in the article he especially mentions he doesn't like the exact way linux is done, he says it leads to a company like redhat that has open software but closed standards (? no, I still don't get what he means there). He says something about having them both open. Now what license or model that might be he didn't specify, or at least it wasn't in there.
My best guess is they want to somehow leverage their hardware and software so that following the other announcement of "free hardware" with a pay as you go subscription model, they just want the free lunch aspects: get thousands of outside developers to submit work to solaris, then force end users to pay a subscription to deploy it beyond a single hobbyist machine. Something like that anyway, so they maintain control on the "totality" of the OS and apps combo. In other words, no forking or redistribution, Sun only releases, pay to play, but free to look at and develop and give back to Sun so they can rent it out. The OS might even be tied to a DRM like thing directly in the hardware, which you can only get from them.
schweet deal for them if enough people go that route. My next best guess is it will be a failure in the long run.
There are two primary forces running open source right now-the active developers "get it" on freely sharing,how everyone benefits from combining knowledge and resources (software as friends and neighbors cooperating in community barn raising) and businesses that adopt it don't get locked in to ridiculously expensive computing costs in the aggregate, and the real smart ones devote some of their coders efforts (time, money, etc) into giving back.
... and it's exactly what I thought too, at least a variation of it, and they opened it so anyone could implement as much of it as they wanted to. So I'll call it a cousin of DRM.
Yes, the phone companies were SUCH rip, that's why they finally got busted up. Long distance was obscene expensive. And that thing with the one phone, yes, and I remember a lot of guys just hard wired in their own phone extensions, using old surplus stuff they got from someplace. You kept it hidden though, like under the bed. Sorta like modding satellite now or something like that. When business won't give ya what ya want, you DIY. It was ridiculous. And the music and movie industry was still a monopoly and charged out the wazoo for "copies". That hasn't changed one bit. They have consistantly maintained every new generation of technology would "put them out of business". What a crock.
But, I bet you had great fishing and hunting, yes? and a big garden slam fulla great chow every summer? Living rural was always great, IMO, still is.
Got my tech enthusiasm from my dad, who was a radio/radar tech in the navy in ww2, then went on to be a mr fixit guy for them things back in civvie life, then went on to work in mainframes. I got to see and help work (some, mostly astanding around getting in the way) on some really old full building sized monsters way back then. He's retired now, but is still a mad garage inventor/tinkerer. Heh, he used to be a "case modder". This is funny. All the old radios and tvs he worked on for people, he would throw a fan in there mounted inside a coffee can, they kept the machines cooler, the tubes went out less often=happier customers, more word of mouth business for him. Another time he built his own electric guitar and amp and had a small band he played in, mostly what is called rockabilly now styled music. My mom jammed on keyboards-a real piano. Heh. They also really encouraged me, were good parents, I learned to read at age 4, that certainly helped.
I'm red-green deficient color blind unfortunately, so back then I really couldn't get into electronics much from color coded wires and resistors, etc, much to my regret to this day. I can tinker some with electronics now, but it's just strictly amatuer hour there. I'm a fair mechanic/carpenter and have had quite an amazing variety of jobs and experiences. To me, life is a great adventure, if you ain't having fun and learning, you'll just shrivel up and get sour. Ya gotta stay physically and mentally active. I always liked computers, but never afforded one until the early 90s when they finally got cheap enough for me to get good used ones. Now it's just a hobby and a great commo tool, an adjunct to radios. Hmm, another thing my old man made was really spiffy, back in the late 60's we had a big backyard pool, the last couple years I was living at home. He and I installed a home brew solar water heating system for that pool, we picked up two more months of good swimming with that thing (up in michigan where I grew up). He was always making stuff like that. Another one I remember he made a capacitive discharge ignition system for those old 59 chevy wagon he had. It was a bear to start in cold weather, he built this thing one weekened and poof, that car just CRANKED and ran no matter how cold it got.
Lots of older folks are tech savvy, remember, all the tech we have today came from guys like my dad back then doing the ground work. 50 years from now you'll look back and go "man, that was some primitive stuff back then in 2004!" HAHAHA!
ipods! We didn't have no steenking ipods! I had a crystal radio I made. The potential between the antenna and the ground wire made the juice to run it. The tuner was wire wrapped on a carboard tube, the ear phone was a rubber eraser with a needle in it and some bits of plastic crap. the whole thing was mounted in a cigar box. Wish I still had it.. hmm Dang if I could remember it better I'd describe it better, but that was most of it AFAIK. It actually worked, with a lot of fussing you could get a couple of stations. Nuthing like that grundig though, I STILL don't have a radio that could pull the stations that old analog monster could.
some stuff was cooler back then, some stuff is cooler now, it's a fair trade off I guess. *Much* less crime, and your buck was worth a lot more, and wicked easy to find good work, and things you could get were mostly still cheap, and quality was excellent. Now you have a lot more variety of *things*, but they don't last as long. Stuff all costs too much, which they keep trying to fix by inflating the dollar, but it still hasn't worked. We got a lot more white collar businessmen/bosses/mamagers/ whatever per human than we used to. And the economy got worse. Politicians still suck. I think they always have sucked, because it's a sucky job probably. Corporations are even more bogus, but they bring us cool stuff, so we are stuck with them, that'll be the fight that lasts forever. We have much better information now, you can go find out about ANYTHING you want to sitting in your living room, this is WAY cool.
Still, no cheap flying cars, and no hot babe amazon robots for your private army.... I'm HOLDING OUT!
something that can convert from a single seater commuter car to the family SUV/van to a work truck. Say you buy a basic platform, then have add ons to convert it. Combine that with a basic engine that has variable valves (like the old cadillac solenoid actuated valves), that could adjust as the power needs increased. Most of the time it might be in as little as a two cylinder mode, for the daily single person commute, not carrying much weight. 'Weekends, pop off the small, lighter, more streamlined single person body, bolt on the heavier/bigger suv styled body for the family picnic or whatever, or the pickup body for hauling shrubs home from the garden center, etc. The engine can be adjusted to 4 or 6 or 8 cylinders then, whatever. That and one of the better modern transmissions you might have a possible solution.
The other thing is we have really chaotic and dismally designed cities/societies/workplaces. There could be a lot more work done to develop communities based around employment sources, not just this ad hoc ad lib chaotic anarchy we have now. Example, you can see subdivisions going up all over, but all they are is someone had some cheap land, they get a permit to carve it up, slop some homes in there. Nuts.
Say you take some big company plans on a new combo manufacturing/development whatever place. they design and build it, and incorporate housing into the scheme of things, right on the property, along with some stores, supermarkets, and so on, at least the basics. Employees get a cut rate discount on a home there,plus a much shorter commute, happier employees, makes a happier company, more profits, etc. Simplistic, but along those lines. Planning, not hap hazard.
