There are other materials which can be used very effectively if wall thickness is not an issue. Empty cans and bottles can be used to make dead air spaces for insulation. I've heard that most of the world's housing is still mud-based. It's pretty hard to beat the cost of mud and straw packed into a water-resistant shell. Adobe and stone stick around for a long, long time. Partially burying a structure can also help a lot. It's all intellectually interesting but not that practical. The real issue for adequate housing probably isn't materials, it's political. I don't mean eveil capitalist/angelic socialist, I mean things like non-reinforced concrete used in the Soviet Union, chosing to live in flood plains, lack of standards enforcement of construction, genocide, etc. We can ship a piece of paper to the other side of the world within 24 hours. We can also house everyone. What we can't do is eliminate the jealousies/corruption which bring about big problems. Q: Starving people in Norht Korea without housing? A: Corrupt leadership which starves its own people.
Some kind of disposable, modular, short-term housing might be helpful for disaster relief, that's about all. In that case, why not have some form of inflatable tyvek structures reinforced with steel?
Cardboard is a solid fiber material, used for thin boxes (think, toothpaste tube box) and tablet backings. Corrugated is the proper term for the material with flat sheets separated by fluted sheets.
As far as waterproofing, it's actually quite economical to make corrugated products completely waterproof. Just last monnth I was at the TAPPI/AICC SuperCorrExpo in Atlanta. That's the every-4-years trade show for corrugated machinery. The booth across the aisle from one of mine had a laminating machine which can coat paper with polyurethane. They had a little waterfall display which showed how resistant the board was. http://www.kohlercoating.com/
There was a similar display in another booth but their sample was only coating the outer surface, not all surfaces during the corrugating process. Similar methods are used to ship some delicate vegetables packed in ice to grocery stores.
We have a patent on a metering machine which allows cold adhesives to be used during the corrugating process. All other methods use large amounts of heat and steam to soften the paper and get the glue (cornstarch) to stick. The "normal" method reduces the strength of the board. We've done experiments with our machine to use multiple layers of medium (the wavy paper in the middle) and various cold adhesives which result in corrugated board almost as strong as solid wood. It was so strong traditional knives in converting machinery could not cut it.
When we did those experiments years ago I wondered about the market for "disposable" housing. The design shown in this article is hideously awkward. I was thinking more about single-level block-type housing which could be made from standardized flat pieces of our super-strong board. Throw in the full waterproofing I've mentioned above and you'd have pretty good pre-fab with strength and environmental resistance somewhere between wood and steel with a fraction of the weight. I'd envisioned something sort of like the flat pieces of a gingerbread house. The edges could even be made notched to hold the boards in place while some form of glue and reinforcement could be used to join the boards.
Having said all of that, corrugated steel is highly transportable and darn strong. It would be as easily worked by hand but it's more durable than any wood-based product.
The sample shown in the article is a joke. There's no way to economically treat corrugated after it's made. You could immerse it in polymers and take care to force it through all the flute spaces but it will still have huge structural weaknesses and be vulnerable to water. The vast majority of paper fibers used to make corrugated and non-print-surface cardboard outside the U.S. use recycled fibers which are shorter than virgin and very weak. Recycling paper breaks the fibers down. Strength of paper comes from multiple adhesions of fibers and proper adhesive. Recycled board is just not suited for something like housing.
No, I'm not running OS 5. I'm running a variant of OS 3 because all that HMO stuff looks like a great way to bog down the devices and make them choke during recording.
Google Sanderton's TWP hacks and you should find his replies about where to patch to change the onscreen offset options. It's been months since I looked into it.
I've always found it's far easier/safer to just get another DTiVo and set hard padding for my season passes while running EndPadPlus: http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?t =31854
This one is also incredibly helpful except it doesn't support deleting season passes: http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.ph p?threadid=144391
Answer to your first comment: Buy another TiVo. This whole string of whininess is getting out of hand.
Answer to your second comment: No, you are incorrect. The only reason someone would NEED to make a hardware mod is they are using very outdated hacking methods or they're trying to steal service by removing some of the access card security.
I've got 3 DTiVos. All are set using hacks to auto-pad and yes, there is a way to share scheduling to resolve conflicts. It's simple and still a little buggy but it can be done. PC MediaPortal will probably make it a lot easier to add these types of enhanced capabilities than TWP.
