Dead trees last centuries, epads don't survive the first hard drop.
Hilariously false. Dead trees last, at most, decades, and that's only if they're not used much. Under frequent use they last a few years max. My e-reader on the other hand, under almost daily use in sometimes rather adverse conditions (I've lugged it up mountains in Thailand, down the Mekong, across open ocean in an outrigger canoe, etc), has lasted four years in perfect functioning order. Dead trees would never have survived the abuse I've put my kindle through. The battery doesn't last as long as it used to (I used to be able to read seven to eight novels on a single charge, now I get about one or two novels), but it's long enough to still not matter much.
That some people don't know how to handle electronics is not the electronics fault.
Several years ago, a pipe failed in the upstairs apartment and completely flooded every square inch of my own, right down to the backs of the closets. A lot of books were extensively damaged. Some were completely ruined, others have pages and covers permanently warped, including a few specially-bound "collector" editions (fortunately space requirements and price mean that I mostly have paperbacks).
I have dropped e-readers more times than I want to think about, and have yet to seriously damage one - which is more than my Palm Pilot could claim. My ebooks are backed up to multiple types of media to reduce the chances of permanent loss. Plus, of course, the commercial books are "backed up" on the bookstore's servers.
I, too, like physical books, magazines, and newspapers. And for some uses, won't even consider electronic format. But I truly do enjoy the benefits of the electronic forms where applicable. I'm not going to be pretentious about the relative worth of one format or the other.
Poverty has always been the norm for writers and musicians as well, for that matter. However, it's questionable whether digital media is actually going to make it worse. More than once it has been demonstrated that people will pay for content even when they can get it for free legally. Whether they will pay enough is uncertain, and it's very likely that the publishers and other middlemen will hurt, however.
As for advertising, I know that some people get into a frothing rage over the mere suggestion, but a lot of us have no problems, and can even enjoy a good ad, well-placed and not over-done. The main thing is to keep the ads from intruding on the content itself.
while paper books actually do have some advantages...most libraries do not carry multiple copies of that book. A major advantage here is that every one of their readers can have the exact same book on it at the exact same time so 12 people in 12 households can all enjoy it at the same time.
Except reality doesn't work that way. Those wacky rights-holders still expect to be paid for content. Whoda thunk it?
Electronic libraries have been around for years. Other than the paper, they work pretty much the same. The library licenses the content and is allowed to lend out X copies of the titles they license. If X+8 people want to borrow the same title, the 8 go on a wait list just like they would for a paper book. And the libraries often only have partial collections. They may have 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 of a series but not books 4 and 6. Why? Heck if I know but they do. Or sometimes they'll have the entire series but only 1 copy for each book so it can take forever to get them all in the correct order because book 3 has a wait list of 40 people.
Spot on.
But on top of that, my local library often has more than one copy of a dead tree book and can do an inter-library loan if the local branch doesn't have enough copies. But only 1 digital copy for the entire metro area.
Overdrive would work a lot better if it didn't attempt the fiction that ebooks are just like ordinary books and licensed access to a publisher's catalog on a generic per-book basis rather than single copies from the catalog.
Did you not even read TFS? Electronics weren't being imported, rare-earth magnets were. We're still capable of building our own electronics, we just can't do it as cheaply as the Chinese.
DO they currently manufacture LCD displays in the USA? At all?
It's like how the entire Irish potato famine was very avoidable.
Assume you are alive during that period in Ireland. Would you rather have a GMO potato to eat, or someone simply telling you that you wouldn't need it if only the English would be more compassionate? Yes, the world does produce enough food for everyone, for now anyway, given current trends we are going to need more technology rather than less (and for some reason, everyone seems to think going backwards in agricultural progress is a good thing...no one seriously says that about computer, medical, or energy technologies). Nonetheless, unless those problems are fixed, it doesn't help those who could use genetically improved crops in the meantime, especially considering the arrangements against them ranger from weak to veritably false.
