I think you'll need to fight the whole anti-intellectual thing in the first place. Parents wont pay extra taxes for extra/better education, kids think learning is for dweebs.
I see things getting a lot worse before they get better. How do you fight complacency?
Possession and production of any part of the opium poppy is illegal in the US, excepting the seeds. So those poppies growing in grandmas garden are just as illegal as a bag of cocaine.
Of course they don't enforce it unless you know what it is, which is a rather odd way of doing things.
Engineering lifespan on something like this is more of an educated guess, and is( or should be) fairly conservative.
For your example, it's more like when a company produces a radically new tire, with little to no prior experience in the rubber business has to tell the first consumers how long they will last. I'm thinking they're going to err on the side of caution. Now, after years of running these tires, with regular valve-stem replacements and such, they realise there is a lot of life in them at the end of their original conservative estimate, and extend the rating.
Although the horrible gas 350 conversions GM made in the late 70's / early 80's left a horrible taste in america's mouth, They own Opel (or did, not sure how that came out of the whole restructuring thing). Opel makes good passenger car diesels.
However, GM never seems to handle this right. Recently they brought over one or two models to the US under saturn branding (astra). This is the usual formula they follow: 1. Delete diesel option, optionally delete efficient euro gas option also. replace with inefficient american made V6. (not in this instance, just diesel drop). 2. Install soggy ass american suspension, slushbox, cheapen up interior materials. 3. Make the outside uglier, add saturn badging. 4. don't profit.
I would think if they brought over the Astra and Vectra as-is they could compete somewhat with VW Golf and Passat, hell, they do in Germany.
Pretty standard, I've seen similar disclaimers on hardware (microcontrollers, IIRC). The govnt is naturally exempt, but they need to pay a lot more, and take on the liability.
(trying to google to figure out which manufacturer I had seen it on.. I was thinking microchip. During the search, I've discovered that apparently itunes cannot be used on nuclear weapons. Ain't that a shame.)
I thought $2 each was too expensive , so I started breeding them. (pet snakes). After having to put up with the smell when cleaning their enclosures/feeding/etc, I'm starting to think $2 was a fair price.
It's kind of amazing how one mouse makes more stink than a bunch of rats, each 10x the size.
I know these are certified strains and all that, but that's a pretty hefty mark-up.
We have them already. (sort of, at least. I don't think they are formal standards [IEC or EIA or whatnot], but they are at least de facto standards.)
Every laptop battery I've taken apart is just based on 18650 cells. Why the laptops don't just take the cells alone is something I may never understand. Probably because they only have $10 worth of cells, and they'd rather sell you a $50+ battery.
It would be nice if they standardized some of the flat, polymer batteries though. like the kinds used in mobile phones and other flat, portable devices.
Evince (gtk) and Okular (ex-kpdf, iirc, Qt) both seem pretty usable to me.
At work, I'm stuck with windows, and the Evince win32 port seems to work quite well there too. Only issue I ran into was that be default it tried to print things in landscape mode or something like that, and I didn't notice. A nice feature is that it does djvu and postscript as well, instead of having multiple readers (although I seem to think ps might not work with windows in default, probably relies on ghostscript or so..?).
There's more to it than that. East Europe has had problems with alcohol ever since Slavs appeared there, so that's more of a baseline thing.
Hard drug use has gone up 10 fold since dissolution of USSR. Mostly heroin. HIV is most common in this segment. I wonder how much of those Afghan poppies are ending up in Russia. They figure at least 2.5M people are addicts (~1.8% of pop) and maybe double that are occasional users.
The commercials. Jesus Christ. When I very rarely watch live TV (say, at a friends house), I'm shocked by the amount of advertisements. How did people ever let themselves become subject to such shit?
I watch a few shows that I DL, and listen to public radio, if I listen to radio. Adblock on the web. Advertising is still stupidly pervasive, even with all that... Why would I pay to watch it?
I wasn't familiar with zsh until I used grml (a fairly handy debian-based live distro, I use for fixing things on occasion). It comes with a pretty spiffy zshrc and zsh by default, which opened me to some of the features of it... pretty nifty... Now I use zsh on everything.
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What's wrong with being able to run whatever you want on whatever you want? The more the better, I think.
Or are you asking what makes this hardware better than android hardware?
I think you'll need to fight the whole anti-intellectual thing in the first place. Parents wont pay extra taxes for extra/better education, kids think learning is for dweebs.
I see things getting a lot worse before they get better. How do you fight complacency?
Yeah, KDE4 was pretty buggy at first, but lately it's been great.
gnome 3 though... what happened there.
Possession and production of any part of the opium poppy is illegal in the US, excepting the seeds. So those poppies growing in grandmas garden are just as illegal as a bag of cocaine.
Of course they don't enforce it unless you know what it is, which is a rather odd way of doing things.
Funny how that works. get rid of chemistry sets, and hobby chemistry becomes an endangered species.
It doesn't help that buying things as simple as labware probably get you thrown on some 'suspected meth cook' list, either.
If things were always like that, I imagine we'd still think there were only four elements.
Either that, or send them all to reeducation camps.
Try not to stress about it, it's hopeless.
Engineering lifespan on something like this is more of an educated guess, and is( or should be) fairly conservative.
