No it does NOT. Go read the GPL. It governs distribution, you can use it any way you like as long as you don't distribute it. (Contrary to e.g. an EULA)
please don't advertise xmms, it is a piece of gtk1-shit, you just give fuel to linux-bashers ("see, it looks like shit and can't display unicode titles").
Now, can they enforce EULAs on those provisions that aren't covered by local consumer laws?
No, they can't. The only exception is if you buy directly from Microsoft AND you were handed the EULA BEFORE buying the product. Everything else is not legally binding. (You CAN unbundle Windows in Europe/Germany, because when you bought the PC, Microsoft didn't make a contract with you, thus you have all the normal rights including the unbundling of your software. Unfortunately Microsoft is making it extremely difficult to unbundle by technical means)
And on the other hand you have a lot of not so computer-literate chinese who enter chinese characters via a kind of touchpad and don't know latin characters. How the fuck are they supposed to insert [$LATIN_CHARACTER] in a URL? Not everything in the world revolves around some silly 26 character set.
Likewise, my USB thumb drive isn't recognized until I execute a command in a shell.
What stoneage distro are you using? That's like saying "Windows isn't recognizing my thumb drive until i install a driver", which would be correct for Windows 98. Every half current linux distro mounts usb thumb drives automatically.
And about Non-standard interfaces, most applications have one of two interfaces.. Gnome/GTK or KDE/Qt. Actually the only non-obscure-program with an unstandard interface is a clone of a windows-app (winamp -> xmms/bmp). On windows, every shitty program has its own interface. If you want a consistent interface then windows (by windows i mean programs for windows) is the least consistent of them all.
If the OP is having problems with swapping it means that he doesn't have enough memory for the apps he's using; a distro change is unlikely to help with that.
Not necessarily, the big plus of gentoo is the small number of extra services which get installed. Also you can control which features a program will use. OpenOffice for example will probably be compiled with Gnome and KDE support for distros like ubuntu. If you don't use KDE you can just drop KDE support with gentoo.
=> smaller binaries, less unneeded libs, more ram left, less swapping.
..so upload bandwidth really doesn't matter as much
It wouldn't matter if there were only one person with such an asymmetrical connection. But if all (or most) of the clients are limited that way and you are not using multicast and considering that the sum of downloads can not exceed the sum of uploads, you get shitty download rates.
So, how exactly do I efficiently (or rather, more efficiently than the above methods) extract energy from particles that have no charge, and therefore cannot be contained, directed at a target, or made to induce a current in a wire?
With water. If you can't direct it at the target, make the target big enough.
You have a plasma which may not touch the chamber walls. Thus, you can only use the blackbody radiation of plasma. At that temperature you get some nasty stuff, the maximum being in the x-ray range. In FISSION reactors you can use something to take the generated heat away. For FUSION reactors you have to keep the temperature at several million degrees so that the fusion keeps on.
First: The Helium 3/Deuterium Fusion produces only 1% of the amount of neutrons compared to Deuterium/Tritium. 1% is much less, but you STILL get your radioactive waste, no matter what. Second: Helium 4 is expensive, because there isn't much here on earth, Helium 3 is only 0.000138% of the available Helium. So you will not get enough He3 to produce energy on a large scale.
Now on to green energy: Wind turbines killing birds is a myth. If you ignore the "whackos" regarding fusion, you should ignore them regarding other energy sources. Let us keep to the facts. Nuclear plants are bad because you have no method to dump the waste in a safe way, not because it is nuclear. Maybe you eat plutonium for breakfast, i definitely don't want it in the food chain. Fossil fuel plants DO pollute the environment and the supply of fossil energy is ending. That is a fact, even if you don't believe in global warming. About scaling of other sources. You don't have to produce the energy at central facilities. That is what big energy corporations want to tell you. If you put solar cells on every new built house, that scales quite well. Biomatter for heating (wood pellets) is rising here, not because it is "good" but because it is CHEAPER. Regarding Wind turbines being in populated areas. Prototypes of offshore wind turbines are working and they are economically feasible. Few areas have tides large enough. That is true. But check the amount of energy in those few places. Just use the energy which is available where you live. Nobody would build a water turbine in the desert, and nobody uses wind turbines in a water-rich valley. Biomatter may have only 2% efficiency but first you have much leftover biomatter from producing food. Calculate the energy an average farmer could produce. You would be amazed. Put solar cells on the roof, use some stirling engine in the basement to produce energy AND heat from biomatter and replace energy inefficient items with better ones. (Including TV, computer and car). Regenerative energy is on the rise with rising prices for fossil fuel.
