After the 2nd world war, many countries imposed a stamp tax on business transactions -- each cheque (check) had to have a three cent stamp affixed. This tax was used to pay down the war debt.
I suppose we could do the same with credit card and cheque payments with perhaps a nickel tax charged for every monthly statement, mailed or website based. Debit transactions would be spared since there are no statements.
I have a feeling that UBUNTU satisfied the early adapters, but that UBUNTU does not have exclusivity on intelligence, ideas and innovators. Linux Mint understands users, UBUNTU did that prior to Unity, but then began rightly concentrating on recovering their investments. It reminds me a bit like the car industry of the 1920's, where suddenly innovators leap ahead of the leader, and for a few years are the best.
No company has exclusivity on innovation and abilities.
If it is Debs or rpms, one will parallel or leap-frog over the other.
I have already written off Gnome 3.x as being counterproductive. True, it is geared to the email/internet browser society, but it is definitely not a developer's or an interface that is fast in use, or easy to use with dual monitors.
Name conflicts. Many applications have the same launcher name. Therefore one later application can override the earlier one. System libraries must be kept apart. I would hate to have some innocent application overwrite a critical system program name. I would like to see a breakout of libraries. to/usr/bin/application1,/user/bin/application2... Where bin does not hold binaries, but points to the next level of directory from where user application binaries would be found, In/usr/bin, I would accept soft-links (shortcuts).
I dont suppose for any minute that the number of mother boards out there serving as process controllers for numerical machines, etc, are trivial in number.
These organizations will need to either rework their software at great cost for redeployment, (If the source even exists), or force the vendor to sell a board with a legacy bios.
I also read where RedHat was as much prepared as MS for UEFI, so that the linux community will be able to integrate their software with it. It will or may cause a problem for VM software, but I expect that with human intelligence, which we all have, that problem will be resolved. I thought that one could always write a Bios in the middle software that would understand UEFI, but provide the classical bios for legacy systems.
What I hold in wonderment is the concept of fertilization and production of the next generation of what we call living things. How the DNA came to be and how it's secrets are passed from generation to generation. Moreover, how we humans have procreation urges.
Aside from that wonderment, and a few other thoughts, that is my extent in the belief in something. Is it God? Is it nature?
For me, I go no further but to say that Religion is a social gathering of individuals.
What the Linux Gui interface developers have forgotten, is that we want to click onto a data item, and have the appropriate function open. Instead, with Unity we must search for the function, start it, and then search for the corresponding data item. And when we want one two monitors or two different views, such as a desktop, and one second for a related information, or if we are working with dual displays, the Unity interface just does not meet the requirements.
If however, the Unity view would include options to work both ways, that is to show static directory views, and to select data to invoke functions, the best of both worlds would prevail, and it would be a winning interface.
I have actually switched to Ubuntu's LTS version, for my two small netbooks, as more of the screen is available to me to use, without the column of icons on the left side getting in the way.
I give Unity two more generations of output before we see new paradigms.
I smoked cigarettes for three years when I was in my late teens. Then I switched to pipe tobacco (for the aroma). At 21 I decided that I wanted to be the master of my health and body, so I gave away my cigarette lighter, pipe and tobacco pouch, and started a cold turkey quit. I succeeded after I began counting the days free from tobacco. (I also changed friends to those who did not smoke).
Tobacco is addictive, and marijuana is for me, a tobacco, so it too is addictive. But if you quit, you don't necessarily return to it on the first social or stressful occasion (a party, cup of coffee at and a telephone call, after a few drinks, etc).
I could see the rules for marijuana the same as for alcohol. Some people can take it and leave it, while others have a dependence. As for medical use, it makes sense, particularly for those in palliative care or with those having 24/7 pain.
I think that by giving an investigator reams and reams and reams and reams of information, that the investigator will have to spend days and days and days analyzing the contents to find any useful information. When there is little information, it is easy to track someone. My $0.02
I believe in the end that UEFI will bite Microsoft in the most vulnerable place. Simply because addon software will bring in hacker code that will result in a certified virtual operating bios that will boot any operating system.
