What kind of paper is the OP using? Cheap paper (newsprint) will cause ink to run no matter what the quality or type of pen and/or ink. I would guess this depends on the type and size (length and diameter) of the fibers that make up the paper. A high quality, fine point ball point pen on the wrong paper will cause smearing and running of the ink. You must try different papers with a variety of pens to get optimum results.
If something - a book, cell phone, car - is manufactured outside the US for export to the US, is it being sold outside the US to the importer. Apple, for instance, has Foxconn manufacture its phones in China for export to the US. Does Apple buy the phones from Foxconn in China then import them to the US for sale here? Where does the first sale take place and who is the first owner?
It could be that Apple is in the same position as the student who imported books for resale in the US. Interesting...
... the tech press, or just about anyone else, because of the quality of the product but because it didn't reveal anything. No carrier information was given, no price points stated and the folks who got a look at the phone couldn't do anything with it. They couldn't phone, text, surf the Web, or do anything else with the phone. MS and Nokia would have been better off waiting until the the phone was finished. How could anyone know the quality of what they were looking at? Much like MS's reveal of their tablets. They couldn't even be touched! The presentation was obviously hurried to beat the expected release of the Apple iPhone 5.
...for all Gmail emails that prevents Google from reading any and all emails? Google already transmits email using HTTPS so that gives some kind of security between sender to Google's servers and from the servers to the receiver, but the mail needs to be encrypted at the sender's and receiver's sites with code and keys Google can't guess. I'm not sure about when one uses a non-browser email reader. Suggestions, anyone?
I'm not sure a lubricant, particularly one that leaves Teflon beads in the space between the contacts of the threads of the bolt and the threads of the nut, would be a good idea. I presume a bolt when tightened to its specified torque creates friction between the thread surfaces of the bolt and its nut helping to preventing it from coming lose. Reducing that friction with a foreign substance means the friction will be reduced and the bolt might become lose with vibration. Of course, friction from contact of the head of the bolt with the fixture it is used in also prevents loosening. I assume there can be vibration in mechanical objects in space. Even a lock washer might not prevent the bolt from turning lose depending on the washer's design. Tri-Flow might be a good releasing agent/penetrating oil for loosening stuck bolt, but not for tightening bolts.
NASA must find out why the bolt can't be tightened to the specified distance and torque before applying a fix.
One thing Apple has been doing for quite some time is making their old hardware obsolete. The switch from Motorola chips to Intel was probably their biggest step (for very excellent reasons), but their recent update of OS X to Mountain Lion obsoleted three or four year old Macs as they can't be updated. I'm not an Apple Mac user, so someone else can comment, but I assume this also applies to applications, as well. So if you want the latest, greatest Mac experience, you gotta' buy new hardware every three or so years. MS not only supports older OSs (XP will still be supported with updates for another couple of years) but also makes every attempt to see that commercial legacy software will continue to work with new OS updates. Else, why would something like 40% of PCs still use XP and likely Win 7 will be around for 10 to 15 years.
One of the problems the PC industry may have is that older PCs work just as well and are just as reliable as new PCs. Manufacturers have been getting parts that are reliable - non leaking capacitors, batteries that last, LED illuminated monitors, etc., for quite awhile. However, the processing speed of most affordable, mid level PCs seems to me to be not that much better than five year old ones. Companies that used to replace all their Dells every three years have found it's not necessary, so PC maker growth has leveled off. Perhaps this is somewhat like what's happened in the automobile industry. The Japanese and perhaps now the Americans have figured out how to build reliable cars and that's affected sales. The recent recession and slow economic recovery has shown people they don't need a new car every four or five years. The average age of cars in the US is something like 11 years. This has had a big impact on the used car market. Everyone I know gets weekly solicitations to trade in their three year old car for the newest thing so as to provide dealers with reliable used cars.
Bill and Dave's company became Agilent Technologies, a designer and manufacturer of first class scientific instrumentation and test equipment. They're making money: profit margin ~ 14%, return on equity ~ 22.5%, dividend ~ 1%. The dividend is not great, but the other figures look ok. They're not really dependent on consumer retail sales like HP, so they're part of a different part of the economy.
