Euros and dollars don't have stupid orders of magnitude , you have either one euro/dollar or cents (in both cases 1/100) Latin and Cyrillic , just different symbols , same as the euro/dollar thing , just different names , you don't add letters either. German vs Norwegian , language , well ok this one might be _slightly_ comparable to the issue at hand , one has to be a little more rantional than the other. Zed and Zee , again , just an aesthetic issue.
Inches vs centimeters 1 m = 100 cm , 1 Foot = 12 inches. Now quickly tell me how many inches does it take to span 892360213452 feet cause i can just add two zeros at the end to do the conversion in metric. If one foot was some arbitrary scale of a meter and it would be equal to 10 inches i would have no problem with it and would've cheerfully agreed with your analogies , but it is not.
I've switched to Wilkinson double sword , classic double edge blades , sharper than anything else and a lot cheaper too. The fact that they're cheaper also helps with comfort because you feel more inclined to change them before they ware out. Haven't had a problem yet but i am considering switching to a straight razor as soon as i can buy myself a Dovo. Sure enough you need to be careful but the increase in comfort and quality of the shave are at least the same as the switch from crap razors to Wilkinson. More so you don't need to rinse the blade every centimeter if you left your stubble grow a little too much. Either way I'm keeping the Wilkinson for when I'm too tiered to be safe using a straight razor.
Of course she ain't dumb silly , she's just a girl. All the differences you've stated , i have noticed between myself and almost all of my female friends. Most guys i know will handle navigation, new problems , etc rather well where most gals will not. I don't know why that is , but it seems girls really aren't built the same , mentally speaking. They have different sets of skills , likes and interests.This can get quite irritating , my ex was quite lousy at getting places on time , or finding her way when she got lost , but some of the things she was good at would put anyone to shame. My current girlfriend however seems quite a lot less afraid to explore and she does way better at getting around a foreign town because of that. Now the point is , my current gf. doesn't play any games at all , the ex however did. Now I'm not dismissing the merits to video games , but when accounting for such skills it's a good idea to consider different sexes separately.
Stop and think about what you just wrote. If the terrorists had money for a jet , they'd have money for a missile or two and they certainly wouldn't give a shit about commercial airports and what kind of plastic fork you can use on board.Furthermore if they _own_ the jet , i don't think they'd go through the hassle of hijacking it.
Now on the other hand , say some drugged out party boy gets hijacked by his latest friend who just happens to be a terrorist that decides to do another kamikaze dive , we have _military_ supersonic jets on alert at all times. And by we i mean this pathetic third world country in Eastern Europe , i think the US has a bit more of those on hand. And what do these nice jets do ? They appear out of nowhere in literally 5 minutes of your transgression and warn you to stay on your designated course (which almost never goes above cities or other such settlements) or exit the airspace (if you just happened to stray over the border). Failure to do so will result in the aircraft getting shot down over uninhabited land before any innocent bystanders get hit. And you're paying for the service already , why get assraped at the airport as well then ?
This kind of thing almost never happens because it makes no sense to hijack a plane you can't do damage with. At worse you can ask for a really quick ransom in exchange for not killing yourself (good luck on that one, if anybody cares nobody will sing cash your way as fast as you'd burn fuel).
In other words , cut the crap, there ain't not terrerists on private planes.
The only reason i went for this one is because it had a remote, not much of a deal.
It does smell like burnt dust,i expected the smell to go away after days of use , however it never did. The thing is the top part is completely clean. I'll get to it as soon as the real cold starts setting in. At the moment my P IV prescott is doing a good enough job at keeping me warm:).
The pot of water thing is really useful , especially since the air tends to be a lot dryer during winter months. Hope nobody tries to do that with an open electrical radiator though:).
All of this would be irrelevant if i didn't have to fill in so many damn papers to install personal gas heating. I'm required to get approval from _all_ of my neighbors and install my own personal gas pipe as the shared one wasn't built with that kind of usage in mind.
Anyway , been a pleasure discussing the subject. Cheers David!
I got one of them convection based ones , it looks like a cylinder , takes in air through the bottom and I'm quite disappointed in it's performance. Here in Romania we still have huge flat buildings and due to the way the heating system is built it breaks down , and they don't turn it on unless it's this cold for this many days. Anyway that means I'm freezing my ass off for a few weeks each winter.Sometimes you'll see me filling the tub with hot water just so i can get a bit of radiating heat going on , and using the gas stove at full blast even with the electric heater i mentioned. Now a friend of mine who lives in a student dorm has one of them tiny fan based heaters. With that one the room is nice and cozy in a few minutes. What I'm trying to say is even if you do heat the entire room , it's going to me much more efficient to heat up the bottom of the room , rather than the entire volume (unless you're spiderman by any chance:) )
Having said all that i think I'm going to get one of those oil filled heaters you speak of , my current one seems to smell funny when turned on. It's still rather safe , there's no visible glowing parts , no touchable hot parts and it has a sensor to turn off it it gets tipped over , but the smell kills it , you can't open the window because it gets cold again either:) .
