We have a Siemens Gigaset too, and we've never had battery problems with it. Remembering how much trouble we had with our previous phone and knowing the Gigaset uses NiCd batteries, I bought NiMh batteries right from the start, to prepare for the NiCds to give up. I've never needed them though. The NiCds keep working perfectly, and now I use the NiMhs in my cordless mouse.
I wasn't talking about Stalin or the USSR, or any other implementation of communism, merely about communism itself.
BTW, from my last comments, one could get the impression that I'm a communist. Well, I'm not. My political view has progressed from moderate socialist/green to a more libertarian approach. But I defend veryone's right to hold his/her own political opinion.
A majority of the people accused by McCarthy of Communism were in fact registered, card-carrying Communists.
So? In Belgium and in France, to name a few, there were until a few years ago (or even still now in France?) Communist Parties, and in Belgium we still have a communist-minded party. Despite that, neither country has become communist, so it's hardly a reason to hunt the members of those parties down.
Besides, what happened to free speech, and being free to believe whatever you want?
And I can show you millions of homosexuals, whores, thieves, junkies, rapists, murderers, child-molesters, lesbians, drug-dealers, and the like. In your view, Communism would seem to be just one more "lifestyle choice".
So now it's a crime to be homosexual?
it is my right and obligation to protect my nation from your actions if you should choose to move beyond words and into the realm of violence.
If and only if I choose to go into the realm of violence, yes. But that's not what communism is about.
Oh yes, the GNU tools are a very important piece of any Linux system. But does that really mean it should be in the name? A name is a name for a thing and not a list of all the ingredients that went into the thing. Credit should be given, but there are other and better ways for that.
Besides, the name of a thing shouldn't be a bibliography of all the places it took pieces from.
Exactly my point. Why doesn't everybody understand this? Credit should be given where credit is due, no one will disagree with that. What more can you want?
Imagine if we followed RMS's naming convention everywhere... GNU/Linux, Gecko/Mozilla/Netscape, Mosaic/Internet Explorer, StarOffice/Open Office, Gecko/Nautilus/Gnome. Very mature.
Prices that are set by demand/supply give the best possible positive effect on society, so tells us free market theory. But that assumes that all costs are included in the price. Without government intervention however, only internal costs are included. For best effect, also external costs should be accounted for (such as environmental impact). This is what these taxes try to do, though not always in the best way possible.
When you get your electricity bill, do you try to relate the number of kilowatthours to the different devices in your hours and how much you used them? I used the dryer for 5 hours in total, and the kitchen light for 100 hours etc., and see if it matches?
Cause if you don't (I certainly don't), it's just another number. Not any different than the difference between the now obsolete Belgian Francs and the Euro, for example.
And I think it was the Babylonians, but I've been wrong before.
The article the efficiency now is 5%, and it would increase to 60%. That's 12 times better. So a 40 watt light bulb using that technology would emit light like a 480 watt traditional bulb. Not 500 watt, but very close.
Of course, watts are a measure of consumption, not output. The entire premise of measuring light output via the bulbs power consumption is wrong.
Yes, very true. But try exaplaining that to Joe Sixpack who doesn't even understand the difference and relationship between Joule, Watt and Watt hour.
True, commercial TV survives because of the ads. But there is no obligation whatsoever that any person should watch the ads. If someone, commercial TV in this case, chooses to use a business model that doesn't work, it's their own fault and somebody elses. It's simple as that.
... which shows one more point: when reading files in text mode under Windows, CTRL-Z (0x26) is regarded as the end of the file. So if you're writing stuff that might be executed under Windows, safest bet is indeed always to use binary mode.
The text/binary mode is a hassle because you have to be careful when writing or reading files to open them appropriately. That is, everywhere else, you don't need to specify "binary" mode. However, if you write code that might be run on Windows (e.g. in Python), you need to specify binary mode explicitly in case some stupid library on someone's machine uses 7bit text mode by default. I would normally chalk this up to a problem with programmer laziness, but because 7bit files are completely unnecessary and have been for many, many years, I ascribe this to Microsoft laziness.
The only difference between binary mode and text mode is automatic translation of newlines to a cr/nl combination and back. It has nothing to do with 7-bit or 8-bit. It is a matter of the API, and has nothing to do with the file system.
The problem is that Dos and Windows use cr/nl to end each line, and Unix uses only nl. It is a pain to deal with, I agree.
I believe I did - my main point was that usefulness is all about context. Programs are made for end users and from their perspective, the source code is useless.
If there is a bug in the product and even only one developer takes a shot at fixing it, everyone profits from the bug fix. So it's not useless at all in my opinion, even if 99.99% of all people never even look at the source code.
