'Engines don't use refrigeration. They use radiators, an age-old cooling/heating technology...'
Actually, within the radiators is a mystical/magical green (and rather tasty, or so I'm told) liquid commonly referred to as coolant, which is, by name and definition, a refrigerant.;) So yes, modern automobiles, at least those properly maintained, do make use of the wonders of refrigeration/refrigeration technologies.
I think the truly important aspect is not solely air conditioning, but coolant systems as a whole - from personal a/c to produce refrigeration, cooling systems on engines to cooling systems in computers.
Without adequate refrigeration technologies, many of the things we take for granted would not exist, or they function in a much less dimuted fashion. With air conditioning, man can populate areas previously thought too inhospitable (at least by Western standards.) The engine would be choking on its own heat and fumes. We can transport perishable goods across thousands of miles, feeding those who may not have access to such goods. Processors could not only not be cooled - they couldn't be created. And, perhaps most importantly, our beverage of choice comes to us in a frosty mug, or brimming with ice on a hot summer day.
Refrigeration: It's not just for the kitchen anymore.
Arizona has students who will not stand for shoddy connections.
I am a product of the Arizona University system (don't laugh, cry for me instead.) While it's nice that our governor wants to make headlines for herself, her ideas will never pass in this state. Arizona and Arizona State Universities pride themselves to much on being two of the few wells of liberalism in a rather conservative state. Denying students the right to fraternize within a dorm with the opposite sex would cut new (and current) enrollment drastically. As far as scaling back internet access, they would find themselves under less, but perhaps more effective, resistance. In a state that wishes to become a new mecca for tech-savvy employers to relocate, hindering the development of their potential work force would be debilitating. Granted, a majority of useage of the 'net might go towards wasteful projects (ordering pizza, porn, mp3s), enough of it is done in worthwhile pursuit that our governor should seriously reconsider her intentions. When the economy refuses to live up to the high expectation set for it within the state, the people would have no one to blame but their chief elected official.
There's an unwritten law that many seem to be overlooking here, overconfident as they are that Unix is beyond anything passed user-level desecration.
God, or his swarthy minions, will create a better breed of virus to accomplish what, perhaps right now, seems impossible or at least unlikely. Computers are no less susceptible to disease than their progenitors, Man, and just as we smite an infectious contagion, another, more virulent strand appears to take its place. Such will be the same in the world of technology, and while the term 'virus' or 'worm' or 'microsoft'may be misleading as to the exact nature of the affliction, something will find its way to creation. Because Man cannot allow itself to be bettered by its own creation.
40 years from now, when the court record are unsealed and all the information has been gleaned from such events as Roswell and the Great Scorning of 2004, people will begin asking for the records from the DeCSS trial. Included in the several-thousand page manuscript will be a lot of blacked out markings, deemed 'sensative' material and thereby concealed. This is our grand machine at work. Apparently no one thinks ahead anymore.
That was indeed a glorious quote. Caught my eye as soon as I read it.
As far as the indie gaming scene, I think the closest equivelent we have nowadays is the ability for players to design scenarios (Civ, AoE, etc...) or build levels (Quake, etc...) Very few unique products come out for a variety of reasons, and as you mentioned, the good ones get snatched up quickly.
Some games of late have been horrific, despite repeated delays. As the author of the original piece notes, programmers are rushed to make it by Christmas, or the next Electronics Expo. That in mind, I -really- hope Blizzard continues to impress us, since Diablo 2 was just pushed back again. At least according to our psychic friends at pvponline.
I must have supplemented 'a very good' for 'any'. (;
Either way, my point still stands - the laws are in place to protect our rights. Maybe this judge will suffer a crisis of conscience, or an awakening. We can always hope.
It's important to remember something about America and our Judicial system:
In America you can sue for almost anything. That doesn't mean you'll always win.
Since the judge acknowledges that he doesn't forsee a victory for the plaintiff, that should be a good indication that the system won't fail us in this case. Granted, our courts have their fair share of problems, but I still have faith in them. This temporary injunction is simply a necessity to appease (and protect) the plaintif's rights while the case is being decided. Were the outcome to actually find against the defendants, then the damage done to plaintif in the interim (between now and whenever this is resolved) could have been irreparable. Since the system doesn't usually allow to take such precise matters on a case by case basis, injunctions such as this are a godsend to those who have a real case being brought before the court.
Glorious gravy, the web has has breached 1,000,000,000 indexable pages. And just like radio, network television, cable and satellite before it, the new gag is:
A billion pages of information, and nothing's on.
