Hmmm, I've always wondered if I could add the missing component(s) and get the missing feature(s)?
It would be tricky but not impossible - modern circuit boards are surface mount. The components are soldered onto the circuit board using teeny-tiny balls of solder.
Cutting a hole in the face plate would be fairly simple, assuming you could find a matching connector. Although you might need to add the
other components such as resistors and capacitors.
A couple of times in the past, I've bought graphics cards from leading chip makers only to find out that various features were missing eg. DVI out, TV out. This is even though the circuit boards had solder bumps for the components and the manuals/box said that option was present. So what happened. Surely a DVI/TV out connector couldn't be that expensive to add?
It will begin the red-giant phase when it starts fusing helium
This is one thing I don't understand about red giant stars. How can a star expand in size, if it's mass remains the same? If less heat is generated (which drives the convection currents to the outer layers on the surface), then the star should shrink rather than expand?
"Working the ICANN process is like being in deep space with a broken hyperdrive and a pair of arguing Wookies" said Tom Galvin, VeriSign's vice president for government relations. "It takes forever, it doesn't make sense, and in the end we're still dead in the water."
Very often, when anyone tries to access a now non-existant web page, the ISP owning the relevant server will forward you to one of their home pages. Or maybe a web domain speculator will buy up a domain name, and use that to forward you to their search engine. Verisign could argue they're doing something similar. Obviously it's wrong, but it's more or less what other people are doing.
Maybe pootie is a reference to the movie Pootie Tang. The front character on the inlay cover seems to match the character in the drawing. The cabinet looks like something dedicated to telephony. Maybe it used to house dedicated "private outgoing tie lines".
You think that's bad? The bartender in our local pub keeps track of what everyone has ordered, how much they paid, and even at which table they're sitting at. There's no privacy any more.
Personally, I'd like to have as many possible options as possible. You don't know what potential accident can happen. A truck could slide out of control, whack out the local telephone distribution box and crash into your house/flat at the same time as your mobile is recharging in another room. If a VoIP telephone provides another pathway to help I'm happy. There have been stories of people being rescued while having heart attacks, while using IRC, so VoIP shouldn't be any different.
I've always wondered if we could have laser powered jet engines. Instead of using gasoline to make the air expand, we'd use UV lasers (or whatever absorption band wavelengths oxygen/nitrogen have) to heat up the air.
When I read the first line in your comment, it looked like "Storing Light In ChipMunks" - I wondered what would happen when they were hibernating in Winter; would they glow or turn dark.
So the boys and girls of PreEmptive Solutions built a version of DashO that not only optimized, but also obfuscated in whole new (and patented) ways. Instead of adding useless code, for example, it changed all the variable names -- hundreds, even thousands of them -- to the same name, for example "a." Try to figure that out from a code printout..
These Java and.NET obfuscators are just the same old anti-SoftICE sections, which were just the same old Amiga/Atari copylocks,
That's very true. The Atari technique consisted of setting the variable and array name tables to zero length strings. It was fairly easy to read the saved binary files of the Atari BASIC programs and read the command tokens. From these you could deduce what the variable was being used for, and rename it accordingly.
Yes, they're both +5 rustproof blessed probes of exploration.
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Because if they were sent to the polar ice caps, they'd probably get stuck in an ice-crevice or snowdrift upon landing. And you don't want to land on mountains or rough terrain either.
Even if there were lakes or oceans on Mars, you wouldn't want to land on them because the probe would be constantly bobbing about, making satellite communications extremely difficult.
So that leaves flat, soft sandy deserts as your only choice.
Even more importantly, Hollywood made the movie The Void about the dangers of creating black holes on Earth. . As long as the accelerator is underground we should all be safe.
Out of curiousity, does anyone remember the name of the sci-fi ahort story about a kid in the future who owns a micro-shrunk miniature model of a star, overfeeds it, eventually causing it spins out into a superthin black hole and eventually digests the Earth?
So what? Your grandma gets investigated. She has nothing to hide. So after months of jumping through hoops and being accused of all kinds of thing she finally provides enough documentation to call off the hounds.
And then she suffers a stroke from all the stress that this has caused. And all the money that she has saved has to be spent on medical expenses, rehabilitation and a care home.
Help, I am Astronomy research assistant about to submit a paper for publication. We're trying to add some high-resolution telescope images of a distant galaxy, but the software refuses to open the images unless we crop out certain constellations. Can anyone help?
How many people haven't tried writing their own image file read/writers, got a few conditionals wrong up and written out a dodgy image file that crashes their own applications, the PC let alone the desktop.
Given Windows XP ability to display thumbnail views of JPG's, TIF's and MPG's (even though it can display the first frame of MPG-2, but not actually play the movie), there could be some serious fun to be had there...
Yes you can... a presenter on a national live TV chat show once decided to organise a telephone poll using the studio's telephone number. This was done without informing the telephone company.
Ten minutes later, the local exchange became unusable as all the national lines were busy, and the telephone company wasn't exactly happy.
Going off topic... if everyone switched to VoIP, would the Internet be able to handle New Years Eve/Day?
another example is Beta vs. VHS - VHS was open to all vendors, Beta was for too long a Sony-only technology
Another reason was that Beta was limited to record for one hour only (low-tech copy protection), thus preventing users from recording movies. Even though the VHS tape was bulkier, it had the ability to record for two hours.
(Google search: VHS vs. Betamax)
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Hmmm, I've always wondered if I could add the missing component(s) and get the missing feature(s)?
It would be tricky but not impossible - modern circuit boards are surface mount. The components are soldered onto the circuit board using teeny-tiny balls of solder. Cutting a hole in the face plate would be fairly simple, assuming you could find a matching connector. Although you might need to add the other components such as resistors and capacitors.
