I should have added: depending on the presentation. I was talking about broken but properly-seated ram (memtest, not POST errors).
That being said, I once had a customer's shitty no-name mobo attempt to use the RAM even though it wasn't seated properly - one of the two clips wasn't/quite/ catching. It POSTed to the right amount and everything, failing with a HAL.DLL error which is often disk corruption.
That's the one that took me an hour. When I asked the guy if he'd changed anything in his computer recently, he neglected to mention that he thought the RAM clip looked "too tight" and that he loosened it a little.
That's the stupidest bullshit I've heard in a week (I hear a lot of bullshit).
Take, for example, my laptop. It says right on the adapter that it is a 90w adapter; it puts out 19.5v at 4.62a, DC. My computer uses less than 4.62a while running at full load, so the extra charges/maintains the battery. In fact, if I plug in a 65w adapter (same plug) it will underclock so it can *still* charge the battery.
If what you said were true, you couldn't leave a laptop on 24x7, or even for more than a few hours.
and I hate guys who screw customers. I charge a flat $30/hr, and it's free if the problem isn't fixed (in 6 years, that's never happened). I don't do any advertising, except by word of mouth. I have no dissatisfied customers.
Phone time is free (for now; if it's abused I'll change that) and I'll do anything.
These tech guys are dishonest. They give us all a bad name.
That being said, so does the news corp. If Windows isn't starting, it'll take me at least an hour (probably more) to figure out that it's screwed ram, particularly because most of these problems are software issues. Hardware rarely fails; a non-booting windows is usually disk corruption or a virus. So I'd yank the drive and chkdsk it first, which usually fixes it, then try booting a recovery CD (or flash) and check the ram when that failed.
When people delibrately screw up the computer (heard a story about a backwards IDE cable...) you can't be expected to find it instantly. You can fix everybody else's problems faster if you go for the common stuff faster. But when the news says "dishonest!!" people believe it for the same reason they call us in the first place - they don't know any better!
Still doesn't excuse the douchebag who tried to skim the bank info, though. The only reason I look through data is to see if it needs to be backed up - most people don't know where everything is stored.
Moreso than that. It's called the 'weak skulls doctrine' (IIRC, IANAL). Basically, you take your victims as you find them - if you throw a baseball at somebody (and it wouldn't kill them) and they have an unusually thin skull (and it does) then you are still responsible for their death.
"A normal person wouldn't have died, but this (unknown to me) abnormal person did" still holds the person responsible.
Just jailbreak the fucking thing like the rest of us and quit bitching. I just finished a SSH session to my phone (where I su to root).
I consider that owning my phone, especially because it's even relatively safe to unlock then. Everybody who isn't willing to do that, please just shut up. Apple doesn't seem to care too much about the jailbreak; it works out great. "Normal" users don't get confused, and everybody else can run multiple apps, get SSH, turn-by-turn directions, etc.
Seriously, take the 5 minutes and do it. You'll thank me. Or stop complaining.
The entire reason for this bill is - fundamentally - there is no reason not to pollute. Turns out that this is a bit of a tragedy of the commons. I could put however much crap I want in the air, without anybody bothering me. There is currently no cost for polluting that any individual business sees - we all share the costs.
What this bill does is create a cost out of thin air that (hopefully) measures - and imposes - the costs to society of polluting. Then the ability to pollute is scarce, just as it is in the atmosphere. In other words, capitalism at its finest. In the interests of reducing costs, businesses will cut emissions, be more careful about energy use, and so on.
There should be a longer discussion about the specific way to do this, absolutely. But it should and must be done.
Look; if you think that fundamentally the government shouldn't ever actually do anything, I know you don't think this will work and you can't be helped. I wish there were less people like you - you will eventually destroy the country.
It just occured to me that I Godwin'd this story already, but this is just like when IBM sold adding machines to the Nazis to help them tabulate Holocaust victims.
