Sorry; I used K3b (or tried to) for quite a while, and I can solemnly promise you it's not even close to the answer. The only usable DVD burner is mkisofs + growisofs. I just wrote a script and use that. It's much easier, more flexible, and more reliable.
It should not really surprise you that Linus actually had well-thought-out reasons for his choice of Xfce over Mate. It's not that he never heard of Mate, or just tossed a coin or something.
Xfce has also come a significant way since Gnome2's heyday. I'll agree that Gnome2 was significantly better than Xfce back then, but Xfce is much closer now, perhaps even.
This may come as news to you. Obama, Romney, all the Bushes, and the vast majority of all national Democrats and Republicans are new world order bilderberg trilateral types, or completely bought and paid for by, and in the pocket of, same.
People who think there is a significant difference between any of them make me both laugh and cry. The only thing sorrier than that lot of disgusting scum is the voters who continually allow themselves to be sucked in by the ostensibly competing corrupt machines which are in fact all involved in the same web of conspiracy.
Hurricanes are not comparable in ANY way to tornadoes.
Nobody who knows anything about the subject thinks wind outright wrecking structures is the largest worry in a big hurricane. That does happen, but the largest worry is coastal flooding due to wind driven surge, combined with PROLONGED power outage over a LARGE area. Often, ridiculously heavy and prolonged downpours over a large area add a delayed punch due to river flooding. None of that is a factor at all with tornadoes.
They are both bad. In different ways, and on a different geographical scale.
This is an exceptionally silly definition, because how exactly do you determine permanency?
Nice try, sophomorically speaking. If the condition turns out not to reversible, because the patient recovers, then the condition is not death, by definition. Ventricular fibrillation for example is a condition which, absent effective intervention, leads virtually 100% to death, but it is not death _until_ it is death. If the patient has been in VF for 30 seconds, no one would fail to attempt resuscitation. If for 30 minutes, resuscitation may be attempted but the outlook is very grim. If for 4 hours, absent extraordinary circumstances, normally resuscitation would not even be attempted. The patient is determined to be dead, and declared so, when a physician either determines that attempted resuscitation would be hopeless, or resuscitation has been attempted with reasonable persistence and has failed. Not before.
It is a moving target though. Two hundred years ago, if a man fell over for no reason on the sidewalk with no pulse and no respiration, he was just declared dead quite promptly because nobody knew how to restore the pulse and respiration. Today in such a case, CPR is attempted promptly, and cardioversion as soon as possible, because we now know what to do and the training and equipment is widely available. One could academically argue that the declaration of death in the old days was premature, but it is pointless to do so, because given the state of knowledge at the time, the subject _was_ indeed dead.
OK; taken under advisement. I see the conflict. But the original objection that Qt without the commercial licensing option is not compatible with "mobile development" is in any case missing the point. It may be incompatible with certain closed models of mobile app _distribution_, but that is hardly the same thing.
What the heck are you talking about? GPL is a license, not a copyright. Copyright is the stick with which you enforce GPL. And patents are a separate issue. They have nothing to do with either copyright or license. Any software job can be attacked via patents, equally if it is open or closed source.
Which clause would be a problem? With GPL you have to make the source available, but how does that in itself give anybody the ability to change the code running on the phone?
A burning hatred of belief systems held by others is not a sign of good mental health. While it need not necessarily manifest in bigotry in social interaction, my experience is that it is quite likely to. A burning hatred of truly evil ACTIONS taken by others, whether or not supported by their belief systems, is more rational and is an entirely different matter.
<face-palm> Sorry, no. Just no. I don't care if you're an MD; words have meaning. If a person's heart stops and you revive him by cardio resuscitation, you are not reanimating a dead person. You are stopping a person from dying. I'll lay heavy odds that you would do the right thing if the patient's heart and breathing stop and the patient loses consciousness, because I have high regard and respect for anyone who has successfully passed through the grueling process of becoming a medical doctor. But I would argue that proper use of terms is particularly important in the field.
Wikipedia: "Death is the cessation or permanent termination of all biological functions that sustain a living organism." Cessation; not interruption.
