The displacement number in rotary engines is quite misleading. The design is so different than a piston based engine that it's not a fair comparison.
You're getting more power because you're getting more power strokes per rotation. Because you're getting more power strokes, you're doing more intake strokes (more fuel). So while power/displacement ratio is better, that doesn't necessarily affect the power/fuel ratio at all.
A key feature of Java SE 7 is its accommodations for dynamic languages, which are becoming prominent on the JVM lately, thanks to the emergence of languages such as JRuby and Scala.
A turbo 1.8L Passat isn't exactly a beacon of high mileage sedans. There are cars with engines that have twice the displacement of that engine with better mileage.
The most important part in my view is that it allows for innovation in the open source graphics world. For instance, NVidia and ATI both make drivers for X.org however neither will produce drivers for Wayland until it gains enough traction. However Wayland will never get widely used until people can actually use it, which requires drivers. Open drivers breaks this stalemate.
Mine takes 28W powered, 25W on standby:-(. I put mine on a timer to turn it disconnect the power at night.
While it certainly sucks to have a device sucking a constant 25W all day long, I can't imagine that it takes as much power as my refrigerator.
And what's this thing about "the engine is only suited for hybrid-electric vehicles, but that's okay. "... what does THAT mean?
Most likely it means that the engine has terrible spin up/down times and/or is inefficient at doing them. Its best operated at constant speed, generating electricity for an electric motor which actually pushes you forward.
>but until they learn what a compacting garbage collector is
Tada! http://www.mono-project.com/Compacting_GC
The new GC is bundled with 2.8 and will become the default in 2.10.
Mono's VM is pretty nice overall, its the GC that caused pain in long running process scenarios. Its not so much that the GC wasn't compacting either, it was more an issue because it was a conservative scanner which lead to leaks.
Can you cite any problems Linux has had due to HDCP?
I want to capture digital output from my cable box to my computer. The cable box refuses to talk to my computer because it won't do the HDCP handshake.
>If the padding is invalid, the error message that the sender gets will give him some information about the way that the site's decryption process works.
This is one reason you should send user friendly error messages to your consumers instead of stack traces, stack traces can contain details that an attacker could use against you. It sounds like you're safe if you're following best practices already.
My thoughts exactly. Just when I thought we were getting somewhere on standardizing small devices on micro USB, Samsung teases us with an awesome device with this crazy crap on it.
You might not have heard if you have been living under a rock for the past 2 or 3 years, but Android uses the Linux kernel.
Whether you can run your _own_ Linux distribution on there is another question entirely. Sooner or later, I'm sure someone will crack it if Samsung has decided to lock it down.
As with most (all?) Android devices, you're not forced to use the market.
Yes. Basically Java went the backwards compatible approach and C# went the "correct" approach.
Seeing how Java is a much more mature and widely used language, the decision made a lot of sense. Companies that were using old Java stuff wouldn't be very thrilled to learn that they couldn't use generics or any libraries that used generics.
.NET on the other hand was still rather young. They could afford to ditch backwards compatibility for long term gains.
Its not the compression ratio that gives you good engine braking. Think about it, although it may take a fair amount of energy to compress all the air in the cylinder; you get most of it back when the piston comes down on the power stroke. The exception to this is if you have an engine brake which opens the exhaust values early so the energy you stored up as compressed air gets shot out the exhaust instead of pushing the piston back down (it also makes a nice loud sound in the process).
What gives you decent engine braking in a gas engine is having to pull air past a mostly closed throttle. In diesels, there typically is no throttle so you get very poor engine braking. I'm not sure what kind of diesels you have been driving, but they're not typical.
"There are attacks every day. I don't think there was anything unusual," Mr Ballmer added.
Seriously, Ballmer? Have you read the part where the Chinese government has been labelled as the attacker of over 30 international companies by Verisign? Not just some guy in China, but the Chinese government. I would consider that pretty damn unusual.
IPv6 is only required for the VPN side. The Internet connection on both sides may still be IPv4 however. Read TFA for more details.
I have a feeling Time Warner will be in no rush to upgrade my neighborhood to IPv6 no matter how many companies start using DirectAccess.
They (Dell) are actually pretty friendly if you buy enough stuff from them as a mid-large business.
However Dell is quite different from the average teleco in that they actually have competition. Going off the example in the link, if Dell decided they didn't want to sell servers with virtualization solutions, I would leave and buy my stuff elsewhere. However, if Time Warner decided they didn't want to allow 3rd party VoIP I wouldn't have much choice but to accept it since I really need broadband and Time Warner is the sole provider in the area.
It certainly has a cost, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it retarded. On top of the cost it also has some very strong real world advantages such as write hole elimination(safer), variable block size (better performance), selective resilvering (faster recovery), in FS snapshots (snapshots are actually usable on a production system, unlike LVM).
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The displacement number in rotary engines is quite misleading. The design is so different than a piston based engine that it's not a fair comparison. You're getting more power because you're getting more power strokes per rotation. Because you're getting more power strokes, you're doing more intake strokes (more fuel). So while power/displacement ratio is better, that doesn't necessarily affect the power/fuel ratio at all.
