aw c'mon, just grab a splat-nix that sounds hip/interesting/mysterious to you and go with it, whatever flavor of splat-nix you choose they'll be plenty of zealots who'll make you feel like you did the right thing. They're all cool in their own way, they're free, and you learn one you've learned 80% of the others. The same software will more than likely run on all of them. I don't know why you got modded down, there ARE more Linux distros out there than any one person could name, and 3 no wait 4 BSD and now opensolaris...I could see why someone would throw up their hands and say WTF??!!
well gee, thanks. I smiled at mention of tomatoes because being a nightshade there's minute amounts of all kinds of what would be toxins in those, especially when raw. I love 'em!
actually the root problem with Spain and every country that was a spanish colony is the nobility/royalty hording wealth for themselves while most of the rest of europe had a growing middle class. Upper class oppressing and holding down the lower ones; Inquisition a symptom not the root. I think we're starting to see some of the same in the U.S. of A.
great news for you, the wood alchohol in the fuel cell will make a flaming puddle or little fireball, while the common laptop battery is a fucking bomb under the right conditions, which any deranged whacko nutjob could easily bring about with the items on the soft drink cart.
1. I would say biological cells are close to that, I believe someday we'll be storing our info in them. Cheap if you can grow it for free.
2. Someday maybe we'll grow our internet & most other things too. What kind of world if money not needed because everything needed could be grown?
3. eeeek
4. Sounds like sunlight to me. people say solar can't provide the huge energy consumption we have..but what if everything pulled 1/100 the power it did now? (see #1 & #2)
5. heh, all errors become obvious the moment they come back and bite you in the kiester. The ones that never do that don't count.
because I don't think anything faster would be possible in truly remote parts of the U.S - it would be pie-in-the-sky to get just that. The ev-do rev a standard coming in about 2 years gets to 3.5 mbit
it occurs to me that eating a small bit of food that contains some methyl esters and even more ethyl esters, before drinking our aspartame-containing diet pop, that in that situation the "methanol and ahldahyde poisoning" folks would no longer have an argument: one would be in the same situation as a person who just ate a banana, for instance.
That hasn't been done for decades, it killed too many people
Dang, you made me feel old. In my grammar school, we played with little balls of mercury with our bare hands too.
seems to me refined sugar is deadlier, what with death rates from diabetes and complications from obesity. For alternatives to aspartame, we have acesulfame potassium, which looks to me like a compound that one would find in rotten eggs, and sucralose, which as a chlorinated carbohydrate suggests a pesticide or military nerve agent. But all this talk is really making me jones for a lime diet coke. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Whichever federal agency produced them had included a generic boilerplate stamp near the legend, to the effect that the maps weren't to be relied on for navigation purposes
I'll dispute that the whole molecule contains methanol, what it does contain is a methyl ester. The ester does not have the toxic properties of the alchohol.
urban-legend emails. My relatives seem to believe anything forwarded by a friend. My favorite one described how the sweeteners in diet pop form wood alchohol in the brain, leading to arthritis, paralysis and other conditions. I shudder to think what home remedies and folk wisdom would have been forced upon me had email existed when i was young.
haha, a big jug of denatured ethanol (a little methanol mixed in so they can put a skull and crossbones on it) is pretty cheap. Some idiots still drink that too. We really need to stop making the world safe for dumb-asses. No protection by law for dumb-asses. No medical coverage for injury sustained while doing a dumb-ass thing. No police or fireman to come rescue you for doing dumb-ass thing. Someone else would be president of the U.S. in that world.
most of my delays come from device drivers, not the rc scripts. All my machines at home I power off now, since I've taken the strategy of using a hosted vm service to be my one machine that's always on and has my vital data. Never cared about boot times before that.
the mainframes I've worked on ran from 3 phase 480VAC flywheeled motor-generator sets, so the rotational inertia would keep the juice going while emergency generator or another utility could be switched in. Power never failed. The only scheduled power-downs were to make major upgrade reconfigurations such as replacing stacks of circuit boards, or wiring in whole new set of disk drives or peripheral processing units. Then a couple days to boot the motherfucker, 2.5 GB of OS didn't load fast then.
Sometimes the jobs I would submit would run on mainframe in the national lab were I worked, sometimes it was farmed out to a sister lab, which sometimes farmed it out to state schools' systems. The "job" was a complete self-contained package: JCL plus programs plus datasets, all as a virtual pile of punched cards. After a couple hours one would walk by the labelled boxes of user's printouts to see if the job was done, usually one didn't bother the operators to track down where it was
what happens when his new one gets infected within 10 minutes...I guess it's still cheaper for him to throw away 2-1/2 computers than work one hour on fixing them?
HP Pavilion 6545C with 500MHz Celeron (128kb cache) and 256MB RAM (upped from original 128MB) Boots much faster than my Dell Precision 530 w/ 1.5 GHz Xeon running SuSE 9.2
Using the world's vast thorium reserves for breeding U-233, we'll run out in ABOUT SIX THOUSAND YEARS. There are reactor designs that neither need nor produce any militarily usable fissile bomb material.
