And what about other accidental scenarios? Recently someone started sending CP spam (contained links, fortunately no images) to members a widely-used linux-centric mailing list. Granted, they were banned as soon as the mods found out, but now does everyone who got those e-mails get arrested and get jail time?
This is why I refill my cartridges... Saves me a HUGE amount of money- one full refill and I can buy a new printer with the amount I saved versus if I had bought OEM carts. (CLI-8s)
Granted, you have to know what you're doing, and there is some time involved, so it's not for the faint of heart, but always an option for most printers.
My first CFL which cost about $25 when I first got it (1990s) is also still working. It's the *current* CFLs that are being cheaply made($3 or less) which often die less than a year after purchase, or else provide POS dim lighting..
Funny.. We have the exact same experience. We have several older CFLs which had replaceable tubes (so you can re-use the ballast until it dies.)
We've only ever had to replace the tube once, and that was because somebody accidentally hit it with something and made a hole in it.
Apart from that, all of the newer CFLs we have die VERY quickly. We live in a rural area, so power isn't exactly of great quality, but the newer CFLs are remarkably intolerant of anything, while the older ones were much more stable.
Yes, the older one has a few seconds of warm-up (as in blink-blink-pause-on) but it doesn't seem to need to warm up to produce more light- all of our newer CFLs require time to reach full light output. I guess it's a trade-off to have instant-on or full-light.
That said, we're going to hold out until LED lights come down in price, and stick with incandescent until then- they're far cheaper and last longer. (what's more, there's no mercury in them, so no special recycling necessary!)
You do have a good point- So I stand corrected.
(Note: 90 C = 194F... which is WAY above the 140F limit you specify... so I'd probably say anywhere from 70-80 is reasonable, depending on where you get your morning boost, and what time it was brewed. That's also basically a few seconds of "ow... hothothot!!" if you spill, without any majorly severe burns)
Thank you.:)
And just how do they manage that without scalding themselves? Water has a high heat capacity, of 4.19 kJ/kg... or J/g. which means if you take a 10ml sip of coffee, you're dealing with ~41.9 joules of heat (per degree above body temperature) that you need to dissipate. If body temperature is assumed to be 37, then that leaves 53*41.9, or 2.22 kilojoules of heat you need to dissipate in the relatively small surface area of contact. That's gonna hurt, if not scald, so I highly doubt that's true.
Either way, it's a ridiculous amount of money for one person to ask for, but I agree that the penalty should be large enough to make the company (almost) crap themselves. IMHO, the person should get a percentage (up to a max of 2 million), and the rest goes to various charities of their choice, where it will do far more good than in one person's pocket.
...and sued McDonalds because they didnt warn *coffee* was *hot*)
Everyone misunderstands this. I have a friend in Law school. They analysed this case in class, and it turns out that this is generally misunderstood. The coffee was EXCEPTIONALLY hot, not just hot. McDonalds was keeping the coffee on the burner at a higher temperature so they would have to make new batches less often. This temperature was above what is generally used, and necessary. Hence, the coffee was hotter than it needed to be, and the burns were far more severe than if it had been at the normal temperature (I think this is generally somewhere around 50C).
"Customers always find an approach which pays us less money."
You will always lose a small percentage of sales to piracy, no matter what your software is.
However, somebody needs to realize that if
a) people pirate your software more than average, or
b) people are looking to use loopholes to pay less, or
c) people switch to other software,
then any (or in this case, all) of the following are true:
1) your software is bloated crap, and you need to fire designers/coders
2) it's not worth the amount you're asking, and you need to fire marketing
3) There are too many bloody versions for joe schmoe to keep track of, (and marketing should still get the shaft)
4) your competitors have a cheaper and/or better product (in which case you do like MS and spread fud about the competition)
5) you need to develop a modern business model other than a price-gouging ~85% monopoly.(which involves the painful process of removing your head from your ass)
'Nuff said.
There's too much to check for anyway....There isn't evough time to walk around to every students desk before the exam and check for the existence of programs anyway. There was 200 students in my Year 1 calculus course in university. They mostly showed up 10 minutes before the exam started. There was no time to verify that they don't have any programs on the TI.
Which is basically why my profs just hit 'clear all' themselves and move on to their next student/victim
Turns out when they demoed them on some people, it was misadjusted, and a few of the "protesters" got actual burns... blisters, peeling etc.
That, and I've heard stories about the RADAR dishes on military ships- It's said they can cook a turkey at 20 paces. (or a beancounter through 2 floors, if you're the BOFH).
Err... we have human-sized microwaves... or at least the US army does.
See here
What's more, the microwave switches off for its own safety as well- The principle behind it relies on the standing constructive/destructive waves inside the microwave cage to heat the food. If you open the door, no more interference (all waves bounce out) and it just wastes energy, possibly burning out the microwave element as well.