There were only 2 strains of potatoes in common production in Ireland at the time of the famine. That lack of diversity was what make the blight so devastating. There are many more strains of potatoes in my local supermarket than were being grown in all of Ireland.
What was a more serious problem is that the English were actively suppressing their ability to grow other crops such as wheat. I think we can take it as probable that if the choice was a GMO potato, England would have been Monsanto.
The simple fact is that "free markets" are not self-sustaining. That is why they do not exist.
To be self-sustaining, you need negative feedback to ensure that perturbations will return the system to a stable point.
Markets are based on positive feedback - "Nothing succeeds like success". You start a business, you become profitable, you leverage to get lower rates from suppliers, which gives you more profitability so that you can then afford to buy less-profitable competitors (or see them go under), you continue to grow until you can afford to buy government. Along the way, you denigrate such trifles as superior quality and customer satisfaction because they're no longer critical to making a profit. People don't buy your products because they're wonderful, they buy them because they have no real choice. "Nobody ever got fired for buying Windows".
I'm pretty sure that my alarm master controller is available via retail channels.
These days, a single Arduino board would probably meet or exceed its functionalities, which are:
1. 6 binary zone inputs (12 DC switches wired in series on each zone). 2. Autodialer for phoning the monitoring company 3. Relay control for the alarm horn 4. Keypad decoders for the local security panels
Of the lot, only the actual telephone interface would require extra circuitry.
The software is essentially this:
1. zone monitors (if zone opens AND armed AND zone not disabled, fire the alarm) 2. Keypad decoding logic, which is the most complex part. Arms/disarms alarm based on security codes, enables/disables zones, resets alarm, displays status.
It's relatively easy to make a system that can be relied on to function as expected as long as you are just doing the above. It's when you start wiring in the coffeemaker and the landscape lighting that things get more complicated.
You're right, but while Askey, Asus, Cameo, Delta Networks, Foxconn, Senao, SerComm et al probaly add their own backdoors as well, the Netgear and Lynksys NSA channels are homegrown.
Isn't it wonderful? Two major powers both mucking around in the same router for clandestine purposes.
As to Xen throwing a fit, I'd say it was a misguided security feature of some sort, but that is just speculation.
Nah. It's a sloppy network virtualization thing. It's supposed to be synthesizing MAC addresses for VMs and ends up stomping on the physical MAC address. Then you get a rash of "address refers to itself" errors thereafter until you manually change it.
$99 price for someone what doesn't really need glasses, just the blanks for my glasses cost more than that (I'm a -13).
I've almost always paid for glasses out of pocket. Only 2 or 3 times have I had optical insurance paying. And while $99 sounds about right for the blanks, the grinding that comes afterwards is pretty creative. Plus it's either tint or do the whole thing over for sunglasses.
When a liar is caught lying, who is at fault for hurt relations? Is it the revealing-person's fault? Or the liar's fault? No government agency should lie. It's irresponsible. It's disrespectful.
It is unfortunately necessary sometimes to hide or bend the truth not only in government but in business administration and even in personal relationships. For all the other ideals that the human race has aspired to, total honesty is the one thing that we've never managed to make work.
However, it should be the case that lies are kept to the minimum necessary. If for no other reason that the more you get caught in a lie, the less people will believe future lies. Or truths, for that matter.
It's an obvious guess that these are for NIC cards to be used in some type of vending and/or dispensing machine. What I'm wondering is why is Coca-Cola designing their own cards? Do they really have a use for these that commodity cards can't accommodate?
The MAC on commodity cards can be overlaid. I worked at a shop that did this using internal asset numbers as MAC IDs. It helped them maintain DHCP on the LAN from a central location while unrelated divisions were doing hardware maintenance. More recently, the Xen VM networking system routinely gives me fits when the virtual networking alters the MAC address.
I still don't see the benefit of owning specific MAC addresses for devices in the field, but then again, I don't know all the details.
