"To me, that's worth more than masturbating over some ram or a cpu"
Granted, evaporative chip cooling *can* be made to work, but wouldn't a good quality heat sink and fan be easier, and less time consuming? Plus, aren't you creating almost as much heat via friction? I mean, I've had non-ball bearing fans go out in less than a month...
Uh, actually they ARE the same. X10 Ltd. created the standard and licensed it to the likes of Radio Shack, RCA, et all. Then in 1997, they started marketing devices that used the standard they created via x10.com.
P&G make some wonderful trackballs with larger than normal balls and very "clicky" buttons. Their products are pricey but worth it, made for people with disabilities, industrial use and various armed forces.
Google it and look around on the hit pages for other makes as well as the resellers that carry P+G will carry other input devices for various disabilities.
You are, of course, correct and I thank you for the memories! "The Money Store" was the actual company that snl parodied in the "The Change Bank" skits...now, for the kharma bonus extreme lightening round, does anyone know who the "The Money Store"'s television spokesman was?
Hasn't the Emperor already said that the next/next-after-that version of Office will be web based, that is, not a product that you will take home and install on a standalone PC? If I recall, payment will be based on either subscription or actual use (minutes used? value of the document?). The main selling point, according to Mr. Bill, will be the greater ability to collaborate with your co-authors, not to mention eliminating all those nasty install CD's floating around...
It was a joke, I believe first made popular by SNL, a skit called "the money store", in which the fictitious company is willing to give you "four five dollar bills for a twenty, five twenties for a hundred", etc.. When asked how they stay in business, the announcer answers,
"How do we do it? Volume."
No, I mean someone needs to sponser "The Olympia Games", or some other re-wording of the name "The Olympics". Exactly what gives the modern politcal organization the IOC ownership over something that happened thousands of years ago? Today's Olympics are not the same games, so why not create another?
...good only toward a three-year contract after purchasing the top of the line phone. Oh, and that was a $10 Verizon, a $10 T-mobile and a $5 Sprint coupon, not one $25 coupon good toward three years of service on the company of your choice...
I mean seriously, William Shatner has parlayed a single television character into a career with incredible longevity that most actors would envy. If, thirty years from now I am still doing what I love for a living, maybe then I'll criticize him...
From the lawyer's website:
"We do not use cookies at the site and do not permit banners or other advertisements to be used at our site, in order to ensure your privacy."...Uh, yeah, except for those bright catchy ones on the front page, eh?
"How do you get anyone to buy your ideas or you products for that matter? You sell it...plain and simple, you build a pitch and keep working on it until you breakdown their resistance to the sale...."
"So how to you convince them...?"
"1. Fear. Two things always work when you're trying to sell something, fear, and greed. (We'll deal with greed next...) Research some good stories about how large companies (hopefully your competitors) have been hit with large penalties, law suits, public relations disasters, crippling systems failures or government investigations and shutdowns.
(We'll help by giving you some great examples...)"
"2. Greed..."
"3. Protect Your Butt."
"4. Protect Your Reputation. Your children and spouse are being interviewed by The National Enquirer, your parents have moved away and changed their names, your babysitter is selling an unauthorized biography of you...all because a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad litigation/investigation/incident occurred that could have been avoided."
"5. Keeping Up with the Jones's. All your competitors are using similar preventive measures to make sure that you are the competitor hit with the seven plagues."
...remember in Win 3.xx when an app would not let go of the processor? Should we get ready for a lot of solid grey windows and one actively redrawn one until the third revision of the OS?
Since "the programmers should be able to test their own code". There is an interesting trend toward this being marketed to middle managements. QA is *expensive* and produces no income and only *slows things down*. Obviously, if you simply increase the Quality of the code the programmers are producing, you don't...need...QA!
