I've tried KDE 4 times. (Red Hat 8, Fedora 6, Fedora 12, and kubuntu a year ago). I want to like KDE, it's got more things to personalize it as I want, and it's easier to do so. But each time, there's been some flaw, either fatal or a big nuisance, that's sent me back to gnome.
Assuming I've run the numbers properly and assuming line-of-sight, at 5 km and 10 GHz, a 0.7 m (28 inch) dish with a 1 mW transmitter will provide 30 dB SNR for a 1 GHz bandwidth. This won't work in mountains and forests, but in the plains it's feasible. A couple hundred dollars for hardware (assuming such stuff is in moderate volume production), the same for installation, and you've got a link. If the telco offers this for a $600 setup fee, charges a monthly amount that covers costs and profits and maintenance, where's the problem?
Where I live, 2 miles from from a town of 1200, I get 1.5Mb/s DSL, and higher speeds are available. Eventually, if I want higher speeds than are possible on that line, more repeaters would be needed. Why shouldn't that be available if I'm willing to cover the capital costs?
Modern popular fiction (excluding romance novels) is pretty good, with popularity being a fair measure of entertainment value. If it's modern and mandatory reading in an English class, it's pretty much guaranteed to be crap pushing some PC viewpoint. Perhaps the most annoying aspect of fairly good modern fiction is the unnecessary use of rude language.
Modern writers have largely benefitted from the mistakes of hundreds of years of fiction. Old books, with rare exceptions, are boring. The stuff that's come through the years with a good enough reputation to be required in an English class are either illustrative of an important historical period, really good stories, or fit the modern PC mold. Even the good old books barely reach modern levels of storytelling; something like Robinson Crusoe seems to wander compared to a modern storyline.
Part of the problem is that taste varies so much. Finding something that each person in a random group of 30 agrees is worth reading is not an easy job.
In any case, the teacher's job should be showing how to write well and to understand how the author does that, in detail. I've never seen a teacher do that.
According to E. T. Bell, Gauss was particularly prone to condensing the proof so much that it was hard to understand. His motto was "few, but polished", amazing for so prolific a man.
Obama saved the unions at GM and Chrysler. He saved the names GM and Chrysler. He destroyed the bondholders, who by law own the company's assets when it goes bankrupt. He destroyed and continues to destroy the principle of rule by law. He preserved the principle of legally protected union thuggery.
Had GM and Chrysler gone bankrupt, the assets, if they were capable of productive use (which is saying if they were capable of doing more good than harm) would have been sold to organizations capable of running them at a profit. Instead they continue to bleed the economy, disguising losses with money from the government.
He said, "in Muslim garb". This is more than Muslim, it is ostentatious defiance. The US climate and US stores are not conducive to Muslim garb. Someone wearing Muslim garb in an airport is much more likely to be trying to cause trouble than other people.
"...when I see black people I'm afraid they're going to mug me." This paraphrases Jesse Jackson.
"When I see Asian people, I'm afraid they're better at math and karate than I am?". Yup, and polite too, I really fear polite.
Reality is racist. There are statistically valid correlations between (on one side) race, other inherited characteristics, cultural characteristics, and (on the other) individual and group behaviour. Denying that such correlations exist is lying, and helps nobody.
I am hurt neither by the existence of people better than me, nor by people worse than me, so long as they don't act to harm me. It helps me to have a clue which is which, even if I find my initial estimate in error.
Normal silicon (not silicone) is already quite sensitive, coming close to the ideal of responding to each photon. It is simply not possible to be "far more sensitive than current sensors".
I want to like kde because of its better customizability, but I've tried it in three major incarnations are there's always been something broken that I needed. Once an auto-update broke things so badly that I couldn't luanch the GUI.
With respect to losing a dead parent's data: the executor/admistrator of the estate has legal control over that sort of thing, and your friends should have arranged with him to take care of the matter. Most companies are quite respectful of these things once they see the court papers.
You're right that the executive's time was worth more than the cost of flying a private jet to the Washington show trial they were extorted into attending. That said, they were remarkably careless not to think that their failure to car pool to D.C. would be a leftist publicity bonanza
When I grew tomatoes in Los Angeles, I used pesticides fairly heavily, and still had worms in about 1/3 of the fruit. In that area, the failure to use pesticides is simply a non-starter. For contrast, I now grow tomatoes in New Hampshire, and have a lower yield of fruit, all worm-free without pesticides.