Suppose one writes a BIOS that is compatible with UEFI. Can we use that virtual bios to load any operating system compatible with it? Who says that the operating system must talk directly to the hardware bios.
I live in an older Montreal Duplex)constructed in the 1960's when oil was really cheap. Two years ago I converted from oil to electricity (really relatively cheap in Montreal). The furnace for the circulating water system was replaced by electric boilers. The water temperature in circulation is proportional to the outdoor temperature below 15degrees Celcius. As it gets colder outside, the circulating water temperature is allowed to climb. The boiler has a small controller that a) checks outdoor temperature (from 15C (End October) to -30C in end January) and controls circulating water temperature, No heat is required from May to Mid October.
We don't need overkill for a temp controller.
I think that what is required is an electronic "bang-bang" thermostat with two sets of contacts. In winter, the first set controls the desired room upper temperature the 2nd set determines if extra heat is required to bring the home up to that temperature for the desired time.
In summer for AC the roles are reversed. . Coupled with this thermostat which operates in programmable setback mode would be information, about the rate of temperature recovery versus outdoor temperature. The shorter the recovery time, the greater the spread between the main and secondary settings. Also, when the demand is made to return the home to normal temperature, then the longer it takes to arrive at the desired set point, controller logic should raise the temperature of the circulating water until the 2nd set of contacts signals "oh we are close to the setpoint, reduce the circulating water temp to arrive at the room settings and provide sufficient heat to sustain heat loss.
I guess it could be done with a thermostat having two setpoints and the outdoor temperature detector.
My building's heating bill is $7000 per year. With oil it was $10,000 per year. I am happier using electricity, Gas heat was more expensive than electricity., but would like to try to find a programmable thermostat that can do what I want. I would gain house comfort, and possibly no increase in savings.
The logic for AC is a mirror of the logic to use for heating. Any comments are welcome.
CS is a wonderful career. I am in it for 50 years, and I would do it again. One advice for those choosing to enter the career, that is to be prepared to never stop learning. What you know two years ago is history, and the industry never stops moving forward.
Good luck to the next generation. It is a wonderful profession and trade.
Watching Porn has a delayed effect. Students have very high estrogen and other levels. If the watchers are femaie, some will become pregnant within 6 months, If it guys, the are going to do a lot of exercise to burn away the desires, melt away the desires, or even dream away the mental stimulation effects.
It should be left to old farts like me (age 70), who are still shy, though comfortable with a pinch or two a week from my wife.
If the comet or fragments were that close to earth, earths gravity would have had an effect of having it hit the globe. But perhaps the comet was traveling too fast, so that earths effect on it's trajectory was insignificant.
In reality, ebooks are a boon to publishers. They cut the costs of printing, binding, boxing, shipping, and all the man machine production and distribution expenses.
If only they can now do what Amazon does, or now that they don't need all that staff, can they live with smaller profit margins?
As a 70 year old, I find that aging has an effect on the scratchpad memory. We can still reason as well as when we were scolars, and while we have experience and knowledge, learning is much more difficult. I am perhaps more fortunate, but I see with my peers that they can't remember a name, or frequently they can't remember a face. And if something is important, they still can't do much about remembering it.
They misplace their things, they go to start one project, get distracted a few times, and never complete their initial objective. Can you see a 150 year old, or lets say a person at 140, trying to drive home without a GPS?
The scratchpad memory deteriorates at it's own rate. The body may reach 150, but many of us will be zombies.
This is the case today, just look at the Wall street and other gatherings to contest the fact that USA is now a 1% filthy rich and 9% substandard. and 90% poor.
We are addressing adult and child porn and a religion where priests give council to married couples or singles. The likelihood of an errant married priest imbibing in extramarital sex is low, whereas the hormones in priests do not stop causing temptation unless they are purged from the body.
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After the 2nd world war, many countries imposed a stamp tax on business transactions -- each cheque (check) had to have a three cent stamp affixed. This tax was used to pay down the war debt.
I suppose we could do the same with credit card and cheque payments with perhaps a nickel tax charged for every monthly statement, mailed or website based. Debit transactions would be spared since there are no statements.
