What is "Mixed Message" supposed to mean? When testifying to Congress, witnesses are required by law to tell the truth. Saying you don't do something when you do is lying.
I understand that Congress does whatever AT&T wants (wiretapping is power), calls whatever AT&T does whatever AT&T wants. But since when did Slashdot become corporate mass media, afraid to call lying "lying"?
If wireless networks were required to allow anyone with a contract to access them whenever physically possible, the way the wired telephone/Internet networks are, then one network going down wouldn't disconnect all devices from the overall network. Instead, the US locks each device to a network, then charges roaming fees if connection can be made at all when there's another network's signal.
It's long past time to let any device connect to any wireless network with usable signal, with seamless handoff of voice and data streams when the network is "hopped". Wireless carriers like AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile would hate to lose the roaming money from the lockout, but we need open access to treat the wireless networks like the Internet, with all the growth that comes from it.
Disarray. I blame Griffin for messing up NASA's budget, as I said. What's worse than his debatable budget priorities is how he promised not to cut science to fund live missions, but then did so, which threw budget planning and integrity out the window. Which makes NASA much more expensive and difficult to manage.
If you want to get deeper into Griffin's priorities, we can talk about how the CIA / Star Wars exec reprioritized NASA to support Bush's policy of supporting Pentagon/intel "space supremacy" instead of the peaceful exploration and exploitation of space. But that level of detail isn't necessary. Griffin ran NASA for years, got big boosts to its budget, and spent them in a way that left NASA unable to even properly predict scheduling its main function. Then he responds by blaming everyone but himself. Those are objective facts, and show Griffin to be a hack.
First off, Griffin isn't NASA Administrator anymore, since Obama accepted his resignation as Obama was being inaugurated.
Next up, I don't notice Griffin taking any responsibility himself for leaving NASA in disarray after years running it. Even though he messed up its budget. Yes, Bush deserves blame for messing up NASA, including by putting a CIA Star Wars hack in charge of it, who wasted our time suppressing climate change research results. But Griffin doesn't have any standing to criticize anyone else until he owns up to his own bad work setting back our space program, now apparently by decades.
If you're spending hours reinstalling OS and apps so you can keep using a 7 year old computer rather than spending $500 to keep using the apps you already know (and have all your data in), like your email/contacts/calendar app and Firefox instead of some obscure alternative that's different from what you use on all your other computers, then you've got no business insulting a $100:h COBOL consultant.
Especially because 5 hours of COBOL consulting can be worth quite a lot of money to the employer. Hours reinstalling, converting and getting used to an oddball desktop just to keep an old, underperforming PC is not.
Bogart, Wayne, Hepburn and Garbo weren't good in their movies just because they looked the way they did. They were actors (Wayne perhaps excluded) who interpreted their characters in the story and the script. They were unique personalities, sometimes unique to each role, who enabled audiences to relate to them and how the stories in their movies changed them onscreen. Not just familiar images programmed to go through the motions.
Their genius was in their empathy and projection, not just their ownership of a body who could walk and talk through screens.
Besides, Hollywood today mainly lacks producers with courage to take a risk on a story that isn't just a franchise of some characters licensed from some brand or put through some other formula. We've got plenty of talented actors, with far too few good movies getting funded to employ them.
Schwarzenegger has run California as its governor the same way: his image plastered on a scripted, empty performance that a Hollywood computer could do better.
It's funny how you answered my question "Is there any simple way to trim the minimum RAM requirements of Ubuntu down below say 300MB (without losing GNOME)?" with "lose GNOME".
You're different from me. I use a computer solely in order to use the apps I want/need to use. If I have to choose between keeping a 7 year old computer or keeping the apps I use, I'm keeping the apps. Even if it costs me $500+ for a new notebook that's as good as or better than my 7 year old one.
The Maersk Alabama was a humanitarian mission carrying food to Somalia, not to the US. It was an unusual cargo. Maybe the US has responsibility for that particular cargo, though more likely the UN should have. Or whoever paid for it, paying for security for it.
Besides, the product isn't ours until it arrives at our port. Until then, it's either the seller's or the shipper's responsibility.
