Somewhere, i think actually it was car talk on NPR, it was stated that the best range for operation of lithium batteries was the 30-70% range. You should not (according to this) let the charge go below 30% and there was no gain in charging above 70%. The final comment I heard on this said that, essentially, don't run your lithium batteries down to zero, recharge daily.
Now this is exactly opposite for lead/acid batteries where the number of charging cycles defines the life of the battery. So, i am opining that the poor person who started this was basing their opinion on someone else's statement that was based on a knowledge of lead acid applied to lithium, which obviously don't work.
Admittedly, when lithium batteries first came out both my wife and I did the old-fashioned "bleed til they're dry" and burned up some pricey batteries. Now we know better and my last phone was charged daily for almost 4 years on one battery. So i have no need to laugh at the mistake .
no need to root anything, at worst you can use PLOP to add another OS (I run fedora 15 right now with full gnome 3) and keept the original,and it is all supported through both the company website/forum and the communnity forum. The only problem might be that it is a little too large and too powerful for you. I am running th ebig one (12" screen) and it is big. But power, OMG, it makes an iPad really look like the toy that it is.
but there are examples of language play that become an integral and continuing part of a language. We generally call them idioms, but the most extreme example is cockney rhyming riddle/jokes: eg-- toil and strife = husband and wife. These games became a part of the language in Australia which accounts for some of it's diversity from SBE. While the professor in question is probably pointing to some other, less successful examples from smaller groups, there are lots of chances for some (but not all) of the neologisms coming from these new forms of communication to remain in the language.
Excuse please, but you are making statements that do not reflect my reality. My house had mac and windows machines running and used by everyone in the house (me, wife and 3 kids) and I built a linux box and bashed my way into the linux world because it looked like a clearly better approach to everything. Not easier (at the time : fedora core 4) but better. I buy the freedom part, and the honesty part and the truthy part. I rejected the closed garden and the FUD and the monopoly stuff.
Now, one daughter has WinVista and hates it, but is too lazy to solve it the easy way. One daughter is running Kubuntu on her graphic design workstation (not entirely happy with kubuntu but as happy or happier than she is with her iBook pro, which is her status symbol. My wife is the most vociferous Linux user in the family, she also has an Android phone that she has figured how to jailbreak and use in China and the US with two SIM cards herself. She loves Linux and has all the choice in the world. My son doesn't even pay attention to any of it except when he is stymied by stupid interface differences that he has to figure out (but then he is 8 years old).
I'm a fedora fanboi, and proud of it, but still keep my family running Ubuntu LTS varieties to make my life easier. So, this idea of the P that Linux is one thing and was never consumer worthy is a crock, maybe it would be better to say that it is more recently on the scene as a consumer product? And my family downloads the lolcats and the puppies and all the stupid stuff that they shouldn't, but they quickly learn the package manager which solves 99% of the windows problems: stupid downloaded programs that trash the system. So, I think, and my experience is, that you are mistaken. case closed.
no they are so busy talking to someone very important on their cell phone or texting a co-worker some important detail of the important contract they are working on that they really can't concentrate on the world around them. Or perhaps I live in an alternate reality where people actually use their phones to do something truly productive?
Yeah, i drive a hybrid cause my wife chose it. I struggle, still, with buying anything new since it just encourages companies to make more things that we really don't need, the resources that went into the production for any new car just make me feel dirty.
Also in China. I might add that in China, people tend to order chicken wings and potato puffs and soup and other stuff as a major part of the meal with a small pizza as just another of the dishes: just like a Chinese meal. The ketchup is just another dipping sauce.
Oh and I notice someone denigrating mayo on freedom fries, my (Dutch) wife would never think of sullying her "patate" with ketchup, but a big dollop of mayo to dip them in is just the thing. The simple fact is that people eat what they eat. Or as my sister once put it: "it's all opinion and opinions are like a**holes, everybody has one and everyone else's smells bad."
let me add that as a fedora user, and sometimes arch player (that is a lite user in my vocabulary) i never go to sourceforge, never google for an application, the package tools are just too powerful to make it worth my trouble. While there might be a slightly newer version, if I really want it I can use the test repo which is usually up to date with SF. So...
