I just installed this on my desktop and was looking to try it on my Y410p. I have been worried about Optimus and was hoping it would be the easy setup I've seen in a few other distros now, just install the Nvidia drivers and switch when needed.
Exactly. I think most states now subscribe to a fixed 26 weeks of unemployment and then you are cut off, uncounted, and forgotten. What is worse is when they disqualify a person for benefits due to any number of stupid reasons that result in that person never being counted.
That was my problem when I lost my last job. I spent 9 years at a company, steadily moving up, and then got cut in the unexpectedly. I knew my job, but had focused on job specific certs since the employer paid.
When I hit the streets, the interviews I did get ended up with, so, do you have Security+, do you have ITIL?, do you have Network+.
It didn't help that I was job hunting in a market that almost demanded a clearance I did not have and nobody wanted to pay for.
It took 6 months and 350 mi move to get back to work.
I'm sorry, but we also have to remember that headed into this market, your average student will only hear negatives about the long term prospects. CS is a huge field. On the hardware side we have large corporations bringing in H1b workers to replace Americans, on the coding side they don't bother buying them a plane ticket.
College is expensive and why invest in poor job prospects with limited to no security?
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The decline in the desktop market is just that, a decline in the market. What we had was 20 years of adoption that has since leveled off, everyone who wants one now has one. We have also reached a point at which CPU performance has so far exceeded the need of the average (non gamer, I want to pay my bills and play this here malware infested flash game, and then look up some porn) user that a Core 2 Duo machine from 6 or 7 years ago is still good enough. Typically we would call it a mature market, similar to car, large appliance, or furniture sales. There is some growth, profit to be made, but by and large it is a 2% or 3% per year growth market, not a 10% or 20%.
Wrong. The reality is that Walmart being so large commands massive discounts from suppliers to the point of running them out of business. These savings on inventory coupled with a massive and efficient logistics operation allow Walmart to sell at prices that your local and regional retailers can not match.
Now, Walmart also makes sweetheart deals with local governments and fails to provide either full time employment or benefits. This in turn means that as local or regional retailers fail the community generates less tax revenue. The social services budgets also go up as medicaid enrollments go up, and food pantry and aid enrollments go up. A lot of this is caused by Walmart employees not being paid enough or given enough hours to qualify for benefits. Walmart also has a brochure that explains how to enroll in those programs. I have family in NY (Upstate that work for them). They hire too many people, rotate them so that no one gets over 36 hours a weeks, and pay them poorly.
My problem isn't the method, but the route. The likelyhood of leakage is to high to allow it to follow rivers that also act as major sources of drinking water for fairly large cities.
I have a few eco-drive watches from Citizen that have built in photovoltaic cells.
Leave them in the sun for 8 hours and they are good for 6 months to a year.
You said it there and I can site an interesting example. They pay insurance premiums...and so do you. Whose pocket will the cost of replacing that 10 million dollar house come out of? Everyone's. Look at FL. Living in VA I pay about $600 a year. In FL it was $3000 for a smaller less expensive house in the middle of the state.
When that expensive beach front plot gets wiped, good luck because if the insurance company is still solvent you won't be getting coverage within a 100 miles of shore
I love my car to, and can't afford an electric, but when I bought it in Jan. I made sure to get one that 40+ in the city. Drives the wife nuts that I only fill up every two weeks.
It is little things that can at least make a difference now, being more efficient not only means polluting less but also saving money. With no change to lifestyle we cut 200 Kwh off the electric bill. That is not a small number in terms of dollars saved over the course of a year, combined with an efficient car it is even more savings. On top of that it is a lot of crap I did not dump into the air and water.
On another note we will probably run out of safe clean water long before we have to worry about global sea levels.
The simple truth is that we are and have always been corrupt. The difference is that now everyone knows about it.
For examples see the Grant Administration. The building of the Panama Canal.
Cuba pre Castro
Or the recent Supreme Court rulings.
Or lobbyists.
Or the period of 1865 and after. Not that it was better before that I just don't know as much regarding that time period.
We have made attempts to clean up but never seem to address the real issues which are inherent in the style of government we use (Republic).
I can vote but our two party system is a mess. Look at the VA governor's race. A corrupt radical nut job or a career politician who is corrupt as hell. No other choice.
Unless we fire the lot of them and start over, oh and get control of the damned debt we are screwed.
A few years ago I traded in a perfectly reliable Hyundai Elantra that got 24 MPG and bought a Toyota Yaris. The Yaris at half the size and weight got 29MPG, big mistake. Currently I have a Honda Insight, the little display is always off by 2MPG, if it says 44 MPG at the end of a tank I got 42, if it says 48 than I really got 46.
Although my wife has the Hyundai Tuscon and it does get 30MPG on the highway and sometime 32 which is what the sticker said.
Yes, and that was something that was supposed to be avoided by something that eludes me now. I only remember it was about equal access, odd how we forget these things when they no longer apply.
