First:
Slashdot is now using banner advertisements that load Java. This came as quite a surprise to me, as my browser suddenly started paging out to disk, and freaked out for almost 5 minutes while it loaded Java, and ran a component that promptly crashed Java. That's just a comment. If anyone in admin cares, please fix it. Java is bad. Still.
Which OS, which browser, which Jdk ?
On RH9, with Firefox 1.0 PR, and Sun j2re1.4.2_01 it all runs fine.
Are you sure you symlinked the plugin instead of copying it over to ~/.mozilla/plugins ? (assuming mozilla of course)
It says on the Sun site and in the README with the jdk, that using the plugin directly will crash java.
A short time ago, some young idiots tried breaking into my car. I didn't notice anything until the police contacted me. Apparently some passers by had reported the attempt, and the police had later arrested the 2 (well known to the authorities) offenders.
I hadn't noticed because they had tried to open the passenger door, and I am the driver, and its dark when I leave for work.
Anyway, the point is, the police asked me for a statement, which I agreed to. During the interview, in amongst the normal relevant questions, like did you hear/see anything, blah blah.. the officer asked me how tall I thought I was !
WTF ?
Just one more small piece of data on my identity going into the dbase I guess. The problem is, that to avoid being part of this dbase, you cannot use the services of any government agency, be it police, fire, hospital, whatever.
So we already have no choice in the matter of privacy.
I recently built a system for the kids to use. It was going to be mainly used for web browsing, email, dvd playback and word processing (homework).
I get most of my components from ebuyer and I originally wanted a fairly inexpensive Athlon XP2500+ cpu. However, as I gradually put the separate items into the cart, the damn XP2500 went out of stock, and the higher rated chips cost more than I wanted to spend. So reluctantly, I added a 2500 sempron instead, while worrying about the reduced onboard cache (256 instead of 512k )
I built the system, and installed SUSE 9.1 via an FTP install.
Well, the damn thing was slow as f**k. The browser kept hanging (firefox) and the screen refresh was slow and the whole system felt bad. Admittedly, I am using the onboard graphics on the MSI micro atx mboard, but even so, it was sharing 64MB ram of the 512 available. Seriously not impressed !
Anyway, as a last resort, I tried installing FC2 instead of SUSE yesterday. What a difference !
The systems feels right now, no problems with the browser and the systems responds as it should for its capabilities. I guess what I'm saying is, that unless you want a dedicated fps gaming machine then the semprons are fine. And I didn't even use the fastest available chip. I am still adding an AGP 8x graphics card though, coz the dvd playback will be so much better.
Full system specs (with ebuyer quick find codes):
MSI KM4M-V SKT A 8xAGP Onboard VGA/Sound/LAN ATA133 MATX CPU support Up to XP 3200+ (FSB333) Retail Box - £29.30 - 65354
AMD Sempron 2500 (sda2500box) Processor 256Cache 333FSB Retail box with 3 year warranty - £44.24 - 65076
Crucial 512 DDR333 PC2700 DIMM - £47.51 - 42149
Seagate Barracuda 40GB 7200rpm UDMA100 UIDE - OEM - £29.74 - 32050
Casetek CK-1007-2B Black And Silver Mini Atx Case With 250WATT PSU - £14.99 - 66024
Nec 8x DVD Dual R/RW IDE BLACK Burner - OEM - £36.95 - 58481
Mitsumi OEM Black Internal Floppy Drive 1.44mb 3.5 Inch - £3.59 - 62047
Logitech Black with Silver PS2/USB Optical Desktop Keyboard And Mouse - OEM - £19.70 - 52117
Fedora Core 2 - £free !
Sub-total £226.02
vat (17.5) £ 39.55
carriage £ 10.00
Total £275.57
Adding this later:
Gainward Fx Powerpack! Pro/660 AGPx 8 TV-DVI Fx5200 128MB Retail Box - £32.95 + vat - 59427
So not bad for just over £314 !
You could always use DVD Region+CSS Free. Works a treat, and well worth the piddling $39, with free lifetime upgrades. I run a sony vaio laptop and I regularly watch dvds from Australia, US, NZ, and the UK.