IINAAF (I am not an Apple fanboi) but i do give Apple (and the late Mr Jobs) credit for recognizing the end of the floppy disk drive when they shipped the first iMacs without them. At the time it was a radical move because "everyone" was still using it. He was right, just plain right. In this case I also agree, as, I suspect most people on this forum, who use other lighter, easier, more reliable tools for data transfer (there is no one, single replacement for the CD, but while some are more ubiquitous than others, to say one is the inheritor would be a mistake. Jobs expected that email sending of files would replace the floppy, which was not really what happened. I think the same will be/ is true with CDs and DVDs)
ANyway, I haven't used a CD more than once in the last year (a buggy motherboard that didn't want to read the USB drive for boot) and that was just a guess that worked. I don't even have a working optical drive in the house at the moment, until my wife gets back with her old lappie.
thanks, i'm turning 57 and still have happy memories of a preteen childhood in ham radio, machine coding on a multivac given away to my high school by Princeton, and learning Pascal in the 70s, i do not remember my old trash80 with fondness however.
The antibiotic soap is just plain stupid to begin with. You need to put it on and leave it on, as in not washing with it. Soap on your hands is not good for them to begin with, and then the stupid low grade antibiotics do little except feed the bacteria and send out a message to marauding death cells that another idiot is in range.
this is a false analogy you are using i think. Let's back it up one step to see what I mean. Did the restaurant claim to provide fresh food served hot, created by a master chef and surpassing all others in quality and taste? Well, in that case you have some justification for assuming the restaurant was using falseness to attract your money. If you go to a cheap diner (do you still have cheap diners here? ) with a greasy menu, booths and greasier cook who takes orders and serves the food all with a cigarette dangling from his lip? Yeah, bad food comes with the territory, right?
But, who made the choice? you did, and you recognize the difference in advertising.
Now, let's get into the real world of tech company and manufacturing. Every company is trying to be MacDonalds and seel the same shite to everyone. The bottom line for the companies is based on cost of good sold, because the profit margins are relatively low for most companies. But then there are a few that come along and claim to provide a superior product using superior parts put together in a superior way with a superior design and costing the consumer a buttload of extra cash for this superiority. Of course they are actually buying from the same crapmarket that everyone else is, but they still market their superiority.So consumers seem justified in their claims that this company must meet a higher standard and they must at least pretend (and I am not saying that they are pretending, i am certain that if the pretense costs no or little money then they can justify improvement in this aspect) that they care about the environment.
Now, the final step is to recognize that we are all creating this nasty state of affairs. The actual cost of tech products is much higher than we are paying. Maybe we should all be paying about the same as Apple is charging! But the difference is that we are not willing to pay for the cost of goods that are produced in a quality, healthy, pollution free and environmentally friendly fashion. We want cheap. We want our delicious gourmet food at MacDonald's prices and service levels. Sorry, you get MickieD crap for those prices as well as the degradation (think in terms of the environment in a larger sense: wages, work ethics and standards, monoculturing and things like that as the result of this "pollution" it is after all an analogy) that results from this demand for cheap.
Imagine finding out that the expensive Tiger Prawns you just paid $35 for were actually formed from the same whitefish that McDs uses for its fish sticks, the "prawn" were just a design improvement. But really, tiger prawns flown in from Thailand and raised in clean water by a family that is making a living wage would actually cost $70, why do you think you should get the real thing?
Thank you for at least one informed opinion in contrast to foolish and foolhardy talk about the failure of government. What I see is that when you cripple government you play into the hands of big corporations (yes, the ones who happpily sell those "900 dollar toilet seats") because without government to regulate them and control them they are free to rape murder and pillage as they see fit. And now they are. Who is fracking our water supply into chemical sludge? The government? Who is convincing policy makers who work for them full time that they are "too big to fail?" The government? no, it is not a problem with big government. Or with government spending out of control. We spend less now than under Reagan, under Ford, Under Nixon or Eisenhower. And what do we get? the 1%. Congratulations Libertarians and right wing fools, you have succeeded in raping and pillaging yourself and your children, as well as mine, you go!
