Yeah, but if you IGNORE all the EULAs and DON'T register the apps, you have soon ripped off more than $1K's worth of software - it's a no-brainer really!
IF he was serious about heat generation he would have used a straight wirewound dropper resistor, diode bridge and capacitor - throw in a 2N3055 power transistor shunt circuit and you'd have a nice little spoon warmer!
Also remember that commercial TV in the UK is not free anyway because all the advertisers factor the cost of advertising into their retail selling price, so by default every time you buy a major branded product you are paying a small amount towards the cost of watching (or not) commercial/satellite TV.
In reality, you have a better choice with a licence fee because if you choose to stop watching TV then you can get rid/store your TV and not pay for the licence, but you'll still be hit with a charge for advertising every time you buy a McD burger, pint of Guinness, packet of Ariel washing powder, litre of Shell fuel etc. - you can't avoid that TV watching 'tax' even if you don't have a TV!
Well, the experience in my local Tescos (plural - there are two!) is not as adventurous as that but I know the feeling.
Once upon a time I inherited an iPAQ 3970 PDA and I downloaded a shopping list app for it but the reality doesn't lead up to the expectation - for one, it's hard to push a trolley AND hold a PDA - at least a piece of paper curves round the trolley handle as you push - you daren't put the PDA in the trolly or on teh child seat unless someone grabs it (paranoid? me?), so you effectively become a one-handed shopper.
Having an organiser built in to a trolley would remove these issues, but quite frankly I can't see it being easier than having a sheet of A4 pinned to the board in the kitchen and writing on it the things you need, arranged by group (ie: veg, meats, fruit, dairy etc.) and then taking it with you - this new high-tech alternative would appear the just add more steps to the process - ie: write down what you need THEN transcribe the list online, or go online every time you want to add something to your shopping list.
I was in Orlando last month and I used the free wifi while watching the 'Arabian Nights' horsey spectacular (by the way the show sucked BIG TIME, actually - v-e-r-y cheesy). Mind you, I don't think they actually knew they were offering free wifi access - but, hey, have PDA - will sniff!
Oh, and as a good tourist I did go to their Web feedback form and let them know that they needed to fix their wireless security so don't blame me if you go there and can't get a connection!
Reminds me of the time I turned up on a MOD (Ministry of Defence) base in the UK to upgrade a server. After the rigorous security I was escorted to the office block and shown in to an office.
"The server's in the corner over there", I was told, together with some vague hand pointing. Walking in the general direction indicated, I couldn't see anything remotely PC-like. "Er, where exactly?" I said. "Oh, hang on...", came the reply. The filing cabinet in the corner had a padlock removed and the bottom drawer was pulled out. There in the drawer was a Toshiba T3200 (386-20 with orange plasma screen - remember those!?), running Netware 386 3.0.
Not exactly a case mod, but the most unusual housing for a server I've ever come across!
I am SOOOO glad I don't make the run into Victoria from the South Coast any more!!! I now work locally and it takes 15 minutes in the car along a deserted seafront road with wonderful sunrises. You have my sympathies.
True: the high tech stuff isn't always better neither:
I live on the South Coast of England and we are in the process of phasing out our old trains (from the 1950s and 1960s!!) and replacing them with new ones. The new units are very high tech, with air con (at last!), electric doors, LED indicator boards and high-tech toilets etc. The first problem encountered was that even with new, efficiant motors and electronic switchgear the new trains took more power to run than the old ones and so much of the power infrastructure has had to be upgraded too. While this was being done, the commuter trains into London had to have fewer carriages than normal to keep them within the power rating of the track and so already crowded trains became even worse.
Next, the GPS systems that control the doors (which side to open and when), kept breaking down and so commuters would find themselves stuck either inside or outside the trains!
It was also discovered that the trains were a slightly different width from the old ones and so some platforms had to be 'shaved' to prevent the trains from scraping against them. The toilets keep breaking down, can't be filled with water or emptied and so it's fairly common to be on a train out of London (1.5 hours to home) with no working toilets and to cap it all, on some units the carriage coupling systems (high-tech, of course), don't work properly so, for example, at my home station where two trains meet and couple to form a 12 carriage commuter unit for London, it's fairly common for only the front 8 to be available - leading to more overcrowding. The new units are so packed with electronics that they generate a heck of a lot of RF interference and it's impossible to get a good radio signal; my only 'pleasure' of the London journey was dozing to the news and this is not possible any more. Finally, considering that my home area is a major commuter run into the City of London, it's crazy that, unlike some other regional services, the train company hasn't provided power outlets for laptops - mind you, considering their power problems, perhaps this isn't a surprise.
