1) Ideally no. If the coating is thick enough, light should not be able to get through and start the degradation of the fabric/dyes. This assumes that all fibers are similarly (and thus perfectly) coated. I could see cheaper coating processes leading to quicker bleaching.
2) This is similar to your first question. Only light + catalyst = degradation, so as long as the coating is uniform and thick enough to keep light from penetrating too far, it should be safe.
No, the hydroxyl radicals are usually formed from a combination of molecular oxygen and water (multiple reactions). The titania is not degraded in a measurable amount. It is a real catalyst, and thus will last forever unless mechanically washed off of the fabric.
"The Lil' Bonus Room" from Skullmonkeys is one of the most hilarious songs I've ever heard in a video game. Too bad it's quite obscure. Granted, all of the Neverhood and Skullmonkeys music is great. BTW, Imaginarium (the album containing both soundtracks) is available online.
I didn't see it in the article, but does this mean Verizon will allow other software on phones now, i.e. can I unbrick my RAZR and actually use bluetooth to do things like putting my own ringtones on it, or will all non-Verizon phones be required to use VCast and the other crap software they have?
It really depends on the titles going up. I used to collect comics and pay up to $30 a week to keep up with my favorites. I don't have that kind of money anymore, so $10 per month for unlimited reading of any available title seems like a nice deal when I really just want to catch up with the stories where I left off four years ago. That is granted they offer unlimited reading of all titles for one fee (which it sounds like they are).
Or go the route of TIE Fighter (the game) and tell a story from an Imperial soldier's/officer's point of view. That would be much more interesting than another rebel story. After all, not everyone employed by the Empire could have been pure evil. They did have custodial staff on the Death Star right?;)
If society wasn't always so blatantly dishonest, you wouldn't have to have you receipts checked in the first place. What do you mean by society? I would say retailers who are dishonest about pricing (like Best Buy's "in-store website" scheme) are just as much to blame as dishonest customers. I think the door swings both ways. Look at the digital content/DRM wars; the same thing is happening with the record companies treating paying customers like crap just because customers don't want to buy music the way the company wants them to (ie. CDs are out, downloads are in).
To me it sounds like reasonable cause that someone is stealing because they refuse to provide a receipt and identification. But "reasonable cause" has a lengthy definition attached to it pertaining to law, I'm sure. Not wanting to have a bag checked that you *legally* purchased does not mean you are a criminal. Do you really want to shop/work/play anywhere that treats you as a guilty party first and paying customer second just because it is more convenient for them to place one guy at the exit instead of hiring and (gasp!) training people to look for theft in action?
just because "of principle" You do realize the people "of principle" are the reason we have a country that doesn't require ID checks just to walk around on the streets. That's called a police state, and I don't want to have to supply my "papers" just because someone wants to teach me a lesson, which seems to be what the Circuit City guys were at it for.
The result is that you can't just make a game with slightly bigger levels, more guns, and slightly better graphics and call it "new". And New Super Mario Bros. is the name of one of the (if not *the*) best selling game on the DS.;)
When I was a kid, I really didn't care too much about storyline, but I did like the art of Voltron (pseudo-anime) compared to Transformers and the Voltron lions were cooler toys. And looking back at it, I can get behind 4 guys and a lady who band together to stop an evil empire more than I can get behind a bunch of alien robots who can't get along and decide to rip up our planet and screw us in the meantime.
Both are pretty campy story-wise, but I don't think Voltron will do as well as a Transformers movie mainly because 1) Voltron won't get the big name backing (Spielberg, Bay) that Transformers did since 2) less people knew about Voltron when they were kids, or so it seems with the people I've talked to.
I's love to see some new Voltron, but instead of "The Third Dimension" type crap, it may be better treated by an anime studio who could give it an interesting (at least not laughable) story line and some nice art.
I'm already quite sick of the "let's use the 80s kid's nostalgia to sell tickets" method. It's going to be just like superhero movies: X-Men and Spider-man were great, and most of the later ones are either good enough to watch once (FF4) or crap (Daredevil). And unfortunately, Voltron will probably one of the latter two types.
How about renaming all of the Kum & Go stores to Kwik-E-Mart. Right now it's just a "Found Porn" joke name that could use the "Kwik-E-Mart" recognition.