All you have to do is change a few environment variables to set custom offset options. That's only been public knowledge for the past 3 major OS revisions...
OK, guys, take off the foil hats and put away your copy of the Paranoia game.
Mary Mapes illegally obtained classified photos from Abu Ghraib which were part of a DoD investigation. (Mary Mapes is the "producer" of the 60 Minutes II episode with the forged GWB documents..."producer"...interesting term...)
Maybe the DoD did have some influence on Google. Maybe Google's lawyers are smart enough to know that Mapes' release of those photos had the very real potential to destroy the DoD's legal cases against the soldiers who participated. News media reports "taint" jurors, be they civilians or military officers being selected to serve on a courts martial.
Granted, the images have already had very widespread circulation but why contribute to the problem?
That's just as plausible an explanation as the typical Slashdot conspiracy kookery.
Yeah, damn them, they split that off into a 24-hour channel called The Science Channel and a companion called Discovery Health which covers human biology and related issues.
Pretty rotten of them, huh?
There's also National Geographic Channel with shows like Seconds from Disaster and Megastructures. History Channel has Tactical to Practical, Modern Marvels and Guts & Bolts. History Channel International has a significant number of shows about how structures were built.
Yeah, too bad there isn't any decent science on TV.
Sigh....these things take on a life of their own, don't they?
The true roots of this are a wooden seal of the US which had passive reflectors in it. It worked by reflecting waves transmitted into the room. That kind of thing worked when electronics were fairly rare inside offices and pre-TEMPEST.
There was also an embassy building which couldn't be used due to embedded bugs.
Beamed energy creating a rare form of leukemia in a specific individual? Nope. Read a decent medical textbook.
$1 billion USD/day is just over $3/day/resident. If you do the math with more accurate numbers you'll find it wokr out to around $0.10-0.15/hour/person.
You didn't think "personally" even though you claimed to.
France has, what, 2 aircraft carriers, one of which lost it's screw on the maiden voyage? They did nothing in Rwanda, Haiti or the Sudan. Of course they don't have to spend money. They don't do anything.
Germany? When was the last time Germany had a capable military. Hint...think swastika.
Canada. That would be the country just North of the U.S. which is protected by the U.S., wouldn't it?
China. Slave labor and pirated technology (or given by companies like Loral.)
India. What do they do outside their own borders?
Poland. Ditto Italy. Ditto Netherlands. Ditto
Watch their numbers go up if the U.S. cut things dramatically.
There's no Comanche prototypes? Really? I've seen 2. It was to be a what? scout helicopter? Now tech has developed so much that UAVs are practical. Must have been a great investment in tech and look at the savings between what would have been deployed and what actually is. Fantastic!
Numbers of troops/= capability of military/= linear scale of cost.
"The US spends way too much on its armed forces and the population suffers at the expense of the military-industrial lobby."
Really? Amazing. And your proof is...nonexistant.
The level of creature comforts and services available to Americans continues to grow at an astounding rate. In America, a person has to truly work hard to avoid eating regularly and living in safe housing. 100 years ago, that wasn't the case in the U.S. But, of course, there weren't things like an Interstate road system or a national electrical grid. And just why did those come into existance? They were created for national defense by those horrible capitalist industries. You know, the same ones that generate enough food to feed 80% of the world and developed the technologies which allow the computer on which you typed your drivel to exist.
Time for you to put on the big kid pants and stop complaining.
The U.S. government spends more on education than it does for the military.
The problem with public education in America is not a lack of funding, it's a lack of accountability.
You've just repeated the same, old, tired liberal crap propaganda which has been going on since the Great Generation junk of the 60s.
There's no proven causation between amount of money spent on public education and levels of proficiency among students. If there were, U.S. public school kids would be at the top of proficiency comparisons.
The media most certainly has not "rolled over" for Bush. Viacom owns CBS of memogate multiple felony fame and has published more anti-Bush books than any other major publisher. Their TV news shows terrorist violence in Iraq on a dialy basis but they don't show infrastructure modernization in the peaceful areas occupied by 75% of Iraqis.
Pure democracy never works because it's simply mob rule.
Deregulation isn't "to blame" for a market delivering what a market wants. Deregulation included the removal of "equal time" requirements which had the effect of restricting reporting. Revenue must be generated for an operation to succeed and it's not generated by broadcasting what nobody watches.
