the waste product is well sand, alumna sand to be exact, slightly more valuable than silica sand, but its sand, unless you want to call it garnet dust that sounds more valuable. maybe you'd be so kind as to explain why Al+HOH -AlO + H2 is so much better than the old fashioned 2(Na + HOH)- 2NaOH + H2? Aluminum that doesn't oxide coat would present serious fire hazards, one inoppertune spark and instant thermite
Well since MS products typically don't play well with others it creates a lot of inertia, I think even pirated copies of windows and office have value to microsoft because of this. The Chinese see this vendor lock-in as an foreign influence and have been trying to keep foreign influence out for a couple of millennium now, I suspect they'll get it figured out any century now.
Being Chinese doesn't automagically make you a pirate, but actually living in China means you learn not to ask embarassing questions; so when the asshole at the flea-market is selling Windows XP for a weeks pay, you dont go to the official store-front where it costs 4 months pay just to get the hologram on the case.
Yes as much as I'd like to see microsoft get their due for all the dastardly and even downright illegal things they've done and will do; getting burned thusly just ain't right. That's the reason I don't release my software with the "or future versions" clause, if I decide that my software should be licenced by a future version, I'll do it not a third party.
I regularly download at 6Mbps and actually get those speeds in spurts, but when you divide the size of the file, by the length of time to download, it works out to about what your getting, 250-375 Kbps realworld.
You almost think that have a up-to-date patched virus free computer would be an item of national security interest; who know when a ad-hock mesh network would come in handy or for what.
First there are different kinds of "2Mbs" and what kind you get depends on how over-subscribed the connection is, 2Mbs shared between 100 people is bad, 2 Mbs shared between 3 people seems fast. I think most of use would be hesitent to consider 2Mbs hi-speed broadband, hell that would be lo-speed broadband in my book and I'm not sure that I'd qualify DSL as broadband today.
Yeah, what a bunch of pansie ass girly-men, those kinds of yahoo's are what destroying my Military. Real men edit documents with vi or emacs, format with LaTeX and use CVS for revision control. Hell the missile I worked on only had one transistor, the rest were all electron tubes, mostly 5704's and some 5707's. My computer had ferrite core memory and all the chips were wire-wrapped, motherboard, we didn't need no stinking motherboard.
No law that I'm aware of prohibits passing along negative aspects of the employement record, however former employees can and do sue for slander, improper termination and/or discrimination so anything negative passed along really should be easily verifieable in court, objective stuff is best, frequently late is bad, tardy 4 times in 15 work days not so bad; lazy is bad, missed production goals 5 times more company average is not so bad. The best thing is to say as little as possible so you don't have to waste a day in court.
Yeah I'm a male WASP and it's pretty easy to fire me, hell in one job it seemed the only times I got a pay raise was after being fired. I think My record was getting fired 3 times in one day; one time when I was fired, I tried to stop working and go home but that didn't work. I'm not sure I understood what the boss meant by saying "God damn it Your fucking fired.", I thought it meant stop working turn in your keys and go home, your not getting paid anymore but that's not what happened. Eventually I learned that when he fired me, I was supposed to stop working, fold my arms across my chest in a non-threatening manner and silently stare at him while smiling until he got tired of swearing at me and went away so I could get back to work.
Actually there was no locker room, at least at our local resurant so all of those girls changed from their street closes into work uniforms where ever. Most of the girls were good looking decent people with a slight exhibitionistic streak, so if your into bra's and panties, put an app in at your local Hooter's, you'll see plenty. What the watcher is really paid to watch for is drugs, drinking, prostitution, people slipping beer or food out the back door and general functioning of the resturant.
wrong if only people who have access to sensitive info are fingerprintered, then the people who are fingerprinter become targets of interest to all sorts of bad guys. Better to fingerprint everybody and enjoy some security through obscurity.
Federal regulations require employers take reasonable actions to provide a safe workplace and provide training so workers can protect themselves from known hazards. Drunks and Druggies are accident prone and increase the hazards in a workplace. If your uncle hired the drunk truck drivers as an employee rather than an independant contractor he'd have serious liability issues and possibly criminal charges. Consider how lucky he is that he wasn't sitting in jail waiting trial as a flight risk while Bubba used his sorry canuck ass for a basketball
If the company isn't liable, why is insurance necessary? Here if an employee forgets something in the car and you tell them to "run out to the car to get it" your liable because you said "run" instead of "walk quickly but carefully"
First I hate to break your delusion, but if the "Gov" want your fingerprints or DNA, they are going to get them with or without a warrant or probable cause; you leave that stuff all over the place, they just have to pick it up. Hell my son worked at Hooters as a cook, at a Corparate function some guy walked up to him and said "Hi Mike, I'm Joe, your watcher. I watch everthing that the cameras in your resturant sees."; do you think a bank should be less dilligent?
