You've been drinking some very dense soda. A normal 2 liter bottle of soda weighs about 4.5lbs. (Here's a hint, a liter of water weighs one kilogram, soda is about as dense as water)
Finally, I can have an entire inflammable expensive computer that warps, rots, gets infested by termites, cracks, splinters, weighs a lot and breaks easily. And destroys trees.
Have you ever owned any wooden furniture? Like a chair? Or a sofa (they're generally wood underneath the padding)? Maybe a table? Has it had any of these problems? Even outdoor wooden furniture lasts years if properly treated. Not to mention the widespread success of wooden houses.
Sure, destroying trees is an issue, but trees are a renewable resource, whereas plastic and metal are not.
To you and me (and the rest of/.), that might make sense, because we are used to thinking of the internet as just another part of life. For some (most) people, that isn't yet the case. They seem to think that something happening online is inherently different from the same thing happening IRL. That will probably change over the next decade, but until then laws will have to be tested twice, once for real life, and then again for the net.
2) Something to keep the rain and road dirt from putting a big skunk stripe up our backs when riding in wet climates. There are fenders, but they don't work well.
I don't know what you're talking about. A full set of wrap-around fenders is a solid barrier between the wheel and you, and the bike. They protect your back and butt from the rain thrown up by the wheels, and protect the bike quite a bit as well. I bike year round and know this from experience. I'm partial to the SKS fenders myself, but other brands work. Those 'back scratcher' fenders that clamp onto your seatpost are pretty worthless though.
4) Brakes that work in the rain.
Disk brakes. Hub brakes.
5) Tires that don't go flat. So important, I'm saying it twice.
Skinny high pressure tires (700x23 in my case) need to be pumped up two or three times a week, otherwise you'll get pinch flats. But any bike that uses such small tires is high maintance (and expensive) anyway. For wider tires (26x1.9 in my other case), what flats? Sure, if you ride over broken glass you'll probably get a flat, but there's an easy way to avoid that. If you're unwilling to learn how to change a tire, you can get solid tires (though they are heavy, have high rolling resistance, and are harsh to ride on), but it's really not that hard.
NFS is already in NetBSD. It's useful for adding more storage and swap (though swap over nfs is pretty painful) to limited systems.
The point of the article is that you should add NFS if you want to add packages on a palmtop. It'll give you enough storage for the pkgsrc tree and swap and so on.
When moving, a bicycle is inherantly stable, as there are two aligned gyroscopes keeping it going forward. It's only unstable when not moving or nearly not moving. Even when stopped, it is only ustable perpendicular to the direction of motion.
This is actually not true. Bicycle wheels are too light to be effective gyroscopes (motorcycle wheels are another story). If you spin one in your hands, you'll notice some resistance, but it's not nearly enough to keep a rider upright. Bicycle riders actually balance themselves unconsciously. It's easier at higher speed because you need to make much smaller movements (plus the rake/trail of the steering makes you stay straight once you're balanced).
I had a regular md portable, and then later an mdlp unit. At the 4x mdlp setting, the sound quality was significantly worse than 128kbs mp3s. Additionally, it was realtime recording, which is a big problem when you're putting a few hours on a disc. I gave it up for an ipod and haven't regretted it since.
I never tried NetMD, which offers faster than realtime transfer, but with copy protection and proprietary windows only software, for obvious reasons.
What if you wake up in the middle of the night and find someone in your house hurting a family member. You approach the situation and the person starts running away. I do not know exactly what I would do but there is a chance that the average person would be inclined to chase him down and cause great harm with any weapon they could find.
Myself, I would be tending to my hurt family member and seeing that they get prompt medical attention (phoning the ambulance, applying first aid, etc). I know it's a hypothetical situation, but you really should think it through. You're saying you'd rather hurt the assailant than make sure your injured family member is ok. Maybe you need to reasses your priorities.
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You've been drinking some very dense soda. A normal 2 liter bottle of soda weighs about 4.5lbs. (Here's a hint, a liter of water weighs one kilogram, soda is about as dense as water)
Nintendo's seemingly endless investment in Pokemon games.
