I have no reason to believe that people are kicking out their TVs, It's merely that now there are far more things to hook up a TV to than a handful of broadcast networks. You can no longer just commandeer the Big 3 networks and get the word out. The S.A.M.E. system works for people with weather radios, but a lot more people have telephones than have weather radios, where alert-friendly radios or otherwise.
The Federal, State, and local governments have thus far limited their robocalling to bona-fide emergency situations. That is, within 24 hours you need to Do Something, and specifically, what you should do.
I can live with that. If you cannot, perhaps we can set you up on a Do Not Call/Let Them Perish list.
I'll join you if/when I start getting robocalls about politicians holding "town meetings" or government contractors peddling their own wares, but until that happens, I prefer to get critical information unobstructed.
Actually I already do get robocalls on "town meetings", but it's because political candidates and charities have an existing loophole in the Do Not Call list anyway. Although I'm pretty sure that legally they're supposed to be live calls.
Actually, if they are, in fact violating the terms under which the books were to be published, you need 0%. Plus one sufficiently active lawyer at O'Reilly, TOR, Baen, or whoever.
Solar water heating is certainly one of the most efficient uses of the sun. But solar refrigeration is doable.
There are 2 primary ways to get cold from the sun. One is basically the same way that conventional refrigerators do it. Heat a gas, it builds pressure. Let the pressure out via a small opening and the temperature drops. Pass it around to suck heat of of the desired space and dump it somewhere else. Conventionally, this is done via motor power, but anything that will cause gas pressure to increase is fair game, as can be seen in propane-powered refrigerators such as are available in some RVs. Wood, charcoal, or a solar heat concentrator can do the job just as well - the only reason for the obscene prices for non-electric refrigerators is their relatively small market. Otherwise, if anything, the electric motor would be the more expensive option.
An alternative is an adsorption-style refrigeration unit. You can do pretty well with a fairly small area - makes about 10lbs of ice a day in a 9 square meter area, if I have the math right. No moving parts at all, excluding the gas itself, common materials, and the only exotic requirement is that you need a partial vacuum within the box.
All cooling units, however, are heat movers. What would be better still would be to concentrate that moved heat and put it to use somewhere where it wouldn't undo the good work of the refrigerator. Cooking would be very useful, water heating probably the most economical, and Seebeck effect electrical conversion would save having to generate electricity to keep the gadgets charged and the lights lit.
This is particularly bad if handling a social situation is one of those projects, so it's impossible to do real programming while engaged with clients, for example.
Next you'll be telling me that hackers can't really crack into the Pentagon in under 5 minutes while carrying on a conversation with multiple people in a dark room where you can read the terminal text off the walls.
I am rather well-known for a long history of being at the leading edge of technology and often even serving as a guru for emerging technologies.
Maybe, just maybe if I'd been willing to become a migrant worker, I might have avoided those long stretches of unemployment. But as a stereotypical geek (lousy social skills, no network to speak of, etc.), I didn't have people falling all over themselves to hire me. But I did have cases where my age was mentioned as a minus. Not enough to sue over, but enough to know it was there.
One of the things that the "New Math" textbooks in my state employed was the concept of a "function machine". It was essentially reducing math processes to black boxes for the purpose of understanding how inputs related to outputs. This was at an elementary grade level.
The next time I saw a construct like this was in Differential Calculus, where functions are the very basis.
Of course, functions are also at the very heart of Computer Science. So my "New Math" stood me in good stead.
Good candidate or not, I pay for books which the publishers have been kind enough to insist on being sold without DRM, but the agency that delivers them is effectively applying DRM regardless even though the work itself EXPLICITLY says it is not to be sold that way.
When I was a wee lad, "Dinosaurs" were the "terrible lizards" and basically anything reptilian-like that lived long ago qualified.
These days many of those creatures don't qualify, but now birds do.
