According to the Salt Institute, salt is safe to eat. While it may be a bad idea to eat like an Accadian, you will have a hard time killing someone with it. In rats, the amount of salt it took to kill 1/2 of those exposed was 4,000 mg/kg. A first order calculation goes like this, a 50 kg man would have to eat 200 grams of salt to have a coin toss chance of dying. I imagine this man would vomit first, but persistance sometimes pays off. Salt is sold in 780 gram (26 ounce or 1 pound 10 ounces) containers. You would have to eat more than 1/4th of it. That's less than I thought, but much more than I could ever imagine eating.
It isn't just CVS; it includes built in editing and
communication facilities, plus it's a publishing system, which makes it sound like it covers
more than CVS.
This isn't just an editor, it's got a spell checker and font choices.
This isn't just a phone, it's got a speaker on it.
This isn't just a dubwaiter, it's got a door and a fog horn on it.
cuz you can get more HP out of a well designed 4 cylinder that fits.
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Have you seen BASIC lately? The current Microsoft product, Visual Basic, deserves all the abuse that it gets. It's a tortured inconsistent waste of time designed to trap programers into a never ending quest to make it work. Each new version breaks previous work, the functions are poorly documented and enormously frustrating. The computer has the information you want, but you can't get at it! Typical of MS products, the interface is poor, information is hidden, and you are always dependent on MS for more. The biggest joke of all is that it is much easier to directly manipulate the Windows API with C than it is to use VB or that other beast MSFC. The whole, "this is an easy way to make great looking code" sales line is a big lie. Don't even mention VBA to me.
I cut my teeth on BASIC by accident of fate. It was easy to impliment on small computers with limited resources. I had a great time working with a Timex Sinclair, but I would never force that on anyone today. Why do that when all reasonable OSs ship with a complete set of superior compilers?
Nor would I pain someone with VB. Why do people think C is not for beginners? Learning C was both informative and empowering. It was not difficult, except that I had to cast asside some bad habits. A simple subset of C is just as easy to learn as BASIC, but the concepts are much more usefull.
I wish the folks at KDE all the best, but I question the ultimate usefulness of the effort.
I'm glad that this group is advancing the importance of the part of the moon that I bought a few years back. I plan to set up a Disney style exhibit there where people can go and relive that great first step on the moon. All the funding I can get. Please write your local govenment representative, and the UN.
There's one small problem: try taking a picture of the whole world at once. You are more likely to have a real live witness with a regular camera than a satilite looking at you... or are you?
OH MY GOD! They're looking at me right now! AHHHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHH! Raise middle finger to sky, feel beter. I'm ok now, back to homework.
This has been touched on by other posters here, but let me be brief for them.
The flat mirror you are thinking about would undo the cheapness of our $1,000,000 mecury mirror. The whole point is to avoid having to make a big mirror! While it might be a little easier to make a flat mirror that you are thinking of than it is to make a traditional parabolic one, it can't be that much cheaper. Think about making a 6m (3 x taller than me) optically flat thing that stays perfectly rigid while being pointed around. It's a nice idea, but a regular parabolic mirror would be better for your money because it would not cause another reflective loss like the pool of mecury would.
The delta clipper the dc-x and the dc-xa were one and the same project. I would like to refer anyone who's interested in crash and burn rocketry to NASA . Rockets that tip over and explode are just not a good idea.
I'll stand by my judgement of vertical landers. Though skips and loops can be used for air breaking, you are sill left with the problem of descent. An exercise for the reader is to immagine how much fuel you would need to land safetly from the roof of the empire state building. I'd rather have a parachute.
It sucks to kill any project, but two half project do not make anything useful. NASA made a good call.
Anyone who is interested in the relative merits of different rockets can read. "Spaceflight Dynamics" by William E. Wiesel. Wings in general are a bad idea, but they alow for controled descent. The space shuttle without wings would reach 9 km/s, but it achieves 7.8 instead. I prefer Orion shuttle combination.
