countless things can go wrong, most modern bioses let you swap boot devices with a single keypress, and dual booting to 2 hard drives lets you avoid bootloader headaches, as well as allows you to completely format either drive, with a HD eraser like darik's boot and nuke, without affecting the other drive, simply by pulling the cable to that drive...
i've never liked trying to get multiple oses to play nice with multi-boot, single drive configurations... and so i never install it that way.
Nicad batteries are bad, and involve heavy metals.
lithium ion/lithium polymer rechargeable are great for 2 reasons. 1. lithium is non toxic to humans 2. lithium is recyclable.
lithium ion and lithium polymer batteries are going to be everywhere we're going to mass produce the hell out of them, and hopefully people with bother to recycle them, because recycling them doesn't involve getting rid of toxic waste. Lead acid recycling takes mammoth sale deposits that force people to recycle them.
gameboys never came with rechargeable battery packs until the GBA SP, by then cell phones and laptops had brought Li-ion tech down to affordable prices, if you can run it off a standard sized battery, li-ion is plenty affordable. lithium polymer promises to bring the price down even more. so all is good.
and if they stick with the same technical specifications long enough It will get down to $10.
I remember before intel was the king of CPUs that there was the Z-80, and by the mid-90's Z-80 embedded systems (like the franklin bookman electronic dictionaries) were selling for around $40, with a hangman cartridge on flash memory.. the big cost, back then was the flash memory, and sadly Franklin moved away from the command line/text interfaces to go with more costly fancier displays, etc. only to go to more simple displays again, and 'text to speech' processors...
here's the thing though, by the mid 90's the Z-80 microprocessor was so energy efficient that you could literally run it off 2 cr2022 lithium batteries, and while i didn't use the dictionary every day, it took 13 years for my batteries to fail, to be honest though i used it more for hangman than for a dictionary.
if i used it daily, it would still last a long time, though, especially since it saves where you are in the dictionary so you can turn it off, then when you turn it on again it's in the same place. very easy to use, and nice.
the reason why i know it's a Z-80 is because i took the dictionary apart to look at it once. they do have cheaper non speaking dictionaries today, as well. http://www.franklin.com/estore/dictionary/TG-450/ like that one (12 language translation! for $40) for whatever reason the language translating models cost the same as the basic english models, and they have a wide array of 'high end' speaking dictionaries, including ones with mp3 playback, and ebook reading features...
the problem is breakfast cereal is just empty carbs and sugar, some are 'whole grain' but many of them are corn.
whole grain corn is what they give feed lot cattle for 6 months to get them to double their weight. BTW i didn't say i didn't eat breakfast, I said i stopped eating breakfast cereal. big difference. peanut butter bread has plenty of protein, but is still a bit high on sugar, unless you buy sugar free peanut butter..
eggs are a good breakfast too, or egg beaters to not get the cholesterol... but breakfast cereal is the worst.
"The minimum caloric needs of your 380 lb corpulence are ~2700 calories/day. Any less than that and your body starts raiding your fat rolls like your raid bakery rolls."
perhaps, the fault doesn't lie in the AC, but rather in the information he's using to obtain his calories? I for one have noticed that food packaging, while usually having truthful nutrition facts labels, have downright false of misleading front of package portion numbers, the worst offender was 'great value' brand products, their microwave bacon claims the same number of ounces as their competitor, hormel, yet if you go by the nutrition facts label, and do the math you wind up with double the number of grams of meat as on the front of the package. if you go by calories per gram, and multiply by the front of the package, you'd only come up with 50% of the actual calories.
now myself, the only diet i use is pretty simple. 1. restrict sugar. sugar is evil, and i avoid sugary foods wherever possible. 2. snack healthy this means, for me, popcorn, pork rinds, whole grain baked snack chips, 1% fat cottage cheese, or small quantities of peanut butter + wheat bread (like a fold over sandwich)
anything high in protein is a priority over other snacking options carb based snacks are highly limited, once in a while for a treat i'll get a 99 cent sized potato/dorrito chip bag, or a candy bar, mostly the only other treat i allow is stride gum, which uses more carbs in chewing that chewing gum gives calories.
