. We do know that many violent sex fiends started with looking at violent pornography.
"Everybody knows" was once applied to "the world is flat". We learned how to use scientific method to disprove this belief. If you're going to make this kind of statement, point at verifiable research studies from reputable sources which demonstrate your assertion.
Anecdotes from Religious Right blogs or "feminist" anti-porn sites or serial killers trying to get sympathy by telling the crazies they you want to hear don't constitute evidence of anything other than your gullibility.
Once starship travel becomes common, that sort of story will be found in the back pages of whatever replaces newspapers. The ability of a culture to build starships does not preclude the ability of the individuals in it to screw up spectacularly. In fact, better technology increases the opportunities to screw up. Perhaps it will be you who proves that this is indeed possible when you wake up with the worst hangover in history 2000 light years from home.
Of course, that's going to be a while, even if any of the theories that suggest the possibility of FTL transportation accurately describe this universe.
You can buy the driver package (which seems to cover everything, but try before you buy, they've got a demo) from http://www.turboprint.de/ or you can find the Canon Japan ftp site where they've got the Canon PIXMA drivers.
Separate ink tanks are also easy to refill. Do a bit of research first, though, some of their newer printers have the integrated ink tank/print head setup that does nothing but add to your costs when you discover that only one color is empty and you've got to cough up the money anyway for a new printer cartridge.
I once had an HP Series II laserjet with the original Canon laser print engine. Built like a tank, and about as heavy. And solid. And reliable. Too bad the HP that made that printer is for practical purposes, no longer around. The HP of old was strangled by the bean counters and marketeers. All that's left is a once-proud name.
HP's attempt to suppress third-party ink competitors is just another good reason to avoid HP printers, and anything else HP makes, particularly including servers and workstations. (other reasons to avoid the workstations, e.g. drive partition "backup" instead of an install CD)
I went to Fry's with both the madwifi (Atheros) and ndiswrapper lists of wireless devices loaded into my PalmPDA (yes, I got jpilot working and it connects to my Linux desktop just fine) and sat in front of the shelves at Fry's comparing wireless devices with the list before making my buying decision. Both my choices of devices (I returned the first one) were right off the lists.
I never got the Atheros AWLL4030 USB plugin working in Linux via ndiswrapper or even the commercial linuxant version, and it took me longer than I want to think about getting my D-Link USB plugin running, despite the fact that Ralink actively works with the OpenSource development team that writes Linux drivers for it. Ralink DOES want people to use the wireless devices based on their chips to work.
I'm not exactly inexperienced, I've been writing about Linux for money for over a year.
Getting my generic USB mass storage camera working was a nightmare, despite gphoto's alleged support for mass storage cameras. Though in fairness, all I had to do in SLED10 was open the photo app and tell it to load, I almost fell out of my chair when it did exactly that. THAT is how a Linux app is supposed to work. Mass storage is mass storage. . . and has nothing to do with vendor proprietary anything.
While I've finally got wireless working most of the time on this box (now, for instance), and this is with a driver the manufacturer is actively supporting an OpenSource development team on, and I also can play DVDs (and any other multimedia) on this box anytime I please, I'm finding while on the average, it isn't that much harder to set up Linux solutions than it is on Windoze. . . if one is working with a box for a living, one does NOT need to spend hours to weeks (it took me 6 weeks to find out how to set up backups to mobile rack and DVD) every time I want to add new functionality to my system.
In the case of backups, it took me 6 weeks and writing a custom script to get working. Somebody who reads my how-to piece (haven't rewritten the script to work correctly with HAL yet, so no URL) can set up backups in a couple of hours.
That's the problem that has to be fixed in Linux to make it reasonable as a mass-market OS. Some stuff in Linux is already better, GUI installers are a good example. A Windows box with a missing DLL will simply tell the user a DLL is missing and with luck, will dump you back to the OS and YOU get to track it down and try to install it. . . an automated Linux installer will find the dependency, install it, then install your app.
Legendary research place, the first GUI came from there, but the first consumer/business GUI machine still came from Apple, not Xerox.
I've seen plenty of k3w1 things from MS Research described in articles, and never saw or heard of them again despite obvious commercial possibilities.
Maybe if MS spins out MS Research, it'll go to somebody capable of appreciating it.
