I've never had cable. I pay for garbage to be hauled away from my house, not piped in. 500 channels of soul-robbing drivel doesn't excite me. I'm logging off now, and going to the garden.
...or if it falls to the fire-sale price of their assets after the public finds the next big thing. In other news, GM said nobody notices Facebook ads. Duh.
....and I run Linux, but I have glass apertures on my house, so the aluminum-foil reflective insulation on the inside of my wallboard doesn't shield wifi that much.
Well, duh, running windoze and anti-virus, what would you expect? Try a lite Linux, there are a bunch of 'em. 512M? Puppy, or Bodhi maybe. No, not Kubuntu.
"...and telling people in countries with AIDS epidemics that using condoms causes AIDS?...." etc.
A friend of mine is a priest in northern Uganda, and...you are misinformed.
Read this, you will learn something. http://hliuganda.org/ These are people who are actually helping instead of pushing costly artificial contraception (which is like human Roundup).
And there's a button on the upper right where YOU can help.
Electronic circuits hate two things: heat, and thermal cycling. I was at Home Depot this morning where they had a LED lamp displayed inside an aluminum reflector, and the heat sink was too hot to keep my hand on (a good guide for comparison). It is better to buy lamps that have the power supply separate from the LEDs, and even better to have the power supply a standard one you can replace separately when needed. Keep them cool! Someday the electrolytics will dry out.
About warranties: if they gave a 20 year warranty to the original purchaser with the sales slip, they would get 0.1% returns over the 20 years, and by then they could hand you a $5 replacement bulb. Of course I'd be one of the 0.1%, if any burned out.
My daughter drives a 20 (?) year old Toyota "old guy" car. I bought a Dodge Caliber because it has a Toyota CVT transmission, and my wife has killed 3 MoPar trannys over the years. Disclosure: I am an engineer from Detroit (Scholarship from Chrysler to the U of D), and most of my family and in-laws worked for Chrysler. I've had a '59 Dodge, '64 Valiant Slant 6, '70 Duster, couple minivans, three Colts, an Omni 024, and a Neon. They were by and large pieces of shit.
I remember when the Air Force Research Lab did reliability studies like this (and wrote the manuals for predicting reliability). That was at Rome Air Development Center, here in Rome, NY. Nowadays, the military has no need for reliability.
I'm in the fourth group. After spending hours punching cards and getting a 4 inch stack of printout the next day because of a hanging chad (not that I knew what it was called then), I decided that the analog computer was the way to go, because you could solve differential equations in real time, and tweak them as you watched the output dial. It was years later until I got my first decent digital computer, an Apple ][c, complete with 5-1/4" disks and punching tool, so i could flip them over.
It's a turd. They never cared about Linux, even before their new Microsoft overlords. It works on my laptop fine, but on my 2 machines at work the video doesn't work, even though Cheese shows the video pipes through/dev/video0 and the capture card shows up in Skype. Go to skype tech support and ask for help with a Linux problem, get dead silence.
Get a solar water heater. At least preheat your water if you live in a cloudy north climate (I'm in Central NY). Down south you should be able to get most of your hot water out of a system, with very low pump electricity cost and low maintenance, for many years.
Most "Catholic" politicians are adamantly pro-abortion, a subset of executions, despite a biblical commandment against it. It's easy to see how some guy who went afoul of the establishment in 1600 could get burned at the stake as a heretic and the Church take the rap. In case you wonder how many Catholic scientists did NOT get burned at the stake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_Catholic_scientist-clerics
Well, who cares about how many boiling hot super-gravity planets are around stars thousands of light years away? How can we get cheap gasoline, and stop the glaciers from melting??
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I've never had cable. I pay for garbage to be hauled away from my house, not piped in. 500 channels of soul-robbing drivel doesn't excite me. I'm logging off now, and going to the garden.
...or if it falls to the fire-sale price of their assets after the public finds the next big thing.
In other news, GM said nobody notices Facebook ads. Duh.
Obama coming out for gay marriage should completely squash that rumor.
...what we pay at Snapfish, one of their frequent "specials". I suppose it's a loss leader for ther ridiculous large prints, mugs, etc.
