That'd be the number one reason that 90% of my Colorado to Iowa trips go via I-80 and NE. It's not that it financially breaks me, it's just the irritation of having tolls on a rural western freeway that has few, if any, high speed alternates. That and Nebraska has cheaper gas, cheaper hotels, lower grades (read: virtually none), and 80 is every bit as good if not better than 35. Oh, and a higher speed limit.
At least 35's tolls are reasonable. 2.35 for something like 40 miles. As for 470... The 27 miles between the southern I-25 junction and the airport has a toll of $7.25 each way. F@#$ing ridiculous. I never take it unless I'm absolutely sure that I'll miss my flight if I don't.
You must be confusing I70 with I35 since I35 doesn't go to Colorado through Kansas.
If you're so destitute that $2.15 from KC to Topeka will break you, you can take Highway 24 and get back on I70 at Topeka.
It is maddening to get e-mails with a Word document attached that is just text. I've never understood why that can't just be put in the e-mail. Or when I get something as a document that I'm not editing or to edit, why not a PDF.
You're right. I use Word/Google Docs/OpenOffice out of necessity because none of my collaborators use Latex, or quite possibly don't even know what it is.
And there is no excuse for farmers anymore, one of my family members is an 'agricultural engineer'. These days farms are industrialized and literally work 24/7 to work their huge lands with as little (very expensive) machinery as possible (having 3-shifts of work on 1 machine).
Yes, clearly, my father that runs a small dairy farm is fully industrialized and works 3-shifts by himself daily at the age of 69. C'mon, get out and meet some real farmers in person, it's not what you described at all, at least not in my family or around here where I live now.
No it makes no sense for those of us that can't rearrange our workschedule to be able to take advantage of an extra hour of daylight after work to do yardwork. Heaven forbid we use the time to be outside when it's daylight!
And no, I don't want to hear the common "Get up earlier". C'mon, that's a tired old complaint. I have to get the mower out, and other yard equipment, do the chores, then put it away. After that I'm free to get cleaned up and enjoy my evening. If I try to cram that into one extra hour in the morning before work, fuggetaboutit.
Now if you want to discuss ways of making our workday start at 7 and not 8 on a nearly universal basis so we can conduct business in a normal fashion and get home at 4, then I'm all for it!
Over-the-air DTV works terribly. First off, with analog, I could point my antenna in just about any direction and get SOME kind of fuzzy picture that was watchable. In other words, analog was easier to tune in,
With digital the tuning is much more difficult. I have to align the antenna perfectly along the 55th meridian, check the stars, adjust the horizontal azimuth, and get down on my knees and pray the signal is strong enough to not freeze the video (extremely annoying). And if there's a Tropical Storm blowing by? Forget it. The rain attenuates and destroys the signal. Yesterday I was unable to get my normal programming due to Hanna's presence... just a bunch of pixelated images instead of clear video.
DTV also provides fewer stations than analog.
In the Lancaster PA region analog reception provides these stations: 2,3,6,8,10,11,12,13,15,17,21,27,29,33,35,43,45,48,49,51,57,61,65,69 from various sources like my hometown, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. Switching over to my DTV tuner trims that number down to just a few: 8, 15, 43, 49, 57, 61. Twenty-four downto just six.
Pathetic.
The FCC's discontinuation of analog in favor of digital broadcasting is yet another government-sponsored frakup. Good thing I've learned how to stream TV shows off the net. Thanks to DTV, I no longer can watch ABC or CBS stations. Channels 21 and 27 have disappeared off my DTV dial! What a brilliant job Mr. FCC Engineer. I now have LESS choices to watch, not more./steps off soapbox
How is this interesting? It's not even accurate for everyone.
I get more digital channels with digital TV than I do with analog. Some are duplicates of the analog but I get three PBS channels and two unique sub-channels from our local CBS and NBC associates.
With analog I get 11, 13, 27, 49.
With digital I get 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 13.1, 13.2, 27.1, 27.2, 49.1, and 49.2. According to my math, that's more channels, not less. Not to mention I didn't have to do anything with my outdoor antenna. So I would have to argue that it depends on the location. It isn't like this for everyone out there.
I've been to Peru 2X very recently. My experience arriving was much like yours in China. Take 1/2 the form, stamp and say "Welcome".
Getting BACK into my own country OTOH. Uggh, the first time I got the third degree because I listed my occupation as Graduate Research Assistant, I'm a Ph.D. student and that's how the U classifies me. Customs officer had "never heard of such a job". I spent wayyy to much time there telling him about potato diseases, which I'm sure enlightened him so.
