Let's get one thing straight. DNS is not the problem; our government is. If the government didn't use DNS manipulation to further their evil purpose, they would use something else. They would just lock up the site owner, or put out a hit on him or send a hellfire missile if he is not in US territory. This is what you get when you cease to be vigilant about an agency (national government) whose power is inherently unlimited. The system of constitutional limits on that power only works when the people are vigilant and put their fist down.
I'm tempted to call bullshit when you say your machine is too slow to run KDE4 "properly." Can you give an example of some action that is too slow? What are your system specs?
I too use a mix of Gnome and KDE apps under Gnome. It's very nice that they mix and match so well. I do this not because KDE is too slow, but just because it is so weird, and because certain key panel applet functionality is missing. These are both completely subjective reasons. When I try running the two desktops alternately in the same system, I can't detect any noticeable difference in responsiveness.
One small point. I found gnome terminal far too primitive compared to konsole. Why did you prefer it?
I think it is less that megacorporations are to some extent replacing the government as the enemy, than that it is becoming more and more difficult to find a line of distinction between the government and the megacorporations.
Google making money off information they gather makes them my enemy how? The concept baffles me. OK, they know some guy's interests are airship design and history, politics, World War II history, various science and engineering topics, reading and commenting on slashdot, and collecting innovative LED flashlights. To the best of my knowledge they don't connect it to my personal identity (as if that would bother me). Somehow, that doesn't bother me.
Google et al make money off all the information they index and archive about us [makes them our enemy]
Which one of the two is my real enemy? The evil son of a bitch who craves power, and when he gets it, turns it to spiteful and vindictive purpose, that's who. And that is most assuredly the government, not business (except when the two operate in collusion, which is becoming the fashion). Almost universally, law enforcement doesn't limit itself to eliminating crime. It cooperates with lawmakers to hungrily expand the definition of crime to include victimless "offenses," thought "offenses," and what it sees as the POTENTIAL for offending. It despises liberty instinctively. It mistrusts the minds of all people. AND it has fundamentally unlimited power. All the resources of the overpowering state can be called out against me.
Certain businesses may not meet with my approval, and where possibly I simply do not avail myself of their product. They, unlike the state, are subject to market influences. I don't see a single thing google does which threatens me. Little of their activity even meets with my disapproval.
The privacy violation and spying that Law Enforcement does is nothing compared to what google, facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc. are doing. I think the privacy advocates need to rethink who the real enemy is. With search, chat, mail, ads, analytics, like buttons, and other embedded icons/code spread throughout the web, these big web companies can gather more intelligence than anyone. LE has the goal of eliminating crime, big-web has the goal of raking in cash. Who is your real privacy enemy?
Thank you for raising the point that different gases undergo different degrees of adiabatic effect. However, it is my understanding that your exposition is incorrect. First, all common gases are near enough to ideal gases under the conditions of interest. The volume exponent, gamma, is indeed different for monatomic gases (helium, neon, argon, etc) as compared to diatomic gases (nitrogen, oxygen, etc); however, the difference is only one of degree - both are above unity. Gamma is 5/3 for monatomic and 7/5 for diatomic. I think what gave you the idea that the direction of temperature change was different for the two types of gases is the fact that there is a RELATIVELY different degree of heating and cooling for one versus the other. However, in terms of absolute temperature, both most definitely heat on compression and cool on expansion.
Thermodynamics is not my specialty. My explanation may be clumsy, but I believe it to be completely true. My thermodynamics professor of some 40 years ago would be disappointed by the former, but dismayed by the latter.
Adiabatic heating on compression would be pretty serious. A diesel engine only has 15:1 to 20:1 compression ratio, and develops enough heat thereby to ignite diesel fuel. In this system we are looking at upwards of 300:1. The temperature would be absolutely fierce.
If on the other hand you design the system to dissipate the adiabatic heat, you are rejecting a good proportion of the compression energy, which then you will not get back on expansion. So either you must withstand incredible heat in the system, or you sacrifice efficiency.
