Yes, I would say parallels could definatly be drawn.
Bill gates is a very ruthless business man, like edison. Bill gates himself is worse than edison because he dindt actually create anything. He purchased DOS, used other's ideas for windows, and leveraged his advantage to become a monopoly.
I dont know if edison would have done the same, but he did create the foundation of a very large company (General Electric).
But, at least edison did work on some stuff, and you can say the stuff that came out of menlo park WAS usefull and bettered mankind, even if essentially none of it is in use today. The things invented at menlo park were a gateway to bigger and better things.
It just irks me sometimes that edison gets so much recognition, and tesla gets so little. Go to the smithsonian and try to find references to tesla, good luck.
Find the area about electricity, it will show the niagra falls power plant, and the caption reads something like 'and here is the first powerplant, which was startd in the magic of menlo park' or something along those lines.. This all but credits edison for it, when he had nothing to do with it whatsoever. He tryed to push an inferior standard. He would have succeeded had tesla not had some more schrewd backers, and perhaps if his idea wasnt totally unworkable. He could even have kept tesla in menlo park, and claimed credit for his idea as he did so many others, it was very close.
Tesla had a lot of crazy ideas at the end of his lifetime, and while they just sound nuts, his former genious would lead me to lend an ear, or help him out if it were in my power.
Either way, getting off topic here, but I would say edison is definatly not a person to be idolized, but he is probably a bit better than bill gates;)
It's true. Edison was a great business man, not so great an inventor.
What he was most famous for (the lightbulb) was invented long before him. He simply combined the old invention of the lightbulb, with someone elses long lasting filament, and bang, edison 'invented the lightbulb'.
Most of his inventions came out of his menlo park complex, where he had MANY employees who were told to invent any wacky thing they desired. But everything coming out of menlo park was credited to edison.
The mentioned nikola tesla was the exact type of inventor people idolize, its amazing that he doesnt recieve more recognition. He invented the AC generator, different types of transformers, the resonating (tesla) coil, the radio, and many other things.
Quite a few inventions of tesla's are somehow credited to other people in popular educational literature. For example, the radio. Ask most people who invented the radio they will say marconi. Yet tesla had patented everything marconi wanted to patent years before. There was a huge lawsuit going right to the supreme court and they ruled marconis patents invalid, since tesla's were prior art. Yet even wiht this supreme court decision, most encyclopedias will list marconi as radio's inventor.
Eiiither way, the main point beeing is edison wasnt all that great of an inventor, more a very shrewd business man. Unless you are in business, and wish to learn more about how a ruthless business man should behave, edison isnt really someone you should be idolizing.
This is probably the most annoying thing about mozilla/firefox.
Can someone explain to me the difference between clicking open in IE, or clicking save in firefox and doubleclicking the file in the download manager?
Since IE obviously saves it to a temp. location, a virus scanner will pick it up before its run anyways. One of the methods just involves a few more clicks. I cant see any security advantage, all this does is annoy the user.
If anyone knows WHY this is somehow more secure, please let me know.
Also if someone knows how you can make firefox just save IE to a temp folder and open it, like IE, let me know:)
Well you obviously would only use this on messages that contain sensitive information. Not the 'no i love you more!' emails that slashdotters wish they had to write:)
It sounds right, but this isnt how electricity normally works. Maybe just static electricity.
Either way, I do know that normal electric current will not flow to earth ground unless referenced to it. You cannot just touch one terminal of a high voltage source and electrocute yourself, you mush touch both terminals...unless that hihg voltage source is referenced to ground. This is the whole reason isolation transformers make working with mains safer.
http://members.shaw.ca/anethema/images/nojoy.PNG Dunno why it wont work, it just wont:(. Maybe its something to do with removing the delay/pipelineing options I changed?
Existing stun guns have 2 terminals. They are a couple inches across, and current flows from one to the other.
They are around 1-3 hundred thousand volts, but VERY low current. They work so well because they are such high voltage and typically operate at a frequency that causes severe muscle spasms.
And no, the ground doesnt act like a giant capacitor (why would a capacitor suck up electrons?) It acts like a giant wire back to the central office. This is the whole reason we call ground 'ground'.
While I agree and sympathize 100%, you can buy a tool for around 30 dollars that will simply sand the bottom of your cd. Gets rid of scratches great and has definatly saved me money.
Course them sending you a cheap replacement cd is what they SHOULD do, this works as well:) (just dont scratch the label side)
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Yes, I would say parallels could definatly be drawn.
;)
Bill gates is a very ruthless business man, like edison. Bill gates himself is worse than edison because he dindt actually create anything. He purchased DOS, used other's ideas for windows, and leveraged his advantage to become a monopoly.
I dont know if edison would have done the same, but he did create the foundation of a very large company (General Electric).
But, at least edison did work on some stuff, and you can say the stuff that came out of menlo park WAS usefull and bettered mankind, even if essentially none of it is in use today. The things invented at menlo park were a gateway to bigger and better things.
It just irks me sometimes that edison gets so much recognition, and tesla gets so little. Go to the smithsonian and try to find references to tesla, good luck.
Find the area about electricity, it will show the niagra falls power plant, and the caption reads something like 'and here is the first powerplant, which was startd in the magic of menlo park' or something along those lines.. This all but credits edison for it, when he had nothing to do with it whatsoever. He tryed to push an inferior standard. He would have succeeded had tesla not had some more schrewd backers, and perhaps if his idea wasnt totally unworkable. He could even have kept tesla in menlo park, and claimed credit for his idea as he did so many others, it was very close.
Tesla had a lot of crazy ideas at the end of his lifetime, and while they just sound nuts, his former genious would lead me to lend an ear, or help him out if it were in my power.