I spent some of my electronics engineering apprenticeship in Unit Test where I had to test 5V 300A and 5V 600A power supplies.
We had a FET-based active load for testing and we had to bolt the PSUs to the load with 1 inch copper braid, put the units in a thick plexiglass/Perspex cage and run them at 110% of rated load for 10 minutes.
When we got busy, one of the other engineers soldered up a ton of wirewound resistors to act as a load and fitted them into a spare 19" rack with a large red 'emergency stop' button on the top to cut off the power. The whole rig looked like a McGyver special, but it worked and I wasn't too afraid to use it-but when we got VERY busy, I was told to forget about bolting on the braids, just hold them in place, wind up the active load to 110% and keep it there for 20 secs and 'that will do' - I refused, much to the annoyance of the Unit Test manager who couldn't actually force me to do so!
The guy who made up the resistor load was really mad - it was the era of the BBC micro and he'd lashed up his own floppy drive, but discovered that he couldn't copy one particular game or program because the drive he was using wouldn't step properly to one of the 'hidden tracks' (or something like that), so he bought an official external drive (for some crazy price - it was 1982, after all), did his copying and then hooked up the ground wire of our PSUs to the chassis of the floppy drive and dragged a wire hooked to the +5v line around all the chips' legs - end result was tons of sparks and one very smoky unit which he took back for a full refund. Apparently he complained bitterly to the shop about the way the drive had suddenly 'exploded'.
This was also the guy that fell over and broke his leg walking across the car park one sunny day - we really couldn't work out how he managed it! He also removed all the light fittings from a temporary work cabin the night before it was due to go back to the hire shop - when the hire company came to pick it up, they refused to take it so our boss called us all together and said it might be a good idea if the light fittings returned 'tonight' - lo, next day they were all back in place.
True, Emin's bed is one form of art - I call it 'celeb art' but then if I got paid to do that kinda stuff I'd be happy to do it.
With celeb art (like beds and piles of bananas), you can get away with anything provided that there's someone so smitten with you that they will fund your folly so you receive enough income that you can afford the time and tools to do things that others would not aspire to because:
1) they are a waste of time 2) they cannot afford the raw materials 3) they do not have the workspace 4) they are unlikely to be taken seriously
By my definition, art should include a degree of artistic talent to create a work that has uniqueness in its design or inception - making a messy bed is on the fringes of this because no talent has gone into making the bed, the 'talent' is in finding someone gullible enough to consider it art and the uniqueness is that no one has got away with it before.
Try this test:
Would someone show the fictitious work 'Pile of newspapers with hammer' by Tracy Emin - probably. Would someone show 'Pile of newspapers with hammer' by Ann Nonymous - less likely.
At the end of the day it's not the quality of that type of art that demands it be viewed but simply the creator's name and once the creator has had a few works exhibited the 'establishment' goes into 'Emperor's new clothes' mode where no one holding the purse strings even thinks to question the merit in the work.
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"To make for easier processing and power saving, the LSB can now be fixed as a one OR a zero (according to which standard you use) for ALL operations.
1) Fixing this bit means one less digit to process (or shift) because its state is now globally known - for 16-bit computations, this will save a nominal 1/16th of the effective processing time, thus speeding up programs with only a marginal loss of numerical accuracy.
2) Because the bit no longer needs to be toggled between logic states, that saves the energy wastage of 4-6 transistors per flip-flop or gate per processor cycle (or 1 FET/CMOS gate for DRAM-type memory) - considering that modern CPUs operate at millions of cycles per second, the energy saving, although fundamentally measured in picowatts, soon adds up to a siginficant amount. Future developments on this power saving feature may see the 'recovered' energy recycled onto the national grid as a chargeback to the consumer or used to charge domestic appliances, portable devices such as cell phones and MP3 players etc."
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You would have to imagine a Beowulf cluster covered in one of those!!
/ducks
Yeah, but if you IGNORE all the EULAs and DON'T register the apps, you have soon ripped off more than $1K's worth of software - it's a no-brainer really!
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IF he was serious about heat generation he would have used a straight wirewound dropper resistor, diode bridge and capacitor - throw in a 2N3055 power transistor shunt circuit and you'd have a nice little spoon warmer!
Rubber mallet must be carbon-loaded or include a ground strap to avoid problems with static electricity killing things before you get the chance.
