Really? So are you trying to say science shouldn't be used to allow me to eat more sugar? Because I'm pretty sure I want to eat whatever the hell I feel like.
I suppose you have a point if your country forces you to pay for the healthcare you'll need as a result of your "eat-what-I-want" diet.
Sure, I can answer the questions.
1) It was a generic PC heatsink component, cannot recall the brand, but it had the standard pair of screw-type clips at opposite corners and these fitted into the provided holes quite nicely. I removed the supplied heatsink & fan. I guess yours just isn't the right size? Thankfully mine fitted perfectly.
2) It's a Nehemiah N10000, I use the on-board video - S-video mainly.
3) That's easy, I removed the HD and went for PXE/NFS booting! Removing the HD cut out a lot of the noise. You should know that I use Myth purely for downloaded AVIs and the rest, no TV capture. So no huge data stream issues. Also I didn't put an optical drive in, relying on the network for ISOs
4) Yup, the brick supplied with the Cubid 2799 Dual PCI Mini-ITX Case
I'm afraid that if you're after a really quiet system, the CPU fan is only one of the worries. I had to miss out on broadcast TV and optical media to achieve the silent operation on a budget.
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Yah, I reckon Slashdot ought to broaden its appeal a bit, let's follow Digg and start an expansion into Adam-Sandler-did-a-funnie-on-Colbert Celebrity Bullshit Non-News.
Don't know what the heat issues are with these Pico forms but I was able to remove the provided CPU fan on my VIA Mini-ITX board and replace it with a taller northbridge heatsink (lots of pins-style) plus a 12cm quiet fan providing airflow. Temps at idle are identical to those with the CPU fan, and are only slightly higher under load. The setup is nigh-on silent. The cheap fans they provide with these boards are normally very loud.
But as we've seen, the most recent disaster and this latest piece of news are both related to the re-entry of the Shuttle. Escape towers aren't going to help in this regard. And it takes two days before they can flip the Shuttle over and inspect for damage.
Radio Times is published by the commercial arm and so shouldn't receive any licence fee money. The reason why they make this data available? They're just nice. Also they like to involve developers wherever they can. http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/
The curriculum would change too often for it to be viable. Hell, I remember my "IS Tools" module in college, which amounted to pivot tables in Excel. Schools just don't have to know-how to be able to deliver this effectively.
Weapons keep out ANYBODY, but watch out for criminal-friendly laws on deadly force that either require you to flee your own home or prove that you were threatened with imminent risk of death or great bodily harm.
Which is right and proper since in most Western countries the state doesn't demand the death penalty for burglary.
I assume that our forefathers who conceived this idiom did so on the basis of solid observation and experience of the subject. The phrase wasn't just plucked out of the air.
If they are the same thing, why have we not seen legal action against users on the scale of that against the 'point-to-point' networks of eg Kazaa, Limewire? Both types are shifting bits illegally, after all - it's strange that the content providers cannot take action against BitTorrent users in a similar manner.
Was there also something in the notion that it was cheaper for the media manufacturers to settle on one mechanical format? Today that is not an issue with the discs.
He's saying that he pays full price for the cinema tickets... he doesn't take advantage of special offers or cheap days, he pays full price, and still they bombard him with anti-piracy messages.
Yes, almost everyone who plays them seriously knows that this is the case, in fact they are classed as 'AWP' - Amusement With Prizes. (Other machines are Skill With Prizes & have lower jackpots). Also they have many tricks like holding the Cancel button slows down some gamble-type game, these Easter Eggs eventually became part of the standard design. But they are all pre-determined to pay out the percentage of money it's set to, as per the video. The gamble is playing the machine at the right time, ie when it's full and ready to release some money. Surely the LV-style slot machines act in a not-dissimilar way - like they don't get the PR campaign ready before they decide which day the multi-million slot jackpot is won...
The European style of slot machine (or "fruit machine" in the UK) has a thriving emulation scene around it with many machines in use ten years ago available to play in Windows. If you wanted to perform some analysis on this type of machine, you could.
Absolutely agreed, I'm just as sick of the aimless leaflets that fall out of newspapers, more so than the junk mail with my name on it. Every week the recycle pile consists of one or two freesheets and about 20 different supermarkets pumping the latest great offers (tinned fish 3 for 2 and other such fluff). Another pertinent question to ask the letterbox abusers, both targetted and leaflets, is how much THEY are contributing to the recycling bill. And with leaflets, there is simply no way to stop them.
Wow. Since this is Slashdot I didn't RTFA and instead skipped to the FP with thoughts of "this is terrible. If the machine kept paying out wins then it's not the users' fault"
So thank you parent for actually clarifying what the story was about straight away, that the machine was not recognising currency correctly and was giving free money in the manner of a faulty ATM. Submitter, your biased summary altered the nature of my first impression entirely. If that was your intention, well done. Oh BTW, please don't submit anything again.
(Apropos of nought, why does Preview take such a long time?)
Who on Earth uses the password save feature and expects it to be safe anyway... I mean, come on. I keep my password manager on my USB stick, using a program that doesn't communicate with the network. I don't keep them in the program that will also talk to the site I want to log into. Too much danger that info will leak or a way in will be found... well, whaddayaknow.
And there was also a time, not long ago, when the parents of a wayward child would be embarrassed by their child's actions, and would want to put things right with the victim before dishing out some effective punishment on the kid. Today, you're just as likely to get a torrent of abuse from the parents, never mind the child. "He says he didn't do it and I believe him. Stop harassing my kid"
RAJAR is the company which collects radio listenership stats in the UK. They trialled a similar system in 2006, with the user wearing a unit which recorded not only these inaudible signals but the audible content too, for comparison against a database of all shows. However according to WP the trial was unsuccessful and they're still using paper diaries.
