I know I shouldn't. But every time I use it, I get trapped and have to pull up another xterm/console to kill it. It wouldn't be so bad if the "quit" commands were the first thing in the man page. And why ^A? I use ^A for 'start-of-line' all the time, and get annoyed when I realize it didn't work after I finished my paragraph. Now, ^X^C (no), F10 (no), ~. (no), M:q! (no), ^Q (no), M-F4 (no) argh!
I'm in your camp. Although 99% of my Dream Machine works fine, it stopped keeping time shortly after the warranty ran out. Not just keeping bad time, but actively resisting me trying to set it correctly! I'm guessing the RTC chip is broken somewhere, but that 1% brokenness has reduced its usefulness to being an iPhone-charging-picture frame. Blah.
Last time I went to Weird Stuff they had a huge stack of 1U, 8GB DRAM Dell servers for about $150 each.
I don't think a "Blue Book" system could ever work:
Used IT equipment comes in bursts: imagine thousands of the same model of car in the same color/options all appearing at the dealership at once. Supply is grossly disconnected from demand. Pricing could never equilibriate.
Computing power is still growing too fast: yesterday's servers consume too much resource per unit of work/infrastructure to justify using them. Witness the secondary price above—less than 1/20th of the original purchase price, but when networking, rack space, storage and power are included, the capital cost, even if zero, would still likely be too high.
The word typically translated "day" or "days" in Genesis is originally "Yowm" (root meaning "hot"). Strong's translates this variously as "period"—it's a very general term that I usually read as "era".
My limited understanding is that most of Jesus' contemporaries believed in an ancient universe. It was Ussher's bestseller that, ahem, fixed that problem.
One time I (or my kids) misplaced my Nexus 7 behind the bed. I couldn't find it for a few days, so I fired up the Android Device Manager and locked the device (just in case). When I eventually found it, there was no charge on the battery, no lock on the screen, and still no lock when it connected back to Google HQ over WiFi.
(That harrowing paragraph should be expanded into a short Hugo Award story!)
Does the "hold it down" technique work when the software has had a fatal stack overflow, for instance?
I've had ATX PSUs that didn't respond (unplugging for 3 minutes fixed it: some transient mobo fault). That technique is tricky when power's under the hood.
I'd be scared if the delivery guy always arrived toting sharpened blades.
He could trade them for a pizza cutter, or even better, gloves or a credit card reader.
Hopefully they run into the same issue that Google did.
Large location based advertising revenue? A global world road map with radio-location markers that exceeds many commercial cartographers' efforts? Which issue were you thinking of?
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But I have to kill it externally by the time I remember that I needed to use '-e' (which, to their credit, is on page 2 of the manual). B-P
I know I shouldn't. But every time I use it, I get trapped and have to pull up another xterm/console to kill it. It wouldn't be so bad if the "quit" commands were the first thing in the man page. And why ^A? I use ^A for 'start-of-line' all the time, and get annoyed when I realize it didn't work after I finished my paragraph. Now, ^X^C (no), F10 (no), ~. (no), M:q! (no), ^Q (no), M-F4 (no) argh!
I'm in your camp. Although 99% of my Dream Machine works fine, it stopped keeping time shortly after the warranty ran out. Not just keeping bad time, but actively resisting me trying to set it correctly! I'm guessing the RTC chip is broken somewhere, but that 1% brokenness has reduced its usefulness to being an iPhone-charging-picture frame. Blah.
Disk drives OTOH have no fundamental advantages over flash...
Flash has 1 transistor per cell (1, 2 or 3 bits). HDDs have 1 transistor per 10^10 bits or so. (Plus the interface transistors in both technologies.)
I demand to know which multiple of 23.2 is the multiplying factor!
When I programmed against OpenSSL, first I made my own API wrapper so I'd never have to read the OpenSSL doc(s) again....
It's when a cat files a false affidavit.
Last time I went to Weird Stuff they had a huge stack of 1U, 8GB DRAM Dell servers for about $150 each.
I don't think a "Blue Book" system could ever work:
I read "ribbon haters" and thought "hey, there are still people who use typewriters?"
Unless someone has plausably measured the curvature of the universe to be !=0 without telling me, the "singularity" can still be infinite in extent.
The word typically translated "day" or "days" in Genesis is originally "Yowm" (root meaning "hot"). Strong's translates this variously as "period"—it's a very general term that I usually read as "era".
My limited understanding is that most of Jesus' contemporaries believed in an ancient universe. It was Ussher's bestseller that, ahem, fixed that problem.
Concordance here.
Ingenious inventions here.
Remarkably, the oldest baryons in the* universe are in your head.
* From your reference frame. And only by a nanosecond or so.
One time I (or my kids) misplaced my Nexus 7 behind the bed. I couldn't find it for a few days, so I fired up the Android Device Manager and locked the device (just in case). When I eventually found it, there was no charge on the battery, no lock on the screen, and still no lock when it connected back to Google HQ over WiFi.
(That harrowing paragraph should be expanded into a short Hugo Award story!)
Thanks! I set my PIN to "7".
I hope the next "big one" is free energy.
We got "free energy" in the 1960s. Unfortunately the power companies found a way to charge us for it.
Does the "hold it down" technique work when the software has had a fatal stack overflow, for instance? I've had ATX PSUs that didn't respond (unplugging for 3 minutes fixed it: some transient mobo fault). That technique is tricky when power's under the hood.
Some modern cars don't turn off. The start button is software, not a switch backed by a big power relay.
are the same as my luggage.
Apparently some AC knows that nobody alive today knows how old the universe it. It is hilarious to read difinitively[sic] how s/he claims to know.
Business case: "There is a 1% chance that this black box works; and if it works it will reduce our market's infrastructure cost by 50%."
What research price are you willing to gamble, to end up on the winning vs not-losing side of the business?
Are you saying that a company should be unable to shed customers it doesn't want? Your way smells faintly of Marxism to me. B-)
You can adjust the heart rate of someone nearby by telling them a joke. ("Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer?", etc.)
I'd be scared if the delivery guy always arrived toting sharpened blades. He could trade them for a pizza cutter, or even better, gloves or a credit card reader.
Sand Francisco: gateway to Silica Valley.
Hopefully they run into the same issue that Google did.
Large location based advertising revenue? A global world road map with radio-location markers that exceeds many commercial cartographers' efforts? Which issue were you thinking of?