Thanks, that is encouraging. The graphic artist is in India, and I am communicating indirectly. I have sent a message to him, and have yet to hear back. I use gimp and inkscape, so I'd like to end up with the file in an open format EPS? in case I need to tweak it. Perhaps finding a friend with Illustrator may be helpful also.
Yes, mod me off-topic but I'm desperate. I've been given a Corel Draw Document (.cdr) as cover art for (charity) music CD. The duplication shop has a Mac-only, Adobe art department. They accept:
Applications we accept: (Must be MAC compatible) Illustrator CS2 Photoshop CS2 Quark 6.1 InDesign CS2
How do I get the artwork into an acceptable format as inexpensively as possible? (I don't own Illustrator or Corel Draw)?
I'm a longtime spamcop.net user. I've used it to filter numerous email addresses through its spam filter, which is effective and accurate, and highly configurable. However the allure of GMail prompted me to forward my other addresses to GMail and begin phasing out the spamcop address. Which is when I noticed something interesting:
I don't receive spam to my spamcop.net address! This result is very interesting, mainly because my spamcop address is a "dictionary word" address. I can only conclude that spammers must avoid spamcop.net email.
Which is making me rethink my decision to phase out spamcop.net. Have any other long-time users noticed this with their spamcop.net email?
This is the guy that did the "dog speech translator". Oooh, amazing science.
I'd be more amazed if he could match the voice of a living person from photos. Which, of course, could be verified.
Maybe he could get together with the guy who "records ancient sounds from clay pots". Then we could know what Vincent Van Gogh sounded like from his still lifes...
"Terrorists are interested in killing people to get their message across, not inconveniencing them."
Totally wrong. Why do you think the most secure facilities in the world are the oil refineries?
Terrorists absolutely love to take out pipelines, interrupt utilities, railroads, etc.. Look at the attacks on the Christian stores in Bagdad selling liquor. The affected people are also much more likely to blame the government for failing to protect services taken out by these attacks.
For the money we have spent so far fighting "terrorists" we could have saved tens of thousands of lives, just by building safer, more expensive cars.
from http://www.scienceservingsociety.com/p/141.htm :
More than a million people are killed on the world's roads each year, the victims overwhelmingly young. In the United States more people die in a typical month in traffic crashes than died in the September 11 terrorist attacks. And for every fatality in a traffic crash, about 40 injuries occur, many of them severe. These traffic deaths and injuries include those among pedestrians and cyclists, as long as a motorized vehicle was involved. The number of traffic deaths worldwide continues to increase as more nations motorize.
In the United States the number of traffic deaths has remained relatively constant at about 41,000 per year for the last decade.
The economic impact of terrorism is much larger than its mortal impact.
OK it's TV, but "Mr. Whoopee" taught me a lot of science as a child, and the "3DBB" was way ahead of it's time.
From Wikipedia:
"Tennessee and Chumley regularly escaped from the zoo, only to find trouble in the outside world. When faced with more trouble than they could bear, the pair would turn to their friend, a college professor named Phineas J. Whoopee (voiced by Larry Storch, later seen on F Troop). "Mr Whoopee", as he was known, was extremely knowledgeable on all subjects, and would frequently lecture the pair on such diverse topics as the physics behind the hot air balloon, to how musicians become popular. His lectures were illustrated and animated on the Three Dimensional Blackboard (3DBB for short) he would retrieve out of an avalanche of junk from his overstuffed hallway closet. The pair would then attempt to use their newly-gained knowledge to get out of the trouble they had created, but would invariably end up in more trouble with Stanley Livingston, who typically punished them by making them scrub pots and pans for six months."
We already have the different Congress, DeGette is a Democrat. Vote Libertarian or live with Demuplican rule forever.
4/26/2006 Statement by U.S. Representative Diana DeGette on Her Amendment to Combat Internet Child Pornography Today, U.S. Representative Diana DeGette (D-CO) will offer an amendment that will require internet service providers to retain information about subscribers for at least one year.
