At least it doesn't have drawer pulls to pull down in virtual-land to force you to shuffle through computer representations of paper files (the rage in media player and other interfaces acting like real world devices a few years ago).
This doesn't look like a significant improvement over the old on the surface and the big ugly icon button with no name is just dumb. Sure its easy to learn basically what it is for but why have an abstract art button with no real indication except to MS execs what it might do - instead of a menu option that says File. TO be fair I haven't used it so maybe it is gods gift to interfaces but based on MS's previous attempts at interfaces I'd bet not.
The industry doesn't want to offer what would be a real improvement to the DVD format - incuding a way to record a video input directly on a player onto a DVD-RW or R and perhaps with more capacity onto a BluRay or whatever.
DVRs have taken up some of the slack here along with more technical knowledge required solutions using a PC and various additional hardware and software.
This is probably one of the only reason not Tivo/DVR homes still have VCRs and also one thing the industry doesn't seem to want to provide because of veto by the content providers.
But not designers in a software company. Real world hardware doesn't exist, in theory. If you put 100 volts across a eighth-watt 10-ohm resistor, you get 10 amps. My super calculator says so. Actually what you get is a bad smell. Couple this with the atmosphere of upwardly-mobile incompetence found in any large corporation. Lock it in place by the office politics of having "yes men and women" generally promoted over innovative corporate in-house entrepreneurs and you have a situation where your customers are hanging your new state-of-the-art showcase product by a piece of string in order to get it to work.
The original post contemplated them using an 1/8W resistor on a 1kW leg rendering it instantly to dust and magic resistor smoke. Hence I said perhaps the factory engineer substituted a 1kW resistor for that leg in the design simply to prevent the near instantaneous vaporization of the resistor - hence leading to the heat problem (though the underlying cause of the heat problem in that case wouldn't be the resistor still but having a circuit leg with 1kW of power running through a resistor).
Hence in this case 1kW running through an 1/8W resistor is cooler since it only will flow for a small fraction of a second before it gets sent to the RMA dept leading to a pretty low temp vs. time graph for the 1/8W resistor if you discount actual operability.
Needing a 1000W Power resistor (for the V, I characteristics in the OP) in a power supply for an entertainment device would be a 'bit' excessive leading to huge amounts of unecessary heat for what should be needed in a power supply for a retail entertainment device.
Hmm maybe thats why the power supply is so damn huge and gets hot - the factory engineers simply took the MS designs and substituted 1000W (or maybe a bit higher for a safety factor) power resistors for those 1/8W ones.
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Michael: Ok! Ok! I must have, I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail.
Simple, if an employee under a non-compete is tendered a job offer and accepts and the comapny with the non-compete with that employee wishes to exercise that non-compete they must compensate the ex-employee at the tendered offer over the term of the non-compete. If they don't wish to exercise the non-compete then the employee can take the position with the competitor.
Then the company exercising the non-compete has to decide whether its in its interest to exercise the non-compete.
Sounds like a good supplier of cheap hardware if he just buys to cure a virus/spyware/trojan infestation - reformat hard drive and start over from scratch properly.
Yeah but they don't have "Thirty Days in the Samarkind Desert with the Duchess of Kent" by A. E. J. Eliott, O.B.E. or "David Coperfield" by Edmund Wells.
Yes its not very good. However if he had WEP enabled, knowing it could be relatively easily broken it still is the overt act to discriminate between someone who only wants to use an open AP and someone whos willing to crack their way in.
And if this SUV guy had cracked through the weak WEP protection he wouldn't have any leg at all to stand on in the I was just using an open AP argument.
WEP should be used like a No Tresspass sign - it doesn't stop anyone who wants to enter from entering anywhere - but it does inform them they are not welcome to enter the property and are violating the law if they enter.
So the way you're reading that law any person accessing a webserver and being served a webpage, who has not gained prior authorization from the owner(s) of that webserver prior to connecting to it and who resides in Florida is committing a class 3 felony.
It seems like theres a lot of felons in Florida then.
