I watched an early ultralight aircraft take a flight in a rural area of Victoria, Australia. It returned with bullett holes in both layers of one wing and a chip out of a propellor.
I suppose that could be a problem in places which are inherently very wet. Over here in Australia it is the once a year rain that you have to worry about and your drains can easily be dry for two weeks at a stretch.
Actually porous surfaces are a great idea. They are used on highways where you want rain water to run off and you don't want it to wash all the way to the side of the road. I you build your city out of that stuff and provide huge monsoon style drains then the water won't hang around as much.
Shows web pages without a URL field. My wife has a macbook and she frequently asks me for help, like "what is this web page for" or something but without ther URL field it is hard to know how she got there.
Singapore doesn't have enough elevation for water storage to be really practical. Its basically just a sand bank. So yes they get the water but there is no space downstream for a dam or treatment plant. I suppose they could do it with reclaimed land but that is really expensive to do. Maybe they should build a giant version of those bladders which are used to transport fresh transport water to islands. It would float in sea water okay.
The one vegetable that we simply cannot get in quality is the tomato
Thats interesting. I have seen tomato plantations in the Cameron highlands, but given the small land area there I assume the price they get must be high.
Just saying that it puts a dent in their political independance. Finding ways to grow food in a high density environment helps, but water is an issue as well. I mentioned it because the water issue seems fresh in the minds of Singaporian people I have spoken to.
But there are so many working distributions out there right now, why start from scratch with a new one. For example there are about three linux based distros for the openmoko, all with custom UI front ends.
Just take care as she gets older. Minecraft has a chat feature which will expose the kids to all sorts of language as soon as they visit a public server. I run a private server and initially it was open. My son (ten years old) invited his friends then friends of friends, their older brothers... It turned into Lord Of The Flies at an exponential rate. So now we whitelist it. My son asked me casually if he could whitelist users if they spoke to him on skype first. I said when did you get skype? He says oh I must have installed it at some point. I can see how Gene Leonhardt went through the roof the way he did. This stuff tends to get out of control fast. So I keep my minecraft chat logs (very illuminating. These kids are a lot more mature and open with each other than with their parents.) I have a cron job to backup the world data so if anybody blows stuff up, I can restore the whole world.
The problem for me is that Unity uses Gnome Shell. I am working on a java app which I start from a terminal. When the app starts, the gnome shell puts it in a different workspace from the shell. I debug by watching the UI and the terminal at the same time. Needless to say this pisses me off greatly. All I want is an option in unity to turn workspaces off completely. Compared to workspaces in (say) fvwm they are completely useless anyway.
I think its apalling that we do that. Its a horribly expensive way to work in hardware but we do it because we can't be stuffed to deal with operating systems. Most likely a single box and OS instance could do it for you if it was set up correctly.
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Hamas may be Muslim but they are not The Muslims.
Then we are screwed.
Actual living aliens would be a little to big a story for NASA to be promoting it in this way.
And farmers.
I watched an early ultralight aircraft take a flight in a rural area of Victoria, Australia. It returned with bullett holes in both layers of one wing and a chip out of a propellor.
I wish I could be hounded by recruiters
Thank you for starting the obligatory unity flame thread.
I suppose that could be a problem in places which are inherently very wet. Over here in Australia it is the once a year rain that you have to worry about and your drains can easily be dry for two weeks at a stretch.
Actually porous surfaces are a great idea. They are used on highways where you want rain water to run off and you don't want it to wash all the way to the side of the road. I you build your city out of that stuff and provide huge monsoon style drains then the water won't hang around as much.
Okay thats funny
Shows web pages without a URL field. My wife has a macbook and she frequently asks me for help, like "what is this web page for" or something but without ther URL field it is hard to know how she got there.
Safari does this now and I find it very frustrating.
Singapore doesn't have enough elevation for water storage to be really practical. Its basically just a sand bank. So yes they get the water but there is no space downstream for a dam or treatment plant. I suppose they could do it with reclaimed land but that is really expensive to do. Maybe they should build a giant version of those bladders which are used to transport fresh transport water to islands. It would float in sea water okay.
The one vegetable that we simply cannot get in quality is the tomato
Thats interesting. I have seen tomato plantations in the Cameron highlands, but given the small land area there I assume the price they get must be high.
Just saying that it puts a dent in their political independance. Finding ways to grow food in a high density environment helps, but water is an issue as well. I mentioned it because the water issue seems fresh in the minds of Singaporian people I have spoken to.
Of course a lot of housing in Singapore would be happy with a bit of shade.
And if they can find a good, cheap way to desalinate sea water they could almost declare themselves functionally independant from Malaysia.
But there are so many working distributions out there right now, why start from scratch with a new one. For example there are about three linux based distros for the openmoko, all with custom UI front ends.
Just take care as she gets older. Minecraft has a chat feature which will expose the kids to all sorts of language as soon as they visit a public server. I run a private server and initially it was open. My son (ten years old) invited his friends then friends of friends, their older brothers... It turned into Lord Of The Flies at an exponential rate. So now we whitelist it. My son asked me casually if he could whitelist users if they spoke to him on skype first. I said when did you get skype? He says oh I must have installed it at some point. I can see how Gene Leonhardt went through the roof the way he did. This stuff tends to get out of control fast. So I keep my minecraft chat logs (very illuminating. These kids are a lot more mature and open with each other than with their parents.) I have a cron job to backup the world data so if anybody blows stuff up, I can restore the whole world.
I started with TMW
Never heard of that one.
The problem for me is that Unity uses Gnome Shell. I am working on a java app which I start from a terminal. When the app starts, the gnome shell puts it in a different workspace from the shell. I debug by watching the UI and the terminal at the same time. Needless to say this pisses me off greatly. All I want is an option in unity to turn workspaces off completely. Compared to workspaces in (say) fvwm they are completely useless anyway.
The only time my son seems to focus is when he is in minecraft and that is because he likes minecraft.
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Users are the worst security threat around.
I think its apalling that we do that. Its a horribly expensive way to work in hardware but we do it because we can't be stuffed to deal with operating systems. Most likely a single box and OS instance could do it for you if it was set up correctly.