You man, don't know anything about analog current and digital one. Sorry, go and take this course again. With A+. The cheapest way to transport electricity from point A to point B is to use, surprise, the "wave" format. The sinusoid one.
LOL wake me when you have calculations showing RMS voltage is greater than peak voltage for a AC waveform...
Thats why, like, I donno, 80 years ago, the telco business got in the habit of A and B power bus distribution. I worked at a place with a C bus which was pretty much a load balancing hack and confused the hell out of the CO techs and electricians... They actually shorted out the C bus one time because they didn't understand the concept of having three busses instead of the "standard" two.
AC is better than DC for transporting electricity because you can convert between voltages with just a transformer.
Not anymore. The greenies / cost cutting / etc means no more xfrmrs anymore. Bye bye to that technology. Whens the last time you bought a wall wart charged device with a transformer inside it (you'd know, it'll be cubical and heavy)? You have to be pretty old by/. terms to have bought a main desktop computer without a switcher, like early 1980s era pre-PC "home computers"... Ahh the old Altair with its smoking hot 7805 regulators...
Since you're gonna have a switching power supply anyway... why not skip the pesky rectifier diodes and feed in raw couple hundred volts DC? Quite a few PC power supplies work just fine off raw DC on the supposed "AC input"... good luck figuring out which work and which dont without some smoke events.
I can save everybody a lot of time by posting the summary from the last 50/. discussions of DC data centers: 1) RMS voltage is always going to be lower than peak... insulation is cheaper, or for a given grade of insulation you can push more wattage in DC. 2) Switchgear is complicated. Labor cost goes up. 3) Expect the fire marshall to completely flip his lid unless he's up with the times.
Wow! I only share pics online with Google+, precisely because of the circles. I don't want people who pledged the same fraternity as I did getting pictures of my 4 year old daughter's birthday party. I may want to share the picture of the latest glass of home brew with the fraternity brothers
Its also a circle/hobby thing. The only public posts you see are "really public" like my spouse and I gave birth to a child (odd how the guy always takes some credit despite merely being there at the kickoff meeting).
Very early on there were a couple ham radio guys and at least one prominent linux tech guy making ridiculous public posts about their religion and also the political ranters. I don't want that "spam" in my ham radio circle or my linux circle. Those people are uncircled, blocked, or gone from G+ cause no one listens to them anymore.
If you have a "ham radio circle" and know you're in about 900 peoples "ham radio circle" please don't post bible verses and/or political slogans either to public or to your "ham radio circle". Or you'll quickly find yourself in just about no one's "ham radio circle", and you'll be bored as heck since "nothing is going on in G+"
I appear almost completely dead to the public on G+. To people in the ham radio world, in that circle I'm F-ing around with HF digital modes and weaksignal VHF operations on a semi-regular weekly-ish basis. To people in the hardware hacker circle, every couple weeks something interesting happens on my workbench. But again, I reiterate, without being in someones hobbiest circle, you look dead on G+ to the general public.
Here's an experiment... if you like "slashdotty type of stuff" then circle a guy named Dan McDermott (If there's more than one... it'll be pretty obvious when you've found the right one). No, that's not me. If he read my other/. posts he'd probably be pissed at that idea LOL. About half of his stuff is interesting, which is actually pretty good. Your stream will never be empty or boring again...
Also, no one will add you to a their hobby circle unless you fill out your profile, comment occasionally in other peoples posts, and make useful posts. Lurkers see nothing. If you're the worlds biggest lego maker dude, but no one knows, none of the worlds other lego maker dudes are going to circle you so you can see their posts.
Its a hobby network not a friends-family network. A somewhat different concept.
My ham radio circle won't shut up... very busy. Slider cranked way down on those guys.
Hardware hacker and software hacker circle kind of busy, always something cool going on.
Linux-tech-podcaster-host-types constant chatter
I've heard its The Place To Be if your a photographer
Friends and family? Not that kind of thing.
I deleted my facebook account years ago now, but when I was on it was exclusively the friends and family stuff you're talking about. I couldn't find anyone on FB interested in discussing any hobbies other than watching TV or getting drunk. Nobody talks about anything other than that on FB, even people famous for doing tech stuff. It was, frankly, boring.
In the accompanying footnote, "In Germany, almost every fourth internet user stated that h/she has given false information on the internet in the past".
False information... to who?
On the internet, the men are men, the women are also men (at least they used to be), and the lonely highschool cheerleaders / "bi-curious" boys are FBI agents running a sting operation.
