Seriously, I think this will be the final nail in Intel's coffin. They think they can wait out for Barcelona and then release their stockpiles of their new Prypiat chips, but does anybody honestly care anymore? They are taking it in the shorts so hard these days, AMD just keeps on dishing it out and Intel keeps winding up with a black eye. Does anybody know anyone who is buying Intel parts these days?
Ah, so that's why Apple is using Intel chips? That's why the MacBook and MacBook Pro is such a good notebook? That's why AMD got that behinds kicked when Intel released the Core/Core2 chips? Go read some benchmarks, kid.
I am the owner of a shared hosting provider, and partially I need to rebuke your statement.
Sure, most of our systems do run on the latest LAMP stack (Apache 2, MySQL 5, PHP 5), however we still have some systems runnning PHP4, as clients insist on using old software like phpBB (for example) that doesn't run at all on version 5. Not to mention, those of us who use cPanel need to wait for them to get the entire system stable before we can upgrade.
This combines well for us though - we announced that PHP4 support will officially end September 30th of this year:-D Now we have a reason to say that too.
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Also, we've always been at war with Eastasia.
I have reported you to the secret police. We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia. Remember that. Always.
Ok, I'm just wondering if the developers of this thing smoked too much. With 1,000 acres of grain crops, and a weed population of 200 - 400 plants / acre, how long will it take this thing to weed the field? How does it NOT trample the field? Sure, it costs $70,000, and a sprayer costs $150,000 (which isn't all that true, sprayers are around $30,000 - $70,000) however, that one sprayer can do those 1,000 acres in less than a day. How many 70K robots will it take to do the same work? This "automatation" in agriculture is all jim-dandy, but show me something that makes sense please:)
I agree... this... is... interesting:S.
I'm a farmer, but I can't help say "ROFL!" to this.
We grow thousands of acres per farmer... you couldn't fit one of us inside each greenhouse. Not to mention, how are they planning on harvesting grains, oilseeds, pulse crops, etc? I don't think a combine will fit in that building... Are we going to be doing it by hand? That would really be interesting!
If they want to do this for vegetables, fine. However, for "field" crops, this is just plain nonsense from a bunch of guys who have never even seen a farm.
Ehehee.... You're kidding, right? right?
There's a lot of "farmland" that's unsuitable for use as cropland - it's the same thing here in Canada. Sure, we can grow wheat in this area - at 5 bushels an acre! (that's about ten 20lb bags of flour in a 6,400 square meter area). That'll feed a lot of people!
No, actually I farm 1,096 acres in Manitoba, Canada. If you don't believe me, look up SW, SE, NE, NW 34-28-21W, NW27-28-21, and SW36-27-21. That's my land;).
I don't know what idea you have of farmers, but you are really, really clueless. You punch a card, you work from 8 to 5. We don't, we work from 5 AM to past midnight, every day. If we have cattle, we work nights too. For 40 days a year, I have on average 2 hours of sleep. I have days where I go for 35 - 40 hours without shut-eye. First, do that, then we'll talk:).
If you have problems with the local government, join the club. We as farmers have issues here too (ironically, our conselors are usually city folk, who say we don't need a 40ft driveway... THE F*** COMBINE IS 42FT WIDE!!!). Are some farmers pigs, bastards, environmental poluters, etc? Yes. I know many of them myself. Are we all like that? Certainly not. I use ammonia, but at 40 - 50 lbs/acre. I have the tanks in my yard, inside of a shed, and there's a lock on the valves, AND on the shed to make sure no one screws with it. Do I use chemicals? Yes, as recommended, only one pass, and with very long intervals between spray & harvest.
Just because there are a few rotten apples doesn't mean the whole industry is bad;)
I'm a farmer myself, and it's articles like this, from urbanites who have no idea what agriculture actually entails that piss me off.
Is Ethanol raising base commodity prices? Yes. Wheat is up $4 / bushel (used for flour), Barley is up $2.00 / bushel (Used for beer, among other things), Canola is up about $30 / tonne (Used for oil), Flax is up about $5.00 / bushel (used for healthfood).
