Anyone could have predicted that Yahoo would back up statements by Jobs concerning DRM. Yahoo, after all, is partnering with Apple to provide some of the IMAP "push" functionality with the new iPhones.
Funny, I've never had issues installing ATI or nVidia drivers under any distro. That's what README files are for, and all of those pages in the support section of the card manufacturer's web site.
Anyone who cannot get an ATI or nVidia driver installed these days really doesn't have any place administering a *nix machine.
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Probably some FBI agent posing as a 13 year old girl with an agenda against SCO.
I'm not even discussing the part about image here, it's all about being practical and realistic. I'm also NOT promoting SUVs over more efficient means of transporting a family.
I grew up in a family of six, and SUVs and minivans did not exist during my childhood. We managed to get around, while my brothers and I were young, in a 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu, then a 1980 Oldsmobile 98 Regency. Large family car, bench seats front and rear. This worked until my brothers and I started grade school, at which point all of the family didn't really fit well in the car. We purchased a full-size 1984 Chevrolet Beauville window van, which was a great improvement over the cars (and actually got better fuel economy than the cars due to a slightly smaller engine and overdrive transmission).
The point is, our parents didn't have the option of SUVs as we know them, or minivans in any sense. It was large sedans, or station wagons until the mid 1980s. Standards of living have changed quite a bit, whether you accept this or not.
What I would like to know is this: What sedan or station wagon is available today that can provide seating for a family of six, and still have a bit of room (reasonable) for storage?
I'll infer from your posts that you are living or grew up somewhere in Europe. I'm in the USA. I'll still look forward to hearing about a station wagon available in Europe that seats six people.
If they go out of business, is that really a bad thing?
Sounds just what we need to get rid of the crap we see on the big screen these days, and get smaller studios competing with original content and better actors.
So, this wouldn't be an acceptable vehicle for someone looking to anything other than stuff small people in the back of a car.
What we're looking for is something you CAN do more than stuff people into and drive around. For a family with four kids, this MPV you're thinking of really doesn't sound like a good choice for this purpose, IMHO.
Figures I'd get someone who trades in probably the most efficient SUV out there for an equally efficient minivan. Damn you, Toyota!;-)
I was thinking more along the lines of a Dodge Durango, Ford Explorer, Chevrolet TrailBlazer style SUV vs most minivans. I shudder to think of the Lincoln Navigator types when they hit the pumps.
Family of three is not one short of a family with four children (six people total). Quite a difference when you're trying to get into a mid-sized sedan.
I have three children, and know getting everyone into a mid-sized car IS possible, but tight for everyone. Does not make for pleasant trips in the car. This is why I do not own a mid-sized car, and instead own a minivan. When child #4 arrives, it will be time to move up to a full-sized van. I only hope I'll be able to buy a diesel powered full-sized van (Dodge Sprinter might do nicely, gets reasonable fuel economy for its size) when the time comes.
I'll believe scientists know something about climate change when they can effectively (and accurately) terraform Venus or Mars.
I agree, let's not accidentally destroy our own living space. The planet has hosted life for quite some time now, with plenty of cycles from hot to cold. If it's inconvenient for us, that's just too damned bad. The system works just fine as it is.
On a planetary scale, even burning fossil fuels is being carbon neutral.
It does sound like he had a bad batch. I have a pile of no-name CFLs in my house, and even one for my front porch light. The front porch light has been on for over four years now (they last longer if you don't turn them off and on all the time, and the 7W bulb that replaced the 100W bulb doesn't make me feel bad about leaving it on 24 hours). I've only had two bulbs last less than two years, and they were in locations that were switched on and off frequently by family members.
Pray tell, who sells a station wagon in the US that could hold four kids and still have a bit of room for storage (like coats, groceries, etc) and gets reasonable fuel economy?
Most people who have a small family and own an SUV would be better off with a more efficient minivan, no doubt. Beyond that, selection of efficient vehicles for a decent sized family is very limited.
I think all it would take is for our government to enforce a very high standard (30+ MPG minimum city rating) for fuel economy on ALL four-wheeled vehicles to make stupid consumers get the hint. That would get the automakers off the hook for building the efficient vehicles.
Hell, I used to own an '84 Chevrolet K5 Blazer 4x4 that got 30MPG highway with the 6.2L V8 diesel (non-turbo, 4-speed automatic w/overdrive, 3.42 final drive ratio). It wasn't quick by any stretch of the imagination, but even with only 120HP it would cruise on the highway at 85mph, no problem. Also did a great job pulling trailers loaded up with junk, just couldn't let it go into overdrive.
