It seems that normal concrete will start emitting plumes of smoke just before it pops
As would burning tar, or any other heavy petroleum derivate.
Concrete doesn't contain the slightest amount of petroleum. You're thinking of -asphalt-, which is entirely different.
What smoked was contaminants on the surface of the concrete, and possibly some stabilizers. It popped because of the moisture in the concrete expanded- concrete doesn't handle much except external compression very well.
Aluminium doesn't smell bad when it burns. I suspect whatever soda pop chemicals remaining in the can do.
I also like to hire bright young women fresh out of college (or even those who didn't finish). Besides the obvious improvement in the surroundings, they tend to be pretty good at first level support if you give them a solid grounding.
Go talk to your HR department. Right. Now. Please. NOW.
It is -completely- illegal to hire based on gender, age, marital status, # of children, etc.
A byte is usually 8 bits but it has also been defined as 6, 7, 9 or even odder combinations. It all depends on the system architecture.
In the 1960's, yes. Now, no, not really- and your linking to a dictionary doesn't prove it. That dictionary definition is decades old.
For over almost 30 years, a byte is 8 bits, a nibble (no, I'm not making that up) is four. A word contains four nibbles or two bytes. Insisting otherwise is anal retentive at best.
Probably because there hasn't been a single new refinery built in over 17+ years. Why not? Probably because of these wacko environmental laws that make it ridiculously easy for all the Not In MY Back Yard (NIMBY) people to stop any progress from ever being made.
Some have theorized that no new refineries have been built because they take some time(15 years I think?) to break even, and that oil companies know they don't have 15 years worth of oil that is easily accessible. Thus, why bother making refineries that will never operate long enough to be profitable?
What's scary is that if you read between the lines and look closely, most of the OPEC nations are pumping oil at their "full capacity" levels- in other words, we're getting to be rather tapped out.
We'll find other ways of getting around, but what concerns me more is plastic- virtually everything we make needs something plastic, and guess where plastic comes from? That and as we get more and more desperate for oil, it'll be harder to fight off those who want to drill in Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico, etc.
As things stand currently, people within corporations can pretty much do whatever they want, while acting in the interest of the corporation, and they'll never see a personal fine or the inside of a jail cell.
Are you serious? Look at the Tyco case...Dennis ain't exactly scott free, even if he did have a mistrial.
DAs are more than happy and able to go after individuals if they have the evidence to do so.
Sorry, but I couldn't let this one slide. You've obviously got a special interpretation of "fast", because I tried migrating my Eudora mailboxes to Mail, on a 1Ghz Powerbook G4.
Mail CHOKED on them. The early version of Mail chugged for 2 something hours and I gave up and killed it. The latest version was slightly better; 1000 messages or so still took well over 10 minutes. It takes Eudora about 10 seconds to rebuild those big mailboxes(deleted messages aren't actually deleted until Eudora gets around to rebuilding the mailbox; you can set the limit based on percentage of the mailbox, raw MB, I think even % remaining disk space), or force it manually with one click in that mailbox's window. My inbox is 820, and several mailing list boxes are well over 5,000 if I forget to clean them out. I have hundreds of MB of mail, and Eudora handles most operations with little performance hit no matter how big the mailbox gets(there is a limit of around 32,000 messages however, which someone I know hit).
But that was just the importing- then it had to thread them or something, and THEN it had to index them all, both of which it did in the background, but still took forever.
Searching? Well, ok, it's "better" than Eudora in that it gives relevancy and Eudora is an on/off sorta deal, but that's fine- and I prefer 1 second for an exact search in a 2,000 message mailbox over 5-10 seconds for a fuzzy search.
Sorry, but Eudora, despite being a lumbering dinosaur technology-wise(MIME support is broken- PGP-MIME just doesn't work right; no address book integration is another thing that really irritates me), it is just plain hands-down the fastest mail client around.
