Fluoride in the water supply is more effective b/c it actually gets incorporated into teeth. Fluoride in toothpaste is a much less effective topical treatment.
Bullshit. The solution to that problem is easy: don't give the receipt to the person voting but make them put it into a standard ballot box (or have the machine put it there).
The electronic machines could tally up the preliminary results (the ones that get reported on TV, etc). The printed ballots would provide the official results after being optically scanned and/or manually recounted in the next couple of weeks. Seems pretty much foolproof to me.
Strange, because the standard procedure for depressurizing the fuel system is to let the engine run dry after shutting off the fuel pump. That doesn't seem to damage it a whole lot.
They aren't SI-defined units, but they do use SI prefixes. As such, they should use them properly or use a different prefix (which is what KiB, MiB, etc are are).
Just because people were abusing the metric prefixes for years does NOT mean that they should keep abusing them.
Let me guess, you live in the US and don't have a fucking clue what the metric system is all about. For your information, the metric prefixes kilo, mega, and giga stand for 10^3, 10^6, and 10^9, and NOT 1024, 1024^2, 1024^3. The new units (KiB, MiB, etc) are meant to stop the abuse of the metric prefixes.
Unfortunately, numbers ARE copyrightable. Pretty much any program, file, book, or any other piece of information can be encoded into a large number. Of course, this does not bypass any copyrights at all, especially given that such a number has no uses other than bypassing copyright laws.
Computers are still largely uneeded luxuries for most people on this planet.
In that case, why are you using one? Computers are excellent means of communication. You do understand that with a computer, you can access all kinds of information you couldn't get otherwise? You know, not everyone has a library near his/her house, and not everyone can read, especially in 3rd world countries? A computer can efficiently solve both of these problems.
You have to realize that the 3rd world is very different. A cellphone might be a luxury in the US, but in Africa one could be much cheaper than a landline telephone. Same thing with computers. They are an inexpensive way to give people access to information, government services, and so on.
No, you fucking moron. Giga is a metric prefix, and it means 10^9. The fact that some idiot engineers decided to abuse these prefixes when they were building computers does not invalidate them. For storage media, 1GB = 1 billion bytes, not 1024 megabytes.
that is why there were those screws on the box (usually phillips-head, part of your standard hacking so-called "toolbox", right next to your now anti-DMCA "wire-cutters".
Actually, many cable boxes are RIVETED together. A few others use special tamper-resistant screws. I haven't seen one screwed together with phillips yet.
The case doesn't have to be solid metal to stop the radiation, only that the holes are smaller than 10cm
BZZZZZT! Wrong answer. The 3GHz clock isn't a problem. All of those 133MHz, 66MHz, and 8MHz clocks ARE a problem. Plus, there are harmonics and other digital crap created by all the digital signals inside. Also, your wavelength calculations are completely wrong. Were they to be true, EMI/RFI would never be a problem. Most signals which create problems are in the 40m - 1.5m region.
That was most likely a sign of power grid problems. Fluctuations in frequency are caused when generators get out of sync with each other and the grid. That's pretty much what caused those lines to trip and the generators to disconnect. When you have en masse transmission line tripping, you will see power spikes and frequency fluctuation.
The important thing in the investigation is the root cause of it and the reason why one problem caused a domino effect.
Slack is not barren, it includes everything a desktop user could want.
Does it have anything like the Mandrake Control Center?
Graphical Installers: Are useless, pointless, and now the Mandrake way, have advertisements!
Why are they useless and/or pointless? First, they are generally less ugly than text-based ones. You can use a mouse in a non-half-assed manner. They look less intimidating. They can fit more information onto the same screen. Ever try to repartition in text mode? You know, most people don't like to use fdisk if they can do the same thing with a graphical tool.
But most people don't realize that Slackware is a desktop OS too.
Slackware is a hacker's desktop OS. If you have to use a text interface to do anything, it's not in the same ballpark. It's one thing to create a desktop OS for computer professionals, it's another thing to have a desktop OS for normal people.
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Apple Computer has no agreement with Apple Records that it cannot be a retailer.
What are you smoking? Did you completely ignore the parent post? If not, then maybe you should enroll in a remedial reading comprehension course at your local special ed school. The parent post said that they DID have an agreement with Apple Corps.
It's not difficult. There is no "adware" though. Just advertisements. Delete the bookmarks/screensaver, repackage the distro, and so on. The question is: why would anyone do that? The ads in the installer are hardly an annoyance. The bookmarks are hardly invasive and are easily deleted. The start page can easily be changed (and usually is). The screensaver can easily be changed to whatever you like (I don't care if it's ads). It's not really an extra annoyance -- most people customize their systems somewhat (change the screensaver or background, etc).
