Heâ(TM)s going to be missed, and it hurts, even though if you knew him youâ(TM)ve surely had heard about his failing health. I thought Mr. RobLimo had found the right place to slowly retire while being in good care. But then, this.
Wherever you go, hope you become/bin/smartassd, the best daemon there could be.
So a few months ago, because I could not find the information anywhere on the entire internet, I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation to estimate how much more polluted the air in the U.S. is as a result of the VW emissions cheat. The answer is that the air is about zero percent more polluted because of that cheat.
The reason for that is that baseline emissions of diesel exhaust pollutants in the U.S. is so enormous. Commercial diesel tractor trailers emit pollutants at a much higher rate than do VW cars because the engines are so much larger and consume fuel at higher rates. The trucks run many more miles per years than the cars. There are many more diesel trucks than diesel cars. (There a lot of trucks and VW diesel cars are not huge sellers in the U.S.) So the net percentage increase in pollution because of that cheat calculates out to about zero.
VW is worth a lot of money and has not much political clout in the U.S. so this turned into feeding frenzy for lawyers. Penalties of this size are entirely unjustified by the degree of harm.
There should be a price for polluting, based strictly on the types and volumes of pollutants, and it should be applied to all, regardless of the type of vehicle or its nation of origin, or its owner. The right solution here is to tax vehicle exhaust emissions at a single universal rate and let manufacturers and buyers decide what to make and what to buy.
What we have instead is sanctioned pillaging.
Hear! Hear!
I'm not letting go my diesel car.
I have a great range on a pretty good size car: less trips to refuel, which is nice when you drive a lot. I have plenty of torque to pass slow vehicles.
And any redneck pickup rollin' coal (rollin' coal https://youtu.be/JGYc0wCP7oQ ) or any plain 16-wheeler outputs way more pollution per mile/gallon/vehicle/year than any "bad bad bad dirty VW Diesel".
Like 75-100 books. Do you really need an e-reader just to read? Plus many e-books are overpriced, where used books only cost 1 penny plus shipping.
If it were me I'd buy the cheaper e-book available which is the Kindle for $79. I wouldn't go spending hundreds of dollars on a device.
The problem with $300-$400 in books is: where are you going to put them?
The poster is already an avid reader, thus (s)he surely has a sizable amount of books. As you cannot buy (yet) 400sqf on Amazon to expand your home, space becomes a premium.
I had this same problem. I *love* to read, but I was hardly reading anything.
Then my wife got me a Nook Color. And it's awesome
- Decent price - B&N reader (very good!) - on-line dictionary (English is my 3rd language) - I can read ePubs and PDFs fine - New Nook Color has Netflix - Rooteable and good Nook Rooter community - B&N has free ebooks every week - If you root it, you can install Kindle Android App - MicroSD slot - Decent battery life - Not awful reading outside - I can read at night - (...)
So in those last 2 years I've read a lot, a little bit during lunch and some week-end marathons when wife is at work.
All in all, I love it and give it my OpKool Seal of Approval.
So not ALLOWING Flash, even when Adobe does all the work is being good? How about FORCING publishers to sell their content at a 30 percent loss on the App Store, that is being good?
How long has it taken for Adobe to publish Flash for Android? For ever. And it is sub-par, to say the least.
And Flash is still not on the Xoom yet.
And about the 30%, how much does a bookstore keep per sold book? It is about 50% (heard it on a recent show form Leo Laporte's TWiT.tv ) . Also an interesting read on publishing industry is http://www.fonerbooks.com/
With Apple, Amazon and now Google, authors are finally allowed to sell directly to their readers.
Back to Flash, I block Flash on both FFox and Chrome on my Linuxes. And Sure as hell I will not install it on my rooted nook color. So if I had an iThing, I would not want Flash on it.
Sure, most of Flash problems is due to awful Flash developers. But always bad developers go in hand with bad tools that allow small flash banners to max your CPU.
It is a hard day when on Slashdot someone praises Flash, a platform that has a history of being very unfriendly to *nix systems.
And don't make me call good'ole RMS on you, or he'll chase you all the way to your Starbucks with an EMACS manual while chanting "who needs Flash? Flash is not GNU/Free Software!".
Could you please step from under your Canonical rock and take a look at other distros?
All current rpm-based distros use modern package management that are, to say the least, equal to apt-get
CentOS has yum (and apt-get for rpm too) Fedora has yum (and apt-get for rpm too) Mandriva has urpmi (and apt-get for rpm, and smart) PCLinuxOS has smart SuSE has yast
yum, urpmi and apt4rpm exist since at least 2004
Looks like you drank the kool-aid from Canonical and believe Ubuntu is the one and only Linux distro and all the others cannot compare.