The MBOX-with-index format also works exceedingly well, is portable (although some minor massaging with text-processing tools may be needed in some cases), and hard to corrupt- unlike almost every other mail client's DB (especially outlook). I've used Eudora for ten years, and never lost a single message except for one early beta version which munged a mailbox on me.
That's funny, because there's a 1600x1200 15" panel perched on my lap right now.
And there's a 1440x960 17" on mine. Aside from the laptop market, it is extremely difficult to find anything other than the following size/resolution combos:
15 inch 1024x768
17 inch 1280x1024
19 inch 1600x1200
LCD panels have been out for years but this has remained a near constant, while the laptop industry has seen pixel densities skyrocket, with zero crossover to the desktop market.
What I'd like to know is how good the contrast is?
Contrast isn't an issue, because unlike LCD panels which backlight the whole panel and rely on "hiding" the backlight for "black"(but plenty escapes anyway if the backlight is too bright). On an OLED panel, if a pixel is off, it generates absolutely no light. Theoretical contrast is then essentially infinite; zero:something is infinite. The only remaining issue is how bright "on" is, and that's been specified as 400 lumens.
What is even better is the resolution. The specified 1600x1200; in a 17" panel, that's quite nice, as previously it was 1280x1024 tops.
Ah, Jon Katz, bathtub philosopher- we had almost forgotten about you.
Let's play the substitution game, kids!
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by 'making my Internet connection available to any and all who happen upon it, I have no way to be certain what kinds of songs, movies and pictures will be downloaded by other people using my IP address. And more important, my ISP has no way to be certain if it's me
OK, now let's make a substitution:
"by making my gun available to any and all who happen upon it, I have no way to be certain who will be shot by other people using my gun. And more important, the police have no way to be certain if it's me."
Will this let me swap out the video card in my (future) laptop? That would definitly increase laptop life...
And notebook makers would want this because?
I think not. GPU vendors won't do it, because OEMs won't do it, because sales & marketing at the brand-name level won't go for it. In any market where there would be a desire for this sort of thing(ie, gamers who want to be able to upgrade), they'd loose potential sales(said gamers wouldn't buy a new notebook).
I can see something of a market for letting companies use the same mobo with different GPUs for different markets. They'd probably either make it tough to get to to discourage swapping, use warranty seals over screws, etc...maybe even toss something into the BIOS.
Even more likely is that makers will use it, promise upgrade cards, and then never deliver. The industry has a long, long history of marketing expansion slots/upgrade capability they have no intentions of utilizing.
Now the very first thing I'm going to do when I win the lottery is go buy a stack of kids games and pay some Wine hackers to get them to work (seriously; you can ask my co workers, they're sick of me talking about this pet project). Unfortunately, the last lottery ticket I bought was a bust.
How about setting up something like the "WINE Foundation" (perhaps with a more creative name) and include a DONATE file in the distro, and a link off the WINE homepage? Ask for a)legal/tax/investing help and b)money. Seek more than one opinion about all matters under (a).
Or, just ask people to "donate" by maintaining a wishlist of packages schools are looking to run. People buy a copy, get it to work, donate the patches back to the community and the copy of the software (which they no longer need) to the school in question. Whole lot easier than my first suggestion.
While I use Wordpress for both my blogs, I think that everyone is being rather harsh on these people who are just trying to make a living.
I agree, but it's really time the bloggers picked a better business model than:
1.Write journal entries
2.Post them online and call it a "blog", or if you're cutting edge, post pictures too
3.Include system to show when other people link back to you saying "look at this dork"
4.????
5.Profit!
Aside from super-low-priced cellphone cameras that suddenly explode while uploading images, I can't think of a better way to cut down on the number of bloggers in the world.
What's with the mandatory i-tunes requirement to see the large screen?
Apple finally figured out "full screen" wasn't enough to get people to buy Quicktime Pro. However, it will probably be more successful at getting users to install iTunes, update to the latest version, or open it if they've never opened it before.
