Most people running Debian are doing it for servers. For servers you want long term stability, and generally you don't give a damn about multimedia. It's just not Debian's focus.
If you want a multimedia focused distro, there are plenty of others to choose from.
Recharging in the same time as a gas refill is unlikely to ever happen.
To go NY to Florida in an electric car will take on the order of 1MWh. To recharge this in 5 minutes (gas refill time) would require a cable transferring a power of 12MW. If we used 25,000 volts to do this (the voltage of overhead electrical lines for high speed electric trains) the current would be 480 amps. It's simply not practical to do while obeying the laws of physics.
Now think of how many people are fuelling up at a gas station at any given moment, and think about it if they are all drawing a power of 12 megawatts. There is no practical technology for the forseeable future that you can use to build a power grid capable of doing this. This is before we even get to safety issues of a power interconnect which is both high voltage and high current.
Also think of that 12MW figure for a moment, and you may get an inkling why personal motorised transport is absolutely unsustainable.
The whole of the UK? Where did that come from? All the stuff I've ever seen has said it would be able to produce 7% of UK power needs...not 100% and certainly not the whole of Europe!!
Not every plant is coal. The electricity grid has a combination of baseload plants (things that can only change output slowly, like a PWR nuclear plant or a large coal generator) and peaking plants (natural gas etc). A natural gas power station uses basically the same turbine engine as an airliner, minus the fan (many industrial turbines are identical to ones on airliners, right down to the part numbers). Just like an aircraft engine, gas turbine power plants can throttle up and down very quickly. So if a bunch of load goes away, the gas turbine stations can easily throttle back. Pumped storage can be throttled back. Hydroelectric can be throttled back etc.
However on a large electrical grid it's extremely rare to suddenly lose so much load in such a short space of time that you have to do that, electrical load is pretty predictable. The grid operators also do a lot of work to forecast demand.
Linux distro CVEs can't be directly compared to Windows ones. To make it comparable you have to compare Windows + a whole heap of other software, because a Linux distro will have a CVE for things that aren't part of the core operating system, it'll include things like vulnerabilities found in OpenOffice and other applications which are not included in Windows.
Having said that when I was on an L-1 and then an H1-B, I was *significantly* more expensive than a US worker. I'm also not from the Third World so living in the US itself wasn't a particular aim of mine, if I decided to quit I was perfectly happy with leaving the US (I didn't quit, but I no longer live in the US).
Today, one of my friends who used to be a C++ programmer makes wood furniture rather than jump though a new hoop every year and learn the newest "Ruby on rails with a twist of Hadoop and NOSQL"
And he made the right decision - if you are not prepared to be constantly learning in a software development job, then you aren't cut out for software development. Never in the history of software development has the expectation of never learning a new skill and doing the same stuff every day been correct. If you want to be in software dev or just IT in general, you must enjoy learning and you must continuously be learning. If you don't enjoy learning, then do something else.
Unfortunately immigration is usually done in a fairly childish "tit for tat" method: Indians have to go through a severe ballache just to visit the US on vacation, let alone on business, so in retaliation the Indian government does the same to US citizens who wish to visit India.
Even in countries where you don't need a visa for short visits, you can easily get a grilling. I'm British and most of the time entering the US is just a formality. But even so, one time a very surly immigration officer grilled me and was threatening to deport me for a paperwork triviality (and it was the immigration officer who made the mistake). Most the time, entering as a non-US citizen means an incredibly long wait at immigration - US citizens are processed within a couple of minutes but you can be there over an hour as a foreigner. I've "whitelisted" airports where this doesn't happen (ORD despite being busy seems very efficient, and at Houston Intercontinental the immigration staff not only are efficient, they actually seem genuinely welcoming. Dallas on the other hand was a nightmare last time I went through there. I won't even go through DFW on a domestic flight it's so chaotic).
I've also worked on a visa in the US. Getting a visa is a Kafkaesque experience. One time I had a visa approved whilst in the USA without any problems, but the US Embassy in London refused to issue it when I was on a trip home because one of the forms was out of date. I got the new form from their website - it was 100% identical to the old one except the date at the bottom. If you have to go to the embassy for an interview, that's an interesting system, too. You go in this large square room, queue up for a delicatessen ticket, and they call numbers out. You can't really bring a book because they call the numbers out in more or less a random order, and from the experiences with the embassy you already know full well if you miss your number they won't call it again and then will send you home and you'll have to do it all again. They put "newspapers" out for you to read though, these are called "Going USA" or something like that. The first half is dedicated to how British people have emigrated to the US (and for some reason end up running gas stations in Florida), how wonderful the USA is and how terrible the UK is in comparison. The second half of this "newspaper" is dedicated to how we're not going to give you a visa anyway.
