2+2 = 4 but you need to allow for the cutting loss that would make 4/2 = to 1.99 + 1.99 so the 2+2 needs to be 2.01 + 2.01 = 4.02 to account for cutting, more if you intend to machine the ends therefor needing it to be longer and you have to round up to the next whole unit hence 2+2=5
in electronics its also true , to make 2 cables at 2 meters long you need the cable longer to allow the ends to be stripped back allowing the connectors to be mounted so with a 2M cable you would need to account for 40mm or so extra per length so the 2+2 becomes 4.08M and since cable is sold in 1M lengths then 4M would leave you 80mm short so the 4 becomes 5 , hence 2+2=5
there are more cases , like 4+4 = 12 where the length of the item is sold in 12 foot lengths
so although in maths 2+2 should = 4 it is not always the case and quite often has to be bigger
so given the deforestation needed to grow the starch based fuel , why they looking at other means to produce H2 ,
its a simple equation
use a fusion reactor based power station to split water into 2(H2) and O2 , burn the pre mixed result and get H2O back , no mess , no 25kg of source material needed for 1kg of fuel , and the waste H2O can be collected and reused , and no nasty chemicals in the process
instead they have to look at a way of producing H2 that has some form of environmental impact this like the method of using aluminium with another chemical to allow for perpetual oxidization in water to produce hydrogen so you end up with aluminium oxide and hydrogen , but are then faced with the problem that you trap the O2 in the aluminium then lose more O2 burning the hydrogen
as to power , well its the engine design that needs the work to try to compencate for the losses in relation to what a petrol design would give
a petrol engine needs to be metal because of the presure , a H2O based hydrogen design could be built from ABS , and the rest of the car also , so you don't have to shift around 2 tons of metal , lighter car , and less fuel used , so its not going to give you 500 BHP and do 0 to 120 in 8 seconds , but what use is that when your stuck in a traffic jam doing 2 mph or less because of gridlock
and as to the infastructure to distribute it , well i guess they had gas stations in the USA before the car , and in such a money centric place , it still fails to see a potentitaly money making gap in the market that needs filling , rather can not be bothered investing in new technology that would create new jobs and a whole new industry , rather they expect the only investment is to change the liquid the pumps drip out of the end
and BTW they have been using LPG (gas) filling systems for some time here in the UK so the technology has been around to deliver fuel in gas form for some time
this story only realy shows another way to produce hydrogen in a way that turns a simple no waste proccess into one that produes masses of striped and potentitaly useless biowaste for rather a small percentage of fuel gained
better just sticking a pipe up a cows ass and collecting the methane , and using that to fuel the cars , so you reduce the methane polution produced by the cows and burn it in a usefull process so no real environmental impact , but i guess not vegan safe
i think you need to referance more than christianaty to get the full story like the numorus accounts of noa and the ark
the story of adam and eve date back and seem to be linked to the story of babilon
bablilon was a place in etheopia , when the aria was lush and plentiful , the king (who at that time would of been also concideded a god) had a dispute with one of his close friends , the outcome was that he exiled all his subjects from the land
the story does appear in a lot of cultures , the fact that the cristian version has only adam and eve (beeing not king/god) and having only 2 sons , seems that only there story of there endevers survives , but not the others who also had to leave with them
again if the litaral terms of the bible where followed then all of the human population came from there 2 sons now as one was killed by the other , how did he manage it without any other woman than eve his mum , this again is not open to debate as its only what is written that matters in the bible if you ask
interestingly genetics also traces the whole human dna to a group of 500 humans who interestingly also originated from africa and close to the area of ethiopia at that , so not just adam and eve but around 498 others at the same time
unfortunatly although the god there was a tirent king not the god as the church would want you to beleve , but the story would of already have been well known of by the average man before they tried to convert to christianty , and was old enough to be legend where the true identaty of the god was as a figure in the shape of man
the bit about man in the image of god , ie god must look like man came about later , this was to put an end to the worship of animal gods , and is also wrong as to what god may look like
evolution well isn't that the way "god" uses to create animals and the other creations ? just a minute , it does state in genisis that he created them , but does not say how so if thats the case how can they say that evloution was not how he did it, rather than just deny the theory as canot be , when it gives no explanation other than he did it somehow
the failing is that for there view it must of been instant and seperate , not a subtle process that in its own way like dna itself is the program for life's shape form and function , then the program itself should know what works and what fails , and a program for life that adapts to the environment , a system that works in the randomless meaningles un-predictabilaty of the universe and environment , "god" created dna , therefor all life , so they deny that he could of because there interpritation states it could not be , but by the same token does not give an explanation of how , or do they still think the earth is flat and the center of the universe and the sun orbits the earth
