How about circling the drive a few times with bubble wrap and then shoving it in a 5 1/4 inch bay? Maybe use only 1 inch wide strips of bubble wrap near the front and rear of the drive to allow cooling. I suppose the damping might not be as good as a thin elastic band but you wouldn't have to worry about the elastic drying out.
If you save your files on cds or dvds, you could include par files on each disk that would allow you to reconstruct damaged sections. Works great on Usenet. I use Quickpar to recover important *cough-porn-cough* data and it's almost magical to see it rebuild bad or missing file sections. Most of the binary files on Usenet, of course, use rar lossless compression and that might be a convenient way put the backup data into par-able pieces.
IANAE but, as I understand it, one of the tools that the Federal Open Market Comittee uses to control the money supply is buying and selling treasuries on the open market. My question is: who do they buy them from and who do they sell them to? When they buy or sell treasuries does someone or some private company profit?
>If you've got any kind of modern engine (ie, has a chip in it) you'll get better economy >going down hill with the engine in gear and your foot off the accelerator.
Thanks, I've wondered about this for years. It seemed to me that neutral would be better than just taking your foot off the gas since the engine vacuum in a car with a carburetor would pull in more fuel at higher rpm. I hadn't considered fuel injection and electronic control. Time to update my thinking.
In a car analogy, you say you can't ignore maintenance such as new tires, checking brakes, etc. How is this enforced? Most states have annual inspection laws and require you to display a sticker on your car certifying that it has passed inspection. How about an inspection law for computers? That is, they must be inspected by someone certifed to find security problems at periodic intervals and must have a "sticker" (that can be read by an ISP) in order to be allowed on the net. ISPs would be paid a bounty (by who? I dunno) to find uncertified machines on the net.
Of course, I hate my idea because it restricts freedom but the situation has become so bad for non-technical people that I'm afraid they will give up using the net. That would be bad. The net is a wonderful thing.
MS Access installed on a machine one day refused to run and gave the error message "no valide license". The fix was to rename a font called Hatten.ttf in the...\windows\fonts directory to something else, reinstall Access, and then put back the original font name. I have no idea why Access hates Hatten.ttf.
The battery more likely contains lithium than sodium but both react strongly with water. The lithium reaction isn't quite as strong as the sodium one but it still does a good job when packed tightly into a narrow tube.
Add water to sodium and you get a pretty spectacular exothermic reaction. From the picture it looks like sodium flaring up. By the way, be careful if you ever fool around with notebook batteries. If you poke a hole in them with a screwdriver or something and it's a humid day you can get quite a blowtorch. Now where did I put those bandages?
I just use a rectangular cardboard box that measures about 12 x 8 x 2 inches. Cardboard and air are poor thermal conductors. Very light weight. Works great. Costs nothing.
Well who would decide who stays up and who goes down?
It could easily be accomplished with a computer. And a computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross section of necessary skills. Of course it would be absolutely vital that slashdot readers be included to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition. Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do. But ah with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten females to each male, I would guess that they could then work their way back to the present gross national product within say, twenty years.
A few years back I created a quick and dirty double entry bookeeping workbook for some stock traders. As time went on, it grew from a few spreadsheets to over a hundred with about a thousand formulas on each sheet. I tried hard to carefully enter each formula but every once in a while I find a data entry mistake that I made long ago. The mistake is usually a typo in a variable that changes from column to column along a row. Many of the rows were made by copying an existing row, pasting it somewhere else, and changing one variable per column. Fortunately, a double entry bookeeping system almost always catches such errors. I suppose two offsetting errors are possible but unlikely. I think the value of double entry accounting is underappreciated. I once read that it was one of the more important inventions of man and I laughed that off until I actually had to use it.
