ST Continues or Axanar or any of a dozen other good fan/semi-pro projects. But Hollywood is not about making film and TV; it's about sucking budget into a black hole, and while you can do an excellent series on a fraction of the money, this makes the unions unhappy and eliminates all the graft and waste that's where the real profit lies. So it won't happen on Big Hollywood's watch.
In my observation, younger doctors tend to be full of education, but empty of experience, and their primary means of making mistakes is being too by-the book; also, they tend not to listen to the patient. Older doctors are more likely to treat the patient rather than treating the test results; after all the object is to get you symptom-free, not to make the tests look pretty.
I would guess that a lot of older patients have come to recognise this and go to older doctors, so naturally the mortality rate is higher.
I note that all those in favor live where they don't drive much, mostly Europe, where they have no idea the distances typical in the US (think of our states as your countries and you'll be close, at least for your larger countries -- IIRC Germany is roughly equivalent to Texas. Also, our current average price of petrol is around 50 cents per liter.) Probably a third of Los Angeles area workers commute close to a full charge worth every day; does that put it in perspective?
And I got to wondering about cold weather -- the northern tier can have a month of -40 temps -- and found this:
I suspect that's optimistic. During northern winters, you'd have to heat the batteries 24 hours a day. That's not going to go over well in areas where the cost of electricity has recently skyrocketed (frex, Ontario, where thanks to being "greened", an electric bill that was $100 two years ago is now $700).
As to replacing trucks... long-haul drivers need to do what, a minimum of 500 miles a day? that's two charging periods. You're going to fit this into a 24 hour day... how??
At any rate, TFA comes from Stanford, arguably the farthest-left STEM university in America. Consider that under their desired 'egalitarian' regime, we'd each be rationed the same amount of electricity, and if your profession requires more, tough. Electricity is ill-suited for a black market, which my cynical little voice opines might be the real motivator under such a system.
[pro dog trainer here] Dogs have a wide range of scenting ability, from extremely sensitive to practically nil. Many small pet breeds have very poor noses. Easy way to tell -- a good nose IDs a scent quickly; a poor nose has to work at it. (Especially obvious with obedience-style scent discrimination exercises.)
In my observation humans have a similar range, and on average have a better nose than some small pet dogs and most cats, if nowhere near the more-competent working-type dogs. I suspect human scenting ability parallels tasting ability; ie. supertasters probably have more-discriminating noses too. Conversely, trying to explain just how much we can smell to someone who lacks the ability is kinda like explaining color to someone who is color-blind.
As to the notion that nostrils need a certain placement for directional scenting... have you not heard of moving your head?? watch a dog trying to peg the direction of drifting scent; it'll wag its head side to side (disguised if the dog is moving, but evident if standing still).
The average German home is also about half the size of the average American home. I'm not sure how they compare for electric use but I'd guess it's also about half. This might be the only thing that keeps it "affordable".
Well, here's a Handy Chart, tho it doesn't break out industrial vs home use:
I've spoken to people in Ontario who are unlucky enough to have bought a house with electric heat, back when that was an affordable way to heat their homes.
Same thing happened to them that happened when Montana power "deregulated" (aka took the money and ran):
Between one year and the next, the average monthly heat bill went from around $100 to almost $700.
And given that, if you can't repipe for natural gas (not available everywhere), your only option is to install a wood-burning stove (IF your local regs allow it; some don't), which makes smoke. Yeah, did wonders for "green energy" and "the economy", eh?
This may explain why when I was property-hunting, I found Zillow increasingly useless... too many properties inflated by about 30% over actual market value (in markets I was sufficiently familiar with to judge). Got to where its only real value was the compiled history of past sales.
So I've got PsychOS up as "live" -- performance is very good, far as I got. Lots of software I hadn't heard of before, which I'll have to explore. Not my favorite style of desktop, but even so it's nicely set up.