as to genisis well replace day with era , like the correct translation should have been from the original hebrew and its not so bad it actualy also stops the bible from looking so distroted from the truth , and although it fails to explain how he create things , it sort of follows how you could describe the big bang theory to the masses , in a way that they would tend to grasp
the truth of the cristian releigion , as jesus says in the bible " beware of those that profess to speak in my name" well thats the current christian faith , that would and during there history have persicuted people for not beleaving it even tortured to death for questioning it, no matter what the cost , or if right or wrong and even when it preaches love and forgivness , the failing of all religions , its not the morrals , there good , its the way they turn a blind eye to failing the morrals if you confess , but persicute and punish if you question what is written
its the attitudes like the topic subject that shows how far removed thease people are , shows they are basicaly a sect that by there interpritation of the bible , can only attempt t
gravity is easy even without a giant spinning a doughnut ring
accelerate at 1G until you almost reach the speed of light , and you have a constant relative gravity of 1G it would take about 65 years to get to almost light speed at that then turn the ship to face the other direction and deccelerate at 1G , again taking 65years to slow to a stop leaving only about 2 to 3 mins on the trip without gravity , as time is slowed on board when at 99.99999% the speed of light then the 2 to 3 mins it takes to turn the ship will also constitute a traveled distance of a few light years in the process
but 130 year's for one way and dubbel that for back , although not a lot of diferance to the crews time line if 5 light years or 100 light years other than the few mins or so they spend in 0 G in the middle
since life first formed on earth there has been airborn bacteria some of these tend to get stripped with some of the upper atmosphere by the solar wind they get frosen in the process once they leave our solar system they get carried by the solar wind though deep space and some maybe fall into another nearby solar system's gravaty and get court up in the gravitational pull of any planet there on arriving there if the conditions of the planet are right the bacteria will defrost and attempt to continue its life cycle , mutate and evolve and start a new ecosystem
it can take billions of years to actualy reach its destination , there has been life on earth long enough to potentialy seed any suitable planets orbiting some nearby stars in the path the galactic wind would take the particels
now by the same token it is possible that life on earth may have started by the same proccess from life on a planet closer to the centre of our galaxy and sort of ties in with the current theories that dna was fromed at a point in the creation of the universe when the earth was still cosmic dust
now ok so not inteligent life , but it shows an aspect of "life" and the way it could seed the stela distances without anything special other than natural forces , doing what "life" does surviving in whatever enviroment it can addapt for each ecosystem it successfully seeds would by evolution over many milions of years end up with a ecosystem to suit the planets environment
it is know that 20 ton's of intergalactic dust that may contain extraterestral bacteria enters the earths atmosphere every day , both nasa and seti have known of this for some time , but an experiment for collecting and testing for samples of this dust as not been done yet and it needs to be done in a place where it could not be contaminated by what is getting pulled of the earth
the theory is known to be possible as it was discovered quite by accident when bacteria from earth found on a space probe that returned to earth , had not only survived being in space , but on return was starting to grow as a culture on the item apparently unaffected by the almost 0 K freezing process
as to seti and radio it could be said that:-
once the airwaves where full of music and people singing then it just turned to a loud hiss then noting at all but the background noise
just made obsolete by progress
and Voyager 1 well when it eventuly gets captured by a gravitational pull of a solar system and planetary system , it may be greeted by aliens that are the genetic off spring of some bacteria that arrived there from here on earth many billions of years ago
ok so they payed well over the odds for it so having 68% of the shares , they have control but they are not the only share holders and that now the current trading price of the shares is well up on what they where, that makes the remaining share holders a nice profit. there not going to object to what microsoft wants so mutch so that is going to make them sort of yes men or
(so may not be panic as mutch as showing the shareholders that there eather with them or leave now )
that gives those who do not want to continue to hold shares in that company a instant leaving profit so there not going to be that bothered about leaving if not happy with the buyout by M$
so not realy a panic buy but more of a payout
and altough microsoft has had its own advertising although third party on msn for a number of years but is this all going to change ?
