I really do not like the widescreen monitor for any real work. Yes you can fit more side by side but the screen is just too short and you end up scrolling a lot, regardless of what the work is - coding, photography, writing books, reading books, it's just too short.
Suggestion - put it in portrait-mode (or get a widescreen monitor that can).
Is not all that rare to see coders use 2 screens, with 1 in landscape and 1 in portrait mode.
May I suggest you grab a protein shake as soon after exercising as possible
May I suggest to shop around for the protein shakes/tastes? I'm getting something called UltraMeal, and it comes in several flavours: Banana+Ass, Chocolate+SourAss and just plain SourAss (labelled as "Peach"). (i.e. - stay clear of that brand, if you have tastebuds)
Find a health-store that carries various brands, and ask if you can get taste-samples.
Inevitably? I have a Samsung here, is already inadequately spec'ed... and buggy and stupid and horrible to look at and...:)
Yeah, I'd like to buy a 55" flatscreen, that does nothing but show the picture (with some picture controls). 1 HDMI-In, no sound, passive 3D, decent/good backlighting. Can be had, but they are silly-expensive.
Snow is an issue on houses, yes - have seen few installations where it isn't. Coolest one (commercial installation) was able to tilt the panels from 0 to 90 degrees, as well as rotating them to follow the sun. Incidentally, they offer free charging for all cars, motorbikes, moped and bicycles... (Note: I'm Scandinavian, and haven't seen any snow this year - most houses south of here should be juuuust fine)
But I think your comment points to a greater issue than snow: The assumption that there is a single, golden "bullet" for our energy woes.
No, not saying you're stating that we should have only one solution, but the reaction I usually hear is to point at flaws in 1 solution, and assume that nothing works:) We definitely need to look at multiple solutions: Windmills, solar, ground-heat, fusion/fission, coal/oil/gas... Those that can be installed and used domestically, will help there, those that cannot, will have to be run on a slightly larger scale and require at least some infrastructure.
As for heat-only model, I remember seeing a lot of water-heating solutions (as opposed to photoelectric) installed on roof-tops. Don't know if they've progressed since then, but people claimed they ran all their heating (water etc) via it.
It think the massive fusion reactor he refers to, is the sun - something you CAN tap (albeit with low efficiency currently) and live off the grid.
As for your idea that small is good, because you get away from monopolies? Some small issues: 1) Monopolies or Government would provide the fuel for small-scale, in-home/vehicle engines, guaranteed. 2) Laws of physics tells us size relates to efficiency, so you better invent something that doesn't pollute. Town/village-based generators might be viable, if you trust your local community.
Note: I am all for placing solar-panels on all roof-tops where possible, to get the strain on the network down and add fail-safety. Fusion-reactors in each house, on the other side, I think is overkill, but could be done on a community-level.
If it is slower, it is because your torrent client has to locate a known peer with information about the magnet-link, and then get the torrent information from it. Unless your computer is insanely slow in handing off the data from your browser to the link-handler.
No, its not registered on the BES, it is registered on the SIM-card. I can put the SIM-card into a different phone, e.g. Nokia, and it will behave the same. In a Nokia, I can turn the PIN off, so the phones (incl the BlackBerry) will no longer ask for it upon start-up, but this is against corporate rules. On the BlackBerry I can set a separate code, which is native to the BlackBerry and which is asked for after going onto the network (I think).
This behaviour is standard in all GSM phones (I think part of the specs for GSM phones), and has existed in all phones I've owned/used outside of NMT phones. The PIN is required to "unlock" the SIM-card, which is why the phone cannot go onto the network before it is entered.
In short: If a cell-phone (GSM) of any kind reboots, with my SIM-card in it, it will ask for a PIN before doing much of anything. It is a security-feature of the SIM-card. The fact that the BlackBerries that I've tried have been instable-as-hell, means that they keep being forced to ask for this.
The PIN entry is company requirement, set on the SIM-card they provided. I think I can disable it, but I happen to agree with that policy even if the stability of the phones make it a problem. Moving the SIM-card to a different phone, will cause that phone to require a PIN.
I catch mine reboot ca every 2-3 month, but more often I simply find it having rebooted and waiting for a PIN. A guess would be that if you didn't have the same requirement for a PIN on (re)boot of the phone, you've simply not seen any effects of an event that happened while you weren't looking. It never rebooted while I was talking, but would reboot while I was using it for something else.