I'm so tired of Ubuntu 1337 users that know nothing else.
a quest for government funding along the lines of National Public Radio. I guess you have no idea about National Public Radio funding. Every year, the government cuts NPR funds. Thus NPR gets more and more of its funding from the listeners:
"Over the years, the portion of the total NPR budget that comes from government has been decreasing. During the 1970s and early 1980s, the majority of NPR funding came from the federal government."
"About 2% of NPR's funding comes from bidding on government grants and programs, chiefly the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; the remainder comes from member station dues, foundation grants, and corporate underwriting."
what's a nice distro for KDE power users and developers?
I'd recommend you Mandriva.
Really, give it an honest spin. Get Mandriva One (Live CD, includes installer and proprietary drivers and all that jazz).
KDE is Tier-1 desktop environment for Mandriva. It is the default DE if you don not change any option in the installer.
The current Mandriva 2008 already includes a KDE 4 preview in the backports repository.
Of course, Mandriva includes all those nifty and OpenSource GUI management tools (the "drakes" in the Mandriva Control Center) that existed even before Ubuntu was a sparkle in Mark S.'s eye.
However, I'm now in a position where I want to install subversion and tomcat, and it's really not easy.
Mmmm,
Let's see. If I open the GUI (if you are old school-command-line-guy, see below) "Mandriva Control Center"> "Software Management" > "Look at installable software and install software packages", I get a Windows with a Search field :
So, installing is easy. Maybe you forgot to configure your package servers? If you did, visit Easy Urpmi (http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/) for a 3-step automated configurator.
If you like the command line, you could do:
[root@mandriva ~]# urpmi tomcat No package named tomcat The following packages contain tomcat: eclipse-plugin-sysdeo-tomcat php-java-bridge-tomcat struts-webapps-tomcat5 tomcat5 tomcat5-admin-webapps tomcat5-common-lib tomcat5-jasper tomcat5-jasper-javadoc tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc tomcat5-server-lib tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc tomcat5-webapps [root@mandriva ~]# urpmi subversion Package subversion-1.4.3-2mdv2007.1.i586 is already installed [root@mandriva ~]# urpmq -y subversion subversion subversion-devel subversion-doc subversion-server subversion-tools [root@mandriva ~]#
Many corporations mandate "Internet Explorer" as company-wide standard (specially if they are sold to the whole Microsoft Solution (TM)(R)(c).
Thus, a big chunk of IExplorer aout there is inside corporations.
But then, shoppers usually shop from home. And if you eliminate a bug chunk of IExplorer because they cannot buy form work, FireFox browser market share just skyrockets.
And it's not a 10% anymore. Maybe it's a 35% of home users.
And no sane business organization should be saying no to 35% of savvy possible customers.
And what about the time wasted waiting for the flipping page to load?
My free time is scarce, and I don't want to waste it waiting for a flipping flash commercial, loaded through crappy scripting, that takes 99% of my CPU.
I pay extra for a DVR, so I can view shows skipping ads.
There is always someone bigger, stronger and with more authority (richer, more powerful, with more political connections) than you, and you will end up doing his/her will.
The classical example is your boss: you do what the boss says or you get fired.
This is why I don't understand all this over-protection of kids... a protective layer that sheds when they reach 18, exit high school and confront a world where they have no special privileges, and no amount of whining will get them their way.
I see that every time that a youngling joins our company. They are full of "I have all the rights and provileges. I have no obligations. I'm Teh Shiznitz". This lasts about 2 hours, when a boss straights them out ("I don't care what you want. Do this or else"). Or they get summarily fired.
I was mostly agreeing with you (USA healthcare system is crazy and extremely unfair), until I got to this part:
You also say that "Spending that money brought down the Iron Curtain and freed western Europe." What? Are you on crack or what? That money actually help build the iron curtain. The USSR wasn't as bad as you and I were told it was. If they were poor it was only because you provoked them, you made them spend more and more in weapons and military
Maybe you need to read more into 20th century history from very recent historians (read: not from the 80s nor 90s).
The USSR was worst than everybody thought, and we were several times very close to KYABB (kiss your behind bye-bye). We misscounted how many ICBMs they had, we disdained their modern aircraft (Su-27, Mig-29 and all that generation were extremely good machines).
But thanks to the cold war, the West (not only the USA) drove USSR economy to the ground. Maybe too fast. If instead of Mikhail Gorbatxev the USSR had elected a different guy, there was a fat chance that USSR would have invaded western Europe as a way to improve their economy.
