I'm a Toys R' Us kid. A million toys to choose from, that I can play with. From bikes to trikes and video games, its the biggest toy store there is. GEE WIZ! I don't wanna grow up, cuz baby if I did....I wouldn't be a Toys R' Us kid!
*Sorry, couldn't help myself. Whenever someone tells me to grow up that song kicks in*
I know you're joking but speaking from experience I can tell you I have never had any problems with our Xerox printers, once properly configured, unless someone fiddles with them (which shouldn't be happening in the first place). The same can be said for the Savin machines we have.
However, since the Commonwealth (PA) has forced all agencies to buy/lease only Imagistics printers/copiers, I have had nothing but problems. Printers stop communicating with the network for no reason, can't configure LDAP on any of them, scanning issues (crooked, only one page, etc), limited email slots. Two of our machines have Fiery boxes attached to them rather than a simple NIC! The list goes on.
Stay far away from Imagistics. Slap your boss or purchaser if they even consider Imagistics. You might remember those commercials for Imagistics a year or so ago where the women in the office intentionally disable their machine so the hunky repair guy can come in. Ostensibly they were trying to say that was the only way the repair would come. Forget it. These pieces of crap don't need any help breaking. They do fine on their own.
Heh heh. The only reason it seems like I know what I'm talking about is because of the article I linked to. I think it's the third paragraph or so where it talks about water mixing with the other two to get amino acids which can create proteins or adenine.
Yeah, I should just accept your compliment but this is one time it's not deserved. But thanks anyway!
So if a comet similar to Tempel 1 just happens to fly by a star similar to IRS 46, which happens to have a dust ring with acetylene and hydrogen cyanide in it, the combination could give us amino acids, the precursors to adenine.
The dollar amount is probably derived from how many man hours it took to create the data which will no doubt include metalurgical tests, vibration dampening, fuel development, fuel consumption per rocket motor, rocket motor development, software packages and a whole host of related matters.
While NASA would most likely have never sold the data it still cost something to get the data, store the data and use the data when necessary.
Came across this link the other day. The goal was to get 10,000 or more signatures from clergy throughout the country (U.S.) to agree on the following:
Within the community of Christian believers there are areas of dispute and disagreement, including the proper way to interpret Holy Scripture. While virtually all Christians take the Bible seriously and hold it to be authoritative in matters of faith and practice, the overwhelming majority do not read the Bible literally, as they would a science textbook. Many of the beloved stories found in the Bible - the Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah and the ark - convey timeless truths about God, human beings, and the proper relationship between Creator and creation expressed in the only form capable of transmitting these truths from generation to generation. Religious truth is of a different order from scientific truth. Its purpose is not to convey scientific information but to transform hearts.
We the undersigned, Christian clergy from many different traditions, believe that the timeless truths of the Bible and the discoveries of modern science may comfortably coexist. We believe that the theory of evolution is a foundational scientific truth, one that has stood up to rigorous scrutiny and upon which much of human knowledge and achievement rests. To reject this truth or to treat it as "one theory among others" is to deliberately embrace scientific ignorance and transmit such ignorance to our children. We believe that among God's good gifts are human minds capable of critical thought and that the failure to fully employ this gift is a rejection of the will of our Creator. To argue that God's loving plan of salvation for humanity precludes the full employment of the God-given faculty of reason is to attempt to limit God, an act of hubris. We urge school board members to preserve the integrity of the science curriculum by affirming the teaching of the theory of evolution as a core component of human knowledge. We ask that science remain science and that religion remain religion, two very different, but complementary, forms of truth.
I skimmed the list of resources provided and found one that cuts to the core of the matter. Written by Harry T. Cook, it is titled, Don't Fall For It (.pdf file). The next to last paragraph lays it all on the table:
This is a plea for people of reason (religious or not) to refrain from being drawn into the argument that proponents of intelligent design are wont to make, viz, that their "theory" deserves equal time with Darwin & Co.'s. It does not. Intelligent design is the product of a slick theology masquerading as science. Evolution is the product of painstaking, step-by-step, trial-and-error science. Therefore, evolution and intelligent design do not belong at opposing poles of the same argument.
