Hmm.... OpenCC is the only one of those that does not exist and fully functional today. LibC is, and always has been a part of OpenBSD. Linux is a kernel that looks a lot like Unix, so is the OpenBSD kernel. There is even a linux compatibility mode for your linux apps.
I often run X remotely. At my last job I used to run FrameMaker Solaris, displayed on my FreeBSD machine. Come to think of it, everything I did at that job was remote X because they put easily maintainable NCD X servers on the desktop and ran our applications on servers in the back room. (which was properly cooled and power conditioned)
Still use remote X so that I can use the monitor and keyboard (real model M) on my slow desktop, to my laptop with a much faster processor.
I don't know too many people with a Cray supercomputer on their desktop, those who display complex analysis from the Cray may be using remote X. (depending on the app, there are a number of ways to do this) This is a common situation in some settings.
If you don't use remote X you are limiting yourself.
Last January at Wine Conf I sat next to a reactOs developer, and he had reactOs running on his laptop. Sometimes he even kept it up for as much as 2 minutes! A record Windows 98 was unable to touch that day. (the joys of a broken power supply, everytime someone breathed he had to reboot)
First of all, giving should be year round. Odds are family obligations this time of year take a lot of your free cash. Even if you could give, it is sometimes a good idea to put a little extra into retirement accounts if you are not up to the yearly max. (See a professional for advice, and you need to consider your own situation) I'm not saying give to yourself first, but there are many reasons this should be a month where you might give less than normal. But only if there is a normal.
First of all, give blood if you can. The restrictions are so tough that most of you cannot, but for those who can, please give often! In the same note, make sure you have an organ donor card filled out with the state.
Next, check your charities. I refuse to give to the United Way because they spend so much on promotion. (nearly half the money you give them isn't spent on good causes) Unfortunately they do know the small causes that you should be giving to, so I can't say they are evil, just I don't like them. Don't give to them unless you are at a loss for anything else to give to.
I give to Ducks Unlimited every spring when their fund raiser comes up.
Every time I get groceries give $3 to the local food shelf. (my local store will add that onto my bill, or they have a collection point at the exit for foods I buy) It isn't much, but it adds up. (disclaimer, I just started this, my goal is to make this last though)
My local electric co-op rounds all my bills up to the nearest dollar. That $6/year all goes to charity, and I don't even notice. Suggest your utilities do the same.
I'm not going to cover what others have said. The important part is to find what works for you, and then do it.
Yes and no. For the rest of your life, time is likely to be more important than money. However it is likely that at some point in the future you will have a lot of money, and still find time lacking. Please, when you reach that point continue to give both time and money. One is not a substitute for the other. If you don't have money to give you should be living right on the edge of survival. (No TV, no internet, except what is required for work)
As a student don't give money, you don't have it. (even if you do, except for a few rich society is better off if you spend a few years spending it on your education) After you graduate you are likely to have money.
Maybe, but not likely. Depends on how the difference arrived in the first place. Remember, the laws of thermodynamics are not cheated.
If there is a temperature difference between your house and outside, and you do not have any heating or cooling going on, than this can work. Can, because stirling engines like much higher temperature differentials, (several hundred or even thousand degrees) but with proper design this isn't too big a deal.
In the lab the stirling engine can be 60% efficient. The furnace in my house is 85% (they don't make them less than 92 anymore). So for every 60 units of energy I get from the engine, I'm losing 40 to the outside world that my furnace has to make up. Toss in the loss from my furnace and you can see this is a losing proposition in general.
Note that I'm assuming all is normal. If you heat with wood you might want one of these systems because wood works best when you extract the maximum amount of heat, which makes your house too hot, so exchanging some heat for power can be a good idea.
That's 100 miles when the temperature is 70F. Where I live I need to get to work when it is -30F. Batteries, lose most of their capacity at those temperatures, not to mention I need heat on those days (for the windshield, my coat would work for me) which sucks even more power out.
The CEO is a Luddite, so I can't even work from home when it is almost dangerous to drive, so don't bring that up. (unless you offer me a new job)
Solar panels are very inefficient in the real world. 40% exists in the lab, but outside, 10% is doing good. The panels just don't deal with anything other than full sun well.
By contrast, turbines are up to 60%, and turning water to steam is known technology. Overall you are less than 50%, but the biggest solar power systems in the world are steam turning a turbine.
The only reason solar panels are like is they have no moving parts. You can place them flat on a roof, and not thing about them again for 10 years, other than the surplus power they generate. This is perfect for the typical home owner who wouldn't maintain the turbines. Worse yet, boilers have a tendency to go boom if they are not maintained and inspected often.