When I had to go there for an interview they had precisely one question. "How long have you worked for IBM?" I told him, and he stamped some paperwork, and told me my passport would be sent to me within a few days. They could have asked that over the phone instead of dragging me all the way to London, waiting in the embassy for 4 or 5 hours, then going back home.
Unfortunately, immigration seems to attract the worst type of people most of the time. This is not unique to any particular country. My Albanian next door neighbour was treated utterly disgracefully by the UK authorities.
Well, not really. Think of the British Terrorism Act. One thing this outlaws is being in posession of information that may be of use to a terrorist. A recipe for bread could be information that is of use to a terrorist (they have to eat, after all).
Some airlines do, for example British Airways has a "world traveller plus" - basically economy with more room - for more money (but a lot less money than business or first)
The summary neglects to mention that this is not a typical large airline operating large turbine powered aircraft like an A320 series.
It's a small island hopper operating light piston aircraft. Their big plane is an Islander. The rest of their fleet are Cessna 172s. A C172 has a maximum allowable takeoff weight (depending on exact model) of round about 2400lbs. With the pilot on board and fully fuelled, a Cessna 172 typically has about 450lbs useful load left. Therefore if you weigh 300 lbs and take another 50 lbs of luggage they can only fly you and no one else. However, if three 150 lb guys show up without luggage they can fly all three of them.
I doubt airlines that operate large turbine powered aircraft will be starting this any time soon (it's not really worth it for them).
What the article doesn't say is that this airline isn't one of those - it operates very small piston powered aircraft where someone heavy or with heavy luggage literally means you have to take fewer passengers to avoid exceeding the aircraft's gross weight limitations. In an Airbus A320, having some proportion of the passengers being morbidly obese, or US Marines with full gear or whatever isn't going to mean the airline has to offload passengers and luggage to make the plane remain below maximum gross weight. However this airline operates Cessna 172s, which have only four seats, and once the pilot is on board and the plane is fuelled up has probably only about 450lb payload left. This means if that US Marine made of pure muscle and weighing in at 230 lbs turns up with his full compliment of kit, then they can only carry him and two passenger seats must remain empty. If on the other hand three 150lb guys show up with no luggage they can take all three of them.
This Western Samoan airline isn't operating Boeing 737s though. Their big plane is a Britten Norman Islander. Their other planes are 4 seat Cessna 172s. The extra 50lbs can make the difference between carrying 3 passengers and only being able to carry two. Once you've got full fuel and the pilot on board of a C172, you may only have around 450lbs of useful load left.
I'd disagree that they are being penny wise and pound foolish.
This airline is a tiny airline (island hopper) operating local routes in small aircraft - they aren't flying huge behemoths like A380s or even the much more modest A320 series. Or even anything as "massive" as an ATR-42. They are flying light twins and singles (Britten Norman Islander and Cessna 172s). A Cessna 172 after filling the fuel tanks gives you about 600lbs useful load left over for passengers and their stuff. Add the pilot and you've probably got 400-450lbs left over. If you have a 300lb passenger it literally costs you a passenger seat extra. You could carry three 150lb passengers or one 300pounder and one 150 pounder.
Things aren't that much better in an Islander which is a light twin. A couple of obese passengers mean you have to carry fewer people.
In terms of "network transparent", what is meant is that a program doesn't care (it just communicates with whatever DISPLAY is set to) and the end user doesn't care. What the server does behind the scenes is irrelevant to how it's used.
If on Wayland, while you're in an SSH session to a remote machine you think..."hmm, I could really do with a couple of wterms" (or whatever the Wayland xterm equivalent is), or "I could really do with firing up wireshark", you can't just type "xterm" and be done then it's not network transparent to the user. If you then have to set up another session and do some desktop-style login (and the remote server has to be running some sort of GUI login manager or equivalent to handle it) then it's a lot less useful than what you get with X11 at the moment.
If on the other hand Wayland will allow the equivalent of ssh -X, then it doesn't matter how it's implemented, so long as the program running at the other end runs and doesn't care that the display is remote, and the user sees a window on their screen, then they have the functional equivalent however it's implemented.
