One'd think that the cognizant city, state, county, and federal agencies would have building plans prior to issuing permits, and emergency plans for emergency response.
i would think there'd have been a requirement to install Halon 1301 or its successor/s (but not PKP, due to nasty corrosion effects...) to trip after evacuation of personnel. With all those magnets around, a magnetic trip mechanism could work if mechanical linkages fail or are burned out, releasing the agent.
(Assumption here) For a fire department to arrive without KNOWING the particulars of the site, and not using time en route to ascertain the particulars is not very effective -- IF that is the case here. Still, employees of such facilities need to be REQUIRED to be first responders.
But, i know when aboard ship, we were trained that if the helo crashed on our flight deck, and the fuel tanks ruptured and ignited due to friction or electrical ignition, the landing gear (made of alloys... magnesium and or titanium, IIRC) WOULD burn like hell and there was no point in trying to salvage the helo NOR in trying to suppress the fire. The main recourse would be to use a forklift or brute manpower to jettison it. Failing that, the ship would have to make hard rolls at speed (assuming we were underway AT a decent clip) and toss it off that way. Otherwise, the bird would burn down into the hull very quickly and then there'd be NO removal and it would continue to burn down into the hull.
For INSIDE fires involving exotics, sand and constant water deluge could COOL, but not necessarily extinguish the burning. The danger there is that aboard ship (particularly one not underway (not moving; AT SEA doesn't mean "underway", a ship not making headway (forward movement) is either anchored, station-keeping, or if stopped, "underway with no way on"...), shipping (taking on) huge amounts of shifting ballast (fire-fighting water) could lead to stability issues or restricted maneuvering to keep it inside flooding boundaries or to manage drainage.
Reminds me of when years ago i worked in a pizza restaurant. I was cleaning the food prep counters and beneath the insert. I went to reinsert an insert, but the railing to support it had vanished. I hailed out, "One of my rails is missing!".
The supervisor replied "Are we talking... DRUGS... here?"
Naively, i couldn't respond. Later, someone told me "rails" referred to needles, i guess as in shooting up.
So, ever since Ruby on Rails came out, i've always recalled the "rails" context. Now, msoft with silverlight and rails.... sounds like self-injecting mercury into the bloodstream...
Besides, as a rising superpower, India should "stick it to da man" (mshaft) and say, "MShaft, get sofffft..." Get SMART, India! Go with OpenOffice.org, or join the AsiaNux groups (China, Japan, Korea...)
(And, NO, i am not going to see Indiana Jones...I'm tired of remakes/rehashes, and Get Smart remake is just another nail in the lid... Sick of the poor excuses/realities for lack of originality)
So, now they want to point or shift blame away from themselves....
WHY did they have to break the winhlp32.exe file? WHY could they not bridge the functionality, or emulate it to work with "compatibility" mode only for pre-Vista apps. No, they probably wanted to screw over anyone (including help file software makers) to FORCE people to shift to Vista, when it looked as if XP was facing End of Life...
Is it any WONDER that the company is perpetually in paranoia/defense mode? As schizophrenic as that company is...
"Yes, and most of those people don't actually write a single line of code."
I'm not sure if that was meant to be a slight, or a slight insult.
SOME of us use WYSIWYG tools and thus don't NEED to "write a single line of code" to be able to do damage to mshaft. Is there some rite (or write, for that matter,) of passage to have a right to vocalize the urge, intent, or act of doing damage to mshaft?
Semi-related, I'm now starting to wonder how much Ozzie might be part of the (background) problem of IBM doing miserably and wretchedly next to NOTHING meaningful about Lotus SmartSuite. Obviously it's not going to keep up with nor even eclipse OpenOffice.org, but, after reading TFA, i am wondering how many other "uncontactable" patent holders in SmartSuite are people who ran off to msoft or left Lotus and are punishing them for whatever reason by not releasing nor modifying their rights in the code. Most readers and others likely will say it's just too expensive to try to research the patent docs to obtain releases to let Open Source developers have at ALL of SmartSuite. But, IBM seems loath to even allow access to the Lotus/IBM patented stuff.
