My 79 Subaru FE gets 50-65 mpg hwy, 45-50 city, and this year, at 375,000 miles, it meets not only the 79 emissions, but the emisssions for 2004 model cars. I live in an EPA punishment zone, and all cars have to take a comprehensive emission test, and the testers are often supprised, and keep retesting. Granted, I have made some modifications to the engine to allow it to use unleaded fuel, and tweaked the original hitachi carb more than a little, but certainly I haven't done anything significant to the design. And yes, the old 1600cc five speed can do over 120. At over 1500 lbs, it not a toy. Highway milage is outstanding, but it is uncomfortable after a few hours.
For long trips I take the Mercedes. My 82 300SD gets 35 mpg of biodiesel. Not bad for 4500 lb mid sized luxury car.
For big loads I borrow my dads 89 for LTD crew cab 1 ton pickup. It gets 25 mpg of biodiesel with a load, 18 with the camper (28 ft).
Over the past 15 years I have purchased about 500 drives for work, friends and family. And over that time I have seen the full range of drives. I have 5 Meg Seagate MFM that still works, 150 Meg Micropolis ESDI's (pair in a mirror set) that test perfect. I have a 20 Meg quantum apple SCSI that still works perfectly despite the blistering heat it generates. I have a raid set of the Micropolis AV Gold SCSI that were the highest streaming drives available for 4 years. I have thrown dozens of drives away, mostly Seagate, Maxtor, Hitachi's. But strangely enough, I have never had a single WD drive fail. I have a "Caviar" 320 Meg drive which has been in near 27/7 operation for 12 years. It is still the boot drive for my firewall, Veteran of countless Lan parties (from when we played 1-1 with serial xovers). I suspect that it may outlast the new WD 250 J I bought last week. It's hard to say, as I have never had a WD drive failure.
I actually have 2 set up, One named "HAVE_AT" on the old "b" gear, with wide open http ftp,... access to my isp, but blind to the internal network. I also have a wide open "g" ap named "LOGGED" over which I run a real VPN for my internal network. I allow open access on the HAVE_AT to anyone as long as the bandwidth isn't in the way. If it is, I just shut it off. Besides, the logs make interesting reading.
So far, no-one has had more than a passing interest in the LOGGED network.
I so distrust Real that I use a vmware virtual machine (with undoable disks) to use their software to view their media. Based on my experience in the past, I don't put anything beond what they will do.
The emissions from diesel are worse, but there are much much less of them due to the higher eficiency. The emissions are more visable due to the carbon particulates.
Biodisel is a much better choice. The emissions going into the air have been pulled from the air by the plants that produced the oil, plus this is post consumer waste. It's still a loss for the environment, but it's a much better (not to mentions cheaper) choice than gasoline hybreds.
I can do much better. I drive an 82 Mercedes 300D, and I get 27 MPG of Biodisel. About 85% of the biodisel that I use comes from post consumer waste grease (old fast food fryer grease) Virtualy all of the hydrocarbons that are in that grease (and thus burned by me for fuel) were first pulled out of the air as CO2 by plants.
So about 80% of the pollution coming out of my tailpipe came from the air originaly.
It's still a net loss, but it's much better than the gasoline/electric hybreds.
The story of MUMPS is actually a sad tale of a bad language with a great Database.
Origin in 1967 ISO standard 11756 (1991). ANSI standard: "MUMPS Language Standard", X11.1 (1977, 1984, 1990) Effectivly killed in the late 90's by Intersystems.
The hallmarks of M were the very terse sytax and fast eficient databases.
99 bottles of beer program example
R O,C,B,b U 0 F X B,O,C,B,C W "Take one down, pass it around,",! S b=b-1 X B,O W ".",! H:'b W ! W " on the wall" W ",",! H 1 W $S(b:b,1:"No more")_" bottle" W:b-1 "s" W " of beer" 99
My signature is a complete DSM program that prints out a formatted, justified report of all the prime numbers between 1 and 1000.
I have seen this kind of thing before. I bet that your raises and/or other compensation are based upon your score. This kind of system is used to increase losses to attrition without actually laying off people. Additionaly, it saves money in compensation and removes the more ambitious element. This makes the remaining staff more compliant.