There were other writings that I read which state similar ideas but his was the most memorable and the most correct.
According to Vic Camp, volcanoes put out ~110 million tons of CO2 per year whereas mans contribution is ~10 billion tons per year. Look under the section Influence on the Greenhouse Effect further down the page.
It would appear that, as usual, Rush doesn't know what he's talking about.
Unfortunately the Rally Japan photos didn't show much due to the weather. As a rule the Rally Queens wear hot pants, sports bras and boots. Exactly what the original article was talking about.
As far as the auot show ones, the previous years booth babes had skimpier outfits (on the whole) but I couldn't find a link for them. The usual rule for the auto show is short skirt, form fitting, low-cut top and either boots or heels.
these folks aren't in Japan. If they think the booth babes at this convention are bad you should see what the babes wear at the Tokyo Auto Salon or the Tokyo Motor Show and most certainly the Queens of Rally Japan.
The censors in this country would assplode if they had to deal with those women.
Just because manufacturers no longer make film cameras (well, most don't) doesn't mean that film won't still be used.
Olympus hasn't made a film camera in roughly a decade but myself and others still use them.
Maybe in the distant future, something like 200 years, film cameras will no longer be used but for the forseeable future film will still be with us. Not to mention slides which give better color saturation than any film can.
Not because it exposed people who were fast and loose with their photos but because it brings up the whole issue of digital photo manipulation for entries. I recently submitted two photos for a local photo contest which were done from film.
When it came time to see the submitted photos I took my parents along so they could see how my prints stacked up to the others.
Of the roughly 30 prints that were submitted there were at least two I was sure had been manipulated and possibly one more. The one case was blatant. The submitter had done a poor cut and paste of a wood duck. The other was the merging of two photos which produced a very nice looking picture.
As more and more people use digital cameras and then PhotoShop (or other programs) the 'art' of photography goes away since the original photo can so easily be manipulated. Unlike in traditional photography where the negative or slide is the original and any manipulation of that original can be easily seen.
Personally I would like to see photo contests have two separate categories. One for film cameras and one for digital with the understanding that the digital photo may have been manipulated in a way beyond what traditional photos can be. Like the article I'm not talking about enhancing contrast since that can be done with different paper or chemical process for film photos but rather the addition or subtraction of wholesale items.
Yes, adding and removing objects from a film photo can be done but it is more labor-intensive and harder to pull off than with a photo manipulation program.
Granted, if people would just be honest about what they submit we wouldn't have to have this discussion but the same could be said about laws or notices to not do something.
Let's see. First we have a duped article. The original was posted on the 20th. Both the current article and the article from the first posting are dated January 19th.
Then there is the second part of the posting. A story which I submitted on the 18th and had rejected so I posted it in my Journal. Go ahead, go look. I'll wait. It's the same thing, isn't it? Ok, not the same. My article had more information and a better outtake from the book.
I know Taco has been posting stories about the selection and editing process but this is just shabby. Posting a four-day old story and one rejected one at the same time only serves to confirm peoples suspicions that the editors don't really take much more than a cursory interest in what they decide to accept.
Said in that Australian accent we've come to know and love:
Today I'm going to show you one of the wonders of nature. If you look down in that hole there you can long fibrous tendrils. Those are fiber optic cables and they snake their way through the ground all over the world.
Crikey, it's nice to see them. Usually they stay underground so this is really special. Just look at the size of the hole they make as they burrow through the earth.
Oh look! I didn't expect this. The only known enemy to these folks is coming over to investigate. The backhoe. Look at those nasty pointed teeth. I wouldn't want to get caught by them I'll tell you.
I'll just walk away so I don't disturb him. This could get real exciting any moment.
*growl* *snort* dig dig dig dig
Look at that! This is a real treat. The backhoe is digging up the fiber optic! Look at the way those teeth just dig into the soil and expose those poor buggers. Oh wow, just look at it as it tears those fibers to ribbons.