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Sure, I can answer the questions.
1) It was a generic PC heatsink component, cannot recall the brand, but it had the standard pair of screw-type clips at opposite corners and these fitted into the provided holes quite nicely. I removed the supplied heatsink & fan. I guess yours just isn't the right size? Thankfully mine fitted perfectly.
2) It's a Nehemiah N10000, I use the on-board video - S-video mainly.
3) That's easy, I removed the HD and went for PXE/NFS booting! Removing the HD cut out a lot of the noise. You should know that I use Myth purely for downloaded AVIs and the rest, no TV capture. So no huge data stream issues. Also I didn't put an optical drive in, relying on the network for ISOs
4) Yup, the brick supplied with the Cubid 2799 Dual PCI Mini-ITX Case
I'm afraid that if you're after a really quiet system, the CPU fan is only one of the worries. I had to miss out on broadcast TV and optical media to achieve the silent operation on a budget.
Yah, I reckon Slashdot ought to broaden its appeal a bit, let's follow Digg and start an expansion into Adam-Sandler-did-a-funnie-on-Colbert Celebrity Bullshit Non-News.
Don't know what the heat issues are with these Pico forms but I was able to remove the provided CPU fan on my VIA Mini-ITX board and replace it with a taller northbridge heatsink (lots of pins-style) plus a 12cm quiet fan providing airflow. Temps at idle are identical to those with the CPU fan, and are only slightly higher under load. The setup is nigh-on silent. The cheap fans they provide with these boards are normally very loud.
But as we've seen, the most recent disaster and this latest piece of news are both related to the re-entry of the Shuttle. Escape towers aren't going to help in this regard. And it takes two days before they can flip the Shuttle over and inspect for damage.
And all you need insert is "Geek B invoices Person A for work carried out", do it for a living and it's PROFIT!!
It found 0 viruses - are they sure they configured it correctly? Maybe it found no viruses because it found no files!
Radio Times is published by the commercial arm and so shouldn't receive any licence fee money. The reason why they make this data available? They're just nice. Also they like to involve developers wherever they can. http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/
The curriculum would change too often for it to be viable. Hell, I remember my "IS Tools" module in college, which amounted to pivot tables in Excel. Schools just don't have to know-how to be able to deliver this effectively.
I assume that our forefathers who conceived this idiom did so on the basis of solid observation and experience of the subject. The phrase wasn't just plucked out of the air.
If they are the same thing, why have we not seen legal action against users on the scale of that against the 'point-to-point' networks of eg Kazaa, Limewire? Both types are shifting bits illegally, after all - it's strange that the content providers cannot take action against BitTorrent users in a similar manner.
Was there also something in the notion that it was cheaper for the media manufacturers to settle on one mechanical format? Today that is not an issue with the discs.
He's saying that he pays full price for the cinema tickets... he doesn't take advantage of special offers or cheap days, he pays full price, and still they bombard him with anti-piracy messages.
Yes, almost everyone who plays them seriously knows that this is the case, in fact they are classed as 'AWP' - Amusement With Prizes. (Other machines are Skill With Prizes & have lower jackpots). Also they have many tricks like holding the Cancel button slows down some gamble-type game, these Easter Eggs eventually became part of the standard design. But they are all pre-determined to pay out the percentage of money it's set to, as per the video. The gamble is playing the machine at the right time, ie when it's full and ready to release some money. Surely the LV-style slot machines act in a not-dissimilar way - like they don't get the PR campaign ready before they decide which day the multi-million slot jackpot is won...
The European style of slot machine (or "fruit machine" in the UK) has a thriving emulation scene around it with many machines in use ten years ago available to play in Windows. If you wanted to perform some analysis on this type of machine, you could.
Absolutely agreed, I'm just as sick of the aimless leaflets that fall out of newspapers, more so than the junk mail with my name on it. Every week the recycle pile consists of one or two freesheets and about 20 different supermarkets pumping the latest great offers (tinned fish 3 for 2 and other such fluff). Another pertinent question to ask the letterbox abusers, both targetted and leaflets, is how much THEY are contributing to the recycling bill. And with leaflets, there is simply no way to stop them.
Wow. Since this is Slashdot I didn't RTFA and instead skipped to the FP with thoughts of "this is terrible. If the machine kept paying out wins then it's not the users' fault"
So thank you parent for actually clarifying what the story was about straight away, that the machine was not recognising currency correctly and was giving free money in the manner of a faulty ATM. Submitter, your biased summary altered the nature of my first impression entirely. If that was your intention, well done. Oh BTW, please don't submit anything again.
(Apropos of nought, why does Preview take such a long time?)
Who on Earth uses the password save feature and expects it to be safe anyway... I mean, come on. I keep my password manager on my USB stick, using a program that doesn't communicate with the network. I don't keep them in the program that will also talk to the site I want to log into. Too much danger that info will leak or a way in will be found... well, whaddayaknow.
And there was also a time, not long ago, when the parents of a wayward child would be embarrassed by their child's actions, and would want to put things right with the victim before dishing out some effective punishment on the kid. Today, you're just as likely to get a torrent of abuse from the parents, never mind the child. "He says he didn't do it and I believe him. Stop harassing my kid"
RAJAR is the company which collects radio listenership stats in the UK. They trialled a similar system in 2006, with the user wearing a unit which recorded not only these inaudible signals but the audible content too, for comparison against a database of all shows. However according to WP the trial was unsuccessful and they're still using paper diaries.
Full stop after a bracket??? Ok - period after closing parenthesis?
It was Radio 4 who aired the infamous "sexed-up Iraq dossier" claim which led to all that silly bother.
Perhaps the Windows corruption of the story has more credence due to Microsoft Excel.