Yes, it is a liquid, and it does sag with age. In fact if you visit some of the early colonial houses that had panes of window you can see where the glass is thicker at the bottom of the pane!
But glass follows the laws of physics, and the size of the lens in a camera makes for truly imperceptible sag, and the camera will be at the bottom of a forgotten landfill and the glass would still not be sagging.
I hope that they will have an automount for the floppy.
Being a complete newbie to linux, I was furious to see a "protocol error" when I tried to write to the floppy.
I just do not see the security hazard of writing to a floppy. It's something that I *expect* to be able to do, and able to do with every other OS in the world (including other linux like Xandros).
This problem is not isolated to Suse. Other distros read the floppy (I suppose to see its status) every seven seconds which can be really annoying.
Xandros gets it right -- Suse needs to use the Gnu license and put that code in their distribution.
They need to stop working on eye candy and work on basic functionality.
Expect the release of "Star Wars Classic" sometime in 2006. You know there are some fanboys that will start forming the line tonight.
Actually, expect the release of the hi-def version (on the new format heavily DRMed DVD whatever that is) that will look fantastic on all the HDTV sets that everyone will have to buy with the new TV standard.
Everybody will be buying the same movies they have now over again. Hollywood is not going to be hurting anytime soon.
Don't you get the feeling that the studios are shouting "piracy" to divert eyes off from something else?
In this case, Lucas wants to divert eyes off the truckloads of money he is making off from this -- oh yeah, and the fact that the prequels are crap.
Indeed, you are right. She doesn't like the idea, but she is about to find all of her files on a linux box. Also, I have told her to tell her friends that I no longer support Microsoft products anymore, as I have a steady stream of people beating a path to my door.
Microsoft doesn't hold a gun to your head, only because they probably would not get away with it. As we have seen in the past, laws have not stopped microsoft from illegal behavior.
The problem is when you go into a retail store, all the machines are sold with Windows XP on them, so the sheeple buy them. There very rarely are any macs to even choose from, and never any linux boxes.
On top of that, all the commercial software on the shelves run on Microsoft. People want to buy software off the retail shelf and load it on their computer.
The fact is, and has been lamented countless times on slashdot, it is in Microsoft's best interest to continue to have an iron grip on the computer retail market, so they do.
I am hopeful that firefox will set a precedent for other alternative software. And hopefully crossover and transgaming will mature. But until they do, when I walk into circuit city, all I see is Microsoft and compatible products, snd that's what people buy.
But you know this already. You're just being argumentive
Given that k = 1.38x10^-16 erg/Kelvin, and that the ambient temperature of the universe is 3.2K, an ideal computer running at 3.2K would consume 4.4x10^-16 ergs every time it set or cleared a bit
Gee, envy is not the emotion that I am feeling as I remove all the viruses, worms, trojans, browser hijacks off from my mother's windows machine.
All of which seem to trying to break the ten commandments one way or another. I guess maybe not murder, but my mother felt quite murderous when her internet explorer was been randomly hijacked to a russian porn site that would put nekkid butts in her face.
No, I don't call it envy. I call it hate of a crappy and insecure product that Microsoft continually tries to force everyone into using.
Future scientific analysis will show that the matter of our solar system is made out of a sandy substance that comes from a region of space called yootah. It is everywhere and permeates everything as we know it.
This also has lead to new techniques at Nasa that will allow them to rescue expensive space missions with a pair of tweezers.
I worked in a large surface mount production facility. In the final stage of assembly, they would in fact go through a fancy dishwasher. Early on we didn't even use deionized water. They did switch to deionized water not so much for the fear of conductivity, but to not leave spots behind.
You want to put tape (waterproof - packing tape might work) over any speakers, piezo devices, potentiometers, dip/pushbutton switches. Remove any batteries and button cells.
Then stick it in the diswasher, I'd use electrasol. Also, skip the "drying" cycle and let it air dry. Where I live (Utah) the air is quite dry. It would be ideal to let it sit for a day in the summer sun. Then you are good to go.
If you are not blessed with dry air but humid air, it may take more than a day to safely dry before you can plug it in.
Under no conditions would I do this to vintage equipment, esp. tube equipment or even vintage transistor equipment. Old equipment will tend to crumble under the stress as old capacitors like to die (if they haven't already - google/get an ESR meter) and plastic will tend to crack. I would only do this for equipment from the mid eighties on. Before this time I would be judicious with the cleaning process. Like maybe not using hot water.
