Lego is all about imagination; you don't need a piece that is *shaped* like a dragon's head, you need something that with a little imagination *becomes* a dragon's head; where's the fun in sticking together a pre-formed dragon from 6 moulded pieces, which can only be combined with other blocks in a few ways, when you can make the same thing from 60 standard pieces and use it in virtually infinite variations, incorporating pieces from other sets?
Are kids these days really too dumb to follow those amazing isometric construction guides? Or do the marketing men *think* they are too dumb?
1) Use specific tritium charger only. Do not use a NiMH or NiCd charger - Failure to do so may a cause fire, which may result in personal injury and property damage, across a wide area.
2) Never charge batteries unattended. When charging H-3 batteries you should always remain in constant observation to monitor the charging process and react to potential problems that may occur, by running away, fast.
3) Some H-3 chargers on the market may have technical deficiencies that may cause it to charge the H-3 batteries incorrectly or at an improper rate. It is your responsibility solely to assure the charger you purchased works properly. Always monitor charging process to assure batteries are being charged properly. Failure to do so may result in meltdown.
4) If at any time you witness a battery starting to balloon or swell up, discontinue charging process immediately, disconnect the battery and observe it in a safe place, several miles away, for approximately 500 years. This may cause the battery to leak, and the reaction with air may cause the isotopes to chain-react, resulting in mushroom cloud.
5) Since delayed chain reaction can occur, it is best to observe the battery as a safety precaution. Battery observation should occur in a safe area outside of any building or vehicle and away from any fissile material.
6) Wire lead shorts can cause fire! If you accidentally short the wires, the batterymust be placed in a safe area for observation for approximately 800 years. Additionally, if a short occurs and contact is made with metal (such as rings on your hand), severe injuries may occur due to the conductibility of electric current.
7) A battery can still fission even after 1000 years.
8) In the event of a crash, you must remove battery for observation and place in a safe open area away from any combustible material, and major cities, for approximately 5000 years.
9) If for any reason you need to cut the terminal wires, it will be necessary to cut each wire separately, ensuring the wires to not touch each other or a short may occur, potentially causing a chain-reaction.
10) To solder a connector: Remove insulating 8-inch lead shielding of Red wire and solder to positive terminal of a connector, then remove insulating 8-inch lead shielding of Black wire and solder to the negative terminal of connector. Be careful not to short the wire lead. If you accidentally cause the battery to short, place it in a safe open space and observe the battery for approximately 100,000 years. A battery may swell or even possibly induce fission after a geologically insignificant time.
11) Never store or charge battery pack inside your car in extreme temperatures, since extreme temperature could cause irreparable damage to you car, and blow away half the state.
With apologies to thunderpower-batteries.com
... Sinharoy noted during his presentation that the PowerPC 970, the processor that drives Apple's G5, was derived from the Power4 design, suggesting that such a step would be logical again as IBM engineers refine the Power5 design. The PowerPC 970 strips one processor core from the Power4 design and also includes several other connection and multiprocessing sacrifices to make the chip small and affordable enough for desktop use.
Therefore, porting from PowerPC (G5) to POWER (5) would be like porting to run on the PPC G6+, which sounds useful to me, at least!
...with Intel coming out with dual-core IA64 chips, Apple/IBM has to come out with both dual-core PPCs and dual-processor-dual-core machines to keep ahead.
Although dual-CPU Intel machines are nothing new, they've not really had much penetration of the Intel desktop market in comparison to Apple's dual CPU machines in the Mac market; that barrier of the more expensive dual-CPU-motherboard has been lifted for Intel machines, and the possibilty of a significant number of new Intel machines being dual-(core)-CPU is serious competition for Apple's USP in this domain.
[Slightly-OT] Why doesn't Apple start producing a Power (as opposed to PowerPC) version of the XServe for the high end? What's the price differential? What's the performance differential? How difficult would it be to port 64-bit Darwin/MacOS X to Power?
Hey, why don't they use something that nobody could find offensive, even in the most Bible-bashing districts of the middle of no-where? What about, oh, I don't know, Charles Darwin or something?
In Java, at least most common JVMs in use today, the stack will blow first ( just like in C), at the -Xss limit throwing a java.lang.StackOverflowError; if not, the only memory used will be up to the -Xmx limit, by default 64M, although normally more in any significant application, throwing a OutOfMemoryError.