The second time through I just put "Student" as occupation. Still got the 20 questions unlike Peru, but at least it was more pleasant and less suspicious.
Whaaa? So the Constitution doesn't apply to me as a US citizen is what you're saying? I thought the constitution applied to citizens, not a place.
So apparetly it only applies to people on US soil? With the way things have gone lately I guess it shouldn't surprise me, but it does, or more disappoints me.
That said, I've never had issues coming back through customs. They've never even glanced at my laptop let alone asked to handle it.
The Southern Corn Leaf Blight epidemic of 1970 would be a better analogy and illustrate your point much more eloquently. The Great Irish Potato famine wasn't caused by lack of food. There was food, it was social and political issues that forced the peasants to rely on potatoes, which failed, while in fact there was adequate food that they produced. It just was sold to pay the landowners bills.
The SCLB epidemic was a result of using the same genetics in the vast majority of corn planted in the US.
There are lots of window managers but only a few desktop environments.
I believe that's what this article was about, desktop environments, not window managers.
Can't argue with the second point much, for me the Gimp cuts it, but on the first for music players ever heard of Amarok? C'mon, you're not being realistic in the least here. Just posting flamebait.
You can set the file types that are recognized by the player, I did for my Cowon D2 in Amarok. Transcodes from flac to ogg upon transferring to the device.
Oh, wait, never mind, you use some OTHER media program on Linux?
I've yet to detect any difference in battery usage on my D2 from MP3 vs. Ogg.
FLAC definitely does shorten the battery life due to increased processor usage but as for Ogg vs. MP3, there is no discernible difference.
Probably an iBar, it is e17 after all.
It runs as a module in e17 so I don't think it will work like the old Engage used to which had an application and module version both.
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...and I-35 in Kansas
That'd be the number one reason that 90% of my Colorado to Iowa trips go via I-80 and NE. It's not that it financially breaks me, it's just the irritation of having tolls on a rural western freeway that has few, if any, high speed alternates. That and Nebraska has cheaper gas, cheaper hotels, lower grades (read: virtually none), and 80 is every bit as good if not better than 35. Oh, and a higher speed limit.
At least 35's tolls are reasonable. 2.35 for something like 40 miles. As for 470... The 27 miles between the southern I-25 junction and the airport has a toll of $7.25 each way. F@#$ing ridiculous. I never take it unless I'm absolutely sure that I'll miss my flight if I don't.
You must be confusing I70 with I35 since I35 doesn't go to Colorado through Kansas.
If you're so destitute that $2.15 from KC to Topeka will break you, you can take Highway 24 and get back on I70 at Topeka.
Modded insightful?
While posted on /. using a computer? Funny is more like it.
It is maddening to get e-mails with a Word document attached that is just text. I've never understood why that can't just be put in the e-mail. Or when I get something as a document that I'm not editing or to edit, why not a PDF.
Don't even start me on the image thing.
Wish I had mod points left.
You're right. I use Word/Google Docs/OpenOffice out of necessity because none of my collaborators use Latex, or quite possibly don't even know what it is.
What? Most of Indiana doesn't observe DST?
Uh, sure, guess you didn't get the memo or don't live in Indiana.
And there is no excuse for farmers anymore, one of my family members is an 'agricultural engineer'. These days farms are industrialized and literally work 24/7 to work their huge lands with as little (very expensive) machinery as possible (having 3-shifts of work on 1 machine).
Yes, clearly, my father that runs a small dairy farm is fully industrialized and works 3-shifts by himself daily at the age of 69. C'mon, get out and meet some real farmers in person, it's not what you described at all, at least not in my family or around here where I live now.
Are you serious? Modded informative? Funny, yes, there should be a sarcasm point, but informative? My stars, I weep for the scientists here.
No it makes no sense for those of us that can't rearrange our workschedule to be able to take advantage of an extra hour of daylight after work to do yardwork. Heaven forbid we use the time to be outside when it's daylight!
And no, I don't want to hear the common "Get up earlier". C'mon, that's a tired old complaint. I have to get the mower out, and other yard equipment, do the chores, then put it away. After that I'm free to get cleaned up and enjoy my evening. If I try to cram that into one extra hour in the morning before work, fuggetaboutit.
Now if you want to discuss ways of making our workday start at 7 and not 8 on a nearly universal basis so we can conduct business in a normal fashion and get home at 4, then I'm all for it!
It is. At least it's used on my netbook.
