You're right about the problem of course, but what were they to do? Continuing to run on a slower and more expensive processor, and with more expensive main boards, wasn't an answer either. They were between a rock and a hard place. Probably took the best, or at least the least bad, way out. But yes, the comparisons are going to be interesting, and difficult. Both price and one suspects performance.
Of course its true that buying the Dell for $200, or even $500 less is not a big savings. But what is interesting is that the OP said that the Apple screen was cheaper, and cited two links, when it was actually more expensive, and the links proved the exact opposite of what he asserted. This is very common on forums where Macs are discussed. People simply post barefaced...misrepresentations...of the facts.
The only comparable cases seem to be political. You still find peopel denying that historical events ever occurred - the Ukraine famine, for instance. The Inquisition.
Still, for the casual reader, the lesson is simple. You can believe nothing that the Apple lobby posts in a public, non-Mac, forum until you have verified it personally. If you want to know the real story, read the Mac forums. It is wonderful how different they are.
Don't be put off by the comments. If you already know about it, how to install it etc, this is not for you. But if you don't, its clear and informative and interesting. Looking forward to the next part.
I think there's a bit of confusion. Probably all Democrats would defend my Constitutional right to advocate voting Republican, and to agitate for the election of a full Republican slate. But it would be very odd for the State to forbid Democrats from expelling from the party someone who does this, and that's really not a free speech issue. I guess the Democrats would say, agitate for Bush all you want, but please not as a Democrat. That's not what we are about.
Similarly, Episcopalians might advocate religious freedom of expression, but still want to expel one of their congregation who turns out to be preaching that all Episcopalians will go to hell, and should rapidly convert to (eg) Islam if they want to save their souls. It doesn't have to do with free speech in the country, it has to do with the rules of association of non-State bodies.
Marquette is a bit the same isn't it? They are saying, say what you want, and we think you should be legall entitled to say it, but if you bring Marquette into disrepute, you have to go from Marquette.
What strikes me as wrong and a bit sinister is what they do next. They seem to lose track of being a private association, and start prescribing counselling and ordering Community Service. This is where the whole thing seems to go crazy. That's the sort of thing they cannot and should not do. That's the kind of thing only the courts should do, with regard to due process and accused's rights. In the coding example, the kinds of actions that I ridiculed would be considered constructive dismissal. You would be protected against it. The same should apply here.
Someone earlier in the thread sais "So anyone who disagrees with the US government in any way, or makes disparaging remarks about it should no longer be in good standing as a citizen of the US? This "case", if you want to call it that, is ridiculous".
Yes indeed. It is ridiculous. That's why I don't think it, and didn't say it. There is a real difference between the rights you have as a citizen, and the rights you have (and the other members have) as a member of a private association.
The civil liberties issue might be a bit different. A lot of people have argued that if you are a student, the school has the right to react to your public remarks about it. This must be true, an employer will have the same right. You cannot expect to remain a member in good standing of a church, company, school or club if you make public speeches bringing it into disrepute. So people are right to argue that this is not a free speech issue.
But surely there is something very odd indeed about the proposed 'punishment' or elements of it. The demand that the guy get counselling. What exactly is the legal status of counselling? When is it required, and who has the right to require that one get it? The idea that a school can require one to get counselled is strange. Even stranger is 'Community Service'. This is used as a punishment by the courts, and the idea that a school can impose it is bizarre.
Surely the civil liberties issue is something like this: what sort of demands may a school make, and what evidence do they have to have before making them? There must be some limits, and it seems to me that in requiring counselling and community service, the school has overstepped them.
Bring it closer to home. My company has a standard of x bugs in y lines of code. One month I am having some problems and go over. Do they have a right to demand that I do 100 hours of community service as penance? Or stand outside at 8.00 with a sign around my neck saying that I sinned? Or wear scarlet overalls for a week? Or not use the cafeteria?
It would be fine to require him to maybe do some remedial tutoring work in the school, or something similar, school related. But the community service and counselling stuff remind you uncomfortably of the Cultural Revolution...
This is so true. In fact, this is really the only business model that makes any sense in this business. The same company should make the hardware, then it should also develop the OS, which of course it should prevent from running on any other hardware. This is good for customers because it makes for a controlled environment where everything just works. Then the same company should control all the applications as well, and the more they can control the stores where you buy things, and the banks and credit cards you use, the better. It will all be better for you. It will be a more controlled experience. It will all just work. All this extra choice some people want is really rather bad for them and just makes them unhappy.
