Forget the 48 models, the 49 and all the new stuff. The 48GX is OK if you have to have graphing but the single and dual-line models have better UI for daily use.
You obviously never bothered to read the section on "user defined keyboards", where you can map any command(and even a custom program) to any key. You can set up the "UI" any way you want; I assume you mean keys, because the very same commands do the very same things across all the RPN calculators. Swap, rotate, drop etc are all the same. Since you can take a set of RPN commands and make them in to a program, this is incredibly powerful. I found it endlessly useful, particularly in physics.
Dismissing the 48/49 series simply because you didn't like the fact that your favorite buttons for stack manipulation weren't there on the keyboard shows you never bothered to read the user manual. And I fail to see how 4-5 levels visible on the stack(more if you use one of the programs that installs a custom small font) is inferior to one or two lines. You can even make your own keyboard template if you wish; there are tab slots in the case to keep one in place. You can also just create scripts, and have different directories for different task sets that require similar functions. Oh, and i'd like to see you do a 3x3 matrix on your 1 line screen. Have fun pushing buttons if your RPN program returns more than one number...
Never confuse "crappy" with "I didn't understand how to use it." The 48/49 series, while being useable to do 2+2 kind of stuff, are really designed for people who do repetitive calculations and such. Not just graphing...
This application does not allow the unauthorized viewing of pornographic images...'
Considering the porno biz is probably one of Adobe's largest market segments for photoshop, such a move would be very, very stupid.
We don't need crap like this- it's perfectly legal to scan in a dollar bill, you just can't reproduce it within a certain percentage of the original's size.
What we need are people who are smart enough to look for any of a half dozen easily recognized protection features, or shit, simply realize when they're handling inkjet paper instead of valid currency(there's a clear difference in feel any cashier worth their salt will recognize.)
This GPS data along with heart rate measurements is transforming racehorse training into a science
Like most sports/races, it's been a science for decades. it's called doping. I guarantee the money that is spent on doping research(and both the technology to test for said drugs as well as the technology to skirt testing) will always pale in comparison to the money spent on GPS units, laptops, and database programs.
Doping is almost at crisis levels in the world of sports; it's rampant. What's pathetic is when you tell a league you're going to test them months in advance, test them, and find a large # of them still using the drug, because they were too stupid to stop(this would be baseball we're talking about here.) Imagine the results if it had been a surprise test; the implied #'s are staggering. How many were using and were smart enough to stop? Most of them. So when you catch even a 20th...
What if we did drug testing in the golf league? Figure skating? Downhill skiing? They've tried to do it in cycling, but found such a scandal, the sport would be over if they locked everyone up who was using(in a raid in Italy, cops found an entire team doping up. It was like a high school houseparty raid, complete with people hiding in closets and jumping out windows). Once has to wonder if Lance Armstrong's results aren't the result of miracles, but all the cancer drugs glaxo-cline pumped into him.
It's also a national embarrassment when a large number of US olympians were found to be using drugs as well. While I despise those who advocate legalizing pot, it's shocking that the US snowboarding team would get sent home for lighting up, yet a dozen US track+field athletes are found to be using performance drugs and they don't even get their medals stripped.
Lesson here for young kids? 1)use drugs and you'll beat people who don't; you'll be successful, rich, famous. 2)You probably won't get caught since drug makers are usually ahead of the testing technology. 3)If you do get caught, you've still gotten millions(or hundreds of millions) and 4)If you've got a good enough lawyer, you'll probably get to keep your medals anyway, and you'll be knocked down the endorsement ladder pretty far, but still make in a week what most people make in a year.
Taking the control out of the pilots hands is a bad thing.
Yes, but your example is a poor one. Pilots have a multitude of options at their disposal for avoiding collisions. Altitude changes(up OR down! Wow!), heading changes(left OR right!) and speed changes(faster OR slower!)
The real problem is that in almost every plane with an autopilot, there's a Big Red Switch the pilot can press. When I saw this in action, it was on a small(4 seater) single, and pressing the switch caused about 2-3 switches to solidly trip to the off position(think like a circuit breaker) and a loud warning tone. It completely cut the autopilot's control over the plane, and not by software- hardware. Furthermore, guess what's part of the checklist? Setting the autopilot while on the ground, making sure it can manipulate control surfaces cleanly in all directions, and then pressing the Big Red Switch and verifying the AP is dead.
