Several years ago I used to run my desktop in linux (slackware!). Later distros started to look more and more like windows. Only took a few iterations until I got tired of that crap (seemed all programmers now think like microsoft programmers, !@#$!@#$%%!$%). Now I run linux back-ends and my desktops are OSX, never looked back.
From the wiki on Fuel: "Fuels are any materials that store potential energy in forms that can be practicably released and used as heat energy. The concept originally applied solely to those materials storing energy in the form of chemical energy that could be released through combustion,[1] but the concept has since been also applied to other sources of heat energy such as nuclear energy (via nuclear fission or nuclear fusion), as well as releases of chemical energy released through non-combustion oxidation (such as in cellular biology or in fuel cells)."
Given that the article is about methane, fuel clearly refers to a material that can be oxidized to release energy. Without an oxidizer, the presence of methane would be useless for this use.
You have to admire apple for their ingenuity. What better way to force people to ditch that old phone than to update the OS, make it more resource hungry...
That's been going on for as long as there has been a computer industry.
Not at all! You could always keep your old OS in your computer. The "great innovation" of apple is to FORCE YOU TO UPGRADE if you need to reinstall the OS, whether you like it or not. They do it simply by not signing the old OS anymore. Then voila, your formerly perfectly adequate phone has become slow and useless.
I also moved to android some 6 months ago. I really appreciate that they do not try to force anything on you (well, if you exclude spying...). I have since ditched an iphone and an ipad, and have a nexus4 and a galaxy note 8.0. Do not miss the iOS way of doing business.
And how do YOU know for sure it really needs "living tissue"? How living? Does it have to be pulsating or just not dried up or rotten? Will a finger chopped off a few minutes ago still work? (yes, there are stories out there of "secure" boxes being broken into by a chopped-off finger).
Even more important: do the crooks know that it works only with "living tissue" (even if true)? Or will they chop off your finger just in case?
So long ago I got tired of all the crap that companies try to pull "just because it is digital"... Yep, "just because it is digital" cuts also the other way: I have not bought any DRM'd crap in at least 5 years and I get all my stuff from either rental (netflix) or from the bay (not the e- but the p-). Most problems hence solved.
Excepting his fawning over various dictators. There's an insightful saying about him: "Jimmy Carter never met a dictator that he didn't like."
You are saying complete BS. For example, Carter was one of the few US presidents who put pressure on latin America's dictatorships to try to alleviate the human rights abuses. He put an arms embargo on Argentina's dictatorship (later rescinded by Reagan, a factor that eventually lead to the Argentina-UK war in 1982).
Indeed, mod parent up. I can see only one really bad thing Carter did: loosing to Reagan. That started the fast decline of US democracy, along with turning the US into a banana republic (where the top 1% get everything, pay for nothing and get the lower 40% to fight wars and die in the interest of the top 1%).
This is EXACTLY the point of this lesson (and many others). Simply NEVER TALK TO THE POLICE. It will NEVER do you any good. Americans are decades behind the rest of the world in learning this lesson. Simply put: you can't trust them. Lesson learned in decades of living in the 3rd world, which the US has joined about 10 years ago (at least).
Why is that tax-exempt status is granted to organizations that then turn around an pay handsomely to their CEOs et al.? And avoid corporate taxes at that?
Why am *I* forced to subsidize someone else's choices when they donate $$ to a tax-exempt organization (be it a church, or tea party nut-bag)? Yes, I am subsidizing your nut-choice because you reduce your taxes (hence increase the proportion of my burden) by donating to that nut-bag organization.
IT IS TIME TO END ALL TAX-EXEMPT STATUS, and TO END TAX REBATES TO DONATIONS.
You would still do a lot better getting an imac for your regular software and a linux machine for the computation. X11 makes all transparent too. And still spend less... See my post above.
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Why do you need a mac for that? I run mac laptops and even imacs. Even have a mac pro from 2006 (at that time a good deal, 8 xeon 3GHz, not much more expensive than the equivalent Dell). Last month, a Dell Precision workstation with 2 hex core xeons (+ hyperthreading, making them effectively 24 cores--don't scream at me, I have benchmarked MY programs and for all practical purposes it acts as 24 CPUs) for just over $2k (including 32 GB ram, 3 TB disk). Runs linux nicely and the parallelism beats any bewoulf cluster due to the faster in-cpu or in-motherboard connection. The mac pro is about 2 cpu generations outdated, and 35% more expensive. Sigh!
YOU don't get the flu other than in winter because there is nobody to transmit it to you. On the other hand, you probably do not interact with anybody so it is a mystery how you get it...:)
The answer is yes. There is nothing magical about putting off the shelf items densely packed. Once somebody sees it, it is not hard to reproduce. So, yes, sell.
Mod parent up. These same people who cry wolf when somebody attacks their retrograde, corrupt and immoral religion (yes, yes, yes, it is immoral) have no problem calling for the death to the infidels. We should all go and burn them all because of this offense to our non-religion or different religion.
You really have no clue, do you? US has not imported beef from Argentina for about a decade or so, and even when they did it was a very small amount. Argentina's main exports today are agricultural (soybeans, wheat, corn,...) but agriculture actually accounts for a small fraction of the economy. From Wikipedia: "Manufacturing is the largest single sector in the nation's economy (19% of GDP)".
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Several years ago I used to run my desktop in linux (slackware!). Later distros started to look more and more like windows. Only took a few iterations until I got tired of that crap (seemed all programmers now think like microsoft programmers, !@#$!@#$%%!$%). Now I run linux back-ends and my desktops are OSX, never looked back.
