The Clevo 651se is rebadged by lots of companies. All the hardware has worked fine with the drivers that came with Fedora 21. The only slight pain was getting the Nvidia drivers but, in the end, I found some BumbleBee rpms that bundled the drivers.
Everything feels cheaper than the Apple laptops but it all works well enough. I've had it for 6 months and nothing's broken yet. The back of the screen is worryingly bendy plastic and the backlit keyboard is literally a light behind a normal keyboard so you won't be able to read the keycaps in the dark. Also all the keys are the same size so it is hard to find the arrow keys reliably.
All the special function keys worked out of the box (Volume up/down, aeroplane mode etc).
If the built in HD display is not enough you can plug in 2 4K external monitors, however if you choose to run all 3 screens you'll have scaling issues until your chosen distro moves over to Wayland(or Mir?). Fedora are hoping to change over next year.
Corporation tax is substantially higher in the US than it is in the UK(http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/feb/21/corporation-tax-rates-world). On the other hand the Silicon Roundabout is a quick walk away from one of the biggest financial centers in the world, where there are billions of pounds waiting ot be invested...
Two of the lowest corporation tax rates are Ireland and Iceland, whose populations are making huge sacrifices in order to keep those rates low. I haven't noticed any global tech companies emerge from either country recently, but I'm sure you're right.
Everyone is different and has different circumstances and needs. The UK has seen 2 attempts to implement a simple catchall tax and both have resulted in violent protests and government U-turns. Taxation ends up being complicated because it has to be seen to be fair. Every new tax has to have exceptions and get-outs and that makes it complicated.
There are 300 million separate cases in the US to take into account, not 100.
Another great long take, and a nice (almost) recursive joke, is the opening to Robert Altman's The Player. The shot moves around a film lot in Hollywood occasionally focusing on two guys walking to work discussing great long takes in movie openings.
The Wellcome Trust are a huge biomedical research charity. I would imagine that they are looking for processing power(think folding@home type projects) rather than the ability to serve up millions of webpages. If so bandwidth will be less of a concern than cheap reliable power and cooling. Iceland is looking to join the European Union so their Data Protection legislation is probably similar to rest of the EU's.
This may surprise you, but the problem of updating charts has been encountered before. And solved. In the early nineteenth century by Admiral Beaufort. The Hydrographic Office issues weekly 'Notices to Mariners' which list the changes to be made to charts. These include shifting sandbanks, new navigational bouys, new survey data and yes, new wind turbines. As far as navigation is concerned it's not a new island it's a new wind turbine. If the captain was unsure of his position the sight of one (and it would be visible at some distance) would give a clue as to his position.
Most of the time the green background behind the comment titles is missing on Safari 3.2.3. And yes I do realise that using the OS bundled browser to read Slashdot is Not the Done Thing, I'm just very lazy.
Yes they do. Travelling on motorways in the cab of an HGV at 56mph is a surreal experience. Everything happens very slowly. If an empty, powerful truck finds itself behind a weak, full truck going up hill it'll still overtake so 2 of the 3 motorway lanes become slow lanes. You do find them overtaking each other on the flat, usually because one limiter is set slightly higher than another.
How banning pointless encryption of signals? Encrypting the signal in the Bluray player then decrypting in the TV is a complete waste of power, why not just ban the use of HDCP?
But in a transformer the coils are very close to each other, and are wrapped around the same lump of iron. With the devices the coils and cores are separate. Magnetic fields decay exponentially so even a small gap will reduce the transmitted power by a fair bit. There seems to be various proposed methods to get around this problem, but none of them seem to be significantly better than the others.
Interesting point about electronics reducing the idle currents, as this would be another issue.
If you get on a bus and travel 200 yards with an Oyster Card it does cost 90p(about US$90). However you don't because for most people it's quicker to walk. For longer distance bus trips it costs... 90p. If you travel enough in one day on a Pay As You Go Oyster it maxes out at the cost of the cheapest travelcard for the journeys you have made. Thus you get the cheapest possible tickets without thinking about it. Compare this approach to that of mobile phone companies... The price is competitive with most other cities in the UK. Thus if you made lots of 200 yard journeys every day it wouldn't cost anywhere near 90p a ride.
