It would seem to me, that anybody from Western Cultures that has an IQ over 100 would not want to live/work in a country like China because of its history of Human Rights violations and general intolerance for anti-state viewpoints.
If you are dumb enough not to know better I understand, but an intelligent person can surely see past the paycheck.
These are constructed using 100% pasive heating/cooling in mind utilizing old tires as a thermopile/heatsink. They are also designed to incorporate water recycling, solar/wind power generation.
There is only one small/minor/insignificant problem; our 3 primary carriers (Bell, Telus, and Rogers) have incompatable networks! This has improved slightly thanks to the recent Vancouver Olympics, but still the lions share of the phones are incompatable.
Unless you have an awesome phone that supports 800MHz and 850MHz you are SOL for voice communication and have to buy a new phone if you wanted to hop from one carrier to another. Another fly in the ointment, even if your phone is capable (i.e. Nokia N900)Bell & Nokia do not operate on 'SIM' cards like the GSM based world+dog do, so you are SOL again.
They should have been mandated to all jump straight to LTE and drop this incompatable bullshit.
I didn't like it, but i could tolerate it. What I cannot stand is the sidebar. Why the fsck would I use that when the links at the top already do the same thing but better/without clutter?
I always install the kde 3.5 libs so that I can have Konqueror (as a file manager) and Amarok as my music player. I have dearly wanted to upgrade my system but I can't because the v4.x branch of KDE has been so painful. (thank god for Debian and its glacial release schedule)
Somebody, anybody tell me when Kde is back to being as good as it was. I am not a programmer, I will take your word that the old tree was unmaintainable, and that a 'new direction' was needed. But how long until we get back to the stability/feature set we loved so long ago?
I have tried to watch the Simpsons twice. It was so mind-numbingly stupid I couldn't stand to watch more then ten minutes combined. I am willing to admit that perhaps I chose the wrong ten minutes to watch, but one scene (back within the first 3 seasons) had Bart being rude in school, and the other had Homer chasing something (a doughnut??) through traffic.
IMHO Bugs Bunny had more wit and style.
What is the best episode to watch that might convince me it is worth the effort?
IMHO, the best niche that Wave can fill is by replacing message boards. By merging the IRC/Email/newsgroup/BBS concept it makes it perfect for following threads of conversations, starting new discussions, replying privately to one or two individuals, embedding images and/or videos.
I would gladly donate my left kidney if all my favorite forums/groups switched over to Wave.
Fat32 has other problems but the real issue here is volume size. Easy to overcome, just partition the drive. (I think I remember doing the same thing to 1.2GB drives too and fat16.)
Besides SSD/flash that is used in camera/mp3 players/camcorders, why would anybody be using fat32 on a drive that massive? Common file access on dual/tri boot computers can be an issue, but folks smart enough to do that are smart enough to build a file-server.
Some legacy components are wonderful because they "just work" (ps/2 vs USB). But trying to shoehorn a new tech into an old standard just leads to problems.
One other issue with this announcement; why did they bother with 3TB? Should the next step be 4TB? We are counting in binary are we not?
For the love of $deity why would _anybody_ still be using the DNS server that their ISP provides? Ignoring the multiple FREE DNS providers out there, it is trivally easy to setup your own caching DNS server regardless of the OS platform you use.
With the abundance of 'old' computers that most people upgrade from, it shold be standard practice to setup an old box as a firewall/dns server.
#1) The cows are 'locked in'. #2) The treadmill is inclined.
This results in the animal walking out of 'fear' from falling. The inability of the animal to stop whenever it wants is cruel treatment. On the other hand, if it were 'elective' and the cows got a special treat (a yummy grass/feed?) then it is a different story.
I would like to see how guy would like to be locked onto a treadmill 8hrs a day, walking uphill the entire time.
I doubt the quality of the milk would be very good. Stress does not make for a nice quality or quantity of milk. (I used to work on a dairy farm.)
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It would seem to me, that anybody from Western Cultures that has an IQ over 100 would not want to live/work in a country like China because of its history of Human Rights violations and general intolerance for anti-state viewpoints.
If you are dumb enough not to know better I understand, but an intelligent person can surely see past the paycheck.
Its about fracking time.
Hey industry (Sony I am looking at you) repeat after me:
Open standards help EVERYBODY!
Can anybody tell me why ARM won the battle vs AMD's Geode processor?
If they didn't 'see/steal/copy' anything, was anything actually spied upon?
The mens rea was the attempt, but if there is no actus rea did they really break the law?
Check out earthship.org.
http://earthship.com/buildings/global
These are constructed using 100% pasive heating/cooling in mind utilizing old tires as a thermopile/heatsink. They are also designed to incorporate water recycling, solar/wind power generation.
There is only one small/minor/insignificant problem; our 3 primary carriers (Bell, Telus, and Rogers) have incompatable networks!
