Have you actually driven a European diesel made in the past decade?
Diesel exhaust with the particulate filters recently required in Europe is CLEANER than regular gas exhaust. In every category. Including all particulates.
Just because your data volume is growing doesn't mean everyone else's is growing at the same rate. There are lots of databases that fit in 16 GB of RAM, which is pretty cheap to come by these days. Especially if you're frugal with the database design from the start. You can even stuff 64 GB in there pretty easily, and then there are all those memory NAS devices popping up left and right...
Telling people to return to trains is ridiculous, and who has time for that anyway?
You have no time for trains, but you have time to poison our planet. Slow speeds are quite a valid complaint. Voicing them in a disgustingly selfish way is not.
I can go from my house here in Ohio to my parent's house in Des Moines, IA, in 12 hours in the car, probably 6 hours by plane (factoring in wait times at airports), or 24 hours by bus OR a train, and the train will require an additional hour of driving at the end because it doesn't even have a route to a city as big as Des Moines! Let me clue you in: I'm not going to take that 24 hour train, and I don't think anyone else will either.
That's right. Do you know why this is? It's because Amtrak sucks. Do you know why Amtrak sucks? Because they've been operating on a shoestring budget for 60 years in a government that subsidizes car and air travel as a matter of policy. Now imagine a modern train system like ICE or TGV for your Ohio-Iowa trip. About the same time spent and a much more pleasant trip (have you ever ridden in a TGV or ICE?)
Even if we were willing to take a 24 hour train, you aren't getting one anyway, no matter how fast the engine is. The reason the train between Ohio and Iowa takes 24 hours is because of all the stops at stations, including a big one in Chicago. I don't care if your train goes 300 mph, those stops are still going to happen, and you aren't going to get across the country in 24 hours unless there is an express.
That's bullshit. What makes you think there can't be a point-to-point Des Moines-Columbus express with just one stop in Chicago? All high-speed rail links have expresses.
If there was an express, it still doesn't do most people any good. You talk about reducing airline routes, but did you stop to think why there are so many? It's because the people in this nation are spread out in small cities and towns all over the country, and airlines have to service those smaller population centers. Having some fast 300 mph train express routes between LA and NY isn't going to fix anything, because you still have to connect all the other towns and cities for most people to be able to start taking the train. And you can't have an express route between every pair of towns in the system, so you have to start setting up lines and making stops. And if you start making stops all over, your trip gets a lot slower.
Yeah, Americans love sprawl. But rail links can be done basically everywhere commercial aviation goes, although you would have to revive some local rail from a coma.
what makes you think this train of your is going to be so vastly more efficient anyway? You start hitting 300 mph and your train will start dealing with the same huge air resistance forces that planes have to overcome. And how are you going to power and propel this thing? Maglevs and wires by the rail? Well, again to clue you in, the energy has to come from somewhere, and it's either coming from gasoline or it's coming from wires connected to power plants that probably burn coal or something. So all your idea really does is wastes billions of taxpayer dollars to build unneeded infrastructure for a slower system that probably isn't any more efficient anyway.
Please actually educate yourself a little more on the subject before spewing this bullshit. High speed rail is at least 4 times more efficient than jet aircraft (0.15 MJ/passenger-mile in a TGV, 0.03 L/passenger-mile in aircraft which is about 1 MJ/passenger-mile. Transmission losses are less than half) and sometimes significantly more. So while your prior points are valid, the fact that you pulled this argument out of your ass discredits you quite a bit.
It's true that crossing the Rockies is hard on a train. That doesn't negate the need for high speed rail elsewher
It's true that crossing the Rockies is hard on a train. That doesn't negate the need for high speed rail elsewhere in the States.
Look at the map FFS. The Northwest Corridor extending through Richmond-Charlotte-Atlanta-Jacksonville-Orlando-Miami and Tampa; Houston-Dallas-Austin-OK City-Tulsa-Kansas City; Minneapolis-Chicago-Cleveland-Pittsburgh-NYC with branches into St. Louis, Detroit, Cincinatti; San Francisco to San Diego - these are all perfect candidates for high speed rail links. Travel time between those cities can be cut significantly with high-speed rail, if only Americans would get off their ass and get behind it. It's a total shame that America, always a pioneer of high technology, is lagging so grotesquely behind in public transport.