Looking at it from that perspective is insightful.
... I'll give them CowboyNeal's government ID number.
I'm curious how they verified it, assuming they did verify it. I've been known to lie to salespeople... after all its their paid job to lie to me...
As corporations demand more and more data from customers, how do they know they got the correct data? Whats my minor sons US passport number? What is your blood type? Whats my great grandmas former address in 1953? Please write the complete genetic code of your 13th chromosome in this tiny little box. Are you wearing boxers, briefs, thong, something sheer and lacy, or going commando? Please enter your personal belief of the meaning of life in 80 characters or less. F all I wanna do is buy a can of pepsi at this convenience store...
I've shopped there for years, although not recently, and one thing I've noticed is people who buy assembled computers and overclocker parts have endless public horror stories about utter insanity assuming any of their story is true, but just your average component buyer like myself thinks they walk on water. Its like they're multiple companies operating under one domain, like ebay, or something like that.
It Could be that he was dealing with the insane department, whereas I have always ordered from the apparently sane hard drive dept, etc.
I have seen this kind of thing happen to companies that drop-ship-from-the-factory, you order drop ship items from them, they pass the order along and get a commission, then who knows what insanity lurks at the factory. It may be that TD resells PCs and some parts from absolute lunatics, although TD itself has always treated me well.
I tend to inject random noise into any surveys I answer, so the average of all answers is "I don't exist".
Flood any system with enough garbage and you render the entire system mostly useless.
I'm told this doesn't work anymore. So, on tree-lined Slashdot Lane, we've got the docs on everyone in every house except vlm's house. Hmm. We also have some clown filling out every random blasted value that exists for his income. Hmm. We still don't have his real income, but we can assign all those random transactions to vlm, then make some educated guesses based on dollar value of transactions vs stored data from his neighbors, to estimate... blah blah.
Also I know for a fact, from previous experience in grocery retail work 20 years ago, even then they had the docs on you, they only asked for information to authenticate its really you, and to figure out how "compliant" you are. Much as you are required to fill out an employment application at a job interview even if they have a resume simply to see how you react to tedium, how compliant you are, etc.
Your "grocery store check cashing card" application technically requires nothing other than your SS number and signature. Everything else is merely testing for compliance. Your loyalty card technically requires nothing at all, but if you're a jerk about it, the first time you pay using anything other than cash, they'll have all your docs and link it to you, and then you get filed in the PR category of "jerk", for better or worse.
What you can calculate from junk data in a sparse table is different than what you can calculate from junk data in a nearly full table.
Well- I refuse to shop at Tiger Direct ever since they asked me for my Soc Sec Nbr. Simply none of their business. Will never go back to them no matter how cheap they are- there is no legitimate reason they should have asked for it.
When did they start doing that? What if you tell them you're not a US citizen? I would imagine a lot of foreign college students buy parts to upgrade their PCs while living here... Ah I see where this might be going.
The article was not crystal clear, but I think it was run at Univ Cambridge UK.
Where I went to school, if you wanted to pass intro psych, you had to volunteer to participate in psych research tests. 3 experiments, if I recall. These tests were run by the upperclass psych students as part of passing experimental psych class. I took sociology for my "soft science" but I heard stories about lots of perceptual tests and timed foolishness. You'd hope for a human sexuality experiment, or a psychoactive drug experiment, but you were almost certain to be timed while solving a puzzle of some unusual sort, or shown something and asked weird questions about what you remember of it, etc.
To some extent, given the unemployment rates of psych grads, you story still stands... but, psych is not quite as bad as being, say, panhandlers off the street.
Diplomacy is awful..... Humanitarian aid is handled disastrously... any cultural exchange is met with hostility such as the BBC establishing a television channel.... backwards.... They are regressing into even more oppressive religious states
I reread your post and on second thought I think the US politicans hate Iran because they are on the same path as the US, just a little further along / more successful.
Just let that part of the world be alone by itself and cut them off completely. Don't send them money. Don't send diplomats. Don't send businesses. Encourage your citizens from touring that area. And don't ever send soldiers and bombs.
Agreed, but we do sell censorship and wiretapping gear to them, and we like to buy oil from them, so...
