Plus there are layers of insulation between [Linus] and most contributors.
QFT. I suspect most people who've contributed to the Linux kernel have never needed to deal with Linus directly, but instead with whoever's responsible for the part of the kernel that they're working on. My own contributions, for instance, are drivers within the V4L and 1-Wire subsystems; I dealt with the people managing those parts of the kernel.
Without Woz and the Apple computer, Jobs would be selling sugar water.
That was Jean-Louis Gassée.
If you're going to correct somebody, make sure you have your own facts straight. It was John Sculley who was hired from Pepsi to run Apple. He was actually hired by Steve Jobs, whose pitch was, “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?”
Your kid can't operate the EZ-Bake oven without one.
That's what I thought at one point, but they've redesigned the Easy-Bake Oven so it no longer needs a lightbulb...probably has a proper heating element in it instead.
As for what things cost in large quantities, knocking a nickel off the bill of materials adds up to $5000 on a 100k production run. I'm not sure if they're actually using skinnier wire in the lamps I bought or if they economized elsewhere (a less heat-resistant plastic for the lightbulb socket, perhaps?).
For those of us who live in hot / temperate places where air conditioning is a way of life, going to LED lights and LED-backlit TVs have a knock-on effect -- much less energy is wasted as heat - heat that then has to be dealt with by the air conditioning systems.
That's why I've been using lower-power lighting wherever I can for over 20 years now. Even before CFLs started coming down in price, I was using circular fluorescents with screw-in ballasts (do they even make those anymore?) and strip lighting with short tubes. The A/C where I lived at the time didn't work so well (and eventually failed and was replaced) and needed all the help it could get.
>IKEA reduced their Tertial work lamp to 13 watts, down from 250 watts.
And it accepts "normal" sized bulbs?
This sounds like a plague of house fires.
I think they're counting on a future lack of availability of incandescent bulbs. The Ranarp in the living room is rated for 11W and takes standard bulbs. The Hektar in the bedroom, OTOH, uses (IIRC) a candelabra-base bulb (or something else smaller than standard) and is rated for 7W. Also, you're more than likely going to buy the appropriate bulb along with the lamp, especially if it's in one of the two smaller non-standard sizes that they use.
If you're using tablets for reading instead of lights, you're most likely spending more and harming your eyes.
Perhaps if it's using an LCD. A dedicated ebook reader tends to use an e-ink display, and the high-resolution versions of such look like a printed page, but with a little less contrast. (I use a Kobo Glo HD. I suspect the current-model Kindle Paperwhite would be about the same, going by the specs.)
Pretty sure the OP was talking about stuffing airplane engines into cars (he mentioned the Merlin by name). Besides, Wankel engines tend to be relatively small for their power output and don't pose nearly as much of an integration problem in cars.
That was the premise under which I bought the Fire TV Stick. It's actually plenty powerful for Kodi. For that purpose alone, 1GB is probably enough for most anyone.
I run Kodi on Raspberry Pi 3s, which have 1 GB. The interface is plenty responsive, whether streaming from the local Plex server or from YouTube. Kodi on the original Raspberry Pi was a bit more laggy interface-wise with the slower processor and 512 MB, but they still played 1080p video without a hitch.
...or you go someplace like Mexico, where each street seemingly has at least two or three different names to identify it and the name on the sign bears little or no relation to what Google thinks it's called. Its attempt at pronouncing those names is rather comical, too.
I'd imagine it would also be good for getting around places like China or Japan that don't use our alphabet: instead of trying to match up symbols that you can't read, just go in that direction.
Or just be at a corporation where they use MS Exchange Server
We use Exchange where I work, but in the nine years I've been here, I've only had Outlook installed for maybe the first month. I had Thunderbird up and running fairly quickly for email. The calendar wasn't as important for me, so I dealt with it through OWA until I figured out DavMail and Lightning. I'm running Windows 7 on the desktop, but Outlook has historically been such a steaming heap (it only supports one inbox, and it pretty much forces you to top-post) that I want nothing to do with it.
I wouldn't have Office installed at all, if not for some ancient databases I'm stuck maintaining for which only an Access front end exists. (One of 'em is old enough to require Access 2003...nothing newer works. FML.)
I keep seeing more and more RVs with European license plates (usually French or German) on the road here, presumably brought over for a long vacation. How are they getting here? Are they loaded onto a car carrier well in advance of their owners traveling here by other means, or is someone running a drive-on, drive-off service like what the AC above seeks?
