On another note, what happened to dot matrix printers.
I recently worked receiving in a very large warehouse and our 24 pin Okidata printer was a real workhorse and relatively new. Yes, they are still sold, mostly for special business applications. Ours was used to print company orders to process what was shipped to us and it printed about 200 pages on a slow day. We used a dot matrix printer for this application because they are very reliable, fast and inexpensive to maintain. Hook up a fifty pound box of tractor feed paper to it and let it rip. Any other kind of printer would have been a major pain in the ass.
Ah, good ol' laserjet II. I had one that had done previous duty at a large company. Mine came with extra font cartridges and a small screen for programming; don't know if they all had that feature. The person I bought it from at the company said the toner was about two thirds gone but it was still enough for the two or so years I used it. Perhaps she was wrong. It worked happily in a Debian lan with its apsfilter driver.
It was also an effective space heater in winter and a good warmer for soup and coffee. the main downside was that it weighed about fifty or more pounds.
It was Martians, not dogs, but I'd still mark you 'Funny' if I had points. I guess Slim still doesn't get any respect in the US and all the UK mods must be asleep, or too young to remember.
You really have to wonder what the FDA's motivation is for not allowing at least experimental use of this device in emergency settings, along with other accepted practices, to measure its effectiveness. Is there a genuine concern for the patients safety? The device certainly seems harmless enough.
Ever the cynic, I would guess that the device and the procedure are relatively inexpensive and all parties involved are working out how best to monetize (god I hate that word).
"Wireless works out-of-the-box (or soon after) - with a recent distribution of Linux - on most laptops these days."
Certainly true on this old acer running Etch with a built-in Intersil Prism II. On detection of a wifi card, the upgrade/install to Etch will also add the network-manager packaged which is a handy tool.
So, each Internet user in Australia is down loading more than 100 songs a year? Sounds like the usual hype, smoke, mirrors and bs the riaa uses in the US.
I don't have the expertise to even guess how this could affect weather. However, I do know that the rotor style blades of this proposed generator are very much like those of an helicopter. While air currents turn the blades, the blades also generate air currents and turbulence by turning. I wonder what the net loss or gain would be. Perhaps an aeronautical engineer specializing in helicopters knows.
Funny, this got me thinking about a boiler room analogy. Once a year we'd shut down the system, remove the boilerplates, punch the tubes, reverse some valves to back-flush the filters and shut down all the feed pumps to replace the packing to stop leaks. A dirty, time consuming and complex job. Too bad an analogous method couldn't be used to clean/refresh the Internet occasionally.
No, I didn't get this from 'The Sand Pebbles'. I actually worked in a boiler room as a kid.
Yes, my mind does tend to wander at times, especially when it's cold and raining out, I didn't get to do my morning run and I've been sitting on my ass drinking too much coffee.
I live fairly close to Pryor and this is news to me. I'm sure the state wanted to keep this quite as long as they could and I am not at all surprised that Google could work out a deal with the good ol' boy network ($$$). The Public Service Company of Oklahoma has a long and glorious history of screwing folks here.
I wonder if Google has bought much dark fiber here, if any.
Also, a poster below asked about nuclear power plants in Oklahoma. As far as I know
there aren't any but there have been plenty of nuclear shenanigans (see the above link). All power plants here are coal or gas fired.
Halon 1211 (Bromochlorodifluoromethane) and Halon 1301 (Bromotrifluoromethane) have been banned in most countries since 1994 (The Montreal Protocol, as stated by the AC below) because they were found to deplete ozone.
As has already been stated, Halon worked as a fire suppressant by displacing oxygen, thus disrupting the fire triangle (fuel, oxygen, heat). Also, in the presence of any remaining flame or smoldering debris, Halon oxidized into other toxic gasses including phosgene which is very, very bad stuff and was used as a chemical weapon during WWI.
Like Carbon Tetrachloride extinguishers before them, Halon extinguishers had too many bad attributes; what we in the fire service would call, "Ethyl-Methyl-Bad-Shit".
143 is the sum of three consecutive primes (43 + 47 + 53), as well as the sum of seven consecutive primes (11 + 13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31). But this number is never the sum of an integer and its base 10 digits, making it a self number.
Every positive integer is the sum of at most 143 seventh powers (see Waring's problem).
143 is the difference in the first exception to the pattern shown below:
3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2,...
3^3 + 4^3 + 5^3 = 6^3,...
3^4 + 4^4 + 5^4 + 6^4 = 7^4 - 143
Also, "143 is commonly seen as the meaning "I Love You" in internet slang. 1, 4 and 3 are the letter counts of those words."
