For me (1000h) the best option is standard ubuntu (xubuntu in this case) with the array.org kernel and modifications and some guy's acpi scripts (elmurato or something).
All the info needed is on the eeeuser.com forums.
it works perfectly, the only issues I have are with backlight autodimming (which is a gnome-power-manager documented bug...not eee specific)
I'm pretty pro-nuclear, It makes sense and isn't all that dangerous if controlled properly (you think we would have submarines with nuclear reactors in them if they weren't safe?). Figuring out what to do with small quantities of radioactive waste seems like a much better long run plan than figuring out where to get literal tons of coal to burn daily at every coal plant (controlled burying environments seem pretty good though people are scared of them)
That being said, I don't think Denmark would have ever gotten to the point of powering a fifth of their contry with wind if not for the no-nukes lobby. Without Denmark as a supporter and good example, we probably wouldn't have the progress we have today in wind power...now we just need Ted Kennedy to quit bitching and let them build some barely visible offshore wind farms
I think this applies pretty well to the single player games I play but I play a lot of multiplayer games and this becomes troublesome.
A lot of multiplayer games, even if they are really good, can have short lifespans. Add this to the fact that when you start after a year or two, the players that ARE still around are way better than you, and old games start to lose their appeal. I bought Left4Dead and the Orange box near release (nabbed orange box at release but for a discount on a best buy promo, L4D was full price on steam). You could probably try to nab a small price drop by waiting a few months (like the current L4D deal) and the n00b factor won't be so bad as you will probably be near the optimal learning curve where there are lots of players who are better than you, but they aren't all pompous dicks.
As for the computer power, I find a lot of new games to not be an issue if you have a moderate desktop and a decent video card. My current system plays everything (though I haven't tried the graphics-hogs with no redeaming gameply that exist...) and when I was home for the holidays, I played L4D just fine on a 4 or 5 year old system (A64 3200+ with an ATI x800gto that has to be downclocked a ton to prevent artifacts) although the graphics had to be touched down a bit. My current year and a half old $700 build should be able to play everything I want to play for several years coming.
They have definately made strides in the right direction but they are still holding on to a desire for the replacement charger revenue...
My razr can only charge from its own charger or off-brand chargers designed for it. If I try to use my blackberry charger with the exact same usb plug, it says something about it being an invalid charger. Both phones charge just fine from a USB port so they are definately using standard voltages. The razr however needs a driver to be installed on windows before it will actually charge (sucks if you don't have admin rights) but this may be a windows issue rather than motorola.
Blizzard does this with WoW (or at least did when I played).
You would have to agree to the TOS whenever an update was released. There may not have always been a change in the TOS but you had to agree to it again ONLY when an update was pushed.
I'd bet that there were a few updates that were pushed out only as TOS updates but they threw in a few bug fixes that were meant for the next real update just to give them something else to write in the release notes.
What if I have a "friend" upload all of my photos to their account?
If facebook ever tries to claim the right to use my photo for commercial use (even advertising on their own site) I can just claim that the "friend" is not the copyright holder on the image and is thus incapable of transferring any rights whatsoever to facebook.
I'm not sure how these agreements make sense...how can they possibly verify that you were actually capable of turning over rights when you upload something to the site? The example that always got used to scare people in the past was the idea of a writing using hotmail to email a draft of a book...the book then becoming microsoft's to do as they wish. What happens if that content has already been sold to a publisher? The author no longer holds the ability to grant commercial use and I am sure that their publisher will have large army of lawyers with a signed contract in hand to compete with the website's lawyers.
It just seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen if they ever actually try to use the content...also wouldn't claiming ownership make the site significantly more responsible for the content and unable to hide behind any sort of safe harbor provisions?
I rented a car from Budget (I think...) last thanksgiving.
They included a transponder but there was a $5 fee per day for using it in addition to the tolls. I think it ended up being worth it though since in IL, the tolls are doubled without an I-pass or E-Zpass. The bill is charged to your credit card and you get a statement mailed to you later--I ended up paying something like $19 for the two days of rental plus tolls. It would have been about 18 with cash tolls but I would have had to stop at every booth instead of keep cruising through the open road tolling antennas.
