Well of course any life on Earth couldn't live there, it evolved on earth and as such is not accustomed to any other environment. Just as any life on this planet has evolved there and couldn't survive on Earth.
The fixation with CO2 and other substances that are needed for life on Earth has always confounded me. I suppose they might be searching for life that is at least somewhat similar to what we're familiar with. But what would stop life from evolving on a planet without CO2? It may not be in any way similar to life as we know it, but it may still be life.
That may well be true, but that doesn't take away the negative impact SUVs have on the environment. An SUV is far heavier and emits far more greenhouse gasses than a regular car. Just because other things are even worse doesn't mean we shouldn't do anything about massive, unnecessary cars. Get a smaller car, use transit, get a bike, it does have an impact. If you constantly argue that anything you do has a smaller impact than other things, we'll never get anywhere.
HSPA bandwidth is shared with everyone else in your cell so of course you don't generally see top speed, especially not in a crowded city, but with this the total bandwidth shared is increased so you should see an increase in speed.
Why would you *ever* text while driving? Personally, I neither text nor talk on the phone while driving. If I really need to call someone, or read and answer an SMS, I can pull over. (fortunately I don't drive very frequently though, once a month perhaps)
The council consists of heads of state, so changing the way members are elected would have to change the way heads of states are elected. This varies from country to country, but I believe the most common case is that the prime minister represents the country, and the prime minister is elected by parliament. I say scrap the council, or at least severely limit its role to purely executive. It should have no legislative powers.
I don't use a webcam so I can't comment on that. However, I haven't had any major problems with codecs in years. The only time I've had to resort to using another player than my default (vlc) is when I ran across some obscure codec (don't remember its name). That was solved by installing mplayer and w32codecs from repositories.
(Of course Windows is no better in this regard. I have certainly never seen a newly installed Windows machine able to play a simple xvid file without having to find some damned codec pack online)
At least in NetowrkManager 0.7, it should be pretty simple to set up a static IP for a specific wireless network. Edit connections->Wireless->your wireless network->Edit->IPv4 Settings.
I do agree that NetworkManager is progressing slowly though. It wasn't until 0.7 that you could even use a static IP.
And there should be an option to disable NetworkManager, which would make sure Firefox doesn't enter into offline mode just because NetworkManager isn't there (along with other NM-aware apps)
The European Parliament would be the equivalent of the House of Representatives. The European Council is a council comprising the heads of state of the member countries.
Why is this modded flamebait? It's true, commandline instructions are much easier to follow, especially in written online form (essentially copy-paste), than instructions on what button to click where and when.
A GUI can be very useful and make things easier when you're trying to figure things out, but for support, the terminal is much easier to use.
You're being gouged. I pay less than that for 100/100. If there is any sort of competition (from what I've heard, competition is lacking in the US broadband market though), the ISPs would invest that money without rate hikes in order to attract more customers. It's not like they don't have any profit margin on those 55 dollars a month they charge you. They probably make huge profits but they are unwilling to invest in infrastructure because it's a long term investment. It doesn't pay off within 6 months so they'd rather keep the money for themselves.
The US is larger than both Sweden and Japan, yes. But it also has a larger population, and thus a larger economy than either, which should be able to support that infrastructure. And the US has a higher population density that Sweden.
You have highways running all over the country right? Why wouldn't you make the same investment for the backbone?
Then upgrade the backbone. Instead of limiting the speed for end users, invest in the backbone and eliminate the clogging. I'm guessing Japan doesn't have that big of a problem with the backbone though. (neither does Sweden it would appear, I can easily reach 100 Mbps if I download directly from someone else on a 100 Mbps connection within Sweden)
I don't see much use for 1Gbps either, I rarely use the full capacity of my 100 Mbps. But there will probably come some use for 1 Gbps connections in the future, so it's always good to be ready. Who would have predicted 100 Mbps being (somewhat, here at least) common (or having a use) 10 years ago when we were waiting for DSL to get us out of the dial-up world.
1. Who fucking cares about which religion he was brought up in? Or even which religion (if any) he practices now? As long as he doesn't attempt to impose his religion (that includes Christianity) on others, it's a non-issue, or at least it should be to any reasonably intelligent person...
