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Posts by Nigel 11
2560 posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
Nothing to sniff at: Dell Ultrabooks REEK OF CAT PEE, scream users
Re: we don't test for smell
10 Scared skunk
11 Thioacetone monomer [ http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/06/11/things_i_wont_work_with_thioacetone.php ] (A must-read. Would you believe that less smells worse? )
WD slips bullet between teeth, gets ready to hand $706 MEELLION to Seagate
Re: I hope this means their quality won't drop even further...
It may be too early to say SSDs are more reliable. That they less often die a week after purchase is true, but that just reflects no moving parts. The other side of the coin is that an SSD may be far more likely than a hard disk to go from AOK to brick "just like that" with no warning of any sort. I'll have a better idea 3 years hence, because ....
We're now specifying SSDs for desktop systems where the user stores nothing locally. However, for storing multiple Terabytes, there's no alternative to using an HD (or an array of HDs).
Re: Quality drop
That has NEVER happened to me with a Maxtor or a WD.
Wouldn't have bothered to say "batch problem" yet again if you hadn't mentioned that defunct manufacturer Maxtor. Theirs were the only drives that I am convinced were truly defective by design, not just one batch. I suffered multiple failures on multiple sizes and models of drive purchased over a 2-3 year spread and decided never to buy another of their drives if I had any choice. That their finances collapsed and they were bought up for a pittance shortly afterwards confirmed my opinion of them.
And now I find someone who thinks Maxtor was wonderful. Well I never.
Re: I hope this means their quality won't drop even further...
Funny: I've seen exactly the same comment about Seagate drives. And HGST and Toshiba drives.
What's really going on is bad luck and (especially) bad batch problems. EVERY manufacturer will occasionally and inevitably ship a batch of product containing one of a batch of faulty components. If you buy a batch of drives, or a batch of PCs containing drives from the same batch, then if you get two or more premature failures in the batch, you should assume that the whole lot are likely going the same way. In particular, complain in writing during the warranty period, requesting that all the implicated drives are swapped. The vendor will almost certainly refuse, but should your fears be realized you can later prove that the merchandise was not of saleable quality, and that you pointed this out BEFORE the warranty expiry but were given the brush-off.
Digital radio may replace FM altogether - even though nobody wants it
No. It can't sound better. The codecs used in DAB introduce non-harmonic distortion into an audio signal. For music, this is ghastly. Far worse than hiss and crackle, far worse than mere harmonic distortion.
why don't they just plan to retire dab in the long term and replace it with internet streaming?
Coverage and bandwidth. Do you think 4G will ever be available on unclassified roads in deepest Dorset or the Grampians, five miles from the nearest hamlet? (And even if road coverage were to reach 100%, what about farmers and walkers miles off anyroad). Do you think there will be enough bandwidth to support any encoding that doesn't introduce so much non-harmonic distortion as to turn music from a source of joy into a source of pain?
Re: DAB Bashing
Perhaps someone will come up with a converter box that rebroadcasts a single channel on a FM frequency, over an area of a few tens or so square meters.
But it'll sound even more crap than a pure DAB radio. And it'll do nothing to address DAB's other weaknesses. It won't get you a signal that doesn't keep dropping out on the move (es[ecially in rural parts), and it won't give you the battery life of an FM radio if you want to listen somewhere that a mains or automotive electricity supply is not available.
Want to keep the users happy? Don't call them users for a start
Re: Fine without the possessive
Well, what would normally be meant is "the users who I have primary responsibility for supporting" as opposed to some other group of users. In exactly the same way, a manager is likely to say "my staff" meaning the part of the organisation for which he has primary managerial responsibility.
Why does it annoy you so much?
The Raspberry Pi: Is it REALLY the saviour of British computing?
Re: Great expectations...
But why use the PI to do it?
Because - see "androgynous cupboard" below - it's cheap enough that if you break it, you don't need to cry. A new one won't break the bank. That's particularly important if you are interested in tinkering with hardware.
But even if "all" you have done is accidentally nuked the hard disk of a PC while trying to repartition and install Linux alongside Windows, there is lots of work to get it back to how it was and maybe lots of data you will never get back. Lots of expense also, if you didn't appreciate the importance of making some factory restore DVDs on the day you unpacked it (assuming you did get to unpack it yourself). If it wasn't strictly speaking your very own PC, but a shared resource, people will be blaming you. Not a nice place to be, especially not for a kid.
Re: Mind your language
Personally I'd say that teaching any language that needs a compiler as a first language is misguided and verging on cruel. Any scripting language is better simply because there's so much less of a learning curve to climb. No edit-compile-run infrastructure. No debugging of address / overwrite errors. If you're unsure of something, just try it in immediate mode at the command line and see what happens. Python is particularly good because it is also a very well-structured language (c.f. BBC Basic or, gag, Perl).
AFTER a kid has mastered Python is the time to explain that compilers generate code that runs maybe three times faster if you have a problem for which that actually matters, and what you have to give up in order to gain that speed. As computers get faster and open-source Python libraries of other people's numerical codes expand, such problems get rarer.
If a kid can't "get it" even in Python, a career in something other than programming beckons!
Re: About the cost.
