Not too long ago I learned that phthalates were used as "softeners" in plastic containers. That's not a problem normally but if you put plastic boxes that aren't supposed to be recycled into your dishwasher to use them as a lunch-box then you have a problem since they weren't designed for such high temperatures and the phthalates are released. Same thing if you microwave it.
Boxes that are "microwave/dishwasher safe" don't have this problem naturally. This is generally printed on the container itself.
And phthalates aren't good for you. Even if you're an adult.
I don't see copyright as a joke at all. I do believe it does have a place in modern society. I don't have a problem with the fact that people who make things get paid for them, even if what they make is an intangible thing.
Painter, writers, programmers, actors and others deserve to be paid, no argument there.
I do however see the internet as a great equalizer. If the difference between what someone makes from copyright is too large compared to what other people make doing something else then the law loses its meaning for most people. They will reject the law as it is seen as unjust.
Every time there's a story about KDE a number of people complain, saying it's a failure, that the 4.x-series are dead and so on. Where does all this come from? KDE is one of the high profile open source applications along with gnome, apache, and others so it should be in our common interest to have it succeed.
Why the need for all the trash-talk? Why not focus on the positive? KDE does some things great, as does gnome and others. Constructive criticism is fine but "KDE4 sucks" is hardly constructive.
It's not like we need to fight amongst ourselves. There are plenty of other opponents out there that we could focus on. Now we're only weakening our position. I just don't get it.
Yes it's damn annoying when email or some other part of your critical infrastructure goes out, but this really should have been planned for in advance. Not by google but by you. Things happen. Things that are out of our control but we still have to deal with them. This outage was quite short for most people. A day at the most from what I hear, but what if the outage had been longer? A week? A month? How would you have dealt with it?
I always keep a few lists of things to do, people to call, things to write should a business disturbing event occur.
So should any business that want to continue living do too. And so should probably you!
Several years ago I had a really bad idea that I sort of implemented but then forgot about. Or to be honest I scrapped it because I didn't want everyone in the world to hate me.
The idea was filesharing over email.
I put up a mailserver with procmail and a few scripts. When mailing to a specific address with a specific command procmail would execute a few scripts and send me a file. Very insecure, I know, but it was just for fun.
Expanding on that idea what you need is just to put some gpg encryption there, scripts on the recieving end that would download and store incoming files so that the mailserver wouldn't choke, encrypted announcing to your "peers" (the ones in your address book) and a forwarding service where you'd forward requests that you can't serve to your peers.
I'm sure there are tons of problem with this but the small test I did worked and I enjoyed working on it.
The scripts are long gone but the idea is still fun to toy with. Too bad I'm a responsible adult these days...
So how much longer before we see a variation of this on our real-world car windshields?
I hope that we never see this. Not as long as there's a human steering the car. Do we really need yet ANOTHER distraction from driving? People are texting, putting on makeup, calling, eating, drinking, reading and doing too many other things than driving. Imho if a police should see you doing this they should sell your car and take your license since you're too stupid to figure out that 3000kg at 100km/h is a force to be respected.
The operators of The Pirate Bay have violated those rights and, as the evidence in Court will show, they did so to make substantial revenues for themselves.
I know I've mentioned this before but isn't advertisers equally culpable? If they put ads on a page that is known to be dealing in copyrighted content, they do support the owners of that page. They make money from guys who commit crimes. Would it be OK for Hertz to rent a car to robberers if they knew that the car was going to be used in a heist? Can I loan money to someone who'll use this to buy a gun and go out and rob people to pay me back with interest?
I'm quite sure TPB couldn't continue their operation if they had to pay for it from their own pockets so the advertisers are the ones that allow them to operate. Financing a criminal activity is also a crime, or isn't it?
Just in case someone should mention that TPB isn't doing anything illegal I'd just like point to any of the warez/crack/serial pages out there that does have a lot of traffic and a lot of advertisers. Why not go after them? Follow the money.
Most of the time there is some revenue collected; even in the TPB case, with ads.
Sooo, if TPB is guilty of enabling users to download copyrighted content, why aren't the advertisers guilty of enabling TPB to continue their operation? Will the advertisers be next? It would seem fair to me.
