Why are practically all the links to indymedia itself? What about having links to some other news sites so that we can get, like, more view points into this?
A neat little trick you can do on other people's computers is to make a shortcut of "My Computer" and label it "Your Computer". Put the shortcut next to "My Computer".
Additionally, if there's any chance they'd use a command that checks the EDITOR or VISUAL or whatever environment variable, make sure that they do not launch vi. Give them something simple and easy like nano.
I second that. There is no reasonably obvious way out from vi for a newbie. You're simply stuck.
The anthrosophical answer is that, if it were any other way, then we wouldn't be here to observe it.
If the cosmological constants weren't just right, our universe wouldn't have coalesced out of matter as it did. If the planet didn't have just the right orbit and axis, things would have been too chaotic for life to appear. If we hadn't evolved the way we did, we wouldn't be sentient enough to look back and be amazed by how it all came about.
With very little conversion, you can use hydrogen in your regular car engine. BMW is doing this, and betting on it. From the page:
The 745h is the latest BMW hydrogen powered vehicle. The 745h is powered by a 4.4-liter V8, featuring bi-VANOS variable valve timing, Valvetronic variable intake runners, and a fully variable intake manifold. The 745h can use either hydrogen or premium unleaded gasoline.
Running on hydrogen, the 745h produces 184 horsepower and can achieve a top speed of 133 mph. The cruising range is 190 miles. Added to the 400-mile range of the normal fuel tank, the 745h can go 600 miles between fill-ups.
This is not as fuel efficient as a fuel cell, but it works with the fleet of cars we have today, and it works in cold climates, where fuel cells fail.
or should we grow up and get used to the fact that things are priced differently in different places?
Eh, that is not growing up. It's the companies that need to realize that people will buy where it is cheapest and will feel cheated if the price is higher where they happen to live.
I know we're running out of possible acronyms that don't already stand for something, but releasing two new 'overloads' for an acronym almost at the same time sucks.
(If you're wondering, we have this NX client software, and the NX 'No-eXecute' flag on CPU's to help contain the threat posted by stack and heap overflow vulnerabilities)
We're running out of TLA space a lot faster than IPv4 space.
You realize your use for TLA as Two Letter Acronym overloads TLA meaning Three Letter Acronym? :-)
So how long until everything in the home has its own IP address and script kiddies decide to get their kicks messing with your air conditioning during a heat wave?"
The real question is: How long with this equipment until script kiddies cause a heat wave?
Problem is with markets is that many decisions are taken based on indicators. If the research Mandelbrot suggest is undertaken, it will just be another indicator, and hence fed back into the loop.
Better then to focus on economies, and what fundamentals control them. Many of those fundamentals seem to be known, i e you know what things are "good" (low taxes on work, flexible labor market, well educated work force, good infrastructure, good governance and legislation wrt to right of ownership, free trade). Problem is quantifying them and make them interact with all the other less known factors...
(Even some Euro languages lost some characters, like Scandinavian and Germanic languages, where the "O" in Torvalds lacks the stroke in the middle, and the "A" with the small circle,..etc.)
Troll! There are no strokes or small circles in Torvalds. There are perfectly good uses for plain "a"s and "o"s in Scandinavian languages, without any dots, circles or strokes. And the name Torvalds happends to be one of these cases.
Tabbrowser extensions is a fantastic add-on to mozilla and firefox. Here are my favorite functions it provides:
1) You can rearrange tabs by just drag and drop.
2) If you ctrl-click a link, it can open as new tab next to the tab of the page your looking at.
3) Tabs can be in different colors, and tabs opened with e.g ctrl-click inherit the color from the tab of the page the link is on. I.e. you can group tabs by color
3) If you get too many tabs in a window, it can make a new row of tabs, or open a new browser window and continue making tabs there.
4) You can undo close tab. In multiple steps.
Did anyone else think of Rumsfeld's infamous mindfart (for which he won a Foot in Mouth award) --
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."
Am I the only one that thinks what Rumsfeld said makes sense? I heard it live on TV, and it made sense even back then. What he is saying is that there are some things you know, e.g. how many soldiers the enemy has. There are some things you know that you do not know, e.g. that the enemy has tanks but not how many. But if the enemy has a secret weapon, or if all your troops catch a space flu from a meteorite, well then you have been struck by an unknown (i.e. something you couldn't foresee even in a general kind of way) in an unknown quantity.
Rumsfeld expressed himself in an abstract manner. Is that beyond slashdotters? Don't think so. Rumsfeld's "mindfart" was possibly a bit too philosophical for the occasion at which he said it, though.
