If you think that 'testing' is bad due to a constantly changing flow you've never run Gentoo. Gentoo doesn't even have releases (well they DO, but you never upgrade to one all at once, Gentoo releases are a snapshot taken 'whenever' so the CD images don't get too moldy). At any given instant, when you did an upgrade with Gentoo you ran the risk of breaking the system BADLY. Mostly due to their crazy system of config files that defied common sense in how to edit them, with defaults that you DON'T want to use!
Well theres still 'stinky' pete, Jese, (I forget the horse's name), and a few other TS2 characters. And they could also use the name of the kid that owned them all.
Well to use another example, the MP3 codec is not a goal but the way to get there. The argument that one can just use different code to create the MP3 encoded file should NOT avoid the patent. The entire MP3 implementation IS a way to 'get there', "there" being a way to compress and store music data. Ogg is another way to get there. So in this sense, software patents can have some validity, but you need to separate the 'goal' from the 'implementation'.
Instead of using standard 3mm LED's use SMT types. They are already the size you need and are available in the same brightness as the 3mm kind. You will need to use a circuit board and special soldering tools though....
LED's can be dimmed one of two ways, by varying the current or by varying the duty cycle. The duty cycle method does work better however. Conventional incandescant lamp dimmers use Triacs or SCRs to vary the duty cycle, so they will work just fine. The ballasts of CFL's don't take kindly to short duty cycles (they tend to explode) so unless the CFL has a special ballast adapted to this use they can't be dimmed.
There are several ways to reduce the CO2 in the oceans, both chemical and biological. In fact the earth has recycled CO2 in the oceans many times in the past when CO2 levels were even HIGHER than today in the atmosphere. The problem probably isn't irreversible, but it is a lot harder than just reducing or stopping CO2 emissions.
I recently freecycled two old computers that I restored and installed the latest Ubuntu on them. In my freecycle ad I was clear that these computers ran Ubuntu Linux and I included a link to ubuntu.com. Two people called and were very happy to have those computers. They looked at the Ubuntu web site first and realized that the machines would do what they needed.
The big problem with Ubuntu is that most ISP's don't support Linux. If you know what you are doing, you can connect to most of them using Roaring Penguin, but the setup requires some geekwork. If you already have a home network with a router (and some ISP's will sell you this hw and support) then internet access is plug and play.
The reason Tesla/Westinghouse won the current wars with Edison because there wasn't any good way to step DC voltages up or down. You can't transmit power very far at 110 volts. AC allowed the use of inexpensive and transformers to step voltage down at the customer site and transmit at high voltage over long distance.
Today solid state converters do allow the step up / down of DC voltage, and very high voltage DC can be sent over long distances with less loss than the same AC at the same voltage. At least one power company is looking at using DC transmission lines over long distance.
AC power still makes more sense for consumer and most industrial use, but for transmission and delivery of power in bulk DC seems to be making a comeback.
Actually that isn't a problem. There are many general aviation airports that rent hangar space to aircraft owners (in fact almost all airports do). You drive your car onto the airport and park right next to your hangar, get it your plane and take off. In this case you can taxi your airplane off the runway, onto the private airport road, then out of the airport. Remember this is a plane the size of a car with folded wings. No problem!
Simply deleting the files doesn't remove the file data from the hard disk, all it does is remove the directory entries. That's why undelete utilities can work. If you delete the entries from the 'trash can' this makes the disk space that was used to contain the file data available to be over written, but until new files actually DO overwrite the space formerly occupied by the deleted files the data is still there. It would take some geek effort to reconstruct the data by stringing the correct sectors together in the correct order. Something like gluing documents from a paper shredder back together again.
Formating a hard disk doesn't write over EVERYTHING, it does zero out all the directory sectors, and all the allocation tables. What the format operation should be called is 'make file system', which is what Linux actually DOES call this command. Under the Linux mkfs commands there is an option to write some data pattern (or just 'zeros') over every sector that will be used for file data when creating a file system. This can take hours on a large hard disk, but it is what you want to do to make sure your data is really erased from the hard disk. Another way is to perform a complete low level format, this requires the disk drive makers own software tools.
Even if you actually DO over write the entire disk with some data pattern it might still be possible to recover the data, but this will require special hardware to perform an analog read of the disk and special DSP software to re-construct the data from what ever latent image remains on the disk. This is true CIA type stuff, unless you are on the FBI's most wanted list no one is going to go through that kind of trouble to read data off your thrown away hard disk!
