It does give a better picture of scale though. Even if with the methane it was a wash (IE: the volcano output the same amount of greenhouse gas as the planes would have), then since volcanoes are fairly infrequent events, AND the airplanes in Europe is only a fraction of our total greenhouse gas production, this clearly demonstrates that we are outputting quite a huge amount of greenhouse gases. Not, as many people have claimed, a tiny amount compared to what nature produces itself.
I agree with a number of the other suggestions here, especially Wesnoth. However, one that seems to have been missed is Globulation2. It's a RTS but without focus on individual units.
There aren't any missions so far, but I've spent quite a bit of time playing "custom" games on the different maps that are there. You must use Nikowar as the AI if you want any challenge at all (Nikowar does do an ok job, especially if you play against a few of them). There's also LAN and Internet gaming options.
Apparently I should have said HSPA not WCDMA, since that's the highest rate protocol while WCDMA has only slightly faster data rates then EDGE.
Look at the "Data Network" part of the specifications:
GPRS class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 107/64.2 kbps (DL/UL)
EDGE class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 296/177.6 kbps (DL/UL)
WCDMA 900/1700/2100. Maximum speed PS 384/384 kbps (DL/UL)
HSPA 900/1700/2100. Maximum speed PS 10/2 Mbps (DL/UL)
EDGE (which is the only protocol that this phone supports in the 850/1900 frequency range) is limited to 296kbps down. To get higher speeds you need HSPA, which this phone only supports on but only on 900/1700/2100, but not AT&T's 850/1900 frequencies.
Did you forget to read what you quoted? 850/1900 are two of the frequencies the phone operates on...
The phone operates on 850/1900 in EDGE mode only (same as the G1), but 3G (WCDMA) is limited to 900/1700/2100 which will work for T-Mobile but not AT&T.
Well... I'd have to say maybe, but it's certainly not limited to T-Mobile.
Scroll down to 'Operating frequency'
* Quad-band GSM EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
* WCDMA 900/1700/2100 MHz
My guess is it will be sold unlocked in the US, much like many of their high end phones.
Perhaps, but even so, the 3G will only work on T-Mobile, just like the G1.
For 3G AT&T uses 850/1900 while T-Mobile uses 1700/2100.
I recently installed Gentoo on a PowerBook with an nvidia card. I can't use nvidia's driver because they haven't released a version for PPC. Fortunately the nv driver is available, so I can use the display, except that I have no 3D support. As a result I can't run beryl (which I was really hoping to try out). Also, even more importantly, I can't do suspend-to-ram. Suspend-to-ram works on the ATI PowerBooks under Linux, but my understanding is that the open source nvidia drivers can't resume the card properly so I'm SOL. Fortunately I was able to get suspend2 working so I can suspend to disk, but it's still a poor substitute. If that hadn't worked then I would've ended-up having to go back to OSX on this laptop.
I agree with this line of argument, but this case may be a bad example. This is actually a case where Facial recognition software would've been able to better identify the differences between the 2 faces. Look carefully at the 2 faces themselves, their heads are shaped completely differently, different noses, birthmarks, freckles, different ears, different eye spacing, even eye color looks quite a bit different. I expect these things would all be noticed by facial recognition software. I imagine that humans use different cues to recognize similarity then the computer does. We see similar eye shape, hair color ans style, skin color, and jewelery, and our brains fill in the rest.
Unfortunately facial recognition software wouldn't have helped in this case anyway since there was no photo of the original suspect.
Does all this mean that the false-positive rate of the software is acceptable? No, it just means that in some cases it could be less then human comparison alone. Or, even better, facial recognition used in addition to human comparison could probably reduce false positives. But that ignores any issues with automatically comparing photos with a large database.
I just discovered yesterday that mails from smtp.snet.net (SNET, now part of SBC, is CT's phone company, so this will effect many DSL and T1 subscribers in CT) has also been recently blacklisted by Comcast.
