what if I figure out a way to make your car think that the gas i have put in is your "pink elephant piss" (btw is the elephant pink, the piss, or both), by labeling the bottel "pink elephant piss", do you get to complain to the "fuel bottle vendors guild" that labling my bottles "pink elephant piss" is in violation of the naming scheme? or do you issue a critical update to your cars computer that looks a bit harder at the bottle, that works until i make a better bottle? or do you say "ohh well i still sold a damn car for a 300% (exergeration, it's probably only 250%:P) margin, guess i'll laugh on my way to cash this check"
hmm links to mac only software to use an app other than iTunes to sync files to the pre. I don't any of the above mentioned devices, and have no real plans to. Maybe i'll get the my touch G2 (dev/unlocked) seeing as i already have a tmobile sim card.
Really what i want in a little linux box about the size of the iphone with hardware decoding support(mpeg2/3/4, h264, maybe even Theroa), with enough battery life to spend 9 hours playing music, an hour or two playing at least 720P content and then 2-3 more than that on (in standby/sleep) between charges, come with a dock, accept files via simple mass storage (usb/esata). It would be nice if it had b/g/n wireless support for streaming and playing files from the network (bonus points for being a upnp player/controler), and a web browser (webkit/gecko/opera) with flash 9/10 (updateable). I'd pay $400 for one with everything, or $250 for one with out the wifi.
Storage can be just about what ever you like(SD/uSD/SSD as thoughts.) A battery that can be replaced without cracking the case, optional. A2DP 2.0 compliant bluetooth gets you double bonus points.
the short answer is that the ton mentioned above in the HVAC industry is roughly equivlent to the amount of cooling a ton of ice (frozen water) would provide. Somedays I wish my industry would just unhitch the horse, and burn the buggy it was attached to.
I would imagine that a small ~1L(probably gould get away with.5L) 2 cylinder turbo diesel hooked up to nothing but a matched generator that could provide at least enough power to spin the wheels would solve the range problem. Let me plug it in as well to charge, disabling the use of the ICE to charge while it is plugged in would seem to be a win-win. I'm betting you can get some crazy effeciencties (as far as the use of an ICE goes) using something like that. Say turn the ICE on at 10% charge left and run it until you turn on the low gas light, charge the batteries to 100% or the car gets plugged in. Quad in hub wheel motors, use the 2 rear ones at speed, all four for accelleration/electronic stability control/improved cornering. No need for a differental then, complex transmissions huge huge battery packs. As far as maximum torque that as simple as deciding what your maximum acceration needs to be and designing the motor for that + slippage. The reason I like the vlot is that it has no complex transmission that directly hooks two power sources to the same set of wheels, seemed like it was going to optional plugin, and was mainly an electric car.
Let me know how that vehicle works for you when you need to store it outside at -20F as the high for the day and -30F at night, for a week. Also let me know how that 30 minute commute at -25F goes for you. Also how well does you trike work in 8+ inches of snow? Most of the ideas I hear about what cars should/could be seem to only over rain(and not even always that) and always fail to do anything for those of us where we get snow/ice/cold(not +40F, but -20F and lower for a week or more at a time) For referance this isn't some notheren extream of Canada or Alaska, this in Minneapolis/ST. Paul MN. I remeber the heat not working in my car for 1 morning at -25F I drove the 30 minutes to work with 0 heat. Try keeping a window defrosted at that. I was wearing mostly appropete winter gear (I would have been fine had I been walking, but sitting in the car was a different matter.) and it took me about 30 minutes to "thaw out" when i got to work.
So until you solve the winter problem at least as well my 1994 saturn normally does, you can take your trike with it's tarp and shove it.
The PS3's blue ray interface is no better or worse than that of my Target bough dvd player (~$50). Would i like a remote to make the functions (play/pause/ff/rw/etc) more intuitive? Yes, but otherwise it seems just fine. I bought the PS3 for a couple of the games, and only own 1 movie on blu-ray (serenity). Now with all of that said, I haven't really been able to tell a difference between them. Most likely due to the the very old CRT TV that the PS3 is hooked up to, via a RF converter. My main complaints of the PS3 as of late has been the lack of a way to, 1) Normilize the audio out of dvd/video file I watch movies after the kids have gone to bed, and therefore getting up to change the volume for the talking and then again for the gun fight is annoying. 2) A way to set the normilized audio volume for the system as a whole. Play referance file built into the ps3 and set the stereo to a good volume. then everything comming out will be at a known volume.
