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Forum: Computers and the Internet 1st May 2019, 05:17 AM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,972
Posted By TheGnome
I don't know about Windows 10 but on my Windows 7...

I don't know about Windows 10 but on my Windows 7 system that is simply not my experience.

I routinely run the updates in the background and keep on with my work (yeah I still call it work). If...
Forum: Computers and the Internet 1st May 2019, 05:01 AM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,972
Posted By TheGnome
I can run the explorer windows in sparate...

I can run the explorer windows in sparate processes on my Windows 7 system since a long time (it's somwhere in the settings) and I have never seen smartcooky's issues.

My expert ignorant guess is...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 23rd April 2019, 02:31 AM
Replies: 3,642
Views: 176,213
Posted By TheGnome
Sorry I only saw your post today (I just started...

Sorry I only saw your post today (I just started reading this thread) and I noticed this. I don't think it's a big deal but I'll comment anyway.

To me a sat dish is a parabole antenna. If you're...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 15th April 2019, 09:43 AM
Replies: 48
Views: 3,246
Posted By TheGnome
Ok this has been addressed already downthreads....

Ok this has been addressed already downthreads. Your post generated a LOL with me but then I got to thinking.

Why pass the stand of a fortune teller? Hey dont't insult Uri Geller :boxedin:
Forum: Computers and the Internet 23rd March 2019, 09:52 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 1,872
Posted By TheGnome
Oh that part is clear. I was just trying to poke...

Oh that part is clear. I was just trying to poke some fun at the designation. Or is there some meaning of aware I'm not aware of?
Forum: Computers and the Internet 21st March 2019, 10:30 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 1,872
Posted By TheGnome
Ah thank you. I obviously haven't looked at the...

Ah thank you. I obviously haven't looked at the USB specifications for a long time. I wonder what a PD aware USB cable is. Just more copper? Or an indication that SKYNET is around the corner?

Hm...
Forum: Computers and the Internet 21st March 2019, 01:55 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 1,872
Posted By TheGnome
Are you sure about this? I've never before heard...

Are you sure about this? I've never before heard about this. Frankly it just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 12th March 2019, 02:06 AM
Replies: 51
Views: 3,119
Posted By TheGnome
I see someone is wrong on the internet (at least...

I see someone is wrong on the internet (at least I think so), and on a subject of such immense importance.

There actually are 12 different orbits (or universes or whatever) so this probability...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 10th January 2019, 09:38 AM
Replies: 831
Views: 54,591
Posted By TheGnome
Here's an illustration with a sphere: cone...

Here's an illustration with a sphere:

cone sphere cylinder (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inscribed_cone_sphere_cylinder.svg)

Note the heights of cone and cylinder are h=2*r, as is...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 9th January 2019, 10:41 PM
Replies: 831
Views: 54,591
Posted By TheGnome
To put this at rest I looked up the formulas for...

To put this at rest I looked up the formulas for the 3 solids with a circular base with radius r and height r and came up with the following:

VZylinder = 3*pi*r3/3
VHemisphere = 2*pi*r3/3
VCone...
Forum: Computers and the Internet 5th January 2019, 11:55 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 934
Posted By TheGnome
Well thanks. Yeah I do remember now.

Well thanks. Yeah I do remember now.
Forum: Computers and the Internet 5th January 2019, 08:40 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 934
Posted By TheGnome
Re your PS: Oh it is? Long time since I've seen...

Re your PS: Oh it is? Long time since I've seen this movie and that didn't stick. I picked it up here on the forum and always thought it originated here :o
Forum: Computers and the Internet 5th January 2019, 11:57 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 934
Posted By TheGnome
One thing that has also be considered here is the...

One thing that has also be considered here is the firmware of the CD drive.

I'd expect modern drives to handle all the not so standard extensions to the standard ok, but I wouldn't bet my live on...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 3rd January 2019, 04:35 PM
Replies: 831
Views: 54,591
Posted By TheGnome
I'm not sure what the meaning of pound is...

I'm not sure what the meaning of pound is exactly.

If it means weight as measured with a scale then of course this is trivially true.

If instead it is a measure of mass, and we're doing the...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 3rd January 2019, 02:34 PM
Replies: 65
Views: 3,463
Posted By TheGnome
ALGOL 68? Fortran 90? Haskell? At least...

ALGOL 68? Fortran 90? Haskell?

At least according to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_operator)
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 31st December 2018, 10:30 PM
Replies: 831
Views: 54,591
Posted By TheGnome
I don't exactly get what you are saying but I...

I don't exactly get what you are saying but I think the discussion is futile anyhow. I don't expect a source to be presented that the noise is not dominated by thermal noise. And that was all I was...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 31st December 2018, 06:09 PM
Replies: 831
Views: 54,591
Posted By TheGnome
Thank you both for your links. I beleive they...

Thank you both for your links. I beleive they confirm some data I have in a book somewhere in a box (I moved recently).

But they don't seem to take into account a major source of noise in a...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 31st December 2018, 10:37 AM
Replies: 831
Views: 54,591
Posted By TheGnome
No here NASA is not good enough for me. They...