We've gotten lost in pleasant details. My overall point was that politics has not hamstrung NASA with such fine disinctions. Politics have failed to give NASA a clear mission and budget to go with it. If someone like Bill Clinton would have emulated the better characteristics of JFK (not all good, mind you, he feared Orion) instead of chasing interns around the white house, we might have such a mission. NASA is doing well with what they have.
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While that's a nice thing for Thagg to be doing, I can confidently say that he's talking out of his ass. NASA has been doing good things with its ever shrinking budget and the directions it is given. If you want to point to politics, look in the mirror.
The X-33 was a risk, but not nearly such a stunt as the Delta Clipper, which had a marked tenedncy to explode. Think about vertical landing for a minute. Parachutes and gliders can be made stable much easier than the DC. Vertical landers are also the least efficient of rockets. If it took a Saturn 5 to get to escape velocity, it will take a Saturn 5 to stop a vertical lander at escape velocity. Now what would it take to get a fully loaded Saturn 5 to escape velocity? Orion, that's what.
The X-33 was not all worked out when it started, what is? The technologies being tried are mostly involved with new materials. They have benifits that could greatly reduce weight and that equals cost to put things in orbit.
Carbon fiber technology has great promise and has worked it's way into all sorts of parts already. Fiber is to aluminum what aluminum was to steel. Parts can have 1/5 th the mass of their aluminum equivalent. I'm not sure why they have been having so much trouble with those tanks, but I know from a friend that works at Michaud that there have been problems like this for the last three years. I suspect heat curring just induces too much strain for cryrogenic tanks, and I wonder why they have not tried to use E Beam curring another Lockheed Martin technology. Oh well.
As for politics, we could have used Appolo technology to get to Mars by now, or Orion to get even further. But, we the public are full of bad advice.
...hard drives now have 80+ gig capacities? Wouldn't it seem to be a logical progression that as time goes on and computer hardware scales upward, the OS should grow to take advantage of the power that is now available?
Power yes, disk space no. I don't need a 1 gig OS when its functionality takes much less space. You're better off using that space for your content than MS adverts.
Ah yes, I could smash your head with my nice old IBM keyboard. There are three reasons for this. First, the keyboard can take the impact. Second, my writsts don't ache. Third, your trolly little post made me want to.
A nice 1200 baud modem keeps plenty of people from having to walk across the plant where I work. The machine is older, but it's not worth recoding everything just because a PC is cheap. That old modem has been worth it's weight in gold for saved man hours.
540M hard drives are great for 486 routers. There's enough room for the router software and al the goodies you could want or need. Why would you want to throw out the drive or the box that does something useful?
Old fax modems are very nice for job hunting. With useful old MS win3.1 software (ultra fax and word perfect 5.2) it was trivial to get a nice looking resume to someone who did not just happen to have MS Word. Belive me, it's much better to get in touch with the person who's looking for an employee than the HR web page. Not everyone checks their email all the time outside of the computer world. Wow, it only needed a 486 and a 540M hard disk, unless you install newer MS BS, then nothing works.
"We know, sit down!" Think before you flame, please.
The shots at m0ss suggest how cripled even the "administrator" account is. The review at winsupersite only has shots of Joe User's screens, which we might expect to be less privaliged.
Microsoft is not absconding with the English Language, they are simply using language which is prevalent in another part of the world. If you examine the the H1B visa records on one hand, and Microsoft's hiring practices on the other hand, I think that you will soon see how all of this has come to be. You westerners are so very difficult to deal with, simultainuosly consisness and precision. What you see is really a reflection of yourselves as percieved by people who speak English as a second language.
The problem is the DMCA and its use against DeCSS. Think about it. Recieving a unsolicited book in the mail does not give you the right to publish it. Nor does recieving a DVD in the mail give you the right to distribute DeCSS. Getting this bar code reader in the mail does not give you the right to distribute software that breaks Digital Convergence's lame encryption in a consitent world. DC has a leg to stand on and must be fought, but don't expect to win.