Here's the real top ten list. (to get the real networkworld.com just click reload ten times while reading this)
1) Sing "Shes my Cherry Pie" by... Winger I think, as loud as possible in your cube at work. Bonus points for interpretive dance and/or dressing up like the girl on the promotional poster. Extra bonus points for posting the video of your performance to youtube. Extra Extra bonus points for getting the video pulled for (c) violation. 2) Buy a raspberry pi linux board. Ha ha, you can't. Maybe by tau day? 3) Wasn't there some dumb movie a decade ago with some line about warm apple pie is like sex or something? Well you figure it out, then watch the dumb movie, and/or bake a warm apple pie, then... 4) This isn't a hallmark holiday, this is a/. holiday. To celebrate, if your significant other is female, buy her a new PC video card, install it for her in your PC, and use it for her to play skyrim all night. Thanks Honey! 5) File a bug because I only provided 4 ways to celebrate and promised 10. Idiocracy quote: Carls Jr, F you, I'm eating (lunch in my case)
See you on Tau day when I present another fun filled click fest of meaningless things to do about nonsense (although that sounds like a modern political platform).
well.. they're probably going to just scan the barcode from the dvd box, check if it's on the list of supported movies and bang two bucks kthxbye.
it's not like they're going to be doing actual disc reading at all you know, or offer this as a service to get your home dvd's to the cloud.
Good point... I have some DVDs that are all scratched up and I would imagine they are not looking forward to dealing with those issues.
The good news is downloading scans of the package and UPC is a lot faster, cheaper, and simpler than downloading the entire.iso.
Also I can replace the UPC with a more "interesting" UPC. So Tomas the Tank Engine gets scanned, the UPC indicates its pr0n, tada I've got pr0n.
If they allow a "self checkout" then an app on the phone with a UPC generator might work too.
Another question I've been pondering is how do they know if its a library owned DVD or a DVD I bought at half-price-books from a library or a DVD the library sold as part of their usual turnover process? So essentially I've now got a copy of every library DVD for $2 each.
One odd thing is most of the people discussing this are probably like me. I'll watch a movie once. Then never again. So I actually have no use for a "collection" of movies. I can count on one hand the movies I've watched more than once. I don't own many DVDs... its not like they're going to do anything but take up space.
Even worse I have the technical skill and knowledge to "gain illegal access" to a large fraction of every movie that has been made. Really. I'm quite good at finding what I want to find. But most movies are so bad/uninteresting to me, they have a dollar value below zero, and a time value below the length of the movie plus the ten minutes it takes me to find it. That's the biggest problem with this service... what would I watch?
Historically this would be the first drug story in the history of journalism to not have the dollar value hyperinflated to get bigger headlines. I googled around and shockingly the going rate seems to be around $80/gram with the average user using about a gram a day. I would have expected with the usual cop and journalist filters the price would be $10/gram but it is shockingly accurate, which is odd. Usually do not expect truth from cops and journalists. Weird.
The big problem is there is a substantial bulk discount in that business... divided up into one gram packets and sold, you might get $80 for each packet, but 750 pounds on a pallet or whatever I suspect you'll be lucky to get a quarter that price.
1) Often its the cops word against the perps word as to permission being granted.
2) You're also assuming the cops are successful more than 1 in 100 times. Permitting to search means they glance at things for a minute and leave you alone, mostly. I have been searched at a speeding traffic stop late at night. They don't waste hours of their time unless they've had an anonymous tip or you smell like a cheech and chong movie. The cop searching my car was pretty much looking for open containers. (no I was not drunk, I pretty much don't even drink, don't like it) If you don't give them permission, they get excited and you sit there for hours until they get a judge to sign a warrant, or they bring out a police dog trained to "signal" on command, then surprisingly it signals (after they command it) and they use that as justification to tear the car apart.
Does the DVD have to be in the original packaging or can I bring in my burned-at-home (or someone's home, anyway) copies?
Its actually a semi-serious question, aside from the "I downloaded a.iso and burned it" piracy aspect, how are they deciding if a physical DVD brought in is legit or gray market or outright black market?
Don't worry about it. Sometimes a triangle is just a triangle. When you look up there and think you see a goatse, that's when I'd start getting worried.
Perhaps with care and knowledge, a tank can stretch to 3 times its guaranteed life. But then to a first approximation a tankless can stretch to 3 times its guaranteed life or perhaps 75 years. Still have to buy at least 2 tanks for every tankless you purchase...
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You man, don't know anything about analog current and digital one. Sorry, go and take this course again. With A+. The cheapest way to transport electricity from point A to point B is to use, surprise, the "wave" format. The sinusoid one.
LOL wake me when you have calculations showing RMS voltage is greater than peak voltage for a AC waveform...