Actually the best way to hold your breath is to first breath quickly to hyperventalte. This saturates your lung tissue with oxygen. Then exhale as completely as possible. You can hold you breath longer this way than just taking one deep breath and not exhaling.
Generac (http://www.generac.com/Default.aspx) sells complete packages ready to install as well as discrete units and transfer switches. I have one of their 15KW air cooled LNG/Propane generators (only in my case it is for power outages caused by Hurricanes). Very easy to install, mount their transfer panel next to your main breaker panel and transfer some of the loads from the main panel to the generator panel. The unit WON'T run your entire house, but you can put the most important circuits under backup.
If you have piped in LNG this is the way to go. Otherwise you need to bury a 250 to 1000 gal propane tank in the backyard.
The choice of fuel for generator use would be LNG, Propane, Diesel, and Gasoline (in that order).
Gasoline has the shortest 'shelf life' and is the most difficult to store (ask your fire department!).
Diesel fuel can last for years with the right additives and can power your car (if you have a diesel car). Diesel engines will also run on JetA (live near an airport?), home heating oil (filter it first!), bio-diesel (rob your nearby McDonalds of their used french fri oil!), even Kerosene. If you buy diesel fuel for generator use make sure you fill out the required paperwork so you don't have to pay the road taxes on the fuel. You can store diesel in the same kind of tanks that home heating oil is stored in.
Well actually the RIAA can't have it both ways. The record companies, major studios, and networks are just beginning to figure out that they can sell content over the web (if they pile enough DRM crap on top of it) so they don't want to choke off their customers bandwidth.
Left a few out. What would small talk be? How about focal? Muddle (MDL, actually a sect of lisp)? Teco? (it's a now forgotten DEC editor, but also a programming language. I remember seeing a Star Trek game written in Teco!) Oh and don't forget Assembler. I guess that would be something like American Indian worship of the 'great spirt'.
Live oak trees in S. FL. have dropped lots of acorns this year. Walk down my neighbors driveway lined with mature live oak trees and hear the crunch of acorns under foot.
Maybe the sunspot minimum has something to do with this up north. FL live oaks don't drop leaves in the winter BTW.
Bicentennial Man is probably fairly faithful - to the book, which wasn't actually by Asimov. (It was inspired by a short story he wrote.) I liked it, mostly. IIRC, The Bicentennial man was a work by Asimov. There was a sequel to it called 'The Positronic man' that was written by someone else, but 'ghost written' by Asimov, at least his name was also on the spine.
You've just described 'sleep walking'. While it can happen to anybody, it may be more common in children. Years ago, my daughter got up in the middle of the night needing to go to the bathroom. She never made it to the bathroom, but instead ended up in a next door bedroom where her computer desk was. She sat down on the chair (cloth seat) and emptied her bladder there. The next day we all wondered why her chair smelled of urine, and figured out what happened.
He used a 2716 eprom in the re-creation. That was a part NOT available in the time of the 4004. He should have used a 1702 eprom. These parts are not THAT rare, though he would have needed 8 of them to replace a single 2716.
The first stage of an air launch vehicle does not need to carry it's own oxidizer as it can use air breathing engines, and some of the weight (lift) is carried by aerodynamics (wings) instead of pure rocket power. I don't think there are any air breathing engines (jet) with enough thrust to work in a pure vertical liftoff first stage, but if that were possible then some of the weight (oxidizer) could be saved in a re-usable first stage.
Guess what? Whites are no longer a majority in this country. (IE: Less than 50% of the population). The U.S. is more of a melting pot than ever. It won't be long before 'whites' are not even the LARGEST of the many 'groups' that this country is made of. Not that dividing the US into 'groups' was ever a good idea. We are ALL Americans, QED.
"magine you were caught for littering - almost noone gets caught for littering - and they fined you $1,000,000 to cover the cleanup from everyone else. Does that even remotely make sense in your world? --"
The American Pioneers are not a similar example to the first explorers on Mars. The ships that brought the pioneers to America returned to Europe (to perhaps bring more people to the new world.) And many of the first colonists did travel back and forth to the old country as part of trade and political exchanges. The biggest difference was that the Pioneers knew survival was possible in America. There would be food and water (and air!), though they would have to build their own shelter and hunt or grow their food. Unless the future Mars pioneers have the same assurances the option of a return trip is needed.
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Also, calling someone a Douchebag (which is what she did) != Parody.
You obviously missed quite a few SNL broadcasts!
