[laughing] Yeah, and there were these two bright lights coming at me, just floating along in front of the lunchbox dude... egads, I think it was a UFO!!!
By amazing coincidence, I just had my eyes poked yesterday (because I wanted to get contacts) and turns out my prescription is still the same as it's been since 1964. I'm legal to drive without lenses, tho I usually wear 'em at night.
And I wasn't driving w/o headlights, whatever gave you that idea?
BTW in certain fog or snow conditions, headlights are more of a hazard than a help. You can see without 'em, but not with 'em as they produce a white glare. As to being seen, well, a yellow spot is easier to pinpoint in fog/snow than a white haze.
Coloured lights may have their uses, but they wreak havoc with your vision.
My truck is a light jade green (Ford Puke Green). Long Beach CA has yellow sodium lights. My truck is completely invisible under those lights -- to the point that I once lost it in an otherwise-empty parking lot, and only rediscovered it by nearly walking into it. This despite that I have VERY good night vision. And as I drove down the street, I was amused by the illusion that my front hood was missing.... and was glad to be the only vehicle on the street, because in real traffic, it's a fair bet someone would have hit me simply because they couldn't see me in those yellow lights.
In fact, on a moonlit winter night, you can see well enough to drive safely -- with no headlights at all, using just the brilliant clarity of moonlight reflecting off snow.
Conversely, there are stretches of street lighting here in Lancaster CA that are "muddy" to the point that sometimes you can't tell if your headlights are on or off, and where everything looks blurry, even tho it's not really dark.
Done! Thanks for the offer, that's very generous. I'll review it for our local user group too -- you might get some interest from members who've choked on the price of Photoshop.:)
Being able to run under Win98 is actually a Very Good Thing -- I think it keeps programmers honest about having their app clean up after itself, not wasting the resource heaps, etc. Relying on the OS for all of that is just plain sloppy, and can lead to problems even on OSs that are relatively tolerant (open a dozen Nero compilations at once even on XP, and see what I mean).
Damn, now I'm hungry... them ducks was just an appetizer. Think I'll catch me an alligator... one o' them Ruskie 'gators would be right tasty 'bout now.
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(Love your tagline.. best religious-argument comeback ever!! Stealing for future use.)
Similarly, that's why I use Corel PhotoPaint. It will run on any piece of crap (my fave, v8, is quite nimble even on my antique P233), and it runs rings around concurrent Photoshop on ANY hardware. Yet 99% of the time, it does all the same work (and does a way cleaner job on JPG compression).
I'll have to try WinImages sometime... I appreciate crisp performance and a straightforward interface (which is why I hate Photoshop:)
I don't know about bloat inside the source itself, but Moz/Firefox shows it in Everyday Life:
Take Mozilla v1.8 -- on a P3 with 1GB of RAM, it effectively SINGLE-tasks. Why? Because every time I ask it to do a new task, it hogs 100% of CPU cycles until it is completely done with said new task (no matter how simple). It is the most CPU-intensive app I've ever encountered.**
This is a good example of why developers should be required to suffer their creations on the dead minimum system the app will run on -- so they're made aware of just how bad its performance can be under less than optimal conditions.
[** Conversely, any pre-Moz-codebase Netscape barely touches the CPU, for the same tasks.]
About 25 years back, some ag economist figured out that HALF of the readily-arable bottomland in the U.S. -- IOW the *best* cropland -- had already been paved over or turned into housing developments. And as the grandparent post notes, once taken out of production and built over, land is NEVER returned to farming. That production capacity is lost forever.
The biggest reason for this sprawl isn't the need to expand -- it's because cities encourage it, since urban sprawl radically grows their tax base. Urban and suburban property tax revenue is orders of magnitude greater than the same land brings in if it's in use for agriculture. (About $50 per acre per year for ag land, vs. at least $50,000 if that same acre is covered by 20 tract houses, and several times that in high-dollar states like California.)
A fact we'll regret when we're eating whatever sludge China sees fit to export to us.
Mmm, okay, I think we're talking at cross purposes somehow...
Yeah, when it's cost-effective to just replace some old piece of crap, AND when it's not critical to what you're doing or your way of doing things, then a cheap replacement is the thing to do. Don't cling to it just because you're stubborn.
But sometimes that's not the problem, as per my examples. Sometimes people have no better option available to them, or the "better" option doesn't actually work well for them.
That's because it frequently has nothing to do with well-considered politics, and everything to do with shouting "You can't tell me what to do! You're not the boss of me!!"