>> One time this happened I was able to explain that didn't exist, heaters turn electricity into heat at 100% efficiency, and at least one other time I was never able to get that concept across.
Do tell , do tell , I've met of few of those and quickly ended the conversation as it got frustrating:)
There's no such thing as more or less efficient electric heaters , but there is such a thing as more or less _useful_ electric heaters for the same cost in electricity. Case in point , a heater with a fan on it will send heat throughout the room at your height and keep you warm. A basic heater that relies on convection will heat up the air , make it go up against the ceiling and only after heating the entire volume of air reach a nice cozy temperature at your normal standing or sitting height. IR heaters will also warm you up faster rather then heat up the entire room.
>>Of course, half the people I talk to seem to think there are more and less efficient electric heaters, which is just incomprehensible.
>> The main question is how to quantify it numerically, and there's a lot of debate on this topic.
Indeed,! And as long as we're debating the same issue on common ground , could you provide any more links to such research / opinions on this matter ? I'm genuinely curios as to what ideas are floating around the subject.
>> While you might like to pretend that 1 rad a day is equivalent to 365 rads one day a year, it's not, as common sense should tell you.
Your use of a logical extreme here is preposterous , sure 1 rad a day per year isn't as harmful as 365 rads on one given day but the effects of 1 rad don't just go away the moment you brush your teeth in the morning. And further more you said it yourself , it's the best metric available , sure you can't quantify it really well but radiation _does_ add up.
Grub2 has a lot of nice features but it seems to be adding a lot of complexity into the equation , more than is required for some systems. Thankfully they thought of renaming it rather than adding all that stuff to GRUB legacy , otherwise i would've started one of those Grub vs Lilo rants only renamed into Grub vs. Grub right here and now.
Radiation is cumulative , having "a lot less" added to the healthy dose you're already getting is not something you want. Not counting what you get from flying up so high , scanning alone will add up if you fly frequently , enjoy your radiation poisoning.
Solar hot air balloons work, just get a couple of garbage bags , make them into a long cilinder by cutting.taping and leave them partially inflated in the sun , they will float.
"But _her_ Verizon cell phone does not have service in the small town. "
It's not the deceased's phone , it's hers. This is the reason they're charging it , and the reason for them not caring about a death certificate , it's not the dead man's account.
As far as i can read proper English the article said:
Soldier dies. Widow moves. Widow has contract,Widow decides to cancel contract.
I'm sorry to say but the whole article seems to have been written to stirr up some bad shit when the soldier didn't have anything to do with any contracts / Verizon. Sure it wouldn't have hurt them to show a little compassion but they weren't absurd as they are not charging the soldier but the window who is a party in the contract. It could've been his brother , mother or any other relative that moved , should Verizon also cancel their early termination fee ? What about his cousin ? How does a corporation draw the line between making a profit and acting humane ?
Printers represent the most dreaded part of an IT guy's work day. HP being one of the top time wasters. I don't understand why but printers are the shittiest products you can find , every manufacturer insists on having their own way of dealing with drivers and hp being king at bloatware. Then there's the windows printing system that absolutely sucks balls. When it's not the drivers it some sort of failure in the paper loading mechanism or the optical paper detection sensor. There's no standardized way of remotely managing them , no way to tell if they're working properly or _WHY_ they fail to print when they do. All i want from these cretins is ONE reasonably priced , reliable printer that would work with bare-bone drivers , have a proper network printing system and management interface and not SUCK so much that i can't deal with actual problems.
All in all this whole thing about R&D is just bullshit , if they'd spend less time building up so many new printer models that have no significant technical advantage , just that they look different and require new drivers the size of an operating system service pack they'd probably have enough cash to stop ripping us off on ink.
Text config files force you to understand everything , read every detail.
GUI's are nice and shiny , but they hide details. In order to distinguish shapes you need white space around them and so you're left with little space for valuable information.<br> Sure one or two tools out there might have a decent idea about graphically representing firewalls but in the end you're still left with understanding everything so that it works and once you're there you'll realize you had enough time to build the same config file in a text editor three times over. <br> What gui's are good at is summarizing everything for somebody new taking over.
I could make my own Ethernet cable (with a screwdriver as the only tool no less) when i was 12.That said , stupid filtering software does more harm than good.
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Or the other way around.
Or qmail for that matter.
Euros and dollars don't have stupid orders of magnitude , you have either one euro/dollar or cents (in both cases 1/100)
Latin and Cyrillic , just different symbols , same as the euro/dollar thing , just different names , you don't add letters either.