I considered the acid esterification also. My guess is that the extra energy (heating) required to effect the acid-catalyzed esterification of the residual fatty acid would be more than energy gained by recovering that oil.
For that matter, acid can also catalyze the transesterification. Why base is used I don't know, but I suspect that the base catalysed reaction runs smoothly at low temperatures, which saves energy and reduces side products (sulfuric acid + fats + heat = black tar?).
You are half correct. The intended process is transesterification, which is direct (stepwise) substitution of the glycerol in fat with three molecules of alcohol (say for example ethanol). So one large triglyceride (a molecule of fat) is broken down to 3 fatty acid ethyl esters and one molecule of glycerin. This process is catalytic, and can be catalyzed by acid or base.
(BTW, oil = liquid fat).
The problematic side reaction is hydrolysis of the oil to fatty acids (i.e. saponification to soap), due to the presence of water in the crude oil. This side reaction is compounded by the difficulty of mixing the fat and alcohol during reaction (fat and alcohol not completely miscible), which reduces the efficiency of the catalytic transesterification, thereby increasing the extent of the unwanted side reaction (saponification to soap). Also crude oils contain fatty acids which could quickly neutralize a catalytic amount of sodium hydroxide (stopping the process).
Therefore the conventional (batchwise) process is to treat the fat with excess sodium hydroxide in a non-catalytic initial step; whatever water is present is consumed in a conventional, non-catalytic saponification to sodium salts of fatty acids, glycerin, and excess sodium hydroxide. Any fatty acid is converted to its sodium salt. All of which are easily removed from the fat (oil). The resulting purified fat is suitable for the catalytic transesterification process to biodiesel.
I'm a chemist, but haven't worked with these microreactors, so the following is guessing:
A microprocessor can increase the efficiency of the desired transesterification by allowing intimate mixing of the alcohol and the fat, which is half the battle in this case. Also, a continuous processor can have advantages over batch processing in that the reaction conditions (pH, temp, etc.) can be dynamically controlled.
My guess is that the fat (oil) would still require pre-treatment to remove water, fatty acids, and fine particles before entering the fuel cell.
So what is to prevent MS from preventing Windows from running on Macs? Either through licensing, or a DRM chip, or simply not providing support (security patches, etc.) for mac installations?
Craig's List is almost single handedly killing the local newspapers. Local papers can't afford to lose their classifieds revenue. But it's happening. They either adapt or die.
Ebooks can be revised quickly, so where information changes frequently, it's a no-brainer, really. Newspapers and magazines are the best example. Of course I'm stretching the meaning of a "book", but wherever information is topical or becomes obsolete rapidly, that's a good application for an ebook.
Obsolesence doesn't solve the "reading from a screen sucks" problem, but it does explain why you haven't even thought of printing and binding your email or slashdot articles.
They measure more energy in than out, indicating of course nuclear reactions. Fusion, I presume. They bend over backwards not to use the "F" word, which would immediately label them as crackpots.
Fusion of iron or nickel or carbon or whatever would seem quite the trick. They need to look for fusion products.
"A lot of lip service is given to the idea of "curved spacetime", but the simplistic 3+1 'box' remains the dominant concept of what cosmic spacetime is like."
I can get on an airplane and see the curvature of the earth. However, my ass is riding such a miniscule segment of the Big Bang to Heat Death time curve, that it's safe to assume for all purposes that I'm on a straight-line trajectory to my grave.
Give me immortality and perhaps curved space-time will have more of an effect on my life.
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Thanks, that is encouraging. The graphic artist is in India, and I am communicating indirectly. I have sent a message to him, and have yet to hear back. I use gimp and inkscape, so I'd like to end up with the file in an open format EPS? in case I need to tweak it. Perhaps finding a friend with Illustrator may be helpful also.
Yes, mod me off-topic but I'm desperate. I've been given a Corel Draw Document (.cdr) as cover art for (charity) music CD. The duplication shop has a Mac-only, Adobe art department. They accept:
Applications we accept: (Must be MAC compatible)
Illustrator CS2
Photoshop CS2
Quark 6.1
InDesign CS2
How do I get the artwork into an acceptable format as inexpensively as possible? (I don't own Illustrator or Corel Draw)?