We Americans assume that because we can invade any country we want based on religious -oops, I mean economic -oops, I mean ideological -oops, I mean anti-terrorist reasons, yeah, that's it, "Anti Terrorist Reasons", we can dictate how the Internet operates. To be more specific, how the Web operates; most citizens and politicians don't really know or care what the Internet really is ("email? well, that's on my *computer*, not the Internet...and what do you mean people email in other languages? All email that I have ever received is in English!"). Or maybe we've been this way for a while now...We are arrogant but everyone puts up with us in the political and economic worlds. This "world of everyday people", the inter-network, is turning out to be...different. We claim to be "democratic", as in "A Democracy", but let's face it, when we are confronted with being the minority we don't really like all that much anymore the old idealistic values that our forefathers put forth and held to be true.
How many bills have appeared in the United States that have attempted to control Internet content outside of existing laws? How many have passed into law? How many have quietly dissolved due to impracticality? ("What do you mean we can't shut down foreign websites if we don't like their views -this is America!") We, as a people, are acting a bit like a bully that has met someone that...isn't afraid of us and won't simply bend to our will. We're not sure what to do, but like any spoiled brat, the first thing we'll do is get angry. After that, we'll try something less noticeable, like ignoring it. Someday, maybe, we just might learn to get along, be part of a larger community and enjoy life.
Short term solution? Filters should be made available so that the end user can choose to ignore any information that is deemed "noise". It won't help our attitude, but it will make the service more useful to everyone.
I would tell you that maybe, just maybe it is the monitor's fault, but that wouldn't be helpful. I had a fun time a few years back getting slack to run on an iOpener internet appliance. Weird LCD, if I recall, prompted a little trial-and-error on the X configuration. Why don't you copy your X configuration file to a floppy or CD or just ftp it somewhere safe? That way, whenever you do a new install with that monitor but before you ever get around to setting up X (you are doing a slack install, so you do all the command line stuff first, right?), just bring in your tried-and-true configuration file.
Not a sig, just a thought; identifying the problem is the fun part, after that, it's just applying the solution over and over again.
Isn't the simplest way to eliminate unique-number obsolescence just to incorporate the YYYY (or YYYYMM or YYYMMDD if you must) into the first x digits of the unique number? That way if you won't run out in a single year, you will never run out. Well, not until the year 9999, anyway...
The combo will keep your kernel in RAM (DisablePagingExecutive)and enforce a minimum reserve (4MB) amount of memory for it (LargeSystemCache), although that amount can grow dynamically. The LargeSystemCache may cause "Delayed Write Failed" errors, if it does, reboot in SafeMode and undo the damage.
More goodies here, many adjustments that can affect how your sytem divides between swap, cache and currently-running-apps:
...How do the Salmon fertilize the forests? As far as I have seen, they swim upstream, get the bejeezes beat out of them by rocks, reach the stream head, spawn, die and then mostly get washed back to sea. A few (used to be hundreds at a time) get washed to the shore, but they tend to eventually wash downstream in one form or another. Remember also that in most watersheds, the drainage is _from_ the forest _to_ the stream.
Point number two: The nitrogen the Salmon ingest tends to get mostly, um, "dumped" as soon as they ingest more nitrogen. Sure, fish meal is a good fertilizer and it's made from dead fish, but their flesh doesn't hold that much nitrogen, maybe 9-12 % by weight. Fish waste, or emulsion, runs about 4-5% by weight and is continuously produced. By the time the spawning salmon have reached the stream head, the ocean nitrogen is pretty much gone (they don't eat much on the way).
The question is, once you have all these fish full of heavy metals, what do you do with 'em? Any attempt to use them as fertilizer will simply add the metals to the ground again...the circle is complete, but you've just moved the problem!
Um, checksums? You get the code from a trusted source and compile the source yourself? You know:
config
make
make install
Try it, you'll like it!
The only place this won't work is firmware that you don't flash yourself. However, for that there are MD5-type solutions. You know, when you go to download and there is that tiny little file that just has a line of gibberish in it? Hell, they work great for compiled software too...
Slashdot Mirror
...notice that her genitals are pixelated out; seeing them, according to the FCC and most of the religious right, would be...obscene.
