Agreed. I've got a Toshiba 105CS (P5 at 75 MHz) still kicking since 1990-something. I've used the Hell out of it and, through no particular abuse of mine, eventually cracked out all around both hinges.
Ebay is not the answer, extended warranty is no the answer.
The answer is JB-Weld (www.jbweld.net) or a similar epoxy. It's the modern nerd answer to tape on your glasses. My old Toshi ain't much to look at, but it still works.
Ebay is a great place to trade notebook parts around and around... unfortunately the prices go up for the small parts as they become seperated from their original computer (buy a used, broken notebook for $50, sell HDD for $40, sell LCD for $60, sell CD-ROM drive for $20, etc).
No, the answer is JB-Weld (www.jbweld.net) or a similar epoxy. It's the modern nerd answer to tape on your glasses.
If the reference was to the band Pink Floyd, that was the name of the group, originally "The Pink Floyd Sound" and did not reference anyone in the group.
However, I guess it _was_ from a person's name since the band was named for American blues artists Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.
My father had high cholesterol and high blood pressure. As a result, he had a few TIA's (mini-strokes) that would briefly impair his speech and/or vision. His doctor(s) prescibed Plavix to prevent clotting, some anti-cholesterol drug(s) and blood pressure medication.
Rather than blow all that money on prescribed drugs, he was talked into chelation therapy by a local country doctor to remove plaque from his blood.
He had chelation treatments for about 3 years, during which time he also had more TIA's and decided to (almost) follow Dr's order by taking Plavix infrequently. After more TIA's, he finally had a massive stroke in June 2003. We found his 1 month presciption of Plavix about half full and dated January 2003. Now he is in a nursing home with no use of his left side and can't take care of himself at all.
Chelation is bogus! It was delevoped/tested by the US military as a possible treatment to remove heavy metals from one's system... it was dropped after being deemed ineffective.
Chelation IS NOT an FDA approved treatment for ANYTHING!
Hey, dingleberry. If you actually read the page, you'd know that those images are of the calibration target in high sun and low sun conditions... here on Earth! Those pictures were not taken Mars.
Gee, I didn't know it was still possible to send a telex. The last time I sent one was in 1986 or '87. I'm willing to bet most slashdotters don't even know what you're talking about and will completely miss the humor in it.
Can you tell your boss to sod off and never show up to work again? Yes.
Sure can. Forget about references though, you'll need them in the tight job marketplace.
At my company, there is a policy (widely accepted in business, BTW) that any calls for references get answered with "Yes, he/she worked here from this date to that date." End of conversation. So forget about references from your old employer, period.
Can you find a job at another company, sometimes even a competitor, and instantly go work there with little fear of backlash from your current employer? Yes.
Ah, then you remember that "Do not compete" clause that was required for your employment. Then you remember telling your boss to "Sod off".
Most "do not compete" clauses have faired very poorly in court. When my employers corporation was bought into by another (from another state), they wanted us to sign an NDA which also included a lengthy non-compete section. Nobody but my boss and his assistant signed it. Eventually they struck the entire no-compete section and we all signed.
KOSU in Stillwater, OK has reduced it to 3 days, starting last year or so. They say pretty much what the earlier poster said, "Pledge early and well and we'll get this annoyance over with." It has worked out quite well.
Speaking of which, here is an interesting interview with Dave Cutler and Mark Lucovsky about the development of NT. I was surprised to learn how long ago NT devel began.
But I'd like to point out that opencores has had a fair amount of its open IP commited to silicon to date... not via lithographic processes maybe, but in FPGA's at least in onesies twosies lots if not more.
It's pretty sweet to be able to put a Z80 core on an FPGA along with a few peripheral cores and make a machine-on-a-chip that can run your legacy embedded code with little or no change... and at a faster clock rate.
Research, literacy and proofreading/editing are all prerequisites to professional journalism. If you feel obliged to point out the the first link was not the work of a professional journalist (and I see no reason to think it was), then I will agree and reduce the credibility of the article accordingly.
Actually, I suspect much of the 'facts' cited may be true, but the overall tone of the article is highly sensational... what we call 'yellow journalism' akin to the tabloids like The National Enquirer. To paraphrase one of my journalism instructors, "If it looks like yellow journalism, it is and don't believe any of it."