No here NASA is not good enough for me. They speak of a sizeable part (could not find the 1%) but if you cannot discern the differrence between connected and disconnected antenna that's not sizeable...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 31st December 2018, 05:30 AM
Replies: 831
Views: 54,591
Posted By TheGnome
Would you have a link or something to support...

Would you have a link or something to support this? Just offhand I plain don't believe this.

Most of what you call static is thermal noise generated in the receiver. Very little is picked up by...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 30th December 2018, 08:06 PM
Replies: 831
Views: 54,591
Posted By TheGnome
To continue in RecoveringYuppy's vein, things...

To continue in RecoveringYuppy's vein, things people consider to be scientic facts sometimes aren't.

This e.g. is definitely not true in the case of ball games like the four you mentioned, except...
Forum: Computers and the Internet 30th November 2018, 02:28 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 3,329
Posted By TheGnome
Back in the days I used TrueCrypt on thumbdrives...

Back in the days I used TrueCrypt on thumbdrives and didn't notice any performance degradation even with old processors. But that was flash memory.

A harddisk is a different thing. Maybe it's even...
Forum: Computers and the Internet 27th November 2018, 10:23 PM
Replies: 3,547
Views: 290,541
Posted By TheGnome
This strikes me as a bit weird. Your...

This strikes me as a bit weird.

Your customer is asking a perfectly legitimate question IMO and you're just refusing to answer it. Have you never been wrong?

To me that just does not look like...
Forum: Computers and the Internet 27th November 2018, 07:18 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 3,329
Posted By TheGnome
Once upon a time I would have recommended...

Once upon a time I would have recommended TruCrypt. Sadly it doesn't exist anymore. If I don't completely misunderstand you, it would have fully satisfied your needs.

Now I have never used...
Forum: Computers and the Internet 28th September 2018, 07:24 PM
Replies: 3,547
Views: 290,541
Posted By TheGnome
Now dongles have appeared in quite a few posts,...

Now dongles have appeared in quite a few posts, they seem to be of some interest.

As I feel partially responsible for what I regard as a slight derail, I offer this Wikipedia article...
Forum: Computers and the Internet 27th September 2018, 07:42 AM
Replies: 3,547
Views: 290,541
Posted By TheGnome
Now you've made me curious. I tried to think of...

Now you've made me curious. I tried to think of something and just drew a blank. Could you give an example maybe?

You wouldn't confuse it with the pass through function of the dongle, would you?
Forum: Computers and the Internet 27th September 2018, 05:50 AM
Replies: 3,547
Views: 290,541
Posted By TheGnome
I think you are misremebering here. I don't think...

I think you are misremebering here. I don't think I've ever seen a dongle for use with any proprietary hardware. The only effect they ever had on hardware was for it to not work properly anymore.
...
Forum: USA Politics 5th September 2018, 09:58 AM
Replies: 3,324
Views: 152,719
Posted By TheGnome
Didn't you set the bar a bit high here?

Didn't you set the bar a bit high here?
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 31st July 2018, 03:20 AM
Replies: 984
Views: 23,016
Posted By TheGnome
I had to take a short timeout from the forum and...

I had to take a short timeout from the forum and in the meantime the thread has progressed very far. Still I want to address this post.

I have a hard time believing a mathematician worth his pay...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 25th July 2018, 03:36 PM
Replies: 984
Views: 23,016
Posted By TheGnome
Likewise my post was out of order. For a moment I...

Likewise my post was out of order. For a moment I just lost my temper. Sorry.
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 25th July 2018, 08:32 AM
Replies: 984
Views: 23,016
Posted By TheGnome
Ok I think this is just getting below infantile....

Ok I think this is just getting below infantile. All I wanted to point out is that such absolute statements as made by JoeMorgue are not really that absolutely true.

smartcooky, instead of arguing...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 25th July 2018, 04:54 AM
Replies: 984
Views: 23,016
Posted By TheGnome
I'm not a mathematician so I can not give a...

I'm not a mathematician so I can not give a really in depth answer but I'll try to give a shallow answer.

1) I think not all truths in math really depend on the ZFC set theorie being consistent....
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 25th July 2018, 04:31 AM
Replies: 984
Views: 23,016
Posted By TheGnome
When I made my post, I was quite certain that...

When I made my post, I was quite certain that somebody would call it a nitpick. Only I thought that it would be JoeMorgue. But you're welcome too.

Was he really talking about reals? I would have...
Forum: Religion and Philosophy 25th July 2018, 12:59 AM
Replies: 984
Views: 23,016
Posted By TheGnome
I just take this post as a starting point as I...

I just take this post as a starting point as I think it illustrates your attitude. You are awfully certain about some things. So I'm going to sow a little doubt.



In this post you made this...
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 9th July 2018, 02:07 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 3,446
Posted By TheGnome
From all these posts I get the impression that...

From all these posts I get the impression that France, Belgium and Switzerland are quite monolithic in their respective use ot these words.

