"Now on a related note, I found that after hours of playing Castle Wolfenstein (back then), I had the urge to push on every brick wall I found to see if there was a hidden room behind it."
That brought back a funny memory. During the time when Doom was popular I was walking through the office building when all of a sudden I noticed I was standing on a path of ***GASP*** green carpet!!! I immediately jumped to the "safe" grey carpet.
The really funny thing was that after I did this I noticed very few people walked on the green stripe and they usually took an extra big step over it.
Some businesses HAVE to restrict what software employees install on their machines.
For example, where I work, users are not allowed to install anything at all. The reason for this is that a standard desktop is required. Some of our financial software goes through IE to a server at HQ.
I've personally had nightmares when users install Hotbar, AIM, or any other number of 3rd party software.
When users install extra programs on work computers it can affect the entire company.
Anybody who wants to listen to internet radio or have cute icons in their emails needs to do that stuff at home, NOT AT WORK!!!
BlackBerrys are pretty much a combination of pager, cell phone, and a client that you can receive your email on. I don't know if you can browse the web or not.
They have a few of them at some of our other offices and I sure am glad they don't have them here.
On the Chevy all you have to do is fine the diagnostic block and short the two squares in the upper right of the block. A bent paper clip will do just fine. Then just turn the key to "On" don't start the car. The check engine light will start to flash. The first cose is a "12" which is letting you know to get ready for the real code(s) coming up. Each code will be flashed 3 times. When all of the codes are done you will get another series of "12s" letting you know the diagnosic is complete.
I don't have the codes anymore for the Chevy's but you should be able to Google them.
On the Dodge cars just turn the car to "On" (not turning it over) 3 times. Then leave it in the "On" position and get ready for the check engine light to start flashing codes.
See here for detailed instructions and the codes...http://www.allpar.com/fix/80s-codes.html Never owned a Ford so I don't know how this is done but a quick Google should turn the instructions and codes up as well.
To Quiet a Whirring Computer, Fight Noise With Noise By ANNE EISENBERG
Published: May 27, 2004
THE constant drone of a computer cooling fan can be annoying. But a professor at Brigham Young University has taken an unusual step to mute this noise: more noise, produced in just the right quantities from tiny loudspeakers that surround the fan.
"We make anti-noise," said Scott D. Sommerfeldt, a physicist who created a noise suppression system with his students. It is the latest example of a technology called active noise reduction, or noise cancellation, well known from its use in headphones designed to block out the low rumble of jet engines.
The sound waves engineered by Dr. Sommerfeldt are out of phase with sound waves from the fan and thus they cancel each other out, substantially reducing fan noise.
Dr. Sommerfeldt's system has four miniature speakers and four even tinier microphones set in a ring around the computer fan. The microphones and other sensors detect the noise of the fan blades and, with the help of digital signal processing and algorithms, radiate opposing tones from the speakers. The whole system can be tucked into the same space that a conventional computer cooling fan would occupy.
Noise-cancellation technology has been in development for more than 50 years, Dr. Sommerfeldt said. In typical headphones, microphones in the headset detect noise; the speakers in the earcups counter with anti-noise.
Dr. Sommerfeldt's target was not the roar of aircraft, but the hum of office machinery. To counter this noise, some active noise reduction systems place microphones and related gear in the middle of a room to calculate the amount of cancellation needed.
But Dr. Sommerfeldt wanted to put the system within the computer casing itself so that it might one day become a built-in feature of personal computers.
Trying to cancel noise from within the computer turned out to be tricky, though. "You are asking for trouble if you place the mikes right next to the fan," he said. While it may be possible to reduce the sound substantially at the microphone, he said, the noise level could increase farther away, where someone might be sitting.
To solve the problem, Dr. Sommerfeldt built an aluminum enclosure that mimicked a typical computer chassis and put a standard cooling fan within. He and his students placed microphones and speakers around the fan, analyzing the nature of the sounds they would have to suppress and modeling systems to counter this sound.
"The fan is not an easy source of noise to control," said Gerald C. Lauchle, a professor of acoustics at Pennsylvania State University and a colleague of Dr. Sommerfeldt. "Many interacting mechanisms create the noise."
The specific sounds Dr. Sommerfeldt decided to counter were those made by the blades of the fan as they rotate and push air past obstructions like fan supports. The pushing is periodic, dictated by the number and speed of the blades.
In the experiments, sensors mounted near the blades of the fan recorded the motion, and the information was fed to the digital signal processor along with the data from the microphones that were monitoring the overall noise. Then algorithms developed by the group adjusted the amount of canceling sound waves sent to the speakers so that the basic tone of the blades could be suppressed, as well as overtones or harmonics of the basic tone.
"The basic tone is distinct," Dr. Sommerfeldt said. "It sounds like one you could hear if you hit a piano key."
To find the pattern that worked best, the experimenters set up systems with one, two, three and four speakers. "We went with smaller loudspeakers and more of them," Dr. Sommerfeldt said. "The best configuration turned out to be four speakers spaced around the fan."