Since i can't tolerate asperatame (headaches) that means i'm stuck with sucralose or stevia for low carb flavored drinks. luckily a very nice sucralose based powdered drink mix is on the market under 2 brand names propel, and fulfill. for $2.50/10 pack and $2/10 pack respectively. This is my primary daily drink although i'm likely getting over vitaminized by this but they're water soluble vitamins...
since my food is also on a budget, i've been relying on some fairly cheap, but not as good for me products, and i shop almost exclusively at the local wal-mart. i was having weight gain problems when i was eating breakfast cereal daily, and i have trouble following my diet on vacations, since my relatives have no sane diet restrictions... but since i cut the breakfast cereal, my weight has stabilized. i only eat breakfast (microwave ones, though) on my grocery shopping day, so i'm not shopping on an empty stomach. i allow allow myself about 16 ounces of sugar sweetened soda(actually 1/4 a 2-liter), per day maximum, skipping days whenever possible through will power, etc.
and i sit all day in front of a computer, and don't exercise.
it's totally unhealthy, to not exercise, but i always justify my life style with the 'you can't live forever' argument.
the big problem with nukes, and unmanned ships to tow it, is that it's extremely hard to move ship that far into space, in fact nasa is relying on project orion, originally a ship that would take 12 men to mars... to get a ship far enough out to deal with big objects.
a ship powered with controlled nuclear propulsion.
i think the best idea, is mechanize the moon, whatever the defense, having a moon base ready to deal with the problem is more realistic, there is tons of uranium, titanium, just about anything you could want even water in certain craters with comet debris that have long enough shadows to not evaporate all the water away. if you set up a system of construction robots that are able to build the moonbase, without having to send people up there, and the equipment can handle high G launches, or most of it can, then it should cost a lot less than sending people to the moon.
in the years where there isn't any threat to man kind the robotic moon base can do basic mining, and perhaps low g nanopartical manufacture, or even build satellites, or other space vehicles and devices.
"First - I've probably plugged 15 different digital cameras into various flavors of linux."
you must love destroying the environment then, by using batteries to power a device that was meant to write pictures to memory cards, instead of a $10 card reader, that is entirely USB hub powered, and can probably read 21 memory card formats.
never have i understood the desire to run from batteries a device that should be entirely usb powered to get pictures off a standard format memory card... i bought my first laptop specifically because CF to PCMCIA devices were available, and i didn't need to keep 4 AA batteries in my camera just to copy pictures to a computer, back then 1 mega pixel cameras used 4 AAs.
i wanted a laptop as well, though, and i definitely got my worth out of that p-120 w/F00F bug.
there are plenty of diesel and flex fuel vehicles on the road, not to mention states that use e-10 or e20 fuels standard.
old cars were made with real rubber some times, and ethanol eats through real rubber like it was cotton candy.
now, when you buy a car from a dealer ship they're going to tell you diesel/unleaded, today they might even tell you if it's flex fuel, although in the past they didn't. it could be a selling point, since e85 is cheaper right now than regular gasoline.
in this case, the nephew, basically took an 'unleaded' vehicle, pulled the engine block and switched to to 'diesel' and when auntie went to fuel it up, the sticker on the pump panel said 'unleaded' so that's what she gave it and the engine blew up on her, remember PCs have a nice sticker on the front that tell you what OS it is.
so of course she got mad, she saw the sticker on the front and that wasn't what was under the hood.
never switch someone to linux without explaining to them how to get software, a quick synaptics check shows 4 genealogy packages, she had no need to go to the store for that software, as for cameras, a simple USB flash memory reader would have fixed her camera (and saved batteries!) for only $10 or less, as far as the scanner, today's digital cameras provide better image quality/faster with some nice reflective lighting, a display stand, and a tripod... plus you don't have to break spines, or worry that the text along the spine won't read right, as long as you have a good piece of glass or something to hold the page flat for the camera. for old photographs, there are services where you mail the negatives and get digital pictures on a cd back in the mail... why do it yourself? it's a pain!
if you threw out the negatives, you can probably take the physical pictures to most camera stores to have the prints converted to digital, for a fee.
"AH HA! See, Childs was right , he is the only competent one!"
from TFA: 'Some of the passwords would benefit from a change because they are identical to the VPN log-in name or extremely easy to guess.'
wow, bad passwords, no wonder the guy was worried, using dictionary words is like not having a password as far as hackers are concerned, same deal with identical user/pass combos. i realize they use a encrypted key along with the password, but still...
"Alt-F2, run "kcontrol". Go to KDE Components -> File Associations, select inode/directory," in application preference order click 'add' then type 'nautilus'. that easy. newly added default to the top. then apply settings and close it.
nautilus needs to be installed of course, it was on mine because i used the meta package to switch to kde.
the first custom built PC i ever built used a very no-name motherboard, from a company called PC Chips, I never had a single problem with that system, and it was my primary firewall system for many many years after i built better systems. I didn't get burned on 'cheap' motherboards until 2-3 custom built systems in, and obviously major OEMs use cheap grade motherboards especially in their $300 dollar systems.
if you research forums and troubleshooting advice you can find out what's right and what's wrong with various models of motherboards, and find a cheap one that will work for you, but it's gotten so much harder to do that nowadays since the size of the internet is so massive now.
i wish someone would come up with a firefox extension that searched for negative posts about motherboards (and other hardware) in a wide array of tech support forums/product reviews. i know there is pluribo, but that only covers 1 website, and it only does a summary...
