You're not thinking clearly. You gauge how long stuff lasts and shop accordingly. For example, you buy half-gallons of milk instead of full gallons, because the gallon would go past date before you could use it up. Or maybe you're a big milk drinker and won't have that problem. The same goes for eggs; there are quite a few sizes, and they don't last all that long. So if you run out too quick, you buy more the next time you're at the store. Things like lettuce and other fresh vegetables need to be eaten within a few days or a week. So the lettuce can be used three days in a row, for hamburgers, BLTs, and then taco salad. The tomato gets used for the hamburgers and BLTs. If you have celery sticks, within a week you need to use the remaining ones in chicken soup. Sure, it takes more thinking than throwing processed slop in the microwave and chowing down, but you ARE eating healthier food.
Oh wow...could this be news2020? He's a regular on many technology newsgroups, claiming that everyone around him is trying to get him, beaming burning waves into his home, etc. I once described how to build an effective Faraday cage into a room or around his bed, but he would not consider it because he thought we were all part of the conspiracy.
Once he even put out a warning on bottle-your-own water machines (he can't drink tap water because the water company is in on the deal). Apparently it didn't make noise when the person before him filled a jug, but then it did make noise when he was filling all his jugs. I don't know if he bought the explanation that the compressor for reverse osmosis turned on when the pressure got too low.
But yeah...for years now it's been all about the laser beams shooting into his house from people walking on the street and passing cars. Some of the descriptions of how he followed people and accosted them are pretty frightening, you know someday he is going to go too far. Anyway, if you do a search on news2020 on Google Groups, you can find a lot of examples.
Well, I was thinking more along the lines of broken projectors, and places you just happen to run across an unused projector rather than someone in the business of selling them. I got mine because I worked in a college A/V department and we could strip down equipment that was heading for the dumpster.
Not as big, maybe 14 inches across, but overhead transparency projectors have a big square fresnel lens in the base. Since a lot of businesses, schools etc have moved to LCD projectors, you might be able to find an old overhead that no one cares about. Still concentrates a lot of light; you can't look at the spot and it'll burn lots of things. Probably not metal, though.
Cooking idea: Take a length of thin all-thread and turn it with a slow motor, with a matching nut fastened to a board so that the all-thread and motor are slowly pulled along. Spear a few hot dogs on the all-thread and set the lens to a medium concentration. Spin up the motor, and the sun will cook the hot dogs in a spiral....
I can see why spammers might want this to work. When they get up on their moral high horse and try to tell everyone that they are providing a service, and doing nothing wrong, they love to be able to point to how they honor every unsubscribe request. Unsubscribing gives them the opportunity to pretend that they are a legitimate business with legitimate customer service behavior. However, the actual effect on total spam is insignificant, and there are so many lists out there that within a short time they are sending spam to you again, or they've switched their company name again and can send spam since it's not the company you unsubscribed from.
Spammers are scum. Scum loves to do little token things to try to prove that they are not scum, while still being scum to the majority.
The moral is great, but it doesn't fit. The "stupid users" and "stupid techs" are actually the same group of people. The roles are reversed, but it doesn't mean that the tech support is stupid because they assume the users are stupid.
We don't hear about it when a smart user reaches a smart tech, nor when a stupid user reaches a stupid tech.
I've been on the other end of it, and they have no choice. As soon as the company-mandated trouble ticket system was installed, the company began using it to track IT personnel to see if they were doing enough. Trouble tickets were the only existing measure of an employee's performance. If you got direct-called and ran out to fix a dozen hardware problems at a time, you still weren't doing anything. So, submit the help desk ticket. Use the extra few minutes to relax on company time, due to their own policies, or swab down your filthy keyboard to make it all nice for the poor tech who's coming to fix your machine.
After the initial setup, there is no reason to call Time-Warner for support if the connection suddenly goes down. If the modem has smoke coming out of it, sure; but usually Time-Warner will go down for about 15 to 20 minutes and then come back up on their own. Couple times a week, usually very early in the morning.
It's really a shift from bookmark-based browsed to tab-based browsing. The mentality is to make a bookmark of the page you're on if you might want to go back to it. Then you have to spend time later to clean out bookmarks you'll never use again. With tabs, you simply open the link in another tab, and only bookmark things you know you will want to revisit in the future.
Well, everyone who uses Firefox knows that you can simply start typing letters to find links with those words in them, them F3 to find the next link. Also, if you type / and then the words you're looking for, it automatically finds them in the plaintext. That, to me, is much handier than any in-page search toolbar.
