I haven't even seen a 19" that can do more than that, which really makes them pointless, because if you stretch 1280x1024 pixels out over a 19" screen vs a 17" screen its gonna look worse. The few 21" LCD's I've looked at can only do 1600x1200.
I do CAD regularly and can't tolerate 1600x1200 (maybe it's just my older eyes though - I don't need glasses yet). Just how tiny do those icons and text have to get? If you need more screen area, just opt for dual screens.
I use two Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 920s (3 years old) and they are very nice desk-hoggers. But while setting up my son's new 17" Samsung LCD ($220 CDN) I was very impressed with the visuals. Maybe some of it was the novelty of working with an LCD screen for a change, and plus I am somewhat colour-blind.
I confess that I haven't actually destroyed any electronic circuitry lately but meeting me can be a shocking experience. Sometimes the arc is actually visible and I promise to use my developing superpowers for good, not evil.
Maybe 2cpu.com is finally getting attention due to the dual core hype. I remember when they were just starting up and when I was shopping for a dual CPU machine.
# 815 million people are undernourished
* 11 million children under age 5 die every year, over half of hunger-related causes
# 1 in 6 people is hungry
# 1 in 4 people lacks safe drinking water
Are the solutions to these problems social, technological or political?
Yeah, I know that the real word is supposedly correctly spelled with only one 'o', but the longer 'o' sound ("food" vs. "good") just works better. "Ogle" sounds too much like "ogre".
Mind you, as a Canadian, any word with an "ooo" sound is better. Example: Barney Google with the goo-goo-googly eyes.
Now the Gomery Inquiry is a legal tribunal initiated by parliament to investigate possible corruption surrounding advertising contracts given to certain agencies that are believed to be loyal to the ruling Liberal Party.
And this is supposedly related to the Quebec seperation issue, which is something I haven't seen mentioned in the comments yet.
How many "registered" slashdot readers have two (or more) login names?
I wonder if there's a place on the web that has more official members. By this I mean somewhere where the comments are more popular than the linked content.
Probably start with a degree in mechanical engineering and work up from there. Or just get an entry-level job as a janitor and work your way up via brown nosing. Of course, janitors at these places are likely a few levels up from emptying wastebaskets and fishing out unrepentant turds from toilet bowls.
Where are the exotic industrial gases used? I'm assuming the stuff is used as a blanketing environment in the clean room manufacturing, but I don't really know.
I only help to design the plants that make the more mundane stuff like LOX, LIN etc. and never got involved in the really esoteric stuff.
Apparently, liquid nitrogen is used in the testing booths for checking operation at low temperatures.
Of course it was, and I'm glad you got modded up for the reply. I have been there myself and I still haven't bothered to try to "re-establish a credit rating". If I cannot pay cash for something, I just don't buy . Pretty simple, and it keeps me out of debt.
I don't figure I'll need a mortgage in my lifetime, so it works for me.
The best thing about nanotechnology is that it seems to require exotic industrial gases, cryogenics and stainless piping and pressure vessels and stuff. Woo-hoo, I've got an automatic in!
I seem to remember a Bob Newhart routine where he pretty much ridicules bad bus drivers. In the sketch, he presents a situation in which the driver is trained to make little old ladies bounce around off the bus walls and make little kids fall out of their strollers by careful weaving and judicious use of the gas and brake pedals. Pretty funny, and unfortunately I can't find a transcript of it.
As a regular bus passenger (I live and work downtown in a city with great public transportation), I can attest to the fact that some drivers are real assholes and think that "bus people" are deserving of little respect. The best ones drive like Jackie Stewart (I.E., smoothly, with as few sudden directional changes as possible) even though they are piloting a 20(?) ton, 3D rectangle.
The best bus drivers are the ones most attentive about their passengers. The other day I helped a woman carry her kid up the bus steps, and the driver thanked me for doing so. THAT is class.
"A UK company started up by a distant relative of the inventor of the toilet, has created a new handheld GPS device that allows you to locate and then get directions to the nearest toilet in the UK."
Actually, I have here (somewhere) a rather tattered copy of the obscure book, "Where to Go in London". It's circa 1969(?) reviews about free toilet facilities in the city, and not about possible gay sex-friendly places as some might think. It's actually some guy's published opinions on the best and worst places in London to do a number 1 or 2.
And Google Cache finds something similar. I'm not sure if this type of research is anal-retentive or what.
The Taco poissons d'avril have been a bit overboard this year.
Doesn't MonsterCable sell a "screen cleaner" product that costs about fifty bucks for 100mL? It's supposed to be "clumpy" so that it doesn't drain down into the CRT housing where the bunny feathers and dead caterpillars live.
