Watching NOVA about climate a university guy shows us his warehouse full of ice cores. Best site of ice cores in the world. I know he's considered the risks, but how much money does he really have to protect it? One wonders. We just have to expect vital data to go missing from time to time.
We won't recover the great library at Alexandria either.
Only copyrighted works? Um. All works are copyrighted unless the work explicitly says it is not copyrighted or the (seemingly infinite) lifetime of the copyright has expired. All. Automatically. Even this note. IANAL.
"I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10, and everything went smoothly except for the following: 1. My sound hardware is no longer recognized for some reason. I have a Dell Dimension computer with integrated audio, and it had worked fine after installing 9.04, but stopped working when I upgraded. It now claims I have no sound hardware installed, and I'm not entirely sure how to correct it. "
Wierdly, my experience was the reverse. My microphone (using built-in sound on a new-to-me ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe/Wifi) did not work with 9.04 (nor did sound even play till I fiddled with sound settings, one defaulted off). But with 9.10 it did all work out-of-the-box -- great for me.
Now if the ATI Radeon HD 4350 (newly out this year) worked better with the open-source drivers it would be great. But I get ugly speckles in menu bars.
Regardless, it's all better than Fedora Core 9 (which I had on older motherboard plus PCI sound card). I do get it though: lots of different experiences out there.
For months every FC9 update would break sound (and there was at least one update that broke sound every week). Either I could not listen to YouTube sound or Skype would stop working. Or both. For a long time Pulse was de-installed. Then I had to install it. Then I had to futz with controls (sometimes system controls, sometimes things in an application). Some weeks I could not get sound working till the next update.
Why is it such a nightmare?
Sure it is the distro's fault.. So? It's been really bad.
Assumption: the only format for documents saved by this free application will be MS proprietary, not readable by any other application. Thus a back door way to 'encourage' the users friends to 'upgrade' their version of Word! Am I just wrong?
Casual calculations will show that rail takes way less land for any given traffic density and way less energy per person-transported (than cars). Making your comment basically irrelevant even if we assume that widening freeways is feasible.
I'm imagining a 12-lane freeway south from San Francisco. Full of cars traveling 75mph. This would likely be a nightmare.
There also comes a point when "let's have another horrendously expensive tax-sucking boondoggle" is no longer a viable option.
-jcr
Hmm. Pretending that the highway system is somehow not a tax-sucking boondoggle, are we? All transportation is government funded and how we do it impacts the choices people make. Make rail fast and affordable and it could save Interstate 5 from being an 800 mile long parking lot.
.That being said I have no idea if it will make money. Probably depends on how well it its managed.
The concern about making money is touching. How much money does Interstate 5 make each year? Oh. Wait. Other than a gas tax of perhaps a couple of cents a mile Interstate 5 (which is the major N/S route in California) the driver is not paying anything (other than income taxes and the like).
Why do we expect basic transport to make money? What makes you think the Airlines have (net, over their history) made any money? (without the subsidies in the airports etc airlines would be out of business). We need to get folks off of Interstate 5 and a sensibly priced choice will do that and save lots of energy for the country and make a safer trip. A big win. Build the bullet train!
But at the outset [...] they state that it is not a trail, rules of evidence do not apply including the municipalities need to prove a case. Other than the semantics, it sounds just like Corona's system.
I believe the rule is turn on red in the US because the roads are new and built with good visibility. When there is no visibility turn on red is forbidden. Whereas in France at most intersections turn on red would be dangerous due to the lack of visibility. Therefore turn on red is the exception.
Kinda depends on the state. In Illinois as soon as a right turn on red law was passed in Springfield (which was around 1970? I forget, and I left in 1976) essentially every stoplight in the Chicago Metro area sprouted a "no turn on red" sign. Essentially immediately. Who knew local government could be so efficient as to get signs up that quick?
The importance of cursive practice is in the wonderfully organizing effect it has on the brain. (true of any language). The importance is one of many brain effects discussed in the book "The Brain Than Changes Itself" by Doidge. It's on page 41. The cursive practice changes your brain. No, I have no financial interest in the book...