Only a very few of the ships in the Somali coastal traffic are US flagged. The recent pirate attack on the Maersk (not US) ship happened to have an American captain taken hostage, but that's not typical.
Again, what is the basis for the US paying to protect all this shipping?
Of course they're just passing through the Somali coast. But they're full of products, largely oil, that are a bigger part of those OPEC countries' economy than of the US economy.
On what basis does the US pay to protect shipping for the entire world, in an ocean on the opposite side of the world from the US, when the countries in that actual region are getting the main benefit of the commerce?
I've been using Ubuntu on my Inspiron i8000 notebook since v6.04. But starting v8.10, the minimum RAM requirements nearly exceeded the 512 max RAM the notebook can hold. With a small app or two running it's right at 512MB used. Running Evolution or especially Firefox puts it far over, grinding the whole machine to a halt as it constantly swaps. To make matters worse, the nVidia GeForce2Go GPU doesn't seem supported by compvis, so the GPU doesn't offload the CPU for lots of graphics.
I'm hoping the 9.04 release now might possibly have some upgrade that relieves the RAM pressure. But I expect it will just get worse. Is there any simple way to trim the minimum RAM requirements of Ubuntu down below say 300MB (without losing GNOME)? Maybe if there's a simple way to convert the machine into just an X server to a separate faster box across the LAN, without saturating the LAN. Or maybe I finally have to kiss goodbye my 7 year old notebook and its fabulous 1600x1200 LCD.
Whatever is used to protect that essential shipping, why the hell is the US paying for the US Navy to protect it? Why aren't Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen, and all the other filthy rich oil shipping countries paying to protect their shipping? It's bad enough the US is paying through the nose for that oil from that cartel. It's worse that the US spends $TRILLIONS in wars throughout the Mideast, from East Africa through Central Asia, to protect or meddle in the business enriching those foreign oil countries. Why aren't they at least footing the bill for the security of their products sailing through their own backyards?
By the time child porn is distributed on the Internet, the worst crime has already occurred: children exploited somewhere, with a camera pointed at them. The police have failed to protect those children. Stopping the Internet distribution protects mainly the police from the fact that they have failed to protect these children. It doesn't catch the exploiters who exploited and photographed the children. In fact it keeps those exploiters out of sight, and harder to catch - but harder for the public to notice the police haven't stopped them.
As usual, a police state prioritizes keeping quiet the evidence of its failures to protect by abusing everyone's rights, over actually catching the criminals and protecting the public.
I asked how efficient it is, and how much energy it costs to make, because I want the facts to show whether it is indeed energy economical to use it. Because I'm interested in it, and want to see whether it's realistic.
You, on the other hand, see a question about its actual utility as an attack on it.
Because you're just another crazy "libertarian". You hate facts. You'll defend any fantasy by attacking anyone asking for facts about it.
The "free market" isn't some kind of magic. This geek website is full of stories about devices and projects that cannot be profitable, but which geeks indulge because they have time and money to waste. People making an using something are no proof that it's economical.
My questions were in fact exactly what a "free market" (which exists only in the juvenile minds of "libertarians") needs to know in order to decide whether to buy and sell something. The fact that they repel you shows that you're just another crazy libertarian who doesn't know anything about free markets, economics or even science, but has such a strong libertarian faith that you think chanting "free market" will make it happen, will win your jihad against thinking people going about normal business.
Put down the Ayn Rand, stop dreaming you're John Galt, and get a job.
Google's main 3D project is SketchUp, an easy 3D modeling studio. But it's not available for Linux. And it runs crappy, if at all, in WINE. It's also nearly the only way (other than a really tricky multi-app process with Blender) to import 3D buildings into Google Earth. Which means that without a Linux SketchUp, it's nearly impossible to get Google Earth to place the buildings properly (it requires IPC which doesn't work with SketchUp running within WINE).
So if Google is going to spend programmer hours bringing 3D to the masses, how about finishing bringing SketchUp to Linux already?
How %efficient are these thermoelectric devices in outputting electric power W from the power W extracted by cooling the wastefully hot devices? And how much power does it take to manufacture one of these thermoelectric devices?
