I'll stand corrected on this one. I've been licensed to drive for a wjo;e, and the Oregon Driver's Manual I studied a decade or so ago did make this exception.
The law used to read that you could continue to travel, but apparently it changed during my time in the military. The relevant section reads as follows:
Oregon Revised Statutes 811.145 Failure to yield to emergency vehicle or ambulance; penalty. (1) A person commits the offense of failure to yield to an emergency vehicle or ambulance if an ambulance or emergency vehicle that is using a visual or audible signal in a manner described under ORS 820.300 and 820.320 approaches the vehicle the person is operating and the person does not do all of the following:
(a) Yield the right of way to the ambulance or emergency vehicle.
(b) Immediately drive to a position as near as possible and parallel to the right-hand edge or curb of the roadway clear of any intersection.
(c) Stop and remain in such position until the emergency vehicle or ambulance has passed.
(2) A person is not in violation of this section if the person is acting as otherwise directed by a police officer.
(3) This section does not relieve the driver of an emergency vehicle or ambulance from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons using the highway, nor does this section protect the driver of any such vehicle from the consequence of an arbitrary exercise of the right of way granted under this section.
(4) The offense described in this section, failure to yield to an emergency vehicle or ambulance, is a Class B traffic violation. [1983 c.338 582; 1985 c.16 289; 1995 c.383 46]
I would maintain, however, that requiring people to come to a dead stop on the freeway is still damn stupid.
You get a picture of the perp and his license plate, plus the light will be plainly visible to the camera. Perfect evidence for a court case.
And suppose I get one (or two) of these things and install them right above or below the license plate?
Not only do I get a green light... but if it happens to not work and be red, I can run the red too! My fancy device is washing out the camera in the vicinity of my license plate, making the plate unreadable!
Also, it solves the problems motorcycles have with being too light to trigger the pavement sensor.
You may have to explain this one... too light?
The system used here works the same as a metal detector. A wire loop is embedded in the pavement (and it's not that difficult of a process you cut, insert the loop, and tar-seal) and it simply detects metal near the loop (because it changes the resonant frequency of the inductor). I've got two friends that ride motorcycles and they say it has never been a problem for them.
and that's why folks, you pull over, ALL the way over.
Unless you are on a multilane highway (read: freeway/expressway.), in which case you get all the way into the righthand lane and keep going. DO NOT STOP ON THE FUCKING FREEWAY. Just get over to the right lane and let the damn ambulance/cop/firepeople go around you.
Sorry, I've been wanting to vent this for a long time. In Oregon, you are not required to pull off the road and/or stop for an emergency vehicle when you are on a multilane (2 or more lanes in both directions) highway. For some stupid reason, about half the people don't understand that all you have to do is get into the righthand lane and keep going.
Jewel cases are FAR too fragile. You look at it funny and it breaks. floppies on the otherhand could take a touch more impact.
Also, your media often times doesn't actually come with a jewel case.
I've always found that the spring in the 3.5" floppy's door mechanism is it's downfall.
You can get good jewel cases... I just got a box of 100 slim cases that are pretty sturdy.
The big deal about jewel cases is that the surface of the disc isn't in contact with anything. A lot of people I know use sleeves and whatnot... their discs wear out a lot faster.
Of course... I know people who don't use jewel cases at all. I had a friend send me some cds in the mail... 3 of them stacked together in a padded envelope. Well, all the bouncing and such in travel made one of them completely unreadable, and the other two so bad I had to spend time extracting the information and burn it to other discs.
Wait, so every drop of alcohol in the entire state goes through one warehouse, and the state is in charge of running this warehouse?
It works this way in Oregon, too... Our respective entity is the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. It's a for-profit state entity that deals exclusively in liquor and liquor enforcement. The stores are subcontracted to a select few people under heavy regulation.
They ran out of stock of my favorite cheap single-malt scotch about a year ago and still haven't gotten any in.
If I drive to California or Nevada where they have private stores I can get liquor at half-price.
Oh yeah, and they are only open until 7 PM, and only in Portland are they open on Sunday.
