That's not really true. SuSE has broader hardware support by far. It runs on Sparc Stations, and it also runs beautifuly on my Averatec laptop (Debian on the other hand doesn't).
It is possible that as with some Atheros-based WLAN cards (the D-Link DWI-G650 Bx for example), the radio in Intel's Centrinos is software-controlled. This means that its frequency and power can be changed to just about anything using software alone. Open-source drivers for something like this are out of the question -- the FCC would not be impressed.
Atheros' ended up releasing a binary-only driver... kernel-tainting and all. If the Centrino radio controllers are also software-based, you can expect a binary-only driver as well.
While climate change may or may not be caused by human activity, there is other much more obvious and pressing proof that we are in fact destroying this planet. For example, there is little doubt that the mass extinction and loss of biodiversity we are currently seeing is unprecedented (save maybe for the extinction of the dinasaur era 65 million years ago). The danger here is that some may be tempted to use the results of this climate study as some sort of proof against environmentalism in general.
While a reduction of CO2 emissions is nice, the real effect of Kyoto would have been to boost renewable, non-polluting sources of energy. The benifits of this go far beyond just greenhouse gasses. By getting off oil we could do everything from reducing cancer rates (less air pollution), to decentralizing the power grid, to shifting global power away from terrorist states like Saudi Arabia. It really is a win-win situation for everyone -- except those who are currently in power.
Keep your place of work and your place of rest seperate. The whole "home office" thing is a horrible, horrible idea. Same goes for studying at home.
There was a time when I was able to get a lot done at home... but before long my brain learned to associate my living room-slash-office with relaxation and fun. It works the other way too -- the stress of doing stuff you'd rather not be doing gets associated with your home. As a result, I never feel quite relaxed here... there's always a sense of guilt in the back of my mind when I sit at home and do nothing.
Best advice I can give you --- find a nice spot in the library and always study there. Never bring your work and study back home.
I'm on Rogers@Home here in Toronto (part of the Excite@Home network, I assume) and they are definetly not blocking port 80.
They are however blocking the SAMBA port (471 or something?) which is extremely annoying.
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No, it's based on the average brain-to-body weight ratio for mammals. Look it up in any first year neuroscience book.
But I think you're right in more general terms. Using any sort of gross brain measurement as an assessment of intelligence IS rank numerology.
You made some pretty glaring omissions:
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.71, higher than anything else).
lesser short-tailed shrew 2.80%
little brown bat 2.50%
mouse 1.30%
The brain weight as percentage of body weight thing just doesn't work. What you're looking for is the "encephalization factor".
The formula for that is:
brain weight
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(body weight) ^
Done this way, brain vs. body weight works in our favor (the human encephalization factor is
That's not really true. SuSE has broader hardware support by far. It runs on Sparc Stations, and it also runs beautifuly on my Averatec laptop (Debian on the other hand doesn't).
It is possible that as with some Atheros-based WLAN cards (the D-Link DWI-G650 Bx for example), the radio in Intel's Centrinos is software-controlled. This means that its frequency and power can be changed to just about anything using software alone. Open-source drivers for something like this are out of the question -- the FCC would not be impressed.
Atheros' ended up releasing a binary-only driver... kernel-tainting and all. If the Centrino radio controllers are also software-based, you can expect a binary-only driver as well.
While climate change may or may not be caused by human activity, there is other much more obvious and pressing proof that we are in fact destroying this planet. For example, there is little doubt that the mass extinction and loss of biodiversity we are currently seeing is unprecedented (save maybe for the extinction of the dinasaur era 65 million years ago). The danger here is that some may be tempted to use the results of this climate study as some sort of proof against environmentalism in general.
While a reduction of CO2 emissions is nice, the real effect of Kyoto would have been to boost renewable, non-polluting sources of energy. The benifits of this go far beyond just greenhouse gasses. By getting off oil we could do everything from reducing cancer rates (less air pollution), to decentralizing the power grid, to shifting global power away from terrorist states like Saudi Arabia. It really is a win-win situation for everyone -- except those who are currently in power.
Keep your place of work and your place of rest seperate. The whole "home office" thing is a horrible, horrible idea. Same goes for studying at home.
There was a time when I was able to get a lot done at home... but before long my brain learned to associate my living room-slash-office with relaxation and fun. It works the other way too -- the stress of doing stuff you'd rather not be doing gets associated with your home. As a result, I never feel quite relaxed here... there's always a sense of guilt in the back of my mind when I sit at home and do nothing.
Best advice I can give you --- find a nice spot in the library and always study there. Never bring your work and study back home.
I'm on Rogers@Home here in Toronto (part of the Excite@Home network, I assume) and they are definetly not blocking port 80. They are however blocking the SAMBA port (471 or something?) which is extremely annoying.