If a new car built by my company leaves Chicago traveling west at 60 miles per hour, and the rear differential locks up, and the car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside, does my company initiate a recall?
You take the population of vehicles in the field (A) and multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B), then multiply the result by the average cost of an out-of-court settlement (C).
A times B times C equals X. This is what it will cost if we don't initiate a recall.
If X is greater than the cost of a recall, we recall the cars and no one gets hurt.
If X is less than the cost of a recall, then we don't recall.
The triangular piece is obvious, what I believe is the other piece is being looked at edge-on so it's tricky to see. You can even see the damaged heat shield on the left.
To be honest, I only learned about that yesterday (in the Windows Genuine Advantage story).
Then again, I only use IE when developing intranet sites for clients that use IE as a corporate standard.
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You forget the best reason to install Session Saver - it keeps your browser session when you install/update other extensions. The first extension that gets installed when I do a new FF install.
Yes but the wait-for-the-price-to-drop users aren't going to be the early-adopters for the next-gen console, so they'll still get their four years value out of it.
My pet peeve with menus is ones where the highlight of a menu selection is swapping a colour on the icon or the words, as opposed to an arrow or something similar. It's fine if there's three or more options, but if there's only two and you forget which one is the highlight colour, you have no idea which menu item you have selected. Bad menu designer! No cookie for you!
A blog article I read ages ago came up with a printer strategy, based on a 2400x1200 Lexmark printer that cost $35 (black ink refill $30, colour refill $33):
- buy the cheapest inkjet that comes with cartridges - when the ink runs out, donate the printer to your local school and buy a new printer
You get a tax credit for the donation, the school gets near new equipment, and you save on ink.
"If video games affected us as kids, we'd be running around darkened corridors, scoffing white pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
- unknown (mainly because I CBA looking for it...)
This is a great book! My only disappointment was that it was too short. How can you not love a book, whose opening paragraph is:
It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears's house. Its eyes were closed. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they thing they're chasing a cat in a dream. But the dog was not running or asleep. The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out of the dog. The points of the fork must have gone all the way through the dog and into the ground because the fork had not fallen over. I decided that the dog was probably killed with the fork because I could not see any other wounds in the dog and I do not think you would stick a garden fork into a dog after it had died for some other reason, like cancer, for example, or a road accident. But I could not be certain about this.
Yes, but usually when you buy a DVD drive, you get playback software bundled with it. Guess what, the software is for Windows. If you don't have a DVD drive, why do you want DVD playback?
Microprose Formula 1 GP (the first one - 1992 or earlier) had replay functionality - not 'God's Eye', but lots of camera angles anyway. You had to have lots of RAM (for the day) to be able to use it. A 1Mb Amiga 500 didn't cut it.
I guess they figured that it'd be a waste of money springing for a two-year registration. It's not like there'll be anybody there left to renew the domain next October after they've been left as a smouldering caldera...
"It'd also be interesting to know how far from the athletes the gun is located and if sound travel speed can have an impact on things (how is the electronic system synchronized to the gun? via sound? some other way?)"
There is a mic or some other sensor attached to the starter pistol linked up to mini-loudhalers sitting directly behind each athlete so every competitor hears the start at precisely the same time. They've been doing this for a long time.
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And now, a massage from the Swedish Prime Minister...(slap slap slappity slap)
All the ease of use of a top-line professional SLR with the flexibility and adaptability of a compact for $1k...where can I get one?
Sounds like you need to watch 24 Hour Party People.
Don't forget the blood...
If a new car built by my company leaves Chicago traveling west at 60 miles per hour, and the rear differential locks up, and the car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside, does my company initiate a recall?
You take the population of vehicles in the field (A) and multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B), then multiply the result by the average cost of an out-of-court settlement (C).
A times B times C equals X. This is what it will cost if we don't initiate a recall.
If X is greater than the cost of a recall, we recall the cars and no one gets hurt.
If X is less than the cost of a recall, then we don't recall.
Almost. There's no ribbon cable as both the HD and DVD drives are SATA...
This is MBFS's website EULA:
www.mbfs.com/copyright.asp
What a crock of shit.
It's a trap!
They just went to APOD...
The triangular piece is obvious, what I believe is the other piece is being looked at edge-on so it's tricky to see. You can even see the damaged heat shield on the left.
To be honest, I only learned about that yesterday (in the Windows Genuine Advantage story).
Then again, I only use IE when developing intranet sites for clients that use IE as a corporate standard.
You forget the best reason to install Session Saver - it keeps your browser session when you install/update other extensions. The first extension that gets installed when I do a new FF install.
Is here, posted in /.'s 10,000th story.
You gather a collection of signs saying "Please do not drink the emperor"
Yes but the wait-for-the-price-to-drop users aren't going to be the early-adopters for the next-gen console, so they'll still get their four years value out of it.
My pet peeve with menus is ones where the highlight of a menu selection is swapping a colour on the icon or the words, as opposed to an arrow or something similar. It's fine if there's three or more options, but if there's only two and you forget which one is the highlight colour, you have no idea which menu item you have selected. Bad menu designer! No cookie for you!
I love how you censored the url in your sig, but the slashcode writes it out in full anyway...kinda defeats the purpose, doesn't it?
A blog article I read ages ago came up with a printer strategy, based on a 2400x1200 Lexmark printer that cost $35 (black ink refill $30, colour refill $33):
- buy the cheapest inkjet that comes with cartridges
- when the ink runs out, donate the printer to your local school and buy a new printer
You get a tax credit for the donation, the school gets near new equipment, and you save on ink.
"If video games affected us as kids, we'd be running around darkened corridors, scoffing white pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
- unknown (mainly because I CBA looking for it...)
This is a great book! My only disappointment was that it was too short. How can you not love a book, whose opening paragraph is:
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Yes, but usually when you buy a DVD drive, you get playback software bundled with it. Guess what, the software is for Windows. If you don't have a DVD drive, why do you want DVD playback?
Microprose Formula 1 GP (the first one - 1992 or earlier) had replay functionality - not 'God's Eye', but lots of camera angles anyway. You had to have lots of RAM (for the day) to be able to use it. A 1Mb Amiga 500 didn't cut it.
I guess they figured that it'd be a waste of money springing for a two-year registration. It's not like there'll be anybody there left to renew the domain next October after they've been left as a smouldering caldera...
5: This civilisation will eventually be forced to choose between dying of the cold, or using their time machine to plunder the past for energy.
Gee, somebody's been reading 'Zaphod Plays it Safe'.
It's for managing your email, you just need the correct extension, download them here...
"It'd also be interesting to know how far from the athletes the gun is located and if sound travel speed can have an impact on things (how is the electronic system synchronized to the gun? via sound? some other way?)"
There is a mic or some other sensor attached to the starter pistol linked up to mini-loudhalers sitting directly behind each athlete so every competitor hears the start at precisely the same time. They've been doing this for a long time.
Install AdBar and Adblock and let 'em fight it out...