I don't agree with you. I am the customer. The TV company makes its money from the advertiser, but the advertisor gets his money from me. If I do not watch the program being supported by his money, he loses. However, neither the TV Station nor the advertisor care about the quality I watch as long is I watch (and buy)so you are right about that. They onlycare about money. If you and I only watch shows presented in high quality, the advertising for poor quality stops, the advertising money stops coming, and the station either goes out of business or starts producing better quality.
And since I (and you) will only watch programs presented in good to high quality, that makes me be the ultimate customer, both of the TV Station and the Advertisor.
How long do you want it to last before it is replaced as obsolete technology?
I just purchased a new TV after using my Mitsubishi for 18 years. The problem had nothing to do with the CRT. The focusing electronics were deteriorating, but still good enough to watch. It had all the features available on most TVs today, including an amp for driving remote speakers. It cost me $400 then and the replacement CRT unit with the same features still costs $400.
This is not rocket science. Pillows and soft objects muffle sound, so expect the same from soft stemmed and soft leaved plants. Stiff plant stems will be able to transmit the sound to the beginning of the leaves and petals, but still the volume will be low. My opinion, for what it's worth, (and I did get an A+ on my college research paper, "The Physics of Sound") is that most of the sound is from the pot itself, and without the flower pot, you have essentially no volume.
How do the plants like it? Considering that plants live in windy conditions that cause the stems to pull on the roots constantly, I would expect that moderate shaking will be beneficial. If the root hairs are severed by large vibrations, I would expect the plant to not do well. Too much water or too little water will have a more castastrophic effect.
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I am modifying my Wall Street Journal with a camera to see the person on the other side of the table and present the picture on a PDA beside me. That way I don't miss any of the breakfast table action.
I'm modifying my coffee cup to signal my wife (if I ever get one) that it is nearly empty.
["one has to wonder whether airing such a controvercial movie on the eve of an election helps or hurts the political process by influencing the vote with last-minute emotions rather than thoroughly contemplation."]
I would guess that more than 90 percent of people make up their mind based on emotions. (Vietnam, National Guard, IRAQ war, terrorism, Taxes on the rich, Your money belongs to you, Healthcare for the Elderly, Lowcost drugs) They are all presented in a way that appeals to emotions and little reason and never any quoted sources for the information that is presented.
As a product safety engineer, one of my jobs was working with UL/CSA/VDE/CE and the ISO-1950 worldwide requirement. Most likely, this recall is a result of not meeting that ISO-1950 or other product safety requirement.
If you don't meet the requirement and someone gets hurt, the company is liable, and in some countries, (Germany I believe- at one time) a visiting manager is considered responsible and can be jailed until the issue is resolved. (Gets your attention if you are a manager.)
Lexmark can put a new printer on the market without passing these tests, but if there is an accident they can be sued for everything they have. A small change in manufacturing process or a part change for cost reduction can result in an unanticipated failure and be the reason for a large recall. Most likely there will never be a problem, but companies cannot afford to take chances. Also, if they have applied the safety logo (UL/CE etc.), they are responsible for keeping the product safe, i.e., meeting the safety requirements.
At my old company we said, "If the product was not tested, lawsuits could run us out of business. If we pass tests and someone does something stupid and gets hurt, then the courts will not award the person more than $100,000.
Good idea! I might look into that. Seems like a good alternative to old tapes that squeal. I still wonder why the cassette players cannot work with tapes that bind slightly. I would never run out of tapes.
Sounds like a good idea,but the minidisk does not seem to be a very hot item. I have never seen one for sale in singles or in packs of 5 to 50. I also have never seen a minidisk recorder advertised.
This is both on and off topic, but you might be interested. I work at a university where most of the high priced instrumentation included Floppy Drives. In about 20 years these will become obsolete. They can't be upgraded to CD or USB. As floppys become obsolete, public institutions will need special computers that can transfer from floppy to cd or usb stick.
Another problem is that most of the university lab computers are old and do not have USB. Some boot from CD, some do not. With education budgets so slim, upgrading is much more expensive than adding a floppy drive. And it means you can always boot to DOS.----
I still use 3 1/2 inch floppys about once a week. (I finally am in the process of transfering programs from 5 1/4 floppys to CD. What do you do with about 300 5 1/4 inch floppys? - Ebay?)
I read that some people report problems with reading floppys on different machines. Floppys are factory adjusted to position the head in the middle of the track. Some do not do a very good job.
Interestingly enough, most of the grad students I work with, use Zip drives.
A few weeks ago I had to record a wedding ceremony. I went to Walmart and found only RCA and TDK audio tapes in packages of 5 or 6. I have not noticed portable CD recorders to replace the audio recorders. Am I missing something?
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I already use blinkx, beta, from http://www.blinkx.com/, to automatically search my files along with internet keywords. It doesn't have the search by date or extension and is not configurable to my liking, but it seems to do a good job of finding things I have misplaced. Integrated with the author's system, this could make a great search system.
Normally I file things in a hierarchial method by year and month and by project name (2004file/9sep/) or (2004file/workfile/projectname), but still I lose track now and then and need keywords. Change the "slash" slant to fit your OS.