I bet he knew exactly that the compartments were going to be used for illegal purposes.
However, the sentence received is so unjust as to be barbaric. How the prosecutor and the judge can claim to have anything to do with civilization while handing down sentences this absurd just demonstrates the justice system is morally bankrupt.
Is the "cure" of prohibition worse than the disease, though?
Something like 50% of the population has at one time at least tried an illegal drug. Is it really productive to criminalize a full half of the population?
I've been in the workforce since 1990. I wasn't seeking a job during the bubble so I don't know what it was like then, but every time I've been looking for a job, the only jobs I have had (with only one exception) have come about through word of mouth - advertised jobs have always seemed notoriously difficult to even get an interview for (and sometimes even just a reply to your application). And that's with a spotless past employment record and a good university degree.
Whole of Europe population: About 700 million European Union (which isn't the whole of Europe) population: About 500 million United States: About 350 million
Travelling between states in the US is quite a bit different than travelling between European countries since the culture is a lot more homogenous in the US (no, not all states are the same culturally, but they are close enough; I've visited 25 of them), and everyone speaks English. Go from Spain to Greece and not only is the language different, but you can't even read what the road signs say unless you've already spent some time learning Greek - they use a different character set. Go from Britain to Spain and you go from a place where people eat stodgy well-cooked roast beef to somewhere where they eat cow's stomachs and pig's ears.
It's easy to disprove the invisible pink unicorn in your garage: the unicorn cannot be both pink and invisible at the same time; it has to be visible to have a colour. However, this does not disprove that there is a visible pink unicorn in your garage nor does it disprove that you have a colourless and invisible unicorn in your garage.
We can disprove the visible pink unicorn quite easily just by looking for it and not finding it.
Therefore, you have a colourless invisible unicorn in your garage.
McDonald's sells Amazon meat? Are they actually barefaced lying when they say in their publicity they use (in the US) US sourced meat, and in Europe, European meat? I'm not a fan of Ronnie's Burger Bar but I'm sure the myth that they use Amazon meat was put to rest years ago.
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Most people running Debian are doing it for servers. For servers you want long term stability, and generally you don't give a damn about multimedia. It's just not Debian's focus.
If you want a multimedia focused distro, there are plenty of others to choose from.
The product is officially known as "Debian 7.0". Wheezy is just a code name.
Recharging in the same time as a gas refill is unlikely to ever happen.
To go NY to Florida in an electric car will take on the order of 1MWh. To recharge this in 5 minutes (gas refill time) would require a cable transferring a power of 12MW. If we used 25,000 volts to do this (the voltage of overhead electrical lines for high speed electric trains) the current would be 480 amps. It's simply not practical to do while obeying the laws of physics.
Now think of how many people are fuelling up at a gas station at any given moment, and think about it if they are all drawing a power of 12 megawatts. There is no practical technology for the forseeable future that you can use to build a power grid capable of doing this. This is before we even get to safety issues of a power interconnect which is both high voltage and high current.
Also think of that 12MW figure for a moment, and you may get an inkling why personal motorised transport is absolutely unsustainable.
The whole of the UK? Where did that come from? All the stuff I've ever seen has said it would be able to produce 7% of UK power needs...not 100% and certainly not the whole of Europe!!
Not every plant is coal. The electricity grid has a combination of baseload plants (things that can only change output slowly, like a PWR nuclear plant or a large coal generator) and peaking plants (natural gas etc). A natural gas power station uses basically the same turbine engine as an airliner, minus the fan (many industrial turbines are identical to ones on airliners, right down to the part numbers). Just like an aircraft engine, gas turbine power plants can throttle up and down very quickly. So if a bunch of load goes away, the gas turbine stations can easily throttle back. Pumped storage can be throttled back. Hydroelectric can be throttled back etc.
However on a large electrical grid it's extremely rare to suddenly lose so much load in such a short space of time that you have to do that, electrical load is pretty predictable. The grid operators also do a lot of work to forecast demand.
Have a look at a real time view of the UK grid: http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
Why use a battery powered model when you can get a turbojet engine for it? Someone built a model B-52 with 8 of them.
Linux distro CVEs can't be directly compared to Windows ones. To make it comparable you have to compare Windows + a whole heap of other software, because a Linux distro will have a CVE for things that aren't part of the core operating system, it'll include things like vulnerabilities found in OpenOffice and other applications which are not included in Windows.
