You've never heard of water cooling? Water is conductive also, you know.
The advantages of using mercury over water are twofold - first it is a better conductor of heat so it makes a more efficient cooling solution.
The second advantage is that mercury doesn't expand when it freezes the way water does. While the coolant shouldn't ever freeze it is damn cold in space and things go wrong. If mercury solidifies (freezes) for a few minutes it can be thawed out with no damage to the equipment. If water freezes it will burst pipes, cooling jackets, and heat exchangers, leaving a leaky, inoperative cooling system.
I'm not sure what affect the low pressure would have on water, since it's in a sealed system it may be pressurized. If not, water will boil at pretty low temps in a low pressure environment. That would seriously reduce the cooling effectiveness. I don't know for sure, but I suspect mercury is more stable under reduced pressure, with a higher vaporisation temp.
First computer I used was a TRaSh 80, mod 1. By the time I was a jr. in HS they got an Apple IIe. Not that anyone had the faintest idea how to do anything other than Oregon Trail on either.
First computer I owned was a C-64. I still have it, and two drives. I bust it out for a little Ultima every now and then, and someday I'll end up using it for a controller for an immersion cooling system or something like that. I liked the way they were kind of "Open Source". The programmers guide had a listing of everything you need, even pinouts and how to directly access them from machine code. A true hacker's computer for it's time.
The United States of America are very involved in terrorism. Osama Bin Laden was trained in terrorism by the CIA. That's not "tin foil hat" talk, that's a known, admitted-by-the-CIA fact. The U.S. government has also been the force that got Pappa Doc, Manuel Noriega, and the Shah of Iran into power, just to name a few. These are verified, undisputed (by the government - hotly disputed by the "US can do no wrong" crowd) facts, not liberal propaganda. Even in Afghanistan, the Taliban was able to gain control because the people couldn't tolerate the warlords empowered by the CIA to fight the Russians. The same warlords placed back in power during the "liberation" of Afghanistan.
As for proof, there are plenty of records of this, available from the government itself through the Freedom of Information Act. The government freely admits to doing these things, and use the mistakes they made in the past to justify making the same mistakes again today. "We shouldn't have done that, but now they hate us so we have to kick their butts again" is standard operating procedure. That's not liberal hogwash - that's known fact - undisputed by anyone except a few obsessive nationalists like yourself.
The US government has sponsored and trained terrorists for over 40 years, all in the name of "peace" and "democracy". I'm not saying this because I hate America, but because I am an American patriot who believes in what the Constitution. The American government has enabled, encouraged, and full on participated in atrocities when ever the powers-that-be have decided it was expedient.
I don't condone terrorism, no matter who's committing it. But do you really think people would be willing to die just to hurt the US without any reason? Terrorism is the price America pays for it's hubris. While our pride and unrelenting arrogance don't justify terrorism, they are the root cause of it.
People like you, who throw out logic and compassion in exchange for jingoistic egotism are what is ruining the country I love. You are the people who talk about bringing Democracy to the world when we don't even truly have it in the US. The government brags about bringing "fair and impartial" elections to Iraq, because they can't brag about having them here in the US.
A true American Patriot follows his own morals, not his president. If your morals align with our current governments, then you are a traitor to the very ideals that are supposed to set us above all the commies and terrorists.
Tommy
BTW, I could have just modded you down for trolling, but I don't want people in other counties to think that most of America are as screwed up as you. It seemed more important to let people know that most Americans think you are an asshat. Unfortunately, after two illegal and constitutionally invalid elections most Americans have realized that "the people" no longer run America.
In one word - NO. I don't want my upstream provider to decide which services I need to run, or which ports I need to leave open.
It's not that difficult to for ISP's to find a bot on their network. Simply remove access to that account until the owner of the infected PC has his box repaired. Make him show receipts, or have his PC inspected before it can go back on line.
This would require ISP's to grow some balls. They think it's better customer service to let people leave their compromised boxes on line and try to limit the damage from behind the scenes, by selectively blocking ports for everyone.
I think it would be customer service to let people know they've been cracked, most people who have bots don't know that they are a risk, and at risk. Ignorance may be blissful, but it also makes it darn easy to shoot yourself in the foot. Some people will be irate if they loose their connection, but if you explain to them why, and perhaps even help them fix it they will be happy in the end.