I think more to the point, if a business is built using tax incentives, government granted right of ways, and the grant of monopoly, then it should be beholden to the tax payer as it is more or less a branch of the government at that point.
We could try an experiment, go found a CLEC and build your own network without any of the incentives, right of ways, or guaranteed income that the ILEC's have and come back and let us know when you make a profit....oh, sorry, we tried this in '96-'01 following the telecommunications act. I think XO and Cavalier are still in business but Windstream, Teligent, and the rest went bye bye.
Also neither Verizon or at&t pay taxes, in fact they are some of the biggest beneficiaries of poorly run programs like the USF.
I'm only a conservative (I've moved from the left to the middle) when it comes to my money and the Constitution, and what I see here is a failure to get a return on my investment. So, the ILEC's need to be held accountable, as do the cable companies. I want a level playing field, real competition, open networks, or these buggers to start paying taxes. Once they start paying taxes and building networks without our help then they can use them however they wish.
No, that is how Democracy is broken.
The Court's decision that a corp is a person aside, our legislature is supposed to represent and protect the constituents. Sadly, I believe most people no longer care. The attitude has become one of they are all crooks so why bother.
A fast food tax is already being examined and so is one on "unhealthy" snack foods. The only problem is that the over subsidized corn sweetener industry opposes it and has a lot of money.
I would support a gas tax, or better yet, the closing of the loophole that allows people to buy those damned SUV's that I can't see through when trying to turn, back out of a parking space, or blind me when they come up behind my car.
ehhh, just google it. Cattle ranching in Brazil turned into one of the biggest causes for deforestation in the Amazon. Cattle themselves are also one of the biggest contributors to green house gas emissions. Seems they put out a crap load of methane, not to mention the oil used to grow the massive amounts of food used to feed them, burned to move that food to them, the additional amount burned to move the cows to the feed lots, then the additional additional fuel used to move the beef to the stores.
There is almost as much acreage under tillage to feed cows as there is to feed people.
Chickens are on the list too at something like 1.3 billion in the US for meat, not just for egg production. I have to find that link.
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I just installed this on my desktop and was looking to try it on my Y410p. I have been worried about Optimus and was hoping it would be the easy setup I've seen in a few other distros now, just install the Nvidia drivers and switch when needed.
I use Opera. It actually works fairly well. On lower power systems it is faster than Firefox or Chrome.
Exactly. I think most states now subscribe to a fixed 26 weeks of unemployment and then you are cut off, uncounted, and forgotten. What is worse is when they disqualify a person for benefits due to any number of stupid reasons that result in that person never being counted.
That was my problem when I lost my last job. I spent 9 years at a company, steadily moving up, and then got cut in the unexpectedly. I knew my job, but had focused on job specific certs since the employer paid. When I hit the streets, the interviews I did get ended up with, so, do you have Security+, do you have ITIL?, do you have Network+. It didn't help that I was job hunting in a market that almost demanded a clearance I did not have and nobody wanted to pay for. It took 6 months and 350 mi move to get back to work.
I'm sorry, but we also have to remember that headed into this market, your average student will only hear negatives about the long term prospects. CS is a huge field. On the hardware side we have large corporations bringing in H1b workers to replace Americans, on the coding side they don't bother buying them a plane ticket. College is expensive and why invest in poor job prospects with limited to no security?
Quorn, it isn't bad.
The decline in the desktop market is just that, a decline in the market. What we had was 20 years of adoption that has since leveled off, everyone who wants one now has one. We have also reached a point at which CPU performance has so far exceeded the need of the average (non gamer, I want to pay my bills and play this here malware infested flash game, and then look up some porn) user that a Core 2 Duo machine from 6 or 7 years ago is still good enough. Typically we would call it a mature market, similar to car, large appliance, or furniture sales. There is some growth, profit to be made, but by and large it is a 2% or 3% per year growth market, not a 10% or 20%.
Wrong. The reality is that Walmart being so large commands massive discounts from suppliers to the point of running them out of business. These savings on inventory coupled with a massive and efficient logistics operation allow Walmart to sell at prices that your local and regional retailers can not match. Now, Walmart also makes sweetheart deals with local governments and fails to provide either full time employment or benefits. This in turn means that as local or regional retailers fail the community generates less tax revenue. The social services budgets also go up as medicaid enrollments go up, and food pantry and aid enrollments go up. A lot of this is caused by Walmart employees not being paid enough or given enough hours to qualify for benefits. Walmart also has a brochure that explains how to enroll in those programs. I have family in NY (Upstate that work for them). They hire too many people, rotate them so that no one gets over 36 hours a weeks, and pay them poorly.
My problem isn't the method, but the route. The likelyhood of leakage is to high to allow it to follow rivers that also act as major sources of drinking water for fairly large cities.
As a lifelong Democrat I think you pitched the number about 10% too low.
