Seriously, did the guy just play too much Starcon2? He's one sentence away from saying "Time cube are not *many fingers*!" We of Culture20 find your way of *many fingers* intriguing and wacky. Please continue, friend, if my asking is not too tacky.
they failed to mention that people today still lock their doors
The "still" implies that it was common back then. Even in the 70's and early 80's, people left their doors and cars unlocked during the daylight hours.
"Your an idiot." They could just be using sentence fragments, with "an" being a acronym for an adjective describing the type of idiot which is in your possession.
Your A.N. idiot... [verb]...
Just like harddrives with "missing" platters and USB sticks. I found out my 256MB USB stick was really a 1GB stick downgraded to 256MB after I opened it up. The companies make a profit on the hardware at any of these costs; it's easier for them to manufacture one product and do more work to cripple the hardware into multiple "versions". Often, a firmware reflash (for HDDs) will re-enable the other platters.
"Name a single real world problem that doesn't parallelize"
Multiple orgasms.
I actually agree that many problems are sequential by nature, but you do realize that multiple orgasms can be tasked amongst multiple women, right? I'll never do that though, I'm in the old-school one processor crowd.
AN OPEN LETTER TO HOBBYISTS By William Henry Gates III... but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists. Most directly, the thing you do is theft.
Wow. I've never read that. This explains why he thinks linux (the currently prominent hobbyist OS) is rife with copyrighted code. "It *must* be, hobbyists are thieves!"
No, thieves can shave engravings, and they can break down electronics into the parts. I had several engraved things stolen from me, despite the obvious engravings making the items look ugly, they had no effect.
Get one of those $15 USB powered dual-fan laptop trays, mount it on the inside of your drawer so that the long thin output is directed at the (usually) convenient openings in the side of the drawer. Or, just ask to drill some holes where your laptop's exhaust port is. I think you'll be surprised at how cool your laptop stays, especially if the drawer is metal.
At my old job, someone kept his laptop plugged in to its docking station in his lockable overhead compartment, which had ample open space to ventilate and allow cables (KVM,Power,Eth). He unplugged it only for meetings.
I remember the pre-internet days, and what was neat was that just before the internet-at-home explosion, there were some encyclopedias on computer disk. We owned a computer, and I used the e-ncyclopedia for a lot of research without having to go to the library. Before that, I had to fend for myself at the library like everyone else (and did lose out on occasion).
These pellets were mixed in with steel that was used in furniture for fast food restaurants...
Those self-warming chairs are neat, 'specially since they don't use 'lectricity.
What got me was that the NRC regulations allow patients to go home if the exposure to others would be less than 100 milli-rem, whereas the maximum offsite exposure for a nuclear generating station is 5 milli-rem per year.
Continuous vs spike exposure.
Is it unusual in your experience for, say, a corporate IT department to destroy hard drives by policy?
It is so normal to do this in corporate IT that Dell, HP, et al allow companies to keep the hard drives after warranty "replacement", and gaussers and physical HDD shredders are commonly used, along with iron spikes and sledge hammers.
There are also places that just wipe the drive ~3 times with alternating random data and zeros.
I like to play devil's advocate so I'll bite:
Now how many of you want to see a nice bloody civil war in China? Anybody? Show of hands, please. Anybody? Given enough 'freedom', I'm sure disgruntled groups could manage to incite just such a war.
So munitions makers could have a huge market? Some ultra-greens might like it too; reduce the human population.
Let's not forget their efforts to control their population's numbers. Who wants to see another billion hungry Chinese in 10 years or so? If their population gets out of control, where's all the food and resources going to come from? That's right, your market.
Be careful what you wish for. You might get it.
My market? Awesome. More profits for me.
Every time someone walks into the room they have to swipe their credit card in the STB or the TV will turn off.
A reverse max-headroom device? I think it's more likely that they have to swipe their card to turn the TV off.
I've been thinking that since the mini-series. I can't wait until the end of this series to see if they rebuild Caprica again.
