Tell me about it. I used to have a circa 1980 Soviet industrial paint drier operating on this principle (they did not give a flying f*** about American patents at the time). IR gas burner. No visible flame, no open flame in fact. The entire burner was neatly enclosed behind the IR radiating body. With this contraption it took 10-20 minutes to completely dry half a wall painted with emulsion or with fresh wallpaper in 3-5C temperatures (compared to 3-4 hours). The only problem was that it ate most of the oxygen in the room in no time at all so you could not use it to warm the room itself and you had to have all windows opened while using it. Quite a strange experience. The room was freezing cold and the humidity was at solid 100%, but the paint was drying in no time none the less. Me and my dad decorated most of our apartment that way at the time (1984).
I have not tried cooking sausages on it at the time (in a hindsight - I should have).
Either provided that pH is under 5 (quite common) and contain traces of transition metals (Copper and the like). Fanta and other "upmarket" drinks are not likely to be a canditate for this one as it is made with deionised water and the metal content in them is nearly nil. Now "Tesco Value Soda" may be an entirely different matter
If you combine peroxides which always exist in trace quantities in mitohondria, ascorbic acid and benzoate in the presense of free (very few are free in a living tissue, most are helated by something) popular metal ions you get benzene which fucks with nearly anything in your body. Mutagen, changes in properties of proteins, etc. One good thing, is that this reaction is outside normal pH range as it is optimal at 2 and decreases to nearly 0 at 5.
Still, the article quotes a number of others that discuss what happens in the 5+ pH range and the list of substances there is similarly obnoxious - phenol, diphenil stuff, etc.
Gawd, do not care about eurocritters, but that by itself is enough to ban the stuff in my house. Funnily enough I loved fanta when I was a kid. It gives you this strange buzz which no other soda can do. Now I see why...
All that it will do will be the spammers to "hire" bodyguards to the more valuable yellers and raise prices. If the have enough gold to offer for sale and enough peons to farm it sparing some resources to develop some "security staff" is not going to even show up on their balance sheets. And there is little your level 50 orc lord can do if he is simultaneously backstabbed by multiple characters of similar level.
1. UDF compared to ISO9660 is designed as a read-write system. It is one of it major advantages (and the reason why it is worth using it on RW CDROMs instead of ISO9660). You can actually write straight to the disks instead of having to maintain multi-gigabyte buffer space. By the way, your loopback approach does nothing at all regarding the 1G limit. Your ext3fs will be limited to 1G in size because the max file you can write to the disk is 1G. In addition to that as UDF supports ownership and normal unix-like attributes there is very little sense in doing this in the first place (unless you need posix ACLs or extended attributes).
2. The DVD readers especially the combined super-duper-ultra-blah drives have some capabilities to read and understand UDF and ISO9660. You simply cannot burn a non-standard FS on many of them and if you have succeeded in burning it there is a fair chance that it will not read on anything but the same device with the same firmware. This totally defeats the idea of having removable media. Removeable media should be readable at least on the same OS with a same type device (not the same brand, model, firmware revision, patch level and manufacturing date). After all you burn it for two main purposes - backup and moving data. If you cannot move your data freely you have shot yourself in the foot. If you cannot read any of your backups on the computer which has replaced your stolen one - you have shot yourself in the foot twice with a bazooka while looking at the exhaust.
3. That is besides all strange devices on the market that are UDF, while using non-standard media like the iOmega REV (which is not the only one). You cannot format them either and you are stuck with the UDF limitations.
So yeah, fine, while it is very nice to see BR and HDDVDRW disks rapidly go down in price I still get shivers when I have to use them for backing up and moving data. Oh, and by the way, my backup system in my home office operates on DVDRW so I have been through all this a couple of times so far.
1. C is still the language of embedded systems and OS internals and will be for the foreseable future. 10+ years at least. Whoever wrote that go go shoot himself in the foot with a bazooka while looking at its exhaust.