The problem will not, I predict, come from legitimate restricted airspace; restricted airspace is often near legitimate popular routes, but not to the point of concern(and most restricted airspace has ceilings, rarely is airspace restricted to the ceiling airliners cruise at). The problem will come in the following forms:
Plane thinks it is in restricted space when it is not due to programming errors, electronic malfunctions in the "box", malfunctions in control system links(ie, the plane's link to "the box").
Same, but due to misprogrammed maps. Due to incompetence, sabotage, you name it.
Restricted airspace can change a fair bit over the course of years, or these days, weeks. One week a power plant is restricted airspace, the next it's not. This is normally handled by NOTAMs(NOtice To AirMen), which are often 'delivered' as part of a flight plan getting filed. What's the plane gonna do, phone home? What happens when the tech accidentally uploads the 'test' database?
Fantastic. It's the one in the "1 in 6" to make it, and it's just going to sit there quivering trying to figure out which of 1000 commands to follow!
("Back away from the reply button!" It's a joke. And yes, I've had people reply to jokes 'correcting' me and then amazingly get modded 'insightful' for it.)
In a phenomenon that has scientists puzzled, the Earth is right on schedule for a fifth straight year
In a phenomenon that has slashdot readers thoroughly unsurprised, slashdot editors ring in the new year by posting a duplicate story.
It's not all bad. On the plus side, hey, they're remembering their roots- and selling out to The Man hasn't changed their integrity after so many years.
India lives in a very tough neighborhood bordering Pakistan and China, with Afghanistan only a hundred miles from the border. They have to develop nukes to keep the enemies at bay.
Not really. The whole "nuclear deterrent" thing is grossly overrated. If any one country decided to attack another- it'd start world war three, and it'd pretty much be "Us versus the World". Pakistan wouldn't stand a chance against even one world superpower, and China survives off its exports to prevent its economy from collapsing.
In fact, the specific reason nothing in kashmir ever gets beyond potshots and minor artillery skirmishes is that the rest of the world keeps clearing their throats every time it flares up - "AHEM!" The last time it flared up, virtually every large nation's leader called both of them and basically said "look, you're like the neighborhood drunks, only now you've got guns(nukes) and we're pretty fucking concerned. Chill out or we call the cops(UN) and take the guns(nukes) away."
In fact, I think forced de-armament of both countries, simultaneously, would be an excellent idea. Trade embargo both if they refuse, and they can starve together. Meanwhile, let's also reduce our own stockpiles so that we only have enough to blow up the entire earth once over.
Depending on how the charging system works, that may or may not be relevant.
The 'charging system' is, like almost all LiIon devices, managed by a dedicated IC. Go to Maxim's website- they have all sorts of chips specifically for this sort of thing. LiIon batteries pretty much can't be charged except by a very intelligent circuit. But yes, if you have a cheap charger on any other battery type, you will cause damage. Lead acid batteries are easily damaged if kept on an incorrect float current/voltage; I have a $60 5-stage charger for my lead-acid batteries that keeps them properly topped up for months at a time. Buy a $20 charger at Sears, and your battery will be dead in a manner of days/weeks.
However, what MAY affect things is that I've noticed a great deal of iPods left connected to a mac do get very very hot.
If the iPod is mounted, yes, my iPod(3rd gen) will get warm- warmer if left on a blanket or something that's not a very good heat conductor.
However, unmounted from the desktop and not charging, the thing's pretty much at room temp. It'll shut itself off and go to the 'charging' or 'charged' display after about 15-20 seconds afer getting unmounted, and that's that; it's basically off.
I think it speaks volumes against the "don't leave it plugged in" theory that Apple sells a dock which is designed to hold the thing all the time(and keep it charged all the time.)
* Li-ion Longest life of most comercial batteries.
* Much harder to develop a memory. Most people it wwould take months.
* Hard on the battery if it's left full charged constantly.
* Still best if fully drained and charged every time, but very forgiving.
This is almost entirely wrong.
LiIon batteries have a maximum lifespan, aroudn 500 cycles. The deeper the discharge, the more "life" you use from the battery. Like lead-acid batteries, they are NOT forgiving of complete discharge and charge cycles. They also self-discharge like Lead-acid batteries, and need a small amount of current to keep fully charged. All this is taken care of for you(see below) unless you've bought a real POS device. iPods also never "shut off" fully(on my 3rd gen iPod, I can actually hear the processor cycling if I put it up to my ear- its a periodic "bruup!" noise) and that consumes battery power. Left off a charger, your iPod WILL have very little charge left after a couple of days.