Oh man. You must not do very much serious web research. The tabbed browser is incredibly more useful than having dozens of windows cluttering up your desktop. When you have a large screen or multiple monitors, the taskbar can be a long ways away from where your mouse is. I guess if you don't like tabbed browsing then that's up to you, but for the life of me I cannot think of one reason why being forced to have multiple windows is better.
It's great to be able to pick and choose stuff, without everything under the sun installed and enabled. I hate mouse gestures, but can't live without click-to-view Flash and the User Agent Switcher.
Yeah, if the matching for the law enforcement version is anywhere near the ability of this beta, we don't have much to worry about in terms of privacy.
I also got matched with a black guy, Michael Jordan. I copied their little animated GIF which is supposed to show how much we are alike: Pasty geek == Michael Jordan?
Well, the conclusion to all this is to strip everyone at the terminal, run them through an x-ray machine (or hold them under observation for 24 hours to allow any suspicious objects to pass), and give them paper gowns to wear during the flight.
Eh...plus, what guarantee do they have that the batteries are not actually explosives to begin with. They'd have to open and test every battery to be reasonably sure (and even then, there would be ways to get around it). There are lots of ways to hide explosives in seemingly innocent objects.
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They say that they can get structures up to 2mm high and.2mm across, but that's under the influence of gravity. I wonder if this process would work in zero-G, and perhaps work better to create longer structures or different shapes for even stronger bonds?
This is very good news for composite fiber development. While composite has been exceptionally strong and light, it's difficult to find reliable ways to attach things to it. You basically have to build the fittings into the composite material. "Sticky-metal" fittings might make composites less expensive to use.
That's great logic: change what works. Seriously, I don't see what metric paper sizes can do that A, B, C, D, and E size sheets can't. Leave it to Europeans to spend more time fussing over the paper itself, rather than putting something useful on the paper.
Yeah, when you're lying alone with two broken legs at the bottom of a cliff, guess who'll be screaming for the GPS trackers, cell phones, infrared satellites, rescue dogs, and helicopters?
Well, close, at least in name...went to RHIT. I'm pretty sure that all rooms aren't exactly the same, but I've seen the same furniture a lot of places. Most of the furniture models are dimensionally accurate, I guess. It was all in POV-Ray, using measurements from an AutoCAD model someone sent me during the summer after junior year.
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You're not thinking clearly. You gauge how long stuff lasts and shop accordingly. For example, you buy half-gallons of milk instead of full gallons, because the gallon would go past date before you could use it up. Or maybe you're a big milk drinker and won't have that problem. The same goes for eggs; there are quite a few sizes, and they don't last all that long. So if you run out too quick, you buy more the next time you're at the store. Things like lettuce and other fresh vegetables need to be eaten within a few days or a week. So the lettuce can be used three days in a row, for hamburgers, BLTs, and then taco salad. The tomato gets used for the hamburgers and BLTs. If you have celery sticks, within a week you need to use the remaining ones in chicken soup. Sure, it takes more thinking than throwing processed slop in the microwave and chowing down, but you ARE eating healthier food.
No, that would be baked. Broiling is direct heat by radiation, not convection.
Oh wow...could this be news2020? He's a regular on many technology newsgroups, claiming that everyone around him is trying to get him, beaming burning waves into his home, etc. I once described how to build an effective Faraday cage into a room or around his bed, but he would not consider it because he thought we were all part of the conspiracy.
Once he even put out a warning on bottle-your-own water machines (he can't drink tap water because the water company is in on the deal). Apparently it didn't make noise when the person before him filled a jug, but then it did make noise when he was filling all his jugs. I don't know if he bought the explanation that the compressor for reverse osmosis turned on when the pressure got too low.
But yeah...for years now it's been all about the laser beams shooting into his house from people walking on the street and passing cars. Some of the descriptions of how he followed people and accosted them are pretty frightening, you know someday he is going to go too far. Anyway, if you do a search on news2020 on Google Groups, you can find a lot of examples.
Well, I was thinking more along the lines of broken projectors, and places you just happen to run across an unused projector rather than someone in the business of selling them. I got mine because I worked in a college A/V department and we could strip down equipment that was heading for the dumpster.
Not as big, maybe 14 inches across, but overhead transparency projectors have a big square fresnel lens in the base. Since a lot of businesses, schools etc have moved to LCD projectors, you might be able to find an old overhead that no one cares about. Still concentrates a lot of light; you can't look at the spot and it'll burn lots of things. Probably not metal, though.
Cooking idea: Take a length of thin all-thread and turn it with a slow motor, with a matching nut fastened to a board so that the all-thread and motor are slowly pulled along. Spear a few hot dogs on the all-thread and set the lens to a medium concentration. Spin up the motor, and the sun will cook the hot dogs in a spiral....
Lawyers are paid by the hour.