I'm a lefty and I started occasionally switching the mouse to the left of the keyboard at work if my wrist would start to hurt.
That is probably a bad sign on many levels but luckily I havn't felt the need to do so in a while after making some ergonomic position adjustments. I never remapped the buttons...left click is still on the left...my hand is smart enough to figure it out.
(yeah, this is an old post...been behind on my slashdot reading)
I think you will find that the forum for "Can you get pregnant from ____" has moved to yahoo answers. It really is a terrible place sometimes. The kids who aren't smart enough to find the answer with google (really easy for most of the questions) instead post it on yahoo answers where eventually the right idea gets through (Yes, you can) but it is surrounded with bad storytelling and misinformation. Then having recieved an answer to their question, they stick around for a while providing other 14 year olds with their new found expertise in the field of sexual education.
of course, if you are one of the workers who *can* get it done in less time, in many situations you are probably still expected to be there.
If everyone in your company is working the 10 hour day, even if you *can* do it in 8, you may not be able to leave so it seems reasonable that people would insert more interspersed downtime into their work to stretch the work out to fill the day...
Tuffmail is what I set up for my boss's domain at my last job (single person shop really)
The price on a single account is reasonable and it has been terrific. As rock solid and fast as my university account (way better than my dreamhost account)
The first class in my college's intro sequence is done in scheme (taught by the fantastic Robby Findler). Coming in with some knowledge of "normal" procedural languages, the functional paradigm was sometimes frustrating to the point where a friend in the class with no prior coding experiance was initially able to figure out how to do things much faster (though the methods would be much more brute force than elegant functions someone familiar with efficiency in other languages might write).
I first started to appreciate it when we were shown how to generate a sierpinsky triangle. The triangle was the first program I ever wrote (copied out of the manual of a TI calculator) and in the version of basic, was an absolute mess compared to the simple recusive functional code. I've lost a lot of my memory on how to write programs in scheme but I'd like to find reason to write something in a functional language again...I took computer systems this spring with the same professor and a lot of his examples were done in scheme (as opposed to C)...quite interesting
As a regulator, it acts on a more public madate but most of the other services operate in the private sector with each of the 12 banks having its own entity--own board of directors, needs to raise its own funds to do business. The employees of the reserve banks are not government employees and are not paid with taxpayer money...the money comes from interest on short-term loans to banks, and fees on services such as check processing (which has many other private competitors).
There's an article on A3 of thursday's WSJ showing that the fed is out about half of it treasury holdings. It is making these loans out of pocket to ensure financial stability (and really...when you think about it, 85billion is a lot of money but for how much collateral AIG has, they are getting a really high interest rate--the average tax payer could get get a much better loan for a proportionally similar loan).
I don't know if there was a stable version of ubuntu 4 years ago but it is getting close (3 years for sure).
I remember making the switch from mandriva to ubuntu on my thinkpad T23 in late 2005 (without a mandatory day of twiddling). The x41 may not have been brand new as a line then but you could certainly buy one brand new at that time (I am not sure about the x series but I know the t6x line didnt start until...early 06?)
When you fork a process, the new process gets a new virtual memory space of its own (including mapped out kernel space and everything else...like any other process). Initially everything will just be pointers to the parent process's memory locations. As things change (load a new page), the processes will start to branch off as the child starts to behave differently and has to begin using its own memory instead of pointing to the parent (the pointers to the parent's page are moved to empty memory blocks which are then filled with the new page). Because of this, there doesnt have to be a big overhead for running tabs as processes--libraries, functions, etc do not have to be loaded again.
The V3 needs some sort of driver installed for it to charge but it doesnt seem to matter what (the driver windows chooses charges fine..as does the correct drivers that you can download). The real issue with it was that if you drain your phone to the dead state, you cannot USB charge it. For some reason the phone needed to be on to get power from USB but it worked jsut fine on the charger when off.
