My guess is that it's a CCD image that is stored temporarily before it's sent to the film. Her store doesn't have the cameras yet -- they get them Thursday -- but she'll know more when they arrive.
I asked her a short while ago when she got home from work, and here's how it works...
The camera costs $10.99, and then the photo processing is another $10.99. The camera contains no LCD, but you can delete the last picture taken. The image is still stored on regular film, and the capacity is 25 images. There is a self-timer on it for when you want to take pics and have yourself in it. That's pretty much it. The camera's film is unloaded by Ritz personnel, and the empties are sent back to the manufacturer to be reloaded with new film.
Aside from the ability to delete the last picture before it's stored on film and the self-timer, there's nothing new about them. However, the ability to kill that picture you know sucked might be worth the extra dollar or two.
I dunno about the pressure cooker point. I have two chargers, and this charger (model PS1) takes as long as eight hours to charge one, whereas the other one takes as little as three hours to recharge a pair.
On the first point, simple economics. Egypt had other things for its people and slaves to be doing, not to mention supporting its military. This is also a time when life expectancy was short in those other occupations. The pyramids may have been built by slaves, but getting more slaves meant either buying them, placing a small drain on the economy, or raiding for them, and military raids were expensive in terms of logistics and possible lost soldiers. In any decent army, one of the bigges expenses is simply training the grunts. In any case, OSHA may not have been around, but there are some common-sense points to not letting people get crushed. Besides, a wayward rocks could kill a priest, too, or worse yet, the architect, and that would be bad.
One the last, I'm not so sure. For most of it, perhaps, but eventually you get to the outer stones, and those need to be laid from the bottom up, with the ramps getting progressively higher and longer. For the Great Pyramid, at a 10% grade, this would be a ramp 4800 feet long, possibly one on each side, a difficult but not impossible task, especially since it would be incrementally used and increased in height.
I have NiMH's in my five remotes, and I only need to recharge them about once every six months or so. Does keeping them in the device complete a circuit that prevents the discharging?
But it's a minimal amount of extra work to avoid crushing someone who is behind, or even just the extra effort of having to pull the stone back up the ramp. Two strong men could pull on a solid wood wedge that would be of use at least for a while, depending on how often the stone rocks back to rest on it.
Rayovac also makes the best charger I've seen, handling NiMH, NiCad, and rechargeable alkaline, and also does them singly, meaning you can charge one AAA battery and two AA batteries, or whatever combination up to four, at the same time. It has a nice flip-down cover that makes for a handy carrying case for a few extra batteries when on vacation, too.
A moving rock would need a moving wedge to be effective.
Not hard. Imagine you have a few guys with ropes pulling the stone itself. You could then have a couple more guys with ropes connected to a wedge that sits behind the stone, constantly moving right behind it so that a stop for any reason would immediately rest on the wedge.
Considering that most sound card companies and virtually every NIC company I've researched has advised not putting their cards in the first PCI slot, it kind of becomes moot anyway. Moving those off to other slots leaves modems and what are essentially niche devices -- SCSI, tuner, USB/FireWire, and other add-in cards.
Actually, having just installed 2.41 this morning, I noticed blocking of IP addresses was off by default in the installer. Dunno if it is then enabled later, as I enabled blocking, but it was most certainly unchecked when I was installing it.
Pack of four costs me US$8, pack of eight costs US$12.
When they're in stock. And they *are* placed at the checkout lines (though at the Ralph's where I shop, they're out so you don't have to ask for them, provided there are any left in stock), which has reduced shoplifting but the damned things are so popular that I've taken to shopping for the eight packs when I can and looking for replacements when I start in on the second cartridge of four.
The Mach3 has got to be one of the best examples of taking a common product and making a seemingly simple change that makes the product indispensible overnight. I picked one up a few months after they came out, and I can't believe I used to put up with other razors. Now if I use a normal two-blade razor, even one of the better ones, I tend to see shaving nicks all over the place. I know of a lot of women that use the Mach3 (or its successor for women, the Venus3) as well because it's less likely to leave nicks on their legs and under their arms.
