Storing data reliable even for 10 years is tricky today
I have everything that I ever downloaded going back to when I used a 300 baud modem to connect to BBSes. That's right, I still have a certain number of of Windows 2 binaries. It was on tape, then CD and now on DVD media. And I am pretty certain (haven't checked that recently) that the first CD-R disks that I wrote are still readable.
Sure, Jonny Jerkthumbs who archived every Playboy centerfold off USENET and crammed everything onto cakeboxes (or worse- those big bulk spindles of CDR media sold shrinkwrapped with no cakebox) of the cheapest CD-R media available at the time probably has lost a lot of his hoard.
By definition, anybody who strives hard enough to not get old is insane. But after the suicide nobody cares much after a little while.
Youth is something to get past. Sure, you're physically more vital when young, but the young are mostly ignorant fools. 'Youth culture' is shortsighted and ill informed.
If it's not your computer, but The Boss appears to have hired you as the junkyard dog in charge of bossing people around on it... well, in your own words, fuck off. (and die)
Is there any way that nerds could sabatogue these cameras? I know that with the ancient vacuum-tube based vidicon tubes used in early Television Cameras that the tube could be permanently damaged or destroyed by a burst of high intensity light.
Could a form of anti-glasses be designed that flashes high intensity light to disable these head mounted cameras? Invisible light would be the best, and obviously in a bandwidth that doesn't damage human sight. Even if it didn't permanently damage the camera in the glasses, it could interrupt it, or transform it into something that was annoying pulsating.
To make them tasty you need to feed them higher quality food. In other words, stop allowing the urban pigeons to eat any random dirt that is available. The health and hygiene ramifications of all the dirty whatever that the urban pigeons eat no longer being cleaned up by them is also an issue. It's all nicely so complex.
I mustsay, I love reading threads like this with Firefox on my Galaxy Tab. I came to mind right away when reading the article summary that Apple recently switched to second-rate display vendors.
Geez. Why an hour and a half? Dude could walk to the gas station and back and it could take ten hours. Dude could walk backwards while whistling 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' and take twenty hours. What the hell is your point?
What the heck does 'trust the NYT' have to do with anything? Nobody here is that dumb, I hope.
You are no more at risk of being stranded with an EV than with an ICE car and probably less.
That is completely untrue. With an ICE, a handheld tank of fuel can be carried to any 'stranded' vehicle and it can be refueled and the vehicle can immediately proceed on it's way. There is no equivalent (yet) of a mobile recharging device that can be transported to an EV. This fact was shown by the reporter's experience. If anything, the reporter demonstrated that the typical impatient traveler, who might jet off at what they thought was the earliest point after a tediously long recharging period (compared the time to refuel an ICE vehicle) would get in this sort of trouble. In essence, doing all the early adopters a favor, so that everybody could hear about the experience early in a review article, instead of in anecdotes from their early adopter friends.
There is the potential for some really sucky 'stranded on the road' experiences with EVs at the present day, and the reporter did a good job of exploring them.
Or, in a decade, I'll still have a bunch of books, which I continue buying, and you'll have... well... whatever the 'rights owners' deem appropriate to allow you to have.
I once found a ribbon from 'Daughters of the Ku Klux Klan' tucked inside a family bible I bought at an auction. It looked like the kind of ribbon that would have gone on flowers or something from a wedding.
Don't worry. There are people who find the challenge of the reverse engineering to be much more interesting than the actual game, who will likely code it up. The harder it is, the more fun they get to have.
More times that I can count, defeating the copy-protect has been more interesting than the actual game.
For some of us, disapproving of homosexuality is no different than disapproving of nose picking, or a dog eating it's own feces, or.... well, the revulsion a gay person probably feels when they think of having sex with someone of the opposite sex. But somehow it has gotten defined as a phobia in the popular culture. Fuck that! We are ALL entitled to our own likes and dislikes, there isn't an official approved list of what it's legal to be grossed out by.
There should simoly be no legal framework that allows people tobe designated as one "race" or another. We are all just people. Fucking get over it. Unfortunately many organized parties benefit from bracketing people as one race or another. When we all choose to say "fuck off" to the checkoff boxes for race on all government or private forms things will improve. There's lots of money and power to be gotten in continuing to accept the notion of "race" though, and ugly manipulative people to take advantage of it.
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I have a 3.5" floppy drive with a USB interface. I got it in a junk auction lot with a bunch of other stuff for almost nothing.
It plugs in and reads 3.5" floppy disks with no difficulty.
Storing data reliable even for 10 years is tricky today
I have everything that I ever downloaded going back to when I used a 300 baud modem to connect to BBSes. That's right, I still have a certain number of of Windows 2 binaries. It was on tape, then CD and now on DVD media. And I am pretty certain (haven't checked that recently) that the first CD-R disks that I wrote are still readable.
Sure, Jonny Jerkthumbs who archived every Playboy centerfold off USENET and crammed everything onto cakeboxes (or worse- those big bulk spindles of CDR media sold shrinkwrapped with no cakebox) of the cheapest CD-R media available at the time probably has lost a lot of his hoard.
