So why as a society (I'm referring to the US here, the EU is very much ahead of us with biodiesel) don't we promote this more often? Let's reduce our foreign oil dependence, and not have a need to drill ANWR. Use Diesel & Biodiesel!
In what volume can BioDiesel be produced, and what is the cost in doing so? We use a significant amount of oil. My understanding of BioDiesel did not lead me to believe that it could produced in the same quantities that we currently consume oil, and at reasonably comparable prices.
http://www.spybot.info . That's all it takes. Have it run on people's windows startup and they're set.
Never used it. Never had a problem. I don't use Internet Explorer, and I don't use Outlook/Outlook Express.
I know this looks like the standard bash MS response. It's not. FireFox is a great browser and really is good enough to replace IE. You won't get all the junk spyware crap running FireFox. Samething goes for Thunderbird. Get your family and friends running it and they'll stop calling you about spyware.
It just wasn't cool to be smart. The smart kids go teased and beat up. Who wants that.
There is also an increase in laziness in the US. Kids today don't want to work hard for anything. Just take the easy road. I know because they are my friends. They think I am nuts for reading and working hard at things.
We send our kids to school expecting the schools to overcome our culture. Our culture is lazy. Our culture values television, movies, and sports over intelligence. Parents inadvertently raise their kids to be lazy and to have no interest in learning. Parents don't think smart is cool - they think beauty or athleticism is cool. That passes right on to their kids.
I just finished reading The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (a collection of various things Feynman said). When he was a kid, his father used to teach him to learn by teaching him to question everything. Instead of just saying "that bird is a robin", he would ask what makes that bird different that the other birds. They would then observe the bird's behavior and try to deduce reasons for what it was doing.
Example: in college engineering 4 of the top 5 students were foreign. Either Arabic or Asian.
These are cultures that value hard work and discipline. Sure, you can make the stereotype that Asians are smarter. It's not likely that they are genetically smarter. It's much more likely that they are raised with different values.
We need to start embracing responsibility and discipline. We need to start valuing hard work over luck. There is much reward in working hard and accomplishng great things. Everyone is all about the almighty dollar and not about accomplishment.
2. Old myths die hard: yes, Java was slow and java interfaces where ugly and clunky. 5 years ago! Newsflash, Java has moved forward in great leaps since the days of Java 1.1
It's not a myth. Most Java applications I've used are slow. Even simple apps, like JEdit (a text editor) are slow. Annoyingly slow. Slow to the point that I'll just use something else.
there are millions of java-enabled handsets
Yes, and that sucks. My Blackberry is really cool, except that is slow as hell. If I'm receiving several emails, the UI practically stops. Using call waiting causes the UI to lag behind nearly 7 seconds before refreshing with the new call information. Maybe Blackberry did something wrong. Maybe not. For me, it just furthers the "myth" that Java is slow because it is just one more thing using Java that is too damn slow.
This is the way to get rid of it. If you have two computers on the network, make a regular habit of transferring your MP3s back and forth between them. Encourage everyone to do this. Too much noise in the system will make the system too difficult for them to use.
With optical mice why would anyone need a mouse pad? Back in the day with the old-style mice, I would occasionally move my mouse off the pad thus resulting my Rocket Launcher pointing in some odd direction. Once I switched to an optical mouse, that.99c IKEA mouse pad was thrown out the window.
Well, when you go into the conference room at my office, there is a glass top table. Your optical mouse will not work.
Aside from that, there is no reason to spend money on a mouse pad. They are given away left and right.
Wow, that's pathetic. This is a lot of hogwash put forth by liberals to justify their pandering to labor votes. At some point, the US has to face up to the fact that we are a global economy and we have to compete. We're all about comptetition and capitalism, except when it comes to other countries.
I recognize that this is mildy picky, but the point is to show people how easy it is. What you're really trying to do here is to use numbers that you can do easy math on (5, 10, 50, 100, etc) and then account for the differences. This example works because 95 * 23 is the same as (100 - 5) * 23 is the same as (100 * 23) - (5 * 23), which is an easy mental calculation.
You don't have to think about this algebraically. I usually approximate and refine. When I look at 95 * 23, I immediately figure it's about 2300 because I know 100 * 23 without thinking. I think figure well, it's less than that because 95 is less than 100. It's less than 2300 by 5 23's (100 - 95). 5 23's is 115, so it's 1185.