"He is self-centered (or rather, more self-centered than the average Joe) because of what? Because he sent out spam emails and didn't care that he got on your nerves?"
he did worse than that, he bought up gobs of a penny stock, heavily promoted it (via spam) as a good investment, and dumped it for millions of dollars.
that's a bit more than just clogging up everyone's in boxes with spam. I realize a lot of spam is scams to dupe the mentally deficient, but the reason he got in jail was for his abuse of the stock market, totally illegal.
i've been involved in delivery before, the typical delivery driver will but 50,000 miles on their vehicle a year. if, by some miracle you can get 20 deliveries in a nice pattern of driving that doesn't waste any miles at all, then yeah you save a lot of driving, but is it really shorter if you drive 5 miles to each location because the suburban sprawl causes that to be your best route? what about commuters stopping at the store on their way home from work? what if they only went 1 mile out of their way?
you're claiming it saves many miles, but from my experience in the industry the saving if any is marginal.
Especially when you get involved with services like fedex/UPS there you're generating more traffic in most cases.
"One word. Mass. The mass of a battery pack is likely to be hundreds of pounds. (The Tesla roadster's battery weighs 900 lbs, for a point of reference.)"
'The Counterweight - is a heavy cast iron mass attached to the rear of the forklift truck frame. The purpose of the counterweight is to counterbalance the load being lifted. In an electric forklift the large lead-acid battery itself may serve as part of the counterweight.'
unfortunately wikipedia doesn't mention they weight of electric forklift batteries, but IIRC they are 1000-2000 lbs, and are completely modular for replacement while the batteries charge.
it's not hard to do, although on forklifts it requires a pallet jack, and one human to manually service a battery. my point was that for this to be 'realistic' for a cab company, the battery MUST BE MODULAR, even if a human with a pallet jack replaces the battery instead of a big robot.
if a large lead acid battery the size of a forklifts can be modularized, despite being a very big thing full of lead and acid, then a robotic cab can modularize the battery, as well.
"Yes, I agree. Maybe if those geeks designed a world-wide web that allowed people to shop from their homes."
and creates a courier driving instead. the twin cities had 2 grocery to the home delivery service, 1 was huge, and used big, UPS style fleet vehicles, don't know the mileage on those vehicles, but the other used fleet-vans with 20 mpg, and they're still in business charging $2 per order.
shop from home is convenient, but it doesn't reduce vehicular travel. the only exception, site 2 store from wal-mart, site2-store piggybacks on existing truck shipments to/from wally-world if you're close to a wal-mart this does save fuel, a lot over say, shipping UPS. shipping via US postal mail, they use semi's etc, but very few e-shopping sites offer that, and grocery delivery is always going to be a courier based service.
redesigning cities, would be the easiest way to save fuel, if people could get to jobs/food/shopping/home/school for a reasonable price all within walking distance, they might not use cars, as an example look at new york city where there are neighborhoods where you can do every thing without a car, and then use cabs when you want to go different parts of the city or use mass transit.
Consider wal-mart, they put a lot of different businesses inside the store, like a little strip mall in the front of wal-mart... but they don't for instance, build a housing complex above the wal-mart, they don't build office parks above the store (although i have seen grocery stores that offered office space for rent)
there are a lot of things we could do differently as a society. but companies don't like risky stuff, they like proven money makers. then we have all these zoning laws etc...
a city that has a large cab pool is the best place to deploy this technology, you're right, robot cars don't eliminate the need for a car, but cabs are very useful in new york city, for say someone who rides the train to work, then wants/needs to take a cab because they didn't drive a car into the city.
and who says robot car driving systems won't come with personal cars? if they can do it realistically for cabs, then they can do it for personal cars. also, a robot cab lets you redesign cabs entirely, you no longer need a to use up '2' spaces for a cab driver, and an empty chair, or just an empty mounting bracket for a chair... suddenly you can have 4 person or 6 person cabs, without making special cars for them.
mass production won't help, they're already pioneering mass producing an ultralight vehicle, total weight 850 lbs.
and it's still only a 1 seater, and it doesn't look like it's very good for grocery shopping, either..
i hope that they manage to survive, and eventually make a 2-seat + cargo space vehicle... otherwise, i think plug in prius models will dominate. they've got 4 seats and cargo area... and with plug in over night can pre-charge, and maybe if you have a short commute, not even need to use gas.
