Wrong. Electricity is traded at EEX in Leipzig for just 3.0 to 3.5 €ct / kWh those days. Those 26 €ct customers pay in Germany are simply the result of strange politics.
The hard evidence, the data is in the stocks of the big four (EnBW, E.ON, RWE, Vattenfall) being in free fall for years now, while them desperately searching buyers for their outdated, in deficit fossil plants. Recently they even tried moving them into bad-bank-style shell corps.
In Germany many of the on-shore mills are built nearby motorway crosses and similar wastelands. Those areas are totally spoiled already, therefore not much landscape lost. Actually the mills improve those areas. It's virtually impossible to built them within national parks and other landscapes considered to be nice. Direct result of public participation.
Problem isn't renewable energy, problem is the horribly bad EEG law Rot/Grün was drafting: Industries got excluded from paying renewable energy compensation, still a fixed price must be paid for renewable energy. So everytime the energy price drops at the European Energy Exchange in Leipzig the consumer's energy price rises. Yet another example how socialism fails. See http://www.lvz-online.de/leipzig/wirtschaft/strompreise-an-der-leipziger-boerse-sinken--buerger-zahlen-mehr-fuer-energie/r-wirtschaft-a-173930.html (German) for a good explanation of that fatal mechanism.
sure someone working 12hrs a day is producing two jobs' worth? i'd rather bet on 2/3 worth of a rested, relaxed worker. maybe even just 1/2 worth of a positively motivated worker.
> Until the economy improves and there are more jobs than applicants this will continue
Ever considered U.S. economy is in deep shit because of its workers being overworked, exhausted, because they learned to keep low profile. ever considered insufficient loyalty from employers results in insufficient loyalty from employees?
Something is wrong with that claim, since for instance Germany gains 750,000 fulltime jobs from manufacturing cars. It becomes 5 million if you also count associated jobs. In total there are 28 milion fulltime jobs in that 3rd world country.
...or they are just causal users, following advice given in consumer protection TV shows: Just yesterday I zapped into Planetopia yesterday (show in Germany), where they "compared" browsers and came to the conclusion Chrome for speed, Firefox for customization, Explorer for security. Sponsored report, or just a clueless reporter?
could not agree more. unity cleans up the screen, removes the clutter BUTWITHOUT sacrifying features or usability. it just works.
well, one little disagrement about unity 2D vs. 3D - although I hate compiz with passion, the 3D version seems to be more snappy on my notebook. guess it depends on the drivers what incarnation of unity works better.
The WP7 clearly was mocked up. They put the phone on the overhead projector and pretended to do a life demo. I that was a life demo via overhead projector, then tell me: Where was that guy's finger when he tapped the UI?
The Cloud is closed. Even more closed than all IBM's, Microsoft and Apples of this world ever have been. Does Mark realise that he makes his entire Ubuntu project obsolete by trusting The Cloud? We can just stick with the pre-installed Windows or OSX, if all our stuff is in that fucking Cloud. Actually would be more secure than using Googlezillas Spyware...
Felt uncomfortable with the choice between GNOME Shell and Unity for quite some time, until I finally took the time to seriously test-drive the stuff.
Short: Ifell in love with Unity.
Love the clever use of screen space. Especially how the title- and menubar of maximized windows is merged into the top panel - brilliant. The reduced screen clutter from the new scrollers - enjoyable. Although the new scrollbars still need some UX love - they are hard to hit and such, but I am convinced that issues will be solved. Similar like the problem of resizing frameless windows was solved. Love that I still have workspace handling.
The side panel looks dull on screenshots. Guess the Canonical guys shall post animated gifs or something instead. In life it feels much slicker due its nice animations. Maximized windows let slide out of the screen. Did I mention the nice and useful animations?
Summary: You really shall try GNOME Shell and Unity before talking them down. There are good chances you'll fell in love with them. For me Unity fits well, others will love GNOME Shell. Just grunting without having tried them is lame. Seriously lame.
Next dream: Both projects finally would get together and use compatible specs at least.
Well, Linux users might be multiplicators: Many of them are technology affine and therefore their family and friends might ask them for hardware recommendations. So if the Linux user only uses Intel or ATI (s)he'll hardly recommend nVidia cards to their family and friends, not? So probably nVidia managment needs to go back to business school and learn the maths.
> I've generally tried to keep a low profile online and until recently there's been very little information about me available from the major search engines.
And that's exactly the mistake you made, probably. Instead of keeping low profile you probably should have filled the web with positive information. This would have had two effects:
- people finding your youth mistake could contrast it with more recent contributions - your positive contributions would have pushed your youth mistake to page 100 or something in search engines
Interesting that people raising privacy concerns on Google products are called "Fanatics", whilest the same people would be called heros if they'd identify similar problems in for instance Microsoft products.
