There's lots of facts collected on global warming, be it either naturally occuring by the earth, or due to human activity. Frankenfood - I'm concerned about that - why should we be genetically modified food and putting it into our food supply? It is very difficult to predict the fallout from putting GE food directly in the rest of our food supply. DDT has been shown to be a carcinogen. The "death of the Web" I never heard of or believed, and in regards to gun control - I'm still of mixed opinion on that one. Mostly against at this moment.
But the question I have is: Who would benefit from this propaganda campaign?
Researchers have yet to show that non-ionizing radiation with longer wavelengths than UV can cause cancer. The only people who would really benefit from this campaign are people who don't like cell phones. Unless someone decided to make a "low radiation" device which used less energy... *shrug*
Modern GUIs use several terms that usually have some form of analogy to real-world terms. Desktop, Menu, Notepad - with the name indicating it's application. Yes - us more educated computer users understand that it's just the application name. But having application names that do not indicate it's function is very confusing to n00bs.
A lot of people get confused over Outlook just based on the name, if it wasn't for the icon indicating a letter or mail they wouldn't have a clue - or the fact they were taught at work how to use it.
Windows Media Player => implies it plays media Internet Explorer => you explore the internet Word => has something to do with words, probably a word processor MS Paint => implies painting, hence art/colourful stuff Instant Messenger => implies sending messages instantly
Photoshop => photos are in the name, guess what you use it for.....
Now, Microsoft isn't perfect at this game. They have some weird application names. Excel, Access, Visio, Outlook... but these applications have the benefit of being part of "Office" - and hence users just click on "Start a new document..." and don't have to even think about what application does what. Or how about Acrobat? Lots of people ask me what Acrobat is, and why they need to pay $1000 for it. Then I explain to them the difference between the reader and the full application, and only then do they seem to really understand.
Anyway, let's take a look at some open source application names:
Linux => what?:-) it doesn't tell the user anything. GIMP => huh? XMMS => ?? Kopete => ?? K3B => ?? Firefox => ? Thunderbird => ? KDE => ? GNOME => ?
How are any of those names helpful? All the n00bs just do is sit and stare at the names wondering what does what.
Now don't get the wrong impression of my bitching - i love ALL these applications. I use them regularly and I think they're great. (except Thunderbird, i use Evolution instead) But the names are pretty weak, and are more suitable as a "codename" instead of a release name.
Maybe someone should put together a distro that has everything renamed consistently throughout the operating system and includes relevant icons. Call it N00BIX or something.:-)
And people here wonder why they don't have a significant other...
I love working in the technology industry, but I would also enjoy having some time to myself and not dedicating my life to what? Programming a spreadsheet? Writing some code for a 3d game?
Get a life outside work people and stop making work your life.
It seems that the only way to fight this practice is to unionize. Employers don't often listen to their employees until they are on the brink of forming a union.
The initial delay until the bulb turns on is really only limited to fluorescent bulbs. Compact fluorescents are pretty much the same as the regular fluorescent tube lights and require a ballast to start the light up. The reason they need a ballast is due to the initial higher current required to energy the mercury vapor inside the bulb. After the tube is energized the resistance drops considerably and hence requires less current. The ballast is used to control the current between the initial activation of the bulb until it reaches it's normal operating current.
Part of the reason compact fluorescent bulbs were not available until the last 10 years is due to advancements in making the coiled glass, and reducing the size of the ballast. Old ballasts were magnet based and had a longer delay before working and were larger in size. Then electronic ballasts were created and allowed for the ballast to be made smaller. Hence why compact fluorescents are a feasible solution to some lighting problems.
LEDs on the other hand, require DC current like Fluorescent do, but there is no need to reduce the current after the LED turns on initially. So we should be seeing the short turn on time with LED lamps.
Colour rendering should also achieve more full spectrum light, but again, we're all probably used to various incadescent bulbs which have warmer colour rendering. (more yellowish) The enLux website shows neutral white bulbs being available, and should achieve the colour rendering you're looking for.
