Also, Britain has roughly 8 times the "hot burglary" rate of the US, meaning that in the UK, criminals enter your home without bothering to see if you're there first. In the US, they purposely enter when you're not home so they won't get hurt.
In the case of Day of Defeat: Source, they actually do have an achievable "Get All Achievements" achievement. It's called "War Hero", and it's worded "Complete all Achievements", rather than "Complete all other Achievements".
Not only that, but although he can feel he's smarter than the other college grads when he graduated, he's 28, while they're only 22.
By their 29th birthday, he'll have about 6 years of experience doing something tangentially related to what he wanted to eventually do, and 1 year of experience directly related to what he wants to do. Meanwhile, someone who graduated college at 22 will have 7 years of directly-related experience.
Save fuel? Buy a hybrid or electric vehicle. California should start mandating that all manufacturers sell only hybrids or all electric vehicles. Grandfather in vehicles purchased before a certain date and start weening the populous off of petroleum while forcing automakers to make better, less harmful, more efficient (energy wise) vehicles. Period.
The big problem with all-electric vehicles is that they're only good as commuters. If you actually want to go somewhere in your car, they're useless, because after their range runs out, they take forever to charge back up. The figures for the Tesla, for example: it could go over 200 miles on one charge, but it needs 16 hours to recharge from a normal (British) 13-amp electrical socket (not sure about American sockets).
Meanwhile, even the most efficient hybrids made today can still be beaten by a modern diesel car (and modern diesels are much cleaner than their reputation). See the Honda Insight, compared with the VW Polo BlueMotion. Those cars are roughly comparable in size.
You also seem to forget that not everyone uses their vehicles for transporting themselves to and from their office. Personally, I'd love to have the ability for my car to turn off its engine when I'm stuck at a red light, but for some people, the electrical engine would never do any work, and they'd be paying extra for an unused battery and engine, and lugging all that weight around, driving down their gas-powered engine's efficiency.
Personally, I'm waiting for hydrogen fuel cell cars. No more oil needed, in a platform that allows continuous driving with only the need to stop every once 300 miles for a few minutes to fill the tank back to capacity. Until then, I'll keep my 10-year-old V6, and just lay off the gas pedal.
That's the thing: the best thing for our environment is not to replace our current car for a more efficient one, but to keep using the current cars until they're really dead. It may use a bit more oil, but the overall impact is lower.
What the hell were you trying to say with this: "At typical RPMs you use not driving aggressively, car engines can only make well under 100hp." ??? Gibberese to me and patently absurd.
If your car has a manual transmission, try putting it in the highest gear while cruising down the road at 40. Put your foot all the way down. You'll get no torque, and no power. Take a look at a torque-band graph, like this one or this one.
With that first one, you can see that the max power of this car is over 220hp, but that's at around 4500rpm. If you drop to 3000rpm, the engine is only producing about 120hp. Most people cruise while their engine is doing less than 2000rpm. It follows logically from that graph that 2000rpm would be less than 100hp.
With the second graph, it's the same thing: about 220hp peak, at 5500rpm. Drop to 2500rpm, and the engine's producing less than 100hp.
Even if the degradation caused by a good turntable is minimized, it's still a worry for me. If there was an album that I listened to on a near-daily basis for years, I think even a good turntable would cause a quality loss over time.
At this point, I think I'll just hope that artists start releasing digital music in greater-than-CD quality, like Trent Reznor has already done (24/96 FLAC. I'll agree the man has musical talent, but Nine Inch Nails isn't music that I can listen to on a regular basis.
Sherlock Holmes: "Watson you fool, didn't you smell the eel pie on his breath? He's obviously the Muttonchop Murderer!" Reader: "Well obviously I didn't, cause I can't smell anything in the story!"
I'm middle-aged and a lot of the people I grew up with love Pink Floyd and "Stairway to Heaven".
Sorry, I think my point with that statement was unclear. Most middle-age people I know do worship at the altar of "Stairway to Heaven", and I was speculating that it's largely because it was THE canonical song to play at the end of a dance.
Same here. Not only do I love old music but I'd like to get a turntable to play it on, there are a couple of stores near me that sells vinyl records. I went into one to browse and almost wanted to run to the store to buy a turntable when I came across an Otis Redding album with "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" on it. I love that song. I don't listen to music much now but the last performers I liked and bought a CD of was Norah Jones and Neko Case.
I'd love to buy some vinyl, but the main problem I have with it is the inherent degradation of the physical medium that you get just from playing it. Once laser turntables become available for a reasonable price I might reconsider (and I think that will happen, even if it takes 20 years), but I'd be too afraid to play my vinyl for fear of ruining it.
If I had amazing equipment then I'd love to take every record as soon as I bought it, and rip it to a 24/192.wav file, but that's not too feasible. So for now, I'll take my 16/44.1 CDs, and rip them. That way I can listen to a perfect reproduction of the CD master, at least.