If you think laying it down will help you avoid that old lady, then I'd suggest staying off motorcycles altogther. (Hint: rubber on asphalt will stop you MUCH faster then metal on asphalt)
On the other hand I do like the K12R better as well.
Who cares about male colleagues, what I want to know is will it also find her nude photos in usenet?
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Oh-yeah, because finding the update button in a different place in each program is so much easier, then remembering to update each and every program. I'd also argue that more programs do not have update buttons then do. Yes, many of the larger ones do, b ut most of the smaller ones don't.
So, spend an hour opening a program, clicking update, waiting, opening the next program, clicking update, waiting, etc is easier then learning one command?! Also I wouldn't recommend gentoo for a first time user, other distros like Debian have nice pretty graphical frontends (synaptic) for the people who are alergic to the command prompt. Think of windows update that will upgrade everything you've installed on your system for you (minus the rebooting) and you'll just about have it.
I'm sorry, some things may be easier in Windows, but this is certainly not one of them.
As a motorcycle rider I can tell you that the gas coming out of the pump is quite cool on even a hot day. When riding on a hot day, having a cool gastank between your legs feels really nice. So the time of day probably doesn't matter all that much, unless there's something else to this that I missed.
No need to worry, no-one will design a 100watt cellphone. I believe most current phones are in the.5 watt - 1 watt range. Imagine the size of the battery you'd need for a 100 watt phone.
For a long time I basically just used alot of terminal windows and did all file work at the prompt because Gnome/KDE are too slow on my laptop. Then I realized that I really was more comfortable using Windows for this stuff. So I went hunting for a decent file manager I could live with on linux. I ended-up with rox-filer. It's small enough to work well on my P2-500 laptop, but it still is very usable and looks decent too.
I've setup a button bar at the bottom of my screen with my most commonly used apps. It took me some time before I got all the mime-types and associated programs setup the way I wanted, but it went pretty smoothly (and then I used unison to keep the settings in sync on all my machines). I'm quite happy with it, and much more productive. It also lets you type arbitrary shell code to run a file through right there. IE: Select a bunch of files and then type !for $a in "$@"; do foo; done, so I get the best of both worlds. btw: I setup root-tail to watch my.xsession-errors file so I can see any results on my background.
Couple this with fluxbox's tabbed windows, keyboard shortcuts, and multiple workspaces and I'm quite happy.
Look here for the latest news on the sparrow: http://www.phoenixenvironmentalmotors.co m/
Anyway, I agree with others that a motorcycle is a good way to go. Rain isn't a problem if you dress for it, same with cold, ice is a problem though.
You don't want to carry a cage around with you, well a bike is as close to a car minus the cage as you can get, and they're easier to maintain too.
Some people really hate bikes because they're "too dangerous", my response is that they're overall safer. If you drive a car then your making yourself safer at the expense of whoever you might run into, suvs even more so. If your on a bike you'll cause less damage to whatever you might hit, at the risk of more damage to yourself. So motorcycling is more socially responsible. It also automatically makes you more accountable for your own actions. If you drive like an idiot then your putting yourself at risk for more on a bike then in a car, and thus more likely to feel the direct results of your actions.
If you get a bike, do it right, take the MSF course and drive safely. There's enough idiot motorcyclists around making a bad name for all of us.
Another good option is an old VW diesel. They get 40-50mpg. Forget the prius, I'd love to see a diesel hybrid on the market. If you think diesel's too dirty, then burn biodiesel. It may not be the ideal solution, but it's a step in the right direction.
It does looks like Elena is wearing different jackets in different pictures. So would she have gone as far as to bring 2 leather jackets, or did she actually go twice? Of course she could've taken the bus trip twice as well.
I suspect the real truth is somewhere in the middle.
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Bing's still laughably amateurish and childish.
That might be a sign that they're on to something... This is quite likely perfectly in-line with a mainstream audience.
Or should that be "me too"?
It should be "Like"
It does give a better picture of scale though. Even if with the methane it was a wash (IE: the volcano output the same amount of greenhouse gas as the planes would have), then since volcanoes are fairly infrequent events, AND the airplanes in Europe is only a fraction of our total greenhouse gas production, this clearly demonstrates that we are outputting quite a huge amount of greenhouse gases. Not, as many people have claimed, a tiny amount compared to what nature produces itself.
