Far from proving me wrong, you've managed to brilliantly prove my point: CEOs get just as big of a black mark when they're fired as "the peons" do. All three of the examples you provided resulted in someone being a CEO on paper only -- they were never given a real company, with real money, to play with again.
Except for the part where this Paper CEO of a not real company still makes more a year than 90% of the population.
It's much harder to get a nuke to the moon. You're climbing up the big gravity well and falling down the little one instead of vice versa. It took a Saturn V to get people to the moon and only a couple of puny boosters to get them back.
They wanted to do this in 1958...but they missed the moon entirely in the first 5 attempts to impact it from 1961 - 1962 during the Ranger Program.
So..yeah hitting the moon was not as easy as you'd think, but they were 5 for 5 as far as escaping Earth's big gravity well.
What is stupid about it? At the time, the only true revenge weapon was the nuclear submarines, and the US in 1959 had just 5 of those.
You need an if-all-else-fails weapon, otherwise you have to keep your nuclear forces on high alert at all times to avoid losing to a first strike. Staying at high alert risks launching by mistake.
Or the easier alternative would have been to not be so paranoid and psychotic and all just try to play nice in this little sandbox we've been forced to share..
It's also proof of concept. If you can launch a nuclear missile from Earth and detonate it on or near the surface of the moon, particularly if you can get reasonably close to a specific position on the surface of the moon, then you can likely do the same in reverse. If you can't nuke the moon from Earth, then you can't nuke Earth from the moon.
The margin for error is much larger when you're sending the Nuke over...no atmosphere and no friendlies primarily. I'm fairly certain sending one from the Moon to an Earthbound target is _much_ trickier..
But then again if your strategy is similar to North Korea's, and you're just trying to convince your potential enemies that you're batshit insane, it would be a fairly convincing demonstration.
Your message intrigues me. Tell me more of your obvious distrust of Norman Security.
My first experience with this out of nowhere Norton Clone was as preinstalled software on a brand new Acer laptop that I had to uninstall because it was interfering with fresh software installs.
That wouldn't explain why replacing the router fixes the problem, unless he just happens to be replacing the old router with one that just happens to have a stronger transmitter or better antenna. The pessimist in me says that the chances of that happening can't be 100% of the time.
From my experience with all the major manufacturers of consumer routers and switches, the problem is capacitor quality primarily. Transmission range and stability will suffer over time because of unstable or insufficient voltage.
Also these devices get really hot these days. Most if not all are passively cooled, and don't even have much real ventilation in their casings. They're designed to be cheap, and to last for at least 12 months generally.
I've replaced all the capacitors on several Linksys "Business class" Gigabit switch, they all started failing after about 14 months. I did this to my own switch about 4 years ago, and it's still going strong today. I've also done this on an old Linksys WRT54G.
Those ubiquitous black IC's are plastic packaging which is not moisture sealed. Not sure if it'd actually affect the silicon to soak it in water for a bit though and use normally. But if you ever order any parts, they come in moisture sealed bags with big warning labels saying that you must reflow solder the IC's within 24-72 hours of opening the package or else too much moisture from the air will seep into the packaging, causing them to act like popcorn when you bake them to 350C for soldering. So if you leave them out too long you're supposed to slowly bake them to get rid of all the moisture before reflow soldering.
The main reason the moisture needs to be controlled is because of heat applied by soldering processes. Moisture will turn into steam rapidly and cause the PCB/chip layers to de-laminate (a.k.a. Popcorning.)
If the electronics are going to be operating at normal room temperatures, some moisture is generally not a problem.
If you substitute water for isopropyl, naphta or other exotic solvent, you can probably just dunk the whole keyboard for a rinse and be good to go an hour later.
Spot test your keyboards for melting with your chosen poison first though.
I have an extremely small sample size of women (5) and I can say at least 20% have admitted they like bigger balls on their men. It's representative of being manly I guess?
I never ever watch pornographic movies, ( >_> ) but I have it on fairly good authority that huge gargantuan dangly balls are not a regularly requested feature of the genre.
The only reason these people are SHOCKED that evolution is in the curriculum is because they believe everything taught in schools should be 100% true, always and forever, and actually believe such an idea exists.
They are mainly shocked because they cannot separate their religious fantasies from reality.
Any home user who has a Scanning Electron Microscope and the appropriate algorithms in their basement can recover data from almost 90% of mechanical failures.
Longer version: But it may be more difficult to do nowadays; I don't know. About 7 years ago a family member had a computer with a lot of photos that were, sadly, not backed up. The Maxtor drive had suddenly quit. I was able to eBay another drive with the same model number and swap the boards, and voila! We had a working drive with all of the photos (and other data) intact.
