Surely any decent router which miraculously doesn't support it yet could have support introduced in a firmware update? There is nothing about IPv6 that should require hardware updates.
I would hope they don't landfill their computers. Here in the UK that would probably be illegal. You take it to a council dump, and they send it for recycling. In Oxford at least, some parts may go for re-use if they still work. I would hope cases would be recovered at this point.
As others have pointed out, the case is not difficult to recycle or toxic.
And who the hell throws away a case? It's the part that goes obsolete slowest, and several computers might occupy a case before it needs to be replaced.
An awful lot of humans can see a 50 or 60Hz flicker. Quite a few, myself included, find this very annoying, and potentially migraine-inducing. Personally, I also find flickering bulbs disorienting when moving around; if I'm tired and reach out quickly for something in my field of vision, for example, I will see my hand, illuminated by the flicker, multiple times as in a strobe photograph.
Since this does nothing relevant that gasoline taxation doesn't already do, one can presume that it is intended as a tracking device.
If this is actually introduced, it will sooner or later be used to track down some horrible terrorist/paedophile on the run, and no one will object. The next year, it'll be available to track down whoever they want to track down, and if attitudes wiretapping are anything to go by, they won't need a warrant. Lucky it's such a blindingly stupid idea that they'll never actually implement it, right?
Until you need to upgrade your Ubuntu repostitory servers, that is.
Ubuntu is broken. Doesn't mean every distro is.
5 minutes to get -anything- that wasn't already working to work in Linux would be amazing, and I'd probably still be using it if that were the case.
To take a simple example, try going from a machine without the nvidia drivers installed to a machine with them installed and working in five minutes under Windows. Try the same under a sane linux distro.
You don't hear about people having trouble getting windows to work on their hardware because most Windows users had their OEM iron out all the weird issues. Try installing Windows.
I had to put extra drivers on a floppy disk (I hear Windows 7 lets you use a USB stick) just to install XP on a machine that Linux just worked on (this was before Vista). I also have a dual-boot laptop, which again just works with Linux, but won't recognise standard USB keyboards under Windows XP. The laptop came with Vista installed, but the same model used to ship with XP, so again I'm not really choosing an old version to complain about.
For the same dual-boot laptop, I had to fiddle quite a bit to get nvidia drivers working. They release Linux drivers, but not Windows ones. I'm not kidding. For laptops, nvidia expect the OEM to provide Windows drivers, but provide Linux drivers themselves. Of course, the OEM hadn't updated the driver in ages. I eventually installed an unsupported hacked driver. In the end I couldn't find a driver for the fingerprint reader (not that it mattered), and finding all the normal drivers involved checking a lot of different websites. Furthermore, under Linux I could adjust the volume of the headphone port and built in speakers independently, which wasn't allowed with the Windows drivers. All in all, it took longer to get Windows working properly with the hardware than it took to get Linux working. The punchline is that I was installing Gentoo.
So few companies publish Windows drivers for their products these days.
Because companies publishing drivers works so very well. The system on Linux (nvidia notwithstanding - my next card, which should be in the post by now, is a Radeon, because AMD have been nice people and released specs) where the OS generally comes with nearly every driver you need is arguably superior to the rather odd Windows system of having every hardware company (who often can't write working software) write little bits of kernel code. This is why you have blue screens of death. Even Microsoft seem to have noticed this, as webcams (who's manufacturers have, in the past, written some of the worst drivers ever seen) now have to be UVC compatible to be permitted to display the Vista compatible logo.
You're thinking of the dimensions of the TMA-1 Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey. In The Sentinel (which 2001 was very loosely based on), the beacon is not a cuboid and has no such geometrical connection to prime numbers.
Not developing high-yield crops would have been indirect "offing people", so the suggestion was presumably intended to highlight the ridiculousness of blaming overpopulation on excessive food. It at least gave us some more time to try and lower birth rates before famine starts to kill people.
Would you volunteer to be one of the people who starves to prevent overpopulation?
Not to mention that any famine that doesn't wipe out the human race would results in only temporary population drop. The only solution that doesn't involve basically killing people by one method or another is to lower birth rates. To this end, I suggest that religion gets banned.