If we found there was intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy, even "close" and assuming they could come here, we might not want them to come here. Remember the Twilight Zone episode where some very tall aliens came, cured cancer, prevented destructive weather, and showed us how to grow food in great abundance. Tourist trips to their planet were arranged. Then we finally translated a book of theirs that turned out to be a cookbook. Earth became a large cattle ranch with humans as the cattle.
The cool air goes in the top center of this design and the heated air goes out the outer edges of the turbine/fan blades. So hot air will be distributed over the surface of the mother board (MB), heating other components. If this all happens in an enclosed tower case, the heated air still needs to be exhausted from the box, probably requiring the typical noisy muffin fans. In the very tight spaces of a laptop/ultrabook/new Apple MBPro, I wonder if appropriate ducting can be designed. Interesting challenges.
As a college chemistry professor, I had a chem major who took a one semester statistics course taught by a Psych Prof at our school. I'm not sure why she didn't take the statistics course taught by the math department. Maybe it was because she could get general education credit from this course. Anyway, the course never got to the standard deviation because the prof required the students to do the calculations by hand. The students couldn't do long division so they couldn't calculate the requisite ratios. Square roots? They never got a chance. I guess they spent many weeks calculating means, medians, deviations from the mean and medians and their sums, squares, etc. What a waste. They certainly didn't get into the subtleties of the meaning of SDs, significance of differences between means, t tests, etc., etc., etc.
It was alleged that during one of the Gulf Wars, the US had modified printers sold to Iraq with some kind of location device allowing cruise missiles to find their target. I assume this was some kind of radio transmitter that identified what Iraqi government department had purchased the printer. I'm also guessing that the device probably cost a lot more than the printer. It has just recently been noted in the news that in the US pilotless drones will be allowed to fly presumably looking for bad guys. I think folks may have more to worry about than yellow dots on printer output. It's been known that military ordinance sometimes hits the wrong target, so beware.
My wife works for a very good company that depends heavily on modern technology. IT supports a VPN so that she can use her company supplied laptop at home if it's necessary. IT keeps changing the interface connection to the VPN as well as he access to her private and public company directories without telling anyone. She finds this out every time she brings he computer home. She ends up spending an hour or so trying to figure out how to connect to the VPN then to her online company storage. Usually she has to call IT from home and, if she gets in touch with a person that knows what happened, the IT person spends considerable time figuring out what went wrong and reinstalling the necessary aps. To restate: this happens every time she brings her laptop home. By the way, the laptop is connected to the company's intranet continuously at while she's at work. You ask why folks hate IT. Pretty obvious to me.
1. Students coming to freshman chemistry are totally unprepared to carry out the simplest algebra calculations. General chemistry does not require complicated math (calculus) such is required for sophomore engineering physics taken by chem, physics, and engineering majors. Talking to a high school math teacher, he noted that high school algebra and calculus involved teaching 5th grade math, and virtually no math appropriate to the courses' titles could be taught. Talking to my son's 5th grade teacher, I asked when he would begin learning about fractions, and was told that no one uses fractions anymore, so they are no longer taught. I remember that every time I use a ruler or tape measure calibrated in English units. No wonder high school students are not prepared for college.
2. My physics colleagues have stopped using calculus in their calculus base physics courses. The students couldn't handle it even after taking two or three semesters of college calculus. But then, the engineering students would get C's and D's in physics and A's in engineering. The chemistry faculty found the problem with math's teaching calculus: no equation/formula manipulations/calculations were ever required in these courses. The teaching and text were simple visual presentations of the "concepts" of the subject. The action of finding and evaluating a derivative or integral of a function was never covered but there were a lot of pretty pictures in the text and classroom presentations. No wonder I couldn't understand why they couldn't do this in their senior chemistry courses when it was required for manipulating laboratory data. How stupid of me to expect students do do this.
