I just got a couple of CMOS 555's at Radio Shack (and a lot of other stuff). I think it depends on your local store. If it's Friday and I need something THIS weekend, I have one choice where I live, and I'm plenty glad to have it. If I can wait half a week, of course I can order from Digikey.
Not unless the attitude of the plane is appropriate. Even full throttle is ineffective if the nut in the cockpit is yanking the yolk all the way back to his stomach.
Think about your statement for a moment. Just THINK. Your point 2 is completely bogus. If you were strapped in a seat blindfolded and stationary or moving at constant speed, and the seat is rotated upside down, you wouldn't feel the difference? With your seat belt cutting into you with your full body weight? Really?
It's entirely possible to be upside down AND ACCELERATING at negative 2G and THEN you wouldn't be able to tell you were upside down, but that's not what you said.
It's just a quibble but an important one. Yes, without visibility you can't tell the difference between acceleration and attitude change.
Phew. I was worried there for a moment. I think the fact that I was worried even for a moment says more about my low regard for the Gnome developers than it does about my gullibility.
You would do well to listen to users, because they are like, well, the users. If developers who see themselves as designers keep screwing up the design, nobody will use it, and if nobody will use it, nobody will want to support development, and the platform will wither. My guess is that, due to the disgusting crap coming from Gnome, KDE, and Unity, one of the basically far superior desktops such as Xfce or LXDE will gain momentum, fill in the few missing pieces they have, and save the day for the platform, but I hate to have to bet the future on it.
Your parent is merely pointing out that KDE and Gnome have both headed down the toilet, and Unity is STARTING OUT in the toilet. This is obvious to anyone. The bloody desktop developers have turned into wankers chasing stupid directions that are NOT user driven, ruining perfectly good products. They could use an injection of reality. They are screwing up big time. Not in terms of technical quality, but in terms of basic direction. A lot of users care about that. The process is broken. If developers don't care what users want, then to hell with them.
It's not up to users to fork software and develop it themselves in a more sane direction. It's up to developers to get a grip on the real world.
Oh, honest to God. Do we have to spell it out? So you make a bloody tinkertoy launcher on the desktop that says "restart firewall" and it runs the command line "sudo/sbin/service iptables restart." Takes about one minute to create. That is so simple even a monkey too stupid to learn anything can do it. Then you make more launchers to do other firewall tasks.
For those of us who couldn't give a flying fuck about flashy 3D graphics on the desktop, however, bsd doesn't look that bad. You're absolutely right about missing and semi-missing apps, though, and to that I would add the less than impressive default file system and the wacko two layer disk partitioning scheme. On the other hand, ZFS rocks, but it's way inappropriate for desktop use.
PC-BSD, a friendly-install desktop clone of FreeBSD, is keeping pace and getting better and better.
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Yep. 2.6.39 should NOT have been released until this sucker was fixed. Priorities. Usability before fun.
Ah... you DO realize that 250 MBps is about four times the raw transport speed of USB2, and AT LEAST 10-15% of that is sucked up by unavailable overhead.
[but... but...] The first line of the summary is "If you run a CD or DVD duplication company"
Don't go getting all secure feeling there, friend. Do you ever slam out a DVD and hand it to a friend? Guess what. That could be held to be a sole proprietorship providing service in exchange for undefined consideration. Does the friend ever... gasp... give you a different DVD back? Maybe you're engaging in... shudder... barter. The IRS thinks barter is taxable. And what the IRS thinks, goes. They are also pretty much given a free rein to do whatever they want to seize your resources.
You're right; this is not Democrat vs Republican. It is statist vs libertarian.
If there was EVER any definable difference between Democrat and Republican, it has been gone for a LONG time. To SOME degree there is a remnant of liberal (D) vs conservative (R) difference, but even that is obsolete thinking. It is about the other orthogonal axis. It is about the lure of power vs a willingness to LEAVE THE HELL ALONE. It is about caving in to faceless demonic corporations vs seeing to the rights of the people. It is about tilting at windmills: war on drugs, war on terrorism, war on copyright "infringement."
