Codes requiring plenum rated cable came out after it became a problem, therefore older installations are often not plenum rated. Also even plenum rated cable gives off toxic fumes when burned, it just so more slowly. Additionally multiple installations can block more of the airflow then is desirable causing other problems.
This assumes that blood clotting was always critical to life,rather than merely beneficial. If you assume a primitive organism that merely had slightly enriched sea water running through its circulatory system, then clotting is beneficial, but not crucial to life. It therefore becomes possible to develop a low level clotting factor as a non emergency repair mechanism. I am not saying this is the way it happened, but if I can come up with a possible scenario in 2 minutes, random chance can come up with one given long enough.
Read R. Heinlein's "Friday" it has a strong argument agreeing with the parent statement. Admittedly it's primarily talking about biological constructs rather than computers/automation, but it's still applicable.
The upshot is that a human will do their level best in an emergency to save the passengers/plane. A computer can only do what it was programmed to do and this limits its ability/desire to react to an unforseen situation. For that reason, in critical applications, I'll still fly with the airline with a human pilot.
Why bother. Given the number of products available on the market companies will not be able to uniqely encode each item, only each type of item as in UPC's. Therefore stores that use RFID as inventory control will have to disable the rfid chip before it can pass through their inventory control readers at the exit. If you start to see a store passing their sold product around the inventory control barriers (as video stores do, although for a different reason) you may have reason to worry.
Finally if it really worries you, peel the RFID tags out of items where you can identify them (books are a common source), paste them on cards and carry a couple hundred around in your wallet. Anyone trying to read them off you at any range will get a hundred overlapping responses and not be able to make heads nor tails from any of them.
That also assumes that you only spend 10k of your own money. $12000/$150 dollars per hour equals 80 hours of lawyer, and even at that the RIAA's lawyers proably cost more than 150. The simple problem is the RIAA can spend enough and tie things up long enough that very few individuals could hope to compete without significant outside assitance.
I went to RPI, I payed exactly 0 out of pocket immediately (although I did have about 25k in loans at graduation). This guy, on the other hand, was almost definitely paying some out of pocket if he had that much in the bank. Whatever financial assitance you get is based on how much you have/need. I wonder what losing this much money in a chunk does to his ability to finish school.
Basic themoduanmics require that any produced fuel is going to take more energy to produce than it will yield. This does not mean the process should be neglected. The issue is portability of ethanol versus the portability of the fuel going into making it. While this does not counter all the arguments made in this article it does counter some. Since some of the energy required for generation could come from non-mobile, renewable sources (solar for heat in ethanol distillation, wind for grinding corn, etc.) the process may still have some economic and enviromental viability.
Pardon me, but the last time I checked orbital mechanics defined the position of a satellite rather well. Therefore it is possible to say if we disable/degrade this satellite at this time, and then that one at such and such a time, performance will be severly curtailed in such and such a region. I would tend to suspect that the US military has the capability to do this selectively. ( I would, if I owned the system)
To the best of my knowledge google has never altered their search results to Rank Up advertisers. They do head the page with a couple of sponsored links, and more down the side, but the results themselves are clean. I don't think that's likely to change even if they do IPO. I don't mind a few ads, especially since they are usually on topic, and since they don't interfere with the search. (Suprisingly companies do have a right to try to make money.)
At work I use a Windoze machine, and google many times a day. At home I am a Mac user and google once in a while. Using google as basis for statistics is stretching it at best.
You know, when I was a kid I played with cap pistols, squirt guns (some of them suprisingly realistic) and the like. Yet suprisingle I have no plans to pick up a gun and shoot someone. I'm not quite sure where the connection is being drawn from.
Machine the entire thing out of a really big block of aluminum. Hard anodize (you can even get pretty colors). Reanodize periodically. Sure this would cost ridiculous amounts of money but it would work. The issue is not so much materials, beyond making sure they are regionally appropriate. The issue is workmanship and upkeep. If you buy a poorly built frame and plasterboard house, its going to cost a mint to keep it going. If you buy a well built beam and block house the operating costs will be lower, but you will still have some. The Victorian houses that keep getting mentioned are still around because they were used and maintained.
Anyone notice the twin comments in discussing Apple's risk in opening Apple stores? Specifically that the Mac user base hasn't grown in ten years, and that the market share has flatlined at 3%. Now unless the total number of computer userers hasn't changed at all in the past ten years, there's just a little something incompatable with those statemtents.
The original objections to aspartame were based on it causing cancer in lab rats. If they were dosed with some ridiculous amount each day. It is virtually impossible to consume that much.
Also, personally, I just think that placebos prevent cancer in lab rats.:)
Minor addition, but if you cannot positively identify what you are alergic to, that is also a probable sign of a psychosomatic response.
As in "I am allergic to pizza, without a definition if its the dairy, grain, tomotae, or other toppings."
I'd like to see a the wording on that. It's fairly inexpensive to rip obsolete, even dead proccesors from machines.
Here, I'll sell you a 8086 proccesor for 50 cents, would you like an OEM copy of windows XP to go along with it?
Speaking based only from a political standpoint, there is still a benefit to this. Some of that hydrocarbon fuel can be coal, which is still a domestic product, thus decreasing foreign oil dependence.
From the enviromental standpoint centralizing the production would be somewhat more efficient.
I strongly agree we need to convert to renewable energy sources, not just enviromentally friendly carriers, but I tend to think that this would be a step in the right direction.
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Codes requiring plenum rated cable came out after it became a problem, therefore older installations are often not plenum rated. Also even plenum rated cable gives off toxic fumes when burned, it just so more slowly. Additionally multiple installations can block more of the airflow then is desirable causing other problems.