what will m$ do to try to block other advertising companies and leave the only option to use theres now this would seriously threaten google , yahoo and others if IE had the capabilaty to block those adverts wile still letting though the microsoft owned advertising companies
another possible monopoly for M$ to try and have a go at ?
and if they did that then the could screw google / yahoo and most other internet advertising, with one IE update or large patch for IE useres , leaving google and yahoo with only firefox and other browsers that would let them show theres .
and the usa would probably rule that it is being a monopoly in that area also and then do nothing about it, then place legislation to ensure that it is protected and any attempt to gain a share of its market would be a terrorest act.
if not then they do think about users a bit more than shareholders profit and how to rase it and are not hell bent on trying to destroy google or yahoo and whate ever company may try to get in that section of the market
the thought that it is within m$ power to control what adverts 90% of computer users may see is too bad to think of , it may be bad enough having to view adverts anyway but its not the point
now next thing you know they will be having those advert boxes just below the login box. and special offer notifications popping up during your screensaver not to mention linking with some telesails. so whenever you login and start to surf you will get a call
dam will have to pattent that before m$ does , dam prior art in public domain above
what was that deal they where on about for discounted versions for schools that the users would be compelled to watch advert streams before they could use it looks like that may be on the way to full price versions
by the way , if using hotmail,, messages from msn / microsoft cannot be put in junk
wonder if this will be the same for all things owned my microsoft including junk adverts
and no way to block it , then improve there add blocking for all other sites no wonder they wanted it bad they payed more than dubbel the share price for it
if the led is on you know its using power when you want to walk away , so you can switch it off at the socket
i do like leds , at the basic level if the led is lit you do know that it has power and should work without it you would find more people returning items as faulty because there was no power getting to it all they know is its not working and no led to tell them that it is powered on so they would say its faulty
although i would rather campain for proper power off on the front , not just a standby mode on the front power and having to delve over and down the back of the device to find the proper switch
the led is not the problem 20mA to tell you that the unit is drawing 500ma so it can tell when you press the power button to turn it on is the problem
in a way nomater how you look at it the fact that the led is on is working , as it is getting you to dislike the fact that its on and getting you thinking about the power its using when in standby
as to removing them well that would not cure the problem of power use,, because theres no led to tell you its on or in standby you would be none the wiser as to if its using power or not,, now leaving a device on rather than in standby, because you are not aware its on could cost you more over one night than the led would use in 1 year
so when you power off at the mains sockets you know when all the lights are out that theres nothing left on drawing power
other than that you have a fear of equipment with lots of lights
i doubt that any windows user would just switch without problems
not because it is hard but they expect it to work the same and not have to learn new things
if you ask the same user how long it took them to understand windows properly then i guess most would say months or years
then in the same breath they expect that switching to linux could be accomplished in a few days
its not over sold it is the fact that it takes time to understand , and you have to remember that you will need to learn the diferences not just load it and wonder why things are totaly diferent
just diving into linux and trying to do the same things they would do in linux is going to cause problems. as they do not understand the fundimental diferences between the two , and then can not be bothered to understand why
its not a failure of linux its a failure of the user to take the time to understand
one of the things that used to happen before the pc , dos / windows was any machine that came out had its own operating system people that grew up in that environment got used to diferent ways that they operated now because of the monoculture of windows people don't expect anything to be any diferent from it and seem unwilling to take the time to relearn it would be diferent for someone who did not have the option of reverting to windows and had to relearn but its all to easy to say stuff it and revert to windows for meany of these attempted switches to linux
from those that i do know of that have made the change and taken the time to learn they are very happy with linux and prefer it in a lot of ways , i should also add that now need less tec support than when using windows because they have found out how to find solutions to there problems there selves
ms should just put it in the bin and give us the next version
ho thay have not even started writing it yet even though