Does cisco clean access work on bsd/linux/macosx/an arm device/my smart phone with wifi/etc? if not what is the policy about those devices? This is always been my problem with things like Cisco clean access. If i have a perfectly good AV system that clean access doesn't know about, then i get reported as not having up to data AV software and i have to jump though hoops to get i t added, or told to take it off, and install the copy that the school used my money to buy for me. GL with all the ARM netbooks that are susposted to be comming out in the ~$200 range. I bet Clean Access doesn't run on ARM Ubuntu.
I remember when my Uni (Northern Michigan University) had all sorts of problems when the iPhone came out, took down parts of our wireless network. Also i remeber that policy that the helpdesk would help get any device connected to the network. This was made fun by the Wii, it needs to get to nintendo.com as part of the setup, and regerstering a game machnine required that it be connected to the network. IDK how many times i swaped mac ADDRs to the Wii's and then had people register the Wii as a computer.
I'm assuming you are talking about the newer computer controlled double clutch automatic manuals. like Volkswagon's DSG, and simmilar technology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-Shift_Gearbox
I believe the GP is referencing common hydraulic automatic transmission design that causes lots of efficiency loss. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_transmission#Hydraulic_automatic_transmissions
In the first case, yes i could see where computer colled one could do much better, and as you say they do.
The hydraulic system is the very bad one. Not only does it weigh a lot more it also needs to be cooled by the radiator, and has a very high power transmission loss (read: low efficiency). The problem I see with trying to force the DSG style transmissions is that they are more expensive than your standard hydraulic style and more expensive than a normal manual transmission. Find me an base model 4 door sedan in the 15k range that has a "slushbox" as standard. most of those are also 4 speed and not 6 speed. Anyways there is more than 1 type of automatic.
I would use OOCalc if it weren't for the fact that most of our spreadsheets at work are now talking to third party programs via VBA and dlls that the programs ship. There are other things that you just have to use VBA for. Importing a txt file(not a csv but actual text with, like a performance data printout) without having to run it through a separate program to make it a csv, even then, try convincing excel to put the values into merged cells. Anyways, let me know when OOCalc can use a scripting language where the script is embedded in the file, and written in the OOcal and can use libraries from the host system. until then don't expect OOCalc to replace excel in business anytime soon.
seeing as i'm not likely to click on very many ads, i have clicked on a few this really doesn't generate much money to the site anyways. Back in the early days of adblock i remember having the option to download but not show or not download and not show. That option seems to have vanished. I also started by just blocking the really annoying ads, but there were a large number of them. All with slightly different URLs. I stumbled into filtersetG and that was the end of ads. Now if more people named there ad, "flashy_ad_for_foo.swf" it would much easier to block them with out loosing the ones i don't mind (flashy_ad_*). until that happens I'm likely to keep on using adblock + filtersetG.
It doesn't sound like it would paly all the content that I own. I have ripped a of my (not netflix's) dvd that are 1080P to h264 with aac sound, and the only thing in the house that can play them is the ps3. Not my 2.5GHz dual core Athlon 64 with 4 gig of ram and a 800gt. It does come close, but if anything else decides that it needs to run, i'll drop a few frames. Is the ATI card in it one that has ATI's vdvpu equivlent? then i'd be much more inclined to belive that it will work. As for the people saying the case is ugly, i agree, and will likely be building my own case when i build my media box. I'm holding off a bit to see how the state of intel/nvidia/ati graphics goes in terms of video playback, ohh and if Apple refreshes the mac mini.
that only works if you can find the category of the thing you want to install? what about mplayerplug-in the firefox plugin to use mplayer to display videos? is that in "internet" "videos" "internet plugins" "plugins" etc...
Also if i need specific file/command how do i find it using synaptic?
i can usually find whatever package it's in but not without a trip to google. I've been using linux since the redhat 6.1 days(yes yes cue up "get off my lawn" comments) and still cannot find my way around ubuntu. Also why is it that it only installs things one at a time, and why can't I run 2 copies of the "package manager" at once? seems like something that needs fixing.
