The first lesson I learned in the real world was from installing a new phone jack. The lesson was: Install the new jack first, then run wire to existing jack, then hook up that wire.
Do not hook up wire to existing jack, then run it to new jack and hook it up there. And if you do, don't strip wire with your teeth.
You see, the 48v idle power isn't that bad, but when the phone rings and they send 90vAC down the line, that sucks.
For the record, I had stripped green, and was holding red in my mouth about to strip it, which of course meant that green was resting on my bottom lip.
There's a reporter (for an NPR affiliate) who was waiting for the FCC hearings last year on Clear Channel's plans to expand into yet-another-market. The hearings were closed-door, so the reporters were all waiting in the hallway outside. When the Clear Channel rep came through, he introduced himself to the reporters and asked if anyone had questions before he went in. The reporter asked if he planned to use all the chairs, or just one.
These tiny radio stations are no threat to the current broadcast system
Here's the only thing that matters. These tiny stations are no threat to the current system, either physically or economically.
Clear Channel doesn't give a damn, you can't touch them. You and your vast army of geeks can't touch them, and they know it. I'm all for some area "flavor" on the FM band, but don't think for a second that it's going to touch the bottom line for CC.
I just wanted to say thanks for posting it within PRE tags. Mel's story should be printed in fixed-width font. Dot-matrix would have been better, but what can ya do?
I've done experiments with 266 nm laser beams. Ultraviolet light makes nearly every organic molecule fluoresce. It is usually quite easy to see the spot where the laser beam (even if it is just a few milliwatts) hits a surface.
That, and the ever-deepening hole in your arm should really tip you off quick!
Getting a golf ball to skip...now that takes talent. Yeah, that's it. Talent...
There's a little 9-hole course near Boulder CO (Haystack Mtn Golf) with a lake on one fairway. Actually, the lake is the fairway. It's an easy 9-iron shot from teebox, over lake, onto green. Once, I topped the tee shot horribly, but imparted enough topspin that the ball skipped three times on the water and hopped out the other side ... where it promptly nailed the only tree in sight and bounced back into the middle of the lake.
sigh. It's a joke, people.
And for what it's worth, each of the PDFs on the MS site were generated on Windows, from MS Word documents. Who the heck modded me informative, anyway?
...but we also know that it has landed on an unforgiving planet
Well now there's the problem -- next time we should just go to a forgiving planet instead. What were we thinking?
I'm a 4-5 cup of coffee/day kind of person (since about '82) but every time I get a bad head cold, I just seem to prefer tea. (green or herbal, not strongly caffinated black tea) If it's a one day cold, then I'm back on coffee right away. If it's a week-long sinus infection, then I can go for a month or two without any withdrawl headaches.
Of course, I'm not really trying to quit, so I start back up again eventually.
Oh, and I have two school-aged kids. If you need to get a good viral cold, just stop by for an afternoon.
Amen brother (or sister, as appropos)
The advert even talks about the millions and millions of lithium-ion cells in the world. Three incidents is cause for worry? Good grief! How many people cut themselves on broken laptop screens last year? It's a tiger in a box, I tellya!
and the odd thing is, there are so-called "christians, who think that going to church and brushing up on biblical trivia has some weight in your heavenly status. Believe in Christianity or don't, but don't do some lame halfass sunday-church-goer BS and live some fatasy in your head that the hours sitting in a pupil will give you karma points with the All Mighty.
The most funny part of your tirade is that Jesus never said the path to heaven was through "being good." As for biblical trivia, he was really clear on the point -- knowing the law makes it harder to get right with God, not easier.
If good deeds were enough to get into heaven, you'd never need a savior. That's the whole point -- you can't buy forgiveness at any price, but it's freely given to anyone who asks.
I suppose if that's the one "biblical trivia" point that you learn in your one-church-service-of-the-year then it's time well spent.
People throw around "AI" and "Sentient" too much when describing software when in fact the software is nowhere close to that.
The best description of "AI" that I've ever heard came from my undergrad AI prof. He said that AI is any system that you don't understand. You can craft the spiffiest neural-net-genetic-alg-self-modifying-rule-based-w hateverthehellyouwant system, and as soon as you explain the algorithm to someone, they'll say "Oh, I get it. So that can't be AI."
Of course, by that logic, ATMs are AI to most people.
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With /. readers like this - we really need a (-5, Way Too Much Caffeine) option.
WHAT MAKES YOU SAY THAT?!?!?!?!
The first lesson I learned in the real world was from installing a new phone jack. The lesson was: Install the new jack first, then run wire to existing jack, then hook up that wire.
Do not hook up wire to existing jack, then run it to new jack and hook it up there. And if you do, don't strip wire with your teeth.
You see, the 48v idle power isn't that bad, but when the phone rings and they send 90vAC down the line, that sucks.
For the record, I had stripped green, and was holding red in my mouth about to strip it, which of course meant that green was resting on my bottom lip.