The mirror image is adiabatic cooling on expansion. If you do reject the adiabatic compression heat, then on expansion you will have problems with supercooling and moisture freezing.
Motherfucker! Mine is more open; no MINE is; no they BOTH are; no NEITHER one is; take THAT; BIFF, BANG, POW, SLAP. I have never seen so much bickering since the last time Democrats and Republicans were in the same room together. The world will end not with a bang, nor with a whimper - it will end with everybody savagely attacking each other over every single issue.
Oh, I don't know. Each of the three presidents mentioned has faced his own stream of vitriolic hate from his detractors. On the other hand, I doubt even Mandela's jailers hated him. They were afraid of him.
Not only that, but Obama is so far ahead in this poll that the others are all just a bunch of no account losers in comparison; Gates included. The message of this poll is not that Gates comes in ahead of the Pope; it's that Obama overshadows all the others put together.
Bingo. Actually, the top 3, and #5, all turn my stomach. A poll like this goes a long way toward explaining how dim bulb slimeballs win elections and predominate as the heads of soulless mega-corporations.
"Strong as" or "stronger than" steel is a popular and meaningless phrase. Various grades of steel are all over the place in terms of strength.
In terms of yield strength, annealed 1118 is 41 ksi. "High strength" steel used in submarine hulls is around 80 ksi. Annealed 4340 is 69 ksi; normalized, it's 125 ksi, while heat treated, it can be as high as 243 ksi or as low as 124 ksi, depending on the degree of treatment. You can see why 4130 and 4340 tubes have been used in aircraft structures as long ago as the 1920's or before, and are also good for automobile engine connecting rods. They are also cheap, readily available, and not only made by gnomes in Sweden. Ordinary steel piano wire has a tensile strength over 300 ksi.
Thus, a particular grade of, for example, high strength precipitation hardening aluminum alloy, say 7075-T6, with a yield strength of 73 ksi, is stronger than some steels and decidedly less strong than other steels.
Strength alone is never the only consideration in practical terms. Ductility and toughness are also important.
Heh heh, I gathered that. The approved abbreviation for metric ton, or tonne, is "t". It is sometimes incorrectly written as mt (note lower case) in the US (the m indicating metric, to distinguish from the US short ton). Note that mt logically would be millitonne, or kg. Then there is the absurd use of MM for million, popular in business use, presumably indicating two roman numeral "thousand" symbols, and completely ignoring the fact that roman numerals are additive, not multplicative. Thus you sometimes see MMT to indicate millions of tons.
I am still unclear why you "need" larger boosters to assemble parts in orbit. If each lift is, e.g., 20 t, then 10 lifts gets you 200 t in orbit, from where you can then proceed to further destinations.
That's not budget decisions. Budget decisions say how much money you get to do the job. What you are describing is classic pork barrel from narrow minded selfish bastards.
But seriously, why do you need a certain payload weight per launch? For example the ISS is 375 tons, built in place from many pieces individually assembled in place.
It's ironic that no one ever had the slightest intention of trying to record a digital monitor signal anyway. The very idea is insane. HDMI is rated at 10.2 gigabits. That's 76.5 gigabytes per MINUTE! Anybody who has a clue is more interested in decrypting the Blu-Ray files (quite a trick, but that genie is decidedly out of the bottle).
Or you can just attach an HDFury2 to the HDMI and pipe the resulting component video into a Hauppauge HD PVR.
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Let's get one thing straight. DNS is not the problem; our government is. If the government didn't use DNS manipulation to further their evil purpose, they would use something else. They would just lock up the site owner, or put out a hit on him or send a hellfire missile if he is not in US territory. This is what you get when you cease to be vigilant about an agency (national government) whose power is inherently unlimited. The system of constitutional limits on that power only works when the people are vigilant and put their fist down.
How does it feel to be out of step with reality?
