Americans are uneducated, political, and no matter how long they work, they can never become wealthy or own houses.
Americans are uneducated, political, and still expect to lead a millionaire lifestyle at someone elses expense. They all buy cheap foreign crap at Walmart, but complain when they end up relegated to a walmart employees wages. For years, the brightest and best were tempted away from the UK and Europe with fat paychecks, and now it's hurting *your* pockets you're complaining !
And how do you intend we repackage the stuff when the time comes ? Considering that they are proposing sealing the stuff in old deep mineshafts and concreting the thing in. Oh dear, we have a major leakage of radioactive material into our water tables, but the source is under a mile or so of concrete !
I say we should reprocess what we can and research to find better ways of reprocessing until the eventual waste produced is tiny.
You can't base a sustainable economy on the assumption that anything that comes out of the ground is everlasting and free at source (disregarding the costs of acquirement). Surely oil has taught us that lesson.
The whole containment device is made of a mixture of waste and the containment material. It's not like it's trying to eat its way out of a container made of the ceramic. The waste and the ceramic are mixed together to separate the waste particles and consolidate the whole thing into a manageable lump. Yes that lump is then surrounded but if that final layer is the *only* defense, then it's not enough.
Because by doing that, they are already conditioned to use that software, start businesses that require that software, be employed on how well they know that software. The real world needs to break out of that cycle. It's chicken and egg. Anyway, apparently Windows is so easy to use, that if all kids were taught on *nix, they should fall right into windows with no effort at all. Or are those TCO arguments bullshit ?
In actual fact, you would end up with better windows users if they were exposed to *nix first. At least they'd be able to think for themselves.
Because to the English who first went there, it looked similar to South Wales. Hence New South Wales. A similar concept to Nova Scotia (New Scotland) or New Caprica (err, ok). South Wales has different scenery to North Wales. How about New York, or New Mexico, or New Orleans ? By your rules they would be called Britain, Mexico, and France.
You need to brush up on your web design skills then, or at least stop using dreamweaver.
I run my screen at 1280x1028 and don't run my browser maximised. Consequently, your layout gets screwed up. The images behind your navigation links are hidden behind the background of the text, and so is the small text on your logo.
A teacher had a record, put it on the table. "Ok, see the hole in the middle? That's the sun. Track 1 is approximately where the earth is located. The outer edge might be pluto's orbit.
So your teacher used to play his records backwards ? Any cryptic messages come through ? (hint - track one starts at the outside edge)
The latest release is pretty good, it sets up Myth for you and LIRC and can be configured as either a frontend, a backend server, or a combined system. In fact the other day when my XP pro installation started freaking out, I powered down, swapped the hard drive over to the Mythdora install (removable trays), and carried on watching the tv program. I would have Mythdora as the tv system full time except that my tv cards IR receiver isn't supported by LIRC. I have a generic serial receiver on order, and then bye bye XP ! For anybody with Hauppauge TV cards and remotes (as an example), it should work out of the box.
I will still have a few requirements for a windows box, but vmware will take up the slack from then on.
Also, I never found any way in Yum and APT to get a listing of what packages were available, and what specific names to use for them. I know that such exists, but the documentation isn't as good,
man yum
LIST OPTIONS
The following are the ways which you can invoke yum in list mode. Note
that all list commands include information on the version of the pack-
age.
yum list [all | regexp1] [regexp2] [...]
List all available and installed packages.
yum list available [regexp1] [...]
List all packages in the yum repositories available to be
installed.
yum list updates [regexp1] [...]
List all packages with updates available in the yum reposito-
ries.
yum list installed [regexp1] [...]
List the packages specified by args. If an argument does not
match the name of an available package, it is assumed to be a
shell-style glob and any matches are printed.
yum list extras [regexp1] [...]
List the packages installed on the system that are not available
in any yum repository listed in the config file.
yum list obsoletes [regexp1] [...]
List the packages installed on the system that are obsoleted by
packages in any yum repository listed in the config file.
yum list recent
List packages recently added into the repositories.
Specifying package names
All the list options mentioned above take file-glob-syntax wild-
cards or package names as arguments, for example yum list avail-
able foo* will list all available packages that match foo*.
When he originally made these statements, the situation was different. There was no widespread pc usage. The only reason closed source software has taken a lead in "popularity" is because that is what basically clueless "users" have been fed, and become used to. The likes of Microsoft and Apple have thrived on making software "easy to use" rather than the end user actually having to learn anything fundamental (and thereby threatening the major software houses).
If free software and open source had been the metric from the beginning, then maybe we wouldn't have such a script kiddy culture today. Maybe the DMCA wouldn't exist, as there would be no need for such a law. Most people are far more intelligent that they are given credit for, but as with anything learned, if you don't use it, you lose it. Due to the culture of dependence (fostered by Microsoft and Apple), people have become lazy and conditioned to being spoonfed what someone else tells them is good for them.