Except installing a driver is not that easy, and is usually accompanied by a confirmation dialog and can only be done by admin
How is it any harder than installing today's trojans. They are being installed by users being tricked into clicking "accept", users who are told it's fine to run as admin. There won't be any real difference if the trojan becomes a driver - people will still click "yes - install the pretty screensaver" while running as admin. Nothing has actually changed from a security point of view.
Secure Startup protects users against offline attacks, blocking access to the computer if the content of the hard drive is compromised. This prevents a laptop thief from booting up the system from a floppy disk to circumvent security features or swapping out the hard drive.
So I guess this won't allow booting froma Knoppix disc (or any other rescue disc)? Mind you, it says that access will be blocked if the content of the hard drive is compromised which wouldn't prevent me from booting Knoppix unless the HD was damaged?
So what happens if I get a virus? Will I need to scrap that computer (since it won't boot - even from a CD or other HD - since the C Drive has been corrupted) and buy a new one? Paying MS for another copy of Longhorn to replace the one that failed to protect me in the first place?
How can this even work without hardware and firmware changes to the Mobo? No-ones making this hardware yet, nor have I seen anyone seriously planning to. MS would have to get a law passed before the hardware makers will spend the money to add this feature, and congress isn't that fast even when you bribe, er, I mean pay them.
Every complaint you have about Linux is a direct result of your lack of knowelege. Let me guess - you selected the "custom install" option, or picked an advanced distro like Gentoo or Slackware because you thought you were such a computer genius that you'ld have no problems.
Then, after drastically misconfiguring pretty much everything, you complain that Linux doesn't work
I'm not sure how you got your mouse screwed up, I've never had any trouble with any of mine. The chances are you selected not to enable a feature that allows USB hotswapping. Since you appear to be using a very unique distro (Java Desktop according to your journal) I don't know which hardware management system (/devFS, udev, etc) you are using. Do you? I've also never had a flakey video file take out the video subsystem. The worst that's ever happened is it crashed the player, and I've seen Macs amd Windows do that also. And I really don't care if DeCSS is "illegal". I don't use it to rip DVD's only watch. If some company or lawmaker has a problem with me watching a legal DVD on my computer because I didn't pay MS or Apple their "tax" then they can bite me!
And don't blame Linux because you burned your CD's in a non-Windows friendly format - that's your bad altogether. I burn CD's for people to use on a Windows PC (Mozilla, OO.org, etc) and they all work just fine. I burn audio CD's and they work fine in Windows computers and stereos. If yours don't work it's because you did something stupid like change settings you didn't understand.
I get so tired of you people whining about Linux when the real problem is that you aren't as smart as you seem to think you are.
OS X? I just plug devices in, and they work. Period.
Not in my experience. I had one hell of a time with a scanner and a printer (seperate units) for my Mom's E-mac. Turns out I had to find, download, and install two different drivers for each unit. That's even worse than Windows! Then again, I'm not a Mac expert so I may have done things the hard way - if so that's my fault, not Apples.
I read your journal, and can the only conclusion I can come to is that you are clueless. You tried installing Sun's Java Desktop (far from a "typical" distro), and then made sweeping assumptions about Linux in general. You've shown that "Those who can - Do. Those who can't - pretend they can and write about it."
Nobody likes to be bullied. Nokia may still be able to send people, but not the people they had chosen. That's going to rub Nokia the wrong way, and don't underestimate the power of a corporation in political matters. They may appear to support Bush, but theirs lots of ways a big multi-national can distance themselves from whatever retaliation they fund.
Well gee, I guess since we don't flat out outlaw a party, we're okay then. I mean, it's not like there is a slippery slope here... Maybe we should let all the soldiers who voted for Kerry go home because they voted wrong.
I think there is a slippery slope and we are already losing traction.
I keep hearing reference to "bi-partisan" politics. Bi means two. People refer to the US government as a two party system and think nothing of it.
This is a multi party system, but the Republicans and the Democrats have colluded to make us forget that. They've got us convinced that its one or the other, or "throw your vote away on an independent".
