Yeah, they're extremely comfortable to write with. Though I find the ballpoint kind (which use the pressurized "space pen" cartridges) tend to clog and need to be "tested" on a piece of scrap paper before writing. There are plenty of different types of cartridges, but they can only be used in the specific model.
Yeah, I think that would've been a better reason - better than the "using human brainpower", too, as there'd be a reason to simulate a world for them.
This reminds me of a very old short story... I can't remember the title or author, but it's about these intelligent robots that arrive at a planet and put the main character (an android salesman) out of business by giving away much superior ones. Eventually everyone has one of these robots and they become increasingly "protective" of people, eventually preventing them from doing anything at all. Ah, I remembered the title: With Folded Hands - "The title refers to the only thing left for humanity to do: sit with folded hands as the robots take care of all their troubles." Creating a virtual world, where humans could be happy but not be in any physical danger, would be a logical extension of this.
Very true. I've always had to pay taxes on internet purchases in Canada, and that's never stopped me. (Duty on stuff from the US is just nasty, though.) I buy things online that I can't find locally - mainly tons of anime, and computerstuff.
Yeah, though the screen on the Handera 330 was just big enough. Unfortunately, the one on mine is now cracked and useless after being hit by a truck (while in my pocket)... interestingly, the bottom 1/3 displayed when it was turned on initially, and the memory card was OK, so I could recover my data, but it doesn't seem to work any more.
I got the SJ33 after a lot of searching. The battery life was at the high end of the pathetic options available, and I like the case design - most new models don't seem to have anything to protect the screen.
Then buy a PocketPC. What I want is a PDA that can also access huge amounts of data - medical references for work, plus ebooks and whatnot. I wish that someone would sell a PDA with a high-res monochrome screen that's big enough to read, an energy-efficient dragonball processor, a memory card slot and/or at least 64 megs of RAM, using AAA (or AA if they can be fit into a model small enough) batteries and getting at least two weeks with rechargable NIMH cells. I'd happily pay twice what my SJ33 cost me (it gets reasonable battery life considering, but the screen is just too tiny - at least it has a built-in cover though).
And in most the built-in batteries suck. Non-replaceable lithium batteries that get a few hours of battery life and die in a couple years, leaving you with an expensive paperweight. Whee.
Personally, I'd rather have a unit that uses AAA batteries or even a couple AAs. The old monochrome units would get between a couple weeks (Handera 330 with NIMH rechargables, hit by a truck - while in my pocket, ouch) to a month or two (Palm IIIxe with alkaline cells, stolen) in battery life, but you can't get them like that anymore. Battery-draining colour screens and "fast" processors built for OS5 that run all the software that's actually useful (OS3-4) inefficiently. Sheesh. If I wanted a Pocket PC I would've bought one!
Of course, if you're in an apartment, you can just leech off the ambient heat in the building. Not that I'd do anything like that - my computers keep the place nice and toasty.
Yeah, because we've always had them. GST anyway - PST is only on in-province stuff.
While our taxes are pretty high, when you factor in health insurance and whatnot, I doubt it's much more. I pay 1/3 of my gross in income taxes, and there's 7% GST and 7.5% PST (in BC, thanks a bunch Gordon Campbell - drive safely, eh?). So the gov't gets about 43% of my money.
If you look just below the bit on Carlsson, the next passage is about Kamloops, British Columbia. The same province of Canada that I'm in. So, yeah.
As far as paying "the medical bills of idiots that flouridate(sic)", I'm interested in any references to peer-reviewed clinical studies showing any harm from using it to prevent tooth decay, including epidemiological ones.
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I've bought up to 9.0 Powerpack, but I didn't buy 9.1 because I couldn't find it in any store - they only offer it on their site, shipped from the US - so I'd probably have to pay customs on top of their rather high price. They were almost at the beta for 9.2 by the time they actually stopped listing 9.1 as "pre-order" anyway.
Yeah, but he says he needs an actual calculator because they don't want him using his laptop on tests. (Presumably, the same would apply to a palm-based rpn calculator.)