The group measured the reduction in sound at the fan and at various points at a distance, said Brian B. Monson, a graduate student of Dr. Sommerfeldt.
If the mail is so slow why not either have the mortgage company draft your account or if you are not comfortable with that, they can probably do a "check by phone". Even if they charge a small fee it might be worth it to not have to stress out each month.
If she was indeed possessed by demons Jesus would cast out the demons not the person.
That is the way He dealt with Legion. He cast the demons out of the man into a bunch of pigs.
Luke 8
30Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" 31"Legion," he replied, because many demons had gone into him. And they begged him repeatedly not to order them to go into the Abyss. 32A large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside. The demons begged Jesus to let them go into them, and he gave them permission.
I belive that's because, if I remember correctly, (remember I was only 10 at the time) that there wasn't the media hype that there is today for a movie.
For example, the latest craze "Van Helsing"...that movie has been promoed to death!!! I almost feel I've seen the entire move from all of the trailers and the frequency of them.
When I was younger I remember looking in the newspaper to see what movies were playing. I don't recall all that many ads on televsion.
My solution for this is to use the prison population. Now before some people get all upset it could be a voluntary program where the inmates who volunteer get a few years shaved off of their sentences.
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If I had mod points I would either mod this as "Funny" or "Insighful".
I love both shows and this was one of the funniest posts I have read on here so far.
Analog and Scientific American.
;-)
That way I can read about what the future will bring and know about it when it gets here.
"Now on a related note, I found that after hours of playing Castle Wolfenstein (back then), I had the urge to push on every brick wall I found to see if there was a hidden room behind it."
That brought back a funny memory. During the time when Doom was popular I was walking through the office building when all of a sudden I noticed I was standing on a path of ***GASP*** green carpet!!! I immediately jumped to the "safe" grey carpet.
The really funny thing was that after I did this I noticed very few people walked on the green stripe and they usually took an extra big step over it.
Because it eats up bandwidth and can play havoc with the applications they need to do their jobs.
Also, can ANYBODY guarantee that none of these players will not contain spyware or trojans or anything else that will be harmful to our network?
Yes it does improve productivity when their system doesn't need to be reimaged because they have junked it up with a bunch of shareware they found.
No? I didn't think so.
We have no problems with people bringing in CDs or having radios.
It's not a "Because we can" thing it's a "Because we need to" thing.
Some businesses HAVE to restrict what software employees install on their machines.
For example, where I work, users are not allowed to install anything at all. The reason for this is that a standard desktop is required. Some of our financial software goes through IE to a server at HQ.
I've personally had nightmares when users install Hotbar, AIM, or any other number of 3rd party software.
When users install extra programs on work computers it can affect the entire company.
Anybody who wants to listen to internet radio or have cute icons in their emails needs to do that stuff at home, NOT AT WORK!!!
My suggestion is Raspberry!!!
Thbbbbtttttt!!!!!
BlackBerrys are pretty much a combination of pager, cell phone, and a client that you can receive your email on. I don't know if you can browse the web or not.
They have a few of them at some of our other offices and I sure am glad they don't have them here.
Couldn't they just hook the HD up to a desktop computer or do a parallel installation of an operating system to gain access to files?
I know this can be done with Windows NT, XP, etc, can it be done with any of the *nix stuff or OS X?
GET A LIFE!!! (hey, that's almost funny considering the topic of the article)
Your junk and pron isn't that important to anybody but yourself!!!!
I meant "BET".
Darn Fat Fingers(tm)
Bed they didn't calculate that!!!
sorry....
On the Chevy all you have to do is fine the diagnostic block and short the two squares in the upper right of the block. A bent paper clip will do just fine. Then just turn the key to "On" don't start the car. The check engine light will start to flash. The first cose is a "12" which is letting you know to get ready for the real code(s) coming up. Each code will be flashed 3 times. When all of the codes are done you will get another series of "12s" letting you know the diagnosic is complete.
I don't have the codes anymore for the Chevy's but you should be able to Google them.
On the Dodge cars just turn the car to "On" (not turning it over) 3 times. Then leave it in the "On" position and get ready for the check engine light to start flashing codes.
See here for detailed instructions and the codes...http://www.allpar.com/fix/80s-codes.html
Never owned a Ford so I don't know how this is done but a quick Google should turn the instructions and codes up as well.
You asked which I would rather have done to me and I answered.
"Wow, the state of debate in this country is just awful."
No kidding!!! Some clown can't even remember the question he asked. ~sheesh~
"back of a VW bug"
;-)
You misspelled Ford Pinto.
If I had done something wrong I of course would choose #2 for myself since that is the least uncomfortable for me.
However, if someone had done something wrong to me, I would choose another number for them.
That's why we don't let convicted criminals pick their own punishments.
"Are you people seriously telling me, that a suitable punishment for spamming is being fucked up the arse?"
