Opera or Classical music? It probably works just as well or probably even better than a single frequency. Being "not cool" works better than being annoying. Someone has to invent a newfangled device that has to annoy _everyone_ including old farts like me who still has his hearing?
Fer crissakes, I can hear a flyback transformer whine. Now I have to listen to more noise pollution?
"You kids! Next time you cut through my yard, go 'round!"
I don't know if this is a dupe or not, but I do recall that this is not "news" because this factiod is not NEW. It's great that IBM gives Ubuntu its seal of approval, but this doesn't excite me as much as what would happen if there was a new WordPerfect for Linux.
As for your problem:
I had no problem with the Nvidia GL drivers that came with (k)ubuntu. I've gone from SuSE 10 to (k)ubuntu for 3 weeks now, and I still haven't had any pressing issues that would make me go back to SuSE.
Perhaps, instead of using the ubuntu Nvidia drivers packages, go to Nvidia themselves and download the all-in-one installer and run it. That's the sure-fire way to do it, as there is even a *manual* install if the all-in-one script doesn't work. It is _important_ that you follow directions and do this without running. I recommend doing it from init 1, just to be belt-and-suspenders sure.
A side note: Earlier this year, I had purchased a 19" LCD. I had not convinced myself that I needed to exchange my video card with one that had DVI. I'm a cheap bastid. Well, after upgrading to the cheapest DVI output card out there (the other requirement besides cheap was NO FAN!). The fuzziness is _gone_ as the monitor no longer has to interpret the VGA signal back to digital. All resolutions work now. Text is now tack sharp, which was the driving force going to DVI.
Since when, as an _employee_ you get to dictate to your _employer_ what tools you will use?
Bad troll. No cookie.
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"Maybe a worm that installs something like folding@home that would have immediate benefits.;)"
If only. Really, if only.
The thing is, though, Vijay frowns on that. It would not make him happy. If you have control over more than a few PCs, he wants proof you have the authority to do that. Not up front, mind you, but the folding community will eventually ask "Who is that guy?" once you've accumulated enough points, and you'd better have a good answer, like you have the authority to run so many clients, or you're out.
-- BMO - www.bumwine.com folding team. Team number 43909
The student in this case absolutely forgot the 11'th commandment
11. "Cover thine own ass"
He didn't. He did it all out in the open. If he had kept his little conspiracy among "friends" and at least used an anonymous website instead of broadcasting his plan and name to all-and-sundry, then maybe his scheme might have succeeded. But in this case, he's learned a lesson. Don't Get Caught. If anonymity worked for the Federalist Papers, then it should have been good enough for him. Why he didn't use even an alias (because the website _required_ him to be a verified student), is beyond me.
About his scheme: If the university cop was truly harrassing students, there were _far better_ ways to nail the guy than enticing other students to "get arrested" for fun and profit.
Well, after being a SuSE _customer_ since 6.1, I guess it's time for me to vote with my feet.
I was afraid that Novell would trash SuSE after buying it, and it seems like they're going to. It was great while it lasted, though. Novell should have never bought SuSE. They should have left it alone. If they couldn't afford to support KDE (which is _why_ many of the SuSE customers liked them), then they shouldn't have gone forward with this plan. They should have created their own distro or bought a Gnome-centric distribution. I've used Gnome. I hate it. Maybe it's great from a developer's POV, but from this user's POV, it's utter crap.
"So what? Remember the GPL that mySQL is licensed under? Nothing can stop anyone from giving SCO the middle finger and forking mySQL"
It doesn't make a bloody difference, because that's/precisely/ what SCO/Caldera has been doing to IBM for over two years now. They disclaim the GPL, and even called it unconstitutional. They requested everything and anything associated with AIX so they could somehow claim that IBM dumped Unix code into Linux. SCO/Caldera has stretched out discovery as much as they can. IBM has _given them everything_ and SCO to date has found _nothing_. But they keep going on this epic fishing expedition because....well....I don't know. Nobody knows why they're really going through this stupidity because it has killed the company and indeed they could have been where SuSE is now.
This is also totally ignoring the Autozone stupidity.
Darl McBride said that contracts are what you use against customers.