The reps and dems are two sides, but the same coin. Reps are supposed to be for big business, dems are supposed to be for Joe Sixpack, but both have shown they are only out for their own gain.
While I personally don't think Nader would have been a good prez, I was appalled when he was barred from the debates. As a balloted candidate he had a right to participate in those debates as an equal - instead he was barred from even attending as a spectator. IANAL but to me this alone renders the election illegal and invalid. Not even counting the vote theft in Florida and Ohio.
I've worked in the restaurant business for a combined total of about 12 years. Everything from Dishwasher to General Manager, with cooking, waiting, and bar tending in between. I used to wait tables at the local Olive Garden. The one thing I truly liked about that place was the fact they didn't even have a microwave. Everything we served was really cooked with real heat
As for the popcorn, microwave is the lowest form of popcorn. Air-popped isn't all that great either. I personally prefer a mixture of peanut oil and clarified butter and sea salt ground really fine with a mortar and pestil
Most of those "prepackaged" corn and oil things are alright. The oil is pretty much the same stuff we use at my business partner's theatres (he owns five single-screen theatres in Northern WI), and makes better popcorn than straight vegetable oil.
Preheat your heavy pot (no light, thin walled or tefloned stuff, to about 250 to 350 with the oil in it. Add the seeds and swirl to coat all the seeds. This is also a good time to add some salt. Heat the pan to about 460 and use a loose fitting flat lid that lets the steam out. Do not shake up and down, but when the popping starts to slow give it a swirl and some gentle side-to-side shakes, maybe one very light tossing shake. When the popping really starts to slow remove from heat (the heavier the pot, the sooner you should remove heat) Pour into a serving bowl as soon as the popping is basically stopped so you don't burn or over dry the popcorn.
That's the home version of what good popcorn machines do. My business partner owns several vintage popcorn machines and we sell almost as much popcorn for take out as we do in house at the theatres.
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No, he used posters in the plural sense, not the possessive sense. It was correct the way he had it.
He did (I suspect intentionally) misspell offense.
My phone company is a private company. They (the dialtone provider) does have to provide 911 service as part of their license to operate in the county
Yes, if you pay your telco you get 911 service. How would you feel if you had to pay your telco for the dialtone, and also pay someone else (who has paid none of the expenses whatsoever for the infrastructure that supports your phone, or the 911 call center) for the "privelege" of using a public safety service?
That's what this is. First I buy the handheld. Then I pay for connectivity. Then I pay again to use the connection I've already purchased to request emergency assistance.
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But those companies don't hold exclusive patents on the product. If the government doesn't like the way company X makes weopon Y they can contract company Z to manufacture it - regardless of who the inventor was - and pay only an extremely small royalty.
The original army jeep was invented by the Willys corporation, however the government decided that another company should get to make most of them. That's why Willys is no more - the meager royalties they got weren't enough to keep them going
However, we aren't talking about national security here, we're talking about public safety. The same rules don't apply, and MS can charge pretty much whatever it wants for liscenses to use their patented IP. The can even refuse to sell liscenses and make everyone buy from MS exclusively, no matter how expensive and/or shoddy their implementation is.
and they have every reason to be "the" company from whom you can buy that technology
The technology, yes. The idea, no. You can patent a particular solution to a problem, but you shouldn't be allowed to patent solving a particular problem
Let MS patent their implementation of a solution while leaving others free to implement their own solution. The patent, as written, doesn't allow that. The patent, as written, says only MS is allowed to solve this problem
So... Let me guess. you didn't RTFA at all. did you. There is a diagram of a user interface that shows this patent is for software methods of letting someone on a palm pilot, web enabled cell phone, or other handheld device to access Emergency Services info to report an incident. It may also allow you to monitor the progress of the response, but it's clearly designed for civilians to use. The fact that you have to choose which type of emergency response (fire, police, medical, etc) shows that this is not the type of integrated information system you are discussing
Not that I doubt MS is doing what you say, and certainly that would be very helpful to emergency management people. This is just something else.
