I'm rebuilding the engine in my station wagon with the intention of making just over 400 HP (without a supercharger, turbo, nitrous, etc). For whatever that's worth.:)
Of course, those studies ignore the people who pay attention but still have high medical expenses. Eg, people who have degenertive genetic conditions who take very good care of themselves, but have high medical costs anyway (vaious preventative tests are expensive, drugs are expensive). The people who are sick aren't all the lard-asses who get Type 2 Diabetes due to a crappy diet, and then end up insulin-dependant because they ignored the Dr who said "eat better and this will go away". It's just that those people ruin the system for everyone else.
For that matter, I don't know *anyone* who goes to the Dr. just because they have a low deductable and they feel a little sick. There's not a single situation I can think of where someone is visiting a Dr but should just wait. I do, however, see just about every day examples of people who should go to the Dr, but don't go because it's expensive. Most of them are coughing on me at work and making me sick (well, maybe not all of them). Thanks, consumer-directed health care!
The problem is that health care is inappropriately expensive, it's not that too many people use health care. This is evidenced by the fact that the #1 cause of bankruptcy is health care expenses. Please fix that; don't make it even more expensive in the hopes that somehow that'll fix things...
Dodge Neon is happy. The Neon SRT-4 is still happy looking, but is surprisingly quick. The Subary WRX (particularly in STI form) is also a pretty good performer, but looks somewhat happy, IMHO.
Then again, I drive a '71 Chevelle most days. It doesn't look as angry as a '70 - until you hear the exhaust note...
I have two TVs. One is a projector hung from the ceiling (over the top of a couch) pointed at an empty wall. The other is a 19 inch LCD, mounted on the wall. There is absolutely no way a grand piano would occupy the same amount of space. Sure, I also have two sofas, but I have those because I like to sit down sometimes. And they're also much smaller than a grand piano - even a baby grand. I guess an upright might fit in place of the sofa, but I couldn't entertain people with my mad pie-ano skillz if they didn't have someplace to sit and listen...
And where are you going to drive that Rolls? Unless you have a personal track in your back yard, you are probably going to be driving it on roads that I help provide, even if I don't own a car! It's how things work. Get used to it.
Why are you buying gasoline which is subject to a tax which pays for roads if you don't have a car? When I buy fuel for my farm vehicle, I don't pay the tax which pays for the roads, because I'm not using the roads. You should work out a deal like that for your non-roadgoing fuel purchases.
Ok, it's been a week, but I'll reply anyway in case you check replies.:)
As for the cflags, gcc just checks the environment for those. It's not Gentoo-specific. So, you just do an "export CFLAGS=-march i686 -Os; export CXXFLAGS=$FLAGS" or whatever, and you're set. Do it your.profile,/etc/profile, or just type it before running the build command. With apt-build, you can also just set those in/etc/apt/apt-build.conf. The environment vars, though, also help when just running "configure; make; make install".
The USE flags capability is more difficult. Using apt-build, you get the source (apt-build source), then modify the package description before doing apt-build install. It's not as convenient as with portage/ports, but it's not bad. It's more like the Gentoo overlays, since you're effectively editing the dpkg equivalent of ebuild files.:)
For supporting / updating the updated package, it might be worth looking in to apt's pinning capability. It's a big topic, but the Internet has good information.
Ok, overlays would give me more control over the packages, by letting me redefine the ebuilds for everything. But I can recreate all of the packages I don't like on any system. For example, I can easily get a source rpm, edit the spec file, and recompile. Except that, if I did that with Redhat, Suse, or Debian, I'd be starting with stable, tested sources. With Gentoo, I'm not really starting with a known quantity - so it's not obvious if my changes caused subsequent problems or if the package was broken to begin with.
I like portage and the idea behind Gentoo - don't get me wrong. I just didn't like the poor Q/A, and I don't like the Gentoo community's attitude that anyone who dislikes Gentoo or has troubles must not be 'leet enough to understand how superior Gentoo is.
Then build nagios3 from the Intrepid sources on your Hardy system. Then, if you still miss Gentoo, remove some random files from the system and spend a few hours trying to figure out what broke. Maybe have your neighbor come over and call you an idiot even though he also doesn't know what's wrong, so you can feel like you're in the Gentoo forums.