And for that matter, didn't Kum and Go used to be 7-11?
...about telling you that the toner is low. We have an HP4050 (a relatively old beast) in our lab that prints 50-100 sheets a day, and it said "toner low" for at least three months before the last replacement. I used the shaking trick the whole time before we actually saw repeatable reduction in print quality (on normal) due to low ink. If we had changed the toner when it was first "low", that would have been a real waste of money too.
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1) Ideally no. If the coating is thick enough, light should not be able to get through and start the degradation of the fabric/dyes. This assumes that all fibers are similarly (and thus perfectly) coated. I could see cheaper coating processes leading to quicker bleaching. 2) This is similar to your first question. Only light + catalyst = degradation, so as long as the coating is uniform and thick enough to keep light from penetrating too far, it should be safe.
No, the hydroxyl radicals are usually formed from a combination of molecular oxygen and water (multiple reactions). The titania is not degraded in a measurable amount. It is a real catalyst, and thus will last forever unless mechanically washed off of the fabric.
Titanium dioxide is non-toxic. You'll just poop it out.
"The Lil' Bonus Room" from Skullmonkeys is one of the most hilarious songs I've ever heard in a video game. Too bad it's quite obscure. Granted, all of the Neverhood and Skullmonkeys music is great. BTW, Imaginarium (the album containing both soundtracks) is available online.
I didn't see it in the article, but does this mean Verizon will allow other software on phones now, i.e. can I unbrick my RAZR and actually use bluetooth to do things like putting my own ringtones on it, or will all non-Verizon phones be required to use VCast and the other crap software they have?
It really depends on the titles going up. I used to collect comics and pay up to $30 a week to keep up with my favorites. I don't have that kind of money anymore, so $10 per month for unlimited reading of any available title seems like a nice deal when I really just want to catch up with the stories where I left off four years ago. That is granted they offer unlimited reading of all titles for one fee (which it sounds like they are).
As long as none of them were named Jenner or Nicodemus, I think we are safe. (as yes I realize they were rats in the book/movie).
Don't forget about the Film Crew, which is the three of them riffing terrible movies in the old MST3K style (sans puppets).
Or go the route of TIE Fighter (the game) and tell a story from an Imperial soldier's/officer's point of view. That would be much more interesting than another rebel story. After all, not everyone employed by the Empire could have been pure evil. They did have custodial staff on the Death Star right? ;)
Well, they did just push Smash Bros. to February.
When I was a kid, I really didn't care too much about storyline, but I did like the art of Voltron (pseudo-anime) compared to Transformers and the Voltron lions were cooler toys. And looking back at it, I can get behind 4 guys and a lady who band together to stop an evil empire more than I can get behind a bunch of alien robots who can't get along and decide to rip up our planet and screw us in the meantime. Both are pretty campy story-wise, but I don't think Voltron will do as well as a Transformers movie mainly because 1) Voltron won't get the big name backing (Spielberg, Bay) that Transformers did since 2) less people knew about Voltron when they were kids, or so it seems with the people I've talked to. I's love to see some new Voltron, but instead of "The Third Dimension" type crap, it may be better treated by an anime studio who could give it an interesting (at least not laughable) story line and some nice art. I'm already quite sick of the "let's use the 80s kid's nostalgia to sell tickets" method. It's going to be just like superhero movies: X-Men and Spider-man were great, and most of the later ones are either good enough to watch once (FF4) or crap (Daredevil). And unfortunately, Voltron will probably one of the latter two types.
In the vein of Space Mutiny: "Ho ho, ho." One of my all-time favorites would have to be from "Girl in Gold Boots": "It's like Eat times four!"
How about renaming all of the Kum & Go stores to Kwik-E-Mart. Right now it's just a "Found Porn" joke name that could use the "Kwik-E-Mart" recognition.
And for that matter, didn't Kum and Go used to be 7-11?
...about telling you that the toner is low. We have an HP4050 (a relatively old beast) in our lab that prints 50-100 sheets a day, and it said "toner low" for at least three months before the last replacement. I used the shaking trick the whole time before we actually saw repeatable reduction in print quality (on normal) due to low ink. If we had changed the toner when it was first "low", that would have been a real waste of money too.