"but I bet I can make one [insert cheaper,better,faster,more powerful] than those guys can?"
Do that *before* they blaze the trail, i.e., have the idea in the first place, prove that it's possible, develop the tools necessary, etc., and then we'll be impressed and you will be entitled to benefit from your work without having to share the take. Otherwise negotiate a contract with them that lets them profit from having made your improvement on their work possible in the first place.
A show where a CIA agent seeking to thwart a presidential assasination plot figures that he's ahead of the curve enough to catch a good night's sleep. Yeah, that'll be gripping drama.
Unless they have him take several naps/meditation sessions where he battles the bad guys in some psychic realm or something. That could be be really wretched TV.
"It seems to be a phenomenon with my wife and me: the more we both enjoy a show, the more likely it is to get cancelled. (Fair Warning: CSI is looking interesting.)"
After the way CBS jerked us around with Big Apple, feel free to kill CSI (which the eyeball network seems to want to keep).
You and the missus aren't by any means the only ones to suffer from "*don't* ignore it and it'll go away" syndrome. I'm surprised that one of the networks hasn't hired me to sabatoge their competition by watching it.
"Sadly, ever area I develop any competency in, it ruins tv and movies that ever reference that subject matter."
I was working in radio broadcasting when WKRP came out and it was the hilarious exception to that rule. Both I and a lot of other announcers I've talked to over the years were sure that the writers and producers must have worked at some of the same stations that we had. The only thing they missed was a dramatization of a "dead air" dream.
Okay, nothing like the Thanksgiving promotion episode ever really happened, but it could have.
Nicholas Chauvin, who all these years I had thought to have been an actual person and officer in the French army who had a blind, unthinking loyalty to, and belief in the superiority in all aspects of, Napolean (the first one), turns out, apparently, to have been a character in a play. Real or fictitious, he still felt that way about Napolean, and it is that quality of "(country, race, sex, religion, etc.)X is (insert superlative here), and any and all evidence to the contrary won't convince me otherwise." which has come to be known as Chauvinism.
The Twilight Zone episode has the same plot (and punchline)as the short story because it's based on that same story.
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Actually these codes *are* updated on a regular basis, not to maintain a revenue stream, but to incorporate lessons learned (aluminum wiring being one good example) and to accomodate new technologies.
The National Fire Protection Association, for example, revises the National Electrical Code every 3 years.
The NFPA is a non-profit started years ago by insurance companies. (If nothing ever happens to you that an insurance company has to pay out on, count your blessings. You may have been saved by rules and laws designed to both protect you from harm and the insurance companies from loss. No matter how you feel about insurance companies, it's better if you don't get hurt.)
Local governments can incorporate some or all of the NEC into local building codes, but nobody's forcing them to. However it's probably good that they do. Imagine trying to manufacture products or write insurance policies if every community wrote their own codes with no consideration given to anybody else's. Imagine the cost to every community to create and maintain their own at a professional enough level to keep from being sued by half of the citizens.
Something either is, or is not, perfect. The Constitution may be, however, the most nearly perfect framework...
The DMCA and the Bono act could still wind up before the Supreme Court many different times, with different plantiffs and lawyers making different arguments, so the future of neither law is certain. In the meantime, check the Constitution for the legal definition of treason, and lighten up a bit. The Constitution gives us a means to work against laws with which we disagree without having to go to the extreme of taking up arms and replacing the government.
Every phosphor triad corresponds to a single opening (through which the 3 electron beams pass at different angles at a given instant in time) in the shadow mask. How much more well-defined than that can you get?
The rather warm inside of a PC probably isn't the best place for a lead-acid storage battery. The average home or office probably isn't a great place to keep many of the lead-acid battery types mentioned (automobile, marine, golf cart, etc.) They might give a lot more minutes of power than the sealed gel type in UPSes, but in addition to coantaining liquid sulphuric acid, they give off hydrogen fumes when charging (and some not too wonderful fumes when discharging as well).
Despite all of the AC to DC to AC to DC conversions involved and efficiency loss each time, the current system of inserting a UPS inline between the wall socket and the PC power supply is probably the best compromise currently do-able. You save money on a standardized PC power supply, you don't have to worry about leaking acid eating up your motherboard or hard drive or the battery exploding inside your PC, spraying acid everywhere, or dying an early death because of the heat, and you can get as small or as large a UPS as your needs and budget dictate.
I'm pretty sure that's Prentice-Hall, unless we're talking about two different companies.
It may make sense for "them furriners" to learn English instead of waiting for translations, but when was the last time you bought any hardware with a manual that didn't seem to have been translated into English from some other language? I probably know more about Japanese sentence structure than I think that I do (since I don't speak Japanese) just from trying to puzzle out the intended meaning of manuals allegedly written in English. Are these other poor guys going to have to learn proper English and then learn mangled English in order to understand tech documents?
I was enjoying reading the posts replying to this particular "Ask Slashdot", and learning stuff as well, until I got to your reply.
I don't know anything about Macs and welcomed MadCow42's explanation of resource forks, 'cause as little as he might know on the subject, it's more than I do. You come along with your cute little analogies (actually they ain't bad) to bolster your claim that Mac users are deficient in technical knowledge and talents, but contributed nothing more to my understanding of the topic at hand. If his explanation of resource forks is wrong or inadequate, where's your better one?
However, since I admire a well-crafted analogy as much as anybody, allow me to point out that any blind person presented with an automobile that would safely deliver them to their chosen destination without the need to depend upon any other person for assistance would probably be far too busy enjoying said vehicle to care about your opinion of their mechanical skills, and they probably wouldn't care much about the color of the car either.