Compared to being unable boot your system, or something like glibc being completely hosed, this is trivial. And this kind of problem can happen on any distro.
No, it won't. Because binary distributions have something that Gentoo hasn't mastered - "quality assurance" and a limited set of configurations to support. If there was a broken glibc package, for example, someone would've already seen that it was broken before they published the binary package to the download server.
For background - I used Gentoo for a few years (from 2003 to late 2006-ish), and have developed (not just "used") Linux in general for close to 15 years now. I've assembled my own distros from source since before LFS and Gentoo existed.
I thought I had more control with Gentoo when I started, but as it turns out, I just had control over which of the prescribed USE flags I enabled. Everything else, like what patches got applied to the code and what versions were called "stable", was determined by some kid whose approach to software development stopped at "it works for me". After a couple of years of beating my head against problem after problem caused by these kinds of things - including the great X.org debacle - I realized that keeping the wheels on was cutting into the time I could have spent really customizing the parts I cared about.
That's when I started using Ubuntu. The slow release cycle and irritating installer had kept me away from Debian for a while, but Ubuntu fixes that. And it's based on apt, which gives me all the control that portage gives (apt pinning and source control is pretty powerful stuff), without all the PITA that Gentoo's community brings to the distro. The Debian and Ubuntu developers actually test stuff (the recent ssl issue aside;)), and I can update with two commands (an upgrade just takes an extra sed/perl/vi). I don't waste time fixing things that shouldn't be problems to begin with now; I can focus on the customizations I actually care about.
They fertilize several eggs, and implant one. The others are discarded. Seems to me that this is also choosing between "several lives" just like in the other situations, if you're calling a fertilized egg a life. Previously, they'd choose mostly randomly. Why would someone be against providing more information when making that choice? Only one will survive regardless, so it only makes sense to make that the one with the best chance of survival.
I just bought a copy of the book last weekend, and the lawsuit's mentioned in the foreword. It's right after the part where the author mentions CN showing approval.
Disadvantages - some things are still clunky (find interfaces are still really annoying and limited unless you use command line compared to XP)
Strangely, this is one of my biggest gripes about Windows - the find interface *sucks*. I can always find my files on a Linux machine, because I can use find. On Windows, I have to first find the find program (which isn't always straightforward), click a bunch of checkboxes which might somewhat apply to what I'm looking for, and then wait, hoping the file will be found. On Linux, I just type in what I'm looking for. Windows doesn't have that (without going through the hoops of installing Cygwin - something which is impossible on my corporate desktop).
On my Ubuntu machine with beagle installed and active, again, the graphical search tool beats the pants off of Windows' tool. It really baffles me how people can seriously bring up Windows "file search" as one of the things Windows does well. It must be the animated dog, distracting people from the fact that the search tool sucks...
Many non-top fuel racing engines are starting to use ethanol, partially due to the low cost (a gallon of nitromethane is pretty expensive) and ready availability (seen a nitro pump at the local gas station recently?). A gas engine can basically run a higher compression ratio and replace a few fuel fittings, and subsequently make more power on E85 than it could on gasoline. The growing commonality of turbocharging gives a pretty easy way to raise compression (or change the pulley on the supercharger already on that race car, whichever), and alcohol-compatible fuel systems have been common in racing for years.
Perhaps you should have "did" more studying as well, though I guess that would be a tall order for a sub-10 year old child (though I do put a lot of credence in the opinion of a 8-year-old child who lives near 5 cattle).
If you flip the ol' TV over to PBS, Discovery, or any random channel that shows either historical farming in a developed nation or current farming practices in a third-world country, you're bound to eventually see an Ox, Cow, Buffalo, or similar creature pulling a plow. Shockingly - to a fifth-grader - that is an example of enticing a cow to move on command. Visit any sort of historical area, and you're apt to see other large devices which were (or are) cow-powered. There's a big grist mill about an hour away from my house, for example.
If that's too difficult, just pop Bort into your DVD player, and see how the Kazakhstanians pull their cars around with cattle. It's just a movie, but *someone* had to make the cows move so they could record them. Those aren't CGI cattle.