I may be wrong, but my experience tells me that you should get out if you can. It is often an indication of a failing business.
You are better off with a very high quality small monitor that can be used close up and easily positioned than with bigger more expensive one. The plasma display that my grandmother uses is only 10 in. , and is on a long position arm, similar to the ones with the gigantic magnifiying lens. (which she also uses)
I have a GE silly scope on my desk that was new back in 54. It still works fine (once the tubes warm up) but starts to scale off after a few hours. Weighs about 60 lbs. Almost 50 years old and still going.
What your thinking of is starlight plastic. That's what the UK hairdresser Maurice Ward came up with. The British gov. owns it outright. NASA already uses it in the shuttle (some of it fell in Arlington Texas). The problem with starlight plastic is that it degrades quickly, and is kind of like silly putty consistancy. This guy has somthing similar, but better I think.
http://www.alternativescience.com/flame-proof.ht m
>You begin "Let's look at this scientifically" and immediately proceed to >abandon all pretense of scientific objectivity and show no understanding >of the scientific method.
How very odd. When I ran this by our chief research scientist in the genetic clinical trials lab, She thought the pretext was sound and that it actually was a common opinion. I will have to try to improve.
It is true, I do have trouble with objectivity, I rarely post, and then only on things that particularly excite or offend me.
But back to your post.
>For example, in the last three hundred years the >average world life expectancy has risen from >approximately 27 to more than 65. US life >expectancy is currently around 78.
Specious reasoning.
>Do you suppose that it might be possible that the >fact that people now live long enough to get >cancer might have something to do with the fact >that doctors see more cases than they used to?
Did you actually mean this to be two questions? One about living long enough to get cancer, and one about doctors seeing more cases?
Both arguments have some small merit, but as stated, it is virtually meaningless.
No, the vast majority of cancer is detected before age 47, with cancer common among people below 30. This takes us well into the average lifespan of 200 years ago, (even by your own reasoning)
The key here is average. That the average is late 70's does not in any way support your argument. By far the most significant factors in determining the average life expectancy is infant death. There has been no significant increase in maximum age within recorded history. If you look at life expectancy's from age 15 and up, you will see that there is not the huge increase that is often claimed. So no, It is not that people are living long enough to get cancer (in general). There are many time related types of cancer that do increase linearly with age/exposure, but that does in and of itself support your argument.
>something to do with the fact that doctors see >more cases than they used to?
Yes doctors today see more patients than 300 years ago, but not 2000 times more, which is about what your chance of getting skin cancer is, compared to 300 years ago
>Do you support running 6-8 generation QA >processes on all technologies?
Yes, on "mission critical" technologies. Would you live next to the 8'th designed nuclear plant?
Venice has been working on that salt march for 1000 human generations, and they still don't have it right yet.
As part of my job I determine maturity levels for software/systems. It is a very rare complex system that does not have 50 or more "generations" (significant configurations) before is is considered stable enough for production. Just take a look at the Linux kernel.
As for electricity, last time I checked, it predated all human generations.
I personally know of 3 people with metastasized melanoma, 2 dead, one dying. All of them under 30.
200 years ago, this just did not happen. In all 3 cases, there was no definitive cause for the cancer.
I know of a particular case where a farmer purchased 50 gallon drums from an aircraft defence contractor. The drums were not marked, but were filled with what apeared to be alcohol. The farmer dumped the contents and used the drums to ferry whater to livestock. What he did not know was that the alcohol was used as a cleaner in plastics production, and was contaminated with carcinogens. It was 12 years before he contracted stomach cancer. In the meantime, the livestock were sold as meat in the stockyards. Te third generation showed significant birth defects, and were either steril, or mechanically unable to breed, even though the previous 2 generations showed no known ill effects. It was not known if the meat was contaminated, although the farmer developed stomach cancer, melanoma, and carcinoma, he was also directly exposed.
The earth is a very complex "production" system, and we are working with no backup.
The plants and animals of this planet have evolved together for millions of years. (aka food and consumer). Evidently, they are not a bad match, as both are still present and seem viable. It has been a long time since the last mass extinction.
Genetic manipulation is still in it's infancy (yes, even going back to Mendel), and we are already having some problems. Mass conversion from gathering food to growing food has led to the extinction of many viable varieties of food plants and animals, and the development of artificially sustained varieties (American corn).