well 95 1995 98 1998 me 2000 xp 2002 vista well an extra 3 letters so estimate 2007 and may be late
just hope they don't call the next version after a small village called llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch or it will take them till 2064 to manage that one
and disluxia , dislexier how ever you speel it is like a eciption on your brains dictionory and its not good , but consitant just glad i can still draw scematics without as many erros
bad for business and now new employees
so unless you already have certification getting it now is harder
the door is now shut for most , and theres less and less chance
of getting it , but if you have then your lucky
think you only have to look at the following
company employs 200 technitions
the company gets them all cretified
a week later 90% of them resign
why because they now got cretified thay get a better job
now after that the company will only employ people that have
already got cretification or train staff to that level without
actualy getting them certified
end result it is not worth the investment
traing staff to the level and better than cretification
works better if you actualy dont give them that cretification
prevents you loosing them to the compertition
so having certification does not mean your better than a guy who has not
it just means you have a peace of paper that says you should know about it
but that causes a diferance in pay
the lucky ones that have the certification get more than those without
even if the work they are needed to is a higher level than the certification
so yes now we have the situation that is worse for those without
like 25 years of experance and writing the dam software that the certification
is about puts you as a second class citisen because you did not go on
the course to tell you how to use what you wrote
so would not qualify for the 10% or more extra pay that beeing certified offers
in some companies
so certification is bad for the industry , and bad for the employee unless thay
have certification
plus costs , the cost of getting certification is higher than the pay will allow
a employee without to fund it themselves
so having certification only servers to tell the employer that you knew how to use xyz back in 199? so do you know how to do xyz in vista , well its not xp you know , but your microsoft certified so should
well choice is one
so the fact that there is a more open feedback and availability with
some of the other distro's is a good thing
at the end of the day theres always going to be distro wars
but the fact that there is a choice is what is needed
and maybe the companies mentioned can see that the closed source , ignoring feature requests , and not meeting user request is the one thing
that microsoft seem to fail on
and that failing is going to eat away at there sails
so at least these companies can see what needs to be done and are trying to meet that requirement
they have 2 choices ether they do a good job and get more sails because of it
or they do it badly and fall by the way side
only the ones that meet the demands and requirements of the users will succeed , so there following the sails and distribution methods that make them accepted , and its important that they do in the long term
maybe microsoft pattented the busness model that prevents them not doing it:)
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looks like the engineering solution
given the material is in supplied in whole units
2+2 = 4 but you need to allow for the cutting loss that would make 4/2 = to 1.99 + 1.99
so the 2+2 needs to be 2.01 + 2.01 = 4.02 to account for cutting, more if you intend to machine the ends
therefor needing it to be longer and you have to round up to the next whole unit hence 2+2=5
in electronics its also true , to make 2 cables at 2 meters long you need the cable longer to allow the ends to be stripped back
allowing the connectors to be mounted so with a 2M cable you would need to account for 40mm or so extra per length so the 2+2 becomes
4.08M and since cable is sold in 1M lengths then 4M would leave you 80mm short so the 4 becomes 5 , hence 2+2=5
there are more cases , like 4+4 = 12 where the length of the item is sold in 12 foot lengths
so although in maths 2+2 should = 4 it is not always the case and quite often has to be bigger
it gets me but
burning hydrogen or any other fuel needs O2 also
so given the deforestation needed to grow the starch based fuel , why they looking at other means to produce H2 ,
its a simple equation
use a fusion reactor based power station to split water into 2(H2) and O2 , burn the pre mixed result and get H2O back , no mess , no 25kg of source material needed for 1kg of fuel , and the waste H2O can be collected and reused , and no nasty chemicals in the process
instead they have to look at a way of producing H2 that has some form of environmental impact
this like the method of using aluminium with another chemical to allow for perpetual oxidization in water to produce hydrogen
so you end up with aluminium oxide and hydrogen , but are then faced with the problem that you trap the O2 in the aluminium then lose more O2 burning the hydrogen
as to power , well its the engine design that needs the work to try to compencate for the losses in relation to what a petrol design would give