Hint: get a whip (the kind that cracks, not the kind that innner city kids drive). Smack a steer on the rump roast / sirloin steak area, shout a bit, and he'll move. He'll eventually realize that's what he's supposed to do when hooked up to the wheel, and start doing it all by himself - with minimal smacking and yelling.
"Recent"? I thought the cable company I got Internet access through was Comcast, back in 1998 when I lived in Urbana. Since I was a block away from the UIUC campus and taking classes at the U of I, I'd think that the provider a few blocks away in Champaign would have been the same. Maybe my memory's
FWIW, at that time I used Dish network for TV service, and only got Internet through the cable company - even that was only because there was no xDSL service, and a T1 cost too much.
Get the "alternate install CD" or "Server install CD" or, at the boot menu, choose the non-GUI boot option. The installer is still basically the Debian installer, and you can do all sorts of things from the ncurses installer. The server install puts down a minimum system, upon which you can either then install the "ubuntu-desktop" package to get the default desktop, or install the individual packages you want (either for a secure server or secure desktop that you know all about)
The "limited choice" installer is the one that runs in graphical mode after the end user has already chosen the *default* boot option - indicating that they're interested in defaults. People who want more options will examine the first menu they're presented with, or download something other than the "desktop live CD".
Reporters who don't take the time to read "what's on the CD" before they download the.iso, IMHO, fall into the category of people who dhould be accepting default answers. Esp. if they're running a beta release of an OS.
I hope you wear a helmet every time you walk near a hard surface, too, since your head is about the same distance from the ground and you're just as likely to trip over an acorn with your feet as with a bike tire...
Yes, as an inexperienced/idiot youth, I did go over the handlebars (my face went pretty much straight to the pavement) at about 40 MPH once without a helmet, and yes, I always wear a helmet now. But the stories of people tipping over in their driveway/garage and bumping their head don't convince anyone of anything except the incompetence of the rider in question.
5:30AM to 2:00 PM (in my time zone, I guess) is only am 8.5 hour work day, including travel to and from work. But, my boss told us that everyone works 12 hour days, so we shouldn't complain?
Even the Cat-5 cable plugged into the back of my computer right now has 8 wires in it. Seems like that'd make it capable of 4x the speed of light in full-duplex.
How about developing a society where the incentive to commit crimes is lower. If the threshold for obtaining things like food, housing, and health care were lower (as an example), there'd likely be less vioelnt crime and less need to imprison the hungry and whatnot. With a society less worried about protecting everyone from everyone else, it'd be a tad easier to identify the real nutjobs and keep them off the streets. The borderlines who currently get off sometimes probably woulnd't commit crimes to begin with, etc.
Feel free to prove me wrong. Heck, stat with me. I need some dental work, and it'd be nice if I didn't have to pay for it.:)
Did you actually correspond with someone from PayPal who helped you, or are you just presuming that, in the instance you needed help, you could get it by corresponding with them?
I ask because a few months ago I sold a cordless drill on eBay through PayPal. I clearly said that either the battery or charger was dead in the as-is ad, and that I didn't know which one. I also said that I woudn't ship the battery in order to save the recipient shipping costs. When it sold, though, I found that everything fit best in a flat-rate box, which would save the buyer about $1.00. Since the battery also fit (and didn't affect the shipping cost), I threw it in so they could maybe more easily find a replacement.
The buyer filed an "item not as described" complaint when they got it because it didn't work with a new battery they bought. I actually tested the drill and charger beforehand, but didn't mention that because it sounds like a guarantee - but anyway, I know that they worked. And it was clearly (in large bold letters) sold "as-is, untested". So what did PayPal do? They sided with the buyer (who had started sending obscene emails and left offensive feedback).
When I called to ask why PayPal resolved the dispute in the buyer's favor, the person on the phone looked at the auction and said "yeah, it says that it doesn't work in the ad." I asked why again, and she said "You're right, it looks like they didn't look at the ad". Then she said "have a nice day" and hung up. The resolution didn't change.
So, apparently all you have to do is say "item not as described" and PayPal will give you your money back - even if it's exactly as described.
