iOS 4 was a pig when installed on early iPhones... made them nearly unusable. iOS 5 is a total non-starter.
Face it, hardware gets better and older hardware can't run the latest bells and whistles. That said, most of these early phones are just fine and work just as well as when they were new. If you have to be on the bleeding edge of technology with the latest shiny gadget, you'll just have to pay yearly for the privilege and buy the latest hardware. The rest of the world can probably get by with older tech.
The politicians are dysfunctional since they are constantly distracted trying to get bribes from various special interests.
However, a larger issue with the storage facility is that for some odd reason, people do not want nuclear waste in their back yard and do not want nuclear waste traveling on our fine infrastructure through their communities. They are not fooled by politician assurances that "nothing can go wrong".
The bottom line is that nuclear power is not economical when you take into account the full life cycle of costs. (In fact, it's not economical today to even build a nuclear reactor.) Massive government direct subsidies and insurance have been required to build the current reactors and even these are not enough to stimulate more reactors. Private investors have figured out the game. Even with government guarantees and subsidies, nuclear power is not economic and they will not risk their investment. Nuclear power is dead. Stick a fork in it.
The command key has usurped many of the functions of the control key as well as some special Apple functions. It's confusing to move between Linux, Windows and Apple since they all have a control key but assign different functions to it. The operation of the Apple command key is only consistent with Apple, not Linux or Windows.
Having recently switched from Linux on a Dell laptop to a MacBook Air (which I bought because I fell in love with the design), I would have to say the the Mac UI definitely has a few oddities that just don't make sense (except in a historical context). My biggest gripe is the menubar on the top of the primary screen. I can understand that this made sense in 1984 when screens were small (and there was only one). Now that it is the 21st century, it drives me crazy to have to mouse up to the menubar at the top of the screen. I go absolutely batshit insane when I have a window on my secondary monitor and I need to use the menubar which is many thousands of pixels away at the top of the primary screen. The keyboard is missing a bunch of keys (a real delete key, pgup, pgdn, home, end, etc.). They also have this odd Command key (flower power) which seems to have taken over a lot of the functions of the Control key (but not all... I'm still figuring this out). Build quality seems fine but I'm not that happy with the chiclet keyboard. Touch pad is nice but I still prefer a mouse. I think I much prefer the Linux UI (any of them, all of them) and standard PC hardware.
BTW, a good backup solution for Linux is "Back in Time" which is a nice shell built on rsync similar to Apple's Time machine. Linux on my Dell was just fine. Everything (including power management) "just worked".
The heavy parts mentioned in the article are the antennas (large parabolic dishes) . These don't wear out and could be reused. I imagine solar panels could also be reused.
Sure. Linux would build a sturdy Jeep that would go anywhere. Apple would build a sleek racer that would only go where Steve wanted. Windows would have lots of stuff patched on the sides and would get stuck a lot.
But we did have a Department of the Interior which was established in 1849 and among its significant activities were:
- 1856-1873 Interior's Pacific Wagon Road Office improved the historic western emigrant routes.
1869 Interior began its geological survey of the western Territories with the Hayden expedition. The Bureau of Education is placed under Interior (later transferred to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare).
1879 Creation of the U.S. Geological Survey.
1902 The Bureau of Reclamation is established to construct dams and aqueducts in the west.
1910 The Bureau of Mines is created to promote mine safety and minerals technology.
1920 The Mineral Leasing Act establishes the government's right to rental payments and royalties on oil, gas, and minerals production.
1935 The Bureau of Reclamation completes construction of Hoover Dam.
I believe that the 1920 Mineral Leasing Act did the most to promote the development of oil and gas. You can believe that Rockefeller did it all on his own if you want.
There was no semiconductor and computer system market until the defense department made one by financing research and buying the output. Ever heard of Fairchild semiconductor? They are one of the foundations of the the semiconductor industry and held most of the early patents on semiconductors. They wouldn't have existed without government paying for the research and buying their early products. HP, Apple and the rest came later.
You can keep dreaming your fantasy that Rockefeller was a altruistic philanthropist if you want but you really should do some actual reading on the subject.
Like all corporations, the automobile companies lobbied government at all levels to build infrastructure that was too expensive for them to build but which would make their products more desirable to purchase. That's the way the system works. Without government investment, their business would be quite different. Perhaps they would have invested more in floating cars that could cross rivers without bridges.
Front page of today's Washington Post points out and inconvenient fact that three years ago both Ron Paul and Rick Perry pressured the Energy Secretary to grant a federal loan subsidy to a Texas based nuclear energy company...