2. If you think Obama is a Communist, you (like most Americans) don't know the meaning of the term. I'm a socialist (as in left of the social democrats in Sweden, that would be pinko commie to you), and believe me, Obama is no communist. Here he would be on the far right side of the spectrum. His views on socialized health care for instance are to the right of even the most right-wing parties here.
The developers don't have to care about desktops, they just have to use the xdg utils for menu entries etc. Application developers don't have to care wether the system is using LVM or not. The package manager situation is being alleviated with PackageKit, which all major distributions will support.
It's probably to minimize the space required. They don't want half the price of the card be the cost of the card itself after all. Also a 320kbps mp3 can be played by pretty much any mp3 player out there, unlike most lossless compression formats. Besides, most people (including me) can't hear the difference between 320 kbps lossy and lossless.
Of course in Europe, the trains generally don't sound their horns every chance they get and the locomotives (if there is one) generally aren't of the huge noisy diesel kind, so it's even more bearable to live near a train station.
The sensible option would be to simply check the location, and if location != US, install "illegal" codecs. If location == US (or any other country where the open source codecs are illegal), gouge for "legal" codecs.
It doesn't make any sense to make rest of the world suffer because of idiotic US laws.
There's a lot of blame to go around for the pollution problem in the world. Yes, Asia is certainly a large part of it. But so is the US and Europe. WE are the ones buying all the cheap crap made in China et al. If WE demand (with the help of import restrictions) that any imported products come from industries with proper pollution controls, the industries will obey, because they have no other choice.
Not exactly high-speed though. It may technically be a high-speed train since the max-speed is at some 250 kph, but the average speed of the Acela is less than our so called "high-speed" trains in Sweden (X2000) that can do 200 kph max.
For real high-speed trains, see TGV and Shinkansen.
It's the same in Sweden, 24 Mbps is the usual max downstream for ADSL for about 350 SEK (35 EUR) (though lower speeds are available, obiously), and some places have 100 Mbps fiber (including to my apartment, 100/100 for about 30 EUR)
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Well of course any life on Earth couldn't live there, it evolved on earth and as such is not accustomed to any other environment. Just as any life on this planet has evolved there and couldn't survive on Earth.
The fixation with CO2 and other substances that are needed for life on Earth has always confounded me. I suppose they might be searching for life that is at least somewhat similar to what we're familiar with.
But what would stop life from evolving on a planet without CO2? It may not be in any way similar to life as we know it, but it may still be life.
That may well be true, but that doesn't take away the negative impact SUVs have on the environment. An SUV is far heavier and emits far more greenhouse gasses than a regular car.
Just because other things are even worse doesn't mean we shouldn't do anything about massive, unnecessary cars. Get a smaller car, use transit, get a bike, it does have an impact. If you constantly argue that anything you do has a smaller impact than other things, we'll never get anywhere.
HSPA bandwidth is shared with everyone else in your cell so of course you don't generally see top speed, especially not in a crowded city, but with this the total bandwidth shared is increased so you should see an increase in speed.
As far as I know, there's no reason why a thin client couldn't have a CD drive.
Why would you *ever* text while driving? Personally, I neither text nor talk on the phone while driving. If I really need to call someone, or read and answer an SMS, I can pull over. (fortunately I don't drive very frequently though, once a month perhaps)
The council consists of heads of state, so changing the way members are elected would have to change the way heads of states are elected. This varies from country to country, but I believe the most common case is that the prime minister represents the country, and the prime minister is elected by parliament.
I say scrap the council, or at least severely limit its role to purely executive. It should have no legislative powers.
I don't use a webcam so I can't comment on that. However, I haven't had any major problems with codecs in years. The only time I've had to resort to using another player than my default (vlc) is when I ran across some obscure codec (don't remember its name). That was solved by installing mplayer and w32codecs from repositories.
(Of course Windows is no better in this regard. I have certainly never seen a newly installed Windows machine able to play a simple xvid file without having to find some damned codec pack online)
At least in NetowrkManager 0.7, it should be pretty simple to set up a static IP for a specific wireless network. Edit connections->Wireless->your wireless network->Edit->IPv4 Settings.
I do agree that NetworkManager is progressing slowly though. It wasn't until 0.7 that you could even use a static IP.
