They did. It came on a bootable floppy, and the user had to type in two lines.
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It works for 99.99999% of all known viruses, trojans, worms, and also doubles as a removal tool of malware, adware, spyware, and just plain awful programs.
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Perhaps I'm not the only one who feels this way.
heh heh... A vicious but fun read. I'm not quite to that extreme yet, but I did manage to achieve a -1 flamebait all the same.;-)
I didn't quite get the humor of clicking on a "dildo" mentioned by your parent's post. And did an AC up there actually comment that it was a "clean foot, with a clean smell"? Hoo-boy... Maxi-Oxymoron! Talk about steppin on some sensitive toes!
Well, my smoldering karma probably doesn't smell too great right now either, so I'm gonna type halt at the # and call it a day.
(They could at least put a nice Oxford over it, or even Dr. Martens...)
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You know, I understand that Gnome has really come a long way, but there's a sadly superficial reason that many of us took to KDE. So cue up the clue machine!
Lose the smelly foot! I mean really... Why do they insist on using that as their logo? You could pick random objects out of a dictionary and come up with a uniquely unoffensive mascot to which people will endear themselves.
I know it sounds petty, and someone is bound to cry, "flamebait", but it's the truth! At least Red Hat (now Fedora) had the decency to put a hat on it, but most distros come with that distinctively vulger set of four little piggies.
Other than that, there's only one very minor reason I don't switch to Gnome, and I'll admit it's probably nothing, and if I bothered to look it up, I'd probably stumble over the solution... I've been using KMail since it automagically ported everything so nicely away from MS-Outlook Express (my archives go back to '95), and I just don't want to go through the hassle of porting it all again.
But seriously. I like the GTK philosophy a lot, but feet are just gross (I know I'm not the only one who thinks that either), and I'm just not getting over that logo.
I know... I know... "We gotta keep the logo to stick with our priciples... It's more like you need to change your attitude... Let's hear it for feet... I think the foot is sexy..."
Of course the most obvious is, "This is Linux. You can change to logo to whatever you want, man... It's open source! Why don't you just write your own GUI and come out with your own logo?"
The Gnome people did a very nice job, and the overall appearance looks great from what I can tell. But for now, I'm still going to keep KDE.
Definitely. If there is indiginous life, it's either microbial or fossilized. Either way, it's about as significant as pond scum. While we're there, we'll toss a sample into a petri dish for a keepsake.
Hell, a cow is more advanced than anything that will ever be found on Mars, and I just ate a hamburger. Do you think for a moment that I'm going to worry one bit about the potential rights of a microscopic organism?
Just looking at all the images sent back shows the basic picture: A vaste wasteland.
Given the chance, I think we can do better than that, and we don't even have to be gods to do it.
Yeah, yeah... Earth first... We'll strip-mine the other planets later. BAH!
You know I hear they have some pretty good anti-depressants on the market today. You could try a few... Might even help your karma... (Not that you care.)
The goals of open source are open. They are not set in stone. If you ask 10 different Open Source users what the goal is, you'll likely get about 7 or more different answers.
Some like to feel "1337" because they use Linux, and that's "OK" for now. Some are just jolly about the fact that they're stickin' it to ol' Gates and Company. Some have religious zealotry about using OSS, and some are just tin-foil hat sporting geeks who hear voices that tell them to use BSD. Some can't afford MS products, or did a cost analysis and found they could save money. Heck, some actually believe they like the interface better! Go figure!
But to lump OSS users into a mass of froth-mouthed "Microsoft sux" group is just plain silly. Sure, MS Windows annoys the heck out of me these days when I have to go fix someone else's computer, but my own computer is more of what I want it to be than any of the previous MS run computers I've owned in the past...
Except for the first one... You never get over your first love.:-)
Please explain how pocket, portable computing would have been possible even ten years ago.
OK, here you go: Pocket Computer circa 1980-something... I had one. Still have the Tandy PC-6 as well. Built in BASIC programming language. Sure, it's not as nifty as the MP3 playing full color screen gadgets you've got today, but is was a real computer. It interepreted lines of programmed code. It even had a printer and a cassette storage device, and you could develop your own applications for them without having to synch it with a desktop computer.
Yeah... Argue how underpowered they were, but those pocket computers were just as powerful as their full sized cousins less than ten years earlier, and quite frankly I'd rather have my Tandy PC-6 on a desert island than a Palm, beause the battery life is a heck of a lot better!