I've certainly not noticed the distance of bus routes getting any shorter. Generally long distance journeys(>1.5miles) are made by Tube, DLR or Train. The Mayor of London tax is included as part of the Council Tax. House prices around outer London are very high, as some of the areas are really nice compared with some of the grottier inner city areas, thus their Council Tax is higher. Public transport in London is far better than it is in most UK cities. To find better you need to go to a city that has had predominantly Labour councils for the last few decades. A lot of the recent improvements in London are funded by the Congestion Charge.
What what I remember from Uni the coils of wire in a transformer want to be straight. When a transformer has power flowing through it the coils can exert some fairly serious pressure. Big transformers tend to be encased in concrete for this reason. Maybe there was a short, a big current flowed through the secondary coil and the force was enough to over come some weak restraints.
Can anyone give a less arm wavey description of this? Or have I misunderstood?
I see Keynote used on big televised awards ceremonies a lot. The companies doing the graphics buy Macs to run Keynote, and they want Keynote for the transitions. Those kind of presentations are not done by amateurs. If OpenOffice is just going for the 'engineer making presentations to management' market then yes, OpenGL is a waste of time. However if they're looking a bit further then it is worth it.
Jeremy Paxman is famous for being a tough questioner. His most notorious interview was with a slimy politician who later led the Tories to defeat against Tony Blair's Labour. I'm not sure what Paxman's personal politics are, but he certainly doesn't appreciate being messed around. Michael Howard can be sure that if one of his political opponents had weaseled around like that he would have had equally short shrift.
In the UK we hear about inept (wannabe/wrongly accused) terrorists all the time. For example the binary bombers who were accused of trying to blow up transatlantic flights but who didn't have tickets, or passports. Or the guys who filled a car with petrol and gas cylinders in hope they'd violently explode, forgetting that fire needs oxygen...
In my experience the drivers of the big 40' trucks tend to be the most capable and courteous drivers on the road. They have a great view of the road ahead, however they have a limited view of what's behind or alongside them. It's always a good idea to bear this in mind and keep clear. Truck drivers will do their best to avoid difficult roads, and are acutely aware that their continued employment depends on their obeying the rules. The residents of the village would be best off campaigning for that bypass to built so that they can ban trucks entirely.
In Britain there's laws covering how long the suppliers have to change a number. If you move to a new supplier and it takes more than a week for them to transfer your old phone number to your new SIM there's some big fines waiting for them. Makes changing supplier a lot less hassle. I would imagine there's similar laws across Europe, not sure about the US...
The designation E8 comes from Wilhelm Killing and Élie Cartan's classification of the complex simple Lie algebras, which fall into four infinite families labeled An, Bn, Cn, Dn, and five exceptional cases labeled E6, E7, E8, F4, and G2. The E8 algebra is the largest and most complicated of these exceptional cases, and is often the last case of various theorems to be proved.
"complex simple Lie algebras"?
Mathematics needs some new words, I think. And they need to stop using 'simple' in this kind of context. What about; instead of 'simple' they use 'mindbogglingly complicated' and instead of 'complex', 'totally headfucking' making the statement a more accurate 'totally headfucking mindboggleing complicated Lie algebras'.
In the example above, if the word "sql" is found, it is counted as a match. Also, if the word "oracle" is found, it is counted as a match as well.
What the hell kind of kids look for 'sql' and 'oracle' but don't know about Google/Yahoo? The whole instruction page looks like it was written by a CS major, with no idea of his target audience.
I used to. The server software was heavily customised for the company, and it ran everything, sales, hire, payroll, contacts... And it was rock solid. I was there for nearly 3 years and don't remember any downtime at all. It used to run on dumb terminals and PC terminal emulators.
The rel-tag microformat is an attempt to standardise tagging. It relies on other microformats to define what it is you are tagging. There isn't a 'photo' microformat at the moment, so you can't do a web-wide search for photos tagged 'fireworks' for example.
If you're interested in the semantic web it's worth checking out microformats. You can download a plugin for firefox that reads microformats. Go and have a look at Flickr with it, or any other site that implements microformats. If people have tagged something with a 'geo' tag giving long. and lat. then it will bring up a Google Map showing the location. If they've included a 'hCard' around their contact details you can add it to your address book.