As for the article subject, who is capable of aggregating a pool of private money for an LBO that big and stupid enough to think MS is worth buying at above fire sale prices? The franchise is taking on water, and I doubt anyone but "drank the Kool-Aid" MS fanboys thinks Vista will save it.
I doubt you left in protest over taxes, if you're as stupid as your post tells us you are, your departure is more likely to have been for the purpose of avoiding pissed off customers.
Arnold's political understanding is based on whatever his campaign contributors tell him.
for any spammer regardless of age. It might even pass SCOTUS review (the objection would be "cruel and unusual punishment"), at least if SCOTUS justices get any spam on their own e-mail accounts like the rest of us do.
Though I suspect that Hormel would be the wrong company to ask about this.
Anybody know a congresscritter in desperate need of a campaign issue?
of Ken Lay of Enron, from whatever circle of Hell he now inhabits.
You're essentially repeating the talking points that Enron paid for to divert people from the fact that Arnold was planning not to try to recover any of the money from the Enron scam that ripped California utility customers off for billions of dollars using staged power shutdowns to scare people into paying any amount of money the power companies demanded.
Thanks for moving to Oregon, the average IQ in California went up when you crossed the state line.
Ask Senator Joe Lieberman, who managed to lose the Democratic primary to somebody named Ned Lamont nobody ever heard of that bloggers thought well of.
However, the real point here is that yes, "Snakes on a Plane" did get plenty of publicity on the Net. From people making fun of an "terrorism" concept that was even stupid for Hollywood; a concept so stupid that even the Transportation Safety Administration won't search travelers for snakes at airports. (as of right now, but I haven't checked the news today)
In other words, "Snakes" got plenty of free publicity and damned near all of it was bad. Though I'm not at all sure if its dismal box office showing was due to free online publicity or people seeing the conventional marketing and coming to the same conclusion as bloggers. . . so stupid that it isn't worth spending $20 to go see.
As an "Airplane" style comedy, it might have worked. Was the studio not paying any attention to focus groups or did they recruit the intellectually challenged on purpose? If they'd figured it out in time, they probably could have edited it into a comedy with minimal reshooting.
I can watch video in windows that resize up to full screen just fine and listen to MP3s in xine and mplayer with sound quality only limited by my audio chip and a pair of speakers that suxx0rs. Have you even tried resizing the windows in your video apps?
Or I can watch streaming video in RealPlayer and. . . listen to MP3s. Xine works just fine with DVDs. I'm not even using the latest and greatest Linux distro, I had those capabilities as of Fedora Core 2 and use them just fine in FC3. And I can watch almost all WMV and QT files. (I assume the ones I can't view are in exotic codecs) To watch proprietary video formats, download and install w32codecs.
Admittedly, I have yet to get gstreamer to work, though to my shock, XMMS started playing back mp3s when I installed w32codecs.
The thing to remember with Linux multimedia is. . . the applications won't work on every machine, if one doesn't work on your box after a reasonable amount of screwing around, try something else.
However, the fact that this stuff generally doesn't work out of the box is in large part why I don't recommend Linux unless it's in an environment where it can get tech support. If you are your own tech support, fine. But for typical users, this stuff needs to be set up by admins.
It's not quite WS_FTP, but it's extremely usable. Of course, if you don't have KDE installed, you're SOL.
The good news with respect to Linux graphics is that it's almost there. XaraExtreme already looks pretty good, as does Krita (which just crashed when I tried closing it)... I think we're within a year of having pro-quality (if you think GIMP is pro-grade, I don't want any of what you're smoking) raster paint software and I think Inkscape will provide pro-quality vector graphics when it finally gets to v1.0.
As for a simple photo editing tool, have you tried gthumb (might be called photo tool in your distro)? It combines an image browser with a set of easy to use image manipulaton tools... brightness / contrast / gamma , plus cropping and resizing.
our need to replace oil with green/renewable replacements that don't have to be bought from the Middle East.
If we didn't need oil out of there, would it matter to us if they built a Caliphate? Really? Personally, I can't think of anything worse we could do to the terrorists than letting themselves be put in a position where they have to fix what's wrong with the Middle East in a group of countries whose portable assets will leave with the oil monarchs who own them, leaving their ex-nations stripped of anything they can buy food / technological products with.
