I thought the job of today's advertising is to warn smart people about what not to buy because it needs serious marketing dollars to move it off the shelves.
Amen. I sit in front of large RAIDs from time to time and these days the drives all have blue activity lights. It drives me crazy and irritates my eyes after a while. Far worse than the good old green and red LEDs.
Bottled water is just a fad. Tap water is generally better quality than bottled. And even for people who don't like the taste of their tap water, a $20 water filter would do the trick. There have been many comparisons between bottled and tap water, and they all had the same result: Bottled is at best the same quality as tap water and about 3 orders of magnitude more expensive. No, it's not something the world needs. It's a fancy energy waster for people who already have everything. Anybody who lives off the grid needs some water source, and filtering that water is orders of magnitude more efficient than condensing water out of air. And anybody who doesn't have access to water won't have access to lots of electrical energy either.
Just drive out to the countryside when a big meteor shower comes in. I drove out into the desert a few years back for one of the big Leonid events and I saw hundreds, although none was a big as this one of course. You could even hear a couple.
Doesn't Matter. There are lots of old apps from W2k times and earlier and MS fears to make a clean cut. And it's standard practice for an installer to drop files in system folders, even today. Hence, no Unix style user/root distinction can be made.
Well *something* is warping spacetime this way and that, and that's what they call dark matter and dark energy respectively. Now the question is what does the warping.
So can we launch the class action suit against McBride & co for mental anguish and psychological damage now? Every single nerd and most ex SCO stock holders should be eligible.
That would mean that all legacy SW, including MS's own, would stop working. They all rely on being able to write all over the system. And without backwards compatibility, what's the impetus to stay with Windows? Backwards compatibility is why they needed something as screwy as UAC.
!news. Many (most?) well designed AC systems employ heat exchangers. What's the diff between a rotating and a conventional heat exchanger? Efficiency? Cost? Of course TFA doesn't mention any of it.
Back in the late 80s or early 90s, rumor had it that engineers at DEC added firmware to drive the voice coil with PCM data via the interface. It was probably for testing purposes, but imagine what fun you could have with it. Actuators respond to well above 1kHz these days, so it should be good enough for voice.
"Hi. This is your hard drive speaking. I found a bad sector at..."
Nonsense. I've been an engineer in the field for many years and there is no way of damaging a drive by software short of loading wrong firmware into it - which requires a file from the manufacturer with the correct checksums in place. The only other options would be by doing excessive seeks (due to bad drive design leading to wearout) or excessive start/stops (but if you listen to 10,000 of them and don't do anything about it it's your own fault.)
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I've never seen a viola with wrinkles. How did they do that? Photoshop?
I thought the job of today's advertising is to warn smart people about what not to buy because it needs serious marketing dollars to move it off the shelves.
Amen. I sit in front of large RAIDs from time to time and these days the drives all have blue activity lights. It drives me crazy and irritates my eyes after a while. Far worse than the good old green and red LEDs.
Bottled water is just a fad. Tap water is generally better quality than bottled. And even for people who don't like the taste of their tap water, a $20 water filter would do the trick. There have been many comparisons between bottled and tap water, and they all had the same result: Bottled is at best the same quality as tap water and about 3 orders of magnitude more expensive.
No, it's not something the world needs. It's a fancy energy waster for people who already have everything. Anybody who lives off the grid needs some water source, and filtering that water is orders of magnitude more efficient than condensing water out of air. And anybody who doesn't have access to water won't have access to lots of electrical energy either.
It was thought to be an ordinary falling star, but the next day there was a huge crater in the middle of the Common.
Just drive out to the countryside when a big meteor shower comes in. I drove out into the desert a few years back for one of the big Leonid events and I saw hundreds, although none was a big as this one of course. You could even hear a couple.
Doesn't Matter. There are lots of old apps from W2k times and earlier and MS fears to make a clean cut.
And it's standard practice for an installer to drop files in system folders, even today. Hence, no Unix style user/root distinction can be made.
Well *something* is warping spacetime this way and that, and that's what they call dark matter and dark energy respectively. Now the question is what does the warping.
It seems that at least some dark matter particles are their own antiparticles since they can annihilate into gamma photons.
So can we launch the class action suit against McBride & co for mental anguish and psychological damage now? Every single nerd and most ex SCO stock holders should be eligible.
Only if your email client allows it.
Who needs anything beyond plain text in an email?
That would mean that all legacy SW, including MS's own, would stop working. They all rely on being able to write all over the system. And without backwards compatibility, what's the impetus to stay with Windows?
Backwards compatibility is why they needed something as screwy as UAC.
Who cares about copyright when you got pictures this hot.
Oooh, vintage pr0n!
And how many people kill themselves each year for other crap because they're depressed?
Great work if you can get it. Need 20 million in funding? Drop a wrench into something that looks complicated. :)
... for some values of "something". For others, it might not be such a good idea.
When you order a B1B, you pay for the Integrity-178B license even if you later install a copy of Linux For Strategic Bombers.
Aah, I always wondered what LSB stands for.
Does it get much nerdier than doing Fourier-, Laplace- and z-transfoms for a living?
!news. Many (most?) well designed AC systems employ heat exchangers.
What's the diff between a rotating and a conventional heat exchanger? Efficiency? Cost? Of course TFA doesn't mention any of it.
The main advantage of e-ink displays, apart from low power and high resolution, is that they're flexible and can be rolled up.
Like a newspaper for example. Would you buy a newspaper that you can't fold or roll up?
If I can't stick it in a pocket I won't buy it.
Well, we thought She was doing it with regexes, some of them a thousand characters or more long, but still basically pattern matching.
That was Jeffrey Friedl. You got something wrong there.
No, this is what it sounds like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YocnQ0NMTUA
"Maxtor desktop drive with stuck spindle playing futuristic cell phone melody."
Yup. The spindle isn't turning so the firmware assumes a stuck head due to stiction and tries to knock it loose by vibrating the actuator.
Back in the late 80s or early 90s, rumor had it that engineers at DEC added firmware to drive the voice coil with PCM data via the interface. It was probably for testing purposes, but imagine what fun you could have with it. Actuators respond to well above 1kHz these days, so it should be good enough for voice.
"Hi. This is your hard drive speaking. I found a bad sector at..."
Seagate? Pleeeze?
Nonsense. I've been an engineer in the field for many years and there is no way of damaging a drive by software short of loading wrong firmware into it - which requires a file from the manufacturer with the correct checksums in place. The only other options would be by doing excessive seeks (due to bad drive design leading to wearout) or excessive start/stops (but if you listen to 10,000 of them and don't do anything about it it's your own fault.)
Come on, intelligently designed Perl is quite readable.