But what if the man-made impact is what pushes the whole system out of control? Ok, so the world can and have for millions of years handled temperature shifts where the temperature has gone up 2-3 degrees globally without any significant impact, but what if we're in such a zone right now where the earth is heating up from normal changes and we push it up another 2-3 degrees from what we contribute.
It doesn't have to be one or the other, It could be a correlation effect that screws us good.
And you don't really have to be a scientist to figure out that it's quite bad to poison the place where you live. As long as we need oxygen to breathe we probably should try to keep it as clean as possible...
I seem to remember that around the release of 4.0 there was talk about how this release was for early adopters but none of that is present in the announcement you linked to so I might be wrong about that. Perhaps that was only discussed in IRC or on the forums? Don't really care anymore. But revisionism isn't good and we all need accurate information so pointing that out is good.
And if you go read dot.kde.org following the release there's lot of talk about what a pr-disaster 4.0 was and eventually someone (dunno if it was A. Siego) admitted that.
I prefer to look forward but if you're interested look it up. I think it was in one of the commit-digests. And for med 4.2 works perfectly. The things that don't work well for me are things that KDE can't be blamed for (lack of MS-Exchange connectivity and similar enterprise related features).
That type of marketing talk is aimed directly at users, not developers.
Do we really need to repeat this every time KDE4 is mentioned? Yes they misrepresented what 4.0 was, yes they admitted this, now move on and complain about something new. The PR-disaster that was 4.0 is ancient history (CS wise) and I'm really tired of hearing the same things over and over and OVER and OVER and over again.
4.0 was released over a year ago, let it go already.
I just can't get why this isn't used more than it is. I don't understand why we need to base the whole worlds economy on a few countries in the middle east with a democratic defecit.
Ethanol isn't bad but it does use land that could be used to produce food to grow fuel instead, which seems like a bit of a waste to me. Also the environmental benefits are questionable, I still believe this is better than oil, just not by much.
But methane is something that we all produce. Humans and animals alike. And methane is a very potent greenhouse gas so setting it on fire is actually a net gain for the environment (according to some), and it can be produced locally.
So it should be used more. It has a lot of benefits and very few drawbacks. Now if we could only get cars that would run on it properly and not those petrol-converted-dont-really-want-to-run-on-biomethane-but-will-do-so-for-20km-on-a-full-tank kind of cars.
The fear of change and the fear of "what if" is what keeps someone like you from switching to Ubuntu.
I'm sorry but no. That's not it at all. It's the applications. Seriously. I know that there are many great applications out there but one step away from surfing the web and writing email and you're in trouble. I do project management. There are project management tools for Linux but they are nowhere close to MSProject, unfortunatly. Open Workbench is not too bad but it's not really up to par, it might be good enough for most things though. Excel is another critical tool. Most project management spreadsheets rely quite a lot on macros, something that does require MS-Excel, clones won't do.
And yes, I could probably do my job using Linux and availible tools like KOffice/Kplato, OO.o/Openproj or similar, but I'd spend time on working with my tools instead of managing projects, something that's not what I'm paid to do. It doesn't take too much trouble for me before it's a good financial decision to buy the MS-tools.
Yes, but what if you could use this technology on regular ships and have them cut fuel consumption 10-20%? I'd say most shipping companies would like that.
They drilled so not much digging required. The price depends on a few things like how fast they hit rock (earlier is better) and other things. I think we paid about $2000 but I'm not sure. Around there anyway.
About a year ago we installed one of these in our house. The temperature around here varies between -15 C to about +30 C (get with the metric program people) and our heatpump is working wonders with our heating and economy. It cut the costs down to 1/3 of what it used to be and will have paid itself off in less than 5 years with current prices. We drilled about 200m down which gives the best performance for the size of our house. Also we put a large watertank that the heatpump warms up which increases the lifespan of the pump and our next project is to put solar panels that will heat the watertank during mars-oct, thereby increasing the savings even more. It will also "reload" the hole/well that the heatpump takes its heat from increasing the efficiency during winter. Now if I could only produce electricity somehow to power the heatpump (or parts of it) things would be awsome.
