...but we tend to not really get pure aluminum in products anyways, but still call them "aluminum". It's usually alloyed with other metals, just like iron is, to improve on some of the qualities that pure aluminum has.
Look at newer Easton bike tubes that have scandium in them. Not a lot of it, but enough that it changes some of the mechanical properties of aluminum to the advantage for the bicycle.
Or "titanium". Usually it's 3/2.5 Ti (Ti+vanadium+something else). Much better for most things than pure Ti. Then Lightspeed and Merlin got ahold of 6/4 Ti, which is MUCH harder and stiffer than pure Ti or 3/2.5 Ti. Of course, they can't mandrel-form the tubes (they're rolled-and-welded from sheets...) because 6/4 Ti is just too hard. But it works wonders for bike frames, and they're still called "titanium".
We don't call glass "silica", it's just glass. Unless you're talking to a physicist, microbiologist or camera poseur...er, professional. Then they start worrying about things like "flint" glass, "fluorite" glass, etc. But their core material is still melted down silica, Si04. And the varieties are still called "glass", not silica.
So if we can ignore one pedantic use of a chemical term for a different common term, then it seems equally as feasible to misappropriate another term for a different material, violating the pedantic spirit of the language once again.
Besides, look at a bag of fertilizer. N-P-K. N is Nitrogen. OK. Truth-in-labeling momentum is conserved.
P is for phosphorus, but the percentage listed is really the equivalant percentage of a phosphate. K is for potassium, of course, but the number is really the percent equivalance of potash, which is definitely not pure potassium, either.
But this little violation of truth-in-advertising has been going on for, oh, at least 100 years. In fact, it's set up by law these days.
ANFO is classified as a "low velocity" explosive. TNT is a "high velocity" explosive.
ANFO is used in open-pit mining because its relatively low velocity explosion ends up pushing lots more material out of the way than a dynamite or other HE explosion would.
HE is used in solid rock, where the high velocity shock helps to shatter the hard rock into smaller pieces.
Which is why ANFO is a preferred explosive for trying to level buildings from a distance. That, and it's cheap, simple to make, and relatively stable.
There is also the ship that blew up in Galveston Harbor, TX, during WWI (twas fully loaded with ammonium nitrate), as well as the ammo ship that blew up at Port Chicago, CA, in WWII.
Uh, the conservation of momentum comes from the cuttlefish not pushing against the stationary water, but from the momentum of the water pushed out. Which is why jet engine power is measured in pounds of thrust (or fig Newtons), instead of horsepower (but turboprop engines ARE rated in terms of horsepower...).
Same as a rocket. The mass of the expelled rocket fuel/combustion leftovers x the velocity they're expelled at (gained by the energy from the chemical combustion reaction) = thrust.
Just like the thrust generated from ion drive engines.
Since photons also have momentum, in theory, it would be possible to use a laser as a motive source in outer space as well.
Funny thing, at the beginning of the Olympics coverage on {MS}NBC, one of the shows was about some of the origins of the neomythology of the Olympics movement, about how Adoph Hitler's propaganda machine created the mythology of the olympic rings and a lot of other symbology that is "adored" about the current olympics...
Oh, I don't know. There was at least one Mali soccer player playing in the game against Italy yesterday who was wearing Puma soccer shoes at the same time he was wearing a Nike soccer uniform. Obviously, he didn't get the memo.
...but then terms of employement/employment contracts will require the assigning of exclusive, life-time contracts for any patents their employees create or assignment at time of employement from the employee to the company.
So, while it will change in theory (companies not being able to own patents), they will still "own" them by sake of exclusive, lifetime, non-revokable license with the company being able to sublicense, etc.
Of course, the employees will get a neato plastiwood frame with a copy of their patent application and the $1.00 bill consideration paid to them to keep!
Administrator isn't even the top-level security privilege/role/group (System and a few others come to mind), but it's the highest-privileged *user* account in NTland, just like root is.
I guess you could check the "allow interactive login" for all the other system-level accounts, so that maybe System would then be the same as root in NT-land.
...right, this works on Win2K/WinXP, which have essentially a "super user" service running. When you do "runas", the runas command interfaces (RPC?) with this service, which can glom on Administrator priveleges onto the process if initiated successfully.