As for Israel, if the Arabs are no longer selling us oil, who's the only place with Western technology on earth that will have the slightest interest in providing aid to that part of the world? (on the basis that prosperous neighbors are better to have than the other kind... and when the oil monarchs follow their assets to the West, those nations are NOT going to be prosperous. I'm not all that concerned about the ability of a nuclear power to deal with its non-nuclear neighbors. Or its nuclear ones, for that matter, all attacking a nuclear power gets you is a chance to glow in the dark. I don't really think Iran's leadership, even the theocrats, think Iran's appearance would be improved by mushroom clouds where its cities used to be.
50 years from now, nobody outside Iraq is going to give a shit about it regardless of whether it is stabilized by the US or not (at this point, it seems unlikely) unless they come up with something they can sell in the marketplace besides oil. I don't think even the most optimistic projections have them in the oil business in 50 years.
Most likely, it'll be part of a laundry list of Bush Administration failures in a chapter called "How did Americans manage to do this to themselves?"
if the intent is to create spaces within computers where malware can run invisibly and with no possibility of elimination even if the users find out about it.
Reminds me of the decision made to run modern US warships on Windoze.
Military procurement and ripoff were probably synonymous as of when Sargon the Great's people were buying spears and grain to feed troops. The tradition has continued.
The only question I've got here is how many members of the US Armed Forces are going to get killed by this set of mistakes.
Mike Brigg's paper is derived from the NREL numbers from the final NREL Aquatic Species Project report, and he says that our cost per barrel drops based on operating costs.
My own unpublished work (published and NDA doesn't go well together) says that output can be sold for under the current price of oil ($75/barrel), including capitalization and profit margin... and my numbers are more current than the 1996 NREL numbers.
selling fewer candy bars isn't likely to upset the whole apple cart.
45% fewer impulse purchases won't upset the apple cart? This guy is obviously an IT writer, not a retail pro; hardly surprising since this is from Network World. Though I wouldn't have ended the article by shoving my foot into my mouth... despite the fact that I am also an IT writer, I write Linux tutorials for moeny.
This guy doesn't realize how wafer-thin grocery store profits are. If the problem can't be fixed, self-service checkout will be something grocery and other retail stores *used* to do. Reconfiguring the "impulse" displays will probably work.
Personally, I'd miss it. I'm one of those people who has very little trouble using self-checkout... though I agree that the UIs usually suck.
unless you notify whoever you're talking to that you are recording the call (and make sure your notification is recorded), if the other party doesn't hang up, that's consent.
In some states, one-party consent (i.e. yours) is OK, in other states, both parties have to consent.
This is legal from the corporate standpoint because the "quality assurance purpose" notification is adequate.
to get the answers? If you want them from me, you're going to be waiting quite a long while. I'm researching information to be used in a biomass > biodiesel business plan myself at this point.
In general, it depends on which species and what conditions they're grown under. If you want an overview, go here.
Note: one area on which there seems to be a consensus. If one is primarily interested in growing biomass energy, don't bother with open air ponds. Too hard to keep unwanted algae species from growing.
is probably considerably more cost-effective. We want a vegetable oil that can be changed into biodiesel, for us, leaves, stalks and roots are just a waste of solar energy and fertilizer in this case. An algae species suitable for biomass fuel can be looked at as a cellular membrane enclosing a mixture of PUFA, water, and crud.
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"Everybody knows" was once applied to "the world is flat". We learned how to use scientific method to disprove this belief. If you're going to make this kind of statement, point at verifiable research studies from reputable sources which demonstrate your assertion.
Anecdotes from Religious Right blogs or "feminist" anti-porn sites or serial killers trying to get sympathy by telling the crazies they you want to hear don't constitute evidence of anything other than your gullibility.
Of course, that's going to be a while, even if any of the theories that suggest the possibility of FTL transportation accurately describe this universe.
Separate ink tanks are also easy to refill. Do a bit of research first, though, some of their newer printers have the integrated ink tank/print head setup that does nothing but add to your costs when you discover that only one color is empty and you've got to cough up the money anyway for a new printer cartridge.
I once had an HP Series II laserjet with the original Canon laser print engine. Built like a tank, and about as heavy. And solid. And reliable. Too bad the HP that made that printer is for practical purposes, no longer around. The HP of old was strangled by the bean counters and marketeers. All that's left is a once-proud name.