You can take this one step further (which is where the original post went) and apply it to all the numbers. You can start with 100 * 25 = 2500. This is useful in the event that neither of your numbers are close to something simple like 100. You then have to account for your increase or decrease of each number. 2500 is too high by 2 100's (25 - 23). Now you're at 2300, and can pick up from above. Remember to reduce one number at a time - you can't subtract out 2 * 100 and 5 * 25, that won't be correct. You can either do 2 * 100 and 5 * 23 or 2 * 95 and 5 * 25, which ever is simpler in your head.
Meanwhile, MySQL is now doing transactions, and VIEWs are on their way in 5.1. It's GPL, so it's free (as in speech).
Why not use Postgres? That way, you don't have to wait for features that all the other RDBMS products have had for years. What is it that makes MySQL so much more popular than Postgres? It sure isn't features.
Most MuVo sales are likely regular users
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The space has become so hot that Creative's MuVo2 has also been selling well, but also for a slightly different reason. The MuVo2, which also has 4 GB of capacity, uses a CompactFlash card (which can be used in a digital camera). People have been buying the MP3 player and taking it apart for the card, which would cost more than the $200 dollars for the MuVo2
Some of their sales can be attributed to this, however I doubt that it is statistically significant. The majority of consumers are not doing this.
You just download the source to the Linux kernel, make a copy of some of the files, change the date back a few years, add your copyright, and tell the judge it is stolen.
Tax software. Is there a good tax package for Linux, allowing those millions of accountants, small business owners and middle-class Joe's like you and me file their taxes?
I've used TurboTax for several years now, and I haven't installed it once. I just use their web version. Used to be cheaper, but now the price is the same.
Actually, the standard TiVo remote is not as good as the remote for the Sony SAT-T60 (DirecTivo). While I enjoy my T60 immensly, the remote is phenomenal. I bought my brother a Series 2 TiVo for a wedding present, and as I was helping him to set it up, I was disappointed to find the remote. It is not as good as the T60 remote, and I had been telling him what a great remote I had.
Alas, my T60 remote recently died from too much baby drool. Exact replacements are available on the Net for $85, but I went cheap and got and all in one. It is not even close.
There is only one reason for arcades now. Games that require special peripherals beyond keyboard/mouse/gamepad. They could be basic driving games, or they could be things such as Dancing Pads for DDR.
I may drop a quarter now and then to play a good racing game in an arcade. I'm not going to drop a hundred bucks for a steering wheel/gear shift/pedal set for my PC/console.
The problem is that those "special peripherals" cause the game to be $1.00 a pop. Many of the games are timed, so a poorly skilled player is paying $1.00/minute to play the game. I bought a DDR mat on eBay for $20 and the game for $20. My wife and I have probably played 500 games on it.
I'm not paying $1.00 a pop to learn to play a game. They're too damn complicated to be paying to learn it. There wasn't much to learn in Pac-Man or Galaga, and you definitely didn't have to waste a bunch of quarters to find out that up-down-fire-fire-jump would do a super ninja roundhouse, where up-down-fire-jump or any other combination will just get you killed.
Can't the same be said for a 4-year degree as well?
Yep. That's why we give tests to potential applicants. When you come in, you are set in front of a computer, and given a program to write or a problem to troubleshoot. So far, a CS degree hasn't meant much about who will pass the test.
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So why as a society (I'm referring to the US here, the EU is very much ahead of us with biodiesel) don't we promote this more often? Let's reduce our foreign oil dependence, and not have a need to drill ANWR. Use Diesel & Biodiesel!
In what volume can BioDiesel be produced, and what is the cost in doing so? We use a significant amount of oil. My understanding of BioDiesel did not lead me to believe that it could produced in the same quantities that we currently consume oil, and at reasonably comparable prices.
How about just a plain phone where the battery actually works through the day and does not cut out every time you order Chinese takeout?
You're not supposed to be able to understand the person taking your order at the Chinese place! It's not your phone causing that!
http://www.spybot.info . That's all it takes. Have it run on people's windows startup and they're set.
