it will serve you well.
Oh yeah, and major points for adding a battery backup - they own.
-Jordan
Arr! Licensing 6 off the starboard bow, cap'n!
Now that would be cool.
Seriously though, this leaves only the odd tribal languages of African (and perhaps South American?) tribes that are comprised entirely of clicks and gutteral sounds as not easily comprehended. Could this system's approach finally result in a Babelfish-like universality even for languages such as Chinese and Japanese? The added complexity makes it much more challenging for things like Babelfish, but if this system can do it, it's going to be a landfall discovery.
Anybody have any further research by this guy? I'm interested! Who knows, maybe I could have gotten a better grade in French thanks to this research...
I use a 2000FP as well. The beauty of high-end LCD panels like these is that their scaling hardware is a bit better than others, and you also have picture-in-picture.
Overall folks, get the highest resolution, nicest LCD you can find, and run it at a even multiple of the resolution. i.e. 800x600 for a 1600x1200 display (2x2 pixels to one)
Something I discovered is replacing soda (or in your case beer), with bottled water. It's just as convenient, and is more filling and actually serves a purpose.
Also, a high water intake (just as long as you don't start killing off your kidneys) will help to detox you a bit, always nice in cubeville.
Chances are it'll be a Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass Prison, and not a fun experience, but I could care less. The point is that I could blow up a bus full of kindergarteners and receive a lesser sentence than if I shared all of my hard drives, even on an open wi-fi node.
Things like this irk me to the point that I would purposely share every single file that I could find.
Oh? So you want me to pay a fine of $749 billion and go to prison for 15,000 years? Sure. I'd be honored.