Yes, it is a salt. Copper is more reactive than iron, so the etch works by the chlorine trading iron for copper. The "filings" left after etching are the iron that was freed in the reaction.
Some folks see it anything that 'eats' away at something as being caused by an acid, even if no acid is really involved. Wouldn't it be nice if chemistry was taught? And taught in a way that was effective?
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Hormel has a very good sense of humor (and also business sense) about things. In Austin, MN there is the "SPAM Museum" which traces the history of Hormel and of SPAM. While they don't, as I recall, say much (if anything) about e-mail spam, they do include a large screen display of the Monty Python skit. The billboards in the area are rather less than serious as well. And the Hormel folks are protective of trademark - but know they'll be farther ahead by not being jerks about it.
Which can be in a portable phone. Which can be on the net. And send pictures over it.
Microsft DRM, meet Sprint PCS...
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And if any proof of that attitude is needed, just look at that nasty responses jwz got for speaking out for usability...
There was an earlier media format that one company came up with, and wanted adopted so badly that they pretty much gave away the licensing for it. It worked. And the 33-1/3 LP caught on quite well.
This has nothing to do with big business, it is about the leisure class gone amuck.
There is a story that a traveller from another land (I'm being polite and not saying which land) arrived in America and was about to depart the means of travel. He commented to someone, "Ah, America. It's a pity it has no leisure class."
This did not go unanswered. An American replied, "But sir, we do have a leisure class." There was a puzzled look. It was further explained, "We call 'em bums!"
..where the prisoners inside are told the walls keep the barbarians out. And the "barbarians" don't care and build a better world outside the walls of the... garbage dump.
I did not claim that IE was "Free Software" under the RMS/GNU redefinition of the word "free."
It is, though, free as most people understand the word "free." "Free Donut" doesn't mean the bakery will give away their recipe; it means you can get a donut without charge.
This sort of giveaway is what Microsoft has done and might do again. This would be done to help some other part be more profitable.
One of the early planned PPC chips had that idea in mind, by pretty much adding an x86 processor and logic to figure out what instruction set it was getting and where to send it. The idea was that then there would be no barrier to using PPC code - it could run x86 code to replace existing systems and run PPC as well. Thus it would be a transitioning thing.
The x86 world seemed to move faster than the design for this and it fell away. It made more sense to concentrate on PPC stuff rather than try to do PPC and changing x86 stuff. Also, if it ran x86, why should anyone bother to write for PPC?
The difference is Pentiums and Athlons are intended to be x86 family upgrades, while the PPC is not. The PPC 970 is meant as an upgrade to earlier PPCs. One could as well ask why AMD doesn't make an Athlon that can run PPC code.
Perhaps not ideal for your purpose, but could a digital camera, with 'macro' feature be used rather than a scanner? The camera would still connect to the computer, and be useful as a camera as well as a scanner substitute.
Maybe it's not that easy to convince people that they need to have an additional protection before installing software...
Mandrake does this (and I assume other distros do as well). After a while it is not at all annoying, but rather reassuring. Since only the person(s) who know the root password can install things, it means less chance of someone else trashing things, intentionally or otherwise.
Heck, they could make it a selling point: Little Johnny has to get his games and such approved by Ma & Pa and they'll install things.
Is there anything about Lindows that prevents a (slightly more) knowledgable person from making a user account on Lindows? And having that user run as default rather than root?
Sure, that person might not use Lindows themselves, but if they're setting things up for someone else it's a fair bet there'll be desire to have it done right, even at the price of some added hassle.
Of the problems mentioned, this is the one that that looks the most dangerous. The others seem to be more matters of taste.
It's not the only option. There are the BSDs, for example.
But you are right about the fairly easy install of Mandrake, which I tried recently. It was one of the easier installs I've done. And getting things going that weren't part of the default install for the way I had selected turned out to be almost trivially easy.
I still do use Windows, for now, but I think things are at the point where I could make the jump to Linux without much difficulty. It's now not that things are hard or even obscure as they had seemed before, but just different.
The big thing for some might be Windows-only programs they need to run, especially for work. At home the transition can be eased by using cross platform programs where possible on Windows, so that when (if) a jump is made the transition isn't so jarring as many of the applications will then be familiar.
