It takes about 60 gallons (227 l) of fuel per passenger to get from New York to London on board a 767-400ER. The same volume of gasoline would propel an economy car about half of that distance.
To me, that's not mind-blowingly efficient. If you put two people in that economy car, your rate of fuel consumption per person is about the same.
Is there a picture of all this somewhere, for us visually-oriented people? I remember a while ago there was simplpe drawing of the branches/release schedule a click or two away from the mozilla homepage.
It never has a driver for *any* nic I ever owned, and I'm forced to use that sneakernet.
NIC? How about video card or sound card. I just love that initial boot in VGA mode.
I can't utilize the multiple partitions I have the way I want to (I can't just "mount" it and have it be a transparant part of the file system. Nope, I don't even know what the equivalant for that would be, and whatever that is, it should be part of the OS anyways)
Did you know that you can mount a partition as a folder? Right click on a partition in the Disk Management Tool and select "Change Drive Letter and Path. (Control Panel...Administrative Tools...Computer Management...Storage...Disk Management) The folder you mount to has to be in an NTFS partition.
$194.99 for Word alone? What a ripoff! I guess that's to make us think that Office Standard (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook) at $332.99 is a bargain.
If Word and the Word.doc format were much more elegant and less troublesome to use, I might pay $100 for it.
Actually, I think Win31 did have a rudimentary registry, used for file associations and such. The rest the registry wasn't there yet. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT exists today for backwards compatibility, though it's the same as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes.
Maybe we go back to using caddies or put the discs in plastic cases like 3.5" floppies. I'm sure VHS tapes would be much easier to damage if you had to handle the tape spools outside of the cassette they are in.
Ha! Just think: What if Microsoft had renamed "disk partition" to "file cabinet"? It makes sense, along with the files and folders analogies.
I actually think it would be easier to explain non-heirarchical filesystems to older people. These are people who probably can remember using the card catalog in their library - before computers came around. They will understand the concept of indexing by different metadata (i.e. title or author) even though the book itself is only one place on the shelf. To those who have only used a computer for this task, the process is more like magic, unless they really think about it.
The problem with directories (folders) so far is that they are hierarchical. Symbolic links aside, a hierarchical directory structure forces you to divide everything into distinct categories. This can be troublesome if you work with files that are highly related. "Did I file that bill from the University under 'Finance' or under 'School'?" Search technology can alleviate the problem, but I still find it hard to trust all the time. If I can help build the index, I'd feel better.
I agree. Deposits will work. People DO go around collecting for the deposit money. If you see a bottle or can on the ground in Michigan, odds are it's for a non-carbonated beverage. (There's no deposit, no return on those.) I have seen whole families pull out garbage bags after a game at Michigan Stadium and clean the place up.
On the other hand, if we know we have a 'backup' on the moon or Mars, we might feel we can be more careless with planet Earth. Be careful what you wish for.
First of all, the Constitution is the framework for government. It says what the government is allowed to do, not what the people are allowed to do. The question I think you should be asking is, where in the Constitution does it say the government can restrict our travel? See also Amendment X.
Second, Amendment V states that "No person... [shall] be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law." I'm sure "liberty" includes freedom to travel.
In my opinion as a French Magistrate (just kidding), once a movie has been on broadcast television, it's OK to download it for "personal use". I have two reasons for this:
You theoretically could have recorded it (existing fair use).
By the time a movie is on television, movie studios have generally extracted a majority of their profits from it. The purpose of copyright (to encourage the creators by allowing them control/compensation for a limited time) has therefore been fulfilled.
I'd like to see copyright reduced to ten years, for motion pictures, at least.
Especially when we already have a federally issued and regulated ID called a passport!!!
A passport is like a letter of introduction from the Secretary of State (I think) to "whom it may concern" in foreign countries. Turning it into a national ID is just as much a perversion of its original purpose as turning drivers licenses into National ID cards.
I guess you could argue that the phrase, "to whom it may concern," on your passport could also include people in the U.S., but I don't buy it. Why would/should the state police need to see my entry/exit stamps to, say, Germany? And why should I carry that darn booklet around every day?
Actually, I don't mind a national ID card as much as I mind the federal government forcing the states to do all the work.
Maybe it didn't help that people like us assured them that buying 'online' was generally safe. We meant reputable websites, of course, not spamvertized websites, phone numbers, etc.
The article is a little misleading. Virtual memory is not just space on a hard disk that you use when you run out of physical memory. Virtual memory is the practice of giving each process its own virtual address space that is independant of the physical address space. Doing this allows the OS to send some pages of memory to disk if it needs to, but the OS is still using the mechanism of virtual memory even if there is no hard drive at all. Each process's memory space is independant of the others'.
MAC addresses are used to identify devices on the physical network. They aren't sent across at the IP level. There might be some hackerish way to get a host's MAC address, but it wouldn't be very useful anyway; MAC addresses are easy to change.
Have you looked at Google's HTML? It's definitely deliberately stripped down. Their blatant non-conformance to standards is not a mistake. They also use gzip encoding.
Where do you see that they could save bandwidth but aren't bothering? Maybe they could probably also use stylesheets to save some, but that might get in the way of the goal of having Google render properly in EVERY browser.
If your taxes are simple enough, just use Telefile (phone filing). They charge nothing for it. Forget Linux. Forget computers entirely!
