I normally won't spend a dime at Wal*Mart, but now that I know that they're losing money selling CDs, I will think about buying them there. Right now all I do there is go in and use their bathrooms. Anything to cost them money.
I just went through this last night with my first > 4GB thumb drive. If anything, it'll make it LESS reliable. The FAT drivers are geared for quick flush to the drive, so you can yank the drive quickly. NTFS doesn't guarantee everything's flushed unless you use the eject dialog.
So if you yank the drive, or lose power, or hibernate your machine, use the drive on another machine, then go back and plug it in and unhibernate the machine, if you're using NTFS, you're probably going to corrupt the filesystem.
With FAT, if the light has stopped blinking, it's safe to pull the drive or lose power.
I went with NTFS anyway so that I could format the whole 8GB as a truecrypt volume.
Please go look up what "theory" means in science. EVERY description of how things work in science is a theory. This does not mean it is not also a fact. The only things that are called "laws" are only called that for historical reasons; if thermodynamics were developed today it would be called a theory.
Any theory can be disproven at any time by presenting a contradictory, repeatable example. If a contradictory example is given, then the theory can either be modified or replaced. Theories can never by absolutely proven. Supporting evidence can pile up. The most convincing evidence to support theories is if they make predictions which we can then test and find them to be true. However, any theory can be struck down at any time.
The fact that evolution is STILL a valid working theory after over 100 years is testament to its strength. It's been modified a few times but never displaced. After so many years and thousands of challenges, there is still no credible evidence or experiments that disprove it. That means that even if it's not entirely accurate, it's nearly certain that it's pretty damn close to the mark.
People don't want solutions that require them to do any actual work. The most wasteful energy user that any person is likely to ever encounter is their car. There exist excellent alternatives that solve pollution, energy, global warming and obesity problems all at once. They're cheap and fun to use. They're called bicycles. I ride one 20 miles a day and get bummed when I have to drive the car instead.
But most people would sooner cut off a finger than have to do actual work on a regular basis. What we need to do is to figure out a way to make complaining burn 500 calories an hour; we'd be a skinny nation in no time.
The problem with that would be that the toy would always be cold; heat powered devices work by transferring heat, so it would have to have something colder than your body also attached to it, and it would have to be constantly pulling heat from your body and dumping it into the cold object.
Seems to me that this would be PERFECT for a necrophiliac; they have both cold and warm bodies available, and the warm body apparently likes the cold touch.
do you really think government will reduce the value of your property without you fighting them over it? No, that's why I said HAVE IT REDUCED, not have it reduce, or see it reduce. Active rather than passive voice.
I have an 1800 square foot home in a family of 4. It's plenty. I know people who have 4000 square feet and no kids. That's just insane. even 4000 feet with kids is insane unless you have a lot of kids. People think they need to have huge, flashy things which are huger and flashier than the next guy's things. Nobody seems to be willing to accept "enough", they always want "more".
I say what a smart person will do is to realize that they don't NEED more, and stay within their means.
I did it as well. The best LEDs put out 135 lumens per watt. Therefore they need at least 4 watts even giving them some slack. 4 hours at 4 watts = 4 * 4 * 3600 = 57600 joules.
E = mgh solving for mass: m (in kg) = E (in joules) / (g (9.8 m/s/s) * h (in meters)) m = 57600 / (9.8 * 1.5) = 3918 kilograms
The weight would have to weigh nearly 4000 kilograms (over 8600 pounds) in order for lifting it 1.5 meters to be able to provide 4 watts for 4 hours.
Given the 50 pounds and 58" they give, the light will run less than 90 seconds.
And all that is assuming that they've invented a 100% efficient generator. If they have, they should definitely be working on getting that into production; it would do far more for the planet than this lamp.
Run the numbers before you get too excited. IMHO they're full of crap. They're claiming on the order of 175 times more power than they actually have. Either the weight should weigh 4000 kilograms, or it should be lifted 250 meters into the air in order to put out 600 lumens for 4 hours.
Yeah, but if they had any sense, they'd have used cows, or they could have just pithed the humans; they don't WANT them thinking, they just need the meat bags.
he neighbor's house also declines in value, that's your house if you're the neighbor. And it doesn't later if you bought it 20 years ago when prices were low. Fact is is foreclosed houses in a neighborhood devalues all the houses there.
