I gave up on Antec power supplies after capacitors went bad in four systems, and they were an odd part number that I could not find on digikey and I couldn't find the same value in a similar size (all the same value caps were larger diameter).
Someone ought to inform them about the dangerous potential of Sol - that it is a huge thermonuclear device which if allowed to continue developing unchecked will destroy life on the Earth within a billion years.
When I use email, I OPT-IN to spam filters, and at my office, I use ASSP on my mailserver. I, as the consumer and a business owner, opt in to RBLs, bayesian filtering, and so on, and I choose to lock down my SMTP servers so they are not open relays. This is not something foisted upon me by my ISP. Net neutrality is not about the consumer, business owner which is the customer of an ISP, or any end user of an ISP deciding what network traffic they do or do not wish to receive, just as a responsible parent might want to limit children's web access to kid-friendly web sites, or limit the kids' web browsing hours is not a violation of net neutrality.
A violation of it would be if the ISP took it upon themselves that no, they don't want me to receive Zappos email offers because it competes with the shoe vendor they happen to be an affiliate of, or intercepting others' ads on sites and replacing them with their own. If I choose to use a third-party DNS which does this sort of thing, great, it's my choice. If the ISP decides to do that and offers me no way to opt out (such as blocking access to root DNS servers or third-pary DNS servers) then shame on them, that would be a violation of net neutrality,. Or, if Comcast or Verizon were to block all SIP/VOIP/video conferencing traffic, or netflix or Amazon Prime traffic because it competes with their other product offerings, or if they count netflix traffic against my bandwidth cap but not their own video streaming services, that would be a violation of net neutrality.
It should be easier to make the X-37B more reusable. Because the entire airframe doesn't have to be pressurized for the duration of each flight, the airframe should last a hell of a lot longer before metal fatigue sets in.
Command line graphic manipulation is mature and powerful [imagemagick.org], although not nearly as intuitive as using a GUI.
On the contrary, viewing flat text files, for example, is a lot better than going through eleventyteen different tabs and dialog boxes, and THEN having to go and edit a metabase through the equivalent of PEEK and POKE. Granted IIS has gotten a little better with Windows 2008, but there is no less clicking between a zillion different tabs and dialogs and forms than previous versions. In apache, it's all right in front of you in.conf files, and in instances where other.conf files are included it's very straightforward. Sure, you might have to do some RTFMing and have a clue, but a sysadmin should know how the system works and be willing to RTFM anyhow.
The command line can be very intuitive - more so than clicking in this huge graphics-rich, slow and cumbersome administrative UI.
> FM radios are the one thing that causes interference, let's ban FM radios.
They already are banned, because older FM recivers emit a lot on the FM band, enough to jam nearby radios. Newer FM receivers don't do that because they operate at much lower power levels on ICs rather than discrete components, and are also shielded better.
That's because older FM receivers could interfere with other radio receivers, emitting enough RF to jam nearby frequencies. You used to be able to screw with radio listeners by tuning another nearby radio to a nearby frequency. Receivers made within recent years don't do that.
Or, we can just stop being the world's police force, keep our defense budget up (note: I said defense, not police budget expenditures), and put those savings toward NASA. Additionally we can pull hundreds of billions in foreign aid and put that into our domestic scientific, engineering, and manufacturing base instead. Or, how about this: axe federal spending, slash taxes, and let the people keep their money, and allow unfettered private companies to develop this stuff commercially? I'm sure there are many willing tourists who would love to hitch a ride to the Moon and back.
CD offers far wider dynamic range than any vinyl record ever did or will. Don't blame the technology for sound engineer incompetence, apathy, or record companies' mantra "LOUDER IS BETTER!" Take Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon for example ; the dynamic range is incredible and not compressed to shit, and the recent Immersion box set is breathtaking.
Okay, you enjoy your 360-line blurry CRT, and vinyl and wax cylinder recordings.
The rest of society will enjoy great-sounding audio (excessive audio dynamic range compression notwithstanding - that has more to do with lousy sound engineering than the medium) and video.
> You don't get much economy of scale until you're building them practically on an assembly line - which doesn't make much sense considering that you need to incorporate the science and engineering lessons learned into subsequent models. Those changes eat up most of any possible savings unless you're churning them out in the double digits annually.