I did manage to blow something up -- tried to run "Make Human" which got as far as the splash screen and then died, and after that no app will run -- either silent fail, or an error, all in this format:
Failed to execute command "inkscape %F" Failed to execute child process "inkscape" (input/output error)
so it must have crashed some necessary process I can't see (don't know how to check, I are not a *NIX guru:)
There was also a "Fatal CPU error" in the first bunch of text crawl, early in the boot process, but it went by too fast to read, and didn't seem to do any harm.
I've had almost no luck with getting ANY variant of SuSE to run, so it's still doing better than most of its kin!
I see a lot of linux distros on Sourceforce and Github, tho I have no idea what issues that may entail. Also there are dozens of public FTP archives. Always easier for we on slow or unreliable connections (also why I use Getright as a download manager). Problem with HubiC is it doesn't actually produce a valid download link, so there's no URL to feed to Getright.
But anyway, I finally got the whole ISO, tho haven't had a chance to look at it yet. I was about to do another trawl though a pile of distros anyway, but discovered I need to get another USB stick first (the two I already use for this are full!)
Not worried about your site tracking, etc. -- what's the deal with US and Japan? About all I got from your "warning" is that it's the usual "don't blame me if this distro makes your computer dance the hula". That's why I have a dedicated test machine.:)
I don't think I've ever even used any of the package managers, so it's all fresh to me.:) I've been trying to find a linux I could love for almost 20 years, and it's still not there, often due to small but nagging issues like most apps being unable to set workspace color so it doesn't fry my eyes, or the file manager settings don't stick (since I practically live in the file manager, this is a perpetual nuisance). But I keep looking, because Windows has gone where I don't wish to follow. I still use XP and XP64 on my everyday boxen, because for me, they got it right, and it's been all downhill ever since.
I haven't tried UNetbootin, tho it looks simple enough. Easy2Boot has kinda spoiled me... set it up on the USB stick, copy Windows, utility, and linux ISOs (live or install) to the matching folders, boot from USB and pick the one I want from the menu. So far the only fails have been Hackintosh and ReactOS.
Glad you posted when you did... reminded me to download your ISO... not quite 4 hours to go!
I'm always interested in small but functional OSs, so thanks -- hadn't tripped over Menuet or Kolibri. Downloaded and we'll see if they'll run off an Easy2Boot USB stick (my usual way of checking out new distros, no more wasted DVDs). Try any OS once.:)
Your PsychOS link goes to v2.5.6 at 2.6GB, is that correct?? I see it listed as 3.05GB on your info page. Regardless, hubiC link doesn't allow a download manager, and that's an overnighter on my slow connection, so I'll have to remember to fetch it last thing at night.
I like how you think:) Yeah, when I last tried Ubuntu, it sucked up something like 1.2GB RAM just to display a naked desktop, which is ridiculous; Win8 uses less. Heck, PCLinuxOS FullMonty (currently the distro I like best -- I can scrape by on LXDE but really prefer KDE 4.x) doesn't use that much and it includes everything known to man.
Since my "new" machine is 8 years old (albeit with 8GB RAM) I still think in terms of resource thrift. My drag-around and access-anything distro is Wary Puppy, and it runs quite nicely on 15YO hardware.
So I'll give yours a try, what the heck.:)
[goes off, finds SuseStudio, promptly discovers a build I have to try] Thanks, I may have to play with that. And I was astonished to discover that my Novell login, which I haven't used since ~2001, was still alive and well!
BTW to the nominal topic -- I have ReactOS and WinXP on a dual boot, just to compare. Box is AMD64 2GHz, 2GB RAM, older IDE HD. ROS boots to the desktop in about 12 seconds, uses ~100MB RAM and I don't think I've ever seen it above 120MB (albeit running nothing much) tho it does sometimes get stuck using a lot of CPU. XP (the full MSDN-final-5512 build, not a Tiny or Lite, default install) decided it was not to be outdone... boots in 9 seconds and uses... are you sitting down? just 70MB RAM (albeit with no 3rd party drivers installed). This is better than XPTiny on my old laptop, which I thought was downright thrifty at 100mb. I have no idea what went 'wrong', but it needs to happen more often.:D
Thanks, that's quite informative. So it's not terribly relevant to desktop users (since either it works or it doesn't), but can be headachey for devs, and perhaps for mission-critical systems.