By that kind of loose definition, you're clothes (cotton, wool, silk, etc) are 'agricultural products', unless of course you're wearing all 100% polyester or other synthetics. Of course, that also means they can now confiscate your leather briefcase, and so many other items they've been wanting to steal for ages. I'm sorry, did I say steal? I meant to say confiscate and 'destroy'. (I know they aren't supposed to do things like that, but it actually happens a lot.)
Back when alligators were a threatened species, alligator luggage was very definitely going to get seized. Briefcase and all.
That's what they are arguing: Those that think contraception is wrong shouldn't have to buy it. As employers, they are being told to pay for something they believe is morally wrong.
There seems to be a disconnect here.
Obamacare is taxpayer-funded. When you pay your taxes, you don't get a line-item budget that allows you to individually route as much or as little of that tax payment as you want to wherever you want it. You have a limited yea-or-nay say in the matter and that's it. And if you don't want to allot money for a specific purpose, the Government just moves a few shells around and it gets paid for anyway. If there has ever been a government department that was actually shut down because nobody would pay for it at tax time, I'd like to hear the story.
I can see employers not wanting to include health plans which include services that they find objectionable, but they still have to make the same contributions to the Treasury either way. So it would seem that what they really want to do isn't so much limit Obamacare on a functional basis as they want to be able to restrict what providers - or at least what plans - may be offered to their employees.
The whole thing reeks to High Heaven (no pun intended). It puts the employer in the role of moral and governmental administrator. It's not considered polite in the present-day USA to force people to shop at the "company store". And personally, I've always been of the opinion that morals come from within - forcing them from without doesn't make people any more moral, and if you agree with Nathaniel Hawthorne's view of the world, may actually do the opposite.
In fact, the only justification worth a wheelbarrow of manure for a third party forcibly preventing contraception is the "life begins at conception" argument for the forms of contraception that do not prevent fertilization. But the whole idea that a person's soul gets assigned when it's still a handful of dividing cells is not only debatable, it's a concept that actually is quite recent, like Christmas being a Federal holiday.
And to cap it off, if my understanding of Catholic dogma is correct, they don't want to simply limit options to non-fertilizing methods, they want to force people to either abstain or endure the possibility of pregnancy. Whether they're single, married, or whatever.
Sauteing is (relatively) low temperature oil cooking. That is, around 150C, vs frying which is usually around 210-230C depending on what it is.
Um, no. Like the OP, you're badly misinformed about cooking techniques. French fries cook at around 150-175C, as do other items. Frying temperatures range widely depending on the food being cooked.
The word sauté comes from the same root as somersault. Because part of the technique is to periodically flip the contents of the pan, thus ensuring that all surfaces get jumbled instead of same-side down like stirring tends to produce and because it helps distribute the cooking oil more evenly on the food.
For those prone to decorate walls, ceiling and floor, however, one should make due with a suitable weapon of destruction such as a spatula or spoon and do the jumbling manually.
And while I haven't collected a really good set of data, a lot of my sauteing seems to be with a pan surface temperature of around 400 F, but as stated, that depends on the food and whether you're looking for mostly surface cooking fast and furious, low and slow, how much internal water you're dealing with/cooking out and so forth.
Also, 400 degrees on the bottom of a air-filled pan is a lot different than total immersion in a fluid whose mean temperature is 350 or so.
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Dead trees last centuries, epads don't survive the first hard drop.
Hilariously false. Dead trees last, at most, decades, and that's only if they're not used much. Under frequent use they last a few years max. My e-reader on the other hand, under almost daily use in sometimes rather adverse conditions (I've lugged it up mountains in Thailand, down the Mekong, across open ocean in an outrigger canoe, etc), has lasted four years in perfect functioning order. Dead trees would never have survived the abuse I've put my kindle through. The battery doesn't last as long as it used to (I used to be able to read seven to eight novels on a single charge, now I get about one or two novels), but it's long enough to still not matter much.
That some people don't know how to handle electronics is not the electronics fault.
Several years ago, a pipe failed in the upstairs apartment and completely flooded every square inch of my own, right down to the backs of the closets. A lot of books were extensively damaged. Some were completely ruined, others have pages and covers permanently warped, including a few specially-bound "collector" editions (fortunately space requirements and price mean that I mostly have paperbacks).
