Why do you assume when someone says they live in NY they mean NY city. Maybe he lives in the Catskills where he hasn't seen any snow this winter while NY city got some. Only a fool builds his house on the sand. Anyone who builds in a flood plain should expect to get washed away.
Let's face it - Phoenix is uninhabitable now. I don't know how people can live there. Of course my idea of a perfect day is 70 and cloudy I don't want to live in a lot of places.
I am look forward to the Suns coming grand minimum causing cool summers and cloudy days where I live.
I think your going to have some trouble making ice in pure water. You are going to need some contaminates to make ice crystals. I suppose that if you use a vibration device the pure water should freeze at 0 degrees Celsius.
Beta testing Windows 10? They must mean 10.1 or 11. I thought 10 was a released product. If they want to find out what bothers people about windows 10 all they have to do is Bing " hate about windows 10".
Outrage is that these are OUR machines. They do not belong to Microsoft. It may be true that Microsoft can not survive financially without serving up ads, but it's not our job to provide charity to companies with bad business models.
You own the computer but Microsoft owns the software. You choose to run one of their OSs. They allow you to run the software but they own all rights to it. If you care about the ads then you should run an OS that you own, and can modify to fit your needs. I assume you choose not to, because anyone who posts on/. should be able to install and run what ever they want on their computer.
True there is a basic doctor in biking distance but the specialists are in the cities. I am not blessed with simple illnesses. I have no idea why there are no buses, there are lots of people who can't drive and they are forced to waste their money on taxis.
I am not sure why people think owning cars is so expensive. I buy them for 4 to 6 thousand and drive them for 10 to 15 years, by that time I have saved enough for the next one. Insurance is the biggest cost if you hyper-mile. I can do all my own repairs, I am not sure if a lot of people can do that.
As for my country, yes it is the U.S.A. Every year services and opportunities disappear. Someday the rural areas will be 3rd world like and only some cities will resemble a modern society.
.... although for sure get rid of the damn car. Without cars we could be living like king on $1K per month (plus free heatthcare). Hell, we shit on a personal sit-down toilet so we're living like kings already, but we don't know it yet.
So, you can't buy a 100 watt bulb, but you can buy a 150 000 watt car? What the hell. As if 15 kilowatt would not be enough to move asses around. Technology like steam and electric give high torque at low power and speed limits could be dropped to somehing like 40 mph...
I am not sure how you think I would be living like a king walking or biking everywhere. It would take days just to get to the doctor to get my free health care. There are no buses here and I doubt there will ever be any. I would go broke taking a taxi everywhere on $1K a month. And no I am not going to move, I live very close to my job.
No, I have never run the numbers, where I live there are 53 sunny days a year on average. My point was that this change in prices should not effect the building of a battery plant. This will cause more people to want to store there own power instead of buying it back at a higher price at night. The GP said the change would make the plant useless.
Why, the current scheme is to sell you excess solar to the electric company on sunny days and buy it back when the sun doesn't shine. Yes some make a profit in doing that but the real profit is making electricity yourself, not paying 13+ cents a Kw/h. With a really good low loss battery you could be off the grid completely.
One of the hacks I always wanted to do ( and still looking for parts for) is a flame speaker. I plan to do it outside maybe even in a bonfire if I can keep the wires from melting.
Replying to cowards is usless as you have no idea which coward said what. Either way you always look the fool. I stopped reading coward posts and/. is now a lot more enjoyable.
I had them set not to auto mount on boot but systemd mounts them anyway, the same for CD/DVD and flash drives. They all auto mount when I don't want them too. My next build I am going to try to remove systemd and use a DE like enlightenment as it seems Mate is systemd dependent.
Systemd on servers, I hope I can easily get away from that when I have to upgrade.
I have never seen this quick reboot option people keep talking about.
I run Debian Sid ( yes I know that maybe the problem) and since SystemD was installed, my bi-monthly reboots are slow in the order of 2 to 5 minutes.
What is happening is that systemd is not turning the network on correctly, and it waiting forever to mount the NFS shares. When it finally gives up, I just open up a terminal, ifdown eth0, then ifup eth0 and all is well. I guess systemd can't handle a static IP on a desktop.
