I'm going to put up with it (while gnashing my teeth and doing whatever I can to mitigate the damage) as long as the software I have to use all day is not available for any other platform.
Is it really too much to ask not to pollute the entire neighborhood with your noise? Especially when quieter, non-annoying alternatives are available?
It's either your freedom to annoy people, or everyone else's freedom from being disturbed.
I, for one am looking forward to quieter leaf blowers being mandated. And we're far from them being used once or twice a year. For several months every year, I have a whole brigade of them coming round once a week to clean up the municipal green areas around my house. This takes an entire day, making working at home impossible that day.
I got one as a freebie when it was ~9 years old, used it as my main machine until 2001 (it was 12 years old by then). Its secrets: a Daystar 68040 accelerator board and a ludicrous amount of RAM for its day (32 Mb).
After the first round of this nonsense, I found the GWX Control panel, which claims to disable the nagware. It also monitors Windows Update and alerts you when its settings are changed to 'install automatically'. I normally install updates once a week, so we'll see what happens in a few days.
That cutaway shows that the actual reactor is about 2 m wide and 10 m high. A reactor 10 times as powerful (1.8 GW) would need a reactor vessel 10 times the volume, or 3 times the diameter of this one. Your building would grow by 4 m in length and width. Compare that with building 10 of the buildings shown in the cutaway.
That's the nice thing about nuclear power: it scales really well, so it makes sense to build a few really big plants rather than lots of small-capacity plants.
Pah, newbie. I remember the time when these updates were only available for Babbage's Analytical Engine. Each update came in the form of a crate of parts you had to install in your Engine.
That 'essential part' is exactly the part I hate about Twitter, forcing everyone to condense everything into a badly-readable, tag-infested blurb. They took a miserable concept from news media (sound bites) and applied it to everyone, killing off thoughtful discussion in favor of polarization.
Advantages of diesel: 1. Fuel economy. Thanks to high fuel prices in Europe, fuel is a major component in the TCO of a car. Switching to a car that uses half the fuel is a no-brainer (depending on 3.). 2. Drivability. Thanks to 1. everybody drives compact cars with small engines. Small unturbocharged petrol engines have little torque, so in mountainous areas they're crap to drive and everyone switches to a compact turbodiesel. Same for people who need to tow anything. 3. In Europe, governments use taxation of diesel vs. petrol to arrive at an optimal mix of cars, where 'optimal' is defined differently by various governments, optimizing for air quality, total fuel use, refinery capacity or other factors.
The Dutch government has an extensive database of all addresses and their legal use (residential or otherwise). Anyone trying to claim their local mosque as their home address gets found out quickly.
AFAIK, you only get benefits if you are a registered citizen in the town where you apply for benefits. To be a registered citizen, you need to live in the town. No address, no benefits. There's a separate arrangement for homeless people. Utrecht suffers from a lack of affordable housing and has long waiting lists, so that will limit the number of people moving in.
The Russians used to use RTGs to power remote, badly-accessible lighthouses and navigation beacons in the Arctic region. The USAF has RTG-powered radar stations in Alaska.
The reason RTG's aren't more common: Pu-238 is incredibly expensive. The DOE has invested $15M/year to produce (eventually) 1.5 kg of Pu-238/year, which can produce ~750 W.
People mistake "ease of newbies being able to do something" with "expert usability".
The trouble with the Emacs/CAD approach is the steep learning curve. If you optimize you application for expert usability only, people have to become an expert before they are able to use the application at all. This is sort-of acceptable for one class of applications, i.e. those applications where you can expect the user to commit to this investment in time. Typically this sort of application will be the environment the user spends his entire day in.
The problem is, those jobs are rare. These days people are expected to use a large number of applications in the course of a day. There is no time to become an expert in all of them, so the application UI has to facilitate more people than just experts. So we need both ease of newbies being able to do something AND expert usability.
From experience in the Netherlands, that point seems to be at about 1 ticket/year per driver. Over here the police write about 8 million speeding tickets/yr, and there are about that many cars registered in the country. Over the past few years, the number of people I've seen speeding has plummeted, and the number of people driving at (speed limit -10 to 20 km/h) is large enough that it's becoming impossible to drive at the speed limit because there's always a slowpoke in front of you.