Modern components however are made to face a dishwasher, and can withstand it nicely, unless the components are defective to begin with (like some bad electrolytics on motherboards).
Some rad-hard parts are actually normal parts culled from the standard assembly line and tested for their ability to endure extremes. Not all, but some.
Also, you might be able to find some military surplus somewhere that had rad-hard parts and scavenge it for parts.
While it would be difficult to do, it would not be impossible to build space rated hardware. There are a few ham radio satellites that have been built economically.
Actually our sun does not have enough mass to go supernova. A star needs a mass about 1.4 times our own for it to go supernova, and this is called the Chandra Limit.
According to current theory, our sun at the end of its lifetime (5 billion years from now) will become a red giant and throw off its outer layers forming a planetary nebula, and then turn into a white dwarf.
If, by chance the sun as a white dwarf is captured by another star's gravitation, it could draw off mass from that star and then go supernova.
If the sun were to turn into a variable star or nova between now and white dwarf stage, it could very easily boil away the oceans. Some scientists think that the sun will gradually increase in luminosity and that earth will be unhabitable in a billion years.
Alternatively, if a nearby star (25 light years away) were to go supernova, that would pretty much kill the ozone layer and the sun's UV would fry us.
Some scientists think that there is no life in the universe because supernova are such large events in galaxies that as life gets started somewhere it probably gets wiped out by a nearby star going supernova.
Let me just start out by saying that the Ewoks are the single most underrated cinematic creations of all time. I love those little dudes! I love these little movies, too
Lemme guess, your mother didn't give you enough attention when you were growing up??
They're probably terrified that Google Gmail will become a universal sign-in system to compete with MSN Passport - which, after all, is the real business reason to get people onto Hotmail
Agreed. Also there is all that "life is better with the butterfly" crap that they have to try and justify.
They say that they are going to increase the limit on the 2 meg accounts "by the end of the summer", which gives them roughly a month until the first day of fall before I can call them a liar.
I suspect they are dragging their feet to squeeze all the upgrade money they can from the 2 meg accounts.
Also, I'm sure that there will be major strings attached, like having to sign in to your account every three weeks or lose it.
Alternatively, they may be dragging their feet because there are serious technical issues at hand, like with everybody letting their accounts fill with spam, which means they have will actually have to deliver tera/petabytes of storage.
The only thing I use my hotmail account for is for when people get really pushy for an email, I give them my hotmail address.
But I agree with an earlier poster, I don't need 2 gigs. Just deliver on 15 megs.
For those that need to work in a windows enviroment, I recommend xxcopy.
Print out the instructions for "disk cloning". Once you have done it once, it is very easy to do again. You can then make a "clone" of your harddrive install, so when Win98 turns to mush for one reason or another, you can reformat and re-clone. Best of all, you don't have to spend a dime for it and you get all the functionality of Norton's ghost.
I have found that W98 requires a re-install once a year, and that there is no way around it. For those that haven't moved to linux yet, I highly recommend Xandros. While it does not come with the firefox browser, it is easy eonough to install.
I have told my entire family (and all those that they send to my door with their various MS "windows problems") that I no longer support microsoft windows operating systems, and will stop supporting microsoft apps shortly as well.
By no means am I a linux fanboy. It's just a question of being practical. I can't spend all my time de-worming/reinstalling everybody's computer when a viable alternative is at hand now.
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Yes, it is a liquid, and it does sag with age. In fact if you visit some of the early colonial houses that had panes of window you can see where the glass is thicker at the bottom of the pane!
But glass follows the laws of physics, and the size of the lens in a camera makes for truly imperceptible sag, and the camera will be at the bottom of a forgotten landfill and the glass would still not be sagging.
I hope that they will have an automount for the floppy.
Being a complete newbie to linux, I was furious to see a "protocol error" when I tried to write to the floppy.
I just do not see the security hazard of writing to a floppy. It's something that I *expect* to be able to do, and able to do with every other OS in the world (including other linux like Xandros).
This problem is not isolated to Suse. Other distros read the floppy (I suppose to see its status) every seven seconds which can be really annoying.
Xandros gets it right -- Suse needs to use the Gnu license and put that code in their distribution.
They need to stop working on eye candy and work on basic functionality.
Yeah, I remember reading that paper... it stunk.
Well evidently it was a nose above the rest!
Ba Da Dum!