SCO/Caldera is toxic as a company.
The rat bastards should be beaten about the head and shoulders with a clue by four.
It is unfortunate that MySQL signed a contract with SCO/Caldera. SCO/Caldera sues its partners and customers and that's a known fact. If anyone is the victim here, it's MySQL AB. They were conned.
For the AU government to let goods travel freely until they fix or bring up the old system. There really is no excuse for what is going on. Yes, that means that the AU government doesn't get its cut of taxes but them's the breaks. The money lost from import fees would be DWARFED compared to the lossess incurred by *not* letting goods through the ports.
As it is right now, I've got 11 tabs open in Firefox. I've got Flashblock, because 11 pages of flash ads chew up computer resources like nobody's business.
And _everyone_ seems to have Flash ads these days.
Punch the monkey? Dude, if I met you in a bar, I'd ask you to step outside and we'll see who's monkey is going to get punched.
Screw the so-called "social contract" - In My Face advertisement meets "talk to the hand".
As for the overall question of whether e-commerce is a good idea, I _subscribe_ in my email to various vendors that advertise things I need/want. E-commerce is a good thing. Just don't be in my face about it, mmmkay?
I'm replying to this, as it came up in my meta-moderation.
Yes. AI is really that hard.
If you could get the intelligence of a _cockroach_ to drive these vehicles, you'd win and get all sorts of funding by the DOD. Insects have no problems navigating their environments, and indeed, they even have a built in survival sense - something that is *way* down the road after navigation.
Yes, you've asked some _very_ valid questions that illustrate that "AI is Bogus".
If you're going to install a package such as FF, why bother going to an unoffical site that has had/known/ problems with security?
www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3512081
Come on! Don't blame Mozilla.org for something that's not under their control. This goes double for the Windows idiots that point and say that "oo! FF is just as vulnerable!" and forgetting all about that this is just like going to "Shady Joe's Windows Upgrades" instead of microsoft.com for SP2.
" Um if you think the FCC is not going to change the rules to allow BPL to emit interference then you are mistaken. There's too much money involved to prevent BPL from proceeding."
Um, if you think that the FCC is going to open THAT can of worms, then you are very much mistaken. If they have to make an exception for BPL, then the cable companies and _everyone else_ will be clamoring for "fair treatment". No. Hell will freeze over before an exception is made for BPL. You want chaos? That will get you chaos, hounds of chaos, and the Mother In Law of Chaos.
"Broadband over powerlines makes a whole lot of sense."
It only makes sense when considered in a vacuum.
Peaceful coexistence with radio frequencies, however, has yet to be demonstrated.
Consider that you've got RF being transmitted up and down _unshielded_ power lines. Can you say "leakage"? I knew you could. As it stands, the US FCC makes cable TV and broadband providers shit their pants when it comes to leakage, because a certain amount of funding for the FCC comes from fines, and they're not afraid to level them.
Broadband operators are _not_ licensed for broadcast, and when it comes to Licensed vs Unlicensed, Licensed Wins Every Time. Either you fix your leaks or pay a ton of fines and get shut down. It's as simple as that.
"2) When you write "that NT is somehow a descendent of VMS [is] like saying that... feces is a descendent of filet mignon", I am very tempted to reply quod erat demonstrandum."
Ok, ok, poor choice of analogy.:-P
It was a threat of a lawsuit. They shook hands, signed papers, and became best of buddies afterwords, with DEC/Compaq getting a pittance of a settlement and the rights to resell Microsoft products, also for a pittance.
If it could have been proven that, yes, a whole crapload of Mica was dumped into the NT kernel (which would have transformed it into something the OS/2 crowd could never recognize) I believe that DEC/Compaq could have/should have held out for a whole lot more.
"I mean, if you've ever programmed both systems at the kernel level you would be pretty shocked how similar they are. I mean, WNT feels like a more modern VMS with some things new and some things removed (sadly, like the amazing VMS cluster support)."
There was plenty of cross pollination after The Agreement. It just irks me that people spout off that "nt is really VMS" without considering the whole OS/2 history.