What most people refer to as "democracy" necessitates a market economy. The market delivers what people want. There most certainly IS a "good reason for a very few major media players to own the game." It's called a free market. It was Great Britain who wanted to prevent a free press in the Colonies. There are far fewer restrictions on the press in the U.S. than any other country.
When I was in grade school we had ABC, CBS, NBC and possibly a PBS station if the weather was good. Then cable became available and we got C-Span, CNN and the commercial educational channels. Now I've got DirecTV which adds Bloomberg, Fox News, BBCAmerica and even more educational channels.
When I was in grade school we had the local newspaper, Time, Newsweek and US News. When I was in Junior High we got USA Today and bulletin boards. Now we've got blogs, Air America, Rush Limbaugh, Al Bawaba, MEMRI, Pravda, and countless other online versions of magazines and newspapers from around the world.
Yeah, that seems like restriction of information..NOT!!!
An episode of Future Fighting Machines on TechTV has video of this and other small robots. They called this one PackBot.
That particular episode is on tonight, May 22nd at 8PM EST.
The episode description is at http://www.techtv.com/futurefightingmachines/story/0,24330,3426117,00.html
PackBot
The Tactical Mobile Robot nicknamed PackBot is a little aluminum robot warrior that scouts enemies for you. It can be dropped onto concrete from a height of over 9 feet and is waterproof to a depth of nearly 10 feet. PackBot was first designed to help mobile strike forces in urban terrain.
Land Mines have a military use. Did you forget that? Until there is a reliable method for smart mine or other area suppresion weapon like FireStorm, they are the most effective way to prevent an adversary from moving across land.
The idea that politicians want to keep land mines to ensure jobs is ridiculous. Upon what facts do you base that statement? Do you have any idea how few people are actually employed making them?
Regarding the Kyoto treaty, have you ever read it? American factories were to be restricted with regard to their emissions yet Chinese, Indian and Eastern European factories were not. When was the last time you visited an industrial complex in one of those areas? They're horrible with all kinds of unfiltered liquid and gaseous emissions. How long have you been reading Slashdot? Haven't you ever seen the articles about disassembly of circuit boards in China?
Kyoto hid under the cloak of global warming which is really just a political thing. Sure, people can affect the environment to some extent but thinking we are destroying the environment is not only scientifically invalid, it's almost unspeakably arrogant and naive. We live in the middle of a planet-sized filter which recycles virtually everything within itself. We can't predict the weather 5 days in advance yet global warming zealots claim to understand environmental cycles?!?! Riiiight.
The Kyoto accord was NOT ratified by the non-U.S. countries who tried to get the U.S. to commit to follow it. Would American companies have been forced to shut down or move operations overseas? Yes. Think, where would they have moved manufacturing? Probably to countries which were exempted from the accord. How, exactly, would moving production from the U.S. to areas which were to be exempt from environmental limitations contribute to a cleaner environment?
The Kyoto accord was an attempt to hobble American industry by countries which are not able to match the U.S. level of productivity because of their political environments.
As much as possible, producers of any product or service want to be as physically close to their customers as possible. Transportation and time differences cost money, real money.
Your comments were pure socialist rhetoric. THey have no basis in the reality of our physical world which is subject to the law of diminishing returns.
ADHD and the marjority of depression is related to the brain's supply of seratonin. Seratonin is a carrier which moves electrical charges across the synapses. The vast majority of the time, these are used once then thrown away, essentially. However, ADHD and depression are very directly related to the body's manufacture of seratonin. If the body doesn't make enough, signals don't get transferred. There are a number of good drugs, other than Ritalin, which can help. They typically inhibit the brain's destruction of seratonin for a little while. Over time, a few days, the brain has a more "normal" amount of seratonin.
I'm ADHD and was scared of this type of thing for a long time. Prozac and Ritalin are early-generation drugs. They're like sledgehammers. When I finally realized a low seratonin level is a strucutral/performance issue of the body, it was an incredible relief. Currently, I'm taking effexor which helps increase the level of 2 brain chemicals. For me, it does not remove the creativity, it makes me more aware of the linear nature of time and allows me to maintain focus on tasks better. I was scared I'd lose the creative edge. I was scared it would numb me. That hasn't been the case.
The author also combines a description of the cabling with color model. This is someone who understands game creation for TVs?!?! NTSC DV pumped through an S-Video cable is 4:1:1 color, PAL DV is 4:2:0. Artifacts? Yes. The same type? No. can RGB color model be sent over analog cables? Yup.
