I don't have any interest in using either video or voice chat. I always figured that's what phones and coffee shops were for;) But since you seem to be making a little ad-hominum attack there I'd like to point out I'm using a windows box with trillian right now and also point out that the kopete faq website lists compatability with MSN video and voice chat as current features...
But as long as you are going to argue for one over the other, you have to understand that solutions that are OS agnostic will always be preferable in my book and my favorite feature about gaim is that it is OS agnostic and also hasn't/doesn't/won't display any inline advertising or pop-up windows...
The writer also seems to harp on the lack of nice appearance in the gaim and kopete interfaces... which AFAICT are totally skinnable leaving their appearance to the user, this article seems like nothing more than a PR statement from a MSN cheerleader...
Gaim and kopete both have all the functionality of the major IM clients. Gaim is available for both windows and linux and also seems to get protocol fixes and other bugs patched much more quickly than the commercial equivalent, trillian...
I sure see a lot of diesel mercedes and volkswagens on the free especially TDI Jettas and Golfs on highway 880, I find it hard to beleive that all of them were brought from out of state...
Using a used motorcycle for half the year and a used conventional vehicle for half the year will still come out on top of the whole emissions and total cost equation.
1995 civic for 6 months plus 1990 Kawasaki for 6 months is going to be cheaper and I'm betting equally enviromentally friendly. Especially once the energy and raw source pollution of a new vehicle is added onto the new prius route....
Your argument is based on pure speculation. What if the alternate power source that becomes popular happens to have only water vapor as exhaust as is the case with hydrogen. It seems a situation could occur where plant life begins to thrive in areas where it has been declining for decades, such as would be the case with the Pacific Coast Highway in California. Or perhaps the alternate power source is something that lends itself more readily to powering mass transit services, this could bring about better city design and land usage as well as reducing emissions and reducing or removing the need for complex surafce street systems...
If pure speculation is your game, you might be better served by imagining both worst AS WELL as best case scenarios..
I don't know where you are located, but here in California diesels aren't subject to any emissions or equipment testing for registration, while gasoline vehicles are subject to frequent and increasingly difficult testing standards. Also, the claim that diesel is cleaner only holds true when using more cleanly refined diesel than is currently widely available in the US and even then only holds true when speaking of CO2 or HC emissions and quickly falls flat when particulate emissions are taken into account...
Inreasing demands on AC mains power will increase demand and likely price as well as requiring greater emissions from our mostly gas/coal (at least in the US) derived electrical power. Not to mention you get the added bonus of transmission losses during distribution which just doesn't exist for the gasoline (at least not more so than coal or natural gas is subject to).
Mazda isn't the only company putting out conventional Gasoline ICE powered cars that get great mileage, as a matter of fact both Honda and Toyota put out other convetionally powered models of vehicles which both get good mileage but also conform to the PZEV emissions standards of the prius or civic hybrid....
I think you'd be hard pressed to prove that on a whole buying a used car which gets decent mileage is going to have a greater enviromental impact than is put forth just in energy production to manufacture a new vehicle (of any power train type) let alone the impact of getting the raw materials from which the vehicle is to be composed from.
The sweet spot right now is buying a compact car built in the past 10 years which has had good regular maintainence. This will provide nearly all the creature comforts as are found in newer cars (with a few extravagant exceptions I.E. GPS, DVD, back up radar, and the like) along with the lion's share of modern emissions equipment and reasonably low fuel economy with known (basis for estimate of) future maintainence costs and reliability.
(c) your daily commute is not too long, so the price markup you pay for a hybrid does not translate into long-term gas savings.
Well considering that AFAICT all the currently available gas/electric hybrids on the market get considerably worse mileage on the freeway than they do in stop and go traffic, I doubt that the argument of a long commute equaling a greater total savings always holds true. It seems that the break even point is quite a bit longer of a commute than the article would imply and also a prius is much much more expensive than other gas vehicles that make considerably more sense for long distance commuters I.E. nearly any production motorcycle or a number of used subcompact models such as a Honda CRX HX, or Geo Metro. The comparison gets even worse when the inaccuracy of the EPA estimated mileage ratings come into play. Some sources are reporting that the EPA estimated mileage for the current generations of hybrids is as much as 42% more than the real world mileage, while the margin of error for compact gas only vehicles is only about %30.
The main advantages of owning a hybrid now are that early adopters will drive the market to create a demand for innovation in the marketplace. The NPR discussion did point this out, but failed to hilight (at least some of) the reasons I have noted above, though I must admit I was too busy pay attention to the road on my *really long* commute to be sure that I didn't miss some of the speakers' points.
Bubonic plague is not something that is really that dangerous in modern "1st world" countries. It's primary infection vector (fleas carried by rats and mice) is simply not something that can easily support large outbreaks without other factors contributing like general unsanitary conditions and large populations of free roaming rodents cohabitating with people. While this presented a large enough problem in the Middle Ages when generally unsanitary conditions were combined with high population density and a lack of modern medical treatment it just isn't something that is a risk in the United States.