Either way, getting off topic here, but I would say edison is definatly not a person to be idolized, but he is probably a bit better than bill gates
It's true. Edison was a great business man, not so great an inventor.
What he was most famous for (the lightbulb) was invented long before him. He simply combined the old invention of the lightbulb, with someone elses long lasting filament, and bang, edison 'invented the lightbulb'.
Most of his inventions came out of his menlo park complex, where he had MANY employees who were told to invent any wacky thing they desired. But everything coming out of menlo park was credited to edison.
The mentioned nikola tesla was the exact type of inventor people idolize, its amazing that he doesnt recieve more recognition. He invented the AC generator, different types of transformers, the resonating (tesla) coil, the radio, and many other things.
Quite a few inventions of tesla's are somehow credited to other people in popular educational literature. For example, the radio. Ask most people who invented the radio they will say marconi. Yet tesla had patented everything marconi wanted to patent years before. There was a huge lawsuit going right to the supreme court and they ruled marconis patents invalid, since tesla's were prior art. Yet even wiht this supreme court decision, most encyclopedias will list marconi as radio's inventor.
Eiiither way, the main point beeing is edison wasnt all that great of an inventor, more a very shrewd business man. Unless you are in business, and wish to learn more about how a ruthless business man should behave, edison isnt really someone you should be idolizing.
This is probably the most annoying thing about mozilla/firefox.
:)
Can someone explain to me the difference between clicking open in IE, or clicking save in firefox and doubleclicking the file in the download manager?
Since IE obviously saves it to a temp. location, a virus scanner will pick it up before its run anyways. One of the methods just involves a few more clicks. I cant see any security advantage, all this does is annoy the user.
If anyone knows WHY this is somehow more secure, please let me know.
Also if someone knows how you can make firefox just save IE to a temp folder and open it, like IE, let me know
Mod parent up :)
This is the perfect answer to the question asked.
Uhh, the methanol itself wont compress as a liquid, but who cares? Throw some gas in there, compress it, and turn the can upside down to spray it in.
I take it you dont do any of even the simplest problemsolving/engineering.
yes
Haha, isopropy alcohol?
One of the most dangerous chemicals known to man!
Oh wait, thats simple rubbing alcohol..nevermind.
Ooops, dont think you had enough exclamation/question marks there..
Here you go
!?!?!!?!?!?!?
Muuuuch better.
You obviously have never tryed skype.
It slaughters anything i've heard for latency. Teamspeak cant even come CLOSE.
I was on the phone with a friend halfway across the country, and also on skype..the latency was -maybe- 1/4 of a second.
Try stuff before you start knocking it.
I did not read the EULA, but they have a large sticker proclaiming NO ADWARE OR SPYWARE.
None of the spyware finder programs i've had on my computer have ever warned me about spyware form skype.
Skype is also encrypted at each end, whcih makes me feel a bit better, even if few details are disclosed.
They have a giant notice on their site saying
NO SPYWARE OR ADWARE!
Course it could be untrue, but i doubt it.
Its also encrypted. Good stuff.
This will EVOLUTIONALIZE racing ;)
Well you obviously would only use this on messages that contain sensitive information. :)
Not the 'no i love you more!' emails that slashdotters wish they had to write
Tell me more about this...Slitscan technology.
Sounds like they have THEIR market picked out already!
You cant pipeline the first request...
or at least mozilla doesnt. There arent any references in the source code to that option, so I assume it does nothing.
Hmmm, I'm not sure really.
:)
It sounds right, but this isnt how electricity normally works. Maybe just static electricity.
Either way, I do know that normal electric current will not flow to earth ground unless referenced to it. You cannot just touch one terminal of a high voltage source and electrocute yourself, you mush touch both terminals...unless that hihg voltage source is referenced to ground. This is the whole reason isolation transformers make working with mains safer.
Soooo, in the end, I have no idea
http://members.shaw.ca/anethema/images/nojoy.PNG
:(. Maybe its something to do with removing the delay/pipelineing options I changed?
:)
Dunno why it wont work, it just wont
Any help appreciated
Really? Because it doesnt work with my firefox 0.9
Tons of XML parse errors. Any reason why this would be happening ?
Also, the bottom statusbar becomes huge and displays more error stuff.
I'll post with a screenshot in a sec, just gotta reinstall it.
I would also be interested in the theme.
Sounds like a dream for pirated dvd release groups.
Rent 2, burn, return them.
In a day you could copy a LOT of dvds.
Existing stun guns have 2 terminals. They are a couple inches across, and current flows from one to the other.
They are around 1-3 hundred thousand volts, but VERY low current. They work so well because they are such high voltage and typically operate at a frequency that causes severe muscle spasms.
And no, the ground doesnt act like a giant capacitor (why would a capacitor suck up electrons?) It acts like a giant wire back to the central office. This is the whole reason we call ground 'ground'.
Electricity must complete a circuit. For a battery or capacitor, as much current must flow into one terminal as flows out the other terminal.
The current will not go to ground unless you place one terminal AT ground, and the other higher potential terminal on the person you're gonna shock.
Ahhh, sorry you mean the button. Oops.
Try the modern theme, its really very nice to look at. The tabs are small and the close tab button is very well blended and unobtrusive.
While I agree and sympathize 100%, you can buy a tool for around 30 dollars that will simply sand the bottom of your cd. Gets rid of scratches great and has definatly saved me money.
:) (just dont scratch the label side)
Course them sending you a cheap replacement cd is what they SHOULD do, this works as well
Like the AC above, changing this did nothing. It still frees almost all of its memory when i minimize.
Anyone have any idea why ?