Yea, some years ago sound worked fine on Linux. Then they introduced another sound system and now you have todays mess. I had a soundcard (PAS) that worked great on Linux 1.3. Every upgrade it got harder to get it to work until 2.6 where I totally gave up. Things like this are why I gave up on Linux. Something works fine, then they change it. Whole new learning curve, bunch of incompatibilities etc. I was trying to fix my sons Linux install yesterday. Instead of LILO it is using Grub. Grub has a different way of labeling partitions so/dev/hda1 is now (hd0,0). Took hours to realize that/dev/hdc2 is (hd1,1) instead of (hd2,1). No wonder I'm still using OS/2.
And yet, despite all that, it's still the only viable choice for a web browser.
I don't know about that. I'm using a browser that (at least here) is twice as fast as firefox, includes mail, news, IRC, and a crappy HTML editor. Accepts lots of extensions, though only a subset of Firefox's. Runs on every system that Firefox runs on. And builds out of the same codebase as Firefox just needing different configure options. Yes I'm talking about Seamonkey. Stupid name, nice fast browser.
Actually the vacuum for the brakes ran of of a vacuum pump at the back of the alternator. And yes it was naturally aspirated and the combustion started in a small chamber in the head so I guess indirectly injected. As for efficiency goes it only produced 70 horse and about 120 lbs of torque and gave me 40 miles per imperial gallon. Why it was designed that way I don't really know. Perhaps to give engine braking? The SD series was used in things like the Patrol 4x4 where engine braking would be handy and some of the Patrols were turbo charged as well as 6 cyl. Mine was 4 cyl (2500 CC). And yes I've always been curious to try driving other diesels.
Actually hemp is just a variety of Cannabis. There's no reason that hemp can't have high THC levels (besides the fact that they often include large numbers of males) and in the past did. Thing is nowadays the hemp advocates like to pretend that hemp never has any THC to speak of and push strains that don't have any.
Kind of surprised to see soybeans doing so well. Soybeans also take quite a bit of fertilizer and various pesticides. The best plant for energy, both alcohol and biodiesel as well as plastic, and one hell of a lot of other useful things is hemp.
In my limited experience Diesels have lots more engine compression braking. I used to drive a Nissan PU with a SD25 diesel. Gear down, let of the clutch and get pulled over by the cops to check your brake lights. With a 22.5 to 1 compression ratio (close to 500 lbs engine compression) it had lots of engine braking. I think the difference is that this engine had a butterfly valve in the intake hooked up to the throttle and a vacuum line to the fuel pump for throttle operation and others have the throttle connected straight to the fuel pump with no valve in the manifold to create vacuum. Another nice thing about that engine that given a hill to jump start it you didn't need electric power for it to run.
What did the state do to help Microsoft become a monopoly?
Actually Microsoft's monopoly can be attributed to the IBM antitrust case. IBM contracted out the OS for the PC so as not to get in trouble with the justice department and likely gave MS a good deal, eg allowing MS to still have rights to DOS. Also IBM was scared to truly compete during the OS/2 Windows wars for the same reasons. One thing about IBM is that they were interested in obeying the law unlike Microsoft.
This isn't really true. Most public corporations do have to maximize profits for their shareholders but in the case of a corporation with only one shareholder they can do what ever they want. When Ford got sued for not maximizing profits Henry Ford bought back all the stock and could do whatever he wanted. Also if a corporation is founded with the goal of not maximizing profits and makes it clear to prospective stockholders, it would also be legal though they might not be able to sell much stock.
Except NT started out as OS/2 NT v3. I have a Byte around here with a little news blurb about MS actually booting up OS/2 NT v3 for the first time. This was on a MIPS processor IIRC.
I'm not American (Canadian actually which I guess is in America) but we too have a constitution with a bill of rights. One of these rights is not to be searched without a warrant and our supreme court has stated that it considers demanding ID is an invasion of our right to not be searched. (Exception being if operating a motor vehicle). Also they have repeatedly stated that the right against unreasonable searches is a right to privacy. Also your bill of rights has this in it
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. which includes all other rights including the right to privacy.