This is just MS trying to gain a monopoly on being able to place a request for emergency services through a computerized interface. Call it a monopoly on the ability to call 911 from anything other than a telephone. You'll need a Pocket PC (running WinCE, not Linux) to call for help, your Palm won't be able to. If your phone uses Symbian OS instead of WinCE, you'll have to settle for regular old voice calls to 911 rather than a more efficient digital reporting system that would provide response teams with easy access to additional information that could save lives - both yours and theirs. This is really just a way for MS to create an "exclusive feature" to sell their embedded OS to device manufactures, and users.
Why should MS be allowed to patent a way to use a Public Safety system?
But you see, the very act of gay sex is considered harmful to both parties.
Considered harmful by you perhaps, but not by everyone. If you force your opinion down everyone else's throat, sooner or later someone will force their fist down yours.
It CLEARLY was not the other way around as most of founding fathers of this great nation not only were Christian,
Which country do you live in? It can't be the US, because most of it's founders were Deists, not Christians. Religious morals should not be laws, sins should not be crimes. Obviously actions harmful to another, like murder, rape, theft, etc should be illegal. But there are many laws in this country that are purely Christian in origin. The anti sodomy laws, for instance. Why should it be illegal in 48 states for one consenting adult to perform oral sex on another?
I agree that the government has no business regulating marriage. They should neither ban marriage, nor enforce it. Churches should not be prevented from marrying two or more gay people, not should they force churches to marry two (or more) gay people.
The government shouldn't even be preventing bigamy. This doesn't mean I condone the practice of coercing women to marry the way some hard-line Mormons do. But marriage, and sexuality, are personal choices and what two (or more) freely consenting adults do is not the governments business.
I think I like your idea of getting the government out of the marriage business entirely. But I think you are very wrong about the separation of church and state being only one way. That leaves too much room for one religion to force it's beliefs on others. It allows an attitude of "You can whatever god you want but you have to follow my god's rules", and that's not true freedom of religion.
Don't tell me I'm a victim if a girl gives me a BJ, because I certainly don't think I'm a victim (I think I'm damn lucky). Without a victim there should be no crime.
You've almost got it, but not quite. I run small business. I don't run the same business too long, once a business is up and running well I get bored. I like the excitement and challenge of a start up, or fixing a basket case. I've hired hundreds of people for a wide variety of jobs.
All else being equal, I'll hire someone dressed decently (button up shirt, dockers) over someone wearing cut off jeans and a skanky T-shirt, but the fact that they dress better is just a symptom of the real reason.
All else being equal, I'll hire the person with the most professional attitude. Those people tend to dress up a little for an interview, but dress is NOT the deciding factor. I'll hire a guy in jeans and a polo shirt before I'll hire a guy in slacks and a button down collar who shows up at the interview chewing gum.
I've only hired people wearing shorts and a t-shirt a couple times, but I've never hired anyone who wore a suit to the interview. People who wear suits tend to think that style is more important than substance. People who dress "trailer park" or "ghetto" show they don't think the job is worth an effort to get.
The best way to get a job is dress nice, but don't overdress. Sit straight in the chair and listen more than you talk. Don't chew gum. In other words, act like a professional, not a bum or a suck-up.
Your attitude ("You aren't a snowflake") sucks and I wouldn't work for you or hire you. I believe everyone is unique and beautiful, to believe any less is disrespectful to the people who make you successful. But let's be honest. One snowflake isn't necessarily better than the others.
You probably don't want to hear this, but you can do this with Linux. It's a little more complicated than just sticking the USB drive in (you have to mount it) but I carry my preferences and quite a few apps and files around on one and can use it with pretty much any Linux PC that has Gnome or KDE. If it's a Windows PC then I can just reboot it with a Knoppix disc.
What I'm looking for is one of the damn small Linux variants (bootable, less than 50Mb, fits on a business card size CD), and a way to run the X-server and desktop from the USB drive.
You might try remapping your "My Documents" Folder to the USB drive, then if you log in as that user it should load your settings and preferences from the USB, at least in XP. Of course, you'll have to have the USB drive in before you attempt to log in, and have a user account on every machine you try this on. And it won't work with apps that need registry entries, but the registry is a bad idea anyway - this is just another reason why.
You've got that backwards. Win 2000 has significantly less critical instabilities than XP. XP only appears more stable because of all the automated crash recovery that was built into it.
Just because an OS can self recover from a crash doen't mean the crash never happened.