No no, it's all very easy. The batteries will warm up simply by providing current to the light bulbs. So here's the scenario:
Completely charge the batteries
Cool them a bit
Measure voltage. Will be lower than nominal because of high internal resistance due to low temperature
Wire up to light bulbs. Batteries will warm up.
Measure voltage again. Will now be higher than before
Another scenario: short-circuit the batteries (or use a resistor with low resistance) during the first measurement but not during the second. Instant voltage increase.
You can turn that ID off. Granted, they should make it default to off.
According to what I read on bugtraq, Internet Explorer is vulnerable even if you don't ever use the windows media player. I always browse trough all options of programs I use, but I can not be expected to look trough all options of applications I never use, do I?
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We have a Siemens Gigaset too, and we've never had battery problems with it. Remembering how much trouble we had with our previous phone and knowing the Gigaset uses NiCd batteries, I bought NiMh batteries right from the start, to prepare for the NiCds to give up. I've never needed them though. The NiCds keep working perfectly, and now I use the NiMhs in my cordless mouse.
BTW, from my last comments, one could get the impression that I'm a communist. Well, I'm not. My political view has progressed from moderate socialist/green to a more libertarian approach. But I defend veryone's right to hold his/her own political opinion.
So? In Belgium and in France, to name a few, there were until a few years ago (or even still now in France?) Communist Parties, and in Belgium we still have a communist-minded party. Despite that, neither country has become communist, so it's hardly a reason to hunt the members of those parties down.
Besides, what happened to free speech, and being free to believe whatever you want?
And I can show you millions of homosexuals, whores, thieves, junkies, rapists, murderers, child-molesters, lesbians, drug-dealers, and the like. In your view, Communism would seem to be just one more "lifestyle choice".
So now it's a crime to be homosexual?
it is my right and obligation to protect my nation from your actions if you should choose to move beyond words and into the realm of violence.
If and only if I choose to go into the realm of violence, yes. But that's not what communism is about.
Would you be happy if the first colonists in North-America would have dumped radioactive toxic waste in New York?
Oh yes, the GNU tools are a very important piece of any Linux system. But does that really mean it should be in the name? A name is a name for a thing and not a list of all the ingredients that went into the thing. Credit should be given, but there are other and better ways for that.
Exactly my point. Why doesn't everybody understand this? Credit should be given where credit is due, no one will disagree with that. What more can you want?
Imagine if we followed RMS's naming convention everywhere... GNU/Linux, Gecko/Mozilla/Netscape, Mosaic/Internet Explorer, StarOffice/Open Office, Gecko/Nautilus/Gnome. Very mature.
Prices that are set by demand/supply give the best possible positive effect on society, so tells us free market theory. But that assumes that all costs are included in the price. Without government intervention however, only internal costs are included. For best effect, also external costs should be accounted for (such as environmental impact). This is what these taxes try to do, though not always in the best way possible.
There is no soft money here in Europe, but the upcoming EUCD is as bad or even worse as the DMCA.
Cause if you don't (I certainly don't), it's just another number. Not any different than the difference between the now obsolete Belgian Francs and the Euro, for example.
And I think it was the Babylonians, but I've been wrong before.
Why not just (k)W ratings on appliances, and (k)J measurements on the bills? What's wrong with good old 1 W = 1 J/s, and 1 J = 1 W.s?
Of course, watts are a measure of consumption, not output. The entire premise of measuring light output via the bulbs power consumption is wrong.
Yes, very true. But try exaplaining that to Joe Sixpack who doesn't even understand the difference and relationship between Joule, Watt and Watt hour.
True, commercial TV survives because of the ads. But there is no obligation whatsoever that any person should watch the ads. If someone, commercial TV in this case, chooses to use a business model that doesn't work, it's their own fault and somebody elses. It's simple as that.
... which shows one more point: when reading files in text mode under Windows, CTRL-Z (0x26) is regarded as the end of the file. So if you're writing stuff that might be executed under Windows, safest bet is indeed always to use binary mode.
The problem is that Dos and Windows use cr/nl to end each line, and Unix uses only nl. It is a pain to deal with, I agree.
It's in the jargon files: http://tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/The-Jargon-Lexi con-framed.html
Another scenario: short-circuit the batteries (or use a resistor with low resistance) during the first measurement but not during the second. Instant voltage increase.
I knew that, but I can't remember having read anything about base 13.
Perhaps it doesn't show, but I'm genuinely interested to find out.
According to what I read on bugtraq, Internet Explorer is vulnerable even if you don't ever use the windows media player. I always browse trough all options of programs I use, but I can not be expected to look trough all options of applications I never use, do I?
I was too fast... on Zeropaid's site you can still download a (patched) working version. That'll teach me.
One can never expect the applicant to do adequate research on prior art: it's in his best interested that there is no prior art found.
Well those are all names of well-known (?) Belgian people. Well, some were real, more-or-less famous Belgians, the others were made up.