Now Dr. Edwards had peculiar ways of making his point. He would eat a teaspoon of DDT in front of the students in his chemistry class to make a point about how harmless DDT is to humans. Moreover, he would eat DDT in front of members of the media to drive home the point that they have the story, on DDT, all wrong.
You know, I can't help thinking that that story would sound so much better if he was still alive...
VectorLinux might be what you're looking for. It's slackware based, but with gui package management and all. I liked the IceWM with Rox Filer desktop, but there's a choice of a few if it's not your thing. Ran fine on a laptop with 64MB RAM. You want the standard edition, not the SOHO one.
Copy/pasting plain text tables works quite fine in Excel. I just fired up OO.o and much to my surprise, it doesn't handle space or comma separated plain text...
Did your comma separated file have a.txt extension by any chance? Calc can open text files with any delimiter just fine, but if you want a.txt to open in Calc, either drag and drop the file on Calc or rename your file to.csv. You the get to choose any delimiter you want.
I suspect it would be much easier to find on a planet like Mars. I think the absence of oceans would probably be the biggest factor. No doubt once we have millions of probes (or maybe even a colony) on Mars, predicting the climate and probably even the weather will be a lot easier than it is on Earth. However, at the moment, all we have on Mars are a few temperature readings from a couple of different parts of the planet and a couple of satellite pictures of the icecaps. In other words, we have virtually no data that would allow us to make even the most general of predictions at this time.
There is no "Father of Global Warming". I really don't know what to say to the rest of your post: if you seriously believe that all climatologists worldwide are involved in a conspiracy to fool us, in order to maintain their research grants (and that is what would be required to have all the peer reviewed journals essentially saying the same thing)...well, I doubt there's anything I can say that would change your mind . I could be "one of them" after all.
Then answer this. Why are Mars, Jupiter and Saturn experiencing global warming simultaneously with the Earth?
They're not...or maybe they are...we have absolutely no idea what the climate of these planets is doing because we have barely any data whatsoever on them. It constantly astonishes me that people who won't accept the heaps of data and studies available in every peer reviewed journal in the climatology community, will gladly accept two or three satellite pictures as positive evidence for warming on other planets. Can't you see how skewed your standards for evidence are? Do you really believe that you're judging the data impartially here?
Do you beleive that GW is a natural thing, or human?
Human.
I say this because I'm interested in the whole debate but yet find very little evidence to suggest that the Earth is behaving anythin other than naturally
Apart from all the papers by climatologists that appear in their peer-reviewed journals, you mean?
We have just come out of a "little ice age", centred around the middle ages. The warming of the climate then allowed humans to spread. Eventually the Earth will find a balance and it will go cold again
Can you find a single peer-reviewed study that supports this idea, or are you just guessing? Why do you think you know better than the people who actually study this subject? (serious question; I really don't get this attitude)
Why didn't you post a link to the thread on the ubuntu forums where this whole discussion took place, as you did last time you ranted about this? Is it because you've finally realised that you acted like a complete wanker there? Here's a link.
that the BBC--which is well known for being wacko left wing--is centrist.
It's only nutcase loony right-wing fuckwits who think that the BBC is left-wing. The BBC is pretty much "establishment, conservative" for the UK, with a bit of the old boys network keeping it in line. Yes, I know you'd rather think that the rest of the world is unbalanced rather than you, but...
In this case, it wasn't even worth the reporter's time explaining who in hell the "International Policy Network" is, let alone why an opinion from them should be pertinent here.
They're a "right-wing thinktank"....or a "corporate-funded campaigning group" depending on your point of view. They did receive large sums of money from (surprise, surprise!) Exxon. More stuff here
and busybodies who are being hoisted on their own petards.
[ridiculous pedantry]I think that should still just be "hoist". Like burn -> burnt, you have hoise -> hoist. You wouldn't say burnted.[/rp]
[even more ridiculous childishness]"petard" is from the old French meaning "break wind", so you could say it's being "blown up by your own fart" (I guess petards either smelled pretty bad, or weren't very powerful)[/emrc]
I think it's unfair to imply that it requires so much more than Linux does. I've installed Fedora before and it isn't small - definitely not small enough to fit on a 512MB footprint
I believe this is incorrect: a Fedora minimal install is around 300MB.
Well, you're probably done now, but last one I installed on a 64MB machine was VectorLinux. It's slackware based and I seem to recall the lightweight desktop used IceWM with Rox filer. Worked well. Worth investigating anyway.
In this world, you have only predators and prey. I would always choose to be the predator.
Not me, I'd rather be the prey. You have a much easier life, get tons more sex, have loads more friends, and when the hunt starts all you have to do is trip up the poor bugger running next to you and let him get eaten!
If you're talking about Yes/No dialog boxes - no, they do it differently.
Instead of "Do you want to save the changes? Yes / No / Cancel" you get "You have unsaved changes. Save / Don't Save / Cancel".
That wasn't what he was talking about. Apple doesn't have "Save / Don't Save / Cancel", they have "Don't Save / Cancel / Save". That's the ordering Gnome uses too that he was complaining was wrong.
Last week Dvorak was an idiot, but today he's the best tech columnist in the world.
Wow, good guess! Forty or so comments before yours, not one of which had anything good to say about Dvorak and this is your prediction. Got any stock tips for us, Nostradamus? Invest in SCO perhaps?
What were they implimenting on the Suse desktop that required spending half a million pounds.
You answered that with your first observation I think: they were bringing their own staff up to speed with Linux administration.