If you think that 'testing' is bad due to a constantly changing flow you've never run Gentoo. Gentoo doesn't even have releases (well they DO, but you never upgrade to one all at once, Gentoo releases are a snapshot taken 'whenever' so the CD images don't get too moldy). At any given instant, when you did an upgrade with Gentoo you ran the risk of breaking the system BADLY. Mostly due to their crazy system of config files that defied common sense in how to edit them, with defaults that you DON'T want to use!
Well theres still 'stinky' pete, Jese, (I forget the horse's name), and a few other TS2 characters. And they could also use the name of the kid that owned them all.
Well to use another example, the MP3 codec is not a goal but the way to get there. The argument that one can just use different code to create the MP3 encoded file should NOT avoid the patent. The entire MP3 implementation IS a way to 'get there', "there" being a way to compress and store music data. Ogg is another way to get there. So in this sense, software patents can have some validity, but you need to separate the 'goal' from the 'implementation'.
Instead of using standard 3mm LED's use SMT types. They are already the size you need and are available in the same brightness as the 3mm kind. You will need to use a circuit board and special soldering tools though....
LED's can be dimmed one of two ways, by varying the current or by varying the duty cycle. The duty cycle method does work better however. Conventional incandescant lamp dimmers use Triacs or SCRs to vary the duty cycle, so they will work just fine. The ballasts of CFL's don't take kindly to short duty cycles (they tend to explode) so unless the CFL has a special ballast adapted to this use they can't be dimmed.
There are several ways to reduce the CO2 in the oceans, both chemical and biological. In fact the earth has recycled CO2 in the oceans many times in the past when CO2 levels were even HIGHER than today in the atmosphere. The problem probably isn't irreversible, but it is a lot harder than just reducing or stopping CO2 emissions.
I recently freecycled two old computers that I restored and installed the latest Ubuntu on them. In my freecycle ad I was clear that these computers ran Ubuntu Linux and I included a link to ubuntu.com. Two people called and were very happy to have those computers. They looked at the Ubuntu web site first and realized that the machines would do what they needed.
The big problem with Ubuntu is that most ISP's don't support Linux. If you know what you are doing, you can connect to most of them using Roaring Penguin, but the setup requires some geekwork. If you already have a home network with a router (and some ISP's will sell you this hw and support) then internet access is plug and play.
The reason Tesla/Westinghouse won the current wars with Edison because there wasn't any good way to step DC voltages up or down. You can't transmit power very far at 110 volts. AC allowed the use of inexpensive and transformers to step voltage down at the customer site and transmit at high voltage over long distance.
Today solid state converters do allow the step up / down of DC voltage, and very high voltage DC can be sent over long distances with less loss than the same AC at the same voltage. At least one power company is looking at using DC transmission lines over long distance.
AC power still makes more sense for consumer and most industrial use, but for transmission and delivery of power in bulk DC seems to be making a comeback.
Actually that isn't a problem. There are many general aviation airports that rent hangar space to aircraft owners (in fact almost all airports do). You drive your car onto the airport and park right next to your hangar, get it your plane and take off. In this case you can taxi your airplane off the runway, onto the private airport road, then out of the airport. Remember this is a plane the size of a car with folded wings. No problem!
Simply deleting the files doesn't remove the file data from the hard disk, all it does is remove the directory entries. That's why undelete utilities can work. If you delete the entries from the 'trash can' this makes the disk space that was used to contain the file data available to be over written, but until new files actually DO overwrite the space formerly occupied by the deleted files the data is still there. It would take some geek effort to reconstruct the data by stringing the correct sectors together in the correct order. Something like gluing documents from a paper shredder back together again.
Formating a hard disk doesn't write over EVERYTHING, it does zero out all the directory sectors, and all the allocation tables. What the format operation should be called is 'make file system', which is what Linux actually DOES call this command. Under the Linux mkfs commands there is an option to write some data pattern (or just 'zeros') over every sector that will be used for file data when creating a file system. This can take hours on a large hard disk, but it is what you want to do to make sure your data is really erased from the hard disk. Another way is to perform a complete low level format, this requires the disk drive makers own software tools.
Even if you actually DO over write the entire disk with some data pattern it might still be possible to recover the data, but this will require special hardware to perform an analog read of the disk and special DSP software to re-construct the data from what ever latent image remains on the disk. This is true CIA type stuff, unless you are on the FBI's most wanted list no one is going to go through that kind of trouble to read data off your thrown away hard disk!