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The Clevo 651se is rebadged by lots of companies. All the hardware has worked fine with the drivers that came with Fedora 21. The only slight pain was getting the Nvidia drivers but, in the end, I found some BumbleBee rpms that bundled the drivers.
Everything feels cheaper than the Apple laptops but it all works well enough. I've had it for 6 months and nothing's broken yet. The back of the screen is worryingly bendy plastic and the backlit keyboard is literally a light behind a normal keyboard so you won't be able to read the keycaps in the dark. Also all the keys are the same size so it is hard to find the arrow keys reliably.
All the special function keys worked out of the box (Volume up/down, aeroplane mode etc).
If the built in HD display is not enough you can plug in 2 4K external monitors, however if you choose to run all 3 screens you'll have scaling issues until your chosen distro moves over to Wayland(or Mir?). Fedora are hoping to change over next year.
Corporation tax is substantially higher in the US than it is in the UK(http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/feb/21/corporation-tax-rates-world). On the other hand the Silicon Roundabout is a quick walk away from one of the biggest financial centers in the world, where there are billions of pounds waiting ot be invested...
Two of the lowest corporation tax rates are Ireland and Iceland, whose populations are making huge sacrifices in order to keep those rates low. I haven't noticed any global tech companies emerge from either country recently, but I'm sure you're right.
Everyone is different and has different circumstances and needs. The UK has seen 2 attempts to implement a simple catchall tax and both have resulted in violent protests and government U-turns. Taxation ends up being complicated because it has to be seen to be fair. Every new tax has to have exceptions and get-outs and that makes it complicated.
There are 300 million separate cases in the US to take into account, not 100.
Professional DMX connectors have 5 pin connectors, not 3 pin.
Another great long take, and a nice (almost) recursive joke, is the opening to Robert Altman's The Player. The shot moves around a film lot in Hollywood occasionally focusing on two guys walking to work discussing great long takes in movie openings.
The Wellcome Trust are a huge biomedical research charity. I would imagine that they are looking for processing power(think folding@home type projects) rather than the ability to serve up millions of webpages. If so bandwidth will be less of a concern than cheap reliable power and cooling. Iceland is looking to join the European Union so their Data Protection legislation is probably similar to rest of the EU's.
This may surprise you, but the problem of updating charts has been encountered before. And solved. In the early nineteenth century by Admiral Beaufort. The Hydrographic Office issues weekly 'Notices to Mariners' which list the changes to be made to charts. These include shifting sandbanks, new navigational bouys, new survey data and yes, new wind turbines. As far as navigation is concerned it's not a new island it's a new wind turbine. If the captain was unsure of his position the sight of one (and it would be visible at some distance) would give a clue as to his position.
Most of the time the green background behind the comment titles is missing on Safari 3.2.3. And yes I do realise that using the OS bundled browser to read Slashdot is Not the Done Thing, I'm just very lazy.
Yes they do. Travelling on motorways in the cab of an HGV at 56mph is a surreal experience. Everything happens very slowly. If an empty, powerful truck finds itself behind a weak, full truck going up hill it'll still overtake so 2 of the 3 motorway lanes become slow lanes. You do find them overtaking each other on the flat, usually because one limiter is set slightly higher than another.
How banning pointless encryption of signals? Encrypting the signal in the Bluray player then decrypting in the TV is a complete waste of power, why not just ban the use of HDCP?
But in a transformer the coils are very close to each other, and are wrapped around the same lump of iron. With the devices the coils and cores are separate. Magnetic fields decay exponentially so even a small gap will reduce the transmitted power by a fair bit. There seems to be various proposed methods to get around this problem, but none of them seem to be significantly better than the others.
Interesting point about electronics reducing the idle currents, as this would be another issue.
Horseshit.
If you get on a bus and travel 200 yards with an Oyster Card it does cost 90p(about US$90). However you don't because for most people it's quicker to walk. For longer distance bus trips it costs... 90p. If you travel enough in one day on a Pay As You Go Oyster it maxes out at the cost of the cheapest travelcard for the journeys you have made. Thus you get the cheapest possible tickets without thinking about it. Compare this approach to that of mobile phone companies... The price is competitive with most other cities in the UK. Thus if you made lots of 200 yard journeys every day it wouldn't cost anywhere near 90p a ride.
