I noticed that too - I've heard the HV transformers in things for as long as I can remember. I can always tell if a tv is in standby (some of the monitors I have used seem to shut almost everything off in standby). My problem now is my current monitor (ancient 21" SGI) makes a ton of noise when it starts up. It can take as long as a minute for the high pitches to damp down.
And I see colors separate along the edges of lamps and fluuroescents. It's very weird - I think it may have somethign to do with my glasses though.
Is this old transformers or new transformers? The original Transformers had the trailer detach - it even had a gun platform and stuff. The newer version of the Transformers may be different. Between the 3d cartoon and the beast wars thing, it's all messed up now.
Never, they figured out that forcing us into new hardware purchases will help them make the most money. By THEM I mean the industry in general. If they all work together (or follow the same plans and end up together) then they make the most money - or so they think.
Kind of like the MPAA's strategy of rereleasing old stuff on new media, then claiming pirates are the cause of decreased revenue, rather than the more logical idea that they've used up a lot of the big name back catalog stuff and so people DON'T WANT as many cds as the RIAA thinks should be selling.
The first two "seasons" are out on DVD already. They were released last week or the week before. The latest season only lasted a week but the episodes were 12 minutes long instead of 4 minutes long. The animation is great, the stories are excellent. I described these cartoons to my Fiancee as "the way Star Wars should be."
They are great!
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would you need tactile feed back if the display showed what you were pushing? In the case of dialing numbers the numbers could be displayed, in the case of menus and such the menu should change quickly enough that there won't be any confusion.
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How do you pronounce this? Threeth? Thirth?
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what about having just those buttons and a touch sensitive LCD that can display any sort of button you want? Set it up so the this screen is usually locked, but when unlocked the buttons can magically appear and dissapear. You would need a power button, an answer button, and if push the power and answer at the same time the LCD unlocks and you can access all your other buttons. You could make the phone practically any shape at that point (especially if it only used a bluetooth headset or something - then it could be a small little box or something). You could also add Functionality (including iPod) as long as you could reprogram the interface and add memory.
Personally I would still want one that looked like the last picture - a smooth black rectangle. The thing looks awesome!
Battery science has improved somewhat, but it is limited by the chemicals we use to make the batteries. Lithium polmyer batteries are the latest and greatest (I believe) but the chemistry behind the scenes neccesary to make even better batteries is extremely difficult.
[quote] As they say, you learn more about a man from his enemies than his friends. [/quote] Usually this quote refers to the quality of the character of a person, not asking someone's enemies for facts about that person.
Are you trying to tell me that people who hate someone are somehow forced to tell the truth, but people who like that person are obvisouly conspiring to trick you? Doesn't that sound stupid to you?
Your consumer reports example makes sense - but they CLAIM to be non-partisan. The tone of your comment and the fact that you posted AC seems to indicate to me that you are NOT non-partisan.
It also looks like the Ender Saga isn't complete yet. Recently he posted on hatrackriver.com that he is planning another book that will bring the Ender Saga and the Shadow's books back together and cap them off.
We'll see.
This was actually one of the more interesting parts for me - Card's dissection and portrayal of the child's mind. To me, especially when I was twelve and thirteen, his portrayal of children made much more sense to me than some other portrayals of young adults I have read. Waht's funny is that somewhere, Card mentions that he gets letters from adults saying "children don't act like this, they don't think like this" and he gets letter from children and teenagers saying "yes, this is exactly how we think."
when did Wikipedia become the undisputed source of all knowledge?
That definition right there seems pretty broad and doesn't really allow one one to describe someone who is opposed to homsexuality but does not hate homosexuals (which is what Card seems to be conveying in his essay).
Of course, if your personal political agenda includes homosexuality, it would be in your best interest to make everyone opposed to it seem to be hateful and dangerous.