As a linguist, with a nice tidy pile of uncharged debt, i disagree vociferously with the poor benighted fool above. I get to do what I love, and that is priceless. I travel the world, have lived and worked in Asia for 15 years, fed a family of from 5 to 3 and raised 3 children all while "suffering" with a humanities degrees. I suffer from it so much I went back and got a masters. Am i rich? oh hell yeah, people hear about what I have been doing, about my tri-lingual kids and they wish they could do what I do. With a masters I was recently hired by a US university to do exactly what I do, because I have done what I love to do.
Don't get this wrong, I studied programming back in the day, and accounting as well. My ex- was a database programmer and my oldest daughter is an accountant. Both are doing OK, but they aren't getting to really follow their passion, they are stuck in the search for cash.
Seedy? Shanghai? you gotta be kidding. Shanghai is clean, bright and for sale to the highest bidder, therefore packaged in bright pretty paper that hides any ugly blemishes.
I don't understand why the Dutch are allowing this blatant rip-off of their intellectual property. XXX is the accepted and well-known sign for Amsterdam, and these crass money grubbing ICANN guys are ripping them off. Hopefully, once everyone gets their own.xxx domain the Dutch will jump in with a massive, (and I mean mega-gigantonormous) lawsuit against everyone in the internet for infringement of copyright. It will pay for the Dutch social system for centuries.
Not just the army, i was watching the copier repair drone work on one of our copiers for the umpteenth time. He had this ginormous brick of a phone sitting on the copier,i asked about it. he said they used to have blackberries, but then the front office decided to get them all new phones, everyone was excited until they dropped this brick on them. now they use their android phones for work since it is easier than the POS that the company provided.
Oh yeah, tell me how smart private industry is, please tell me
individual Americans are trained to be frightened of everything. They let this happen by a nasty juxtaposition of advertising and consumer marketing and the insurance industry.
Why, I posit interrogatorily, do we have all these ginormous cars? It is not because we are a bovine society, the Dutch are larger, taller and heavier. Yet they have much smaller cars. No, instead we have this idea of personal responsibility that requires personal insurance to protect us from financial loss in the case of an accident of any kind. The Dutch solution is to care for its people as a whole and provide low cost health care and protection to everyone through government control. We require a market for insurance that has to protect each and every individual from all possible accidents.
The result in health care is obvious (stupidly so, the only justification for our system comes from shills of the people sucking up tons of money from it-- the 1%) However think about what it has meant to the evolution of the car. To reduce your personal danger and therefore your insurance costs, you are penalized for buying a smaller car.You are at greater risk in an accident so the insurance company has to charge you extra for a smaller car: it is not "safe". But, the result is that others must also buy the larger car in order to also be safe and reduce their own insurance cost. But the result was created by the insurance to begin with, since the larger car owner pays less for insurance. Now, add to this the car testing, based on crash test performance, that is our topic of discussion and you have a perfect storm that brings us to this ridiculous situation where we are buying cars that are heinously big, ugly, wasteful and destructive to the environment. We have an escalation of these factors that has done nothing but increase since the 1970s when there was a surge of smaller and less expensive cars followed by a rash of "unsafe at any speed " type of journalistic trash (the consumer side of journalism jumps in to excite the public).
So it goes. We are conditioned to think all this is normal. You might think that you must give your daughter a mobile phone when she goes to camp in case there is some "danger", unspecified fear built in to all parents. But the fact is that you are being preyed upon by marketers who want you to fear lions, tigers, bears and pedophile camp counselors so that they can sell you safety.Until people take a firm grip upon themselves and the society then they are just puppets with vacuum cleaners in their wallets. We buy from fear, not from need. Cars, camps, houses, even batteries, nothing is safe from people who are frightened by everything, who have been trained to fear and whose fear is being fed by the media because that fear breeds a desire for more of the same stimulation.
