The 80-20 principle [wikipedia.org] definitely needs to somehow be applied here.
No, I don't think it does. Man pages should be long enough to detail exactly how all the command options work. No longer and no shorter. I don't want some information arbitrarily left out just because a newbie doesn't know how to search for -l instead of scrolling through the whole document looking for it. Remember, the obscure options are the ones people need man pages for the most. You'll probably look up the -l flag for ls once when you first start using Linux and never again. The obscure stuff is what you're going to come back for time and time again.
I don't know about Europe, but America isn't banning incandescent bulbs. They are banning inefficient bulbs. If an efficient 20watt incandescent is made you will be able to use it.
Programming can never be accessible to everyone because not everyone has the logical mindset to get a computer to do what they want.
Ever talk to someone who was spouting nonsense, like 9/11 truthers or Obama birthers? These are people who can't compose a cogent statement in their native language. No programming language can help them.
The smaller the better for phones. I don't want something clunky in my pocket all day every day.
OTOH, it's nice as an option. An old Motorola I had around 2001 had an optional battery you could buy with a higher capacity then the default battery. The larger battery was bigger and made the phone a bit thicker, but it was good to have the choice for those who needed it.
Why do you think storing stuff for a few decades is a huge problem? The problem with storing nuclear waste from our current reactors that yucca mountain was supposed to deal with is that it exists for thousands of years. Storing things for thousands of years is difficult because civilizations and languages aren't guaranteed to last that long. Also you've got to deal with slow moving geological processes.
Storing stuff for decades on the other hand is simple. What do you think our current nuclear reactors are doing with their waste right now? Storage for breeder reactor waste is actually easier than what were doing now since after 50 years or so waste can be moved to lower security storage to make room for new material. The waste we have right now just keeps on accumulating with no end in sight.
Well some of the waste will be much more radioactive, right? And that's a good thing because it means it only needs to be stored securely for several decades instead of many millennia.
My 25" widescreen computer monitor is my TV. My tuner card is an freebie my ex-roomie gave me so no HD. No big loss as far as I can tell. It's very rare that I'm watching something that I feel I would enjoy more if it had more pixels.
Your working vocabulary hasn't improved since 5th grade? I really hope that's not true. Also all of my foreign language learning has occurred after 5th grade as well, although in all fairness that should be taught way before 5th grade.
Building large greenhouses on Mars isn't such a trivial task. This isn't a matter of throwing up an aluminum frame and a plastic tarp, it would need to be an airtight structure considering the thin Martian atmosphere.
That's only the case if you don't know how to use your computer. The same lack of knowledge could cause a windows user to think that minimizing an application freed up its memory.
OTOH, users that are this unsophisticated are not likely to be thinking about how much memory is being used in the first place.
Prison labor should certainly not be profitable, but what is wrong with them doing useful labor? What's wrong with prisoners growing their own food and making their own clothes, for instance?
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The 80-20 principle [wikipedia.org] definitely needs to somehow be applied here.
No, I don't think it does. Man pages should be long enough to detail exactly how all the command options work. No longer and no shorter. I don't want some information arbitrarily left out just because a newbie doesn't know how to search for -l instead of scrolling through the whole document looking for it. Remember, the obscure options are the ones people need man pages for the most. You'll probably look up the -l flag for ls once when you first start using Linux and never again. The obscure stuff is what you're going to come back for time and time again.
I don't know about Europe, but America isn't banning incandescent bulbs. They are banning inefficient bulbs. If an efficient 20watt incandescent is made you will be able to use it.
Programming can never be accessible to everyone because not everyone has the logical mindset to get a computer to do what they want.
Ever talk to someone who was spouting nonsense, like 9/11 truthers or Obama birthers? These are people who can't compose a cogent statement in their native language. No programming language can help them.
The smaller the better for phones. I don't want something clunky in my pocket all day every day.
OTOH, it's nice as an option. An old Motorola I had around 2001 had an optional battery you could buy with a higher capacity then the default battery. The larger battery was bigger and made the phone a bit thicker, but it was good to have the choice for those who needed it.
Seriously. I'm dumbfounded that they just got copy and paste this summer. How was that possibly not in place from the beginning?
Nope, in the mythbusters test the only bulb that lasted a month was the LED (see 14:00 here).
Looks like they mean 4.5 hours. Not sure why they wrote didn't just write it out.
Are you serious? A laptop would have to last at least 80 years to be worth $40,000. That's the worse comparison I've seen today.
I don't see any difference between any of the keyboard lights on the several year old laptop I'm using. I guess YMMV.
I don't think Einstein said that gravity pushed or pulled, it just warped space-time.
Are you implying that you can't do that right now? What's stopping you?
Why do you think storing stuff for a few decades is a huge problem? The problem with storing nuclear waste from our current reactors that yucca mountain was supposed to deal with is that it exists for thousands of years. Storing things for thousands of years is difficult because civilizations and languages aren't guaranteed to last that long. Also you've got to deal with slow moving geological processes.
Storing stuff for decades on the other hand is simple. What do you think our current nuclear reactors are doing with their waste right now? Storage for breeder reactor waste is actually easier than what were doing now since after 50 years or so waste can be moved to lower security storage to make room for new material. The waste we have right now just keeps on accumulating with no end in sight.
Well some of the waste will be much more radioactive, right? And that's a good thing because it means it only needs to be stored securely for several decades instead of many millennia.
Doesn't having drivers for this USB monitor imply having a bootable OS too? They don't seem like they would work for the bios or grub.
My 25" widescreen computer monitor is my TV. My tuner card is an freebie my ex-roomie gave me so no HD. No big loss as far as I can tell. It's very rare that I'm watching something that I feel I would enjoy more if it had more pixels.
No, what forces us to buy a phone from our carrier is the fact that we'll be paying for the phone regardless of whether or not we take it.
Your working vocabulary hasn't improved since 5th grade? I really hope that's not true. Also all of my foreign language learning has occurred after 5th grade as well, although in all fairness that should be taught way before 5th grade.
Building large greenhouses on Mars isn't such a trivial task. This isn't a matter of throwing up an aluminum frame and a plastic tarp, it would need to be an airtight structure considering the thin Martian atmosphere.
And what are you going to keep feeding it with? You're going to need plants one way or another so there's no sense wasting it on livestock.
Assuming 10 books per foot of shelving, 1 LOC is about 5000 furlongs.
is how many bits would it take to kill his server.
That's only the case if you don't know how to use your computer. The same lack of knowledge could cause a windows user to think that minimizing an application freed up its memory.
OTOH, users that are this unsophisticated are not likely to be thinking about how much memory is being used in the first place.
Prison labor should certainly not be profitable, but what is wrong with them doing useful labor? What's wrong with prisoners growing their own food and making their own clothes, for instance?
No accidental shootings are typically considered manslaughter as well. Murder charges require intent to kill, gross negligence is not enough.
Not much.
Areas like southern California? We have quite a few roads actually.
No ecological impact using already paved over land.