/usr/bin/shred is your friend. Won't always do the job, but usually suffices. Destroying the hard drive is excessive, unless you're running for public office.
Inkjet printers with feeds from large tanks exist. Be prepared to pay several thousand dollars for one. They're designed to make large prints, a yard wide or more.
I have Canon prints now 9 years old. Keep them out of the light, keep them out of the air, no problem. (In other words, stack them in a neat pile when you're not looking at them.)
The cheapest LED lights that run from 120V are nightlights. The circuit consists of a capacitor to control current by I=C*dV/dt, a resistor to limit current when voltage spikes, a rectifier bridge so that the LED glows on both half cycles, and the LED. Sometimes there's an additional capacitor added for some reason. Any current draw variation caused by LED tempco is too small to be meaningful. No transistors of any type needed.
CFL's and "long-tube-style fluorescent bulbs" use the same mechanism, a phosphor activated by the UV generated by mercury discharge. Sodium and mercury vapor both use the gas discharge directly, no phosphor involved.
One of the biggest problem with unions is that (like insurance companies) they are inherently unproductive. They produce NOTHING, they are a drain on the economy. Unlike insurance companies, their inherent shortsightedness causes them to actually oppose productiveness, in order to get more union members to do the same amount of work, thereby increasing the union's power.
The truth is 40 hour weeks, Saturday and Sunday off, are due to productivity improving enough to make rich lifestyles possible with that small an amount of work. Unions always fight productivity improvement unless there is obviously no alternative that leaves the employer solvent. If unions were universal before the start of the Industrial Revolution, the Industrial Revolution would never have occurred.
Do you think that we would have the advances that Edison and others provided if they'd only worked 40 hour weeks?
Another health disadvantage of frequent washing is that it reduces the formation of vitamin D. Skin exudes oils, sunshine converts some components of the oils to vitamin D, and the vitamin is absorbed back into the body. If you wash frequently, you eliminate the oils that the vitamin D is made from and any of the vitamin still on the surface. Furthermore, the oils might have some sunblock activity (but I'm only guessing).
Urine is usually pretty clean from a bacterial standpoint; you want to get it off your hands mostly because it smells bad and stains fabrics. (Rinsing is adequate.) But the whole crotch is damp and warm, an ideal place for the development of bacteria. Guys should clean their hands after urinating because they've touched an area rich in bacteria that like to live on humans, and spreading it to another person isn't very nice.
Annual traffic deaths in the US are about 40,000 a year, including pedestrians, and trending down. 2008 is the first year to break under 40,000. 1950s, 1960s, the annual rate was about 55,000. Thank improved technology and (maybe) increased social disdain of drunken driving.
means turning in Jews in Nazi Germany. Playing by the rules means turning in dissenters in Soviet Russia. Playing by the rules is unrelated to justice.
Sticky gunk on fans and electronics isn't necessarily from smoking or pets. Cooking fumes can penetrate a large portion of a house and carry a lot of grease. There will even be some oils on your breath after a greasy meal.
The people who keep fighting against it are the retarded ones; they're the people too stupid or lazy to look up "gimp" in a dictionary. They're the ones too immature to acknowledge the name and move on, the ones who need to get a life.
Gitmo exists because the US needs a place to interrogate or isolate enemy warriors who otherwise should be shot. This is not a question of "security risks"; these aren't people with secrets that we can't afford to have leak. These are captured unconventional soldiers who will return to making war against the US if released, as some of those already released have already done.
The US is fighting against people who do not even pretend to follow the Geneva conventions. We are crippling ourselves for no possible gain if we follow the rules when the enemy doesn't.
The unit of resolution is lines per distance (or cycles per distance). 1920x1200 -> 960x600 is half resolution, not quarter. Using pixels per area and calling it resolution is either the ignorant or the dishonest language of salesmen and marketers.
I hope they use the extra time to make things stable, organized, configurable and documented. More descriptive tooltips would help, too.
I recently installed Fedora 11 and in only 3 weeks I've lost the abilty to see the top of the cube, to focus on no windows, to zoom using the scroll wheel, and to bring up a menu by clicking over the desktop. Compiz configuration is hopelessly disorganized. Advice from user forums points to menu entries that don't exist and suggest changes that have no effect.
