I loved this quote from TFA: "Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia of sorts, states in an entry on Armstrong that "for some reason the 'a' was never spoken." [emphasis mine]
"Of sorts", huh? Why didn't they put "encyclopedia" in quotes, too?
Thanks to the story here yesterday on the IBM/Lenovo battery recall, I went to the website and checked my battery on my T43. Whaddya know, it's one that's part of the recall. I called and they transferred me to a call center in Atlanta and I was on hold for about 10 minutes. I should have my replacement within 4 weeks. Of course they said not to use it anymore - i.e. just use AC power (that's alternating current, not anonymous coward power!) and I know they have to say that but I'm going to keep using the battery. It's never gotten hot and I can't go 4 weeks with no battery. It's an extra capacity battery that keeps my machine going almost 6 hours. Gotta love that.
I am wondering why it took IBM so long to decide to recall the batteries, and I wonder when the flaming Thinkpad battery incident described on the CPSC website actually happened.
The great thing is, I've gotten to use this battery for a year and a half, and now I get a fresh one for free! I hope it has the same capacity or I will be unhappy.
No, there were plans to locate the ITER in Japan, but they ended up deciding to put in France.
Of course, there's a big difference between mass producing millions of a thing as cheaply as possible using laborers working for a dollar a day, and building a huge one-of-a-kind project with a huge budget and twenty year time frame using hundreds of physicists and engineers.
In any case, it's not worth arguing about. There are two different spellings of the word color/colour. So what?
BTW, as long as were on spelling nitpicks, it's "principal dialect", not "principle dialect". That one trips up a lot of people.
This quote near the beginning of TFA told me a lot:
Why does BT have a futurologist?
It's kind of like being in a car and having someone looking out of the window as you're driving along - it's the business equivalent of that really. If you don't know what's ahead, it's very difficult to steer away from the major threats or steer towards the major opportunities that are ahead of you.
Sorry, but when I'm driving I'm focused precisely on those things in the road ahead of me so I can keep moving forward safely. As a passenger, unless I don't trust the driver, I'm free to look off to the side and see things that are interesting but not critical, and not far ahead. If he can't even make a good analogy, how can he make good predictions?
I took a history course in college dealing with the Roman Republic. While that hardly qualifies me as a scholar of the subject, I agree the US now is more like the Republic than the Roman Empire, but its fall will be more like that of the Empire than that of the Republic in that the invasions from the outside will have as much to do with it as decay from within.
1. Tolerance, as defined by either of the following:
* A need for markedly increased amounts of time on Internet to achieve satisfaction.
* Markedly diminished effect with continued use of the same amount of time on Internet.
No major changes.
2. Withdrawal, as manifested by either A or B below:
* (A) the characteristic withdrawal syndrome, 1, 2 and 3 below
1. Cessation of (or reduction in) Internet use that has been heavy and prolonged.
2. Two (or more) of the following, developing within several days to a month after Criterion:
o (a) psychomotor agitation
o (b) anxiety
o (c) obsessive thinking about what is happening on the Internet
o (d) fantasies or dreams about the Internet
o (e) voluntary or involuntary typing movements of the fingers
3. The symptoms in Criterion 2 cause distress or impairment in social, occupational or another important area of functioning
* (B) Use of Internet or a similar on-line service is engaged in to relieve or avoid withdrawal symptoms.
went without internet for three weeks last month while in Africa - no noticeable withdrawal. Believe me, if I had involuntary typing movements, I'd start worrying!
3. Internet is often accessed more often or for longer periods of time than was intended.
Longer than intended? I don't set out with the thought: "I'm going to be online for 1 hour today max." so, no, it's not "longer than intended".
4. There is a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control Internet use.
No effort to cut down (yet).
5. A great deal of time is spent in activities related to Internet use (for example, buying Internet books, trying out new WWW browsers, researching Internet vendors, organizing files of downloaded materials).
Great deal of time? Maybe. By whose definition?
6. Frequent talks about the Internet in daily life.
No. Only on the internet, and that's *not* what they mean by real life, right?;-) Sometimes talk about news items, etc. seen on the 'net, that's about it.