It's easy to see why commercial software providers would want to push users toward the cloud: they get to charge subscriptions instead of a one-time buy. But for users, there aren't any compelling advantages that I can see. Sure, you outsource software maintenance, and if all goes right availability could be higher. But that comes at a high price: your data being exposed, absolute reliance on your internet connection, no control over e.g. the upgrade schedule, no more communication between applications etc. Being able to access my documents from anywhere is no argument. My laptop goes everywhere with me, so I already have that without having to store my documents on the cloud.
Every time I switched mail clients or computers, I made sure to import all mail from the old to the new program. Messages that were made in my first mail account (in Eudora, on Macintosh System 7) are still accessible in my current Mac (Apple Mail, OSX 10.10). I don't need it often, but when I do, it's one search away.
No, we haven't. We have maps of the sea floor that are more detailed than pretty much anywhere in the solar system. We routinely get samples from the sea floor, while the amount of samples we have from space has been stable at less than 400 kg for almost 50 years now. You can set up a deep sea expedition down to 4000 m for a few million. Going anywhere in space requires 4 orders of magnitude more money. One DSV (Alvin) has made 4400 dives to 4 km, spending 100x more hours on the bottom than astronauts have spent on the Moon.
Oceanographic research goes on every day around the world. Because it's affordable it doesn't generate headlines the way space exploration does, so it's less visible. But just because you haven't read about it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Granted, detailed in-situ exploration of the sea floor below 4 km is difficult. But we haven't done manned space expeditions beyond our back yard either.
Knock if off with the scare quotes. The Syrians fleeing here may be middle class, they've also seen their country turn into a hellhole. Their being middle class was no defence against that. Wouldn't you flee in those circumstances?
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I'm going to put up with it (while gnashing my teeth and doing whatever I can to mitigate the damage) as long as the software I have to use all day is not available for any other platform.
Is it really too much to ask not to pollute the entire neighborhood with your noise? Especially when quieter, non-annoying alternatives are available?
It's either your freedom to annoy people, or everyone else's freedom from being disturbed.
I, for one am looking forward to quieter leaf blowers being mandated. And we're far from them being used once or twice a year. For several months every year, I have a whole brigade of them coming round once a week to clean up the municipal green areas around my house. This takes an entire day, making working at home impossible that day.
viz. the song 'Look at them beans'.
I got one as a freebie when it was ~9 years old, used it as my main machine until 2001 (it was 12 years old by then). Its secrets: a Daystar 68040 accelerator board and a ludicrous amount of RAM for its day (32 Mb).
After the first round of this nonsense, I found the GWX Control panel, which claims to disable the nagware. It also monitors Windows Update and alerts you when its settings are changed to 'install automatically'.
I normally install updates once a week, so we'll see what happens in a few days.
That cutaway shows that the actual reactor is about 2 m wide and 10 m high.
A reactor 10 times as powerful (1.8 GW) would need a reactor vessel 10 times the volume, or 3 times the diameter of this one. Your building would grow by 4 m in length and width.
Compare that with building 10 of the buildings shown in the cutaway.
That's the nice thing about nuclear power: it scales really well, so it makes sense to build a few really big plants rather than lots of small-capacity plants.
There's another big difference: the SRBs had walls of 8 mm thick steel. The F9 uses 0.4 mm of aluminium.
FTA:
He pointed to the implementation of âoelikesâ and âoementionsâ in the Outlook clients as examples of changes that he thinks are helpful.
In a sane world, that alone would disqualify him for the position.
Pah, newbie. I remember the time when these updates were only available for Babbage's Analytical Engine.
Each update came in the form of a crate of parts you had to install in your Engine.
That 'essential part' is exactly the part I hate about Twitter, forcing everyone to condense everything into a badly-readable, tag-infested blurb. They took a miserable concept from news media (sound bites) and applied it to everyone, killing off thoughtful discussion in favor of polarization.
Advantages of diesel:
1. Fuel economy. Thanks to high fuel prices in Europe, fuel is a major component in the TCO of a car. Switching to a car that uses half the fuel is a no-brainer (depending on 3.).
2. Drivability. Thanks to 1. everybody drives compact cars with small engines. Small unturbocharged petrol engines have little torque, so in mountainous areas they're crap to drive and everyone switches to a compact turbodiesel. Same for people who need to tow anything.
