RE: New 70CT questions
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:15:24 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: New 70CT questions >Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:01:46 +0100 >From: "Alexandre Kaoukhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: New 70CT questions > >Your disorder is more advanced than mine ;-) It is not a big deal for me if >concept is explained at all. Personally I quit at "It may be easily >shown...", "Left as exercise", "Demonstration can be found in every (put >domain of your interest here) book" next to half-page formula. 'From here it is intuitively obvious' 'it is left as an exercise for the reader' I gave up on a fourier analysis text some years ago which basically said: Primer [six pages maths] therefore [ten pages maths] from which we deduce [ten pages gibberish]... Neil _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
RE: New 70CT questions
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:01:46 +0100 From: "Alexandre Kaoukhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: New 70CT questions Sorry if a bit late... > Recently I've been coming to the conclusion that I must have a learning > disorder of some kind. I was never able to keep reading text books that > introduced and started discussing concepts that it explained in the next > chapter somewhere... I'd always spend ages looking at the preceeding > chapters for explanations, never find them, and quit in frustration. Your disorder is more advanced than mine ;-) It is not a big deal for me if concept is explained at all. Personally I quit at "It may be easily shown...", "Left as exercise", "Demonstration can be found in every (put domain of your interest here) book" next to half-page formula. Sometimes I think that this is a trick that authors use to boost publishing industry. You are always sure that in any matter a single book will be never enough. Sorry to say but I just decided to never again spend any centime on a manual. Another point that may rise our self-esteem: whenever I persist to dig to get trough any matter I can not understand I discover that the first explanation was either wrong or oversimplified. > Then I'm not certain when someone is putting me on. "Memoryless > property" > sounds like everything I own... all that stuff just can never > remember what > I did with it all! So maybe I need the kindergarten course ;-) Indeed that is a bit complicated and involves conditional probabilities. Memoryless means that if your monitor did not fail after one year of use its life expectancy is the same as it was new. If you need more detail on proof go to http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance Download a book of Grinstead, C. M. and J. L. Snell (1997). Introduction to probability. page 206. Hope this helps, Alexandre ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
RE: New 70CT questions
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 19:23:12 - From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: New 70CT questions > >But I guess I have to decide if > >my old, very very used monitor... but in great shape, has as good if >not >better a life expectancy than the monitor in this 70CT that >doesn't look >like it was ever really used much... but has this minor >pixel problem with >its monitor. >From: "Alexandre Kaoukhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I do not want to give you a course in probability but life expectancy of an >old working thing is just the same as it was a new one. It is called >memoryless property. Recently I've been coming to the conclusion that I must have a learning disorder of some kind. I was never able to keep reading text books that introduced and started discussing concepts that it explained in the next chapter somewhere... I'd always spend ages looking at the preceeding chapters for explanations, never find them, and quit in frustration. Then I'm not certain when someone is putting me on. "Memoryless property" sounds like everything I own... all that stuff just can never remember what I did with it all! So maybe I need the kindergarten course ;-) Matt _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
RE: New 70CT questions
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:00:18 +0100 From: "Alexandre Kaoukhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: New 70CT questions I do not want to give you a course in probability but life expectancy of an old working thing is just the same as it was a new one. It is called memoryless property. >But I guess I have to decide if >my old, very very used monitor... but in great shape, has as good if not >better a life expectancy than the monitor in this 70CT that doesn't look >like it was ever really used much... but has this minor pixel problem with >its monitor. ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: New 70CT questions
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:48:49 - From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: New 70CT questions >From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>The only thing that's just a tad funky about the new 70CT is that one >>little >>pixel on the screen seems to be bad. There's a tiny aqua dot on the screen >>all the time. >They just do that - it'll probably be fine forever... Hey Neil... Okay great. I really don't even notice it in most applications... mostly at boot with the black DOS screen. >>I could probably swap the monitor from my old 50CT. I haven't looked at >>David's website yet, but I'm guessing that this shouldn't >>be a terribly difficult process, right? >IIRC, the 70 and 50 are the same except for the motherboard, (or even just >the CPU) so you should be able to just crack the case, lift the top half >with the screen, and swap between machines. If you're planning on keeping >the old machine, you'll still have the original to >swap back if the older screen fails. > >MTBF on the screens is hundreds of thousands of hours...which doesn't mean >*your* screen will last that long, but it's a good bet. Okay... great... so maybe some night when the mood hits me, I might dig in and swap monitor screens. It IS pretty sweet to have the extra CPU power and the extended port replicator. No more unplugging and plugging in pc card peripherals, and now I can multitask while playing MP3s. The little 50CT just barely played the MP3s... but never let me do anything else at the same time. Matt _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
Re: New 70CT questions
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:45:20 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: New 70CT questions >The only thing that's just a tad funky about the new 70CT is that one >little >pixel on the screen seems to be bad. There's a tiny aqua dot on the screen >all the time. I wonder if anyone knows how one pixel could get messed up >like that, and if it means the rest of the monitor may have been stressed >in >some way that might make it tend to have a shorter life, or fail at some >point. They just do that - it'll probably be fine forever... > >I could probably swap the monitor from my old 50CT. I haven't looked at >David's website yet, but I'm guessing that this shouldn't be a terribly >difficult process, right? I've taken apart the case in order to check the >CPU in my 50CT... so I've gotten that far. But I guess I have to decide if >my old, very very used monitor... but in great shape, has as good if not >better a life expectancy than the monitor in this 70CT that doesn't look >like it was ever really used much... but has this minor pixel problem with >its monitor. > >Thoughts? IIRC, the 70 and 50 are the same except for the motherboard, (or even just the CPU) so you should be able to just crack the case, lift the top half with the screen, and swap between machines. If you're planning on keeping the old machine, you'll still have the original to swap back if the older screen fails. MTBF on the screens is hundreds of thousands of hours...which doesn't mean *your* screen will last that long, but it's a good bet. Neil _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---UNSUBSCRIBE--- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **
