Not all netbooks have a caps lock LED, only an app that brings up a small tooltip-like message when you switch capslock on or off that disappears after 4 seconds, if you even saw it.
The capslock-notification is a Windows-only app, of course. Yes, there's probably an apt-get for everything and this one, too, I should've bothered, but I despise capslock anyway. With a passion. I'll probably remap it to right shift, if I ever find some free time.
- Military vehicles usually have military-grade GPS. - GPS uses atomic clock signals on synchronized satellites to effectively triangulate a receiver's position. - GPS works, as the name suggests, pretty much everywhere around the globe - All GPS calculations need clock signals of a high precision. - Military-grade GPS even has an extremely precise clock signal.
Now why on earth should a Patriot launcher (unit price several million) NOT include a military-grade GPS receiver to synch to the satellite network's clock signal? With a GPS receiver, you'd have the world's best NTP source available as long as you can see a bit of sky.
JDAM missiles can do it and they're one use only at two million quid a piece. So what was the stupid reason they left out that piece on Patriot components?
Second that. One must see Windows Vista boot up in 30 seconds to believe it, though.
Loading bars, splash screens are just a blink in the eye, everything concerning multiple small or fragmented reads or concurrent access is going at a speed I can subjectively only classify as awesome. Sustained reads and writes are noticeably faster than HDDs, but not lightning fast.
Having Firefox launched in the blink of an eye is sheer bliss. Having Firefox started mere seconds after the Start button appeared after bootup is almost insane.
I can only imagine what a reliable SSD could do to an enterprise-class database or file server. With the billions of small, fragmented and concurrent requests on these machines, SSDs should blast them into orbit and then some.
I can only tell you that a relative had a pendant light fixture with three bulbs arranged symmectrically where the lamp in one specific socket would always burn out long before all others. The bulbs in that socket always failed spectacularly, popping out, making some noise in their final seconds or even dying out in a bright flash. The socket soon had visible burn marks so we could easily identify it. No matter how we turned the fixture, it was always that socket killing the bulbs, incandescents and CFLs alike until the whole unit was disposed of because of that.
Burn marks aside, all sockets looked identical. I can only guess what was the reason, maybe a broken wire that unintentionally switched the bulb on and off whenever air currents moved the fixture, I don't know. A faulty socket can kill a light bulb, trust me.
I think the problem is that most people have much more chances to try out new CD recordables than CFLs - and the price-performance response is more direct - and their use cases are completely identical. But even cheapo CFL last one or two years and after that period, environmental issues like temperatures, usage patterns and so on are hard to compare. Comparing them to quality CFLs is even harder because the quality models last for half a decade or even more and people probably have only a few of them.
Anecdotal evidence anyway: I've bought CFLs exclusively now for a little over 10 years now whenever a regular bulb burned out. I've yet replaced two of them, a cheapo IKEA brand CFL that went out after "only" six years and a desk lamp whose tube was fried when its external power brick/ballast failed. All other CFLs are in service for so long I cannot remember even the year I installed them.
We probably should write the date of installation on the socket or it's hard to judge whether they lasted "only" three years or six.
I personally witnessed Chinese laymen reading and understanding the script on the Great Wall. The characters and script there is around a thousand years old and people with a higher level education can still read it. I have trouble reading books in Gothic print, which were common "only" a century ago.
I don't have any problem with people getting a car that couldn't afford one yet.
If you do, I suggest you lead by example and get rid of your own car first.
It's always easy to oppose cars and energy expenditures from THEM, while keeping your own.
We've seen a lot of this hypocrisy when people who always clamored for more support for the developing countries instantly cried out in horror when said these countries finally developed and sevel million Chinese and Indians suddenly bought cars they could now afford.
*I* would not want to keep *you* poor to save *our* planet.
I don't know if 40 Watts is "energy efficient". My notebook draws that amount under load and it's a full-featured core 2 duo desktop replacement with 15.4 a inch LED-backlit screen, a dedicated radeon 3650 and all that. Heck, it doesn't draw much more when playing GTA IV or similar demanding titles. An energy efficient server needs to stay well below that threshold.
Unless you're heating the house with electricity anyway and live far up North anyway. Then you could as well replace all the space heaters with desktop machines and sell cloud computing power to Amazon.
Except that your old but useable car is not thrown away and demolished. It is recycled instantly - through the used car market.
The chain goes like this: you throw out a five-year old Volkswagen (already pretty fuel efficient) for a brand new Toyota Prius III (maximum fuel efficiency for a medium-largeish compact car). Your new Prius used up energy for manufacturing and uses only a little less gas so for you, it's going to take a while reaching a lower energy expenditure in total.
But your Volkswagen is not scrapped, but sold. Someone who still owns a ten-year old car of a similar size can now throw out that model to buy a cheap used car that is much more fuel efficient than their current one. Which is probably also sold used if it still works, so someone with an even older car can cheaply replace it.
The entire thing becomes a LIFO chain if newer cars are generally more efficient than the old ones. The more efficient models are then pushed down the replacement path through different social stratums, while every 'wealth level' gets an upgrade and a more fuel efficient car.
Remember: when buying a used and old notebook for deploying as a home server, buy from a respectable manufacturer (HP, Dell, Toshiba, IBM/Lenovo) and be careful to select a model from their respective business line.
Overheating when the lid is closed is a telltale sign of utter crap.
A used notebook has some perks over SheevaPlug or similar headless servers: integrated display, touchpad and keyboard that let's you debug quickly when something doesn't work.
But the best part is the integrated mini-"UPS" that the battery brings. The battery on old and used laptops is in a bad shape usually, but for non-mission critical applications like a home server, it only needs to last for 1 or 2 minutes to ensure a clean shutdown. A SheevaPlug or similar small server cannot unmount filesystems cleanly in the event of a power failure. This may or may not be a problem, but I'd like to have the peace of mind that my server is shutting down gracefully when the power goes out somehow.
But then again, the Li-Ion battery means an marginally higher risk of fire.
It probably also has to do with different standards for AC-connected equipment in every country. The router is the same the world over, but the wall warts are all different, because every national regulating body thought of different requirements for them.
Countries are not children, no developing nation is our offspring and we do not have any control nor responsibility over them, not to mention that responsibility without control would be pretty useless. It is our moral duty to not screw them over, but also to leave them alone for the most part.
We should finally concentrate back on our lives, our own table and stop meddling in other people's or country's businesses. Do what's good for us as long as it's not bad for them. Peace, coexistence, trade and mutual respect. But not truckloads of money, lame advice and phony do-gooder's moral superiority. Everyone does their thing and don't tread on anyone's feet along the way.
And they probably have armed guards around their cell towers, with them getting a large cut of the telco margins.
And they keep their channels distant and well-separated because if they didn't, some hundred skinnies came riding by with their technicals, dispatching the offending network operators.
Water uncovered in plain sunlight to sterilize it seems like an excellent idea until you you realize the power of cyanobacteria and their toxins. Yes, they photosynthesize, a lot.
Several single of these in your water reservoir and your sterilization attempt will go horribly wrong. It doesn't take much to completely wreck a large lake or an entire bay area.
Well, public safety is hard to define in hard cash. Safety and human life has only a very limited influence on the worthiness of law enforcement. Example: Hobos contribute little to society, pay no taxes and earn no money but killing one is exactly the same as killing any other human being, and worth maximum jail time or capital punishment.
An armed robbery with a loss of 50 USD surely is worth 15.000 USD to track the robber down AND 40.000 USD to imprison him for a few years. Because the scenario doesn't end with one robbery and / or one apprehension, it has a truckload of consequences if done otherwise.
- one perpetrator left to roam free will rob a dozen people, inspire others to do the same, with every instance still only worth a lousy 10-50 bucks. - armed robberies sometimes fail, leading to one or more murders - consistent high crime rates lead to the gangs, warlords, militias - and a lot of premature death of young men - investing and education becomes futile, when property can be lost or heads shot off every day. With no future in sight, consumption, addiction and antisocial actions become the rational choice of the people remaining. - high earners are killed, move away or never emerge from the crowd, real estate property is not maintained, the town basically goes to hell.
If you want proof about the real costs of high crime and the real payoff from "tough on crime" actions, compare Washington to Detroit in the 1970s and now.
Of course they can choose not disable the plugin. But only when Firefox is actually running of course.
During install time of the plugin, Firefox has no running instances that can prevent it.
Firefox developers could've rolled out a mechanism to disable the plugin earlier, but I guess they had different opinions or priorities and knew what they were doing.
Another round of MS.NET installers could of course demand admin rights, which the user dutifully provides and then shut running Firefoxes the hell down and rip out all plugin-protecting code segments.
They will not do that, because it's class action and billion dollar punishment territory, but all I wanted to say that nothing can prevent a process with admin rights from wreaking havoc on non-running installations.
The.NET installer/updater that forces this addon into Firefox is running as administrator or even system rights. How should a non-running app protect itself against a code injection in their home directory done by a process with system privileges? Without creating another mess of cryptographic signing, super-super user and files undeletable when Joe Sixpack decides to uninstall?
I'm sure the Firefox team is working on hardening their application against scummy plugins that disallow being uninstalled, but I fear it's not exactly trivial protecting against administrator privileged malware without breaking a whole lot of other stuff.
What made you think charisma is like "charm"? Then why is it called a different word then?:)
Wiki-Grandma says "One who is charismatic is said to be capable of using their personal being, rather than just speech or logic alone, to interface with other human beings in a personal and direct manner, and effectively communicate an argument or concept to them."
When I remember where charisma checks were usually encountered in various RPGs, it was always in persuading or influencing other characters to do your bidding. Which works pretty well if you're a hot nympho female or a 500 pound gorilla concerning the result: people will subconsciously yield to you. Fear or attraction doesn't matter, the results are the same.
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Not all netbooks have a caps lock LED, only an app that brings up a small tooltip-like message when you switch capslock on or off that disappears after 4 seconds, if you even saw it.
The capslock-notification is a Windows-only app, of course. Yes, there's probably an apt-get for everything and this one, too, I should've bothered, but I despise capslock anyway. With a passion. I'll probably remap it to right shift, if I ever find some free time.
- Military vehicles usually have military-grade GPS.
- GPS uses atomic clock signals on synchronized satellites to effectively triangulate a receiver's position.
- GPS works, as the name suggests, pretty much everywhere around the globe
- All GPS calculations need clock signals of a high precision.
- Military-grade GPS even has an extremely precise clock signal.
Now why on earth should a Patriot launcher (unit price several million) NOT include a military-grade GPS receiver to synch to the satellite network's clock signal? With a GPS receiver, you'd have the world's best NTP source available as long as you can see a bit of sky.
JDAM missiles can do it and they're one use only at two million quid a piece. So what was the stupid reason they left out that piece on Patriot components?
Caps Lock is CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL
And I'd love to have all websites yelling at me when I'm about to enter a capslocked-password a final third time.
Second that. One must see Windows Vista boot up in 30 seconds to believe it, though.
Loading bars, splash screens are just a blink in the eye, everything concerning multiple small or fragmented reads or concurrent access is going at a speed I can subjectively only classify as awesome. Sustained reads and writes are noticeably faster than HDDs, but not lightning fast.
Having Firefox launched in the blink of an eye is sheer bliss. Having Firefox started mere seconds after the Start button appeared after bootup is almost insane.
I can only imagine what a reliable SSD could do to an enterprise-class database or file server. With the billions of small, fragmented and concurrent requests on these machines, SSDs should blast them into orbit and then some.
I can only tell you that a relative had a pendant light fixture with three bulbs arranged symmectrically where the lamp in one specific socket would always burn out long before all others. The bulbs in that socket always failed spectacularly, popping out, making some noise in their final seconds or even dying out in a bright flash. The socket soon had visible burn marks so we could easily identify it. No matter how we turned the fixture, it was always that socket killing the bulbs, incandescents and CFLs alike until the whole unit was disposed of because of that.
Burn marks aside, all sockets looked identical. I can only guess what was the reason, maybe a broken wire that unintentionally switched the bulb on and off whenever air currents moved the fixture, I don't know. A faulty socket can kill a light bulb, trust me.
I think the problem is that most people have much more chances to try out new CD recordables than CFLs - and the price-performance response is more direct - and their use cases are completely identical. But even cheapo CFL last one or two years and after that period, environmental issues like temperatures, usage patterns and so on are hard to compare. Comparing them to quality CFLs is even harder because the quality models last for half a decade or even more and people probably have only a few of them.
Anecdotal evidence anyway: I've bought CFLs exclusively now for a little over 10 years now whenever a regular bulb burned out. I've yet replaced two of them, a cheapo IKEA brand CFL that went out after "only" six years and a desk lamp whose tube was fried when its external power brick/ballast failed. All other CFLs are in service for so long I cannot remember even the year I installed them.
We probably should write the date of installation on the socket or it's hard to judge whether they lasted "only" three years or six.
Then they did a pretty good job of claiming to be laymen :)
I personally witnessed Chinese laymen reading and understanding the script on the Great Wall. The characters and script there is around a thousand years old and people with a higher level education can still read it. I have trouble reading books in Gothic print, which were common "only" a century ago.
I double checked my laptop with a kill-a-watt-style meter afterwards just to be sure.
35W idle with screen at full brightness, 30-32W in idle with lid closed, 50W with both cores at 100% or while a 3d game is running.
The power brick is rated for 90W, but I've not managed to draw more than 55W ever, not with DVD spinning up or else.
Laptop is a recent Lenovo Thinkpad T500.
I don't have any problem with people getting a car that couldn't afford one yet.
If you do, I suggest you lead by example and get rid of your own car first.
It's always easy to oppose cars and energy expenditures from THEM, while keeping your own.
We've seen a lot of this hypocrisy when people who always clamored for more support for the developing countries instantly cried out in horror when said these countries finally developed and sevel million Chinese and Indians suddenly bought cars they could now afford.
*I* would not want to keep *you* poor to save *our* planet.
I don't know if 40 Watts is "energy efficient". My notebook draws that amount under load and it's a full-featured core 2 duo desktop replacement with 15.4 a inch LED-backlit screen, a dedicated radeon 3650 and all that. Heck, it doesn't draw much more when playing GTA IV or similar demanding titles. An energy efficient server needs to stay well below that threshold.
Unless you're heating the house with electricity anyway and live far up North anyway. Then you could as well replace all the space heaters with desktop machines and sell cloud computing power to Amazon.
Except that your old but useable car is not thrown away and demolished. It is recycled instantly - through the used car market.
The chain goes like this: you throw out a five-year old Volkswagen (already pretty fuel efficient) for a brand new Toyota Prius III (maximum fuel efficiency for a medium-largeish compact car). Your new Prius used up energy for manufacturing and uses only a little less gas so for you, it's going to take a while reaching a lower energy expenditure in total.
But your Volkswagen is not scrapped, but sold. Someone who still owns a ten-year old car of a similar size can now throw out that model to buy a cheap used car that is much more fuel efficient than their current one. Which is probably also sold used if it still works, so someone with an even older car can cheaply replace it.
The entire thing becomes a LIFO chain if newer cars are generally more efficient than the old ones. The more efficient models are then pushed down the replacement path through different social stratums, while every 'wealth level' gets an upgrade and a more fuel efficient car.
Remember: when buying a used and old notebook for deploying as a home server, buy from a respectable manufacturer (HP, Dell, Toshiba, IBM/Lenovo) and be careful to select a model from their respective business line.
Overheating when the lid is closed is a telltale sign of utter crap.
A used notebook has some perks over SheevaPlug or similar headless servers: integrated display, touchpad and keyboard that let's you debug quickly when something doesn't work.
But the best part is the integrated mini-"UPS" that the battery brings. The battery on old and used laptops is in a bad shape usually, but for non-mission critical applications like a home server, it only needs to last for 1 or 2 minutes to ensure a clean shutdown. A SheevaPlug or similar small server cannot unmount filesystems cleanly in the event of a power failure. This may or may not be a problem, but I'd like to have the peace of mind that my server is shutting down gracefully when the power goes out somehow.
But then again, the Li-Ion battery means an marginally higher risk of fire.
It probably also has to do with different standards for AC-connected equipment in every country. The router is the same the world over, but the wall warts are all different, because every national regulating body thought of different requirements for them.
Countries are not children, no developing nation is our offspring and we do not have any control nor responsibility over them, not to mention that responsibility without control would be pretty useless. It is our moral duty to not screw them over, but also to leave them alone for the most part.
