Cars are heavier not only to meet higher safety standards but because they hold too much crap under the hood. No one really needs power windows (4x), power steering, onboard rear view cameras, and mainly the crappy automatic transmission!
The automatic transmission is the heaviest piece in a car. Driving correctly can save you a lot of gas, speacially if you have a standard transmission.
Also, buy car with just two passenger doors, why one would need a car with 4 passenger doors if most of use is done by only one person.
The device that closes the trunk door automaticaly is also another crap to be removed, no one needs that crap!
This is just some of the technological things that should be removed, there are much more.
"... A Russian foreign ministry spokesman has denied there were any intelligence connections in the affair."
To be busted obviously no inteligence was involved.
In Brazil a guy converted a Beetle (called Fusca in Brazil) into a full electric car not so long ago:
http://www.ecofusca.com.br/
The problem is that those mods are always so expensive.
I've started with Brazilian distro called Conectiva (2000), then bounced around Suse and RedHat, then Mnadrake till 2004. Finally in the middle of 2004 I've moved to Gentoo, which I use in basically every computer I owned or used since then. Gentoo is the best due its customization potential, even when is not fully used. I used many customization, but there is always more to explore.
Is it broken? I didn't know that. I have been using Linux since 2000 and things are better than ever before. However, if you ever find something broken please just fill the appropriated bug report.
You mean pay them a girlfriend/whore? At that age no girl, even the ugliest one, cares about them. Let the hackers do their job.
These psycologists have problems to engage in relationships on their own, that's why they always find relationships can solve any problem. Hackerism can be age related but has nothing to do relationships.
Well, not exactly what you want but I am working on my Raspberry Pi to make it an HTPC. I have a Network Attached Storage (NAS) - well, actually it is a Pogoplug but a real NAS would be better - connected to a Wi-Fi router. I have installed the latest Raspbmc (http://www.raspbmc.com/) in the Raspberry Pi (http://www.raspberrypi.org/), and with a wireless keyboard it works great. The Raspberry Pi have an ethernet card but I am thinking to buy a Wi-Fi dongle and use it instead of wired network.
I have had a nVidia and now an ATI Radeon. With nVidia I have a good performance but some crashes. With ATI Radeon the performance was inferior, even though the hardware was better (dual core, more memory, higher GHz); and more crashes. With the open source no crashes and no performance. At work I have an Intel GPU and and the performance seems to be way better than the ATI Radeon with the open source driver, and also 100% stable. Therefore, I won't buy anymore ATI or nVidia, just Intel for PC and laptop.
When I bought my laptop with ATI Radeon 4 years ago I thought I would have a continuous development of the open source driver, and I was happy to get rid of the nVidia dependence. nVidia stops to develop the driver after some point and you have to live with the open source, which is not supported by the nVidia team anyways and does not have accelaration. You have to either keep an old kernel, move to the open source or trash your ~3 years old hardware.
AMD/ATI pretend to have open source drivers at the same time they keep their closed source drivers. The open source drivers will always compile and run in the latest kernel, which is great. This is the spirit of GNU/Linux. But the closed source ones don't. They stop to develop the closed source driver like nVidia does. From that point your driver may or may not run against the latest kernels. It would be great if they open the source code of their drivers, instead they start to develop a new crappy open source with lots of features missing, mainly 3D accelaration, which really sucks.
Thanks AMD/ATI for your double standard. I will be moving on to Intel in the future.
Indeed, science education may not be that bad, but churchs have a strong voice that goes against it. Reducing the number of churchs and their influence in our children would certainly improve the public perception of the real science education. That would also shut up politicians that goes against science as well.
I am currently experiencing such thing. I got my comment on how Google Gmail is getting worse in another thread (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2841713&cid=39955445). Even though some folks have evaluated as insightful I have seen it loosing points every couple of days. Also an anonymous commented there very angry. If you know how to get in contact with me through here let's get in touch (I have friended you). I sent an e-mail to Samsenpus last week but heard nothing so far.
I have my Gmail account for years and loved, but a couple of weeks ago I lost some important e-mails stored in the Gmail (and several folks had same issues due to the upgrade to 10GB recently done). I have contacted Google team but got no help at all. Since then I lost my trust in Google and I am planning to open another e-mail with another e-mail provider to keep as another option.
Another problem is the privacy issues raised some months ago here and other tech website.
Also, researchers don't use gmail account as a contact e-mail i scientific papers. Too bad for the institution who does that. I would recommnend that every lab keeps their own server for e-mails and website hosting.
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Cars are heavier not only to meet higher safety standards but because they hold too much crap under the hood. No one really needs power windows (4x), power steering, onboard rear view cameras, and mainly the crappy automatic transmission! The automatic transmission is the heaviest piece in a car. Driving correctly can save you a lot of gas, speacially if you have a standard transmission. Also, buy car with just two passenger doors, why one would need a car with 4 passenger doors if most of use is done by only one person. The device that closes the trunk door automaticaly is also another crap to be removed, no one needs that crap! This is just some of the technological things that should be removed, there are much more.
