On second thought -- I think GP is right and my post is wrong. If a regular cell can extract 10% of the energy out of a 1 sq ft area, even an uber-crinkly cell couldn't get more than 100% of the energy that falls in that space, so a ten fold increase does seem to be the max. Perhaps we need a "think more" button next to the "preview" button.
Actually, it sounds like what is happening is that nano-towers increase surface area. The FA is short on details but perhaps they are increasing the surface area sixty-fold by making it very very crinkly. In other words, a tile that is 1 sq ft may have an effective surface of 60 sq ft. In this way, they could get 60 times the juice from a tile with the same outside dimensions as a flat solar cell. Even so, the crinkly cell might still be only 10% efficient -- the extra electricity is simply a factor of the increased surface area. Of course I'm ignoring the voltage loss here -- I'm just saying that there may well be a difference between a 60x increase in power and a 60x increase in efficiency.
They aren't doing that out of the goodness of their heart. They're doing it for the tracking number (phone number in this case). Just keep the receipt and make up a number when asked.
it's often not obvious at all that it's the lack of javascript that is breaking the site
So that yellow bar that rolls out at the bottom of the browser window with the big "options" button isn't obvious? If the users are that blind, they need a screen reader anyway and that fancy flash ad probably can't be read.
In some states it IS illegal to ride a motorcycle barefoot.
It certainly is retarded -- but then you always see kids riding their crotch-rockets every summer with shorts, flipflops, and a flapping tank top. Go out someday and rub the pavement with your bare hand. Then imagine sliding along at 50 mph with nothing separating limb from road. Dumb as it is however, people should be allowed to foolishly take themselves out of the gene pool.
If you've ever been to Japan and seen some of the really cool mini-cars they have there, and then come home wishing you could get that Subaru van that looked a tiny VW microbus and probably already gets 60-70 mpg, then yes, I'd say there is a market. Another one I saw looked like a miniscule hummer. There are plenty of bland ones as well, but I cruised all over in a 3 cylinder Honda Today (about 7 years ago) at freeway speeds, air conditioning, power windows, and I could even sit in the back perfectly comfortably. Admittedly, there was no cargo space with four people in the car, but with two and the back seat folded down, there was plenty of room for suitcases and souvenirs. I don't really see the problem with a car that is either a 4 person machine or a 2 person + cargo deal. Look at the roads -- most people are hauling around themselves and a lot of air. Minis would be great for the daily commute and errands around town. When you need something bigger for that once or twice per year 4 person + cargo trip, just rent it.
Granted, I only shop there if I can't wait 3-5 days for shipping, but its still damned annoying.
I would think that if you are shopping at a "Best" Buy, there are likely to be other options in the area. For example, I live in a town of about 75k people, and I haven't had to shop at "Best" Buy in over three years. Haven't even set foot in the door. There's a Circuit City in a pinch. A Compucare which is actually a great store. Two completely local stores, one of which I use a lot. Even Fred Meyer (a sort of combined supermarket/K-mart type place) has some basic stuff like memory and harddrives -- Office Max comes to mind as well and you can even find oddly branded routers at Home Depot (a lumber/home store).
As an aside, building a relationship with the local shops is a great idea. One of the local shops I frequent is near my office. When a computer stopped running, the guy who owns it lent me a powersupply so I could troubleshoot the machine. Think "Best" Buy would ever lend you anything? That turned into about $200 for him when I bought a new supply and a chunky UPS to counteract the brownouts I get every time the fax fires up. Another time, He lent me a hex driver so I could fix something on my cell phone. I didn't buy anything that day but he knows I'll be back.
Anyway, look around, certainly there will be an alternative to "Bust" Buy. It seems unlikely that "Best" Buy would actually be the only place that has something critical -- for everything else, mail order.
