Mine are a little different, and are true. Every morning for a week we came in to find the HP mini had crashed after midnight. Turned out that the A/C was on a circuit in common with another tenant, which was being shut off for some construction in the wee hours every morning. The mini would run for a while until overheating caused errors leading to a crash. There was an independent circular paper chart recorder, but I can't remember why it didn't lead us to suspect overheating. Maybe it was out of paper or ink or on the same circuit as the A/C.
The computer room was secured. The mini was hardwired into a line conditioner, but the line conditioner was just plugged into the wall. One morning we came in to find the computer off because the line conditioner was unplugged. WTF? Then we noticed a wall clock on the floor beside the unplugged plug. During the same construction project, someone had banged the opposite side of the wall enough that the clock fell off and knocked the conditioner plug loose on the way down.
I use a belt sander on a remote switch to pull a string that turns on the space heater. Once it gets to the end of its cord, it pulls it loose to turn itself off. The dust gets to be a problem, the floor needs a new coat of polyurethane, and the cats never come down from the hanging light fixtures. The belt sander draws quite a bit of current itself, but only momentarily.
As far as widely-used, 1-2-3 versions 1a and 2. Nothing since has been as quick to use or come nearly as close to being bug-free. Now most accept occasional bugs as normal, but that wasn't the case with 1-2-3. I never used Javelin, but I'd heard that Improv was similar, and if so, Javelin must have been pretty good. Whatever, but Improv should have been the future of "spreadsheets". Instead, we're stuck with Excel, which can do a lot of things but is totally lacking in conceptual integrity. Improv was released too late for the PC and Lotus wouldn't push it for fear of cannabilizing PC 1-2-3 sales. We see where that went. Too bad.
I nominate Visio. MS hasn't totally fubared it (yet). Perhaps it stole from others, I don't know, but it's the first graphical diagramming tool I saw that was fairly intuitive to use. In the negative category, I nominate MS Project. Nothing I've used has been more annoying, even Stanford Graphics, which offered a lot and was intuitive to use but crashed every 5 minutes.
Maybe somebody's mentioned Harvard Graphics, but I haven't noticed. I liked Freelance better but have yet to see a presentation graphics application that I'd give an award. Except for PowerPoint. I'll give it several awards, all negative. I just can't decide on the order.
In some ways it's like ALF or ELF—anyone anywhere can be Anonymous. This makes it impossible for LEOs to track down all participants before they act. It means there's little hierarchy of control, so actions of some may not be condoned by others under the banner. Doing something and claiming to be Anonymous gets significantly more attention than being just anonymous but gets participants more severe punishment because those prosecuted are implicitly being blamed for the previous actions of others under the banner.
Whatever their reasons, the biggest wrong is the failure to disclose up front the caps, instead marketing the service as "10Mbps" or whatever, period. Here's where the FTC should be involved, requiring every ad that makes any claims about their service to state all the limitations, and not in the manner we're accustomed to hearing from pharmaceutical and financial "service" ads, which sound like John Moschitta (FedEx ad fast talker) at the end. If being regulated by the FCC precludes such a regulation by the FTC (I think it does not), then that's what the FCC should be doing. People who argue for less regulation may or may not have a point in some cases, but really never have a decent argument against disclosure of terms of sale/service in advertising.
Mostly in agreement but for the "getting lighter" part. Compare cars of equal passenger space from the 60s to now and often the newer cars weigh more. Newer cars are much safer and have many more features. They're quieter and more comfortable. In spite of using lighter materials, they're still gaining weight. This is a reason why regenerative braking in hybrids and electrics is so helpful. Unfortunately, more mass wears the roads out quicker.
If new "CAFE"-style mileage requirements are to be based on a vehicle's square footage, then an official figure for that will be available for all new cars. So tax based on that. Those using up the most square footage of road pay the most.
Suppose it's possible to apply and enforce a mileage tax. Then the right way to do it would be to impose it equally on everyone based on vehicle weight, in addition to gas tax.
Now let's get back to the real world. When mileage readings result in significant costs, people will fudge the mileage en masse. The 'net will be full of instructions on how to do that for your particular car model. Many more will be driving around with huge wheels. GPS-based system? People will wrap them in aluminum foil every other day.
Other than raising the fuel tax rates, the only workable thing is to increase the annual registration fee.
