Take the number of vehicles in the field, (A), and multiply it by the probable rate of failure, (B), then multiply the result by the average out-of-court settlement, (C). A times B times C equals X [SNIP] If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Bah if I wanted a Windows Mobile based PDA, I would save myself some money and buy a brick; both work fine for banging your head against in frustration.
Granted I am just bitter about my experiences with WM2002 on a dell axim X5, the new versions and devices probably suck a little less.
wikipedia on a 1GB SD for casual reading/reference
tv remote
synced movie listings, tvguide
mp3 player
if you can get power from the airplane divx movies are a possibility.
anything else a computer that fits in your pocket might be usefull for.
Cell phones are limited by input method and screen resolution (currently at least). Laptops take time to boot, dont fit in pockets, and cost more. For some tasks and situations the PDA ends up perfectly in between. That said PDAs are not for everyone and take some effort to make use of. They also have lots of room for improvement, and or convergence with cell phones.
Final thoughts: I had a dell axim x5 and despised it. The user interface seemed to fight me every step of the way and the size was above my convenience threshold. From my experience using Windows Mobile is like trying to give someone a fullsized piano and only letting them play it through a fist sized hole, underneath it, surrounded with barbed wire, ah well you get the point. Whereas PalmOS consistenly surprises me with well thought features and usable functionality. Also, I would be using a much cheaper pda if I did not get the Tungsten T3 for free.
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Nuclear Batteries
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· Score: 4, Insightful
The problem is if and when the contents of the battery get mixed into anything that you ingest, including air, water and food. This could happen by discarding the battery where eventually it corrodes and releases its contents, incinerating the battery, or intentional tampering and dispersal or poisoning by evildoers(tm).
As opposed to alkaline batteries which are perfectly safe to break, drink, or eat.
So there is a risk, what else is new, there are many other dangerous, nasty, evil chemicals and products that we safely use each day without killing ourselves. Careful design and suitable precautions can do wonders.
after all: "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell." Matthew 10:28
Well we always complain about inkjet printer manufactures when they fight generic cartrige manufactures who make compatible products.
Why on earth shouldn't Real be allowed to make their product compatible with another manufactures device. That as far as I am concerned is the real issue.
As to the issue of Real being a subpar company run by a bunch of slimy bastards... that is a separate issue for discussion;). --
I agree, self-regulation doesn't work. Unless it is in the best interest of the self.
But government regulation should only be a last resort. For when a person has no hope of protecting themselves and will suffer financially. Unsolicited faxes and cell phone calls are two examples.
Email spam, telemarketers, and junk mail are all annoyances I am willing to suffer. Lets educate society and advertisers by taking the responsibility upon ourselves to not purchase items advertised in this manner.
The messenger pop-up ads are a good example. Mildly annoying but easy to prevent, a technical problem rather than a legislative problem.
Again, I agree self regulation does not work, however peer pressure and market forces do work.
Mailbox full of unwanted sales pitches You could be inconvenienced.
Get away with murder You could die.
Out of the above choices I think I will pick the unwanted sales pitches. The other choices are not even comparable.
Furthermore I do not need the government to spend my tax money protecting me from small annoyances I can easily take steps to prevent myself. But then again there are lots of other stupid government decisions that far outweigh this one;).
1) I'm a big wuss and I'm rwally not sure I can lie there while someone slices my eye open and burns the stuff underneath, while I'm thinking " mm.. bacon" They use a "cold laser", no heating. Can't help you with the first part though;).
2) with most normal procedures, if it goes wrong, then you're back where you used to be, with lasik, you could be horribly worse off With any surgery there is a risk of complications. I doubt lasik and prk are any different. However this is cosmetic/conveience surgery so your risk threshold may be lower.
3) I beleive that a massive percentage lose alot of night vision, you might not be able to legally drive at night for example I have not encountered a percentage over 5 any studies I have seen referenced. Is that what you mean by massive? Reportedly it disappears by about 6 months after in most cases.
4) the eye is much more prone to infection Temporary and common to any surgery, be careful and you should not have any problems.
5) the army and police won't let you join if you've had it, rather tellling I think Well the other replies in this thread provide proof to counter this claim with the possible exception of pilots who traditionally require vision beyond that of anyone who would consider laser eye surgery.
But to add to your list:
6) It is cosmetic surgery. Money and risk is better saved for surgery you need. I think this is the best reason not to get laser eye surgery but each person has to evaluate it for themselves, just do so with facts and not rumor.
There is a dump without images weighing in at 150MB. It does not look like there is a premade dump with images though. With some playing around and possibly by helping out the developement of the static html tool you should be able to create a disk version.
The X-Prize is all about encouraging PRIVATE enterprise. USAF hardly counts there.
Government research and development is great for getting esoteric concepts off the ground. But for real leaps and bounds commercial interest is necessary.
What was it? 20Mill in funding that allowed Scaled Composits to make this flight. I have heard figures of 500 Mill to just fly the shuttle once.
here is some specific data refering to the NOx emissions of biodiesel.