You can sue almost anyone for almost anything, just look at scox vs. IBM, scox vs. Autoworks and even scox vs. the whole world! If Microsoft is really suggesting that all of these patents are being infringed than a defamation suit would be interesting, at least discovery would force then to reveal which patents they are alleging being infringed
I always found that strange because you can't copyright facts, so if they copyright their "Holy book" full of the "facts" surounding life the universe and everything, it's really admitting the facts arn't true! When you play a fact based game like "Trivial Percute" some of the answers on the card are wrong on purpose; the wrong ansqwers aren't facts and therefore are the only ones that can be protected by copyright. The otherthing is when I read "Dianetics" about a decade and a half ago, nothing in struck me as terribly original or unique.
When I was in the Army our missile system ran on 416V, 3 phase, 400Hz power like most avionics systems do to save weight in the transformers; because of this our shop had a 160KW frequency convertor, to change the 50Hz European power into 400Hz and a constant whine. Inside the shop, was the production control area, who's enterence was enclosed in chain-link cage for security and inside its electrical conduits was an intermitant short.When somebody slammed the door shut too hard the circuit breaker killed the lights in the area. One day clowning arround with my friends I slammed the gate, killing the lights, after hearing some cursing from the dark bowels of producting control we noticed that all the lights were off and I said something like "Did I do that?" and then we heard the convertor winding down and I said something like "I didn't do that, did I". We went out side and didn't see any signs of power anywhere on post, and I said something like "We're not going to tell anybody we did this are we". The next day I found out that the Air Force dropped a 500 pounder on the main power line for the post, which must have happened within seconds of my kicking the gate, a coincidence that really caused my ass some serious pucker factor.
the two-hand no-tie switch turns the machine on, not off; you use the switch to activate the dangerous opperation not deactivate a dangerous opperation. Turning on a machine that can rip off your arm is dangerous, doing a panic-stop on a Data-center full of servers is a dangerous opperation so a two-hand/no-tie switch would be appropriate.
the rotary phone have switches in the dialer that interupts the circuit, 1 interupts it once, 0 interupts it 10 times; dropping the phone can cause the switch to bounce. Most often the operator would answer as 11 interupts is the same as 10, if there were gaps in the "dialing" 911 wouldn't be imposible just improbable. You can actually dial the phone by tapping the hook button in systems that still recognize the rotory coding.
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the patent probably covers any GaAl alloy to generate hydrogen gas from water.
the waste product is well sand, alumna sand to be exact, slightly more valuable than silica sand, but its sand, unless you want to call it garnet dust that sounds more valuable. maybe you'd be so kind as to explain why Al+HOH -AlO + H2 is so much better than the old fashioned 2(Na + HOH)- 2NaOH + H2? Aluminum that doesn't oxide coat would present serious fire hazards, one inoppertune spark and instant thermite
Well since MS products typically don't play well with others it creates a lot of inertia, I think even pirated copies of windows and office have value to microsoft because of this. The Chinese see this vendor lock-in as an foreign influence and have been trying to keep foreign influence out for a couple of millennium now, I suspect they'll get it figured out any century now.
Being Chinese doesn't automagically make you a pirate, but actually living in China means you learn not to ask embarassing questions; so when the asshole at the flea-market is selling Windows XP for a weeks pay, you dont go to the official store-front where it costs 4 months pay just to get the hologram on the case.
Yes as much as I'd like to see microsoft get their due for all the dastardly and even downright illegal things they've done and will do; getting burned thusly just ain't right. That's the reason I don't release my software with the "or future versions" clause, if I decide that my software should be licenced by a future version, I'll do it not a third party.
I regularly download at 6Mbps and actually get those speeds in spurts, but when you divide the size of the file, by the length of time to download, it works out to about what your getting, 250-375 Kbps realworld.
Did you guys have a scanner to burn mimeograph stencils? We had one in Bn. and I used to use the hell out of it.
You almost think that have a up-to-date patched virus free computer would be an item of national security interest; who know when a ad-hock mesh network would come in handy or for what.
T1 might be slow by broadband standards but you can't haul hay in a Ferrarri either.
First there are different kinds of "2Mbs" and what kind you get depends on how over-subscribed the connection is, 2Mbs shared between 100 people is bad, 2 Mbs shared between 3 people seems fast. I think most of use would be hesitent to consider 2Mbs hi-speed broadband, hell that would be lo-speed broadband in my book and I'm not sure that I'd qualify DSL as broadband today.
Yeah, what a bunch of pansie ass girly-men, those kinds of yahoo's are what destroying my Military. Real men edit documents with vi or emacs, format with LaTeX and use CVS for revision control. Hell the missile I worked on only had one transistor, the rest were all electron tubes, mostly 5704's and some 5707's. My computer had ferrite core memory and all the chips were wire-wrapped, motherboard, we didn't need no stinking motherboard.
