I agree, I'd rate it even safer than that. Given the choice of putting my hand in methanol, or boiling water, I sure know what I would choose!
Methanol is toxic in amounts measured in milliliters (50-500), not amounts that one could get transdermally from occasional contact.
The toxicity of methanol is interesting. It's not directly toxic, it breaks down into formaldehyde in your liver, which is toxic. The antidote to methanol poisioning is ethanol, because it has a higher affinity for the things that break methanol down into toxic stuff. It basically keeps your liver busy so it can't get around to killing you. This is the same route of toxicity as antifreeze.
Chronic exposure is probably a bad thing, but I doubt that will be an issue, as you said, the stuff in today's batteries is much nastier, and we don't have problems with that.
Anyway, that's my lay understanding of the issue. I work with various solvents all the time, including methanol denatured alcohol, and other than dry skin, I've never had any ill effects, and I'm pretty sloppy with them. I worry much more about fire hazard than toxic effects.
I agree, evercase from newegg are cheap, come with OK power supplies, have nice edges, the cards fit right, the cases are screwless, and it has a bracket in the bottom to hold up to two more hard disks.
Most of the ones I know think they can do it themselves, but it always ends up looking like a "bachelor pad" =p
Even the gay ones?:)
Look, I meant no offense, I'm speaking about general situations, not each and every member of any particular group. There are always exceptions to a rule, especially when it comes to people. That doesn't mean you should throw the rule out.
I feel like a broken record, but what has been very effective for our company is not usually mentioned in these kinds of discussions.
We found an open source app that did nearly what we needed, so we contracted the developer to add features for us (into the main open source version).
Obviously this works best when there is one person or a company behind a project, and also when the features you need are in line with the overall direction the developer is willing to take the project.
I envision a system where this could be expanded, where end users would bid competitively on which features to be added or bugs to be fixed. I've seen some attempts at realizing this sort of system, but none have caught on in a big way.
This could even work in a micropayment world, since a central site could take a block donation of a minimum of say $20-50 and then you could split that up as small as a dollar at a time between different projects, features, and bugs. The developers would get paid in minimum sized chunks too, so on both sides, the traditional barriers to micropayments (high transaction costs) are reduced.
Think of it kinda like a bug bounty that some projects do before a major release, but instead of being initiated by the developers, it would be initiated by the users.
An economy like this of development work ensures that the bugs that are most important get fixed, and the features that people want get added too.
I don't know if you meant those questions rhetorically or not, but this company is the only side job of this type I have right now.
I also do some web dev on the side every now and then, and run several personal sites, but I have a full time job too.
My full time job is flexible enough so I can take any emergency calls from the contract job when I am at work (and take some personal time off if needed to take care of it). Like I said though, they don't call very often at all.
If they're going to convert to US dollars, they should convert to US notation too.
We put up enough with their unicode crap making our life more difficult (half the recent bugs I have found have been because of unicode support). They could at least have the decency to use proper formatting.
We have been running standard Internet stuff on Linux for years. DNS, Mail, routers, firewalls, FTP, etc..
Once you get stuff like that set up in Linux, it just runs forever. For a smaller company with standard needs, Linux without any real support is a good choice.
I did a contract job on the side to set up a server to do firewall/DNS/FTP/Mail/Web server (Yeah, they didn't want to spend any money on breaking it up into more servers).
Anyway, I set it up, they pay me a very small amount every month to keep up on the security fixes, and they use Webmin for adding and deleting users.
They can call me if something breaks, but so far, they've only called me about twice, once was because their T1 was down, and the other time was because they wanted to know how to update their web site.
They aren't Linux gurus, it just works. I feel kinda like that Maytag repair guy.
Why, entire neighborhoods, nay, entire CITIES will be demanding a share of the MEGAWATT output created when palm meets shaft in an orgy of solo-sex extacsy.
You joke, but one of those Joy of Sex type books refers to a story about sweatshop girls back before electric sewing placing one heel against their vagina and the rhythmical pumping of the sewing machine pedal with the other leg would get them off, while they were sewing.
Don't know if it's true, but an interesting anecdote in any case.
Well that's the whole argument these Liberals are trying to make. Even though women are usually less skilled, they should get paid the same thing for the same job, even if they are really bad at it.
All the whiners never thought to consider that women may just be less suited for certain jobs, and therefore not as good at them. I sure as hell wouldn't hire a man to do my interior decorating (unless he was gay). It cuts both ways.
And especially with software, the USPTO seems to lack the knowledge or resources to properly judge whether something is really non-obvious or not.
