I agree that adding people would do much to solve that particular problem, but more people means higher cost
Let volunteers from all political parties handle the counting. They'll be watching each others like hawks. Oh and don't put more than one thing on a ballot, paper is cheap. That way you can simply sort ballots into piles, and it's quick to check a pile.
No, if they were serious they would have made it distro and packaging tool agnostic.
They chose to base it on a file archive with a header. It was a bit unlucky that they picked the.rpm suffix for it, but apart from that I don't see the problem. It's trivial to install LSB packages on Debian.
The real problems with LSB lie elsewhere. I have never used an LSB compliant application and I run Linux >95% of the time.
Of course there is. It's not like the land between windmills suddenly becomes useless for farming. Winds largest problem is that it's unreliable, so there will be times of low production, but that would not be a big issue for cars. Cars are standing still most of the time, so they can basically charge when there is wind.
Guaranteeing the quality of a telephone conversation over the internet is tricky because the internet was originally designed for best-effort packet delivery
There's more to VoIP than the Internet, you know. Some of us work with lines which are guaranteed big enough or have QoS.
It's a lot easier to ssh into Linux from Windows than vice versa.
For ssh that is certainly true, but as soon you go graphical, it's the other way around. Windows X servers are too much trouble, whereas rdesktop works wonderfully.
Software RAID is faster and more reliable than hardware RAID. Should your non-RAID controller fail, you just chuck it and get a random new one. If your RAID-controller fails, you have to get another controller exactly the same, sometimes even the same firmware revision, or kiss your data goodbye. And RAID-controllers are notoriously underpowered (SmartArray, I'm looking at you!)
On a high tension line, the capacitance per foot is much higher for a buried line than for an overhead line. For long distance feeding this capacitive load adds greatly to the power loss in the line.
Go DC and forget about capacitance. That's what seems to be done for 150kV and up around here.
If weather was truly chaotic, i.e. if the total of all buterflys and other tiny variables made for completly unpredictable weather, then such predictions wouldn't be possible.
The weather is a chaotic system in the mathematical sense of the word. That doesn't mean it's impossible to predict anything about the system. A coffee cup you pour milk into forms a chaotic system. The average temperature of the cup over time is easily predictable.
Now back on topic, this is just SO fucked up logically: [..] If it isn't your system, don't be f*cking around with it, same as if its not your car, your home, or your other sh*t.
You are making a moral argument. The article isn't about morals, it's about facts.
What if a gamma ray causes a single bit event changing a function pointer mid-flight? ECC RAM only gets you so far.
It could just as easily turn a valid index into an invalid index, so avoiding pointers is not enough. Besides, most cpu architectures don't have indexed instructions, so you end up with pointers anyway.
How many printers do you know that ship today or will be out within a year allow you to send a raw PDF file to it and have it print as is without any kind of client spooling and image degradation? XPS lets you do that.
Err, just about all decent printers? Support for Postscript Level 3 basically implies support for printing PDFs.
The 900 and 1800MHz bands are used by different service providers.
In Denmark several providers have both 900MHz and 1800MHz in service. 900MHz is used to provide coverage in sparsely-populated areas, and 1800MHz is used to provide capacity in dense areas.
It might even be possible for them to compile the binary shim on their own system, and just link the shim and binary blob together at boot time, every time, to form a kernel module.
Wow, I hadn't realized (till reading more posts and your response) that this thing isn't available and hadn't even been talked about before that article.
Ok you didn't bother to check your facts before telling everyone how wonderful the ODF plugin is.
Even if this ODF plugin for Office were just vaporware, they're still baldly lieing to the community.
...And now you're again spouting off without checking your facts. Impressive.
AC is better for power TRANSMISSION -- getting it there.
This is not true anymore. Most new long-distance lines being built around here are DC. DC is far easier to regulate, so it helps mitigate the risks of grid breakdowns. It is also more efficient to transform DC.
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I agree that adding people would do much to solve that particular problem, but more people means higher cost
Let volunteers from all political parties handle the counting. They'll be watching each others like hawks. Oh and don't put more than one thing on a ballot, paper is cheap. That way you can simply sort ballots into piles, and it's quick to check a pile.
Voting like that is pretty easy, but it would take forever to count the tens of thousands (at least) of ballots.
"Forever" is perhaps more precisely stated as "several hours for initial results, a few days for the recounts".
