Power companies want two things. A way of supplying baseline power that is cheap and plentiful and a way of handling the peak periods.
Coal is good for the first choice. It's relatively cheap, relatively safe but takes a couple of days to get going.
Gas is good for the second choice as you can start up a turbine and having it running at full efficiency quickly.
Wind is good for neither of these. It can't be relied upon to provide baseline or peak output because the wind is always blowing. So it requires some way of storing the energy produced to really be a serious part of energy grid without other things to back it up.
The GPL is not in the slightest bit clear on this. Copyright law is what makes this clear. You are free to licence code you wrote pretty much however you want to but you can't relicense somebody elses code. The GPL gives you the right to redistribute code you ordinarily wouldn't have the right to.
Whether or not he can do this depends on the licence he has for other peoples code. Just because you're contributing to a GPL project doesn't automatically mean you have to licence your code under the GPL. It's the person distributing the code that is bound by the GPL, not the contributer.
It's all a cunning plan by Australia to breed the perfect swimmer. It's working well too. Nobody seems to have noticed the size 27 feet. We're going to try to get away with hands the size of hub caps at the next olympics.
They have to get below ~15% profit before Bill starts looking for the exit
For most markets MS try to enter this is true. But it's all built on the cash cow that is Windows and Office. If they start to loose ground there then they're in trouble.
The problem with all these creationists that cry "There's a missing link!" is they don't understand fossil records.
Say you have two species where the belief is one evolved from the other. The creationists cry "How can that happen? Where's the missing link?" So they dig up another set of bones that fit in the middle. Suddenly they cry out for the two missing links between the three species. Find another two sets of bones and they cry out they for the four missing links.
They don't want a missing link, they want a friggan family tree. I personally think they just like using the word "begat".
When are people going to quit assuming evolution is a proven fact?
When the creationists come up with an explaination for the thousands of species of dogs and cats that didn't exist in "biblical" times. Also how drug resistant bacteria occur. You might also want to go tell farmers and horse breeders they're wasting their time too because nothing they do can change what God did six thousand years ago.
Who detests this drive towards "task based" interfaces? I find that it takes significantly longer to do anything that isn't explicitly spelled out by the interface. I always find myself searching through the options systematically because the task I want to do is something that's buried three screens deep, behind four hidden advanced option buttons and a moat of dire warning dialogs that promise all sorts of horrible things that'll happen to me if I dare continue. Then, in the next release, all the searching for what I want to change is now useless because the usability people tested a dozen people and decided that that option belongs in an entirely different task.
I would prefer it if they'd have all the task based crap and then an advanced option for those people who can look for stuff on their own. Rather than having all the new fangled task based stuff and a two finger salute to the rest of us with an explaination of "it's easier". Not for me it bloody isn't.
Maybe I'm just one of these oldies who believe you actually have to think (*gasp*) when using a computer.
The way every other package based installer works (that I've used anyway) is to install all the packages from the installer boot (usually by forcing dependencies) and then say "all done, reboot now".
The way the Debian installer works is to install a barest minimum system that will boot and run apt and then reboot. Then once it has rebooted it asks for some apt repositories, asks which packages you want install and then installs them (this bit may take a couple of passes though the list to work out any warts in the dependencies). Having done that it presents you with a fully working system WITHOUT a reboot.
The fact they can have that much confidence in the apt repository and the tools is pretty impressive.
Hell. Who else would believe that the world was created in seven days and there is an all powerful being that created life, the universe and everything and is really, REALLY concerned about me prostating myself infront of it on a regular basis.
For all those who believe the Christian "Science" crap:
Suppose that a thousand years from now, the only record anyone has of the
existence of a place called 'Kansas' is in the form of an old book and a
couple of ancient film reels describing the improbable adventures of a young
girl from this mythical place. Now suppose that a team of archaeolgists
digging around in the Great Plains finds an old road sign that, when it is
translated our of the archaic language called 'English,' reads 'Welcome to
Kansas.' This can only mean one thing...
Every word in the ancient epic called The Wizard of Oz is absolutely true!
For those not familiar with DVB, this is used in Europe for satellite and terrestrial TV transmission.
Also used downunder. Lots of info (and the usual quantity of whingers) on a forum here. Also has a good round up of the cards available in Australia including current linux support.
Currently in Australia all major tv channels transmit standard definition digital (576i) and some transmit some programs as HD. Unfortunately the recent England rugby tour isn't:)
Leave the mbr alone (ie the windows one) and install the linux boot loader in the bootable partition. Then set that partition as the bootable one using fdisk. When you have to reinstall windows next just set the bootable partition to windows, reinstall and set it back again.
Windows never knows what happend and you still have one bootable os if something goes wrong.
