I thought I was the only one who used English measurements for measurements longer than 1 inch, and Metric (millimeters, centimeters) for smaller than 1 inch of length. It sure does look odd in print: "The car wash? Oh. Go 2 km down the road. Turn right, and go 100 feet. You can't miss it!"
Hm... so are you saying that 2 km is smaller than 1 inch?
I have an old cheap scanner that doesn't work in Windows 2000 and XP, since the newest drivers are for Windows 98. Some people say they got it working with the old drivers, but I have never been successful at it. The only way I get it to work is in Linux.
That contains a lot of information, but often not the thing I'm looking for, or at least I can't find it.
For example, on Windows 2000 and Windows XP a whole lot of background processes are running all the time. Where can I find what they do? Which ones are essentiel, and which one I can get rid of? Which are a potential security risk, which are not?
Or, how do you set Windows XP up to automatically log in to a user account? Answer: either install TweakUI (but that's often not an option on a clinet's machine) or run "control userpasswords2" to get the Windows 2000-style dialog where it can be specified (the XP-dialog doesn't have that option). I found that out via Google, not via MS's documentation. Maybe it's somewhere in there, but if one can't find it, it's not very useful.
Please note that I very carefully said "a bit of sun," not "put it in the sun."
The same concept applies. Adding more energy to be able to extract more energy from the system just doesn't work. The process of cooling will work better, but it will also *have* to work better because there's more work to do. Net result is less cooling, not more.
Find yourself a not too humid day about 30 C outside at noon. (If you're near me in New Holland you'll have to wait a few months to try this I'm afraid. Rather closer to Old Holland about the same?(Without Flanders I might not be here. It's where my ancestor was able to flee to to avoid extermination of herself and the child from which I am descended. It's good to be the King. It sucks to be the newly dead King's exmistress.))
I'm in Flanders, and indeed I'll probably have to wait some months for the right circumstances. Interesting story by the way; which king was that?
Anyway, I know this effect, and I know a wet t-shirt is able to do a certain amount of cooling. You'll be cooler in the sun with the wet t-shirt than in the shade with a dry t-shirt. But the point is that you'll get even cooler when you go stand in the shade, with the wet t-shirt.
If, however, you have a fan, you can plug in a refridgerator, no?
The whole thing works by continuous evaporation. It lasts longer in the shade, but it actually gets colder quicker if you dampen the outside and give it a bit of sun.
That's not true. If you put it in the sun, the water will evaporate faster and more energy will be transferred, that's true. But also more energy will be added to the system in the first place, and I doubt the higher evaporation will suffice to compensate for that. Even in the best case, it will exactly compensate, not overcompensate.
Other means for accelerating the evaporation can have a positive effect: cooling will go faster in dry air than in humid air, and also if there is circulation of air, as caused by placing it outside when it's windy or by placing a fan next to it.
My council (advice): - Marry to an American (woman, -in postfix like in German?)
Correct.
- Pretend you're a citizen of the US
I think: Get the US nationality.
- Never return to France again
Correct
Though I have no clue what the last one means, apart from mentioning "with a Canadian". Any better translators than me?:) And why the US? With the DMCA, isn't that going from the frying pan into the fire?
"Or the same thing with a Canadian, if you like the snow."
In the press release, you make it appear as if the CEO took the time and effort to say some things, and you quoted some frome that.
In my view, there is very much difference. And why? What is really the point of doing that? Is it really so much better to write 'The CEO was quoted saying this new product will leverage blah blah blah' instead of just 'This new product will leverage blah blah blah'? Especially if everybody who reads it knows there is no difference between the two?
but there is nothing dishonest in having someone write a quote for someone else.
Yes it is.
A person who gives a speech written by a speechwriter would be dishonest by that standard.
If he says or pretends that he wrote it himself, yes, it is dishonest. If he explicitly or implicitly says that he's just reading something that he asked somebody else to write, there's nothing wrong with it. At least, when giving a speech, he's showing that he cares enough to devote a non-significant part of his time for the speech.
What about an actor? He rarely writes his own words.
Everbody knows that he's an actor. Everybody knows it's not real. It's the whole concept of a play or a movie.
but the practice of having a writer show how to pitch an idea which is being sold to the public is not dishonest.
If a press release says or pretends that a CEO cared enough and is smart enough to say a positive thing about a firm or product while in fact he didn't care enough or is not smart enough, the press release simply is not honest.
To say it is shows a gross misunderstanding of how ideas are sold in EVERY part of life.