While I'm sure there are some great uses for this, it also sounds like a way to serve even more resource-hungry adverts than they can with Flash. Furthermore, if this became widespread in situations not really requiring it, a decent graphics card could essentially become a requirement for web surfing.
It may be standard practise to put it out with an extinguisher. I was reading about a recent test of a much larger rocket (I forget the details), and it was suggested that it was doused with CO2 at the end not because it wouldn't burn out on its own, but to preserve the engine in whatever state it was at the end of the burn to allow more information to be extracted from it.
I should have watched the end of the video first: around the three minutes mark you can clearly see the plume moving from side to side while the machine stays almost still relative to the ground.
It does indeed move incredibly smoothly. How does it steady itself? It most certainly looks top-heavy. Are there separate thrusters keeping it from tipping, or does its main engine have thrust-vectoring?
is a perfectly sensible idea; there are some use cases for firearms where fewer deaths and injuries would result if tasers were used instead (obviously, there are situations where they don't work too). The problem occurs when they get used for situations which would previously have been resolved using force less lethal than a taser, or, in a frighteningly large number of cases, situations which would previously have been quite easily resolved with no force at all.
You can't blame the company that sells these bad boys for wanting to sell them.
But you can blame them for encouraging their use in situations not actually requiring violence and for covering up evidence that they are potentially lethal. I'd still agree that the larger problem is police forces passively accepting the advice of a corporation. I'm not from the US and don't understand how local police forces fit together there; at what level are decisions on policies and equipment made? It seems that decisions on taser use are made by police forces who are very small next to Taser International and can't really produce their own manuals or do their own research (contrast with US military weapons purchases, where the manufacturer is at the mercy of the customer).
Also, I'm happy to say my RAM is clear of llamas, but full of rams.
That is surprising, because there should be multiple instances caused by loading my sig in your web browser and by entering the command.
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I didn't say Ubuntu was "worse", but if I did, I'd say it because it breaks when upgrading about as much as Gentoo, not because it's easy.
Surely any decent router which miraculously doesn't support it yet could have support introduced in a firmware update? There is nothing about IPv6 that should require hardware updates.
I would hope they don't landfill their computers. Here in the UK that would probably be illegal. You take it to a council dump, and they send it for recycling. In Oxford at least, some parts may go for re-use if they still work. I would hope cases would be recovered at this point.
As others have pointed out, the case is not difficult to recycle or toxic.
And who the hell throws away a case? It's the part that goes obsolete slowest, and several computers might occupy a case before it needs to be replaced.
To be fair, a lot of Ubuntu users haven't heard of Linux either.
You remind me of Gene Ray, except that I agree with your basic sentiment.
An awful lot of humans can see a 50 or 60Hz flicker. Quite a few, myself included, find this very annoying, and potentially migraine-inducing. Personally, I also find flickering bulbs disorienting when moving around; if I'm tired and reach out quickly for something in my field of vision, for example, I will see my hand, illuminated by the flicker, multiple times as in a strobe photograph.
Since this does nothing relevant that gasoline taxation doesn't already do, one can presume that it is intended as a tracking device.
If this is actually introduced, it will sooner or later be used to track down some horrible terrorist/paedophile on the run, and no one will object. The next year, it'll be available to track down whoever they want to track down, and if attitudes wiretapping are anything to go by, they won't need a warrant. Lucky it's such a blindingly stupid idea that they'll never actually implement it, right?
Right?
They're not talking about that sort of insurance (which you can already get). The article is from the USA, where "insurer" means medical insurance.
Ubuntu is broken. Doesn't mean every distro is.
To take a simple example, try going from a machine without the nvidia drivers installed to a machine with them installed and working in five minutes under Windows. Try the same under a sane linux distro.
1) Not an unspecified Linux. You fail reading comprehension.
2) I fail to see how Microsoft's long release cycles are not Microsoft's problem, and you're ignoring slipstreamed service packs.
I had to put extra drivers on a floppy disk (I hear Windows 7 lets you use a USB stick) just to install XP on a machine that Linux just worked on (this was before Vista). I also have a dual-boot laptop, which again just works with Linux, but won't recognise standard USB keyboards under Windows XP. The laptop came with Vista installed, but the same model used to ship with XP, so again I'm not really choosing an old version to complain about.
