Has anyone tried to install DSL on this? It's hardly the most robust or full-featured build out there, but it's earned a place near and dear to my heart after making my old 166MHz Toughbook an effective travel companion once again. It would just hum on a machine like the Eee and leave plenty of storage space (I'm using less than 5% of a 5GB drive, including OS, add'l software and various photos and documents.
I had the same problem when I first picked up GH2 after playing it at a party, I came up with two solutions:
1) Turn the music up. Obviously, if you can't hear yourself think, you can't hear the guitar click.
2) Be gentle. The clicking spring only makes noise if you hammer on the strum button or release it quickly. I can play on hard and expert, only moving the strum button a small degree of it's full range of motion, just enough to trigger the switch in the guitar, without the clicking.
3) It isn't the cheap keyboards that make those loud clicking sounds, it's some of the best damn keyboards ever IMO.
Okay, the last one wasn't a solution to the guitar clicking problem, but you get the idea.
The first time I do, the folks at Rogers will get a firm but polite phone call telling them to discontinue, the second time, they will get another phone call cancelling my account with them. I originally went with Rogers because I had a good experience with another cable internet provider in my old home, but if they choose to try this, I'll be switching to the teleco's DSL service, even if it is a few dollars more per month... but then again, I can bundle my phone and television service in with my DSL and save (compared to what I'm paying now for the same three services spread across two providers).
Is that something that's common on newer vehicles? I've never seen it myself and I've changed tires on at least a dozen cars over the years (the hazards of working in a drive-through lumber yard), but none of them newer than 1998 models.
So in your next home build, throw a couple of thermionic valves in there. All of a sudden, you'll be the "bee's knees"!
I sympathize with you, when I started my tech training in naval electronics, I had already built my own TRF receiver and could troubleshoot and fix all but the most complex electronics (i.e. surface mount is beyond my abilities, I'm too 'ham-handed' to make a semi-topical pun). My knowledge and experience were derided by my instructors and caused outright hostility among my classmates/coworkers who thought I was simply 'showing off'.
For what it's worth, I recently upgraded from Illustrator 7 to Illustrator CS2. I found the interface to be nearly, if not exactly, identical. I can't comment on Photoshop because I haven't upgraded my photo editing software.
I think a better analogy would be a haemophiliac with a small cut on his (or her) finger: something that has to be addressed, certainly, but not immediately life threatening.
Each module was independantly sealed as the station was built. Would it not be possible to 'close the door' on each module, all at once or by turns, and locate, at least generally, the leak?
I apologize but the nerd in me has to ask, why not 1.0E-26? Is it some kind of psychological thing that makes the number look significantly smaller, like pricing at (x-1).99 rather than x.00?
To other readers, yes I know that (x-1).99 != x.00. Notice the word "significantly" and note the context of psychology of pricing. The engineer in me asks: why not 0.01E-24 or 10E-27? Then we'd have 0.01 yocto-whatevers or have to invent a prefix for 10^-27 cause I couldn't find one. Wait, does that mean I get to name it?
Thompson's stuff look sane by comparison. Now that's just plain disturbing. I can't say that I've ever been bothered to look at his career but even over the past few years that I've seen him in the media spotlight, he's only gotten more delusional and "conspiracy theory"-laden.
Huh, I just noticed that 'conspirarcy' has 'piracy' in it... coincidence?! ^>^
Yep, pretty much. In a very few cases a court will issue an injunction against particularly annoying pro se litigants (like the kind who file dozens or hundreds of frivolous lawsuits) prohibiting them from filing anything without it going through a lawyer first, but this is rare. Now who do we know that might file dozens or hundreds of frivolous lawsuits I wonder?
Another theory that I've heard (which isn't mentioned in this article) is that the daily expansion and contraction of these rocks causes them to inch along. No idea how plausible any of these theories are. Until we set up a camera (including one that can take night shots) and record it, we won't know for sure.
In my own experience, I was carded more when I had my own variety of unkempt beard. To 'the man' it makes you look:
a) more shifty
b) like you're trying to grow a beard to look older
I almost never got carded when I was clean shaven.
Beyond the question of whether or not anyone 'needs' even one computer, some of use just do it cause we can, or because we want to. I still have an old laptop on my network for no other reason that when it got replaced, it got several different linux builds tested on it and then stuck in a corner, chugging away at Folding@Home and acting as my print server. It was a great learning experience, getting the different platforms (two different windows versions and a linux box) to all talk and play nice and friendly (i.e. beyond using a common internet connection). Some people use old computers as firewalls, routers, file servers, etc. and some people simply can't throw things out. There's a second desktop that I use for playing older games that don't run properly on newer OSes, but it's off unless I'm using it. I've probably got parts enough to build two or three computers (less cases) stored in my closet because there's no reason to throw out old but working parts. I would say that is probably true of a signifigant number of Slashdotters.
Anytime some one says "Oh my is broken", I've probably got a replacement and I simply give the part away. I admit that having a bunch of computers running 'just because' is probably wasteful in terms of electricity cost, but throwing them out is wasteful if they're just going to sit in a landfill.
Yeah, the only differences are the impurities that give the colours right? But in terms of making crystals just to be crushed and melted down, this could likely be done a little cheaper cause they're not worried about making jewelry. And cost tends to be less of a factor when it comes to military applications, not completely unimportant, but certainly not the main issue. And how much of the cost of synthetic gems is the lab/company trying to make a profit as opposed to the raw materials/energy?
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No, wait...