Of course when you compare the price levels of speakeasy and comcast you soon see that you can't really call them competitors any more than you can call old navy and some high end boutique competitors.
Without a phone line, the top speed tier on the old (not ADSL2) service is going to cost you about $105 (or $115 for Plus) plus taxes which can be high on DSL. Comcast makes it hard to get actual speeds since it is cable and they have the speedboost instead of the sustained speed listed but based on my own experiance, the $59 (with no TV) package beats the top tier speakeasy handily in DL speed. Speakeasy now has ADSL2 which it says can get you 15mb down for only $189 a month...great except for $150, comcast says they can do 50 down (in some markets).
I understand the differances between the two, and I would love to pay for Speakeasy's reliability and service but it is hard to justify the price increase when not all of your roommates are as tech savvy (maybe I'll just let them deal with the internet next time it is cripplingly slow or nonfunctional)
I always thought it was that way (or when I started with comcast I think I remember having to pretend there was no router as they tried to charge extra for it years ago) until some of my female friends got set up in their new apartment. The tech was clearly an idiot and didn't know how to set up a consumer router but the fact that he tried shows that you can never underestimate the power of the female form (especially when it comes up against "hands off" policies).
When I do it, I usually leave the start menu in place but screenshot the desktop.
Most users who would fall for it probably use the desktop for something but would still be able to sort of use their system with the start menu only but be unable to access documents they save there.
Of course last april fools day I tried to do it to my roommate. I forgot I had done it and he didnt really react (turns out he had just blamed it on the computer messing up and was too lazy to reboot to fix it)..it wasn't until I tried to get a file from him that he had downloaded. The torrent client said it was saved to the desktop but I couldnt find it for the life of me. Took me a minute to realize what I had done...
"Then the works of J.S. Bach would still be protected, putting music teachers all over the world out of business"
Actually, while the works of the famous historical composers have long since left the copyright arenas, most of the current arrangements have not. Anywhere where you would encounter a music teacher, you are probably playing an arrangement made with easier parts (working in lower positions, less ornamentation, etc) and reduced instrumentation (cutting the woodwinds/brass/percussion from orchestral works).
It isn't until you get to the better high school orchestras (top orchestras in districts that had instrument programs starting in elementary school) where you really see the addition of non-string isntruments and players who can manage the original versions of the well-known works.
Sleep works on my T23 just fine. There was a version of ubuntu that didnt sleep right when I upgraded to it (wireless wouldnt come back to life without a reboot) but the current version works fine. Never bothered with hibernate but I imagine it might work.
Now my bigger problem is that I need to replace it...I keep seeing new T series deals on slickdeals for a bit over $600 and I am tempted but I want something small/long lasting like the X series (it never prices that low). I keep looking at the netbooks but I can never decide or figure out when I will be able to actually buy anything. The Wind looks good but this S10 looks sweet--if only it came out before october...
Along similar lines, when I worked at a VW dealership several summers ago, we had a German customer fly in to buy a new diesel passat. They were so rare there that it was more cost effective to buy it here (I guess americans don't like fuel efficient diesels...they sure are fun to drive though--at least in the golfs I have tried).
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For me (1000h) the best option is standard ubuntu (xubuntu in this case) with the array.org kernel and modifications and some guy's acpi scripts (elmurato or something).
All the info needed is on the eeeuser.com forums.
it works perfectly, the only issues I have are with backlight autodimming (which is a gnome-power-manager documented bug...not eee specific)
That being said, I don't think Denmark would have ever gotten to the point of powering a fifth of their contry with wind if not for the no-nukes lobby. Without Denmark as a supporter and good example, we probably wouldn't have the progress we have today in wind power...now we just need Ted Kennedy to quit bitching and let them build some barely visible offshore wind farms
A lot of multiplayer games, even if they are really good, can have short lifespans. Add this to the fact that when you start after a year or two, the players that ARE still around are way better than you, and old games start to lose their appeal. I bought Left4Dead and the Orange box near release (nabbed orange box at release but for a discount on a best buy promo, L4D was full price on steam). You could probably try to nab a small price drop by waiting a few months (like the current L4D deal) and the n00b factor won't be so bad as you will probably be near the optimal learning curve where there are lots of players who are better than you, but they aren't all pompous dicks.