What we do is just got a job where we live. I only drive to town once a week, and could easily drop that to twice a month or once a month, and I WILL if gas gets too much higher. The cost tradeoffs for getting a new fuel miserly vehilcle just to drive more aren't worth it to us, it would take years to justify the cost. We are running ten dollars a week now, driving an old (but nice) gas hog with gas hovering at 2$, but that's only 520$ a year, and you really can't get much of a vehicle for 520$ any more, and even then, if we cut our mileage in half, we'd still have to pay for the additional car, probably higher insurance, probably higher parts replacement costs, and the gas and oil. So we would actually now LOSE on getting a more fuel efficient car, which sucks. Our best bet is just to drive even less often. People who have to commute real far and daily, all I can say is, "carpool", make the effort, and do combined trips for all the other driving you do.
I LIKE the idea of making my own fuel though, and we got the space to probably do it. Ethanol is a possibility with gas engines, and we don't own a diesel. The tractors we use are almost all diesel though.
right on man, that would be *nice* Be able to just slide a user deeper or farther away from the center, and even add layers (jails), more spheres over spheres, on the fly.
Slashdot is fine for learning new stuff. A lot of people find interesting articles to post here, then even more comment on them, and every thread always has even more interesting links. It's a force multiplier that way, and you get a lot of great anecdotals, too. Yes, you might have to wade through the trolls, and along the way you might get sidetracked, or enjoy some joking, etc, but all in all it's pretty good. That's why it's popular, it fills a niche and does it well. And it's pretty well customisable, you get the content you want, and you can set your threshold where you want. Price is right, too.
--the earliest phones I remember as a kid where hard wired, no jack at all, and they didn't have a dial. Heavy suckers. One of my grandmas had one of the old crank phones, where the mouth piece was on the phone on the wall, you grabbed the single earphone and held it up to your ear, and you cranked it to get the operators attention. We had a normal looking phone though, just no dial. You just picked up the phone, if someone was yakking on it (no one had a dedicated phone, they were all party lines with like 6 houses on each circuit) you asked when they would be done. You picked up a few minutes later, and the operator came on, you gave her-and it always was a her- a number, or just told her a name if it was local. Payphones had dials and cost a nickle. Hardly anyone had a TV yet(we were the first in the neighborhood to get one), but everyone had a big ole tube job radio in the living room and some sort of record player. Those radios threw more heat then the next 10 AMD boxes put together. Smokin! They'd pull the stations though, almost all of them had built in shortwave and commercial AM, there wasn't any FM yet. Not that I remember anyway. I LOVED them things. Had a big ole grundig was my gateway to the world at night, had wires all over my ceiling in my room.
And movies were 25 cents and the only place that had air conditioning. Cokes were a nickle. A new.22 rifle was around 12$. A one speed old heavy bike was about 25$, had enough steel in it to build two harleys I think. Not sure on new car prices back then other than below one grand for a decent one. I know the first house we lived in cost my dad 100$ downpayment, and it was brand spanking new, 3 bedroom ranch with a nice yard in a nice neighborhood. He had a ten year mortgage (I asked him later to find out), which was very common then.
NONE of these billionaires gets it, zero of them near as I can see. they think they got some magic formulae to keep the gravy train on track, and I got a clue by four for them, they done MADE all the billions they are gonna make off the desktop and small server market. People are gonna hang on to their hardware for longer, and when they "upgrade" it's going going to be real cheap-not free, cheap, BUT software will be free in it's basic forms. F R DOUBLE E FREE. *Customisation* of software and keeping it running smooth will be the only significant costs involved to business, and it is where programmers, sysadmins and sorts like that will find credible employment. To joe home user, zero costs beyond paying for media OS and apps disks perhaps, say 10$ or something. And that's it. Everyone out there now is starting to hear about free software and linux and whatnot, at least it's entered their consciousness. Those who adapt early will make it, those who struggle to maintain "buggywhip inc" are gonna suffer. Just like the music and movie middlemen skimmers, "buggywhip inc" is gonna put them out of business, just they refuse to see it. And they-they being these huge companies who made it when there was little competition and it was new and shiny- made a few hundred billion in ten years, that should be *enough* to go on, look for some other business or go play tennis or something. We need to get back to real business, not keep insisting the tool business is the real business. People are gonna gradually stop making these guys multi billionaires. Of course they hates it, but their megalomania won't allow them to see it. Right nowe anyway they aren't seeing it, eventually they'll wake up one day, go to give some drone an order, and they will be all alone, the last drone will have slipped out the door in the middle of the night to go rejoin the normal human race.
Seriously, just move. there is no joy in living scared like that.I was an urban geek for around 15 years, finally I just said ENOUGH and moved back to the country. I've had my fill of crack heads and winos and breakins and near muggings. Had an attempted carjacking before, too. Screw it, just move. MUCH nicer in the rural areas. Yes, you trade off some alleged "convenience",like there's no deli on the corner, but you get a trade of having your own big garden and chickens maybe. Stuff like that. You gain a lot, especially in "security". It's not perfect, but a heckuva lot bettah. Crime rates are orders of magnitude lower. You know your neighbors, they know you. They know what you drive, you know what they drive, any strange vehicles at someones house get noticed. If you are out walking around at night you might run into a possum or racoon or a rabbit, etc (or whatever ya'all got over in englande), but no muggers. It's not perfect, but try it anyway. You might be surprised how *nice* it is. And guess what, you CAN still be a geek! Nuthin stoppin ya!
Ah well, right off the bat, yes, I am an isolationist. Well, more or less yes, with the opposite being an interventionist, which I am not. I don't believe in pre emptive attacks without very good credible data. I also don't believe in half way war, either you go to war when it is really necessary or you don't. And the tonkin gulf non event and the WMD non invent (and some others, notably the pretty credible evidence showing various peoiple inside government had prior knowledge and/or involvement in the attack on 9-11) convince me the US government/industrial/military complex are serious chronic liars.They manufacture events, so they can offer their solutions, and do it over and over again. If anyone wants to defend those sorts of policies, then have at it, but I'll have naught to do with it besides condemnation. People can try to justify it all they want to, it sounds quite hollow to me.
I'm not against righteous self defense, I am a strict believer in personal and national self defense, BUT, it has to be clearly righteous. Basing aggressive actions on lies and claiming self defense, and involving an entire nation, and killing a variety of people based on those lies is treason with a capital T, and no one's profits are worth it, IMO. And it IS the main issue here, I don't want to get side tracked about it.
and we always had an effective deterrent to the soviet union expansionist aggressive tendencies-back we we actually MADE stuff that wasn't military. People all over the planet used to loke american goods, they were decent enough. We had the really big carrot and stick then-don't be ajerk off nation, we will trade with you. Become a belligerent jerk off nation, poof, not a single one of your people ever enters the US, you are never to do business with any american company or person, and any third party/nation dodges that are discoverd, then that same boycott embargo would hold for them too.