This has improved slightly thanks to the recent Vancouver Olympics, but still the lions share of the phones are incompatable.
Rogers: GSM -850MHz & 1900MHz
Telus: CDMA and limited HSPA -800MHz & 1900MHz
Bell: CDMA and limited HSPA -850MHz & 1900MHz
Unless you have an awesome phone that supports 800MHz and 850MHz you are SOL for voice communication and have to buy a new phone if you wanted to hop from one carrier to another.
Another fly in the ointment, even if your phone is capable (i.e. Nokia N900)Bell & Nokia do not operate on 'SIM' cards like the GSM based world+dog do, so you are SOL again.
They should have been mandated to all jump straight to LTE and drop this incompatable bullshit.
So this only works with one person?
I didn't like it, but i could tolerate it. What I cannot stand is the sidebar. Why the fsck would I use that when the links at the top already do the same thing but better/without clutter?
I always install the kde 3.5 libs so that I can have Konqueror (as a file manager) and Amarok as my music player. I have dearly wanted to upgrade my system but I can't because the v4.x branch of KDE has been so painful. (thank god for Debian and its glacial release schedule)
Somebody, anybody tell me when Kde is back to being as good as it was. I am not a programmer, I will take your word that the old tree was unmaintainable, and that a 'new direction' was needed. But how long until we get back to the stability/feature set we loved so long ago?
You have to wonder if they are gulible enough to drink the Kool-Aid.
Why not? Folks have been selling snake-oil for as long as there has been selling and snakes!
Umm, excuse me Government there is a secret I think you should know:
If your 'Critical infrastructure' is connected to a PUBLICLY accessible Internet, then you are doing something wrong.
Yeah, i'd say this is a good opportunity to dust off my gopher skills.
ok thanks. I'll give it a try.
I have tried to watch the Simpsons twice. It was so mind-numbingly stupid I couldn't stand to watch more then ten minutes combined. I am willing to admit that perhaps I chose the wrong ten minutes to watch, but one scene (back within the first 3 seasons) had Bart being rude in school, and the other had Homer chasing something (a doughnut??) through traffic.
IMHO Bugs Bunny had more wit and style.
What is the best episode to watch that might convince me it is worth the effort?
Ya for Linux!
Seriously, if this doesn't make every PHB take notice I can't imagine what would. (Hey boss, its free too!)
All I can think of is <BLINK> </BLINK> turned into audio!
Of course this has good uses (blind users with scripts available), but I can see how this will end badly for the rest of us.
I just downloaded the old version 2 days ago!
On a serious note; Can a BSD client read/write/use a Debian NFS share?
P2P with the new version of Flash? Yupp thank-god for Flashblock.
IMHO, the best niche that Wave can fill is by replacing message boards. By merging the IRC/Email/newsgroup/BBS concept it makes it perfect for following threads of conversations, starting new discussions, replying privately to one or two individuals, embedding images and/or videos.
I would gladly donate my left kidney if all my favorite forums/groups switched over to Wave.
The problem lies with fat32. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table
Fat32 has other problems but the real issue here is volume size. Easy to overcome, just partition the drive. (I think I remember doing the same thing to 1.2GB drives too and fat16.)
Besides SSD/flash that is used in camera/mp3 players/camcorders, why would anybody be using fat32 on a drive that massive? Common file access on dual/tri boot computers can be an issue, but folks smart enough to do that are smart enough to build a file-server.
Some legacy components are wonderful because they "just work" (ps/2 vs USB). But trying to shoehorn a new tech into an old standard just leads to problems.
One other issue with this announcement; why did they bother with 3TB? Should the next step be 4TB? We are counting in binary are we not?
For the love of $deity why would _anybody_ still be using the DNS server that their ISP provides?
Ignoring the multiple FREE DNS providers out there, it is trivally easy to setup your own caching DNS server regardless of the OS platform you use.
With the abundance of 'old' computers that most people upgrade from, it shold be standard practice to setup an old box as a firewall/dns server.
There are two glaring faults with this setup:
#1) The cows are 'locked in'.
#2) The treadmill is inclined.
This results in the animal walking out of 'fear' from falling. The inability of the animal to stop whenever it wants is cruel treatment. On the other hand, if it were 'elective' and the cows got a special treat (a yummy grass/feed?) then it is a different story.
I would like to see how guy would like to be locked onto a treadmill 8hrs a day, walking uphill the entire time.
I doubt the quality of the milk would be very good. Stress does not make for a nice quality or quantity of milk. (I used to work on a dairy farm.)
They really just need to go on a diet.
Hey guys; remember how it was supposed to be a fast browser?
I suggest you look into the Sony PRS-505. Sony & the publishers can't do shit to the stuff I have put on my reader.
It supports damn near every format of displaying books (use Calibre if you don't like a format), it reads the data from an SD-card.
The fact that it doesn't connect wireless to the world is a GOOD THING.
Is that because they are all typing one-handed? =)