Sure, there are people needing blacksmiths still. Of course, not as many as 100 years ago. The difference then was that blacksmiths were being replaced my new industries, not having their jobs shipped overseas.
Cars replaced the horse and buggy, so you didn't have the demand for horseshoes to be fitted. Instead you had a huge new group of industry and services to support the automobile. Today, there is no 'next big thing' apparent.
Besides, the new crusade against porn was announced before the AIDS incidents took place.
Ashcroft is the person who had the bare breasts on a statue covered. So he's not gonna be a fan of porn. Remember back in the '80's when the 'Moral' Majority was around? They were busy getting Playboy off the shelf at 7-11. The porn industry has flourished in recent years though, and this has the types that like to force their beliefs on others terribly uptight.
Excellent point. In fact, if you talk to the Census Bureau about TIGER, they'll be glad to remind you that their charter from Congress is to collect population information, not create maps. Thus TIGER data is good enough quality for what they need, but does contain problems, both in terms of correctly showing roads (i.e. does Goose Creek Lane continue to Smith Street) and spatial accuracy (is Goose Creek Lane actually there, or 10 meters west?).
You can rely more on USGS data for spatial accuracy, but they aren't going to update their maps with changes and new roads very quickly.
The processing and error corrections are the benefit you get from a commercial data provider (who usually use TIGER as their starting point).
That was my first though as well. Why do I want to help a movie studio do this? They're already making millions of dollars from these movies, so if they need more rendering power, they can certainly afford to beef up their own cluster.
At the very least they'd need to provide two free passes to see the movie, possibly even passes to pre-release sneak preview.
Amen. While I've never had problems with SBC for home service, they've caused one problem after another for work.
* Frame relay line service cancelled. Some guy calls and wants to verify some things, since they went through and renumbered all their circuits. They end up disconnecting the FR line of some bank 100 miles away.
* Same circuit as above, they keep trying to insist that we still had a year on the contract, yet can't provide any paperwork to substantiate. So they keep billing.
* Every call from our AP person to them resulted in a different rep, and a rehashing of the conversation. No progress. Then, they upgraded their systems, and all the notes that had previously been entered on the account didn't get carried over.
* New T-1 circuit. FOC date comes and goes...no sign of a tech. Like a week later, a tech stops by to look things over. Then another several weeks before the circuit is actually up and running.
* SBC is doing some construction work. Takes out nearly every phone line to the office plaza we're in. Won't have it fixed until the next day. We had one line working, and I wanted to see if the others could be temporarily forwarded to it. Nope, they won't do that anymore unless you already had call forwarding on the line. So they'd be happy to add CF to all those lines, but that would take a few days for the order to go through...
And as much as Ms Fonda might disagree McDonald Douglas is responsible for creating extremely large bombers, the politicians who order those bombers used in war are responsible for the war, not McDonald Douglas.
Say it with me...McDonnell, not McDonald. And McDonnell Douglas didn't build any of our modern large bombers.
Get a Cheap one in the 500 to 1000 dollar price range, drive it till it breaks down and go get another one.
Even if you don't go to this extreme, remember that if you buy a new(er) car and have to take out a loan, you'll need to carry full insurance coverage. If you have a cheap car, it's silly to carry anything beyond liability insurance.
You could take you chances getting a used one from a junkyard, replacing it yourself, and hoping its better balanced than your old one (what I plan to do). and keep the price down.
Why not visit your local driveshaft shop and have them rebalance it?
What did the dealer do? Refused to work on it because "it's too old"!!!!
Not terribly uncommon. Most of the cars coming through dealer service departments are only a few years old. So the dealer heavily invests in training their people on the current models. Now, the Aerostar was still made until about 1994, so it seems a bit premature to stop servicing them.
But consider that for many older cars, the current shop staff at the dealership wasn't even working there when that car was sold. Also, there's an issue of risk management. An older car is more likely to have more problems lurking below the surface. You take the car in, get problem A fixed, and problem B crops up. You then go back to the dealer and try to get them to cover that. A friend of mine is a service manager for a car dealer, and this sort of thing happens all the time. So for many shops, it just isn't worth the hassle.
As in nearly any product these days, there's probably a group of people who have started a web site or mailing list about your particular vehicle, and can often times be of more help in fixing the odd problems than your independent mechanic, who can't focus all his efforts on learning every quirk of many different cars.