3. In Europe, governments use taxation of diesel vs. petrol to arrive at an optimal mix of cars, where 'optimal' is defined differently by various governments, optimizing for air quality, total fuel use, refinery capacity or other factors.
The Dutch government has an extensive database of all addresses and their legal use (residential or otherwise). Anyone trying to claim their local mosque as their home address gets found out quickly.
I'm sure registration as a local resident is just a matter of showing your ID card.
No. In the Netherlands, you're not a local resident and eligible for local benefits until you can prove you have a local residential address.
AFAIK, you only get benefits if you are a registered citizen in the town where you apply for benefits. To be a registered citizen, you need to live in the town. No address, no benefits. There's a separate arrangement for homeless people.
Utrecht suffers from a lack of affordable housing and has long waiting lists, so that will limit the number of people moving in.
The Russians used to use RTGs to power remote, badly-accessible lighthouses and navigation beacons in the Arctic region. The USAF has RTG-powered radar stations in Alaska.
The reason RTG's aren't more common: Pu-238 is incredibly expensive. The DOE has invested $15M/year to produce (eventually) 1.5 kg of Pu-238/year, which can produce ~750 W.
but how did he manage to inject exactly 3.5 of them?
People mistake "ease of newbies being able to do something" with "expert usability".
The trouble with the Emacs/CAD approach is the steep learning curve. If you optimize you application for expert usability only, people have to become an expert before they are able to use the application at all.
This is sort-of acceptable for one class of applications, i.e. those applications where you can expect the user to commit to this investment in time. Typically this sort of application will be the environment the user spends his entire day in.
The problem is, those jobs are rare. These days people are expected to use a large number of applications in the course of a day. There is no time to become an expert in all of them, so the application UI has to facilitate more people than just experts. So we need both ease of newbies being able to do something AND expert usability.
From experience in the Netherlands, that point seems to be at about 1 ticket/year per driver.
Over here the police write about 8 million speeding tickets/yr, and there are about that many cars registered in the country. Over the past few years, the number of people I've seen speeding has plummeted, and the number of people driving at (speed limit -10 to 20 km/h) is large enough that it's becoming impossible to drive at the speed limit because there's always a slowpoke in front of you.
They're trying to increase their Bullshit Bingo scores...
Krom is a Dutch word that means 'crooked'. A company calling themselves that, well...
Now that is a fine theory right there except that OwnCloud is Free and Open Source,
Yes, I got that. So the normal argument in favor of cloud software (the vendor gets to increase their income) doesn't apply.
Am I the only one who prefers having applications run locally instead of having to cram everything inside a browser window?
It's easy to see why commercial software providers would want to push users toward the cloud: they get to charge subscriptions instead of a one-time buy.
But for users, there aren't any compelling advantages that I can see.
Sure, you outsource software maintenance, and if all goes right availability could be higher. But that comes at a high price: your data being exposed, absolute reliance on your internet connection, no control over e.g. the upgrade schedule, no more communication between applications etc.
Being able to access my documents from anywhere is no argument. My laptop goes everywhere with me, so I already have that without having to store my documents on the cloud.
Every time I switched mail clients or computers, I made sure to import all mail from the old to the new program. Messages that were made in my first mail account (in Eudora, on Macintosh System 7) are still accessible in my current Mac (Apple Mail, OSX 10.10). I don't need it often, but when I do, it's one search away.
No, we haven't. We have maps of the sea floor that are more detailed than pretty much anywhere in the solar system. We routinely get samples from the sea floor, while the amount of samples we have from space has been stable at less than 400 kg for almost 50 years now. You can set up a deep sea expedition down to 4000 m for a few million. Going anywhere in space requires 4 orders of magnitude more money.
One DSV (Alvin) has made 4400 dives to 4 km, spending 100x more hours on the bottom than astronauts have spent on the Moon.
Oceanographic research goes on every day around the world. Because it's affordable it doesn't generate headlines the way space exploration does, so it's less visible. But just because you haven't read about it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Granted, detailed in-situ exploration of the sea floor below 4 km is difficult. But we haven't done manned space expeditions beyond our back yard either.
middle class "refugees"
Knock if off with the scare quotes. The Syrians fleeing here may be middle class, they've also seen their country turn into a hellhole. Their being middle class was no defence against that. Wouldn't you flee in those circumstances?