Doesn't even have to be something in/from a hospital!
Some of the biggest spreaders of disease, even as simple as the common cold or the flu, right on up to SARS, are everyday items such as computer keyboards, regular twisted pair phones, (especially payphones!), and even coinage!
This is why properly washing your hands often is so important in stopping the spread of contagious diseases.
You would probably find that the stacked blocks are joined together with large pins, just as they would be on a flatbed truck or rail car, just a few (!) boxes higher than what they would be on either. As stable as container ships are, things still have to be secured, as something as heavy as a container would shift so easily on even a gentle roll, potentially capsizing the ship.
Now, I haven't seen this for myself, but i just cannot fathom the idea of so many large unsecured objects stacked up so high on any sort of vessel.
I recently tried to buy myself a couple of special swimsuits for running triathlons. I found a number of places in the States that would supply them, but for whatever reason, they refused to send any shipment by the not-that-slow, and still very insurable parcel post, instead favouring the likes of FedEx and UPS. The prices these two firms charge to ship 300 grams worth of swimwear from the US to Canada is outrageous, and essentially doubled the cost of the swimsuits. I explored other options, and eventually found a firm in the UK that had similar suits and had no problem with shipping through the post, so I bought four suits at less than the cost of one suit through the American firms.
TruWest, you have wonderful looking suits, but you're shutting out so much of your market. Allen's of Kingsbury will have my business every time over your exorbitant rates. Fucking Speedo Authentic Fitness won't even deal outside the US, even though they have an outlet store on Bloor St. in Toronto!
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www.airfarce.ca...for those of us in the know, this isn't offtopic, it's become a Canadian institution!
Steep hills could just as easily be dealt with using good old fashioned rack railway technology, as used in the Swiss Alps etc. Might be problematic in the middle of a busy street though.
Interestingly enough, the very first line that was electrified in London was originally intended to have that same sort of cable drive, and the electric trains had many problems negotiating the slope in the tunnel, so much that the line was eventually abandoned.
But the LU still beat the NYC Subway in both steam and electric!
Osborne Luggable, I give you the C64-SX, not to mention a luggable that Compaq made for a while. (Still got one, somewhere...)
Robin Reliant, I give you the (Kaboom!) Pinto. Oh, and the Plymouth Reliant.
As for the steam powered subways, the then Metropolitan Railway was running in London in 1863, well before electric trains had been invented, and in 1890, the London Underground was the first to convert to electric power. Somebody tell this to the good folks in San Francisco, whose streetcars still use a cable drive, and the folks in NYC whose subway didn't get rolling until 1904. (Alfred Ely Beech didn't really count.)
Britain and Europe may be behind North American standards in technology in some respects, but far ahead in others. Phones, roads and railways come to mind. And if their Disneyesque standard of living is so bad, why does Disney like to copy it?
As I don't have my truck around anymore, it's a little difficult for me to go out and get you the exact curb weight of it. But a little googling to ballpark it still puts it at about 6500 lbs. Your link details a 2000 truck anyway, not a 1995, and I haven't the slightest idea what differences Ford made between the two models beyond their obvious appearances. But there's no doubt that the Excursion is F-*50 HD based...just park the two side by side.
As for what you presented, all I did was to state what I got driving my own vehicle. I haven't the slightest idea how either you or the EPA drive around, but my 24 miles per proper gallon was consistent, whatever you say. And I never said you fucked with anything, outside of comments on that downsized gallon you persist in using, with tongue-in-cheek musing about possibly the same thing done to the mile.
My late, lamented, (STOLEN!) 1995 F250 4x4 Supercab Diesel CONSISTENTLY gave me better than 24 mpg as a daily driver, with as high as 30 on long freeway trips. I was in the habit of keeping an eye on the fuel mileage.
I realize that's with a proper Imperial gallon, not that bastardized American one, but that's still better than 20, and a far cry from what the Excursion supposedly gets. Are you sure you haven't fucked with how far a mile is as well?
The Excursion's basically just a pickup truck with an oversized station wagon body, and is a far cry from those two-ton turds of the early 70s. The SUV didn't really exist back then, with exceptions like the old Ford Bronco and International Scout. In comparison, today's equivalent has enjoyed just as many technological updates as any car. Try comparing apples to apples and look at something like the current Ford Taurus with, say, a 1972 Torino.
>> The real benifit is this, what if all the beer companies (or whatever product it is) amalgamated and there were only a few types of beer. What if Apple died and there was only one commercial desktop OS. If there were no hackers making there own beer, writing there own software what choice would there be?