Radio is very noisy. Why would any advanced civilization think that it would be a great way to communicate over long distances? I would assume that any intelligent life-form would listen to the static in the background and think, there must be something better than this.
They are all tropical cyclones, and actually East Pacific cyclones are called hurricanes. These are mid to West Pacific storms being called hurricanes.
I figured it out, because the average TV viewer, and apparently Slashdot user, wouldn't know the difference they are just calling them hurricanes to avoid having to explain it every time.
I am confused. Can I call "su root" and get a full root shell? Are they just hijacking "su [blank name] which goes to root by default? Most peaple think su means super user when in fact it means switch user. I might be safe becouse I always use the name even when it is root.
You are right, I haven't looked at any really modern mother boards, my 4 year old board has one DVI output, So I put in 2 video cards so I can have 4 screens, my next box I will limit to 3 video cards, 5 seems like overkill. I just looked at an expensive MB with Intel graphics , it had 2 screen capability.
In my reply to publiclurker I admitted that I screwed up the math. All we need to know is how much carbon is wasted in the creation process. They also give no account on how much energy goes into the process to make the fuel.
Plants need about 200ppm CO2 to survive. At 400ppm presently, we can use 1/2. Crude oil use is atabout 4 Billion metric tons a year. Half of the approximate total mass of CO2 in the atmosphere is 8820 Billion metric tons. They don't say how much CO2 needed per unit of Diesel, so I have to guess 4 to 1. I now get 551 years worth of diesel if it replaced all crude oil use so I have to admit I was wrong.
Yes I skipped all the volume to mas conversions, and I have to get to work soon so it was rushed. I have never received more than 3 replies to a comment before so forgive me for my slowness.
There isn't enough CO2 in the atmosphere to make this work. We would risk starvation by reducing CO2 levels below the level plants need. People forget that CO2 is plant food.
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Why do you assume when someone says they live in NY they mean NY city. Maybe he lives in the Catskills where he hasn't seen any snow this winter while NY city got some. Only a fool builds his house on the sand. Anyone who builds in a flood plain should expect to get washed away.
Let's face it - Phoenix is uninhabitable now. I don't know how people can live there. Of course my idea of a perfect day is 70 and cloudy I don't want to live in a lot of places.
I am look forward to the Suns coming grand minimum causing cool summers and cloudy days where I live.
I think your going to have some trouble making ice in pure water. You are going to need some contaminates to make ice crystals. I suppose that if you use a vibration device the pure water should freeze at 0 degrees Celsius.
Thanks coward, I didn't know that. So Microsoft has made there own version of Debian Sid and wants everyone to be part of the bug fest.
Beta testing Windows 10? They must mean 10.1 or 11. I thought 10 was a released product. If they want to find out what bothers people about windows 10 all they have to do is Bing " hate about windows 10".
Outrage is that these are OUR machines. They do not belong to Microsoft. It may be true that Microsoft can not survive financially without serving up ads, but it's not our job to provide charity to companies with bad business models.
You own the computer but Microsoft owns the software. You choose to run one of their OSs. They allow you to run the software but they own all rights to it. If you care about the ads then you should run an OS that you own, and can modify to fit your needs. I assume you choose not to, because anyone who posts on /. should be able to install and run what ever they want on their computer.
True there is a basic doctor in biking distance but the specialists are in the cities. I am not blessed with simple illnesses. I have no idea why there are no buses, there are lots of people who can't drive and they are forced to waste their money on taxis.
I am not sure why people think owning cars is so expensive. I buy them for 4 to 6 thousand and drive them for 10 to 15 years, by that time I have saved enough for the next one. Insurance is the biggest cost if you hyper-mile. I can do all my own repairs, I am not sure if a lot of people can do that.
As for my country, yes it is the U.S.A. Every year services and opportunities disappear. Someday the rural areas will be 3rd world like and only some cities will resemble a modern society.
.... although for sure get rid of the damn car. Without cars we could be living like king on $1K per month (plus free heatthcare). Hell, we shit on a personal sit-down toilet so we're living like kings already, but we don't know it yet.
