Dr Mitchell, along with with Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard, holds the record for the longest ever moon walk, at nine hours and 17 minutes following their 1971 mission.
Uh oh. I hope they've since improved the radiation shielding on those spacesuits.
I name servers after stars. Astronomical stars that is, not celebrities.
Speaking of which, I can think of nothing worse than a server called tomcruise.example.com. It would inevitably contract some nasty worm and spend all its time trying to propagate it across the network, while languishing at it's original purpose. Hmmmm...
1. Get millions of people to pledge to download on a specific day 2. Be unprepared for millions of hits to your website 3. ??? 4. Break record for most downloads!
I think he's way off base. If Microsoft is going to be a Dynamic Duo with anyone, it would be more likely some organization that thinks like them and can compliment their business practices, such as:
Microsoft + Halliburton Microsoft + SCO (oops, already happened) Microsoft + Phillip Morris Microsoft + the Mafia Microsoft + Dow Chemical Microsoft + Exxon Mobile...
I run Kubuntu on one desktop and two laptops at my house.
I use KDE, but Firefox + Thunderbird for web/email, and Openoffice not Koffice for productivity/office apps. Unlike Roblimo, I've had no problems at all configuring default applications/file type associations so that the desired program opens when expected (mailto links open in Firefox, URL's in email open in Firefox, office docs open in OOo, etc)
I've heard about the problems some people have had with wireless but that hasn't affected me either. Both laptops connect "out-of-the-box" to my WPA2/AES wireless network.
Go figure but I actually prefer Adept to Synaptic. Adept just seems more intuitive to me.
I was a Gnome user back in the RedHat 5.0-9.0 days, because it was the RH default. After I switched distros I tried KDE and found that I liked it pretty well, but I still used Gnome primary. The reason I finally switched to KDE was that I wanted to change the format of the display of something (can't remember exactly what at this point) but Gnome simply wouldn't let me. It just wasn't an option. I logged in using KDE and it let me customize anything I wanted to. I've been using KDE ever since. It just seems more accommodating overall.
People should read the article that goes with that graphic too. Very informative look at the current state of global biofuel technology as well as coming advancements.
The idea of limitless <whatever> gets people all excited, but you just need to calm down and remember that most resources are finite, and they all come at a cost.
Change your perspective. Rather than "worry about saving" electricity, you should be bothered by waste of it. Same goes for water and other resources. Efficiency may not be exciting, but it is rewarding.
Most CFL's are not designed to be dimmed, so you shouldn't try to do so unless the bulb specifically says you can.
Obviously you have some constraints to contend with, but there has to be a better solution than a 300 (or 500!!) watt lamp. My torchieres are dual socket, and I have 23W CFL's in them, but according to my Kill-a-watt meter each lamp only draws 38W total. The light output of the two bulbs is theoretically equivalent to a 200W incandescent, and easily lights up the space in my average sized house.
What about the coal that is burned to generate the electricity? The cost of inefficient lighting is greater than what's on your electricity bill. And did you say that you could NEVER make up the cost of new lamps/bulbs? Does that assume the new lamps fail quickly or something? I have had my lamps for years, and some of my CFL bulbs are over 5 years old. Did you also take into account rising electricity costs?
Since the the bulk of the cost is sunk upfront, and electricity is only getting more expensive, you should be able to recoup the investment in CFL over time.
You mean one with those 300 watt halogen bulbs that were so popular 5-10 years ago? Those things aren't lights, they are heaters which happen to illuminate their surroundings.
I have CFL-equipped torchieres which put out a heck of a lot of light using only 38W. A strategically placed, bright white CFL could take care of the reading needs and for mood lighting, add a couple smaller CFL lamps (5-7W) and kill the other lights. You lose the infinite range of the dimmer, but turning on different combinations of smaller CFL lamps would get you different levels of illumination, and even all of those lamps on at once would use much less energy than one halogen torchiere on full.
Obviously the bible is correct. This anomaly can be attributed to Plato's ten....millionfold error; or to primitive mechanical clocks of the age, that ran really, really slow.
So you are a physicist, and you just said "a theory... that hasn't been proved right for over than 30 years" and "not verified by experiment"? One could excuse a layperson for such a gaffe, but what scientist ever talks of proving a theory right? And how do you verify scientific theory by experiment?
There are theories proven wrong, and there are theories not yet proven wrong. The longer a theory evades contradiction, the more accepted it becomes, but it is never proven right.
And of course the closest you can come to "verified by experiment" is failure to disprove by experiment, which still isn't the same.
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Dr Mitchell, along with with Apollo 14 commander Alan Shepard, holds the record for the longest ever moon walk, at nine hours and 17 minutes following their 1971 mission.
Uh oh. I hope they've since improved the radiation shielding on those spacesuits.
I name servers after stars. Astronomical stars that is, not celebrities.
Speaking of which, I can think of nothing worse than a server called tomcruise.example.com. It would inevitably contract some nasty worm and spend all its time trying to propagate it across the network, while languishing at it's original purpose. Hmmmm...
That in conjunction with a good blow job and heavy vacuuming
You've got it, the secret to a successful marriage. A clean house and a happy spouse.
Wait... what were we talking about again?
For vim, I use the koehler color scheme. I find it to be easy on the eyes for long periods of time.