2. Non-relational DBMs. Embedded DMBMs which you include in your applications are often non-relational. So are many "standalone" persistence frameworks.
In addition to that a combination of good software development skills and RDBMs design and optimisation is quite rare, because most RDMBMs vendors, textbooks and courses do not teach the subject from an application design and development perspective. They look at it purely from data integrity perspective instead and applications are mostly referred within the scope of various pre-baked vendor frameworks. As a result the only people who are good in both RDBMs and modern software design and development are career switchers. These are hard to find, atrociously expensive and tend to disagree with both the software development and database camps which makes them "known troublemakers". This also makes many software developers constantly call for "let's give up on this SQL thing and switch to something simpler or more suitable". As a result many projects started on an SQL backend later switch to non-relational DBMs, persistence frameworks (not all of which are relational), etc.
Whoever wrote that article needs a cluebat. A heavy one.
While you are correct, there are a number of rather annoying limitations.
IIRC BlueRay and HD-DVD still use UDF which has a filesize limit of 1G. While some OS-es (pre-2.6.9 linux is an example) wrote 1G files to them that was in violation of the standard and these are not guaranteed to be interoperable and readable in the future. This is an extremely annoying limitation as far as any use for backup or "my own data" is concerned.
Compared to that a thumb drive or a USB hard drive can be formatted with a filesystem of your choice so this limitation does not exist.
This is verizon which IIRC is not GSM so I do not know what the actual overhead is.
In classic GSM the SMS travels as a part of the paging messages and the amount of bandwidth available to it is actually quite low. So by standard law of supply and demand its price cannot be expected to be very low. Network in classic GSM simply does not have the capacity to handle lots of SMS hence it is not going to become very cheap without resorting to more modern technology.
From some point onwards (forgot which standard level) you can use GPRS for SMS which vastly improves the capacity, but it is not either not enabled or not the default setting in most operators and phones at the moment.
So there is an underlying economical reason for the relatively high price of TXT compared to voice as well as the fact that TXT is charged differently from other data. At least in GSM. No idea about whatever Verizon uses.
You are not far off. This bill is nothing compared to the next one for RSI treatement. And while massage may help for a while it will provide only temporary relief.
And while it is an interesting wreck it is not the "mother of all wrecks" anyway.
I am waiting for the day when someone will find the damn place somewhere off Kadis, where the Spaniards dumped all those thousands of tons of Platinum from the Aztec and Inca empires so that it "does not devalue the value of silver in the old world".
Now that one will turn the world upside down (though it is likely to be 1km+ depth so getting our grubby hands on it will be rather difficult).
While this notion is quite popular, I know plenty of girls that will actually read the spec or get a boy to do that for them. After all there has to be a reason why most drivers driving GM POS out there are male.
My point was zat ze Germans no longer do small car design and ze only "modern" thing zey have produzed the A2 is a horrid proof of concept, not a proper car. You reply by posting:
1. New polo which is a rebranded Skoda with the internal and boot space deliberately reduced. A large portion of the design was done south of the german border so it does not count. 2. Toyota Yaris - Japanese to the hilt. The old one native Toyota, the new one has a lot of Daihatsu bits in it, developed through the development of the Sirion in fact. Unfortunately the best feature of the old Sirion - the 1m less turn circle compared to any other supermini is missing from both the new Sirion and the new Yaris (they share the platform). 3. Opel Corsa - granted, there may be some work done on this one on a german drafting board. But not a lot. And I mentioned it. 4. Nissan Micra - again. What iz ze German here? French - maybe. German - nope.
And none of these is small in the sense of really small - Modus, Aygo, C1, 1007, 107, Cuore and the like. If you put ze only German car (the Corsa) from your list near them it does look like a Panzer parked next to something that is small.
I will repeat my statement. Ze Germanz have decided zat a a proper car should look like a Panzer and do not do any small cars any more. As a result any advances in engine design are wasted on carrying more metal around. And making ze car bigger. Panzer 1,2,3, Tiger 4,5 all over again.