When it reboots spontaneously, I occasionally also note it coming up with significantly less battery. Might be it was reporting falsely just prior to the reboot, perhaps some app spun out of control and causing the processor to gobble up.
Side note: When I got the 1st BB and noted the track-ball, I proclaimed that this would fail within a year. 51 weeks later, I was proven right:)
I've been through 3 Blackberries (2x BB Bold 9000), all have failed to receive calls on a regular basis: They crash, and then reboot to a prompt for entering PIN.
Others having Blackberries report the same, and I've received complaints from customers that they cannot reach us at times.
Local phonecompanies have stopped carrying Blackberries due to the number of issues these had.
In all fairness, my HTC was actually crashing more frequently, and a previous Nokia was initially also having a some stability issues (albeit a lot less, and disappeared after 3 firmware updates)
Hmm, you're giving me an idea - gotta ask the optometrist if they can do polarized glassed suitable for 3D TV. Then I simply swap glasses instead of putting on extras:D
records are hoarded by doctors, pharmacies, hospitals
It's offensive how this works. Take my X-rays for example. My surgeon sent me some place to get them done. He's the one with a clue; they just take pictures. Despite this, they insist on having me wait for some on-staff radiologist to "interpret" the X-rays. They claim state law requires this.
I had xrays done, and the on-site radiologist discovered the cracked vertebrae immediately and got me rushed to get an MRI which showed the problem in more detail. If they've simply punted it to the doctor, it would have been hours (and likely end-of-business-come-again-tomorrow) before the doctor would have seen them.
Since then, I had my hand xray'd following a fracture - there the radiologist wasn't so much checking for the fracture (I told them up front about that one), but to verify the quality of the pictures before they are given to the doctor.
1) Installed it on Linux (Ubuntu 10.4) and Windows (7 Home) - they appear to be different branches, at least UI wise 2) Under Video (on Windows), I had sub-items "Files" and "Add-Ons" initially. When adding a source called Movies, I got a sub-item called "Movies", which was a file-listing of that source. When adding source called "Cartoons", I did not get a sub-item on the main view, only in the dedicated Video view; Cartoons weren't compiled under "Movies" either. When adding source called "TV Series", I got a new sub-item for that. Inconsistent. 3) During the couple of weeks of use, it crashed a couple of times; it also stalled a couple of times 4) Setup of the UI had to be redone if program was restarted. Other settings seemed to stick 5) Set up 3 weather sources on both installs. Linux side never showed weather (just 3 empty columns), while Windows could be coerced into showing 1 location at a time. 6) BD playback only kinda worked on Windows, and required external program. Might be understandable, but detracts from overall experience. 7) Installed add-ons for watching inet-based TV. Worked fairly well under Linux, not working very well under Windows.
My biggest gripe, though, is that looking for videos, pictures and music is basically like browsing files. Sure, the DLNA server on the other end does a fair job of sorting/grouping the music (although later versions of Twonky has gotten worse in this area), but I really think XBMC could do a better job at presenting the data in a nice, structured manner, with graphics and search-options (genre/actor/??? for movies perhaps? Next unwatched episodes?) Viewing sources in a file-structure was OK first time I saw XBMC, on an original XBox, ca a decade ago. These days, not so much I think. (Note: It claims it can scan a library against IMDB and some other sources, but I never saw any effect of setting this up - my files are named according to what I saw online in blogs and fora, but it seems to be a dead feature, just like weather on Linux)
Sc0ob5 below mentions a PVR build... Think I'll go look at that, as going back to XBMC is really only an option if I can integrate some satellite TV somehow.
Boxee - fairly easy to use, slightly stupid UI, slow-as-fuck, missing several features XBMC - Not so easy to use, not stable (Ubuntu 10.4, Win7), not wife-acceptable, lots of features but several non-functional (Weather, library analysis)
So far I'm not impressed, yet they are still better than Windows Media Center and Apple Front Row.
Note: Updated to latest Boxee a few weeks ago, seems faster (OSX 10.6)
The container is a way of gathering together media streams, but doing something like designing a player and assuming that, for a given container, there will be only a single or a couple of codecs (when that container actually supports many) is ridiculous..
See: Samsung SmartTV and related equipment. (Plays DVDs, but doesn't like MPEG2 in a transport-stream..? Only support H264 when using MKV.)