Good. I can then go to the tax board and have my SEV reduced. I'm not sure why people are so bugged about having their property values decrease. I HATE having mine increase; it means nothing but higher taxes.
I think it comes down to people thinking they've got to keep buying bigger and bigger houses. That's ridiculous. Buy a house and live in it. If it gets too small, you probably have too much crap and should get rid of some of it.
I can't get DSL of any kind. I have cable, but if I lived a half mile farther north, I'd be in dialup land. I'm less than 30 miles from Ann Arbor Michigan, one of the original major hubs of the internet. Where I grew up, there is no high speed available for about 40% of the area, except for satellite. If my choice were satellite, I'd stick with dialup.
Yup, there were some that probably you wouldn't want to send to your boss or mom. But nothing horrible. Just people acting goofy with a beer in their hand. There was hardly anything (maybe 2 or 3 shots out of the 4500 I looked at) that were something where I said "Yeah, I'd mark that private too" and probably about 50 that if you had an uptight boss, you should probably keep it to yourself. Almost all were just your average, everyday photos. Most of them were pretty miserable to look at, due to horrible photography technique or horrible equipment (almost all cell phone cameras, which barely qualify as cameras, for the most part).
I downloaded the first zip, which is the first GB of images. I unzipped it, and I looked at the first 4500 images before falling asleep. 999 out of 1000 are crappy cellphone pics of ugly people drinking a beer and flipping off the camera, or vacation pics, or pics of someone's crappy car, or just simply snapshots of people (the vast majority). So far out of 4500 images, I found exactly zero images that I think anyone would give a crap about. I'm not even sure why the vast majority of them are even bothered marking private; nobody would care about them at all.
I'm staying out of HD simply because there's no good way to build my own DVR. I've gotten too used to MythTV, and though I could record over-the-air stuff, that's all network garbage which I don't want. I'm a satellite user, so I can't record from there. Even over cable, all I could hope to record would be MAYBE local channels again if they were on the cable in QAM format.
I have a 720P projector, but for now I'm just feeding it with regular DVDs. I might go to HD eventually, if the players get down around $100, but for now DVD and SD is good enough.
Not sure what brand of car you're working on. I've only ever worked on Ford and Chevy. Once you have the caliper in hand, replacing the pads is, well, grasp pad, remove, grasp new pad, insert. Done. 15 seconds for both pads.
I guess I'm driving dangerously then. I generally drive cars 200,000 miles, I only bleed them if I replace a caliper (which isn't often - I've taken a couple of cars to the grave at 200K+ with all original stuff and never bled the brakes) and I've never had a problem. If there was much water getting into the fluid, you'd think I'd have had a piston seize on me or something by now.
Of course, I'm a very conservative driver in an area with flat terrain, so boiling the fluid just isn't an issue for me. Heck, on my current car, I replaced my brake pads for the first time at 100K, and they didn't really need it, I just was replacing everything else and a full set of pads was $40.
ISTM that buying "preloaded calipers" would be a huge increase in time. It takes all of about 15 seconds to put the pads in the calipers, maybe another minute to press down the adjuster too.
Problem is, if you replace the caliper, you have to bleed the system. I don't know why you'd want to replace the caliper anyway if there's nothing wrong with it. I've probably only replaced 3 or 4 calipers in my life.
I've never even seen a place selling "preloaded calipers". Seems to me this is like buying a refrigerator preloaded with milk and eggs.
Whu? I've done my own brakes since I was a teenager. DISCS are the simple ones. Drums always take longer; you have to get an adjuster in there to back off the tension just to get the drum off, once you do that there's a bunch of springs and levers, all of which are probably half rusted up so you need to clean everything, etc.
Discs are a snap. Take the wheel off, loosen a couple of bolts, the caliper is out, squish down the piston with a presser tool, snap in the new pads, dab on some lubricants on the sliders and a few other points, bolt everything back up and you're done. Sometimes the rotors need turning, but I haven't had to do that for years now, at 125000 miles my rotors are still dead flat. I can't remember the last time I saw any leakage, etc but I don't use aftermarket parts either. I don't have to bleed them since I don't take any hydraulics apart.
