* Water may be used to extinguish packaging fires if batteries have not ruptured; water is not an effective extinguishing agent for a battery fire.
* For small fires involving the battery [extinguishing] media such as Lith-X or copper powder may be used, but should be applied with a long handled tool. Do not use CO2 or Halon directly on a battery fire as the exposed surface of the contained lithium may react with these materials.
* For larger fires involving lithium batteries, copious amounts of water may be applied, from a safe distance, to control the fire and protect adjacent materials and facilities.
Simply put, water won't do the trick. It may contain the fire (by dousing the flames / removing its heat from the equation), but it won't extinguish it. Also, dumping water onto a battery fire just causes a lot of steam. Depending on the size of fire and the amount of water (since the key term used above is copious), you could turn a sealed airplane into a pressure cooker in just a few minutes, and no one is going to be happy about that.
Wow. That's extremely offensive. Guess I'd expect that coming from an AC on/.; atleast I have the balls to post with my actual handle.
However, in my own defense, I've not shopped at Hot Topic in several years. I suppose you'd be one of the ones waiting outside such a place, berating the patrons. 'Omg, selloutz, indie rulezzz!'
My love for OS X can be summed up in a quote I saw somewhere. Somewhere else. A long time ago. 'Mac OS X: Because making BSD pretty was easier than fixing Windows.'
For me, changing how I moved the mouse was a consderable help. I'll elaborate...
My desk at home is rather high, so I had to get a higher chair to pull this off. I found it to be more natural, but only after getting one of those spiffy Loogie-tek MX1000 LAZAR RF mice. One has to move the mouse from the shoulder, or the elbow, not the wrist or forearm. My constant use of this little prick (mouse) led me to handling the mouse closer to my left forearm (if my left hand were to rest on the keyboard, my right hand and mouse would be found perpendicular to my left arm, parallel to my chest). This allowed movement almost completely from the shoulder and elbow. My wrist, thumb, and first two fingers felt relief almost instantly.
Can't say World of Warcraft never helped me. Having a good quality, comfortable mouse helped, too.
It's because George Lucas hasn't had his way with the originals, yet. Soon enough, the 'director's true vision' can be revealed to us. There will come a day.
extracts cash from you, either in the form of quarters or a reloadable card...
The low-tech solution for the one with clothes in the dryer is this: Check your watch when you start the dryer, do a little math, and come back in 45 minutes. If you're really worried you'll forget, set an alarm. You've probably got a kitchen timer at worst, and if you're reading Slashdot, chances are your watch has 25 alarm settings anyway.
*looks at student ID...*
*looks at cell phone alarm log...*
You know, I just got over the feeling that I was being watched. Thanks, a lot. Spot on, mate. Well done.
It's just a little measure of courtesy for the others around me who have to use the laundry the same as I do. I also don't want some dolt rifling through my wad of underpants because his are still wet and in a knot.
Upon refreshing the main page, I found a slide-out Microsoft flash ad. That thing was annoying as hell, and it keeps coming up.
On Adware and Myspace: it was a pandemic waiting to happen. One of those nasty traits of a large populus, is that when something becomes sufficiently commonplace and comfortable, it becomes an easy target. It's my understanding that myspace is riddled with holes, bugs, etc. That being said, it's only a matter of time until those are found, and exploited.
Though I understand it doesn't end with Myspace, as the attack used is not explicitly limited to that social networking service; it simply is the vehicle for the delivery, and a prime candidate with a vulnerable userbase.
Unrelatedly, I heard a random statistic that said that some asinine percentage of the net's streaming video traffic was due to Myspace. I brushed it off, as, well, that's a sortof silly thing to take to heart, but I wonder if there's any truth to it.
Absoutely nothing. This happened to a girl on my floor sophomore year. Her 'image' never really recovered, she's still mocked and berated to the point of depression for it. Another one had a similar issue, but she's sort of a bitch anyway.
Although some historians claim that Eisenhower's motivations were military in nature, the nation's civilian population reaped the rewards
True, but the military aspect played a huge part in the funding for the interstate highway system. The interstates provide a tried-and-true platform for moving tanks and other heavy war material a very long distance, with minimal fuel and minimum time. A column of tanks can move across the whole of our nation in about three days time. That's significant when you consider an enemy force not wanting 2,000 M1s staring at them.