Oh, and the search engines. Well they should obviously be tied to the OS and the applications ie the browser. A bit like MSN really, when you want to search for something, or you mistype a link, well it just brings up the Company search engine. This way, you will never come on anything disagreeable or competitive when you search, which is how it should be.
Some future government will find it has all it needs already in place for dictatorship. And not one element will have been installed for malevolent reasons. All will have been installed from the best of motives.
Family courts meet in secret, names of those appearing before them cannot be published, and there is no appeal from their judgments. It protects children.
Foreigners can be subject to preventive detention without trial. To defeat terrorism.
Anti social behaviour orders can make any act by anyone, and them alone, a criminal offense. We have to do something to restrain people making everyone's life around them a misery.
We will be tracking dysfunctional families, and interventing to help children at risk of future criminal careers. Why wait until it is too late and they have already started?
We have covered the streets with cameras, to defeat street crime. Now we will track all vehicle movements, to deny cars to criminals. Next we will film all faces on all streets, so that we can track down the wanted and the terrorists.
We will have compulsory mental health medication. It will cut down on crimes committed by those in care in the community who stop taking their medication.
We will record all details about an individual on an ID card and will make this card the access point for benefits and medical care. We have to do something about benefit fraud and illegal immigration. And having all medical records available instantly will dramatically improve emergency room care.
I am not being ironic. We really do not have to worry much about this government. The intentions really are good. But the effect is increasingly to make practical liberties dependent on the goodwill of either the government or officials. I don't know what the answer is, but the lesson of history is that you cannot always rely on this, given swings of popular feeling in times of crisis, which may coincide with elections. But this is an argument you never hear in the UK.
But you also get dust. Little talked about, but if you change lenses much, dust is a real problem. They are not like the old analog SLRs, these things are magnets for it.
The real moral of the story is, NEVER use a "fully featured" word processor to write a book. Also, do not perform brain surgery with scissors, and do not write real time applications in visual basic. Avoid KWord (a fine page layout program), Word, OO, Abiword and all the rest.
Use one of the following:
For lots of document structure, footnotes and headers and so on, and good typesetting, use Lyx. Or TeXmacs. Or Kile for the really hard core. But Lyx and Texmacs are both very easy to use at a restricted level, if you avoid trying to write LaTex code and accept their templates.
For getting words down on paper fast, use a text editor, of which Kate will be found best in Linux because of the ease of use, good looks, split views, and project aspects. But there are hundreds of others.
For fleshing out your ideas and moving sections around, use a tree type outliner: TreePad, Kjots, Gjots, Tuxcards, or Doug Bell's very capable TreeLine. Or a real outliner. More for the older Mac, or Leo. Leo is the real thing.
No-one who moves from a WP to Lyx or TeXmacs for book writing will ever go back.
Yes, its clear enough how you're supposed to use it. But you can't. You can't get the stuff out again without losing raw data. So all those wonderful things he ws talking about doing, you don't get to do them. You can't do raw conversions, and when you've done them, you can't get the stuff out again. How are you going to use it, exactly? And why are you going to spend 500 on a photo database that positively impedes your working with your images? It's making no sense at all. Did they not know?
The interesting commentary is to be found on the Security Focus site.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11359
Look at the numbers. Whoever would have thought that the numbers for MS and Apple would have got this close? Complacency is their, and their users, greatest danger right now. You can see it in most of this thread. Time to wake up.
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
The Independent, 10 February 2003
Generations of schoolchildren have been raised on the belief that the mild British winters and cool summers are due to the moderating influence of the Gulf Stream, a warm ocean current flowing from the Gulf of Mexico to the shores of western Europe. Without the Gulf Stream, our teachers told us, Britain's winters would be as cold and ice-bound as a frozen port in Newfoundland and its summers as hot and stuffy as a Moscow August.
But the textbooks have got it wrong, according to scientists who have just finished a study of what makes Western Europe cool in summer and mild in winter. The scientists found that Britain's moderate climate is due not to the Gulf Stream, but to the Rocky Mountains in the western US 4,000 miles away.
Using weather data gathered over the past 50 years and powerful computer models to describe how heat is shunted around the globe, they discovered that the contribution of the Gulf Stream was negligible compared with the influence of warm southerly winds originating in the Rockies. These winds, they said, played a big role in explaining why winters in Britain could be anything up to 15C or 20C warmer than the same latitude in eastern North America. "Belief in the benign role of the Gulf Stream is so widespread that is has become folklore," said Richard Seager, the scientist who led the study from the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York.
