And let's not forget that they have the largest monorail system in the world (13.7 miles of track), and the world's first computer-controlled roller-coaster (Space Mountain). If you're going, be sure to visit "The Land" over at Epcot - lots of really cool agro stuff with hydroponically grown crops and such.
Not - Walt Disney World falls under the jurisdiction of the the Orange and Osceola County Sheriff's Offices, as well as the Florida Highway Patrol, and does not have its own police presence. Any crime or other incident that requires a police response gets reported just like anything else.
Good luck and here's hoping it at least won't get any worse for you. If this was your first attack, you probably won't see another one for at least a year, maybe two, but it never hurts to have that healthy diet anyway.:-)
I've been dealing with gout since I was about 22 (I'm 36 now), and I'll agree that it's absolutely no fun at all. I've had it in just about every joint I can, and I'd agree with the advice to drink as much water as you possibly can, load up on the cherry extract, and stay the hell away from peanuts and other high-purine foods. Allopurinol does a pretty good job of keeping it at bay, but if you're in the middle of an attack, it'll just make it worse.
Colchicine is kinda cool for acute attacks, as it tends to knock the pain down fairly quickly, but being a metabolic poison it tends to make you puke your guts out after a while. I think the worst attack I ever had kept me sidelined for about two weeks, and during that time I was never so thankful to have a job where I could work at home.:-)
I have a question, and being that I'm not a lawyer, perhaps someone more knowledgable can chime in - I seem to remember reading that in any kind of civil action like this, the plaintiff has a duty to actively mitigate his damages to the maximum extent possible - for instance, if some schmuck pulls out in front of me on the highway, I have a duty to attempt to prevent an accident, even if it's his fault. Regarding the SCO/Linux situation, SCO has steadfastly refused to tell Linus or anyone else specifically where the code is that's infringing while being fully aware of the fact that armed with that knowledge, the OSS community would very quickly make the needed changes to remove the disputed IP.
By acting in this manner, SCO appears to not be interested in mitigating their claimed damages in the least, and actually appears to be attempting to increase them as much as possbile - how do you suppose a judge/jury is going to look upon this?
I brainfarted and was emailing someone else at the same time regarding something in the Southeast U.S., and apparently missed it on the preview. Score:-1 (Dumbass) for me.:-)
Agreed - I loved Space:1999. To me, the Eagle is still one of the most original and practical spacecraft to grace the small screen. And I was *so* in love with Catherine Schell in the second season...:-)
Xbox silent? Not mine. My $299 Wal-Mart machine is quieter than my Xbox - the hard disk in that little guy is quite noticable when it's running, and with only 32 MB of RAM and less than 10 gigs of disk space, it's not as usable as a general purpose PC.
I think people should be allowed to do whatever it is they want to with the hardware that they bought, but I just do not understand the appeal of an Xbox as a PC when there are better, cheaper alternatives.
Except that the top lawyers don't need the publicity - people already know who they are, so the only reason they'd take a case pro bono would be if it were a cause they really believed in strongly enough to be worth the loss of income they'd suffer by giving up the time that could be spent on paying jobs. I don't think we'll see that happen any time soon.
His site's not commercial? How does advertising Utah's sports teams improve his constituents' ability to contact him and determine what his opinions on issues are? What about all those links that are basically ads saying, "Hey, come to Utah and spend your money here?" There are links to several ski resorts that receive the benefit (i.e. profit) of having an an advertisement in such a public forum. Just because Hatch himself may not make a direct profit doesn't mean it's not a commercial site.
There's also the question of frequency - high-frequency AC generally is *much* less dangerous than low-frequency AC because the current is conducted over the surface of the skin, rather than through the body. This is how the people that do the "human lightning" demonstrations manage to keep from killing themselves - if the AC is oscillating at 5 MHz, little to no current actually makes it into their body.
You don't necessarily need to use it for swap to get a lot of writes on it. If you brain-fart and fail to disable logging on the system, you'll get a fair number of writes each time you start the machine up/shut it down, which could be several times per day. If all you're going to use it for is a jukebox, you could probably get away with it. If you're going to use it for something a little more adventurous, I'd go with a real storage solution.
I didn't see anything on the site indicating the actual laser power, but I'll bet money it's under 25 watts. It's quite common to see 100 watt lasers draw 7-8 kW, most of which goes to heat.
In several years of working for a large laser marking/engraving system manufacturer, I've never seen reflection from the workpiece damage a laser (not sure how it could, really). If you're getting a lot of reflection, it means that the beam is not coupling well into the workpiece, which usually means you're using the wrong laser for the job. I always get a chuckle when I hear of customers trying to mark on wood with a Nd:YAG rail and complaining of poor performance.
The flame from the O-ring burned through the hydrogen tank, but also burned through through the lower SRB mounting strut, which caused the SRB to rotate around the upper strut and puncture the oxygen tank just above the intertank area. At about the same time, the rupture in the hydrogen tank caused the the entire bottom of the external tank to fail, releasing the pressurized contents. This in turn added almost 3 million pounds of thrust to the tank itself, and drove the hydrogen tank upward into the oxygen tank which had already been punctured by the SRB, causing the explosion.
