I think you missed my point, I wasn't talking about Kroger in terms of the "dimes"; I was talking about some of our local gas stations with their "rewards cards". I *definitely* save a lot of $$$ with Kroger's card which is why I still have it.
I just had a conversation with guy at a gas station as to why I didn't have one of their rewards cards. He kept assuring me that I wouldn't be tracked and yet I just don't believe that. For the record, assuming this list is for their "Plus Cards", we are likely on that list buuut only under a bogus name...or maybe I found a card that someone lost. Regardless, if it didn't save me $40 every time I went to the store, I wouldn't have it; saving $3 at a gas station every 3 weeks isn't enough of a reward to even bother filling out their "application". We call that "Jumping over dollars to pick up dimes"
Nope, but I wanted to work for them; I was a 3D animator back in the mid-90's till about 2004. I'm seriously only keeping the Extreme because the prices for them keep going up and I figure eventually I'll get what I paid for it...heh.(I bought all of them used thankfully)
I too used one on my SGI's..very fast. I tried to get Firefox compiled for the R4400's but never got a successful build and eventually I moved over to Linux entirely so there was no need. I still have my Extreme, Impact and Octane's though...
I don't know if I need to remind you but Netscape was essentially Mozilla's code and they even said it in the EULA around 1994 or 95: "Remember, it's spelled N-E-T-S-C-A-P-E but it's pronounced 'Mozilla'"
"When the White House announced the federal government would loan $465 million to Tesla, a California start-up company with plans to develop an all-electric sedan, President Obama called it an "historic opportunity to ensure that the next generation of fuel-efficient cars and trucks are made in America."
The loan also represented a lucrative opportunity for Steve Westly, a major investor in the car company who had raised more than $500,000 for the president's campaign."
I don't know if there's more to the article as the "Next" link seems broken at the moment. Is the story about the Tesla/BBC suit coming out now in order to bury this story? I'm not a conservative, Republican, conspiracy theorist or someone with an agenda against Obama but this seems very coincidental...
So I guess everyone below is concentrating on whether it's 14/3 or 3/14 or whatever instead of realizing that today is ALSO another special holiday: Steak and a Blowjob Day! http://www.steakandbjday.com/ I guess they'll find out when they're done arguing over semantics.
No, there's no scale to it but as someone has pointed out, most new cars can't use it anyway so no biggie. That said, I'm also doing algae oil production(using both Botryococcus braunii and Spirulina strains) and at least the oil from Botryococcus can be "cracked" into diesel(real diesel, not technically bio), kerosene and gasoline. I have a refinery about 70 miles from my house and they'll essentially take what I give them and give me the finished product for a small fee; 200 gallons minimum though.
I drive an old Mercedes so this isn't an issue for me. It has mechanical fuel injection(and indirect injection at that) so it doesn't have those kinds of issues. Due to the reliability of the old Mercedes diesels, I'll probably never buy another (family) car again.
I go to chinese restaurants and get the oil from them. They typically don't use enough to need one of those dump containers and they're happy to give it to me. I only need 15 gallons per week at most so this isn't a problem.
You can make your own biodiesel with vegetable oil, sodium hydroxide and methanol. It costs about $500 to get started(that includes filters, fuel line heaters and enough sodium hydroxide and methanol to produce 200+ gallons of fuel) but once you've got everything together you produce fuel at around $1/gallon.
Nope. It's a non-consumer grade server, not a laptop. The SCSI disks it boots from will transfer much more steadily and quickly than anything to do with the SATA by a factor of about 5-10.
It was on Fedora and the drivers are fine, It *could* be that it was a 4096 vs 512 situation but everything I saw said that both drives were 512...I will investigate this. As for the hardware, it's a non-consumer grade server....not something shoddy.
No, you just described using the current kilogram to *calibrate* the pressure measured, not to measure it directly. I'm saying you can't use it to measure(or calibrate for that matter) the pressure while simultaneously measuring the mass. So how do you get past that? I have the answer and I'm sure you have part of it but you have to admit that the current method isn't working and has even failed.
And I ask again, why is it just, as you say, "substituting one for another"? You're not the first to suggest that but you're also not the first to glaze over the fact that the current method isn't reproducible; essentially somebody pulled a weight out of their ass and called that a kilogram and now everyone's worshiping it like it's the one holy truth but apparently it contains a little lie.
Read my quote above about how we already know how to measure 1 atmosphere, and we likely don't use the current "standard" to do so, so we use what we have already defined as one atmosphere with the rest of the measurements to finish the other side of this equation.. In other words, I'm proposing we work backwards from what we already have to derive a proper standard.
