Depending on the girl, that formula - substituting an outdoor-work button-down shirt for the dress button-down, leather work boots for leather shoes, and Old Spice for cologne works pretty well. The kind of girl you get by looking and smelling "pretty" is typically pretty useless (even if she might be pretty). And the "get 'er done" kind of girl can be quite beautiful indeed.
Dogs aren't carnivores. They're omnivores, just like we are, and their digestive system is very similar due to "shared evolution". There's a reason why dogs will get sick if they eat nothing but raw meat; likewise, they'll get sick if they eat only raw foods (like, oh, carrots) they will get ill (and often turn on their owners, if they're large enough)?
Have you ever seen a dog eat grass, bugs, or cooked vegetable/grain table scraps? That's partially because their dietary needs are very similar to our's.
Dogs are foragers. They'll eat most anything, but prefer meat and cooked foods - just like we do. some wild dogs are somewhat similar, in that they prefer meat which is at least partially decayed so it is easier to digest.
It's likely that dogs in early China weren't kept like pigs or chickens might be. They were probably "kept" in much the same way that cats are kept on farms in much of the world: for pest control. The dogs would eat the rats and mice, keeping their populations in check, as well as helping keep predators away from the chickens.
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Most roads have a posted minimum, and any slow moving vehicle is expected to GTFO the way. A responsible cop will pull someone over in a vehicle who is impeding traffic and causing unsafe driving conditions. Those conditions apply to pretty much any cyclist on the East Coast (35-45mph posted limit on a 2-way single-lane winding road). Yet, the cyclists rarely give a fuck, and cops don't do anything about them.
Wasn't 2006 the first year that major ethanol-related subsidies were put into place? It was either that or 2007; I can't remember. If it was 2006, that would explain the bulk of that money. Farmers were dropping otherwise productive crops (wheat, winter wheat, alfalfa, etc.) in favor of trying to get another crop of corn in at the end of the season due to the massive subsidies for corn the government was giving. That, in contrast to the year prior where corn was losing money for the farmers.
('there are concerns that diet beverages may increase calorie consumption by justifying consumption of other caloric foods')
That's not how it works. "Diet" sodas usually contain aspartame, which, aside from being an artificial sweetener, is also a neurotoxin/suppressant and an appetite enhancer. In other words, people don't increase their calorie consumption in justification of drinking diet soda; they eat more because they are, indeed, hungrier due to drinking it. It's no coincidence that overweight people can usually be seen with a diet soda in their hands; it's a cyclical loop.
I'm against regulation in general, but there's no reason that aspartame should be allowed to be put in foods. There are quite a few people - primarily, children - who have a very negative response to the stuff: everything from severe asthmatic response to waaaay over the top hyperactivity.
Eh, that's been the shape for fast speed-record motorcycles from some time. I've got a book right now, which I also had as a child. It was published in 1978, and has a picture of a motorcycle identical (more-or-less) to the one pictured in the topic.
IMO, what you're describing isn't a geek. It's a man - you know, in the traditional sense. Fifty, 60 years ago, it was commonplace for men to fix their own things, and to make new things. It was also expected. Back before that, a man who did not was known as being useless - because there was precious little "general handyman" workers back then, as there are now. It's only been recently that people have gotten away from fixing things themselves.
I think a "geek" is typically seen as not someone who's in the know where others aren't; s/he is the person who is seen as "smarter" than everyone else in one or more domains: not only a competent tradesman but also a statesman of ideas, and someone who can figure things out due to their natural curiosity. A Renaissance Man, if you will. Pocket protectors or no, they often suffer similar social stigmas, though obviously there is going to be a varying degree of social competence. Due to social stratification in the past 30 years, there are certain segments of society which more readily accept (and embrace) the "geek", but there are still a lot of people out there who despise them.
How can you expect a "truly socialist" country to try what benefits the -society- as a whole? That has never, ever been the means to an end attempted by socialists; it's NOWHERE within the dogma of the biggest minds in socialist thought. Socialism, in its many guises, has always been about "righting a wrong" by taking from one group of people and giving it to another which did nothing to earn that state-sanctioned gift than to belong to said group.