And that is the exact reason why I use a set of studio style headphones (at least 25+db drop). Works miracles as far as concentration in an open office is concerned.
SUVs are easy. Now putting a hybrid drivetrain into something the size of the Aigo or the Yaris is a serious challenge. You have a very limited weight and space allowance to get that done.
Actually after a claim like this I am no longer surprised at the fact that Toyota itself has recently failed to develop the engines for this category and is now using the Daihatsu designs for both the new Yaris and the Aigo. Quite funny actually as Daihatsu started their development for these from Toyota engines back in the 90-es (it is part owned by Toyota).
Good luck with that challenge, though I somehow suspect that it will all end with Daihatsu (or one of the other Toyota subsidiaries) developing the small car drive trains instead.
Yep. It is a pity that I cannot post a screenshot of your reply with the "Wireless Amber Alert" ad on top of that. Google ad decisions sometimes are scary...
They are lucky that none of the kids had a mobile phone so none of them called a "well armed daddy" or the police. This "joke" would have ended in tears.
It is not news yet. It will be news when it hits the streets and DDOS will be supplemented by luparas at dawn. The e-organised crime and the real crime appear to be merging more and more so one day this will happen. In fact it may already be happening, but in places where one more or one less dead body does not make anybody notice. After all on the streets of St Petersburg "Zhizn cena kopeika" as it is (and has always been).
That explains the timing of Microsoft Saber rattling. One thing they forget is that it is 50+ times harder to get a patent in Japan compared to a patent in the US and many of those patents do not hold there. Unless they have decided to stop contesting the ATT verdict and turn it to their gross advantage. Hm... If a quick settlement of the ATT case follows it will definitely get curiouser and curiouser...
The other curious point is that some of the usual OSS Japanese suspects are strangely missing. Sony and NTT have many years of history of BSD investment. Both of them do not appear on the list and there are quite a few "foreign devils". Curiouser and curiouser...
Disposable income is actually decreasing in both US and UK. As you have correctly noted, people are buying more and more, but this by borrowing more and more. I do not know the exact US numbers, though I know that they are ahead of the UK on that one. AFAIK, the average unsecured debt per household is now approaching the average salary which is outright scary. All it takes is a percentage point or two of interest rate increase and this house of cards will go tits up.
Case A: you are the culture that still reads the text, can understand a joke, can understand sarcasm, can use and read cultural associations including ones not just in your (or nerd) popular culture, can... What is even worse, you expect that from the people around you. If that is the case - you are an endangered animal in a world of TXT-abuse. You need to be entered in the red book of endangered species, towards the end, near the black pages. Case B: you need a break. Long one to restore your sense of humour.
According to the good slashdot tradition I am not going to RTFA, but I will pitch in my 2c anyway. The observation is correct. If you look at eastern Europeans they use the;-) much more than English or Americans, Brits tend to use the ROFL emoticon more and so on.
The greatest problem in dealing with air recirculation on a space ship or a space station is the weightlessness. No gravity - no convection. From there on hot and cold pockets are free to form around the place and there is no means to deal with them. Same for local humid pockets, same for condensation. The last is the worst. In the presense of gravity the chilled air will flow away from the cold object and be replaced by new air. Same for water. It will drip somewhere. In weightless conditions it will just sit there and provide nice environment for rust and rot. And evolve. In an accelerated manner under the influence of cosmic radiation. The rumour goes that some of the moulds on Mir around the end of its lifetime could eat plastic (or at least the plastifier out of it).
IMO from one point onwards this problem alone can justify any of the classic "spinning wheel" designs. It may end up cheaper building something big enough to spin it compared to dealing with the environmentals in a medium size station (or ship).