On the plus side, gnome has the first edge flip I've ever used that is good enough that I don't turn it off after a few days. Now if they'd only make an option to require an ALT key or button press for edge flip and I'd be a lot happier.
Also, it crashes occasionally, but I don't know for sure that the fault is with gnome and not firefox or something else.
I too was skeptical. But last night there was a presentation on cloud computing at Monadlug, and rerendering for a video service to insert new advertisements was given as an example. This is something that is being done NOW, a few dollars paying for 20 minutes of time on someone's "cloud", that would otherwise require that the video service buy a whole roomfull of expensive multiprocessor computers.
Amazon and Rackspace and others are already offering cloud services. I don't like it - I think everyone should own all the processing power they need - but cloud computing is here, it's real, and it performs a valuable economic function.
___AMD and Intel have made agreements previously, only to not be happy with the results. In particular, the first time, it looked very much as if as soon as they agreed to cross-license, AMD stopped innovating and depended upon Intel for product development. Intel felt cheated.
AMD and Intel have also agreed to stop suing each other previously. I wonder how long it will last this time.
The good news is that for a while some lawyers won't be getting any money.
IIRC MP3 cuts off at about 15 kHz, so anything that is only content above 15 kHz will be silence through MP3 and not silence uncompressed. That's a substantial difference.
Apparently, it's a common feature in the UK to have a single high current line supplying most of the house. In the US, there would be several breakers and several wires for the same purpose.
I like the UK scheme. It's more economical and more rugged. Protection is provided where it's needed, at the individual plug. The big disadvantage is that if you do manage to make a good solid short at one outlet, you trip the main breaker and the whole house goes dark.
The UK uses 240 V, which also reduces wiring losses in the house This is a big deal in these days of conservation, and it's nice not to have the lights dim when you switch on a vacuum cleaner.
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/usr/bin/shred is your friend. Won't always do the job, but usually suffices. Destroying the hard drive is excessive, unless you're running for public office.
Inkjet printers with feeds from large tanks exist. Be prepared to pay several thousand dollars for one. They're designed to make large prints, a yard wide or more.
I have Canon prints now 9 years old. Keep them out of the light, keep them out of the air, no problem. (In other words, stack them in a neat pile when you're not looking at them.)
The cheapest LED lights that run from 120V are nightlights. The circuit consists of a capacitor to control current by I=C*dV/dt, a resistor to limit current when voltage spikes, a rectifier bridge so that the LED glows on both half cycles, and the LED. Sometimes there's an additional capacitor added for some reason. Any current draw variation caused by LED tempco is too small to be meaningful. No transistors of any type needed.
CFL's and "long-tube-style fluorescent bulbs" use the same mechanism, a phosphor activated by the UV generated by mercury discharge. Sodium and mercury vapor both use the gas discharge directly, no phosphor involved.
One of the biggest problem with unions is that (like insurance companies) they are inherently unproductive. They produce NOTHING, they are a drain on the economy. Unlike insurance companies, their inherent shortsightedness causes them to actually oppose productiveness, in order to get more union members to do the same amount of work, thereby increasing the union's power.
That's it, spread union propaganda.
The truth is 40 hour weeks, Saturday and Sunday off, are due to productivity improving enough to make rich lifestyles possible with that small an amount of work. Unions always fight productivity improvement unless there is obviously no alternative that leaves the employer solvent. If unions were universal before the start of the Industrial Revolution, the Industrial Revolution would never have occurred.
Do you think that we would have the advances that Edison and others provided if they'd only worked 40 hour weeks?
Success of our policy is shown by the relative absence of terrorist violence. As such, it is hard to demonstrate.
Nonetheless, there have been serious and unnecessary abuses of our laws and traditions that are doing significant harm. We are headed toward tyranny.
Another health disadvantage of frequent washing is that it reduces the formation of vitamin D. Skin exudes oils, sunshine converts some components of the oils to vitamin D, and the vitamin is absorbed back into the body. If you wash frequently, you eliminate the oils that the vitamin D is made from and any of the vitamin still on the surface. Furthermore, the oils might have some sunblock activity (but I'm only guessing).
