Not entirely. You can itemize your deductions, thus all the money you paid in sales taxes is exempt from federal tax *but* the standard deduction is usually bigger, and you'd have to almost pathologically save all your receipts. -nB
you can add me to the list of people who found it on DVD after it was cancelled and to the list of people who would buy new episodes (even at a premium over my current $18/mo netflix sub). -nB
They may be, but as long as I can watch their content based on my subscription to them, without commercials, (_possibly_ a leader commercial would be ok) I'll be happy. The promise of cable TV so many years ago was content without commercials. That never happened. If this takes off (Internet only content providers), and I can't watch it because my ISP (ATT) won't carry competitor content on == footing with their IP content then this should get interesting. -nB
Sadly I'm on AT&T so I'll have to pay both netflix and ATT to watch this... (based on their 150GB cap I'm headed for doom) tangent though: anyone know of a not comcast, not ATT broadband provider in sac county norcal? (Surewest, while expensive is awesome, but alas I live too far away from them).
It runs if firefox is not active. (random intervals) The dictionary is based loosely on my interests. The script reports to be the same UA as my firefox browser best as my local apache server can tell. I would like to make the script into a proxy server in the future so it can actually learn from the sites I go to, but I've not had the time to do that yet. As to JS, it allows the same domains as my no-script settings. -nB
While no one may care, I still protect some basics. I have a little perl script that does nothing but grab a random number of random words from my dictionary and performs google searches on those words, then gets a random number of hits from the search query. It doesn't do anything with the results, just discards them to dev/nul but my real searches are likely lost in all that noise. I use my real name on facebook, specifically so people can find me, but I post almost nothing. On forums like this I use an alias. I've three distinct on-line persona and I keep them relatively separate
That said, the odds that anyone actually cares about what I do is remote, but I do not rely on that as my only defense of who I am.
I suppose it's ok, but the article even mentions that it is for interim use while the buyer shops for the perfect case, thus they will still buy a case. Since this uses *more* material then a normal box I'd say overall the effect is opposite what they claim. As a marketing gimmick it's great though. -nB
yep, at least on my drive it does. (note I emulated this by removing the sata cable and not the power cable, as opposed to a nifty diode steered backup battery).
re-connected the drive after 5 min, and re-enumerated the drive, and it was rather blank. -nB
Ironic no? I use my real name on FB as well. The difference is that I guard what I post and who I friend very very closely. Largely I'm on there so family can find me (we're spread over the globe), other than that I don't use it for anything. What worries me are the people that use their real names *and* spew loads of rather personal info into a public forum. -nB
In fact to the authors credit, he knows this is a big claim, so he's posting everything and saying: "Check this out". As opposed to several other "I have proof" people who when asked to show their work, say "no"
Actually the first part is correct. Re-flashing the phone every new FW image. Thing is, the phone doesn't look like a regular cell phone. The board is (at least mine was) 12x18 inches (half a panel). Has a SIM socket, a keypad, an LCD, and gobs of test points. Finally, the boards have on-board headers for external programmers like this: http://www.dediprog.com/product.php?UID=30, which work most of the time (and the ROMs are socketed for the few times you actually kill them). -nB
I would attribute this mostly to growing pains related to moving the memory controller into the CPU directly. IIRC AMD had some socket thrash when they did this (though one certainly can wish Intel learned from AMD and only changed the socket once, not twice.) -nB
I'm wondering about starter wear and such... I realize there won't be much piston/cam/rocker wear like there normally is at startup because the engine was very recently lubed but still, the starter is going to get a workout. I would shift into neutral and not stop with the break long enough to trigger the thing, just idle in neutral.
In my kids' school district it's worse than that. Unless the machine is one of three particular make/model combos they can't have them (even if donated). Mid-top end HP desktop, mid HP server or Apple Power Mac. Mind you I was able to get my company to be willing to donate ~400 Lenovo T40/T40p/T41s to the school so every grade could have a cart with a classroom's worth of computers (there is no computer lab at the school because there is no space), and the district refused. I understand not wanting to support one of these and one of those spread all over, but you would think for 400 basically identical units they would consider it... -nB
yup. We roll our own machines in my lab. They generally cost a bit more than what I could buy raw $$ wise from Dell/HP, but they suit our needs better: slots (2x PCIe x16, 4x PCIe x4), ram (8-24 gig depending on user needs), CPU (i7), etc. We don't bother with RMA on most compontents as it isn't worth the overhead cost. Aside from the time to submit the actual RMA paperwork, there is the tracking of what was bought when/where, generating a shipper, getting the crap over to shipping, etc. RMAs are not worth it unless the component costs over $500. RMAs on Wafer chucks ($18K to $40K) and chillers ($30K to 50K) are totally worth it. RMA on a $100 video card? not so much. -nB
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Not entirely.
You can itemize your deductions, thus all the money you paid in sales taxes is exempt from federal tax *but* the standard deduction is usually bigger, and you'd have to almost pathologically save all your receipts.
-nB
Sadly that's likely better than many e-commerce sites out there...
Yeah, I don't use HTTPS on my sites for two reasons:
1) shared host and it's a PITA
2) I don't do anything with usernames/passwords
A lot of math on hard crypto.
you can add me to the list of people who found it on DVD after it was cancelled
and to the list of people who would buy new episodes (even at a premium over my current $18/mo netflix sub).