It'd probably be a shittonne cheaper to setup and manage, too. Therefore, it's not going to cost the customer almost what they would pay for a month from a traditional ISP.
Even with an outlet, there's no way I'm going to pay 26.95 for a piss-poor connection with a ton of restrictions.
(The above assumes that the service is locked down against anything put port 80.)
Kyocera smart phones (the 7135 variety) had a problem like this a while back; the contents of the battery pack would leak and become super-heated. The resulting condition would cause pressure to build up within the skin of the battery cell and the cell would eventually fail, releasing some very angry super-charged gas. This burned a few people, IIRC, and Kyocera recalled the batteries.
I wonder if these fail in nay similar way, 'with force' as the Kyocera batteries did. It's one thing to stop working and gently split open. It's entirely another to stop working and blow apart.
While you do have a point, it is completely irrelevant in the context of this case. The fundamental design of these vehicles was never in question. That being said, would you care to make a counter-comparison?
My opinion pertains to troubleshooting a problem, and the ability or willingness to take the time to fix the problem correctly, in order to increase the productivity of the program in a safe manner. It would seem that others disagree with my position, and say that the crew are prepared to take the risk, and are expendable by rationalization of 'They knew it was dangerous.' I don't think that's acceptable.
And when Thirteen blew up due to a bad tank coil - 2/3rds of the way to the moon - they actually FIXED the problem before Fourteen left the pad.
Yes, it's perfectly dangerous, but there's no reason to make it worse by not performing your due dilligence, and building a spaceworthy craft. Yes, there are going to be problems, but there's something to be said for learning from your mistakes.
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Right, but because it's *gasp* iTunes Enabled, it's suddenly an iPod.
* Water may be used to extinguish packaging fires if batteries have not ruptured; water is not an effective extinguishing agent for a battery fire.
* For small fires involving the battery [extinguishing] media such as Lith-X or copper powder may be used, but should be applied with a long handled tool. Do not use CO2 or Halon directly on a battery fire as the exposed surface of the contained lithium may react with these materials.
* For larger fires involving lithium batteries, copious amounts of water may be applied, from a safe distance, to control the fire and protect adjacent materials and facilities.
Simply put, water won't do the trick. It may contain the fire (by dousing the flames / removing its heat from the equation), but it won't extinguish it. Also, dumping water onto a battery fire just causes a lot of steam. Depending on the size of fire and the amount of water (since the key term used above is copious), you could turn a sealed airplane into a pressure cooker in just a few minutes, and no one is going to be happy about that.
Yeah, but when you consider that it'll be the lowest 25% tax bracket paying for it...
Wow. That's extremely offensive. Guess I'd expect that coming from an AC on /.; atleast I have the balls to post with my actual handle.
However, in my own defense, I've not shopped at Hot Topic in several years. I suppose you'd be one of the ones waiting outside such a place, berating the patrons. 'Omg, selloutz, indie rulezzz!'
My love for OS X can be summed up in a quote I saw somewhere. Somewhere else. A long time ago. 'Mac OS X: Because making BSD pretty was easier than fixing Windows.'
...and Merom, I don't care. I'm saving my joys for a new OSX86 platform.
For me, changing how I moved the mouse was a consderable help. I'll elaborate...
My desk at home is rather high, so I had to get a higher chair to pull this off. I found it to be more natural, but only after getting one of those spiffy Loogie-tek MX1000 LAZAR RF mice. One has to move the mouse from the shoulder, or the elbow, not the wrist or forearm. My constant use of this little prick (mouse) led me to handling the mouse closer to my left forearm (if my left hand were to rest on the keyboard, my right hand and mouse would be found perpendicular to my left arm, parallel to my chest). This allowed movement almost completely from the shoulder and elbow. My wrist, thumb, and first two fingers felt relief almost instantly.
Can't say World of Warcraft never helped me. Having a good quality, comfortable mouse helped, too.
It's because George Lucas hasn't had his way with the originals, yet. Soon enough, the 'director's true vision' can be revealed to us. There will come a day.
extracts cash from you, either in the form of quarters or a reloadable card...
The low-tech solution for the one with clothes in the dryer is this: Check your watch when you start the dryer, do a little math, and come back in 45 minutes. If you're really worried you'll forget, set an alarm. You've probably got a kitchen timer at worst, and if you're reading Slashdot, chances are your watch has 25 alarm settings anyway.