The real mission for ISS is to keep a lot of smart Russian engineers who know how to build things like ICBMs from working for third world dictators. Nations other than Russia work on it only so they can maintain a fiction that it is an international effort.
If any science is done that is good, but the point is all politics. Considering what these guys can do if the choice comes down to building a bomb for some evil guy or not eating, I'd call ISS a good thing. Nothing to do with science though.
There are two reasons for this. First, people are afraid of it. The load of the entire house sits on foam! Never mind that is is stronger that 2x6 every 16 inches, and more tornado resistant, it is foam and people don't trust it. (Once the house is built you can't tell, but who knows that)
Second it costs more. About 2-3% more than traditional construction. (the panels are about 25% more, but labor is less by enough to make up for most of that) If you live there for more than a few months energy costs will make up the rest.
If your hire someone to build your house you should demand this type of construction - it is better. Most people buy a pre-built house.
On McMansions: I know some who build his McMansion, and his yearly (not monthly, yearly) heating and cooling bill is just over $100! This is in MN, so the low temp he was heating from was -30, and high was just under 100. He is CEO of a company that makes SIPs (structural insulated panels), and wanted to demonstrate how good his company's products are. Combine that with a ground source heat pump, and his results are duplicateable. (well energy prices have gone up since then, but even $200/year for heating and cooling is dirt cheap)
Many (most?) countries do not accept marrages performed by ship captains. A captain of an unregistered ship (I know of no such thing) is dictator of his own country, but since no other country recognizes his government anything he does is not recognized either. A captain of a registered ship is under the laws of whichever country, and has to follow the laws of that country on ship. Depending on the country his power may be very limited in any legal matters.
However captains are not stupid, nor are the cruise lines. They know there is money to be made in doing marrages at sea. Some of them will license themselves with various governments to do marriages. Once that is done they can perform the marriage, but it isn't under that capacities as a ships captain, it is just something they are allowed to do.
At least in the US nearly anyone can become licensed to perform marriages. Other than judges, priests, can captains of passanger vessels, almost nobody does though.
If you have the grades you can go to pretty much any school in the US you want to (ignoring a few single sex schools and the like). If they admit you, you can afford to go.
Our financial aid system works different (different, not better or worse, there are too many downsides to all systems to make a comparison) from yours. Here you get grants if you are poor or a "minority". Above that, you can get loans for the full amount of the tuition bill. Most students and any school are getting some form of financial aid.
Now I will grant that $30,000/year in loans is going to be expensive to pay off. However if you go to a school that charges that much, you should be smart enough, and dedicated enough that paying it off is no problem after you graduate. If you are lazy and just want to do the minimum to get by, you don't want to go to those high priced schools anyway, and they don't want you.
The state I live in, MN, has approximately as 1/4Th as much land as the UK. However I pay in state tuition rates in Wisconsin, and both Dakotas. (all are approximately the same size), so I can pay local rates over as much geographical area. We have much less population, and our universities so there are less schools total. This is not helped by having one university that is second largest in the nation as far as students, but again that is just a point where you cannot compare because the US is setup differently from the UK. Most states have similar deals, so there is a wide range of "local" schools you can choose from.
No we are not talking about different things. True the state standard tests are given to those students in English. However their other math tests are given in Spanish! Immersion means just that: they spend their days doing everything in a different language. They study grammar for both languages, but otherwise everything about the school is conducted in Spanish.
Only some do. Typically those who learned English in northern Europe have no problem speaking and writing English better than natives. However those who learned in Asia, rarely get father than a level where it requires all my concentration to make a guess at what they mean. They have a habit of leaving out words that are critical to understanding English.
By northern Europe, I mean everyone I've talked to from Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Latvia, and the Netherlands. (in most cases the sample size is too small to be statistical significant, but others I've talked to seem to agree) The some of the French do just fine, but many others do not try. Some Spanish do, but only a few, and it seems to take them more effort to reach that point. (this is sampling Mexico, Porto Rico, and Spain, with reasonably large samples)
My experience is grammar checkers make things worse. To shut the stupid thing up you put commas where a comma isn't needed, change words that are clear enough. Spelling checkers help. Grammar checkers are a sign that you need help from someone better.
I agree with everything excpet that very last sentence. More than once I have read my message, before sending. Then a day latter I read the replys and I'm embarresed at how horrid it is.
If anyone has a solution to this, please let me know.