AFAIK this is no more than a dark fiber lay to every residence in town. They are not selling or giving away internet access, just providing last mile fiber to any ISP that wants to use it. Also last i heard they were then going to hire a company to maintain the fiber as well.
As i see it the telco didn't like this because then there could be a local ISP providing access in competition with them.
so you would be okay with having 6 companies dig up your yard to lay fiber? or how about the street that your taxes help maintain? that would be why the issue permits. I would be pissed if i was woken up in the wee hours of the morning to a company with 2 bobcats and a backhoe on my front lawn. Now if they have a permit all they have to say is, "the city told us we could" and i get pissed at the city. I would be sueing them for trespass and destruction of my property. Not to mention that they would ave likely cut the power and gas lines in the process.
Also if you actully read the plan from the city it's merely to provide infrastructure that anyone who wanted to be an ISP in the town could plug into and sell a connection to the internet. So it would seem to me that the telco only didn't like it because then anyone could be the fiber ISP in the area without laying fiber instead of just them. The real reason the telco didn't like it is it fostered competition. So to be frank kindly take your "the government is preventing fiber rollout" and shove it somewhere unpleasent. I for one do not want to wake up one morning to a huge exploding fiber transfer box in my front yard.
P.S. i just remembered that unless they were going to bore the cable under every driveway they would likely just rip a 2 foot wide section of your driveway out and dig a trench. which would keep just about everyone from either getting home or getting to work.
Lets take my parents house for example.
Facts:
1) They are 25 minutes(by road) north of the St Paul/Minneapolis international airport.
2) That is still in a second tier suburb. (For those interested the city is White Bear Lake)
With that out of the way, the option for broadband is Comcast. There is no DSL there, they are too far away(I did mention they live in the suburbs, didn't I?). Satellite is out as well as they would have to cut down all or most of the trees on their property to get a clear view of the southern sky. As for using some sort of 3G, or other cellphone type plan, In order for my mother to use her ATT cell phone at home she needs to go outside into the back yard. SO that would rule that out. Anyways there isn't even a duopoly there, it's Comcast or dialup (at on a good day 33.6, most of the time it was 26.4, no not with some crappy built in winmodem, dedicated us robotics and 3com modems.)
As for DTV, they are 15-20 minutes from te towers being used to broadcast DTV, and guess what? half the time the audio drops out, and the picture pixilates. That is within 20 miles of the towers. In fact in the winter they have line of sight on the towers. Right now there are only trees in between the house and the towers. Care to explain why the reception is so poor.
So as far as I can this DTV thing is just result of the cable lobbing so they can try and get the last few people that still get tv over the air. I say fuck them.
Last I knew things like autodesk inventor, solidworks, proE, other engineering tools do not run or need a lot of help to run on vista. Not to mention (not really MS's fault) that a lot of workstation cards don't seem to work well either.
My mother recently bought a new laptop and it was quite a chalenge to get it on the network at her house. Both smoothwalls and ipcop's dhcp servers didn't like it. silly reply as a broadcast not unicast, and network discovery. Other than that I have actually found a few features in vista nice.
I for one find that small "minor" changed to a UI are harder to deal with. to use your examples of Office 2007 and kde4; Office 2007, i expect nothing to be where it was in 2003 because it looks nothing like 2003, so I look where i think it should be not where I would expect it in 2003 (hope that made sense). As for KDE4, being a long time gnome/xfce user the switch to kde alone is a UI change, but the above logic still holds true, it looks like nothing I am familiar with.
Only if you still type as hard as you would on a normal keyboard, I'm hoping these are sensitive enough for me to merely rest my finger on it and have it pick it up. My favorite keyboard to type on so far has been the one on my Fujisu P2110 with a 2mm stroke. I do agree that with out edges/bumps typing would be a slow. There really only needs to be the flex that is already present in most touchscreens (LCD based ones I have used anyways.)
Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program specifies a version number of this License which applies to it and "any later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions either of that version or of any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation. from http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.h tml
that would seem to imply that I as the user of gpl 2.0 licensed software, if it contained the statement referenced above, would be free to choose the GPL-3 would be free to impose the conditions of the gpl 3, on the distributer even if they were entered into an agreement with a third party.
