1) Does this only apply if one is using www.google.fr?
2) What if you are a German citizen using www.google.com from Italy looking for local solutions? If the company you seek has an office in France, does that mean Google is barred from showing you Italian competitors?
I'd be really angry if it did. For some products, I only know of one company that makes something. Those advertisements are often the easiest way to find other companies that do the same thing. It's not like they're popping up advertisements if you go to a specific company's website (ala gator).
If you've blown a fuse, there's usually a damn good reason why you blew a fuse. Fuses are designed to blow, to protect other components downstream. Unless you're going to fix the problem that caused the fuse to blow in the first place, don't bother to replace the fuse. You'll regret it evntually when your PSU goes *poof* and lets out the magic smoke.
So if there's a blown fuse you just toss out the PSU and buy a new one.. to keep, umm the PSU from going poof? I say replace the fuse. So long as you use the right fuse the worst case is you'll blow the new fuse. $0.50 test that could save you $60 for a new PSU
1992: Power Supply 1994: Power Supply 1998: Power Supply 1998: Monitor 1999: Power Supply 2003: CD Burner 2004: Power Supply
Did you ever try opening up the powersupply rather than just removing it? I've lost 2 power supplies, and both simply needed replacement fuses. Take the 4 screws off the PSU, then take off the 2 or 3 that hold the shell together. You'll always find one of those little glass fuses in there. I'm willing to bet you were just blowing those.
We got flames (briefly) and lots of acrid smoke. Happily, all he lost was a ribbon cable inside the case.
Oooh... When I built my first computer I eventually got a SoundBlaster Live! Platinum to replace the onboard audio. The platinum has that "Live Drive" that connects that gives you front side audio ports and an IR for a remote control. The deck connects to the sound card using a single drive 40pin IDE cable. Since I got it used and it didn't come with a cable, I tried using one of the spare single drive cables I had lying around, which happened to be an 80pin cable. Couldn't see any flames cause the case was closed, but there was smoke streaming out of that system! Everything worked when I got a 40pin cable, fortunately.
Grandparent my dad dumped an entire can of beer into the heat vent
Parent the air was bone dry
Looks like humidity is the key factor. They work fine in 100+% humidity, but not in low humidity...
Heh.. reminds me of the screen savers where someone on the show was convinced modern computer components were impervious to Electro-static schock, so they rubbed some PCI cards across the carpet etc and couldn't figure out why they didn't work afterwards...
Here here! I charge $15-20/hour depending on who it is and what I'm doing, but I'll often fix close friends problems for free if it won't take more than half an hour and they can wait until I'm in the neighborhood for something else.
I believe they'll probably release something - the time line's too short to miss it by 4 years as they've done previously. Besides, they don't want the actual release of Tiger to have the limelight by itself, now, do they?
Agreed. I woudln't be surprised if they had the beta out by june. Of couse Windows XP 64 for AMD64 processors has been in beta for how long and we still haven't seen it hit the shelves?
I'm not really sure it should be news if the beta DOES come out by June... final product still won't come out any sooner then expected. Beta in MS terms doesn't seem to mean feature freeze like it does in other products...
Except that my parents bought one of these when I was back in the 8th grade under a different name. That would have put it back at 1998-1999 sometime (if I can subtract right...)
Perhaps Hack-A-Day stole the idea from one of the origional implimentations.
CELL is a Multi-Core Architecture
Contains 8 SPUs each containing a 128 entry 128-bit register file and 256KB Local Store
From your article and the origional it seems there are 8 Synergistic Processing Units/Elements and 1 Power Processor core.
How does s Synergistic Processing Unit differ from a CPU core used in most multicore processors. I'm assuming a SPU doesn't do as much as a CPU, but does anyone know more specifics? Are there benifits other than price for using multiple SPUs and a single CPU rather than multiple CPU cores?
If you really want distance, get an antenna with a very small beam width.
I have two WiFi antennas. A homemade cantenna I built using these instructions. I've experimented with adding a funnel with limited success.
I get pretty good distance with it (big improvement over standard Omni that came with my D-Link 802.11b card, but nothing like what I get using my parabolic grid antenna. It's about $50 after shipping, but the 15 degree beam width is worth it over the 35-50 degree beam width you'll get out of a home made antenna.
I strongly advise against home made pringles can's. They are nothing compared to a simple wave guide, and cost a lot more. Sure they work, but not as well. I'm not sure about that more professional pringles can you posted in your question...
In November, Netscape released the first test, or "alpha," version of its new browser based on Mozilla's Firefox software.
I'd bet it is based on Firefox. If you remember, though, the alpha they released in November was based on Firefox, but had extra code to allow a user to selectively utilize the IE viewing engine to load a page (right click and hit "View like: IE" or "View like: Netscape", where "Netscape" meant Firefox.9 or whatever it was based off of.)
This is probably the same thing, but maybe more transparent and with more controls, or more likely it IS the same thing. Remember, that was an alpha, which means after beta testing it could be released in a month.
What about putting the microwave transmitter on the moon? You could cover the whole light side with solar panels to charge the system up. Maybe even put up a nuclear reactor or something...
