>On the other hand in general women tend to be much better with things like languages. I find that women are much more likely to be mutilingual than men. All of the people I know with truely exceptional language ability are women.
So, would you say that more women are cunning linguists than men? Explain.
My IBM mouse has three buttons and a scroll button/lever thingy. the third button is out by the end (just shorter than it usually would be, and the scroll button is just behind that. Works well, and I don't have the problem of scrolling during a click or vice-versa.
You can always leave this html file on a server (passwd protected/https/whatever) if you want, then you can easily update it with an ssh session or an upload, and you can get at it from wherever you like.
And the always helpful "Charlie-gazillion" (usually C0000000h), although "Charlie-eight-gazillion" (C8000000h) seems acceptable, as long as everyone knows you are dealing with a single word (2-byte word fans need not apply).
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Ah, but the computer industry doesn't rely on the aviation conventions... there is a lot of inertia in the naming (especially at places such as IBM)...
Abel, Baker, Charlie, Dog, Easy, Fox... the only way to digitize.
I've used Turbo Tax for the Web 2 of the last 3 years (with one horribly unsatisfactory visit to H&R Block - I never want to talk to them again), and it has been flawless. Many investment firms for stocks/mutual funds and credit unions have discounts for it (I got 50% off of the Federal price through Vanguard), and I have been very pleased. Despite the activation crud the downloadable version has, I haven't had any complaint with the Web version, and I've gotten my refunds very quickly (no extra charge for e-filing, either).
The direct download/fill-in from various institutions is rather handy, also (mutual fund sales, dividends, etc.).
A) Computer speakers (as well as many home theater speakers) are magnetically shielded - that's why you can put them near your CRT monitor or TV without the fun purple/green effect.
B) Hard drives are amazingly resistant to external magnetic fields - partially because of the case, and partly because of the strength/density on the media. I have personally used a drive while it had one of those "can lift up to 150lbs!" mega-magnets stuck onto the casing... worked just fine. I wouldn't recomend it, but most cheez-ball computer speaker magnets are not very strong, and you'd be somewhat protected by the rest of the metal of the drive bay...
That being said, the additional vibration in the case probably isn't a good idea.
With tower cases, things usually end up as a two-zone airflow solution... 1) Lower zone (motherboard, maybe a drive or two): Intake on front, exhaust over CPU through power supply.
2) Upper zone (front 5-bays and rear drive mounts): Intake on one or more 5-bays (possibly a drive cooler for additional space), exhaust with 2 80mm fans on the back.
With a quiet PS and quiet fans, your hard drives and CPU fan could be the bulk of the noise. My large case currently has the setup above (3 intake, three exhaust fans) and after upgrading to the quieter fans, I had to get a new CPU cooler to lower that noise. The 15krpm drives are now the loudest component, but only on seeks - a little bit of vibration isolation on those does a wonder of good, too.
In fact, you can get some nice drive mounting brackets for 3 drives in two 5-bays. Quite handy, especially for stripe/RAID setups with 15krpm drives. 6 drives in 4 5-bays can make quite a nice setup, and the airflow is excellent.
>Actually, it is precisely off by a factor of 8, as is always the difference between B versus b
Ah, but it isn't! More and more often, there is a direct 10x correlation. Serial ATA, Serial Attached SCSI, Fiber (Fibre) Channel all use 8b/10b encoding, so each 8 bit byte takes up 10 bits on the wire (or equivalent medium). Hence, on a 1Gbps link, the max transfer rate is 100MB/s.
Of course, if you have a trinary computer, the algorithms may have to be adjusted slightly...
Good points - even copper piping (which can outlast galvanized in many enviornments) is still prone to corrosion and eventual leaking. Basements are a funny thing. My current home was built in the 1930s with block construction for the basement, and not sealed on the exterior. The block is solid, and there's no problem with cracks, but without the moisture blocking paint on the walls (and the poured floor), the humidity level rises rapidy in the summer and in very wet times could even weep. Many newer homes have been built with poured walls/floors with a thick tar layer on the outside to protect against moisture. If the ground is solid and the footings were well done and settled prior to the walls going up, there aren't usually many problems, but even a little shift can crack a wall or floor - but usually leaves the tar layer intact. That combined with good lanscaping and drain tile can keep a basement dry quite well.