Slashdot Mirror
Tell me about it. I used to have a circa 1980 Soviet industrial paint drier operating on this principle (they did not give a flying f*** about American patents at the time). IR gas burner. No visible flame, no open flame in fact. The entire burner was neatly enclosed behind the IR radiating body. With this contraption it took 10-20 minutes to completely dry half a wall painted with emulsion or with fresh wallpaper in 3-5C temperatures (compared to 3-4 hours). The only problem was that it ate most of the oxygen in the room in no time at all so you could not use it to warm the room itself and you had to have all windows opened while using it. Quite a strange experience. The room was freezing cold and the humidity was at solid 100%, but the paint was drying in no time none the less. Me and my dad decorated most of our apartment that way at the time (1984).
I have not tried cooking sausages on it at the time (in a hindsight - I should have).
Either provided that pH is under 5 (quite common) and contain traces of transition metals (Copper and the like). Fanta and other "upmarket" drinks are not likely to be a canditate for this one as it is made with deionised water and the metal content in them is nearly nil. Now "Tesco Value Soda" may be an entirely different matter
That is different, but even scarier.
If you combine peroxides which always exist in trace quantities in mitohondria, ascorbic acid and benzoate in the presense of free (very few are free in a living tissue, most are helated by something) popular metal ions you get benzene which fucks with nearly anything in your body. Mutagen, changes in properties of proteins, etc. One good thing, is that this reaction is outside normal pH range as it is optimal at 2 and decreases to nearly 0 at 5.
Still, the article quotes a number of others that discuss what happens in the 5+ pH range and the list of substances there is similarly obnoxious - phenol, diphenil stuff, etc.
Gawd, do not care about eurocritters, but that by itself is enough to ban the stuff in my house. Funnily enough I loved fanta when I was a kid. It gives you this strange buzz which no other soda can do. Now I see why...
All that it will do will be the spammers to "hire" bodyguards to the more valuable yellers and raise prices. If the have enough gold to offer for sale and enough peons to farm it sparing some resources to develop some "security staff" is not going to even show up on their balance sheets. And there is little your level 50 orc lord can do if he is simultaneously backstabbed by multiple characters of similar level.
You are both totally wrong.
1. UDF compared to ISO9660 is designed as a read-write system. It is one of it major advantages (and the reason why it is worth using it on RW CDROMs instead of ISO9660). You can actually write straight to the disks instead of having to maintain multi-gigabyte buffer space. By the way, your loopback approach does nothing at all regarding the 1G limit. Your ext3fs will be limited to 1G in size because the max file you can write to the disk is 1G. In addition to that as UDF supports ownership and normal unix-like attributes there is very little sense in doing this in the first place (unless you need posix ACLs or extended attributes).
2. The DVD readers especially the combined super-duper-ultra-blah drives have some capabilities to read and understand UDF and ISO9660. You simply cannot burn a non-standard FS on many of them and if you have succeeded in burning it there is a fair chance that it will not read on anything but the same device with the same firmware. This totally defeats the idea of having removable media. Removeable media should be readable at least on the same OS with a same type device (not the same brand, model, firmware revision, patch level and manufacturing date). After all you burn it for two main purposes - backup and moving data. If you cannot move your data freely you have shot yourself in the foot. If you cannot read any of your backups on the computer which has replaced your stolen one - you have shot yourself in the foot twice with a bazooka while looking at the exhaust.
3. That is besides all strange devices on the market that are UDF, while using non-standard media like the iOmega REV (which is not the only one). You cannot format them either and you are stuck with the UDF limitations.
So yeah, fine, while it is very nice to see BR and HDDVDRW disks rapidly go down in price I still get shivers when I have to use them for backing up and moving data. Oh, and by the way, my backup system in my home office operates on DVDRW so I have been through all this a couple of times so far.
Yep. Total BS.
1. C is still the language of embedded systems and OS internals and will be for the foreseable future. 10+ years at least. Whoever wrote that go go shoot himself in the foot with a bazooka while looking at its exhaust.
2. Non-relational DBMs. Embedded DMBMs which you include in your applications are often non-relational. So are many "standalone" persistence frameworks.
