It is presumed that the coded is gone. As in tossed in the trash, right. So do it. Here. 33N 38' 8" by 117W 56' 28" in back, on friday 8th of August at 11:00 pm. in a brown paper bag...
Now you have tossed it in the trash. I'll come pick it up and do a back alley GPLing... All for only a pack of Camels and a Mt. Dew.
Contact me for details.
From the energizer web site battery AA e91
Capacity 2850 mAh tested at 25 mA drain to 0.8V... Not bad but alkaline batts have a funny discharge curve... not very flat... but generally good performance. shelf life of 7 yrs approx
NiMH AA energizer nh15
Capacity 1850 mAh tested at 370mA drain to 1V. NiMH calls have a fairly flat discharge rate making them compairable to alkaline in spite of capacity differences. est 500 recharge cycles and charged shelf life of 120 days or so. note: this measure is varying a lot on different web sites. no real consensus. your milage will vary.
Nicd AA Sanyo KR-1100AAU
Capacity 1100 (high capacity). Nicd cells have a flat-ish discharge curve and the ability to support *very* hi discharge currents. Anyone that has messed with R/C cars can attest to this. est recharge cycles 300 est. charge cycles. Shelf life. Who knows... similar to NiMH I think. Toxic.
OK it depends on your use. The remote control for your TV? Use the super cheap Zinc-Carbon. Ya know the eveready cheap-o's.
If you are using these for medium-high drain devices like flashlight, Portable margarita blender, what have you. Use NiMH cells. For *very high* discharge rates (>2C) NiCad still rocks!
I personally recommend Sanyo cells. capacities are good and they can take an astonishing amount of abuse and still work. Big two thumbs up...
Charger. Make sure that the charger you get can deal with the differences between NiMH and NiCad for quick charging and the abaility to do "stand by" or "trickle" charging as well.
I read somewhere that the RIAA has a toll free number set up to report piracy and/or get info on the whole subpoena/suit thing. As well as info on the RIAA's stand on related issues or to voice your thoughts and opions. I agree with the thread that the burden of proof should be on them to prove wrong doing, but knowing that people are not going to do it (en mass) they will just settle out of court rather than forcing the issue to court
Take a look at this report then think about the alternitives.
Use DU and leave DUoxide all over the place or have an crack pot dictators armored collumn rolling down the street.
What is more likely to be hazardous to ones health?
Also the whole duck and cover thing IS A good idea. Most of the deaths and near 100% of injuries are from blast/shrapnel. The only way you are going to have to worry about radation is if you are ground zero (in which case you are dead faster than you can think it) or the weapon was a ground burst (fallout)
You see there are roughly 2 ways a nuke is used...
1. Air burst. This is used for destroying a large area/ soft target. the weapon is detonated high up... I have the numbers for 1 MT of 17,500 ft. At this altitude there is effectivly 0 fallout. You will get a flash exposure of gamma, Xray and thermal over a limited radius, about 7 mi for 1MT thermal radius, and if you can protect your self from the thermal the others are generally survivable. Duck and cover. next is blast, this is the workhorse for nukes. 25 Mt air burst follow...
12 PSI 6.5 Mi radius: Area is a glass ash tray 90% dead 10% wishing
5 PSI 10.7 Mi radius: Heavy damage to all structures 50% dead 40% injured
2 PSI 20 Mi radius: moderate damage to structures 5% dead 45% injured.
1 PSI 30.4 Mi radius: light damage 0 dead 25% injured
now if you do the math to calculate the surface area there are more people in the rings further out that in the ash tray zones on the inside, thus debris/shrapnel is the biggest killer and duck and cover is VERY good advice
2. Surface Burst. Used for taking out bunkers/silos/millitary stuff. Gererally away from population centers. This use has fallout. The blast radius is much smaller as the earth is absorbing a lot of the energy.
Info from google and here
Now that the whole thing is slashdotted to hell's servers, I noticed the hosting companies domain name...
Mercy hosting... hahahahha. Wonder if they have had this happen before...
Uranium facts
on
United Nuclear
·
· Score: 4, Informative
World Heath Org has a little fact sheet about DU (close enough to uranium ore for a/. posting I think. After DU is refined to contain almost nothing but uranium and these rocks are mostly rocks with a little uranium.)
