"Biodiesel" is a term used to describe fuel that is similar to diesel in characteristics but is derived from biomass. There is a recipe for homemade biodiesel that uses old fry oil (get it at McD's for free)and various other cheap chemicals. Although one can burn fry oil in your diesel, it's viscosity requires special measures to heat the tank and fuel lines, as well as get the engine started. Biodiesel is thinner and is a straight up replacement, IIRC.
Screw that - I want one that scans bar codes when people pull something out...
Time: 10 years from now
Place: my house
Setting: my daughter's first night w/o adult supervision.
Rriing, rriing. "Hello?"
"This is Dad, how are you doing."
"Fine Dad - Just me and some girlfriends."
"Good. Well have fun, and don't stay up too late. Oh, and by the way, the fridge phoned me and said a few beers had been removed. You wouldn't know anything about that, would you."
"Errrr..."
Rest of the night spent looking for the phone cord/WiFi connection on the fridge. It doesn't exist - Dad was bluffing.
Now if I can only stay ahead of my kids on the geek curve.
I'm in the same boat - geek on a construction jobsite. I set up a Linksys Gigadrive as the "server", and set a policy that everone put there stuff there.
Then I implemented the policy by moving their data directories lock, stock, and barrel from their local drives to the shared drive, and deleted from there local.
Changing the default file directories on MSWord and Excel also does wonders.
A little bit of bitching from the semi computer literate, but after that, no problems. Now I just back up the Gigadrive.
"How many people have problems with a partner who is into gardening? Not many."
Your joking.
Ever meet a rose gardener? Not even a serious one?
Wife buys roses - 30 of them. Wife has bad back, so guess who plants them?
Wife is pregnant when first gets into roses, so guess who sprays them?
Moving house, Wife doesn't want to leave roses behind, guess who digs them up and pots them for moving? (Well, actually that was Dad, but you get the point.)
ANY hobby can be a sore point. That's what the "for worse" in the vows is supposed to cover.
"How are you going to feel if/when all sorts of government scientific data is challenged by creationists?"
Just fine - let them.
This isn't about censorship by narrowly focussed groups (although I'm sure some narrowly focussed groups will utilize it to try and censor).
It's about the ability to stand up and shout "Bullshit - prove it!" when a statement of fact is made. If proof is offered, sit down. If proof is insufficient, others will take up your call. If one is being unreasonable, one will be laughed at. Previously, one wasn't allowed to call data into question w/o court challenge.
"The problem is that the truth is not democratic. Just because some corporate fat cats - or even every member of the US Senate - finds a fact uncomfortable it does not mean it should be deleted or litagated against."
One can infer from your statement that you believe in Truth, with a capital T, and that data that is "True" is sacrosanct.
The problem is that, in science, there is no such thing as "Truth with a capital T." Accepted theories are always subject to change, data is often reinterpreted or discarded as flawed, and scientists occasionally (or more often) take the role of advocate and design their studies to get to a certain "fact" that they want.
Anyone remember the studies that showed how radiation treatment followed by bone marropw transplants was a successful treatment for breast cancer. The insurance companies didn't want to pay for it because it was an experimental treatment, until Congress legislated that they do so, based on the previously mentioned study. Turns out the study data was faked because the researchers just KNEW that the treatment should work , and wanted the insurance companies to pay for it. In reality, the outcomes were worse for some women who underwent the treatment. Is Congress going to give them back the months they lost?
The right to challenge the data the Government uses and produces? Betcherass!
The only thing stopping the AG's and other law enforcement is a lack of imagination, not a lack of laws. If spam is fraud, pursue it as fraud. If someone is violating copyright, go after the individual. How freaking hard is it?
If you are moving to a new location, the PHB's have worked out a deal with your new landlord by which the renovation costs (including network cabling)are covered by the landlord and then amortized through the rent. That way, the costs go on the operating expenses budget and not the capital improvement budget, which both looks better on your balance sheet and is genearally a simpler way to do things.
If you buy all the new WiFi stuff, you have a big hit on your capital budget right up front, and you've purchased equipment that will be obsolete in a short while, which will lead to ANOTHER hit on your capital budget. Copper cables don't wear out, don't break (except for the occasional mis targeted nail), and if you need to lay fiber later, the routing and supports are all there.