And with the red army rolling, in 7 days they could easily arrive to south of France. Even without nukes.
So there. Reagan saved us all. Even if you don't like Reaganomics. And that Peace made possible Clinton and the golden years (golden years wasted by the Bush Jr years, but I disgress).
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He was funny, brilliant, and smart.
Heâ(TM)s going to be missed, and it hurts, even though if you knew him youâ(TM)ve surely had heard about his failing health. I thought Mr. RobLimo had found the right place to slowly retire while being in good care. But then, this.
Wherever you go, hope you become /bin/smartassd, the best daemon there could be.
So a few months ago, because I could not find the information anywhere on the entire internet, I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation to estimate how much more polluted the air in the U.S. is as a result of the VW emissions cheat. The answer is that the air is about zero percent more polluted because of that cheat.
The reason for that is that baseline emissions of diesel exhaust pollutants in the U.S. is so enormous. Commercial diesel tractor trailers emit pollutants at a much higher rate than do VW cars because the engines are so much larger and consume fuel at higher rates. The trucks run many more miles per years than the cars. There are many more diesel trucks than diesel cars. (There a lot of trucks and VW diesel cars are not huge sellers in the U.S.) So the net percentage increase in pollution because of that cheat calculates out to about zero.
VW is worth a lot of money and has not much political clout in the U.S. so this turned into feeding frenzy for lawyers. Penalties of this size are entirely unjustified by the degree of harm.
There should be a price for polluting, based strictly on the types and volumes of pollutants, and it should be applied to all, regardless of the type of vehicle or its nation of origin, or its owner. The right solution here is to tax vehicle exhaust emissions at a single universal rate and let manufacturers and buyers decide what to make and what to buy.
What we have instead is sanctioned pillaging.
Hear! Hear!
I'm not letting go my diesel car.
I have a great range on a pretty good size car: less trips to refuel, which is nice when you drive a lot. I have plenty of torque to pass slow vehicles.
And any redneck pickup rollin' coal (rollin' coal https://youtu.be/JGYc0wCP7oQ ) or any plain 16-wheeler outputs way more pollution per mile/gallon/vehicle/year than any "bad bad bad dirty VW Diesel".
Writting "around 500,000" is quite controversial: the BBC article you link points to authorities' provided numbers.
"Local police said 1.4 million people turned out but the Spanish government put the figure at no more than 550,000".
So either you don't say anything or provided the number provided by the article.
Nooooooooo!!!
I just donated to the EFF.
Like 75-100 books. Do you really need an e-reader just to read? Plus many e-books are overpriced, where used books only cost 1 penny plus shipping.
If it were me I'd buy the cheaper e-book available which is the Kindle for $79. I wouldn't go spending hundreds of dollars on a device.
The problem with $300-$400 in books is: where are you going to put them?
The poster is already an avid reader, thus (s)he surely has a sizable amount of books. As you cannot buy (yet) 400sqf on Amazon to expand your home, space becomes a premium.
My 2 cents.
I had this same problem. I *love* to read, but I was hardly reading anything.
Then my wife got me a Nook Color. And it's awesome
- Decent price
- B&N reader (very good!)
- on-line dictionary (English is my 3rd language)
- I can read ePubs and PDFs fine
- New Nook Color has Netflix
- Rooteable and good Nook Rooter community
- B&N has free ebooks every week
- If you root it, you can install Kindle Android App
- MicroSD slot
- Decent battery life
- Not awful reading outside
- I can read at night
- (...)
So in those last 2 years I've read a lot, a little bit during lunch and some week-end marathons when wife is at work.
All in all, I love it and give it my OpKool Seal of Approval.
--- Peace!
I'll watch it at TwiT.tv -> http://twit.tv/2012/07/30/mars-landing-special-aug-5th-10pm-pdt
The presenters/guests to this event will be:
Jonathan Strickland (How Stuff Works) -> http://www.howstuffworks.com/jonathan-strickland-author1.htm
Dr Kiki (Dr Kiki Science Hour) -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiki_Sanford
Phil Plait (Bad Astronomer) -> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/20/mars-attacks-of-the-show/
Steve Sell (JPL, Sky Crane) -> http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/30jul_skycrane/
Hope they do a good job!
Peace!
Fly in peace Sally.
Now cancer cannot touch you.
Your dream will live on with younger generations, thanks to your books and Sally Ride Science.
Peace!
+1 Makes Sense
So not ALLOWING Flash, even when Adobe does all the work is being good? How about FORCING publishers to sell their content at a 30 percent loss on the App Store, that is being good?