It's nice to see a Plone site so far holding its own against the slashdot effect. On a normal plone site there is a lot of processing being done to output a page.
All you have is hearsay. So no, we do not say "aboot"!
No, I don't have hearsay. Hearsay is when you claim something that someone else has told you. I *saw*, and more importantly heard, the documentary (a medical documentary). People said "aboot". They were from Ontario. They did not try to say "aboot". They were normal medical staff that were filmed for other *purposes* than being example of "aboot"-pronouncing people.
Where the heck does "aboot" come from? I have never met anyone in Canada that pronounces "about" as "aboot"
I'm posting this a little bit late in the discussion. I'm European and I saw a documentary on TV where the doctors and all the staff spoke North American English. The only funny thing was that all the satff said "aboot" instead of "about". I had to watch that whole program just to find out where it was in North America. Turns out it was Ontario. So yes, you do say "aboot"!
My mac mouse only has one button you insensitive clod!
Aaah, but then that is your middle mouse button.
/jeorgen
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Pretty much everywhere I've driven in North America if you "avoid driving in another's trail" you'll have two or three cars pull in between you and that other car. If you then slow down for them it will happen again; iterate until you're pretty much standing still and everyone else is passing you on both sides.
I got a driver's recently (and I'm not that young) and this was one of the first things I noticed. Sometimes I just let car after car cut in in front of me, but recently I've decided that that is more unsafe than keeping a shorter distance. Because every time somebody cuts in in front, you have a very short distance to that car, and that car is more likely to brake since he is already moving sideways and what not.
The really dangerous thing with tail gating is whiplash. My next move will be to use a car with a proven whiplash protection. Normal headrests are basically useless, according to both research and crash statistics. New SAABs and Volvos have whiplash protection, and so does some of the new Toyotas.
The Autoliv company has developed a nifty whiplash protection that can be retrofitted into just about any car. It consists of two shear plates for each car seat. They are mounted at the forward mount points of each seat and shear in case of a rear end collison, making the car seat rotate backwards in a controlled fashion, with the shear plates taking up the rotational energy. This prevents the head from snapping back violently. Real life statistics based on cars mounted with these seem to indicate the shear plates get the job done and prevent whiplash injuries. They are not for sale as yet though...
Toshiba has previewed what it calls a Wristwatch PDA, which it considers to be very popular in future
Considers? Maybe it's my lack of understanding of English, but wouldn't "forecasts" or "guesses" be a better word? The only way you can consider something to be popular in the future is if you believe in multiple futures so that there will always be a future in which Toshiba can consider its wristwatch to be very popular. Like every company has the right to its own Future Reality (tm).
"Apple considers its Ipod IV to be the most popular player in 2008, however Microsoft says that it considers its player to be the most popular in 2008 but qualifies that statement saying that 'this may happen in the same universe as Apple's or in one parallell to it'"
So, the difference is (assuming the lower figure for gas) like 12700 for gasoline vs 121 (the current figure for LMP). 100 times -- that is a lot of difference! Increasing the energy density for batteries up to 180 (and that is projected) ain't going to change the picture much.
But the efficiency of a petrol engine is around 20% (the rest becomes heat) while the efficiency of an electrical motor is around 80%, if my mind serves me correctly.
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Isn't there a German guy, a lawyer I believe, who is much worse than this guy, and sueing anything in sight? Anyone got information on him?
Why are practically all the links to indymedia itself? What about having links to some other news sites so that we can get, like, more view points into this?
A neat little trick you can do on other people's computers is to make a shortcut of "My Computer" and label it "Your Computer". Put the shortcut next to "My Computer".
I second that. There is no reasonably obvious way out from vi for a newbie. You're simply stuck.
If the cosmological constants weren't just right, our universe wouldn't have coalesced out of matter as it did. If the planet didn't have just the right orbit and axis, things would have been too chaotic for life to appear. If we hadn't evolved the way we did, we wouldn't be sentient enough to look back and be amazed by how it all came about.
Bah, we would just be somewhere else :-)
Eh, that is not growing up. It's the companies that need to realize that people will buy where it is cheapest and will feel cheated if the price is higher where they happen to live.
(If you're wondering, we have this NX client software, and the NX 'No-eXecute' flag on CPU's to help contain the threat posted by stack and heap overflow vulnerabilities)
We're running out of TLA space a lot faster than IPv4 space.
You realize your use for TLA as Two Letter Acronym overloads TLA meaning Three Letter Acronym?