Yes, Win95, Win98 both informed you that you could never use OS/2 again as they changed the active partition to C:. Win2k when first released actually destroyed BootManager every time it was booted. I was quite surprised when I recently installed Win2k service pack #3 that it actually said how to re enable BootManager though I doubt a nontechnical person would of understood it. On the other hand Win95 didn't care about you entering a product code when installing on a computer with OS/2 installed. This is in keeping with their philosophy that pirating is fine when you pirate a MS product rather then use the competition. I think that everyone who liked OS/2 ended up hating MS for going so far out of their way to break things as well as the pressures they put on developers not to develop for anything besides MS
Perhaps they're smart enough to know the shit is about to hit the fan (Iraq, economy, etc) and want the Dems in power when the shit hits the fan so the Dems take the blame and people rush to the Republicans to fix the mess the Democrats created?
Back when developers were interested in developing for other platforms, about a dozen years ago, MS did everything they could to stop them. IIRC they basically threatened to cut of all support for any ISV who developed for OS/2. This meant no up to date tools, no info on bugs or the changing API
Actually WordPerfect 8 was a native port. WordPerfect 9 (10?) was a step backwards and used wine. I have the full tarball running fine on Debian (needs libc5 and xlib5). Sure a pleasure to use compared to most newer word processors, at least on my old hardware. For the hell of it I tried installing the deb on Ubuntu but it wanted to backlevel and remove a lot of stuff. Corel Linux was a nice distro.
Well every year thousands of smokers are killed by cancer after ingesting polonium-210 (and lead-210). Of course this isn't talked about too much as there are vested interests in selling tobacco. http://nepenthes.lycaeum.org/Drugs/THC/Health/canc er.rad.html and lots more available via google
Actually Nagasaki was/is the only Christian city in Japan, and the target was the cathedral. Sad thing is a lot of survivors of Hiroshima headed for Nagasaki thinking the Americans would never nuke a Christian city.
While legally in Canada you were/are always supposed to carry your license when driving, they used to just say to show it at the local cop shop if you were caught without your license. Some years back this changed to an automatic big fine if caught driving without a license (or/and insurance).
In Canada the only way they are supposed to keep your prints on file is if you are convicted. IIRC they can keep your prints for a year if charged etc.
One "single hit" scenario to consider is whether hittting water or hitting land is worse. I'm going to guess land is worse since you get a huge amount of particulate matter thrown into the air on a land impact. Either way you're probably getting a volcano and those are never good in populated places and would likely make a mess of the global climate for some time.
While you're correct that a land hit would throw up a lot of particulate matter into the atmosphere and cause heavy global cooling, a water hit would be much worst. A few kilometers of water isn't going to slow down an asteroid much and you would get one hell of a wave. Think quite possibly 1000s of meters high. This would devastate every coast surrounding the ocean the asteroid hit. Then the crust is quite a bit thinner under the ocean so you would have a red hot hole in the ocean. Huge amounts of steam produced causing world wide torrential rains and you would still get lots of particulate matter in the atmosphere as well
Henry Ford paid his workers enough to afford his new cars. The money he paid out came right back into his pocket because he through globally and invested locally
Seems to me that Ford ended up getting sued for not maximizing profits for the shareholders because of moves like this. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_C ompany. In the end IRRC he ended up buying out all the stockholders and could do what he wanted.
You do realize that infidels don't include Christians or Jews don't you? Basically if you accept the Bible then you are not an infidel but instead a people of the book with the same God
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Yea, some years ago sound worked fine on Linux. Then they introduced another sound system and now you have todays mess. /dev/hda1 is now (hd0,0). Took hours to realize that /dev/hdc2 is (hd1,1) instead of (hd2,1).
I had a soundcard (PAS) that worked great on Linux 1.3. Every upgrade it got harder to get it to work until 2.6 where I totally gave up.