The energy expenditure per person per mile is several times lower on a high speed train than on a plane. High-speed rail can completely take over passenger transport in several local areas of the USA. The technology is there.
In Mozilla, "chrome" is a generic term for the client-side/static parts of the GUI and resources for those. It's a technical term for internal use, so there is no confusion and certainly no trademark infringement.
I don't understand why a full recall would be needed. Most cards in desktops are completely stationary, which drastically reduces the likelihood of failure due to interconnect stress, and many are not even thermal cycled often (e.g., computer always on, no stressful games), which is the other big source of physical stress on the interconnects. If the failure rates are in the teens, the reasonable solution is to extend the warranty to cover all instances of interconnect failure e.g. 5 years from sale, which is a lot cheaper than a recall.
I'm fairly certain the ceasefire had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Obama, and any such attribution is wishful thinking. The Russian media mentioned the French foreign minister and/or Sarkozy mediating a ceasefire, but I doubt even that is likely. This operation seems to have been clearly defined in scope and duration immediately after Georgia attacked, and no external influence would have altered its course.
When the kids stop being able to inflict 'corporal punishment' on the teachers, then we'd stop wanting the ability to inflict 'corporal punishment' on them... Watch a 6 year old assault a teacher
Have you seriously just equated the expectations and responsibilities of a teacher to those of a 6 year old?
discipline is so very far gone that corporal punishment is one of the few ways to actually get discipline back....
A policy of corporal punishment is one of the worst possible ways to instill discipline. It also carries a huge risk of abuse. If you do not know proper behavioral techiques to instill discipline, you should not be a teacher.
the others see the inability of the teacher to be able to do more than yell at the bad kid & decide "Hey lets act up to! No one will stop us!"
The children see the ineptitude of the teacher. Nothing more, nothing less.
What the hell do you propose we do...? Talking to them sure doesn't do jack and their parents think it's our problem to fix!
Use proper behavioral techniques to confront a disruptive child. If the child is unresponsive, refer them to a psychologist who can medicate them or send them to a special needs school.
They listened to me less than they did to their own teachers and I had the same constraints... Fights would erupt in my club hour and all I could do was stand their and watch them go at it telling them that they needed to break it up!
They didn't listen to you because you failed to capture their attention and to instill an atmosphere of discipline and engagement. You certainly don't need to physically touch them to do that. You're not qualified to be a teacher.
I feel for our poor teachers due to peopel like you...
I have known dozens of teachers who could calm a class of rowdy kids and to engage their imagination fully without laying a finger on anyone. I have also known teachers who didn't know their head from their ass when confronted with a situation like this, and they were the most sorry people I've ever had to deal with.
You should not be a teacher. And you most certainly should not be allowed to use corporal punishment on children.
Bikes have the same rights to the road as you do. The taxes you pay on your vehicle contribute mostly to the bureaucracy of automotive maintenance, not road maintenance. Everyone pays equally for road maintenance, and truck drivers destroy roads thousands of times faster than cyclists ever can.
Bikers already pay to maintain your roads through all kinds of taxes, including estate, state income, federal income, and other taxes in the US, and I'm sure equivalently in other countries.
Bikes also impart no damage whatsoever to roads compared to cars, let alone trucks, due to their negligible weight and surface loading.
HP is a company that leverages its buyouts and established product lines. They may have a huge R&D budget but they don't get any results out of it. They used to have a big high-tech instrumentation division but I understand they no longer do. They utterly lack vision, and for their huge size, I can't think of any market where they hold initiative except maybe for imaging. Even their server and storage offerings are mostly the result of acquisitions.
I suppose they're a good company if you care about market share and financials. But in terms of initiative, they have nothing on Apple, which has a track record of shaping the personal electronics industry.
I totally agree. I think Ive would be a perfect successor to Jobs and is eminently qualified. Good luck to him in beating the salesmen and Fiorina-like CEO wannabes to the helm.
I feel your pain, but most of your problems have already been solved.
7zip is screwed up in Linux. I installed a wine version, AND a native version, only the wine version will start and it flickers and won't let me select a package to extract. Making it unusable.
