I learned in 6th grade chemistry that touching mercury is marginally safe, but injecting it was usually a death sentence. The stuff in those CF bulbs is in powder form, so I don't know where inhaling mercury come in on that scale....
I have asked this of people in the know for years now, and no one has been able to give an educated answer why trading inefficient incandescents for toxic CF bulbs is such an awesome thing. I love CF bulbs but it's just because they last several times longer than my old 100-watters. But I have never broken one, so maybe I would feel differently once I powered my kids' room with mercury. If I could afford it, I would buy all LED 'bulbs' for my house. But they are still prohibitively expensive.
The spectrum, which encompasses about a third of the spectrum at auction, is subject to "open access" provisions...meaning users of the network will be able to use whatever phones or software they wish.
From the summary:
On this spectrum Verizon will have to allow subscribers to use any compatible wireless device
So what is it? Anything, or just some phones Verizon deem 'compatible'? I hope it's really anything because I have an old Motorola DynaTAC 8000X I've been itching to dust off.
Aren't those the same thing? The 'ID' concept is the antithesis to the 'random chance' argument. There is no mention of that in TFA. Unless this is an attempt at sarcasm...
So if I am making cookies in my apartment, and the aroma of such is wafting into your place next door, does that mean I have to explicitly announce that you cannot have any? And if I fail to lock my kitchen window does that mean you can just reach in a take a few?
this is akin to bringing a box of donuts to work and leaving it open on the lunchroom tables
Not so much. The lunchroom in your analogy in a public area, where personal ownership must be explicitly announced to be enforceable (like putting your name on your sack lunch in the fridge). I think the situation would be more akin to bringing donuts to work and then leaving them in an unlocked desk drawer. Everybody knows that's where they are, and they are not secured in any way. But it would still technically be stealing if you took them.
Yeah! When I leave my car unlocked & running on the side of the road (like an idiot), someone takes it, and then returns it later undamaged and with a full tank, the only reasonable response should be 'no harm no foul'. So what if they used it to commit a felony? No biggie...
So, lets say this eventually becomes a common technology (doubtful, but lets pretend). When do we get to stop calling them 'super'conductors? When the super becomes the common, is it still super? Like the evolution of memory classification in DOS. Before the advent of the NY kernal, I spent considerable time trying to remember the difference between conventional, extended, expanded, upper, and high memory. I think the main reason DOS gave way to Windows was Microsoft ran out of superlatives....
UAC got less annoying (it wasn't that bad to begin with)
I am guessing you rarely make changes to your system? I couldn't even install a AV update (daily) without having to approve it several times.
it's RAM heavy requiring 2GB+ to run well
If by 'run well' you mean significantly slower than XP with the same resources. My new Vista machine has 2GB and takes as least twice as long to do even simple things (open Photoshop, enumerate installed software, etc.). I would recommend at least 4GB if you want to same performance you got with XP at 1GB.
It sounds like you are still in the honeymoon stage with Vista. The 'isn't Aero pretty?' stage. I was there once. That was a year ago. Now I am a bitter Linux user.
Seriously, do they think of a word and then try to find a convoluted way to make it an acronym? That invokes images of a military image/marketing department.... Trey: "Hey Lance, what do you think of COM-BAT?" Lance: "Trey, I think it's FABULOUS!"
Well, not to beat a dead ass, but historically 'ass' was a shortened form of 'jackass', which itself was just a work for donkey. Even in the old KJ version of the Bible, it's said that Jesus rode into Jerusalem 'upon an ass'. It's only when it started to become another term by the hind quarters, and later paired with 'hole', that it became a 'bad word'. Kind of like 'teat' evolving into 'tit'.
I have the C. because I have gone by my middle name since I was three days old. But my first name (what C. originally stood for) would always appear on legal documents. This became more and more annoying until I finally just paid the $80 and had it changed to C.
Most peoples' edits are anonymous on Wikipedia only to the most surface of observations. Even minimal digging can reveal an IP, and then the Virgil scanner can do the rest. Of course, there are a some folks out there that can purposefully hide their IP identity. But still, I wouldn't call Wikipedia edits "anonymity guaranteed"
Wikitruth? Isn't that the site that thinks racial genocide would be described using the same terms as a self serving Wikipedia article?
But the other site, Citizendium, sounds like an intriguing idea. You have to be an expert on the subject and you have to use your real name. That must be why there is no listing for 'pornography'.
I remember the early ISP days of MSN and their portal package 'MSN Explorer'. Whenever you would log in it would play an audio file of a woman gently saying 'good morning', 'good evening', etc. After I had registered and used it for a few days, it started adding my name to the end of the greeting (i.e. good afternoon Tim). It was creepy to say the least. Of course, I immeadiately change my profile to show my first name as Dick. The software then obediently started calling me a dick several times a day (which, at 23, I thought was hilarious). And this wasn't some hawkingesque robovoice either; it was an actual recorded human voice.
I am not up to date on most current events, but didn't the Beatles cease to exist several decades ago? John and George are dead, Paul's memory is almost full, and I am pretty sure Ringo never actually existed. Maybe, when they say 'The Beatles made a deal' they really mean 'the people who own the rights to the Beatles music made a deal'.
