When I was in college in the 80s, there was a prof who used two overhead projectors, each of which had a scroll of prewritten class notes. He scrolled one page then the next, going so fast that if you wrote extremely fast, you could almost write down the relevant points. You had a choice of that or listening to what he was saying.
Worst class ever. Something like a 60% drop rate for that class, and it was a senior level class required for graduation.
I started doing that when I saw them installed consistently like that in an industrial situation, but I didn't fully understand the reason. I do know that plugs are less likely to pull out due to weight on the plug like that.
Finally I asked an electrician. He said the reason is that if something falls on the plug, pulls it partly out, and makes contact with the prongs, it hits the earthing pin first rather than possibly hitting the hot lead first.
That's exactly why I DON'T watch commercials. I don't need any new products and services, and knowing about them just gives me one more thing to potentially covet and spend money I don't need to be spending.
They should have a setting in the user profile for what to do if you're reported dead. I'd personally prefer that the account be "disappeared" - same as deleted but the data kept there in case the death report was a prank or something, so I wouldn't lose all my data. Or maybe someone wants the data to be kept there but everything locked.
They look like some of the flattop panheads that I've got around here. The tops of these screws are like pancakes, flat top and bottom with slightly rounded sides. They look exactly like that. I've got some in both 6-32 and 3mm.
The media for this will no doubt cost at least $30 each, since regular bluray blanks are currently about $12, and new media types are always expensive when they first come out.
By the time this comes out in 2012 to 2015, we'll probably have hard drive space down to something like $20/TB if not less, since it's at about $60/TB right now. I recently switched from DVD-R to 1.5TB hard drives as removable media (hard drives plugged into docking stations) when I realized that not only were hard drives cheaper per GB than DVD-R blanks, they were far more reliable too.
I wouldn't be surprised if flash memory was pretty close to competitive to this price point too, by then ($100/TB or less).
I think it's funny how many of them use their pets/childs names or birth year as passwords to their on-line bank account....and then take a "quiz" where they fill in their pet's name and birth year to see what their porn star name is, or something.
FAT will still be readable in 200 years. Heck, even if it's not immediately supported, it's such a simple filesystem that you could whack together a program to read the files from an image in a couple of hours.
But it won't be necessary; given that practically every consumer device from thumb drives to MP3 players and cameras mount via USB and FAT, nobody's going to build an OS for the forseeable future that won't support FAT.
That probably won't work. For one thing, take the battery out, because in 17 years it'll probably degrade into a toxic sludge. Also there's probably a clock battery inside, disassemble and remove that too or it could dissolve itself and part of the main board.
If you leave a hard drive sitting that long, the bearings will probably seize. If you buy one with SSD drive instead, that will almost certainly have bit rot in 17 years, so the thing won't boot anyway, and forget reinstalling; in 17 years it'll be illegal to have any OS except for Windows, and it'll require 32 terabytes of RAM, a minimum 64 processor, 128 GHz CPU and a 2 petabyte drive to boot from.
I can almost guarantee they'll be unreadable in 17 years. I have a few thousand CD and DVD media that are up to 12 years old at this point, and the DVDs have a high rate of decay, even when stored on higher end media. The CDs also decay, especially when written to cheap consumer grade discs. The ones that have survived totally intact from the oldest archives are those written to Kodak DataLife Gold CDRs. I don't even know if you can still get those or if they're as good as they used to be. I was paying nearly $5 each for them back then.
I've actually switched to storing my stuff on 1TB SATA drives (with a mirror), because over the years I've had almost no data loss on hard drive, but I've lost hundreds of files to CD/DVD rot.
No. I have family members who are unable to get their conditions treated. One has a tumor and can't afford to even get it biopsied, and can't find any agency to help. Nor could he do anything about it even if it was found to be malignant (other than die).
Being sloppy and not paying attention to spelling has reduced your ability to spell. Typing something versus writing it with a pen is no excuse for bad grammar and spelling.
If this really worries you, how about spelling things properly when you're typing? The world will thank you.
Yes, but it's kind of silly to distribute fixed documents in an editable format. If I am distributing something that I want to be left alone as is, I distribute it as a PDF. I only distribute DOC if I expect others to modify it.
