As to what you get from a barrel of oil, true as far as it goes, but refining processes change the outcome of the natural hydrocarbon mix by "catalytic cracking" which converts less-desirable heavy stuff to lighter gasoline and jet fuel, etc.
As a diehard Progressive, I find I have strange, and welcome, bedfellow Conservatives on this issue. A Driver License should mean that the bearer has shown up at the DMV and passed the written and driving tests, no more. Attempts to make it a de facto ID pervert this goal. I want informed and skilled drivers on the road, but instead deal with many who are not because they can't get a license. If you want to know a person's identity and citizenship, require a passport.
Relative freedom is possible now, if you're willing to make some sacrifices. Buy an unlocked GSM phone. Tmobile has (or at least had) in the US a SIM-only program. I showed up with my phone, they gave me the SIM. I've moved it to another phone, they neither know nor care, though I don't get the "benefit" of their pushed software updates. And when/if I travel to Europe, Asia, South America, I buy a local SIM, get a local number, and am not skarood by unreasonable international roaming charges.
Indeed. Perhaps Photoshop is just the best product in a competitive marketplace. Adobe can't do what Microsoft did with unethical practices to destroy competition, because they don't own the OS.
Here's the US FCC's info on junk faxes http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/unwantedfaxes .html Interesting that the business advertised is liable even if they didn't send the fax. But this doesn't really help. Since the senders are scumbags, one can't be surprised that they don't follow the rules. Why couldn't software scan received faxes for telltale signs of junk such as "Cancun", "vacation", "To all Employees", and trash them as we do with email filters?
Thanks for a post that's actually informative and well-informed on the subject. As usual, the signal-to-noise ratio on Slashdot hovers between -20 and -40 dB.
Um, well technically that was Britain, not Canada per se, eh? During the War of 1812, which was a futile and expensive war for the US (hmmm.....reminds me of something). Don't get me wrong, I love Canada. BC exports some great products, one which has the same name as a popular but terrible American beer.
Dependency Hell is real. How about another approach to the problem - package the libraries an application needs with it. Bandwidth is cheap, diskspace is cheap. IIRC Opera has done this to a degree in the past.
Actually, fluorescent lamps driven by modern high-frequency ballasts don't flicker even at the ultrasonic operating frequency. Too, the warmup behaviour depends on the ballast used. I have a fixture with replaceable lamps that has a ~2 second delay at turn-on but then puts out consistent color and intensity. The ballast must have been a considerable part of the 300+ USD retail price of the fixture. When you buy a 2 dollar CF lamp, you get a crappy ballast, and, shamefully, the electronics get thrown out when the lamp fails. Give us incandescent-replacement screw-in CF's with replaceable lamps! On the subject of failure due to turn on/off cycles, how many times have you seen an incandescent lamp fail at turn-on? Many. It's because the inrush current of ~10 x operating current puts stress on the filament. Nobody cares because the bulbs are cheap. Further, for those who decry Big Brother mandating a policy from the top down to get rid of incandescents, if the democratically-elected representatives of the nation are expressing the will of the people in the policy, so be it.
Indeed, these story genres are tiresome and repetitive. I think, though, that it helps to understand the emotional motivations of GNU/Linux advocates. Feeling abused and betrayed by the dominant OS, people are "converted" to "freedom", and like religious evangelists, share the "good news" with others. But there is intolerance that goes along with this, and irrational utopianism. What do you, GNU/Linux user, care that 90% of computer users don't give a darn about your OS? How does that diminish in any way the validity of your personal choice? How did we become so tabloid-obsessed with the coming doom of Microsoft? Why do we respond to news that Absurdistan has installed free software on 100 PC's with joy like unto that of fundamentalists reading signs in current events that Jesus is returning tomorrow (and in the Rapture, will Leave Behind a bunch of perfectly good P4's to install Linux on)?
"Also, I think that the slashdotting community would probably not be adverse to you writing down some of your romantic exploits. In fact that's probably what the slashdot's journal was made for: Hot lesbian love;-)"
Nice going. We finally get a poster that's not a 29-year-old socially-challenged white male living in his parent's basement, and you have to reinforce the "men are pigs" stereotype. Now there's only 3 women that read Slashdot.