With the price of DL blanks still way too high, and a write speed that gives 8GB in 25 minutes, I think I'll stay with single layer for quite some time.
I can write 8GB of data/video to 2 single layer 4x disks in just under 12 minutes. Pioneer DVR 107D with the 1.16 firmware so I get 8x on 4x disks. Plus 8x blanks are cheaper than 4x now anyway. Go ! you early adopters...
This is mainly due to not constantly accelerating to 130-140 just to break again 1 minute later.
Maybe using the throttle properly would have the same effect. Brakes are for stopping not for regulating speed, except in emergencies.
I get everywhere at the same time as i did when i drove faster.
Well as long as you don't sit in the passing lane, just at the rear quarter of another vehicle, fine. People who do that stop me from overtaking when I need to. Oh, and BTW, while you are travelling along merrily at the limit or 20 less than the limit, bear in mind that I have a limited number of hours in the day to drive, and I drive for many hours continuously. Every wanker doing 20 less than the limit in front of me, for an hour, is costing me 20 miles, which can mean that I don't get my work done, or I end up 20 miles from home at the end of the day. More, actually, because this happens all the time. People seem to forget that vans and trucks are keeping the shops full and the houses supplied, but they are happy to fuck around on the road and prevent them doing their jobs.
the whole 'you have to drive along with the flow' thing is complete and utter bollocks
No, that statement is complete and utter bollocks. You are obviously a complete and utter tosser, and your licence should be revoked. I reckon you brake when you see a speed camera too, and wait until you are right behind something before you pull out to overtake. You probably leave 20 feet between you and the car in front while stopped at the lights, and slow to 40 coming off the motorway slip road while everyone else is slowing from 80 !
Here's an interesting observation, from my many many hours of professional driving. People who leave around 20 feet gap while stationary at traffic lights, leave almost the same 20 feet gap while doing 80 mph !
Whats wrong with hitting escape when the real content has loaded ? If I can see all that I need, then why wait for the rest, ads, or not ?
Do people use the keyboard anymore ?
13 ? or 14... I can't remember now, but my first set wouldn't complete the install, so I telephoned M$ and complained, so they sent me another set free.
Thats when I discovered that my floppy drive was knackered !
Thanks Bill !
BTW, my 850 MB hard disk cost me 350 UKP back then , to go with my pentium 75 cpu and 32 MB edo RAM:)
As for "choosing mouse navigation", how do you fill the text fields in ?... with a mouse ? Usually the country field is one of the last in any form, so just tab to the drop down box and hit the letter of your choice, you don't need up or down as the list of names beginning with that letter will loop if you hold the key down.
As to whether hitting a couple of keys is easier than hitting a couple of keys, I leave that one for you.
Don't talk crap. Most drop down boxes for country have the US as default anyway, and its not always at the top. There is a thing called
<option selected>
Besides, if you learn how to use a drop down properly, you can just give the box focus (make it go blue) and use the key board. Hit U and each time you hit it, a different U value appears in the box. Is that so hard ? Most country list boxes are identical these days anyway, as people copy them from each other to avoid having to type them out.
As you may or may not know, in the UK we have a thing called a "TV Licence". This currently costs around 120 UKP per year, and it 'allows' you to have television receiving equipment on your property, and certain portable devices (assuming they are not being used at the same time as the fixed devices).
This "TV Licence" is ostensibly needed to pay for the upkeep of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). There are no adverts* on the BBC channels, and you are 'free' to watch any BBC channel.
However, if you do not watch BBC channels at all, just the commercially funded channels, you still require the "TV Licence". If you do not watch terrestrial tv at all, but have cable or satellite (which you must pay the provider for directly) then you STILL need a "TV Licence" !
My irritation at this state of affairs has been growing for some time, especially, as the BBC raises funds by selling its programming to commercial companies, who use it on satellite/cable and non-BBC channels. I am fed up with seeing BBC made programs on Discovery Channel, (it seems I have paid twice). The BBC also has a thriving DVD/Video market running, which further reduces the need for a "TV Licence".
BTW, the "TV Licence" is enforcable by law, with a penalty of 1000 UKP, for non-compliance, or jail !