Modern parts are lightweight and precision manufactured. There's no banging or clanging to get parts off, no rusted bolts, no tweaking of the carburetor and timing. There's no cables to break
Wait until the Passat is 30 years old, and then you can compare them for ease of repair.
That's true, to some extent. However, the environmental issues of manufacturing go far beyond what takes place in the factory.
There's mining for the raw materials, be they steel, aluminium, or precious metals for the pollution controls, not to mention oil for plastics. All have an environmental impact and use energy. There's the shipping of those materials. Even if you use recycled materials to avoid mining, there is still transportation, and the costs of recycling that material into something usable.
Then, no matter how clean the manufacturing process, you're still using lots of energy, and will still have waste products to dispose of.
Sure, a much older, non-catalyst car will spew out quite a bit of local pollution, but there are plenty of now 'classic' cars that came equipped with pollution controls, and even EFI.
Because 51% of vehicles sold the last few year were light trucks or SUV's which are not regulated as to their fleet average fuel economy?!?
Actually, trucks are regulated by CAFE, it's just that they fall into a different segment and have a lower standard than cars.
CAFE has really become a complicated mess? Under CAFE, Chrysler can classify the PT Cruiser as a truck, because of the way the seats fold and create a flat cargo floor. The PT Cruiser convertible, OTOH, has to be classified as a car.
For one thing, the majority of the more expensive parts on a car are not likely to break, and are even LESS likely to break because of the overengineering.
Sure, overall cars are lasting longer and longer. But the problem that this article talks about are high post-collision repair costs. It also hints at the electronic nightmare these cars will become. You can say what you want, but a car is very rough environment for electronics. Those electronics will fail, and you'll find out that the part is NLA.
I remember back in high school we watched and excerpt of German television in class and the class was shocked to see a nude woman in a soap commercial *not* taking extra special pains to make sure she was "decent" for television. Imagine that, a woman bathing naked!?! The horror!
I'm pretty sure we saw that one in HS German class too. Makes for a quick education in just how silly we are about that sort of thing.
Futher, if it's going to be like their search back-end, this system will be built out of a bunch of PCs. I recall reading that when one of the search boxes has a problem, they simply shut it down. They don't fix it or pull it out of the rack - it just becomes a dead node. If this same procedure will be applied to Gmail, then there will obviously be some e-mail sitting on dead nodes that won't be deleted until the entire cluster is pulled from service.
I used TaxCut last year as well. But for whatever reason, I didn't like the way it worked at much as TT. So I want to go back to TT, but hadn't seen any further info beyond Intuit saying they were removing their DRM, hence my submission.
I mean, the statute of limitations on the tort probably already expired.
Nope. There are only time limits for adults. There is no such limit for malpractice where a minor is involved. Exact details vary from state to state.
Since the article itself refers to Texas, let's look at their laws. There, you have two years to bring an action. If it's a course of treatment, rather than a specific incident, you have two years from the date of the last treatment. If, however, this period begins before the claimant is 18, an action may be brought at any time until the claimant's 20th birthday.
Now, a pediatrician or other provider working with kids has a decent amount of exposure. But a OB has a full twenty years until they're certain they aren't going to be sued for a perceived negligence on their part.
My sister is an OB nurse. She sees plenty of people who don't bother with proper pre-natal care. They drink and smoke (cigarettes and otherwise) throughout their pregnancy. When the kid pops out with a problem, there's lawyers all over daytime television who are willing to take the doctor to court, because it's obviously their fault.
You have an XP box with a share configured. You have a FreeBSD box which has that share mounted over the network. That just means you're using the SMB protocols over the network; XP is still handling the actual reading and writing of the files on disk.
The issue being discussed is the case where you've booted to Linux, and want to read/write a locally mounted NTFS volume. Comparable to you burning your FreeSBIE CD, booting it in your XP box, and then mounting that XP drive read/write.
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btw does anyone know if these boxes could tell me my 1/4 mile times? It's too expensive to go to a track.
There are a number of boxes you can buy for that purpose: http://www.gtechpro.com/
ANYONE NEEDING ANY BLACKSMITH WORK THESE DAYS?
Sure, there are people needing blacksmiths still. Of course, not as many as 100 years ago. The difference then was that blacksmiths were being replaced my new industries, not having their jobs shipped overseas.