I have dropped e-readers more times than I want to think about, and have yet to seriously damage one - which is more than my Palm Pilot could claim. My ebooks are backed up to multiple types of media to reduce the chances of permanent loss. Plus, of course, the commercial books are "backed up" on the bookstore's servers.
I, too, like physical books, magazines, and newspapers. And for some uses, won't even consider electronic format. But I truly do enjoy the benefits of the electronic forms where applicable. I'm not going to be pretentious about the relative worth of one format or the other.
If I wanted to read the Internet, I could stay home.
THANK YOU. I officially nominate you as genius of the decade ... and please let me use that quote at will!
Just remember: If Man had been intended to use the Internet, He'd have been born with builtin WiFi.
Poverty has always been the norm for writers and musicians as well, for that matter. However, it's questionable whether digital media is actually going to make it worse. More than once it has been demonstrated that people will pay for content even when they can get it for free legally. Whether they will pay enough is uncertain, and it's very likely that the publishers and other middlemen will hurt, however.
As for advertising, I know that some people get into a frothing rage over the mere suggestion, but a lot of us have no problems, and can even enjoy a good ad, well-placed and not over-done. The main thing is to keep the ads from intruding on the content itself.
Sure. That's why libraries have librarians and various tools for fixing books, such as tape.
What I really hate is when I get a worn ebook and the bits fall out.
while paper books actually do have some advantages...most libraries do not carry multiple copies of that book. A major advantage here is that every one of their readers can have the exact same book on it at the exact same time so 12 people in 12 households can all enjoy it at the same time.
Except reality doesn't work that way. Those wacky rights-holders still expect to be paid for content. Whoda thunk it?
Electronic libraries have been around for years. Other than the paper, they work pretty much the same. The library licenses the content and is allowed to lend out X copies of the titles they license. If X+8 people want to borrow the same title, the 8 go on a wait list just like they would for a paper book. And the libraries often only have partial collections. They may have 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 of a series but not books 4 and 6. Why? Heck if I know but they do. Or sometimes they'll have the entire series but only 1 copy for each book so it can take forever to get them all in the correct order because book 3 has a wait list of 40 people.
Spot on.
But on top of that, my local library often has more than one copy of a dead tree book and can do an inter-library loan if the local branch doesn't have enough copies. But only 1 digital copy for the entire metro area.
Overdrive would work a lot better if it didn't attempt the fiction that ebooks are just like ordinary books and licensed access to a publisher's catalog on a generic per-book basis rather than single copies from the catalog.
There are several reasons for not buying military^W strategic products outside the US, particularly from those not our closest allies.
Shooting wars are not the only types of conflict that modern societies engage in.
Did you not even read TFS? Electronics weren't being imported, rare-earth magnets were. We're still capable of building our own electronics, we just can't do it as cheaply as the Chinese.
DO they currently manufacture LCD displays in the USA? At all?
At least he believes in evolution, unlike certain members of the other side.
Well, according to a recent report, more people on the other side used to, but apparently they've, um "evolved".
It's like how the entire Irish potato famine was very avoidable.
Assume you are alive during that period in Ireland. Would you rather have a GMO potato to eat, or someone simply telling you that you wouldn't need it if only the English would be more compassionate? Yes, the world does produce enough food for everyone, for now anyway, given current trends we are going to need more technology rather than less (and for some reason, everyone seems to think going backwards in agricultural progress is a good thing...no one seriously says that about computer, medical, or energy technologies). Nonetheless, unless those problems are fixed, it doesn't help those who could use genetically improved crops in the meantime, especially considering the arrangements against them ranger from weak to veritably false.
There were only 2 strains of potatoes in common production in Ireland at the time of the famine. That lack of diversity was what make the blight so devastating. There are many more strains of potatoes in my local supermarket than were being grown in all of Ireland.