7. Important family, social, occupational, or recreational activities are given up or reduced in duration and/or frequency because of Internet use.
Important ones? Man, it sure is easy to rationalize given fuzzy definitions like that. I'd say for me, no. No important ones.
8. Internet use is continued despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent physical, family, social, occupational, or psychological problem that is likely to have been caused or exacerbated by Internet use (for example, sleep deprivation, marital difficulties, lateness for early morning appointments, neglect of occupational duties, or feelings of abandonment in significant others).
Hmmm. That last one, sometimes. But I'd tend to isolate some other way if it weren't on the 'net. The net just provides another way to do it. I do need to spend more time with my son. I have to make an effort that way.
I didn't know about "The Old Man in the Mountain" in GA, but there *was* one in NH.
I saw it in person back in the late 1980s. They even put it on their state quarter. Then the darn thing went and fell off the mountain!
(Either that or government agents blew it up to hide from the public the fact that it was carved by aliens! "East of the Rockies, you're on the air with Art Bell!)
Insightful but jaded.
It's not just a security issue, it's a waste of resources. And it probably represents just the tip of an iceberg that we happen to be able to see.
Over the last five years, let's estimate the average price of a not-so-high-end laptop (let's be optimistic and assume they were being frugal) was $1000. This represents a loss of well over a million dollars - just in the hardware - not to mention the data, labor for replacement, etc. And parent thinks it's no big deal, something to be expected.
If they were giving laptops to every short-term census worker to begin with - what a waste! A PDA with the right software would be more than sufficient to do the data collection the census involves, wouldn't it?
That's true. People reading Slashdot (1997-) during the period when the Soviet union was in existence (1922-1991) would be quite disagreeable. Time travel always makes me grouchy!
It seems the problem for some people is the desire to have an almost ubiquitous product be personalized and different from everyone else's.
Either that or as Apple lowers the price on the iPod, what people REALLY want is to be able to spend a LOT of $$ on an iPod for status, and they can't without buying an expensive case. Maybe Apple needs to rethink their pricing strategy and have some ridiculously expensive iPod, the only difference being something "cosmetic".
See my previous post #16147216. A combination of technical skill and artistic skill is not that much rarer than either one alone. How many people have Leonardo's technical ability alone, much less both?
I have (like Charles Kavalovski, alas not quite at his level) some talent for playing the French Horn. I'm also fairly capable in math and science. The fact that a lot of people quickly jumped on Da Vinci is not a proof of anything except that he is widely known for having such of range of abilities.
According to TS(short)FA: "The 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption belched twice that amount of sulfur into the stratosphere and had a temporary cooling effect for a few years."
So five million MT, while it sounds like a lot, may not even have a significant effect, certainly not very long lasting.
More. ..Six months after the eruption, Crutzen notes, about 6 billion kg of sulfur (from the volcano's initial injection of 10 billion kg) in the form of aerosol-forming sulfate remained in the stratosphere. The result of this event was a 0.5 C cooling at Earth's surface in the year following the eruption.
Since the total mean mass of the atmosphere is 5.2 x 10^18 kg, 10 billion kg of S, even if evenly distributed throughout [not realistic], would be 1.9 parts per billion. Virtually undetectable. Short story: it wouldn't affect your lungs.
They're both people. They're the same.
Therefore, since Hitler and Gandhi are both people, they're the same too, right? Shhhhhhhhhhhh. Don't tell anyone.
No. Not like that. That uses compound semiconductors like GaAs (gallium arsenide).
Intel is now making lasers with silicon substrate.
However, if your point is that is isn't quite new, OK. Intel announced this originally back in February 2005 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raman_laser]
And you didn't listen when they said not to whine about having your submission rejected. "grousing about rejected submissions is Offtopic and usually gets moderated that way. It happens, don't take it personally." http://slashdot.org/submit.pl
Nuclear powered ships also have diesel engines (generators), though under ordinary circumstances, they aren't needed. If a reactor scram occurs then you need to use the diesel to bring the reactor back up without depleting the battery. [From my experience on nuclear submarines - I ran the diesel when needed for drills and reactor startups].
