I have an Apple II+ that I program on at least once a week. It's a fun exercise to see what I can get the old machine to do. I don't have any disk drives, so I use the cassette interface. But I don't have a cassette deck either, so I use my brand new laptop as the storage by plugging the Apple into its audio ports. So I have 33 year old tech not just co-existing, but working in tandem with, brand new equipment.
The original question was how does a Tor-running geek prepare for a computer seizure by authorities. One answer is to backup your data to the cloud, so even after they have your computers, you can at least go buy a new beige box and keep working. That's what the GP was getting at.
According to this article (http://us.gizmodo.com/5851288/why-the-barometer-is-androids-new-trump-card), a guy from The Weather Underground says it won't work. He says that the pressure gradients are too flat and the sensors are too imprecise to be able to accurately measure local pressure any better than the existing network.
I've done the opposite - I've lost motherboards due to defective boards and defective power supplies. Maybe its just been bad luck, but I also sometimes swap out the motherboard for a newer one with more features - you don't always need the fastest cpu, but sometimes having a feature (like USB3.0) is worth the upgrade.
I'll second that. All it takes is for the bad guys to use the alarm function and then they still get the bomb to go off and the victims can't even call for help. What a stupid idea.
It has about the same odds as getting the/. editor to include the state for which this law actually applies in the summary. (It's California in this case.)
[quote]Residential customers are usually charged for real power only[/quote]
Yes, that's true, but power plants have to supply the "naive" amount of current. When you factor in losses due to delivery, it adds up. The point is, regardless of the power factor, it's worth saving electricity, if not for your pocketbook, then for the environment.
It's not that I don't trust the LCD. It's that when you change the resolution, you tend to screw other things up as well.
I have three monitors and I game on the center one. I like to keep my email and IRC open on the other ones while I play. But if the game adjusts the resolution, the positions of the other windows move around and I can no longer see all of them. This happens in Windows if the game doesn't run at the same resolution as my center monitor.
Except that we're no longer in the era of CRTs. Since LCDs have one native resolution, they should always be driven at that resolution. If a game wants to run at 640x480, then that should be accomplished by scaling it up and adding black bars, if necessary, but the signal to the LCD should still be at the original resolution.
Well, since this means that you'll be reading your @gmail.com email through Alto, instead of through Gmail, it also means that you'll be seeing AOL ads and not Google ads. How long will it be until Google, Yahoo, and Apple change their API or terms of service to ban this?
Umm.. I'm a small business owner in the USA and my only interaction with the federal government is taxes at the end of the year, which takes me a couple of hours to do.
What kinds of business are you referring to? Are you talking about media companies specifically? What kinds of "mandatory courses", and "certifications" are necessary to be a cable company?
Exactly. Take even the simplest Linux command, like 'rm'. Now look at this excerpt from the man page:
--no-preserve-root
do not treat `/' specially
What does that mean? That little blurb really isn't sufficient to learn what that option does. If you already are familiar with rm, then that blurb will likely remind you of the intended action. Unfortunately, the goal of a lot of online documentation is to refresh your memory, not teach. That's why you need good dead tree documentation. That way, even if they make some minor changes in the future, you'll still have a good solid understanding of the way the system works in the first place.
But Microsoft doesn't want to deal with this. With the release of Windows 8, they will have four (semi-)separate code bases (XP, Vista, 7, 8) to keep secure. That's a coding nightmare that nobody wants. If Microsoft can get everyone on the same OS, then their costs of producing patches drops to a quarter of what it once was.
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I have an Apple II+ that I program on at least once a week. It's a fun exercise to see what I can get the old machine to do. I don't have any disk drives, so I use the cassette interface. But I don't have a cassette deck either, so I use my brand new laptop as the storage by plugging the Apple into its audio ports. So I have 33 year old tech not just co-existing, but working in tandem with, brand new equipment.
But that analogy doesn't hold because you're comparing information to tangible, physical items.
A better analogy would be: "He left his manuscript visible on a table in public space (like a coffee shop), so I read what was visible."
The original question was how does a Tor-running geek prepare for a computer seizure by authorities. One answer is to backup your data to the cloud, so even after they have your computers, you can at least go buy a new beige box and keep working. That's what the GP was getting at.