Way I see it, who cares? The corner store selling smokes isn't to blame for the lung cancer - ultimately the smoker is. Except it's even more generic than that.
- Siemens sold network technology to Iran - the same you'd use for all sorts of network admin - and they used it to censor. That's Iran's bad. - IBM sold adding machines - they'll count anything - and the Nazis used them to count Jews (and others). That's the Nazi's bad.
In short, don't blame the maker for the use of the tool.
I sympathize for (but don't agree with) people who call out Obama's (admittedly many) poor decisions and shout "Is this the change you voted for? That was one hell of a marketing scheme"
Well I'm proud to say that, yes, this is the change I voted for. This is exactly the type of decision that makes me happy of my choice. Go Obama! I'm not thrilled about all of your decisions, but it's things like this that make me guardedly optimistic that the future of our country is in careful and intelligent
(Though I can't see at the moment how this will be spun as a negative, I'm sure it will be).
mostly because my mother is really into it. I had pinkeye, and was given 100x homeopath pinkeye 'cure'. I put it in one eye, not the other, and the un'treated' eye got better about 2 days quicker. Look, if you want to believe that homeopathy works, drink some tap water. The concentrations will probably be higher, otherwise the water will remember the shape of the active ingredient that was in it at one point.
Part of the reason for the FDA's creation was to stop the horseshit 'therapies' that were being sold a hundred years ago. They have a responsibility to screen out the bullshit, especially when it hurts people like this.
No, it's like saying there's 6 billion people in the world and 000-000-0000 through 999-999-9999 isn't enough to fit every telephone, fax, and modem in the world, so let's make it longer. At the same time, instead of dialing this crazy long phone number we'll never run out of digits for, you just pick up the dial and say "Joe Moriarity down the street, second floor bedroom" or "Comcast billing" - both of which have no lasting relation to the actual digits.
Not nearly so bad as you make out. A string of digits doesn't mean anything to humans, who you're calling does.
Heh. I'm in EMS and I know what you're talking about, but I'm not lucky enough to be on 24x7. I pull a 24-hour shift every week and any other bits I need to do - most I've done was 72 hours straight.
What paging system do you use? We use MINITOR II-V, two-tone.
Probably thrashing the disk. Or otherwise, I don't think the Windows kernel is intelligent about CPUs, and I don't think it will span them. You might have the affinity set to the one that the Windows kernel uses for things like graphics (GDI) and devices.
Number 3 is "Improve your browser so people use it by choice, but can use any other one".
I use Firefox. But I could use Konqueror, Chrom(e/ium), or Opera (or IE8 in a virtual machine)
And you know what? Not ten years ago, that wasn't really a viable option. Everything had a 'works best in IE' button, and I was extolling its virtues.
Then... nothing changed for a long time.
Finally, the browser world is changing, improving, and becoming more interesting. Five years ago it was tabs. Can you imagine having a browser with no tabs now?
You ought to be able to set your program to only run on certain processors. I know Windows has this feature (set affinity in task manager) so I assume Linux/Mac does as well.
I'd recommend putting heavy tasks on your last core or two, and anything you particularly care about on the second core - leave the first for the kernel/etc.
Just on dslreports actually, and doing some other researching.
Turns out, actually, that DOCSIS 3 doesn't stand a fucking chance against FiOS. I know Verizon sucks, but they're literally doing almost entirely what we paid them to do 10 years ago; they're replacing (or trying to replace) their entire physical copper plant with fiber, then running the phone over that.
That takes balls, even if you are given the money. But now, Comcast's single-wire coaxial cable and per-block amplifiers can't compete. Verizon can jump to at least a Gbps by flipping a switch, and possibly swapping some equipment. Comcast can't do it at all.
I wish. I am in northeast NJ, which is literally line of sight to NYC (about 20 miles, or 45 minutes on a good day) and a *very* affluent community with a lot of business folks.
Comcast is our cable co, Verizon does phones.