1. Get millions of people to pledge to download on a specific day
2. Be unprepared for millions of hits to your website
3. ???
4. Break record for most downloads!
This is Slashdot, not Marketwatch.
Down with the man!
So according to this guy:
...
Microsoft + Yahoo = "Dynamic" ?
I think he's way off base. If Microsoft is going to be a Dynamic Duo with anyone, it would be more likely some organization that thinks like them and can compliment their business practices, such as:
Microsoft + Halliburton
Microsoft + SCO (oops, already happened)
Microsoft + Phillip Morris
Microsoft + the Mafia
Microsoft + Dow Chemical
Microsoft + Exxon Mobile
Not it isn't. Plenty of life insurance policies cover suicide, but usually not in the first 1-few years the policy is in effect.
My question is, why would a young unmarried person have a life insurance policy at all?
Yes, but in some parts of this country, they speak American, not English.
S&D is a Stop and Don't-do-it-again letter. That's what you send when the recipient is likely to be confused by the English words cease and desist.
I run Kubuntu on one desktop and two laptops at my house.
I use KDE, but Firefox + Thunderbird for web/email, and Openoffice not Koffice for productivity/office apps. Unlike Roblimo, I've had no problems at all configuring default applications/file type associations so that the desired program opens when expected (mailto links open in Firefox, URL's in email open in Firefox, office docs open in OOo, etc)
I've heard about the problems some people have had with wireless but that hasn't affected me either. Both laptops connect "out-of-the-box" to my WPA2/AES wireless network.
Go figure but I actually prefer Adept to Synaptic. Adept just seems more intuitive to me.
I was a Gnome user back in the RedHat 5.0-9.0 days, because it was the RH default. After I switched distros I tried KDE and found that I liked it pretty well, but I still used Gnome primary. The reason I finally switched to KDE was that I wanted to change the format of the display of something (can't remember exactly what at this point) but Gnome simply wouldn't let me. It just wasn't an option. I logged in using KDE and it let me customize anything I wanted to. I've been using KDE ever since. It just seems more accommodating overall.
If you're adding a WEP access point in 2008, then you're doing worse than your average user.
I know what you mean. It's nice not having to freak out periodically like this since you live in a constant state of panic anyway.
People should read the article that goes with that graphic too. Very informative look at the current state of global biofuel technology as well as coming advancements.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2007-10/biofuels/biofuels.html
So then it must have been O-mail.
You know what I'm talking about... Oh! - Oh! - Oh!...
I like nuclear, but it's no free lunch.
The idea of limitless <whatever> gets people all excited, but you just need to calm down and remember that most resources are finite, and they all come at a cost.
Change your perspective. Rather than "worry about saving" electricity, you should be bothered by waste of it. Same goes for water and other resources. Efficiency may not be exciting, but it is rewarding.
Most CFL's are not designed to be dimmed, so you shouldn't try to do so unless the bulb specifically says you can.
Obviously you have some constraints to contend with, but there has to be a better solution than a 300 (or 500!!) watt lamp. My torchieres are dual socket, and I have 23W CFL's in them, but according to my Kill-a-watt meter each lamp only draws 38W total. The light output of the two bulbs is theoretically equivalent to a 200W incandescent, and easily lights up the space in my average sized house.
What about the coal that is burned to generate the electricity? The cost of inefficient lighting is greater than what's on your electricity bill. And did you say that you could NEVER make up the cost of new lamps/bulbs? Does that assume the new lamps fail quickly or something? I have had my lamps for years, and some of my CFL bulbs are over 5 years old. Did you also take into account rising electricity costs?
Since the the bulk of the cost is sunk upfront, and electricity is only getting more expensive, you should be able to recoup the investment in CFL over time.
You mean one with those 300 watt halogen bulbs that were so popular 5-10 years ago? Those things aren't lights, they are heaters which happen to illuminate their surroundings.
I have CFL-equipped torchieres which put out a heck of a lot of light using only 38W. A strategically placed, bright white CFL could take care of the reading needs and for mood lighting, add a couple smaller CFL lamps (5-7W) and kill the other lights. You lose the infinite range of the dimmer, but turning on different combinations of smaller CFL lamps would get you different levels of illumination, and even all of those lamps on at once would use much less energy than one halogen torchiere on full.
EXACTLY. I couldn't have said it better myself.
After taking a peek a qmail once, I ran the hell away from it. I've used courier-mta in the past and these days I use postfix and couldn't be happier.
Who the hell buys electronics at Kmart, anyway?
Naturally. The attempts to disprove were implied by the theory's evasion of them.
Obviously the bible is correct. This anomaly can be attributed to Plato's ten....millionfold error; or to primitive mechanical clocks of the age, that ran really, really slow.
So you are a physicist, and you just said "a theory ... that hasn't been proved right for over than 30 years" and "not verified by experiment"?
One could excuse a layperson for such a gaffe, but what scientist ever talks of proving a theory right? And how do you verify scientific theory by experiment?
There are theories proven wrong, and there are theories not yet proven wrong. The longer a theory evades contradiction, the more accepted it becomes, but it is never proven right.
And of course the closest you can come to "verified by experiment" is failure to disprove by experiment, which still isn't the same.
Good to know. XP does not tell me that, it just hides it. That raises the question... why the hell was it there to begin with?
I could explain it in two minutes, but I would need A LOT of silly string...