except that KDE and gnome apps, in a UI sense, are kinda sorta mutually exclusive, no?
But there's still the great schism between KDE/Qt apps and GNOME/GTK apps. Regardless of which DE you use, you'll encounter applications that use both toolkits and they're going to look inconsistent and comparatively out of place.
Not entirely sure why we specifically need x86 for embedded stuff like PVRs though
My guess: compatible and widely available off-the-shelf components. There are a lot more TV tuners and TV-out vid cards in the wild w/ x86 drivers. Less an isssue for manufacturers, but definately one for the hobbyist.
I dunno . . . when you bring Vegas into the equation, you're now involved in something that is a vested interest of the *actual* Mafia. That'll be a neat conflict to watch.
How many shuttle accidents would we have had if there were no external fuel tank, and no SRBs?
Ummmm . . . I'm no expert, but I'm gonna go with "none" because single-stage-to-orbit was never part of even the early shuttle design. When in the shuttle's design life do you think it was ever going to be a single-stage to orbit craft?
So why the hypocrisy with respect to pornography and other sexual or erotic descriptions.
Religious institutions. You're much less likely to get excommunicated from your church for beating your wife vs. cheating on her. I never understood the logic myself. Why are we so much more lenient in censoring violence--an act that inflicts pain and can end human lives vs. sex--acts that bring pleasure and can create human life?
And that's why we have Stirling engines, which run off of waste heat, yes?
No, Stirlings are just heat engines. You need a hot side and a cold side and the only energy you can harness lies in the difference in temperature between the two sides. The power plant already *is* essentially a large heat engine--the hot side is the reactor, and the cold side is the river. Its efficiency in extracting useful energy decreases the warmer the river gets until it's more economical to just shut the reactor down until the river cools.
Lets solve this the old fashioned way with a snowball fight. Everyone on the 'foam is the cause' over to the left tile castle, and start throwing the foam balls. Everyone on the 'ice is the cause' over to the right tile castle, and start throwing the snow balls.
I'll play that game, as long as the entire castle is moving through the air at fairly low altitude and hypersonic speeds.
Actually, no I won't. But I'll still bet you foam hits harder than ice in those conditions.
Yahoo is dead (at least to this user) if google ever does TV and Movie listings with the same useful, unobtrusive interface that they use for their other stuff.
They definitely do movie listings, at least in my city. Googling "movies orlando" brings up showtimes nearby--closest theatre if I use a zip code.
I had a really cool Samurai statue that got stolen from my yard. I was sad it was gone, and was really kicking myself for leaving it in the yard. Like me, they shoulda just brought it inside . . . maybe it really didn't go with the interior decor.
1.) K, it's not exactly tech news, but I still think it's very relevant to us news-reading nerds. Love or hate, discussions about this administration fueled a great deal of the web 2.0/blog explosion. Granted, that would've happened regardless of who was in the white house, but U.S. politics has had its nose in lots of issues directly related to technology. It's also correctly filed under "politics" so I don't have a problem with it.
2.) Love him or hate him, Rove is a brilliant and cunning political strategist. His president cannot be re-elected and is effectively a lame duck. Bush will wane in the public mind, take lots of vacations, and shoo away congressional investigations like irritating flies for his remaining term--he really doesn't need Rove anymore and would prefer he go off and do what he's proven himself so good at--campaigning for the Republican party in what will doubtlessly be a very difficult upcoming election. I doubt Rove will jump in head first as an official political advisor to anyone anytime soon, but I also doubt he'll be able to resist helping out in an unofficial capacity--it's what he does best.
3.) The "Miss Piggy / Gay bar" bit is just silly. Even if he was gay (which I doubt) he's far too clever to fall into a trap remotely like that. Let me know when there's a vaguely credible source for that goofy rumor and maybe I'll bother to give it more thought.
PS2 drove DVD sales?! I would like to see evidence of that.