The author has a classic case of knowing enough to be dangerous but now knowing enough to know you don't know enough.
At one time I had a small software company. We outsourced all the phone and fax messages since we didn't have people to work 24/7/365.
One of the things I learned is an incoming toll-free fax cost me a lot more than a voice call because a single page fax was completed very quickly and the charge was per call/per page.
So...if you're getting hit with crap like junk faxes, fax it back to them on their toll-free fax number about 30 times.
It took about a month of this but I don't get lots of junk fax anymore, except for the a**holes that block caller ID and don't list a number to get off their list.
Another fun trick was to use a standard fax machine with a continuous loop of paper. Let that baby run for about 10-15 minutes and you'll create a lot of clutter on the receiver's end.
I agree with you and have had 4 different Z-series Lexmark printers. The nozzles gunk up all the time. About 2 years ago the color cartridges started leaking. They'll form a crust on the bottom, especially with the yellow. Right now I'm using refill black from inkjetrefills.com until the color cartridges wear out them I'm tossing these pritners. When they first came on the market their water-resistant black was a godsend. They could finally be used for business letters and envelopes. Now, there are other sources for water-resistant black ink. The real cheap Epsons that show up for $30-$50 do a better job with color, less banding. They're noisy as all get out, though.
I've seen the guy who modifies the Epson printers at ComputerPro shows in Charlotte. They look nice but we very careful. He's never answered any of my emails asking about the ink. He'll claim he's tested all kinds of inks and is using a custom formula. Riiiight. I sell printing machiens for packaging. This guy's printer business is a hobby. He's got custom small batches of precise ink being made just for him? Uh-huh. Maybe it's a standard ink with a ph modification or something like that. Custom ink is expensive. The point is, if you buy one of these, all indications are you'd be locked into him as your sole source for ink.
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There are other materials which can be used very effectively if wall thickness is not an issue. Empty cans and bottles can be used to make dead air spaces for insulation. I've heard that most of the world's housing is still mud-based. It's pretty hard to beat the cost of mud and straw packed into a water-resistant shell. Adobe and stone stick around for a long, long time. Partially burying a structure can also help a lot. It's all intellectually interesting but not that practical. The real issue for adequate housing probably isn't materials, it's political. I don't mean eveil capitalist/angelic socialist, I mean things like non-reinforced concrete used in the Soviet Union, chosing to live in flood plains, lack of standards enforcement of construction, genocide, etc. We can ship a piece of paper to the other side of the world within 24 hours. We can also house everyone. What we can't do is eliminate the jealousies/corruption which bring about big problems. Q: Starving people in Norht Korea without housing? A: Corrupt leadership which starves its own people.
Some kind of disposable, modular, short-term housing might be helpful for disaster relief, that's about all. In that case, why not have some form of inflatable tyvek structures reinforced with steel?
Cardboard is a solid fiber material, used for thin boxes (think, toothpaste tube box) and tablet backings. Corrugated is the proper term for the material with flat sheets separated by fluted sheets.
As far as waterproofing, it's actually quite economical to make corrugated products completely waterproof. Just last monnth I was at the TAPPI/AICC SuperCorrExpo in Atlanta. That's the every-4-years trade show for corrugated machinery. The booth across the aisle from one of mine had a laminating machine which can coat paper with polyurethane. They had a little waterfall display which showed how resistant the board was. http://www.kohlercoating.com/
There was a similar display in another booth but their sample was only coating the outer surface, not all surfaces during the corrugating process. Similar methods are used to ship some delicate vegetables packed in ice to grocery stores.
We have a patent on a metering machine which allows cold adhesives to be used during the corrugating process. All other methods use large amounts of heat and steam to soften the paper and get the glue (cornstarch) to stick. The "normal" method reduces the strength of the board. We've done experiments with our machine to use multiple layers of medium (the wavy paper in the middle) and various cold adhesives which result in corrugated board almost as strong as solid wood. It was so strong traditional knives in converting machinery could not cut it.
When we did those experiments years ago I wondered about the market for "disposable" housing. The design shown in this article is hideously awkward. I was thinking more about single-level block-type housing which could be made from standardized flat pieces of our super-strong board. Throw in the full waterproofing I've mentioned above and you'd have pretty good pre-fab with strength and environmental resistance somewhere between wood and steel with a fraction of the weight. I'd envisioned something sort of like the flat pieces of a gingerbread house. The edges could even be made notched to hold the boards in place while some form of glue and reinforcement could be used to join the boards.
