Tell me about it. I lived in an apartment about 12-14 years ago that had a NG water heater, and that was nice the one time we had power go out overnight sometime, but the house I'm in now has the worst of all worlds (electric water heater and electric controlled but NG powered heater).
I suppose I could try to mount a battery powered fan in the main air vent, but as this is just a rental I can't do much more (and I'm really too lazy to do that much).
Well, I have NG, but the fan is electric (as well as the thermostat) so it doesn't work when the power goes out completely. I'm in a major city, and so far when my power has gone out it hasn't lasted very long, but I'd rather not find just how long it could go out for if things got really bad.
LOL, no I mean I thought someone decided to burn their house (or another neighbor's) down for heat. Actually, since the firemen weren't there very long I assume there was a small fire of some sort that caused a short, but I don't really know any of my neighbors very well so I can't be sure.
I thought that's what happened when, as I was on the phone to report the brownout, and all of a sudden a fire truck comes down the hill and turns onto our dead end street. Followed by 2 more and a smaller fire truck (battalion chief's truck).
That's a good question. We just had a fire at a nearby house that caused all the houses for blocks around (including mine) to have a period of 3 or 4 hours of low power (TV worked fine, but all the lights were very dim, etc). I had two different CFLs stop working during that time and those are some of the first I've had to replace in a few years. The only exception being my front porch, which burned out two bulbs within a month each time, so I just don't use that one as I assume there's something wrong with the power levels there.
Never having used Notes myself, I wonder if it had a problem with a certain version that people have fixated on or if poor administration commonly caused some problems that have given people a phobia towards it? I have a friend who hates config files even though I've watched (and helped) him look through tabs (the kind with subsections in each one) in a GUI for options we know we saw SOMEWHERE earlier for up to 10 minutes! When I pointed out that at least with a text file you can "search" for some part of the text, he just dismissed it. He has a personal hatred for text files and nothing will shake him of that, not even direct evidence of the advantages. I personally prefer both, a text file with a nice GUI that you can still access directly if you want to do so.
The last I used something like that I thought you had the option of refusing it? I couldn't refuse them because it was my boss that sent the "request" and I actually liked being included on the meetings as it was better than hearing about the decisions made later on. Not that it really mattered, but every once in a while the upper management would listen (usually by accident).
That is a great idea. Certainly more novel than many of the others I've seen. And it gives you an excuse to talk to your computer without sounding crazy. Well, too crazy.
I read this article earlier today about Ponzi, and after a major paper pointed out the lies he actually made more money that day! Some people just don't deserve to have money I guess. I mean, what can you do? You try to teach them why someone's wrong (and can't possibly be right) and they just refuse to listen.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/12/23/mf.ponzi.scheme/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
I'm pretty sure Ford could do that if they wanted legally. If they bought a Honda engine and put it into another car, the only problem they would have is if they tried to call it a Honda (Trademark), or claim that Honda had to honor a warranty on it. I'm not sure how Ford would make any money doing that, but if they figured out how, I don't see anything automatically illegal that would allow Honda to sue to prevent it.
Where else would you shit out of? 8^)
I love the ones where the side effects are the same as the thing they are supposed to be treating. I assume that means in their trials some people who didn't have the condition spontaneously developed it after taking the treatment. WTF? Or the ones that are treating something mild and list a risk of DEATH from the treatment. Seriously, WTF?!?
3. No simple TEXT BOX view of the current location - or if it's available, it's hidden. OSX and Vista have both abandoned this but that's no reason for Linux to. The location needs to be a text box so you can Copy/Paste. That's important for advanced users, because locations are not opaque things that you can 'discover' through a conversation process, but are things you need to *communicate* to other programs and to humans. Text is the only reliable way of communicating, icons don't cut it (you can't cut and paste an icon into an email or IM or config file).
I can see some of your points, but some of them are just a different point of view. For example, at least in Ubuntu 8.10, Nautilus has a icon on the left, just above the side panel that allows you to switch to text based location bar, instead of icon based. I find both very useful (I've gotten used to using the icon based because I didn't know about that icon, but when you brought it up I decided to start looking for some option, as you are right that it needs to exist, but it took me all of about a minute to find it.) I was more of a KDE guy until about 6 months ago (I didn't like Gnome) but after finding some great tutorials on Gedit and and Ruby on Rails, I decided to try it again and really like most of it now.