Toaster: Would you like some toast? Lister: Mm-mm. Toaster: Some nice hot crisp brown buttered toast? Lister: Mm-mm. Toaster: You don't want any toast then? Lister: No. Toaster: What about a muffin? Lister: Nothing. Toaster: You know the last time you had toast? 18 days ago. 11:36, Tuesday the 3rd. Two rounds. Lister: Ssshhh! Toaster: I mean, what's the point of buying a toaster with artificial intelligence if you don't like toast? Lister: I do like toast! Toaster: I mean, this is my job! This is cruel, just cruel. Lister: Look, I'm busy. Toaster: Oh, you're not busy eating toast, are you? Lister: I don't want any! Toaster: I mean, the whole purpose of my existence is to serve you with hot, buttered, scrummy toast. If you don't want any, then my existence is meaningless. Lister: Good. Toaster: I toast, therefore I am. Lister: Will you shut up? [He goes back to sniffing his way through the book. Rimmer enters.] ... ...
Lister: Rimmer, there's nothing out there, you know. There's nobody out there. No alien monsters, no Zargon warships, no beautiful blondes with beehive hairdos who say `Show me some more of this Earth thing called kissing'. There's just you, me, the cat, and a lot of floating smegging rocks. That's it. Finito. Rimmer: Lister, if there's no one out there, what's the point in existence? Why are we here?
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Yeah I missed the panel where the users hung the IT toad with the ribbons.
At least it doesn't have drawer pulls to pull down in virtual-land to force you to shuffle through computer representations of paper files (the rage in media player and other interfaces acting like real world devices a few years ago).
This doesn't look like a significant improvement over the old on the surface and the big ugly icon button with no name is just dumb. Sure its easy to learn basically what it is for but why have an abstract art button with no real indication except to MS execs what it might do - instead of a menu option that says File. TO be fair I haven't used it so maybe it is gods gift to interfaces but based on MS's previous attempts at interfaces I'd bet not.
the runner up was the Tigon right?
Don't worry you'll still be able to take your buggy and get them at the general store, just remember to pick up a spare buggy whip.
No circles East/West
No Circles North/South
Not exactly but similar, but black and whiteish and not keys but a display -
s /US/EN,CRID=2166,CONTENTID=10717
E SSID=2857dcccf90732fe2a0b6241b7b1e1c7
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/detail
using:
http://www.g15mods.com/downloads.html
http://www.lcdstudio.com/site20/download.php?PHPS
http://g15forums.com/
The industry doesn't want to offer what would be a real improvement to the DVD format - incuding a way to record a video input directly on a player onto a DVD-RW or R and perhaps with more capacity onto a BluRay or whatever.
DVRs have taken up some of the slack here along with more technical knowledge required solutions using a PC and various additional hardware and software.
This is probably one of the only reason not Tivo/DVR homes still have VCRs and also one thing the industry doesn't seem to want to provide because of veto by the content providers.
The original post contemplated them using an 1/8W resistor on a 1kW leg rendering it instantly to dust and magic resistor smoke. Hence I said perhaps the factory engineer substituted a 1kW resistor for that leg in the design simply to prevent the near instantaneous vaporization of the resistor - hence leading to the heat problem (though the underlying cause of the heat problem in that case wouldn't be the resistor still but having a circuit leg with 1kW of power running through a resistor).
Hence in this case 1kW running through an 1/8W resistor is cooler since it only will flow for a small fraction of a second before it gets sent to the RMA dept leading to a pretty low temp vs. time graph for the 1/8W resistor if you discount actual operability.
I guess sarcasm tags don't show up well on /.
Needing a 1000W Power resistor (for the V, I characteristics in the OP) in a power supply for an entertainment device would be a 'bit' excessive leading to huge amounts of unecessary heat for what should be needed in a power supply for a retail entertainment device.
Hmm maybe thats why the power supply is so damn huge and gets hot - the factory engineers simply took the MS designs and substituted 1000W (or maybe a bit higher for a safety factor) power resistors for those 1/8W ones.
For all your Zombie defense simulation needs.