HP's attempt to suppress third-party ink competitors is just another good reason to avoid HP printers, and anything else HP makes, particularly including servers and workstations. (other reasons to avoid the workstations, e.g. drive partition "backup" instead of an install CD)
I never got the Atheros AWLL4030 USB plugin working in Linux via ndiswrapper or even the commercial linuxant version, and it took me longer than I want to think about getting my D-Link USB plugin running, despite the fact that Ralink actively works with the OpenSource development team that writes Linux drivers for it. Ralink DOES want people to use the wireless devices based on their chips to work.
I'm not exactly inexperienced, I've been writing about Linux for money for over a year.
Getting my generic USB mass storage camera working was a nightmare, despite gphoto's alleged support for mass storage cameras. Though in fairness, all I had to do in SLED10 was open the photo app and tell it to load, I almost fell out of my chair when it did exactly that. THAT is how a Linux app is supposed to work. Mass storage is mass storage. . . and has nothing to do with vendor proprietary anything.
While I've finally got wireless working most of the time on this box (now, for instance), and this is with a driver the manufacturer is actively supporting an OpenSource development team on, and I also can play DVDs (and any other multimedia) on this box anytime I please, I'm finding while on the average, it isn't that much harder to set up Linux solutions than it is on Windoze. . . if one is working with a box for a living, one does NOT need to spend hours to weeks (it took me 6 weeks to find out how to set up backups to mobile rack and DVD) every time I want to add new functionality to my system.
In the case of backups, it took me 6 weeks and writing a custom script to get working. Somebody who reads my how-to piece (haven't rewritten the script to work correctly with HAL yet, so no URL) can set up backups in a couple of hours.
That's the problem that has to be fixed in Linux to make it reasonable as a mass-market OS. Some stuff in Linux is already better, GUI installers are a good example. A Windows box with a missing DLL will simply tell the user a DLL is missing and with luck, will dump you back to the OS and YOU get to track it down and try to install it. . . an automated Linux installer will find the dependency, install it, then install your app.
I've seen plenty of k3w1 things from MS Research described in articles, and never saw or heard of them again despite obvious commercial possibilities.
Maybe if MS spins out MS Research, it'll go to somebody capable of appreciating it.
As for the article subject, who is capable of aggregating a pool of private money for an LBO that big and stupid enough to think MS is worth buying at above fire sale prices? The franchise is taking on water, and I doubt anyone but "drank the Kool-Aid" MS fanboys thinks Vista will save it.
I doubt you left in protest over taxes, if you're as stupid as your post tells us you are, your departure is more likely to have been for the purpose of avoiding pissed off customers.
Arnold's political understanding is based on whatever his campaign contributors tell him.
Though I suspect that Hormel would be the wrong company to ask about this.
Anybody know a congresscritter in desperate need of a campaign issue?
I'm sure that he'll never do it again, even if he survives.
You're essentially repeating the talking points that Enron paid for to divert people from the fact that Arnold was planning not to try to recover any of the money from the Enron scam that ripped California utility customers off for billions of dollars using staged power shutdowns to scare people into paying any amount of money the power companies demanded.
Thanks for moving to Oregon, the average IQ in California went up when you crossed the state line.
Do us a favor. Don't come back.
However, the real point here is that yes, "Snakes on a Plane" did get plenty of publicity on the Net. From people making fun of an "terrorism" concept that was even stupid for Hollywood; a concept so stupid that even the Transportation Safety Administration won't search travelers for snakes at airports. (as of right now, but I haven't checked the news today)
In other words, "Snakes" got plenty of free publicity and damned near all of it was bad. Though I'm not at all sure if its dismal box office showing was due to free online publicity or people seeing the conventional marketing and coming to the same conclusion as bloggers. . . so stupid that it isn't worth spending $20 to go see.
As an "Airplane" style comedy, it might have worked. Was the studio not paying any attention to focus groups or did they recruit the intellectually challenged on purpose? If they'd figured it out in time, they probably could have edited it into a comedy with minimal reshooting.
they'll never have to pay for job recruiting ads again.
Or I can watch streaming video in RealPlayer and. . . listen to MP3s. Xine works just fine with DVDs. I'm not even using the latest and greatest Linux distro, I had those capabilities as of Fedora Core 2 and use them just fine in FC3. And I can watch almost all WMV and QT files. (I assume the ones I can't view are in exotic codecs) To watch proprietary video formats, download and install w32codecs.
