1. Buy extension cords for keyboard, mouse & monitor 2. Cram computer into wall closet, basement, cellar, hallway, whatever is convenient and puts a wall or a door between you and the computer. 3. Profit!
Dude, you're not getting it. It's not the meat that's evil (your term not mine), it's the way it is produced that is perceived as evil. For many vegetarians ( veganists exempt ) if the way it was produced would be less evil, they would eat meat too. What 'evil production' exactly consists of is a very personal choice, for meat eaters and vegetarians alike. There's is no clear line either way; I consider myself vegetarian (kind of) but have no problem with eating fish, most non-vegetarians eat cows and chickens and stuff, some don't want pigs, and most won't eat other humans. The haziness of the line works both ways, it does.
Which I understand from the website started just a bit over a half year ago-- the 4 of may. It sounds like a good initiative, but you'd need to give it a few years to see if it really works over time.
Your argument fails because even the 'witte fietsen' plan is firmly embedded in the free market economy. You didn't think these bycicles where really free, did you? They were produced by a company for money, then discarded probably because repairing them was less cost effective than buying a new bike. Then some hippies went off and repaired them; which in turn cost money for the manhours spent repairing the bikes. This maybe wasn't charged, but the point is that the whole 'witte fietsen plan' was dependend of the free economy it was said to defeat. There was some smart recycling, granted, there where some altruistic people obviously able to spend their free hours repairing bikes. But they only have those free hours to spend because of modern economics making it unneccesary to spend _all_ your time feeding yourself and your family.
"I agree with your point, but your analogy is silly unless you own 1700 bikes. You're expected to park your own personal bike by chaining it to the nearest lamppost." Agreed, the analogy doesn't fly straight as an arrow, but the point is simple. Public space is government controlled. They allow me to park my bike anywhere ( as opposed to charging me if I don't park it on my own private property, as with cars in much places ), and they allowed Deutsche Bahn to park their rental bikes anywhere, which is a sort of hidden subsidy for this project, I figure.
As for the morality, maybe they aren't in it for financial gain, but that gives them no right to sabotage Deutsche Bahn's tries to make the system cost effective, just because they can. It not much different from vandals breaking the free 'witte fietsen' just because they feel like it and can.
" has been going on since the 1960's and works fine in the places where it operates." Like.. uh.. where? I sure know Amsterdam doesn't have them anymore. The only place I know of where you can 'rent' a bike for free is park Hoge Veluwe in the east of the Netherlands.
"It is cheaper to run per user than conventional public transit systems like buses and undergrounds, all of which have subsidized fares that cost much more than the bikes do." They haven't actually abandoned other types of public transportation in favour of 'free' bikes, have they? Public transportation is subsidized, not free. They do that because the alternative, a city in which nobody can get from one place to another, will cost them much more because the local economy in the city will stall.
"Do you think the New York Subway is also run by hippies?" No I don't. Why should I?
I assume the New York Subway is run by a company that charges fees, and uses part of that money to repair vandalised stuff & such. Another part of the fair is subsidized for above mentioned reasons. Any questions?
So if I park my own bike somewhere, I'm trying to convert this piece of city into my own private parking space?
You're stretching an argument for some obscure reason, probably because you're some old hippy that doesn't understand economics. I can't believe this got modded up.
Public space is controlled by the government (like it or not) and they gave permission to the project. End of story.
CCC stole a rental bike and hacked it illegally, then proceeded to modify 170 bikes illegally. If this is morally defensible is your own call.
The 'witte fietsen' plan was dumb, like most of the stuff hippies thought up. Some people will not have respect for something they receive for free. If they can break it without consequences, they will. This is a given. Live with it. Deutsche Bahn obviously is trying to convert a partly good idea into something working by charging you for it ( so the 'some people' who actually trash the bike are compensated and they get a profit in the process -- you know capitalism, the guiding principle of the western 'free' world ).
In addition to the good advice sycraft-fu gives you:
register your time, more specifically, keeps tabs on the time you spend correction the senior programmers mistakes. After you've done this for 2 weeks or a month, first look at it yourself. Does he really cost you as much time as you think? It might just be an false impression you have. If not, go to the senior programmer and discuss it with him, or if this is not possible or feasible, go to management. However, it probably isn't very good for working relations to go over his head.
Firstly because of the settlement. They should have let it go to court, settlements imho always give the impression that it isn't to do about justice, but just about money. Secondly because to say the least, it seems very dubious that Ed Black pockets half the money himself. It's not like he was damaged personally in the case to which the settlement applies, or was he?
