how many years of peer reviewed research does "Stevia" have? i've only recently started hearing about it.
Why not just use natural honey of maple syrup? Both of which have been in use for several hundred years or so, much longer than that in the case of honey. From my understanding HFCS is also a preservative, but doesn't have a scary chemical name. So i can see why they like it. of course it seems lots of things can be made with out it. I have a case of Mountain Dew sitting next to me with no HFCS in it, just normal sugar. Tastes betting IMO then the normal stuff.
great, then i can stick it on my iPod to watch it, if i have a license to the content. ohh wait, it's a license to watch it from the dvd only? needs to be in readable text on the outside of the case, or you can shove it.
because it's a pain to use after the fact on the computer, when watching on my PS3.
Things netflix needs: To know where credits start in a show, and ignore that you have stopped watching partway though the credits, and not offer you with "resume blah blah" when you have 3 minutes of credits left.
just make sure it has 5 point harnesses and a roll frame and solid anchor points and you should be able to skip the airbags. Really I don't get the "it's light and made of carbon it must be a death trap" thing. Look at an F1 car, they can crash into a car going 50-100mph slower, flip though the air, crash into a tire wall and both drivers get out under their own power and walk back to the paddock, or WRC cars, toss it down a mountainside and the driver gets out and climbs back up, or Peter Solburg in 2004 hitting a Hinkelsteine and going flipping down the road.
It's not hard to make a safe car, it's hard to make a car you can freely move around in and still be safe when it hits a wall at 70MPH, or another car also moving 55mph(110 wall). Strap the meatbags down and it helps a lot.
I had a few electronics courses that my TI-83 wouldn't handle the math for. Polar/rect notation of imaginary numbers and math with them. So i settled on orpie, a RPN counsel based calculator. I did not have the cash to fork out for a TI-89 at the time. So yes sometimes people will want to use something other than a ~$150 graphing calculator. especially if they just forked over $90 a few years earlier for a different claculator.
Mind I'd like a TI-89 or similar now, but most of the time orpie works well enough. FOr the rest python + numpy work well too.
the issue for me is the cases tend to go something like this.
* rights holder connects to torrent swarm up and down speeds set to 0 * grabs list of IPs * asks for who owns control over each of those IPs * Sues a "John Doe" with ${IP_ADDR} * Asks court to ask ${ISP} for subscriber info on who had ${IP_ADDR} at ${TIME} * Drops case without predjudice * Sues the now named "John Doe" directly using his real name and contact info
How is this not abuse of the court system to get information they would otherwise be unable to get? I don't mind the court getting that info, what i mind is the third party(ies) getting it. I could do this all day if i wanted as a way to legally get mailing info for my SPAM usps mail. Is there a way to have myself be proxied by the court until the ruling, so only if I am found guilty the third party can get my real info? or even then, why do they need it? The court orders me to pay ${COURT_APPROVED_MIDDLE_MAN} who then on my behalf pay the plaintiff. I know i know "right to face your accuser", note "accuser", not "the accused".
Is there anything stopping a ISP from providing everyone 192.168.1.2, and then NATing them all into a huge pool of addrs all on the same interface? or simply not keeping dhcp logs, unless ordered to for a specific account by the police/FBI by a warrant, just like taping your phone line needs? can I for example, sue someone for something, that has the phone number 906-555-1212, and find out their info, and then publish to the internet the factual truth "JOHN DOE is being sued for something"?
perhaps having laws in easy to follow language in simply tracked database would help things. Also why aren't laws more like RFCs? with the old laws saying Law XYZ obsoleted them, and in Law XYZ saying it obsoleted Law ABC?. Having laws written in English, or at least using a standard published definition of the words/phrases/names, would go along way. There is also no good way i can look up all laws on a subject. Ex: "all laws pertaining to the required safety systems in a car" How about "all laws pertaining to a car with 5 doors and 4 wheels", "All laws related to when a otherwise healthy looking tree from my yard falls into my neighbors yard and damages his deck, during a thunderstorm with high winds" or any other number of things i could be interested in. If the law was clear there would be little need for the court system for things like copyright, slander, or most of the civil law suit sort of things.
