I'll probably get flamed and modded down for this post, but grow up! As a Christian, it really iritates me when people act childish like this. So the Macaque is still alive because it is walking upright, I think thats great, everything deserves a chance to survive. Do I go off my rocker because I don't agree with the whole Dawinian approach, no, I just see this as an animal that has learned to adapt to a personal situation (this sort of thing happens all the time without it leading to evolutionary leaps). While it may give the evolutionists some "ammo" I just sit back and let them have their fun for now.
Unless your a teacher, I would refrain from boasting about that here in NZ. Here high school lasts for 5 years and you can leave (assuming your old enough) after as little as 3.
But I just thought that my comment about being a Kiwi first is probably going to start a huge thread about reading the artical and getting my facts straight. What I meant was that it is a first that it is so cheap $40 compared to $1000. And it is a design so simple that a child could make it (although I must admit that I would have to try an remember which way up you hold a circuit diagram before I atempt it).
I wouldn't go to the extent as saying that Tait was the largest tech exporter from NZ (OK its a given for hardware, but what about software?) but I think that it's great that they are encouraging kids to be creative and have fun learning about new things (heck, they probably now know more about my own cell phone than I do).
My hat comes of for Tait, and I challenge all those slashdotters in decision making positions to get the kids off the streets and get them involved.
And finally (sorry all those in Aussie, but I can't resist) woo-hoo another Kiwi first!
But how do you know it wasn't broke. In my short time in this industry I have seen many broken systems with band-aid-over-broken-leg-style patchs up the wazoo... and they still want to blaim the hardware!
Without wanting to get into MS bashing, or poking fun at TheTXLibra (MS would never have been able to get away with something like that with NZ employment law). Wasn't Win95 released late, and would crash if left running for too long?
/dev/null missing??? OK, I know I spend more time on Windows than Linux and this is probably a simple question, but how the F&*K do you lose something that isn't there?
Am I the only one here that finds this attempt at humor actually rather interesting. Given that my pocket calculator probably has more power than the computer system on the Apolo lander (please no debates on whether or not it happened) I can see this comment making a lot of sense for the future of high-powered computing.
As funny as this sounds, I have relatives who work with the NZ government and yes there is a lot of Access stuff in use. Mainly because the people who use said databases don't know much about DB development and the DBA's very wisely do not let them near the "real" database systems which contain most of the important stuff.
Damn, I wish NZ's largest telco would take note of this one. (According to 1st-hand info from a "data archioligist") Until recently their main DB consisted of about 1000 "flat-file" tables full of duplicated data and inconsistances, with get this... zero indexes. Given their current performance I would guess that they have the index issues sorted out, along with the "flat-file" stuff, but why the *#$% can't they get their data sorted out?!
signed: Disgruntled Telecom customer who wants to change to Telstra-Clear if only Telecom would stop *#$&ing around with the change-over.
OK I totally get your comment as I can speak techno-babble being a technician and all. But to those people who don't spend their every waking hour around computers, they would understand the term Windows Networking much better than Samba.
Come now, I wouldn't exactly put it that way. I mean this is/. right? Who honestly reads all the articles? I for one only read the ones that interest me, yet I'll skim though most of the posts for my daily dose of humor.
I have seen these on the motherboards that we build with here. They are similar to the brown ones but a lot smaller than the older black ones. The good thing is they are a standard device but I have been reading about this new tech where the white doohickies are going to be replaced with little white doodads.
For those who don't know, this is in reference to the remake of the movie "The Italian Job". In which the computer expert claims that he wrote the Napster in college and his room-mate stole it (by pulling the floppy out of the drive?!) while he was napping at the keyboard.
9. Sitting on a brand new Pentium 4 accidentally, bending all the pins,
Those of us who have to straighten those 478 pins (for whatever reason) feel your pain - luckily mine incident wasn't all 478 as I dropped it (more or less) on its corner.
2. "Accidentally" adding DELTREE C:\/Y to a Windows NT Logon script. Ah, the good old senior pranks.
Back when I was starting to use Win95, I had the nasty habit of using the DOS-box to delete files from floppies (still do). The many number of times I typed "del *.*" (any saying yes without checking) when the prompt said "c:\windows>" taught me to use "del a:." instead.
How hot did the K6's run? I did a similar thing with my Shuttle (SK43G) when I had just fitted a new (quieter) cooling fan to the heat pipe. I was wondering why (after an hour or so) the XP2500 chip was sitting around 60 degrees, any my fan hadn't sped up to cool it down.
Turns out that the Shuttle's aren't too bad for heat after all, given the the CPU is still fine and the fan does indeed work better when it is actually plugged in.
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Me thinks you haven't seen how hot the Prescotts run, mind you I guess it would make a good smoker for a nice piece of fish.
but not by adaptive evolution over millions of years
You obviously haven't read the start of it... 7 days.
I'll probably get flamed and modded down for this post, but grow up! As a Christian, it really iritates me when people act childish like this. So the Macaque is still alive because it is walking upright, I think thats great, everything deserves a chance to survive. Do I go off my rocker because I don't agree with the whole Dawinian approach, no, I just see this as an animal that has learned to adapt to a personal situation (this sort of thing happens all the time without it leading to evolutionary leaps). While it may give the evolutionists some "ammo" I just sit back and let them have their fun for now.