More republicans as they tend to be more religious ("sheep")...Hmmm. The whole stem cell thing however suggests more Democrats. But after becoming sheep, perhaps heathen Democrats will become bible banger Republicans. Of course, they might then suffer such cognitive dissonance that they'd commit suicide leading to more Democrats. But then suicide is a sin.... this is hard to calculate. Oh wait, no need. Contraception is a sin. We're doomed to be overrun by the uber-religious no matter how human the sheep become.
I don't know about plan9, but something of it has spilled over to my normal usage. I happen to use 9menu most everyday. It's a neat little thing that will run a little window with program names in it by invoking it from the command line -- any app you want to put in there. I have a machine I "ssh -X" into a lot, added that line to my.bash_profile, so every time I log in, I get this handy little menu of my frequently used apps. info
I have a pottery kiln/studio in the middle of field. A neighbor about 400' away or more lets me uses his broadband connection. Trenching a line that far -- through blackberries and fences -- would be a nightmare. Instead, I picked up two wireless routers, put on DDwrt so I could adjust power output (80mw seems to work just fine), and got a couple cheapo antennas (they are about 2.5" square -- sort of directional). The whole setup was under $200, and the biggest bonus, I didn't have to dig a trench. I've done enough digging in my life. The connection has been really solid.
Of course, if I had to go through brick, that would be a different story. The radio just won't penetrate that. In order to improve my signal for example, the antennas on the kiln side are placed outside the wall, the router at the neighbor's has the antenna in a window, so the only thing separating them is glass, air, snow, fog, and rain -- none of which seem to make an appreciable difference. I would think that a few layers of brick though, would make the system fail.
Anyway, in the right circumstances, wireless is great and wired is a pain. And vice versa of course.
Personally, if I had a choice, I'd rather pay a media tax than pay for breeders' kids. I figure with a media tax, I'd pay something and get something. With the "kid" taxes we're inundated with, I should get to screw a bunch of MILFs (without the jealous husband/she wants a relationship/you never buy me flowers/can you babysit the kid while gI o shopping BS). Now, if I had free range of all the MILFs sucking on my wallet, I'd think of the kid taxes as "OK" too. As it is, I get the bill and none of the pleasure.
Your website is presumed public if you have a public facing server that has no restrictions. That is the way the internet and its related programs work. If you want your site to be private, don't put it in the public sphere, or require a login of some kind. That's just the way the net works and complaining is pointless -- if you posted a sign on a telephone pole next to a public road, would you really expect that people will not look at it? That's unreasonable. If you put the same sign in your closet though, it is reasonable to expect people won't look at it because it is in a private sphere. I don't understand why this is a difficult concept.
No for many reasons. 1st, as the guy above me pointed out, your home is presumed private. Your website is presumed public. 2nd, your robot doesn't exist. If it did, then you'd have to explain how you had the right to break and enter in the first place. 3rd, assuming your robot did exist, and a language existed to keep it out of homes, and people's right to privacy in their homes had gone the way of the dodo, then yes, it would make sense for someone to post notices in a manner the robot understood.
I would think you have a reasonable case if you post a no-trespassing sign (robots.txt) in a language the user (spider) understands. That's probably why the cease and desist to those who violate your robots file has worked. In the case of the topic website though, the lady has not posted a "keep out" in an intelligible manner for all users. She only posted one for human users. See my analogy.
If she had a robots.txt file, and a spider was found not obeying the instructions, that would be great evidence for her contract claim. By the same token, reputable spiders will obey and her wishes respected. By simply posting no notice in a form readable to the user, there has been no contract.
Analogy: I don't understand Swahili, either spoken or written. I live in Washington State where there is almost no exposure to Swahili and nobody would expect me to know it. I walk into a store, say "Hi" to the person at the counter, and immediately get sued. Turns out, a sign posted behind the counter had written in Swahili that talking to the cashier was against their policy, that by walking into the store I agreed to a contract requiring me to pay them $1000 if I broke this policy. They would lose for certain because we never had a "meeting of the minds" -- no contract was made.