The fact that I can't understand the law as a well educated citizen(BSME) without the use of a professional, is part of the issue don't you think? Having judges ruling outside of their area of knowledge is also an issue, IMO. Having judge with no experience in bridge design having final say in the case where a bridge fell seems dumb. Why not a tribunal of other bridge design engineers, with a general overseer to help regulate and direct?
so after some googling i see they have become better recently. I swore them off around 4 years ago or so. When the cheep ones(that my college self could afford) were likely the 60Hz ones.
Looks like a MH lamp could work, although there still is a start up time. Yes it gets cold here and stays cold for long, usually I'm not out for very long, taking the garbage to the street, and don't want to waste time/energy waiting for my lights to start up. For shoveling the driveway they would work great. for security lighting not so much. Also i was unable to find out if the same ballist would work from -40F through 100F (about the max range around here).
LEDs are easy to dim, most can be PWMed at high frequencies(to avoid flicker) to give you anything from 10%-100% lighting. Now getting a dimmer switch to do this will be more tricky because your house is wired for AC. but swap you lights over to DC and use a small 55timer, with pot for a dimmer (by using it to control the duty cycle), and it should be doable.
I'm not really sure why we use AC inside the home any more. It make sense for transmission, but why not just convert at the neighborhood or house level? maybe per room.
.. just light up a bulb and touch it. Fell that heat on the incandescent? That's wasted energy that didn't go to light. Now touch an equivalently bright fluorescent bulb, it's only a little warm.
It's only wasted energy when heat isn't needed. For much of the northern portions of the USA thats maybe 6 months of the year. That heat is helping warm my house in the winter. Yes when the AC is on it's a waste of energy. That low heat is an issue, do you have a CFL that will light at -20F? how about 0F? or quickly at 32F? guess what, the halogens work just fine there, with instant or near instant start up times. Until they work at -20F through -40F I can't use them to replace my outdoor lighting here in MN[1] yet because they don't work when it's that cold out, or they only half work. Yes having lights so I can shovel my driveway at night or in the dark is important to me.
Power factor could be an issue for me shortly if what i've heard of electric companies wanting to move to VA billing instead of kWatts.
Do you know of any CFLs that won't trigger migraines in my wife or cause my peripheral vision to "flash"? I don't really care about the color temp, but the flickering and migraines are killer cons to CFLs. As for limitations of LEDs some of that is mitigated by rope style lights, or similar style lighting.
right, "not supposed to" and "are not" are different. Also how many years has my grandmother(started life with oil lamps) been throwing away light bulbs? right like 70 years now. That's going to be a hard habit to break.
Also how about when i buy my CFLs from the local grocery store? do they recycle the old ones? how about the one that fell and broke and i followed the EPA guidelines for cleaning it up, and show up with a glass jar filled with soiled tape, glass, and a vacuum bag?
Around 6-7 months of the year around here the "waste" heat from the computers and light bulbs isn't waste heat at all. It helps heat my house, and keeps my heater from running as much. Or is simply a mild rise in the local air temp as i have windows open to the outside.
why do they need to be in tight formation? a voltron style bot? well i guess something like each bot has a mirror, and they are making a huge telescope, but i fail to see how thats better than just using a rigid structure in the first place. bolt it together so it can be put together by 6 bots, and then taken back down the same way, and be hauled "up" in pieces.
Slashdot Mirror
how many years of peer reviewed research does "Stevia" have? i've only recently started hearing about it.
Why not just use natural honey of maple syrup? Both of which have been in use for several hundred years or so, much longer than that in the case of honey.
From my understanding HFCS is also a preservative, but doesn't have a scary chemical name. So i can see why they like it. of course it seems lots of things can be made with out it. I have a case of Mountain Dew sitting next to me with no HFCS in it, just normal sugar. Tastes betting IMO then the normal stuff.
This does open the way for a way around older highres LCDs not being hdcp compliant.
are you doing your blu-ray ripping in linux as well? or doing it in windows and watching in linux?
great, then i can stick it on my iPod to watch it, if i have a license to the content. ohh wait, it's a license to watch it from the dvd only? needs to be in readable text on the outside of the case, or you can shove it.
because it's a pain to use after the fact on the computer, when watching on my PS3.
