He had it backwards as well. In almost all states, voluntary termination(quitting) gets you nothing. It's the involuntary termination(fired) that gets you unemployment. It's also very helpful to have extenuating circumstances as to why you shouldn't have been fired. The best chances at unemployment are industry or economy related layoffs.
Windows 2000 and WinXP Pro are routinely marketed, in advertising, and by MS sales reps, that it is the most secure product in the market; that to use any other OS would be to endanger your data. Puffery? Extreme. Windows has come a long way, but it still isn't even close to the security provided by most commericial unices or even Linux.
No. Currently, the Federal Trade Commission allows "Puffery". A slight exaggeration of a things greatness. Or speed. Or value. An example would be video cards. How can everyone advertise they build the fastest cards? They all do. They are faster than everyone elses, at one particular mode or function. This is where driver fixing for benchmarks comes into play. It allows them to make claims that aren't fully truth, or fully lying.
Another example of puffery that goes too far: weight loss pills. The FTC recently persued over 30 diet pill manufacturers for making entirely false claims. Have you seen in a magazine, the advert where there are side-by-side pictures of before and after using a product. The FTC realized that these before and after shots were really airbrushed, processed, computerized, or somehow otherwise altered. In many cases, the before and after shots didn't even have the same people; the head of a fit person was grafted onto the body of an obese person. This is blatant false advertising.
There is a difference between false advertising and puffery. False advertising is when claims made are false in entirety. Microsoft does have functional security; it is just far more lax and insecure than they admit.
Nope. The Farad is quite useful. Just not in your average electronic projects.
What then, is a farad useful for? Blowing up small wires. First you charge an exceptionally large number of capacitors in parallel, then discharge them through a very small wire at a rate only controlled by their internal resistance. The wire melts, then vaporizes so fast that they physically explode.
Quite useful for scaring the shit out of the neighbors.
Mensa membership actually requires very little of you. Mensa only certifies that you are at or above a specific intelligence relative to the average of society. They demand nothing of you as to ethics, posture, or good manners.
I'm qualified to be a Mensa member; however I'm not so pretentious to think that being a Mensa member would make me a better person. Nor do I think I like any of the Mensa members around me. So, all of you Mensa snobs remember this: there are many around you with far greater intelligence. Do not assume because you are the member of an elitist and snobbish group that you are the best.
I'll use myself for an example: IQ - 151 Percentile rank: 0.4% At 0.4%, roughly 1 out of every 200 persons on average would be more intelligent than myself. Every Mensa member I've ever met walks around believing they are the most intelligent person in the room, at all times.
No pr0n. That's what the internet is for. And you'll find more than you have time for there.
I think a better use for it would be a Govt. subsidized, public wireless network that can be used by all. Internet for everyone sounds better than 312 Spice channels. Dontcha think?
You got it. When the DVD Consortium sets a DRM standard, the DVD Player producers must follow suit or they lose business to Media/Hardware conglomerates who will support the new standard. This costs them a lot of money to keep up with constantly changing DRM standards. It cuts into their profits. And no matter what the MPAA says, DRM will not increase the sales of DVD's or the sales of DVD players. Everyone who really wants a DVD player already owns one. The only way to get consumers out there to buy new players is if they *have* to. They will have to piggyback DRM on new players with value-adding features for a while before requiring it. To alienate your consumers is to kill yourself fiscally.
Computer simulations confirmed what they've already done in the lab. This whole talk about shooting the crystal with a bullet is what they did; not what they simulated.
That depends soley on the manufacturer. If an airbag is deployed, for instance, many ECU's will not overwrite the data logged, but will continue to log OBDII mandated data if the engine continues to run. Some ECU's will, in the event the car is driven, simply overwrite the previously stored data. Did you read the part where 40(or 60%, can't remember now) of datalogging capable ECU's couldn't be retrieved. Part of this is programming, part of this is electrical disruption, and the other part is physical damage to the ECU/datalogger.
Yes, there is a datalog purge function, but you have to have the manufacturers ID key for your car. It is for authentication and is proprietary. With this ID key, they are able to reprogram ECU's, find problems that aren't available to independant repair shops, as well as purge usage/accident data.
They do not have physical reset buttons. Some of them aren't even external. I've seen some cars do this logging internally. Protocol wise, it's hard to pin down. Although manufacturers do have to support a minimum of standards, much of it is proprietary. Any dealer that has the ability to reflash an ECU has the ability to pull the old image off, or delve into the datalogging. Some of the logging is standard, most isn't and is specific to a brand or specific make. If you can actually get at the data, it isn't encrypted, you can read it. You might not be able to decipher it though, as you might not recognize the tags for all of the sensors.