As for the computer power, I find a lot of new games to not be an issue if you have a moderate desktop and a decent video card. My current system plays everything (though I haven't tried the graphics-hogs with no redeaming gameply that exist...) and when I was home for the holidays, I played L4D just fine on a 4 or 5 year old system (A64 3200+ with an ATI x800gto that has to be downclocked a ton to prevent artifacts) although the graphics had to be touched down a bit. My current year and a half old $700 build should be able to play everything I want to play for several years coming.
My razr can only charge from its own charger or off-brand chargers designed for it. If I try to use my blackberry charger with the exact same usb plug, it says something about it being an invalid charger. Both phones charge just fine from a USB port so they are definately using standard voltages. The razr however needs a driver to be installed on windows before it will actually charge (sucks if you don't have admin rights) but this may be a windows issue rather than motorola.
You would have to agree to the TOS whenever an update was released. There may not have always been a change in the TOS but you had to agree to it again ONLY when an update was pushed.
I'd bet that there were a few updates that were pushed out only as TOS updates but they threw in a few bug fixes that were meant for the next real update just to give them something else to write in the release notes.
If facebook ever tries to claim the right to use my photo for commercial use (even advertising on their own site) I can just claim that the "friend" is not the copyright holder on the image and is thus incapable of transferring any rights whatsoever to facebook.
I'm not sure how these agreements make sense...how can they possibly verify that you were actually capable of turning over rights when you upload something to the site? The example that always got used to scare people in the past was the idea of a writing using hotmail to email a draft of a book...the book then becoming microsoft's to do as they wish. What happens if that content has already been sold to a publisher? The author no longer holds the ability to grant commercial use and I am sure that their publisher will have large army of lawyers with a signed contract in hand to compete with the website's lawyers.
It just seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen if they ever actually try to use the content...also wouldn't claiming ownership make the site significantly more responsible for the content and unable to hide behind any sort of safe harbor provisions?
get with the program
They included a transponder but there was a $5 fee per day for using it in addition to the tolls. I think it ended up being worth it though since in IL, the tolls are doubled without an I-pass or E-Zpass. The bill is charged to your credit card and you get a statement mailed to you later--I ended up paying something like $19 for the two days of rental plus tolls. It would have been about 18 with cash tolls but I would have had to stop at every booth instead of keep cruising through the open road tolling antennas.
That is probably a bad sign on many levels but luckily I havn't felt the need to do so in a while after making some ergonomic position adjustments. I never remapped the buttons...left click is still on the left...my hand is smart enough to figure it out.
I think you will find that the forum for "Can you get pregnant from ____" has moved to yahoo answers. It really is a terrible place sometimes. The kids who aren't smart enough to find the answer with google (really easy for most of the questions) instead post it on yahoo answers where eventually the right idea gets through (Yes, you can) but it is surrounded with bad storytelling and misinformation. Then having recieved an answer to their question, they stick around for a while providing other 14 year olds with their new found expertise in the field of sexual education.
Alaskan politicians are good at understanding the internet
of course, if you are one of the workers who *can* get it done in less time, in many situations you are probably still expected to be there.
If everyone in your company is working the 10 hour day, even if you *can* do it in 8, you may not be able to leave so it seems reasonable that people would insert more interspersed downtime into their work to stretch the work out to fill the day...
Tuffmail is what I set up for my boss's domain at my last job (single person shop really) The price on a single account is reasonable and it has been terrific. As rock solid and fast as my university account (way better than my dreamhost account)
I first started to appreciate it when we were shown how to generate a sierpinsky triangle. The triangle was the first program I ever wrote (copied out of the manual of a TI calculator) and in the version of basic, was an absolute mess compared to the simple recusive functional code. I've lost a lot of my memory on how to write programs in scheme but I'd like to find reason to write something in a functional language again...I took computer systems this spring with the same professor and a lot of his examples were done in scheme (as opposed to C)...quite interesting
There's an article on A3 of thursday's WSJ showing that the fed is out about half of it treasury holdings. It is making these loans out of pocket to ensure financial stability (and really...when you think about it, 85billion is a lot of money but for how much collateral AIG has, they are getting a really high interest rate--the average tax payer could get get a much better loan for a proportionally similar loan).
at least someone here knows what they are talking about.