...Must configure Linux Box!!!
...Myst configure Linux Box... Myth configure linux box...
Unless your a teacher, I would refrain from boasting about that here in NZ. Here high school lasts for 5 years and you can leave (assuming your old enough) after as little as 3.
But I just thought that my comment about being a Kiwi first is probably going to start a huge thread about reading the artical and getting my facts straight. What I meant was that it is a first that it is so cheap $40 compared to $1000. And it is a design so simple that a child could make it (although I must admit that I would have to try an remember which way up you hold a circuit diagram before I atempt it).
I wouldn't go to the extent as saying that Tait was the largest tech exporter from NZ (OK its a given for hardware, but what about software?) but I think that it's great that they are encouraging kids to be creative and have fun learning about new things (heck, they probably now know more about my own cell phone than I do).
My hat comes of for Tait, and I challenge all those slashdotters in decision making positions to get the kids off the streets and get them involved.
And finally (sorry all those in Aussie, but I can't resist) woo-hoo another Kiwi first!
Slight problem, the Elf killed the Troll (well the cave one at least)
But how do you know it wasn't broke. In my short time in this industry I have seen many broken systems with band-aid-over-broken-leg-style patchs up the wazoo... and they still want to blaim the hardware!
Without wanting to get into MS bashing, or poking fun at TheTXLibra (MS would never have been able to get away with something like that with NZ employment law). Wasn't Win95 released late, and would crash if left running for too long?
/dev/null missing??? OK, I know I spend more time on Windows than Linux and this is probably a simple question, but how the F&*K do you lose something that isn't there?
"Score 0 Redundant" ?????
Am I the only one here that finds this attempt at humor actually rather interesting. Given that my pocket calculator probably has more power than the computer system on the Apolo lander (please no debates on whether or not it happened) I can see this comment making a lot of sense for the future of high-powered computing.
Why not?? We are after all close to the bottom of the planet down here...
As funny as this sounds, I have relatives who work with the NZ government and yes there is a lot of Access stuff in use. Mainly because the people who use said databases don't know much about DB development and the DBA's very wisely do not let them near the "real" database systems which contain most of the important stuff.
Damn, I wish NZ's largest telco would take note of this one. (According to 1st-hand info from a "data archioligist") Until recently their main DB consisted of about 1000 "flat-file" tables full of duplicated data and inconsistances, with get this... zero indexes. Given their current performance I would guess that they have the index issues sorted out, along with the "flat-file" stuff, but why the *#$% can't they get their data sorted out?!
signed: Disgruntled Telecom customer who wants to change to Telstra-Clear if only Telecom would stop *#$&ing around with the change-over.
OK I totally get your comment as I can speak techno-babble being a technician and all. But to those people who don't spend their every waking hour around computers, they would understand the term Windows Networking much better than Samba.
Ahh you forgot one, your number 9 should be number 10 as number 9 is "Insurection" ... The search for a big holo-ship maybe?
the huge cash crop of Opium
Sure but what are the chances that this money actually goes back to the Afgan people?
Sorry to blow your comment there, but the power transmission was exactly what set their idea apart from those of pure data transmission.
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Come now, I wouldn't exactly put it that way. I mean this is /. right? Who honestly reads all the articles? I for one only read the ones that interest me, yet I'll skim though most of the posts for my daily dose of humor.
I have seen these on the motherboards that we build with here. They are similar to the brown ones but a lot smaller than the older black ones. The good thing is they are a standard device but I have been reading about this new tech where the white doohickies are going to be replaced with little white doodads.
For those who don't know, this is in reference to the remake of the movie "The Italian Job". In which the computer expert claims that he wrote the Napster in college and his room-mate stole it (by pulling the floppy out of the drive?!) while he was napping at the keyboard.
How many of you here ran MINIX, before, say, 1988?
Minix?... min-ix?... mini-x? Is that some version of X that's meant to run rather than walk? {ducks for cover}
9. Sitting on a brand new Pentium 4 accidentally, bending all the pins,
/Y to a Windows NT Logon script. Ah, the good old senior pranks.
Those of us who have to straighten those 478 pins (for whatever reason) feel your pain - luckily mine incident wasn't all 478 as I dropped it (more or less) on its corner.
2. "Accidentally" adding DELTREE C:\
Back when I was starting to use Win95, I had the nasty habit of using the DOS-box to delete files from floppies (still do). The many number of times I typed "del *.*" (any saying yes without checking) when the prompt said "c:\windows>" taught me to use "del a:." instead.
How hot did the K6's run? I did a similar thing with my Shuttle (SK43G) when I had just fitted a new (quieter) cooling fan to the heat pipe. I was wondering why (after an hour or so) the XP2500 chip was sitting around 60 degrees, any my fan hadn't sped up to cool it down.
Turns out that the Shuttle's aren't too bad for heat after all, given the the CPU is still fine and the fan does indeed work better when it is actually plugged in.