A dinky and unimportant thing like this is just the kind of case that can be used to restrict your rights. No one can reasonably care about the device, but the principle is great.
I'm not going to settle for anything less than gammas bursting from my imploding monitor! The nerve of some people to give away substandard software. I'll bet they even think this OpenGL, Mesa thingy is educational.
Maw! Get me that NT CD, I want implosions now, damnit.
cperciva, have you been giving yourself mod points?
The 15 year old CD is obsolete (not selling well enough and no one is making anything selling $40 players/0.20 media) and it's time to change to a new superior recording media, DVD. Yes, DVD promises to be smaller cheaper and more secure. Just imagine being able to fit two conventional CD's worth of music in your shirt pocket. With the new MSNet players, you can play that music for just pennies a second or download new and exciting music from your local radio station for equally trivial rates. No one will force you to move to this new media, but no one will be selling CD players anymore either, so we know that you will be repurchasing your entire collection. The music scene will experience a boom unseen since everyone repurchased all of their favorite top 40 hits on CD's as their record players failed.
Where have you been for the last few days? Got away for the weekend? Naughty boy indeed, with all that inflamatory talk of yours. Flamen user 140998! What a bunch of posts you make, always contrary.
Here is the response you have been waiting for:
Windows SUX, Linux RULZ! Yes, that's it!
What's Play Station, but a crummy Game Boy knock off? WoooHooo! Now we're talkin!
I hope you spend all your money on Bill's Buggy Shit. How about this? I'll pretend I'm a vendor, walk down to CompUSA and buy you an nice fat copy of Win2k. You can then pay me for it. Wow, I can earn some money off a sucker. Better yet, why don't you just give me the money, I kick you in the balls and we call it even?
In the imortal noise of T&P, "AH, HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA, AH-HA!"
No, I think old Billy Boy was complaining about people copying ROMs as well as this supposedly stolen tape. See open letter to hobbyists which never mentions this tape. Same old stuff as today, he made something and did not want to share. Wanted money instead. Another poster claims he was charging $500 for his BASIC which just did not work, and would not do much if it did. Wow, that's rude.
I'm wondering if the nitrogen even made it to the processor. With enough flow, it would have gotten there and back out, but they would have been better off cooling all of their fluid or sinking the whole board in a big dewar. Caution: get adequate ventilation or suffocate (don't be one Michael Hutchins kind). The temperature difference between one side of the processor and the other must have been enormous and I'm supprised it did not shatter and I can imagine it did warp. Droping the thing in liquid nitrogen is kind of harsh and might snap it too. If they could reduce the volume of coolang some more and run the nitrogen tubing all around it, they might be able to drop the temperature slowly and evenly. Hmmm, some kind of christmass tune is floating in my head, "let it gell, let it gell, let it gell", where did that come from?
By the way, trying to load up CMOS with a non functional CPU sounds like a bad idea. "It don't work, captian, what should I do?", "Turn it up Scotty!". If it cant read the keybord, what can it read?
MoooKow makes some very interesting points in this thread, but MoooKow has not posted to any other treads in a long time. Just go look at his User info page and see for yourself. Are you for real?
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According to the Salt Institute, salt is safe to eat. While it may be a bad idea to eat like an Accadian, you will have a hard time killing someone with it. In rats, the amount of salt it took to kill 1/2 of those exposed was 4,000 mg/kg. A first order calculation goes like this, a 50 kg man would have to eat 200 grams of salt to have a coin toss chance of dying. I imagine this man would vomit first, but persistance sometimes pays off. Salt is sold in 780 gram (26 ounce or 1 pound 10 ounces) containers. You would have to eat more than 1/4th of it. That's less than I thought, but much more than I could ever imagine eating.
This isn't just an editor, it's got a spell checker and font choices.