In addition to that a combination of good software development skills and RDBMs design and optimisation is quite rare, because most RDMBMs vendors, textbooks and courses do not teach the subject from an application design and development perspective. They look at it purely from data integrity perspective instead and applications are mostly referred within the scope of various pre-baked vendor frameworks. As a result the only people who are good in both RDBMs and modern software design and development are career switchers. These are hard to find, atrociously expensive and tend to disagree with both the software development and database camps which makes them "known troublemakers". This also makes many software developers constantly call for "let's give up on this SQL thing and switch to something simpler or more suitable". As a result many projects started on an SQL backend later switch to non-relational DBMs, persistence frameworks (not all of which are relational), etc.
Whoever wrote that article needs a cluebat. A heavy one.
While you are correct, there are a number of rather annoying limitations.
IIRC BlueRay and HD-DVD still use UDF which has a filesize limit of 1G. While some OS-es (pre-2.6.9 linux is an example) wrote 1G files to them that was in violation of the standard and these are not guaranteed to be interoperable and readable in the future. This is an extremely annoying limitation as far as any use for backup or "my own data" is concerned.
Compared to that a thumb drive or a USB hard drive can be formatted with a filesystem of your choice so this limitation does not exist.
This is verizon which IIRC is not GSM so I do not know what the actual overhead is.
In classic GSM the SMS travels as a part of the paging messages and the amount of bandwidth available to it is actually quite low. So by standard law of supply and demand its price cannot be expected to be very low. Network in classic GSM simply does not have the capacity to handle lots of SMS hence it is not going to become very cheap without resorting to more modern technology.
From some point onwards (forgot which standard level) you can use GPRS for SMS which vastly improves the capacity, but it is not either not enabled or not the default setting in most operators and phones at the moment.
So there is an underlying economical reason for the relatively high price of TXT compared to voice as well as the fact that TXT is charged differently from other data. At least in GSM. No idea about whatever Verizon uses.
You are not far off. This bill is nothing compared to the next one for RSI treatement. And while massage may help for a while it will provide only temporary relief.
None.
And while it is an interesting wreck it is not the "mother of all wrecks" anyway.
I am waiting for the day when someone will find the damn place somewhere off Kadis, where the Spaniards dumped all those thousands of tons of Platinum from the Aztec and Inca empires so that it "does not devalue the value of silver in the old world".
Now that one will turn the world upside down (though it is likely to be 1km+ depth so getting our grubby hands on it will be rather difficult).
I have no opinion on the authenticity of this photogrpah, but it is clearly very very interesting: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/ JFK/postphotos.html
While this notion is quite popular, I know plenty of girls that will actually read the spec or get a boy to do that for them. After all there has to be a reason why most drivers driving GM POS out there are male.
Could not quite see your point here.
My point was zat ze Germans no longer do small car design and ze only "modern" thing zey have produzed the A2 is a horrid proof of concept, not a proper car. You reply by posting:
1. New polo which is a rebranded Skoda with the internal and boot space deliberately reduced. A large portion of the design was done south of the german border so it does not count.
2. Toyota Yaris - Japanese to the hilt. The old one native Toyota, the new one has a lot of Daihatsu bits in it, developed through the development of the Sirion in fact. Unfortunately the best feature of the old Sirion - the 1m less turn circle compared to any other supermini is missing from both the new Sirion and the new Yaris (they share the platform).
3. Opel Corsa - granted, there may be some work done on this one on a german drafting board. But not a lot. And I mentioned it.
4. Nissan Micra - again. What iz ze German here? French - maybe. German - nope.
And none of these is small in the sense of really small - Modus, Aygo, C1, 1007, 107, Cuore and the like. If you put ze only German car (the Corsa) from your list near them it does look like a Panzer parked next to something that is small.
I will repeat my statement. Ze Germanz have decided zat a a proper car should look like a Panzer and do not do any small cars any more. As a result any advances in engine design are wasted on carrying more metal around. And making ze car bigger. Panzer 1,2,3, Tiger 4,5 all over again.