*looks at student ID...*
*looks at cell phone alarm log...*
You know, I just got over the feeling that I was being watched. Thanks, a lot. Spot on, mate. Well done.
It's just a little measure of courtesy for the others around me who have to use the laundry the same as I do. I also don't want some dolt rifling through my wad of underpants because his are still wet and in a knot.
Aha! 'Software and System Development' in german. Gotcha. Neat.
...that it was called S.u.S.E. at one point. Did it stand for something?
It's funny that you picked up on that. Infact, I explicity stated almost exactly that in my initial post. Thanks for the contribution!
Upon refreshing the main page, I found a slide-out Microsoft flash ad. That thing was annoying as hell, and it keeps coming up.
On Adware and Myspace: it was a pandemic waiting to happen. One of those nasty traits of a large populus, is that when something becomes sufficiently commonplace and comfortable, it becomes an easy target. It's my understanding that myspace is riddled with holes, bugs, etc. That being said, it's only a matter of time until those are found, and exploited.
Though I understand it doesn't end with Myspace, as the attack used is not explicitly limited to that social networking service; it simply is the vehicle for the delivery, and a prime candidate with a vulnerable userbase.
Unrelatedly, I heard a random statistic that said that some asinine percentage of the net's streaming video traffic was due to Myspace. I brushed it off, as, well, that's a sortof silly thing to take to heart, but I wonder if there's any truth to it.
So you have good bo-staff skills. What about your numchucks skill? Or your bow hunting skill?
Could you substantiate that, please? I'm interested in the justification.
Any company that has agreed to the End User License Agreement on most of the software used by corporations everywhere.
They're called Auto Boots.
Absoutely nothing. This happened to a girl on my floor sophomore year. Her 'image' never really recovered, she's still mocked and berated to the point of depression for it. Another one had a similar issue, but she's sort of a bitch anyway.
Oh... hrm...
Although some historians claim that Eisenhower's motivations were military in nature, the nation's civilian population reaped the rewards
True, but the military aspect played a huge part in the funding for the interstate highway system. The interstates provide a tried-and-true platform for moving tanks and other heavy war material a very long distance, with minimal fuel and minimum time. A column of tanks can move across the whole of our nation in about three days time. That's significant when you consider an enemy force not wanting 2,000 M1s staring at them.
It'd probably be a shittonne cheaper to setup and manage, too. Therefore, it's not going to cost the customer almost what they would pay for a month from a traditional ISP.
Even with an outlet, there's no way I'm going to pay 26.95 for a piss-poor connection with a ton of restrictions.
(The above assumes that the service is locked down against anything put port 80.)
Kyocera smart phones (the 7135 variety) had a problem like this a while back; the contents of the battery pack would leak and become super-heated. The resulting condition would cause pressure to build up within the skin of the battery cell and the cell would eventually fail, releasing some very angry super-charged gas. This burned a few people, IIRC, and Kyocera recalled the batteries.
I wonder if these fail in nay similar way, 'with force' as the Kyocera batteries did. It's one thing to stop working and gently split open. It's entirely another to stop working and blow apart.
Because Visual Basic, like cheap beer, and Americas Funniest Home videos is an enabling technology for stupid people.
And this one on the next page doesn't?
s /seagate_momentus543/m54003_01.jpg.
http://xyzcomputing.com/images/stories/articlepic
I'd say that's pretty telling.
While you do have a point, it is completely irrelevant in the context of this case. The fundamental design of these vehicles was never in question. That being said, would you care to make a counter-comparison?
My opinion pertains to troubleshooting a problem, and the ability or willingness to take the time to fix the problem correctly, in order to increase the productivity of the program in a safe manner. It would seem that others disagree with my position, and say that the crew are prepared to take the risk, and are expendable by rationalization of 'They knew it was dangerous.' I don't think that's acceptable.
And when Thirteen blew up due to a bad tank coil - 2/3rds of the way to the moon - they actually FIXED the problem before Fourteen left the pad.
Yes, it's perfectly dangerous, but there's no reason to make it worse by not performing your due dilligence, and building a spaceworthy craft. Yes, there are going to be problems, but there's something to be said for learning from your mistakes.
Funny you mention that...