I can guarantee that in 15 years, twentysomethings will be playing hits of the past decade (meaning 2000-2010), saying "Man, music was good back then, now it's all crap!".
As Volante pointed out, you don't remember the truly horrifying music of the 70s, 80s, and 90s, because it's not memorable.
My grandfather thought my dad's music was crap; he preferred to listen to Dean Martin. My dad thought my music was crap; he preferred to listen to Led Zeppelin. I think the music of today is crap; I prefer to listen to old Metallica.
Everyone loves the music they grew up with. In most cases, that's always been the popular bands on the radio, MTV, or the school dance (how many middle-aged people worship at the altar of "Stairway to Heaven"?)
Notice also that with the exception of public domain, almost all music made outside the past 5 years is owned by an RIAA label. If anything, it's in their best interest for young people to be more interested in discovering "their parents' music" than in finding new, up-and-coming bands, who may not be signed to one of their labels.
I love my old music, but there's quite a lot of good music still being made, in every genre. It just so happens that the radio music is drifting towards a more "metal" sound at the moment, which likely isn't your thing. But if you're trying to get away from RIAA-produced music, you actually need to find new material.
All this talk about what should go inside the kernel is pointless now that for years we've had a modular kernel. You can configure in or out what ever you like. If you want a user space file system you can have that or not have it. It's all very configurable.
Yay, now we get to argue over what the default should be!
I'm a relative newbie, but don't you need some filesystem support in the kernel so you can load the modules off the disk?
Like say you had three non-swap partitions: //boot/movies / is EXT4 /boot is EXT2 /movies is something else, like XFS, ZFS, ReiserFS
Wouldn't you need EXT4 support in the kernel so you could load the rest of the OS? Then you could use whatever (possibly even a userland module) to mount/movies...
Someone please enlighten me, I don't know much about the kernel.
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You know what? There is NO Easter Bunny! Over there, that's just a guy in a suit!
Also, Britain has roughly 8 times the "hot burglary" rate of the US, meaning that in the UK, criminals enter your home without bothering to see if you're there first. In the US, they purposely enter when you're not home so they won't get hurt.
How about Kennesaw, Georgia?
You dumb bastard, it's not a schooner, it's a sailboat!
Don't forget, the red spot lost its color before a black spot started appearing inside it.
It's the only way to be sure.
moviegeeks
Pfft. I read the whole book series. He made four books, only two of which were made into movies.
In the case of Day of Defeat: Source, they actually do have an achievable "Get All Achievements" achievement. It's called "War Hero", and it's worded "Complete all Achievements", rather than "Complete all other Achievements".
Not only that, but although he can feel he's smarter than the other college grads when he graduated, he's 28, while they're only 22.
By their 29th birthday, he'll have about 6 years of experience doing something tangentially related to what he wanted to eventually do, and 1 year of experience directly related to what he wants to do. Meanwhile, someone who graduated college at 22 will have 7 years of directly-related experience.
Although I agree with your sentiment, does your university really not have a VPN?
Only 4 bytes required, as long as we keep using IPv4!
Save fuel? Buy a hybrid or electric vehicle. California should start mandating that all manufacturers sell only hybrids or all electric vehicles. Grandfather in vehicles purchased before a certain date and start weening the populous off of petroleum while forcing automakers to make better, less harmful, more efficient (energy wise) vehicles. Period.
The big problem with all-electric vehicles is that they're only good as commuters. If you actually want to go somewhere in your car, they're useless, because after their range runs out, they take forever to charge back up. The figures for the Tesla, for example: it could go over 200 miles on one charge, but it needs 16 hours to recharge from a normal (British) 13-amp electrical socket (not sure about American sockets).
Meanwhile, even the most efficient hybrids made today can still be beaten by a modern diesel car (and modern diesels are much cleaner than their reputation). See the Honda Insight, compared with the VW Polo BlueMotion. Those cars are roughly comparable in size.
You also seem to forget that not everyone uses their vehicles for transporting themselves to and from their office. Personally, I'd love to have the ability for my car to turn off its engine when I'm stuck at a red light, but for some people, the electrical engine would never do any work, and they'd be paying extra for an unused battery and engine, and lugging all that weight around, driving down their gas-powered engine's efficiency.
Personally, I'm waiting for hydrogen fuel cell cars. No more oil needed, in a platform that allows continuous driving with only the need to stop every once 300 miles for a few minutes to fill the tank back to capacity. Until then, I'll keep my 10-year-old V6, and just lay off the gas pedal.
That's the thing: the best thing for our environment is not to replace our current car for a more efficient one, but to keep using the current cars until they're really dead. It may use a bit more oil, but the overall impact is lower.
What the hell were you trying to say with this: "At typical RPMs you use not driving aggressively, car engines can only make well under 100hp." ??? Gibberese to me and patently absurd.