Well, I've been corrected - Comcast provides a 50/10 package for $140/mo, which is still throttled and capped. And I'm not giving Comcast any more money.
Verizon is putting in FiOS at the extreme edges of the town. Their best DSL offering is 5/768
Currently, we have 3/384 through Att-resold Covad. I'd give my left arm for FiOS - I don't hate Verizon (non-wireless) with the same fiery passion as Comcast.
The text message uses data that's otherwise just random padding data. So that length of data *has* to be sent, it's just otherwise not filled with anything useful (0s, probably).
Once the tower gets the data that it *has* to receive anyways, then it needs to get it to the world outside the cell. Wow, that's a bottleneck, right? Well text messages have no timeframe on delivery so they can take however the hell long they want... such as when the link is otherwise free.
Text messages don't 'use' anything except idle, wasted space. If more people understood that, nobody would tolerate 20c a message.
Medicare is fun to talk about. They have a 1% overhead cost (meaning that 99% of 'revenue' is distributed to people, and only 1% is used in that process). Private insurers are about 15-20% overhead.
First of all, which one? A or AB? (A is like an intro class...)
Second of all, good luck. Took A two years ago, and AB last year.
Third, what's wrong with writing out code? It's not about syntax, and they tell you anything you'd need to memorize... IMHO it's a pretty good way of testing whether somebody really understands what they're doing, if it makes sense to them without intellisense.
Of course, my teacher taught us (on purpose) on JCreator LE, which only has the most basic syntax highlighting (keywords are blue) and is basically a text editor. It was like writing by hand.
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Yes, OT but thank god! I thought I was crazy... never heard of anyone else having them...
I should have added: depending on the presentation. I was talking about broken but properly-seated ram (memtest, not POST errors).
That being said, I once had a customer's shitty no-name mobo attempt to use the RAM even though it wasn't seated properly - one of the two clips wasn't /quite/ catching. It POSTed to the right amount and everything, failing with a HAL.DLL error which is often disk corruption.
That's the one that took me an hour. When I asked the guy if he'd changed anything in his computer recently, he neglected to mention that he thought the RAM clip looked "too tight" and that he loosened it a little.
That's the stupidest bullshit I've heard in a week (I hear a lot of bullshit).
Take, for example, my laptop. It says right on the adapter that it is a 90w adapter; it puts out 19.5v at 4.62a, DC. My computer uses less than 4.62a while running at full load, so the extra charges/maintains the battery. In fact, if I plug in a 65w adapter (same plug) it will underclock so it can *still* charge the battery.
If what you said were true, you couldn't leave a laptop on 24x7, or even for more than a few hours.
and I hate guys who screw customers. I charge a flat $30/hr, and it's free if the problem isn't fixed (in 6 years, that's never happened). I don't do any advertising, except by word of mouth. I have no dissatisfied customers.
Phone time is free (for now; if it's abused I'll change that) and I'll do anything.
These tech guys are dishonest. They give us all a bad name.
That being said, so does the news corp. If Windows isn't starting, it'll take me at least an hour (probably more) to figure out that it's screwed ram, particularly because most of these problems are software issues. Hardware rarely fails; a non-booting windows is usually disk corruption or a virus. So I'd yank the drive and chkdsk it first, which usually fixes it, then try booting a recovery CD (or flash) and check the ram when that failed.
When people delibrately screw up the computer (heard a story about a backwards IDE cable...) you can't be expected to find it instantly. You can fix everybody else's problems faster if you go for the common stuff faster. But when the news says "dishonest!!" people believe it for the same reason they call us in the first place - they don't know any better!
Still doesn't excuse the douchebag who tried to skim the bank info, though. The only reason I look through data is to see if it needs to be backed up - most people don't know where everything is stored.
Moreso than that. It's called the 'weak skulls doctrine' (IIRC, IANAL). Basically, you take your victims as you find them - if you throw a baseball at somebody (and it wouldn't kill them) and they have an unusually thin skull (and it does) then you are still responsible for their death.