What was a more serious problem is that the English were actively suppressing their ability to grow other crops such as wheat. I think we can take it as probable that if the choice was a GMO potato, England would have been Monsanto.
The simple fact is that "free markets" are not self-sustaining. That is why they do not exist.
To be self-sustaining, you need negative feedback to ensure that perturbations will return the system to a stable point.
Markets are based on positive feedback - "Nothing succeeds like success". You start a business, you become profitable, you leverage to get lower rates from suppliers, which gives you more profitability so that you can then afford to buy less-profitable competitors (or see them go under), you continue to grow until you can afford to buy government. Along the way, you denigrate such trifles as superior quality and customer satisfaction because they're no longer critical to making a profit. People don't buy your products because they're wonderful, they buy them because they have no real choice. "Nobody ever got fired for buying Windows".
I'm pretty sure that my alarm master controller is available via retail channels.
These days, a single Arduino board would probably meet or exceed its functionalities, which are:
1. 6 binary zone inputs (12 DC switches wired in series on each zone).
2. Autodialer for phoning the monitoring company
3. Relay control for the alarm horn
4. Keypad decoders for the local security panels
Of the lot, only the actual telephone interface would require extra circuitry.
The software is essentially this:
1. zone monitors (if zone opens AND armed AND zone not disabled, fire the alarm)
2. Keypad decoding logic, which is the most complex part. Arms/disarms alarm based on security codes, enables/disables zones, resets alarm, displays status.
It's relatively easy to make a system that can be relied on to function as expected as long as you are just doing the above. It's when you start wiring in the coffeemaker and the landscape lighting that things get more complicated.
Windows 8 is still a piece of shit, and most people got it because their device came preinstalled with it... they didn't choose it.
Well, to be fair, most people get Windows of any version because their device came preinstalled with it.
You're right, but while Askey, Asus, Cameo, Delta Networks, Foxconn, Senao, SerComm et al probaly add their own backdoors as well, the Netgear and Lynksys NSA channels are homegrown.
Isn't it wonderful? Two major powers both mucking around in the same router for clandestine purposes.
As to Xen throwing a fit, I'd say it was a misguided security feature of some sort, but that is just speculation.
Nah. It's a sloppy network virtualization thing. It's supposed to be synthesizing MAC addresses for VMs and ends up stomping on the physical MAC address. Then you get a rash of "address refers to itself" errors thereafter until you manually change it.
$99 price for someone what doesn't really need glasses, just the blanks for my glasses cost more than that (I'm a -13).
I've almost always paid for glasses out of pocket. Only 2 or 3 times have I had optical insurance paying. And while $99 sounds about right for the blanks, the grinding that comes afterwards is pretty creative. Plus it's either tint or do the whole thing over for sunglasses.
Still, it's the frames that are the real ripoff.
What? You don't sit on the steps of the Capital feeding the congress critters bits of stale bread in the afternoon?
Bread them, dip them in egg yolk, fry until crispy.
A lovely alternative to tar and feathers.
When a liar is caught lying, who is at fault for hurt relations? Is it the revealing-person's fault? Or the liar's fault?
No government agency should lie. It's irresponsible. It's disrespectful.
It is unfortunately necessary sometimes to hide or bend the truth not only in government but in business administration and even in personal relationships. For all the other ideals that the human race has aspired to, total honesty is the one thing that we've never managed to make work.
However, it should be the case that lies are kept to the minimum necessary. If for no other reason that the more you get caught in a lie, the less people will believe future lies. Or truths, for that matter.
It's an obvious guess that these are for NIC cards to be used in some type of vending and/or dispensing machine. What I'm wondering is why is Coca-Cola designing their own cards? Do they really have a use for these that commodity cards can't accommodate?
The MAC on commodity cards can be overlaid. I worked at a shop that did this using internal asset numbers as MAC IDs. It helped them maintain DHCP on the LAN from a central location while unrelated divisions were doing hardware maintenance. More recently, the Xen VM networking system routinely gives me fits when the virtual networking alters the MAC address.
