That part where you said to check local codes first? Well, at least you got that part right. The rest, however...
Plenum cable is more expensive and is required when cables, instead of being run in conduit, are run in areas, like heating/air-conditioning ducts, where air that is breathed by building occupants passes through. It is designed to give off less in the way of toxic fumes in the case of a fire.
There are different types of conduit. Some of it made of metal, some of PVC, and what is required or allowed depends on what the local code says. The reason you don't have to use plenum-rated cable inside conduit is because, although the conduit system probably isn't perfectly airtight (a little leakage at the outlet boxes, etc.), there's very little airflow in it under normal circumstances, even if the building is on fire, so the cable inside is less likely to catch fire or melt in the first place and less likely to be able to fill the air where the people are with fumes if it does get too hot.
All that said, if you're building from scratch, find out what kind and size of conduit you can legally use and consider it strongly. Then when Extended Expanded Cat 5 plus extra sooper-de-duper cable is considered ancient, you can use it as a pull cable to install whatever the not even invented yet state of the art thing is at the time. For example, if you had built a house 25 or 30 years ago and put in oversize conduit for the phone lines or the TV cable to all the rooms, you could wire up for Ethernet now (a concept-a home computer network- very few would have forseen back when the Watergate break-in was just hitting the news) with very little trouble.
The problem in Florida was due in large part to builders who failed to follow even what building codes there were because they were trying to build as many houses as possible as quickly as possible as cheaply as possible.
"...wasn't it was star wars that started the whole laser sword thing?"
Isaac Asimov, writing as Paul French in the late '50s and/or early '60s, in the "Lucky" Starr books, had various cutting weapons featuring "force-field"-type blades. In other words, they were just hilts or handles until you press the "activate blade" button. Sort of electronic switchblades, but some of them had sword-length blades.
Shouldn't the lightsaber thing have been one story, and the "StarWars = Civil War" thing been a separate story?
Wouldn't the lightsaber maker article have been a lot better with more information about what he uses for blades, and more/better pictures of same?
Well, the Feild Effect Transistor may have that problem but 30 years ago Field Effect Transistors were being used to replace vacuum tubes. It was basically a tube bottom with the same pin layout as the tube and the FET with appropriate voltage dropping resistors. As a direct plug in replacement they had to work with the same power supply as had been the tube being replaced.
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You are dangerously close to infringing upon my original satirical creation, the techno-bandwagon-hopping Israeli politician, Benjamin InternetingYahoo.
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You're going to have to have a solution for whatever your real problem is that is not "home-made" due to liability issues. Anything that gets near a patient on oxygen with some sort of external power connection between the laptop and a high amp/hour source will have your insurance carriers screaming to high heaven. You're going to need something self-contained that some manufacturer has designed and built and had tested and certified for that specific set of circumstances.
"...anti-piracy software for MS-DOS that relied on direct IDE controller programming..."
So if I tell my operating system to copy a CD to my hard drive your stuff will block that command? Did you include the 2001 sound bite "I'm sorry Dave. I can't let you do that."? If I use a SCSI drive can I get around it? Will it erase stuff from my harddrive to which it thinks I don't have a right?
"...so it could be done transparently whenever the company felt the need to do so."
How 'bout we make it bloody obvious that it's going on and only when the owner of the machine wants it done?
There's entirely too much about the site describing this product that reminds me of a lot of what I read about the internet circa '94 to '96: It's all about how it's going to provide you with all these convenient new ways to spend money.
It is possible to be guilty of stealing one's own work if one has transferred ownership of that work. One remains the creator of the work, therefore it is still one's work, but no longer one's property.
I didn't (at least intentionally) misquote you. That's what those dots are for, to indicate something left out that was in the original. I ommitted the rest of the stuff to more clearly illustrate your contention about the "masses" reformatting their hard drives. If they know how to do that, they aren't part of the "masses".
By leaving out the first part of my last sentence-"If most of the masses were at that level of knowledge, ability, and comfortability with computers,..."-you ommitted the reason for my conclusion, that the masses aren't power users. If they were, computers with pre-loaded operating systems and apps would be a convenience instead of a necessity.
The Fairness Act (if we're talking about the same thing it was actually called The Fairness Doctrine) predates Limbaugh's rise by a decade or three. More like back around the days of Joe Pyne.
Asimov's Fantastic Voyage (and not just for Raquel Welch in a tight wetsuit).
I think it was in Profiles of the Future that Arthur C. Clarke did a pretty good job of explaining why things, especially living things, are usually limited to being the size that they already are within an order of magnitude or so, but once you suspend that particular bit of disbelief Fantastic Voyage is a pretty good movie.
Blocks of ice (with a lot of mass) from high up on the glacier or iceberg or whatever break off due to heat and then fall due to gravity which gives those blocks enough momentum or inertia or whatever to continue travelling downward underwater for a while before the friction of the water absorbs enough of that energy for the displaced water to force the more buoyant ice back towards the surface.
"And I suspect most of the masses are...going to...reformat the hard disk..."
Oh yeah, that's gonna happen. If most of the masses were at that level of knowledge, ability, and comfortability with computers, Wal-Mart could have just kept on selling "naked" PCs and let the buyer both decide what to install and do the installation.
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Plenum cable is more expensive and is required when cables, instead of being run in conduit, are run in areas, like heating/air-conditioning ducts, where air that is breathed by building occupants passes through. It is designed to give off less in the way of toxic fumes in the case of a fire.