HP, Apple and Xerox were all built on the foundation of US Government financed research and development of semiconductors and computer systems.
Edison Electric Light Company made extensive use of public owned right of ways.
The price of kerosene dropped 80% during Standard Oil's reign primarily due to increased supply from drilling on (mostly) public lands. Who knows how much more it would have dropped if there had been a free market rather than a monopoly in charge.
Ford benefits from massive public investment in road and bridge infrastructure. Ford didn't build any roads or bridges.
So... tell me again where would we be without the public sector?
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"I wish them well. I just wish they'd stop limiting people's choices. Linux is about choices. "
So, stop whinging and find another distribution. There are literally hundreds. If you're stuck on a particular UI, then I'm sure you can find a distro with that UI. You do have a choice.
Malaria has a complex life cycle, part in mosquitoes and part in humans. It also has a lot of natural variability in the surface antigens of the different life stages (these change frequently and have a large amount of regional variation). For these reasons, some people (in particular, Robert S. Desowitz) have held that it would be impossible to develop a malaria vaccine which would be effective for more than a short time in a given location.
Malaria has been effective at developing resistance to treatments over the years and could also be effective at evading the vaccine.
I have two unlocked Android Nexus One phones. One is on the T-mobile network on a pay as you go plan. I pay 10 cents a minute for calls and $1.49 a day for unlimited net access (which I usually only use a few days a month)... I only spend about $10 a month. My wife's Nexus One is on ATT where she has a $50/month unlimited talk, text and web plan. This is a substantial discount from their "free phone" plans.
I am using a MacBook so pretty much stuck with the limited keyboard. I know that I can use various key combinations to emulate the missing keys but find it a PITA.
I just don't buy your argument about the superiority of having only one menu at the top of the primary screen. I can easily find the top of the window I'm working on and it's always a lot closer and easier to find than moving the cursor to the top of the screen of the other monitor. Really, Apple needs to update this bit of the UI to move away from the last century.
I recently switched to Mac from Linux (primarily for the nice hardware) but am having trouble getting used to OS X and the odd keyboard. How do you program on it? I find the keyboard lacks a few crucial keys (a real delete key, pgup/pgdn) and odd use of other keys (the command - flower power key - seems to do most of what the ctrl key does on Linux but there are oddities). Also, on dual monitors, having the menu at the top of the primary monitor only is driving me crazy. I've looked at various patches to "fix" this problem but most seem to have problems of flakiness and inconsistent operation. This UI is straight from 1984 and badly needs updating. It really does make sense with large multiple monitor setups to attach the menu to the window and not have to go searching for it across acres of screen real estate.
If you can read my post, I clearly stated that Chromium was open source. I never stated Chrome was open source. Google promised an open source browser and they delivered. It is called Chromium. Relax and enjoy it. If you think Chrome is evil, don't use it.
(BTW, cute comic but I don't take that seriously as "Google Policy"... comics are simple presentation for simple people.)
Chrome is the binary compiled browser provided by Google (and based on Chromium) which contains additional proprietary bits (such as Adobe Flash) as you point out. Google never said this would be open source since they don't control Adobe, etc.
Chromium is the open source browser which they did say would be open source and it is open source. I don't think there are any evil bits in there (unless you have some other references).
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Face it, hardware gets better and older hardware can't run the latest bells and whistles. That said, most of these early phones are just fine and work just as well as when they were new. If you have to be on the bleeding edge of technology with the latest shiny gadget, you'll just have to pay yearly for the privilege and buy the latest hardware. The rest of the world can probably get by with older tech.
However, a larger issue with the storage facility is that for some odd reason, people do not want nuclear waste in their back yard and do not want nuclear waste traveling on our fine infrastructure through their communities. They are not fooled by politician assurances that "nothing can go wrong".
The bottom line is that nuclear power is not economical when you take into account the full life cycle of costs. (In fact, it's not economical today to even build a nuclear reactor.) Massive government direct subsidies and insurance have been required to build the current reactors and even these are not enough to stimulate more reactors. Private investors have figured out the game. Even with government guarantees and subsidies, nuclear power is not economic and they will not risk their investment. Nuclear power is dead. Stick a fork in it.
That's why I get all my news from Faux News.
The command key has usurped many of the functions of the control key as well as some special Apple functions. It's confusing to move between Linux, Windows and Apple since they all have a control key but assign different functions to it. The operation of the Apple command key is only consistent with Apple, not Linux or Windows.