This REALLY pisses me off.
Eastlink is making a decent effort to provide EVERYONE in rural Nova Scotia with access to broadband internet. We've (myself included) had to live with DIAL-UP, with no other affordable option.
Just because of one fuckwit, a bunch of people have to go without access to something that has become almost essential in this age.
I sincerely hope that eastling either tells this guy "STFU" and builds the tower, or that anyone who has to suffer for it forces this guy to use dial-up 24-7 for a week... on flash heavy websites. See how fast he changes his mind then.
Not just that- How did you upgrade that took so long? If you downloaded packages from the internet as part of the update, then the 8 hours is null and void. It's only a fair comparison if you were installing ALL upgrade packages from local media.
That said, I've done SuSE upgrades over the internet in less than an hour with all settings/software/documents retained. (zypper dup)
IMHO, it's better to do a clean install when changing versions with Windows... many a time I've seen settings not transfer correctly and cause hell when it comes time to sort out. I've seen it happen on my SuSE box too, but there I don't need to edit the registry etc.... just turf the config directory of the offending app.
Just off the record- it works fine on my nvidia card, w/ proprietary drivers.
The interesting thing is that I do get the impression it lags more than my Intel 945 laptop, but that may be because I have a giant 3360x1050 desktop, whereas my laptop is only 1280x800 Frankly, with my measly 8600GT, I wouldn't expect too much performance running a 3d FPS at that resolution.
That said, yes, earlier releases were buggy with nvidia drivers, and I've had my fair share of quirks. But, I've followed the development stream, and am somewhere midway between 4.2 and 4.3 (I'd rather not update all my KDE packages over dial-up!!), and it runs beautifully.
I realize that 100% is not practical.. but imagine 20% penetration... with a game price of $25 and an estimated 3 million users (gross underestimate, considering all distros available)
is still $15 million... which is a hefty chunk of change.
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And what about other accidental scenarios? Recently someone started sending CP spam (contained links, fortunately no images) to members a widely-used linux-centric mailing list. Granted, they were banned as soon as the mods found out, but now does everyone who got those e-mails get arrested and get jail time?
This is why I refill my cartridges... Saves me a HUGE amount of money- one full refill and I can buy a new printer with the amount I saved versus if I had bought OEM carts. (CLI-8s) Granted, you have to know what you're doing, and there is some time involved, so it's not for the faint of heart, but always an option for most printers.
What? Speak up, Boy!
An elaborate April Fools day joke that was leaked several months too early?
Check the Wine AppDB: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=6824
Let me explain:
a) That's "The Fine Article", you insensitive clod!
b) You must be new here.
c) In light of b) Articles=bad. Summaries=good.
No it cant. I definitely typed (mu)Torrent when submitting. I just typed another here: -->-- Slashdot UTF=broken, but we knew that already.
How much do you want to bet ISPs will suddenly have numerous other non-bandwith reasons to justify traffic shaping practices? :-)
My first CFL which cost about $25 when I first got it (1990s) is also still working. It's the *current* CFLs that are being cheaply made($3 or less) which often die less than a year after purchase, or else provide POS dim lighting. .
Funny.. We have the exact same experience. We have several older CFLs which had replaceable tubes (so you can re-use the ballast until it dies.) We've only ever had to replace the tube once, and that was because somebody accidentally hit it with something and made a hole in it.
Apart from that, all of the newer CFLs we have die VERY quickly. We live in a rural area, so power isn't exactly of great quality, but the newer CFLs are remarkably intolerant of anything, while the older ones were much more stable.
Yes, the older one has a few seconds of warm-up (as in blink-blink-pause-on) but it doesn't seem to need to warm up to produce more light- all of our newer CFLs require time to reach full light output. I guess it's a trade-off to have instant-on or full-light.
That said, we're going to hold out until LED lights come down in price, and stick with incandescent until then- they're far cheaper and last longer. (what's more, there's no mercury in them, so no special recycling necessary!)
You do have a good point- So I stand corrected. (Note: 90 C = 194F... which is WAY above the 140F limit you specify... so I'd probably say anywhere from 70-80 is reasonable, depending on where you get your morning boost, and what time it was brewed. That's also basically a few seconds of "ow... hothothot!!" if you spill, without any majorly severe burns) Thank you. :)
And just how do they manage that without scalding themselves? Water has a high heat capacity, of 4.19 kJ/kg... or J/g. which means if you take a 10ml sip of coffee, you're dealing with ~41.9 joules of heat (per degree above body temperature) that you need to dissipate. If body temperature is assumed to be 37, then that leaves 53*41.9, or 2.22 kilojoules of heat you need to dissipate in the relatively small surface area of contact. That's gonna hurt, if not scald, so I highly doubt that's true.
