The current draw of a block heater is likely to be less than what it would take to charge any sizeable battery. (Unless you intend to park the car for a week between trips.)
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Using a chip puller. Cutting write enable notches in 5.25" floppies. Drilling write enable holes in read only 3.5" floppies. Replacing worn out switches in Amiga mice. Building custom serial cables. Re-ordering items in config.sys to optimize the amount of RAM free. Monochrome VGA, with 704k free. Watching terminal output to figure out serial speed, bits, parity, and stop bits. Disabling screen I/O while using punter, to get that extra 5% of throughput. Avoiding the zero subnet. Working with non-CIDR subnet masks, or masks with zeros in them. PC-NFS. Deleting enough files on RSX, so that there was contiguous space to put system files on. PIP on CP/M. Hiding files using a programmer number. Generating Novell remote program loader files using diskettes. EMS vs XMS debates. The Intel Above Board. Locking up Hayes 1200B modems by hitting backspace. Ripterm. Ymodem-G. QWK mailers. Whistling the modem tone to see if a modem was calling you. Intentionally misspelling things on a BBS to avoid the profanity filter. (Warez, pron, fcuk, leet, a$$, sh1t, etc.) Using high speed cassette copiers. Using Chrome tape. Connecting daisychained peripherals. Connecting separate analog and control busses on hard drives. Figuring out which drives were RLL capable. GCM vs GCR. Backing up data to VHS. Cofiguring multiport serial boards. Fossil drivers. The 5.25" hard disk.
Cellphone users, and the phones they use are gradually being fractioned into groups.
Some folks just want to talk on their cellphone. Even these folks don't actually dial phone numbers any more. Calling someone is unlock-uparrow-uparrow-greenbutton.
Some folks want stupidly-easy to buy camera phones with lots of ringtones and other crap on a 2yr commitment plan.
Some people want Appley goodness on their phones, and don't care much who provides the dialtone.
Non-phone-call communications capability are creeping onto the device. Walky-talky service, instant messaging, location awareness, VOIP, retarded outlook email, etc. I would argue that they do a piss-poor job of handling real phone calls. (Dropped calls, poor fidelity, lag, echo, etc.) But people's expectations are very low, so no one does anything about it.
In the longer term, the cellphone is likely to morph into something with more sophisticated semantics. Why can't I enter the command "please connect me to my friend, when my friend is available and willing to talk three minutes about dinner, or before 4pm at any rate"?
My friend's phone should know when my friend is available, in service range and willing to talk. And exchanging this state info should cost me a fortune.
The value of a free OS is access to the tech, methods, and knowhow that is embodied in the OS. Value is not always a function of what you pay for something.
In the same way, Google may see that there will be more value in a very capable phone, even if the traditional carriers don't stand to get much out of it. It will be a very disruptive technology, as long as there is a not-too-scared audience to take advantage of it.
The traditional telcos are all busy selling us out to the NSA. If Google gets into the game, at lease we can add end to end encryption to the phones. Incoherent rant off.
My price point has typically been in the 125-175$ range. Most recently I was looking for a dual-DVI PCIe card, and found the 8600GT for about 125$. Before that, I was looking for a dual-DVI AGP card, and found the 6600GT for about 140$.
When I bought the 6600GT, drivers were readily available and solid for Windows, and using dual monitors with Suse was pretty easy as well.
When I bought the 8600GT, drivers on windows are out of the question as I'm staying as far away as possible from Vista, and using dual monitors with Ubuntu (Feisty or Gutsy) is a fucked up mess. (The 8-Series dropped acceleration for 2d operations to save transistor count.)
I was tempted to take the 8-series back to the store and look for a 7-series online.
Vista, and directx 10, are more or less a plague for everyone not on windows.
MS-DOS, DR-DOS, OS/2, and now Linux. Netware has bootstrapped from various OS over the years.
But I refuse to take anything seriously involving Novell and Linux. At one time we were expected to believe that Caldera would change the world, and look where that went. Nowhere.
When margins were good at IBM, you'd likely get help from (IBM) customer engineers as part of the package.
Now that margins are thinner, and all but the biggest accounts are being handled by business partners, (business partner) implementation help comes in the form of a line item you have to decide to buy or not.
Life isn't all that sweet for business partners these days either. Customers expect a lot when they switch to paying for help they used to get for free.
I'm comtemplating a move back inside a shop. Hopefully before the music stops and there aren't any chairs left.
Modern cars don't use a duty cycle on the AC compressor. (Compressor clutches don't hold up well if cycled often.)