Given the choice between semi crappy soviet arms and even worse consumer products from there, most nations would have opted for trading with us instead. That is only an opinion, but too bad we never tried it instead of the gross tit for tat arms race. We never tried that tact though, because it actually required courage and intelligence and a high moral ground stance, something severely lacking in modern business, government and in it's various militaries with revolving door retired officers and politicians->direct to military "business". I can look at it, clearly see it as a conflict of interest. What else could it be called? Joe general or Joe senator "retires" goes to work in international schmooze and sales for bigbang co, inc. Is it no wonder "crises" requiring their "products and services" always seem to arise?
It's called the heglian dialectic, that is how our government and foreign policy (and domestic as well) is run now. Create a problem, get the desired psychological reaction, offer the solution, a profitable solution.
It's a scam. You can slap shiny paint on it, throw all sorts of noble words at it, academic-icise it all you want to-but it's still a scam mostly.
Maybe you have read this before, most likely yes, but in case anyone else reading this hasn't, I present 'war is a racket" a piece written by a major general of the maries smedley butler. appropriate on this memorial day weekend:
I agree with him on gedit, the older version was better, much easier to use.
I agree on not having an easy way to edit the main menu, that is the sucks.
I agree on not having all the apps AVAILABLE on a menu someplace, how the HECK is a noob supposed to know what's on there, yet alone try it out or use it? What, there's some rule you have to be psychic? Is it too much to have a list, with an entire paragraph describing WHAT such and such an app is and what it does? One steenking human readable paragraph, just one at a minimum, connected to each app on a menu that had everything on it. That would be *nice*, real nice.
I don't have a problem with sound, sound worked right off the bat automagically, and "fixing" xmms is as easy as uncommenting the mpeg placeholder plugin, and downloading and installing the xmms-mp3 plugin, now I got shoutcast streams for my favorite ranting radio. I assume the broadband speeds music channels work as well.
video, again, no problems seeing this monitor using some old 2 meg video card. i guess I don't see a need to drop hundred or two hundred dollars to star at the same screen, and I don't do video games, so that's that. If the latest "turbovidia" whosis don't work, I really don't care. And if it's because "turbovidia, inc" won't release linux drivers, WHY would you WANT to financially support that company anyway? $%&^K 'em! why support dickhead companies with your loot? To play GAMES? Life is way too interesting to "play games", go play "real life" instead.
rhythm box, never used it. xmms rules. why mess with success? I looked at it, ehh. maybe it works, no idea. xmms is nice and small and works.
Open office I don't use, so I skipped installing it, and it was choking on it anyway. There's half a dozen more do dads/text editors to type up crap with there left over, all of them work just fine. Maybe business really needs all that crap, but I simply can't imagine how business "got along" before office this or office that. I think it's 3/4ths "office busy work" to justify more white collar workers meselfs. Don't need it. We need more widget builders, we got way too many widget organizers, managers, bosses, clerks, accountants, lawyers and "personal assistants". More real work, less "busy-ness" please. that's what worked in the past when we really were making some loot and building a middle class. WORKERS, not "busy-ness"men. Fixation on "office" crap is just that, an unnatural fixation. You don't need most of it.
xpdf displays acrobat documents OK, I've used it already. I never create any PDF, so there ya go
mozilla 1.6 is a great browser, tastes great, less filling, no probs there.
Still too many things turned on by default, a little nmap action and some new firewall rules took care of that. Well, maybe I don't know, that's why I have a stand alone "beta box" I'm on. if anything happens, poof, erase, try it again. fedora is BETA. Even a release is BETA. that is what it is designed for. FREE beta ware. It's great for that. That is a bitch I got though,back to firewalls, there needs to be a much better firewall included with some written in non-geek howtos for noobs (moi for sure) and whatnot. The default "firewall-on" leaves some stuff still open, near as I can see anyway. ya, ya, I should get a router and stuff...
Dual boot with windows? Why, what for? I don't play video games, and if I did I'd buy one of them game console things. get the right tool for the right job. And if I "needed" windows for work, I'd think about that again, especially if "da boss" insisted on it, because that proves he already makes bad business decisions and will continue to do so, so your job might be in higher jeopardy..
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kde versus gnome versus some voodoo leet window installer thing. No idea, I've tried kde several times, half the apps would segfault or not even turn on. I have been underwhelmed with it. I understand for some people it's the slickest thing since 6 packs to go, but for me it's always been near-horr
--the US military is getting attacked BECAUSE they are over in some other nation, fighting people who never attacked them in the first place. this is contrary to even the most basic common sense. If they weren't there, if all those guardsmen and reservists were back home with their families where they belong, they wouldn't be getting shot at or shooting back, would they? And they got sent over there based on some really questionable "data" presented as absolute fact by our appointed leaders. I mean, there's still millions of people who think saddam had something to do with 9-11 based on government lies and media massaging of the news. I would say don't blame people resisting invaders, invaders who showed up with really advanced weaponry, and who have already killed thousands of non combatants.
This isn't a defense of saddam,and he's a freaking goon we propped up and supported in the first place, but it is a condemnation of going to war under false pretenses, then blaming the people over there if they fight back in the only ways they can. You have _one_ choice against overwhelming tech and military superiority, and that's assymetrical warfare. Turn it around, would you fight back if some coalition that was huge enough and big enough and decided to come over here and "regime change" us, even if you disliked the current regime here, wouldn't you consider those people invaders? I certainly am NO fan of the past three "regimes" we have had here in the US, but no way would I have welcomed or assisted some large outside military force coming over here and "helping out", I would consider them "the enemy" and act accordingly.
As to how those folks over there feel about us, I think if a long time ago we had changed two things in our polciies we would be better off. 1-we should have run with the reality wake up call of the OPEC embargo and engaged in a massive national size scale effort to completely eliminate any dependence on middle eastern oil. Totally. 2- we should have stopped the massive support for radical zionism in our policies by at least the early 70s when it became obvious that things weren't as originally presented. And along with those two issues, we should have never shipped so much as one bullet, in sales or direct aid, to any nation in the mid east. That's a blunder of incalcuable dimensions really.
We've failed to hold onto any sort of moral high ground. Look around at all the foreign press, we have alientated a lot of the planet based on our actions. US based international companies have profitted immensely from the continuation of strife and conflict over there for generations now. Granted, some other places would have provided arms, but WE wouldn't have done it, and we could then hold some positions that were more ethical and more practical, improving our national prestige and our national security at the same time.
Eisenhower warned us, he said watch out for the influence of the military/industrial complex. He could smell what was coming, and took his last national appearnace to issue that warning. It was that important to him to say those things. Too bad we didn't heed his warning, a warning coming from one intimately involved in "warfare" and the realities of "business profits" and notions of right/wrong. Everything they have done has now resulted in MORE people who don't like us, so that has decreased national security, not increased it, but it's sure made a lot of profit for a dozen huge military/industrial concerns and the high level people connected to them.
Realistically now, I see no easy answers. The best of all the hard answers is to pull out as soon as possible, and I hope inside this nation we have some credible investigations leading to some serious impeachments and trials for racketeering and treason. I don't think that will happen though, too many people are brainwashed into thinking this system of two paid off and bribed off political parties still works, when it's obvious that people outside the electorate are the real political power here, not "the voters" and not these actors/script readers passing as politicians who are front men for those elite who call the shots.