Are these price-hikes due to Ethanol/Biodiesel? At least partially, yes.
But, why is food going up? I see a lot of people are blaming farmers for this... we are only now starting to make a living off of one of the most intense jobs in the world. You all make $30 - $50k a year, at least! We make $10K, and that's in a good year. You work 9-5, we work 5 - midnight, if not longer.
This brings me back to my point... let's look at peas, a bushel of them is worth $5.00 at the farmgate. In the store, you're looking at around $200 / bushel for whole peas! The only processing done on them, is cleaning and packaging. Do you see where the profit is?
Let's look at Oats: We make $2 / bushel. A bushel of rolled oats (Quaker Oats, etc) is roughly $270. I mean, it may cost some to process it, but it never is that much.
It will be an ugly sight when the peons finally realize they have been suckered: water table lowered; cow and pig manure everywhere; spending more money instead of less on the commute while three local farmers get fat and bask in their pilfered dough
This comment shows how dumb you are. Farmers (I'm one myself) aren't getting rich, we're barely surviving. Our investment in our businesses are in the millions, our workload is three times that of your average 9 to 5 job, and we make pennies an hour, or, about $10 / acre.
Ethanol cannot be our only source of fuel, but it is helping us as farmers make a living, and heck, we've been ignored by city-folk long enough. Now, it's time for us to earn a decent living; if this means that the urban population needs to pay more for food, so be it - perhaps they'll go and see why a pound of beef in the store is $8.00 (at least), and we're getting paid $0.95.
I should have mentioned... this was on an older (was it 5.10?) versin of Ubuntu. Now, the HPlip, Epson, and even Lexmark drivers are installed by default, so basically "plug'n play".
Well, I would have to disagree with you on that. I've been running nothing but Linux on my workstations for over two years now, and don't have any issues with hardware compatibility. We use an HP 6510 Officejet all-in-one, and getting it to run under ubuntu was as easy as "sudo apt-get install hplip". When I like to goof off and do some gaming, the Sidewinder2 joystick I have just gets plugged in, and it works. Heck, even the ATI AIW9600 is working under Linux, granted that is a piece of sh**t.
My point here, I guess, is that there is enough compatible hardware out there for Linux, just not *everything* is compatible. If you build a new system, just make sure the hardware you get _does_ work - this is getting a bigger and bigger list all the time.
Convenience is right. The closest theater to here is a 260Km (that's ~156 miles). It's just not feasible to drive that far, catch a flick, and drive back... However, I don't pirate moves - I get them off of the iTunes store. Sure, the quality isn't the same as at a theater, but it's a much better deal!
Indeed, the Liberals were also given money, and if the NDP were in power, the industry would try to give them money too. However, both the NDP and the Liberals listen to the public, to some extent. In case you didn't notice it, Harper does what he wants, when he wants, and how he wants.
Exactly. I was modded -1 flamebait for saying that the Conservatives under Mr. Harper are corrupt, useless, and in this case, going against the general public.
If this were to get into the general media, it would create I firestorm, I believe... As Canadians, we are all about our personal rights and freedoms, and if someone is shown to try and cut into those freedoms, he's in big trouble.
All I hope for, is that it happens sooner than later, I can't take much more of Harper, Ambrose, Strahl, and the rest of them...
Actually, I dug this up from Kubuntu Dapper, and the previous one (sorry, I forgot the name of it). It's a fluke that only happens with Intel onboard AC`97 audio chips. (My *other* computer has no issues, just this one with the 865PERL mobo).
I agree it's a PITA for newbies, but hardly something so hard that it can't be fixed.
It's Easy, I'm assuming you're using Firefox, so fire up Nano and open the file "/etc/firefox/firefoxrc" (as root)
Add this line: FIREFOX_DSP="aoss" (remove FIREFOX_DSP=)
Install the alsa-oss package.
Restart FF, and you are playing sound!
I figure that if we had a majority Liberal gov't that they'd just sleepwalk through its passing if they did anything at all.