We are fear junkies and we pay for it in cash and in life-expectancy and in environmental degradation.
i saw an early vid of the Uno, but none of these things can touch my electric bike I bought in China and shipped back here to the US. Even this one, which is low powered by Chinese standards (10 Amp, 48 volt battery) goes 25-30 miles and hour, has seats for two and can easily carry two people with little power loss. I ride it to work every day, then leave at 5 and go to my son's school, pick him up and we ride home across campus and on the road s to our apartment, getting home by 5:30. With this schedule I can go 4 days on a single charge.
The kicker is that I paid about $325 US for it.
What are they trying to do with this thing anyway?
It took some time, maybe a few months, before i was trained to work with linux. The training came by making mistakes and getting help from the fedora community. Later I tried Ubuntu and nowuse that for my wife and daughters. I plan on moving my wife to Mint Debian next (she shouldn't notice the change from 10.4). Fedora is,for me,the best. But just for me. I love different distros, it is valuablefor the community and the ecosystem. Diversity is strength.
As for Windows, well, once you "get" linux, once you understand it, then there is nothing that it can't do. I find it amusing that many who "must have" photoshop use it for...What? playing with home photos. Touching up red eye.? Really, My daughter is a real true blue graphic artist, digital variety who uses Gimp, really, no problems. She was working in a photoshop shop last spring and the "geeks" who were photoshop wizards, were coming around her desk to find out how to do the stuff she was doing. "Oh, I don't know how to do that in photoshop" she had to say.
notice she didn't say "you can't do that in photoshop" we don't play power games like that. That is the linux way
I'm sorry, i'm confused, how do you program with a cello? I understand being able to listen to cellos on audacious,i use it as my primary music player right now, but the rest of this thread is really messed up.
Having lived in Holland (my wife is Dutch) and worked with Singies (who are shocked and amused by the political chicanery of the rest of the world-- they solved corruption by making it single point. Their dictator is so rich and powerful he is incorruptible) I have to agree that the American system is really not so hot. We have the potential to be in the top five of that list, but only if we really make serious radical changes. If occupy can push us to do that then we win. If the tea party fools win we are dead meat on a stick
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Somewhere, i think actually it was car talk on NPR, it was stated that the best range for operation of lithium batteries was the 30-70% range. You should not (according to this) let the charge go below 30% and there was no gain in charging above 70%. The final comment I heard on this said that, essentially, don't run your lithium batteries down to zero, recharge daily.
Now this is exactly opposite for lead/acid batteries where the number of charging cycles defines the life of the battery. So, i am opining that the poor person who started this was basing their opinion on someone else's statement that was based on a knowledge of lead acid applied to lithium, which obviously don't work.
Admittedly, when lithium batteries first came out both my wife and I did the old-fashioned "bleed til they're dry" and burned up some pricey batteries. Now we know better and my last phone was charged daily for almost 4 years on one battery. So i have no need to laugh at the mistake .
no need to root anything, at worst you can use PLOP to add another OS (I run fedora 15 right now with full gnome 3) and keept the original,and it is all supported through both the company website/forum and the communnity forum. The only problem might be that it is a little too large and too powerful for you. I am running th ebig one (12" screen) and it is big. But power, OMG, it makes an iPad really look like the toy that it is.
but there are examples of language play that become an integral and continuing part of a language. We generally call them idioms, but the most extreme example is cockney rhyming riddle/jokes: eg-- toil and strife = husband and wife. These games became a part of the language in Australia which accounts for some of it's diversity from SBE. While the professor in question is probably pointing to some other, less successful examples from smaller groups, there are lots of chances for some (but not all) of the neologisms coming from these new forms of communication to remain in the language.
agreed, just being told to drive views, move on, folks
Excuse please, but you are making statements that do not reflect my reality. My house had mac and windows machines running and used by everyone in the house (me, wife and 3 kids) and I built a linux box and bashed my way into the linux world because it looked like a clearly better approach to everything. Not easier (at the time : fedora core 4) but better. I buy the freedom part, and the honesty part and the truthy part. I rejected the closed garden and the FUD and the monopoly stuff.