For a single person making $20,000 per year an not itemizing deductions, taxaxable income would be:
$20,000 - $5000 Exemption - $3200 Standard Deduction = $11,800
Tax on that income would be $730 plus 15% of the amount over $7300 = $1405
In addition, the hapless contributor will pay 7.65% of earned income in FICA (Social Security) tax and his employer will pay an equal amount (if he's self-employed, he pays twice 7.65% less a small deduction).
So, in all, he pays $1405 + $3060 = $4465
Note that his high FICA tax is pretty well hidden from him and that with automatic withholding from each paycheck he will probably get a refund making it seem like he's getting a good deal unless he takes time to think about it. It seems quite regressive to me.
Glad to hear your friend is ok. This could also have been a case of misdiagnosis. A friend of mine was misdiagnosed with lung cancer 10 years ago. He was/is a heavy smoker. I don't think doctors are immune to anti-smoking hysteria.
Yes, filter capacitors are probably more likely to fail than switching transistors. Exceeding the ripple current rating is just asking for trouble. It's a wonder anything works.
I'd be interested in knowing what the most common failure mode is for PC supplies (article slashdotted - don't know if they mentioned that).
like all things in life, if you cut corners [price wise] you'll get burnt...
Not in my experience. I usually buy the least expensive components I can find and I've rarely been burned.
I've designed lots of small switchers and the (usually field effect) transistors that block and pass current through the magnetics are very sensitive to the waveform on their gates. My guess is that supplies that die have out-of-margin or overly temperature sensitive wave shaping circuits within. Some manufacturers of expensive supplies no doubt design and test to higher specs, but some just spend the extra income on marketing (not against that but it doesn't do the end user much good).
Yes yes yes.
Your argument that p2p is a way to recover rights unjustly purchased from Congress by the affluent is so true. A similar evolution is taking place re blogging vs. manipulated mainstream news. Gotta love the net!
Slashdot Mirror
How about circling the drive a few times with bubble wrap and then shoving it in a 5 1/4 inch bay? Maybe use only 1 inch wide strips of bubble wrap near the front and rear of the drive to allow cooling. I suppose the damping might not be as good as a thin elastic band but you wouldn't have to worry about the elastic drying out.
I so like the idea of determinism because, when things go wrong, I can truly know it's not my fault.
If you save your files on cds or dvds, you could include par files on each disk that would allow you to reconstruct damaged sections. Works great on Usenet. I use Quickpar to recover important *cough-porn-cough* data and it's almost magical to see it rebuild bad or missing file sections. Most of the binary files on Usenet, of course, use rar lossless compression and that might be a convenient way put the backup data into par-able pieces.
IANAE but, as I understand it, one of the tools that the Federal Open Market Comittee uses to control the money supply is buying and selling treasuries on the open market. My question is: who do they buy them from and who do they sell them to? When they buy or sell treasuries does someone or some private company profit?
>If you've got any kind of modern engine (ie, has a chip in it) you'll get better economy >going down hill with the engine in gear and your foot off the accelerator.
Thanks, I've wondered about this for years. It seemed to me that neutral would be better than just taking your foot off the gas since the engine vacuum in a car with a carburetor would pull in more fuel at higher rpm. I hadn't considered fuel injection and electronic control. Time to update my thinking.
In a car analogy, you say you can't ignore maintenance such as new tires, checking brakes, etc. How is this enforced? Most states have annual inspection laws and require you to display a sticker on your car certifying that it has passed inspection. How about an inspection law for computers? That is, they must be inspected by someone certifed to find security problems at periodic intervals and must have a "sticker" (that can be read by an ISP) in order to be allowed on the net. ISPs would be paid a bounty (by who? I dunno) to find uncertified machines on the net.
Of course, I hate my idea because it restricts freedom but the situation has become so bad for non-technical people that I'm afraid they will give up using the net. That would be bad. The net is a wonderful thing.
Here's an odd problem I ran into:
...\windows\fonts directory to something else, reinstall Access, and then put back the original font name. I have no idea why Access hates Hatten.ttf.