Your link is currently 404 compliant. Well damn! I loaded the whole thing via the coral cache while it was still in the mysterious future... I figured Coral would get a handle on it before it went down... I guess not.
Given that you can plug in a cheap two button mouse and be running in 10 seconds, what conclusions should we draw about you? Your expertise in Worl of Warcraft aside, I mean.
So you're answer is that he bring his own multibutton mouse to work so that he can carry it around and plug it into a Mac when he has to use one?
Again, how is this Apple's fault, in recent times, i.e., the last 7 or so years?
Has Apple sold Macs with two mouse buttons for the last 7 years?
Most of the web was using IE for much less than 7 years, and look how many IE only websites there were just a few years ago.
It would only stand to reason that application developement would be the same as web developement. You write applications for what your user base is using. If your user base is primarly windows or *nix, you'll probably use the right mouse button a lot, and then when porting, expect mac users to have to Ctrl+Click (an inconvienient modifier, IMO)
If your user base is mostly Mac, then you'll probably almost completely igore the right mouse button, maybe putting a few things in there for those users who don't see Ctrl+Click as so much of a pain, but definately not providing the same rich context menu support you would if you expected everyone to be right clicking.
It really is Apple's fault. It's not MacOS's fault (it's supported right click for over 7 years) but it is definately Apple's fault for not selling Macs with the right button.
That said, as one who teaches computing classes at his local college (Dreamweaver, MS Office, iMovie, etc etc) older than average students (40s, 50s, etc) and students very new to computers have much more trouble with the concept of right clicking than, say, my 4 year old cousin has, and I find it rather irksome that some features in MS Office products can only be reached via the context menu. But then developers expect Windows users to have a right mouse button...
Class action lawsuits often have trouble finding paper mills that poisened the water supply, killing infants and disabling the elderly
ah, sh!t.. I meant they have trouble finding paper mills liable, or that they have trouble sueing paper mills, or fining them or something. I didn't mean to imply lawers are having difficulty in their search for paper mills.
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1) Does this only apply if one is using www.google.fr?
2) What if you are a German citizen using www.google.com from Italy looking for local solutions? If the company you seek has an office in France, does that mean Google is barred from showing you Italian competitors?
I'd be really angry if it did. For some products, I only know of one company that makes something. Those advertisements are often the easiest way to find other companies that do the same thing. It's not like they're popping up advertisements if you go to a specific company's website (ala gator).
Mirror for Mirrordot
I wouldn't doubt if this either becomes very heavily integrated into google local or basically replaces google local entirely.
Look at the great searches you can do. Don't like that example? Type pizza in the search box and stay in the same city... Pretty cool indeed!
If you've blown a fuse, there's usually a damn good reason why you blew a fuse. Fuses are designed to blow, to protect other components downstream. Unless you're going to fix the problem that caused the fuse to blow in the first place, don't bother to replace the fuse. You'll regret it evntually when your PSU goes *poof* and lets out the magic smoke.
So if there's a blown fuse you just toss out the PSU and buy a new one.. to keep, umm the PSU from going poof? I say replace the fuse. So long as you use the right fuse the worst case is you'll blow the new fuse. $0.50 test that could save you $60 for a new PSU
1992: Power Supply
1994: Power Supply
1998: Power Supply
1998: Monitor
1999: Power Supply
2003: CD Burner
2004: Power Supply
Did you ever try opening up the powersupply rather than just removing it? I've lost 2 power supplies, and both simply needed replacement fuses. Take the 4 screws off the PSU, then take off the 2 or 3 that hold the shell together. You'll always find one of those little glass fuses in there. I'm willing to bet you were just blowing those.
We got flames (briefly) and lots of acrid smoke. Happily, all he lost was a ribbon cable inside the case.
Oooh... When I built my first computer I eventually got a SoundBlaster Live! Platinum to replace the onboard audio. The platinum has that "Live Drive" that connects that gives you front side audio ports and an IR for a remote control. The deck connects to the sound card using a single drive 40pin IDE cable. Since I got it used and it didn't come with a cable, I tried using one of the spare single drive cables I had lying around, which happened to be an 80pin cable. Couldn't see any flames cause the case was closed, but there was smoke streaming out of that system! Everything worked when I got a 40pin cable, fortunately.
Grandparent my dad dumped an entire can of beer into the heat vent
Parent the air was bone dry
Looks like humidity is the key factor. They work fine in 100+% humidity, but not in low humidity...
Heh.. reminds me of the screen savers where someone on the show was convinced modern computer components were impervious to Electro-static schock, so they rubbed some PCI cards across the carpet etc and couldn't figure out why they didn't work afterwards...
" Gas, grass or ass, nobody rides for free! "
Here here! I charge $15-20/hour depending on who it is and what I'm doing, but I'll often fix close friends problems for free if it won't take more than half an hour and they can wait until I'm in the neighborhood for something else.
Ohhh... so it's kind of like Linux?
No, cause Linux has driver support
I believe they'll probably release something - the time line's too short to miss it by 4 years as they've done previously. Besides, they don't want the actual release of Tiger to have the limelight by itself, now, do they?