If you shot it straight up, it would slow down by the normal rate of acceleration at 1 Gravity (muttersumthin/sec/sec) plus air resistance, and then fall back with the same acceleration until reaching terminal velocity, which is the speed at which air resistance creates an opposing force equal to the weight of the falling object. For a slug, that could be pretty fast, but with no direct relationship to the initial muzzle velocity.
That's becoming more and more true for me, too. I recall in my college days, reading through a particularly crappy Jack Chalker novel... I forced myself to continue, certain that it had improve. Long story short, upon finishing the last page, I through the damned book across the room in frustration. I did finish the book, but didn't buy the rest of the series.
These days, I don't have enough time to waste. If the book hasn't shaped up by the 1st 25%, I'm done.
a. The oxidation must be maximally complete to be fully effective.
b. My insurance provider requires that my abode be equipped with rapid oxidation detectors which would likely perform as designed subsequent to my disposal of documents using your preferred method. As a design feature, the rapid oxidation detectors cause high amplitude oscillation of air particles in the upper auditory range of frequency. This is undesirable.
I suppose that what I said was mostly true, up to the point where Award was absorbed. The Phoenix product was fading fast at that time, but I guess they still had enough bankroll to buy their product's replacement.
I can't remember the last time I even saw a Pheonix BIOS in any hardware, let alone stuff I bought. I'm guessing getting into microsoft's hip pocket is about the best business plan Pheonix can come up with.
They lost their BIOS market share fair and square by sitting on their butts, thinking the BIOS product was mature and not for the end user to muck about with. AMI and Award showed us (and the OEMs) what a BIOS could really do and the rest is history, including Pheonix's bottom line.
This latest move is their last ditch effort to re-invent themselves in Microsoft's shadow... and it just might work, unfortunately for the end users.
Assuming we're talking about professional science publications with cites to prior works, I think the problem was solved (or a solution provided) a long time ago. Publish in a publicly recognised peer journal or forum, citing your references from same or similar publications. It is the service (and responsibility?) of the journal or forum to maintain such articles for future reference.
Scientists citing sources from the web but outside the accepted peer-review quarters are being irresponsible unless it is made clear that the resource is anecdotal only.
Let's say you were researching the possible health effects of electromagnetic radiation from CRT's and CPU's. Plenty research has been done on this or similar in the past. You google and find studies referenced at both www.nature.com and at tomshardware.com. Which do you use and how? I'd use Nature first and tomshardware only if it contained strong or interesting anecdotal evidence and only if I presented it as such. I have little sympathy for the folks in the article whose links to 'medical research' on the web grew stale. They weren't doing very professional research, no did the people they were citing (assuming that data couldn't be found elsewhere).
Ummm, maybe only as applies to this topic, which is to say that web pages are a poor place to keep records.
I'd contend that researchers & scientists in general would be quite silly to site an electronic-only resource in their publications, because the persistence of that resource relies on too many factors (the whim of the webmaster, backups or lack thereof, fiber seeking and grid seeking backhoes, etc).
I think that will all sort itself out and real scientists will continue or return to citing more traditional resources.
What I think is much more disturbing and disruptive is the pseudo-science and mis-information that is overly abundant on the web. Too many web sites, personal and commercial, spout 'facts' in such great detail that they have the appearance of authority. Too often, novice/amatuer scientists can be seriously mis-lead by some of the crap that can be found on the web masquerading as 'science'.
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Kinda reminds me of my (brief) wardialing days in the mid '80s. Managed to connect my TRS-80 Model III to a computer at a local Humpty Dumpty grocery store.
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Agreed. I've got a Toshiba 105CS (P5 at 75 MHz) still kicking since 1990-something. I've used the Hell out of it and, through no particular abuse of mine, eventually cracked out all around both hinges.
Ebay is not the answer, extended warranty is no the answer.
The answer is JB-Weld (www.jbweld.net) or a similar epoxy. It's the modern nerd answer to tape on your glasses. My old Toshi ain't much to look at, but it still works.
Ebay is a great place to trade notebook parts around and around... unfortunately the prices go up for the small parts as they become seperated from their original computer (buy a used, broken notebook for $50, sell HDD for $40, sell LCD for $60, sell CD-ROM drive for $20, etc).
