Of course linux is going to have decent detection and removal tools.
A linux live CD is most geeks' first choice when it comes to removing viruses and trojans from their windows boxes...
Seriously, though why go on a block by block hunting trip when you can do a clean wipe, scan your data from optical media, and re-install? You're not saving any time, you know.
Which, if Canada were to replace the other 16 of the top 17 oil producing nations with just her own capacity, would be just under 3 years, according to the chart there.
And again, the number on that chart was much lower than 500 years of world wide production in currently proven reserves. It was an order of magnitude less.
You shouldn't be using TeX unless you're a programmer. If you just want to bang out some documents, you should be using LaTeX, which is TeX, where programmers have already set up a bunch of useful macros so you can focus on what you actually want to do.
Or, LyX. I have not found a better program for typesetting scientific papers. Even emacs with the latex-preview feature installed pales in comparison. There is simply no more efficient equation editor on the market than the one built-in to LyX. Sciword is a joke compared to it.
LyX is gui, and it spits out LaTeX-like code under the hood (or straight LaTeX if you ask it too), but it shows.. not quite what the finished product will actually look like, but enough so that you know what you're working on and aren't distracted by fiddling with the fonts or carriage returns or whatever.
If you haven't tried LyX, then you really ought not criticize the learning curve for it based on trying to typeset a document using straight up TeX. Also, you should give LyX a try. It's pretty good for letters, too.
Eh.. 500 years of oil, or 500 years of fossil fuels? At Canada's rate of consumption, or the world's? (many countries do not have extensive oil sands...)
I think you will find that total worldwide proven reserves are much less than 500 years, simply because it's not worth it to bother exploring that far out. That doesn't necessarily say anything about how much is actually present, of course.
Yeah, but that's because it's cheaper to bring in artificial fertilizer than to process our wastes and send them back to the farm. In the future, if it really becomes necessary, closed-loop farming is always an option. It'll maybe be like coke bottles used to be: you pay a deposit on those veggies, and get your deposit back when you leave your other deposit.
I drive 120 miles a day at highway speeds. About 60% of the trip, the "highway speeds" are in the 75-80 mph range, and 16% is in the 8-24 mph range on bad days. Frankly, even though 75-80 is batshit insane for the traffic density, I suspect that driving slower unilaterally would be an even bigger mistake.
So yes, I would require an electric car with a range of 200 miles on a fresh battery pack, since I'd want to be able to still make my commute when the battery pack is close to EOL. I cannot afford to live any closer than 80% of that distance from my place of work at the moment, due to housing prices and/or rent prices. Hopefully, I will be able to improve one or the other side of that equation over time, but that is my current transportation need, and that of a surprising number of people in my area.
I dunno, it not only doesn't have any utility, but it was kind of stupid, too. It's the kind of electronics project an art student would get involved in:
It's got all the signs of the magical thinking that leads to the belief that a chain of megaphones could shatter windows miles away.
Here on slashdot, we applaud people hacking stuff to scratch an itch, no matter how stupid the itch itself is. I just can't see the itch behind this project.
Yeah, but it would've been a lot cooler to make a USB controlled hotplate. Then you could combine that with a temperature probe and maybe write some MATLAB scripts to cook a perfect burger every time.
You're not going to ever get cookingly useful power from a USB port: either there's a plug nearby, in which case you don't need a fantastic array of USB ports, or there's no power nearby, in which case you're talking about using a laptop, or array of laptops, and using up their precious battery capacities for resistive heating.
Ok, but try finding a local farm that isn't organic. Seriously, go down to the farmer's market and peruse the farms and try find ONE that's not a advertising they're "organic."
Hint: organic means that more people will buy it (people who are easily fooled by worthless labels AND people who want local foods but don't care about the label). So the prices are higher, and small local farmers need all the price help they can get, since they can't make up for it in volume.
This bugs me about every movie with a Nuclear McGuffin: It's always a small implosion device, but the protagonist never thinks of just shooting it, thereby messing up the shape and timing and turning it into a weak dirty bomb.
I was going to say that, too, but some of the early bombs were gun-type devices, which are a tad more forgiving on the explosives, at a cost of being frickin' expensive to obtain the materials for, and I don't think the article specified which it was.
And, most importantly, the case must be colored it in that nausea inducing, medical-grade light beige. And, preferably, the desktop background image, too.