3. In my state the requirements for teachers to be licensed in their subject were substantially reduced several years ago. No longer are teachers required to obtain a degree with a major in their teaching subject. No wonder we have folks with a general education major (psych, sociology, phys ed., education) teaching chemistry, math, physics in high school. The education establishment believes if you understand the principles of how to teach, one can teach anything. Obviously the difficult combination of subject expertise and teaching ability are required of our high school teachers, but too often one or both of these are missing. Teachers find early that if they have STEM expertise they can make a great deal more money in one of those professions and leave teaching as well as not putting up with the incompetent education administration. What's left in the schools are teachers not being able to move. Thus the average teaching career is something like five years. My wife had to take a couple of education courses to update her teaching certificate when we moved to our new state. She has a chemistry degree and needed to take a science ed course. Students had to give numerous presentations basic to their teaching subject. The prof had absolutely no idea what my wife would present, yet this was basic high school chemistry stuff. How could this guy provide advice about how to improve such presentations if he had no idea what the subject matter was about. I suspect this situation is rampant in the higher-education establishment. The solution is pretty obvious.
My feeling is that the chiropractic business model is to provide some relief for awhile and when the problem returns, one will go back to get this relief, over and over again.
Many years ago when I was living in Utah, chiropractors were claiming all kinds of cures for about anything, including cancer. If I remember correctly, the state removed their licenses and stopped issuing new ones. Chiropractic was basically shut down. I don't know if it as come back, but I assume if all the quacks were flushed out of the system, it may be back.
I was on a benefits committee for a major university and it was noted by a physician member that Prozac was the most prescribed drug for all the various health insurance plans provided by the university. He suggested it would be cheaper to just dump it in the town's water reservoir. It would be a more economical distribution system. This was ~15 years ago.
Not news.
I once worked for a company in the New Product Development Group for a company that provided materials for the semiconductor industry. A new top management team came in and decided to get rid of that unit. You can guess what happened - the stock price went from ~$15 to $0.60 within a year as the company lost business to its competitors. I didn't take anything with me but that gained through my experience there. Once and a while I get a call from an engineer or product manager about my input on some problem. I just tell them that my consulting fee is $250/hour in 6 minute units. They now can't afford me!
What happens when a state runs out of license plate numbers? They change the color of the license plate or add a digit. The internet could change the color of IPv4 addresses or add a number.
Slashdot Mirror
What kind of paper is the OP using? Cheap paper (newsprint) will cause ink to run no matter what the quality or type of pen and/or ink. I would guess this depends on the type and size (length and diameter) of the fibers that make up the paper. A high quality, fine point ball point pen on the wrong paper will cause smearing and running of the ink. You must try different papers with a variety of pens to get optimum results.
If something - a book, cell phone, car - is manufactured outside the US for export to the US, is it being sold outside the US to the importer. Apple, for instance, has Foxconn manufacture its phones in China for export to the US. Does Apple buy the phones from Foxconn in China then import them to the US for sale here? Where does the first sale take place and who is the first owner?
It could be that Apple is in the same position as the student who imported books for resale in the US. Interesting...
... the tech press, or just about anyone else, because of the quality of the product but because it didn't reveal anything. No carrier information was given, no price points stated and the folks who got a look at the phone couldn't do anything with it. They couldn't phone, text, surf the Web, or do anything else with the phone. MS and Nokia would have been better off waiting until the the phone was finished. How could anyone know the quality of what they were looking at? Much like MS's reveal of their tablets. They couldn't even be touched! The presentation was obviously hurried to beat the expected release of the Apple iPhone 5.
...for all Gmail emails that prevents Google from reading any and all emails? Google already transmits email using HTTPS so that gives some kind of security between sender to Google's servers and from the servers to the receiver, but the mail needs to be encrypted at the sender's and receiver's sites with code and keys Google can't guess. I'm not sure about when one uses a non-browser email reader. Suggestions, anyone?
I'm not sure a lubricant, particularly one that leaves Teflon beads in the space between the contacts of the threads of the bolt and the threads of the nut, would be a good idea. I presume a bolt when tightened to its specified torque creates friction between the thread surfaces of the bolt and its nut helping to preventing it from coming lose. Reducing that friction with a foreign substance means the friction will be reduced and the bolt might become lose with vibration. Of course, friction from contact of the head of the bolt with the fixture it is used in also prevents loosening. I assume there can be vibration in mechanical objects in space. Even a lock washer might not prevent the bolt from turning lose depending on the washer's design. Tri-Flow might be a good releasing agent/penetrating oil for loosening stuck bolt, but not for tightening bolts. NASA must find out why the bolt can't be tightened to the specified distance and torque before applying a fix.
Aren't Dr. Who's nemeses the Daleks? They're allegedly a construction of living tissue and mechanical parts.