"now, what is this "meds" you speak of and have you proof of their efficacy other than your own observations or by that do you mean some sort of chemical mind-jail or other "mind-control" coercion where it is simply the first mandatory step (refusal punishable by jail). "
well, if you accept mind control, as both the cause of the illness, and the source of the cure, and the medication as the 'operand' that determines what type of mental state they give you... well, then there is no proof that the medications work.
although i do know that my primary medicine Quetiapine definitely has medical use, as a sedative. the secondary medicine is paliperidone. but there is a question. why go to such lengths for a single, 30 year old male, with a horrible work history, most known for the amount of time he spend playing video games?
just to provide an excuse for the federal government to give him $500 a month and another $200 a month from the state? so he can buy a fancy tv and computer and lots of video games and dvds?
i'm failing to see why if the symptoms were from mind control why _i_ would have been targeted, and say, not bill gates.
now i know why hackers target my system in 2006, and perhaps, the mind control was done, as a result of hackers getting malware on my system in 2006, and it really was still on those computers for several years... i wasn't able to fully get it off until 2007... and even then there were complications removing it fully, and i'm not 100% sure it's gone, after all i made back ups media for my parent's pc, and i no longer know if they only touched clean systems or not sigh. but my parents have good security software now, so if there were any problems, someone better at taking care of security issues is in a place to take care of anything... (i went with comodo, since they have professionals who can remotely fix any malware issues.)
my sisters, have less good protection, i really want one of my sisters to have a special, linux based computer for using on the internet, and take her windows PC off the internet.
there is something really important if we really do make 'robo' taxis.
Modular battery systems. why buy a $xx,000 dollar robo taxi, if it has to 'sit' while the battery pack charges? it can be electric, electricity is cheap, right now much cheaper than oil, and it would have been almost as cheap as oil even when gas was only a $1.
what makes the most sense it to have a 'repair shop/charging station' where the robo taxi's go to swap batteries, if you want them to waste less fuel driving back to get batteries, you might make deals to have remote charging blocks. you buy as many batteries as you need to keep the fleet in operation, and if you're really tight, set the chargers to only charge to 90% full (the last 10% uses more energy) and to come back for battery swaps, whenever they hit 20% capacity, so that if you have a fare you can finish it if needed, and maybe have a light on the cam that warns passengers it's going to the charging station next...
I think this tech will replace foreign human workers driving cabs eventually, after all a computer costs a lot less than even a month of salary... although cab drivers are tipped workers so they probably get the 'minimum' pay for a tipped wage earner...
when it finally becomes a standard feature on main stream cars, it will be very cool.
keep in mind an electronic cab system can communicate with the passenger via their cell phone/the internet to arrange pickup and just have a touch screen/GPS system for setting destination. and have credit/debit card for payment, maybe with a slot machine bill reader... but who pays with cash anyways..
"Wood gas is NOT made from electrolysis, it's made from wood, and have you seen the wood pellet costs over the last 10 years, due to ethanol and wood home heating demand? a SIX FOLD INCREASE!!! It would cost over $7 per gallon to make H2 wood gas today,"
I don't know where you live, but i live in the woods of wisconsin and the price of wood has gone Down every year Except 2008. the lumber plant in a city to the north of me has 3 acres of stockpiled lumber because they were getting it so mother fucking cheap.
2008 yes the price did go up, but not 600% not in the back woods of wisconsin. it went up maybe 20%
the reason? just about every paper mill in the state shut down in 2005-06 and they sold off all their privately owned wooded acerage..
i know i'm in a lumber state, and that taints my views, but please understand, that the only way for those trees here in Wisconsin to get anywhere else is by highway, there are very few rail systems left, the great lakes are used for a lot of other higher profit commerce, and the price of diesel went up 400% so thus nobody cuts down trees in Wisconsin, because they have no cheap way to move them anywhere else, unless they start burning wood gas to power their freight vehicles.
the reason i brought up wood gas was very simple, the fuel in wood gas is hydrogen, therefore it shows how safe and stable a fuel source hydrogen is when you properly combine it with nitrogen and other inert gases.
as for super cooling it the answer is obvious. Liquid nitrogen, you need 50% nitrogen or higher anyways, just produce LN2 to cool the hydrogen so you can refuel vehicles instantly. that does detract from the economy of using hydrogen though. and part of the efficiency of electric vehicles, is the efficiency of the battery, the amount of power you put into a battery is about half of what you get out of it, dropping 88% efficiency to 44% still a very nice number though. the other problem is the batteries get worse the older they get, especially nimh's (as used in the prius)
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countless things can go wrong, most modern bioses let you swap boot devices with a single keypress, and dual booting to 2 hard drives lets you avoid bootloader headaches, as well as allows you to completely format either drive, with a HD eraser like darik's boot and nuke, without affecting the other drive, simply by pulling the cable to that drive...
i've never liked trying to get multiple oses to play nice with multi-boot, single drive configurations... and so i never install it that way.