I'm amazed that more people don't use this technology. In my opinion there shouldn't be an energy crisis anywhere as all the technology we need to fix things are already availible. More or less anyway.
At my previous job (fairly large company) they've standardized on Win2k on the clients. In fact they're still running it. Guess what browser is included? The client is heavily modified so rolling out a new one isn't an easy task. From what I've heard they're little above 1 year in planning to switch to Vista, but since there are quite a lot of migration issues I don't see that coming soon. I'd say it's atleast 6 months away, probably more. The company uses some very specific programs written by people that might not be with the company anymore, and all those need to work for business to continue as usual.
So they will continue to surf the interweb with IE6 for quite a while. Other browsers can be installed but that is unsupported and might result in a call from the security department on why you use unauthorized software on your machine. You probably don't want that. And none of the internal applications work with anything but IE6 (IE7 is being tested with the vista change) anyway.
Large organizations are fun.
But you shouldn't read gmail from work anyway so that's not a big problem. As long as most other sites still work. Or perhaps they should use an "external browser" and one "internal" one. Hehe.
2. It doesn't take into consideration driving done on private roads or roads not maintained by the government.
You're assuming that the "road tax" actually goes to roads or that there's some sort of corrolation between them. There isn't.
Gas tax is the best option. It's simple and it hits where's its supposed to. I'd like gas tax to increase by 10% anually to make it really painful to drive a big car and to put preassure on everyone to find alternative fuels or means of transportation.
Haven't we been asking for an exchange replacement for years? One that connects to outlook and does all that exchange does? Isn't this (and a sharepoint replacement) what's needed in the "linux portfolio" of office apps?
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The biggest joke of them all has to be IPRED that was recently implemented in sweden. The whole law is just a big joke. A very sad one.
I can't believe that they left out "UID as a prime".
I would have had it.
*sigh*
Not too long ago I learned that phthalates were used as "softeners" in plastic containers. That's not a problem normally but if you put plastic boxes that aren't supposed to be recycled into your dishwasher to use them as a lunch-box then you have a problem since they weren't designed for such high temperatures and the phthalates are released. Same thing if you microwave it.
Boxes that are "microwave/dishwasher safe" don't have this problem naturally. This is generally printed on the container itself.
And phthalates aren't good for you. Even if you're an adult.
I don't see copyright as a joke at all. I do believe it does have a place in modern society. I don't have a problem with the fact that people who make things get paid for them, even if what they make is an intangible thing.
Painter, writers, programmers, actors and others deserve to be paid, no argument there.
I do however see the internet as a great equalizer. If the difference between what someone makes from copyright is too large compared to what other people make doing something else then the law loses its meaning for most people. They will reject the law as it is seen as unjust.
Every time there's a story about KDE a number of people complain, saying it's a failure, that the 4.x-series are dead and so on. Where does all this come from? KDE is one of the high profile open source applications along with gnome, apache, and others so it should be in our common interest to have it succeed.
Why the need for all the trash-talk? Why not focus on the positive? KDE does some things great, as does gnome and others. Constructive criticism is fine but "KDE4 sucks" is hardly constructive.
It's not like we need to fight amongst ourselves. There are plenty of other opponents out there that we could focus on. Now we're only weakening our position. I just don't get it.
Since everyone but Myanmar, Liberia and the United States use the metric system I just thought I'd point out the hight of the ash cloud.
In case you don't know this obscure "ft" unit. ;-)
Not only that. Fox News recently reported that 51% of the american population are now in majority.
Yes it's damn annoying when email or some other part of your critical infrastructure goes out, but this really should have been planned for in advance. Not by google but by you.
Things happen. Things that are out of our control but we still have to deal with them. This outage was quite short for most people. A day at the most from what I hear, but what if the outage had been longer? A week? A month? How would you have dealt with it?
I always keep a few lists of things to do, people to call, things to write should a business disturbing event occur.
So should any business that want to continue living do too. And so should probably you!
Several years ago I had a really bad idea that I sort of implemented but then forgot about. Or to be honest I scrapped it because I didn't want everyone in the world to hate me.