Please point out some of the good Billy's done. And I mean stuff he's actually done - just donating 1 percent of his money to some cause doesn't count. Or were, as I suspect, you just talking out you butt?
It's a little hard to forgive someone when they've shown no remorse and will obviously screw you again first chance they get.
Microsoft must be getting desperate if you're the quality of astroturfer they can get.
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You've never heard of water cooling? Water is conductive also, you know.
The advantages of using mercury over water are twofold - first it is a better conductor of heat so it makes a more efficient cooling solution.
The second advantage is that mercury doesn't expand when it freezes the way water does. While the coolant shouldn't ever freeze it is damn cold in space and things go wrong. If mercury solidifies (freezes) for a few minutes it can be thawed out with no damage to the equipment. If water freezes it will burst pipes, cooling jackets, and heat exchangers, leaving a leaky, inoperative cooling system.
I'm not sure what affect the low pressure would have on water, since it's in a sealed system it may be pressurized. If not, water will boil at pretty low temps in a low pressure environment. That would seriously reduce the cooling effectiveness. I don't know for sure, but I suspect mercury is more stable under reduced pressure, with a higher vaporisation temp.
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First computer I used was a TRaSh 80, mod 1. By the time I was a jr. in HS they got an Apple IIe. Not that anyone had the faintest idea how to do anything other than Oregon Trail on either.
First computer I owned was a C-64. I still have it, and two drives. I bust it out for a little Ultima every now and then, and someday I'll end up using it for a controller for an immersion cooling system or something like that. I liked the way they were kind of "Open Source". The programmers guide had a listing of everything you need, even pinouts and how to directly access them from machine code. A true hacker's computer for it's time.
TommyThe United States of America are very involved in terrorism. Osama Bin Laden was trained in terrorism by the CIA. That's not "tin foil hat" talk, that's a known, admitted-by-the-CIA fact. The U.S. government has also been the force that got Pappa Doc, Manuel Noriega, and the Shah of Iran into power, just to name a few. These are verified, undisputed (by the government - hotly disputed by the "US can do no wrong" crowd) facts, not liberal propaganda. Even in Afghanistan, the Taliban was able to gain control because the people couldn't tolerate the warlords empowered by the CIA to fight the Russians. The same warlords placed back in power during the "liberation" of Afghanistan.
As for proof, there are plenty of records of this, available from the government itself through the Freedom of Information Act. The government freely admits to doing these things, and use the mistakes they made in the past to justify making the same mistakes again today. "We shouldn't have done that, but now they hate us so we have to kick their butts again" is standard operating procedure. That's not liberal hogwash - that's known fact - undisputed by anyone except a few obsessive nationalists like yourself.
The US government has sponsored and trained terrorists for over 40 years, all in the name of "peace" and "democracy". I'm not saying this because I hate America, but because I am an American patriot who believes in what the Constitution. The American government has enabled, encouraged, and full on participated in atrocities when ever the powers-that-be have decided it was expedient.
I don't condone terrorism, no matter who's committing it. But do you really think people would be willing to die just to hurt the US without any reason? Terrorism is the price America pays for it's hubris. While our pride and unrelenting arrogance don't justify terrorism, they are the root cause of it.
People like you, who throw out logic and compassion in exchange for jingoistic egotism are what is ruining the country I love. You are the people who talk about bringing Democracy to the world when we don't even truly have it in the US. The government brags about bringing "fair and impartial" elections to Iraq, because they can't brag about having them here in the US.
A true American Patriot follows his own morals, not his president. If your morals align with our current governments, then you are a traitor to the very ideals that are supposed to set us above all the commies and terrorists.
Tommy
BTW, I could have just modded you down for trolling, but I don't want people in other counties to think that most of America are as screwed up as you. It seemed more important to let people know that most Americans think you are an asshat. Unfortunately, after two illegal and constitutionally invalid elections most Americans have realized that "the people" no longer run America.In one word - NO. I don't want my upstream provider to decide which services I need to run, or which ports I need to leave open.
It's not that difficult to for ISP's to find a bot on their network. Simply remove access to that account until the owner of the infected PC has his box repaired. Make him show receipts, or have his PC inspected before it can go back on line.