This is a all a symptom of the ever-increasing specialization of our society. No longer can a lay person judge whether the inner workings of something are really unique and non-obvious, without a fairly deep knowledge of the field.
Since software costs basically zero to copy, and a usually trivial amount to produce (in chunks small enough to be patentable), there aren't large costs of manufacture to recoup. Software patents should be thrown out, or severly limited. The same applies to "business method" patents.
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Keyboard, speakers and mouse with a wholesale cost of 66 cents each?
You point is valid, but that part is a little hard to swallow.
A very cheap wholesale mouse might be $1-2, a cheap keyboard maybe $3, and incredibly crappy unamplified speakers maybe $2.
Even that is getting very close to the raw materials cost of the plastic case, the semis and connectors.
On the other hand, you may have overestimated the cost of the case and power supply, I've bought cases and power supplies retail for about $12 that came with what they claimed was a 300watt PS (although judging by the weight, it was probably more like 100-150 watts).
It's about tracking things and the people that own them after purchase. RFID tags in tires could track everywhere you drive. RFID in clothes or shoes can track where you go.
Maybe you don't care because you don't do anything important to participate in the democratic process, but for anyone even involved with it to the basic level of civil duty, there will always be groups that don't agree with you that wield some power, and who are willing to use any means necessary to discredit or get you thrown in jail.
Everyone does some things that are illegal, because we have way too many laws that are very broadly written. I'm willing to bet you have committed several felonies in the past. We don't have enough resources to put everyone in jail, but we do have enough resources for a group in power to jail those with dissenting viewpoints.
The way I understand it, the software was a search engine for files on his campus LAN/MAN/whatever the buzzword is these days.
Basically he didn't do much more than is included in Windows in the "find stuff on network" thing (been a while since I used windows for anything other than games).
If you want to set a precedent, you have to sue someone who can afford to appeal it up to a pretty high level, since precedent is mostly set with appellate court opinions.
The site is getting slashdotted, here's the post from his blog too:
I have posted my Order of Dismissal (settlement) to the lawsuit filed against me by the RIAA. As stated in the settlement, I settled solely to avoid the costs of litigation. There is a very long story behind my settlement.
I am truly appalled by the RIAA's unprofessional conduct in dealing with my case. A very well-known top lawyer at the RIAA, while making threats of further legal actions, referred to himself as a "dentist" that I would not want to "have another visit with". I will not be intimidated by the RIAA - they're just going to have to put up with me.
The RIAA started yelling and tried to rescind my order of dismissal after they signed it because of comments that I made on CNN. Despite the $12,000 figure in my settlement, the other terms of the settlement were carefully negotiated over the course of several weeks.
"My fundamental view is that people should not be able to walk away from a deal they've made.", says RIAA CEO Hilary Rosen in response to California issues over artist contracts. It would seem to follow that the RIAA should understand the concept of a legally binding agreement. If an artist signs a contract and then later decides that they don't like the terms of that contract, the labels should understand now because that is exactly what they did with my dismissal (my dismissal is a legally binding agreement).
It is time to call the RIAA to task on their clear hypocrisy on many issues. I am legally allowed to run my search engine - it is not forbidden by my dismissal. I have a first amendment right to free speech. On the surface, the RIAA claims to support the right to free speech - but only when it benefits their bottom line. When their victim speaks out against them, they step up the intimidation.
They were so desperate to undo my dismissal that they were resorting to blatant lies. I have even been accused of tricking the RIAA into signing my dismissal.
Unfortunately for the RIAA, their basis for undoing the dismissal was so ridiculous that the judge didn't even take up my offer to mediate with the RIAA over their issues with the dismissal - he decided to enter the agreement.
A number of documents surrounding this issue will soon be published. For now, read my order of dismissal.
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Yeah, pretty much. Basically you will get an everclear IV drip.
I agree, I'd rate it even safer than that. Given the choice of putting my hand in methanol, or boiling water, I sure know what I would choose!
Methanol is toxic in amounts measured in milliliters (50-500), not amounts that one could get transdermally from occasional contact.
The toxicity of methanol is interesting. It's not directly toxic, it breaks down into formaldehyde in your liver, which is toxic. The antidote to methanol poisioning is ethanol, because it has a higher affinity for the things that break methanol down into toxic stuff. It basically keeps your liver busy so it can't get around to killing you. This is the same route of toxicity as antifreeze.
Chronic exposure is probably a bad thing, but I doubt that will be an issue, as you said, the stuff in today's batteries is much nastier, and we don't have problems with that.