I'm not saying MS killed the pocket computer market, but there's always been a demand for it, and no one's really ever been able to pull it off in spite of the fact that the technology really does exist and has existed for a very long time.
I can remember a decade or two ago, people actually believed that such cosmic alignments would result in earthquakes, floods, and other supernatural disasters. Trying to rationally explain the effects of gravity to them didn't help much either.
It's nice to regularly see stories like this without having the dreaded doomsday angle.
Of course there's always a catch to these stories: You won't see anything like this until (insert far-off date here). With so many fascinating things in astronomy, you'll have plenty of opportunities to see an amazing show on any given clear night.
the visitors use IE and that makes it the standard
Admittedly, I get most of my site's hits from Slashdot, but I find a rather pleasant mix of Gecko, Mozilla, Opera, Apple Webkit, and occasionally someone using IE. Actually, I think Google surfs my site more than anyone. (I did tell "Slurp" to take a flying leap.) Of course it does flop over to nearly 80% IE from time to time, but I've also noticed that IE users are only interested in some file named cmd.exe or root.exe, and I've never offered either of those files from this box. It must be a Microsoft thing...
Personally I'm hooked on using Firefox, but I design my pages to look good in any light.;-)
The historical meaning of $ is a U superimposed on an S.
I've heard that story since the 2nd grade, and I've seen a lot of historical artifacts since then, but I've never actually seen a U superimposed on an S. I'm not saying it's not true, I've just never seen any old documents with a U on an S to symbolically denote currency. I've seen two II's on an S, and a single I on an S, but no U. I'm starting to wonder if this isn't one of those items we might find on "snopes" one day.
...when I spill food on the carpet, and throw a book or something over it...
OK, Ayaress, that's just gross. Do I know you by any chance? You sound like the majority of my friends. Even though we've all been guilty of slob behaviour to a greater or lesser extent, this is one example of the things people should keep to themselves.;-)
I'll decent from the first reply... (no offense 0x20)
This is just a guess, but fromt he pop-sci article (link somewhere above) the image of the shrunken penny (US) was dramatic while the image of a nickle (US) was much less so. I'd hypothesis that the copper portion would shrink at a much higher rate and fall out of the center.
Then again, US coins aren't made of pure elements these days, so who can tell...
I did the exact same thing (RTFM) after reading the grandparent... Note to the other curious people, hdparm requires root, so USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION! Other than that, it's fun to learn new tools from slashdot context!
My guess is probably not. It's got a little extra nift value, but it's really all in the software. They're using the exact same laser, so the hardware isn't any different except for maybe an extra bit of firmware to prevent knock-off CD-Rs from entering the scene. Everything else is handled by software, so the extra $10 on top of a DVD burner is the only hope they have of getting people to consider it. Much more and who would bother?
For the other end, the consumable disc, an extra $0.10 has a huge fudge factor. Prices vary greatly so they're probably basing it upon the highest priced premium brand of DVD/CD-R (which isn't necessarily any better than the low cost cheepy-brand) so yes, you'll end up spending $10 for about 25 discs, while someone else is going to be paying $15 for a spindle of 100.
My biggest gripe (and you know I'll get flamed for saying this...): Since (I'm only guessing) it's all based in software, it will probably not be a feature availble to Linux users.
Looks like Sharpie isn't going to lose any of my business anytime soon.;-)
I ASSURE you oil is not about to run out any time soon
I'm not claiming that your information is faulty, but history is riddled with energy crisis over oil production and distribution time after time. Remember "Nix-on gas" from the '70s? It hasn't exactly gotten much better. It litteral does hold the nation hostage when our transportation systems are threatened.
And the propaganda that "lower prices are just around the corner" will always be a big seller to anyone who just got a car loan in the last 3 years, but it's a pipe dream. Gasoline is both taxed and subsidized at the same time. It's a beaurocratic fantasy nightmare that becomes more convoluted every day.
The story that doesn't get out is that they will acheive ~15% - and that with having increased power output greatly at the same time!!!
I'm happy they got more efficiency, and the increased power output is a nice selling point. We can thank the likes of Tim Allen fans everywhere for getting excited over more power, but if I recall at one time people were able to pull a whole wagon full of stuff around with only 1 or 2 horse power... litterally! If we were truly to advance technologically we'd figure out ways to get around just as effectively with less power.
And quite frankly, you shouldn't pay attention to those wacko environmental groups. If those groups didn't already exist, the petrolium industry would have to invent them just to gain sympathy.