It's not nearly as simple as you make it out to be.
The RIAA is upset that large *opolies are forming that will have the economic clout to extort money for the privelege of promoting music.
The RIAA is upset that individuals are bypassing their *opoly and stealing music instead of paying the outrageous profit margins on CD's
The RIAA is upset that artists are protesting the RIAA *opoly control of artists contracts, which allows the RIAA members to,with few excetions, effectively own everything an artist does.
The RIAA is upset that there are technological means by which people can excercise fair use rights and make copies of music for which no royalty has been paid.
20 gig & 40 gig. Single board computer with Red Hat on the HD, an ethernet port, and a printer port. We use one as a fileserver on a small LAN on a construction site.
It doesn't seem to be listed on there site a s a current product, though.
There's a road in the northwest that was closed because it was effecively on fire. The state specified ground-up tires be used in the fill under the road in an eco-friendly gesture. Groundwater started the steel belts in the fill rusting, the heat started the rubber burning, and now smoke is coming out of the ground.
Sorry - Wil Wheaton I'll buy, since there is ample backup to show that he most probably is interested in Slashdot.
Elton John? Nope, just can't buy it.
Wasn't "The Gripping Hand" by Niven and Pournelle on the best seller list when it came out?
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"Given the volatility of Sodium and similar elements, they're unlikely to be there unless he has some secure containers for them."
I worked for a guy that used to keep sticks of metallic sodium in a 5 gallon bucket filled with kerosene. Whenever the grounhogs on his property started getting uppity, he'd pull out a couple of sticks, stuff them down the hole, and stand 20' away and hit it with the garden hose. After a satisfying explosion (and resultant crater), the grounhogs laid low for a while.
Judge Jackson may have been so personally pissed at MS he did something legally questionable, but now MS is showing their stripes to an "impartial" judge. I don't think Judge CKK is going to be the pushover they hoped.
Movie: 52 Pickup, starring Roy Schieder & Ann Margret.
He is a businessman getting blackmailed for an affair, and later murder, of a porn starlet. Lot's of cameos by mid-80's porn stars.
His business: titanium fabrication via explosive forming - lay a sheet of Ti over a form and then explosives over that. Kaboom, and a complex shape is formed with little to no machining. And the climax of the movie involves the specifics of his business as well.
What incentive? Well, as a Gov't employee you won't show up to work one day to locked doors and a note on the wall that says "Want tour last paycheck? Dial 1-800-EAT-SHIT."
Ref. the first post: Hari Seldon's (OK, Isaac Asimov's) theory of Psychohistory has as it's base theorem that the behavior of individual humans is unpredictable, but the behavior of large groups of humans is predictable to within statistical limits. And if you think he's wrong, ask about marketing profiles and even Amazon's recommendations system.
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Have you watched "Real Genius" one too many times?
Actually, abusiveness aside, SBC IS a monopoly in their geographic areas. Reason: the ATT breakup mandated it so, and the FCC has kept it going. Do the Feds let the Bells abuse their position? Hell yess, but that's politics. MS's monopoly is illegal as per the same Federal Court that made the BB's legal.
Actually, public utilities is where the "MS Tax" truly shines. Utilities must account for their costs in order to justify rate increases. Software licensing fees are a part of that. So MS's licensing fees are passed directly to the local telephone subscriber, plus SBC's "reasonable profit".
How can MS boast that they have reviewed their entire code base in 2 months yet claim that releasing the Windows code for review would be futile because the code is just too complex to understand without years of study?
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"That said, both linux and Win2k are set to completely consume the server markets. Solaris, AIX and True64 simply won't be in use in ten years"
DOD is going to chuck ASCI White within 10 years?(runs AIX per previous article) Don't think so.
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Or you could have used Google.
Searched English pages for biodiesel. Results 1 - 10 of about 37,400. Search took 0.28 seconds.
"Biodiesel" is a term used to describe fuel that is similar to diesel in characteristics but is derived from biomass. There is a recipe for homemade biodiesel that uses old fry oil (get it at McD's for free)and various other cheap chemicals. Although one can burn fry oil in your diesel, it's viscosity requires special measures to heat the tank and fuel lines, as well as get the engine started. Biodiesel is thinner and is a straight up replacement, IIRC.