I've never had a single problem with the command-line version - it's open source after all. I'm not sure what GUI front-end you use but it seems to be crap.
Random crashes. I mean, probably as many or more as I get regularly in Windows, with the added inconvenience of ctrl+alt+bckspce not being near as good as ctrl+alt+delete, which brings up a handy task menu for me to clean up (usually).
That's an unfortunate effect of X allowing any program to grab all the input and freeze. Definitely needs work, you're right about that one.
No two sound things going at once. Sometimes I like to put on mp3s, and THEN go kill people in Urban Terror. This is easy and works perfect in W32, but not in Ubuntu, I just get the mp3s, and NO sound in a game whilst they are playing.
That's another unfortunate side effect of a fucked up legacy sound system (OSS) which some old programs still use. The way to get around it is to run the program using it in a special wrapper program, I think it's called alsa-oss. A pain in the ass to be sure.
TVtime not recognizing my TV card. Dscaler turns on perfectly in Windows. So does TVtime in Ubuntu, but then the screen is blue and there is no menu for me to figure out what is wrong, either.
Your tuner is almost certainly supported quite well, but the GUI front-end is not working well with the video4linux back-end:(
I like how Windows arranges it's GUI, start button, quicklaunch, then task list, then systray and clock. Less real estate, all the same functionality, but without a top AND bottom bar.
Try KDE. Seriously, every single complaint I've heard about the 3.5 series is FUD. 4.0 is a mess but won't be for very long.
Zsnes. Does not work in any way shape or form, or under wine.
Use snes9x. Works way better than Zsnes. I think it has a graphical front-end too.
Use a source-based distribution. Gentoo developers go to great lengths to make it possible for you to inject your own code into the build process and at the same time use the system to ensure no dependency hell or inability to build occurs. I think by far the biggest advantage of Gentoo is its devotion to "staying in touch" with the source.
It would be a stretch to say that social networking sites fall into a similar category as the Jerry Springer show (not too many hillbillies on Facebook yet), but the desire to tell all, share all, and most importantly, be seen, is undeniably widespread in our modern culture
You seem to misunderstand the appeal of Facebook in particular. The majority of people using Facebook do so because it facilitates communication with their friends, and provides a framework for getting to know friends of their friends. It has nothing to do with exhibitionism.
This is already used in some places in Europe. I don't know if anyone's using a nuclear power plant for this though... Yeah, like pretty much every power plant in Russia, including nuclear ones.
Hundreds of open- and closed-source software projects release code on a fast-paced schedule and are supported by PM developers very promptly with no problems at all. It's a beautiful system that continues evolving in a way proprietary apps will never be able to, and test driving new features and integration opportunities all the time.
Some of us actually do work on monitors as well as play games. And the upper limit of what's a reasonable resolution for work is still very far away. I would gladly use a 2560x1600 setup, or a 3840x2400 for that matter, if it was affordable. I can definitely use all that space and perhaps even make myself more productive! (Just kidding, it would definitely raise my maximum productivity)
So what you've been elaborately and self-assuredly telling us is that you operate as part of a classified system that is illegal under the law and that can't be challenged by the public in court since the public doesn't know about it. Apparently, it can only be challenged by the Intelligence committee of the Senate itself.
I think that fits nicely into the definition of treason. If you're part of a system that is not only theoretically, but - as demonstrated in the past few years - practically in violation of the law, and takes elaborate action to evade that law, the responsibility for any resulting abuse is divided between you and your co-workers with the same level of knowledge.
I understand that national security operators sometimes have to overstep the bounds of laws that provision their work, and must keep their work secret. It's the codification and routine rationalization of this that I find completely unacceptable. If your work is both illegal and secret, then it becomes your responsibility to evaluate it from a moral ground. Your moral obligation as a public servant is to serve the best interests of the people, and creating an operational framework for evading the law goes about as far away from that as it can.
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Have you actually driven a European diesel made in the past decade?
Diesel exhaust with the particulate filters recently required in Europe is CLEANER than regular gas exhaust. In every category. Including all particulates.
you will not get far if you focus on technical fixes to social problems
Couldn't be farther from the truth.