Things like this are why I gave up on Linux. Something works fine, then they change it. Whole new learning curve, bunch of incompatibilities etc.
I was trying to fix my sons Linux install yesterday. Instead of LILO it is using Grub. Grub has a different way of labeling partitions so
No wonder I'm still using OS/2.
And yet, despite all that, it's still the only viable choice for a web browser.
I don't know about that. I'm using a browser that (at least here) is twice as fast as firefox, includes mail, news, IRC, and a crappy HTML editor. Accepts lots of extensions, though only a subset of Firefox's. Runs on every system that Firefox runs on. And builds out of the same codebase as Firefox just needing different configure options.
Yes I'm talking about Seamonkey. Stupid name, nice fast browser.
Actually the vacuum for the brakes ran of of a vacuum pump at the back of the alternator. And yes it was naturally aspirated and the combustion started in a small chamber in the head so I guess indirectly injected. As for efficiency goes it only produced 70 horse and about 120 lbs of torque and gave me 40 miles per imperial gallon.
Why it was designed that way I don't really know. Perhaps to give engine braking?
The SD series was used in things like the Patrol 4x4 where engine braking would be handy and some of the Patrols were turbo charged as well as 6 cyl. Mine was 4 cyl (2500 CC).
And yes I've always been curious to try driving other diesels.
Actually hemp is just a variety of Cannabis. There's no reason that hemp can't have high THC levels (besides the fact that they often include large numbers of males) and in the past did.
Thing is nowadays the hemp advocates like to pretend that hemp never has any THC to speak of and push strains that don't have any.
Kind of surprised to see soybeans doing so well. Soybeans also take quite a bit of fertilizer and various pesticides.
The best plant for energy, both alcohol and biodiesel as well as plastic, and one hell of a lot of other useful things is hemp.
In my limited experience Diesels have lots more engine compression braking. I used to drive a Nissan PU with a SD25 diesel. Gear down, let of the clutch and get pulled over by the cops to check your brake lights.
With a 22.5 to 1 compression ratio (close to 500 lbs engine compression) it had lots of engine braking.
I think the difference is that this engine had a butterfly valve in the intake hooked up to the throttle and a vacuum line to the fuel pump for throttle operation and others have the throttle connected straight to the fuel pump with no valve in the manifold to create vacuum.
Another nice thing about that engine that given a hill to jump start it you didn't need electric power for it to run.
What did the state do to help Microsoft become a monopoly?
Actually Microsoft's monopoly can be attributed to the IBM antitrust case. IBM contracted out the OS for the PC so as not to get in trouble with the justice department and likely gave MS a good deal, eg allowing MS to still have rights to DOS.
Also IBM was scared to truly compete during the OS/2 Windows wars for the same reasons.
One thing about IBM is that they were interested in obeying the law unlike Microsoft.
This isn't really true. Most public corporations do have to maximize profits for their shareholders but in the case of a corporation with only one shareholder they can do what ever they want. When Ford got sued for not maximizing profits Henry Ford bought back all the stock and could do whatever he wanted.
Also if a corporation is founded with the goal of not maximizing profits and makes it clear to prospective stockholders, it would also be legal though they might not be able to sell much stock.
Except NT started out as OS/2 NT v3. I have a Byte around here with a little news blurb about MS actually booting up OS/2 NT v3 for the first time. This was on a MIPS processor IIRC.
Also your bill of rights has this in it The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. which includes all other rights including the right to privacy.
Yes, Win95, Win98 both informed you that you could never use OS/2 again as they changed the active partition to C:. Win2k when first released actually destroyed BootManager every time it was booted. I was quite surprised when I recently installed Win2k service pack #3 that it actually said how to re enable BootManager though I doubt a nontechnical person would of understood it.
On the other hand Win95 didn't care about you entering a product code when installing on a computer with OS/2 installed. This is in keeping with their philosophy that pirating is fine when you pirate a MS product rather then use the competition.