And this is just plain disturbing.
There's a reporter (for an NPR affiliate) who was waiting for the FCC hearings last year on Clear Channel's plans to expand into yet-another-market. The hearings were closed-door, so the reporters were all waiting in the hallway outside. When the Clear Channel rep came through, he introduced himself to the reporters and asked if anyone had questions before he went in.
The reporter asked if he planned to use all the chairs, or just one.
These tiny radio stations are no threat to the current broadcast system
Here's the only thing that matters. These tiny stations are no threat to the current system, either physically or economically.
Clear Channel doesn't give a damn, you can't touch them. You and your vast army of geeks can't touch them, and they know it.
I'm all for some area "flavor" on the FM band, but don't think for a second that it's going to touch the bottom line for CC.
I just wanted to say thanks for posting it within PRE tags. Mel's story should be printed in fixed-width font. Dot-matrix would have been better, but what can ya do?
It's not the "sudden" part that bugs me -- electronics that croak usually do so in an instantaneous manner -- it's just the "premature" part.
Here's an idea, rather than trying to sound like a lawyer, just say "chips stop working years before they're supposed to."
>> my PC has no case
> Is that your cat lying dead next to the power supply?
Not anymore
Note that this is European (in fact German) technology at work.
German design, Chinese manufacture?
Proud owner of a Mensa membership card.
Hey, me too. eBay rocks.
uhh... which I'll then send to you, yeah, that's it.
I've done experiments with 266 nm laser beams. Ultraviolet light makes nearly every organic molecule fluoresce. It is usually quite easy to see the spot where the laser beam (even if it is just a few milliwatts) hits a surface.
That, and the ever-deepening hole in your arm should really tip you off quick!
Haliburton?
The CIA?
In the future, maybe all spacecraft will first be pre-filled with this stuff
Getting a golf ball to skip...now that takes talent. Yeah, that's it. Talent...
... where it promptly nailed the only tree in sight and bounced back into the middle of the lake.
There's a little 9-hole course near Boulder CO (Haystack Mtn Golf) with a lake on one fairway. Actually, the lake is the fairway. It's an easy 9-iron shot from teebox, over lake, onto green.
Once, I topped the tee shot horribly, but imparted enough topspin that the ball skipped three times on the water and hopped out the other side
sigh. It's a joke, people.
And for what it's worth, each of the PDFs on the MS site were generated on Windows, from MS Word documents.
Who the heck modded me informative, anyway?
...but we also know that it has landed on an unforgiving planet
Well now there's the problem -- next time we should just go to a forgiving planet instead. What were we thinking?
Generalisimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
It's old news -- that's why Microsoft prefers PDF for the really important stuff.
.. that I can no longer use my laptop whilst using my mobile, holding my coffee, speaking to a passenger and driving. Damn
Yes, but you can still have your firearms loaded and ready to rock!
/wanders off chanting U-S-A! U-S-A!
I'm a 4-5 cup of coffee/day kind of person (since about '82) but every time I get a bad head cold, I just seem to prefer tea. (green or herbal, not strongly caffinated black tea)
If it's a one day cold, then I'm back on coffee right away. If it's a week-long sinus infection, then I can go for a month or two without any withdrawl headaches.
Of course, I'm not really trying to quit, so I start back up again eventually.
Oh, and I have two school-aged kids. If you need to get a good viral cold, just stop by for an afternoon.
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Amen brother (or sister, as appropos)
The advert even talks about the millions and millions of lithium-ion cells in the world.
Three incidents is cause for worry? Good grief! How many people cut themselves on broken laptop screens last year? It's a tiger in a box, I tellya!
Just out of curiosity, what determines how you get mod points?
Psst. You can get anything you want on eBay
and the odd thing is, there are so-called "christians, who think that going to church and brushing up on biblical trivia has some weight in your heavenly status. Believe in Christianity or don't, but don't do some lame halfass sunday-church-goer BS and live some fatasy in your head that the hours sitting in a pupil will give you karma points with the All Mighty.
The most funny part of your tirade is that Jesus never said the path to heaven was through "being good."
As for biblical trivia, he was really clear on the point -- knowing the law makes it harder to get right with God, not easier.
If good deeds were enough to get into heaven, you'd never need a savior. That's the whole point -- you can't buy forgiveness at any price, but it's freely given to anyone who asks.
I suppose if that's the one "biblical trivia" point that you learn in your one-church-service-of-the-year then it's time well spent.
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People throw around "AI" and "Sentient" too much when describing software when in fact the software is nowhere close to that.
w hateverthehellyouwant system, and as soon as you explain the algorithm to someone, they'll say "Oh, I get it. So that can't be AI."
The best description of "AI" that I've ever heard came from my undergrad AI prof. He said that AI is any system that you don't understand. You can craft the spiffiest neural-net-genetic-alg-self-modifying-rule-based-
Of course, by that logic, ATMs are AI to most people.
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