Admittedly, I have yet to get gstreamer to work, though to my shock, XMMS started playing back mp3s when I installed w32codecs.
The thing to remember with Linux multimedia is. . . the applications won't work on every machine, if one doesn't work on your box after a reasonable amount of screwing around, try something else.
However, the fact that this stuff generally doesn't work out of the box is in large part why I don't recommend Linux unless it's in an environment where it can get tech support. If you are your own tech support, fine. But for typical users, this stuff needs to be set up by admins.
Contemptible, but that's what I expect from a shill.
Your "arguments" aren't worth addressing, since they describe a reality that only exists in the minds of *AA company PR firms.
You sound like a person who can tell us.
The good news with respect to Linux graphics is that it's almost there. XaraExtreme already looks pretty good, as does Krita (which just crashed when I tried closing it)... I think we're within a year of having pro-quality (if you think GIMP is pro-grade, I don't want any of what you're smoking) raster paint software and I think Inkscape will provide pro-quality vector graphics when it finally gets to v1.0.
As for a simple photo editing tool, have you tried gthumb (might be called photo tool in your distro)? It combines an image browser with a set of easy to use image manipulaton tools... brightness / contrast / gamma , plus cropping and resizing.
If we didn't need oil out of there, would it matter to us if they built a Caliphate? Really? Personally, I can't think of anything worse we could do to the terrorists than letting themselves be put in a position where they have to fix what's wrong with the Middle East in a group of countries whose portable assets will leave with the oil monarchs who own them, leaving their ex-nations stripped of anything they can buy food / technological products with.
As for Israel, if the Arabs are no longer selling us oil, who's the only place with Western technology on earth that will have the slightest interest in providing aid to that part of the world? (on the basis that prosperous neighbors are better to have than the other kind... and when the oil monarchs follow their assets to the West, those nations are NOT going to be prosperous. I'm not all that concerned about the ability of a nuclear power to deal with its non-nuclear neighbors. Or its nuclear ones, for that matter, all attacking a nuclear power gets you is a chance to glow in the dark. I don't really think Iran's leadership, even the theocrats, think Iran's appearance would be improved by mushroom clouds where its cities used to be.
Most likely, it'll be part of a laundry list of Bush Administration failures in a chapter called "How did Americans manage to do this to themselves?"
Having read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, I'm one of the persons who believes this.
Reminds me of the decision made to run modern US warships on Windoze.
Military procurement and ripoff were probably synonymous as of when Sargon the Great's people were buying spears and grain to feed troops. The tradition has continued.
The only question I've got here is how many members of the US Armed Forces are going to get killed by this set of mistakes.
Thank you.
Where are you getting your "NREL" numbers?
Mike Brigg's paper is derived from the NREL numbers from the final NREL Aquatic Species Project report, and he says that our cost per barrel drops based on operating costs.
My own unpublished work (published and NDA doesn't go well together) says that output can be sold for under the current price of oil ($75/barrel), including capitalization and profit margin... and my numbers are more current than the 1996 NREL numbers.
45% fewer impulse purchases won't upset the apple cart? This guy is obviously an IT writer, not a retail pro; hardly surprising since this is from Network World. Though I wouldn't have ended the article by shoving my foot into my mouth... despite the fact that I am also an IT writer, I write Linux tutorials for moeny.
This guy doesn't realize how wafer-thin grocery store profits are. If the problem can't be fixed, self-service checkout will be something grocery and other retail stores *used* to do. Reconfiguring the "impulse" displays will probably work.
Personally, I'd miss it. I'm one of those people who has very little trouble using self-checkout... though I agree that the UIs usually suck.
In some states, one-party consent (i.e. yours) is OK, in other states, both parties have to consent.
This is legal from the corporate standpoint because the "quality assurance purpose" notification is adequate.
Usual IANAL disclaimer.
In general, it depends on which species and what conditions they're grown under. If you want an overview, go here.
Note: one area on which there seems to be a consensus. If one is primarily interested in growing biomass energy, don't bother with open air ponds. Too hard to keep unwanted algae species from growing.
is probably considerably more cost-effective. We want a vegetable oil that can be changed into biodiesel, for us, leaves, stalks and roots are just a waste of solar energy and fertilizer in this case. An algae species suitable for biomass fuel can be looked at as a cellular membrane enclosing a mixture of PUFA, water, and crud.