The belief that the Gulf Stream is responsible for Britain's mild, maritime climate appears to have originated with the publication in 1856 of a book by Maurice Fontaine Maury, a lieutenant in the American Navy.
"One of the benign offices of the Gulf Stream is to convey heat from the Gulf of Mexico, where otherwise it would become excessive, and to disperse it in regions beyond the Atlantic for the amelioration of the climates of the British Isles and of all Western Europe," Maury wrote.
"This idea is one reason why so much climate research has been focused on the impact of changes in the circulation of the North Atlantic Ocean," Dr Seager said. Several recent studies, for instance, have suggested that global warming might slow down or even stop the Gulf Stream which carries energy equivalent to 27,000 times the total output of all of Britain's power stations so bringing a far more variable continental climate to Western Europe. Dr Seager's study, published in the current issue of the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, suggests that the Gulf Stream accounts for no more than 10 per cent of the winter temperature differences between Britain and Newfoundland, Canada.
The scientists found that the real reason for Britain's mild weather was twofold. First, there is a genuine maritime effect of being surrounded by a relatively warm body of water, but this has nothing to do with the Gulf Stream.
Second, this maritime influence is bolstered by southwesterly winds bringing a warm air mass from the south. These winds would not blow if the Rockies did not exist, the researchers found.
Even without the Gulf Stream, Britain would be bathed in prevailing westerly winds that bring in the warmth stored in the Atlantic Ocean. Water retains summer heat far longer than land, which is why the winter-summer difference in temperature is about 5ÂC over the North Atlantic and yet nearer 50ÂC at the same latitude in Siberia.
Dr Seager said his study showed that this phenomenon which was independent of the Gulf Stream accounted for about half of the winter temperature difference between Britain and Newfoundland. The other half, he said, was due to the prevailing winds over the maritime regions of Western Europe--not westerlies, but from the southwest. Those south-westerlies brought additional heat to Western Europe. Their origins could be traced to a massive "meander" in the north-south wind patterns over North America, which was generated by the presence of the Rockies.
"One such meander occurs east of the Rocky Mountains and brings cold air into eastern N
Even if the gulf stream does change, Europe and the UK will not become as cold as equivalent latitudes in the US, because the gulf stream changing will, curiously enough, not change the position of the Rockies. It is the Rockies that divert warm air to Europe, and make 90% of the temperature difference. So before we all get too excited about this...think about what does what.
Yes, do a Debian install and put in WindowMaker. It will work fine. I had it running on a 200mmx processor with 64Mb. No problem, and very usable. You can also put in KOffice or similar, and get the KDE libraries and apps but not the whole desktop. This worked fine when neither KDE, Gnome nor Xfce would load. I also used xfe as the file manager, but Konqueror worked too.
Don't know for sure, I got the story from a plumber who underwent training to install them. Apparently what happens if the water goes over 100c and keeps on going (ie all safeties have failed to trigger, and there are several) is that you get superheated steam. Eventually the thing explodes, and bang, up goes the house. The story I got was that they all sat around in class and watched a film of this, with the line being, get it right or this is what can happen, and the house duly did blow up and get scattered over the landscape, and afterwards, there was a long silence while they thought about whether they really wanted to install them.
Then the instructor said, so people, you will do this right won't you?
The British, great innovators and world leaders in matters of plumbing, as all visitors know, have invented something interesting on this subject.
Its stated in the article that there are two methods.
Method 1 is to heat water and store it and draw it off as needed. In the UK this is usually done with the aid of one massive tank in the roof, to store the cold water for the hot water store. And a second, to store the cold water for the working fluid, which is used to heat the water in the water store. And then of course, there is a third tank, in which the actual hot water itself is stored.
Are you with us so far?
Well, there is a variant on this method, which consists of having a mains fed hot water store. The advantage of this method is that you no longer need tanks in the roof. The disadvantage is that if this tank, which is under pressure, ever blows up, it takes the house with it. A very small chance however.
Method 2 is to heat it on the way through, either by gas fire in a heat exchanger, or by running it over a hot resistive electric heater. In this case you do not have all those hot and cold water stores in your roof space and closets.
British heating engineers have invented a third way. This interesting method has the great merit of being even more more complicated than the multiple tanks in your roof. In this method, you first circulate the working fluid through a tank of hot water, thus heating it up via a heat exchanger. But you do not bathe in this!