So, you can't buy a 100 watt bulb, but you can buy a 150 000 watt car? What the hell. As if 15 kilowatt would not be enough to move asses around. Technology like steam and electric give high torque at low power and speed limits could be dropped to somehing like 40 mph...
I am not sure how you think I would be living like a king walking or biking everywhere. It would take days just to get to the doctor to get my free health care. There are no buses here and I doubt there will ever be any. I would go broke taking a taxi everywhere on $1K a month. And no I am not going to move, I live very close to my job.
No, I have never run the numbers, where I live there are 53 sunny days a year on average. My point was that this change in prices should not effect the building of a battery plant. This will cause more people to want to store there own power instead of buying it back at a higher price at night. The GP said the change would make the plant useless.
Why, the current scheme is to sell you excess solar to the electric company on sunny days and buy it back when the sun doesn't shine. Yes some make a profit in doing that but the real profit is making electricity yourself, not paying 13+ cents a Kw/h. With a really good low loss battery you could be off the grid completely.
One of the hacks I always wanted to do ( and still looking for parts for) is a flame speaker. I plan to do it outside maybe even in a bonfire if I can keep the wires from melting.
Replying to cowards is usless as you have no idea which coward said what. Either way you always look the fool. I stopped reading coward posts and /. is now a lot more enjoyable.
I had them set not to auto mount on boot but systemd mounts them anyway, the same for CD/DVD and flash drives. They all auto mount when I don't want them too. My next build I am going to try to remove systemd and use a DE like enlightenment as it seems Mate is systemd dependent.
Systemd on servers, I hope I can easily get away from that when I have to upgrade.
I have never seen this quick reboot option people keep talking about.
I run Debian Sid ( yes I know that maybe the problem) and since SystemD was installed, my bi-monthly reboots are slow in the order of 2 to 5 minutes.
What is happening is that systemd is not turning the network on correctly, and it waiting forever to mount the NFS shares. When it finally gives up, I just open up a terminal, ifdown eth0, then ifup eth0 and all is well. I guess systemd can't handle a static IP on a desktop.
Sorry, I never mod cowards up, only down.
Radio is very noisy. Why would any advanced civilization think that it would be a great way to communicate over long distances? I would assume that any intelligent life-form would listen to the static in the background and think, there must be something better than this.
Good sense is no longer common.
They are all tropical cyclones, and actually East Pacific cyclones are called hurricanes. These are mid to West Pacific storms being called hurricanes.
I figured it out, because the average TV viewer, and apparently Slashdot user, wouldn't know the difference they are just calling them hurricanes to avoid having to explain it every time.
It is even worse. Where they are going makes them Typhoons not Hurricanes.
I am confused. Can I call "su root" and get a full root shell? Are they just hijacking "su [blank name] which goes to root by default? Most peaple think su means super user when in fact it means switch user. I might be safe becouse I always use the name even when it is root.
You are right, I haven't looked at any really modern mother boards, my 4 year old board has one DVI output, So I put in 2 video cards so I can have 4 screens, my next box I will limit to 3 video cards, 5 seems like overkill. I just looked at an expensive MB with Intel graphics , it had 2 screen capability.
Pointless unless all you want is one, maybe 2 screens on your box. Until they put the Intel chips on a card in is a non starter in my book.
In my reply to publiclurker I admitted that I screwed up the math. All we need to know is how much carbon is wasted in the creation process. They also give no account on how much energy goes into the process to make the fuel.
Plants need about 200ppm CO2 to survive. At 400ppm presently, we can use 1/2. Crude oil use is atabout 4 Billion metric tons a year. Half of the approximate total mass of CO2 in the atmosphere is 8820 Billion metric tons. They don't say how much CO2 needed per unit of Diesel, so I have to guess 4 to 1. I now get 551 years worth of diesel if it replaced all crude oil use so I have to admit I was wrong.
Yes I skipped all the volume to mas conversions, and I have to get to work soon so it was rushed. I have never received more than 3 replies to a comment before so forgive me for my slowness.
There isn't enough CO2 in the atmosphere to make this work. We would risk starvation by reducing CO2 levels below the level plants need. People forget that CO2 is plant food.