Also remember that commercial TV in the UK is not free anyway because all the advertisers factor the cost of advertising into their retail selling price, so by default every time you buy a major branded product you are paying a small amount towards the cost of watching (or not) commercial/satellite TV.
In reality, you have a better choice with a licence fee because if you choose to stop watching TV then you can get rid/store your TV and not pay for the licence, but you'll still be hit with a charge for advertising every time you buy a McD burger, pint of Guinness, packet of Ariel washing powder, litre of Shell fuel etc. - you can't avoid that TV watching 'tax' even if you don't have a TV!
Having just built four AOpen Cubes with Seagate Barracuda 120GB ATA drives, I am amazed at how quiet the systems are without any special effort.
Well, the experience in my local Tescos (plural - there are two!) is not as adventurous as that but I know the feeling.
Once upon a time I inherited an iPAQ 3970 PDA and I downloaded a shopping list app for it but the reality doesn't lead up to the expectation - for one, it's hard to push a trolley AND hold a PDA - at least a piece of paper curves round the trolley handle as you push - you daren't put the PDA in the trolly or on teh child seat unless someone grabs it (paranoid? me?), so you effectively become a one-handed shopper.
Having an organiser built in to a trolley would remove these issues, but quite frankly I can't see it being easier than having a sheet of A4 pinned to the board in the kitchen and writing on it the things you need, arranged by group (ie: veg, meats, fruit, dairy etc.) and then taking it with you - this new high-tech alternative would appear the just add more steps to the process - ie: write down what you need THEN transcribe the list online, or go online every time you want to add something to your shopping list.
"Smokers forced to cough up"
Bwaahahahaha
Anyone eating regularly at McDonalds probably has more spots too.
I was in Orlando last month and I used the free wifi while watching the 'Arabian Nights' horsey spectacular (by the way the show sucked BIG TIME, actually - v-e-r-y cheesy). Mind you, I don't think they actually knew they were offering free wifi access - but, hey, have PDA - will sniff!
Oh, and as a good tourist I did go to their Web feedback form and let them know that they needed to fix their wireless security so don't blame me if you go there and can't get a connection!
...read his stuff with a heavy southern accent for the proper effect.
But in space no-one can hear you drawl.
Wow...imagine a feral pack of those!
Reminds me of the time I turned up on a MOD (Ministry of Defence) base in the UK to upgrade a server. After the rigorous security I was escorted to the office block and shown in to an office.
"The server's in the corner over there", I was told, together with some vague hand pointing. Walking in the general direction indicated, I couldn't see anything remotely PC-like. "Er, where exactly?" I said. "Oh, hang on...", came the reply. The filing cabinet in the corner had a padlock removed and the bottom drawer was pulled out. There in the drawer was a Toshiba T3200 (386-20 with orange plasma screen - remember those!?), running Netware 386 3.0.
Not exactly a case mod, but the most unusual housing for a server I've ever come across!
Atlanta's quaint old railway station is cute though - even if the locals haven't a clue where it is because they rarely use it!
I am SOOOO glad I don't make the run into Victoria from the South Coast any more!!! I now work locally and it takes 15 minutes in the car along a deserted seafront road with wonderful sunrises. You have my sympathies.
True: the high tech stuff isn't always better neither:
I live on the South Coast of England and we are in the process of phasing out our old trains (from the 1950s and 1960s!!) and replacing them with new ones. The new units are very high tech, with air con (at last!), electric doors, LED indicator boards and high-tech toilets etc. The first problem encountered was that even with new, efficiant motors and electronic switchgear the new trains took more power to run than the old ones and so much of the power infrastructure has had to be upgraded too. While this was being done, the commuter trains into London had to have fewer carriages than normal to keep them within the power rating of the track and so already crowded trains became even worse.
Next, the GPS systems that control the doors (which side to open and when), kept breaking down and so commuters would find themselves stuck either inside or outside the trains!
It was also discovered that the trains were a slightly different width from the old ones and so some platforms had to be 'shaved' to prevent the trains from scraping against them. The toilets keep breaking down, can't be filled with water or emptied and so it's fairly common to be on a train out of London (1.5 hours to home) with no working toilets and to cap it all, on some units the carriage coupling systems (high-tech, of course), don't work properly so, for example, at my home station where two trains meet and couple to form a 12 carriage commuter unit for London, it's fairly common for only the front 8 to be available - leading to more overcrowding. The new units are so packed with electronics that they generate a heck of a lot of RF interference and it's impossible to get a good radio signal; my only 'pleasure' of the London journey was dozing to the news and this is not possible any more. Finally, considering that my home area is a major commuter run into the City of London, it's crazy that, unlike some other regional services, the train company hasn't provided power outlets for laptops - mind you, considering their power problems, perhaps this isn't a surprise.