Newer compact fluorescent bulbs should achieve the colour rendering you want, but again, they still have the initial delay and are difficult to put on a dimmer switch. According to the enLux website, the LED floodlamps they provide are also non-dimmable. This is unfortunate since dimmer controls should simply cause a corresponding number of LEDs inside the bulb to turn off, this would provide some dimming effect. (but would certainly increase the price of the bulb even further) There must be a means of converting the analog voltage level into a corresponding digital signal to turn off a proportional number of LEDs...
Just make popups and banner ads appear on the page hosting all the torrent files.
Suprnova.org has been doing this for a while. And who's advertising on Suprnova.org??
Well, since I'm in Canada I keep seeing ads for the famous U.S. Greencard Lottery (yes - just like the first spam on the Internet.....) and for Zip.ca.
Zip.ca is an online DVD rental company like NetFlix.com - but Zip.ca has side banners on Suprnova.org
I think they also have pop-ups but I'm not sure since I have pop-up blocking on....
Have they decided to include an mp3 decoder with XMMS or Rythmbox?
Does updating packages work well?
Last time I used Fedora it was Core 1 and these two things alone drove me insane. I know they excluded an mp3 decoder due to patent reasons, but that's just lame - almost every other distro includes the decoder.
What do you propose we do with the nuclear waste left behind?
Bury it?
Fire it off into the sun?
Keep it in barrels around the facility to be later transported by train? And do you want those trains driving through your town?
I agree to an extent that we should be using more nuclear power instead of coal/oil/gas, but I feel this should be a short-run solution. Focus should be put onto solar, wind, and hydro while funding fusion research.
I also dislike your lack of addressing the problem of nuclear waste.
Actually, it's much easier to stop using their service.
Fuck Google. There's many many other search engines on the net. Since I now know Google is engaging in self-censorship, I'll just use another site that is not.
And obviously there is no research benefit to delibrately linking the site to Slashdot over and over again.......
"We survived an unprecedented triple flash crowd and logged it all," writes Tanenbaum. "As it turns out, two of the faculty members in my department, Maarten van Steen and Guillaume Pierre, are doing research on coping with flash crowds. The research issues include how many replicas to set up, where to place them, how fast to deploy them, and how to do it automatically, in real time, and at minimum cost. To simulate proposed algorithms, you need data about real flash crowds and real attacks, preferably at the same time. And boy oh boy do we have data now."
That's why you subscribe to a speedy internet provider so you can store all your files via some gmail/ms passport type service online. Screw the harddrive, that's whats driving up the costs. For basic document storage and information processing a harddrive is not necessary.
Have a very optimized Linux distro booted via Flash ROM. It automatically mounts your internet storage space on boot up. Let's say the data is stored remotely using an encrypted file system to satisfy the requirements of all those crypto geeks.
Websites like Discogs already offer discographies and band information for almost every signed musician out there for free. eMusic could establish a longterm contract with Discogs to continue providing that data.....
Remember the old Audiogalaxy.com? They provided the "Other people who downloaded this also downloaded this..." -- that was the greatest feature of that site. I found ridiculous numbers of new bands/artists I probably would never have been exposed to.
Immediate speedy download won't be all that hard to do once the cash begins to flow. Or maybe they should find a way to use a BitTorrent type protocol to help balance their load and lower their overall costs.....
What he's asking for is not all that unrealistic.
Heck - I'll add another standard requirement as well: valid and proper ID3 tagging.......
I also believe that a company offering this as a service should start NOW before someone offers an illegal equivalent utilizing BitTorrent - almost like Suprnova.org
"Echelon is a MPEG-1/2 video encoding program that accepts a wide array of media formats with custom settings and customizable presets. Accepts a wide variety of avi (divx, 3ivx, etc...) mpeg-1/2,.mov as well as many other formats. It contains queue capabilities and has a built in preview window."
