From your Wikipedia link. ============= In 2000, nuclear power contributed to 58.24% of the 78.85 TWh (total rate: 9 GWe) produced domestically.[7]... and... In 2000, renewable energy was used for producing 0.71% of the 78,85 TWh of electricity produced domestically. ============= There was a rather optimistic projection of full exploitation of offshore wind at 17TWh, assuming this was possible.
If the two plants are producing over half of that 79TWh, looks like wind has a ways to go to come close to replacing what they are shutting down.
Sooo, yeah. More natural gas from Russia, more nuclear from France, more local coal.
Well. Unfortunately, I tried to encourage them both to use Shotwell. Neither one cared for it. They simply find the folder metaphor more intuitive, when it comes to rearranging, organising and naming their photos, not to mention finding them from external apps.
As for pinning apps, I told her how to do that. She has added a few but still does not care for it. And doesn't take many before the dock is irritatingly cluttered.
Anyway. Regardless of your fanboism, fact is, she doesn't like despite using it for months, and the only solution that I can see is downgrading her machine to what she *did* use and liked very much.
Er. Sorry. replace gnome-panel w/ gnome-shell. gnome-shell is the tablet lookalike, gnome-panel is the crippled gnome2 workalike. I wrote before coffee.
And, yes, my SO who thought gnome-shell and unity looked new and shiny (and still does) is making an honest effort to use them, but is just finding them slow and frustrating to use. She finds gnome-shell pops up stuff that can't be dismissed that confuses her "I have to make a decision on how to open the iphone? Can't I just close this - oh no close button" or, after she's browsed to the DCIM dir, which she and my mom both prefer over photo managers, she found putting two shell windows side by side for drag and drop photo sorting to be much more complicated than in gnome2.
And getting to her favourite apps is not as handy. She was familiar with doing it just w/ 1 click to open the app menu, a bit of mouse wiggling and another to open the app. Now she has to scroll through large lists or type. She's not a fan of the workflow.
She's still a fan I think, but, yeah, might ask to go back to gnome2. For parent's idea that this is gnome1 vs gnome2. Eh. It really is a big shift from the desktop metaphor. Gnome 1 to gnome 2 was nothing like this.
Unfortunately I already switched her machine to 11.10 where that is no longer an option. That's why I said install 11.04.
In 11.10 your choices for GTK-based WMs are basically: * gnome-panel
reasonably functional, if a bit inconvenient to switch between multiple apps and launch new ones * unity
basically gnome-panel but slower and clunkier and w/ less features * gnome-shell
a gnome-panel workalike of gnome2, only lacking all that applets and most of the old panel features * XFCE4.8
All the stuff you expect, like a hierarchical app menu, and all the panels you want in varying sizes, themes, but still a kind of clunky desktop, and apparently not able to do simple things like change the timezone (I tried. There's a timezone app w/ a not-very intuitive browsing of every possible location from zoneinfo, but after you select one, nothing seems to happen). Also not so good for tasks my family expects, like, oh, mounting an ISO to a browsable filesystem, which my mom actually *does*.
Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but my mother, my father in law and I all find unity and gnome-shell to get in the way more than help. My mother and father in law are staying on gnome2 for now. I've switched to XFCE4.
My SO is on gnome-shell right now, and finds it... usable. Misses her old themes though. She's been making noise about getting tired about it. Not sure what I'll do on her machine. Install Ubuntu 11.04 I guess.
Oops. I see FrootLoops already pointed this out. I hate the default comment layout for unauthenticated users that is basically impossible to change without signing in. (Ok, I should have expanded more comments anyway)
Oh? I imagine if there were enough bullets flying around, thick skull bones and sloping foreheads might start getting selected for. Not every shot to the head is a killer, as bear hunters can attest.
Or the other way around. I dropped the streaming service that I hardly ever used and was showing no signs of ever having any Linux compatibility outside of Google's linux.
Yeah, also from TFA ======== âoeThe adult diseases already known to be associated with early life disadvantage include coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes and respiratory disorders,â said author, Chris Power ========
But, this study does not link the two. It just notes there are epigenetic changes. It doesn't even, at least as far as TFA seems to say, examine sequences associated w/ any particular disease.
So, possible, sure, but not the point of the study.
specific disease effects linked to these areas of DNA methylation differences
or indeed whether there were positive or protective effects
or whether these changes might be passed on to offspring.
The study was not designed to look at these areas. ============
I imagine the answer is even that "it depends"
Presumably extreme poverty to the point of malnutrition would be more harmful than positive.