Let's see:
All systems would be running Windows 95, and there would be so many bugs and security issues that today's 2K or XP would seem bulletproof by comparison. It has taken innvovations from rival OSes such as MacOS, OS/2 and Linux to prod M$ into offering anything like them at all.
The beer would be flavourless crap. Until the resurgence of microbrews, most, if not all, commercial brews in North America at least was just variations on a theme. Everything Molson's brews up here tastes like Canadian and everything Labatt's is like Blue. It took the likes of Upper Canada and Sleeman to get them to even think about offering something similar to a craft brew, and even then it's just a cheap knock-off...Rickard's Red is just Canadian with caramel colouring added. When they have bought up small craft breweries, notably Brick and Algonquin, the first thing they do is to cut as many corners as they can, and completely obliterate what those craft breweries were about. Algonquin Honey Brown predated the Sleeman version by a good couple of years, and it was really great stuff! Ditto their Country Ale. AHB is shit now, and Country Ale no longer exists. I'll stick with Sleeman!
As for other industries, consider how shitty American cars were before the European cars really started arriving in the 60s and the Japanese invasion of the 70s and 80s. Both these events forced Detroit to seriously think about how they did business. I doubt GM would offer a single car with a rear window defrost or wiper, much less a real innovation like all-wheel drive if it weren't for the now ever-present threat of loss of market share from the imports. Look how long it took them just to adapt to the so-called Energy Crises of the 70's! We would all be chugging along in two ton turds that got 12 mpg!
>> who the fuck cares.. a $10 piece of shit radio from radio shack does the same thing. and it never needs firmware updates.
Why was this modded as a troll? He's entirely correct! Was it just the silly-assed sig you didn't like?
Instead of forking out $50+ for a radio card, I can spend half that for a nice little FM radio and not waste system resources. The only time I can see a radio card as practical in a computer is for something like a software controlled shortwave receiver, where precision tuning controls and filtering often come into play.
Installing a card in your system to pick up basic AM/FM is like towing a 30 foot travel trailer behind your RV.
Why the decline is Saturday morning cartoons on network TV? Simple..they all suck! Ever since Reagan "deregulated" the industry, they have all become just half-hour long cartoon advertisements for toys etc. So instead of having toys that sprang from cartoons...you know, Bugs Bunny Lite Brite sets, Snoopy toothbrush holders, Mickey Mouse watches etc...the toy appears first, with the show later on (if not concurrently) to advertize it.
When I grew up, cartoons were based on real people, or were even animated versions of the shows the grown-ups watched. I remember things like the Scooby Doo gang meeting Laurel and Hardy, or the Addams Family, something called Emergency Plus Four, Bill Cosby's Fat Albert...much earlier there were cartoons based on the Beatles and other pop groups. Does anything even come close anymore?
Actually, the answer to that is a resounding YES, and it certainly isn't springing from the commercial networks or even cable channels. The new Saturday morning catoonfests are on some of the public channels...PBS in the states, TVO and CBC here in Canada, with shows like Arthur or George Shrinks, which are far closer to the Sat AM shows I used to watch than the Pokemon crap that's on now. They're very popular...Ontario viewers of TVO witnessed an uproar recently when TVO axed hugely popular (and cute) TVO Kids host Patty Sullivan for doing a show on a different network.
And they're funny, too! Chock full of the same sort of pop culture references that the Simpsons are famous for. Just watch Arthur's rabbit friend Buster Baxter, who will eat anything, is paranoid about aliens and is just as much an underachiever as Bart Simpson ever could be. Or George Shrinks' inventor/musician dad, always looking for that new, cool sound. Buster Baxter and Harold Shrinks both crack me up! These shows also have their fair share of guests too...Fred Rogers, Yo Yo Ma, Art Garfunkel to name just a few.
So I would suggest that he only place that Saturday AM programming has ceased to really exist are on the dumbed down schedules of American network TV, the same people that have dumbed down and killed off so much other innovative programming in favour of cheaply done reality TV and advertising revenue
I can't believe that only one other Hitchhiker's Guide fan on/. had this exact thought triggered upon reading that header. Is the Guide really that old? Can't be! I still remember the bit in the story! Mod that one up!
>> With these, I can pretty much get anything reset or at least get on the net and download the rest in a reasonable amount of time. This reminds me that it's time to update my ISO image with Moz 1.4 and the new NV drivers...assuming that you're going to have decent, if indeed any, net access! Keep in mind the Desert Island concept.
