"And why do we have cars that can run on up to 85% ethanol (the rest being gasoline) instead of 100%?"
100% Ethanol pretty abusive on some of the hoses and engine seals. 85% is dilute enough that the manufacturers don't have to change to more expensive sealing materials on their most commonly produced vehicles.
Ok, that's from the administration side of things.
From an end-user point of view, and one that has lived on both Outlook and Notes, the fight is over before it starts. Notes loses. Completely.
It's not so much that it's a bad program, but when everything else on your corporate-issued boxen in MS, it's a pain in the ass when you have one program that just doesn't get along nicely with the others. It screws up your workflow.
Want two good examples? Ok: in-line spell checking and insertion of pictures. Both are easy, 1990's technology. The first isn't available at all, and the second is a huge pain.
What Notes needs is to ask the end users a few questions, rather than just the developers. Takes both to make it tango.
I've seen a bunch of people post here about how we'd run out of drugs/vaccines/etc. While that's certainly true from a distrobution point of view, it's somewhat less true about the actual supply.
I work for one of the big pharmas (Not going to say which one, but we're in the top 5). We make vaccines. Since the pandemic flu showed up on the horizion, the management made some choices as to how to deal with it. Basically, they've identified key people and groups that would need to be here to keep the manufacturing and supply lines open. They've sockpiled food rations for 30-40 days, have cots, washers/dryers, etc. We have the infrarstructure to do it, too....we have our own wells, co-gen plant, communications....all that sort of stuff. They basically told those key people that they'd end up living here if the shit really hit the fan. Now, as to the question of if it'll all work....who knows. But at least they'll try.
Every time I see Dvorak, I think "Finally! Another article on the Dvorak keyboard layout! Perhaps we'll gain a few more converts!". Alas, woe is me, for it's just another article from that talking garden gnome.
Confidental to editors: let him sink to the bottom with the rest of the slag.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/15/124020 4
C'mon. Firefox handily beating up on IE is one of those tidbits that most of us store in the back of our brains. You'd think that the editors would keep a nugget like that in their brain as well, and when they see this 4 days later they'd think "Gee, I remember reading something like that". Maybe they thought they saw it on Digg.
"As opposed to squirting ink on a piece of glossy paper (dye-sub or inkjet printers).
Compare apples to apples. Inkjet (bubblejet, whatever you fancy) does just that: a jet of ink onto the surface of a piece of paper. Comes with all of the problems we've been talking about. Dye-sub has been the choice for, oh, better than a decade now because it does not put the image on the surface of the paper, but rather into the fibers of a specially treated sheet of paper. By use of a high-temperature heating head, it SUBlimates the DYE from a solid sheet of donor into the paper. Sure, it'll fade in time, but it's just a resistant to most of the elements as traditional wet-processing is.
There are other technologies out there as well that are dye-sub like, such a the Pictrography process (Fuji Pictrography printers, which is a laser-based sorta-wet chem dye-sub). Pictrography in particular is interesting, being that it's relatively cheap for a wet chemical system (about 7k USD), is self containted, and uses only water (no really nasty waste stream).
Kodak has been making dye-sub printers for the professional world for over a decade now. We had an XLS8200 way back in the day (1994?), and are still running a 8650PS sometimes. For lab work, they're great, as it's full-bleed, full color on nice, thick photo paper.
Kodak had the price-gouging thing down to an art, though. 1 roll of donor (the stuff with the color patches) makes about 100 prints. Going rate for that roll = 120 USD. Paper was special, too. That went for about 50 USD for 100 sheets. So you're talking 150-175 bucks for 100 prints. Not too cost effective at all, considering the printer was almost 6 grand when it was new. But it made damned nice prints:)
I am one of those New Jersey Taxpayers you're talking about. And ya know what? I'm not livid. Not even pissed. Not annoyed. Actually, I'm pretty happy they put in 225k for this project. Why, you ask? Because it's something real. It's new. It's different. It's science (or technology, if you will) It sparks discussion and thoughts and ideas.