Oh, it's not likely no matter who runs. I was just pointing out the minimum number of votes required to win. Anyway, Schwarzeneggar is running second in the polls with 15% right now to the 21% favoring former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan's, who had a fairly successful track record in his eight years of stewardship in LA. I wouldn't mind Riordan in the governor's office at all, as he's good at bringing together people who have no intention of agreeing with each other (like the LA city council during his terms of office) and is well-respected on both sides of the proverbial aisle. I do wonder if he'll move to the same $1 annual salary that he had in Los Angeles. It would be a token measure, but it's still something.
Incidentally, Riordan probably would have won the gubernatorial election in the first place if the hard-core Republicans hadn't made such a huge push for Bill Simon, reducing the race to a decision between two complete idiots. This is one thing I will hand to the Democratic Party leadership -- they will compromise on their nominees. If someone is seen as too hard-core liberal, they will either have the person tone down the rhetoric or find some way of appealing to a wider audience. OTOH, the Republican Party leadership often pushes the agenda of the very core leadership, leading to loss or at best fractious wins. I imagine John McCain would have won easily in 2000 had he been the official Republican nominee.
I think it is correct in some cases. If industries were required to make public every report of a product defect, they would become so mind-numbing that we would tune them out. Companies get a lot of reports of defects, and not all of them turn out to be legitimately so. Some of the time, they problems are caused by misuse. Sometimes its caused by some damage to the product. And sometimes it is a legitimate defect. Ignoring some of the higher-profile problems like the Explorer or the GMC fuel tanks, most companies are very good about issuing service bulletins or product recalls as needed, because they don't want to get hit by lawsuits or, worse, come under regulatory scrutiny, facing hearings, media exposure, and fines.
Did you notice that only 40% of the able-to-vote population voted in the last election?
Curiosity question... Is it 40% of those eligible voted, or 40% of those on the voting rolls voted? I imagine the voter rolls are loaded with people who have moved, died, or gone to prison and not had their information removed.
Personally, I'm in favor of scrapping the entire list after the 2004 elections, requiring everyone to re-register, and then tracking who voted in which elections after that. Anyone who misses a full two years of elections gets pulled from the system, keeping the rolls relatively clean. Those on extended trips outside of the country are perfectly free to use absentee ballots and keep things up to date.
Voters "prefer" the two-party system largely because they've been brainwashed into thinking that a third-party candidate has little chance of succeeding. I remember seeing some poll the first time Perot was around suggesting that he would have picked up as many as 20 points if people who wanted to vote for him would have done so but didn't because he was a third-party candidate. This would have given him the election with a plurality of 39%. It's not necessarily true (I've never been able to find the source again), but I know of some people that wanted to vote for him but didn't because they figured he couldn't win.
I wonder if the tendencies aren't (slowly) changing. As more people see more partisan bickering at all levels of government and generally grow tired of the rancor, not to mention the perceived corruption, the grumbling grows, and as the Whigs found out, no party is guaranteed a permanent place in politics.
The upcoming California recall could prove interesting. The Republican vote may be heavily fragmented between as many as a half-dozen candidates. DNC chairman McAuliffe has decreed that no Democrats will be on the ballot (and few Democrats will want to cross him at this point). This opens up the possibility of a Libertarian or a Green party candidate picking up enough votes to make it into office. Since the vote is a plurality vote, if there are ten candidates, it only takes 10% + 1 to make it in. I'd like to see a Libertarian in office myself (especially since we have line-item veto here), but I'd settle for a Green party candidate, just to muck with the system. I'm not sure it can get any worse than it is now.
The auto industry does things no differently. They are notified of a potential problem, they research it, and if necessary they will issue a recall notice, or at least issue a service bulletin. They generally don't release information on what reported problems they're researching until a fix is complete.