It is pretty stupid, but in a twisted way makes sense from a marketing standpoint.
You can get hydrogen from water, sorry you missed that one in 1st grade science.
Actually, I majored in physics.
Re-read my post. Hydrogen, like gasohol, is a negative net fuel. Which means it takes more energy to make the fuel, than you get out of burning it. Same as Gasohol, which is produced from corn.
Hydrogen is just the New Gasohol, politically. Gasohol is a huge piece of pork barrel spending that mostly lines the pockets of Archer Daniels Midland(ADM) and to a much lesser extent corn growers...to the tune of $1.4B+/yr since the early 70's.
my brother in law was driving a hydrogen fuel car from the lab 10 years ago as a test)
I think that speaks volumes as to the usefulness of LLNL's research. After all, it's been 10 years, and there are still no hydrogen-powered cars available for purchase by consumers. Furthermore, there is extremely little research needed in the area; hydrogen conversion kits were developed by numerous companies and individuals decades ago.
Why no hydrogen cars? Well, it could have something to do with hydrogen being a net-loss fuel; it takes more energy to make than it provides. But hey, Dubya loves it. Why? Well, you can extract hydrogen from natural gas(which pollutes just as much as burning natural gas, but it moves the emissions out of sight of the consumer, yay!)
Why is it people like you who hear "Nuke" rant on and on like biased little children and post inflamatory things like this?
I'll stop ranting when my nation's defense budget isn't the largest in the world several times over both in total and per capita- we spend OVER 50% of our budget on "defense" and our budget is larger than our top 3 potential enemies -combined-. Those are 2001 stats, mind you- and the defense budget has only gone up.
but it is fairly obvious that the RIAA is not reporting the most 'useful' numbers to the public
I believe the word you were searching for was "honest", not "useful".
Then again, this is peanuts compared to Hollywood which manages to make it look like every single movie looses (or makes very little) money so they don't have to pay taxes or pay people who are supposed to get a cut of the profits.
Of course, most of corporate america does exactly the same thing, which is why they've gone from a 52% tax share (versus individuals) to under 5% in 50 years.
If your definition of "mad scientist" is "person working on weapons of mass destruction", ie, nuclear weapons, most of them already have the world's largest clusters. Pretty sad that we still consider it important to build better nuclear weapons even though we've got thousands of them, and not a single legitimate target for them(the whole deterrence thing is ridiculous- if it's just about deterrence, we only need a dozen or so).
It'd be nice to see some computing horsepower, if only a small piece, go to those trying to do something other than make better nuclear bombs or look for little green men...ie something (gasp) productive.
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As would burning tar, or any other heavy petroleum derivate.
Concrete doesn't contain the slightest amount of petroleum. You're thinking of -asphalt-, which is entirely different.
What smoked was contaminants on the surface of the concrete, and possibly some stabilizers. It popped because of the moisture in the concrete expanded- concrete doesn't handle much except external compression very well.
Aluminium doesn't smell bad when it burns. I suspect whatever soda pop chemicals remaining in the can do.
No, more likely the label ink.
...by getting slashdotted again!
Does that mean he was doing it?
Go talk to your HR department. Right. Now. Please. NOW.
It is -completely- illegal to hire based on gender, age, marital status, # of children, etc.
In the 1960's, yes. Now, no, not really- and your linking to a dictionary doesn't prove it. That dictionary definition is decades old.
For over almost 30 years, a byte is 8 bits, a nibble (no, I'm not making that up) is four. A word contains four nibbles or two bytes. Insisting otherwise is anal retentive at best.
Some have theorized that no new refineries have been built because they take some time(15 years I think?) to break even, and that oil companies know they don't have 15 years worth of oil that is easily accessible. Thus, why bother making refineries that will never operate long enough to be profitable?
What's scary is that if you read between the lines and look closely, most of the OPEC nations are pumping oil at their "full capacity" levels- in other words, we're getting to be rather tapped out.
