In 2001, B. Hussein Obama argued against (and voted "present" on) a bill before the Illinois state senate that would have banned the practice of some abortion mills of leaving the occasional survivors to die instead of providing proper medical care for them. Three months later, the U.S. Senate voted unanimously in favor of a nearly-identical bill...even such pro-abortion forces as Hillary Clinton and Barbara Boxer voted for this common-sense, humane measure.
At a Planned Parenthood event about a year ago, B. Hussein Obama promised the crowd that one of the first things he would do if elected is roll back the few restrictions on abortion that we have. Partial-birth abortion? The practice that the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) denounced as indistinguishable from infanticide would be relegalized. Informed consent? Laws whose only aim is a truly informed choice would be stricken from the books. Parental notification? Let's say that the punk down the street gets your daughter pregnant and then slips her a few hundred bucks for an abortion. If B. Hussein Obama had his way, the laws that would keep you informed about your kid's medical care would be wiped away.
I'm using 32-bit Firefox 2.0.0.16 on 64-bit openSUSE 10.2. (I get tired of waiting for them to upgrade, and I can't get it to compile, so I just grab the 32-bit binary from mozilla.com and plop it in my ~/bin.)
64-bit Firefox builds from source without any issues on my Gentoo boxen, and Flash (through nspluginwrapper) runs like a champ on it. I have more problems with Flash on Mac OS X (performance issues on video playback, video not showing up unless the frame is at the top or bottom of a window, etc.) than I do with Flash on Linux.
I find Chevy's Volt a pathetic attempt. Tesla has already come to market and shat all over the Volt's range.
Did you find math a tough subject in school? In what parallel universe is 220 miles greater than 360 miles? (The Volt was originally being touted as having a 640-mile unrefueled range, but the production model is apparently going to get a smaller gas tank than the 12-gallon tank in the prototype...the math suggests something a bit over 6 gallons instead.) 220 miles is useless for any sort of long-distance travel, especially when you're stuck recharging for several hours before you can continue. 220 miles won't get you from Las Vegas to LA (about 240 miles), Phoenix (about 270 miles), or San Diego (about 330 miles), and given that there's bugger-all between here and there, that kinda takes the purpose out of having a roadster.
The upgrade I bought in the early '90s was from Shreve Systems. It included a motherboard (ROM 01, with connectors for the IIe power supply and keyboard installed) and the bottom plate to which the motherboard was mounted. It didn't include replacement badges for the lid, so mine still says "Apple IIe" on it. Cost was about $280 IIRC, which was a fair bit less than what Apple was asking in 1986. I don't know for sure if this upgrade was overstock from Apple or if it was something Shreve rolled on its own. I suspect the latter, as the bottom plate has no labels or markings on it and the replacement case badges weren't included. I suspect they had someone bend and punch some aluminum for them, and combined that with motherboards from their own stock.
I continued using the green-screen Monitor II that came with my IIe for a while afterward, but eventually scored an NEC MultiSync 3D to use with it (swapped another monitor for it).
guess what kind of tv the typical indian buying a $12 computer has? that's right, the crappy kind. the kind probably left over from the 90s or 80s or earlier, like most electronics in india. that said, text isn't readable on an old TV largely because it's in a font designed for a computer monitor. do you have much trouble reading subtitles?
My first computer was plugged into a 19" Sears that my parents had bought, IIRC, in 1976. Text was legible enough on it. You don't get readable 80-column text, but most of the old 8-bit machines ran at 40x24 or less (the TI-99/4A I started with did 32x24, with black text on a light blue background). That's less than your average computer delivers nowadays, but more than your average cellphone. Fonts and colors chosen for legibility on a TV aren't exactly new.
Yup! I still have an Apple//e with a Rocket chip + 384kb ram and 20 MB hard drive (Conner) running Prodos and Mousedesk.
