This link also makes clear that the press release referenced in this submission got the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle date wrong, saying it was 776 when it is actually 774 and therefore *is* a valid candidate for the explosion. Has anyone fired up Stellarium yet to check out the area of the western sky after sunset as viewed from Britain in 774?
Some of the various XBMC distros for the Pi have *limited* built-in wifi adapter support.
Personally I just installed XBMC (from a PPA) on top of standard Raspbian (which already supported my USB wifi adapter). As long as your adapter is supported by Debian, you should be OK doing this.
This. My 13-year-old daughter has recently got hooked on TOS (wasn't keen on TNG) as I tend to stick it on (the remastered version is shown regularly on the CBS Action channel on satellite TV in Europe). Luckily the better episodes were on at the time (Tribbles, City on the Edge of Forever) but she's definitely hooked.
It's a shame that the current young generation don't really have a Trek to call their own, though.
I suspect that this is a bigger problem in the US than elsewhere, as their airbags have to be so much more powerful than (for example) European ones as the manufacturers can't assume that you're wearing a seatbelt (a legal requirement in most of the civilised world).
The super-duper high speed mode only works if there's another Trailblazer or Worldblazer at the other end, unfortunately. They used a proprietary data transfer protocol, IIRC.
Didn't stop my idiot boss buying *two* of them, and (unsuccessfully) trying to pressure our clients (for whom we did remote support) into buying them as well, though...
This sounds rather like the Star Trek vision of the future, where money is not really needed, and replicators can meet all your needs - a laudable goal.
The question is, how do we get from here to there in an orderly manner? IANAEconomist, but restructuring the planetary economy doesn't look like an easy task!
In the meantime, I think some kind of provision for the excluded/jobless will have to be made - unfortunately I can see it turning out like this: http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm/
As I see it, we are now at a stage where jobs (at least in the Western world) which are likely to remain "unautomated" are becoming increasingly knowledge-based, relying on intelligence, creativity, inventiveness and so on, which are difficult or impossible (at least for now) to automate.
The question then is, what happens to all those people lacking in such abilities? If they are unemployed and unlikely to find suitable work which has not already been automated out of existence, do we let them starve, or do we skim the profits of automated industry in order to provide them with a livable income? Or is it Soylent Green time?
All very well, but I get the feeling that the things that most people would be "freed up to do" in those circumstances are likely to include starving and becoming homeless.
It *should* of course be used to create a basic income for everyone in order to allow us to pursue higher things, but I'll bet you it won't.
"The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride."
French spelling probably requires 2 'o's in order to make the correct sound (so that it sounds like "loser" is pronounced in English). A single 'o' in French would mean a short 'o' sound, i.e. "low-ser" rather than "lou-ser".
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IIRC coal plants release more radiation into the environment than nuclear plants do, so you're quite probably correct.
July 22nd would seem to be a more accurate value for Pi day, shirley?
For evidence of "macro" evolution, see for example: http://talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-misconceptions.html#observe and http://talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/.
A while ago - here's the link to Turbo C++ 1.01: http://cc.embarcadero.com/item/26014
Other software in the archive (Turbo Pascal v1.0, v3.2, v5.5 & Turbo C version 2.01) is listed here:http://zyztems.myfreeforum.org/archive/antique-borland-compilers-free-from-the-edn-museum__o_t__t_100.html
This link also makes clear that the press release referenced in this submission got the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle date wrong, saying it was 776 when it is actually 774 and therefore *is* a valid candidate for the explosion. Has anyone fired up Stellarium yet to check out the area of the western sky after sunset as viewed from Britain in 774?
Some of the various XBMC distros for the Pi have *limited* built-in wifi adapter support.
Personally I just installed XBMC (from a PPA) on top of standard Raspbian (which already supported my USB wifi adapter). As long as your adapter is supported by Debian, you should be OK doing this.
Bodhi Linux (the best E17 implementation IMHO) has a short video on their site: http://www.bodhilinux.com/
Fit out the sats with an electric drive instead, like this: http://emdrive.com/
Try MintPPC http://www.mintppc.org/ - it works well even on the old G350 iMacs. It's essentially Mint Debian with LXDE.
Bodhi would be the (unofficial) Enlightenment variant - I use it myself and in terms of looks and memory/CPU usage beats all the major DEs handily.
http://www.bodhilinux.com/
This. My 13-year-old daughter has recently got hooked on TOS (wasn't keen on TNG) as I tend to stick it on (the remastered version is shown regularly on the CBS Action channel on satellite TV in Europe). Luckily the better episodes were on at the time (Tribbles, City on the Edge of Forever) but she's definitely hooked.
It's a shame that the current young generation don't really have a Trek to call their own, though.
"Rat? You promised me dog or higher!"
"I'm aware of his work."
Oh, the huge manatees...
I suspect that this is a bigger problem in the US than elsewhere, as their airbags have to be so much more powerful than (for example) European ones as the manufacturers can't assume that you're wearing a seatbelt (a legal requirement in most of the civilised world).
My old history teacher used to call them "Banda machines" (as the manufacturer was called Hastings) - this is why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings_Banda
Unfortunately the printed copies also fade with time - I can barely make out the text from 20-25 years ago now.
The smell I well remember - it was a bit like carrots...
The super-duper high speed mode only works if there's another Trailblazer or Worldblazer at the other end, unfortunately. They used a proprietary data transfer protocol, IIRC.
Didn't stop my idiot boss buying *two* of them, and (unsuccessfully) trying to pressure our clients (for whom we did remote support) into buying them as well, though...
Also, anywhere less than 100 miles from the border is effectively a constitutional rights-free zone anyway - see for example
http://www.aclu.org/constitution-free-zone-map/
This sounds rather like the Star Trek vision of the future, where money is not really needed, and replicators can meet all your needs - a laudable goal.
The question is, how do we get from here to there in an orderly manner? IANAEconomist, but restructuring the planetary economy doesn't look like an easy task!
In the meantime, I think some kind of provision for the excluded/jobless will have to be made - unfortunately I can see it turning out like this: http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm/
As I see it, we are now at a stage where jobs (at least in the Western world) which are likely to remain "unautomated" are becoming increasingly knowledge-based, relying on intelligence, creativity, inventiveness and so on, which are difficult or impossible (at least for now) to automate.
The question then is, what happens to all those people lacking in such abilities? If they are unemployed and unlikely to find suitable work which has not already been automated out of existence, do we let them starve, or do we skim the profits of automated industry in order to provide them with a livable income? Or is it Soylent Green time?
All very well, but I get the feeling that the things that most people would be "freed up to do" in those circumstances are likely to include starving and becoming homeless.
It *should* of course be used to create a basic income for everyone in order to allow us to pursue higher things, but I'll bet you it won't.
"The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride."
Why not get the best of both worlds and use Mint Debian?
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1604
French spelling probably requires 2 'o's in order to make the correct sound (so that it sounds like "loser" is pronounced in English). A single 'o' in French would mean a short 'o' sound, i.e. "low-ser" rather than "lou-ser".