This really pisses me off, when we get the same recycled crap, charged for twice, and then threatened with jail if we don't comply.
The reason this is so close to my mind at the moment, is I got an ominous letter last week saying : To the current occupier, we see you don't have a "TV Licence", either get one or we'll be round and then you'll be for it ! (It all works off post/zip codes, so if your address doesn't register as having a "TV Licence", whether you have a tv or not, you get a letter. Oh, and they do come round to check. Where was I ? Oh yeah, the reason this is so close to my mind is that I had to get a "TV Licence" pretty quick, before they came round, and found all the DVD rips lining the walls, with empty cases under the bed, and various ripping utils filling the computer !
Extortion I call it ! It's not like I watch the damn tv, its not even connected to power, as I have a tv card in the pc which I use to record F1.
Bah humbug
* actually there are lots of adverts, all promoting BBC products, like DVDs etc.
Why don't they build the space elevator, and embed conductors into the structure linked to a collector at the counterweight ? Then there would be no need for a beam at all. Depending on the length, anchoring position of the elevator, it should be able to capture the suns energy constantly.
Supply and demand. Interesting. Bearing in mind that the "music" industry has only been running for around 60 years already, during which it has shifted from recordings of original artists performances, to mass production of copy cat artistes. I'm don't see why the music industry should be protected from natural evolution by the law. So what if they lose money and go broke ?
There was a thing called the dotcom boom a little while ago, lots of computer techs and businesses went under, but nobody passed a law demanding that we all had to buy their products to keep them afloat. Here in the UK, we used to have miners, and weavers and all sorts of other craftsmen. They are mostly gone now, and people have moved into other areas.
I respect musicians who get out on the road and entertain people, which is their primary function, not to spend 3 years in a studio on a piece of crap, then expect the world to pay for it for ever. How much is a recording artist worth in real terms anyway ? Certainly not the millions they currently end up with.
P2P is feeding on the still twitching carcass of a dying industry. The only people interested are the industry itself.
Just to point out that they were English initially,
The Pilgrims were English Separatists who founded (1620) Plymouth Colony in New England. In the first years of the 17th century, small numbers of English Puritans broke away from the Church of England because they felt that it had not completed the work of the Reformation. They committed themselves to a life based on the Bible. Most of these Separatists were farmers, poorly educated and without social or political standing. One of the Separatist congregations was led by William Brewster and the Rev. Richard Clifton in the village of Scrooby in Nottinghamshire. The Scrooby group emigrated to Amsterdam in 1608 to escape harassment and religious persecution. The next year they moved to Leiden, where, enjoying full religious freedom, they remained for almost 12 years.
I only bring this up because as a child I was convinced that pirhana fish were man sized, due to misinterpreting an image in a book, that many years later I realised was an inset ! Don't want some innocent people thinking that they RTFA, and get the history AAF (arse about face).
i've been programming for 20 years but i am very sure that my children will not be allowed to do this freely, any more than i can distill liquor and sell it to my neighbours.
And that is exactly why I started to learn programming, way back when ! I remember reading a sci-fi book as a kid about a world where there were terminals on street corners and all financial transactions and requests for knowledge had to be processed thru these (govt. controlled) devices. Then there were the "hackers" who could run their own system over the top of the official channels. I made my mind up there and then which side I was on. So none of what has being going on in the computing/patent/ip field has been much of a surprise to me. "They" can patent as much as they like, it won't stop me using and distributing my software , and helping others to f*ck the system. I don't mean that I write viruses or break into other peoples (computer)systems, but when push comes to shove, I might need those hacking skills one day.
Brief precis:
Started on an 8086 with dos
moved up through 286, 386, 586 cpus as they arrived all on windows os's. Got into the net when 33600 modems were new Unfortunately started with AOHELL,but soon learnt my lesson. Bought my first domain in aound 1996, and was admining my first colo server in 97. Liked the uptime and functionality of Linux a lot
Tried out Suse around '99, had issues with ppp Got adsl around 2 years ago, and have never looked back. Currently have 3 RH webservers in colo, with achievable uptime of well over 365 days, no security issues to date. Have 4 boxes at home, 1 dual boot RH9 and win 98SE (for dvd ripping and games, + the usb TV box is "unsupported" as yet.), 1 FBSD 4.9 as a web / dbase server with a Dyndns service linking to the world, used for webmail and remote file access. 1 FBSD 5.1 file server ( on a PII 350 gateway box ! )with samba for keeping files handy for any machine on the network, 1 winxp laptop which I bought for video processing on the travels a couple of years ago. The laptop also runs apache2, perl, and php with mysql.