Now, if real life exemplified the web, we'd know that 85% of the earth's population speaks English and, as can be expected, the IRS's domain name proves to be a lesson in redundancy and triplicate.
What I'd like to see next is a listing of apprenticeships to mold future ufies in the right direction. Unix seems to be a difficult platform to be taught without A) Knowing someone who has the patience, time and desire to help you out or B) Paying big bucks to a school.
Granted, anyone can get a copy of an O/S, but it may be just as alien to most people as DOS was to our mothers so long ago.
One question, with the multitude of experiments all trying to accomplish the same basic task: How far away are we from a reliable method of creating fusion, be it in a collider or other means?
Wonderful. This little ditty expresses the frustration far too many of us share with the media, the public and under-informed, easily mislead employers. Power-tripping would also fit. Here I was, hoping that some great catastrophe would befall the Earth as the clock chimed midnight on 01-01-00.
After all the sensational coverage, all the wasted hours of dumbing down the public, all of the nonesense that lead up to what turned out to be the most anticipated nothingness of our time, I was at least hoping to see my refrigerator light blink out. But no, nothing happened. The power grid remained intact, as we knew it would. Computers didn't fry, as the precious few learned predicted. The hand of God didn't come down to smite the human race for 1999 years of failure. Nothing.
That's not entirely true, of course. I did notice a few changes that the new year brought: - The media now has plenty of time to fill, so we get to bare witness to such wonderful examples of reporting as 'Fluffy the cat rescued from tree' and 'The evils of Jerry Springer' - The governments of the world, careful not to downplay the severity of the Y2K bug, may now reap the millions of tax dollars gained from sales of products and services to safeguard against the problem - Macintosh can once again go into obscurity, since no one cares that it was Y2K compliant from the get-go.
Funny how if you yell 'Fire!' in a crowded theater, that's a problem, but you can disrupt the lives of countless techies across the world all the while eating your cold ham and swedish meatballs without nary a care in the world.
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'Engines don't use refrigeration. They use radiators, an age-old cooling/heating technology...'
;) So yes, modern automobiles, at least those properly maintained, do make use of the wonders of refrigeration/refrigeration technologies.
Actually, within the radiators is a mystical/magical green (and rather tasty, or so I'm told) liquid commonly referred to as coolant, which is, by name and definition, a refrigerant.
I think the truly important aspect is not solely air conditioning, but coolant systems as a whole - from personal a/c to produce refrigeration, cooling systems on engines to cooling systems in computers.
Without adequate refrigeration technologies, many of the things we take for granted would not exist, or they function in a much less dimuted fashion. With air conditioning, man can populate areas previously thought too inhospitable (at least by Western standards.) The engine would be choking on its own heat and fumes. We can transport perishable goods across thousands of miles, feeding those who may not have access to such goods. Processors could not only not be cooled - they couldn't be created. And, perhaps most importantly, our beverage of choice comes to us in a frosty mug, or brimming with ice on a hot summer day.
Refrigeration: It's not just for the kitchen anymore.
In Haiku:
Arizona has
students who will not stand for
shoddy connections.
I am a product of the Arizona University system (don't laugh, cry for me instead.) While it's nice that our governor wants to make headlines for herself, her ideas will never pass in this state. Arizona and Arizona State Universities pride themselves to much on being two of the few wells of liberalism in a rather conservative state. Denying students the right to fraternize within a dorm with the opposite sex would cut new (and current) enrollment drastically. As far as scaling back internet access, they would find themselves under less, but perhaps more effective, resistance. In a state that wishes to become a new mecca for tech-savvy employers to relocate, hindering the development of their potential work force would be debilitating. Granted, a majority of useage of the 'net might go towards wasteful projects (ordering pizza, porn, mp3s), enough of it is done in worthwhile pursuit that our governor should seriously reconsider her intentions. When the economy refuses to live up to the high expectation set for it within the state, the people would have no one to blame but their chief elected official.
There's an unwritten law that many seem to be overlooking here, overconfident as they are that Unix is beyond anything passed user-level desecration.
God, or his swarthy minions, will create a better breed of virus to accomplish what, perhaps right now, seems impossible or at least unlikely. Computers are no less susceptible to disease than their progenitors, Man, and just as we smite an infectious contagion, another, more virulent strand appears to take its place. Such will be the same in the world of technology, and while the term 'virus' or 'worm' or 'microsoft'may be misleading as to the exact nature of the affliction, something will find its way to creation. Because Man cannot allow itself to be bettered by its own creation.