This smell fishy and I can't blame Nokia for saying 'all nice and well, but we won't be part of this.'
Comments at the website (yes I RTFA) say it wasn't a faulty sensor but a software error which caused the Polyus to turn 360 instead of 180 degree upon reaching orbit, and it boosted itself back into the atmosphere. Oops!
.. but how big is the chance that HDTV, when(if) it finally gets adopted, will be broadcasted on air-waves? I mean, here in the Netherlands, the television antenna's are being slowly dismantled because almost all homes either are connected to cable or can receive via a satellite dish.
What is the exact use for this? Is it's advantage that there's no need to switch back & forth between electric signals & optic signals in e.g. a optical router, or is a computer based on solely optical signals faster than one based on electrical signals?
Reality check: do you think the artist are being payed for their hard work by the record labels? AFAIK, except for the very large and famous artists, most hard working musicians actually make money by performing live, not by selling CD's and the like. Yes, they get paid royalties by the record company for sold CD's, but all costs of promoting and such and deducted from these royalties, so unless you sell very many of your records you won't have any income from the reproduction of your work, only from live performances.
Most microsoft users are thieves too... if they actually bought the OS chances are they're running at least one piece of software which was copied illegally.
And then again... wtf? Stolen? Copyright infringement is not the same as stealing something, whatever the demagogues like Balmer want you to believe.
"The plant is happy listening to music," says Gotoh, showing off a rubber plant hooked up to Ka-on in his Tokyo office. "Gerberas and sunflowers work especially well as speakers."
I'm not sure I'll take horticultural advice from someone who has a _rubber_ plant on his desk...
... I've a 40 year old braun tube amplifier which I used in combination with a slimp3 player. Tubes tend to softer the somewhat sterile sound of mp3's. However, tube amplifiers are also beasts: it needs to be on all the time because it takes about 3-6 hours to get to a nice operating warmth, in which time the casing of the amp is too hot to touch with bare hands. I don't currently use it anymore, as I'm too scared for the thing to burst into flames if I'm not home...
... maybe it'll do the same thing for speech recognition as seperate processors have done for graphics, notably 3d graphics. When I was mucking around with computers as a youngster, I could only dream of the likes of quake3 & doom3. Most computers had a crappy CGA or _whew_ maybe even a EGA adapter on board. GPU's have made things not so much possible as feasible that weren't so before... maybe a seperate chip for speech processing will have the same effect. I mean, we've been talking about speech recognition for decades now, only it's been going totally nowhere.
... is the 9 pin serial port. Hands up who used one the last 10 years. Noone? Right... why are those things still included on new computers? So people can still keep using their serial port mouses?
... or were floppies getting worse and worse still the last decennium? I remember actually depending on floppies for backups and (god forbid) copying stuff, and usually they worked. Now what I remember from the few times I used floppies the last five years is that invariabily almost half of them would be rotten in no time sharp, giving read errors and all kinds of data loss. Could it be that the quality of floppies or floppy drives slipped, anticipating the ultimate demise of the floppy?
Maybe it's my installation, but every time I try to install an extension either it doesn't install or I have to reinstall firefox because it won't start anymore. I'm writing this in konqueror as I just tried to install adblocker and firefox won't start anymore after quitting. I'd say the extensions system needs just a bit more work. And mind you, I've seen a lot of mozilla bugs as I've been with mozilla since version 0.8.x
Read both of your threads on the problem. I don't think it's an Asus mobo specific problem. I've a dell precision machine with an intel chipset (off the top of my head it's a 850 chipset, not sure, working on another machine now) and bought a saphire radeon 9800 pro bout a month or two ago. As soon as I turn on dri it locks the machine when starting XFree. No error messages in logs, neither in XFree logs nor in messages. Also, dual head support sucks heavily ( best I can do is get a clone with a mouse pointer I can move from display to display ), but that's another story entirely.
... no mysterious slow-down in your OS over a period of months (KDE, why do you do that????)....
Your computer is begging you to dump KDE and install WindowMaker, you insensitive clod!
"According to Spamhaus director Steve Linford, the Russian gangs aren't constrained by any anti-spam or cybercrime laws in their home country and have no respect for legislation implemented in other countries."
Criminals with no respect for the law! This world is surely going to the dogs!
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1. Buy extension cords for keyboard, mouse & monitor
2. Cram computer into wall closet, basement, cellar, hallway, whatever is convenient and puts a wall or a door between you and the computer.