Some highlights
Of the uranium that is absorbed into the blood, approximately 70% will be filtered by the kidney and excreted in the urine within 24 hours; this amount increases to 90% within a few days.
In a number of studies on uranium miners, an increased risk of lung cancer was demonstrated, but this has been attributed to exposure from radon decay products. Lung tissue damage is possible leading to a risk of lung cancer that increases with increasing radiation dose. However, because DU is only weakly radioactive, very large amounts of dust (on the order of grams) would have to be inhaled for the additional risk of lung cancer to be detectable in an exposed group. Risks for other radiation-induced cancers, including leukaemia, are considered to be very much lower than for lung cancer.
Due to its high density, about twice that of lead, the main civilian uses of DU include counterweights in aircraft, radiation shields in medical radiation therapy machines and containers for the transport of radioactive materials. The military uses DU for defensive armour plate.
Erythema (superficial inflammation of the skin) or other effects on the skin are unlikely to occur even if DU is held against the skin for long periods (weeks).
I have a nice little family, can pay my bills, and get paid doing what I like to do -- what more could I possibly want from life? I don't have to be a millionaire. To me it's more about what remains when you die
Well said! *tipping hat*
For the love of Vinton Cerf, NoooOOOOooooo (Said in a... I just found out Vader was my daddy voice)
In this day and age, with all natural shampoo with chemicals I can't pronounce, there was always this refuge. My sanctuary now defiled.
Damn them! Damn them to sleep.
is anyone actually surprised?
Nope. Not at all. But you don't have to play there game, (well you do still kinda, but you can at least play it on better terms) with OpenNIC. (Yes i'm plugging OpenNIC again so mod me down) Kinda like an Open Source ICANN replacment. It's not a seamless replacment and you have to use their DNS (naturally) but it does work.
You can use one of their TLD's like .geek .glue .indy .null .oss .parody
Or start your own (OK that is work, but at least it can be done.) and everything is done in a democratic and open fassion.
set your DNS to... 66.227.42.140 and click here to see what is there.
Remember the more people that use the system the better it gets.
And yet your personal/. link is a.net - so nifty you're trying to talk local governments into adopting it, not nifty enough to use yourself. What to make of this, I don't know.
A valid question, with a valid answer...
1. Starting your own TLD isn't quite like a domain. It is a significant commitment to that TLD and all the domains that might register in it. That is more work than I wanted to do for the sake of ego. In addition there is a ratifacation process before you can reg the TLD (to ensure it will be put to good use of name space and prevent TLD squatting)
2. I have thought of reg'ing a domain in the.geek TLD... responsibilities for that are much less. (I would only have th be responsible for the hosts and running the authoritive DNS for that)
3. An entity like the City of Long Beach would have the resources and use for a full TLD, coupled to the fact that they are trying to attract tech business away from neighboring SoCal cities it would be a good choice for them (at least I think so) and it would be a big boost for OpenNIC as well.
Mabey it would be good. Mabey not. There may be technical considerations I am not aware of or other things (non-technical) as well. It was a suggestion.
Note: My earlier reference to the mayor O'Neil being not-so-bright was not based on this matter. Rather on several other interactions I have had with her. Including her reference to the city of Long Beach as being land locked. We have (I think) the second busiest port in california and a request for suggestions to help with the cities budget problems, to which I suggested GNU/Linux, OpenOffice etc, that fell on deaf ears. As well a few financial mini-scandals involving a retirement funds and street lights.
At last we have the fact that supporting OpenNIC is going to irratate ICANN. I don't like tyrants, I thinking that ICANN is looking more and more like that.
Just a quickie to plug OpenNIC. It's nifty, like www.yournamehere.geek. Or even create your own TLD altogeather. Someone should tell LA about this. I already emailed the mayor of Long Beach (just south of LA) but she is an idiot. Talked to her a few times, then helped another canidate with his campagne aginster her. I'm just getting off topic hre aren't I. The point being I am having a tough time getting any local govt to listen to reason to open source/alternate IT/anything not sole by a big name crop.
I'll bet this stuff would be bitchen for a fiberglass type substance. I had read somewhere that they have already tried it but ran into problems with "clumping" of the microscopic nanotubes. But now they are macroscopic, so problem solved. And at the rate they are creating the macroscopic fiber it would seem that they could quickly replace existing carbon/graphite composite materials.