You are guilty of the same thing you accused the parent of. True the worst education states all went for Bush, but many excellent states (iowa, North Dakota, etc) did too. It happens that Kerry didn't get any states where education is poor, but the implication that educated people voted for Kerry, while stupid people voted Bush is incorrect.
I know several parrents who send their children to immersion schools. Despite the kids growing up in an english only home, by 6th grade they are fluent in Spanish or French, AND they do at least as well as their peers who go to standard english only schools!
You are missing the biggest factor: the parents of those kids care enough to make the kids learn.
Either I'm not an immigrant, because I was born in the US, or the "Native Americans" are immigrants too. The best modern science can come up with, human kind started out from Africa. So if you do not live in Africa, you are an immigrant, no matter where you live.
The "Native Americans" came via land bridge from Asia, while the rest of us came a little latter by boat (or plane today). There is some evidence that there may have been a socity before the "Native Americans", but I don't know if that has ever been credited.
Most circular saws are designed for the left handed person! It wasn't until a few years ago that people started noticing that a "blade left" saw, designed for left handed people is easier and safe for a right handed person to use.
Note, there are some operations that are more dangerous for a rightie on a blade left say", but overall a right handed person is better off with a blade left saw. (good lucking finding one though, they are rare)
I cannot recall the last time I did math. I'm pretty sure when I did I just pulled up the calculator on my computer, because it was there. This would have been several months ago though, face it, basic arithmetic is a useful skill that you need to know how to do with paper an pencil, but you don't really use. Knowing arithmetic is required for several more advanced courses, but isn't useful in itself. Those courses are often more useful in teaching you to think through hard abstract problems for that matter.
My best guess as to the last time I did math I was doing arithmetic in both hex and decimal. I'm not sure what 0x45f + 36 is, but I've often needed numbers like that.
Careful here. Are you looking at Americans as a whole (there are nearly 300 million of us), or the small group you hang out with. It is quite likely that you are looking at the latter, and also quite likely that the crowd you hang out with, is not the type of crowd that would be offended by what would offend the "typical American".
You misunderstand. I'm just making a token acknowledgment that Fox leans to the right, not trying to claim that Fox leans to the left. (Though I could find people far enough to the right to consider Fox leftist) They are not enough to make up for the majority of the news media leaning to the left however.
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Hmm.... OpenCC is the only one of those that does not exist and fully functional today. LibC is, and always has been a part of OpenBSD. Linux is a kernel that looks a lot like Unix, so is the OpenBSD kernel. There is even a linux compatibility mode for your linux apps.
I often run X remotely. At my last job I used to run FrameMaker Solaris, displayed on my FreeBSD machine. Come to think of it, everything I did at that job was remote X because they put easily maintainable NCD X servers on the desktop and ran our applications on servers in the back room. (which was properly cooled and power conditioned)
Still use remote X so that I can use the monitor and keyboard (real model M) on my slow desktop, to my laptop with a much faster processor.
I don't know too many people with a Cray supercomputer on their desktop, those who display complex analysis from the Cray may be using remote X. (depending on the app, there are a number of ways to do this) This is a common situation in some settings.
If you don't use remote X you are limiting yourself.
Last January at Wine Conf I sat next to a reactOs developer, and he had reactOs running on his laptop. Sometimes he even kept it up for as much as 2 minutes! A record Windows 98 was unable to touch that day. (the joys of a broken power supply, everytime someone breathed he had to reboot)
First of all, giving should be year round. Odds are family obligations this time of year take a lot of your free cash. Even if you could give, it is sometimes a good idea to put a little extra into retirement accounts if you are not up to the yearly max. (See a professional for advice, and you need to consider your own situation) I'm not saying give to yourself first, but there are many reasons this should be a month where you might give less than normal. But only if there is a normal.
First of all, give blood if you can. The restrictions are so tough that most of you cannot, but for those who can, please give often! In the same note, make sure you have an organ donor card filled out with the state.
Next, check your charities. I refuse to give to the United Way because they spend so much on promotion. (nearly half the money you give them isn't spent on good causes) Unfortunately they do know the small causes that you should be giving to, so I can't say they are evil, just I don't like them. Don't give to them unless you are at a loss for anything else to give to.
I give to Ducks Unlimited every spring when their fund raiser comes up.
Every time I get groceries give $3 to the local food shelf. (my local store will add that onto my bill, or they have a collection point at the exit for foods I buy) It isn't much, but it adds up. (disclaimer, I just started this, my goal is to make this last though)
My local electric co-op rounds all my bills up to the nearest dollar. That $6/year all goes to charity, and I don't even notice. Suggest your utilities do the same.
