BTW, this was in one of the boroughs of New York and it was about 20 years ago, during just a really bad storm. No where near a river or the coast or even in a flood plain.
ie: It could not have been planned for by the driver of the car. (Whether the area should have been developed better is another story.)
A few years ago my mom was picking me up during a heavy rainstorm at the local college. She was parked with the engine running as I was running to the car. Suddenly there was a wave of water that must have come over some hill over towards her passenger side. In the minute it took me to run to the car, the road went from 1-2 inches of water to 2-3 feet of water.
Needless to say I would not have been happy if the car exploded at that point.
12. Take photos of all the walls right before the drywall goes up. This is your x-ray vision in case you need to pound nails (or snake lines, or whatever) later on.
Just built a custom home a year ago. Some thoughts:
1 - Two kitchens. The main kitchen opens up into the living area and breakfast nook. This is your show kitchen, so make it pretty. Accent lights, cabinetry that goes up to the ceiling, etc. The second kitchen is a small room with a door (preferentially one that opens up into the mud room near the main kitchen. The second kitchen is where all the real cooking happens (and the real mess). This is where you're cooking the fish and making all that smelly stuff that you don't want to smell in the family room.
2 - 3-4 ethernet ports near each TV. One to go to the back of the TV, the other(s) to a blu ray player and whatever other connected devices need internet access. (If the TV is wall-mounted, one should be by the TV and the rest wherever you place the receiver. Likely in a media cabinet.) Cat6 everywhere is cheap and likely good enough for the next decade.
3 - If you are having custom built media cabinets make sure they have adequate (preferably passive) ventilation.
4 - No TV/computer connections in the kitchen, dining room, breakfast nook, etc. If the wife wants to look up a recipe on the internet, that's what a wifi-enabled tablet is for.
5 - Invest in a home control system. We use Control4. It controls our thermostats, a few lights, the security system, music, etc.
6 - Set up a network spot in an out-of-the-way place (basement corner in our case) where you don't care about a little noise or excess heat. This is where the ethernet switch, servers, modem, NAS, etc go.
7. Spend money on kitchen hardware, including higher end faucet fixtures, stove, fridge, etc. Feel the difference between a high end faucet and the stuff you can buy at Home Depot or Lowes. There really is a difference. (Whether it's worth the extra cost is up to you.)
8. If you are renovating a bathroom as well, make sure there is a seat in the shower, with a hand-held shower head next to it. Never know when you're going to be injured.
9. In-wall and in-ceiling speakers everywhere. Some of the internet companies have great hardware (we used Aperion). In areas where you're likely going to watch movies/TV, wire in-wall to a media cabinet and a wire from the media cabinet to the subwoofer. If you're going to do whole-house audio, consult with an expect on how to get the wiring correct for exactly what you're planning on doing.
10. If you want ceiling fans with or without built-in lights, make sure you wire the wall outlets appropriately If the electrician doesn't know what you're planning, you'll end up having to use remote controls mounted on the wall to turn the fan controls on. Give the electrician the wall controls you want to control the fans with before he wires the fans.
11. Conduits everywhere (pretty much everyone says this, and it's absolutely true). Have them run to the basement or attic so you have access to them later on.
Would there be a lot of reboots in the patches to Windows 7?
I know this was something they were working to reduce, given the frustrations of multiple sequential reboots associated with small patches. The nice thing about a service pack is that (presumably) it would involve a single reboot at the end to complete the installation.
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Nokia is getting what it deserves, just like RIM, because of such arrogance. I expect both companies to be out of business in a few years.
Or, of course, making Android phones.
I think (and apparently I'm not alone, based on replies to this story) people would be interested in a Nokia Android phone. Solid hardware by a known hardware manufacturer combined with a known OS. Nokia is still known for good hardware. And Android has better brand recognition than anything other than iOS, Windows, and OS X at this point. Sounds inevitable.
