A good quality Chinese CFLi can have mercury as low as 3mg. The standard CFLi lamp produced in a highly automated factory (which excludes most Chinese factories unfortunately) has half as much again. In Europe, 5mg is the legal limit (and the European manufacturers are well below this,including GE production in Europe). So 9mg is really hard to believe. That sounds like a CFLi lamp from before the flood. Also, it is really unsafe for workers if liquid (pure) mercury is being added. So it is not used any more in reputable lamps (including decent Chinese lamps). I don't know what American standards are, but if you buy a name-brand lamp you will be buying quite a safe lamp.
The article mentioned 5 mg of mercury. In fact, only poor quality, cheap CFLis have this much mercury. The lamps made by Philips and Osram in Europe have between 1.5mg and 3mg. If the lamp is made under a high quality, well controlled process, you don't much mercury. If your CFLi "burners" are poorly made, more mercury is required to get the same light output. So it is possible to set standards for much lower levels of mercury.
Also, high quality lamps do not use mercury in its pure form, but in a safer compound. Disclosure: I work for Philips Lighting.
Debian had better not be dead because it is the soul of Ubuntu. We have Ubuntu because of the people who spent so many years making Debian, and they did a lot of things right, and they did those things because they believed in the Debian philosophy. Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. Maybe we have to have a crazy Debian world full of people who really care about releasing versions when they are ready. Besides, it's not as if it's the only operating system with irregular releases that tend to miss deadlines.
Additionally, I wonder how much cash is being burnt to keep Ubuntu cracking along. Perhaps it is not sustainable? Debian is, I would say. It has proven itself.
And importantly, absolute free speech exists for elected representatives when speaking in Parliament, who are protected from libel etc (in countries deriving their democracy from the United Kingdom).
The "How to tell" (if you have pirated software) focuses on the media; that is, do you have genuine distribution media? This seems to be a perfectly normal use of genuine. If you don't have genuine media, Microsoft will offer you a discounted licence if you can show that your media was a sophisticated counterfeit; this is assessed by the CD packaging, labelling and attempts to imitate physical features of genuine Microsoft media.
Actually, I was not being a smart alec. What is an alec or alek, I wonder? You can still get goods delivered, it is just comparing now with the past, the sunk cost of car ownership means the marginal cost of doing it yourself is cheaper for most people. That is, we always had the time to do it, but now we have also invested a lot of money in personal transport, and there is no refund from the car financer if we don't use our car to bring the shopping home. I am sure that a generation or two ago the idea of putting fuel in your car ALL BY YOURSELF was quite a shocking idea. This would seem like a very close analog to self-service checkouts, or cash machines, or...
Dell is struggling because it does not have a good sales channel to consumers. The HP/Compaq merger gave HP size and good distribution channels. It turned out to be very smart. The strategy was actually quite good, and it needed someone with Fiorina's charisma to sell it. She was not the right person to execute it. HP seems to have the best of both worlds now; this means above all the board is very effective at choosing the right leaders for the right time. Overall, I think HP has been very impressive.
It's Australia: don't bank on natural humdity. But a woolen shirt and a nylon jacket. This guy was not so far away from some kind of Darwin Award for bad fashion. The town mentioned is in the heart of Merino country so maybe it's part of natural fibre viral marketing campaign.
Sony has made most of its money in recent years from Playstation. It's a proprietary format: this is the established culture at Sony. Ironically, it's a similar approach to the one with which Apple tried and failed (Macintosh), but Playstation 1 and 2 have been such massive successes Sony is hooked.
Actually, she later changed this to a requirement that her class turn up to vote, rather than actually casting a vote. The famous "compulsory voting" in Australia is similar: it is not actually compulsory to vote, contrary to popular myth: it is only compulsory that you turn up to a polling station. No one knows what you do afterwards: vote, not vote, vote incorrectly...
As you know, human languages are infinitely expressive, which is why the Whorfian hypothesis is wrong. Programming languages are not; they impose real constraints. Visual Basic makes it really hard to see the programming problem space as hashes and regular expressions, and there is little VB programmers can do about that. For a Perl coder, these tools are so integrated that sometimes every nut is cracked with Perl sledgehammers. But a human from any place on earth who sees a solar eclipse for the first time will be able to talk about it the next day. So I don't see any point in the comparison.
This is a very old theory in Linguistics, commonly known as the Whorfian hypothesis (look for Sapir-Whorf). It predates 1950; it dates from the 1920s. It has been discredited many times, as believable as it sounds. It is however a fascinating story; B.L. Whorf was an amateur linguist who was professionally a insurance claims inspector specialising in fire-related claims. He noticed that several fires where started when workers through cigarette butts into drums that in English we call "empty", even though they contained invisible and explosive fumes. Whorf realised that the workers knew this technically, but he wondered if being forced to think of the drums as "empty" changed their view of the drum. He did lots of research on languages of central america, and came up with interesting theories because many of these languages (eg Hopi) appear to have very different verb tenses; Whorf proposed that this gave their speakers almost-Einstein-like views of time and space.