Without Gore's "preaching", you wouldn't have this Internet to pitch rightwing talking points, and you'd be racing towards inevitable climate disaster while those rightwing talking points ruled.
Maybe if Gore "preached" more he wouldn't have had his inauguration stolen from him. And we might not be bogged down in two catastrophic wars, prisoners of catastrophic debt, fallen mightily from where Gore managed to steer us when he was elected president by a majority of Americans.
Why do you hate America, Republican (er, "libertarian") dittohead?
Buy a used 1U rack Dell server with redundant power supplies, Pentiums, ethernets and HDs on a RAID. Then replace the HDs with Flash SSD. Then put the whole thing in a plywood box with an air conditioner mounted on top, tubes blowing cold air in and three.00 grade nylon layers over the out vents, the upper layer removable. Seal all cracks, especially around cable slots, with silicone caulk. Run the whole thing as a unit, cleaning the air conditioner filters and out vent screens twice a day (so get two sets of those filters).
Keep spares of each redundant part. Buy two of those whole units (including air conditioners), because one unit will die anyway.
Run them on an ethernet switch, one powered down except once a day or so to sync their RAIDs.
Or rent a server at some global datacenter, and get WiFi/pringles antenna to an ISP somewhere.
Then they're denying that their own lives have been heavily subsidized by most everyone else. Not just during their own lifetimes or their parents'. But how about the land they live on that was stolen for them by armies over centuries? How about all the public research stopping disease? How about all the wars for their freedom? All that government work is "socialism", right, so you can just ignore it.
You libertarians act like you just found $100 on the ground, and made it yourselves.
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What is "Mixed Message" supposed to mean? When testifying to Congress, witnesses are required by law to tell the truth. Saying you don't do something when you do is lying.
I understand that Congress does whatever AT&T wants (wiretapping is power), calls whatever AT&T does whatever AT&T wants. But since when did Slashdot become corporate mass media, afraid to call lying "lying"?
If wireless networks were required to allow anyone with a contract to access them whenever physically possible, the way the wired telephone/Internet networks are, then one network going down wouldn't disconnect all devices from the overall network. Instead, the US locks each device to a network, then charges roaming fees if connection can be made at all when there's another network's signal.
It's long past time to let any device connect to any wireless network with usable signal, with seamless handoff of voice and data streams when the network is "hopped". Wireless carriers like AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile would hate to lose the roaming money from the lockout, but we need open access to treat the wireless networks like the Internet, with all the growth that comes from it.
Disarray. I blame Griffin for messing up NASA's budget, as I said. What's worse than his debatable budget priorities is how he promised not to cut science to fund live missions, but then did so, which threw budget planning and integrity out the window. Which makes NASA much more expensive and difficult to manage.
If you want to get deeper into Griffin's priorities, we can talk about how the CIA / Star Wars exec reprioritized NASA to support Bush's policy of supporting Pentagon/intel "space supremacy" instead of the peaceful exploration and exploitation of space. But that level of detail isn't necessary. Griffin ran NASA for years, got big boosts to its budget, and spent them in a way that left NASA unable to even properly predict scheduling its main function. Then he responds by blaming everyone but himself. Those are objective facts, and show Griffin to be a hack.
First off, Griffin isn't NASA Administrator anymore, since Obama accepted his resignation as Obama was being inaugurated.
Next up, I don't notice Griffin taking any responsibility himself for leaving NASA in disarray after years running it. Even though he messed up its budget. Yes, Bush deserves blame for messing up NASA, including by putting a CIA Star Wars hack in charge of it, who wasted our time suppressing climate change research results. But Griffin doesn't have any standing to criticize anyone else until he owns up to his own bad work setting back our space program, now apparently by decades.
If you're spending hours reinstalling OS and apps so you can keep using a 7 year old computer rather than spending $500 to keep using the apps you already know (and have all your data in), like your email/contacts/calendar app and Firefox instead of some obscure alternative that's different from what you use on all your other computers, then you've got no business insulting a $100:h COBOL consultant.