And this seemed like a good idea?
Apparently so. In addition, since they are open only until 7 PM, the only place to go and buy alcohol after 7 is at a bar. IMNSHO, this encourages drunk driving, since people still have to get home.
Many of us have tried to get an initiative on the ballot that would eliminate this system (why is the state monopolizing an industry, anyway?), but two things have always happened. (1) Not enough signatures collected or (2) The attorney general "finds invalid" enough signatures that it doesn't happen.
I think he's trying to be funny... Obviously none of those are even in Canada...
I think he was trying to be both funny and informative at the same time. (Do we need a composite moderation system?)
Obviously all of those locations are close to the border. Given that a large percentage of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of the border, I'd say that it is, in fact, informative.
Hell, I'd have to drive more than 100 miles to go to the nearest location to me. And then I'd have to deal with the 8th worst traffic in the nation, etc.
The way it was presented, though. That was funny. (Someone suggested TrollBait, but I think that the composite of Troll and Flamebait isn't an accurate description, though the difference between "funny" and "flamebait" or "troll" is rather subjective.)
I always thought alt-graph was basically another meta key, used for other character sets....
What I want to know, is what was the unnamed unlabeled key on my sun keyboard for? I forget where it was.. in the top left, I think, or bottom left, near there.. and it had no label.
What I really want to know.. is... was it the ANY key?
It's in the upper left next to "Help", and mine was briefly labelled "ANY" with some rub-on transfer labels.
But, now I mostly just SSH to my sparc box, so I never see that keyboard anymore.
[Do you practice/purchase:] - low-energy light bulbs (do you buy these?)
Sometimes... only when I can combine it with an incandescent in a multi-bulb fixture, since the light from CFs is ugly and harsh.
- better insulation in your home
I rent.
- fuel-efficient cars
My car gets 35 MPG, can hold 5 people comfortably, and will hit 120 MPH no problem. No way will I get one of those hybrids until they can do the same. (Not that I *need* to hit 120 MPH, but being able to get on the freeway with a typical traffic speed of 80 MPH on an uphill ramp is nice.)
- season tickets for transport
Right. I live in one of the most hippie-infested cities on the planet. There's nothing like getting on a bus that smells like a fine mixture of B.O., pachoule, and mary jane. Not to mention the whackos that insist on talking to you when you have nothing to say to them. Please reference Weird Al's "Another One Rides the Bus" for a complete description.
- freezing food in the summer when it's cheap
I rent. I can't put in a new freezer that would actually hold enough.
McDonald's knew their coffee was hot enough to cause third-degree burns within a few seconds' contact, but said they did not intend on lowering the temperature, because as one juror put it "[McDonald's has a] callous disregard for the safety of the people.
Maybe the truth is this: Customers wanted coffee that hot, so that when they get on the road, it's still hot.
Maybe you like lukewarm coffee, but personally, I prefer my coffee to be served at a temperature that burns the tip of my tongue on the first sip, thanks.
It's lawsuits like the McDonalds one you mention that cause everything to be dumbed down and cause warning labels to get bigger and bigger.
Now, whenever I see on the cup "Caution, coffee is hot!" I can't help but think: NO SHIT! followed by It'd better be!
Normally I wouldn't respond to junk like this, but just to defend myself against the statement "you dont even deserve to touch fucking computers because you dont do one god damn useful fucking thing with them", I will.
First of all, I have contributed to a few open-source projects out there. I am one of the many people that have submitted patches that fix and add new features to X-Chat, for instance.
I have also had my code published in The Perl Journal and in this book.
Why feel sorry for me? What I do with Windows works for me. If I were to use Linux as a replacement for my main Desktop as opposed to just using it on my secondary machine, then I would be severly limited. And then you could rightfully feel sorry for me
It was a joke, dude. Lighten up! Not everyone on Slashdot is a GNU/Zealot ready to jump down your throat just because you use Windows as your desktop OS.
M$? Does it make you feel more "leet" to use a $ in place of the S? Sorry, I don't mean to be confrontational but saying M$ or Microshaft or Winblows seems about as childish as Mac users who call PC's Pee Cee's.