>> It was based on a Zilog Z80A processor (same as that used in the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the Colecovision console, and similar to that used in the original Gameboy), but curiously, used Motorola peripheral chips.
Coleco made a sort-of PC that they called the Adam, which they discontinued in favour of all that Cabbage Patch crap. Is there any connection to the name?
I understand about the need for the basic VGA type driver that will give you enough video to troubleshoot and install the correct driver. But what Windows does with cards it can't detect is to install another generic driver e.g. Generic PCI Display Adapter that will go up to 1024*768 but not at more than 16 colours. This isn't in any sort of emergency mode. Seems to me that, if they're going to do that sort of thing, they do need to take it a little bit further.
Ever run into a piece of hardware that was OS specific? The most notorious of these, for me, has been the Winmodem, but I have heard that there are Windoze specific printers and other stuff as well. I was bitten once, and ever since then, if they can't tell me if it works on a Mac as well as Windoze, if not specifically Linux, I won't touch the thing!
Second to this, for me, is hardware that is marketed by the chipset, as, for me, these have been typically difficult to find drivers for. Related to this would be motherboards with onboard everything, all with untraceable drivers for their generic chipsets.
It wouldn't be so bad if, when whichever OS can't detect what it is, it installs a half decent generic driver that works reasonably well until the proper stuff can be found. Pet peeves here are generic video drivers that only give you 800*600...or worse, 640*480...in only 16 colours, modems and sound cards that can't be configured, and network interfaces that can't connect.
If it's mounted on a PC board, with presumably an external power supply, then it's somewhat larger than what the article tries to tell us. It's li9ke telling us that a computer is just the CPU, but without all the periphery that surrounds it, it's not much of a computer. So what's the point?
Doesn't look like there's a jack to plug it in, so I'm assuming that the thing runs off one of the lines in the ethernet cable, something like the way a phone is powered. Not knowing enough about some of the voltages and levels on that cable, is this a possibility, meaning that no dedicated "externa;" pwer supply is needed?
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Doesn't even have to be something in/from a hospital!
Some of the biggest spreaders of disease, even as simple as the common cold or the flu, right on up to SARS, are everyday items such as computer keyboards, regular twisted pair phones, (especially payphones!), and even coinage!
This is why properly washing your hands often is so important in stopping the spread of contagious diseases.
You would probably find that the stacked blocks are joined together with large pins, just as they would be on a flatbed truck or rail car, just a few (!) boxes higher than what they would be on either. As stable as container ships are, things still have to be secured, as something as heavy as a container would shift so easily on even a gentle roll, potentially capsizing the ship.
Now, I haven't seen this for myself, but i just cannot fathom the idea of so many large unsecured objects stacked up so high on any sort of vessel.
I recently tried to buy myself a couple of special swimsuits for running triathlons. I found a number of places in the States that would supply them, but for whatever reason, they refused to send any shipment by the not-that-slow, and still very insurable parcel post, instead favouring the likes of FedEx and UPS. The prices these two firms charge to ship 300 grams worth of swimwear from the US to Canada is outrageous, and essentially doubled the cost of the swimsuits. I explored other options, and eventually found a firm in the UK that had similar suits and had no problem with shipping through the post, so I bought four suits at less than the cost of one suit through the American firms.
TruWest, you have wonderful looking suits, but you're shutting out so much of your market. Allen's of Kingsbury will have my business every time over your exorbitant rates. Fucking Speedo Authentic Fitness won't even deal outside the US, even though they have an outlet store on Bloor St. in Toronto!
www.airfarce.ca ...for those of us in the know, this isn't offtopic, it's become a Canadian institution!
Steep hills could just as easily be dealt with using good old fashioned rack railway technology, as used in the Swiss Alps etc. Might be problematic in the middle of a busy street though.
Interestingly enough, the very first line that was electrified in London was originally intended to have that same sort of cable drive, and the electric trains had many problems negotiating the slope in the tunnel, so much that the line was eventually abandoned.
But the LU still beat the NYC Subway in both steam and electric!
Lessee...
Sinclair C5, I give you the Segway.
Osborne Luggable, I give you the C64-SX, not to mention a luggable that Compaq made for a while. (Still got one, somewhere...)
Robin Reliant, I give you the (Kaboom!) Pinto. Oh, and the Plymouth Reliant.