It's 225k that didn't get blown on some stupid-ass "the contractor is my cousin" sort of project. It's 225k that didn't go to pay raises for a bunch of legislators that didn't deserve it. It's 225k that didn't get earmarked for helping eldery people on fixed incomes pay their heating bills, of which they would have seen 5-dollar vouchers, with the other 150k going to "management costs".
I live in Northern New Jersey, home of some of the most arcane and stupid township rules in the USA. Outside of California, that is.
There's not a single town that I know of that has ordinanaces preventing a homeowner from hanging a clothesline. And there are a lot of towns around here. Cite your sources.
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Ok, I know there is no way in hell MS would do this, but what if in the final release of Vista, when you hit ctl-alt-del, it popped up the Task Manager as always....but one of the tabs under it would now say "process explorer". Could it be they purchased it to impliment it in their OS? While I hate the bastards more than I hate my ex, that would be Neat.
And from lots of experience, you have to be *right* on top of it for the reader to scan the tag. Usually they're either between the shoulders or by one of the hips. But if it's injected incorrectly or migrates, you literally have to rub the wand over the animal like you're combing it to find the damn thing. Take a beagle, for instance. If the chip is on its hip and you're scanning its ribs (all of 6" away), it won't pick it up.
So while we can argue the need of having RFID tags in passports in the first place, picking them up at a distance? Not going to happen without enough wattage to cook a chicken.
"Perhaps an upgrade to allow for standard or even Quad-SLI would be possible with such a dock."
Ok, so they're doing little more than speculating about what Dell might be doing with its dock. Fine. Then they jump and start speculating about SLI or Quad-SLI? Considering that there are few mainboards that do either one of those functions, they're realllly reaching in even hoping for that kind of functionality. 4x AGP would be a good enough start for a new concept like this.
Yup. And I wrote a polite, yet firmly worded letter to Sony North America explaining why, too. Sure, I'm a drop in the bucket, but if you have enough drops..... The media dropped this one like a hot potato(e), 'cause I don't think the average consumer really gives a shit.
(and no, I'm not just a home consumer. My lab does some A/V work as well, and had a great fondness for Sony monitors up until a few months ago...)
"There is a problem with fire, since the pebbles are graphite, but fire is a lot easier to deal with than a melt-down."
No. A graphite fire is a a complete bitch to put out by normal techniques. You can need tons of sand/lead/boron/pick your heavy element/compound here.
If you want to see why graphite in a reactor isn't the best of ideas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire or http://www.uic.com.au/Chernosequence.htm. Sure, it makes a nice moderator, runs at a high temp without loss of structure, but when it goes up in flame, it burn hot. And long. The Chernobyl graphite fires took *days* to put out. To me, a fire in a reactor that melts things constitutes a meltdown. Sure, with pebble-bed it's harder than, say, the RBMK designs, but it's still possible. I'll deal with high-pressure steam before I'd like to deal with flaming graphite.
Before someone says it, the Graphite Reactor at ORNL was operated completely safely, but that was never used for power generation, and was tended to by some of the best and brightest of the time.
....if this were to happen. 'Been an Opera user since the 2.x days, love it, use it, and would *hate* to see a company that's been making a great product for so many years be sucked in to, and destroyed by Gates and Co. Ok, so we have Opera v. Mozilla v. whatever wars on here all of the time, but the fact is, do we all really want to see a great example of a closed-source company Doing It Right be eaten the very definition of the company that's Doing It Wrong?
Does anyone know if Opera is a public company? 'Cause if they're not, they could always tell Microsoft the same thing I told Microsoft years ago: Fuck off.
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100% Ethanol pretty abusive on some of the hoses and engine seals. 85% is dilute enough that the manufacturers don't have to change to more expensive sealing materials on their most commonly produced vehicles.