We'll find other ways of getting around, but what concerns me more is plastic- virtually everything we make needs something plastic, and guess where plastic comes from? That and as we get more and more desperate for oil, it'll be harder to fight off those who want to drill in Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico, etc.
Are you serious? Look at the Tyco case...Dennis ain't exactly scott free, even if he did have a mistrial.
DAs are more than happy and able to go after individuals if they have the evidence to do so.
Sorry, but I couldn't let this one slide. You've obviously got a special interpretation of "fast", because I tried migrating my Eudora mailboxes to Mail, on a 1Ghz Powerbook G4.
Mail CHOKED on them. The early version of Mail chugged for 2 something hours and I gave up and killed it. The latest version was slightly better; 1000 messages or so still took well over 10 minutes. It takes Eudora about 10 seconds to rebuild those big mailboxes(deleted messages aren't actually deleted until Eudora gets around to rebuilding the mailbox; you can set the limit based on percentage of the mailbox, raw MB, I think even % remaining disk space), or force it manually with one click in that mailbox's window. My inbox is 820, and several mailing list boxes are well over 5,000 if I forget to clean them out. I have hundreds of MB of mail, and Eudora handles most operations with little performance hit no matter how big the mailbox gets(there is a limit of around 32,000 messages however, which someone I know hit).
But that was just the importing- then it had to thread them or something, and THEN it had to index them all, both of which it did in the background, but still took forever.
Searching? Well, ok, it's "better" than Eudora in that it gives relevancy and Eudora is an on/off sorta deal, but that's fine- and I prefer 1 second for an exact search in a 2,000 message mailbox over 5-10 seconds for a fuzzy search.
Sorry, but Eudora, despite being a lumbering dinosaur technology-wise(MIME support is broken- PGP-MIME just doesn't work right; no address book integration is another thing that really irritates me), it is just plain hands-down the fastest mail client around.
The MBOX-with-index format also works exceedingly well, is portable (although some minor massaging with text-processing tools may be needed in some cases), and hard to corrupt- unlike almost every other mail client's DB (especially outlook). I've used Eudora for ten years, and never lost a single message except for one early beta version which munged a mailbox on me.
And there's a 1440x960 17" on mine. Aside from the laptop market, it is extremely difficult to find anything other than the following size/resolution combos:
LCD panels have been out for years but this has remained a near constant, while the laptop industry has seen pixel densities skyrocket, with zero crossover to the desktop market.
Contrast isn't an issue, because unlike LCD panels which backlight the whole panel and rely on "hiding" the backlight for "black"(but plenty escapes anyway if the backlight is too bright). On an OLED panel, if a pixel is off, it generates absolutely no light. Theoretical contrast is then essentially infinite; zero:something is infinite. The only remaining issue is how bright "on" is, and that's been specified as 400 lumens.
What is even better is the resolution. The specified 1600x1200; in a 17" panel, that's quite nice, as previously it was 1280x1024 tops.
Ah, Jon Katz, bathtub philosopher- we had almost forgotten about you.
OK, now let's make a substitution:
"by making my gun available to any and all who happen upon it, I have no way to be certain who will be shot by other people using my gun. And more important, the police have no way to be certain if it's me."
Wait, play a game while waiting on gentoo to finish building...
Did they include a referral for a good repetitive-motion injury specialist?
And notebook makers would want this because?
I think not. GPU vendors won't do it, because OEMs won't do it, because sales & marketing at the brand-name level won't go for it. In any market where there would be a desire for this sort of thing(ie, gamers who want to be able to upgrade), they'd loose potential sales(said gamers wouldn't buy a new notebook).
I can see something of a market for letting companies use the same mobo with different GPUs for different markets. They'd probably either make it tough to get to to discourage swapping, use warranty seals over screws, etc...maybe even toss something into the BIOS.