NiCad batteries- you got that all right except for "short overall life span". They have the least energy density, but last forever. I have 15 year old NiCads that are still quite serviceable. The most common death for NiCads are either getting cooked(left on a charger improperly) or developing "memory"(this is actually internal resistance) or shorting out due to crystalization.
The answer is common sense. Follow the recommendations in the manual, and don't be over-obsessive about charging it. Any device made in the last 5 years or so, especially with LiIon, has a sophisticaed battery management system. LiIon batteries --require-- very specific charge methods based on temperature, current and pack voltage so there are a lot of IC's dedicated to battery management(some/most of these chips also integrate capacity estimation, serialization, voltage+current monitoring, etc).
And what about ones that have had their short circuit protection removed?
You can't, it's often integral to the cell, so a fair amount of surgery is involved.
Nearly perfect bomb and perfectly legal to bring onboard passing all security checks with flying colours.
Oh for chrissakes...no, something that would get really hot, start smoking, and then catch fire. Ever since(and in fact before) the Valuejet incident, planes have smoke detectors and fire suppression systems in their cargo holds, so it's a moot point if it ends up in cargo vs. carry-on. The issue of toxicity is moot because that's why planes have oxygen systems that the pilot can deploy. The mask systems in the cockpits are also usually much better than the paper-cup jobbies the Cattle get.
People- Calm. The. Fuck. Down. Planes don't explode because something inside them catches fire, they don't start crashing because someone shoots a gun, yadda yadda. Cars don't explode because a battery overheats in the trunk. Stop watching so many action movies...
This fantastic little game decided not only to install itself on the root level of my hard drive(applications go in the Applications folder, nowhere else unless you ask!), but also installed itself into my Dock- and I haven't been able to remove it(yes, I'm an experienced OS X user, I know how to add/remove things- this one seems 'stuck', like it somehow convinced the Dock that it's running all the time).
They're about 5 minutes from getting one very nasty email.
Why is this anything more than just a slightly more efficient way of doing a hybrid gas-electric system by putting the engine in the wheel. It's a good idea, but I can't say I hadn't thought of it too. If it's technically sound it's a natural progression
It's actually not technically sound at all. It drastically raises the unsprung weight at each wheel- the thing will ride like crap, and contact with the road will be extremely poor. It might be OK for slow moving busses, but certainly not passenger cars, SUVs, or light trucks.
The difference between a 15lb rim and a 30lb rim(rim= wheel minus tire, ie, the metal part) on your car is extremely noticeable, and racers/performance enthusiasts will go to all lengths to find lighter rims, and even braking systems made up of higher-tech, lighter materials(hence Porsche's ceramic brakes, for example.) Even suspension components themselves are usually made up of carefully designed aluminum components to be lightweight. Less unsprung weight means that it's easier for the suspension to keep the wheel firmly planted to the ground, to grossly simplify the situation.
This thing will eat tires like no tomorrow, too; it'll cause a lot of stress in the tire because the tire will need to flex a lot more than normal. Flexing takes energy, by the way- and that can add up fast. Improperly inflating your tires causes more flexing in the tire than usual, and can have a noticeable effect on your mileage.
Putting an electric motor inside the wheel is about the stupidest thing I've ever heard of- it should, if anything, be in the center of the car, with a traditional half-shaft and CV joints(slight loss)...or instead of using a standard automatic transmission, they should be using a CVT(constantly variable transmission) or something like Audi's DSG(Direct Shift Gearbox).
What about mailing lists? Until we recently upgraded, we were doing reasonably OK with a Axil 320(Sun Sparc clone. No, not an UltraSparc, a sparc. Yes, that slow) for about 3,000 subscribers. One of our lists was at least 30-40 messages a day.
Ten seconds of P4 3ghz time is about....half a year for a 110mhz microsparc;-)
We've since upgraded- but I can tell you right now that anyone who tries to make us leap through these hoops will simply find themselves removed by Mailman for bouncing. Like those challenge-response things. Etc.
The changes include basic support for SQL-99 stored procedures.
Great. Now all we need is SQL(any year, take your pick) compliance(mysql is case-sensitive, among other things), triggers, a database that doesn't hose its data if shut down improperly(PostgreSQL, because it uses a transaction log and writes to disk very safely, makes it nearly impossible to loose much if you shut it down improperly, or even yank the cord), PROPER transaction support(their transaction support is very limited in what can actually happen in a transaction), and better locking(nothing they have even comes close to PostgreSQL's versioning). Oh, and subselects, and OO...