This isn't just a phone, it's got a speaker on it.
This isn't just a dubwaiter, it's got a door and a fog horn on it.
cuz you can get more HP out of a well designed 4 cylinder that fits.
I cut my teeth on BASIC by accident of fate. It was easy to impliment on small computers with limited resources. I had a great time working with a Timex Sinclair, but I would never force that on anyone today. Why do that when all reasonable OSs ship with a complete set of superior compilers?
Nor would I pain someone with VB. Why do people think C is not for beginners? Learning C was both informative and empowering. It was not difficult, except that I had to cast asside some bad habits. A simple subset of C is just as easy to learn as BASIC, but the concepts are much more usefull.
I wish the folks at KDE all the best, but I question the ultimate usefulness of the effort.
I'm glad that this group is advancing the importance of the part of the moon that I bought a few years back. I plan to set up a Disney style exhibit there where people can go and relive that great first step on the moon. All the funding I can get. Please write your local govenment representative, and the UN.
OH MY GOD! They're looking at me right now! AHHHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHH! Raise middle finger to sky, feel beter. I'm ok now, back to homework.
The flat mirror you are thinking about would undo the cheapness of our $1,000,000 mecury mirror. The whole point is to avoid having to make a big mirror! While it might be a little easier to make a flat mirror that you are thinking of than it is to make a traditional parabolic one, it can't be that much cheaper. Think about making a 6m (3 x taller than me) optically flat thing that stays perfectly rigid while being pointed around. It's a nice idea, but a regular parabolic mirror would be better for your money because it would not cause another reflective loss like the pool of mecury would.
I'll stand by my judgement of vertical landers. Though skips and loops can be used for air breaking, you are sill left with the problem of descent. An exercise for the reader is to immagine how much fuel you would need to land safetly from the roof of the empire state building. I'd rather have a parachute.
It sucks to kill any project, but two half project do not make anything useful. NASA made a good call.
Anyone who is interested in the relative merits of different rockets can read. "Spaceflight Dynamics" by William E. Wiesel. Wings in general are a bad idea, but they alow for controled descent. The space shuttle without wings would reach 9 km/s, but it achieves 7.8 instead. I prefer Orion shuttle combination.
We've gotten lost in pleasant details. My overall point was that politics has not hamstrung NASA with such fine disinctions. Politics have failed to give NASA a clear mission and budget to go with it. If someone like Bill Clinton would have emulated the better characteristics of JFK (not all good, mind you, he feared Orion) instead of chasing interns around the white house, we might have such a mission. NASA is doing well with what they have.
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While that's a nice thing for Thagg to be doing, I can confidently say that he's talking out of his ass. NASA has been doing good things with its ever shrinking budget and the directions it is given. If you want to point to politics, look in the mirror.
The X-33 was a risk, but not nearly such a stunt as the Delta Clipper, which had a marked tenedncy to explode. Think about vertical landing for a minute. Parachutes and gliders can be made stable much easier than the DC. Vertical landers are also the least efficient of rockets. If it took a Saturn 5 to get to escape velocity, it will take a Saturn 5 to stop a vertical lander at escape velocity. Now what would it take to get a fully loaded Saturn 5 to escape velocity? Orion, that's what.
The X-33 was not all worked out when it started, what is? The technologies being tried are mostly involved with new materials. They have benifits that could greatly reduce weight and that equals cost to put things in orbit.
Carbon fiber technology has great promise and has worked it's way into all sorts of parts already. Fiber is to aluminum what aluminum was to steel. Parts can have 1/5 th the mass of their aluminum equivalent. I'm not sure why they have been having so much trouble with those tanks, but I know from a friend that works at Michaud that there have been problems like this for the last three years. I suspect heat curring just induces too much strain for cryrogenic tanks, and I wonder why they have not tried to use E Beam curring another Lockheed Martin technology. Oh well.
As for politics, we could have used Appolo technology to get to Mars by now, or Orion to get even further. But, we the public are full of bad advice.
