Yes, but in terms of lifetime cost, I charge my batteries hundreds of times. All I need is for my batteries to last a full day in whatever device, then I can put them back in the charger. Any more is useless. It's sickening how many batteries wind up landfilled every year. NiMH rechargables work really well and are very cheap in quantity. Go check out batteryspace.com - AA's are about $30 per 24 cells. Still more than alkalines, but they outperform alkalines in high draw stuff (what many people use them for; digital cameras and flashes) by a lot.
I live in Chelsea, about 20 miles west of Ann Arbor. Verizon is the only service that works where I live (8 miles north of the expressway), and it sucks. I can be standing outside my house with 4 bars, and in the course of 5 seconds it'll fade and cut me off. This is the case with two different phones, and has been happening since we got the phones 3 years ago. I dropped my coverage a few months ago because it was useless, and now don't have a cell, because none of the other companies are any good here, either.
Hmm, you got me curious. Which server does the Army weapons lab use? (IIS/others) How about the Navy? Air Force (IIS on Linux???) Not sure why any of this matters though. It's not like any of these are running secure data. That stuff's on a different network, and the people admining these sites are not the same ones running critical security. Maybe research sites like Fermilab (apache/solaris) or JPL (Netscape) would make more sense?
Prosecute for what? Is there a law against redirecting web pages? I think this would be a pretty difficult prosecution. Google's going to have to take technical steps on this one.
Thanks for saying that. If building a machine didn't involve soldering surface mount ICs and/or writing device drivers for a peripheral you wired up, then don't say you're "advanced".
This guy is as much an "advanced" system builder as some kid who buys some wheel rims and a stupid looking spoiler for his celica is an "advanced" car builder.
I've had better luck with Maxtor than others. The machine I'm on now has a stack of 4 160's crammed right against each other. They're so hot you can't hold one for more than 5 seconds. They've been running fine 24/7 for 2+ years. I've got another half dozen 40's, 80's, 120's and 160s in various machines, all Maxtor, some running for 4+ years. I've used nothing but Maxtor for about 6 years, and I've had one failure; a 40G in a Linux box 2 years ago; it started giving SMART warnings, so I copied the data off it and chucked it in the trash.
I don't buy Maxtor because of good luck, I buy whatever's cheap, because I just haven't had much trouble with hard drives. It just happens that "what's cheap" is usually Maxtor.
My theory: all consumer level drives are close to equal in failure rate. Some people will buy a drive or even two of a specific brand and have bad luck, and forever swear that brand is crap. Sometimes a manufacturer (ANY manufacturer) has a specific drive or series that's crap.
If you're buying consumer level drives, just run SMART monitoring and swap out the drive when it starts going. I've recommended this to many people, a few have done it, of those, two have had a drive start to fail and swapped it, they got all their data, none of the rest have had a failure.
A living language is one thing. But saying the opposite of what you mean because you're lazy is another. I've come to accept usages changing, even to the point where I'm willing to concede that "hackers" now means a bad guy. But if they tried to say "good guy" == "bad guy" then I have to draw the line.
"I could care less" has a specific meaning in the english language, and it's the exact opposite of what people intend. If they thought about the phrase for 5 seconds they'd realize that.
The problem is that people do not think about what they say. Reading the Dilbert Newsletter section on inDuhViduals speaking will yield plenty of examples of people just saying things without having any idea of what the phrase means.
In most cases, I believe that these shifts have to do with the fact that people just don't read much anymore. They learn the language aurally, and that's imprecise.
Good idea. First, develop a mass transport infrastructure. I'm getting a bit tired of people who live where there is an infrastructure telling those of us who live where there aren't any busses that come within miles of our houses that we should take the bus. I personally ride a bike when I can (about 3000 miles a year commuting). I'd have to go 8.5 miles to get to where I could take a bus the last 2 miles.
If I lived in Boston or New York, or maybe Chicago, sure, I'd take some mass transit. At least, until I could get a job somewhere else.
