Use of a strong oxidizer is commonly used in food processing to kill bacteria. This means bleach, peroxide foam, and a few other chemicals are equally effective. You not only wash down the produce so there is no chance of fecal matter contamination from livestock or from poorly sterilized organic fertilizer but wash down the conveyor belts and packaging machinery so the residue of rotten, rejected, produce doesn't contaminate the good produce.
What I remember of the Commodore was flimsy construction and the need to tack on $1000 worth of after market accessories to make it half as useful as a $499 off the shelf business computer. You could program in BASIC, but not save a program, with the base model. Did you ever try to actually save a computer program to a tape recorder with a 300 baud interface? (Bwahahaha, Satanic wasn't it?) And play a few 8 bit slow as molasses games on expensive cartridges. But, you needed a few hundred to get a 5-1/4 floppy drive to play the good games. If you wanted to use a computer monitor instead of your television so you had better resolution; you had to by an interface module that cost more than the computer (i.e., a graphics card attached by a ribbon cable to the computer)
Naaa, the C64 was a toy company ripping off parents by making them think they were giving their kids a real computer.
The last time the definition of terrorism was redefined it became so vague as to make very single civil rights spokesman from the 1960s into a terrorist.
We actually need a succinct definition of "terrorist acts" so there is some standard for the term.
Currently, you are a terrorist if you say " is an ignorant putz and should be removed from office, preferably in handcuffs at gunpoint." You become a terrorist for trying to influence a change in government policy by threatening violence.
When cable was first introduced; the common question was "Why pay for what you can get for free off the air?" Cable providers started with an economical way to get a lot of value added programming.
Today you get no value added unless you pay for expensive premium packages which few people actually have a desire for. If it weren't for ESPN cable would probably already be relegated to urban crowded areas where you can't put up a decent antenna.
If a net streaming company gets rights for streaming all the games on ESPN; who needs cable?
No, the right doesn't blame liberals for TV ratings going down. The right blames runaway political correctness for making television programming uninteresting.
And, you can purchase a dongle from the land where they are made at wholesale for a couple of bucks.
https://geek.wish.com/c/596337a5108aab54a9b35d34
On wired headphones; it is odd that the best frequency response comes from a middle of the road line of headphones; Sony Fontopia.
If you are paying over $50 for headphones; you had better be getting active noise filtering in the unit too. How much are you willing to pay for a name and name alone when a $39 Sony unit can outperform Bose and Klipsch units at $200 plus?
Consider also that headphones and headsets are designed to be used with portable players. Most portable players run 128 kbps fidelity, you can't get the advantage of high end headphones. If you have, and can afford, the $500 audiophile MP3 players; more power to you. But to listen to 128 kbps files on my phone; A $69 Fontopia active noise canceling headphone will do.
No, William Gibson's work that defined what was to become the cyberpunk genre in no way had anything to do with the Hollywood Hack portrayal of a computer image done with Max Headroom. Max Headroom is to Gibson as a 10th grader's cartoon in the back of a binder is to a Freas or Frazetta illustration.
A simple way to opt out of this is to set the Java extension to ask for permission prior to each run. Doing this for Java and Flash both disables those irritating automatic start videos as well.
Many credit card processors require Business Data Service instead of a dial up link. And it bloody takes less time.
High volume credit card processors such as gas stations and convenience stores can be hit with huge costs for data service in rural areas. We aren't talking about home internet but scanners for credit cards at the cash register.
A lot of low volume processors are opting out of the traditional credit card scanners through a bank's business services in favor of a card scanner attached to a smart phone. The high service fees for card processing through PayPal are cheaper than a one provider market for Business Data Service.
I saw the first one over a decade ago. The doorbell contains an intercom. There is an IP camera focused on the door. And the door has a mag release lock on it.
Ringing the bell calls your cellphone. You can then vet the person and unlock your door remotely.
I like the idea but not $243 dollars worth of like. (Equipment cost, labor to install not included).
Since the script is based on Philip K Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" and not the Nourse tale of "Bladrunner" nothing has been said of how "Bladerunner" came to be associated with the movie.
Did someone have two scripts and was so clueless about scifi they couldn't tell the two stories apart?
So much these days, Hollywood has forgotten the purpose of a movie. The purpose is to tell a decent story in an interesting way. No one gives a flying flip for your fancy cinematography and high dollar special effects if you aren't telling an interesting story with them.
