Orion and afterburners are as well (well, I'm not certain about the latter, and the former is only "combustion" in the loosest of general definitions, but it is external. Hopefully).
I still use a Libretto 110CT. They make fantastic web browsers and data entry devices (Firefox + Emacs) with a WiFi card. Long lasting battery and such. They are also a cast iron bitch to get working right because they date from the era of systems with... unique... BIOS. I'd love to see something in the same space with a long battery life, but it has to run standard apps. The palmtop form factor slaughtered the handheld PC, and they haven't been made for a long time. It's been about seven years since the ultra-portable space has had products (outside of Japan, at any rate). I'm looking forward to a couple years from now when the current crop has settled out a bit.
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Or simply buy a working MythTV box from a retailer... you can plunk down the money (less than what it costs for a Series 3 HDTV TiVo box) and get a working MythTV unit designed for an entertainment center. After all, TiVo is just a linux box put together by a company, you can get the same thing from other companies that happens to be based on MythTV.
See this company, for example. Most are like that one, fairly low volume, willing to customize your system lightly, but not so much it messes with their support.
It should probably be pointed out for those who have not handled firearms before that a.22 is not a certain kill, even at close range. They certainly can kill, but the movie weapons are often shot from across the room where -- were I a professional killer -- I would not trust to be a kill shot, let alone a clean "drop him" shot. Birds, squirrels and paper targets are a better bet.
I have an awesome idea! You could space delimit it so that the formatting is more terse. You could even have quotes to include paramaters with spaces in them!
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As a long time UNIX guy... and yes, that means from the early 80s... I have always pronounced "/etc" as "et see", and "etc." as "et setra". I picked that up from even older UNIX guys, so I would guess that is the "proper" way to pronounce it by convention, the above thread notwithstanding. I also have no idea what it refers to, as I mentally just think of it as static configuration files. I'd guess "etc.", but it's a purely baseless guess.
Remembering what the hell I was doing in my young'uns pants 25 years ago is hard enough. Trying to remember if I heard a bit of useless trivia that I've never really thought about since, not gonna happen. The way to pronounce something, on the other hand, is reinforced through the years.
There are boring numbers. This is release 7.04. However, people -- especially IT writers -- like to write headlines with the codename. Windows Vista was Longhorn. Ubuntu 7.04 is Feisty Fawn. It certainly gets your attention, and it also gets the media's attention. If you're an underdog, getting attention grabbing headlines is very important.
You're absolutely right... except the same companies that make the incandescents are the ones making the CF bulbs. So this is an internal competition among research and manufacturing divisions rather than some conspiracy to sell power. Same thing will happen for LED bulbs. Unless their massive R&D investment is also due to some legislation unreported here. As long as there's more than one company, or part of a company making competing products they will... well... compete.
Yes, just like many other promising cures that work in a lab. It's not that it's not good news, it's just that there are lots of examples of this happening. Every so often one proves to be better than the current treatment methods. If you read scientific journals (my wife is a research chemist), they are full of promising things like this. Few pan out. Maybe this one will... which is why they are testing it.
There are loads of ways to kill cancer. You could put it on a frying pan. Or dose it with strong acid. Or poke it with little tiny cell sized swords. There are even a number of chemicals that target cancer pretty well. They are used under the general term chemo-therapy. There's also radiation used as a way to kill cancer. The problem is, just like this chemical will likely have, they have some nasty side effects. It's been known as a potential treatment for awhile now... and it may be better than current treatments. Or it could be worse. Or it could work well in conjunction. Something like killing cancer cells in a living body is a pretty difficult thing, even after you have a chemical that does it. You have a long way to go from a pipette and petri dish to a series of treatments.
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People are working on it. Lots of people. Cancer sucks not because there aren't treatments, but rather because the treatments aren't very good right now. Like HIV treatments, they are slowly getting better. This may well help, but it's just another in a long series of steps.
I was thinking of cheek swabs versus blood samples and how they are preserved in less than sterile field environments. I was also wondering about legal and cultural issues that would complicate the collection of said samples. .