Having recently worked in a data center with many customers, I can verify this. Our own Solaris and Cisco systems were often months behind on even serious security patches, and customer systems were behind by as much as three years (we found a few people running Windows 2000 Gold -- no patches whatsoever).
We had good firewalls in place to minimize the initial entries, but it's very easy to fall behind.
Would you prefer that all of the vulnerabilities for any piece of software be made public before the company has a chance to fix it? Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, Red Hat... Every programmer/software company likes to be notified of the vulnerability so it can be fixed prior to a patch being released.
"In 1981, Reagan signed into law a 25% across-the-board cut in tax rates. Although the first couple of years of his term were mired in recession, by the time he left office, tax receipts were up by 56%, or 7% annualized, compared to the 4% annualized inflation rate of the same time period."
"In 1981, the average income of the middle fifth (41%-60%) of US taxpayers was $42,898 in 2001 terms. By 1989, that had risen to $47,157, a 9.9% increase. The second fifth (21%-40%) went from $28,397 to $30,354, an increase of 6.9%. The fourth fifth (61%-80%) went from $59,516 to $67,516, an increase of 14%. This range, I think, safely demonstrates the middle class, since we're talking about 2001 income averages of $32,466 - $76,646 across the three ranges. They did fairly well in an age of tax cuts, and show that they reaped plenty of benefits from it."
Now, whether or not it will work now is a question mark; it took a couple of years for Reagan's tax cuts to take effect, and I will admit that it is possible that the economy might have rebounded on its own anyway. I am generally supportive of tax cuts, but I'm also generally supportive of cutting a lot of government programs, and of putting in requirements for accounting to eliminate waste. I do think that the remaining programs should be more finely focused -- your suggestion of a highway over ant intelligence research being a good example.
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My guess is that it's a CCD image that is stored temporarily before it's sent to the film. Her store doesn't have the cameras yet -- they get them Thursday -- but she'll know more when they arrive.
The pressure cooker is from Kodak. The longer-term one is the Rayovac, and batteries are warm to the touch afterward.
I asked her a short while ago when she got home from work, and here's how it works...
The camera costs $10.99, and then the photo processing is another $10.99. The camera contains no LCD, but you can delete the last picture taken. The image is still stored on regular film, and the capacity is 25 images. There is a self-timer on it for when you want to take pics and have yourself in it. That's pretty much it. The camera's film is unloaded by Ritz personnel, and the empties are sent back to the manufacturer to be reloaded with new film.
Aside from the ability to delete the last picture before it's stored on film and the self-timer, there's nothing new about them. However, the ability to kill that picture you know sucked might be worth the extra dollar or two.
I'll ask my girlfriend. She works for the local Ritz Camera store.
I dunno about the pressure cooker point. I have two chargers, and this charger (model PS1) takes as long as eight hours to charge one, whereas the other one takes as little as three hours to recharge a pair.
On the first point, simple economics. Egypt had other things for its people and slaves to be doing, not to mention supporting its military. This is also a time when life expectancy was short in those other occupations. The pyramids may have been built by slaves, but getting more slaves meant either buying them, placing a small drain on the economy, or raiding for them, and military raids were expensive in terms of logistics and possible lost soldiers. In any decent army, one of the bigges expenses is simply training the grunts. In any case, OSHA may not have been around, but there are some common-sense points to not letting people get crushed. Besides, a wayward rocks could kill a priest, too, or worse yet, the architect, and that would be bad.
One the last, I'm not so sure. For most of it, perhaps, but eventually you get to the outer stones, and those need to be laid from the bottom up, with the ramps getting progressively higher and longer. For the Great Pyramid, at a 10% grade, this would be a ramp 4800 feet long, possibly one on each side, a difficult but not impossible task, especially since it would be incrementally used and increased in height.
I have NiMH's in my five remotes, and I only need to recharge them about once every six months or so. Does keeping them in the device complete a circuit that prevents the discharging?
But it's a minimal amount of extra work to avoid crushing someone who is behind, or even just the extra effort of having to pull the stone back up the ramp. Two strong men could pull on a solid wood wedge that would be of use at least for a while, depending on how often the stone rocks back to rest on it.
