Was that a 10 year study? I have several 10 year old patch cords that are not useable anymore because of oxidation. My better quality ones are still just like new.
Mind I agree that monster is a waste of money. I keep those old patch cables because a simple wire stripper and I can get good wire again. I loose the RCA connector though, which most things use. My good cables are just off brands with the gold connectors. (Yes I know gold isn't a particularly good conduction, but it works and doesn't oxidize)
I know of no bank with a procedure that say "say no to a customer before looking up their credit". Come to think of it, I no of no bank with kid who take loan applications. The kids might be tellers, but when you get to loans it is the old lady or a VP.
Yeah, off topic, but you are incorrect. On some cars this is the right thing to do. However in some cases the thing to do is pay more more than $100 less than invoice. Dealers have charge backs and other schemes to get money from the manufacture after they sold the car. If the car needs to sell (it gets good milage and they are selling too many bad milage cars) they will take a loss.
If the car is hot and you must have it now, you pay what they will let you have it for. People who wanted the first Mazda Miata off the lot paid 4 times invoice and were happy because they got the car. (a few paid that much as an investment and learned an expensive lession) If the car is on the lot when next years models come up they have to sell it. (although this doesn't mean you get a good deal, they know people look for those sales so they balance getting rid of the car with more people looking for a sale.
In short, when you buy a car visit Edmunds.com and other such sites to find out what that car is worth.
I'm not a large company, I'm a single person. I'd like to have openview to manage my home network, not that I need openview for my little network, but that it would look nice on my resume. I can't justify $100 for it though, because it wouldn't get me a job. (I have no other admin experience) I could justify $20 for it though. (it wouldn't get me a job, but it might allow me to move to an IT position once I have a job in a company that uses it)
I wouldn't go quite that far. However if I read slashdot at work and saw something I thought the boss would be interested in I'd make sure to send the URL to my home account, then at home I'd write an email back (not a forward, a clean email) with that URL. That way it obviously comes from my home account after hours. Looks good to the boss - I'm thinking about work on my time, instead of reading slashdot at work.
I have no interest in my boss knowing my slashdot id. True I have more friends than foes listed, but it only takes one political comment to get on the bad side of my boss. (well not my current boss, we are pretty close, but I've had several bosses before that we far apart) It would be worse if someone searched out my old posts from before konqueror included spell check.
Oh, and the if up there is because I don't want to loose my job. I've been warned enough about wasting time at work that I'm very careful about the sites I do visit at work. If I really do have an hour to waste I make sure the sites can be passed off as work related. I may be in technology but slashdot isn't close enough.
In theory. In practice when someone (company or person) sets out to buy a large portion of a company's shares, their buying affects the price. They get the first few shares cheap, but now those shares are not on the market and they need more, so the price needs to go up to get people to sell. Not to mention if the rumor gets out (and there are SEC rules, if you own more than 5% or 20% - I can't recall - you have to file paperwork stating your intentions) those who are considering selling may wait for a higher price.
That said, it is done. More than one company has been bought out this way. Generally because someone looked over the books and saw something. For instance land is generally carried on the books at the cost they paid for it, not what it is worth, so if a company bought land in the 1890s you might be able to buy the company, sell their land for more than you paid, and have a company left over! Similar things have happened when companies have had a lot of original art on the walls (this might not have been on the books at all).
This happened to a friend of mine recently. (well she shipped her id back with the luggage she didn't need for the rest of the trip and then remembered the id) Her solution: if you arrested me right now, you would be able to create id. Do so. they did.
We can go farther, the AI can't figure out how to get over some terrin, so it takes a pictures and sends to back to earth. Then the AI turns around and does some analysis on some rock that it can get to. Not as useful as getting to the other side of that terrin, but more useful than stopping after 50 feet because it wasn't sure how to get over some terrin.
plenty of links to read In short, ethanol is getting better. At one time (early 80s) ethanol was energy negative, but currently ethanol is energy positive. One link also claims that gasoline is not energy positive!