I remember making the switch from mandriva to ubuntu on my thinkpad T23 in late 2005 (without a mandatory day of twiddling). The x41 may not have been brand new as a line then but you could certainly buy one brand new at that time (I am not sure about the x series but I know the t6x line didnt start until...early 06?)
When you fork a process, the new process gets a new virtual memory space of its own (including mapped out kernel space and everything else...like any other process). Initially everything will just be pointers to the parent process's memory locations. As things change (load a new page), the processes will start to branch off as the child starts to behave differently and has to begin using its own memory instead of pointing to the parent (the pointers to the parent's page are moved to empty memory blocks which are then filled with the new page). Because of this, there doesnt have to be a big overhead for running tabs as processes--libraries, functions, etc do not have to be loaded again.
The V3 needs some sort of driver installed for it to charge but it doesnt seem to matter what (the driver windows chooses charges fine..as does the correct drivers that you can download). The real issue with it was that if you drain your phone to the dead state, you cannot USB charge it. For some reason the phone needed to be on to get power from USB but it worked jsut fine on the charger when off.
Without a phone line, the top speed tier on the old (not ADSL2) service is going to cost you about $105 (or $115 for Plus) plus taxes which can be high on DSL. Comcast makes it hard to get actual speeds since it is cable and they have the speedboost instead of the sustained speed listed but based on my own experiance, the $59 (with no TV) package beats the top tier speakeasy handily in DL speed. Speakeasy now has ADSL2 which it says can get you 15mb down for only $189 a month...great except for $150, comcast says they can do 50 down (in some markets).
I understand the differances between the two, and I would love to pay for Speakeasy's reliability and service but it is hard to justify the price increase when not all of your roommates are as tech savvy (maybe I'll just let them deal with the internet next time it is cripplingly slow or nonfunctional)
I always thought it was that way (or when I started with comcast I think I remember having to pretend there was no router as they tried to charge extra for it years ago) until some of my female friends got set up in their new apartment. The tech was clearly an idiot and didn't know how to set up a consumer router but the fact that he tried shows that you can never underestimate the power of the female form (especially when it comes up against "hands off" policies).
Most users who would fall for it probably use the desktop for something but would still be able to sort of use their system with the start menu only but be unable to access documents they save there.
Of course last april fools day I tried to do it to my roommate. I forgot I had done it and he didnt really react (turns out he had just blamed it on the computer messing up and was too lazy to reboot to fix it)..it wasn't until I tried to get a file from him that he had downloaded. The torrent client said it was saved to the desktop but I couldnt find it for the life of me. Took me a minute to realize what I had done...
Actually, while the works of the famous historical composers have long since left the copyright arenas, most of the current arrangements have not. Anywhere where you would encounter a music teacher, you are probably playing an arrangement made with easier parts (working in lower positions, less ornamentation, etc) and reduced instrumentation (cutting the woodwinds/brass/percussion from orchestral works).
It isn't until you get to the better high school orchestras (top orchestras in districts that had instrument programs starting in elementary school) where you really see the addition of non-string isntruments and players who can manage the original versions of the well-known works.
Now my bigger problem is that I need to replace it...I keep seeing new T series deals on slickdeals for a bit over $600 and I am tempted but I want something small/long lasting like the X series (it never prices that low). I keep looking at the netbooks but I can never decide or figure out when I will be able to actually buy anything. The Wind looks good but this S10 looks sweet--if only it came out before october...
Along similar lines, when I worked at a VW dealership several summers ago, we had a German customer fly in to buy a new diesel passat. They were so rare there that it was more cost effective to buy it here (I guess americans don't like fuel efficient diesels...they sure are fun to drive though--at least in the golfs I have tried).