It *is* already the law, it just needs enforcing.
Having said that when I was on an L-1 and then an H1-B, I was *significantly* more expensive than a US worker. I'm also not from the Third World so living in the US itself wasn't a particular aim of mine, if I decided to quit I was perfectly happy with leaving the US (I didn't quit, but I no longer live in the US).
And he made the right decision - if you are not prepared to be constantly learning in a software development job, then you aren't cut out for software development. Never in the history of software development has the expectation of never learning a new skill and doing the same stuff every day been correct. If you want to be in software dev or just IT in general, you must enjoy learning and you must continuously be learning. If you don't enjoy learning, then do something else.
Unfortunately immigration is usually done in a fairly childish "tit for tat" method: Indians have to go through a severe ballache just to visit the US on vacation, let alone on business, so in retaliation the Indian government does the same to US citizens who wish to visit India.
Even in countries where you don't need a visa for short visits, you can easily get a grilling. I'm British and most of the time entering the US is just a formality. But even so, one time a very surly immigration officer grilled me and was threatening to deport me for a paperwork triviality (and it was the immigration officer who made the mistake). Most the time, entering as a non-US citizen means an incredibly long wait at immigration - US citizens are processed within a couple of minutes but you can be there over an hour as a foreigner. I've "whitelisted" airports where this doesn't happen (ORD despite being busy seems very efficient, and at Houston Intercontinental the immigration staff not only are efficient, they actually seem genuinely welcoming. Dallas on the other hand was a nightmare last time I went through there. I won't even go through DFW on a domestic flight it's so chaotic).
I've also worked on a visa in the US. Getting a visa is a Kafkaesque experience. One time I had a visa approved whilst in the USA without any problems, but the US Embassy in London refused to issue it when I was on a trip home because one of the forms was out of date. I got the new form from their website - it was 100% identical to the old one except the date at the bottom. If you have to go to the embassy for an interview, that's an interesting system, too. You go in this large square room, queue up for a delicatessen ticket, and they call numbers out. You can't really bring a book because they call the numbers out in more or less a random order, and from the experiences with the embassy you already know full well if you miss your number they won't call it again and then will send you home and you'll have to do it all again. They put "newspapers" out for you to read though, these are called "Going USA" or something like that. The first half is dedicated to how British people have emigrated to the US (and for some reason end up running gas stations in Florida), how wonderful the USA is and how terrible the UK is in comparison. The second half of this "newspaper" is dedicated to how we're not going to give you a visa anyway.
When I had to go there for an interview they had precisely one question. "How long have you worked for IBM?" I told him, and he stamped some paperwork, and told me my passport would be sent to me within a few days. They could have asked that over the phone instead of dragging me all the way to London, waiting in the embassy for 4 or 5 hours, then going back home.
Unfortunately, immigration seems to attract the worst type of people most of the time. This is not unique to any particular country. My Albanian next door neighbour was treated utterly disgracefully by the UK authorities.
Pinochet was from Chile.
Well, not really. Think of the British Terrorism Act. One thing this outlaws is being in posession of information that may be of use to a terrorist. A recipe for bread could be information that is of use to a terrorist (they have to eat, after all).
Some airlines do, for example British Airways has a "world traveller plus" - basically economy with more room - for more money (but a lot less money than business or first)
The summary neglects to mention that this is not a typical large airline operating large turbine powered aircraft like an A320 series.
It's a small island hopper operating light piston aircraft. Their big plane is an Islander. The rest of their fleet are Cessna 172s. A C172 has a maximum allowable takeoff weight (depending on exact model) of round about 2400lbs. With the pilot on board and fully fuelled, a Cessna 172 typically has about 450lbs useful load left. Therefore if you weigh 300 lbs and take another 50 lbs of luggage they can only fly you and no one else. However, if three 150 lb guys show up without luggage they can fly all three of them.
I doubt airlines that operate large turbine powered aircraft will be starting this any time soon (it's not really worth it for them).
What the article doesn't say is that this airline isn't one of those - it operates very small piston powered aircraft where someone heavy or with heavy luggage literally means you have to take fewer passengers to avoid exceeding the aircraft's gross weight limitations. In an Airbus A320, having some proportion of the passengers being morbidly obese, or US Marines with full gear or whatever isn't going to mean the airline has to offload passengers and luggage to make the plane remain below maximum gross weight. However this airline operates Cessna 172s, which have only four seats, and once the pilot is on board and the plane is fuelled up has probably only about 450lb payload left. This means if that US Marine made of pure muscle and weighing in at 230 lbs turns up with his full compliment of kit, then they can only carry him and two passenger seats must remain empty. If on the other hand three 150lb guys show up with no luggage they can take all three of them.