As for the steam powered subways, the then Metropolitan Railway was running in London in 1863, well before electric trains had been invented, and in 1890, the London Underground was the first to convert to electric power. Somebody tell this to the good folks in San Francisco, whose streetcars still use a cable drive, and the folks in NYC whose subway didn't get rolling until 1904. (Alfred Ely Beech didn't really count.)
Britain and Europe may be behind North American standards in technology in some respects, but far ahead in others. Phones, roads and railways come to mind. And if their Disneyesque standard of living is so bad, why does Disney like to copy it?
>> Zeppelin-NT?
Did this project start out as a collaboration with IBM as well?
As I don't have my truck around anymore, it's a little difficult for me to go out and get you the exact curb weight of it. But a little googling to ballpark it still puts it at about 6500 lbs. Your link details a 2000 truck anyway, not a 1995, and I haven't the slightest idea what differences Ford made between the two models beyond their obvious appearances. But there's no doubt that the Excursion is F-*50 HD based...just park the two side by side.
As for what you presented, all I did was to state what I got driving my own vehicle. I haven't the slightest idea how either you or the EPA drive around, but my 24 miles per proper gallon was consistent, whatever you say. And I never said you fucked with anything, outside of comments on that downsized gallon you persist in using, with tongue-in-cheek musing about possibly the same thing done to the mile.
My late, lamented, (STOLEN!) 1995 F250 4x4 Supercab Diesel CONSISTENTLY gave me better than 24 mpg as a daily driver, with as high as 30 on long freeway trips. I was in the habit of keeping an eye on the fuel mileage.
I realize that's with a proper Imperial gallon, not that bastardized American one, but that's still better than 20, and a far cry from what the Excursion supposedly gets. Are you sure you haven't fucked with how far a mile is as well?
The Excursion's basically just a pickup truck with an oversized station wagon body, and is a far cry from those two-ton turds of the early 70s. The SUV didn't really exist back then, with exceptions like the old Ford Bronco and International Scout. In comparison, today's equivalent has enjoyed just as many technological updates as any car. Try comparing apples to apples and look at something like the current Ford Taurus with, say, a 1972 Torino.
>> The real benifit is this, what if all the beer companies (or whatever product it is) amalgamated and there were only a few types of beer. What if Apple died and there was only one commercial desktop OS. If there were no hackers making there own beer, writing there own software what choice would there be?
Let's see:
All systems would be running Windows 95, and there would be so many bugs and security issues that today's 2K or XP would seem bulletproof by comparison. It has taken innvovations from rival OSes such as MacOS, OS/2 and Linux to prod M$ into offering anything like them at all.
The beer would be flavourless crap. Until the resurgence of microbrews, most, if not all, commercial brews in North America at least was just variations on a theme. Everything Molson's brews up here tastes like Canadian and everything Labatt's is like Blue. It took the likes of Upper Canada and Sleeman to get them to even think about offering something similar to a craft brew, and even then it's just a cheap knock-off...Rickard's Red is just Canadian with caramel colouring added. When they have bought up small craft breweries, notably Brick and Algonquin, the first thing they do is to cut as many corners as they can, and completely obliterate what those craft breweries were about. Algonquin Honey Brown predated the Sleeman version by a good couple of years, and it was really great stuff! Ditto their Country Ale. AHB is shit now, and Country Ale no longer exists. I'll stick with Sleeman!
As for other industries, consider how shitty American cars were before the European cars really started arriving in the 60s and the Japanese invasion of the 70s and 80s. Both these events forced Detroit to seriously think about how they did business. I doubt GM would offer a single car with a rear window defrost or wiper, much less a real innovation like all-wheel drive if it weren't for the now ever-present threat of loss of market share from the imports. Look how long it took them just to adapt to the so-called Energy Crises of the 70's! We would all be chugging along in two ton turds that got 12 mpg!
Never thought of home brewing like that, but it's quite obviously true.
>> who the fuck cares.. a $10 piece of shit radio from radio shack does the same thing. and it never needs firmware updates.
Why was this modded as a troll? He's entirely correct! Was it just the silly-assed sig you didn't like?
Instead of forking out $50+ for a radio card, I can spend half that for a nice little FM radio and not waste system resources. The only time I can see a radio card as practical in a computer is for something like a software controlled shortwave receiver, where precision tuning controls and filtering often come into play.
Installing a card in your system to pick up basic AM/FM is like towing a 30 foot travel trailer behind your RV.