The most sensible and flexible solution is... tada! A PC hooked up to a television with a cable, where the television is just yet another display device, no different from a monitor. Trying to wrestle with a DVD or (ugh) Blu-Ray player is just asking for some manufacturer to screw you over.
Have not seen a system that can take multiple HDMI inputs, play Blu-Ray/DVD, support DLNA and various containers+codec, handles DVB sources, support inet-tv, based on a PC. Have tried XBMC (yrch), Windows Media Center (double-yrch), and Front Row (ehhh?). As far as I can tell, all options are inflexible, incompetent and irritatingly crappy.
I bought an Atom board from Asus - the On-board fan is driving me mad, and apparently every harddrive I connect to it reports SATA Link Error (or: Linux* reports it for every harddrive).
At this junction, I'm contacting the vendor to see what alternatives they have, but Atom is pretty far down my list. Wouldn't mind something based on ARM or similar, since it really is just a file-server with a mirror.
I made a reply to IceBike below, trying to calculate the difference, but basically:
5 USD, or €3,759, would buy me either 2,64 litre of diesel or 34 KWh of electricity (17,9 KWh daytime).
Someone said 4 miles per KWh elsewhere, so either 136,70 miles on electricity, or 111,72 miles on diesel*.
The total price-difference seems to be that the Tesla will remain more expensive over its lifetime, but not so much it couldn't be justified emotionally.
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I really do not like the widescreen monitor for any real work. Yes you can fit more side by side but the screen is just too short and you end up scrolling a lot, regardless of what the work is - coding, photography, writing books, reading books, it's just too short.
Suggestion - put it in portrait-mode (or get a widescreen monitor that can).
Is not all that rare to see coders use 2 screens, with 1 in landscape and 1 in portrait mode.
4a - while not hurting other people...
And reverse-engineering PS3s hurt Sony financially, see #2 (where applicable)
wow, 26:7 ? I thought jobbing 8 hours per day, 6 days weekly, was bad!
May I suggest you grab a protein shake as soon after exercising as possible
May I suggest to shop around for the protein shakes/tastes? I'm getting something called UltraMeal, and it comes in several flavours: Banana+Ass, Chocolate+SourAss and just plain SourAss (labelled as "Peach").
(i.e. - stay clear of that brand, if you have tastebuds)
Find a health-store that carries various brands, and ask if you can get taste-samples.
inevitably the CPU or RAM become inadequate,
Inevitably? I have a Samsung here, is already inadequately spec'ed... and buggy and stupid and horrible to look at and... :)
Yeah, I'd like to buy a 55" flatscreen, that does nothing but show the picture (with some picture controls). 1 HDMI-In, no sound, passive 3D, decent/good backlighting. Can be had, but they are silly-expensive.
according to the label, it also contains genetically-improved soy.
Not sure what qualified it for "improved" though.
What, no posts here? I expect posts!
This is too much to handle, I quit!
Is why I recommend we officially call "American Football" for "Wussie-ball" - once you've seen Aussie Rules, you understand why :)
According to our management, it still is!
(Unless you are said management, then the only right phone is the iPhone)
Snow is an issue on houses, yes - have seen few installations where it isn't. Coolest one (commercial installation) was able to tilt the panels from 0 to 90 degrees, as well as rotating them to follow the sun. Incidentally, they offer free charging for all cars, motorbikes, moped and bicycles...
(Note: I'm Scandinavian, and haven't seen any snow this year - most houses south of here should be juuuust fine)
But I think your comment points to a greater issue than snow: The assumption that there is a single, golden "bullet" for our energy woes.
No, not saying you're stating that we should have only one solution, but the reaction I usually hear is to point at flaws in 1 solution, and assume that nothing works :) ... Those that can be installed and used domestically, will help there, those that cannot, will have to be run on a slightly larger scale and require at least some infrastructure.
We definitely need to look at multiple solutions: Windmills, solar, ground-heat, fusion/fission, coal/oil/gas
As for heat-only model, I remember seeing a lot of water-heating solutions (as opposed to photoelectric) installed on roof-tops. Don't know if they've progressed since then, but people claimed they ran all their heating (water etc) via it.
As for ACs, no idea; I hate the blasted things.
what happened when bp fucked up the entire mexico gulf ecosystem ?