Nicad batteries are bad, and involve heavy metals.
lithium ion/lithium polymer rechargeable are great for 2 reasons. 1. lithium is non toxic to humans 2. lithium is recyclable.
lithium ion and lithium polymer batteries are going to be everywhere we're going to mass produce the hell out of them, and hopefully people with bother to recycle them, because recycling them doesn't involve getting rid of toxic waste. Lead acid recycling takes mammoth sale deposits that force people to recycle them.
gameboys never came with rechargeable battery packs until the GBA SP, by then cell phones and laptops had brought Li-ion tech down to affordable prices, if you can run it off a standard sized battery, li-ion is plenty affordable. lithium polymer promises to bring the price down even more. so all is good.
and if they stick with the same technical specifications long enough It will get down to $10.
I remember before intel was the king of CPUs that there was the Z-80, and by the mid-90's Z-80 embedded systems (like the franklin bookman electronic dictionaries) were selling for around $40, with a hangman cartridge on flash memory.. the big cost, back then was the flash memory, and sadly Franklin moved away from the command line/text interfaces to go with more costly fancier displays, etc. only to go to more simple displays again, and 'text to speech' processors...
here's the thing though, by the mid 90's the Z-80 microprocessor was so energy efficient that you could literally run it off 2 cr2022 lithium batteries, and while i didn't use the dictionary every day, it took 13 years for my batteries to fail, to be honest though i used it more for hangman than for a dictionary.
if i used it daily, it would still last a long time, though, especially since it saves where you are in the dictionary so you can turn it off, then when you turn it on again it's in the same place. very easy to use, and nice.
the reason why i know it's a Z-80 is because i took the dictionary apart to look at it once. they do have cheaper non speaking dictionaries today, as well. http://www.franklin.com/estore/dictionary/TG-450/ like that one (12 language translation! for $40) for whatever reason the language translating models cost the same as the basic english models, and they have a wide array of 'high end' speaking dictionaries, including ones with mp3 playback, and ebook reading features...
the problem is breakfast cereal is just empty carbs and sugar, some are 'whole grain' but many of them are corn.
whole grain corn is what they give feed lot cattle for 6 months to get them to double their weight. BTW i didn't say i didn't eat breakfast, I said i stopped eating breakfast cereal. big difference. peanut butter bread has plenty of protein, but is still a bit high on sugar, unless you buy sugar free peanut butter..
eggs are a good breakfast too, or egg beaters to not get the cholesterol... but breakfast cereal is the worst.
i can't handle water, i grew up on kool-aid, soda pop, and chocolate milk.
blame my parents for spoiling us kids, but i'm not the only one in the family who doesn't drink plain water often.
"The minimum caloric needs of your 380 lb corpulence are ~2700 calories/day. Any less than that and your body starts raiding your fat rolls like your raid bakery rolls."
perhaps, the fault doesn't lie in the AC, but rather in the information he's using to obtain his calories? I for one have noticed that food packaging, while usually having truthful nutrition facts labels, have downright false of misleading front of package portion numbers, the worst offender was 'great value' brand products, their microwave bacon claims the same number of ounces as their competitor, hormel, yet if you go by the nutrition facts label, and do the math you wind up with double the number of grams of meat as on the front of the package. if you go by calories per gram, and multiply by the front of the package, you'd only come up with 50% of the actual calories.
now myself, the only diet i use is pretty simple. 1. restrict sugar. sugar is evil, and i avoid sugary foods wherever possible. 2. snack healthy this means, for me, popcorn, pork rinds, whole grain baked snack chips, 1% fat cottage cheese, or small quantities of peanut butter + wheat bread (like a fold over sandwich)
anything high in protein is a priority over other snacking options carb based snacks are highly limited, once in a while for a treat i'll get a 99 cent sized potato/dorrito chip bag, or a candy bar, mostly the only other treat i allow is stride gum, which uses more carbs in chewing that chewing gum gives calories.
Since i can't tolerate asperatame (headaches) that means i'm stuck with sucralose or stevia for low carb flavored drinks. luckily a very nice sucralose based powdered drink mix is on the market under 2 brand names propel, and fulfill. for $2.50/10 pack and $2/10 pack respectively. This is my primary daily drink although i'm likely getting over vitaminized by this but they're water soluble vitamins...
since my food is also on a budget, i've been relying on some fairly cheap, but not as good for me products, and i shop almost exclusively at the local wal-mart. i was having weight gain problems when i was eating breakfast cereal daily, and i have trouble following my diet on vacations, since my relatives have no sane diet restrictions... but since i cut the breakfast cereal, my weight has stabilized. i only eat breakfast (microwave ones, though) on my grocery shopping day, so i'm not shopping on an empty stomach. i allow allow myself about 16 ounces of sugar sweetened soda(actually 1/4 a 2-liter), per day maximum, skipping days whenever possible through will power, etc.