I concur whole-heartedly. I'm not an "office geek" but I can make a decent Word (etc. document) with indexes, and confuse the purpose of the format and do the usual external
That said, I keep my menus as clean as possible (in OO.org, these days) because I usually don't use most of the features. My word processing tasks are simple, and short of the infrequent batch-type print job, it's pretty routine.
90% of the people out there who use Word need nothing more than Wordpad with spellcheck and templates. What's more, they don't -want- more. Their word processing is very limited, even in a "work" capacity: they'll use the same document as a template for various letterhead, write short 1-2 page documents, and generally not do all that much more than paragraph formatting.
That puny ARM processor likely has a Jazelle Java interpreter chip, allowing Java bytecode to be run directly on the processor. The processor is clocked somewhere in the 200-600 MHz, and 200MHz is more than enough to run non-interpreted code quickly - and to keep it running just fine.
A lot of those problems are due to the whole "what goes in the kernel" question, and since they're coming to, presumably, the wrong answer over and over again, they keep making the same mistakes and wondering why it's not working -this- time (with regard to video and audio).
It's also a chicken/egg problem, to a large degree, with regard to video. You've not only got the kernel to contend with, but 3rd party drivers and X. It's more like a chimera chicken and a lizard egg, really.
There are other benchmarks out there comparing the BSDs to Linux; I couldn't find them, but I read two recently. I seem to recall they dealt with performance at load w/o hitting swap. Linux scaled best; OpenBSD was dead last; NetBSD did surprisingly well; FreeBSD was in the middle. The current pre-release tree of either Free or Open (can't recall which) was markedly better than the others, except for Linux, with some odd anomalies.
That sounds kinda useless in an area where terrorist-like activity might be taking place on a regular basis. For instance, somewhere where there are a lot of guns, people milling about and doing drills, and the like. Or rousing motivational speeches w/formations. Sounds like most police departments, shooting ranges, military training grounds, or for that matter police hangouts.
I would think targeting specific known-terrorist activities (eg. we know a lot of them are Muslims, so wearing their head gear and/or some other combination of factors) might be a pointer. Or speaking Arabic, covertly, but in secluded "public" places.
In a poorly managed proprietary project, you're likely not going to even get the order to un-bloat, un-fuck the code. If it's a bug, it might get fixed - in the next major release. The smaller the project's market the less likely it seems a major deficiency will be fixed, but there are certainly counter-examples when they're at the top of the stack (or bottom, depending on how you look at it) and they can get away with it: Windows, all Symantec products, and the like are notorious for this crap. (In fairness, W7 is a drastic divergence from this trend, thank God.)
Yeah. In fairness, it's about 80% to truth: the other 20% is that you DO hear about the smart criminals. They just don't look like criminals unless you're really paying attention, and they don't get caught. Many of them are known for other things.
No no, you're doing it wrong. You need a water hose, a thick towel, a couple 8' 2x4s and a saw horse. It can be done in the janitorial closet after hours during a "server upgrade" slash FPS tournament.
No kidding. I've got a mini-ATX case that I bought back in '98 or so for an Athlon 550MHz system. That system is dead/gone, but the case is still in use.
You can buy a decent punched and rolled steel case for $25 that will last you a decade. It will protect what is inside the case from bumps, drops, dings and (in most cases) spilled liquids. You can move a tower case in a moving van without worrying about the parts and without packaging it in an exterior protective layer. This is not a good role for cardboard, regardless of RF shielding.
I doubt cardboard w/ RF shielding would even provide a weight advantage over steel or aluminum. Hell, it's a really bad idea from a thermal dissipation vantage point (though would likely help with acoustic/vibration dampening to some degree). A neat mod, maybe, but it's a bad idea in almost every way. You'd be better off taping/gluing cardboard to the outside of a steel case, if looks are what you're after.
There are plenty of computers out there which don't adhere to those standards. Something like the Dell gx270, for instance, which uses an odd ATX-wire-compatible cigar shaped power supply. Vendors seem to love making proprietary, difficult to service cases: seems like every generation of each vendors' products results in a different, difficult to service case design (including different-headed screws).