But, i think OSS is not "stealing", certainly not any more than most "innovative" companies do when ripping off ideas in small-area tech circles where people talk and have friends who work for competitors.
attached, with a human brain on the monkey arms...
Really, though. Anybody remember the PSA (I think it was PSA, from around the 80's) commercial with the fun being poked at airlines that charged for going to the toilet? The door latch required EXACT CHANGE, and they guy needing to dump or whiz scampered around (I think he was nearly holding his crotch) asking for change or a dollar....
Anyone needing to use an occupied toilet will linger near one and probably be sweating..... Who's to monitor these? I now wonder if any of the reason for flight ticket surcharges is because of hold-located, pressurized modules hiding quick reaction/anti-hijack personnel.... or some electronics monitoring site.
As for another post "How about custom appendages? If the brain can be trained to independently control a new arm, why couldn't it learn to control a genuine Doctor Octopus suit?".... I'm going out on a LIMB here.... But...
Is that headed toward Dr. StrangeLove, or Dr. StrangeGlove?....
This might be useful to the men who have been "Lorena Bobbitized". Any man who has been or will be 'Lorena Bobbitized' can be outfitted with this '*ickhead apparatus' and be forgiven for using one head to MANipulate, make CONgress and PROgresr with his lower brain, and in his case, scex will no longer be a 'no-brainer'......
"Microsoft sucked at it, but their goal of usefulness for an interface over perfecting the "humanity" of it pushed them ahead."
I wonder why the HELL msoft claims mshlp32.exe doesn't "meet their standards". Could it be it is the new place that the NSA/CIA backdoors reside? Or, is it something else.
I use Lotus SmartSuite 9.5 & 9.8, and they are hamstrung in vista. I am considering ways to ask my computer maker to replace my vista disk with XP, if they'll do it if i send in the original media. I don't know why Lotus Approach is one of those apps that has problems running correctly in vista when most of the other SmartSuite apps work fine (for me, so far as I can tell, and other than any official listings in the Lotus knowledge base...)...
This really is a shame. I wish Lotus would do something... like release to Open Source whatever code they DO own, and let Linux hacks restore the functionality that is missing after removing the non-IBM/Lotus-owned code. If they update the tools making the GUI, then SmartSuite could probably have a resurrection/renaissance of sorts.
But, killing the winhlp32.exe and it not working correctly. I went to:
and still have not been able to get it to run from WITHIN SmartSuite, but at least the thing runs help files if I click them externally. Seems some of the charting elements are opening slowly. I may have to manually rebuild all my database forms one by one to determine the problem. Would be nice if I could find a GUI that TOTALLY mimicked Approach so I could bolt it on top of any underlying db I want or allow others to use, but be OS agnostic. I may have to resort to some of the tools in Linux, finally. But, man, if only IBM/Lotus would allow a handful of Linux programmers privileged access to help IBM do what IBM seems reticent to do, or too loathe to do it with its own resources. Still, the WordPro and Approach, and even 1-2-3 combo would be nice, and seem to offer more than the resurrected/misnamed Symphony is able to do for most users of SmartSuite.
(wait for it to trot in the ice, and walk the slick lot...)
But, to me, it kinda looks like a headless horse, or a giant spider trying to take dump on-the-move, or a pair of footless dragon dancers under a box...
I think US (especially corporate) bathrooms should have CLOSED ENCLOSURES, like many in Japan (at least the ones i've seen). They need to be SEALED. When some shit goes in there and fumigates, it should be the shit-ter who suffers, not everyone else who follows or needs to wash their hands.
This has been something I've noticed over 15 years.... AND NO! US code-approved ceiling fans are NOT enough... not unless a chiller and defumigator are in the toilet room. Deodorizes don't do much of shit. Antiseptic/disinfectants should be sprayed. But, there have been times when I manually over-pumped cinnamon defunker. When called on it, my response was, "do you want it SPICY or DICEY in there?"