There is a history of various DEC people (besides Dave Cutler) working on OS/2/NT going back to the dark days of 1.0, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's similarities between the structure of the OS/2 Warp kernel and VMS (never wrote anything for Warp).
It's not like NT sprang fully formed as a pirated version of Mica without OS/2.
"The numerous features such as ACLs that NT and VMS both have and OS/2 doesn't lend a lot more credibility to those 'urban legends' than some poster on/. saying it's an outgrowth of OS/2."
Well, it was. They even shared filesystems, until Microsoft took their ball and went home. It's not "just some guy on/." (me) saying it's an outgrowth of OS/2, but everyone else that lived through that era from 1987 until the virtual death of OS/2 sometime in 1997.
In 1990, IBM and Microsoft were still working together on the development of OS/2. Microsoft, however, had found that Windows 3.0 - released in May 1990 - generated more revenue for them and therefore allotted increasingly more resource to Windows and correspondingly less to OS/2.
By late 1990, Microsoft had intensified its disagreements with IBM to the point where IBM decided that it would have to take some overt action to ensure that OS/2 development continued at a reasonable pace. IBM, therefore, took over complete development responsibility for OS/2 1.x, even though it was in its dying days, and OS/2 2.00. Microsoft would continue development on Windows and OS/2 3.00. Shortly after this split, Microsoft renamed OS/2 V3 to Windows NT."
Dave Cutler wasn't "just some guy", true, but OS/2 and NT were the _same product_ up until Microsoft re-released OS/2 as Windows NT 3.1
The whining from DEC was that supposedly Dave Cutler brought Mica code from DEC with him, but we'll never know that because the agreement is secret. (the bits that are public, though, the negotiators on DEC's side didn't get much). Microsoft didn't steal Cutler, btw, they hired him outright after DEC cut off his project (Mica).
Microsoft likes to endorse the legend that NT came from VMS. They do it because it gives NT an air of "legitimacy" that it somehow is _directly_ descended from a "real operating system", which it didn't.
Yes, NT has a some of the concepts similar to VMS (DACLs), and descendents of VMS in the years after NT 3.1 included concepts developed in NT (the Registry) and ported into VMS all as a result of MS and DEC becoming buddy-buddy after the Agreement. Nothing is created in a vacuum. But to say that NT is a direct descendent of VMS, well, that's just plain wrong.
I don't know where this urban legend that somehow Windows NT grew out of VMS (and that WNT is somehow proof that it was just a renaming of VMS by shifting one letter over), but it's wrong.
Windows NT was an outgrowth of OS/2, the one-time joint project between IBM and Microsoft. OS/2 grew to become a well thought-out OS now dead from marketing suicide squads, and NT has become... eXtremely Putrid, soon to become Windows Fistula.
Just because Cutler came from DEC doesn't mean that NT is somehow a descendent of VMS. It's like saying that the feces is a descendent of filet mignon.
"Most (if not all) of the diamond in diamond coated drills are produced through this process"
You were OK, sortof. It's not the GE process, but something entirely new (relatively).
Diamond coatings are done through a process called Vapor Deposition. It's a low pressure process, done at Standard Pressure, using a hot carbon rich gas, a reducing atmosphere, and a cold substrate (the thing you're coating).
It's an entirely new process, discovered entirely by accident by someone trying to figure out why certain welds were a bitch to grind smooth. It turned out that there were microscopic diamonds in the welds, and that was why.
Slashdot Mirror
Opera or Classical music? It probably works just as well or probably even better than a single frequency. Being "not cool" works better than being annoying. Someone has to invent a newfangled device that has to annoy _everyone_ including old farts like me who still has his hearing?
Fer crissakes, I can hear a flyback transformer whine. Now I have to listen to more noise pollution?
"You kids! Next time you cut through my yard, go 'round!"
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Meh.
Hit submit too soon.
"It is _important_ that you follow directions and do this without running."
should be:
"It is _important_ that you follow directions and do this without running X."
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I don't know if this is a dupe or not, but I do recall that this is not "news" because this factiod is not NEW. It's great that IBM gives Ubuntu its seal of approval, but this doesn't excite me as much as what would happen if there was a new WordPerfect for Linux.
