1024x600 is an absolute insult. Too shitty to even be a half decent toy, let alone a useful appliance. The threshold of acceptability is 800 the short way, and that's pretty pathetic. 900 and up is where any current product should aim.
I'm reminded how Americans first invented the round-about but it took the British to decide that everyone should travel around it in the same direction.
And it took the Brits to pick the WRONG direction.
Ok then. Only let small inventors own patents. Large companies can't.
Define large company and small company quantifiably. Make sure your definition deals with inflation. What about subsidiaries of huge corporations that are small by themselves using your definition? Associate companies? Divisions? Shell companies? Privately held and non publicly traded companies?
Wouldn't it be more straightforward and more just to simply end all patents? Corporations have ripped off the people for centuries, largely via government support in the form of the patent system and other cronyism in the name of the state. Isn't it time to free the people from this yolk? For the sake of argument, let's stipulate that the patent holders and their enablers are not held to account for their past injustices.
History and common sense both show that you don't need legal artifices to help the few to aggrandize themselves at the expense of the many. Rather the reverse.
The only solution that seems to me likely to work without fail is adding a very husky butterfly valve in the intake with a stout pull-cable leading into the cabin. An adequate supply of high volume CO2 which you could release remotely into the intake should work, but would have to be tested, which is something you do NOT want to do on your own engine.
Actually, if you put it in neutral, you are practically guaranteed to total the engine within seconds due to gross overreving (bent or thrown rods). The proper response is to leave it in high gear and bury the brake pedal on the floor until it stops and stalls. Unfortunately, that won't work fully with an automatic because it will never stall.
I had a french car once (or twice) a Peugeot, it was a diesel. I had a situation where I couldn't turn it off. Keys out everything, nothing worked, it just kept running, eventually I managed too stall it. This is different to TFA as the accelerator wasn't stuck, but it might be a contributory factor.
This is diesel runaway caused by engine oil getting sucked into the intake. The engine oil makes a fine fuel which can't be shut off. Probably came from a turbo failure.
Every diesel I am aware of has a fuel shutoff solenoid that defaults to off unless it is energized electrically. So no, it can't continue running without electrical power.
I hasten to add, however, that if the turbo decides to take a dump and flood the intake with engine oil, the engine will not only continue to run with the fuel shut off, it can run away to an extremely high rpm and destroy itself. The number of VW TDIs which succumb to this particular death is disturbing.
between 1995 and 2011, the average cost of planting one acre of soybeans rose 325 percent and corn seed prices went up 259 percent.
Doesn't that average out to about 10% increase a year? How much of that is normal inflation and how much is Monsanto being greedy?
The consumer price index (a common definition of inflation) rose by 45.75% total between 1995 and 2011. So for 325%, Monsanto was a greedy bastard to the tune of 279.25%. For 259%, Monsanto was a greedy bastard to the tune of 213.25%.
Mandatory Car Analogy: I know that if my speedometer indicates 60 miles/hour, that in one minute I will have travelled one mile.
No, you don't know that at all. You could come up on a traffic jam in 30 seconds and sit there for an hour. A car going the other direction could jump the median, collide with you, and kill you instantly within the next 5 seconds. There could be a detour right after the next rise. Your engine could stall. A cloudburst could begin in seconds, reducing everybody's speed to a crawl. A cop car could come up on your tail and you better damn believe you will slow down. Or he might stop you, in which case you are going to be VERY late getting to that next mile marker.
The turning propeller or cylon helmet light going back and forth (or the papers flying if you must) should work like a watchdog. If the worker thread/process gets hung, the displayed element should freeze. If all it tells you is that some propeller updater thread is still running in isolation, then the system is not competently designed.
Suppose a bar can never back up. Then its speed may vary enormously, making the visual how-done-am-I representation valueless.
It is HARD.
Define "fraction of job time done" numerically. Suppose you have to download 100 packages and then install them. How many % of the total should the download represent? Does the guy have cable or dialup? And how many % does the install represent? Does he have a slow USB hard drive or a ridiculously fast SSD? What if the first file downloads at 1 MBps and the 17th one at 139 Bps? I've seen that happen (varying server load, per-file mirrors). Which installs faster, a package containing 250 files totaling 10 MB, or a package containing 10 files totaling 100 MB - hint; it depends.
Generally, might as well show a rotating propeller or a cylon helmet moving dot, neither of which has a beginning or an end. Just an indication that something is going on, and the system doesn't look frozen. Maybe a couple of numbers under it showing # files done out of # total files.
It does not work perfectly. Try a non-latin or non-keyboard input with no text output support platform.
