If the picture is to scale, the numbers do look about centimetre size. (2.54cm to an inch) THe number of fractions isn't a giveaway in itself, as I had a steel ruler that was marked off in tenths. But it didn't look like this one.
Spider size isn't any indication of how venomous it is.:)
Think of the children? Sigh, wish you hadn't said that. Ever seen how many baby spiders come out of a spider egg?
Diabetes needles are small (one I'm using is 0.3 x 8 (mm)) - but I said they were, and wondered why a large needle was needed for the testosterone. Even intramuscular shouldn't need to be large.
Male contraceptive. Hmmm. If you were *real* scared, that would have a contraceptive like effect:)
You get over the fear of needles really quickly after self-injecting insulin 3 times a day. (no, they aren't 'giant' needles, why do you need a giant needle? (sometimes a cigar is just a cigar))
But unicode is a large and complex beast, and not entirely a stationary target, and supporting it properly and completely is difficult, and it isn't always the first priority for software developers, even in the open-source world. Unaccountably, sometimes they just want to get the basic functionality of the software working first, figuring that they'll add unicode support later. Subsequently, they discover that unicode support is difficult to add later, because it breaks a number of common assumptions that programmers can and often do make if they only need to support ASCII or individual 8-bit codepages (like ISO-8859-1, for instance).
Collation sequences, where you have a database set to one, and a client connecting to it from a different country wanting *their* collation, and rows might have different languages in them, and arghh!!
> There is a reason for the lack of direct entry of Unicode.
I think there's more than one reason. Slashdot is, by design, an English-language-only forum geared primarily toward Americans. Foreign characters aren't really *desirable* on slashdot. They would just make the signal-to-noise ratio worse, for no significant benefit.
You insensitive clod! *I'm* a foreign character!
Sigh. But I don't care that much. Aussies don't seem to have the need for accents.
That depends on the temperature set point of the water heater. Where I am now, I could set the mixer to maximum hot, no cold, and get under the shower. I wouldn't do it, it's uncomfortable, but not dangerous. The last place I lived delivered hot water that could and did produce burns. I'd suspect that was illegal.
There's probably a dozen more dangerous chemicals then mercury in most kitchens.
Ah, I see you've tasted my cooking.
Reminds me of the time my father used Dieldrin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieldrin instead of olive oil[1] when preparing jugged hare (or similar) Fortunately, the smell gave it away... Another time, same recipe, the hare went off (originally the recipe called for leaving it at room temperature for a couple of days). Again, the smell gave it away...
[1] This was in Australia, long time ago (40 years), when olive oil was usually kept in the medicine cupboard. Curiously, we kept Dieldrin in there too, and at the time, the bottles were similar (small dark bottle)
You build an extremely precise little box out of highly refined metals, circuit boards and PCBs, manufactured from parts made all around the world before being shipped thousands of miles to your local Staples, and you're worried about the half ounce of INK!?!?!
You didn't read the parent, or if you did you didn't actually understand the question. INK DOES NOT EQUAL TONER.
No, ink doesn't equal toner. But the amount of "highly refined metals, circuit boards and PCBs" in a laser is at least equal to that in an inkjet. Don't misunderstand me, I'm using a laser (xerox 8660) at home for the reasons you give, but the upfront cost was much higher.
Want to go green? Use CFLs
Of course, use CFLs. The same CFLs that contain large amounts of mercury. The same CFLs that cost an environmental cleanup crew $2000 to clean up if you break one and follow proper procedure. Mercury that one broken bulb can raise airborne mercury levels in your house to above safe levels. No thanks, I'll stick to incandescent and halogen until LED bulbs are consumer-ready.
Fluorescent lights are fairly common, they'd have similar issues? I see people chucking these in ordinary rubbish collecting points (which go straight to landfill) The point is that if the CL style is mandated, there will be a lot more.
LED bulbs, I bought a couple of them in downlight style, I'm not that impressed by them, not much output, and they flicker.