Merriam-Webster.com: "a permanent cessation of all vital functions: the end of life."
Dictionary.com: "the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism."
MedicalDictionary.theFreeDictionary.com: "Death is defined as the cessation of all vital functions of the body including the heartbeat, brain activity (including the brain stem), and breathing." Cessation, not interruption.
Euthanasia.procon.org: "the cessation of life; permanent cessation of all vital bodily functions. For legal and medical purposes, the following definition of death has been proposed-the irreversible cessation of all of the following: (1) total cerebral function, usually assessed by EEG as flat-line (2) spontaneous function of the respiratory system, and (3) spontaneous function of the circulatory system..." There are those pesky words again, permanent and irreversible.
The Definition of Death (Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy: "According to the organismic definition, death is the irreversible loss of functioning of the organism as a whole (Becker 1975; Bernat, Culver, and Gert 1981)."... "According to the mainstream whole-brain approach, the human brain plays the crucial role of integrating major bodily functions so only the death of the entire brain is necessary and sufficient for a human being's death (Bernat, Culver, and Gert 1981)."... "According to the higher-brain standard, human death is the irreversible cessation of the capacity for consciousness...Although no jurisdiction has adopted the higher-brain standard, it enjoys the support of many scholars (see, e.g., Veatch 1975; Engelhardt 1975; Green and Wikler 1980; Gervais 1986; Bartlett and Youngner 1988; Puccetti 1988; Rich 1997; and Baker 2000)." Each of those three definitions shares the necessary component of "irreversible".
Er, HTML uses less-than and greater-than for tags. It also gives you the character reference entites < and > to allow you to place the symbols themselves in the text. Pretty elementary stuff.
Dear Coward: you don't consider yourself a racist yet you claim "Christians are white"? I _suspect_ you are a racist, but I _know_ you are an ignorant SOB.
Er, 1 Gb is 100 megabytes. b is bit, B is byte. So which is meant, one gigabit or one gigabyte? I'm guessing the latter, from simple consistency. If we're going to use abbreviations, we should at least get them right.
OpenGL bypasses X11 and uses the DRI driver, but your point is absolutely valid. X11 is not a bottleneck at all, and is far superior to the graphics system in Windows or Mac. What impresses me is that while glxgears when run over the network is (of course) slow, it _works_ seamlessly.
Interesting data. Looks like this might be a counterpoint to the boondoggle we are about to be saddled with in my area - Cape Wind - with energy cost estimated at two to three times as high as our already very high priced conventional sources. I was in favor of the project from the beginning, perhaps somewhat a knee jerk reaction to the neanderthal nature of most of the opposition. But, from experience, I know enough about the almost unimaginably hostile marine environment to fear that maintenance will be a nightmare. I do not, however, subscribe to the NIMBY crowd, nor those who conjure monsters from their imagination, such as navigation and aviation hazard.
Would I not be right that capacity factor achieved is entirely a slave to arbitrarily selected design capacity?
The cited 17.3 cents/kWh is about double what we pay at retail for electricity generation on Cape Cod. We pay a separate amount for distribution, about as much as for generation.
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunlight) says there's 1.361 KW per square meter of solar irradiance.
Sigh. That's actually the figure for the amount of solar power passing through 1 m^2 of sectional area in space at the orbit of earth. The amount reaching the ground is considerably less. In fact, averaged across the complete land and water surface of the earth over a full 24 hours, accounting for weather, the actual figure is more like 164 W/m^2. With a conversion efficiency of 15%, that works out to an average electricity production of 25 W/m^2.
That's still an awful lot of power. Just don't be disappointed if the actual figure is closer to 245,667 GW than your figure of 13,374.104 GW.
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Sorry; I used K3b (or tried to) for quite a while, and I can solemnly promise you it's not even close to the answer. The only usable DVD burner is mkisofs + growisofs. I just wrote a script and use that. It's much easier, more flexible, and more reliable.
It should not really surprise you that Linus actually had well-thought-out reasons for his choice of Xfce over Mate. It's not that he never heard of Mate, or just tossed a coin or something.