Well maybe if your day job is flipping burgers it makes sense to spend your time dealing with them.
Well, as I said, it takes me about 5 minutes to deal with it. Almost all of my rebates are for DVD-Rs and hard drives (do people still use floppies? I don't even have a floppy drive in any machine anymore). The rebates average about $15. I don't make $180 an hour, but if you do, I suppose you have a point.
Not true. I play the rebate game constantly. I do on average 20 to 30 computer equipment rebates a year. I fill them out, carefully check everything, and scan everything before I mail them out, then set a palm pilot alarm for 8 weeks hence to say it should have arrived by now, as soon as I get back from the store. It takes about 5 minutes, which is generally less time than I spent waiting in line.
I keep track of them, and I have yet to be denied ONE SINGLE REBATE. Most are purchased at CompUSA, some at Best Buy, Staples, Office Max, maybe others. I get hundreds of dollars in rebates a year.
I think all the people bitching must have bought the item on the last day of the rebate and then let it sit in their house for weeks before sending it in, or really done something wrong. There are rules, but they're clear and on the rebate form. Read them before you leave the store. In the days before they printed the rebate forms on the register, I wouldn't leave the store until they provided the form. If they couldn't, I'd leave the item at the counter and tell them that I wouldn't buy it for that reason. Not a problem anymore though.
A quick google search turns up this, which IS RELEVANT IN CALIFORNIA.
http://www.oaklandyellowjackets.org/memberaccess /f wdocs/fw_2002may.pdf Q: Are you a cop? A: yes.
Q: Do I have to have my driver's license with me when I ride a bike? A: No. Anyone can ride a bike. You do have to follow the rules of the road.
However: http://insidetriathlon.com/news/fea/15 22.0.html states: However, the California vehicle code states that if a traffic violator cannot produce "a driver's license or other satisfactory evidence of identity for examination," the driver must be taken into custody.
So you do not have to have a license to operate a bicycle, even in CA. However, you must provide ID if you are stopped for a traffic violation, or you risk being taken into custody.
Also, any cop can just ask you for ID at any time, for no reason at all, even just sitting on a park bench, anywhere in the US, and you're required to produce ID. This was a supreme court ruling from a few months ago.
It's illegal to have anything not installed by the factory impeding your view through the front window in pretty much every state. I don't violate this law because it makes me nuts to have anything hanging from there. Even the rearview mirror bugs me sometimes; I push it as far up as I can.
I went through a phase where I tried to get every last little bit of speed out of everything. Problem is, that often leads to harder-to-maintain, or less correct, code.
I don't believe in the camp that says "screw optimization, just buy a faster CPU". However, I also don't think it's worth sacrificing readability or portability to chop out a few cycles here and there.
Use your optimization brainpower on choosing and implementing faster algorithms; that has the potential of making vast differences in the speed of your apps. As for individual lines of code, do what is most readable and correct and portable.
BTW, I prefer "if (NULL == ptr)" - put the constant first. Slightly less readable, but will not compile if you accidentally type "if (NULL = ptr)". Once you get used to this it's not a problem to read, but it saves me a bug a few times a year.
I don't think he's saying that they're for writing literature. However, you can to some extent look into someone's mind through their writing. People who have not spent much/any time reading complex works probably haven't exercised their own ability to think in complex ways. Certainly that's true of the US populace in general; that's why political campaigns have learned to work with sound bites and visceral reactions, rather than talking in-depth about issues. Immediate reaction is all that many people think about.
There are some blogs that delve deep into issues; in fact, probably moreso than commercial media. But the vast majority of bloggers are just puking out whatever comes into their heads at the moment. As Capote said, "that's not writing, that's typing."
Try inksupply.com. They do (at least claim to) actually formulate ink for each line of carts, not just use a generic set of inks.
I have not done a ton of testing with my Canon. However, I used to have an Epson, one of their 6-color photo printers from about 4 years ago. I printed a bunch of photos with the Epson cart that it came with, and I also printed some photos after refilling with inksupply.com inks. I had a bunch of these thumbtacked to my cubicle wall in the light.
