First off it's ECMA. Second, how hard would it be to look it up?
European Computer Manufacturers Association
International Standards Organization
Capisce? See wikipedia for digested details.
Sure ECMA rubberstamps stuff that gets adopted more broadly (or has already been) e.g; LiveWire/LiveScript/JavaScript/ECMAScript, but they aren't the defacto int'l group.
Really though, there's plenty more than two, don't forget IETF and W3C
How does IBM have any more of a vested interest in OOo than anyone else? Now if the lone vote were Sun (of StarOffice, predecessor/cousin of OOo) then yes. IBM's special interest would be in the Lotus office suite.
French is very confusing to anybody who hasn't got long familiarity with it, so?
You could also check the artwork. In any event, the need to check the numbers is not unique to U.S. currency. It's not as if picking up some random Yen or Euro bill or coin you have an instant understanding of its value. We have no genetic memory saying "a piece of paper of these dimensions is one milkshake or three apples"
Brilliant logic, if people check to see if it's fake they must be easy to fake! It couldn't possibly be that perhaps historically it was easier to fake, or that it's so widely used and historically strong that it's worth faking... could it?
And why is RFID necessary? If you're going to use a gadget to read bills, why not the existing technology of optical scanning a la vending machines? Or detecting the security band.
Train the PHBs and secretaries not to print out every little thing. And if you must print out something for non-archival purposes print it 4-up (2 pages per side, duplex)
And if it's for an archive, try printing to PDF instead.
You're blaming someone for not being aware that a recent film not billed as sci-fi features a sci-fi concept which ocurred to him, provoked by reading a news article about an incredibly stupid set of events? Brilliant!:-P
I use hibernation all the time, and have only ever had it fail a handful of times (some recoverable with a reboot for another try at loading the image). OTOH "Standby" is definitely unstable (on my hardware).
Gah! Freaking slashcode's inability to edit posts, and one's tendency to miss one's own errors in a long composition...
That should be 500 mg / liter (speed reading), and 96 tons of mobile lead per year from CRTs; I missed a few factors:-/ 9.6 ktons glass * ((500 mg Pb/liter leachate) / (100 mg glass/2 liter fluid)).
Okay, but considering we're talking about reusing antiquated machines wireless doesn't seem too relevant, there are plenty of PCI wireless NICs with 98 drivers though. As for "networking", well... Auntie Mae with a single machine on dialup or cheap-ass DSL ought not have any issues.
PCMCIA? Bah. I'll grant iffy USB though, which could be an issue for some users.
Sorry, I lost a few orders of magnitude there, that should be half a microgram (as opposed to half a milligram). For reference, lead poisoning is measured in micrograms per deciliters.
The leaching study yielded up to 400 mg Pb/l (weighted average) in leachate from a small sample, not more than 100g of crushed CRT. Prolonged exposure to the environment might yield more, and a single CRT certainly masses more than 100g. So estimate 280 tons of mobile lead per year from CRTs (with average composition, leaching and no recycling). This exceeds anthropogenic mercury emissions (160 tons per year).
a) Lead is bio-accumulative b) Those "few nanograms" equate to half a milligram, in the drinking crystal example.
If you bothered to check out the CRT example you'd see that this is a non-trivial
amount, especially when you consider how much leaded glass is produced and discarded.
(As of the date of the report, CRTs were the second largest source of Pb after
batteries, some 70,000 tons). c) Tempting though it may be to believe that the Earth is the center of the universe,
and more specifically humanity thereupon it, not all species respond to chemicals
in the same manner.
98 is about as good as 2k (I only switched because of bitrot), and the only real advantage to 2k (besides all the patches MS shoves down your throat) is better APM.
I would imagine in much the same way that leaches out of your dinner crystal and into your wee doch-an-dorrach. Or is that fictitious too? And of course, if your local MSW is incinerated all bets are off.
For a more direct answer (a study specifically about CRT leeching) see this study.
Yes, most people don't need P4s for gmail or AbiWord (but almost for OO); I still use a KII-3 for my primary desktop. And these processors tend to sip lightly too, however the power supplies (like many modern ones) tend to be rather inefficient. One must also keep in mind that these machines probably do not support APM/ACPI but ought to at least have DPMS. Finally, one ought to ensure that the new owners are encouraged to properly dispose of the (older, dirtier) machine when it is EOL'd.