Having said all of that, corrugated steel is highly transportable and darn strong. It would be as easily worked by hand but it's more durable than any wood-based product.
The sample shown in the article is a joke. There's no way to economically treat corrugated after it's made. You could immerse it in polymers and take care to force it through all the flute spaces but it will still have huge structural weaknesses and be vulnerable to water. The vast majority of paper fibers used to make corrugated and non-print-surface cardboard outside the U.S. use recycled fibers which are shorter than virgin and very weak. Recycling paper breaks the fibers down. Strength of paper comes from multiple adhesions of fibers and proper adhesive. Recycled board is just not suited for something like housing.
No, I'm not running OS 5. I'm running a variant of OS 3 because all that HMO stuff looks like a great way to bog down the devices and make them choke during recording.
t =31854
h p?threadid=144391
Google Sanderton's TWP hacks and you should find his replies about where to patch to change the onscreen offset options. It's been months since I looked into it.
I've always found it's far easier/safer to just get another DTiVo and set hard padding for my season passes while running EndPadPlus: http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?
This one is also incredibly helpful except it doesn't support deleting season passes: http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.p
Answer to your first comment: Buy another TiVo. This whole string of whininess is getting out of hand.
Answer to your second comment: No, you are incorrect. The only reason someone would NEED to make a hardware mod is they are using very outdated hacking methods or they're trying to steal service by removing some of the access card security.
I've got 3 DTiVos. All are set using hacks to auto-pad and yes, there is a way to share scheduling to resolve conflicts. It's simple and still a little buggy but it can be done. PC MediaPortal will probably make it a lot easier to add these types of enhanced capabilities than TWP.
Ahh, how unique, the screaming of the ignorant.
All you have to do is change a few environment variables to set custom offset options. That's only been public knowledge for the past 3 major OS revisions...
Uh...maybe you should look at a TiVo before you make such definitive statements with a lack of knowledge.
TiVo most certainly does have the ability to start/stop early by variable amounts of time.
OK, guys, take off the foil hats and put away your copy of the Paranoia game.
Mary Mapes illegally obtained classified photos from Abu Ghraib which were part of a DoD investigation. (Mary Mapes is the "producer" of the 60 Minutes II episode with the forged GWB documents..."producer"...interesting term...)
Maybe the DoD did have some influence on Google. Maybe Google's lawyers are smart enough to know that Mapes' release of those photos had the very real potential to destroy the DoD's legal cases against the soldiers who participated. News media reports "taint" jurors, be they civilians or military officers being selected to serve on a courts martial.
Granted, the images have already had very widespread circulation but why contribute to the problem?
That's just as plausible an explanation as the typical Slashdot conspiracy kookery.
"Fight the war that is not the war that Bush wished for. Vote Kerry"
Uh...the election was 4 days ago.
The Democrat party's motto is "vote early, vote often" not "vote 4 days late."
Doofus.
Yeah, damn them, they split that off into a 24-hour channel called The Science Channel and a companion called Discovery Health which covers human biology and related issues.
Pretty rotten of them, huh?
There's also National Geographic Channel with shows like Seconds from Disaster and Megastructures. History Channel has Tactical to Practical, Modern Marvels and Guts & Bolts. History Channel International has a significant number of shows about how structures were built.
Yeah, too bad there isn't any decent science on TV.
Sigh....these things take on a life of their own, don't they?
The true roots of this are a wooden seal of the US which had passive reflectors in it. It worked by reflecting waves transmitted into the room. That kind of thing worked when electronics were fairly rare inside offices and pre-TEMPEST.
There was also an embassy building which couldn't be used due to embedded bugs.
Beamed energy creating a rare form of leukemia in a specific individual? Nope. Read a decent medical textbook.
$1 billion USD/day is just over $3/day/resident. If you do the math with more accurate numbers you'll find it wokr out to around $0.10-0.15/hour/person.
You didn't think "personally" even though you claimed to.
The rest of your post is just as unrealistic.
France has, what, 2 aircraft carriers, one of which lost it's screw on the maiden voyage? They did nothing in Rwanda, Haiti or the Sudan. Of course they don't have to spend money. They don't do anything.