How long has it taken for Adobe to publish Flash for Android? For ever. And it is sub-par, to say the least.
And Flash is still not on the Xoom yet.
And about the 30%, how much does a bookstore keep per sold book? It is about 50% (heard it on a recent show form Leo Laporte's TWiT.tv ) . Also an interesting read on publishing industry is http://www.fonerbooks.com/
With Apple, Amazon and now Google, authors are finally allowed to sell directly to their readers.
Back to Flash, I block Flash on both FFox and Chrome on my Linuxes. And Sure as hell I will not install it on my rooted nook color. So if I had an iThing, I would not want Flash on it.
Sure, most of Flash problems is due to awful Flash developers. But always bad developers go in hand with bad tools that allow small flash banners to max your CPU.
It is a hard day when on Slashdot someone praises Flash, a platform that has a history of being very unfriendly to *nix systems.
And don't make me call good'ole RMS on you, or he'll chase you all the way to your Starbucks with an EMACS manual while chanting "who needs Flash? Flash is not GNU/Free Software!".
Peace.
Please go out and vote!
Please recruit your friends!
We do not need 4 more of idiotic leaders that just abide yo the silly dictates of ignorant, uncultured and religious extremist leaders.
Please!
Could you please step from under your Canonical rock and take a look at other distros?
All current rpm-based distros use modern package management that are, to say the least, equal to apt-get
CentOS has yum (and apt-get for rpm too)
Fedora has yum (and apt-get for rpm too)
Mandriva has urpmi (and apt-get for rpm, and smart)
PCLinuxOS has smart
SuSE has yast
yum, urpmi and apt4rpm exist since at least 2004
Looks like you drank the kool-aid from Canonical and believe Ubuntu is the one and only Linux distro and all the others cannot compare.
I'm so tired of Ubuntu 1337 users that know nothing else.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Public_Radio#Funding
"Over the years, the portion of the total NPR budget that comes from government has been decreasing. During the 1970s and early 1980s, the majority of NPR funding came from the federal government."
"About 2% of NPR's funding comes from bidding on government grants and programs, chiefly the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; the remainder comes from member station dues, foundation grants, and corporate underwriting."
Annual Reports, Audited Financial Statements, and Form 990s. NPR. Retrieved on 2007-06-12:
http://www.npr.org/about/privatesupport.html
Peace!
Looks like Russia is well covered by GSM:
http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/cou_ru.shtml
http://www.worldtimezone.com/gsm.html
http://www.coveragemaps.com/gsmposter_europe.htm
Peace!
what's a nice distro for KDE power users and developers?
I'd recommend you Mandriva.
Really, give it an honest spin. Get Mandriva One (Live CD, includes installer and proprietary drivers and all that jazz).
KDE is Tier-1 desktop environment for Mandriva. It is the default DE if you don not change any option in the installer.
The current Mandriva 2008 already includes a KDE 4 preview in the backports repository.
Of course, Mandriva includes all those nifty and OpenSource GUI management tools (the "drakes" in the Mandriva Control Center) that existed even before Ubuntu was a sparkle in Mark S.'s eye.
Peace from KDE with Mandriva!
Mmmm,
Let's see. If I open the GUI (if you are old school-command-line-guy, see below) "Mandriva Control Center"> "Software Management" > "Look at installable software and install software packages", I get a Windows with a Search field :
http://zarb.org/~zerodogg/MDKRPMHOWTO/rpmdrake-small.png
There, I type "subversion", I click on "Search" and I'm offered several choices:
subversion- 1.4.3-2mdv2007.1.i586
subversion-devel- 1.4.3-2mdv2007.1.i586
subversion-doc- 1.4.3-2mdv2007.1.i586
subversion-server- 1.4.3-2mdv2007.1.i586
subversion-tools- 1.4.3-2mdv2007.1.i586
When I click on one entry, I get the description of what that package is and does.
If I clear the search term and I type "tomcat", I get:
eclipse-plugin-sysdeo-tomcat-3.1.0-1mdv2007.0
php-java-bridge-tomcat-4.0.1-2mdv2007.1
struts-webapps-tomcat5-1.2.9-5.1mdv2007.1
tomcat5-5.5.17-6.2.4mdv2007.1
tomcat5-admin-webapps-5.5.17-6.2.4mdv2007.1
tomcat5-common-lib-5.5.17-6.2.4mdv2007.1
tomcat5-jasper-5.5.17-6.2.4mdv2007.1
tomcat5-jasper-javadoc-5.5.17-6.2.4mdv2007.1
tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-5.5.17-6.2.4mdv2007.1
tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc-5.5.17-6.2.4mdv2007.1
tomcat5-server-lib-5.5.17-6.2.4mdv2007.1
tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-5.5.17-6.2.4mdv2007.1
tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc-5.5.17-6.2.4mdv2007.1
tomcat5-webapps-5.5.17-6.2.4mdv2007.1
So, installing is easy. Maybe you forgot to configure your package servers? If you did, visit Easy Urpmi (http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/) for a 3-step automated configurator.