You also need a case, a decent display with HDMI input, a power supply, some SD cards, a USB hub, a keyboard, a mouse, a network cable long enough to get to the ADSL modem, and a fair amount of desk space.
Don't need a case (or can improvise with cardboard or grown-out-of Lego). Keyboard and mouse can probably be scrounged for free or liberated from a council tip. Display maybe likewise, or jack it into any half-modern TV. SD card, you can probably scrounge an old small one from anyone who does photography, or source it for pennies on E-bay. Desk? No, floor or lap will do if nothing else available. Next to the router, if needs must and you really can't get hold of a long enough network cable.
The rest of the argument is a little bit stronger. Low-level programming is always going to be a minority interest. But now it's no longer restricted to a minority of a minority - wannabe hardware hackers no longer need parents who can buy a PC and unusual interfaces, and another one, two or more when your kid's attempts at homebrew electronics let the magic smoke out.
If you have a kid with hacker nature, the kid will be like a duck in water and you won't have to explain anything much, just answer the questions and encourage him. If your kid doesn't have hacker nature (probably 19/20 kids), trying to teach, explain to or encourage her will just put her off programming for life.
Hard-as-woodpecker-lips MOUSE GOBBLES live scorpion, LAUGHS off stings to face
Re: How friggin awesome is evolution!
It can't be evolution - if the poison kills you, then you can't breed in a protection against it, therefore this is 100% proof that evolution does not exist.
I should think that how this evolves is something like this.
To start with, the mice attacked scorpions the same way mongooses attack cobras. Very carefully. They're faster and smarter than their prey, so mostly they get to eat it rather than die. The less nimble ones get dead more often, and the species gets nimbler. Note that all hot-blooded species have a fundamental advantage over cold-blooded ones in the morning, before the cold-blooded ones have a chance to re-warm their bodies from the overnight chill.
Sometimes when battling or eating the prey, a small amount of venom gets into their bloodstream. Enough to harm but be survivable. Genetic variability means that for the higher doses, some survive and some don't. Gradually, genetic tolerance of the venom gets bred in. When a sting ceases to be lethal 100% of the time, risk-taking mice gain an evolutionary advantage over the original extremely risk-averse mice.
And so by slow and gradual evolution, you arrive at mice that laugh at scorpion venom.
I'd guess that the final stage is that mice which feel less pain when stung have a slight advantage over ones which do. Pain is distracting, so they more often get caught by larger predators if they suffer pain? That would create an evolutionary bias in favour of "hard" mice.
One other thing: ability to acquire tolerance of venoms by an individual is near-universal in mammals, including humans. It's the standard immune system response. The immune activity degrades a foreign protein before it can fatally degrade the host's proteins, and is then primed to mount the same response faster and better next time. Immune responses are passed (or primed) from mother to child via breast-milk. It's an area we don't yet fully understand. There may be epigenetic factors at work, and Lamarkian evolution may not be completely discredited when it comes to inherited immune response. Just a thought.
Intel: Our first five parallel-computing schools are open for business
One way to think parallel
One way to think in parallel is a spreadsheet!
Behind the scenes, a spreadsheet keeps a list (graph) of which cells depend on which other cells. Provided the dependencies are processed in the right order, you can recalculate each cell in parallel with many others. LibreOffice has the use of GPGPUs for calculation as a future goal.
Of course, most actual spreadsheets are not large enough to keep more than a single core significantly busy, but one might "code" for parallel execution using a program design methodology that looks a lot like a spreadsheet and it's underlying, automatically generated, dependency graph.
More generally, the problem is software. At present we do parallel coding mostly using sequential languages and the spawning of multiple execution threads. Other approaches are needed, with the computer doing the parallelisation, not the human programmer.
The irony is that nature worked it out a very long time ago. A brain is a parallel processing system par excellence, 10^11 processors operating asynchronously at something like 20Hz. But it's possible for an evolved system to be beyond the understanding of that system, and so far even insect brains seem to be beyond our ken.
How to spot a coders comment
And Embedded deep in VMS
Somewhere in the system timer interrupt code, back in the days when you got the source of the entire VMS operating system on Microfiche with every new release ...
; Does anybody really know what time it is
; Does anybody really care
; If so I can't imagine why
; We've all got time enough to die
(which is of course a quote of a lyric by , IIRC, Chicago).
Re: Old school assembly language programmer
Hardly. Old-school assember newbie who didn't know what a macro or a pseudo-op was.
You'd code
and the macro or assembler would generate the sequence of XORs if that was the most efficient way to do it on your CPU. If the hardware vendor hadn't written it for you, any self-respecting assembler programmer would have written it for himself.
I once saw an enormous macro to implement
SETCONST register, value [,scratch_register]
which avoided loading a constant from RAM for about a thousand commonly and less commonly used constants on an early instance of what would later become known as a RISC architecture.
Open-source hardware hacking effort 'smacked down' by USB overlords
Dead vendor squatting?
How about finding a vendor ID for a vendor that long ago went out of business, and "squatting" that with openly allocated product IDs that the defunct vendor never used (and in light of its corporate death, never will).
Not perfect, but maybe the right way to force the issue?