I want to get rid of win98se but it means a reinstall of a win os to keep the tv etc working and a reinstall will hose my RH9 setup, but, hey, I would like a 2.6 kernel too, so time for another hard disk I think. (removable trays). My most noticable point about win98 is that it has never powered down the pc when asked, since the day it was installed, it just hangs, then reboots. RH9 works first time, every time. And as for speed, RH9 with gnome 2.2 is plenty fast on an amd xp2200 with 512 MB ram. Faster than win98 anyway, ( I did have 1 gig of ram, but win 98 freaked so I had to remove it).
Having said all that, win xp is a vast improvement over 98 but still no match for a *nix system.
And to all those people who don't want to keep tweaking a linux box, and use that as a reason against it.... you don't have to tweak it, when it works right, leave it alone and it'll keep working right ! The most regular tweaking I do these days is to my rclock messages !
AST: Who funds it?
KB: We have multiple funding sources
AST: Is SCO one of them? Is this about the SCO lawsuit?
KB: We have multiple funding sources
AST: Is Microsoft one of them?
KB: We have multiple funding sources
AST: Is K-Mart one of them?
KB: No.
AST: Ahaaa !!!
The planet is a complex inter-dependent set of systems. There are always checks and balances naturally in place. Global warming is not a problem to any thing but human society. Global warming is not a planet wide phenomenon, it only changes the current climate map. Global Warming/Cooling are just buzzwords that the media use to hype the actions of natural processes and to scare the public.
Sure there will be another ice age, but the last ice age hasn't finished yet, so that's no surprise. It is extremely arrogant of us to expect that we can somehow influence the climate of something as massive and well established as a planet, in a little over 200 years. As mentioned in other posts, the area around the Tigris / Euphrates used to be very fertile, in fact it was the birthplace of civilisation. I see no problem with trying to understand the processes going on with climate change, but take issue with the disaster scenario being promulgated. We are not radically changing the climate and we can not stop climate change.
As an aside, which method of energy production is more environmentally sound ?
a)Burning natural remains that were formed from natural processes, or b)Creating energy from atoms using a process that is not even found naturally in stars ?
If nuclear fission was the natural way of energy production, then why aren't there natural processes using it. Fire is used in nature in lots of ways. Something the Australians have learned over the years, and now they understand that to prevent a natural process from occurring, only leads to problems when there is a huge shift back towards the norm later. (natural outback fires clear undergrowth on a regular basis, meaning there are regular small fires. Preventing those fires from happening leads to a build up of undergrowth then huge fires later to restore the balance)
Its about time we started researching in terms of how nature intends to do things instead of how we expect nature to do things our way, then call it a disaster when we realise its not playing to our gameplan.
I am constantly amazed that we are more concerned with reducing CO2 emmisions from cars / industry,yet we allow the Amazon rainforest to be burned down, which both reduces natural CO2 uptake and creates more CO2, while reducing the output of oxygen ! The governments are making stupid decisions everywhere you look. I had first hand experience of the British environment agency, while involved in the "capping" of a full rubbish tip. Great amounts of time and expense were involved in covering the thing over with plastic sheeting and clay liners in order to ensure that nothing could escape to the surface. Err, excuse me, what about the stuff going through the subsoil and into water supplies. The site concerned was an old quarry, that was filled with rubbish in approx 20 years. There are far older rubbish disposal sites that burn the trash and are only a few inches deep in ash. I realise that we can't go burning all refuse, like plastics etc, but that is mainly due to the effect on the breathable atmosphere. The burning in and of itself is not the problem. I could go on but IANAC.
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Funny, I can download more things at once than that on BT broadband.
I wonder if you're using firefox/mozilla ?
If so, type about:config into the address bar and enter max in the filter bar.