There are some obvious problems already, even considering the slow development of hybrid varieties.
The rise in cancer in humans in the last 300 years is astonishing, from being a rarity that a doctor might see only once or twice in a lifetime of practice, to 1 in 3 chance for everyone to have now. Granted, lack of good observation and record keeping does not allow us to firmly relate cancer and diet over the last 300 years, but this is just one example.
I have no problem at all with GM foodstuffs, just so long as they have a sufficient QA process. I would consider 6-8 generations of humans a minimum for the first alpha tests.
There is no other way to insure that there is no non-obvious error.
I have the good fortune to work with some very good microbiologist, geneticist, and they are the first to admit that they don't understand everything in this very complex closed system.
It would really suck to find out that that bug proof wheat eventually modifies the human immune system 4 or 5 generations out, and all the bread eating industrial nations die of the common cold.
Remember, when you play with the food chain, you play for keeps.
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My 79 Subaru FE gets 50-65 mpg hwy, 45-50 city, and this year, at 375,000 miles, it meets not only the 79 emissions, but the emisssions for 2004 model cars. I live in an EPA punishment zone, and all cars have to take a comprehensive emission test, and the testers are often supprised, and keep retesting. Granted, I have made some modifications to the engine to allow it to use unleaded fuel, and tweaked the original hitachi carb more than a little, but certainly I haven't done anything significant to the design. And yes, the old 1600cc five speed can do over 120. At over 1500 lbs, it not a toy. Highway milage is outstanding, but it is uncomfortable after a few hours.
For long trips I take the Mercedes.
My 82 300SD gets 35 mpg of biodiesel. Not bad for 4500 lb mid sized luxury car.
For big loads I borrow my dads 89 for LTD crew cab 1 ton pickup.
It gets 25 mpg of biodiesel with a load, 18 with the camper (28 ft).
It's easy to not drink OPEC's coolaid.
Over the past 15 years I have purchased about 500 drives for work, friends and family. And over that time I have seen the full range of drives. I have 5 Meg Seagate MFM that still works, 150 Meg Micropolis ESDI's (pair in a mirror set) that test perfect. I have a 20 Meg quantum apple SCSI that still works perfectly despite the blistering heat it generates. I have a raid set of the Micropolis AV Gold SCSI that were the highest streaming drives available for 4 years. I have thrown dozens of drives away, mostly Seagate, Maxtor, Hitachi's. But strangely enough, I have never had a single WD drive fail. I have a "Caviar" 320 Meg drive which has been in near 27/7 operation for 12 years. It is still the boot drive for my firewall, Veteran of countless Lan parties (from when we played 1-1 with serial xovers). I suspect that it may outlast the new WD 250 J I bought last week. It's hard to say, as I have never had a WD drive failure.
Not on my watch.
My firewall hosts file has all of the major offenders names pointed to 127.0.0.3, a local loopback just for that purpose.
It's just one of many lines of defense, but it keeps me happy.
In CRT based TV's the high voltage power supply vibrates.
Not to mention the macro item such as the speaker cone, buttons and knobs.
At the micro level you have lots and lots of e- and plain old heat.
Quick quiz,
How many moving parts in a solid state piezo tweeter?
The moment on the CRT's flyback is more than in that piezo tweeter.
Hey !
I click lots of buttons.....
I clicked one to feed a troll just now!
It is surprising how effective it is.
... access to my isp, but blind to the internal network.
I actually have 2 set up, One named "HAVE_AT" on the old "b" gear, with wide open http ftp,
I also have a wide open "g" ap named "LOGGED" over which I run a real VPN for my internal network. I allow open access on the HAVE_AT to anyone as long as the bandwidth isn't in the way. If it is, I just shut it off. Besides, the
logs make interesting reading.
So far, no-one has had more than a passing interest in the LOGGED network.
It works for me.
I so distrust Real that I use a vmware virtual machine (with undoable disks) to use their software to view their media. Based on my experience in the past, I don't put anything beond what they will do.
Sure things can change....
Show me.
Amen brother.
9700==suck
cough cough bullshit, cough
At 225,000 miles, My 82 Mercedes starts with no problems at all, ever, even at -25 (well, that was a few years ago, at only 180,000 miles)
The emissions from diesel are worse, but there are much much less of them due to the higher eficiency.