I'm not going to cover what others have said. The important part is to find what works for you, and then do it.
Yes and no. For the rest of your life, time is likely to be more important than money. However it is likely that at some point in the future you will have a lot of money, and still find time lacking. Please, when you reach that point continue to give both time and money. One is not a substitute for the other. If you don't have money to give you should be living right on the edge of survival. (No TV, no internet, except what is required for work)
As a student don't give money, you don't have it. (even if you do, except for a few rich society is better off if you spend a few years spending it on your education) After you graduate you are likely to have money.
Maybe, but not likely. Depends on how the difference arrived in the first place. Remember, the laws of thermodynamics are not cheated.
If there is a temperature difference between your house and outside, and you do not have any heating or cooling going on, than this can work. Can, because stirling engines like much higher temperature differentials, (several hundred or even thousand degrees) but with proper design this isn't too big a deal.
In the lab the stirling engine can be 60% efficient. The furnace in my house is 85% (they don't make them less than 92 anymore). So for every 60 units of energy I get from the engine, I'm losing 40 to the outside world that my furnace has to make up. Toss in the loss from my furnace and you can see this is a losing proposition in general.
Note that I'm assuming all is normal. If you heat with wood you might want one of these systems because wood works best when you extract the maximum amount of heat, which makes your house too hot, so exchanging some heat for power can be a good idea.
That's 100 miles when the temperature is 70F. Where I live I need to get to work when it is -30F. Batteries, lose most of their capacity at those temperatures, not to mention I need heat on those days (for the windshield, my coat would work for me) which sucks even more power out.
The CEO is a Luddite, so I can't even work from home when it is almost dangerous to drive, so don't bring that up. (unless you offer me a new job)
Solar panels are very inefficient in the real world. 40% exists in the lab, but outside, 10% is doing good. The panels just don't deal with anything other than full sun well.
By contrast, turbines are up to 60%, and turning water to steam is known technology. Overall you are less than 50%, but the biggest solar power systems in the world are steam turning a turbine.
The only reason solar panels are like is they have no moving parts. You can place them flat on a roof, and not thing about them again for 10 years, other than the surplus power they generate. This is perfect for the typical home owner who wouldn't maintain the turbines. Worse yet, boilers have a tendency to go boom if they are not maintained and inspected often.
The real mission for ISS is to keep a lot of smart Russian engineers who know how to build things like ICBMs from working for third world dictators. Nations other than Russia work on it only so they can maintain a fiction that it is an international effort.
If any science is done that is good, but the point is all politics. Considering what these guys can do if the choice comes down to building a bomb for some evil guy or not eating, I'd call ISS a good thing. Nothing to do with science though.
There are two reasons for this. First, people are afraid of it. The load of the entire house sits on foam! Never mind that is is stronger that 2x6 every 16 inches, and more tornado resistant, it is foam and people don't trust it. (Once the house is built you can't tell, but who knows that)
Second it costs more. About 2-3% more than traditional construction. (the panels are about 25% more, but labor is less by enough to make up for most of that) If you live there for more than a few months energy costs will make up the rest.
If your hire someone to build your house you should demand this type of construction - it is better. Most people buy a pre-built house.
The Amish don't really need sugar sensing toilets because their diets are not composed of unhealthy over processed junk foods.
Mostly I agree.
On McMansions: I know some who build his McMansion, and his yearly (not monthly, yearly) heating and cooling bill is just over $100! This is in MN, so the low temp he was heating from was -30, and high was just under 100. He is CEO of a company that makes SIPs (structural insulated panels), and wanted to demonstrate how good his company's products are. Combine that with a ground source heat pump, and his results are duplicateable. (well energy prices have gone up since then, but even $200/year for heating and cooling is dirt cheap)
Many (most?) countries do not accept marrages performed by ship captains. A captain of an unregistered ship (I know of no such thing) is dictator of his own country, but since no other country recognizes his government anything he does is not recognized either. A captain of a registered ship is under the laws of whichever country, and has to follow the laws of that country on ship. Depending on the country his power may be very limited in any legal matters.
However captains are not stupid, nor are the cruise lines. They know there is money to be made in doing marrages at sea. Some of them will license themselves with various governments to do marriages. Once that is done they can perform the marriage, but it isn't under that capacities as a ships captain, it is just something they are allowed to do.
At least in the US nearly anyone can become licensed to perform marriages. Other than judges, priests, can captains of passanger vessels, almost nobody does though.
If you have the grades you can go to pretty much any school in the US you want to (ignoring a few single sex schools and the like). If they admit you, you can afford to go.