Sure, and should I take the word of Linus Pauling on vitamin C, too? OTOH, the guy does have some points about dosages and whatnot...as long as I don't have to pay the dental bills of the idiots that vote out fluoride.
(What was the topic again? Oh, right - just format it and install Mandrake.)
Who modded this infomative? While low chlorine is rarely a problem (at least compared to metals like potassium, etc.), Cl is still vital, and hypochloremia and the resulting metabolic alkalosis isn't a good thing. Since Cl is the major anion (-vely charged ion), it and bicarbonate are kinda necessary to balance those positive charges. It is also absorbed with the sodium and mostly excreted through the kidneys (sometimes with sodium, sometimes not, depending on the transporter).
Shhh. These are the same type of nuts that want to get rid of chlorination, too. At least until people start dying of cholera - though then they'd probably call it "chlorine withdrawal" or something.
He can't. He's one of those hypochondriacs who are big on pseudoscience. If it wasn't this, it'd be high-voltage power lines, or aspartame, or vaccines...
Indeed, this was how its effect was noticed in the first place:
"Fluoride's protective effect was uncovered accidentally in the early 1900s by a Colorado dentist who noticed some of his patients had mottled teeth and were less susceptible to cavities."
As the AC pointed out, the parent said: "the jist of all their gripes is the damned "features" you cannot turn off or get in the way". Reasons you might want to use such a program include the features you'd use when you want them, like spellchecking, thesaurus, headers and footers with automatic page numbering, etc.
Mine has worked great, too. Though today I replaced it with a DVD player that has mpeg4 decoding. The ability to disable Macrovision and change regions with a "secret" menu is just a bonus.
You'd probably have better luck with one of the less bloated Knoppix-based livecds... anything old enough to be unsupported by this change would probably run Knoppix very slowly, if at all. Damn Small Linux doesn't have Apache, but Freeduc does. Here's a list of livecd distros, the version number of apache will be listed if its in the distro.
No kidding. Also, most people who aren't carrying some kind of foul crotchrot probably have more (and more harmful) bacteria on their hands. Wash after and before, kids.
Oh, and it takes 30 seconds of washing with soap under warm water to, say, get rid of those cold virus particles on your hands. A quick rinse and wiping on a towel will probably only spead disease more quickly.
Also, according to the article, the floor was quite clean, as in almost undetectable amounts of bacteria. I wonder if the kitchen counters and the fingers of the participants were that clean...
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Yeah, they're extremely comfortable to write with. Though I find the ballpoint kind (which use the pressurized "space pen" cartridges) tend to clog and need to be "tested" on a piece of scrap paper before writing. There are plenty of different types of cartridges, but they can only be used in the specific model.
Yeah, until the batteries die two days out from Alpha Centauri. Good luck finding a mains outlet with the right voltage...
This reminds me of a very old short story... I can't remember the title or author, but it's about these intelligent robots that arrive at a planet and put the main character (an android salesman) out of business by giving away much superior ones. Eventually everyone has one of these robots and they become increasingly "protective" of people, eventually preventing them from doing anything at all. Ah, I remembered the title: With Folded Hands - "The title refers to the only thing left for humanity to do: sit with folded hands as the robots take care of all their troubles." Creating a virtual world, where humans could be happy but not be in any physical danger, would be a logical extension of this.
Very true. I've always had to pay taxes on internet purchases in Canada, and that's never stopped me. (Duty on stuff from the US is just nasty, though.) I buy things online that I can't find locally - mainly tons of anime, and computer stuff.
I got the SJ33 after a lot of searching. The battery life was at the high end of the pathetic options available, and I like the case design - most new models don't seem to have anything to protect the screen.
Then buy a PocketPC. What I want is a PDA that can also access huge amounts of data - medical references for work, plus ebooks and whatnot. I wish that someone would sell a PDA with a high-res monochrome screen that's big enough to read, an energy-efficient dragonball processor, a memory card slot and/or at least 64 megs of RAM, using AAA (or AA if they can be fit into a model small enough) batteries and getting at least two weeks with rechargable NIMH cells. I'd happily pay twice what my SJ33 cost me (it gets reasonable battery life considering, but the screen is just too tiny - at least it has a built-in cover though).