None of this account for other uses that can be taken from corn before and after ethanol is made. Biodiesel can be made from corn, without much effect on ethanol production (corn oil doesn't convert to ethanol easily) corn to biodiesel alone has been estimated as high as 4 times as much energy extracted as went into production.
Houses were NOT built better back then. They took more time to slap them together in some cases, but modern engineering means that we know why todays houses stands. Back then they just knew a few things were bad, but didn't have the engineering to say why. They just overbuilt.
I lived in a house made in the 1930s for a short time. Despite having half the square footage of my current modern house, and fuel being half the cost back then, I spent more money on heat in that old house! Modern houses are insulated. I fail to see how spending my money on heat is any better than spending it on fuel for my car. (and as a bonus I have 1 acre of land - my windows don't look into the neighbor's bathroom anymore)
Yes a house is made out of cardboard, because cardboard is plenty strong in the direction strength is needed, while it lets the house breathe. If you put modern insulation in an old house, that old house would rot away quickly.
I just finished a 3000 line addition to our product, about 1 week early. Is the code good? I saw a lot less bugs than I expected. (though by finished I mean ready for alpha test, I don't know if it is bug free) What does that mean though? Is it good or garbage and I'm lucky. I'd like to think the former, but I know of no honest way to evaluate it.
Sure other coders could look at it, but they have their own deadlines to meet. Even if they did, does the fact that they find it hard to understand (if they do...) mean that it is bad code, or just that they didn't give it time to understand.
I only know of one measure, get 5 other programmers to start from scratch to do the same thing. Not going to happen. Any other measure is going to fail in some way.
I could almost see the screen. However anyone who has used a 60Hz refresh monitor under fluorescent lights understands why I wasn't interested in not getting the right drivers.
Getting the drivers was a trick too, without a network connection I had to download them on a different machine, burn the drivers to CD and hope I got the right ones. I did eventually find the right drivers, but I had to pry the heat sink off the northbridge and google for the numbers to find them.
My windows install is the lastest included with MSDN, which is updated often, and these machines were several years old. So MS can't even use the excuse that my installation is too old because it wasn't. MS was just too lazy to respin the installation once in a while like Linux does to get the latest drivers included.
What has mirrors got to do with anything I said? You always look over your shoulder just before you merge because mirrors leave large blind spots. Even when I was driving work trucks (no back windows so you couldn't see much) I still looked because there were some things I could see.
Of course normal driving means keeping track of cars around you, but my eyes only look in one direction at once, I can't safely drive looking on in my mirrors, most of my attention is out my front window.
I would move over, if others wouldn't be in such a hurry to pass me on the right before it was safe! Seriously, many times I've been doing 70 in the left lane (speed limit is 70) passing cars doing 65 in the right lane. After I'm past and have given them 1.5 seconds (2 seconds is the minimum safe!) following distance I look over my shoulder to get back in the right lane, but I can't because there is a stream of cars passing me on the right, even though it isn't safe!
I try to be polite, but others refuse to allow it.
The calc I was required to take to get my BS included some subject material that wasn't even covered except in advanced grad student classes back in the '60s.
Yes a degree meant more then, less percentage of the people had one. However they were not better. For that matter many of the "party colleges" back then are much harder today, because back then you had to let people in (unless you were a Harvard class school) just to fill classes. Now schools generally get more applications than they can accept, so they have tougher standards.
YaST seems nice, but I've been running Suse 9.1 pro on my laptop for a month now and already I want my BSD port system back. Sure it doesn't have a fancy GUI (or at least I never used it), but portupgrade and an always up to date ports tree rocks.
I've been playing battle for wesnoth lately, and while it is great, I only have 0.7.1, and.8 is current. YaST however doesn't have the update, nor updates for most of the other programs I've installed. Sure libpng was there soon after the exploit, but the rest of the programs I want to run aren't updated.