BTW, a good backup solution for Linux is "Back in Time" which is a nice shell built on rsync similar to Apple's Time machine. Linux on my Dell was just fine. Everything (including power management) "just worked".
The heavy parts mentioned in the article are the antennas (large parabolic dishes) . These don't wear out and could be reused. I imagine solar panels could also be reused.
This app looks to be well thought out and can give good results when calibrated properly. Definitely worth a look.
Sure. Linux would build a sturdy Jeep that would go anywhere. Apple would build a sleek racer that would only go where Steve wanted. Windows would have lots of stuff patched on the sides and would get stuck a lot.
Many of Qaddafi's supporters stood by him until the end, also.
You probably believe that Apple invented the computer.
- 1856-1873 Interior's Pacific Wagon Road Office improved the historic western emigrant routes.
1869 Interior began its geological survey of the western Territories with the Hayden expedition. The Bureau of Education is placed under Interior (later transferred to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare).
1879 Creation of the U.S. Geological Survey.
1902 The Bureau of Reclamation is established to construct dams and aqueducts in the west.
1910 The Bureau of Mines is created to promote mine safety and minerals technology.
1920 The Mineral Leasing Act establishes the government's right to rental payments and royalties on oil, gas, and minerals production.
1935 The Bureau of Reclamation completes construction of Hoover Dam.
I believe that the 1920 Mineral Leasing Act did the most to promote the development of oil and gas. You can believe that Rockefeller did it all on his own if you want.
You can keep dreaming your fantasy that Rockefeller was a altruistic philanthropist if you want but you really should do some actual reading on the subject.
Like all corporations, the automobile companies lobbied government at all levels to build infrastructure that was too expensive for them to build but which would make their products more desirable to purchase. That's the way the system works. Without government investment, their business would be quite different. Perhaps they would have invested more in floating cars that could cross rivers without bridges.
These political scumbags are all hypocrites.
Edison Electric Light Company made extensive use of public owned right of ways.
The price of kerosene dropped 80% during Standard Oil's reign primarily due to increased supply from drilling on (mostly) public lands. Who knows how much more it would have dropped if there had been a free market rather than a monopoly in charge.
Ford benefits from massive public investment in road and bridge infrastructure. Ford didn't build any roads or bridges.
So... tell me again where would we be without the public sector?
So, stop whinging and find another distribution. There are literally hundreds. If you're stuck on a particular UI, then I'm sure you can find a distro with that UI. You do have a choice.
Malaria has been effective at developing resistance to treatments over the years and could also be effective at evading the vaccine.
I have two unlocked Android Nexus One phones. One is on the T-mobile network on a pay as you go plan. I pay 10 cents a minute for calls and $1.49 a day for unlimited net access (which I usually only use a few days a month)... I only spend about $10 a month. My wife's Nexus One is on ATT where she has a $50/month unlimited talk, text and web plan. This is a substantial discount from their "free phone" plans.
Thanks for the tips. I'm slowly coming to terms with the UI and keyboard. I love the MacBook Air hardware... just need to get used to the OS.
I just don't buy your argument about the superiority of having only one menu at the top of the primary screen. I can easily find the top of the window I'm working on and it's always a lot closer and easier to find than moving the cursor to the top of the screen of the other monitor. Really, Apple needs to update this bit of the UI to move away from the last century.
I used to really like an editor called BRIEF back in my bad old days of programming (20+ years ago). I'll have to look at TextMate.
I recently switched to Mac from Linux (primarily for the nice hardware) but am having trouble getting used to OS X and the odd keyboard. How do you program on it? I find the keyboard lacks a few crucial keys (a real delete key, pgup/pgdn) and odd use of other keys (the command - flower power key - seems to do most of what the ctrl key does on Linux but there are oddities). Also, on dual monitors, having the menu at the top of the primary monitor only is driving me crazy. I've looked at various patches to "fix" this problem but most seem to have problems of flakiness and inconsistent operation. This UI is straight from 1984 and badly needs updating. It really does make sense with large multiple monitor setups to attach the menu to the window and not have to go searching for it across acres of screen real estate.
(BTW, cute comic but I don't take that seriously as "Google Policy"... comics are simple presentation for simple people.)
Where is the evil you are afraid of...? Are you Stallman?
So we probably shouldn't expect robots to go anywhere useful either.
Chrome is the binary compiled browser provided by Google (and based on Chromium) which contains additional proprietary bits (such as Adobe Flash) as you point out. Google never said this would be open source since they don't control Adobe, etc.
Chromium is the open source browser which they did say would be open source and it is open source. I don't think there are any evil bits in there (unless you have some other references).