Discusses OBDII, not from a completely unbiased source information is accurate, some of it is incomplete though
Straight from the horses mouth, US Environmental Protection Agency More information than you care to read, in the search box, enter 'OBDII' without single quotes. This should enlighten you on the original intent of the OBD legislation, as well as the legal basis it stands on(see also, Clean Air Act,1970)
If you care about the future, this one is more serious than most as far as privacy goes. Please, please, if you don't ever write your representative again, write about this.
In most US states, they have what is called a 'Hot Persuit' law. Basically, if a cop chases a bank robber into your house and finds you with 100 pounds of weed, you go to jail. This is legal and has been tested thoroughly in a court of law. The policeman did not have, or need, a warrant to enter your house. In Portland, OR, a Portland Trailblazer(NBA basketball, for you geeks w/o TV's) team player's house alarm went off. When the squad car showed up, the front door was unlocked but it didn't appear that anyone was inside. Following standard procedure, the policemen entered the house to investigate the alarm, and found a substantial amount of weed. In this case, the evidence was thrown out because the 'hot persuit' law didn't apply. There wasn't reasonable cause for the search of the house. Another point of note was that the weed was found behind the closed door of a space too small for a person to fit into. Because of the details of this case, he got off.
Here's a response to a lot of questions people will have:
Which cars have it?
How long have cars had it?
Here's a lengthy explanation: All cars released in the United States are OBDII compatible. This has been a federal mandate since 1998, although some carmakers decided to support OBDII in 1997 and some(including Toyota) had limited compliance in 1996. OBDII is an extension of OBDI, an earlier version of the standard. Carmakers were well aware that this law was coming, many thought ahead.
What is OBDII It stands for Onboard Diagnostics, version two. It is a requirement for all cars mass produced(exemptions are issued, but it is for specialty manufacturers). It is a standard describing the diagnostics, logging, and interface to the Engine and Powertrain Controller Unit present in all fuel injected cars. Some of the parameters are always monitored, such as vehicle speed, air/fuel ratio, injector pulse lengths, rpm, gear(for automatics mostly), air flow meter/absolute manifold pressure meter, throttle/accelerator pedal position, and measured oxygen sensor output. There were minimums set for what a car had to monitor, but it is an extensible protocol and carmakers were free to extend it as much as they liked. Once the framework was there, extending it to include things like steering wheel position and brake pedal position/brake system pressure were easy. One of the minimums though, was that all cars had to maintain a 30 second rolling-log of all sensors and that as a minimum, the required sensor inputs had to be saved at the moment a sensor fault is detected. Hell, with the price of Flash memory these days, 30 minutes of logging was feasible. Many cars maintain a very detailed log of your driving activity.
So, in response, all new cars sold today have some form of limited logging, and many have very detailed logging. The only differences being what is logged, and for how long.
If you have any questions, just ask. Believe me, I know. It is my job to know.
What the hell are you talking about? Finally, some good legislation(anti-spam bills are almost always good) comes out of the Senate/House and you complain? Call them punk-ass for giving you what you want? sounds like an easy way to win campaign points. That's the whole point. They give you what you want, and then you vote for them again. Ideally, this is how it is supposed to work. I'll vote for anyone who's looking out for the citizens more than the companies. After all, SPAM IS BIG BUSINESS. Alan Ralsky and friends wouldn't do it if they didn't make money. Nuf said. So shut the hell up and vote!
Don't believe everything you read. This article is full of inaccuracies. Not necessarily lies, just not whole truths. First off, the article says that in 1996, all auto manufacturers agreed to use a standard set of emissions diagnostic codes. This wasn't of they're own accord. Starting 1/1/1998, this was federally required as part of the OBD2 diagnostic system for all cars sold in the US. The manufacturers were aware of this, because years earlier, they were forced to comply with OBD1 standards(they weren't really standard, though. That's partially why OBD1 was replaced.)
Even before they voluntarily agreed to disclose all diagnostic codes, 99% of the codes were already available. They'd been discovered by independent diagnostic equipment makers, trying to get an edge on the competition. The most important codes are not the emissions codes, they are the powertrain diagnostic codes. The codes for many manufacturers were already known in entirety, so this only affects shops that rely soley on the diagnostic equipment they already have. Some shops are unaware that the codes can be found on the internet, and will remain in the dark as they cannot afford new diagnostic equipment.