It's video encoding software, not illegal at all and has many legal uses - but is also attractive to those who are ripping DVDs or dealing with pirated copyright video. According to a comment on the linked article, this software is popular for people trying to encode video for VCD and SVCD.
If they expect all those people who are encoding ripped movies to pay up, then they're targeting the wrong niche. Oh I understand - they want to make money from people ripping off other people's work.
This to my understanding has nothing to do with radiation, but the dust left behind after impact with a target.
Depleted Uranium is a heavy metal and the human body does not react to well when exposed to heavy metals. Lead exposure, especially to lead dust, can cause various forms of health conditions. Here's an EPA example of lead used in older paints:
Well, you should start expecting drive failures around now. I seem to be seeing Maxtor and Quantum drives dying all over the place these days... (all 40 to 80 GB drives).
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There's lots of facts collected on global warming, be it either naturally occuring by the earth, or due to human activity. Frankenfood - I'm concerned about that - why should we be genetically modified food and putting it into our food supply? It is very difficult to predict the fallout from putting GE food directly in the rest of our food supply. DDT has been shown to be a carcinogen. The "death of the Web" I never heard of or believed, and in regards to gun control - I'm still of mixed opinion on that one. Mostly against at this moment.
... *shrug*
But the question I have is: Who would benefit from this propaganda campaign?
Researchers have yet to show that non-ionizing radiation with longer wavelengths than UV can cause cancer. The only people who would really benefit from this campaign are people who don't like cell phones. Unless someone decided to make a "low radiation" device which used less energy
Here's the Occupational Safety & Health Administration list of research papers on the biological effects of non-ionizing on cells and humans.
See, your comparison doesn't work all that well.
... but these applications have the benefit of being part of "Office" - and hence users just click on "Start a new document..." and don't have to even think about what application does what.
:-) it doesn't tell the user anything.
:-)
Modern GUIs use several terms that usually have some form of analogy to real-world terms. Desktop, Menu, Notepad - with the name indicating it's application. Yes - us more educated computer users understand that it's just the application name. But having application names that do not indicate it's function is very confusing to n00bs.
A lot of people get confused over Outlook just based on the name, if it wasn't for the icon indicating a letter or mail they wouldn't have a clue - or the fact they were taught at work how to use it.
Windows Media Player => implies it plays media
Internet Explorer => you explore the internet
Word => has something to do with words, probably a word processor
MS Paint => implies painting, hence art/colourful stuff
Instant Messenger => implies sending messages instantly
Photoshop => photos are in the name, guess what you use it for.....
Now, Microsoft isn't perfect at this game. They have some weird application names.
Excel, Access, Visio, Outlook
Or how about Acrobat? Lots of people ask me what Acrobat is, and why they need to pay $1000 for it. Then I explain to them the difference between the reader and the full application, and only then do they seem to really understand.
Anyway, let's take a look at some open source application names:
Linux => what?
GIMP => huh?
XMMS => ??
Kopete => ??
K3B => ??
Firefox => ?
Thunderbird => ?
KDE => ?
GNOME => ?
How are any of those names helpful? All the n00bs just do is sit and stare at the names wondering what does what.
Now don't get the wrong impression of my bitching - i love ALL these applications. I use them regularly and I think they're great. (except Thunderbird, i use Evolution instead) But the names are pretty weak, and are more suitable as a "codename" instead of a release name.
Maybe someone should put together a distro that has everything renamed consistently throughout the operating system and includes relevant icons. Call it N00BIX or something.
...that there is AT LEAST 20 to 30 morons around the world.
Congrats SCO for convincing a bunch of PHBs that they need to pay you for nothing.
And they were just crying a few days ago on TV about how they were losing all this money to piracy...
CRIA can fuck themselves. Especially since I don't download any of their shitty Canadian pop crap anyway.
And people here wonder why they don't have a significant other ...
I love working in the technology industry, but I would also enjoy having some time to myself and not dedicating my life to what? Programming a spreadsheet? Writing some code for a 3d game?