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I'm rebuilding the engine in my station wagon with the intention of making just over 400 HP (without a supercharger, turbo, nitrous, etc). For whatever that's worth. :)
Of course, those studies ignore the people who pay attention but still have high medical expenses. Eg, people who have degenertive genetic conditions who take very good care of themselves, but have high medical costs anyway (vaious preventative tests are expensive, drugs are expensive). The people who are sick aren't all the lard-asses who get Type 2 Diabetes due to a crappy diet, and then end up insulin-dependant because they ignored the Dr who said "eat better and this will go away". It's just that those people ruin the system for everyone else.
For that matter, I don't know *anyone* who goes to the Dr. just because they have a low deductable and they feel a little sick. There's not a single situation I can think of where someone is visiting a Dr but should just wait. I do, however, see just about every day examples of people who should go to the Dr, but don't go because it's expensive. Most of them are coughing on me at work and making me sick (well, maybe not all of them). Thanks, consumer-directed health care!
The problem is that health care is inappropriately expensive, it's not that too many people use health care. This is evidenced by the fact that the #1 cause of bankruptcy is health care expenses. Please fix that; don't make it even more expensive in the hopes that somehow that'll fix things...
But this is probably tomorrow's discussion. :)
Dodge Neon is happy. The Neon SRT-4 is still happy looking, but is surprisingly quick. The Subary WRX (particularly in STI form) is also a pretty good performer, but looks somewhat happy, IMHO.
Then again, I drive a '71 Chevelle most days. It doesn't look as angry as a '70 - until you hear the exhaust note...
I have two TVs. One is a projector hung from the ceiling (over the top of a couch) pointed at an empty wall. The other is a 19 inch LCD, mounted on the wall. There is absolutely no way a grand piano would occupy the same amount of space. Sure, I also have two sofas, but I have those because I like to sit down sometimes. And they're also much smaller than a grand piano - even a baby grand. I guess an upright might fit in place of the sofa, but I couldn't entertain people with my mad pie-ano skillz if they didn't have someplace to sit and listen...
Why are you buying gasoline which is subject to a tax which pays for roads if you don't have a car? When I buy fuel for my farm vehicle, I don't pay the tax which pays for the roads, because I'm not using the roads. You should work out a deal like that for your non-roadgoing fuel purchases.
I laughed so hard that the I almost dropped keys for the '71 Chevelle that I drove to work today.
Ok, it's been a week, but I'll reply anyway in case you check replies. :)
As for the cflags, gcc just checks the environment for those. It's not Gentoo-specific. So, you just do an "export CFLAGS=-march i686 -Os; export CXXFLAGS=$FLAGS" or whatever, and you're set. Do it your .profile, /etc/profile, or just type it before running the build command. With apt-build, you can also just set those in /etc/apt/apt-build.conf. The environment vars, though, also help when just running "configure; make; make install".
The USE flags capability is more difficult. Using apt-build, you get the source (apt-build source), then modify the package description before doing apt-build install. It's not as convenient as with portage/ports, but it's not bad. It's more like the Gentoo overlays, since you're effectively editing the dpkg equivalent of ebuild files. :)
For supporting / updating the updated package, it might be worth looking in to apt's pinning capability. It's a big topic, but the Internet has good information.
Ok, overlays would give me more control over the packages, by letting me redefine the ebuilds for everything. But I can recreate all of the packages I don't like on any system. For example, I can easily get a source rpm, edit the spec file, and recompile. Except that, if I did that with Redhat, Suse, or Debian, I'd be starting with stable, tested sources. With Gentoo, I'm not really starting with a known quantity - so it's not obvious if my changes caused subsequent problems or if the package was broken to begin with.
I like portage and the idea behind Gentoo - don't get me wrong. I just didn't like the poor Q/A, and I don't like the Gentoo community's attitude that anyone who dislikes Gentoo or has troubles must not be 'leet enough to understand how superior Gentoo is.
Start here:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/apt-build
Then build nagios3 from the Intrepid sources on your Hardy system. Then, if you still miss Gentoo, remove some random files from the system and spend a few hours trying to figure out what broke. Maybe have your neighbor come over and call you an idiot even though he also doesn't know what's wrong, so you can feel like you're in the Gentoo forums.