Look at the early days of NASA. They sure blew up a lot of rockets then. I recall one book claiming someone quipped that if the first model didn't blow up on the pad, there was something nasty and unseen wrong with the design. (If it blows up it's still wrong and nasty, but at least you know to look for something amiss.)
But now rockets tend to get the job done more often than not. This new thing might be 'an airplane' but it's still a new thing and new things tend to not work the first time. There's process called learning involved. Sometimes, alas, it is terribly expensive.
I suspect you heard wrong. The manufacturer may have warranty issues with homemade fuels, however.
Also, another issue is that homemade fuel has generally meant alcohol. Since alcohol also has a well known use as an intoxicant, there are laws about its manufacture. It's not that an individual cannot do it, it's that there is licensing and some oversight to be sure that the alcohol is actually being used as a motorfuel and not being sold for human consumption.
XM has two (or is it three) "comedy channels." One is the 'family' comedy channel with stuff like Groucho Marx and Laurel & Hardy. Another is not - it is an 'adult' channel and is uncensored as far as I know.
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Yes, it is a salt. Copper is more reactive than iron, so the etch works by the chlorine trading iron for copper. The "filings" left after etching are the iron that was freed in the reaction.
Some folks see it anything that 'eats' away at something as being caused by an acid, even if no acid is really involved. Wouldn't it be nice if chemistry was taught? And taught in a way that was effective?
Hormel has a very good sense of humor (and also business sense) about things. In Austin, MN there is the "SPAM Museum" which traces the history of Hormel and of SPAM. While they don't, as I recall, say much (if anything) about e-mail spam, they do include a large screen display of the Monty Python skit. The billboards in the area are rather less than serious as well. And the Hormel folks are protective of trademark - but know they'll be farther ahead by not being jerks about it.
Google would do well to follow Hormel's example.
Or a little gadget called a camera...
Which can be in a portable phone.
Which can be on the net.
And send pictures over it.
Microsft DRM, meet Sprint PCS...
And if any proof of that attitude is needed, just look at that nasty responses jwz got for speaking out for usability...
There was an earlier media format that one company came up with, and wanted adopted so badly that they pretty much gave away the licensing for it. It worked. And the 33-1/3 LP caught on quite well.
With everyone looking out for security, why don't I feel all warm and fuzzy inside?
Because it is not security for you, but security from you.
DRM seems to be more DRRM: Digital Rights Removal Mechanism.
Refund or not, CD prices seem to still be high.
Looks like nothing was really accomplished after all.
Soda?
My word, do some people actually drink sodium oxide?!
It's not that places that happen to have a spammer get SPEWS listed. It's places that have spammer(s) and do nothing about it that get listed.
Believe it or not, places that cleaned out their long standing spammers and now remove any new spammers, have gotten their SPEWS listings removed.
The block was hardly random.
The ISP was hosting spammers and doing nothing to rectify that. Thus they were supporting spam.
Your company was paying that ISP. Thus it was also supporting spam.
SPEWS acts to not support spam.
There is a very truthful saying, "In the war on spam, there are no innocent bystanders. Only spammers, spam supporters, and their victims."
Trying to claim victim status while supporting spam makes you look foolish.
Oh, and I am not SPEWS. If I was, I'd be terribly drunk with all the drinks folks would want to buy for me.
This has nothing to do with big business, it is about the leisure class gone amuck.
There is a story that a traveller from another land (I'm being polite and not saying which land) arrived in America and was about to depart the means of travel. He commented to someone, "Ah, America. It's a pity it has no leisure class."
This did not go unanswered. An American replied, "But sir, we do have a leisure class." There was a puzzled look. It was further explained, "We call 'em bums!"
Things seem to have changed...
..where the prisoners inside are told the walls keep the barbarians out. And the "barbarians" don't care and build a better world outside the walls of the... garbage dump.
I did not claim that IE was "Free Software" under the RMS/GNU redefinition of the word "free."
It is, though, free as most people understand the word "free." "Free Donut" doesn't mean the bakery will give away their recipe; it means you can get a donut without charge.
This sort of giveaway is what Microsoft has done and might do again. This would be done to help some other part be more profitable.
Quite true.
But what browser is the most common?
Not the best, not your favorite, not my favorite,
but the most common?
Isn't that IE? The "free" browser Microsfot gives away?