German vs Norwegian , language , well ok this one might be _slightly_ comparable to the issue at hand , one has to be a little more rantional than the other.
Zed and Zee , again , just an aesthetic issue.
Inches vs centimeters 1 m = 100 cm , 1 Foot = 12 inches. Now quickly tell me how many inches does it take to span 892360213452 feet cause i can just add two zeros at the end to do the conversion in metric.
If one foot was some arbitrary scale of a meter and it would be equal to 10 inches i would have no problem with it and would've cheerfully agreed with your analogies , but it is not.
I've switched to Wilkinson double sword , classic double edge blades , sharper than anything else and a lot cheaper too.
The fact that they're cheaper also helps with comfort because you feel more inclined to change them before they ware out.
Haven't had a problem yet but i am considering switching to a straight razor as soon as i can buy myself a Dovo. Sure enough you need to be careful but the increase in comfort and quality of the shave are at least the same as the switch from crap razors to Wilkinson. More so you don't need to rinse the blade every centimeter if you left your stubble grow a little too much.
Either way I'm keeping the Wilkinson for when I'm too tiered to be safe using a straight razor.
That's a fairly good point.
Of course she ain't dumb silly , she's just a girl.
All the differences you've stated , i have noticed between myself and almost all of my female friends. Most guys i know will handle navigation, new problems , etc rather well where most gals will not. I don't know why that is , but it seems girls really aren't built the same , mentally speaking. They have different sets of skills , likes and interests.This can get quite irritating , my ex was quite lousy at getting places on time , or finding her way when she got lost , but some of the things she was good at would put anyone to shame. My current girlfriend however seems quite a lot less afraid to explore and she does way better at getting around a foreign town because of that. Now the point is , my current gf. doesn't play any games at all , the ex however did.
Now I'm not dismissing the merits to video games , but when accounting for such skills it's a good idea to consider different sexes separately.
Stop and think about what you just wrote.
If the terrorists had money for a jet , they'd have money for a missile or two and they certainly wouldn't give a shit about commercial airports and what kind of plastic fork you can use on board.Furthermore if they _own_ the jet , i don't think they'd go through the hassle of hijacking it.
Now on the other hand , say some drugged out party boy gets hijacked by his latest friend who just happens to be a terrorist that decides to do another kamikaze dive , we have _military_ supersonic jets on alert at all times. And by we i mean this pathetic third world country in Eastern Europe , i think the US has a bit more of those on hand.
And what do these nice jets do ? They appear out of nowhere in literally 5 minutes of your transgression and warn you to stay on your designated course (which almost never goes above cities or other such settlements) or exit the airspace (if you just happened to stray over the border). Failure to do so will result in the aircraft getting shot down over uninhabited land before any innocent bystanders get hit. And you're paying for the service already , why get assraped at the airport as well then ?
This kind of thing almost never happens because it makes no sense to hijack a plane you can't do damage with. At worse you can ask for a really quick ransom in exchange for not killing yourself (good luck on that one, if anybody cares nobody will sing cash your way as fast as you'd burn fuel).
In other words , cut the crap, there ain't not terrerists on private planes.
The only reason i went for this one is because it had a remote, not much of a deal.
,i expected the smell to go away after days of use , however it never did. The thing is the top part is completely clean. I'll get to it as soon as the real cold starts setting in. :).
:).
It does smell like burnt dust
At the moment my P IV prescott is doing a good enough job at keeping me warm
The pot of water thing is really useful , especially since the air tends to be a lot dryer during winter months. Hope nobody tries to do that with an open electrical radiator though
All of this would be irrelevant if i didn't have to fill in so many damn papers to install personal gas heating. I'm required to get approval from _all_ of my neighbors and install my own personal gas pipe as the shared one wasn't built with that kind of usage in mind.
Anyway , been a pleasure discussing the subject. Cheers David!
I got one of them convection based ones , it looks like a cylinder , takes in air through the bottom and I'm quite disappointed in it's performance. :) )
:) .
:)
Here in Romania we still have huge flat buildings and due to the way the heating system is built it breaks down , and they don't turn it on unless it's this cold for this many days.
Anyway that means I'm freezing my ass off for a few weeks each winter.Sometimes you'll see me filling the tub with hot water just so i can get a bit of radiating heat going on , and using the gas stove at full blast even with the electric heater i mentioned.
Now a friend of mine who lives in a student dorm has one of them tiny fan based heaters. With that one the room is nice and cozy in a few minutes.
What I'm trying to say is even if you do heat the entire room , it's going to me much more efficient to heat up the bottom of the room , rather than the entire volume (unless you're spiderman by any chance
Having said all that i think I'm going to get one of those oil filled heaters you speak of , my current one seems to smell funny when turned on.