Has anyone tried to install DSL on this? It's hardly the most robust or full-featured build out there, but it's earned a place near and dear to my heart after making my old 166MHz Toughbook an effective travel companion once again. It would just hum on a machine like the Eee and leave plenty of storage space (I'm using less than 5% of a 5GB drive, including OS, add'l software and various photos and documents.
I had the same problem when I first picked up GH2 after playing it at a party, I came up with two solutions:
1) Turn the music up. Obviously, if you can't hear yourself think, you can't hear the guitar click.
2) Be gentle. The clicking spring only makes noise if you hammer on the strum button or release it quickly. I can play on hard and expert, only moving the strum button a small degree of it's full range of motion, just enough to trigger the switch in the guitar, without the clicking.
3) It isn't the cheap keyboards that make those loud clicking sounds, it's some of the best damn keyboards ever IMO.
Okay, the last one wasn't a solution to the guitar clicking problem, but you get the idea.
Electrodes aren't positive, cathodes are. I know it's a picky little thing, but it was hammered into my head in Uni. ^>^
It was. ^>^
As a Rogers customer, I haven't seen this... yet.
The first time I do, the folks at Rogers will get a firm but polite phone call telling them to discontinue, the second time, they will get another phone call cancelling my account with them. I originally went with Rogers because I had a good experience with another cable internet provider in my old home, but if they choose to try this, I'll be switching to the teleco's DSL service, even if it is a few dollars more per month... but then again, I can bundle my phone and television service in with my DSL and save (compared to what I'm paying now for the same three services spread across two providers).
Is that something that's common on newer vehicles? I've never seen it myself and I've changed tires on at least a dozen cars over the years (the hazards of working in a drive-through lumber yard), but none of them newer than 1998 models.
So in your next home build, throw a couple of thermionic valves in there. All of a sudden, you'll be the "bee's knees"!
I sympathize with you, when I started my tech training in naval electronics, I had already built my own TRF receiver and could troubleshoot and fix all but the most complex electronics (i.e. surface mount is beyond my abilities, I'm too 'ham-handed' to make a semi-topical pun). My knowledge and experience were derided by my instructors and caused outright hostility among my classmates/coworkers who thought I was simply 'showing off'.
For what it's worth, I recently upgraded from Illustrator 7 to Illustrator CS2. I found the interface to be nearly, if not exactly, identical. I can't comment on Photoshop because I haven't upgraded my photo editing software.
Which will do little to offset the cost of repairing those roads damaged by excess tonnage.
I think a better analogy would be a haemophiliac with a small cut on his (or her) finger: something that has to be addressed, certainly, but not immediately life threatening.
Each module was independantly sealed as the station was built. Would it not be possible to 'close the door' on each module, all at once or by turns, and locate, at least generally, the leak?
Why would you even want to eat printed circuit boards?
I apologize but the nerd in me has to ask, why not 1.0E-26? Is it some kind of psychological thing that makes the number look significantly smaller, like pricing at (x-1).99 rather than x.00?
To other readers, yes I know that (x-1).99 != x.00. Notice the word "significantly" and note the context of psychology of pricing. The engineer in me asks: why not 0.01E-24 or 10E-27? Then we'd have 0.01 yocto-whatevers or have to invent a prefix for 10^-27 cause I couldn't find one. Wait, does that mean I get to name it?
Huh, I just noticed that 'conspirarcy' has 'piracy' in it... coincidence?! ^>^
No, he's going to remove his eyes with wire sized according to the AWG standard.
Another theory that I've heard (which isn't mentioned in this article) is that the daily expansion and contraction of these rocks causes them to inch along. No idea how plausible any of these theories are. Until we set up a camera (including one that can take night shots) and record it, we won't know for sure.
More importantly, don't build any glass houses near here!
In my own experience, I was carded more when I had my own variety of unkempt beard. To 'the man' it makes you look:
a) more shifty
b) like you're trying to grow a beard to look older
I almost never got carded when I was clean shaven.
No, I don't think it's possible to write a good GNAA troll.
That's a matter of opinion :P
Beyond the question of whether or not anyone 'needs' even one computer, some of use just do it cause we can, or because we want to. I still have an old laptop on my network for no other reason that when it got replaced, it got several different linux builds tested on it and then stuck in a corner, chugging away at Folding@Home and acting as my print server. It was a great learning experience, getting the different platforms (two different windows versions and a linux box) to all talk and play nice and friendly (i.e. beyond using a common internet connection). Some people use old computers as firewalls, routers, file servers, etc. and some people simply can't throw things out. There's a second desktop that I use for playing older games that don't run properly on newer OSes, but it's off unless I'm using it. I've probably got parts enough to build two or three computers (less cases) stored in my closet because there's no reason to throw out old but working parts. I would say that is probably true of a signifigant number of Slashdotters.
Anytime some one says "Oh my is broken", I've probably got a replacement and I simply give the part away. I admit that having a bunch of computers running 'just because' is probably wasteful in terms of electricity cost, but throwing them out is wasteful if they're just going to sit in a landfill.
Yeah, the only differences are the impurities that give the colours right? But in terms of making crystals just to be crushed and melted down, this could likely be done a little cheaper cause they're not worried about making jewelry. And cost tends to be less of a factor when it comes to military applications, not completely unimportant, but certainly not the main issue. And how much of the cost of synthetic gems is the lab/company trying to make a profit as opposed to the raw materials/energy?
Of course! We must put the plasma antenna inside a Faraday cage to protect it from damage! I tip my hat to you, good sir (or madam). ;P
They come from that kid who deservedly got tasered in Florida. He kept screaming 'Don't tase me bro!'.