Because of these Sandbox limits, it is unlikely that a single Java JVM would churn up 2GB of swap, unless you configure it with 2GB more stack than you physically have!
At University, my favorite way of DoSing my own box, if Mr.Grim Reboot from E.Eng decided to run circuit simulations on it, was to do:
void main(char** argv, int arg) { while(1) { int pid = fork(); malloc(10000000); } }
When Mr.G.R. gave up, a little Ctrl-C would bring the box back up.
Not sure how effective this is at the frequencies we are talking about, but this one uses a safe nickel pigment, and is entirely odourless and solvent free: ECOS EMR radiation shielding paint.
I've just invented a fully functional car with no engine! Does 0-60 in 7 seconds, top-speed 120mph, at the same time boasting a fuel consumption of infinity mpg! The car literally uses no energy, produces no pollution, and will go on and on for miles and miles, literally until the wheels wear out! Coming to a major motor manufacturer near you soon!!*
* requires 4-litre diesel operated tread-mill to be in contact with wheels at all times.
BLACKADDER: This is called adding. If I have two beans, and then I add two more, what do I have? BALDRICK: Some beans. BLACKADDER: Yes... and no. Let's try again, shall we? I have two beans, then I add two more beans. What does that make? BALDRICK: A very small casserole. BLACKADDER: Baldrick, the ape creatures of the Indus have mastered this. Now try again. One, two, three, four. So, how many are there? BALDRICK: Three. BLACKADDER: What? BALDRICK: And that one. BLACKADDER: Three... and that one. So, if I add that one to the three, what will I have? BALDRICK: Oh! Some beans.
An isolated issue occurred this morning (roughly during the period of 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. ET), where multiple Akamai customers experienced intermittent performance and availability degradation.
This degradation was the result of a bug within one of Akamai's backend content control management tools, which allows the expiration of content on the Akamai network. The degradation was not a result of any outside interference with Akamai's network (such as Denial of Service or hacking).
Upon identification of the bug, Akamai quickly took corrective action which returned customers to normal service levels. Akamai is currently putting measures in place to return the content management tool to its normal working order and is adding safeguards such that the issue will not occur in the future. In the meantime, Akamai customers are able to serve their content through the Akamai Network normally.
As part of Akamai's normal proactive customer communication policy, Akamai customers will be kept informed of the latest developments through the Akamai portal, the EdgeControl Management Center, https://control.akamai.com. Any further inquiries may be directed at Akamai Customer Care at 1-877-4-AKATEC.
Oh man, where can I get me a handheld jammer for mobile phones?
If I hear "I'm on/in the train/bus/cinema" once more, I reserve the right to go Postal(TM)...
According to Neil Gaiman's "Hitch Hikers Guide to Douglas Adams" the Max Headroom character was created by the same studio that made the H2G2 TV 'Book' graphics (which were animated my hand, not computer), and the character was in a rubber mask.
Maybe post-processing/keying was done on Video Toaster?
I didn't get spam on my personal account for years, by providing unique emails to everything I signed up for, and otherwise being very careful in the ways suggested.
Even the one email address I have on my homepage has only got spammed a handful of times, so collection of addresses by spidering is not really a root cause (too resource intense?)
However, I do now get shed-loads of spam on my personal account; why?
Because each time one of those bloody Windows email viruses comes out, someone I know falls for it, and my email address has got out that way. I think the first time I got spammed was shortly after the Melissa virus hit.
This kind of two-way synchronization is what you pay top-$$$ for.Mac for; and it works.
I keep up to three Macs and my Sony Ericsson T68i synced up this way, and it works fine (Bookmarks, Calendar, Address Book). I can enter new events, new bookmarks etc. on.Mac when I'm at work on a PC, and retrieve them through iSync when I get back home.
The WebDAV iCal publishing thing is only one-way, and will remain one-way because Apple want you to buy.Mac...
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Here's a very good article from the IET about the AGC hardware: http://kn.theiet.org/magazine/issues/0912/smart-apollo-0912.cfm
How much is he paying? Er...
As the manufacturer of the 'Cult of Slashdot' F-meter, I demand you remove parent post immediately!
Absolutely spot on!
Lego is all about imagination; you don't need a piece that is *shaped* like a dragon's head, you need something that with a little imagination *becomes* a dragon's head; where's the fun in sticking together a pre-formed dragon from 6 moulded pieces, which can only be combined with other blocks in a few ways, when you can make the same thing from 60 standard pieces and use it in virtually infinite variations, incorporating pieces from other sets?