And there should be an option to disable NetworkManager, which would make sure Firefox doesn't enter into offline mode just because NetworkManager isn't there (along with other NM-aware apps)
The European Parliament would be the equivalent of the House of Representatives. The European Council is a council comprising the heads of state of the member countries.
Why is this modded flamebait? It's true, commandline instructions are much easier to follow, especially in written online form (essentially copy-paste), than instructions on what button to click where and when.
A GUI can be very useful and make things easier when you're trying to figure things out, but for support, the terminal is much easier to use.
NetworkManager has remembered WPA keys about three or four releases back by now.
You're being gouged. I pay less than that for 100/100. If there is any sort of competition (from what I've heard, competition is lacking in the US broadband market though), the ISPs would invest that money without rate hikes in order to attract more customers. It's not like they don't have any profit margin on those 55 dollars a month they charge you.
They probably make huge profits but they are unwilling to invest in infrastructure because it's a long term investment. It doesn't pay off within 6 months so they'd rather keep the money for themselves.
ISPs.. If they want to remain competitive..
The US is larger than both Sweden and Japan, yes. But it also has a larger population, and thus a larger economy than either, which should be able to support that infrastructure.
And the US has a higher population density that Sweden.
You have highways running all over the country right? Why wouldn't you make the same investment for the backbone?
Then upgrade the backbone. Instead of limiting the speed for end users, invest in the backbone and eliminate the clogging. I'm guessing Japan doesn't have that big of a problem with the backbone though. (neither does Sweden it would appear, I can easily reach 100 Mbps if I download directly from someone else on a 100 Mbps connection within Sweden)
I don't see much use for 1Gbps either, I rarely use the full capacity of my 100 Mbps. But there will probably come some use for 1 Gbps connections in the future, so it's always good to be ready. Who would have predicted 100 Mbps being (somewhat, here at least) common (or having a use) 10 years ago when we were waiting for DSL to get us out of the dial-up world.
1. Who fucking cares about which religion he was brought up in? Or even which religion (if any) he practices now? As long as he doesn't attempt to impose his religion (that includes Christianity) on others, it's a non-issue, or at least it should be to any reasonably intelligent person...
2. If you think Obama is a Communist, you (like most Americans) don't know the meaning of the term. I'm a socialist (as in left of the social democrats in Sweden, that would be pinko commie to you), and believe me, Obama is no communist. Here he would be on the far right side of the spectrum. His views on socialized health care for instance are to the right of even the most right-wing parties here.
The developers don't have to care about desktops, they just have to use the xdg utils for menu entries etc.
Application developers don't have to care wether the system is using LVM or not.
The package manager situation is being alleviated with PackageKit, which all major distributions will support.
It's probably to minimize the space required. They don't want half the price of the card be the cost of the card itself after all. Also a 320kbps mp3 can be played by pretty much any mp3 player out there, unlike most lossless compression formats.
Besides, most people (including me) can't hear the difference between 320 kbps lossy and lossless.
Well trains doing 300 kph generally travel along a completely grade separated right of way, so there would be no crossings to wait at.
Of course in Europe, the trains generally don't sound their horns every chance they get and the locomotives (if there is one) generally aren't of the huge noisy diesel kind, so it's even more bearable to live near a train station.
The sensible option would be to simply check the location, and if location != US, install "illegal" codecs. If location == US (or any other country where the open source codecs are illegal), gouge for "legal" codecs.
It doesn't make any sense to make rest of the world suffer because of idiotic US laws.
There's a lot of blame to go around for the pollution problem in the world. Yes, Asia is certainly a large part of it. But so is the US and Europe.
WE are the ones buying all the cheap crap made in China et al.
If WE demand (with the help of import restrictions) that any imported products come from industries with proper pollution controls, the industries will obey, because they have no other choice.
Not exactly high-speed though. It may technically be a high-speed train since the max-speed is at some 250 kph, but the average speed of the Acela is less than our so called "high-speed" trains in Sweden (X2000) that can do 200 kph max.
For real high-speed trains, see TGV and Shinkansen.
It's the same in Sweden, 24 Mbps is the usual max downstream for ADSL for about 350 SEK (35 EUR) (though lower speeds are available, obiously), and some places have 100 Mbps fiber (including to my apartment, 100/100 for about 30 EUR)