From the wiki on Fuel: "Fuels are any materials that store potential energy in forms that can be practicably released and used as heat energy. The concept originally applied solely to those materials storing energy in the form of chemical energy that could be released through combustion,[1] but the concept has since been also applied to other sources of heat energy such as nuclear energy (via nuclear fission or nuclear fusion), as well as releases of chemical energy released through non-combustion oxidation (such as in cellular biology or in fuel cells)."
Given that the article is about methane, fuel clearly refers to a material that can be oxidized to release energy. Without an oxidizer, the presence of methane would be useless for this use.
With a small atmospheric pressure and small concentration of O2, having a FUEL source would also seem pointless.
You have to admire apple for their ingenuity. What better way to force people to ditch that old phone than to update the OS, make it more resource hungry...
That's been going on for as long as there has been a computer industry.
Not at all! You could always keep your old OS in your computer. The "great innovation" of apple is to FORCE YOU TO UPGRADE if you need to reinstall the OS, whether you like it or not. They do it simply by not signing the old OS anymore. Then voila, your formerly perfectly adequate phone has become slow and useless.
I also moved to android some 6 months ago. I really appreciate that they do not try to force anything on you (well, if you exclude spying...). I have since ditched an iphone and an ipad, and have a nexus4 and a galaxy note 8.0. Do not miss the iOS way of doing business.
Even more important: do the crooks know that it works only with "living tissue" (even if true)? Or will they chop off your finger just in case?
Just give them the finger, LOL!
So long ago I got tired of all the crap that companies try to pull "just because it is digital"... Yep, "just because it is digital" cuts also the other way: I have not bought any DRM'd crap in at least 5 years and I get all my stuff from either rental (netflix) or from the bay (not the e- but the p-). Most problems hence solved.
Excepting his fawning over various dictators. There's an insightful saying about him: "Jimmy Carter never met a dictator that he didn't like."
You are saying complete BS. For example, Carter was one of the few US presidents who put pressure on latin America's dictatorships to try to alleviate the human rights abuses. He put an arms embargo on Argentina's dictatorship (later rescinded by Reagan, a factor that eventually lead to the Argentina-UK war in 1982).
Indeed, mod parent up. I can see only one really bad thing Carter did: loosing to Reagan. That started the fast decline of US democracy, along with turning the US into a banana republic (where the top 1% get everything, pay for nothing and get the lower 40% to fight wars and die in the interest of the top 1%).
But I already got all the artifacts in my last two trips there.
This is EXACTLY the point of this lesson (and many others). Simply NEVER TALK TO THE POLICE. It will NEVER do you any good. Americans are decades behind the rest of the world in learning this lesson. Simply put: you can't trust them. Lesson learned in decades of living in the 3rd world, which the US has joined about 10 years ago (at least).
Fahrenheit? 0 = friggin' cold, 100 = friggin' hot.
What temperature water freezes (quite important, e.g., for road conditions, plants, etc)? Was it 34? :)
How long is a foot? Approximately the size of your foot.
Who's foot?
Putting up a wall? We're gonna need some 2x4s and 4x8s
Which are really 1.5x3.5 and 3.5x7.5.... You can't even get that one right!
Why is that tax-exempt status is granted to organizations that then turn around an pay handsomely to their CEOs et al.? And avoid corporate taxes at that? Why am *I* forced to subsidize someone else's choices when they donate $$ to a tax-exempt organization (be it a church, or tea party nut-bag)? Yes, I am subsidizing your nut-choice because you reduce your taxes (hence increase the proportion of my burden) by donating to that nut-bag organization. IT IS TIME TO END ALL TAX-EXEMPT STATUS, and TO END TAX REBATES TO DONATIONS.
You would still do a lot better getting an imac for your regular software and a linux machine for the computation. X11 makes all transparent too. And still spend less... See my post above.
???? Why do you need a mac for that? I run mac laptops and even imacs. Even have a mac pro from 2006 (at that time a good deal, 8 xeon 3GHz, not much more expensive than the equivalent Dell). Last month, a Dell Precision workstation with 2 hex core xeons (+ hyperthreading, making them effectively 24 cores--don't scream at me, I have benchmarked MY programs and for all practical purposes it acts as 24 CPUs) for just over $2k (including 32 GB ram, 3 TB disk). Runs linux nicely and the parallelism beats any bewoulf cluster due to the faster in-cpu or in-motherboard connection. The mac pro is about 2 cpu generations outdated, and 35% more expensive. Sigh!
The way people are plainly stupid never ceases to amaze me!
I bet no... why would the US have a holiday on a chinese "special day"?
FAA approval is very specific. Very time consuming. Very costly. VERY SLOW :(
Apparantely not slow enough... for them to catch the problems.
YOU don't get the flu other than in winter because there is nobody to transmit it to you. On the other hand, you probably do not interact with anybody so it is a mystery how you get it... :)
First spam!
Oh, wait a sec... you meant a computer mouse... Never mind.
The answer is yes. There is nothing magical about putting off the shelf items densely packed. Once somebody sees it, it is not hard to reproduce. So, yes, sell.
Mod parent up. These same people who cry wolf when somebody attacks their retrograde, corrupt and immoral religion (yes, yes, yes, it is immoral) have no problem calling for the death to the infidels. We should all go and burn them all because of this offense to our non-religion or different religion.
FUCK YOU!
You really have no clue, do you? US has not imported beef from Argentina for about a decade or so, and even when they did it was a very small amount. Argentina's main exports today are agricultural (soybeans, wheat, corn,...) but agriculture actually accounts for a small fraction of the economy. From Wikipedia: "Manufacturing is the largest single sector in the nation's economy (19% of GDP)".
Very nice! Thank you for the information!