Never used it. Never had a problem. I don't use Internet Explorer, and I don't use Outlook/Outlook Express.
I know this looks like the standard bash MS response. It's not. FireFox is a great browser and really is good enough to replace IE. You won't get all the junk spyware crap running FireFox. Samething goes for Thunderbird. Get your family and friends running it and they'll stop calling you about spyware.
It just wasn't cool to be smart. The smart kids go teased and beat up. Who wants that.
There is also an increase in laziness in the US. Kids today don't want to work hard for anything. Just take the easy road. I know because they are my friends. They think I am nuts for reading and working hard at things.
We send our kids to school expecting the schools to overcome our culture. Our culture is lazy. Our culture values television, movies, and sports over intelligence. Parents inadvertently raise their kids to be lazy and to have no interest in learning. Parents don't think smart is cool - they think beauty or athleticism is cool. That passes right on to their kids.
I just finished reading The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (a collection of various things Feynman said). When he was a kid, his father used to teach him to learn by teaching him to question everything. Instead of just saying "that bird is a robin", he would ask what makes that bird different that the other birds. They would then observe the bird's behavior and try to deduce reasons for what it was doing.
Example: in college engineering 4 of the top 5 students were foreign. Either Arabic or Asian.
These are cultures that value hard work and discipline. Sure, you can make the stereotype that Asians are smarter. It's not likely that they are genetically smarter. It's much more likely that they are raised with different values.
We need to start embracing responsibility and discipline. We need to start valuing hard work over luck. There is much reward in working hard and accomplishng great things. Everyone is all about the almighty dollar and not about accomplishment.
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They fixed it with gin?
2. Old myths die hard: yes, Java was slow and java interfaces where ugly and clunky. 5 years ago! Newsflash, Java has moved forward in great leaps since the days of Java 1.1
It's not a myth. Most Java applications I've used are slow. Even simple apps, like JEdit (a text editor) are slow. Annoyingly slow. Slow to the point that I'll just use something else.
there are millions of java-enabled handsets
Yes, and that sucks. My Blackberry is really cool, except that is slow as hell. If I'm receiving several emails, the UI practically stops. Using call waiting causes the UI to lag behind nearly 7 seconds before refreshing with the new call information. Maybe Blackberry did something wrong. Maybe not. For me, it just furthers the "myth" that Java is slow because it is just one more thing using Java that is too damn slow.
I'll take a shot: There are other people in the world besides you. These people think and act differently than you.
You're referring to the people I keep calling idiots?
Mozilla/XUL on Linux, .Net Windows Forms apps on Windows and Pocket PC, J2ME on PalmOS and java phone devices, AppleScript Studio on MacOS X
Uhh, Mozilla/XUL runs on Linux, Windows and MacOS X. Why would you develop three different times when you could do it once?
This is the way to get rid of it. If you have two computers on the network, make a regular habit of transferring your MP3s back and forth between them. Encourage everyone to do this. Too much noise in the system will make the system too difficult for them to use.
With optical mice why would anyone need a mouse pad? Back in the day with the old-style mice, I would occasionally move my mouse off the pad thus resulting my Rocket Launcher pointing in some odd direction. Once I switched to an optical mouse, that .99c IKEA mouse pad was thrown out the window.
Well, when you go into the conference room at my office, there is a glass top table. Your optical mouse will not work.
Aside from that, there is no reason to spend money on a mouse pad. They are given away left and right.
Wow, that's pathetic. This is a lot of hogwash put forth by liberals to justify their pandering to labor votes. At some point, the US has to face up to the fact that we are a global economy and we have to compete. We're all about comptetition and capitalism, except when it comes to other countries.
But the portability is the real issue here.
Ever use a Jaz drive? If you dropped the disk more than 3 inches, it was fried. And the damned things were expensive.
Sorry, your example makes an extra step:
95 * 23 = (100 * 23) - (5 * 23) = 2300 - 115 = 2185
I recognize that this is mildy picky, but the point is to show people how easy it is. What you're really trying to do here is to use numbers that you can do easy math on (5, 10, 50, 100, etc) and then account for the differences. This example works because 95 * 23 is the same as (100 - 5) * 23 is the same as (100 * 23) - (5 * 23), which is an easy mental calculation.