Which we do not want to do, considering how quickly technology is advancing. I'd rather the little funding we do provide NASA go into the latest and greatest tech - better camera sensors, better solar, battery/fuel cell and RTG supplies, better processors, and so on to build one or two probes every few years than to build the tooling and mass produce a whole bunch of sorely outdated SUVs for Mars. As it is, the current camera sensors on Curiousity are woefully outdated because of the lag time between selecting components, actually building and testing the probe, and getting it off this rock safely onto another rock 50 million miles away.:-(
Note to NASA: Please include a video camera and microphone on a future rover. It would be interesting to experience the sounds of Mars - well, as much as the thin atmosphere would allow. Is it practical? It's as practical as anything else the rover does on a rock which at its absolute closest to us is about 34 million miles away from us, and which we will never set foot on because we do not fund NASA well enough. It would also be interesting to see temperature and wind speed posts on the mission site, in as near to realtime as relay times allow. It would also be nice for mission sites to be more user-friendly with more raw data made available to the people who actually pay for these missions.
> One of the results of that was that the reputation mangers ran hundreds of sock-puppets in blogs and news aggregators, like Slashdot and Reddit. They swamped the discussions, including those unrelated to their OS with scripted comments based on a few themes - "Have you tried it yet?" "Much faster than XP" etc etc.
And also the "You don't need to reboot Windows due to Windows Updates any more."
Um, yes you do, despite Microsoft's having "solved that problem" with every Windows release since Windows Me.
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I gave up on Antec power supplies after capacitors went bad in four systems, and they were an odd part number that I could not find on digikey and I couldn't find the same value in a similar size (all the same value caps were larger diameter).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher
It still consumes energy, but it's free energy. :-)
I would open the window for a few minutes. :-)
Why are you reading Twilight fan-fic?
Want to know who sends mass email in batches like that?
Apple, Microsoft, NewEgg, Amazon, Zappos (an amazon company), Woot (another Amazon company), ZD Net, and so on.
Not every large volume emailer is a spammer.
Someone ought to inform them about the dangerous potential of Sol - that it is a huge thermonuclear device which if allowed to continue developing unchecked will destroy life on the Earth within a billion years.
mmm panda tempura /HomerDrool
Big time logic fail on the spammer's part.
When I use email, I OPT-IN to spam filters, and at my office, I use ASSP on my mailserver. I, as the consumer and a business owner, opt in to RBLs, bayesian filtering, and so on, and I choose to lock down my SMTP servers so they are not open relays. This is not something foisted upon me by my ISP. Net neutrality is not about the consumer, business owner which is the customer of an ISP, or any end user of an ISP deciding what network traffic they do or do not wish to receive, just as a responsible parent might want to limit children's web access to kid-friendly web sites, or limit the kids' web browsing hours is not a violation of net neutrality.
A violation of it would be if the ISP took it upon themselves that no, they don't want me to receive Zappos email offers because it competes with the shoe vendor they happen to be an affiliate of, or intercepting others' ads on sites and replacing them with their own. If I choose to use a third-party DNS which does this sort of thing, great, it's my choice. If the ISP decides to do that and offers me no way to opt out (such as blocking access to root DNS servers or third-pary DNS servers) then shame on them, that would be a violation of net neutrality,. Or, if Comcast or Verizon were to block all SIP/VOIP/video conferencing traffic, or netflix or Amazon Prime traffic because it competes with their other product offerings, or if they count netflix traffic against my bandwidth cap but not their own video streaming services, that would be a violation of net neutrality.
mmm unicorn rolls. I think that would go well with dolphin maki.
utterly surprised how the tech savvy crowd drooled over Apple's shiny cage
Well, it is shiny. . . ;)
Wow, all three WP8 users buy a lot of apps! ;)
It should be easier to make the X-37B more reusable. Because the entire airframe doesn't have to be pressurized for the duration of each flight, the airframe should last a hell of a lot longer before metal fatigue sets in.