Further, The GPLv3 specifically states that if _you_ include something, you have to have the rights to do so while following the other conditions of the same clause. If the disputed IP is placed in without the rights, it isn't in there. This is something people are going to be running into problems with when they take existing GPLv2 projects and move them to the GPLv3. If something is in them that another person or company has a claim to, they are taking the personal liability for including it under a license that pretends to have the right to use it.
When ever you distribute a GPLv3 covered work, unless you place something in it, or specifically know about the issue, you aren't adding anything to the covered work. You cannot be tricked out of your property by mere association. There has to be some purposeful act that you take. The idea that the GPL now attempts to trick people out of their possessions by sneaking a copy into something without your knowledge or permission is ridiculous. If ever there was something wrong with life, that would be it.
MS did give the rights to include that IP to Novell in the deal they made, so that rules that bit out. since it sounds as if you give the rights to do so, or do so yourself that you are then bound by the license.
IMO(IANAL) I do think that if any of the software that MS gave out vouchers had the clause in it to allow the use of any other later license that is grounds to hold them to it for that piece of software, now i think that SAMBA is licensed in such a way, I'd have to go look it up, but if it is then they just gave out a copy of all patents free to use.
P.S. that'll be a 5000USD fine for breaking the encryption on my post.
I would think that the point would not be to make it undetectable, but to make it so damn hard to remove with out data loss, that there is no long incentive to remove it. Take this situation;
The machine is infected say the 1st of June, now it does nothing visible other than slowly search out other machines to infect, or say send it's self out in one e-mail per week at no more frequently than 1 every 100. it also inserts it's self in the right spots to wreak all burned CD's and jumpdrives, as well as make all network drives very very slow. Now it's mid December, and it starts flooding you with spam and popups, opps you mean you didn't back up since june when you got it? well you can a) Reformat loosing all data, b) live with and keep your data or c) use a clunky livecd to boot assuming it didn't play games with the bios.
However, piggybacking is different and philosophically wrong for two reasons. First, Wi-fi use DOES impact other users, as bandwidth is finite and allowed users may theoretically wind up having diminished use of the service due to piggybacking.
But what if i'm standing in the way of the light getting to the homeowner trying to reed in the street, while trying to read my book? Is that illegal? So the amount of light is also finite and may be blocking a legitimate user.
But more importantly, you CANNOT just sit in a parking lot and use Wi-fi without deciding to ACTIVELY log on to the access point. While you may have a right to sit in the parking lot and use your computer, you are actively deciding to use someone else's resources when you log on, and doing so certainly is not unavoidable while using your laptop in that parking lot.
You do realize that most peoples windows computers are set up to auto connect to any available wireless network, i know the 9000 laptops my university rents to students are set up that way.
1) I currently drive a 1994 Saturn SL2, around 2300lbm. Now leaving the SUV's and small lifted pickups out, the only thing that might do some damage that i'm really worried about is a logging truck. As for the SUV's and especially the lifted trucks, you better believe if i ever get t-boned by one, i'm going to be going after them for reckless endangerment, for knowingly driving a vehicle that if it hit my from the factory car it would do serious damage to me. The lifted trucks i could probably push attempted homicide(or whatever the legal term is). As for traction in the winter, it helps that it is a stick. The only times I really have problems is trying to go through snow deeper than the ground clearance of the car(about 6") and even then that not always true.
2) now I really can't argue this point, but i would hope that in 15 years we have figured out a way to run lean and not pollute as much.
1000 pounds of people?? assuming that we are discussing a 4 door sedan, thats 250lbs per person, now i'm over weight at 6.0' and 200lbs... but wow. As for safety equipment we would not need as much if all cars were lighter.
If you purchased this card and didn't properly do your homework, I would say "dumbass", or "OMGZ I NEEDZ THE NEWEST SHINIEST GPU FROM TEH NVIDIAZ, AND I DOESN"T CAREZ IF ITZ WORKZ!!!11111oneoneone". As for the all of the claims above, none are technicly a lie, and as far as i'm concerned, "vista ready" is the same crock that "HD ready" is/was for TV's. I guess what I'm trying to say is the the box is for the hardware, and while the hardware is capable of doing those things, the drivers have not been written to let the OS use them. So not technicly false, deceitful yes, but a lie no.
