Not just big, but for the most part sparse. Most of the US is sprawl - extremely low population density in which every person is entirely dependant on the automobile because they do not live close to anything. Public transportation can only be done well in areas like New York, Boston, Portland OR, etc., whereas suburban and exurban areas will always be dependant on privately owned transportation - effeciency is pretty hard to achieve when each person is expected to have their own vehicle which moves them back and forth 35 miles one way to work and 15 or 20 miles to the grocery store. Rising fuel prices will make such a lifestyle increasingly hard to support. No matter how much effeciency can be squeezed out of new vehicles, it still takes a lot of power to move 3,000 pounds at 65+ mph 60+ miles a day just to get one person to and from their job.
The electron is stripped off which allows the proton to pass through the acid barrier. It then combines with Oxygen to form H2O. The electron cannot pass through the barrier, but reaches the other side at the electrode after passing through the circuit that it powers. It is a chemical reaction and does form H2O - if there were no such reaction, then there would be no energy released.
I not only run an open node, but make sure that my neighbors know that it's there. Failing to secure an access point isn't a lack of user knowledge, it is common courtesy.
Oh, ok. It's all good as long as they were just trying to turn a profit. "That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard" "No, you don't understand - they want to make a buck" "Oh, I didn't know that.... in that case, it's fucking brilliant."
And now, as you can see, we have entered a circular conversation. If the public is informed and aware, we have a functioning system. If they allow themselves to be controlled by a consolidated media landscape with a limited range of information and discussion, a limited range of ideas, and a limited range of perspective, then we don't. If people actively seek information then they can make informed decisions on how they vote, the ideas that they themselves try to promote, and can help to provide others with enough information and point them toward sources of information.
1 Actively seek to be informed, be able to make informed decisions.
2 What decisions, the system doesn't work.
3 If people are informed, the system will work.
4 But they aren't.
5) Goto 1.
If the story is accurate, and if it is not being reported by US news outlets, then yes. If you have been conditioned to think that Al Jazeera is to be automatically dismissed as a propaganda outlet, then the bias in our media outlets has done its job very well. Seek information, seek differeing views, read and listen to views from as wide of a variety of sources as possible - even if they are views that you do not agree with. Getting your news or information from a handful of sources, or worse yet choosing to get your news only from sources that hold a bias with which you personally agree will leave you ill-informed and in a poor position to make informed decisions and to form informed opinions. Personally, I fall far to the left, yet I realize that if I were to only listen to, say Air America, I would be no better informed than those who only watch Fox News.
That is not what is meant in this context. The "rod" that will be poking through the side of your engine block when you decide to run at 6,000 RPM with no oil for an hour is the CONNECTING ROD... That thar thing that ties your piston to your crank. The only engines that you will find without these would engines without pistons, ie an electric motor or a wankle or other rotary engine. Nice try, though.
You think that the engine will lock due to an electrical failure? I would love to see an explanation of that one. I don't know of any engine with a "throw rod now" button. If you are still in gear, then yes the engine will still be turning as you coast to a stop. Of course, as long as the engine is turning then you also still have power brakes and steering as well.
Wow, have you ever driven a car? Do you have the slightest clue how your steering or brakes work? I would suggest that you find out. Why, exactly, would you ever begin to think that the car would suddenly become "uncontrollable", regardless of what speed it is traveling just due to a failure of electronics? If you suddenly have no ignition and therefore no spark, your engine will die. That's it. If your headlights were to be lost as well, that would rather suck if you were traveling at high speed on a country road with no street lights - but that has nothing to do with the vehicle becoming uncontrollable, that just means that the driver can't see where the hell he is going. You steering is not electrical or electronic at all, I don't care what you are driving. Once your engine stops, you will no longer have a power steering pump, which means that you won't be able to whip around a corner with one finger on the wheel, but you will still be able to steer and bring the car to a safe stop. The same goes for brakes, you won't have power assist so you will have to use some muscle and push that brake peddle down, but you will still be able to stop/slow the vehicle.
If the box doesn't say it works with Linux, I have no idea why people assume that it will.
Yea, I'm sure you've got tons of hardware right now that actually said it would work with Linux on the box. I haven't run Windows in over 10 years, and I have had very few hardware compatibility problems. When buying new hardware, I check first to see what works and what is recommended, and then I check to see if any on that list is available in the stores near me. And guess what, I don't think I have ever bought a piece of hardware that actually said on the box it was supported under Linux.
It isn't flame bait. If you have applications that you can't live without that only run under Windows, run Windows under a VM for those rare occasions that you will need it until you can find replacements. And if your problem is games, then go get a playstation/xbox/whatever - the pain that Windows will cause is not justified by the need to play Slaughterfest 3 or Unreal Shooter. Better yet, read a book, get out of the house, talk to real people that don't have to be rendered on your screen. Dual booting Windows is just dumb, if too many people start doing it, how long do you think it will be before there are viruses which infect your OS X partition while you are running Windows? Windows is not secure enough and should not be given access to the actual system - at least with a VM, you can back up the disk image and simply revert to a clean install on a regular basis without it having the ability or opportunity to access your actual hard drive.