First, SuSE is commercial. YaST is NOT open-source or free. You can't download SuSE for free (except for some castrated version). Second, YaST blows. If you actually like it, you haven't worked with it enough. The thing is incredibly buggy. It works great -- 70% of the time.
Also, note that if you actually _buy_ the distro, you won't get advertising.
The only problem Mandrake might face is this model's (superficial) resemblance to the failed business models of the dotcom era. But then, Microsoft does it, too (like all the crap on the default desktop).
Come on. Advertising during the frigging install is one thing, spyware is a completely different thing. Don't group the two. I use Mandrake, I like it, I wouldn't mind if they got a few extra bucks. The install is pretty boring, so some ads there would not hurt at all. As for spyware and stuff like that: I know quite a few developers at Mandrake, and they would not tolerate that.
As for Slack: that's a pretty barren distro as compared to Mandrake. Clearly, it does not take as much resources to develop it, since it doesn't have its own graphical installer, nice config tools, etc. They are two different products intended for different audiences.
What's the point of copying from CDs to CDs? I thought you (or the original poster) meant that you would transfer your CDs to something else once that something else becomes available? As for tape libraries, why does tape have to be more reliable than optical discs?
If you have thousands upon thousands upon thousands of CDs, tapes, or DVDs, it's kinda hard to move to different media, you know. I believe that is the whole point of making CDs that will last many years.
Actually it may not be a clear cut illegal intrusion.
If a computer does not belong to you, you are not supposed to access it without explicit or implied permission. Federal law is very clear about that. In most states, accessing private data is illegal even if it is not protected at all. Even if I don't have a root password on my machine, you could still be prosecuted for hacking it if you log in and start sniffing around.
If you see an unlocked apartment door, do you walk in and grab shit simply because it doesn't have a "no trespassing" sign on the door? Why is it any different with computers?
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Fluoride in the water supply is more effective b/c it actually gets incorporated into teeth. Fluoride in toothpaste is a much less effective topical treatment.
There's an awful lot of unexplained cancer deaths this past 50 years. It's the funniest thing. Before that people didn't really get cancer.
Either this is a troll or you are smoking something good...
Bullshit. The solution to that problem is easy: don't give the receipt to the person voting but make them put it into a standard ballot box (or have the machine put it there).
The electronic machines could tally up the preliminary results (the ones that get reported on TV, etc). The printed ballots would provide the official results after being optically scanned and/or manually recounted in the next couple of weeks. Seems pretty much foolproof to me.
Strange, because the standard procedure for depressurizing the fuel system is to let the engine run dry after shutting off the fuel pump. That doesn't seem to damage it a whole lot.
Correct. They are not SI standards, that's why they are funky as hell. SI standards are ALWAYS powers of 10.
They aren't SI-defined units, but they do use SI prefixes. As such, they should use them properly or use a different prefix (which is what KiB, MiB, etc are are).
but that is actually 536,870,912 bytes vs. 80,000,000,000 bytes (which is closer to 74.5 GB)
No, it is closer to 74.5 GiB. A GB is 10^9 bytes.
Just because people were abusing the metric prefixes for years does NOT mean that they should keep abusing them.
Let me guess, you live in the US and don't have a fucking clue what the metric system is all about. For your information, the metric prefixes kilo, mega, and giga stand for 10^3, 10^6, and 10^9, and NOT 1024, 1024^2, 1024^3. The new units (KiB, MiB, etc) are meant to stop the abuse of the metric prefixes.
Unfortunately, numbers ARE copyrightable. Pretty much any program, file, book, or any other piece of information can be encoded into a large number. Of course, this does not bypass any copyrights at all, especially given that such a number has no uses other than bypassing copyright laws.
Computers are still largely uneeded luxuries for most people on this planet.
In that case, why are you using one? Computers are excellent means of communication. You do understand that with a computer, you can access all kinds of information you couldn't get otherwise? You know, not everyone has a library near his/her house, and not everyone can read, especially in 3rd world countries? A computer can efficiently solve both of these problems.
You have to realize that the 3rd world is very different. A cellphone might be a luxury in the US, but in Africa one could be much cheaper than a landline telephone. Same thing with computers. They are an inexpensive way to give people access to information, government services, and so on.
No, you fucking moron. Giga is a metric prefix, and it means 10^9. The fact that some idiot engineers decided to abuse these prefixes when they were building computers does not invalidate them. For storage media, 1GB = 1 billion bytes, not 1024 megabytes.