Well, when I read that I wondered "What does that have to do with anything?" as I thought "About 45 seconds with a little gasoline and a match."---- "But then how do you retrieve the data from the smoke?" "Beam me up Scotty!"
Back in the late 1940's or early 1950's, a magazine, either "Popular Mechanics" or "Popular Science" had an article about flying cars. The car was powered by a central jet engine, and one concept was to have the main "car" part be a separate assembly that could be detached from the aircraft wings and fuselage. The other concept envisioned folding wings that either became part of the car body or were concealed somehow.
Now, some 60 years later, we have still not solved the problems of transportation using autos as the basis for a flying vehicle or using the airplane as a basis for a car.
(No, I'm not that old, but an older brother did subscribe to them for years.)
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I don't agree with you. I am the customer. The TV company makes its money from the advertiser, but the advertisor gets his money from me. If I do not watch the program being supported by his money, he loses. However, neither the TV Station nor the advertisor care about the quality I watch as long is I watch (and buy)so you are right about that. They onlycare about money. If you and I only watch shows presented in high quality, the advertising for poor quality stops, the advertising money stops coming, and the station either goes out of business or starts producing better quality. And since I (and you) will only watch programs presented in good to high quality, that makes me be the ultimate customer, both of the TV Station and the Advertisor.
I just purchased a new TV after using my Mitsubishi for 18 years. The problem had nothing to do with the CRT. The focusing electronics were deteriorating, but still good enough to watch. It had all the features available on most TVs today, including an amp for driving remote speakers. It cost me $400 then and the replacement CRT unit with the same features still costs $400.
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How do the plants like it? Considering that plants live in windy conditions that cause the stems to pull on the roots constantly, I would expect that moderate shaking will be beneficial. If the root hairs are severed by large vibrations, I would expect the plant to not do well. Too much water or too little water will have a more castastrophic effect.
Well, that helps a lot! Thanks!
I'm modifying my coffee cup to signal my wife (if I ever get one) that it is nearly empty.
You made me miss the whole point of the story. I just spend all my time searching to see if clevernickname responds and gets a +5.
I would guess that more than 90 percent of people make up their mind based on emotions. (Vietnam, National Guard, IRAQ war, terrorism, Taxes on the rich, Your money belongs to you, Healthcare for the Elderly, Lowcost drugs) They are all presented in a way that appeals to emotions and little reason and never any quoted sources for the information that is presented.
What were those swift boats doing in the pools anyway?
At my old company we said, "If the product was not tested, lawsuits could run us out of business. If we pass tests and someone does something stupid and gets hurt, then the courts will not award the person more than $100,000.
Good idea! I might look into that. Seems like a good alternative to old tapes that squeal. I still wonder why the cassette players cannot work with tapes that bind slightly. I would never run out of tapes.
Sounds like a good idea,but the minidisk does not seem to be a very hot item. I have never seen one for sale in singles or in packs of 5 to 50. I also have never seen a minidisk recorder advertised.
Another problem is that most of the university lab computers are old and do not have USB. Some boot from CD, some do not. With education budgets so slim, upgrading is much more expensive than adding a floppy drive. And it means you can always boot to DOS.---- I still use 3 1/2 inch floppys about once a week. (I finally am in the process of transfering programs from 5 1/4 floppys to CD. What do you do with about 300 5 1/4 inch floppys? - Ebay?)
I read that some people report problems with reading floppys on different machines. Floppys are factory adjusted to position the head in the middle of the track. Some do not do a very good job. Interestingly enough, most of the grad students I work with, use Zip drives.
A few weeks ago I had to record a wedding ceremony. I went to Walmart and found only RCA and TDK audio tapes in packages of 5 or 6. I have not noticed portable CD recorders to replace the audio recorders. Am I missing something?
Normally I file things in a hierarchial method by year and month and by project name (2004file/9sep/) or (2004file/workfile/projectname), but still I lose track now and then and need keywords. Change the "slash" slant to fit your OS.
I need more coffee - Lot's more coffee!
What is this date thing you refer to?
The knife might come in handy for that also! :)
Darn-it! You get a good thread going and someone has to jump in and read the article!
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Wait, did you say "nanometers"?
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Mr. Cheney: Colin, Can you believe that we have over 1 million Republicans in Iraq and only 150 Democrats?"
Mr. Powell: "Yes Dick, With that many soldiere, its no wonder the war is costing so much." "Wait, how many did you say?"
You are right. Look at M$$$!
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Back in the late 1940's or early 1950's, a magazine, either "Popular Mechanics" or "Popular Science" had an article about flying cars. The car was powered by a central jet engine, and one concept was to have the main "car" part be a separate assembly that could be detached from the aircraft wings and fuselage. The other concept envisioned folding wings that either became part of the car body or were concealed somehow. Now, some 60 years later, we have still not solved the problems of transportation using autos as the basis for a flying vehicle or using the airplane as a basis for a car. (No, I'm not that old, but an older brother did subscribe to them for years.)
You went through cup 4 way too soon! Hold off till noon and you will get better!