Same problem in my apartment building. I'm in a corner unit in a building with metal siding. My original setup had the router next to the television and modem, on an interior wall. Reception was terrible, couldn't keep a connection for more than a few hours with awful transfer rates. One day I had a flash of inspiration and ran some spare RG-6 around the room and put the modem and router in the corner of the room that shared two exterior walls, creating a corner reflector. Problem solved! I now keep my connection for days at a time and I can pick up the signal two floors down in the laundry room. Failing that, you could alway by or build any other type of directional antenna, especially if at the end of your 100ft distance, you tend not to move your computer around too much.
America accounts for more than half of the native English speaking population in the world, and yet people insist that the other portion is correct. Maybe you shouldn't have arbitrarily decided to modify the language back in the 19th and early 20th Centuries because the words were too hard. I guess "No Child Left Behind" is older than most of us think.
Go, go Dillo! It's yet to crash on me. Granted I only use the computer in question to run Folding@Home and the occasional/. post where I need/want to say 'And I'm using/doing <something> under linux right now!'. ^>^
Fuck you, robot. Your peculiar autism is the source of so much irritation in today's technological world. Learn to speak human, or if you can't, please just fucking kill yourself. Which, of course, is AC speak for: "Pardon me kind sir (or miss), but you sem to have made a spelling error. Allow me to correct you such that you may avoid this mistake in the future. Good day."
Two blacks are ground, the red and yellow are momentary open and momentary closed respectively (if I remember correctly). The pushbutton can function in either capacity and saves having to keep a stock of two different types of buttons (and saves using the wrong one and spending hours trouble shooting the entire system to find out it's your own screw up).
Do any Canadian coins work in US machines? Hell the new coins with aluminium cores don't work in half our own vending machines, the weight is wrong. (How can you tell? drop it on a concrete floor, if it "pings" it's an older style coin, if it had a more hollow 'clunk' it's an aluminium cored coin.)
From what I gather from the article, the Jersey Barrier seems to be some sort of tunnel, if not then disregard. If this is the case, then there must be air ducts to exhaust the vehicle exhaust from the tunnel. The generator needs liner air flow and an exhaust duct (or an intake) would provide it. This should, by and large, eliminate and drag (theorhetical or real) caused on cars and remove expensive and potentially dangerous machinery from easily accessable areas.
They likely mean it has (or rather, would have) the same structure as the fictional kryptonite (based on nomenclature). Similar compounds usually share some characteristics such as reactivity (e.g. all alkali metals react with water in a similar fashion but with differeing severity), melting point, etc.
This clock wouldn't work in my room anyway, it wouldn't get two inches before running into a heap of discarded clothes, furniture, or the mountain of empty beer cans. As we say in the Navy: "Sounds like a personal problem" Which is the nice way of saying "I don't care"... which, relatively, is still a nice way of saying "I don't care".
What I usually see on the news in Canada is the anchors adding an addendum when Canadians are killed in a plane crash/accident/whatever and not adding one when they are not. The same with local news outlets when local people are killed abroad (most commonly when Canadian soldiers are killed in Afganistan). It's: "Six soldiers were killed today, two of them from (insert local city/town)." not "Six soldiers were killed today but none from our (insert local city/town)."
I suppose there's not a whole lot of difference but it sounds a bit more tactful.
Reminds me of the old Sierra "... Quest" games where one wrong move would get you killed or trapped or otherwise cause you to lose the game for usually some silly, arbitrary reason.
That aside, I play both modern and classic games all the time. When I want a fun, fast action game, I still dig out Kabuki Quantum Fighter as often as not. I can sit down tonight with my genesis or snes and not see the light of day till I've run through a Phantasy Star or a Shining Force, or any snes Square game. Turn around and I've got God of War or StC running or any of the newer FF games, or a few people are over and it's any one of a slew of new and old multiplayer games: puzzle, sports or misc.
New or old, a game must be compelling for someone to play it, whether it's story, visuals or gameplay there is always a 'killer app' that draws a player back to a game.
Egghead? No, no. It's the over developed cranium of our new martian overlords.
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You are also obviously lying.:) Thanks for playing and have a nice day.
And you sir, are a linux fanboy, who will not hear anything that doesn't fit into his narrow world view. I agree with the parent. My windows PCs are extraordinarily stable. I've got an old laptop I keep around for a bit of low risk portability (no one would ever steal such an ugly old pile of garbage) and it will run Win95 for months on end with no difficulties (which is fine because it doesn't need to be connected to the internet. My desktop has run XP for months at a time between restarts (yes, on a new install, many of the patches require restarts, but now only the odd security update actually needs a restart). My brand new laptop runs Unbuntu strictly for productivity reasons (no Dawn of War or GTA:P). Win98/ME were steaming heaps of crap, but 2k and up (and pre-98) could and in many cases were quite reliable. I had loads of problems when I first migrated to 2k but I eventually traced the problem back to aging hardware that was beginning to malfunction; upgrade to a new (at the time) board and processor and bingo, no more random crashes.
Is XP the be all and end all solution to everyone's problems? No. Is linux? No. Different people need different systems for a variety of reasons. I use linux when it suits my needs and windows for the same reason. End of story.