3. Profit!
Dude, you're not getting it. It's not the meat that's evil (your term not mine), it's the way it is produced that is perceived as evil. For many vegetarians ( veganists exempt ) if the way it was produced would be less evil, they would eat meat too. What 'evil production' exactly consists of is a very personal choice, for meat eaters and vegetarians alike. There's is no clear line either way; I consider myself vegetarian (kind of) but have no problem with eating fish, most non-vegetarians eat cows and chickens and stuff, some don't want pigs, and most won't eat other humans. The haziness of the line works both ways, it does.
Which I understand from the website started just a bit over a half year ago-- the 4 of may. It sounds like a good initiative, but you'd need to give it a few years to see if it really works over time.
Your argument fails because even the 'witte fietsen' plan is firmly embedded in the free market economy. You didn't think these bycicles where really free, did you? They were produced by a company for money, then discarded probably because repairing them was less cost effective than buying a new bike. Then some hippies went off and repaired them; which in turn cost money for the manhours spent repairing the bikes.
This maybe wasn't charged, but the point is that the whole 'witte fietsen plan' was dependend of the free economy it was said to defeat. There was some smart recycling, granted, there where some altruistic people obviously able to spend their free hours repairing bikes. But they only have those free hours to spend because of modern economics making it unneccesary to spend _all_ your time feeding yourself and your family.
"I agree with your point, but your analogy is silly unless you own 1700 bikes. You're expected to park your own personal bike by chaining it to the nearest lamppost."
Agreed, the analogy doesn't fly straight as an arrow, but the point is simple. Public space is government controlled. They allow me to park my bike anywhere ( as opposed to charging me if I don't park it on my own private property, as with cars in much places ), and they allowed Deutsche Bahn to park their rental bikes anywhere, which is a sort of hidden subsidy for this project, I figure.
As for the morality, maybe they aren't in it for financial gain, but that gives them no right to sabotage Deutsche Bahn's tries to make the system cost effective, just because they can. It not much different from vandals breaking the free 'witte fietsen' just because they feel like it and can.
" has been going on since the 1960's and works fine in the places where it operates." .. uh.. where? I sure know Amsterdam doesn't have them anymore. The only place I know of where you can 'rent' a bike for free is park Hoge Veluwe in the east of the Netherlands.
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"It is cheaper to run per user than conventional public transit systems like buses and undergrounds, all of which have subsidized fares that cost much more than the bikes do."
They haven't actually abandoned other types of public transportation in favour of 'free' bikes, have they? Public transportation is subsidized, not free. They do that because the alternative, a city in which nobody can get from one place to another, will cost them much more because the local economy in the city will stall.
"Do you think the New York Subway is also run by hippies?"
No I don't. Why should I?
I assume the New York Subway is run by a company that charges fees, and uses part of that money to repair vandalised stuff & such. Another part of the fair is subsidized for above mentioned reasons. Any questions?
So if I park my own bike somewhere, I'm trying to convert this piece of city into my own private parking space?
You're stretching an argument for some obscure reason, probably because you're some old hippy that doesn't understand economics. I can't believe this got modded up.
Public space is controlled by the government (like it or not) and they gave permission to the project. End of story.
CCC stole a rental bike and hacked it illegally, then proceeded to modify 170 bikes illegally. If this is morally defensible is your own call.
The 'witte fietsen' plan was dumb, like most of the stuff hippies thought up. Some people will not have respect for something they receive for free. If they can break it without consequences, they will. This is a given. Live with it. Deutsche Bahn obviously is trying to convert a partly good idea into something working by charging you for it ( so the 'some people' who actually trash the bike are compensated and they get a profit in the process -- you know capitalism, the guiding principle of the western 'free' world ).
In addition to the good advice sycraft-fu gives you:
register your time, more specifically, keeps tabs on the time you spend correction the senior programmers mistakes. After you've done this for 2 weeks or a month, first look at it yourself. Does he really cost you as much time as you think? It might just be an false impression you have. If not, go to the senior programmer and discuss it with him, or if this is not possible or feasible, go to management. However, it probably isn't very good for working relations to go over his head.
Firstly because of the settlement. They should have let it go to court, settlements imho always give the impression that it isn't to do about justice, but just about money.
Secondly because to say the least, it seems very dubious that Ed Black pockets half the money himself. It's not like he was damaged personally in the case to which the settlement applies, or was he?