I think that everyone who liked OS/2 ended up hating MS for going so far out of their way to break things as well as the pressures they put on developers not to develop for anything besides MS
You're calling BS that someone with bad ram has to reboot a lot?
Perhaps they're smart enough to know the shit is about to hit the fan (Iraq, economy, etc) and want the Dems in power when the shit hits the fan so the Dems take the blame and people rush to the Republicans to fix the mess the Democrats created?
Back when developers were interested in developing for other platforms, about a dozen years ago, MS did everything they could to stop them. IIRC they basically threatened to cut of all support for any ISV who developed for OS/2. This meant no up to date tools, no info on bugs or the changing API
Actually WordPerfect 8 was a native port. WordPerfect 9 (10?) was a step backwards and used wine.
I have the full tarball running fine on Debian (needs libc5 and xlib5). Sure a pleasure to use compared to most newer word processors, at least on my old hardware. For the hell of it I tried installing the deb on Ubuntu but it wanted to backlevel and remove a lot of stuff.
Corel Linux was a nice distro.
Well every year thousands of smokers are killed by cancer after ingesting polonium-210 (and lead-210). Of course this isn't talked about too much as there are vested interests in selling tobacco.c er.rad.html
http://nepenthes.lycaeum.org/Drugs/THC/Health/can
and lots more available via google
Actually some people believe that most smoking related cancers are caused by Polonium-210. A pack and a half smoker is exposed to about 8000 mrem a year ( http://nepenthes.lycaeum.org/Drugs/THC/Health/canc er.rad.html )o bacco.html
caused by polonium-210 and lead-210. This comes from the phosphate fertilizer used by all the big tobacco companies.
Another interesting site is http://www.acsa2000.net/HealthAlert/radioactive_t
or just google tobacco and polonium
There is lots of polonium in tobacco for instance. Seems to come from the phosphate fertilizers. Just google for tobacco and polonium. Couple of example linkse 8f45c4945e85256b58005abaec/5dc7355eabaa3e3c85256b2 f00591a7e!OpenDocument
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoking
http://www1.fipr.state.fl.us/FIPR/FIPR1.nsf/9bb2f
Actually Nagasaki was/is the only Christian city in Japan, and the target was the cathedral. Sad thing is a lot of survivors of Hiroshima headed for Nagasaki thinking the Americans would never nuke a Christian city.
While legally in Canada you were/are always supposed to carry your license when driving, they used to just say to show it at the local cop shop if you were caught without your license.
Some years back this changed to an automatic big fine if caught driving without a license (or/and insurance).
In Canada the only way they are supposed to keep your prints on file is if you are convicted.
IIRC they can keep your prints for a year if charged etc.
One "single hit" scenario to consider is whether hittting water or hitting land is worse. I'm going to guess land is worse since you get a huge amount of particulate matter thrown into the air on a land impact. Either way you're probably getting a volcano and those are never good in populated places and would likely make a mess of the global climate for some time.
While you're correct that a land hit would throw up a lot of particulate matter into the atmosphere and cause heavy global cooling, a water hit would be much worst.
A few kilometers of water isn't going to slow down an asteroid much and you would get one hell of a wave. Think quite possibly 1000s of meters high. This would devastate every coast surrounding the ocean the asteroid hit.
Then the crust is quite a bit thinner under the ocean so you would have a red hot hole in the ocean. Huge amounts of steam produced causing world wide torrential rains and you would still get lots of particulate matter in the atmosphere as well
Henry Ford paid his workers enough to afford his new cars. The money he paid out came right back into his pocket because he through globally and invested locally
C ompany.
Seems to me that Ford ended up getting sued for not maximizing profits for the shareholders because of moves like this. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_
In the end IRRC he ended up buying out all the stockholders and could do what he wanted.
Try moving the npnul* plugin out of your plugins folder
You do realize that infidels don't include Christians or Jews don't you?
Basically if you accept the Bible then you are not an infidel but instead a people of the book with the same God