Mozilla has lost it's focus and instead of making a good, fast, secure browser they are trying to turn it into a social API with every gee-whiz-bang feature most users don't want or need.
While I would agree with you... Facebook has a billion (active?) users. While not a majority, maybe a significant minority of users of Firefox can benefit from this feature.
Besides, the only time Firefox seems to slow down on me is when Flash is doing something crazy. And I can't really blame Firefox completely for that.
I grew up on Staten Island and still visit there quite frequently. They have enough traffic already.
4.5 million new visitors to a tourist spot on the island would need some significant infrastructure improvements. They have three bridges to NJ and one to Brooklyn, causing bottleneck problems even on the best of days. I can't imagine adding a few million visitors a year expressly for an amusement park.
Though having a second mall on the island may be worth while. Just make it right off one of the highways, this time.
I know a bit about physics, and can understand part of the problem.
However...
Here's a thought exercise: You have a FTL ship that can reach Alpha Centuri in a second. You then make a U-turn and come back to Earth a second later. How much time has elapsed on Earth? How much time for the passenger of the ship?
In other words, Intel has added new capabilities to Clover Trail that allow enhanced power management, and Linux doesn't currently support it. Anyone who thinks that this will continue to be the case for much longer is a moron, especially if Intel continues to release its architecture datasheets, which we have no reason to think that they won't.
The article really says: It can't run Linux because there's no support for it in Linux, and there's no support for it because it's literally brand-new.
Exactly. This is the sort of thing that gets wrapped up in the next Linux Kernel release and all distributions pick up (and potentially backport it) automatically.
Potentially it can even happen before Windows 8 gets released.
The article is flame bait. Another flame bait way of saying it is "Intel says Clover Trail Atom CPU won't work with Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP". Another way is "Intel makes CPU with features that doesn't work on any shipping OS".
I agree about Unity. It sucks rocks, and I downgraded to an earlier version of Ubuntu for a while.
HOWEVER, you may want to give Linux Mint 13 with the Cinnamon desktop. They basically take Gnome and add their own desktop to it. As a bonus, it's built off of Ubuntu and you can use all the Ubuntu repositories with it.
So you get the bug fixes associated with the latest Gnome, the repositories of Ubuntu, the solidness of Linux, and the clean interface of Cinnamon.
Been using it about a month and quite happy so far.
Reminds me of the Black Eyed Peas song Where Is The Love:
Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism But we still got terrorists here livin' In the USA, the big CIA The Bloods and The Crips and the KKK
Innovation may be alive, but the individual innovator who does not work for a multinational is dead. Unable to create anything because they are frozen in fear over the threat of litigation.
For anything close to hiding away from the government's eye, you need cash. The more, the better.
My wife and I keep some cash in the house. Maybe close to 1% of my annual income, well below 1% of my net worth. (For a while, every month we pulled some cash out of our wallets and put it away -- we never took money out of the bank to do it.)
We just called it our emergency reserve. Maybe I should keep some more.
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BTW, this was in one of the boroughs of New York and it was about 20 years ago, during just a really bad storm. No where near a river or the coast or even in a flood plain.
ie: It could not have been planned for by the driver of the car. (Whether the area should have been developed better is another story.)
A few years ago my mom was picking me up during a heavy rainstorm at the local college. She was parked with the engine running as I was running to the car. Suddenly there was a wave of water that must have come over some hill over towards her passenger side. In the minute it took me to run to the car, the road went from 1-2 inches of water to 2-3 feet of water.
Needless to say I would not have been happy if the car exploded at that point.
Wait. Before we go any further...
We're talking about Earth, right?
Google really screwed up with the naming of their devices.
For now, people will remember the differences between the Nexus 4 and 7. A year from now, I doubt it.
Better naming would be:
Nexus Phone 2
Nexus Pad 3
Nexus Sound 1
Or sync the numbers and say 'screw it' to the slashdotters who complain about skipping numbers:
Nexus Phone 3
Nexus Pad 3
Nexus Sound 3
a 24 pack of Corona.