Poor (stupid?) Americans *sig* - In my opinion all this resistance just exists, because Pluto is the only object Americans detected and which - due lack of knowledge - became accepted as planet of our star system. Why cann't they be prood of having found the first sample of this new group of objects Pluto belongs to? Why aren't you prood of all those other planets of other star systems you've found already?
As the procfs shows exactly 1.2 MByte to be allocated by IceWM. All the other memory consumtion comes from Xlib, Imlib and such. So if you want to reduce memory consumtion any further you have to replace Xlib by a smaller version, maybe link it statically if you think about using it in embedded area. Well, and ok: There really are plans to use libpng and such directly without Imlib's overhead -- one day.
Hmm... Maybe you count some of the memory leaks found in 1.0.9 as real memory footprint?
Re:Cut and dried Copyright violation
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Abusing the GPL?
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Ha! You exactly hit the point: Since we still have the original source it would be quite easy to build a translation table to reextract the original names...
Well. But the question is why the $company wastes it's resources with obfiscating the GPLed code just 'cause they don't want to publish their own code. Wouldn't it make more sense to modify the GPLed code (under respect of the GPL) to support plugins or offer an command line/streaming interface and then to infect the GPLed program by closed source plugins or let the propritary program use the GPLed program by pipes? Wouldn't those efforts be more valueable for the $company simply since they give the $company some reputation in the community (for contributing some fsking code) instead of ruining the reputiation for abusing the GPL?
Guess if your $company really plans such things the management should be fired for burning money instead of earning some. Did you try to inform your $company's shareholders?
What you need to build Gnucleus:
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 SP5
Microsoft Visual Studio... Doesn't look like "anything that is normally distributed [...] with the major components" of Microsoft Windows (quoted text comes from paragraph three of the "Terms and Conditions" sections of the GPL).
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Wrong. Electricity is traded at EEX in Leipzig for just 3.0 to 3.5 €ct / kWh those days. Those 26 €ct customers pay in Germany are simply the result of strange politics.
The hard evidence, the data is in the stocks of the big four (EnBW, E.ON, RWE, Vattenfall) being in free fall for years now, while them desperately searching buyers for their outdated, in deficit fossil plants. Recently they even tried moving them into bad-bank-style shell corps.
In Germany many of the on-shore mills are built nearby motorway crosses and similar wastelands. Those areas are totally spoiled already, therefore not much landscape lost. Actually the mills improve those areas. It's virtually impossible to built them within national parks and other landscapes considered to be nice. Direct result of public participation.
Those guys are exactly the reason why people have ad-blockers installed.
Problem isn't renewable energy, problem is the horribly bad EEG law Rot/Grün was drafting: Industries got excluded from paying renewable energy compensation, still a fixed price must be paid for renewable energy. So everytime the energy price drops at the European Energy Exchange in Leipzig the consumer's energy price rises. Yet another example how socialism fails. See http://www.lvz-online.de/leipzig/wirtschaft/strompreise-an-der-leipziger-boerse-sinken--buerger-zahlen-mehr-fuer-energie/r-wirtschaft-a-173930.html (German) for a good explanation of that fatal mechanism.
sure someone working 12hrs a day is producing two jobs' worth? i'd rather bet on 2/3 worth of a rested, relaxed worker.
maybe even just 1/2 worth of a positively motivated worker.
> Until the economy improves and there are more jobs than applicants this will continue
Ever considered U.S. economy is in deep shit because of its workers being overworked, exhausted, because they learned to keep low profile.
ever considered insufficient loyalty from employers results in insufficient loyalty from employees?
Something is wrong with that claim, since for instance Germany gains 750,000 fulltime jobs from manufacturing cars. It becomes 5 million if you also count associated jobs. In total there are 28 milion fulltime jobs in that 3rd world country.
...or they are just causal users, following advice given in consumer protection TV shows: Just yesterday I zapped into Planetopia yesterday (show in Germany), where they "compared" browsers and came to the conclusion Chrome for speed, Firefox for customization, Explorer for security. Sponsored report, or just a clueless reporter?
could not agree more. unity cleans up the screen, removes the clutter BUTWITHOUT sacrifying features or usability. it just works.
well, one little disagrement about unity 2D vs. 3D - although I hate compiz with passion, the 3D version seems to be more snappy on my notebook. guess it depends on the drivers what incarnation of unity works better.
The WP7 clearly was mocked up. They put the phone on the overhead projector and pretended to do a life demo. I that was a life demo via overhead projector, then tell me: Where was that guy's finger when he tapped the UI?
The Cloud is closed. Even more closed than all IBM's, Microsoft and Apples of this world ever have been. Does Mark realise that he makes his entire Ubuntu project obsolete by trusting The Cloud? We can just stick with the pre-installed Windows or OSX, if all our stuff is in that fucking Cloud. Actually would be more secure than using Googlezillas Spyware...
