To be honest, I don't think the situation is on their side. Other than the occasional string up someone and make an example out of them, or the occasional beat someone down who admits it publicly, I think that 99.99% of the population could use drugs freely and never be touched.
In a way that is the point. The purpose of politics (and less directly government) is that it's better to fight wars with words rather than with blood. But to buy drugs does not require coercion at all, the rules are not the same, we are not dealing with real crime where when one person gains another loses. They will not get disenfranchised help, they will not get public support, and they will not get personal fufillment throwing a bunch of addicts in jail.
Did you even read the parent post? The parent to your post said the tube is bigger than what shows through the bezel, i.e. you won't get a whole lot less border even with the plastic removed. (This assumes CRT)
But so what? If they change the name, there would be no trademark claim. Since they wrote it from scratch, and do not distribute any Blizzard files, there can be no copyright claims.
The only thing left are patent claims, but I've not heard of any patent claims in this case.
I agree, the main thing is that the designers of the UPS were expecting a certain length of operation, given the normal battery of the unit, and therefore lie about specs.
An example: A 500VA UPS is rarely able to handle 500VA continuous and sustained for long periods of time. The battery it comes with might give only 5 minutes of usage at full load, so the designers usually cut corners and just made sure it wouldn't overheat in 5-10 minutes at 500VA, but that's about it. Run the unit for 50 minutes at 500VA, and it's entirely likely that solder will start melting and components will burn up.
This becomes less of an issue once you get to the higher end of UPSs, the kind that have the external plugs that you can string extra batteries on. Those are designed with specs that usually don't lie, targetted for indefinite operation at full rated output.
Two things you can do to combat overheating with a cheap UPS, as you pointed out, you can increase cooling, which may be difficult if the components are spaced tightly, or you can run it at some smaller percentage of "rated" load, i.e. 50%.
Anyone can do about anything with experience and time. What you pay for is the convenience.
In business, time is money and experience is an incidental thing to driving the bottom line.
At some point, convenience becomes necessity. This is true of just about everything. The government likes to point out that you don't have a right to operate a car on public roads, but do you consider a car (and use of public roads) a convienence or a necessity? It's technically a convienence, after all, you could walk.
To me, open source is about getting rid of overpriced proprietary solutions.
Ghostscript and some associated utilities are beginning to make a huge impact in the prepress market, a market traditionally dominated by overpriced (and crappy) software products, and a very extreme lack of understanding of the underlying technologies.
A miniscule investment in open source pays huge dividends in conditions like these, since the technology isn't some voodoo, it's pretty basic stuff, but the market consolidation in closed source solutions have left few competitors.
It's similar to the OS market circa 1996-1999. It happened faster there, because OS design is a college course, and prepress technology usually isn't.
A retractable lanyard might work, just hook the sling thing onto the lanyard type device which would reel out quickly at first and then slowly apply braking to the reel to accelerate the spacecraft. Then when you are ready to slingshot out, cut the lanyard.
It is true that the boiling point of oxygen is a little higher than nitrogen, but I think you'd be pretty safe so long as the nitrogen is in an insulated container, the boiling nitrogen would probably dissipate any significant concentrations of O2.
If you poured it into a metal can though, LOX could start dripping off it. That could cause a problem.
In any case, your warning is a good one, it's something to be consious of.
I'm no historian, but I bet plate armor was more for intimidation factor than anything else.
I bet a hundred shiny enemy knights on horses really does a lot to demoralize your thousand foot soldiers.
I think a lot of modern security is the same way, deter most attacks with shiny armor, and minimize damage on the inevitable attacks that will get through.
Now the real problem these days is the companies selling cheap tin armor and telling people it's the strongest steel. Some things never change.:)
This technology isn't going to be able to send high quality audio on frequencies lower than shortwave (i.e. longer waves), there just isn't enough bandwidth available down there.
It's similar in purpose to CDMA. It is spread spectrum, sorta. It uses many narrowband carriers transmitting in parallel. The data transmitted on the subcarriers uses forward error correction coding, it's sorta like RAID1 for radio. They can also use tricks like sending the more important data at lower speeds. It's a pretty robust system, but it was mostly designed to combat multipath fade at VHF and above.
Powerful is relative. Clusters are only good at problems that require a lower level of internode bandwidth. Certain problems work very well, others hardly work at all.
Anything that is as bandwidth intensive as it is CPU intensive isn't going to happen on a cluster.