Personally, I'd rather have a unit that uses AAA batteries or even a couple AAs. The old monochrome units would get between a couple weeks (Handera 330 with NIMH rechargables, hit by a truck - while in my pocket, ouch) to a month or two (Palm IIIxe with alkaline cells, stolen) in battery life, but you can't get them like that anymore. Battery-draining colour screens and "fast" processors built for OS5 that run all the software that's actually useful (OS3-4) inefficiently. Sheesh. If I wanted a Pocket PC I would've bought one!
Of course, if you're in an apartment, you can just leech off the ambient heat in the building. Not that I'd do anything like that - my computers keep the place nice and toasty.
While our taxes are pretty high, when you factor in health insurance and whatnot, I doubt it's much more. I pay 1/3 of my gross in income taxes, and there's 7% GST and 7.5% PST (in BC, thanks a bunch Gordon Campbell - drive safely, eh?). So the gov't gets about 43% of my money.
As far as paying "the medical bills of idiots that flouridate(sic)", I'm interested in any references to peer-reviewed clinical studies showing any harm from using it to prevent tooth decay, including epidemiological ones.
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I've bought up to 9.0 Powerpack, but I didn't buy 9.1 because I couldn't find it in any store - they only offer it on their site, shipped from the US - so I'd probably have to pay customs on top of their rather high price. They were almost at the beta for 9.2 by the time they actually stopped listing 9.1 as "pre-order" anyway.
Yeah, but he says he needs an actual calculator because they don't want him using his laptop on tests. (Presumably, the same would apply to a palm-based rpn calculator.)
(What was the topic again? Oh, right - just format it and install Mandrake.)
Who modded this infomative? While low chlorine is rarely a problem (at least compared to metals like potassium, etc.), Cl is still vital, and hypochloremia and the resulting metabolic alkalosis isn't a good thing. Since Cl is the major anion (-vely charged ion), it and bicarbonate are kinda necessary to balance those positive charges. It is also absorbed with the sodium and mostly excreted through the kidneys (sometimes with sodium, sometimes not, depending on the transporter).
Shhh. These are the same type of nuts that want to get rid of chlorination, too. At least until people start dying of cholera - though then they'd probably call it "chlorine withdrawal" or something.
He can't. He's one of those hypochondriacs who are big on pseudoscience. If it wasn't this, it'd be high-voltage power lines, or aspartame, or vaccines...
"Fluoride's protective effect was uncovered accidentally in the early 1900s by a Colorado dentist who noticed some of his patients had mottled teeth and were less susceptible to cavities."
And First Choice! I used that for years. It had a spreadsheet and database too, IIRC.
As the AC pointed out, the parent said: "the jist of all their gripes is the damned "features" you cannot turn off or get in the way". Reasons you might want to use such a program include the features you'd use when you want them, like spellchecking, thesaurus, headers and footers with automatic page numbering, etc.
Mine has worked great, too. Though today I replaced it with a DVD player that has mpeg4 decoding. The ability to disable Macrovision and change regions with a "secret" menu is just a bonus.
You'd probably have better luck with one of the less bloated Knoppix-based livecds... anything old enough to be unsupported by this change would probably run Knoppix very slowly, if at all. Damn Small Linux doesn't have Apache, but Freeduc does. Here's a list of livecd distros, the version number of apache will be listed if its in the distro.
Hey, take it easy. It's not a study - just a random quack - so it doesn't count.
Oh, and it takes 30 seconds of washing with soap under warm water to, say, get rid of those cold virus particles on your hands. A quick rinse and wiping on a towel will probably only spead disease more quickly.
Also, according to the article, the floor was quite clean, as in almost undetectable amounts of bacteria. I wonder if the kitchen counters and the fingers of the participants were that clean...