This would require ISP's to grow some balls. They think it's better customer service to let people leave their compromised boxes on line and try to limit the damage from behind the scenes, by selectively blocking ports for everyone.
I think it would be customer service to let people know they've been cracked, most people who have bots don't know that they are a risk, and at risk. Ignorance may be blissful, but it also makes it darn easy to shoot yourself in the foot. Some people will be irate if they loose their connection, but if you explain to them why, and perhaps even help them fix it they will be happy in the end.
TommyHow is it any harder than installing today's trojans. They are being installed by users being tricked into clicking "accept", users who are told it's fine to run as admin. There won't be any real difference if the trojan becomes a driver - people will still click "yes - install the pretty screensaver" while running as admin. Nothing has actually changed from a security point of view.
TommySo I guess this won't allow booting froma Knoppix disc (or any other rescue disc)? Mind you, it says that access will be blocked if the content of the hard drive is compromised which wouldn't prevent me from booting Knoppix unless the HD was damaged?
So what happens if I get a virus? Will I need to scrap that computer (since it won't boot - even from a CD or other HD - since the C Drive has been corrupted) and buy a new one? Paying MS for another copy of Longhorn to replace the one that failed to protect me in the first place?
How can this even work without hardware and firmware changes to the Mobo? No-ones making this hardware yet, nor have I seen anyone seriously planning to. MS would have to get a law passed before the hardware makers will spend the money to add this feature, and congress isn't that fast even when you bribe, er, I mean pay them.
TommyThen, after drastically misconfiguring pretty much everything, you complain that Linux doesn't work
I'm not sure how you got your mouse screwed up, I've never had any trouble with any of mine. The chances are you selected not to enable a feature that allows USB hotswapping. Since you appear to be using a very unique distro (Java Desktop according to your journal) I don't know which hardware management system (/devFS, udev, etc) you are using. Do you? I've also never had a flakey video file take out the video subsystem. The worst that's ever happened is it crashed the player, and I've seen Macs amd Windows do that also. And I really don't care if DeCSS is "illegal". I don't use it to rip DVD's only watch. If some company or lawmaker has a problem with me watching a legal DVD on my computer because I didn't pay MS or Apple their "tax" then they can bite me!
And don't blame Linux because you burned your CD's in a non-Windows friendly format - that's your bad altogether. I burn CD's for people to use on a Windows PC (Mozilla, OO.org, etc) and they all work just fine. I burn audio CD's and they work fine in Windows computers and stereos. If yours don't work it's because you did something stupid like change settings you didn't understand.
I get so tired of you people whining about Linux when the real problem is that you aren't as smart as you seem to think you are.
OS X? I just plug devices in, and they work. Period.Not in my experience. I had one hell of a time with a scanner and a printer (seperate units) for my Mom's E-mac. Turns out I had to find, download, and install two different drivers for each unit. That's even worse than Windows! Then again, I'm not a Mac expert so I may have done things the hard way - if so that's my fault, not Apples.
I read your journal, and can the only conclusion I can come to is that you are clueless. You tried installing Sun's Java Desktop (far from a "typical" distro), and then made sweeping assumptions about Linux in general. You've shown that "Those who can - Do. Those who can't - pretend they can and write about it."
TommyNobody likes to be bullied. Nokia may still be able to send people, but not the people they had chosen. That's going to rub Nokia the wrong way, and don't underestimate the power of a corporation in political matters. They may appear to support Bush, but theirs lots of ways a big multi-national can distance themselves from whatever retaliation they fund.
TommyI think there is a slippery slope and we are already losing traction.
I keep hearing reference to "bi-partisan" politics. Bi means two. People refer to the US government as a two party system and think nothing of it.
This is a multi party system, but the Republicans and the Democrats have colluded to make us forget that. They've got us convinced that its one or the other, or "throw your vote away on an independent".
The reps and dems are two sides, but the same coin. Reps are supposed to be for big business, dems are supposed to be for Joe Sixpack, but both have shown they are only out for their own gain.
While I personally don't think Nader would have been a good prez, I was appalled when he was barred from the debates. As a balloted candidate he had a right to participate in those debates as an equal - instead he was barred from even attending as a spectator. IANAL but to me this alone renders the election illegal and invalid. Not even counting the vote theft in Florida and Ohio.