No law that I'm aware of prohibits passing along negative aspects of the employement record, however former employees can and do sue for slander, improper termination and/or discrimination so anything negative passed along really should be easily verifieable in court, objective stuff is best, frequently late is bad, tardy 4 times in 15 work days not so bad; lazy is bad, missed production goals 5 times more company average is not so bad. The best thing is to say as little as possible so you don't have to waste a day in court.
Yeah I'm a male WASP and it's pretty easy to fire me, hell in one job it seemed the only times I got a pay raise was after being fired. I think My record was getting fired 3 times in one day; one time when I was fired, I tried to stop working and go home but that didn't work. I'm not sure I understood what the boss meant by saying "God damn it Your fucking fired.", I thought it meant stop working turn in your keys and go home, your not getting paid anymore but that's not what happened. Eventually I learned that when he fired me, I was supposed to stop working, fold my arms across my chest in a non-threatening manner and silently stare at him while smiling until he got tired of swearing at me and went away so I could get back to work.
Actually there was no locker room, at least at our local resurant so all of those girls changed from their street closes into work uniforms where ever. Most of the girls were good looking decent people with a slight exhibitionistic streak, so if your into bra's and panties, put an app in at your local Hooter's, you'll see plenty.
What the watcher is really paid to watch for is drugs, drinking, prostitution, people slipping beer or food out the back door and general functioning of the resturant.
wrong if only people who have access to sensitive info are fingerprintered, then the people who are fingerprinter become targets of interest to all sorts of bad guys. Better to fingerprint everybody and enjoy some security through obscurity.
Federal regulations require employers take reasonable actions to provide a safe workplace and provide training so workers can protect themselves from known hazards. Drunks and Druggies are accident prone and increase the hazards in a workplace. If your uncle hired the drunk truck drivers as an employee rather than an independant contractor he'd have serious liability issues and possibly criminal charges. Consider how lucky he is that he wasn't sitting in jail waiting trial as a flight risk while Bubba used his sorry canuck ass for a basketball
If the company isn't liable, why is insurance necessary? Here if an employee forgets something in the car and you tell them to "run out to the car to get it" your liable because you said "run" instead of "walk quickly but carefully"
When I was getting fingerprinted down at the sherrif's for the Army, a group of Boy Scouts was touring the facillity, boy did I ever get stink-eyed!
First I hate to break your delusion, but if the "Gov" want your fingerprints or DNA, they are going to get them with or without a warrant or probable cause; you leave that stuff all over the place, they just have to pick it up.
Hell my son worked at Hooters as a cook, at a Corparate function some guy walked up to him and said "Hi Mike, I'm Joe, your watcher. I watch everthing that the cameras in your resturant sees."; do you think a bank should be less dilligent?
You can sue almost anyone for almost anything, just look at scox vs. IBM, scox vs. Autoworks and even scox vs. the whole world! If Microsoft is really suggesting that all of these patents are being infringed than a defamation suit would be interesting, at least discovery would force then to reveal which patents they are alleging being infringed
I always found that strange because you can't copyright facts, so if they copyright their "Holy book" full of the "facts" surounding life the universe and everything, it's really admitting the facts arn't true! When you play a fact based game like "Trivial Percute" some of the answers on the card are wrong on purpose; the wrong ansqwers aren't facts and therefore are the only ones that can be protected by copyright. The otherthing is when I read "Dianetics" about a decade and a half ago, nothing in struck me as terribly original or unique.
At least you get a Queen to swear allegience to all we yanks get is an inanimate flag
When I was in the Army our missile system ran on 416V, 3 phase, 400Hz power like most avionics systems do to save weight in the transformers; because of this our shop had a 160KW frequency convertor, to change the 50Hz European power into 400Hz and a constant whine. Inside the shop, was the production control area, who's enterence was enclosed in chain-link cage for security and inside its electrical conduits was an intermitant short.When somebody slammed the door shut too hard the circuit breaker killed the lights in the area. One day clowning arround with my friends I slammed the gate, killing the lights, after hearing some cursing from the dark bowels of producting control we noticed that all the lights were off and I said something like "Did I do that?" and then we heard the convertor winding down and I said something like "I didn't do that, did I". We went out side and didn't see any signs of power anywhere on post, and I said something like "We're not going to tell anybody we did this are we". The next day I found out that the Air Force dropped a 500 pounder on the main power line for the post, which must have happened within seconds of my kicking the gate, a coincidence that really caused my ass some serious pucker factor.
the two-hand no-tie switch turns the machine on, not off; you use the switch to activate the dangerous opperation not deactivate a dangerous opperation. Turning on a machine that can rip off your arm is dangerous, doing a panic-stop on a Data-center full of servers is a dangerous opperation so a two-hand/no-tie switch would be appropriate.
the rotary phone have switches in the dialer that interupts the circuit, 1 interupts it once, 0 interupts it 10 times; dropping the phone can cause the switch to bounce. Most often the operator would answer as 11 interupts is the same as 10, if there were gaps in the "dialing" 911 wouldn't be imposible just improbable. You can actually dial the phone by tapping the hook button in systems that still recognize the rotory coding.