1. Leak a highly controversial new policy to the media 2. Wait for the reaction 3. If it's overtly hostile, shelve the policy and deny all knowledge 4. ??? 5. Get re-elected!
I just think it's rather cool that there are still some things - i.e. amplify UHF signals - that only tubes can do (I'll ignore Marshall tops and audiophile equipment for a moment, since solid-state equipment can do almost the same job). Tubes might be hot, fragile and short-lived, but they look great when you turn the lights out.
It's 60-70UKP for a replacement battery from the phone maker. Clone batteries are about 20UKP. I've had no problem with mine - it lasts just as long as the original and doesn't get hot.
Most people in the UK actually replace their phone at least once a year, either because they get a free upgrade from the network in return for signing a new 12 month contract, or simply because of fashion. The dead battery issue rarely arises!
This famous film (well, famous for a Japanese film) might have been more of an influence than Wallace & Gromit. I tried to watch it once but it's more than a bit weird.
Quake and all its descendants use UDP. While this is faster than TCP, packets are inevitably lost but the game is designed to cope with this - it just picks up player positions again from the next packet that arrives, which occasionally gives jerky play (the impression to the player is of a very high ping).
Data-critical processes - that's most real-world applications - have to use TCP to ensure completeness of transmission, so maybe this isn't the best test for the grid?
Line all the players up and have one of them fire a railgun through the remainder [1]. Allegedly someone tried this at a LAN with 64 players and the server crashed. The problem is that the server has to send 4,032 death messages instantaneously. With 250 players it would have to do 62,250.
[1] for the uninitiated, a Quake 2 railgun slug keeps going through any number of targets until it hits a wall or other part of the scenery.
And, according to popular culture, when you go up to a chemist's counter and ask for razor blades, the assistant always assumes you really wanted condoms but you bottled it!
The serpentine spy...can be dropped out of helicopters to carry out reconnaissance missions
I'm not surprised it needs to be resilient! What are the relative odds of the snake damaging itself on landing vs. someone managing to hit it with an AK-47?
I'm sure it's just a form of one-upmanship. Look at that "hard drive cooler" - it's just a load of central heating microbore tubing, isn't it? I can't believe that's the BEST way to get good heat transfer, even though most IDE hard drives are perfectly happy without any cooling whatsoever. All those pipes really look as if they'd get in the way when you're trying to install an upgrade. And is it just me, or does that northbridge only have a passive heatsink? These things can get quite hot, and there's no airflow through the case.
Air cooling still has plenty of mileage - bigger fans at lower rpm are what we need. I have two 120mm case fans running through a rheostat, and the noise is insignificant compared to the little 60mm CPU fan (no, it's not even a Delta).
OK, it has a big specific heat capacity, but given that you can just increase the pump speed to compensate, why not use something non-conductive like paraffin? This wouldn't wreck your mobo when a joint popped.
Shouldn't we have a new/. icon for viruses? They're not bugs, because they generally - Blaster DoS URL cock-up notwithstanding - do exactly what they're supposed to.
OTOH, we could replace the Bill-as-Stephen-Hawking with the bug icon, and no-one would care;-)
MS will say the delay is so they can check the SP is fully stable, but does that mean all of those d/ling the individual patches and letting them loose on our boxen are guinea pigs? Of course it does, but what choice do we have with crap like Blaster around?
Card counting merely exposes the fact that blackjack is a weak game. Other games, such as poker, positively encourage players to remember what has been played.
Maybe blackjack is only still played in casinos because it's simple enough for J. Random Gambler to understand. Although not Homer Simpson..."Hit me; hit me; hit me; (makes 21); hit me; D'oh!"
Do you think filesharing of singles might actually be keeping album sales going, given that the singles market - basically there to promote albums - was moribund even before MP3? UK CD sales are currently at their highest EVER.
Part of the difficulty facing the company stemmed from the use of the name "Palm" for more than one thing
I have the same problem. Gypsies always give me strange looks when I take a tropical plant into the caravan to have my fortune told, and I've been waiting for my hand to produce coconuts for 34 years now.
Apart from a (very few) 3G phone users, we're all on GSM 900 or 1800 MHz. I understand there are two or three different mobile technologies in the US; does this use more spectrum?
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1. Leak a highly controversial new policy to the media
2. Wait for the reaction
3. If it's overtly hostile, shelve the policy and deny all knowledge
4. ???
5. Get re-elected!
I just think it's rather cool that there are still some things - i.e. amplify UHF signals - that only tubes can do (I'll ignore Marshall tops and audiophile equipment for a moment, since solid-state equipment can do almost the same job). Tubes might be hot, fragile and short-lived, but they look great when you turn the lights out.
Most people in the UK actually replace their phone at least once a year, either because they get a free upgrade from the network in return for signing a new 12 month contract, or simply because of fashion. The dead battery issue rarely arises!
This famous film (well, famous for a Japanese film) might have been more of an influence than Wallace & Gromit. I tried to watch it once but it's more than a bit weird.
Data-critical processes - that's most real-world applications - have to use TCP to ensure completeness of transmission, so maybe this isn't the best test for the grid?
[1] for the uninitiated, a Quake 2 railgun slug keeps going through any number of targets until it hits a wall or other part of the scenery.
And, according to popular culture, when you go up to a chemist's counter and ask for razor blades, the assistant always assumes you really wanted condoms but you bottled it!
So Tesco decide to run a pilot in probably the most technologically-aware city in England, and are surpised when people protest?
I'm not surprised it needs to be resilient! What are the relative odds of the snake damaging itself on landing vs. someone managing to hit it with an AK-47?
Hey, I'm not George W Bush, you know!
Nah, the whole galaxy would sound like a frickin' frat house.
Will the guy who hacked Kazaa into Kazaa Lite please give us a little help? Thanks.
i jst went 2 c charlies ():)z 2 & it rly sukD. d RT of d king shud b kewl tho.
...but the whole block is getting a TV picture like TV2 Albania!
Air cooling still has plenty of mileage - bigger fans at lower rpm are what we need. I have two 120mm case fans running through a rheostat, and the noise is insignificant compared to the little 60mm CPU fan (no, it's not even a Delta).
OK, it has a big specific heat capacity, but given that you can just increase the pump speed to compensate, why not use something non-conductive like paraffin? This wouldn't wreck your mobo when a joint popped.
My apologies. I wouldn't know what a Borg was, as the only Star Trek I like is the original campy Shatner version.
OTOH, we could replace the Bill-as-Stephen-Hawking with the bug icon, and no-one would care ;-)
/me exposes himself as a Windows luser
Wasn't it 70 lines yesterday?
Maybe blackjack is only still played in casinos because it's simple enough for J. Random Gambler to understand. Although not Homer Simpson..."Hit me; hit me; hit me; (makes 21); hit me; D'oh!"
I'll get me coat.
Do you think filesharing of singles might actually be keeping album sales going, given that the singles market - basically there to promote albums - was moribund even before MP3? UK CD sales are currently at their highest EVER.
I have the same problem. Gypsies always give me strange looks when I take a tropical plant into the caravan to have my fortune told, and I've been waiting for my hand to produce coconuts for 34 years now.
Apart from a (very few) 3G phone users, we're all on GSM 900 or 1800 MHz. I understand there are two or three different mobile technologies in the US; does this use more spectrum?