In essence, just because the people today are blind, why perpetuate that situation, instead of showing them how to remove the blindfold.
Ironically, supporting proprietary software over free/open software is like the buggy whip makers fight against the rise of the motor car. Just because a particular financial advantage exists today, doesn't mean that's the way it should stay forever. (It's ironic because the buggy whip makers were essentially the equivalent of open source compared to the car manufacturers, but the complaints are the same - preserve my business model)
And yet the driver necessary for my Geforce 2 card, which is still perfectly capable, is now about 4 generations old. Luckily nVidia still host it on their site, otherwise my Myth box wouldn't work properly. If it was open source, then there wouldn't be the drive to force upgrades just because the drivers weren't available anymore.
Personally, I usually use feet if I'm estimating a distance (it's just a very convienient size - the closest metric equivalent is a decimeter, just doesn't quite cut it),
Do you work for NASA ?
A decimeter is 1/10th of a meter which is 10cm. A foot is 30.48cm, 3 times the size you estimated.
You are better off using yards to estimate as they are closer to a meter (1 yard = 0.9144 meters) No-one I know has ever ever used the decimeter as a unit. And I've worked in construction and factories for 20 years. If anything, you go smaller, ie. if its about a foot it's about 300mm. Anything less than a meter is measured in mm, anything over is measured in meters.(Apart from km of course). Thats why metric is good, 1.248 meters == 124.8cm == 1248mm, no conversions needed, just move the decimal point. As the US uses decimal currency, it's odd that weights and measures haven't been switched completely.
Romania joined the EU on 2007-01-01. There'll be a good few hundred million people at the end of a cheap 2 hour flight from it in a few months (once Easyjet/Ryanair get regular flights there).
Them joining the EU is irrelevant. It's not like there's been a blockade on travel to Romania.
With reference to tantalum caps. I used to work for a company called AVX, which was part of the Kyocera Group. We made Tantalum caps. and believe me, you don't want a bad one in your pc. I've seen a Motorola mobile phone which had a bad cap in it, and lets just say, there wasn't much left of the phone afterwards. When Tantalum burns, it keeps going, and the only thing that can put it out is salt.
They are used in Seagate hard drives too IIRC, which always worried me, but they went over to a different process a few years back, whereby the caps are produced on a wafer then sliced up rather than being processed individually. Lot's of nasty chemicals involved, acetic acid, glycolic acid, phosphoric acid and manganese to name a few.
How about making yum upgrades across Fedora versions seamless, supported, and recommended so that no one gets left behind?
Because the whole point of Fedora is to invest time in the bleeding edge. You can't do that if you have to support incompatible old technologies. See Microsoft...
If you want seamless upgrades, then use RHEL instead, or even WBEL if you want it for free. Based on Fedora proven technology, but smoothed out for the end user.
It is not necessary to interfere with the pregnancy at all in order to gain access to amniotic fluid.
All ethical arguments are moot.
Does my urine have inalienable rights to existence ? When I hawk up a greeny saying "get out and walk", do the UN guarantee its natural right to use the bus ?
I'm afraid there is a small but significant risk of harm to the mother and/or the unborn child when you take samples of amniotic fluid... too risky? not my call... but there is a risk.
Life is a risk.
If women are already undergoing amniocentesis, then the risk has already been taken, so why not get extra value from the resulting fluid ?
I don't think anyone is suggesting that the fluid is harvested on industrial scales.
No, it's not a belief, it's a fact. An embryo needs to be fertilised before it even has the chance of becoming a child. But even a fertilised embryo is not a child.
An embryo is a fertilised egg. So by definition, it does not need to be fertilised.
An embryo has the capability to develop into a viable child, but even that is not guaranteed.
Does the average person also believe that a woman is "killing babies" when she menstruates? I don't think so.
Mainly because menstruation is the bodys way of expelling unfertilised eggs !
It's a good thing you don't have to be a scientist to procreate, otherwise you wouldn't exist.
You talk about science and then ignore the facts !
From outer space, we could tell that the Earth has a lot of metabolic activity in it, because the sky is mostly highly reactive oxygen that is a result of plant respiration.
Actually, the "sky" or atmosphere (as scientists call it) is mostly Nitrogen. Only around 20% is oxygen. Link.
Ocean water is practically alive itself, there is so much life in it. On land, the places with the greatest biomass and biodiversity are the rainforests, where they have near 100% humidity.