... in that area of the world, most males own firearms, usually at least an AK, for various reasons, and YES again, it is a big part of their culture to shoot them off at times of celebration.
That stuff is widely known, BTW, so it's not far fetched at all to believe the people's story at that massacre site. It's happened all over, just last week I was listening (radio interview)to a soldier who just got out, describing how his unit would shoot civilians at the drop of a hat.
You'll just have to face it, the US is starting to get pretty trigger happy over there. And right off the bat, just think on this, EVERYONE "detained" is automatically a terrorist, instantly a non human basically. That's official US policy. All you have to do is follow the news from more than a few places and you can see that. And they really don't care too much about killing innocents (collateral damage), because they had to go in and save innocents from getting killed, on the way to the WMD giant stashes, that were one second away from being launched towards the US. It's a sham really, and we are looking worse and worse every day around the world. On 9-11-2001 everyone around the planet sympathised with us, now they mostly distrust us, and it's PRECISELY from our governments official actions since then. No other credible explanation except that.
I live here, and I am fully confident in saying the bulk of the population here is just plain old fashioned jingoists. Wish I had a dime for every "nuke the ay-rabs!" I have heard from people or read on forums. And the less informed they are,by talking to them to find out, the more stupid sounding and violently racist they sound. That's the PLAN, that's why we have a mass media that operates like that, it's to keep people faked out, dumbed down and following in good little goose stepping fashion, whatever these "elites" think they want. And it WORKS. The theme of genocide is still alive and kicking, unfortunately it's coming from a lot of places, INCLUDING the US, and it's reflected in our governments actions, it speech patterns into officially recognized propoganda newspeak ("detainees"? how utterly intellectually dishonest, and almost every journalist out there still uses the term), and in our controlled large news media which DEFINETLY censors and massages anything important.
--I was more replying from an insurance companies point of view. I DID interject some observations on some things I've noticed over the years, a lot of times you'll see products that are questionable, yet they get almost rushed out the door. some company makes billions, yet people suffer down the road. I wasn't kidding about tthe agent orange, I got several friends got sick from it, and industry and the government flat out lied about it. Yes, there's risks, there's also common sense and ethics, and from my POV we need a lot more common sense and ethics. If that means slightly slower "releases" of brand new tech, I'm all for it. Our society is still almost medieval in it's makeup, yet our technology is advanced as can be. That's why we have problems _along_ with the successes, it's not all one or the other. I'd like to see a lot less greed runing everything, to be to the point. My default is skepticism, it's my nature. Science tells me something is safe, I don't believe them until after decades have passed. And it's not my fault, it's their fault for being so wrong in the past, yet standing on their credentials *at the time* and insisiting they are near infallible. It's just not true, and some mistakes have been proven to be *major* mistakes. Of course, joe scientist whatever is no where to be found then, his money has been spent, he's long gone and not accepting any blame for his mistakes or arrogance. some vague government or industry just says "sorry" and throws some cash at the problem then, cash that can never bring people back, the people who suffered from their over confidence and who "trusted" them.
I'm not a luddite, I'm a realist, we are just throwing new tech out now with zero thought to the future, just "if it works now it must be cool so let's do it". I find that attitude highly arrogant. All I am saying is "let's slow down a scosh", and going back to the original article, the indusrance industry is saying the same thing on some subjects. We are smart, we are allowed to learn from history, and it's a good thing when we do so.
They grow a very sweet and tasty onion down in south georgia, around the town of "vidalia" hence the onions of that name. You can use the same seed, grown elsewhere, but it is illegal to call it a "vidalia" for sales purposes.
---geez, you need to read up more on this. That's EXACTLY where they put the tags, point of manufacture. And they WILL be as hidden as possible inside the merchandise. That's the whole point. they want to track a product from start to finish, and they want to make it as tamper proof as possible. For a big variety of reasons.
... know or care about Java, or interoperability, but Joe Company might, because they got trained IT dudes hanging around to translate. And they are more likely to actually purchase something.
Joe User gets their nephew to stick a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of MS Office on if the nephew doesn't care, or OO if he does. either way, a much lower profit potential with Joe User. they run whatever OS came on the machine, and any additional apps they run are more often than not been warezed in some manner, or are very common freeware downloads, like winamp, etc..
guess I'll wait until they release their next version, then try it out. So far I am quite happy with mozilla suite, I actually like the all in one design over having a separate browser/email whatever. I also hope they spiffy up composer, po mans semi adequate web editor.
There's a variety of dual fuel carbs out there for normal vehicles. Using either gasoline, or gas and/or propane or natural gas. I looked into it before for my van with a chevy 350, normal carb. At the time, several years ago now, the conversion was around 300$ I think.
Here's a Google link for dual fuel, propane
As for finding propane for a fill up, it's not that hard, most yellow pages will direct you to your local outlet for bulk filling. Not near as many as for a normal gas station, but every community in the US probably has some place you get get propane. I've had to find the places a lot, my van and my RV both have propane tanks (just for the camping accessories right now), and I've never had a hard time finding propane. And for that matter, it might not be that hard to have a big bulk tank put in in your back yard, have the truck top it off occassionally, and do your own "fill up" right at home with the appropriate extra gear installed. A nice way to buy when it's cheap and have a good reserve handy. /me = remembers OPEC boycott and sudden "no gas" very clearly
I'm in the US and been a serious news junky since the late 50's. I would 100% agree with you. I can't think of a single top commercial media outlet in broadcast that isn't heavily censored. And the deal is, for most people, they never fully realise it, because unless they actually go LOOK and seek out alternative news and foreign news, they will never see anything else.
And the censorship is quite slick, and subtle, sometimes they just completely ignore issues. Other times they do a "report" but leave out enough details to totally give an erroneous impression. Other times they outright lie. The completely dismal coverage of *true* 9-11 data is a prime example. By now if we had true uncensored news, we would have had a regime change internally, it's that bad here, IMO.
And it's because, at the tippy top, ALL the major outlets are run and controlled by the same elitists who run and control the government, the so called "elite" who use the media to affect politics and business, and always in their favor. "News" simply for "news" sake doesn't exist, near as I can tell. News as proganda and as advertising does though, heavily. And I'll include PBS as well, in most instances. And when it;'s mixed with a public school system that is over 1/2 sheer brainwashing, yep, you get a controlled, dumbed down population. It's designed that way, they spend whatever it takes to make sure it's run that way, so they get the results they want.
The nightly business report is heavily shilled towards wall street skimmers, to keep people locked into that mindset and congame. You won't see them ever actually mentioning that perhaps it's just not a good idea to buy a "stock" at all today, for example. I'd take that outlet with a grain of salt as well. Think of it as 30 minutes of Ronco style infotainment commercial and it makes more sense.