GNU/crumpets are 90% POSIX compatible, implementing most standard methods. However, several POSIX specified ingredients are substituted with different, more flavorful, incompatible ingredients. GNU/crumpets are a mere approximation of POSIX compliant crumpets and are not interchangeable in all situations.
- No degradation through normal viewing. You can watch your DVD as many times as you want and it will look the same every time. They are however less damage resistant in that 1 deep scratch in the right spot will turn the disc into a beer coaster.
- Near-instant access You can fast forward or rewind to almost any point in the feature with the flick of a finger. With on-demand tech, this may never be an option. One of the biggest complaints with VHS were that you had to rewind them, and this took a long time. As did fast forwarding(or slow, I should say). Finding a particular scene took quite a while with VHS. Try doing this over a latency ridden network! It wont work. I don't think my cable company is going to install multiple, seperate gigabit networks for each neighborhood or street. If they did, I'm afraid of what I'd have to pay for it. Bandwidth costs. The cost structure to support it would be unfavorable to most consumers.
A high percentage of the cost of a DVD is the content, bonus content, profit, and packaging. The DVD disc itself is a small percentage of the cost of a DVD. If an on-demand service let you buy rights to view an on-demand movie whenever you want, however often you wanted, there would be continual costs incurred as well as initial investment. Even if I only pay $5 to buy a movie the first time, I won't pay another dime to watch it again. The recurring costs for the cable company to let you watch a movie again and again for free is unprofitable.
I'm not saying Video-on-Demand is built to fail. It can work in the same capacity that Pay-per-view does. The infrastructure required to suport VoD will not be put into place until either it comes over the preexisting copper or wide adoptance will make it profitable.
In short, VoD must provide the same features as a DVD at a lower cost before most consumers will consider it over actually purchasing a DVD. There are also those who, given both options, would choose the DVD every time.
The income tax alone should suck enough to make you not want to live there. A long long time ago...
I worked in Portland OR and lived in Vancouver WA and I still had to pay income tax. WTF? Why? I used (round trip) 15 miles of tarmac per day, 5 times a week. My income tax came out to about 7K$ per year. That means I spent less on gas going to work than I did paying the tax driving to work.
And if you are dealing with a high tech DWDM transmission, you'd have problems tapping it without a repeater with a digital tap in it. This would cause latency, which would also be detectable.
It can be done. It cannot be done transparently. It takes a fair bit of time and equipment and even if you are sucessful, they will still be able to tell.
The future I see coming out well before optical microprocessors:
Field Programmable Fiber Arrays. They will be hybrid chips with semiconductor controls and fiber optic IO. The telecoms are gonna shit their pants when this stuff comes out. These are going to be ultra-high speed stateless DSP's, capable of outprocessing their electronic counterparts in magnitudes of superiority.
Just imagine the benefits: Less latency Higher bandwidth On-The-Fly topology reconfiguration Learning switch fabric
No. The desire for this is huge. There already a lot of firms using ProE who have to put up with many development environments because it wasn't a Linux option. Of course, some are willing to put up with VMWare-ing it but thats a PITA.
Anyone who reads mailing lists or newsgroups knows how much people have been screaming for this. Just in case anyone was wondering, this might be one of those breakthrough apps that gives Linux mountains of credibility at the enterprise/collaberation level. This will probably help draw more developers to the platform; also something we could always use more of.
They must filter UV because that is what causes sunburns, which is primarily what also causes damage to the eyes. I can weld for 8 hours straight without any eye sore at all. If I do it without wearing my leather welding gloves or coat for even an hour, my arms will be red, warm, and burning by the next day. Just goes to show how much UV welding arcs put otu.
Crazy. The corneal burn on a humans eyes from looking at a welders arc at close range can last 6-8 hours for even a fraction of a second of exposure. If you looked at it for more than 4 or 5 seconds, I'd imagine you'd have lifelong damage.
Yes, a 14 is quite a bit darker than a 12. Must be pretty bright sun; cuz with my welding goggles on outdoors I can barely see around me.
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He had it backwards as well. In almost all states, voluntary termination(quitting) gets you nothing. It's the involuntary termination(fired) that gets you unemployment. It's also very helpful to have extenuating circumstances as to why you shouldn't have been fired. The best chances at unemployment are industry or economy related layoffs.