I "had to" buy a new printer when I got a vista machine. Little did I know that if I'd put Linux on it, the old printer's driver was right there.
....and I run Linux, but I have glass apertures on my house, so the aluminum-foil reflective insulation on the inside of my wallboard doesn't shield wifi that much.
That would take me an hour to remedy, and that includes 15 minutes to drink a coffee and 20 minutes to find my Ubuntu disk.
That exact thing happened to the swamp in back of my house.
Actually, that works, because a lot of people are doing the same.
Well, duh, running windoze and anti-virus, what would you expect? Try a lite Linux, there are a bunch of 'em. 512M? Puppy, or Bodhi maybe. No, not Kubuntu.
In other news, the price of Linux has remained the same.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/29/munich_linux_savings/
It would only take an hour for a Windows user (usee?) to download and install a Linux distro.
"...and telling people in countries with AIDS epidemics that using condoms causes AIDS?...." etc.
A friend of mine is a priest in northern Uganda, and...you are misinformed.
Read this, you will learn something. http://hliuganda.org/ These are people who are actually helping instead of pushing costly artificial contraception (which is like human Roundup).
And there's a button on the upper right where YOU can help.
Electronic circuits hate two things: heat, and thermal cycling. I was at Home Depot this morning where they had a LED lamp displayed inside an aluminum reflector, and the heat sink was too hot to keep my hand on (a good guide for comparison). It is better to buy lamps that have the power supply separate from the LEDs, and even better to have the power supply a standard one you can replace separately when needed. Keep them cool! Someday the electrolytics will dry out.
About warranties: if they gave a 20 year warranty to the original purchaser with the sales slip, they would get 0.1% returns over the 20 years, and by then they could hand you a $5 replacement bulb. Of course I'd be one of the 0.1%, if any burned out.
My daughter drives a 20 (?) year old Toyota "old guy" car. I bought a Dodge Caliber because it has a Toyota CVT transmission, and my wife has killed 3 MoPar trannys over the years. Disclosure: I am an engineer from Detroit (Scholarship from Chrysler to the U of D), and most of my family and in-laws worked for Chrysler. I've had a '59 Dodge, '64 Valiant Slant 6, '70 Duster, couple minivans, three Colts, an Omni 024, and a Neon. They were by and large pieces of shit.
I remember when the Air Force Research Lab did reliability studies like this (and wrote the manuals for predicting reliability). That was at Rome Air Development Center, here in Rome, NY. Nowadays, the military has no need for reliability.
Which of the 300 distros of Linux were you referring to? So we can refute your non sequitur with facts.
P.s., try Puppy.
I'm in the fourth group. After spending hours punching cards and getting a 4 inch stack of printout the next day because of a hanging chad (not that I knew what it was called then), I decided that the analog computer was the way to go, because you could solve differential equations in real time, and tweak them as you watched the output dial. It was years later until I got my first decent digital computer, an Apple ][c, complete with 5-1/4" disks and punching tool, so i could flip them over.
It's a turd. They never cared about Linux, even before their new Microsoft overlords. It works on my laptop fine, but on my 2 machines at work the video doesn't work, even though Cheese shows the video pipes through /dev/video0 and the capture card shows up in Skype. Go to skype tech support and ask for help with a Linux problem, get dead silence.
But the anti-virus doesn't.
The 3 cm band has 500 MHz of bandwidth, and it's pretty easy to homebrew. Well, better than EHF. And a ham license is pretty easy to get (for nerds).
Get a solar water heater. At least preheat your water if you live in a cloudy north climate (I'm in Central NY). Down south you should be able to get most of your hot water out of a system, with very low pump electricity cost and low maintenance, for many years.
Most "Catholic" politicians are adamantly pro-abortion, a subset of executions, despite a biblical commandment against it. It's easy to see how some guy who went afoul of the establishment in 1600 could get burned at the stake as a heretic and the Church take the rap. In case you wonder how many Catholic scientists did NOT get burned at the stake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_Catholic_scientist-clerics
Well, who cares about how many boiling hot super-gravity planets are around stars thousands of light years away?
How can we get cheap gasoline, and stop the glaciers from melting??
It's got a nice view, but no atmosphere.