By the same token, this whack-job has failed to present her contract in a language understandable by the user (a spider). As such, the spider was incapable of agreeing or not. Thus there is no contract, merely her offer. At a secondary level, a reasonable web developer understands that the web is traveled by human and non-human users and if she wants to exclude certain users, she will provide a robots.txt file. Just like a reasonable shop owner will provide notices in the language custumarily used in the community in which the store is located.
I highly doubt she will prevail because I don't see how a contract was formed when it was not provided in a language understood by the robot users.
Laughably bad analogy. Putting up a website is not like filling your closet. A closet is closed and hidden away. A website is in the public space with a public address and publicly accessible directory describing how to get there. A closet does not respond to requests for information. A website spews its content immediately upon request. A closet contains physical objects of which there is only one (even identical real things aren't really identical, i.e., two T-shirts from the same package actually contain differences though they look quite the same). Getting data of a website is just some motion of electrons -- there is no actual transfer of a singular item, just a copy of data.
Well, it is American tax dollars going to pad their pockets in their war profiteering enterprise. Or more accurately, American national debt. Halliburton is the poster child of welfare for the rich. Personally I hope they all find themselves XXXXXXREDACTEDXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.
The program you were looking for was "grub-install" -- note the dash, grub-install is one word.
This weekend I helped a friend rescue his data from a windows install that quit working -- it would get to the windows loading screen, then reboot. We installed ubuntu on a new drive (slave), then copied over the windows data from the master. Hooked up his other drive as master and of course, no way to boot because the newly installed master didn't have the appropriate MBR. Five minutes on google (I'd never had to repair an MBR before) and the solution was quite simple, boot up the live CD, mount the slave with the linux install, and then do the grub install cmd, like this (assuming IDE):
sudo mount/dev/hdb1/mnt (NOTE: mount the drive w/ linux, in my case, it was slave so hdb)
sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/dev/hda
Your main problem was the lack of a live distro. You decided to go ape-shit instead of deciding to get a live cd.
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On second thought -- I think GP is right and my post is wrong. If a regular cell can extract 10% of the energy out of a 1 sq ft area, even an uber-crinkly cell couldn't get more than 100% of the energy that falls in that space, so a ten fold increase does seem to be the max. Perhaps we need a "think more" button next to the "preview" button.
Actually, it sounds like what is happening is that nano-towers increase surface area. The FA is short on details but perhaps they are increasing the surface area sixty-fold by making it very very crinkly. In other words, a tile that is 1 sq ft may have an effective surface of 60 sq ft. In this way, they could get 60 times the juice from a tile with the same outside dimensions as a flat solar cell. Even so, the crinkly cell might still be only 10% efficient -- the extra electricity is simply a factor of the increased surface area. Of course I'm ignoring the voltage loss here -- I'm just saying that there may well be a difference between a 60x increase in power and a 60x increase in efficiency.
They aren't doing that out of the goodness of their heart. They're doing it for the tracking number (phone number in this case). Just keep the receipt and make up a number when asked.
So that yellow bar that rolls out at the bottom of the browser window with the big "options" button isn't obvious? If the users are that blind, they need a screen reader anyway and that fancy flash ad probably can't be read.
It certainly is retarded -- but then you always see kids riding their crotch-rockets every summer with shorts, flipflops, and a flapping tank top. Go out someday and rub the pavement with your bare hand. Then imagine sliding along at 50 mph with nothing separating limb from road. Dumb as it is however, people should be allowed to foolishly take themselves out of the gene pool.
Japan is pretty mountainous -- obviously not as high as the rockies but lots of up, down, and around.
I got mine a couple weeks ago (but haven't sat down to do anything with them yet).
"tacomaroma"
acrobat
In Japan, minis are cheap.