It's not about the writing itself, it's about the brain.
Put it in your trunk? Forget it. It weighs about 100 pounds. And has no handles. And you cannot drive it without the long handle attached, so getting it up a ramp won't be easy!
My wife cannot ride a bicycle any longer, she cannot bend her knee far enough (short legs and non-adjustable pedal crank arm on bicycles are one issue, as is applying too much repetetive force on the leg). Segway is great because that is not an issue.
A Segway rider is pretty much over the wheels (i.e., the CG is well forward of where it is on a bicycle). It's possible that a Segway could stop that fast, if it tilted backward by about 27 degrees (atan 0.5) -- can it do that?
Yes of course. It's easy. Plus one is going much slower than bicycles (essentially all the time) so the question is a strawman.
What is not so easy is going uphill at more than a walking pace. Its algorithms do not seem to adapt to that (it works, but progress is slower than on level ground).
My wife can walk, but not that far (bad leg) so our Segway is great for getting out with me when I run or ride a bike. No sidewalks here, the street has to do. And our neighbors think it's cool.
You (easily) turn off Whispernet to get 2 week battery life. With Whispernet on you get a day or two battery life. Mostly there is no reason to have Whispernet on.
Another good point of Kindle (any Kindle): you can read it in full sunlight. Try that with a laptop...
On FC9 audio and microphone worked without pulseaudio (not with it!)
for months( but no system sounds).
Then no sound till I installed pulseaudio
again, now system sounds work, but
the microphone does not. During one
2 month period I got skype to work by switching
from/dev/dsp to/dev/dsp1, but then after
another FC9 update switched back to/dev/dsp
when/dev/dsp1 stopped working. And then
another update made the microphone non-functional
period. One post said 'fixed in FC10
or FC11' meaning to heck with us on FC9,
I guess. No way would I suggest plain folks
use Linux at this point.
Found the quote on www.curteen.com which I quote here in part:
There is a great article on education on Robin Goods website by John Taylor Gatto posing the question "Education: Do We Really Need Schools Or Do We Need To Better Understand What Education Should Really Be?"
In the article, the author quotes from H. L. Mencken, who wrote in The American Mercury for April 1924 that
"... the aim of public education is not to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. Nothing could be further from the truth.
OFnow: My personal contribution here
is that Gatto also wrote "The Underground History of American Education", a fascinating book
that everyone with any interest in
education or the next generation
of US students should read.
In a strange way we already have universal health
care ( hospitals wind up treating people
for free) but it's a) dishonest
because it is hidden and b) self-defeating
because it's impossible to treat things
while still treatable (you have to wait
for total collapse before you get the free
treatment).
We already pay twice (per capita) what
Europeans pay for health care.
If we were honest about
limiting treatment (which we limit
now, but only for some people some
of the time) it's hard to know
if it would be more or less expensive.
But maybe if were honest with ourselves
as a society we could make real
decisions? Nah:-)
It's more than adequate because it natively
handles money data in transparently correct ways.
Other languages have to be bent to fit.
Integer and double precision data simply
do not meet the need, though these days
with 64bit integers it is easier to warp
integers to be usable.
In addition it let one record right-size
fields on disk and tape (in a day when
disks were small and very very expensive).
I'm glad I no longer write code in COBOL, but
for many years it was the only choice possible
for business.
It was amusing in the 60s 70s 80s reading
papers suggesting (32bit) integers and double
precision (in C or whatever) as
an alternative to COBOL data types.
I guess the authors never kept their checkbook
to the penny or never had as many as 5 billion
pennies in that checkbook.
Um, try an LED before you buy more than one.
Mine, from CCrane, are dim and the light
is sort of like a blob of pearls, not
a single intensity across a book page.
Not really ready for room lighting.
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Watching NOVA about climate a university guy shows us his warehouse full
of ice cores. Best site of ice cores in the world. I know he's considered the risks,
but how much money does he really have to protect it? One wonders.