Sure, it's different from KDE, but I find much of the differences to be really good, once you stop fighting it and just look at it from a clean slate. Learn how it works, don't assume it works one way just because something else does it that way. It is just a different way of looking at things.
My dad ran into someone with the same first name, last name, and one of my middle names and when he talked to the guy a little more he found out we were born on the same day in the same hospital! This was a few years ago in a small town we lived in at the time (which is over 800 miles from the said hospital, so it is even more interesting.) The guy was just passing through town with his family, so I never met him (time travel paradox adverted!)
Are they promising to keep the cloud software available for as long as the laptops last, even if that's many, many years? Oh, they aren't? Then no deal. And that's not even considering that software doesn't do you much good if you don't have a good net connection. Much like power windows in a car (see what I did there?) they aren't much good if the power goes out. Cloud software like this needs to be more like power locks. Work both with and without power, they degrade gracefully.
It's not. But if you drink enough you may be lucky enough to black out and not remember playing that game. I wasn't that lucky and just forgot everything else I did besides playing that game, but I repressed those memories until you brought them up. So I'm going to hang myself now, thank you very much!
Yeah, I was thinking this could be a good thing, maybe it was just an expansion of Google's email beer goggles thing, but then I read a bit more and realized what they want is a hacker-in-a-box. Well, not really a hacker, but a data-forensics-specialist-in-a-box, but that doesn't roll off the tongue as nicely. The biggest problem I see with it is if they are running the software on the system, they can't prove the integrity of the system. Something like this needs to be duplicated with a write blocker first, and then run on the duplicate to insure they didn't add data to the system (not that that really proves anything since it isn't foolproof, but people like to pretend that it does.)
The key is to teach them together. The computer will give the the reason to learn the math. Rather than just being a bunch of abstract concepts, they have a reason to learn the math. And learning electronics will teach them complex numbers, which are very important to electronics. Just as learning a programming language is easiest if you have a project that requires it, math is easiest to learn if you have a problem that requires it.
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Tell me about it. I lived in an apartment about 12-14 years ago that had a NG water heater, and that was nice the one time we had power go out overnight sometime, but the house I'm in now has the worst of all worlds (electric water heater and electric controlled but NG powered heater). I suppose I could try to mount a battery powered fan in the main air vent, but as this is just a rental I can't do much more (and I'm really too lazy to do that much).
Well, I have NG, but the fan is electric (as well as the thermostat) so it doesn't work when the power goes out completely. I'm in a major city, and so far when my power has gone out it hasn't lasted very long, but I'd rather not find just how long it could go out for if things got really bad.
LOL, no I mean I thought someone decided to burn their house (or another neighbor's) down for heat. Actually, since the firemen weren't there very long I assume there was a small fire of some sort that caused a short, but I don't really know any of my neighbors very well so I can't be sure.
I thought that's what happened when, as I was on the phone to report the brownout, and all of a sudden a fire truck comes down the hill and turns onto our dead end street. Followed by 2 more and a smaller fire truck (battalion chief's truck).
Thanks for all the info, this is exactly what I wanted to know. A lot more expensive to run than I expected, but if you needed it for heat...
Ah, I see. I thought the LP gas referred to the tanks like you'd use for some grills.
That looks great. I wonder how long it runs on a full tank and about what it costs to fill up? I've always wanted a home generator, just in case.
That's a good question. We just had a fire at a nearby house that caused all the houses for blocks around (including mine) to have a period of 3 or 4 hours of low power (TV worked fine, but all the lights were very dim, etc). I had two different CFLs stop working during that time and those are some of the first I've had to replace in a few years. The only exception being my front porch, which burned out two bulbs within a month each time, so I just don't use that one as I assume there's something wrong with the power levels there.
Never having used Notes myself, I wonder if it had a problem with a certain version that people have fixated on or if poor administration commonly caused some problems that have given people a phobia towards it? I have a friend who hates config files even though I've watched (and helped) him look through tabs (the kind with subsections in each one) in a GUI for options we know we saw SOMEWHERE earlier for up to 10 minutes! When I pointed out that at least with a text file you can "search" for some part of the text, he just dismissed it. He has a personal hatred for text files and nothing will shake him of that, not even direct evidence of the advantages. I personally prefer both, a text file with a nice GUI that you can still access directly if you want to do so.
The last I used something like that I thought you had the option of refusing it? I couldn't refuse them because it was my boss that sent the "request" and I actually liked being included on the meetings as it was better than hearing about the decisions made later on. Not that it really mattered, but every once in a while the upper management would listen (usually by accident).