a petrol engine needs to be metal because of the presure , a H2O based hydrogen design could be built from ABS , and the rest of the car also , so you don't have to shift around 2 tons of metal , lighter car , and less fuel used , so its not going to give you 500 BHP and do 0 to 120 in 8 seconds , but what use is that when your stuck in a traffic jam doing 2 mph or less because of gridlock
and as to the infastructure to distribute it , well i guess they had gas stations in the USA before the car , and in such a money centric place , it still fails to see a potentitaly money making gap in the market that needs filling , rather can not be bothered investing in new technology that would create new jobs and a whole new industry , rather they expect the only investment is to change the liquid the pumps drip out of the end
and BTW they have been using LPG (gas) filling systems for some time here in the UK so the technology has been around to deliver fuel in gas form for some time
this story only realy shows another way to produce hydrogen in a way that turns a simple no waste proccess into one that produes masses of striped and potentitaly useless biowaste for rather a small percentage of fuel gained
better just sticking a pipe up a cows ass and collecting the methane , and using that to fuel the cars , so you reduce the methane polution produced by the cows and burn it in a usefull process so no real environmental impact , but i guess not vegan safe
i think you need to referance more than christianaty to get the full story
,
,
like the numorus accounts of noa and the ark
the story of adam and eve date back and seem to be linked to the story of babilon
bablilon was a place in etheopia , when the aria was lush and plentiful , the king
(who at that time would of been also concideded a god) had a dispute with one of his close
friends , the outcome was that he exiled all his subjects from the land
the story does appear in a lot of cultures , the fact that the cristian version has only adam
and eve (beeing not king/god) and having only 2 sons , seems that only there story of there
endevers survives , but not the others who also had to leave with them
again if the litaral terms of the bible where followed then all of the human population came from there 2 sons
now as one was killed by the other , how did he manage it without any other woman than eve his mum , this again is not open to
debate as its only what is written that matters in the bible if you ask
interestingly genetics also traces the whole human dna to a group of 500 humans who interestingly also originated from africa and close to the area of ethiopia at that , so not just adam and eve but around 498 others at the same time
unfortunatly although the god there was a tirent king not the god as the church would want you to beleve , but the story would of already have been well known of by the average man before they tried to convert to christianty , and was old enough to be legend where the true identaty of the god was as a figure in the shape of man
the bit about man in the image of god , ie god must look like man came about later , this was to put an end to the worship of animal gods , and is also wrong as to what god may look like
evolution well isn't that the way "god" uses to create animals and the other creations ?
just a minute , it does state in genisis that he created them , but does not say how
so if thats the case how can they say that evloution was not how he did it
rather than just deny the theory as canot be , when it gives no explanation other than he did it somehow
the failing is that for there view it must of been instant and seperate , not a subtle process that
in its own way like dna itself is the program for life's shape form and function , then the program itself
should know what works and what fails , and a program for life that adapts to the environment , a system that works
in the randomless meaningles un-predictabilaty of the universe and environment , "god" created dna , therefor all life , so they deny that he could of
because there interpritation states it could not be , but by the same token does not give an explanation of how , or do they still think the earth is flat and the center of the universe and the sun orbits the earth
as to genisis well replace day with era , like the correct translation should have been from the original hebrew and its not so bad
it actualy also stops the bible from looking so distroted from the truth , and although it fails to explain how he create things , it sort of
follows how you could describe the big bang theory to the masses , in a way that they would tend to grasp
the truth of the cristian releigion , as jesus says in the bible " beware of those that profess to speak in my name" well thats the current christian faith , that would and during there history have persicuted people for not beleaving it even tortured to death for questioning it
no matter what the cost , or if right or wrong and even when it preaches love and forgivness , the failing of all religions , its not the morrals , there good , its the way they turn a blind eye to failing the morrals if you confess , but persicute and punish if you question what is written
its the attitudes like the topic subject that shows how far removed thease people are , shows they are basicaly a sect that by there interpritation of the bible , can only attempt t
gravity is easy even without a giant spinning a doughnut ring
accelerate at 1G until you almost reach the speed of light , and you have a constant relative gravity of 1G
it would take about 65 years to get to almost light speed at that