Either way, it's a ridiculous amount of money for one person to ask for, but I agree that the penalty should be large enough to make the company (almost) crap themselves. IMHO, the person should get a percentage (up to a max of 2 million), and the rest goes to various charities of their choice, where it will do far more good than in one person's pocket.
...and sued McDonalds because they didnt warn *coffee* was *hot*)
Everyone misunderstands this. I have a friend in Law school. They analysed this case in class, and it turns out that this is generally misunderstood. The coffee was EXCEPTIONALLY hot, not just hot. McDonalds was keeping the coffee on the burner at a higher temperature so they would have to make new batches less often. This temperature was above what is generally used, and necessary. Hence, the coffee was hotter than it needed to be, and the burns were far more severe than if it had been at the normal temperature (I think this is generally somewhere around 50C).
Well, we can't say they didn't have enough time to at least try doing something about it...
"Customers always find an approach which pays us less money."
You will always lose a small percentage of sales to piracy, no matter what your software is. However, somebody needs to realize that if
a) people pirate your software more than average, or
b) people are looking to use loopholes to pay less, or
c) people switch to other software,
then any (or in this case, all) of the following are true:
1) your software is bloated crap, and you need to fire designers/coders
2) it's not worth the amount you're asking, and you need to fire marketing
3) There are too many bloody versions for joe schmoe to keep track of, (and marketing should still get the shaft)
4) your competitors have a cheaper and/or better product (in which case you do like MS and spread fud about the competition)
5) you need to develop a modern business model other than a price-gouging ~85% monopoly.(which involves the painful process of removing your head from your ass)
'Nuff said.
Later, they just got smart and decided "no programmable calculators... so now we have just a basic one with no memory for any alphanumeric data.
There's too much to check for anyway. ...There isn't evough time to walk around to every students desk before the exam and check for the existence of programs anyway. There was 200 students in my Year 1 calculus course in university. They mostly showed up 10 minutes before the exam started. There was no time to verify that they don't have any programs on the TI.
Which is basically why my profs just hit 'clear all' themselves and move on to their next student/victim
Try to start your own, a la TPB?
Turns out when they demoed them on some people, it was misadjusted, and a few of the "protesters" got actual burns... blisters, peeling etc.
That, and I've heard stories about the RADAR dishes on military ships- It's said they can cook a turkey at 20 paces. (or a beancounter through 2 floors, if you're the BOFH).
Err... we have human-sized microwaves... or at least the US army does.
See here
What's more, the microwave switches off for its own safety as well- The principle behind it relies on the standing constructive/destructive waves inside the microwave cage to heat the food. If you open the door, no more interference (all waves bounce out) and it just wastes energy, possibly burning out the microwave element as well.
This REALLY pisses me off. Eastlink is making a decent effort to provide EVERYONE in rural Nova Scotia with access to broadband internet. We've (myself included) had to live with DIAL-UP, with no other affordable option.
Just because of one fuckwit, a bunch of people have to go without access to something that has become almost essential in this age. I sincerely hope that eastling either tells this guy "STFU" and builds the tower, or that anyone who has to suffer for it forces this guy to use dial-up 24-7 for a week... on flash heavy websites. See how fast he changes his mind then.
Not just that- How did you upgrade that took so long? If you downloaded packages from the internet as part of the update, then the 8 hours is null and void. It's only a fair comparison if you were installing ALL upgrade packages from local media. That said, I've done SuSE upgrades over the internet in less than an hour with all settings/software/documents retained. (zypper dup) IMHO, it's better to do a clean install when changing versions with Windows... many a time I've seen settings not transfer correctly and cause hell when it comes time to sort out. I've seen it happen on my SuSE box too, but there I don't need to edit the registry etc.... just turf the config directory of the offending app.
Just off the record- it works fine on my nvidia card, w/ proprietary drivers. The interesting thing is that I do get the impression it lags more than my Intel 945 laptop, but that may be because I have a giant 3360x1050 desktop, whereas my laptop is only 1280x800 Frankly, with my measly 8600GT, I wouldn't expect too much performance running a 3d FPS at that resolution.
That said, yes, earlier releases were buggy with nvidia drivers, and I've had my fair share of quirks. But, I've followed the development stream, and am somewhere midway between 4.2 and 4.3 (I'd rather not update all my KDE packages over dial-up!!), and it runs beautifully.
I realize that 100% is not practical.. but imagine 20% penetration... with a game price of $25 and an estimated 3 million users (gross underestimate, considering all distros available) is still $15 million... which is a hefty chunk of change.
terabytes of bandwidth, that is :)