Mostly it's just habit anymore... I've been calling them M$ for many years. It started about the time they began to abuse their monopoly privelege, and I've been using it ever since.
Now, I'm a capitalist, but I am a structural capitalist, and such a system precludes allowing one entity to become so powerful in they system that they can dominate or control a major aspect of it. Microsoft has this, and has abused it to what I see as their unfair advantage.
I write M$ not only out of habit, but because it is a reminder about what the company really cares about. It isn't about providing you with the Best Damn Desktop OS on the Planet(TM), it's about locking you, the consumer, into their products so that you have no other choice but to continue purchasing them.
At $100 bucks every two years... it's a good deal for them when multiplied by millions, just for insignificant upgrades. (I'll grant that the upgrade from ME to XP was significant... but the upgrade from 2K to XP was not... home users won, but business users gained nothing. 95->98->98SE->ME were not worth 100 bucks each.)
As to the rest of it, I don't use the terms Microshaft, or Winblows (you'll note in all my posts that I called it "Windows"). M$ is the only one of those that I use.
Sure. You readily admit to using RedHat 9 and KDE/Gnome so I guess it's safe to assume you're not a Linux elitist who will just debunk everything I say and dehumanize me
Actually I was genuinely curious. I'm not out to dehumanize people who are stuck with Windows. I just feel sorry for you, that's all.:)
Seriously, I'm always interested in what kinds of software keep people in Windows. Your mention of a M$ Flight Simulator is an excellent example that I hadn't considered... it is a really good game. (Mainly because M$ didn't do the original coding, which is probably also why I like Age of Mythology.)
Remember that I also said that I occasionally have need for Windows, especially for (gasp!) a Microsoft-published game.
First thing that comes to mind is my iPod. The Linux support I've seen for the iPod has been pretty scarry.
Hmm... I wouldn't buy an iPod myself, I've got an MP3 CD player that works just fine and is infinitely expandable. (And well-supported by Linux!) You didn't get the VW Beetle with that iPod, did you? (In which case I will debunk everything you say and dehumanize you.)
Your webcam and flight-sim gear are same boat for me... I'm just not interested in that hardware myself. I think your flight-sim gear would work just fine in Linux if it connects to the ordinary game port.
My all-in-one Fax/Scanner/Copier/Printer becomes an none-but-one device in Linux. The printer works, the rest don't. Although in my latest tinkerings with XSane, I was finally able to scan an image. But again, the driver quality is so lack luster that there's no way I can use it. I'm willing to "sacrifice" some ease of use for the greater good of Open Source, but there's a fine line between a little sacrifice and cruel and unusual punishment.
Okay, this one I agree wholeheartedly with. Print/Scan/Fax in Linux varies between great and absolute shit. I've never gotten a scanner to work in Linux. (I tried a couple, but gave up.) HP DeskJet printing tends to waste ink. (Black text should be black ink only, damnit!)
It's not quite a show-stopper for me, though.
The list goes on - but since I doubt you'll read this anyway I'm not going to waste my time with anything more.
You were wrong.:)
To an extent, I agree with your sentiment... but I guess the main thing is our divergent interests. I can say that Linux has worked well for me, but I've been conscious of what kind of hardware I should buy and what kind of software I actually need for years.
Right now, I can say that my machine runs well, and Linux supports all the hardware I currently use. I guess I got the better mileage.
I first tried linux back when it was kernel 0.99.something. Neat toy, but not useful.
Slackware 3.0 was my first "real" linux. Neat toy, but not useful on the desktop. I was learning a lot of stuff about *nix though. I kept it on a partition though, because there were a few cool X games, and I could code in Perl. I kept up with the Slackware releases for a while.
Things started to change when I installed Red Hat 6. It supported all of my hardware. I installed both GNOME and KDE. GNOME wouldn't start for some reason, but KDE would. KDE was pretty cool, and made things fairly useful.
I found I booted into Windows less and less... until finally the only time I ever used Windows was to play games or use MS Office.