Another way of doing it was developed as TQCRunAs, a DLL that does this differently.
The MKSToolkit (and several other implementations) require this service to be running in order to work. This, I think, is what has been patented.
Of course, any Unix system daemon would seem to violate this as specific cases. All MS has done is generalize the process from a user initiating a single specific protected action to using RUNAS to initiate ANY privileged task.
the Unix-equivalent in my mind would be having a "sh" or "csh" daemon that can 'grant' SU-level privileges if properly tasked against. But, wait... isn't this what the tty system does?
Of course, the difficulty with RUNAS is that you cannot script it, because it will always interactively prompt for password, so it is NOT usable for domain login scripts, nor is MKS' su/sudo commands (because they do things the way MSDN says you're supposed to do them).
TQCRunAs, however, is scriptable, and does not depend on the RunAs service running. And, TQCRunAs does the same thing also for WinNT. RunAs is only for Win2K/WinXP+.
An advert for TQCRunAs? Well, it seriously made me look cool at a previous job, so I'm a satisfied past user (deploy an IE hotfix to >1000 desktop computers "invisibly"). Compared to doing things with SMS (which would have also been an option), it was a degree of magnitude cheaper for the enterprise license for TQCRunAs, and doable in about 8 hours of VBScript programming and incorporating into domain login script, vs. waiting for the SMS people to get around to doing the job, as well as scheduling the job as a priority...
Other neato hacks we did with it were resetting all the local Administrator passwords when user logged in, etc., from domain login script...
As far as different, su starts a new terminal by invoking something by hitting the login daemon, right? Then, the user's operating context is that of the su'd user until the session is terminated.
So Unix has all these service daemons that are unprivileged in and of themselves, but provide access through that barrier to non-privileged programs.
The only difference is that MS has a specific way of writing one service daemon that allows arbitrary command execution (you can do "runas explorer" as well as "runas netpad").
Besides, how functionally, logically different is an RPC stream verses a Unix I/O stream going from a terminal to something else, really?
Although not seen this year, really, whenever the Olympics are held in a US city, there are lots of stories about how lots of companies with "olympic" in their names are chased down by the USOC/IOC.
Sure, some of it is trying to catch the coattails. But going after a greek restaurant named "Olympic Cafe", which maybe has a stylized discus or javelin thrower or greek warrior head on it?
Look at all the guff they've thrown at the Special Olympics, the Paralympic Games, etc. in the past.
The IOC/USOC/media companies are so worried about "protecting" their investments that they are pissing on any sort of grassroots or whatever about it.
I am enjoying watching some of the coverage, but because the US coverage is SOOO overly American-focused, it's disappointing. It gets worse every 2 years now, with Bob Costas inching slowly downward each time with his stupid, dismissive remarks. I like Bob Costas, in the right domain. NBC might as well have Bill Walton or Marv Albert doing the same thing as Bob. Jim Lampley (of course, he got started when ABC used to do it...) would be 100x better than Bob Costas in that role.
Oh well. For those of you that can get non-NBC coverage of the Games, you're lucky!
But if the RIAA could do this with BitTorrent, KaZaa, or whatever, couldn't enterprising people do the same to whatever service the RIAA ends up finally embracing as well?
Funny thing, though, a 64MB DIMM for my old Pentium computer costs more than 512MB of DDR ram does today.
Besides, the DDR RAM is faster than SDRAM anyways. I have a mobo like this too. It was a "bridge" mobo to make athlons an easier upgrade path. Get mobo, new CPU, and reuse your old SDRAM.
No, getting ripped off is buying a 10' Cat5 cable at BestBuy for $15.00.
Prices for HDDs are also funny. 2 years ago, my 80GB HD cost me about $150. Nowadays, a 200GB HD can be had for close to that amount. Oh well, I could always just partition 80GB, and keep 120GB in "reserve", right?
Of course, backup solutions are still freakin' expensive. It used to be possible to expect to be able to do backups with a QIC-based tape drive. At the time, DAT was expensive and SCSI to boot. But now that DAT is cheap enough to use with 5-yr old systems, there is no way I'm gonna back up a full 200GB HD on DAT. Newer tape backup systems are just too freaking expensive. Even burning images to CD-ROM is not really feasible.