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According to this article (http://us.gizmodo.com/5851288/why-the-barometer-is-androids-new-trump-card), a guy from The Weather Underground says it won't work. He says that the pressure gradients are too flat and the sensors are too imprecise to be able to accurately measure local pressure any better than the existing network.
I've done the opposite - I've lost motherboards due to defective boards and defective power supplies. Maybe its just been bad luck, but I also sometimes swap out the motherboard for a newer one with more features - you don't always need the fastest cpu, but sometimes having a feature (like USB3.0) is worth the upgrade.
lol, it wasn't that long ago that ISDN was still considered bloody fast.
I'll second that. All it takes is for the bad guys to use the alarm function and then they still get the bomb to go off and the victims can't even call for help. What a stupid idea.
SWF = Shocking White Flasher.. I think..
I fixed that for you:
[1] Each broadcast or cable channel publishes its schedule and program info to a central database at the FCC.
[2] The tea party types complain that this is *more* government intrusion.
I bought 2 2TB Hitachi's in May 2011 for $69 each including shipping from NewEgg. They were that cheap back then.
It has about the same odds as getting the /. editor to include the state for which this law actually applies in the summary. (It's California in this case.)
In the five hours since I posted this, two /. articles on these guys have come up:
http://slashdot.org/story/12/11/07/1722200/pixar-names-main-studio-building-for-steve-jobs
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/11/07/2225208/elon-musk-will-usher-in-the-era-of-electric-cars
The second even compares Musk to Jobs.
Counterexamples:
Steve Jobs had Apple and NeXT and Pixar. Elon Musk had Paypal and now has Tesla and SpaceX.
[quote]Residential customers are usually charged for real power only[/quote]
Yes, that's true, but power plants have to supply the "naive" amount of current. When you factor in losses due to delivery, it adds up. The point is, regardless of the power factor, it's worth saving electricity, if not for your pocketbook, then for the environment.
It's not that I don't trust the LCD. It's that when you change the resolution, you tend to screw other things up as well.
I have three monitors and I game on the center one. I like to keep my email and IRC open on the other ones while I play. But if the game adjusts the resolution, the positions of the other windows move around and I can no longer see all of them. This happens in Windows if the game doesn't run at the same resolution as my center monitor.
in fact generally this approach leads to better visuals than LCD rescalers
Citation needed.
What difference does it make who (the graphics card or the monitor) is doing the scaling??
Except that we're no longer in the era of CRTs. Since LCDs have one native resolution, they should always be driven at that resolution. If a game wants to run at 640x480, then that should be accomplished by scaling it up and adding black bars, if necessary, but the signal to the LCD should still be at the original resolution.
Well, since this means that you'll be reading your @gmail.com email through Alto, instead of through Gmail, it also means that you'll be seeing AOL ads and not Google ads. How long will it be until Google, Yahoo, and Apple change their API or terms of service to ban this?
Umm.. I'm a small business owner in the USA and my only interaction with the federal government is taxes at the end of the year, which takes me a couple of hours to do.
What kinds of business are you referring to? Are you talking about media companies specifically? What kinds of "mandatory courses", and "certifications" are necessary to be a cable company?
Except it isn't. Some salt comes from salt mines. Hence the expression, "working in the salt mine".
Exactly. Take even the simplest Linux command, like 'rm'. Now look at this excerpt from the man page:
--no-preserve-root
do not treat `/' specially
What does that mean? That little blurb really isn't sufficient to learn what that option does. If you already are familiar with rm, then that blurb will likely remind you of the intended action. Unfortunately, the goal of a lot of online documentation is to refresh your memory, not teach. That's why you need good dead tree documentation. That way, even if they make some minor changes in the future, you'll still have a good solid understanding of the way the system works in the first place.
You're telling me you put a $190 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116997) operating system on a $160 computer?
But Microsoft doesn't want to deal with this. With the release of Windows 8, they will have four (semi-)separate code bases (XP, Vista, 7, 8) to keep secure. That's a coding nightmare that nobody wants. If Microsoft can get everyone on the same OS, then their costs of producing patches drops to a quarter of what it once was.
You don't want frequency shifting, but rather amplification of only that narrow band.