On a serious note, how about building a large domed or enclosed environment that gets some serious weathering and erosive treatments before humans enter it while suited, let alone suitless. Once this environment is created, for entry and egress to untreated areas use some kind of severe service clean room system that uses liquids, pressurized gases, and suits designed to flow electrical current to disengage the particles, and treat everything with level four biohazard style methods.
"The car switches to an electric motor when its speed reaches 20-25 km/h (32-40 mi/h)."
Isn't that conversion factor waaay off?
I thought kilometers were something near three fifths of a mile, so 20km/h would be something just above 15MPH...
the point isn't for unbeatable, fully 100% secure everything, it's like The Club for your car, to make you a less desirable target. If there are 100 PCs in a given sample, with four with locked drives, properly set up OS-level security, and no way to quickly gain access to the inside of the machine to physically mess with things (I'm assuming a semi-public environment), then those other 96 are the ones that people will typically mess with.
...if two things were different. If there were some kind of decent internal struggle at Microsoft where someone with enough power was dissenting against the people at the top to actually pull off a stunt, and if they hadn't mentioned the X-box...
"Admittedly I can't see the meat of the article since their site seems to be slashdotted already, but if you got that sort of a negative reinforcement for hitting snooze, why wouldn't you just learn not to hit snooze?"[emphasis mine]
Like what? Setting it to receive both the conservative talk radio station and the Ranchero music station at the same time?
I've always admired you, your clever way with words and such. You're my hero! Can you please send me a lock of your hair?
You bring up a good point in an interesting way. We already don't investigate and prosecute crime that evidence exists for, in everything from auto theft to home burglary. We have tools to handle these and at least make some kind of dent in the statistics, but we don't. Collecting samples of everyone to use to match to a scene doesn't help if the investigators don't bother to do real police work, and if the perpetrator of a crime is smart enough to minimize the amount of evidence of his presence. It's amazing what new clothes, a hat or hair net, and thoroughly bathing beforehand can do to leave no useful evidence.
Nothing was confusing. I don't know where you're deciding that from...
I like the longer lifespan and dependability of any operating system. If it ain't broke, why change a thing?
Because people building new servers to have new duties frequently want things that aren't part of stable. They end up having to go to unstable or third party package sources if they aren't willing to compile by hand. Since Debian is designed to update smoothly and in theory is very thoroughly tested before being declared stable, there shouldn't be any major operability or functionality issues at all if someone upgrades from an older stable to a newer one.
Besides, if you're running a critically important server, you should have install media beyond the Internet for your servers. If you want to remain with a frozen version then you have CDs to install from, or your own Stable mirror. Let them integrate new features so that the rest of us can have them.
It would be really nice if Stable were updated at least yearly. I'm willing to play with Unstable or Testing if it's for my own use only, but if it's for someone else then I may as well either use a heavily-package-based distro like RedHat or SuSE, or Slackware if I'm going to have to build a bunch by hand anyway.
I guess that it'd been awhile since I last installed Debian from scratch, I didn't know that it has been two years.
I guess that the main reason why I use such a comparison isn't necessarily because I think that the armed services need to spend less per se, but knowledge coming back from scientific endeavours has long term benefits that endure, while fuel is by definition a consumable, and rarely has any actual return. Granted, it may be years, decades, or even possibly centuries before data from space probes is really truly understood completely, but having that data and processing it to attempt to figure out what it means seems to be a good use for our collective dollars compared to spending excessive amounts of money on that which doesn't usually contribute something new.
Once the probes are built and launched, and the bulk of the diagnosis and repair of early malfunctions is taken care of, the rest of the probe is cheap to operate by comparison. By contrast, how much does the U.S. spend on gasoline or diesel for military vehicles within the borders of the U.S.? How much does the U.S. spend to allow congressmen to use government-paid-for television studios to film whatever they decide?
I assume that higher coercitivity helps prevent SVHS tapes from experiencing the shelf life problems that regular VHS has in a given amount of time. What is really needed to confirm the DVHS/SVHS compatibility theory is for someone to analyse the media itself to see what differences really exist in the physical tape. If they are minor to nonexistent then it would be safe to assume that it'd work.
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I have an SVHS deck with the "ET" mode, and I've never used it.
Something to consider is that since the SVHS market is rather small, the videotape manufacturers might have switched to making all of the physical tape as DVHS tape, and just placed it into an SVHS cartridge. This would mean that SVHS and DVHS tapes now made are identical media. If that is so, then this method would definitely work.
"Next up on Slashdot... How to get your old 45's to play in your CD player!"