It happens a lot yes, but that doesn't make it right. The parent poster said it very well:
"When someone who doesn't lie for a living reads that "someone" said "something," they trust that that "someone" said it of their own accord. Many marketing people rationalize their actions by saying that people shouldn't assume this, however, that trust is the very thing that they want to take advantage of."
Indeed. If the CEO is too busy to say something good about his company, that's his choice. Then the press release should contain no quotes from him. If the PR-firm is better at writing quotes, well let them do it. They just should admit they wrote it.
This probably sounds naive to most of you, but I really think such practices are deceiving. Many people know that this is happening, and for those it doesn't help anyway, since they see right through it. Other people are not aware of those practices, and for them it's just lying.
I agree that Debian's installer could be better, but I wonder why people always think that its problem is the fact that it's not GUI-based. An installer should guide the user through the installation proces, providing sensible defaults when possible and clearly explained choices when necessary. And of course providing more control for power users.
I just don't see how a graphical installer can do those things better than a console-based installer. It will probably more pretty to look at, but that's way down on my list of priorities.
Ah yes, but the UCL is located in Louvain-la-Neuve, not in Leuven.
There used to be one university in Louvain/Leuven, which was completely francophone even though Leuven is a Flemish city. In 1968 or thereabout, much protest arose against this situation. In 1971 the university split; the dutch-speaking 'Katholieke Universiteit Leuven' stayed in Leuven, the francophone 'Universite Catholique Louvain' moved to the newly built Louvain-la-Neuve (hence the name, meaning 'Leuven the new').
I'm surfing from an IP-address that can easily be seen to be from Belgium, and I get the normal www.lindows.com site. The other one, http://lin---s.com/, is much funnier though.
In Debian philosophy, since it is so simple to install stuff, you only install it when you need it. So when you install something it is because you need it, and it is more or less ready to play.
If you don't need it, don't install it. If you don't know if you need it, don't install it. If you don't need it anymore, uninstall it (the configuration will persist unless you also purge it). If you want to play with something (i.e. have it installed but not using it all the time), install it and learn how to disable/enable it (man update-rc.d).
Other advice, to avoid dselect problems: don't use it. When installing Debian, install only the absolute minimum. After installation tasksel can be handy for installing desktop software (X, KDE, Gnome). Pretty much everything is most easily installed with apt-get or aptitude. The latter is somewhat better because it tracks which packages were installed because you need them, and which were installed as dependencies. The latter are automatically uninstalled when no longer needed. BRW, it seems that many people don't know it, but aptitude can be used on the command line just like apt-get.
I've used a digital watch all my childhood, and because of that it takes me much longer to read an analog watch than a digital watch. You say with an analog watch you get a better feeling about time intervals, well for me it's the other way around.
Since 2 years ago I also have a car with a digital speedometer, and I can read it very fast. It is, however, more difficult to see whether I'm driving a constant speed or I'm slowing down or accelerating a bit. It's largely because the update frequency of the display is quite slow, because my parent's car also has a digital speedometer with more frequent updates and there it's easier to see acceleration. I admit though that an analog display is easier for observing acceleration.
Just attach an LCD display and put it on a flatbed scanner...
But seriously, don't LCD's have a built-in ADC? Some time ago I read somewhere that LCD's with analog connectors ought to be more expensive than LCD's with digital connectors (instead of vice-versa) because they need an ADC. OTOH I think the site where I read that was slashdot; I'm not responsbile for any inaccuracies in this post.
No, no: what he meant was that sometimes (quite often, actually) one process or the whole desktop becomes unresponsive, even though almost no CPU time is being used, the hard drive isn't working, no network traffic should be occuring etc. You just have to assume that something is waiting for something, but there is absolutely no indication what it is.
I see such delays almost every day; mostly on Windows (XP and 2000), but occasionaly on Linux too.
I learnt to put two spaces after a period too, but that was in typing class with a real, prehistoric mechanic typewriter. My understanding now is that you use two spaces in fixed width fonts and one space in proportional fonts.
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I think he meant to say that modern processors _tend to_ run out of cache very often, and more and more so since CPU speeds are increasing much faster than memory speeds. I don't think he sees this as a good thing, thoug I admit his way of saying it is quite confusing.
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I thought I was the only one who used English measurements for measurements longer than 1 inch, and Metric (millimeters, centimeters) for smaller than 1 inch of length. It sure does look odd in print: "The car wash? Oh. Go 2 km down the road. Turn right, and go 100 feet. You can't miss it!"