40 years from now, when the court record are unsealed and all the information has been gleaned from such events as Roswell and the Great Scorning of 2004, people will begin asking for the records from the DeCSS trial. Included in the several-thousand page manuscript will be a lot of blacked out markings, deemed 'sensative' material and thereby concealed. This is our grand machine at work. Apparently no one thinks ahead anymore.
That was indeed a glorious quote. Caught my eye as soon as I read it.
As far as the indie gaming scene, I think the closest equivelent we have nowadays is the ability for players to design scenarios (Civ, AoE, etc...) or build levels (Quake, etc...) Very few unique products come out for a variety of reasons, and as you mentioned, the good ones get snatched up quickly.
Some games of late have been horrific, despite repeated delays. As the author of the original piece notes, programmers are rushed to make it by Christmas, or the next Electronics Expo. That in mind, I -really- hope Blizzard continues to impress us, since Diablo 2 was just pushed back again. At least according to our psychic friends at pvponline.
I must have supplemented 'a very good' for 'any'. (;
Either way, my point still stands - the laws are in place to protect our rights. Maybe this judge will suffer a crisis of conscience, or an awakening. We can always hope.
It's important to remember something about America and our Judicial system:
In America you can sue for almost anything. That doesn't mean you'll always win.
Since the judge acknowledges that he doesn't forsee a victory for the plaintiff, that should be a good indication that the system won't fail us in this case. Granted, our courts have their fair share of problems, but I still have faith in them. This temporary injunction is simply a necessity to appease (and protect) the plaintif's rights while the case is being decided. Were the outcome to actually find against the defendants, then the damage done to plaintif in the interim (between now and whenever this is resolved) could have been irreparable. Since the system doesn't usually allow to take such precise matters on a case by case basis, injunctions such as this are a godsend to those who have a real case being brought before the court.
Glorious gravy, the web has has breached 1,000,000,000 indexable pages. And just like radio, network television, cable and satellite before it, the new gag is:
A billion pages of information, and nothing's on.
Now, if real life exemplified the web, we'd know that 85% of the earth's population speaks English and, as can be expected, the IRS's domain name proves to be a lesson in redundancy and triplicate.
What I'd like to see next is a listing of apprenticeships to mold future ufies in the right direction. Unix seems to be a difficult platform to be taught without
A) Knowing someone who has the patience, time and desire to help you out or
B) Paying big bucks to a school.
Granted, anyone can get a copy of an O/S, but it may be just as alien to most people as DOS was to our mothers so long ago.
Cracked Code wins challenge
Winner did use Solaris
and I think, 'So what?'
Still in Haiku
;)
How do you say it?
We-elth? Smi-ell? It's one each.
Pronounced 'welth' and 'smile'.
*grr-in*
Big brains, lots of smiles
Gifted man shares his knowledge
So we can share wealth
In haiku:
Now Bill Gates resigned
so he can CEO for
Babe-Bills tomorrow
Technically I
abused the Western form of
Haiku for this post.
Real Haiku would have
to do with nature and stuff,
and be one small verse.
Western usage is,
simply put, Five-Seven-Five
in structure you see.
To wrap it up now:
'Can't we all just get along?'
There, that feels so good.
*grin*
In haiku:
It's about time that
Xerox gets paid for their work
See, they will settle
Surely they ask not
much considering that they
designed the language
Information wants
to be free; but people want
their cake, eat it too.
One question, with the multitude of experiments all trying to accomplish the same basic task: How far away are we from a reliable method of creating fusion, be it in a collider or other means?
To quote the illustrious Fox again:
"What I have seen here has only tested my patience, not my faith."
After all the sensational coverage, all the wasted hours of dumbing down the public, all of the nonesense that lead up to what turned out to be the most anticipated nothingness of our time, I was at least hoping to see my refrigerator light blink out. But no, nothing happened. The power grid remained intact, as we knew it would. Computers didn't fry, as the precious few learned predicted. The hand of God didn't come down to smite the human race for 1999 years of failure. Nothing.
That's not entirely true, of course. I did notice a few changes that the new year brought:- The media now has plenty of time to fill, so we get to bare witness to such wonderful examples of reporting as 'Fluffy the cat rescued from tree' and 'The evils of Jerry Springer'
- The governments of the world, careful not to downplay the severity of the Y2K bug, may now reap the millions of tax dollars gained from sales of products and services to safeguard against the problem
- Macintosh can once again go into obscurity, since no one cares that it was Y2K compliant from the get-go.
Funny how if you yell 'Fire!' in a crowded theater, that's a problem, but you can disrupt the lives of countless techies across the world all the while eating your cold ham and swedish meatballs without nary a care in the world.