Personally I couldn't care less about any of those things. I recognize there are those who do, and I have no problem with adding something for them, but please DON'T take mine away.
I agree, it works great for English speaking PC users, but what about the rest of the world?
I recognize the tower of babel problem. Beyond giving these users their own parallel facilities as mentioned above, I could in the long range suggest that a common language for the world; at the very least the technical world; should be the goal. Naturally, I agree with the airlines that that common language should be English:-)
Objections are the utter lack of necessity for lightning fast boot sequence, obscurity of configuration, obsoletion of a huge body of existing init scripts, difficulty of troubleshooting, susceptibility to crashing, and the move to making it a prerequisite to the DE.
If I had to sum it up, I would say utterly unnecessary gross complication.
I guess that you don't use Linux drivers, but rely on third party blobs.
Nope. Lock stock Intel drivers on RHEL 6.
It is painfully slow.
Mine isn't. Proving it's not the linux console code itself. Looks like a driver issue.
I canot use Linux console, for example, because it is not multi-seat aware.
Then you have a problem, and I have no problem with adding the capability, and categorically do not begrudge the initiative - but NOT INSTEAD of the real console - in addition. Meanwhile, for the 99.9% of us who are not dealing with multiseat, we don't have any problem as is.
Bull. If yours is any less than lightning fast, there is something terribly wrong with your video card or vesa support. It's definitely not the linux console code.
Ugh.. you are sooooo wrong! When last I looked, at least with Fedora you had your choice of KDE, Gnome, Xfce, LXDE, MATE and a few others. Or like me, you can install ALL of them and select at login, from sessions, which you wish to be running. Let me look...yes you can do the same with OpenSuSE, Mint? Yes same with ment. I don't run Ubuntu, so someone else will have to answer for them. Does Ubuntu limit you to Unity with no option of installing other desktops?
I can confirm this. I did exactly the same thing back when I still used Fedora. It's just yum install. With RHEL 6, which I have since adopted long term, it's not quite as rosy; they are not all there in the native repos, but you can definitely have both Gnome 2 and KDE, with Xfce being a little more work, with an add-on repo being necessary. In Ubuntu you're not stuck with the default Unity either; I know you can install Gnome 3, KDE, and Xfce; probably others - without even resorting to the specials variants kubuntu, xubuntu, etc. It's just apt-get install.
Arch is probably the most agnostic of all full-fledged distros with binary packages. It doesn't even have a "default" DE[*]. To get any DE, you have to pacman -S, and you pick what you want.
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[*] Or an install program either, for that matter - you have to follow a cookbook issuing manual commands to a root prompt - but that's another story.
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Except Microslop could change what passes for their mind tomorrow and there would be no recourse.
Easy there. The US thugs haven't "won" anything yet. The extradition hearing isn't until August. This is just a procedural ruling.
1024x600 is an absolute insult. Too shitty to even be a half decent toy, let alone a useful appliance. The threshold of acceptability is 800 the short way, and that's pretty pathetic. 900 and up is where any current product should aim.
And it took the Brits to pick the WRONG direction.
"Main steam stop valve"
- Steve McQueen
"Men stim stop wow"
- Mako
(The Sand Pebbles)
Define large company and small company quantifiably. Make sure your definition deals with inflation. What about subsidiaries of huge corporations that are small by themselves using your definition? Associate companies? Divisions? Shell companies? Privately held and non publicly traded companies?
Wouldn't it be more straightforward and more just to simply end all patents? Corporations have ripped off the people for centuries, largely via government support in the form of the patent system and other cronyism in the name of the state. Isn't it time to free the people from this yolk? For the sake of argument, let's stipulate that the patent holders and their enablers are not held to account for their past injustices.
History and common sense both show that you don't need legal artifices to help the few to aggrandize themselves at the expense of the many. Rather the reverse.
The only solution that seems to me likely to work without fail is adding a very husky butterfly valve in the intake with a stout pull-cable leading into the cabin. An adequate supply of high volume CO2 which you could release remotely into the intake should work, but would have to be tested, which is something you do NOT want to do on your own engine.
Actually, if you put it in neutral, you are practically guaranteed to total the engine within seconds due to gross overreving (bent or thrown rods). The proper response is to leave it in high gear and bury the brake pedal on the floor until it stops and stalls. Unfortunately, that won't work fully with an automatic because it will never stall.
Telling people they are ignorant yahoo buffoons is not pedantic. It may be rude.
Doesn't wash. Speedometers never read lower than actual. Speedometers ALWAYS read too high. It's designed to be so.
If for the sake of argument he really drove 45 by the speedometer, there's no way he would have been going more than 40-42 in reality.