I'm hoping that the end-goal of the hypothetical simulation is to find earth. Lets say that maybe this series _does_ have a tie into the original series: The humans in the original series escaped and found earth, but only a few Cylons followed. Now, the Cylons don't know how to get to Earth, so they decide to make similar cylon-humans to try and do it for them (then fake-chase them to make them desire to reach Earth).
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The "still" implies that it was common back then. Even in the 70's and early 80's, people left their doors and cars unlocked during the daylight hours.
Your A.N. idiot
Just like harddrives with "missing" platters and USB sticks. I found out my 256MB USB stick was really a 1GB stick downgraded to 256MB after I opened it up. The companies make a profit on the hardware at any of these costs; it's easier for them to manufacture one product and do more work to cripple the hardware into multiple "versions". Often, a firmware reflash (for HDDs) will re-enable the other platters.
Multiple orgasms.
I actually agree that many problems are sequential by nature, but you do realize that multiple orgasms can be tasked amongst multiple women, right? I'll never do that though, I'm in the old-school one processor crowd.
The one-button mouse.
Wow. I've never read that. This explains why he thinks linux (the currently prominent hobbyist OS) is rife with copyrighted code. "It *must* be, hobbyists are thieves!"
"We just simply found that the evidence didn't indicate that it would harm consumers."
...since Satellite radio has so few consumers...
doesn't look like it will be a good item for a _running_ laptop. all that foam, and no ventilation...
No, thieves can shave engravings, and they can break down electronics into the parts. I had several engraved things stolen from me, despite the obvious engravings making the items look ugly, they had no effect.
sysadmins often get nicer (albeit sometimes noisier) digs than developers. You just have to be paranoid enough to justify it to management.
Get one of those $15 USB powered dual-fan laptop trays, mount it on the inside of your drawer so that the long thin output is directed at the (usually) convenient openings in the side of the drawer. Or, just ask to drill some holes where your laptop's exhaust port is. I think you'll be surprised at how cool your laptop stays, especially if the drawer is metal.
At my old job, someone kept his laptop plugged in to its docking station in his lockable overhead compartment, which had ample open space to ventilate and allow cables (KVM,Power,Eth). He unplugged it only for meetings.
I remember the pre-internet days, and what was neat was that just before the internet-at-home explosion, there were some encyclopedias on computer disk. We owned a computer, and I used the e-ncyclopedia for a lot of research without having to go to the library. Before that, I had to fend for myself at the library like everyone else (and did lose out on occasion).
Those self-warming chairs are neat, 'specially since they don't use 'lectricity.
Continuous vs spike exposure.
Step 2 is getting people to donate old wireless devices and/or buy eepcs or XOs.
Step 3 is always profit, but this time, it's profit for the folks in the neighborhood.
I understand your confusion since step 2 is often listed as "???"
I've used finger in an operating system, does that count?
Passover(last supper) versus a birthday.
It is so normal to do this in corporate IT that Dell, HP, et al allow companies to keep the hard drives after warranty "replacement", and gaussers and physical HDD shredders are commonly used, along with iron spikes and sledge hammers.
There are also places that just wipe the drive ~3 times with alternating random data and zeros.
So munitions makers could have a huge market? Some ultra-greens might like it too; reduce the human population. Let's not forget their efforts to control their population's numbers. Who wants to see another billion hungry Chinese in 10 years or so? If their population gets out of control, where's all the food and resources going to come from? That's right, your market. Be careful what you wish for. You might get it.
My market? Awesome. More profits for me.
Well, you _can_ design a piecemeal laptop, and I can guarantee it won't be cheap...
What about backups made for the purpose of watching after the lifespan of the DVD? Extreme Timeshifting?
A reverse max-headroom device? I think it's more likely that they have to swipe their card to turn the TV off.
I've been thinking that since the mini-series. I can't wait until the end of this series to see if they rebuild Caprica again.
I'm hoping that the end-goal of the hypothetical simulation is to find earth. Lets say that maybe this series _does_ have a tie into the original series: The humans in the original series escaped and found earth, but only a few Cylons followed. Now, the Cylons don't know how to get to Earth, so they decide to make similar cylon-humans to try and do it for them (then fake-chase them to make them desire to reach Earth).
Correction: Muffit was a robotic daggit, not a dog.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daggit