Obama to Merkel: No Americans are listening to you on this call
the US "is not monitoring and will not monitor"
Probably literally true and 100% false at the same time!
Ie, they've sub-contracted it to some outfit that is non-US. GCHQ? Some wholly-owned tax-haven-based subsidiary of a Maryland holding company about which it is very difficult to obtain further ownership information (i.e. 100% indirectly owned by the NSA)?
Microsoft: You've got it all WRONG. It's Apple's iPad playing catch-up with our Surface
Re: Reality distortion fields
Well, Microsoft started the trend of taking the superb (XP UI) and crappifying it (Vista/Win7, Win 8 ). Recent Apple OSX releases haven't been quite up to the standard of previous ones, so maybe they *are* following?
Oz Army red-faced after ready ... aim ... FIRE burns suburbs
The great leader
... has taken note that should he ever decide to invade Australia, he should do so in Winter.
Black hole boffins close in on gravity waves
Re: Gravitational waves?
An orbital death spiral is exactly what will happen to every orbiting system in the universe, given enough time. "Enough" is a lot (hint: many powers of ten times the current 15-billion-year age of the universe). Gravitational wave emission becomes humanly measureable only where nature throws stellar or greater masses around in really tight orbits at significant fractions of the speed of light.
You aren't upset about the electromagnetic death spiral that will overtake orbiting electrically charged bodies at a rate many orders of magnitude faster, are you?
Re: Impressive work
It always seemed obvious that a GW detector near a big particle accelerator should be picking up feint but repetitive pulses when the accelerator was running.
The key number to bear in mind is the relative stength of the Gravitational force and the Electromagnetic one. Electromagnetism is about 10^42 times stronger. This is one of the most staggering numbers in physics!
In fact, you can deduce this from thinking about the everyday world. You can dangle a few kilogrammes on a fine thread. Attracting in one direction, the entire Earth. Balancing in the other direction, electrostatic forces between the atoms in the thread. Which are themselves mostly self-cancelled within the atoms (electron charge cancelling proton charge): the attraction between atoms is the result of small asymmetries of charge distribution, which is still sufficient to hold molecules and crystals together against the pull of an entire planet.
The same number is the reason you aren't going to observe gravitational waves for anything less than extreme cosmological situations where there's a star or a galaxy's worth of mass moving close to the speed of light.
Re: Limits of doubt
Not detected, therefore limited. Not enough so at this time to cast doubt on GR. Enough so to cast doubt on some models of galaxy formation (in particular, on the formation of multiple large black holes in their cores and subsequent merger dynamics of these hypothesized large black holes).
A thought I had was that the cosmic era of large black hole mergers may be over (i.e black holes in galaxy centres interact strongly enough that they merge into one within, say, a billion years of the galaxy forming. Since all neaby galaxies formed longer ago than that, mergers won't be happening any more, bar rare events such as colliding galaxies.
One might even be able to apply the Anthropic principle to this (would a universe with frequent mergers of large black holes in our cosmological neighbourhood be compatible with mamalian life on a planet's surface? I'm thinking about cosmologically nearby Gamma-ray busts. )
Brit boffins trap light in Lego-like lumps
Re: This is why the UK Governments PV subsidy is stupid
It's quite possible to transmit electricity 1500 miles, with modern UHV DC technology. That's the distance from the UK to the Sahara desert.
It's also less bad than that 1500 mile figure suggests, because in practice you'd tend to displace Spanish electricity to France and French electricity to the UK.
The biggest problem is the (in)stability of North African states. Huge solar farms in the Sahara would be a massive capital investment, and we just don't have confidence that the natives wouldn't hold us to ransom or just scrag it. Morocco is probably the best bet, but also probably not good enough. Especially not South of the Atlas mountains.
However, I am surprised there aren't more Spanish olive farmers grubbing up their trees and planting solar panels. Not enough grid capacity? Hello EU, where are you when we need you?
Could we cede the Olive business to the Moroccans or is it too dry there?
Windows 8.1: A bit square, sure, but WAIT! It has a Start button
Re: Windows has been essentially based on a VMS core
I think the truth is "inherited a lot of design properties".
But not from the VMS codebase, just from paying the same architect.
Anyway, it's the subsequent history that matters. Microsoft consistently put marketing ahead of securirty. NT 4 blew huge holes in the VMS security model. W2K blew some more. By the time they realised security slightly mattered (around XP SP2 time), it was so completely F*cked that mentioning VMS ancestry just made one feel like crying.
Re: Bewildering is right
Indeed, and if they stuck the Win7 GUI on top of the vastly improved OS that lies underneath TIFKAM and called it Windows 7.1 it would sell like wildfare.
And if they used the XP GUI and called it XP 2.0, it might even go like a wildfire
Re: Ashamed to say
On on the ones I use, control/alt/delete, sign out, hit CR, power button bottom right of screen. That's three-finger salute on keyboard, mouse click, keyboard, mouse again. BLEUGH.
Or you can cheat and just press the soft-power button on the system unit.
Fiendish CryptoLocker ransomware: Whatever you do, don't PAY
Nuke the perps from orbit?