For the same dual-boot laptop, I had to fiddle quite a bit to get nvidia drivers working. They release Linux drivers, but not Windows ones. I'm not kidding. For laptops, nvidia expect the OEM to provide Windows drivers, but provide Linux drivers themselves. Of course, the OEM hadn't updated the driver in ages. I eventually installed an unsupported hacked driver. In the end I couldn't find a driver for the fingerprint reader (not that it mattered), and finding all the normal drivers involved checking a lot of different websites. Furthermore, under Linux I could adjust the volume of the headphone port and built in speakers independently, which wasn't allowed with the Windows drivers. All in all, it took longer to get Windows working properly with the hardware than it took to get Linux working. The punchline is that I was installing Gentoo.
Because companies publishing drivers works so very well. The system on Linux (nvidia notwithstanding - my next card, which should be in the post by now, is a Radeon, because AMD have been nice people and released specs) where the OS generally comes with nearly every driver you need is arguably superior to the rather odd Windows system of having every hardware company (who often can't write working software) write little bits of kernel code. This is why you have blue screens of death. Even Microsoft seem to have noticed this, as webcams (who's manufacturers have, in the past, written some of the worst drivers ever seen) now have to be UVC compatible to be permitted to display the Vista compatible logo.
You're thinking of the dimensions of the TMA-1 Monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey. In The Sentinel (which 2001 was very loosely based on), the beacon is not a cuboid and has no such geometrical connection to prime numbers.
Not developing high-yield crops would have been indirect "offing people", so the suggestion was presumably intended to highlight the ridiculousness of blaming overpopulation on excessive food. It at least gave us some more time to try and lower birth rates before famine starts to kill people.
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Would you volunteer to be one of the people who starves to prevent overpopulation?
Not to mention that any famine that doesn't wipe out the human race would results in only temporary population drop. The only solution that doesn't involve basically killing people by one method or another is to lower birth rates. To this end, I suggest that religion gets banned.
"High-yield, disease-resistant crops" reduce both of these.
Which carbon?
You think global famine would be a good way to stop it?
While I'm sure there are some great uses for this, it also sounds like a way to serve even more resource-hungry adverts than they can with Flash. Furthermore, if this became widespread in situations not really requiring it, a decent graphics card could essentially become a requirement for web surfing.
That's the one, thanks.
You'd have to make it big enough to operate outdoors without being blown away. Rockets inside sounds like a lawsuit.
It may be standard practise to put it out with an extinguisher. I was reading about a recent test of a much larger rocket (I forget the details), and it was suggested that it was doused with CO2 at the end not because it wouldn't burn out on its own, but to preserve the engine in whatever state it was at the end of the burn to allow more information to be extracted from it.
I should have watched the end of the video first: around the three minutes mark you can clearly see the plume moving from side to side while the machine stays almost still relative to the ground.
It does indeed move incredibly smoothly. How does it steady itself? It most certainly looks top-heavy. Are there separate thrusters keeping it from tipping, or does its main engine have thrust-vectoring?
Then they should be kept to situations where a baton is appropriate. Cops aren't allowed to use batons on someone cuffed on the ground either.
is a perfectly sensible idea; there are some use cases for firearms where fewer deaths and injuries would result if tasers were used instead (obviously, there are situations where they don't work too). The problem occurs when they get used for situations which would previously have been resolved using force less lethal than a taser, or, in a frighteningly large number of cases, situations which would previously have been quite easily resolved with no force at all.
But you can blame them for encouraging their use in situations not actually requiring violence and for covering up evidence that they are potentially lethal. I'd still agree that the larger problem is police forces passively accepting the advice of a corporation. I'm not from the US and don't understand how local police forces fit together there; at what level are decisions on policies and equipment made? It seems that decisions on taser use are made by police forces who are very small next to Taser International and can't really produce their own manuals or do their own research (contrast with US military weapons purchases, where the manufacturer is at the mercy of the customer).
That is surprising, because there should be multiple instances caused by loading my sig in your web browser and by entering the command.
That isn't a scary diagram, it's just a very detailed one. Cairo being capable of writing PNGs doesn't make Xorg more complex.