Hm... so are you saying that 2 km is smaller than 1 inch?
I have an old cheap scanner that doesn't work in Windows 2000 and XP, since the newest drivers are for Windows 98. Some people say they got it working with the old drivers, but I have never been successful at it. The only way I get it to work is in Linux.
That contains a lot of information, but often not the thing I'm looking for, or at least I can't find it.
For example, on Windows 2000 and Windows XP a whole lot of background processes are running all the time. Where can I find what they do? Which ones are essentiel, and which one I can get rid of? Which are a potential security risk, which are not?
Or, how do you set Windows XP up to automatically log in to a user account? Answer: either install TweakUI (but that's often not an option on a clinet's machine) or run "control userpasswords2" to get the Windows 2000-style dialog where it can be specified (the XP-dialog doesn't have that option). I found that out via Google, not via MS's documentation. Maybe it's somewhere in there, but if one can't find it, it's not very useful.
Please note that I very carefully said "a bit of sun," not "put it in the sun."
The same concept applies. Adding more energy to be able to extract more energy from the system just doesn't work. The process of cooling will work better, but it will also *have* to work better because there's more work to do. Net result is less cooling, not more.
Find yourself a not too humid day about 30 C outside at noon. (If you're near me in New Holland you'll have to wait a few months to try this I'm afraid. Rather closer to Old Holland about the same?(Without Flanders I might not be here. It's where my ancestor was able to flee to to avoid extermination of herself and the child from which I am descended. It's good to be the King. It sucks to be the newly dead King's exmistress.))
I'm in Flanders, and indeed I'll probably have to wait some months for the right circumstances. Interesting story by the way; which king was that?
Anyway, I know this effect, and I know a wet t-shirt is able to do a certain amount of cooling. You'll be cooler in the sun with the wet t-shirt than in the shade with a dry t-shirt. But the point is that you'll get even cooler when you go stand in the shade, with the wet t-shirt.
If, however, you have a fan, you can plug in a refridgerator, no?
Indeed, that was just an example.
The whole thing works by continuous evaporation. It lasts longer in the shade, but it actually gets colder quicker if you dampen the outside and give it a bit of sun.
That's not true. If you put it in the sun, the water will evaporate faster and more energy will be transferred, that's true. But also more energy will be added to the system in the first place, and I doubt the higher evaporation will suffice to compensate for that. Even in the best case, it will exactly compensate, not overcompensate.
Other means for accelerating the evaporation can have a positive effect: cooling will go faster in dry air than in humid air, and also if there is circulation of air, as caused by placing it outside when it's windy or by placing a fan next to it.
My council (advice):
:) And why the US? With the DMCA, isn't that going from the frying pan into the fire?
- Marry to an American (woman, -in postfix like in German?)
Correct.
- Pretend you're a citizen of the US
I think: Get the US nationality.
- Never return to France again
Correct
Though I have no clue what the last one means, apart from mentioning "with a Canadian". Any better translators than me?
"Or the same thing with a Canadian, if you like the snow."
In the press release, you make it appear as if the CEO took the time and effort to say some things, and you quoted some frome that.
In my view, there is very much difference. And why? What is really the point of doing that? Is it really so much better to write 'The CEO was quoted saying this new product will leverage blah blah blah' instead of just 'This new product will leverage blah blah blah'? Especially if everybody who reads it knows there is no difference between the two?
At least they don't go around saying they wrote it themselves.
Yes it is.
A person who gives a speech written by a speechwriter would be dishonest by that standard.
If he says or pretends that he wrote it himself, yes, it is dishonest. If he explicitly or implicitly says that he's just reading something that he asked somebody else to write, there's nothing wrong with it. At least, when giving a speech, he's showing that he cares enough to devote a non-significant part of his time for the speech.
What about an actor? He rarely writes his own words.
Everbody knows that he's an actor. Everybody knows it's not real. It's the whole concept of a play or a movie.
but the practice of having a writer show how to pitch an idea which is being sold to the public is not dishonest.
If a press release says or pretends that a CEO cared enough and is smart enough to say a positive thing about a firm or product while in fact he didn't care enough or is not smart enough, the press release simply is not honest.
To say it is shows a gross misunderstanding of how ideas are sold in EVERY part of life.
It happens a lot yes, but that doesn't make it right. The parent poster said it very well:
"When someone who doesn't lie for a living reads that "someone" said "something," they trust that that "someone" said it of their own accord. Many marketing people rationalize their actions by saying that people shouldn't assume this, however, that trust is the very thing that they want to take advantage of."