If the USG spent a bit less on exterminating terrorists and a bit more on exterminating slime like this, the NSA might get better publicity. (And I do mean exterminate. How many many-years of human enterprise do these sub-humans waste in order to make a few bucks? I rest my case.)
Microsoft: Everyone stop running so the fat kid Win RT can catch up
Pace of a Continental Shelf on a work to rule?
Does this means if we wait a million yeare there will be a sudden phonequake and Windows Phone will overnight become awesome?
Wanna run someone over in your next Ford? No dice, it won't let you
Re: reading what the press release said
I thought HGVs were speed-restricted to 56mph. I wish the bloody things could do 70mph, then you wouldn't get a bunch of cars in the outside lane of the motorway while an HVG at 56mph overtakes an HGV doing 55mph! (And then the gradient changes, and the one doing 55 speeds up to 56 ....)
WD embraces C word* and hews HDD handles from NAS kit
Re: Stupid design
Are you willing to try tipping your 3.5 inch book driver onto its side while it is active transferring data? Repeatedly? Active is worse than just spinning. A friend lost 2Tb this way.
As for weight at the bottom, that won't help if something snags the cables. Indeed, even a flat USB drive on a table-top can be vulnerable to being pulled off the table by its cables if they get tangled with a vacuum cleaner or played with by a pet or a small child. But vertical is far, far more vulnerable.
Stupid design
Another triumph of marketing over simple mechanical safety. Give it a nudge or snarl its cables, and it'll fall over. What happens when an active spinning rust drive falls about six inches into its stable (flat) orientation?
Kiss your data goodbye.
Vertical is for paper books and cereal cartons, which aren't damaged by taking a tumble.
In defence of defenestration: Microsoft MUST hurl Gates from the Windows
Re: @Pirate Dave RE: Always a PC
Where would a company go which had fully committed to Gnome have been when the developers chucked away the Gnome 2 interface because they were bored with it?
This is a good example for FOSS not against it!
Firstly, in the short term there's absolutely no reason to change what you've got on any particular near-future drop-dead date. Those of us running RHEL5, RHEL6 or the Centos or Scientific Linux free derivatives still have a fully maintained Gnome 2 environment, with guaranteed support for five years after RHEL7 ships.
Secondly, within six months of Gnome 3 hitting the decks, the horde of disgruntled Gnome users had fixed the problem in two ways. They forked Gnome 2 into a new project called MATE - the reactionary route. And they developed Cinnamon, a new UI overlay on Gnome 3 that was far less unfriendly to Gnome 2 fans - the progressive route. I'm happy to move to Cinnamon if / when my platform of choice (Scientific Linux) moves to Gnome 3. I've tried MATE and it works. I've stopped grousing about Gnome devs flouting OSS conventions (ie you do NOT forcibly tear up your user's old way of working, you DO fork a new project and find a maintainer for the old one), because it's gone from a huge annoyance to an irrelevance in under a year.
Thirdly, there were and are are other alternatives. KDE. XFCE. Many other other alternatives. Compare Microsoft's one and only one UI, that they tear up at a whim every few years. (Win 7 was a tear-up, Win 8 a shredder).
Finally, you have the source code. If the above hadn't happened because you were a tiny minority, you could still have maintained your chosen interface for ever, or paid someone to do that, provided your pockets were deep enough. You can't do that with Windows XP. Microsoft has the secret sauce and intends to burn it.
US spy court says internet firms can't report surveillance requests
Install a Kill Switch?
One could (maybe) pre-empt them by going to a lawyer and swearing an affidavit to the effect that one had NOT received any surveillance requests, and intends to repeat this process periodically unless it becomes illegal to do so. Then post the affidavit in a public place (if that's not automatic for sworn documents).
If you do receive a surveillance request it becomes illegal to swear that affidavit (i.e. perjury).
If they order you to commit a crime ... ISTR the fifth amemdment guarantees one's right not to be forced to incriminate onself, and making an untrue sworn statement is most definitely criminal.
If they make it illegal to tell the truth on oath ... the entire legal system and rule of law collapses?
I think this is to copyleft, as nuclear weapons are to bullets?
Sharp whispers its vital statistics: 15.6in 3840 × 2160 IGZO screen for next MacLap Pro?
Re: Meanwhile
Completely agree. 15" Laptop screens should be 1680 for bog-standard-cheap, 1920 for executive / professional. Think how little a (larger) monitor or TV costs. There's no excuse.
Re: I would love to have a UHD or 4K monitor @RandomHandle
But you couldn't resolve your pixels, because it was a cathode-ray shadow-mask colour tube. Say 0.25mm phosphor-dot spacing, 20 inches across a good one, 20 x 25 x 4 / 2 pixels = 1000 pixels. That divide by two is there because one pixel was a triangle of R,G,B dots. Yes, you got some degree of super-resolution on information encoded as luminance (a good match to your retina), so QXGA wasn't completely wasted. You can argue for /1.5 or even /1, but the display was no way as spatially clear as a 1920x1080 TFT. Analogue, not digital.
OTOH colour quality, for reproducing photographs, peaked with the last of the IIyama/ Sony/ Philips 25 inch vacuum-tube monitors and has declined since. On the plus side it no longer takes three people to manhandle a high-end monitor into place, or a meter-deep desk to support it and a keyboard.
