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· Score: 3, Interesting
Your PVC roof is a fire hazard as it prevents sprinklers from putting out fires in your cube.
...or at least that's what the security at my last job would tell me when i tried to do simular stuff. Truth be told, any fire in your cube would open a gapping hole in that roof and the spriklers would work just fine. But, fire codes don't always make sense.
There was an article about this company in Popular Science in the last year or so, and the application that came to my mind was all optical routing via it's optical core. I did a quick google search, and it looks like Bell Labs is working on this as well.
"...instantly direct and route optical signals from fiber to fiber in the network, without first converting them to electrical form as done today"
So either of these technologies could eventually lead to quite a prise, all-optical routing. Why so great? Easy, the only latency factor on a fiber backbone would be the speed of light, and I think I could be ok with that.
Analogies are your friend. Try useing something like; the c: drive is the file cabinet, and the folders are... well folders, there only purpose is to group simular documents (weither that document is a essay, a picture, or a program) so that they can be easily retrived later. Almost any aspect of a Windows OS can be likened to something else you have around the house.
That being said, show her how to use the pulldown and select My Documents. It'll save you both a lot of frustration
I realise this is off-topic, just trying to help a brother out.
question: What glorious company are you working for?
From where I sit, I'm hard pressed to find a single company with business practices I deem to be moral, much less one that is close enough and willing to hire me. See, this is the problem with idealists who reject the reality around them. Even idealists have to live in the real world part of the time.
I understand your anger.
SCO pisses me off just as much as you.
But, your anger is misplaced.
Executives made the decision to pursue these lawsuits and their lawyers are just enablers.
SCO is going down in flames and is just trying to pull a rabit out of their ass.
They will be bought soon enough.
Peace be with you gentle Grasshopper
wow, they have schools for 3 year olds now? Well I guess if they're old enough to walk they're old enough to carry a backpack full of books. More free daycare then just k-12, parents will be so pleased.
Re:Some Interesting New Products...
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"Forget human batteries. Lets start focusing on real life-saving applications."
The human batteries discussed in the article would be perfect for treatind aliments such as (and expecially) diabetes. Think about it, a blood glucose meter could be implanted inside your body and be powered by the very glucose that it's monitoring.
Major benifits of this could be more frequent readings, possibly automated injections(insulin), and better reasearch of the desease. It would need an RF transceiver (luckily the human body also makes a great antenna) to communicate w/ an implanted insulin delivery system, or a necklace, watch or something that tells you when and how much insulin you need.
On a more personal note, this could also power the projectors i want implanted into my eyes that mount just above the inside of my pupil and project directly to my retina. Oh, yeah and it could probally help w/ cancer and bloodpressure and other stuff like that... But the eye implants would be so sweet, stereoscopic Quake4 on the bus ride to work, nice.
Slashdot Mirror
wow, Bill Murray as Garfeild... I wanna see that now
looks like they share a lot of the same features
http://www.bell-labs.com/news/1999/november/10/1.h tml
"...instantly direct and route optical signals from fiber to fiber in the network, without first converting them to electrical form as done today" So either of these technologies could eventually lead to quite a prise, all-optical routing. Why so great? Easy, the only latency factor on a fiber backbone would be the speed of light, and I think I could be ok with that.
That being said, show her how to use the pulldown and select My Documents. It'll save you both a lot of frustration
I realise this is off-topic, just trying to help a brother out.
Now I have a reason to get a hot tub for my office, and write it off as a business expense!
The sweet lords of slackerdom have smiled upon me yet again.
question: What glorious company are you working for? From where I sit, I'm hard pressed to find a single company with business practices I deem to be moral, much less one that is close enough and willing to hire me. See, this is the problem with idealists who reject the reality around them. Even idealists have to live in the real world part of the time. I understand your anger. SCO pisses me off just as much as you. But, your anger is misplaced. Executives made the decision to pursue these lawsuits and their lawyers are just enablers. SCO is going down in flames and is just trying to pull a rabit out of their ass. They will be bought soon enough. Peace be with you gentle Grasshopper
wow, they have schools for 3 year olds now? Well I guess if they're old enough to walk they're old enough to carry a backpack full of books. More free daycare then just k-12, parents will be so pleased.
"Forget human batteries. Lets start focusing on real life-saving applications."
The human batteries discussed in the article would be perfect for treatind aliments such as (and expecially) diabetes. Think about it, a blood glucose meter could be implanted inside your body and be powered by the very glucose that it's monitoring.
Major benifits of this could be more frequent readings, possibly automated injections(insulin), and better reasearch of the desease. It would need an RF transceiver (luckily the human body also makes a great antenna) to communicate w/ an implanted insulin delivery system, or a necklace, watch or something that tells you when and how much insulin you need.
On a more personal note, this could also power the projectors i want implanted into my eyes that mount just above the inside of my pupil and project directly to my retina. Oh, yeah and it could probally help w/ cancer and bloodpressure and other stuff like that... But the eye implants would be so sweet, stereoscopic Quake4 on the bus ride to work, nice.