That's my point. They wouldn't be doing anything, and thus we wouldn't have this conversation. I'm not going to support a Socio-communist party (the NDP), and in Manitoba there is no Bloc (admittedly, they are the only half-decent party in Canada). Remember, if the Liberals, are, as you say, "for" this type of legistlation, what will it help to get the NDP against it? Liberals + Conservative = overwelming majority in the House of Commons.
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They are at Tim Hortons.
Ah, so that's why Apple is using Intel chips? That's why the MacBook and MacBook Pro is such a good notebook? That's why AMD got that behinds kicked when Intel released the Core/Core2 chips? Go read some benchmarks, kid.
I am the owner of a shared hosting provider, and partially I need to rebuke your statement.
:-D Now we have a reason to say that too.
Sure, most of our systems do run on the latest LAMP stack (Apache 2, MySQL 5, PHP 5), however we still have some systems runnning PHP4, as clients insist on using old software like phpBB (for example) that doesn't run at all on version 5. Not to mention, those of us who use cPanel need to wait for them to get the entire system stable before we can upgrade.
This combines well for us though - we announced that PHP4 support will officially end September 30th of this year
Ok, I'm just wondering if the developers of this thing smoked too much. With 1,000 acres of grain crops, and a weed population of 200 - 400 plants / acre, how long will it take this thing to weed the field? How does it NOT trample the field? Sure, it costs $70,000, and a sprayer costs $150,000 (which isn't all that true, sprayers are around $30,000 - $70,000) however, that one sprayer can do those 1,000 acres in less than a day. How many 70K robots will it take to do the same work? This "automatation" in agriculture is all jim-dandy, but show me something that makes sense please :)
This "Freeman" fellow doesn't inspire Gordon Freeman-like expirements, we should be ok.
I agree... this... is... interesting :S.
I'm a farmer, but I can't help say "ROFL!" to this.
We grow thousands of acres per farmer... you couldn't fit one of us inside each greenhouse. Not to mention, how are they planning on harvesting grains, oilseeds, pulse crops, etc? I don't think a combine will fit in that building... Are we going to be doing it by hand? That would really be interesting!
If they want to do this for vegetables, fine. However, for "field" crops, this is just plain nonsense from a bunch of guys who have never even seen a farm.
Ehehee.... You're kidding, right? right?
There's a lot of "farmland" that's unsuitable for use as cropland - it's the same thing here in Canada. Sure, we can grow wheat in this area - at 5 bushels an acre! (that's about ten 20lb bags of flour in a 6,400 square meter area). That'll feed a lot of people!
I believe that was "How to Stop an Exploding Man". Would be nice to see wether Mr. Jobs, or Mr. Gates explodes :D
No, actually I farm 1,096 acres in Manitoba, Canada. If you don't believe me, look up SW, SE, NE, NW 34-28-21W, NW27-28-21, and SW36-27-21. That's my land ;).
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I don't know what idea you have of farmers, but you are really, really clueless. You punch a card, you work from 8 to 5. We don't, we work from 5 AM to past midnight, every day. If we have cattle, we work nights too. For 40 days a year, I have on average 2 hours of sleep. I have days where I go for 35 - 40 hours without shut-eye. First, do that, then we'll talk
If you have problems with the local government, join the club. We as farmers have issues here too (ironically, our conselors are usually city folk, who say we don't need a 40ft driveway... THE F*** COMBINE IS 42FT WIDE!!!). Are some farmers pigs, bastards, environmental poluters, etc? Yes. I know many of them myself.
Are we all like that? Certainly not. I use ammonia, but at 40 - 50 lbs/acre. I have the tanks in my yard, inside of a shed, and there's a lock on the valves, AND on the shed to make sure no one screws with it. Do I use chemicals? Yes, as recommended, only one pass, and with very long intervals between spray & harvest.
Just because there are a few rotten apples doesn't mean the whole industry is bad
I'm a farmer myself, and it's articles like this, from urbanites who have no idea what agriculture actually entails that piss me off.