I've certainly not noticed the distance of bus routes getting any shorter. Generally long distance journeys(>1.5miles) are made by Tube, DLR or Train. The Mayor of London tax is included as part of the Council Tax. House prices around outer London are very high, as some of the areas are really nice compared with some of the grottier inner city areas, thus their Council Tax is higher. Public transport in London is far better than it is in most UK cities. To find better you need to go to a city that has had predominantly Labour councils for the last few decades. A lot of the recent improvements in London are funded by the Congestion Charge.
For a free ride, get a bike...
Does anyone know if the accidental wiping of 1000's of Oyster Cards a couple of weeks ago was linked to this? Just curious...
I know nothing about this, but could the Data Protection Act be used to get to the footage?
What what I remember from Uni the coils of wire in a transformer want to be straight. When a transformer has power flowing through it the coils can exert some fairly serious pressure. Big transformers tend to be encased in concrete for this reason. Maybe there was a short, a big current flowed through the secondary coil and the force was enough to over come some weak restraints.
Can anyone give a less arm wavey description of this? Or have I misunderstood?
I see Keynote used on big televised awards ceremonies a lot. The companies doing the graphics buy Macs to run Keynote, and they want Keynote for the transitions. Those kind of presentations are not done by amateurs. If OpenOffice is just going for the 'engineer making presentations to management' market then yes, OpenGL is a waste of time. However if they're looking a bit further then it is worth it.
AdultZombieFinder.com: Bringing America's dead together.
Jeremy Paxman is famous for being a tough questioner. His most notorious interview was with a slimy politician who later led the Tories to defeat against Tony Blair's Labour. I'm not sure what Paxman's personal politics are, but he certainly doesn't appreciate being messed around. Michael Howard can be sure that if one of his political opponents had weaseled around like that he would have had equally short shrift.
In the UK we hear about inept (wannabe/wrongly accused) terrorists all the time. For example the binary bombers who were accused of trying to blow up transatlantic flights but who didn't have tickets, or passports. Or the guys who filled a car with petrol and gas cylinders in hope they'd violently explode, forgetting that fire needs oxygen...
In my experience the drivers of the big 40' trucks tend to be the most capable and courteous drivers on the road. They have a great view of the road ahead, however they have a limited view of what's behind or alongside them. It's always a good idea to bear this in mind and keep clear. Truck drivers will do their best to avoid difficult roads, and are acutely aware that their continued employment depends on their obeying the rules. The residents of the village would be best off campaigning for that bypass to built so that they can ban trucks entirely.
In Britain there's laws covering how long the suppliers have to change a number. If you move to a new supplier and it takes more than a week for them to transfer your old phone number to your new SIM there's some big fines waiting for them. Makes changing supplier a lot less hassle. I would imagine there's similar laws across Europe, not sure about the US...
"complex simple Lie algebras"?
Mathematics needs some new words, I think. And they need to stop using 'simple' in this kind of context. What about; instead of 'simple' they use 'mindbogglingly complicated' and instead of 'complex', 'totally headfucking' making the statement a more accurate 'totally headfucking mindboggleing complicated Lie algebras'.
In the example above, if the word "sql" is found, it is counted as a match. Also, if the word "oracle" is found, it is counted as a match as well. What the hell kind of kids look for 'sql' and 'oracle' but don't know about Google/Yahoo? The whole instruction page looks like it was written by a CS major, with no idea of his target audience.
I used to. The server software was heavily customised for the company, and it ran everything, sales, hire, payroll, contacts... And it was rock solid. I was there for nearly 3 years and don't remember any downtime at all. It used to run on dumb terminals and PC terminal emulators.
The rel-tag microformat is an attempt to standardise tagging. It relies on other microformats to define what it is you are tagging. There isn't a 'photo' microformat at the moment, so you can't do a web-wide search for photos tagged 'fireworks' for example. If you're interested in the semantic web it's worth checking out microformats. You can download a plugin for firefox that reads microformats. Go and have a look at Flickr with it, or any other site that implements microformats. If people have tagged something with a 'geo' tag giving long. and lat. then it will bring up a Google Map showing the location. If they've included a 'hCard' around their contact details you can add it to your address book.