What's going on now is what's been going on since the original, intolerant, religious crackpots, er, our Glorious Founding Fathers, came ashore.
As much as I hate to interrupt American bashing, but your founding fathers had the right idea. Most of them were not religious, some were distincly anti-religious. Also, at the time, only 5% of the population attended church. (As an aside they were also anti-corporation seeing them as challenging the government for their own ends.)
So all of this bullshit religion has popped up since then. You lot even revised your plege of alligence to include the phrase "... one nation under God".
A bunch of dumb arse religious fanatics thought there was a great flood coming and built a big boat on top of a mountain, much to the amusement of the surrounding population. Egg was on their faces when nothing happened.
Then as the rediculous story is retold and travels across the land somebody overhears it and takes it as absolute truth. Writes it down and it becomes gospel.
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Coal is good for the first choice. It's relatively cheap, relatively safe but takes a couple of days to get going.
Gas is good for the second choice as you can start up a turbine and having it running at full efficiency quickly.
Wind is good for neither of these. It can't be relied upon to provide baseline or peak output because the wind is always blowing. So it requires some way of storing the energy produced to really be a serious part of energy grid without other things to back it up.
Bah! Eyecandy is far more important. Also it's easier to /. images than text.
Whether or not he can do this depends on the licence he has for other peoples code. Just because you're contributing to a GPL project doesn't automatically mean you have to licence your code under the GPL. It's the person distributing the code that is bound by the GPL, not the contributer.
It's the danger of not understanding the difference between biodegradable and water soluable.
It's all a cunning plan by Australia to breed the perfect swimmer. It's working well too. Nobody seems to have noticed the size 27 feet. We're going to try to get away with hands the size of hub caps at the next olympics.
Say you have two species where the belief is one evolved from the other. The creationists cry "How can that happen? Where's the missing link?" So they dig up another set of bones that fit in the middle. Suddenly they cry out for the two missing links between the three species. Find another two sets of bones and they cry out they for the four missing links.
They don't want a missing link, they want a friggan family tree. I personally think they just like using the word "begat".
When the creationists come up with an explaination for the thousands of species of dogs and cats that didn't exist in "biblical" times. Also how drug resistant bacteria occur. You might also want to go tell farmers and horse breeders they're wasting their time too because nothing they do can change what God did six thousand years ago.I would prefer it if they'd have all the task based crap and then an advanced option for those people who can look for stuff on their own. Rather than having all the new fangled task based stuff and a two finger salute to the rest of us with an explaination of "it's easier". Not for me it bloody isn't.
Maybe I'm just one of these oldies who believe you actually have to think (*gasp*) when using a computer.
The way every other package based installer works (that I've used anyway) is to install all the packages from the installer boot (usually by forcing dependencies) and then say "all done, reboot now".
The way the Debian installer works is to install a barest minimum system that will boot and run apt and then reboot. Then once it has rebooted it asks for some apt repositories, asks which packages you want install and then installs them (this bit may take a couple of passes though the list to work out any warts in the dependencies). Having done that it presents you with a fully working system WITHOUT a reboot.
The fact they can have that much confidence in the apt repository and the tools is pretty impressive.
Hell. Who else would believe that the world was created in seven days and there is an all powerful being that created life, the universe and everything and is really, REALLY concerned about me prostating myself infront of it on a regular basis.
For all those who believe the Christian "Science" crap:
Suppose that a thousand years from now, the only record anyone has of the existence of a place called 'Kansas' is in the form of an old book and a couple of ancient film reels describing the improbable adventures of a young girl from this mythical place. Now suppose that a team of archaeolgists digging around in the Great Plains finds an old road sign that, when it is translated our of the archaic language called 'English,' reads 'Welcome to Kansas.' This can only mean one thing ...
Every word in the ancient epic called The Wizard of Oz is absolutely true!
Think about it. Please.
Currently in Australia all major tv channels transmit standard definition digital (576i) and some transmit some programs as HD. Unfortunately the recent England rugby tour isn't :)
It's as though a couple of thousand babbling idiots were suddenly silenced.
--Linus Torvalds
Best anti-drugs message I've ever heard.
Silenced by men in black helicopters!
Windows never knows what happend and you still have one bootable os if something goes wrong.
A: We have an exact copy of the light bulb here and it seems to be working fine. Can you tell me what kind of system you have?
So all of this bullshit religion has popped up since then. You lot even revised your plege of alligence to include the phrase "... one nation under God".
"The battery that kills you long before it runs out"
So you're the one writing all those buffer overfloaws huh?
Then as the rediculous story is retold and travels across the land somebody overhears it and takes it as absolute truth. Writes it down and it becomes gospel.