The RocketChip kicked ass...wish I hadn't sold mine when I upgraded my IIe to a IIGS, as I ended up snagging another IIe at a garage sale a few years later. The IIGS (in a IIe case, upgraded with a kit back in '92 or '93) is currently set up with 4.25 MB RAM, an 8-MHz ZipGS, and an Apple DMA SCSI card with a 4.3-GB Seagate Barracuda (it was cheap when I bought it, and the previous drive was getting flaky) and a 4x CD-ROM drive hanging off of it. It's connected to the LAN through a GatorBox CS, through which it can share files and get a limited amount of Internet access. I converted a microATX-type power supply (one of the really small ones you see in eMachines boxes) to power it; it easily runs fanless at the low load that's placed on it, but if I were to replace the stock power supply today, I'd combine a LittlePower with a picoPSU.
M is also used in the advertising industry for thousands. For example, the cost of an ad buy can be given in thousands of impressions, known as CCM (cost per thousand).
I have a tube tester for which the schematic used "M" where we would now use "k" and "Meg" where we would now use "M." As you can see in the picture, it contains a roll chart of different types of tubes and the settings to use to determine whether they're any good. A few years ago, I tried to puzzle out a way to test tubes not listed in the chart by pulling their operating characteristics from a manual and somehow converting that to tester settings. I never did get that figured out, and the weird results I was getting by thinking that "4.7M" meant 4.7 million instead of 4700 didn't help any.
(The schematic is dated April 1940. When the electronics industry switched over to the units it uses now, I don't know. Where my copy of Terman (3rd ed., 1947) gives component values at all, resistances tend not to be abbreviated. It may have been published during a transitional period, and the decision was made to not abbreviate so as to avoid confusion.)
I'd like to see you try biking to/from work when temperature hits 100+, as it does regularly in the summer here in Vegas. Just stepping outside for a bit (let alone trying to engage in anything more strenuous than walking), you're guaranteed to start sweating.
As an added bonus, late afternoon/early evening is usually the hottest part of the day, too. Last week, we had highs pushing toward 110, and this summer overall has been cooler than most.
Criticizing ideas, beliefs, political philosophies, speech and actions is not bigotry, can never be bigotry.
You might try telling B. Hussein Obama about that concept, considering how he likes to pull out the race card every time someone dares to call him out.
That stilla considerable abbount of money, and when it doesn't cost you a dime more to refine $2 gas than it does to refine $4 gas, people get kind of pissed about the price.
"Not a dime more?" Have you been keeping an eye on the price of crude oil lately? If the cost of raw materials to make a finished product goes up, does it not follow that the cost of the finished product will also need to go up?
If I didn't already know that/. was chock-full of foaming-at-the-mouth barking moonbats, I would be amazed at the depths of economic illiteracy here.
A lot of cheap hosts don't allow for SSH/SCP connections.
How do you get your stuff up there without scp? If their answer is "use FTP," they need to go out of business yesterday. (I suppose they could use a web form served up over HTTPS to manage your space, but that'd quickly get annoying for any non-trivial website.)
Your web host should be backing up your website and offer you restorations.
If you're paying for managed hosting, yes. If you're using an unmanaged VPS (like me), not so much. Some of them will image your VPS on demand and store that image for recall if your system is FUBARed. For mine, I just have a daily rsync job running on a Mac mini at home (less power consumption than most, so it runs 24/7) that pulls down my email and websites. Another job creates and rsyncs database dumpfiles. I should probably keep a copy of/var/lib/portage/world and other config files as well so I can rebuild with minimal pain if needed (yet another item for the to-do list...).
How predictable...some Grünsturmabteilung pussy doesn't have a snappy comeback for my previous post, so he mods it down as Overrated. Whoever you are, you're a gutless coward. Fortunately, I have karma to burn, so I hereby invite you to suck the barbed cock of Satan.
Letting kids walk to school in the US would be cruel.
Give me a break. In kindergarten, I was walking to and from school...unsupervised, through the snow (but not uphill both ways:-) ). Before you dismiss me as some old fart out in the sticks, the year was 1977 and the place was Bloomington, Illinois. (OK, so maybe Bloomington itself is surrounded by corn as far as the eye can see, but it was (and, last time I checked, is) a bit more than a one-stoplight town.) I think Mom might've walked me to and from the school the first day so I knew where to go, but it was all me after that, and I only got lost once on the way home (boarded a bus when I shouldn't have).
Nowadays, you have parents loading their kids into the "family truckster" for the quarter-mile trip (if that) to the bus stop. What kind of insanity is that?
