If I need a drink of water, and that is the best that can be done. Yes. This is the same stuff that water treatment plants do for treating tap water. The EPA sets the acceptible levels of toxic chemicals in the water and the treatment plants do their best to keep their toxic concentrations below the maximums. You will find toxic chemicals in all sources of water: city water, well water, even most bottled water (albeit, typically at smaller amounts than the former two).
So yes, I drink low concentrations of toxic stuff every day.
Yes sodium and chlorine ions make up table salt, and hydrogen and oxygen ions make up water; but sodium metal and chlorine, oxygen, and hydrogen gases do not have the same properties as their ions do. Being ionic means they behave differently.
Even when Beryllium (non-ionic) is in an alloy, it still has many of the same properties as pure Beryllium metal(also non-ionic). Hence, it still maybe toxic. However, the concentration of Berryllium in the alloy is probably so small that its toxicity will likely be negligible.
This last part brings up a peave of mine: resent anti-smoking commercials in the USA. I am talking about all the ones where some guy is talking about all these chemicals in cigarettes are highly toxic--when highly concentrated. Most of these chemicals, when found in the concentration that are in cigarettes are not toxic! Although I support there purpose, I hate the misinformation they are using to do it.
Being a PC system integrator, I regualarly ship computers using UPS out of New England, and have yet to have any problem with any of the shipments.
Assembled computers should have a MINIMUM of 2 inches (~5 cm) of styrofoam padding (told to me by UPS). The original box for empty cases/enclosures typically only have 1 to 1.5 inches of styrofoam depending on the weight of the case. This is sufficient for shipping an empty case, but since assembled computers can weigh double that of the case itself, the original packaging is not sufficient for shipping that.
In the conclusion of Ars Technica's review of the Duron, Loki cites a couple of articles reporting that SMP support will come out for the Durons later this year:
On the SMP tip, the Duron according to this news post at 2cpu.com will support SMP. This shouldn't come as a big surprise since it's built on the Athlon core. The SMP-ability would have to be specifically disabled, which is likely more trouble than it's worth. Later this year, AMD will be releasing the AMD 760MP chipset which will have ATA100, DDR SDRAM support, and SMP support. I'd love to see a board that I could start on dual Durons and kick up to dual Thunderbirds later on.
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If I need a drink of water, and that is the best that can be done. Yes. This is the same stuff that water treatment plants do for treating tap water. The EPA sets the acceptible levels of toxic chemicals in the water and the treatment plants do their best to keep their toxic concentrations below the maximums. You will find toxic chemicals in all sources of water: city water, well water, even most bottled water (albeit, typically at smaller amounts than the former two).
So yes, I drink low concentrations of toxic stuff every day.
Yes sodium and chlorine ions make up table salt, and hydrogen and oxygen ions make up water; but sodium metal and chlorine, oxygen, and hydrogen gases do not have the same properties as their ions do. Being ionic means they behave differently.
Even when Beryllium (non-ionic) is in an alloy, it still has many of the same properties as pure Beryllium metal(also non-ionic). Hence, it still maybe toxic. However, the concentration of Berryllium in the alloy is probably so small that its toxicity will likely be negligible.
This last part brings up a peave of mine: resent anti-smoking commercials in the USA. I am talking about all the ones where some guy is talking about all these chemicals in cigarettes are highly toxic--when highly concentrated. Most of these chemicals, when found in the concentration that are in cigarettes are not toxic! Although I support there purpose, I hate the misinformation they are using to do it.
Being a PC system integrator, I regualarly ship computers using UPS out of New England, and have yet to have any problem with any of the shipments.
Assembled computers should have a MINIMUM of 2 inches (~5 cm) of styrofoam padding (told to me by UPS). The original box for empty cases/enclosures typically only have 1 to 1.5 inches of styrofoam depending on the weight of the case. This is sufficient for shipping an empty case, but since assembled computers can weigh double that of the case itself, the original packaging is not sufficient for shipping that.
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