Clicks? how about key presses? can i bind a long formating sting that do freqlently to a keycombo/mouse keycombo? and if so can i do so by starting a recording mode like that in (g)vim? I honestly don't care about how much clicking has to be done as long as it is no more than a keypress away.
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what if I figure out a way to make your car think that the gas i have put in is your "pink elephant piss" (btw is the elephant pink, the piss, or both), by labeling the bottel "pink elephant piss", do you get to complain to the "fuel bottle vendors guild" that labling my bottles "pink elephant piss" is in violation of the naming scheme? or do you issue a critical update to your cars computer that looks a bit harder at the bottle, that works until i make a better bottle? or do you say "ohh well i still sold a damn car for a 300% (exergeration, it's probably only 250% :P) margin, guess i'll laugh on my way to cash this check"
hmm links to mac only software to use an app other than iTunes to sync files to the pre. I don't any of the above mentioned devices, and have no real plans to. Maybe i'll get the my touch G2 (dev/unlocked) seeing as i already have a tmobile sim card.
Really what i want in a little linux box about the size of the iphone with hardware decoding support(mpeg2/3/4, h264, maybe even Theroa), with enough battery life to spend 9 hours playing music, an hour or two playing at least 720P content and then 2-3 more than that on (in standby/sleep) between charges, come with a dock, accept files via simple mass storage (usb/esata). It would be nice if it had b/g/n wireless support for streaming and playing files from the network (bonus points for being a upnp player/controler), and a web browser (webkit/gecko/opera) with flash 9/10 (updateable). I'd pay $400 for one with everything, or $250 for one with out the wifi.
Storage can be just about what ever you like(SD/uSD/SSD as thoughts.) A battery that can be replaced without cracking the case, optional. A2DP 2.0 compliant bluetooth gets you double bonus points.
the short answer is that the ton mentioned above in the HVAC industry is roughly equivlent to the amount of cooling a ton of ice (frozen water) would provide. Somedays I wish my industry would just unhitch the horse, and burn the buggy it was attached to.
I would imagine that a small ~1L(probably gould get away with .5L) 2 cylinder turbo diesel hooked up to nothing but a matched generator that could provide at least enough power to spin the wheels would solve the range problem. Let me plug it in as well to charge, disabling the use of the ICE to charge while it is plugged in would seem to be a win-win. I'm betting you can get some crazy effeciencties (as far as the use of an ICE goes) using something like that. Say turn the ICE on at 10% charge left and run it until you turn on the low gas light, charge the batteries to 100% or the car gets plugged in. Quad in hub wheel motors, use the 2 rear ones at speed, all four for accelleration/electronic stability control/improved cornering. No need for a differental then, complex transmissions huge huge battery packs. As far as maximum torque that as simple as deciding what your maximum acceration needs to be and designing the motor for that + slippage. The reason I like the vlot is that it has no complex transmission that directly hooks two power sources to the same set of wheels, seemed like it was going to optional plugin, and was mainly an electric car.
Let me know how that vehicle works for you when you need to store it outside at -20F as the high for the day and -30F at night, for a week. Also let me know how that 30 minute commute at -25F goes for you. Also how well does you trike work in 8+ inches of snow? Most of the ideas I hear about what cars should/could be seem to only over rain(and not even always that) and always fail to do anything for those of us where we get snow/ice/cold(not +40F, but -20F and lower for a week or more at a time) For referance this isn't some notheren extream of Canada or Alaska, this in Minneapolis/ST. Paul MN. I remeber the heat not working in my car for 1 morning at -25F I drove the 30 minutes to work with 0 heat. Try keeping a window defrosted at that. I was wearing mostly appropete winter gear (I would have been fine had I been walking, but sitting in the car was a different matter.) and it took me about 30 minutes to "thaw out" when i got to work. So until you solve the winter problem at least as well my 1994 saturn normally does, you can take your trike with it's tarp and shove it.
