Try middle or right clicking on the "Reply" button for the entire story (the one you'd use if you were going for a "First Post") and you'll see the problem the parent poster is talking about. Buttons aren't links, which is why I see this as more of a Slashdot problem than a browser problem.
It took me a moment to realise that you're talking about hitting the "Reply" button for the whole story (which ought to be called "make a comment") rather than the "Reply to this" link under each comment. I've been annoyed by your problem myself in the past.
Maybe the problem is as much a Slashdot bug as it is a Firefox bug. If the Reply button was a link instead we could just right click and open in new tab or (in IE, shudder) new window.
He wasn't asking whether to get an LCD or CRT monitor. He already made that decision. He is currently having a problem with his LCD monitor that he didn't have previously, so obviously the problem is not something intrinsic to all LCD monitors or his monitor would have displayed those symptoms consistently from first use.
"A silver standard? I assume you mean gold standard."
As I recall from somewhere around 1962 when the one dollar bill was re-designed they dropped the words "Silver Certificate" and the small print about it being redeemable in silver.
Democratic, not Democrat. Legislator is a noun, it should be modified by an adjective, and you shouldn't allow yourself to be part of the Republican's deliberate degradation of the language which they have been doing in an effort to turn the word "Democrat" into an epithet as they have done with "Liberal".
If what you're trying to say is that 1 billion watts is a gigawatt and not a terawatt that's correct where 1 billion is equal to one thousand million, however, there are parts of the world where 1 billion is equal to 1 million million.
"We had the original electrician who installed the line back out to test. His voltmeter was showing about 20-30V between the neutral and ground. According to code (IANALE), these lines are supposed to be connected at the panel."
Depends on what you mean by panel.
The "ground" (the green or bare wire, which under normal conditions carries NO current) and the "neutral" (the white wire, which DOES carry current in a 120 Volt circuit and should be assumed to carry current in all others for safety's sake) must be bonded together (and bonded to the building ground rod or ground system) AT THE METER (service entrance), and everywhere "downstream" of that the neutral MUST be separate and insulated from ground.
"Except that gold has no value either. Oh, its kind of pretty, but it has no real use."
Yeah, it's not like it conducts electricity or anything like that.
From wikipedia:
Applications
Pure gold is too soft for ordinary use and is hardened by alloying with silver, copper, and other metals. Gold and its many alloys are most often used in jewelry, coinage and as a standard for monetary exchange in many countries. Because of its high electrical conductivity and resistance to corrosion and other desirable combinations of physical and chemical properties, gold also emerged in the late 20th century as an essential industrial metal.
* Gold can be made into thread and used in embroidery.
* Gold performs critical functions in computers, communications equipment, spacecraft, jet aircraft engines, and a host of other products.
* The resistance to oxidation of gold has led to its widespread use as thin layers electroplated on the surface of electrical connectors to ensure a good connection.
* Gold is used in restorative dentistry especially in tooth restorations such as crowns and bridges.
* Colloidal gold (a gold nanoparticle) is an intensely colored solution that is currently studied in many labs for medical, biological and other applications. It is also the form used as gold paint on ceramics prior to firing.
* Chlorauric acid is used in photography for toning the silver image.
* Gold(III) chloride is used as a catalyst in organic chemistry. It is also the usual starting point for making other gold compounds.
* Gold is used as a coating enabling biological material to be viewed under a scanning electron microscope.
* Many competitions and honors, such as the Olympics and the Nobel Prize, award a gold medal to the winner (with silver to the second-place finisher, and bronze to the third.)
* Since it is a good reflector of both infrared and visible light, it is used for the protective coatings on many artificial satellites.
* Disodium aurothiomalate is a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (administered intramuscularly). It inhibits lymphocyte proliferation, lysosomal enzyme release, the release of reactive oxygen species from macrophages, and IL-1 production. However, it can also cause photosensitive rashes, gastrointestinal disturbance, and kidney damage.
* The gold isotope Au-198, (half-life: 2.7 days) is used in some cancer treatments and for treating other diseases.
* Gold flake is used on and in some gourmet sweets and drinks. Called varak or (varaq) in India. Having no reactivity it adds no taste but is taken as a delicacy. Some use it as an excuse to create super-expensive delicacies ($1,000 cocktails). For similar reasons, it also used as the basis for some superstitious, over the top, health claims. Only the salts and radioisotopes (mentioned above) have any evidence of medicinal value.