In general you can't stop people from reviewing your stuff. Anyone can buy a car or borrow it from somebody, and review it.
In other news: same company to release a nuclear powered flying car Real Soon Now.
This is diesel runaway caused by engine oil getting sucked into the intake. The engine oil makes a fine fuel which can't be shut off. Probably came from a turbo failure.
Every diesel I am aware of has a fuel shutoff solenoid that defaults to off unless it is energized electrically. So no, it can't continue running without electrical power.
I hasten to add, however, that if the turbo decides to take a dump and flood the intake with engine oil, the engine will not only continue to run with the fuel shut off, it can run away to an extremely high rpm and destroy itself. The number of VW TDIs which succumb to this particular death is disturbing.
The consumer price index (a common definition of inflation) rose by 45.75% total between 1995 and 2011. So for 325%, Monsanto was a greedy bastard to the tune of 279.25%. For 259%, Monsanto was a greedy bastard to the tune of 213.25%.
They don't AVOID the law. They BUY the law. Just like any megacorporation / all megacorporations.
But can they buy the consumers?
"Who is number 1?"
"YOU are number 6"
"I am NOT a number! I am a FREE MAN!"
[CLANG SLAM]
It has much to recommend it.
No, you don't know that at all. You could come up on a traffic jam in 30 seconds and sit there for an hour. A car going the other direction could jump the median, collide with you, and kill you instantly within the next 5 seconds. There could be a detour right after the next rise. Your engine could stall. A cloudburst could begin in seconds, reducing everybody's speed to a crawl. A cop car could come up on your tail and you better damn believe you will slow down. Or he might stop you, in which case you are going to be VERY late getting to that next mile marker.
The turning propeller or cylon helmet light going back and forth (or the papers flying if you must) should work like a watchdog. If the worker thread/process gets hung, the displayed element should freeze. If all it tells you is that some propeller updater thread is still running in isolation, then the system is not competently designed.
Suppose a bar can never back up. Then its speed may vary enormously, making the visual how-done-am-I representation valueless.
It is HARD.
Define "fraction of job time done" numerically. Suppose you have to download 100 packages and then install them. How many % of the total should the download represent? Does the guy have cable or dialup? And how many % does the install represent? Does he have a slow USB hard drive or a ridiculously fast SSD? What if the first file downloads at 1 MBps and the 17th one at 139 Bps? I've seen that happen (varying server load, per-file mirrors). Which installs faster, a package containing 250 files totaling 10 MB, or a package containing 10 files totaling 100 MB - hint; it depends.
Generally, might as well show a rotating propeller or a cylon helmet moving dot, neither of which has a beginning or an end. Just an indication that something is going on, and the system doesn't look frozen. Maybe a couple of numbers under it showing # files done out of # total files.
Personally I couldn't care less about any of those things. I recognize there are those who do, and I have no problem with adding something for them, but please DON'T take mine away.
I recognize the tower of babel problem. Beyond giving these users their own parallel facilities as mentioned above, I could in the long range suggest that a common language for the world; at the very least the technical world; should be the goal. Naturally, I agree with the airlines that that common language should be English :-)
Objections are the utter lack of necessity for lightning fast boot sequence, obscurity of configuration, obsoletion of a huge body of existing init scripts, difficulty of troubleshooting, susceptibility to crashing, and the move to making it a prerequisite to the DE.
If I had to sum it up, I would say utterly unnecessary gross complication.
Nope. Lock stock Intel drivers on RHEL 6.
Mine isn't. Proving it's not the linux console code itself. Looks like a driver issue.
Then you have a problem, and I have no problem with adding the capability, and categorically do not begrudge the initiative - but NOT INSTEAD of the real console - in addition. Meanwhile, for the 99.9% of us who are not dealing with multiseat, we don't have any problem as is.
Bull. If yours is any less than lightning fast, there is something terribly wrong with your video card or vesa support. It's definitely not the linux console code.
I can confirm this. I did exactly the same thing back when I still used Fedora. It's just yum install. With RHEL 6, which I have since adopted long term, it's not quite as rosy; they are not all there in the native repos, but you can definitely have both Gnome 2 and KDE, with Xfce being a little more work, with an add-on repo being necessary. In Ubuntu you're not stuck with the default Unity either; I know you can install Gnome 3, KDE, and Xfce; probably others - without even resorting to the specials variants kubuntu, xubuntu, etc. It's just apt-get install.
Arch is probably the most agnostic of all full-fledged distros with binary packages. It doesn't even have a "default" DE[*]. To get any DE, you have to pacman -S, and you pick what you want.
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[*] Or an install program either, for that matter - you have to follow a cookbook issuing manual commands to a root prompt - but that's another story.