although I wouldn't exactly call it a museum, I'd call it a fucking leech, it costs a fucking fortune to get in (£9 for a non-member!) and half the "exhibits" are either hand-off or locked in demo mode, or nonfunctional. In fact I was so disappointed in it when I went last month I won't even bother linking the website.
good points, though I thought the Toshiba Libretto was the kickstart for the netbook market?
(although they're rare as rocking horse shit now - I'd still like one even though I have an Asus EeePC 1008HA Seashell which is feckin' fantastic for what it is - need a new battery now since it's five years old and in daily use)
Our old friend Wikipedia has it that the current generation of the netbook was inspired by the Libretto and really given a kick up the arse by Asus with the 700 series; while OLPC yes, had to design to budget - which included bundled software so Microsoft were pretty much frozen out as volume licensing Windows costs a frickin' fortune, commercial netbooks had other design specifications which were basically laptop "Lite" with no such budgetary restrictions. Unit pricing an OLPC when taken in the G1G1 scheme was around US$180 while a netbook could easily hit you for US$600. My Seashell retailed at GB£399 and is still considered one of the best overall designs of an x86 based netbook ever.
apparently there is a caretaker crew on the fort, the Prince Regent lives in England. The server infrastructure remains aboard, though it ceased operation without explanation in 2008.
please point out where I belittled anything. Because you do not know my situation, I shall summarise:
1. I was in receipt of SDA from 2008 to 2012 for reasons which are not important. 2. As a result of an ATOS assessment in which I scored ZERO points I was disqualified from any further payments, my only options were to appeal the decision, for which period of waiting I woiuld receive NOTHING, or claim JSA. 3. I claimed JSA from September 2012 to February 2014 during which time I attended MANY job interviews, none of which resulted in gainful employment because of my particular needs and circumstance. 4. My wife took on a zero hours contract in February 2014 which resulted in the DWP CLOSING my claim. My appeal was REJECTED. I HAVE ZERO INCOME. My newest clothes are over three years old. My newest shoes are FIVE years old. Everything is hand washed in cold water.
I stand by it. What does a supercar do for fuel economy? 6 mpg? Less if you open the throttle? I do know from Top Gear reports that the Bugatti Veyron Supersport will kill a full tank in three minutes if you let it.
well, for a start there is no territorial claim to Antarctica, by Article IV of the Antarctic Treaty of 1961. And considering the fact that there is a globally agreed moratorium on installation of gun or missile batteries anywhere on the continent (by virtue of Article V of the same Treaty which also and very specifically prohibits installation of ANY fixed (reactor) or mobile (reactor or missile) nuclear materials ANYWHERE within deck-sight (2.8 miles) of the coast of the continent).
So I think your entire idea might be just a little bit illegal.
when the real public backlash starts, they'll bring the plight of the children into it, compare anyone who disagrees with them to Hitler, accuse them of being Holocause deniers or climate change deniers, the usual discredit tactics loser trolls like to employ. Only they'll be using it to distract from the fact that yes, absent a bench warrant for seizure, the FBI did in fact break the Law by depriving an innocent concern of business by removing its ability to operate! And remember folks, in the United States, as everywhere else under the rule of Constitutional Law, every person is innocent until proven guilty. Until you remove the rose-tints and see what is REALLY going on.
lots of legal stuff. Even though the paperless office has been with us for years, there are holdouts who still insist on ink on celluloid. Judges, mostly, who can't be arsed to do a simple string search on an entire bundle which takes all of four seconds on a laptop as opposed thumbing through eight thousand pages to find the one referenced.
Britan's is second to none but you don't hear about the child stealing, the state-sanctioned mass murder of the elderly and infirm, the extrajudicial executions... OK, that last one has hit the headlines recently, but the rest? It does go on, the media are basically told "You report that, we'll do you under the terrorism act."
It's easy to find, it's an old Channel gun battery three miles off the coast of Essex. Last I heard they were trading server room space for a little cash and supplies.
Yep, CISS is awesome. 700ml of ink per colour and the bottles are what, £40 for all FOUR? Hell, even converting the Epson printers for CISS still only costs £70 for the ink - still better than 20ml carts at £25 a set!