Fine idea, but I'd think unlikely to pass, given the relationship between Comcast, Verizon, etc. and Congress.
I propose that the FTC do their job and regulate advertising. ISPs must state what caps they might impose, in very simple terms, along with EVERY advertisement—that is, any mention, of their service. Then trust us well-informed citizens to make decisions, make noise, whatever. Oh yeah, and there's going to have to be some reasonable competition to decide among. Oops.
2%? Don't know, but 3 of 4 in my household use firewire, to capture video from DV and Hi8 camcorders. USB 2.0 will not suffice, and the recorders do not have USB 3.0, whether that would avoid dropping frames or not.
My background included a significant amount of C and some assembly as well as a variety of other stuff including (not Visual) BASIC (workplace need, not my choice). I finally decided on JavaScript and probably also Node.js. I'm happy with the language itself and being useful in so many places and platforms and situations made it a no-brainer for me. I'd choose to use Linux everywhere, but being stuck with Windows also means that I can do a lot with WSH JScript, which is supported on everything from XP on (maybe 2000, I don't know). I quit bothering to learn to jump through hoops with DOS batch files.
Stop prying! There's a vacuum holding us in. It's painful and you're ruining the tire iron. Ever tried getting cranberry sauce out of the can by putting a hole in the other end?
We don't like to walk because of all the particulate car pollution. Do you not have cabin filters?
I was just wondering if anyone else would mention ShowScan, amid all the claims of "first time such a high frame rate film has been produced... blah blah blah..." when the claim really should be "finally, something almost as good as what was available 40+ years ago."
24fps has always bothered me whenever an object or person moves across the screen quickly. Even the small increase to 30fps is a significant improvement to my eyes. 72fps seems like a good goal, though I probably won't complain about 48.
I think those in the "24fps is magic" camp have a lot in common with the "vinyl is better" and "tubes are better" bunch. They either like their content distorted by their medium of choice or just like the idea of using archaic technology. There's certainly nothing wrong with either of those things, but the old ways are not "better" for everyone else.
Aside from the free speech issues, what it does is chase off a few noncommitted types and drive the serious ones deeper underground where they're harder to find. Good policing and intelligence work involves staking out the site and watching who comes and goes and what they do. Pushing them off onto Freenet or somewhere eliminates that opportunity for observation. Worried about exposing impressionable persons to such rhetoric? Then provide alternatives, built by someone who really cares and understands how to reach them. What happened in the Cold War? Communist Bloc radio wasn't jammed. Instead, the West transmitted their viewpoints (VOA, RFE, etc).
"An" ISP but not all. Some are very small indeed and can't afford much in the way of legal fees. It would be interesting to know how often small ISPs get dragged into things as a result of the local LEOs being less than fully knowledgeable of safe harbor provisions. Being right and remaining solvent are not synonymous.
Even if MS assured everyone that cooperating was in its own long term best interest, and even if we all believed that, believing that they would actually cooperate is foolish. Have we not all heard of The Scorpion and the Frog?
Or perhaps the leaker modified numerous inconsequential things before leaking it. Maybe the leaker is an email system admin and compared several versions of the trap. Maybe she used the version sent to the person responsible for the subject of the original leak. Wilderness of mirrors.
I was going to say that buckyball magnets didn't have rich lobbies to keep them legal like ammo, autos, and knives do. But then when I read your post I couldn't think of who might be part of the boiling water lobby. Maybe the boiler insurance companies?
Let me add to that... I consider a battery + fuel cell electric still a hybrid. So if suddently fuel cell cars can use methanol cheaply, then I think they'll still have batteries to a) reduce the size of the fuel cell necessary and b) increase the efficiency overall by having a place to store regenerative braking energy.
I'm still thinking that hybrids will be around a long time, unless either 1) standard quick-change batteries are available at "gas stations" or 2) ultra-quick-charge (75% in 5 minutes or so) are available at "gas stations". Aside from purchase prices, electrics are already pretty good for commuting, but terrible for long trips. Being able to go 500 miles on a single charge is still not enough sometimes.
