This is just my interpretation, but I think they have that FCC compliance note on the back of some electronics just to say that the applicance won't blow up when it receives a large amount of interference. If it ceases to function only for the duration of jamming, it's probably still acceptable.
At my last base, one day I was riding in a coworker's car on the way to our office. The road there wraps around a runway. His radar detector goes apeshit when going past there. Possibly due to ILS radio waves.
The cops at the gate don't like to see radar detectors anyway, so it was usually best to keep it off the dash after you passed through, as it was useless.
On the other hand, keyless remotes didn't pose too much of a problem.
Is this somehow too complex for the US to use? I don't see the reason behind the technological fetish and all the issues it causes there.
Both paper and electronic voting simplicity depends on how well designed the process is. Both have bad instances, such as the misaligned punch holes in the Florida ballots versus badly designed interfaces in the e-voting machines in question. I don't think it's any more difficult to design (not the programming part) an interface than it is to design a paper ballot the general public can understand.
Oh yes, of course. Hence the quotations. People around me have had the same experience, especially with Sony CD players. Maybe less moving parts will help with the reliability of their current portable music players.
I can't think whether the price for a Sony portable music player to compete with the iPod would be higher or lower, seeing that both Sony and Apple sell products the public sees as "premium". Considering that most of Sony's music products are priced high just for the name, they'll have to make competitive pricing for such a product focused point in order to beat Apple at this game.
I guess what I meant by "right" is whether it's culturally acceptable to do so. In my example, Sears, you'd be disturbing other customers by yelling in a private store and would be kicked out by a mall security.
It's not nice to say "fuck you" to a cop either, but it's not illegal, and if in a public place, you'd be even less likely to have something adverse happen to you (in a perfect world).
So is yelling "SHITCOCK!" repeatedly while standing in the power tools section of Sears. Doesn't make it right, though. Unless they let out out of the Tourette's clinic early.
That wouldn't be a tosh rescue disk would it? they're meant for stupid people, and automagically formatting is a "feature".
Must be, because even for a casual user, the fact that Toshiba notebooks need a Windows application to adjust BIOS settings is really stupid design. This is in my experience, anyway.
Wow. You'd think the disk drive would react in the same Nazi way as it does when there's a read error......BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRP! God, that scared the shit out of me so often as a kid. I'm surprised I don't have nighmares about Disk II drives coming to kill me.
I was in a combat communications squadron in the Air Force (still in, but work elsewhere). This happaned a couple years ago:
Most of the servers, routers, etc. are rack mounted in ruggedized platic carrying cases so we can move them, stack them, and set them up quickly. A coworker and I were picking up a Proliant server (the box was about 4x3x4 feet). These things could slide forward if you needed to pull the server out and the only thing keeping it fastened in place was a strap. Yeah, it wasn't fastened that time, so when we picked the box up, the weight shifted and the server flew out the front. The thing was actually airborne for a split second before hitting the ground. The best part is that the big thing didn't break. Our first reaction wasn't to go "Oh my god!" Instead we laughed quite hard because we couldn't have cared less about those old servers.
If you're talking about PowerQuest's Partition Magic, it seems to support ext2 and ext3 filesystems as of the current version (8 I believe). I've moved and resized those partitions many times and now have four total operating systems on my machine easily after adding a new partion for a second install of Linux. (Windows 98, Windows XP, Mandrake 10.0, and SuSE 9.1 Personal)
I've found that smashing keyboards can take the edge off:)
Swing it towards the ground like a two-by-four and watch all the keys fly all over the room. It's even funnier if you record it and one of the keys flies straight into the microphone or lens.
Yes, CRTs are very durable. It took me and a friend over two hours to break his old monitor. He dragged it by the VGA cord over curbs and such and nothing. Dropped it into a muddy creek and still nothing. Pulled it out and tossed it way into the air and finally it smashed into a bunch of little pieces.
One of my new neighbors managed to find my old, broken monitor sitting by the curb of a dumpster at my old place and picked it up. About two weeks later, I hear PSSCSCHCHKCHCKHCKHCHCHHSSSSSSHHHHH!! That's the sound of a 19" monitor breaking. The guy who did it drives a crappy Toyota wagon he regularly beats the shit out of and shared my appetite for destruction. I was glad to see the monitor go.
I'm on my third keyboard, second monitor (CRT), and second mouse (about to smash this one too because it sucks) by the way. I love breaking stuff.
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Sounds like the usual post 9/11 stuff on TV news:
"What you don't know about Coke cans could KILL you! Coming up next...on FOX News!"
This is just my interpretation, but I think they have that FCC compliance note on the back of some electronics just to say that the applicance won't blow up when it receives a large amount of interference. If it ceases to function only for the duration of jamming, it's probably still acceptable.
Radar Tech: "Sir. The car keys, sir. They appear to be... jammed."
Dark Helmet: "Jammed? Raspberry. There's only one man who would dare give me the raspberry. Lone Starr!"
At my last base, one day I was riding in a coworker's car on the way to our office. The road there wraps around a runway. His radar detector goes apeshit when going past there. Possibly due to ILS radio waves.