"Hydrocarbons - NOx emissions from biodiesel increase or decrease depending on the engine family and testing procedures. NOx emissions (a contributing factor in the localized formation of smog and ozone) from pure (100%) biodiesel increased in this test by 13 percent. However, biodiesel's lack of sulfur allows the use of NOx control technologies that cannot be used with conventional diesel. So, biodiesel NOx emissions can be effectively managed and efficiently eliminated as a concern of the fuel's use."
soypower.net
Since soypower seemed to be a potential source for biased information skimmed the EPA report available at http://www.epa.gov/otaq/models/biodsl.htm and the numbers matched as far as I could tell.
Note that all other emissions were reduced from the levels present in conventional diesel.
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Koalas Gone Wild
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Ok so add an intermediate step.
Capture, Stuff, and then sell them;).
Seriously though what do you do with 20000 dead or unwanted Koalas, at least lets get some use out of them. Something better than fertilizer hopefully.
Why not simply issue tickets for unsafe movement on a sidewalk. Do we really need laws banning forms of transportation that can be used responsibly and safely?
Regulate the behavior not the device (kind of like the general slashdot opinion of DeCSS).
It is good to see the issue of computer security intelligently approached.
It is much better to harness the natural competitiveness and curiosity of your geeks than to suppress it by any means possible and depend on security by obscurity.
1. I understand Apples motives for using DRM and cannot fault them for it.
2. Apple did good job balancing the demands of the copyright holders with the wants of the people.
3. The heart of the issue. Legally Apple is 100% right here but ethically I believe they are lacking, just because it is law does not make it ethical (Jim Crow laws for example).
4. Dang make me read the article will you . They were "nice" only because they didnt have the legal leverage to do anything else.
5. Hmm, I would define breaking DRM as civil disobedience, by the qualities of being both non-violent and... well disobedient.
6. DRM is fine with me, it is the copyright holders decision to use such and the users decision on whether to patronize DRM enable products. This again leads to the real issue. Making DRM circumvention illegal. DRM should be a technical inhibition not a legal one. Hiding the fact that Fairplay is breakable does not make the issue go away.
DRM, copyright, fair-use, and circumvention form a system of checks and balances. By making circumvention illegal the balance of power has been shifted too far in the direction of copyright holders. Reference the history of copyright and it's original purpose of encouraging the distribution AND rentry into the public domain of created works while allowing the creator to profit. Existing copyright law already provides a method of going after copyright violations. It is not useful or beneficial to legislate against every possible method by which someone could break the law. If you want to have a free society you have to depend the idea of a social contract.
Slashdot Mirror
" How can I get a job with H&R Block?"
Yeah but it is 4 months straight, no weekends, no free time, only eating(while working), sleeping(little), and work.*
Still want that job?
*Anecdotal evidence from having a CPA as a housemate.
Quoted from http://www.hundland.com/scripts/Fight-Club_third.
Ah but what about:
Bah if I wanted a Windows Mobile based PDA, I would save myself some money and buy a brick; both work fine for banging your head against in frustration.
Granted I am just bitter about my experiences with WM2002 on a dell axim X5, the new versions and devices probably suck a little less.
Current uses:
Future/Dream Uses:
Cell phones are limited by input method and screen resolution (currently at least). Laptops take time to boot, dont fit in pockets, and cost more. For some tasks and situations the PDA ends up perfectly in between. That said PDAs are not for everyone and take some effort to make use of. They also have lots of room for improvement, and or convergence with cell phones.
Final thoughts: I had a dell axim x5 and despised it. The user interface seemed to fight me every step of the way and the size was above my convenience threshold. From my experience using Windows Mobile is like trying to give someone a fullsized piano and only letting them play it through a fist sized hole, underneath it, surrounded with barbed wire, ah well you get the point. Whereas PalmOS consistenly surprises me with well thought features and usable functionality. Also, I would be using a much cheaper pda if I did not get the Tungsten T3 for free.
The problem is if and when the contents of the battery get mixed into anything that you ingest, including air, water and food. This could happen by discarding the battery where eventually it corrodes and releases its contents, incinerating the battery, or intentional tampering and dispersal or poisoning by evildoers(tm).
As opposed to alkaline batteries which are perfectly safe to break, drink, or eat.
So there is a risk, what else is new, there are many other dangerous, nasty, evil chemicals and products that we safely use each day without killing ourselves. Careful design and suitable precautions can do wonders.
The virus of course.
after all:
"Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell." Matthew 10:28
Well we always complain about inkjet printer manufactures when they fight generic cartrige manufactures who make compatible products.
;).
Why on earth shouldn't Real be allowed to make their product compatible with another manufactures device. That as far as I am concerned is the real issue.
As to the issue of Real being a subpar company run by a bunch of slimy bastards... that is a separate issue for discussion
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I agree, self-regulation doesn't work. Unless it is in the best interest of the self.
But government regulation should only be a last resort. For when a person has no hope of protecting themselves and will suffer financially. Unsolicited faxes and cell phone calls are two examples.
Email spam, telemarketers, and junk mail are all annoyances I am willing to suffer. Lets educate society and advertisers by taking the responsibility upon ourselves to not purchase items advertised in this manner.
The messenger pop-up ads are a good example. Mildly annoying but easy to prevent, a technical problem rather than a legislative problem.