No, you draw cold water in a second heat exchanger through that hot water. In this way you have the benefits of both of the first two systems. You have a constant store of hot water in your closet, and two cold water storage tanks in your roof. And, you get to have hot water on demand heated up for you when needed. And as compared to the variant on method 1, you get to have mains pressure hot water, without having a pressurized tank anywhere in the house.
It is very surprising that this system has never been exported.
its a Romantic (in the 18c sense) view of education and human nature. It has been extensively practised in the UK for about 30 years, and the results may be said to be in. It is very clear what they show. The idea was that people children naturally want to learn, and if left alone to do it, in a non-repressive environment where creativity and spontaneity is encouraged, will work at learning and come out more rounded adults as well as more informed ones. In the UK this was coupled with the new math and the new reading. The new math involved not learning multiplication tables, but instead figuring out arithmetic from scratch with the aid of set theory. The new reading involved treating English as an ideographic language, in which the shape of words was memorised and recognised, not individual letters or syllables. Children did not learn the alphabet (rote learning is bad).
The results are plainly visible. Large numbers of children cannot read at age 11, functional illiteracy in the workforce is common, and if you are ever in conversation with a 20 year old supermarket clerk and turn out to be able to multiply 7 by 6 in your head, you get stared at as if you had worked a miracle.
In addition, it turns out that to appreciate the classics, whether in theatre, music, literature or whatever, you have to put in a long learning period for little reward. Children left to themselves won't do it, because the rewards are not visible, and they lose faith. That doesn't mean the rewards are not there. They are, but it takes initial work to realise them. Its a bit like weight training. You do not get stronger in the first couple of weeks, you get very sore. But you do get stronger in the end.
As for the spontaneous and creative learning environment, that turned out to make the state school classroom into a sort of tribal violent anarchy in which bullying and the use of knives flourishes. Of course, anyone who can takes their children out of the state system and puts them into private education. This includes all the politicians of both parties, who have brought about this insanity.
It was summed up for me the other day. I was in the library of a nearby agricultural college. The librarian said they had terrible problems explaining to the students that libraries were for quiet study. Quiet study was something they had never experienced in school, and had no concept of.
Meanwhile, the British educational establishment has discovered something they call 'synthetic phonics'. Don't look too hard, but it involves learning the alphabet and connecting the sound of letters to the sound of syllables. It might sound very traditional to you. You would be wrong. It is a great discovery by our great public servants, and it is totally new, and was never done anywhere else in the world before the year 2002.
Speeding is not the issue at all with this. The UK does need to do something about speeding - it kills more children and pedestrians than other EU countries in road accidents. However, this will not help that problem. The most dangerous places are not the expressways, but quiet country villages and the trunk roads between towns. The dangerous drivers are young, and male, and the people most at risk are children and the old.
If this was all about limiting speeds in places where speeding impairs quality of life, most people would applaud. It cannot be. But, you have to see it in context. In the last 5-10 years there has been a very significant shift in civil liberties in the UK. If you add universal car surveillance to the list, the picture is quite remarkable.
Consider: (1) the ASBO. A judge can issue an order forbidding someone to do something, which may or may not be unlawful in itself, whereupon to do it, for that person, becomes a criminal offence. ASBOs have famously been granted forbidding a teenager from being sarcastic (he replied that he was being ironic), and forbidding a lady from attempting suicide. People have been banned from certain areas, from associating with named others, from wearing certain clothes. There is no limit on what may be forbidden, other than the reasonableness of the authorities, and if a previously unlawful act is subject to an ASBO, the effect is often that, for this person, the penalty has been increased by decree.
(2) We then have extensive powers for the authorities to split up families, take children into care, by the use of the Family Courts, which meet in secret, and from whose decisions there is no appeal. It is an offence to reveal the fact that you have appeared before the Family Court. The justification is child protection.
(3) We then have the various preventive detention measures. As a foreigner, you can be held without trial for years. We are seeing attempts to prolong holding periods, not simply without trial, but without charging.
(4) Finally, we have the proposed mental health legislation, which would make it impossible to refuse treatment for mental illness, and would permit 'intervention' on 'children at risk' in 'dysfunctional' families, where there was a pattern of criminal behaviour. The justification is public protection from the violently insane or psychopathic - or those suffering from personality disorders, and the protection of children from growing up criminal. As the former Home Secretary said, why wait till a crime has been committed? Protect the public first!