BTX is a bad design. It's not Athlon 64 or i7 compatible. ATX is. That's part of the reason hobbyists aren't interested. The fact that BTX power supplies and boards aren't as good, inexpensive, or available also has a lot to do with it - it's not the hobbyists who have nixed BTX, it's the producers. Hobbyists will move to whatever works well for the application, at a good price range.
Mini-ITX (which is what I assume you were referring to) does have a fairly broad hobbyist adoption. Why? It isn't a bad case design which limits adoption in multiple applications.
What are the applications for which ATX does not work well? And/or why do they not work well? What about the design sucks? "Clipping it to your belt" isn't exactly a valid (or honest) criticism. There's mini-ATX, as well as a variety of spec diversions - and from what I've seen, they're upwards- and cross- compatible (ie mini-ATX will work in a full-size ATX case). That works well for everything from "small desktop" on up through full-size low-end server.
It wasn't environmentalists who pushed it; it was companies who saw the financial benefit of doing so.
If you could release a technology which would receive wide support for being "green" but degraded faster than the traditional parts, would you do it? Sure you would - because you could just blame the increased failure rate on the wackos. "Green" and "ecologically responsible" stuff is popular. Just like the current "green" fuels for vehicles (E85, here's looking at you), they don't work out in fact or practice, but they do result in good advertising.
That's kind of the impression I've always gotten from GNOME and KDE - all the way back to 1.x versions of GNOME and KDE.
GNOME has always had a very "business" feel to it, almost like it took a great number of its design decisions from CDE or UNIX heritage and tradition - not only in design decisions but also in philosophical, organizational ones. Unfortunately, it seems to me that a lot of those decisions result in a lack of usability on the desktop/GUI where they might work just fine with CLI. Organizationally, it stifles things.
KDE has always had more of an "open" approach; they've encouraged the fanaticism, as well as community involvement and decision making. It's also (arguably) a much better framework - as evidenced by the more complete ports to other OSes, QT cross development/kdevelop, and companies like Nokia picking QT for future development of mobile devices.
When it comes down to GUI development, an "amateur" or non-hardcore programmer is going to look at the two and say: I can either develop on GNOME/GTK and use crappy somewhat OO C or a 3rd party binding like Python (seemingly very popular) or I can write it in C++ with a Visual Studio-like interface (and I've also got some other options there). For many, it's a no-brainer, so QT gets a lot more developers.
There are a lot of OSes which predate Unix, as well as many OSes since which have had a different lineage (VMS related stuff, such as Windows).
For the most part, I suspect that the useful applications have predominantly lived on beyond the useful lives of the operating systems. That's typically how things work. The apps have been ported to the new OS, and lived on there. In a sense, the spirit of many older OSes - the good ideas - have lived on vicariously through these apps.
If I were in a small business and called their samba share that had the install images of Office, Acrobat, and other licensed packages for internal use an "app store", I'd be looked at by their IT people like I was some troll or pirate.
You would? I'm pretty sure they'd look at you like you were some kind of mac user. I mean, it's the apps share, not a store. Though technically, it is a store, but not in the fiscal-exchange-for-goods sense - but that's beside the point.
Anyway, an "app store" is just that: a place where apps are stored. You sometimes exchange money for them. Usually, money is exchanged. Somehow, I suspect money will be exchanged here. There always is when government is involved.
* satellite ($$$) * packet radio via home proxy (going to be a bit difficult and reliable * 3G with an antenna (GSM and/or CDMA - he's get slightly more universal coverage if he used them both. Realistically you'll get "good enough" coverage with an antenna and/or amplifier.) * leeching (unethical and unlikely in an RV situation) * nothing
My recommendation: either stick with a cell phone modem or get a tent and kick the Internet addiction. Seriously.
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Depending on the girl, that formula - substituting an outdoor-work button-down shirt for the dress button-down, leather work boots for leather shoes, and Old Spice for cologne works pretty well. The kind of girl you get by looking and smelling "pretty" is typically pretty useless (even if she might be pretty). And the "get 'er done" kind of girl can be quite beautiful indeed.
