People have clearly demonstrated that weight, size, and cost win out over repairability when making their purchasing decisions.
Er, no. People can only buy what is available. It is the manufacturers who decide what weight, size and cost their products will be, not the purchasers.
If all manufacturers choose not to make their products repairable then where is the choice?
Not going to work. All the repair shop has to do is look at the HDD and see that it has only ever had the original Windows on it. No Linux is involved in this bricking campaign at all.
Get off my lawn! I was involved in a sputtering project, production not experimental, in 1968.
It is a well-known industrial method for various kinds of non-obvious plating, such as aluminum on PVC. In the experience I referred to above, aluminum, platinum and/or gold were layered onto glass and silicon substrates.
It is how the aluminum interconnect layer is deposited on silicon chips, after all.
They still aren't waterproof. And I have a 300 watt, 120vlt aquarium heater that argues strongly against the idea that it's not possible to make a cellphone waterproof.
Almost. I have just acquired a Samsung Galaxy Xcover, also known as 'Extreme', which can withstand 1 meter for 30 mins. It has a metal case and Gorilla glass. It doesn't have the latest bells and whistles but I reckon it's a reasonably rugged basic smartphone.
Make a note of it folks - the UK fax number for PayPal is 011-44-8707-303-196.
...and that number is a premium-rate number in the UK. Okay, perhaps your fax won't take very long to transmit but I bet that you'll pay a big chunk to send it... especially from overseas.
They are abandoning the project because they don't have enough fuel on site to be able to drill down to the lake.
This is because they are using hot water to melt their way downwards, which is fine, but much of the water is escaping sideways into cracks in the ice. This means they needed more water to reach their objective. The water has to be melted from ice collected on the surface, and that takes fuel. Not enough fuel: stop wasting everybody's time and money.
Just a slim netbook with the things that get in the way removed (touch pad, keyboard, USB host, non-locked down 'for dummies' OS)
There, FTFY. A tablet is an analog of a clipboard, not a typewriter. If I need to refer to stuff in a meeting, I sure don't need all those dangly bits getting in the way.
This isn't just another x86 processor that is running Windows and autostarting a "run engine" app.
Oh my God. I sure do hope you are right. When I see the inappropriate uses we have now for Windows in controller applications that should never have gone anywhere near it, I fear for the future of humanity.
I wish people would stop focusing on "research" and "science" and look at the bigger picture.
Before anyone could get into space in order to do those things comfortably, a whole lot of engineering needed to be done.
I reckon the space station has more than paid its way in the amount learned in the design, construction and operation of large, multi-section structures in orbit, much of which will be re-used or built on when future orbital habitats are proposed.
If the earth were tidally locked with the sun we would always have one side of the earth facing the sun. Our day and year would be the same duration.
Really? If the same side of the Earth always faces the sun, does that not mean that the day never ends? Whereas the year is still the time the Earth takes to complete one orbit?
One of the reasons English has become a world language is that it is relatively easy to make yourself understood even if you speak it badly.
For some bizarre reason it doesn't seem to matter what your subset of the language is or how bad your accent is, it is usually possible to find enough common words to get your point across.
Whether this is because of the multiple language base, the almost non-existant grammar (as compared, say, to Latin) or the constant borrowing from other languages I don't know, but it works.
Try that in another language, be it French, German, Russian, Arabic or Mandarin and you'll find it much harder to make your point unless you can conform quite closely to your listener's grammar and accent. From personal experience your listener will let you get half a sentence out then prompt you to switch to English!
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And yet another reason to not use the ISP-provided DNS servers ...
That's not going to work without some extra effort. All they have to do is trap tcp/udp to port 53.
So if you can apply 30 V to a Josephson junction you would get 14 THz...
...until the black smoke comes out.
Or you could turn the argument around. This is about poor planning.
If you intended to use a bus to get to and from work, why did you buy a house an hour's walk from the nearest stop?
Why on Earth would you run Ubuntu *servers*?
It is probably easier to run straight Debian than Ubuntu if all you need is boxes in a rack.
People have clearly demonstrated that weight, size, and cost win out over repairability when making their purchasing decisions.
Er, no. People can only buy what is available. It is the manufacturers who decide what weight, size and cost their products will be, not the purchasers.
If all manufacturers choose not to make their products repairable then where is the choice?
Not going to work. All the repair shop has to do is look at the HDD and see that it has only ever had the original Windows on it. No Linux is involved in this bricking campaign at all.
Get off my lawn! I was involved in a sputtering project, production not experimental, in 1968.
It is a well-known industrial method for various kinds of non-obvious plating, such as aluminum on PVC. In the experience I referred to above, aluminum, platinum and/or gold were layered onto glass and silicon substrates.