I think the actual figure thrown around by the statisticians and psychologists is that the amount of money you save by not having to train a new person is aproximately 3 months worth of salary. So for the managers out there, before firing someone ask them if the new person you hire will be worth that 3 months of salary - you won't get an extra productivity boost from the new guy. It will cost you 3 months salary of the current guy.
another part of the problem is that in many cases you don't want a truly random sample. You want a random sample that is representative of the population. If their random sample was all white or all male it wouldn't be very good, would it? To be able to say that your statistics represent the american people your sample group has to also be representative of the american people.
something tells me the torque available to those little things would not be equal to the task.....so you might have to re-engineer them a bit. You might also want to extend the range on the bluetooth transceiver - otherwise your coworker might catch on to you fairly quickly.
right, so chopping a lot of them down was a good thing? I am not saying "oh noes! alternate energy will destroy the ecosystem!" but that we need to take into account all of the effects of a giant turbine, rather than saying "look, it's free!"
SO you are taking energy out of the wind.......and what happens to the winds? If you only have a few turbines (for wind/water/tidal) then no big deal. But, if we ever built HUGE wind farms it would alter the air currents around that area at least. This would also alter the moisture levels available to a particular location. People say these things are inexhaustable, but that's only because we don't know yet. As for solar.....there seems to be fewer long term problems with that.
I think you mean Bittorrent (not P2P). In at least some of the sharing programs you CAN disable sharing completely. With Bittorrent you have to work pretty hard at using 3rd party software or a firewall setting to throttle your upload speed to the point where you can't share packets. Supposedly the original bittorrent client will throttle your download back to make it similar to upload (keeps people from leaching) but in practice, with asynchronous connections, this does not seem to happen much. P2P does not mean you HAVE to upload, it just works a lot better when everyone does.
Compensation for your legal right? What does that mean????? "We need to be compensated because you are not violating the law?" That's idiotic! It is NOT their RIGHT to make money off of you, it's a privilege controlled by law.
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I noticed that too - I've heard the HV transformers in things for as long as I can remember. I can always tell if a tv is in standby (some of the monitors I have used seem to shut almost everything off in standby). My problem now is my current monitor (ancient 21" SGI) makes a ton of noise when it starts up. It can take as long as a minute for the high pitches to damp down.
And I see colors separate along the edges of lamps and fluuroescents. It's very weird - I think it may have somethign to do with my glasses though.
I got lucky, in that my fiancee's eyes are brown. It makes it very easy to remember what color her eyes are :-P
it was the one with the gonne "Men at Arms" Behold the power of google and the word "gonne"
couldn't they have just changed the date on the machiens in question? Why would they have to wait for the actual end of the year?
Yea, megatron will turn into a walkie talkie, just like in ET!
Is this old transformers or new transformers? The original Transformers had the trailer detach - it even had a gun platform and stuff. The newer version of the Transformers may be different. Between the 3d cartoon and the beast wars thing, it's all messed up now.
is that AC wall wart for a Shure wireless mic or something?
Never, they figured out that forcing us into new hardware purchases will help them make the most money.
By THEM I mean the industry in general. If they all work together (or follow the same plans and end up together) then they make the most money - or so they think.
Kind of like the MPAA's strategy of rereleasing old stuff on new media, then claiming pirates are the cause of decreased revenue, rather than the more logical idea that they've used up a lot of the big name back catalog stuff and so people DON'T WANT as many cds as the RIAA thinks should be selling.
The first two "seasons" are out on DVD already. They were released last week or the week before. The latest season only lasted a week but the episodes were 12 minutes long instead of 4 minutes long. The animation is great, the stories are excellent. I described these cartoons to my Fiancee as "the way Star Wars should be." They are great!
Congratulations! You've been randomly selected to be assessed 15,000 dollars per DVD you downloaded as part of our "The MPAA sucks and charges you late fees when you least expect it" program. It's easier than driving out to your mailbox! All you have to do is download movies. Don't worry, sooner or later, we'll catch you!
would you need tactile feed back if the display showed what you were pushing? In the case of dialing numbers the numbers could be displayed, in the case of menus and such the menu should change quickly enough that there won't be any confusion.