The sequence of events is explained in much more detail in Chapter III of the Rogers Commission report, which can be found
here
It's quite different here in the U.S., where often times the police will go out of their way to conceal themselves, or will set up ambushes where one concealed officer clocks the traffic, and four or five police cars are waiting just around the bend to actually issue the tickets.
I am guessing the fact that the message came over a phone line was a fundmental component of the judge's decision. I doubt most Slashdotters could make this claim.
Those of us using DSL probably could - my Net connection comes over the same physical wires as my telephone service. Cable might be a little harder to argue, but I don't believe any of the laws spell out exactly *how* the phone line must be used.:-)
You got that right - I previously had ISDN service for about four years through BellSouth. Every time I would query them about ADSL availability, it would always come up as being unavailable, and the distance measurement showed that I was about 24K feet from my CO. It wasn't until I decided to try to get IDSL through Megapath that I found that ADSL had in fact been available at my address for more than a year owing to the new remote terminal less than half a mile from my apartment complex, and BellSouth was saying "no ADSL" simply because I had an ISDN line, not because the service was actually unavailable in my area. Not having that little tidbit of information cost me *lots* of money, and really put me off BellSouth. I'm now quite happy with Megapath, and unlike BellSouth's DSL offering, I can run servers with impunity and actually use my line that I pay for as I see fit.
This is very interesting considering NASA is now saying they had indications of problems about eight minutes before they lost comms completely. Take this as an opinion from someone who has a healthy interest in the space program, and has seen dozens of shuttle launches firsthand (including the Challenger accident), but no practical training or experience - I'm starting to believe that the left wing began peeling apart quite a while before the catastrophic failure, and that is the reason for the loss of so many sensor readings prior to the destruction of the craft. This would jive well with the observations over California and Arizona.
Awesome subject line.:-) Interesting too, since "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" is a film that is almost always edited for television (specifically, the chicken being beheaded during the Wonkatania sequence)
What happened to freedom in this country. Why does the govt. feel they need to regulate everything?
In this case, what the government is regulating is use of a scarce resource, namely radio spectrum in the FM radio band. The FCC is *supposed* to be doing this in the interests of what's best for the public in general, not what's best for Clear Channel or any other single person/entity. That's part of their charter and their job, and since they won't do it, it's good to see someone in Congress sit up and propose something to effect the same end.
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And let's not forget that they have the largest monorail system in the world (13.7 miles of track), and the world's first computer-controlled roller-coaster (Space Mountain). If you're going, be sure to visit "The Land" over at Epcot - lots of really cool agro stuff with hydroponically grown crops and such.
Not - Walt Disney World falls under the jurisdiction of the the Orange and Osceola County Sheriff's Offices, as well as the Florida Highway Patrol, and does not have its own police presence. Any crime or other incident that requires a police response gets reported just like anything else.
Good luck and here's hoping it at least won't get any worse for you. If this was your first attack, you probably won't see another one for at least a year, maybe two, but it never hurts to have that healthy diet anyway. :-)
I've been dealing with gout since I was about 22 (I'm 36 now), and I'll agree that it's absolutely no fun at all. I've had it in just about every joint I can, and I'd agree with the advice to drink as much water as you possibly can, load up on the cherry extract, and stay the hell away from peanuts and other high-purine foods. Allopurinol does a pretty good job of keeping it at bay, but if you're in the middle of an attack, it'll just make it worse.
:-)
Colchicine is kinda cool for acute attacks, as it tends to knock the pain down fairly quickly, but being a metabolic poison it tends to make you puke your guts out after a while. I think the worst attack I ever had kept me sidelined for about two weeks, and during that time I was never so thankful to have a job where I could work at home.
I have a question, and being that I'm not a lawyer, perhaps someone more knowledgable can chime in - I seem to remember reading that in any kind of civil action like this, the plaintiff has a duty to actively mitigate his damages to the maximum extent possible - for instance, if some schmuck pulls out in front of me on the highway, I have a duty to attempt to prevent an accident, even if it's his fault. Regarding the SCO/Linux situation, SCO has steadfastly refused to tell Linus or anyone else specifically where the code is that's infringing while being fully aware of the fact that armed with that knowledge, the OSS community would very quickly make the needed changes to remove the disputed IP.
By acting in this manner, SCO appears to not be interested in mitigating their claimed damages in the least, and actually appears to be attempting to increase them as much as possbile - how do you suppose a judge/jury is going to look upon this?
I brainfarted and was emailing someone else at the same time regarding something in the Southeast U.S., and apparently missed it on the preview. Score:-1 (Dumbass) for me. :-)
Agreed - I loved Space:1999. To me, the Eagle is still one of the most original and practical spacecraft to grace the small screen. And I was *so* in love with Catherine Schell in the second season... :-)
Xbox silent? Not mine. My $299 Wal-Mart machine is quieter than my Xbox - the hard disk in that little guy is quite noticable when it's running, and with only 32 MB of RAM and less than 10 gigs of disk space, it's not as usable as a general purpose PC.