From grade school to university the question I heard most often from fellow students in various math classes was, "How can we use this in every-day life". Most math classes I took were uninspiring, boring, rote memorization with no discussion of how it was used in practice.
Sure, it's not difficult to see the use in basic math, geometry, descriptive geometry, trigonometry and even some aspects of calculus but I never did understand what the hell advanced algebra or integrated algebra/trig. were for, other than a prerequisite for calculus, which was needed to take differential equations.
I feel practical use of the particular math being taught should be major part of the class. From what I have seen of my grand children's maths homework, practical use is taught at their school but they have the benefit of being close to a major university and have student teachers that get to experiment with ideas such as yours. I don't know how other schools fare.
Well, completely unexpected reply from you here and I believe you have misunderstood the spirit of my comment. This was not a comparison of anything, only some thoughts from experiences of being an architectural draftsman for a short time before the advent of computers. I have never even seen a CAD program. You are right about one thing though, I was never a pro at drafting, or architecture, and ended up changing my major.
The engineers were not all that affected but the draftsmen certainly were
Funny to think that when I was an Architecture student in the early '60's, it was considered heresy to use a mechanical-arm drafting machine, T-square and 45/45 and 30/60 triangles being the tools of choice, and pencil was preferable to inking a set of plans. Ink was considered old fashioned and one look a a drafting pen would certainly convince you of this. Fresh from the Army in '71, my first job was with a very progressive Architect who insisted we use mechanical-arms, 7H to 9H pencil for layout and the finished drawings inked with a Rapidograph pen. Man, we were way ahead of everybody.;)
By the way, I always thought of/etc as 'extend to chaos'.
In my simple musings on this story, I envisioned the GPS giving updates to the nav-program a thousand times every second, a function in the program sees the IDL is fifteen minutes away, computer notifies pilot and prepares for date/time change. I felt this was pretty straight forward and didn't consider the complexities you brought up. Thanks for the reply.
Hey TigerNut, could you speculate on how this glitch might have come about? I would think, being a novice on the subject, that engineering GPS/computer navigation systems would be a no-brainer by now and have not civilian aircraft navigation system been capable of handling the IDL for quite a long time? It just seems extraordinarily short sighted that an aircraft this sophisticated would have such a problem.
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I recently worked receiving in a very large warehouse and our 24 pin Okidata printer was a real workhorse and relatively new. Yes, they are still sold, mostly for special business applications. Ours was used to print company orders to process what was shipped to us and it printed about 200 pages on a slow day. We used a dot matrix printer for this application because they are very reliable, fast and inexpensive to maintain. Hook up a fifty pound box of tractor feed paper to it and let it rip. Any other kind of printer would have been a major pain in the ass.
Ah, good ol' laserjet II. I had one that had done previous duty at a large company. Mine came with extra font cartridges and a small screen for programming; don't know if they all had that feature. The person I bought it from at the company said the toner was about two thirds gone but it was still enough for the two or so years I used it. Perhaps she was wrong. It worked happily in a Debian lan with its apsfilter driver.
It was also an effective space heater in winter and a good warmer for soup and coffee. the main downside was that it weighed about fifty or more pounds.
I don't know. I run emacs just for the games.
It was Martians, not dogs, but I'd still mark you 'Funny' if I had points. I guess Slim still doesn't get any respect in the US and all the UK mods must be asleep, or too young to remember.
You really have to wonder what the FDA's motivation is for not allowing at least experimental use of this device in emergency settings, along with other accepted practices, to measure its effectiveness. Is there a genuine concern for the patients safety? The device certainly seems harmless enough.
Ever the cynic, I would guess that the device and the procedure are relatively inexpensive and all parties involved are working out how best to monetize (god I hate that word).
"Wireless works out-of-the-box (or soon after) - with a recent distribution of Linux - on most laptops these days."
Certainly true on this old acer running Etch with a built-in Intersil Prism II. On detection of a wifi card, the upgrade/install to Etch will also add the network-manager packaged which is a handy tool.
Not to worry. I'm sure ARIA and RIAA would be more that happy to accept your numbers. :(
So, each Internet user in Australia is down loading more than 100 songs a year? Sounds like the usual hype, smoke, mirrors and bs the riaa uses in the US.
I don't have the expertise to even guess how this could affect weather. However, I do know that the rotor style blades of this proposed generator are very much like those of an helicopter. While air currents turn the blades, the blades also generate air currents and turbulence by turning. I wonder what the net loss or gain would be. Perhaps an aeronautical engineer specializing in helicopters knows.
