...make sure RR seed we sold to farmers was in fact sprayed with Round-up...
I though the only reason I bought strictly orgaincs was the quality and taste of the food. You've opened my eyes. Round-up is a poision right? You spray the SEEDS with poison????!! You expect me to eat food from poisoned seeds????? Why would you do that to food? No thanks. Time to get a gnu business model free of Round-up and EULA free food.
A lot of cool magnetics research came out of star wars (SDI not the movie). To make a MRi you need a very pure high strength magnetic field (ppm). To do some of the whacko star wars space beam gizmoes you need much the same. Star wasa also needed a system they could park in space that used very little power and had zero maintance. The traditional superconducting magnets need frequient refilling of coolents, hard to do in space. So they developed methods for building systems using permenent magnets. Turns out, you can build some very pure fields by just taking a fiew "slices" out of a square tube, remagnitize those slices with the right vector and get a very pure field. This design has a couple other advantages: contained magnetic fields (passing Snap On Tool trucks are no longer are pulled off the freeway), always on, zero cooling costs, zero power costs and a much reduced build cost. Really high fields look to be better build from super conductors, but expect to see R.E. magnent MRIs at a radiolisist near you.
I went to buy my daughter a Compaq CPU and LCD from Circuit City. The sales guy asks if I want the free inj-jet printer. As she already has a laser I knew she has little use for it, but what the heck. I'm sure I'll find someone who wants one. The sales guy then goes, "oh, because you bought the CPU, LCD & printer bundle here is your $100 rebate slip." Go figure?? I guess I should have gotten a dozen more printer and neted the system for zilch. I'd love the free-market if it didn't hurt my head so much.
This really points to a niche whre open source can shine. One person can make a core and release that as open source. Others can join in and extend it as needed. In the pharmacutical world they would call such diseases, "orphan." THese can be really great projects for "mortal" programmers to contribute to while jumping into the Linux kernel is non-trivial. A little perl or java can go a long way to greatly improving the quality of life for thouse outside of the mainstream. I've seen the good that can happen at my own company when we do even a small bit of pro bono work for sick kids. You should see their faces when they know that someone cares and took the time to help.
Get a basketball court or contibute to building a walking trail through a near by green belt. Get your working out of the building and moving their tails on their lunch hours. They'll come back much more ready to work and they'll be healthier.
The parent is not flaim bait. There was a well intentioned movement to get people out of the over-medicated snake pits they were in and back into the world. Everybody went along, mostly because it was going to be cheaper. The problem was that it still cost mony to support people in the community and that money was not provided. So what you got is a sub-population that is unable to cope with the world they are presented and unable to get the support they need to climb out.
I remember calling MS around 1988 for developer support at 2 PM and being on hold until 5 PM when a new voice message came on and told me that they close at 5 PM and to please call back the next day. Argh!
The National Center For Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO. It has more Crays and other monster hardware than you can shake a stick at. I have a friend who works in the basement there and he made the mistake of going to lunch without closing his office door. When he came back someone parked part of an old Cray in front of his door and he couldn't close it door for several days. Plus is is on an amazing site and the building were designed by Pei.
And my Nova mini-computer in the lab had 32K, 4 accumalators, and TWO 8" floppy drives (you could always flip the disk over for more storage). Of course, the mini in the next lab also had a 256K byte harddrive (that was the size of a 20") monitor AND a analog pen plotter.
And we had to toggle in the boot address in the front panel and we had to walk 500 miles everyday on our knees to school on burning sand through a snow storm.....And we liked it!
Or just water down the roof. A small garden sprinkler can cool a building rather well. It may make raise the humidity and that will be uncomfortable for the evaporativly cooled humans.
You need to both kill bugs AND remove the goo. The standard way to quash the bugs is either heat, radiation or chemical. With Ethylene Oxide (these linkstoo) being common for many medical devices.
You need to select devices that can be hosed down. That means comercial devices that almost meet NEMA 4. The only way to get rid of goo is soap and water. Retail devies are just not ment for a medical environment. And you must get rid of the goo BEFORE you sterilize. That goo can carry pirons (sp?) even after EtO so plan for soap and water. There are sources of ruggedized tools such as Symbol Technologies. You are going to pay more, but you have a responsability to do it right.
Go to a medical or engineering school and ask for their Bioengineering department and ask for help. This is way over the head of/.