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banning a link sounded incredible to me.
Power yes, disk space no. I don't need a 1 gig OS when its functionality takes much less space. You're better off using that space for your content than MS adverts.
Well, just think of the suntan you could get.
A nice 1200 baud modem keeps plenty of people from having to walk across the plant where I work. The machine is older, but it's not worth recoding everything just because a PC is cheap. That old modem has been worth it's weight in gold for saved man hours.
540M hard drives are great for 486 routers. There's enough room for the router software and al the goodies you could want or need. Why would you want to throw out the drive or the box that does something useful?
Old fax modems are very nice for job hunting. With useful old MS win3.1 software (ultra fax and word perfect 5.2) it was trivial to get a nice looking resume to someone who did not just happen to have MS Word. Belive me, it's much better to get in touch with the person who's looking for an employee than the HR web page. Not everyone checks their email all the time outside of the computer world. Wow, it only needed a 486 and a 540M hard disk, unless you install newer MS BS, then nothing works.
"We know, sit down!" Think before you flame, please.
Did anyone else notice that this OS seems to take almost 1 GIG ? It must be all of those bitmaps that make this "bursting with usability".
The shots at m0ss suggest how cripled even the "administrator" account is. The review at winsupersite only has shots of Joe User's screens, which we might expect to be less privaliged.
Microsoft is not absconding with the English Language, they are simply using language which is prevalent in another part of the world. If you examine the the H1B visa records on one hand, and Microsoft's hiring practices on the other hand, I think that you will soon see how all of this has come to be. You westerners are so very difficult to deal with, simultainuosly consisness and precision. What you see is really a reflection of yourselves as percieved by people who speak English as a second language.
A dinky and unimportant thing like this is just the kind of case that can be used to restrict your rights. No one can reasonably care about the device, but the principle is great.
Maw! Get me that NT CD, I want implosions now, damnit.
cperciva, have you been giving yourself mod points?
The 15 year old CD is obsolete (not selling well enough and no one is making anything selling $40 players/0.20 media) and it's time to change to a new superior recording media, DVD. Yes, DVD promises to be smaller cheaper and more secure. Just imagine being able to fit two conventional CD's worth of music in your shirt pocket. With the new MSNet players, you can play that music for just pennies a second or download new and exciting music from your local radio station for equally trivial rates. No one will force you to move to this new media, but no one will be selling CD players anymore either, so we know that you will be repurchasing your entire collection. The music scene will experience a boom unseen since everyone repurchased all of their favorite top 40 hits on CD's as their record players failed.
Here is the response you have been waiting for: Windows SUX, Linux RULZ! Yes, that's it!
What's Play Station, but a crummy Game Boy knock off? WoooHooo! Now we're talkin!
I hope you spend all your money on Bill's Buggy Shit. How about this? I'll pretend I'm a vendor, walk down to CompUSA and buy you an nice fat copy of Win2k. You can then pay me for it. Wow, I can earn some money off a sucker. Better yet, why don't you just give me the money, I kick you in the balls and we call it even?
In the imortal noise of T&P, "AH, HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA, AH-HA!"
No, I think old Billy Boy was complaining about people copying ROMs as well as this supposedly stolen tape. See open letter to hobbyists which never mentions this tape. Same old stuff as today, he made something and did not want to share. Wanted money instead. Another poster claims he was charging $500 for his BASIC which just did not work, and would not do much if it did. Wow, that's rude.
Why ask RMS or other known software experts when you can just pull the conclusions you want out of your ass? Sounds like Presidential work to me.
By the way, trying to load up CMOS with a non functional CPU sounds like a bad idea. "It don't work, captian, what should I do?", "Turn it up Scotty!". If it cant read the keybord, what can it read?
MoooKow makes some very interesting points in this thread, but MoooKow has not posted to any other treads in a long time. Just go look at his User info page and see for yourself. Are you for real?