$299.99 in 2000 and $199.99 in 2001 in the US making it the least expensive DVD player on store shelves in its time. That plus a large existing game library (PS1). Sony tried for a repeat performance w/ the PS3, but in the midst of a format war and at too high of a price point when consumer's aren't nearly as excited about blu-ray/hd-dvd as they were during the VHS-DVD transition.
1. Google snaps up some key regions w/ the spectrum coming up on the auction block.
2. Google licenses their territories to the wireless companies as long as they allow wholesale access by resellers.
3. Big telcos build out the infrastructure nationwide. Meanwhile, new competitors can enter the wireless industry since it no longer requires building a whole damn nationwide network from scratch.
4. Google can now realistically dabble with the idea of free citywide wifi and or phone service, trying a few different models in different areas, and only paying wholesale prices for their users' bandwidth.
[/wild conjecture]
I think the real reason Google is interested in spectrum and phones is that they want to get wireless internet out to everybody, have a few differing ideas on how to do that, and ideally would like other people to pay to build all the towers and such to minimize their potential losses if it doesn't work out.
I bought a window unit for ~$200. Central AC is working fine, but if it dies, I can stuff that back in the window and be comfortable. The primary reason I have it is for hurricanes--much easier to power a window unit with a generator than a whole central unit.
Legally, all Google have to do is remove videos identified by DMCA take-down requests. The fact that they're going above and beyond that could end up biting them in the ass when it fails in any given situation.
IANAL or law student, but I'd think the "above and beyond" would work in Google's favor in a court case. They can tell a copyright holder that is suing them: 1) You never bothered to use the existing laws and just ask us to take the offending material down and 2) We're making every practical effort we can think of to keep your material from being posted in the first place, so piss off. (Translated to legalese, of course.)
Most of the equipment at my physical therapy gym was self-powered . . . granted, only feasible for powering the device's own electronics and nothing more . . . but it did help to reduce power-cord clutter.
Try disconnecting the negative battery cable for an hour or two. This clears the codes on my vehicle. If it comes back, then you probably have another problem beyond a loose gas cap. Alternately, you can take it to most auto parts stores and they can clear the code for you for free.
But more than that, I want more than just the code. I know there are OBD2-Laptop cable and software solutions that allow one to monitor engine performance. For example, the fuel-air mixture might be running too rich or too lean, but not poorly enough to trigger a CEL. This would be nice to know since it can be an easy fix (leaky hose somewhere) and improve performance and fuel efficiency. It'd be much nicer if all I needed was a USB cable and some FOSS diagnostic software rather than some stupid $300+ kit.
Screw OBD2. It's $100 or more for the simplest code readers I've been able to find, and even OBD2 allows much better diagnostic data . . . if you wheel out the $5,000 "professional" diagnostic tester. Here's an idea for a better OBD2: USB.
I'd love to never again have to drive my malfunctioning car through traffic after work to the nearest auto parts store just to get the damn code causing the check engine light so their incompetent staff can try to sell me parts I don't need. I'd much rather plug in my laptop via USB, search the net for likely causes, then troubleshoot and repair from there.
Agreed . . . mostly. Informal written communication doesn't carry inflection, tone of voice or body language. More formal writing can get around these with tasteful word choice, punctuation and structure, and lends itself to being interpreted in a more professional sounding tone. For intra-office instant messengers, smilies are hard to avoid using. People tend to IM very short questions, declaratory statements, etc--it's not appropriate (and won't be read any way) to send a book so they get your full meaning.
I'm also a bit of a smartass, so sprinkling in a few smilies can mean the difference between a laugh and them taking offense . ..
Plates are openly displayed in a public place (roadways) and cops can (and have been for some time) easily run plates one at a time. The system just automates the process and unsettlingly keeps indefinite logs that can be mined for nefarious purposes and track our every move, but lately the courts haven't seemed to mind as long as they sell it as protecting families from perverts and drunks. My paranoia doesn't like this at all--they might start doing obnoxious things like pulling me over for no reason other than the fact that I'm not usually in that part of town at that particular time and give me a ticket for a broken tail light, which I tell them is working just fine, then he smashes it and says "no it's not" and starts asking the hooker seated next to me uncomfortable questions.