A numbers of tests have been down over the years. Some languages have only a few words for color, for example. However, experiments show that this does not impair speakers of these languages from differentiating different shades of colors.
You are too vague. Farming only needs subsidies in some places. And even then, only some types of farming. Same with manufacturing; my company makes some things in Germany, some things in Poland and some things in China. Ten years ago, programming was going to be so automated that any one could do it. Or it was all going to go to India. Or China. Or Japan. Today there are more programmers in the west than ever. And most of the programmers not in the West are working to the design of software engineers who are in the west. Most interesting of all, it economically makes a lot of sense for companies to bring Indians and Chinese to America rather than send the work there. That is probably the biggest reason to be optimisitic, because that illustrates something very special about the way the software industry works. Despite all the communication methods the software industry has given us, even software people seem to need to be close to the market.
Does that work? Or does Amazon have some smarts? If my wife buys all her books through my affiliate link and me through hers, do we get discounts? I stupidly never tried this because I thought Amazon would be too clever.
There is economics theory that is often called game theory, that talks about the 'winner's curse': you can only win an auction by paying more than anyone else thought the item was worth. That's a good reason not to bid too high. Sometimes there are auctions where the winner only pays the price of the next highest bid, ie the highest losing bid, which is theoretically better for the winner. Ebay doesn't do this.
All this stuff... there's nothing new under the sun, so to speak. Read a history of Australia or the US; that will tell you how the legalities of new frontiers in space and the competing visions for colonies among different groups will play out. Some people in Europe think the "New World" doesn't have much interesting history, but when we get off this planet the history of the New World is what will either be read or recreated (you get to choose). Particularly if some poor form of less developed intelligent life was there first.
Many distros and many ways of doing the same things is part of live on planet linux, and that's what makes it fun. As far as installation goes, Mandrake seems to have it working well. The problem is lack of apps, and not the obvious ones, but all the little ones, like the fact that when you buy a color printer, you get decent, consumer friendly scanning and printing software for Windows, etc, etc. Even Mandrake has some rough edges, but I don't think that's the problem.
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A good quality Chinese CFLi can have mercury as low as 3mg. The standard CFLi lamp produced in a highly automated factory (which excludes most Chinese factories unfortunately) has half as much again. In Europe, 5mg is the legal limit (and the European manufacturers are well below this,including GE production in Europe). So 9mg is really hard to believe. That sounds like a CFLi lamp from before the flood.
Also, it is really unsafe for workers if liquid (pure) mercury is being added. So it is not used any more in reputable lamps (including decent Chinese lamps). I don't know what American standards are, but if you buy a name-brand lamp you will be buying quite a safe lamp.
The article mentioned 5 mg of mercury. In fact, only poor quality, cheap CFLis have this much mercury. The lamps made by Philips and Osram in Europe have between 1.5mg and 3mg. If the lamp is made under a high quality, well controlled process, you don't much mercury. If your CFLi "burners" are poorly made, more mercury is required to get the same light output. So it is possible to set standards for much lower levels of mercury.
Also, high quality lamps do not use mercury in its pure form, but in a safer compound. Disclosure: I work for Philips Lighting.
Debian had better not be dead because it is the soul of Ubuntu. We have Ubuntu because of the people who spent so many years making Debian, and they did a lot of things right, and they did those things because they believed in the Debian philosophy. Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. Maybe we have to have a crazy Debian world full of people who really care about releasing versions when they are ready. Besides, it's not as if it's the only operating system with irregular releases that tend to miss deadlines.
Additionally, I wonder how much cash is being burnt to keep Ubuntu cracking along. Perhaps it is not sustainable? Debian is, I would say. It has proven itself.
And importantly, absolute free speech exists for elected representatives when speaking in Parliament, who are protected from libel etc (in countries deriving their democracy from the United Kingdom).
The "How to tell" (if you have pirated software) focuses on the media; that is, do you have genuine distribution media?
This seems to be a perfectly normal use of genuine. If you don't have genuine media, Microsoft will offer you a discounted licence if you can show that your media was a sophisticated counterfeit; this is assessed by the CD packaging, labelling and attempts to imitate physical features of genuine Microsoft media.
Actually, I was not being a smart alec. What is an alec or alek, I wonder? You can still get goods delivered, it is just comparing now with the past, the sunk cost of car ownership means the marginal cost of doing it yourself is cheaper for most people. That is, we always had the time to do it, but now we have also invested a lot of money in personal transport, and there is no refund from the car financer if we don't use our car to bring the shopping home. ...
I am sure that a generation or two ago the idea of putting fuel in your car ALL BY YOURSELF was quite a shocking idea. This would seem like a very close analog to self-service checkouts, or cash machines, or
Well, you are quite happy to deliver the goods to your house; doing "their work for them" is a matter of definition.
Dell is struggling because it does not have a good sales channel to consumers.