Actually the best way to hold your breath is to first breath quickly to hyperventalte. This saturates your lung tissue with oxygen. Then exhale as completely as possible. You can hold you breath longer this way than just taking one deep breath and not exhaling.
Generac (http://www.generac.com/Default.aspx) sells complete packages ready to install as well as discrete units and transfer switches. I have one of their 15KW air cooled LNG/Propane generators (only in my case it is for power outages caused by Hurricanes). Very easy to install, mount their transfer panel next to your main breaker panel and transfer some of the loads from the main panel to the generator panel. The unit WON'T run your entire house, but you can put the most important circuits under backup.
If you have piped in LNG this is the way to go. Otherwise you need to bury a 250 to 1000 gal propane tank in the backyard.
The choice of fuel for generator use would be LNG, Propane, Diesel, and Gasoline (in that order).
Gasoline has the shortest 'shelf life' and is the most difficult to store (ask your fire department!).
Diesel fuel can last for years with the right additives and can power your car (if you have a diesel car). Diesel engines will also run on JetA (live near an airport?), home heating oil (filter it first!), bio-diesel (rob your nearby McDonalds of their used french fri oil!), even Kerosene. If you buy diesel fuel for generator use make sure you fill out the required paperwork so you don't have to pay the road taxes on the fuel. You can store diesel in the same kind of tanks that home heating oil is stored in.
Well actually the RIAA can't have it both ways. The record companies, major studios, and networks are just beginning to figure out that they can sell content over the web (if they pile enough DRM crap on top of it) so they don't want to choke off their customers bandwidth.
Left a few out.
What would small talk be? How about focal?
Muddle (MDL, actually a sect of lisp)? Teco? (it's a now forgotten DEC editor, but also a programming language. I remember seeing a Star Trek game written in Teco!) Oh and don't forget Assembler. I guess that would be something like American Indian worship of the 'great spirt'.
Live oak trees in S. FL. have dropped lots of acorns this year. Walk down my neighbors driveway lined with mature live oak trees and hear the crunch of acorns under foot.
Maybe the sunspot minimum has something to do with this up north. FL live oaks don't drop leaves in the winter BTW.
Bicentennial Man is probably fairly faithful - to the book, which wasn't actually by Asimov. (It was inspired by a short story he wrote.) I liked it, mostly.
IIRC, The Bicentennial man was a work by Asimov. There was a sequel to it called 'The Positronic man' that was written by someone else, but 'ghost written' by Asimov, at least his name was also on the spine.
You've just described 'sleep walking'.
While it can happen to anybody, it may be more common in children. Years ago, my daughter got up in the middle of the night needing to go to the bathroom. She never made it to the bathroom, but instead ended up in a next door bedroom where her computer desk was. She sat down on the chair (cloth seat) and emptied her bladder there. The next day we all wondered why her chair smelled of urine, and figured out what happened.
He used a 2716 eprom in the re-creation. That was a part NOT available in the time of the 4004. He should have used a 1702 eprom. These parts are not THAT rare, though he would have needed 8 of them to replace a single 2716.
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The first stage of an air launch vehicle does not need to carry it's own oxidizer as it can use air breathing engines, and some of the weight (lift) is carried by aerodynamics (wings) instead of pure rocket power. I don't think there are any air breathing engines (jet) with enough thrust to work in a pure vertical liftoff first stage, but if that were possible then some of the weight (oxidizer) could be saved in a re-usable first stage.
Guess what? Whites are no longer a majority in this country. (IE: Less than 50% of the population). The U.S. is more of a melting pot than ever. It won't be long before 'whites' are not even the LARGEST of the many 'groups' that this country is made of. Not that dividing the US into 'groups' was ever a good idea. We are ALL Americans, QED.
"magine you were caught for littering - almost noone gets caught for littering - and they fined you $1,000,000 to cover the cleanup from everyone else. Does that even remotely make sense in your world?
--"
Ask Arlo about that.
How about a digital camera? Some are as small (or smaller)than cell phones.
The American Pioneers are not a similar example to the first explorers on Mars. The ships that brought the pioneers to America returned to Europe (to perhaps bring more people to the new world.) And many of the first colonists did travel back and forth to the old country as part of trade and political exchanges. The biggest difference was that the Pioneers knew survival was possible in America. There would be food and water (and air!), though they would have to build their own shelter and hunt or grow their food. Unless the future Mars pioneers have the same assurances the option of a return trip is needed.