Anyway, that's my lay understanding of the issue. I work with various solvents all the time, including methanol denatured alcohol, and other than dry skin, I've never had any ill effects, and I'm pretty sloppy with them. I worry much more about fire hazard than toxic effects.
I agree, evercase from newegg are cheap, come with OK power supplies, have nice edges, the cards fit right, the cases are screwless, and it has a bracket in the bottom to hold up to two more hard disks.
I somehow doubt the FAA have jurisdiction for the airspace around, and above Heathrow.
You didn't get the memo?
Flight path is vague. Are you in controlled airspace or not?
If you are, then you probably can't launch. If you aren't, you should call the FAA and get them to put out a NOTAM anyway.
Most of the ones I know think they can do it themselves, but it always ends up looking like a "bachelor pad" =p
:)
Even the gay ones?
Look, I meant no offense, I'm speaking about general situations, not each and every member of any particular group. There are always exceptions to a rule, especially when it comes to people. That doesn't mean you should throw the rule out.
I feel like a broken record, but what has been very effective for our company is not usually mentioned in these kinds of discussions.
We found an open source app that did nearly what we needed, so we contracted the developer to add features for us (into the main open source version).
Obviously this works best when there is one person or a company behind a project, and also when the features you need are in line with the overall direction the developer is willing to take the project.
I envision a system where this could be expanded, where end users would bid competitively on which features to be added or bugs to be fixed. I've seen some attempts at realizing this sort of system, but none have caught on in a big way.
This could even work in a micropayment world, since a central site could take a block donation of a minimum of say $20-50 and then you could split that up as small as a dollar at a time between different projects, features, and bugs. The developers would get paid in minimum sized chunks too, so on both sides, the traditional barriers to micropayments (high transaction costs) are reduced.
Think of it kinda like a bug bounty that some projects do before a major release, but instead of being initiated by the developers, it would be initiated by the users.
An economy like this of development work ensures that the bugs that are most important get fixed, and the features that people want get added too.
I don't know if you meant those questions rhetorically or not, but this company is the only side job of this type I have right now.
I also do some web dev on the side every now and then, and run several personal sites, but I have a full time job too.
My full time job is flexible enough so I can take any emergency calls from the contract job when I am at work (and take some personal time off if needed to take care of it). Like I said though, they don't call very often at all.
I did say they pay me a nominal fee to update the packages for security fixes, I also run tripwire on it.
It's a very minimal amount of attention needed to keep it secure.
If they're going to convert to US dollars, they should convert to US notation too.
We put up enough with their unicode crap making our life more difficult (half the recent bugs I have found have been because of unicode support). They could at least have the decency to use proper formatting.
It depends on what you are doing.
We have been running standard Internet stuff on Linux for years. DNS, Mail, routers, firewalls, FTP, etc..
Once you get stuff like that set up in Linux, it just runs forever. For a smaller company with standard needs, Linux without any real support is a good choice.
I did a contract job on the side to set up a server to do firewall/DNS/FTP/Mail/Web server (Yeah, they didn't want to spend any money on breaking it up into more servers).
Anyway, I set it up, they pay me a very small amount every month to keep up on the security fixes, and they use Webmin for adding and deleting users.
They can call me if something breaks, but so far, they've only called me about twice, once was because their T1 was down, and the other time was because they wanted to know how to update their web site.
They aren't Linux gurus, it just works. I feel kinda like that Maytag repair guy.
Why, entire neighborhoods, nay, entire CITIES will be demanding a share of the MEGAWATT output created when palm meets shaft in an orgy of solo-sex extacsy.
You joke, but one of those Joy of Sex type books refers to a story about sweatshop girls back before electric sewing placing one heel against their vagina and the rhythmical pumping of the sewing machine pedal with the other leg would get them off, while they were sewing.
Don't know if it's true, but an interesting anecdote in any case.
Now I have to clean up all the coke that just came shooting out of my nose...
:)
So instead of crack smoking moderators, we have coke snorting posters now?
Lower skilled female ... notably mirrors differences in ... the real-world, says Castronova.
Well that's the whole argument these Liberals are trying to make. Even though women are usually less skilled, they should get paid the same thing for the same job, even if they are really bad at it.
All the whiners never thought to consider that women may just be less suited for certain jobs, and therefore not as good at them. I sure as hell wouldn't hire a man to do my interior decorating (unless he was gay). It cuts both ways.
Stuff like Openmosix is for high availability.
Sorry, wrong. OpenMosix is HPC.