5000 copies?? That's about the toner capacity in one of those portable Panasonic lasers. I know, I had one.
My Brother HL1030, on the other hand, is on its fifth toner refill (and second fuser) in the time I've had it, now well over 100,000 pages printed over the last seven years. Do the numbers, that's a: nearly due its sixth refill, only about 500 pages shy of that I think, maybe more, b: over 20,000 pages per cartridge. That's a light duty SOHO printer, not a shop machine.
not quite right, there is a utility (by Epson) that is normally only available to certified Epson repair agents. All it does is reset the WIP (Waste Ink Pad) counter. It is also able to reset the ink level counter on SOME cartridges. If the printer doesn't work after running that, you have larger issues than a saturated sponge.
pro grade inkjets don't use cartridges, they use bottles and pipes to the print heads; this is known as CISS, or Continuous Ink Supply System,.and a 500ml bottle of a given colour will last a MONTH of 24/7 printing. Page counters aren't there for service alerts, simple visual inspection of the bottles will tell you EXACTLY how much ink is left.
source: had a Brother inkjet with built in CISS: you never had to go near the heads, the bottles were mounted via a front panel and ink was piped from there to the heads in a flexible ribbon tube.
I have a Brother HL1030 now, it's a B&W but pretty much the same thing - bottle refill the cartridge, reset the counter using the standard consumer control panel, resume printing. I think I do need a new fusing roller though, it's marking my pages along one edge.
I had an Oki laser printer where you pop the top and there is a row of troughs you just pour toner into. No messy cartridges to deal with, no cassette refills. Just get bottles and empty them into the troughs every 20,000 pages and the thing's golden for another 20k pages. The thing knows how many pages it's printed but it doesn't have a service limit (that I ever hit, and I printed hundreds of thousands of pages on the thing). All of that and I only had to change out the corona wire twice. That slid out the side and the new one slid in its place, took all of four seconds.
ok. The mechanics of firing a sidearm: Bullet weighs what, 1/14 of an ounce? This carries the same amount of kinetic energy as the other half of the system (the shooter and the sidearm) which weighs let's assume 150lb for the shooter and 3lb for the pistol (which would be about right for a fully loaded Beretta 92F). So the mass differential is something on the order of 34,300.
The amount of energy required to kick the bullet out at 1400 feet per second would kick the pistol and shooter back all of... actually, the mass differential makes the difference. It's not going to kick them back at very high speed at all, in fact if the kick does anything more than make your elbow twitch you're probably unconscious. 0.43" per second is about hte same speed your hand moves at when you write something down on notepaper.
On this new development (which is really just an evolution in beanbag shotguns): the total kinetic energy of hte projectile doesn't change a lot at all, but because the mass just increased rather dramatically as it left the weapon*, it slows down some but it still contains enough energy and carries enough momentum to knock the target down on his arse. Ever been shot with a beanbag? I have, and can tell you it's like kissing a medicine ball. It bloody hurts like hell.
*Let's assume for just a second that there is zero energy lost on the impact of the bullet in the plastic cap, and given that the slowdown is 80% we can say with mathematical certainty that the mass of the cap is four times the mass of the bullet. It's still the same amount of energy as a baseball thrown by a ten year ols as someone alluded to somewhere about the place, but instead of drilling through a point on the target it's spread over a wider area and delivered at a much slower rate so it's far less likely to penetrate.
Taser holsters are cross draw so you don't shoot yourself in the foot (as I have actually witnessed people shoot themselves in the foot while drawing a pistol from a drop-draw hip or thigh holster). Difference between a taser and a pistol is that the taser will incapacitate you while the pistol will just remove a toe.
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although I wouldn't exactly call it a museum, I'd call it a fucking leech, it costs a fucking fortune to get in (£9 for a non-member!) and half the "exhibits" are either hand-off or locked in demo mode, or nonfunctional. In fact I was so disappointed in it when I went last month I won't even bother linking the website.
good points, though I thought the Toshiba Libretto was the kickstart for the netbook market?