I'm now running RH 9 and since I've been Linux-conscious on hardware purchases all of my hardware is supported well. Applications like OpenOffice have removed my dependence on MS Office.
There is only a single reason I ever boot Windows: My wife likes to play Age of Mythology with me over the LAN, and it doesn't run on Linux. Since I don't play it all the time, it's not a reason to boot into Windows by default.
Everything else I want/need can be found in Linux, and works well.
I do have RH9 installed on another machine but it always comes back to the same thing. Some program I need/want doesn't exist for Linux or some hardware that I use won't work, or at best works very poorly.:(
Would you mind naming these software and hardware?
I can read perl just fine, and understand what's going on.
The difference is knowing the language in question.
Of course, I've been published in an O'Reilly book for having the dubious distinction of scoring a 2nd place in the 4th Annual Obfuscated Perl Contest.
expect that ip to get null routed by the backbone carriers real fast.
Not to mention by all us small network operators that only have a dozen machines to deal with... I've already made that IP address dead from my network's point of view.
Well, actually, solar cell technology has been improving steadily over the last several years. There are currently flying spacecraft with 26% efficient cells, 28% cells due to start rolling off the production lines sometime in the next year or two, and experimental designs for cells that are up to 35% efficient.
Your key word here is "space"... They are that efficient in space.
I doubt they have that same efficiency on the ground.
So you get two beneficial effects: you're removing sunlight from a place that you don't want it, and at the same time you're using that power for use elsewhere.
If you didn't want sunlight there, then why is there a window there in the first place?
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Doesn't the GPL require you to assign your copyright to the Free Software Foundation?
No.
I'll stand corrected on this one. I've been licensed to drive for a wjo;e, and the Oregon Driver's Manual I studied a decade or so ago did make this exception.
The law used to read that you could continue to travel, but apparently it changed during my time in the military. The relevant section reads as follows:
Oregon Revised Statutes 811.145 Failure to yield to emergency vehicle or ambulance; penalty. (1) A person commits the offense of failure to yield to an emergency vehicle or ambulance if an ambulance or emergency vehicle that is using a visual or audible signal in a manner described under ORS 820.300 and 820.320 approaches the vehicle the person is operating and the person does not do all of the following:
(a) Yield the right of way to the ambulance or emergency vehicle.
(b) Immediately drive to a position as near as possible and parallel to the right-hand edge or curb of the roadway clear of any intersection.
(c) Stop and remain in such position until the emergency vehicle or ambulance has passed.
(2) A person is not in violation of this section if the person is acting as otherwise directed by a police officer.
(3) This section does not relieve the driver of an emergency vehicle or ambulance from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons using the highway, nor does this section protect the driver of any such vehicle from the consequence of an arbitrary exercise of the right of way granted under this section.
(4) The offense described in this section, failure to yield to an emergency vehicle or ambulance, is a Class B traffic violation. [1983 c.338 582; 1985 c.16 289; 1995 c.383 46]
I would maintain, however, that requiring people to come to a dead stop on the freeway is still damn stupid.
You get a picture of the perp and his license plate, plus the light will be plainly visible to the camera. Perfect evidence for a court case.
And suppose I get one (or two) of these things and install them right above or below the license plate?
Not only do I get a green light... but if it happens to not work and be red, I can run the red too! My fancy device is washing out the camera in the vicinity of my license plate, making the plate unreadable!
Also, it solves the problems motorcycles have with being too light to trigger the pavement sensor.
You may have to explain this one... too light?
The system used here works the same as a metal detector. A wire loop is embedded in the pavement (and it's not that difficult of a process you cut, insert the loop, and tar-seal) and it simply detects metal near the loop (because it changes the resonant frequency of the inductor). I've got two friends that ride motorcycles and they say it has never been a problem for them.
and that's why folks, you pull over, ALL the way over.
Unless you are on a multilane highway (read: freeway/expressway.), in which case you get all the way into the righthand lane and keep going. DO NOT STOP ON THE FUCKING FREEWAY. Just get over to the right lane and let the damn ambulance/cop/firepeople go around you.