What to do? Look into hot-swappable, removable, IDE/SATA drive trays, and back up to HDD. Crazy, huh? But hard to beat the price (and speed!) for a 200GB HD for backing up.
They do not import and are more less self sufficent, everybody is employed....and, in CUba, you can smoke hand-rolled cigars all day! And drive a '55 Chevy (if you can afford it and the gas).
Cuba also has no "crime", because the fear and incentives for your neighbor to turn you in for anything (real or imagined) is very very real.
The USSR took all the land and product away from the farmers, also, so that there was no incentive for them to do anything, least of all for themselves.
If yow own your farm property, the incentive to keep your fields and crops in good shape is slightly higher than if you're just a sharecropper, er, working the farm for someone else for a fixed wage.
How happy would you be if you were encouraged to drive the cultivator out so that the crop owner might get the extra money, but your only incentive is to do it to keep your job? It's different if it's your own crop.
Oh well, you either get and understand this motivation, or you don't.
Denied from leaving the company town? Yes, because odds are you had a running tab with the company, and you were always perpetually in some amount of debt.
You were in the middle of nowhere, and the company owned the means of transportation into and out of the town. You may have arrived willingly, but there was no way to leave and survive. Trying to establish your own free enterprise was met with harshly by the people running the town.
Everything you used you paid the company back for (hint: sounds like the recording industry).
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...they still have two cadmium-coated tungsten wires wound up like filaments at each end, except they are called "cathode" and "anode".
(cadmium emits a lot of free electrons...)
...but we tend to not really get pure aluminum in products anyways, but still call them "aluminum". It's usually alloyed with other metals, just like iron is, to improve on some of the qualities that pure aluminum has.
Look at newer Easton bike tubes that have scandium in them. Not a lot of it, but enough that it changes some of the mechanical properties of aluminum to the advantage for the bicycle.
Or "titanium". Usually it's 3/2.5 Ti (Ti+vanadium+something else). Much better for most things than pure Ti. Then Lightspeed and Merlin got ahold of 6/4 Ti, which is MUCH harder and stiffer than pure Ti or 3/2.5 Ti. Of course, they can't mandrel-form the tubes (they're rolled-and-welded from sheets...) because 6/4 Ti is just too hard. But it works wonders for bike frames, and they're still called "titanium".
We don't call glass "silica", it's just glass. Unless you're talking to a physicist, microbiologist or camera poseur...er, professional. Then they start worrying about things like "flint" glass, "fluorite" glass, etc.
But their core material is still melted down silica, Si04. And the varieties are still called "glass", not silica.
So if we can ignore one pedantic use of a chemical term for a different common term, then it seems equally as feasible to misappropriate another term for a different material, violating the pedantic spirit of the language once again.
Besides, look at a bag of fertilizer. N-P-K. N is Nitrogen. OK. Truth-in-labeling momentum is conserved.
P is for phosphorus, but the percentage listed is really the equivalant percentage of a phosphate. K is for potassium, of course, but the number is really the percent equivalance of potash, which is definitely not pure potassium, either.
But this little violation of truth-in-advertising has been going on for, oh, at least 100 years. In fact, it's set up by law these days.
cast iron pipe breaks just fine with a sledge hammer, too. So what's your point?
Nitrocellulose was still a component of gun powder, however.
ANFO is classified as a "low velocity" explosive. TNT is a "high velocity" explosive.
ANFO is used in open-pit mining because its relatively low velocity explosion ends up pushing lots more material out of the way than a dynamite or other HE explosion would.
HE is used in solid rock, where the high velocity shock helps to shatter the hard rock into smaller pieces.
Which is why ANFO is a preferred explosive for trying to level buildings from a distance. That, and it's cheap, simple to make, and relatively stable.
...probably has to do with the overpressure created by the explosions being essentially the same at a given distance.
There is also the ship that blew up in Galveston Harbor, TX, during WWI (twas fully loaded with ammonium nitrate), as well as the ammo ship that blew up at Port Chicago, CA, in WWII.
...but where will all the cool petro-based plastics we've all come to love and enjoy come from?
Will there ever be a day when the polyethelyne beads in a Beanie Baby are worth more than the inherent "value" of the Beanie Baby itself?