* White gold (an alloy of gold with platinum, palladium, nickel, and/or zinc) serves as a substitute for platinum.
* Green gold (a gold/silver alloy) is used in specialized jewelry while gold alloys with copper (reddish color) are more widely used for that purpose (rose gold).
Power supplies aren't noisy, their cooling fans are.
An external supply might still need a fan, plus the cabling will be a pain in the posterior.
Something you're also overlooking, the internal power supply's fan is part of the overall cooling system for the case and its contents. You'll still need a fan inside the case.
Back in the PC/XT days there was a case that needed some of the holes in the front covered up in order to increase the velocity of the air being pulled through the case by the internal power supply's fan in order to get enough cooling. It's all a system.
An internal supply with a quality quiet fan will probably have all its other components of a similar high quality, including big efficient heat sinks, and enough power output available (i.e., a low enough output impedence) that it'll probably be loafing along most of the time which means lower stress on its components and a longer life, so skimping on the power supply may well be false economy. A server needs to be stable and reliable. A first rate power supply is the first step towards that. A lot of what appear to be other hardware or software problems often turn out to be caused by a dodgy power supply.
The lesson I take from the little red book story isn't to do with whether or not it was true, but that we've reached the point that it's so easy to believe a story like that.
I'm sure there must be some story someone could tell about King George the 43rd and his court that would make me go "No way, even they wouldn't do that", but I can't seem to think of anything at the moment.
Seriously, thank you for a thought provoking reply.
By the way, about that student who claimed to have been visited by DHS agents wanting a word with him about his interest in the late Chairman's best seller. Turns out he made it up.
Let's see, he posts for the first time Wednesday night (U.S. Eastern Time Zone), about 4 hours later some AC appoints themselves spokesman for Canada and rudely invites him to stay away from there. He replies to the AC's post about 24 hours after his own post. About 24 hours after that your post, in reply to his first post, shows up, apparently ignoring the entire 2 intervening posts.
So I was mistaken, you didn't fail to read up, you didn't read down.
At that point he replies to you, about a day and a half later, and takes a tone which makes me think that wherever he left got the better of the deal, and, unfortunately, the conversation continued on that level.
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Funny, Dick Cheney was saying the same thing just the other day. :-)
There is no "reply to this" button (not link) for the story itself.
When the link is not a link but a button, it doesn't work that way. He's talking about the "Reply" button at the top of the comments section.
Try middle or right clicking on the "Reply" button for the entire story (the one you'd use if you were going for a "First Post") and you'll see the problem the parent poster is talking about. Buttons aren't links, which is why I see this as more of a Slashdot problem than a browser problem.
Maybe the problem is as much a Slashdot bug as it is a Firefox bug. If the Reply button was a link instead we could just right click and open in new tab or (in IE, shudder) new window.
He wasn't asking whether to get an LCD or CRT monitor. He already made that decision. He is currently having a problem with his LCD monitor that he didn't have previously, so obviously the problem is not something intrinsic to all LCD monitors or his monitor would have displayed those symptoms consistently from first use.
Me too. Those cables are way overpriced. :-)
Yeah, but does it render porn sites in ASCII art?
What internet browser are you using, Arachne?
Seriously, are you using a DOS-based browser?
It still is. It'll get you busted for kiddie porn.
Child bearing remains potentially dangerous no matter what the age of the pregnant female.
Not female ones, anyway.
Steam it open, wrap it around a brick, and send it back."
Why waste a perfectly good brick on a golden opportunity to get rid of all those AOL, Lycos, etc. CDs piling up all over the house?
As I recall from somewhere around 1962 when the one dollar bill was re-designed they dropped the words "Silver Certificate" and the small print about it being redeemable in silver.
Democratic, not Democrat. Legislator is a noun, it should be modified by an adjective, and you shouldn't allow yourself to be part of the Republican's deliberate degradation of the language which they have been doing in an effort to turn the word "Democrat" into an epithet as they have done with "Liberal".
A terawatt is 1 billion watts, ...
Good-bye, credibility...."
If what you're trying to say is that 1 billion watts is a gigawatt and not a terawatt that's correct where 1 billion is equal to one thousand million, however, there are parts of the world where 1 billion is equal to 1 million million.
Now add to that all the years during which you really stunk up the place to get your true age. :-)
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by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18, @09:31AM (#14499103)
17 March 2005
So you're saying that it's a St. Patrick's Day joke?
Depends on what you mean by panel.