See anything with 2 as the value ? Try changing it and then restart the browser.
less FUD please.
Oh, BTW, just to check, I had Opera dloading 12 files simultaneously, when firefox stuck at 2.
Which OS, which browser, which Jdk ? On RH9, with Firefox 1.0 PR, and Sun j2re1.4.2_01 it all runs fine.
Are you sure you symlinked the plugin instead of copying it over to ~/.mozilla/plugins ? (assuming mozilla of course)
It says on the Sun site and in the README with the jdk, that using the plugin directly will crash java.
You can find all the episodes here, no time limits, free download.
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.ram to the downloaded filename, not necessary to play).
Approx 9MB each episode (5 in all)
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A short time ago, some young idiots tried breaking into my car. I didn't notice anything until the police contacted me. Apparently some passers by had reported the attempt, and the police had later arrested the 2 (well known to the authorities) offenders.
I hadn't noticed because they had tried to open the passenger door, and I am the driver, and its dark when I leave for work.
Anyway, the point is, the police asked me for a statement, which I agreed to. During the interview, in amongst the normal relevant questions, like did you hear/see anything, blah blah.. the officer asked me how tall I thought I was !
WTF ?
Just one more small piece of data on my identity going into the dbase I guess. The problem is, that to avoid being part of this dbase, you cannot use the services of any government agency, be it police, fire, hospital, whatever.
So we already have no choice in the matter of privacy.
If you could use that 200+ watts of energy to drive a heat exchanger, just imagine how cold/fast you could get the cpu to run ?!
I recently built a system for the kids to use. It was going to be mainly used for web browsing, email, dvd playback and word processing (homework).
I get most of my components from ebuyer and I originally wanted a fairly inexpensive Athlon XP2500+ cpu. However, as I gradually put the separate items into the cart, the damn XP2500 went out of stock, and the higher rated chips cost more than I wanted to spend.
So reluctantly, I added a 2500 sempron instead, while worrying about the reduced onboard cache (256 instead of 512k )
I built the system, and installed SUSE 9.1 via an FTP install.
Well, the damn thing was slow as f**k. The browser kept hanging (firefox) and the screen refresh was slow and the whole system felt bad. Admittedly, I am using the onboard graphics on the MSI micro atx mboard, but even so, it was sharing 64MB ram of the 512 available.
Seriously not impressed !
Anyway, as a last resort, I tried installing FC2 instead of SUSE yesterday. What a difference !
The systems feels right now, no problems with the browser and the systems responds as it should for its capabilities. I guess what I'm saying is, that unless you want a dedicated fps gaming machine then the semprons are fine. And I didn't even use the fastest available chip. I am still adding an AGP 8x graphics card though, coz the dvd playback will be so much better.
Full system specs (with ebuyer quick find codes):
MSI KM4M-V SKT A 8xAGP Onboard VGA/Sound/LAN ATA133 MATX CPU support Up to XP 3200+ (FSB333) Retail Box - £29.30 - 65354
AMD Sempron 2500 (sda2500box) Processor 256Cache 333FSB Retail box with 3 year warranty - £44.24 - 65076
Crucial 512 DDR333 PC2700 DIMM - £47.51 - 42149
Seagate Barracuda 40GB 7200rpm UDMA100 UIDE - OEM - £29.74 - 32050
Casetek CK-1007-2B Black And Silver Mini Atx Case With 250WATT PSU - £14.99 - 66024
Nec 8x DVD Dual R/RW IDE BLACK Burner - OEM - £36.95 - 58481
Mitsumi OEM Black Internal Floppy Drive 1.44mb 3.5 Inch - £3.59 - 62047
Logitech Black with Silver PS2/USB Optical Desktop Keyboard And Mouse - OEM - £19.70 - 52117
Fedora Core 2 - £free !
Sub-total £226.02
vat (17.5) £ 39.55
carriage £ 10.00
Total £275.57
Adding this later:
Gainward Fx Powerpack! Pro/660 AGPx 8 TV-DVI Fx5200 128MB Retail Box - £32.95 + vat - 59427
So not bad for just over £314 !
System Bogomips : 4771
You could always use DVD Region+CSS Free.
