I have an Asus eeePc, and I think it's the first generation version (a 4G). I bought it second hand on eBay and it arrived with Windows XP installed (the Japanese language version)
I understand that there was a Linux distro tailored for it, too, but it was trivial to install XP pro (US English), and it runs fine.
I make soy milk in my 'soy milk maker' usually about twice a week. I've never used the almond milk recipe. It seems like sort of a luxury. I know the almond milk tastes better, but soy milk is inexpensive and healthy.
"If you build it, they will come" translates into something ugly.
The converse, "If you don't build it, they will fucking go away" seems more apt to me.
The rail lines or highway for large numbers of people to move out of California don't really need to be expanded or widened, because it's a one-time-use scenario.
I live in what was once one of the biggest tomato growing areas in the US. But right now, there are thousands of acres of land around me that grow corn and soybeans in alternating years. The soybeans are a loss-leader rotation crop. The corn has become the dominant crop because of the corn-for-alcohol-fuel bonanza set up by the Federal Government.
It would be more sensible for this part of the country (the Midwest) to tell California to FOAD and switch back to sustainable food crops for local consumption. Believe me when I say that it would work out just fine for us here. There's plenty of water and we have pretty good soil.
The freedom to move to a new locality is one of our rights here in the United States. You can get up and move, and there's no government agency you need to ask for permission before doing so. There are places in the world, like China, where many people do not have that right.
It's really pitiful to see people who seem almost eager to abrogate their rights.
That isn't what he is saying. He is saying he will be harmed if he is forced to pay for the infrastructure to assure that Californians have enough water. You know, it's simple economics. If you don't benefit from something but are forced to contribute substantial money to it, you're harmed because you can't use the money in ways beneficial to you.
The point is probably that people want something in the form factor of a tablet. But why should they settle for something with a toy app-store operating system on it?
Disclaimer: I have an Asus Transformer and can't wait for Windows 10.
The whole history of the California Gold Rush is historcally distorted.
What happened right prior to the California Gold Rush? The United States annexed the part of Mexico that was made into California in 1848. They badly needed white Americans to rush there and settle the new land, to establish an American base population.
So what happened? The 1849 California Gold Rush. There's GOLD out there, fellahs. Here, hop this wagon, train or boat and move out there!
The problem really is one of local patronage. The school district builds a huge new school, one that is actually a palace of learning. No expenses are spared.
Who gets the contract to supply the materials and build the thing? Somebody with a lot of pull at the local School Board.
Right. It worked for Lenin. He gets to lay on Red Square in a fancy glass box. But it unleashed Stalin to do his worst in the following decades. So it didn't work out at all for the Soviet people.
GFCIs are needed everywhere in our house. I've replaced every outlet box with them. Because the wiring is ancient and scary. There were only two prong non-grounded outlets when we moved in. The only 'code approved' way to upgrade a two prong outlet and stop using 'three way adapters' is to replace the outlets with GFCIs. There's no ground connected to any of the GFCIs, either, because there's no third wire or ground anywhere. The oldest parts of the house are from before electricity, and are tube-and-post wiring. A GFCI will protect even in an ungrounded circuit. The principle is that if the current through the hot wire isn't equal to the current through the neutral wire the breaker trips. Ultimately the whole house needs to be completely rewired, the fusebox is outdoors under the overhang roof on the back porch. There are four glass fuses.
I hate real estate people and never plan to move out of this ancient house out in the country (with only county laws because we are not in any city boundaries). If there was a way to have 'negative curb appeal' to the degree that real estate operators were stricken dead if they looked at our house I'd incorporate it into our landscaping. The fact that our wiring is a horror is protection in a way. A poison pill for the bankers if they ever tried to forclose (we are not behind on payments.)
It's an Acer with a quad core AMD processor. At least the integrated graphics is Raedon HD 6530D. I upgraded it to 12 GB of memory so I can run all the old OSes in Virtual Box.
Five years ago I was running a slew of systems on a 4-way KVM and also dabbling in Sparc hardware. Right now I am just using the stuff you buy in a store. For casual use I have an Asus Transformer running Windows 8.1. I gave up on Android awhile back and Apple made everything I've ever bought from them obsolete so fast that I'm not going back. I have a Macintosh SE/30 that runs NetBSD though. X11 is, well, interesting on an SE/30.
Computer 'hotrodding' is very 1990's in my opinion. But I got old and grew up, I suppose. My first 'PC' was an 8 MHz 8088 motherboard I bought at a swapmeet. My first hard drive was a full height Shugart 5 Megabyte MFM drive I bought second hand when everybody else was spending hundreds on Seagate ST225s. I spent too much money learning electronics back then to buy anything shiny-new from the store. My first home computer with disk drives was a CP/M machine with 8" floppy diskettes and all 64K of ram. It didn't have a case until I shoehorned the board into a surplus rackmount case.
You could say you're the Emperor of France, Conqueror of the Eastern Hordes, Terror of the High Seas and the Proud Owner of an AMC Gremlin, so what's your point?
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I have an Asus eeePc, and I think it's the first generation version (a 4G). I bought it second hand on eBay and it arrived with Windows XP installed (the Japanese language version)
I understand that there was a Linux distro tailored for it, too, but it was trivial to install XP pro (US English), and it runs fine.
I make soy milk in my 'soy milk maker' usually about twice a week. I've never used the almond milk recipe. It seems like sort of a luxury. I know the almond milk tastes better, but soy milk is inexpensive and healthy.
Thats possibly the most ridiculous and contrived youtube 'advocacy' video I have ever seen. Very, very weak.
Stick to your leaflets at lit tables on the Mall. The Freshmen are easy to convince.
"If you build it, they will come" translates into something ugly.
The converse, "If you don't build it, they will fucking go away" seems more apt to me.