Thats why, like, I donno, 80 years ago, the telco business got in the habit of A and B power bus distribution. I worked at a place with a C bus which was pretty much a load balancing hack and confused the hell out of the CO techs and electricians... They actually shorted out the C bus one time because they didn't understand the concept of having three busses instead of the "standard" two.
AC is better than DC for transporting electricity because you can convert between voltages with just a transformer.
Not anymore. The greenies / cost cutting / etc means no more xfrmrs anymore. Bye bye to that technology. Whens the last time you bought a wall wart charged device with a transformer inside it (you'd know, it'll be cubical and heavy)? You have to be pretty old by /. terms to have bought a main desktop computer without a switcher, like early 1980s era pre-PC "home computers"... Ahh the old Altair with its smoking hot 7805 regulators...
Since you're gonna have a switching power supply anyway... why not skip the pesky rectifier diodes and feed in raw couple hundred volts DC? Quite a few PC power supplies work just fine off raw DC on the supposed "AC input"... good luck figuring out which work and which dont without some smoke events.
I can save everybody a lot of time by posting the summary from the last 50 /. discussions of DC data centers:
1) RMS voltage is always going to be lower than peak... insulation is cheaper, or for a given grade of insulation you can push more wattage in DC.
2) Switchgear is complicated. Labor cost goes up.
3) Expect the fire marshall to completely flip his lid unless he's up with the times.
Wow! I only share pics online with Google+, precisely because of the circles. I don't want people who pledged the same fraternity as I did getting pictures of my 4 year old daughter's birthday party. I may want to share the picture of the latest glass of home brew with the fraternity brothers
Its also a circle/hobby thing. The only public posts you see are "really public" like my spouse and I gave birth to a child (odd how the guy always takes some credit despite merely being there at the kickoff meeting).
Very early on there were a couple ham radio guys and at least one prominent linux tech guy making ridiculous public posts about their religion and also the political ranters. I don't want that "spam" in my ham radio circle or my linux circle. Those people are uncircled, blocked, or gone from G+ cause no one listens to them anymore.
If you have a "ham radio circle" and know you're in about 900 peoples "ham radio circle" please don't post bible verses and/or political slogans either to public or to your "ham radio circle". Or you'll quickly find yourself in just about no one's "ham radio circle", and you'll be bored as heck since "nothing is going on in G+"
I appear almost completely dead to the public on G+. To people in the ham radio world, in that circle I'm F-ing around with HF digital modes and weaksignal VHF operations on a semi-regular weekly-ish basis. To people in the hardware hacker circle, every couple weeks something interesting happens on my workbench. But again, I reiterate, without being in someones hobbiest circle, you look dead on G+ to the general public.
Here's an experiment... if you like "slashdotty type of stuff" then circle a guy named Dan McDermott (If there's more than one... it'll be pretty obvious when you've found the right one). No, that's not me. If he read my other /. posts he'd probably be pissed at that idea LOL. About half of his stuff is interesting, which is actually pretty good. Your stream will never be empty or boring again...
Also, no one will add you to a their hobby circle unless you fill out your profile, comment occasionally in other peoples posts, and make useful posts. Lurkers see nothing. If you're the worlds biggest lego maker dude, but no one knows, none of the worlds other lego maker dudes are going to circle you so you can see their posts.
Its a hobby network not a friends-family network. A somewhat different concept.
My ham radio circle won't shut up... very busy. Slider cranked way down on those guys.
Hardware hacker and software hacker circle kind of busy, always something cool going on.
Linux-tech-podcaster-host-types constant chatter
I've heard its The Place To Be if your a photographer
Friends and family? Not that kind of thing.
I deleted my facebook account years ago now, but when I was on it was exclusively the friends and family stuff you're talking about. I couldn't find anyone on FB interested in discussing any hobbies other than watching TV or getting drunk. Nobody talks about anything other than that on FB, even people famous for doing tech stuff. It was, frankly, boring.
In the accompanying footnote, "In Germany, almost every fourth internet user stated that h/she has given false information on the internet in the past".
False information ... to who?
On the internet, the men are men, the women are also men (at least they used to be), and the lonely highschool cheerleaders / "bi-curious" boys are FBI agents running a sting operation.
Looking at it from that perspective is insightful.
I'm curious how they verified it, assuming they did verify it. I've been known to lie to salespeople... after all its their paid job to lie to me...
As corporations demand more and more data from customers, how do they know they got the correct data? Whats my minor sons US passport number? What is your blood type? Whats my great grandmas former address in 1953? Please write the complete genetic code of your 13th chromosome in this tiny little box. Are you wearing boxers, briefs, thong, something sheer and lacy, or going commando? Please enter your personal belief of the meaning of life in 80 characters or less. F all I wanna do is buy a can of pepsi at this convenience store...