Having followed the free-vs-libre issue for a long time... I think Stallman has a case, but spoils it when he uses it as a bludgeon, which has given me a preference for the BSD license.
I haven't looked at Trisquel OS... absolutely loathe where Gnome has lately gone (swore off even downloading any distro that uses it!). Trisquel screenshots don't look bad, but that says little about usability... what was giving you fits?
Also, if you remove all the gang homicides from the stats, the US homicide rate drops to something like 0.3 per 100k, which IIRC is the 3rd lowest in the world.
And gangs are mostly a function of "diversity" (mainly immigrants and 2nd generationers).
And it works and acts like Windows before the desktop got mangled into something a lot of us don't recognise or hate beyond all description.
See, Microsoft, if you'd kept the XP shell available and made the Win8/10 desktop just another *optional* shell, I wouldn't have jumped ship. I don't want a damned smartphone appliance wasting space on my desktop monitor; if that's what I wanted, I'd just use the fucking smartphone.
My ROS install is 4.3 or 4.4 (too lazy to hook machine up to check) and it has partial USB support -- could read some devices but not others. Reportedly it was previously working, but got broken a few builds ago and wasn't yet fixed.
I see there's a v0.5.x out so I guess it's time to try an upgrade. 0.4.whatever was the first one I'd tried that would install and run for me. But I like the concept enough to keep following it.
Having messed with ReactOS a bit, and followed it since the beginning, I think that's a fair assessment.
Right now ReactOS's compatibility target is Server2003, which also makes it compatible with XP (or good enough, tho not yet with the 64bit flavors, nor with NTFS support tho that's on the horizon). That's a significant niche that may have no real end in sight, particularly with the embedded-industrial market, where upgrading an OS can be prohibitively expensive (as in 6 figures or worse) or even impossible, and support for legacy drivers is critical.
I have XP and ReactOS set up as a dual boot, and tho ROS has some memory management and related issues, otherwise they're close enough for government work. In fact I recall reading that one of the smaller governments in ?eastern Europe? had switched to ROS as their primary OS.
ROS performs well on old hardware, and is now to where it supports some Office and CAD software. So it can scrape by as an everyday desktop, and if you're used to XP or 9x, there's almost no learning curve. It's small, lightweight, and entirely lacking in bloat. Considering it's been built mostly by a handful of people in their spare time, it's not doing badly at all.
So: a replacement for Windows? Not across the board. But as a replacement for the 9x/XP/2003 niche? I think it will be. Not quite yet. But in time.
I understand the objection to systend as "violating UNIX design principles", but for those of us out in Userland, who just want the damn OS to work -- what are the pros and cons?
I read this: https://unix.stackexchange.com... which is all dandy from a technical POV, but doesn't tell me how it affects me as an everyday-desktop-OS user.
Bubonic plague is endemic in squirrels in Los Angeles; that's why the Parks Dept. occasionally flea-sprays the parks, to prevent transmission to humans. However considering the vast and vibrant rat population in LA, as you say chances are most humans are genetically immune, or we'd see more than the very rare case. (In fact such immunity in surviving generations is one theory, somewhat backed by DNA evidence, why the great medieval plagues petered out in the first place.)
Slashdot Mirror
ST Continues or Axanar or any of a dozen other good fan/semi-pro projects. But Hollywood is not about making film and TV; it's about sucking budget into a black hole, and while you can do an excellent series on a fraction of the money, this makes the unions unhappy and eliminates all the graft and waste that's where the real profit lies. So it won't happen on Big Hollywood's watch.
In my observation, younger doctors tend to be full of education, but empty of experience, and their primary means of making mistakes is being too by-the book; also, they tend not to listen to the patient. Older doctors are more likely to treat the patient rather than treating the test results; after all the object is to get you symptom-free, not to make the tests look pretty.