Why the decline is Saturday morning cartoons on network TV? Simple..they all suck! Ever since Reagan "deregulated" the industry, they have all become just half-hour long cartoon advertisements for toys etc. So instead of having toys that sprang from cartoons...you know, Bugs Bunny Lite Brite sets, Snoopy toothbrush holders, Mickey Mouse watches etc...the toy appears first, with the show later on (if not concurrently) to advertize it.
When I grew up, cartoons were based on real people, or were even animated versions of the shows the grown-ups watched. I remember things like the Scooby Doo gang meeting Laurel and Hardy, or the Addams Family, something called Emergency Plus Four, Bill Cosby's Fat Albert...much earlier there were cartoons based on the Beatles and other pop groups. Does anything even come close anymore?
Actually, the answer to that is a resounding YES, and it certainly isn't springing from the commercial networks or even cable channels. The new Saturday morning catoonfests are on some of the public channels...PBS in the states, TVO and CBC here in Canada, with shows like Arthur or George Shrinks, which are far closer to the Sat AM shows I used to watch than the Pokemon crap that's on now. They're very popular...Ontario viewers of TVO witnessed an uproar recently when TVO axed hugely popular (and cute) TVO Kids host Patty Sullivan for doing a show on a different network.
And they're funny, too! Chock full of the same sort of pop culture references that the Simpsons are famous for. Just watch Arthur's rabbit friend Buster Baxter, who will eat anything, is paranoid about aliens and is just as much an underachiever as Bart Simpson ever could be. Or George Shrinks' inventor/musician dad, always looking for that new, cool sound. Buster Baxter and Harold Shrinks both crack me up! These shows also have their fair share of guests too...Fred Rogers, Yo Yo Ma, Art Garfunkel to name just a few.
So I would suggest that he only place that Saturday AM programming has ceased to really exist are on the dumbed down schedules of American network TV, the same people that have dumbed down and killed off so much other innovative programming in favour of cheaply done reality TV and advertising revenue
I can't believe that only one other Hitchhiker's Guide fan on /. had this exact thought triggered upon reading that header. Is the Guide really that old? Can't be! I still remember the bit in the story! Mod that one up!
>> With these, I can pretty much get anything reset or at least get on the net and download the rest in a reasonable amount of time. This reminds me that it's time to update my ISO image with Moz 1.4 and the new NV drivers ...assuming that you're going to have decent, if indeed any, net access! Keep in mind the Desert Island concept.
>> It was based on a Zilog Z80A processor (same as that used in the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the Colecovision console, and similar to that used in the original Gameboy), but curiously, used Motorola peripheral chips.
Coleco made a sort-of PC that they called the Adam, which they discontinued in favour of all that Cabbage Patch crap. Is there any connection to the name?
I thought Dave Thomas was on SCTV as Doug (or is it Bob) Mackenzie!
I understand about the need for the basic VGA type driver that will give you enough video to troubleshoot and install the correct driver. But what Windows does with cards it can't detect is to install another generic driver e.g. Generic PCI Display Adapter that will go up to 1024*768 but not at more than 16 colours. This isn't in any sort of emergency mode. Seems to me that, if they're going to do that sort of thing, they do need to take it a little bit further.
Ever run into a piece of hardware that was OS specific? The most notorious of these, for me, has been the Winmodem, but I have heard that there are Windoze specific printers and other stuff as well. I was bitten once, and ever since then, if they can't tell me if it works on a Mac as well as Windoze, if not specifically Linux, I won't touch the thing!
Second to this, for me, is hardware that is marketed by the chipset, as, for me, these have been typically difficult to find drivers for. Related to this would be motherboards with onboard everything, all with untraceable drivers for their generic chipsets.
It wouldn't be so bad if, when whichever OS can't detect what it is, it installs a half decent generic driver that works reasonably well until the proper stuff can be found. Pet peeves here are generic video drivers that only give you 800*600...or worse, 640*480...in only 16 colours, modems and sound cards that can't be configured, and network interfaces that can't connect.
...will this little beast fit on either the backyard rollercoaster or the backyard monorail track?
I had just finished FTPing 1.3b for a fresh installation this afternoon!
If it's mounted on a PC board, with presumably an external power supply, then it's somewhat larger than what the article tries to tell us. It's li9ke telling us that a computer is just the CPU, but without all the periphery that surrounds it, it's not much of a computer. So what's the point?
Doesn't look like there's a jack to plug it in, so I'm assuming that the thing runs off one of the lines in the ethernet cable, something like the way a phone is powered. Not knowing enough about some of the voltages and levels on that cable, is this a possibility, meaning that no dedicated "externa;" pwer supply is needed?
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