The uneasiness people feel in the UK is not about any one of these measures. Each one may be reasonable in itself. The problem is not with the present government, which does not seem bent on abusing the measures. The problem is if you add them all up, and suppose some demagogic authoritarian regime elected in future, and there are no safeguards. With minimal new legislation or involvement of the judiciary, such a regime could incarcerate dissidents in mental hospitals, drug them or shock them, split up their families, forbid them to publish or broadcast, even own and read certain materials, track their every move.....
Europe has been down this route. The UK seems not to have learned. It is not who is in power now that matters, its who may be in ten years time. Of course, we don't want the Underground to be bombed again, and most people basically trust the security services. But is this really the answer?
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Should add, not free, but it has the most helpful mailing list there is. www.runrev.com
Revolution.
You're right about the problem of course, but what were they to do? Continuing to run on a slower and more expensive processor, and with more expensive main boards, wasn't an answer either. They were between a rock and a hard place. Probably took the best, or at least the least bad, way out. But yes, the comparisons are going to be interesting, and difficult. Both price and one suspects performance.
Thank you. Brought tears to my eyes.
Of course its true that buying the Dell for $200, or even $500 less is not a big savings. But what is interesting is that the OP said that the Apple screen was cheaper, and cited two links, when it was actually more expensive, and the links proved the exact opposite of what he asserted. This is very common on forums where Macs are discussed. People simply post barefaced...misrepresentations...of the facts.
The only comparable cases seem to be political. You still find peopel denying that historical events ever occurred - the Ukraine famine, for instance. The Inquisition.
Still, for the casual reader, the lesson is simple. You can believe nothing that the Apple lobby posts in a public, non-Mac, forum until you have verified it personally. If you want to know the real story, read the Mac forums. It is wonderful how different they are.
Don't be put off by the comments. If you already know about it, how to install it etc, this is not for you. But if you don't, its clear and informative and interesting. Looking forward to the next part.
I think there's a bit of confusion. Probably all Democrats would defend my Constitutional right to advocate voting Republican, and to agitate for the election of a full Republican slate. But it would be very odd for the State to forbid Democrats from expelling from the party someone who does this, and that's really not a free speech issue. I guess the Democrats would say, agitate for Bush all you want, but please not as a Democrat. That's not what we are about.
Similarly, Episcopalians might advocate religious freedom of expression, but still want to expel one of their congregation who turns out to be preaching that all Episcopalians will go to hell, and should rapidly convert to (eg) Islam if they want to save their souls. It doesn't have to do with free speech in the country, it has to do with the rules of association of non-State bodies.
Marquette is a bit the same isn't it? They are saying, say what you want, and we think you should be legall entitled to say it, but if you bring Marquette into disrepute, you have to go from Marquette.
What strikes me as wrong and a bit sinister is what they do next. They seem to lose track of being a private association, and start prescribing counselling and ordering Community Service. This is where the whole thing seems to go crazy. That's the sort of thing they cannot and should not do. That's the kind of thing only the courts should do, with regard to due process and accused's rights. In the coding example, the kinds of actions that I ridiculed would be considered constructive dismissal. You would be protected against it. The same should apply here.
Someone earlier in the thread sais "So anyone who disagrees with the US government in any way, or makes disparaging remarks about it should no longer be in good standing as a citizen of the US? This "case", if you want to call it that, is ridiculous".
Yes indeed. It is ridiculous. That's why I don't think it, and didn't say it. There is a real difference between the rights you have as a citizen, and the rights you have (and the other members have) as a member of a private association.
The civil liberties issue might be a bit different. A lot of people have argued that if you are a student, the school has the right to react to your public remarks about it. This must be true, an employer will have the same right. You cannot expect to remain a member in good standing of a church, company, school or club if you make public speeches bringing it into disrepute. So people are right to argue that this is not a free speech issue.
But surely there is something very odd indeed about the proposed 'punishment' or elements of it. The demand that the guy get counselling. What exactly is the legal status of counselling? When is it required, and who has the right to require that one get it? The idea that a school can require one to get counselled is strange. Even stranger is 'Community Service'. This is used as a punishment by the courts, and the idea that a school can impose it is bizarre.
Surely the civil liberties issue is something like this: what sort of demands may a school make, and what evidence do they have to have before making them? There must be some limits, and it seems to me that in requiring counselling and community service, the school has overstepped them.
Bring it closer to home. My company has a standard of x bugs in y lines of code. One month I am having some problems and go over. Do they have a right to demand that I do 100 hours of community service as penance? Or stand outside at 8.00 with a sign around my neck saying that I sinned? Or wear scarlet overalls for a week? Or not use the cafeteria?