Didn't you read Lord of the Flies? Everybody knows that, when left to their own devices, good people will always be nearly wiped out by ugly red-headed children. A person can be good, but people are dicks. Maybe evolution will spawn a conscience mutation soon.
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Most (if not all) of my power comes from local hydroelectric dams. Is that still the case, in my case?
I learned in 6th grade chemistry that touching mercury is marginally safe, but injecting it was usually a death sentence. The stuff in those CF bulbs is in powder form, so I don't know where inhaling mercury come in on that scale....
I have asked this of people in the know for years now, and no one has been able to give an educated answer why trading inefficient incandescents for toxic CF bulbs is such an awesome thing. I love CF bulbs but it's just because they last several times longer than my old 100-watters. But I have never broken one, so maybe I would feel differently once I powered my kids' room with mercury. If I could afford it, I would buy all LED 'bulbs' for my house. But they are still prohibitively expensive.
So how do these ancient phones work when calling 911? I have done it with this phone and it actually works.
Aren't those the same thing? The 'ID' concept is the antithesis to the 'random chance' argument. There is no mention of that in TFA. Unless this is an attempt at sarcasm...
So if I am making cookies in my apartment, and the aroma of such is wafting into your place next door, does that mean I have to explicitly announce that you cannot have any? And if I fail to lock my kitchen window does that mean you can just reach in a take a few?
Yeah! When I leave my car unlocked & running on the side of the road (like an idiot), someone takes it, and then returns it later undamaged and with a full tank, the only reasonable response should be 'no harm no foul'. So what if they used it to commit a felony? No biggie...
So, lets say this eventually becomes a common technology (doubtful, but lets pretend). When do we get to stop calling them 'super'conductors? When the super becomes the common, is it still super? Like the evolution of memory classification in DOS. Before the advent of the NY kernal, I spent considerable time trying to remember the difference between conventional, extended, expanded, upper, and high memory. I think the main reason DOS gave way to Windows was Microsoft ran out of superlatives....
It's the 'libre' type of free, not the 'gratis' type of free. Or, for the home school kids out there, it's free 'as in freedom', not 'as in beer'
Mr Merrill: "....We use automated tools that check every engineer's code."
So who writes these 'automated tools' and who checks those? I sure hope they have a human in the security audit mix somewhere....
It sounds like you are still in the honeymoon stage with Vista. The 'isn't Aero pretty?' stage. I was there once. That was a year ago. Now I am a bitter Linux user.
Seriously, do they think of a word and then try to find a convoluted way to make it an acronym? That invokes images of a military image/marketing department....
Trey: "Hey Lance, what do you think of COM-BAT?"
Lance: "Trey, I think it's FABULOUS!"
I vote for Skookumchuck.
Well, not to beat a dead ass, but historically 'ass' was a shortened form of 'jackass', which itself was just a work for donkey. Even in the old KJ version of the Bible, it's said that Jesus rode into Jerusalem 'upon an ass'. It's only when it started to become another term by the hind quarters, and later paired with 'hole', that it became a 'bad word'. Kind of like 'teat' evolving into 'tit'.
I have the C. because I have gone by my middle name since I was three days old. But my first name (what C. originally stood for) would always appear on legal documents. This became more and more annoying until I finally just paid the $80 and had it changed to C.
Most peoples' edits are anonymous on Wikipedia only to the most surface of observations. Even minimal digging can reveal an IP, and then the Virgil scanner can do the rest. Of course, there are a some folks out there that can purposefully hide their IP identity. But still, I wouldn't call Wikipedia edits "anonymity guaranteed"
Wikitruth? Isn't that the site that thinks racial genocide would be described using the same terms as a self serving Wikipedia article?
But the other site, Citizendium, sounds like an intriguing idea. You have to be an expert on the subject and you have to use your real name. That must be why there is no listing for 'pornography'.
I love those becasue my first name is legally C. (it's a long story). I love getting junk mail addressed to C.
"Act now! You could get a check made out to C. today!"
I remember the early ISP days of MSN and their portal package 'MSN Explorer'. Whenever you would log in it would play an audio file of a woman gently saying 'good morning', 'good evening', etc. After I had registered and used it for a few days, it started adding my name to the end of the greeting (i.e. good afternoon Tim). It was creepy to say the least. Of course, I immeadiately change my profile to show my first name as Dick. The software then obediently started calling me a dick several times a day (which, at 23, I thought was hilarious). And this wasn't some hawkingesque robovoice either; it was an actual recorded human voice.
Looks like someone got caught with their pants down in the cookie jar. That's not nearly as hot as it sounds.
I am not up to date on most current events, but didn't the Beatles cease to exist several decades ago? John and George are dead, Paul's memory is almost full, and I am pretty sure Ringo never actually existed. Maybe, when they say 'The Beatles made a deal' they really mean 'the people who own the rights to the Beatles music made a deal'.
From TFA: "For tips on penetration testing, see "How to think like an online con artist" /.'ers know anything about penetration. hehe
Like any
Didn't you read Lord of the Flies? Everybody knows that, when left to their own devices, good people will always be nearly wiped out by ugly red-headed children. A person can be good, but people are dicks. Maybe evolution will spawn a conscience mutation soon.