BTW, you mean "averse" not "adverse".
For those who like me are not Ubergeeks, I profer this:
1. Download the.bin file.
2. Find where it was downloaded to; for me, it was "Desktop".
3. Open a terminal, such as Konsole, and cd to the directory where it was downloaded.
4. su to become root, and make the file executable by changing its permissions - chmod 700 GoogleEarthLinux.bin worked for me.
5. Start the install by typing./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
6. Don't worry if you get a message about not having the right font.
7. To run it, type googleearth at a command prompt, such as "Run Command' in the KDE start menu. Create a link on your desktop by the usual means.
8. Enjoy, and send mad props to the folks at Google.
It's embarassing to be chatting with fellow geeks at the LUG meeting and mispronounce distro names - is it "Suzy/Susie" or "sooz" (rhymes with "muse")? And Ubuntu - is is "yew-bun-two" or "ooh-bun-two"?
Ahem. Well, it's not true that AC to DC conversion is inherently more or less efficient than DC to DC conversion. Any power conversion has power loss, but it can be as efficient as you like, depending on how much money you want to spend and what component size you can tolerate. Likewise reliability - no inherent advantage one way or the other, but I must say that the standard method of converting AC to DC, with rectifiers and capacitors, is an order or magnitude more reliable than the common method of changing one DC voltage to another with switching regulators.
Sadly the poster's viewpoint vis a vis "muslims" reflects the Administration's victory in painting all "A-rabs" and muslims as terrorists and enemies of the USA and "freedom". Hence the reaction of the ignorant to the Dubai Ports non-issue.
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As to what you get from a barrel of oil, true as far as it goes, but refining processes change the outcome of the natural hydrocarbon mix by "catalytic cracking" which converts less-desirable heavy stuff to lighter gasoline and jet fuel, etc.
and while we're at it can we please not start a sentence with an adverb? Please write instead of "hopefully" "I hope that.........."
"And since the GUI and the kernel are always together as a virtually inseparable set, they are pretty much one in the same."
OK, I may be new here, but if this is true, why do I have to type "startx" after I login?
This story explains what the original FA obscures; that some old buildings had elevators and pumps designed to run on DC. Sue me if the link doesn't work. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE7DF173DF93BA25750C0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print
As a diehard Progressive, I find I have strange, and welcome, bedfellow Conservatives on this issue. A Driver License should mean that the bearer has shown up at the DMV and passed the written and driving tests, no more. Attempts to make it a de facto ID pervert this goal. I want informed and skilled drivers on the road, but instead deal with many who are not because they can't get a license. If you want to know a person's identity and citizenship, require a passport.
Relative freedom is possible now, if you're willing to make some sacrifices. Buy an unlocked GSM phone. Tmobile has (or at least had) in the US a SIM-only program. I showed up with my phone, they gave me the SIM. I've moved it to another phone, they neither know nor care, though I don't get the "benefit" of their pushed software updates. And when/if I travel to Europe, Asia, South America, I buy a local SIM, get a local number, and am not skarood by unreasonable international roaming charges.
What does the EULA say? Perhaps Microsoft reserves the right to modify your *licensed* software as they see fit?
When, in the short term, it doesn't rain locally.
Indeed. Perhaps Photoshop is just the best product in a competitive marketplace. Adobe can't do what Microsoft did with unethical practices to destroy competition, because they don't own the OS.
Here's the US FCC's info on junk faxes http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/unwantedfaxes .html Interesting that the business advertised is liable even if they didn't send the fax. But this doesn't really help. Since the senders are scumbags, one can't be surprised that they don't follow the rules. Why couldn't software scan received faxes for telltale signs of junk such as "Cancun", "vacation", "To all Employees", and trash them as we do with email filters?
when Docs doesn't work on my Linux + Firefox 2.0.0.3 setup (no cursor, can't type anything). Sheesh. Get the basics fixed first.
Thanks for a post that's actually informative and well-informed on the subject. As usual, the signal-to-noise ratio on Slashdot hovers between -20 and -40 dB.
Um, well technically that was Britain, not Canada per se, eh? During the War of 1812, which was a futile and expensive war for the US (hmmm.....reminds me of something). Don't get me wrong, I love Canada. BC exports some great products, one which has the same name as a popular but terrible American beer.