Once that happens, MySQL will finally be a true challenger to PostgreSQL. Did I mention PostgreSQL also has had full-text searching for a while, and replication support is functioning in older versions?(I think it might be working in 7.4, I forget.) 7.4's FTS now supports word proximity, among other things...
There's a well-known case where most of the tapes stored in one of these granite mountains were found to have been infected by a fungus that simply adored the tape medium- and rendered most of it unreadable.
This isn't anything new. These granite mountain dealies have been around since the 60's-70's..even earlier, actually- Hitler's V2 factory was entirely inside one of these mountains.
This is Traci with her blue elements increased in size NINE TIMES. Each blue pixel is now 3 x 3 pixels in size, a nine-fold increase in the area of each blue pixel. You can't really tell, can you?
Sorry. I wasn't looking at her blue elements. And what's this about making something 9 times larger?
Oh yes! And we can call those storage device CompactFlash cards, because they're compact, made of flash memory and card sha... Hey! Wiat a second... Sounds rather familiar
Except that CF tops out at about 2-4GB at the moment, which is maybe enough to store a DV tape's worth of video after DVD-level mpeg compression, which costs a lot to do on a chip in real-time. Keep in mind that DVDs also compress a lot better because there's very little noise; home movies and the like have a TON of noise because the sensor and electronics are (comparatively) crap.
The whole point is that by making the memory 5x cheaper, you can make it 5x larger in capacity- now you've got 20GB, which is a little more reasonable for video...
They're relatively heavy-duty and not too bad-looking, although they could be better.
Willow Design's case for the 17" PB was the only case I've actually bought for a laptop- and I'm pleased with it. It has a lot of padding with plastic protective panels on the outside under the fabric, reflective stripes on all sides save the back, and the "portrait" orientation is VERY nice for such a wide laptop(otherwise, you DO take people out on the subway with it).
The handle on the case is padded and comfortable- the shoulder strap is padded and has sticky rubber on the inside so it won't slip.
The bottom has riveted rubber feet, so it stands off the ground. The back pocket expands out two inches or so if you've got something bulky. The front compartment holds my cell phone, pens, power supply, and light paperwork- the pockets are stretch fabric and once something's in, its not going anywhere. The 'lid' has an ID pocket and a mesh zip bag(which currently contains the DVI->VGA, s-video, composite, and mini->rca adapters(basically, every adapter it came with and more.)
As for looks- it's navy colored(and available in many other colors), so that's a drastic step over most everything else. I selected it because: a)it was compact b)it had a lot of pockets c)it was specifically fit for the 17". I've been very pleased with it, and I'm a very tough customer. About the only thing I'm going to do is apply outdoor-grade scotchguard(which I strongly recommend on ANY case, but do it OUTSIDE, it's NASTY stuff to breathe!)
For each powerbook model, they have basically 3 or so levels for how big a case you want. "just a case", "case with pockets for stuff" and "case with pockets for the kitchen sink". They also have models for regular PC laptops- I think they somewhat build-to-order.
The bags also carry a lifetime warranty. It came with a hand-signed letter by Nigel Peck(sp?), the owner of WD, stating as such. The online ordering was handled flawlessly.
This "proves" that MySQL is better than commercial offerings. Good.
No it doesn't. It "proves" that on average, by line, MySQL has fewer errors in code. It says nothing of the severity of the errors in either package.
Furthermore- MySQL is not even close to being equal in feature set to almost any commercial DB; replication/backup sucks, it's not ACID compliant, it had no transaction support until recently, no stored procedures, no triggers.
How on earth could you possibly compare it to almost any commercial SQL DB which has all these...and say MySQL is better?
A lot of people knew that.
No, every two bit web designer thinks its the greatest thing since sliced bread, since they think a select w/group+sort is an advanced query. Every professional DBA I've met refuses to work with MySQL and/or hates it, and they can go on for an hour about why. When are you people going to realize that PostgreSQL is so much better than MySQL, save some incredibly risky performance options?
MySQL is awesome! But let's be careful about this story, okay? It's the over-generalization that gives OSS/Linux advocates a bad name ("The Gimp is equivalent to Photoshop!").
But you just said "This proves that MySQL is better than commercial offerings!"