Agreed. I woudln't be surprised if they had the beta out by june. Of couse Windows XP 64 for AMD64 processors has been in beta for how long and we still haven't seen it hit the shelves?
I'm not really sure it should be news if the beta DOES come out by June... final product still won't come out any sooner then expected. Beta in MS terms doesn't seem to mean feature freeze like it does in other products...
stolen from hack-a-day:
Except that my parents bought one of these when I was back in the 8th grade under a different name. That would have put it back at 1998-1999 sometime (if I can subtract right...)
Perhaps Hack-A-Day stole the idea from one of the origional implimentations.
CELL is a Multi-Core Architecture
Contains 8 SPUs each containing a 128 entry 128-bit register file and 256KB Local Store
From your article and the origional it seems there are 8 Synergistic Processing Units/Elements and 1 Power Processor core.
How does s Synergistic Processing Unit differ from a CPU core used in most multicore processors. I'm assuming a SPU doesn't do as much as a CPU, but does anyone know more specifics? Are there benifits other than price for using multiple SPUs and a single CPU rather than multiple CPU cores?
If you really want distance, get an antenna with a very small beam width.
I have two WiFi antennas. A homemade cantenna I built using these instructions. I've experimented with adding a funnel with limited success.
I get pretty good distance with it (big improvement over standard Omni that came with my D-Link 802.11b card, but nothing like what I get using my parabolic grid antenna. It's about $50 after shipping, but the 15 degree beam width is worth it over the 35-50 degree beam width you'll get out of a home made antenna.
I strongly advise against home made pringles can's. They are nothing compared to a simple wave guide, and cost a lot more. Sure they work, but not as well. I'm not sure about that more professional pringles can you posted in your question...
You could put it on the non-Earth facing side of the moon.. then you can't aim it at Earth...
You have succumbed to the myth that there is a "dark side of the moon."
And thus the moon has phases... oops.
Well, that's what happens when you post with out thinking, sorry...
In November, Netscape released the first test, or "alpha," version of its new browser based on Mozilla's Firefox software.
.9 or whatever it was based off of.)
I'd bet it is based on Firefox. If you remember, though, the alpha they released in November was based on Firefox, but had extra code to allow a user to selectively utilize the IE viewing engine to load a page (right click and hit "View like: IE" or "View like: Netscape", where "Netscape" meant Firefox
This is probably the same thing, but maybe more transparent and with more controls, or more likely it IS the same thing. Remember, that was an alpha, which means after beta testing it could be released in a month.
It's too bad that Alpha was ass ugly (more screen shots)
I'm not sure what Netscape 8 will look like, but I hope to god they get a better skin loaded before launch date...
What about putting the microwave transmitter on the moon? You could cover the whole light side with solar panels to charge the system up. Maybe even put up a nuclear reactor or something...
Just a thought...
Your link is currently 404 compliant.
Well damn! I loaded the whole thing via the coral cache while it was still in the mysterious future... I figured Coral would get a handle on it before it went down... I guess not.
Damn. There's always mirrordot.com I suppose...
I preloaded this into the Coral Cache, just in case it gets slashdotted.
Here's the Cache Link if it's needed.
You need to be logged in to get karma...
that you could already do that... mind you it'll probably be a 486 with 16Mb of RAM...
You know it's gonna have a Geode Processor.
Given that you can plug in a cheap two button mouse and be running in 10 seconds, what conclusions should we draw about you? Your expertise in Worl of Warcraft aside, I mean.
So you're answer is that he bring his own multibutton mouse to work so that he can carry it around and plug it into a Mac when he has to use one?
Again, how is this Apple's fault, in recent times, i.e., the last 7 or so years?
Has Apple sold Macs with two mouse buttons for the last 7 years?
Most of the web was using IE for much less than 7 years, and look how many IE only websites there were just a few years ago.
It would only stand to reason that application developement would be the same as web developement. You write applications for what your user base is using. If your user base is primarly windows or *nix, you'll probably use the right mouse button a lot, and then when porting, expect mac users to have to Ctrl+Click (an inconvienient modifier, IMO)
If your user base is mostly Mac, then you'll probably almost completely igore the right mouse button, maybe putting a few things in there for those users who don't see Ctrl+Click as so much of a pain, but definately not providing the same rich context menu support you would if you expected everyone to be right clicking.
It really is Apple's fault. It's not MacOS's fault (it's supported right click for over 7 years) but it is definately Apple's fault for not selling Macs with the right button.
That said, as one who teaches computing classes at his local college (Dreamweaver, MS Office, iMovie, etc etc) older than average students (40s, 50s, etc) and students very new to computers have much more trouble with the concept of right clicking than, say, my 4 year old cousin has, and I find it rather irksome that some features in MS Office products can only be reached via the context menu. But then developers expect Windows users to have a right mouse button...
Maybe you should have pwn3d more n00bs?
Class action lawsuits often have trouble finding paper mills that poisened the water supply, killing infants and disabling the elderly
ah, sh!t.. I meant they have trouble finding paper mills liable, or that they have trouble sueing paper mills, or fining them or something. I didn't mean to imply lawers are having difficulty in their search for paper mills.