Dependency Hell is real. How about another approach to the problem - package the libraries an application needs with it. Bandwidth is cheap, diskspace is cheap. IIRC Opera has done this to a degree in the past.
Actually, fluorescent lamps driven by modern high-frequency ballasts don't flicker even at the ultrasonic operating frequency. Too, the warmup behaviour depends on the ballast used. I have a fixture with replaceable lamps that has a ~2 second delay at turn-on but then puts out consistent color and intensity. The ballast must have been a considerable part of the 300+ USD retail price of the fixture. When you buy a 2 dollar CF lamp, you get a crappy ballast, and, shamefully, the electronics get thrown out when the lamp fails. Give us incandescent-replacement screw-in CF's with replaceable lamps! On the subject of failure due to turn on/off cycles, how many times have you seen an incandescent lamp fail at turn-on? Many. It's because the inrush current of ~10 x operating current puts stress on the filament. Nobody cares because the bulbs are cheap. Further, for those who decry Big Brother mandating a policy from the top down to get rid of incandescents, if the democratically-elected representatives of the nation are expressing the will of the people in the policy, so be it.
I just tried this at home. It works pretty well for now, but only because nobody legit sends me .gif files. But spammers do also use jpegs.
Indeed, these story genres are tiresome and repetitive. I think, though, that it helps to understand the emotional motivations of GNU/Linux advocates. Feeling abused and betrayed by the dominant OS, people are "converted" to "freedom", and like religious evangelists, share the "good news" with others. But there is intolerance that goes along with this, and irrational utopianism. What do you, GNU/Linux user, care that 90% of computer users don't give a darn about your OS? How does that diminish in any way the validity of your personal choice? How did we become so tabloid-obsessed with the coming doom of Microsoft? Why do we respond to news that Absurdistan has installed free software on 100 PC's with joy like unto that of fundamentalists reading signs in current events that Jesus is returning tomorrow (and in the Rapture, will Leave Behind a bunch of perfectly good P4's to install Linux on)?
"Also, I think that the slashdotting community would probably not be adverse to you writing down some of your romantic exploits. In fact that's probably what the slashdot's journal was made for: Hot lesbian love ;-)"
Nice going. We finally get a poster that's not a 29-year-old socially-challenged white male living in his parent's basement, and you have to reinforce the "men are pigs" stereotype. Now there's only 3 women that read Slashdot.
BTW, you mean "averse" not "adverse".
"Innovation, innovation, innovation!"
For those who like me are not Ubergeeks, I profer this: 1. Download the .bin file.
2. Find where it was downloaded to; for me, it was "Desktop".
3. Open a terminal, such as Konsole, and cd to the directory where it was downloaded.
4. su to become root, and make the file executable by changing its permissions - chmod 700 GoogleEarthLinux.bin worked for me.
5. Start the install by typing ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
6. Don't worry if you get a message about not having the right font.
7. To run it, type googleearth at a command prompt, such as "Run Command' in the KDE start menu. Create a link on your desktop by the usual means.
8. Enjoy, and send mad props to the folks at Google.
...we used to set up a Tokin' Ring for social networking.
Don't worry. Like Microsoft, Walmart will fade away when OpenMart is ready.
It's embarassing to be chatting with fellow geeks at the LUG meeting and mispronounce distro names - is it "Suzy/Susie" or "sooz" (rhymes with "muse")? And Ubuntu - is is "yew-bun-two" or "ooh-bun-two"?
Ahem. Well, it's not true that AC to DC conversion is inherently more or less efficient than DC to DC conversion. Any power conversion has power loss, but it can be as efficient as you like, depending on how much money you want to spend and what component size you can tolerate. Likewise reliability - no inherent advantage one way or the other, but I must say that the standard method of converting AC to DC, with rectifiers and capacitors, is an order or magnitude more reliable than the common method of changing one DC voltage to another with switching regulators.
Sadly the poster's viewpoint vis a vis "muslims" reflects the Administration's victory in painting all "A-rabs" and muslims as terrorists and enemies of the USA and "freedom". Hence the reaction of the ignorant to the Dubai Ports non-issue.