The average car is on the road what? 10 years? It will be decades (and perhapse centuries) untill we will be able to convert a large part of electricity production over to clean sources, and even then it won't be solar, wind, or whatever other pipe-deam the enviro's think up...
That's a valid arguement, and I'll testify that my Cavalier is a '93 and still runs fine. I will, however, inject the argument that electricity is far more universal than gasoline, and in the event of global instability in the oil markets, we do have an alternative readily available here in the US known as "coal". Yes, I know it's even less pallatable to environmentalists, but it's far more dependable as an energy source here in the US than dwindling oil reserves in hostile nations.
You can also include the fact that we have technologically improved the cleanliness of using coal, so the arguement that it would fill the atmosphere with choking globs of black smoke is no longer valid.
Get the horse before the cart. Internal combustion engines need to be replaced with something that has a greater potential for long term stability. I don't want to be in the generation left holding the bag when they squeeze the last drop of petrolium out of the ground, then forced to announce to this nation of sheep that there just isn't any more. Mayhem ensues as the people with 7 year loans on their SUVs revolt now that they can no longer commute 65 miles a day from their planned community suburbs.
It's not just the immediate evironmental factors that should concern us, although putting an electric-car infrastructure into place before the inevitable arrives wouldn't hurt. Once oil dependency is no longer an issue, we can more easily investigate alternatives without the distraction being thown in our faces.
Heck, I remember when it hit FIDO net during my old BBS days over 10 years ago. I distictly remember objecting to it back then, and was flamed for trying to limit "freedom of speech".
If memory serves, a 19th century sociologist by the name of "Darde" posited that out of 100 people, 1 is truly creative and the remaining 99 are echoic.
Wow. I don't say this often, but "mod parent up". I use to believe that Linux needed to be on every desktop, but now I'm not so sure.
To be sure, I'd like to see Linux obtain the social acceptibility level of the Mac. They aren't all that common, but they are respectable, and many companies support the Mac user. Just once I'd like to tell "tech-no-support" that I'm using Linux without their polite "Sir, we only support Windows and Macintosh operating systems".
Linux needs more popularity, but too much too fast would result in the same mess that MS Windows is facing.
As a side note, I found that Koolmoves has a nice entry-level Flash developer tool that seems to work well under Wine. (Yes, it's obviously buggy, but I've come to expect that.) I've only tried the demo, but I'm seriously considering the product. I don't know what kind of business they operate. Can anyone who's done business with them give them a good reference?
What we need are some elder care trained dogs or monkeys.
Wow... That's sounds pretty bad too. What we need are compassionate loving families that stick together to take care of their own. I know it probably isn't ever going to happen, but when we abandon those who cared for us because it's inconvenient, what kind of justice do we deserve?
On a lighter note, I want my kids to buy me a robot to feed my trained monkey and walk the dog that fetches my prescriptions... And don't forget nurse Olga to give me a sponge bath every 2 hours.
If I have to talk to another tech-no-support and translate their "Engrish" over a 28.8kbps VoIP I'm going to scream. I would pay more for a product that touted native English speaking support on the box.
My story begins: I miss my old router, but after 18 months it just died. It had to be replaced.
Actually, I'd like to be able to buy products that don't need any support at all, but unfortunately the lowly sales employee couldn't even tell me if the router had web based administration. (He looked like a deer in headlights on that question.)
So how do I find products that fit my specific needs? Why, I do the research, listen to the wonderful people who post on Slashdot, and throw darts in the dark whilst blindfolded... And what comes next? I'm talking to Sanjay for 2 hours trying to get the port forwarding to work for the FTP server. The final result? Miserable. It's still not working. So I even tried another router... Nope. That one couldn't even get any of the ports to forward. Now I feel gun-shy even at the thought of dialing tech support.
Of course, if I were a real techno-geek, I wouldn't need any tech support at all, but apparently a lot of people do need it because you have to wait 15 to 30 minutes just to suffer the dreaded question: "And what version of Windows are you using?"
Yes... if I hear that question again, I am going to reach through the phone and beat the holy-- Oh, nevermind... My blood pressure is up again. Better calm down before I have a stroke.
And yes... It's at that point I usually do fire up that ol' Win98 box out of desperation. Never mind the fact that no one in their right mind would run a server off Windows 98.
But seriously, if you're concerned about the rampant outsourcing of jobs to India, don't worry... It's just a fad. Eventually, someone is bound to realize that those "cheap workers" just don't work.