IMHO it's somewhat excuable that people are missing the "in 3 years" bit because that is a horribly phrased sentence. The editors should have corrected it to read:
Last night Ogi Ogas, a cognitive neuroscientist and Homeland Security Fellow, became the first person in three years to face the million-dollar question on 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'
fsck, this is like using digg. Make with the 24 bit ints and threaded comments!
That's a possibility, but I think that would run afoul of some folks... and we don't exactly need *more* religion overtly mixed into and polarizing politics. It's not as if we have a surplus of observed holidays in the U.S. anyways. Creating one (or co-opting another as I've previously suggested e.g; MLK or Presidents') both makes it more convenient as is acheivable with weekend voting, but also signals that the government wishes the public to take the act of voting more seriously: we care so much we're going to give you the day off to do this and presumably, if we're lucky, few if any businesses will be open as on any other major holiday so you will not have much else to do.
It's not totally taboo*, but it may depend on where in the country you are; I could imagine the South/Midwest having very different ideas about it. My experience on the coasts (generally more liberal places) is that one can and does discuss it with friends or in the confines of related social clubs. It can still be a touchy subject though, especially elections which are one's vote is perceived as very private. I suspect the lack of broad discourse on political issues contributes greatly to the general disfucktalness of the system.
* Traditionally though. etiquette would dictate that one should not discuss sex, politics or religion.
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First off it's ECMA. Second, how hard would it be to look it up?
European Computer Manufacturers Association
International Standards Organization
Capisce? See wikipedia for digested details.
Sure ECMA rubberstamps stuff that gets adopted more broadly (or has already been)
e.g; LiveWire/LiveScript/JavaScript/ECMAScript, but they aren't the defacto int'l
group.
Really though, there's plenty more than two, don't forget IETF and W3C
Umm blink was NS marquee was IE.
How does IBM have any more of a vested interest in OOo than anyone else?
Now if the lone vote were Sun (of StarOffice, predecessor/cousin of OOo) then yes.
IBM's special interest would be in the Lotus office suite.
The whole thing would be moot if anybody bothered to implement CD-Text
You're obviously trying too hard to be funny, but denomonations are different colors already.
French is very confusing to anybody who hasn't got long familiarity with it, so?
You could also check the artwork. In any event, the need to check the numbers is
not unique to U.S. currency. It's not as if picking up some random Yen or Euro
bill or coin you have an instant understanding of its value. We have no genetic
memory saying "a piece of paper of these dimensions is one milkshake or three apples"
Brilliant logic, if people check to see if it's fake they must be easy to fake!
It couldn't possibly be that perhaps historically it was easier to fake, or that
it's so widely used and historically strong that it's worth faking... could it?
Accessible does not mean "universally comprehensible".
And why is RFID necessary? If you're going to use a gadget to read bills, why not the
existing technology of optical scanning a la vending machines? Or detecting the security band.
*Slightly* off-topic? Try 100% irrelevant. Coins are distinguishable by heft, size and edge ridge pattern.
Then maybe you should get a clue, we've had dollar coins for some time.
Most of them aren't particularly well designed though.
Train the PHBs and secretaries not to print out every little thing. And if you must print out something for non-archival purposes print it 4-up (2 pages per side, duplex)
And if it's for an archive, try printing to PDF instead.
You're blaming someone for not being aware that a recent film not billed as sci-fi :-P
features a sci-fi concept which ocurred to him, provoked by reading a news article
about an incredibly stupid set of events? Brilliant!
I use hibernation all the time, and have only ever had it fail a handful of times
(some recoverable with a reboot for another try at loading the image). OTOH "Standby"
is definitely unstable (on my hardware).
Gah! Freaking slashcode's inability to edit posts, and one's tendency to miss one's own errors in a long composition...
:-/
That should be 500 mg / liter (speed reading), and 96 tons of mobile lead per year from CRTs; I missed a few factors
9.6 ktons glass * ((500 mg Pb/liter leachate) / (100 mg glass/2 liter fluid)).