The original Bladerunner was innovative on several levels. Not the least of which was being one of the first full budget treatments of serious science fiction. A reboot will most likely be a sFx movie missing the point of the original by several orders of magnitude. And if Social Justice Jerkism takes over the script; it may very well end up full of tired stereotypes and unwatchable.. like Ghostbusters 2016.
Warming soil releases more CO2 only if you are talking about areas with permafrost thawing and releasing 10,000 plus year old vegetation that now decays.
The higher rate of decay in above freezing forests doesn't increase the carbon footprint but simply accelerates the processing of the natural cycle.
Releasing carbon bound up in the soil during earlier epochs raises the atmospheric carbon loading. Cycling what is already there does not. Basics, basics, basics.
A B.S. click bait headline. Yet, if a coal plant were a nuclear facility; they would be shut down for blowing so much radioactive material out the stack. It doesn't count because it is "natural".
And if you apply the annual rate of inflation to the minimum wage in 1970; you would have had a $42 minimum wage in 2000.
The problem with cellular providers is they don't supply what their advertising says they provide. And the cost of cellular is much higher than some other countries for less service.
South Korea had the best cellular service the last time I looked.
Back in the day when Slick 60 was the latest and greatest; the landline was the most reliable thing in the house. Power might go out for a month but the phone kept working.
These days with VOIP and fiber; a landline is the first thing that goes down with inclement weather. And the monthly charge is still 1000% higher than in the 70s with lower overhead.
An enabling clause and an active clause with the enabling clause stating WHY the active clause is necessary doesn't seem to be much wiggle room to me.
And, if you dig into older federal regs, ALL able bodied men between the ages of 18 and 45 are subject to militia duty. That is how forced recruitment was justified during the Civil War. And, that is why one has to register for the draft.
Statistically, you may find that gun ownership increases after a stint in the military where you actually get training on firearms. Yeah, a few hours at the range punching holes in targets at a distance can be fun. Running a tactical fire course is lots of fun.
I've always considered the distance between source and commentary when it comes to news to be inversely proportional to the reliability. So NYT commenting on a Las Vegas incident has a significant chance of including, as the Bodacious Bombast in office would put it, "Fake News".
Try a network affiliate in Las Vegas for a more rational and timely source of information.
What do you want in a smart phone? Me, I want a PDA that makes phone calls. The camera is totally irrelevant to most of what I do with a phone.
The 4 pin phone jack is NOT optional. That is the hardware interface used for data collection ever since Apple iPhone came out using a non standard hardware interface. Using the 3.5mm jack instead made for a universal hardware interface for sensors.
Also, Bluetooth has lag. If you are watching compressed video, the lag is obvious with the lips moving then the sound arrives to your ears. That may be irrelevant for streaming your favorite anime; but it can bug the crap out of you if you are trying to evaluate a tech problem via live stream and the equipment positioning doesn't follow the verbal description of symptoms.
Ear bud type Bluetooth units have piss poor battery life. If I could find some that took hearing aid batteries; I would feel I could actually rely on them a bit as a poor substitute for a corded comm headset.
NOT having an SD card slot is simple arrogance on the part of the manufacturer. Not everyone lives in a cube farm and has cloud service. An SD card allows for moving files readily between phones when you change phones. This is in lieu of having to spend hours downloading data from the cloud or side loading with a USB cord. (Thunderbolt/C-Connectors are just the latest iteration of USB)
The paltry amount of memory in a phone makes having an SD card to hold certain apps is a bit of a must have for those that do more than make calls and stream cat videos.
What bluetooth on a phone is good for is putting an external keyboard to the phone so you can rough in reports in the field and streaming music and audio-books to the car stereo when driving.
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Use of a strong oxidizer is commonly used in food processing to kill bacteria. This means bleach, peroxide foam, and a few other chemicals are equally effective. You not only wash down the produce so there is no chance of fecal matter contamination from livestock or from poorly sterilized organic fertilizer but wash down the conveyor belts and packaging machinery so the residue of rotten, rejected, produce doesn't contaminate the good produce.