I'd guess maybe 10 minutes on a tire, working with a floor jack in my driveway and hand tools. If I had a lift and air tools, I could certainly knock a few minutes off that.
I've had it take an hour just to get a single drum off a pickup if things were really gummed up.
Agree with other posters here. I can pretty much guarantee that magnet didn't do squat. If he'd use a really large AC electromagnet (bulk eraser) then maybe, but I've put very strong magnets right up against hard drives before without bothering them at all.
If you want to make sure that the data is gone, you need to run a data scrubber like DiskZapper. If the drive isn't working, you need to PHYSICALLY wreck it; drilling a hole straight through the drive and platters is a good start. For extra bonus points, put it on top of a pile of nice hot charcoal, then blow air in until it's hot enough to melt the case.
Keypad entry. Best feature ever. If I go to the beach or something I don't even carry my car keys with me, I just toss them under the seat and lock the car. Normally I never lock my car anyway. I don't keep anything in my car, and you really can't reasonably steal a modern car with passive theft prevention, and vandalism just doesn't happen around here.
You're trucking along at rush hour, 10 feet between cars, and going 90 MPH. Everything is going 20 MPH too fast and there are 4x more cars per mile than there should be for safety, and everyone is on edge and hyper-alert.
Then one guy drifts a bit too close to the guy in front of him, and touches his brakes, the guy behind him sees brake lights and puts on his brakes hard; the people farther back have to pretty much stand on their brakes. If there's long visibility, people a mile back put their brakes on when they see hundreds of sets of brake lights up front go on at once. Within seconds traffic is stopped. A standing wave like that can take hours to clear, because traffic was so dense and fast to start with that within the time it takes for the traffic in the front to get back up to speed (a minute or so), the density wave is several miles thick.
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I normally won't spend a dime at Wal*Mart, but now that I know that they're losing money selling CDs, I will think about buying them there.
Right now all I do there is go in and use their bathrooms. Anything to cost them money.
From people roaming out of country and forgetting that they left the iPhone in "check for new mail" mode.
I just went through this last night with my first > 4GB thumb drive. If anything, it'll make it LESS reliable.
The FAT drivers are geared for quick flush to the drive, so you can yank the drive quickly. NTFS doesn't guarantee everything's flushed unless you use the eject dialog.
So if you yank the drive, or lose power, or hibernate your machine, use the drive on another machine, then go back and plug it in and unhibernate the machine, if you're using NTFS, you're probably going to corrupt the filesystem.
With FAT, if the light has stopped blinking, it's safe to pull the drive or lose power.
I went with NTFS anyway so that I could format the whole 8GB as a truecrypt volume.
This guy has been making noise about this for 20 years. It's as close as the aircar that other guy keeps promising REAL SOON NOW.
Please go look up what "theory" means in science.
EVERY description of how things work in science is a theory. This does not mean it is not also a fact. The only things that are called "laws" are only called that for historical reasons; if thermodynamics were developed today it would be called a theory.
Any theory can be disproven at any time by presenting a contradictory, repeatable example. If a contradictory example is given, then the theory can either be modified or replaced. Theories can never by absolutely proven. Supporting evidence can pile up. The most convincing evidence to support theories is if they make predictions which we can then test and find them to be true. However, any theory can be struck down at any time.
The fact that evolution is STILL a valid working theory after over 100 years is testament to its strength. It's been modified a few times but never displaced. After so many years and thousands of challenges, there is still no credible evidence or experiments that disprove it. That means that even if it's not entirely accurate, it's nearly certain that it's pretty damn close to the mark.
People don't want solutions that require them to do any actual work.
The most wasteful energy user that any person is likely to ever encounter is their car. There exist excellent alternatives that solve pollution, energy, global warming and obesity problems all at once. They're cheap and fun to use. They're called bicycles. I ride one 20 miles a day and get bummed when I have to drive the car instead.
But most people would sooner cut off a finger than have to do actual work on a regular basis. What we need to do is to figure out a way to make complaining burn 500 calories an hour; we'd be a skinny nation in no time.
The problem with that would be that the toy would always be cold; heat powered devices work by transferring heat, so it would have to have something colder than your body also attached to it, and it would have to be constantly pulling heat from your body and dumping it into the cold object.