Replace your shower heads
Depends highly on where you are and who you are. If you're in a dry place or have only people with short hair, low-flow or ultra-low-flow shower heads can be a great idea. But if you live in a wet area (Minnesota here, we have to work to keep the water out of our houses) or have long hair (rinsing out shampoo takes FOREVER without enough water flow) then it's probably not worth it.
and next you've got the soap, made of either animal fat and highly concentrated caustic chemicals like sodium hydroxide. I shudder to imagine what goes into synthetic soaps...
Sodium laureth, or some such. I'm curious, then. What do you wash yourself with, if not the fat based 'natural' soap nor the synthetic?
Holy cow you've hit it on the head. Last year at our company picnic, the Sustainability Committee handed out a ton of frisbees to play with. Guess what: they weren't recyclable.
Toilet paper consumption is not trivial. Soft paper requires cutting down trees. A bidet will do a better job, save you money, and keep those trees soaking up carbon dioxide.
Would you be sourcing that bidet with drinking quality water? (and no, I'm not asking because I want to drink out of it)
Soy ink - if it is the same as the soy ink you get on cash-register receipts, it fades fast. One retailer said to photocopy the receipt, or I wouldn't be able to make a warranty claim. (wrong on so many levels)
Slashdot Mirror
Is it recognised in the US? Googling I did didn't show that.
Considering the British Tabloid media is owned by one Rupert Murdoch, that is odd.
Did you ever catch flies for them?
Yep, your husky would eat it, and possibly die a few hours later if you didn't get it to a vet.
If the picture is to scale, the numbers do look about centimetre size. (2.54cm to an inch) THe number of fractions isn't a giveaway in itself, as I had a steel ruler that was marked off in tenths. But it didn't look like this one.
Spider size isn't any indication of how venomous it is. :)
Think of the children? Sigh, wish you hadn't said that. Ever seen how many baby spiders come out of a spider egg?
Isn't there an upper limit for size of insects that's way less than human size? To do with the way they respire.
The little things like ross river virus (mosquitoes) and fire ants are bad enough.
It's when you release it, and it runs back to your car, that the fun starts.
Tasmanian Devils 700 miles NW of Brisbane?
Mmmm, I can see a Monty python sketch coming up.
"but then of course Tasmanian Devils aren't migratory"
Diabetes needles are small (one I'm using is 0.3 x 8 (mm)) - but I said they were, and wondered why a large needle was needed for the testosterone. Even intramuscular shouldn't need to be large.
Male contraceptive. Hmmm. If you were *real* scared, that would have a contraceptive like effect :)
You get over the fear of needles really quickly after self-injecting insulin 3 times a day. (no, they aren't 'giant' needles, why do you need a giant needle? (sometimes a cigar is just a cigar))
Parent deserves an 'informative'
But unicode is a large and complex beast, and not entirely a stationary target, and supporting it properly and completely is difficult, and it isn't always the first priority for software developers, even in the open-source world. Unaccountably, sometimes they just want to get the basic functionality of the software working first, figuring that they'll add unicode support later. Subsequently, they discover that unicode support is difficult to add later, because it breaks a number of common assumptions that programmers can and often do make if they only need to support ASCII or individual 8-bit codepages (like ISO-8859-1, for instance).
Collation sequences, where you have a database set to one, and a client connecting to it from a different country wanting *their* collation, and rows might have different languages in them, and arghh!!
> There is a reason for the lack of direct entry of Unicode.
I think there's more than one reason. Slashdot is, by design, an English-language-only forum geared primarily toward Americans. Foreign characters aren't really *desirable* on slashdot. They would just make the signal-to-noise ratio worse, for no significant benefit.
You insensitive clod! *I'm* a foreign character!
Sigh. But I don't care that much. Aussies don't seem to have the need for accents.
That depends on the temperature set point of the water heater. Where I am now, I could set the mixer to maximum hot, no cold, and get under the shower. I wouldn't do it, it's uncomfortable, but not dangerous. The last place I lived delivered hot water that could and did produce burns. I'd suspect that was illegal.