then turn the ship to face the other direction and deccelerate at 1G , again taking 65years to slow to a stop
leaving only about 2 to 3 mins on the trip without gravity , as time is slowed on board when at 99.99999% the speed of light
then the 2 to 3 mins it takes to turn the ship will also constitute a traveled distance of a few light years in
the process
but 130 year's for one way and dubbel that for back , although not a lot of diferance to the crews time line if 5 light years
or 100 light years other than the few mins or so they spend in 0 G in the middle
since life first formed on earth there has been airborn bacteria
some of these tend to get stripped with some of the upper atmosphere by the solar wind
they get frosen in the process
once they leave our solar system they get carried by the solar wind though deep space
and some maybe fall into another nearby solar system's gravaty
and get court up in the gravitational pull of any planet there
on arriving there if the conditions of the planet are right the bacteria will defrost
and attempt to continue its life cycle , mutate and evolve and start a new ecosystem
it can take billions of years to actualy reach its destination ,
there has been life on earth long enough to potentialy seed any suitable planets orbiting
some nearby stars in the path the galactic wind would take the particels
now by the same token it is possible that life on earth may have started by the same proccess from life
on a planet closer to the centre of our galaxy and sort of ties in with the current theories that dna
was fromed at a point in the creation of the universe when the earth was still cosmic dust
now ok so not inteligent life , but it shows an aspect of "life" and the way it could seed the stela distances
without anything special other than natural forces , doing what "life" does surviving in whatever enviroment
it can addapt for
each ecosystem it successfully seeds would by evolution over many milions of years end up with a ecosystem to
suit the planets environment
it is know that 20 ton's of intergalactic dust that may contain extraterestral bacteria enters the earths atmosphere
every day , both nasa and seti have known of this for some time , but an experiment for collecting and testing for samples
of this dust as not been done yet and it needs to be done in a place where it could not be contaminated by what is getting
pulled of the earth
the theory is known to be possible as it was discovered quite by accident when bacteria from earth found on a space probe that
returned to earth , had not only survived being in space , but on return was starting to grow as a culture on the item
apparently unaffected by the almost 0 K freezing process
as to seti and radio it could be said that:-
once the airwaves where full of music and people singing
then it just turned to a loud hiss
then noting at all but the background noise
just made obsolete by progress
and Voyager 1 well when it eventuly gets captured by a gravitational pull of a solar system
and planetary system , it may be greeted by aliens that are the genetic off spring of some bacteria
that arrived there from here on earth many billions of years ago
ok so they payed well over the odds for it
so having 68% of the shares , they have control but they are not the only share holders
and that now the current trading price of the shares is well up on what they where,
that makes the remaining share holders a nice profit.
there not going to object to what microsoft wants so mutch so that is going to make them sort of yes men or
(so may not be panic as mutch as showing the shareholders that there eather with them or leave now )
that gives those who do not want to continue to hold shares in that company a instant leaving profit
so there not going to be that bothered about leaving if not happy with the buyout by M$
so not realy a panic buy but more of a payout
and altough microsoft has had its own advertising although third party on msn for a number of years
but is this all going to change ?
what will m$ do to try to block other advertising companies and leave the only option to use theres
now this would seriously threaten google , yahoo and others if IE had the capabilaty to block those adverts
wile still letting though the microsoft owned advertising companies
another possible monopoly for M$ to try and have a go at ?
and if they did that then the could screw google / yahoo and most other internet advertising, with one
IE update or large patch for IE useres , leaving google and yahoo with only firefox and other browsers that
would let them show theres .
and the usa would probably rule that it is being a monopoly in that area also and then do nothing about it,
then place legislation to ensure that it is protected and any attempt to gain a share of its market would be
a terrorest act.
if not then they do think about users a bit more than shareholders profit and how to rase it and are not
hell bent on trying to destroy google or yahoo and whate ever company may try to get in that section of the market
the thought that it is within m$ power to control what adverts 90% of computer users may see is too
bad to think of , it may be bad enough having to view adverts anyway but its not the point
now next thing you know they will be having those advert boxes just below the login box.
,, messages from msn / microsoft cannot be put in junk
and special offer notifications popping up during your screensaver
not to mention linking with some telesails.