Seems to me that this would be PERFECT for a necrophiliac; they have both cold and warm bodies available, and the warm body apparently likes the cold touch.
do you really think government will reduce the value of your property without you fighting them over it?
No, that's why I said HAVE IT REDUCED, not have it reduce, or see it reduce. Active rather than passive voice.
I have an 1800 square foot home in a family of 4. It's plenty. I know people who have 4000 square feet and no kids. That's just insane. even 4000 feet with kids is insane unless you have a lot of kids. People think they need to have huge, flashy things which are huger and flashier than the next guy's things. Nobody seems to be willing to accept "enough", they always want "more".
I say what a smart person will do is to realize that they don't NEED more, and stay within their means.
I did it as well. The best LEDs put out 135 lumens per watt. Therefore they need at least 4 watts even giving them some slack. 4 hours at 4 watts = 4 * 4 * 3600 = 57600 joules.
E = mgh
solving for mass:
m (in kg) = E (in joules) / (g (9.8 m/s/s) * h (in meters))
m = 57600 / (9.8 * 1.5) = 3918 kilograms
The weight would have to weigh nearly 4000 kilograms (over 8600 pounds) in order for lifting it 1.5 meters to be able to provide 4 watts for 4 hours.
Given the 50 pounds and 58" they give, the light will run less than 90 seconds.
And all that is assuming that they've invented a 100% efficient generator. If they have, they should definitely be working on getting that into production; it would do far more for the planet than this lamp.
Run the numbers before you get too excited. IMHO they're full of crap. They're claiming on the order of 175 times more power than they actually have. Either the weight should weigh 4000 kilograms, or it should be lifted 250 meters into the air in order to put out 600 lumens for 4 hours.
Yeah, but if they had any sense, they'd have used cows, or they could have just pithed the humans; they don't WANT them thinking, they just need the meat bags.
he neighbor's house also declines in value, that's your house if you're the neighbor. And it doesn't later if you bought it 20 years ago when prices were low. Fact is is foreclosed houses in a neighborhood devalues all the houses there.
Good. I can then go to the tax board and have my SEV reduced. I'm not sure why people are so bugged about having their property values decrease. I HATE having mine increase; it means nothing but higher taxes.
I think it comes down to people thinking they've got to keep buying bigger and bigger houses. That's ridiculous. Buy a house and live in it. If it gets too small, you probably have too much crap and should get rid of some of it.
I can't get DSL of any kind. I have cable, but if I lived a half mile farther north, I'd be in dialup land. I'm less than 30 miles from Ann Arbor Michigan, one of the original major hubs of the internet.
Where I grew up, there is no high speed available for about 40% of the area, except for satellite. If my choice were satellite, I'd stick with dialup.
Yup, there were some that probably you wouldn't want to send to your boss or mom. But nothing horrible. Just people acting goofy with a beer in their hand. There was hardly anything (maybe 2 or 3 shots out of the 4500 I looked at) that were something where I said "Yeah, I'd mark that private too" and probably about 50 that if you had an uptight boss, you should probably keep it to yourself. Almost all were just your average, everyday photos. Most of them were pretty miserable to look at, due to horrible photography technique or horrible equipment (almost all cell phone cameras, which barely qualify as cameras, for the most part).
I downloaded the first zip, which is the first GB of images. I unzipped it, and I looked at the first 4500 images before falling asleep. 999 out of 1000 are crappy cellphone pics of ugly people drinking a beer and flipping off the camera, or vacation pics, or pics of someone's crappy car, or just simply snapshots of people (the vast majority).
So far out of 4500 images, I found exactly zero images that I think anyone would give a crap about. I'm not even sure why the vast majority of them are even bothered marking private; nobody would care about them at all.
I'm staying out of HD simply because there's no good way to build my own DVR. I've gotten too used to MythTV, and though I could record over-the-air stuff, that's all network garbage which I don't want. I'm a satellite user, so I can't record from there. Even over cable, all I could hope to record would be MAYBE local channels again if they were on the cable in QAM format.
I have a 720P projector, but for now I'm just feeding it with regular DVDs. I might go to HD eventually, if the players get down around $100, but for now DVD and SD is good enough.