It would be fine to require him to maybe do some remedial tutoring work in the school, or something similar, school related. But the community service and counselling stuff remind you uncomfortably of the Cultural Revolution...
This is so true. In fact, this is really the only business model that makes any sense in this business. The same company should make the hardware, then it should also develop the OS, which of course it should prevent from running on any other hardware. This is good for customers because it makes for a controlled environment where everything just works. Then the same company should control all the applications as well, and the more they can control the stores where you buy things, and the banks and credit cards you use, the better. It will all be better for you. It will be a more controlled experience. It will all just work. All this extra choice some people want is really rather bad for them and just makes them unhappy.
Oh, and the search engines. Well they should obviously be tied to the OS and the applications ie the browser. A bit like MSN really, when you want to search for something, or you mistype a link, well it just brings up the Company search engine. This way, you will never come on anything disagreeable or competitive when you search, which is how it should be.
Its a such a GOOD day.
How Linux Works, by Ward.
Linux Cookbook, by Schroder
The one explains and gives exercises, the other is a collection of recipes for how to do things.
Some future government will find it has all it needs already in place for dictatorship. And not one element will have been installed for malevolent reasons. All will have been installed from the best of motives.
Family courts meet in secret, names of those appearing before them cannot be published, and there is no appeal from their judgments. It protects children.
Foreigners can be subject to preventive detention without trial. To defeat terrorism.
Anti social behaviour orders can make any act by anyone, and them alone, a criminal offense. We have to do something to restrain people making everyone's life around them a misery.
We will be tracking dysfunctional families, and interventing to help children at risk of future criminal careers. Why wait until it is too late and they have already started?
We have covered the streets with cameras, to defeat street crime. Now we will track all vehicle movements, to deny cars to criminals. Next we will film all faces on all streets, so that we can track down the wanted and the terrorists.
We will have compulsory mental health medication. It will cut down on crimes committed by those in care in the community who stop taking their medication.
We will record all details about an individual on an ID card and will make this card the access point for benefits and medical care. We have to do something about benefit fraud and illegal immigration. And having all medical records available instantly will dramatically improve emergency room care.
I am not being ironic. We really do not have to worry much about this government. The intentions really are good. But the effect is increasingly to make practical liberties dependent on the goodwill of either the government or officials. I don't know what the answer is, but the lesson of history is that you cannot always rely on this, given swings of popular feeling in times of crisis, which may coincide with elections. But this is an argument you never hear in the UK.
...use gedit more and more....
Or Kate. Split views and projects.
Or best of all, Leo. Don't know why Leo is so underappreciated, its a fabulous package.
But you also get dust. Little talked about, but if you change lenses much, dust is a real problem. They are not like the old analog SLRs, these things are magnets for it.
The real moral of the story is, NEVER use a "fully featured" word processor to write a book. Also, do not perform brain surgery with scissors, and do not write real time applications in visual basic. Avoid KWord (a fine page layout program), Word, OO, Abiword and all the rest.
Use one of the following:
For lots of document structure, footnotes and headers and so on, and good typesetting, use Lyx. Or TeXmacs. Or Kile for the really hard core. But Lyx and Texmacs are both very easy to use at a restricted level, if you avoid trying to write LaTex code and accept their templates.
For getting words down on paper fast, use a text editor, of which Kate will be found best in Linux because of the ease of use, good looks, split views, and project aspects. But there are hundreds of others.
For fleshing out your ideas and moving sections around, use a tree type outliner: TreePad, Kjots, Gjots, Tuxcards, or Doug Bell's very capable TreeLine. Or a real outliner. More for the older Mac, or Leo. Leo is the real thing.
No-one who moves from a WP to Lyx or TeXmacs for book writing will ever go back.
Yes, its clear enough how you're supposed to use it. But you can't. You can't get the stuff out again without losing raw data. So all those wonderful things he ws talking about doing, you don't get to do them. You can't do raw conversions, and when you've done them, you can't get the stuff out again. How are you going to use it, exactly? And why are you going to spend 500 on a photo database that positively impedes your working with your images? It's making no sense at all. Did they not know?