That is not absolutely true, at least not for...
Forum: USA Politics 2nd July 2018, 08:13 PM
Replies: 60
Views: 4,264
Posted By TheGnome
Look I was just trying to cover my ass while...

Look I was just trying to cover my ass while still being shocked about my blunder in misinterpreting Meadmakers post.

I'm still convinced that you were aware that it probably would go that way....
Forum: USA Politics 1st July 2018, 08:28 PM
Replies: 60
Views: 4,264
Posted By TheGnome
Ok maybe I did misinterpret your post. I...

Ok maybe I did misinterpret your post. I apologize.

But voter ID is a very contentious issue I gather. So it's just to be expected that threads about it go the way of the gun threads. Besides if...
Forum: USA Politics 1st July 2018, 11:07 AM
Replies: 60
Views: 4,264
Posted By TheGnome
Maybe you should have reported your post also...

Maybe you should have reported your post also then as it clearly didn't deal with the study..
Frankly I think you are just telling ******** here. I find this a bit unusual from you.

You have not...
Forum: USA Politics 1st July 2018, 09:43 AM
Replies: 60
Views: 4,264
Posted By TheGnome
This is a really fascinating post! You have...

This is a really fascinating post!

You have read neither the study nor the article so you know squat about what is in them. By extension you know zilch about if Brainster is representing them in...
Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts 30th June 2018, 09:03 PM
Replies: 76
Views: 5,794
Posted By TheGnome
I'd like to correct two errors here. ...

I'd like to correct two errors here.



First smartcooky has it wrong with the LO frequency. The 455 kHz is the intermediate frequency IF which is indeed fixed. But the LO frequeny is variable....
Forum: Computers and the Internet 26th June 2018, 07:46 AM
Replies: 28
Views: 4,121
Posted By TheGnome
Hamradio operators just "love" them. As I'm not...

Hamradio operators just "love" them. As I'm not one of these, my opposition to them is based more on priciple.

But anyway MikeG is from the UK where they use a tri-phase power system (I think). In...
Forum: Computers and the Internet 18th April 2018, 11:53 AM
Replies: 56
Views: 5,020
Posted By TheGnome
Well actually all this networking stuff is quite...

Well actually all this networking stuff is quite simple really.

Bits go out, bits come in, you can't explain that.
Forum: International Skeptics 11th April 2018, 09:19 PM
Replies: 95
Views: 39,442
Posted By TheGnome
The day Chrome breaks our forum it may very well...

The day Chrome breaks our forum it may very well break the whole internet.

There are probably quite a few thngs to worry about the version of vBulletin we are using.But you keep pointing out...
Forum: International Skeptics 11th April 2018, 11:07 AM
Replies: 95
Views: 39,442
Posted By TheGnome
What I was hinting at is nobody uses Windows or...

What I was hinting at is nobody uses Windows or OSX or Linux to access the forum. We use a browser for that. That is just a front end, more or less independent of the os we are using. The forum...
Forum: International Skeptics 10th April 2018, 05:52 PM
Replies: 95
Views: 39,442
Posted By TheGnome
You think Icerat is using Windows on his servers?

You think Icerat is using Windows on his servers?
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 6th March 2018, 01:03 AM
Replies: 2,138
Views: 311,220
Posted By TheGnome
The way I see it: Kevin Fu did not examine...

The way I see it:

Kevin Fu did not examine what people were hearing. How could he? He didn't have access to them. Instead he examined the published audio clip. He then came up with...
Forum: Social Issues & Current Events 5th March 2018, 02:13 PM
Replies: 2,138
Views: 311,220
Posted By TheGnome
Are you sure you understand what Kevin Fu et al...

Are you sure you understand what Kevin Fu et al are saying? I ask because it has about zilch to do with radio frequencies.

What they were exploring is intermodulation between acoustic waves of...
Forum: Computers and the Internet 9th February 2018, 12:42 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,768
Posted By TheGnome
I just had a quick scan (he he) of what's...

I just had a quick scan (he he) of what's available for iOS devices. In doing that I found a post that was implyng that starting with iOS5 or iOS6 (yeah that's how old it was. Had runes even been...
Forum: Computers and the Internet 5th February 2018, 02:02 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,768
Posted By TheGnome
It certainly wouldbe worthwhile to have a look at...

It certainly wouldbe worthwhile to have a look at the wifi situation in your neighborhood. For this I use Wifi Analyzer by farproc on my android devices. I'm sure there are similar apps for iOS. With...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 29th January 2018, 03:02 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 2,133
Posted By TheGnome
There's something I don't quite understand. ...

There's something I don't quite understand.

This 5V regulator you speak of, is it external to the MIDI device?

If yes, the only reason I can see not to be able to power it from an USB powerbank...
Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology 26th January 2018, 08:08 AM
Replies: 56
Views: 7,295
Posted By TheGnome
I did read the same manual, albeit not as PDF,...

I did read the same manual, albeit not as PDF, and to make shure, I did read the PDF in your link. It still says 1% for volts and amps and 2% for watts. You may have looked in the column for typical...
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