Fruit from a local apple orchard must be washed before use. Eating a single apple, unwashed, shuts down my throat so that I can't burp or swallow for about 30 minutes.
Net net: pesticides should be used intelligently, as required.
Once again, someone misrepresents "Atlas Shrugged", either through ignorance or malice.
the horrible, oppressive persecution the rich and the powerful face
"Atlas Shrugged" shows the powerful and incompetent persecuting the productive. Riches and intelligence are shown among both the good guys and the bad guys.
Don't confuse a libertarian with an anarchist. The problem you cite is caused by a failure in defining property rights, which can be solved with minimally intrusive government action. Examples include conventional fishing licenses, annually selling the exclusive right to fish in a certain area, or permanently selling a given area. Owners generally protect the value of their property, and often act to improve it (Think fish farms). Sure, there are going to be short-sighted people who destroy a given area that they own, but that also happens with complete government control (like the USSR) or with no government control. The proper goal is to define property rights in a manner that encourages good use of the property.
Consider water rights along a stream. A person is allowed to use some of the water. If he uses it all, people downstream are having their rights infringed and can sue. Similarly for the case of water pollution. In some places, people even sell for a limited time the right to limited fishing in their portion of a stream.
I continue to be puzzled by the claim that strip mining harms the environment. It takes flatlands or gently rolling hills and transforms them into dramatic new peaks and valleys, complete with access trails. What could be better?
Environmentalists aren't interested in an environment good for humans, they want a primitive wilderness where nothing ever changes, especially where they live.
Although we might not be able to surpass the old peak old production, we can substantially increase production by removing -- not reducing, REMOVING -- government restrictions on new wells.
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I've tried KDE 4 times. (Red Hat 8, Fedora 6, Fedora 12, and kubuntu a year ago). I want to like KDE, it's got more things to personalize it as I want, and it's easier to do so. But each time, there's been some flaw, either fatal or a big nuisance, that's sent me back to gnome.
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is very easy to learn and remember.
I can see value in characters that improve readability, or that appear often enough that their absence is a nuisance.
Left-arrow for assignment, so that the equal sign can be reserved for comparisons.
Single characters for .NE. .LE. .GE.
Floor and ceiling symbols
A "degree" symbol
An upward arrow for exponentiation, so that caret always means xor.
Something new to make the declaration and use of pointers clearer, the way C does it is just too confusing.
But these are just my pet peeves; I'd be surprised to see many people agreeing with me.
"seventeenth amendment directly electing Senators"
You say that like it's a good thing. It's not.
"and the nineteenth allow women to vote."
By the time the 19th was passed, in most states women already had the legal ability to vote.
Assuming I've run the numbers properly and assuming line-of-sight, at 5 km and 10 GHz, a 0.7 m (28 inch) dish with a 1 mW transmitter will provide 30 dB SNR for a 1 GHz bandwidth. This won't work in mountains and forests, but in the plains it's feasible. A couple hundred dollars for hardware (assuming such stuff is in moderate volume production), the same for installation, and you've got a link. If the telco offers this for a $600 setup fee, charges a monthly amount that covers costs and profits and maintenance, where's the problem?
Where I live, 2 miles from from a town of 1200, I get 1.5Mb/s DSL, and higher speeds are available. Eventually, if I want higher speeds than are possible on that line, more repeaters would be needed. Why shouldn't that be available if I'm willing to cover the capital costs?
Modern popular fiction (excluding romance novels) is pretty good, with popularity being a fair measure of entertainment value. If it's modern and mandatory reading in an English class, it's pretty much guaranteed to be crap pushing some PC viewpoint. Perhaps the most annoying aspect of fairly good modern fiction is the unnecessary use of rude language.
Modern writers have largely benefitted from the mistakes of hundreds of years of fiction. Old books, with rare exceptions, are boring. The stuff that's come through the years with a good enough reputation to be required in an English class are either illustrative of an important historical period, really good stories, or fit the modern PC mold. Even the good old books barely reach modern levels of storytelling; something like Robinson Crusoe seems to wander compared to a modern storyline.
Part of the problem is that taste varies so much. Finding something that each person in a random group of 30 agrees is worth reading is not an easy job.
In any case, the teacher's job should be showing how to write well and to understand how the author does that, in detail. I've never seen a teacher do that.
If the student's own level is "Candy" or "The Anarchist Cookbook", he should be introduced to something better.
According to E. T. Bell, Gauss was particularly prone to condensing the proof so much that it was hard to understand. His motto was "few, but polished", amazing for so prolific a man.