If your car has a manual transmission, try putting it in the highest gear while cruising down the road at 40. Put your foot all the way down. You'll get no torque, and no power. Take a look at a torque-band graph, like this one or this one.
With that first one, you can see that the max power of this car is over 220hp, but that's at around 4500rpm. If you drop to 3000rpm, the engine is only producing about 120hp. Most people cruise while their engine is doing less than 2000rpm. It follows logically from that graph that 2000rpm would be less than 100hp.
With the second graph, it's the same thing: about 220hp peak, at 5500rpm. Drop to 2500rpm, and the engine's producing less than 100hp.
On ./ Simpsons quotes can never invite Godwin's Law.
Let me give you a hint, if you haven't seen that episode in a while:
"Those are your cigarettes?"
"I'm in flavor country."
"Both of them?!?"
"It's a big country."
I didn't look it up to see if that's an exact quote, so it may be a paraphrase.
Yeah, and the Wife Acceptance Factor of a new router probably won't be high for many people.
"You can get the new router, but that means you can't get any more computer hardware this year."
Even if the degradation caused by a good turntable is minimized, it's still a worry for me. If there was an album that I listened to on a near-daily basis for years, I think even a good turntable would cause a quality loss over time.
At this point, I think I'll just hope that artists start releasing digital music in greater-than-CD quality, like Trent Reznor has already done (24/96 FLAC. I'll agree the man has musical talent, but Nine Inch Nails isn't music that I can listen to on a regular basis.
I prefer the racketeering claim
Sherlock Holmes: "Watson you fool, didn't you smell the eel pie on his breath? He's obviously the Muttonchop Murderer!"
Reader: "Well obviously I didn't, cause I can't smell anything in the story!"
I'm middle-aged and a lot of the people I grew up with love Pink Floyd and "Stairway to Heaven".
Sorry, I think my point with that statement was unclear. Most middle-age people I know do worship at the altar of "Stairway to Heaven", and I was speculating that it's largely because it was THE canonical song to play at the end of a dance.
Same here. Not only do I love old music but I'd like to get a turntable to play it on, there are a couple of stores near me that sells vinyl records. I went into one to browse and almost wanted to run to the store to buy a turntable when I came across an Otis Redding album with "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" on it. I love that song. I don't listen to music much now but the last performers I liked and bought a CD of was Norah Jones and Neko Case.
I'd love to buy some vinyl, but the main problem I have with it is the inherent degradation of the physical medium that you get just from playing it. Once laser turntables become available for a reasonable price I might reconsider (and I think that will happen, even if it takes 20 years), but I'd be too afraid to play my vinyl for fear of ruining it.
If I had amazing equipment then I'd love to take every record as soon as I bought it, and rip it to a 24/192 .wav file, but that's not too feasible. So for now, I'll take my 16/44.1 CDs, and rip them. That way I can listen to a perfect reproduction of the CD master, at least.
Most likely, they can also prove that she doesn't have the technical know-how to set up such a configuration.
Not defined, just popularized.
I can guarantee that in 15 years, twentysomethings will be playing hits of the past decade (meaning 2000-2010), saying "Man, music was good back then, now it's all crap!".
As Volante pointed out, you don't remember the truly horrifying music of the 70s, 80s, and 90s, because it's not memorable.
My grandfather thought my dad's music was crap; he preferred to listen to Dean Martin. My dad thought my music was crap; he preferred to listen to Led Zeppelin. I think the music of today is crap; I prefer to listen to old Metallica.
Everyone loves the music they grew up with. In most cases, that's always been the popular bands on the radio, MTV, or the school dance (how many middle-aged people worship at the altar of "Stairway to Heaven"?)
Notice also that with the exception of public domain, almost all music made outside the past 5 years is owned by an RIAA label. If anything, it's in their best interest for young people to be more interested in discovering "their parents' music" than in finding new, up-and-coming bands, who may not be signed to one of their labels.
I love my old music, but there's quite a lot of good music still being made, in every genre. It just so happens that the radio music is drifting towards a more "metal" sound at the moment, which likely isn't your thing. But if you're trying to get away from RIAA-produced music, you actually need to find new material.
Great. The only two ISPs in my area are AT&T and Comcast.
All this talk about what should go inside the kernel is pointless now that for years we've had a modular kernel. You can configure in or out what ever you like. If you want a user space file system you can have that or not have it. It's all very configurable.
Yay, now we get to argue over what the default should be!
I'm a relative newbie, but don't you need some filesystem support in the kernel so you can load the modules off the disk?
Like say you had three non-swap partitions: / /boot /movies
/boot is EXT2
/movies is something else, like XFS, ZFS, ReiserFS
/ is EXT4
Wouldn't you need EXT4 support in the kernel so you could load the rest of the OS? Then you could use whatever (possibly even a userland module) to mount /movies...
Someone please enlighten me, I don't know much about the kernel.