We need more vehicles like that, with modern diesel engine technology applied.
Exactly. People might go back to driving sensible vehicles (cars) instead of trucks if they were effectively purpose built for work instead of image.
There are some decent sized turbo four-cylinder diesels out there (Isuzu) in fairly large trucks. a three banger diesel turbo would be sufficient for anything smaller than a full-size truck platform.
We don't need V8 engines making 400 horsepower in a pickup driven every day. Get a little three or four cylinder diesel w/turbo, and it'll provide all the power you need. Obviously, a different transmission will be needed with different gearing all around.
Why don't you check out Japan's increase in greenhouse gasses since they came up with the Kyoto Treaty? Here's a hint, it's way up.
That piece of paper would be worthless to the US, and the rest of the world, because it could not be made to work without crippling the infrastructure of every developed nation on the planet.
They're going to have to have a ship not only capable of making the trip to Mars and back, but also provide the occupants with enough space that they can live comfortably. I would think each person would have to have a decent sized compartment of their own, if only to get away from the rest of the crew when they needed to.
You don't have to move to find a decent job in the States that uses Linux/Unix as a primary OS for servers and desktops.
If you're in the Rolling Meadows, IL area (NW of Chicago), I'm leaving a job where we use RHEL or Solaris as our server OS (some system have to run Windows, but they are few and growing fewer). The opening is on Monster.com somewhere. All development uses as much open source as possible (Eclipse, lots of C and Java, MySQL, etc).
My new job will also be dealing with Linux and open source solutions, and it's closer to home!:-)
At any rate, in 13 years of IT, I've only had one job that was not centered around Linux and/or Solaris, and that was back in '93-95 for a manufacturing facility (Alpha mini-computer and dumb terminals, woo-hoo!). There are plenty of places out there that run on open source, you just have to keep you eyes open.
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Anyone could have predicted that Yahoo would back up statements by Jobs concerning DRM. Yahoo, after all, is partnering with Apple to provide some of the IMAP "push" functionality with the new iPhones.
Considering the state of things in Illinois, it's not as far off as you might think.
THIS... STATE... SUCKS.
Funny, I've never had issues installing ATI or nVidia drivers under any distro. That's what README files are for, and all of those pages in the support section of the card manufacturer's web site.
Anyone who cannot get an ATI or nVidia driver installed these days really doesn't have any place administering a *nix machine.
Probably some FBI agent posing as a 13 year old girl with an agenda against SCO.
Wow... OK, let's reel it back in a bit.
I'm not even discussing the part about image here, it's all about being practical and realistic. I'm also NOT promoting SUVs over more efficient means of transporting a family.
I grew up in a family of six, and SUVs and minivans did not exist during my childhood. We managed to get around, while my brothers and I were young, in a 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu, then a 1980 Oldsmobile 98 Regency. Large family car, bench seats front and rear. This worked until my brothers and I started grade school, at which point all of the family didn't really fit well in the car. We purchased a full-size 1984 Chevrolet Beauville window van, which was a great improvement over the cars (and actually got better fuel economy than the cars due to a slightly smaller engine and overdrive transmission).
The point is, our parents didn't have the option of SUVs as we know them, or minivans in any sense. It was large sedans, or station wagons until the mid 1980s. Standards of living have changed quite a bit, whether you accept this or not.
What I would like to know is this: What sedan or station wagon is available today that can provide seating for a family of six, and still have a bit of room (reasonable) for storage?
I'll infer from your posts that you are living or grew up somewhere in Europe. I'm in the USA. I'll still look forward to hearing about a station wagon available in Europe that seats six people.
If they go out of business, is that really a bad thing?
Sounds just what we need to get rid of the crap we see on the big screen these days, and get smaller studios competing with original content and better actors.
So, this wouldn't be an acceptable vehicle for someone looking to anything other than stuff small people in the back of a car.
What we're looking for is something you CAN do more than stuff people into and drive around. For a family with four kids, this MPV you're thinking of really doesn't sound like a good choice for this purpose, IMHO.
Eh? What does a trip to Wal-Mart have to do with anything? At some point, a family of six will all be in the same vehicle.
Do these MPVs, with retractable seats, have room for anything else once the family is buckled in?
We're talking about a family with four kids, so that implies seating for six.
I agree, four adults plus baggage isn't going to be a big deal for most sedans or wagons these days.
If I still had that truck, I would absolutely be burning veggie oil or biodiesel, no doubt about it.
:-(
I'd love to get another diesel truck, but my garage is too low to work on anything larger than a passenger car.