As a matter of fact, a quick google search on the term "prairy dog bubonic" will return quite a number of results showing that wild bubonic plague is not something unheard of in the US however and occasionally human infections do occur and are easily treated with antibiotics. The rare fatal cases are usually found in the elderly or infirm who fail to seek medical treatment prior to the disease causing pneumonia and sepsis in it's late stages.
I find it amazing that reporters continue to make things like this seem like an emminent threat when the elephant in the room that no-one seems to want to aknowledge is the far greater threat posed by Nuclear Weapons... But that is a different topic all together. And if you are wondering, that statement isn't meant as a troll...
Uhm, been running on my server for months....
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The article is a bit misleading, since Gallery2 has been available for sometime and has been stable enough for all but the most critical applications...
Cool, Thanks for the informative response.
Does this mean when doing manual config of Xwindows that one can safely experiment with the H and V synch numbers without worrying about doing the "severe hardware damage" as it warns about in the documentation?
Not sure if this is just fud or what, but back in my HS days one of my Mac evangelist buddies pointed out that because of the itnegrated design of the Mac classic and similar "one box" macs that one could quite easily write a virus or trojan that would run the video subsystem really far out of spec and could actually physically damage the CRT. Is that still something possible with modern hardware?
I don't think that your carb vs fuel injection parallel quite holds true since for some applications one is definately preffered over the other I.E. a lawnmower engine with fuel injection would be entirely overly comoplicated for it's purpose and a carbureted car will generally be harder to keep tuned for best efficiency...
Marketshare does not equal income... This was the single most important thing that people forgot in the 90's and helped trigger the boom/bust of the first dotcom bubble.
Google has thus far become a major player and managed to turn a profit doing it. If the only thing their IM service does is steal market share from other non-profitable services from other comanies then google gains nothing that generates value and further more they paint an even larger target on themselves as a growing concern for those people worried about privacy in an overly centralized infrastructure.
I certainly hope that this IM endevour of theirs has some really smart business people behind it with a serious end game strategy to make it a profitable venture without being something we need to fear...
Personally I'm fond of this one which has a sh*t-ton more information in the layout and includes several insets with subgroupings of elements with additional information relative to those elements.
I understand that those are the *MAIN* dynamics in playing high stakes poker, but I'd suspect that at the level of professional player you'd be smart to use other things which provide a small but discernable legal advantage I.E. dark sunglasses appear to be not uncommon as do hats and visors... So, back to the question..:)
Now I'm curious, is botox is something that any professional level players use? Is it against any rules? Do any professional poker "leagues" implement any sort of no performance enhancing drug bans?
I simply don't know much about professional level poker... Anybody got answers?
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I don't have any interest in using either video or voice chat. I always figured that's what phones and coffee shops were for ;) But since you seem to be making a little ad-hominum attack there I'd like to point out I'm using a windows box with trillian right now and also point out that the kopete faq website lists compatability with MSN video and voice chat as current features...
But as long as you are going to argue for one over the other, you have to understand that solutions that are OS agnostic will always be preferable in my book and my favorite feature about gaim is that it is OS agnostic and also hasn't/doesn't/won't display any inline advertising or pop-up windows...
file xfers to/from gaim trillian work fine for me...
The writer also seems to harp on the lack of nice appearance in the gaim and kopete interfaces... which AFAICT are totally skinnable leaving their appearance to the user, this article seems like nothing more than a PR statement from a MSN cheerleader...
Gaim and kopete both have all the functionality of the major IM clients. Gaim is available for both windows and linux and also seems to get protocol fixes and other bugs patched much more quickly than the commercial equivalent, trillian...
I sure see a lot of diesel mercedes and volkswagens on the free especially TDI Jettas and Golfs on highway 880, I find it hard to beleive that all of them were brought from out of state...
Using a used motorcycle for half the year and a used conventional vehicle for half the year will still come out on top of the whole emissions and total cost equation. 1995 civic for 6 months plus 1990 Kawasaki for 6 months is going to be cheaper and I'm betting equally enviromentally friendly. Especially once the energy and raw source pollution of a new vehicle is added onto the new prius route....
Mod Parent up!!! Very Insightful. These are two great options for both saving money and reducing emissions simultaneously.
Your argument is based on pure speculation. What if the alternate power source that becomes popular happens to have only water vapor as exhaust as is the case with hydrogen. It seems a situation could occur where plant life begins to thrive in areas where it has been declining for decades, such as would be the case with the Pacific Coast Highway in California. Or perhaps the alternate power source is something that lends itself more readily to powering mass transit services, this could bring about better city design and land usage as well as reducing emissions and reducing or removing the need for complex surafce street systems... If pure speculation is your game, you might be better served by imagining both worst AS WELL as best case scenarios..