and i sit all day in front of a computer, and don't exercise.
it's totally unhealthy, to not exercise, but i always justify my life style with the 'you can't live forever' argument.
the big problem with nukes, and unmanned ships to tow it, is that it's extremely hard to move ship that far into space, in fact nasa is relying on project orion, originally a ship that would take 12 men to mars... to get a ship far enough out to deal with big objects.
a ship powered with controlled nuclear propulsion.
i think the best idea, is mechanize the moon, whatever the defense, having a moon base ready to deal with the problem is more realistic, there is tons of uranium, titanium, just about anything you could want even water in certain craters with comet debris that have long enough shadows to not evaporate all the water away. if you set up a system of construction robots that are able to build the moonbase, without having to send people up there, and the equipment can handle high G launches, or most of it can, then it should cost a lot less than sending people to the moon.
in the years where there isn't any threat to man kind the robotic moon base can do basic mining, and perhaps low g nanopartical manufacture, or even build satellites, or other space vehicles and devices.
"First - I've probably plugged 15 different digital cameras into various flavors of linux."
you must love destroying the environment then, by using batteries to power a device that was meant to write pictures to memory cards, instead of a $10 card reader, that is entirely USB hub powered, and can probably read 21 memory card formats.
never have i understood the desire to run from batteries a device that should be entirely usb powered to get pictures off a standard format memory card... i bought my first laptop specifically because CF to PCMCIA devices were available, and i didn't need to keep 4 AA batteries in my camera just to copy pictures to a computer, back then 1 mega pixel cameras used 4 AAs.
i wanted a laptop as well, though, and i definitely got my worth out of that p-120 w/F00F bug.
there are plenty of diesel and flex fuel vehicles on the road, not to mention states that use e-10 or e20 fuels standard.
old cars were made with real rubber some times, and ethanol eats through real rubber like it was cotton candy.
now, when you buy a car from a dealer ship they're going to tell you diesel/unleaded, today they might even tell you if it's flex fuel, although in the past they didn't. it could be a selling point, since e85 is cheaper right now than regular gasoline.
in this case, the nephew, basically took an 'unleaded' vehicle, pulled the engine block and switched to to 'diesel' and when auntie went to fuel it up, the sticker on the pump panel said 'unleaded' so that's what she gave it and the engine blew up on her, remember PCs have a nice sticker on the front that tell you what OS it is.
so of course she got mad, she saw the sticker on the front and that wasn't what was under the hood.
never switch someone to linux without explaining to them how to get software, a quick synaptics check shows 4 genealogy packages, she had no need to go to the store for that software, as for cameras, a simple USB flash memory reader would have fixed her camera (and saved batteries!) for only $10 or less, as far as the scanner, today's digital cameras provide better image quality/faster with some nice reflective lighting, a display stand, and a tripod... plus you don't have to break spines, or worry that the text along the spine won't read right, as long as you have a good piece of glass or something to hold the page flat for the camera. for old photographs, there are services where you mail the negatives and get digital pictures on a cd back in the mail... why do it yourself? it's a pain!
if you threw out the negatives, you can probably take the physical pictures to most camera stores to have the prints converted to digital, for a fee.
you should teach users to write down hints that aren't the actual password, but allow them to remember what the password is.
besides, writing down passwords is only bad if you don't protect who can read the paper properly.
"AH HA! See, Childs was right , he is the only competent one!"
from TFA: 'Some of the passwords would benefit from a change because they are identical to the VPN log-in name or extremely easy to guess.'
wow, bad passwords, no wonder the guy was worried, using dictionary words is like not having a password as far as hackers are concerned, same deal with identical user/pass combos. i realize they use a encrypted key along with the password, but still...
oh neat, i switched to nautilus.
"Alt-F2, run "kcontrol". Go to KDE Components -> File Associations, select inode/directory," in application preference order click 'add' then type 'nautilus'. that easy. newly added default to the top. then apply settings and close it.
nautilus needs to be installed of course, it was on mine because i used the meta package to switch to kde.
i've had issues (possibly hardware related) with gnome, but only on one computer...
hopefully kde 4.1 doesn't break on my hardware like gnome did, otherwise i'd have to force 3.x version.
the only part of kde i dislike is dolphin, i like nautilus better. oh yeah, and i still use firefox even with kde.
the first custom built PC i ever built used a very no-name motherboard, from a company called PC Chips, I never had a single problem with that system, and it was my primary firewall system for many many years after i built better systems. I didn't get burned on 'cheap' motherboards until 2-3 custom built systems in, and obviously major OEMs use cheap grade motherboards especially in their $300 dollar systems.
if you research forums and troubleshooting advice you can find out what's right and what's wrong with various models of motherboards, and find a cheap one that will work for you, but it's gotten so much harder to do that nowadays since the size of the internet is so massive now.
i wish someone would come up with a firefox extension that searched for negative posts about motherboards (and other hardware) in a wide array of tech support forums/product reviews. i know there is pluribo, but that only covers 1 website, and it only does a summary...