No, the answer is JB-Weld (www.jbweld.net) or a similar epoxy. It's the modern nerd answer to tape on your glasses.
If the reference was to the band Pink Floyd, that was the name of the group, originally "The Pink Floyd Sound" and did not reference anyone in the group.
However, I guess it _was_ from a person's name since the band was named for American blues artists Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.
My father had high cholesterol and high blood pressure. As a result, he had a few TIA's (mini-strokes) that would briefly impair his speech and/or vision. His doctor(s) prescibed Plavix to prevent clotting, some anti-cholesterol drug(s) and blood pressure medication.
Rather than blow all that money on prescribed drugs, he was talked into chelation therapy by a local country doctor to remove plaque from his blood.
He had chelation treatments for about 3 years, during which time he also had more TIA's and decided to (almost) follow Dr's order by taking Plavix infrequently. After more TIA's, he finally had a massive stroke in June 2003. We found his 1 month presciption of Plavix about half full and dated January 2003. Now he is in a nursing home with no use of his left side and can't take care of himself at all.
Chelation is bogus! It was delevoped/tested by the US military as a possible treatment to remove heavy metals from one's system... it was dropped after being deemed ineffective.
Chelation IS NOT an FDA approved treatment for ANYTHING!
Sorry, nevermind, my for not paying attention.
You're right, the page says the images were taken on Mars.
However, I suppose they greyed out a portion of the images to focus the view on the sundial itself.
Hey, dingleberry. If you actually read the page, you'd know that those images are of the calibration target in high sun and low sun conditions... here on Earth! Those pictures were not taken Mars.
Gee, I didn't know it was still possible to send a telex. The last time I sent one was in 1986 or '87. I'm willing to bet most slashdotters don't even know what you're talking about and will completely miss the humor in it.
Can you tell your boss to sod off and never show up to work again? Yes.
Sure can. Forget about references though, you'll need them in the tight job marketplace.
At my company, there is a policy (widely accepted in business, BTW) that any calls for references get answered with "Yes, he/she worked here from this date to that date." End of conversation. So forget about references from your old employer, period.
Can you find a job at another company, sometimes even a competitor, and instantly go work there with little fear of backlash from your current employer? Yes.
Ah, then you remember that "Do not compete" clause that was required for your employment. Then you remember telling your boss to "Sod off".
Most "do not compete" clauses have faired very poorly in court. When my employers corporation was bought into by another (from another state), they wanted us to sign an NDA which also included a lengthy non-compete section. Nobody but my boss and his assistant signed it. Eventually they struck the entire no-compete section and we all signed.
KOSU in Stillwater, OK has reduced it to 3 days, starting last year or so. They say pretty much what the earlier poster said, "Pledge early and well and we'll get this annoyance over with." It has worked out quite well.
Speaking of which, here is an interesting interview with Dave Cutler and Mark Lucovsky about the development of NT. I was surprised to learn how long ago NT devel began.
I appreciate the joke, heh, heh.
But I'd like to point out that opencores has had a fair amount of its open IP commited to silicon to date... not via lithographic processes maybe, but in FPGA's at least in onesies twosies lots if not more.
It's pretty sweet to be able to put a Z80 core on an FPGA along with a few peripheral cores and make a machine-on-a-chip that can run your legacy embedded code with little or no change... and at a faster clock rate.
Research, literacy and proofreading/editing are all prerequisites to professional journalism. If you feel obliged to point out the the first link was not the work of a professional journalist (and I see no reason to think it was), then I will agree and reduce the credibility of the article accordingly.
Actually, I suspect much of the 'facts' cited may be true, but the overall tone of the article is highly sensational... what we call 'yellow journalism' akin to the tabloids like The National Enquirer. To paraphrase one of my journalism instructors, "If it looks like yellow journalism, it is and don't believe any of it."
BS. Read up on your physics.
If you shot it straight up, it would slow down by the normal rate of acceleration at 1 Gravity (muttersumthin/sec/sec) plus air resistance, and then fall back with the same acceleration until reaching terminal velocity, which is the speed at which air resistance creates an opposing force equal to the weight of the falling object. For a slug, that could be pretty fast, but with no direct relationship to the initial muzzle velocity.