TIA
I guess since I've used the spamcop.net address as a "filter" address, I managed to keep it off the lists.
I'm a longtime spamcop.net user. I've used it to filter numerous email addresses through its spam filter, which is effective and accurate, and highly configurable. However the allure of GMail prompted me to forward my other addresses to GMail and begin phasing out the spamcop address. Which is when I noticed something interesting:
I don't receive spam to my spamcop.net address! This result is very interesting, mainly because my spamcop address is a "dictionary word" address. I can only conclude that spammers must avoid spamcop.net email.
Which is making me rethink my decision to phase out spamcop.net. Have any other long-time users noticed this with their spamcop.net email?
This is the guy that did the "dog speech translator". Oooh, amazing science.
I'd be more amazed if he could match the voice of a living person from photos. Which, of course, could be verified.
Maybe he could get together with the guy who "records ancient sounds from clay pots". Then we could know what Vincent Van Gogh sounded like from his still lifes...
"Terrorists are interested in killing people to get their message across, not inconveniencing them." Totally wrong. Why do you think the most secure facilities in the world are the oil refineries? Terrorists absolutely love to take out pipelines, interrupt utilities, railroads, etc.. Look at the attacks on the Christian stores in Bagdad selling liquor. The affected people are also much more likely to blame the government for failing to protect services taken out by these attacks. For the money we have spent so far fighting "terrorists" we could have saved tens of thousands of lives, just by building safer, more expensive cars. from http://www.scienceservingsociety.com/p/141.htm : More than a million people are killed on the world's roads each year, the victims overwhelmingly young. In the United States more people die in a typical month in traffic crashes than died in the September 11 terrorist attacks. And for every fatality in a traffic crash, about 40 injuries occur, many of them severe. These traffic deaths and injuries include those among pedestrians and cyclists, as long as a motorized vehicle was involved. The number of traffic deaths worldwide continues to increase as more nations motorize. In the United States the number of traffic deaths has remained relatively constant at about 41,000 per year for the last decade. The economic impact of terrorism is much larger than its mortal impact.
As long as you wear a paper bag over your head, the Feds should be able to explore your body cavities!
OK it's TV, but "Mr. Whoopee" taught me a lot of science as a child, and the "3DBB" was way ahead of it's time.
From Wikipedia:
"Tennessee and Chumley regularly escaped from the zoo, only to find trouble in the outside world. When faced with more trouble than they could bear, the pair would turn to their friend, a college professor named Phineas J. Whoopee (voiced by Larry Storch, later seen on F Troop). "Mr Whoopee", as he was known, was extremely knowledgeable on all subjects, and would frequently lecture the pair on such diverse topics as the physics behind the hot air balloon, to how musicians become popular. His lectures were illustrated and animated on the Three Dimensional Blackboard (3DBB for short) he would retrieve out of an avalanche of junk from his overstuffed hallway closet. The pair would then attempt to use their newly-gained knowledge to get out of the trouble they had created, but would invariably end up in more trouble with Stanley Livingston, who typically punished them by making them scrub pots and pans for six months."
We already have the different Congress, DeGette is a Democrat. Vote Libertarian or live with Demuplican rule forever.
4/26/2006
Statement by U.S. Representative Diana DeGette on Her Amendment to Combat Internet Child Pornography Today, U.S. Representative Diana DeGette (D-CO) will offer an amendment that will require internet service providers to retain information about subscribers for at least one year.
This shouldn't affect dual-booting at all. It's called Mac and Linux or BSD.
Yes, You hate censorship and tyranny. Put your money where your mouth is. Boycott China. http://www.boycottmadeinchina.org/
Unless it would be a major inconvenience, then nevermind and just wear your indignant attitude proudly.
I considered the acid esterification also. My guess is that the extra energy (heating) required to effect the acid-catalyzed esterification of the residual fatty acid would be more than energy gained by recovering that oil.
For that matter, acid can also catalyze the transesterification. Why base is used I don't know, but I suspect that the base catalysed reaction runs smoothly at low temperatures, which saves energy and reduces side products (sulfuric acid + fats + heat = black tar?).