Gnome has become a mental disorder. While I believe, as tvelocity has pointed out, that the headline is not altogether accurate, still this is just one in a series of steps Gnome has staggered into, by which it is rapidly degenerating into a pool of crap. Witness: the train wreck of Gnome3 and Gnome Shell, which is complete garbage. Gnome2 should be forked and development continued by people with functioning brains. I'm not going to go ballistic, because KDE does not seem to be losing its mind, notwithstanding the strange preoccupation that was the pointless KDE4 re-architecting. And there is always Xfce and LXDE, though these are nowhere near as rich as Gnome2.
There is plenty of this madness going around, like ubuntu pushing Unity like a drug dealer, where there is no user demand at all to change from Gnome2.
Based on that hypothetical $75k/yr salary, it's more like at least 60-80 years of his disposable post-tax income even after cutting his expenses and standard of living to the bone.
You describe a corrupt system: a system which tries to coerce/threaten/bully the accused into voluntarily giving up their right to defense in court by implicitly threatening, once they are found guilty, to punish them not only for their crime, but for having the temerity to defend themselves in court. If the prisons were not full of hapless victims who HARMED NO ONE (victimless "crimes," such as drug offenses), I admit the system you describe would have some practical merit to weigh against the inherent corruption, on the grounds of economy if nothing else.
No one could be blamed for suspecting that the system of plea bargains as presently implemented "off the record" has a distinct odor of violating the spirit of the fifth amendment.
There is a not-so-subtle difference between saying "son, it would be better for society if you just pled guilty, and you would be highly unlikely to escape conviction if you do not," and "it would be a shame, Mr. Smith, if you put us to a lot of extra trouble and things were to go harder for you because we couldn't help you."
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You can't buy a better 5mm white LED than the Radio Shack 276-0017. Anywhere. It's a little known fact. And my local Radio Shack does stock them.
I just got a couple of CMOS 555's at Radio Shack (and a lot of other stuff). I think it depends on your local store. If it's Friday and I need something THIS weekend, I have one choice where I live, and I'm plenty glad to have it. If I can wait half a week, of course I can order from Digikey.
Not unless the attitude of the plane is appropriate. Even full throttle is ineffective if the nut in the cockpit is yanking the yolk all the way back to his stomach.
... and IFR require instruments that actually ... um ... WORK
Think about your statement for a moment. Just THINK. Your point 2 is completely bogus. If you were strapped in a seat blindfolded and stationary or moving at constant speed, and the seat is rotated upside down, you wouldn't feel the difference? With your seat belt cutting into you with your full body weight? Really?
It's entirely possible to be upside down AND ACCELERATING at negative 2G and THEN you wouldn't be able to tell you were upside down, but that's not what you said.
It's just a quibble but an important one. Yes, without visibility you can't tell the difference between acceleration and attitude change.
Phew. I was worried there for a moment. I think the fact that I was worried even for a moment says more about my low regard for the Gnome developers than it does about my gullibility.
All, right, what stupid retard moderated parent troll?
What makes you think there couldn't be a 2.6.100 or a 2.6.1000 or ...
Except there is nothing wrong with iptables to fix.
You would do well to listen to users, because they are like, well, the users. If developers who see themselves as designers keep screwing up the design, nobody will use it, and if nobody will use it, nobody will want to support development, and the platform will wither. My guess is that, due to the disgusting crap coming from Gnome, KDE, and Unity, one of the basically far superior desktops such as Xfce or LXDE will gain momentum, fill in the few missing pieces they have, and save the day for the platform, but I hate to have to bet the future on it.
"Don't like it? Fork it" when directed at users in a sneering manner is snobbery of the highest order.
Your parent is merely pointing out that KDE and Gnome have both headed down the toilet, and Unity is STARTING OUT in the toilet. This is obvious to anyone. The bloody desktop developers have turned into wankers chasing stupid directions that are NOT user driven, ruining perfectly good products. They could use an injection of reality. They are screwing up big time. Not in terms of technical quality, but in terms of basic direction. A lot of users care about that. The process is broken. If developers don't care what users want, then to hell with them.
It's not up to users to fork software and develop it themselves in a more sane direction. It's up to developers to get a grip on the real world.