Another reason to not be stupid and using COMPANY e-mail tools as your PERSONAL inbox tool. Even without notice, they can cut your access, deprive you of making any archives of stuff muy importante, and so on.
They already have the PLU, which is just ONE way to create an extreme hassle to would-be second-owners, and a deterrent to first-purchaser resales.
Basically, the PLU, or portable license utility, is installed with every protected Autodesk product. Well, at least with AutoCAD. After you register and authorize your licensed copy (electronically or over the phone, etc), the PLU ties that license to that machine. If you install and try to run another instance of the software on another machine, or even reinstall on your own after a total disk wipe, you'll have to re-register or at least get re-authorization.
When you want to legally for a day or a week or whatever transfer the user activity from one machine to another, you activate the PLU, specify the target machine to which the license is to be sent. When done, do the same on the current machine to get the license back to your original machine. If you botch it, you've got to call Autodesk. Botch it TOO many times, they'll forever deny re-authorization for that particular license.
If confused, contact Autodesk, or go visit the AUGI and other sites.
I don't particularly have a problem with the PLU. But, if the PLU is used to deprive resale by legitimate license holders who want to dispose of the product and maybe use a competing product, then "locking in" the user is heinous. I use AutoCAD for WORK. But, for my hobby, I use TurboCAD and Punch! ViaCAD and marine products meant for ship design. AutoCAD 2009 and even 08 have some nifty features, but about all I don't like about TC & VC is their pseudo-command-line is limited to single strokes, not multiple characters. That makes me think AutoCAD has some "patent" lock or threat against other CAD companies attacking AD on the command line. If that is TRUE, then that'll be yet another reason for me to continue using the smaller guy for my non-work activities.
- Put your car in a viewable area, but preferably semi-secured - attach RF or microwave devices to a microphone - when the tyres are slit, the mic triggers the gates to close
the asshole is trapped.
Alternatively, mount dye sprayers under the wheel well, and when the mic detects a library sound of knife-slitting, the trigger pumps florescent dye on the fucker.
If you REALLY want to nail that fucker, put a sonic gun on your car somewhere, and when they slit the tire, and the mic detects it, the sonic device hits them with nausea-inducing waves. well, that assumes you don't need a US-DOD permit to obtain such a device or that you don't need FCC permission or a county health permit to activate such a device.
The asshole who wants to surf PORN on company time should get a pricey phone or an i-Phone for that. Addictive, non-damaging surfing is ONE thing. It's a disciplinary matter. PORN surfing, OTOH, can cause MULTIPLE "victimised" co-workers to sue and cost EVERYBODY their job. Selfish prick you have for a co-worker.
Slashdot Mirror
Imagine when they find a "ring around Uranus"... Being THAT close, would Uranus be a "ring around da collar"?
Well, that just goes to show you how little i know about durgs.... ummm, drugs...
One'd think that the cognizant city, state, county, and federal agencies would have building plans prior to issuing permits, and emergency plans for emergency response.
...
i would think there'd have been a requirement to install Halon 1301 or its successor/s (but not PKP, due to nasty corrosion effects...) to trip after evacuation of personnel. With all those magnets around, a magnetic trip mechanism could work if mechanical linkages fail or are burned out, releasing the agent.
(Assumption here) For a fire department to arrive without KNOWING the particulars of the site, and not using time en route to ascertain the particulars is not very effective -- IF that is the case here. Still, employees of such facilities need to be REQUIRED to be first responders.
http://www.periphman.com/fire/fire-suppression-systems.shtml
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=5vd&q=halon+fire+suppression+system+corrosion&btnG=Search
But, i know when aboard ship, we were trained that if the helo crashed on our flight deck, and the fuel tanks ruptured and ignited due to friction or electrical ignition, the landing gear (made of alloys... magnesium and or titanium, IIRC) WOULD burn like hell and there was no point in trying to salvage the helo NOR in trying to suppress the fire. The main recourse would be to use a forklift or brute manpower to jettison it. Failing that, the ship would have to make hard rolls at speed (assuming we were underway AT a decent clip) and toss it off that way. Otherwise, the bird would burn down into the hull very quickly and then there'd be NO removal and it would continue to burn down into the hull.