Works a treat, and well worth the piddling $39, with free lifetime upgrades.
I run a sony vaio laptop and I regularly watch dvds from Australia, US, NZ, and the UK.
With the price of DL blanks still way too high, and a write speed that gives 8GB in 25 minutes, I think I'll stay with single layer for quite some time. ...
I can write 8GB of data/video to 2 single layer 4x disks in just under 12 minutes.
Pioneer DVR 107D with the 1.16 firmware so I get 8x on 4x disks. Plus 8x blanks are cheaper than 4x now anyway.
Go ! you early adopters
Maybe using the throttle properly would have the same effect. Brakes are for stopping not for regulating speed, except in emergencies.
Well as long as you don't sit in the passing lane, just at the rear quarter of another vehicle, fine. People who do that stop me from overtaking when I need to. Oh, and BTW, while you are travelling along merrily at the limit or 20 less than the limit, bear in mind that I have a limited number of hours in the day to drive, and I drive for many hours continuously. Every wanker doing 20 less than the limit in front of me, for an hour, is costing me 20 miles, which can mean that I don't get my work done, or I end up 20 miles from home at the end of the day. More, actually, because this happens all the time. People seem to forget that vans and trucks are keeping the shops full and the houses supplied, but they are happy to fuck around on the road and prevent them doing their jobs.
No, that statement is complete and utter bollocks. You are obviously a complete and utter tosser, and your licence should be revoked. I reckon you brake when you see a speed camera too, and wait until you are right behind something before you pull out to overtake. You probably leave 20 feet between you and the car in front while stopped at the lights, and slow to 40 coming off the motorway slip road while everyone else is slowing from 80 !
Here's an interesting observation, from my many many hours of professional driving.
People who leave around 20 feet gap while stationary at traffic lights, leave almost the same 20 feet gap while doing 80 mph !
Safe drivers..........I shit 'em.
Whats wrong with hitting escape when the real content has loaded ? If I can see all that I need, then why wait for the rest, ads, or not ? Do people use the keyboard anymore ?
13 ? or 14... I can't remember now, but my first set wouldn't complete the install, so I telephoned M$ and complained, so they sent me another set free.
:)
Thats when I discovered that my floppy drive was knackered !
Thanks Bill !
BTW, my 850 MB hard disk cost me 350 UKP back then , to go with my pentium 75 cpu and 32 MB edo RAM
Ever heard of the "tab" key ?
... with a mouse ? Usually the country field is one of the last in any form, so just tab to the drop down box and hit the letter of your choice, you don't need up or down as the list of names beginning with that letter will loop if you hold the key down.
As for "choosing mouse navigation", how do you fill the text fields in ?
As to whether hitting a couple of keys is easier than hitting a couple of keys, I leave that one for you.
As you may or may not know, in the UK we have a thing called a "TV Licence". This currently costs around 120 UKP per year, and it 'allows' you to have television receiving equipment on your property, and certain portable devices (assuming they are not being used at the same time as the fixed devices).
This "TV Licence" is ostensibly needed to pay for the upkeep of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). There are no adverts* on the BBC channels, and you are 'free' to watch any BBC channel.
However, if you do not watch BBC channels at all, just the commercially funded channels, you still require the "TV Licence". If you do not watch terrestrial tv at all, but have cable or satellite (which you must pay the provider for directly) then you STILL need a "TV Licence" !
My irritation at this state of affairs has been growing for some time, especially, as the BBC raises funds by selling its programming to commercial companies, who use it on satellite/cable and non-BBC channels. I am fed up with seeing BBC made programs on Discovery Channel, (it seems I have paid twice). The BBC also has a thriving DVD/Video market running, which further reduces the need for a "TV Licence".
BTW, the "TV Licence" is enforcable by law, with a penalty of 1000 UKP, for non-compliance, or jail !
This really pisses me off, when we get the same recycled crap, charged for twice, and then threatened with jail if we don't comply.
