Nah, the flash plugin has always been rubbish... QT would be fine, but what about those of us who don't want to install a whole nother set of wigets (I know that works in reverse too though) but then I'm sure lots of you KDE people have gtk2 for the gimp... if not then do a QT firefox too....
Definately worth doing the barter thing, you can get them to give you beers and supply some kind of takeout/cooked nice meal... works well, I'm lazy and can't be arsed to cook... or with mate with big vinyl collection I get him to rip some of the vinyl that way I get tracks you can't download
Hmmm, according to this months newscientist (not online yet, only in the print version) there is an article on page 16, in the "In Brief" section that mentions solar cells could become much more efficient due to a discovery of a way to make a single photon liberate two photons instead of one, it concludes that this could increase the conversion rate to 60%.
On the other hand, I don't see why we can't make polymers from natural materials- and the same for lubrication... were going to have to beat this oil addiction in the end, the more we need it the more we sound like the addicts we are.
Incidentally, the noise the adsl modem makes is pretty bad; I was getting bad moods through lack of proper sleep and that noise all the till I moved it. Don't have the listing to the QB prog here (though do still have it somewh)... called it hurts, as it made high hz sounds that could hurt (well not really), plus you could put in eg... 'A' to get 440hz... I definately find my quality of life goes up if I can avoide those noises for a while, but difficult when your chained to the keyb!
And I thought it was just me!.... I wrote a qbasic program back in the day to test different frequencys, and found I could hear up to 17000hz, whereas most people only seem to go up to 14500hz or so. I put this down at the time to most people listening to earphones too loudly and breaking their hearing... I also find if you smoke er... greenery, then it gets much worse, to the point I can't have the tv on sometimes. I think the noise is definately real, and you could probably measure it... the day they make silent screens will be a good day for me. Not only this, but LCD screens seem to make a noise as well, looks like you can't win. I've had similar experiences with CRT screens as well, I lived with someone with an old ST, and once could tell he had it on, because I could hear the screen as soon as I walked in the door, even though he was upstairs!
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Nah, the flash plugin has always been rubbish... QT would be fine, but what about those of us who don't want to install a whole nother set of wigets (I know that works in reverse too though) but then I'm sure lots of you KDE people have gtk2 for the gimp... if not then do a QT firefox too....
Definately worth doing the barter thing, you can get them to give you beers and supply some kind of takeout/cooked nice meal... works well, I'm lazy and can't be arsed to cook... or with mate with big vinyl collection I get him to rip some of the vinyl that way I get tracks you can't download
Hmmm, according to this months newscientist (not online yet, only in the print version) there is an article on page 16, in the "In Brief" section that mentions solar cells could become much more efficient due to a discovery of a way to make a single photon liberate two photons instead of one, it concludes that this could increase the conversion rate to 60%.
On the other hand, I don't see why we can't make polymers from natural materials- and the same for lubrication... were going to have to beat this oil addiction in the end, the more we need it the more we sound like the addicts we are.
Incidentally, the noise the adsl modem makes is pretty bad; I was getting bad moods through lack of proper sleep and that noise all the till I moved it. Don't have the listing to the QB prog here (though do still have it somewh)... called it hurts, as it made high hz sounds that could hurt (well not really), plus you could put in eg... 'A' to get 440hz... I definately find my quality of life goes up if I can avoide those noises for a while, but difficult when your chained to the keyb!
And I thought it was just me!.... I wrote a qbasic program back in the day to test different frequencys, and found I could hear up to 17000hz, whereas most people only seem to go up to 14500hz or so. I put this down at the time to most people listening to earphones too loudly and breaking their hearing... I also find if you smoke er... greenery, then it gets much worse, to the point I can't have the tv on sometimes. I think the noise is definately real, and you could probably measure it... the day they make silent screens will be a good day for me. Not only this, but LCD screens seem to make a noise as well, looks like you can't win. I've had similar experiences with CRT screens as well, I lived with someone with an old ST, and once could tell he had it on, because I could hear the screen as soon as I walked in the door, even though he was upstairs!