Considering that it only takes about an hour on the slowest DSL connections, I still consider it small. I downloaded Knoppix (CD version) with a 512k connection and it took five hours. With cable even 100 meg would be damn small.
I have an optical mouse, I get the best performance when using a mousepad. I remember in 8th grade, the school had a special computer for me to use in English class (my penmenship was shittier than it is today for some reason) I ended up using a folded piece of notebook paper for the mousepad on a ball mouse (Mac LC) and it worked like a charm.
Other than the Arab Beard comment, I fail to see this a flamebait. The parent had a point, but only ruined it with the Arab Beard part. If the optics were powerful enough, and the Hubble could be turned around, it would make a great spy satellite. However due to the Hubble's age, even if it was a possibility, the hubble would be too prone to failure.
I have to say, I did not get any soldering skills in my vo-tech class. I will be getting them in a later term in my associate degree program. I have soldered before, but I put the device (rectifier) in backwards and never fixed it. I don't know if my soldering would be reliable or not (probably not). Even if a tech has soldering skills, most of the time, the tech will not replace the caps (unless it is their personal machine) but replace the motherboard.
Does your pre-remote TV feel hot even when it is off? If it does you want to turn off the power to it as it is keeping tubes hot. Another test is to see if the picture comes on instantly (picture tube does not have to warm up).
The power supply unit is rated at 28 watts, I think it would not be any more than this, but it will have more leakage though. Did they test the Playstation (internal transformer) or the PS1 (external adapter) the PS1 will have more leakage than the Playstation.
Yeah, cell phone design has been fucked up since the StarTac. We don't need whereable phones, digital technology, text messaging, cameras, and all of that shit. I wish that voice mail was never invented (so I can let my girlfriend's phone ring continuously instead of hearing "Your call has been fowarded to an automatic voice message system." I'm probably burning karma here, but, please, bring back the analog MicroTacs with the.6 watts of power. I can't even get a Tri-Mode Phone, and in some areas, analog is the most reliable mode.
Where I'm at, all I have to make sure is that my offsite is not the city. I live in the Johnstown area between Johnstown and Westmont. As far as flooding goes, I'm safe. As far as fire goes, I can store my backups in my girlfriend's room as this building is designed that a fire in F-Dorm (where I'm at) cannot get to the next dorm (E or G). My girlfriend is in B-Dorm. If I would store backups, it would be at home (where my parents live) as it is another part of the state. I would jabber some more, but I have to get my ass to class.
Ok, I know that I'm at a school for disabled students (I have Asperger's) and there are two type of rooms. There are single rooms where you have about half the size for everything and your regular double. Each room has a closet (single room closests lock), a sink with mirror, drawers (double rooms have a locking drawer), a shared bathroom, a bed, a counter (desk), a desk lamp (yep Its included), a shared bathroom (with shower in G and H dorm), phone and data hookup (the data hookup is more for school personel I think), and a cable TV hookup.
We have the following special rules: No Refrigerators (unless perscribed by doctor and approved by dorm counsoler) No Electric Blankets No Guitar Amps without permission (permission is usually granted, it is more for noise concerns) No cooking appliances (and right now the only working microwave is in F-Dorm where I'm at)
Of course we do have CO-ED visitation during the following hours MON-THU 3 PM until 11 PM FRI 3 PM until 2 AM SAT-Term Break-Days before holidays 12 PM until 2 AM SUN 12 PM until 11 PM
And I must remind everybody, unlike most slashdotters, I have a girlfriend.
Well, if you take a look at the Johnstown economy, it is doing well, except in tech. I live in Johnstown (and will until December of `07). The Johnstown area is very nice.
The FCC has lightened up on the commerce rules a bit. While, I'm not an operator I have read books about ham radio. Here is an example of legal/illegal commerce communications:
Legal: Calling for Pizza Calling a tow truck. Purchasing/selling Ham Equipment (as long as it is not a habit)
Illegal: Calling your boss and telling him/her you will be late Accepting money or any payment (this include sexual favors) for operating Selling non-radio equipment.
Ok, I thought MD was optical. UMD if opened up would dominiate the floppy world. To those out there I still do have and use ZIP drives. I actually have a friend that is willing to GIVE me four 100 meg zip disks.
Don't pay the extra money for the S-Video out. Cable TV is composite. Don't worry about the diffrence in comb filters you are only going to get about 320X288 anyway.
When the mini-disc came out, I thought it was going to kill a lot of formats at once. I thought the mini-disc would replace CD-ROM, audio CD, Floppy Disk, Zip Disk, and LS-120. But then again I thought that ZIP and LS-120 would replace the floppy disk. UMD has the same potential as I thought minidisc had. Make it work like a floppy (thumb drive, etc), open the standard except for the PSP game and maybe video formats (give Sony something to keep to themselves for IP reasons) and let the UMD revolution begin. Will this happen, all I can say is Sony will make Beta VCRs again before they open up UMD.