Ocean water is not "practically alive" in any sense whatsoever. There are vast areas where there is virtually no significant life. That is not to say those areas are sterile, but just that they do not have sufficient resources to sustain a large amount of diverse lifeforms. Such things as boundaries between ocean currents and upwellings of cold water bringing nutrients closer to the surface create conditions where life flourishes. This is why there are mass migrations of many species every year - to go where the food is. They wouldn't have to do that if the oceans were "practically alive". As for the rainforests, they have the greatest biomass due mainly to the fact that they are forests ! Forests full of massive plants called trees. Yes they do have massive bio-diversity, but that is mainly due to having the most available niches for life to succeed. From the forest floor to the canopy presents a large area in which to find suitable conditions. The Sahara desert is not entirely lifeless, but appears that way because it only provides 1 environment - the sand. Dig a little beneath the surface of the sand and you will find mammals, reptiles, insects and arachnids. Your argument is too simplistic.
My guess is that those 'extremophiles' are descendants of creatures who lived in more hospital environments and became adapted to increasingly extreme environments. I don't think that life originated in rocks or in ocean vents.
Well your guess would be pretty much wrong then. Link. What you "think" has no real bearing on the reality that science has discovered. And I don't think they had hospitals 4 billion years ago !
I've got 2 Seagates running in my media server right now. 1 x ST3200822AS and 1 x ST3250823AS
The 200GB disk has been in there nearly 2 years, and the 250GB about a year. I run them in a LVM2 setup to make 1 large volume, and so far, I've not had a single issue with either. I don't intend to leave them for ever, as they fill up (close right now) I have another 300GB drive ready to go in, which I will then migrate the data onto from the oldest drive. That drive will then be used for something else. As drive capacities grow, my storage grows too, without having to limit myself to 1 or 2 disks.
If I could find a reliable consumer SATA II controller card, I would have another 3 disks in there.
BTW, they don't get used for swap or anything intensive apart from streaming video over the network, so maybe that's why they've lasted.
Incidentally, the OS is installed on another Seagate - ST340014A - an old 40GB that has been running for over 3 years without incident.
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I say we should reprocess what we can and research to find better ways of reprocessing until the eventual waste produced is tiny.
You can't base a sustainable economy on the assumption that anything that comes out of the ground is everlasting and free at source (disregarding the costs of acquirement). Surely oil has taught us that lesson.
The whole containment device is made of a mixture of waste and the containment material. It's not like it's trying to eat its way out of a container made of the ceramic. The waste and the ceramic are mixed together to separate the waste particles and consolidate the whole thing into a manageable lump. Yes that lump is then surrounded but if that final layer is the *only* defense, then it's not enough.
In actual fact, you would end up with better windows users if they were exposed to *nix first. At least they'd be able to think for themselves.
I expect the electronics runs off the battery, and the solar just charges the battery. If the battery's dead, nothing will run.
I tell you what, you stand under the launch pad and then decide whether a rocket blasts off or lifts off.
Because to the English who first went there, it looked similar to South Wales. Hence New South Wales. A similar concept to Nova Scotia (New Scotland) or New Caprica (err, ok). South Wales has different scenery to North Wales. How about New York, or New Mexico, or New Orleans ? By your rules they would be called Britain, Mexico, and France.
I run my screen at 1280x1028 and don't run my browser maximised. Consequently, your layout gets screwed up. The images behind your navigation links are hidden behind the background of the text, and so is the small text on your logo.
Example 1
BTW, I use Firefox in linux.Example 2
(hint - track one starts at the outside edge)
It was mentioned here a few weeks ago, but I'll mention it again.
Mythdora
The latest release is pretty good, it sets up Myth for you and LIRC and can be configured as either a frontend, a backend server, or a combined system. In fact the other day when my XP pro installation started freaking out, I powered down, swapped the hard drive over to the Mythdora install (removable trays), and carried on watching the tv program. I would have Mythdora as the tv system full time except that my tv cards IR receiver isn't supported by LIRC. I have a generic serial receiver on order, and then bye bye XP ! For anybody with Hauppauge TV cards and remotes (as an example), it should work out of the box.
I will still have a few requirements for a windows box, but vmware will take up the slack from then on.
You seem to be missing the point.
When he originally made these statements, the situation was different. There was no widespread pc usage. The only reason closed source software has taken a lead in "popularity" is because that is what basically clueless "users" have been fed, and become used to. The likes of Microsoft and Apple have thrived on making software "easy to use" rather than the end user actually having to learn anything fundamental (and thereby threatening the major software houses).
If free software and open source had been the metric from the beginning, then maybe we wouldn't have such a script kiddy culture today. Maybe the DMCA wouldn't exist, as there would be no need for such a law. Most people are far more intelligent that they are given credit for, but as with anything learned, if you don't use it, you lose it. Due to the culture of dependence (fostered by Microsoft and Apple), people have become lazy and conditioned to being spoonfed what someone else tells them is good for them.
In essence, just because the people today are blind, why perpetuate that situation, instead of showing them how to remove the blindfold.