Uh, the conservation of momentum comes from the cuttlefish not pushing against the stationary water, but from the momentum of the water pushed out. Which is why jet engine power is measured in pounds of thrust (or fig Newtons), instead of horsepower (but turboprop engines ARE rated in terms of horsepower...).
Same as a rocket. The mass of the expelled rocket fuel/combustion leftovers x the velocity they're expelled at (gained by the energy from the chemical combustion reaction) = thrust.
Just like the thrust generated from ion drive engines.
Since photons also have momentum, in theory, it would be possible to use a laser as a motive source in outer space as well.
It's the equivalent of using Rockets underwater verses using fins.
Obviously, you haven't heard about supercavitating torpedos.
If this is the case, then Palladium is not acting as a catalyst.
Catalysts are, by definition, not consumed as part of the reactions they help enable.
Funny thing, at the beginning of the Olympics coverage on {MS}NBC, one of the shows was about some of the origins of the neomythology of the Olympics movement, about how Adoph Hitler's propaganda machine created the mythology of the olympic rings and a lot of other symbology that is "adored" about the current olympics...
Oh, I don't know. There was at least one Mali soccer player playing in the game against Italy yesterday who was wearing Puma soccer shoes at the same time he was wearing a Nike soccer uniform. Obviously, he didn't get the memo.
...but then terms of employement/employment contracts will require the assigning of exclusive, life-time contracts for any patents their employees create or assignment at time of employement from the employee to the company.
So, while it will change in theory (companies not being able to own patents), they will still "own" them by sake of exclusive, lifetime, non-revokable license with the company being able to sublicense, etc.
Of course, the employees will get a neato plastiwood frame with a copy of their patent application and the $1.00 bill consideration paid to them to keep!
Administrator isn't even the top-level security privilege/role/group (System and a few others come to mind), but it's the highest-privileged *user* account in NTland, just like root is.
I guess you could check the "allow interactive login" for all the other system-level accounts, so that maybe System would then be the same as root in NT-land.
...right, this works on Win2K/WinXP, which have essentially a "super user" service running. When you do "runas", the runas command interfaces (RPC?) with this service, which can glom on Administrator priveleges onto the process if initiated successfully.
Another way of doing it was developed as TQCRunAs, a DLL that does this differently.
The MKSToolkit (and several other implementations) require this service to be running in order to work. This, I think, is what has been patented.
Of course, any Unix system daemon would seem to violate this as specific cases. All MS has done is generalize the process from a user initiating a single specific protected action to using RUNAS to initiate ANY privileged task.
the Unix-equivalent in my mind would be having a "sh" or "csh" daemon that can 'grant' SU-level privileges if properly tasked against. But, wait... isn't this what the tty system does?
Of course, the difficulty with RUNAS is that you cannot script it, because it will always interactively prompt for password, so it is NOT usable for domain login scripts, nor is MKS' su/sudo commands (because they do things the way MSDN says you're supposed to do them).
TQCRunAs, however, is scriptable, and does not depend on the RunAs service running. And, TQCRunAs does the same thing also for WinNT. RunAs is only for Win2K/WinXP+.
An advert for TQCRunAs? Well, it seriously made me look cool at a previous job, so I'm a satisfied past user (deploy an IE hotfix to >1000 desktop computers "invisibly"). Compared to doing things with SMS (which would have also been an option), it was a degree of magnitude cheaper for the enterprise license for TQCRunAs, and doable in about 8 hours of VBScript programming and incorporating into domain login script, vs. waiting for the SMS people to get around to doing the job, as well as scheduling the job as a priority...
Other neato hacks we did with it were resetting all the local Administrator passwords when user logged in, etc., from domain login script...
As far as different, su starts a new terminal by invoking something by hitting the login daemon, right? Then, the user's operating context is that of the su'd user until the session is terminated.
So Unix has all these service daemons that are unprivileged in and of themselves, but provide access through that barrier to non-privileged programs.
The only difference is that MS has a specific way of writing one service daemon that allows arbitrary command execution (you can do "runas explorer" as well as "runas netpad").
Besides, how functionally, logically different is an RPC stream verses a Unix I/O stream going from a terminal to something else, really?
Er, you don't get out much, do you?
