In California, the phone company is required by law to activate a landline for 911 dialing in any occupied residence at no charge, so you can still have 911 capability without paying for service.
Precisely. Apples are a completely different animal, whereas WineX compatibility is just a matter of identifying a problem in either the library WineX provides, or the "nonstandard" way the game chooses to use that library. Chances are if the problem is due to the way the game handles a library that otherwise meets published specs, maybe a tweak in the way that game accesses that library will make it _more_ stable under genuine Windows environments as well.
So find a game manufacturer that has a Linux "insider" in the coding team, ask him to devote a little bit of time to stabilizing the code under WineX, then GO BUY THE GAME when it comes out and let your insider know. He then has some numbers that he can bring to the bosses. "I spend this many minutes working out some bugs running under WineX, and as a result this many Linux users bought our game that otherwise wouldn't have. Oh, and chances are the time spent also made it stable under some non-standard Windows configurations."
On the other hand, if WineX is rather successful, the game manufacturers, who wouldn't dare throw away all their existing codebase to develop for Linux, might provide a bit of tweaking to get the game to run under WineX, since such code probably wouldn't hurt the game under the Windows platform. If enough people are using WineX, and can say so to those game manufacturers, they might just start making WineX one of the environments they test under, just to ship those few extra units.
Okay, so run your exhaust through a condenser and have it empty the water out when you stop. Water vapor in otherwise clean exhaust is not nearly as hazardous as what comes out of tailpipes now.
IMHO, Algae is the most likely source of renewable hydrogen in the foreseable future.
Unlikely. There are numerous sources of fuel for today's internal combustion engines: vegetable oils, methane from composting, hydrogen from algae--all renewable resources. In the end, what did we choose? Fossil fuels.
Same thing will happen with fuel cells: all of these "green" alternatives will be bandied about for producing hydrogen, but cracking petroleum will be the "cheapest", so it will prevail.
How about an external Firewire hard drive? Put it in a padded case with a shoulder strap or "fanny pack." If we're talking about news professionals, chances are they're used to the external batteries from the "old school" cameras, so what's an extra pound and a half on your belt?
Agreed. I can't quite bring myself to drop $300 on an upgrade that might affect the perfect stability of my Pismo. (Maybe the prices will come down after the 970 takes over the high end.) I also don't want to "trade up" yet, because I can't quite bring myself to give up the selectable bay. (I have a DVD, CDRW, spare battery and Zip 250 that fit in that bay.)
The prices aren't too bad right now. I haven't priced it out lately, but Costco used to sell 5 gallon drums of vegetable oil for a bit less than $2.00 a gallon. I imagine that if you buy straight from a distributor in larger quantities than 5 gallons, you could get an even better price.
Still, the 5-gallon drums might be nice. You could carry them in your car without worrying about fumes or spontaneous combustion, and warehouse grocers are almost as common as gas stations (at least in California.)
A decent system would maintain an image of the RAM on the HDD. In case of battery failure, replace the battery, boot the system up, and it should rebuild the RAMdisk from the hard disk--just like rebuilding a drive in a RAID.
Exactly, but what I think we'd see is that a "free number switch" would be included in the promotional offers from cell phone companies (just as LD companies pay your switching fees to get you as their customer.)
Like many others, keeping my old number is the reason I haven't given up my carrier yet. Carriers know this, and fight the FCC to keep portability out of the wireless system.
And there are people who will not want to have anything to do with the Internet. My grandmother will NEVER get on the Internet. It doesn't matter if they give appliances and service away; she will never use it. Why? She's retired. She has her social circle and her volunteer work. She likes hand-writing her letters, putting a stamp on them, and sending something TANGIBLE to someone.
It's not always a matter of money. Some people just have lives outside of computers.
You ever notice how Windows 95 commercials used the lines, "You can start me up, I'll never stop, never stop, never stop, never stop," but stopped just short of "You make a grown man cry?" I always wondered why they would have left themselves open like that.:-)
When you shell out less for the printer than it costs for toner cartridges, you have to expect it to not last.
