Haven't had any problems with a WD Elements drive, despite multiple power failures. It also sleeps normally (and starts up again when accessed) on a Cisco router. The problem is that the USB feature is a fraction of the speed of even USB2.
Backups for media don't have to be up to the minute. All he has to do is backup to a cheap external drive when he rips some stuff. Presumably he still has the originals stored away, anyway.
But Cisco's USB storage is pretty slow - it's much faster to unplug it from the router and connect it to a computer to copy onto the drive. Even something like a WD MyBook Live would be much better.
The only problem with HTPCs I've found is that Netflix still stubbornly demands Silverlight. I guess I could install Windows instead of Linux Mint, but last I checked their computer interface was some terrible web browser garbage anyway. That's the only thing I bother to use Smart TV features for. XBMC (especially with Navi-X) is great.
(typed on a Logitech K400 wireless keyboard, in Firefox on my completely silent Shuttle XS35GS HTPC running Mint 13)
This one shows it barely breaks even. There are a lot more useful things one could do with cropland than barely break even.
In short, we find no support for the assertion that either biofuel requires more energy to make than it yields. However, the NEB for corn grain ethanol is small, providing 25% more energy than required for its production. Almost all of this NEB is attributable to the energy credit for its DDGS coproduct, which is animal feed, rather than to the ethanol itself containing more energy than used in its production. Corn grain ethanol has a low NEB because of the high energy input required to produce corn and to convert it into ethanol. In contrast, soybean biodiesel provides 93% more energy than is required in its production. The NEB advantage of soybean biodiesel is robust, occurring for five different methods of accounting for the energy credits of coproducts (see Table 9, which is published as supporting information on the PNAS web site).
If CO2 from fossil fuel combustion was the only GHG considered, a biofuel with NEB > 1 should reduce GHG emissions because the CO2 released upon combustion of the fuel had been removed from the atmosphere by plants, and less CO2 than this amount had been released when producing the biofuel. However, N fertilization and incorporation of plant biomass into soil can cause microbially mediated production and release of N2O, which is a potent GHG (13). Our analyses (see Table 11, which is published as supporting information on the PNAS web site) suggest that, because of the low NEB of corn grain ethanol, production and use of corn grain ethanol releases 88% of the net GHG emissions of production and combustion of an energetically equivalent amount of gasoline (Fig. 2 c). This result is comparable with a recent study that estimated this parameter at 87% using different methods of analysis (1). In contrast, we find that life-cycle GHG emissions of soybean biodiesel are 59% those of diesel fuel. It is important to note that these estimates assume these biofuels are derived from crops harvested from land already in production; converting intact ecosystems to production would result in reduced GHG savings or even net GHG release from biofuel production.
Also,
However, the NEB for corn grain ethanol is small, providing 25% more energy than required for its production. Almost all of this NEB is attributable to the energy credit for its DDGS coproduct, which is animal feed, rather than to the ethanol itself containing more energy than used in its production. Corn grain ethanol has a low NEB because of the high energy input required to produce corn and to convert it into ethanol. In contrast, soybean biodiesel provides 93% more energy than is required in its production.
Plus, I consider a greyscale reflective LCD to be much easier on the eyes over a long time than a backlit colour screen. A decent resolution one would be a nice (and long overdue) upgrade, though. Maybe something like the one on the Sony PEG-SL10 from 10 years ago?
Touch controls are overrated, and I'd rather read a greyscale LCD that's easy on the eyes and lasts all year on AAAs than a backlit colour screen that burns through the nonreplaceable rechargable battery in a matter of hours.
For Android, the Xylthe Calculator is pretty neat. Or you can use a copy of the rom from your TI-83+ in Andie Graph. As you said, the physical buttons make a difference, but it's handy to have that sort of thing whenever you want it.
Hopefully, pirates will get their hands on a digital copy of the original video, resulting in a high quality h.264 file that can be played on virtually any media player or HTPC, instead of those silly obsolete Blu-ray disks.
Actually, now that I think of it - I wonder if this will be offered on things like Netflix or AppleTV in the full resolution/refresh rate? Or if it will be crippled to avoid making the Blu-ray version look bad?
Why does the user have to choose? Consider a program that generates a password consisting of four words chosen randomly from/usr/share/dict/words:
cat/usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
98569
Even if you don't include any spelling errors or symbols, and the attacker knows all of this, that's well over 16 bits per word for a password of over 64 bits. Three words would still be better than a completely random 8 digit alphanumeric password, and much easier to remember.
I took back a laptop with ATI graphics that I couldn't get to run properly, and was an instant convert when the intel integrated video worked perfectly "out of the box" with Linux Mint.
I'd prefer mini-USB, but the crappy awkward micro-USB seems to be taking over. Oh, well... I'll be rid of it when the next "standard" comes out in a couple years.
You did read what the poster before you wrote about "still they have coverage in pretty much all of the country" and "including many remote mountainous regions", right? Not just the most concentrated areas.
Ok, nevermind the markup (the source from when I just checked is 172KB) or the images and talk about just the pure number of letters included. Great, that's a perfectly fair comparison.
It is a fair comparison. That unnecessary bloat is the very "Parkinson's Law" he refers to.
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Haven't had any problems with a WD Elements drive, despite multiple power failures. It also sleeps normally (and starts up again when accessed) on a Cisco router. The problem is that the USB feature is a fraction of the speed of even USB2.
Backups for media don't have to be up to the minute. All he has to do is backup to a cheap external drive when he rips some stuff. Presumably he still has the originals stored away, anyway.