"A normal person wouldn't have died, but this (unknown to me) abnormal person did" still holds the person responsible.
Just jailbreak the fucking thing like the rest of us and quit bitching. I just finished a SSH session to my phone (where I su to root).
I consider that owning my phone, especially because it's even relatively safe to unlock then. Everybody who isn't willing to do that, please just shut up. Apple doesn't seem to care too much about the jailbreak; it works out great. "Normal" users don't get confused, and everybody else can run multiple apps, get SSH, turn-by-turn directions, etc.
Seriously, take the 5 minutes and do it. You'll thank me. Or stop complaining.
Look, I'm sure this guy is very competent as a physicist and economist but he is simply not qualified to cast doubt on climatologists.
They were right to dismiss him
Yes.
(I'd cite it but it's above)
The entire reason for this bill is - fundamentally - there is no reason not to pollute. Turns out that this is a bit of a tragedy of the commons. I could put however much crap I want in the air, without anybody bothering me. There is currently no cost for polluting that any individual business sees - we all share the costs.
What this bill does is create a cost out of thin air that (hopefully) measures - and imposes - the costs to society of polluting. Then the ability to pollute is scarce, just as it is in the atmosphere. In other words, capitalism at its finest. In the interests of reducing costs, businesses will cut emissions, be more careful about energy use, and so on.
There should be a longer discussion about the specific way to do this, absolutely. But it should and must be done.
Look; if you think that fundamentally the government shouldn't ever actually do anything, I know you don't think this will work and you can't be helped. I wish there were less people like you - you will eventually destroy the country.
It just occured to me that I Godwin'd this story already, but this is just like when IBM sold adding machines to the Nazis to help them tabulate Holocaust victims.
Way I see it, who cares? The corner store selling smokes isn't to blame for the lung cancer - ultimately the smoker is. Except it's even more generic than that.
- Siemens sold network technology to Iran - the same you'd use for all sorts of network admin - and they used it to censor. That's Iran's bad.
- IBM sold adding machines - they'll count anything - and the Nazis used them to count Jews (and others). That's the Nazi's bad.
In short, don't blame the maker for the use of the tool.
I sympathize for (but don't agree with) people who call out Obama's (admittedly many) poor decisions and shout "Is this the change you voted for? That was one hell of a marketing scheme"
Well I'm proud to say that, yes, this is the change I voted for. This is exactly the type of decision that makes me happy of my choice. Go Obama! I'm not thrilled about all of your decisions, but it's things like this that make me guardedly optimistic that the future of our country is in careful and intelligent
(Though I can't see at the moment how this will be spun as a negative, I'm sure it will be).
mostly because my mother is really into it. I had pinkeye, and was given 100x homeopath pinkeye 'cure'. I put it in one eye, not the other, and the un'treated' eye got better about 2 days quicker. Look, if you want to believe that homeopathy works, drink some tap water. The concentrations will probably be higher, otherwise the water will remember the shape of the active ingredient that was in it at one point.
Part of the reason for the FDA's creation was to stop the horseshit 'therapies' that were being sold a hundred years ago. They have a responsibility to screen out the bullshit, especially when it hurts people like this.
We should ask ourselves why it works.
Yeah, well if I believe that my ass is one end of a rainbow I might feel better too. That doesn't make it true...
No, it's like saying there's 6 billion people in the world and 000-000-0000 through 999-999-9999 isn't enough to fit every telephone, fax, and modem in the world, so let's make it longer. At the same time, instead of dialing this crazy long phone number we'll never run out of digits for, you just pick up the dial and say "Joe Moriarity down the street, second floor bedroom" or "Comcast billing" - both of which have no lasting relation to the actual digits.
Not nearly so bad as you make out. A string of digits doesn't mean anything to humans, who you're calling does.