Now, one daughter has WinVista and hates it, but is too lazy to solve it the easy way. One daughter is running Kubuntu on her graphic design workstation (not entirely happy with kubuntu but as happy or happier than she is with her iBook pro, which is her status symbol. My wife is the most vociferous Linux user in the family, she also has an Android phone that she has figured how to jailbreak and use in China and the US with two SIM cards herself. She loves Linux and has all the choice in the world. My son doesn't even pay attention to any of it except when he is stymied by stupid interface differences that he has to figure out (but then he is 8 years old).
I'm a fedora fanboi, and proud of it, but still keep my family running Ubuntu LTS varieties to make my life easier. So, this idea of the P that Linux is one thing and was never consumer worthy is a crock, maybe it would be better to say that it is more recently on the scene as a consumer product? And my family downloads the lolcats and the puppies and all the stupid stuff that they shouldn't, but they quickly learn the package manager which solves 99% of the windows problems: stupid downloaded programs that trash the system. So, I think, and my experience is, that you are mistaken. case closed.
no they are so busy talking to someone very important on their cell phone or texting a co-worker some important detail of the important contract they are working on that they really can't concentrate on the world around them. Or perhaps I live in an alternate reality where people actually use their phones to do something truly productive?
Yeah, i drive a hybrid cause my wife chose it. I struggle, still, with buying anything new since it just encourages companies to make more things that we really don't need, the resources that went into the production for any new car just make me feel dirty.
Also in China. I might add that in China, people tend to order chicken wings and potato puffs and soup and other stuff as a major part of the meal with a small pizza as just another of the dishes: just like a Chinese meal. The ketchup is just another dipping sauce.
Oh and I notice someone denigrating mayo on freedom fries, my (Dutch) wife would never think of sullying her "patate" with ketchup, but a big dollop of mayo to dip them in is just the thing. The simple fact is that people eat what they eat. Or as my sister once put it: "it's all opinion and opinions are like a**holes, everybody has one and everyone else's smells bad."
let me add that as a fedora user, and sometimes arch player (that is a lite user in my vocabulary) i never go to sourceforge, never google for an application, the package tools are just too powerful to make it worth my trouble. While there might be a slightly newer version, if I really want it I can use the test repo which is usually up to date with SF. So...
I hope you're not on the Central Virginia Coop system?
IINAAF (I am not an Apple fanboi) but i do give Apple (and the late Mr Jobs) credit for recognizing the end of the floppy disk drive when they shipped the first iMacs without them. At the time it was a radical move because "everyone" was still using it. He was right, just plain right. In this case I also agree, as, I suspect most people on this forum, who use other lighter, easier, more reliable tools for data transfer (there is no one, single replacement for the CD, but while some are more ubiquitous than others, to say one is the inheritor would be a mistake. Jobs expected that email sending of files would replace the floppy, which was not really what happened. I think the same will be/ is true with CDs and DVDs)
ANyway, I haven't used a CD more than once in the last year (a buggy motherboard that didn't want to read the USB drive for boot) and that was just a guess that worked. I don't even have a working optical drive in the house at the moment, until my wife gets back with her old lappie.
Agreed, this is just mumbling from someone who has no real time experience in either place.
thanks, i'm turning 57 and still have happy memories of a preteen childhood in ham radio, machine coding on a multivac given away to my high school by Princeton, and learning Pascal in the 70s, i do not remember my old trash80 with fondness however.
The antibiotic soap is just plain stupid to begin with. You need to put it on and leave it on, as in not washing with it. Soap on your hands is not good for them to begin with, and then the stupid low grade antibiotics do little except feed the bacteria and send out a message to marauding death cells that another idiot is in range.
this is a false analogy you are using i think. Let's back it up one step to see what I mean. Did the restaurant claim to provide fresh food served hot, created by a master chef and surpassing all others in quality and taste? Well, in that case you have some justification for assuming the restaurant was using falseness to attract your money. If you go to a cheap diner (do you still have cheap diners here? ) with a greasy menu, booths and greasier cook who takes orders and serves the food all with a cigarette dangling from his lip? Yeah, bad food comes with the territory, right?
But, who made the choice? you did, and you recognize the difference in advertising.
