Comment Re:600 acre-feet, WHAT? (Score 2) 835
A unit of area x a unit of length = a unit of volume
1 cubic metres = 0.000810713194 acre foot (per google).
A unit of area x a unit of length = a unit of volume
1 cubic metres = 0.000810713194 acre foot (per google).
I've dual booted dozens of boxes at home over the last 20 years. I've wiped Windows and single booted Linux on a few too. But every time I get some new kit, Windows comes pre-installed and all the hardware just works. Nearly every time I've had a struggle to get Linux sound working, or video out or something else that was just fine under Windows.
Really, Linux on the desktop is still not there. And the fissiparous nature of desktop environments doesn't help.
When was the last time you tried to edit wikipedia?
It's pretty much read-only at this point.
It was still freely editable last time I looked. Maybe you should try making a sensible edit with some citations.
Is Microsoft better than Oracle? I kind of see it as the East Front: Nazi Germany against Communist Russia. Can't they just destroy each other completely?
I think you're getting confused with IBM.
I'm sure we'll hear a lot of political ideology in today's comments, but I just wanted to remind folks that S&P reputation isn't that stellar. S&P and Moody's used mathematical models to rate mortgage backed securities as safe as governmental bonds back in 2007. Then about 90% of those bonds were then rerated as junk bonds which forced a large sell off.
Only because the bank deliberately gamed the system to hide the fact that they were lending way beyond the Basel rules. Don't blame the ratings agencies or the governments - it's all the greedy bankers' fault.
The real purpose for Google putting everything into one entry box is that everything you type gets turned into a search, and therefore gets sent to Google
I'm a keyboarder rather than a mouser so I know C-L takes me to the address bar with autocomplete from history and bookmarks, C-K to search. C-L plus a few letters is a lot faster than a bookmarks menu. C-T,C-K is probably one of my most used key combos. Either way, they can hide the bar when not in use as long as I can get there via a handy shortcut.
Is FF becoming the Gillette of the UI?
I have absolutely no idea what that is supposed to mean. Anyway, I've recently switch to Chrome now that it's got adblock, flashblock and copy link text.
So then why did I think that I'm the only real sentient human being when I was a kid? I grew out of that somehow, am I autistic deep down or are my survival instincts just extremely poor?
Lack of a 'theory of mind' probably puts you down the
I used to visit the US fairly regularly
Same here. And I won't even transit through the US because of the hassle.
I usually pass my books on to charity shops after I've read them. I guess they'll lose out in the ebook age. I've never understood why some people hang on to every work of fiction they've ever read. I read an article recently (sorry no cite) of someone who uses the ebook for preference but also buys a hard copy for their bookshelves. Does not compute.
That's $60 billion total per year. Not just from Google but from every American business using these tax loopholes (Microsoft and Facebook included).
And that could keep the Afghan war going for, like, 5 months. Why should they pay big taxes to a government that'll just throw it away?
Most computer users I come across need 4 applications: an internet browser, a pdf viewer, a program that can open word and a program that can open excel files. I haven't seen a Linux desktop that doesn't provide these out of the box in the past few years.
So, what is missing from getting Linux to the masses?
1. retail distribution channels (walmart, dell,
2. marketing presence
3. easy to use, consolidated app store with a way for users to actually pay for stuff
Google could easily fix all 3 of those issues; why hasn't it yet?
How about a desk-top OS that can't play DVDs without you figuring out what extra stuff you need to install and who's audio is a complicated mess? Ubuntu is a great achievement but it's still not there yet.
So 2+2 really is 5?
Yes, for sufficiently large values of 2.
Perhaps we are stuck here for a reason, and perhaps this is an opportunity for all of us to start working out our issues and learn to live together with reasonable differences.
I figured this out a while back. The computer running our simluation is only big enough to cope with a space the size of the near solar system. The whole lightspeed thing is an artificial construct of the simulated physics to keep us in place - like a video game with locked boundaries. All the rest is the imagination of a far space landscape designer.
In Japan they have a cool solution: the escalator ends up having two lines. The people on the left keep walking, and those on the right stand. I guess for that to become a custom you'd need escalators that are typically crowded, which most in the US are not.
Speaking of stairs and escalators, England really needs to catch up on this one. When I was riding the train there I kept having little old ladies ask me to carry their luggage for them up the stairs. I can't imagine what wheelchaired people do.
On the London Underground we have signs telling people to stand on the right. We don't have much patience with the bloody tourists who stand on the left or who put their damned luggage in the way.
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
