Venezuelan oil production is doing ok. Not great, but ok. What you're saying is more propaganda than truth. The current selling price is a much worse problem than the amount of production.
Venezuela should be producing 3.5 million barrels daily according to their own projections, yet they struggle to produce even half.
The root reason being Chavez' firing of all managers of PDVSA (the oil company) in a national broadcast in 2012, tooting a whistle and pulling out red cards, like a football referee; and the subsequent firing of most employees. This was his short sighted reaction to their joining of a national strike that lasted a month, aimed at pressuring him into leaving office.
These people took years of training and experience to middle eastern countries, making them rich. The new PDVSA only hires people loyal to the government, everything else is secondary, resulting in accident after accident, the biggest of all resulting in one of the biggest explosions in history.
That is why the government is now focused on begging the other OPEC members to lower production. Oil price is their convenient excuse, the real reason is their inability to compete with well run companies.
Add that to their strategy of managing PDVSA as their personal wallet for populist campaigns, as opposed to development and reinvestment in the oil industry.
This is a short summary of what happened to PDVSA, the goose that laid the golden eggs, until Chavez destroyed it.
A major problem with firefox, it doesnt support installed certificates in windows. Chrome does.
What you mean is that it uses its own certificate storage instead of the one provided by the OS. The same happens in Linux.
But what is even more ridiculous is that Firefox and Thunderbird don't even share a certificate storage.
What they should do is implement a build time option like --ca-cert-store=... Then I could specify something like:/etc/ssl/cacert.pem or some special keyword to indicate Windows' thingy.
I am more interested in resource usage than performance, since I use PHP to provide a GUI for embedded devices. Anybody knows of a good benchmark between PHP 5, PHP 6, PHP 7 and HHVM in this area?
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. â" 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' â" Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. -- Emerson
Emerson talks about not being afraid of contradicting yourself over time.
I am talking about the standardization of the measurement system, which would facilitate trade and cooperation between countries.
If anything, this quote argues in favor of the US switching to metric by contradicting this stubborn posture of sticking with the imperial system.
1 mm per year is one foot in 300 years. It's completely plausible that a one foot change could swamp major parts of the United States, not to mention Pacific islands. And they'd feel the effects long before then.
No, 1 mm per year is 0.984252 foot in 300 years. If only there was an easier and more consistent way to convert and express measurements...
If humanity can't even agree on a measurement system, how are we supposed to make the required compromises on global warming issues?
The world is a horrible messed up place. But, eventually, when it comes to discrimination, Israel is going to have to start playing by the same rules as everyone else.
Last time I checked, Mexicans were not free to just go live in the US and eat palak paneer while wearing a sombrero and listening to Beethoven.
Why do Eurpeans insist on saying 'Americans' when they really mean the USA. America consists of two continents and consists of 55 individual and seperate countries. Yet the Eurpeans who pride themselve on their knowlege of geography and being smarter that 'Americans' all insist on calling the USA, America. I do not understand this.
Its not only Europeans, some people in the USA use the term "America" and "USA" interchangeably out of ignorance or perhaps laziness.
But yes, the worst offenders are Europeans. You can find this even in important magazines, such as The Economist.
I understand why people hate systemd, it is like a metastasized and contagious cancer that affects all internal systems and also spreads to new distributions. But there are still a few that haven't succumbed yet.
Being mostly a KDE user, I don't know why everybody hates GNOME 2, can anybody explain this?
KDE has problems, one of which is the disconnection between developers and the rest of the community. The community wasn't happy about the whole "semantic desktop" thing pushed down our throats, but the developers, in complete denial, (of course, they always know better) disregarded this.
This is an interesting reading (read the comments).
Next dunce: Iran, as they just gave up 90% completed nukes in exchange for a piece of stamped paper with, which they can't even cleanse their posteriors, because muslims use water for that purpose. Soon they will be bombed back to stone ages by Tel-Aviv.
First of all, the capital of Israel is Jerusalem, not Tel-Aviv.
Israel could have nuked Iran a long time ago already, but they opted for a less deadly alternative, the Stuxnet virus. The problem is that Stuxnet, just like the recently signed deal, can only delay the bomb, not prevent it.
I share your feelings, I would never buy a phone without an integrated keyboard. I don't care if it adds 5mm to my phone. Unfortunately that limits my options quite a bit.
I also don't understand why phone makers are so obsessed with keeping them thin. I would gladly trade in a few mm for more battery life.