I know it may seem cruel to stand by and do nothing but this is part of nature. Someone has to eat and someone has to be eaten.
But don't worry mate, those fiber optics grow back real quick. In fact, they grow so quickly there will never be a shortage of them no matter how many get eaten by the backhoe.
I can only tell you what I was told when I helped out at an ice cream stand years ago. This wasn't in a store but a mobile ice cream trailer.
You are correct though about the difference between sterilization and sanitation. Maybe if one would dunk the ice cream scoop directly in a bucket of pure bleach one could consider it sterilized but the cap of bleach in water will only act as a sanitizer. Good enough for most instances.
The question is: How can websites devote more of their budgets to keeping customers, rather than simply advertising for new visitors?
How about implementing a decent search engine on the site so I don't have to go to Google to find an answer to my question. I can't tell you how many times I've gone to IBM or HP to look for something other than drivers and had to go to Google to get my answer. Usually this involved how to diagnose a problem but sometimes it involves a manual.
Improve your FAQ. Ever look at an FAQ on a site (if they bother to have one?) In the end their answer is usually: call us. If I wanted to call you I would have done so in the first place. I'm on your site because I want to find it myself. Give me the answer. That's what a FAQ is for.
Put your companies mailing address on your site. This is a very annoying 'feature' that companies fail to do. If I want to snail mail you I shouldn't have to call you to get the information. Granted, I could always do a search for your address on Google but then that defeats the original purpose for my visit to your site.
Shall I continue or are these concepts too difficult to implement?
Use two cups of plain water with a cap of bleach in it to clean your keyboard. No known bug can survive bleach, even at that low level. Ice cream shops generally do this for the water they use for their scoops.
Bleach is the ultimate bug killer. It can even kill the virus which causes AIDS (though the side effects to the patient aren't good).
Where I live we've had glowing pigs since 1979. In fact, most everything around here glows.
What's really neat is at night you don't need to turn the lights on around the house to see. Your natural bodily glow provides enough light for you to see. Even better, if you get up in the middle of the night you never have to worry about stepping on your cat or dog because you can easily see them.
However, it should be noted that image of glowing bodies under the covers can be quite disturbing for the uninitiated so the orgies have to be kept to a minimum.
Yes, I survived Three Mile Island. Gallows humor is what keeps me going.
Apparently it's just me, and those I've coached on how to keep their system clean, but I never keep my cookies. Whether when I used IE or now the more secure Firefox, I always clear my cache and cookies when I am done surfing.
In fact, one of the nice additions in Firefox 1.5 is the automatic cleaning of cache and cookies when one closes the browser.
Wasn't there an article about ad companies trying to convince people to keep the cookies on their system so there could be a more accurate assessment of online advertising? Oh yeah, here it is.
Yes, the NSA 'accidentally' was putting cookies on peoples systems but since people delete cookies anyway, this is one time I don't see the big deal (aside from the whole Big Brother issue).
I wasn't saying that bandwidth isn't useful. I was only responding to your questions about the use of bandwidth.
As I said in my previous post, I don't fall into the norm when it comes to most things. I don't care about what supposed blockbuster movie is coming out or who the up-and-coming new band of the year is. Things like that just don't interest me.
Same with Flash. Don't care to use it so I don't need the bandwidth to suck down those horrendous Flash intros or sites which only use Flash. When I come across a site which forces one to use Flash I don't come back. Thus, they've lost a customer.
I can see downloading linux distros and such which is why I didn't address that question. To me that is a perfectly acceptable use for having more bandwidth. Same would go for video conferencing. You like online games so yes, for you, bandwidth is important (as is latency). For me, I'm content with turn-based games which work fine even over dialup so bandwidth isn't an issue for me.
It all comes down to what one wants. For you the extra bandwidth is, apparently, a necessity. For me, not so much. To paraphrase Marge Simpson: How much porn does one person need? (ok, there is no such thing as too much porn)
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I'm a Toys R' Us kid.