For your example, it's more like when a company produces a radically new tire, with little to no prior experience in the rubber business has to tell the first consumers how long they will last. I'm thinking they're going to err on the side of caution.
Now, after years of running these tires, with regular valve-stem replacements and such, they realise there is a lot of life in them at the end of their original conservative estimate, and extend the rating.
Although the horrible gas 350 conversions GM made in the late 70's / early 80's left a horrible taste in america's mouth, They own Opel (or did, not sure how that came out of the whole restructuring thing). Opel makes good passenger car diesels.
However, GM never seems to handle this right. Recently they brought over one or two models to the US under saturn branding (astra).
This is the usual formula they follow:
1. Delete diesel option, optionally delete efficient euro gas option also. replace with inefficient american made V6. (not in this instance, just diesel drop).
2. Install soggy ass american suspension, slushbox, cheapen up interior materials.
3. Make the outside uglier, add saturn badging.
4. don't profit.
I would think if they brought over the Astra and Vectra as-is they could compete somewhat with VW Golf and Passat, hell, they do in Germany.
Do you know what Socialism is? It's not what Putin is after, and it's not the boogeyman either.
I'll give you dictatorship though. Seems some folk (particularly Americans) have some sort of mix-up between authoritarianism and socialism.
Those poor Scandinavians, living under their evil totalitarian socialist regimes... better liberate them.
I guess I should have elaborated that ER = United Russia, Putin's party.
sorry for self reply
I remember hearing recently that ER has been paying people 15 roubles per pro-ER astroturf post.
Not sure if there is any truth to it, and my russian is too shitty to research.
Pretty standard, I've seen similar disclaimers on hardware (microcontrollers, IIRC). The govnt is naturally exempt, but they need to pay a lot more, and take on the liability.
(trying to google to figure out which manufacturer I had seen it on.. I was thinking microchip. During the search, I've discovered that apparently itunes cannot be used on nuclear weapons. Ain't that a shame.)
People care a lot more about $AWFUL_REALITY_SHOW than they do about foreign propaganda here, there is no need to block it.
I'd imagine the Iranian govn't wished they had a population that was sedate enough that they didn't have to block propaganda.
Just crank out another season of "Dirty Ice-trucker New Jersey Born Italian-American Hookers in Alaska", and everything will stay the same.
I thought $2 each was too expensive , so I started breeding them. (pet snakes).
After having to put up with the smell when cleaning their enclosures/feeding/etc, I'm starting to think $2 was a fair price.
It's kind of amazing how one mouse makes more stink than a bunch of rats, each 10x the size.
I know these are certified strains and all that, but that's a pretty hefty mark-up.
That would violate the 'no new user accounts or OS configuration' rule. troll harder.
We have them already. (sort of, at least. I don't think they are formal standards [IEC or EIA or whatnot], but they are at least de facto standards.)
Every laptop battery I've taken apart is just based on 18650 cells. Why the laptops don't just take the cells alone is something I may never understand. Probably because they only have $10 worth of cells, and they'd rather sell you a $50+ battery.
It would be nice if they standardized some of the flat, polymer batteries though. like the kinds used in mobile phones and other flat, portable devices.
This was my first thought too. 'never need to change the battery' is newspeak for 'no user-replaceable battery'.
Evince (gtk) and Okular (ex-kpdf, iirc, Qt) both seem pretty usable to me.
At work, I'm stuck with windows, and the Evince win32 port seems to work quite well there too. Only issue I ran into was that be default it tried to print things in landscape mode or something like that, and I didn't notice.
A nice feature is that it does djvu and postscript as well, instead of having multiple readers (although I seem to think ps might not work with windows in default, probably relies on ghostscript or so..?).
You can pretty well set your watch by adobe exploits. Get it together, guys...
It's rather mindboggling that a decade into the 21st century, people are still going to third party download outfits like this.
Maybe someone wants to enlighten me as to why... I'm not coming up with much.
There's more to it than that. East Europe has had problems with alcohol ever since Slavs appeared there, so that's more of a baseline thing.
Hard drug use has gone up 10 fold since dissolution of USSR. Mostly heroin. HIV is most common in this segment. I wonder how much of those Afghan poppies are ending up in Russia. They figure at least 2.5M people are addicts (~1.8% of pop) and maybe double that are occasional users.
Homelessness is way up, suicide is up, etc, etc.
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barring any major improvements in batteries, that just isn't going to be feasible.
The fast ARM phones are brutal enough on batteries, as it is.
They give money to both parties, but I do see it being more likely under GOP rule. The only thing they like more than deregulation is privatisation.
Maybe they can use other Room 641A-esque things as leverage.
The commercials. Jesus Christ. When I very rarely watch live TV (say, at a friends house), I'm shocked by the amount of advertisements. How did people ever let themselves become subject to such shit?
I watch a few shows that I DL, and listen to public radio, if I listen to radio. Adblock on the web. Advertising is still stupidly pervasive, even with all that... Why would I pay to watch it?
I wasn't familiar with zsh until I used grml (a fairly handy debian-based live distro, I use for fixing things on occasion). It comes with a pretty spiffy zshrc and zsh by default, which opened me to some of the features of it... pretty nifty... Now I use zsh on everything.
Some info about grml's use of zsh, here.