Dogs aren't carnivores. They're omnivores, just like we are, and their digestive system is very similar due to "shared evolution". There's a reason why dogs will get sick if they eat nothing but raw meat; likewise, they'll get sick if they eat only raw foods (like, oh, carrots) they will get ill (and often turn on their owners, if they're large enough)?
Have you ever seen a dog eat grass, bugs, or cooked vegetable/grain table scraps? That's partially because their dietary needs are very similar to our's.
Dogs are foragers. They'll eat most anything, but prefer meat and cooked foods - just like we do. some wild dogs are somewhat similar, in that they prefer meat which is at least partially decayed so it is easier to digest.
It's likely that dogs in early China weren't kept like pigs or chickens might be. They were probably "kept" in much the same way that cats are kept on farms in much of the world: for pest control. The dogs would eat the rats and mice, keeping their populations in check, as well as helping keep predators away from the chickens.
Most roads have a posted minimum, and any slow moving vehicle is expected to GTFO the way. A responsible cop will pull someone over in a vehicle who is impeding traffic and causing unsafe driving conditions. Those conditions apply to pretty much any cyclist on the East Coast (35-45mph posted limit on a 2-way single-lane winding road). Yet, the cyclists rarely give a fuck, and cops don't do anything about them.
Wasn't 2006 the first year that major ethanol-related subsidies were put into place? It was either that or 2007; I can't remember. If it was 2006, that would explain the bulk of that money. Farmers were dropping otherwise productive crops (wheat, winter wheat, alfalfa, etc.) in favor of trying to get another crop of corn in at the end of the season due to the massive subsidies for corn the government was giving. That, in contrast to the year prior where corn was losing money for the farmers.
('there are concerns that diet beverages may increase calorie consumption by justifying consumption of other caloric foods')
That's not how it works. "Diet" sodas usually contain aspartame, which, aside from being an artificial sweetener, is also a neurotoxin/suppressant and an appetite enhancer. In other words, people don't increase their calorie consumption in justification of drinking diet soda; they eat more because they are, indeed, hungrier due to drinking it. It's no coincidence that overweight people can usually be seen with a diet soda in their hands; it's a cyclical loop.
I'm against regulation in general, but there's no reason that aspartame should be allowed to be put in foods. There are quite a few people - primarily, children - who have a very negative response to the stuff: everything from severe asthmatic response to waaaay over the top hyperactivity.
Eh, that's been the shape for fast speed-record motorcycles from some time. I've got a book right now, which I also had as a child. It was published in 1978, and has a picture of a motorcycle identical (more-or-less) to the one pictured in the topic.
IMO, what you're describing isn't a geek. It's a man - you know, in the traditional sense. Fifty, 60 years ago, it was commonplace for men to fix their own things, and to make new things. It was also expected. Back before that, a man who did not was known as being useless - because there was precious little "general handyman" workers back then, as there are now. It's only been recently that people have gotten away from fixing things themselves.
I think a "geek" is typically seen as not someone who's in the know where others aren't; s/he is the person who is seen as "smarter" than everyone else in one or more domains: not only a competent tradesman but also a statesman of ideas, and someone who can figure things out due to their natural curiosity. A Renaissance Man, if you will. Pocket protectors or no, they often suffer similar social stigmas, though obviously there is going to be a varying degree of social competence. Due to social stratification in the past 30 years, there are certain segments of society which more readily accept (and embrace) the "geek", but there are still a lot of people out there who despise them.
How can you expect a "truly socialist" country to try what benefits the -society- as a whole? That has never, ever been the means to an end attempted by socialists; it's NOWHERE within the dogma of the biggest minds in socialist thought. Socialism, in its many guises, has always been about "righting a wrong" by taking from one group of people and giving it to another which did nothing to earn that state-sanctioned gift than to belong to said group.