In our office we use LaserJet 4000 series printer and LaserJet 8100 series printers. Most of the 4000's and 4050's are above 500,000 pages. One is even over 1,000,000 pages and still plugging away. The cartridges last 15,000 pages and cost the same as the 3,000 page cartridges you get for a lot of other printers. They need a maintenance kit (rollers, etc.) every 250,000 or so (About $300 installed.)
The 8100's are more expensive, but they're just as long lasting, print a lot faster, and last 30,000 pages on a toner cartridge.
Meanwhile, the 1100 series "personal printers" are jamming right out of the box, only hold 200 sheets and cost a fortune in toner. But they're "cheap!"
Not necessarily. Flavored sugar water isn't protected by patents. Many brands sell just fine at much lower prices (Sam's Club, Shasta, etc.)
LCD's are a different matter. I imagine that the more recent LCD technologies are protected by patents and license agreements. These pretty much preclude really cheap knockoffs.
As for the laptop market, it is a booming business. Large buyers (Toshiba, Dell, Apple) can force manufacturers to compete on quality and price. LCD televisions, by and large, aren't that much better than their cheaper CRT counterparts, and aren't REQUIRED in the way that LCD's are REQUIRED to make laptop computers feasible. Thus there are very few competitors and prices are higher.
Nobody's forcing anyone though... this thing is *VOLUNTARY*. Nobody's pushing it down anyone else's throat but their own. Or are you saying that if a person happens to have a different set of values than you do, then they are just plain wrong and should just grow up and think like you do?
Are you sure nobody's forcing anybody? When a couple goes in for religious marriage counseling and the religious leader tells the man "obviously your pornography is the problem," that he's not going to be overwhelmingly coerced into not viewing the pornography, most likely to the further detriment of the marriage?
Here's the thing: like drinking, golfing, watching TV and eating junk food, pornography is NOT DESTRUCTIVE IF DONE IN MODERATION. And excessive pornography is a symptom of a bigger problem (just like overeating or sitting in front of the TV 20 hours a day) and should be treated as such.
In the past few years, I've seen several marriages fail. To some that is no big thing, but to people with certain religious convictions, it is. In the past 5 years alone, two of the marriages I've seen fall apart involved a circumstance of the husband looking at porn via the internet. In both cases, the couples had separated within a year of the wife discovering the "indiscretion". Further, neither of these women left their husband for that reason. In one of the cases, the husband actually left his wife, and the other case the woman left her husband because he was starting to become physically abusive.
Okay, so if the "indiscretion" (emphasis yours) wasn't the actual cause of the breakup, then what was? Was the pornography the cause or just a symptom? Did the wife stop offering sex? Was the abuser exposed to abuse as a child? Did the abuse start after the pornography, or before?
Viewing pornography to the exclusion of other life activities is unhealthy, just as watching television, running model trains or going to the gym to the exclusion of normal life activities is unhealthy.
So, do you have to ask "Where's the harm?"
Hey, I know of five marriages that broke up in the past couple of years. Two of those cases involved the circumstance of the men breathing. I think the conclusion that breathing contributed to the issue cannot be denied.
I know that looking at porn doesn't cause marriages to fail, granted, but it is a symptom of something that *DOES*. And at the very least, if you eliminate that particular symptom, you do stand to slow down the deterioration process a bit, and maybe the couple can get help before they end up duking it out in court over which parent's house the kids end up living at most of the time.
I'm sure that just taking cough syrup can get rid of that annoying symptom of pneumonia, too. Excessive pornography (if more than the "norm" that 90% of men subscribe to) is, like you said, a symptom, and forcing a man to abandon that only outlet instead of treating the problem might make the decline happen much more quickly.
Yup, after you wade through the bubble gum to get to the "real" Local Users and Groups, you get "User" or "Administrator." "Power user" is not an option.
It's even worse with XP Home. A customer bought a Dell with that piece of crap loaded. I set up user accounts for each member of the household, but in XP Home they're either "user" (in which case a LOT of programs won't even run) or Administrator. (You have to pay for XP Professional to get "Power Users" back.) I set everyone up as Administrator and told them to call me when they get hacked and want a Real OS installed.