From an end-user point of view, and one that has lived on both Outlook and Notes, the fight is over before it starts. Notes loses. Completely.
It's not so much that it's a bad program, but when everything else on your corporate-issued boxen in MS, it's a pain in the ass when you have one program that just doesn't get along nicely with the others. It screws up your workflow.
Want two good examples? Ok: in-line spell checking and insertion of pictures. Both are easy, 1990's technology. The first isn't available at all, and the second is a huge pain.
What Notes needs is to ask the end users a few questions, rather than just the developers. Takes both to make it tango.
I've seen a bunch of people post here about how we'd run out of drugs/vaccines/etc. While that's certainly true from a distrobution point of view, it's somewhat less true about the actual supply. I work for one of the big pharmas (Not going to say which one, but we're in the top 5). We make vaccines. Since the pandemic flu showed up on the horizion, the management made some choices as to how to deal with it. Basically, they've identified key people and groups that would need to be here to keep the manufacturing and supply lines open. They've sockpiled food rations for 30-40 days, have cots, washers/dryers, etc. We have the infrarstructure to do it, too....we have our own wells, co-gen plant, communications....all that sort of stuff. They basically told those key people that they'd end up living here if the shit really hit the fan. Now, as to the question of if it'll all work....who knows. But at least they'll try.
Sweet! How much of an overclock can I get versus air cooling?
If someone bottled up the stentch of my morning bowel movement and brought it to a disco, it could be used for terrorism, pure and simple.
If someone were to mix a small bottle of bleach and a small bottle of ammonia in the disco, it could be used for terrorism, pure and simple.
If somone were to bring their lighter into the disco, it could be used for terrorism, pure and simple.
Point is that just about anything can be used for "terrorism". You spend way too much time watching Fox news, don't you?
Every time I see Dvorak, I think "Finally! Another article on the Dvorak keyboard layout! Perhaps we'll gain a few more converts!". Alas, woe is me, for it's just another article from that talking garden gnome.
Confidental to editors: let him sink to the bottom with the rest of the slag.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/15/124020 4
C'mon. Firefox handily beating up on IE is one of those tidbits that most of us store in the back of our brains. You'd think that the editors would keep a nugget like that in their brain as well, and when they see this 4 days later they'd think "Gee, I remember reading something like that". Maybe they thought they saw it on Digg.
"The ice-maiden thing was quite the draw"
So you're the one who married my ex-wife!
She could freeze Satan's balls off.
Compare apples to apples. Inkjet (bubblejet, whatever you fancy) does just that: a jet of ink onto the surface of a piece of paper. Comes with all of the problems we've been talking about. Dye-sub has been the choice for, oh, better than a decade now because it does not put the image on the surface of the paper, but rather into the fibers of a specially treated sheet of paper. By use of a high-temperature heating head, it SUBlimates the DYE from a solid sheet of donor into the paper. Sure, it'll fade in time, but it's just a resistant to most of the elements as traditional wet-processing is.
There are other technologies out there as well that are dye-sub like, such a the Pictrography process (Fuji Pictrography printers, which is a laser-based sorta-wet chem dye-sub). Pictrography in particular is interesting, being that it's relatively cheap for a wet chemical system (about 7k USD), is self containted, and uses only water (no really nasty waste stream).
I dunno about you all, but the thought of being with 29 virgins (or whatever the number is) doesn't exactly make me do the happy dance.
"Is it going to hurt? Like, my best friends's sister's boyfriend's friend said..."....times 28 more times? No thanks.
Kodak has been making dye-sub printers for the professional world for over a decade now. We had an XLS8200 way back in the day (1994?), and are still running a 8650PS sometimes. For lab work, they're great, as it's full-bleed, full color on nice, thick photo paper.
Kodak had the price-gouging thing down to an art, though. 1 roll of donor (the stuff with the color patches) makes about 100 prints. Going rate for that roll = 120 USD. Paper was special, too. That went for about 50 USD for 100 sheets. So you're talking 150-175 bucks for 100 prints. Not too cost effective at all, considering the printer was almost 6 grand when it was new. But it made damned nice prints :)
What's next? Libarachi was gay? Say it ain't so!