Also compare EPA permissible limits for drinking water, which are not necessarily 100% science based.
Okay, but considering we're talking about reusing antiquated machines wireless doesn't
seem too relevant, there are plenty of PCI wireless NICs with 98 drivers though. As for
"networking", well... Auntie Mae with a single machine on dialup or cheap-ass DSL ought
not have any issues.
PCMCIA? Bah. I'll grant iffy USB though, which could be an issue for some users.
Sorry, I lost a few orders of magnitude there, that should be half a microgram
(as opposed to half a milligram). For reference, lead poisoning is measured in
micrograms per deciliters.
The leaching study yielded up to 400 mg Pb/l (weighted average) in leachate from
a small sample, not more than 100g of crushed CRT. Prolonged exposure to the
environment might yield more, and a single CRT certainly masses more than 100g.
So estimate 280 tons of mobile lead per year from CRTs (with average composition,
leaching and no recycling). This exceeds anthropogenic mercury
emissions (160 tons per year).
a) Lead is bio-accumulative
b) Those "few nanograms" equate to half a milligram, in the drinking crystal example.
If you bothered to check out the CRT example you'd see that this is a non-trivial
amount, especially when you consider how much leaded glass is produced and discarded.
(As of the date of the report, CRTs were the second largest source of Pb after
batteries, some 70,000 tons).
c) Tempting though it may be to believe that the Earth is the center of the universe,
and more specifically humanity thereupon it, not all species respond to chemicals
in the same manner.
98 is about as good as 2k (I only switched because of bitrot), and the only real
advantage to 2k (besides all the patches MS shoves down your throat) is better APM.
I would imagine in much the same way that leaches out of your dinner crystal and into
9 9-23.pdf/%24File/S99-23.pdf (It's probably not a bad idea to recover the Yttrium either.)
your wee doch-an-dorrach. Or is that fictitious too? And of course, if your local MSW
is incinerated all bets are off.
For a more direct answer (a study specifically about CRT leeching) see this study.
See also http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/riafile.nsf/vwAN/S
P.S. Intellectual laziness is pathetic.
Yes, most people don't need P4s for gmail or AbiWord (but almost for OO); I still use
a KII-3 for my primary desktop. And these processors tend to sip lightly too, however
the power supplies (like many modern ones) tend to be rather inefficient. One must also
keep in mind that these machines probably do not support APM/ACPI but ought to at least
have DPMS. Finally, one ought to ensure that the new owners are encouraged to properly
dispose of the (older, dirtier) machine when it is EOL'd.
Waste information, huh? A bit of an oxymoron.
No, it's a long established name, short for electronic(s) waste.
IMHO it's somewhat excuable that people are missing the "in 3 years" bit because
that is a horribly phrased sentence. The editors should have corrected it to read:
Last night Ogi Ogas, a cognitive neuroscientist and Homeland Security Fellow, became
the first person in three years to face the million-dollar question on 'Who Wants to
Be a Millionaire?'
fsck, this is like using digg. Make with the 24 bit ints and threaded comments!
That's a possibility, but I think that would run afoul of some folks... and we don't
exactly need *more* religion overtly mixed into and polarizing politics. It's not as
if we have a surplus of observed holidays in the U.S. anyways. Creating one (or
co-opting another as I've previously suggested e.g; MLK or Presidents') both makes it
more convenient as is acheivable with weekend voting, but also signals that the
government wishes the public to take the act of voting more seriously: we care so much
we're going to give you the day off to do this and presumably, if we're lucky, few if
any businesses will be open as on any other major holiday so you will not have much
else to do.
It's not totally taboo*, but it may depend on where in the country you are; I could
imagine the South/Midwest having very different ideas about it. My experience on the
coasts (generally more liberal places) is that one can and does discuss it with
friends or in the confines of related social clubs. It can still be a touchy subject
though, especially elections which are one's vote is perceived as very private. I
suspect the lack of broad discourse on political issues contributes greatly to the
general disfucktalness of the system.
* Traditionally though. etiquette would dictate that one should not discuss sex,
politics or religion.
In French this is called a "vote blanche" in English you'd probably call this a
blank vote or "None of the above."