Still, when people talk about "did men co-exist with dinosaurs?" they're thinking Fred Flintstone and Dino or Jesus Christ riding a tyrannosaur, not old Mrs. Perkins with her budgies.
Because having imaginary friends is cute if you're under 8, after that it gets kinda sad, and when you pass 20 it gets scary.
When it gets really scary is when you pass it on to your kids.
"Tommy, your great-great-...-great grandparents screwed up. So an all-powerful being says that that means that you deserve to die and then be roasted forever in pain. But don't be afraid. Just ask Jesus and he'll make it all better. He got himself killed painfully just to save you from that. And didn't even bother to ask permission from you first."
Sometimes it's not that easy. I have bought books from Tor and O'Reilly and other publishers where the foreword very explicitly says that the book is to be sold without DRM. Yet I cannot make a copy of the book because the Nook software stored the unencrypted file in a place inaccessible without rooting the device.
Which to me violates the spirit, if not the letter of their agreement with the publisher.
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If nasty-looking comments were the worst offense in recent Linux releases, I'd be overjoyed.
I walk alright.
I walk right past the entire WalMart store. And any other store that routinely does this.
And into one where the customers aren't all automatically assumed to be thieves.
It was supposed to make shoppers feel like WalMart is a warm and fuzzy place.
To offset the fact that a security guard checks your receipt before you're 5 feet from the cash register.
Except that an H1-B can come to America, work for a couple of years,send money home and return to retire quite comfortably by Indian standards.
A B1-H would go to India, work for a couple of years and return to apply for a job as a Wal-Mart greeter.
HALF of the political spectrum?
Or are you one of those children who believe the Conservatives when they say they want less government?
By your logic, I guess Paul Revere was an oppressive abuser of power, then.
I have no reason to believe that people are kicking out their TVs, It's merely that now there are far more things to hook up a TV to than a handful of broadcast networks. You can no longer just commandeer the Big 3 networks and get the word out. The S.A.M.E. system works for people with weather radios, but a lot more people have telephones than have weather radios, where alert-friendly radios or otherwise.
The Federal, State, and local governments have thus far limited their robocalling to bona-fide emergency situations. That is, within 24 hours you need to Do Something, and specifically, what you should do.
I can live with that. If you cannot, perhaps we can set you up on a Do Not Call/Let Them Perish list.
I'll join you if/when I start getting robocalls about politicians holding "town meetings" or government contractors peddling their own wares, but until that happens, I prefer to get critical information unobstructed.
Actually I already do get robocalls on "town meetings", but it's because political candidates and charities have an existing loophole in the Do Not Call list anyway. Although I'm pretty sure that legally they're supposed to be live calls.
Actually, if they are, in fact violating the terms under which the books were to be published, you need 0%. Plus one sufficiently active lawyer at O'Reilly, TOR, Baen, or whoever.
This isn't a market thing, it's a legal thing.
"Linux is Communism".
Oh wait, so was Bulgaria.
You evidently haven't spent much time looking at other people's source code.
Sometimes it can be literally easier to disassemble and/or reverse-engineer some people's code than it can be to make sense of their original source.
There's a viable business to be had for computer guys here.
No there isn't. People want their Lower Prices Everyday[TM] too much. They'd rather trust that they won't need help that they have to pay for.
Besides, we know that companies don't really want to discourage customers calling for service.
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Because they want us to take their survey about how good our experience was.
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Solar water heating is certainly one of the most efficient uses of the sun. But solar refrigeration is doable.
There are 2 primary ways to get cold from the sun. One is basically the same way that conventional refrigerators do it. Heat a gas, it builds pressure. Let the pressure out via a small opening and the temperature drops. Pass it around to suck heat of of the desired space and dump it somewhere else. Conventionally, this is done via motor power, but anything that will cause gas pressure to increase is fair game, as can be seen in propane-powered refrigerators such as are available in some RVs. Wood, charcoal, or a solar heat concentrator can do the job just as well - the only reason for the obscene prices for non-electric refrigerators is their relatively small market. Otherwise, if anything, the electric motor would be the more expensive option.