Especially because 5 hours of COBOL consulting can be worth quite a lot of money to the employer. Hours reinstalling, converting and getting used to an oddball desktop just to keep an old, underperforming PC is not.
Bogart, Wayne, Hepburn and Garbo weren't good in their movies just because they looked the way they did. They were actors (Wayne perhaps excluded) who interpreted their characters in the story and the script. They were unique personalities, sometimes unique to each role, who enabled audiences to relate to them and how the stories in their movies changed them onscreen. Not just familiar images programmed to go through the motions.
Their genius was in their empathy and projection, not just their ownership of a body who could walk and talk through screens.
Besides, Hollywood today mainly lacks producers with courage to take a risk on a story that isn't just a franchise of some characters licensed from some brand or put through some other formula. We've got plenty of talented actors, with far too few good movies getting funded to employ them.
Schwarzenegger has run California as its governor the same way: his image plastered on a scripted, empty performance that a Hollywood computer could do better.
It's funny how you answered my question "Is there any simple way to trim the minimum RAM requirements of Ubuntu down below say 300MB (without losing GNOME)?" with "lose GNOME".
You're different from me. I use a computer solely in order to use the apps I want/need to use. If I have to choose between keeping a 7 year old computer or keeping the apps I use, I'm keeping the apps. Even if it costs me $500+ for a new notebook that's as good as or better than my 7 year old one.
A bottle of Old Janx Spirit is a lot cheaper. But it's expensive to get to a starport that serves it.
The Maersk Alabama was a humanitarian mission carrying food to Somalia, not to the US. It was an unusual cargo. Maybe the US has responsibility for that particular cargo, though more likely the UN should have. Or whoever paid for it, paying for security for it.
Besides, the product isn't ours until it arrives at our port. Until then, it's either the seller's or the shipper's responsibility.
Only a very few of the ships in the Somali coastal traffic are US flagged. The recent pirate attack on the Maersk (not US) ship happened to have an American captain taken hostage, but that's not typical.
Again, what is the basis for the US paying to protect all this shipping?
Of course they're just passing through the Somali coast. But they're full of products, largely oil, that are a bigger part of those OPEC countries' economy than of the US economy.
On what basis does the US pay to protect shipping for the entire world, in an ocean on the opposite side of the world from the US, when the countries in that actual region are getting the main benefit of the commerce?
Now we can finally use some devices to measure which of our beverages might contain some Old Janx Spirit.
I'm not sure that you're complaining when you say "Jaunty Jackalope" and "Dapper Drake" are "poofish", because your own chosen name is "drinkypoo".
I've been using Ubuntu on my Inspiron i8000 notebook since v6.04. But starting v8.10, the minimum RAM requirements nearly exceeded the 512 max RAM the notebook can hold. With a small app or two running it's right at 512MB used. Running Evolution or especially Firefox puts it far over, grinding the whole machine to a halt as it constantly swaps. To make matters worse, the nVidia GeForce2Go GPU doesn't seem supported by compvis, so the GPU doesn't offload the CPU for lots of graphics.
I'm hoping the 9.04 release now might possibly have some upgrade that relieves the RAM pressure. But I expect it will just get worse. Is there any simple way to trim the minimum RAM requirements of Ubuntu down below say 300MB (without losing GNOME)? Maybe if there's a simple way to convert the machine into just an X server to a separate faster box across the LAN, without saturating the LAN. Or maybe I finally have to kiss goodbye my 7 year old notebook and its fabulous 1600x1200 LCD.
Whatever is used to protect that essential shipping, why the hell is the US paying for the US Navy to protect it? Why aren't Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen, and all the other filthy rich oil shipping countries paying to protect their shipping? It's bad enough the US is paying through the nose for that oil from that cartel. It's worse that the US spends $TRILLIONS in wars throughout the Mideast, from East Africa through Central Asia, to protect or meddle in the business enriching those foreign oil countries. Why aren't they at least footing the bill for the security of their products sailing through their own backyards?