The refilled carts looked as good at first, but the real point was in fade resistance. 6 months later the prints made with Epson ink were horribly faded, while the refill inks were fading but not badly.
Epson has reformulated since then so this has no bearing on the current situation except that there ARE some companies out there who have good ink.
Actually yes. From the top of the page: increase battery power by 300%
It doesn't day a battery with 300% the power of a current battery, it says a battery with 300% more power. That's not right, it's 200% as the grandparent said.
I use inksupply.com. Whatever they recommend. For my current Canon i870 (I think, can't remember the model offhand) it's just a syringe, fat blunt needle, a "tool" to punch out the top which is just a 6-32x1" screw with a cap on it, another "tool" to vent the top of the cotton swab area which is just a drill bit hot glued into a wire nut, and a bunch of rubber balls to recap the top. They sell the whole batch with your first set of inks for pretty cheap.
You tape the output end with electrical tape before uncapping. Remove it after recapping. OCCASIONALLY a single drop will get out, so I do it on newspaper, but usually nothing.
It's illegal to destroy evidence related to an ongoing investigation.
Since you're required to report it, the discovery of incriminating data immediately begins an investigation. The investigation might be legally interpreted to have begun the moment you discover the evidence.
I would think that this would be similar to finding a gun and a pool of blood in the street. It would be illegal to take the gun and wash up the blood before the police got there, on the theory that if the cops haven't been there yet, there's no investigation.
so refill them. I have the same printer, refilling takes 2 minutes per color, costs 20 times, no problems so far. Check out inksupply.com, that's where I get my ink and they have full instructions on their website so you can see what you're getting into before you buy.
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Yes, but in terms of lifetime cost, I charge my batteries hundreds of times. All I need is for my batteries to last a full day in whatever device, then I can put them back in the charger. Any more is useless.
It's sickening how many batteries wind up landfilled every year. NiMH rechargables work really well and are very cheap in quantity. Go check out batteryspace.com - AA's are about $30 per 24 cells. Still more than alkalines, but they outperform alkalines in high draw stuff (what many people use them for; digital cameras and flashes) by a lot.
I live in Chelsea, about 20 miles west of Ann Arbor. Verizon is the only service that works where I live (8 miles north of the expressway), and it sucks. I can be standing outside my house with 4 bars, and in the course of 5 seconds it'll fade and cut me off. This is the case with two different phones, and has been happening since we got the phones 3 years ago. I dropped my coverage a few months ago because it was useless, and now don't have a cell, because none of the other companies are any good here, either.
Hmm, you got me curious.
Which server does the Army weapons lab use? (IIS/others)
How about the Navy?
Air Force (IIS on Linux???)
Not sure why any of this matters though. It's not like any of these are running secure data. That stuff's on a different network, and the people admining these sites are not the same ones running critical security.
Maybe research sites like Fermilab (apache/solaris)
or JPL (Netscape)
would make more sense?
Prosecute for what? Is there a law against redirecting web pages? I think this would be a pretty difficult prosecution. Google's going to have to take technical steps on this one.
Thanks for saying that.
If building a machine didn't involve soldering surface mount ICs and/or writing device drivers for a peripheral you wired up, then don't say you're "advanced".
This guy is as much an "advanced" system builder as some kid who buys some wheel rims and a stupid looking spoiler for his celica is an "advanced" car builder.
I've had better luck with Maxtor than others. The machine I'm on now has a stack of 4 160's crammed right against each other. They're so hot you can't hold one for more than 5 seconds. They've been running fine 24/7 for 2+ years. I've got another half dozen 40's, 80's, 120's and 160s in various machines, all Maxtor, some running for 4+ years. I've used nothing but Maxtor for about 6 years, and I've had one failure; a 40G in a Linux box 2 years ago; it started giving SMART warnings, so I copied the data off it and chucked it in the trash.