[quote] 3th parties [/quote] How do you pronounce this? Threeth? Thirth?
what about having just those buttons and a touch sensitive LCD that can display any sort of button you want? Set it up so the this screen is usually locked, but when unlocked the buttons can magically appear and dissapear. You would need a power button, an answer button, and if push the power and answer at the same time the LCD unlocks and you can access all your other buttons. You could make the phone practically any shape at that point (especially if it only used a bluetooth headset or something - then it could be a small little box or something). You could also add Functionality (including iPod) as long as you could reprogram the interface and add memory.
Personally I would still want one that looked like the last picture - a smooth black rectangle. The thing looks awesome!
Battery science has improved somewhat, but it is limited by the chemicals we use to make the batteries. Lithium polmyer batteries are the latest and greatest (I believe) but the chemistry behind the scenes neccesary to make even better batteries is extremely difficult.
[quote] As they say, you learn more about a man from his enemies than his friends. [/quote]
Usually this quote refers to the quality of the character of a person, not asking someone's enemies for facts about that person.
Are you trying to tell me that people who hate someone are somehow forced to tell the truth, but people who like that person are obvisouly conspiring to trick you? Doesn't that sound stupid to you?
Your consumer reports example makes sense - but they CLAIM to be non-partisan. The tone of your comment and the fact that you posted AC seems to indicate to me that you are NOT non-partisan.
It also looks like the Ender Saga isn't complete yet. Recently he posted on hatrackriver.com that he is planning another book that will bring the Ender Saga and the Shadow's books back together and cap them off. We'll see.
This was actually one of the more interesting parts for me - Card's dissection and portrayal of the child's mind. To me, especially when I was twelve and thirteen, his portrayal of children made much more sense to me than some other portrayals of young adults I have read. Waht's funny is that somewhere, Card mentions that he gets letters from adults saying "children don't act like this, they don't think like this" and he gets letter from children and teenagers saying "yes, this is exactly how we think."
when did Wikipedia become the undisputed source of all knowledge? That definition right there seems pretty broad and doesn't really allow one one to describe someone who is opposed to homsexuality but does not hate homosexuals (which is what Card seems to be conveying in his essay). Of course, if your personal political agenda includes homosexuality, it would be in your best interest to make everyone opposed to it seem to be hateful and dangerous.
I think the actual figure thrown around by the statisticians and psychologists is that the amount of money you save by not having to train a new person is aproximately 3 months worth of salary. So for the managers out there, before firing someone ask them if the new person you hire will be worth that 3 months of salary - you won't get an extra productivity boost from the new guy. It will cost you 3 months salary of the current guy.
another part of the problem is that in many cases you don't want a truly random sample. You want a random sample that is representative of the population. If their random sample was all white or all male it wouldn't be very good, would it? To be able to say that your statistics represent the american people your sample group has to also be representative of the american people.
something tells me the torque available to those little things would not be equal to the task.....so you might have to re-engineer them a bit. You might also want to extend the range on the bluetooth transceiver - otherwise your coworker might catch on to you fairly quickly.
right, so chopping a lot of them down was a good thing? I am not saying "oh noes! alternate energy will destroy the ecosystem!" but that we need to take into account all of the effects of a giant turbine, rather than saying "look, it's free!"
SO you are taking energy out of the wind.......and what happens to the winds? If you only have a few turbines (for wind/water/tidal) then no big deal. But, if we ever built HUGE wind farms it would alter the air currents around that area at least. This would also alter the moisture levels available to a particular location. People say these things are inexhaustable, but that's only because we don't know yet. As for solar.....there seems to be fewer long term problems with that.
I think you mean Bittorrent (not P2P). In at least some of the sharing programs you CAN disable sharing completely. With Bittorrent you have to work pretty hard at using 3rd party software or a firewall setting to throttle your upload speed to the point where you can't share packets. Supposedly the original bittorrent client will throttle your download back to make it similar to upload (keeps people from leaching) but in practice, with asynchronous connections, this does not seem to happen much.
P2P does not mean you HAVE to upload, it just works a lot better when everyone does.
Compensation for your legal right? What does that mean????? "We need to be compensated because you are not violating the law?" That's idiotic! It is NOT their RIGHT to make money off of you, it's a privilege controlled by law.