I haven't used netscape in quite awhile, and never on linux. What are any of the major design or function differences between current netscape (do not know version) and current stable moz (1.6)?
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in the article he especially mentions he doesn't like the exact way linux is done, he says it leads to a company like redhat that has open software but closed standards (? no, I still don't get what he means there). He says something about having them both open. Now what license or model that might be he didn't specify, or at least it wasn't in there.
My best guess is they want to somehow leverage their hardware and software so that following the other announcement of "free hardware" with a pay as you go subscription model, they just want the free lunch aspects: get thousands of outside developers to submit work to solaris, then force end users to pay a subscription to deploy it beyond a single hobbyist machine. Something like that anyway, so they maintain control on the "totality" of the OS and apps combo. In other words, no forking or redistribution, Sun only releases, pay to play, but free to look at and develop and give back to Sun so they can rent it out. The OS might even be tied to a DRM like thing directly in the hardware, which you can only get from them.
schweet deal for them if enough people go that route. My next best guess is it will be a failure in the long run.
There are two primary forces running open source right now-the active developers "get it" on freely sharing,how everyone benefits from combining knowledge and resources (software as friends and neighbors cooperating in community barn raising) and businesses that adopt it don't get locked in to ridiculously expensive computing costs in the aggregate, and the real smart ones devote some of their coders efforts (time, money, etc) into giving back.
and nickles had pictures of bees on them
... and it's exactly what I thought too, at least a variation of it, and they opened it so anyone could implement as much of it as they wanted to. So I'll call it a cousin of DRM.
Yes, the phone companies were SUCH rip, that's why they finally got busted up. Long distance was obscene expensive. And that thing with the one phone, yes, and I remember a lot of guys just hard wired in their own phone extensions, using old surplus stuff they got from someplace. You kept it hidden though, like under the bed. Sorta like modding satellite now or something like that. When business won't give ya what ya want, you DIY. It was ridiculous. And the music and movie industry was still a monopoly and charged out the wazoo for "copies". That hasn't changed one bit. They have consistantly maintained every new generation of technology would "put them out of business". What a crock.
But, I bet you had great fishing and hunting, yes? and a big garden slam fulla great chow every summer? Living rural was always great, IMO, still is.
Got my tech enthusiasm from my dad, who was a radio/radar tech in the navy in ww2, then went on to be a mr fixit guy for them things back in civvie life, then went on to work in mainframes. I got to see and help work (some, mostly astanding around getting in the way) on some really old full building sized monsters way back then. He's retired now, but is still a mad garage inventor/tinkerer. Heh, he used to be a "case modder". This is funny. All the old radios and tvs he worked on for people, he would throw a fan in there mounted inside a coffee can, they kept the machines cooler, the tubes went out less often=happier customers, more word of mouth business for him. Another time he built his own electric guitar and amp and had a small band he played in, mostly what is called rockabilly now styled music. My mom jammed on keyboards-a real piano. Heh. They also really encouraged me, were good parents, I learned to read at age 4, that certainly helped.
I'm red-green deficient color blind unfortunately, so back then I really couldn't get into electronics much from color coded wires and resistors, etc, much to my regret to this day. I can tinker some with electronics now, but it's just strictly amatuer hour there. I'm a fair mechanic/carpenter and have had quite an amazing variety of jobs and experiences. To me, life is a great adventure, if you ain't having fun and learning, you'll just shrivel up and get sour. Ya gotta stay physically and mentally active. I always liked computers, but never afforded one until the early 90s when they finally got cheap enough for me to get good used ones. Now it's just a hobby and a great commo tool, an adjunct to radios. Hmm, another thing my old man made was really spiffy, back in the late 60's we had a big backyard pool, the last couple years I was living at home. He and I installed a home brew solar water heating system for that pool, we picked up two more months of good swimming with that thing (up in michigan where I grew up). He was always making stuff like that. Another one I remember he made a capacitive discharge ignition system for those old 59 chevy wagon he had. It was a bear to start in cold weather, he built this thing one weekened and poof, that car just CRANKED and ran no matter how cold it got.
Lots of older folks are tech savvy, remember, all the tech we have today came from guys like my dad back then doing the ground work. 50 years from now you'll look back and go "man, that was some primitive stuff back then in 2004!" HAHAHA!
ipods! We didn't have no steenking ipods! I had a crystal radio I made. The potential between the antenna and the ground wire made the juice to run it. The tuner was wire wrapped on a carboard tube, the ear phone was a rubber eraser with a needle in it and some bits of plastic crap. the whole thing was mounted in a cigar box. Wish I still had it.. hmm Dang if I could remember it better I'd describe it better, but that was most of it AFAIK. It actually worked, with a lot of fussing you could get a couple of stations. Nuthing like that grundig though, I STILL don't have a radio that could pull the stations that old analog monster could.
some stuff was cooler back then, some stuff is cooler now, it's a fair trade off I guess. *Much* less crime, and your buck was worth a lot more, and wicked easy to find good work, and things you could get were mostly still cheap, and quality was excellent. Now you have a lot more variety of *things*, but they don't last as long. Stuff all costs too much, which they keep trying to fix by inflating the dollar, but it still hasn't worked. We got a lot more white collar businessmen/bosses/mamagers/ whatever per human than we used to. And the economy got worse. Politicians still suck. I think they always have sucked, because it's a sucky job probably. Corporations are even more bogus, but they bring us cool stuff, so we are stuck with them, that'll be the fight that lasts forever. We have much better information now, you can go find out about ANYTHING you want to sitting in your living room, this is WAY cool.
Still, no cheap flying cars, and no hot babe amazon robots for your private army.... I'm HOLDING OUT!
something that can convert from a single seater commuter car to the family SUV/van to a work truck. Say you buy a basic platform, then have add ons to convert it. Combine that with a basic engine that has variable valves (like the old cadillac solenoid actuated valves), that could adjust as the power needs increased. Most of the time it might be in as little as a two cylinder mode, for the daily single person commute, not carrying much weight. 'Weekends, pop off the small, lighter, more streamlined single person body, bolt on the heavier/bigger suv styled body for the family picnic or whatever, or the pickup body for hauling shrubs home from the garden center, etc. The engine can be adjusted to 4 or 6 or 8 cylinders then, whatever. That and one of the better modern transmissions you might have a possible solution.
The other thing is we have really chaotic and dismally designed cities/societies/workplaces. There could be a lot more work done to develop communities based around employment sources, not just this ad hoc ad lib chaotic anarchy we have now. Example, you can see subdivisions going up all over, but all they are is someone had some cheap land, they get a permit to carve it up, slop some homes in there. Nuts.
Say you take some big company plans on a new combo manufacturing/development whatever place. they design and build it, and incorporate housing into the scheme of things, right on the property, along with some stores, supermarkets, and so on, at least the basics. Employees get a cut rate discount on a home there,plus a much shorter commute, happier employees, makes a happier company, more profits, etc. Simplistic, but along those lines. Planning, not hap hazard.