OK. You are obviously older than I am and obviously Communism and the US government's reaction to it had a bigger impact on you in the sixties and seventies than it did on me in the seventies and eighties. I don't think though that politicians invented the terrorists though some of them may seem to take advantage of their existence. Even that I don't really believe, but I do wish many politicians would prioritize differently than they do.
Seriously? Living in the 70s and 80s, also serving in the Navy during the late 80 and early 90s, I always rooted for the downfall of Communism, but I really didn't see Communism affecting the daily lives of Americans, or it being a constant topic of discussion, the way terrorism is today. Maybe my memory is faulty. I am turning forty today.:-\
I unintentionally brought a small boxcutter (the kind with breakoff little blades) in my backpack , which went through the x-ray, through Portland and San Francisco airports on July 31st of this year. They found it and confiscated it in Hong Kong however. OOOOPS.
...The ultimate goal is not to make airline passengers wet themselves, it's to. . . Obviously. I mean it's much harder to wet one's self now, with the ban on liquids and all. . .
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I loved this quote from TFA: "Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia of sorts, states in an entry on Armstrong that "for some reason the 'a' was never spoken." [emphasis mine] "Of sorts", huh? Why didn't they put "encyclopedia" in quotes, too?
Thanks to the story here yesterday on the IBM/Lenovo battery recall, I went to the website and checked my battery on my T43. Whaddya know, it's one that's part of the recall. I called and they transferred me to a call center in Atlanta and I was on hold for about 10 minutes. I should have my replacement within 4 weeks. Of course they said not to use it anymore - i.e. just use AC power (that's alternating current, not anonymous coward power!) and I know they have to say that but I'm going to keep using the battery. It's never gotten hot and I can't go 4 weeks with no battery. It's an extra capacity battery that keeps my machine going almost 6 hours. Gotta love that.
I am wondering why it took IBM so long to decide to recall the batteries, and I wonder when the flaming Thinkpad battery incident described on the CPSC website actually happened.
The great thing is, I've gotten to use this battery for a year and a half, and now I get a fresh one for free! I hope it has the same capacity or I will be unhappy.
No, there were plans to locate the ITER in Japan, but they ended up deciding to put in France.
Of course, there's a big difference between mass producing millions of a thing as cheaply as possible using laborers working for a dollar a day, and building a huge one-of-a-kind project with a huge budget and twenty year time frame using hundreds of physicists and engineers.
Why is P flamebait when he says the same thing that others did, just not making a joke out of it? Jokes only work because there's truth in them.
In any case, it's not worth arguing about. There are two different spellings of the word color/colour. So what?
BTW, as long as were on spelling nitpicks, it's "principal dialect", not "principle dialect". That one trips up a lot of people.
Sorry, but when I'm driving I'm focused precisely on those things in the road ahead of me so I can keep moving forward safely. As a passenger, unless I don't trust the driver, I'm free to look off to the side and see things that are interesting but not critical, and not far ahead. If he can't even make a good analogy, how can he make good predictions?
I took a history course in college dealing with the Roman Republic. While that hardly qualifies me as a scholar of the subject, I agree the US now is more like the Republic than the Roman Empire, but its fall will be more like that of the Empire than that of the Republic in that the invasions from the outside will have as much to do with it as decay from within.
I didn't know about "The Old Man in the Mountain" in GA, but there *was* one in NH.
I saw it in person back in the late 1980s. They even put it on their state quarter. Then the darn thing went and fell off the mountain!
(Either that or government agents blew it up to hide from the public the fact that it was carved by aliens! "East of the Rockies, you're on the air with Art Bell!)
Insightful but jaded.
It's not just a security issue, it's a waste of resources. And it probably represents just the tip of an iceberg that we happen to be able to see.
Over the last five years, let's estimate the average price of a not-so-high-end laptop (let's be optimistic and assume they were being frugal) was $1000. This represents a loss of well over a million dollars - just in the hardware - not to mention the data, labor for replacement, etc. And parent thinks it's no big deal, something to be expected.
If they were giving laptops to every short-term census worker to begin with - what a waste! A PDA with the right software would be more than sufficient to do the data collection the census involves, wouldn't it?
That's true. People reading Slashdot (1997-) during the period when the Soviet union was in existence (1922-1991) would be quite disagreeable. Time travel always makes me grouchy!