The idea was filesharing over email.
I put up a mailserver with procmail and a few scripts. When mailing to a specific address with a specific command procmail would execute a few scripts and send me a file. Very insecure, I know, but it was just for fun.
Expanding on that idea what you need is just to put some gpg encryption there, scripts on the recieving end that would download and store incoming files so that the mailserver wouldn't choke, encrypted announcing to your "peers" (the ones in your address book) and a forwarding service where you'd forward requests that you can't serve to your peers.
I'm sure there are tons of problem with this but the small test I did worked and I enjoyed working on it.
The scripts are long gone but the idea is still fun to toy with. Too bad I'm a responsible adult these days...
So how much longer before we see a variation of this on our real-world car windshields?
I hope that we never see this. Not as long as there's a human steering the car. Do we really need yet ANOTHER distraction from driving? People are texting, putting on makeup, calling, eating, drinking, reading and doing too many other things than driving. Imho if a police should see you doing this they should sell your car and take your license since you're too stupid to figure out that 3000kg at 100km/h is a force to be respected.
The operators of The Pirate Bay have violated those rights and, as the evidence in Court will show, they did so to make substantial revenues for themselves.
I know I've mentioned this before but isn't advertisers equally culpable? If they put ads on a page that is known to be dealing in copyrighted content, they do support the owners of that page. They make money from guys who commit crimes. Would it be OK for Hertz to rent a car to robberers if they knew that the car was going to be used in a heist? Can I loan money to someone who'll use this to buy a gun and go out and rob people to pay me back with interest?
I'm quite sure TPB couldn't continue their operation if they had to pay for it from their own pockets so the advertisers are the ones that allow them to operate. Financing a criminal activity is also a crime, or isn't it?
Just in case someone should mention that TPB isn't doing anything illegal I'd just like point to any of the warez/crack/serial pages out there that does have a lot of traffic and a lot of advertisers. Why not go after them? Follow the money.
Most of the time there is some revenue collected; even in the TPB case, with ads.
Sooo, if TPB is guilty of enabling users to download copyrighted content, why aren't the advertisers guilty of enabling TPB to continue their operation? Will the advertisers be next? It would seem fair to me.
But what if the man-made impact is what pushes the whole system out of control? Ok, so the world can and have for millions of years handled temperature shifts where the temperature has gone up 2-3 degrees globally without any significant impact, but what if we're in such a zone right now where the earth is heating up from normal changes and we push it up another 2-3 degrees from what we contribute.
It doesn't have to be one or the other, It could be a correlation effect that screws us good.
And you don't really have to be a scientist to figure out that it's quite bad to poison the place where you live. As long as we need oxygen to breathe we probably should try to keep it as clean as possible...
I seem to remember that around the release of 4.0 there was talk about how this release was for early adopters but none of that is present in the announcement you linked to so I might be wrong about that. Perhaps that was only discussed in IRC or on the forums? Don't really care anymore. But revisionism isn't good and we all need accurate information so pointing that out is good.
And if you go read dot.kde.org following the release there's lot of talk about what a pr-disaster 4.0 was and eventually someone (dunno if it was A. Siego) admitted that.
I prefer to look forward but if you're interested look it up. I think it was in one of the commit-digests. And for med 4.2 works perfectly. The things that don't work well for me are things that KDE can't be blamed for (lack of MS-Exchange connectivity and similar enterprise related features).
That type of marketing talk is aimed directly at users, not developers.
Do we really need to repeat this every time KDE4 is mentioned? Yes they misrepresented what 4.0 was, yes they admitted this, now move on and complain about something new. The PR-disaster that was 4.0 is ancient history (CS wise) and I'm really tired of hearing the same things over and over and OVER and OVER and over again.
4.0 was released over a year ago, let it go already.
I just can't get why this isn't used more than it is. I don't understand why we need to base the whole worlds economy on a few countries in the middle east with a democratic defecit.
Ethanol isn't bad but it does use land that could be used to produce food to grow fuel instead, which seems like a bit of a waste to me. Also the environmental benefits are questionable, I still believe this is better than oil, just not by much.