Will the last person out please turn off the lights?
Obama saved the unions at GM and Chrysler. He saved the names GM and Chrysler. He destroyed the bondholders, who by law own the company's assets when it goes bankrupt. He destroyed and continues to destroy the principle of rule by law. He preserved the principle of legally protected union thuggery.
Had GM and Chrysler gone bankrupt, the assets, if they were capable of productive use (which is saying if they were capable of doing more good than harm) would have been sold to organizations capable of running them at a profit. Instead they continue to bleed the economy, disguising losses with money from the government.
NPR isn't a private organization, their claims to the contrary notwithstanding.
He said, "in Muslim garb". This is more than Muslim, it is ostentatious defiance. The US climate and US stores are not conducive to Muslim garb. Someone wearing Muslim garb in an airport is much more likely to be trying to cause trouble than other people.
"...when I see black people I'm afraid they're going to mug me." This paraphrases Jesse Jackson.
"When I see Asian people, I'm afraid they're better at math and karate than I am?". Yup, and polite too, I really fear polite.
Reality is racist. There are statistically valid correlations between (on one side) race, other inherited characteristics, cultural characteristics, and (on the other) individual and group behaviour. Denying that such correlations exist is lying, and helps nobody.
I am hurt neither by the existence of people better than me, nor by people worse than me, so long as they don't act to harm me. It helps me to have a clue which is which, even if I find my initial estimate in error.
It's obvious why a thief posts as anonymous coward.
Normal silicon (not silicone) is already quite sensitive, coming close to the ideal of responding to each photon. It is simply not possible to be "far more sensitive than current sensors".
I want to like kde because of its better customizability, but I've tried it in three major incarnations are there's always been something broken that I needed. Once an auto-update broke things so badly that I couldn't luanch the GUI.
With respect to losing a dead parent's data: the executor/admistrator of the estate has legal control over that sort of thing, and your friends should have arranged with him to take care of the matter. Most companies are quite respectful of these things once they see the court papers.
You're right that the executive's time was worth more than the cost of flying a private jet to the Washington show trial they were extorted into attending. That said, they were remarkably careless not to think that their failure to car pool to D.C. would be a leftist publicity bonanza
Africa's plague is tribalism. There are just too many groups willing to kill their neighbors for theft or historical hatred.
When I grew tomatoes in Los Angeles, I used pesticides fairly heavily, and still had worms in about 1/3 of the fruit. In that area, the failure to use pesticides is simply a non-starter. For contrast, I now grow tomatoes in New Hampshire, and have a lower yield of fruit, all worm-free without pesticides.
Fruit from a local apple orchard must be washed before use. Eating a single apple, unwashed, shuts down my throat so that I can't burp or swallow for about 30 minutes.
Net net: pesticides should be used intelligently, as required.
Once again, someone misrepresents "Atlas Shrugged", either through ignorance or malice.
"Atlas Shrugged" shows the powerful and incompetent persecuting the productive. Riches and intelligence are shown among both the good guys and the bad guys.
Don't confuse a libertarian with an anarchist. The problem you cite is caused by a failure in defining property rights, which can be solved with minimally intrusive government action. Examples include conventional fishing licenses, annually selling the exclusive right to fish in a certain area, or permanently selling a given area. Owners generally protect the value of their property, and often act to improve it (Think fish farms). Sure, there are going to be short-sighted people who destroy a given area that they own, but that also happens with complete government control (like the USSR) or with no government control. The proper goal is to define property rights in a manner that encourages good use of the property.
Consider water rights along a stream. A person is allowed to use some of the water. If he uses it all, people downstream are having their rights infringed and can sue. Similarly for the case of water pollution. In some places, people even sell for a limited time the right to limited fishing in their portion of a stream.
Leafs, left on lawns, kill the grass. How is overpopulation at the heart of this problem? Or maybe it's not at the heart of every problem.
I continue to be puzzled by the claim that strip mining harms the environment. It takes flatlands or gently rolling hills and transforms them into dramatic new peaks and valleys, complete with access trails. What could be better?
Environmentalists aren't interested in an environment good for humans, they want a primitive wilderness where nothing ever changes, especially where they live.
Although we might not be able to surpass the old peak old production, we can substantially increase production by removing -- not reducing, REMOVING -- government restrictions on new wells.
Buggy Whips are what PHBs use on poor programmers. Peak Buggy Whip is far in the future.