Buy your fuel on cold days, you get a *little* more for your $50 than you do on a hot day (hence airlines buy fuel by weight, not volume.
Unless the gas you're using was just delivered by a truck, the temperature of the gas is going to be at the temperature of the ground, not the air. Tanks are typically buried 5 ft or more below the ground and as it sits there it balances out to the temperature of the ground around it, usually 50-60F.
I don't know why airlines do this, but much of their delivery was external and thus was impacted by temperature variations. And the fact that they're buying a *lot* more than you are. Military uses weight as well, so cost probably isn't the issue.
Are you seriously saying that a UW fan would rather follow a twitter feed over watching the game live (either in person or on TV) or even hearing a play-by-play on the radio?
Because computers always cost $5000 and cracking utilities required you to know how to code.
Technology gets cheaper, code gets written, and people who aren't as experienced have more ability to use things.
Given my power meter is located in the corner of my house and using something a lot cheaper, like an IR camera or just the Mark I eyeball will tell you:
If there are cars in the driveway If lights are on and activity in the house If there's anyone generating heat (someone on vacation or out will set the thermostat lower than 68 in the winter)
There's a lot easier ways to tell if I'm home or not.
I think it depends on what you want to do with it. At home, I no longer use it on my desktop as I want games and multimedia. I'm typing this on an Ubuntu 12.04 desktop (that has VirtualBox running Windows 7 so I can get to Exchange, Visio, etc.). That's not to say that Linux doesn't have it useful places.
My phone and tablet are both running Android which has Linux at its core. As does my Tivo (or at least used to). I have an XBMC box that my daughter uses to watch movies. She doesn't know Linux, but she uses it as an appliance.
My basement server which has all my e-mail, photos, media, and other things I hold important from a digital sense is running Linux.
You're right that on the desktop Linux is very outmoded, but the usefulness of an operating system like this doesn't go away just because it's terrible on the desktop. That's like saying OS X is a failure because nobody is using it as a server.
The adage "Linux is free, if your time is free" is quite true. I learned it when I had lots of time in college, and I've had the good fortune of working for employers almost that entire time (even now as a manager) that let me keep using and learning more about Linux.
If it were today as a guy in his early 40s concerned more about my wife, child, dog and mortgage payments than how much I'm going to drink during the weekend I might not have the time or energy to learn about it.
#%^#%$$ n00bs....I've had a/. account longer than most of you have been using Linux.
20 years this year. I started using Linux on my desktop as my primary OS in 1992.
You know what Linux needs to be 'successful' on the desktop? Stability. Same look-and-feel for the OS across the same distribution over a long period of time. Same set of applications that get installed. Every time I upgrade my OS (and I've done a *lot* of upgrades) the interface changes. Every 6 months I have to install a new OS. Sure, the LTS Ubuntu make it a bit easier, but that just means a larger gap between what I'm running and what is current and what everyone else is using.
But that's the appeal. I mean, I'm the kind of person that wants the latest-and-greatest (not necessarily bleeding edge, but functional). So I grit my teeth, upgrade to Unity, figure it out like I've figured out Motif, Enlightenment, fvwm, Gnome, KDE and every other windowing system/environment and get back to doing work. That works for people who want to use Linux, but doesn't for everyone else. Look at how OS X and Windows have looked over the past 10 years. The look-and-feel is basically the same. There's changes (replacing the start button with a windows logo), but they're nowhere near as drastic or often as you see in Linux. Maybe Windows 8 will change that. Haven't used it yet.
Now what can really be fixed? There's a lot of rough edges that need attention. Bluetooth support is horrible, but doesn't matter so much anymore since everyone has gone with wifi. Ability to view and edit Visio documents, or do real calendaring (I've never gotten my Linux desktop to get a calendar from an Exchange server).
There, done yelling at clouds. Now get off my lawn!
How do you make interest on a currency that is that fixed? Was the intent that BS&T loaned bitcoins for use by others and changed an interest rate? That's how most normal banks and credit unions pay their interest-bearing accounts.
Yeah, I'm still tired. It's not really ideology, I meant to say methodology.