Again, I have no idea how easy that would be to do nowadays... It was hard enough to change boards with my clumsy fingers on a 3.5" drive, let alone a mobile drive.
This will not work with many newer drives, especially WD Caviar Black and Blue. There is a firmware chip on the PCB that also needs to be transplanted, and this is tricky even with a Surface mount electronics soldering station, the type that uses channeled hot air.
Rip off / clone of the Muzzelite 10/22 Bullpup drop in stock, though they did do some basic custom modifications like the charging handle (not particularly useful) and the solid trigger linkage (which is a nice touch)
Try ordering a barrel or bolt without a FFL (Federal Firearms License). You won't get very far. Now if you have your own CNC shop AND a 3-D plastic printer, well then you're on your way...
I've bought barrels off ebay their sale is not regulated...
And both are capable of making gun parts with $30 in raw materials. I see no difference except the method.
The cheapest basic CNC Mill I found with my cursory search was 3 to 6 times more expensive than Makerbot's Replicator at $1800." I'd like to see someone download a shape and reproduce it with a cheap CNC Mill.
I agree completely. Some people equate "pretty" with "useable", which seems pretty dumb to me. Windows is far less useable than KDE, but Windows is prettier.
I don't use windows because it's prettier than KDE though, I use it because I like playing (have an addiction) to games, primarily of the FPS, RPG and MMORPG genres, and Linux hardware driver support and games support just sadly hasn't materialized till this day.
This is also partially because I'm lazy and don't have as much free time as I'd like these days...and the fact that I spend a fair amount of money on hardware annually, so speed and efficiency wise, windows is good enough.
I don't run mission critical applications on my desktop so stability and security wise, it's also good enough, thus I just can't justify spending the additional time or SSD space as well as continually swapping between Linux and Windows because I need to have Windows 7 installed to run the applications I use my PC for any way..
I'm currently I'm running a Gigabyte Z77 Sniper 3 with an Ivy Bridge 3570K, 16GB of Kingston Valueram and a 3-4 year old GTX580 1.5GB, Sandisk Extreme 120GB SSD backed with a handful of Hitachi and Samsung 2TB mechanical drives.
The extent of my Linux usage at present (sadly) is a dual boot of Ubuntu 12.04 on my work laptop and FreeNAS 8.2 on my DIY 4 bay NAS (RAID-Z.)
If some larger developers/publishers like Steam or Blizzard would lead the charge and start sponsoring more Linux ports and development of games, more of us could start migrating away from Windows.
I actually like Aero/Vist interfaces. What I don't like is some of the dumbification of Windows 7 -- Like removing the ability to let the taskbar not be "always on top" and removing the ability to remember size and placement of individual explorer windows by their root. The taskbar is an annoying issue because it's a permanent waste of screen-space. Then again, Android Honeycomb on up permanently waste screen-space on the system bar which is just as stupid.
I actually don't mind the taskbar being up all the time, and in fact prefer it this way. 1920x1200 leaves enough desktop real estate for me to do my stuff whilst avoiding the additional time wasted mousing and waiting for the taskbar to pop up, slide up or phase into existence.
The really annoying thing about Win 7s default aero theme is how it combines task buttons by default, so instead of knowing what is running and where it's running at a glance, I have to instead do unnecessary mouseovers and movements to play application hide and seek with shiny animations and transparent and translucent windows and other live preview sub windows every few seconds/minutes.
I personally prefer to see my window titles and applications running at a glance, and I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't.
The only reason I can think of for combining task bar buttons is if you have a teeny tiny low res CRT or LCD.
I disable all windows animations and visual effects as one of the first steps after a fresh OS install, leaving only font smoothing and showing contents of windows being dragged around or resized, everything else is inefficient and useless fluff really..
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Far from proving me wrong, you've managed to brilliantly prove my point: CEOs get just as big of a black mark when they're fired as "the peons" do. All three of the examples you provided resulted in someone being a CEO on paper only -- they were never given a real company, with real money, to play with again.
Except for the part where this Paper CEO of a not real company still makes more a year than 90% of the population.
This is similar to dropping a Sega Dreamcast into a network as an inexpensive hardware backdoor.
If your company has been physically compromised you probably need to start sweeping for bugs and bringing in the bomb sniffer dogs as well ;)
Why make rear projection TVs when you can just omit all the bulky injection molded plastics and just manufacture HD DLP Projectors! :D
It's much harder to get a nuke to the moon. You're climbing up the big gravity well and falling down the little one instead of vice versa. It took a Saturn V to get people to the moon and only a couple of puny boosters to get them back.