As for your problem:
I had no problem with the Nvidia GL drivers that came with (k)ubuntu. I've gone from SuSE 10 to (k)ubuntu for 3 weeks now, and I still haven't had any pressing issues that would make me go back to SuSE.
Perhaps, instead of using the ubuntu Nvidia drivers packages, go to Nvidia themselves and download the all-in-one installer and run it. That's the sure-fire way to do it, as there is even a *manual* install if the all-in-one script doesn't work. It is _important_ that you follow directions and do this without running. I recommend doing it from init 1, just to be belt-and-suspenders sure.
A side note: Earlier this year, I had purchased a 19" LCD. I had not convinced myself that I needed to exchange my video card with one that had DVI. I'm a cheap bastid. Well, after upgrading to the cheapest DVI output card out there (the other requirement besides cheap was NO FAN!). The fuzziness is _gone_ as the monitor no longer has to interpret the VGA signal back to digital. All resolutions work now. Text is now tack sharp, which was the driving force going to DVI.
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Pick up a copy of Peter Hoeg's Borderliners
That book gripped me by my shirt and threw me into a descent into School Hell. To say that it's well written is an understatement.
Trust me.
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Force and FRAUD?
Since when it is fraud?
Since when, as an _employee_ you get to dictate to your _employer_ what tools you will use?
Bad troll. No cookie.
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"Maybe a worm that installs something like folding@home that would have immediate benefits. ;)"
If only. Really, if only.
The thing is, though, Vijay frowns on that. It would not make him happy. If you have control over more than a few PCs, he wants proof you have the authority to do that. Not up front, mind you, but the folding community will eventually ask "Who is that guy?" once you've accumulated enough points, and you'd better have a good answer, like you have the authority to run so many clients, or you're out.
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The student in this case absolutely forgot the 11'th commandment
11. "Cover thine own ass"
He didn't. He did it all out in the open. If he had kept his little conspiracy among "friends" and at least used an anonymous website instead of broadcasting his plan and name to all-and-sundry, then maybe his scheme might have succeeded. But in this case, he's learned a lesson. Don't Get Caught. If anonymity worked for the Federalist Papers, then it should have been good enough for him. Why he didn't use even an alias (because the website _required_ him to be a verified student), is beyond me.
About his scheme: If the university cop was truly harrassing students, there were _far better_ ways to nail the guy than enticing other students to "get arrested" for fun and profit.
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Well, after being a SuSE _customer_ since 6.1, I guess it's time for me to vote with my feet.
I was afraid that Novell would trash SuSE after buying it, and it seems like they're going to. It was great while it lasted, though. Novell should have never bought SuSE. They should have left it alone. If they couldn't afford to support KDE (which is _why_ many of the SuSE customers liked them), then they shouldn't have gone forward with this plan. They should have created their own distro or bought a Gnome-centric distribution. I've used Gnome. I hate it. Maybe it's great from a developer's POV, but from this user's POV, it's utter crap.
Gah.
I feel ill.
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"So what? Remember the GPL that mySQL is licensed under? Nothing can stop anyone from giving SCO the middle finger and forking mySQL"
/precisely/ what SCO/Caldera has been doing to IBM for over two years now. They disclaim the GPL, and even called it unconstitutional. They requested everything and anything associated with AIX so they could somehow claim that IBM dumped Unix code into Linux. SCO/Caldera has stretched out discovery as much as they can. IBM has _given them everything_ and SCO to date has found _nothing_. But they keep going on this epic fishing expedition because....well....I don't know. Nobody knows why they're really going through this stupidity because it has killed the company and indeed they could have been where SuSE is now.
It doesn't make a bloody difference, because that's
This is also totally ignoring the Autozone stupidity.
Darl McBride said that contracts are what you use against customers.
SCO/Caldera is toxic as a company.
The rat bastards should be beaten about the head and shoulders with a clue by four.
It is unfortunate that MySQL signed a contract with SCO/Caldera. SCO/Caldera sues its partners and customers and that's a known fact. If anyone is the victim here, it's MySQL AB. They were conned.
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Male rats were discovered to self impregnate after being told "Go F***k yourself!". In yet other news, Darl McBride is pregnant.
