A 94 year old is almost as likely to fall off his Segway as Bush. The difference is that Bush is physically fit (although not fiscally or mentally fit). A fall from higher than normal standing height could be real serious for a 94 year old. A Segway for gramps is real bad idea, for him and for other people on the sidewalk.
When I die, I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather did, not terrified like his passengers did.
"The problem with the USA Patriot Act is that it has an unintended consequence: While working under the guise of gathering information on terrorists (a good thing) a great deal more information is gathered on innocent individuals (a bad thing)."
If you believe that was a fully unintended consequence, I own a long suspension bridge north of San Francisco to sell you.
To be a bit more specific. Home power in the US is distributed to local tranformers at a significantly higher voltage than 220V. There is typically a tranformer for every 4 to 8 residences in suburbia. As a result, the 220V line length is typically under 100 m in length. Then, the line is sized for continuous duty at the maximum rating of the power panel on the house, often even higher because the power company likes to leave room for growth.
Home electrical current 24/7 usage typically averages something somthing like 5 amps on a circuit deigned for 200 Amps, the I^2R losses in the 220V leg from the tranformer to the house are therefore completely insignificant.
Power distribution on the circuits within the house isn't as efficient, but still, the losses are extremely low. Acceptable I^2R wire and voltage drops require that 110V circuits use larger wire than 220V circuits, so once again, in most cases, the voltage difference doen't make a rats arse.
Given a blank sheet of paper, higher line voltage and three phase power to homes would be a bit nicer, but not worth the effort required to change.
And, most electrical loads over 1.7kW in US homes are already run on 220V.
Now I know what that senile bag of dessicant, Paul Harvey, was carrying on about today. He was really waxing poetic about a system just like it, but I didn't heare him say who was developing it.
Harvey is the #1 pimp for Bose, so he can be expected to finish the rest of story tomorrow.
It just sounds like another active suspension system. Active suspension systems have been around for a couple of decades, slthough not in high production quantities anyplace AFAIK.
Obligatory anti-MS remark...
I wonder if they will use MS in their control system. It would give new meaning to the phrase "my computer crashed" when it flipped your car over.
Linux is dead
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While I agree typing skill aren't necessary, learning to type can certainly be pleasurable.
40+ years ago I was in the university prep curiculum in high school, but decided to take typing as an elective. I was very pleased to find that many of the girls in the class were hunt 'n peckers.
I retired from a major defense contractor a bit over 6 years ago. If anything, what I observed then is even more true now.
The biggest obstacle to LockMart changing over to OO is the fact that their main customer, the US Government is a big time MS user. If the US government changed over to OO this week, LockMart and the other major defense contractors would change over by the end of next month.
It's not the technical challange, it's the suitability for the job at hand. A good share of a defense contractors work needs to be compatible with the goverment's systems.
Government offices and defense contrator employees tend to do a lot of fancy, unnecessary but pretty and fun BS with Powerpoint, Word and Excel that make their files unreadable by OO. I'm sure the Linux zealots will say they should stop doing that, but that doesn't change reality.
I will confess to doing quite a bit elaborate engineering work in Excel that made them OO incompatible and would have been better done in more specialized packages...but, that would have made it more inconvenient to share my work with others in my organization and in the government. Considering reality, Excel and other MS Orifice packages were the best tools for the job, and still is if you are working at a major defense contractor and communicate with the government.
What you said is partly true. If IE and Firefox had both been created with the same lack of interest in security, than what you said would also be meaningful
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A 94 year old is almost as likely to fall off his Segway as Bush. The difference is that Bush is physically fit (although not fiscally or mentally fit). A fall from higher than normal standing height could be real serious for a 94 year old. A Segway for gramps is real bad idea, for him and for other people on the sidewalk.
When I die, I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather did, not terrified like his passengers did.
Tell your guests it's the automatic commercial de-emphasizer.
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
Iraq. Next question.
"The problem with the USA Patriot Act is that it has an unintended consequence: While working under the guise of gathering information on terrorists (a good thing) a great deal more information is gathered on innocent individuals (a bad thing)."
If you believe that was a fully unintended consequence, I own a long suspension bridge north of San Francisco to sell you.
"Which brings my question - how do you stablize hydrogen so it's not so explosive?.."
Combine it with oxygen. The resulting product, Dihydrogen Monoxide, is so stable that it can be used to put out fires.