I've shopped there for years, although not recently, and one thing I've noticed is people who buy assembled computers and overclocker parts have endless public horror stories about utter insanity assuming any of their story is true, but just your average component buyer like myself thinks they walk on water. Its like they're multiple companies operating under one domain, like ebay, or something like that.
It Could be that he was dealing with the insane department, whereas I have always ordered from the apparently sane hard drive dept, etc.
I have seen this kind of thing happen to companies that drop-ship-from-the-factory, you order drop ship items from them, they pass the order along and get a commission, then who knows what insanity lurks at the factory. It may be that TD resells PCs and some parts from absolute lunatics, although TD itself has always treated me well.
I tend to inject random noise into any surveys I answer, so the average of all answers is "I don't exist".
Flood any system with enough garbage and you render the entire system mostly useless.
I'm told this doesn't work anymore. So, on tree-lined Slashdot Lane, we've got the docs on everyone in every house except vlm's house. Hmm. We also have some clown filling out every random blasted value that exists for his income. Hmm. We still don't have his real income, but we can assign all those random transactions to vlm, then make some educated guesses based on dollar value of transactions vs stored data from his neighbors, to estimate... blah blah.
Also I know for a fact, from previous experience in grocery retail work 20 years ago, even then they had the docs on you, they only asked for information to authenticate its really you, and to figure out how "compliant" you are. Much as you are required to fill out an employment application at a job interview even if they have a resume simply to see how you react to tedium, how compliant you are, etc.
Your "grocery store check cashing card" application technically requires nothing other than your SS number and signature. Everything else is merely testing for compliance. Your loyalty card technically requires nothing at all, but if you're a jerk about it, the first time you pay using anything other than cash, they'll have all your docs and link it to you, and then you get filed in the PR category of "jerk", for better or worse.
What you can calculate from junk data in a sparse table is different than what you can calculate from junk data in a nearly full table.
Well- I refuse to shop at Tiger Direct ever since they asked me for my Soc Sec Nbr. Simply none of their business. Will never go back to them no matter how cheap they are- there is no legitimate reason they should have asked for it.
When did they start doing that? What if you tell them you're not a US citizen? I would imagine a lot of foreign college students buy parts to upgrade their PCs while living here... Ah I see where this might be going.
The article was not crystal clear, but I think it was run at Univ Cambridge UK.
Where I went to school, if you wanted to pass intro psych, you had to volunteer to participate in psych research tests. 3 experiments, if I recall. These tests were run by the upperclass psych students as part of passing experimental psych class. I took sociology for my "soft science" but I heard stories about lots of perceptual tests and timed foolishness. You'd hope for a human sexuality experiment, or a psychoactive drug experiment, but you were almost certain to be timed while solving a puzzle of some unusual sort, or shown something and asked weird questions about what you remember of it, etc.
To some extent, given the unemployment rates of psych grads, you story still stands... but, psych is not quite as bad as being, say, panhandlers off the street.
Save it for tau day, you'll be OK then.
Diplomacy is awful. .... Humanitarian aid is handled disastrously ... any cultural exchange is met with hostility such as the BBC establishing a television channel.... backwards.... They are regressing into even more oppressive religious states
I reread your post and on second thought I think the US politicans hate Iran because they are on the same path as the US, just a little further along / more successful.
Its a jealousy thing.
Just let that part of the world be alone by itself and cut them off completely. Don't send them money. Don't send diplomats. Don't send businesses. Encourage your citizens from touring that area. And don't ever send soldiers and bombs.
Agreed, but we do sell censorship and wiretapping gear to them, and we like to buy oil from them, so...
I hate the way the USA posts Goat.cx links to Slashdot all the time.
Does this mean we can blame rickrolling on Rick Astley... born in Lancashire, England?
Besides .cx is Christmas Island not USA.
Observe Pi Day by calling in sick, then running the most Pi-utilising software you have all day long...
So the circumference of goatse divided by the diameter of goatse equals...
Oh you'll be calling in sick the next day too.
Or only let people with /. user ids below 314159 post.
Here's the real top ten list. (to get the real networkworld.com just click reload ten times while reading this)
1) Sing "Shes my Cherry Pie" by ... Winger I think, as loud as possible in your cube at work. Bonus points for interpretive dance and/or dressing up like the girl on the promotional poster. Extra bonus points for posting the video of your performance to youtube. Extra Extra bonus points for getting the video pulled for (c) violation. /. holiday. To celebrate, if your significant other is female, buy her a new PC video card, install it for her in your PC, and use it for her to play skyrim all night. Thanks Honey!