Damn, this is going to really change the aircraft industry. Not to mention golf and tennis.
I have only had 1 major glitch in a PowerPoint file being read in OpenOffice 1.0.1. All other files I have read in OpenOffice made from MS Office (mostly.DOC files but excel too) have rendered to such a degree that I could not see any difference. Not to say that there wasn't an error, I just could not see it, which ought to be good enough. All of these have been the Win32 build on Win2k sp3
The error that I did see was in 1.0.1 I think but after that in 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 everything is working great. In my experence
Disclaimer: your milage my vary, see store manager for details, batteries not included, some assembly required, not for small children or big babies, offer not valid where prohibited, MS zelots need not apply
Here is an idea for re-use... I have noticed flipping channels in the LA area that 80-90% of the uhf band are unused... so why not consolidate. Move stations on the upper band down in frequency and take the upper 2/3 of the UHF TV spectrum and use it for DSSS IP access (think 802.16 tweaked) this should leave enough room for UHF TV broadcasters as some come and go and allow a HELLOFA lot more room for IP.
-OR
Loose all of the TV spectrum and require Cable providers to give a "basic" or "public intrest" type of access for free providing a similar type of service
I only say this because I hate seeing waste (this explains all my scrap machines rescued from the trash laying around running distributed computing software) and I see a BIG swath of spectrum going 80-90% unused
Now think about this... with the tiny slice given to 802.11 and the big impact it has made, think what could be done with the UHF TV spectrum...
now if they'd only bought the firewall solution from us that stripped email attatchments based on mime type and/or file extension
I have had it up to here (pointing to head) with all this BS with email worms/virii and the media. They are not email worms, they are Outlook worms. I could sell someone an attachment stripping solution but that is irritating. For every bug it strips out it will strip out a legitmite file as well.
I just don't know what to do with people... Every time one of these god damn things coms out, my phone starts ringing off the damn hook, hell I can't even get a straight 8 hrs sleep... (one dis-advantage of home office) and every time I tell people the same damn thing. Outlook is a worm/virus magnet. Don't use it. There are many others. Bad people target Outlook for a reason, don't give them the oprunity to hit you. Its that simple. And always check attachments before running them regardless of what email client you are useing or who it came from. But they just don't listen. Do they think I am full of BullSchnitt or is being used to infection and calling me easier than learning a new mail client.
Does anyone have an idea of why end users use the software they use in the face of all the reasons/reccomendatios not to?
Came with machne so it must be good?
Everyone else uses it?
What?!?!
On The Other Hand..... I wil be making lots of cash in the next week... so mabey I should not be complaining:)
For every person that finds the silver lining of that cloud, there are 100 that just died from lightning
In a press release...
Microsoft Corp announced today its DirectX 12 MilSpec API renamed DirectWarfare including the new
DirectFCS (fire control system) and ActiveWarhead seamlessly integrated in the new Microsoft LookOut Below communications software.
I am wondering if having everyone and everything automated and wirelessly networked is a hot idea. A technologically adept adversary could take advantage of this fact and, say, feed false info into the system, or order an air strike, remote acivation of the automatic tourniquit(sp?) system, what have you. Even if they didn't hack the system a captured unit might be just as good.
Oops looks like someone forgot to do NASA approved public relations unit conversion. So let me take a stab at it...
Mars Mass =~ 6.4185E21 VWB's (VolksWagen Bugs)
Orbital Distance (near) 5.9602E9 FbF's (Football Feilds)
Orbital Distance (far) 43.887E9 FbF's
Data Collection* =~ 127E-3 LoC's (Library's of Congress)
Enjoy the bliss of understanding with "real world" reference units That lame scientific crap can be found here
Slashdot Mirror
All further 1, 2, n, n+1 Profit jokes are now obsolete.
Not quite...
4. Sell next version w/fix and new holes
5. Profit (Again)
6. Repeat as needed.
This post is an attempt at humor. If you are lacking in humor and have mod points please see parent post.
Yeah, (snicker) I know.... (hehehe) It is sooo hard (hahaha) to keep it (chortle) IN!
MUHAHAHAHAHOHOHEHEHEHE
How do ya like, all ya damn east-coasters. And for our encore, we are going to export earthquakes too!