Now, let's get into the real world of tech company and manufacturing. Every company is trying to be MacDonalds and seel the same shite to everyone. The bottom line for the companies is based on cost of good sold, because the profit margins are relatively low for most companies. But then there are a few that come along and claim to provide a superior product using superior parts put together in a superior way with a superior design and costing the consumer a buttload of extra cash for this superiority. Of course they are actually buying from the same crapmarket that everyone else is, but they still market their superiority.So consumers seem justified in their claims that this company must meet a higher standard and they must at least pretend (and I am not saying that they are pretending, i am certain that if the pretense costs no or little money then they can justify improvement in this aspect) that they care about the environment.
Now, the final step is to recognize that we are all creating this nasty state of affairs. The actual cost of tech products is much higher than we are paying. Maybe we should all be paying about the same as Apple is charging! But the difference is that we are not willing to pay for the cost of goods that are produced in a quality, healthy, pollution free and environmentally friendly fashion. We want cheap. We want our delicious gourmet food at MacDonald's prices and service levels. Sorry, you get MickieD crap for those prices as well as the degradation (think in terms of the environment in a larger sense: wages, work ethics and standards, monoculturing and things like that as the result of this "pollution" it is after all an analogy) that results from this demand for cheap.
Imagine finding out that the expensive Tiger Prawns you just paid $35 for were actually formed from the same whitefish that McDs uses for its fish sticks, the "prawn" were just a design improvement. But really, tiger prawns flown in from Thailand and raised in clean water by a family that is making a living wage would actually cost $70, why do you think you should get the real thing?
Thank you for at least one informed opinion in contrast to foolish and foolhardy talk about the failure of government. What I see is that when you cripple government you play into the hands of big corporations (yes, the ones who happpily sell those "900 dollar toilet seats") because without government to regulate them and control them they are free to rape murder and pillage as they see fit. And now they are. Who is fracking our water supply into chemical sludge? The government? Who is convincing policy makers who work for them full time that they are "too big to fail?" The government? no, it is not a problem with big government. Or with government spending out of control. We spend less now than under Reagan, under Ford, Under Nixon or Eisenhower. And what do we get? the 1%. Congratulations Libertarians and right wing fools, you have succeeded in raping and pillaging yourself and your children, as well as mine, you go!
As a linguist, with a nice tidy pile of uncharged debt, i disagree vociferously with the poor benighted fool above. I get to do what I love, and that is priceless. I travel the world, have lived and worked in Asia for 15 years, fed a family of from 5 to 3 and raised 3 children all while "suffering" with a humanities degrees. I suffer from it so much I went back and got a masters. Am i rich? oh hell yeah, people hear about what I have been doing, about my tri-lingual kids and they wish they could do what I do. With a masters I was recently hired by a US university to do exactly what I do, because I have done what I love to do.
Don't get this wrong, I studied programming back in the day, and accounting as well. My ex- was a database programmer and my oldest daughter is an accountant. Both are doing OK, but they aren't getting to really follow their passion, they are stuck in the search for cash.
Seedy? Shanghai? you gotta be kidding. Shanghai is clean, bright and for sale to the highest bidder, therefore packaged in bright pretty paper that hides any ugly blemishes.
I don't understand why the Dutch are allowing this blatant rip-off of their intellectual property. XXX is the accepted and well-known sign for Amsterdam, and these crass money grubbing ICANN guys are ripping them off. Hopefully, once everyone gets their own .xxx domain the Dutch will jump in with a massive, (and I mean mega-gigantonormous) lawsuit against everyone in the internet for infringement of copyright. It will pay for the Dutch social system for centuries.
wicked, but only fair, i mean really
Not just the army, i was watching the copier repair drone work on one of our copiers for the umpteenth time. He had this ginormous brick of a phone sitting on the copier,i asked about it. he said they used to have blackberries, but then the front office decided to get them all new phones, everyone was excited until they dropped this brick on them. now they use their android phones for work since it is easier than the POS that the company provided.
Oh yeah, tell me how smart private industry is, please tell me
individual Americans are trained to be frightened of everything. They let this happen by a nasty juxtaposition of advertising and consumer marketing and the insurance industry.