I can see why spammers might want this to work. When they get up on their moral high horse and try to tell everyone that they are providing a service, and doing nothing wrong, they love to be able to point to how they honor every unsubscribe request. Unsubscribing gives them the opportunity to pretend that they are a legitimate business with legitimate customer service behavior. However, the actual effect on total spam is insignificant, and there are so many lists out there that within a short time they are sending spam to you again, or they've switched their company name again and can send spam since it's not the company you unsubscribed from.
Spammers are scum. Scum loves to do little token things to try to prove that they are not scum, while still being scum to the majority.
The moral is great, but it doesn't fit. The "stupid users" and "stupid techs" are actually the same group of people. The roles are reversed, but it doesn't mean that the tech support is stupid because they assume the users are stupid.
We don't hear about it when a smart user reaches a smart tech, nor when a stupid user reaches a stupid tech.
I've been on the other end of it, and they have no choice. As soon as the company-mandated trouble ticket system was installed, the company began using it to track IT personnel to see if they were doing enough. Trouble tickets were the only existing measure of an employee's performance. If you got direct-called and ran out to fix a dozen hardware problems at a time, you still weren't doing anything. So, submit the help desk ticket. Use the extra few minutes to relax on company time, due to their own policies, or swab down your filthy keyboard to make it all nice for the poor tech who's coming to fix your machine.
After the initial setup, there is no reason to call Time-Warner for support if the connection suddenly goes down. If the modem has smoke coming out of it, sure; but usually Time-Warner will go down for about 15 to 20 minutes and then come back up on their own. Couple times a week, usually very early in the morning.
It's really a shift from bookmark-based browsed to tab-based browsing. The mentality is to make a bookmark of the page you're on if you might want to go back to it. Then you have to spend time later to clean out bookmarks you'll never use again. With tabs, you simply open the link in another tab, and only bookmark things you know you will want to revisit in the future.
Well, everyone who uses Firefox knows that you can simply start typing letters to find links with those words in them, them F3 to find the next link. Also, if you type / and then the words you're looking for, it automatically finds them in the plaintext. That, to me, is much handier than any in-page search toolbar.
Oh man. You must not do very much serious web research. The tabbed browser is incredibly more useful than having dozens of windows cluttering up your desktop. When you have a large screen or multiple monitors, the taskbar can be a long ways away from where your mouse is. I guess if you don't like tabbed browsing then that's up to you, but for the life of me I cannot think of one reason why being forced to have multiple windows is better.
What does the Google toolbar do that Firefox popup-blocking+integrated search can't? Pagerank? Who cares about that?
It's great to be able to pick and choose stuff, without everything under the sun installed and enabled. I hate mouse gestures, but can't live without click-to-view Flash and the User Agent Switcher.
What's the aroma of roasting coffee beans like? Probably have neighbors sniffing your front door all the time.
Yeah, if the matching for the law enforcement version is anywhere near the ability of this beta, we don't have much to worry about in terms of privacy.
I also got matched with a black guy, Michael Jordan. I copied their little animated GIF which is supposed to show how much we are alike: Pasty geek == Michael Jordan?
Well, the conclusion to all this is to strip everyone at the terminal, run them through an x-ray machine (or hold them under observation for 24 hours to allow any suspicious objects to pass), and give them paper gowns to wear during the flight.
Maybe extend the observation phase to birth.
Eh...plus, what guarantee do they have that the batteries are not actually explosives to begin with. They'd have to open and test every battery to be reasonably sure (and even then, there would be ways to get around it). There are lots of ways to hide explosives in seemingly innocent objects.
They say that they can get structures up to 2mm high and .2mm across, but that's under the influence of gravity. I wonder if this process would work in zero-G, and perhaps work better to create longer structures or different shapes for even stronger bonds?
This is very good news for composite fiber development. While composite has been exceptionally strong and light, it's difficult to find reliable ways to attach things to it. You basically have to build the fittings into the composite material. "Sticky-metal" fittings might make composites less expensive to use.
That's great logic: change what works. Seriously, I don't see what metric paper sizes can do that A, B, C, D, and E size sheets can't. Leave it to Europeans to spend more time fussing over the paper itself, rather than putting something useful on the paper.
What's a terabyte, then?
Yes. Yes they would.
Yeah, when you're lying alone with two broken legs at the bottom of a cliff, guess who'll be screaming for the GPS trackers, cell phones, infrared satellites, rescue dogs, and helicopters?
Well, close, at least in name...went to RHIT. I'm pretty sure that all rooms aren't exactly the same, but I've seen the same furniture a lot of places. Most of the furniture models are dimensionally accurate, I guess. It was all in POV-Ray, using measurements from an AutoCAD model someone sent me during the summer after junior year.