Is Ethanol raising base commodity prices? Yes. Wheat is up $4 / bushel (used for flour), Barley is up $2.00 / bushel (Used for beer, among other things), Canola is up about $30 / tonne (Used for oil), Flax is up about $5.00 / bushel (used for healthfood).
Are these price-hikes due to Ethanol/Biodiesel? At least partially, yes.
But, why is food going up? I see a lot of people are blaming farmers for this... we are only now starting to make a living off of one of the most intense jobs in the world. You all make $30 - $50k a year, at least! We make $10K, and that's in a good year. You work 9-5, we work 5 - midnight, if not longer.
This brings me back to my point... let's look at peas, a bushel of them is worth $5.00 at the farmgate. In the store, you're looking at around $200 / bushel for whole peas! The only processing done on them, is cleaning and packaging. Do you see where the profit is?
Let's look at Oats: We make $2 / bushel. A bushel of rolled oats (Quaker Oats, etc) is roughly $270. I mean, it may cost some to process it, but it never is that much.
I could go on, but I think you get my point.
Ethanol cannot be our only source of fuel, but it is helping us as farmers make a living, and heck, we've been ignored by city-folk long enough. Now, it's time for us to earn a decent living; if this means that the urban population needs to pay more for food, so be it - perhaps they'll go and see why a pound of beef in the store is $8.00 (at least), and we're getting paid $0.95.
Well, as long as the only people on the interstate are those texting, it serves them right. We don't need that many daft people on the road anyway.
Background Intelligent Transfer Service - why does it seem so un-ironic that it isn't that "Intelligent"?
I bet it runs under Linux, if you are running Xen or VmWare with Windows on it!
I should have mentioned... this was on an older (was it 5.10?) versin of Ubuntu. Now, the HPlip, Epson, and even Lexmark drivers are installed by default, so basically "plug'n play".
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Well, I would have to disagree with you on that. I've been running nothing but Linux on my workstations for over two years now, and don't have any issues with hardware compatibility. We use an HP 6510 Officejet all-in-one, and getting it to run under ubuntu was as easy as "sudo apt-get install hplip". When I like to goof off and do some gaming, the Sidewinder2 joystick I have just gets plugged in, and it works. Heck, even the ATI AIW9600 is working under Linux, granted that is a piece of sh**t.
My point here, I guess, is that there is enough compatible hardware out there for Linux, just not *everything* is compatible. If you build a new system, just make sure the hardware you get _does_ work - this is getting a bigger and bigger list all the time.
Convenience is right. The closest theater to here is a 260Km (that's ~156 miles). It's just not feasible to drive that far, catch a flick, and drive back... However, I don't pirate moves - I get them off of the iTunes store. Sure, the quality isn't the same as at a theater, but it's a much better deal!
Indeed, the Liberals were also given money, and if the NDP were in power, the industry would try to give them money too. However, both the NDP and the Liberals listen to the public, to some extent. In case you didn't notice it, Harper does what he wants, when he wants, and how he wants.
Exactly. I was modded -1 flamebait for saying that the Conservatives under Mr. Harper are corrupt, useless, and in this case, going against the general public.
If this were to get into the general media, it would create I firestorm, I believe... As Canadians, we are all about our personal rights and freedoms, and if someone is shown to try and cut into those freedoms, he's in big trouble.
All I hope for, is that it happens sooner than later, I can't take much more of Harper, Ambrose, Strahl, and the rest of them...
Better yet!
.giggle !!!! Google does no evil, so they giggle!
Actually, I dug this up from Kubuntu Dapper, and the previous one (sorry, I forgot the name of it). It's a fluke that only happens with Intel onboard AC`97 audio chips. (My *other* computer has no issues, just this one with the 865PERL mobo).
I agree it's a PITA for newbies, but hardly something so hard that it can't be fixed.
It's Easy, I'm assuming you're using Firefox, so fire up Nano and open the file "/etc/firefox/firefoxrc" (as root)
Add this line: FIREFOX_DSP="aoss" (remove FIREFOX_DSP=)
Install the alsa-oss package.
Restart FF, and you are playing sound!