Cars replaced the horse and buggy, so you didn't have the demand for horseshoes to be fitted. Instead you had a huge new group of industry and services to support the automobile. Today, there is no 'next big thing' apparent.
Besides, the new crusade against porn was announced before the AIDS incidents took place.
Ashcroft is the person who had the bare breasts on a statue covered. So he's not gonna be a fan of porn. Remember back in the '80's when the 'Moral' Majority was around? They were busy getting Playboy off the shelf at 7-11. The porn industry has flourished in recent years though, and this has the types that like to force their beliefs on others terribly uptight.
Excellent point. In fact, if you talk to the Census Bureau about TIGER, they'll be glad to remind you that their charter from Congress is to collect population information, not create maps. Thus TIGER data is good enough quality for what they need, but does contain problems, both in terms of correctly showing roads (i.e. does Goose Creek Lane continue to Smith Street) and spatial accuracy (is Goose Creek Lane actually there, or 10 meters west?).
You can rely more on USGS data for spatial accuracy, but they aren't going to update their maps with changes and new roads very quickly.
The processing and error corrections are the benefit you get from a commercial data provider (who usually use TIGER as their starting point).
That was my first though as well. Why do I want to help a movie studio do this? They're already making millions of dollars from these movies, so if they need more rendering power, they can certainly afford to beef up their own cluster.
At the very least they'd need to provide two free passes to see the movie, possibly even passes to pre-release sneak preview.
Amen. While I've never had problems with SBC for home service, they've caused one problem after another for work.
* Frame relay line service cancelled. Some guy calls and wants to verify some things, since they went through and renumbered all their circuits. They end up disconnecting the FR line of some bank 100 miles away.
* Same circuit as above, they keep trying to insist that we still had a year on the contract, yet can't provide any paperwork to substantiate. So they keep billing.
* Every call from our AP person to them resulted in a different rep, and a rehashing of the conversation. No progress. Then, they upgraded their systems, and all the notes that had previously been entered on the account didn't get carried over.
* New T-1 circuit. FOC date comes and goes...no sign of a tech. Like a week later, a tech stops by to look things over. Then another several weeks before the circuit is actually up and running.
* SBC is doing some construction work. Takes out nearly every phone line to the office plaza we're in. Won't have it fixed until the next day. We had one line working, and I wanted to see if the others could be temporarily forwarded to it. Nope, they won't do that anymore unless you already had call forwarding on the line. So they'd be happy to add CF to all those lines, but that would take a few days for the order to go through...
We're building a website to help you connect with your neighbors and buy their stuff.
Can't I already do this with craigslist?
Nope. MD never built any of the bombers we know and love. They spent their time on fighter aircraft, and transport/tanker aircraft.
Now, Boeing, OTOH, who bought MD a few years ago, did make bombers, including the B-52.
Pedant time.
And as much as Ms Fonda might disagree McDonald Douglas is responsible for creating extremely large bombers, the politicians who order those bombers used in war are responsible for the war, not McDonald Douglas.
Say it with me...McDonnell, not McDonald. And McDonnell Douglas didn't build any of our modern large bombers.
Get a Cheap one in the 500 to 1000 dollar price range, drive it till it breaks down and go get another one.
Even if you don't go to this extreme, remember that if you buy a new(er) car and have to take out a loan, you'll need to carry full insurance coverage. If you have a cheap car, it's silly to carry anything beyond liability insurance.
You could take you chances getting a used one from a junkyard, replacing it yourself, and hoping its better balanced than your old one (what I plan to do). and keep the price down.
Why not visit your local driveshaft shop and have them rebalance it?
Jeep makes a vehicle that costs $50,000?
He might have been stretching a bit, but fully loading a Grand Cherokee Overland 4x4 will get you a sticker price of $42,150.
What did the dealer do? Refused to work on it because "it's too old"!!!!
Not terribly uncommon. Most of the cars coming through dealer service departments are only a few years old. So the dealer heavily invests in training their people on the current models. Now, the Aerostar was still made until about 1994, so it seems a bit premature to stop servicing them.
But consider that for many older cars, the current shop staff at the dealership wasn't even working there when that car was sold. Also, there's an issue of risk management. An older car is more likely to have more problems lurking below the surface. You take the car in, get problem A fixed, and problem B crops up. You then go back to the dealer and try to get them to cover that. A friend of mine is a service manager for a car dealer, and this sort of thing happens all the time. So for many shops, it just isn't worth the hassle.