I'm speaking from experience. You are speaking out of your ass. Go read up on Faraday Cages and tell me where it says anything about wavelength.
that is why there were those screws on the box (usually phillips-head, part of your standard hacking so-called "toolbox", right next to your now anti-DMCA "wire-cutters".
Actually, many cable boxes are RIVETED together. A few others use special tamper-resistant screws. I haven't seen one screwed together with phillips yet.
The case doesn't have to be solid metal to stop the radiation, only that the holes are smaller than 10cm
BZZZZZT! Wrong answer. The 3GHz clock isn't a problem. All of those 133MHz, 66MHz, and 8MHz clocks ARE a problem. Plus, there are harmonics and other digital crap created by all the digital signals inside. Also, your wavelength calculations are completely wrong. Were they to be true, EMI/RFI would never be a problem. Most signals which create problems are in the 40m - 1.5m region.
That was most likely a sign of power grid problems. Fluctuations in frequency are caused when generators get out of sync with each other and the grid. That's pretty much what caused those lines to trip and the generators to disconnect. When you have en masse transmission line tripping, you will see power spikes and frequency fluctuation.
The important thing in the investigation is the root cause of it and the reason why one problem caused a domino effect.
Slack is not barren, it includes everything a desktop user could want.
Does it have anything like the Mandrake Control Center?
Graphical Installers: Are useless, pointless, and now the Mandrake way, have advertisements!
Why are they useless and/or pointless? First, they are generally less ugly than text-based ones. You can use a mouse in a non-half-assed manner. They look less intimidating. They can fit more information onto the same screen. Ever try to repartition in text mode? You know, most people don't like to use fdisk if they can do the same thing with a graphical tool.
But most people don't realize that Slackware is a desktop OS too.
Slackware is a hacker's desktop OS. If you have to use a text interface to do anything, it's not in the same ballpark. It's one thing to create a desktop OS for computer professionals, it's another thing to have a desktop OS for normal people.
Apple Computer has no agreement with Apple Records that it cannot be a retailer.
What are you smoking? Did you completely ignore the parent post? If not, then maybe you should enroll in a remedial reading comprehension course at your local special ed school. The parent post said that they DID have an agreement with Apple Corps.
It's not difficult. There is no "adware" though. Just advertisements. Delete the bookmarks/screensaver, repackage the distro, and so on. The question is: why would anyone do that? The ads in the installer are hardly an annoyance. The bookmarks are hardly invasive and are easily deleted. The start page can easily be changed (and usually is). The screensaver can easily be changed to whatever you like (I don't care if it's ads). It's not really an extra annoyance -- most people customize their systems somewhat (change the screensaver or background, etc).
First, SuSE is commercial. YaST is NOT open-source or free. You can't download SuSE for free (except for some castrated version). Second, YaST blows. If you actually like it, you haven't worked with it enough. The thing is incredibly buggy. It works great -- 70% of the time.
Also, note that if you actually _buy_ the distro, you won't get advertising.
RTFA. The advertisements are only in the download edition. Sounds very reasonable.
The only problem Mandrake might face is this model's (superficial) resemblance to the failed business models of the dotcom era. But then, Microsoft does it, too (like all the crap on the default desktop).
Come on. Advertising during the frigging install is one thing, spyware is a completely different thing. Don't group the two. I use Mandrake, I like it, I wouldn't mind if they got a few extra bucks. The install is pretty boring, so some ads there would not hurt at all. As for spyware and stuff like that: I know quite a few developers at Mandrake, and they would not tolerate that.
As for Slack: that's a pretty barren distro as compared to Mandrake. Clearly, it does not take as much resources to develop it, since it doesn't have its own graphical installer, nice config tools, etc. They are two different products intended for different audiences.
What's the point of copying from CDs to CDs? I thought you (or the original poster) meant that you would transfer your CDs to something else once that something else becomes available? As for tape libraries, why does tape have to be more reliable than optical discs?
If you have thousands upon thousands upon thousands of CDs, tapes, or DVDs, it's kinda hard to move to different media, you know. I believe that is the whole point of making CDs that will last many years.
Actually it may not be a clear cut illegal intrusion.
If a computer does not belong to you, you are not supposed to access it without explicit or implied permission. Federal law is very clear about that. In most states, accessing private data is illegal even if it is not protected at all. Even if I don't have a root password on my machine, you could still be prosecuted for hacking it if you log in and start sniffing around.
If you see an unlocked apartment door, do you walk in and grab shit simply because it doesn't have a "no trespassing" sign on the door? Why is it any different with computers?