The rail lines or highway for large numbers of people to move out of California don't really need to be expanded or widened, because it's a one-time-use scenario.
I live in what was once one of the biggest tomato growing areas in the US. But right now, there are thousands of acres of land around me that grow corn and soybeans in alternating years. The soybeans are a loss-leader rotation crop. The corn has become the dominant crop because of the corn-for-alcohol-fuel bonanza set up by the Federal Government.
It would be more sensible for this part of the country (the Midwest) to tell California to FOAD and switch back to sustainable food crops for local consumption. Believe me when I say that it would work out just fine for us here. There's plenty of water and we have pretty good soil.
The freedom to move to a new locality is one of our rights here in the United States. You can get up and move, and there's no government agency you need to ask for permission before doing so. There are places in the world, like China, where many people do not have that right.
It's really pitiful to see people who seem almost eager to abrogate their rights.
That isn't what he is saying. He is saying he will be harmed if he is forced to pay for the infrastructure to assure that Californians have enough water. You know, it's simple economics. If you don't benefit from something but are forced to contribute substantial money to it, you're harmed because you can't use the money in ways beneficial to you.
Please don't twist the discussion.
SoCal really has two choices. One, desalinate. Two, get along with the limited water that is available. There aren't any decent other choices.
The third option would be to dry up and blow away. That isn't an option, though. It's just the default after electing to do nothing.
Does anybody own the popcorn concession yet?
The point is probably that people want something in the form factor of a tablet. But why should they settle for something with a toy app-store operating system on it?
Disclaimer: I have an Asus Transformer and can't wait for Windows 10.
The whole history of the California Gold Rush is historcally distorted.
What happened right prior to the California Gold Rush? The United States annexed the part of Mexico that was made into California in 1848. They badly needed white Americans to rush there and settle the new land, to establish an American base population.
So what happened? The 1849 California Gold Rush. There's GOLD out there, fellahs. Here, hop this wagon, train or boat and move out there!
It contains recipes for Apple Profits, actually.
Not just Apple profits, of course, but they're among the others lined up at the trough. It's about the WalMartization of a big chunk of the globe.
Yes. Ideally he would have been in office four fewer years, and the Carter legacy would be perfect.
The problem really is one of local patronage. The school district builds a huge new school, one that is actually a palace of learning. No expenses are spared.
Who gets the contract to supply the materials and build the thing? Somebody with a lot of pull at the local School Board.
We didn't have AC, either. But we didn't have schools designed for AC. Our classrooms had windows that could be opened.
Right. It worked for Lenin. He gets to lay on Red Square in a fancy glass box. But it unleashed Stalin to do his worst in the following decades. So it didn't work out at all for the Soviet people.
A complicated mechanism to accommodate those few who still aren't touch typists?
You need to show your work to get credit on the question.
Sending free hard drugs home with schoolchildren in unsealed containers, with a note for their parents, would do the same good thing.
GFCIs are needed everywhere in our house. I've replaced every outlet box with them. Because the wiring is ancient and scary. There were only two prong non-grounded outlets when we moved in. The only 'code approved' way to upgrade a two prong outlet and stop using 'three way adapters' is to replace the outlets with GFCIs. There's no ground connected to any of the GFCIs, either, because there's no third wire or ground anywhere. The oldest parts of the house are from before electricity, and are tube-and-post wiring. A GFCI will protect even in an ungrounded circuit. The principle is that if the current through the hot wire isn't equal to the current through the neutral wire the breaker trips. Ultimately the whole house needs to be completely rewired, the fusebox is outdoors under the overhang roof on the back porch. There are four glass fuses.
I hate real estate people and never plan to move out of this ancient house out in the country (with only county laws because we are not in any city boundaries). If there was a way to have 'negative curb appeal' to the degree that real estate operators were stricken dead if they looked at our house I'd incorporate it into our landscaping. The fact that our wiring is a horror is protection in a way. A poison pill for the bankers if they ever tried to forclose (we are not behind on payments.)
It's an Acer with a quad core AMD processor. At least the integrated graphics is Raedon HD 6530D. I upgraded it to 12 GB of memory so I can run all the old OSes in Virtual Box.
Five years ago I was running a slew of systems on a 4-way KVM and also dabbling in Sparc hardware. Right now I am just using the stuff you buy in a store. For casual use I have an Asus Transformer running Windows 8.1. I gave up on Android awhile back and Apple made everything I've ever bought from them obsolete so fast that I'm not going back. I have a Macintosh SE/30 that runs NetBSD though. X11 is, well, interesting on an SE/30.
Computer 'hotrodding' is very 1990's in my opinion. But I got old and grew up, I suppose. My first 'PC' was an 8 MHz 8088 motherboard I bought at a swapmeet. My first hard drive was a full height Shugart 5 Megabyte MFM drive I bought second hand when everybody else was spending hundreds on Seagate ST225s. I spent too much money learning electronics back then to buy anything shiny-new from the store. My first home computer with disk drives was a CP/M machine with 8" floppy diskettes and all 64K of ram. It didn't have a case until I shoehorned the board into a surplus rackmount case.
You could ask your boss, but you're probably under NDA.
Apple wants all the big music publishers to cease allowing any free streaming of music. Apple pushing music labels to kill free Spotify streaming ahead of Beats relaunch
Why Apple wants to end the era of free music streaming
The link didn't work in above for some reason.
Apple pushing music labels to kill free Spotify streaming ahead of Beats relaunch
Why Apple wants to end the era of free music streaming
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Why Apple wants to end the era of free music streaming
You could say you're the Emperor of France, Conqueror of the Eastern Hordes, Terror of the High Seas and the Proud Owner of an AMC Gremlin, so what's your point?
He really likes AMC Gremlins. Duh.