It seems the problem for some people is the desire to have an almost ubiquitous product be personalized and different from everyone else's.
Either that or as Apple lowers the price on the iPod, what people REALLY want is to be able to spend a LOT of $$ on an iPod for status, and they can't without buying an expensive case. Maybe Apple needs to rethink their pricing strategy and have some ridiculously expensive iPod, the only difference being something "cosmetic".
See my previous post #16147216. A combination of technical skill and artistic skill is not that much rarer than either one alone. How many people have Leonardo's technical ability alone, much less both?
I have (like Charles Kavalovski, alas not quite at his level) some talent for playing the French Horn. I'm also fairly capable in math and science. The fact that a lot of people quickly jumped on Da Vinci is not a proof of anything except that he is widely known for having such of range of abilities.
Da Vinci's a great counter-example, but it's a shame that people can't come up with any others. There are many:
Alexander Borodin was a Russian composer and a very good chemist.
Charles Kavalovski is a tenured professor of physics and the former principal horn of the BSO.
I've seen examples of naturalists who were very good at drawing wildlife and plants and also had deep knowledge of their subjects.
etc. etc. etc.
According to TS(short)FA: "The 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption belched twice that amount of sulfur into the stratosphere and had a temporary cooling effect for a few years."
.Six months after the eruption, Crutzen notes, about 6 billion kg of sulfur (from the volcano's initial injection of 10 billion kg) in the form of aerosol-forming sulfate remained in the stratosphere. The result of this event was a 0.5 C cooling at Earth's surface in the year following the eruption.
So five million MT, while it sounds like a lot, may not even have a significant effect, certainly not very long lasting.
More. .
Since the total mean mass of the atmosphere is 5.2 x 10^18 kg, 10 billion kg of S, even if evenly distributed throughout [not realistic], would be 1.9 parts per billion. Virtually undetectable.
Short story: it wouldn't affect your lungs.
They're both people. They're the same.
Therefore, since Hitler and Gandhi are both people, they're the same too, right? Shhhhhhhhhhhh. Don't tell anyone.
No. Not like that. That uses compound semiconductors like GaAs (gallium arsenide).
Intel is now making lasers with silicon substrate.
However, if your point is that is isn't quite new, OK. Intel announced this originally back in February 2005 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raman_laser]
Don't know about average but I close ff every night, before unplugging from the network.
More often if too many tabs locks it up and forces me to.
And you didn't listen when they said not to whine about having your submission rejected.
"grousing about rejected submissions is Offtopic and usually gets moderated that way. It happens, don't take it personally."
http://slashdot.org/submit.pl
Nuclear powered ships also have diesel engines (generators), though under ordinary circumstances, they aren't needed. If a reactor scram occurs then you need to use the diesel to bring the reactor back up without depleting the battery. [From my experience on nuclear submarines - I ran the diesel when needed for drills and reactor startups].
OK. You are obviously older than I am and obviously Communism and the US government's reaction to it had a bigger impact on you in the sixties and seventies than it did on me in the seventies and eighties. I don't think though that politicians invented the terrorists though some of them may seem to take advantage of their existence. Even that I don't really believe, but I do wish many politicians would prioritize differently than they do.
I play an instrument, and not to entertain myself. It's enjoyable, but it's not escape, it's work to some degree.
That said, I don't really give a rip. I don't have a TIVO. I don't even have cable TV. I don't even know why I was reading this. Silly me.
Seriously? Living in the 70s and 80s, also serving in the Navy during the late 80 and early 90s, I always rooted for the downfall of Communism, but I really didn't see Communism affecting the daily lives of Americans, or it being a constant topic of discussion, the way terrorism is today. Maybe my memory is faulty. I am turning forty today. :-\
I unintentionally brought a small boxcutter (the kind with breakoff little blades) in my backpack , which went through the x-ray, through Portland and San Francisco airports on July 31st of this year. They found it and confiscated it in Hong Kong however. OOOOPS.
...The ultimate goal is not to make airline passengers wet themselves, it's to. . . Obviously. I mean it's much harder to wet one's self now, with the ban on liquids and all. . .