Figures I'd get someone who trades in probably the most efficient SUV out there for an equally efficient minivan. Damn you, Toyota! ;-)
I was thinking more along the lines of a Dodge Durango, Ford Explorer, Chevrolet TrailBlazer style SUV vs most minivans. I shudder to think of the Lincoln Navigator types when they hit the pumps.
Family of three is not one short of a family with four children (six people total). Quite a difference when you're trying to get into a mid-sized sedan.
I have three children, and know getting everyone into a mid-sized car IS possible, but tight for everyone. Does not make for pleasant trips in the car. This is why I do not own a mid-sized car, and instead own a minivan. When child #4 arrives, it will be time to move up to a full-sized van. I only hope I'll be able to buy a diesel powered full-sized van (Dodge Sprinter might do nicely, gets reasonable fuel economy for its size) when the time comes.
I'll believe scientists know something about climate change when they can effectively (and accurately) terraform Venus or Mars.
I agree, let's not accidentally destroy our own living space. The planet has hosted life for quite some time now, with plenty of cycles from hot to cold. If it's inconvenient for us, that's just too damned bad. The system works just fine as it is.
On a planetary scale, even burning fossil fuels is being carbon neutral.
It does sound like he had a bad batch. I have a pile of no-name CFLs in my house, and even one for my front porch light. The front porch light has been on for over four years now (they last longer if you don't turn them off and on all the time, and the 7W bulb that replaced the 100W bulb doesn't make me feel bad about leaving it on 24 hours). I've only had two bulbs last less than two years, and they were in locations that were switched on and off frequently by family members.
CFLs are the way to go, 100%.
Pray tell, who sells a station wagon in the US that could hold four kids and still have a bit of room for storage (like coats, groceries, etc) and gets reasonable fuel economy?
Most people who have a small family and own an SUV would be better off with a more efficient minivan, no doubt. Beyond that, selection of efficient vehicles for a decent sized family is very limited.
I think all it would take is for our government to enforce a very high standard (30+ MPG minimum city rating) for fuel economy on ALL four-wheeled vehicles to make stupid consumers get the hint. That would get the automakers off the hook for building the efficient vehicles.
Hell, I used to own an '84 Chevrolet K5 Blazer 4x4 that got 30MPG highway with the 6.2L V8 diesel (non-turbo, 4-speed automatic w/overdrive, 3.42 final drive ratio). It wasn't quick by any stretch of the imagination, but even with only 120HP it would cruise on the highway at 85mph, no problem. Also did a great job pulling trailers loaded up with junk, just couldn't let it go into overdrive.
We need more vehicles like that, with modern diesel engine technology applied.
Exactly. People might go back to driving sensible vehicles (cars) instead of trucks if they were effectively purpose built for work instead of image.
There are some decent sized turbo four-cylinder diesels out there (Isuzu) in fairly large trucks. a three banger diesel turbo would be sufficient for anything smaller than a full-size truck platform.
We don't need V8 engines making 400 horsepower in a pickup driven every day. Get a little three or four cylinder diesel w/turbo, and it'll provide all the power you need. Obviously, a different transmission will be needed with different gearing all around.
Why don't you check out Japan's increase in greenhouse gasses since they came up with the Kyoto Treaty? Here's a hint, it's way up.
That piece of paper would be worthless to the US, and the rest of the world, because it could not be made to work without crippling the infrastructure of every developed nation on the planet.
Next!
They're going to have to have a ship not only capable of making the trip to Mars and back, but also provide the occupants with enough space that they can live comfortably. I would think each person would have to have a decent sized compartment of their own, if only to get away from the rest of the crew when they needed to.
Go big or stay home.
Oh, dear god. That's fucking hilarious! :-)
I had no idea Ferengi read Slashdot!
You don't have to move to find a decent job in the States that uses Linux/Unix as a primary OS for servers and desktops.
:-)
If you're in the Rolling Meadows, IL area (NW of Chicago), I'm leaving a job where we use RHEL or Solaris as our server OS (some system have to run Windows, but they are few and growing fewer). The opening is on Monster.com somewhere. All development uses as much open source as possible (Eclipse, lots of C and Java, MySQL, etc).
My new job will also be dealing with Linux and open source solutions, and it's closer to home!
At any rate, in 13 years of IT, I've only had one job that was not centered around Linux and/or Solaris, and that was back in '93-95 for a manufacturing facility (Alpha mini-computer and dumb terminals, woo-hoo!). There are plenty of places out there that run on open source, you just have to keep you eyes open.
Reasonable doubt is all a jury needs.
I just hit http://www.gmail.com/ and was able to get an account. Had to send myself an invite to my mobile phone, but it worked.