Some of the best stuff I've seen from a basement standpoint is probably the foam block with rebar cement inside for walls. Great insulation, stops moisture, and still has the same strength as a normal poured wall. Great stuff. Wood foundations are attractive, but I don't know how they'd hold up over time (probably as long as the tar layer keeps the moisture out).
While the usual measure is in Farads (or Coulombs), capacitors also have voltage ratings. I have a few 1/2 Farad caps, some of which are rated for 5V, most for 12ish (12-15V), and one that is rated for 60V. Despite the same capacitance, the voltage rating shows up in the raw size of the cap... and if you have ever put 100VDC across a 12V cap (even a much, much smaller one), it can be a short bit of fun (in a controlled enviornment, kids don't try this at home, allow 6-8 weeks for delivery, some parts not for use with some sets, YMMV).
Don't forget that in Europe, VW has diesel cars with even better efficiency - there are models of the Lupo (just a touch on the small side for most Americans) that currently attain 70-100mpg, and it was fairly recent that VW proved out a 239mpg concept vehicle. Certainly not your best shot for everyone, but it proves that there is still quite a bit of room for improvement. A lower HP direct injection diesel can really rate well, and has significantly lower emmisions per mile than most vehicles on the road today.
I'm certain that a hybrid DI diesel could end up being a very attractive solution for many cars in the long run. One thing to think about is trying to get the US to the same standards for diesel fuel as most of Europe (less sulfur, etc.). Biodiesel would help quite a bit towards that end, and could help farmers as well as consumers. It would take some time, but there are some really good solutions waiting out there.
Coming from NJ to Minnesota, I was amazed that there aren't even basic car inspections required, much less the emissions testing. One can be rather frightened by the various vehicles running around on these snowy roads - i.e. windows made of plastic tarp and duct tape, severely cracked windshield, missing brake/turn signal, blue smoke belching from where a muffler/tailpipe used to be, and a bumper hanging at a 30 degree angle from twine. This was all just one car I was behind today on the way to work. Things like that should be taken off the road or fixed. Yech.
I'm not sure you've really explored the features of your pants. The "one leg at a time" protocol is useful, but once that is mastered, the transition to the "both legs at once" protocol isn't all that much more complex to implement. It seems that the latter protocol has been likened to the "walking on water" protocol in terms of inherent elegance and implementaion difficulty, but I, as many others, have found that not to be the case.
The "both legs at once" protocol is much easier to implement on looser versions of pants, but even jeans can be made to respond appropriately to the protocol. I suggest you try it yourself. In the case that you cannot achieve success, I highly reccomend the "pound a few Guinness" protocol.
>The problem isn't the start button or the status bar. It's the taskbar/task list. You never switch apps?
I've noticed that I never use the taskbar for switching tasks - it is a nice list of what is open, but that's about it. A right click on the window title, border, etc. works rather well for me if I can't see part of the desired window to click-raise. More mouse-efficient for me. And yes, this is in W2k, XP, NT, 98 as well as Linux/AIX/BSD. There are several small utility programs that allow the right click to lower a window.
>I guess I could just run a hose like that on the back of my dryer from my fans to other parts of the house.
Well, if you have an electric dryer (gas dryers need not apply), they do sell little vent kits so the warm, moist air heads into your house, but it also does add lint to the house (despite the filtering). The kits are fairly cheap, in the $10 range. Of course, you can do this yourself with flexible duct and a pair or two of women's stockings on the end to cut down the lint. It works...
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Cubic feet would be a better number, as air tends to be three dimensional in housing/office situations.
>On the other hand in general women tend to be much better with things like languages. I find that women are much more likely to be mutilingual than men. All of the people I know with truely exceptional language ability are women.
So, would you say that more women are cunning linguists than men? Explain.
My IBM mouse has three buttons and a scroll button/lever thingy. the third button is out by the end (just shorter than it usually would be, and the scroll button is just behind that. Works well, and I don't have the problem of scrolling during a click or vice-versa.