If you like the command line, you could do:
[root@mandriva ~]# urpmi tomcat
No package named tomcat
The following packages contain tomcat:
eclipse-plugin-sysdeo-tomcat
php-java-bridge-tomcat
struts-webapps-tomcat5
tomcat5
tomcat5-admin-webapps
tomcat5-common-lib
tomcat5-jasper
tomcat5-jasper-javadoc
tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api
tomcat5-jsp-2.0-api-javadoc
tomcat5-server-lib
tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api
tomcat5-servlet-2.4-api-javadoc
tomcat5-webapps
[root@mandriva ~]# urpmi subversion
Package subversion-1.4.3-2mdv2007.1.i586 is already installed
[root@mandriva ~]# urpmq -y subversion
subversion
subversion-devel
subversion-doc
subversion-server
subversion-tools
[root@mandriva ~]#
Hope this helps.
Peace!
About browser market share:
Many corporations mandate "Internet Explorer" as company-wide standard (specially if they are sold to the whole Microsoft Solution (TM)(R)(c).
Thus, a big chunk of IExplorer aout there is inside corporations.
But then, shoppers usually shop from home. And if you eliminate a bug chunk of IExplorer because they cannot buy form work, FireFox browser market share just skyrockets.
And it's not a 10% anymore. Maybe it's a 35% of home users.
And no sane business organization should be saying no to 35% of savvy possible customers.
Peace!
And what about the time wasted waiting for the flipping page to load?
My free time is scarce, and I don't want to waste it waiting for a flipping flash commercial, loaded through crappy scripting, that takes 99% of my CPU.
I pay extra for a DVR, so I can view shows skipping ads.
I say down with advertisement.
Many places carry RAM for Apple systems:
a tegory=551&name=Mac-Memory
crucial: http://www.crucial.com/mac/index.aspx
newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubC
welovemacs: http://www.welovemacs.com/apple-memory.html
etc etc
Mod parent (AC) up
Because the world is like that.
There is always someone bigger, stronger and with more authority (richer, more powerful, with more political connections) than you, and you will end up doing his/her will.
The classical example is your boss: you do what the boss says or you get fired.
This is why I don't understand all this over-protection of kids... a protective layer that sheds when they reach 18, exit high school and confront a world where they have no special privileges, and no amount of whining will get them their way.
I see that every time that a youngling joins our company. They are full of "I have all the rights and provileges. I have no obligations. I'm Teh Shiznitz". This lasts about 2 hours, when a boss straights them out ("I don't care what you want. Do this or else"). Or they get summarily fired.
Peace
Hi,
t ability_and_Accountability_Act.
It's HIPAA not HIPPA.
See Wikipedia, among others:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Por
Peace
I was mostly agreeing with you (USA healthcare system is crazy and extremely unfair), until I got to this part:
You also say that "Spending that money brought down the Iron Curtain and freed western Europe." What? Are you on crack or what? That money actually help build the iron curtain. The USSR wasn't as bad as you and I were told it was. If they were poor it was only because you provoked them, you made them spend more and more in weapons and military
Maybe you need to read more into 20th century history from very recent historians (read: not from the 80s nor 90s).
The USSR was worst than everybody thought, and we were several times very close to KYABB (kiss your behind bye-bye). We misscounted how many ICBMs they had, we disdained their modern aircraft (Su-27, Mig-29 and all that generation were extremely good machines).
But thanks to the cold war, the West (not only the USA) drove USSR economy to the ground. Maybe too fast. If instead of Mikhail Gorbatxev the USSR had elected a different guy, there was a fat chance that USSR would have invaded western Europe as a way to improve their economy.
And with the red army rolling, in 7 days they could easily arrive to south of France. Even without nukes.
So there. Reagan saved us all. Even if you don't like Reaganomics. And that Peace made possible Clinton and the golden years (golden years wasted by the Bush Jr years, but I disgress).
Peace
mod parent up!!
Well said.
If you do not leanr the basics, why even bother learning pro tools?
Peace!
Dan,
Keep writing those articles. I personally enjoy reading them.
In an internet full of WinPC articles, it's nice to read a second opinion from the other side.
And you do not mask that you do like Macs. Others, mask their motives.
Peace!