And good big tube monitors cost a fortune back then, so a fair comparison is probably one of the newest 2560 or even 4K ones. These days you get 1920x1080 for well under £200.
Re: I would love to have a UHD or 4K monitor
Actually monitors grew to 1920x1200, and then technological convergence with TVs took away 120 of our pixels :-( :-( :-(
Would you hire a hacker to run your security? 'Yes' say Brit IT bosses
Re: Jobs in Security
Maybe you should have applied to MI5 or GCHQ?
(Or maybe you did, and can't talk about it).
Re: In the words of the great Dr. House: Morons ...
Interesting idea. How would you know that you were hiring a self-proclaimed brilliant hacker who never got caught, as opposed to a con-man with just enough technical ability to sound convincing, or an active black-hat trying to play you? You want references? Slight problem. The only references worth having are people who'll put your new recruit in jail as soon as you lead them to him.
And anyway, if he never got caught, how come he's willing to work for hire at all? If he's so very good, he's also retired on his ill-gotten gains.
BTW why would you want him *in* the corporate environment? It's his job to sit on the outside, being paid to tell you when he's able to exploit your systems, rather than exploiting them. It's *your* job to liaise.
A very old dilemma
So old it's proverbial: "a poacher turned gamekeeper". Or from even further back in time, "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
Google FAILS in attempt to nix Gmail data-mining lawsuit
Persistence is the key issue
I've no idea what the lawyers will do with this case. Probably, make a mess.
However, isn't the key point how long Google retains any sort of memory of what it "learned" by scanning my e-mails? (By which I mean purely statistical analysis thereof. Not forwarding them to the NSA, which is a separate issue, nor storing the actual e-mails after I delete them, which might actually be illegal under EU law).
I've no objection to Google delivering targetted ads based on a statistical profile that is forgotten over a week or two. If they continue to profile me cumulatively over months or (gods forbid) years, it starts to become highly intrusive. Most *people* can't remember in detail what I was doing this time last year, and that's including myself in "most people".
As for the ads, I never see them anyway. Because some advertizers insist on delivering visually intrusive graphics that make me feel nauseous, I block all adverts, and also all flash content.
Apple iOS 7 makes some users literally SICK. As in puking, not upset
Re: A split personality release
Glad to see it's not just me. I'm positively allergic to any UI which makes things wobble, warp, or otherwise animate without VERY good reason. I find even the applications bar on an Imac that warps larger when you poke it with the mouse, makes me feel nauseous. (Not because it's ugly, just because my low-level visual processing doesn't get on with it).
This is also the main reason I run Adblock-plus and Flashblock: to keep moving things that I don't want to visually process, off my screen. Their content (advertizing of greater or lesser relevance) is secondary.
And possibly the reason I still haven't bought a smartphone at all.
Google reveals its Hummingbird: Fly, my little algorithm - FLY!
Re: Top Googling top
Not a typo, surely. Be forced, or force yourself, to use Bing for a *whole* *day* with absolutely no access to any other search tool. Then you will indeed realize that you have very little to complain about with Google.
Thorium and inefficient solar power? That's good enough for me
Sea-water corrosion
Corrosion is probably the easier part of the seawater problem.
The other part is that it's full of living organisms, and they're looking for something solid to anchor themselves to (and, often, to eat). Look at just about anything that's been sitting in the sea for a while, and it's covered with life-forms.
They still don't know how to make submarine cables that won't be destroyed by marine life within a small number of decades. Moving parts, that's harder still.
Solar Thermal storage
The other way to store energy from sunlight is extremely simple, and doesn't even need Solar PV cells. Concentrate the sunlight with a big mirror. Use it to melt stuff. Generate electricity using the molten stuff to generate steam and spin turbines. "Stuff" is one of a number of possible salts and metals (and maybe polymers, if a good polymer chemist sat down to think about the requirement).
For overnight electricity, pump the molten stuff into a big well-insulated tank, for use to generate steam after sunset.
Solar-Thermal doesn't get the press that Solar-PV does, but I'll hazard a guess that polished aluminium mirrors will always be cheaper than high-tech PV panels.
Thorium reactors and A-bombs.
The trouble with a Uranium fission reactor is that it inevitably breeds Plutonium, which can be chemically separated and used to make bombs.
A Thorium reactor inevitably breeds Uranium-233. I've never been able to find out whether it's possible to build U233 bombs. Anyone know for sure? Thorium reactor advocates often say this technology is safe against A-bomb proliferation, but why? U233 is quite definitely fissile.
Last time I Googled this I found no good answers, and probably got myself an elevated NSA-profile. Anyone *know*?
Re: Commercial fusion may not be as far away as you think
Tritium will be manufactured in fusion reactors by exposing Lithum to neutrons, if we ever get to the stage of having just one working fusion reactor. In other words, fusion reactors are Tritium breeder reactors if you want them to be (and it's also hard to think of any better way of dealing with the thermal flux and the fast neutrons).
US House Republicans: 'End net neutrality or no debt ceiling deal' – report
Re: PARTY!
If you want more parties, you need some kind of preferential voting system, so votes for the least popular candidate are distributed according to next preferences amongst the remaining candidates - repeat until one candidate has more than 50% of the vote.