What we do is just got a job where we live. I only drive to town once a week, and could easily drop that to twice a month or once a month, and I WILL if gas gets too much higher. The cost tradeoffs for getting a new fuel miserly vehilcle just to drive more aren't worth it to us, it would take years to justify the cost. We are running ten dollars a week now, driving an old (but nice) gas hog with gas hovering at 2$, but that's only 520$ a year, and you really can't get much of a vehicle for 520$ any more, and even then, if we cut our mileage in half, we'd still have to pay for the additional car, probably higher insurance, probably higher parts replacement costs, and the gas and oil. So we would actually now LOSE on getting a more fuel efficient car, which sucks. Our best bet is just to drive even less often. People who have to commute real far and daily, all I can say is, "carpool", make the effort, and do combined trips for all the other driving you do.
I LIKE the idea of making my own fuel though, and we got the space to probably do it. Ethanol is a possibility with gas engines, and we don't own a diesel. The tractors we use are almost all diesel though.
Gonna have to think on this some more.
right on man, that would be *nice* Be able to just slide a user deeper or farther away from the center, and even add layers (jails), more spheres over spheres, on the fly.
I like it.
Slashdot is fine for learning new stuff. A lot of people find interesting articles to post here, then even more comment on them, and every thread always has even more interesting links. It's a force multiplier that way, and you get a lot of great anecdotals, too. Yes, you might have to wade through the trolls, and along the way you might get sidetracked, or enjoy some joking, etc, but all in all it's pretty good. That's why it's popular, it fills a niche and does it well. And it's pretty well customisable, you get the content you want, and you can set your threshold where you want. Price is right, too.
--the earliest phones I remember as a kid where hard wired, no jack at all, and they didn't have a dial. Heavy suckers. One of my grandmas had one of the old crank phones, where the mouth piece was on the phone on the wall, you grabbed the single earphone and held it up to your ear, and you cranked it to get the operators attention. We had a normal looking phone though, just no dial. You just picked up the phone, if someone was yakking on it (no one had a dedicated phone, they were all party lines with like 6 houses on each circuit) you asked when they would be done. You picked up a few minutes later, and the operator came on, you gave her-and it always was a her- a number, or just told her a name if it was local. Payphones had dials and cost a nickle. Hardly anyone had a TV yet(we were the first in the neighborhood to get one), but everyone had a big ole tube job radio in the living room and some sort of record player. Those radios threw more heat then the next 10 AMD boxes put together. Smokin! They'd pull the stations though, almost all of them had built in shortwave and commercial AM, there wasn't any FM yet. Not that I remember anyway. I LOVED them things. Had a big ole grundig was my gateway to the world at night, had wires all over my ceiling in my room.
.22 rifle was around 12$. A one speed old heavy bike was about 25$, had enough steel in it to build two harleys I think. Not sure on new car prices back then other than below one grand for a decent one. I know the first house we lived in cost my dad 100$ downpayment, and it was brand spanking new, 3 bedroom ranch with a nice yard in a nice neighborhood. He had a ten year mortgage (I asked him later to find out), which was very common then.
And movies were 25 cents and the only place that had air conditioning. Cokes were a nickle. A new
NONE of these billionaires gets it, zero of them near as I can see. they think they got some magic formulae to keep the gravy train on track, and I got a clue by four for them, they done MADE all the billions they are gonna make off the desktop and small server market. People are gonna hang on to their hardware for longer, and when they "upgrade" it's going going to be real cheap-not free, cheap, BUT software will be free in it's basic forms. F R DOUBLE E FREE. *Customisation* of software and keeping it running smooth will be the only significant costs involved to business, and it is where programmers, sysadmins and sorts like that will find credible employment. To joe home user, zero costs beyond paying for media OS and apps disks perhaps, say 10$ or something. And that's it. Everyone out there now is starting to hear about free software and linux and whatnot, at least it's entered their consciousness. Those who adapt early will make it, those who struggle to maintain "buggywhip inc" are gonna suffer. Just like the music and movie middlemen skimmers, "buggywhip inc" is gonna put them out of business, just they refuse to see it. And they-they being these huge companies who made it when there was little competition and it was new and shiny- made a few hundred billion in ten years, that should be *enough* to go on, look for some other business or go play tennis or something. We need to get back to real business, not keep insisting the tool business is the real business. People are gonna gradually stop making these guys multi billionaires. Of course they hates it, but their megalomania won't allow them to see it. Right nowe anyway they aren't seeing it, eventually they'll wake up one day, go to give some drone an order, and they will be all alone, the last drone will have slipped out the door in the middle of the night to go rejoin the normal human race.
and thus spaketh zogathustra
Seriously, just move. there is no joy in living scared like that.I was an urban geek for around 15 years, finally I just said ENOUGH and moved back to the country. I've had my fill of crack heads and winos and breakins and near muggings. Had an attempted carjacking before, too. Screw it, just move. MUCH nicer in the rural areas. Yes, you trade off some alleged "convenience",like there's no deli on the corner, but you get a trade of having your own big garden and chickens maybe. Stuff like that. You gain a lot, especially in "security". It's not perfect, but a heckuva lot bettah. Crime rates are orders of magnitude lower. You know your neighbors, they know you. They know what you drive, you know what they drive, any strange vehicles at someones house get noticed. If you are out walking around at night you might run into a possum or racoon or a rabbit, etc (or whatever ya'all got over in englande), but no muggers. It's not perfect, but try it anyway. You might be surprised how *nice* it is. And guess what, you CAN still be a geek! Nuthin stoppin ya!
I'm not against righteous self defense, I am a strict believer in personal and national self defense, BUT, it has to be clearly righteous. Basing aggressive actions on lies and claiming self defense, and involving an entire nation, and killing a variety of people based on those lies is treason with a capital T, and no one's profits are worth it, IMO. And it IS the main issue here, I don't want to get side tracked about it.
and we always had an effective deterrent to the soviet union expansionist aggressive tendencies-back we we actually MADE stuff that wasn't military. People all over the planet used to loke american goods, they were decent enough. We had the really big carrot and stick then-don't be ajerk off nation, we will trade with you. Become a belligerent jerk off nation, poof, not a single one of your people ever enters the US, you are never to do business with any american company or person, and any third party/nation dodges that are discoverd, then that same boycott embargo would hold for them too.
Given the choice between semi crappy soviet arms and even worse consumer products from there, most nations would have opted for trading with us instead. That is only an opinion, but too bad we never tried it instead of the gross tit for tat arms race. We never tried that tact though, because it actually required courage and intelligence and a high moral ground stance, something severely lacking in modern business, government and in it's various militaries with revolving door retired officers and politicians->direct to military "business". I can look at it, clearly see it as a conflict of interest. What else could it be called? Joe general or Joe senator "retires" goes to work in international schmooze and sales for bigbang co, inc. Is it no wonder "crises" requiring their "products and services" always seem to arise?
It's called the heglian dialectic, that is how our government and foreign policy (and domestic as well) is run now. Create a problem, get the desired psychological reaction, offer the solution, a profitable solution.