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The HP/Compaq merger gave HP size and good distribution channels. It turned out to be very smart. The strategy was actually quite good, and it needed someone with Fiorina's charisma to sell it. She was not the right person to execute it. HP seems to have the best of both worlds now; this means above all the board is very effective at choosing the right leaders for the right time. Overall, I think HP has been very impressive.
And they still make the best calculators
Which is the seventh state of Australia.
This is easy to explain. The Windows server is installed on Mars. This allows 437 days of uptime and still plenty of time for patch installations.
When I started using Thunderbird, I discovered that AVG does not support scanning and quarantining of the inbox. Avast does, so I swapped.
They call it free software but I suspect they mean "free beer". It sounds like nothing more than another bittorrent client.
Yeah, is it based on AJAX or AVBAX?
It's Australia: don't bank on natural humdity. But a woolen shirt and a nylon jacket. This guy was not so far away from some kind of Darwin Award for bad fashion.
The town mentioned is in the heart of Merino country so maybe it's part of natural fibre viral marketing campaign.
"never far from the border": only as far as your mailbox
Sony has made most of its money in recent years from Playstation. It's a proprietary format: this is the established culture at Sony. Ironically, it's a similar approach to the one with which Apple tried and failed (Macintosh), but Playstation 1 and 2 have been such massive successes Sony is hooked.
Actually, she later changed this to a requirement that her class turn up to vote, rather than actually casting a vote. The famous "compulsory voting" in Australia is similar: it is not actually compulsory to vote, contrary to popular myth: it is only compulsory that you turn up to a polling station. No one knows what you do afterwards: vote, not vote, vote incorrectly ...
As you know, human languages are infinitely expressive, which is why the Whorfian hypothesis is wrong. Programming languages are not; they impose real constraints. Visual Basic makes it really hard to see the programming problem space as hashes and regular expressions, and there is little VB programmers can do about that. For a Perl coder, these tools are so integrated that sometimes every nut is cracked with Perl sledgehammers. But a human from any place on earth who sees a solar eclipse for the first time will be able to talk about it the next day. So I don't see any point in the comparison.
This is a very old theory in Linguistics, commonly known as the Whorfian hypothesis (look for Sapir-Whorf). It predates 1950; it dates from the 1920s.
It has been discredited many times, as believable as it sounds. It is however a fascinating story; B.L. Whorf was an amateur linguist who was professionally a insurance claims inspector specialising in fire-related claims. He noticed that several fires where started when workers through cigarette butts into drums that in English we call "empty", even though they contained invisible and explosive fumes. Whorf realised that the workers knew this technically, but he wondered if being forced to think of the drums as "empty" changed their view of the drum. He did lots of research on languages of central america, and came up with interesting theories because many of these languages (eg Hopi) appear to have very different verb tenses; Whorf proposed that this gave their speakers almost-Einstein-like views of time and space.
A numbers of tests have been down over the years. Some languages have only a few words for color, for example. However, experiments show that this does not impair speakers of these languages from differentiating different shades of colors.
You are too vague. Farming only needs subsidies in some places. And even then, only some types of farming. Same with manufacturing; my company makes some things in Germany, some things in Poland and some things in China. Ten years ago, programming was going to be so automated that any one could do it. Or it was all going to go to India. Or China. Or Japan. Today there are more programmers in the west than ever. And most of the programmers not in the West are working to the design of software engineers who are in the west. Most interesting of all, it economically makes a lot of sense for companies to bring Indians and Chinese to America rather than send the work there. That is probably the biggest reason to be optimisitic, because that illustrates something very special about the way the software industry works. Despite all the communication methods the software industry has given us, even software people seem to need to be close to the market.
Does that work? Or does Amazon have some smarts? If my wife buys all her books through my affiliate link and me through hers, do we get discounts? I stupidly never tried this because I thought Amazon would be too clever.
There is economics theory that is often called game theory, that talks about the 'winner's curse': you can only win an auction by paying more than anyone else thought the item was worth. That's a good reason not to bid too high. Sometimes there are auctions where the winner only pays the price of the next highest bid, ie the highest losing bid, which is theoretically better for the winner. Ebay doesn't do this.
I thought Sun was moving to open source.
All this stuff ... there's nothing new under the sun, so to speak. Read a history of Australia or the US; that will tell you how the legalities of new frontiers in space and the competing visions for colonies among different groups will play out. Some people in Europe think the "New World" doesn't have much interesting history, but when we get off this planet the history of the New World is what will either be read or recreated (you get to choose). Particularly if some poor form of less developed intelligent life was there first.
Many distros and many ways of doing the same things is part of live on planet linux, and that's what makes it fun.
As far as installation goes, Mandrake seems to have it working well.
The problem is lack of apps, and not the obvious ones, but all the little ones, like the fact that when you buy a color printer, you get decent, consumer friendly scanning and printing software for Windows, etc, etc.
Even Mandrake has some rough edges, but I don't think that's the problem.