It seems that the rest of Slashdot has a much more haploid oriented view of DNA collection than I do.
Okay, where's an installer for apps appropriate for 64megs? If you mean that debian is a good toolkit to build your own set of such apps, I agree. That's why I used the similar "pick and choose" Ubuntu project to do so. Your link, however, merely points to the tools to build such an environment, which I already have. Much like the article, your reply handwaves and points toward some tools with no specifics.
Agreed... the article is content free. I use Ubuntu (technically Kubuntu, as that was the disc I happened to have handy) on a Libretto 110CT... that's a system that maxes out at 64MB. It works fine, but most of what I did was choosing the right apps and turning off some of the system daemons. There are some great (highly minimal) 2MB to 8MB distros, and some nice 128MB and up distros (like Xubuntu), but there's a lack of focus on anything in between. I want something that has access to the nice tools that I can run (and just wait to load) like PDF viewers and Firefox -- I can configure my typical desktop usage for extremely minimal memory usage. (Currently that's usually an xterm running screen plus a couple links2 -g under ion3. Jed (an emacs-like) for an editor.) A full distro configured for low memory with access to a full array of apps is quite nice. If you're patient when you fire up one of those full modern apps.
I was actually discussing the Roman/Chinese question with a genetic anthropologist over dinner the other night. She's tracking Irish population waves, and almost all the work is statistical against the markers. She also mentioned that they tend to have to find custom markers each time for different populations, and it's pretty easy after you've collected enough samples to identify which ones you're looking for. It's one of those things where you simply collect data until you know what you're looking for by examining already collected data. Nifty stuff... of course the hard part is sitting in the region and getting people to give you genetic samples. I forgot to ask her what exactly they collect for samples.
Spots (at least theater lighting instruments, which is what I have experience with) aren't even at all. You can easily see variances if you look close. Most of theater is about not looking too close, so it works out.
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It really should be something like *.kids.us, *.kids.uk, *.ninos.mx etc... safe websites under the local government and culture's definition of "safe". A whitelisted set of DNS entries where you have to agree to constraints to get an address there (likely also not allowing shared IPs with non-safe content). Otherwise, the rest of the net is for adults, with politics, American Idol, erotica and other favorite topics that are likely not appropriate for children.
As a quantum chemist, my wife (and all associates) tend to prefer the term "quantum mechanics" rather than "quantum physics". I've noticed that seems to be the term used in papers anyway.
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I also wonder how this is at all new... she models inter-molecular protein reactions using high speed computers and the field has been doing so for quite awhile. The code is in Fortran77, as that seems to be the popular language for such research. It's not that it's not an interesting field, it's just not really a "nascent field" (at least as described by the term "using powerful computer models to reveal biological mechanisms"). news.rpi.edu, alas, appears to be suffering right now, and nobody has posted a mirror.
The AMA defines a few standards, but more importantly, as the largest group of doctors in the US, they tend to define standards of practice. In the United States (possibly unlike Australia?) each state has a board or other organization that grants licenses to practice medicine. The same applies to practicing law. Licenses are also usually required for many engineering and construction professions (electrical wiring, etc). The latter you can do yourself, but for major work, you have to have an inspector sign off (to protect people from burning down neighborhoods because they wired their house wrong). Simple wiring and non-structural construction generally is non-inspected. Oh, accountants and various financial professions (stock brokers, investment planning, insurance policy writers, real estate agents) are also usually licensed (again, varies by state and requires that it be done commercially). Banks are licensed, but the bankers themselves are not. Therapists (physical and mental) are usually licensed, but not always. There's been some movement toward licensing tattoo artists and piercers to enforce sanitary and safe practices. .
That's a quick thumbnail that may be wrong (I've only lived in three states, but I do have a sister with an insurance license and a father in the finance industry), but it gives you the idea of the US licensing standards. All of that assumes you're doing it for a profession. I can bandage your arm or wire a wall socket for you as a favor, but if I started doing it for profit, I'd have to get a license. People often represent themselves in minor courts of law (such as small claims), but are scrutinized before doing so for major or criminal cases. And again, it varies by state. Body piercing shops can set up and be done by anybody in some states, while other states license either the facility or individual piercers (usually strictly for health and safety issues, not technical qualification for procedures). .