They'd work better in your Laserdisc player or RCA Selectavision Video Disc player. The former has a hole about the same size as the 45, and the latter was a video disc player that used a vinyl media and a needle to play the movie.
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When your crappy svhs tapes don't work and have dropouts when recording in DVHS mode... don't complain to the company.. you bought sh*tty tape!
it was the same with floppies... I never trusted any floppy that some moron punched a hole in.
This is not feature restriction, the manufacturer is not trying to screw you... They put an extra hole in the tape to tell the player that this tape will actually work with the deck properly!
Do you actually know the differences between SVHS and DVHS tape media? Do you know anything about SVHS tape at all even?
I pose these questions because people are increasingly finding that for marketing purposes companies are rebranding and ever-so-slightly modifying things, like casings in this instance, so that they can create different price points while using materials with no particular difference.
Smart people in this community have found out that they can change how their DVD drives work by reflashing the firmware, and some have figured out how to make their low-line burner drives work as the high-end product by similar means. I wouldn't be surprised if someone reflashed the firmware on a hard disk drive, low-level-formatted it, and found that the part was otherwise identical to the model with a quarter more capacity.
There is every reason to assume that "tape is tape" in this instance would apply, and that for the sake of manufacturing ease they've gone to using the same media for both SVHS and DVHS, simply using a different package for the newer, "better" standard.
You should have waited for the police to show up after you showed your receipt and had the officer charge the employees with assault and battery. They had no right to detain you if you were not doing anything illegal, and that they chose to skate that line and hold you anyway puts them with the burden of proof. That you did not strike any of them is good, but you have more restraint than I would have.
They've tried making that illegal on Mill Avenue in Tempe but been fought every step of the way. They even tried zoning Mill as fairgrounds, but to my knowledge they can't actually do anything except harrang people on account of state law.
"Here's how I look at it, I WANT them to check receipts. Why? Because it keeps people honost. Theft raises merchanise cost and I don't enjoy paying extra so some dork can steal the same stuff that I'm paying for."
Having known several people who worked at Fry's Electronics in Tempe Arizona, I can tell you that the biggest problem with inventory loss at Fry's is from employees, not from customers. It's part of why the store has such a high turnover rate. Employees aren't paid well, have little to no supervision, have a somewhat hostile work environment with poor management, and therefore are inclined to steal from the evil, faceless corporation that employs them. After awhile they leave, frequently so they don't get caught in the newest investigation. Sometimes they are somewhat caught but not enough to be worth prosecuting, so they're simply fired. Of the four Fry's employees that I knew, two quit, one was fired, and only one didn't pilfer constantly.
They've tried to stop me before, but I've asked them their grounds for doing so and the one in charge smartly and quietly let the matter drop. I'll only let them touch the receipt if I think that I'm going to return the purchase.
I do show my receipt at the door at Costco, because my use of their business is through paid membership, and while I have not read the rules for membership, I suspect that they could pull my membership for failing to allow them to check my receipt. Being that they are technically non-public, they can refuse anyone shopping there much more easily than a standard walk in retail store can.
"Gates is absolutely right. I found that out in my first college year."
I went through a similar thing myself, but I have one thing to amend Gates' assertion about. high schools aren't obsolete, schools are obsolete, but it's because of money.
The district that I work for splits elementary kids into three groups, with two of these groups being the majority. These are normal learners, slow learners, and gifted learners. Most of the kids are in the normal category, a measurable chunk are in the slow category, and a very small number are in the gifted category. Schools are not supposed to have more than 9% of their students in special education. They're probably not supposed to have more than that in the gifted programs either. This means that they're supposed to have at least 82% of students in common curriculum, even if the student excels beyond the class or struggles, but not struggles to the point of qualifying for intervention. This leaves kids at both ends of the spectrum of normal not getting the education that they are truly capable of.
If I were the all-powerful person in charge of everything, I'd split groups up a lot more distinctly, and by subject. I'd have four or five levels, with the current normal range being three distinct levels. There would be extremely bright, "I have to learn this for one day and then I have it down pat" kids, "Give me a compressed unit and I'll have it perfect" kids, "Teach me at the previous normal pace and I'll have it" kids, "Give it to me with more basics and combine it with other exercises to reinforce it" kids, and "I need special assistance because I'm not able to keep up" kids. Broken down by subject, a student would be kept in with a smaller peer group for each subject, and the pace of learning could let the student reach to their potential, rather than being held back because they're just sitting there.