- too expensive for what it is - too heavy - the touchpad is too big and not centered - numeric keyboard is useless most of the time - 3 usb ports? for this size I expected 4 - mini-displayport? why not hdmi?
I would rather buy a normal laptop (2 Kg or less) and a docking station connected to a nice big screen, keyboard and mouse to use at home/office.
And this being a Lenovo, the BIOS is artificially crippled to limit upgrades to just Lenovo "approved" cards.
Hopefully "fix" by removing it entirely. I don't want each and every piece of software to phone home looking for "updates". (That wastes time at startup when you wants things to be quick - especially when travelling and using slow networks. And when I want to browse - the last thing I want is an upgrade offer. "No, I am not about to waste time now - I STARTED the computer to read som mail/news/..."
Upgrades are very competently handled through the distribution these days. I decide when it it time to deal with upgrades, and then I have all sw on the machine upgraded simultaneously. Not just one particular browser. Perhaps windows users are not so lucky - but make an "upgrader addon" specifically for windows then. Don't bother the rest of us with such bloat.
The updating function can be removed at compilation time. I guess that most Linux distros do this. To remove it just add "ac_add_options --disable-updater" to your.mozconfig before compiling.
In windows they have the normal updater (help / about will trigger a manual update), and the Mozilla updater service. The service concept is nice, but it just doesn't work.
We should not ignore historic events just because they don't paint a rosy picture of humanity: the inquisition, the holocaust, the armenian genocide, etc.
Spain will soon approve a law to grant citizenship to the jews expelled from Spain in 1492, this is the right attitude to correct mistakes, not to ignore them. I wonder if Germany will follow.
After buying some Thinkpads X230, I discovered that I can only use the mini-pci slot with cards approved by Lenovo, and included in their stupid BIOS whitelist. I won't buy a Thinkpad again until Lenovo stops this abhorrent practice. And please, no more excuses for this behavior.
I was also watching the Neo900 project for a while, but they made some bad decisions. It's too expensive because they didn't want to compromise on anything, and they decided to add a separator will make a thick phone even thicker. I would have bought it if the price was around 400 euro and it didn't need a separator. Now I'm placing my bets on the Pyra
You are ranting about something that you have no idea about.
480 Euro? More like 900+. 0.5 Gb storage? That is just NAND, on top of that you have MMC and microSD. You can play freeciv while on the train, then rsync saved games to continue playing on your PC. Its basically a Debian tablet with phone capabilities and real keyboard.
I have to agree with him, I visited the website and found no good reason for using Javascript. Websites should at least be able to display it's content without Javascript enabled.
Excellent idea, but why even show a still frame of the ad? Show some cute pictures of cats or something more interesting while the advertisement is being blocked.
Here's a business opportunity:
Basic package: pics of cats Gold package: pics of chicks Free customer: goat.cx
Lenovo doesn't want customers to be able to upgrade their laptops, so they implemented a list of approved mini-pci cards that can be used in them. It's called "bios whitelist".
Therefore if you have a Lenovo laptop you will have to change the whole laptop. Presumably to a different brand that doesn't pull this crap.
I just bought the Lenovo Edge Flex 15 and on Linux the Wifi card doesn't work, period. The only "fix" is to wait until 3.20 kernel adds support. Piece of shit OS or piece of shit Lenovo for not ensuring Linux compatibility? (Anyway, the keyboard sucks, so don't buy it)
You could upgrade the wifi card to something that works in Linux and get 802.11ac at the same time.
Just make sure you get a wifi card that is in the BIOS whitelist. The BIOS whitelist is a list of PCI devices that have been approved by Lenovo for each laptop. If not in the list, the BIOS will refuse to boot. This is just an imposed restriction by Lenovo, decent laptop makers don't do such a thing.
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[...]Maduro doesn't have control of the military. [...]
Source?
(btw, I don't believe any military uprising would be necessary to oust Chavez. If he loses the presidential election, he will leave.)
Well, yes, ever since he died from cancer, he doesn't care so much about staying in office...
Venezuelan oil production is doing ok. Not great, but ok. What you're saying is more propaganda than truth. The current selling price is a much worse problem than the amount of production.
Venezuela should be producing 3.5 million barrels daily according to their own projections, yet they struggle to produce even half.
