Yeah, we had a crackpot like that at work for about 2 weeks... she just seemed to lie constantly, for no reason. She also seemed to really believe it. Maybe these techniques would be useful for diagnosis/treatment of these kinds of cases, because if she was getting treatment it wasn't working.
My question would be, if it's so efficient, can you point to some other countries where hemp is being widely used for paper or ethanol production? I think the "War on Drugs" is silly too, but I've never been convinced by the "hemp is a wonder plant" camp since I don't know the actual numbers on production in other parts of the world.
I have an AMD laptop; I'd get a Pentium M next time. I'm not looking for absolute speed in a laptop, any modern processor can handle what I want to do. (I like small & light laptops, not desktop replacements.) The mobile Athlon I have runs super hot & needs a fan most of the time, which is just annoying, and the battery life isn't so great. The Pentium Ms I've played with are cooler and quieter, so I'd say for a laptop they are "better" even if they aren't as fast.
Even more offtopic... I think you're confusing mobile charges with landline charges in the US. The way it works here for landlines is that you get unlimited local calls, and you pay nothing for incoming calls. For mobile phones, you pay for the minutes of airtime you use, both for incoming and outgoing, but calls to a mobile from a landline cost no more than any other local call. In Europe, calls to mobiles are more expensive, but you don't usually pay to receive calls on your mobile. I think this is the reason mobiles were slower to take off in the US - the mobile user was accepting the full cost, whereas in the UK when I lived there plans were cheap & more people had mobiles. I also think it's why SMS is more popular in Europe while I know only one person here who uses it - people would rather type with their thumbs than pay the cost of calling a mobile. Americans are used to free calling on their landlines, and since mobile numbers are just another local call, there's no reason not to just call someone. I personally prefer the US system of billing, but I really dislike the way that phones are tied to plans here. Nowhere's perfect...
I used to be a teacher. The checks were pretty extensive, but I thought it wasn't out of line with the responsibility of the job. I had to go & get fingerprinted, then the FBI ran checks; my time was a morning at most, including driving to the fingerprint place. I think that teachers should have their backgrounds checked, it's just common sense. The best part is that they don't come back & say "b0bby is ok", you get a many page printout with all of the potential crimes they checked for, ie "b0bby has never been convicted of running a house of ill repute" which was my favorite...
I run mostly windows at home, 2000 for myself & 98 for the kids. I use ipcop as a firewall, and no antivirus or spyware, I even run 2000 as admin because I'm lazy like that. The kids are too young to be surfing, and when they're old enough I'll probably move them to something like edubuntu. My wife & I don't open crap in email, and we don't use IE for browsing. Every six months or so I do an online virus scan just for the heck of it - never had a problem. You really don't need to run all that crap all the time if you use a modicum of sense, which I know is sadly lacking in much of the population.
I have a husky, and she can get out of our fence anytime she chooses. I got the Petsafe wireless fence (look on drfostersmith.com under containment) on the advice of a vet friend, and it works great. It was expensive (almost $300), but it lets you set up an adjustable circular zone around your house which triggers the collar to start chirping and then deliver a shock if the dog keeps going. (BTW, the shock isn't too bad, I tried it on my hand and it's annoying, but not really sore.) When we got it my dog was really getting used to hopping over the fence, so I put it on and let her figure it out. Next time I checked she was sitting by the gate waiting to be let back it. I should add that these (and training collars) should only be used on dogs that already know what's expected of them, ie they need to be properly trained first or they will just be confused. For me the wireless fence had two advantages over the traditional buried wire ones - first, our yard is small, and we would have had to bury the wires in our neighbor's yards in order to let our dog have the full use of our yard. Secondly, the wired fences can be run through and then are actually acting as a barrier to the dog returning, ie the zapping stops again once you're on the other side of the perimeter. With the wireless one, the zapping continues intermittently as long as you're outside the range of the transmitter (there is a failsafe to stop it from zapping in the event of a power failure). Anyway, if what you're looking for is a way to stop the dog getting out & getting run over, you should look into it. The people I know who are using them have all had good luck with them.
I've been waiting for this, simply because I haven't found a good way for two people behind NAT to do video chat without some subscription fee. The NAT traversal in Skype seems to me to be the kicker, because it lets you connect easily without forwarding ports. Am I just an idiot, and there are other video chat programs that do this for free between say, XP & 2000 machines?