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aw c'mon, just grab a splat-nix that sounds hip/interesting/mysterious to you and go with it, whatever flavor of splat-nix you choose they'll be plenty of zealots who'll make you feel like you did the right thing. They're all cool in their own way, they're free, and you learn one you've learned 80% of the others. The same software will more than likely run on all of them. I don't know why you got modded down, there ARE more Linux distros out there than any one person could name, and 3 no wait 4 BSD and now opensolaris...I could see why someone would throw up their hands and say WTF??!!
not a troll, see AC posting below for yahoo link (someone mod parent and AC as Dah Real Poop)
having one of those brain things is a leading cause of headaches and hangovers and frustrated libido. no thanks!
well gee, thanks. I smiled at mention of tomatoes because being a nightshade there's minute amounts of all kinds of what would be toxins in those, especially when raw. I love 'em!
actually the root problem with Spain and every country that was a spanish colony is the nobility/royalty hording wealth for themselves while most of the rest of europe had a growing middle class. Upper class oppressing and holding down the lower ones; Inquisition a symptom not the root. I think we're starting to see some of the same in the U.S. of A.
great news for you, the wood alchohol in the fuel cell will make a flaming puddle or little fireball, while the common laptop battery is a fucking bomb under the right conditions, which any deranged whacko nutjob could easily bring about with the items on the soft drink cart.
1. I would say biological cells are close to that, I believe someday we'll be storing our info in them. Cheap if you can grow it for free. 2. Someday maybe we'll grow our internet & most other things too. What kind of world if money not needed because everything needed could be grown? 3. eeeek 4. Sounds like sunlight to me. people say solar can't provide the huge energy consumption we have..but what if everything pulled 1/100 the power it did now? (see #1 & #2) 5. heh, all errors become obvious the moment they come back and bite you in the kiester. The ones that never do that don't count.
because I don't think anything faster would be possible in truly remote parts of the U.S - it would be pie-in-the-sky to get just that. The ev-do rev a standard coming in about 2 years gets to 3.5 mbit
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it occurs to me that eating a small bit of food that contains some methyl esters and even more ethyl esters, before drinking our aspartame-containing diet pop, that in that situation the "methanol and ahldahyde poisoning" folks would no longer have an argument: one would be in the same situation as a person who just ate a banana, for instance.
That hasn't been done for decades, it killed too many people Dang, you made me feel old. In my grammar school, we played with little balls of mercury with our bare hands too.
seems to me refined sugar is deadlier, what with death rates from diabetes and complications from obesity. For alternatives to aspartame, we have acesulfame potassium, which looks to me like a compound that one would find in rotten eggs, and sucralose, which as a chlorinated carbohydrate suggests a pesticide or military nerve agent. But all this talk is really making me jones for a lime diet coke. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Whichever federal agency produced them had included a generic boilerplate stamp near the legend, to the effect that the maps weren't to be relied on for navigation purposes
"Oh CRAP!" -- project Beagle leader
and didn't see any Dark Side. I'm calling baloney sausage!
I'll dispute that the whole molecule contains methanol, what it does contain is a methyl ester. The ester does not have the toxic properties of the alchohol.
urban-legend emails. My relatives seem to believe anything forwarded by a friend. My favorite one described how the sweeteners in diet pop form wood alchohol in the brain, leading to arthritis, paralysis and other conditions. I shudder to think what home remedies and folk wisdom would have been forced upon me had email existed when i was young.
haha, a big jug of denatured ethanol (a little methanol mixed in so they can put a skull and crossbones on it) is pretty cheap. Some idiots still drink that too. We really need to stop making the world safe for dumb-asses. No protection by law for dumb-asses. No medical coverage for injury sustained while doing a dumb-ass thing. No police or fireman to come rescue you for doing dumb-ass thing. Someone else would be president of the U.S. in that world.
most of my delays come from device drivers, not the rc scripts. All my machines at home I power off now, since I've taken the strategy of using a hosted vm service to be my one machine that's always on and has my vital data. Never cared about boot times before that.
the mainframes I've worked on ran from 3 phase 480VAC flywheeled motor-generator sets, so the rotational inertia would keep the juice going while emergency generator or another utility could be switched in. Power never failed. The only scheduled power-downs were to make major upgrade reconfigurations such as replacing stacks of circuit boards, or wiring in whole new set of disk drives or peripheral processing units. Then a couple days to boot the motherfucker, 2.5 GB of OS didn't load fast then.
yup, after they are 20+ years old they are not worth much except as scrap.
Sometimes the jobs I would submit would run on mainframe in the national lab were I worked, sometimes it was farmed out to a sister lab, which sometimes farmed it out to state schools' systems. The "job" was a complete self-contained package: JCL plus programs plus datasets, all as a virtual pile of punched cards. After a couple hours one would walk by the labelled boxes of user's printouts to see if the job was done, usually one didn't bother the operators to track down where it was
what happens when his new one gets infected within 10 minutes...I guess it's still cheaper for him to throw away 2-1/2 computers than work one hour on fixing them?
HP Pavilion 6545C with 500MHz Celeron (128kb cache) and 256MB RAM (upped from original 128MB) Boots much faster than my Dell Precision 530 w/ 1.5 GHz Xeon running SuSE 9.2
alpha chips were made into 2003, so it's not been dead that long
Using the world's vast thorium reserves for breeding U-233, we'll run out in ABOUT SIX THOUSAND YEARS. There are reactor designs that neither need nor produce any militarily usable fissile bomb material.