Sorry, I've been wanting to vent this for a long time. In Oregon, you are not required to pull off the road and/or stop for an emergency vehicle when you are on a multilane (2 or more lanes in both directions) highway. For some stupid reason, about half the people don't understand that all you have to do is get into the righthand lane and keep going.
Jewel cases are FAR too fragile. You look at it funny and it breaks. floppies on the otherhand could take a touch more impact.
Also, your media often times doesn't actually come with a jewel case.
I've always found that the spring in the 3.5" floppy's door mechanism is it's downfall.
You can get good jewel cases... I just got a box of 100 slim cases that are pretty sturdy.
The big deal about jewel cases is that the surface of the disc isn't in contact with anything. A lot of people I know use sleeves and whatnot... their discs wear out a lot faster.
Of course... I know people who don't use jewel cases at all. I had a friend send me some cds in the mail... 3 of them stacked together in a padded envelope. Well, all the bouncing and such in travel made one of them completely unreadable, and the other two so bad I had to spend time extracting the information and burn it to other discs.
Three slim jewel cases would have prevented this.
Should be obvious but...
USE A JEWEL CASE!
Wait, so every drop of alcohol in the entire state goes through one warehouse, and the state is in charge of running this warehouse?
It works this way in Oregon, too... Our respective entity is the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. It's a for-profit state entity that deals exclusively in liquor and liquor enforcement. The stores are subcontracted to a select few people under heavy regulation.
They ran out of stock of my favorite cheap single-malt scotch about a year ago and still haven't gotten any in.
If I drive to California or Nevada where they have private stores I can get liquor at half-price.
Oh yeah, and they are only open until 7 PM, and only in Portland are they open on Sunday.
And this seemed like a good idea?
Apparently so. In addition, since they are open only until 7 PM, the only place to go and buy alcohol after 7 is at a bar. IMNSHO, this encourages drunk driving, since people still have to get home.
Many of us have tried to get an initiative on the ballot that would eliminate this system (why is the state monopolizing an industry, anyway?), but two things have always happened. (1) Not enough signatures collected or (2) The attorney general "finds invalid" enough signatures that it doesn't happen.
I think he's trying to be funny... Obviously none of those are even in Canada...
I think he was trying to be both funny and informative at the same time. (Do we need a composite moderation system?)
Obviously all of those locations are close to the border. Given that a large percentage of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of the border, I'd say that it is, in fact, informative.
Hell, I'd have to drive more than 100 miles to go to the nearest location to me. And then I'd have to deal with the 8th worst traffic in the nation, etc.
The way it was presented, though. That was funny. (Someone suggested TrollBait, but I think that the composite of Troll and Flamebait isn't an accurate description, though the difference between "funny" and "flamebait" or "troll" is rather subjective.)
I always thought alt-graph was basically another meta key, used for other character sets....
What I want to know, is what was the unnamed unlabeled key on my sun keyboard for? I forget where it was.. in the top left, I think, or bottom left, near there.. and it had no label.
What I really want to know.. is... was it the ANY key?
It's in the upper left next to "Help", and mine was briefly labelled "ANY" with some rub-on transfer labels.
But, now I mostly just SSH to my sparc box, so I never see that keyboard anymore.
I feel the need to respond:
[Do you practice/purchase:]
- low-energy light bulbs (do you buy these?)
Sometimes... only when I can combine it with an incandescent in a multi-bulb fixture, since the light from CFs is ugly and harsh.
- better insulation in your home
I rent.
- fuel-efficient cars
My car gets 35 MPG, can hold 5 people comfortably, and will hit 120 MPH no problem. No way will I get one of those hybrids until they can do the same. (Not that I *need* to hit 120 MPH, but being able to get on the freeway with a typical traffic speed of 80 MPH on an uphill ramp is nice.)
- season tickets for transport
Right. I live in one of the most hippie-infested cities on the planet. There's nothing like getting on a bus that smells like a fine mixture of B.O., pachoule, and mary jane. Not to mention the whackos that insist on talking to you when you have nothing to say to them. Please reference Weird Al's "Another One Rides the Bus" for a complete description.