Just because your data volume is growing doesn't mean everyone else's is growing at the same rate. There are lots of databases that fit in 16 GB of RAM, which is pretty cheap to come by these days. Especially if you're frugal with the database design from the start. You can even stuff 64 GB in there pretty easily, and then there are all those memory NAS devices popping up left and right...
Telling people to return to trains is ridiculous, and who has time for that anyway?
You have no time for trains, but you have time to poison our planet. Slow speeds are quite a valid complaint. Voicing them in a disgustingly selfish way is not.
I can go from my house here in Ohio to my parent's house in Des Moines, IA, in 12 hours in the car, probably 6 hours by plane (factoring in wait times at airports), or 24 hours by bus OR a train, and the train will require an additional hour of driving at the end because it doesn't even have a route to a city as big as Des Moines! Let me clue you in: I'm not going to take that 24 hour train, and I don't think anyone else will either.
That's right. Do you know why this is? It's because Amtrak sucks. Do you know why Amtrak sucks? Because they've been operating on a shoestring budget for 60 years in a government that subsidizes car and air travel as a matter of policy. Now imagine a modern train system like ICE or TGV for your Ohio-Iowa trip. About the same time spent and a much more pleasant trip (have you ever ridden in a TGV or ICE?)
Even if we were willing to take a 24 hour train, you aren't getting one anyway, no matter how fast the engine is. The reason the train between Ohio and Iowa takes 24 hours is because of all the stops at stations, including a big one in Chicago. I don't care if your train goes 300 mph, those stops are still going to happen, and you aren't going to get across the country in 24 hours unless there is an express.
That's bullshit. What makes you think there can't be a point-to-point Des Moines-Columbus express with just one stop in Chicago? All high-speed rail links have expresses.
If there was an express, it still doesn't do most people any good. You talk about reducing airline routes, but did you stop to think why there are so many? It's because the people in this nation are spread out in small cities and towns all over the country, and airlines have to service those smaller population centers. Having some fast 300 mph train express routes between LA and NY isn't going to fix anything, because you still have to connect all the other towns and cities for most people to be able to start taking the train. And you can't have an express route between every pair of towns in the system, so you have to start setting up lines and making stops. And if you start making stops all over, your trip gets a lot slower.
Yeah, Americans love sprawl. But rail links can be done basically everywhere commercial aviation goes, although you would have to revive some local rail from a coma.
what makes you think this train of your is going to be so vastly more efficient anyway? You start hitting 300 mph and your train will start dealing with the same huge air resistance forces that planes have to overcome. And how are you going to power and propel this thing? Maglevs and wires by the rail? Well, again to clue you in, the energy has to come from somewhere, and it's either coming from gasoline or it's coming from wires connected to power plants that probably burn coal or something. So all your idea really does is wastes billions of taxpayer dollars to build unneeded infrastructure for a slower system that probably isn't any more efficient anyway.
Please actually educate yourself a little more on the subject before spewing this bullshit. High speed rail is at least 4 times more efficient than jet aircraft (0.15 MJ/passenger-mile in a TGV, 0.03 L/passenger-mile in aircraft which is about 1 MJ/passenger-mile. Transmission losses are less than half) and sometimes significantly more. So while your prior points are valid, the fact that you pulled this argument out of your ass discredits you quite a bit.
It's true that crossing the Rockies is hard on a train. That doesn't negate the need for high speed rail elsewher
It's true that crossing the Rockies is hard on a train. That doesn't negate the need for high speed rail elsewhere in the States.
Look at the map FFS. The Northwest Corridor extending through Richmond-Charlotte-Atlanta-Jacksonville-Orlando-Miami and Tampa; Houston-Dallas-Austin-OK City-Tulsa-Kansas City; Minneapolis-Chicago-Cleveland-Pittsburgh-NYC with branches into St. Louis, Detroit, Cincinatti; San Francisco to San Diego - these are all perfect candidates for high speed rail links. Travel time between those cities can be cut significantly with high-speed rail, if only Americans would get off their ass and get behind it. It's a total shame that America, always a pioneer of high technology, is lagging so grotesquely behind in public transport.
The energy expenditure per person per mile is several times lower on a high speed train than on a plane. High-speed rail can completely take over passenger transport in several local areas of the USA. The technology is there.
