Interestingly enough, the Yuan is tied to the dollar, and China has benefited from this. And as I mentioned, consolidation affects gas prices (which are tied to refining margins). As for the rest of your points, I agree.:)
It's more about mass production and convenience. For instance, waste vegetable oil is cheaper than gas, (and you can use it to run a slightly modified diesel car) but there simply isn't enough of it to run *all* the cars in the US. Other alternatives will include ethanol and biodiesel, but most likely only after it becomes more profitable to do so.
Between 5 years and 500 years, most likely. Instead of asking silly questions, why don't you use Google, and find out about all sorts of interesting things, like the hubbert peak of oil production, which countries have the most oil reserves, when OPEC will have a majority of them (2006 last I heard), etc.
At least there should be more interest into alternatives to fossil fuels now that oil prices are higher, and seem unlikely to go back to their old levels anytime soon. For bonus points, you can figure out why; there are actually a lot of factors involved, from the relative weakness of the US Dollar to the current security issues in Iraq, and for gas in the US, also including the consolidation of the oil refinery business.
You can set up your own still and run your car off of ethanol--but you would by no means be the first to do so.
The US now uses more than 15 billion gallons of cleaner, ethanol-blended petrol a year, totalling 12% of fuel sales in the US. Most of it is a 10% blend, but 85% and even 95% blends are now being tested.
I don't think a Python front end for gcc would be impossible, but it'd need its own set of libs, and it'd probably have a fair amount of code added in for when interpretation is necesssary. That having been said...
Maybe gcj would be a better place to start. Or, for that matter, maybe you could try to get jython compiled with gcj; sounds like it's been done before.
...Knight Rider. You've got the super decked-out car, the van he comes out of... I mean, it's a perfect match, at least to start out with. As for young David Hasselhoff, I don't know that he was your typical "Action Movie Star", but he did a good job at being Michael Knight.
So yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing a Spy Hunter movie, but I'd love to see a Knight Rider movie. Especially for the soundtrack.
What about Dillo? It sucks ass. Or at least, it did the last time I saw it. You might as well try using Mosaic, or Amaya. Or better yet, don't.
Note that I'm posting this in Konqueror, which is a relatively competent web browser nowadays. It's also using less than 64MB RAM, which isn't bad, considering.:)
The new Efficeon isn't top-of-the-line by any standards, but it isn't dead yet either. Don't believe everything Van's Hardware says about Transmeta, or even about CPUs in general.
For example, he also fails to mention that the C3 does AES (and only AES) in hardware. He seems somewhat surprised at its AES performance in his (suspiciously chosen) AES benchmark, despite the fact that he works for them (Centaur)...
He thinks it's 'crippled' because of the new restrictions involved (and by implication, that it isn't worth the money); that seems like a perfectly good use of the term. Especially since the restrictions are artificial in nature.
I can certainly see people being upset by what looks like a classic bait-and-switch, exploiting the goodwill of the community for personal gain. Like so many other sites who have tried this (and failed), it requires its biggest fans, supporters, and users to pay the largest price, so the alienation and sense of betrayal is not surprising.
For the K5 members out there, there are more details here--apparently the licensing structure is considered a bit outlandish (for what used to be a free product), perhaps to push their (cheaper) blog webhosting services. But for those outside the "Blogosphere", this will only lead to momentary head-scratching, as to what these crazy kids are talking about now.
Personally, I've been spoiled by/. and K5--I can't stand discussion forums that don't at least have nested comments and a few other basic refinements, and it's even better if they have sane implementations (that don't involve doing O(n) SQL queries recursively to build the list of comments, for example)
You could do that by (a) putting in more keywords; (b) letting the search engine suggest topics/extra search keywords for a given search; some search engines try to do this already. As to how, latent semantic indexing looks good (it's a matrix technique used to find relationships between bits of data, such as the ones you discuss)
That's just what we need, millions of geeks going online, pretending to actually be 'cool' and 'popular', and annoying absolutely everyone in the process...
Microsoft's 'FAT' patents do not patent FAT... specifically, they patent the VFAT extensions to FAT. And, as was previously mentioned on slashdot, there's much prior art to using long file names on FAT as well.
So don't call them 'FAT' patents, because they aren't. Call them VFAT patents. Or call them by their names, which also makes it obvious.
Well, you don't have to make a federal case out of it...:)
Seriously, though, if the court decides that they don't have standing to try the case, then they *will* have to make a federal case out of it. And with this dang old internet thing, who knows...
Either search through the myriad of home-grown document markups yourself, or write something you like. Despite what you may believe, slashdot is still not freshmeat, nor is it google.
We aren't mind-readers either, but based on your request, it sounds like you won't be happy with anything, so you'd better start coding.
...they have to protect the local Japanese businessmen from foreign encroachment--that way you know that when your knuckles are being broken, at least a native got that job, and didn't lose it to a foreigner!
And I suppose you think that when 50,000 people on a system all have disk quotas of 50MB, that means that there must be at least 2.4TB of physical storage to back it up? Or that AOL actually had 10 million modems at some point? Do you think that's air you're breathing?
Here's a hint: if most users aren't using that much storage, then there's no need for that storage to actually be there.
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"Software is like sex - it's better when RMS isn't involved."
- Shoeboy
Interestingly enough, the Yuan is tied to the dollar, and China has benefited from this. And as I mentioned, consolidation affects gas prices (which are tied to refining margins). As for the rest of your points, I agree. :)
It's more about mass production and convenience. For instance, waste vegetable oil is cheaper than gas, (and you can use it to run a slightly modified diesel car) but there simply isn't enough of it to run *all* the cars in the US. Other alternatives will include ethanol and biodiesel, but most likely only after it becomes more profitable to do so.