When my wife & I were in the UK, we had a Ford Fiesta with a 1.1 litre engine. Soon after we moved to the US we bought a 1975 Cadillac Eldorado convertible with one of the largest prduction engines ever - 8.5 litres or so. It got around 7mpg in town, 11 on the highway. One day I worked out the cost per mile driven and it came out that at that time, with the prevailing exchange rates and gas costs, the two cars cost almost exactly the same to run. The Eldog is a totally stupid car, but it was a hell of a lot more fun to drive than the Fiesta. As I return to the UK over the years I can really see the changes - it seems that as people can afford larger cars, they get them, and I'm always surprised at the numbers of SUVs on British roads these days.
I had a Dell GX270, started shutting itself down randomly. Pulled it & started playing with it, the diagnostics came up with nothing. It was only while talking to the Dell tech (who was actually pretty helpful) that I gave a good look at the board & noticed the bad caps - I had seen them on another non-Dell board a couple of years ago. They next-day aired me a replacement board & we were back in business. I can see how this will end up costing them a lot if it's widespread - tech time, next day air shipping, return shipping, and a lot of people who will need an actual tech to come out to swap out the board for them. I bought a number of these machines at the same time, I'll be opening them all up to see that they're ok.
No, not really, but I would say that installing VMWare tools under Windows 95 is easier than trying to install it under Ubuntu... as soon as there's not a package for your particular distro, you can get into all sorts of pain. Although (for example) VMWare supports an number of RPM based distros, using their tools under a Debian based system can be very difficult - untar, check that gcc (3.4.5, not 4) is installed, cross fingers, etc. Can you tell that I just went through this? Pretty much anyone can get Office XP installed by hitting enter after the install screen pops up and typing in a lot of numbers; you can't always count on Linux software to be that easy to install.
It's always been my impression that this type of thing wouldn't fly, that you were just taxed in the state you live in. For an example around me, DC would dearly love to tax commuters from MD & VA who pour into the city every day yet provide no direct taxes. Every time DC tries to implement such a commuter tax, they're shot down. I didn't realize that states could do this - I assumed that if you lived in CT and worked in Manhattan, all your income tax would go to CT. Guess I was wrong.
I tend to agree - if people would make more of an effort to live near their work, their fuel economy would become less important. Around me too many people move out to the exurbs for larger houses (which require a lot of energy to heat/cool) and then sit in traffic for 2 hours a day. Cars are visible, so they become the focus, but the larger issues are really more critical.
Well, the article also says that the traditional multi layer glass armored windows are $3/sq in, so they're already spending $5000. This stuff is stronger, lighter, and, importantly, less prone to scratching so needs to be replaced less often. Since costs are likely to drop as they figure out how to make these windows on a large scale, it sounds totally reasonable to me. And for the guys in the Humvees, the fact that they are stronger is probably enough;o)
My wife uses 2 cards; her office network requires Cisco authentication which isn't supported by the built in wireless card, but at home the built in gets a better signal & you don't have the card hanging out the side.
I had one of the original Palm Pilots, and I've never understood why they lost the Pilot name. Most (non-techie) people I know still talk about "pilots" when they are referring to any PDA. Is it too generic or something?
quality supposedly sucks The one time I played around with Skype, I was blown away with the quality - I talked to a buddy in Soeul and with my decent headset he sounded like he could be next door. We were both extremely impressed. If I was making a lot of international calls I'd certainly use it. This was pc to pc, I'm not sure what the Skype-out thing is like.
Well, I'm the IT department where I am, we use Outlook/Exchange, and I can assure you that if there had been a viable open source alternative which let us do shared calendars I'd have gone for it, and I'll be keeping an eye on Lightning. That said, the fact is that this is alpha software and it's not likely to approach decent usability for another year or two, so we'll be using Exchange for a while yet. And, honestly, it's not too bad; the mail and calendar work fine, the Web interface is pretty straightforward & lets you do what you need - my main gripe is the 16gb limit in the non-enterprise version.
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Yeah, we had a crackpot like that at work for about 2 weeks... she just seemed to lie constantly, for no reason. She also seemed to really believe it. Maybe these techniques would be useful for diagnosis/treatment of these kinds of cases, because if she was getting treatment it wasn't working.