Store already sold out of bottled water, huh?
But still stocked with canned water, apparently.
Another thing:
12. Take photos of all the walls right before the drywall goes up. This is your x-ray vision in case you need to pound nails (or snake lines, or whatever) later on.
Just built a custom home a year ago. Some thoughts:
1 - Two kitchens. The main kitchen opens up into the living area and breakfast nook. This is your show kitchen, so make it pretty. Accent lights, cabinetry that goes up to the ceiling, etc. The second kitchen is a small room with a door (preferentially one that opens up into the mud room near the main kitchen. The second kitchen is where all the real cooking happens (and the real mess). This is where you're cooking the fish and making all that smelly stuff that you don't want to smell in the family room.
2 - 3-4 ethernet ports near each TV. One to go to the back of the TV, the other(s) to a blu ray player and whatever other connected devices need internet access. (If the TV is wall-mounted, one should be by the TV and the rest wherever you place the receiver. Likely in a media cabinet.) Cat6 everywhere is cheap and likely good enough for the next decade.
3 - If you are having custom built media cabinets make sure they have adequate (preferably passive) ventilation.
4 - No TV/computer connections in the kitchen, dining room, breakfast nook, etc. If the wife wants to look up a recipe on the internet, that's what a wifi-enabled tablet is for.
5 - Invest in a home control system. We use Control4. It controls our thermostats, a few lights, the security system, music, etc.
6 - Set up a network spot in an out-of-the-way place (basement corner in our case) where you don't care about a little noise or excess heat. This is where the ethernet switch, servers, modem, NAS, etc go.
7. Spend money on kitchen hardware, including higher end faucet fixtures, stove, fridge, etc. Feel the difference between a high end faucet and the stuff you can buy at Home Depot or Lowes. There really is a difference. (Whether it's worth the extra cost is up to you.)
8. If you are renovating a bathroom as well, make sure there is a seat in the shower, with a hand-held shower head next to it. Never know when you're going to be injured.
9. In-wall and in-ceiling speakers everywhere. Some of the internet companies have great hardware (we used Aperion). In areas where you're likely going to watch movies/TV, wire in-wall to a media cabinet and a wire from the media cabinet to the subwoofer. If you're going to do whole-house audio, consult with an expect on how to get the wiring correct for exactly what you're planning on doing.
10. If you want ceiling fans with or without built-in lights, make sure you wire the wall outlets appropriately If the electrician doesn't know what you're planning, you'll end up having to use remote controls mounted on the wall to turn the fan controls on. Give the electrician the wall controls you want to control the fans with before he wires the fans.
11. Conduits everywhere (pretty much everyone says this, and it's absolutely true). Have them run to the basement or attic so you have access to them later on.
I haven't run anything newer than XP.
Would there be a lot of reboots in the patches to Windows 7?
I know this was something they were working to reduce, given the frustrations of multiple sequential reboots associated with small patches. The nice thing about a service pack is that (presumably) it would involve a single reboot at the end to complete the installation.
Nokia is getting what it deserves, just like RIM, because of such arrogance. I expect both companies to be out of business in a few years.
Or, of course, making Android phones.
I think (and apparently I'm not alone, based on replies to this story) people would be interested in a Nokia Android phone. Solid hardware by a known hardware manufacturer combined with a known OS. Nokia is still known for good hardware. And Android has better brand recognition than anything other than iOS, Windows, and OS X at this point. Sounds inevitable.
Hopefully they don't screw it up.
Double dipping is nothing.
This is exponential dipping.
That's what high school elective classes were for.
In high school I took electives in economics, wood working, computer programming, typing, home ec, and a few others I wouldn't be able to recall.
How about http://www.starfall.com/ ?
My kids loved it when they were around 3-4 years old.
Mozilla has lost it's focus and instead of making a good, fast, secure browser they are trying to turn it into a social API with every gee-whiz-bang feature most users don't want or need.