The reason this is so close to my mind at the moment, is I got an ominous letter last week saying : To the current occupier, we see you don't have a "TV Licence", either get one or we'll be round and then you'll be for it ! (It all works off post/zip codes, so if your address doesn't register as having a "TV Licence", whether you have a tv or not, you get a letter. Oh, and they do come round to check. Where was I ? Oh yeah, the reason this is so close to my mind is that I had to get a "TV Licence" pretty quick, before they came round, and found all the DVD rips lining the walls, with empty cases under the bed, and various ripping utils filling the computer !
Extortion I call it ! It's not like I watch the damn tv, its not even connected to power, as I have a tv card in the pc which I use to record F1.
Bah humbug
* actually there are lots of adverts, all promoting BBC products, like DVDs etc.
Why don't they build the space elevator, and embed conductors into the structure linked to a collector at the counterweight ? Then there would be no need for a beam at all. Depending on the length, anchoring position of the elevator, it should be able to capture the suns energy constantly.
Actually, we will just be assigned an address in memory somewhere. Blue pill any one ?
Supply and demand. Interesting.
Bearing in mind that the "music" industry has only been running for around 60 years already, during which it has shifted from recordings of original artists performances, to mass production of copy cat artistes. I'm don't see why the music industry should be protected from natural evolution by the law. So what if they lose money and go broke ?
There was a thing called the dotcom boom a little while ago, lots of computer techs and businesses went under, but nobody passed a law demanding that we all had to buy their products to keep them afloat. Here in the UK, we used to have miners, and weavers and all sorts of other craftsmen. They are mostly gone now, and people have moved into other areas.
I respect musicians who get out on the road and entertain people, which is their primary function, not to spend 3 years in a studio on a piece of crap, then expect the world to pay for it for ever. How much is a recording artist worth in real terms anyway ? Certainly not the millions they currently end up with.
P2P is feeding on the still twitching carcass of a dying industry. The only people interested are the industry itself.
Just to point out that they were English initially,
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The Pilgrims were English Separatists who founded (1620) Plymouth Colony in New England. In the first years of the 17th century, small numbers of English Puritans broke away from the Church of England because they felt that it had not completed the work of the Reformation. They committed themselves to a life based on the Bible. Most of these Separatists were farmers, poorly educated and without social or political standing. One of the Separatist congregations was led by William Brewster and the Rev. Richard Clifton in the village of Scrooby in Nottinghamshire. The Scrooby group emigrated to Amsterdam in 1608 to escape harassment and religious persecution. The next year they moved to Leiden, where, enjoying full religious freedom, they remained for almost 12 years.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/resea
I only bring this up because as a child I was convinced that pirhana fish were man sized, due to misinterpreting an image in a book, that many years later I realised was an inset ! Don't want some innocent people thinking that they RTFA, and get the history AAF (arse about face).
i've been programming for 20 years but i am very sure that my children will not be allowed to do this freely, any more than i can distill liquor and sell it to my neighbours.
And that is exactly why I started to learn programming, way back when !
I remember reading a sci-fi book as a kid about a world where there were terminals on street corners and all financial transactions and requests for knowledge had to be processed thru these (govt. controlled) devices. Then there were the "hackers" who could run their own system over the top of the official channels. I made my mind up there and then which side I was on.
So none of what has being going on in the computing/patent/ip field has been much of a surprise to me. "They" can patent as much as they like, it won't stop me using and distributing my software , and helping others to f*ck the system. I don't mean that I write viruses or break into other peoples (computer)systems, but when push comes to shove, I might need those hacking skills one day.
comes from tampon, it's designed to fill another crack in the market.
Brief precis : ,but soon learnt my lesson.
Started on an 8086 with dos
moved up through 286, 386, 586 cpus as they arrived all on windows os's.
Got into the net when 33600 modems were new
Unfortunately started with AOHELL
Bought my first domain in aound 1996, and was admining my first colo server in 97.
Liked the uptime and functionality of Linux a lot
Tried out Suse around '99, had issues with ppp
Got adsl around 2 years ago, and have never looked back.
Currently have 3 RH webservers in colo, with achievable uptime of well over 365 days, no security issues to date.
Have 4 boxes at home, 1 dual boot RH9 and win 98SE (for dvd ripping and games, + the usb TV box is "unsupported" as yet.), 1 FBSD 4.9 as a web / dbase server with a Dyndns service linking to the world, used for webmail and remote file access. 1 FBSD 5.1 file server ( on a PII 350 gateway box ! )with samba for keeping files handy for any machine on the network, 1 winxp laptop which I bought for video processing on the travels a couple of years ago. The laptop also runs apache2, perl, and php with mysql.
