But they are not trying to predict exactly when and how many hurricanes there will be, they are looking at what effect the warming up of oceans has on hurricanes.
Really? That's weird because here when they say that they are building 100MW of wind power turbines, that means that we'll get 100MW on average, not in some unrealistic imaginary land conditions of 24/7 strong winds.
Another good area to look into - especially for people thinking of buying a new house - is geothermal energy. A house with a geothermal pump basically uses the solar energy stored by the earth to both heat AND cool the house and heat the water. Pretty efficient way to do things.
I don't think you understand just how expensive landlines are. If they could just build them, they'd do that and they wouldn't just power the computers in a few school but a whole bunch of houses.
You can set it to have a buffer of up to 900 megs, as opposed to bzip2's 900k. So instead of looking for redundant information in small blocks of 900k, it looks for it in everything you compress (up to 900 megs).
And surprisingly, I haven't found it to be noticeably slower than bzip2, even on my ancient hardware (the only thing is that if you want to use it to it's full potential, you need a lot of ram, but it'll work anyway without that.. just slower).
Yeah, that's the thing.. I guess submitters can't all know about this, but the slashdot editors could re-write URLs to include the.nyud.net:8090 and that'd save quite a few people a slashdotting.
Yes, but capitalism *encourages* that sort of behavior. Corporations are not accountable to anybody or any principle except to their shareholders, and if someone runs the corporation in an ethical and common sense way but makes less money than he could have by screwing everybody, he'll be punished and replaced by the shareholders (a bunch of people that don't feel responsible by whatever happens, they just want a good return on their investment).
A nice explanation of how this all works out can be found in the documentary The Corporation.
I just don't understand the point of retroactive copyright extensions. The idea behind copyrights, like patents, is to encourage innovation by allowing the creator an exclusive right for a limited time. If people believe copyright terms need to be extended to achieve this goal, fine. I disagree, but whatever. However, I think it's ludicrous that terms should be extended on works that have already been created, unless maybe they think that extending terms retroactively will lead to more works being produced in the past?
There's nothing to understand. Everything's about money now. Nobody cares about books, art or people. If you can make money - especially on the work of authors usually living near poverty - long after they are dead, then you are the winner of this big capitalistic orgy!
My main hope right now is that all the office suites other than MS Office will standardize to the OOo XML format. That means OOo, KOffice, AbiWord, SoftMaker and WordPerfect should all adopt OOo XML as their default save format. Then we would have real choice and no format lock-in.
KOffice is already migrating to the OASIS format (also used by OOo), I don't suppose AbiWord must be far behind. As for the others, no idea.
I have 192 megs of RAM and leave my old AMD K6 on for weeks and sometimes months at a time (reboot when there's a new kernel out, actually) and performance and memory usage barely deteriorates after all that time, so I guess that the memory leaks that you are experiencing are not coming from KDE but from other apps.
I have a K6-2 450mhz with 192 megs of RAM and KDE is runs just FINE.
It's long to load, but I don't really care since my computer is on 24/7. Once in, it's faster than WinXP on this computer and Konq is just fine as a browser. Most annoying thing is that 3.2 had a bug with Konq formating pages too wide, but now it's fixed (apparently -- still downloading 3.3 slack binaries).
I just don't see how they are useful - or even an advantage - in any way, shape or form. Real research can completely replace them, and they are pretty much all misleading, if subtly.
Personally, I've stopped watching TV 3 years ago when I started university and never missed it. Especially not the goddamn brain-roting ads that I muted anyway.
When you are shopping for something, what you should be looking for is reliable information, not ads.
I sure as hell will never buy a car or anything pricey based on publicity.. Yeah, yeah, they are all car of the year, all have cheap prices (until you read the fine print), etc.
Did the car reviewer also review the normal one they compared it to or just took the number from literature? I found that in pretty much ALL car reviews they get lower than sticker MPG because it's not their car and they drive it pedal to the floor and try to "test performance" instead of saving fuel.
Then at the end of their run they calculate the MPG and, OH SURPRISE, it's fairly low.
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But they are not trying to predict exactly when and how many hurricanes there will be, they are looking at what effect the warming up of oceans has on hurricanes.
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http://www.geo-exchange.ca/fr/whatisgeoexchange.h
http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/renew.htm#geotherm
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Really? That's weird because here when they say that they are building 100MW of wind power turbines, that means that we'll get 100MW on average, not in some unrealistic imaginary land conditions of 24/7 strong winds.
But how are oil exec and the politicians they buy supposed to make a decent living? Think of their children!
Where did they say that?