(although they're rare as rocking horse shit now - I'd still like one even though I have an Asus EeePC 1008HA Seashell which is feckin' fantastic for what it is - need a new battery now since it's five years old and in daily use)
Our old friend Wikipedia has it that the current generation of the netbook was inspired by the Libretto and really given a kick up the arse by Asus with the 700 series; while OLPC yes, had to design to budget - which included bundled software so Microsoft were pretty much frozen out as volume licensing Windows costs a frickin' fortune, commercial netbooks had other design specifications which were basically laptop "Lite" with no such budgetary restrictions. Unit pricing an OLPC when taken in the G1G1 scheme was around US$180 while a netbook could easily hit you for US$600. My Seashell retailed at GB£399 and is still considered one of the best overall designs of an x86 based netbook ever.
apparently there is a caretaker crew on the fort, the Prince Regent lives in England. The server infrastructure remains aboard, though it ceased operation without explanation in 2008.
ok we're both wrong, according to Google Maps it's 7.5 miles off the coast of Suffolk.
how come we don't hear about OLPC any more? Could it be the proliferation of cheap Android gear?
Food growing, animal husbandry, water management and construction.
For fuck's sake, they're kids in a third world country, not the Lost Tribe of Silicon Valley.
please point out where I belittled anything. Because you do not know my situation, I shall summarise:
1. I was in receipt of SDA from 2008 to 2012 for reasons which are not important.
2. As a result of an ATOS assessment in which I scored ZERO points I was disqualified from any further payments, my only options were to appeal the decision, for which period of waiting I woiuld receive NOTHING, or claim JSA.
3. I claimed JSA from September 2012 to February 2014 during which time I attended MANY job interviews, none of which resulted in gainful employment because of my particular needs and circumstance.
4. My wife took on a zero hours contract in February 2014 which resulted in the DWP CLOSING my claim. My appeal was REJECTED. I HAVE ZERO INCOME. My newest clothes are over three years old. My newest shoes are FIVE years old. Everything is hand washed in cold water.
Fuck you and your assumptions.
I stand by it. What does a supercar do for fuel economy? 6 mpg? Less if you open the throttle? I do know from Top Gear reports that the Bugatti Veyron Supersport will kill a full tank in three minutes if you let it.
search "Ian Duncan Smith", "UK Welfare Reforms", and for the doozy, "Capita/ATOS Assessments".
There is overwhelming evidence in the public domain that the mainstream media don't want to acknowledge, never mind report on.
Two supercars or several months' worth of frontline support for the families of fallen police officers?
Good to know where priorities lie, isn't it?
well, for a start there is no territorial claim to Antarctica, by Article IV of the Antarctic Treaty of 1961. And considering the fact that there is a globally agreed moratorium on installation of gun or missile batteries anywhere on the continent (by virtue of Article V of the same Treaty which also and very specifically prohibits installation of ANY fixed (reactor) or mobile (reactor or missile) nuclear materials ANYWHERE within deck-sight (2.8 miles) of the coast of the continent).
So I think your entire idea might be just a little bit illegal.
when the real public backlash starts, they'll bring the plight of the children into it, compare anyone who disagrees with them to Hitler, accuse them of being Holocause deniers or climate change deniers, the usual discredit tactics loser trolls like to employ. Only they'll be using it to distract from the fact that yes, absent a bench warrant for seizure, the FBI did in fact break the Law by depriving an innocent concern of business by removing its ability to operate! And remember folks, in the United States, as everywhere else under the rule of Constitutional Law, every person is innocent until proven guilty. Until you remove the rose-tints and see what is REALLY going on.
fuck you talking about? Bahamas is that bit between fucking Florida and fucking Cuba. It's nowhere near fucking China.
(with fucking apologies to Gordon fucking Ramsay).
lots of legal stuff. Even though the paperless office has been with us for years, there are holdouts who still insist on ink on celluloid. Judges, mostly, who can't be arsed to do a simple string search on an entire bundle which takes all of four seconds on a laptop as opposed thumbing through eight thousand pages to find the one referenced.
spoken like someone who makes vacuous assumptions that are often wrong, as in this case.
Britan's is second to none but you don't hear about the child stealing, the state-sanctioned mass murder of the elderly and infirm, the extrajudicial executions... OK, that last one has hit the headlines recently, but the rest? It does go on, the media are basically told "You report that, we'll do you under the terrorism act."