As can Mozilla/Phoenix. There is some way to do it in IE, but it isn't obvious and/or isn't even in the browser menus.
You can always leave this html file on a server (passwd protected/https/whatever) if you want, then you can easily update it with an ssh session or an upload, and you can get at it from wherever you like.
And the always helpful "Charlie-gazillion" (usually C0000000h), although "Charlie-eight-gazillion" (C8000000h) seems acceptable, as long as everyone knows you are dealing with a single word (2-byte word fans need not apply).
Ah, but the computer industry doesn't rely on the aviation conventions... there is a lot of inertia in the naming (especially at places such as IBM)...
Abel, Baker, Charlie, Dog, Easy, Fox... the only way to digitize.
I've used Turbo Tax for the Web 2 of the last 3 years (with one horribly unsatisfactory visit to H&R Block - I never want to talk to them again), and it has been flawless. Many investment firms for stocks/mutual funds and credit unions have discounts for it (I got 50% off of the Federal price through Vanguard), and I have been very pleased. Despite the activation crud the downloadable version has, I haven't had any complaint with the Web version, and I've gotten my refunds very quickly (no extra charge for e-filing, either).
The direct download/fill-in from various institutions is rather handy, also (mutual fund sales, dividends, etc.).
How about a slightly more useful idea.
A) Computer speakers (as well as many home theater speakers) are magnetically shielded - that's why you can put them near your CRT monitor or TV without the fun purple/green effect.
B) Hard drives are amazingly resistant to external magnetic fields - partially because of the case, and partly because of the strength/density on the media. I have personally used a drive while it had one of those "can lift up to 150lbs!" mega-magnets stuck onto the casing... worked just fine. I wouldn't recomend it, but most cheez-ball computer speaker magnets are not very strong, and you'd be somewhat protected by the rest of the metal of the drive bay...
That being said, the additional vibration in the case probably isn't a good idea.
With tower cases, things usually end up as a two-zone airflow solution...
1) Lower zone (motherboard, maybe a drive or two): Intake on front, exhaust over CPU through power supply.
2) Upper zone (front 5-bays and rear drive mounts):
Intake on one or more 5-bays (possibly a drive cooler for additional space), exhaust with 2 80mm fans on the back.
With a quiet PS and quiet fans, your hard drives and CPU fan could be the bulk of the noise. My large case currently has the setup above (3 intake, three exhaust fans) and after upgrading to the quieter fans, I had to get a new CPU cooler to lower that noise. The 15krpm drives are now the loudest component, but only on seeks - a little bit of vibration isolation on those does a wonder of good, too.
In fact, you can get some nice drive mounting brackets for 3 drives in two 5-bays. Quite handy, especially for stripe/RAID setups with 15krpm drives. 6 drives in 4 5-bays can make quite a nice setup, and the airflow is excellent.
Thanks for the link (+1; Informative)
Except the word wasn't "imputed" it was meant to be "inputted" but came out as "inputed", neither of which are very desirable.
>Actually, it is precisely off by a factor of 8, as is always the difference between B versus b
Ah, but it isn't! More and more often, there is a direct 10x correlation. Serial ATA, Serial Attached SCSI, Fiber (Fibre) Channel all use 8b/10b encoding, so each 8 bit byte takes up 10 bits on the wire (or equivalent medium). Hence, on a 1Gbps link, the max transfer rate is 100MB/s.
Of course, if you have a trinary computer, the algorithms may have to be adjusted slightly...
Good points - even copper piping (which can outlast galvanized in many enviornments) is still prone to corrosion and eventual leaking. Basements are a funny thing. My current home was built in the 1930s with block construction for the basement, and not sealed on the exterior. The block is solid, and there's no problem with cracks, but without the moisture blocking paint on the walls (and the poured floor), the humidity level rises rapidy in the summer and in very wet times could even weep. Many newer homes have been built with poured walls/floors with a thick tar layer on the outside to protect against moisture. If the ground is solid and the footings were well done and settled prior to the walls going up, there aren't usually many problems, but even a little shift can crack a wall or floor - but usually leaves the tar layer intact. That combined with good lanscaping and drain tile can keep a basement dry quite well.