There are different types of conduit. Some of it made of metal, some of PVC, and what is required or allowed depends on what the local code says. The reason you don't have to use plenum-rated cable inside conduit is because, although the conduit system probably isn't perfectly airtight (a little leakage at the outlet boxes, etc.), there's very little airflow in it under normal circumstances, even if the building is on fire, so the cable inside is less likely to catch fire or melt in the first place and less likely to be able to fill the air where the people are with fumes if it does get too hot.
All that said, if you're building from scratch, find out what kind and size of conduit you can legally use and consider it strongly. Then when Extended Expanded Cat 5 plus extra sooper-de-duper cable is considered ancient, you can use it as a pull cable to install whatever the not even invented yet state of the art thing is at the time. For example, if you had built a house 25 or 30 years ago and put in oversize conduit for the phone lines or the TV cable to all the rooms, you could wire up for Ethernet now (a concept-a home computer network- very few would have forseen back when the Watergate break-in was just hitting the news) with very little trouble.
The problem in Florida was due in large part to builders who failed to follow even what building codes there were because they were trying to build as many houses as possible as quickly as possible as cheaply as possible.
10 is incorrect, but acceptable in colloquial usage, although in that case it should probably be "I wrote that section for me, dammit, so back off!".
myself (is a ) kernel programmer
To know whether to use me or I or myself, convert from plural to singular. If you don't have it right, it'll be painfully obvious.
And usually, but not always, you put yourself second and give the other party(ies) top billing.
My group and I are kernel programmers.
You mean like the original version of Coca-Cola?
Isaac Asimov, writing as Paul French in the late '50s and/or early '60s, in the "Lucky" Starr books, had various cutting weapons featuring "force-field"-type blades. In other words, they were just hilts or handles until you press the "activate blade" button. Sort of electronic switchblades, but some of them had sword-length blades.
Shouldn't the lightsaber thing have been one story, and the "StarWars = Civil War" thing been a separate story?
Wouldn't the lightsaber maker article have been a lot better with more information about what he uses for blades, and more/better pictures of same?
Well, the Feild Effect Transistor may have that problem but 30 years ago Field Effect Transistors were being used to replace vacuum tubes. It was basically a tube bottom with the same pin layout as the tube and the FET with appropriate voltage dropping resistors. As a direct plug in replacement they had to work with the same power supply as had been the tube being replaced.
You are dangerously close to infringing upon my original satirical creation, the techno-bandwagon-hopping Israeli politician, Benjamin InternetingYahoo.
You're going to have to have a solution for whatever your real problem is that is not "home-made" due to liability issues. Anything that gets near a patient on oxygen with some sort of external power connection between the laptop and a high amp/hour source will have your insurance carriers screaming to high heaven. You're going to need something self-contained that some manufacturer has designed and built and had tested and certified for that specific set of circumstances.
Isn't armoire a French word? They probably expect you to pay them a royalty.
So if I tell my operating system to copy a CD to my hard drive your stuff will block that command?
Did you include the 2001 sound bite "I'm sorry Dave. I can't let you do that."?
If I use a SCSI drive can I get around it?
Will it erase stuff from my harddrive to which it thinks I don't have a right?
How 'bout we make it bloody obvious that it's going on and only when the owner of the machine wants it done?
There's entirely too much about the site describing this product that reminds me of a lot of what I read about the internet circa '94 to '96: It's all about how it's going to provide you with all these convenient new ways to spend money.
It is possible to be guilty of stealing one's own work if one has transferred ownership of that work. One remains the creator of the work, therefore it is still one's work, but no longer one's property.
By leaving out the first part of my last sentence-"If most of the masses were at that level of knowledge, ability, and comfortability with computers,..."-you ommitted the reason for my conclusion, that the masses aren't power users. If they were, computers with pre-loaded operating systems and apps would be a convenience instead of a necessity.
Actually I did see the movie, but that was about 40 years ago when I was young enough to think that a radiation belt was something with a buckle.
The Fairness Act (if we're talking about the same thing it was actually called The Fairness Doctrine) predates Limbaugh's rise by a decade or three. More like back around the days of Joe Pyne.
I think it was in Profiles of the Future that Arthur C. Clarke did a pretty good job of explaining why things, especially living things, are usually limited to being the size that they already are within an order of magnitude or so, but once you suspend that particular bit of disbelief Fantastic Voyage is a pretty good movie.
I could be wrong, my mind's eye needs glasses.
Blocks of ice (with a lot of mass) from high up on the glacier or iceberg or whatever break off due to heat and then fall due to gravity which gives those blocks enough momentum or inertia or whatever to continue travelling downward underwater for a while before the friction of the water absorbs enough of that energy for the displaced water to force the more buoyant ice back towards the surface.
Oh yeah, that's gonna happen. If most of the masses were at that level of knowledge, ability, and comfortability with computers, Wal-Mart could have just kept on selling "naked" PCs and let the buyer both decide what to install and do the installation.
The one with the smallest bladder.
Of course we do have a Wal-Mart.
Do you mean the only county seat in Arkansas? 'Cause there are plenty of Confederate memorials in front of plenty of courthouses elsewhere.
It's both amazing and frightening how many of those who replied don't realise that you were talking about MS Windows.
Weren't you?
They just said it runs most MS stuff, they didn't say anything about being able to install it. :-)