Funny, this got me thinking about a boiler room analogy. Once a year we'd shut down the system, remove the boilerplates, punch the tubes, reverse some valves to back-flush the filters and shut down all the feed pumps to replace the packing to stop leaks. A dirty, time consuming and complex job. Too bad an analogous method couldn't be used to clean/refresh the Internet occasionally.
No, I didn't get this from 'The Sand Pebbles'. I actually worked in a boiler room as a kid.
Yes, my mind does tend to wander at times, especially when it's cold and raining out, I didn't get to do my morning run and I've been sitting on my ass drinking too much coffee.
I live fairly close to Pryor and this is news to me. I'm sure the state wanted to keep this quite as long as they could and I am not at all surprised that Google could work out a deal with the good ol' boy network ($$$). The Public Service Company of Oklahoma has a long and glorious history of screwing folks here.
I wonder if Google has bought much dark fiber here, if any.
Also, a poster below asked about nuclear power plants in Oklahoma. As far as I know there aren't any but there have been plenty of nuclear shenanigans (see the above link). All power plants here are coal or gas fired.
Does she laugh when she listens to Nine Inch Nails?
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My wife said, "Give me ten inches and make it hurt", so I stuck it in three times and slapped her.
After carefully studying your equation, I have found another terrifying result: If Jesus had been born in 1965, he would be 42.
We need to somehow get this information to the proper authorities e.g., astrologers, numerologists.
Halon 1211 (Bromochlorodifluoromethane) and Halon 1301 (Bromotrifluoromethane) have been banned in most countries since 1994 (The Montreal Protocol, as stated by the AC below) because they were found to deplete ozone.
As has already been stated, Halon worked as a fire suppressant by displacing oxygen, thus disrupting the fire triangle (fuel, oxygen, heat). Also, in the presence of any remaining flame or smoldering debris, Halon oxidized into other toxic gasses including phosgene which is very, very bad stuff and was used as a chemical weapon during WWI.
Like Carbon Tetrachloride extinguishers before them, Halon extinguishers had too many bad attributes; what we in the fire service would call, "Ethyl-Methyl-Bad-Shit".
Just a little larger than a ping pong but smaller than a tennis.
143 can be cool too.
Also, "143 is commonly seen as the meaning "I Love You" in internet slang. 1, 4 and 3 are the letter counts of those words."
From grade school to university the question I heard most often from fellow students in various math classes was, "How can we use this in every-day life". Most math classes I took were uninspiring, boring, rote memorization with no discussion of how it was used in practice.
Sure, it's not difficult to see the use in basic math, geometry, descriptive geometry, trigonometry and even some aspects of calculus but I never did understand what the hell advanced algebra or integrated algebra/trig. were for, other than a prerequisite for calculus, which was needed to take differential equations.
I feel practical use of the particular math being taught should be major part of the class. From what I have seen of my grand children's maths homework, practical use is taught at their school but they have the benefit of being close to a major university and have student teachers that get to experiment with ideas such as yours. I don't know how other schools fare.
Have you checked this page? There is help for 64bit under Troubleshooting.
Well, there's always the chance cube.
Well, completely unexpected reply from you here and I believe you have misunderstood the spirit of my comment. This was not a comparison of anything, only some thoughts from experiences of being an architectural draftsman for a short time before the advent of computers. I have never even seen a CAD program. You are right about one thing though, I was never a pro at drafting, or architecture, and ended up changing my major.
Funny to think that when I was an Architecture student in the early '60's, it was considered heresy to use a mechanical-arm drafting machine, T-square and 45/45 and 30/60 triangles being the tools of choice, and pencil was preferable to inking a set of plans. Ink was considered old fashioned and one look a a drafting pen would certainly convince you of this. Fresh from the Army in '71, my first job was with a very progressive Architect who insisted we use mechanical-arms, 7H to 9H pencil for layout and the finished drawings inked with a Rapidograph pen. Man, we were way ahead of everybody. ;)
By the way, I always thought of /etc as 'extend to chaos'.
In my simple musings on this story, I envisioned the GPS giving updates to the nav-program a thousand times every second, a function in the program sees the IDL is fifteen minutes away, computer notifies pilot and prepares for date/time change. I felt this was pretty straight forward and didn't consider the complexities you brought up. Thanks for the reply.
Hey TigerNut, could you speculate on how this glitch might have come about? I would think, being a novice on the subject, that engineering GPS/computer navigation systems would be a no-brainer by now and have not civilian aircraft navigation system been capable of handling the IDL for quite a long time?
It just seems extraordinarily short sighted that an aircraft this sophisticated would have such a problem.
I have it on good authority that CowboyNeal has been carbon dated to 25,000BC. Clovis Shmovis.
But, but we have a long and glorious history of fucking over Europeans.