This assumes that blood clotting was always critical to life,rather than merely beneficial. If you assume a primitive organism that merely had slightly enriched sea water running through its circulatory system, then clotting is beneficial, but not crucial to life. It therefore becomes possible to develop a low level clotting factor as a non emergency repair mechanism. I am not saying this is the way it happened, but if I can come up with a possible scenario in 2 minutes, random chance can come up with one given long enough.
So is the RIAA going to sue itself? Since I'm sure if I follow the links from their website far enough I can find some infringeing mp3's.
Pencil wood burns, Graphite burns. Not a good idea in an oxygen rich enviroment. The all metal pen with nonflammable ink strikes me as a good idea.
Maple Soda is already available in Vermont at least. (Pretty much tastes like diluted maple syrup)
Read R. Heinlein's "Friday" it has a strong argument agreeing with the parent statement. Admittedly it's primarily talking about biological constructs rather than computers/automation, but it's still applicable. The upshot is that a human will do their level best in an emergency to save the passengers/plane. A computer can only do what it was programmed to do and this limits its ability/desire to react to an unforseen situation. For that reason, in critical applications, I'll still fly with the airline with a human pilot.
Why bother. Given the number of products available on the market companies will not be able to uniqely encode each item, only each type of item as in UPC's. Therefore stores that use RFID as inventory control will have to disable the rfid chip before it can pass through their inventory control readers at the exit. If you start to see a store passing their sold product around the inventory control barriers (as video stores do, although for a different reason) you may have reason to worry. Finally if it really worries you, peel the RFID tags out of items where you can identify them (books are a common source), paste them on cards and carry a couple hundred around in your wallet. Anyone trying to read them off you at any range will get a hundred overlapping responses and not be able to make heads nor tails from any of them.
That also assumes that you only spend 10k of your own money. $12000/$150 dollars per hour equals 80 hours of lawyer, and even at that the RIAA's lawyers proably cost more than 150. The simple problem is the RIAA can spend enough and tie things up long enough that very few individuals could hope to compete without significant outside assitance.
I went to RPI, I payed exactly 0 out of pocket immediately (although I did have about 25k in loans at graduation). This guy, on the other hand, was almost definitely paying some out of pocket if he had that much in the bank. Whatever financial assitance you get is based on how much you have/need. I wonder what losing this much money in a chunk does to his ability to finish school.
Basic themoduanmics require that any produced fuel is going to take more energy to produce than it will yield. This does not mean the process should be neglected. The issue is portability of ethanol versus the portability of the fuel going into making it. While this does not counter all the arguments made in this article it does counter some. Since some of the energy required for generation could come from non-mobile, renewable sources (solar for heat in ethanol distillation, wind for grinding corn, etc.) the process may still have some economic and enviromental viability.
Pardon me, but the last time I checked orbital mechanics defined the position of a satellite rather well. Therefore it is possible to say if we disable/degrade this satellite at this time, and then that one at such and such a time, performance will be severly curtailed in such and such a region. I would tend to suspect that the US military has the capability to do this selectively. ( I would, if I owned the system)
To the best of my knowledge google has never altered their search results to Rank Up advertisers. They do head the page with a couple of sponsored links, and more down the side, but the results themselves are clean. I don't think that's likely to change even if they do IPO. I don't mind a few ads, especially since they are usually on topic, and since they don't interfere with the search. (Suprisingly companies do have a right to try to make money.)
At work I use a Windoze machine, and google many times a day. At home I am a Mac user and google once in a while. Using google as basis for statistics is stretching it at best.
You know, when I was a kid I played with cap pistols, squirt guns (some of them suprisingly realistic) and the like. Yet suprisingle I have no plans to pick up a gun and shoot someone. I'm not quite sure where the connection is being drawn from.
Machine the entire thing out of a really big block of aluminum. Hard anodize (you can even get pretty colors). Reanodize periodically. Sure this would cost ridiculous amounts of money but it would work. The issue is not so much materials, beyond making sure they are regionally appropriate. The issue is workmanship and upkeep. If you buy a poorly built frame and plasterboard house, its going to cost a mint to keep it going. If you buy a well built beam and block house the operating costs will be lower, but you will still have some. The Victorian houses that keep getting mentioned are still around because they were used and maintained.
Anyone notice the twin comments in discussing Apple's risk in opening Apple stores? Specifically that the Mac user base hasn't grown in ten years, and that the market share has flatlined at 3%. Now unless the total number of computer userers hasn't changed at all in the past ten years, there's just a little something incompatable with those statemtents.
The original objections to aspartame were based on it causing cancer in lab rats. If they were dosed with some ridiculous amount each day. It is virtually impossible to consume that much. Also, personally, I just think that placebos prevent cancer in lab rats. :)
Minor addition, but if you cannot positively identify what you are alergic to, that is also a probable sign of a psychosomatic response. As in "I am allergic to pizza, without a definition if its the dairy, grain, tomotae, or other toppings."
I'd like to see a the wording on that. It's fairly inexpensive to rip obsolete, even dead proccesors from machines. Here, I'll sell you a 8086 proccesor for 50 cents, would you like an OEM copy of windows XP to go along with it?
Speaking based only from a political standpoint, there is still a benefit to this. Some of that hydrocarbon fuel can be coal, which is still a domestic product, thus decreasing foreign oil dependence. From the enviromental standpoint centralizing the production would be somewhat more efficient. I strongly agree we need to convert to renewable energy sources, not just enviromentally friendly carriers, but I tend to think that this would be a step in the right direction.