Also, I have pretty good confidence that a PDF document will render pretty much the same in 10 years as it does today. I do NOT have that level of confidence in an MS Word document; history has shown that a document from an old version of Word, imported into a newer one, might render very differently than the author intended.
I drive the speed limit or perhaps 5 under, and I think I have the same effect. People tend to get into clumps going 5 over, 10 over, etc, and move as a lump down all the lanes. When they come up behind me, they're forced to move over and pass, and I think the turbulent flow tends to break things up and allow people to resort themselves into different speed groups.
I still haven't seen a single reason why I need Vista or 7. Heck, Windows 2000 is still fine; I run it on one of my machines. I'm only running XP because that's what came on the machines. I could replace it with W2K and hardly notice the difference.
That's funny, I thought only magnetic patterns could be written to the hard drive. When read back and decoded, they're interpreted as 0s and 1s. When those are interpreted, they might look like a u. How low do you want to go with pedanticism?
Wind kills less birds than coal does. And less than large buildings do too, but you hardly ever hear people complaining that they can't build a building there because birds might hit it and die.
I think we should do nuclear TOO. As long as we can do it sensibly; that is, with breeder reactors.
I think they're quite pretty, I think it'd be awesome to have some in sight of my house. And they take up almost no space, the land around them can (and often is) still used for farming and other purposes.
Actually, not difficult at all if all you need is compatibility with any car built since the early 80s. After that point, every car has OBD-II ports, and it's trivial to build a device to plug into it and get vehicle speed and distance. If they were just looking at monitoring miles traveled, you could build something for probably 5 bucks in large quantity that would just plug into the OBD connector.
I agree on the lack of permissions thing. I use TB drives as removable media, and I recently reinstalled Windows. Now all my files are owned by a different UID than me, and I have to manually go through and reclaim ownership.
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When I was in college in the 80s, there was a prof who used two overhead projectors, each of which had a scroll of prewritten class notes. He scrolled one page then the next, going so fast that if you wrote extremely fast, you could almost write down the relevant points. You had a choice of that or listening to what he was saying.
Worst class ever. Something like a 60% drop rate for that class, and it was a senior level class required for graduation.
I started doing that when I saw them installed consistently like that in an industrial situation, but I didn't fully understand the reason. I do know that plugs are less likely to pull out due to weight on the plug like that.
Finally I asked an electrician. He said the reason is that if something falls on the plug, pulls it partly out, and makes contact with the prongs, it hits the earthing pin first rather than possibly hitting the hot lead first.
Castration instead of vasectomy would actually help those violent tendencies. Drop their testosterone levels RIGHT down.
That's exactly why I DON'T watch commercials. I don't need any new products and services, and knowing about them just gives me one more thing to potentially covet and spend money I don't need to be spending.
So use a 23 watt CFL. Nobody's forcing you to go by the claims on the package. You're still burning just a little over 1/3 the power.
They should have a setting in the user profile for what to do if you're reported dead. I'd personally prefer that the account be "disappeared" - same as deleted but the data kept there in case the death report was a prank or something, so I wouldn't lose all my data.
Or maybe someone wants the data to be kept there but everything locked.
Install Greasemonkey, then install Facebook Purity. No more apps.
Or run lite.facebook.com.
They look like some of the flattop panheads that I've got around here. The tops of these screws are like pancakes, flat top and bottom with slightly rounded sides. They look exactly like that. I've got some in both 6-32 and 3mm.
The media for this will no doubt cost at least $30 each, since regular bluray blanks are currently about $12, and new media types are always expensive when they first come out.
By the time this comes out in 2012 to 2015, we'll probably have hard drive space down to something like $20/TB if not less, since it's at about $60/TB right now. I recently switched from DVD-R to 1.5TB hard drives as removable media (hard drives plugged into docking stations) when I realized that not only were hard drives cheaper per GB than DVD-R blanks, they were far more reliable too.
I wouldn't be surprised if flash memory was pretty close to competitive to this price point too, by then ($100/TB or less).
I think it's funny how many of them use their pets/childs names or birth year as passwords to their on-line bank account. ...and then take a "quiz" where they fill in their pet's name and birth year to see what their porn star name is, or something.