An alternative is an adsorption-style refrigeration unit. You can do pretty well with a fairly small area - makes about 10lbs of ice a day in a 9 square meter area, if I have the math right. No moving parts at all, excluding the gas itself, common materials, and the only exotic requirement is that you need a partial vacuum within the box.
All cooling units, however, are heat movers. What would be better still would be to concentrate that moved heat and put it to use somewhere where it wouldn't undo the good work of the refrigerator. Cooking would be very useful, water heating probably the most economical, and Seebeck effect electrical conversion would save having to generate electricity to keep the gadgets charged and the lights lit.
Everybody knows that!
There are plenty of things that people know to be true that are not.
This is particularly bad if handling a social situation is one of those projects, so it's impossible to do real programming while engaged with clients, for example.
Next you'll be telling me that hackers can't really crack into the Pentagon in under 5 minutes while carrying on a conversation with multiple people in a dark room where you can read the terminal text off the walls.
Your reality is limited.
I am rather well-known for a long history of being at the leading edge of technology and often even serving as a guru for emerging technologies.
Maybe, just maybe if I'd been willing to become a migrant worker, I might have avoided those long stretches of unemployment. But as a stereotypical geek (lousy social skills, no network to speak of, etc.), I didn't have people falling all over themselves to hire me. But I did have cases where my age was mentioned as a minus. Not enough to sue over, but enough to know it was there.
45? What kind of retirement community do you live in that keeps programmers around until they are 45?
By the late 1980's, even being over 30 was perilous.
One of the things that the "New Math" textbooks in my state employed was the concept of a "function machine". It was essentially reducing math processes to black boxes for the purpose of understanding how inputs related to outputs. This was at an elementary grade level.
The next time I saw a construct like this was in Differential Calculus, where functions are the very basis.
Of course, functions are also at the very heart of Computer Science. So my "New Math" stood me in good stead.
Good candidate or not, I pay for books which the publishers have been kind enough to insist on being sold without DRM, but the agency that delivers them is effectively applying DRM regardless even though the work itself EXPLICITLY says it is not to be sold that way.
If legislators ever bothered to try and understand anything before passing laws about it, government as we know it would cease to exist.
When I was a wee lad, "Dinosaurs" were the "terrible lizards" and basically anything reptilian-like that lived long ago qualified.
These days many of those creatures don't qualify, but now birds do.
Still, when people talk about "did men co-exist with dinosaurs?" they're thinking Fred Flintstone and Dino or Jesus Christ riding a tyrannosaur, not old Mrs. Perkins with her budgies.
Because having imaginary friends is cute if you're under 8, after that it gets kinda sad, and when you pass 20 it gets scary.
When it gets really scary is when you pass it on to your kids.
"Tommy, your great-great-...-great grandparents screwed up. So an all-powerful being says that that means that you deserve to die and then be roasted forever in pain. But don't be afraid. Just ask Jesus and he'll make it all better. He got himself killed painfully just to save you from that. And didn't even bother to ask permission from you first."
Warning: the link WILL start blasting audio through your speakers without prior permission.
I don't get what you're saying. We should just throw up our hands and give up because we can only arrive at an approximation of the truth?
Don't buy DRM content if you don't want to.
Sometimes it's not that easy. I have bought books from Tor and O'Reilly and other publishers where the foreword very explicitly says that the book is to be sold without DRM. Yet I cannot make a copy of the book because the Nook software stored the unencrypted file in a place inaccessible without rooting the device.
Which to me violates the spirit, if not the letter of their agreement with the publisher.
If you're decommissioning an online disk, the simplest solution would be to boot one of the live-distro Linuxes and run dd on it.
Of course, that does require a certain minimum level of competence. More, perhaps than you'd find in a PHB, but less than you'd find in a hamster.