I have a feeling that UBUNTU satisfied the early adapters, but that UBUNTU does not have exclusivity on intelligence, ideas and innovators. Linux Mint understands users, UBUNTU did that prior to Unity, but then began rightly concentrating on recovering their investments. It reminds me a bit like the car industry of the 1920's, where suddenly innovators leap ahead of the leader, and for a few years are the best.
No company has exclusivity on innovation and abilities.
If it is Debs or rpms, one will parallel or leap-frog over the other.
I have already written off Gnome 3.x as being counterproductive. True, it is geared to the email/internet browser society, but it is definitely not a developer's or an interface that is fast in use, or easy to use with dual monitors.
XFCE is my standard since Fedora 15.
I am opposed for the following reasons:
Name conflicts. Many applications have the same launcher name. Therefore one later application can override the earlier one. /usr/bin/application1, /user/bin/application2... Where bin does not hold binaries, but points to the next level of directory from where user application binaries would be found, /usr/bin, I would accept soft-links (shortcuts).
System libraries must be kept apart. I would hate to have some innocent application overwrite a critical system program name.
I would like to see a breakout of libraries. to
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I dont suppose for any minute that the number of mother boards out there serving as process controllers for numerical machines, etc, are trivial in number.
These organizations will need to either rework their software at great cost for redeployment, (If the source even exists), or force the vendor to sell a board with a legacy bios.
I also read where RedHat was as much prepared as MS for UEFI, so that the linux community will be able to integrate their software with it.
It will or may cause a problem for VM software, but I expect that with human intelligence, which we all have, that problem will be resolved.
I thought that one could always write a Bios in the middle software that would understand UEFI, but provide the classical bios for legacy systems.
What I hold in wonderment is the concept of fertilization and production of the next generation of what we call living things. How the DNA came to be and how it's secrets are passed from generation to generation. Moreover, how we humans have procreation urges.
Aside from that wonderment, and a few other thoughts, that is my extent in the belief in something. Is it God? Is it nature?
For me, I go no further but to say that Religion is a social gathering of individuals.
What the Linux Gui interface developers have forgotten, is that we want to click onto a data item, and have the appropriate function open. Instead, with Unity we must search for the function, start it, and then search for the corresponding data item.
And when we want one two monitors or two different views, such as a desktop, and one second for a related information, or if we are working with dual displays, the Unity interface just does not meet the requirements.
If however, the Unity view would include options to work both ways, that is to show static directory views, and to select data to invoke functions, the best of both worlds would prevail, and it would be a winning interface.
I have actually switched to Ubuntu's LTS version, for my two small netbooks, as more of the screen is available to me to use, without the column of icons on the left side getting in the way.
I give Unity two more generations of output before we see new paradigms.
I smoked cigarettes for three years when I was in my late teens. Then I switched to pipe tobacco (for the aroma). At 21 I decided that I wanted to be the master of my health and body, so I gave away my cigarette lighter, pipe and tobacco pouch, and started a cold turkey quit. I succeeded after I began counting the days free from tobacco. (I also changed friends to those who did not smoke).
Tobacco is addictive, and marijuana is for me, a tobacco, so it too is addictive. But if you quit, you don't necessarily return to it on the first social or stressful occasion (a party, cup of coffee at and a telephone call, after a few drinks, etc).
I could see the rules for marijuana the same as for alcohol. Some people can take it and leave it, while others have a dependence. As for medical use, it makes sense, particularly for those in palliative care or with those having 24/7 pain.
I think that by giving an investigator reams and reams and reams and reams of information, that the investigator will have to spend days and days and days analyzing the contents to find any useful information. When there is little information, it is easy to track someone. My $0.02
With Centos, the support is from the community. That means that your solution to the problem may never be answered, or answered after a delay of days.
With RHat, you pay for service that starts with the phone call. It is now, and it is from knowledgeable people.
Finally, if your employer finds that RHat is too expensive, he or you can search for local talented linux consultants
Paying off the debut is harmful. Gee, it could mean that taxes were too high. And that means poor fiscal management.
I believe in the end that UEFI will bite Microsoft in the most vulnerable place. Simply because addon software will bring in hacker code that will result in a certified virtual operating bios that will boot any operating system.