We've already assigned a quantification(as opposed to definition) to an atmosphere so we use 1 atmosphere(measured however we currently measure it that accurately) with the previously mentioned method involving 1 cubic centimeter of water and then we use that to RE-define the kilo/gram. Is that so hard? We're not trying to start from scratch here, we already know the ballpark that we have to aim for, we just need a method to get there.
What's worse is that you're assuming that the kilogram that we're trying to define is going to be used *directly* in the quantification of 1 atmosphere. What I'm proposing is that the quantification of one atmosphere was set long ago(and it's not the metric unit in trouble here) so we use current methods to measure pressure/temp and then, as I suggest above, redefine(or maybe re-calculate is a better word?) the kilogram. You could even take it a bit further and compare with the current "standard" if you felt the need but then you gotta go back to the original problem of the "standard" being flawed which is even more circular than what I'm suggesting.
Rather than worry about what happens to water in a vacuum, just set another pressure instead, like 1 Atmosphere(s) or something? Pick a standard that works and stick with it. We will have to do this or else we're going to go through this same nonsense, a LOT. And while there are other factors that can affect this(as others point out each time I ask), it's a lot better than the "omg, every time we clean this we lose a few atoms and...." that I have heard no less than 3 times in the past 4 years.
Well, seeing as how we have something with even less standardization right now, what would prevent us from just picking one "type" of water and going with that? Otherwise we're looking at the same nonsense that the metric system was supposed to get us out of in the first place.
What I *still* don't get is why we moved away from the ORIGINAL definition of a gram which used to be the mass of 1 cubic centimeter of water. I've heard all the "because this type of measurement was more accurate", etc. explanations but it seems that now they have no idea how to get to where they were whereas(AFAIK) the mass of 1 cubic centimeter of water hasn't really varied. Anyone able to break this down into something that actually makes sense beyond the typical responses?
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I think you missed my point, I wasn't talking about Kroger in terms of the "dimes"; I was talking about some of our local gas stations with their "rewards cards". I *definitely* save a lot of $$$ with Kroger's card which is why I still have it.
I just had a conversation with guy at a gas station as to why I didn't have one of their rewards cards. He kept assuring me that I wouldn't be tracked and yet I just don't believe that. For the record, assuming this list is for their "Plus Cards", we are likely on that list buuut only under a bogus name...or maybe I found a card that someone lost. Regardless, if it didn't save me $40 every time I went to the store, I wouldn't have it; saving $3 at a gas station every 3 weeks isn't enough of a reward to even bother filling out their "application". We call that "Jumping over dollars to pick up dimes"
Nope, but I wanted to work for them; I was a 3D animator back in the mid-90's till about 2004. I'm seriously only keeping the Extreme because the prices for them keep going up and I figure eventually I'll get what I paid for it...heh.(I bought all of them used thankfully)
I too used one on my SGI's..very fast. I tried to get Firefox compiled for the R4400's but never got a successful build and eventually I moved over to Linux entirely so there was no need. I still have my Extreme, Impact and Octane's though...
I don't know if I need to remind you but Netscape was essentially Mozilla's code and they even said it in the EULA around 1994 or 95: "Remember, it's spelled N-E-T-S-C-A-P-E but it's pronounced 'Mozilla'"
From:
http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=13250247
"When the White House announced the federal government would loan $465 million to Tesla, a California start-up company with plans to develop an all-electric sedan, President Obama called it an "historic opportunity to ensure that the next generation of fuel-efficient cars and trucks are made in America."
The loan also represented a lucrative opportunity for Steve Westly, a major investor in the car company who had raised more than $500,000 for the president's campaign."
I don't know if there's more to the article as the "Next" link seems broken at the moment. Is the story about the Tesla/BBC suit coming out now in order to bury this story? I'm not a conservative, Republican, conspiracy theorist or someone with an agenda against Obama but this seems very coincidental...
So I guess everyone below is concentrating on whether it's 14/3 or 3/14 or whatever instead of realizing that today is ALSO another special holiday: Steak and a Blowjob Day! http://www.steakandbjday.com/ I guess they'll find out when they're done arguing over semantics.
Lots of both but only a select few of us drive diesel.
No, there's no scale to it but as someone has pointed out, most new cars can't use it anyway so no biggie. That said, I'm also doing algae oil production(using both Botryococcus braunii and Spirulina strains) and at least the oil from Botryococcus can be "cracked" into diesel(real diesel, not technically bio), kerosene and gasoline. I have a refinery about 70 miles from my house and they'll essentially take what I give them and give me the finished product for a small fee; 200 gallons minimum though.
