Other than the aluminum can, and pop bottles, the average consumer doesn't generate enough prime scrap to recycle.
Compared to say, a large retail store, who has for years, crushed and bundled cardboard boxes, for recycling. But they have the space to store a partial truckload, making it worth the effort to pick up. Now, plastic amd steel strap can be recycled in the same way.
The problem now is that residential garbage needs to be sorted by a human for recycling. Until a machine is invented that can sort out plastics by type, this is going to remain a bottleneck.
The power grid strikes me as very similar to the highway system, to me it makes sense to nationalize it, the same way highways are federalized.
Power companies would pay fees both ways, as consumers and producers of power. The inablity of either to expand their business would drive capacity increases, in the same way highways are expanded.
The air traffic control system is another example of the feds controlling a competitive marketplace.
At some point in the 80's, the IEEE wrote up the POSIX operating system standard. I'd think that would figure into the chart of Unix history at some point.
The origin of the term dates back to before the worlds fair (1903?) and to the political bickering and promises made. It was the worlds way of saying the politicians were full of hot air.
Label your computer for the user!
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I got a set of labels from cyberguys, which allows all the ports to be labeled, with a matching label for the cable.
Included is the "any" label, which can be applied as needed.
Great if your building a PC for a less than technical user, like a family member.
Does Fedex's (or any other cargo carrier) fleet have the same problems? I'd seems reasonable that they would have the same cockpit instruments, but wouldn't have any passengers with equipment. So they should have almost zero problems with avionics, do they?
The area near me is under construction, and the silent, solar powered LED lights, are a huge improvement, over a small diesel engine runing 24/7, to run some blinking lights.
The system used in the last election was like that.
A big sheet of paper, where the user blacked in the oval for his/her selection. Messed up votes could be re-done, with a new ballot. Ballots where signed in and out by a election judge. Once all done, feed it into the machine, which counts it.
The physical ballot remains for recount, audit trail, whatever.
For a guy hooking up a Teletype, one of the hottest, noisyest things around, he sure pays a lot of attention to the heat and power use of his computer.
A real geek would whip up a vacuum tube interface, something I suspect more than one had in real life.
In a deregulated environment, the interconnection of the systems becomes even more critical, since more power is being moved between companies and networks.
Without a well regulated grid in operation, the market in power breaks down, just like it did today.
I remember the s/36 and as/400 market place, in that the OS was licensed, and didn't transfer with the hardware. You always had to license the SW from IBM for the going list price.
With software, that is licensed, the rules are what ever the license agreement is.
Microsoft is doing the same thing, in that the software isn't a product seperate from the HW as well any more.
It wouldn't be approriate to include mathmatical utilities in the *BSD's, since they (at least FreeBSD) tend towards the server market. They don't install stuff for the sake of having it all.
Add it to the ports, so that it does ship with the OS, and the user can install if they want to. A cd into the proper directory, and then make install is all that is needed.
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Other than the aluminum can, and pop bottles, the average consumer doesn't generate enough prime scrap to recycle.
Compared to say, a large retail store, who has for years, crushed and bundled cardboard boxes, for recycling. But they have the space to store a partial truckload, making it worth the effort to pick up. Now, plastic amd steel strap can be recycled in the same way.
The problem now is that residential garbage needs to be sorted by a human for recycling. Until a machine is invented that can sort out plastics by type, this is going to remain a bottleneck.
While Alpha may be dead, many of its technologies, such as Hypertransport, will live on.
Dead computer projects are like organ donors, in that pieces of them will live on.
When one can get a userful, supported, takes industry standard parts, ATX motherboard, in the same price range.
They need to market it as a more permanent email service, which one can access no matter who your isp is, or if your away.
It sounds like China is like the US was in the 19th century.
For example, the Pullman neighborhood in Chicago, which was once a factory housing area for railroad car factory workers.
China is just now experiencing the industrial revolution, for good and bad.
The power grid strikes me as very similar to the highway system, to me it makes sense to nationalize it, the same way highways are federalized.
Power companies would pay fees both ways, as consumers and producers of power. The inablity of either to expand their business would drive capacity increases, in the same way highways are expanded.
The air traffic control system is another example of the feds controlling a competitive marketplace.
I found http://www.phidgets.com which has some cool sensors and such, but alas under Windoz.
I'd live to get IO for home automation.
At some point in the 80's, the IEEE wrote up the POSIX operating system standard. I'd think that would figure into the chart of Unix history at some point.
It has been done.
The DEC PDP11/03 aka LSI-11 was implemented as a multi chip (4 + 1 rom) CPU. The 5 chips were placed right next to each other.
This chip set was also setup by others with the UCSD Pascal "p-code" as the instruction set.
Other CPU in the series had MMU, and additional instructions in additional chips.
I get spam from my domain registry, which has an email associated with it. I get the Nigerian stuff this way.
The origin of the term dates back to before the worlds fair (1903?) and to the political bickering and promises made. It was the worlds way of saying the politicians were full of hot air.
I got a set of labels from cyberguys, which allows all the ports to be labeled, with a matching label for the cable.
Included is the "any" label, which can be applied as needed.
Great if your building a PC for a less than technical user, like a family member.
Does Fedex's (or any other cargo carrier) fleet have the same problems? I'd seems reasonable that they would have the same cockpit instruments, but wouldn't have any passengers with equipment. So they should have almost zero problems with avionics, do they?
the Amish come to mind, they don't seem to make much use of cell phones.
The area near me is under construction, and the silent, solar powered LED lights, are a huge improvement, over a small diesel engine runing 24/7, to run some blinking lights.
The system used in the last election was like that.
A big sheet of paper, where the user blacked in the oval for his/her selection. Messed up votes could be re-done, with a new ballot. Ballots where signed in and out by a election judge. Once all done, feed it into the machine, which counts it.
The physical ballot remains for recount, audit trail, whatever.
Worked well IMHO.
Having Pluto leading the knupiter band of objects, sounds fine, if a bit Disneyifed, to me.
For a guy hooking up a Teletype, one of the hottest, noisyest things around, he sure pays a lot of attention to the heat and power use of his computer.
A real geek would whip up a vacuum tube interface, something I suspect more than one had in real life.
In a deregulated environment, the interconnection of the systems becomes even more critical, since more power is being moved between companies and networks.
Without a well regulated grid in operation, the market in power breaks down, just like it did today.
No problems out in the western Chicago burbs.
there will be a baby boom next june.
Have fun folks
I remember the s/36 and as/400 market place, in that the OS was licensed, and didn't transfer with the hardware. You always had to license the SW from IBM for the going list price.
With software, that is licensed, the rules are what ever the license agreement is.
Microsoft is doing the same thing, in that the software isn't a product seperate from the HW as well any more.
SCO got stood up at the wedding (project monteray) and is now suing IBM's new bride Linux, cause she didn't get what was promised to her.
And now she wants to ruin everyone elses wedding, unless she gets a gift for her ruined wedding.
It wouldn't be approriate to include mathmatical utilities in the *BSD's, since they (at least FreeBSD) tend towards the server market. They don't install stuff for the sake of having it all.
Add it to the ports, so that it does ship with the OS, and the user can install if they want to. A cd into the proper directory, and then make install is all that is needed.
My father was a heavy metal chemist at a national labratory, working with radioactive material.
He said, "you can always tell the heavy metal chemists, they wash their hands before and after, urinating".
There are somethings you don't want contaminated!