Hey everybody...look at the ignorant Europeon (misspelling intentional) who doesn't know what the frak he's talking about. Read about your idol and weep. It ain't BS if it's the truth. You might even call it an inconvenient truth (the authors of the linked article did).
Bury me if you can, because I'd do the same to you.
The last guy who said that ended up on the ash heap of history, and brought his entire country with him.
It's something to think about, but seeing as how you're probably still living in your mother's basement and not earning an honest living, this will probably fly right over that skull full of mush you call a "head."
Have you heard of global warming? Do you know what causes it?
The hot air billowing from Al Gore's festering piehole, perhaps? How about his home that sucks down 20x more power than that of the average American, all while he's telling us to make do with less?
Besides, the evidence is rapidly mounting that "anthropogenic global warming^W^Wclimate change^W^Wwhatever we want to call it this week to spin the latest news that doesn't work in our favor" is a crock aimed by the Grünsturmabteilung at your freedom to live your life as you see fit.
Wow. Here we have proof that facism springs from the left side of the political spectrum.
Historically, most fascism has come from the Left. Who is it who's more often trying to micromanage your life--telling you what to drive, what to eat, where and how to live, what to think, etc.?
Similarly, mencoder supports threads=# where # is something between 1 and 8.
When encoding H.264, though, it only tends to max out two cores. That's good enough on a dual-core box, but with a quad-core box, you're leaving cycles on the table. (Yes, I already knew about the threads option and have set it accordingly. If you have multiple videos to encode, you could do two of them at once...but that's what the submitter is trying to avoid.)
If that's drawing the full 15 amps, at my current rate of $0.33/kWhr
Holy crap...where do you live that electricity is that expensive? I think I'm paying a third as much...half as much, at most, and southern Nevada isn't a "cheap" market (despite its close proximity, Hoover Dam accounts for little (if any) of the power used here). If the price of gas hadn't gone through the roof, it'd almost be cheaper for you to unhook from the grid and run off a generator.
Agreed. The article is about charging stations, but the Volt and competitors will charge just fine on 220V in your garage overnight.
Except for things like water heaters and HVAC equipment (which are hardwired), most people's garages don't have 240V available; you'd need to call an electrician out to run a 240V circuit.
That said, the Volt is intended to charge from a standard 120V 15A outlet (the standard wall outlet) in somewhere around 6-8 hours. Higher voltage and/or current would enable faster charging, but the Volt won't have nearly as large a battery pack as something like the Tesla Roadster, so overnight charging from a regular outlet is feasible. It doesn't need a large battery pack because the battery isn't its sole source of power.
I can have extensive spinal surgery for $0 outlay.
...and how many months or years will you have to wait for that while your back is killing you?
Let's say the doctor thinks you have cancer of some sort, but he needs an MRI to confirm his diagnosis. How many months or years will you have to wait for that? If it turns out to be a particularly nasty form of cancer, what are the odds you'll still be alive when there's an opening at the radiology clinic?
Tried it on my Treo 650...had a hell of a time just getting the damn thing to run at all, then found it didn't do substantially better at rendering webpages than Blazer. It certainly wasn't anywhere near a desktop-like browsing experience.
Blazer works well enough for most quick data lookup purposes. I've knocked together a beer list web app with it in mind, so that it runs reasonably quickly on my phone. While a more fully-featured browser in my phone would be nice, if push comes to shove, I can just have my notebook use the phone's Internet connection and bring up Firefox on that.
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In 2001, B. Hussein Obama argued against (and voted "present" on) a bill before the Illinois state senate that would have banned the practice of some abortion mills of leaving the occasional survivors to die instead of providing proper medical care for them. Three months later, the U.S. Senate voted unanimously in favor of a nearly-identical bill...even such pro-abortion forces as Hillary Clinton and Barbara Boxer voted for this common-sense, humane measure.
At a Planned Parenthood event about a year ago, B. Hussein Obama promised the crowd that one of the first things he would do if elected is roll back the few restrictions on abortion that we have. Partial-birth abortion? The practice that the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) denounced as indistinguishable from infanticide would be relegalized. Informed consent? Laws whose only aim is a truly informed choice would be stricken from the books. Parental notification? Let's say that the punk down the street gets your daughter pregnant and then slips her a few hundred bucks for an abortion. If B. Hussein Obama had his way, the laws that would keep you informed about your kid's medical care would be wiped away.