Now if this was a server, and it was Samba out of date I could understand that the extra testing is worth it. Even at that I'd argue that the new version should be made optional somehow and there for those who want to try it.
Thats just one example, that I've noticed. Somehow ports just works and is easy, while the other tools are easy, but don't work. (when work is defined as having an update you want)
I get a half a dozen failed password attempts per day for the guest account on my home machine. This on an account that doesn't even have a password set! (the shell is however nologin) I've always wondered if I should try to track these requests down and report them attempted breaking and entering.
When the crackers are looking at the wrong account it doesn't matter what the password they try it.
No I didn't check. OTOH, Fubar is not my password. Just cause I give you the data you ask for doesn't mean that it is correct data. Fubar might have been last month's password however... (unlikely as it isn't long enough)
I don't if I belive it either, but the risk of accidental destruction is not a factor. The risk of stolen data is. If the data needs to be portable (data that sits secured in headquarters is useless while data that gets to the right field commander changes the outcome of the war) then they have to do something to protect it against the risk of it falling into the wrong hands.
Presumably they have backups someplace that is a little harder to get into. Steal the laptop with this protection, and they buy a new one (laptops a cheap, even if we assume $10,000 after they add this protection that is cheap) and copy the data onto it.
Depends on how common the crime is. Insurance companies pay divers to recover all outboard motors that fall off the boat, and mechanics to fix them. They have decided that most motors do not fall overboard on accident, so it is worth the cost of a diver (pair plus someone to drive the boat), and a mechanic, even though the total cost is more than a new motor. When people hear just a few cases of someone getting their old motor back they don't drop theirs overboard to get a new one and it saves money.
OTOH you can be sure that things that are commonly stolen or accidently lost are less often investigated.
Of course my finger prints are on my bolt cutters, what do you expect? I don't wear gloves in my own garrage. If you just bought the bolt cutters rub your hands in some grease under the hood of your car, rub that around the bolt cutters, cut some cheap bolts (then throw them away), in general give the impression that this bolt cutters is used in your garrage often. Then carefully wipe both handles down while wearing gloves.
Bolt cutters are handy tools to have around anyway.
Of course I'm assuming you had a laptop stolen, and just need to claim the warrentie If you are just trying to cheat kingston out of a new laptop, I hope you die before you get it, thief.
Until medical ability leaves me pretty confident my death will be a result of the heat death of the universe I'm not to worried about it.
Hmm, just thought a a great life insurance scam to get people like you. For the low price of 5 dollars a month you can get 50 million dollars in protection against the heat death of the universe. Should the universe die of heat death we will pay your loved ones 50 million US dollars. I'll make millions.
While I agree that we should not be giving blank checks to science, just because a project is past its design lifetime doesn't mean we should stop funding it. Instead we need to weigh the expected gain by adding funding, to transferring to elsewhere. Hubble was built years ago, maintain it or not, and it will continue to orbit the earth. (Until it reenters, which is a situation to understand and deal with) If the value of the science from maintaining hubble is greater than the value of the science from scrapping hubble, and building a new project, then you keep hubble.
Note that there is a lot of money, and a lot more projects to choose from. So it isn't a matter of funding the best choices. Because hubble is already designed, the cost to continue it is a lot less than any new project that you have to design. Therefore the value of the science hubble gives doesn't not have to be worth near as much as a new project to make it wroth funding hubble and not the new project. (though you could do a partial funding for the new project and hubble - that works to a point)
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As my dad always said "Who's this we, you got a mouse in your pocket?"
In other words there are over 100,000 people who read slashdot, but a very conservative count. (could easily be millions, I don't know) It is downright stupid to think that we share anyview views in common between all of us. Even the common held views have many exceptions. If you find any two people who agree 100% on everything you can be sure that at least one of them is not thinking! There are too many viewpoints for thinking people to come to the same conclusion on them all.