Actually, not true. The simplest and probably best system (except never tried on a large scale) is approval voting. You mark every candidate who you'd be willing to see holding office. You can vote for one, or all-but-one, or anything inbetween. The votes for each candidate are counted. The one with the most votes is elected.
One huge advantage is that several candidates from the same party can run, representing different nuances of one party's platform. There's no such thing as "splitting the vote" under his system. If you want to vote for a party, then just vote for all members of that party.
Personally I'd make one further refinement: a "none of the above" option. If "none of the above" won, all of the candidates would be disqualified from the re-run of the election that would then take place.
Bill Gates: Yes, Ctrl-Alt-Del salute was a MISTAKE
Re: the PC power switch!
In the early days of PCs, the power switch sometimes protruded proud of the case. Back then it was a hard mains switch, not a soft switch. I've seen major damage caused by pushing the keyboard back against the idiot-designed case. Later, the power switch (and reset button) were always recessed. Ease-of-use is not always a good thing. Big red switches ought to come with Mollyguards. Needing three fingers for C/A/D was definitely good design not bad. It's pretty much impossible to C/A/D by any kind of mistake.
Travel much? DON'T buy a Samsung Galaxy Note 3
Re: Calm Down
This isn't so much a walled garden as it is a thin paper ribbon.
For how long? Until the next firmware upgrade? Until someone decides to replace paper by steel and flicks a virtual switch at Samsung HQ?
Until that sticker disappears from the box, and all mention of region-locking is gone from the documentation, refuse to buy it. This is the only way to protect yourself from slav^H^H^H^Hexploitation.
Other rmanufacturers: this is your chance. Guarantee and advertize that your product will work globally, with any SIM, forever. Do it now. Strike while the iron is hot!
WD unveils new MyBook line: External drives now bigger... and CHEAP
Stupid design
It's a stupid design - a spinning-rust drive balanced on its narrow edge with power and USB cables dangling. What could possibly go wrong?
A colleague had one of this design. The wire got snagged, the (active) drive fell over, and the data was all lost. External hard drives should sit in their most stable orientation, i.e. flat. END OF. If you have bought one of these, run it lying flat. Even if it looks silly that way. Vertical is for books and cereal packets.
A cynic would say the poor design is deliberate. Lusers knock their drive over, blame themselves (or their partner or their cat), and buy another one.
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Servings: 8
- 2 pounds russet potatoes (about 4), pierced all over with a fork
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
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- 1 small fennel bulb, finely diced
- 1 large Spanish or white onion, diced
- 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup tomato paste
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- 1 pound fresh pork sausages, casings removed, finely chopped
- 1/2 pound ground or chopped chicken livers
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- 1 teaspoon freshly ground white pepper
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- Flat-leaf parsley leaves
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- Fresh chervil leaves
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
PREPARATIONView Step-by-Step Directions
Preheat oven to 450°. Bake potatoes directly on oven rack until fork-tender, 40–50 minutes. Let cool slightly.
Meanwhile, heat vegetable oil in a 5-qt. Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add parsnips, fennel, onion, and thyme. Cook, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are tender, about 8 minutes. Stir in flour and tomato paste; continue stirring for 1 minute. Add ground pork, pork sausage, and chicken livers; cook, stirring occasionally, until browned, 6–8 minutes. Stir in piment d'Espelette, white pepper, coriander, and mace. Add broth; bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer until slightly reduced, about 1 minute. Set pork filling aside.
Slice potatoes lengthwise to open; let steam release, then scoop out flesh into a large bowl. Add 1 cup cheese, milk, and butter. Using an electric mixer, beat until smooth and airy. Season to taste with salt and pepper. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Let cool; cover filling and potatoes separately and chill.
Place pork filling in prepared baking dish, spreading to evenly cover bottom of dish. Drop dollops of potatoes over and spread out to edges with a spatula. Using a fork, make decorative peaks on top; sprinkle remaining 1/2 cup cheese over. Bake until potatoes and cheese are browned and filling is bubbling rapidly, about 30 minutes, or 35 minutes if topping and filling have been chilled. Let stand for 10 minutes. Toss parsley, tarragon, and chervil leaves to combine; drizzle with olive oil and vinegar and toss to coat. Sprinkle over potatoes and serve.
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Fictional, factual or anyplace in between, it's pretty safe to say the West Wing has never been inhabited by a first family quite like the Gilchrists of NBC's 1600 Penn. And given the current tragicomic state of American politics, it's about time D.C.'s most blogged-about address got a family that was just plain funny.
1600 Penn, a new sitcom that is being given the oft-employed "sneak preview" treatment by NBC this week, is a show whose disarming charm and easy-to-digest humour are sufficiently appealing that it leaves one wondering why it was shelved until mid-season.
It won't officially arrive in prime time until Jan. 10, but the betting here is that many who sample 1600 Penn will consider it an unexpected and instantly addictive treat for the festive season.
The series, created by writer/actor Josh Gad (an occasional Daily Show correspondent and star of the Matt Stone/Trey Parker Broadway smash The Book of Mormon) and former White House speech writer Jon Lovett, takes viewers inside a fictional White House in which the presidential family's misadventures are less a function of dysfunction than they are a simple case of an ordinary family's ordinary mistakes being magnified by the fact they take place in an extraordinary setting.