- freezing food in the summer when it's cheap
I rent. I can't put in a new freezer that would actually hold enough.
McDonald's knew their coffee was hot enough to cause third-degree burns within a few seconds' contact, but said they did not intend on lowering the temperature, because as one juror put it "[McDonald's has a] callous disregard for the safety of the people.
Maybe the truth is this: Customers wanted coffee that hot, so that when they get on the road, it's still hot.
Maybe you like lukewarm coffee, but personally, I prefer my coffee to be served at a temperature that burns the tip of my tongue on the first sip, thanks.
It's lawsuits like the McDonalds one you mention that cause everything to be dumbed down and cause warning labels to get bigger and bigger.
Now, whenever I see on the cup "Caution, coffee is hot!" I can't help but think: NO SHIT! followed by It'd better be!
Okay, Mr. Troll. I don't suppose you'd be willing to meet in person to discuss this matter?
Didn't think so, chicken-shit coward.
Normally I wouldn't respond to junk like this, but just to defend myself against the statement "you dont even deserve to touch fucking computers because you dont do one god damn useful fucking thing with them", I will.
First of all, I have contributed to a few open-source projects out there. I am one of the many people that have submitted patches that fix and add new features to X-Chat, for instance.
I have also had my code published in The Perl Journal and in this book.
What have you done?
Why feel sorry for me? What I do with Windows works for me. If I were to use Linux as a replacement for my main Desktop as opposed to just using it on my secondary machine, then I would be severly limited. And then you could rightfully feel sorry for me
It was a joke, dude. Lighten up! Not everyone on Slashdot is a GNU/Zealot ready to jump down your throat just because you use Windows as your desktop OS.
M$? Does it make you feel more "leet" to use a $ in place of the S? Sorry, I don't mean to be confrontational but saying M$ or Microshaft or Winblows seems about as childish as Mac users who call PC's Pee Cee's.
Mostly it's just habit anymore... I've been calling them M$ for many years. It started about the time they began to abuse their monopoly privelege, and I've been using it ever since.
Now, I'm a capitalist, but I am a structural capitalist, and such a system precludes allowing one entity to become so powerful in they system that they can dominate or control a major aspect of it. Microsoft has this, and has abused it to what I see as their unfair advantage.
I write M$ not only out of habit, but because it is a reminder about what the company really cares about. It isn't about providing you with the Best Damn Desktop OS on the Planet(TM), it's about locking you, the consumer, into their products so that you have no other choice but to continue purchasing them.
At $100 bucks every two years... it's a good deal for them when multiplied by millions, just for insignificant upgrades. (I'll grant that the upgrade from ME to XP was significant... but the upgrade from 2K to XP was not... home users won, but business users gained nothing. 95->98->98SE->ME were not worth 100 bucks each.)
As to the rest of it, I don't use the terms Microshaft, or Winblows (you'll note in all my posts that I called it "Windows"). M$ is the only one of those that I use.
Forget about 3d though..
:)
Which is precisely why I haven't used that solution
Sure. You readily admit to using RedHat 9 and KDE/Gnome so I guess it's safe to assume you're not a Linux elitist who will just debunk everything I say and dehumanize me
:)
:)
Actually I was genuinely curious. I'm not out to dehumanize people who are stuck with Windows. I just feel sorry for you, that's all.
Seriously, I'm always interested in what kinds of software keep people in Windows. Your mention of a M$ Flight Simulator is an excellent example that I hadn't considered... it is a really good game. (Mainly because M$ didn't do the original coding, which is probably also why I like Age of Mythology.)
Remember that I also said that I occasionally have need for Windows, especially for (gasp!) a Microsoft-published game.
First thing that comes to mind is my iPod. The Linux support I've seen for the iPod has been pretty scarry.
Hmm... I wouldn't buy an iPod myself, I've got an MP3 CD player that works just fine and is infinitely expandable. (And well-supported by Linux!) You didn't get the VW Beetle with that iPod, did you? (In which case I will debunk everything you say and dehumanize you.)
