As an inground pool owner myself, I can tell you that clorinated water will not cause corrosion. After all, your ladders have metal legs. Corrosion is caused when your PH balance or alkalinity (measured in ppm) are off. Of course clorine is a little basic, so you have to take that into account when balancing your water, but once balanced, the clorine will not rust your metal.
No, the batteries in gas cars do not POWER them. They used to START them. I do not think it necessary to explain the meaning of "electric car." It's pretty a common term, and has never been applied to gas powered vehicles. I don't know if you are attempting to be obtuse, pedantic, or just back-peddling but it is obvious you just wish to argue. So, I just end this by saying good day.
With respect, you are wrong. I said "power something, such as a car, with a battery." The fact that the example device was a "car" immaterial, as it the fact that most car today are powered by gasoline.
Well, it could also be that I am miss remembering after all these years! Or (more likely), it was one of those days I was only paying half attention and he jumped topics on me. Either there way, my use of "dynamo" in my original post was my usage, not my electrician friend. He described a hand off of perpetual motion devices that he seriously believed worked. Besides that, he was a great electrician. Still, I cannot believe I have been using that word wrong all these years...sigh.
Well, either the usage is different in your part of the world, or it has changed since I took college phsyics (many, many years). Wikipedia seems to agree with you, but when I took physics in college, the professor used "dynamo" to mean a machine that continuously generated enough power to operate itself, with a surplus.
Yes, which is why I said *electric*. By the way, he also believes that if you had a boat with two powerful magnets as opposites ends, it would move without need for power. I cannot convince him that since since they are physically connected (by the boat), that they form a closed system and would not move the boat.
Well, the paster story was in various newspapers. Maybe the guy on the train yelled, "Oh shit, I missed my stop!" As for the electrician, I know a very good one with over 30 yrs experience, who whole-heartedly believes its possible to create dynamos (he believes that if you power something, such as a car, with a battery and use said device to recharge the battery, it will run forever).
Yes, and if you read my post, you'll see we use GCC also. Although, it has nothing to do with "maintaining the build environment." The tools you build with will ALWAYS be available. You don't necessarily upgrade or move to new tools just because they are available. We are using compilers that are 10 years old on some projects. A particular release is tied to its tools by your configuration management. If you need to rebuild a given release for some reason, it is always built with the same revision of the same tool.
Frankly, you don't know what you are talking about. I work for one of the larger contractors. My company has a strict policy against using any open source, not just GNU. They are terrified of the whole SCO thing. They are even sensivitive to the use of GNU tools. I recently had to explain to the higher ups that, just because software is written with EMACS does not force it to be open souce. They were also shocked when I told them that the compiler we use--the one that comes with VxWorks--is GCC, and is also GNU. Although, a lot of the software people consider as GNU, is not under the GPL (zlib, bzlib, ncurses, GMP).
Of course they are the same! When did I or the other poster say otherwise? And, by the way, neither is more exact than the other. The zero in.50 is NOT a significant digit. 0.5 and 0.50 have the same precision.
Um, just like it sounds: a decimal point, with the digits five and zero after it. I don't know how to make it any clearer. As in the other poster's link (good example by the way!). A fifty caliber rifle takes a bullet that is about.50 inches.
That's an issue that's been debated for years. Her critics say she was only a scribe and didn't understand what she was doing. Their "proof" is that there where several fundamental mathematical errors in her equations. Of course, what their don't tell you is that her programs were reviewed by several prominent mathematicians at the time, and they missed the errors too.
I don't know your definition of "obvious," but no, a "normal" OS cannot obviously guarantee meeting any dead-line, be it 10ms or 10 minutes. It many or many not meet it everytime that you have tested it, but that proves nothing. Such OS' are non-deterministic, and it is NOT possible guarantee any kind of dead-line. And latency is a different issue all together. Latency is not the same as a periodic rate. Latency is the measure of time between the occurrence of an event and when it is responded to (i.e., the elapsed time between the triggering of an interrupt and when the handler is executed).
And again, my point had nothing to do with the time period. I am not an audio engineer and cannot speak to whether 10ms is a good enough sampling rate, nor do I care. I am a software engineer specializing in real-time embedded systems. My point was that the person I responded to missed the OP's point that Windows, Linux, et. al., though may be sufficient, cannot guarantee you will meet your dead-line each and everytime. You may *know* that meeting your dead-line will not be an issue, but you cannot *prove* it without an OS that CAN make deterministic guarantees about time.
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Oh no? Put them in improper balanced water and then come talk to me. Believe me, I know. It is a misconception that stainless steel will not rust.
No, I mean't what I said. Chlorine is NOT acidic. It is basic (a base). It is on the opposite end of the PH scale from acids.
As an inground pool owner myself, I can tell you that clorinated water will not cause corrosion. After all, your ladders have metal legs. Corrosion is caused when your PH balance or alkalinity (measured in ppm) are off. Of course clorine is a little basic, so you have to take that into account when balancing your water, but once balanced, the clorine will not rust your metal.