Indeed. If the CEO is too busy to say something good about his company, that's his choice. Then the press release should contain no quotes from him. If the PR-firm is better at writing quotes, well let them do it. They just should admit they wrote it.
This probably sounds naive to most of you, but I really think such practices are deceiving. Many people know that this is happening, and for those it doesn't help anyway, since they see right through it. Other people are not aware of those practices, and for them it's just lying.
Why didn't they use the on-screen keyboard instead of the character map for entering text?
An installer that guides you would be better yes, but that would work equally well in a tui than in a graphical installer.
I agree that Debian's installer could be better, but I wonder why people always think that its problem is the fact that it's not GUI-based. An installer should guide the user through the installation proces, providing sensible defaults when possible and clearly explained choices when necessary. And of course providing more control for power users.
I just don't see how a graphical installer can do those things better than a console-based installer. It will probably more pretty to look at, but that's way down on my list of priorities.
Ah yes, but the UCL is located in Louvain-la-Neuve, not in Leuven.
There used to be one university in Louvain/Leuven, which was completely francophone even though Leuven is a Flemish city. In 1968 or thereabout, much protest arose against this situation. In 1971 the university split; the dutch-speaking 'Katholieke Universiteit Leuven' stayed in Leuven, the francophone 'Universite Catholique Louvain' moved to the newly built Louvain-la-Neuve (hence the name, meaning 'Leuven the new').
I'm surfing from an IP-address that can easily be seen to be from Belgium, and I get the normal www.lindows.com site. The other one, http://lin---s.com/, is much funnier though.
In Debian philosophy, since it is so simple to install stuff, you only install it when you need it. So when you install something it is because you need it, and it is more or less ready to play.
If you don't need it, don't install it. If you don't know if you need it, don't install it. If you don't need it anymore, uninstall it (the configuration will persist unless you also purge it). If you want to play with something (i.e. have it installed but not using it all the time), install it and learn how to disable/enable it (man update-rc.d).
Other advice, to avoid dselect problems: don't use it. When installing Debian, install only the absolute minimum. After installation tasksel can be handy for installing desktop software (X, KDE, Gnome). Pretty much everything is most easily installed with apt-get or aptitude. The latter is somewhat better because it tracks which packages were installed because you need them, and which were installed as dependencies. The latter are automatically uninstalled when no longer needed. BRW, it seems that many people don't know it, but aptitude can be used on the command line just like apt-get.
Deleting XUL.mfl often does the same thing as deleting the whole profile, and has the advantage that you don't lose any data.
I've used a digital watch all my childhood, and because of that it takes me much longer to read an analog watch than a digital watch. You say with an analog watch you get a better feeling about time intervals, well for me it's the other way around.
Since 2 years ago I also have a car with a digital speedometer, and I can read it very fast. It is, however, more difficult to see whether I'm driving a constant speed or I'm slowing down or accelerating a bit. It's largely because the update frequency of the display is quite slow, because my parent's car also has a digital speedometer with more frequent updates and there it's easier to see acceleration. I admit though that an analog display is easier for observing acceleration.
I don't think it is hardware related, since I have seen it on my very old desktop, my old desktop, my laptop, my computer at work and other machines.
Just attach an LCD display and put it on a flatbed scanner...
But seriously, don't LCD's have a built-in ADC? Some time ago I read somewhere that LCD's with analog connectors ought to be more expensive than LCD's with digital connectors (instead of vice-versa) because they need an ADC. OTOH I think the site where I read that was slashdot; I'm not responsbile for any inaccuracies in this post.
No, no: what he meant was that sometimes (quite often, actually) one process or the whole desktop becomes unresponsive, even though almost no CPU time is being used, the hard drive isn't working, no network traffic should be occuring etc. You just have to assume that something is waiting for something, but there is absolutely no indication what it is.
I see such delays almost every day; mostly on Windows (XP and 2000), but occasionaly on Linux too.
I learnt to put two spaces after a period too, but that was in typing class with a real, prehistoric mechanic typewriter. My understanding now is that you use two spaces in fixed width fonts and one space in proportional fonts.
D does really exist
I think he meant to say that modern processors _tend to_ run out of cache very often, and more and more so since CPU speeds are increasing much faster than memory speeds. I don't think he sees this as a good thing, thoug I admit his way of saying it is quite confusing.