"He is self-centered (or rather, more self-centered than the average Joe) because of what? Because he sent out spam emails and didn't care that he got on your nerves?"
he did worse than that, he bought up gobs of a penny stock, heavily promoted it (via spam) as a good investment, and dumped it for millions of dollars.
that's a bit more than just clogging up everyone's in boxes with spam. I realize a lot of spam is scams to dupe the mentally deficient, but the reason he got in jail was for his abuse of the stock market, totally illegal.
i've been involved in delivery before, the typical delivery driver will but 50,000 miles on their vehicle a year. if, by some miracle you can get 20 deliveries in a nice pattern of driving that doesn't waste any miles at all, then yeah you save a lot of driving, but is it really shorter if you drive 5 miles to each location because the suburban sprawl causes that to be your best route? what about commuters stopping at the store on their way home from work? what if they only went 1 mile out of their way?
you're claiming it saves many miles, but from my experience in the industry the saving if any is marginal.
Especially when you get involved with services like fedex/UPS there you're generating more traffic in most cases.
but but it said they're going to Freeze Lenny!
cryogenically preserved he won't be able to do much...
"One word. Mass. The mass of a battery pack is likely to be hundreds of pounds. (The Tesla roadster's battery weighs 900 lbs, for a point of reference.)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forklift
'The Counterweight - is a heavy cast iron mass attached to the rear of the forklift truck frame. The purpose of the counterweight is to counterbalance the load being lifted. In an electric forklift the large lead-acid battery itself may serve as part of the counterweight.'
unfortunately wikipedia doesn't mention they weight of electric forklift batteries, but IIRC they are 1000-2000 lbs, and are completely modular for replacement while the batteries charge.
it's not hard to do, although on forklifts it requires a pallet jack, and one human to manually service a battery. my point was that for this to be 'realistic' for a cab company, the battery MUST BE MODULAR, even if a human with a pallet jack replaces the battery instead of a big robot.
if a large lead acid battery the size of a forklifts can be modularized, despite being a very big thing full of lead and acid, then a robotic cab can modularize the battery, as well.
"Yes, I agree. Maybe if those geeks designed a world-wide web that allowed people to shop from their homes."
and creates a courier driving instead. the twin cities had 2 grocery to the home delivery service, 1 was huge, and used big, UPS style fleet vehicles, don't know the mileage on those vehicles, but the other used fleet-vans with 20 mpg, and they're still in business charging $2 per order.
shop from home is convenient, but it doesn't reduce vehicular travel. the only exception, site 2 store from wal-mart, site2-store piggybacks on existing truck shipments to/from wally-world if you're close to a wal-mart this does save fuel, a lot over say, shipping UPS. shipping via US postal mail, they use semi's etc, but very few e-shopping sites offer that, and grocery delivery is always going to be a courier based service.
redesigning cities, would be the easiest way to save fuel, if people could get to jobs/food/shopping/home/school for a reasonable price all within walking distance, they might not use cars, as an example look at new york city where there are neighborhoods where you can do every thing without a car, and then use cabs when you want to go different parts of the city or use mass transit.
Consider wal-mart, they put a lot of different businesses inside the store, like a little strip mall in the front of wal-mart... but they don't for instance, build a housing complex above the wal-mart, they don't build office parks above the store (although i have seen grocery stores that offered office space for rent)
there are a lot of things we could do differently as a society. but companies don't like risky stuff, they like proven money makers. then we have all these zoning laws etc...
a city that has a large cab pool is the best place to deploy this technology, you're right, robot cars don't eliminate the need for a car, but cabs are very useful in new york city, for say someone who rides the train to work, then wants/needs to take a cab because they didn't drive a car into the city.
and who says robot car driving systems won't come with personal cars? if they can do it realistically for cabs, then they can do it for personal cars. also, a robot cab lets you redesign cabs entirely, you no longer need a to use up '2' spaces for a cab driver, and an empty chair, or just an empty mounting bracket for a chair... suddenly you can have 4 person or 6 person cabs, without making special cars for them.
mass production won't help, they're already pioneering mass producing an ultralight vehicle, total weight 850 lbs.
and it's still only a 1 seater, and it doesn't look like it's very good for grocery shopping, either..
i hope that they manage to survive, and eventually make a 2-seat + cargo space vehicle... otherwise, i think plug in prius models will dominate. they've got 4 seats and cargo area... and with plug in over night can pre-charge, and maybe if you have a short commute, not even need to use gas.