A million toys to choose from, that I can play with.
From bikes to trikes and video games, its the biggest toy store there is. GEE WIZ! I don't wanna grow up, cuz baby if I did....I wouldn't be a Toys R' Us kid!
*Sorry, couldn't help myself. Whenever someone tells me to grow up that song kicks in*
I know you're joking but speaking from experience I can tell you I have never had any problems with our Xerox printers, once properly configured, unless someone fiddles with them (which shouldn't be happening in the first place). The same can be said for the Savin machines we have.
However, since the Commonwealth (PA) has forced all agencies to buy/lease only Imagistics printers/copiers, I have had nothing but problems. Printers stop communicating with the network for no reason, can't configure LDAP on any of them, scanning issues (crooked, only one page, etc), limited email slots. Two of our machines have Fiery boxes attached to them rather than a simple NIC! The list goes on.
Stay far away from Imagistics. Slap your boss or purchaser if they even consider Imagistics. You might remember those commercials for Imagistics a year or so ago where the women in the office intentionally disable their machine so the hunky repair guy can come in. Ostensibly they were trying to say that was the only way the repair would come. Forget it. These pieces of crap don't need any help breaking. They do fine on their own.
Heh heh. The only reason it seems like I know what I'm talking about is because of the article I linked to. I think it's the third paragraph or so where it talks about water mixing with the other two to get amino acids which can create proteins or adenine.
Yeah, I should just accept your compliment but this is one time it's not deserved. But thanks anyway!
Woot! 1/4 of the way to the formation of DNA!
Run Tempel 1, run!
The dollar amount is probably derived from how many man hours it took to create the data which will no doubt include metalurgical tests, vibration dampening, fuel development, fuel consumption per rocket motor, rocket motor development, software packages and a whole host of related matters.
While NASA would most likely have never sold the data it still cost something to get the data, store the data and use the data when necessary.
if I pass the dutchie on the left-hand side? What then?
Essentially, bats which had smaller testicles had larger brains while those who had larger testicles had smaller brains.
Those with bigger testicles were able to breed with more females more often than those with smaller testicles.
Ehhhhh, I could pull a better cartoon out of my a-- ha heh heh. Hey! Whoa! Wasn't that great kids?
Within the community of Christian believers there are areas of dispute and disagreement, including the proper way to interpret Holy Scripture. While virtually all Christians take the Bible seriously and hold it to be authoritative in matters of faith and practice, the overwhelming majority do not read the Bible literally, as they would a science textbook. Many of the beloved stories found in the Bible - the Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah and the ark - convey timeless truths about God, human beings, and the proper relationship between Creator and creation expressed in the only form capable of transmitting these truths from generation to generation. Religious truth is of a different order from scientific truth. Its purpose is not to convey scientific information but to transform hearts.
We the undersigned, Christian clergy from many different traditions, believe that the timeless truths of the Bible and the discoveries of modern science may comfortably coexist. We believe that the theory of evolution is a foundational scientific truth, one that has stood up to rigorous scrutiny and upon which much of human knowledge and achievement rests. To reject this truth or to treat it as "one theory among others" is to deliberately embrace scientific ignorance and transmit such ignorance to our children. We believe that among God's good gifts are human minds capable of critical thought and that the failure to fully employ this gift is a rejection of the will of our Creator. To argue that God's loving plan of salvation for humanity precludes the full employment of the God-given faculty of reason is to attempt to limit God, an act of hubris. We urge school board members to preserve the integrity of the science curriculum by affirming the teaching of the theory of evolution as a core component of human knowledge. We ask that science remain science and that religion remain religion, two very different, but complementary, forms of truth.