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and internet meme I just haven't heard of yet, or did you have a stroke?
How did that get mod insightful? Funny, sure, but insightful? I guess it's insightful into that AC's stool, but come on!
That is a great idea. Certainly more novel than many of the others I've seen. And it gives you an excuse to talk to your computer without sounding crazy. Well, too crazy.
I read this article earlier today about Ponzi, and after a major paper pointed out the lies he actually made more money that day! Some people just don't deserve to have money I guess. I mean, what can you do? You try to teach them why someone's wrong (and can't possibly be right) and they just refuse to listen. http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/12/23/mf.ponzi.scheme/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
No, I meant adverted. It was well advertised*. *Spell check didn't help me there, so sue me.
I'm pretty sure Ford could do that if they wanted legally. If they bought a Honda engine and put it into another car, the only problem they would have is if they tried to call it a Honda (Trademark), or claim that Honda had to honor a warranty on it. I'm not sure how Ford would make any money doing that, but if they figured out how, I don't see anything automatically illegal that would allow Honda to sue to prevent it.
Where else would you shit out of? 8^) I love the ones where the side effects are the same as the thing they are supposed to be treating. I assume that means in their trials some people who didn't have the condition spontaneously developed it after taking the treatment. WTF? Or the ones that are treating something mild and list a risk of DEATH from the treatment. Seriously, WTF?!?
3. No simple TEXT BOX view of the current location - or if it's available, it's hidden. OSX and Vista have both abandoned this but that's no reason for Linux to. The location needs to be a text box so you can Copy/Paste. That's important for advanced users, because locations are not opaque things that you can 'discover' through a conversation process, but are things you need to *communicate* to other programs and to humans. Text is the only reliable way of communicating, icons don't cut it (you can't cut and paste an icon into an email or IM or config file).
I can see some of your points, but some of them are just a different point of view. For example, at least in Ubuntu 8.10, Nautilus has a icon on the left, just above the side panel that allows you to switch to text based location bar, instead of icon based. I find both very useful (I've gotten used to using the icon based because I didn't know about that icon, but when you brought it up I decided to start looking for some option, as you are right that it needs to exist, but it took me all of about a minute to find it.) I was more of a KDE guy until about 6 months ago (I didn't like Gnome) but after finding some great tutorials on Gedit and and Ruby on Rails, I decided to try it again and really like most of it now. Sure, it's different from KDE, but I find much of the differences to be really good, once you stop fighting it and just look at it from a clean slate. Learn how it works, don't assume it works one way just because something else does it that way. It is just a different way of looking at things.
My dad ran into someone with the same first name, last name, and one of my middle names and when he talked to the guy a little more he found out we were born on the same day in the same hospital! This was a few years ago in a small town we lived in at the time (which is over 800 miles from the said hospital, so it is even more interesting.) The guy was just passing through town with his family, so I never met him (time travel paradox adverted!)
LOL, okay, I suppose it is true in a literal sense.
Are they promising to keep the cloud software available for as long as the laptops last, even if that's many, many years? Oh, they aren't? Then no deal. And that's not even considering that software doesn't do you much good if you don't have a good net connection. Much like power windows in a car (see what I did there?) they aren't much good if the power goes out. Cloud software like this needs to be more like power locks. Work both with and without power, they degrade gracefully.
I don't think dry humping would get you too far in prison.
It's not. But if you drink enough you may be lucky enough to black out and not remember playing that game. I wasn't that lucky and just forgot everything else I did besides playing that game, but I repressed those memories until you brought them up. So I'm going to hang myself now, thank you very much!
Yeah, I was thinking this could be a good thing, maybe it was just an expansion of Google's email beer goggles thing, but then I read a bit more and realized what they want is a hacker-in-a-box. Well, not really a hacker, but a data-forensics-specialist-in-a-box, but that doesn't roll off the tongue as nicely. The biggest problem I see with it is if they are running the software on the system, they can't prove the integrity of the system. Something like this needs to be duplicated with a write blocker first, and then run on the duplicate to insure they didn't add data to the system (not that that really proves anything since it isn't foolproof, but people like to pretend that it does.)
The key is to teach them together. The computer will give the the reason to learn the math. Rather than just being a bunch of abstract concepts, they have a reason to learn the math. And learning electronics will teach them complex numbers, which are very important to electronics. Just as learning a programming language is easiest if you have a project that requires it, math is easiest to learn if you have a problem that requires it.