And you're right, people *can* switch between 'conservative' and 'liberal' approaches, but I think most people are comfortable with one type of coding over the other for a majority of their work. Maybe it's due to lack of effort or skill on the more liberal side, and a inflated attention to detail on the other. I know people that primarily code in each of those ways most of the time and it generally has nothing to do with their political leanings.
I'm not bothering to read the obvious slashvertisement. But that's not to say the author doesn't have a point.
This isn't comparing politics, it's about ideology. And purpose.
Writing code for hospitals (as I did in the past), or NASA, or nuclear reactors requires you by very conservative in your writing. I'm a very liberal guy, but I can clearly understand the need to make incremental changes for critical infrastructure. Coding isn't my thing, so I left that and became a system administrator. I'm now at an institution that is practically synonymous with Liberal and there's a wide mix of 'conservative' and 'liberal' approaches to coding and IT in general here We have ad-hoc storage devices sitting under someones desk that serves a department and there's also an enterprise-grade storage solution that's a few PB in size. Both have their place, and both can and do co-exist in the same environment.
I'd argue that these methodologies co-exist better than their political counterparts. Decisions can be made on basis of fact and need rather than just gut or making the 'other side' look bad. Be it the Oracle server or the MySQL server or whatever new NoSQL implementation is out there, nobody wants to see them fall over dead.
I'm rambling and I didn't get much sleep last night, so I'm just going to stop there.
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If that were the case, then it wouldn't need to be proprietary from AT&T. Just say "This includes TCP headers".
McDonalds says their Quarter Pounder is pre-cook weight.
Buy your fuel on cold days, you get a *little* more for your $50 than you do on a hot day (hence airlines buy fuel by weight, not volume.
Unless the gas you're using was just delivered by a truck, the temperature of the gas is going to be at the temperature of the ground, not the air. Tanks are typically buried 5 ft or more below the ground and as it sits there it balances out to the temperature of the ground around it, usually 50-60F.
I don't know why airlines do this, but much of their delivery was external and thus was impacted by temperature variations. And the fact that they're buying a *lot* more than you are. Military uses weight as well, so cost probably isn't the issue.
Are you seriously saying that a UW fan would rather follow a twitter feed over watching the game live (either in person or on TV) or even hearing a play-by-play on the radio?
Stealing cable is a criminal offence too. Not sure how this is any different.
Especially since the red party took a surplus and turned it into a massive deficit.
Government is smaller since 2008.
Magnets aren't in the constitution.
Because computers always cost $5000 and cracking utilities required you to know how to code.
Technology gets cheaper, code gets written, and people who aren't as experienced have more ability to use things.
Given my power meter is located in the corner of my house and using something a lot cheaper, like an IR camera or just the Mark I eyeball will tell you:
If there are cars in the driveway
If lights are on and activity in the house
If there's anyone generating heat (someone on vacation or out will set the thermostat lower than 68 in the winter)
There's a lot easier ways to tell if I'm home or not.
Which won't fit my case nor my car dock.
But that still proves the bigger point - the battery is removable and replaceable and there are reasons why people would want to do it.
I have an HTC Thunderbolt. If I'm traveling and away from an outlet for more than 4 hours at a time, I need extra batteries.
I also have a USB battery that can help in a pinch, but a fresh battery is a lot better.
Since LO is bundled with many Linux distros, it's almost impossible to know the full user base of LO.
Yes, and remember all the salmonella and e. coli outbreaks a few years ago?
Well we got that going for us. Which is nice.
Nobody read Marooned Off Vesta? By tyhe end of the story and since it was written in 1938 I'd expect some of the water would have made it there....
And grits. Never forget the grits.
I think it depends on what you want to do with it. At home, I no longer use it on my desktop as I want games and multimedia. I'm typing this on an Ubuntu 12.04 desktop (that has VirtualBox running Windows 7 so I can get to Exchange, Visio, etc.). That's not to say that Linux doesn't have it useful places.
My phone and tablet are both running Android which has Linux at its core. As does my Tivo (or at least used to). I have an XBMC box that my daughter uses to watch movies. She doesn't know Linux, but she uses it as an appliance.
My basement server which has all my e-mail, photos, media, and other things I hold important from a digital sense is running Linux.