A couple of times in the past, I've bought graphics cards from leading chip makers only to find out that various features were missing eg. DVI out, TV out. This is even though the circuit boards had solder bumps for the components and the manuals/box said that option was present. So what happened. Surely a DVI/TV out connector couldn't be that expensive to add?
From: Leather Goddesses of Phobos
]There is a machine here, with a sign saying "T-remover".
>Open door
>Place rabbit in machine
>close door
>start machine
]The machine comes to life and there is a brilliant flash of light.
]A rather suprised looking rabbi jumps out of the machine and runs away.
It will begin the red-giant phase when it starts fusing helium
This is one thing I don't understand about red giant stars. How can a star expand in size, if it's mass remains the same? If less heat is generated (which drives the convection currents to the outer layers on the surface), then the star should shrink rather than expand?
It should have read:
"Working the ICANN process is like being in deep space with a broken hyperdrive and a pair of arguing Wookies" said Tom Galvin, VeriSign's vice president for government relations. "It takes forever, it doesn't make sense, and in the end we're still dead in the water."
Very often, when anyone tries to access a now non-existant web page, the ISP owning the relevant server will forward you to one of their home pages. Or maybe a web domain speculator will buy up a domain name, and use that to forward you to their search engine. Verisign could argue they're doing something similar. Obviously it's wrong, but it's more or less what other people are doing.
Maybe pootie is a reference to the movie Pootie Tang. The front character on the inlay cover seems to match the character in the drawing. The cabinet looks like something dedicated to telephony. Maybe it used to house dedicated "private outgoing tie lines".
You think that's bad? The bartender in our local pub keeps track of what everyone has ordered, how much they paid, and even at which table they're sitting at. There's no privacy any more.
DSL unplugged...?
Personally, I'd like to have as many possible options as possible. You don't know what potential accident can happen. A truck could slide out of control, whack out the local telephone distribution box and crash into your house/flat at the same time as your mobile is recharging in another room. If a VoIP telephone provides another pathway to help I'm happy. There have been stories of people being rescued while having heart attacks, while using IRC, so VoIP shouldn't be any different.
Don't forget the Norwegian fjords's. Slartibartfast got an award for those.
I've always wondered if we could have laser powered jet engines. Instead of using gasoline to make the air expand, we'd use UV lasers (or whatever absorption band wavelengths oxygen/nitrogen have) to heat up the air.
When I read the first line in your comment, it looked like "Storing Light In ChipMunks" - I wondered what would happen when they were hibernating in Winter; would they glow or turn dark.
So the boys and girls of PreEmptive Solutions built a version of DashO that not only optimized, but also obfuscated in whole new (and patented) ways. Instead of adding useless code, for example, it changed all the variable names -- hundreds, even thousands of them -- to the same name, for example "a." Try to figure that out from a code printout..
.NET obfuscators are just the same old anti-SoftICE sections, which were just the same old Amiga/Atari copylocks,
These Java and
That's very true. The Atari technique consisted of setting the variable and array name tables to zero length strings. It was fairly easy to read the saved binary files of the Atari BASIC programs and read the command tokens. From these you could deduce what the variable was being used for, and rename it accordingly.
Yes, they're both +5 rustproof blessed probes of exploration.
Because if they were sent to the polar ice caps, they'd probably get stuck in an ice-crevice or snowdrift upon landing. And you don't want to land on mountains or rough terrain either.
Even if there were lakes or oceans on Mars, you wouldn't want to land on them because the probe would be constantly bobbing about, making satellite communications extremely difficult.
So that leaves flat, soft sandy deserts as your only choice.
...a Jolt Cola party works for our team.
Even more importantly, Hollywood made the movie The Void about the dangers of creating black holes on Earth. . As long as the accelerator is underground we should all be safe.
Out of curiousity, does anyone remember the name of the sci-fi ahort story about a kid in the future who owns a micro-shrunk miniature model of a star, overfeeds it, eventually causing it spins out into a superthin black hole and eventually digests the Earth?
Is there going to be a lindot...
I look forward to hearing Microsoft go: Lindot Lindot Lindot Lindash Lindash Lindash Lindot Lindot Lindot
So what? Your grandma gets investigated. She has nothing to hide. So after months of jumping through hoops and being accused of all kinds of thing she finally provides enough documentation to call off the hounds.
And then she suffers a stroke from all the stress that this has caused. And all the money that she has saved has to be spent on medical expenses, rehabilitation and a care home.
Yes, wonderful idea.
Help, I am Astronomy research assistant about to submit a paper for publication. We're trying to add some high-resolution telescope images of a distant galaxy, but the software refuses to open the images unless we crop out certain constellations. Can anyone help?
... as there is the wrong type of dust on the ground.
How many people haven't tried writing their own image file read/writers, got a few conditionals wrong up and written out a dodgy image file that crashes their own applications, the PC let alone the desktop.
Given Windows XP ability to display thumbnail views of JPG's, TIF's and MPG's (even though it can display the first frame of MPG-2, but not actually play the movie), there could be some serious fun to be had there...
Yes you can... a presenter on a national live TV chat show once decided to organise a telephone poll using the studio's telephone number. This was done without informing the telephone company. Ten minutes later, the local exchange became unusable as all the national lines were busy, and the telephone company wasn't exactly happy.
Going off topic... if everyone switched to VoIP, would the Internet be able to handle New Years Eve/Day?
another example is Beta vs. VHS - VHS was open to all vendors, Beta was for too long a Sony-only technology
Another reason was that Beta was limited to record for one hour only (low-tech copy protection), thus preventing users from recording movies. Even though the VHS tape was bulkier, it had the ability to record for two hours.
(Google search: VHS vs. Betamax)