This costs money. This requires home support. Where I work, both are strongly lacking. We get $5,600 per kid per year to teach them, and that has to pay for everything from the classroom teacher to the new tires for the lawnmower.
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Funny enough, ask.com used to. You'd put in the question and the first reply would be, "What do you mean, an African or European swallow?"
I think that as ask.com has come to be increasingly corporate that they've removed this unfortunately.
On a serious note, how about building a large domed or enclosed environment that gets some serious weathering and erosive treatments before humans enter it while suited, let alone suitless. Once this environment is created, for entry and egress to untreated areas use some kind of severe service clean room system that uses liquids, pressurized gases, and suits designed to flow electrical current to disengage the particles, and treat everything with level four biohazard style methods.
"The car switches to an electric motor when its speed reaches 20-25 km/h (32-40 mi/h)." Isn't that conversion factor waaay off? I thought kilometers were something near three fifths of a mile, so 20km/h would be something just above 15MPH...
the point isn't for unbeatable, fully 100% secure everything, it's like The Club for your car, to make you a less desirable target. If there are 100 PCs in a given sample, with four with locked drives, properly set up OS-level security, and no way to quickly gain access to the inside of the machine to physically mess with things (I'm assuming a semi-public environment), then those other 96 are the ones that people will typically mess with.
...if two things were different. If there were some kind of decent internal struggle at Microsoft where someone with enough power was dissenting against the people at the top to actually pull off a stunt, and if they hadn't mentioned the X-box...
"I think that KDE sounds and is cooler than GNOME."
based on the Gnome people pronouncing it, 'guh-NOME', you're right.
"Admittedly I can't see the meat of the article since their site seems to be slashdotted already, but if you got that sort of a negative reinforcement for hitting snooze, why wouldn't you just learn not to hit snooze?"[emphasis mine]
Like what? Setting it to receive both the conservative talk radio station and the Ranchero music station at the same time?
You bring up a good point in an interesting way. We already don't investigate and prosecute crime that evidence exists for, in everything from auto theft to home burglary. We have tools to handle these and at least make some kind of dent in the statistics, but we don't. Collecting samples of everyone to use to match to a scene doesn't help if the investigators don't bother to do real police work, and if the perpetrator of a crime is smart enough to minimize the amount of evidence of his presence. It's amazing what new clothes, a hat or hair net, and thoroughly bathing beforehand can do to leave no useful evidence.
Besides, if you're running a critically important server, you should have install media beyond the Internet for your servers. If you want to remain with a frozen version then you have CDs to install from, or your own Stable mirror. Let them integrate new features so that the rest of us can have them.
It would be really nice if Stable were updated at least yearly. I'm willing to play with Unstable or Testing if it's for my own use only, but if it's for someone else then I may as well either use a heavily-package-based distro like RedHat or SuSE, or Slackware if I'm going to have to build a bunch by hand anyway.
I guess that it'd been awhile since I last installed Debian from scratch, I didn't know that it has been two years.
"'So tonight I'm gonna party like it's nine-teen-sev-en-ty!' -- Not Prince"
I'd like to party like it's 1969 personally...
"Back in the heyday of the IBM clone business, one of the clone shops operating in Houston was called 'UBM'. :)"
UBM? Sounds more like an instruction than a computer brand.
I guess that the main reason why I use such a comparison isn't necessarily because I think that the armed services need to spend less per se, but knowledge coming back from scientific endeavours has long term benefits that endure, while fuel is by definition a consumable, and rarely has any actual return. Granted, it may be years, decades, or even possibly centuries before data from space probes is really truly understood completely, but having that data and processing it to attempt to figure out what it means seems to be a good use for our collective dollars compared to spending excessive amounts of money on that which doesn't usually contribute something new.
Once the probes are built and launched, and the bulk of the diagnosis and repair of early malfunctions is taken care of, the rest of the probe is cheap to operate by comparison. By contrast, how much does the U.S. spend on gasoline or diesel for military vehicles within the borders of the U.S.? How much does the U.S. spend to allow congressmen to use government-paid-for television studios to film whatever they decide?
I still collect Laserdiscs you insensitive clod!
I assume that higher coercitivity helps prevent SVHS tapes from experiencing the shelf life problems that regular VHS has in a given amount of time. What is really needed to confirm the DVHS/SVHS compatibility theory is for someone to analyse the media itself to see what differences really exist in the physical tape. If they are minor to nonexistent then it would be safe to assume that it'd work.
I have an SVHS deck with the "ET" mode, and I've never used it.