Rayovac also makes the best charger I've seen, handling NiMH, NiCad, and rechargeable alkaline, and also does them singly, meaning you can charge one AAA battery and two AA batteries, or whatever combination up to four, at the same time. It has a nice flip-down cover that makes for a handy carrying case for a few extra batteries when on vacation, too.
A moving rock would need a moving wedge to be effective.
Not hard. Imagine you have a few guys with ropes pulling the stone itself. You could then have a couple more guys with ropes connected to a wedge that sits behind the stone, constantly moving right behind it so that a stop for any reason would immediately rest on the wedge.
Considering that most sound card companies and virtually every NIC company I've researched has advised not putting their cards in the first PCI slot, it kind of becomes moot anyway. Moving those off to other slots leaves modems and what are essentially niche devices -- SCSI, tuner, USB/FireWire, and other add-in cards.
Close. It was more likely Drop Da Bomb.
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Actually, having just installed 2.41 this morning, I noticed blocking of IP addresses was off by default in the installer. Dunno if it is then enabled later, as I enabled blocking, but it was most certainly unchecked when I was installing it.
Which is why recalls do get issued in many cases.
Pack of four costs me US$8, pack of eight costs US$12.
When they're in stock. And they *are* placed at the checkout lines (though at the Ralph's where I shop, they're out so you don't have to ask for them, provided there are any left in stock), which has reduced shoplifting but the damned things are so popular that I've taken to shopping for the eight packs when I can and looking for replacements when I start in on the second cartridge of four.
The Mach3 has got to be one of the best examples of taking a common product and making a seemingly simple change that makes the product indispensible overnight. I picked one up a few months after they came out, and I can't believe I used to put up with other razors. Now if I use a normal two-blade razor, even one of the better ones, I tend to see shaving nicks all over the place. I know of a lot of women that use the Mach3 (or its successor for women, the Venus3) as well because it's less likely to leave nicks on their legs and under their arms.
Oh, it's not likely no matter who runs. I was just pointing out the minimum number of votes required to win. Anyway, Schwarzeneggar is running second in the polls with 15% right now to the 21% favoring former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan's, who had a fairly successful track record in his eight years of stewardship in LA. I wouldn't mind Riordan in the governor's office at all, as he's good at bringing together people who have no intention of agreeing with each other (like the LA city council during his terms of office) and is well-respected on both sides of the proverbial aisle. I do wonder if he'll move to the same $1 annual salary that he had in Los Angeles. It would be a token measure, but it's still something.
Incidentally, Riordan probably would have won the gubernatorial election in the first place if the hard-core Republicans hadn't made such a huge push for Bill Simon, reducing the race to a decision between two complete idiots. This is one thing I will hand to the Democratic Party leadership -- they will compromise on their nominees. If someone is seen as too hard-core liberal, they will either have the person tone down the rhetoric or find some way of appealing to a wider audience. OTOH, the Republican Party leadership often pushes the agenda of the very core leadership, leading to loss or at best fractious wins. I imagine John McCain would have won easily in 2000 had he been the official Republican nominee.
I think it is correct in some cases. If industries were required to make public every report of a product defect, they would become so mind-numbing that we would tune them out. Companies get a lot of reports of defects, and not all of them turn out to be legitimately so. Some of the time, they problems are caused by misuse. Sometimes its caused by some damage to the product. And sometimes it is a legitimate defect. Ignoring some of the higher-profile problems like the Explorer or the GMC fuel tanks, most companies are very good about issuing service bulletins or product recalls as needed, because they don't want to get hit by lawsuits or, worse, come under regulatory scrutiny, facing hearings, media exposure, and fines.
Did you notice that only 40% of the able-to-vote population voted in the last election?
Curiosity question... Is it 40% of those eligible voted, or 40% of those on the voting rolls voted? I imagine the voter rolls are loaded with people who have moved, died, or gone to prison and not had their information removed.