Screw that - I want one that scans bar codes when people pull something out...
Time: 10 years from now
Place: my house
Setting: my daughter's first night w/o adult supervision.
Rriing, rriing. "Hello?"
"This is Dad, how are you doing."
"Fine Dad - Just me and some girlfriends."
"Good. Well have fun, and don't stay up too late. Oh, and by the way, the fridge phoned me and said a few beers had been removed. You wouldn't know anything about that, would you."
"Errrr..."
Rest of the night spent looking for the phone cord/WiFi connection on the fridge. It doesn't exist - Dad was bluffing.
Now if I can only stay ahead of my kids on the geek curve.
"Software on a construction jobsite? Just curious, what software do you use out there besides Office?"
Let's see:
Primavera P3 Scheduler or SureTrak Scheduler
Prolog, a construction management software
AS/400 Remote Access
VoloView (views AutoCad drawings)
Palm software
Email & Browser
UPS (that delivers packages) software
Custom contact manager/project data application
Then there's the personal/bootleg stuff, which of course NEVER gets installed because IT would be annoyed...
I'm in the same boat - geek on a construction jobsite. I set up a Linksys Gigadrive as the "server", and set a policy that everone put there stuff there.
Then I implemented the policy by moving their data directories lock, stock, and barrel from their local drives to the shared drive, and deleted from there local.
Changing the default file directories on MSWord and Excel also does wonders.
A little bit of bitching from the semi computer literate, but after that, no problems. Now I just back up the Gigadrive.
"How many people have problems with a partner who is into gardening? Not many."
Your joking.
Ever meet a rose gardener? Not even a serious one?
Wife buys roses - 30 of them. Wife has bad back, so guess who plants them?
Wife is pregnant when first gets into roses, so guess who sprays them?
Moving house, Wife doesn't want to leave roses behind, guess who digs them up and pots them for moving? (Well, actually that was Dad, but you get the point.)
ANY hobby can be a sore point. That's what the "for worse" in the vows is supposed to cover.
"How are you going to feel if/when all sorts of government scientific data is challenged by creationists?"
Just fine - let them.
This isn't about censorship by narrowly focussed groups (although I'm sure some narrowly focussed groups will utilize it to try and censor).
It's about the ability to stand up and shout "Bullshit - prove it!" when a statement of fact is made. If proof is offered, sit down. If proof is insufficient, others will take up your call. If one is being unreasonable, one will be laughed at. Previously, one wasn't allowed to call data into question w/o court challenge.
"The problem is that the truth is not democratic. Just because some corporate fat cats - or even every member of the US Senate - finds a fact uncomfortable it does not mean it should be deleted or litagated against."
One can infer from your statement that you believe in Truth, with a capital T, and that data that is "True" is sacrosanct.
The problem is that, in science, there is no such thing as "Truth with a capital T." Accepted theories are always subject to change, data is often reinterpreted or discarded as flawed, and scientists occasionally (or more often) take the role of advocate and design their studies to get to a certain "fact" that they want.
Anyone remember the studies that showed how radiation treatment followed by bone marropw transplants was a successful treatment for breast cancer. The insurance companies didn't want to pay for it because it was an experimental treatment, until Congress legislated that they do so, based on the previously mentioned study. Turns out the study data was faked because the researchers just KNEW that the treatment should work , and wanted the insurance companies to pay for it. In reality, the outcomes were worse for some women who underwent the treatment. Is Congress going to give them back the months they lost?
The right to challenge the data the Government uses and produces? Betcherass!
The only thing stopping the AG's and other law enforcement is a lack of imagination, not a lack of laws. If spam is fraud, pursue it as fraud. If someone is violating copyright, go after the individual. How freaking hard is it?
If you are moving to a new location, the PHB's have worked out a deal with your new landlord by which the renovation costs (including network cabling)are covered by the landlord and then amortized through the rent. That way, the costs go on the operating expenses budget and not the capital improvement budget, which both looks better on your balance sheet and is genearally a simpler way to do things.