The cops at the gate don't like to see radar detectors anyway, so it was usually best to keep it off the dash after you passed through, as it was useless.
On the other hand, keyless remotes didn't pose too much of a problem.
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[JAMMED]
Is this somehow too complex for the US to use? I don't see the reason behind the technological fetish and all the issues it causes there.
Both paper and electronic voting simplicity depends on how well designed the process is. Both have bad instances, such as the misaligned punch holes in the Florida ballots versus badly designed interfaces in the e-voting machines in question. I don't think it's any more difficult to design (not the programming part) an interface than it is to design a paper ballot the general public can understand.
First vote! Oh, crap! I pressed the Buchannon button!
Great, a bunch of people enter the convention center and get ready to sit down:
This seat reserved for: Richard Cranium
"Hey, you're in my seat!"
News Article Title: Big Brother Awards for Privacy Invaders
What's wrong with this title, people?
"Hello, Big Brother? I'd like to report YOU! Oh, hang on, there's somebody at my door."
Oh yes, of course. Hence the quotations. People around me have had the same experience, especially with Sony CD players. Maybe less moving parts will help with the reliability of their current portable music players.
I can't think whether the price for a Sony portable music player to compete with the iPod would be higher or lower, seeing that both Sony and Apple sell products the public sees as "premium". Considering that most of Sony's music products are priced high just for the name, they'll have to make competitive pricing for such a product focused point in order to beat Apple at this game.
...where MS wants you to use Firefox and Mac OS X is less secure than Windows!
I guess what I meant by "right" is whether it's culturally acceptable to do so. In my example, Sears, you'd be disturbing other customers by yelling in a private store and would be kicked out by a mall security.
It's not nice to say "fuck you" to a cop either, but it's not illegal, and if in a public place, you'd be even less likely to have something adverse happen to you (in a perfect world).
What are the kind of penalties these spammers are staring at, if any?
How about being forced to use their own advertised products?
So is yelling "SHITCOCK!" repeatedly while standing in the power tools section of Sears. Doesn't make it right, though. Unless they let out out of the Tourette's clinic early.
What's a planet?
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That wouldn't be a tosh rescue disk would it? they're meant for stupid people, and automagically formatting is a "feature".
Must be, because even for a casual user, the fact that Toshiba notebooks need a Windows application to adjust BIOS settings is really stupid design. This is in my experience, anyway.
Wow. You'd think the disk drive would react in the same Nazi way as it does when there's a read error......BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRP! God, that scared the shit out of me so often as a kid. I'm surprised I don't have nighmares about Disk II drives coming to kill me.
...NVIDIA has released a new set of Detonator drivers version 8701012.45231256
Amount of power to reach escape velocity > Amount of power needed to run Fisher Price(tm) My First Web Server
I was in a combat communications squadron in the Air Force (still in, but work elsewhere). This happaned a couple years ago:
Most of the servers, routers, etc. are rack mounted in ruggedized platic carrying cases so we can move them, stack them, and set them up quickly. A coworker and I were picking up a Proliant server (the box was about 4x3x4 feet). These things could slide forward if you needed to pull the server out and the only thing keeping it fastened in place was a strap. Yeah, it wasn't fastened that time, so when we picked the box up, the weight shifted and the server flew out the front. The thing was actually airborne for a split second before hitting the ground. The best part is that the big thing didn't break. Our first reaction wasn't to go "Oh my god!" Instead we laughed quite hard because we couldn't have cared less about those old servers.
Try this:
I bought a computer with Windows ME as part of the Microsoft Tax. I actually spent money on Windows ME.
It got replaced with Windows 98 after a month of getting the computer.
If you're talking about PowerQuest's Partition Magic, it seems to support ext2 and ext3 filesystems as of the current version (8 I believe). I've moved and resized those partitions many times and now have four total operating systems on my machine easily after adding a new partion for a second install of Linux. (Windows 98, Windows XP, Mandrake 10.0, and SuSE 9.1 Personal)
I've found that smashing keyboards can take the edge off :)
Swing it towards the ground like a two-by-four and watch all the keys fly all over the room. It's even funnier if you record it and one of the keys flies straight into the microphone or lens.
Yes, CRTs are very durable. It took me and a friend over two hours to break his old monitor. He dragged it by the VGA cord over curbs and such and nothing. Dropped it into a muddy creek and still nothing. Pulled it out and tossed it way into the air and finally it smashed into a bunch of little pieces.
One of my new neighbors managed to find my old, broken monitor sitting by the curb of a dumpster at my old place and picked it up. About two weeks later, I hear PSSCSCHCHKCHCKHCKHCHCHHSSSSSSHHHHH!! That's the sound of a 19" monitor breaking. The guy who did it drives a crappy Toyota wagon he regularly beats the shit out of and shared my appetite for destruction. I was glad to see the monitor go.
I'm on my third keyboard, second monitor (CRT), and second mouse (about to smash this one too because it sucks) by the way. I love breaking stuff.
Dude, you're getting a +5 Funny!