I agree with a number of the other suggestions here, especially Wesnoth. However, one that seems to have been missed is Globulation2. It's a RTS but without focus on individual units.
There aren't any missions so far, but I've spent quite a bit of time playing "custom" games on the different maps that are there. You must use Nikowar as the AI if you want any challenge at all (Nikowar does do an ok job, especially if you play against a few of them). There's also LAN and Internet gaming options.
Look at the "Data Network" part of the specifications:
GPRS class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 107/64.2 kbps (DL/UL)
EDGE class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 296/177.6 kbps (DL/UL)
WCDMA 900/1700/2100. Maximum speed PS 384/384 kbps (DL/UL)
HSPA 900/1700/2100. Maximum speed PS 10/2 Mbps (DL/UL)
EDGE (which is the only protocol that this phone supports in the 850/1900 frequency range) is limited to 296kbps down. To get higher speeds you need HSPA, which this phone only supports on but only on 900/1700/2100, but not AT&T's 850/1900 frequencies.
Did you forget to read what you quoted? 850/1900 are two of the frequencies the phone operates on...
The phone operates on 850/1900 in EDGE mode only (same as the G1), but 3G (WCDMA) is limited to 900/1700/2100 which will work for T-Mobile but not AT&T.
Well... I'd have to say maybe, but it's certainly not limited to T-Mobile. Scroll down to 'Operating frequency' * Quad-band GSM EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 * WCDMA 900/1700/2100 MHz My guess is it will be sold unlocked in the US, much like many of their high end phones.
Perhaps, but even so, the 3G will only work on T-Mobile, just like the G1. For 3G AT&T uses 850/1900 while T-Mobile uses 1700/2100.
probably the only thing he didn't have to recuse himself from would be mp3 players....
Hmm, so does this mean that Google's about to announce a line of mp3 players? :)
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One major annoyance with the non-standard port is the port flag option passed to both SSH and SCP.
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Port 2222
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Fixed!
I recently installed Gentoo on a PowerBook with an nvidia card. I can't use nvidia's driver because they haven't released a version for PPC. Fortunately the nv driver is available, so I can use the display, except that I have no 3D support. As a result I can't run beryl (which I was really hoping to try out). Also, even more importantly, I can't do suspend-to-ram. Suspend-to-ram works on the ATI PowerBooks under Linux, but my understanding is that the open source nvidia drivers can't resume the card properly so I'm SOL. Fortunately I was able to get suspend2 working so I can suspend to disk, but it's still a poor substitute. If that hadn't worked then I would've ended-up having to go back to OSX on this laptop.
So, yes, open source drivers ARE important.
I agree with this line of argument, but this case may be a bad example. This is actually a case where Facial recognition software would've been able to better identify the differences between the 2 faces. Look carefully at the 2 faces themselves, their heads are shaped completely differently, different noses, birthmarks, freckles, different ears, different eye spacing, even eye color looks quite a bit different. I expect these things would all be noticed by facial recognition software. I imagine that humans use different cues to recognize similarity then the computer does. We see similar eye shape, hair color ans style, skin color, and jewelery, and our brains fill in the rest.
Unfortunately facial recognition software wouldn't have helped in this case anyway since there was no photo of the original suspect.
Does all this mean that the false-positive rate of the software is acceptable? No, it just means that in some cases it could be less then human comparison alone. Or, even better, facial recognition used in addition to human comparison could probably reduce false positives. But that ignores any issues with automatically comparing photos with a large database.
I just discovered yesterday that mails from smtp.snet.net (SNET, now part of SBC, is CT's phone company, so this will effect many DSL and T1 subscribers in CT) has also been recently blacklisted by Comcast.
If you think laying it down will help you avoid that old lady, then I'd suggest staying off motorcycles altogther. (Hint: rubber on asphalt will stop you MUCH faster then metal on asphalt)
On the other hand I do like the K12R better as well.