I don't buy Maxtor because of good luck, I buy whatever's cheap, because I just haven't had much trouble with hard drives. It just happens that "what's cheap" is usually Maxtor.
My theory: all consumer level drives are close to equal in failure rate. Some people will buy a drive or even two of a specific brand and have bad luck, and forever swear that brand is crap. Sometimes a manufacturer (ANY manufacturer) has a specific drive or series that's crap.
If you're buying consumer level drives, just run SMART monitoring and swap out the drive when it starts going. I've recommended this to many people, a few have done it, of those, two have had a drive start to fail and swapped it, they got all their data, none of the rest have had a failure.
But then they sold it to General Motors, who shut it down
urban legend.
A living language is one thing. But saying the opposite of what you mean because you're lazy is another. I've come to accept usages changing, even to the point where I'm willing to concede that "hackers" now means a bad guy. But if they tried to say "good guy" == "bad guy" then I have to draw the line.
"I could care less" has a specific meaning in the english language, and it's the exact opposite of what people intend. If they thought about the phrase for 5 seconds they'd realize that.
The problem is that people do not think about what they say. Reading the Dilbert Newsletter section on inDuhViduals speaking will yield plenty of examples of people just saying things without having any idea of what the phrase means.
In most cases, I believe that these shifts have to do with the fact that people just don't read much anymore. They learn the language aurally, and that's imprecise.
Good idea. First, develop a mass transport infrastructure. I'm getting a bit tired of people who live where there is an infrastructure telling those of us who live where there aren't any busses that come within miles of our houses that we should take the bus.
I personally ride a bike when I can (about 3000 miles a year commuting). I'd have to go 8.5 miles to get to where I could take a bus the last 2 miles.
If I lived in Boston or New York, or maybe Chicago, sure, I'd take some mass transit. At least, until I could get a job somewhere else.
They're slashdotted so I can't see the article.
But if that's all they're talking about, well, those have been available in home improvement stores for at least 10 years.
Well maybe if your day job is flipping burgers it makes sense to spend your time dealing with them.
Well, as I said, it takes me about 5 minutes to deal with it. Almost all of my rebates are for DVD-Rs and hard drives (do people still use floppies? I don't even have a floppy drive in any machine anymore). The rebates average about $15. I don't make $180 an hour, but if you do, I suppose you have a point.
Not true. I play the rebate game constantly. I do on average 20 to 30 computer equipment rebates a year. I fill them out, carefully check everything, and scan everything before I mail them out, then set a palm pilot alarm for 8 weeks hence to say it should have arrived by now, as soon as I get back from the store. It takes about 5 minutes, which is generally less time than I spent waiting in line.
I keep track of them, and I have yet to be denied ONE SINGLE REBATE. Most are purchased at CompUSA, some at Best Buy, Staples, Office Max, maybe others. I get hundreds of dollars in rebates a year.
I think all the people bitching must have bought the item on the last day of the rebate and then let it sit in their house for weeks before sending it in, or really done something wrong. There are rules, but they're clear and on the rebate form. Read them before you leave the store. In the days before they printed the rebate forms on the register, I wouldn't leave the store until they provided the form. If they couldn't, I'd leave the item at the counter and tell them that I wouldn't buy it for that reason. Not a problem anymore though.
That sounds good to me, since tax is a cash outflow (negative income), that means I get 5% back on my taxes.
A quick google search turns up this, which IS RELEVANT IN CALIFORNIA.
s /f wdocs/fw_2002may.pdf
5 22.0.html
http://www.oaklandyellowjackets.org/memberacces
Q: Are you a cop?
A: yes.
Q: Do I have to have my driver's license with me when I ride a bike?
A: No. Anyone can ride a bike. You do have to follow the rules of the road.
However:
http://insidetriathlon.com/news/fea/1
states:
However, the California vehicle code states that if a traffic violator cannot produce "a driver's license or other satisfactory evidence of identity for examination," the driver must be taken into custody.