We should finally concentrate back on our lives, our own table and stop meddling in other people's or country's businesses. Do what's good for us as long as it's not bad for them. Peace, coexistence, trade and mutual respect. But not truckloads of money, lame advice and phony do-gooder's moral superiority. Everyone does their thing and don't tread on anyone's feet along the way.
Plain old microwave relays? Intermeshed cells?
And they probably have armed guards around their cell towers, with them getting a large cut of the telco margins.
And they keep their channels distant and well-separated because if they didn't, some hundred skinnies came riding by with their technicals, dispatching the offending network operators.
And of course you have to protect against birds defecating in your water supply. And against leaves, dust and air pollution.
Don't leave drinking water open, please. Medieval cisterns were always covered for a damn good reason.
Water uncovered in plain sunlight to sterilize it seems like an excellent idea until you you realize the power of cyanobacteria and their toxins. Yes, they photosynthesize, a lot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria
Several single of these in your water reservoir and your sterilization attempt will go horribly wrong. It doesn't take much to completely wreck a large lake or an entire bay area.
Yes. And we should pay for their needs. All needs of everyone.
Now excuse me while I toil some more just to pay my taxes.
Yeah, because they would all be rolling in billions and trillions if they just got cheaper loans with no strings attached.
At least, I would. Now grant me some loan, I'm starving because you didn't give me one.
Well, public safety is hard to define in hard cash. Safety and human life has only a very limited influence on the worthiness of law enforcement. Example: Hobos contribute little to society, pay no taxes and earn no money but killing one is exactly the same as killing any other human being, and worth maximum jail time or capital punishment.
An armed robbery with a loss of 50 USD surely is worth 15.000 USD to track the robber down AND 40.000 USD to imprison him for a few years. Because the scenario doesn't end with one robbery and / or one apprehension, it has a truckload of consequences if done otherwise.
- one perpetrator left to roam free will rob a dozen people, inspire others to do the same, with every instance still only worth a lousy 10-50 bucks.
- armed robberies sometimes fail, leading to one or more murders
- consistent high crime rates lead to the gangs, warlords, militias - and a lot of premature death of young men
- investing and education becomes futile, when property can be lost or heads shot off every day. With no future in sight, consumption, addiction and antisocial actions become the rational choice of the people remaining.
- high earners are killed, move away or never emerge from the crowd, real estate property is not maintained, the town basically goes to hell.
If you want proof about the real costs of high crime and the real payoff from "tough on crime" actions, compare Washington to Detroit in the 1970s and now.
That's why there has to be a well-regulated militia: the police will not help you in all scenarios and in some, they're going to make it worse.
You can outsource protection, upholding of society, but be careful, because you soon pay protection money, all the time.
Of course they can choose not disable the plugin. But only when Firefox is actually running of course.
During install time of the plugin, Firefox has no running instances that can prevent it.
Firefox developers could've rolled out a mechanism to disable the plugin earlier, but I guess they had different opinions or priorities and knew what they were doing.
Another round of MS .NET installers could of course demand admin rights, which the user dutifully provides and then shut running Firefoxes the hell down and rip out all plugin-protecting code segments.
They will not do that, because it's class action and billion dollar punishment territory, but all I wanted to say that nothing can prevent a process with admin rights from wreaking havoc on non-running installations.
The .NET installer/updater that forces this addon into Firefox is running as administrator or even system rights. How should a non-running app protect itself against a code injection in their home directory done by a process with system privileges? Without creating another mess of cryptographic signing, super-super user and files undeletable when Joe Sixpack decides to uninstall?
I'm sure the Firefox team is working on hardening their application against scummy plugins that disallow being uninstalled, but I fear it's not exactly trivial protecting against administrator privileged malware without breaking a whole lot of other stuff.
What made you think charisma is like "charm"? Then why is it called a different word then? :)
Wiki-Grandma says "One who is charismatic is said to be capable of using their personal being, rather than just speech or logic alone, to interface with other human beings in a personal and direct manner, and effectively communicate an argument or concept to them."
When I remember where charisma checks were usually encountered in various RPGs, it was always in persuading or influencing other characters to do your bidding. Which works pretty well if you're a hot nympho female or a 500 pound gorilla concerning the result: people will subconsciously yield to you. Fear or attraction doesn't matter, the results are the same.