I would guess that a lot of older patients have come to recognise this and go to older doctors, so naturally the mortality rate is higher.
I note that all those in favor live where they don't drive much, mostly Europe, where they have no idea the distances typical in the US (think of our states as your countries and you'll be close, at least for your larger countries -- IIRC Germany is roughly equivalent to Texas. Also, our current average price of petrol is around 50 cents per liter.) Probably a third of Los Angeles area workers commute close to a full charge worth every day; does that put it in perspective?
And I got to wondering about cold weather -- the northern tier can have a month of -40 temps -- and found this:
https://www.technologyreview.c...
I suspect that's optimistic. During northern winters, you'd have to heat the batteries 24 hours a day. That's not going to go over well in areas where the cost of electricity has recently skyrocketed (frex, Ontario, where thanks to being "greened", an electric bill that was $100 two years ago is now $700).
As to replacing trucks... long-haul drivers need to do what, a minimum of 500 miles a day? that's two charging periods. You're going to fit this into a 24 hour day... how??
At any rate, TFA comes from Stanford, arguably the farthest-left STEM university in America. Consider that under their desired 'egalitarian' regime, we'd each be rationed the same amount of electricity, and if your profession requires more, tough. Electricity is ill-suited for a black market, which my cynical little voice opines might be the real motivator under such a system.
[pro dog trainer here] Dogs have a wide range of scenting ability, from extremely sensitive to practically nil. Many small pet breeds have very poor noses. Easy way to tell -- a good nose IDs a scent quickly; a poor nose has to work at it. (Especially obvious with obedience-style scent discrimination exercises.)
In my observation humans have a similar range, and on average have a better nose than some small pet dogs and most cats, if nowhere near the more-competent working-type dogs. I suspect human scenting ability parallels tasting ability; ie. supertasters probably have more-discriminating noses too. Conversely, trying to explain just how much we can smell to someone who lacks the ability is kinda like explaining color to someone who is color-blind.
As to the notion that nostrils need a certain placement for directional scenting... have you not heard of moving your head?? watch a dog trying to peg the direction of drifting scent; it'll wag its head side to side (disguised if the dog is moving, but evident if standing still).
The average German home is also about half the size of the average American home. I'm not sure how they compare for electric use but I'd guess it's also about half. This might be the only thing that keeps it "affordable".
Well, here's a Handy Chart, tho it doesn't break out industrial vs home use:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I've spoken to people in Ontario who are unlucky enough to have bought a house with electric heat, back when that was an affordable way to heat their homes.
Same thing happened to them that happened when Montana power "deregulated" (aka took the money and ran):
Between one year and the next, the average monthly heat bill went from around $100 to almost $700.
And given that, if you can't repipe for natural gas (not available everywhere), your only option is to install a wood-burning stove (IF your local regs allow it; some don't), which makes smoke. Yeah, did wonders for "green energy" and "the economy", eh?
This may explain why when I was property-hunting, I found Zillow increasingly useless... too many properties inflated by about 30% over actual market value (in markets I was sufficiently familiar with to judge). Got to where its only real value was the compiled history of past sales.
So I've got PsychOS up as "live" -- performance is very good, far as I got. Lots of software I hadn't heard of before, which I'll have to explore. Not my favorite style of desktop, but even so it's nicely set up.
I did manage to blow something up -- tried to run "Make Human" which got as far as the splash screen and then died, and after that no app will run -- either silent fail, or an error, all in this format:
Failed to execute command "inkscape %F"
Failed to execute child process "inkscape" (input/output error)
so it must have crashed some necessary process I can't see (don't know how to check, I are not a *NIX guru :)
There was also a "Fatal CPU error" in the first bunch of text crawl, early in the boot process, but it went by too fast to read, and didn't seem to do any harm.
I've had almost no luck with getting ANY variant of SuSE to run, so it's still doing better than most of its kin!