One thing Apple has been doing for quite some time is making their old hardware obsolete. The switch from Motorola chips to Intel was probably their biggest step (for very excellent reasons), but their recent update of OS X to Mountain Lion obsoleted three or four year old Macs as they can't be updated. I'm not an Apple Mac user, so someone else can comment, but I assume this also applies to applications, as well. So if you want the latest, greatest Mac experience, you gotta' buy new hardware every three or so years. MS not only supports older OSs (XP will still be supported with updates for another couple of years) but also makes every attempt to see that commercial legacy software will continue to work with new OS updates. Else, why would something like 40% of PCs still use XP and likely Win 7 will be around for 10 to 15 years.
One of the problems the PC industry may have is that older PCs work just as well and are just as reliable as new PCs. Manufacturers have been getting parts that are reliable - non leaking capacitors, batteries that last, LED illuminated monitors, etc., for quite awhile. However, the processing speed of most affordable, mid level PCs seems to me to be not that much better than five year old ones. Companies that used to replace all their Dells every three years have found it's not necessary, so PC maker growth has leveled off. Perhaps this is somewhat like what's happened in the automobile industry. The Japanese and perhaps now the Americans have figured out how to build reliable cars and that's affected sales. The recent recession and slow economic recovery has shown people they don't need a new car every four or five years. The average age of cars in the US is something like 11 years. This has had a big impact on the used car market. Everyone I know gets weekly solicitations to trade in their three year old car for the newest thing so as to provide dealers with reliable used cars.
Bill and Dave's company became Agilent Technologies, a designer and manufacturer of first class scientific instrumentation and test equipment. They're making money: profit margin ~ 14%, return on equity ~ 22.5%, dividend ~ 1%. The dividend is not great, but the other figures look ok. They're not really dependent on consumer retail sales like HP, so they're part of a different part of the economy.
Man bites dog.
MS has embedded its security software in Win 8. Will Semantec, McAfee and free Antivirus software makers sue MS?
Went to the Netvibes site. They have a premium version. Pricing indicates it's only $499 per month!!! Wow, it must be good.
If we found there was intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy, even "close" and assuming they could come here, we might not want them to come here. Remember the Twilight Zone episode where some very tall aliens came, cured cancer, prevented destructive weather, and showed us how to grow food in great abundance. Tourist trips to their planet were arranged. Then we finally translated a book of theirs that turned out to be a cookbook. Earth became a large cattle ranch with humans as the cattle.
The cool air goes in the top center of this design and the heated air goes out the outer edges of the turbine/fan blades. So hot air will be distributed over the surface of the mother board (MB), heating other components. If this all happens in an enclosed tower case, the heated air still needs to be exhausted from the box, probably requiring the typical noisy muffin fans. In the very tight spaces of a laptop/ultrabook/new Apple MBPro, I wonder if appropriate ducting can be designed. Interesting challenges.
As a college chemistry professor, I had a chem major who took a one semester statistics course taught by a Psych Prof at our school. I'm not sure why she didn't take the statistics course taught by the math department. Maybe it was because she could get general education credit from this course. Anyway, the course never got to the standard deviation because the prof required the students to do the calculations by hand. The students couldn't do long division so they couldn't calculate the requisite ratios. Square roots? They never got a chance. I guess they spent many weeks calculating means, medians, deviations from the mean and medians and their sums, squares, etc. What a waste. They certainly didn't get into the subtleties of the meaning of SDs, significance of differences between means, t tests, etc., etc., etc.
If all those galaxies were made of anti-matter, then the light would be anti-light and we couldn't see them because anti-light would be invisible.
It was alleged that during one of the Gulf Wars, the US had modified printers sold to Iraq with some kind of location device allowing cruise missiles to find their target. I assume this was some kind of radio transmitter that identified what Iraqi government department had purchased the printer. I'm also guessing that the device probably cost a lot more than the printer. It has just recently been noted in the news that in the US pilotless drones will be allowed to fly presumably looking for bad guys. I think folks may have more to worry about than yellow dots on printer output. It's been known that military ordinance sometimes hits the wrong target, so beware.
My wife can hear the sounds of ultra-sonic motion detectors use in retail stores.
wasting their time browsing the Web. I would think they have better things to do.