The PS3's blue ray interface is no better or worse than that of my Target bough dvd player (~$50). Would i like a remote to make the functions (play/pause/ff/rw/etc) more intuitive? Yes, but otherwise it seems just fine. I bought the PS3 for a couple of the games, and only own 1 movie on blu-ray (serenity). Now with all of that said, I haven't really been able to tell a difference between them. Most likely due to the the very old CRT TV that the PS3 is hooked up to, via a RF converter. My main complaints of the PS3 as of late has been the lack of a way to, 1) Normilize the audio out of dvd/video file I watch movies after the kids have gone to bed, and therefore getting up to change the volume for the talking and then again for the gun fight is annoying. 2) A way to set the normilized audio volume for the system as a whole. Play referance file built into the ps3 and set the stereo to a good volume. then everything comming out will be at a known volume.
Does cisco clean access work on bsd/linux/macosx/an arm device/my smart phone with wifi/etc? if not what is the policy about those devices? This is always been my problem with things like Cisco clean access. If i have a perfectly good AV system that clean access doesn't know about, then i get reported as not having up to data AV software and i have to jump though hoops to get i t added, or told to take it off, and install the copy that the school used my money to buy for me. GL with all the ARM netbooks that are susposted to be comming out in the ~$200 range. I bet Clean Access doesn't run on ARM Ubuntu. I remember when my Uni (Northern Michigan University) had all sorts of problems when the iPhone came out, took down parts of our wireless network. Also i remeber that policy that the helpdesk would help get any device connected to the network. This was made fun by the Wii, it needs to get to nintendo.com as part of the setup, and regerstering a game machnine required that it be connected to the network. IDK how many times i swaped mac ADDRs to the Wii's and then had people register the Wii as a computer.
I'm assuming you are talking about the newer computer controlled double clutch automatic manuals. like Volkswagon's DSG, and simmilar technology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-Shift_Gearbox I believe the GP is referencing common hydraulic automatic transmission design that causes lots of efficiency loss. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_transmission#Hydraulic_automatic_transmissions In the first case, yes i could see where computer colled one could do much better, and as you say they do. The hydraulic system is the very bad one. Not only does it weigh a lot more it also needs to be cooled by the radiator, and has a very high power transmission loss (read: low efficiency). The problem I see with trying to force the DSG style transmissions is that they are more expensive than your standard hydraulic style and more expensive than a normal manual transmission. Find me an base model 4 door sedan in the 15k range that has a "slushbox" as standard. most of those are also 4 speed and not 6 speed. Anyways there is more than 1 type of automatic.
I would use OOCalc if it weren't for the fact that most of our spreadsheets at work are now talking to third party programs via VBA and dlls that the programs ship. There are other things that you just have to use VBA for. Importing a txt file(not a csv but actual text with, like a performance data printout) without having to run it through a separate program to make it a csv, even then, try convincing excel to put the values into merged cells. Anyways, let me know when OOCalc can use a scripting language where the script is embedded in the file, and written in the OOcal and can use libraries from the host system. until then don't expect OOCalc to replace excel in business anytime soon.
seeing as i'm not likely to click on very many ads, i have clicked on a few this really doesn't generate much money to the site anyways. Back in the early days of adblock i remember having the option to download but not show or not download and not show. That option seems to have vanished. I also started by just blocking the really annoying ads, but there were a large number of them. All with slightly different URLs. I stumbled into filtersetG and that was the end of ads. Now if more people named there ad, "flashy_ad_for_foo.swf" it would much easier to block them with out loosing the ones i don't mind (flashy_ad_*). until that happens I'm likely to keep on using adblock + filtersetG.
It doesn't sound like it would paly all the content that I own. I have ripped a of my (not netflix's) dvd that are 1080P to h264 with aac sound, and the only thing in the house that can play them is the ps3. Not my 2.5GHz dual core Athlon 64 with 4 gig of ram and a 800gt. It does come close, but if anything else decides that it needs to run, i'll drop a few frames. Is the ATI card in it one that has ATI's vdvpu equivlent? then i'd be much more inclined to belive that it will work. As for the people saying the case is ugly, i agree, and will likely be building my own case when i build my media box. I'm holding off a bit to see how the state of intel/nvidia/ati graphics goes in terms of video playback, ohh and if Apple refreshes the mac mini.
that only works if you can find the category of the thing you want to install? what about mplayerplug-in the firefox plugin to use mplayer to display videos? is that in "internet" "videos" "internet plugins" "plugins" etc...