There's probably a dozen more dangerous chemicals then mercury in most kitchens.
Ah, I see you've tasted my cooking.
Reminds me of the time my father used Dieldrin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieldrin instead of olive oil[1] when preparing jugged hare (or similar) Fortunately, the smell gave it away... Another time, same recipe, the hare went off (originally the recipe called for leaving it at room temperature for a couple of days). Again, the smell gave it away...
[1] This was in Australia, long time ago (40 years), when olive oil was usually kept in the medicine cupboard. Curiously, we kept Dieldrin in there too, and at the time, the bottles were similar (small dark bottle)
You build an extremely precise little box out of highly refined metals, circuit boards and PCBs, manufactured from parts made all around the world before being shipped thousands of miles to your local Staples, and you're worried about the half ounce of INK!?!?!
You didn't read the parent, or if you did you didn't actually understand the question. INK DOES NOT EQUAL TONER.
No, ink doesn't equal toner. But the amount of
"highly refined metals, circuit boards and PCBs" in a laser is at least equal to that in an inkjet. Don't misunderstand me, I'm using a laser (xerox 8660) at home for the reasons you give, but the upfront cost was much higher.
Want to go green? Use CFLs
Of course, use CFLs. The same CFLs that contain large amounts of mercury. The same CFLs that cost an environmental cleanup crew $2000 to clean up if you break one and follow proper procedure. Mercury that one broken bulb can raise airborne mercury levels in your house to above safe levels. No thanks, I'll stick to incandescent and halogen until LED bulbs are consumer-ready.
Fluorescent lights are fairly common, they'd have similar issues? I see people chucking these in ordinary rubbish collecting points (which go straight to landfill) The point is that if the CL style is mandated, there will be a lot more.
LED bulbs, I bought a couple of them in downlight style, I'm not that impressed by them, not much output, and they flicker.
Replace your shower heads
Depends highly on where you are and who you are. If you're in a dry place or have only people with short hair, low-flow or ultra-low-flow shower heads can be a great idea. But if you live in a wet area (Minnesota here, we have to work to keep the water out of our houses) or have long hair (rinsing out shampoo takes FOREVER without enough water flow) then it's probably not worth it.
Long hair's high maintenance, IMO, not worth it.
and next you've got the soap, made of either animal fat and highly concentrated caustic chemicals like sodium hydroxide. I shudder to imagine what goes into synthetic soaps...
Sodium laureth, or some such. I'm curious, then. What do you wash yourself with, if not the fat based 'natural' soap nor the synthetic?
"Soap in a sock works great"
I tried it but I had trouble filling the sock, the liquid soap kept oozing out.
I tried it, but had to take it out, it wasn't lathering well.
Holy cow you've hit it on the head. Last year at our company picnic, the Sustainability Committee handed out a ton of frisbees to play with. Guess what: they weren't recyclable.
They wouldn't have to be, they are re-usable.
Toilet paper consumption is not trivial. Soft paper requires cutting down trees. A bidet will do a better job, save you money, and keep those trees soaking up carbon dioxide.
Would you be sourcing that bidet with drinking quality water? (and no, I'm not asking because I want to drink out of it)
Go with the solid ink system Xerox use. Come to think of it, that has a soy binder (Phaser). Easy to replace, minimal packaging.
Except that soy is dangerous to a group of people as well. Many people are allergic to it.
Fine then! we'll make it from ... peanuts!
Soy ink - if it is the same as the soy ink you get on cash-register receipts, it fades fast. One retailer said to photocopy the receipt, or I wouldn't be able to make a warranty claim. (wrong on so many levels)
What, rechargeable? And here I've been buying new ipods when the batteries run down. :^) [1]
The analogy is the part where there is no claim by car manufacturers that you can refill them, not that you can replace the fuel tank.
[1] obligatory irony emote, in case you don't understand irony in the same way you don't understand analogy.
"Whiskey extracted from antique bottles is sent to the laboratory where scientists burn the liquid"
Bastards! If it wasn't fake, it'd now be undrunkable.