What I remember of the Commodore was flimsy construction and the need to tack on $1000 worth of after market accessories to make it half as useful as a $499 off the shelf business computer. You could program in BASIC, but not save a program, with the base model. Did you ever try to actually save a computer program to a tape recorder with a 300 baud interface? (Bwahahaha,
Satanic wasn't it?) And play a few 8 bit slow as molasses games on expensive cartridges. But, you needed a few hundred to get a 5-1/4 floppy drive to play the good games. If you wanted to use a computer monitor instead of your television so you had better resolution; you had to by an interface module that cost more than the computer (i.e., a graphics card attached by a ribbon cable to the computer)
Naaa, the C64 was a toy company ripping off parents by making them think they were giving their kids a real computer.
The last time the definition of terrorism was redefined it became so vague as to make very single civil rights spokesman from the 1960s into a terrorist.
We actually need a succinct definition of "terrorist acts" so there is some standard for the term.
Currently, you are a terrorist if you say " is an ignorant putz and should be removed from office, preferably in handcuffs at gunpoint." You become a terrorist for trying to influence a change in government policy by threatening violence.
When cable was first introduced; the common question was "Why pay for what you can get for free off the air?" Cable providers started with an economical way to get a lot of value added programming.
Today you get no value added unless you pay for expensive premium packages which few people actually have a desire for. If it weren't for ESPN cable would probably already be relegated to urban crowded areas where you can't put up a decent antenna.
If a net streaming company gets rights for streaming all the games on ESPN; who needs cable?
No, the right doesn't blame liberals for TV ratings going down. The right blames runaway political correctness for making television programming uninteresting.
4+ TB USB 3 drives are below $150 these days.
That is my solution for lack of bulk storage on the laptop.
And, you can purchase a dongle from the land where they are made at wholesale for a couple of bucks.
https://geek.wish.com/c/596337a5108aab54a9b35d34
On wired headphones; it is odd that the best frequency response comes from a middle of the road line of headphones; Sony Fontopia.
If you are paying over $50 for headphones; you had better be getting active noise filtering in the unit too. How much are you willing to pay for a name and name alone when a $39 Sony unit can outperform Bose and Klipsch units at $200 plus?
Consider also that headphones and headsets are designed to be used with portable players. Most portable players run 128 kbps fidelity, you can't get the advantage of high end headphones. If you have, and can afford, the $500 audiophile MP3 players; more power to you. But to listen to 128 kbps files on my phone; A $69 Fontopia active noise canceling headphone will do.
pc gaming REQUIRES KEYBOARDS IDIOT
this parent post brought to you by the makers of stupid consoles and in association with your favorite 3 letter govt org for CONTROL of the future
just fuck off with retarded crap
You do know you can attach a Xbox controller to the PC and play games without a keyboard, don't you?
Gibson writes like a Monet.
Some prefer Vermeer
No, William Gibson's work that defined what was to become the cyberpunk genre in no way had anything to do with the Hollywood Hack portrayal of a computer image done with Max Headroom. Max Headroom is to Gibson as a 10th grader's cartoon in the back of a binder is to a Freas or Frazetta illustration.
A simple way to opt out of this is to set the Java extension to ask for permission prior to each run.
Doing this for Java and Flash both disables those irritating automatic start videos as well.
Many credit card processors require Business Data Service instead of a dial up link. And it bloody takes less time.
High volume credit card processors such as gas stations and convenience stores can be hit with huge costs for data service in rural areas. We aren't talking about home internet but scanners for credit cards at the cash register.
A lot of low volume processors are opting out of the traditional credit card scanners through a bank's business services in favor of a card scanner attached to a smart phone. The high service fees for card processing through PayPal are cheaper than a one provider market for Business Data Service.
I saw the first one over a decade ago. The doorbell contains an intercom. There is an IP camera focused on the door. And the door has a mag release lock on it.
Ringing the bell calls your cellphone. You can then vet the person and unlock your door remotely.
I like the idea but not $243 dollars worth of like. (Equipment cost, labor to install not included).
Since the script is based on Philip K Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" and not the Nourse tale of "Bladrunner" nothing has been said of how "Bladerunner" came to be associated with the movie.
Did someone have two scripts and was so clueless about scifi they couldn't tell the two stories apart?
So much these days, Hollywood has forgotten the purpose of a movie. The purpose is to tell a decent story in an interesting way. No one gives a flying flip for your fancy cinematography and high dollar special effects if you aren't telling an interesting story with them.