I skimmed the list of resources provided and found one that cuts to the core of the matter. Written by Harry T. Cook, it is titled, Don't Fall For It (.pdf file). The next to last paragraph lays it all on the table:
This is a plea for people of reason (religious or not) to refrain from being drawn into the argument that proponents of intelligent design are wont to make, viz, that their "theory" deserves equal time with Darwin & Co.'s. It does not. Intelligent design is the product of a slick theology masquerading as science. Evolution is the product of painstaking, step-by-step, trial-and-error science. Therefore, evolution and intelligent design do not belong at opposing poles of the same argument.
There were other writings that I read which state similar ideas but his was the most memorable and the most correct.
It would appear that, as usual, Rush doesn't know what he's talking about.
Unfortunately the Rally Japan photos didn't show much due to the weather. As a rule the Rally Queens wear hot pants, sports bras and boots. Exactly what the original article was talking about.
As far as the auot show ones, the previous years booth babes had skimpier outfits (on the whole) but I couldn't find a link for them. The usual rule for the auto show is short skirt, form fitting, low-cut top and either boots or heels.
The censors in this country would assplode if they had to deal with those women.
It's only a theory folks. We shouldn't be teaching it because it hasn't been proven. It's not a fact.
(For the humor impaired I'll give you a few moments to let the words sink in)
Just because manufacturers no longer make film cameras (well, most don't) doesn't mean that film won't still be used.
Olympus hasn't made a film camera in roughly a decade but myself and others still use them.
Maybe in the distant future, something like 200 years, film cameras will no longer be used but for the forseeable future film will still be with us. Not to mention slides which give better color saturation than any film can.
Not because it exposed people who were fast and loose with their photos but because it brings up the whole issue of digital photo manipulation for entries. I recently submitted two photos for a local photo contest which were done from film.
When it came time to see the submitted photos I took my parents along so they could see how my prints stacked up to the others.
Of the roughly 30 prints that were submitted there were at least two I was sure had been manipulated and possibly one more. The one case was blatant. The submitter had done a poor cut and paste of a wood duck. The other was the merging of two photos which produced a very nice looking picture.
As more and more people use digital cameras and then PhotoShop (or other programs) the 'art' of photography goes away since the original photo can so easily be manipulated. Unlike in traditional photography where the negative or slide is the original and any manipulation of that original can be easily seen.
Personally I would like to see photo contests have two separate categories. One for film cameras and one for digital with the understanding that the digital photo may have been manipulated in a way beyond what traditional photos can be. Like the article I'm not talking about enhancing contrast since that can be done with different paper or chemical process for film photos but rather the addition or subtraction of wholesale items.
Yes, adding and removing objects from a film photo can be done but it is more labor-intensive and harder to pull off than with a photo manipulation program.
Granted, if people would just be honest about what they submit we wouldn't have to have this discussion but the same could be said about laws or notices to not do something.
Then there is the second part of the posting. A story which I submitted on the 18th and had rejected so I posted it in my Journal. Go ahead, go look. I'll wait. It's the same thing, isn't it? Ok, not the same. My article had more information and a better outtake from the book.
I know Taco has been posting stories about the selection and editing process but this is just shabby. Posting a four-day old story and one rejected one at the same time only serves to confirm peoples suspicions that the editors don't really take much more than a cursory interest in what they decide to accept.
Said in that Australian accent we've come to know and love:
Today I'm going to show you one of the wonders of nature. If you look down in that hole there you can long fibrous tendrils. Those are fiber optic cables and they snake their way through the ground all over the world.
Crikey, it's nice to see them. Usually they stay underground so this is really special. Just look at the size of the hole they make as they burrow through the earth.
Oh look! I didn't expect this. The only known enemy to these folks is coming over to investigate. The backhoe. Look at those nasty pointed teeth. I wouldn't want to get caught by them I'll tell you.
I'll just walk away so I don't disturb him. This could get real exciting any moment.
*growl* *snort* dig dig dig dig
Look at that! This is a real treat. The backhoe is digging up the fiber optic! Look at the way those teeth just dig into the soil and expose those poor buggers. Oh wow, just look at it as it tears those fibers to ribbons.
I know it may seem cruel to stand by and do nothing but this is part of nature. Someone has to eat and someone has to be eaten.