Use other things as well, like, SPF, whether the connecting machine is an MX for the domain, greylisting of various kinds (possibly), and weighting on lists like SBL and XBL. PBL will block hobbiests like me, fortunately gmail doesn't do that. And then once you accept it you can do more thorough bayesian checks on headers and content. In any case, absolute reliance on any of 'em is a problem. Spam Assassin is awesome at doing weightings, IMO.
Thanks for heads up. I was on $14.99 for unlimited streaming and 2 DVDs. So was wasting $3 on a service we'd only used once or twice due to all machines in house being linux (virtualbox is just a pain).
Signed the petition and shifted to the $11.99 plan.
Wait. There's a DVD only plan? I should check to see if we can get a cheaper one. Streaming isn't Linux compatible anyway, and we signed up long before they had streaming.
Cholera. Not too sure what you're thinking about. Perhaps the claim of Haitians following the earthquake that UN peacekeepers from Nepal brought cholera with them? An investigation of the source and and examination of the Haitian strain's DNA actually showed that was probably true. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11943902
While there's some truth to that, it is hardly foolproof and the feces thing is actually still true in some cases. Traditional medicine made (and makes) many errors.
"Tetanus of the newborn occurs through contamination of the umbilical stump (and occasionally as a complication of circumcision). Neonatal tetanus is common in some cultures that have practices that encourage infection. Some tribes in the Loralai district of Pakistan practice 'bundling,' in which the lower abdomen of the newborn is smeared with cow dung and then the child is wrapped in a sheepskin blanket. The Masai have a high neontal death rate in part due to the custom of packing the umbilical stump with cow dung."
-- The vaccine controversy: the history, use and safety of vaccinations By Kurt Link. pp71
Goes on to mention some other practices. This sort of thing isn't unique in traditional medicine, either.
Slashdot Mirror
Will do...
From your Wikipedia link. ... and ...
=============
In 2000, nuclear power contributed to 58.24% of the 78.85 TWh (total rate: 9 GWe) produced domestically.[7]
In 2000, renewable energy was used for producing 0.71% of the 78,85 TWh of electricity produced domestically.
=============
There was a rather optimistic projection of full exploitation of offshore wind at 17TWh, assuming this was possible.
If the two plants are producing over half of that 79TWh, looks like wind has a ways to go to come close to replacing what they are shutting down.
Sooo, yeah. More natural gas from Russia, more nuclear from France, more local coal.
Well. Unfortunately, I tried to encourage them both to use Shotwell.
Neither one cared for it. They simply find the folder metaphor more intuitive, when it comes to rearranging, organising and naming their photos, not to mention finding them from external apps.
As for pinning apps, I told her how to do that. She has added a few but still does not care for it. And doesn't take many before the dock is irritatingly cluttered.
Anyway. Regardless of your fanboism, fact is, she doesn't like despite using it for months, and the only solution that I can see is downgrading her machine to what she *did* use and liked very much.
Er. Sorry. replace gnome-panel w/ gnome-shell. gnome-shell is the tablet lookalike, gnome-panel is the crippled gnome2 workalike.
I wrote before coffee.
And, yes, my SO who thought gnome-shell and unity looked new and shiny (and still does) is making an honest effort to use them, but is just finding them slow and frustrating to use. She finds gnome-shell pops up stuff that can't be dismissed that confuses her "I have to make a decision on how to open the iphone? Can't I just close this - oh no close button" or, after she's browsed to the DCIM dir, which she and my mom both prefer over photo managers, she found putting two shell windows side by side for drag and drop photo sorting to be much more complicated than in gnome2.
And getting to her favourite apps is not as handy. She was familiar with doing it just w/ 1 click to open the app menu, a bit of mouse wiggling and another to open the app. Now she has to scroll through large lists or type. She's not a fan of the workflow.
She's still a fan I think, but, yeah, might ask to go back to gnome2. For parent's idea that this is gnome1 vs gnome2. Eh. It really is a big shift from the desktop metaphor. Gnome 1 to gnome 2 was nothing like this.
Unfortunately I already switched her machine to 11.10 where that is no longer an option.
That's why I said install 11.04.
In 11.10 your choices for GTK-based WMs are basically:
* gnome-panel
reasonably functional, if a bit inconvenient to switch between multiple apps and launch new ones
* unity
basically gnome-panel but slower and clunkier and w/ less features
* gnome-shell
a gnome-panel workalike of gnome2, only lacking all that applets and most of the old panel features
* XFCE4.8
All the stuff you expect, like a hierarchical app menu, and all the panels you want in varying sizes, themes, but still a kind of clunky desktop, and apparently not able to do simple things like change the timezone (I tried. There's a timezone app w/ a not-very intuitive browsing of every possible location from zoneinfo, but after you select one, nothing seems to happen). Also not so good for tasks my family expects, like, oh, mounting an ISO to a browsable filesystem, which my mom actually *does*.
Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but my mother, my father in law and I all find unity and gnome-shell to get in the way more than help. My mother and father in law are staying on gnome2 for now. I've switched to XFCE4.
My SO is on gnome-shell right now, and finds it... usable. Misses her old themes though. She's been making noise about getting tired about it. Not sure what I'll do on her machine. Install Ubuntu 11.04 I guess.
Oops. I see FrootLoops already pointed this out. I hate the default comment layout for unauthenticated users that is basically impossible
to change without signing in.
(Ok, I should have expanded more comments anyway)
Oh? I imagine if there were enough bullets flying around, thick skull bones and sloping foreheads might start getting selected for.
Not every shot to the head is a killer, as bear hunters can attest.
Well, it used to screw up in editing/modifying/copying of portions of a URL, but they seem to have that pretty much solved.
Flexible motherboards and batteries already exist.
The screen was one of the hard ones actually.
Processor doesn't necessarily have to bend, depending on size and position and amount of bendiness.
Or the other way around. I dropped the streaming service that I hardly ever used and was showing no signs of ever having any Linux compatibility outside of Google's linux.
Yeah, also from TFA
========
âoeThe adult diseases already known to be associated with early life disadvantage include coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes and respiratory disorders,â said author, Chris Power
========
But, this study does not link the two. It just notes there are epigenetic changes. It doesn't even, at least as far as TFA seems to say, examine sequences associated w/ any particular disease.
So, possible, sure, but not the point of the study.
Yep. From TFA.
============
The study did not show:
specific disease effects linked to these areas of DNA methylation differences
or indeed whether there were positive or protective effects
or whether these changes might be passed on to offspring.
The study was not designed to look at these areas.
============
I imagine the answer is even that "it depends"
Presumably extreme poverty to the point of malnutrition would be more harmful than positive.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/
50 character password on your private key...
Use other things as well, like, SPF, whether the connecting machine is an MX for the domain, greylisting of various kinds (possibly), and weighting on lists like SBL and XBL. PBL will block hobbiests like me, fortunately gmail doesn't do that.
And then once you accept it you can do more thorough bayesian checks on headers and content.
In any case, absolute reliance on any of 'em is a problem. Spam Assassin is awesome at doing weightings, IMO.
Thanks for heads up. I was on $14.99 for unlimited streaming and 2 DVDs. So was wasting $3 on a service we'd only used once or twice due to all machines in house being linux (virtualbox is just a pain).
Signed the petition and shifted to the $11.99 plan.
Damn. I've been overpaying then. Need to get the 2 DVD plan until some sort of agreement on DRM for Linux is worked out.
Wait. There's a DVD only plan? I should check to see if we can get a cheaper one.
Streaming isn't Linux compatible anyway, and we signed up long before they had streaming.
http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amount=60000+&From=JPY&To=USD
60,000.00 JPY = 779.252 USD
xe.com is awesome, apart from the main table it can even do handy tricks like:
http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amount=1&From=XAU&To=USD
http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amount=1&From=XAG&To=USD
Here's the news cluster on the cholera DNA thing (I noticed the report in the BBC article was more about the epidemiological and physical evidence)
http://news.google.com/news/story?pz=1&cf=all&ned=en&hl=en&ncl=dZRaoK_eab_5VWM2dLwR4Fc2j5y9M
From Wikipedia.
Nigerian Muslims feared polio eradication campaign was actually a secret sterilisation campaign.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2070634.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/20/international/asia/20polio.html?pagewanted=2
Cholera. Not too sure what you're thinking about.
Perhaps the claim of Haitians following the earthquake that UN peacekeepers from Nepal brought cholera with them?
An investigation of the source and and examination of the Haitian strain's DNA actually showed that was probably true.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11943902
While there's some truth to that, it is hardly foolproof and the feces thing is actually still true in some cases. Traditional medicine made (and makes) many errors.
"Tetanus of the newborn occurs through contamination of the umbilical stump (and occasionally as a complication of circumcision). Neonatal tetanus is common in some cultures that have practices that encourage infection. Some tribes in the Loralai district of Pakistan practice 'bundling,' in which the lower abdomen of the newborn is smeared with cow dung and then the child is wrapped in a sheepskin blanket. The Masai have a high neontal death rate in part due to the custom of packing the umbilical stump with cow dung."
-- The vaccine controversy: the history, use and safety of vaccinations By Kurt Link. pp71
Goes on to mention some other practices.
This sort of thing isn't unique in traditional medicine, either.
Reminds me of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troposphere_(rocket_family)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR97o_FuX-c
And browsing Reddit.
And watching movies.