Yep. I went into CC and saw 20% off on all Blu-ray disks. Then I looked at the prices that they were giving me the discount on: almost all of them were $35.
No thanks. I left the store empty-handed.
And you are not doing these people any favours by telling them they should use some other environment instead, because if Gnome is 95% perfect then KDE, Xfce, Blackbox, etc. will all be worse for them.
Too bad that +5 is the highest moderation you can get. I think this one sentence sums up the situation better than all of the other posts I have read. I, too, am a Gnome user and do not like the direction it is going. The two most common scenarios I see are:
A Gnome user complains about the direction Gnome is going and is told by the developers that
sorry, but you are not the target user. Their target user appears to be someone who has never used a computer before — basically, no one who has been using Gnome since the beginning.
Someone complains about Gnome in a public forum and is told
if you don't like Gnome, use KDE. If I had wanted to use KDE, I would. KDE thinks that if 5 options are good, then 100, poorly organized, poorly documented options are that much better. I detest KDE.
So where does that leave us, the dispossessed Gnome users? I wish I knew.
Your examples are bogus. They do not compare to this incident. The police did not wander around the stands at a basketball game and randomly ask people for their IDs; you had to show your ID to enter the game so that you could get in for free or at a discount. Non-students were allowed at the games.
Is the UCLA library different from other UC libraries? I know for a fact that non-students are allowed in other UC libraries. If I were in a library and cops demanded my ID for no reason, I would get pretty angry, too. I don't know whether I would have reacted the same way or not.
I do a few jobs per year on the side. When I get paid, the check goes straight to my wife and I never see any of it. After one grueling job, I had them pay me in beer — 25 six-packs and I got every drop of it. So I know the feeling.
I once worked for a place that would set an annual sales goal. If we met that goal (as a company), we would get a 1% bonus. Yep, you read that correctly: work hard all year and we will give you 1%. And being the low guy on the totem pole (and pay scale), my 1% was a lot lower than anyone else's. I considered it an insult. If a company is going to offer a bonus, it had better be real — not a pittance.
I also think that the bonus should be the same for all employees (not be a percentage of your pay). Companies pay lip service to teamwork, but then they do not follow through. We all do different jobs and, thus, have different base pay. When it comes time to share the rewards of our teamwork, then we should all get an equal share. I understand that auto makers tend to do this (except at the executive level, of course).
How about RFC 1832 from 1995 which defines "XDR: External Data Representation Standard"?
XDR is a standard for the description and encoding of data. It is
useful for transferring data between different computer
architectures, and has been used to communicate data between such
diverse machines as the SUN WORKSTATION*, VAX*, IBM-PC*, and Cray*.
Also check out wview. We have been talking about getting a Davis weather station at work. I am planning on using wview. From the wview site:
wview is a linux/*BSD/unix/MacOSX-Darwin application that controls a Davis Vantage Pro or Vantage Pro2 weather station console to retrieve archive records and current conditions. The archive records are stored in the Davis WLK file format (thus Weatherlink generated archive files can be used by wview). Archive records may optionally be stored in a relational database (MySQL or PostgreSQL). At a user-defined interval, wview will use the archive history and current conditions to generate weather images (buckets and graphs) and HTML web pages based on configurable HTML templates. Optionally, the web pages can be transferred to a remote web server via an ftp or secure ssh process included with wview. Optionally, the wview alarm daemon wvalarmd can be enabled to deliver current conditions to TCP socket clients as a near real-time data feed engine. wvalarmd can also be configured to function as a weather data alarm generator to user specified scripts or binaries. Optionally, your station data can be submitted to the CWOP system for use by NOAA and others or to the Weather Underground.
wview can be easily configured for international or US units, labels and text. wview supports serial and USB data loggers. wview natively supports connectivity with a terminal server or serial server via TCP sockets - no intermediate driver required to make the ethernet port "look" like a serial port.
Chapter 1 describes site planning assistance that is available from Sun, site planning process and concepts, data center location, and route to the data center.
Chapter 2 explains environmental requirements of the data center, including temperature, humidity, cooling, and airflow.
Chapter 3 gives information about rackmounting the servers and how to locate rows of racks in the data center.
Chapter 4 discusses power and cooling issues relating to the servers, including power sources and heat output and cooling requirements.
Chapter 5 lists shipping, physical, configurations, electrical, environmental, rackmounting, and clearance for service specifications for the servers. It also provides specifications for Sun cabinets.
Chapter 6 provides a site planning checklist that you can use when planning your data center and preparing for system installations.
I know the feeling. I gave up long before you, though: my PC is an 800 MHz P-III. I also bought a used 1.1 GHz ThinkPad. They do me just fine. There are a few times I wish I had something faster, but I just cannot justify the expense. My kids have a 3.2 GHz P-4. We had to get that to be able to play current games. Me, I don't need anything that fast since I think the pinnacle of computer games was Zork.