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Preceded by "applications or", which would include widgets and DEs.
But there's still the great schism between KDE/Qt apps and GNOME/GTK apps. Regardless of which DE you use, you'll encounter applications that use both toolkits and they're going to look inconsistent and comparatively out of place.
My guess: compatible and widely available off-the-shelf components. There are a lot more TV tuners and TV-out vid cards in the wild w/ x86 drivers. Less an isssue for manufacturers, but definately one for the hobbyist.
(Office firewall doesn't like the site)
What I really wonder . . . how is this conspiracy and *criminal* copyright infringement . . . aren't these usually civil cases? What's different here?
I dunno . . . when you bring Vegas into the equation, you're now involved in something that is a vested interest of the *actual* Mafia. That'll be a neat conflict to watch.
Ummmm . . . I'm no expert, but I'm gonna go with "none" because single-stage-to-orbit was never part of even the early shuttle design. When in the shuttle's design life do you think it was ever going to be a single-stage to orbit craft?
There. Fixed that for you.
(Both format specs include Microsoft codecs. They may officially be in the HD-DVD camp, but their hand's in the Blu-Ray cookie jar too.)
Religious institutions. You're much less likely to get excommunicated from your church for beating your wife vs. cheating on her. I never understood the logic myself. Why are we so much more lenient in censoring violence--an act that inflicts pain and can end human lives vs. sex--acts that bring pleasure and can create human life?
No, Stirlings are just heat engines. You need a hot side and a cold side and the only energy you can harness lies in the difference in temperature between the two sides. The power plant already *is* essentially a large heat engine--the hot side is the reactor, and the cold side is the river. Its efficiency in extracting useful energy decreases the warmer the river gets until it's more economical to just shut the reactor down until the river cools.
I'll play that game, as long as the entire castle is moving through the air at fairly low altitude and hypersonic speeds.
Actually, no I won't. But I'll still bet you foam hits harder than ice in those conditions.
They definitely do movie listings, at least in my city. Googling "movies orlando" brings up showtimes nearby--closest theatre if I use a zip code.
I had a really cool Samurai statue that got stolen from my yard. I was sad it was gone, and was really kicking myself for leaving it in the yard. Like me, they shoulda just brought it inside . . . maybe it really didn't go with the interior decor.
1.) K, it's not exactly tech news, but I still think it's very relevant to us news-reading nerds. Love or hate, discussions about this administration fueled a great deal of the web 2.0/blog explosion. Granted, that would've happened regardless of who was in the white house, but U.S. politics has had its nose in lots of issues directly related to technology. It's also correctly filed under "politics" so I don't have a problem with it.
2.) Love him or hate him, Rove is a brilliant and cunning political strategist. His president cannot be re-elected and is effectively a lame duck. Bush will wane in the public mind, take lots of vacations, and shoo away congressional investigations like irritating flies for his remaining term--he really doesn't need Rove anymore and would prefer he go off and do what he's proven himself so good at--campaigning for the Republican party in what will doubtlessly be a very difficult upcoming election. I doubt Rove will jump in head first as an official political advisor to anyone anytime soon, but I also doubt he'll be able to resist helping out in an unofficial capacity--it's what he does best.
3.) The "Miss Piggy / Gay bar" bit is just silly. Even if he was gay (which I doubt) he's far too clever to fall into a trap remotely like that. Let me know when there's a vaguely credible source for that goofy rumor and maybe I'll bother to give it more thought.
$299.99 in 2000 and $199.99 in 2001 in the US making it the least expensive DVD player on store shelves in its time. That plus a large existing game library (PS1). Sony tried for a repeat performance w/ the PS3, but in the midst of a format war and at too high of a price point when consumer's aren't nearly as excited about blu-ray/hd-dvd as they were during the VHS-DVD transition.