They usually research the amount of wind in the region where they build these and calculate the amount of energy generated by using that data.
Another good area to look into - especially for people thinking of buying a new house - is geothermal energy. A house with a geothermal pump basically uses the solar energy stored by the earth to both heat AND cool the house and heat the water. Pretty efficient way to do things.
I bet it's still less noisy (not to say smelly, poisonous, ugly and polluting) than a coal plant, though.
Have you tried KMail? Best email client I've tried, and it has been getting even better recently.
Give it a look.
Wikipedia gets more traffic than Slashdot, that's significant. I suggest you go check alexa.com
Yeah, they must've been so glad that the Bushies came to power to let them down easy.
I don't think you understand just how expensive landlines are. If they could just build them, they'd do that and they wouldn't just power the computers in a few school but a whole bunch of houses.
Or even better, rzip.
You can set it to have a buffer of up to 900 megs, as opposed to bzip2's 900k. So instead of looking for redundant information in small blocks of 900k, it looks for it in everything you compress (up to 900 megs).
And surprisingly, I haven't found it to be noticeably slower than bzip2, even on my ancient hardware (the only thing is that if you want to use it to it's full potential, you need a lot of ram, but it'll work anyway without that.. just slower).
Yeah, that's the thing.. I guess submitters can't all know about this, but the slashdot editors could re-write URLs to include the .nyud.net:8090 and that'd save quite a few people a slashdotting.
Yeah, I think more people should use the free caching from the NY University, Coral
Why not link to it using the Coral caching system?
Use this link instead: Mozilla.org.nyud.net:8090
Yes, but capitalism *encourages* that sort of behavior. Corporations are not accountable to anybody or any principle except to their shareholders, and if someone runs the corporation in an ethical and common sense way but makes less money than he could have by screwing everybody, he'll be punished and replaced by the shareholders (a bunch of people that don't feel responsible by whatever happens, they just want a good return on their investment).
A nice explanation of how this all works out can be found in the documentary The Corporation.
I just don't understand the point of retroactive copyright extensions. The idea behind copyrights, like patents, is to encourage innovation by allowing the creator an exclusive right for a limited time. If people believe copyright terms need to be extended to achieve this goal, fine. I disagree, but whatever. However, I think it's ludicrous that terms should be extended on works that have already been created, unless maybe they think that extending terms retroactively will lead to more works being produced in the past?
There's nothing to understand. Everything's about money now. Nobody cares about books, art or people. If you can make money - especially on the work of authors usually living near poverty - long after they are dead, then you are the winner of this big capitalistic orgy!
My main hope right now is that all the office suites other than MS Office will standardize to the OOo XML format. That means OOo, KOffice, AbiWord, SoftMaker and WordPerfect should all adopt OOo XML as their default save format. Then we would have real choice and no format lock-in.
KOffice is already migrating to the OASIS format (also used by OOo), I don't suppose AbiWord must be far behind. As for the others, no idea.
I have 192 megs of RAM and leave my old AMD K6 on for weeks and sometimes months at a time (reboot when there's a new kernel out, actually) and performance and memory usage barely deteriorates after all that time, so I guess that the memory leaks that you are experiencing are not coming from KDE but from other apps.
I have a K6-2 450mhz with 192 megs of RAM and KDE is runs just FINE.
It's long to load, but I don't really care since my computer is on 24/7. Once in, it's faster than WinXP on this computer and Konq is just fine as a browser. Most annoying thing is that 3.2 had a bug with Konq formating pages too wide, but now it's fixed (apparently -- still downloading 3.3 slack binaries).
I guess it's legitimate to ask you where your statistical information comes from.
I just don't see how they are useful - or even an advantage - in any way, shape or form. Real research can completely replace them, and they are pretty much all misleading, if subtly.
Personally, I've stopped watching TV 3 years ago when I started university and never missed it. Especially not the goddamn brain-roting ads that I muted anyway.
When you are shopping for something, what you should be looking for is reliable information, not ads.
I sure as hell will never buy a car or anything pricey based on publicity.. Yeah, yeah, they are all car of the year, all have cheap prices (until you read the fine print), etc.
The first step is understanding. I don't see how anyone could be against legal education in schools.
As long as they also teach you how to be critical of the law and how to spot bad or outdated laws, no problem.
Did the car reviewer also review the normal one they compared it to or just took the number from literature? I found that in pretty much ALL car reviews they get lower than sticker MPG because it's not their car and they drive it pedal to the floor and try to "test performance" instead of saving fuel.
Then at the end of their run they calculate the MPG and, OH SURPRISE, it's fairly low.