Windows 2000 and WinXP Pro are routinely marketed, in advertising, and by MS sales reps, that it is the most secure product in the market; that to use any other OS would be to endanger your data. Puffery? Extreme. Windows has come a long way, but it still isn't even close to the security provided by most commericial unices or even Linux.
No. Currently, the Federal Trade Commission allows "Puffery". A slight exaggeration of a things greatness. Or speed. Or value. An example would be video cards. How can everyone advertise they build the fastest cards? They all do. They are faster than everyone elses, at one particular mode or function. This is where driver fixing for benchmarks comes into play. It allows them to make claims that aren't fully truth, or fully lying.
Another example of puffery that goes too far: weight loss pills. The FTC recently persued over 30 diet pill manufacturers for making entirely false claims. Have you seen in a magazine, the advert where there are side-by-side pictures of before and after using a product. The FTC realized that these before and after shots were really airbrushed, processed, computerized, or somehow otherwise altered. In many cases, the before and after shots didn't even have the same people; the head of a fit person was grafted onto the body of an obese person. This is blatant false advertising.
There is a difference between false advertising and puffery. False advertising is when claims made are false in entirety. Microsoft does have functional security; it is just far more lax and insecure than they admit.
Nope. The Farad is quite useful. Just not in your average electronic projects.
What then, is a farad useful for? Blowing up small wires. First you charge an exceptionally large number of capacitors in parallel, then discharge them through a very small wire at a rate only controlled by their internal resistance. The wire melts, then vaporizes so fast that they physically explode.
Quite useful for scaring the shit out of the neighbors.
Yup. That's the only thing a farad is good for.
Mensa membership actually requires very little of you. Mensa only certifies that you are at or above a specific intelligence relative to the average of society. They demand nothing of you as to ethics, posture, or good manners.
I'm qualified to be a Mensa member; however I'm not so pretentious to think that being a Mensa member would make me a better person. Nor do I think I like any of the Mensa members around me. So, all of you Mensa snobs remember this: there are many around you with far greater intelligence. Do not assume because you are the member of an elitist and snobbish group that you are the best.
I'll use myself for an example:
IQ - 151
Percentile rank: 0.4%
At 0.4%, roughly 1 out of every 200 persons on average would be more intelligent than myself. Every Mensa member I've ever met walks around believing they are the most intelligent person in the room, at all times.
Hmm...
No pr0n. That's what the internet is for. And you'll find more than you have time for there.
I think a better use for it would be a Govt. subsidized, public wireless network that can be used by all. Internet for everyone sounds better than 312 Spice channels. Dontcha think?
You got it. When the DVD Consortium sets a DRM standard, the DVD Player producers must follow suit or they lose business to Media/Hardware conglomerates who will support the new standard. This costs them a lot of money to keep up with constantly changing DRM standards. It cuts into their profits. And no matter what the MPAA says, DRM will not increase the sales of DVD's or the sales of DVD players. Everyone who really wants a DVD player already owns one. The only way to get consumers out there to buy new players is if they *have* to. They will have to piggyback DRM on new players with value-adding features for a while before requiring it. To alienate your consumers is to kill yourself fiscally.
Read The Fúcking Article.
Computer simulations confirmed what they've already done in the lab. This whole talk about shooting the crystal with a bullet is what they did; not what they simulated.
That depends soley on the manufacturer. If an airbag is deployed, for instance, many ECU's will not overwrite the data logged, but will continue to log OBDII mandated data if the engine continues to run. Some ECU's will, in the event the car is driven, simply overwrite the previously stored data. Did you read the part where 40(or 60%, can't remember now) of datalogging capable ECU's couldn't be retrieved. Part of this is programming, part of this is electrical disruption, and the other part is physical damage to the ECU/datalogger.
Yes, there is a datalog purge function, but you have to have the manufacturers ID key for your car. It is for authentication and is proprietary. With this ID key, they are able to reprogram ECU's, find problems that aren't available to independant repair shops, as well as purge usage/accident data.
They do not have physical reset buttons. Some of them aren't even external. I've seen some cars do this logging internally. Protocol wise, it's hard to pin down. Although manufacturers do have to support a minimum of standards, much of it is proprietary. Any dealer that has the ability to reflash an ECU has the ability to pull the old image off, or delve into the datalogging. Some of the logging is standard, most isn't and is specific to a brand or specific make. If you can actually get at the data, it isn't encrypted, you can read it. You might not be able to decipher it though, as you might not recognize the tags for all of the sensors.
advocacy, informational website
Discusses OBDII, not from a completely unbiased source
information is accurate, some of it is incomplete though
Straight from the horses mouth,
US Environmental Protection Agency
More information than you care to read, in the search box, enter 'OBDII' without single quotes. This should enlighten you on the original intent of the OBD legislation, as well as the legal basis it stands on(see also, Clean Air Act,1970)
If you care about the future, this one is more serious than most as far as privacy goes. Please, please, if you don't ever write your representative again, write about this.