You don't have to think about this algebraically. I usually approximate and refine. When I look at 95 * 23, I immediately figure it's about 2300 because I know 100 * 23 without thinking. I think figure well, it's less than that because 95 is less than 100. It's less than 2300 by 5 23's (100 - 95). 5 23's is 115, so it's 1185.
You can take this one step further (which is where the original post went) and apply it to all the numbers. You can start with 100 * 25 = 2500. This is useful in the event that neither of your numbers are close to something simple like 100. You then have to account for your increase or decrease of each number. 2500 is too high by 2 100's (25 - 23). Now you're at 2300, and can pick up from above. Remember to reduce one number at a time - you can't subtract out 2 * 100 and 5 * 25, that won't be correct. You can either do 2 * 100 and 5 * 23 or 2 * 95 and 5 * 25, which ever is simpler in your head.
Why stop there? Why not just have Microsoft open up Windows so that we can all service it?
Meanwhile, MySQL is now doing transactions, and VIEWs are on their way in 5.1. It's GPL, so it's free (as in speech).
Why not use Postgres? That way, you don't have to wait for features that all the other RDBMS products have had for years. What is it that makes MySQL so much more popular than Postgres? It sure isn't features.
Was I the only one that was thinking "The iPod sold out? What a poser! Down with conformity! Sold out luser!"
Nope, this guy was too.
The space has become so hot that Creative's MuVo2 has also been selling well, but also for a slightly different reason. The MuVo2, which also has 4 GB of capacity, uses a CompactFlash card (which can be used in a digital camera). People have been buying the MP3 player and taking it apart for the card, which would cost more than the $200 dollars for the MuVo2
Some of their sales can be attributed to this, however I doubt that it is statistically significant. The majority of consumers are not doing this.
I can't wait to see the answer to this one...
You just download the source to the Linux kernel, make a copy of some of the files, change the date back a few years, add your copyright, and tell the judge it is stolen.
Tax software. Is there a good tax package for Linux, allowing those millions of accountants, small business owners and middle-class Joe's like you and me file their taxes?
I've used TurboTax for several years now, and I haven't installed it once. I just use their web version. Used to be cheaper, but now the price is the same.
I do not want to execute code I can not audit.
You say that, yet how much of the code have you actually "audited"? Hell, you haven't even finished the kernel yet, have you?
Actually, the standard TiVo remote is not as good as the remote for the Sony SAT-T60 (DirecTivo). While I enjoy my T60 immensly, the remote is phenomenal. I bought my brother a Series 2 TiVo for a wedding present, and as I was helping him to set it up, I was disappointed to find the remote. It is not as good as the T60 remote, and I had been telling him what a great remote I had.
Alas, my T60 remote recently died from too much baby drool. Exact replacements are available on the Net for $85, but I went cheap and got and all in one. It is not even close.
There is only one reason for arcades now. Games that require special peripherals beyond keyboard/mouse/gamepad. They could be basic driving games, or they could be things such as Dancing Pads for DDR.
I may drop a quarter now and then to play a good racing game in an arcade. I'm not going to drop a hundred bucks for a steering wheel/gear shift/pedal set for my PC/console.
The problem is that those "special peripherals" cause the game to be $1.00 a pop. Many of the games are timed, so a poorly skilled player is paying $1.00/minute to play the game. I bought a DDR mat on eBay for $20 and the game for $20. My wife and I have probably played 500 games on it.
I'm not paying $1.00 a pop to learn to play a game. They're too damn complicated to be paying to learn it. There wasn't much to learn in Pac-Man or Galaga, and you definitely didn't have to waste a bunch of quarters to find out that up-down-fire-fire-jump would do a super ninja roundhouse, where up-down-fire-jump or any other combination will just get you killed.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of... er... I for one welcome our new... uhm... All of your ABI belong... Sh*t!
Someone needs to get GrokLaw a Beowulf cluster...
Can't the same be said for a 4-year degree as well?
Yep. That's why we give tests to potential applicants. When you come in, you are set in front of a computer, and given a program to write or a problem to troubleshoot. So far, a CS degree hasn't meant much about who will pass the test.
One of the big pains with Firebird (on Windows) is Java. You have to add a registry entry to get the Java plug in working. Not good for the end user.