What are you talking about? People love bottom feeders.
Shrimp, Lobster, Crabs.. All delicious bottom feeders, and even the ones you don't eat provide a valuable function to ocean ecology. And it's no different with the arbitrageurs.
Uh.. arbitrage is how the market deals with information asymmetry: a market maker will come in, notice the price disparity, and equalize the prices a little, for a profit, of course. In the end, everybody benefits: the used book store sells more books (although.. if there's enough money, they may decide to skip the middle-man), amazon has more books on offer, and the price of books in the larger marketplace drops as a result of the availability.
Now, a thrift store may be different: the purpose of a thrift store isn't necessarily to profit off of people's used stuff. It may be there just to make things available to people who can't afford the real market price for things, by knowingly selling donated items at substantially below the market price. In that case, the morality is a little grayer: the intention of these people is to sell to the "needy" and at a loss so that they can afford the items, but in the larger economic sense, it may be better for everyone not to have that behavior: the decreased availability in the larger marketplace will price some people out, so you're maybe just trading one class of people who don't have enough for another class of people who don't have enough...
It's a tough call, but without serious study to justify it, I'd say it's pretty shady to engage in arbitrage in the case of thrift shops, specifically, since it's the seller's intention to sell below the real value to people who will actually use the items in question.
And I suppose we should get rid of stairs, because some people can't use them, too.
Look we get it, some people are disabled and won't see a benefit. That doesn't mean we should decide that no one will see a benefit like some kind of Vonnegut story.
The alloy is stamped on the top of the tanks. Since I only actually own an aluminum pony bottle I'll have to dig through some product websites to check it out.
IIRC, though, the last time I actually inspected one, it was one of the "standard alloys" printed on the back cover of my materials science book, so it can't be too economically non-competetive.
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Of course linux is going to have decent detection and removal tools.
A linux live CD is most geeks' first choice when it comes to removing viruses and trojans from their windows boxes...
Seriously, though why go on a block by block hunting trip when you can do a clean wipe, scan your data from optical media, and re-install? You're not saving any time, you know.
You shouldn't need the JDK just to run some random java app. Something is very wrong here.
I blame Minecraft.
Ahh, answer "c" none of the above:
500 years at Canada's current production rate.
Which, if Canada were to replace the other 16 of the top 17 oil producing nations with just her own capacity, would be just under 3 years, according to the chart there.
And again, the number on that chart was much lower than 500 years of world wide production in currently proven reserves. It was an order of magnitude less.
If you're just resizing images, why not use the OS's built-in functions that do that? Or ImageMagick?
Using photoshop to resize images is like using a Caterpillar 797 to drive down to your mailbox and pick up your mail.
You shouldn't be using TeX unless you're a programmer. If you just want to bang out some documents, you should be using LaTeX, which is TeX, where programmers have already set up a bunch of useful macros so you can focus on what you actually want to do.
Or, LyX. I have not found a better program for typesetting scientific papers. Even emacs with the latex-preview feature installed pales in comparison. There is simply no more efficient equation editor on the market than the one built-in to LyX. Sciword is a joke compared to it.
LyX is gui, and it spits out LaTeX-like code under the hood (or straight LaTeX if you ask it too), but it shows.. not quite what the finished product will actually look like, but enough so that you know what you're working on and aren't distracted by fiddling with the fonts or carriage returns or whatever.
If you haven't tried LyX, then you really ought not criticize the learning curve for it based on trying to typeset a document using straight up TeX. Also, you should give LyX a try. It's pretty good for letters, too.
Eh.. 500 years of oil, or 500 years of fossil fuels? At Canada's rate of consumption, or the world's? (many countries do not have extensive oil sands...)
I think you will find that total worldwide proven reserves are much less than 500 years, simply because it's not worth it to bother exploring that far out. That doesn't necessarily say anything about how much is actually present, of course.
No, we'll just be overtaken by the under-developed world. Then they'll have to figure out what to do about sustainability.
Yeah, but that's because it's cheaper to bring in artificial fertilizer than to process our wastes and send them back to the farm. In the future, if it really becomes necessary, closed-loop farming is always an option. It'll maybe be like coke bottles used to be: you pay a deposit on those veggies, and get your deposit back when you leave your other deposit.
Twenty years of proven reserves, estimated. But I think the number is slowly slipping as it becomes harder and harder to find new reserves.