Are kids these days really too dumb to follow those amazing isometric construction guides? Or do the marketing men *think* they are too dumb?
Er, maybe you're not looking at it the right way? It's a completely standard XML document with standard XML header and xmlns declarations...
1) Use specific tritium charger only. Do not use a NiMH or NiCd charger - Failure to do so may a cause fire, which may result in personal injury and property damage, across a wide area. 2) Never charge batteries unattended. When charging H-3 batteries you should always remain in constant observation to monitor the charging process and react to potential problems that may occur, by running away, fast. 3) Some H-3 chargers on the market may have technical deficiencies that may cause it to charge the H-3 batteries incorrectly or at an improper rate. It is your responsibility solely to assure the charger you purchased works properly. Always monitor charging process to assure batteries are being charged properly. Failure to do so may result in meltdown. 4) If at any time you witness a battery starting to balloon or swell up, discontinue charging process immediately, disconnect the battery and observe it in a safe place, several miles away, for approximately 500 years. This may cause the battery to leak, and the reaction with air may cause the isotopes to chain-react, resulting in mushroom cloud. 5) Since delayed chain reaction can occur, it is best to observe the battery as a safety precaution. Battery observation should occur in a safe area outside of any building or vehicle and away from any fissile material. 6) Wire lead shorts can cause fire! If you accidentally short the wires, the battery must be placed in a safe area for observation for approximately 800 years. Additionally, if a short occurs and contact is made with metal (such as rings on your hand), severe injuries may occur due to the conductibility of electric current. 7) A battery can still fission even after 1000 years. 8) In the event of a crash, you must remove battery for observation and place in a safe open area away from any combustible material, and major cities, for approximately 5000 years. 9) If for any reason you need to cut the terminal wires, it will be necessary to cut each wire separately, ensuring the wires to not touch each other or a short may occur, potentially causing a chain-reaction. 10) To solder a connector: Remove insulating 8-inch lead shielding of Red wire and solder to positive terminal of a connector, then remove insulating 8-inch lead shielding of Black wire and solder to the negative terminal of connector. Be careful not to short the wire lead. If you accidentally cause the battery to short, place it in a safe open space and observe the battery for approximately 100,000 years. A battery may swell or even possibly induce fission after a geologically insignificant time. 11) Never store or charge battery pack inside your car in extreme temperatures, since extreme temperature could cause irreparable damage to you car, and blow away half the state.
With apologies to thunderpower-batteries.com
Excellent! Now I won't have to fix all those Y2038 bugs in my UNIX code! Go asteroid!!!
Maybe Microsoft could offer some kind of discount?
I mean that's never happened before...
Not only has Singapore partially lifted it's chewing gum ban under pressure from the US, but Ireland, who were thinking of taxing chewing gum, now seems like it won't; and a little bird tells me that the pressure not to do so came from the US Government, apparently the top of the US government (yeah, him). Insane huh?
Hmm, I beg to differ.
POWER is not an older artitecture, but a contemporary server architecture, in contract to PPC's desktop architecture.
This article, linked from the Power Architecture Resource Center site, imples that the PPC970, aka G5, is derived from the POWER4 artictecture:
Therefore, porting from PowerPC (G5) to POWER (5) would be like porting to run on the PPC G6+, which sounds useful to me, at least!
...with Intel coming out with dual-core IA64 chips, Apple/IBM has to come out with both dual-core PPCs and dual-processor-dual-core machines to keep ahead.
Although dual-CPU Intel machines are nothing new, they've not really had much penetration of the Intel desktop market in comparison to Apple's dual CPU machines in the Mac market; that barrier of the more expensive dual-CPU-motherboard has been lifted for Intel machines, and the possibilty of a significant number of new Intel machines being dual-(core)-CPU is serious competition for Apple's USP in this domain.
[Slightly-OT] Why doesn't Apple start producing a Power (as opposed to PowerPC) version of the XServe for the high end? What's the price differential? What's the performance differential? How difficult would it be to port 64-bit Darwin/MacOS X to Power?
Hey, why don't they use something that nobody could find offensive, even in the most Bible-bashing districts of the middle of no-where? What about, oh, I don't know, Charles Darwin or something?
Oh, wait...