I still don't see the benefit of owning specific MAC addresses for devices in the field, but then again, I don't know all the details.
Worse than Perl, $SECURITY_THREAT is a Bash variable...
Could be worse. Could be %SECURITY_THREAT%.
When you pay your taxes, you don't get a line-item budget
No but you should. Every person should see where their money goes. I think the population would be more open to meaningful spending reform.
Expect to see that about the time we switch from Democratic Republic to full Democracy.
And what about your clothes? They could be made of cotton, wool, silk, leather or rubber; all agricultural products.
Hey! I wear only the finest polyester.
It sets off my disco medallions.
By that kind of loose definition, you're clothes (cotton, wool, silk, etc) are 'agricultural products', unless of course you're wearing all 100% polyester or other synthetics. Of course, that also means they can now confiscate your leather briefcase, and so many other items they've been wanting to steal for ages.
I'm sorry, did I say steal? I meant to say confiscate and 'destroy'.
(I know they aren't supposed to do things like that, but it actually happens a lot.)
Back when alligators were a threatened species, alligator luggage was very definitely going to get seized. Briefcase and all.
I guess they will start siezing wood furniture from Ikea now, since,, you know, wood is an agricultural product.
Since when is Ikea furniture made out of wood?
Something almost, but not completely unlike wood?
That's what they are arguing: Those that think contraception is wrong shouldn't have to buy it. As employers, they are being told to pay for something they believe is morally wrong.
There seems to be a disconnect here.
Obamacare is taxpayer-funded. When you pay your taxes, you don't get a line-item budget that allows you to individually route as much or as little of that tax payment as you want to wherever you want it. You have a limited yea-or-nay say in the matter and that's it. And if you don't want to allot money for a specific purpose, the Government just moves a few shells around and it gets paid for anyway. If there has ever been a government department that was actually shut down because nobody would pay for it at tax time, I'd like to hear the story.
I can see employers not wanting to include health plans which include services that they find objectionable, but they still have to make the same contributions to the Treasury either way. So it would seem that what they really want to do isn't so much limit Obamacare on a functional basis as they want to be able to restrict what providers - or at least what plans - may be offered to their employees.
The whole thing reeks to High Heaven (no pun intended). It puts the employer in the role of moral and governmental administrator. It's not considered polite in the present-day USA to force people to shop at the "company store". And personally, I've always been of the opinion that morals come from within - forcing them from without doesn't make people any more moral, and if you agree with Nathaniel Hawthorne's view of the world, may actually do the opposite.
In fact, the only justification worth a wheelbarrow of manure for a third party forcibly preventing contraception is the "life begins at conception" argument for the forms of contraception that do not prevent fertilization. But the whole idea that a person's soul gets assigned when it's still a handful of dividing cells is not only debatable, it's a concept that actually is quite recent, like Christmas being a Federal holiday.
And to cap it off, if my understanding of Catholic dogma is correct, they don't want to simply limit options to non-fertilizing methods, they want to force people to either abstain or endure the possibility of pregnancy. Whether they're single, married, or whatever.
Um, no. Like the OP, you're badly misinformed about cooking techniques. French fries cook at around 150-175C, as do other items. Frying temperatures range widely depending on the food being cooked.
The word sauté comes from the same root as somersault. Because part of the technique is to periodically flip the contents of the pan, thus ensuring that all surfaces get jumbled instead of same-side down like stirring tends to produce and because it helps distribute the cooking oil more evenly on the food.
For those prone to decorate walls, ceiling and floor, however, one should make due with a suitable weapon of destruction such as a spatula or spoon and do the jumbling manually.
And while I haven't collected a really good set of data, a lot of my sauteing seems to be with a pan surface temperature of around 400 F, but as stated, that depends on the food and whether you're looking for mostly surface cooking fast and furious, low and slow, how much internal water you're dealing with/cooking out and so forth.
Also, 400 degrees on the bottom of a air-filled pan is a lot different than total immersion in a fluid whose mean temperature is 350 or so.