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Except I think the parent may have been refering to this - States settle CD price-fixing case
Which is in fact price fixing, and they paid a (tiny) settlement for their actions.
(John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton book on the PR industry - Toxic Sludge Is Good for You!: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry)
So thats what they needed developers for!
*smacks forehead*
Peter: You said the thing was supposed to work.
Michael: Well, technically it did work.
Peter: No it didn't!
Samir: It did not work, Michael, ok?!
Michael: Ok! Ok!
Samir: Ok?!
Michael: Ok! Ok! I must have, I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail.
Simple, if an employee under a non-compete is tendered a job offer and accepts and the comapny with the non-compete with that employee wishes to exercise that non-compete they must compensate the ex-employee at the tendered offer over the term of the non-compete. If they don't wish to exercise the non-compete then the employee can take the position with the competitor.
Then the company exercising the non-compete has to decide whether its in its interest to exercise the non-compete.
Sounds like a good supplier of cheap hardware if he just buys to cure a virus/spyware/trojan infestation - reformat hard drive and start over from scratch properly.
Yeah but they don't have "Thirty Days in the Samarkind Desert with the Duchess of Kent" by A. E. J. Eliott, O.B.E. or "David Coperfield" by Edmund Wells.
At least get it right
1) Not their definition, though it may be right onm. As noted in the post title refers to a quote by Ambrose Bierce (in The Devil's Dictionary)
2) If you are making a direct quote you need to leave it intact though possibly put in a (sic) to note an error in the original quote
3) In law, appeal is a transitive verb
Yes its not very good. However if he had WEP enabled, knowing it could be relatively easily broken it still is the overt act to discriminate between someone who only wants to use an open AP and someone whos willing to crack their way in.
And if this SUV guy had cracked through the weak WEP protection he wouldn't have any leg at all to stand on in the I was just using an open AP argument.
WEP should be used like a No Tresspass sign - it doesn't stop anyone who wants to enter from entering anywhere - but it does inform them they are not welcome to enter the property and are violating the law if they enter.
So the way you're reading that law any person accessing a webserver and being served a webpage, who has not gained prior authorization from the owner(s) of that webserver prior to connecting to it and who resides in Florida is committing a class 3 felony.
It seems like theres a lot of felons in Florida then.
Time to jack up the license fees on legal downloads!!! We'll make a killing at $4 a song!!
I would add James Earl Jones voice acting on Vader up there with Harrison Ford in helping to make it work.
Toaster: Would you like some toast?
...
...
Lister: Mm-mm.
Toaster: Some nice hot crisp brown buttered toast?
Lister: Mm-mm.
Toaster: You don't want any toast then?
Lister: No.
Toaster: What about a muffin?
Lister: Nothing.
Toaster: You know the last time you had toast? 18 days ago. 11:36,
Tuesday the 3rd. Two rounds.
Lister: Ssshhh!
Toaster: I mean, what's the point of buying a toaster with artificial intelligence if you don't like toast?
Lister: I do like toast!
Toaster: I mean, this is my job! This is cruel, just cruel.
Lister: Look, I'm busy.
Toaster: Oh, you're not busy eating toast, are you?
Lister: I don't want any!
Toaster: I mean, the whole purpose of my existence is to serve you with hot, buttered, scrummy toast. If you don't want any, then my existence is meaningless.
Lister: Good.
Toaster: I toast, therefore I am.
Lister: Will you shut up?
[He goes back to sniffing his way through the book. Rimmer enters.]
Lister: Rimmer, there's nothing out there, you know. There's nobody out there. No alien monsters, no Zargon warships, no beautiful blondes with beehive hairdos who say `Show me some more of this Earth thing called kissing'. There's just you, me, the cat, and a lot of floating smegging
rocks. That's it. Finito.
Rimmer: Lister, if there's no one out there, what's the point in existence? Why are we here?
Toaster: Beats me. Do you want some toast?
And Spielberg will help and when order 66 is given all the stormtroopers will be carrying walkie-talkies instead of blasters.