The root reason being Chavez' firing of all managers of PDVSA (the oil company) in a national broadcast in 2012, tooting a whistle and pulling out red cards, like a football referee; and the subsequent firing of most employees. This was his short sighted reaction to their joining of a national strike that lasted a month, aimed at pressuring him into leaving office.
These people took years of training and experience to middle eastern countries, making them rich. The new PDVSA only hires people loyal to the government, everything else is secondary, resulting in accident after accident, the biggest of all resulting in one of the biggest explosions in history.
That is why the government is now focused on begging the other OPEC members to lower production. Oil price is their convenient excuse, the real reason is their inability to compete with well run companies.
Add that to their strategy of managing PDVSA as their personal wallet for populist campaigns, as opposed to development and reinvestment in the oil industry.
This is a short summary of what happened to PDVSA, the goose that laid the golden eggs, until Chavez destroyed it.
So yeah, its not just about selling price.
It's been 64 bit for almost six years.
$ file /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
Strange, I get a different output:
C:\>file /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
'file' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
A major problem with firefox, it doesnt support installed certificates in windows. Chrome does.
What you mean is that it uses its own certificate storage instead of the one provided by the OS. The same happens in Linux.
But what is even more ridiculous is that Firefox and Thunderbird don't even share a certificate storage.
What they should do is implement a build time option like --ca-cert-store=... /etc/ssl/cacert.pem or some special keyword to indicate Windows' thingy.
Then I could specify something like:
I am more interested in resource usage than performance, since I use PHP to provide a GUI for embedded devices.
Anybody knows of a good benchmark between PHP 5, PHP 6, PHP 7 and HHVM in this area?
In other words, they diverted power to the plasma manifolds.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. â" 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' â" Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. -- Emerson
Emerson talks about not being afraid of contradicting yourself over time.
I am talking about the standardization of the measurement system, which would facilitate trade and cooperation between countries.
If anything, this quote argues in favor of the US switching to metric by contradicting this stubborn posture of sticking with the imperial system.
1 mm per year is one foot in 300 years. It's completely plausible that a one foot change could swamp major parts of the United States, not to mention Pacific islands. And they'd feel the effects long before then.
No, 1 mm per year is 0.984252 foot in 300 years.
If only there was an easier and more consistent way to convert and express measurements...
If humanity can't even agree on a measurement system, how are we supposed to make the required compromises on global warming issues?
The world is a horrible messed up place. But, eventually, when it comes to discrimination, Israel is going to have to start playing by the same rules as everyone else.
Last time I checked, Mexicans were not free to just go live in the US and eat palak paneer while wearing a sombrero and listening to Beethoven.
Why is Israel held to different standards?
Why do Eurpeans insist on saying 'Americans' when they really mean the USA. America consists of two continents and consists of 55 individual and seperate countries. Yet the Eurpeans who pride themselve on their knowlege of geography and being smarter that 'Americans' all insist on calling the USA, America. I do not understand this.
Its not only Europeans, some people in the USA use the term "America" and "USA" interchangeably out of ignorance or perhaps laziness.
But yes, the worst offenders are Europeans. You can find this even in important magazines, such as The Economist.
What the fuck is an f-bomb???
I understand why people hate systemd, it is like a metastasized and contagious cancer that affects all internal systems and also spreads to new distributions.
But there are still a few that haven't succumbed yet.
Being mostly a KDE user, I don't know why everybody hates GNOME 2, can anybody explain this?
KDE has problems, one of which is the disconnection between developers and the rest of the community. The community wasn't happy about the whole "semantic desktop" thing pushed down our throats, but the developers, in complete denial, (of course, they always know better) disregarded this.
This is an interesting reading (read the comments).
Next dunce: Iran, as they just gave up 90% completed nukes in exchange for a piece of stamped paper with, which they can't even cleanse their posteriors, because muslims use water for that purpose. Soon they will be bombed back to stone ages by Tel-Aviv.
First of all, the capital of Israel is Jerusalem, not Tel-Aviv.
Israel could have nuked Iran a long time ago already, but they opted for a less deadly alternative, the Stuxnet virus. The problem is that Stuxnet, just like the recently signed deal, can only delay the bomb, not prevent it.
I share your feelings, I would never buy a phone without an integrated keyboard. I don't care if it adds 5mm to my phone. Unfortunately that limits my options quite a bit.
I also don't understand why phone makers are so obsessed with keeping them thin. I would gladly trade in a few mm for more battery life.