To be a bit more specific. Home power in the US is distributed to local tranformers at a significantly higher voltage than 220V. There is typically a tranformer for every 4 to 8 residences in suburbia. As a result, the 220V line length is typically under 100 m in length. Then, the line is sized for continuous duty at the maximum rating of the power panel on the house, often even higher because the power company likes to leave room for growth.
Home electrical current 24/7 usage typically averages something somthing like 5 amps on a circuit deigned for 200 Amps, the I^2R losses in the 220V leg from the tranformer to the house are therefore completely insignificant.
Power distribution on the circuits within the house isn't as efficient, but still, the losses are extremely low. Acceptable I^2R wire and voltage drops require that 110V circuits use larger wire than 220V circuits, so once again,
in most cases, the voltage difference doen't make a rats arse.
Given a blank sheet of paper, higher line voltage and three phase power to homes would be a bit nicer, but not worth the effort required to change.
And, most electrical loads over 1.7kW in US homes are already run on 220V.
" Actually, it would be fitting for Diebold to refuse to sell to California."
Sounds good to me. That would be a good stopgap measure.
The Ford Crown Victoria is also rear wheel drive.
You could start with "uncopyrightable" but that wouldn't leave many useful letters for additional words.
Maybe you could write something in Welsh with DFJKQSWXYZ. Actually, that looks like the name of a town I drove through in Wales.
Now I know what that senile bag of dessicant, Paul Harvey, was carrying on about today. He was really waxing poetic about a system just like it, but I didn't heare him say who was developing it.
Harvey is the #1 pimp for Bose, so he can be expected to finish the rest of story tomorrow.
It just sounds like another active suspension system. Active suspension systems have been around for a couple of decades, slthough not in high production quantities anyplace AFAIK.
Obligatory anti-MS remark...
I wonder if they will use MS in their control system. It would give new meaning to the phrase "my computer crashed" when it flipped your car over.
Linux is dead :-P
SCO reminds me of
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"God is dead."
Nietzsche
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"Nietzsche is dead."
God
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If ever there was a time to "Just say no to drugs" this is it.
I hope the robot be wears a little Mountie uniform.
While I agree typing skill aren't necessary, learning to type can certainly be pleasurable.
40+ years ago I was in the university prep curiculum in high school, but decided to take typing as an elective. I was very pleased to find that many of the girls in the class were hunt 'n peckers.
Compared to existing seats in short haul planes (and long haul steerage class seats), standing up sounds like the better option.
I retired from a major defense contractor a bit over 6 years ago. If anything, what I observed then is even more true now.
The biggest obstacle to LockMart changing over to OO is the fact that their main customer, the US Government is a big time MS user. If the US government changed over to OO this week, LockMart and the other major defense contractors would change over by the end of next month.
It's not the technical challange, it's the suitability for the job at hand. A good share of a defense contractors work needs to be compatible with the goverment's systems.
Government offices and defense contrator employees tend to do a lot of fancy, unnecessary but pretty and fun BS with Powerpoint, Word and Excel that make their files unreadable by OO. I'm sure the Linux zealots will say they should stop doing that, but that doesn't change reality.
I will confess to doing quite a bit elaborate engineering work in Excel that made them OO incompatible and would have been better done in more specialized packages...but, that would have made it more inconvenient to share my work with others in my organization and in the government. Considering reality, Excel and other MS Orifice packages were the best tools for the job, and still is if you are working at a major defense contractor and communicate with the government.
If gumnt were here to serve the general public, then open source would gain faster acceptance in US gumnt than it has been getting..
Unfortunately, to a large extent the reality is that gumnt is here to serve the companies that bribe ^H^H^H^H^H lobby our Congresscritters.
Now that Martha Stewart and Bobby Fischer have both been aprehended, I feel much more secure.
This just in...
Cheney, representing the Administeration, offered a response to Richard Dreyfuss's charges.
"Go fuck yourself Dreyfuss"
" True though, try asking some random person how many states are in Canada some time."
The only one I can think of off hand is North Dakota.
They realized that many of their geographically challanged friends from south of the border would read the report.
What you said is partly true. If IE and Firefox had both been created with the same lack of interest in security, than what you said would also be meaningful
What will be sitting in its place 15 years from now? A.I. or bloatware?
I expect to be using bloatware A.I. to complement my N.I. (natural ignorance)
Dang. No good in math OR spelling?
He spells like an athelete
So are the sharks that are in the North Atlantic just there on vacation?