Finally, I can have an entire inflammable expensive computer that warps, rots, gets infested by termites, cracks, splinters, weighs a lot and breaks easily. And destroys trees.
Have you ever owned any wooden furniture? Like a chair? Or a sofa (they're generally wood underneath the padding)? Maybe a table? Has it had any of these problems? Even outdoor wooden furniture lasts years if properly treated. Not to mention the widespread success of wooden houses.
Sure, destroying trees is an issue, but trees are a renewable resource, whereas plastic and metal are not.
Kind of like sales tax?
Come on. Even lynx does this. Try it!
'lynx google' brings up www.google.com for me.
2) Something to keep the rain and road dirt from putting a big skunk stripe up our backs when riding in wet climates. There are fenders, but they don't work well.
I don't know what you're talking about. A full set of wrap-around fenders is a solid barrier between the wheel and you, and the bike. They protect your back and butt from the rain thrown up by the wheels, and protect the bike quite a bit as well. I bike year round and know this from experience. I'm partial to the SKS fenders myself, but other brands work. Those 'back scratcher' fenders that clamp onto your seatpost are pretty worthless though.
4) Brakes that work in the rain.
Disk brakes. Hub brakes.
5) Tires that don't go flat. So important, I'm saying it twice.
Skinny high pressure tires (700x23 in my case) need to be pumped up two or three times a week, otherwise you'll get pinch flats. But any bike that uses such small tires is high maintance (and expensive) anyway. For wider tires (26x1.9 in my other case), what flats? Sure, if you ride over broken glass you'll probably get a flat, but there's an easy way to avoid that. If you're unwilling to learn how to change a tire, you can get solid tires (though they are heavy, have high rolling resistance, and are harsh to ride on), but it's really not that hard.
NFS is already in NetBSD. It's useful for adding more storage and swap (though swap over nfs is pretty painful) to limited systems.
The point of the article is that you should add NFS if you want to add packages on a palmtop. It'll give you enough storage for the pkgsrc tree and swap and so on.
This is actually not true. Bicycle wheels are too light to be effective gyroscopes (motorcycle wheels are another story). If you spin one in your hands, you'll notice some resistance, but it's not nearly enough to keep a rider upright. Bicycle riders actually balance themselves unconsciously. It's easier at higher speed because you need to make much smaller movements (plus the rake/trail of the steering makes you stay straight once you're balanced).
See section 9.35 of the req.bicycle.* faq for more details:
You mean gerund, not verb. Right?
iTunes will already happily stream your music collection (including songs bought in the store). Check out Sharing under Preferences.
I had a regular md portable, and then later an mdlp unit. At the 4x mdlp setting, the sound quality was significantly worse than 128kbs mp3s. Additionally, it was realtime recording, which is a big problem when you're putting a few hours on a disc. I gave it up for an ipod and haven't regretted it since.
I never tried NetMD, which offers faster than realtime transfer, but with copy protection and proprietary windows only software, for obvious reasons.
This is the sort of thing remote X excels at. Surely you don't drag over a monitor and keyboard when you want to install on a headless server.
Ever play Super Monkey Ball? Each and every banana in the game has a Dole sticker on it.
Isn't "Too much overkill" as redundant in Japanese as it is in English?
I'm thinking with a name like Samir Gupta, his first language probably isn't Japanese. Probably either some Indian dialect or English.
What if you wake up in the middle of the night and find someone in your house hurting a family member. You approach the situation and the person starts running away. I do not know exactly what I would do but there is a chance that the average person would be inclined to chase him down and cause great harm with any weapon they could find.
Myself, I would be tending to my hurt family member and seeing that they get prompt medical attention (phoning the ambulance, applying first aid, etc). I know it's a hypothetical situation, but you really should think it through. You're saying you'd rather hurt the assailant than make sure your injured family member is ok. Maybe you need to reasses your priorities.