I spent some of my electronics engineering apprenticeship in Unit Test where I had to test 5V 300A and 5V 600A power supplies.
We had a FET-based active load for testing and we had to bolt the PSUs to the load with 1 inch copper braid, put the units in a thick plexiglass/Perspex cage and run them at 110% of rated load for 10 minutes.
When we got busy, one of the other engineers soldered up a ton of wirewound resistors to act as a load and fitted them into a spare 19" rack with a large red 'emergency stop' button on the top to cut off the power. The whole rig looked like a McGyver special, but it worked and I wasn't too afraid to use it-but when we got VERY busy, I was told to forget about bolting on the braids, just hold them in place, wind up the active load to 110% and keep it there for 20 secs and 'that will do' - I refused, much to the annoyance of the Unit Test manager who couldn't actually force me to do so!
The guy who made up the resistor load was really mad - it was the era of the BBC micro and he'd lashed up his own floppy drive, but discovered that he couldn't copy one particular game or program because the drive he was using wouldn't step properly to one of the 'hidden tracks' (or something like that), so he bought an official external drive (for some crazy price - it was 1982, after all), did his copying and then hooked up the ground wire of our PSUs to the chassis of the floppy drive and dragged a wire hooked to the +5v line around all the chips' legs - end result was tons of sparks and one very smoky unit which he took back for a full refund. Apparently he complained bitterly to the shop about the way the drive had suddenly 'exploded'.
This was also the guy that fell over and broke his leg walking across the car park one sunny day - we really couldn't work out how he managed it! He also removed all the light fittings from a temporary work cabin the night before it was due to go back to the hire shop - when the hire company came to pick it up, they refused to take it so our boss called us all together and said it might be a good idea if the light fittings returned 'tonight' - lo, next day they were all back in place.
Cup of coffee in a hotel restaurant after your meal = £3.00
Cup of coffee back in your room = £0 (complementary) + free pack of biscuits!
(Just don't make it with the £2.50 bottle of mineral water)
A quick scan of the headline and I was wondering why they'd use a Casio engine - OS + calculator-style graph graphics in perfect harmony!?
True, Emin's bed is one form of art - I call it 'celeb art' but then if I got paid to do that kinda stuff I'd be happy to do it.
With celeb art (like beds and piles of bananas), you can get away with anything provided that there's someone so smitten with you that they will fund your folly so you receive enough income that you can afford the time and tools to do things that others would not aspire to because:
1) they are a waste of time
2) they cannot afford the raw materials
3) they do not have the workspace
4) they are unlikely to be taken seriously
By my definition, art should include a degree of artistic talent to create a work that has uniqueness in its design or inception - making a messy bed is on the fringes of this because no talent has gone into making the bed, the 'talent' is in finding someone gullible enough to consider it art and the uniqueness is that no one has got away with it before.
Try this test:
Would someone show the fictitious work 'Pile of newspapers with hammer' by Tracy Emin - probably.
Would someone show 'Pile of newspapers with hammer' by Ann Nonymous - less likely.
At the end of the day it's not the quality of that type of art that demands it be viewed but simply the creator's name and once the creator has had a few works exhibited the 'establishment' goes into 'Emperor's new clothes' mode where no one holding the purse strings even thinks to question the merit in the work.
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According to the article:
"To make for easier processing and power saving, the LSB can now be fixed as a one OR a zero (according to which standard you use) for ALL operations.
1) Fixing this bit means one less digit to process (or shift) because its state is now globally known - for 16-bit computations, this will save a nominal 1/16th of the effective processing time, thus speeding up programs with only a marginal loss of numerical accuracy.
2) Because the bit no longer needs to be toggled between logic states, that saves the energy wastage of 4-6 transistors per flip-flop or gate per processor cycle (or 1 FET/CMOS gate for DRAM-type memory) - considering that modern CPUs operate at millions of cycles per second, the energy saving, although fundamentally measured in picowatts, soon adds up to a siginficant amount. Future developments on this power saving feature may see the 'recovered' energy recycled onto the national grid as a chargeback to the consumer or used to charge domestic appliances, portable devices such as cell phones and MP3 players etc."
We're currently leaving our options open on that one.