It's a scam. You can slap shiny paint on it, throw all sorts of noble words at it, academic-icise it all you want to-but it's still a scam mostly.
Maybe you have read this before, most likely yes, but in case anyone else reading this hasn't, I present 'war is a racket" a piece written by a major general of the maries smedley butler. appropriate on this memorial day weekend:
Google link, take your pick
The first link has all five short chapters, it's quite good, I agree with him. He says it better than I can say it.
I agree with him on gedit, the older version was better, much easier to use.
I agree on not having an easy way to edit the main menu, that is the sucks.
I agree on not having all the apps AVAILABLE on a menu someplace, how the HECK is a noob supposed to know what's on there, yet alone try it out or use it? What, there's some rule you have to be psychic? Is it too much to have a list, with an entire paragraph describing WHAT such and such an app is and what it does? One steenking human readable paragraph, just one at a minimum, connected to each app on a menu that had everything on it. That would be *nice*, real nice.
I don't have a problem with sound, sound worked right off the bat automagically, and "fixing" xmms is as easy as uncommenting the mpeg placeholder plugin, and downloading and installing the xmms-mp3 plugin, now I got shoutcast streams for my favorite ranting radio. I assume the broadband speeds music channels work as well.
video, again, no problems seeing this monitor using some old 2 meg video card. i guess I don't see a need to drop hundred or two hundred dollars to star at the same screen, and I don't do video games, so that's that. If the latest "turbovidia" whosis don't work, I really don't care. And if it's because "turbovidia, inc" won't release linux drivers, WHY would you WANT to financially support that company anyway? $%&^K 'em! why support dickhead companies with your loot? To play GAMES? Life is way too interesting to "play games", go play "real life" instead.
rhythm box, never used it. xmms rules. why mess with success? I looked at it, ehh. maybe it works, no idea. xmms is nice and small and works.
Open office I don't use, so I skipped installing it, and it was choking on it anyway. There's half a dozen more do dads/text editors to type up crap with there left over, all of them work just fine. Maybe business really needs all that crap, but I simply can't imagine how business "got along" before office this or office that. I think it's 3/4ths "office busy work" to justify more white collar workers meselfs. Don't need it. We need more widget builders, we got way too many widget organizers, managers, bosses, clerks, accountants, lawyers and "personal assistants". More real work, less "busy-ness" please. that's what worked in the past when we really were making some loot and building a middle class. WORKERS, not "busy-ness"men. Fixation on "office" crap is just that, an unnatural fixation. You don't need most of it.
xpdf displays acrobat documents OK, I've used it already. I never create any PDF, so there ya go
mozilla 1.6 is a great browser, tastes great, less filling, no probs there.
Still too many things turned on by default, a little nmap action and some new firewall rules took care of that. Well, maybe I don't know, that's why I have a stand alone "beta box" I'm on. if anything happens, poof, erase, try it again. fedora is BETA. Even a release is BETA. that is what it is designed for. FREE beta ware. It's great for that. That is a bitch I got though,back to firewalls, there needs to be a much better firewall included with some written in non-geek howtos for noobs (moi for sure) and whatnot. The default "firewall-on" leaves some stuff still open, near as I can see anyway. ya, ya, I should get a router and stuff...
Dual boot with windows? Why, what for? I don't play video games, and if I did I'd buy one of them game console things. get the right tool for the right job. And if I "needed" windows for work, I'd think about that again, especially if "da boss" insisted on it, because that proves he already makes bad business decisions and will continue to do so, so your job might be in higher jeopardy..
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kde versus gnome versus some voodoo leet window installer thing. No idea, I've tried kde several times, half the apps would segfault or not even turn on. I have been underwhelmed with it. I understand for some people it's the slickest thing since 6 packs to go, but for me it's always been near-horr
--the US military is getting attacked BECAUSE they are over in some other nation, fighting people who never attacked them in the first place. this is contrary to even the most basic common sense. If they weren't there, if all those guardsmen and reservists were back home with their families where they belong, they wouldn't be getting shot at or shooting back, would they? And they got sent over there based on some really questionable "data" presented as absolute fact by our appointed leaders. I mean, there's still millions of people who think saddam had something to do with 9-11 based on government lies and media massaging of the news. I would say don't blame people resisting invaders, invaders who showed up with really advanced weaponry, and who have already killed thousands of non combatants.
This isn't a defense of saddam,and he's a freaking goon we propped up and supported in the first place, but it is a condemnation of going to war under false pretenses, then blaming the people over there if they fight back in the only ways they can. You have _one_ choice against overwhelming tech and military superiority, and that's assymetrical warfare. Turn it around, would you fight back if some coalition that was huge enough and big enough and decided to come over here and "regime change" us, even if you disliked the current regime here, wouldn't you consider those people invaders? I certainly am NO fan of the past three "regimes" we have had here in the US, but no way would I have welcomed or assisted some large outside military force coming over here and "helping out", I would consider them "the enemy" and act accordingly.
As to how those folks over there feel about us, I think if a long time ago we had changed two things in our polciies we would be better off. 1-we should have run with the reality wake up call of the OPEC embargo and engaged in a massive national size scale effort to completely eliminate any dependence on middle eastern oil. Totally. 2- we should have stopped the massive support for radical zionism in our policies by at least the early 70s when it became obvious that things weren't as originally presented. And along with those two issues, we should have never shipped so much as one bullet, in sales or direct aid, to any nation in the mid east. That's a blunder of incalcuable dimensions really.
We've failed to hold onto any sort of moral high ground. Look around at all the foreign press, we have alientated a lot of the planet based on our actions. US based international companies have profitted immensely from the continuation of strife and conflict over there for generations now. Granted, some other places would have provided arms, but WE wouldn't have done it, and we could then hold some positions that were more ethical and more practical, improving our national prestige and our national security at the same time.
Eisenhower warned us, he said watch out for the influence of the military/industrial complex. He could smell what was coming, and took his last national appearnace to issue that warning. It was that important to him to say those things. Too bad we didn't heed his warning, a warning coming from one intimately involved in "warfare" and the realities of "business profits" and notions of right/wrong. Everything they have done has now resulted in MORE people who don't like us, so that has decreased national security, not increased it, but it's sure made a lot of profit for a dozen huge military/industrial concerns and the high level people connected to them.
Realistically now, I see no easy answers. The best of all the hard answers is to pull out as soon as possible, and I hope inside this nation we have some credible investigations leading to some serious impeachments and trials for racketeering and treason. I don't think that will happen though, too many people are brainwashed into thinking this system of two paid off and bribed off political parties still works, when it's obvious that people outside the electorate are the real political power here, not "the voters" and not these actors/script readers passing as politicians who are front men for those elite who call the shots.
... in that area of the world, most males own firearms, usually at least an AK, for various reasons, and YES again, it is a big part of their culture to shoot them off at times of celebration.