President Dale Gilchrist (Bill Pullman, last seen doing the commander-in-chief thing as alien-charging President Thomas J. Whitmore in the 1996 feature Independence Day) is a hard-working guy who occasionally has problems keeping his temper in check. And more often than not, it's the stress of family life rather than the pressures of leader-of-the-free-world-ness that drive him to, or over, the brink.
In this week's pilot episode, Penn's POTUS is forced to deal with the homecoming of his primary irritant, first son Skip (Gad), a chronic academic underachiever who has been expelled from college after leading a frat-house prank that went horribly, flammably wrong.
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In feudal Japan, the shunned half-cast peasant Kai (Keanu Reeves) becomes a formidable warrior, and gains the attention of Lord Asano's (Min Tanaka) daughter Mika (Kou Shibasaki). When Asano is murdered by the hands of his rival Lord Kira (Tadanobu Asano), 47 lord-less samurai known as 'Ronin' attempt to avenge their master. In their way stands Kira's adviser, a frightening witch Mizuki (Rinko Kikuchi), and the hordes of adversaries at Kira's disposal.
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Barbara Jo Parker went home peacefully to be with the Lord, Jesus, on Thursday, October 24, 2013. She enjoyed fishing, hunting and Dillon, Montana, for 26 years. Most of her time was spent enjoying her beloved puppies. She was a very beautiful person, both inside and out, and always did her best to make everyone feel special. She will be...
Hellen Rogney Squires, 98, passed away on September 30, at Clare Bridge Home in Salem, OR, where she lived the last three years. She was born in Jesse, ND, and lived most of her school years in Bozeman. She attended Western Montana College of Education in Dillon and met her husband, Wilber L. Squires, while there. She taught kindergarten...
Over the past month, Dillon's Steve "Viz" Vezina's life has been turned upside down. With life as he had known it crumbling around him, Vezina met a kindred spirit Monday in a waiting room at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City, Utah. "I talked to a guy today who had exactly the same thing I...
During a Hall of Fame career that included his setting a Major League Baseball endurance record by playing in 2632 games over the course of 17 years, Cal "The Iron Man" Ripken Jr. became a hero to millions. So who is Cal Ripken's hero? Gabe Murfitt. If you've never heard of Gabe Murfitt, you'll get a chance to...
The Dillon Beavers volleyball team last weekend lost the final two matches before the start of the matches that really count later this week. With the Nov. 7–9 Southwestern "A" Divisional Volleyball Tournament looming, the Lady Beavs closed their regular season with a straight-set loss to Corvallis in Dillon on Saturday...
In municipal balloting around the Ruby Valley Tuesday, most positions were uncontested, but in Sheridan, incumbent Dean Derryberry prevailed in the mayor's race, 166-87, over Michael Lauren. Elected to the town council there were Paul Kramer, with 198 votes, and Mark McLaughlin, 191. Thomas Hyndman was given the nod by Twin Bridges voters,...
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Where is everyone getting their grain in bulk from? What are the best prices out there? Shipping??
My LHBS has Rahr 2-row for $45/50lbs and local malt for $60/50lbs. Buying online, I'd think shipping would kill your savings. Do you have a brew store anywhere nearby?
To paraphrase Dr. England - "Off-flavors smooth with time. So do mountains. Brew it right from the start!"
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I live in south Chicago, so am close to the warehouse of a malt distributor (Mid-Country) and pick up bags there. As Nateo said, you can also buy bulk malts at many local homebrew stores. You might also check out a nearby brewery - if they would be willing to sell you some grains. I think a key to buying grains in bulk is figuring out how to avoid paying directly for shipping, which is going to depend upon your location.
Thanks for the replies. I don't live next to a LHBS. Not one that give that good a deal for buying in bulk. The search continues I guess.
Thanks again.
When the Michigan Mashers do our twice yearly bulk buys, we go through mid country as well. We usually end up with a pallet's worth (though sometimes 2) and our price come to around 25-ish for a 55 pound sack plus shipping.
Here is the price we've been getting. Plus we split whatever the shipping is, which last time was 90.00 a pallet.
All bags of grain are 55.125 lb so our final price is based on that rate.
2-Row (Canada Malting, Canada) - $0.45/lb
Pilsen (Canada Malting, Canada) - $0.46/lb
Pilsen (Best Malz, Germany) - $0.53/lb
Pilsen (Frano-Belges, France) - $0.58/lb
Pilsner (Bairds, United Kingdom) - $0.59/lb
Maris Otter (Bairds, United Kingdom) - $0.70/lb
Maris Otter (Thomas Fawcett, United Kingdom) - $0.71/lb
Golden Promise (Thomas Fawcett, United Kingdom) - $0.71/lb
Light Munich (Best Malz, Germany) - $0.53/lb
Light Munich (Franco-Belges, France) - $0.59/lb
Wheat (Canada Malting, Canada) - $0.49/lb
Pale Wheat (Best Malz, Germany) - $0.56/lb
But again we are buying at least one pallet's worth, which is 42 bags. That's been our minimum, we've gotten a little better break when we gone to a larger buy.