For INSIDE fires involving exotics, sand and constant water deluge could COOL, but not necessarily extinguish the burning. The danger there is that aboard ship (particularly one not underway (not moving; AT SEA doesn't mean "underway", a ship not making headway (forward movement) is either anchored, station-keeping, or if stopped, "underway with no way on"...), shipping (taking on) huge amounts of shifting ballast (fire-fighting water) could lead to stability issues or restricted maneuvering to keep it inside flooding boundaries or to manage drainage.
http://www.chaoticsynapticactivity.com/2006/05/17/the-morning-of-the-attack-on-the-uss-stark-ffg-31/
Fire Fighting Appliances
http://www.mcaorals.co.uk/Firefighting%20Appliances.htm
Stability
At Shipboard Fires
http://www.marinefirefighting.com/Pages/Newsletters/Newsletter6.htm
THE IMPACT OF THE USS FORRESTAL'S 1967 FIRE ON UNITED STATES NAVY
http://www.stormingmedia.us/30/3019/A301924.pdf
Great Balls o' FIRE....
(well, if he's standing too close..."
Reminds me of when years ago i worked in a pizza restaurant. I was cleaning the food prep counters and beneath the insert. I went to reinsert an insert, but the railing to support it had vanished. I hailed out, "One of my rails is missing!".
The supervisor replied "Are we talking... DRUGS... here?"
Naively, i couldn't respond. Later, someone told me "rails" referred to needles, i guess as in shooting up.
So, ever since Ruby on Rails came out, i've always recalled the "rails" context. Now, msoft with silverlight and rails.... sounds like self-injecting mercury into the bloodstream...
mshaft, and romance those stones....
Besides, as a rising superpower, India should "stick it to da man" (mshaft) and say, "MShaft, get sofffft..." Get SMART, India! Go with OpenOffice.org, or join the AsiaNux groups (China, Japan, Korea...)
(And, NO, i am not going to see Indiana Jones...I'm tired of remakes/rehashes, and Get Smart remake is just another nail in the lid... Sick of the poor excuses/realities for lack of originality)
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1415
So, now they want to point or shift blame away from themselves....
WHY did they have to break the winhlp32.exe file? WHY could they not bridge the functionality, or emulate it to work with "compatibility" mode only for pre-Vista apps. No, they probably wanted to screw over anyone (including help file software makers) to FORCE people to shift to Vista, when it looked as if XP was facing End of Life...
Is it any WONDER that the company is perpetually in paranoia/defense mode? As schizophrenic as that company is...
This is SO insightful. But, mshaft would consider it "inciteful"...
"Yes, and most of those people don't actually write a single line of code."
I'm not sure if that was meant to be a slight, or a slight insult.
SOME of us use WYSIWYG tools and thus don't NEED to "write a single line of code" to be able to do damage to mshaft. Is there some rite (or write, for that matter,) of passage to have a right to vocalize the urge, intent, or act of doing damage to mshaft?
Semi-related, I'm now starting to wonder how much Ozzie might be part of the (background) problem of IBM doing miserably and wretchedly next to NOTHING meaningful about Lotus SmartSuite. Obviously it's not going to keep up with nor even eclipse OpenOffice.org, but, after reading TFA, i am wondering how many other "uncontactable" patent holders in SmartSuite are people who ran off to msoft or left Lotus and are punishing them for whatever reason by not releasing nor modifying their rights in the code. Most readers and others likely will say it's just too expensive to try to research the patent docs to obtain releases to let Open Source developers have at ALL of SmartSuite. But, IBM seems loath to even allow access to the Lotus/IBM patented stuff.
But, i think OSS is not "stealing", certainly not any more than most "innovative" companies do when ripping off ideas in small-area tech circles where people talk and have friends who work for competitors.
attached, with a human brain on the monkey arms...