My question would be, if it's so efficient, can you point to some other countries where hemp is being widely used for paper or ethanol production? I think the "War on Drugs" is silly too, but I've never been convinced by the "hemp is a wonder plant" camp since I don't know the actual numbers on production in other parts of the world.
I have an AMD laptop; I'd get a Pentium M next time. I'm not looking for absolute speed in a laptop, any modern processor can handle what I want to do. (I like small & light laptops, not desktop replacements.) The mobile Athlon I have runs super hot & needs a fan most of the time, which is just annoying, and the battery life isn't so great. The Pentium Ms I've played with are cooler and quieter, so I'd say for a laptop they are "better" even if they aren't as fast.
Even more offtopic... I think you're confusing mobile charges with landline charges in the US. The way it works here for landlines is that you get unlimited local calls, and you pay nothing for incoming calls. For mobile phones, you pay for the minutes of airtime you use, both for incoming and outgoing, but calls to a mobile from a landline cost no more than any other local call. In Europe, calls to mobiles are more expensive, but you don't usually pay to receive calls on your mobile. I think this is the reason mobiles were slower to take off in the US - the mobile user was accepting the full cost, whereas in the UK when I lived there plans were cheap & more people had mobiles. I also think it's why SMS is more popular in Europe while I know only one person here who uses it - people would rather type with their thumbs than pay the cost of calling a mobile. Americans are used to free calling on their landlines, and since mobile numbers are just another local call, there's no reason not to just call someone. I personally prefer the US system of billing, but I really dislike the way that phones are tied to plans here. Nowhere's perfect...
I used to be a teacher. The checks were pretty extensive, but I thought it wasn't out of line with the responsibility of the job. I had to go & get fingerprinted, then the FBI ran checks; my time was a morning at most, including driving to the fingerprint place. I think that teachers should have their backgrounds checked, it's just common sense. The best part is that they don't come back & say "b0bby is ok", you get a many page printout with all of the potential crimes they checked for, ie "b0bby has never been convicted of running a house of ill repute" which was my favorite...
what, really, is the deal with airline food?
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Even good food will be less tasty on a plane, since the low pressure makes your taste buds less sensitive.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/05/16/bt.food.
I run mostly windows at home, 2000 for myself & 98 for the kids. I use ipcop as a firewall, and no antivirus or spyware, I even run 2000 as admin because I'm lazy like that. The kids are too young to be surfing, and when they're old enough I'll probably move them to something like edubuntu. My wife & I don't open crap in email, and we don't use IE for browsing. Every six months or so I do an online virus scan just for the heck of it - never had a problem. You really don't need to run all that crap all the time if you use a modicum of sense, which I know is sadly lacking in much of the population.
I have a husky, and she can get out of our fence anytime she chooses. I got the Petsafe wireless fence (look on drfostersmith.com under containment) on the advice of a vet friend, and it works great. It was expensive (almost $300), but it lets you set up an adjustable circular zone around your house which triggers the collar to start chirping and then deliver a shock if the dog keeps going. (BTW, the shock isn't too bad, I tried it on my hand and it's annoying, but not really sore.) When we got it my dog was really getting used to hopping over the fence, so I put it on and let her figure it out. Next time I checked she was sitting by the gate waiting to be let back it. I should add that these (and training collars) should only be used on dogs that already know what's expected of them, ie they need to be properly trained first or they will just be confused. For me the wireless fence had two advantages over the traditional buried wire ones - first, our yard is small, and we would have had to bury the wires in our neighbor's yards in order to let our dog have the full use of our yard. Secondly, the wired fences can be run through and then are actually acting as a barrier to the dog returning, ie the zapping stops again once you're on the other side of the perimeter. With the wireless one, the zapping continues intermittently as long as you're outside the range of the transmitter (there is a failsafe to stop it from zapping in the event of a power failure). Anyway, if what you're looking for is a way to stop the dog getting out & getting run over, you should look into it. The people I know who are using them have all had good luck with them.
Yeah, I know, but that wouldn't have been as funny...
When has France ever been hostile towards something and then come out on top?
What about Greenpeace?
I've been waiting for this, simply because I haven't found a good way for two people behind NAT to do video chat without some subscription fee. The NAT traversal in Skype seems to me to be the kicker, because it lets you connect easily without forwarding ports. Am I just an idiot, and there are other video chat programs that do this for free between say, XP & 2000 machines?