We just have to expect vital data to go missing from time to time.
We won't recover the great library at Alexandria either.
It's not so difficult, really. Install Ubuntu 9.10. Problem solved.
Only copyrighted works? Um. All works are copyrighted unless the work explicitly says it is not copyrighted
or the (seemingly infinite) lifetime of the copyright has expired. All. Automatically. Even this note.
IANAL.
"I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10, and everything went smoothly except for the following: 1. My sound hardware is no longer recognized for some reason. I have a Dell Dimension computer with integrated audio, and it had worked fine after installing 9.04, but stopped working when I upgraded. It now claims I have no sound hardware installed, and I'm not entirely sure how to correct it. "
Wierdly, my experience was the reverse. My microphone (using built-in sound on a new-to-me
ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe/Wifi) did not work with 9.04 (nor did sound even play till I fiddled
with sound settings, one defaulted off). But with 9.10 it did all work out-of-the-box -- great for me.
Now if the ATI Radeon HD 4350 (newly out this year) worked better with the open-source drivers
it would be great. But I get ugly speckles in menu bars.
Regardless, it's all better than Fedora Core 9 (which I had on older motherboard plus PCI sound card).
I do get it though: lots of different experiences out there.
For months every FC9 update would break sound (and there
was at least one update that broke sound every week). Either I could not listen to
YouTube sound or Skype would stop working. Or both. For a long time Pulse was
de-installed. Then I had to install it. Then I had to futz with controls (sometimes
system controls, sometimes things in an application).
Some weeks I could not get sound working till the next update.
Why is it such a nightmare?
Sure it is the distro's fault.. So? It's been really bad.
Assumption: the only format for documents saved by
this free application will be MS proprietary, not readable
by any other application. Thus a back door way to 'encourage' the
users friends to 'upgrade' their version of Word! Am I just wrong?
Actually, adding more lanes does work,
Casual calculations will show that rail takes way less land for any given
traffic density and way less energy per person-transported (than cars).
Making your comment basically irrelevant even if we assume that widening
freeways is feasible.
I'm imagining a 12-lane freeway south from San Francisco. Full of cars
traveling 75mph. This would likely be a nightmare.
Build the bullet train!
There also comes a point when "let's have another horrendously expensive tax-sucking boondoggle" is no longer a viable option.
-jcr
Hmm. Pretending that the highway system is somehow not a tax-sucking boondoggle, are we?
All transportation is government funded and how we do it impacts the choices people make.
Make rail fast and affordable and it could save Interstate 5 from being an 800 mile long parking lot.
.That being said I have no idea if it will make money. Probably depends on how well it its managed.
The concern about making money is touching. How much money does
Interstate 5 make each year? Oh. Wait. Other than a gas tax of perhaps a couple
of cents a mile Interstate 5 (which is the major N/S route in California)
the driver is not paying anything (other than income taxes and the like).
Why do we expect basic transport to make money? What makes you think the
Airlines have (net, over their history) made any money? (without the subsidies
in the airports etc airlines would be out of business). We need to get folks
off of Interstate 5 and a sensibly priced choice will do that and save lots
of energy for the country and make a safer trip. A big win. Build the bullet train!
For example 'don by computer'. And no detectable way to inform
them of their (few) typos.
But at the outset [...] they state that it is not a trail, rules of evidence do not apply including the municipalities need to prove a case. Other than the semantics, it sounds just like Corona's system.
It's not a trail, its a railroad.
I believe the rule is turn on red in the US because the roads are new and built with good visibility. When there is no visibility turn on red is forbidden. Whereas in France at most intersections turn on red would be dangerous due to the lack of visibility. Therefore turn on red is the exception.
Kinda depends on the state. In Illinois as soon as a right turn on red law was passed in
Springfield (which was around 1970? I forget, and I left in 1976) essentially every
stoplight in the Chicago Metro area sprouted a "no turn on red" sign.
Essentially immediately. Who knew local government could
be so efficient as to get signs up that quick?
The importance of cursive practice is in the wonderfully organizing effect it has on the brain.