"now, what is this "meds" you speak of and have you proof of their efficacy other than your own observations or by that do you mean some sort of chemical mind-jail or other "mind-control" coercion where it is simply the first mandatory step (refusal punishable by jail). "
well, if you accept mind control, as both the cause of the illness, and the source of the cure, and the medication as the 'operand' that determines what type of mental state they give you... well, then there is no proof that the medications work.
although i do know that my primary medicine Quetiapine definitely has medical use, as a sedative. the secondary medicine is paliperidone. but there is a question. why go to such lengths for a single, 30 year old male, with a horrible work history, most known for the amount of time he spend playing video games?
just to provide an excuse for the federal government to give him $500 a month and another $200 a month from the state? so he can buy a fancy tv and computer and lots of video games and dvds?
i'm failing to see why if the symptoms were from mind control why _i_ would have been targeted, and say, not bill gates.
now i know why hackers target my system in 2006, and perhaps, the mind control was done, as a result of hackers getting malware on my system in 2006, and it really was still on those computers for several years... i wasn't able to fully get it off until 2007... and even then there were complications removing it fully, and i'm not 100% sure it's gone, after all i made back ups media for my parent's pc, and i no longer know if they only touched clean systems or not sigh. but my parents have good security software now, so if there were any problems, someone better at taking care of security issues is in a place to take care of anything... (i went with comodo, since they have professionals who can remotely fix any malware issues.)
my sisters, have less good protection, i really want one of my sisters to have a special, linux based computer for using on the internet, and take her windows PC off the internet.
oh well.
there is something really important if we really do make 'robo' taxis.
Modular battery systems. why buy a $xx,000 dollar robo taxi, if it has to 'sit' while the battery pack charges? it can be electric, electricity is cheap, right now much cheaper than oil, and it would have been almost as cheap as oil even when gas was only a $1.
what makes the most sense it to have a 'repair shop/charging station' where the robo taxi's go to swap batteries, if you want them to waste less fuel driving back to get batteries, you might make deals to have remote charging blocks. you buy as many batteries as you need to keep the fleet in operation, and if you're really tight, set the chargers to only charge to 90% full (the last 10% uses more energy) and to come back for battery swaps, whenever they hit 20% capacity, so that if you have a fare you can finish it if needed, and maybe have a light on the cam that warns passengers it's going to the charging station next...
I think this tech will replace foreign human workers driving cabs eventually, after all a computer costs a lot less than even a month of salary... although cab drivers are tipped workers so they probably get the 'minimum' pay for a tipped wage earner...
when it finally becomes a standard feature on main stream cars, it will be very cool.
keep in mind an electronic cab system can communicate with the passenger via their cell phone/the internet to arrange pickup and just have a touch screen/GPS system for setting destination. and have credit/debit card for payment, maybe with a slot machine bill reader... but who pays with cash anyways..
i run firefox with noscript, and removed google and yahoo from my trusted domains, you insensitive clod!
"Wood gas is NOT made from electrolysis, it's made from wood, and have you seen the wood pellet costs over the last 10 years, due to ethanol and wood home heating demand? a SIX FOLD INCREASE!!! It would cost over $7 per gallon to make H2 wood gas today,"
I don't know where you live, but i live in the woods of wisconsin and the price of wood has gone Down every year Except 2008. the lumber plant in a city to the north of me has 3 acres of stockpiled lumber because they were getting it so mother fucking cheap.
2008 yes the price did go up, but not 600% not in the back woods of wisconsin. it went up maybe 20%
the reason? just about every paper mill in the state shut down in 2005-06 and they sold off all their privately owned wooded acerage..
i know i'm in a lumber state, and that taints my views, but please understand, that the only way for those trees here in Wisconsin to get anywhere else is by highway, there are very few rail systems left, the great lakes are used for a lot of other higher profit commerce, and the price of diesel went up 400% so thus nobody cuts down trees in Wisconsin, because they have no cheap way to move them anywhere else, unless they start burning wood gas to power their freight vehicles.
the reason i brought up wood gas was very simple, the fuel in wood gas is hydrogen, therefore it shows how safe and stable a fuel source hydrogen is when you properly combine it with nitrogen and other inert gases.
as for super cooling it the answer is obvious. Liquid nitrogen, you need 50% nitrogen or higher anyways, just produce LN2 to cool the hydrogen so you can refuel vehicles instantly. that does detract from the economy of using hydrogen though. and part of the efficiency of electric vehicles, is the efficiency of the battery, the amount of power you put into a battery is about half of what you get out of it, dropping 88% efficiency to 44% still a very nice number though. the other problem is the batteries get worse the older they get, especially nimh's (as used in the prius)