The original Bladerunner was innovative on several levels. Not the least of which was being one of the first full budget treatments of serious science fiction. A reboot will most likely be a sFx movie missing the point of the original by several orders of magnitude. And if Social Justice Jerkism takes over the script; it may very well end up full of tired stereotypes and unwatchable.. like Ghostbusters 2016.
Warming soil releases more CO2 only if you are talking about areas with permafrost thawing and releasing 10,000 plus year old vegetation that now decays.
The higher rate of decay in above freezing forests doesn't increase the carbon footprint but simply accelerates the processing of the natural cycle.
Releasing carbon bound up in the soil during earlier epochs raises the atmospheric carbon loading. Cycling what is already there does not. Basics, basics, basics.
Trump is a real hero. Nothing says "integrity" like raping the planet to line the pockets of coal interests.
Unless it is raping the consumer by taxing the crap out of coal fired plants decades before replacements have time to be built.
A B.S. click bait headline.
Yet, if a coal plant were a nuclear facility; they would be shut down for blowing so much radioactive material out the stack. It doesn't count because it is "natural".
How many are actually ads purchased by Russians and how many are ads purchased by who knows who using a VPN spoofing Russian origination.
Do clueless journalists even know that there is a difference?
Dongles are something attached to your phone by a delicate connector that want to catch on things and break your phone.
You can't use a dongle and charge your phone at the same time.
An unnecessary expense and hassle.
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Bluetooth sucks too as it is a battery hog, inherently low fidelity, and laggy.
And if you apply the annual rate of inflation to the minimum wage in 1970; you would have had a $42 minimum wage in 2000.
The problem with cellular providers is they don't supply what their advertising says they provide. And the cost of cellular is much higher than some other countries for less service.
South Korea had the best cellular service the last time I looked.
Back in the day when Slick 60 was the latest and greatest; the landline was the most reliable thing in the house. Power might go out for a month but the phone kept working.
These days with VOIP and fiber; a landline is the first thing that goes down with inclement weather. And the monthly charge is still 1000% higher than in the 70s with lower overhead.
An enabling clause and an active clause with the enabling clause stating WHY the active clause is necessary doesn't seem to be much wiggle room to me.
And, if you dig into older federal regs, ALL able bodied men between the ages of 18 and 45 are subject to militia duty. That is how forced recruitment was justified during the Civil War. And, that is why one has to register for the draft.
Statistically, you may find that gun ownership increases after a stint in the military where you actually get training on firearms. Yeah, a few hours at the range punching holes in targets at a distance can be fun. Running a tactical fire course is lots of fun.
I've always considered the distance between source and commentary when it comes to news to be inversely proportional to the reliability.
So NYT commenting on a Las Vegas incident has a significant chance of including, as the Bodacious Bombast in office would put it, "Fake News".
Try a network affiliate in Las Vegas for a more rational and timely source of information.
http://www.ktnv.com/
http://news3lv.com/
http://www.fox5vegas.com/
Gad, I need to re-read that bit of self referential entertainment R.A.H. wrote.
Thanks for reminding me of a book from my younger days.
What do you want in a smart phone? Me, I want a PDA that makes phone calls. The camera is totally irrelevant to most of what I do with a phone.
The 4 pin phone jack is NOT optional. That is the hardware interface used for data collection ever since Apple iPhone came out using a non standard hardware interface. Using the 3.5mm jack instead made for a universal hardware interface for sensors.
Also, Bluetooth has lag. If you are watching compressed video, the lag is obvious with the lips moving then the sound arrives to your ears. That may be irrelevant for streaming your favorite anime; but it can bug the crap out of you if you are trying to evaluate a tech problem via live stream and the equipment positioning doesn't follow the verbal description of symptoms.
Ear bud type Bluetooth units have piss poor battery life. If I could find some that took hearing aid batteries; I would feel I could actually rely on them a bit as a poor substitute for a corded comm headset.
NOT having an SD card slot is simple arrogance on the part of the manufacturer. Not everyone lives in a cube farm and has cloud service. An SD card allows for moving files readily between phones when you change phones. This is in lieu of having to spend hours downloading data from the cloud or side loading with a USB cord. (Thunderbolt/C-Connectors are just the latest iteration of USB)
The paltry amount of memory in a phone makes having an SD card to hold certain apps is a bit of a must have for those that do more than make calls and stream cat videos.
What bluetooth on a phone is good for is putting an external keyboard to the phone so you can rough in reports in the field and streaming music and audio-books to the car stereo when driving.