They wanted to do this in 1958...but they missed the moon entirely in the first 5 attempts to impact it from 1961 - 1962 during the Ranger Program.
So..yeah hitting the moon was not as easy as you'd think, but they were 5 for 5 as far as escaping Earth's big gravity well.
What is stupid about it? At the time, the only true revenge weapon was the nuclear submarines, and the US in 1959 had just 5 of those.
You need an if-all-else-fails weapon, otherwise you have to keep your nuclear forces on high alert at all times to avoid losing to a first strike. Staying at high alert risks launching by mistake.
Or the easier alternative would have been to not be so paranoid and psychotic and all just try to play nice in this little sandbox we've been forced to share..
It's also proof of concept. If you can launch a nuclear missile from Earth and detonate it on or near the surface of the moon, particularly if you can get reasonably close to a specific position on the surface of the moon, then you can likely do the same in reverse. If you can't nuke the moon from Earth, then you can't nuke Earth from the moon.
The margin for error is much larger when you're sending the Nuke over...no atmosphere and no friendlies primarily.
I'm fairly certain sending one from the Moon to an Earthbound target is _much_ trickier..
But then again if your strategy is similar to North Korea's, and you're just trying to convince your potential
enemies that you're batshit insane, it would be a fairly convincing demonstration.
Norman was founded in 1984 and is based in Norway:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_(company)
Norton was started by Peter Norton in 1990 and is now owned by Symantec:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Internet_Security
So, as you can see.. Your experience with Norton Clone has nothing to do with Norman.
Not that Symantec is much better, but they were extablished in 1982, and not 1990.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symantec
Your message intrigues me. Tell me more of your obvious distrust of Norman Security.
My first experience with this out of nowhere Norton Clone was as preinstalled software on a brand new Acer laptop that I had to uninstall because it was interfering with fresh software installs.
Norman Security is not only still around as a company, but they're now regarded as a news source.
Anything that makes Catalyst less bad is probably good. Can't have Nvidia dominating the market alone.
That wouldn't explain why replacing the router fixes the problem, unless he just happens to be replacing the old router with one that just happens to have a stronger transmitter or better antenna. The pessimist in me says that the chances of that happening can't be 100% of the time.
From my experience with all the major manufacturers of consumer routers and switches, the problem is capacitor quality primarily.
Transmission range and stability will suffer over time because of unstable or insufficient voltage.
Also these devices get really hot these days. Most if not all are passively cooled, and don't even have much real ventilation in their casings.
They're designed to be cheap, and to last for at least 12 months generally.
I've replaced all the capacitors on several Linksys "Business class" Gigabit switch, they all started failing after about 14 months.
I did this to my own switch about 4 years ago, and it's still going strong today. I've also done this on an old Linksys WRT54G.
Those ubiquitous black IC's are plastic packaging which is not moisture sealed. Not sure if it'd actually affect the silicon to soak it in water for a bit though and use normally. But if you ever order any parts, they come in moisture sealed bags with big warning labels saying that you must reflow solder the IC's within 24-72 hours of opening the package or else too much moisture from the air will seep into the packaging, causing them to act like popcorn when you bake them to 350C for soldering. So if you leave them out too long you're supposed to slowly bake them to get rid of all the moisture before reflow soldering.
The main reason the moisture needs to be controlled is because of heat applied by soldering processes.
Moisture will turn into steam rapidly and cause the PCB/chip layers to de-laminate (a.k.a. Popcorning.)
If the electronics are going to be operating at normal room temperatures, some moisture is generally not a problem.
Depends on what solvent you use.
If you substitute water for isopropyl, naphta or other exotic solvent, you can probably just dunk the whole keyboard for a rinse and be good to go an hour later.
Spot test your keyboards for melting with your chosen poison first though.
I have an extremely small sample size of women (5) and I can say at least 20% have admitted they like bigger balls on their men. It's representative of being manly I guess?
I never ever watch pornographic movies, ( >_> ) but I have it on fairly good authority that huge gargantuan dangly balls are not a regularly requested feature of the genre.
As if there is a single man in the world would would take a contraceptive that shrank their testes....
I don't think this is close at all, more like a story of a drug with horrific side effects that thankfully they caught before human trials.
Compared to the horrific side effects of not using any birth control at all, I think a little testicular shrinkage is acceptable.
The only reason these people are SHOCKED that evolution is in the curriculum is because they believe everything taught in schools should be 100% true, always and forever, and actually believe such an idea exists.
They are mainly shocked because they cannot separate their religious fantasies from reality.
I knew I read this before:
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/155488/ive-inherited-200k-lines-of-spaghetti-code-what-now
That article is linked in the first sentence of the summary.