/= capability of military /= linear scale of cost.
Germany? When was the last time Germany had a capable military. Hint...think swastika.
Canada. That would be the country just North of the U.S. which is protected by the U.S., wouldn't it?
China. Slave labor and pirated technology (or given by companies like Loral.)
India. What do they do outside their own borders?
Poland. Ditto
Italy. Ditto
Netherlands. Ditto
Watch their numbers go up if the U.S. cut things dramatically.
There's no Comanche prototypes? Really? I've seen 2. It was to be a what? scout helicopter? Now tech has developed so much that UAVs are practical. Must have been a great investment in tech and look at the savings between what would have been deployed and what actually is. Fantastic!
Numbers of troops
"The US spends way too much on its armed forces and the population suffers at the expense of the military-industrial lobby."
Really? Amazing. And your proof is...nonexistant.
The level of creature comforts and services available to Americans continues to grow at an astounding rate. In America, a person has to truly work hard to avoid eating regularly and living in safe housing. 100 years ago, that wasn't the case in the U.S. But, of course, there weren't things like an Interstate road system or a national electrical grid. And just why did those come into existance? They were created for national defense by those horrible capitalist industries. You know, the same ones that generate enough food to feed 80% of the world and developed the technologies which allow the computer on which you typed your drivel to exist.
Time for you to put on the big kid pants and stop complaining.
The U.S. government spends more on education than it does for the military.
The problem with public education in America is not a lack of funding, it's a lack of accountability.
You've just repeated the same, old, tired liberal crap propaganda which has been going on since the Great Generation junk of the 60s.
There's no proven causation between amount of money spent on public education and levels of proficiency among students. If there were, U.S. public school kids would be at the top of proficiency comparisons.
The media most certainly has not "rolled over" for Bush. Viacom owns CBS of memogate multiple felony fame and has published more anti-Bush books than any other major publisher. Their TV news shows terrorist violence in Iraq on a dialy basis but they don't show infrastructure modernization in the peaceful areas occupied by 75% of Iraqis.
Pure democracy never works because it's simply mob rule.
Deregulation isn't "to blame" for a market delivering what a market wants. Deregulation included the removal of "equal time" requirements which had the effect of restricting reporting. Revenue must be generated for an operation to succeed and it's not generated by broadcasting what nobody watches.
What most people refer to as "democracy" necessitates a market economy. The market delivers what people want. There most certainly IS a "good reason for a very few major media players to own the game." It's called a free market. It was Great Britain who wanted to prevent a free press in the Colonies. There are far fewer restrictions on the press in the U.S. than any other country.
When I was in grade school we had ABC, CBS, NBC and possibly a PBS station if the weather was good. Then cable became available and we got C-Span, CNN and the commercial educational channels. Now I've got DirecTV which adds Bloomberg, Fox News, BBCAmerica and even more educational channels.
When I was in grade school we had the local newspaper, Time, Newsweek and US News. When I was in Junior High we got USA Today and bulletin boards. Now we've got blogs, Air America, Rush Limbaugh, Al Bawaba, MEMRI, Pravda, and countless other online versions of magazines and newspapers from around the world.
Yeah, that seems like restriction of information..NOT!!!
Time for you to grow up.
An episode of Future Fighting Machines on TechTV has video of this and other small robots. They called this one PackBot.
y /0,24330,3426117,00.html
That particular episode is on tonight, May 22nd at 8PM EST.
The episode description is at http://www.techtv.com/futurefightingmachines/stor
PackBot The Tactical Mobile Robot nicknamed PackBot is a little aluminum robot warrior that scouts enemies for you. It can be dropped onto concrete from a height of over 9 feet and is waterproof to a depth of nearly 10 feet. PackBot was first designed to help mobile strike forces in urban terrain.
Boy, is that way off-base.
Land Mines have a military use. Did you forget that? Until there is a reliable method for smart mine or other area suppresion weapon like FireStorm, they are the most effective way to prevent an adversary from moving across land.
The idea that politicians want to keep land mines to ensure jobs is ridiculous. Upon what facts do you base that statement? Do you have any idea how few people are actually employed making them?
Regarding the Kyoto treaty, have you ever read it? American factories were to be restricted with regard to their emissions yet Chinese, Indian and Eastern European factories were not. When was the last time you visited an industrial complex in one of those areas? They're horrible with all kinds of unfiltered liquid and gaseous emissions. How long have you been reading Slashdot? Haven't you ever seen the articles about disassembly of circuit boards in China?