Really, though. Anybody remember the PSA (I think it was PSA, from around the 80's) commercial with the fun being poked at airlines that charged for going to the toilet? The door latch required EXACT CHANGE, and they guy needing to dump or whiz scampered around (I think he was nearly holding his crotch) asking for change or a dollar....
Anyone needing to use an occupied toilet will linger near one and probably be sweating..... Who's to monitor these? I now wonder if any of the reason for flight ticket surcharges is because of hold-located, pressurized modules hiding quick reaction/anti-hijack personnel.... or some electronics monitoring site.
Kong Army?
As for another post "How about custom appendages? If the brain can be trained to independently control a new arm, why couldn't it learn to control a genuine Doctor Octopus suit?".... I'm going out on a LIMB here.... But...
Is that headed toward Dr. StrangeLove, or Dr. StrangeGlove?....
What comes after this, after "Profit", is well... umm,
# MONKEY BUSINESS...
"Monkey Business" to me.
...
This might be useful to the men who have been "Lorena Bobbitized". Any man who has been or will be 'Lorena Bobbitized' can be outfitted with this '*ickhead apparatus' and be forgiven for using one head to MANipulate, make CONgress and PROgresr with his lower brain, and in his case, scex will no longer be a 'no-brainer'...
"Microsoft sucked at it, but their goal of usefulness for an interface over perfecting the "humanity" of it pushed them ahead."
I wonder why the HELL msoft claims mshlp32.exe doesn't "meet their standards". Could it be it is the new place that the NSA/CIA backdoors reside? Or, is it something else.
I use Lotus SmartSuite 9.5 & 9.8, and they are hamstrung in vista. I am considering ways to ask my computer maker to replace my vista disk with XP, if they'll do it if i send in the original media. I don't know why Lotus Approach is one of those apps that has problems running correctly in vista when most of the other SmartSuite apps work fine (for me, so far as I can tell, and other than any official listings in the Lotus knowledge base...)...
This really is a shame. I wish Lotus would do something... like release to Open Source whatever code they DO own, and let Linux hacks restore the functionality that is missing after removing the non-IBM/Lotus-owned code. If they update the tools making the GUI, then SmartSuite could probably have a resurrection/renaissance of sorts.
But, killing the winhlp32.exe and it not working correctly. I went to:
http://searchwincomputing.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid68_gci1244222,00.html
and still have not been able to get it to run from WITHIN SmartSuite, but at least the thing runs help files if I click them externally. Seems some of the charting elements are opening slowly. I may have to manually rebuild all my database forms one by one to determine the problem. Would be nice if I could find a GUI that TOTALLY mimicked Approach so I could bolt it on top of any underlying db I want or allow others to use, but be OS agnostic. I may have to resort to some of the tools in Linux, finally. But, man, if only IBM/Lotus would allow a handful of Linux programmers privileged access to help IBM do what IBM seems reticent to do, or too loathe to do it with its own resources. Still, the WordPro and Approach, and even 1-2-3 combo would be nice, and seem to offer more than the resurrected/misnamed Symphony is able to do for most users of SmartSuite.
me of...
"A PENNY for your THOUGHTS,
a NICKLE for a KISS...
a DIIIIMME if you tell me that you *UCK me"...
(* two letters can be used in place of '*')
TUBULAR!
that it seems they are harassing Twits,
or is it harassment to say they are inciting Twits?
"Erotic Space Thruster..."
That WOULD be an electrically stimulating charge with re-entry on that massive a scale...
In the vein of transportation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww
Imagine that being standard military apparel...
(wait for it to trot in the ice, and walk the slick lot...)
But, to me, it kinda looks like a headless horse, or a giant spider trying to take dump on-the-move, or a pair of footless dragon dancers under a box...
in every bathroom in Corporate Amerika, too...