Dutch may be easy to decipher, but it's sure not easy to pronounce. One side of my family came from Holland, but I sure can cough and spit it correctly.
747s are used to move hard drives from their mfg. plant in the far east to US. Many of these HDDs are preformatted with an OS, apps etc. If you do the math a 747 loaded with HDDs moves more bits per hour than any other media, including fiber.
Moveable type is very cool. It really has helped make printing workable. I recomend it highly over wood cuts or hand lettering (caligraphy is very nice but just too slow for the fast pace of the modern office)
When it comes to static hazards such as infrastructure secrecy decreases security. You can't really keep the location of a dam or fiber optic line a secret. Large structure such as dams are visable from space and the phone company puts bright yellow signs every 20 feeet alerting you where to find their cable.
True security comes from risk reduction and mitigation. In the case of the dam (or chemical factory or other dangerous installation) the people who might be affected by a dam colapse need to know what kind of danger it is. They should have been told about the danger it posed BEFORE it way built. You can't keep the location of that dam secret so why try? And terrorist are the least likely cause of most earth dam failure.
As for the fiber optic cable, you should assume that it can fail. I don't know about terrorist, but I do know that Joe farmer is going to be digging a ditch and WILL cut through a critical cable this year. If the phone company does not have a redundent solution then the end-users need to know about it so thay can plan for that kind of failure.
Many eyes makes for quick risk reduction
Finally, lets put 9/11 in perspective. While any loss of life is tragic, we lost the equivelent of several weeks of smoking deaths to 9/11. The economic distruction was less than a few weeks of a war in the middle east. The thing to keep in mind is that this is terrorism not war. The goal of terrorism is to inflict terror not destruction. They could have done more economic damage by blowing up a few "uneffective: car bombs in front of shopping malls the day after Thanksgiving with little risk to the terrorist. Why haven't they done something like that? It's been two years and nothing happened. Something will happen again, but there is so much good we could be doing with our talents and time rather than frittering it away on tin-hat paranoia. Let's fix the few glairing problems, reduce risks from all sources (those old toxic solvent drumbs in the back of your company for example) and move on.
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I though the only reason I bought strictly orgaincs was the quality and taste of the food. You've opened my eyes. Round-up is a poision right? You spray the SEEDS with poison????!! You expect me to eat food from poisoned seeds????? Why would you do that to food? No thanks. Time to get a gnu business model free of Round-up and EULA free food.
Nothing beats a good ol' number 2 and a stack of TPS report. By the way, about those cover sheets....
A lot of cool magnetics research came out of star wars (SDI not the movie). To make a MRi you need a very pure high strength magnetic field (ppm). To do some of the whacko star wars space beam gizmoes you need much the same. Star wasa also needed a system they could park in space that used very little power and had zero maintance. The traditional superconducting magnets need frequient refilling of coolents, hard to do in space. So they developed methods for building systems using permenent magnets. Turns out, you can build some very pure fields by just taking a fiew "slices" out of a square tube, remagnitize those slices with the right vector and get a very pure field. This design has a couple other advantages: contained magnetic fields (passing Snap On Tool trucks are no longer are pulled off the freeway), always on, zero cooling costs, zero power costs and a much reduced build cost. Really high fields look to be better build from super conductors, but expect to see R.E. magnent MRIs at a radiolisist near you.
A good review can be found at The Palm Information Center They also have strong coverage of the Palm OS in general.
Ian, Is there something you need to tell me? Am I reading /. too much? Security is heading this way.. yipes..
C:>FDisk
I went to buy my daughter a Compaq CPU and LCD from Circuit City. The sales guy asks if I want the free inj-jet printer. As she already has a laser I knew she has little use for it, but what the heck. I'm sure I'll find someone who wants one. The sales guy then goes, "oh, because you bought the CPU, LCD & printer bundle here is your $100 rebate slip." Go figure?? I guess I should have gotten a dozen more printer and neted the system for zilch. I'd love the free-market if it didn't hurt my head so much.
Mine blinks 11:00 now
This really points to a niche whre open source can shine. One person can make a core and release that as open source. Others can join in and extend it as needed. In the pharmacutical world they would call such diseases, "orphan." THese can be really great projects for "mortal" programmers to contribute to while jumping into the Linux kernel is non-trivial. A little perl or java can go a long way to greatly improving the quality of life for thouse outside of the mainstream. I've seen the good that can happen at my own company when we do even a small bit of pro bono work for sick kids. You should see their faces when they know that someone cares and took the time to help.