I see a lot of linux distros on Sourceforce and Github, tho I have no idea what issues that may entail. Also there are dozens of public FTP archives. Always easier for we on slow or unreliable connections (also why I use Getright as a download manager). Problem with HubiC is it doesn't actually produce a valid download link, so there's no URL to feed to Getright.
But anyway, I finally got the whole ISO, tho haven't had a chance to look at it yet. I was about to do another trawl though a pile of distros anyway, but discovered I need to get another USB stick first (the two I already use for this are full!)
Not worried about your site tracking, etc. -- what's the deal with US and Japan? About all I got from your "warning" is that it's the usual "don't blame me if this distro makes your computer dance the hula". That's why I have a dedicated test machine. :)
True, but at present that's not among the available choices.
"I mean, pizza-gate, how could a rational person ever
believe that?"
Oh, I dunno....
"I mean, Russia hacked the election, how could a rational person ever believe that?"
I recall seeing a stat:
Democrats are 90% lawyers and journalists, 10% businessmen.
Republicans are 50% lawyers and journalists, 50% businessmen.
Consider which you'd prefer to be ruled by.
I don't think I've ever even used any of the package managers, so it's all fresh to me. :) I've been trying to find a linux I could love for almost 20 years, and it's still not there, often due to small but nagging issues like most apps being unable to set workspace color so it doesn't fry my eyes, or the file manager settings don't stick (since I practically live in the file manager, this is a perpetual nuisance). But I keep looking, because Windows has gone where I don't wish to follow. I still use XP and XP64 on my everyday boxen, because for me, they got it right, and it's been all downhill ever since.
I haven't tried UNetbootin, tho it looks simple enough. Easy2Boot has kinda spoiled me... set it up on the USB stick, copy Windows, utility, and linux ISOs (live or install) to the matching folders, boot from USB and pick the one I want from the menu. So far the only fails have been Hackintosh and ReactOS.
Glad you posted when you did... reminded me to download your ISO ... not quite 4 hours to go!
I'm always interested in small but functional OSs, so thanks -- hadn't tripped over Menuet or Kolibri. Downloaded and we'll see if they'll run off an Easy2Boot USB stick (my usual way of checking out new distros, no more wasted DVDs). Try any OS once. :)
But wait! there's more!
http://www.techradar.com/news/...
Your PsychOS link goes to v2.5.6 at 2.6GB, is that correct?? I see it listed as 3.05GB on your info page. Regardless, hubiC link doesn't allow a download manager, and that's an overnighter on my slow connection, so I'll have to remember to fetch it last thing at night.
I like how you think :) Yeah, when I last tried Ubuntu, it sucked up something like 1.2GB RAM just to display a naked desktop, which is ridiculous; Win8 uses less. Heck, PCLinuxOS FullMonty (currently the distro I like best -- I can scrape by on LXDE but really prefer KDE 4.x) doesn't use that much and it includes everything known to man.
Since my "new" machine is 8 years old (albeit with 8GB RAM) I still think in terms of resource thrift. My drag-around and access-anything distro is Wary Puppy, and it runs quite nicely on 15YO hardware.
So I'll give yours a try, what the heck. :)
[goes off, finds SuseStudio, promptly discovers a build I have to try] Thanks, I may have to play with that. And I was astonished to discover that my Novell login, which I haven't used since ~2001, was still alive and well!
BTW to the nominal topic -- I have ReactOS and WinXP on a dual boot, just to compare. Box is AMD64 2GHz, 2GB RAM, older IDE HD. ROS boots to the desktop in about 12 seconds, uses ~100MB RAM and I don't think I've ever seen it above 120MB (albeit running nothing much) tho it does sometimes get stuck using a lot of CPU. XP (the full MSDN-final-5512 build, not a Tiny or Lite, default install) decided it was not to be outdone ... boots in 9 seconds and uses... are you sitting down? just 70MB RAM (albeit with no 3rd party drivers installed). This is better than XPTiny on my old laptop, which I thought was downright thrifty at 100mb. I have no idea what went 'wrong', but it needs to happen more often. :D
Thanks, that's quite informative. So it's not terribly relevant to desktop users (since either it works or it doesn't), but can be headachey for devs, and perhaps for mission-critical systems.