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Mine are a little different, and are true. Every morning for a week we came in to find the HP mini had crashed after midnight. Turned out that the A/C was on a circuit in common with another tenant, which was being shut off for some construction in the wee hours every morning. The mini would run for a while until overheating caused errors leading to a crash. There was an independent circular paper chart recorder, but I can't remember why it didn't lead us to suspect overheating. Maybe it was out of paper or ink or on the same circuit as the A/C.
The computer room was secured. The mini was hardwired into a line conditioner, but the line conditioner was just plugged into the wall. One morning we came in to find the computer off because the line conditioner was unplugged. WTF? Then we noticed a wall clock on the floor beside the unplugged plug. During the same construction project, someone had banged the opposite side of the wall enough that the clock fell off and knocked the conditioner plug loose on the way down.
I use a belt sander on a remote switch to pull a string that turns on the space heater. Once it gets to the end of its cord, it pulls it loose to turn itself off. The dust gets to be a problem, the floor needs a new coat of polyurethane, and the cats never come down from the hanging light fixtures. The belt sander draws quite a bit of current itself, but only momentarily.
Only heads won't explode quite like that from sudden decompression.
As far as widely-used, 1-2-3 versions 1a and 2. Nothing since has been as quick to use or come nearly as close to being bug-free. Now most accept occasional bugs as normal, but that wasn't the case with 1-2-3. I never used Javelin, but I'd heard that Improv was similar, and if so, Javelin must have been pretty good. Whatever, but Improv should have been the future of "spreadsheets". Instead, we're stuck with Excel, which can do a lot of things but is totally lacking in conceptual integrity. Improv was released too late for the PC and Lotus wouldn't push it for fear of cannabilizing PC 1-2-3 sales. We see where that went. Too bad.
I nominate Visio. MS hasn't totally fubared it (yet). Perhaps it stole from others, I don't know, but it's the first graphical diagramming tool I saw that was fairly intuitive to use. In the negative category, I nominate MS Project. Nothing I've used has been more annoying, even Stanford Graphics, which offered a lot and was intuitive to use but crashed every 5 minutes.
Maybe somebody's mentioned Harvard Graphics, but I haven't noticed. I liked Freelance better but have yet to see a presentation graphics application that I'd give an award. Except for PowerPoint. I'll give it several awards, all negative. I just can't decide on the order.
In some ways it's like ALF or ELF—anyone anywhere can be Anonymous. This makes it impossible for LEOs to track down all participants before they act. It means there's little hierarchy of control, so actions of some may not be condoned by others under the banner. Doing something and claiming to be Anonymous gets significantly more attention than being just anonymous but gets participants more severe punishment because those prosecuted are implicitly being blamed for the previous actions of others under the banner.
That's it. Somebody gets it.
Whatever their reasons, the biggest wrong is the failure to disclose up front the caps, instead marketing the service as "10Mbps" or whatever, period. Here's where the FTC should be involved, requiring every ad that makes any claims about their service to state all the limitations, and not in the manner we're accustomed to hearing from pharmaceutical and financial "service" ads, which sound like John Moschitta (FedEx ad fast talker) at the end. If being regulated by the FCC precludes such a regulation by the FTC (I think it does not), then that's what the FCC should be doing. People who argue for less regulation may or may not have a point in some cases, but really never have a decent argument against disclosure of terms of sale/service in advertising.
But then you put it down anything less than extremely softly, and the screen breaks. For Apple prices, they should come with Gorilla Glass.
How much of the arsenic ends up in the final product?
Mostly in agreement but for the "getting lighter" part. Compare cars of equal passenger space from the 60s to now and often the newer cars weigh more. Newer cars are much safer and have many more features. They're quieter and more comfortable. In spite of using lighter materials, they're still gaining weight. This is a reason why regenerative braking in hybrids and electrics is so helpful. Unfortunately, more mass wears the roads out quicker.
If new "CAFE"-style mileage requirements are to be based on a vehicle's square footage, then an official figure for that will be available for all new cars. So tax based on that. Those using up the most square footage of road pay the most.
Suppose it's possible to apply and enforce a mileage tax. Then the right way to do it would be to impose it equally on everyone based on vehicle weight, in addition to gas tax.
Now let's get back to the real world. When mileage readings result in significant costs, people will fudge the mileage en masse. The 'net will be full of instructions on how to do that for your particular car model. Many more will be driving around with huge wheels. GPS-based system? People will wrap them in aluminum foil every other day.