I think people should be allowed to do whatever it is they want to with the hardware that they bought, but I just do not understand the appeal of an Xbox as a PC when there are better, cheaper alternatives.
Except that the top lawyers don't need the publicity - people already know who they are, so the only reason they'd take a case pro bono would be if it were a cause they really believed in strongly enough to be worth the loss of income they'd suffer by giving up the time that could be spent on paying jobs. I don't think we'll see that happen any time soon.
His site's not commercial? How does advertising Utah's sports teams improve his constituents' ability to contact him and determine what his opinions on issues are? What about all those links that are basically ads saying, "Hey, come to Utah and spend your money here?" There are links to several ski resorts that receive the benefit (i.e. profit) of having an an advertisement in such a public forum. Just because Hatch himself may not make a direct profit doesn't mean it's not a commercial site.
There's also the question of frequency - high-frequency AC generally is *much* less dangerous than low-frequency AC because the current is conducted over the surface of the skin, rather than through the body. This is how the people that do the "human lightning" demonstrations manage to keep from killing themselves - if the AC is oscillating at 5 MHz, little to no current actually makes it into their body.
Thank you, Simone....
Ooh, that hurt. Let's just say that I've evaluated CF for a couple of different platforms and found it lacking.
You don't necessarily need to use it for swap to get a lot of writes on it. If you brain-fart and fail to disable logging on the system, you'll get a fair number of writes each time you start the machine up/shut it down, which could be several times per day. If all you're going to use it for is a jukebox, you could probably get away with it. If you're going to use it for something a little more adventurous, I'd go with a real storage solution.
And only good for between 400K and a million writes before it starts going south. :-)
I didn't see anything on the site indicating the actual laser power, but I'll bet money it's under 25 watts. It's quite common to see 100 watt lasers draw 7-8 kW, most of which goes to heat.
In several years of working for a large laser marking/engraving system manufacturer, I've never seen reflection from the workpiece damage a laser (not sure how it could, really). If you're getting a lot of reflection, it means that the beam is not coupling well into the workpiece, which usually means you're using the wrong laser for the job. I always get a chuckle when I hear of customers trying to mark on wood with a Nd:YAG rail and complaining of poor performance.
The flame from the O-ring burned through the hydrogen tank, but also burned through through the lower SRB mounting strut, which caused the SRB to rotate around the upper strut and puncture the oxygen tank just above the intertank area. At about the same time, the rupture in the hydrogen tank caused the the entire bottom of the external tank to fail, releasing the pressurized contents. This in turn added almost 3 million pounds of thrust to the tank itself, and drove the hydrogen tank upward into the oxygen tank which had already been punctured by the SRB, causing the explosion.
The sequence of events is explained in much more detail in Chapter III of the Rogers Commission report, which can be found here
It's quite different here in the U.S., where often times the police will go out of their way to conceal themselves, or will set up ambushes where one concealed officer clocks the traffic, and four or five police cars are waiting just around the bend to actually issue the tickets.
Around here they'd call alerting other drivers to a speed trap "obstruction of justice".
I am guessing the fact that the message came over a phone line was a fundmental component of the judge's decision. I doubt most Slashdotters could make this claim.
:-)
Those of us using DSL probably could - my Net connection comes over the same physical wires as my telephone service. Cable might be a little harder to argue, but I don't believe any of the laws spell out exactly *how* the phone line must be used.
You got that right - I previously had ISDN service for about four years through BellSouth. Every time I would query them about ADSL availability, it would always come up as being unavailable, and the distance measurement showed that I was about 24K feet from my CO. It wasn't until I decided to try to get IDSL through Megapath that I found that ADSL had in fact been available at my address for more than a year owing to the new remote terminal less than half a mile from my apartment complex, and BellSouth was saying "no ADSL" simply because I had an ISDN line, not because the service was actually unavailable in my area. Not having that little tidbit of information cost me *lots* of money, and really put me off BellSouth. I'm now quite happy with Megapath, and unlike BellSouth's DSL offering, I can run servers with impunity and actually use my line that I pay for as I see fit.
This is very interesting considering NASA is now saying they had indications of problems about eight minutes before they lost comms completely. Take this as an opinion from someone who has a healthy interest in the space program, and has seen dozens of shuttle launches firsthand (including the Challenger accident), but no practical training or experience - I'm starting to believe that the left wing began peeling apart quite a while before the catastrophic failure, and that is the reason for the loss of so many sensor readings prior to the destruction of the craft. This would jive well with the observations over California and Arizona.
Awesome subject line. :-) Interesting too, since "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" is a film that is almost always edited for television (specifically, the chicken being beheaded during the Wonkatania sequence)
What happened to freedom in this country. Why does the govt. feel they need to regulate everything?
In this case, what the government is regulating is use of a scarce resource, namely radio spectrum in the FM radio band. The FCC is *supposed* to be doing this in the interests of what's best for the public in general, not what's best for Clear Channel or any other single person/entity. That's part of their charter and their job, and since they won't do it, it's good to see someone in Congress sit up and propose something to effect the same end.