Some of the best stuff I've seen from a basement standpoint is probably the foam block with rebar cement inside for walls. Great insulation, stops moisture, and still has the same strength as a normal poured wall. Great stuff. Wood foundations are attractive, but I don't know how they'd hold up over time (probably as long as the tar layer keeps the moisture out).
While the usual measure is in Farads (or Coulombs), capacitors also have voltage ratings. I have a few 1/2 Farad caps, some of which are rated for 5V, most for 12ish (12-15V), and one that is rated for 60V. Despite the same capacitance, the voltage rating shows up in the raw size of the cap... and if you have ever put 100VDC across a 12V cap (even a much, much smaller one), it can be a short bit of fun (in a controlled enviornment, kids don't try this at home, allow 6-8 weeks for delivery, some parts not for use with some sets, YMMV).
Don't forget that in Europe, VW has diesel cars with even better efficiency - there are models of the Lupo (just a touch on the small side for most Americans) that currently attain 70-100mpg, and it was fairly recent that VW proved out a 239mpg concept vehicle. Certainly not your best shot for everyone, but it proves that there is still quite a bit of room for improvement. A lower HP direct injection diesel can really rate well, and has significantly lower emmisions per mile than most vehicles on the road today.
I'm certain that a hybrid DI diesel could end up being a very attractive solution for many cars in the long run. One thing to think about is trying to get the US to the same standards for diesel fuel as most of Europe (less sulfur, etc.). Biodiesel would help quite a bit towards that end, and could help farmers as well as consumers. It would take some time, but there are some really good solutions waiting out there.
Coming from NJ to Minnesota, I was amazed that there aren't even basic car inspections required, much less the emissions testing. One can be rather frightened by the various vehicles running around on these snowy roads - i.e. windows made of plastic tarp and duct tape, severely cracked windshield, missing brake/turn signal, blue smoke belching from where a muffler/tailpipe used to be, and a bumper hanging at a 30 degree angle from twine. This was all just one car I was behind today on the way to work. Things like that should be taken off the road or fixed. Yech.
>I once won a "Yo Quiero Taco Bell" t-shirt in an office raffle.
Ha - I once won a "It's not fun until someone gets hurt" shirt in a department paper airplane contest.
Wacky.
I'm not sure you've really explored the features of your pants. The "one leg at a time" protocol is useful, but once that is mastered, the transition to the "both legs at once" protocol isn't all that much more complex to implement. It seems that the latter protocol has been likened to the "walking on water" protocol in terms of inherent elegance and implementaion difficulty, but I, as many others, have found that not to be the case.
The "both legs at once" protocol is much easier to implement on looser versions of pants, but even jeans can be made to respond appropriately to the protocol. I suggest you try it yourself. In the case that you cannot achieve success, I highly reccomend the "pound a few Guinness" protocol.
>The problem isn't the start button or the status bar. It's the taskbar/task list. You never switch apps?
I've noticed that I never use the taskbar for switching tasks - it is a nice list of what is open, but that's about it. A right click on the window title, border, etc. works rather well for me if I can't see part of the desired window to click-raise. More mouse-efficient for me. And yes, this is in W2k, XP, NT, 98 as well as Linux/AIX/BSD. There are several small utility programs that allow the right click to lower a window.
I'm still trying to find the story filter on the preferences page that lets me eliminate any story that has the word "blog" in the title or text.
>>A computer without a Microsoft operating system is like a dog without bricks tied to its head.
My favorite version of that form is:
A [xxxxx] without [yyyyy] is like going deer hunting without bagpipes.
The pdf linked to on the site is far more in depth (20+ pages)
>I guess I could just run a hose like that on the back of my dryer from my fans to other parts of the house.
Well, if you have an electric dryer (gas dryers need not apply), they do sell little vent kits so the warm, moist air heads into your house, but it also does add lint to the house (despite the filtering). The kits are fairly cheap, in the $10 range. Of course, you can do this yourself with flexible duct and a pair or two of women's stockings on the end to cut down the lint. It works...