Here's a breakdown of OBDIII, what it means for your car, and what it means for your privacy
OBDIII summarized at University of Minnesota, Mechanical Engineering dept.
This talks about the current status of diagnostics, legislation, and what's coming on the horizon like locus in egypt.
Yeah... Get this.
In most US states, they have what is called a 'Hot Persuit' law. Basically, if a cop chases a bank robber into your house and finds you with 100 pounds of weed, you go to jail. This is legal and has been tested thoroughly in a court of law. The policeman did not have, or need, a warrant to enter your house. In Portland, OR, a Portland Trailblazer(NBA basketball, for you geeks w/o TV's) team player's house alarm went off. When the squad car showed up, the front door was unlocked but it didn't appear that anyone was inside. Following standard procedure, the policemen entered the house to investigate the alarm, and found a substantial amount of weed. In this case, the evidence was thrown out because the 'hot persuit' law didn't apply. There wasn't reasonable cause for the search of the house. Another point of note was that the weed was found behind the closed door of a space too small for a person to fit into. Because of the details of this case, he got off.
Here's a response to a lot of questions people will have:
Which cars have it?
How long have cars had it?
Here's a lengthy explanation:
All cars released in the United States are OBDII compatible. This has been a federal mandate since 1998, although some carmakers decided to support OBDII in 1997 and some(including Toyota) had limited compliance in 1996. OBDII is an extension of OBDI, an earlier version of the standard. Carmakers were well aware that this law was coming, many thought ahead.
What is OBDII
It stands for Onboard Diagnostics, version two. It is a requirement for all cars mass produced(exemptions are issued, but it is for specialty manufacturers). It is a standard describing the diagnostics, logging, and interface to the Engine and Powertrain Controller Unit present in all fuel injected cars. Some of the parameters are always monitored, such as vehicle speed, air/fuel ratio, injector pulse lengths, rpm, gear(for automatics mostly), air flow meter/absolute manifold pressure meter, throttle/accelerator pedal position, and measured oxygen sensor output. There were minimums set for what a car had to monitor, but it is an extensible protocol and carmakers were free to extend it as much as they liked. Once the framework was there, extending it to include things like steering wheel position and brake pedal position/brake system pressure were easy. One of the minimums though, was that all cars had to maintain a 30 second rolling-log of all sensors and that as a minimum, the required sensor inputs had to be saved at the moment a sensor fault is detected. Hell, with the price of Flash memory these days, 30 minutes of logging was feasible. Many cars maintain a very detailed log of your driving activity.
So, in response, all new cars sold today have some form of limited logging, and many have very detailed logging. The only differences being what is logged, and for how long.
If you have any questions, just ask. Believe me, I know. It is my job to know.
If there is no central licensing body, who gave authority to the MPA to sue LyricFind on behalf of the copyright holders?
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What the hell are you talking about? Finally, some good legislation(anti-spam bills are almost always good) comes out of the Senate/House and you complain? Call them punk-ass for giving you what you want?
sounds like an easy way to win campaign points.
That's the whole point. They give you what you want, and then you vote for them again. Ideally, this is how it is supposed to work. I'll vote for anyone who's looking out for the citizens more than the companies. After all, SPAM IS BIG BUSINESS. Alan Ralsky and friends wouldn't do it if they didn't make money. Nuf said. So shut the hell up and vote!
Don't believe everything you read. This article is full of inaccuracies. Not necessarily lies, just not whole truths. First off, the article says that in 1996, all auto manufacturers agreed to use a standard set of emissions diagnostic codes. This wasn't of they're own accord. Starting 1/1/1998, this was federally required as part of the OBD2 diagnostic system for all cars sold in the US. The manufacturers were aware of this, because years earlier, they were forced to comply with OBD1 standards(they weren't really standard, though. That's partially why OBD1 was replaced.)