I know what you mean: I was trying to get reimbursed for software I had purchased. I submitted the receipt I got via e-mail but was told that accounting would not accept it as proof that I had paid because nowhere in the message did it actually say that I paid with Visa.
I said "no problem", and a minute later I came back with a printed message that had "paid in full on Visa xxxxxx1234". Accounting was happy.
Did you actually read all of the article that you link to? The meter is currently defined (according to your link) as:
More recently (1984), the Geneva Conference on Weights and Measures has defined the meter as the distance light travels, in a vacuum, in 1/299,792,458 seconds with time measured by a cesium-133 atomic clock which emits pulses of radiation at very rapid, regular intervals.
Thus, the meter is not defined by a physical artifact.
Good point. I always felt that way about Star Trek movies. There were many better 2-part episodes that didn't take years or cost millions to make. Has any show ever come back as a mini-series?
Let's look at the ITU (and it's predecessor the CCITT). Does anyone remember the OSI protocols? You know, the internationally designed protocols that were going to replace the TCP/IP suite. They tended to be a nightmare of complexity and over design with each representative nation trying to get it's 2 cents into the specs (whether they made sense or not). Just look at X.400. That was the e-mail protocol. MHS (Message Handling System) was their flagship application. The committee which produced MHS in 1988 didn't bother to worry about how their version of MHS would interoperate with the 1984 version of MHS. X.400 addresses were also a nightmare of complexity and poor design.
Just be careful what you wish for. You might get it.
This is about a minority language trying to keep from being overwhelmed by the majority language. There are other examples of this. The Welsh language has been under attack for hundreds of years. Yet there are people working to preserve their culture. The Welsh Academy has also defined Welsh versions of "e-mail" and "computer". It may be an uphill battle and they may one day lose, but that doesn't stop them from working against the degeneration of their language.
Why does any article about hydrogen bring out all of the stupid people? The article specifically said that they would be cracking hydrocarbons to get hydrogen. Quote:
The Chino center will use natural gas as a feedstock, to use the extensive natural gas infrastructure that is already in place. "Natural gas is an established, very efficient way to make hydrogen," he said.
Steam reforming natural gas is currently the cheapest way to make hydrogen. Someone else posted the specific numbers. Go ahead and ignore the fact that there is no natural stockpile of free hydrogen to draw from for your hydrogen utopia.
You are correct that you can't make your own hydrogen at home from hydrocarbons. What does this have to do with the article? Also, you make the statement that all hydrogen fanatics (loonies?) make about using electricity and water to make hydrogen. Where does that electricity come from and how much does it cost?
NOx formation is a concern in an internal combustion engine. I assumed ICE, you assumed fuel cell. The article does not say which the vehicles will be using. There is a statement about fuel cells being pollution free, but that is a far cry from actually stating that they will be using fuel cells. [I did further research and it appears that they will be using fuel cell vehicles -- thus, no NOx.]
Just where do you think the hydrogen comes from? The cheapest way to get hydrogen is by cracking natural gas. So much for getting away from fossil fuels. Also, anyone who thinks that only water (vapor) comes out of the exhaust is wrong. That would be true if all that went into the engine were hydrogen and oxygen. Guess what? The air is 80% nitrogen. NOx formation can be a problem with hydrogen engines. The hydrogen itself also has properties that make for a bad fuel: it has such a low density that it is hard to carry much fuel and hydrogen can find the smallest holes to escape from that other gases would not.
I have a laptop PC with a 2.4Ghz processor and a Geforce 4 Ti Mobile GPu. Doom 3 runs like ass.
Can you please use an idiom that makes sense. Does "runs like ass" mean that it works well? Or do you mean the exact opposite. I am a native English speaker and I have no idea what you mean here.
I work at a university. We have an agreement with Dell that gives us "educational pricing". I have found time and time again that "educational pricing" means $100 to $200 over "home pricing" -- and without the free extras (printers, upgraded memory, etc.). Often times, someone will buy a Dell on their personal credit card and then get reimbursed. I try to steer them to alternatives whenever possible.
Don't jump to conclusions. This has a Via C3. I just tried to update my server which also contains a Via C3 (low power, low heat, don't need any more horsepower). SuSE will not run on the C3 (but at least they tell you that up front). But guess what? Neither will Fedora Core 2 (yes, I even used the special C3 kernel) nor FC 3. Red Hat dropped support for the C3 but didn't even bother to document that fact. I ended up taking a Celeron processor from an old Barbi FlexATX computer.
So, don't assume that your Linux will run on a C3. It seems that more and more distros are supporting the AMD/Intel duopoly only and are refusing to support the Via (it's not as though it isn't be made any more).
Yep, I have one of those sitting here as a paperweight. ATI never released drivers beyond Windows 98. So, it doesn't work in 2000, XP or Linux. What a waste of money.
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Yep. I went into CC and saw 20% off on all Blu-ray disks. Then I looked at the prices that they were giving me the discount on: almost all of them were $35. No thanks. I left the store empty-handed.
Multicasting could have solved this problem. Too bad the MBONE died.