It is how the aluminum interconnect layer is deposited on silicon chips, after all.
Assume a spherical football field...
Does anyone know where I can find a list of routers which aren't vulnerable?
Have you tried scanning the Internet?
The whole idea is ridiculous. It's simply impossible.
Nonsense. We already have this. All you have to do is let the black smoke out.
They still aren't waterproof. And I have a 300 watt, 120vlt aquarium heater that argues strongly against the idea that it's not possible to make a cellphone waterproof.
Almost. I have just acquired a Samsung Galaxy Xcover, also known as 'Extreme', which can withstand 1 meter for 30 mins. It has a metal case and Gorilla glass. It doesn't have the latest bells and whistles but I reckon it's a reasonably rugged basic smartphone.
Make a note of it folks - the UK fax number for PayPal is 011-44-8707-303-196.
...and that number is a premium-rate number in the UK. Okay, perhaps your fax won't take very long to transmit but I bet that you'll pay a big chunk to send it... especially from overseas.
Bastards.
It's the previously unquantifiable temperature of a McDonald's Apple Pie.
For very small values of "Apple".
And "Pie".
Aren't just plain Intel boards, with Intel NICs and Intel HD graphics supposed to be 'out of the box' open source friendly?
Almost. For example, try finding a functional, freely-available linux graphics driver for a D2700MUD motherboard!
I bought two of these for use as workstations but I never checked the graphics chip, assuming, as the OP says, that Intel graphics are Linux-friendly.
For now, until I can get a mature driver, I have to use these boards in VESA mode.
They are abandoning the project because they don't have enough fuel on site to be able to drill down to the lake.
This is because they are using hot water to melt their way downwards, which is fine, but much of the water is escaping sideways into cracks in the ice. This means they needed more water to reach their objective. The water has to be melted from ice collected on the surface, and that takes fuel. Not enough fuel: stop wasting everybody's time and money.
(indeed, we make a point of not connecting the television to the network), but it's there...
Quite right. Never know when those Cylons might try and compromise the TV set.
Or the manufacturers will try and install an update that screws with your TV...
Fundamentally what's the difference between watching a dvb stream over the air, and watching a Netflix program?
The fact that a Netflix subscription costs money and receiving OTA doesn't?
Just a slim netbook with the things that get in the way removed (touch pad, keyboard, USB host, non-locked down 'for dummies' OS)
There, FTFY. A tablet is an analog of a clipboard, not a typewriter. If I need to refer to stuff in a meeting, I sure don't need all those dangly bits getting in the way.
This isn't just another x86 processor that is running Windows and autostarting a "run engine" app.
Oh my God. I sure do hope you are right. When I see the inappropriate uses we have now for Windows in controller applications that should never have gone anywhere near it, I fear for the future of humanity.
Why would you want to port an inferior desktop (KDE) to a Nexus 7
Perhaps because it doesn't have Google's pawprints all over it?
I wish people would stop focusing on "research" and "science" and look at the bigger picture.
Before anyone could get into space in order to do those things comfortably, a whole lot of engineering needed to be done.
I reckon the space station has more than paid its way in the amount learned in the design, construction and operation of large, multi-section structures in orbit, much of which will be re-used or built on when future orbital habitats are proposed.
WTF has sending information about local searches to third parties have to do with the GPL?
If the earth were tidally locked with the sun we would always have one side of the earth facing the sun. Our day and year would be the same duration.
Really? If the same side of the Earth always faces the sun, does that not mean that the day never ends? Whereas the year is still the time the Earth takes to complete one orbit?
One of the reasons English has become a world language is that it is relatively easy to make yourself understood even if you speak it badly.
For some bizarre reason it doesn't seem to matter what your subset of the language is or how bad your accent is, it is usually possible to find enough common words to get your point across.
Whether this is because of the multiple language base, the almost non-existant grammar (as compared, say, to Latin) or the constant borrowing from other languages I don't know, but it works.
Try that in another language, be it French, German, Russian, Arabic or Mandarin and you'll find it much harder to make your point unless you can conform quite closely to your listener's grammar and accent. From personal experience your listener will let you get half a sentence out then prompt you to switch to English!
Er, except that Debian is moving to Gnome 3 with Wheezy.
Tried a test installation prior to planning a site upgrade. WTF? DO NOT LIKE.
Looked around the Debian forums. Replies to "Can we have Gnome 2 back?" are met with "Why don't you help make Gnome 3 better instead?"
DO NOT WANT.
Tried Mate but it isn't ready for prime time yet, too many holes. Ended up with LXDE instead, adequate.