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Thats one reason we have first and second ammendments. Use them both, as needed.
Was that a 10 year study? I have several 10 year old patch cords that are not useable anymore because of oxidation. My better quality ones are still just like new.
Mind I agree that monster is a waste of money. I keep those old patch cables because a simple wire stripper and I can get good wire again. I loose the RCA connector though, which most things use. My good cables are just off brands with the gold connectors. (Yes I know gold isn't a particularly good conduction, but it works and doesn't oxidize)
I know of no bank with a procedure that say "say no to a customer before looking up their credit". Come to think of it, I no of no bank with kid who take loan applications. The kids might be tellers, but when you get to loans it is the old lady or a VP.
Yeah, off topic, but you are incorrect. On some cars this is the right thing to do. However in some cases the thing to do is pay more more than $100 less than invoice. Dealers have charge backs and other schemes to get money from the manufacture after they sold the car. If the car needs to sell (it gets good milage and they are selling too many bad milage cars) they will take a loss.
If the car is hot and you must have it now, you pay what they will let you have it for. People who wanted the first Mazda Miata off the lot paid 4 times invoice and were happy because they got the car. (a few paid that much as an investment and learned an expensive lession) If the car is on the lot when next years models come up they have to sell it. (although this doesn't mean you get a good deal, they know people look for those sales so they balance getting rid of the car with more people looking for a sale.
In short, when you buy a car visit Edmunds.com and other such sites to find out what that car is worth.
I'm not a large company, I'm a single person. I'd like to have openview to manage my home network, not that I need openview for my little network, but that it would look nice on my resume. I can't justify $100 for it though, because it wouldn't get me a job. (I have no other admin experience) I could justify $20 for it though. (it wouldn't get me a job, but it might allow me to move to an IT position once I have a job in a company that uses it)
I wouldn't go quite that far. However if I read slashdot at work and saw something I thought the boss would be interested in I'd make sure to send the URL to my home account, then at home I'd write an email back (not a forward, a clean email) with that URL. That way it obviously comes from my home account after hours. Looks good to the boss - I'm thinking about work on my time, instead of reading slashdot at work.
I have no interest in my boss knowing my slashdot id. True I have more friends than foes listed, but it only takes one political comment to get on the bad side of my boss. (well not my current boss, we are pretty close, but I've had several bosses before that we far apart) It would be worse if someone searched out my old posts from before konqueror included spell check.
Oh, and the if up there is because I don't want to loose my job. I've been warned enough about wasting time at work that I'm very careful about the sites I do visit at work. If I really do have an hour to waste I make sure the sites can be passed off as work related. I may be in technology but slashdot isn't close enough.
In theory. In practice when someone (company or person) sets out to buy a large portion of a company's shares, their buying affects the price. They get the first few shares cheap, but now those shares are not on the market and they need more, so the price needs to go up to get people to sell. Not to mention if the rumor gets out (and there are SEC rules, if you own more than 5% or 20% - I can't recall - you have to file paperwork stating your intentions) those who are considering selling may wait for a higher price.
That said, it is done. More than one company has been bought out this way. Generally because someone looked over the books and saw something. For instance land is generally carried on the books at the cost they paid for it, not what it is worth, so if a company bought land in the 1890s you might be able to buy the company, sell their land for more than you paid, and have a company left over! Similar things have happened when companies have had a lot of original art on the walls (this might not have been on the books at all).
This happened to a friend of mine recently. (well she shipped her id back with the luggage she didn't need for the rest of the trip and then remembered the id) Her solution: if you arrested me right now, you would be able to create id. Do so. they did.
We can go farther, the AI can't figure out how to get over some terrin, so it takes a pictures and sends to back to earth. Then the AI turns around and does some analysis on some rock that it can get to. Not as useful as getting to the other side of that terrin, but more useful than stopping after 50 feet because it wasn't sure how to get over some terrin.
plenty of links to read In short, ethanol is getting better. At one time (early 80s) ethanol was energy negative, but currently ethanol is energy positive. One link also claims that gasoline is not energy positive!