So, you didn't just add it to your hosts-deny file because?
Who are we kidding. "Dreaming" is more likely.
I'm with you. Both about microwaves and popcorn.
I've worked in the restaurant business for a combined total of about 12 years. Everything from Dishwasher to General Manager, with cooking, waiting, and bar tending in between. I used to wait tables at the local Olive Garden. The one thing I truly liked about that place was the fact they didn't even have a microwave. Everything we served was really cooked with real heat
As for the popcorn, microwave is the lowest form of popcorn. Air-popped isn't all that great either. I personally prefer a mixture of peanut oil and clarified butter and sea salt ground really fine with a mortar and pestil
Most of those "prepackaged" corn and oil things are alright. The oil is pretty much the same stuff we use at my business partner's theatres (he owns five single-screen theatres in Northern WI), and makes better popcorn than straight vegetable oil.
Preheat your heavy pot (no light, thin walled or tefloned stuff, to about 250 to 350 with the oil in it. Add the seeds and swirl to coat all the seeds. This is also a good time to add some salt. Heat the pan to about 460 and use a loose fitting flat lid that lets the steam out. Do not shake up and down, but when the popping starts to slow give it a swirl and some gentle side-to-side shakes, maybe one very light tossing shake. When the popping really starts to slow remove from heat (the heavier the pot, the sooner you should remove heat) Pour into a serving bowl as soon as the popping is basically stopped so you don't burn or over dry the popcorn.
That's the home version of what good popcorn machines do. My business partner owns several vintage popcorn machines and we sell almost as much popcorn for take out as we do in house at the theatres.
No, he used posters in the plural sense, not the possessive sense. It was correct the way he had it.
He did (I suspect intentionally) misspell offense.
Yes, if you pay your telco you get 911 service. How would you feel if you had to pay your telco for the dialtone, and also pay someone else (who has paid none of the expenses whatsoever for the infrastructure that supports your phone, or the 911 call center) for the "privelege" of using a public safety service?
That's what this is. First I buy the handheld. Then I pay for connectivity. Then I pay again to use the connection I've already purchased to request emergency assistance.
TommyBut those companies don't hold exclusive patents on the product. If the government doesn't like the way company X makes weopon Y they can contract company Z to manufacture it - regardless of who the inventor was - and pay only an extremely small royalty.
The original army jeep was invented by the Willys corporation, however the government decided that another company should get to make most of them. That's why Willys is no more - the meager royalties they got weren't enough to keep them going
However, we aren't talking about national security here, we're talking about public safety. The same rules don't apply, and MS can charge pretty much whatever it wants for liscenses to use their patented IP. The can even refuse to sell liscenses and make everyone buy from MS exclusively, no matter how expensive and/or shoddy their implementation is.
TommyFunny, last time I checked Linux runs on more hardware than Windows. Did you perhaps mean "works with more of the latest accessory devices"?
TommyThe technology, yes. The idea, no. You can patent a particular solution to a problem, but you shouldn't be allowed to patent solving a particular problem
Let MS patent their implementation of a solution while leaving others free to implement their own solution. The patent, as written, doesn't allow that. The patent, as written, says only MS is allowed to solve this problem
See the difference?
TommySo... Let me guess. you didn't RTFA at all. did you. There is a diagram of a user interface that shows this patent is for software methods of letting someone on a palm pilot, web enabled cell phone, or other handheld device to access Emergency Services info to report an incident. It may also allow you to monitor the progress of the response, but it's clearly designed for civilians to use. The fact that you have to choose which type of emergency response (fire, police, medical, etc) shows that this is not the type of integrated information system you are discussing
Not that I doubt MS is doing what you say, and certainly that would be very helpful to emergency management people. This is just something else.
This is just MS trying to gain a monopoly on being able to place a request for emergency services through a computerized interface. Call it a monopoly on the ability to call 911 from anything other than a telephone. You'll need a Pocket PC (running WinCE, not Linux) to call for help, your Palm won't be able to. If your phone uses Symbian OS instead of WinCE, you'll have to settle for regular old voice calls to 911 rather than a more efficient digital reporting system that would provide response teams with easy access to additional information that could save lives - both yours and theirs. This is really just a way for MS to create an "exclusive feature" to sell their embedded OS to device manufactures, and users.