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11359
Look at the numbers. Whoever would have thought that the numbers for MS and Apple would have got this close? Complacency is their, and their users, greatest danger right now. You can see it in most of this thread. Time to wake up.By Steve Connor, Science Editor The Independent, 10 February 2003 Generations of schoolchildren have been raised on the belief that the mild British winters and cool summers are due to the moderating influence of the Gulf Stream, a warm ocean current flowing from the Gulf of Mexico to the shores of western Europe. Without the Gulf Stream, our teachers told us, Britain's winters would be as cold and ice-bound as a frozen port in Newfoundland and its summers as hot and stuffy as a Moscow August. But the textbooks have got it wrong, according to scientists who have just finished a study of what makes Western Europe cool in summer and mild in winter. The scientists found that Britain's moderate climate is due not to the Gulf Stream, but to the Rocky Mountains in the western US 4,000 miles away. Using weather data gathered over the past 50 years and powerful computer models to describe how heat is shunted around the globe, they discovered that the contribution of the Gulf Stream was negligible compared with the influence of warm southerly winds originating in the Rockies. These winds, they said, played a big role in explaining why winters in Britain could be anything up to 15C or 20C warmer than the same latitude in eastern North America. "Belief in the benign role of the Gulf Stream is so widespread that is has become folklore," said Richard Seager, the scientist who led the study from the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York. The belief that the Gulf Stream is responsible for Britain's mild, maritime climate appears to have originated with the publication in 1856 of a book by Maurice Fontaine Maury, a lieutenant in the American Navy. "One of the benign offices of the Gulf Stream is to convey heat from the Gulf of Mexico, where otherwise it would become excessive, and to disperse it in regions beyond the Atlantic for the amelioration of the climates of the British Isles and of all Western Europe," Maury wrote. "This idea is one reason why so much climate research has been focused on the impact of changes in the circulation of the North Atlantic Ocean," Dr Seager said. Several recent studies, for instance, have suggested that global warming might slow down or even stop the Gulf Stream which carries energy equivalent to 27,000 times the total output of all of Britain's power stations so bringing a far more variable continental climate to Western Europe. Dr Seager's study, published in the current issue of the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, suggests that the Gulf Stream accounts for no more than 10 per cent of the winter temperature differences between Britain and Newfoundland, Canada. The scientists found that the real reason for Britain's mild weather was twofold. First, there is a genuine maritime effect of being surrounded by a relatively warm body of water, but this has nothing to do with the Gulf Stream. Second, this maritime influence is bolstered by southwesterly winds bringing a warm air mass from the south. These winds would not blow if the Rockies did not exist, the researchers found. Even without the Gulf Stream, Britain would be bathed in prevailing westerly winds that bring in the warmth stored in the Atlantic Ocean. Water retains summer heat far longer than land, which is why the winter-summer difference in temperature is about 5ÂC over the North Atlantic and yet nearer 50ÂC at the same latitude in Siberia. Dr Seager said his study showed that this phenomenon which was independent of the Gulf Stream accounted for about half of the winter temperature difference between Britain and Newfoundland. The other half, he said, was due to the prevailing winds over the maritime regions of Western Europe--not westerlies, but from the southwest. Those south-westerlies brought additional heat to Western Europe. Their origins could be traced to a massive "meander" in the north-south wind patterns over North America, which was generated by the presence of the Rockies. "One such meander occurs east of the Rocky Mountains and brings cold air into eastern N
Even if the gulf stream does change, Europe and the UK will not become as cold as equivalent latitudes in the US, because the gulf stream changing will, curiously enough, not change the position of the Rockies. It is the Rockies that divert warm air to Europe, and make 90% of the temperature difference. So before we all get too excited about this...think about what does what.
Yes, do a Debian install and put in WindowMaker. It will work fine. I had it running on a 200mmx processor with 64Mb. No problem, and very usable. You can also put in KOffice or similar, and get the KDE libraries and apps but not the whole desktop. This worked fine when neither KDE, Gnome nor Xfce would load. I also used xfe as the file manager, but Konqueror worked too.
http://www.iceagenow.com/QandA.htm
Then the instructor said, so people, you will do this right won't you?
Its stated in the article that there are two methods.
Method 1 is to heat water and store it and draw it off as needed. In the UK this is usually done with the aid of one massive tank in the roof, to store the cold water for the hot water store. And a second, to store the cold water for the working fluid, which is used to heat the water in the water store. And then of course, there is a third tank, in which the actual hot water itself is stored.
Are you with us so far?
Well, there is a variant on this method, which consists of having a mains fed hot water store. The advantage of this method is that you no longer need tanks in the roof. The disadvantage is that if this tank, which is under pressure, ever blows up, it takes the house with it. A very small chance however.
Method 2 is to heat it on the way through, either by gas fire in a heat exchanger, or by running it over a hot resistive electric heater. In this case you do not have all those hot and cold water stores in your roof space and closets.