For one simple reason. Most people live in climates where the temperature dips below freezing for much of the year. Water freezes.
Sha256 is sissy. They have sha512 now.
Interesting. Assuming it's included, just having kuickshow back would be a big plus. Too bad there's no Fedora or RHEL6 version [yet?].
For the most part I think the set of users who don't like either Gnome or KDE is using Xfce. It's too primitive for me, but it is fast and reliable.
I'm tempted to call bullshit when you say your machine is too slow to run KDE4 "properly." Can you give an example of some action that is too slow? What are your system specs?
I too use a mix of Gnome and KDE apps under Gnome. It's very nice that they mix and match so well. I do this not because KDE is too slow, but just because it is so weird, and because certain key panel applet functionality is missing. These are both completely subjective reasons. When I try running the two desktops alternately in the same system, I can't detect any noticeable difference in responsiveness.
One small point. I found gnome terminal far too primitive compared to konsole. Why did you prefer it?
I think it is less that megacorporations are to some extent replacing the government as the enemy, than that it is becoming more and more difficult to find a line of distinction between the government and the megacorporations.
Google making money off information they gather makes them my enemy how? The concept baffles me. OK, they know some guy's interests are airship design and history, politics, World War II history, various science and engineering topics, reading and commenting on slashdot, and collecting innovative LED flashlights. To the best of my knowledge they don't connect it to my personal identity (as if that would bother me). Somehow, that doesn't bother me.
Google et al make money off all the information they index and archive about us [makes them our enemy]
Which one of the two is my real enemy? The evil son of a bitch who craves power, and when he gets it, turns it to spiteful and vindictive purpose, that's who. And that is most assuredly the government, not business (except when the two operate in collusion, which is becoming the fashion). Almost universally, law enforcement doesn't limit itself to eliminating crime. It cooperates with lawmakers to hungrily expand the definition of crime to include victimless "offenses," thought "offenses," and what it sees as the POTENTIAL for offending. It despises liberty instinctively. It mistrusts the minds of all people. AND it has fundamentally unlimited power. All the resources of the overpowering state can be called out against me.
Certain businesses may not meet with my approval, and where possibly I simply do not avail myself of their product. They, unlike the state, are subject to market influences. I don't see a single thing google does which threatens me. Little of their activity even meets with my disapproval.
The privacy violation and spying that Law Enforcement does is nothing compared to what google, facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc. are doing. I think the privacy advocates need to rethink who the real enemy is. With search, chat, mail, ads, analytics, like buttons, and other embedded icons/code spread throughout the web, these big web companies can gather more intelligence than anyone. LE has the goal of eliminating crime, big-web has the goal of raking in cash. Who is your real privacy enemy?
Thank you for raising the point that different gases undergo different degrees of adiabatic effect. However, it is my understanding that your exposition is incorrect. First, all common gases are near enough to ideal gases under the conditions of interest. The volume exponent, gamma, is indeed different for monatomic gases (helium, neon, argon, etc) as compared to diatomic gases (nitrogen, oxygen, etc); however, the difference is only one of degree - both are above unity. Gamma is 5/3 for monatomic and 7/5 for diatomic. I think what gave you the idea that the direction of temperature change was different for the two types of gases is the fact that there is a RELATIVELY different degree of heating and cooling for one versus the other. However, in terms of absolute temperature, both most definitely heat on compression and cool on expansion.
Thermodynamics is not my specialty. My explanation may be clumsy, but I believe it to be completely true. My thermodynamics professor of some 40 years ago would be disappointed by the former, but dismayed by the latter.
Adiabatic heating on compression would be pretty serious. A diesel engine only has 15:1 to 20:1 compression ratio, and develops enough heat thereby to ignite diesel fuel. In this system we are looking at upwards of 300:1. The temperature would be absolutely fierce.