You mean like WeatherGopher? Free as in beer, and free from spyware.
Who cares about male colleagues, what I want to know is will it also find her nude photos in usenet?
Oh-yeah, because finding the update button in a different place in each program is so much easier, then remembering to update each and every program. I'd also argue that more programs do not have update buttons then do. Yes, many of the larger ones do, b ut most of the smaller ones don't.
So, spend an hour opening a program, clicking update, waiting, opening the next program, clicking update, waiting, etc is easier then learning one command?! Also I wouldn't recommend gentoo for a first time user, other distros like Debian have nice pretty graphical frontends (synaptic) for the people who are alergic to the command prompt. Think of windows update that will upgrade everything you've installed on your system for you (minus the rebooting) and you'll just about have it.
I'm sorry, some things may be easier in Windows, but this is certainly not one of them.
As a motorcycle rider I can tell you that the gas coming out of the pump is quite cool on even a hot day.
When riding on a hot day, having a cool gastank between your legs feels really nice.
So the time of day probably doesn't matter all that much, unless there's something else to this that I missed.
No need to worry, no-one will design a 100watt cellphone. I believe most current phones are in the .5 watt - 1 watt range. Imagine the size of the battery you'd need for a 100 watt phone.
I've setup a button bar at the bottom of my screen with my most commonly used apps. It took me some time before I got all the mime-types and associated programs setup the way I wanted, but it went pretty smoothly (and then I used unison to keep the settings in sync on all my machines). I'm quite happy with it, and much more productive. It also lets you type arbitrary shell code to run a file through right there. IE: Select a bunch of files and then type !for $a in "$@"; do foo; done, so I get the best of both worlds. btw: I setup root-tail to watch my .xsession-errors file so I can see any results on my background.
Couple this with fluxbox's tabbed windows, keyboard shortcuts, and multiple workspaces and I'm quite happy.
Look here for the latest news on the sparrow:o m/
http://www.phoenixenvironmentalmotors.c
Anyway, I agree with others that a motorcycle is a good way to go. Rain isn't a problem if you dress for it, same with cold, ice is a problem though.
You don't want to carry a cage around with you, well a bike is as close to a car minus the cage as you can get, and they're easier to maintain too.
Some people really hate bikes because they're "too dangerous", my response is that they're overall safer. If you drive a car then your making yourself safer at the expense of whoever you might run into, suvs even more so. If your on a bike you'll cause less damage to whatever you might hit, at the risk of more damage to yourself. So motorcycling is more socially responsible. It also automatically makes you more accountable for your own actions. If you drive like an idiot then your putting yourself at risk for more on a bike then in a car, and thus more likely to feel the direct results of your actions.
If you get a bike, do it right, take the MSF course and drive safely. There's enough idiot motorcyclists around making a bad name for all of us.
Another good option is an old VW diesel. They get 40-50mpg. Forget the prius, I'd love to see a diesel hybrid on the market. If you think diesel's too dirty, then burn biodiesel. It may not be the ideal solution, but it's a step in the right direction.
It does looks like Elena is wearing different jackets in different pictures. So would she have gone as far as to bring 2 leather jackets, or did she actually go twice? Of course she could've taken the bus trip twice as well.
I suspect the real truth is somewhere in the middle.
Good story, and very good photos either way.
At least not until after they've had a go at it themselves.
I'm thinking that pdp8 and pdp11 are not likely to be that common anymore. Perhaps this list was a bit more accurate 20 years ago.
Ah, well, now I've got to change all of my root passwords from youwontguessme to p^$$w0rd. Hey, at least it's not on the list.
I've had uptimes over a year on my normal desktop machine, so no I haven't reinstalled in awhile.
My Windows boxes at work probably get reloaded about yearly though.
Don't you mean Federal Pacific?
Of course if they were FPC breakers then it might not have tripped in the first place.
Which leads to another question, why did the breaker trip? I imagine they'll want to answer that question before simply turning it back on.