Other than raising the fuel tax rates, the only workable thing is to increase the annual registration fee.
Fine idea, but I'd think unlikely to pass, given the relationship between Comcast, Verizon, etc. and Congress.
I propose that the FTC do their job and regulate advertising. ISPs must state what caps they might impose, in very simple terms, along with EVERY advertisement—that is, any mention, of their service. Then trust us well-informed citizens to make decisions, make noise, whatever. Oh yeah, and there's going to have to be some reasonable competition to decide among. Oops.
2%? Don't know, but 3 of 4 in my household use firewire, to capture video from DV and Hi8 camcorders. USB 2.0 will not suffice, and the recorders do not have USB 3.0, whether that would avoid dropping frames or not.
My background included a significant amount of C and some assembly as well as a variety of other stuff including (not Visual) BASIC (workplace need, not my choice). I finally decided on JavaScript and probably also Node.js. I'm happy with the language itself and being useful in so many places and platforms and situations made it a no-brainer for me. I'd choose to use Linux everywhere, but being stuck with Windows also means that I can do a lot with WSH JScript, which is supported on everything from XP on (maybe 2000, I don't know). I quit bothering to learn to jump through hoops with DOS batch files.
Why should I have to take my car out of the country to use it???
Stop prying! There's a vacuum holding us in. It's painful and you're ruining the tire iron. Ever tried getting cranberry sauce out of the can by putting a hole in the other end?
We don't like to walk because of all the particulate car pollution. Do you not have cabin filters?
I was just wondering if anyone else would mention ShowScan, amid all the claims of "first time such a high frame rate film has been produced... blah blah blah..." when the claim really should be "finally, something almost as good as what was available 40+ years ago."
24fps has always bothered me whenever an object or person moves across the screen quickly. Even the small increase to 30fps is a significant improvement to my eyes. 72fps seems like a good goal, though I probably won't complain about 48.
I think those in the "24fps is magic" camp have a lot in common with the "vinyl is better" and "tubes are better" bunch. They either like their content distorted by their medium of choice or just like the idea of using archaic technology. There's certainly nothing wrong with either of those things, but the old ways are not "better" for everyone else.
Aside from the free speech issues, what it does is chase off a few noncommitted types and drive the serious ones deeper underground where they're harder to find. Good policing and intelligence work involves staking out the site and watching who comes and goes and what they do. Pushing them off onto Freenet or somewhere eliminates that opportunity for observation. Worried about exposing impressionable persons to such rhetoric? Then provide alternatives, built by someone who really cares and understands how to reach them. What happened in the Cold War? Communist Bloc radio wasn't jammed. Instead, the West transmitted their viewpoints (VOA, RFE, etc).
"An" ISP but not all. Some are very small indeed and can't afford much in the way of legal fees. It would be interesting to know how often small ISPs get dragged into things as a result of the local LEOs being less than fully knowledgeable of safe harbor provisions. Being right and remaining solvent are not synonymous.
Even if MS assured everyone that cooperating was in its own long term best interest, and even if we all believed that, believing that they would actually cooperate is foolish. Have we not all heard of The Scorpion and the Frog?
Or perhaps the leaker modified numerous inconsequential things before leaking it. Maybe the leaker is an email system admin and compared several versions of the trap. Maybe she used the version sent to the person responsible for the subject of the original leak. Wilderness of mirrors.
20 years ago? Hmmm... perhaps one of the people Bob Baer complained about...
I was going to say that buckyball magnets didn't have rich lobbies to keep them legal like ammo, autos, and knives do. But then when I read your post I couldn't think of who might be part of the boiling water lobby. Maybe the boiler insurance companies?
Let me add to that... I consider a battery + fuel cell electric still a hybrid. So if suddently fuel cell cars can use methanol cheaply, then I think they'll still have batteries to a) reduce the size of the fuel cell necessary and b) increase the efficiency overall by having a place to store regenerative braking energy.
I'm still thinking that hybrids will be around a long time, unless either 1) standard quick-change batteries are available at "gas stations" or 2) ultra-quick-charge (75% in 5 minutes or so) are available at "gas stations". Aside from purchase prices, electrics are already pretty good for commuting, but terrible for long trips. Being able to go 500 miles on a single charge is still not enough sometimes.