In a perfect world one could duplicate every detail of windows but the crashes. The installer would preserve all the user's data and simulate whichever version of windows was installed.
The only thing the user would notice after you put in your Linux disk is the extra stability.
>And then the toxic chemicals released by >disassembly travel the ocean currents up to the >Arctic, where they build up to dangerous levels >within many popular species of seafood.
I don't eat seafood, but I don't throw away my old computers either.
It depends on their level of problem tolerance. Some folks don't count having to reboot a few times or being required to practice safe computing (don't run attachments and so forth) as "Trouble with their system."
This isn't to say that there arn't any incoherant diehard zeolots out there but due to the folks with a high tolerance for computer problems it appears that there are more of them than there are.
>None of these computers have ever had a single >hardware problem. Any manufacturer will ship some >defective machines, but I'm willing to bet that the >vast majority of Mac users have had experiences >similar to mine.
All of that is probably true, but we are talking about a limited problem that affects a certain percent of a specific model of Mac.
Good for you that you haven't had problems, and hopefully you never will, but those who have had these problems are justifiably angry.
There's also the fact that it'd be a huge stationary target for folks wanting to disrupt the economy.
I'm not holding my breath.
PS. Going up in a box would be akin to the folks who deliberately go over Niagra Falls. It's stupid, but some of them survive. Secreting oneself in the center of a bulk shipment of something dense might be doable. Of course while the container may be pressurized for the cargo's sake you'de need to provide your own air purification/recycling. (water and food would be nice too.)
Hide some fake money in the rocks so when the potential thief tries to spend it he'll get arrested.
You don't need to worry about him fingering you as the source for the money because he'll empty all of the fake looking rocks once he find the first one.
Why not use persistance of vision? Make your display out of three "arms" at 0, 120, and 240 degrees with one arm each for red, blue, and green.
Space the LEDs at less than 0.5mm or so to minimize the "empty" space between each circular line. You can offset the leds slightly if more room is needed or to help manage heat dissipation.
The three arms spin at 60RPS or so to get a decent refresh rate.
The downsides:
1. The circular display area will bother some folks.
2. The outer LEDs will need much more power than the inner ones because they will have to display more rixels (radial pixels) in the same amount of time at the same brightness as the inner LEDs..
3. A large moving part. (Don't move the TV while it's running.)
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Why? Even the smallest tube of thermal grease I've seen has enough in it for multiple applications.
Most likely if your fan is going to fail it will be within the first month of operation or near the end of its designed lifetime.
If it fails at 100 hours and you've got to get a replacement you end up buying a whole new tube of thermal grease.
There was no good reason to throw it away, unless it came with your heat sink. (In that case the replacement heat sink would have a tube also.)
I'll take your scrap silver.
Thanks!
They probably renamed her so we yankees could pronounce it correctly.
In a perfect world one could duplicate every detail of windows but the crashes. The installer would preserve all the user's data and simulate whichever version of windows was installed.
The only thing the user would notice after you put in your Linux disk is the extra stability.
Alas, this world is far from perfect.
>And then the toxic chemicals released by >disassembly travel the ocean currents up to the >Arctic, where they build up to dangerous levels >within many popular species of seafood.
I don't eat seafood, but I don't throw away my old computers either.
Do those cancel each other out?
It depends on their level of problem tolerance. Some folks don't count having to reboot a few times or being required to practice safe computing (don't run attachments and so forth) as "Trouble with their system."
This isn't to say that there arn't any incoherant diehard zeolots out there but due to the folks with a high tolerance for computer problems it appears that there are more of them than there are.
Nothing to see here, just move along.
>None of these computers have ever had a single
>hardware problem. Any manufacturer will ship some
>defective machines, but I'm willing to bet that the
>vast majority of Mac users have had experiences
>similar to mine.
All of that is probably true, but we are talking about a limited problem that affects a certain percent of a specific model of Mac.
Good for you that you haven't had problems, and hopefully you never will, but those who have had these problems are justifiably angry.
There must be some, otherwise MD5 could be used for lossless compression.
That's assuming the process can be reversed.
Ho! Ho! Ho!
You mean that Win95 wasn't Microsoft's ninety-fifth defective product?
Does 5000mah for a pint of white lightning sound about right?
There's also the fact that it'd be a huge stationary target for folks wanting to disrupt the economy.
I'm not holding my breath.
PS. Going up in a box would be akin to the folks who deliberately go over Niagra Falls. It's stupid, but some of them survive. Secreting oneself in the center of a bulk shipment of something dense might be doable. Of course while the container may be pressurized for the cargo's sake you'de need to provide your own air purification/recycling. (water and food would be nice too.)
And we could put generators in the track to make free electricity! Wheee!!!
>Basically, if it takes 2 weeks to climb the elevator, you can't launch all that often, and that pushes up the price.
Why not? There's no reason (other than the capacity of the elevator) not to launch every two minutes.
I'd be willing to spend two weeks in a box to get to space on a budget.
Hide some fake money in the rocks so when the potential thief tries to spend it he'll get arrested.
You don't need to worry about him fingering you as the source for the money because he'll empty all of the fake looking rocks once he find the first one.
Revolution != Terrorism
They should use the two megapixel disposable cameras instead. That should improve the quality at least.
The subject matter would still be crap.
Get two pillcams and keep one in a recharge cradle whilst the other is running through your "maze".
Just curious, what mistake is Cringely famous for on Slashdot?
Thanks.
Why not use persistance of vision? Make your display out of three "arms" at 0, 120, and 240 degrees with one arm each for red, blue, and green.
Space the LEDs at less than 0.5mm or so to minimize the "empty" space between each circular line. You can offset the leds slightly if more room is needed or to help manage heat dissipation.
The three arms spin at 60RPS or so to get a decent refresh rate.
The downsides:
1. The circular display area will bother some folks.
2. The outer LEDs will need much more power than the inner ones because they will have to display more rixels (radial pixels) in the same amount of time at the same brightness as the inner LEDs..
3. A large moving part. (Don't move the TV while it's running.)
Can I buy the corpse on Ebay?
It's a troll because he's not a raging anime fanatic. This is Slashdot, it's legal to randomly mod folks down if you disagree with them.
Solution in one word:
Bittorrented-fan-subs