None of this account for other uses that can be taken from corn before and after ethanol is made. Biodiesel can be made from corn, without much effect on ethanol production (corn oil doesn't convert to ethanol easily) corn to biodiesel alone has been estimated as high as 4 times as much energy extracted as went into production.
Houses were NOT built better back then. They took more time to slap them together in some cases, but modern engineering means that we know why todays houses stands. Back then they just knew a few things were bad, but didn't have the engineering to say why. They just overbuilt.
I lived in a house made in the 1930s for a short time. Despite having half the square footage of my current modern house, and fuel being half the cost back then, I spent more money on heat in that old house! Modern houses are insulated. I fail to see how spending my money on heat is any better than spending it on fuel for my car. (and as a bonus I have 1 acre of land - my windows don't look into the neighbor's bathroom anymore)
Yes a house is made out of cardboard, because cardboard is plenty strong in the direction strength is needed, while it lets the house breathe. If you put modern insulation in an old house, that old house would rot away quickly.
I just finished a 3000 line addition to our product, about 1 week early. Is the code good? I saw a lot less bugs than I expected. (though by finished I mean ready for alpha test, I don't know if it is bug free) What does that mean though? Is it good or garbage and I'm lucky. I'd like to think the former, but I know of no honest way to evaluate it.
Sure other coders could look at it, but they have their own deadlines to meet. Even if they did, does the fact that they find it hard to understand (if they do...) mean that it is bad code, or just that they didn't give it time to understand.
I only know of one measure, get 5 other programmers to start from scratch to do the same thing. Not going to happen. Any other measure is going to fail in some way.
I could almost see the screen. However anyone who has used a 60Hz refresh monitor under fluorescent lights understands why I wasn't interested in not getting the right drivers.
Getting the drivers was a trick too, without a network connection I had to download them on a different machine, burn the drivers to CD and hope I got the right ones. I did eventually find the right drivers, but I had to pry the heat sink off the northbridge and google for the numbers to find them.
My windows install is the lastest included with MSDN, which is updated often, and these machines were several years old. So MS can't even use the excuse that my installation is too old because it wasn't. MS was just too lazy to respin the installation once in a while like Linux does to get the latest drivers included.
What has mirrors got to do with anything I said? You always look over your shoulder just before you merge because mirrors leave large blind spots. Even when I was driving work trucks (no back windows so you couldn't see much) I still looked because there were some things I could see.
Of course normal driving means keeping track of cars around you, but my eyes only look in one direction at once, I can't safely drive looking on in my mirrors, most of my attention is out my front window.
I would move over, if others wouldn't be in such a hurry to pass me on the right before it was safe! Seriously, many times I've been doing 70 in the left lane (speed limit is 70) passing cars doing 65 in the right lane. After I'm past and have given them 1.5 seconds (2 seconds is the minimum safe!) following distance I look over my shoulder to get back in the right lane, but I can't because there is a stream of cars passing me on the right, even though it isn't safe!
I try to be polite, but others refuse to allow it.
The calc I was required to take to get my BS included some subject material that wasn't even covered except in advanced grad student classes back in the '60s.
Yes a degree meant more then, less percentage of the people had one. However they were not better. For that matter many of the "party colleges" back then are much harder today, because back then you had to let people in (unless you were a Harvard class school) just to fill classes. Now schools generally get more applications than they can accept, so they have tougher standards.
YaST seems nice, but I've been running Suse 9.1 pro on my laptop for a month now and already I want my BSD port system back. Sure it doesn't have a fancy GUI (or at least I never used it), but portupgrade and an always up to date ports tree rocks.
I've been playing battle for wesnoth lately, and while it is great, I only have 0.7.1, and .8 is current. YaST however doesn't have the update, nor updates for most of the other programs I've installed. Sure libpng was there soon after the exploit, but the rest of the programs I want to run aren't updated.