Speaking as a CA resident, I'd say it's more like the appropriate lobbyists haven't bribed enough legislators yet. That's far closer to how it works here.:(
I've suggested something similar, except that it would be purely by usage -- a micropayment based on a secure watermark placed in legit files. Second, that filesharers could earn credit in the system by hosting files (ie. using their own bandwidth for distribution). If this data was recorded at the ISP level, you could still use whatever software you wish, and there would be a clear record of who deserves what percentage of the royalties. And if ISPs get a cut, that'll remove their whining about overuse of bandwidth.
These watermarked files would be by definition exempt from all legal shennanigans.
Of course, a flat fee is a lot simpler, tho would need to be opt-in, since not everyone shares files in the first place.
"The article simply says that different orchestras use different frequencies roughly around the same pitch for A."
I wonder how much that has to do with individuals developing preferences among orchestras -- ie. the ones you like best are those pitched at frequencies your ear deems best.
I think the new video failsafe is a great step in the right direction.
And now I'm wondering if it works on VESA 1.2 hardware... will have to haul out a S3Trio video card (which I know for sure lacks VESA 2.0 in hardware) and find out.
That there actually is a reason for the frequent complaint that "linux doesn't work for me, damned thing won't even install, etc, etc". It's not just an isolated Windows-weenie whining; it's a real and ongoing problem that needs to be addressed. What Ubuntu is doing is a great start.
Yeah, you can get prepaid cell phone service here, tho the ones I've heard about have the nasty habit of zeroing out your account every 6 months. So they're use it or lose it.
Any cell phone can call 9-1-1, even if you don't have an account, but if you're just stuck by the side of the road, that isn't considered a bona fide emergency, and you might get a 5-figure bill as a result.
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[laughing] Yeah, and there were these two bright lights coming at me, just floating along in front of the lunchbox dude ... egads, I think it was a UFO!!!
By amazing coincidence, I just had my eyes poked yesterday (because I wanted to get contacts) and turns out my prescription is still the same as it's been since 1964. I'm legal to drive without lenses, tho I usually wear 'em at night.
And I wasn't driving w/o headlights, whatever gave you that idea?
BTW in certain fog or snow conditions, headlights are more of a hazard than a help. You can see without 'em, but not with 'em as they produce a white glare. As to being seen, well, a yellow spot is easier to pinpoint in fog/snow than a white haze.
That's certain true enough, especially when beer is involved :/
It's a lot easier to get 30,000 people to cooperate after the enemy has bombed the bejeezus out of the next city down the way!
Coloured lights may have their uses, but they wreak havoc with your vision.
My truck is a light jade green (Ford Puke Green). Long Beach CA has yellow sodium lights. My truck is completely invisible under those lights -- to the point that I once lost it in an otherwise-empty parking lot, and only rediscovered it by nearly walking into it. This despite that I have VERY good night vision. And as I drove down the street, I was amused by the illusion that my front hood was missing.... and was glad to be the only vehicle on the street, because in real traffic, it's a fair bet someone would have hit me simply because they couldn't see me in those yellow lights.
In fact, on a moonlit winter night, you can see well enough to drive safely -- with no headlights at all, using just the brilliant clarity of moonlight reflecting off snow.
Conversely, there are stretches of street lighting here in Lancaster CA that are "muddy" to the point that sometimes you can't tell if your headlights are on or off, and where everything looks blurry, even tho it's not really dark.
Done! Thanks for the offer, that's very generous. I'll review it for our local user group too -- you might get some interest from members who've choked on the price of Photoshop. :)
Being able to run under Win98 is actually a Very Good Thing -- I think it keeps programmers honest about having their app clean up after itself, not wasting the resource heaps, etc. Relying on the OS for all of that is just plain sloppy, and can lead to problems even on OSs that are relatively tolerant (open a dozen Nero compilations at once even on XP, and see what I mean).
An AC cracked me up by saying, "(Not my sig; I am somebody else.)"
:D
Oooh, lovely expansion on the "Whose God is he anyway?" theme
Damn, now I'm hungry... them ducks was just an appetizer. Think I'll catch me an alligator... one o' them Ruskie 'gators would be right tasty 'bout now.
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(Love your tagline.. best religious-argument comeback ever!! Stealing for future use.)
Great, now we're in for man-eating ducks.
And that's why I view Slashdot with a 10 year old browser (no JS, no CSS), set in light mode, with images off. Otherwise, I'd have to kill someone.