I concur whole-heartedly. I'm not an "office geek" but I can make a decent Word (etc. document) with indexes, and confuse the purpose of the format and do the usual external
That said, I keep my menus as clean as possible (in OO.org, these days) because I usually don't use most of the features. My word processing tasks are simple, and short of the infrequent batch-type print job, it's pretty routine.
90% of the people out there who use Word need nothing more than Wordpad with spellcheck and templates. What's more, they don't -want- more. Their word processing is very limited, even in a "work" capacity: they'll use the same document as a template for various letterhead, write short 1-2 page documents, and generally not do all that much more than paragraph formatting.
That puny ARM processor likely has a Jazelle Java interpreter chip, allowing Java bytecode to be run directly on the processor. The processor is clocked somewhere in the 200-600 MHz, and 200MHz is more than enough to run non-interpreted code quickly - and to keep it running just fine.
A lot of those problems are due to the whole "what goes in the kernel" question, and since they're coming to, presumably, the wrong answer over and over again, they keep making the same mistakes and wondering why it's not working -this- time (with regard to video and audio).
It's also a chicken/egg problem, to a large degree, with regard to video. You've not only got the kernel to contend with, but 3rd party drivers and X. It's more like a chimera chicken and a lizard egg, really.
There are other benchmarks out there comparing the BSDs to Linux; I couldn't find them, but I read two recently. I seem to recall they dealt with performance at load w/o hitting swap. Linux scaled best; OpenBSD was dead last; NetBSD did surprisingly well; FreeBSD was in the middle. The current pre-release tree of either Free or Open (can't recall which) was markedly better than the others, except for Linux, with some odd anomalies.
That sounds kinda useless in an area where terrorist-like activity might be taking place on a regular basis. For instance, somewhere where there are a lot of guns, people milling about and doing drills, and the like. Or rousing motivational speeches w/formations. Sounds like most police departments, shooting ranges, military training grounds, or for that matter police hangouts.
I would think targeting specific known-terrorist activities (eg. we know a lot of them are Muslims, so wearing their head gear and/or some other combination of factors) might be a pointer. Or speaking Arabic, covertly, but in secluded "public" places.
In a poorly managed proprietary project, you're likely not going to even get the order to un-bloat, un-fuck the code. If it's a bug, it might get fixed - in the next major release. The smaller the project's market the less likely it seems a major deficiency will be fixed, but there are certainly counter-examples when they're at the top of the stack (or bottom, depending on how you look at it) and they can get away with it: Windows, all Symantec products, and the like are notorious for this crap. (In fairness, W7 is a drastic divergence from this trend, thank God.)
Yeah. In fairness, it's about 80% to truth: the other 20% is that you DO hear about the smart criminals. They just don't look like criminals unless you're really paying attention, and they don't get caught. Many of them are known for other things.
No no, you're doing it wrong. You need a water hose, a thick towel, a couple 8' 2x4s and a saw horse. It can be done in the janitorial closet after hours during a "server upgrade" slash FPS tournament.
No kidding. I've got a mini-ATX case that I bought back in '98 or so for an Athlon 550MHz system. That system is dead/gone, but the case is still in use.
You can buy a decent punched and rolled steel case for $25 that will last you a decade. It will protect what is inside the case from bumps, drops, dings and (in most cases) spilled liquids. You can move a tower case in a moving van without worrying about the parts and without packaging it in an exterior protective layer. This is not a good role for cardboard, regardless of RF shielding.
I doubt cardboard w/ RF shielding would even provide a weight advantage over steel or aluminum. Hell, it's a really bad idea from a thermal dissipation vantage point (though would likely help with acoustic/vibration dampening to some degree). A neat mod, maybe, but it's a bad idea in almost every way. You'd be better off taping/gluing cardboard to the outside of a steel case, if looks are what you're after.
There are plenty of computers out there which don't adhere to those standards. Something like the Dell gx270, for instance, which uses an odd ATX-wire-compatible cigar shaped power supply. Vendors seem to love making proprietary, difficult to service cases: seems like every generation of each vendors' products results in a different, difficult to service case design (including different-headed screws).