You are half correct. The intended process is transesterification, which is direct (stepwise) substitution of the glycerol in fat with three molecules of alcohol (say for example ethanol). So one large triglyceride (a molecule of fat) is broken down to 3 fatty acid ethyl esters and one molecule of glycerin. This process is catalytic, and can be catalyzed by acid or base.
(BTW, oil = liquid fat).
The problematic side reaction is hydrolysis of the oil to fatty acids (i.e. saponification to soap), due to the presence of water in the crude oil. This side reaction is compounded by the difficulty of mixing the fat and alcohol during reaction (fat and alcohol not completely miscible), which reduces the efficiency of the catalytic transesterification, thereby increasing the extent of the unwanted side reaction (saponification to soap). Also crude oils contain fatty acids which could quickly neutralize a catalytic amount of sodium hydroxide (stopping the process).
Therefore the conventional (batchwise) process is to treat the fat with excess sodium hydroxide in a non-catalytic initial step; whatever water is present is consumed in a conventional, non-catalytic saponification to sodium salts of fatty acids, glycerin, and excess sodium hydroxide. Any fatty acid is converted to its sodium salt. All of which are easily removed from the fat (oil). The resulting purified fat is suitable for the catalytic transesterification process to biodiesel.
I'm a chemist, but haven't worked with these microreactors, so the following is guessing:
A microprocessor can increase the efficiency of the desired transesterification by allowing intimate mixing of the alcohol and the fat, which is half the battle in this case. Also, a continuous processor can have advantages over batch processing in that the reaction conditions (pH, temp, etc.) can be dynamically controlled.
My guess is that the fat (oil) would still require pre-treatment to remove water, fatty acids, and fine particles before entering the fuel cell.
Online services like http://google.calendar.com/ make carrying personal info less important.
So what is to prevent MS from preventing Windows from running on Macs? Either through licensing, or a DRM chip, or simply not providing support (security patches, etc.) for mac installations?
I can leave the phone in my pants pocket for hours. Why isn't it frying my testicles? C'mon I'm serious. :O
I like Spam Lord, or at least Spam Kingpin.
"many businesses are now considering employees a much bigger threat to security than most external threats"
And the Federal Government considers U.S. citizens more of a threat to security than most external threats.
You can see where this is heading. Smile for the camera, and, um, bend over.
Craig's List is almost single handedly killing the local newspapers. Local papers can't afford to lose their classifieds revenue. But it's happening. They either adapt or die.
Ebooks can be revised quickly, so where information changes frequently, it's a no-brainer, really. Newspapers and magazines are the best example. Of course I'm stretching the meaning of a "book", but wherever information is topical or becomes obsolete rapidly, that's a good application for an ebook.
Obsolesence doesn't solve the "reading from a screen sucks" problem, but it does explain why you haven't even thought of printing and binding your email or slashdot articles.
OK having used the "F" word, I'm assuming they accounted for all the types of energy input to the experiment. Might be a wrong assumption.
They measure more energy in than out, indicating of course nuclear reactions. Fusion, I presume. They bend over backwards not to use the "F" word, which would immediately label them as crackpots.
Fusion of iron or nickel or carbon or whatever would seem quite the trick. They need to look for fusion products.
If the Google Desktop indexed only select directories, that would be quite useful. If it indexed all of any type of document, uh, hey... whoa there!
That's a nope.
I've found that a good way to stop a crack from spreading is to drill a hole at the leading edge. Then use epoxy or whatever on the crack itself.
Maybe a bit off topic, but could be useful.
"A lot of lip service is given to the idea of "curved spacetime", but the simplistic 3+1 'box' remains the dominant concept of what cosmic spacetime is like."
I can get on an airplane and see the curvature of the earth. However, my ass is riding such a miniscule segment of the Big Bang to Heat Death time curve, that it's safe to assume for all purposes that I'm on a straight-line trajectory to my grave.
Give me immortality and perhaps curved space-time will have more of an effect on my life.