When you adjust the AC, you're only controlling how much air gets moved by the evaporator. I don't think this one variable would have as large an effect on the mileage as you might suspect.
Turning the AC off altogether should still result in a savings, but what cars allow for defrost without the AC being forced on?
Cops should use self restraint and make at least an attempt to comply with the laws they enforce on everyone else. If they do not, send them a signal. The next time a public safey/police bond measure is on the ballot, vote no.
After funding has been cut five or six times, make a point of saying strongly "If you will not make an effort to comply with the rules, we will starve you out." If you find that no one else even seems to notice the issue, remember that slashdotters are far from the norm.
Google provides lots o perks, but they pay 20-30% below the norm.
If you want that 20% to be controlled by the company, so be it. We hear all the time how Americans don't like to save, and for average adult child, it seems to be true.
Even if you don't buy an AppleTV, you will be given the option of installing the 7.1 and 7.1.1 updates to iTunes and Quicktime.
7.1 and 7.1.1 are sacks of shit. Try watching a video podcast on a MBP while doing anything else which uses CPU. When your second core goes to 100%, the video/audio stutters and stops like cheezy players from 1998. Any iTunes download activity will also cause things to shudder to a halt.
It is nice that Apple sends out updates, but as far as I can tell, there is no easy way to reject an applied update. (Windows seems hi tech by comparison.) You can go to the "Genius Bar" at a physical Apple store and get a copy of iTunes 7.0 on CDR, but the uninstall/reinstall process is counterintuitive for anyone who isn't an old skool Mac'ie.
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The current draw of a block heater is likely to be less than what it would take to charge any sizeable battery. (Unless you intend to park the car for a week between trips.)
In your case, you really do get to the internet via tubes.
Welcome to the USS carrier NO CARRIER.
So this computer will be faster for people with small hands? Or do they plan on varying the speed of light?
Cable ready tuners? Composite input? Component input?
Less pop references, more tech please.
Using a chip puller.
Cutting write enable notches in 5.25" floppies.
Drilling write enable holes in read only 3.5" floppies.
Replacing worn out switches in Amiga mice.
Building custom serial cables.
Re-ordering items in config.sys to optimize the amount of RAM free.
Monochrome VGA, with 704k free.
Watching terminal output to figure out serial speed, bits, parity, and stop bits.
Disabling screen I/O while using punter, to get that extra 5% of throughput.
Avoiding the zero subnet.
Working with non-CIDR subnet masks, or masks with zeros in them.
PC-NFS.
Deleting enough files on RSX, so that there was contiguous space to put system files on.
PIP on CP/M. Hiding files using a programmer number.
Generating Novell remote program loader files using diskettes.
EMS vs XMS debates. The Intel Above Board.
Locking up Hayes 1200B modems by hitting backspace.
Ripterm. Ymodem-G. QWK mailers. Whistling the modem tone to see if a modem was calling you.
Intentionally misspelling things on a BBS to avoid the profanity filter. (Warez, pron, fcuk, leet, a$$, sh1t, etc.)
Using high speed cassette copiers. Using Chrome tape.
Connecting daisychained peripherals. Connecting separate analog and control busses on hard drives.
Figuring out which drives were RLL capable.
GCM vs GCR.
Backing up data to VHS. Cofiguring multiport serial boards.
Fossil drivers.
The 5.25" hard disk.
Hi, I'm a Mac...
And I'm Rush Limbaugh...
PDX has free wifi, and Micron sponsors it in BOI.
I've heard this from a different source as well. I wouldn't be surprised if there was as new DRM scheme out there.
I have a friend who plays classical accoustic guitar. He is an accomplished player, and writes, publishes, and sells his own music.
When people ask how he learned he generally says: "Buy a guitar, and practice every day for twenty years."
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but in the day of "Learn HTML in 24 hours", some things still take time.
Like the Sony model, only more expensive? Yeah, hope that works out for ya.
I was going to critisize the name, but then I remembered this was from Amazon.
Your honor, I didn't want to be tracked, and I was out of cash. That is why I shoplifted the copy of 2600.
Cellphone users, and the phones they use are gradually being fractioned into groups.
Some folks just want to talk on their cellphone. Even these folks don't actually dial phone numbers any more. Calling someone is unlock-uparrow-uparrow-greenbutton.
Some folks want stupidly-easy to buy camera phones with lots of ringtones and other crap on a 2yr commitment plan.
Some people want Appley goodness on their phones, and don't care much who provides the dialtone.