- too expensive for what it is
- too heavy
- the touchpad is too big and not centered
- numeric keyboard is useless most of the time
- 3 usb ports? for this size I expected 4
- mini-displayport? why not hdmi?
I would rather buy a normal laptop (2 Kg or less) and a docking station connected to a nice big screen, keyboard and mouse to use at home/office.
And this being a Lenovo, the BIOS is artificially crippled to limit upgrades to just Lenovo "approved" cards.
No thanks.
When will they fix the automatic update service?
Hopefully "fix" by removing it entirely. I don't want each and every piece of software to phone home looking for "updates". (That wastes time at startup when you wants things to be quick - especially when travelling and using slow networks. And when I want to browse - the last thing I want is an upgrade offer. "No, I am not about to waste time now - I STARTED the computer to read som mail/news/..."
Upgrades are very competently handled through the distribution these days. I decide when it it time to deal with upgrades, and then I have all sw on the machine upgraded simultaneously. Not just one particular browser. Perhaps windows users are not so lucky - but make an "upgrader addon" specifically for windows then. Don't bother the rest of us with such bloat.
The updating function can be removed at compilation time. I guess that most Linux distros do this. .mozconfig before compiling.
To remove it just add "ac_add_options --disable-updater" to your
In windows they have the normal updater (help / about will trigger a manual update), and the Mozilla updater service. The service concept is nice, but it just doesn't work.
When will they fix the automatic update service?
Every time I check my relative's computers, their Firefox and Thunderbird are outdated, and I have enabled the Mozilla automatic update service.
And I could live without Pocket, Sync, Marketplace, or the useless chat system in Thunderbird.
All of these should be addons.
Sync is a good idea, but it should be possible to run your own Sync server using standard software instead of a half-baked python script.
We should not ignore historic events just because they don't paint a rosy picture of humanity: the inquisition, the holocaust, the armenian genocide, etc.
Spain will soon approve a law to grant citizenship to the jews expelled from Spain in 1492, this is the right attitude to correct mistakes, not to ignore them. I wonder if Germany will follow.
After buying some Thinkpads X230, I discovered that I can only use the mini-pci slot with cards approved by Lenovo, and included in their stupid BIOS whitelist.
I won't buy a Thinkpad again until Lenovo stops this abhorrent practice.
And please, no more excuses for this behavior.
This could never happen with an opensource BIOS.
I was also watching the Neo900 project for a while, but they made some bad decisions.
It's too expensive because they didn't want to compromise on anything, and they decided to add a separator will make a thick phone even thicker.
I would have bought it if the price was around 400 euro and it didn't need a separator.
Now I'm placing my bets on the Pyra
You are ranting about something that you have no idea about.
480 Euro? More like 900+.
0.5 Gb storage? That is just NAND, on top of that you have MMC and microSD.
You can play freeciv while on the train, then rsync saved games to continue playing on your PC.
Its basically a Debian tablet with phone capabilities and real keyboard.
I have to agree with him, I visited the website and found no good reason for using Javascript.
Websites should at least be able to display it's content without Javascript enabled.
Excellent idea, but why even show a still frame of the ad? Show some cute pictures of cats or something more interesting while the advertisement is being blocked.
Here's a business opportunity:
Basic package: pics of cats
Gold package: pics of chicks
Free customer: goat.cx
That is not true if you use Lenovo.
Lenovo doesn't want customers to be able to upgrade their laptops, so they implemented a list of approved mini-pci cards that can be used in them. It's called "bios whitelist".
Therefore if you have a Lenovo laptop you will have to change the whole laptop. Presumably to a different brand that doesn't pull this crap.
For those who do. Not.
I just bought the Lenovo Edge Flex 15 and on Linux the Wifi card doesn't work, period. The only "fix" is to wait until 3.20 kernel adds support. Piece of shit OS or piece of shit Lenovo for not ensuring Linux compatibility? (Anyway, the keyboard sucks, so don't buy it)
You could upgrade the wifi card to something that works in Linux and get 802.11ac at the same time.
See page 39 of the hardware maintenance manual:
http://download.lenovo.com/con...
Just make sure you get a wifi card that is in the BIOS whitelist.
The BIOS whitelist is a list of PCI devices that have been approved by Lenovo for each laptop. If not in the list, the BIOS will refuse to boot.
This is just an imposed restriction by Lenovo, decent laptop makers don't do such a thing.