Things netflix needs: To know where credits start in a show, and ignore that you have stopped watching partway though the credits, and not offer you with "resume blah blah" when you have 3 minutes of credits left.
There are ads on /.? when did they add those?
*notices he has the "thanks for your positive contributions" box checked*
same here, especially that adobe flash stuff... ohh and some sort of window manager made by some small company based in Washington state.
it seats 4, if you RTFA. but yes, it isn't very large.
why weld? just form/machine the parts and then bolt together, see "billet aluminium car" by kirkham motor sports.
it looks like a car, i see 4 wheels, and a steering wheel... what more do you want?
just make sure it has 5 point harnesses and a roll frame and solid anchor points and you should be able to skip the airbags. Really I don't get the "it's light and made of carbon it must be a death trap" thing. Look at an F1 car, they can crash into a car going 50-100mph slower, flip though the air, crash into a tire wall and both drivers get out under their own power and walk back to the paddock, or WRC cars, toss it down a mountainside and the driver gets out and climbs back up, or Peter Solburg in 2004 hitting a Hinkelsteine and going flipping down the road.
It's not hard to make a safe car, it's hard to make a car you can freely move around in and still be safe when it hits a wall at 70MPH, or another car also moving 55mph(110 wall). Strap the meatbags down and it helps a lot.
gentoo skips the wrapping step :P
then unblock facebook on that one persons or groups computers, not site wide. should be easy to implement.
fdisk is much much faster than a gui could ever be. Same for most of the command line.
remove "$artist - $album - " from the front of 300 mp3s using the gui sometime... it's a simple loop in bash...
cd
for file in $(find . -type f -print); do name=${file##*/}
name=${name##-*}
mv $file "${file%/*}/${name}
done
I'm not sure the above is space safe, but the use of -print0 and a bit more should fix that right up.
Is there anything that I can't do with Ubuntu that I can't do with Debian?
Yes, ARM platforms, embedded devices, use a vanilla kernel.
... I have a usable system that is nearly infinitely customizable without having to sacrifice usability.
Install Transmission on ubuntu without installing QT4 and half of KDE.
I had a few electronics courses that my TI-83 wouldn't handle the math for. Polar/rect notation of imaginary numbers and math with them. So i settled on orpie, a RPN counsel based calculator. I did not have the cash to fork out for a TI-89 at the time. So yes sometimes people will want to use something other than a ~$150 graphing calculator. especially if they just forked over $90 a few years earlier for a different claculator.
Mind I'd like a TI-89 or similar now, but most of the time orpie works well enough. FOr the rest python + numpy work well too.
the issue for me is the cases tend to go something like this.
* rights holder connects to torrent swarm up and down speeds set to 0
* grabs list of IPs
* asks for who owns control over each of those IPs
* Sues a "John Doe" with ${IP_ADDR}
* Asks court to ask ${ISP} for subscriber info on who had ${IP_ADDR} at ${TIME}
* Drops case without predjudice
* Sues the now named "John Doe" directly using his real name and contact info
How is this not abuse of the court system to get information they would otherwise be unable to get? I don't mind the court getting that info, what i mind is the third party(ies) getting it. I could do this all day if i wanted as a way to legally get mailing info for my SPAM usps mail. Is there a way to have myself be proxied by the court until the ruling, so only if I am found guilty the third party can get my real info? or even then, why do they need it? The court orders me to pay ${COURT_APPROVED_MIDDLE_MAN} who then on my behalf pay the plaintiff. I know i know "right to face your accuser", note "accuser", not "the accused".