64-bit Firefox builds from source without any issues on my Gentoo boxen, and Flash (through nspluginwrapper) runs like a champ on it. I have more problems with Flash on Mac OS X (performance issues on video playback, video not showing up unless the frame is at the top or bottom of a window, etc.) than I do with Flash on Linux.
Did you find math a tough subject in school? In what parallel universe is 220 miles greater than 360 miles? (The Volt was originally being touted as having a 640-mile unrefueled range, but the production model is apparently going to get a smaller gas tank than the 12-gallon tank in the prototype...the math suggests something a bit over 6 gallons instead.) 220 miles is useless for any sort of long-distance travel, especially when you're stuck recharging for several hours before you can continue. 220 miles won't get you from Las Vegas to LA (about 240 miles), Phoenix (about 270 miles), or San Diego (about 330 miles), and given that there's bugger-all between here and there, that kinda takes the purpose out of having a roadster.
He probably hasn't even been around for 15 years, let alone been using them for 15 years...which means he needs to GET OFF MY LAWN!
I continued using the green-screen Monitor II that came with my IIe for a while afterward, but eventually scored an NEC MultiSync 3D to use with it (swapped another monitor for it).
My first computer was plugged into a 19" Sears that my parents had bought, IIRC, in 1976. Text was legible enough on it. You don't get readable 80-column text, but most of the old 8-bit machines ran at 40x24 or less (the TI-99/4A I started with did 32x24, with black text on a light blue background). That's less than your average computer delivers nowadays, but more than your average cellphone. Fonts and colors chosen for legibility on a TV aren't exactly new.
The RocketChip kicked ass...wish I hadn't sold mine when I upgraded my IIe to a IIGS, as I ended up snagging another IIe at a garage sale a few years later. The IIGS (in a IIe case, upgraded with a kit back in '92 or '93) is currently set up with 4.25 MB RAM, an 8-MHz ZipGS, and an Apple DMA SCSI card with a 4.3-GB Seagate Barracuda (it was cheap when I bought it, and the previous drive was getting flaky) and a 4x CD-ROM drive hanging off of it. It's connected to the LAN through a GatorBox CS, through which it can share files and get a limited amount of Internet access. I converted a microATX-type power supply (one of the really small ones you see in eMachines boxes) to power it; it easily runs fanless at the low load that's placed on it, but if I were to replace the stock power supply today, I'd combine a LittlePower with a picoPSU.
I have a tube tester for which the schematic used "M" where we would now use "k" and "Meg" where we would now use "M." As you can see in the picture, it contains a roll chart of different types of tubes and the settings to use to determine whether they're any good. A few years ago, I tried to puzzle out a way to test tubes not listed in the chart by pulling their operating characteristics from a manual and somehow converting that to tester settings. I never did get that figured out, and the weird results I was getting by thinking that "4.7M" meant 4.7 million instead of 4700 didn't help any.
(The schematic is dated April 1940. When the electronics industry switched over to the units it uses now, I don't know. Where my copy of Terman (3rd ed., 1947) gives component values at all, resistances tend not to be abbreviated. It may have been published during a transitional period, and the decision was made to not abbreviate so as to avoid confusion.)
As an added bonus, late afternoon/early evening is usually the hottest part of the day, too. Last week, we had highs pushing toward 110, and this summer overall has been cooler than most.
You might try telling B. Hussein Obama about that concept, considering how he likes to pull out the race card every time someone dares to call him out.
"Not a dime more?" Have you been keeping an eye on the price of crude oil lately? If the cost of raw materials to make a finished product goes up, does it not follow that the cost of the finished product will also need to go up?
If I didn't already know that /. was chock-full of foaming-at-the-mouth barking moonbats, I would be amazed at the depths of economic illiteracy here.
How do you get your stuff up there without scp? If their answer is "use FTP," they need to go out of business yesterday. (I suppose they could use a web form served up over HTTPS to manage your space, but that'd quickly get annoying for any non-trivial website.)