(true of any language). The importance is one of many brain effects discussed in the book
"The Brain Than Changes Itself" by Doidge.
It's on page 41. The cursive practice changes your brain.
No, I have no financial interest in the book...
It's not about the writing itself, it's about the brain.
Put it in your trunk? Forget it. It weighs about 100 pounds.
And has no handles. And you cannot drive it without
the long handle attached, so getting it up a ramp won't be
easy!
My wife cannot ride a bicycle any longer, she cannot bend her knee far enough
(short legs and non-adjustable pedal crank arm on bicycles
are one issue, as is applying too much repetetive force on the leg).
Segway is great because that is not an issue.
A Segway rider is pretty much over the wheels (i.e., the CG is well forward of where it is on a bicycle). It's possible that a Segway could stop that fast, if it tilted backward by about 27 degrees (atan 0.5) -- can it do that?
Yes of course. It's easy. Plus one is going much slower than bicycles (essentially all the time)
so the question is a strawman.
What is not so easy is going uphill at more than a walking pace. Its algorithms
do not seem to adapt to that (it works, but progress is slower than on level ground).
My wife can walk, but not that far (bad leg) so our Segway is great for getting
out with me when I run or ride a bike. No sidewalks here, the street has to do.
And our neighbors think it's cool.
You (easily) turn off Whispernet to get 2 week battery life.
With Whispernet on you get a day or two battery life.
Mostly there is no reason to have Whispernet on.
Another good point of Kindle (any Kindle): you can read it in full sunlight.
Try that with a laptop...
"This is one reason I like to stick to paper statements."
All well and good, but the US postal service loses things with some regularity (and does not want to hear about it). Nothing certain anywhere :-)
On FC9 audio and microphone worked without pulseaudio (not with it!) for months( but no system sounds). Then no sound till I installed pulseaudio again, now system sounds work, but the microphone does not. During one 2 month period I got skype to work by switching from /dev/dsp to /dev/dsp1, but then after
another FC9 update switched back to /dev/dsp
when /dev/dsp1 stopped working. And then
another update made the microphone non-functional
period. One post said 'fixed in FC10
or FC11' meaning to heck with us on FC9,
I guess. No way would I suggest plain folks
use Linux at this point.
There is a great article on education on Robin Goods website by John Taylor Gatto posing the question "Education: Do We Really Need Schools Or Do We Need To Better Understand What Education Should Really Be?"
In the article, the author quotes from H. L. Mencken, who wrote in The American Mercury for April 1924 that
"... the aim of public education is not to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. Nothing could be further from the truth.
OFnow: My personal contribution here is that Gatto also wrote "The Underground History of American Education", a fascinating book that everyone with any interest in education or the next generation of US students should read.
All true. And one train per day, max.
In a strange way we already have universal health care ( hospitals wind up treating people for free) but it's a) dishonest because it is hidden and b) self-defeating because it's impossible to treat things while still treatable (you have to wait for total collapse before you get the free treatment).
We already pay twice (per capita) what Europeans pay for health care. If we were honest about limiting treatment (which we limit now, but only for some people some of the time) it's hard to know if it would be more or less expensive. But maybe if were honest with ourselves as a society we could make real decisions? Nah :-)
It's more than adequate because it natively handles money data in transparently correct ways. Other languages have to be bent to fit. Integer and double precision data simply do not meet the need, though these days with 64bit integers it is easier to warp integers to be usable.
In addition it let one record right-size fields on disk and tape (in a day when disks were small and very very expensive).
I'm glad I no longer write code in COBOL, but for many years it was the only choice possible for business.
It was amusing in the 60s 70s 80s reading papers suggesting (32bit) integers and double precision (in C or whatever) as an alternative to COBOL data types. I guess the authors never kept their checkbook to the penny or never had as many as 5 billion pennies in that checkbook.
Um, try an LED before you buy more than one. Mine, from CCrane, are dim and the light is sort of like a blob of pearls, not a single intensity across a book page. Not really ready for room lighting.