You can adblock content from any address you want. If, for instance, fastclick.net is trying to pump out flash ads as well as others, then I wouldn't know 'cause fastclick.net is in my adblock filter.
That isn't a good sign that security is improving, it is just a sign that people have gotten so used to Windows that they think needing anti-virus software is perfectly reasonable and normal. Better security would mean less people NEED such tools because they aren't running Windows.
This is pathetic! Just quit running Windows already! Why in the hell would you be buying multiple anti-virus programs and multiple anti-spyware programs instead of just getting rid of the damn problem?! Just quit for God's sake! Run Linux, if that scares you, then get a Mac, but why don't you quit whining about your damn problems with viruses and spyware, 'cause frankly it is your choice to deal with all of that crap. The rest of us choose NOT to put up with it, and we don't need to listen to you constantly talking about your self-inflicted pain!!!!
That is one thing that has amazed me about Ubuntu, actually. I have run *MANY* distros over the last 10+ years, and have not run Windows since version 3.1 in 1995. I am used to having to do some work to get my X configuration correct, to get sound working at all, etc. I am now running Ubuntu, and have not had to touch a single configuration file. This is on a laptop, an eMachines M6805. The wide screen display (1280x800) was correctly configured - I had naturally expected it to choose 1024x768 and have to edit the xorg.conf to fix it. Sound works. It detected the wireless and built in ethernet, allowed me to select the wireless and enter my WEP key during installation, even the media keys (volume, mail, etc.) were properly configured. Later, I had to install Windows XP in order to load maps onto my GPS - since this machine is designed to run Windows, I didn't expect to have any compatibility issues, but *surprise*! The screen resolution was wrong, the wireless card was not detected at all, sound does not work. I don't know if it configured the media keys correctly or not as I have only had to run Windows twice, once to load maps and later to setup my DSL which unfortunately could only be done by running the Windows coaster which SBC sent me. I assume that all that doesn't work under Windows could be fixed by hunting around for drivers, but the simple fact that no such work was needed under Ubuntu whereas Windows is unable to make use of all of this Windows hardware was quite a surprise.
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The real advantage of hydrogen over batteries is charge time. It is a whole lot quicker to fill up tanks than to recharge battery packs.
Not just big, but for the most part sparse. Most of the US is sprawl - extremely low population density in which every person is entirely dependant on the automobile because they do not live close to anything. Public transportation can only be done well in areas like New York, Boston, Portland OR, etc., whereas suburban and exurban areas will always be dependant on privately owned transportation - effeciency is pretty hard to achieve when each person is expected to have their own vehicle which moves them back and forth 35 miles one way to work and 15 or 20 miles to the grocery store. Rising fuel prices will make such a lifestyle increasingly hard to support. No matter how much effeciency can be squeezed out of new vehicles, it still takes a lot of power to move 3,000 pounds at 65+ mph 60+ miles a day just to get one person to and from their job.
The electron is stripped off which allows the proton to pass through the acid barrier. It then combines with Oxygen to form H2O. The electron cannot pass through the barrier, but reaches the other side at the electrode after passing through the circuit that it powers. It is a chemical reaction and does form H2O - if there were no such reaction, then there would be no energy released.
I not only run an open node, but make sure that my neighbors know that it's there. Failing to secure an access point isn't a lack of user knowledge, it is common courtesy.
Oh, ok. It's all good as long as they were just trying to turn a profit. "That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard" "No, you don't understand - they want to make a buck" "Oh, I didn't know that.... in that case, it's fucking brilliant."
Heh, read the parent and grandparent of the message that you just responded to, then you might understand the thread a little better :-)
And now, as you can see, we have entered a circular conversation. If the public is informed and aware, we have a functioning system. If they allow themselves to be controlled by a consolidated media landscape with a limited range of information and discussion, a limited range of ideas, and a limited range of perspective, then we don't. If people actively seek information then they can make informed decisions on how they vote, the ideas that they themselves try to promote, and can help to provide others with enough information and point them toward sources of information. 1 Actively seek to be informed, be able to make informed decisions. 2 What decisions, the system doesn't work. 3 If people are informed, the system will work. 4 But they aren't. 5) Goto 1.
Oh, I'm sorry I did not need to offend you. You see most of us live in Democratic nations. Where exactly do you live?
If the story is accurate, and if it is not being reported by US news outlets, then yes. If you have been conditioned to think that Al Jazeera is to be automatically dismissed as a propaganda outlet, then the bias in our media outlets has done its job very well. Seek information, seek differeing views, read and listen to views from as wide of a variety of sources as possible - even if they are views that you do not agree with. Getting your news or information from a handful of sources, or worse yet choosing to get your news only from sources that hold a bias with which you personally agree will leave you ill-informed and in a poor position to make informed decisions and to form informed opinions. Personally, I fall far to the left, yet I realize that if I were to only listen to, say Air America, I would be no better informed than those who only watch Fox News.
