Depends on what you want to do. $20 for an adapter is chump change / lunch money and hosts my 100Gb linux array for home storage just fine. It will stream video w/ no problem. There are lots of time's "old and slow" is perfectly adequate, you don't always need latest and greatest, altho I'm glad it exists for purposes of surplusing down prices of perfectly good kit;)
No, it must be 802 because: "The first meeting of the IEEE Computer Society "Local Network Standards Committee", Project 802, was held in February of 1980."
(well because adaptec scsi devices are so expensive)
You've got to be kidding! That and I'm buying scsi disks at about $50 for 36Gb now. Get an 80p-68p converter and take advantage of all the surplus raid drives out there.
personally, it's when they start to show up on the surplus market! For one thing, if something lasts long enough to be resold it's probably well built, which usually means professional quality as opposed to consumer quality. If it's in the toy/entertainment/personal research class I could care less about owning cutting edge gear and paying the premium to get it. For example: A box of 10 18Gb scsi disks for $100.
I always like 'dual prong' strategies. Buy into SCO and get them to smear GNU/Linux with FUD and lawsuits,and then offer guarentees that Windows closed code doesn't have that problem. Kinda like the good cop/bad cop treatment.
"Look, I'm trying to help you, but if you don't use our product I can't help what Guido here might do to your kneecaps".
I used to be in an area with lots of military bases and lots of openings requiring security clearence. However from what I understand it's a catch-22 - you have to get a job with an employer willing to pay and sponsor your clearance, and most contractors wanted people already cleared to save $$$, looking for ex-military people. I didn't think unemployed civilians could get clearance for job hunting purposes on their own.
Anyway, I ended up getting the heck out of there and lucked into a position near where I grew up, where they had problems getting any qualified people to move to.
ok, what does the mri show about his brain that's different than Mr. Normal Person? Are there different neuron interconnections, higher density, what? Any clue as to how his memory works?
Might be a clever hoax. Uri Geller (mentioned on page 56) has already been debunked by James Randi
If for real, should be great fodder for CSICOP (Commitee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal) which once boasted Carl Sagan, etc.
But the way they press all the 'psychic' buttons suggests an elaborate hoax.
8 million that MIGHT have a radical payoff is a bargain.
Psychic Research is probably about the only way they're ever going to find Bin Laden anyway.
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that issue is probably the one thing that drove people to the ibm/msdos standard more than anything else. I remember cartoons around 1985 of a salesman showing a real kickass machine with a great price, sound, graphics, etc., to a customer and all the customer could ask was, "But is it PC compatible?".
they will realize that the workers are customers of the economy and without jobs people don't buy much.
but if they don't realize the 'buy-back' principle they will continue to try to cut-costs buy $TRENDY_METHOD. Unfortunately, bad managers implementing a failing policy often recommend more of failing policy as a solution for the ills created by the failing policy.
I've had RAM which could pass all day long on a so-called memory tester, put it into a PC and the thing couldn't even finish POST.
I used to use gcc linux kernel compile to thrash-test memory - start enough of 'em so it just starts to swap and let it run in a loop overnight. If no signal-11's in the morning it'll probably survive anything else.
Plus the exit polls seemed to suggest a different winner.
Yes, that's a straw to grasp onto - persue that, while the rest of us witness the phenomena of rational minds fabricating a fantasy to reconcile the cognitive dissonance between it's dashed expectations and reality.
Now if only Bill Gates would concede that Mozilla is a better browser than IE. Or RMS that vi is better than emacs. Or William Shatner that Picard was a better star ship captain. Or....
Canadian Paradise - where neo-hippies can avoid the draft, get stoned all day, have free unfettered sex, whine about global issues and leech off the government!
That's like the old Lycos at one time put in this automated advertising thing, so you search for libstdc++-devel-3.2.2-5 and it comes back with "Find bargains on libstdc++-devel-3.2.2-5 at Amazon.com!", "See what people are saying about libstdc++-devel-3.2.2-5 on movietalk.com!"
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you can even buy power factor correction power supplies if your Q gets too big, as the power company does charge for imaginary power.
There's nothing wrong with 'y=x'. IF x=1 then you know y must = 1 also. If you plot the chart you get a straight line at 45 degree angle. if x=1, y=1; if x=5, y=5; x=-10, y=-10. I can't beleive someone on/. failed elementary 6th grade math.
Reload and try again - there IS a problem with that proof, but it's not what you guessed.
1) x = y 2) x^2 = xy (multiply both sides by x) 3) x^2 - y^2 = xy - y^2 (subtract y^2 from each side) 4) (x + y)(x - y) = y(x - y) (factor) 5) x + y = y (divide out (x - y)) 6) 2y = y (substitute y for x from #1) 7) 2 = 1 (What do you think of that?!)
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but don't you have to me going *really fucking fast* if you want to make any noticeable doppler shift in light?
That's what I said to the radar cop but he gave me a ticket anyway.
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Low-end SCSI is just not worth it IMO.