Over-the-air DTV works terribly. First off, with analog, I could point my antenna in just about any direction and get SOME kind of fuzzy picture that was watchable. In other words, analog was easier to tune in,
With digital the tuning is much more difficult. I have to align the antenna perfectly along the 55th meridian, check the stars, adjust the horizontal azimuth, and get down on my knees and pray the signal is strong enough to not freeze the video (extremely annoying). And if there's a Tropical Storm blowing by? Forget it. The rain attenuates and destroys the signal. Yesterday I was unable to get my normal programming due to Hanna's presence... just a bunch of pixelated images instead of clear video.
DTV also provides fewer stations than analog.
In the Lancaster PA region analog reception provides these stations: 2,3,6,8,10,11,12,13,15,17,21,27,29,33,35,43,45,48,49,51,57,61,65,69 from various sources like my hometown, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. Switching over to my DTV tuner trims that number down to just a few: 8, 15, 43, 49, 57, 61. Twenty-four downto just six.
Pathetic.
The FCC's discontinuation of analog in favor of digital broadcasting is yet another government-sponsored frakup. Good thing I've learned how to stream TV shows off the net. Thanks to DTV, I no longer can watch ABC or CBS stations. Channels 21 and 27 have disappeared off my DTV dial! What a brilliant job Mr. FCC Engineer. I now have LESS choices to watch, not more. /steps off soapbox
How is this interesting? It's not even accurate for everyone.
I get more digital channels with digital TV than I do with analog. Some are duplicates of the analog but I get three PBS channels and two unique sub-channels from our local CBS and NBC associates.
With analog I get 11, 13, 27, 49.
With digital I get 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 13.1, 13.2, 27.1, 27.2, 49.1, and 49.2. According to my math, that's more channels, not less. Not to mention I didn't have to do anything with my outdoor antenna. So I would have to argue that it depends on the location. It isn't like this for everyone out there.
I've been to Peru 2X very recently. My experience arriving was much like yours in China. Take 1/2 the form, stamp and say "Welcome".
Getting BACK into my own country OTOH. Uggh, the first time I got the third degree because I listed my occupation as Graduate Research Assistant, I'm a Ph.D. student and that's how the U classifies me. Customs officer had "never heard of such a job". I spent wayyy to much time there telling him about potato diseases, which I'm sure enlightened him so.
The second time through I just put "Student" as occupation. Still got the 20 questions unlike Peru, but at least it was more pleasant and less suspicious.
Oh, I flew through Houston.
Whaaa? So the Constitution doesn't apply to me as a US citizen is what you're saying? I thought the constitution applied to citizens, not a place.
So apparetly it only applies to people on US soil? With the way things have gone lately I guess it shouldn't surprise me, but it does, or more disappoints me.
That said, I've never had issues coming back through customs. They've never even glanced at my laptop let alone asked to handle it.
That I definitely have to agree with since I do a lot of collaborating on manuscripts.
Sadly for me OOo is definitely behind in that area since I prefer Writer to Word for the styles implementation.
The Southern Corn Leaf Blight epidemic of 1970 would be a better analogy and illustrate your point much more eloquently. The Great Irish Potato famine wasn't caused by lack of food. There was food, it was social and political issues that forced the peasants to rely on potatoes, which failed, while in fact there was adequate food that they produced. It just was sold to pay the landowners bills.
The SCLB epidemic was a result of using the same genetics in the vast majority of corn planted in the US.
There are lots of window managers but only a few desktop environments. I believe that's what this article was about, desktop environments, not window managers.
Bees pollinate corn? What kind of corn are you talking about? Seriously, how is this modded up?
Education is the key then if people aren't using repositories because of ignorance as you claim.
Regarding the broadband argument, I used Linux for years on dial-up, sure it sucked, but it was no worse than running Windows updates.
Why is a Linux user walking into Best Buy and purchasing software? Isn't that why we have repositories?
Can't argue with the second point much, for me the Gimp cuts it, but on the first for music players ever heard of Amarok? C'mon, you're not being realistic in the least here. Just posting flamebait.
Heh, it would've been an interesting and useful comment if you quoted someone besides Lester Brown.
And how pray tell do you loose your land? What does that even mean?
Eh, cellulosic ethanol from corn stover plus grain gets you both.
You can set the file types that are recognized by the player, I did for my Cowon D2 in Amarok. Transcodes from flac to ogg upon transferring to the device.
Oh, wait, never mind, you use some OTHER media program on Linux?
I've yet to detect any difference in battery usage on my D2 from MP3 vs. Ogg. FLAC definitely does shorten the battery life due to increased processor usage but as for Ogg vs. MP3, there is no discernible difference.
Probably an iBar, it is e17 after all. It runs as a module in e17 so I don't think it will work like the old Engage used to which had an application and module version both.