Between 5 years and 500 years, most likely. Instead of asking silly questions, why don't you use Google, and find out about all sorts of interesting things, like the hubbert peak of oil production, which countries have the most oil reserves, when OPEC will have a majority of them (2006 last I heard), etc.
At least there should be more interest into alternatives to fossil fuels now that oil prices are higher, and seem unlikely to go back to their old levels anytime soon. For bonus points, you can figure out why; there are actually a lot of factors involved, from the relative weakness of the US Dollar to the current security issues in Iraq, and for gas in the US, also including the consolidation of the oil refinery business.
I don't think a Python front end for gcc would be impossible, but it'd need its own set of libs, and it'd probably have a fair amount of code added in for when interpretation is necesssary. That having been said...
Maybe gcj would be a better place to start. Or, for that matter, maybe you could try to get jython compiled with gcj; sounds like it's been done before.
If there had been an Athlon 64 in there somewhere, I might have given it a shot... Stupid Dell.
...Knight Rider. You've got the super decked-out car, the van he comes out of... I mean, it's a perfect match, at least to start out with. As for young David Hasselhoff, I don't know that he was your typical "Action Movie Star", but he did a good job at being Michael Knight.
So yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing a Spy Hunter movie, but I'd love to see a Knight Rider movie. Especially for the soundtrack.
No way K5 is Communist--that involves planning.
What about Dillo? It sucks ass. Or at least, it did the last time I saw it. You might as well try using Mosaic, or Amaya. Or better yet, don't.
:)
Note that I'm posting this in Konqueror, which is a relatively competent web browser nowadays. It's also using less than 64MB RAM, which isn't bad, considering.
I guess you could say the same about any democratic system; good thing slashdot doesn't have one!
um. In that case, I suggest you switch from ethernet to token ring, and get a very large SRAM device to replace your HD. That is to say...
:)
Just using a microkernel will not give you any sort of controlled latency on the desktop, and I suspect you know this as well.
The new Efficeon isn't top-of-the-line by any standards, but it isn't dead yet either. Don't believe everything Van's Hardware says about Transmeta, or even about CPUs in general.
For example, he also fails to mention that the C3 does AES (and only AES) in hardware. He seems somewhat surprised at its AES performance in his (suspiciously chosen) AES benchmark, despite the fact that he works for them (Centaur)...
He thinks it's 'crippled' because of the new restrictions involved (and by implication, that it isn't worth the money); that seems like a perfectly good use of the term. Especially since the restrictions are artificial in nature.
I can certainly see people being upset by what looks like a classic bait-and-switch, exploiting the goodwill of the community for personal gain. Like so many other sites who have tried this (and failed), it requires its biggest fans, supporters, and users to pay the largest price, so the alienation and sense of betrayal is not surprising.
For the K5 members out there, there are more details here--apparently the licensing structure is considered a bit outlandish (for what used to be a free product), perhaps to push their (cheaper) blog webhosting services. But for those outside the "Blogosphere", this will only lead to momentary head-scratching, as to what these crazy kids are talking about now.
/. and K5--I can't stand discussion forums that don't at least have nested comments and a few other basic refinements, and it's even better if they have sane implementations (that don't involve doing O(n) SQL queries recursively to build the list of comments, for example)
Personally, I've been spoiled by
You could do that by (a) putting in more keywords; (b) letting the search engine suggest topics/extra search keywords for a given search; some search engines try to do this already. As to how, latent semantic indexing looks good (it's a matrix technique used to find relationships between bits of data, such as the ones you discuss)
That's great guys, now go work on qemu instead--it only runs 10x slower or so, I believe.
Did you write the dragon book,
and do you think Darl is a crook?
if Mr. Torvalds tells you so...
and do you believe in text consoles,
can coding save your mortal soul
and can you teach me how to write a troll?
Well I know that you're in leauge with him
cuz I saw you writing notes in vim
when I was reading the news
about which people Darl sues,
I was a lonely teenage larval hack
with a pimply face and a server rack
but proud of my DoS attack,
the day, The SCO Group, died.
I started singin...
[CHORUS]
Microsoft's 'FAT' patents do not patent FAT... specifically, they patent the VFAT extensions to FAT. And, as was previously mentioned on slashdot, there's much prior art to using long file names on FAT as well.
So don't call them 'FAT' patents, because they aren't. Call them VFAT patents. Or call them by their names, which also makes it obvious.
...every time you use it, God kills a kitten.
Well, you don't have to make a federal case out of it... :)
Seriously, though, if the court decides that they don't have standing to try the case, then they *will* have to make a federal case out of it. And with this dang old internet thing, who knows...
Either search through the myriad of home-grown document markups yourself, or write something you like. Despite what you may believe, slashdot is still not freshmeat, nor is it google.
We aren't mind-readers either, but based on your request, it sounds like you won't be happy with anything, so you'd better start coding.
That's my suggestion.
...they have to protect the local Japanese businessmen from foreign encroachment--that way you know that when your knuckles are being broken, at least a native got that job, and didn't lose it to a foreigner!
And I suppose you think that when 50,000 people on a system all have disk quotas of 50MB, that means that there must be at least 2.4TB of physical storage to back it up? Or that AOL actually had 10 million modems at some point? Do you think that's air you're breathing?
Here's a hint: if most users aren't using that much storage, then there's no need for that storage to actually be there.