Compared to being unable boot your system, or something like glibc being completely hosed, this is trivial. And this kind of problem can happen on any distro.
No, it won't. Because binary distributions have something that Gentoo hasn't mastered - "quality assurance" and a limited set of configurations to support. If there was a broken glibc package, for example, someone would've already seen that it was broken before they published the binary package to the download server.
For background - I used Gentoo for a few years (from 2003 to late 2006-ish), and have developed (not just "used") Linux in general for close to 15 years now. I've assembled my own distros from source since before LFS and Gentoo existed.
I thought I had more control with Gentoo when I started, but as it turns out, I just had control over which of the prescribed USE flags I enabled. Everything else, like what patches got applied to the code and what versions were called "stable", was determined by some kid whose approach to software development stopped at "it works for me". After a couple of years of beating my head against problem after problem caused by these kinds of things - including the great X.org debacle - I realized that keeping the wheels on was cutting into the time I could have spent really customizing the parts I cared about.
That's when I started using Ubuntu. The slow release cycle and irritating installer had kept me away from Debian for a while, but Ubuntu fixes that. And it's based on apt, which gives me all the control that portage gives (apt pinning and source control is pretty powerful stuff), without all the PITA that Gentoo's community brings to the distro. The Debian and Ubuntu developers actually test stuff (the recent ssl issue aside ;)), and I can update with two commands (an upgrade just takes an extra sed/perl/vi). I don't waste time fixing things that shouldn't be problems to begin with now; I can focus on the customizations I actually care about.
They fertilize several eggs, and implant one. The others are discarded. Seems to me that this is also choosing between "several lives" just like in the other situations, if you're calling a fertilized egg a life. Previously, they'd choose mostly randomly. Why would someone be against providing more information when making that choice? Only one will survive regardless, so it only makes sense to make that the one with the best chance of survival.
I just bought a copy of the book last weekend, and the lawsuit's mentioned in the foreword. It's right after the part where the author mentions CN showing approval.
Disadvantages - some things are still clunky (find interfaces are still really annoying and limited unless you use command line compared to XP)
Strangely, this is one of my biggest gripes about Windows - the find interface *sucks*. I can always find my files on a Linux machine, because I can use find. On Windows, I have to first find the find program (which isn't always straightforward), click a bunch of checkboxes which might somewhat apply to what I'm looking for, and then wait, hoping the file will be found. On Linux, I just type in what I'm looking for. Windows doesn't have that (without going through the hoops of installing Cygwin - something which is impossible on my corporate desktop).
On my Ubuntu machine with beagle installed and active, again, the graphical search tool beats the pants off of Windows' tool. It really baffles me how people can seriously bring up Windows "file search" as one of the things Windows does well. It must be the animated dog, distracting people from the fact that the search tool sucks...
Many non-top fuel racing engines are starting to use ethanol, partially due to the low cost (a gallon of nitromethane is pretty expensive) and ready availability (seen a nitro pump at the local gas station recently?). A gas engine can basically run a higher compression ratio and replace a few fuel fittings, and subsequently make more power on E85 than it could on gasoline. The growing commonality of turbocharging gives a pretty easy way to raise compression (or change the pulley on the supercharger already on that race car, whichever), and alcohol-compatible fuel systems have been common in racing for years.
Yes, you have to be an "insider" to distribute the good file.
Perhaps you should have "did" more studying as well, though I guess that would be a tall order for a sub-10 year old child (though I do put a lot of credence in the opinion of a 8-year-old child who lives near 5 cattle).
If you flip the ol' TV over to PBS, Discovery, or any random channel that shows either historical farming in a developed nation or current farming practices in a third-world country, you're bound to eventually see an Ox, Cow, Buffalo, or similar creature pulling a plow. Shockingly - to a fifth-grader - that is an example of enticing a cow to move on command. Visit any sort of historical area, and you're apt to see other large devices which were (or are) cow-powered. There's a big grist mill about an hour away from my house, for example.
If that's too difficult, just pop Bort into your DVD player, and see how the Kazakhstanians pull their cars around with cattle. It's just a movie, but *someone* had to make the cows move so they could record them. Those aren't CGI cattle.