Only fission or fusion power will allow us to maintain our lifestyles once fossil fuels run out
Didn't know you can see into the future. The only thing which hinders you from using regenerative energy is the current price of that energy. With rising oil prices and shrinking prices for solar cells, wind turbines and other things that will change.
Helium 3 and deuterium fuse and create lithium-5. The reaction is theoretically aneutronic, so the reactor would not become radioactive after extended service.
And exactly HOW do you plan to USE that energy? The Atoms now have higher temperature, so what? Do you want to put some heat exchanger into the plasma? Without neutron emission you have no chance to transfer the energy in an efficient manner. -> Radioactive waste
Solar cells have a lot of nasty chemical byproducts associated with their production, and currently take
1/3 of the energy they will produce in thier lifetimes to make.
Well, that leaves 2/3 of energy and the production costs are falling as we are speaking....
Wind power is simply too diffuse to be collected economically.
Good to hear, tell all those asshats which put up those things that they must be nuts (electrical companies....)
Tidal power is another problem of a large amount of energy that's to diffuse to gather effectively
This just in: Successful tests at the UK coast. Please tell them they have bullshit data, because you say so.
I also like how you say 'energy saving' and expect that to magically reduce our power consumption by the 70-something percent it would take to run ourselves on renewable power. What exactly are you proposing? Limit every house to 1 kilowatt power draw?
Why not? Around here (germany, that is why i misspelled something, next time try to speak german before jumping around spelling errors) you have an increasing number of negative energy houses. That means: not only don't you have to heat the building, you get excess energy.
PS, I'm not a Republican, I don't drive an SUV, sol does fusion not fission, and condescending assholes like you really grind my gears.
"No SUV for you" is a sentence which doesn't mean YOU PERSONALLY, fusion an fission was mixed up we always talked about fusion, and bullshitting assholes like you really grind my gears.
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It governs how you use the product,
No it does NOT. Go read the GPL. It governs distribution, you can use it any way you like as long as you don't distribute it. (Contrary to e.g. an EULA)
Just out of mod points ... argh.
please don't advertise xmms, it is a piece of gtk1-shit, you just give fuel to linux-bashers ("see, it looks like shit and can't display unicode titles").
As a drop-in replacement use Audacious
jou yest!
Now, can they enforce EULAs on those provisions that aren't covered by local consumer laws?
No, they can't. The only exception is if you buy directly from Microsoft AND you were handed the EULA BEFORE buying the product. Everything else is not legally binding. (You CAN unbundle Windows in Europe/Germany, because when you bought the PC, Microsoft didn't make a contract with you, thus you have all the normal rights including the unbundling of your software. Unfortunately Microsoft is making it extremely difficult to unbundle by technical means)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_F
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Aaargh, that hurts to read. And english isn't even my first language. Back to school for you!
Well, maybe the answer lies in the responses to your other trollpost
i stand corrected... they have, but they don't get used...
Sperm cells have no mitochondria, only the egg has them.
Wow, that would be expensive. Here (germany) you get 2kW (10x200W) for 9000 EUR
Next time please don't pull prices out of your ass.
Pff... nothing compared to more than 300
The sun is HOT!
Gee, thanks for reminding me...
Luna Park?
I'm gonna go build my own theme park. With blackjack. And hookers. In fact, forget the park.
FAT32bot, Nooo!
Far too long. I just use rdiff-backup for easy incremental remote backups (Including ACL and extended attributes).
I still don't know why it is so unknown...
The way the market is evolving Vista will probably end up being installed on more laptops than desktops.
The rate Vista is evolving, it will be installed on Bio-neural gel packs ...
And on the other hand you have a lot of not so computer-literate chinese who enter chinese characters via a kind of touchpad and don't know latin characters. How the fuck are they supposed to insert [$LATIN_CHARACTER] in a URL? Not everything in the world revolves around some silly 26 character set.
Likewise, my USB thumb drive isn't recognized until I execute a command in a shell.
.. Gnome/GTK or KDE/Qt. Actually the only non-obscure-program with an unstandard interface is a clone of a windows-app (winamp -> xmms/bmp). On windows, every shitty program has its own interface. If you want a consistent interface then windows (by windows i mean programs for windows) is the least consistent of them all.
What stoneage distro are you using? That's like saying "Windows isn't recognizing my thumb drive until i install a driver", which would be correct for Windows 98. Every half current linux distro mounts usb thumb drives automatically.
And about Non-standard interfaces, most applications have one of two interfaces
If the OP is having problems with swapping it means that he doesn't have enough memory for the apps he's using; a distro change is unlikely to help with that.