I'm sure I missed a few or got some slightly off, but the flames that follow this reply will correct me with the glee of the Marquis de Sade.
I was responding to the fellow who asserted that there was no need for email designers. Purely that. Some people like their news in their "email icon", not their "blue E icon". I don't know why, but they do. Other, more savvy people, may simply like push news and redirect it to their mobile device. It's their choice... read on the web, or get the news in their inbox. That news needs to be well formatted for a variety of devices, thus the need for an email designer.
Considering medical treatment (or lack thereof) is based on the reports that come back from pathology, it is very much life or death. Care to guess how badly you could hurt people if you could futz with their reports? Especially over time? Or for the time critical tests that are rushed back rather than in a few days? Nearly all hospital records are important, especially as they get shuffled back and forth.
Newspapers send out nicely formatted "read your local newspaper in the morning from your mailbox" emails. They are purely opt-in, and the people who want them generally want nice formatting. Plus links, which is a key part of HTML mail.
We send out a nicely formatted text version as well. Even the pure text version is still subject to design decisions on how to position stories and headlines versus summaries. HTML is a tool, but even without it, designing nicely formatted emails for a large group of people is still important. You are absolutely correct that the idea is to communicate quickly... and when you have a large number of people getting that message, it's worth it to have somebody responsible to make sure that presentation communicates well.
Heh. You know, I do that now and then and often get people who misinterpret it. Figures that I'd do the same thing. At least I was polite about it. Thanks for the clarification.
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See this company, for example. Most are like that one, fairly low volume, willing to customize your system lightly, but not so much it messes with their support.
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It should probably be pointed out for those who have not handled firearms before that a .22 is not a certain kill, even at close range. They certainly can kill, but the movie weapons are often shot from across the room where -- were I a professional killer -- I would not trust to be a kill shot, let alone a clean "drop him" shot. Birds, squirrels and paper targets are a better bet.
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Remembering what the hell I was doing in my young'uns pants 25 years ago is hard enough. Trying to remember if I heard a bit of useless trivia that I've never really thought about since, not gonna happen. The way to pronounce something, on the other hand, is reinforced through the years.
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People are working on it. Lots of people. Cancer sucks not because there aren't treatments, but rather because the treatments aren't very good right now. Like HIV treatments, they are slowly getting better. This may well help, but it's just another in a long series of steps.
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It seems that the rest of Slashdot has a much more haploid oriented view of DNA collection than I do.
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I also wonder how this is at all new... she models inter-molecular protein reactions using high speed computers and the field has been doing so for quite awhile. The code is in Fortran77, as that seems to be the popular language for such research. It's not that it's not an interesting field, it's just not really a "nascent field" (at least as described by the term "using powerful computer models to reveal biological mechanisms"). news.rpi.edu, alas, appears to be suffering right now, and nobody has posted a mirror.
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That's a quick thumbnail that may be wrong (I've only lived in three states, but I do have a sister with an insurance license and a father in the finance industry), but it gives you the idea of the US licensing standards. All of that assumes you're doing it for a profession. I can bandage your arm or wire a wall socket for you as a favor, but if I started doing it for profit, I'd have to get a license. People often represent themselves in minor courts of law (such as small claims), but are scrutinized before doing so for major or criminal cases. And again, it varies by state. Body piercing shops can set up and be done by anybody in some states, while other states license either the facility or individual piercers (usually strictly for health and safety issues, not technical qualification for procedures).
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We send out a nicely formatted text version as well. Even the pure text version is still subject to design decisions on how to position stories and headlines versus summaries. HTML is a tool, but even without it, designing nicely formatted emails for a large group of people is still important. You are absolutely correct that the idea is to communicate quickly... and when you have a large number of people getting that message, it's worth it to have somebody responsible to make sure that presentation communicates well.
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