How about an embedded app? I dunno about the Commie, but an Atari 800XL with 64k of RAM, full color output (and TV output), 4-channel sound, two programmable joystick ports and a serial IO port, and the ubiquitous parallel connector, draws 7.5W at 5VDC. It can boot off of an 8K cartridge and carry up to 16K of bootable material in ROM, can be interfaced with just about any kind of floppy drive, hard drive or IDE FLASH drive on the planet and is easy to program. More powerful than a STAMP; less power draw than a PC, and cheaper than both.
My favorite is still Starflight. 800 planets in several dozen star systems, a handful of races. Only three files needed: STARFLT.COM (54k), STARA.COM (256,000 bytes) and STARB.COM (362,496 bytes, or exactly the right size to fit onto a 360K floppy.) Thus, the whole universe (and months of play time) were crammed into less than 720k.
Actually, I just dragged out an old 486SX-25 laptop on "slow mode" to play it again, because it was timed for 4.77MHz!
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In California, the phone company is required by law to activate a landline for 911 dialing in any occupied residence at no charge, so you can still have 911 capability without paying for service.
So find a game manufacturer that has a Linux "insider" in the coding team, ask him to devote a little bit of time to stabilizing the code under WineX, then GO BUY THE GAME when it comes out and let your insider know. He then has some numbers that he can bring to the bosses. "I spend this many minutes working out some bugs running under WineX, and as a result this many Linux users bought our game that otherwise wouldn't have. Oh, and chances are the time spent also made it stable under some non-standard Windows configurations."
On the other hand, if WineX is rather successful, the game manufacturers, who wouldn't dare throw away all their existing codebase to develop for Linux, might provide a bit of tweaking to get the game to run under WineX, since such code probably wouldn't hurt the game under the Windows platform. If enough people are using WineX, and can say so to those game manufacturers, they might just start making WineX one of the environments they test under, just to ship those few extra units.
Okay, so run your exhaust through a condenser and have it empty the water out when you stop. Water vapor in otherwise clean exhaust is not nearly as hazardous as what comes out of tailpipes now.
Unlikely. There are numerous sources of fuel for today's internal combustion engines: vegetable oils, methane from composting, hydrogen from algae--all renewable resources. In the end, what did we choose? Fossil fuels.
Same thing will happen with fuel cells: all of these "green" alternatives will be bandied about for producing hydrogen, but cracking petroleum will be the "cheapest", so it will prevail.
How about an external Firewire hard drive? Put it in a padded case with a shoulder strap or "fanny pack." If we're talking about news professionals, chances are they're used to the external batteries from the "old school" cameras, so what's an extra pound and a half on your belt?
Agreed. I can't quite bring myself to drop $300 on an upgrade that might affect the perfect stability of my Pismo. (Maybe the prices will come down after the 970 takes over the high end.) I also don't want to "trade up" yet, because I can't quite bring myself to give up the selectable bay. (I have a DVD, CDRW, spare battery and Zip 250 that fit in that bay.)
Still, the 5-gallon drums might be nice. You could carry them in your car without worrying about fumes or spontaneous combustion, and warehouse grocers are almost as common as gas stations (at least in California.)
My Pismo (G3 Firewire) Powerbook has the same issue, as do several Toshiba models I've worked with. Seems a common problem among laptops in general.
A decent system would maintain an image of the RAM on the HDD. In case of battery failure, replace the battery, boot the system up, and it should rebuild the RAMdisk from the hard disk--just like rebuilding a drive in a RAID.
Like many others, keeping my old number is the reason I haven't given up my carrier yet. Carriers know this, and fight the FCC to keep portability out of the wireless system.
Heed! Paper! Now! Move that melon of yours and go and get the paper if you can, luggin' that gargantuan cranium about!
It's not always a matter of money. Some people just have lives outside of computers.