Now if this was a server, and it was Samba out of date I could understand that the extra testing is worth it. Even at that I'd argue that the new version should be made optional somehow and there for those who want to try it.
Thats just one example, that I've noticed. Somehow ports just works and is easy, while the other tools are easy, but don't work. (when work is defined as having an update you want)
I get a half a dozen failed password attempts per day for the guest account on my home machine. This on an account that doesn't even have a password set! (the shell is however nologin) I've always wondered if I should try to track these requests down and report them attempted breaking and entering.
When the crackers are looking at the wrong account it doesn't matter what the password they try it.
No I didn't check. OTOH, Fubar is not my password. Just cause I give you the data you ask for doesn't mean that it is correct data. Fubar might have been last month's password however... (unlikely as it isn't long enough)
I don't if I belive it either, but the risk of accidental destruction is not a factor. The risk of stolen data is. If the data needs to be portable (data that sits secured in headquarters is useless while data that gets to the right field commander changes the outcome of the war) then they have to do something to protect it against the risk of it falling into the wrong hands.
Presumably they have backups someplace that is a little harder to get into. Steal the laptop with this protection, and they buy a new one (laptops a cheap, even if we assume $10,000 after they add this protection that is cheap) and copy the data onto it.
Depends on how common the crime is. Insurance companies pay divers to recover all outboard motors that fall off the boat, and mechanics to fix them. They have decided that most motors do not fall overboard on accident, so it is worth the cost of a diver (pair plus someone to drive the boat), and a mechanic, even though the total cost is more than a new motor. When people hear just a few cases of someone getting their old motor back they don't drop theirs overboard to get a new one and it saves money.
OTOH you can be sure that things that are commonly stolen or accidently lost are less often investigated.
Of course my finger prints are on my bolt cutters, what do you expect? I don't wear gloves in my own garrage. If you just bought the bolt cutters rub your hands in some grease under the hood of your car, rub that around the bolt cutters, cut some cheap bolts (then throw them away), in general give the impression that this bolt cutters is used in your garrage often. Then carefully wipe both handles down while wearing gloves.
Bolt cutters are handy tools to have around anyway.
Of course I'm assuming you had a laptop stolen, and just need to claim the warrentie If you are just trying to cheat kingston out of a new laptop, I hope you die before you get it, thief.
Until medical ability leaves me pretty confident my death will be a result of the heat death of the universe I'm not to worried about it.
Hmm, just thought a a great life insurance scam to get people like you. For the low price of 5 dollars a month you can get 50 million dollars in protection against the heat death of the universe. Should the universe die of heat death we will pay your loved ones 50 million US dollars. I'll make millions.
While I agree that we should not be giving blank checks to science, just because a project is past its design lifetime doesn't mean we should stop funding it. Instead we need to weigh the expected gain by adding funding, to transferring to elsewhere. Hubble was built years ago, maintain it or not, and it will continue to orbit the earth. (Until it reenters, which is a situation to understand and deal with) If the value of the science from maintaining hubble is greater than the value of the science from scrapping hubble, and building a new project, then you keep hubble.
Note that there is a lot of money, and a lot more projects to choose from. So it isn't a matter of funding the best choices. Because hubble is already designed, the cost to continue it is a lot less than any new project that you have to design. Therefore the value of the science hubble gives doesn't not have to be worth near as much as a new project to make it wroth funding hubble and not the new project. (though you could do a partial funding for the new project and hubble - that works to a point)
As my dad always said "Who's this we, you got a mouse in your pocket?"
In other words there are over 100,000 people who read slashdot, but a very conservative count. (could easily be millions, I don't know) It is downright stupid to think that we share anyview views in common between all of us. Even the common held views have many exceptions. If you find any two people who agree 100% on everything you can be sure that at least one of them is not thinking! There are too many viewpoints for thinking people to come to the same conclusion on them all.