Point is well made, but just to clarify:
In Java, at least most common JVMs in use today, the stack will blow first ( just like in C), at the -Xss limit throwing a java.lang.StackOverflowError; if not, the only memory used will be up to the -Xmx limit, by default 64M, although normally more in any significant application, throwing a OutOfMemoryError.
Because of these Sandbox limits, it is unlikely that a single Java JVM would churn up 2GB of swap, unless you configure it with 2GB more stack than you physically have!
At University, my favorite way of DoSing my own box, if Mr.Grim Reboot from E.Eng decided to run circuit simulations on it, was to do:
When Mr.G.R. gave up, a little Ctrl-C would bring the box back up.
Simple. Effective.
Not sure how effective this is at the frequencies we are talking about, but this one uses a safe nickel pigment, and is entirely odourless and solvent free: ECOS EMR radiation shielding paint.
I've just invented a fully functional car with no engine! Does 0-60 in 7 seconds, top-speed 120mph, at the same time boasting a fuel consumption of infinity mpg! The car literally uses no energy, produces no pollution, and will go on and on for miles and miles, literally until the wheels wear out! Coming to a major motor manufacturer near you soon!!*
* requires 4-litre diesel operated tread-mill to be in contact with wheels at all times.That's right; the BBC doesn't make anything up; however the government is very good at covering up (and then pointing the finger)...
BLACKADDER: This is called adding. If I have two beans, and then I add two more, what do I have?
BALDRICK: Some beans.
BLACKADDER: Yes... and no. Let's try again, shall we? I have two beans, then I add two more beans. What does that make?
BALDRICK: A very small casserole.
BLACKADDER: Baldrick, the ape creatures of the Indus have mastered this. Now try again. One, two, three, four. So, how many are there?
BALDRICK: Three.
BLACKADDER: What?
BALDRICK: And that one.
BLACKADDER: Three... and that one. So, if I add that one to the three, what will I have?
BALDRICK: Oh! Some beans.
Wot, no use of the phrase "iPod Killer"?
Quick someone, address the imbalance!!
An isolated issue occurred this morning (roughly during the period of 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. ET), where multiple Akamai customers experienced intermittent performance and availability degradation.
This degradation was the result of a bug within one of Akamai's backend content control management tools, which allows the expiration of content on the Akamai network. The degradation was not a result of any outside interference with Akamai's network (such as Denial of Service or hacking).
Upon identification of the bug, Akamai quickly took corrective action which returned customers to normal service levels. Akamai is currently putting measures in place to return the content management tool to its normal working order and is adding safeguards such that the issue will not occur in the future. In the meantime, Akamai customers are able to serve their content through the Akamai Network normally.
As part of Akamai's normal proactive customer communication policy, Akamai customers will be kept informed of the latest developments through the Akamai portal, the EdgeControl Management Center, https://control.akamai.com. Any further inquiries may be directed at Akamai Customer Care at 1-877-4-AKATEC.
Oh man, where can I get me a handheld jammer for mobile phones? If I hear "I'm on/in the train/bus/cinema" once more, I reserve the right to go Postal(TM)...
Actually, they had a version that ran on NeXTStep - I used it circa 1996.
I guess all that code got dumped some time ago...
According to Neil Gaiman's "Hitch Hikers Guide to Douglas Adams" the Max Headroom character was created by the same studio that made the H2G2 TV 'Book' graphics (which were animated my hand, not computer), and the character was in a rubber mask.
Maybe post-processing/keying was done on Video Toaster?
I didn't get spam on my personal account for years, by providing unique emails to everything I signed up for, and otherwise being very careful in the ways suggested.
Even the one email address I have on my homepage has only got spammed a handful of times, so collection of addresses by spidering is not really a root cause (too resource intense?)
However, I do now get shed-loads of spam on my personal account; why?
Because each time one of those bloody Windows email viruses comes out, someone I know falls for it, and my email address has got out that way. I think the first time I got spammed was shortly after the Melissa virus hit.
Really annoying.
7. don't have any friends, unless they are l33t!
This kind of two-way synchronization is what you pay top-$$$ for .Mac for; and it works.
.Mac when I'm at work on a PC, and retrieve them through iSync when I get back home.
.Mac ...
I keep up to three Macs and my Sony Ericsson T68i synced up this way, and it works fine (Bookmarks, Calendar, Address Book). I can enter new events, new bookmarks etc. on
The WebDAV iCal publishing thing is only one-way, and will remain one-way because Apple want you to buy