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Depends on what you want to do. $20 for an adapter is chump change / lunch money and hosts my 100Gb linux array for home storage just fine. It will stream video w/ no problem. There are lots of time's "old and slow" is perfectly adequate, you don't always need latest and greatest, altho I'm glad it exists for purposes of surplusing down prices of perfectly good kit
How long untill we see a rollerball type game with polo players riding segways trying to knock a ball into a basket on top of a moveing roomba?
No, it must be 802 because: "The first meeting of the IEEE Computer Society "Local Network Standards Committee", Project 802, was held in February of 1980."
(well because adaptec scsi devices are so expensive)
You've got to be kidding! That and I'm buying scsi disks at about $50 for 36Gb now. Get an 80p-68p converter and take advantage of all the surplus raid drives out there.
personally, it's when they start to show up on the surplus market! For one thing, if something lasts long enough to be resold it's probably well built,
which usually means professional quality as opposed to consumer quality. If it's in the toy/entertainment/personal research class I could care less about owning cutting edge gear and paying the premium to get it. For example: A box of 10 18Gb scsi disks for $100.
I always like 'dual prong' strategies. Buy into SCO and get them to smear GNU/Linux with FUD and lawsuits,and then offer guarentees that Windows closed code doesn't have that problem. Kinda like the good cop/bad cop treatment.
"Look, I'm trying to help you, but if you don't use our product I can't help what Guido here might do to your kneecaps".
I used to be in an area with lots of military bases and lots of openings requiring security clearence. However from what I understand it's a catch-22 - you have to get a job with an employer willing to pay and sponsor your clearance, and most contractors wanted people already cleared to save $$$, looking for ex-military people. I didn't think unemployed civilians could get clearance for job hunting purposes on their own.
Anyway, I ended up getting the heck out of there and lucked into a position near where I grew up, where they had problems getting any qualified people to move to.
ok, what does the mri show about his brain that's different than Mr. Normal Person? Are there different neuron interconnections, higher density, what? Any clue as to how his memory works?
even better if it was this one
Might be a clever hoax. Uri Geller (mentioned on page 56) has already been debunked by James Randi
If for real, should be great fodder for CSICOP (Commitee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal) which once boasted Carl Sagan, etc.
But the way they press all the 'psychic' buttons suggests an elaborate hoax.
8 million that MIGHT have a radical payoff is a bargain.
Psychic Research is probably about the only way they're ever going to find Bin Laden anyway.
that issue is probably the one thing that drove people to the ibm/msdos standard more than anything else. I remember cartoons around 1985 of a salesman showing a real kickass machine with a great price, sound, graphics, etc., to a customer and all the customer could ask was, "But is it PC compatible?".
they will realize that the workers are customers of the economy and without jobs people don't buy much.
but if they don't realize the 'buy-back' principle they will continue to try to cut-costs buy $TRENDY_METHOD. Unfortunately, bad managers implementing a failing policy often recommend more of failing policy as a solution for the ills created by the failing policy.
Nothing - nuclear (the sun) is the ultimate source, it all starts there, everything else is just a wasteful, downstream process.
As for slashdot editting, though
Look on the positive side, they correctly used "raises the question" instead of "begs the question".
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I've had RAM which could pass all day long on a so-called memory tester, put it into a PC and the thing couldn't even finish POST.
I used to use gcc linux kernel compile to thrash-test memory - start enough of 'em so it just starts to swap and let it run in a loop overnight. If no signal-11's in the morning it'll probably survive anything else.
Plus the exit polls seemed to suggest a different winner.
Yes, that's a straw to grasp onto - persue that, while the rest of us witness the phenomena of rational minds fabricating a fantasy to reconcile the cognitive dissonance between it's dashed expectations and reality.
Now if only Bill Gates would concede that Mozilla is a better browser than IE. Or RMS that vi is better than emacs. Or William Shatner that Picard was a better star ship captain. Or ....
Canadian Paradise - where neo-hippies can avoid the draft, get stoned all day, have free unfettered sex, whine about global issues and leech off the government!
Go north, young man.
comparison shop for 'your rights online' ? wtf???
That's like the old Lycos at one time put in this automated advertising thing, so you search for libstdc++-devel-3.2.2-5 and it comes back with "Find bargains on libstdc++-devel-3.2.2-5 at Amazon.com!", "See what people are saying about libstdc++-devel-3.2.2-5 on movietalk.com!"
you can even buy power factor correction power supplies if your Q gets too big, as the power company does charge for imaginary power.
There's nothing wrong with 'y=x'. IF x=1 then you know y must = 1 also. If you plot the chart you get a straight line at 45 degree angle. if x=1, y=1; if x=5, y=5; x=-10, y=-10. I can't beleive someone on /. failed elementary 6th grade math.
Reload and try again - there IS a problem with that proof, but it's not what you guessed.
Here's the proof:
1) x = y
2) x^2 = xy (multiply both sides by x)
3) x^2 - y^2 = xy - y^2 (subtract y^2 from each side)
4) (x + y)(x - y) = y(x - y) (factor)
5) x + y = y (divide out (x - y))
6) 2y = y (substitute y for x from #1)
7) 2 = 1 (What do you think of that?!)
but don't you have to me going *really fucking fast* if you want to make any noticeable doppler shift in light?
That's what I said to the radar cop but he gave me a ticket anyway.