MS Access installed on a machine one day refused to run and gave the error message "no valide license". The fix was to rename a font called Hatten.ttf in the
The battery more likely contains lithium than sodium but both react strongly with water. The lithium reaction isn't quite as strong as the sodium one but it still does a good job when packed tightly into a narrow tube.
Add water to sodium and you get a pretty spectacular exothermic reaction. From the picture it looks like sodium flaring up. By the way, be careful if you ever fool around with notebook batteries. If you poke a hole in them with a screwdriver or something and it's a humid day you can get quite a blowtorch. Now where did I put those bandages?
I just use a rectangular cardboard box that measures about 12 x 8 x 2 inches. Cardboard and air are poor thermal conductors. Very light weight. Works great. Costs nothing.
Well who would decide who stays up and who goes down?
It could easily be accomplished with a computer. And a computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross section of necessary skills. Of course it would be absolutely vital that slashdot readers be included to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition. Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do. But ah with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten females to each male, I would guess that they could then work their way back to the present gross national product within say, twenty years.
Poor excuse for a /. article but where do you get the Flatulence Agent? My brother wants it. He's 60 years old and oh so juvenile.
A few years back I created a quick and dirty double entry bookeeping workbook for some stock traders. As time went on, it grew from a few spreadsheets to over a hundred with about a thousand formulas on each sheet. I tried hard to carefully enter each formula but every once in a while I find a data entry mistake that I made long ago. The mistake is usually a typo in a variable that changes from column to column along a row. Many of the rows were made by copying an existing row, pasting it somewhere else, and changing one variable per column. Fortunately, a double entry bookeeping system almost always catches such errors. I suppose two offsetting errors are possible but unlikely. I think the value of double entry accounting is underappreciated. I once read that it was one of the more important inventions of man and I laughed that off until I actually had to use it.
For a single person making $20,000 per year an not itemizing deductions, taxaxable income would be:
$20,000 - $5000 Exemption - $3200 Standard Deduction = $11,800
Tax on that income would be $730 plus 15% of the amount over $7300 = $1405
In addition, the hapless contributor will pay 7.65% of earned income in FICA (Social Security) tax and his employer will pay an equal amount (if he's self-employed, he pays twice 7.65% less a small deduction).
So, in all, he pays $1405 + $3060 = $4465
Note that his high FICA tax is pretty well hidden from him and that with automatic withholding from each paycheck he will probably get a refund making it seem like he's getting a good deal unless he takes time to think about it. It seems quite regressive to me.
And your X-ray glasses are here:
http://www.kaya-optics.com/products/applications.
Simpler burial explanation: rotting corpses smell bad.
Perhaps they gripped it by the husk.
Glad to hear your friend is ok. This could also have been a case of misdiagnosis. A friend of mine was misdiagnosed with lung cancer 10 years ago. He was/is a heavy smoker. I don't think doctors are immune to anti-smoking hysteria.
I've tried quitting but can't stand the brain fog.
I'm not convinced nicotine is all bad.
If people lived to be 300, things would slow down a lot. You could always say "I'll do it tomorrow" and, most likely, you'd be right.
Personal appearance is only important if you have little else to offer.
I'd be interested in knowing what the most common failure mode is for PC supplies (article slashdotted - don't know if they mentioned that).
Not in my experience. I usually buy the least expensive components I can find and I've rarely been burned.
I've designed lots of small switchers and the (usually field effect) transistors that block and pass current through the magnetics are very sensitive to the waveform on their gates. My guess is that supplies that die have out-of-margin or overly temperature sensitive wave shaping circuits within. Some manufacturers of expensive supplies no doubt design and test to higher specs, but some just spend the extra income on marketing (not against that but it doesn't do the end user much good).
If the plug reaches the socket, it's long enough.
Yes yes yes.
Your argument that p2p is a way to recover rights unjustly purchased from Congress by the affluent is so true. A similar evolution is taking place re blogging vs. manipulated mainstream news. Gotta love the net!