By the time child porn is distributed on the Internet, the worst crime has already occurred: children exploited somewhere, with a camera pointed at them. The police have failed to protect those children. Stopping the Internet distribution protects mainly the police from the fact that they have failed to protect these children. It doesn't catch the exploiters who exploited and photographed the children. In fact it keeps those exploiters out of sight, and harder to catch - but harder for the public to notice the police haven't stopped them.
As usual, a police state prioritizes keeping quiet the evidence of its failures to protect by abusing everyone's rights, over actually catching the criminals and protecting the public.
You're just another crazy "libertarian".
I asked how efficient it is, and how much energy it costs to make, because I want the facts to show whether it is indeed energy economical to use it. Because I'm interested in it, and want to see whether it's realistic.
You, on the other hand, see a question about its actual utility as an attack on it.
Because you're just another crazy "libertarian". You hate facts. You'll defend any fantasy by attacking anyone asking for facts about it.
The "free market" isn't some kind of magic. This geek website is full of stories about devices and projects that cannot be profitable, but which geeks indulge because they have time and money to waste. People making an using something are no proof that it's economical.
My questions were in fact exactly what a "free market" (which exists only in the juvenile minds of "libertarians") needs to know in order to decide whether to buy and sell something. The fact that they repel you shows that you're just another crazy libertarian who doesn't know anything about free markets, economics or even science, but has such a strong libertarian faith that you think chanting "free market" will make it happen, will win your jihad against thinking people going about normal business.
Put down the Ayn Rand, stop dreaming you're John Galt, and get a job.
Google's main 3D project is SketchUp, an easy 3D modeling studio. But it's not available for Linux. And it runs crappy, if at all, in WINE. It's also nearly the only way (other than a really tricky multi-app process with Blender) to import 3D buildings into Google Earth. Which means that without a Linux SketchUp, it's nearly impossible to get Google Earth to place the buildings properly (it requires IPC which doesn't work with SketchUp running within WINE).
So if Google is going to spend programmer hours bringing 3D to the masses, how about finishing bringing SketchUp to Linux already?
How %efficient are these thermoelectric devices in outputting electric power W from the power W extracted by cooling the wastefully hot devices? And how much power does it take to manufacture one of these thermoelectric devices?
No, he was elected. The Supreme Court interfered with the election to abort it without counting all the votes cast. That's why he wasn't inaugurated.
You Republicans have nothing to teach us about the US election system except how it can be abused, so catastrophically for the country.
I'd love to see Sun sell a PCI-e card with Sparc chips on it running Oracle DBs in parallel with the main Pentium running the apps querying the DBs.
Without Gore's "preaching", you wouldn't have this Internet to pitch rightwing talking points, and you'd be racing towards inevitable climate disaster while those rightwing talking points ruled.
Maybe if Gore "preached" more he wouldn't have had his inauguration stolen from him. And we might not be bogged down in two catastrophic wars, prisoners of catastrophic debt, fallen mightily from where Gore managed to steer us when he was elected president by a majority of Americans.
Why do you hate America, Republican (er, "libertarian") dittohead?
Buy a used 1U rack Dell server with redundant power supplies, Pentiums, ethernets and HDs on a RAID. Then replace the HDs with Flash SSD. Then put the whole thing in a plywood box with an air conditioner mounted on top, tubes blowing cold air in and three .00 grade nylon layers over the out vents, the upper layer removable. Seal all cracks, especially around cable slots, with silicone caulk. Run the whole thing as a unit, cleaning the air conditioner filters and out vent screens twice a day (so get two sets of those filters).
Keep spares of each redundant part. Buy two of those whole units (including air conditioners), because one unit will die anyway.
Run them on an ethernet switch, one powered down except once a day or so to sync their RAIDs.
Or rent a server at some global datacenter, and get WiFi/pringles antenna to an ISP somewhere.
Then they're denying that their own lives have been heavily subsidized by most everyone else. Not just during their own lifetimes or their parents'. But how about the land they live on that was stolen for them by armies over centuries? How about all the public research stopping disease? How about all the wars for their freedom? All that government work is "socialism", right, so you can just ignore it.
You libertarians act like you just found $100 on the ground, and made it yourselves.