Does this mean that there is no macro support at all, or are there other macro types in Microsoft Word?
If all macro functionality is gone, it would be a large interoperability problem.
No, if they were serious they would have made it distro and packaging tool agnostic.
.rpm suffix for it, but apart from that I don't see the problem. It's trivial to install LSB packages on Debian.
They chose to base it on a file archive with a header. It was a bit unlucky that they picked the
The real problems with LSB lie elsewhere. I have never used an LSB compliant application and I run Linux >95% of the time.
Wind? No. Not enough land to do it effeciently.
Of course there is. It's not like the land between windmills suddenly becomes useless for farming. Winds largest problem is that it's unreliable, so there will be times of low production, but that would not be a big issue for cars. Cars are standing still most of the time, so they can basically charge when there is wind.
Guaranteeing the quality of a telephone conversation over the internet is tricky because the internet was originally designed for best-effort packet delivery
There's more to VoIP than the Internet, you know. Some of us work with lines which are guaranteed big enough or have QoS.
The real limit is 4kHz, you need 8kHz sample rate to reproduce that. 4kHz is low enough that it's dissicult to diftinguifh between s and f.
It's a lot easier to ssh into Linux from Windows than vice versa.
For ssh that is certainly true, but as soon you go graphical, it's the other way around. Windows X servers are too much trouble, whereas rdesktop works wonderfully.
I've got Firefox installed, and sometimes I use it, but until the last update I found it would periodically cause my network connection to fail.
For me it's the weather, whenever I start Firefox clouds appear.
Software RAID is faster and more reliable than hardware RAID. Should your non-RAID controller fail, you just chuck it and get a random new one. If your RAID-controller fails, you have to get another controller exactly the same, sometimes even the same firmware revision, or kiss your data goodbye. And RAID-controllers are notoriously underpowered (SmartArray, I'm looking at you!)
A sentence has to be false in the view of whoever is saying it, for it to be sarcasm.
it is the government that decides to allow copyright. Without the government's support, copyright is meaningless!
These two statements are completely true. Are you implying that they are false? If so, what makes you believe that?
On a high tension line, the capacitance per foot is much higher for a buried line than for an overhead line. For long distance feeding this capacitive load adds greatly to the power loss in the line.
Go DC and forget about capacitance. That's what seems to be done for 150kV and up around here.
If weather was truly chaotic, i.e. if the total of all buterflys and other tiny variables made for completly unpredictable weather, then such predictions wouldn't be possible.
The weather is a chaotic system in the mathematical sense of the word. That doesn't mean it's impossible to predict anything about the system. A coffee cup you pour milk into forms a chaotic system. The average temperature of the cup over time is easily predictable.
because people just won't stand for having the government prohibiting them from copying whatever they want.
What makes you think that people won't stand for it? I would expect apathy to win there too.
Now back on topic, this is just SO fucked up logically:
[..]
If it isn't your system, don't be f*cking around with it, same as if its not your car, your home, or your other sh*t.
You are making a moral argument. The article isn't about morals, it's about facts.
What if a gamma ray causes a single bit event changing a function pointer mid-flight? ECC RAM only gets you so far.
It could just as easily turn a valid index into an invalid index, so avoiding pointers is not enough. Besides, most cpu architectures don't have indexed instructions, so you end up with pointers anyway.
Err, just about all decent printers? Support for Postscript Level 3 basically implies support for printing PDFs.
In Denmark several providers have both 900MHz and 1800MHz in service. 900MHz is used to provide coverage in sparsely-populated areas, and 1800MHz is used to provide capacity in dense areas.
That is most likely the only strategy that could actually work in the War on Drugs.
The X Window System has always been considered Free Software by FSF. Look at the categories here, section "Non-copylefted free software".
This is called "user does the link". Google it
Ok you didn't bother to check your facts before telling everyone how wonderful the ODF plugin is.
Even if this ODF plugin for Office were just vaporware, they're still baldly lieing to the community.
ISP's you happen to use when travelling tend to block TCP/25 outbound. Better switch to a different port, perhaps 587 or 465.
What would you like it to do, magically go faster than the bandwidth you have?
This is not true anymore. Most new long-distance lines being built around here are DC. DC is far easier to regulate, so it helps mitigate the risks of grid breakdowns. It is also more efficient to transform DC.