Also if i need specific file/command how do i find it using synaptic?
i can usually find whatever package it's in but not without a trip to google. I've been using linux since the redhat 6.1 days(yes yes cue up "get off my lawn" comments) and still cannot find my way around ubuntu. Also why is it that it only installs things one at a time, and why can't I run 2 copies of the "package manager" at once? seems like something that needs fixing.
AFAIK this is no more than a dark fiber lay to every residence in town. They are not selling or giving away internet access, just providing last mile fiber to any ISP that wants to use it. Also last i heard they were then going to hire a company to maintain the fiber as well.
As i see it the telco didn't like this because then there could be a local ISP providing access in competition with them.
so you would be okay with having 6 companies dig up your yard to lay fiber? or how about the street that your taxes help maintain? that would be why the issue permits. I would be pissed if i was woken up in the wee hours of the morning to a company with 2 bobcats and a backhoe on my front lawn. Now if they have a permit all they have to say is, "the city told us we could" and i get pissed at the city. I would be sueing them for trespass and destruction of my property. Not to mention that they would ave likely cut the power and gas lines in the process.
Also if you actully read the plan from the city it's merely to provide infrastructure that anyone who wanted to be an ISP in the town could plug into and sell a connection to the internet. So it would seem to me that the telco only didn't like it because then anyone could be the fiber ISP in the area without laying fiber instead of just them. The real reason the telco didn't like it is it fostered competition. So to be frank kindly take your "the government is preventing fiber rollout" and shove it somewhere unpleasent. I for one do not want to wake up one morning to a huge exploding fiber transfer box in my front yard.
P.S. i just remembered that unless they were going to bore the cable under every driveway they would likely just rip a 2 foot wide section of your driveway out and dig a trench. which would keep just about everyone from either getting home or getting to work.
Lets take my parents house for example.
Facts:
1) They are 25 minutes(by road) north of the St Paul/Minneapolis international airport.
2) That is still in a second tier suburb. (For those interested the city is White Bear Lake)
With that out of the way, the option for broadband is Comcast. There is no DSL there, they are too far away(I did mention they live in the suburbs, didn't I?). Satellite is out as well as they would have to cut down all or most of the trees on their property to get a clear view of the southern sky. As for using some sort of 3G, or other cellphone type plan, In order for my mother to use her ATT cell phone at home she needs to go outside into the back yard. SO that would rule that out. Anyways there isn't even a duopoly there, it's Comcast or dialup (at on a good day 33.6, most of the time it was 26.4, no not with some crappy built in winmodem, dedicated us robotics and 3com modems.)
As for DTV, they are 15-20 minutes from te towers being used to broadcast DTV, and guess what? half the time the audio drops out, and the picture pixilates. That is within 20 miles of the towers. In fact in the winter they have line of sight on the towers. Right now there are only trees in between the house and the towers. Care to explain why the reception is so poor.
So as far as I can this DTV thing is just result of the cable lobbing so they can try and get the last few people that still get tv over the air. I say fuck them.
Last I knew things like autodesk inventor, solidworks, proE, other engineering tools do not run or need a lot of help to run on vista. Not to mention (not really MS's fault) that a lot of workstation cards don't seem to work well either.
My mother recently bought a new laptop and it was quite a chalenge to get it on the network at her house. Both smoothwalls and ipcop's dhcp servers didn't like it. silly reply as a broadcast not unicast, and network discovery. Other than that I have actually found a few features in vista nice.
I for one find that small "minor" changed to a UI are harder to deal with. to use your examples of Office 2007 and kde4; Office 2007, i expect nothing to be where it was in 2003 because it looks nothing like 2003, so I look where i think it should be not where I would expect it in 2003 (hope that made sense). As for KDE4, being a long time gnome/xfce user the switch to kde alone is a UI change, but the above logic still holds true, it looks like nothing I am familiar with.