It makes Outlook look like a piece of shit (hint: Outlook really is a piece of shit) and if there were some way to attach an Exchange account to it then Outlook would probably start to slowly die off.
Tried a few variations, but still couldn't break it. Are you editing HTML yourself, or are you using the editor/. provides? I've edited my posts in raw HTML here for the past 19 years, and as long as I stick to ASCII, there have been no surprises.
Wow, you should try unhomogenized milk, it beats homogenized milk by a mile.
Near as I can tell, it's not available here. The only place I've ever seen it was when I spent a couple years in England in the mid-'80s, where it was delivered by a milkman (!) every morning in glass bottles with aluminum-foil caps. Homogenized cost extra; unhomogenized worked as well as long as you carefully shook the cream back into suspension first (hold the cap on with your fingers if you don't want to send milk flying across the room). I don't know if they still do that; home delivery of milk in the US went away well before my time, and I'm in my mid-40s.
Microsoft declared that to get the Windows 10 compatible certification, the system must have SecureBoot and there must not be a way to disable it.
How is it, then, that I got Gentoo up and running on my notebook, and had SystemRescueCD booting from flashsticks before that? It shipped with Win10, but there's an option to disable secure boot that works as it should.
(If it makes any difference, the machine's a Dell Latitude 7370. The main holdup on putting Gentoo on it wasn't secure boot, but the puny 120GB SSD that shipped with it.)
What does age have to do with anything? I took a computational linear algebra course in the late '90s that used FORTRAN nearly exclusively.
That said, I started out, like most kids in the '80s, with BASIC and assembly language (6809 and 6502, in my case). I started college early enough that the introductory computer-science courses were still in Pascal, but pretty much every course that needed to do real work used anything but Pascal...lots of C, with a systems-programming course splitting time between 8086 assembly and VAX assembly and a database course that introduced us to SQL (of course).
The computational linear algebra course mentioned above was a math course specifically for computer-science majors; other engineering students took a different linear-algebra course.
I kind of liked home brewing. But home bottle sterilizing was a fucking bore.
That's why I started kegging after a couple or three years. Sanitizing the bottles wasn't too bad (a trip through the dishwasher would suffice, either with heated drying or (if available) the sanitizing option enabled), but it's much easier and faster to fill one keg than 50+ bottles. You can also dry-hop in a keg.
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FTFY...there's no "probably" about it.
QFT. I suspect most people who've contributed to the Linux kernel have never needed to deal with Linus directly, but instead with whoever's responsible for the part of the kernel that they're working on. My own contributions, for instance, are drivers within the V4L and 1-Wire subsystems; I dealt with the people managing those parts of the kernel.
95 + 3 != 100. The two numbers in the article should add up to 100, as respondents that aren't male are therefore female.
Do you want more Trump? Spreading lies about Trump is how you get more Trump.
If you're going to correct somebody, make sure you have your own facts straight. It was John Sculley who was hired from Pepsi to run Apple. He was actually hired by Steve Jobs, whose pitch was, “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?”
I won't...not because I plan on kicking the bucket soon (I don't), but because IDGAF about sportsball and won't be paying whatever they're charging.
That's what I thought at one point, but they've redesigned the Easy-Bake Oven so it no longer needs a lightbulb...probably has a proper heating element in it instead.
As for what things cost in large quantities, knocking a nickel off the bill of materials adds up to $5000 on a 100k production run. I'm not sure if they're actually using skinnier wire in the lamps I bought or if they economized elsewhere (a less heat-resistant plastic for the lightbulb socket, perhaps?).
They're already doing that with the "Pr0n-o-Vision" scanners at the security checkpoint.
That's why I've been using lower-power lighting wherever I can for over 20 years now. Even before CFLs started coming down in price, I was using circular fluorescents with screw-in ballasts (do they even make those anymore?) and strip lighting with short tubes. The A/C where I lived at the time didn't work so well (and eventually failed and was replaced) and needed all the help it could get.
I think they're counting on a future lack of availability of incandescent bulbs. The Ranarp in the living room is rated for 11W and takes standard bulbs. The Hektar in the bedroom, OTOH, uses (IIRC) a candelabra-base bulb (or something else smaller than standard) and is rated for 7W. Also, you're more than likely going to buy the appropriate bulb along with the lamp, especially if it's in one of the two smaller non-standard sizes that they use.