This smell fishy and I can't blame Nokia for saying 'all nice and well, but we won't be part of this.'
Comments at the website (yes I RTFA) say it wasn't a faulty sensor but a software error which caused the Polyus to turn 360 instead of 180 degree upon reaching orbit, and it boosted itself back into the atmosphere. Oops!
.. but how big is the chance that HDTV, when(if) it finally gets adopted, will be broadcasted on air-waves? I mean, here in the Netherlands, the television antenna's are being slowly dismantled because almost all homes either are connected to cable or can receive via a satellite dish.
What is the exact use for this? Is it's advantage that there's no need to switch back & forth between electric signals & optic signals in e.g. a optical router, or is a computer based on solely optical signals faster than one based on electrical signals?
Reality check: do you think the artist are being payed for their hard work by the record labels? AFAIK, except for the very large and famous artists, most hard working musicians actually make money by performing live, not by selling CD's and the like. Yes, they get paid royalties by the record company for sold CD's, but all costs of promoting and such and deducted from these royalties, so unless you sell very many of your records you won't have any income from the reproduction of your work, only from live performances.
Most microsoft users are thieves too ... if they actually bought the OS chances are they're running at least one piece of software which was copied illegally.
... wtf? Stolen? Copyright infringement is not the same as stealing something, whatever the demagogues like Balmer want you to believe.
And then again
"The plant is happy listening to music," says Gotoh, showing off a rubber plant hooked up to Ka-on in his Tokyo office. "Gerberas and sunflowers work especially well as speakers."
...
I'm not sure I'll take horticultural advice from someone who has a _rubber_ plant on his desk
... I've a 40 year old braun tube amplifier which I used in combination with a slimp3 player. Tubes tend to softer the somewhat sterile sound of mp3's. However, tube amplifiers are also beasts: it needs to be on all the time because it takes about 3-6 hours to get to a nice operating warmth, in which time the casing of the amp is too hot to touch with bare hands. I don't currently use it anymore, as I'm too scared for the thing to burst into flames if I'm not home ...
... maybe it'll do the same thing for speech recognition as seperate processors have done for graphics, notably 3d graphics. When I was mucking around with computers as a youngster, I could only dream of the likes of quake3 & doom3. Most computers had a crappy CGA or _whew_ maybe even a EGA adapter on board. GPU's have made things not so much possible as feasible that weren't so before ... maybe a seperate chip for speech processing will have the same effect. I mean, we've been talking about speech recognition for decades now, only it's been going totally nowhere.
... is the 9 pin serial port. Hands up who used one the last 10 years. Noone? Right ... why are those things still included on new computers? So people can still keep using their serial port mouses?
... or were floppies getting worse and worse still the last decennium? I remember actually depending on floppies for backups and (god forbid) copying stuff, and usually they worked.
Now what I remember from the few times I used floppies the last five years is that invariabily almost half of them would be rotten in no time sharp, giving read errors and all kinds of data loss. Could it be that the quality of floppies or floppy drives slipped, anticipating the ultimate demise of the floppy?
Maybe it's my installation, but every time I try to install an extension either it doesn't install or I have to reinstall firefox because it won't start anymore. I'm writing this in konqueror as I just tried to install adblocker and firefox won't start anymore after quitting.
I'd say the extensions system needs just a bit more work. And mind you, I've seen a lot of mozilla bugs as I've been with mozilla since version 0.8.x
Read both of your threads on the problem. I don't think it's an Asus mobo specific problem. I've a dell precision machine with an intel chipset (off the top of my head it's a 850 chipset, not sure, working on another machine now) and bought a saphire radeon 9800 pro bout a month or two ago. As soon as I turn on dri it locks the machine when starting XFree. No error messages in logs, neither in XFree logs nor in messages. Also, dual head support sucks heavily ( best I can do is get a clone with a mouse pointer I can move from display to display ), but that's another story entirely.
Went to the search spy site to have a look at current queries, first query I see was "die slashdotters" ... maybe some frustrated webmaster?
... no mysterious slow-down in your OS over a period of months (KDE, why do you do that????).... Your computer is begging you to dump KDE and install WindowMaker, you insensitive clod!
These people in the picture are pointing to the capitol or something! Arrest them! They must be terrorists!
"According to Spamhaus director Steve Linford, the Russian gangs aren't constrained by any anti-spam or cybercrime laws in their home country and have no respect for legislation implemented in other countries."
Criminals with no respect for the law! This world is surely going to the dogs!