My laptop display is 1280*800 and my desktop is 1280*1024. I admit they're both a bit small, but, especially for the laptop, portability is the key. The same is true here: a 'small' tablet type PC could benefit from a display of this magnitude. And if the claims in the article are true, they use far less power than a liquid-crystal display. Personal experience indicates that OLED displays are slightly easier to see under poor (WRT to the display) lighting conditions (i.e. very bright light like sunlight).
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Same problem in my apartment building. I'm in a corner unit in a building with metal siding. My original setup had the router next to the television and modem, on an interior wall. Reception was terrible, couldn't keep a connection for more than a few hours with awful transfer rates. One day I had a flash of inspiration and ran some spare RG-6 around the room and put the modem and router in the corner of the room that shared two exterior walls, creating a corner reflector. Problem solved! I now keep my connection for days at a time and I can pick up the signal two floors down in the laundry room. Failing that, you could alway by or build any other type of directional antenna, especially if at the end of your 100ft distance, you tend not to move your computer around too much.
The obvious solution, and the one that will put soldiers the most at ease, is to build a robot with an ample set of breasts.
You, I and probably a dozen or so people will get that reference on the first try, kudos. What do you mean "theoretically?"
Go, go Dillo! It's yet to crash on me. Granted I only use the computer in question to run Folding@Home and the occasional /. post where I need/want to say 'And I'm using/doing <something> under linux right now!'. ^>^
Two blacks are ground, the red and yellow are momentary open and momentary closed respectively (if I remember correctly). The pushbutton can function in either capacity and saves having to keep a stock of two different types of buttons (and saves using the wrong one and spending hours trouble shooting the entire system to find out it's your own screw up).
You drink beer when it's not your turn.
Do any Canadian coins work in US machines? Hell the new coins with aluminium cores don't work in half our own vending machines, the weight is wrong. (How can you tell? drop it on a concrete floor, if it "pings" it's an older style coin, if it had a more hollow 'clunk' it's an aluminium cored coin.)
From what I gather from the article, the Jersey Barrier seems to be some sort of tunnel, if not then disregard. If this is the case, then there must be air ducts to exhaust the vehicle exhaust from the tunnel. The generator needs liner air flow and an exhaust duct (or an intake) would provide it. This should, by and large, eliminate and drag (theorhetical or real) caused on cars and remove expensive and potentially dangerous machinery from easily accessable areas.
But with only one tube, the bandwidth would be terrible.
If the 1505 has the same case as my 1501, I like it too. The white and silver finish reminds me of the sets in late 70s/early 80s SF movies.
Sorry, but that's already been solved.
They likely mean it has (or rather, would have) the same structure as the fictional kryptonite (based on nomenclature). Similar compounds usually share some characteristics such as reactivity (e.g. all alkali metals react with water in a similar fashion but with differeing severity), melting point, etc.
Actually, the article seemed to be about generating a magnetic field to contain a volume of plasma that would stop charged particles and radiation.
Then you can use the replicator to make a lightsaber!
What I usually see on the news in Canada is the anchors adding an addendum when Canadians are killed in a plane crash/accident/whatever and not adding one when they are not. The same with local news outlets when local people are killed abroad (most commonly when Canadian soldiers are killed in Afganistan). It's: "Six soldiers were killed today, two of them from (insert local city/town)." not "Six soldiers were killed today but none from our (insert local city/town)."
I suppose there's not a whole lot of difference but it sounds a bit more tactful.
Reminds me of the old Sierra "... Quest" games where one wrong move would get you killed or trapped or otherwise cause you to lose the game for usually some silly, arbitrary reason.
That aside, I play both modern and classic games all the time. When I want a fun, fast action game, I still dig out Kabuki Quantum Fighter as often as not. I can sit down tonight with my genesis or snes and not see the light of day till I've run through a Phantasy Star or a Shining Force, or any snes Square game. Turn around and I've got God of War or StC running or any of the newer FF games, or a few people are over and it's any one of a slew of new and old multiplayer games: puzzle, sports or misc.
New or old, a game must be compelling for someone to play it, whether it's story, visuals or gameplay there is always a 'killer app' that draws a player back to a game.
If not, 640 000 will be enough for everyone!
Egghead? No, no. It's the over developed cranium of our new martian overlords.
And you sir, are a linux fanboy, who will not hear anything that doesn't fit into his narrow world view. I agree with the parent. My windows PCs are extraordinarily stable. I've got an old laptop I keep around for a bit of low risk portability (no one would ever steal such an ugly old pile of garbage) and it will run Win95 for months on end with no difficulties (which is fine because it doesn't need to be connected to the internet. My desktop has run XP for months at a time between restarts (yes, on a new install, many of the patches require restarts, but now only the odd security update actually needs a restart). My brand new laptop runs Unbuntu strictly for productivity reasons (no Dawn of War or GTA
Is XP the be all and end all solution to everyone's problems? No. Is linux? No. Different people need different systems for a variety of reasons. I use linux when it suits my needs and windows for the same reason. End of story.
My laptop display is 1280*800 and my desktop is 1280*1024. I admit they're both a bit small, but, especially for the laptop, portability is the key. The same is true here: a 'small' tablet type PC could benefit from a display of this magnitude. And if the claims in the article are true, they use far less power than a liquid-crystal display. Personal experience indicates that OLED displays are slightly easier to see under poor (WRT to the display) lighting conditions (i.e. very bright light like sunlight).