Reduces the front page to [checking] 61k at the moment, with no story filtering.
Similarly, that's why I use Corel PhotoPaint. It will run on any piece of crap (my fave, v8, is quite nimble even on my antique P233), and it runs rings around concurrent Photoshop on ANY hardware. Yet 99% of the time, it does all the same work (and does a way cleaner job on JPG compression).
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I'll have to try WinImages sometime... I appreciate crisp performance and a straightforward interface (which is why I hate Photoshop
I don't know about bloat inside the source itself, but Moz/Firefox shows it in Everyday Life:
Take Mozilla v1.8 -- on a P3 with 1GB of RAM, it effectively SINGLE-tasks. Why? Because every time I ask it to do a new task, it hogs 100% of CPU cycles until it is completely done with said new task (no matter how simple). It is the most CPU-intensive app I've ever encountered.**
This is a good example of why developers should be required to suffer their creations on the dead minimum system the app will run on -- so they're made aware of just how bad its performance can be under less than optimal conditions.
[** Conversely, any pre-Moz-codebase Netscape barely touches the CPU, for the same tasks.]
About 25 years back, some ag economist figured out that HALF of the readily-arable bottomland in the U.S. -- IOW the *best* cropland -- had already been paved over or turned into housing developments. And as the grandparent post notes, once taken out of production and built over, land is NEVER returned to farming. That production capacity is lost forever.
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The biggest reason for this sprawl isn't the need to expand -- it's because cities encourage it, since urban sprawl radically grows their tax base. Urban and suburban property tax revenue is orders of magnitude greater than the same land brings in if it's in use for agriculture. (About $50 per acre per year for ag land, vs. at least $50,000 if that same acre is covered by 20 tract houses, and several times that in high-dollar states like California.)
A fact we'll regret when we're eating whatever sludge China sees fit to export to us.
Dangerous foodstuffs:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/26/madeinchina.over
How do you avoid it??!
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/07/26/ch
Just curious as to what differences/lacks you've encountered?
No linux distro has ever entirely caught me, but to date my favourite was Mandrake v7.2.
Well, yeah, but it needed the exercise. ;)
He does. This kdawson person is infringing on Twitter's intellectual property rights. ;)
Mmm, okay, I think we're talking at cross purposes somehow...
Yeah, when it's cost-effective to just replace some old piece of crap, AND when it's not critical to what you're doing or your way of doing things, then a cheap replacement is the thing to do. Don't cling to it just because you're stubborn.
But sometimes that's not the problem, as per my examples. Sometimes people have no better option available to them, or the "better" option doesn't actually work well for them.
That's because it frequently has nothing to do with well-considered politics, and everything to do with shouting "You can't tell me what to do! You're not the boss of me!!"
Speaking as a CA resident, I'd say it's more like the appropriate lobbyists haven't bribed enough legislators yet. That's far closer to how it works here. :(
I've suggested something similar, except that it would be purely by usage -- a micropayment based on a secure watermark placed in legit files. Second, that filesharers could earn credit in the system by hosting files (ie. using their own bandwidth for distribution). If this data was recorded at the ISP level, you could still use whatever software you wish, and there would be a clear record of who deserves what percentage of the royalties. And if ISPs get a cut, that'll remove their whining about overuse of bandwidth.
These watermarked files would be by definition exempt from all legal shennanigans.
Of course, a flat fee is a lot simpler, tho would need to be opt-in, since not everyone shares files in the first place.
"The article simply says that different orchestras use different frequencies roughly around the same pitch for A."
I wonder how much that has to do with individuals developing preferences among orchestras -- ie. the ones you like best are those pitched at frequencies your ear deems best.
With you or with TFA? :)
I think the new video failsafe is a great step in the right direction.
And now I'm wondering if it works on VESA 1.2 hardware... will have to haul out a S3Trio video card (which I know for sure lacks VESA 2.0 in hardware) and find out.
That there actually is a reason for the frequent complaint that "linux doesn't work for me, damned thing won't even install, etc, etc". It's not just an isolated Windows-weenie whining; it's a real and ongoing problem that needs to be addressed. What Ubuntu is doing is a great start.
Yeah, you can get prepaid cell phone service here, tho the ones I've heard about have the nasty habit of zeroing out your account every 6 months. So they're use it or lose it.
Any cell phone can call 9-1-1, even if you don't have an account, but if you're just stuck by the side of the road, that isn't considered a bona fide emergency, and you might get a 5-figure bill as a result.