My wife works for a very good company that depends heavily on modern technology. IT supports a VPN so that she can use her company supplied laptop at home if it's necessary. IT keeps changing the interface connection to the VPN as well as he access to her private and public company directories without telling anyone. She finds this out every time she brings he computer home. She ends up spending an hour or so trying to figure out how to connect to the VPN then to her online company storage. Usually she has to call IT from home and, if she gets in touch with a person that knows what happened, the IT person spends considerable time figuring out what went wrong and reinstalling the necessary aps. To restate: this happens every time she brings her laptop home. By the way, the laptop is connected to the company's intranet continuously at while she's at work. You ask why folks hate IT. Pretty obvious to me.
1. Students coming to freshman chemistry are totally unprepared to carry out the simplest algebra calculations. General chemistry does not require complicated math (calculus) such is required for sophomore engineering physics taken by chem, physics, and engineering majors. Talking to a high school math teacher, he noted that high school algebra and calculus involved teaching 5th grade math, and virtually no math appropriate to the courses' titles could be taught. Talking to my son's 5th grade teacher, I asked when he would begin learning about fractions, and was told that no one uses fractions anymore, so they are no longer taught. I remember that every time I use a ruler or tape measure calibrated in English units. No wonder high school students are not prepared for college.
2. My physics colleagues have stopped using calculus in their calculus base physics courses. The students couldn't handle it even after taking two or three semesters of college calculus. But then, the engineering students would get C's and D's in physics and A's in engineering. The chemistry faculty found the problem with math's teaching calculus: no equation/formula manipulations/calculations were ever required in these courses. The teaching and text were simple visual presentations of the "concepts" of the subject. The action of finding and evaluating a derivative or integral of a function was never covered but there were a lot of pretty pictures in the text and classroom presentations. No wonder I couldn't understand why they couldn't do this in their senior chemistry courses when it was required for manipulating laboratory data. How stupid of me to expect students do do this.
3. In my state the requirements for teachers to be licensed in their subject were substantially reduced several years ago. No longer are teachers required to obtain a degree with a major in their teaching subject. No wonder we have folks with a general education major (psych, sociology, phys ed., education) teaching chemistry, math, physics in high school. The education establishment believes if you understand the principles of how to teach, one can teach anything. Obviously the difficult combination of subject expertise and teaching ability are required of our high school teachers, but too often one or both of these are missing. Teachers find early that if they have STEM expertise they can make a great deal more money in one of those professions and leave teaching as well as not putting up with the incompetent education administration. What's left in the schools are teachers not being able to move. Thus the average teaching career is something like five years. My wife had to take a couple of education courses to update her teaching certificate when we moved to our new state. She has a chemistry degree and needed to take a science ed course. Students had to give numerous presentations basic to their teaching subject. The prof had absolutely no idea what my wife would present, yet this was basic high school chemistry stuff. How could this guy provide advice about how to improve such presentations if he had no idea what the subject matter was about. I suspect this situation is rampant in the higher-education establishment. The solution is pretty obvious.
My feeling is that the chiropractic business model is to provide some relief for awhile and when the problem returns, one will go back to get this relief, over and over again. Many years ago when I was living in Utah, chiropractors were claiming all kinds of cures for about anything, including cancer. If I remember correctly, the state removed their licenses and stopped issuing new ones. Chiropractic was basically shut down. I don't know if it as come back, but I assume if all the quacks were flushed out of the system, it may be back.
I was on a benefits committee for a major university and it was noted by a physician member that Prozac was the most prescribed drug for all the various health insurance plans provided by the university. He suggested it would be cheaper to just dump it in the town's water reservoir. It would be a more economical distribution system. This was ~15 years ago. Not news.
I once worked for a company in the New Product Development Group for a company that provided materials for the semiconductor industry. A new top management team came in and decided to get rid of that unit. You can guess what happened - the stock price went from ~$15 to $0.60 within a year as the company lost business to its competitors. I didn't take anything with me but that gained through my experience there. Once and a while I get a call from an engineer or product manager about my input on some problem. I just tell them that my consulting fee is $250/hour in 6 minute units. They now can't afford me!
What happens when a state runs out of license plate numbers? They change the color of the license plate or add a digit. The internet could change the color of IPv4 addresses or add a number.