Target has it on sale for $15, going to get it for the kids right now. Thanks for pointing that out.
When my wife & I were in the UK, we had a Ford Fiesta with a 1.1 litre engine. Soon after we moved to the US we bought a 1975 Cadillac Eldorado convertible with one of the largest prduction engines ever - 8.5 litres or so. It got around 7mpg in town, 11 on the highway. One day I worked out the cost per mile driven and it came out that at that time, with the prevailing exchange rates and gas costs, the two cars cost almost exactly the same to run. The Eldog is a totally stupid car, but it was a hell of a lot more fun to drive than the Fiesta. As I return to the UK over the years I can really see the changes - it seems that as people can afford larger cars, they get them, and I'm always surprised at the numbers of SUVs on British roads these days.
I had a Dell GX270, started shutting itself down randomly. Pulled it & started playing with it, the diagnostics came up with nothing. It was only while talking to the Dell tech (who was actually pretty helpful) that I gave a good look at the board & noticed the bad caps - I had seen them on another non-Dell board a couple of years ago. They next-day aired me a replacement board & we were back in business. I can see how this will end up costing them a lot if it's widespread - tech time, next day air shipping, return shipping, and a lot of people who will need an actual tech to come out to swap out the board for them. I bought a number of these machines at the same time, I'll be opening them all up to see that they're ok.
No, not really, but I would say that installing VMWare tools under Windows 95 is easier than trying to install it under Ubuntu... as soon as there's not a package for your particular distro, you can get into all sorts of pain. Although (for example) VMWare supports an number of RPM based distros, using their tools under a Debian based system can be very difficult - untar, check that gcc (3.4.5, not 4) is installed, cross fingers, etc. Can you tell that I just went through this? Pretty much anyone can get Office XP installed by hitting enter after the install screen pops up and typing in a lot of numbers; you can't always count on Linux software to be that easy to install.
It's always been my impression that this type of thing wouldn't fly, that you were just taxed in the state you live in. For an example around me, DC would dearly love to tax commuters from MD & VA who pour into the city every day yet provide no direct taxes. Every time DC tries to implement such a commuter tax, they're shot down. I didn't realize that states could do this - I assumed that if you lived in CT and worked in Manhattan, all your income tax would go to CT. Guess I was wrong.
I tend to agree - if people would make more of an effort to live near their work, their fuel economy would become less important. Around me too many people move out to the exurbs for larger houses (which require a lot of energy to heat/cool) and then sit in traffic for 2 hours a day. Cars are visible, so they become the focus, but the larger issues are really more critical.
Is Irfanview available for Linux? I love it on Windows, it's got just what you need and is fast. In fact on XP I use it as the default image viewer.
Well, the article also says that the traditional multi layer glass armored windows are $3/sq in, so they're already spending $5000. This stuff is stronger, lighter, and, importantly, less prone to scratching so needs to be replaced less often. Since costs are likely to drop as they figure out how to make these windows on a large scale, it sounds totally reasonable to me. And for the guys in the Humvees, the fact that they are stronger is probably enough ;o)
My wife uses 2 cards; her office network requires Cisco authentication which isn't supported by the built in wireless card, but at home the built in gets a better signal & you don't have the card hanging out the side.
Ah, bummer for them...
Thanks, I hadn't heard that.
I had one of the original Palm Pilots, and I've never understood why they lost the Pilot name. Most (non-techie) people I know still talk about "pilots" when they are referring to any PDA. Is it too generic or something?
quality supposedly sucks
The one time I played around with Skype, I was blown away with the quality - I talked to a buddy in Soeul and with my decent headset he sounded like he could be next door. We were both extremely impressed. If I was making a lot of international calls I'd certainly use it. This was pc to pc, I'm not sure what the Skype-out thing is like.
Well, I'm the IT department where I am, we use Outlook/Exchange, and I can assure you that if there had been a viable open source alternative which let us do shared calendars I'd have gone for it, and I'll be keeping an eye on Lightning. That said, the fact is that this is alpha software and it's not likely to approach decent usability for another year or two, so we'll be using Exchange for a while yet. And, honestly, it's not too bad; the mail and calendar work fine, the Web interface is pretty straightforward & lets you do what you need - my main gripe is the 16gb limit in the non-enterprise version.
4GB flash cards are more like $200, 2GB $100; 4GB Microdrives can be had for $100 also. (US prices)