Found this
And this containing contact info (may be out of date)
If Amazon still sells this then someone is connected to the money and that means trouble... So forget droping it in the trash and I don't know you...
yeah, I just checked the link and I'm intrested. Just need to find a place...
It is presumed that the coded is gone. As in tossed in the trash, right. So do it.
Here. 33N 38' 8" by 117W 56' 28" in back, on friday 8th of August at 11:00 pm. in a brown paper bag...
Now you have tossed it in the trash. I'll come pick it up and do a back alley GPLing... All for only a pack of Camels and a Mt. Dew.
Contact me for details.
let take a look at some numbers...
From the energizer web site battery AA e91
Capacity 2850 mAh tested at 25 mA drain to 0.8V... Not bad but alkaline batts have a funny discharge curve... not very flat... but generally good performance. shelf life of 7 yrs approx
NiMH AA energizer nh15
Capacity 1850 mAh tested at 370mA drain to 1V. NiMH calls have a fairly flat discharge rate making them compairable to alkaline in spite of capacity differences. est 500 recharge cycles and charged shelf life of 120 days or so. note: this measure is varying a lot on different web sites. no real consensus. your milage will vary.
Nicd AA Sanyo KR-1100AAU
Capacity 1100 (high capacity). Nicd cells have a flat-ish discharge curve and the ability to support *very* hi discharge currents. Anyone that has messed with R/C cars can attest to this. est recharge cycles 300 est. charge cycles. Shelf life. Who knows... similar to NiMH I think. Toxic.
OK it depends on your use. The remote control for your TV? Use the super cheap Zinc-Carbon. Ya know the eveready cheap-o's.
If you are using these for medium-high drain devices like flashlight, Portable margarita blender, what have you. Use NiMH cells. For *very high* discharge rates (>2C) NiCad still rocks!
I personally recommend Sanyo cells. capacities are good and they can take an astonishing amount of abuse and still work. Big two thumbs up...
Charger. Make sure that the charger you get can deal with the differences between NiMH and NiCad for quick charging and the abaility to do "stand by" or "trickle" charging as well.
pls mod up parent.
I'm posting this on in the company john.
Right, wrong, irrelevent. What is, is.
I read somewhere that the RIAA has a toll free number set up to report piracy and/or get info on the whole subpoena/suit thing. As well as info on the RIAA's stand on related issues or to voice your thoughts and opions.
I agree with the thread that the burden of proof should be on them to prove wrong doing, but knowing that people are not going to do it (en mass) they will just settle out of court rather than forcing the issue to court
here is the number
1 800 223-2328
1 800 bad-beat
Take a look at this report then think about the alternitives.
Use DU and leave DUoxide all over the place or have an crack pot dictators armored collumn rolling down the street.
What is more likely to be hazardous to ones health?
Also the whole duck and cover thing IS A good idea. Most of the deaths and near 100% of injuries are from blast/shrapnel. The only way you are going to have to worry about radation is if you are ground zero (in which case you are dead faster than you can think it) or the weapon was a ground burst (fallout)
You see there are roughly 2 ways a nuke is used...
1. Air burst. This is used for destroying a large area/ soft target. the weapon is detonated high up... I have the numbers for 1 MT of 17,500 ft. At this altitude there is effectivly 0 fallout. You will get a flash exposure of gamma, Xray and thermal over a limited radius, about 7 mi for 1MT thermal radius, and if you can protect your self from the thermal the others are generally survivable. Duck and cover. next is blast, this is the workhorse for nukes.
25 Mt air burst follow...
12 PSI 6.5 Mi radius: Area is a glass ash tray 90% dead 10% wishing
5 PSI 10.7 Mi radius: Heavy damage to all structures 50% dead 40% injured
2 PSI 20 Mi radius: moderate damage to structures 5% dead 45% injured.
1 PSI 30.4 Mi radius: light damage 0 dead 25% injured
now if you do the math to calculate the surface area there are more people in the rings further out that in the ash tray zones on the inside, thus debris/shrapnel is the biggest killer and duck and cover is VERY good advice
2. Surface Burst. Used for taking out bunkers/silos/millitary stuff. Gererally away from population centers. This use has fallout. The blast radius is much smaller as the earth is absorbing a lot of the energy.
Info from google and here
Now that the whole thing is slashdotted to hell's servers, I noticed the hosting companies domain name...