That is not what is meant in this context. The "rod" that will be poking through the side of your engine block when you decide to run at 6,000 RPM with no oil for an hour is the CONNECTING ROD... That thar thing that ties your piston to your crank. The only engines that you will find without these would engines without pistons, ie an electric motor or a wankle or other rotary engine. Nice try, though.
You think that the engine will lock due to an electrical failure? I would love to see an explanation of that one. I don't know of any engine with a "throw rod now" button. If you are still in gear, then yes the engine will still be turning as you coast to a stop. Of course, as long as the engine is turning then you also still have power brakes and steering as well.
Wow, have you ever driven a car? Do you have the slightest clue how your steering or brakes work? I would suggest that you find out. Why, exactly, would you ever begin to think that the car would suddenly become "uncontrollable", regardless of what speed it is traveling just due to a failure of electronics? If you suddenly have no ignition and therefore no spark, your engine will die. That's it. If your headlights were to be lost as well, that would rather suck if you were traveling at high speed on a country road with no street lights - but that has nothing to do with the vehicle becoming uncontrollable, that just means that the driver can't see where the hell he is going. You steering is not electrical or electronic at all, I don't care what you are driving. Once your engine stops, you will no longer have a power steering pump, which means that you won't be able to whip around a corner with one finger on the wheel, but you will still be able to steer and bring the car to a safe stop. The same goes for brakes, you won't have power assist so you will have to use some muscle and push that brake peddle down, but you will still be able to stop/slow the vehicle.
It isn't flame bait. If you have applications that you can't live without that only run under Windows, run Windows under a VM for those rare occasions that you will need it until you can find replacements. And if your problem is games, then go get a playstation/xbox/whatever - the pain that Windows will cause is not justified by the need to play Slaughterfest 3 or Unreal Shooter. Better yet, read a book, get out of the house, talk to real people that don't have to be rendered on your screen. Dual booting Windows is just dumb, if too many people start doing it, how long do you think it will be before there are viruses which infect your OS X partition while you are running Windows? Windows is not secure enough and should not be given access to the actual system - at least with a VM, you can back up the disk image and simply revert to a clean install on a regular basis without it having the ability or opportunity to access your actual hard drive.
You can adblock content from any address you want. If, for instance, fastclick.net is trying to pump out flash ads as well as others, then I wouldn't know 'cause fastclick.net is in my adblock filter.
I take it you have never used, or known anyone who used Windows. It only takes a few minutes of exposure to see how bad it really is.
I take it you don't have Firefox with AdBlock.
Jesus, could they have put any more ads in that damn video? Now I remember why I quit watching TV.
That isn't a good sign that security is improving, it is just a sign that people have gotten so used to Windows that they think needing anti-virus software is perfectly reasonable and normal. Better security would mean less people NEED such tools because they aren't running Windows.
This is pathetic! Just quit running Windows already! Why in the hell would you be buying multiple anti-virus programs and multiple anti-spyware programs instead of just getting rid of the damn problem?! Just quit for God's sake! Run Linux, if that scares you, then get a Mac, but why don't you quit whining about your damn problems with viruses and spyware, 'cause frankly it is your choice to deal with all of that crap. The rest of us choose NOT to put up with it, and we don't need to listen to you constantly talking about your self-inflicted pain!!!!
I didn't buy the machine new, and since I needed to install Linux the copy of Windows XP which was installed was promptly replaced.
That is one thing that has amazed me about Ubuntu, actually. I have run *MANY* distros over the last 10+ years, and have not run Windows since version 3.1 in 1995. I am used to having to do some work to get my X configuration correct, to get sound working at all, etc. I am now running Ubuntu, and have not had to touch a single configuration file. This is on a laptop, an eMachines M6805. The wide screen display (1280x800) was correctly configured - I had naturally expected it to choose 1024x768 and have to edit the xorg.conf to fix it. Sound works. It detected the wireless and built in ethernet, allowed me to select the wireless and enter my WEP key during installation, even the media keys (volume, mail, etc.) were properly configured. Later, I had to install Windows XP in order to load maps onto my GPS - since this machine is designed to run Windows, I didn't expect to have any compatibility issues, but *surprise*! The screen resolution was wrong, the wireless card was not detected at all, sound does not work. I don't know if it configured the media keys correctly or not as I have only had to run Windows twice, once to load maps and later to setup my DSL which unfortunately could only be done by running the Windows coaster which SBC sent me. I assume that all that doesn't work under Windows could be fixed by hunting around for drivers, but the simple fact that no such work was needed under Ubuntu whereas Windows is unable to make use of all of this Windows hardware was quite a surprise.
I won't use Windows without ads, Why the hell would I put up with that?! I couldn't care less if it's free or $199.00 a copy.