Perhaps if it's using an LCD. A dedicated ebook reader tends to use an e-ink display, and the high-resolution versions of such look like a printed page, but with a little less contrast. (I use a Kobo Glo HD. I suspect the current-model Kindle Paperwhite would be about the same, going by the specs.)
Pretty sure the OP was talking about stuffing airplane engines into cars (he mentioned the Merlin by name). Besides, Wankel engines tend to be relatively small for their power output and don't pose nearly as much of an integration problem in cars.
You probably meant radial, not rotary, as a rotary engine would be damn near impossible to fit into a car since the whole thing's spinning around. As for radial engines in road-going vehicles, that's already been done. There have even been radial-engined motorcycles built.
I run Kodi on Raspberry Pi 3s, which have 1 GB. The interface is plenty responsive, whether streaming from the local Plex server or from YouTube. Kodi on the original Raspberry Pi was a bit more laggy interface-wise with the slower processor and 512 MB, but they still played 1080p video without a hitch.
...or you go someplace like Mexico, where each street seemingly has at least two or three different names to identify it and the name on the sign bears little or no relation to what Google thinks it's called. Its attempt at pronouncing those names is rather comical, too.
I'd imagine it would also be good for getting around places like China or Japan that don't use our alphabet: instead of trying to match up symbols that you can't read, just go in that direction.
We use Exchange where I work, but in the nine years I've been here, I've only had Outlook installed for maybe the first month. I had Thunderbird up and running fairly quickly for email. The calendar wasn't as important for me, so I dealt with it through OWA until I figured out DavMail and Lightning. I'm running Windows 7 on the desktop, but Outlook has historically been such a steaming heap (it only supports one inbox, and it pretty much forces you to top-post) that I want nothing to do with it.
I wouldn't have Office installed at all, if not for some ancient databases I'm stuck maintaining for which only an Access front end exists. (One of 'em is old enough to require Access 2003...nothing newer works. FML.)
...and nothing of value was lost. :-P
I keep seeing more and more RVs with European license plates (usually French or German) on the road here, presumably brought over for a long vacation. How are they getting here? Are they loaded onto a car carrier well in advance of their owners traveling here by other means, or is someone running a drive-on, drive-off service like what the AC above seeks?
Have you looked into DavMail?
davmail.sourceforge.net
Let's try to duplicate that:
Tried a few variations, but still couldn't break it. Are you editing HTML yourself, or are you using the editor /. provides? I've edited my posts in raw HTML here for the past 19 years, and as long as I stick to ASCII, there have been no surprises.
"%" is an ASCII character. What did your editor fsck up to turn it into something non-ASCII? Here's a bold example: 168%.
Near as I can tell, it's not available here. The only place I've ever seen it was when I spent a couple years in England in the mid-'80s, where it was delivered by a milkman (!) every morning in glass bottles with aluminum-foil caps. Homogenized cost extra; unhomogenized worked as well as long as you carefully shook the cream back into suspension first (hold the cap on with your fingers if you don't want to send milk flying across the room). I don't know if they still do that; home delivery of milk in the US went away well before my time, and I'm in my mid-40s.
How is it, then, that I got Gentoo up and running on my notebook, and had SystemRescueCD booting from flashsticks before that? It shipped with Win10, but there's an option to disable secure boot that works as it should.
(If it makes any difference, the machine's a Dell Latitude 7370. The main holdup on putting Gentoo on it wasn't secure boot, but the puny 120GB SSD that shipped with it.)
What does age have to do with anything? I took a computational linear algebra course in the late '90s that used FORTRAN nearly exclusively.
That said, I started out, like most kids in the '80s, with BASIC and assembly language (6809 and 6502, in my case). I started college early enough that the introductory computer-science courses were still in Pascal, but pretty much every course that needed to do real work used anything but Pascal...lots of C, with a systems-programming course splitting time between 8086 assembly and VAX assembly and a database course that introduced us to SQL (of course).
The computational linear algebra course mentioned above was a math course specifically for computer-science majors; other engineering students took a different linear-algebra course.
That's why I started kegging after a couple or three years. Sanitizing the bottles wasn't too bad (a trip through the dishwasher would suffice, either with heated drying or (if available) the sanitizing option enabled), but it's much easier and faster to fill one keg than 50+ bottles. You can also dry-hop in a keg.