You're right that on the desktop Linux is very outmoded, but the usefulness of an operating system like this doesn't go away just because it's terrible on the desktop. That's like saying OS X is a failure because nobody is using it as a server.
The adage "Linux is free, if your time is free" is quite true. I learned it when I had lots of time in college, and I've had the good fortune of working for employers almost that entire time (even now as a manager) that let me keep using and learning more about Linux.
If it were today as a guy in his early 40s concerned more about my wife, child, dog and mortgage payments than how much I'm going to drink during the weekend I might not have the time or energy to learn about it.
#%^#%$$ n00bs....I've had a /. account longer than most of you have been using Linux.
20 years this year. I started using Linux on my desktop as my primary OS in 1992.
You know what Linux needs to be 'successful' on the desktop? Stability. Same look-and-feel for the OS across the same distribution over a long period of time. Same set of applications that get installed. Every time I upgrade my OS (and I've done a *lot* of upgrades) the interface changes. Every 6 months I have to install a new OS. Sure, the LTS Ubuntu make it a bit easier, but that just means a larger gap between what I'm running and what is current and what everyone else is using.
But that's the appeal. I mean, I'm the kind of person that wants the latest-and-greatest (not necessarily bleeding edge, but functional). So I grit my teeth, upgrade to Unity, figure it out like I've figured out Motif, Enlightenment, fvwm, Gnome, KDE and every other windowing system/environment and get back to doing work. That works for people who want to use Linux, but doesn't for everyone else. Look at how OS X and Windows have looked over the past 10 years. The look-and-feel is basically the same. There's changes (replacing the start button with a windows logo), but they're nowhere near as drastic or often as you see in Linux. Maybe Windows 8 will change that. Haven't used it yet.
Now what can really be fixed? There's a lot of rough edges that need attention. Bluetooth support is horrible, but doesn't matter so much anymore since everyone has gone with wifi. Ability to view and edit Visio documents, or do real calendaring (I've never gotten my Linux desktop to get a calendar from an Exchange server).
There, done yelling at clouds. Now get off my lawn!
You obviously didn't read the rest of my comment.
How do you make interest on a currency that is that fixed? Was the intent that BS&T loaned bitcoins for use by others and changed an interest rate? That's how most normal banks and credit unions pay their interest-bearing accounts.
Not intended just for you, but for anyone who says "bigger cars are safer".
Here's what 50 years of automotive engineering has done. The driver of the '59 would have been dead. The '09 driver would have injured their knee.
A few hundred pounds lighter, almost triple the MPG (13 mpg vs 29 mpg), and is way safer.
To keep saying "bigger cars are safer, thus don't work on smaller cars" is not really thinking this through.
Mice got me for a while. Figured it out, still going just fine 20 years later.
West Nile can't be stopped by hordes of rednecks with CCWs. (kidding on the square)
Yeah, I'm still tired. It's not really ideology, I meant to say methodology.
And you're right, people *can* switch between 'conservative' and 'liberal' approaches, but I think most people are comfortable with one type of coding over the other for a majority of their work. Maybe it's due to lack of effort or skill on the more liberal side, and a inflated attention to detail on the other. I know people that primarily code in each of those ways most of the time and it generally has nothing to do with their political leanings.
I'm not bothering to read the obvious slashvertisement. But that's not to say the author doesn't have a point.
This isn't comparing politics, it's about ideology. And purpose.
Writing code for hospitals (as I did in the past), or NASA, or nuclear reactors requires you by very conservative in your writing. I'm a very liberal guy, but I can clearly understand the need to make incremental changes for critical infrastructure. Coding isn't my thing, so I left that and became a system administrator. I'm now at an institution that is practically synonymous with Liberal and there's a wide mix of 'conservative' and 'liberal' approaches to coding and IT in general here We have ad-hoc storage devices sitting under someones desk that serves a department and there's also an enterprise-grade storage solution that's a few PB in size. Both have their place, and both can and do co-exist in the same environment.
I'd argue that these methodologies co-exist better than their political counterparts. Decisions can be made on basis of fact and need rather than just gut or making the 'other side' look bad. Be it the Oracle server or the MySQL server or whatever new NoSQL implementation is out there, nobody wants to see them fall over dead.
I'm rambling and I didn't get much sleep last night, so I'm just going to stop there.