This Western Samoan airline isn't operating Boeing 737s though. Their big plane is a Britten Norman Islander. Their other planes are 4 seat Cessna 172s. The extra 50lbs can make the difference between carrying 3 passengers and only being able to carry two. Once you've got full fuel and the pilot on board of a C172, you may only have around 450lbs of useful load left.
I'd disagree that they are being penny wise and pound foolish.
This airline is a tiny airline (island hopper) operating local routes in small aircraft - they aren't flying huge behemoths like A380s or even the much more modest A320 series. Or even anything as "massive" as an ATR-42. They are flying light twins and singles (Britten Norman Islander and Cessna 172s). A Cessna 172 after filling the fuel tanks gives you about 600lbs useful load left over for passengers and their stuff. Add the pilot and you've probably got 400-450lbs left over. If you have a 300lb passenger it literally costs you a passenger seat extra. You could carry three 150lb passengers or one 300pounder and one 150 pounder.
Things aren't that much better in an Islander which is a light twin. A couple of obese passengers mean you have to carry fewer people.
That's just pedantry.
In terms of "network transparent", what is meant is that a program doesn't care (it just communicates with whatever DISPLAY is set to) and the end user doesn't care. What the server does behind the scenes is irrelevant to how it's used.
If on Wayland, while you're in an SSH session to a remote machine you think..."hmm, I could really do with a couple of wterms" (or whatever the Wayland xterm equivalent is), or "I could really do with firing up wireshark", you can't just type "xterm" and be done then it's not network transparent to the user. If you then have to set up another session and do some desktop-style login (and the remote server has to be running some sort of GUI login manager or equivalent to handle it) then it's a lot less useful than what you get with X11 at the moment.
If on the other hand Wayland will allow the equivalent of ssh -X, then it doesn't matter how it's implemented, so long as the program running at the other end runs and doesn't care that the display is remote, and the user sees a window on their screen, then they have the functional equivalent however it's implemented.
I bet he knew exactly that the compartments were going to be used for illegal purposes.
However, the sentence received is so unjust as to be barbaric. How the prosecutor and the judge can claim to have anything to do with civilization while handing down sentences this absurd just demonstrates the justice system is morally bankrupt.
Is the "cure" of prohibition worse than the disease, though?
Something like 50% of the population has at one time at least tried an illegal drug. Is it really productive to criminalize a full half of the population?
I've been in the workforce since 1990. I wasn't seeking a job during the bubble so I don't know what it was like then, but every time I've been looking for a job, the only jobs I have had (with only one exception) have come about through word of mouth - advertised jobs have always seemed notoriously difficult to even get an interview for (and sometimes even just a reply to your application). And that's with a spotless past employment record and a good university degree.
On a sad footnote, Claudine Christian was a direct descendent of Fletcher Christian, who lead the mutiny on the original Bounty.
Whole of Europe population: About 700 million
European Union (which isn't the whole of Europe) population: About 500 million
United States: About 350 million
Travelling between states in the US is quite a bit different than travelling between European countries since the culture is a lot more homogenous in the US (no, not all states are the same culturally, but they are close enough; I've visited 25 of them), and everyone speaks English. Go from Spain to Greece and not only is the language different, but you can't even read what the road signs say unless you've already spent some time learning Greek - they use a different character set. Go from Britain to Spain and you go from a place where people eat stodgy well-cooked roast beef to somewhere where they eat cow's stomachs and pig's ears.
It's easy to disprove the invisible pink unicorn in your garage: the unicorn cannot be both pink and invisible at the same time; it has to be visible to have a colour. However, this does not disprove that there is a visible pink unicorn in your garage nor does it disprove that you have a colourless and invisible unicorn in your garage.
We can disprove the visible pink unicorn quite easily just by looking for it and not finding it.
Therefore, you have a colourless invisible unicorn in your garage.
McDonald's sells Amazon meat? Are they actually barefaced lying when they say in their publicity they use (in the US) US sourced meat, and in Europe, European meat? I'm not a fan of Ronnie's Burger Bar but I'm sure the myth that they use Amazon meat was put to rest years ago.