So you do not have to have a license to operate a bicycle, even in CA. However, you must provide ID if you are stopped for a traffic violation, or you risk being taken into custody.
Also, any cop can just ask you for ID at any time, for no reason at all, even just sitting on a park bench, anywhere in the US, and you're required to produce ID. This was a supreme court ruling from a few months ago.
It's illegal to have anything not installed by the factory impeding your view through the front window in pretty much every state.
I don't violate this law because it makes me nuts to have anything hanging from there. Even the rearview mirror bugs me sometimes; I push it as far up as I can.
I went through a phase where I tried to get every last little bit of speed out of everything. Problem is, that often leads to harder-to-maintain, or less correct, code.
I don't believe in the camp that says "screw optimization, just buy a faster CPU". However, I also don't think it's worth sacrificing readability or portability to chop out a few cycles here and there.
Use your optimization brainpower on choosing and implementing faster algorithms; that has the potential of making vast differences in the speed of your apps. As for individual lines of code, do what is most readable and correct and portable.
BTW, I prefer "if (NULL == ptr)" - put the constant first. Slightly less readable, but will not compile if you accidentally type "if (NULL = ptr)". Once you get used to this it's not a problem to read, but it saves me a bug a few times a year.
I don't think he's saying that they're for writing literature. However, you can to some extent look into someone's mind through their writing. People who have not spent much/any time reading complex works probably haven't exercised their own ability to think in complex ways. Certainly that's true of the US populace in general; that's why political campaigns have learned to work with sound bites and visceral reactions, rather than talking in-depth about issues. Immediate reaction is all that many people think about.
There are some blogs that delve deep into issues; in fact, probably moreso than commercial media. But the vast majority of bloggers are just puking out whatever comes into their heads at the moment. As Capote said, "that's not writing, that's typing."
Try inksupply.com. They do (at least claim to) actually formulate ink for each line of carts, not just use a generic set of inks.
I have not done a ton of testing with my Canon. However, I used to have an Epson, one of their 6-color photo printers from about 4 years ago. I printed a bunch of photos with the Epson cart that it came with, and I also printed some photos after refilling with inksupply.com inks. I had a bunch of these thumbtacked to my cubicle wall in the light.
The refilled carts looked as good at first, but the real point was in fade resistance. 6 months later the prints made with Epson ink were horribly faded, while the refill inks were fading but not badly.
Epson has reformulated since then so this has no bearing on the current situation except that there ARE some companies out there who have good ink.
Actually yes. From the top of the page:
increase battery power by 300%
It doesn't day a battery with 300% the power of a current battery, it says a battery with 300% more power. That's not right, it's 200% as the grandparent said.
I'd mod you funny if I could.
I use inksupply.com. Whatever they recommend. For my current Canon i870 (I think, can't remember the model offhand) it's just a syringe, fat blunt needle, a "tool" to punch out the top which is just a 6-32x1" screw with a cap on it, another "tool" to vent the top of the cotton swab area which is just a drill bit hot glued into a wire nut, and a bunch of rubber balls to recap the top. They sell the whole batch with your first set of inks for pretty cheap.
Check the instructions at inksupply.com.
You tape the output end with electrical tape before uncapping. Remove it after recapping. OCCASIONALLY a single drop will get out, so I do it on newspaper, but usually nothing.
Maybe this (I'm guessing):
It's illegal to destroy evidence related to an ongoing investigation.
Since you're required to report it, the discovery of incriminating data immediately begins an investigation. The investigation might be legally interpreted to have begun the moment you discover the evidence.
I would think that this would be similar to finding a gun and a pool of blood in the street. It would be illegal to take the gun and wash up the blood before the police got there, on the theory that if the cops haven't been there yet, there's no investigation.
Color laser photos look like ass. Inkjet looks nice. Dye-sub is also good but expensive per page.
so refill them. I have the same printer, refilling takes 2 minutes per color, costs 20 times, no problems so far. Check out inksupply.com, that's where I get my ink and they have full instructions on their website so you can see what you're getting into before you buy.