Again, I agree self regulation does not work, however peer pressure and market forces do work.
Contaminated Food
;).
You could die.
Poison the land
You could die.
Oil Spills
Lots of cute fuzzy animals could die.
Mailbox full of unwanted sales pitches
You could be inconvenienced.
Get away with murder
You could die.
Out of the above choices I think I will pick the unwanted sales pitches. The other choices are not even comparable.
Furthermore I do not need the government to spend my tax money protecting me from small annoyances I can easily take steps to prevent myself. But then again there are lots of other stupid government decisions that far outweigh this one
I'm just not gonna do it for several reasons:
;).
1) I'm a big wuss and I'm rwally not sure I can lie there while someone slices my eye open and burns the stuff underneath, while I'm thinking " mm.. bacon"
They use a "cold laser", no heating. Can't help you with the first part though
2) with most normal procedures, if it goes wrong, then you're back where you used to be, with lasik, you could be horribly worse off
With any surgery there is a risk of complications. I doubt lasik and prk are any different. However this is cosmetic/conveience surgery so your risk threshold may be lower.
3) I beleive that a massive percentage lose alot of night vision, you might not be able to legally drive at night for example
I have not encountered a percentage over 5 any studies I have seen referenced. Is that what you mean by massive? Reportedly it disappears by about 6 months after in most cases.
4) the eye is much more prone to infection Temporary and common to any surgery, be careful and you should not have any problems.
5) the army and police won't let you join if you've had it, rather tellling I think
Well the other replies in this thread provide proof to counter this claim with the possible exception of pilots who traditionally require vision beyond that of anyone who would consider laser eye surgery.
But to add to your list:
6) It is cosmetic surgery. Money and risk is better saved for surgery you need. I think this is the best reason not to get laser eye surgery but each person has to evaluate it for themselves, just do so with facts and not rumor.
With a toaster oven of course.
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Static HTML dumps
There is a dump without images weighing in at 150MB. It does not look like there is a premade dump with images though. With some playing around and possibly by helping out the developement of the static html tool you should be able to create a disk version.
Huge Difference, HUGE.
The X-Prize is all about encouraging PRIVATE enterprise. USAF hardly counts there.
Government research and development is great for getting esoteric concepts off the ground. But for real leaps and bounds commercial interest is necessary.
What was it? 20Mill in funding that allowed Scaled Composits to make this flight. I have heard figures of 500 Mill to just fly the shuttle once.
If you are doing linear conversion, which of course is generally less efficient than a switching power supply that is really a DC->AC->DC conversion
What making money is a crime now?
Are movies based on books "an obvious cash-in" and therefore not to be watched. (reference Lord of the Rings trilogy, Fight Club, Bladerunner, etc)
Evaluate each on their own merit.
Since soypower seemed to be a potential source for biased information skimmed the EPA report available at http://www.epa.gov/otaq/models/biodsl.htm and the numbers matched as far as I could tell.
Note that all other emissions were reduced from the levels present in conventional diesel.
Ok so add an intermediate step.
;).
Capture, Stuff, and then sell them
Seriously though what do you do with 20000 dead or unwanted Koalas, at least lets get some use out of them. Something better than fertilizer hopefully.
To clarify: the USS Macon didn't dive bomb the Cruiser carrying FDR, rather a F9C-2 Sparrowhawk carried by the Macon did.
Both the Akron and the Macon were lost in crashes unfortunatly.
Regulate the behavior not the device (kind of like the general slashdot opinion of DeCSS).
It is good to see the issue of computer security intelligently approached.
It is much better to harness the natural competitiveness and curiosity of your geeks than to suppress it by any means possible and depend on security by obscurity.
1. I understand Apples motives for using DRM and cannot fault them for it.
... well disobedient.
2. Apple did good job balancing the demands of the copyright holders with the wants of the people.
3. The heart of the issue. Legally Apple is 100% right here but ethically I believe they are lacking, just because it is law does not make it ethical (Jim Crow laws for example).
4. Dang make me read the article will you . They were "nice" only because they didnt have the legal leverage to do anything else.
5. Hmm, I would define breaking DRM as civil disobedience, by the qualities of being both non-violent and
6. DRM is fine with me, it is the copyright holders decision to use such and the users decision on whether to patronize DRM enable products. This again leads to the real issue. Making DRM circumvention illegal. DRM should be a technical inhibition not a legal one. Hiding the fact that Fairplay is breakable does not make the issue go away.
DRM, copyright, fair-use, and circumvention form a system of checks and balances. By making circumvention illegal the balance of power has been shifted too far in the direction of copyright holders. Reference the history of copyright and it's original purpose of encouraging the distribution AND rentry into the public domain of created works while allowing the creator to profit. Existing copyright law already provides a method of going after copyright violations. It is not useful or beneficial to legislate against every possible method by which someone could break the law. If you want to have a free society you have to depend the idea of a social contract.
ok enough blabbering out of me.
Agreed
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Seems rather appropriate here.
Lol dammit.
Thanks, I did mean Irwin, and the link is correct and I think the rest of the post is still factual.
Betrayed by my brain again.