Your webcam and flight-sim gear are same boat for me... I'm just not interested in that hardware myself. I think your flight-sim gear would work just fine in Linux if it connects to the ordinary game port.
My all-in-one Fax/Scanner/Copier/Printer becomes an none-but-one device in Linux. The printer works, the rest don't. Although in my latest tinkerings with XSane, I was finally able to scan an image. But again, the driver quality is so lack luster that there's no way I can use it. I'm willing to "sacrifice" some ease of use for the greater good of Open Source, but there's a fine line between a little sacrifice and cruel and unusual punishment.
Okay, this one I agree wholeheartedly with. Print/Scan/Fax in Linux varies between great and absolute shit. I've never gotten a scanner to work in Linux. (I tried a couple, but gave up.) HP DeskJet printing tends to waste ink. (Black text should be black ink only, damnit!)
It's not quite a show-stopper for me, though.
The list goes on - but since I doubt you'll read this anyway I'm not going to waste my time with anything more.
You were wrong.
To an extent, I agree with your sentiment... but I guess the main thing is our divergent interests. I can say that Linux has worked well for me, but I've been conscious of what kind of hardware I should buy and what kind of software I actually need for years.
Right now, I can say that my machine runs well, and Linux supports all the hardware I currently use. I guess I got the better mileage.
Your implementation of the German Signature Encoding (GSE) is broken. It should read:
:)
Diese Unterschrift ist durch das deutsche Urheberrecht geschuetzt. Die Uebersetzung ins Englische verstoesst gegen den DMCA.
Yeah, my German is shit, anyway.
Thanks for the tip though, I'll change it later today.
I've had mostly the opposite experience.
:(
I first tried linux back when it was kernel 0.99.something. Neat toy, but not useful.
Slackware 3.0 was my first "real" linux. Neat toy, but not useful on the desktop. I was learning a lot of stuff about *nix though. I kept it on a partition though, because there were a few cool X games, and I could code in Perl. I kept up with the Slackware releases for a while.
Things started to change when I installed Red Hat 6. It supported all of my hardware. I installed both GNOME and KDE. GNOME wouldn't start for some reason, but KDE would. KDE was pretty cool, and made things fairly useful.
I found I booted into Windows less and less... until finally the only time I ever used Windows was to play games or use MS Office.
I'm now running RH 9 and since I've been Linux-conscious on hardware purchases all of my hardware is supported well. Applications like OpenOffice have removed my dependence on MS Office.
There is only a single reason I ever boot Windows: My wife likes to play Age of Mythology with me over the LAN, and it doesn't run on Linux. Since I don't play it all the time, it's not a reason to boot into Windows by default.
Everything else I want/need can be found in Linux, and works well.
I do have RH9 installed on another machine but it always comes back to the same thing. Some program I need/want doesn't exist for Linux or some hardware that I use won't work, or at best works very poorly.
Would you mind naming these software and hardware?
I can read perl just fine, and understand what's going on.
The difference is knowing the language in question.
Of course, I've been published in an O'Reilly book for having the dubious distinction of scoring a 2nd place in the 4th Annual Obfuscated Perl Contest.
expect that ip to get null routed by the backbone carriers real fast.
Not to mention by all us small network operators that only have a dozen machines to deal with... I've already made that IP address dead from my network's point of view.
No, perl coders are sometimes verbose.
Compare your script to this perl script. Once you delete the comments and whitespace, it's not terribly different.
I could refine isomeme's script a bit and make it smaller, if you like...
Can we please have some articles about real science, and not hoaxes, lies, and scientific blunders?
Well, actually, solar cell technology has been improving steadily over the last several years. There are currently flying spacecraft with 26% efficient cells, 28% cells due to start rolling off the production lines sometime in the next year or two, and experimental designs for cells that are up to 35% efficient.
Your key word here is "space"... They are that efficient in space.
I doubt they have that same efficiency on the ground.
So you get two beneficial effects: you're removing sunlight from a place that you don't want it, and at the same time you're using that power for use elsewhere.
If you didn't want sunlight there, then why is there a window there in the first place?