I don't know where you are located, but here in California diesels aren't subject to any emissions or equipment testing for registration, while gasoline vehicles are subject to frequent and increasingly difficult testing standards. Also, the claim that diesel is cleaner only holds true when using more cleanly refined diesel than is currently widely available in the US and even then only holds true when speaking of CO2 or HC emissions and quickly falls flat when particulate emissions are taken into account...
Inreasing demands on AC mains power will increase demand and likely price as well as requiring greater emissions from our mostly gas/coal (at least in the US) derived electrical power. Not to mention you get the added bonus of transmission losses during distribution which just doesn't exist for the gasoline (at least not more so than coal or natural gas is subject to).
Mazda isn't the only company putting out conventional Gasoline ICE powered cars that get great mileage, as a matter of fact both Honda and Toyota put out other convetionally powered models of vehicles which both get good mileage but also conform to the PZEV emissions standards of the prius or civic hybrid....
I think you'd be hard pressed to prove that on a whole buying a used car which gets decent mileage is going to have a greater enviromental impact than is put forth just in energy production to manufacture a new vehicle (of any power train type) let alone the impact of getting the raw materials from which the vehicle is to be composed from. The sweet spot right now is buying a compact car built in the past 10 years which has had good regular maintainence. This will provide nearly all the creature comforts as are found in newer cars (with a few extravagant exceptions I.E. GPS, DVD, back up radar, and the like) along with the lion's share of modern emissions equipment and reasonably low fuel economy with known (basis for estimate of) future maintainence costs and reliability.
The main advantages of owning a hybrid now are that early adopters will drive the market to create a demand for innovation in the marketplace. The NPR discussion did point this out, but failed to hilight (at least some of) the reasons I have noted above, though I must admit I was too busy pay attention to the road on my *really long* commute to be sure that I didn't miss some of the speakers' points.
hehe, sometimes typos and mispellings get everyone ;)
Bubonic plague is not something that is really that dangerous in modern "1st world" countries. It's primary infection vector (fleas carried by rats and mice) is simply not something that can easily support large outbreaks without other factors contributing like general unsanitary conditions and large populations of free roaming rodents cohabitating with people. While this presented a large enough problem in the Middle Ages when generally unsanitary conditions were combined with high population density and a lack of modern medical treatment it just isn't something that is a risk in the United States.
As a matter of fact, a quick google search on the term "prairy dog bubonic" will return quite a number of results showing that wild bubonic plague is not something unheard of in the US however and occasionally human infections do occur and are easily treated with antibiotics. The rare fatal cases are usually found in the elderly or infirm who fail to seek medical treatment prior to the disease causing pneumonia and sepsis in it's late stages.
I find it amazing that reporters continue to make things like this seem like an emminent threat when the elephant in the room that no-one seems to want to aknowledge is the far greater threat posed by Nuclear Weapons... But that is a different topic all together. And if you are wondering, that statement isn't meant as a troll...
The article is a bit misleading, since Gallery2 has been available for sometime and has been stable enough for all but the most critical applications...
Cool, Thanks for the informative response. Does this mean when doing manual config of Xwindows that one can safely experiment with the H and V synch numbers without worrying about doing the "severe hardware damage" as it warns about in the documentation?
Not sure if this is just fud or what, but back in my HS days one of my Mac evangelist buddies pointed out that because of the itnegrated design of the Mac classic and similar "one box" macs that one could quite easily write a virus or trojan that would run the video subsystem really far out of spec and could actually physically damage the CRT. Is that still something possible with modern hardware?
I don't think that your carb vs fuel injection parallel quite holds true since for some applications one is definately preffered over the other I.E. a lawnmower engine with fuel injection would be entirely overly comoplicated for it's purpose and a carbureted car will generally be harder to keep tuned for best efficiency...
Marketshare does not equal income... This was the single most important thing that people forgot in the 90's and helped trigger the boom/bust of the first dotcom bubble. Google has thus far become a major player and managed to turn a profit doing it. If the only thing their IM service does is steal market share from other non-profitable services from other comanies then google gains nothing that generates value and further more they paint an even larger target on themselves as a growing concern for those people worried about privacy in an overly centralized infrastructure. I certainly hope that this IM endevour of theirs has some really smart business people behind it with a serious end game strategy to make it a profitable venture without being something we need to fear...
On my system it says something about "stuff that matters" in the upper right corner of this site...
Personally I'm fond of this one which has a sh*t-ton more information in the layout and includes several insets with subgroupings of elements with additional information relative to those elements.
Someone please mod up parent as informative...
I understand that those are the *MAIN* dynamics in playing high stakes poker, but I'd suspect that at the level of professional player you'd be smart to use other things which provide a small but discernable legal advantage I.E. dark sunglasses appear to be not uncommon as do hats and visors... So, back to the question.. :)
Now I'm curious, is botox is something that any professional level players use? Is it against any rules? Do any professional poker "leagues" implement any sort of no performance enhancing drug bans? I simply don't know much about professional level poker... Anybody got answers?