Why should MS be allowed to patent a way to use a Public Safety system?
TommyConsidered harmful by you perhaps, but not by everyone. If you force your opinion down everyone else's throat, sooner or later someone will force their fist down yours.
Which country do you live in? It can't be the US, because most of it's founders were Deists, not Christians. Religious morals should not be laws, sins should not be crimes. Obviously actions harmful to another, like murder, rape, theft, etc should be illegal. But there are many laws in this country that are purely Christian in origin. The anti sodomy laws, for instance. Why should it be illegal in 48 states for one consenting adult to perform oral sex on another?
I agree that the government has no business regulating marriage. They should neither ban marriage, nor enforce it. Churches should not be prevented from marrying two or more gay people, not should they force churches to marry two (or more) gay people.
The government shouldn't even be preventing bigamy. This doesn't mean I condone the practice of coercing women to marry the way some hard-line Mormons do. But marriage, and sexuality, are personal choices and what two (or more) freely consenting adults do is not the governments business.
I think I like your idea of getting the government out of the marriage business entirely. But I think you are very wrong about the separation of church and state being only one way. That leaves too much room for one religion to force it's beliefs on others. It allows an attitude of "You can whatever god you want but you have to follow my god's rules", and that's not true freedom of religion.
Don't tell me I'm a victim if a girl gives me a BJ, because I certainly don't think I'm a victim (I think I'm damn lucky). Without a victim there should be no crime.
TommyYou've almost got it, but not quite. I run small business. I don't run the same business too long, once a business is up and running well I get bored. I like the excitement and challenge of a start up, or fixing a basket case. I've hired hundreds of people for a wide variety of jobs.
All else being equal, I'll hire someone dressed decently (button up shirt, dockers) over someone wearing cut off jeans and a skanky T-shirt, but the fact that they dress better is just a symptom of the real reason.
All else being equal, I'll hire the person with the most professional attitude. Those people tend to dress up a little for an interview, but dress is NOT the deciding factor. I'll hire a guy in jeans and a polo shirt before I'll hire a guy in slacks and a button down collar who shows up at the interview chewing gum.
I've only hired people wearing shorts and a t-shirt a couple times, but I've never hired anyone who wore a suit to the interview. People who wear suits tend to think that style is more important than substance. People who dress "trailer park" or "ghetto" show they don't think the job is worth an effort to get.
The best way to get a job is dress nice, but don't overdress. Sit straight in the chair and listen more than you talk. Don't chew gum. In other words, act like a professional, not a bum or a suck-up.
Your attitude ("You aren't a snowflake") sucks and I wouldn't work for you or hire you. I believe everyone is unique and beautiful, to believe any less is disrespectful to the people who make you successful. But let's be honest. One snowflake isn't necessarily better than the others.
TommyMaybe suits are back because everybody has been reading the "Suits Are Back" articles - and believed them?
TommyYou probably don't want to hear this, but you can do this with Linux. It's a little more complicated than just sticking the USB drive in (you have to mount it) but I carry my preferences and quite a few apps and files around on one and can use it with pretty much any Linux PC that has Gnome or KDE. If it's a Windows PC then I can just reboot it with a Knoppix disc.
What I'm looking for is one of the damn small Linux variants (bootable, less than 50Mb, fits on a business card size CD), and a way to run the X-server and desktop from the USB drive.
You might try remapping your "My Documents" Folder to the USB drive, then if you log in as that user it should load your settings and preferences from the USB, at least in XP. Of course, you'll have to have the USB drive in before you attempt to log in, and have a user account on every machine you try this on. And it won't work with apps that need registry entries, but the registry is a bad idea anyway - this is just another reason why.
TommyJust because an OS can self recover from a crash doen't mean the crash never happened.
TommyPlease point out some of the good Billy's done. And I mean stuff he's actually done - just donating 1 percent of his money to some cause doesn't count. Or were, as I suspect, you just talking out you butt?
It's a little hard to forgive someone when they've shown no remorse and will obviously screw you again first chance they get.
Microsoft must be getting desperate if you're the quality of astroturfer they can get.
Tommy