Too bad that +5 is the highest moderation you can get. I think this one sentence sums up the situation better than all of the other posts I have read. I, too, am a Gnome user and do not like the direction it is going. The two most common scenarios I see are:
So where does that leave us, the dispossessed Gnome users? I wish I knew.
Only it would not be pirating since the license will have been paid for. So go ahead and copy all the content you want.
Is the UCLA library different from other UC libraries? I know for a fact that non-students are allowed in other UC libraries. If I were in a library and cops demanded my ID for no reason, I would get pretty angry, too. I don't know whether I would have reacted the same way or not.
It shouldn't!
I once worked for a place that would set an annual sales goal. If we met that goal (as a company), we would get a 1% bonus. Yep, you read that correctly: work hard all year and we will give you 1%. And being the low guy on the totem pole (and pay scale), my 1% was a lot lower than anyone else's. I considered it an insult. If a company is going to offer a bonus, it had better be real — not a pittance.
I also think that the bonus should be the same for all employees (not be a percentage of your pay). Companies pay lip service to teamwork, but then they do not follow through. We all do different jobs and, thus, have different base pay. When it comes time to share the rewards of our teamwork, then we should all get an equal share. I understand that auto makers tend to do this (except at the executive level, of course).
Chapter 1 describes site planning assistance that is available from Sun, site planning process and concepts, data center location, and route to the data center.
Chapter 2 explains environmental requirements of the data center, including temperature, humidity, cooling, and airflow.
Chapter 3 gives information about rackmounting the servers and how to locate rows of racks in the data center.
Chapter 4 discusses power and cooling issues relating to the servers, including power sources and heat output and cooling requirements.
Chapter 5 lists shipping, physical, configurations, electrical, environmental, rackmounting, and clearance for service specifications for the servers. It also provides specifications for Sun cabinets.
Chapter 6 provides a site planning checklist that you can use when planning your data center and preparing for system installations.
Someday I will upgrade -- but not this year.
I said "no problem", and a minute later I came back with a printed message that had "paid in full on Visa xxxxxx1234". Accounting was happy.
Thus, the meter is not defined by a physical artifact.
Good point. I always felt that way about Star Trek movies. There were many better 2-part episodes that didn't take years or cost millions to make. Has any show ever come back as a mini-series?
Just be careful what you wish for. You might get it.
This is about a minority language trying to keep from being overwhelmed by the majority language. There are other examples of this. The Welsh language has been under attack for hundreds of years. Yet there are people working to preserve their culture. The Welsh Academy has also defined Welsh versions of "e-mail" and "computer". It may be an uphill battle and they may one day lose, but that doesn't stop them from working against the degeneration of their language.
Steam reforming natural gas is currently the cheapest way to make hydrogen. Someone else posted the specific numbers. Go ahead and ignore the fact that there is no natural stockpile of free hydrogen to draw from for your hydrogen utopia.
You are correct that you can't make your own hydrogen at home from hydrocarbons. What does this have to do with the article? Also, you make the statement that all hydrogen fanatics (loonies?) make about using electricity and water to make hydrogen. Where does that electricity come from and how much does it cost?
NOx formation is a concern in an internal combustion engine. I assumed ICE, you assumed fuel cell. The article does not say which the vehicles will be using. There is a statement about fuel cells being pollution free, but that is a far cry from actually stating that they will be using fuel cells. [I did further research and it appears that they will be using fuel cell vehicles -- thus, no NOx.]
In conclusion, you are wrong and I hate you.
I am not wrong and I pity you.
Just where do you think the hydrogen comes from? The cheapest way to get hydrogen is by cracking natural gas. So much for getting away from fossil fuels. Also, anyone who thinks that only water (vapor) comes out of the exhaust is wrong. That would be true if all that went into the engine were hydrogen and oxygen. Guess what? The air is 80% nitrogen. NOx formation can be a problem with hydrogen engines. The hydrogen itself also has properties that make for a bad fuel: it has such a low density that it is hard to carry much fuel and hydrogen can find the smallest holes to escape from that other gases would not.
Sure. "It kicks ass" means that it runs great. "It sucks ass" means it runs poorly.
Can you please use an idiom that makes sense. Does "runs like ass" mean that it works well? Or do you mean the exact opposite. I am a native English speaker and I have no idea what you mean here.
I work at a university. We have an agreement with Dell that gives us "educational pricing". I have found time and time again that "educational pricing" means $100 to $200 over "home pricing" -- and without the free extras (printers, upgraded memory, etc.). Often times, someone will buy a Dell on their personal credit card and then get reimbursed. I try to steer them to alternatives whenever possible.
So, don't assume that your Linux will run on a C3. It seems that more and more distros are supporting the AMD/Intel duopoly only and are refusing to support the Via (it's not as though it isn't be made any more).
Yep, I have one of those sitting here as a paperweight. ATI never released drivers beyond Windows 98. So, it doesn't work in 2000, XP or Linux. What a waste of money.
1984 was about 20 years late.