Linus probably spent the better part of the day responding to this SCO sillyness. What a waste of time. SCO should somehow be made to pay for there frivolous bullshit!
You mean, like, say, suing them?
The business world doesn't go by what people say on linux-kernel. Or what is said to various computer mags. No, it goes off of legal action. Linus and company need to recognize that they MUST DEFEND THEIR WORK LEGALLY. Given the sheer number of people whose work SCO has laid claim to, if they simply got off their asses and sued, SCO would be loosing the PR war and their lawyers would be tied up in litigation SCO doesn't want to be tied up in.
Everything else is just a whole lot of hot air, regardless of how true it is. You've GOT TO STAND UP FOR YOUR WORK.
Forgot the linkage to the Boston Globe story complete with historical info, photos of the project, etc. There's also, of course, The Big Dig website which has a ton of stuff to read/look at.
Really, I wish whoever submitted this had done a little better job with the story, considering how big a project this was:-)
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Anyone want to place bets on how long before ____Insert OSS project here____ finds their work on it?
Take your pick- busybox, mplayer...the linux kernel(with modified drivers based on GPL of course)...
You obviously never bothered to read the section on "user defined keyboards", where you can map any command(and even a custom program) to any key. You can set up the "UI" any way you want; I assume you mean keys, because the very same commands do the very same things across all the RPN calculators. Swap, rotate, drop etc are all the same. Since you can take a set of RPN commands and make them in to a program, this is incredibly powerful. I found it endlessly useful, particularly in physics.
Dismissing the 48/49 series simply because you didn't like the fact that your favorite buttons for stack manipulation weren't there on the keyboard shows you never bothered to read the user manual. And I fail to see how 4-5 levels visible on the stack(more if you use one of the programs that installs a custom small font) is inferior to one or two lines. You can even make your own keyboard template if you wish; there are tab slots in the case to keep one in place. You can also just create scripts, and have different directories for different task sets that require similar functions. Oh, and i'd like to see you do a 3x3 matrix on your 1 line screen. Have fun pushing buttons if your RPN program returns more than one number...
Never confuse "crappy" with "I didn't understand how to use it." The 48/49 series, while being useable to do 2+2 kind of stuff, are really designed for people who do repetitive calculations and such. Not just graphing...
Considering the porno biz is probably one of Adobe's largest market segments for photoshop, such a move would be very, very stupid.
We don't need crap like this- it's perfectly legal to scan in a dollar bill, you just can't reproduce it within a certain percentage of the original's size.
What we need are people who are smart enough to look for any of a half dozen easily recognized protection features, or shit, simply realize when they're handling inkjet paper instead of valid currency(there's a clear difference in feel any cashier worth their salt will recognize.)
Like most sports/races, it's been a science for decades. it's called doping. I guarantee the money that is spent on doping research(and both the technology to test for said drugs as well as the technology to skirt testing) will always pale in comparison to the money spent on GPS units, laptops, and database programs.
Doping is almost at crisis levels in the world of sports; it's rampant. What's pathetic is when you tell a league you're going to test them months in advance, test them, and find a large # of them still using the drug, because they were too stupid to stop(this would be baseball we're talking about here.) Imagine the results if it had been a surprise test; the implied #'s are staggering. How many were using and were smart enough to stop? Most of them. So when you catch even a 20th...
What if we did drug testing in the golf league? Figure skating? Downhill skiing? They've tried to do it in cycling, but found such a scandal, the sport would be over if they locked everyone up who was using(in a raid in Italy, cops found an entire team doping up. It was like a high school houseparty raid, complete with people hiding in closets and jumping out windows). Once has to wonder if Lance Armstrong's results aren't the result of miracles, but all the cancer drugs glaxo-cline pumped into him.
It's also a national embarrassment when a large number of US olympians were found to be using drugs as well. While I despise those who advocate legalizing pot, it's shocking that the US snowboarding team would get sent home for lighting up, yet a dozen US track+field athletes are found to be using performance drugs and they don't even get their medals stripped.
Lesson here for young kids? 1)use drugs and you'll beat people who don't; you'll be successful, rich, famous. 2)You probably won't get caught since drug makers are usually ahead of the testing technology. 3)If you do get caught, you've still gotten millions(or hundreds of millions) and 4)If you've got a good enough lawyer, you'll probably get to keep your medals anyway, and you'll be knocked down the endorsement ladder pretty far, but still make in a week what most people make in a year.