Not the same as an operating system, but there is precedent for giving something away in order to profit elsewhere.
One of the early planned PPC chips had that idea in mind, by pretty much adding an x86 processor and logic to figure out what instruction set it was getting and where to send it. The idea was that then there would be no barrier to using PPC code - it could run x86 code to replace existing systems and run PPC as well. Thus it would be a transitioning thing.
The x86 world seemed to move faster than the design for this and it fell away. It made more sense to concentrate on PPC stuff rather than try to do PPC and changing x86 stuff. Also, if it ran x86, why should anyone bother to write for PPC?
The difference is Pentiums and Athlons are intended to be x86 family upgrades, while the PPC is not. The PPC 970 is meant as an upgrade to earlier PPCs. One could as well ask why AMD doesn't make an Athlon that can run PPC code.
This is interesting, and I will note it.
I wonder what else might best be left alone - or treated in a nonsurgical manner.
Perhaps not ideal for your purpose, but could a digital camera, with 'macro' feature be used rather than a scanner? The camera would still connect to the computer, and be useful as a camera as well as a scanner substitute.
The Economy, as it is proclaimed, depends on if a person is in office or trying to replace the person in office. Or if one is reporting on it.
In office: The economy is strong and getting stronger.
Trying to get into the office: The economy is in dire need of rescuing.
Reporting: The economy is weak and faltering and.. keep watching/reading for the latest news on this!
Maybe it's not that easy to convince people that they need to have an additional protection before installing software...
Mandrake does this (and I assume other distros do as well). After a while it is not at all annoying, but rather reassuring. Since only the person(s) who know the root password can install things, it means less chance of someone else trashing things, intentionally or otherwise.
Heck, they could make it a selling point: Little Johnny has to get his games and such approved by Ma & Pa and they'll install things.
Is there anything about Lindows that prevents a (slightly more) knowledgable person from making a user account on Lindows? And having that user run as default rather than root?
Sure, that person might not use Lindows themselves, but if they're setting things up for someone else it's a fair bet there'll be desire to have it done right, even at the price of some added hassle.
Of the problems mentioned, this is the one that that looks the most dangerous. The others seem to be more matters of taste.
Congratulations and thanks.
I am amused by the FSF claiming it is a matter of education. That is the first step. Alas, the FSF seems resistant to being educated.
It would be interesting to see Microsoft have a set of patches available, in something like a bsd setup of -CURRENT and -STABLE.
PROVEN patches - tested, found to work and do no harm. Not available for a while.
FAST patches - Hey, this is a Quick Fix, it MIGHT break things, but if THIS hole needs to be fixed NOW, here you are.
It's not the only option. There are the BSDs, for example.
But you are right about the fairly easy install of Mandrake, which I tried recently. It was one of the easier installs I've done. And getting things going that weren't part of the default install for the way I had selected turned out to be almost trivially easy.
I still do use Windows, for now, but I think things are at the point where I could make the jump to Linux without much difficulty. It's now not that things are hard or even obscure as they had seemed before, but just different.
The big thing for some might be Windows-only programs they need to run, especially for work. At home the transition can be eased by using cross platform programs where possible on Windows, so that when (if) a jump is made the transition isn't so jarring as many of the applications will then be familiar.
Look at the early days of NASA. They sure blew up a lot of rockets then. I recall one book claiming someone quipped that if the first model didn't blow up on the pad, there was something nasty and unseen wrong with the design. (If it blows up it's still wrong and nasty, but at least you know to look for something amiss.)
But now rockets tend to get the job done more often than not. This new thing might be 'an airplane' but it's still a new thing and new things tend to not work the first time. There's process called learning involved. Sometimes, alas, it is terribly expensive.
I suspect you heard wrong. The manufacturer may have warranty issues with homemade fuels, however.
Also, another issue is that homemade fuel has generally meant alcohol. Since alcohol also has a well known use as an intoxicant, there are laws about its manufacture. It's not that an individual cannot do it, it's that there is licensing and some oversight to be sure that the alcohol is actually being used as a motorfuel and not being sold for human consumption.
XM has two (or is it three) "comedy channels." One is the 'family' comedy channel with stuff like Groucho Marx and Laurel & Hardy. Another is not - it is an 'adult' channel and is uncensored as far as I know.