I've executed WinME on a P2 233 MHz 16 MB RAM and it wasn't too slow to boot. I was troubleshooting the system. The Instuctor swapped out one of the good 8 MB SIMMS for a bad one.
Right on, AMPS has it's downfalls, I was not trying to be funny and so on. When AMPS came out the quality was as bad as current technologies, by the time current technologies came out they saw how people put up with the shittier AMPS phones so they compressed the calls some more. AMPS is nearly the same quality of a wireline phone. AMPS phones put out more power too which made them a little better in weak spots, for example my dorm room. Look at this chart: PHONE SYSTEM MAX POWER IN WATTS AMPS 0.6 handheld 3 other CDMA 0.2 handheld 2 other Other systems I don't know
The only thing I can seen being affected by a pole reversal would be a CRT. If the idiots 2000 years from now are still using those things, all they would have to do:
1. Remove CRT
2. Rotate CRT 180 degrees so the top is on the bottom.
3. Rotate magnets and yoke
4. Reinsert CRT and re-align
5. Use CRT
The same procedure would be used for moving from northern hemisphere to sothern hemisphere or vice versa.
I live at and go to a state funded technical school for the disabled (no matter how minor). The rules here are simple:
Nothing Illegal (filesharing, etc.)
Nothing Illict (Porn, slashdot, My Space etc)
What you do in your dorm room on your own connection is your business.
I didn't RTFA, but if they start regulating the connection in my dorm room, I'm going to be pissed.
True, I understand that there are other browsers that are better in this regard, but I feel firefox has the most potential. I changed the settings that I know about and stay away from the RAM hogging sites such as NWS radar. NWS radar will make your computer dump to pagefile/swap/virtual memory more often than anything in Firefox. Another thing I noticed with Firefox is that if it uses too much memory quiting the program will not end firefox.exe. I did not file a bug report on this, but I would to let you know it is there and the error can be resolved with the windows task manager.
Please mod this offtopic. The only thing that was fixed was a security isssue. I personally accept the high memory usage of Firefox as a quirk, not a bug, not a feature.
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Considering that it only takes about an hour on the slowest DSL connections, I still consider it small. I downloaded Knoppix (CD version) with a 512k connection and it took five hours. With cable even 100 meg would be damn small.
I have an optical mouse, I get the best performance when using a mousepad. I remember in 8th grade, the school had a special computer for me to use in English class (my penmenship was shittier than it is today for some reason) I ended up using a folded piece of notebook paper for the mousepad on a ball mouse (Mac LC) and it worked like a charm.
Other than the Arab Beard comment, I fail to see this a flamebait. The parent had a point, but only ruined it with the Arab Beard part. If the optics were powerful enough, and the Hubble could be turned around, it would make a great spy satellite. However due to the Hubble's age, even if it was a possibility, the hubble would be too prone to failure.
I have to say, I did not get any soldering skills in my vo-tech class. I will be getting them in a later term in my associate degree program. I have soldered before, but I put the device (rectifier) in backwards and never fixed it. I don't know if my soldering would be reliable or not (probably not). Even if a tech has soldering skills, most of the time, the tech will not replace the caps (unless it is their personal machine) but replace the motherboard.
Does your pre-remote TV feel hot even when it is off? If it does you want to turn off the power to it as it is keeping tubes hot. Another test is to see if the picture comes on instantly (picture tube does not have to warm up).
The power supply unit is rated at 28 watts, I think it would not be any more than this, but it will have more leakage though. Did they test the Playstation (internal transformer) or the PS1 (external adapter) the PS1 will have more leakage than the Playstation.
Yep, for this much data you need to get perpendicular.
Yeah, cell phone design has been fucked up since the StarTac. We don't need whereable phones, digital technology, text messaging, cameras, and all of that shit. I wish that voice mail was never invented (so I can let my girlfriend's phone ring continuously instead of hearing "Your call has been fowarded to an automatic voice message system." I'm probably burning karma here, but, please, bring back the analog MicroTacs with the .6 watts of power. I can't even get a Tri-Mode Phone, and in some areas, analog is the most reliable mode.
Where I'm at, all I have to make sure is that my offsite is not the city. I live in the Johnstown area between Johnstown and Westmont. As far as flooding goes, I'm safe. As far as fire goes, I can store my backups in my girlfriend's room as this building is designed that a fire in F-Dorm (where I'm at) cannot get to the next dorm (E or G). My girlfriend is in B-Dorm. If I would store backups, it would be at home (where my parents live) as it is another part of the state. I would jabber some more, but I have to get my ass to class.