They did the only thing logical, and sued another company (Halliburton)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jan/03/bp-sues-halliburton-over-deepwater
It think the massive fusion reactor he refers to, is the sun - something you CAN tap (albeit with low efficiency currently) and live off the grid.
As for your idea that small is good, because you get away from monopolies? Some small issues:
1) Monopolies or Government would provide the fuel for small-scale, in-home/vehicle engines, guaranteed.
2) Laws of physics tells us size relates to efficiency, so you better invent something that doesn't pollute. Town/village-based generators might be viable, if you trust your local community.
Note: I am all for placing solar-panels on all roof-tops where possible, to get the strain on the network down and add fail-safety. Fusion-reactors in each house, on the other side, I think is overkill, but could be done on a community-level.
Last I checked, magnet links arent files to be downloaded, but a link similar to a URL.
Exampe:
magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:YNCKHTQCWBTRNJIV4WNAE52SJUQCZO5C
If it is slower, it is because your torrent client has to locate a known peer with information about the magnet-link, and then get the torrent information from it. Unless your computer is insanely slow in handing off the data from your browser to the link-handler.
No, its not registered on the BES, it is registered on the SIM-card. I can put the SIM-card into a different phone, e.g. Nokia, and it will behave the same. In a Nokia, I can turn the PIN off, so the phones (incl the BlackBerry) will no longer ask for it upon start-up, but this is against corporate rules. On the BlackBerry I can set a separate code, which is native to the BlackBerry and which is asked for after going onto the network (I think).
This behaviour is standard in all GSM phones (I think part of the specs for GSM phones), and has existed in all phones I've owned/used outside of NMT phones. The PIN is required to "unlock" the SIM-card, which is why the phone cannot go onto the network before it is entered.
In short: If a cell-phone (GSM) of any kind reboots, with my SIM-card in it, it will ask for a PIN before doing much of anything. It is a security-feature of the SIM-card. The fact that the BlackBerries that I've tried have been instable-as-hell, means that they keep being forced to ask for this.
The PIN entry is company requirement, set on the SIM-card they provided. I think I can disable it, but I happen to agree with that policy even if the stability of the phones make it a problem.
Moving the SIM-card to a different phone, will cause that phone to require a PIN.
I catch mine reboot ca every 2-3 month, but more often I simply find it having rebooted and waiting for a PIN. A guess would be that if you didn't have the same requirement for a PIN on (re)boot of the phone, you've simply not seen any effects of an event that happened while you weren't looking.
It never rebooted while I was talking, but would reboot while I was using it for something else.
When it reboots spontaneously, I occasionally also note it coming up with significantly less battery. Might be it was reporting falsely just prior to the reboot, perhaps some app spun out of control and causing the processor to gobble up.
Side note: When I got the 1st BB and noted the track-ball, I proclaimed that this would fail within a year. 51 weeks later, I was proven right :)
I remember them from around 1990 ... not fond memories :)
But could be done, perhaps re-purposing OEM glasses (there are 7 in a box from LG ...)
I've been through 3 Blackberries (2x BB Bold 9000), all have failed to receive calls on a regular basis: They crash, and then reboot to a prompt for entering PIN.
Others having Blackberries report the same, and I've received complaints from customers that they cannot reach us at times.
Local phonecompanies have stopped carrying Blackberries due to the number of issues these had.
In all fairness, my HTC was actually crashing more frequently, and a previous Nokia was initially also having a some stability issues (albeit a lot less, and disappeared after 3 firmware updates)
Hmm, you're giving me an idea - gotta ask the optometrist if they can do polarized glassed suitable for 3D TV. Then I simply swap glasses instead of putting on extras :D
records are hoarded by doctors, pharmacies, hospitals
It's offensive how this works. Take my X-rays for example. My surgeon sent me some place to get them done. He's the one with a clue; they just take pictures. Despite this, they insist on having me wait for some on-staff radiologist to "interpret" the X-rays. They claim state law requires this.
I had xrays done, and the on-site radiologist discovered the cracked vertebrae immediately and got me rushed to get an MRI which showed the problem in more detail. If they've simply punted it to the doctor, it would have been hours (and likely end-of-business-come-again-tomorrow) before the doctor would have seen them.
Since then, I had my hand xray'd following a fracture - there the radiologist wasn't so much checking for the fracture (I told them up front about that one), but to verify the quality of the pictures before they are given to the doctor.
Google and Mozilla are competitors.