Granted, evaporative chip cooling *can* be made to work, but wouldn't a good quality heat sink and fan be easier, and less time consuming? Plus, aren't you creating almost as much heat via friction? I mean, I've had non-ball bearing fans go out in less than a month...
http://www.x10.com/pressroom/pressroom_history.htm
and in greater depth:
http://www.hometoys.com/htinews/oct04/articles/rye /history.htm
Google it and look around on the hit pages for other makes as well as the resellers that carry P+G will carry other input devices for various disabilities.
1. Find college students that are annoyed by the toys they told daddy they "had to have" for school.
2. ???
3. PROFIT!!!
You are, of course, correct and I thank you for the memories! "The Money Store" was the actual company that snl parodied in the "The Change Bank" skits...now, for the kharma bonus extreme lightening round, does anyone know who the "The Money Store"'s television spokesman was?
Hasn't the Emperor already said that the next/next-after-that version of Office will be web based, that is, not a product that you will take home and install on a standalone PC? If I recall, payment will be based on either subscription or actual use (minutes used? value of the document?). The main selling point, according to Mr. Bill, will be the greater ability to collaborate with your co-authors, not to mention eliminating all those nasty install CD's floating around...
It was a joke, I believe first made popular by SNL, a skit called "the money store", in which the fictitious company is willing to give you "four five dollar bills for a twenty, five twenties for a hundred", etc.. When asked how they stay in business, the announcer answers, "How do we do it? Volume."
No, I mean someone needs to sponser "The Olympia Games", or some other re-wording of the name "The Olympics". Exactly what gives the modern politcal organization the IOC ownership over something that happened thousands of years ago? Today's Olympics are not the same games, so why not create another?
...good only toward a three-year contract after purchasing the top of the line phone. Oh, and that was a $10 Verizon, a $10 T-mobile and a $5 Sprint coupon, not one $25 coupon good toward three years of service on the company of your choice...
I mean seriously, William Shatner has parlayed a single television character into a career with incredible longevity that most actors would envy. If, thirty years from now I am still doing what I love for a living, maybe then I'll criticize him...
From the lawyer's website: "We do not use cookies at the site and do not permit banners or other advertisements to be used at our site, in order to ensure your privacy." ...Uh, yeah, except for those bright catchy ones on the front page, eh?
From Aftab's own site:
http://www.aftab.com/selling_management_on_prevent ion.htm
"How do you get anyone to buy your ideas or you products for that matter? You sell it...plain and simple, you build a pitch and keep working on it until you breakdown their resistance to the sale...."
"So how to you convince them...?"
"1. Fear. Two things always work when you're trying to sell something, fear, and greed. (We'll deal with greed next...) Research some good stories about how large companies (hopefully your competitors) have been hit with large penalties, law suits, public relations disasters, crippling systems failures or government investigations and shutdowns.
(We'll help by giving you some great examples...)"
"2. Greed..."
"3. Protect Your Butt."
"4. Protect Your Reputation. Your children and spouse are being interviewed by The National Enquirer, your parents have moved away and changed their names, your babysitter is selling an unauthorized biography of you...all because a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad litigation/investigation/incident occurred that could have been avoided."
"5. Keeping Up with the Jones's. All your competitors are using similar preventive measures to make sure that you are the competitor hit with the seven plagues."
...remember in Win 3.xx when an app would not let go of the processor? Should we get ready for a lot of solid grey windows and one actively redrawn one until the third revision of the OS?
Since "the programmers should be able to test their own code". There is an interesting trend toward this being marketed to middle managements. QA is *expensive* and produces no income and only *slows things down*. Obviously, if you simply increase the Quality of the code the programmers are producing, you don't...need...QA!
How many bills have appeared in the United States that have attempted to control Internet content outside of existing laws? How many have passed into law? How many have quietly dissolved due to impracticality? ("What do you mean we can't shut down foreign websites if we don't like their views -this is America!") We, as a people, are acting a bit like a bully that has met someone that...isn't afraid of us and won't simply bend to our will. We're not sure what to do, but like any spoiled brat, the first thing we'll do is get angry. After that, we'll try something less noticeable, like ignoring it. Someday, maybe, we just might learn to get along, be part of a larger community and enjoy life.