Xfce has also come a significant way since Gnome2's heyday. I'll agree that Gnome2 was significantly better than Xfce back then, but Xfce is much closer now, perhaps even.
The unnamed New England hurricane of 1938 also demonstrated that.
On the one hand, you're the only one on this page who gets it. On the other hand, past performance is not ALWAYS a reliable guide to future results.
Sigh.
This may come as news to you. Obama, Romney, all the Bushes, and the vast majority of all national Democrats and Republicans are new world order bilderberg trilateral types, or completely bought and paid for by, and in the pocket of, same.
People who think there is a significant difference between any of them make me both laugh and cry. The only thing sorrier than that lot of disgusting scum is the voters who continually allow themselves to be sucked in by the ostensibly competing corrupt machines which are in fact all involved in the same web of conspiracy.
Hurricanes are not comparable in ANY way to tornadoes.
Nobody who knows anything about the subject thinks wind outright wrecking structures is the largest worry in a big hurricane. That does happen, but the largest worry is coastal flooding due to wind driven surge, combined with PROLONGED power outage over a LARGE area. Often, ridiculously heavy and prolonged downpours over a large area add a delayed punch due to river flooding. None of that is a factor at all with tornadoes.
They are both bad. In different ways, and on a different geographical scale.
So in other words you are saying the Obama FEMA hasn't done squat.
Nice try, sophomorically speaking. If the condition turns out not to reversible, because the patient recovers, then the condition is not death, by definition. Ventricular fibrillation for example is a condition which, absent effective intervention, leads virtually 100% to death, but it is not death _until_ it is death. If the patient has been in VF for 30 seconds, no one would fail to attempt resuscitation. If for 30 minutes, resuscitation may be attempted but the outlook is very grim. If for 4 hours, absent extraordinary circumstances, normally resuscitation would not even be attempted. The patient is determined to be dead, and declared so, when a physician either determines that attempted resuscitation would be hopeless, or resuscitation has been attempted with reasonable persistence and has failed. Not before.
It is a moving target though. Two hundred years ago, if a man fell over for no reason on the sidewalk with no pulse and no respiration, he was just declared dead quite promptly because nobody knew how to restore the pulse and respiration. Today in such a case, CPR is attempted promptly, and cardioversion as soon as possible, because we now know what to do and the training and equipment is widely available. One could academically argue that the declaration of death in the old days was premature, but it is pointless to do so, because given the state of knowledge at the time, the subject _was_ indeed dead.
Does this clueless evil troglodyte think cutting the routers at the border is going to do anything to stop the pwning of his puny infrastructure?
Iranian prisoners^W citizens: time to take this putz and the whole putrid middle ages mullahtocracy out. With extreme prejudice.
OK; taken under advisement. I see the conflict. But the original objection that Qt without the commercial licensing option is not compatible with "mobile development" is in any case missing the point. It may be incompatible with certain closed models of mobile app _distribution_, but that is hardly the same thing.
What the heck are you talking about? GPL is a license, not a copyright. Copyright is the stick with which you enforce GPL. And patents are a separate issue. They have nothing to do with either copyright or license. Any software job can be attacked via patents, equally if it is open or closed source.
Which clause would be a problem? With GPL you have to make the source available, but how does that in itself give anybody the ability to change the code running on the phone?
Nonsense.
A burning hatred of belief systems held by others is not a sign of good mental health. While it need not necessarily manifest in bigotry in social interaction, my experience is that it is quite likely to. A burning hatred of truly evil ACTIONS taken by others, whether or not supported by their belief systems, is more rational and is an entirely different matter.
<face-palm> Sorry, no. Just no. I don't care if you're an MD; words have meaning. If a person's heart stops and you revive him by cardio resuscitation, you are not reanimating a dead person. You are stopping a person from dying. I'll lay heavy odds that you would do the right thing if the patient's heart and breathing stop and the patient loses consciousness, because I have high regard and respect for anyone who has successfully passed through the grueling process of becoming a medical doctor. But I would argue that proper use of terms is particularly important in the field.