Ironically, supporting proprietary software over free/open software is like the buggy whip makers fight against the rise of the motor car. Just because a particular financial advantage exists today, doesn't mean that's the way it should stay forever. (It's ironic because the buggy whip makers were essentially the equivalent of open source compared to the car manufacturers, but the complaints are the same - preserve my business model)
And yet the driver necessary for my Geforce 2 card, which is still perfectly capable, is now about 4 generations old. Luckily nVidia still host it on their site, otherwise my Myth box wouldn't work properly. If it was open source, then there wouldn't be the drive to force upgrades just because the drivers weren't available anymore.
A decimeter is 1/10th of a meter which is 10cm. A foot is 30.48cm, 3 times the size you estimated.
You are better off using yards to estimate as they are closer to a meter (1 yard = 0.9144 meters) No-one I know has ever ever used the decimeter as a unit. And I've worked in construction and factories for 20 years. If anything, you go smaller, ie. if its about a foot it's about 300mm. Anything less than a meter is measured in mm, anything over is measured in meters.(Apart from km of course). Thats why metric is good, 1.248 meters == 124.8cm == 1248mm, no conversions needed, just move the decimal point. As the US uses decimal currency, it's odd that weights and measures haven't been switched completely.With reference to tantalum caps. I used to work for a company called AVX, which was part of the Kyocera Group. We made Tantalum caps. and believe me, you don't want a bad one in your pc. I've seen a Motorola mobile phone which had a bad cap in it, and lets just say, there wasn't much left of the phone afterwards. When Tantalum burns, it keeps going, and the only thing that can put it out is salt.
They are used in Seagate hard drives too IIRC, which always worried me, but they went over to a different process a few years back, whereby the caps are produced on a wafer then sliced up rather than being processed individually. Lot's of nasty chemicals involved, acetic acid, glycolic acid, phosphoric acid and manganese to name a few.
Because the whole point of Fedora is to invest time in the bleeding edge. You can't do that if you have to support incompatible old technologies. See Microsoft ...
If you want seamless upgrades, then use RHEL instead, or even WBEL if you want it for free. Based on Fedora proven technology, but smoothed out for the end user.
Good job the guy who bought my motorcycle didn't think like you then ! Shipping a 600kg bike 300 miles would have cost more than the sale price.
Mod parent up !
It is not necessary to interfere with the pregnancy at all in order to gain access to amniotic fluid.
All ethical arguments are moot.
Does my urine have inalienable rights to existence ?
When I hawk up a greeny saying "get out and walk", do the UN guarantee its natural right to use the bus ?
Life is a risk.
If women are already undergoing amniocentesis, then the risk has already been taken, so why not get extra value from the resulting fluid ?
I don't think anyone is suggesting that the fluid is harvested on industrial scales.
An embryo has the capability to develop into a viable child, but even that is not guaranteed.
Mainly because menstruation is the bodys way of expelling unfertilised eggs !It's a good thing you don't have to be a scientist to procreate, otherwise you wouldn't exist.
Actually, the "sky" or atmosphere (as scientists call it) is mostly Nitrogen. Only around 20% is oxygen. Link.
Ocean water is not "practically alive" in any sense whatsoever. There are vast areas where there is virtually no significant life. That is not to say those areas are sterile, but just that they do not have sufficient resources to sustain a large amount of diverse lifeforms. Such things as boundaries between ocean currents and upwellings of cold water bringing nutrients closer to the surface create conditions where life flourishes. This is why there are mass migrations of many species every year - to go where the food is. They wouldn't have to do that if the oceans were "practically alive". As for the rainforests, they have the greatest biomass due mainly to the fact that they are forests ! Forests full of massive plants called trees. Yes they do have massive bio-diversity, but that is mainly due to having the most available niches for life to succeed. From the forest floor to the canopy presents a large area in which to find suitable conditions. The Sahara desert is not entirely lifeless, but appears that way because it only provides 1 environment - the sand. Dig a little beneath the surface of the sand and you will find mammals, reptiles, insects and arachnids. Your argument is too simplistic.
Well your guess would be pretty much wrong then. Link. What you "think" has no real bearing on the reality that science has discovered. And I don't think they had hospitals 4 billion years ago !
The 200GB disk has been in there nearly 2 years, and the 250GB about a year. I run them in a LVM2 setup to make 1 large volume, and so far, I've not had a single issue with either. I don't intend to leave them for ever, as they fill up (close right now) I have another 300GB drive ready to go in, which I will then migrate the data onto from the oldest drive. That drive will then be used for something else. As drive capacities grow, my storage grows too, without having to limit myself to 1 or 2 disks.
If I could find a reliable consumer SATA II controller card, I would have another 3 disks in there.
BTW, they don't get used for swap or anything intensive apart from streaming video over the network, so maybe that's why they've lasted.Incidentally, the OS is installed on another Seagate - ST340014A - an old 40GB that has been running for over 3 years without incident.
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