Expect the release of "Star Wars Classic" sometime in 2006. You know there are some fanboys that will start forming the line tonight.
Actually, expect the release of the hi-def version (on the new format heavily DRMed DVD whatever that is) that will look fantastic on all the HDTV sets that everyone will have to buy with the new TV standard.
Everybody will be buying the same movies they have now over again. Hollywood is not going to be hurting anytime soon.
Don't you get the feeling that the studios are shouting "piracy" to divert eyes off from something else?
In this case, Lucas wants to divert eyes off the truckloads of money he is making off from this -- oh yeah, and the fact that the prequels are crap.
Indeed, you are right. She doesn't like the idea, but she is about to find all of her files on a linux box. Also, I have told her to tell her friends that I no longer support Microsoft products anymore, as I have a steady stream of people beating a path to my door.
Microsoft doesn't hold a gun to your head, only because they probably would not get away with it. As we have seen in the past, laws have not stopped microsoft from illegal behavior.
The problem is when you go into a retail store, all the machines are sold with Windows XP on them, so the sheeple buy them. There very rarely are any macs to even choose from, and never any linux boxes.
On top of that, all the commercial software on the shelves run on Microsoft. People want to buy software off the retail shelf and load it on their computer.
The fact is, and has been lamented countless times on slashdot, it is in Microsoft's best interest to continue to have an iron grip on the computer retail market, so they do.
I am hopeful that firefox will set a precedent for other alternative software. And hopefully crossover and transgaming will mature. But until they do, when I walk into circuit city, all I see is Microsoft and compatible products, snd that's what people buy.
But you know this already. You're just being argumentive
Given that k = 1.38x10^-16 erg/Kelvin, and that the ambient temperature of the universe is 3.2K, an ideal computer running at 3.2K would consume 4.4x10^-16 ergs every time it set or cleared a bit
ok-ok, I get that. But can it play ogg???
Gee, envy is not the emotion that I am feeling as I remove all the viruses, worms, trojans, browser hijacks off from my mother's windows machine.
All of which seem to trying to break the ten commandments one way or another. I guess maybe not murder, but my mother felt quite murderous when her internet explorer was been randomly hijacked to a russian porn site that would put nekkid butts in her face.
No, I don't call it envy. I call it hate of a crappy and insecure product that Microsoft continually tries to force everyone into using.
Future scientific analysis will show that the matter of our solar system is made out of a sandy substance that comes from a region of space called yootah. It is everywhere and permeates everything as we know it.
This also has lead to new techniques at Nasa that will allow them to rescue expensive space missions with a pair of tweezers.
All in all, I'd call it a good day.
Cheaper consumer-grade things aren't made to last forever, though
When the manual said that "Congratulations on your purchase. This will give you a lifetime of enjoyment" they were actually talking about doggy years.
But yes, it all depends on the grade of equipment. Alot of the Tek and hp stuff is high quality, and anything military is going to be well, mil-spec.
But there is that caveat that a lot of the old plastic gets pretty brittle (esp. if it lives in a dry climate), along with rubber drying out.
I worked in a large surface mount production facility. In the final stage of assembly, they would in fact go through a fancy dishwasher. Early on we didn't even use deionized water. They did switch to deionized water not so much for the fear of conductivity, but to not leave spots behind.
You want to put tape (waterproof - packing tape might work) over any speakers, piezo devices, potentiometers, dip/pushbutton switches. Remove any batteries and button cells.
Then stick it in the diswasher, I'd use electrasol. Also, skip the "drying" cycle and let it air dry. Where I live (Utah) the air is quite dry. It would be ideal to let it sit for a day in the summer sun. Then you are good to go.
If you are not blessed with dry air but humid air, it may take more than a day to safely dry before you can plug it in.
Under no conditions would I do this to vintage equipment, esp. tube equipment or even vintage transistor equipment. Old equipment will tend to crumble under the stress as old capacitors like to die (if they haven't already - google/get an ESR meter) and plastic will tend to crack. I would only do this for equipment from the mid eighties on. Before this time I would be judicious with the cleaning process. Like maybe not using hot water.
Modern components however are made to face a dishwasher, and can withstand it nicely, unless the components are defective to begin with (like some bad electrolytics on motherboards).
Some rad-hard parts are actually normal parts culled from the standard assembly line and tested for their ability to endure extremes. Not all, but some.