In the meantime, the situation keeps getting lost in the translation.
In a spacesuit or spacecraft, the atmosphere is usually kept somewhere below normal atmospheric pressure, to reduce strain on the hull.
Any idea on how much lower they keep it? And what the lowest limit would be?
Even if you decreased the pressure very slowly, the subject would still be subjected to extreme pain as these airspaces expand and try to ventilate. It would literally be like someone sticking a fire hose up your ass and opening the valve.
Some people do that sort of thing for recreation... I think they call it a "high colonic"... But seriously, if there are air spaces that would expand when depressurised, wouldn't it be able to at least slowly leak out? Otherwise, how did the air get there in the first place?
So far I see that the biggest factors to consider are: Liquids boil at lower temps, gas needs pressure to disolve in liquid, (but I'm not sure this applies to the chemical bonding of Fe02 in the blood), your ears might need to be modified, and your diet would likely need to be synthesized so as not to contain anything that would produce even minimal flatulence.
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heh heh... A vicious but fun read. I'm not quite to that extreme yet, but I did manage to achieve a -1 flamebait all the same. ;-)
I didn't quite get the humor of clicking on a "dildo" mentioned by your parent's post. And did an AC up there actually comment that it was a "clean foot, with a clean smell"? Hoo-boy... Maxi-Oxymoron! Talk about steppin on some sensitive toes!
Well, my smoldering karma probably doesn't smell too great right now either, so I'm gonna type halt at the # and call it a day.
(They could at least put a nice Oxford over it, or even Dr. Martens...)
Lose the smelly foot! I mean really... Why do they insist on using that as their logo? You could pick random objects out of a dictionary and come up with a uniquely unoffensive mascot to which people will endear themselves.
I know it sounds petty, and someone is bound to cry, "flamebait", but it's the truth! At least Red Hat (now Fedora) had the decency to put a hat on it, but most distros come with that distinctively vulger set of four little piggies.
Other than that, there's only one very minor reason I don't switch to Gnome, and I'll admit it's probably nothing, and if I bothered to look it up, I'd probably stumble over the solution... I've been using KMail since it automagically ported everything so nicely away from MS-Outlook Express (my archives go back to '95), and I just don't want to go through the hassle of porting it all again.
But seriously. I like the GTK philosophy a lot, but feet are just gross (I know I'm not the only one who thinks that either), and I'm just not getting over that logo.
I know... I know... "We gotta keep the logo to stick with our priciples... It's more like you need to change your attitude... Let's hear it for feet... I think the foot is sexy..."
Of course the most obvious is, "This is Linux. You can change to logo to whatever you want, man... It's open source! Why don't you just write your own GUI and come out with your own logo?"
The Gnome people did a very nice job, and the overall appearance looks great from what I can tell. But for now, I'm still going to keep KDE.
Definitely. If there is indiginous life, it's either microbial or fossilized. Either way, it's about as significant as pond scum. While we're there, we'll toss a sample into a petri dish for a keepsake.
Hell, a cow is more advanced than anything that will ever be found on Mars, and I just ate a hamburger. Do you think for a moment that I'm going to worry one bit about the potential rights of a microscopic organism?
Just looking at all the images sent back shows the basic picture: A vaste wasteland.
Given the chance, I think we can do better than that, and we don't even have to be gods to do it.
Yeah, yeah... Earth first... We'll strip-mine the other planets later. BAH!
I say terraform today!
The goals of open source are open. They are not set in stone. If you ask 10 different Open Source users what the goal is, you'll likely get about 7 or more different answers.
Some like to feel "1337" because they use Linux, and that's "OK" for now. Some are just jolly about the fact that they're stickin' it to ol' Gates and Company. Some have religious zealotry about using OSS, and some are just tin-foil hat sporting geeks who hear voices that tell them to use BSD. Some can't afford MS products, or did a cost analysis and found they could save money. Heck, some actually believe they like the interface better! Go figure!
But to lump OSS users into a mass of froth-mouthed "Microsoft sux" group is just plain silly. Sure, MS Windows annoys the heck out of me these days when I have to go fix someone else's computer, but my own computer is more of what I want it to be than any of the previous MS run computers I've owned in the past...
Except for the first one... You never get over your first love. :-)
OK, here you go: Pocket Computer circa 1980-something... I had one. Still have the Tandy PC-6 as well. Built in BASIC programming language. Sure, it's not as nifty as the MP3 playing full color screen gadgets you've got today, but is was a real computer. It interepreted lines of programmed code. It even had a printer and a cassette storage device, and you could develop your own applications for them without having to synch it with a desktop computer.