How 'bout a zip lock in the freezer? Throw-in one of those "do not eat," gel packs and you are done.
Get a basketball court or contibute to building a walking trail through a near by green belt. Get your working out of the building and moving their tails on their lunch hours. They'll come back much more ready to work and they'll be healthier.
The parent is not flaim bait. There was a well intentioned movement to get people out of the over-medicated snake pits they were in and back into the world. Everybody went along, mostly because it was going to be cheaper. The problem was that it still cost mony to support people in the community and that money was not provided. So what you got is a sub-population that is unable to cope with the world they are presented and unable to get the support they need to climb out.
Is there a differance between authoring (and submitting) vs. publishing (as in what the Uni. dept. will do)?
Never, ever, buy a "dot zero" product from MS.
I remember calling MS around 1988 for developer support at 2 PM and being on hold until 5 PM when a new voice message came on and told me that they close at 5 PM and to please call back the next day. Argh!
The National Center For Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO. It has more Crays and other monster hardware than you can shake a stick at. I have a friend who works in the basement there and he made the mistake of going to lunch without closing his office door. When he came back someone parked part of an old Cray in front of his door and he couldn't close it door for several days. Plus is is on an amazing site and the building were designed by Pei.
And my Nova mini-computer in the lab had 32K, 4 accumalators, and TWO 8" floppy drives (you could always flip the disk over for more storage). Of course, the mini in the next lab also had a 256K byte harddrive (that was the size of a 20") monitor AND a analog pen plotter.
And we had to toggle in the boot address in the front panel and we had to walk 500 miles everyday on our knees to school on burning sand through a snow storm.....And we liked it!
Or just water down the roof. A small garden sprinkler can cool a building rather well. It may make raise the humidity and that will be uncomfortable for the evaporativly cooled humans.
You need to select devices that can be hosed down. That means comercial devices that almost meet NEMA 4. The only way to get rid of goo is soap and water. Retail devies are just not ment for a medical environment. And you must get rid of the goo BEFORE you sterilize. That goo can carry pirons (sp?) even after EtO so plan for soap and water. There are sources of ruggedized tools such as Symbol Technologies. You are going to pay more, but you have a responsability to do it right.
Go to a medical or engineering school and ask for their Bioengineering department and ask for help. This is way over the head of /.
Dutch may be easy to decipher, but it's sure not easy to pronounce. One side of my family came from Holland, but I sure can cough and spit it correctly.
747s are used to move hard drives from their mfg. plant in the far east to US. Many of these HDDs are preformatted with an OS, apps etc. If you do the math a 747 loaded with HDDs moves more bits per hour than any other media, including fiber.
You have the power to set up your prefs to wack the funny mods to below your threshold.
Moveable type is very cool. It really has helped make printing workable. I recomend it highly over wood cuts or hand lettering (caligraphy is very nice but just too slow for the fast pace of the modern office)
True security comes from risk reduction and mitigation. In the case of the dam (or chemical factory or other dangerous installation) the people who might be affected by a dam colapse need to know what kind of danger it is. They should have been told about the danger it posed BEFORE it way built. You can't keep the location of that dam secret so why try? And terrorist are the least likely cause of most earth dam failure.
As for the fiber optic cable, you should assume that it can fail. I don't know about terrorist, but I do know that Joe farmer is going to be digging a ditch and WILL cut through a critical cable this year. If the phone company does not have a redundent solution then the end-users need to know about it so thay can plan for that kind of failure.
Many eyes makes for quick risk reduction
Finally, lets put 9/11 in perspective. While any loss of life is tragic, we lost the equivelent of several weeks of smoking deaths to 9/11. The economic distruction was less than a few weeks of a war in the middle east. The thing to keep in mind is that this is terrorism not war. The goal of terrorism is to inflict terror not destruction. They could have done more economic damage by blowing up a few "uneffective: car bombs in front of shopping malls the day after Thanksgiving with little risk to the terrorist. Why haven't they done something like that? It's been two years and nothing happened. Something will happen again, but there is so much good we could be doing with our talents and time rather than frittering it away on tin-hat paranoia. Let's fix the few glairing problems, reduce risks from all sources (those old toxic solvent drumbs in the back of your company for example) and move on.
It's the source code for Internet Explorer
FUD = Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
GAMES = God Always Makes Engineers Suffer