British heating engineers have invented a third way. This interesting method has the great merit of being even more more complicated than the multiple tanks in your roof. In this method, you first circulate the working fluid through a tank of hot water, thus heating it up via a heat exchanger. But you do not bathe in this!
No, you draw cold water in a second heat exchanger through that hot water. In this way you have the benefits of both of the first two systems. You have a constant store of hot water in your closet, and two cold water storage tanks in your roof. And, you get to have hot water on demand heated up for you when needed. And as compared to the variant on method 1, you get to have mains pressure hot water, without having a pressurized tank anywhere in the house.
It is very surprising that this system has never been exported.
Time to buy some of those long dated puts folks. And no, this is not investment advice. If you want that, consult a qualified professional.
The results are plainly visible. Large numbers of children cannot read at age 11, functional illiteracy in the workforce is common, and if you are ever in conversation with a 20 year old supermarket clerk and turn out to be able to multiply 7 by 6 in your head, you get stared at as if you had worked a miracle.
In addition, it turns out that to appreciate the classics, whether in theatre, music, literature or whatever, you have to put in a long learning period for little reward. Children left to themselves won't do it, because the rewards are not visible, and they lose faith. That doesn't mean the rewards are not there. They are, but it takes initial work to realise them. Its a bit like weight training. You do not get stronger in the first couple of weeks, you get very sore. But you do get stronger in the end.
As for the spontaneous and creative learning environment, that turned out to make the state school classroom into a sort of tribal violent anarchy in which bullying and the use of knives flourishes. Of course, anyone who can takes their children out of the state system and puts them into private education. This includes all the politicians of both parties, who have brought about this insanity.
It was summed up for me the other day. I was in the library of a nearby agricultural college. The librarian said they had terrible problems explaining to the students that libraries were for quiet study. Quiet study was something they had never experienced in school, and had no concept of.
Meanwhile, the British educational establishment has discovered something they call 'synthetic phonics'. Don't look too hard, but it involves learning the alphabet and connecting the sound of letters to the sound of syllables. It might sound very traditional to you. You would be wrong. It is a great discovery by our great public servants, and it is totally new, and was never done anywhere else in the world before the year 2002.
If this was all about limiting speeds in places where speeding impairs quality of life, most people would applaud. It cannot be. But, you have to see it in context. In the last 5-10 years there has been a very significant shift in civil liberties in the UK. If you add universal car surveillance to the list, the picture is quite remarkable.
Consider: (1) the ASBO. A judge can issue an order forbidding someone to do something, which may or may not be unlawful in itself, whereupon to do it, for that person, becomes a criminal offence. ASBOs have famously been granted forbidding a teenager from being sarcastic (he replied that he was being ironic), and forbidding a lady from attempting suicide. People have been banned from certain areas, from associating with named others, from wearing certain clothes. There is no limit on what may be forbidden, other than the reasonableness of the authorities, and if a previously unlawful act is subject to an ASBO, the effect is often that, for this person, the penalty has been increased by decree.
(2) We then have extensive powers for the authorities to split up families, take children into care, by the use of the Family Courts, which meet in secret, and from whose decisions there is no appeal. It is an offence to reveal the fact that you have appeared before the Family Court. The justification is child protection.
(3) We then have the various preventive detention measures. As a foreigner, you can be held without trial for years. We are seeing attempts to prolong holding periods, not simply without trial, but without charging.
(4) Finally, we have the proposed mental health legislation, which would make it impossible to refuse treatment for mental illness, and would permit 'intervention' on 'children at risk' in 'dysfunctional' families, where there was a pattern of criminal behaviour. The justification is public protection from the violently insane or psychopathic - or those suffering from personality disorders, and the protection of children from growing up criminal. As the former Home Secretary said, why wait till a crime has been committed? Protect the public first!
The uneasiness people feel in the UK is not about any one of these measures. Each one may be reasonable in itself. The problem is not with the present government, which does not seem bent on abusing the measures. The problem is if you add them all up, and suppose some demagogic authoritarian regime elected in future, and there are no safeguards. With minimal new legislation or involvement of the judiciary, such a regime could incarcerate dissidents in mental hospitals, drug them or shock them, split up their families, forbid them to publish or broadcast, even own and read certain materials, track their every move.....
Europe has been down this route. The UK seems not to have learned. It is not who is in power now that matters, its who may be in ten years time. Of course, we don't want the Underground to be bombed again, and most people basically trust the security services. But is this really the answer?