Raw material for all those assemblers would become the currency... and MicroDirt Corporation will have cornered the market.
I generally don't finish crappy books
That's becoming more and more true for me, too. I recall in my college days, reading through a particularly crappy Jack Chalker novel... I forced myself to continue, certain that it had improve. Long story short, upon finishing the last page, I through the damned book across the room in frustration. I did finish the book, but didn't buy the rest of the series.
These days, I don't have enough time to waste. If the book hasn't shaped up by the 1st 25%, I'm done.
So what does B8 00 4C CD 21 mean anyway?
MOV AX,4C00H
INT 21H
In x86 assembler language.
Effective, but:
a. The oxidation must be maximally complete to be fully effective.
b. My insurance provider requires that my abode be equipped with rapid oxidation detectors which would likely perform as designed subsequent to my disposal of documents using your preferred method. As a design feature, the rapid oxidation detectors cause high amplitude oscillation of air particles in the upper auditory range of frequency. This is undesirable.
What stops people now from rummaging through your garbage, finding your bank statements, and draining your bank accounts?
My paper shredder, that's what. Confetti type; cuts vertically and horizontally. Don't take your trash to the curb without using one first.
No, I did not realize that.
I suppose that what I said was mostly true, up to the point where Award was absorbed. The Phoenix product was fading fast at that time, but I guess they still had enough bankroll to buy their product's replacement.
I can't remember the last time I even saw a Pheonix BIOS in any hardware, let alone stuff I bought. I'm guessing getting into microsoft's hip pocket is about the best business plan Pheonix can come up with.
They lost their BIOS market share fair and square by sitting on their butts, thinking the BIOS product was mature and not for the end user to muck about with. AMI and Award showed us (and the OEMs) what a BIOS could really do and the rest is history, including Pheonix's bottom line.
This latest move is their last ditch effort to re-invent themselves in Microsoft's shadow... and it just might work, unfortunately for the end users.
Better program them to surface often to get GPS updates. The GPS signals will not penetrate the water (at least not very far).
Very interesting. So Robert T. Morris has cleaned up his coding since the days of the Morris Worm
Read the above link and then read RTM's bio page. Same guy?
Assuming we're talking about professional science publications with cites to prior works, I think the problem was solved (or a solution provided) a long time ago. Publish in a publicly recognised peer journal or forum, citing your references from same or similar publications. It is the service (and responsibility?) of the journal or forum to maintain such articles for future reference.
Scientists citing sources from the web but outside the accepted peer-review quarters are being irresponsible unless it is made clear that the resource is anecdotal only.
Let's say you were researching the possible health effects of electromagnetic radiation from CRT's and CPU's. Plenty research has been done on this or similar in the past. You google and find studies referenced at both www.nature.com and at tomshardware.com. Which do you use and how? I'd use Nature first and tomshardware only if it contained strong or interesting anecdotal evidence and only if I presented it as such. I have little sympathy for the folks in the article whose links to 'medical research' on the web grew stale. They weren't doing very professional research, no did the people they were citing (assuming that data couldn't be found elsewhere).
Ummm, maybe only as applies to this topic, which is to say that web pages are a poor place to keep records.
I'd contend that researchers & scientists in general would be quite silly to site an electronic-only resource in their publications, because the persistence of that resource relies on too many factors (the whim of the webmaster, backups or lack thereof, fiber seeking and grid seeking backhoes, etc).
I think that will all sort itself out and real scientists will continue or return to citing more traditional resources.
What I think is much more disturbing and disruptive is the pseudo-science and mis-information that is overly abundant on the web. Too many web sites, personal and commercial, spout 'facts' in such great detail that they have the appearance of authority. Too often, novice/amatuer scientists can be seriously mis-lead by some of the crap that can be found on the web masquerading as 'science'.
Kinda reminds me of my (brief) wardialing days in the mid '80s. Managed to connect my TRS-80 Model III to a computer at a local Humpty Dumpty grocery store.
The password prompt:
Humpty 2033
enter password:
1st try: humpty -> failed
2nd try: humpty 2033 ->failed
3rd try: 2033 ->success!
A