If on the other hand you design the system to dissipate the adiabatic heat, you are rejecting a good proportion of the compression energy, which then you will not get back on expansion. So either you must withstand incredible heat in the system, or you sacrifice efficiency.
The mirror image is adiabatic cooling on expansion. If you do reject the adiabatic compression heat, then on expansion you will have problems with supercooling and moisture freezing.
This is what happens when idiots who don't know what words mean convince you that laws and regulations promoting network neutrality are a bad thing.
Motherfucker! Mine is more open; no MINE is; no they BOTH are; no NEITHER one is; take THAT; BIFF, BANG, POW, SLAP. I have never seen so much bickering since the last time Democrats and Republicans were in the same room together. The world will end not with a bang, nor with a whimper - it will end with everybody savagely attacking each other over every single issue.
Even if you don't like the results, it's not the POLL that's retarded :) :) :)
Hmmm. Is that anything like Göteborg?
Oh, I don't know. Each of the three presidents mentioned has faced his own stream of vitriolic hate from his detractors. On the other hand, I doubt even Mandela's jailers hated him. They were afraid of him.
Not only that, but Obama is so far ahead in this poll that the others are all just a bunch of no account losers in comparison; Gates included. The message of this poll is not that Gates comes in ahead of the Pope; it's that Obama overshadows all the others put together.
Bingo. Actually, the top 3, and #5, all turn my stomach. A poll like this goes a long way toward explaining how dim bulb slimeballs win elections and predominate as the heads of soulless mega-corporations.
"Strong as" or "stronger than" steel is a popular and meaningless phrase. Various grades of steel are all over the place in terms of strength.
In terms of yield strength, annealed 1118 is 41 ksi. "High strength" steel used in submarine hulls is around 80 ksi. Annealed 4340 is 69 ksi; normalized, it's 125 ksi, while heat treated, it can be as high as 243 ksi or as low as 124 ksi, depending on the degree of treatment. You can see why 4130 and 4340 tubes have been used in aircraft structures as long ago as the 1920's or before, and are also good for automobile engine connecting rods. They are also cheap, readily available, and not only made by gnomes in Sweden. Ordinary steel piano wire has a tensile strength over 300 ksi.
Thus, a particular grade of, for example, high strength precipitation hardening aluminum alloy, say 7075-T6, with a yield strength of 73 ksi, is stronger than some steels and decidedly less strong than other steels.
Strength alone is never the only consideration in practical terms. Ductility and toughness are also important.
Open Source might "finally" become mainstream? It hasn't been mainstream for quite some time? What strange alternate universe is this?
Heh heh, I gathered that. The approved abbreviation for metric ton, or tonne, is "t". It is sometimes incorrectly written as mt (note lower case) in the US (the m indicating metric, to distinguish from the US short ton). Note that mt logically would be millitonne, or kg. Then there is the absurd use of MM for million, popular in business use, presumably indicating two roman numeral "thousand" symbols, and completely ignoring the fact that roman numerals are additive, not multplicative. Thus you sometimes see MMT to indicate millions of tons.
I am still unclear why you "need" larger boosters to assemble parts in orbit. If each lift is, e.g., 20 t, then 10 lifts gets you 200 t in orbit, from where you can then proceed to further destinations.
That's not budget decisions. Budget decisions say how much money you get to do the job. What you are describing is classic pork barrel from narrow minded selfish bastards.
23 MT? 23 megatons!? That is a lot of payload.
But seriously, why do you need a certain payload weight per launch? For example the ISS is 375 tons, built in place from many pieces individually assembled in place.
It's ironic that no one ever had the slightest intention of trying to record a digital monitor signal anyway. The very idea is insane. HDMI is rated at 10.2 gigabits. That's 76.5 gigabytes per MINUTE! Anybody who has a clue is more interested in decrypting the Blu-Ray files (quite a trick, but that genie is decidedly out of the bottle).
Or you can just attach an HDFury2 to the HDMI and pipe the resulting component video into a Hauppauge HD PVR.