I want to get rid of win98se but it means a reinstall of a win os to keep the tv etc working and a reinstall will hose my RH9 setup, but, hey, I would like a 2.6 kernel too, so time for another hard disk I think. (removable trays).
My most noticable point about win98 is that it has never powered down the pc when asked, since the day it was installed, it just hangs, then reboots. RH9 works first time, every time. And as for speed, RH9 with gnome 2.2 is plenty fast on an amd xp2200 with 512 MB ram. Faster than win98 anyway, ( I did have 1 gig of ram, but win 98 freaked so I had to remove it).
Having said all that, win xp is a vast improvement over 98 but still no match for a *nix system.
And to all those people who don't want to keep tweaking a linux box, and use that as a reason against it.... you don't have to tweak it, when it works right, leave it alone and it'll keep working right ! The most regular tweaking I do these days is to my rclock messages !
AST: Who funds it?
KB: We have multiple funding sources
AST: Is SCO one of them? Is this about the SCO lawsuit?
KB: We have multiple funding sources
AST: Is Microsoft one of them?
KB: We have multiple funding sources
AST: Is K-Mart one of them?
KB: No.
AST: Ahaaa !!!
A1) http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/range
Pretty simple and standard linkage really.
A2) Its free if you dload it ! What else do you need to know ? Or just join the damn club !
A3) Where do you have to _promise_ anything ?
Before downloading our products, we ask for your support by joining the Mandrakelinux Users Club.(my bold)
You came, you saw, you left, bereft ! Shame.
The planet is a complex inter-dependent set of systems. There are always checks and balances naturally in place. Global warming is not a problem to any thing but human society. Global warming is not a planet wide phenomenon, it only changes the current climate map. Global Warming/Cooling are just buzzwords that the media use to hype the actions of natural processes and to scare the public.
,yet we allow the Amazon rainforest to be burned down, which both reduces natural CO2 uptake and creates more CO2, while reducing the output of oxygen !
Sure there will be another ice age, but the last ice age hasn't finished yet, so that's no surprise.
It is extremely arrogant of us to expect that we can somehow influence the climate of something as massive and well established as a planet, in a little over 200 years.
As mentioned in other posts, the area around the Tigris / Euphrates used to be very fertile, in fact it was the birthplace of civilisation.
I see no problem with trying to understand the processes going on with climate change, but take issue with the disaster scenario being promulgated. We are not radically changing the climate and we can not stop climate change.
As an aside, which method of energy production is more environmentally sound ?
a)Burning natural remains that were formed from natural processes, or
b)Creating energy from atoms using a process that is not even found naturally in stars ?
If nuclear fission was the natural way of energy production, then why aren't there natural processes using it. Fire is used in nature in lots of ways. Something the Australians have learned over the years, and now they understand that to prevent a natural process from occurring, only leads to problems when there is a huge shift back towards the norm later. (natural outback fires clear undergrowth on a regular basis, meaning there are regular small fires. Preventing those fires from happening leads to a build up of undergrowth then huge fires later to restore the balance)
Its about time we started researching in terms of how nature intends to do things instead of how we expect nature to do things our way, then call it a disaster when we realise its not playing to our gameplan.
I am constantly amazed that we are more concerned with reducing CO2 emmisions from cars / industry
The governments are making stupid decisions everywhere you look. I had first hand experience of the British environment agency, while involved in the "capping" of a full rubbish tip. Great amounts of time and expense were involved in covering the thing over with plastic sheeting and clay liners in order to ensure that nothing could escape to the surface. Err, excuse me, what about the stuff going through the subsoil and into water supplies. The site concerned was an old quarry, that was filled with rubbish in approx 20 years. There are far older rubbish disposal sites that burn the trash and are only a few inches deep in ash. I realise that we can't go burning all refuse, like plastics etc, but that is mainly due to the effect on the breathable atmosphere. The burning in and of itself is not the problem.
I could go on but IANAC.