Hint: get a whip (the kind that cracks, not the kind that innner city kids drive). Smack a steer on the rump roast / sirloin steak area, shout a bit, and he'll move. He'll eventually realize that's what he's supposed to do when hooked up to the wheel, and start doing it all by himself - with minimal smacking and yelling.
"Recent"? I thought the cable company I got Internet access through was Comcast, back in 1998 when I lived in Urbana. Since I was a block away from the UIUC campus and taking classes at the U of I, I'd think that the provider a few blocks away in Champaign would have been the same. Maybe my memory's
FWIW, at that time I used Dish network for TV service, and only got Internet through the cable company - even that was only because there was no xDSL service, and a T1 cost too much.
Get the "alternate install CD" or "Server install CD" or, at the boot menu, choose the non-GUI boot option. The installer is still basically the Debian installer, and you can do all sorts of things from the ncurses installer. The server install puts down a minimum system, upon which you can either then install the "ubuntu-desktop" package to get the default desktop, or install the individual packages you want (either for a secure server or secure desktop that you know all about)
.iso, IMHO, fall into the category of people who dhould be accepting default answers. Esp. if they're running a beta release of an OS.
The "limited choice" installer is the one that runs in graphical mode after the end user has already chosen the *default* boot option - indicating that they're interested in defaults. People who want more options will examine the first menu they're presented with, or download something other than the "desktop live CD".
Reporters who don't take the time to read "what's on the CD" before they download the
I hope you wear a helmet every time you walk near a hard surface, too, since your head is about the same distance from the ground and you're just as likely to trip over an acorn with your feet as with a bike tire...
Yes, as an inexperienced/idiot youth, I did go over the handlebars (my face went pretty much straight to the pavement) at about 40 MPH once without a helmet, and yes, I always wear a helmet now. But the stories of people tipping over in their driveway/garage and bumping their head don't convince anyone of anything except the incompetence of the rider in question.
5:30AM to 2:00 PM (in my time zone, I guess) is only am 8.5 hour work day, including travel to and from work. But, my boss told us that everyone works 12 hour days, so we shouldn't complain?
Sorry - latency, not bandwidth. Nevermind. :)
Even the Cat-5 cable plugged into the back of my computer right now has 8 wires in it. Seems like that'd make it capable of 4x the speed of light in full-duplex.
Huh. I looked through a couple of the patches and was unable to find such a file. I'm sorely disappointed.
How about developing a society where the incentive to commit crimes is lower. If the threshold for obtaining things like food, housing, and health care were lower (as an example), there'd likely be less vioelnt crime and less need to imprison the hungry and whatnot. With a society less worried about protecting everyone from everyone else, it'd be a tad easier to identify the real nutjobs and keep them off the streets. The borderlines who currently get off sometimes probably woulnd't commit crimes to begin with, etc.
:)
Feel free to prove me wrong. Heck, stat with me. I need some dental work, and it'd be nice if I didn't have to pay for it.
Did you actually correspond with someone from PayPal who helped you, or are you just presuming that, in the instance you needed help, you could get it by corresponding with them?
I ask because a few months ago I sold a cordless drill on eBay through PayPal. I clearly said that either the battery or charger was dead in the as-is ad, and that I didn't know which one. I also said that I woudn't ship the battery in order to save the recipient shipping costs. When it sold, though, I found that everything fit best in a flat-rate box, which would save the buyer about $1.00. Since the battery also fit (and didn't affect the shipping cost), I threw it in so they could maybe more easily find a replacement.
The buyer filed an "item not as described" complaint when they got it because it didn't work with a new battery they bought. I actually tested the drill and charger beforehand, but didn't mention that because it sounds like a guarantee - but anyway, I know that they worked. And it was clearly (in large bold letters) sold "as-is, untested". So what did PayPal do? They sided with the buyer (who had started sending obscene emails and left offensive feedback).
When I called to ask why PayPal resolved the dispute in the buyer's favor, the person on the phone looked at the auction and said "yeah, it says that it doesn't work in the ad." I asked why again, and she said "You're right, it looks like they didn't look at the ad". Then she said "have a nice day" and hung up. The resolution didn't change.
So, apparently all you have to do is say "item not as described" and PayPal will give you your money back - even if it's exactly as described.