I like Flim and the BBs. Some might not consider it Jazz in the strictest sense. You've probably heard their work and didn't know it, they did the theme for All My Children.
Right now, he has a choice. He can go to his boss and say "Hey, I want a raise" or "Lets agree to a set schedule of extra vacation later on this year" or "Fuck off".
If he were a member of a union, he couldn't talk to his boss about those things, he couldn't negotiate a deal on his own terms, he would be beholden to layers of beaurocracy to make deals for him. If he doesn't like those deals, he can't do anything about it, except quit.
If the employer doesn't want to play ball, then he has to strike, and lose money while the employer hires scabs (with the ease that programming can be outsourced, his job may never come back).
I've seen the damage unions do, it's happened to every union shop I've ever seen. You have employees that refuse to be flexible, management that is forced into hard choices, and companies that eventually go broke because of the silly games.
In IT and programming, flexibility is a part of life. Unions are the opposite of flexible. Suppose you are a whiz-bang programmer, straight out of college. You join a union shop, but guess what? You have to wait for the dinosaurs who don't know shit about modern programming to retire before you can even think about getting promoted. Unions eliminate any semblance of meritocracy that exists in a field, and reward things irrelevant to IT/programming like years of service at a certain company.
Sure, times are kinda tough in IT, but that's no excuse to unionize. Jobs are out there for the sufficiently skilled worker; jobs that don't require you to work insane hours unpaid.
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Or they could just think a little, and make it 48 volts instead of 42.
Most batteries these days come in multiples of 6 or 12 volts, they probably asked some computer what the best voltage was, and years later it told them 42.
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To be honest, I don't think the situation is on their side. Other than the occasional string up someone and make an example out of them, or the occasional beat someone down who admits it publicly, I think that 99.99% of the population could use drugs freely and never be touched.
In a way that is the point. The purpose of politics (and less directly government) is that it's better to fight wars with words rather than with blood. But to buy drugs does not require coercion at all, the rules are not the same, we are not dealing with real crime where when one person gains another loses. They will not get disenfranchised help, they will not get public support, and they will not get personal fufillment throwing a bunch of addicts in jail.
Did you even read the parent post? The parent to your post said the tube is bigger than what shows through the bezel, i.e. you won't get a whole lot less border even with the plastic removed. (This assumes CRT)
But so what? If they change the name, there would be no trademark claim. Since they wrote it from scratch, and do not distribute any Blizzard files, there can be no copyright claims.
The only thing left are patent claims, but I've not heard of any patent claims in this case.
We have a winner. :)
I agree, the main thing is that the designers of the UPS were expecting a certain length of operation, given the normal battery of the unit, and therefore lie about specs.
An example:
A 500VA UPS is rarely able to handle 500VA continuous and sustained for long periods of time. The battery it comes with might give only 5 minutes of usage at full load, so the designers usually cut corners and just made sure it wouldn't overheat in 5-10 minutes at 500VA, but that's about it. Run the unit for 50 minutes at 500VA, and it's entirely likely that solder will start melting and components will burn up.
This becomes less of an issue once you get to the higher end of UPSs, the kind that have the external plugs that you can string extra batteries on. Those are designed with specs that usually don't lie, targetted for indefinite operation at full rated output.
Two things you can do to combat overheating with a cheap UPS, as you pointed out, you can increase cooling, which may be difficult if the components are spaced tightly, or you can run it at some smaller percentage of "rated" load, i.e. 50%.
Well, TIFF and EPS support only a few compression algorithms, and LZW is the best one, one that isn't implemented in most open source projects.
This isn't about GIFs as much as people make it out to be.
Yes, they can run it on linux or whatever, but who do they pay to make it interface in certain ways?
Any one of hundreds of companies that do embedded development with Linux?
Anyone can do about anything with experience and time. What you pay for is the convenience.
In business, time is money and experience is an incidental thing to driving the bottom line.
At some point, convenience becomes necessity. This is true of just about everything. The government likes to point out that you don't have a right to operate a car on public roads, but do you consider a car (and use of public roads) a convienence or a necessity? It's technically a convienence, after all, you could walk.
To me, open source is about getting rid of overpriced proprietary solutions.
Ghostscript and some associated utilities are beginning to make a huge impact in the prepress market, a market traditionally dominated by overpriced (and crappy) software products, and a very extreme lack of understanding of the underlying technologies.
A miniscule investment in open source pays huge dividends in conditions like these, since the technology isn't some voodoo, it's pretty basic stuff, but the market consolidation in closed source solutions have left few competitors.