Urine is usually pretty clean from a bacterial standpoint; you want to get it off your hands mostly because it smells bad and stains fabrics. (Rinsing is adequate.) But the whole crotch is damp and warm, an ideal place for the development of bacteria. Guys should clean their hands after urinating because they've touched an area rich in bacteria that like to live on humans, and spreading it to another person isn't very nice.
Annual traffic deaths in the US are about 40,000 a year, including pedestrians, and trending down. 2008 is the first year to break under 40,000. 1950s, 1960s, the annual rate was about 55,000. Thank improved technology and (maybe) increased social disdain of drunken driving.
Except when "benched" is short for "bench-pressed", as in "He benched 200 pounds."
means turning in Jews in Nazi Germany. Playing by the rules means turning in dissenters in Soviet Russia. Playing by the rules is unrelated to justice.
Sticky gunk on fans and electronics isn't necessarily from smoking or pets. Cooking fumes can penetrate a large portion of a house and carry a lot of grease. There will even be some oils on your breath after a greasy meal.
The people who keep fighting against it are the retarded ones; they're the people too stupid or lazy to look up "gimp" in a dictionary. They're the ones too immature to acknowledge the name and move on, the ones who need to get a life.
Gitmo exists because the US needs a place to interrogate or isolate enemy warriors who otherwise should be shot. This is not a question of "security risks"; these aren't people with secrets that we can't afford to have leak. These are captured unconventional soldiers who will return to making war against the US if released, as some of those already released have already done.
The US is fighting against people who do not even pretend to follow the Geneva conventions. We are crippling ourselves for no possible gain if we follow the rules when the enemy doesn't.
The unit of resolution is lines per distance (or cycles per distance). 1920x1200 -> 960x600 is half resolution, not quarter. Using pixels per area and calling it resolution is either the ignorant or the dishonest language of salesmen and marketers.
How long has this been around? Probably as long as coke. So now they think it should be made illegal. Idiots.
I hope they use the extra time to make things stable, organized, configurable and documented. More descriptive tooltips would help, too.
I recently installed Fedora 11 and in only 3 weeks I've lost the abilty to see the top of the cube, to focus on no windows, to zoom using the scroll wheel, and to bring up a menu by clicking over the desktop. Compiz configuration is hopelessly disorganized. Advice from user forums points to menu entries that don't exist and suggest changes that have no effect.
On the plus side, gnome has the first edge flip I've ever used that is good enough that I don't turn it off after a few days. Now if they'd only make an option to require an ALT key or button press for edge flip and I'd be a lot happier.
Also, it crashes occasionally, but I don't know for sure that the fault is with gnome and not firefox or something else.
I too was skeptical. But last night there was a presentation on cloud computing at Monadlug, and rerendering for a video service to insert new advertisements was given as an example. This is something that is being done NOW, a few dollars paying for 20 minutes of time on someone's "cloud", that would otherwise require that the video service buy a whole roomfull of expensive multiprocessor computers.
Amazon and Rackspace and others are already offering cloud services. I don't like it - I think everyone should own all the processing power they need - but cloud computing is here, it's real, and it performs a valuable economic function.
RTFA. Animation of a dress worn by a model of a size specified by the user is given as an example.
Some viewers ignore extensions and determine image type by the 4CC: The first 4 bytes of a file, which in many cases identify the actual file type.
___AMD and Intel have made agreements previously, only to not be happy with the results. In particular, the first time, it looked very much as if as soon as they agreed to cross-license, AMD stopped innovating and depended upon Intel for product development. Intel felt cheated.
AMD and Intel have also agreed to stop suing each other previously. I wonder how long it will last this time.
The good news is that for a while some lawyers won't be getting any money.
IIRC MP3 cuts off at about 15 kHz, so anything that is only content above 15 kHz will be silence through MP3 and not silence uncompressed. That's a substantial difference.
Apparently, it's a common feature in the UK to have a single high current line supplying most of the house. In the US, there would be several breakers and several wires for the same purpose.
I like the UK scheme. It's more economical and more rugged. Protection is provided where it's needed, at the individual plug. The big disadvantage is that if you do manage to make a good solid short at one outlet, you trip the main breaker and the whole house goes dark.
The UK uses 240 V, which also reduces wiring losses in the house This is a big deal in these days of conservation, and it's nice not to have the lights dim when you switch on a vacuum cleaner.