I think US (especially corporate) bathrooms should have CLOSED ENCLOSURES, like many in Japan (at least the ones i've seen). They need to be SEALED. When some shit goes in there and fumigates, it should be the shit-ter who suffers, not everyone else who follows or needs to wash their hands.
This has been something I've noticed over 15 years.... AND NO! US code-approved ceiling fans are NOT enough... not unless a chiller and defumigator are in the toilet room. Deodorizes don't do much of shit. Antiseptic/disinfectants should be sprayed. But, there have been times when I manually over-pumped cinnamon defunker. When called on it, my response was, "do you want it SPICY or DICEY in there?"
Another reason to not be stupid and using COMPANY e-mail tools as your PERSONAL inbox tool. Even without notice, they can cut your access, deprive you of making any archives of stuff muy importante, and so on.
"These people know no shame in protecting their cash cow. The funny thing is, they're losing it anyway! (FU MPAA/RIAA!)"
In the "Nav", my Division CPO had stock phrases for these kinds of situations:
"Dickin' the Dog"
"Screwin' the Pooch"
"F*ckin' the Duck"...
Maybe those people are crimming their cow?
(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Crimming&defid=90264)
Or, "posteriorly-axially-co-locating with their cow"?
They already have the PLU, which is just ONE way to create an extreme hassle to would-be second-owners, and a deterrent to first-purchaser resales.
Basically, the PLU, or portable license utility, is installed with every protected Autodesk product. Well, at least with AutoCAD. After you register and authorize your licensed copy (electronically or over the phone, etc), the PLU ties that license to that machine. If you install and try to run another instance of the software on another machine, or even reinstall on your own after a total disk wipe, you'll have to re-register or at least get re-authorization.
http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=608297
http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=478591
http://www.autodesk.co.uk/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=452932&id=6005296&preview=1
http://www.cvis.com/MP/Using_the_Portable_License_Utility.htm
http://www.tovna.com/main/softlock.htm
http://www.cadforum.cz/cadforum_en/qaID.asp?tip=2396
When you want to legally for a day or a week or whatever transfer the user activity from one machine to another, you activate the PLU, specify the target machine to which the license is to be sent. When done, do the same on the current machine to get the license back to your original machine. If you botch it, you've got to call Autodesk. Botch it TOO many times, they'll forever deny re-authorization for that particular license.
If confused, contact Autodesk, or go visit the AUGI and other sites.
I don't particularly have a problem with the PLU. But, if the PLU is used to deprive resale by legitimate license holders who want to dispose of the product and maybe use a competing product, then "locking in" the user is heinous. I use AutoCAD for WORK. But, for my hobby, I use TurboCAD and Punch! ViaCAD and marine products meant for ship design. AutoCAD 2009 and even 08 have some nifty features, but about all I don't like about TC & VC is their pseudo-command-line is limited to single strokes, not multiple characters. That makes me think AutoCAD has some "patent" lock or threat against other CAD companies attacking AD on the command line. If that is TRUE, then that'll be yet another reason for me to continue using the smaller guy for my non-work activities.
Here's how to find that asshole out:
- Put your car in a viewable area, but preferably semi-secured
- attach RF or microwave devices to a microphone
- when the tyres are slit, the mic triggers the gates to close
the asshole is trapped.
Alternatively, mount dye sprayers under the wheel well, and when the mic detects a library sound of knife-slitting, the trigger pumps florescent dye on the fucker.
If you REALLY want to nail that fucker, put a sonic gun on your car somewhere, and when they slit the tire, and the mic detects it, the sonic device hits them with nausea-inducing waves. well, that assumes you don't need a US-DOD permit to obtain such a device or that you don't need FCC permission or a county health permit to activate such a device.
The asshole who wants to surf PORN on company time should get a pricey phone or an i-Phone for that. Addictive, non-damaging surfing is ONE thing. It's a disciplinary matter. PORN surfing, OTOH, can cause MULTIPLE "victimised" co-workers to sue and cost EVERYBODY their job. Selfish prick you have for a co-worker.
work place?
Ask the Village People... "IN the NAVY!"