Kyoto hid under the cloak of global warming which is really just a political thing. Sure, people can affect the environment to some extent but thinking we are destroying the environment is not only scientifically invalid, it's almost unspeakably arrogant and naive. We live in the middle of a planet-sized filter which recycles virtually everything within itself. We can't predict the weather 5 days in advance yet global warming zealots claim to understand environmental cycles?!?! Riiiight.
The Kyoto accord was NOT ratified by the non-U.S. countries who tried to get the U.S. to commit to follow it. Would American companies have been forced to shut down or move operations overseas? Yes. Think, where would they have moved manufacturing? Probably to countries which were exempted from the accord. How, exactly, would moving production from the U.S. to areas which were to be exempt from environmental limitations contribute to a cleaner environment?
The Kyoto accord was an attempt to hobble American industry by countries which are not able to match the U.S. level of productivity because of their political environments.
As much as possible, producers of any product or service want to be as physically close to their customers as possible. Transportation and time differences cost money, real money.
Your comments were pure socialist rhetoric. THey have no basis in the reality of our physical world which is subject to the law of diminishing returns.
ADHD and the marjority of depression is related to the brain's supply of seratonin. Seratonin is a carrier which moves electrical charges across the synapses. The vast majority of the time, these are used once then thrown away, essentially. However, ADHD and depression are very directly related to the body's manufacture of seratonin. If the body doesn't make enough, signals don't get transferred. There are a number of good drugs, other than Ritalin, which can help. They typically inhibit the brain's destruction of seratonin for a little while. Over time, a few days, the brain has a more "normal" amount of seratonin.
I'm ADHD and was scared of this type of thing for a long time. Prozac and Ritalin are early-generation drugs. They're like sledgehammers. When I finally realized a low seratonin level is a strucutral/performance issue of the body, it was an incredible relief. Currently, I'm taking effexor which helps increase the level of 2 brain chemicals. For me, it does not remove the creativity, it makes me more aware of the linear nature of time and allows me to maintain focus on tasks better. I was scared I'd lose the creative edge. I was scared it would numb me. That hasn't been the case.
The author also combines a description of the cabling with color model. This is someone who understands game creation for TVs?!?! NTSC DV pumped through an S-Video cable is 4:1:1 color, PAL DV is 4:2:0. Artifacts? Yes. The same type? No. can RGB color model be sent over analog cables? Yup.
The author has a classic case of knowing enough to be dangerous but now knowing enough to know you don't know enough.
The word you are looking for is "shill."
Huh? How is a steel tube "plush"?
At one time I had a small software company. We outsourced all the phone and fax messages since we didn't have people to work 24/7/365.
One of the things I learned is an incoming toll-free fax cost me a lot more than a voice call because a single page fax was completed very quickly and the charge was per call/per page.
So...if you're getting hit with crap like junk faxes, fax it back to them on their toll-free fax number about 30 times.
It took about a month of this but I don't get lots of junk fax anymore, except for the a**holes that block caller ID and don't list a number to get off their list.
Another fun trick was to use a standard fax machine with a continuous loop of paper. Let that baby run for about 10-15 minutes and you'll create a lot of clutter on the receiver's end.
I agree with you and have had 4 different Z-series Lexmark printers. The nozzles gunk up all the time. About 2 years ago the color cartridges started leaking. They'll form a crust on the bottom, especially with the yellow. Right now I'm using refill black from inkjetrefills.com until the color cartridges wear out them I'm tossing these pritners. When they first came on the market their water-resistant black was a godsend. They could finally be used for business letters and envelopes. Now, there are other sources for water-resistant black ink. The real cheap Epsons that show up for $30-$50 do a better job with color, less banding. They're noisy as all get out, though.
I've seen the guy who modifies the Epson printers at ComputerPro shows in Charlotte. They look nice but we very careful. He's never answered any of my emails asking about the ink. He'll claim he's tested all kinds of inks and is using a custom formula. Riiiight. I sell printing machiens for packaging. This guy's printer business is a hobby. He's got custom small batches of precise ink being made just for him? Uh-huh. Maybe it's a standard ink with a ph modification or something like that. Custom ink is expensive. The point is, if you buy one of these, all indications are you'd be locked into him as your sole source for ink.