It's easy to find, it's an old Channel gun battery three miles off the coast of Essex. Last I heard they were trading server room space for a little cash and supplies.
Yep, CISS is awesome. 700ml of ink per colour and the bottles are what, £40 for all FOUR? Hell, even converting the Epson printers for CISS still only costs £70 for the ink - still better than 20ml carts at £25 a set!
5000 copies?? That's about the toner capacity in one of those portable Panasonic lasers. I know, I had one.
My Brother HL1030, on the other hand, is on its fifth toner refill (and second fuser) in the time I've had it, now well over 100,000 pages printed over the last seven years. Do the numbers, that's a: nearly due its sixth refill, only about 500 pages shy of that I think, maybe more, b: over 20,000 pages per cartridge. That's a light duty SOHO printer, not a shop machine.
not quite right, there is a utility (by Epson) that is normally only available to certified Epson repair agents. All it does is reset the WIP (Waste Ink Pad) counter. It is also able to reset the ink level counter on SOME cartridges. If the printer doesn't work after running that, you have larger issues than a saturated sponge.
pro grade inkjets don't use cartridges, they use bottles and pipes to the print heads; this is known as CISS, or Continuous Ink Supply System,.and a 500ml bottle of a given colour will last a MONTH of 24/7 printing. Page counters aren't there for service alerts, simple visual inspection of the bottles will tell you EXACTLY how much ink is left.
source: had a Brother inkjet with built in CISS: you never had to go near the heads, the bottles were mounted via a front panel and ink was piped from there to the heads in a flexible ribbon tube.
I have a Brother HL1030 now, it's a B&W but pretty much the same thing - bottle refill the cartridge, reset the counter using the standard consumer control panel, resume printing. I think I do need a new fusing roller though, it's marking my pages along one edge.
I had an Oki laser printer where you pop the top and there is a row of troughs you just pour toner into. No messy cartridges to deal with, no cassette refills. Just get bottles and empty them into the troughs every 20,000 pages and the thing's golden for another 20k pages. The thing knows how many pages it's printed but it doesn't have a service limit (that I ever hit, and I printed hundreds of thousands of pages on the thing). All of that and I only had to change out the corona wire twice. That slid out the side and the new one slid in its place, took all of four seconds.
ok. The mechanics of firing a sidearm:
Bullet weighs what, 1/14 of an ounce? This carries the same amount of kinetic energy as the other half of the system (the shooter and the sidearm) which weighs let's assume 150lb for the shooter and 3lb for the pistol (which would be about right for a fully loaded Beretta 92F). So the mass differential is something on the order of 34,300.
The amount of energy required to kick the bullet out at 1400 feet per second would kick the pistol and shooter back all of... actually, the mass differential makes the difference. It's not going to kick them back at very high speed at all, in fact if the kick does anything more than make your elbow twitch you're probably unconscious. 0.43" per second is about hte same speed your hand moves at when you write something down on notepaper.
On this new development (which is really just an evolution in beanbag shotguns): the total kinetic energy of hte projectile doesn't change a lot at all, but because the mass just increased rather dramatically as it left the weapon*, it slows down some but it still contains enough energy and carries enough momentum to knock the target down on his arse. Ever been shot with a beanbag? I have, and can tell you it's like kissing a medicine ball. It bloody hurts like hell.
*Let's assume for just a second that there is zero energy lost on the impact of the bullet in the plastic cap, and given that the slowdown is 80% we can say with mathematical certainty that the mass of the cap is four times the mass of the bullet. It's still the same amount of energy as a baseball thrown by a ten year ols as someone alluded to somewhere about the place, but instead of drilling through a point on the target it's spread over a wider area and delivered at a much slower rate so it's far less likely to penetrate.
Taser holsters are cross draw so you don't shoot yourself in the foot (as I have actually witnessed people shoot themselves in the foot while drawing a pistol from a drop-draw hip or thigh holster). Difference between a taser and a pistol is that the taser will incapacitate you while the pistol will just remove a toe.
This is why I won't use a drop draw.