I believe that "Unless, of course, I am wrong, in which case..." would be equally acceptable. The important part is to set off the almost parenthetical "of course" with commas.
Perhaps I should be a candidate for this. When I saw it in the slashbox I could have sworn that it said "NASA Technology Could Lead To Artificial Russians".
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Do that *before* they blaze the trail, i.e., have the idea in the first place, prove that it's possible, develop the tools necessary, etc., and then we'll be impressed and you will be entitled to benefit from your work without having to share the take. Otherwise negotiate a contract with them that lets them profit from having made your improvement on their work possible in the first place.
If you don't know anything about electronics go moderate some other story. "Out of the 'loop'" is an inductor pun.
I'm pretty sure that you're a few wars off and that it was actually World War I (one).
Better yet, ROT26 (i.e.,ROT 13 twice), or even ROT 42.
Unless they have him take several naps/meditation sessions where he battles the bad guys in some psychic realm or something. That could be be really wretched TV.
Just be glad there wasn't a TLG episode where *they* were in heat.
After the way CBS jerked us around with Big Apple, feel free to kill CSI (which the eyeball network seems to want to keep).
You and the missus aren't by any means the only ones to suffer from "*don't* ignore it and it'll go away" syndrome. I'm surprised that one of the networks hasn't hired me to sabatoge their competition by watching it.
Who said anything about teeth?
I was working in radio broadcasting when WKRP came out and it was the hilarious exception to that rule. Both I and a lot of other announcers I've talked to over the years were sure that the writers and producers must have worked at some of the same stations that we had. The only thing they missed was a dramatization of a "dead air" dream.
Okay, nothing like the Thanksgiving promotion episode ever really happened, but it could have.
Another instance of leave it on the air just long enough to get you interested in it and then, abracadabra, it disappears without a trace.
Are you sure you didn't mean suffix instead of prefix there?
Nicholas Chauvin, who all these years I had thought to have been an actual person and officer in the French army who had a blind, unthinking loyalty to, and belief in the superiority in all aspects of, Napolean (the first one), turns out, apparently, to have been a character in a play. Real or fictitious, he still felt that way about Napolean, and it is that quality of "(country, race, sex, religion, etc.)X is (insert superlative here), and any and all evidence to the contrary won't convince me otherwise." which has come to be known as Chauvinism.
The Twilight Zone episode has the same plot (and punchline)as the short story because it's based on that same story.
The National Fire Protection Association, for example, revises the National Electrical Code every 3 years.
The NFPA is a non-profit started years ago by insurance companies. (If nothing ever happens to you that an insurance company has to pay out on, count your blessings. You may have been saved by rules and laws designed to both protect you from harm and the insurance companies from loss. No matter how you feel about insurance companies, it's better if you don't get hurt.)
Local governments can incorporate some or all of the NEC into local building codes, but nobody's forcing them to. However it's probably good that they do. Imagine trying to manufacture products or write insurance policies if every community wrote their own codes with no consideration given to anybody else's. Imagine the cost to every community to create and maintain their own at a professional enough level to keep from being sued by half of the citizens.
The DMCA and the Bono act could still wind up before the Supreme Court many different times, with different plantiffs and lawyers making different arguments, so the future of neither law is certain. In the meantime, check the Constitution for the legal definition of treason, and lighten up a bit. The Constitution gives us a means to work against laws with which we disagree without having to go to the extreme of taking up arms and replacing the government.
Every phosphor triad corresponds to a single opening (through which the 3 electron beams pass at different angles at a given instant in time) in the shadow mask. How much more well-defined than that can you get?
Anybody know the Spanish word for "slashdotted"?
Despite all of the AC to DC to AC to DC conversions involved and efficiency loss each time, the current system of inserting a UPS inline between the wall socket and the PC power supply is probably the best compromise currently do-able. You save money on a standardized PC power supply, you don't have to worry about leaking acid eating up your motherboard or hard drive or the battery exploding inside your PC, spraying acid everywhere, or dying an early death because of the heat, and you can get as small or as large a UPS as your needs and budget dictate.
It may make sense for "them furriners" to learn English instead of waiting for translations, but when was the last time you bought any hardware with a manual that didn't seem to have been translated into English from some other language? I probably know more about Japanese sentence structure than I think that I do (since I don't speak Japanese) just from trying to puzzle out the intended meaning of manuals allegedly written in English. Are these other poor guys going to have to learn proper English and then learn mangled English in order to understand tech documents?
Isn't that supposed to be EETLA, Expanded Extended Three Letter Acronym?
No doubt you are experiencing unbounded joy at, contrary to your gloomy prediction, receiving exactly the moderation your post deserved.
I don't know anything about Macs and welcomed MadCow42's explanation of resource forks, 'cause as little as he might know on the subject, it's more than I do. You come along with your cute little analogies (actually they ain't bad) to bolster your claim that Mac users are deficient in technical knowledge and talents, but contributed nothing more to my understanding of the topic at hand. If his explanation of resource forks is wrong or inadequate, where's your better one?
However, since I admire a well-crafted analogy as much as anybody, allow me to point out that any blind person presented with an automobile that would safely deliver them to their chosen destination without the need to depend upon any other person for assistance would probably be far too busy enjoying said vehicle to care about your opinion of their mechanical skills, and they probably wouldn't care much about the color of the car either.
Perhaps I should be a candidate for this. When I saw it in the slashbox I could have sworn that it said "NASA Technology Could Lead To Artificial Russians".
Looked more like 2 hands full worth to me.