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A key feature of Java SE 7 is its accommodations for dynamic languages, which are becoming prominent on the JVM lately, thanks to the emergence of languages such as JRuby and Scala.
Scala is _NOT_ a dynamic language!
A turbo 1.8L Passat isn't exactly a beacon of high mileage sedans. There are cars with engines that have twice the displacement of that engine with better mileage.
The most important part in my view is that it allows for innovation in the open source graphics world. For instance, NVidia and ATI both make drivers for X.org however neither will produce drivers for Wayland until it gains enough traction. However Wayland will never get widely used until people can actually use it, which requires drivers. Open drivers breaks this stalemate.
Mine takes 28W powered, 25W on standby :-(. I put mine on a timer to turn it disconnect the power at night.
While it certainly sucks to have a device sucking a constant 25W all day long, I can't imagine that it takes as much power as my refrigerator.
And what's this thing about "the engine is only suited for hybrid-electric vehicles, but that's okay. " ... what does THAT mean?
Most likely it means that the engine has terrible spin up/down times and/or is inefficient at doing them. Its best operated at constant speed, generating electricity for an electric motor which actually pushes you forward.
>but until they learn what a compacting garbage collector is Tada! http://www.mono-project.com/Compacting_GC The new GC is bundled with 2.8 and will become the default in 2.10. Mono's VM is pretty nice overall, its the GC that caused pain in long running process scenarios. Its not so much that the GC wasn't compacting either, it was more an issue because it was a conservative scanner which lead to leaks.
No, actually the system is C++.
Can you cite any problems Linux has had due to HDCP?
I want to capture digital output from my cable box to my computer. The cable box refuses to talk to my computer because it won't do the HDCP handshake.
>If the padding is invalid, the error message that the sender gets will give him some information about the way that the site's decryption process works.
This is one reason you should send user friendly error messages to your consumers instead of stack traces, stack traces can contain details that an attacker could use against you. It sounds like you're safe if you're following best practices already.
My thoughts exactly. Just when I thought we were getting somewhere on standardizing small devices on micro USB, Samsung teases us with an awesome device with this crazy crap on it.
You might not have heard if you have been living under a rock for the past 2 or 3 years, but Android uses the Linux kernel. Whether you can run your _own_ Linux distribution on there is another question entirely. Sooner or later, I'm sure someone will crack it if Samsung has decided to lock it down. As with most (all?) Android devices, you're not forced to use the market.
You don't own the software, you license it. Use your own software, or software without copy protection, and copy away.
The kind NREL uses are syrupy liquids — highly concentrated aqueous salt solutions of lithium chloride or calcium chloride.
Yes. Basically Java went the backwards compatible approach and C# went the "correct" approach.
Seeing how Java is a much more mature and widely used language, the decision made a lot of sense. Companies that were using old Java stuff wouldn't be very thrilled to learn that they couldn't use generics or any libraries that used generics.
.NET on the other hand was still rather young. They could afford to ditch backwards compatibility for long term gains.
Its not the compression ratio that gives you good engine braking. Think about it, although it may take a fair amount of energy to compress all the air in the cylinder; you get most of it back when the piston comes down on the power stroke. The exception to this is if you have an engine brake which opens the exhaust values early so the energy you stored up as compressed air gets shot out the exhaust instead of pushing the piston back down (it also makes a nice loud sound in the process).
What gives you decent engine braking in a gas engine is having to pull air past a mostly closed throttle. In diesels, there typically is no throttle so you get very poor engine braking. I'm not sure what kind of diesels you have been driving, but they're not typical.
Screw the Red Cross, I'm going to start selling my blood to rich old people!
I think you meant Theora, as Vorbis is an audio codec. Or maybe you'd like to go watch some MP3 videos.
How many times does this link need to be posted for people to stop the Theora/Vorbis FUD? http://people.xiph.org/~greg/video/ytcompare/comparison.html
"There are attacks every day. I don't think there was anything unusual," Mr Ballmer added.
Seriously, Ballmer? Have you read the part where the Chinese government has been labelled as the attacker of over 30 international companies by Verisign? Not just some guy in China, but the Chinese government. I would consider that pretty damn unusual.
IPv6 is only required for the VPN side. The Internet connection on both sides may still be IPv4 however. Read TFA for more details. I have a feeling Time Warner will be in no rush to upgrade my neighborhood to IPv6 no matter how many companies start using DirectAccess.
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What's so bad about NVidia's Linux drivers? Yes, yes they may be binary blobs but they work quite well.
They (Dell) are actually pretty friendly if you buy enough stuff from them as a mid-large business.
However Dell is quite different from the average teleco in that they actually have competition. Going off the example in the link, if Dell decided they didn't want to sell servers with virtualization solutions, I would leave and buy my stuff elsewhere. However, if Time Warner decided they didn't want to allow 3rd party VoIP I wouldn't have much choice but to accept it since I really need broadband and Time Warner is the sole provider in the area.
A Talari will do it. I'm using a pair now with 3 links and its been working quite well.
It certainly has a cost, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it retarded. On top of the cost it also has some very strong real world advantages such as write hole elimination(safer), variable block size (better performance), selective resilvering (faster recovery), in FS snapshots (snapshots are actually usable on a production system, unlike LVM).