Mercy hosting... hahahahha. Wonder if they have had this happen before...
World Heath Org has a little fact sheet about DU (close enough to uranium ore for a /. posting I think. After DU is refined to contain almost nothing but uranium and these rocks are mostly rocks with a little uranium.)
Some highlights
Of the uranium that is absorbed into the blood, approximately 70% will be filtered by the kidney and excreted in the urine within 24 hours; this amount increases to 90% within a few days.
In a number of studies on uranium miners, an increased risk of lung cancer was demonstrated, but this has been attributed to exposure from radon decay products. Lung tissue damage is possible leading to a risk of lung cancer that increases with increasing radiation dose. However, because DU is only weakly radioactive, very large amounts of dust (on the order of grams) would have to be inhaled for the additional risk of lung cancer to be detectable in an exposed group. Risks for other radiation-induced cancers, including leukaemia, are considered to be very much lower than for lung cancer.
Due to its high density, about twice that of lead, the main civilian uses of DU include counterweights in aircraft, radiation shields in medical radiation therapy machines and containers for the transport of radioactive materials. The military uses DU for defensive armour plate.
Erythema (superficial inflammation of the skin) or other effects on the skin are unlikely to occur even if DU is held against the skin for long periods (weeks).
I have a nice little family, can pay my bills, and get paid doing what I like to do -- what more could I possibly want from life? I don't have to be a millionaire. To me it's more about what remains when you die Well said! *tipping hat*
For the love of Vinton Cerf, NoooOOOOooooo (Said in a... I just found out Vader was my daddy voice)
In this day and age, with all natural shampoo with chemicals I can't pronounce, there was always this refuge.
My sanctuary now defiled.
Damn them! Damn them to sleep.
is anyone actually surprised? Nope. Not at all. But you don't have to play there game, (well you do still kinda, but you can at least play it on better terms) with OpenNIC. (Yes i'm plugging OpenNIC again so mod me down) Kinda like an Open Source ICANN replacment. It's not a seamless replacment and you have to use their DNS (naturally) but it does work.
.geek
.glue
.indy
.null
.oss
.parody
You can use one of their TLD's like
Or start your own (OK that is work, but at least it can be done.) and everything is done in a democratic and open fassion.
set your DNS to... 66.227.42.140 and click here to see what is there.
Remember the more people that use the system the better it gets.
And yet your personal /. link is a .net - so nifty you're trying to talk local governments into adopting it, not nifty enough to use yourself. What to make of this, I don't know.
.geek TLD... responsibilities for that are much less. (I would only have th be responsible for the hosts and running the authoritive DNS for that)
3. An entity like the City of Long Beach would have the resources and use for a full TLD, coupled to the fact that they are trying to attract tech business away from neighboring SoCal cities it would be a good choice for them (at least I think so) and it would be a big boost for OpenNIC as well.
A valid question, with a valid answer...
1. Starting your own TLD isn't quite like a domain. It is a significant commitment to that TLD and all the domains that might register in it. That is more work than I wanted to do for the sake of ego. In addition there is a ratifacation process before you can reg the TLD (to ensure it will be put to good use of name space and prevent TLD squatting)
2. I have thought of reg'ing a domain in the
Mabey it would be good. Mabey not. There may be technical considerations I am not aware of or other things (non-technical) as well. It was a suggestion.
Note: My earlier reference to the mayor O'Neil being not-so-bright was not based on this matter. Rather on several other interactions I have had with her. Including her reference to the city of Long Beach as being land locked. We have (I think) the second busiest port in california and a request for suggestions to help with the cities budget problems, to which I suggested GNU/Linux, OpenOffice etc, that fell on deaf ears. As well a few financial mini-scandals involving a retirement funds and street lights.
At last we have the fact that supporting OpenNIC is going to irratate ICANN. I don't like tyrants, I thinking that ICANN is looking more and more like that.
Just a quickie to plug OpenNIC. It's nifty, like www.yournamehere.geek. Or even create your own TLD altogeather. Someone should tell LA about this. I already emailed the mayor of Long Beach (just south of LA) but she is an idiot. Talked to her a few times, then helped another canidate with his campagne aginster her. I'm just getting off topic hre aren't I. The point being I am having a tough time getting any local govt to listen to reason to open source/alternate IT/anything not sole by a big name crop.