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For the AU government to let goods travel freely until they fix or bring up the old system. There really is no excuse for what is going on. Yes, that means that the AU government doesn't get its cut of taxes but them's the breaks. The money lost from import fees would be DWARFED compared to the lossess incurred by *not* letting goods through the ports.
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As it is right now, I've got 11 tabs open in Firefox. I've got Flashblock, because 11 pages of flash ads chew up computer resources like nobody's business.
And _everyone_ seems to have Flash ads these days.
Punch the monkey? Dude, if I met you in a bar, I'd ask you to step outside and we'll see who's monkey is going to get punched.
Screw the so-called "social contract" - In My Face advertisement meets "talk to the hand".
As for the overall question of whether e-commerce is a good idea, I _subscribe_ in my email to various vendors that advertise things I need/want. E-commerce is a good thing. Just don't be in my face about it, mmmkay?
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I'm replying to this, as it came up in my meta-moderation.
Yes. AI is really that hard.
If you could get the intelligence of a _cockroach_ to drive these vehicles, you'd win and get all sorts of funding by the DOD. Insects have no problems navigating their environments, and indeed, they even have a built in survival sense - something that is *way* down the road after navigation.
Yes, you've asked some _very_ valid questions that illustrate that "AI is Bogus".
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This is the way things have already been named.
The Grand Tetons, were they to be found on Mars in this day, would be called The Big Tits.
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If you're going to install a package such as FF, why bother going to an unoffical site that has had /known/ problems with security?
www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3512081
Come on! Don't blame Mozilla.org for something that's not under their control. This goes double for the Windows idiots that point and say that "oo! FF is just as vulnerable!" and forgetting all about that this is just like going to "Shady Joe's Windows Upgrades" instead of microsoft.com for SP2.
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" Um if you think the FCC is not going to change the rules to allow BPL to emit interference then you are mistaken. There's too much money involved to prevent BPL from proceeding."
Um, if you think that the FCC is going to open THAT can of worms, then you are very much mistaken. If they have to make an exception for BPL, then the cable companies and _everyone else_ will be clamoring for "fair treatment". No. Hell will freeze over before an exception is made for BPL. You want chaos? That will get you chaos, hounds of chaos, and the Mother In Law of Chaos.
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"Broadband over powerlines makes a whole lot of sense."
It only makes sense when considered in a vacuum.
Peaceful coexistence with radio frequencies, however, has yet to be demonstrated.
Consider that you've got RF being transmitted up and down _unshielded_ power lines. Can you say "leakage"? I knew you could. As it stands, the US FCC makes cable TV and broadband providers shit their pants when it comes to leakage, because a certain amount of funding for the FCC comes from fines, and they're not afraid to level them.
Broadband operators are _not_ licensed for broadcast, and when it comes to Licensed vs Unlicensed, Licensed Wins Every Time. Either you fix your leaks or pay a ton of fines and get shut down. It's as simple as that.
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"2) When you write "that NT is somehow a descendent of VMS [is] like saying that... feces is a descendent of filet mignon", I am very tempted to reply quod erat demonstrandum."
:-P
Ok, ok, poor choice of analogy.
It was a threat of a lawsuit. They shook hands, signed papers, and became best of buddies afterwords, with DEC/Compaq getting a pittance of a settlement and the rights to resell Microsoft products, also for a pittance.
If it could have been proven that, yes, a whole crapload of Mica was dumped into the NT kernel (which would have transformed it into something the OS/2 crowd could never recognize) I believe that DEC/Compaq could have/should have held out for a whole lot more.
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"I mean, if you've ever programmed both systems at the kernel level you would be pretty shocked how similar they are. I mean, WNT feels like a more modern VMS with some things new and some things removed (sadly, like the amazing VMS cluster support)."
There was plenty of cross pollination after The Agreement. It just irks me that people spout off that "nt is really VMS" without considering the whole OS/2 history.
There is a history of various DEC people (besides Dave Cutler) working on OS/2/NT going back to the dark days of 1.0, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's similarities between the structure of the OS/2 Warp kernel and VMS (never wrote anything for Warp).