If you've ever been to Japan and seen some of the really cool mini-cars they have there, and then come home wishing you could get that Subaru van that looked a tiny VW microbus and probably already gets 60-70 mpg, then yes, I'd say there is a market. Another one I saw looked like a miniscule hummer. There are plenty of bland ones as well, but I cruised all over in a 3 cylinder Honda Today (about 7 years ago) at freeway speeds, air conditioning, power windows, and I could even sit in the back perfectly comfortably. Admittedly, there was no cargo space with four people in the car, but with two and the back seat folded down, there was plenty of room for suitcases and souvenirs. I don't really see the problem with a car that is either a 4 person machine or a 2 person + cargo deal. Look at the roads -- most people are hauling around themselves and a lot of air. Minis would be great for the daily commute and errands around town. When you need something bigger for that once or twice per year 4 person + cargo trip, just rent it.
I would think that if you are shopping at a "Best" Buy, there are likely to be other options in the area. For example, I live in a town of about 75k people, and I haven't had to shop at "Best" Buy in over three years. Haven't even set foot in the door. There's a Circuit City in a pinch. A Compucare which is actually a great store. Two completely local stores, one of which I use a lot. Even Fred Meyer (a sort of combined supermarket/K-mart type place) has some basic stuff like memory and harddrives -- Office Max comes to mind as well and you can even find oddly branded routers at Home Depot (a lumber/home store).
As an aside, building a relationship with the local shops is a great idea. One of the local shops I frequent is near my office. When a computer stopped running, the guy who owns it lent me a powersupply so I could troubleshoot the machine. Think "Best" Buy would ever lend you anything? That turned into about $200 for him when I bought a new supply and a chunky UPS to counteract the brownouts I get every time the fax fires up. Another time, He lent me a hex driver so I could fix something on my cell phone. I didn't buy anything that day but he knows I'll be back.
Anyway, look around, certainly there will be an alternative to "Bust" Buy. It seems unlikely that "Best" Buy would actually be the only place that has something critical -- for everything else, mail order.
More republicans as they tend to be more religious ("sheep") ...Hmmm. The whole stem cell thing however suggests more Democrats. But after becoming sheep, perhaps heathen Democrats will become bible banger Republicans. Of course, they might then suffer such cognitive dissonance that they'd commit suicide leading to more Democrats. But then suicide is a sin .... this is hard to calculate. Oh wait, no need. Contraception is a sin. We're doomed to be overrun by the uber-religious no matter how human the sheep become.
I don't know about plan9, but something of it has spilled over to my normal usage. I happen to use 9menu most everyday. It's a neat little thing that will run a little window with program names in it by invoking it from the command line -- any app you want to put in there. I have a machine I "ssh -X" into a lot, added that line to my .bash_profile, so every time I log in, I get this handy little menu of my frequently used apps. info
I have a pottery kiln/studio in the middle of field. A neighbor about 400' away or more lets me uses his broadband connection. Trenching a line that far -- through blackberries and fences -- would be a nightmare. Instead, I picked up two wireless routers, put on DDwrt so I could adjust power output (80mw seems to work just fine), and got a couple cheapo antennas (they are about 2.5" square -- sort of directional). The whole setup was under $200, and the biggest bonus, I didn't have to dig a trench. I've done enough digging in my life. The connection has been really solid.
Of course, if I had to go through brick, that would be a different story. The radio just won't penetrate that. In order to improve my signal for example, the antennas on the kiln side are placed outside the wall, the router at the neighbor's has the antenna in a window, so the only thing separating them is glass, air, snow, fog, and rain -- none of which seem to make an appreciable difference. I would think that a few layers of brick though, would make the system fail.
Anyway, in the right circumstances, wireless is great and wired is a pain. And vice versa of course.
Personally, if I had a choice, I'd rather pay a media tax than pay for breeders' kids. I figure with a media tax, I'd pay something and get something. With the "kid" taxes we're inundated with, I should get to screw a bunch of MILFs (without the jealous husband/she wants a relationship/you never buy me flowers/can you babysit the kid while gI o shopping BS). Now, if I had free range of all the MILFs sucking on my wallet, I'd think of the kid taxes as "OK" too. As it is, I get the bill and none of the pleasure.