But methane is something that we all produce. Humans and animals alike. And methane is a very potent greenhouse gas so setting it on fire is actually a net gain for the environment (according to some), and it can be produced locally.
So it should be used more. It has a lot of benefits and very few drawbacks. Now if we could only get cars that would run on it properly and not those petrol-converted-dont-really-want-to-run-on-biomethane-but-will-do-so-for-20km-on-a-full-tank kind of cars.
The fear of change and the fear of "what if" is what keeps someone like you from switching to Ubuntu.
I'm sorry but no. That's not it at all. It's the applications. Seriously. I know that there are many great applications out there but one step away from surfing the web and writing email and you're in trouble.
I do project management. There are project management tools for Linux but they are nowhere close to MSProject, unfortunatly. Open Workbench is not too bad but it's not really up to par, it might be good enough for most things though.
Excel is another critical tool. Most project management spreadsheets rely quite a lot on macros, something that does require MS-Excel, clones won't do.
And yes, I could probably do my job using Linux and availible tools like KOffice/Kplato, OO.o/Openproj or similar, but I'd spend time on working with my tools instead of managing projects, something that's not what I'm paid to do.
It doesn't take too much trouble for me before it's a good financial decision to buy the MS-tools.
It sucks but that's the way it is.
I found this rather hilarious. You might like it too. Creation Science 101.
A guy called Roy Zimmerman sings about teaching creationism.
Yes, but what if you could use this technology on regular ships and have them cut fuel consumption 10-20%? I'd say most shipping companies would like that.
Haeger
They drilled so not much digging required. The price depends on a few things like how fast they hit rock (earlier is better) and other things. I think we paid about $2000 but I'm not sure. Around there anyway.
Haeger
About a year ago we installed one of these in our house. The temperature around here varies between -15 C to about +30 C (get with the metric program people) and our heatpump is working wonders with our heating and economy. It cut the costs down to 1/3 of what it used to be and will have paid itself off in less than 5 years with current prices.
We drilled about 200m down which gives the best performance for the size of our house.
Also we put a large watertank that the heatpump warms up which increases the lifespan of the pump and our next project is to put solar panels that will heat the watertank during mars-oct, thereby increasing the savings even more. It will also "reload" the hole/well that the heatpump takes its heat from increasing the efficiency during winter.
Now if I could only produce electricity somehow to power the heatpump (or parts of it) things would be awsome.
I'm amazed that more people don't use this technology. In my opinion there shouldn't be an energy crisis anywhere as all the technology we need to fix things are already availible. More or less anyway.
Haeger
At my previous job (fairly large company) they've standardized on Win2k on the clients. In fact they're still running it. Guess what browser is included? The client is heavily modified so rolling out a new one isn't an easy task.
From what I've heard they're little above 1 year in planning to switch to Vista, but since there are quite a lot of migration issues I don't see that coming soon. I'd say it's atleast 6 months away, probably more. The company uses some very specific programs written by people that might not be with the company anymore, and all those need to work for business to continue as usual.
So they will continue to surf the interweb with IE6 for quite a while. Other browsers can be installed but that is unsupported and might result in a call from the security department on why you use unauthorized software on your machine. You probably don't want that. And none of the internal applications work with anything but IE6 (IE7 is being tested with the vista change) anyway.
Large organizations are fun.
But you shouldn't read gmail from work anyway so that's not a big problem. As long as most other sites still work. Or perhaps they should use an "external browser" and one "internal" one. Hehe.
2. It doesn't take into consideration driving done on private roads or roads not maintained by the government.
You're assuming that the "road tax" actually goes to roads or that there's some sort of corrolation between them. There isn't.
Gas tax is the best option. It's simple and it hits where's its supposed to. I'd like gas tax to increase by 10% anually to make it really painful to drive a big car and to put preassure on everyone to find alternative fuels or means of transportation.
Haven't we been asking for an exchange replacement for years? One that connects to outlook and does all that exchange does? Isn't this (and a sharepoint replacement) what's needed in the "linux portfolio" of office apps?
-Prosecute people for the result of their actions and not for their intent.
Right. So you don't think I should be put in jail for trying to kill you as long as I don't succeed?