Huh? The FDA governs lasers?
Certainly for medical purposes, but I can't find any info on the FDA's responsibility for lasers outside of food and medicine.
Who?
[wild conjecture]
1. Google snaps up some key regions w/ the spectrum coming up on the auction block.2. Google licenses their territories to the wireless companies as long as they allow wholesale access by resellers.
3. Big telcos build out the infrastructure nationwide. Meanwhile, new competitors can enter the wireless industry since it no longer requires building a whole damn nationwide network from scratch.
4. Google can now realistically dabble with the idea of free citywide wifi and or phone service, trying a few different models in different areas, and only paying wholesale prices for their users' bandwidth.
[/wild conjecture]
I think the real reason Google is interested in spectrum and phones is that they want to get wireless internet out to everybody, have a few differing ideas on how to do that, and ideally would like other people to pay to build all the towers and such to minimize their potential losses if it doesn't work out.
I bought a window unit for ~$200. Central AC is working fine, but if it dies, I can stuff that back in the window and be comfortable. The primary reason I have it is for hurricanes--much easier to power a window unit with a generator than a whole central unit.
IANAL or law student, but I'd think the "above and beyond" would work in Google's favor in a court case. They can tell a copyright holder that is suing them: 1) You never bothered to use the existing laws and just ask us to take the offending material down and 2) We're making every practical effort we can think of to keep your material from being posted in the first place, so piss off. (Translated to legalese, of course.)
Most of the equipment at my physical therapy gym was self-powered . . . granted, only feasible for powering the device's own electronics and nothing more . . . but it did help to reduce power-cord clutter.
Try disconnecting the negative battery cable for an hour or two. This clears the codes on my vehicle. If it comes back, then you probably have another problem beyond a loose gas cap. Alternately, you can take it to most auto parts stores and they can clear the code for you for free.
But more than that, I want more than just the code. I know there are OBD2-Laptop cable and software solutions that allow one to monitor engine performance. For example, the fuel-air mixture might be running too rich or too lean, but not poorly enough to trigger a CEL. This would be nice to know since it can be an easy fix (leaky hose somewhere) and improve performance and fuel efficiency. It'd be much nicer if all I needed was a USB cable and some FOSS diagnostic software rather than some stupid $300+ kit.
Screw OBD2. It's $100 or more for the simplest code readers I've been able to find, and even OBD2 allows much better diagnostic data . . . if you wheel out the $5,000 "professional" diagnostic tester. Here's an idea for a better OBD2: USB.
I'd love to never again have to drive my malfunctioning car through traffic after work to the nearest auto parts store just to get the damn code causing the check engine light so their incompetent staff can try to sell me parts I don't need. I'd much rather plug in my laptop via USB, search the net for likely causes, then troubleshoot and repair from there.
Agreed . . . mostly. Informal written communication doesn't carry inflection, tone of voice or body language. More formal writing can get around these with tasteful word choice, punctuation and structure, and lends itself to being interpreted in a more professional sounding tone. For intra-office instant messengers, smilies are hard to avoid using. People tend to IM very short questions, declaratory statements, etc--it's not appropriate (and won't be read any way) to send a book so they get your full meaning.
I'm also a bit of a smartass, so sprinkling in a few smilies can mean the difference between a laugh and them taking offense . . .
Plates are openly displayed in a public place (roadways) and cops can (and have been for some time) easily run plates one at a time. The system just automates the process and unsettlingly keeps indefinite logs that can be mined for nefarious purposes and track our every move, but lately the courts haven't seemed to mind as long as they sell it as protecting families from perverts and drunks. My paranoia doesn't like this at all--they might start doing obnoxious things like pulling me over for no reason other than the fact that I'm not usually in that part of town at that particular time and give me a ticket for a broken tail light, which I tell them is working just fine, then he smashes it and says "no it's not" and starts asking the hooker seated next to me uncomfortable questions.
It looked more Mac-like before the name change, but Apple threatened to sue if they called it iToil.