Short term solution? Filters should be made available so that the end user can choose to ignore any information that is deemed "noise". It won't help our attitude, but it will make the service more useful to everyone.
Not a sig, just a thought; identifying the problem is the fun part, after that, it's just applying the solution over and over again.
Isn't the simplest way to eliminate unique-number obsolescence just to incorporate the YYYY (or YYYYMM or YYYMMDD if you must) into the first x digits of the unique number? That way if you won't run out in a single year, you will never run out. Well, not until the year 9999, anyway...
http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/sp acewar/readme.html
and:
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa090198 .htm
(with screenshot!)
comment from the time period:
http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/decuscope.html
Here's the loophole:
1.Non-profits are exempt from the DNC.
2.Non-profit needs funds.
3.Company pays NPO to make calls on their behalf.
Mine began,
Caller: "Hello, may I speak to (me)?"
Me: "Uh, speaking."
Caller: "Hi, I am calling from the (city) (religious organization) Community Center. Could you take a moment to answer a few questions?"
Me: (not wanting to go to Hell this week) "Uh, sure"
Caller: "Great! Are you (religion)?"
Me: "No."
Caller: "Is anyone in your house (of the XYZ religion)?"
Me: "No."
Caller: "Okay, that's all for that part of the questions, just a few more."
Me: "Great."
Caller: "How many telephones do you have at this number?"
Me: "What?"
Caller: "How many telephones do you have at the address for this phone?"
Me: "Why do you want to know how many phones I have?"
Caller: "Oh, we just want to ask about your long distance carriers"
Me: "What does this have to do with (religious organization)?"
Caller: (click)
"DisablePagingExecutive"=dword:00000001
"LargeSystemCache"=dword:00000001
The combo will keep your kernel in RAM (DisablePagingExecutive)and enforce a minimum reserve (4MB) amount of memory for it (LargeSystemCache), although that amount can grow dynamically. The LargeSystemCache may cause "Delayed Write Failed" errors, if it does, reboot in SafeMode and undo the damage.
More goodies here, many adjustments that can affect how your sytem divides between swap, cache and currently-running-apps:
HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session Manager/Memory Management
"ClearPageFileAtShutdown" "DisablePagingExecutive" "IoPageLockLimit" "LargeSystemCache" "NonPagedPoolQuota" "NonPagedPoolSize" "PagedPoolQuota" "PagedPoolSize" "PagingFiles" "SecondLevelDataCache" "SystemPages" "PhysicalAddressExtension" "WriteWatch"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Se ssion Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters
"VideoInitTime" "AppLaunchMaxNumPages" "AppLaunchMaxNumSections" "AppLaunchTimerPeriod" "BootMaxNumPages" "BootMaxNumSections" "BootTimerPeriod" "MaxNumActiveTraces" "MaxNumSavedTraces" "RootDirPath" "HostingAppList" "EnablePrefetcher"
Hey, Thanks for tomorrow night, I had a great time. -Scrappy
Shouldn't that Sig read:
"-- Heisenberg slept here and did not sleep here." ?
Point number two: The nitrogen the Salmon ingest tends to get mostly, um, "dumped" as soon as they ingest more nitrogen. Sure, fish meal is a good fertilizer and it's made from dead fish, but their flesh doesn't hold that much nitrogen, maybe 9-12 % by weight. Fish waste, or emulsion, runs about 4-5% by weight and is continuously produced. By the time the spawning salmon have reached the stream head, the ocean nitrogen is pretty much gone (they don't eat much on the way).
The question is, once you have all these fish full of heavy metals, what do you do with 'em? Any attempt to use them as fertilizer will simply add the metals to the ground again...the circle is complete, but you've just moved the problem!
Um, checksums? You get the code from a trusted source and compile the source yourself? You know: config make make install Try it, you'll like it! The only place this won't work is firmware that you don't flash yourself. However, for that there are MD5-type solutions. You know, when you go to download and there is that tiny little file that just has a line of gibberish in it? Hell, they work great for compiled software too...