Actually, Fortran is no longer capitalized.
No, we do not use "ADA", but we do use Ada.
"Lady in Red" Awesome song.
No, the batteries in gas cars do not POWER them. They used to START them. I do not think it necessary to explain the meaning of "electric car." It's pretty a common term, and has never been applied to gas powered vehicles. I don't know if you are attempting to be obtuse, pedantic, or just back-peddling but it is obvious you just wish to argue. So, I just end this by saying good day.
With respect, you are wrong. I said "power something, such as a car, with a battery." The fact that the example device was a "car" immaterial, as it the fact that most car today are powered by gasoline.
Well, it could also be that I am miss remembering after all these years! Or (more likely), it was one of those days I was only paying half attention and he jumped topics on me. Either there way, my use of "dynamo" in my original post was my usage, not my electrician friend. He described a hand off of perpetual motion devices that he seriously believed worked. Besides that, he was a great electrician. Still, I cannot believe I have been using that word wrong all these years...sigh.
Well, either the usage is different in your part of the world, or it has changed since I took college phsyics (many, many years). Wikipedia seems to agree with you, but when I took physics in college, the professor used "dynamo" to mean a machine that continuously generated enough power to operate itself, with a surplus.
Right, because as we all know, dynamos just magically appear out of thin air.
I don't understand your comment. Dynamos can't be made anymore than they could "magically appear."
Yes, which is why I said *electric*. By the way, he also believes that if you had a boat with two powerful magnets as opposites ends, it would move without need for power. I cannot convince him that since since they are physically connected (by the boat), that they form a closed system and would not move the boat.
Well, the paster story was in various newspapers. Maybe the guy on the train yelled, "Oh shit, I missed my stop!" As for the electrician, I know a very good one with over 30 yrs experience, who whole-heartedly believes its possible to create dynamos (he believes that if you power something, such as a car, with a battery and use said device to recharge the battery, it will run forever).
I understood what he meant, and I rarely use Linux and have never used Debian.
Well, that's because Evolution is fact.
Yes, and if you read my post, you'll see we use GCC also. Although, it has nothing to do with "maintaining the build environment." The tools you build with will ALWAYS be available. You don't necessarily upgrade or move to new tools just because they are available. We are using compilers that are 10 years old on some projects. A particular release is tied to its tools by your configuration management. If you need to rebuild a given release for some reason, it is always built with the same revision of the same tool.
Frankly, you don't know what you are talking about. I work for one of the larger contractors. My company has a strict policy against using any open source, not just GNU. They are terrified of the whole SCO thing. They are even sensivitive to the use of GNU tools. I recently had to explain to the higher ups that, just because software is written with EMACS does not force it to be open souce. They were also shocked when I told them that the compiler we use--the one that comes with VxWorks--is GCC, and is also GNU. Although, a lot of the software people consider as GNU, is not under the GPL (zlib, bzlib, ncurses, GMP).
Of course they are the same! When did I or the other poster say otherwise? And, by the way, neither is more exact than the other. The zero in .50 is NOT a significant digit. 0.5 and 0.50 have the same precision.
Um, just like it sounds: a decimal point, with the digits five and zero after it. I don't know how to make it any clearer. As in the other poster's link (good example by the way!). A fifty caliber rifle takes a bullet that is about .50 inches.
Wow, do you work for Verizon?
You're stretching it a bit. Turbo Pascal is an implementation of a language created by Nicolaus Wirth.
Yeah, except the language is "Ada" not "ADA."
That's an issue that's been debated for years. Her critics say she was only a scribe and didn't understand what she was doing. Their "proof" is that there where several fundamental mathematical errors in her equations. Of course, what their don't tell you is that her programs were reviewed by several prominent mathematicians at the time, and they missed the errors too.
I don't know your definition of "obvious," but no, a "normal" OS cannot obviously guarantee meeting any dead-line, be it 10ms or 10 minutes. It many or many not meet it everytime that you have tested it, but that proves nothing. Such OS' are non-deterministic, and it is NOT possible guarantee any kind of dead-line. And latency is a different issue all together. Latency is not the same as a periodic rate. Latency is the measure of time between the occurrence of an event and when it is responded to (i.e., the elapsed time between the triggering of an interrupt and when the handler is executed). And again, my point had nothing to do with the time period. I am not an audio engineer and cannot speak to whether 10ms is a good enough sampling rate, nor do I care. I am a software engineer specializing in real-time embedded systems. My point was that the person I responded to missed the OP's point that Windows, Linux, et. al., though may be sufficient, cannot guarantee you will meet your dead-line each and everytime. You may *know* that meeting your dead-line will not be an issue, but you cannot *prove* it without an OS that CAN make deterministic guarantees about time.