Even before they voluntarily agreed to disclose all diagnostic codes, 99% of the codes were already available. They'd been discovered by independent diagnostic equipment makers, trying to get an edge on the competition. The most important codes are not the emissions codes, they are the powertrain diagnostic codes. The codes for many manufacturers were already known in entirety, so this only affects shops that rely soley on the diagnostic equipment they already have. Some shops are unaware that the codes can be found on the internet, and will remain in the dark as they cannot afford new diagnostic equipment.
Research first, write later.
GNU/crumpets are 90% POSIX compatible, implementing most standard methods. However, several POSIX specified ingredients are substituted with different, more flavorful, incompatible ingredients. GNU/crumpets are a mere approximation of POSIX compliant crumpets and are not interchangeable in all situations.
See also:
GNU/tea
Look at why DVD's are popular:
- No degradation through normal viewing.
You can watch your DVD as many times as you want and it will look the same every time. They are however less damage resistant in that 1 deep scratch in the right spot will turn the disc into a beer coaster.
- Near-instant access
You can fast forward or rewind to almost any point in the feature with the flick of a finger. With on-demand tech, this may never be an option. One of the biggest complaints with VHS were that you had to rewind them, and this took a long time. As did fast forwarding(or slow, I should say). Finding a particular scene took quite a while with VHS. Try doing this over a latency ridden network! It wont work. I don't think my cable company is going to install multiple, seperate gigabit networks for each neighborhood or street. If they did, I'm afraid of what I'd have to pay for it. Bandwidth costs. The cost structure to support it would be unfavorable to most consumers.
A high percentage of the cost of a DVD is the content, bonus content, profit, and packaging. The DVD disc itself is a small percentage of the cost of a DVD. If an on-demand service let you buy rights to view an on-demand movie whenever you want, however often you wanted, there would be continual costs incurred as well as initial investment. Even if I only pay $5 to buy a movie the first time, I won't pay another dime to watch it again. The recurring costs for the cable company to let you watch a movie again and again for free is unprofitable.
I'm not saying Video-on-Demand is built to fail. It can work in the same capacity that Pay-per-view does. The infrastructure required to suport VoD will not be put into place until either it comes over the preexisting copper or wide adoptance will make it profitable.
In short, VoD must provide the same features as a DVD at a lower cost before most consumers will consider it over actually purchasing a DVD. There are also those who, given both options, would choose the DVD every time.
The income tax alone should suck enough to make you not want to live there. A long long time ago...
I worked in Portland OR and lived in Vancouver WA and I still had to pay income tax. WTF? Why? I used (round trip) 15 miles of tarmac per day, 5 times a week. My income tax came out to about 7K$ per year. That means I spent less on gas going to work than I did paying the tax driving to work.
That is some seriously fucked up stuff.
Right.
And if you are dealing with a high tech DWDM transmission, you'd have problems tapping it without a repeater with a digital tap in it. This would cause latency, which would also be detectable.
It can be done. It cannot be done transparently. It takes a fair bit of time and equipment and even if you are sucessful, they will still be able to tell.
I can't wait.
The future I see coming out well before optical microprocessors:
Field Programmable Fiber Arrays. They will be hybrid chips with semiconductor controls and fiber optic IO. The telecoms are gonna shit their pants when this stuff comes out. These are going to be ultra-high speed stateless DSP's, capable of outprocessing their electronic counterparts in magnitudes of superiority.
Just imagine the benefits:
Less latency
Higher bandwidth
On-The-Fly topology reconfiguration
Learning switch fabric
No. The desire for this is huge. There already a lot of firms using ProE who have to put up with many development environments because it wasn't a Linux option. Of course, some are willing to put up with VMWare-ing it but thats a PITA.
Anyone who reads mailing lists or newsgroups knows how much people have been screaming for this. Just in case anyone was wondering, this might be one of those breakthrough apps that gives Linux mountains of credibility at the enterprise/collaberation level. This will probably help draw more developers to the platform; also something we could always use more of.
They must filter UV because that is what causes sunburns, which is primarily what also causes damage to the eyes. I can weld for 8 hours straight without any eye sore at all. If I do it without wearing my leather welding gloves or coat for even an hour, my arms will be red, warm, and burning by the next day. Just goes to show how much UV welding arcs put otu.
Crazy. The corneal burn on a humans eyes from looking at a welders arc at close range can last 6-8 hours for even a fraction of a second of exposure. If you looked at it for more than 4 or 5 seconds, I'd imagine you'd have lifelong damage.
Yes, a 14 is quite a bit darker than a 12. Must be pretty bright sun; cuz with my welding goggles on outdoors I can barely see around me.