so whenever you login and start to surf you will get a call
dam will have to pattent that before m$ does , dam prior art in public domain above
what was that deal they where on about for discounted versions for schools that the users
would be compelled to watch advert streams before they could use it
looks like that may be on the way to full price versions
by the way , if using hotmail
wonder if this will be the same for all things owned my microsoft including junk adverts
and no way to block it , then improve there add blocking for all other sites
no wonder they wanted it bad they payed more than dubbel the share price for it
if the led is on you know its using power when you want to walk away , so you can switch it off at the socket
,, because theres no led to tell you its on or in standby you would be none the wiser as to if its using power or not ,, now leaving a device on rather than in standby, because you are not aware its on could cost you more over one night than the led would use in 1 year
i do like leds , at the basic level if the led is lit you do know that it has power and should work
without it you would find more people returning items as faulty because there was no power getting to it
all they know is its not working and no led to tell them that it is powered on so they would say its faulty
although i would rather campain for proper power off on the front , not just a standby mode on the front power
and having to delve over and down the back of the device to find the proper switch
the led is not the problem 20mA to tell you that the unit is drawing 500ma so it can tell when you press the power button to turn it on is the problem
in a way nomater how you look at it the fact that the led is on is working , as it is getting you to dislike the fact that its on and getting you thinking about the power its using when in standby
as to removing them well that would not cure the problem of power use
so when you power off at the mains sockets you know when all the lights are out that theres nothing left on drawing power
other than that you have a fear of equipment with lots of lights
i doubt that any windows user would just switch without problems
not because it is hard but they expect it to work the same and not have to learn
new things
if you ask the same user how long it took them to understand windows properly
then i guess most would say months or years
then in the same breath they expect that switching to linux could be accomplished
in a few days
its not over sold it is the fact that it takes time to understand ,
and you have to remember that you will need to learn the diferences
not just load it and wonder why things are totaly diferent
just diving into linux and trying to do the same things they would do in linux
is going to cause problems. as they do not understand the fundimental
diferences between the two , and then can not be bothered to understand why
its not a failure of linux its a failure of the user to take the time to understand
one of the things that used to happen before the pc , dos / windows was any machine
that came out had its own operating system
people that grew up in that environment got used to diferent ways that they operated
now because of the monoculture of windows people don't expect anything to be any
diferent from it and seem unwilling to take the time to relearn
it would be diferent for someone who did not have the option of reverting to windows and had to relearn
but its all to easy to say stuff it and revert to windows for meany of these attempted switches to linux
from those that i do know of that have made the change and taken the time to learn
they are very happy with linux and prefer it in a lot of ways , i should also add
that now need less tec support than when using windows because they have found out
how to find solutions to there problems there selves
when i buy a pc it has a usage life of 3 years
o gogogoch
vista is 3 years overdue
also makes it 3 years out of date
ms should just put it in the bin and give us the next version
ho thay have not even started writing it yet even though
well
95 1995
98 1998
me 2000
xp 2002
vista well an extra 3 letters so estimate 2007
and may be late
just hope they don't call the next version after a small village called
llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysili
or it will take them till 2064 to manage that one
and disluxia , dislexier how ever you speel it
is like a eciption on your brains dictionory
and its not good , but consitant
just glad i can still draw scematics without as many erros
you get the idea
ha yes .
should of entered it as plain text
and not left it set to html formated
then it would of given new lines
as needed
lol
bad for business and now new employees so unless you already have certification getting it now is harder the door is now shut for most , and theres less and less chance of getting it , but if you have then your lucky think you only have to look at the following company employs 200 technitions the company gets them all cretified a week later 90% of them resign why because they now got cretified thay get a better job now after that the company will only employ people that have already got cretification or train staff to that level without actualy getting them certified end result it is not worth the investment traing staff to the level and better than cretification works better if you actualy dont give them that cretification prevents you loosing them to the compertition so having certification does not mean your better than a guy who has not it just means you have a peace of paper that says you should know about it but that causes a diferance in pay the lucky ones that have the certification get more than those without even if the work they are needed to is a higher level than the certification so yes now we have the situation that is worse for those without like 25 years of experance and writing the dam software that the certification is about puts you as a second class citisen because you did not go on the course to tell you how to use what you wrote so would not qualify for the 10% or more extra pay that beeing certified offers in some companies so certification is bad for the industry , and bad for the employee unless thay have certification plus costs , the cost of getting certification is higher than the pay will allow a employee without to fund it themselves so having certification only servers to tell the employer that you knew how to use xyz back in 199? so do you know how to do xyz in vista , well its not xp you know , but your microsoft certified so should
well choice is one so the fact that there is a more open feedback and availability with some of the other distro's is a good thing at the end of the day theres always going to be distro wars but the fact that there is a choice is what is needed and maybe the companies mentioned can see that the closed source , ignoring feature requests , and not meeting user request is the one thing that microsoft seem to fail on and that failing is going to eat away at there sails so at least these companies can see what needs to be done and are trying to meet that requirement they have 2 choices ether they do a good job and get more sails because of it or they do it badly and fall by the way side only the ones that meet the demands and requirements of the users will succeed , so there following the sails and distribution methods that make them accepted , and its important that they do in the long term maybe microsoft pattented the busness model that prevents them not doing it :)