Eh, no, Google's business is ads, Mozilla's business isn't ads.
Remember that they often display a message on Google.com trying to convince people to download Chrome.
I've only ever seen this message when using Internet Explorer.
I'll try to elaborate:
1) Installed it on Linux (Ubuntu 10.4) and Windows (7 Home) - they appear to be different branches, at least UI wise
2) Under Video (on Windows), I had sub-items "Files" and "Add-Ons" initially. When adding a source called Movies, I got a sub-item called "Movies", which was a file-listing of that source. When adding source called "Cartoons", I did not get a sub-item on the main view, only in the dedicated Video view; Cartoons weren't compiled under "Movies" either. When adding source called "TV Series", I got a new sub-item for that. Inconsistent.
3) During the couple of weeks of use, it crashed a couple of times; it also stalled a couple of times
4) Setup of the UI had to be redone if program was restarted. Other settings seemed to stick
5) Set up 3 weather sources on both installs. Linux side never showed weather (just 3 empty columns), while Windows could be coerced into showing 1 location at a time.
6) BD playback only kinda worked on Windows, and required external program. Might be understandable, but detracts from overall experience.
7) Installed add-ons for watching inet-based TV. Worked fairly well under Linux, not working very well under Windows.
My biggest gripe, though, is that looking for videos, pictures and music is basically like browsing files. Sure, the DLNA server on the other end does a fair job of sorting/grouping the music (although later versions of Twonky has gotten worse in this area), but I really think XBMC could do a better job at presenting the data in a nice, structured manner, with graphics and search-options (genre/actor/??? for movies perhaps? Next unwatched episodes?)
Viewing sources in a file-structure was OK first time I saw XBMC, on an original XBox, ca a decade ago. These days, not so much I think.
(Note: It claims it can scan a library against IMDB and some other sources, but I never saw any effect of setting this up - my files are named according to what I saw online in blogs and fora, but it seems to be a dead feature, just like weather on Linux)
Sc0ob5 below mentions a PVR build... Think I'll go look at that, as going back to XBMC is really only an option if I can integrate some satellite TV somehow.
Tried both:
Boxee - fairly easy to use, slightly stupid UI, slow-as-fuck, missing several features
XBMC - Not so easy to use, not stable (Ubuntu 10.4, Win7), not wife-acceptable, lots of features but several non-functional (Weather, library analysis)
So far I'm not impressed, yet they are still better than Windows Media Center and Apple Front Row.
Note: Updated to latest Boxee a few weeks ago, seems faster (OSX 10.6)
The container is a way of gathering together media streams, but doing something like designing a player and assuming that, for a given container, there will be only a single or a couple of codecs (when that container actually supports many) is ridiculous..
See: Samsung SmartTV and related equipment.
(Plays DVDs, but doesn't like MPEG2 in a transport-stream..? Only support H264 when using MKV.)
The most sensible and flexible solution is ... tada! A PC hooked up to a television with a cable, where the television is just yet another display device, no different from a monitor. Trying to wrestle with a DVD or (ugh) Blu-Ray player is just asking for some manufacturer to screw you over.
Have not seen a system that can take multiple HDMI inputs, play Blu-Ray/DVD, support DLNA and various containers+codec, handles DVB sources, support inet-tv, based on a PC. Have tried XBMC (yrch), Windows Media Center (double-yrch), and Front Row (ehhh?). As far as I can tell, all options are inflexible, incompetent and irritatingly crappy.
I bought an Atom board from Asus - the On-board fan is driving me mad, and apparently every harddrive I connect to it reports SATA Link Error (or: Linux* reports it for every harddrive).
At this junction, I'm contacting the vendor to see what alternatives they have, but Atom is pretty far down my list. Wouldn't mind something based on ARM or similar, since it really is just a file-server with a mirror.
*: Ubuntu Server LTS 10.4 incl backport kernel
I made a reply to IceBike below, trying to calculate the difference, but basically:
5 USD, or €3,759, would buy me either 2,64 litre of diesel or 34 KWh of electricity (17,9 KWh daytime).
Someone said 4 miles per KWh elsewhere, so either 136,70 miles on electricity, or 111,72 miles on diesel*.
The total price-difference seems to be that the Tesla will remain more expensive over its lifetime, but not so much it couldn't be justified emotionally.
*: Opel/GM claims 42,2 MPG combined