Yes, but your example is a poor one. Pilots have a multitude of options at their disposal for avoiding collisions. Altitude changes(up OR down! Wow!), heading changes(left OR right!) and speed changes(faster OR slower!)
The real problem is that in almost every plane with an autopilot, there's a Big Red Switch the pilot can press. When I saw this in action, it was on a small(4 seater) single, and pressing the switch caused about 2-3 switches to solidly trip to the off position(think like a circuit breaker) and a loud warning tone. It completely cut the autopilot's control over the plane, and not by software- hardware. Furthermore, guess what's part of the checklist? Setting the autopilot while on the ground, making sure it can manipulate control surfaces cleanly in all directions, and then pressing the Big Red Switch and verifying the AP is dead.
The problem will not, I predict, come from legitimate restricted airspace; restricted airspace is often near legitimate popular routes, but not to the point of concern(and most restricted airspace has ceilings, rarely is airspace restricted to the ceiling airliners cruise at). The problem will come in the following forms:
Fantastic. It's the one in the "1 in 6" to make it, and it's just going to sit there quivering trying to figure out which of 1000 commands to follow!
("Back away from the reply button!" It's a joke. And yes, I've had people reply to jokes 'correcting' me and then amazingly get modded 'insightful' for it.)
In a phenomenon that has slashdot readers thoroughly unsurprised, slashdot editors ring in the new year by posting a duplicate story.
It's not all bad. On the plus side, hey, they're remembering their roots- and selling out to The Man hasn't changed their integrity after so many years.
Not really. The whole "nuclear deterrent" thing is grossly overrated. If any one country decided to attack another- it'd start world war three, and it'd pretty much be "Us versus the World". Pakistan wouldn't stand a chance against even one world superpower, and China survives off its exports to prevent its economy from collapsing.
In fact, the specific reason nothing in kashmir ever gets beyond potshots and minor artillery skirmishes is that the rest of the world keeps clearing their throats every time it flares up - "AHEM!" The last time it flared up, virtually every large nation's leader called both of them and basically said "look, you're like the neighborhood drunks, only now you've got guns(nukes) and we're pretty fucking concerned. Chill out or we call the cops(UN) and take the guns(nukes) away."
In fact, I think forced de-armament of both countries, simultaneously, would be an excellent idea. Trade embargo both if they refuse, and they can starve together. Meanwhile, let's also reduce our own stockpiles so that we only have enough to blow up the entire earth once over.
The 'charging system' is, like almost all LiIon devices, managed by a dedicated IC. Go to Maxim's website- they have all sorts of chips specifically for this sort of thing. LiIon batteries pretty much can't be charged except by a very intelligent circuit. But yes, if you have a cheap charger on any other battery type, you will cause damage. Lead acid batteries are easily damaged if kept on an incorrect float current/voltage; I have a $60 5-stage charger for my lead-acid batteries that keeps them properly topped up for months at a time. Buy a $20 charger at Sears, and your battery will be dead in a manner of days/weeks.
However, what MAY affect things is that I've noticed a great deal of iPods left connected to a mac do get very very hot.
If the iPod is mounted, yes, my iPod(3rd gen) will get warm- warmer if left on a blanket or something that's not a very good heat conductor.
However, unmounted from the desktop and not charging, the thing's pretty much at room temp. It'll shut itself off and go to the 'charging' or 'charged' display after about 15-20 seconds afer getting unmounted, and that's that; it's basically off.
I think it speaks volumes against the "don't leave it plugged in" theory that Apple sells a dock which is designed to hold the thing all the time(and keep it charged all the time.)
This is almost entirely wrong.
LiIon batteries have a maximum lifespan, aroudn 500 cycles. The deeper the discharge, the more "life" you use from the battery. Like lead-acid batteries, they are NOT forgiving of complete discharge and charge cycles. They also self-discharge like Lead-acid batteries, and need a small amount of current to keep fully charged. All this is taken care of for you(see below) unless you've bought a real POS device. iPods also never "shut off" fully(on my 3rd gen iPod, I can actually hear the processor cycling if I put it up to my ear- its a periodic "bruup!" noise) and that consumes battery power. Left off a charger, your iPod WILL have very little charge left after a couple of days.
NiCad batteries- you got that all right except for "short overall life span". They have the least energy density, but last forever. I have 15 year old NiCads that are still quite serviceable. The most common death for NiCads are either getting cooked(left on a charger improperly) or developing "memory"(this is actually internal resistance) or shorting out due to crystalization.