....that this is somehow new and at all suprising?
I am one of those New Jersey Taxpayers you're talking about. And ya know what? I'm not livid. Not even pissed. Not annoyed. Actually, I'm pretty happy they put in 225k for this project. Why, you ask? Because it's something real. It's new. It's different. It's science (or technology, if you will) It sparks discussion and thoughts and ideas.
It's 225k that didn't get blown on some stupid-ass "the contractor is my cousin" sort of project. It's 225k that didn't go to pay raises for a bunch of legislators that didn't deserve it. It's 225k that didn't get earmarked for helping eldery people on fixed incomes pay their heating bills, of which they would have seen 5-dollar vouchers, with the other 150k going to "management costs".
I live in Northern New Jersey, home of some of the most arcane and stupid township rules in the USA. Outside of California, that is. /. Nevermind!
There's not a single town that I know of that has ordinanaces preventing a homeowner from hanging a clothesline. And there are a lot of towns around here. Cite your sources.
Oh, wait, this is
No. Shit. Sherlock.
From the looks of it, SCO's last good week was back in 2000:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=SCOX&t=my
Agreed. But at least with IT projects, no one goes home in a pine box.
For those of us who don't have HBO, anyone have a torrent/link/YouTube/whatever?
Ubuntu, here I come.
And from lots of experience, you have to be *right* on top of it for the reader to scan the tag. Usually they're either between the shoulders or by one of the hips. But if it's injected incorrectly or migrates, you literally have to rub the wand over the animal like you're combing it to find the damn thing. Take a beagle, for instance. If the chip is on its hip and you're scanning its ribs (all of 6" away), it won't pick it up.
So while we can argue the need of having RFID tags in passports in the first place, picking them up at a distance? Not going to happen without enough wattage to cook a chicken.
Ok, so they're doing little more than speculating about what Dell might be doing with its dock. Fine. Then they jump and start speculating about SLI or Quad-SLI? Considering that there are few mainboards that do either one of those functions, they're realllly reaching in even hoping for that kind of functionality. 4x AGP would be a good enough start for a new concept like this.
Yup. And I wrote a polite, yet firmly worded letter to Sony North America explaining why, too. Sure, I'm a drop in the bucket, but if you have enough drops..... The media dropped this one like a hot potato(e), 'cause I don't think the average consumer really gives a shit.
(and no, I'm not just a home consumer. My lab does some A/V work as well, and had a great fondness for Sony monitors up until a few months ago...)
If you want to see why graphite in a reactor isn't the best of ideas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire or http://www.uic.com.au/Chernosequence.htm.
Sure, it makes a nice moderator, runs at a high temp without loss of structure, but when it goes up in flame, it burn hot. And long. The Chernobyl graphite fires took *days* to put out. To me, a fire in a reactor that melts things constitutes a meltdown. Sure, with pebble-bed it's harder than, say, the RBMK designs, but it's still possible. I'll deal with high-pressure steam before I'd like to deal with flaming graphite.
Before someone says it, the Graphite Reactor at ORNL was operated completely safely, but that was never used for power generation, and was tended to by some of the best and brightest of the time.
....if this were to happen. 'Been an Opera user since the 2.x days, love it, use it, and would *hate* to see a company that's been making a great product for so many years be sucked in to, and destroyed by Gates and Co. Ok, so we have Opera v. Mozilla v. whatever wars on here all of the time, but the fact is, do we all really want to see a great example of a closed-source company Doing It Right be eaten the very definition of the company that's Doing It Wrong?
Does anyone know if Opera is a public company? 'Cause if they're not, they could always tell Microsoft the same thing I told Microsoft years ago: Fuck off.
If you really believe that's what this fight is about, I have some great stock to sell you in company called Pets.com....