Even more likely is that makers will use it, promise upgrade cards, and then never deliver. The industry has a long, long history of marketing expansion slots/upgrade capability they have no intentions of utilizing.
Ok, so why didn't you plug it in your answer? :-)
How about setting up something like the "WINE Foundation" (perhaps with a more creative name) and include a DONATE file in the distro, and a link off the WINE homepage? Ask for a)legal/tax/investing help and b)money. Seek more than one opinion about all matters under (a).
Or, just ask people to "donate" by maintaining a wishlist of packages schools are looking to run. People buy a copy, get it to work, donate the patches back to the community and the copy of the software (which they no longer need) to the school in question. Whole lot easier than my first suggestion.
Did anybody else notice a striking resemblence between those 'rods' and some other 'rods' that ~50% on the planet's population have?
2mm by .25mm? I hope not, because we're all in serious trouble as a species if that's the case.
I agree, but it's really time the bloggers picked a better business model than:
1.Write journal entries
2.Post them online and call it a "blog", or if you're cutting edge, post pictures too
3.Include system to show when other people link back to you saying "look at this dork" 4.????
5.Profit!
Oh, you mean the blog software companies? My bad.
Aside from super-low-priced cellphone cameras that suddenly explode while uploading images, I can't think of a better way to cut down on the number of bloggers in the world.
Apple finally figured out "full screen" wasn't enough to get people to buy Quicktime Pro. However, it will probably be more successful at getting users to install iTunes, update to the latest version, or open it if they've never opened it before.
It is pretty stupid, but in a twisted way makes sense from a marketing standpoint.
Actually, I majored in physics.
Re-read my post. Hydrogen, like gasohol, is a negative net fuel. Which means it takes more energy to make the fuel, than you get out of burning it. Same as Gasohol, which is produced from corn.
Hydrogen is just the New Gasohol, politically. Gasohol is a huge piece of pork barrel spending that mostly lines the pockets of Archer Daniels Midland(ADM) and to a much lesser extent corn growers...to the tune of $1.4B+/yr since the early 70's.
I think that speaks volumes as to the usefulness of LLNL's research. After all, it's been 10 years, and there are still no hydrogen-powered cars available for purchase by consumers. Furthermore, there is extremely little research needed in the area; hydrogen conversion kits were developed by numerous companies and individuals decades ago.
Why no hydrogen cars? Well, it could have something to do with hydrogen being a net-loss fuel; it takes more energy to make than it provides. But hey, Dubya loves it. Why? Well, you can extract hydrogen from natural gas(which pollutes just as much as burning natural gas, but it moves the emissions out of sight of the consumer, yay!)
Why is it people like you who hear "Nuke" rant on and on like biased little children and post inflamatory things like this?
I'll stop ranting when my nation's defense budget isn't the largest in the world several times over both in total and per capita- we spend OVER 50% of our budget on "defense" and our budget is larger than our top 3 potential enemies -combined-. Those are 2001 stats, mind you- and the defense budget has only gone up.
LLNL built a supercomputer, and it's going to do things besides simulate nuclear weapons?
Quick, someone ring Satan and ask how the sno-cones are.
I believe the word you were searching for was "honest", not "useful".
Then again, this is peanuts compared to Hollywood which manages to make it look like every single movie looses (or makes very little) money so they don't have to pay taxes or pay people who are supposed to get a cut of the profits.
Of course, most of corporate america does exactly the same thing, which is why they've gone from a 52% tax share (versus individuals) to under 5% in 50 years.
If your definition of "mad scientist" is "person working on weapons of mass destruction", ie, nuclear weapons, most of them already have the world's largest clusters. Pretty sad that we still consider it important to build better nuclear weapons even though we've got thousands of them, and not a single legitimate target for them(the whole deterrence thing is ridiculous- if it's just about deterrence, we only need a dozen or so).
It'd be nice to see some computing horsepower, if only a small piece, go to those trying to do something other than make better nuclear bombs or look for little green men...ie something (gasp) productive.