Drives me insane. Sorry for the rant.
I'll bet this stuff would be bitchen for a fiberglass type substance. I had read somewhere that they have already tried it but ran into problems with "clumping" of the microscopic nanotubes. But now they are macroscopic, so problem solved. And at the rate they are creating the macroscopic fiber it would seem that they could quickly replace existing carbon/graphite composite materials.
Damn, this is going to really change the aircraft industry. Not to mention golf and tennis.
I have only had 1 major glitch in a PowerPoint file being read in OpenOffice 1.0.1. All other files I have read in OpenOffice made from MS Office (mostly .DOC files but excel too) have rendered to such a degree that I could not see any difference. Not to say that there wasn't an error, I just could not see it, which ought to be good enough.
All of these have been the Win32 build on Win2k sp3
The error that I did see was in 1.0.1 I think but after that in 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 everything is working great. In my experence
Disclaimer: your milage my vary, see store manager for details, batteries not included, some assembly required, not for small children or big babies, offer not valid where prohibited, MS zelots need not apply
Yeah, I can see your point on that one. Scratch it off the list. That still leaves the other proposal...
Here is an idea for re-use... I have noticed flipping channels in the LA area that 80-90% of the uhf band are unused... so why not consolidate. Move stations on the upper band down in frequency and take the upper 2/3 of the UHF TV spectrum and use it for DSSS IP access (think 802.16 tweaked) this should leave enough room for UHF TV broadcasters as some come and go and allow a HELLOFA lot more room for IP.
-OR
Loose all of the TV spectrum and require Cable providers to give a "basic" or "public intrest" type of access for free providing a similar type of service
I only say this because I hate seeing waste (this explains all my scrap machines rescued from the trash laying around running distributed computing software) and I see a BIG swath of spectrum going 80-90% unused
Now think about this... with the tiny slice given to 802.11 and the big impact it has made, think what could be done with the UHF TV spectrum...
Note: Not a flame to parent post...
:)
now if they'd only bought the firewall solution from us that stripped email attatchments based on mime type and/or file extension
I have had it up to here (pointing to head) with all this BS with email worms/virii and the media. They are not email worms, they are Outlook worms. I could sell someone an attachment stripping solution but that is irritating. For every bug it strips out it will strip out a legitmite file as well.
I just don't know what to do with people... Every time one of these god damn things coms out, my phone starts ringing off the damn hook, hell I can't even get a straight 8 hrs sleep... (one dis-advantage of home office) and every time I tell people the same damn thing. Outlook is a worm/virus magnet. Don't use it. There are many others. Bad people target Outlook for a reason, don't give them the oprunity to hit you. Its that simple. And always check attachments before running them regardless of what email client you are useing or who it came from. But they just don't listen. Do they think I am full of BullSchnitt or is being used to infection and calling me easier than learning a new mail client.
Does anyone have an idea of why end users use the software they use in the face of all the reasons/reccomendatios not to?
Came with machne so it must be good?
Everyone else uses it?
What?!?!
On The Other Hand..... I wil be making lots of cash in the next week... so mabey I should not be complaining
For every person that finds the silver lining of that cloud, there are 100 that just died from lightning
In a press release... Microsoft Corp announced today its DirectX 12 MilSpec API renamed DirectWarfare including the new
DirectFCS (fire control system) and
ActiveWarhead
seamlessly integrated in the new Microsoft LookOut Below communications software.
Where do you want the bombs to fall today
I am wondering if having everyone and everything automated and wirelessly networked is a hot idea. A technologically adept adversary could take advantage of this fact and, say, feed false info into the system, or order an air strike, remote acivation of the automatic tourniquit(sp?) system, what have you. Even if they didn't hack the system a captured unit might be just as good.
Oops looks like someone forgot to do NASA approved public relations unit conversion. So let me take a stab at it...
Mars Mass =~ 6.4185E21 VWB's (VolksWagen Bugs)
Orbital Distance (near) 5.9602E9 FbF's (Football Feilds)
Orbital Distance (far) 43.887E9 FbF's
Data Collection* =~ 127E-3 LoC's (Library's of Congress)
Enjoy the bliss of understanding with "real world" reference units
That lame scientific crap can be found here
* denotes a number pulled out of my ass
Yeah, but is that all it does? It was rather a big box for such a simple function I would think.