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CHICAGO Silicon metal prices have held at higher levels, with production cuts in Brazil and firm domestic demand keeping supplies tight.
AMMs silicon metal price range remains unchanged at $1.35 to $1.39 per pound, although market sources reported transactions for less-than-truckload volumes at higher levels.
While some producers said they were angling for spot prices as high as $1.45 per pound, others market players scoffed at the idea that demand was strong enough or supplies scarce enough to support prices in the mid-$1.40s.
"Demand is good. But its not picking up or changing compared to last month, and were not having problems getting metal," one consumer source said.
However, some traders reported difficulty sourcing metal from Brazilian producers and in some cases said that even contracted material was late to arriveassuming it arrives at all.
"It doesnt pay to make silicon metal. It pays to sell energy back to the grid, so the Brazilians probably have enough production to meet contracts and after that forget it," one market source said.
The decrease in output from Brazil comes as drought conditions have crippled hydroelectric power generation in the country, with officials responding by prioritizing retail consumers over industry ahead of upcoming elections, market sources said. Politicians who came to power by accusing rivals of incompetenceincluding being unable to prevent blackoutscant afford to let the lights go out on voters, they said.
As a result, "some business in Brazil just isnt going to get shipped, so people will be scrambling for metal," one trader said. "Anybody that hasnt stepped up to the plate and bought silicon already will be short."
Also crimping supplies are continued power issues in South Africa and a recovering European economy, market sources said. European producers are allocating more capacity to domestic consumers, especially given tariffs in the United States and an unfavorable U.S. dollar-euro exchange rate, they said.
Yet spot market activity was generally said to be slow despite predictions of possible supply shortages, with most consumers already covered by long-term contracts or spot purchases made late last year or earlier this year.
"(Contract) business is strong and people are taking what they said they would take, so we have basically no inventory (for spot)," one producer source said. "But there might be some (spot) before long ... and it looks like prices will continue to inch up."
That bullish outlook wasnt shared by all market participants. "My (Brazilian) supplier is not shipping anything right now," a second trader said. "But once he gets his energy back, the market could soften if everyone has plenty of silicon again."
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By Clark Matthews / @clarkmatthews
As an Oklahoma State alum, there was a time when I prayed the national media would give my school some attention. These days? Not so much.
Thanks to a highly publicized five-part expose by Sports Illustrated's new crack team of investigative reporters, the Oklahoma State Cowboys football program is making plenty of headlines this week and none of them have to do with the thrashings they gave Mississippi State and Texas-San Antonio to open the season.
Instead, SI is changing the season flavored by a potential Big 12 title run into a narrative about shenanigans supposedly going on during the previous decade (did we ever decide what to call that thing? The aughts, maybe?). On Tuesday, the first part dropped with allegations regarding improper benefits. Wednesday gave us academic improprieties. Thursday promises plenty of ganja, and Friday will bring the sex every good scandal needs.
Here's the thing. I'm an OSU homer, through and through, and I suspect there to be truth to everything Sports Illustrated is bringing to the table. Boosters sneaking money to players? Probably. Players getting grades they didn't earn? It happened when I was there. Drugs? Please, what players aren't doing them? And as for sex with co-eds…well, I always envied the ball players. The problem is despite my preconceived notions, SI's series doesn't really prove any of it. And in some cases, I question if their reporting doesn't hint at the opposite.
Sports Illustrated has boasted about spending ten months investigating the Cowboys. They bragged about acquiring more than 100 sources, 64 of them former players (ALL ON THE RECORD!). Despite all that time and cooperation, they have a shocking lack of any real evidence throughout the series thus far.
That's not to say there isn't plenty of dirt being slung. Sprinkled liberally with quotes from former players, the bylined team of George Dohrmann and Thayer Evans tosses out a plethora of allegations in part 1 about players being paid for performance. According to some of the quoted players, the really good players were getting upwards of $25K per season. Did the quoted players have any proof? Sure. They heard about it, and in one case, former defensive tackle Brad Girtman witnessed former defensive back Darrent Williams getting a fat envelope full of bills. As for the corroboration of the single case of eyeball verification, well, that would have been difficult for the SI team; Williams died in 2007.
Speaking of the dead, Dohrmann and Evans found plenty of impropriety when it came to people who couldn't be reached for interview by any method other than seance. Vernon Grant, who died in a traffic accident before the 2005 season, was one of six named recipients of performance bonuses. A deceased campus museum worker was one of two named boosters who supposedly supplied players with odd jobs at her rental homes that paid exorbitantly for the work performed. (Her heir, who was not questioned by SI, claims his mother did not own rental homes.)
The other booster named was John Talley, the director of Fellowship of Christian Athletes in Stillwater. We all know that FCA is rolling in dough, so he was flush with cash to give players. ( edit. – Since most of you have never read me before, please note that was sarcasm.) That said, the player who reportedly claimed a Summer of free rent from his spiritual advisor, former starting quarterback Aso Pogi, immediately refuted that characterization, and explained how Thayer Evans ambushed him outside of a bible study and took no notes or gave any indication their conversation was recorded.


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