On the contrary, viewing flat text files, for example, is a lot better than going through eleventyteen different tabs and dialog boxes, and THEN having to go and edit a metabase through the equivalent of PEEK and POKE. Granted IIS has gotten a little better with Windows 2008, but there is no less clicking between a zillion different tabs and dialogs and forms than previous versions. In apache, it's all right in front of you in .conf files, and in instances where other .conf files are included it's very straightforward. Sure, you might have to do some RTFMing and have a clue, but a sysadmin should know how the system works and be willing to RTFM anyhow.
The command line can be very intuitive - more so than clicking in this huge graphics-rich, slow and cumbersome administrative UI.
> FM radios are the one thing that causes interference, let's ban FM radios.
They already are banned, because older FM recivers emit a lot on the FM band, enough to jam nearby radios. Newer FM receivers don't do that because they operate at much lower power levels on ICs rather than discrete components, and are also shielded better.
> Honestly, do people *really* need to have phone and other electronic devices during takeoff and landing?
It would be nice to be able to take photos of nearby landmarks.
> Radios have been banned for a long time
That's because older FM receivers could interfere with other radio receivers, emitting enough RF to jam nearby frequencies. You used to be able to screw with radio listeners by tuning another nearby radio to a nearby frequency. Receivers made within recent years don't do that.
> (I don't believe in private armies)
Believe in them or not, they are allowed under the second amendment.
Or, we can just stop being the world's police force, keep our defense budget up (note: I said defense, not police budget expenditures), and put those savings toward NASA. Additionally we can pull hundreds of billions in foreign aid and put that into our domestic scientific, engineering, and manufacturing base instead. Or, how about this: axe federal spending, slash taxes, and let the people keep their money, and allow unfettered private companies to develop this stuff commercially? I'm sure there are many willing tourists who would love to hitch a ride to the Moon and back.
CD offers far wider dynamic range than any vinyl record ever did or will. Don't blame the technology for sound engineer incompetence, apathy, or record companies' mantra "LOUDER IS BETTER!" Take Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon for example ; the dynamic range is incredible and not compressed to shit, and the recent Immersion box set is breathtaking.
Okay, you enjoy your 360-line blurry CRT, and vinyl and wax cylinder recordings.
The rest of society will enjoy great-sounding audio (excessive audio dynamic range compression notwithstanding - that has more to do with lousy sound engineering than the medium) and video.
> That's an invitation to be pwned.
Correct, plus as the adage goes, "Two wrongs don't make a right."
> You don't get much economy of scale until you're building them practically on an assembly line - which doesn't make much sense considering that you need to incorporate the science and engineering lessons learned into subsequent models. Those changes eat up most of any possible savings unless you're churning them out in the double digits annually.
Which we do not want to do, considering how quickly technology is advancing. I'd rather the little funding we do provide NASA go into the latest and greatest tech - better camera sensors, better solar, battery/fuel cell and RTG supplies, better processors, and so on to build one or two probes every few years than to build the tooling and mass produce a whole bunch of sorely outdated SUVs for Mars. As it is, the current camera sensors on Curiousity are woefully outdated because of the lag time between selecting components, actually building and testing the probe, and getting it off this rock safely onto another rock 50 million miles away. :-(
Which is why some astronomers join garage bans and play gigs to pay for the doctorate in the field they're passionate about. ;)
> And dust devils.
Note to NASA: Please include a video camera and microphone on a future rover. It would be interesting to experience the sounds of Mars - well, as much as the thin atmosphere would allow. Is it practical? It's as practical as anything else the rover does on a rock which at its absolute closest to us is about 34 million miles away from us, and which we will never set foot on because we do not fund NASA well enough. It would also be interesting to see temperature and wind speed posts on the mission site, in as near to realtime as relay times allow. It would also be nice for mission sites to be more user-friendly with more raw data made available to the people who actually pay for these missions.
> One of the results of that was that the reputation mangers ran hundreds of sock-puppets in blogs and news aggregators, like Slashdot and Reddit. They swamped the discussions, including those unrelated to their OS with scripted comments based on a few themes - "Have you tried it yet?" "Much faster than XP" etc etc.
And also the "You don't need to reboot Windows due to Windows Updates any more."
Um, yes you do, despite Microsoft's having "solved that problem" with every Windows release since Windows Me.