Only if you still type as hard as you would on a normal keyboard, I'm hoping these are sensitive enough for me to merely rest my finger on it and have it pick it up. My favorite keyboard to type on so far has been the one on my Fujisu P2110 with a 2mm stroke. I do agree that with out edges/bumps typing would be a slow. There really only needs to be the flex that is already present in most touchscreens (LCD based ones I have used anyways.)
that would seem to imply that I as the user of gpl 2.0 licensed software, if it contained the statement referenced above, would be free to choose the GPL-3 would be free to impose the conditions of the gpl 3, on the distributer even if they were entered into an agreement with a third party.
Further, The GPLv3 specifically states that if _you_ include something, you have to have the rights to do so while following the other conditions of the same clause. If the disputed IP is placed in without the rights, it isn't in there. This is something people are going to be running into problems with when they take existing GPLv2 projects and move them to the GPLv3. If something is in them that another person or company has a claim to, they are taking the personal liability for including it under a license that pretends to have the right to use it. When ever you distribute a GPLv3 covered work, unless you place something in it, or specifically know about the issue, you aren't adding anything to the covered work. You cannot be tricked out of your property by mere association. There has to be some purposeful act that you take. The idea that the GPL now attempts to trick people out of their possessions by sneaking a copy into something without your knowledge or permission is ridiculous. If ever there was something wrong with life, that would be it.
MS did give the rights to include that IP to Novell in the deal they made, so that rules that bit out. since it sounds as if you give the rights to do so, or do so yourself that you are then bound by the license.
IMO(IANAL) I do think that if any of the software that MS gave out vouchers had the clause in it to allow the use of any other later license that is grounds to hold them to it for that piece of software, now i think that SAMBA is licensed in such a way, I'd have to go look it up, but if it is then they just gave out a copy of all patents free to use.
P.S. that'll be a 5000USD fine for breaking the encryption on my post.
I would think that the point would not be to make it undetectable, but to make it so damn hard to remove with out data loss, that there is no long incentive to remove it. Take this situation;
The machine is infected say the 1st of June, now it does nothing visible other than slowly search out other machines to infect, or say send it's self out in one e-mail per week at no more frequently than 1 every 100. it also inserts it's self in the right spots to wreak all burned CD's and jumpdrives, as well as make all network drives very very slow. Now it's mid December, and it starts flooding you with spam and popups, opps you mean you didn't back up since june when you got it? well you can a) Reformat loosing all data, b) live with and keep your data or c) use a clunky livecd to boot assuming it didn't play games with the bios.
paladins only have to be lawful not good or evil,at least in 3.x... anyways, just fyi
hmm lets tackle this in order shall we
1) I currently drive a 1994 Saturn SL2, around 2300lbm. Now leaving the SUV's and small lifted pickups out, the only thing that might do some damage that i'm really worried about is a logging truck. As for the SUV's and especially the lifted trucks, you better believe if i ever get t-boned by one, i'm going to be going after them for reckless endangerment, for knowingly driving a vehicle that if it hit my from the factory car it would do serious damage to me. The lifted trucks i could probably push attempted homicide(or whatever the legal term is). As for traction in the winter, it helps that it is a stick. The only times I really have problems is trying to go through snow deeper than the ground clearance of the car(about 6") and even then that not always true.
2) now I really can't argue this point, but i would hope that in 15 years we have figured out a way to run lean and not pollute as much.
1000 pounds of people?? assuming that we are discussing a 4 door sedan, thats 250lbs per person, now i'm over weight at 6.0' and 200lbs... but wow. As for safety equipment we would not need as much if all cars were lighter.
If you purchased this card and didn't properly do your homework, I would say "dumbass", or "OMGZ I NEEDZ THE NEWEST SHINIEST GPU FROM TEH NVIDIAZ, AND I DOESN"T CAREZ IF ITZ WORKZ!!!11111oneoneone". As for the all of the claims above, none are technicly a lie, and as far as i'm concerned, "vista ready" is the same crock that "HD ready" is/was for TV's. I guess what I'm trying to say is the the box is for the hardware, and while the hardware is capable of doing those things, the drivers have not been written to let the OS use them. So not technicly false, deceitful yes, but a lie no.
Clicks? how about key presses? can i bind a long formating sting that do freqlently to a keycombo/mouse keycombo? and if so can i do so by starting a recording mode like that in (g)vim? I honestly don't care about how much clicking has to be done as long as it is no more than a keypress away. It's been a slow day at work