Outsource it to India!
No.
Any home user who has a Scanning Electron Microscope and the appropriate algorithms in their basement can recover data from almost 90% of mechanical failures.
One word: Yes.
Longer version: But it may be more difficult to do nowadays; I don't know. About 7 years ago a family member had a computer with a lot of photos that were, sadly, not backed up. The Maxtor drive had suddenly quit. I was able to eBay another drive with the same model number and swap the boards, and voila! We had a working drive with all of the photos (and other data) intact.
Again, I have no idea how easy that would be to do nowadays... It was hard enough to change boards with my clumsy fingers on a 3.5" drive, let alone a mobile drive.
This will not work with many newer drives, especially WD Caviar Black and Blue. There is a firmware chip on the PCB that also needs to be transplanted, and this is tricky even with a Surface mount electronics soldering station, the type that uses channeled hot air.
IIRC, The Red Jacket .22 zombie gun used a 3D printed body on a metal receiver.
http://www.gunsandammo.com/2012/04/19/the-ultimate-zombie-gun-red-jacket-zk-22-bullpup-rifle/
Rip off / clone of the Muzzelite 10/22 Bullpup drop in stock, though they did do some basic custom modifications like the charging handle (not particularly useful) and the solid trigger linkage (which is a nice touch)
http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/muzzelite-10-22-bullpup-rifle-stock.aspx?a=282511
Try ordering a barrel or bolt without a FFL (Federal Firearms License). You won't get very far. Now if you have your own CNC shop AND a 3-D plastic printer, well then you're on your way...
I've bought barrels off ebay their sale is not regulated...
The 3D printer is more than $30...
So is a CNC Mill.
And both are capable of making gun parts with $30 in raw materials. I see no difference except the method.
The cheapest basic CNC Mill I found with my cursory search was 3 to 6 times more expensive than Makerbot's Replicator at $1800."
I'd like to see someone download a shape and reproduce it with a cheap CNC Mill.
I agree completely. Some people equate "pretty" with "useable", which seems pretty dumb to me. Windows is far less useable than KDE, but Windows is prettier.
I don't use windows because it's prettier than KDE though, I use it because I like playing (have an addiction) to games, primarily of the FPS, RPG and MMORPG genres, and Linux hardware driver support and games support just sadly hasn't materialized till this day.
This is also partially because I'm lazy and don't have as much free time as I'd like these days...and the fact that I spend a fair amount of money on hardware annually, so speed and efficiency wise, windows is good enough.
I don't run mission critical applications on my desktop so stability and security wise, it's also good enough, thus I just can't justify spending the additional time or SSD space as well as continually swapping between Linux and Windows because I need to have Windows 7 installed to run the applications I use my PC for any way..
I'm currently I'm running a Gigabyte Z77 Sniper 3 with an Ivy Bridge 3570K, 16GB of Kingston Valueram and a 3-4 year old GTX580 1.5GB, Sandisk Extreme 120GB SSD backed with a handful of Hitachi and Samsung 2TB mechanical drives.
The extent of my Linux usage at present (sadly) is a dual boot of Ubuntu 12.04 on my work laptop and FreeNAS 8.2 on my DIY 4 bay NAS (RAID-Z.)
If some larger developers/publishers like Steam or Blizzard would lead the charge and start sponsoring more Linux ports and development of games, more of us could start migrating away from Windows.
I actually like Aero/Vist interfaces. What I don't like is some of the dumbification of Windows 7 -- Like removing the ability to let the taskbar not be "always on top" and removing the ability to remember size and placement of individual explorer windows by their root.
The taskbar is an annoying issue because it's a permanent waste of screen-space. Then again, Android Honeycomb on up permanently waste screen-space on the system bar which is just as stupid.
I actually don't mind the taskbar being up all the time, and in fact prefer it this way. 1920x1200 leaves enough desktop real estate for me to do my stuff whilst avoiding the additional time wasted mousing and waiting for the taskbar to pop up, slide up or phase into existence.
The really annoying thing about Win 7s default aero theme is how it combines task buttons by default, so instead of knowing what is running
and where it's running at a glance, I have to instead do unnecessary mouseovers and movements to play application hide and seek with shiny animations and
transparent and translucent windows and other live preview sub windows every few seconds/minutes.
I personally prefer to see my window titles and applications running at a glance, and I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't.
The only reason I can think of for combining task bar buttons is if you have a teeny tiny low res CRT or LCD.
I disable all windows animations and visual effects as one of the first steps after a fresh OS install, leaving only font smoothing and showing contents of windows being dragged around or resized, everything else is inefficient and useless fluff really..