While I would agree with you ... Facebook has a billion (active?) users. While not a majority, maybe a significant minority of users of Firefox can benefit from this feature.
Besides, the only time Firefox seems to slow down on me is when Flash is doing something crazy. And I can't really blame Firefox completely for that.
Ditto.
One series of questions I didn't see asked:
Linus, /. account? Do you lurk or read regularly? Are you an Anonymous Coward?
Do you have a
And, by the way: My most heartfelt thanks to you for everything you've done for the common good.
LOL
I grew up on Staten Island and still visit there quite frequently. They have enough traffic already.
4.5 million new visitors to a tourist spot on the island would need some significant infrastructure improvements. They have three bridges to NJ and one to Brooklyn, causing bottleneck problems even on the best of days. I can't imagine adding a few million visitors a year expressly for an amusement park.
Though having a second mall on the island may be worth while. Just make it right off one of the highways, this time.
I'm fairly new to the Linux game.
Ubuntu 5.04 -> 5.10 -> 6.04 (06?) -> 6.10 -> 7.04 -> 7.10 -> 8.04 -> 8.10 -> 9.04 -> 10.04 ->
Linux Mint Cinnamon 13
(See the trend?)
I actually don't like the Linux Mint community pages (too add-laden), but if I have problems I'm able to use the Ubuntu forums without too much issue.
I know a bit about physics, and can understand part of the problem.
However...
Here's a thought exercise: You have a FTL ship that can reach Alpha Centuri in a second. You then make a U-turn and come back to Earth a second later. How much time has elapsed on Earth? How much time for the passenger of the ship?
In other words, Intel has added new capabilities to Clover Trail that allow enhanced power management, and Linux doesn't currently support it. Anyone who thinks that this will continue to be the case for much longer is a moron, especially if Intel continues to release its architecture datasheets, which we have no reason to think that they won't.
The article really says: It can't run Linux because there's no support for it in Linux, and there's no support for it because it's literally brand-new.
Exactly. This is the sort of thing that gets wrapped up in the next Linux Kernel release and all distributions pick up (and potentially backport it) automatically.
Potentially it can even happen before Windows 8 gets released.
The article is flame bait. Another flame bait way of saying it is "Intel says Clover Trail Atom CPU won't work with Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP". Another way is "Intel makes CPU with features that doesn't work on any shipping OS".
I agree about Unity. It sucks rocks, and I downgraded to an earlier version of Ubuntu for a while.
HOWEVER, you may want to give Linux Mint 13 with the Cinnamon desktop. They basically take Gnome and add their own desktop to it. As a bonus, it's built off of Ubuntu and you can use all the Ubuntu repositories with it.
So you get the bug fixes associated with the latest Gnome, the repositories of Ubuntu, the solidness of Linux, and the clean interface of Cinnamon.
Been using it about a month and quite happy so far.
Reminds me of the Black Eyed Peas song Where Is The Love:
Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism
But we still got terrorists here livin'
In the USA, the big CIA
The Bloods and The Crips and the KKK
Innovation may be alive, but the individual innovator who does not work for a multinational is dead. Unable to create anything because they are frozen in fear over the threat of litigation.
Just last night, as I was putting my 5 year old son to sleep, I was advocating his growing up to be an astronaut.
There is no greater goal to strive for than to advance all of humanity beyond our planet.
Godspeed, indeed.
For anything close to hiding away from the government's eye, you need cash. The more, the better.
My wife and I keep some cash in the house. Maybe close to 1% of my annual income, well below 1% of my net worth. (For a while, every month we pulled some cash out of our wallets and put it away -- we never took money out of the bank to do it.)
We just called it our emergency reserve. Maybe I should keep some more.
Someone has to buy these first models, so that less expensive ones can be made in the future.
The Tesla models are for those people. And people with that sort of money tend to want the amenities seen in more expensive cars.
In a decade these things will trickle down in price and become more common.