Hi Linus, Who and how do you think someone would lead the Linux kernel project when you retire?
"... A Russian foreign ministry spokesman has denied there were any intelligence connections in the affair." To be busted obviously no inteligence was involved.
In Brazil a guy converted a Beetle (called Fusca in Brazil) into a full electric car not so long ago: http://www.ecofusca.com.br/ The problem is that those mods are always so expensive.
I've started with Brazilian distro called Conectiva (2000), then bounced around Suse and RedHat, then Mnadrake till 2004. Finally in the middle of 2004 I've moved to Gentoo, which I use in basically every computer I owned or used since then. Gentoo is the best due its customization potential, even when is not fully used. I used many customization, but there is always more to explore.
Is it broken? I didn't know that. I have been using Linux since 2000 and things are better than ever before. However, if you ever find something broken please just fill the appropriated bug report.
You mean pay them a girlfriend/whore? At that age no girl, even the ugliest one, cares about them. Let the hackers do their job. These psycologists have problems to engage in relationships on their own, that's why they always find relationships can solve any problem. Hackerism can be age related but has nothing to do relationships.
Well, not exactly what you want but I am working on my Raspberry Pi to make it an HTPC. I have a Network Attached Storage (NAS) - well, actually it is a Pogoplug but a real NAS would be better - connected to a Wi-Fi router. I have installed the latest Raspbmc (http://www.raspbmc.com/) in the Raspberry Pi (http://www.raspberrypi.org/), and with a wireless keyboard it works great. The Raspberry Pi have an ethernet card but I am thinking to buy a Wi-Fi dongle and use it instead of wired network.
In North Carolina, the rising of sea level is illegal if not following their law. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/05/30/nc-makes-sea-level-rise-illegal/
I have had a nVidia and now an ATI Radeon. With nVidia I have a good performance but some crashes. With ATI Radeon the performance was inferior, even though the hardware was better (dual core, more memory, higher GHz); and more crashes. With the open source no crashes and no performance. At work I have an Intel GPU and and the performance seems to be way better than the ATI Radeon with the open source driver, and also 100% stable. Therefore, I won't buy anymore ATI or nVidia, just Intel for PC and laptop.
I always thought that female bonobos are quite chraming.
I hope this happens in other countries as well.
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When I bought my laptop with ATI Radeon 4 years ago I thought I would have a continuous development of the open source driver, and I was happy to get rid of the nVidia dependence. nVidia stops to develop the driver after some point and you have to live with the open source, which is not supported by the nVidia team anyways and does not have accelaration. You have to either keep an old kernel, move to the open source or trash your ~3 years old hardware. AMD/ATI pretend to have open source drivers at the same time they keep their closed source drivers. The open source drivers will always compile and run in the latest kernel, which is great. This is the spirit of GNU/Linux. But the closed source ones don't. They stop to develop the closed source driver like nVidia does. From that point your driver may or may not run against the latest kernels. It would be great if they open the source code of their drivers, instead they start to develop a new crappy open source with lots of features missing, mainly 3D accelaration, which really sucks. Thanks AMD/ATI for your double standard. I will be moving on to Intel in the future.
Indeed, science education may not be that bad, but churchs have a strong voice that goes against it. Reducing the number of churchs and their influence in our children would certainly improve the public perception of the real science education. That would also shut up politicians that goes against science as well.
Nothing came from above. It was just a nuclear war.
In this sense some countries like Norway are living in the future ...
and TV makes them dumb!
Slashdot should create a tabloid section to publish these things. It could be called trash bin as well.
Shame on you Google! Political division has nothing to do with politics, even though the words share the same root.
I am currently experiencing such thing. I got my comment on how Google Gmail is getting worse in another thread (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2841713&cid=39955445). Even though some folks have evaluated as insightful I have seen it loosing points every couple of days. Also an anonymous commented there very angry. If you know how to get in contact with me through here let's get in touch (I have friended you). I sent an e-mail to Samsenpus last week but heard nothing so far.
Does make up counts? And about wearing nothing like the Femme girls, does it make it better?
I have my Gmail account for years and loved, but a couple of weeks ago I lost some important e-mails stored in the Gmail (and several folks had same issues due to the upgrade to 10GB recently done). I have contacted Google team but got no help at all. Since then I lost my trust in Google and I am planning to open another e-mail with another e-mail provider to keep as another option. Another problem is the privacy issues raised some months ago here and other tech website. Also, researchers don't use gmail account as a contact e-mail i scientific papers. Too bad for the institution who does that. I would recommnend that every lab keeps their own server for e-mails and website hosting.