In Mozilla, "chrome" is a generic term for the client-side/static parts of the GUI and resources for those. It's a technical term for internal use, so there is no confusion and certainly no trademark infringement.
I don't understand why a full recall would be needed. Most cards in desktops are completely stationary, which drastically reduces the likelihood of failure due to interconnect stress, and many are not even thermal cycled often (e.g., computer always on, no stressful games), which is the other big source of physical stress on the interconnects. If the failure rates are in the teens, the reasonable solution is to extend the warranty to cover all instances of interconnect failure e.g. 5 years from sale, which is a lot cheaper than a recall.
Kills 1500+ civilians
As it turned out, that number was overstated by a factor of about 10.
I'm fairly certain the ceasefire had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Obama, and any such attribution is wishful thinking. The Russian media mentioned the French foreign minister and/or Sarkozy mediating a ceasefire, but I doubt even that is likely. This operation seems to have been clearly defined in scope and duration immediately after Georgia attacked, and no external influence would have altered its course.
When the kids stop being able to inflict 'corporal punishment' on the teachers, then we'd stop wanting the ability to inflict 'corporal punishment' on them... Watch a 6 year old assault a teacher
Have you seriously just equated the expectations and responsibilities of a teacher to those of a 6 year old?
discipline is so very far gone that corporal punishment is one of the few ways to actually get discipline back....
A policy of corporal punishment is one of the worst possible ways to instill discipline. It also carries a huge risk of abuse. If you do not know proper behavioral techiques to instill discipline, you should not be a teacher.
the others see the inability of the teacher to be able to do more than yell at the bad kid & decide "Hey lets act up to! No one will stop us!"
The children see the ineptitude of the teacher. Nothing more, nothing less.
What the hell do you propose we do...? Talking to them sure doesn't do jack and their parents think it's our problem to fix!
Use proper behavioral techniques to confront a disruptive child. If the child is unresponsive, refer them to a psychologist who can medicate them or send them to a special needs school.
They listened to me less than they did to their own teachers and I had the same constraints... Fights would erupt in my club hour and all I could do was stand their and watch them go at it telling them that they needed to break it up!
They didn't listen to you because you failed to capture their attention and to instill an atmosphere of discipline and engagement. You certainly don't need to physically touch them to do that. You're not qualified to be a teacher.
I feel for our poor teachers due to peopel like you...
I have known dozens of teachers who could calm a class of rowdy kids and to engage their imagination fully without laying a finger on anyone. I have also known teachers who didn't know their head from their ass when confronted with a situation like this, and they were the most sorry people I've ever had to deal with.
You should not be a teacher. And you most certainly should not be allowed to use corporal punishment on children.
Fuck you.
Bikes have the same rights to the road as you do. The taxes you pay on your vehicle contribute mostly to the bureaucracy of automotive maintenance, not road maintenance. Everyone pays equally for road maintenance, and truck drivers destroy roads thousands of times faster than cyclists ever can.
You can share the road, or you can go to jail.
You're an idiot.
Bikers already pay to maintain your roads through all kinds of taxes, including estate, state income, federal income, and other taxes in the US, and I'm sure equivalently in other countries.
Bikes also impart no damage whatsoever to roads compared to cars, let alone trucks, due to their negligible weight and surface loading.
Corporal punishment is out, due to a fear of a lawsuit.
You should not be a teacher.
What you really want is a text-editor with built-in templates, push-button PDF compiling, and other TeX-specific features
I recommend Kile.
Still no inline spell-check and lacking a few other nice features, but it's on its way there.
HP is a company that leverages its buyouts and established product lines. They may have a huge R&D budget but they don't get any results out of it. They used to have a big high-tech instrumentation division but I understand they no longer do. They utterly lack vision, and for their huge size, I can't think of any market where they hold initiative except maybe for imaging. Even their server and storage offerings are mostly the result of acquisitions.
I suppose they're a good company if you care about market share and financials. But in terms of initiative, they have nothing on Apple, which has a track record of shaping the personal electronics industry.
I totally agree. I think Ive would be a perfect successor to Jobs and is eminently qualified. Good luck to him in beating the salesmen and Fiorina-like CEO wannabes to the helm.
