My work machine is a DL600 with Gentoo installed. It's a nice little machine (if a bit dated), but it has a crappy keyboard and a broadcom wireless chipset (so I had to use ndiswrapper until kernel 2.6.17).
I understand that the newer dell laptops have better keyboards, so when I upgrade my personal laptop, I might consider a dell if I could be confident that all the hardware had Linux support. If they sold laptops pre-installed with Linux (even if I had no intention of using the installed distro), I'd be far more likely to choose one of those laptops just to avoid any hardware headaches.
Even if you're not going to use the installed version of Linux, buying a Linux pre-installed machine makes sense because you can be more confident that the hardware will be supported by the kernel.
This assumes that the OEM will choose parts that are supported by the installed distro. If that's true, then any distro should run fine since the kernel is the same.
Implement an open standard when there is no compelling reason not to.
The fact that Jabber doesn't offer any advantage over their already implemented and established AIM protocol might be a compelling reason for them not to sink resources into it.
Most inventors that I've come into contact with are either independently wealthy, or are retired and have lots of time for tinkering. None of them have trouble affording their patents.
No, people would never believe. They're only interested in believing in God as long as God is an abstract thing that only impacts their lives in ways that they allow. Once "God" asked them to do something they wouldn't have done otherwise, they'd get skeptical just like the rest of us.
Email attachments from outside the company all seem to be PDF nowadays. If I get an email with.doc,.ppt, or.xls attached, it's almost always from someone internal.
Start with a decommissioned tanker. Convert one of your propellers to be electrically driven so that you can troll about under your own power. Install your OTEC hardware, and, while you're at it, install some TCP hardware so that you can harvest the seaweed and phytoplankton that will grow around your platform and turn it into diesel fuel for your own use and for selling to other vessels. Place yourself near a shipping lane and bill yourself as a cheap refueling station.
Do some farming on the deck of the tanker and you might actually be able to build a relatively self-sustaining community. Depending on the cost of fuel, it might even be a cash-flow-positive endeavor.
Think any Omish-wannabes would be interested in this sort of thing?
By reducing our carbon output, even if it doesn't directly fix the problem, it does give natural carbon buffers (like dead phytoplankton sinking to the ocean floor) a chance to catch up (or at least not fall as far behind).
Carbon neutral is a huge improvement over the current carbon positive situation we're in right now.
According to my understanding of current accounting rules (I am *NOT* a CPA), it takes 3 years for a computer to depreciate off the books. I would be surprised to find out that it's common practice to replace a computer while the company is still "paying" for it.
Where I work, we seem to replace laptops every 3 or 4 years and only replace desktops when there's a need (most of our desktops are at least 3 years old...some considerably older than that). Servers seem to be replaced more regularly, but I don't know what the actual policy is (or even if there is such a policy).
Target has 32M USB flash drives for less than $5 by their checkouts now (by the lighters and disposable razors).
Not exactly what you were asking for, but it's cheap, universally supported, and reliable (floppies were never reliable).
My neighbor put his resume on 3 floppies and went to Kinko's to print it on nice paper. All 3 were bad. I bought him one of these drives at Target and he's had no trouble with it at all.
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Has there been any discussion on building OTEC plants near coastal cities to provide freshwater?
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion plants produce electicity and distilled water as a byproduct.
Higher octane fuels actually decrease the temperature and speed of the fuel burn
No, this can't be right. Higher octane fuels can be compressed more before self-ignition. Higher compression equals higher temperature. Therefore, higher octane fuels allow for higher combustion chamber temperatures (and correspondingly more efficient use of the energy contained by the fuel).
Nonsense! I've found schooling has little to do with a coders ability.
I both agree and disagree. I work with several excellent developers with different levels of education in the field. In my experience, the main difference between working with someone who has studied and someone who picked things up along the way is that I can exchange information with the educated developer an order of magnitude faster than I can with the on-the-job-trained developer. A 15 minute conversation with one might take an all day meeting with the other. This is largely because I have to explain theoretical concepts instead of just naming them and answering a couple clarifying questions.
Coding ability is to theory what tactics is to strategy. You can pick one up by experiencing it, but it's very difficult to learn the other without study.
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Have you used a modern CF bulb recently? They're instant on now.
It's been years since I've seen one that had any noticeable delay turning on.
My work machine is a DL600 with Gentoo installed. It's a nice little machine (if a bit dated), but it
has a crappy keyboard and a broadcom wireless chipset (so I had to use ndiswrapper until kernel 2.6.17).
I understand that the newer dell laptops have better keyboards, so when I upgrade my personal laptop,
I might consider a dell if I could be confident that all the hardware had Linux support. If they sold
laptops pre-installed with Linux (even if I had no intention of using the installed distro), I'd be
far more likely to choose one of those laptops just to avoid any hardware headaches.
Even if you're not going to use the installed version of Linux, buying a Linux pre-installed machine
makes sense because you can be more confident that the hardware will be supported by the kernel.