Why, I posit interrogatorily, do we have all these ginormous cars? It is not because we are a bovine society, the Dutch are larger, taller and heavier. Yet they have much smaller cars. No, instead we have this idea of personal responsibility that requires personal insurance to protect us from financial loss in the case of an accident of any kind. The Dutch solution is to care for its people as a whole and provide low cost health care and protection to everyone through government control. We require a market for insurance that has to protect each and every individual from all possible accidents.
The result in health care is obvious (stupidly so, the only justification for our system comes from shills of the people sucking up tons of money from it-- the 1%) However think about what it has meant to the evolution of the car. To reduce your personal danger and therefore your insurance costs, you are penalized for buying a smaller car.You are at greater risk in an accident so the insurance company has to charge you extra for a smaller car: it is not "safe".
But, the result is that others must also buy the larger car in order to also be safe and reduce their own insurance cost. But the result was created by the insurance to begin with, since the larger car owner pays less for insurance. Now, add to this the car testing, based on crash test performance, that is our topic of discussion and you have a perfect storm that brings us to this ridiculous situation where we are buying cars that are heinously big, ugly, wasteful and destructive to the environment. We have an escalation of these factors that has done nothing but increase since the 1970s when there was a surge of smaller and less expensive cars followed by a rash of "unsafe at any speed " type of journalistic trash (the consumer side of journalism jumps in to excite the public).
So it goes. We are conditioned to think all this is normal. You might think that you must give your daughter a mobile phone when she goes to camp in case there is some "danger", unspecified fear built in to all parents. But the fact is that you are being preyed upon by marketers who want you to fear lions, tigers, bears and pedophile camp counselors so that they can sell you safety.Until people take a firm grip upon themselves and the society then they are just puppets with vacuum cleaners in their wallets. We buy from fear, not from need. Cars, camps, houses, even batteries, nothing is safe from people who are frightened by everything, who have been trained to fear and whose fear is being fed by the media because that fear breeds a desire for more of the same stimulation.
We are fear junkies and we pay for it in cash and in life-expectancy and in environmental degradation.
i saw an early vid of the Uno, but none of these things can touch my electric bike I bought in China and shipped back here to the US. Even this one, which is low powered by Chinese standards (10 Amp, 48 volt battery) goes 25-30 miles and hour, has seats for two and can easily carry two people with little power loss. I ride it to work every day, then leave at 5 and go to my son's school, pick him up and we ride home across campus and on the road s to our apartment, getting home by 5:30. With this schedule I can go 4 days on a single charge.
The kicker is that I paid about $325 US for it.
What are they trying to do with this thing anyway?
It took some time, maybe a few months, before i was trained to work with linux. The training came by making mistakes and getting help from the fedora community. Later I tried Ubuntu and nowuse that for my wife and daughters. I plan on moving my wife to Mint Debian next (she shouldn't notice the change from 10.4). Fedora is,for me,the best. But just for me. I love different distros, it is valuablefor the community and the ecosystem. Diversity is strength.
As for Windows, well, once you "get" linux, once you understand it, then there is nothing that it can't do. I find it amusing that many who "must have" photoshop use it for ...What? playing with home photos. Touching up red eye.? Really, My daughter is a real true blue graphic artist, digital variety who uses Gimp, really, no problems. She was working in a photoshop shop last spring and the "geeks" who were photoshop wizards, were coming around her desk to find out how to do the stuff she was doing. "Oh, I don't know how to do that in photoshop" she had to say.
notice she didn't say "you can't do that in photoshop" we don't play power games like that.
That is the linux way
I'm sorry, i'm confused, how do you program with a cello?
I understand being able to listen to cellos on audacious,i use it as my primary music player right now, but the rest of this thread is really messed up.
Having lived in Holland (my wife is Dutch) and worked with Singies (who are shocked and amused by the political chicanery of the rest of the world-- they solved corruption by making it single point. Their dictator is so rich and powerful he is incorruptible) I have to agree that the American system is really not so hot. We have the potential to be in the top five of that list, but only if we really make serious radical changes. If occupy can push us to do that then we win. If the tea party fools win we are dead meat on a stick