Non-phone-call communications capability are creeping onto the device. Walky-talky service, instant messaging, location awareness, VOIP, retarded outlook email, etc. I would argue that they do a piss-poor job of handling real phone calls. (Dropped calls, poor fidelity, lag, echo, etc.) But people's expectations are very low, so no one does anything about it.
In the longer term, the cellphone is likely to morph into something with more sophisticated semantics. Why can't I enter the command "please connect me to my friend, when my friend is available and willing to talk three minutes about dinner, or before 4pm at any rate"?
My friend's phone should know when my friend is available, in service range and willing to talk. And exchanging this state info should cost me a fortune.
The value of a free OS is access to the tech, methods, and knowhow that is embodied in the OS. Value is not always a function of what you pay for something.
In the same way, Google may see that there will be more value in a very capable phone, even if the traditional carriers don't stand to get much out of it. It will be a very disruptive technology, as long as there is a not-too-scared audience to take advantage of it.
The traditional telcos are all busy selling us out to the NSA. If Google gets into the game, at lease we can add end to end encryption to the phones. Incoherent rant off.
My price point has typically been in the 125-175$ range. Most recently I was looking for a dual-DVI PCIe card, and found the 8600GT for about 125$. Before that, I was looking for a dual-DVI AGP card, and found the 6600GT for about 140$.
When I bought the 6600GT, drivers were readily available and solid for Windows, and using dual monitors with Suse was pretty easy as well.
When I bought the 8600GT, drivers on windows are out of the question as I'm staying as far away as possible from Vista, and using dual monitors with Ubuntu (Feisty or Gutsy) is a fucked up mess. (The 8-Series dropped acceleration for 2d operations to save transistor count.)
I was tempted to take the 8-series back to the store and look for a 7-series online.
Vista, and directx 10, are more or less a plague for everyone not on windows.
On the way home from a pub, it becomes a re-Tardis.
MS-DOS, DR-DOS, OS/2, and now Linux. Netware has bootstrapped from various OS over the years.
But I refuse to take anything seriously involving Novell and Linux. At one time we were expected to believe that Caldera would change the world, and look where that went. Nowhere.
When margins were good at IBM, you'd likely get help from (IBM) customer engineers as part of the package.
Now that margins are thinner, and all but the biggest accounts are being handled by business partners, (business partner) implementation help comes in the form of a line item you have to decide to buy or not.
Life isn't all that sweet for business partners these days either. Customers expect a lot when they switch to paying for help they used to get for free.
I'm comtemplating a move back inside a shop. Hopefully before the music stops and there aren't any chairs left.
Modern cars don't use a duty cycle on the AC compressor. (Compressor clutches don't hold up well if cycled often.)
When you adjust the AC, you're only controlling how much air gets moved by the evaporator. I don't think this one variable would have as large an effect on the mileage as you might suspect.
Turning the AC off altogether should still result in a savings, but what cars allow for defrost without the AC being forced on?
Unless you put a critical section around the counting code, one of the people you're counting may be killed before the count is complete.
Hopefully that is not a race condition.
Cops should use self restraint and make at least an attempt to comply with the laws they enforce on everyone else. If they do not, send them a signal. The next time a public safey/police bond measure is on the ballot, vote no.
After funding has been cut five or six times, make a point of saying strongly "If you will not make an effort to comply with the rules, we will starve you out." If you find that no one else even seems to notice the issue, remember that slashdotters are far from the norm.
Come on, the original inspiration for Microsoft and the Bill Gates character was Far Out Space Nuts and the Junior character respectively.
The Linux kernel release process? That is based on H.R. Pufnstuf.
Google provides lots o perks, but they pay 20-30% below the norm.
If you want that 20% to be controlled by the company, so be it. We hear all the time how Americans don't like to save, and for average adult child, it seems to be true.
Even if you don't buy an AppleTV, you will be given the option of installing the 7.1 and 7.1.1 updates to iTunes and Quicktime.
7.1 and 7.1.1 are sacks of shit. Try watching a video podcast on a MBP while doing anything else which uses CPU. When your second core goes to 100%, the video/audio stutters and stops like cheezy players from 1998. Any iTunes download activity will also cause things to shudder to a halt.
It is nice that Apple sends out updates, but as far as I can tell, there is no easy way to reject an applied update. (Windows seems hi tech by comparison.) You can go to the "Genius Bar" at a physical Apple store and get a copy of iTunes 7.0 on CDR, but the uninstall/reinstall process is counterintuitive for anyone who isn't an old skool Mac'ie.
Welcome to teh Apple Suck.
Handbrake.
A Mac Mini can boot from an external firewire drive. Even with the extra cost of an external drive, it should come in well under 1100.