Kids in our school district have typing lessons in I think 3rd or 4th grade. Both of our kids could touch type by 5th grade.
FAT will still be readable in 200 years. Heck, even if it's not immediately supported, it's such a simple filesystem that you could whack together a program to read the files from an image in a couple of hours.
But it won't be necessary; given that practically every consumer device from thumb drives to MP3 players and cameras mount via USB and FAT, nobody's going to build an OS for the forseeable future that won't support FAT.
Every machine I own uses VGA, not DVI. The only use I put DVI to is that I have a DVI to HDMI adaptor to hook my MythTV box up to my TV.
That probably won't work. For one thing, take the battery out, because in 17 years it'll probably degrade into a toxic sludge. Also there's probably a clock battery inside, disassemble and remove that too or it could dissolve itself and part of the main board.
If you leave a hard drive sitting that long, the bearings will probably seize. If you buy one with SSD drive instead, that will almost certainly have bit rot in 17 years, so the thing won't boot anyway, and forget reinstalling; in 17 years it'll be illegal to have any OS except for Windows, and it'll require 32 terabytes of RAM, a minimum 64 processor, 128 GHz CPU and a 2 petabyte drive to boot from.
I can almost guarantee they'll be unreadable in 17 years. I have a few thousand CD and DVD media that are up to 12 years old at this point, and the DVDs have a high rate of decay, even when stored on higher end media. The CDs also decay, especially when written to cheap consumer grade discs. The ones that have survived totally intact from the oldest archives are those written to Kodak DataLife Gold CDRs. I don't even know if you can still get those or if they're as good as they used to be. I was paying nearly $5 each for them back then.
I've actually switched to storing my stuff on 1TB SATA drives (with a mirror), because over the years I've had almost no data loss on hard drive, but I've lost hundreds of files to CD/DVD rot.
No. I have family members who are unable to get their conditions treated. One has a tumor and can't afford to even get it biopsied, and can't find any agency to help. Nor could he do anything about it even if it was found to be malignant (other than die).
Being sloppy and not paying attention to spelling has reduced your ability to spell.
Typing something versus writing it with a pen is no excuse for bad grammar and spelling.
If this really worries you, how about spelling things properly when you're typing? The world will thank you.
Yes, but it's kind of silly to distribute fixed documents in an editable format. If I am distributing something that I want to be left alone as is, I distribute it as a PDF. I only distribute DOC if I expect others to modify it.
Also, I have pretty good confidence that a PDF document will render pretty much the same in 10 years as it does today. I do NOT have that level of confidence in an MS Word document; history has shown that a document from an old version of Word, imported into a newer one, might render very differently than the author intended.
I drive the speed limit or perhaps 5 under, and I think I have the same effect. People tend to get into clumps going 5 over, 10 over, etc, and move as a lump down all the lanes. When they come up behind me, they're forced to move over and pass, and I think the turbulent flow tends to break things up and allow people to resort themselves into different speed groups.
I still haven't seen a single reason why I need Vista or 7. Heck, Windows 2000 is still fine; I run it on one of my machines. I'm only running XP because that's what came on the machines. I could replace it with W2K and hardly notice the difference.
That's funny, I thought only magnetic patterns could be written to the hard drive. When read back and decoded, they're interpreted as 0s and 1s. When those are interpreted, they might look like a u. How low do you want to go with pedanticism?
Wind kills less birds than coal does. And less than large buildings do too, but you hardly ever hear people complaining that they can't build a building there because birds might hit it and die.
I think we should do nuclear TOO. As long as we can do it sensibly; that is, with breeder reactors.
I think they're quite pretty, I think it'd be awesome to have some in sight of my house. And they take up almost no space, the land around them can (and often is) still used for farming and other purposes.
Actually, not difficult at all if all you need is compatibility with any car built since the early 80s. After that point, every car has OBD-II ports, and it's trivial to build a device to plug into it and get vehicle speed and distance. If they were just looking at monitoring miles traveled, you could build something for probably 5 bucks in large quantity that would just plug into the OBD connector.
I agree on the lack of permissions thing. I use TB drives as removable media, and I recently reinstalled Windows. Now all my files are owned by a different UID than me, and I have to manually go through and reclaim ownership.
I'd like something like NTFS with no permissions.