[re deepfreeze]: And besides which, why do you need to reboot at logout.
This shows their inexperience. Deepfreeze returns the machine to the exact state in which it was previously. It's designed so that people can screw up the machine and it'll be fine for the next person. You need something like it when running Windows 3.1 or 9x. They could have done this in Linux, however, simply by deleting and recreating the/home/whatever dir on logout rather than implementing some kind of imaging (or whatever) thing....normal users can't affect the system files anyway so there's no need to keep restoring it.
I've no idea what the removable media thing refers to...
what is that url encoding? how does that work -it would be good to bypass the censorship @ skl ive seen other sorts whats that sort called?
It's just writing the IP address as different types of numbers. The "0x" at the start indicates that the number is hexadecimal, rather than decimal (I assume you know about number bases?)
Take slashdot.org for example. nslookup tells me I can connect with http://66.35.250.150/ and sure enough it brings up the main page. Now, convert these numbers to hexadecimal and we get: http://0x42.0x23.0xfa.0x96/ which works as we'd expect.
Actually, both myself and the GP post were a bit redundant. Because it's hex we can just write it as http://0x4223fa96/ and that will work too.
What else...well, if we can have it as a single hex number, we can have it as a single decimal number too. Simplest way to do that would be to just convert the number above to decimal, but so we have a clear idea what we're doing, we can do:
As for the reason we don't have to do that multiplying with the hex numbers, it's kind of because 256 = 0x100. That it fits into hex so easily isn't an accident. Which makes sense when you think about it...
You don't require a passport to leave the UK. You might require photo ID if you're flying, which could be a passport or a photo driving license (or a national ID card if you're from an EU country that has them). You'd need that for internal flights too though.
Slashdot Mirror
I can't find a "Ted Stephens blocked my tubes!" t-shirt on Thinkgeek yet.
VectorLinux might be what you're looking for. It's slackware based, but with gui package management and all. I liked the IceWM with Rox Filer desktop, but there's a choice of a few if it's not your thing. Ran fine on a laptop with 64MB RAM. You want the standard edition, not the SOHO one.
I suspect it would be much easier to find on a planet like Mars. I think the absence of oceans would probably be the biggest factor. No doubt once we have millions of probes (or maybe even a colony) on Mars, predicting the climate and probably even the weather will be a lot easier than it is on Earth. However, at the moment, all we have on Mars are a few temperature readings from a couple of different parts of the planet and a couple of satellite pictures of the icecaps. In other words, we have virtually no data that would allow us to make even the most general of predictions at this time.
There is no "Father of Global Warming". I really don't know what to say to the rest of your post: if you seriously believe that all climatologists worldwide are involved in a conspiracy to fool us, in order to maintain their research grants (and that is what would be required to have all the peer reviewed journals essentially saying the same thing)...well, I doubt there's anything I can say that would change your mind . I could be "one of them" after all.
They're not...or maybe they are...we have absolutely no idea what the climate of these planets is doing because we have barely any data whatsoever on them. It constantly astonishes me that people who won't accept the heaps of data and studies available in every peer reviewed journal in the climatology community, will gladly accept two or three satellite pictures as positive evidence for warming on other planets. Can't you see how skewed your standards for evidence are? Do you really believe that you're judging the data impartially here?
Apart from all the papers by climatologists that appear in their peer-reviewed journals, you mean?
Can you find a single peer-reviewed study that supports this idea, or are you just guessing? Why do you think you know better than the people who actually study this subject? (serious question; I really don't get this attitude)
Have a read of this which tells you about that "report".
Why didn't you post a link to the thread on the ubuntu forums where this whole discussion took place, as you did last time you ranted about this? Is it because you've finally realised that you acted like a complete wanker there? Here's a link.
[even more ridiculous childishness]"petard" is from the old French meaning "break wind", so you could say it's being "blown up by your own fart" (I guess petards either smelled pretty bad, or weren't very powerful)[/emrc]
abiword and gnumeric are much lighter than openoffice.org....and much better than Wordpad ;-)
Well, you're probably done now, but last one I installed on a 64MB machine was VectorLinux. It's slackware based and I seem to recall the lightweight desktop used IceWM with Rox filer. Worked well. Worth investigating anyway.
Ahh, yeah, they were using submount. It's been dropped in the latest release I believe.
OSX does it exactly the same way...I think Apple probably did some usability studies at some point...
This shows their inexperience. Deepfreeze returns the machine to the exact state in which it was previously. It's designed so that people can screw up the machine and it'll be fine for the next person. You need something like it when running Windows 3.1 or 9x. They could have done this in Linux, however, simply by deleting and recreating the
I've no idea what the removable media thing refers to...
Take slashdot.org for example. nslookup tells me I can connect with http://66.35.250.150/ and sure enough it brings up the main page. Now, convert these numbers to hexadecimal and we get: http://0x42.0x23.0xfa.0x96/ which works as we'd expect.
Actually, both myself and the GP post were a bit redundant. Because it's hex we can just write it as http://0x4223fa96/ and that will work too.
What else...well, if we can have it as a single hex number, we can have it as a single decimal number too. Simplest way to do that would be to just convert the number above to decimal, but so we have a clear idea what we're doing, we can do:
256*256*256 * 66 +
256*256 * 35 +
256 * 250 +
150
= 1109654166
So, http://1109654166/ connects us to slashdot.
As for the reason we don't have to do that multiplying with the hex numbers, it's kind of because 256 = 0x100. That it fits into hex so easily isn't an accident. Which makes sense when you think about it...