Also, you might be able to find some military surplus somewhere that had rad-hard parts and scavenge it for parts.
While it would be difficult to do, it would not be impossible to build space rated hardware. There are a few ham radio satellites that have been built economically.
Actually our sun does not have enough mass to go supernova. A star needs a mass about 1.4 times our own for it to go supernova, and this is called the Chandra Limit.
According to current theory, our sun at the end of its lifetime (5 billion years from now) will become a red giant and throw off its outer layers forming a planetary nebula, and then turn into a white dwarf.
If, by chance the sun as a white dwarf is captured by another star's gravitation, it could draw off mass from that star and then go supernova.
If the sun were to turn into a variable star or nova between now and white dwarf stage, it could very easily boil away the oceans. Some scientists think that the sun will gradually increase in luminosity and that earth will be unhabitable in a billion years.
Alternatively, if a nearby star (25 light years away) were to go supernova, that would pretty much kill the ozone layer and the sun's UV would fry us.
Some scientists think that there is no life in the universe because supernova are such large events in galaxies that as life gets started somewhere it probably gets wiped out by a nearby star going supernova.
And now how in the world do we buy anything in Canada without $100 dollar bills?
I guess everybody will have to start using hens and basktets of apples again.
So when people are talking about fiat money, they are actually talking about that old car out back.
Can't be half bad.
So this is filed under the YRO category because....?
because everybody should have the right to print money on their inkjet.
oh, wait..
Let me just start out by saying that the Ewoks are the single most underrated cinematic creations of all time. I love those little dudes! I love these little movies, too
Lemme guess, your mother didn't give you enough attention when you were growing up??
I have wondered the same thing often, but I have not found it.
The may never put something out as it could possibly allow someone to find out more about the algorithms that they use.
Not that this hasn't been done anyway now, as increasingly my searches return link farms, and searches totally unrelated to my queries.
I might even say that *gasp* they might be starting to lose their edge due to people trying to "game" google.
is called -- "Getting Fired!!!"
Maybe he is on the no-fly list because the plain can't fly with him on it
Let's not jump to conclusions here.
Well, they are located in Redmond Washington, which means they fall under the influence of the northern hemisphere.
Thusly the first day of fall happens on the atumnal equinox which is around sept 22.
Don't ask me which direction the toilet water spins when Bill G. uses the bathroom though.
They're probably terrified that Google Gmail will become a universal sign-in system to compete with MSN Passport - which, after all, is the real business reason to get people onto Hotmail
Agreed. Also there is all that "life is better with the butterfly" crap that they have to try and justify.
They say that they are going to increase the limit on the 2 meg accounts "by the end of the summer", which gives them roughly a month until the first day of fall before I can call them a liar.
I suspect they are dragging their feet to squeeze all the upgrade money they can from the 2 meg accounts.
Also, I'm sure that there will be major strings attached, like having to sign in to your account every three weeks or lose it.
Alternatively, they may be dragging their feet because there are serious technical issues at hand, like with everybody letting their accounts fill with spam, which means they have will actually have to deliver tera/petabytes of storage.
The only thing I use my hotmail account for is for when people get really pushy for an email, I give them my hotmail address.
But I agree with an earlier poster, I don't need 2 gigs. Just deliver on 15 megs.
arent these scientist smart?
not if they are having 'brain freeze'
For those that need to work in a windows enviroment, I recommend xxcopy.
Print out the instructions for "disk cloning". Once you have done it once, it is very easy to do again. You can then make a "clone" of your harddrive install, so when Win98 turns to mush for one reason or another, you can reformat and re-clone. Best of all, you don't have to spend a dime for it and you get all the functionality of Norton's ghost.
I have found that W98 requires a re-install once a year, and that there is no way around it. For those that haven't moved to linux yet, I highly recommend Xandros. While it does not come with the firefox browser, it is easy eonough to install.
I have told my entire family (and all those that they send to my door with their various MS "windows problems") that I no longer support microsoft windows operating systems, and will stop supporting microsoft apps shortly as well.
By no means am I a linux fanboy. It's just a question of being practical. I can't spend all my time de-worming/reinstalling everybody's computer when a viable alternative is at hand now.
The US has put its fusion program on ice and has created a new form of Cold Fusion!
ba da dum
The clueless, pointless SCO baiting in this thread is depressing. You all hate them, but I don't think many of you know why.
I guess you could say it's kinda like going into a barnyard and hating the smell, but not knowing why.