I have a few eco-drive watches from Citizen that have built in photovoltaic cells. Leave them in the sun for 8 hours and they are good for 6 months to a year.
on how far out he was. Twilight can leave a person fully aware but unable to move at times.
or we could use that tool we use to slaughter cows. It is "claimed" to be painless.
You said it there and I can site an interesting example. They pay insurance premiums...and so do you. Whose pocket will the cost of replacing that 10 million dollar house come out of? Everyone's. Look at FL. Living in VA I pay about $600 a year. In FL it was $3000 for a smaller less expensive house in the middle of the state. When that expensive beach front plot gets wiped, good luck because if the insurance company is still solvent you won't be getting coverage within a 100 miles of shore I love my car to, and can't afford an electric, but when I bought it in Jan. I made sure to get one that 40+ in the city. Drives the wife nuts that I only fill up every two weeks. It is little things that can at least make a difference now, being more efficient not only means polluting less but also saving money. With no change to lifestyle we cut 200 Kwh off the electric bill. That is not a small number in terms of dollars saved over the course of a year, combined with an efficient car it is even more savings. On top of that it is a lot of crap I did not dump into the air and water. On another note we will probably run out of safe clean water long before we have to worry about global sea levels.
The simple truth is that we are and have always been corrupt. The difference is that now everyone knows about it. For examples see the Grant Administration. The building of the Panama Canal. Cuba pre Castro Or the recent Supreme Court rulings. Or lobbyists. Or the period of 1865 and after. Not that it was better before that I just don't know as much regarding that time period. We have made attempts to clean up but never seem to address the real issues which are inherent in the style of government we use (Republic). I can vote but our two party system is a mess. Look at the VA governor's race. A corrupt radical nut job or a career politician who is corrupt as hell. No other choice. Unless we fire the lot of them and start over, oh and get control of the damned debt we are screwed.
However, even under Windows it is a pain to get it to use the right graphics card. The HD3000 in mine can barely push HD video.
A few years ago I traded in a perfectly reliable Hyundai Elantra that got 24 MPG and bought a Toyota Yaris. The Yaris at half the size and weight got 29MPG, big mistake. Currently I have a Honda Insight, the little display is always off by 2MPG, if it says 44 MPG at the end of a tank I got 42, if it says 48 than I really got 46. Although my wife has the Hyundai Tuscon and it does get 30MPG on the highway and sometime 32 which is what the sticker said.
1 Barrel of Crude oil is 42 Gallons at a cost of ~$105.00 per barrel. 1 Barrel of Corn oil at 42 Gallons currently costs $464.92 retail.* I don't have an opinion either way, but 10:1 can't be correct except in possibly talking about an energy economy. * Cost based on the current listing of 1 barrell of Mazola Corn oil as found at Costco. http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?prodid=10250822&whse=BD_823&topnav=bd&cat=10702&hierPath=10035*&lang=en-US
Yes, and that was something that was supposed to be avoided by something that eludes me now. I only remember it was about equal access, odd how we forget these things when they no longer apply.
That would be in every state.
I think more to the point, if a business is built using tax incentives, government granted right of ways, and the grant of monopoly, then it should be beholden to the tax payer as it is more or less a branch of the government at that point. We could try an experiment, go found a CLEC and build your own network without any of the incentives, right of ways, or guaranteed income that the ILEC's have and come back and let us know when you make a profit....oh, sorry, we tried this in '96-'01 following the telecommunications act. I think XO and Cavalier are still in business but Windstream, Teligent, and the rest went bye bye. Also neither Verizon or at&t pay taxes, in fact they are some of the biggest beneficiaries of poorly run programs like the USF. I'm only a conservative (I've moved from the left to the middle) when it comes to my money and the Constitution, and what I see here is a failure to get a return on my investment. So, the ILEC's need to be held accountable, as do the cable companies. I want a level playing field, real competition, open networks, or these buggers to start paying taxes. Once they start paying taxes and building networks without our help then they can use them however they wish.
No, that is how Democracy is broken. The Court's decision that a corp is a person aside, our legislature is supposed to represent and protect the constituents. Sadly, I believe most people no longer care. The attitude has become one of they are all crooks so why bother.
A fast food tax is already being examined and so is one on "unhealthy" snack foods. The only problem is that the over subsidized corn sweetener industry opposes it and has a lot of money. I would support a gas tax, or better yet, the closing of the loophole that allows people to buy those damned SUV's that I can't see through when trying to turn, back out of a parking space, or blind me when they come up behind my car.
I'm still not buying any of them.
ehhh, just google it. Cattle ranching in Brazil turned into one of the biggest causes for deforestation in the Amazon. Cattle themselves are also one of the biggest contributors to green house gas emissions. Seems they put out a crap load of methane, not to mention the oil used to grow the massive amounts of food used to feed them, burned to move that food to them, the additional amount burned to move the cows to the feed lots, then the additional additional fuel used to move the beef to the stores. There is almost as much acreage under tillage to feed cows as there is to feed people. Chickens are on the list too at something like 1.3 billion in the US for meat, not just for egg production. I have to find that link.