If you buy all the new WiFi stuff, you have a big hit on your capital budget right up front, and you've purchased equipment that will be obsolete in a short while, which will lead to ANOTHER hit on your capital budget. Copper cables don't wear out, don't break (except for the occasional mis targeted nail), and if you need to lay fiber later, the routing and supports are all there.
It's not nearly as simple as you make it out to be.
The RIAA is upset that large *opolies are forming that will have the economic clout to extort money for the privelege of promoting music.
,with few excetions, effectively own everything an artist does.
The RIAA is upset that individuals are bypassing their *opoly and stealing music instead of paying the outrageous profit margins on CD's
The RIAA is upset that artists are protesting the RIAA *opoly control of artists contracts, which allows the RIAA members to
The RIAA is upset that there are technological means by which people can excercise fair use rights and make copies of music for which no royalty has been paid.
When I was a kid, we'd call such a crybaby.
20 gig & 40 gig. Single board computer with Red Hat on the HD, an ethernet port, and a printer port. We use one as a fileserver on a small LAN on a construction site.
It doesn't seem to be listed on there site a s a current product, though.
Here ya go smartass: http://www.metrokc.gov/procure/green/rubber.htm
There's a road in the northwest that was closed because it was effecively on fire. The state specified ground-up tires be used in the fill under the road in an eco-friendly gesture. Groundwater started the steel belts in the fill rusting, the heat started the rubber burning, and now smoke is coming out of the ground.
Sorry - Wil Wheaton I'll buy, since there is ample backup to show that he most probably is interested in Slashdot. Elton John? Nope, just can't buy it.
Wasn't "The Gripping Hand" by Niven and Pournelle on the best seller list when it came out?
"Given the volatility of Sodium and similar elements, they're unlikely to be there unless he has some secure containers for them."
I worked for a guy that used to keep sticks of metallic sodium in a 5 gallon bucket filled with kerosene. Whenever the grounhogs on his property started getting uppity, he'd pull out a couple of sticks, stuff them down the hole, and stand 20' away and hit it with the garden hose. After a satisfying explosion (and resultant crater), the grounhogs laid low for a while.
Judge Jackson may have been so personally pissed at MS he did something legally questionable, but now MS is showing their stripes to an "impartial" judge. I don't think Judge CKK is going to be the pushover they hoped.
Movie: 52 Pickup, starring Roy Schieder & Ann Margret.
He is a businessman getting blackmailed for an affair, and later murder, of a porn starlet. Lot's of cameos by mid-80's porn stars.
His business: titanium fabrication via explosive forming - lay a sheet of Ti over a form and then explosives over that. Kaboom, and a complex shape is formed with little to no machining. And the climax of the movie involves the specifics of his business as well.
Sexiest metal indeed.
What incentive? Well, as a Gov't employee you won't show up to work one day to locked doors and a note on the wall that says "Want tour last paycheck? Dial 1-800-EAT-SHIT."
Ref. the first post: Hari Seldon's (OK, Isaac Asimov's) theory of Psychohistory has as it's base theorem that the behavior of individual humans is unpredictable, but the behavior of large groups of humans is predictable to within statistical limits. And if you think he's wrong, ask about marketing profiles and even Amazon's recommendations system.
Have you watched "Real Genius" one too many times?
Actually, abusiveness aside, SBC IS a monopoly in their geographic areas. Reason: the ATT breakup mandated it so, and the FCC has kept it going. Do the Feds let the Bells abuse their position? Hell yess, but that's politics. MS's monopoly is illegal as per the same Federal Court that made the BB's legal. Actually, public utilities is where the "MS Tax" truly shines. Utilities must account for their costs in order to justify rate increases. Software licensing fees are a part of that. So MS's licensing fees are passed directly to the local telephone subscriber, plus SBC's "reasonable profit".
How can MS boast that they have reviewed their entire code base in 2 months yet claim that releasing the Windows code for review would be futile because the code is just too complex to understand without years of study?
"That said, both linux and Win2k are set to completely consume the server markets. Solaris, AIX and True64 simply won't be in use in ten years"
DOD is going to chuck ASCI White within 10 years?(runs AIX per previous article) Don't think so.