The emissions are more visable due to the carbon particulates.
Biodisel is a much better choice. The emissions going into the air have been pulled from the air by the plants that produced the oil, plus this is post consumer waste.
It's still a loss for the environment, but it's a much better (not to mentions cheaper) choice than gasoline hybreds.
I can do much better.
I drive an 82 Mercedes 300D, and I get 27 MPG of Biodisel.
About 85% of the biodisel that I use comes from post consumer waste grease (old fast food fryer grease)
Virtualy all of the hydrocarbons that are in that grease (and thus burned by me for fuel) were first pulled out of the air as CO2 by plants.
So about 80% of the pollution coming out of my tailpipe came from the air originaly.
It's still a net loss, but it's much better than the gasoline/electric hybreds.
Talk about throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
New as of 1968
Can anyone say MUMPS?
Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System.
MUMPS origin
The latest version of the MUMPS language/database is Cache
There is even a free version called GT/M
Sanchez GT/M
The story of MUMPS is actually a sad tale of a bad language with a great Database.
Origin in 1967
ISO standard 11756 (1991).
ANSI standard: "MUMPS Language Standard", X11.1 (1977, 1984, 1990)
Effectivly killed in the late 90's by Intersystems.
The hallmarks of M were the very terse sytax and fast eficient databases.
99 bottles of beer program example
R O,C,B,b U 0 F X B,O,C,B,C W "Take one down, pass it around,",! S b=b-1 X B,O W ".",! H:'b W !
W " on the wall"
W ",",!
H 1 W $S(b:b,1:"No more")_" bottle" W:b-1 "s" W " of beer"
99
My signature is a complete DSM program that prints out a formatted, justified report of all the prime numbers between 1 and 1000.
I have seen this kind of thing before. I bet that your raises and/or other compensation are based upon your score. This kind of system is used to increase losses to attrition without actually laying off people. Additionaly, it saves money in compensation and removes the more ambitious element. This makes the remaining staff more compliant.
I may be wrong, but my experience tells me that you should get out if you can. It is often an indication of a failing business.
You are better off with a very high quality small monitor that can be used close up and easily positioned than with bigger more expensive one. The plasma display that my grandmother uses is only 10 in. , and is on a long position arm, similar to the ones with the gigantic magnifiying lens. (which she also uses)
Festival does text to speech in a basic but useable form.
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
I have a GE silly scope on my desk that was new back in 54. It still works fine (once the tubes warm up) but starts to scale off after a few hours. Weighs about 60 lbs.
Almost 50 years old and still going.
amen.
/home/.
Until you live with it, you don't realize how few changes you make, and how valuable they are.
But this is because of how I use my home directory. Some run db, ftp and/or www out of
I wish I had the option under ext3.
What your thinking of is starlight plastic. That's what the UK hairdresser Maurice Ward came up with. The British gov. owns it outright. NASA already uses it in the shuttle (some of it fell in Arlington Texas). The problem with starlight plastic is that it degrades quickly, and is kind of like silly putty consistancy. This guy has somthing similar, but better I think.
t m
http://www.alternativescience.com/flame-proof.h
>You begin "Let's look at this scientifically" and immediately proceed to
>abandon all pretense of scientific objectivity and show no understanding
>of the scientific method.
How very odd. When I ran this by our chief research scientist in the genetic clinical trials lab, She thought the pretext was sound and that it
actually was a common opinion. I will have to try to improve.
It is true, I do have trouble with objectivity, I rarely post, and then only on things that particularly excite or offend me.
But back to your post.
>For example, in the last three hundred years the
>average world life expectancy has risen from
>approximately 27 to more than 65. US life
>expectancy is currently around 78.
Specious reasoning.
>Do you suppose that it might be possible that the
>fact that people now live long enough to get
>cancer might have something to do with the fact
>that doctors see more cases than they used to?
Did you actually mean this to be two questions? One about living long enough to get cancer, and one about doctors seeing more cases?
Both arguments have some small merit, but as stated, it is virtually meaningless.