This assumes that the OEM will choose parts that are supported by the installed distro. If that's true,
then any distro should run fine since the kernel is the same.
Implement an open standard when there is no compelling reason not to.
The fact that Jabber doesn't offer any advantage over their already implemented and established AIM protocol
might be a compelling reason for them not to sink resources into it.
Apple only loses time if Cisco gets an injunction against them using the name.
If Apple is confident that there will be no injunction, then they can continue to
market the iPhone without any lost time.
I don't know how strong you are, but I'd have some difficulty swapping out 100+ pounds of battery.
Most inventors that I've come into contact with are either independently
wealthy, or are retired and have lots of time for tinkering. None of them
have trouble affording their patents.
Just my experience.
No, people would never believe. They're only interested in believing in God as long as God is an abstract thing that only impacts their lives in ways that they allow. Once "God" asked them to do something they wouldn't have done otherwise, they'd get skeptical just like the rest of us.
But what percentage of students in the You Ess Of Ay are receiving a good education?
Only those students who see the value and make the effort to get a good education.
Same as anywhere.
Email attachments from outside the company all seem to be PDF nowadays. If I get .doc, .ppt, or .xls attached, it's almost always from someone
an email with
internal.
Thought experiment mode...
Start with a decommissioned tanker.
Convert one of your propellers to be electrically driven so that you can troll about under your own power.
Install your OTEC hardware, and, while you're at it, install some TCP hardware so that you can harvest the
seaweed and phytoplankton that will grow around your platform and turn it into diesel fuel for your own use
and for selling to other vessels. Place yourself near a shipping lane and bill yourself as a cheap refueling
station.
Do some farming on the deck of the tanker and you might actually be able to build a relatively self-sustaining
community. Depending on the cost of fuel, it might even be a cash-flow-positive endeavor.
Think any Omish-wannabes would be interested in this sort of thing?
I use Evolution for Exchange mail and calendars at work.
It's not perfect, but it's good enough that I don't need to use the outlook web interface.
By reducing our carbon output, even if it doesn't directly fix the problem, it does give natural carbon buffers (like dead phytoplankton sinking to the ocean floor) a chance to catch up (or at least not fall as far behind).
Carbon neutral is a huge improvement over the current carbon positive situation we're in right now.
According to my understanding of current accounting rules (I am *NOT* a CPA), it takes 3 years for a computer to depreciate off the books. I would be surprised to find out that it's common practice to replace a computer while the company is still "paying" for it.
Where I work, we seem to replace laptops every 3 or 4 years and only replace desktops when there's a need (most of our desktops are at least 3 years old...some considerably older than that). Servers seem to be replaced more regularly, but I don't know what the actual policy is (or even if there is such a policy).
So, are you claiming that automatic vacuuming in postgresql doesn't work as advertised?
What are the limitations that you've experienced?
Target has 32M USB flash drives for less than $5 by their checkouts now (by the lighters and disposable razors).
Not exactly what you were asking for, but it's cheap, universally supported, and reliable (floppies were never reliable).
My neighbor put his resume on 3 floppies and went to Kinko's to print it on nice paper. All 3 were bad. I bought him one of these drives at Target and he's had no trouble with it at all.
Has there been any discussion on building OTEC plants near coastal cities to provide freshwater?
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion plants produce electicity and distilled water as a byproduct.
Just curious.
Who in their right mind writes off 10% (mac plus linux) of the market?
Especially now that upper management has all started buying MacBook Pros.
Higher octane fuels actually decrease the temperature and speed of the fuel burn
No, this can't be right. Higher octane fuels can be compressed more before self-ignition.
Higher compression equals higher temperature. Therefore, higher octane fuels allow for
higher combustion chamber temperatures (and correspondingly more efficient use of the energy
contained by the fuel).
An interesting discussion of the "Superiority" of the Dvorak keyboard
is at http://www.reason.com/news/show/29944.html
According to this article, the studies that "proved" that Dvorak was a
better keyboard were all flawed in very significant ways.
Nonsense! I've found schooling has little to do with a coders ability.
I both agree and disagree. I work with several excellent developers with different levels of education in the field. In my experience, the main difference between working with someone who has studied and someone who picked things up along the way is that I can exchange information with the educated developer an order of magnitude faster than I can with the on-the-job-trained developer. A 15 minute conversation with one might take an all day meeting with the other. This is largely because I have to explain theoretical concepts instead of just naming them and answering a couple clarifying questions.
Coding ability is to theory what tactics is to strategy. You can pick one up by experiencing it, but it's very difficult to learn the other without study.
Mod parent up. That is exactly what's going on here.
But abuse of monopoly power is.
Please provide links to said evidence.
The more compelling the better.
My approach is to not upgrade until the 'y' in 2.6.x.y hasn't been incremented for a week or two.
Never had any problems (but I don't have any strange needs either...that probably has more to do with the stability I've experienced with 2.6).