I drive an old Mercedes so this isn't an issue for me. It has mechanical fuel injection(and indirect injection at that) so it doesn't have those kinds of issues. Due to the reliability of the old Mercedes diesels, I'll probably never buy another (family) car again.
I go to chinese restaurants and get the oil from them. They typically don't use enough to need one of those dump containers and they're happy to give it to me. I only need 15 gallons per week at most so this isn't a problem.
You can make your own biodiesel with vegetable oil, sodium hydroxide and methanol. It costs about $500 to get started(that includes filters, fuel line heaters and enough sodium hydroxide and methanol to produce 200+ gallons of fuel) but once you've got everything together you produce fuel at around $1/gallon.
Actually until 30 seconds ago, I thought App=Application(as I well should), not apple.
Nope. It's a non-consumer grade server, not a laptop. The SCSI disks it boots from will transfer much more steadily and quickly than anything to do with the SATA by a factor of about 5-10.
It was on Fedora and the drivers are fine, It *could* be that it was a 4096 vs 512 situation but everything I saw said that both drives were 512...I will investigate this. As for the hardware, it's a non-consumer grade server....not something shoddy.
If it's twice as fast as all the other SATA devices I have that are rated 3Gb/s then that'll only average about 40MB/s with peaks around 80MB/s..
"Perhaps caused by minor hard drive damage caused by relocating the system while under power?"
He clearly said "first real substantial POWER failure"(emphasis mine).....as in the power failed for longer than the UPS batteries could hold out for.
My comments to them might be:
Cry me a river.
Build a bridge.
Jump in.
No, you just described using the current kilogram to *calibrate* the pressure measured, not to measure it directly. I'm saying you can't use it to measure(or calibrate for that matter) the pressure while simultaneously measuring the mass. So how do you get past that? I have the answer and I'm sure you have part of it but you have to admit that the current method isn't working and has even failed.
And I ask again, why is it just, as you say, "substituting one for another"? You're not the first to suggest that but you're also not the first to glaze over the fact that the current method isn't reproducible; essentially somebody pulled a weight out of their ass and called that a kilogram and now everyone's worshiping it like it's the one holy truth but apparently it contains a little lie.
Read my quote above about how we already know how to measure 1 atmosphere, and we likely don't use the current "standard" to do so, so we use what we have already defined as one atmosphere with the rest of the measurements to finish the other side of this equation.. In other words, I'm proposing we work backwards from what we already have to derive a proper standard.
We've already assigned a quantification(as opposed to definition) to an atmosphere so we use 1 atmosphere(measured however we currently measure it that accurately) with the previously mentioned method involving 1 cubic centimeter of water and then we use that to RE-define the kilo/gram. Is that so hard? We're not trying to start from scratch here, we already know the ballpark that we have to aim for, we just need a method to get there.
What's worse is that you're assuming that the kilogram that we're trying to define is going to be used *directly* in the quantification of 1 atmosphere. What I'm proposing is that the quantification of one atmosphere was set long ago(and it's not the metric unit in trouble here) so we use current methods to measure pressure/temp and then, as I suggest above, redefine(or maybe re-calculate is a better word?) the kilogram. You could even take it a bit further and compare with the current "standard" if you felt the need but then you gotta go back to the original problem of the "standard" being flawed which is even more circular than what I'm suggesting.
Rather than worry about what happens to water in a vacuum, just set another pressure instead, like 1 Atmosphere(s) or something? Pick a standard that works and stick with it. We will have to do this or else we're going to go through this same nonsense, a LOT. And while there are other factors that can affect this(as others point out each time I ask), it's a lot better than the "omg, every time we clean this we lose a few atoms and...." that I have heard no less than 3 times in the past 4 years.
Well, seeing as how we have something with even less standardization right now, what would prevent us from just picking one "type" of water and going with that? Otherwise we're looking at the same nonsense that the metric system was supposed to get us out of in the first place.
Not dependent on pressure, temperature perhaps?
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Properties_of_water#Compressibility
Regardless, the temp and pressure could be standardized...
What I *still* don't get is why we moved away from the ORIGINAL definition of a gram which used to be the mass of 1 cubic centimeter of water. I've heard all the "because this type of measurement was more accurate", etc. explanations but it seems that now they have no idea how to get to where they were whereas(AFAIK) the mass of 1 cubic centimeter of water hasn't really varied. Anyone able to break this down into something that actually makes sense beyond the typical responses?