Not necessarily, the big plus of gentoo is the small number of extra services which get installed. Also you can control which features a program will use. OpenOffice for example will probably be compiled with Gnome and KDE support for distros like ubuntu. If you don't use KDE you can just drop KDE support with gentoo. => smaller binaries, less unneeded libs, more ram left, less swapping.
It wouldn't matter if there were only one person with such an asymmetrical connection. But if all (or most) of the clients are limited that way and you are not using multicast and considering that the sum of downloads can not exceed the sum of uploads, you get shitty download rates.
Or maybe khAAAAAAAAAAn!
So, how exactly do I efficiently (or rather, more efficiently than the above methods) extract energy from particles that have no charge, and therefore cannot be contained, directed at a target, or made to induce a current in a wire?
With water. If you can't direct it at the target, make the target big enough.
You have a plasma which may not touch the chamber walls. Thus, you can only use the blackbody radiation of plasma. At that temperature you get some nasty stuff, the maximum being in the x-ray range. In FISSION reactors you can use something to take the generated heat away. For FUSION reactors you have to keep the temperature at several million degrees so that the fusion keeps on.
First: The Helium 3/Deuterium Fusion produces only 1% of the amount of neutrons compared to Deuterium/Tritium. 1% is much less, but you STILL get your radioactive waste, no matter what. Second: Helium 4 is expensive, because there isn't much here on earth, Helium 3 is only 0.000138% of the available Helium. So you will not get enough He3 to produce energy on a large scale.
Now on to green energy: Wind turbines killing birds is a myth. If you ignore the "whackos" regarding fusion, you should ignore them regarding other energy sources. Let us keep to the facts. Nuclear plants are bad because you have no method to dump the waste in a safe way, not because it is nuclear. Maybe you eat plutonium for breakfast, i definitely don't want it in the food chain. Fossil fuel plants DO pollute the environment and the supply of fossil energy is ending. That is a fact, even if you don't believe in global warming. About scaling of other sources. You don't have to produce the energy at central facilities. That is what big energy corporations want to tell you. If you put solar cells on every new built house, that scales quite well. Biomatter for heating (wood pellets) is rising here, not because it is "good" but because it is CHEAPER. Regarding Wind turbines being in populated areas. Prototypes of offshore wind turbines are working and they are economically feasible. Few areas have tides large enough. That is true. But check the amount of energy in those few places. Just use the energy which is available where you live. Nobody would build a water turbine in the desert, and nobody uses wind turbines in a water-rich valley. Biomatter may have only 2% efficiency but first you have much leftover biomatter from producing food. Calculate the energy an average farmer could produce. You would be amazed. Put solar cells on the roof, use some stirling engine in the basement to produce energy AND heat from biomatter and replace energy inefficient items with better ones. (Including TV, computer and car). Regenerative energy is on the rise with rising prices for fossil fuel.
Only fission or fusion power will allow us to maintain our lifestyles once fossil fuels run out
Didn't know you can see into the future. The only thing which hinders you from using regenerative energy is the current price of that energy. With rising oil prices and shrinking prices for solar cells, wind turbines and other things that will change.
Helium 3 and deuterium fuse and create lithium-5. The reaction is theoretically aneutronic, so the reactor would not become radioactive after extended service.
And exactly HOW do you plan to USE that energy? The Atoms now have higher temperature, so what? Do you want to put some heat exchanger into the plasma? Without neutron emission you have no chance to transfer the energy in an efficient manner. -> Radioactive waste
Solar cells have a lot of nasty chemical byproducts associated with their production, and currently take 1/3 of the energy they will produce in thier lifetimes to make.
Well, that leaves 2/3 of energy and the production costs are falling as we are speaking....
Wind power is simply too diffuse to be collected economically.
Good to hear, tell all those asshats which put up those things that they must be nuts (electrical companies. ...)
Tidal power is another problem of a large amount of energy that's to diffuse to gather effectively
This just in: Successful tests at the UK coast. Please tell them they have bullshit data, because you say so.
I also like how you say 'energy saving' and expect that to magically reduce our power consumption by the 70-something percent it would take to run ourselves on renewable power. What exactly are you proposing? Limit every house to 1 kilowatt power draw?
Why not? Around here (germany, that is why i misspelled something, next time try to speak german before jumping around spelling errors) you have an increasing number of negative energy houses. That means: not only don't you have to heat the building, you get excess energy.
PS, I'm not a Republican, I don't drive an SUV, sol does fusion not fission, and condescending assholes like you really grind my gears.
"No SUV for you" is a sentence which doesn't mean YOU PERSONALLY, fusion an fission was mixed up we always talked about fusion, and bullshitting assholes like you really grind my gears.