It's not like NT sprang fully formed as a pirated version of Mica without OS/2.
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"The numerous features such as ACLs that NT and VMS both have and OS/2 doesn't lend a lot more credibility to those 'urban legends' than some poster on /. saying it's an outgrowth of OS/2."
/." (me) saying it's an outgrowth of OS/2, but everyone else that lived through that era from 1987 until the virtual death of OS/2 sometime in 1997.
t ory_0.3.12.pdf
Well, it was. They even shared filesystems, until Microsoft took their ball and went home. It's not "just some guy on
http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/OS2History.html
"1990 - The Schism
In 1990, IBM and Microsoft were still working together on the development of OS/2. Microsoft, however, had found that Windows 3.0 - released in May 1990 - generated more revenue for them and therefore allotted increasingly more resource to Windows and correspondingly less to OS/2.
By late 1990, Microsoft had intensified its disagreements with IBM to the point where IBM decided that it would have to take some overt action to ensure that OS/2 development continued at a reasonable pace. IBM, therefore, took over complete development responsibility for OS/2 1.x, even though it was in its dying days, and OS/2 2.00. Microsoft would continue development on Windows and OS/2 3.00. Shortly after this split, Microsoft renamed OS/2 V3 to Windows NT."
Dave Cutler wasn't "just some guy", true, but OS/2 and NT were the _same product_ up until Microsoft re-released OS/2 as Windows NT 3.1
The whining from DEC was that supposedly Dave Cutler brought Mica code from DEC with him, but we'll never know that because the agreement is secret. (the bits that are public, though, the negotiators on DEC's side didn't get much). Microsoft didn't steal Cutler, btw, they hired him outright after DEC cut off his project (Mica).
Microsoft likes to endorse the legend that NT came from VMS. They do it because it gives NT an air of "legitimacy" that it somehow is _directly_ descended from a "real operating system", which it didn't.
Yes, NT has a some of the concepts similar to VMS (DACLs), and descendents of VMS in the years after NT 3.1 included concepts developed in NT (the Registry) and ported into VMS all as a result of MS and DEC becoming buddy-buddy after the Agreement. Nothing is created in a vacuum. But to say that NT is a direct descendent of VMS, well, that's just plain wrong.
For a graphical representation:
http://firedrake.org/paddy/images/non-unix_os_his
Notice the solid lines tracing from OS/2 and the _dotted_ lines from VMS.
And lastly, if NT is a direct descendent of VMS, who is the idiot that removed the stability bits?
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I don't know where this urban legend that somehow Windows NT grew out of VMS (and that WNT is somehow proof that it was just a renaming of VMS by shifting one letter over), but it's wrong.
... eXtremely Putrid, soon to become Windows Fistula.
Windows NT was an outgrowth of OS/2, the one-time joint project between IBM and Microsoft. OS/2 grew to become a well thought-out OS now dead from marketing suicide squads, and NT has become
Just because Cutler came from DEC doesn't mean that NT is somehow a descendent of VMS. It's like saying that the feces is a descendent of filet mignon.
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Fuddruckers is now pointing at Google.
- Continue? (y)
SSL error:host(fuddruckers.com)!=cert(www.google.com)
These guys really are incompetent.
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Informative, but note I said /connotes/ and not /denotes/.
/synthetic/.
Under synonyms, you'll find ersatz, imitation, and other related words that people associate with
I'd give you a mod point if I had any.
This is now seriously offtopic. Mod away!
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And that's why I prefer "manufactured diamonds" as a terminology.
Synthetic connotes "fake", which manufactured diamonds certainly are not.
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"Most (if not all) of the diamond in diamond coated drills are produced through this process"
You were OK, sortof. It's not the GE process, but something entirely new (relatively).
Diamond coatings are done through a process called Vapor Deposition. It's a low pressure process, done at Standard Pressure, using a hot carbon rich gas, a reducing atmosphere, and a cold substrate (the thing you're coating).
It's an entirely new process, discovered entirely by accident by someone trying to figure out why certain welds were a bitch to grind smooth. It turned out that there were microscopic diamonds in the welds, and that was why.
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