2) Buy a raspberry pi linux board. Ha ha, you can't. Maybe by tau day?
3) Wasn't there some dumb movie a decade ago with some line about warm apple pie is like sex or something? Well you figure it out, then watch the dumb movie, and/or bake a warm apple pie, then...
4) This isn't a hallmark holiday, this is a
5) File a bug because I only provided 4 ways to celebrate and promised 10. Idiocracy quote: Carls Jr, F you, I'm eating (lunch in my case)
See you on Tau day when I present another fun filled click fest of meaningless things to do about nonsense (although that sounds like a modern political platform).
well.. they're probably going to just scan the barcode from the dvd box, check if it's on the list of supported movies and bang two bucks kthxbye.
it's not like they're going to be doing actual disc reading at all you know, or offer this as a service to get your home dvd's to the cloud.
Good point... I have some DVDs that are all scratched up and I would imagine they are not looking forward to dealing with those issues.
The good news is downloading scans of the package and UPC is a lot faster, cheaper, and simpler than downloading the entire .iso.
Also I can replace the UPC with a more "interesting" UPC. So Tomas the Tank Engine gets scanned, the UPC indicates its pr0n, tada I've got pr0n.
If they allow a "self checkout" then an app on the phone with a UPC generator might work too.
Another question I've been pondering is how do they know if its a library owned DVD or a DVD I bought at half-price-books from a library or a DVD the library sold as part of their usual turnover process? So essentially I've now got a copy of every library DVD for $2 each.
One odd thing is most of the people discussing this are probably like me. I'll watch a movie once. Then never again. So I actually have no use for a "collection" of movies. I can count on one hand the movies I've watched more than once. I don't own many DVDs... its not like they're going to do anything but take up space.
Even worse I have the technical skill and knowledge to "gain illegal access" to a large fraction of every movie that has been made. Really. I'm quite good at finding what I want to find. But most movies are so bad/uninteresting to me, they have a dollar value below zero, and a time value below the length of the movie plus the ten minutes it takes me to find it. That's the biggest problem with this service... what would I watch?
Historically this would be the first drug story in the history of journalism to not have the dollar value hyperinflated to get bigger headlines. I googled around and shockingly the going rate seems to be around $80/gram with the average user using about a gram a day. I would have expected with the usual cop and journalist filters the price would be $10/gram but it is shockingly accurate, which is odd. Usually do not expect truth from cops and journalists. Weird.
The big problem is there is a substantial bulk discount in that business... divided up into one gram packets and sold, you might get $80 for each packet, but 750 pounds on a pallet or whatever I suspect you'll be lucky to get a quarter that price.
1) Often its the cops word against the perps word as to permission being granted.
2) You're also assuming the cops are successful more than 1 in 100 times.
Permitting to search means they glance at things for a minute and leave you alone, mostly. I have been searched at a speeding traffic stop late at night. They don't waste hours of their time unless they've had an anonymous tip or you smell like a cheech and chong movie. The cop searching my car was pretty much looking for open containers. (no I was not drunk, I pretty much don't even drink, don't like it)
If you don't give them permission, they get excited and you sit there for hours until they get a judge to sign a warrant, or they bring out a police dog trained to "signal" on command, then surprisingly it signals (after they command it) and they use that as justification to tear the car apart.
Does the DVD have to be in the original packaging or can I bring in my burned-at-home (or someone's home, anyway) copies?
Its actually a semi-serious question, aside from the "I downloaded a .iso and burned it" piracy aspect, how are they deciding if a physical DVD brought in is legit or gray market or outright black market?
Don't worry about it. Sometimes a triangle is just a triangle. When you look up there and think you see a goatse, that's when I'd start getting worried.
I'd still rather work on a powerfull desktop with big dual monitors- a nice split keyboard and a mouse for that kind of thing.
HDMI out on a smartphone seems almost a standard feature now, if you believe the ads. I suppose you'll want two HDMI output plugs now...
My old bluetooth keyboard must be pushing a decade. My sister in law's mac I believe only uses bluetooth keyboard and mice.
Perhaps with care and knowledge, a tank can stretch to 3 times its guaranteed life. But then to a first approximation a tankless can stretch to 3 times its guaranteed life or perhaps 75 years. Still have to buy at least 2 tanks for every tankless you purchase...