Our financial aid system works different (different, not better or worse, there are too many downsides to all systems to make a comparison) from yours. Here you get grants if you are poor or a "minority". Above that, you can get loans for the full amount of the tuition bill. Most students and any school are getting some form of financial aid.
Now I will grant that $30,000/year in loans is going to be expensive to pay off. However if you go to a school that charges that much, you should be smart enough, and dedicated enough that paying it off is no problem after you graduate. If you are lazy and just want to do the minimum to get by, you don't want to go to those high priced schools anyway, and they don't want you.
The state I live in, MN, has approximately as 1/4Th as much land as the UK. However I pay in state tuition rates in Wisconsin, and both Dakotas. (all are approximately the same size), so I can pay local rates over as much geographical area. We have much less population, and our universities so there are less schools total. This is not helped by having one university that is second largest in the nation as far as students, but again that is just a point where you cannot compare because the US is setup differently from the UK. Most states have similar deals, so there is a wide range of "local" schools you can choose from.
No we are not talking about different things. True the state standard tests are given to those students in English. However their other math tests are given in Spanish! Immersion means just that: they spend their days doing everything in a different language. They study grammar for both languages, but otherwise everything about the school is conducted in Spanish.
Only some do. Typically those who learned English in northern Europe have no problem speaking and writing English better than natives. However those who learned in Asia, rarely get father than a level where it requires all my concentration to make a guess at what they mean. They have a habit of leaving out words that are critical to understanding English.
By northern Europe, I mean everyone I've talked to from Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Latvia, and the Netherlands. (in most cases the sample size is too small to be statistical significant, but others I've talked to seem to agree) The some of the French do just fine, but many others do not try. Some Spanish do, but only a few, and it seems to take them more effort to reach that point. (this is sampling Mexico, Porto Rico, and Spain, with reasonably large samples)
My experience is grammar checkers make things worse. To shut the stupid thing up you put commas where a comma isn't needed, change words that are clear enough. Spelling checkers help. Grammar checkers are a sign that you need help from someone better.
I agree with everything excpet that very last sentence. More than once I have read my message, before sending. Then a day latter I read the replys and I'm embarresed at how horrid it is.
If anyone has a solution to this, please let me know.
You are guilty of the same thing you accused the parent of. True the worst education states all went for Bush, but many excellent states (iowa, North Dakota, etc) did too. It happens that Kerry didn't get any states where education is poor, but the implication that educated people voted for Kerry, while stupid people voted Bush is incorrect.
I know several parrents who send their children to immersion schools. Despite the kids growing up in an english only home, by 6th grade they are fluent in Spanish or French, AND they do at least as well as their peers who go to standard english only schools!
You are missing the biggest factor: the parents of those kids care enough to make the kids learn.
Either I'm not an immigrant, because I was born in the US, or the "Native Americans" are immigrants too. The best modern science can come up with, human kind started out from Africa. So if you do not live in Africa, you are an immigrant, no matter where you live.
The "Native Americans" came via land bridge from Asia, while the rest of us came a little latter by boat (or plane today). There is some evidence that there may have been a socity before the "Native Americans", but I don't know if that has ever been credited.
Most circular saws are designed for the left handed person! It wasn't until a few years ago that people started noticing that a "blade left" saw, designed for left handed people is easier and safe for a right handed person to use.
Note, there are some operations that are more dangerous for a rightie on a blade left say", but overall a right handed person is better off with a blade left saw. (good lucking finding one though, they are rare)
I cannot recall the last time I did math. I'm pretty sure when I did I just pulled up the calculator on my computer, because it was there. This would have been several months ago though, face it, basic arithmetic is a useful skill that you need to know how to do with paper an pencil, but you don't really use. Knowing arithmetic is required for several more advanced courses, but isn't useful in itself. Those courses are often more useful in teaching you to think through hard abstract problems for that matter.
My best guess as to the last time I did math I was doing arithmetic in both hex and decimal. I'm not sure what 0x45f + 36 is, but I've often needed numbers like that.
Careful here. Are you looking at Americans as a whole (there are nearly 300 million of us), or the small group you hang out with. It is quite likely that you are looking at the latter, and also quite likely that the crowd you hang out with, is not the type of crowd that would be offended by what would offend the "typical American".
You misunderstand. I'm just making a token acknowledgment that Fox leans to the right, not trying to claim that Fox leans to the left. (Though I could find people far enough to the right to consider Fox leftist) They are not enough to make up for the majority of the news media leaning to the left however.