Get a life outside work people and stop making work your life.
It seems that the only way to fight this practice is to unionize. Employers don't often listen to their employees until they are on the brink of forming a union.
The initial delay until the bulb turns on is really only limited to fluorescent bulbs. Compact fluorescents are pretty much the same as the regular fluorescent tube lights and require a ballast to start the light up. The reason they need a ballast is due to the initial higher current required to energy the mercury vapor inside the bulb. After the tube is energized the resistance drops considerably and hence requires less current. The ballast is used to control the current between the initial activation of the bulb until it reaches it's normal operating current.
Part of the reason compact fluorescent bulbs were not available until the last 10 years is due to advancements in making the coiled glass, and reducing the size of the ballast. Old ballasts were magnet based and had a longer delay before working and were larger in size. Then electronic ballasts were created and allowed for the ballast to be made smaller. Hence why compact fluorescents are a feasible solution to some lighting problems.
LEDs on the other hand, require DC current like Fluorescent do, but there is no need to reduce the current after the LED turns on initially. So we should be seeing the short turn on time with LED lamps.
Colour rendering should also achieve more full spectrum light, but again, we're all probably used to various incadescent bulbs which have warmer colour rendering. (more yellowish) The enLux website shows neutral white bulbs being available, and should achieve the colour rendering you're looking for.
Newer compact fluorescent bulbs should achieve the colour rendering you want, but again, they still have the initial delay and are difficult to put on a dimmer switch. According to the enLux website, the LED floodlamps they provide are also non-dimmable. This is unfortunate since dimmer controls should simply cause a corresponding number of LEDs inside the bulb to turn off, this would provide some dimming effect. (but would certainly increase the price of the bulb even further) There must be a means of converting the analog voltage level into a corresponding digital signal to turn off a proportional number of LEDs...
Just make popups and banner ads appear on the page hosting all the torrent files.
....
Suprnova.org has been doing this for a while.
And who's advertising on Suprnova.org??
Well, since I'm in Canada I keep seeing ads for the famous U.S. Greencard Lottery (yes - just like the first spam on the Internet.....) and for Zip.ca.
Zip.ca is an online DVD rental company like NetFlix.com - but Zip.ca has side banners on Suprnova.org
I think they also have pop-ups but I'm not sure since I have pop-up blocking on
Have they decided to include an mp3 decoder with XMMS or Rythmbox?
Does updating packages work well?
Last time I used Fedora it was Core 1 and these two things alone drove me insane. I know they excluded an mp3 decoder due to patent reasons, but that's just lame - almost every other distro includes the decoder.
I'm running X.org under Mandrake 10.1 community with the ATi Radeon driver with little problem.
What do you propose we do with the nuclear waste left behind?
Bury it?
Fire it off into the sun?
Keep it in barrels around the facility to be later transported by train? And do you want those trains driving through your town?
I agree to an extent that we should be using more nuclear power instead of coal/oil/gas, but I feel this should be a short-run solution. Focus should be put onto solar, wind, and hydro while funding fusion research.
I also dislike your lack of addressing the problem of nuclear waste.
Shamelessly karma whoring ....... here ya go,
:-)
To get this result, you need to image search for Morgan Webb Nude, and click on the link at the bottom containing omitted results.
You're welcome.
Actually, it's much easier to stop using their service.
Fuck Google. There's many many other search engines on the net. Since I now know Google is engaging in self-censorship, I'll just use another site that is not.
And obviously there is no research benefit to delibrately linking the site to Slashdot over and over again.......
"We survived an unprecedented triple flash crowd and logged it all," writes Tanenbaum. "As it turns out, two of the faculty members in my department, Maarten van Steen and Guillaume Pierre, are doing research on coping with flash crowds. The research issues include how many replicas to set up, where to place them, how fast to deploy them, and how to do it automatically, in real time, and at minimum cost. To simulate proposed algorithms, you need data about real flash crowds and real attacks, preferably at the same time. And boy oh boy do we have data now."