Felt uncomfortable with the choice between GNOME Shell and Unity for quite some time, until I finally took the time to seriously test-drive the stuff.
Short: Ifell in love with Unity.
Love the clever use of screen space. Especially how the title- and menubar of maximized windows is merged into the top panel - brilliant. The reduced screen clutter from the new scrollers - enjoyable. Although the new scrollbars still need some UX love - they are hard to hit and such, but I am convinced that issues will be solved. Similar like the problem of resizing frameless windows was solved. Love that I still have workspace handling.
The side panel looks dull on screenshots. Guess the Canonical guys shall post animated gifs or something instead. In life it feels much slicker due its nice animations. Maximized windows let slide out of the screen. Did I mention the nice and useful animations?
Summary: You really shall try GNOME Shell and Unity before talking them down. There are good chances you'll fell in love with them. For me Unity fits well, others will love GNOME Shell. Just grunting without having tried them is lame. Seriously lame.
Next dream: Both projects finally would get together and use compatible specs at least.
Awesome protectionism in the former home of capitalism and free trade...
With all the recent development the U.S. should be hornest and finally give itself an honest name.
"People's Republic of America" might be a start.
Brilliant plan for making money!
Create a ridicilous conspiration theory.
Write books about it.
Organize conferences.
Avoid publishing that theory freely.
Awesome, need a similar idea so that I can retire early!
The guy behind this non-sense obviously is too smart to believe it himself.
Well, Linux users might be multiplicators: Many of them are technology affine and therefore their family and friends might ask them for hardware recommendations. So if the Linux user only uses Intel or ATI (s)he'll hardly recommend nVidia cards to their family and friends, not? So probably nVidia managment needs to go back to business school and learn the maths.
This sounds like an horrible human tragedy.
Title and teaser appear inappropriate to me.
One guy says something, and Slashdot reports sky is falling.
Sansation journalism.
> I've generally tried to keep a low profile online and until recently there's been very little information about me available from the major search engines.
And that's exactly the mistake you made, probably. Instead of keeping low profile you probably should have filled the web with positive information. This would have had two effects:
- people finding your youth mistake could contrast it with more recent contributions
- your positive contributions would have pushed your youth mistake to page 100 or something in search engines
Interesting that people raising privacy concerns on Google products are called "Fanatics", whilest the same people would be called heros if they'd identify similar problems in for instance Microsoft products.
Raises the questions who are the real fanatics?
other alternative: swfdec. it seems to make good progress recently.
Poor (stupid?) Americans *sig* - In my opinion all this resistance just exists, because Pluto is the only object Americans detected and which - due lack of knowledge - became accepted as planet of our star system. Why cann't they be prood of having found the first sample of this new group of objects Pluto belongs to? Why aren't you prood of all those other planets of other star systems you've found already?
Hmm? Even BloatWM (that means 1.2.1/CVS with all experimental options) is on this 1.2 MByte barrier:
/proc/$(/sbin/pidof icewm)/status
[foobug@waterloo foobug]$ cat
[...]
VmSize: 5788 kB
VmLck: 0 kB
VmRSS: 3304 kB
VmData: 792 kB
VmStk: 40 kB
VmExe: 364 kB
VmLib: 3936 kB
[...]
[foobug@waterloo foobug]$ python
Python 1.5.2 (#1, Apr 3 2002, 18:16:26) [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2
2 on linux-i386
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> ( 792 + 40 + 364 ) / 1024.
1.16796875
>>>
As the procfs shows exactly 1.2 MByte to be allocated by IceWM. All the other memory consumtion comes from Xlib, Imlib and such. So if you want to reduce memory consumtion any further you have to replace Xlib by a smaller version, maybe link it statically if you think about using it in embedded area. Well, and ok: There really are plans to use libpng and such directly without Imlib's overhead -- one day.
Hmm... Maybe you count some of the memory leaks found in 1.0.9 as real memory footprint?
Ha! You exactly hit the point: Since we still have the original source it would be quite easy to build a translation table to reextract the original names...
Well. But the question is why the $company wastes it's resources with obfiscating the GPLed code just 'cause they don't want to publish their own code. Wouldn't it make more sense to modify the GPLed code (under respect of the GPL) to support plugins or offer an command line/streaming interface and then to infect the GPLed program by closed source plugins or let the propritary program use the GPLed program by pipes? Wouldn't those efforts be more valueable for the $company simply since they give the $company some reputation in the community (for contributing some fsking code) instead of ruining the reputiation for abusing the GPL?
Guess if your $company really plans such things the management should be fired for burning money instead of earning some. Did you try to inform your $company's shareholders?