Ah, yes. The old "Monster Closet" syndrome. Doom 3 had so many demons hiding in closets, I started to wonder if Westboro Baptist "Church" had a hand in the coding.
Solar plants in the desert aren't as perfect as you might think. Solar thermal needs a lot of really good mirrors, and blowing sand would have them scratched to unusability in days. Not to mention sand's tendency to become statically charged and stick to everything.
The primary reason nuclear plant construction runs over budget is ignorant "Green" groups delaying construction via the legal system. The goal is to drag things out long enough that construction is abandoned.
And as someone else mentioned, most construction projects run over budget. I have a couple of uncles in the home-building business. I remember hearing one of them comment that he's never once seen a house built for less than was planned.
I agree. I've been supporting Windows desktops professionally for over a decade, plus a lot of moonlighting doing tech support for friends,family, co-workers, friends-of-friends, and people who I have no idea how they got my number but were willing to pay me to fix their PC. In the day job, where all the data is stored on the server, and there's a limited number of apps that they actually use, most problems are fixed with a wipe and re-install, because it's the fastest way to get the job done.
But for a home user that's got a lot more apps, some of which they've got the install disks in storage, or "in a box in the basement somewhere", wipe and re-install is a last resort. Since Windows doesn't have a good way to back up program settings, there's always time spent getting everything set up the way it was before, there's always stuff you miss that leads to more phone calls and customer frustration. Even an unbootable machine can usually be fixed with a repair install, rather than a full nuke-and-pave.
I've done backup-and-reinstalls on machines rendered unbootable by failing hard drives, but almost never otherwise. The last time I wiped a machine with good hardware was shortly after SP2 for XP was released. The customer had gotten tired of waiting for SP2 to finish installing, and pulled the plug. The machine would still boot - extremely slowly - but a lot of core functionality was broken, including any file operations in Windows Explorer. A repair install didn't fix it, so I had to wipe.
Or you could get an old AT power supply - look for Pentium 1 or older. Instead of the switching being controlled by the motherboard, there is an actual mechanical switch that you can switch on and off without needing to simulate the load.
That glow is probably tritium. Tritium-powered would be a better description, as tritium itself doesn't glow. The paint consists tritium and a phosphorescent agent that glows due to the energy released by the tritium decay.
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Ah, yes. The old "Monster Closet" syndrome. Doom 3 had so many demons hiding in closets, I started to wonder if Westboro Baptist "Church" had a hand in the coding.
Solar plants in the desert aren't as perfect as you might think. Solar thermal needs a lot of really good mirrors, and blowing sand would have them scratched to unusability in days. Not to mention sand's tendency to become statically charged and stick to everything.
If I lived next to a coal-burning power plant, I would jump at the chance to have it converted to nuclear.
The primary reason nuclear plant construction runs over budget is ignorant "Green" groups delaying construction via the legal system. The goal is to drag things out long enough that construction is abandoned.
And as someone else mentioned, most construction projects run over budget. I have a couple of uncles in the home-building business. I remember hearing one of them comment that he's never once seen a house built for less than was planned.
NSA employee. Either that or High School sysadmin
Does the laptop have a built-in webcam? If so, you may be able to grab some snaps of your perp.
Peers such as Turing, Shannon, Dijkstra, Boole, Babbage, von Neumann, Hopper... (etc.) are all more important
Knuth does stand out from those you mentioned. What have any of them done lately?
(For the clueless - the others are all dead. For the pedantic and/or humorless - yes, I know they're all dead.)
Nevermind. Apparently I didn't scroll down far enough. Never thought the day would come when I would underestimate the pedantry of the /. community.
*Komodo* dragons. This being Slashdot, I'm surprised somebody more pedantic than me hasn't corrected you already. The Grammar Nazis must be slipping.
He's even got another Pratchett quote in his sig.
I don't know. I hear their system has gaping holes in it.
Makes me wonder if they'll port emacs to a UEFI module.
Don't forget F1 - Typically any IBM PC, and I think Lenovo stuck with it after buying IBM's PC devision.
At least that would give customers the option to pick the carrier that has the best coverage in their area. AT&T's coverage in my hometown sucks.
I did an in-place upgrade of the Netbook Remix from 9.10 to 10.4. Didn't have a single problem. This was on a 9" Acer Aspire One 150
I have an emo lawn. It cuts itself.
I agree. I've been supporting Windows desktops professionally for over a decade, plus a lot of moonlighting doing tech support for friends,family, co-workers, friends-of-friends, and people who I have no idea how they got my number but were willing to pay me to fix their PC. In the day job, where all the data is stored on the server, and there's a limited number of apps that they actually use, most problems are fixed with a wipe and re-install, because it's the fastest way to get the job done.
But for a home user that's got a lot more apps, some of which they've got the install disks in storage, or "in a box in the basement somewhere", wipe and re-install is a last resort. Since Windows doesn't have a good way to back up program settings, there's always time spent getting everything set up the way it was before, there's always stuff you miss that leads to more phone calls and customer frustration. Even an unbootable machine can usually be fixed with a repair install, rather than a full nuke-and-pave.
I've done backup-and-reinstalls on machines rendered unbootable by failing hard drives, but almost never otherwise. The last time I wiped a machine with good hardware was shortly after SP2 for XP was released. The customer had gotten tired of waiting for SP2 to finish installing, and pulled the plug. The machine would still boot - extremely slowly - but a lot of core functionality was broken, including any file operations in Windows Explorer. A repair install didn't fix it, so I had to wipe.
They'd have to grab Novell, too.
You do this by detonating an atom bomb near a magnetic anomaly.
That's Tolkien Ring.
Yeah, he's been hoarding that for years too.
Fractal Pyramids!
As a side note, the above /. post was made while driving said H1. Casualties include 3 pedestrians, a Prius, and 2 cyclists.
Or you could get an old AT power supply - look for Pentium 1 or older. Instead of the switching being controlled by the motherboard, there is an actual mechanical switch that you can switch on and off without needing to simulate the load.
That glow is probably tritium. Tritium-powered would be a better description, as tritium itself doesn't glow. The paint consists tritium and a phosphorescent agent that glows due to the energy released by the tritium decay.