The answer is common sense. Follow the recommendations in the manual, and don't be over-obsessive about charging it. Any device made in the last 5 years or so, especially with LiIon, has a sophisticaed battery management system. LiIon batteries --require-- very specific charge methods based on temperature, current and pack voltage so there are a lot of IC's dedicated to battery management(some/most of these chips also integrate capacity estimation, serialization, voltage+current monitoring, etc).
"Still there... yep, still there. The rock has not moved."
It's actually to detect if there's life. If the rock moved, either a)it wasn't a rock, or b)a little green man moved it! Come on man, pay attention.
You can't, it's often integral to the cell, so a fair amount of surgery is involved.
Nearly perfect bomb and perfectly legal to bring onboard passing all security checks with flying colours.
Oh for chrissakes...no, something that would get really hot, start smoking, and then catch fire. Ever since(and in fact before) the Valuejet incident, planes have smoke detectors and fire suppression systems in their cargo holds, so it's a moot point if it ends up in cargo vs. carry-on. The issue of toxicity is moot because that's why planes have oxygen systems that the pilot can deploy. The mask systems in the cockpits are also usually much better than the paper-cup jobbies the Cattle get.
People- Calm. The. Fuck. Down. Planes don't explode because something inside them catches fire, they don't start crashing because someone shoots a gun, yadda yadda. Cars don't explode because a battery overheats in the trunk. Stop watching so many action movies...
This fantastic little game decided not only to install itself on the root level of my hard drive(applications go in the Applications folder, nowhere else unless you ask!), but also installed itself into my Dock- and I haven't been able to remove it(yes, I'm an experienced OS X user, I know how to add/remove things- this one seems 'stuck', like it somehow convinced the Dock that it's running all the time).
They're about 5 minutes from getting one very nasty email.
It's actually not technically sound at all. It drastically raises the unsprung weight at each wheel- the thing will ride like crap, and contact with the road will be extremely poor. It might be OK for slow moving busses, but certainly not passenger cars, SUVs, or light trucks.
The difference between a 15lb rim and a 30lb rim(rim= wheel minus tire, ie, the metal part) on your car is extremely noticeable, and racers/performance enthusiasts will go to all lengths to find lighter rims, and even braking systems made up of higher-tech, lighter materials(hence Porsche's ceramic brakes, for example.) Even suspension components themselves are usually made up of carefully designed aluminum components to be lightweight. Less unsprung weight means that it's easier for the suspension to keep the wheel firmly planted to the ground, to grossly simplify the situation.
This thing will eat tires like no tomorrow, too; it'll cause a lot of stress in the tire because the tire will need to flex a lot more than normal. Flexing takes energy, by the way- and that can add up fast. Improperly inflating your tires causes more flexing in the tire than usual, and can have a noticeable effect on your mileage.
Putting an electric motor inside the wheel is about the stupidest thing I've ever heard of- it should, if anything, be in the center of the car, with a traditional half-shaft and CV joints(slight loss)...or instead of using a standard automatic transmission, they should be using a CVT(constantly variable transmission) or something like Audi's DSG(Direct Shift Gearbox).
What about mailing lists? Until we recently upgraded, we were doing reasonably OK with a Axil 320(Sun Sparc clone. No, not an UltraSparc, a sparc. Yes, that slow) for about 3,000 subscribers. One of our lists was at least 30-40 messages a day.
Ten seconds of P4 3ghz time is about....half a year for a 110mhz microsparc ;-)
We've since upgraded- but I can tell you right now that anyone who tries to make us leap through these hoops will simply find themselves removed by Mailman for bouncing. Like those challenge-response things. Etc.
Great. Now all we need is SQL(any year, take your pick) compliance(mysql is case-sensitive, among other things), triggers, a database that doesn't hose its data if shut down improperly(PostgreSQL, because it uses a transaction log and writes to disk very safely, makes it nearly impossible to loose much if you shut it down improperly, or even yank the cord), PROPER transaction support(their transaction support is very limited in what can actually happen in a transaction), and better locking(nothing they have even comes close to PostgreSQL's versioning). Oh, and subselects, and OO...
Once that happens, MySQL will finally be a true challenger to PostgreSQL. Did I mention PostgreSQL also has had full-text searching for a while, and replication support is functioning in older versions?(I think it might be working in 7.4, I forget.) 7.4's FTS now supports word proximity, among other things...