Heh. I'm in EMS and I know what you're talking about, but I'm not lucky enough to be on 24x7. I pull a 24-hour shift every week and any other bits I need to do - most I've done was 72 hours straight.
What paging system do you use? We use MINITOR II-V, two-tone.
P.S. Low-band sucks ass.
Probably thrashing the disk. Or otherwise, I don't think the Windows kernel is intelligent about CPUs, and I don't think it will span them. You might have the affinity set to the one that the Windows kernel uses for things like graphics (GDI) and devices.
Number 3 is "Improve your browser so people use it by choice, but can use any other one".
I use Firefox. But I could use Konqueror, Chrom(e/ium), or Opera (or IE8 in a virtual machine)
And you know what? Not ten years ago, that wasn't really a viable option. Everything had a 'works best in IE' button, and I was extolling its virtues.
Then... nothing changed for a long time.
Finally, the browser world is changing, improving, and becoming more interesting. Five years ago it was tabs. Can you imagine having a browser with no tabs now?
The web is a better place because of step 3.
You ought to be able to set your program to only run on certain processors. I know Windows has this feature (set affinity in task manager) so I assume Linux/Mac does as well.
I'd recommend putting heavy tasks on your last core or two, and anything you particularly care about on the second core - leave the first for the kernel/etc.
Just on dslreports actually, and doing some other researching.
Turns out, actually, that DOCSIS 3 doesn't stand a fucking chance against FiOS. I know Verizon sucks, but they're literally doing almost entirely what we paid them to do 10 years ago; they're replacing (or trying to replace) their entire physical copper plant with fiber, then running the phone over that.
That takes balls, even if you are given the money. But now, Comcast's single-wire coaxial cable and per-block amplifiers can't compete. Verizon can jump to at least a Gbps by flipping a switch, and possibly swapping some equipment. Comcast can't do it at all.
I wish. I am in northeast NJ, which is literally line of sight to NYC (about 20 miles, or 45 minutes on a good day) and a *very* affluent community with a lot of business folks.
Comcast is our cable co, Verizon does phones.
Well, I've been corrected - Comcast provides a 50/10 package for $140/mo, which is still throttled and capped. And I'm not giving Comcast any more money.
Verizon is putting in FiOS at the extreme edges of the town. Their best DSL offering is 5/768
Currently, we have 3/384 through Att-resold Covad. I'd give my left arm for FiOS - I don't hate Verizon (non-wireless) with the same fiery passion as Comcast.
It goes both ways, though - she wouldn't be positive if you were *actually* on this drug until it was too late.
Less incentive for a man to get a girl pregnant than for a woman to get herself pregnant, though.
You're full of shit.
The text message uses data that's otherwise just random padding data. So that length of data *has* to be sent, it's just otherwise not filled with anything useful (0s, probably).
Once the tower gets the data that it *has* to receive anyways, then it needs to get it to the world outside the cell. Wow, that's a bottleneck, right? Well text messages have no timeframe on delivery so they can take however the hell long they want... such as when the link is otherwise free.
Text messages don't 'use' anything except idle, wasted space. If more people understood that, nobody would tolerate 20c a message.
Medicare is fun to talk about. They have a 1% overhead cost (meaning that 99% of 'revenue' is distributed to people, and only 1% is used in that process). Private insurers are about 15-20% overhead.
I meant to add at the end 'I'm not sure about these numbers.'
I thought it was 22MBps. Guess not.
First of all, which one? A or AB? (A is like an intro class...)
Second of all, good luck. Took A two years ago, and AB last year.
Third, what's wrong with writing out code? It's not about syntax, and they tell you anything you'd need to memorize... IMHO it's a pretty good way of testing whether somebody really understands what they're doing, if it makes sense to them without intellisense.
Of course, my teacher taught us (on purpose) on JCreator LE, which only has the most basic syntax highlighting (keywords are blue) and is basically a text editor. It was like writing by hand.