It's similar to the OS market circa 1996-1999. It happened faster there, because OS design is a college course, and prepress technology usually isn't.
A retractable lanyard might work, just hook the sling thing onto the lanyard type device which would reel out quickly at first and then slowly apply braking to the reel to accelerate the spacecraft. Then when you are ready to slingshot out, cut the lanyard.
There's not much difference, both are wrong and very damaging to the free market.
It is true that the boiling point of oxygen is a little higher than nitrogen, but I think you'd be pretty safe so long as the nitrogen is in an insulated container, the boiling nitrogen would probably dissipate any significant concentrations of O2.
If you poured it into a metal can though, LOX could start dripping off it. That could cause a problem.
In any case, your warning is a good one, it's something to be consious of.
The problem is that you can't ever make more than double your money for shorting a stock, so you can't get too rich just by shorting a stock.
Or Bumpass, VA, USA. There's also a Butt Hollow, VA, although I will spare you a link to their mascot's home page.
Yeah, they should just reaname the whole country, since the name looks offensive in english.
:)
Just like you can't use the word "niggardly" anymore because it looks like it should be offensive.
I'm no historian, but I bet plate armor was more for intimidation factor than anything else.
:)
I bet a hundred shiny enemy knights on horses really does a lot to demoralize your thousand foot soldiers.
I think a lot of modern security is the same way, deter most attacks with shiny armor, and minimize damage on the inevitable attacks that will get through.
Now the real problem these days is the companies selling cheap tin armor and telling people it's the strongest steel. Some things never change.
This technology isn't going to be able to send high quality audio on frequencies lower than shortwave (i.e. longer waves), there just isn't enough bandwidth available down there.
Or maybe it was some bad pun I didn't catch?
Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
It's similar in purpose to CDMA. It is spread spectrum, sorta. It uses many narrowband carriers transmitting in parallel. The data transmitted on the subcarriers uses forward error correction coding, it's sorta like RAID1 for radio. They can also use tricks like sending the more important data at lower speeds. It's a pretty robust system, but it was mostly designed to combat multipath fade at VHF and above.
The question is, since you bought the game, you paid for the music, so why bother paying for a seperate soundtrack? You already own the music.
What's wrong with Devon Rexes?
Selective breeding sounds a whole lot like genetic engineering to me.
In any case, I bet these will be popular in Japan, if the stories I have heard about watermelons and Japan are true.
Powerful is relative. Clusters are only good at problems that require a lower level of internode bandwidth. Certain problems work very well, others hardly work at all.
Anything that is as bandwidth intensive as it is CPU intensive isn't going to happen on a cluster.
or to promote open source..
What is it going to do, send out massive amounts of spam?
I like Flim and the BBs. Some might not consider it Jazz in the strictest sense. You've probably heard their work and didn't know it, they did the theme for All My Children.
I guess if the story was titled "Save the Whales", no one would take it seriously anymore.
At least they admit they pulled the statistics out of their ass:
To reach the worldwide estimates, the researchers resorted to multiplying the U.S. statistics.
Unions remove choice.
Right now, he has a choice. He can go to his boss and say "Hey, I want a raise" or "Lets agree to a set schedule of extra vacation later on this year" or "Fuck off".
If he were a member of a union, he couldn't talk to his boss about those things, he couldn't negotiate a deal on his own terms, he would be beholden to layers of beaurocracy to make deals for him. If he doesn't like those deals, he can't do anything about it, except quit.
If the employer doesn't want to play ball, then he has to strike, and lose money while the employer hires scabs (with the ease that programming can be outsourced, his job may never come back).
I've seen the damage unions do, it's happened to every union shop I've ever seen. You have employees that refuse to be flexible, management that is forced into hard choices, and companies that eventually go broke because of the silly games.
In IT and programming, flexibility is a part of life. Unions are the opposite of flexible. Suppose you are a whiz-bang programmer, straight out of college. You join a union shop, but guess what? You have to wait for the dinosaurs who don't know shit about modern programming to retire before you can even think about getting promoted. Unions eliminate any semblance of meritocracy that exists in a field, and reward things irrelevant to IT/programming like years of service at a certain company.
Sure, times are kinda tough in IT, but that's no excuse to unionize. Jobs are out there for the sufficiently skilled worker; jobs that don't require you to work insane hours unpaid.
Or they could just think a little, and make it 48 volts instead of 42.
Most batteries these days come in multiples of 6 or 12 volts, they probably asked some computer what the best voltage was, and years later it told them 42.