I dunno. Maybe the redhead in those match.com ads knows.
How about biological infection?
There's a well-known case where most of the tapes stored in one of these granite mountains were found to have been infected by a fungus that simply adored the tape medium- and rendered most of it unreadable.
This isn't anything new. These granite mountain dealies have been around since the 60's-70's..even earlier, actually- Hitler's V2 factory was entirely inside one of these mountains.
Sorry. I wasn't looking at her blue elements. And what's this about making something 9 times larger?
Wait, weren't you saying something about TVs?
...something tells me that hot redhead has no idea what an iRiver is, much less ogg-vorbis. I bet she knows what an iPod is!
Except that CF tops out at about 2-4GB at the moment, which is maybe enough to store a DV tape's worth of video after DVD-level mpeg compression, which costs a lot to do on a chip in real-time. Keep in mind that DVDs also compress a lot better because there's very little noise; home movies and the like have a TON of noise because the sensor and electronics are (comparatively) crap.
The whole point is that by making the memory 5x cheaper, you can make it 5x larger in capacity- now you've got 20GB, which is a little more reasonable for video...
Willow Design's case for the 17" PB was the only case I've actually bought for a laptop- and I'm pleased with it. It has a lot of padding with plastic protective panels on the outside under the fabric, reflective stripes on all sides save the back, and the "portrait" orientation is VERY nice for such a wide laptop(otherwise, you DO take people out on the subway with it).
The handle on the case is padded and comfortable- the shoulder strap is padded and has sticky rubber on the inside so it won't slip.
The bottom has riveted rubber feet, so it stands off the ground. The back pocket expands out two inches or so if you've got something bulky. The front compartment holds my cell phone, pens, power supply, and light paperwork- the pockets are stretch fabric and once something's in, its not going anywhere. The 'lid' has an ID pocket and a mesh zip bag(which currently contains the DVI->VGA, s-video, composite, and mini->rca adapters(basically, every adapter it came with and more.)
As for looks- it's navy colored(and available in many other colors), so that's a drastic step over most everything else. I selected it because: a)it was compact b)it had a lot of pockets c)it was specifically fit for the 17". I've been very pleased with it, and I'm a very tough customer. About the only thing I'm going to do is apply outdoor-grade scotchguard(which I strongly recommend on ANY case, but do it OUTSIDE, it's NASTY stuff to breathe!)
For each powerbook model, they have basically 3 or so levels for how big a case you want. "just a case", "case with pockets for stuff" and "case with pockets for the kitchen sink". They also have models for regular PC laptops- I think they somewhat build-to-order.
The bags also carry a lifetime warranty. It came with a hand-signed letter by Nigel Peck(sp?), the owner of WD, stating as such. The online ordering was handled flawlessly.
No it doesn't. It "proves" that on average, by line, MySQL has fewer errors in code. It says nothing of the severity of the errors in either package.
Furthermore- MySQL is not even close to being equal in feature set to almost any commercial DB; replication/backup sucks, it's not ACID compliant, it had no transaction support until recently, no stored procedures, no triggers.
How on earth could you possibly compare it to almost any commercial SQL DB which has all these...and say MySQL is better?
A lot of people knew that.
No, every two bit web designer thinks its the greatest thing since sliced bread, since they think a select w/group+sort is an advanced query. Every professional DBA I've met refuses to work with MySQL and/or hates it, and they can go on for an hour about why. When are you people going to realize that PostgreSQL is so much better than MySQL, save some incredibly risky performance options?
MySQL is awesome! But let's be careful about this story, okay? It's the over-generalization that gives OSS/Linux advocates a bad name ("The Gimp is equivalent to Photoshop!").
But you just said "This proves that MySQL is better than commercial offerings!"
You mean, like, say, suing them?
The business world doesn't go by what people say on linux-kernel. Or what is said to various computer mags. No, it goes off of legal action. Linus and company need to recognize that they MUST DEFEND THEIR WORK LEGALLY. Given the sheer number of people whose work SCO has laid claim to, if they simply got off their asses and sued, SCO would be loosing the PR war and their lawyers would be tied up in litigation SCO doesn't want to be tied up in.
Everything else is just a whole lot of hot air, regardless of how true it is. You've GOT TO STAND UP FOR YOUR WORK.
Really, I wish whoever submitted this had done a little better job with the story, considering how big a project this was :-)