But Cisco's USB storage is pretty slow - it's much faster to unplug it from the router and connect it to a computer to copy onto the drive. Even something like a WD MyBook Live would be much better.
2TB holds a lot of ripped DVDs and CDs, and it just works.
The only problem with HTPCs I've found is that Netflix still stubbornly demands Silverlight. I guess I could install Windows instead of Linux Mint, but last I checked their computer interface was some terrible web browser garbage anyway. That's the only thing I bother to use Smart TV features for. XBMC (especially with Navi-X) is great.
(typed on a Logitech K400 wireless keyboard, in Firefox on my completely silent Shuttle XS35GS HTPC running Mint 13)
This one shows it barely breaks even. There are a lot more useful things one could do with cropland than barely break even.
In short, we find no support for the assertion that either biofuel requires more energy to make than it yields. However, the NEB for corn grain ethanol is small, providing 25% more energy than required for its production. Almost all of this NEB is attributable to the energy credit for its DDGS coproduct, which is animal feed, rather than to the ethanol itself containing more energy than used in its production. Corn grain ethanol has a low NEB because of the high energy input required to produce corn and to convert it into ethanol. In contrast, soybean biodiesel provides 93% more energy than is required in its production. The NEB advantage of soybean biodiesel is robust, occurring for five different methods of accounting for the energy credits of coproducts (see Table 9, which is published as supporting information on the PNAS web site).
Link was to this study:
http://www.pnas.org/content/103/30/11206.full
According to this study:
If CO2 from fossil fuel combustion was the only GHG considered, a biofuel with NEB > 1 should reduce GHG emissions because the CO2 released upon combustion of the fuel had been removed from the atmosphere by plants, and less CO2 than this amount had been released when producing the biofuel. However, N fertilization and incorporation of plant biomass into soil can cause microbially mediated production and release of N2O, which is a potent GHG (13). Our analyses (see Table 11, which is published as supporting information on the PNAS web site) suggest that, because of the low NEB of corn grain ethanol, production and use of corn grain ethanol releases 88% of the net GHG emissions of production and combustion of an energetically equivalent amount of gasoline (Fig. 2 c). This result is comparable with a recent study that estimated this parameter at 87% using different methods of analysis (1). In contrast, we find that life-cycle GHG emissions of soybean biodiesel are 59% those of diesel fuel. It is important to note that these estimates assume these biofuels are derived from crops harvested from land already in production; converting intact ecosystems to production would result in reduced GHG savings or even net GHG release from biofuel production.
Also,
However, the NEB for corn grain ethanol is small, providing 25% more energy than required for its production. Almost all of this NEB is attributable to the energy credit for its DDGS coproduct, which is animal feed, rather than to the ethanol itself containing more energy than used in its production. Corn grain ethanol has a low NEB because of the high energy input required to produce corn and to convert it into ethanol. In contrast, soybean biodiesel provides 93% more energy than is required in its production.
Plus, I consider a greyscale reflective LCD to be much easier on the eyes over a long time than a backlit colour screen. A decent resolution one would be a nice (and long overdue) upgrade, though. Maybe something like the one on the Sony PEG-SL10 from 10 years ago?
Touch controls are overrated, and I'd rather read a greyscale LCD that's easy on the eyes and lasts all year on AAAs than a backlit colour screen that burns through the nonreplaceable rechargable battery in a matter of hours.
For Android, the Xylthe Calculator is pretty neat. Or you can use a copy of the rom from your TI-83+ in Andie Graph. As you said, the physical buttons make a difference, but it's handy to have that sort of thing whenever you want it.
Or, if we're lucky, their ridiculous 100 round clip jams.
Hopefully, pirates will get their hands on a digital copy of the original video, resulting in a high quality h.264 file that can be played on virtually any media player or HTPC, instead of those silly obsolete Blu-ray disks.
Actually, now that I think of it - I wonder if this will be offered on things like Netflix or AppleTV in the full resolution/refresh rate? Or if it will be crippled to avoid making the Blu-ray version look bad?
Is RMS wrong? It doesn't sound like it. I don't care if he's childish.
If Ubuntu didn't insist on sabotaging itself, Mint wouldn't have a business model.
But they insisted on going to GNOME 3 and won't allow MATE in the repos - just the same arrogant "get used to it" attitude as Ubuntu.
They didn't vote.
Why does the user have to choose? Consider a program that generates a password consisting of four words chosen randomly from /usr/share/dict/words:
/usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
98569
cat
Even if you don't include any spelling errors or symbols, and the attacker knows all of this, that's well over 16 bits per word for a password of over 64 bits. Three words would still be better than a completely random 8 digit alphanumeric password, and much easier to remember.
I took back a laptop with ATI graphics that I couldn't get to run properly, and was an instant convert when the intel integrated video worked perfectly "out of the box" with Linux Mint.
I'd prefer mini-USB, but the crappy awkward micro-USB seems to be taking over. Oh, well... I'll be rid of it when the next "standard" comes out in a couple years.
You did read what the poster before you wrote about "still they have coverage in pretty much all of the country" and "including many remote mountainous regions", right? Not just the most concentrated areas.
Ok, nevermind the markup (the source from when I just checked is 172KB) or the images and talk about just the pure number of letters included. Great, that's a perfectly fair comparison.
It is a fair comparison. That unnecessary bloat is the very "Parkinson's Law" he refers to.
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Yeah, because they were going to have a test driver zoom around until the SUV rolled, right?
Not even Dell likes Office 2007.