If you're paying for managed hosting, yes. If you're using an unmanaged VPS (like me), not so much. Some of them will image your VPS on demand and store that image for recall if your system is FUBARed. For mine, I just have a daily rsync job running on a Mac mini at home (less power consumption than most, so it runs 24/7) that pulls down my email and websites. Another job creates and rsyncs database dumpfiles. I should probably keep a copy of /var/lib/portage/world and other config files as well so I can rebuild with minimal pain if needed (yet another item for the to-do list...).
How predictable...some Grünsturmabteilung pussy doesn't have a snappy comeback for my previous post, so he mods it down as Overrated. Whoever you are, you're a gutless coward. Fortunately, I have karma to burn, so I hereby invite you to suck the barbed cock of Satan.
Give me a break. In kindergarten, I was walking to and from school...unsupervised, through the snow (but not uphill both ways :-) ). Before you dismiss me as some old fart out in the sticks, the year was 1977 and the place was Bloomington, Illinois. (OK, so maybe Bloomington itself is surrounded by corn as far as the eye can see, but it was (and, last time I checked, is) a bit more than a one-stoplight town.) I think Mom might've walked me to and from the school the first day so I knew where to go, but it was all me after that, and I only got lost once on the way home (boarded a bus when I shouldn't have).
Nowadays, you have parents loading their kids into the "family truckster" for the quarter-mile trip (if that) to the bus stop. What kind of insanity is that?
Hey everybody...look at the ignorant Europeon (misspelling intentional) who doesn't know what the frak he's talking about. Read about your idol and weep. It ain't BS if it's the truth. You might even call it an inconvenient truth (the authors of the linked article did).
The last guy who said that ended up on the ash heap of history, and brought his entire country with him.
It's something to think about, but seeing as how you're probably still living in your mother's basement and not earning an honest living, this will probably fly right over that skull full of mush you call a "head."
The hot air billowing from Al Gore's festering piehole, perhaps? How about his home that sucks down 20x more power than that of the average American, all while he's telling us to make do with less?
Besides, the evidence is rapidly mounting that "anthropogenic global warming^W^Wclimate change^W^Wwhatever we want to call it this week to spin the latest news that doesn't work in our favor" is a crock aimed by the Grünsturmabteilung at your freedom to live your life as you see fit.
Historically, most fascism has come from the Left. Who is it who's more often trying to micromanage your life--telling you what to drive, what to eat, where and how to live, what to think, etc.?
When encoding H.264, though, it only tends to max out two cores. That's good enough on a dual-core box, but with a quad-core box, you're leaving cycles on the table. (Yes, I already knew about the threads option and have set it accordingly. If you have multiple videos to encode, you could do two of them at once...but that's what the submitter is trying to avoid.)
Holy crap...where do you live that electricity is that expensive? I think I'm paying a third as much...half as much, at most, and southern Nevada isn't a "cheap" market (despite its close proximity, Hoover Dam accounts for little (if any) of the power used here). If the price of gas hadn't gone through the roof, it'd almost be cheaper for you to unhook from the grid and run off a generator.
Except for things like water heaters and HVAC equipment (which are hardwired), most people's garages don't have 240V available; you'd need to call an electrician out to run a 240V circuit.
That said, the Volt is intended to charge from a standard 120V 15A outlet (the standard wall outlet) in somewhere around 6-8 hours. Higher voltage and/or current would enable faster charging, but the Volt won't have nearly as large a battery pack as something like the Tesla Roadster, so overnight charging from a regular outlet is feasible. It doesn't need a large battery pack because the battery isn't its sole source of power.
How much are you paying in taxes for that "$0 outlay?" Nothing in life is free; somebody has to pay.
Let's say the doctor thinks you have cancer of some sort, but he needs an MRI to confirm his diagnosis. How many months or years will you have to wait for that? If it turns out to be a particularly nasty form of cancer, what are the odds you'll still be alive when there's an opening at the radiology clinic?
Blazer works well enough for most quick data lookup purposes. I've knocked together a beer list web app with it in mind, so that it runs reasonably quickly on my phone. While a more fully-featured browser in my phone would be nice, if push comes to shove, I can just have my notebook use the phone's Internet connection and bring up Firefox on that.