No, the vast majority of cancer is detected before age 47, with cancer common among people below 30. This takes us well into the average lifespan of 200 years ago, (even by your own reasoning)
The key here is average. That the average is late 70's does not in any way support your argument. By far the most significant factors in determining the average life expectancy is infant death. There has been no significant increase in maximum age within recorded history. If you look at life expectancy's from age 15 and up, you will see that there is not the huge increase that is often claimed. So no, It is not that people are living long enough to get cancer (in general). There are many time related types of cancer that do increase linearly with age/exposure, but that does in and of itself support your argument.
>something to do with the fact that doctors see
>more cases than they used to?
Yes doctors today see more patients than 300 years ago, but not 2000 times more, which is about what your chance of getting skin cancer is, compared to 300 years ago
>Do you support running 6-8 generation QA
>processes on all technologies?
Yes, on "mission critical" technologies. Would you live next to the 8'th designed nuclear plant?
Venice has been working on that salt march for 1000 human generations, and they still don't have it right yet.
As part of my job I determine maturity levels for software/systems. It is a very rare complex system that does not have 50 or more "generations" (significant configurations) before is is considered stable enough for production. Just take a look at the Linux kernel.
As for electricity, last time I checked, it predated all human generations.
I personally know of 3 people with metastasized melanoma, 2 dead, one dying. All of them under 30.
200 years ago, this just did not happen. In all 3
cases, there was no definitive cause for the cancer.
I know of a particular case where a farmer purchased 50 gallon drums from an aircraft defence contractor. The drums were not marked, but were filled with what apeared to be alcohol. The farmer dumped the contents and used the drums to ferry whater to livestock. What he did not know was that the alcohol was used as a cleaner in plastics production, and was contaminated with carcinogens. It was 12 years before he contracted stomach cancer. In the meantime, the livestock were sold as meat in the stockyards. Te third generation showed significant birth defects, and were either steril, or mechanically unable to breed, even though the previous 2 generations showed no known ill effects. It was not known if the meat was contaminated, although the farmer developed stomach cancer, melanoma, and carcinoma, he was also directly exposed.
The earth is a very complex "production" system, and we are working with no backup.
In my circle of friends (geeks) it's 100%. You either get machines or you don't.
Oddly enough even we're all gearheads and keyboard jockeys.
And before you snipe, Yes, were all married.
Sorry, It took me awhile to realize a troll.
For those that care, there is plenty of contraidigatory evidence for GM plants, not just for human consumption, but for environmental interactions.
My mother told me not to talk to strangers.
I understand that you are still all broken up about Rush, but does this prevent you from reading, or just understanding?
What it boils down to is we don't know.
And we can't know anytime soon.
So perhaps we should look before we leap, even if that means waiting for sunrise to be able to see.
Because for now "Anonymous Coward" we are in the dark.
Let's just look at this "scientifically".
With a "big picture" view:
The plants and animals of this planet have evolved together for millions
of years. (aka food and consumer). Evidently, they are not a bad match,
as both are still present and seem viable. It has been a long time since
the last mass extinction.
Genetic manipulation is still in it's infancy (yes, even going back to
Mendel), and we are already having some problems. Mass conversion from
gathering food to growing food has led to the extinction of many viable
varieties of food plants and animals, and the development of artificially
sustained varieties (American corn).
There are some obvious problems already, even
considering the slow development of hybrid varieties.
The rise in cancer in humans in the last 300 years is astonishing, from
being a rarity that a doctor might see only once or twice in a lifetime of
practice, to 1 in 3 chance for everyone to have now.
Granted, lack of good observation and record keeping does not allow us to
firmly relate cancer and diet over the last 300 years, but this is just
one example.
I have no problem at all with GM foodstuffs, just so long as they have a
sufficient QA process. I would consider 6-8 generations of humans a
minimum for the first alpha tests.
There is no other way to insure that there is no non-obvious error.
I have the good fortune to work with some very good microbiologist,
geneticist, and they are the first to admit that they don't understand
everything in this very complex closed system.
It would really suck to find out that that bug proof wheat eventually
modifies the human immune system 4 or 5 generations out, and all the
bread eating industrial nations die of the common cold.
Remember, when you play with the food chain, you play for keeps.
Funny thing that. When I wrote the Time and Attendance code, I never had that problem.
FYI:
Never have a non salary person maintaining the Time and Attendance code. (or anything else you care about)