Wikipedia: "Death is the cessation or permanent termination of all biological functions that sustain a living organism." Cessation; not interruption.
Merriam-Webster.com: "a permanent cessation of all vital functions: the end of life."
Dictionary.com: "the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism."
MedicalDictionary.theFreeDictionary.com: "Death is defined as the cessation of all vital functions of the body including the heartbeat, brain activity (including the brain stem), and breathing." Cessation, not interruption.
Euthanasia.procon.org: "the cessation of life; permanent cessation of all vital bodily functions. For legal and medical purposes, the following definition of death has been proposed-the irreversible cessation of all of the following: (1) total cerebral function, usually assessed by EEG as flat-line (2) spontaneous function of the respiratory system, and (3) spontaneous function of the circulatory system..." There are those pesky words again, permanent and irreversible.
The Definition of Death (Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy: "According to the organismic definition, death is the irreversible loss of functioning of the organism as a whole (Becker 1975; Bernat, Culver, and Gert 1981)." ... "According to the mainstream whole-brain approach, the human brain plays the crucial role of integrating major bodily functions so only the death of the entire brain is necessary and sufficient for a human being's death (Bernat, Culver, and Gert 1981)." ... "According to the higher-brain standard, human death is the irreversible cessation of the capacity for consciousness...Although no jurisdiction has adopted the higher-brain standard, it enjoys the support of many scholars (see, e.g., Veatch 1975; Engelhardt 1975; Green and Wikler 1980; Gervais 1986; Bartlett and Youngner 1988; Puccetti 1988; Rich 1997; and Baker 2000)." Each of those three definitions shares the necessary component of "irreversible".
They can't sabotage Qt. Qt is GPL.
Rest easy. Qt is GPL. Nobody can put a GPL'ed project back in the box. Anybody can fork a GPL project.
Er, HTML uses less-than and greater-than for tags. It also gives you the character reference entites < and > to allow you to place the symbols themselves in the text. Pretty elementary stuff.
Dear Coward: you don't consider yourself a racist yet you claim "Christians are white"? I _suspect_ you are a racist, but I _know_ you are an ignorant SOB.
Er, 1 Gb is 100 megabytes. b is bit, B is byte. So which is meant, one gigabit or one gigabyte? I'm guessing the latter, from simple consistency. If we're going to use abbreviations, we should at least get them right.
OpenGL bypasses X11 and uses the DRI driver, but your point is absolutely valid. X11 is not a bottleneck at all, and is far superior to the graphics system in Windows or Mac. What impresses me is that while glxgears when run over the network is (of course) slow, it _works_ seamlessly.
Interesting data. Looks like this might be a counterpoint to the boondoggle we are about to be saddled with in my area - Cape Wind - with energy cost estimated at two to three times as high as our already very high priced conventional sources. I was in favor of the project from the beginning, perhaps somewhat a knee jerk reaction to the neanderthal nature of most of the opposition. But, from experience, I know enough about the almost unimaginably hostile marine environment to fear that maintenance will be a nightmare. I do not, however, subscribe to the NIMBY crowd, nor those who conjure monsters from their imagination, such as navigation and aviation hazard.
Would I not be right that capacity factor achieved is entirely a slave to arbitrarily selected design capacity?
The cited 17.3 cents/kWh is about double what we pay at retail for electricity generation on Cape Cod. We pay a separate amount for distribution, about as much as for generation.
Not to be pedantic, but 86 km^2 is actually 86 square kilometers. A square of size 86 x 86 km = 7396 km^2. Two different things altogether.
Sigh. That's actually the figure for the amount of solar power passing through 1 m^2 of sectional area in space at the orbit of earth. The amount reaching the ground is considerably less. In fact, averaged across the complete land and water surface of the earth over a full 24 hours, accounting for weather, the actual figure is more like 164 W/m^2. With a conversion efficiency of 15%, that works out to an average electricity production of 25 W/m^2.
That's still an awful lot of power. Just don't be disappointed if the actual figure is closer to 245,667 GW than your figure of 13,374.104 GW.