As in nearly any product these days, there's probably a group of people who have started a web site or mailing list about your particular vehicle, and can often times be of more help in fixing the odd problems than your independent mechanic, who can't focus all his efforts on learning every quirk of many different cars.
Modern parts are lightweight and precision manufactured. There's no banging or clanging to get parts off, no rusted bolts, no tweaking of the carburetor and timing. There's no cables to break
Wait until the Passat is 30 years old, and then you can compare them for ease of repair.
That's true, to some extent. However, the environmental issues of manufacturing go far beyond what takes place in the factory.
There's mining for the raw materials, be they steel, aluminium, or precious metals for the pollution controls, not to mention oil for plastics. All have an environmental impact and use energy. There's the shipping of those materials. Even if you use recycled materials to avoid mining, there is still transportation, and the costs of recycling that material into something usable.
Then, no matter how clean the manufacturing process, you're still using lots of energy, and will still have waste products to dispose of.
Sure, a much older, non-catalyst car will spew out quite a bit of local pollution, but there are plenty of now 'classic' cars that came equipped with pollution controls, and even EFI.
Or the box was filled with potting compound so that it could never be repaired on a component level, only replaced.
Because 51% of vehicles sold the last few year were light trucks or SUV's which are not regulated as to their fleet average fuel economy?!?
Actually, trucks are regulated by CAFE, it's just that they fall into a different segment and have a lower standard than cars.
CAFE has really become a complicated mess? Under CAFE, Chrysler can classify the PT Cruiser as a truck, because of the way the seats fold and create a flat cargo floor. The PT Cruiser convertible, OTOH, has to be classified as a car.
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For one thing, the majority of the more expensive parts on a car are not likely to break, and are even LESS likely to break because of the overengineering.
Sure, overall cars are lasting longer and longer. But the problem that this article talks about are high post-collision repair costs. It also hints at the electronic nightmare these cars will become. You can say what you want, but a car is very rough environment for electronics. Those electronics will fail, and you'll find out that the part is NLA.
I remember back in high school we watched and excerpt of German television in class and the class was shocked to see a nude woman in a soap commercial *not* taking extra special pains to make sure she was "decent" for television. Imagine that, a woman bathing naked!?! The horror!
I'm pretty sure we saw that one in HS German class too. Makes for a quick education in just how silly we are about that sort of thing.
Futher, if it's going to be like their search back-end, this system will be built out of a bunch of PCs. I recall reading that when one of the search boxes has a problem, they simply shut it down. They don't fix it or pull it out of the rack - it just becomes a dead node. If this same procedure will be applied to Gmail, then there will obviously be some e-mail sitting on dead nodes that won't be deleted until the entire cluster is pulled from service.
I used TaxCut last year as well. But for whatever reason, I didn't like the way it worked at much as TT. So I want to go back to TT, but hadn't seen any further info beyond Intuit saying they were removing their DRM, hence my submission.
Oh...that. Doesn't provide much in the way of options.
Windows 2000 and XP both have an inbuilt firewall, which is (pure genius!) off by default.
Uh...since when does W2K have a built-in firewall?
I mean, the statute of limitations on the tort probably already expired.
Nope. There are only time limits for adults. There is no such limit for malpractice where a minor is involved. Exact details vary from state to state.
Since the article itself refers to Texas, let's look at their laws. There, you have two years to bring an action. If it's a course of treatment, rather than a specific incident, you have two years from the date of the last treatment. If, however, this period begins before the claimant is 18, an action may be brought at any time until the claimant's 20th birthday.
Now, a pediatrician or other provider working with kids has a decent amount of exposure. But a OB has a full twenty years until they're certain they aren't going to be sued for a perceived negligence on their part.
My sister is an OB nurse. She sees plenty of people who don't bother with proper pre-natal care. They drink and smoke (cigarettes and otherwise) throughout their pregnancy. When the kid pops out with a problem, there's lawyers all over daytime television who are willing to take the doctor to court, because it's obviously their fault.
Let me get this straight....
You have an XP box with a share configured. You have a FreeBSD box which has that share mounted over the network. That just means you're using the SMB protocols over the network; XP is still handling the actual reading and writing of the files on disk.
The issue being discussed is the case where you've booted to Linux, and want to read/write a locally mounted NTFS volume. Comparable to you burning your FreeSBIE CD, booting it in your XP box, and then mounting that XP drive read/write.