:-)
The real question is: How long with this equipment until script kiddies cause a heat wave?
Better then to focus on economies, and what fundamentals control them. Many of those fundamentals seem to be known, i e you know what things are "good" (low taxes on work, flexible labor market, well educated work force, good infrastructure, good governance and legislation wrt to right of ownership, free trade). Problem is quantifying them and make them interact with all the other less known factors...
There are enzymes that are supposed to deal with proteins in the gut (e.g. protease).
Do these destroy the prions? Could people that come down with vCJD have been deficient in enzymes?
Troll! There are no strokes or small circles in Torvalds. There are perfectly good uses for plain "a"s and "o"s in Scandinavian languages, without any dots, circles or strokes. And the name Torvalds happends to be one of these cases.
1) You can rearrange tabs by just drag and drop.
2) If you ctrl-click a link, it can open as new tab next to the tab of the page your looking at.
3) Tabs can be in different colors, and tabs opened with e.g ctrl-click inherit the color from the tab of the page the link is on. I.e. you can group tabs by color
3) If you get too many tabs in a window, it can make a new row of tabs, or open a new browser window and continue making tabs there.
4) You can undo close tab. In multiple steps.
So now all those who have criticised Hubble should be sorry. They have to eat Hubble pie.
Scuds are basically WWII technology, i.e. V2s.
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."
Am I the only one that thinks what Rumsfeld said makes sense? I heard it live on TV, and it made sense even back then. What he is saying is that there are some things you know, e.g. how many soldiers the enemy has. There are some things you know that you do not know, e.g. that the enemy has tanks but not how many. But if the enemy has a secret weapon, or if all your troops catch a space flu from a meteorite, well then you have been struck by an unknown (i.e. something you couldn't foresee even in a general kind of way) in an unknown quantity.
Rumsfeld expressed himself in an abstract manner. Is that beyond slashdotters? Don't think so. Rumsfeld's "mindfart" was possibly a bit too philosophical for the occasion at which he said it, though.
I have set up a combination of Squid and Apache to be able to survive such load.
Good work! :-)
Sorry, misspelt URL. should be www.plone.org, not pone.org . /jeorgen
No, I don't have hearsay. Hearsay is when you claim something that someone else has told you. I *saw*, and more importantly heard, the documentary (a medical documentary). People said "aboot". They were from Ontario. They did not try to say "aboot". They were normal medical staff that were filmed for other *purposes* than being example of "aboot"-pronouncing people.
I'm posting this a little bit late in the discussion. I'm European and I saw a documentary on TV where the doctors and all the staff spoke North American English. The only funny thing was that all the satff said "aboot" instead of "about". I had to watch that whole program just to find out where it was in North America. Turns out it was Ontario. So yes, you do say "aboot"!
Aaah, but then that is your middle mouse button.
I got a driver's recently (and I'm not that young) and this was one of the first things I noticed. Sometimes I just let car after car cut in in front of me, but recently I've decided that that is more unsafe than keeping a shorter distance. Because every time somebody cuts in in front, you have a very short distance to that car, and that car is more likely to brake since he is already moving sideways and what not.
The really dangerous thing with tail gating is whiplash. My next move will be to use a car with a proven whiplash protection. Normal headrests are basically useless, according to both research and crash statistics. New SAABs and Volvos have whiplash protection, and so does some of the new Toyotas.
The Autoliv company has developed a nifty whiplash protection that can be retrofitted into just about any car. It consists of two shear plates for each car seat. They are mounted at the forward mount points of each seat and shear in case of a rear end collison, making the car seat rotate backwards in a controlled fashion, with the shear plates taking up the rotational energy. This prevents the head from snapping back violently. Real life statistics based on cars mounted with these seem to indicate the shear plates get the job done and prevent whiplash injuries. They are not for sale as yet though...
Toshiba has previewed what it calls a Wristwatch PDA, which it considers to be very popular in future
Considers? Maybe it's my lack of understanding of English, but wouldn't "forecasts" or "guesses" be a better word? The only way you can consider something to be popular in the future is if you believe in multiple futures so that there will always be a future in which Toshiba can consider its wristwatch to be very popular. Like every company has the right to its own Future Reality (tm).
"Apple considers its Ipod IV to be the most popular player in 2008, however Microsoft says that it considers its player to be the most popular in 2008 but qualifies that statement saying that 'this may happen in the same universe as Apple's or in one parallell to it'"
But the efficiency of a petrol engine is around 20% (the rest becomes heat) while the efficiency of an electrical motor is around 80%, if my mind serves me correctly.