Jerk. I was all fine and happy till you reminded me about taxes.
Your website is presumed public if you have a public facing server that has no restrictions. That is the way the internet and its related programs work. If you want your site to be private, don't put it in the public sphere, or require a login of some kind. That's just the way the net works and complaining is pointless -- if you posted a sign on a telephone pole next to a public road, would you really expect that people will not look at it? That's unreasonable. If you put the same sign in your closet though, it is reasonable to expect people won't look at it because it is in a private sphere. I don't understand why this is a difficult concept.
No for many reasons. 1st, as the guy above me pointed out, your home is presumed private. Your website is presumed public. 2nd, your robot doesn't exist. If it did, then you'd have to explain how you had the right to break and enter in the first place. 3rd, assuming your robot did exist, and a language existed to keep it out of homes, and people's right to privacy in their homes had gone the way of the dodo, then yes, it would make sense for someone to post notices in a manner the robot understood.
I would think you have a reasonable case if you post a no-trespassing sign (robots.txt) in a language the user (spider) understands. That's probably why the cease and desist to those who violate your robots file has worked. In the case of the topic website though, the lady has not posted a "keep out" in an intelligible manner for all users. She only posted one for human users. See my analogy.
If she had a robots.txt file, and a spider was found not obeying the instructions, that would be great evidence for her contract claim. By the same token, reputable spiders will obey and her wishes respected. By simply posting no notice in a form readable to the user, there has been no contract.
Analogy: I don't understand Swahili, either spoken or written. I live in Washington State where there is almost no exposure to Swahili and nobody would expect me to know it. I walk into a store, say "Hi" to the person at the counter, and immediately get sued. Turns out, a sign posted behind the counter had written in Swahili that talking to the cashier was against their policy, that by walking into the store I agreed to a contract requiring me to pay them $1000 if I broke this policy. They would lose for certain because we never had a "meeting of the minds" -- no contract was made.
By the same token, this whack-job has failed to present her contract in a language understandable by the user (a spider). As such, the spider was incapable of agreeing or not. Thus there is no contract, merely her offer. At a secondary level, a reasonable web developer understands that the web is traveled by human and non-human users and if she wants to exclude certain users, she will provide a robots.txt file. Just like a reasonable shop owner will provide notices in the language custumarily used in the community in which the store is located.
I highly doubt she will prevail because I don't see how a contract was formed when it was not provided in a language understood by the robot users.
Laughably bad analogy. Putting up a website is not like filling your closet. A closet is closed and hidden away. A website is in the public space with a public address and publicly accessible directory describing how to get there. A closet does not respond to requests for information. A website spews its content immediately upon request. A closet contains physical objects of which there is only one (even identical real things aren't really identical, i.e., two T-shirts from the same package actually contain differences though they look quite the same). Getting data of a website is just some motion of electrons -- there is no actual transfer of a singular item, just a copy of data.
Both.
Well, it is American tax dollars going to pad their pockets in their war profiteering enterprise. Or more accurately, American national debt. Halliburton is the poster child of welfare for the rich. Personally I hope they all find themselves XXXXXXREDACTEDXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.
The program you were looking for was "grub-install" -- note the dash, grub-install is one word.
This weekend I helped a friend rescue his data from a windows install that quit working -- it would get to the windows loading screen, then reboot. We installed ubuntu on a new drive (slave), then copied over the windows data from the master. Hooked up his other drive as master and of course, no way to boot because the newly installed master didn't have the appropriate MBR. Five minutes on google (I'd never had to repair an MBR before) and the solution was quite simple, boot up the live CD, mount the slave with the linux install, and then do the grub install cmd, like this (assuming IDE):
sudo mount
sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt
Your main problem was the lack of a live distro. You decided to go ape-shit instead of deciding to get a live cd.