It's an anonymous user:
...........
An anonymous reader writes "F-Secure's Virus Blog posted
That's why you subscribe to a speedy internet provider so you can store all your files via some gmail/ms passport type service online. Screw the harddrive, that's whats driving up the costs. For basic document storage and information processing a harddrive is not necessary.
....
Have a very optimized Linux distro booted via Flash ROM. It automatically mounts your internet storage space on boot up. Let's say the data is stored remotely using an encrypted file system to satisfy the requirements of all those crypto geeks.
Here's some flash memory prices at TigerDirect.
Note: 256MB CompactFlash memory by Kingston, $23.99 before rebate ($10 mail in rebate).
Install the 50MB Damn Small Linux distro? 200MB for basic file storage. All your music could be listened to streaming...
Yeah - I'm just giving out some ideas
I thought Zenon Environmental was a Canadian company. They have a rather large building near my home.
Let's take a look here:
http://www.zenonenv.com/contact/contact.shtml
ZENON Environmental Inc.
Corporate Headquarters
3239 Dundas Street West
Oakville, Ontario L6M 4B2
Canada
Tel: 905-465-3030
Fax: 905-465-3050
ZeeWeed is just a one of their products.
which just redirects to Mycity.com , which is YASE (Yet Another Search Engine).
I did a search for pr0n and the first result was fine looking girl.
This is very not safe for work by the way. Well, depends where you live I guess.
Websites like Discogs already offer discographies and band information for almost every signed musician out there for free. eMusic could establish a longterm contract with Discogs to continue providing that data.....
.......
Remember the old Audiogalaxy.com? They provided the "Other people who downloaded this also downloaded this..." -- that was the greatest feature of that site. I found ridiculous numbers of new bands/artists I probably would never have been exposed to.
Immediate speedy download won't be all that hard to do once the cash begins to flow. Or maybe they should find a way to use a BitTorrent type protocol to help balance their load and lower their overall costs.....
What he's asking for is not all that unrealistic.
Heck - I'll add another standard requirement as well: valid and proper ID3 tagging
I also believe that a company offering this as a service should start NOW before someone offers an illegal equivalent utilizing BitTorrent - almost like Suprnova.org
Look what his target market is:
.mov as well as many other formats. It contains queue capabilities and has a built in preview window."
"Echelon is a MPEG-1/2 video encoding program that accepts a wide array of media formats with custom settings and customizable presets. Accepts a wide variety of avi (divx, 3ivx, etc...) mpeg-1/2,
It's video encoding software, not illegal at all and has many legal uses - but is also attractive to those who are ripping DVDs or dealing with pirated copyright video. According to a comment on the linked article, this software is popular for people trying to encode video for VCD and SVCD.
If they expect all those people who are encoding ripped movies to pay up, then they're targeting the wrong niche. Oh I understand - they want to make money from people ripping off other people's work.
This to my understanding has nothing to do with radiation, but the dust left behind after impact with a target.
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... I'm just pointing out what I've read before.
Depleted Uranium is a heavy metal and the human body does not react to well when exposed to heavy metals.
Lead exposure, especially to lead dust, can cause various forms of health conditions. Here's an EPA example of lead used in older paints:
http://www.epa.gov/lead/leadinfo.htm
Now, here's an article which seems to discuss the DU dust that I've read about in the past.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/cancer_epid
and another:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/180333p-15
How true any of these articles are, I don't know
Plus, Master of Transhuman pointed out another interesting fact in case his post gets missed.
You forgot about the zebra mussels in Lake Ontario that will just feed off the algae.
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Here's a source:
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=52203
Well, you should start expecting drive failures around now. I seem to be seeing Maxtor and Quantum drives dying all over the place these days ... (all 40 to 80 GB drives).
Use SoulSeek .... there is a Linux soulseek client named Nicotine which runs very well and makes me a happy downloader again.