Long distance on my land line is nearly free already. I pay just 25 cents per call to anywhere in Canada and the US -- and I can stay on the line as long as I want. In fact, the cost is so low that I'm not actually interested in VOIP for continental calls...
Yes, but how precisely do we know the value of Planck's constant compared to a relatively large volume of water at a specific temperature? Planck's constant would indeed be very elegant, but would it be as accurate?
Apple is a far better company to watch for change. They were the first to manufacture a useful PC (the Apple II). They were the first to manufacture a PC with a GUI (the Mac). They were the first to make PCs with a network connection by default (the Mac). They were the first PC company to move to RISC CPUs (the PowerPC). They were the first to remove the floppy. They were the first PC company to ship and OSS-based OS on all their machines.
While IBM may have more clout in the business world, it's Apple that sets trends. Watch what Apple does.
The light is still very useful. You can seem them up to 50 miles away, or would, if the Earth didn't curve. The Oregon coast is relatively smooth, but that is not the case in BC, where passage ways are often narrow. In the dark, when you can't see where you are, a lighthouse can be an extremely useful bearing. It can be hard to know the exact direction of a fog horn, and you don't have time to listen when your boat is being tossed up and down by waves that can reach over 100 feet in severe weather.
Very true. Not everyone stays calm when they get lost. Hearing a human voice on a radio can be very reassuring. Also, lighthouse keepers tend to be familiar with the local topography and can help a lost boater reorient him or herself.
Actually, all of what he said is correct. I've been on two lighthouses. My dad is a lighthouse keepers, so is an uncle, and two others have been the past. What is said is very much true, and very much correct.
I would agree with you, except that they're very much not automated on the west coast of Canada. Yes, they go on automatically and whatnot, but my dad and uncle are lighthouse keepers and I have two other uncles who have done so in the past. The east coast is fairly gentle and access to the lighthouses there is relatively easy. The west is different. Some have loading winches/cranes, while other are maintained entirely via helicopter access because the rocks are too trecherous. When you have 100 foot waves and 70 knot winds, you need someone there who can fix things NOW, not a week later when the weather subsides and you can fly in.
A second reason lighthouses continue to be staffed are for weather reports. Thirdly, many times people simply get lost, and it helps to have people near by who have maps and know the area to help them locate themselves (with radio). Forthly, many places along the BC coast exist in radio shadows. Mountains jutt from the ocean floor straight up. The nearest coast guard base is often out of radio contact. Lastly, the lighthouse keepers keep a watchful eye on the coast. As most of the BC coast is uninhabited (because it's so inaccessible), having lighthouse keepers there helps maintain Canadian sovereignty over its land.
Many hardware ACPI implementations behave differently depending on the operating system being run. However, most only bother to support Microsoft operating systems, so Linux has to fake itself as Windows to enable ACPI.
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>Ahh, what the hell...
>>> I'd have preferred r-theta polar coordinates.
>> That, my friend, is a rad idea!
>Now you're just going off on a tangent.
Yep, I'm just 57.3 degrees of funny!
But only for large values of r ;)
That, my friend, is a rad idea!
Damn right ;)
Better yet, someone should implement a boob-bit for TCP/IP. That way, I could sniff only the network packets I really want.
Long distance on my land line is nearly free already. I pay just 25 cents per call to anywhere in Canada and the US -- and I can stay on the line as long as I want. In fact, the cost is so low that I'm not actually interested in VOIP for continental calls...
Perfect! That'll match great with this new fangled Windows XP I just installed! Thanks, son!
Yes, but how precisely do we know the value of Planck's constant compared to a relatively large volume of water at a specific temperature? Planck's constant would indeed be very elegant, but would it be as accurate?
So another large PC manufacturer remains with dellinquent chips. Wait a minute -- that kinda makes sense.
Apple is a far better company to watch for change. They were the first to manufacture a useful PC (the Apple II). They were the first to manufacture a PC with a GUI (the Mac). They were the first to make PCs with a network connection by default (the Mac). They were the first PC company to move to RISC CPUs (the PowerPC). They were the first to remove the floppy. They were the first PC company to ship and OSS-based OS on all their machines.
While IBM may have more clout in the business world, it's Apple that sets trends. Watch what Apple does.
Can someone tell me why that's funny? I don't get it.
If they had done this with BSD, you know there would have been a devil in the details.
The light is still very useful. You can seem them up to 50 miles away, or would, if the Earth didn't curve. The Oregon coast is relatively smooth, but that is not the case in BC, where passage ways are often narrow. In the dark, when you can't see where you are, a lighthouse can be an extremely useful bearing. It can be hard to know the exact direction of a fog horn, and you don't have time to listen when your boat is being tossed up and down by waves that can reach over 100 feet in severe weather.
Very true. Not everyone stays calm when they get lost. Hearing a human voice on a radio can be very reassuring. Also, lighthouse keepers tend to be familiar with the local topography and can help a lost boater reorient him or herself.
Actually, all of what he said is correct. I've been on two lighthouses. My dad is a lighthouse keepers, so is an uncle, and two others have been the past. What is said is very much true, and very much correct.
I would agree with you, except that they're very much not automated on the west coast of Canada. Yes, they go on automatically and whatnot, but my dad and uncle are lighthouse keepers and I have two other uncles who have done so in the past. The east coast is fairly gentle and access to the lighthouses there is relatively easy. The west is different. Some have loading winches/cranes, while other are maintained entirely via helicopter access because the rocks are too trecherous. When you have 100 foot waves and 70 knot winds, you need someone there who can fix things NOW, not a week later when the weather subsides and you can fly in.
A second reason lighthouses continue to be staffed are for weather reports. Thirdly, many times people simply get lost, and it helps to have people near by who have maps and know the area to help them locate themselves (with radio). Forthly, many places along the BC coast exist in radio shadows. Mountains jutt from the ocean floor straight up. The nearest coast guard base is often out of radio contact. Lastly, the lighthouse keepers keep a watchful eye on the coast. As most of the BC coast is uninhabited (because it's so inaccessible), having lighthouse keepers there helps maintain Canadian sovereignty over its land.
I, quite frankly, don't see how this will mesh with existing topologies.
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I have a feeling that'll be the approximate quality of the content, too!
Nice forking spoonerism!
Or they could simply fork an open-source database such as PostgreSQL.
No one can be hurt from a fork.
Wrong.
Many hardware ACPI implementations behave differently depending on the operating system being run. However, most only bother to support Microsoft operating systems, so Linux has to fake itself as Windows to enable ACPI.
If only that were the truth... lol
It's probably the only thing keeping the economy alive there now though.
They already teach that in highschools in BC though. I used to live there... a quarter of my school was growing it.
You fool! That was in months Fahrenheit! They should build it in Canada where it would only take 18 months!