Something to consider is that since the SVHS market is rather small, the videotape manufacturers might have switched to making all of the physical tape as DVHS tape, and just placed it into an SVHS cartridge. This would mean that SVHS and DVHS tapes now made are identical media. If that is so, then this method would definitely work.
"Next up on Slashdot... How to get your old 45's to play in your CD player!"
They'd work better in your Laserdisc player or RCA Selectavision Video Disc player. The former has a hole about the same size as the 45, and the latter was a video disc player that used a vinyl media and a needle to play the movie.
I pose these questions because people are increasingly finding that for marketing purposes companies are rebranding and ever-so-slightly modifying things, like casings in this instance, so that they can create different price points while using materials with no particular difference.
Smart people in this community have found out that they can change how their DVD drives work by reflashing the firmware, and some have figured out how to make their low-line burner drives work as the high-end product by similar means. I wouldn't be surprised if someone reflashed the firmware on a hard disk drive, low-level-formatted it, and found that the part was otherwise identical to the model with a quarter more capacity.
There is every reason to assume that "tape is tape" in this instance would apply, and that for the sake of manufacturing ease they've gone to using the same media for both SVHS and DVHS, simply using a different package for the newer, "better" standard.
You should have waited for the police to show up after you showed your receipt and had the officer charge the employees with assault and battery. They had no right to detain you if you were not doing anything illegal, and that they chose to skate that line and hold you anyway puts them with the burden of proof. That you did not strike any of them is good, but you have more restraint than I would have.
They've tried making that illegal on Mill Avenue in Tempe but been fought every step of the way. They even tried zoning Mill as fairgrounds, but to my knowledge they can't actually do anything except harrang people on account of state law.
It's marked with a yellow or pink highlighter here. It's not exactly hard to reproduce the mark.
"Here's how I look at it, I WANT them to check receipts. Why? Because it keeps people honost. Theft raises merchanise cost and I don't enjoy paying extra so some dork can steal the same stuff that I'm paying for."
Having known several people who worked at Fry's Electronics in Tempe Arizona, I can tell you that the biggest problem with inventory loss at Fry's is from employees, not from customers. It's part of why the store has such a high turnover rate. Employees aren't paid well, have little to no supervision, have a somewhat hostile work environment with poor management, and therefore are inclined to steal from the evil, faceless corporation that employs them. After awhile they leave, frequently so they don't get caught in the newest investigation. Sometimes they are somewhat caught but not enough to be worth prosecuting, so they're simply fired. Of the four Fry's employees that I knew, two quit, one was fired, and only one didn't pilfer constantly.
They've tried to stop me before, but I've asked them their grounds for doing so and the one in charge smartly and quietly let the matter drop. I'll only let them touch the receipt if I think that I'm going to return the purchase.
I do show my receipt at the door at Costco, because my use of their business is through paid membership, and while I have not read the rules for membership, I suspect that they could pull my membership for failing to allow them to check my receipt. Being that they are technically non-public, they can refuse anyone shopping there much more easily than a standard walk in retail store can.
"Gates is absolutely right. I found that out in my first college year."
I went through a similar thing myself, but I have one thing to amend Gates' assertion about. high schools aren't obsolete, schools are obsolete, but it's because of money.
The district that I work for splits elementary kids into three groups, with two of these groups being the majority. These are normal learners, slow learners, and gifted learners. Most of the kids are in the normal category, a measurable chunk are in the slow category, and a very small number are in the gifted category. Schools are not supposed to have more than 9% of their students in special education. They're probably not supposed to have more than that in the gifted programs either. This means that they're supposed to have at least 82% of students in common curriculum, even if the student excels beyond the class or struggles, but not struggles to the point of qualifying for intervention. This leaves kids at both ends of the spectrum of normal not getting the education that they are truly capable of.
If I were the all-powerful person in charge of everything, I'd split groups up a lot more distinctly, and by subject. I'd have four or five levels, with the current normal range being three distinct levels. There would be extremely bright, "I have to learn this for one day and then I have it down pat" kids, "Give me a compressed unit and I'll have it perfect" kids, "Teach me at the previous normal pace and I'll have it" kids, "Give it to me with more basics and combine it with other exercises to reinforce it" kids, and "I need special assistance because I'm not able to keep up" kids. Broken down by subject, a student would be kept in with a smaller peer group for each subject, and the pace of learning could let the student reach to their potential, rather than being held back because they're just sitting there.
This costs money. This requires home support. Where I work, both are strongly lacking. We get $5,600 per kid per year to teach them, and that has to pay for everything from the classroom teacher to the new tires for the lawnmower.