I haven't been following this very closely, but putting the difficulty of carbon nano-tubes aside, how much thought has been given to the radiation hazard?
I don't think I'd want to take that trip without substantial shielding. It sounds reasonable for freight - not people or livestock.
"IT: None of the other 1700 employees have had any problems at all today with their e-mail."
How does that enhance the problem-solving process? All it does is tell the user the score is 1700 to 1 and that you aren't going to give them a fair hearing.
If all the user has to tell the IT-type is that e-mail doesn't work, then nothing further is required, other than the reassurance that you will fix it, either by doing a hand-holding session or by enabling the error logs, then asking the user to re-create the error condition.
What I found really annoying about the article was the bottom of the page, where three options are presented within inches of each other; each taking the user to the same place: continued, 2 and next.
"There ought to be serious penalties for any web designer that uses white text on black background. It might be pretty to look at as a template, but it hurts the eyes when you read it."
I'll get modded off-topic but whatthehell.....
Just load this bookmarklet code as a bookmark and call it when you run into charcoal print on a black background -
"I have a laundry list of things I hate about Windows, but only two things on that list are UI-related:
1) You can't customize the UI much. It just works the way it works;
2) This is the bigger one: you get only one desktop."
For those times when you have to be in Windows, let me suggest Enhanced Virtual Desktops, by Lorenzi Davide. It runs on all versions of Windows, is dead simple to install and configure and works unobtrusively. It's free.
Wah-la, multiple desktops for Windows, the OS you love to hate
Remarks like this ensure the Linux/Unix discussion area's reputation for unfriendliness and add to the mistrust and dislike that the general computer using population feel.
Well done! Now go see Chairman Bill and collect your pay check.
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Ever heard of methicillin-resistant-S.-aureus (MRSA)? It's fast becoming the major pathogen people get while in the hospital, and it's a bitch to cure. This is the "flesh-eating bacteria" you see on tv."
No, it isn't.
Necrotizing Fasciitis is a form of staphylococcus infection, but it is not Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureaus (MRSA). It is true that Group A Staphylococcus can lead to the flesh eating syndrome though. See here for a description.
The science fiction novel by John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar, talks about a personal weapon called the karatand. This was a plastic glove that was normally flexible but very rigid when punching or chopping.
I hear you; it's a legal entity but not a person. It is however, made up of people and those people are a mix of good, evil, self-serving or altruistic.
Its leadership are comprised of people who fear criminal penalties and are can therefore be subject to public censure.
Isn't it fairly ineffecient to use the electricity to make hydrogen? It seems to me you would get more usable energy by just useing the power the solar cells create directly.
As is amply pointed out, the hydrogen storage tanks are as efficient and more flexible than batteries.
This is a brilliantly simple implementation, combining many techniques from both active and passive solar. It is not particularly suited to the local region though, I suspect. Aren't they in the monsoon region? That would seem to preclude efficient generation of electrical current during the monsoon season.
I've never heard of this before. Searching doesn't turn up much. Can you post a few links, for both the theory of operation and for manufacturers of these systems?
Just google for photolysis of water and you'll obtain a few hundred citations on the subject.
"However the programmer should be a slave to the user?"
If the programmer does not work for the user, then who is the software for? Of course the programmer is slave to the user!
I once wrote a map cataloguing, ordering and shipping application using dbase, and each time I revised it to make it more capable or easier to use, I'd go find an uncontaminated person (one who hadn't used the program) and get them to select and order a map with it. I cherished every complaint and if they could find a way to break it, I'd buy them beer and help them celebrate their accomplishment.
I saved up my money and bought my computer and its software, and it works for me; I don't work for it. I like Linux, but often it infuriates me. Why the hell can't the Mandrake 10.0 install program review my hardware configuration and if it finds a modem but no nic, install KPPP for me?
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A New Ice Age?
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"We could reduce our population by undertaking a massive space program and colonizing the galaxy. It's about time people started to go to other stars."
Score 2, Interesting? Gee Mr Science-guy, can you count on your fingers?
Assume each of your yet-to-be-invented galaxy colonizing ships could transport 1,000 and you could find enough colonizers and you could launch one of these ships every day, how many ice ages would come and go before the Terran population was reduced? (Lessee now, thousand a day, 365,000 a year multiplied by the number of arithmetically challenged slash/dotters, times the national debt.....)
Sheesh! Slash/dotters. Won't read, can't write and are too busy licking off the Kentucky-fried grease to count on their fingers.