Yeah... Argue how underpowered they were, but those pocket computers were just as powerful as their full sized cousins less than ten years earlier, and quite frankly I'd rather have my Tandy PC-6 on a desert island than a Palm, beause the battery life is a heck of a lot better!
I'm not saying MS killed the pocket computer market, but there's always been a demand for it, and no one's really ever been able to pull it off in spite of the fact that the technology really does exist and has existed for a very long time.
It's nice to regularly see stories like this without having the dreaded doomsday angle.
Of course there's always a catch to these stories: You won't see anything like this until (insert far-off date here). With so many fascinating things in astronomy, you'll have plenty of opportunities to see an amazing show on any given clear night.
Admittedly, I get most of my site's hits from Slashdot, but I find a rather pleasant mix of Gecko, Mozilla, Opera, Apple Webkit, and occasionally someone using IE. Actually, I think Google surfs my site more than anyone. (I did tell "Slurp" to take a flying leap.) Of course it does flop over to nearly 80% IE from time to time, but I've also noticed that IE users are only interested in some file named cmd.exe or root.exe, and I've never offered either of those files from this box. It must be a Microsoft thing...
Personally I'm hooked on using Firefox, but I design my pages to look good in any light. ;-)
I've heard that story since the 2nd grade, and I've seen a lot of historical artifacts since then, but I've never actually seen a U superimposed on an S. I'm not saying it's not true, I've just never seen any old documents with a U on an S to symbolically denote currency. I've seen two II's on an S, and a single I on an S, but no U. I'm starting to wonder if this isn't one of those items we might find on "snopes" one day.
Google is your friend.
OK, Ayaress, that's just gross. Do I know you by any chance? You sound like the majority of my friends. Even though we've all been guilty of slob behaviour to a greater or lesser extent, this is one example of the things people should keep to themselves. ;-)
This is just a guess, but fromt he pop-sci article (link somewhere above) the image of the shrunken penny (US) was dramatic while the image of a nickle (US) was much less so. I'd hypothesis that the copper portion would shrink at a much higher rate and fall out of the center.
Then again, US coins aren't made of pure elements these days, so who can tell...
I did the exact same thing (RTFM) after reading the grandparent... Note to the other curious people, hdparm requires root, so USE WITH EXTREME CAUTION! Other than that, it's fun to learn new tools from slashdot context!
For the other end, the consumable disc, an extra $0.10 has a huge fudge factor. Prices vary greatly so they're probably basing it upon the highest priced premium brand of DVD/CD-R (which isn't necessarily any better than the low cost cheepy-brand) so yes, you'll end up spending $10 for about 25 discs, while someone else is going to be paying $15 for a spindle of 100.
My biggest gripe (and you know I'll get flamed for saying this...): Since (I'm only guessing) it's all based in software, it will probably not be a feature availble to Linux users.
Looks like Sharpie isn't going to lose any of my business anytime soon. ;-)
I'm not claiming that your information is faulty, but history is riddled with energy crisis over oil production and distribution time after time. Remember "Nix-on gas" from the '70s? It hasn't exactly gotten much better. It litteral does hold the nation hostage when our transportation systems are threatened.
And the propaganda that "lower prices are just around the corner" will always be a big seller to anyone who just got a car loan in the last 3 years, but it's a pipe dream. Gasoline is both taxed and subsidized at the same time. It's a beaurocratic fantasy nightmare that becomes more convoluted every day.
The story that doesn't get out is that they will acheive ~15% - and that with having increased power output greatly at the same time!!!
I'm happy they got more efficiency, and the increased power output is a nice selling point. We can thank the likes of Tim Allen fans everywhere for getting excited over more power, but if I recall at one time people were able to pull a whole wagon full of stuff around with only 1 or 2 horse power... litterally! If we were truly to advance technologically we'd figure out ways to get around just as effectively with less power.
And quite frankly, you shouldn't pay attention to those wacko environmental groups. If those groups didn't already exist, the petrolium industry would have to invent them just to gain sympathy.
Why would they bother to do that? The humans doing that work never showed any signs of it either...
<J/K!>
That's a valid arguement, and I'll testify that my Cavalier is a '93 and still runs fine. I will, however, inject the argument that electricity is far more universal than gasoline, and in the event of global instability in the oil markets, we do have an alternative readily available here in the US known as "coal". Yes, I know it's even less pallatable to environmentalists, but it's far more dependable as an energy source here in the US than dwindling oil reserves in hostile nations.