That stuff is widely known, BTW, so it's not far fetched at all to believe the people's story at that massacre site. It's happened all over, just last week I was listening (radio interview)to a soldier who just got out, describing how his unit would shoot civilians at the drop of a hat.
You'll just have to face it, the US is starting to get pretty trigger happy over there. And right off the bat, just think on this, EVERYONE "detained" is automatically a terrorist, instantly a non human basically. That's official US policy. All you have to do is follow the news from more than a few places and you can see that. And they really don't care too much about killing innocents (collateral damage), because they had to go in and save innocents from getting killed, on the way to the WMD giant stashes, that were one second away from being launched towards the US. It's a sham really, and we are looking worse and worse every day around the world. On 9-11-2001 everyone around the planet sympathised with us, now they mostly distrust us, and it's PRECISELY from our governments official actions since then. No other credible explanation except that.
I live here, and I am fully confident in saying the bulk of the population here is just plain old fashioned jingoists. Wish I had a dime for every "nuke the ay-rabs!" I have heard from people or read on forums. And the less informed they are,by talking to them to find out, the more stupid sounding and violently racist they sound. That's the PLAN, that's why we have a mass media that operates like that, it's to keep people faked out, dumbed down and following in good little goose stepping fashion, whatever these "elites" think they want. And it WORKS. The theme of genocide is still alive and kicking, unfortunately it's coming from a lot of places, INCLUDING the US, and it's reflected in our governments actions, it speech patterns into officially recognized propoganda newspeak ("detainees"? how utterly intellectually dishonest, and almost every journalist out there still uses the term), and in our controlled large news media which DEFINETLY censors and massages anything important.
--I was more replying from an insurance companies point of view. I DID interject some observations on some things I've noticed over the years, a lot of times you'll see products that are questionable, yet they get almost rushed out the door. some company makes billions, yet people suffer down the road. I wasn't kidding about tthe agent orange, I got several friends got sick from it, and industry and the government flat out lied about it. Yes, there's risks, there's also common sense and ethics, and from my POV we need a lot more common sense and ethics. If that means slightly slower "releases" of brand new tech, I'm all for it. Our society is still almost medieval in it's makeup, yet our technology is advanced as can be. That's why we have problems _along_ with the successes, it's not all one or the other. I'd like to see a lot less greed runing everything, to be to the point. My default is skepticism, it's my nature. Science tells me something is safe, I don't believe them until after decades have passed. And it's not my fault, it's their fault for being so wrong in the past, yet standing on their credentials *at the time* and insisiting they are near infallible. It's just not true, and some mistakes have been proven to be *major* mistakes. Of course, joe scientist whatever is no where to be found then, his money has been spent, he's long gone and not accepting any blame for his mistakes or arrogance. some vague government or industry just says "sorry" and throws some cash at the problem then, cash that can never bring people back, the people who suffered from their over confidence and who "trusted" them.
I'm not a luddite, I'm a realist, we are just throwing new tech out now with zero thought to the future, just "if it works now it must be cool so let's do it". I find that attitude highly arrogant. All I am saying is "let's slow down a scosh", and going back to the original article, the indusrance industry is saying the same thing on some subjects. We are smart, we are allowed to learn from history, and it's a good thing when we do so.
They grow a very sweet and tasty onion down in south georgia, around the town of "vidalia" hence the onions of that name. You can use the same seed, grown elsewhere, but it is illegal to call it a "vidalia" for sales purposes.
just a FWIW
good stuff, BTW, yummy
---geez, you need to read up more on this. That's EXACTLY where they put the tags, point of manufacture. And they WILL be as hidden as possible inside the merchandise. That's the whole point. they want to track a product from start to finish, and they want to make it as tamper proof as possible. For a big variety of reasons.
... know or care about Java, or interoperability, but Joe Company might, because they got trained IT dudes hanging around to translate. And they are more likely to actually purchase something.
Joe User gets their nephew to stick a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of MS Office on if the nephew doesn't care, or OO if he does. either way, a much lower profit potential with Joe User. they run whatever OS came on the machine, and any additional apps they run are more often than not been warezed in some manner, or are very common freeware downloads, like winamp, etc..
guess I'll wait until they release their next version, then try it out. So far I am quite happy with mozilla suite, I actually like the all in one design over having a separate browser/email whatever. I also hope they spiffy up composer, po mans semi adequate web editor.
... normal. 250-1000 is the common size for home owners that I have seen. Even 250 is plenty for a nice home sized stash of fuel.
And the other good thing about propane is it lasts, doesn't go stale.
There's a variety of dual fuel carbs out there for normal vehicles. Using either gasoline, or gas and/or propane or natural gas. I looked into it before for my van with a chevy 350, normal carb. At the time, several years ago now, the conversion was around 300$ I think.
/me = remembers OPEC boycott and sudden "no gas" very clearly
Here's a Google link for dual fuel, propane
As for finding propane for a fill up, it's not that hard, most yellow pages will direct you to your local outlet for bulk filling. Not near as many as for a normal gas station, but every community in the US probably has some place you get get propane. I've had to find the places a lot, my van and my RV both have propane tanks (just for the camping accessories right now), and I've never had a hard time finding propane. And for that matter, it might not be that hard to have a big bulk tank put in in your back yard, have the truck top it off occassionally, and do your own "fill up" right at home with the appropriate extra gear installed. A nice way to buy when it's cheap and have a good reserve handy.
--that's a good one man, got a chuckle from it!
I'm in the US and been a serious news junky since the late 50's. I would 100% agree with you. I can't think of a single top commercial media outlet in broadcast that isn't heavily censored. And the deal is, for most people, they never fully realise it, because unless they actually go LOOK and seek out alternative news and foreign news, they will never see anything else.
And the censorship is quite slick, and subtle, sometimes they just completely ignore issues. Other times they do a "report" but leave out enough details to totally give an erroneous impression. Other times they outright lie. The completely dismal coverage of *true* 9-11 data is a prime example. By now if we had true uncensored news, we would have had a regime change internally, it's that bad here, IMO.
And it's because, at the tippy top, ALL the major outlets are run and controlled by the same elitists who run and control the government, the so called "elite" who use the media to affect politics and business, and always in their favor. "News" simply for "news" sake doesn't exist, near as I can tell. News as proganda and as advertising does though, heavily. And I'll include PBS as well, in most instances. And when it;'s mixed with a public school system that is over 1/2 sheer brainwashing, yep, you get a controlled, dumbed down population. It's designed that way, they spend whatever it takes to make sure it's run that way, so they get the results they want.
The nightly business report is heavily shilled towards wall street skimmers, to keep people locked into that mindset and congame. You won't see them ever actually mentioning that perhaps it's just not a good idea to buy a "stock" at all today, for example. I'd take that outlet with a grain of salt as well. Think of it as 30 minutes of Ronco style infotainment commercial and it makes more sense.
I haven't used netscape in quite awhile, and never on linux. What are any of the major design or function differences between current netscape (do not know version) and current stable moz (1.6)?