Wait.. So, you're saying the WWF is every bit as shady and self-promoting as the WWE?
...electric car...but in the current market...
rimshot!
I drive 120 miles a day at highway speeds. About 60% of the trip, the "highway speeds" are in the 75-80 mph range, and 16% is in the 8-24 mph range on bad days. Frankly, even though 75-80 is batshit insane for the traffic density, I suspect that driving slower unilaterally would be an even bigger mistake.
So yes, I would require an electric car with a range of 200 miles on a fresh battery pack, since I'd want to be able to still make my commute when the battery pack is close to EOL. I cannot afford to live any closer than 80% of that distance from my place of work at the moment, due to housing prices and/or rent prices. Hopefully, I will be able to improve one or the other side of that equation over time, but that is my current transportation need, and that of a surprising number of people in my area.
I dunno, it not only doesn't have any utility, but it was kind of stupid, too. It's the kind of electronics project an art student would get involved in:
It's got all the signs of the magical thinking that leads to the belief that a chain of megaphones could shatter windows miles away.
Here on slashdot, we applaud people hacking stuff to scratch an itch, no matter how stupid the itch itself is. I just can't see the itch behind this project.
Yeah, but it would've been a lot cooler to make a USB controlled hotplate. Then you could combine that with a temperature probe and maybe write some MATLAB scripts to cook a perfect burger every time.
You're not going to ever get cookingly useful power from a USB port: either there's a plug nearby, in which case you don't need a fantastic array of USB ports, or there's no power nearby, in which case you're talking about using a laptop, or array of laptops, and using up their precious battery capacities for resistive heating.
Ok, but try finding a local farm that isn't organic. Seriously, go down to the farmer's market and peruse the farms and try find ONE that's not a advertising they're "organic."
Hint: organic means that more people will buy it (people who are easily fooled by worthless labels AND people who want local foods but don't care about the label). So the prices are higher, and small local farmers need all the price help they can get, since they can't make up for it in volume.
This bugs me about every movie with a Nuclear McGuffin: It's always a small implosion device, but the protagonist never thinks of just shooting it, thereby messing up the shape and timing and turning it into a weak dirty bomb.
http://xkcd.com/774/
I was going to say that, too, but some of the early bombs were gun-type devices, which are a tad more forgiving on the explosives, at a cost of being frickin' expensive to obtain the materials for, and I don't think the article specified which it was.
And, most importantly, the case must be colored it in that nausea inducing, medical-grade light beige. And, preferably, the desktop background image, too.
What are you talking about? People love bottom feeders.
Shrimp, Lobster, Crabs.. All delicious bottom feeders, and even the ones you don't eat provide a valuable function to ocean ecology. And it's no different with the arbitrageurs.
Uh.. arbitrage is how the market deals with information asymmetry: a market maker will come in, notice the price disparity, and equalize the prices a little, for a profit, of course. In the end, everybody benefits: the used book store sells more books (although.. if there's enough money, they may decide to skip the middle-man), amazon has more books on offer, and the price of books in the larger marketplace drops as a result of the availability.
Now, a thrift store may be different: the purpose of a thrift store isn't necessarily to profit off of people's used stuff. It may be there just to make things available to people who can't afford the real market price for things, by knowingly selling donated items at substantially below the market price. In that case, the morality is a little grayer: the intention of these people is to sell to the "needy" and at a loss so that they can afford the items, but in the larger economic sense, it may be better for everyone not to have that behavior: the decreased availability in the larger marketplace will price some people out, so you're maybe just trading one class of people who don't have enough for another class of people who don't have enough...
It's a tough call, but without serious study to justify it, I'd say it's pretty shady to engage in arbitrage in the case of thrift shops, specifically, since it's the seller's intention to sell below the real value to people who will actually use the items in question.
And I suppose we should get rid of stairs, because some people can't use them, too.
Look we get it, some people are disabled and won't see a benefit. That doesn't mean we should decide that no one will see a benefit like some kind of Vonnegut story.
Then you need a terminal that supports the characters.
Which if you have, probably has a direct entry method so you can skip the python altogether.
The alloy is stamped on the top of the tanks. Since I only actually own an aluminum pony bottle I'll have to dig through some product websites to check it out.
IIRC, though, the last time I actually inspected one, it was one of the "standard alloys" printed on the back cover of my materials science book, so it can't be too economically non-competetive.