SiS laptop video series don't do acceleration well under linux, but who uses the acceleration with this type of computer/chipset?
The SiS video isn't much faster than a old TNT or so, even when accelerated.
I've used Linux with ECS K7S5A and K7SEM and used the onboard video with no trouble, albiet not accelerated.
I guess you might want to tell that to all the people that do high performance clustering with nothing more than ssh.
And especially with software, the USPTO seems to lack the knowledge or resources to properly judge whether something is really non-obvious or not.
This is a all a symptom of the ever-increasing specialization of our society. No longer can a lay person judge whether the inner workings of something are really unique and non-obvious, without a fairly deep knowledge of the field.
Since software costs basically zero to copy, and a usually trivial amount to produce (in chunks small enough to be patentable), there aren't large costs of manufacture to recoup. Software patents should be thrown out, or severly limited. The same applies to "business method" patents.
Keyboard, speakers and mouse with a wholesale cost of 66 cents each?
You point is valid, but that part is a little hard to swallow.
A very cheap wholesale mouse might be $1-2, a cheap keyboard maybe $3, and incredibly crappy unamplified speakers maybe $2.
Even that is getting very close to the raw materials cost of the plastic case, the semis and connectors.
On the other hand, you may have overestimated the cost of the case and power supply, I've bought cases and power supplies retail for about $12 that came with what they claimed was a 300watt PS (although judging by the weight, it was probably more like 100-150 watts).
Giving you the benefit of the doubt:
It's about tracking things and the people that own them after purchase. RFID tags in tires could track everywhere you drive. RFID in clothes or shoes can track where you go.
Maybe you don't care because you don't do anything important to participate in the democratic process, but for anyone even involved with it to the basic level of civil duty, there will always be groups that don't agree with you that wield some power, and who are willing to use any means necessary to discredit or get you thrown in jail.
Everyone does some things that are illegal, because we have way too many laws that are very broadly written. I'm willing to bet you have committed several felonies in the past. We don't have enough resources to put everyone in jail, but we do have enough resources for a group in power to jail those with dissenting viewpoints.
The way I understand it, the software was a search engine for files on his campus LAN/MAN/whatever the buzzword is these days.
Basically he didn't do much more than is included in Windows in the "find stuff on network" thing (been a while since I used windows for anything other than games).
Since it was settled, it sets no precedent.
If you want to set a precedent, you have to sue someone who can afford to appeal it up to a pretty high level, since precedent is mostly set with appellate court opinions.
The site is getting slashdotted, here's the post from his blog too:
I have posted my Order of Dismissal (settlement) to the lawsuit filed against me by the RIAA. As stated in the settlement, I settled solely to avoid the costs of litigation. There is a very long story behind my settlement.
I am truly appalled by the RIAA's unprofessional conduct in dealing with my case. A very well-known top lawyer at the RIAA, while making threats of further legal actions, referred to himself as a "dentist" that I would not want to "have another visit with". I will not be intimidated by the RIAA - they're just going to have to put up with me.
The RIAA started yelling and tried to rescind my order of dismissal after they signed it because of comments that I made on CNN. Despite the $12,000 figure in my settlement, the other terms of the settlement were carefully negotiated over the course of several weeks.
"My fundamental view is that people should not be able to walk away from a deal they've made.", says RIAA CEO Hilary Rosen in response to California issues over artist contracts. It would seem to follow that the RIAA should understand the concept of a legally binding agreement. If an artist signs a contract and then later decides that they don't like the terms of that contract, the labels should understand now because that is exactly what they did with my dismissal (my dismissal is a legally binding agreement).
It is time to call the RIAA to task on their clear hypocrisy on many issues. I am legally allowed to run my search engine - it is not forbidden by my dismissal. I have a first amendment right to free speech. On the surface, the RIAA claims to support the right to free speech - but only when it benefits their bottom line. When their victim speaks out against them, they step up the intimidation.
They were so desperate to undo my dismissal that they were resorting to blatant lies. I have even been accused of tricking the RIAA into signing my dismissal.
Unfortunately for the RIAA, their basis for undoing the dismissal was so ridiculous that the judge didn't even take up my offer to mediate with the RIAA over their issues with the dismissal - he decided to enter the agreement.
A number of documents surrounding this issue will soon be published. For now, read my order of dismissal.
Christians watching the Simpsons and taking away wholly different messages from the jokes making fun of christians?
I wouldn't be surprised if the Simpsons spoof of games like these actually inspired them in part.
Dismissal
I don't think Jessee will mind a mirror of the settlement PDF.