Yet strangely enough, ton after ton of high-grade marijuana flows across the border to New York City alone. Laugh if you will, but if bales of aromatic plant matter can enter the country on a routine basis, then a few clever men will certainly be able to do the same.
I can see it all now, legions of terrorists entering the US encased in bales of marijuana breathing from oxygen packs. It wouldn't matter if they came from Tijuana or Vancouver, safe entry would be almost assured.
Two suggestions:
Open Directory Cooking category, which comprises some 17,961 websites, carefully catalogued, described and maintained by editors indianpipe, patcwilson and suzy1212; or
Google's Cooking directory, which is Google's version of the Open Directory's data plus whatever they've added.
Personally, I'm guided by a total lack of culinary inhibitions and the pantry inventory. WFM.
>> The other thing I sorely miss in mozilla is the Google toolbar. I love it.
I like the Google bar too. If you visit http://googlebar.mozdev.org/ your wishes will be answered. I use it all the time and they've done a very nice job on it.
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I haven't been following this very closely, but putting the difficulty of carbon nano-tubes aside, how much thought has been given to the radiation hazard?
I don't think I'd want to take that trip without substantial shielding. It sounds reasonable for freight - not people or livestock.
You're an insulting, ignorant little piece of shit. Never heard of a sailor named Grace Hopper? Read, learn and shut the hell up.
If all the user has to tell the IT-type is that e-mail doesn't work, then nothing further is required, other than the reassurance that you will fix it, either by doing a hand-holding session or by enabling the error logs, then asking the user to re-create the error condition.
What I found really annoying about the article was the bottom of the page, where three options are presented within inches of each other; each taking the user to the same place: continued, 2 and next.
I'll get modded off-topic but whatthehell..... Just load this bookmarklet code as a bookmark and call it when you run into charcoal print on a black background -
javascript:(function(){var newSS, styles='* { background: white ! important; color: black !important }
I call mine Re-Colour.
For those times when you have to be in Windows, let me suggest Enhanced Virtual Desktops, by Lorenzi Davide. It runs on all versions of Windows, is dead simple to install and configure and works unobtrusively. It's free.
Wah-la, multiple desktops for Windows, the OS you love to hate
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No, it isn't.
Necrotizing Fasciitis is a form of staphylococcus infection, but it is not Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureaus (MRSA). It is true that Group A Staphylococcus can lead to the flesh eating syndrome though. See here for a description.
The science fiction novel by John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar, talks about a personal weapon called the karatand. This was a plastic glove that was normally flexible but very rigid when punching or chopping.
Prescient.
I hear you; it's a legal entity but not a person. It is however, made up of people and those people are a mix of good, evil, self-serving or altruistic.
Its leadership are comprised of people who fear criminal penalties and are can therefore be subject to public censure.
Or you could always go find a link yourself. Then you could thank yourself for the effort.
Just google for photolysis of water and you'll obtain a few hundred citations on the subject.
If the programmer does not work for the user, then who is the software for? Of course the programmer is slave to the user! I once wrote a map cataloguing, ordering and shipping application using dbase, and each time I revised it to make it more capable or easier to use, I'd go find an uncontaminated person (one who hadn't used the program) and get them to select and order a map with it. I cherished every complaint and if they could find a way to break it, I'd buy them beer and help them celebrate their accomplishment.
I saved up my money and bought my computer and its software, and it works for me; I don't work for it. I like Linux, but often it infuriates me. Why the hell can't the Mandrake 10.0 install program review my hardware configuration and if it finds a modem but no nic, install KPPP for me?
I can see it all now, legions of terrorists entering the US encased in bales of marijuana breathing from oxygen packs. It wouldn't matter if they came from Tijuana or Vancouver, safe entry would be almost assured.
Two suggestions: Open Directory Cooking category, which comprises some 17,961 websites, carefully catalogued, described and maintained by editors indianpipe, patcwilson and suzy1212; or
Google's Cooking directory, which is Google's version of the Open Directory's data plus whatever they've added.
Personally, I'm guided by a total lack of culinary inhibitions and the pantry inventory. WFM.
Umm, no thanks, but I think we'd all happily support Washington DC as a lovely site for fusion experiments - or maybe Texas or Florida!
Pegasus Mail. http://www.pmail.com. Then get popfile for an unbeatable e-mail client/bayesian filter system. http://popfile.sourceforge.net/