The "ground" (the green or bare wire, which under normal conditions carries NO current) and the "neutral" (the white wire, which DOES carry current in a 120 Volt circuit and should be assumed to carry current in all others for safety's sake) must be bonded together (and bonded to the building ground rod or ground system) AT THE METER (service entrance), and everywhere "downstream" of that the neutral MUST be separate and insulated from ground.
Oh, it's only a game. Thank God, I was afraid for a moment there that they were going to screw up another TV show.
And be snappy about it. Frank Converse ain't gonna live forever, you know.
Yeah, it's not like it conducts electricity or anything like that.
From wikipedia:
Applications
Pure gold is too soft for ordinary use and is hardened by alloying with silver, copper, and other metals. Gold and its many alloys are most often used in jewelry, coinage and as a standard for monetary exchange in many countries. Because of its high electrical conductivity and resistance to corrosion and other desirable combinations of physical and chemical properties, gold also emerged in the late 20th century as an essential industrial metal.
* Gold can be made into thread and used in embroidery.
* Gold performs critical functions in computers, communications equipment, spacecraft, jet aircraft engines, and a host of other products.
* The resistance to oxidation of gold has led to its widespread use as thin layers electroplated on the surface of electrical connectors to ensure a good connection.
* Gold is used in restorative dentistry especially in tooth restorations such as crowns and bridges.
* Colloidal gold (a gold nanoparticle) is an intensely colored solution that is currently studied in many labs for medical, biological and other applications. It is also the form used as gold paint on ceramics prior to firing.
* Chlorauric acid is used in photography for toning the silver image.
* Gold(III) chloride is used as a catalyst in organic chemistry. It is also the usual starting point for making other gold compounds.
* Gold is used as a coating enabling biological material to be viewed under a scanning electron microscope.
* Many competitions and honors, such as the Olympics and the Nobel Prize, award a gold medal to the winner (with silver to the second-place finisher, and bronze to the third.)
* Since it is a good reflector of both infrared and visible light, it is used for the protective coatings on many artificial satellites.
* Disodium aurothiomalate is a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (administered intramuscularly). It inhibits lymphocyte proliferation, lysosomal enzyme release, the release of reactive oxygen species from macrophages, and IL-1 production. However, it can also cause photosensitive rashes, gastrointestinal disturbance, and kidney damage.
* The gold isotope Au-198, (half-life: 2.7 days) is used in some cancer treatments and for treating other diseases.
* Gold flake is used on and in some gourmet sweets and drinks. Called varak or (varaq) in India. Having no reactivity it adds no taste but is taken as a delicacy. Some use it as an excuse to create super-expensive delicacies ($1,000 cocktails). For similar reasons, it also used as the basis for some superstitious, over the top, health claims. Only the salts and radioisotopes (mentioned above) have any evidence of medicinal value.
* White gold (an alloy of gold with platinum, palladium, nickel, and/or zinc) serves as a substitute for platinum.
* Green gold (a gold/silver alloy) is used in specialized jewelry while gold alloys with copper (reddish color) are more widely used for that purpose (rose gold).
Nope, no real use.
An external supply might still need a fan, plus the cabling will be a pain in the posterior.
Something you're also overlooking, the internal power supply's fan is part of the overall cooling system for the case and its contents. You'll still need a fan inside the case.
Back in the PC/XT days there was a case that needed some of the holes in the front covered up in order to increase the velocity of the air being pulled through the case by the internal power supply's fan in order to get enough cooling. It's all a system.
An internal supply with a quality quiet fan will probably have all its other components of a similar high quality, including big efficient heat sinks, and enough power output available (i.e., a low enough output impedence) that it'll probably be loafing along most of the time which means lower stress on its components and a longer life, so skimping on the power supply may well be false economy. A server needs to be stable and reliable. A first rate power supply is the first step towards that. A lot of what appear to be other hardware or software problems often turn out to be caused by a dodgy power supply.
I'm sure there must be some story someone could tell about King George the 43rd and his court that would make me go "No way, even they wouldn't do that", but I can't seem to think of anything at the moment.
Seriously, thank you for a thought provoking reply.
By the way, about that student who claimed to have been visited by DHS agents wanting a word with him about his interest in the late Chairman's best seller. Turns out he made it up.
So I was mistaken, you didn't fail to read up, you didn't read down.
At that point he replies to you, about a day and a half later, and takes a tone which makes me think that wherever he left got the better of the deal, and, unfortunately, the conversation continued on that level.