Sweden is to America with reference to the 1700s as Idaho is to Silicon Valley in the 1970's. The duds and fuckups stayed in Idaho.
And because there are so many more movies, they have all, each, become less significant.
Welcome to the noise floor.
You grouped DaVinci and Einstein with Steve Jobs?
Did Apple Marketing do that good a job at the hype?
By definition, anybody who strives hard enough to not get old is insane. But after the suicide nobody cares much after a little while.
Youth is something to get past. Sure, you're physically more vital when young, but the young are mostly ignorant fools. 'Youth culture' is shortsighted and ill informed.
If it's not your computer, but The Boss appears to have hired you as the junkyard dog in charge of bossing people around on it... well, in your own words, fuck off. (and die)
Yes, blocking ads is like throwing a soda can out the window. We need to just line up all the admen and shoot them.
I mean, has the ENTIRE slashdot community become 'web developers' and their ilk, sucking on the adman's teat?
Is there any way that nerds could sabatogue these cameras? I know that with the ancient vacuum-tube based vidicon tubes used in early Television Cameras that the tube could be permanently damaged or destroyed by a burst of high intensity light.
Could a form of anti-glasses be designed that flashes high intensity light to disable these head mounted cameras? Invisible light would be the best, and obviously in a bandwidth that doesn't damage human sight. Even if it didn't permanently damage the camera in the glasses, it could interrupt it, or transform it into something that was annoying pulsating.
Just some food for thought.
So instead of ten or twenty mourning doves you now have 1500 passenger pigeons in the backyard. ..
To make them tasty you need to feed them higher quality food. In other words, stop allowing the urban pigeons to eat any random dirt that is available. The health and hygiene ramifications of all the dirty whatever that the urban pigeons eat no longer being cleaned up by them is also an issue. It's all nicely so complex.
I'm not having any ghosting problems on my Galaxy Tab. I don't think it has an LG display in it....
I mustsay, I love reading threads like this with Firefox on my Galaxy Tab. I came to mind right away when reading the article summary that Apple recently switched to second-rate display vendors.
That might be. For example, I can last more than three minutes in bed.
Straw man.
Who cares?
What a fucking troll. You must REALLY miss the heyday of USENET trolling.
Or an hour and a half later, when AAA gets there.
Geez. Why an hour and a half? Dude could walk to the gas station and back and it could take ten hours. Dude could walk backwards while whistling 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' and take twenty hours. What the hell is your point?
What the heck does 'trust the NYT' have to do with anything? Nobody here is that dumb, I hope.
You are no more at risk of being stranded with an EV than with an ICE car and probably less.
That is completely untrue. With an ICE, a handheld tank of fuel can be carried to any 'stranded' vehicle and it can be refueled and the vehicle can immediately proceed on it's way. There is no equivalent (yet) of a mobile recharging device that can be transported to an EV. This fact was shown by the reporter's experience. If anything, the reporter demonstrated that the typical impatient traveler, who might jet off at what they thought was the earliest point after a tediously long recharging period (compared the time to refuel an ICE vehicle) would get in this sort of trouble. In essence, doing all the early adopters a favor, so that everybody could hear about the experience early in a review article, instead of in anecdotes from their early adopter friends.
There is the potential for some really sucky 'stranded on the road' experiences with EVs at the present day, and the reporter did a good job of exploring them.
"It'll be interesting to see how the reflexive, knee-jerk Elon haters spin this one"
Elon is the guy who founded PayPal, right? Why is he a geek hero? We all supposedly hate the thieving PayPal outfit.
Bach, Beethoven, DiVinci all had rich patrons sponsoring their work. Also, there was no means at the time of mass-producing their works.
Or, in a decade, I'll still have a bunch of books, which I continue buying, and you'll have... well... whatever the 'rights owners' deem appropriate to allow you to have.
I once found a ribbon from 'Daughters of the Ku Klux Klan' tucked inside a family bible I bought at an auction. It looked like the kind of ribbon that would have gone on flowers or something from a wedding.
You can find creepy things inside old books.
I bought the most expensive graphics card I could find, and my machine still lags at Dwarf Fortress.
Don't worry. There are people who find the challenge of the reverse engineering to be much more interesting than the actual game, who will likely code it up. The harder it is, the more fun they get to have.
More times that I can count, defeating the copy-protect has been more interesting than the actual game.
flickering flourscent light 60 mhz CRT
That's some damn fast phosphor.
For some of us, disapproving of homosexuality is no different than disapproving of nose picking, or a dog eating it's own feces, or.... well, the revulsion a gay person probably feels when they think of having sex with someone of the opposite sex. But somehow it has gotten defined as a phobia in the popular culture. Fuck that! We are ALL entitled to our own likes and dislikes, there isn't an official approved list of what it's legal to be grossed out by.
There should simoly be no legal framework that allows people tobe designated as one "race" or another. We are all just people. Fucking get over it. Unfortunately many organized parties benefit from bracketing people as one race or another. When we all choose to say "fuck off" to the checkoff boxes for race on all government or private forms things will improve. There's lots of money and power to be gotten in continuing to accept the notion of "race" though, and ugly manipulative people to take advantage of it.
Same as it ever was.