BTX is a bad design. It's not Athlon 64 or i7 compatible. ATX is. That's part of the reason hobbyists aren't interested. The fact that BTX power supplies and boards aren't as good, inexpensive, or available also has a lot to do with it - it's not the hobbyists who have nixed BTX, it's the producers. Hobbyists will move to whatever works well for the application, at a good price range.
Mini-ITX (which is what I assume you were referring to) does have a fairly broad hobbyist adoption. Why? It isn't a bad case design which limits adoption in multiple applications.
What are the applications for which ATX does not work well? And/or why do they not work well? What about the design sucks? "Clipping it to your belt" isn't exactly a valid (or honest) criticism. There's mini-ATX, as well as a variety of spec diversions - and from what I've seen, they're upwards- and cross- compatible (ie mini-ATX will work in a full-size ATX case). That works well for everything from "small desktop" on up through full-size low-end server.
It wasn't environmentalists who pushed it; it was companies who saw the financial benefit of doing so.
If you could release a technology which would receive wide support for being "green" but degraded faster than the traditional parts, would you do it? Sure you would - because you could just blame the increased failure rate on the wackos. "Green" and "ecologically responsible" stuff is popular. Just like the current "green" fuels for vehicles (E85, here's looking at you), they don't work out in fact or practice, but they do result in good advertising.
That's kind of the impression I've always gotten from GNOME and KDE - all the way back to 1.x versions of GNOME and KDE.
GNOME has always had a very "business" feel to it, almost like it took a great number of its design decisions from CDE or UNIX heritage and tradition - not only in design decisions but also in philosophical, organizational ones. Unfortunately, it seems to me that a lot of those decisions result in a lack of usability on the desktop/GUI where they might work just fine with CLI. Organizationally, it stifles things.
KDE has always had more of an "open" approach; they've encouraged the fanaticism, as well as community involvement and decision making. It's also (arguably) a much better framework - as evidenced by the more complete ports to other OSes, QT cross development/kdevelop, and companies like Nokia picking QT for future development of mobile devices.
When it comes down to GUI development, an "amateur" or non-hardcore programmer is going to look at the two and say: I can either develop on GNOME/GTK and use crappy somewhat OO C or a 3rd party binding like Python (seemingly very popular) or I can write it in C++ with a Visual Studio-like interface (and I've also got some other options there). For many, it's a no-brainer, so QT gets a lot more developers.
There are a lot of OSes which predate Unix, as well as many OSes since which have had a different lineage (VMS related stuff, such as Windows).
For the most part, I suspect that the useful applications have predominantly lived on beyond the useful lives of the operating systems. That's typically how things work. The apps have been ported to the new OS, and lived on there. In a sense, the spirit of many older OSes - the good ideas - have lived on vicariously through these apps.
If I were in a small business and called their samba share that had the install images of Office, Acrobat, and other licensed packages for internal use an "app store", I'd be looked at by their IT people like I was some troll or pirate.
You would? I'm pretty sure they'd look at you like you were some kind of mac user. I mean, it's the apps share, not a store. Though technically, it is a store, but not in the fiscal-exchange-for-goods sense - but that's beside the point.
Anyway, an "app store" is just that: a place where apps are stored. You sometimes exchange money for them. Usually, money is exchanged. Somehow, I suspect money will be exchanged here. There always is when government is involved.
Yep! His options are, more or less:
* satellite ($$$)
* packet radio via home proxy (going to be a bit difficult and reliable
* 3G with an antenna (GSM and/or CDMA - he's get slightly more universal coverage if he used them both. Realistically you'll get "good enough" coverage with an antenna and/or amplifier.)
* leeching (unethical and unlikely in an RV situation)
* nothing
My recommendation: either stick with a cell phone modem or get a tent and kick the Internet addiction. Seriously.
Which gets to my point, exactly: those 12 states contain some of, if not most of, the larger IT areas in the US. If you're in IT...
I don't need another desktop: I've got three of 'em in the house. I need/want a stable server with a rock-face filesystem.
And the answer is "no, it is not" if you're running Windows Vista or Windows 7 with any degree of non-noobish proficiency.