Ok, I know that I'm at a school for disabled students (I have Asperger's) and there are two type of rooms. There are single rooms where you have about half the size for everything and your regular double. Each room has a closet (single room closests lock), a sink with mirror, drawers (double rooms have a locking drawer), a shared bathroom, a bed, a counter (desk), a desk lamp (yep Its included), a shared bathroom (with shower in G and H dorm), phone and data hookup (the data hookup is more for school personel I think), and a cable TV hookup.
We have the following special rules:
No Refrigerators (unless perscribed by doctor and approved by dorm counsoler)
No Electric Blankets
No Guitar Amps without permission (permission is usually granted, it is more for noise concerns)
No cooking appliances (and right now the only working microwave is in F-Dorm where I'm at)
Of course we do have CO-ED visitation during the following hours
MON-THU 3 PM until 11 PM
FRI 3 PM until 2 AM
SAT-Term Break-Days before holidays 12 PM until 2 AM
SUN 12 PM until 11 PM
And I must remind everybody, unlike most slashdotters, I have a girlfriend.
Well, if you take a look at the Johnstown economy, it is doing well, except in tech. I live in Johnstown (and will until December of `07). The Johnstown area is very nice.
The FCC has lightened up on the commerce rules a bit. While, I'm not an operator I have read books about ham radio. Here is an example of legal/illegal commerce communications:
/selling Ham Equipment (as long as it is not a habit)
Legal:
Calling for Pizza
Calling a tow truck.
Purchasing
Illegal:
Calling your boss and telling him/her you will be late
Accepting money or any payment (this include sexual favors) for operating
Selling non-radio equipment.
It won't be $25 at a yard sale yet either. Seriously, with the computing power that is put into these we should be paying a lot more.
Ok, I thought MD was optical. UMD if opened up would dominiate the floppy world. To those out there I still do have and use ZIP drives. I actually have a friend that is willing to GIVE me four 100 meg zip disks.
Don't pay the extra money for the S-Video out. Cable TV is composite. Don't worry about the diffrence in comb filters you are only going to get about 320X288 anyway.
When the mini-disc came out, I thought it was going to kill a lot of formats at once. I thought the mini-disc would replace CD-ROM, audio CD, Floppy Disk, Zip Disk, and LS-120. But then again I thought that ZIP and LS-120 would replace the floppy disk. UMD has the same potential as I thought minidisc had. Make it work like a floppy (thumb drive, etc), open the standard except for the PSP game and maybe video formats (give Sony something to keep to themselves for IP reasons) and let the UMD revolution begin. Will this happen, all I can say is Sony will make Beta VCRs again before they open up UMD.
I've executed WinME on a P2 233 MHz 16 MB RAM and it wasn't too slow to boot. I was troubleshooting the system. The Instuctor swapped out one of the good 8 MB SIMMS for a bad one.
Right on, AMPS has it's downfalls, I was not trying to be funny and so on. When AMPS came out the quality was as bad as current technologies, by the time current technologies came out they saw how people put up with the shittier AMPS phones so they compressed the calls some more. AMPS is nearly the same quality of a wireline phone. AMPS phones put out more power too which made them a little better in weak spots, for example my dorm room. Look at this chart:
PHONE SYSTEM MAX POWER IN WATTS
AMPS 0.6 handheld 3 other
CDMA 0.2 handheld 2 other
Other systems I don't know
The only thing I can seen being affected by a pole reversal would be a CRT. If the idiots 2000 years from now are still using those things, all they would have to do:
1. Remove CRT
2. Rotate CRT 180 degrees so the top is on the bottom.
3. Rotate magnets and yoke
4. Reinsert CRT and re-align
5. Use CRT
The same procedure would be used for moving from northern hemisphere to sothern hemisphere or vice versa.
I have to agree on that one, what ever happened to the MicroTac? AMPS is a superior technology for call quality.
I live at and go to a state funded technical school for the disabled (no matter how minor). The rules here are simple:
Nothing Illegal (filesharing, etc.)
Nothing Illict (Porn, slashdot, My Space etc)
What you do in your dorm room on your own connection is your business.
I didn't RTFA, but if they start regulating the connection in my dorm room, I'm going to be pissed.
Well, I'm getting closer to number 10. Yes, slashdotters, I have a life other than slashdot.
True, I understand that there are other browsers that are better in this regard, but I feel firefox has the most potential. I changed the settings that I know about and stay away from the RAM hogging sites such as NWS radar. NWS radar will make your computer dump to pagefile/swap/virtual memory more often than anything in Firefox. Another thing I noticed with Firefox is that if it uses too much memory quiting the program will not end firefox.exe. I did not file a bug report on this, but I would to let you know it is there and the error can be resolved with the windows task manager.
Please mod this offtopic. The only thing that was fixed was a security isssue. I personally accept the high memory usage of Firefox as a quirk, not a bug, not a feature.
Maybe they should have called it the nintendo w00t, or even better yet the RES (revolutionary entertainment system).