Oh, honest to God. Do we have to spell it out? So you make a bloody tinkertoy launcher on the desktop that says "restart firewall" and it runs the command line "sudo /sbin/service iptables restart." Takes about one minute to create. That is so simple even a monkey too stupid to learn anything can do it. Then you make more launchers to do other firewall tasks.
Your post looks like its replying to gnasher719 to me. Also the "parent" link leads to gnasher719. I agree slashdot's view can get squirelly.
For those of us who couldn't give a flying fuck about flashy 3D graphics on the desktop, however, bsd doesn't look that bad. You're absolutely right about missing and semi-missing apps, though, and to that I would add the less than impressive default file system and the wacko two layer disk partitioning scheme. On the other hand, ZFS rocks, but it's way inappropriate for desktop use.
PC-BSD, a friendly-install desktop clone of FreeBSD, is keeping pace and getting better and better.
Yep. 2.6.39 should NOT have been released until this sucker was fixed. Priorities. Usability before fun.
Ah ... you DO realize that 250 MBps is about four times the raw transport speed of USB2, and AT LEAST 10-15% of that is sucked up by unavailable overhead.
Let's just say, I wouldn't hold my breath. Never underestimate the stupidity of the voters. There's a sucker born every minute.
Ya think? You're catching on.
[but ... but ...] The first line of the summary is "If you run a CD or DVD duplication company"
Don't go getting all secure feeling there, friend. Do you ever slam out a DVD and hand it to a friend? Guess what. That could be held to be a sole proprietorship providing service in exchange for undefined consideration. Does the friend ever ... gasp ... give you a different DVD back? Maybe you're engaging in ... shudder ... barter. The IRS thinks barter is taxable. And what the IRS thinks, goes. They are also pretty much given a free rein to do whatever they want to seize your resources.
Is there a difference between the corporations and the American regime any more?
You're right; this is not Democrat vs Republican. It is statist vs libertarian.
If there was EVER any definable difference between Democrat and Republican, it has been gone for a LONG time. To SOME degree there is a remnant of liberal (D) vs conservative (R) difference, but even that is obsolete thinking. It is about the other orthogonal axis. It is about the lure of power vs a willingness to LEAVE THE HELL ALONE. It is about caving in to faceless demonic corporations vs seeing to the rights of the people. It is about tilting at windmills: war on drugs, war on terrorism, war on copyright "infringement."
Gnome has become a mental disorder. While I believe, as tvelocity has pointed out, that the headline is not altogether accurate, still this is just one in a series of steps Gnome has staggered into, by which it is rapidly degenerating into a pool of crap. Witness: the train wreck of Gnome3 and Gnome Shell, which is complete garbage. Gnome2 should be forked and development continued by people with functioning brains. I'm not going to go ballistic, because KDE does not seem to be losing its mind, notwithstanding the strange preoccupation that was the pointless KDE4 re-architecting. And there is always Xfce and LXDE, though these are nowhere near as rich as Gnome2.
There is plenty of this madness going around, like ubuntu pushing Unity like a drug dealer, where there is no user demand at all to change from Gnome2.
Based on that hypothetical $75k/yr salary, it's more like at least 60-80 years of his disposable post-tax income even after cutting his expenses and standard of living to the bone.
You describe a corrupt system: a system which tries to coerce/threaten/bully the accused into voluntarily giving up their right to defense in court by implicitly threatening, once they are found guilty, to punish them not only for their crime, but for having the temerity to defend themselves in court. If the prisons were not full of hapless victims who HARMED NO ONE (victimless "crimes," such as drug offenses), I admit the system you describe would have some practical merit to weigh against the inherent corruption, on the grounds of economy if nothing else.
No one could be blamed for suspecting that the system of plea bargains as presently implemented "off the record" has a distinct odor of violating the spirit of the fifth amendment.
There is a not-so-subtle difference between saying "son, it would be better for society if you just pled guilty, and you would be highly unlikely to escape conviction if you do not," and "it would be a shame, Mr. Smith, if you put us to a lot of extra trouble and things were to go harder for you because we couldn't help you."