It's "ad" not "add". "add" is a mathematical operation.
Not sure what brand of car you're working on. I've only ever worked on Ford and Chevy. Once you have the caliper in hand, replacing the pads is, well, grasp pad, remove, grasp new pad, insert. Done. 15 seconds for both pads.
I guess I'm driving dangerously then. I generally drive cars 200,000 miles, I only bleed them if I replace a caliper (which isn't often - I've taken a couple of cars to the grave at 200K+ with all original stuff and never bled the brakes) and I've never had a problem. If there was much water getting into the fluid, you'd think I'd have had a piston seize on me or something by now.
Of course, I'm a very conservative driver in an area with flat terrain, so boiling the fluid just isn't an issue for me. Heck, on my current car, I replaced my brake pads for the first time at 100K, and they didn't really need it, I just was replacing everything else and a full set of pads was $40.
Hey, at least it's not the same as every other damn car out there. You can hardly tell most cars apart anymore.
ISTM that buying "preloaded calipers" would be a huge increase in time. It takes all of about 15 seconds to put the pads in the calipers, maybe another minute to press down the adjuster too.
Problem is, if you replace the caliper, you have to bleed the system. I don't know why you'd want to replace the caliper anyway if there's nothing wrong with it. I've probably only replaced 3 or 4 calipers in my life.
I've never even seen a place selling "preloaded calipers". Seems to me this is like buying a refrigerator preloaded with milk and eggs.
Whu? I've done my own brakes since I was a teenager. DISCS are the simple ones. Drums always take longer; you have to get an adjuster in there to back off the tension just to get the drum off, once you do that there's a bunch of springs and levers, all of which are probably half rusted up so you need to clean everything, etc.
Discs are a snap. Take the wheel off, loosen a couple of bolts, the caliper is out, squish down the piston with a presser tool, snap in the new pads, dab on some lubricants on the sliders and a few other points, bolt everything back up and you're done. Sometimes the rotors need turning, but I haven't had to do that for years now, at 125000 miles my rotors are still dead flat. I can't remember the last time I saw any leakage, etc but I don't use aftermarket parts either. I don't have to bleed them since I don't take any hydraulics apart.
I'd guess maybe 10 minutes on a tire, working with a floor jack in my driveway and hand tools. If I had a lift and air tools, I could certainly knock a few minutes off that.
I've had it take an hour just to get a single drum off a pickup if things were really gummed up.
Why wasn't he using File Vault; it's standard and part of OSX. Sure, Apple probably have back doors but it's one step in the right direction.
If it has back doors, it's a step in the WRONG direction. Encryption either works or it doesn't. Using broken encryption isn't helping at all.
Agree with other posters here. I can pretty much guarantee that magnet didn't do squat. If he'd use a really large AC electromagnet (bulk eraser) then maybe, but I've put very strong magnets right up against hard drives before without bothering them at all.
If you want to make sure that the data is gone, you need to run a data scrubber like DiskZapper. If the drive isn't working, you need to PHYSICALLY wreck it; drilling a hole straight through the drive and platters is a good start. For extra bonus points, put it on top of a pile of nice hot charcoal, then blow air in until it's hot enough to melt the case.
Keypad entry. Best feature ever.
If I go to the beach or something I don't even carry my car keys with me, I just toss them under the seat and lock the car.
Normally I never lock my car anyway. I don't keep anything in my car, and you really can't reasonably steal a modern car with passive theft prevention, and vandalism just doesn't happen around here.
We call these due to "fear of flaming death".
You're trucking along at rush hour, 10 feet between cars, and going 90 MPH. Everything is going 20 MPH too fast and there are 4x more cars per mile than there should be for safety, and everyone is on edge and hyper-alert.
Then one guy drifts a bit too close to the guy in front of him, and touches his brakes, the guy behind him sees brake lights and puts on his brakes hard; the people farther back have to pretty much stand on their brakes. If there's long visibility, people a mile back put their brakes on when they see hundreds of sets of brake lights up front go on at once. Within seconds traffic is stopped. A standing wave like that can take hours to clear, because traffic was so dense and fast to start with that within the time it takes for the traffic in the front to get back up to speed (a minute or so), the density wave is several miles thick.