But don't worry mate, those fiber optics grow back real quick. In fact, they grow so quickly there will never be a shortage of them no matter how many get eaten by the backhoe.
I can only tell you what I was told when I helped out at an ice cream stand years ago. This wasn't in a store but a mobile ice cream trailer.
You are correct though about the difference between sterilization and sanitation. Maybe if one would dunk the ice cream scoop directly in a bucket of pure bleach one could consider it sterilized but the cap of bleach in water will only act as a sanitizer. Good enough for most instances.
How about implementing a decent search engine on the site so I don't have to go to Google to find an answer to my question. I can't tell you how many times I've gone to IBM or HP to look for something other than drivers and had to go to Google to get my answer. Usually this involved how to diagnose a problem but sometimes it involves a manual.
Improve your FAQ. Ever look at an FAQ on a site (if they bother to have one?) In the end their answer is usually: call us. If I wanted to call you I would have done so in the first place. I'm on your site because I want to find it myself. Give me the answer. That's what a FAQ is for.
Put your companies mailing address on your site. This is a very annoying 'feature' that companies fail to do. If I want to snail mail you I shouldn't have to call you to get the information. Granted, I could always do a search for your address on Google but then that defeats the original purpose for my visit to your site.
Shall I continue or are these concepts too difficult to implement?
Use two cups of plain water with a cap of bleach in it to clean your keyboard. No known bug can survive bleach, even at that low level. Ice cream shops generally do this for the water they use for their scoops.
Bleach is the ultimate bug killer. It can even kill the virus which causes AIDS (though the side effects to the patient aren't good).
Where I live we've had glowing pigs since 1979. In fact, most everything around here glows.
What's really neat is at night you don't need to turn the lights on around the house to see. Your natural bodily glow provides enough light for you to see. Even better, if you get up in the middle of the night you never have to worry about stepping on your cat or dog because you can easily see them.
However, it should be noted that image of glowing bodies under the covers can be quite disturbing for the uninitiated so the orgies have to be kept to a minimum.
Yes, I survived Three Mile Island. Gallows humor is what keeps me going.
I'm glad you can because when I see a snowbank in -40 degree weather all I can think is, "Where's that ticket to Aruba?"
You are absolutely correct. That is my fault. I missed the second 'n'.
Even though I previewed what I wrote FOUR TIMES my mind subconsciously inserted the extra letter for me.
I'm sometimes considered part of the grammar nazi group and that ribbing at my expense is completely warranted.
In fact, one of the nice additions in Firefox 1.5 is the automatic cleaning of cache and cookies when one closes the browser.
Wasn't there an article about ad companies trying to convince people to keep the cookies on their system so there could be a more accurate assessment of online advertising? Oh yeah, here it is.
Then there is this article which was never posted from five months prior which says basically the same thing.
Yes, the NSA 'accidentally' was putting cookies on peoples systems but since people delete cookies anyway, this is one time I don't see the big deal (aside from the whole Big Brother issue).
I wasn't saying that bandwidth isn't useful. I was only responding to your questions about the use of bandwidth.
As I said in my previous post, I don't fall into the norm when it comes to most things. I don't care about what supposed blockbuster movie is coming out or who the up-and-coming new band of the year is. Things like that just don't interest me.
Same with Flash. Don't care to use it so I don't need the bandwidth to suck down those horrendous Flash intros or sites which only use Flash. When I come across a site which forces one to use Flash I don't come back. Thus, they've lost a customer.
I can see downloading linux distros and such which is why I didn't address that question. To me that is a perfectly acceptable use for having more bandwidth. Same would go for video conferencing. You like online games so yes, for you, bandwidth is important (as is latency). For me, I'm content with turn-based games which work fine even over dialup so bandwidth isn't an issue for me.
It all comes down to what one wants. For you the extra bandwidth is, apparently, a necessity. For me, not so much. To paraphrase Marge Simpson: How much porn does one person need? (ok, there is no such thing as too much porn)