And that is the exact reason why I use a set of studio style headphones (at least 25+db drop). Works miracles as far as concentration in an open office is concerned.
He should have washed the floors like some other phone throwing celebrities did.
SUVs are easy. Now putting a hybrid drivetrain into something the size of the Aigo or the Yaris is a serious challenge. You have a very limited weight and space allowance to get that done.
Actually after a claim like this I am no longer surprised at the fact that Toyota itself has recently failed to develop the engines for this category and is now using the Daihatsu designs for both the new Yaris and the Aigo. Quite funny actually as Daihatsu started their development for these from Toyota engines back in the 90-es (it is part owned by Toyota).
Good luck with that challenge, though I somehow suspect that it will all end with Daihatsu (or one of the other Toyota subsidiaries) developing the small car drive trains instead.
Ducktape is like the force, it envelops, binds and holds the universe together.
Yep. It is a pity that I cannot post a screenshot of your reply with the "Wireless Amber Alert" ad on top of that. Google ad decisions sometimes are scary...
They are lucky that none of the kids had a mobile phone so none of them called a "well armed daddy" or the police. This "joke" would have ended in tears.
Exactly.
It is not news yet. It will be news when it hits the streets and DDOS will be supplemented by luparas at dawn. The e-organised crime and the real crime appear to be merging more and more so one day this will happen. In fact it may already be happening, but in places where one more or one less dead body does not make anybody notice. After all on the streets of St Petersburg "Zhizn cena kopeika" as it is (and has always been).
That explains the timing of Microsoft Saber rattling. One thing they forget is that it is 50+ times harder to get a patent in Japan compared to a patent in the US and many of those patents do not hold there. Unless they have decided to stop contesting the ATT verdict and turn it to their gross advantage. Hm... If a quick settlement of the ATT case follows it will definitely get curiouser and curiouser...
The other curious point is that some of the usual OSS Japanese suspects are strangely missing. Sony and NTT have many years of history of BSD investment. Both of them do not appear on the list and there are quite a few "foreign devils". Curiouser and curiouser...
Disposable income is actually decreasing in both US and UK. As you have correctly noted, people are buying more and more, but this by borrowing more and more. I do not know the exact US numbers, though I know that they are ahead of the UK on that one. AFAIK, the average unsecured debt per household is now approaching the average salary which is outright scary. All it takes is a percentage point or two of interest rate increase and this house of cards will go tits up.
=))
Supported on Yahoo Messenger (native and compatible clients). Very cool animation actually.
Case A: you are the culture that still reads the text, can understand a joke, can understand sarcasm, can use and read cultural associations including ones not just in your (or nerd) popular culture, can... What is even worse, you expect that from the people around you. If that is the case - you are an endangered animal in a world of TXT-abuse. You need to be entered in the red book of endangered species, towards the end, near the black pages.
;-) much more than English or Americans, Brits tend to use the ROFL emoticon more and so on.
;-)
Case B: you need a break. Long one to restore your sense of humour.
According to the good slashdot tradition I am not going to RTFA, but I will pitch in my 2c anyway. The observation is correct. If you look at eastern Europeans they use the
Cheers
The greatest problem in dealing with air recirculation on a space ship or a space station is the weightlessness. No gravity - no convection. From there on hot and cold pockets are free to form around the place and there is no means to deal with them. Same for local humid pockets, same for condensation. The last is the worst. In the presense of gravity the chilled air will flow away from the cold object and be replaced by new air. Same for water. It will drip somewhere. In weightless conditions it will just sit there and provide nice environment for rust and rot. And evolve. In an accelerated manner under the influence of cosmic radiation. The rumour goes that some of the moulds on Mir around the end of its lifetime could eat plastic (or at least the plastifier out of it).
IMO from one point onwards this problem alone can justify any of the classic "spinning wheel" designs. It may end up cheaper building something big enough to spin it compared to dealing with the environmentals in a medium size station (or ship).