Why do tax payers have to support quasi-professional or professional athletics anyways?
Of course, tax payer dollars support business entities in one form or another anyways, so the argument really gets lost in the noise.
Proud to get my $77 this year from the USDA for my 3.3 acres of "wheat and oat production"...
Although not seen this year, really, whenever the Olympics are held in a US city, there are lots of stories about how lots of companies with "olympic" in their names are chased down by the USOC/IOC.
Sure, some of it is trying to catch the coattails. But going after a greek restaurant named "Olympic Cafe", which maybe has a stylized discus or javelin thrower or greek warrior head on it?
Look at all the guff they've thrown at the Special Olympics, the Paralympic Games, etc. in the past.
The IOC/USOC/media companies are so worried about "protecting" their investments that they are pissing on any sort of grassroots or whatever about it.
I am enjoying watching some of the coverage, but because the US coverage is SOOO overly American-focused, it's disappointing. It gets worse every 2 years now, with Bob Costas inching slowly downward each time with his stupid, dismissive remarks. I like Bob Costas, in the right domain. NBC might as well have Bill Walton or Marv Albert doing the same thing as Bob. Jim Lampley (of course, he got started when ABC used to do it...) would be 100x better than Bob Costas in that role.
Oh well. For those of you that can get non-NBC coverage of the Games, you're lucky!
But if the RIAA could do this with BitTorrent, KaZaa, or whatever, couldn't enterprising people do the same to whatever service the RIAA ends up finally embracing as well?
Then what will happen?
No, but I saw the Midget on a Ronco commercial last night after the Olympics on MSNBC hawking MS Passport and Bob.
...if the players get available, and they get the recording stuff into the hands of the porn industry, it very well could take off.
Funny thing, though, a 64MB DIMM for my old Pentium computer costs more than 512MB of DDR ram does today.
Besides, the DDR RAM is faster than SDRAM anyways. I have a mobo like this too. It was a "bridge" mobo to make athlons an easier upgrade path. Get mobo, new CPU, and reuse your old SDRAM.
No, getting ripped off is buying a 10' Cat5 cable at BestBuy for $15.00.
Prices for HDDs are also funny. 2 years ago, my 80GB HD cost me about $150. Nowadays, a 200GB HD can be had for close to that amount. Oh well, I could always just partition 80GB, and keep 120GB in "reserve", right?
Of course, backup solutions are still freakin' expensive. It used to be possible to expect to be able to do backups with a QIC-based tape drive. At the time, DAT was expensive and SCSI to boot.
But now that DAT is cheap enough to use with 5-yr old systems, there is no way I'm gonna back up a full 200GB HD on DAT. Newer tape backup systems are just too freaking expensive. Even burning images to CD-ROM is not really feasible.
What to do? Look into hot-swappable, removable, IDE/SATA drive trays, and back up to HDD.
Crazy, huh? But hard to beat the price (and speed!) for a 200GB HD for backing up.
They do not import and are more less self sufficent, everybody is employed. ...and, in CUba, you can smoke hand-rolled cigars all day! And drive a '55 Chevy (if you can afford it and the gas).
Cuba also has no "crime", because the fear and incentives for your neighbor to turn you in for anything (real or imagined) is very very real.
The USSR took all the land and product away from the farmers, also, so that there was no incentive for them to do anything, least of all for themselves.
If yow own your farm property, the incentive to keep your fields and crops in good shape is slightly higher than if you're just a sharecropper, er, working the farm for someone else for a fixed wage.
How happy would you be if you were encouraged to drive the cultivator out so that the crop owner might get the extra money, but your only incentive is to do it to keep your job? It's different if it's your own crop.
Oh well, you either get and understand this motivation, or you don't.
Well, there was an issue of National Geography that talked about current slavery. Most of it is in the sex trade.
or look at life in Mexico being a worker vs being a land owner or business owner.
Denied from leaving the company town? Yes, because odds are you had a running tab with the company, and you were always perpetually in some amount of debt.
You were in the middle of nowhere, and the company owned the means of transportation into and out of the town. You may have arrived willingly, but there was no way to leave and survive. Trying to establish your own free enterprise was met with harshly by the people running the town.
Everything you used you paid the company back for (hint: sounds like the recording industry).
It's kind of well-documented.