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In our office we use LaserJet 4000 series printer and LaserJet 8100 series printers. Most of the 4000's and 4050's are above 500,000 pages. One is even over 1,000,000 pages and still plugging away. The cartridges last 15,000 pages and cost the same as the 3,000 page cartridges you get for a lot of other printers. They need a maintenance kit (rollers, etc.) every 250,000 or so (About $300 installed.)
The 8100's are more expensive, but they're just as long lasting, print a lot faster, and last 30,000 pages on a toner cartridge.
Meanwhile, the 1100 series "personal printers" are jamming right out of the box, only hold 200 sheets and cost a fortune in toner. But they're "cheap!"
LCD's are a different matter. I imagine that the more recent LCD technologies are protected by patents and license agreements. These pretty much preclude really cheap knockoffs.
As for the laptop market, it is a booming business. Large buyers (Toshiba, Dell, Apple) can force manufacturers to compete on quality and price. LCD televisions, by and large, aren't that much better than their cheaper CRT counterparts, and aren't REQUIRED in the way that LCD's are REQUIRED to make laptop computers feasible. Thus there are very few competitors and prices are higher.
Are you sure nobody's forcing anybody? When a couple goes in for religious marriage counseling and the religious leader tells the man "obviously your pornography is the problem," that he's not going to be overwhelmingly coerced into not viewing the pornography, most likely to the further detriment of the marriage?
Here's the thing: like drinking, golfing, watching TV and eating junk food, pornography is NOT DESTRUCTIVE IF DONE IN MODERATION. And excessive pornography is a symptom of a bigger problem (just like overeating or sitting in front of the TV 20 hours a day) and should be treated as such.
Wow, so when my wife and I are watching pornography together and have sex during the show, does that mean we're having a threesome?
Okay, so if the "indiscretion" (emphasis yours) wasn't the actual cause of the breakup, then what was? Was the pornography the cause or just a symptom? Did the wife stop offering sex? Was the abuser exposed to abuse as a child? Did the abuse start after the pornography, or before?
Viewing pornography to the exclusion of other life activities is unhealthy, just as watching television, running model trains or going to the gym to the exclusion of normal life activities is unhealthy.
So, do you have to ask "Where's the harm?"
Hey, I know of five marriages that broke up in the past couple of years. Two of those cases involved the circumstance of the men breathing. I think the conclusion that breathing contributed to the issue cannot be denied.
I know that looking at porn doesn't cause marriages to fail, granted, but it is a symptom of something that *DOES*. And at the very least, if you eliminate that particular symptom, you do stand to slow down the deterioration process a bit, and maybe the couple can get help before they end up duking it out in court over which parent's house the kids end up living at most of the time.
I'm sure that just taking cough syrup can get rid of that annoying symptom of pneumonia, too. Excessive pornography (if more than the "norm" that 90% of men subscribe to) is, like you said, a symptom, and forcing a man to abandon that only outlet instead of treating the problem might make the decline happen much more quickly.
How can they do that?
Yup, after you wade through the bubble gum to get to the "real" Local Users and Groups, you get "User" or "Administrator." "Power user" is not an option.
It's even worse with XP Home. A customer bought a Dell with that piece of crap loaded. I set up user accounts for each member of the household, but in XP Home they're either "user" (in which case a LOT of programs won't even run) or Administrator. (You have to pay for XP Professional to get "Power Users" back.) I set everyone up as Administrator and told them to call me when they get hacked and want a Real OS installed.
How about an embedded app? I dunno about the Commie, but an Atari 800XL with 64k of RAM, full color output (and TV output), 4-channel sound, two programmable joystick ports and a serial IO port, and the ubiquitous parallel connector, draws 7.5W at 5VDC. It can boot off of an 8K cartridge and carry up to 16K of bootable material in ROM, can be interfaced with just about any kind of floppy drive, hard drive or IDE FLASH drive on the planet and is easy to program. More powerful than a STAMP; less power draw than a PC, and cheaper than both.
Actually, I just dragged out an old 486SX-25 laptop on "slow mode" to play it again, because it was timed for 4.77MHz!