As people develop expertise in their field, their primary responsibilities take less and less effort than they did when they were new.
This may sound counter-intuitive, but when designing process plants, I feel that "computerization" has actually *increased* the number of people and cost needed to get the job done. Before relatively inexpensive CAD started to replace manual drafting, large format photocopiers were becoming popular which meant that draftsmen/designers could easily re-use snippets of past projects and standard details (real-world pasting and copying onto erasable vellum, then drawing the new stuff on top). As long as the draftsman knew how to operate the Xerox machine, no outside technical help was needed and a drawing office could still operate during a power failure. FAX technology was also becoming very popular and it was pretty bullet-proof.
I guess I just miss the old days when a drawing was a drawing and there weren't so many dependencies on uncontrollable circumstances, vendor lock-ins, required software upgrades and other "artificially imposed" restrictions. After all, some of us can still make technical drawings manually, and when push comes to shove, we can theoretically toss the computers out the window if needed and instruct the welders and fitters in the field. And this still does often happen after all the big budget bucks are spent on fancy stuff.
Just for the record, I'm no luddite. I currently use Intergraph 3D CAD visualization software as a design checker (it's pretty nifty, I have to admit) and have been an AutoCAD user for about 10 years. At home I run a dual monitor, dual processor AMD machine so I can't hate computers all *that* much.
First of all, the report focuses with Candian firms.
It's also possible that Candian firms do not have the huge resources that Amerian firms typically have.
Just to tweak some noses, I suggest that Candian companies *have* to be good at multiple tasks simply because of the relative numeric disadvantage. I.E., Candians can't afford to have specialists for every imaginable task, so they all have to have a better overall understanding of the process and are cross-disciplinary in capabilities.
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Total Annihilation 2?
I haven't even seen a 19" that can do more than that, which really makes them pointless, because if you stretch 1280x1024 pixels out over a 19" screen vs a 17" screen its gonna look worse. The few 21" LCD's I've looked at can only do 1600x1200.
I do CAD regularly and can't tolerate 1600x1200 (maybe it's just my older eyes though - I don't need glasses yet). Just how tiny do those icons and text have to get? If you need more screen area, just opt for dual screens.
too bright, most people find, on the default 'Internet' brightness level.
If there is some theoretical "internet brightness level", where do AOL users rank?
I use two Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 920s (3 years old) and they are very nice desk-hoggers. But while setting up my son's new 17" Samsung LCD ($220 CDN) I was very impressed with the visuals. Maybe some of it was the novelty of working with an LCD screen for a change, and plus I am somewhat colour-blind.
I confess that I haven't actually destroyed any electronic circuitry lately but meeting me can be a shocking experience. Sometimes the arc is actually visible and I promise to use my developing superpowers for good, not evil.
Some suggested reasons have been:
-silk underwear
-dry (not hairy) palms
-wearing cheap polyester clothing
-shoe soles
-excessive carpet rubbing/foot-dragging
-climate
Maybe 2cpu.com is finally getting attention due to the dual core hype. I remember when they were just starting up and when I was shopping for a dual CPU machine.
# 815 million people are undernourished
* 11 million children under age 5 die every year, over half of hunger-related causes
# 1 in 6 people is hungry
# 1 in 4 people lacks safe drinking water
Are the solutions to these problems social, technological or political?
I'd like to know why I'm often forced to login again if I visit the *.slashdot.org sections. It is quite annoying.
Am I legally required to include the exclamation mark every time I type Yahoo? Doing so makes me feel like, well, a yahoo.
Why do I get 7 seperate cookies (promptly deleted) plopped onto my computer every time I visit Yahoogroups?
Just mix with water and the complaints will only be about tracking mud all through the station.
Why not just drop the 'g', and call it "oogle"?
Yeah, I know that the real word is supposedly correctly spelled with only one 'o', but the longer 'o' sound ("food" vs. "good") just works better. "Ogle" sounds too much like "ogre".
Mind you, as a Canadian, any word with an "ooo" sound is better. Example: Barney Google with the goo-goo-googly eyes.
That's aboot it for me.
Now the Gomery Inquiry is a legal tribunal initiated by parliament to investigate possible corruption surrounding advertising contracts given to certain agencies that are believed to be loyal to the ruling Liberal Party.
And this is supposedly related to the Quebec seperation issue, which is something I haven't seen mentioned in the comments yet.
How many "registered" slashdot readers have two (or more) login names?
I wonder if there's a place on the web that has more official members. By this I mean somewhere where the comments are more popular than the linked content.
Why would we trust them when they claim that they need cookies...