Having followed the free-vs-libre issue for a long time... I think Stallman has a case, but spoils it when he uses it as a bludgeon, which has given me a preference for the BSD license.
I haven't looked at Trisquel OS ... absolutely loathe where Gnome has lately gone (swore off even downloading any distro that uses it!). Trisquel screenshots don't look bad, but that says little about usability... what was giving you fits?
Also, if you remove all the gang homicides from the stats, the US homicide rate drops to something like 0.3 per 100k, which IIRC is the 3rd lowest in the world.
And gangs are mostly a function of "diversity" (mainly immigrants and 2nd generationers).
A reporter stops a French kid on the street and asks him,
"Hey, kid! Now that Macron is our President, what do you want to be when you grow up now that our country is saved?"
The kid replies, "A foreigner."
...is this document, in French:
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfr...
Translation to English (not cleaned up, just what the Big Goo spit out):
https://pastebin.com/zyk0yn79
Draw your own conclusions about who is really behind Macron.
And it works and acts like Windows before the desktop got mangled into something a lot of us don't recognise or hate beyond all description.
See, Microsoft, if you'd kept the XP shell available and made the Win8/10 desktop just another *optional* shell, I wouldn't have jumped ship. I don't want a damned smartphone appliance wasting space on my desktop monitor; if that's what I wanted, I'd just use the fucking smartphone.
My ROS install is 4.3 or 4.4 (too lazy to hook machine up to check) and it has partial USB support -- could read some devices but not others. Reportedly it was previously working, but got broken a few builds ago and wasn't yet fixed.
I see there's a v0.5.x out so I guess it's time to try an upgrade. 0.4.whatever was the first one I'd tried that would install and run for me. But I like the concept enough to keep following it.
LOL! Oooh, if I hadn't already posted, a mod-funny point to you :)
But if you seriously want to see what presently works on ReactOS, here's a forum thread; the most interesting stuff is recent, so starting at the end:
https://www.reactos.org/forum/...
Having messed with ReactOS a bit, and followed it since the beginning, I think that's a fair assessment.
Right now ReactOS's compatibility target is Server2003, which also makes it compatible with XP (or good enough, tho not yet with the 64bit flavors, nor with NTFS support tho that's on the horizon). That's a significant niche that may have no real end in sight, particularly with the embedded-industrial market, where upgrading an OS can be prohibitively expensive (as in 6 figures or worse) or even impossible, and support for legacy drivers is critical.
I have XP and ReactOS set up as a dual boot, and tho ROS has some memory management and related issues, otherwise they're close enough for government work. In fact I recall reading that one of the smaller governments in ?eastern Europe? had switched to ROS as their primary OS.
ROS performs well on old hardware, and is now to where it supports some Office and CAD software. So it can scrape by as an everyday desktop, and if you're used to XP or 9x, there's almost no learning curve. It's small, lightweight, and entirely lacking in bloat. Considering it's been built mostly by a handful of people in their spare time, it's not doing badly at all.
So: a replacement for Windows? Not across the board. But as a replacement for the 9x/XP/2003 niche? I think it will be. Not quite yet. But in time.
I understand the objection to systend as "violating UNIX design principles", but for those of us out in Userland, who just want the damn OS to work -- what are the pros and cons?
I read this:
https://unix.stackexchange.com...
which is all dandy from a technical POV, but doesn't tell me how it affects me as an everyday-desktop-OS user.
Bubonic plague is endemic in squirrels in Los Angeles; that's why the Parks Dept. occasionally flea-sprays the parks, to prevent transmission to humans. However considering the vast and vibrant rat population in LA, as you say chances are most humans are genetically immune, or we'd see more than the very rare case. (In fact such immunity in surviving generations is one theory, somewhat backed by DNA evidence, why the great medieval plagues petered out in the first place.)