-nB
They may be, but as long as I can watch their content based on my subscription to them, without commercials, (_possibly_ a leader commercial would be ok) I'll be happy.
The promise of cable TV so many years ago was content without commercials. That never happened.
If this takes off (Internet only content providers), and I can't watch it because my ISP (ATT) won't carry competitor content on == footing with their IP content then this should get interesting.
-nB
Sadly I'm on AT&T so I'll have to pay both netflix and ATT to watch this...
(based on their 150GB cap I'm headed for doom)
tangent though: anyone know of a not comcast, not ATT broadband provider in sac county norcal? (Surewest, while expensive is awesome, but alas I live too far away from them).
It runs if firefox is not active. (random intervals)
The dictionary is based loosely on my interests.
The script reports to be the same UA as my firefox browser best as my local apache server can tell.
I would like to make the script into a proxy server in the future so it can actually learn from the sites I go to, but I've not had the time to do that yet.
As to JS, it allows the same domains as my no-script settings.
-nB
$0.00 or $billions depending if you're a museum or not.
While no one may care, I still protect some basics.
I have a little perl script that does nothing but grab a random number of random words from my dictionary and performs google searches on those words, then gets a random number of hits from the search query.
It doesn't do anything with the results, just discards them to dev/nul but my real searches are likely lost in all that noise.
I use my real name on facebook, specifically so people can find me, but I post almost nothing.
On forums like this I use an alias. I've three distinct on-line persona and I keep them relatively separate
That said, the odds that anyone actually cares about what I do is remote, but I do not rely on that as my only defense of who I am.
And doesn't everyone have LN2?
Though I'm partial to the CO2 ice cream I saw a while back (still trying to replicate that one at home).
-nB
I'm partial to young america minnesota myself. easy zip code: 55555
I suppose it's ok, but the article even mentions that it is for interim use while the buyer shops for the perfect case, thus they will still buy a case. Since this uses *more* material then a normal box I'd say overall the effect is opposite what they claim. As a marketing gimmick it's great though.
-nB
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yep, at least on my drive it does.
(note I emulated this by removing the sata cable and not the power cable, as opposed to a nifty diode steered backup battery).
re-connected the drive after 5 min, and re-enumerated the drive, and it was rather blank.
-nB
Ironic no?
I use my real name on FB as well. The difference is that I guard what I post and who I friend very very closely. Largely I'm on there so family can find me (we're spread over the globe), other than that I don't use it for anything.
What worries me are the people that use their real names *and* spew loads of rather personal info into a public forum.
-nB
In fact to the authors credit, he knows this is a big claim, so he's posting everything and saying: "Check this out". As opposed to several other "I have proof" people who when asked to show their work, say "no"
gah,
first part is *incorrect*.
VMs are for developing software. The hardware above is for developing the firmware and lower level OS stuff.
Actually the first part is correct. Re-flashing the phone every new FW image.
Thing is, the phone doesn't look like a regular cell phone. The board is (at least mine was) 12x18 inches (half a panel). Has a SIM socket, a keypad, an LCD, and gobs of test points. Finally, the boards have on-board headers for external programmers like this: http://www.dediprog.com/product.php?UID=30, which work most of the time (and the ROMs are socketed for the few times you actually kill them).
-nB
I would attribute this mostly to growing pains related to moving the memory controller into the CPU directly. IIRC AMD had some socket thrash when they did this (though one certainly can wish Intel learned from AMD and only changed the socket once, not twice.)
-nB
I'm wondering about starter wear and such...
I realize there won't be much piston/cam/rocker wear like there normally is at startup because the engine was very recently lubed but still, the starter is going to get a workout.
I would shift into neutral and not stop with the break long enough to trigger the thing, just idle in neutral.
raped to death by Canadian ninja turtles in a friendly foreign country?
In my kids' school district it's worse than that. Unless the machine is one of three particular make/model combos they can't have them (even if donated). Mid-top end HP desktop, mid HP server or Apple Power Mac.
Mind you I was able to get my company to be willing to donate ~400 Lenovo T40/T40p/T41s to the school so every grade could have a cart with a classroom's worth of computers (there is no computer lab at the school because there is no space), and the district refused. I understand not wanting to support one of these and one of those spread all over, but you would think for 400 basically identical units they would consider it...
-nB
yup.
We roll our own machines in my lab.
They generally cost a bit more than what I could buy raw $$ wise from Dell/HP, but they suit our needs better: slots (2x PCIe x16, 4x PCIe x4), ram (8-24 gig depending on user needs), CPU (i7), etc.
We don't bother with RMA on most compontents as it isn't worth the overhead cost. Aside from the time to submit the actual RMA paperwork, there is the tracking of what was bought when/where, generating a shipper, getting the crap over to shipping, etc. RMAs are not worth it unless the component costs over $500.
RMAs on Wafer chucks ($18K to $40K) and chillers ($30K to 50K) are totally worth it. RMA on a $100 video card? not so much.
-nB
I had a family member buy a 55" sony when that was still ~$3K. then proceed to connect the HD receiver to the HDTV with a composite cable...