Is there anything stopping a ISP from providing everyone 192.168.1.2, and then NATing them all into a huge pool of addrs all on the same interface? or simply not keeping dhcp logs, unless ordered to for a specific account by the police/FBI by a warrant, just like taping your phone line needs? can I for example, sue someone for something, that has the phone number 906-555-1212, and find out their info, and then publish to the internet the factual truth "JOHN DOE is being sued for something"?
perhaps having laws in easy to follow language in simply tracked database would help things. Also why aren't laws more like RFCs? with the old laws saying Law XYZ obsoleted them, and in Law XYZ saying it obsoleted Law ABC?. Having laws written in English, or at least using a standard published definition of the words/phrases/names, would go along way. There is also no good way i can look up all laws on a subject. Ex: "all laws pertaining to the required safety systems in a car" How about "all laws pertaining to a car with 5 doors and 4 wheels", "All laws related to when a otherwise healthy looking tree from my yard falls into my neighbors yard and damages his deck, during a thunderstorm with high winds" or any other number of things i could be interested in. If the law was clear there would be little need for the court system for things like copyright, slander, or most of the civil law suit sort of things.
The fact that I can't understand the law as a well educated citizen(BSME) without the use of a professional, is part of the issue don't you think? Having judges ruling outside of their area of knowledge is also an issue, IMO. Having judge with no experience in bridge design having final say in the case where a bridge fell seems dumb. Why not a tribunal of other bridge design engineers, with a general overseer to help regulate and direct?
so after some googling i see they have become better recently. I swore them off around 4 years ago or so. When the cheep ones(that my college self could afford) were likely the 60Hz ones.
Looks like a MH lamp could work, although there still is a start up time. Yes it gets cold here and stays cold for long, usually I'm not out for very long, taking the garbage to the street, and don't want to waste time/energy waiting for my lights to start up. For shoveling the driveway they would work great. for security lighting not so much. Also i was unable to find out if the same ballist would work from -40F through 100F (about the max range around here).
LEDs are easy to dim, most can be PWMed at high frequencies(to avoid flicker) to give you anything from 10%-100% lighting. Now getting a dimmer switch to do this will be more tricky because your house is wired for AC. but swap you lights over to DC and use a small 55timer, with pot for a dimmer (by using it to control the duty cycle), and it should be doable.
I'm not really sure why we use AC inside the home any more. It make sense for transmission, but why not just convert at the neighborhood or house level? maybe per room.
a ceiling fan to move the hot air around does wonders for helping that.
20% of home energy != 20% of all energy. The amount of energy used by homes is dwarfed by the amount used by industry.
It's only wasted energy when heat isn't needed. For much of the northern portions of the USA thats maybe 6 months of the year. That heat is helping warm my house in the winter. Yes when the AC is on it's a waste of energy. That low heat is an issue, do you have a CFL that will light at -20F? how about 0F? or quickly at 32F? guess what, the halogens work just fine there, with instant or near instant start up times. Until they work at -20F through -40F I can't use them to replace my outdoor lighting here in MN[1] yet because they don't work when it's that cold out, or they only half work. Yes having lights so I can shovel my driveway at night or in the dark is important to me.
Power factor could be an issue for me shortly if what i've heard of electric companies wanting to move to VA billing instead of kWatts.
Do you know of any CFLs that won't trigger migraines in my wife or cause my peripheral vision to "flash"? I don't really care about the color temp, but the flickering and migraines are killer cons to CFLs. As for limitations of LEDs some of that is mitigated by rope style lights, or similar style lighting.
1) http://em.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_the_Twin_Cities
right, "not supposed to" and "are not" are different. Also how many years has my grandmother(started life with oil lamps) been throwing away light bulbs? right like 70 years now. That's going to be a hard habit to break.
Also how about when i buy my CFLs from the local grocery store? do they recycle the old ones? how about the one that fell and broke and i followed the EPA guidelines for cleaning it up, and show up with a glass jar filled with soiled tape, glass, and a vacuum bag?
Around 6-7 months of the year around here the "waste" heat from the computers and light bulbs isn't waste heat at all. It helps heat my house, and keeps my heater from running as much. Or is simply a mild rise in the local air temp as i have windows open to the outside.
why do they need to be in tight formation? a voltron style bot? well i guess something like each bot has a mirror, and they are making a huge telescope, but i fail to see how thats better than just using a rigid structure in the first place. bolt it together so it can be put together by 6 bots, and then taken back down the same way, and be hauled "up" in pieces.