Suppose one writes a BIOS that is compatible with UEFI. Can we use that virtual bios to load any operating system compatible with it?
Who says that the operating system must talk directly to the hardware bios.
These are the same kids that do graffitti
I live in an older Montreal Duplex)constructed in the 1960's when oil was really cheap. Two years ago I converted from oil to electricity (really relatively cheap in Montreal). The furnace for the circulating water system was replaced by electric boilers. The water temperature in circulation is proportional to the outdoor temperature below 15degrees Celcius. As it gets colder outside, the circulating water temperature is allowed to climb. The boiler has a small controller that a) checks outdoor temperature (from 15C (End October) to -30C in end January) and controls circulating water temperature, No heat is required from May to Mid October.
We don't need overkill for a temp controller.
I think that what is required is an electronic "bang-bang" thermostat with two sets of contacts. In winter, the first set controls the desired room upper temperature the 2nd set determines if extra heat is required to bring the home up to that temperature for the desired time.
In summer for AC the roles are reversed.
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Coupled with this thermostat which operates in programmable setback mode would be information, about the rate of temperature recovery versus outdoor temperature. The shorter the recovery time, the greater the spread between the main and secondary settings. Also, when the demand is made to return the home to normal temperature, then the longer it takes to arrive at the desired set point, controller logic should raise the temperature of the circulating water until the 2nd set of contacts signals "oh we are close to the setpoint, reduce the circulating water temp to arrive at the room settings and provide sufficient heat to sustain heat loss.
I guess it could be done with a thermostat having two setpoints and the outdoor temperature detector.
My building's heating bill is $7000 per year. With oil it was $10,000 per year. I am happier using electricity, Gas heat was more expensive than electricity., but would like to try to find a programmable thermostat that can do what I want. I would gain house comfort, and possibly no increase in savings.
The logic for AC is a mirror of the logic to use for heating. Any comments are welcome.
I would think that Apple's refusal was on the basis of technology. The antenna would be masked, making the phone into a conversation piece.
Would Apple have the ability to plug in an external antenna into their device? Probably not.
My cell phone does this as a default action (Samsung t456) which was developed about 10 years ago.
CS is a wonderful career. I am in it for 50 years, and I would do it again. One advice for those choosing to enter the career, that is to be prepared to never stop learning. What you know two years ago is history, and the industry never stops moving forward.
Good luck to the next generation. It is a wonderful profession and trade.
One could give immunity from soldiering such a self defence, but not from theft, rape, or other violent crimes.
Watching Porn has a delayed effect. Students have very high estrogen and other levels. If the watchers are femaie, some will become pregnant within 6 months,
If it guys, the are going to do a lot of exercise to burn away the desires, melt away the desires, or even dream away the mental stimulation effects.
It should be left to old farts like me (age 70), who are still shy, though comfortable with a pinch or two a week from my wife.
If the comet or fragments were that close to earth, earths gravity would have had an effect of having it hit the globe. But perhaps the comet was traveling too fast, so that earths effect on it's trajectory was insignificant.
In reality, ebooks are a boon to publishers. They cut the costs of printing, binding, boxing, shipping, and all the man machine production and distribution expenses.
If only they can now do what Amazon does, or now that they don't need all that staff, can they live with smaller profit margins?
As a 70 year old, I find that aging has an effect on the scratchpad memory. We can still reason as well as when we were scolars, and while we have experience and knowledge, learning is much more difficult.
I am perhaps more fortunate, but I see with my peers that they can't remember a name, or frequently they can't remember a face. And if something is important, they still can't do much about remembering it.
They misplace their things, they go to start one project, get distracted a few times, and never complete their initial objective.
Can you see a 150 year old, or lets say a person at 140, trying to drive home without a GPS?
The scratchpad memory deteriorates at it's own rate. The body may reach 150, but many of us will be zombies.
This is the case today, just look at the Wall street and other gatherings to contest the fact that USA is now a 1% filthy rich and 9% substandard. and 90% poor.
We are addressing adult and child porn and a religion where priests give council to married couples or singles. The likelihood of an errant married priest imbibing in extramarital sex is low, whereas the hormones in priests do not stop causing temptation unless they are purged from the body.