If your taxes are more complex maybe TaxAct will fit the bill. I've used TaxAct a few times, and they were OK. You can do everything on the web and download a finished PDF of the forms. The downside is that it's slow to do it that way. You can also download some software from them to save your data locally, but it's windows only.
This must be something that's different for everyone. I actually find it easier to tune out foreign languages - unless people are speaking softly and I can't tell it's a foreign language. My brain just can't help but process what it is hearing and interrupt whatever I'm trying to think about. It's one reason why I wish I had an office with a door, rather than working in cubicle land. (Do I have ADD or something??)
That's the whole point. The technology failed, but our troops were able to overcome the failure(s) thanks to superior training and equipment. However, if they had been fighting a better opponent, there probably would have been more serious consequences.
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Also, as I understand it, making your employees happy won't make them productive. The new thinking is that it generally works the other way.
Is there a picture of all this somewhere, for us visually-oriented people? I remember a while ago there was simplpe drawing of the branches/release schedule a click or two away from the mozilla homepage.
NIC? How about video card or sound card. I just love that initial boot in VGA mode.
Did you know that you can mount a partition as a folder? Right click on a partition in the Disk Management Tool and select "Change Drive Letter and Path. (Control Panel...Administrative Tools...Computer Management...Storage...Disk Management) The folder you mount to has to be in an NTFS partition.
If Word and the Word .doc format were much more elegant and less troublesome to use, I might pay $100 for it.
Actually, I think Win31 did have a rudimentary registry, used for file associations and such. The rest the registry wasn't there yet. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT exists today for backwards compatibility, though it's the same as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes.
Maybe we go back to using caddies or put the discs in plastic cases like 3.5" floppies. I'm sure VHS tapes would be much easier to damage if you had to handle the tape spools outside of the cassette they are in.
I actually think it would be easier to explain non-heirarchical filesystems to older people. These are people who probably can remember using the card catalog in their library - before computers came around. They will understand the concept of indexing by different metadata (i.e. title or author) even though the book itself is only one place on the shelf. To those who have only used a computer for this task, the process is more like magic, unless they really think about it.
The problem with directories (folders) so far is that they are hierarchical. Symbolic links aside, a hierarchical directory structure forces you to divide everything into distinct categories. This can be troublesome if you work with files that are highly related. "Did I file that bill from the University under 'Finance' or under 'School'?" Search technology can alleviate the problem, but I still find it hard to trust all the time. If I can help build the index, I'd feel better.
I agree. Deposits will work. People DO go around collecting for the deposit money. If you see a bottle or can on the ground in Michigan, odds are it's for a non-carbonated beverage. (There's no deposit, no return on those.) I have seen whole families pull out garbage bags after a game at Michigan Stadium and clean the place up.
This isn't exactly what you are talking about, but it surprised and interesed me all the same: China need for trash insatiable.
I do, but I renamed 'My Documents' to 'Username' and pointed it to 'C:\Username', which is how it should be.
On the other hand, if we know we have a 'backup' on the moon or Mars, we might feel we can be more careless with planet Earth. Be careful what you wish for.
Second, Amendment V states that "No person ... [shall] be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law." I'm sure "liberty" includes freedom to travel.
- You theoretically could have recorded it (existing fair use).
- By the time a movie is on television, movie studios have generally extracted a majority of their profits from it. The purpose of copyright (to encourage the creators by allowing them control/compensation for a limited time) has therefore been fulfilled.
I'd like to see copyright reduced to ten years, for motion pictures, at least.I guess you could argue that the phrase, "to whom it may concern," on your passport could also include people in the U.S., but I don't buy it. Why would/should the state police need to see my entry/exit stamps to, say, Germany? And why should I carry that darn booklet around every day?
Actually, I don't mind a national ID card as much as I mind the federal government forcing the states to do all the work.
Maybe it didn't help that people like us assured them that buying 'online' was generally safe. We meant reputable websites, of course, not spamvertized websites, phone numbers, etc.
Here's the perfect phone for that: Ebay Item #6167545235: Fire Engine Red ITT Wall Phone.
The article is a little misleading. Virtual memory is not just space on a hard disk that you use when you run out of physical memory. Virtual memory is the practice of giving each process its own virtual address space that is independant of the physical address space. Doing this allows the OS to send some pages of memory to disk if it needs to, but the OS is still using the mechanism of virtual memory even if there is no hard drive at all. Each process's memory space is independant of the others'.
MAC addresses are used to identify devices on the physical network. They aren't sent across at the IP level. There might be some hackerish way to get a host's MAC address, but it wouldn't be very useful anyway; MAC addresses are easy to change.
Where do you see that they could save bandwidth but aren't bothering? Maybe they could probably also use stylesheets to save some, but that might get in the way of the goal of having Google render properly in EVERY browser.
If your taxes are more complex maybe TaxAct will fit the bill. I've used TaxAct a few times, and they were OK. You can do everything on the web and download a finished PDF of the forms. The downside is that it's slow to do it that way. You can also download some software from them to save your data locally, but it's windows only.
This must be something that's different for everyone. I actually find it easier to tune out foreign languages - unless people are speaking softly and I can't tell it's a foreign language. My brain just can't help but process what it is hearing and interrupt whatever I'm trying to think about. It's one reason why I wish I had an office with a door, rather than working in cubicle land. (Do I have ADD or something??)
That's the whole point. The technology failed, but our troops were able to overcome the failure(s) thanks to superior training and equipment. However, if they had been fighting a better opponent, there probably would have been more serious consequences.