It's still rather safe , there's no visible glowing parts , no touchable hot parts and it has a sensor to turn off it it gets tipped over , but the smell kills it , you can't open the window because it gets cold again either
>> One time this happened I was able to explain that didn't exist, heaters turn electricity into heat at 100% efficiency, and at least one other time I was never able to get that concept across.
Do tell , do tell , I've met of few of those and quickly ended the conversation as it got frustrating
There's no such thing as more or less efficient electric heaters , but there is such a thing as more or less _useful_ electric heaters for the same cost in electricity.
Case in point , a heater with a fan on it will send heat throughout the room at your height and keep you warm. A basic heater that relies on convection will heat up the air , make it go up against the ceiling and only after heating the entire volume of air reach a nice cozy temperature at your normal standing or sitting height.
IR heaters will also warm you up faster rather then heat up the entire room.
>>Of course, half the people I talk to seem to think there are more and less efficient electric heaters, which is just incomprehensible.
>> The main question is how to quantify it numerically, and there's a lot of debate on this topic.
Indeed,! And as long as we're debating the same issue on common ground , could you provide any more links to such research / opinions on this matter ? I'm genuinely curios as to what ideas are floating around the subject.
>> While you might like to pretend that 1 rad a day is equivalent to 365 rads one day a year, it's not, as common sense should tell you.
Your use of a logical extreme here is preposterous , sure 1 rad a day per year isn't as harmful as 365 rads on one given day but the effects of 1 rad don't just go away the moment you brush your teeth in the morning.
And further more you said it yourself , it's the best metric available , sure you can't quantify it really well but radiation _does_ add up.
Grub2 has a lot of nice features but it seems to be adding a lot of complexity into the equation , more than is required for some systems.
Thankfully they thought of renaming it rather than adding all that stuff to GRUB legacy , otherwise i would've started one of those Grub vs Lilo rants only renamed into Grub vs. Grub right here and now.
Radiation is cumulative , having "a lot less" added to the healthy dose you're already getting is not something you want.
Not counting what you get from flying up so high , scanning alone will add up if you fly frequently , enjoy your radiation poisoning.
They're building a 5 (five) Petawatt laser in Romania - Magurele, that's plenty enough for a deathstar.
Oh , missed that one. Thanks for correcting.
discreet = stand alone
Solar hot air balloons work, just get a couple of garbage bags , make them into a long cilinder by cutting.taping and leave them partially inflated in the sun , they will float.
"But _her_ Verizon cell phone does not have service in the small town. "
,Widow decides to cancel contract.
It's not the deceased's phone , it's hers. This is the reason they're charging it , and the reason for them not caring about a death certificate , it's not the dead man's account.
As far as i can read proper English the article said:
Soldier dies. Widow moves. Widow has contract
I'm sorry to say but the whole article seems to have been written to stirr up some bad shit when the soldier didn't have anything to do with any contracts / Verizon. Sure it wouldn't have hurt them to show a little compassion but they weren't absurd as they are not charging the soldier but the window who is a party in the contract.
It could've been his brother , mother or any other relative that moved , should Verizon also cancel their early termination fee ? What about his cousin ? How does a corporation draw the line between making a profit and acting humane ?
I've seen at least a couple of deaf-mutes using video calls on the bus. I was quite happy to see technology used for something useful.
Printers represent the most dreaded part of an IT guy's work day. HP being one of the top time wasters.
I don't understand why but printers are the shittiest products you can find , every manufacturer insists on having their own way of dealing with drivers and hp being king at bloatware.
Then there's the windows printing system that absolutely sucks balls.
When it's not the drivers it some sort of failure in the paper loading mechanism or the optical paper detection sensor.
There's no standardized way of remotely managing them , no way to tell if they're working properly or _WHY_ they fail to print when they do.
All i want from these cretins is ONE reasonably priced , reliable printer that would work with bare-bone drivers , have a proper network printing system and management interface and not SUCK so much that i can't deal with actual problems.
All in all this whole thing about R&D is just bullshit , if they'd spend less time building up so many new printer models that have no significant technical advantage , just that they look different and require new drivers the size of an operating system service pack they'd probably have enough cash to stop ripping us off on ink.
Some are doing it already http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/21/151225
I very much appreciate the link , thanks!
Text config files force you to understand everything , read every detail.
GUI's are nice and shiny , but they hide details. In order to distinguish shapes you need white space around them and so you're left with little space for valuable information.<br>
Sure one or two tools out there might have a decent idea about graphically representing firewalls but in the end you're still left with understanding everything so that it works and once you're there you'll realize you had enough time to build the same config file in a text editor three times over. <br>
What gui's are good at is summarizing everything for somebody new taking over.
I could make my own Ethernet cable (with a screwdriver as the only tool no less) when i was 12.That said , stupid filtering software does more harm than good.