I feel your pain, but most of your problems have already been solved.
7zip is screwed up in Linux. I installed a wine version, AND a native version, only the wine version will start and it flickers and won't let me select a package to extract. Making it unusable.
I've never had a single problem with the command-line version - it's open source after all. I'm not sure what GUI front-end you use but it seems to be crap.
Random crashes. I mean, probably as many or more as I get regularly in Windows, with the added inconvenience of ctrl+alt+bckspce not being near as good as ctrl+alt+delete, which brings up a handy task menu for me to clean up (usually).
That's an unfortunate effect of X allowing any program to grab all the input and freeze. Definitely needs work, you're right about that one.
No two sound things going at once. Sometimes I like to put on mp3s, and THEN go kill people in Urban Terror. This is easy and works perfect in W32, but not in Ubuntu, I just get the mp3s, and NO sound in a game whilst they are playing.
That's another unfortunate side effect of a fucked up legacy sound system (OSS) which some old programs still use. The way to get around it is to run the program using it in a special wrapper program, I think it's called alsa-oss. A pain in the ass to be sure.
TVtime not recognizing my TV card. Dscaler turns on perfectly in Windows. So does TVtime in Ubuntu, but then the screen is blue and there is no menu for me to figure out what is wrong, either.
Your tuner is almost certainly supported quite well, but the GUI front-end is not working well with the video4linux back-end :(
I like how Windows arranges it's GUI, start button, quicklaunch, then task list, then systray and clock. Less real estate, all the same functionality, but without a top AND bottom bar.
Try KDE. Seriously, every single complaint I've heard about the 3.5 series is FUD. 4.0 is a mess but won't be for very long.
Zsnes. Does not work in any way shape or form, or under wine.
Use snes9x. Works way better than Zsnes. I think it has a graphical front-end too.
Use a source-based distribution. Gentoo developers go to great lengths to make it possible for you to inject your own code into the build process and at the same time use the system to ensure no dependency hell or inability to build occurs. I think by far the biggest advantage of Gentoo is its devotion to "staying in touch" with the source.
You're not being censored. You're being modded down because you're an ignorant, uninformed, arrogant self-promoting idiot.
There could be many people who do not care or need internet access. But I would think most Slashdot readers would not be among them.
We care a lot about internet access. We're just not willing to pay $70/month for it.
It would be a stretch to say that social networking sites fall into a similar category as the Jerry Springer show (not too many hillbillies on Facebook yet), but the desire to tell all, share all, and most importantly, be seen, is undeniably widespread in our modern culture
You seem to misunderstand the appeal of Facebook in particular. The majority of people using Facebook do so because it facilitates communication with their friends, and provides a framework for getting to know friends of their friends. It has nothing to do with exhibitionism.
What harm?
Hundreds of open- and closed-source software projects release code on a fast-paced schedule and are supported by PM developers very promptly with no problems at all. It's a beautiful system that continues evolving in a way proprietary apps will never be able to, and test driving new features and integration opportunities all the time.
What harm?
Some of us actually do work on monitors as well as play games. And the upper limit of what's a reasonable resolution for work is still very far away. I would gladly use a 2560x1600 setup, or a 3840x2400 for that matter, if it was affordable. I can definitely use all that space and perhaps even make myself more productive! (Just kidding, it would definitely raise my maximum productivity)
So what you've been elaborately and self-assuredly telling us is that you operate as part of a classified system that is illegal under the law and that can't be challenged by the public in court since the public doesn't know about it. Apparently, it can only be challenged by the Intelligence committee of the Senate itself.
I think that fits nicely into the definition of treason. If you're part of a system that is not only theoretically, but - as demonstrated in the past few years - practically in violation of the law, and takes elaborate action to evade that law, the responsibility for any resulting abuse is divided between you and your co-workers with the same level of knowledge.
I understand that national security operators sometimes have to overstep the bounds of laws that provision their work, and must keep their work secret. It's the codification and routine rationalization of this that I find completely unacceptable. If your work is both illegal and secret, then it becomes your responsibility to evaluate it from a moral ground. Your moral obligation as a public servant is to serve the best interests of the people, and creating an operational framework for evading the law goes about as far away from that as it can.