You can also include the fact that we have technologically improved the cleanliness of using coal, so the arguement that it would fill the atmosphere with choking globs of black smoke is no longer valid.
Get the horse before the cart. Internal combustion engines need to be replaced with something that has a greater potential for long term stability. I don't want to be in the generation left holding the bag when they squeeze the last drop of petrolium out of the ground, then forced to announce to this nation of sheep that there just isn't any more. Mayhem ensues as the people with 7 year loans on their SUVs revolt now that they can no longer commute 65 miles a day from their planned community suburbs.
It's not just the immediate evironmental factors that should concern us, although putting an electric-car infrastructure into place before the inevitable arrives wouldn't hurt. Once oil dependency is no longer an issue, we can more easily investigate alternatives without the distraction being thown in our faces.
So I guess we can rule you out of the 1% too?
(Sorry, couldn't resist.) ;-)
To be sure, I'd like to see Linux obtain the social acceptibility level of the Mac. They aren't all that common, but they are respectable, and many companies support the Mac user. Just once I'd like to tell "tech-no-support" that I'm using Linux without their polite "Sir, we only support Windows and Macintosh operating systems".
Linux needs more popularity, but too much too fast would result in the same mess that MS Windows is facing.
As a side note, I found that Koolmoves has a nice entry-level Flash developer tool that seems to work well under Wine. (Yes, it's obviously buggy, but I've come to expect that.) I've only tried the demo, but I'm seriously considering the product. I don't know what kind of business they operate. Can anyone who's done business with them give them a good reference?
My mechanic would never lie to me! He always charges me a fair price for my weekly fill-up of "blinker fluid".
Obviously, my coworkers think I'm weird...
But they like me anyway.
Wow... That's sounds pretty bad too. What we need are compassionate loving families that stick together to take care of their own. I know it probably isn't ever going to happen, but when we abandon those who cared for us because it's inconvenient, what kind of justice do we deserve?
On a lighter note, I want my kids to buy me a robot to feed my trained monkey and walk the dog that fetches my prescriptions... And don't forget nurse Olga to give me a sponge bath every 2 hours.
My story begins: I miss my old router, but after 18 months it just died. It had to be replaced.
Actually, I'd like to be able to buy products that don't need any support at all, but unfortunately the lowly sales employee couldn't even tell me if the router had web based administration. (He looked like a deer in headlights on that question.)
So how do I find products that fit my specific needs? Why, I do the research, listen to the wonderful people who post on Slashdot, and throw darts in the dark whilst blindfolded... And what comes next? I'm talking to Sanjay for 2 hours trying to get the port forwarding to work for the FTP server. The final result? Miserable. It's still not working. So I even tried another router... Nope. That one couldn't even get any of the ports to forward. Now I feel gun-shy even at the thought of dialing tech support.
Of course, if I were a real techno-geek, I wouldn't need any tech support at all, but apparently a lot of people do need it because you have to wait 15 to 30 minutes just to suffer the dreaded question: "And what version of Windows are you using?"
Yes... if I hear that question again, I am going to reach through the phone and beat the holy-- Oh, nevermind... My blood pressure is up again. Better calm down before I have a stroke.
And yes... It's at that point I usually do fire up that ol' Win98 box out of desperation. Never mind the fact that no one in their right mind would run a server off Windows 98.
But seriously, if you're concerned about the rampant outsourcing of jobs to India, don't worry... It's just a fad. Eventually, someone is bound to realize that those "cheap workers" just don't work.
In the meantime, the situation keeps getting lost in the translation.
Any idea on how much lower they keep it? And what the lowest limit would be?
Even if you decreased the pressure very slowly, the subject would still be subjected to extreme pain as these airspaces expand and try to ventilate. It would literally be like someone sticking a fire hose up your ass and opening the valve.
Some people do that sort of thing for recreation... I think they call it a "high colonic"... But seriously, if there are air spaces that would expand when depressurised, wouldn't it be able to at least slowly leak out? Otherwise, how did the air get there in the first place?
So far I see that the biggest factors to consider are: Liquids boil at lower temps, gas needs pressure to disolve in liquid, (but I'm not sure this applies to the chemical bonding of Fe02 in the blood), your ears might need to be modified, and your diet would likely need to be synthesized so as not to contain anything that would produce even minimal flatulence.