You can currently delete the individual cookies, but what about the index.dat file, what does that contain?
Probably start with a degree in mechanical engineering and work up from there. Or just get an entry-level job as a janitor and work your way up via brown nosing. Of course, janitors at these places are likely a few levels up from emptying wastebaskets and fishing out unrepentant turds from toilet bowls.
Yeah.
Where are the exotic industrial gases used? I'm assuming the stuff is used as a blanketing environment in the clean room manufacturing, but I don't really know.
I only help to design the plants that make the more mundane stuff like LOX, LIN etc. and never got involved in the really esoteric stuff.
Apparently, liquid nitrogen is used in the testing booths for checking operation at low temperatures.
Of course it was, and I'm glad you got modded up for the reply. I have been there myself and I still haven't bothered to try to "re-establish a credit rating". If I cannot pay cash for something, I just don't buy . Pretty simple, and it keeps me out of debt.
I don't figure I'll need a mortgage in my lifetime, so it works for me.
Still, if I pay cash - why should I wait for a check in the mail? Cashing a check isn't cheap for people who don't have checking accounts...
What are you, some kind of communist?
The best thing about nanotechnology is that it seems to require exotic industrial gases, cryogenics and stainless piping and pressure vessels and stuff. Woo-hoo, I've got an automatic in!
I seem to remember a Bob Newhart routine where he pretty much ridicules bad bus drivers. In the sketch, he presents a situation in which the driver is trained to make little old ladies bounce around off the bus walls and make little kids fall out of their strollers by careful weaving and judicious use of the gas and brake pedals. Pretty funny, and unfortunately I can't find a transcript of it.
As a regular bus passenger (I live and work downtown in a city with great public transportation), I can attest to the fact that some drivers are real assholes and think that "bus people" are deserving of little respect. The best ones drive like Jackie Stewart (I.E., smoothly, with as few sudden directional changes as possible) even though they are piloting a 20(?) ton, 3D rectangle.
The best bus drivers are the ones most attentive about their passengers. The other day I helped a woman carry her kid up the bus steps, and the driver thanked me for doing so. THAT is class.
No, it's iPoo.
"A UK company started up by a distant relative of the inventor of the toilet, has created a new handheld GPS device that allows you to locate and then get directions to the nearest toilet in the UK."
Actually, I have here (somewhere) a rather tattered copy of the obscure book, "Where to Go in London". It's circa 1969(?) reviews about free toilet facilities in the city, and not about possible gay sex-friendly places as some might think. It's actually some guy's published opinions on the best and worst places in London to do a number 1 or 2.
And Google Cache finds something similar. I'm not sure if this type of research is anal-retentive or what.
The Taco poissons d'avril have been a bit overboard this year.
Doesn't MonsterCable sell a "screen cleaner" product that costs about fifty bucks for 100mL? It's supposed to be "clumpy" so that it doesn't drain down into the CRT housing where the bunny feathers and dead caterpillars live.
As people develop expertise in their field, their primary responsibilities take less and less effort than they did when they were new.
This may sound counter-intuitive, but when designing process plants, I feel that "computerization" has actually *increased* the number of people and cost needed to get the job done. Before relatively inexpensive CAD started to replace manual drafting, large format photocopiers were becoming popular which meant that draftsmen/designers could easily re-use snippets of past projects and standard details (real-world pasting and copying onto erasable vellum, then drawing the new stuff on top). As long as the draftsman knew how to operate the Xerox machine, no outside technical help was needed and a drawing office could still operate during a power failure. FAX technology was also becoming very popular and it was pretty bullet-proof.
I guess I just miss the old days when a drawing was a drawing and there weren't so many dependencies on uncontrollable circumstances, vendor lock-ins, required software upgrades and other "artificially imposed" restrictions. After all, some of us can still make technical drawings manually, and when push comes to shove, we can theoretically toss the computers out the window if needed and instruct the welders and fitters in the field. And this still does often happen after all the big budget bucks are spent on fancy stuff.
Just for the record, I'm no luddite. I currently use Intergraph 3D CAD visualization software as a design checker (it's pretty nifty, I have to admit) and have been an AutoCAD user for about 10 years. At home I run a dual monitor, dual processor AMD machine so I can't hate computers all *that* much.
Nice post.
First of all, the report focuses with Candian firms.
It's also possible that Candian firms do not have the huge resources that Amerian firms typically have.
Just to tweak some noses, I suggest that Candian companies *have* to be good at multiple tasks simply because of the relative numeric disadvantage. I.E., Candians can't afford to have specialists for every imaginable task, so they all have to have a better overall understanding of the process and are cross-disciplinary in capabilities.