It sure would give me enough incentive to not SPAM!!
To Quiet a Whirring Computer, Fight Noise With Noise
By ANNE EISENBERG
Published: May 27, 2004
THE constant drone of a computer cooling fan can be annoying. But a professor at Brigham Young University has taken an unusual step to mute this noise: more noise, produced in just the right quantities from tiny loudspeakers that surround the fan.
"We make anti-noise," said Scott D. Sommerfeldt, a physicist who created a noise suppression system with his students. It is the latest example of a technology called active noise reduction, or noise cancellation, well known from its use in headphones designed to block out the low rumble of jet engines.
The sound waves engineered by Dr. Sommerfeldt are out of phase with sound waves from the fan and thus they cancel each other out, substantially reducing fan noise.
Dr. Sommerfeldt's system has four miniature speakers and four even tinier microphones set in a ring around the computer fan. The microphones and other sensors detect the noise of the fan blades and, with the help of digital signal processing and algorithms, radiate opposing tones from the speakers. The whole system can be tucked into the same space that a conventional computer cooling fan would occupy.
Noise-cancellation technology has been in development for more than 50 years, Dr. Sommerfeldt said. In typical headphones, microphones in the headset detect noise; the speakers in the earcups counter with anti-noise.
Dr. Sommerfeldt's target was not the roar of aircraft, but the hum of office machinery. To counter this noise, some active noise reduction systems place microphones and related gear in the middle of a room to calculate the amount of cancellation needed.
But Dr. Sommerfeldt wanted to put the system within the computer casing itself so that it might one day become a built-in feature of personal computers.
Trying to cancel noise from within the computer turned out to be tricky, though. "You are asking for trouble if you place the mikes right next to the fan," he said. While it may be possible to reduce the sound substantially at the microphone, he said, the noise level could increase farther away, where someone might be sitting.
To solve the problem, Dr. Sommerfeldt built an aluminum enclosure that mimicked a typical computer chassis and put a standard cooling fan within. He and his students placed microphones and speakers around the fan, analyzing the nature of the sounds they would have to suppress and modeling systems to counter this sound.
"The fan is not an easy source of noise to control," said Gerald C. Lauchle, a professor of acoustics at Pennsylvania State University and a colleague of Dr. Sommerfeldt. "Many interacting mechanisms create the noise."
The specific sounds Dr. Sommerfeldt decided to counter were those made by the blades of the fan as they rotate and push air past obstructions like fan supports. The pushing is periodic, dictated by the number and speed of the blades.
In the experiments, sensors mounted near the blades of the fan recorded the motion, and the information was fed to the digital signal processor along with the data from the microphones that were monitoring the overall noise. Then algorithms developed by the group adjusted the amount of canceling sound waves sent to the speakers so that the basic tone of the blades could be suppressed, as well as overtones or harmonics of the basic tone.
"The basic tone is distinct," Dr. Sommerfeldt said. "It sounds like one you could hear if you hit a piano key."
To find the pattern that worked best, the experimenters set up systems with one, two, three and four speakers. "We went with smaller loudspeakers and more of them," Dr. Sommerfeldt said. "The best configuration turned out to be four speakers spaced around the fan."
The group measured the reduction in sound at the fan and at various points at a distance, said Brian B. Monson, a graduate student of Dr. Sommerfeldt.
The experiments used two fan sizes, with b
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxp pro/default.mspx
If the mail is so slow why not either have the mortgage company draft your account or if you are not comfortable with that, they can probably do a "check by phone". Even if they charge a small fee it might be worth it to not have to stress out each month.
Good luck!!!
"After all WWJD?"
If she was indeed possessed by demons Jesus would cast out the demons not the person.
That is the way He dealt with Legion. He cast the demons out of the man into a bunch of pigs.
Luke 8
30Jesus asked him, "What is your name?"
31"Legion," he replied, because many demons had gone into him. And they begged him repeatedly not to order them to go into the Abyss.
32A large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside. The demons begged Jesus to let them go into them, and he gave them permission.
I refer to that as a P.E.C.K. error.
Problem Exists between Chair and Keyboard.
I belive that's because, if I remember correctly, (remember I was only 10 at the time) that there wasn't the media hype that there is today for a movie.
For example, the latest craze "Van Helsing"...that movie has been promoed to death!!! I almost feel I've seen the entire move from all of the trailers and the frequency of them.
When I was younger I remember looking in the newspaper to see what movies were playing. I don't recall all that many ads on televsion.
Yes "Star Wars" I specifically remember it lasting in the theaters for over ONE year.
It was one of the most amazing things I remember from when I was 10 years old.
Usually a movie would stay in the theaters for 2 maybe 3 weeks. But Star Wars lasted for over 12 months.
Sounds like we are in for a "labor" of pains.
Ok, that was bad. Sorry.
My solution for this is to use the prison population. Now before some people get all upset it could be a voluntary program where the inmates who volunteer get a few years shaved off of their sentences.