Personally, I'm in favor of scrapping the entire list after the 2004 elections, requiring everyone to re-register, and then tracking who voted in which elections after that. Anyone who misses a full two years of elections gets pulled from the system, keeping the rolls relatively clean. Those on extended trips outside of the country are perfectly free to use absentee ballots and keep things up to date.
Voters "prefer" the two-party system largely because they've been brainwashed into thinking that a third-party candidate has little chance of succeeding. I remember seeing some poll the first time Perot was around suggesting that he would have picked up as many as 20 points if people who wanted to vote for him would have done so but didn't because he was a third-party candidate. This would have given him the election with a plurality of 39%. It's not necessarily true (I've never been able to find the source again), but I know of some people that wanted to vote for him but didn't because they figured he couldn't win.
I wonder if the tendencies aren't (slowly) changing. As more people see more partisan bickering at all levels of government and generally grow tired of the rancor, not to mention the perceived corruption, the grumbling grows, and as the Whigs found out, no party is guaranteed a permanent place in politics.
The upcoming California recall could prove interesting. The Republican vote may be heavily fragmented between as many as a half-dozen candidates. DNC chairman McAuliffe has decreed that no Democrats will be on the ballot (and few Democrats will want to cross him at this point). This opens up the possibility of a Libertarian or a Green party candidate picking up enough votes to make it into office. Since the vote is a plurality vote, if there are ten candidates, it only takes 10% + 1 to make it in. I'd like to see a Libertarian in office myself (especially since we have line-item veto here), but I'd settle for a Green party candidate, just to muck with the system. I'm not sure it can get any worse than it is now.
The auto industry does things no differently. They are notified of a potential problem, they research it, and if necessary they will issue a recall notice, or at least issue a service bulletin. They generally don't release information on what reported problems they're researching until a fix is complete.
Having recently worked in a data center with many customers, I can verify this. Our own Solaris and Cisco systems were often months behind on even serious security patches, and customer systems were behind by as much as three years (we found a few people running Windows 2000 Gold -- no patches whatsoever).
We had good firewalls in place to minimize the initial entries, but it's very easy to fall behind.
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh9-errata-security. html
l t. asp?url=/technet/security/current.asp
33 patches and counting since March 31.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/defau
18 patches and counting since March 31.
Nobody's immune. Even the BSD distros send out the occasional notice.
Would you prefer that all of the vulnerabilities for any piece of software be made public before the company has a chance to fix it? Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, Red Hat... Every programmer/software company likes to be notified of the vulnerability so it can be fixed prior to a patch being released.
If one has Vonage or a similar all-you-can-eat long distance package, you wouldn't even be dealing with that fee.
Of course, it would take a while to download the latest Britney album at 256Kb quality...
From two posts I wrote at another site:
"In 1981, Reagan signed into law a 25% across-the-board cut in tax rates. Although the first couple of years of his term were mired in recession, by the time he left office, tax receipts were up by 56%, or 7% annualized, compared to the 4% annualized inflation rate of the same time period."
"In 1981, the average income of the middle fifth (41%-60%) of US taxpayers was $42,898 in 2001 terms. By 1989, that had risen to $47,157, a 9.9% increase. The second fifth (21%-40%) went from $28,397 to $30,354, an increase of 6.9%. The fourth fifth (61%-80%) went from $59,516 to $67,516, an increase of 14%. This range, I think, safely demonstrates the middle class, since we're talking about 2001 income averages of $32,466 - $76,646 across the three ranges. They did fairly well in an age of tax cuts, and show that they reaped plenty of benefits from it."
Now, whether or not it will work now is a question mark; it took a couple of years for Reagan's tax cuts to take effect, and I will admit that it is possible that the economy might have rebounded on its own anyway. I am generally supportive of tax cuts, but I'm also generally supportive of cutting a lot of government programs, and of putting in requirements for accounting to eliminate waste. I do think that the remaining programs should be more finely focused -- your suggestion of a highway over ant intelligence research being a good example.