Not to mention that now people have a lot more "older" machines lying around. It's a lot easier for an old machine to run functionally on linux than windows...
I'm not going to waste any more of my time with you here, because you're obviously mistaken, but too proud to admit it. Which is unfortunate.
I will say this, though:
In the desert, there are no clouds 99% of the time, which means it IS always sunny. A) The race went from Chicago to Claremont, CA. Most of that is not desert. B)The second day was cloudy. Good luck raycing under your conditions of "few or no batteries at all."
It seems I'm one of the few that sees through that misconception.
Yes, you're right. It's amazing that a script kiddie like you can see the pointlessness in all of this while the folks at MIT, Michigan, Stanford, A&M, Berkeley, and Yale choose to foolishly continue. I think you should give them all a call and share your wisdom.
If you're desinging hovercars, you don't design one that will only work in perfect labratory conditions... That simply wastes time and money of developers that they could be using to make something that would work.
Once again. You ARE right. Henceforth, whenever engineers make something new, they should just skip the lab part and go straight to building third generation prototypes--just think of all the time and money saved not having to learn from generation one and two. Heck, why not save some REAL time and just skip the entire R&D phase in favor of going straight to mass production... What time savings there will be! I think you should make some calls to Ford, Chevy, and Honda, too--they'd be interested in this plan you have.
The technology in Indy cars certainly does not benefit consumer cars in any way. When was the last time you saw a car that went over 200MPH, had a roll cage, etc.
Call Goodyear and ask them why they're interested in Nascar. They'll have lots more to say besides that it's good advertising. But I suppose you're going to tell me that tires are also an "already developed, mature technology," so Goodyear should kill it's R&D department, too, because tires are perfect already. By the way, tell that to Bridgestone/Firestone, too, I'm sure they'd like to know that the recall last year wasn't their fault because that's as good as tires get.
Actually, there are two classes: stock class and open class. In the open class, you can do whatever you want. Ultra-efficient (and ultra expensive) solar cells. Lithium Polymer batteries. The whole nine yards.
In the stock class, everyone has to conform to certain technological limitations to level the playing field. This avoids the "who has the most money to throw" problem while still allowing bigger teams to go all out.
If this weren't so, that post would deserve the mod points, yeah. However, it's not so.
The race was to be held in the middle of the mojave desert, which means no shade to be found, and the entire race held during the dylight hours. In other words, the conditions in which they race would encourage the building of a system with few or no batteries at all. Again, encouraging the design of systems that could never become actual products.
On the contrary, each car has a battery pack that's needed to power the vehicle. Ours had eight. And just because it's during daylight hours doesn't mean there's always sun.
Furthermore, going "as far [as] a requestion [of] the requirements for entry" includes going to a website. You want a cookie for that? If that's going far, then I highly doubt you'd've gone any farther to tackle design, fundraising, and actually building something as complex as a solar car.
Finally, I don't suppose it occurred to you that the designs the teams come up with, while sometimes not directly able to "become actual products", are in fact advancing solar car design. You're probably not going to find a lot of Indy 500 design go straight to your Chevy Malibu, but you can bet that a lot of the technology gets shifted in that direction. Above all, there's more to life than coming up with a product. Building teamwork among the members, gaining experience in your field of study, raising awareness of the possibilities of solar power, and a downright good time seem like pretty good reasons as well to get involved.
Did anyone else see the people who had green-colored linux servers that people could "just plug in, and it worked"?
They were the ones next to the big blow-up penguin chairs.
What company is that? I'm a bit skeptical about their system, and the guy refused to answer my questions... As soon as I asked him about security, he shyed away. (As in, blew me off.)
People @ auto repair shops (and other places where keyboards get dirty) have been using them for ages. I'd say check just about any comp accesory catalog.
I drive from Fargo (yeah, North Dakota) every year, which is an 11 hour (legal) drive (9 for us), and I still think it was worth it. Here's why:
You can't deny that Comdex will let you see technology that's out of the domain of the stuff you deal with at work everyday. Learn about stuff that you may not be exposed to otherwise.
Even for the stuff you know about already, you get this chance to talk to a real-live human being from the company, and ask them specifics or argue with them about product strengths/weaknesses.
It's good to hang out with other IT professionals at random from way outside your local area and/or profession. It keeps your vision up on the industry abroad. On the shuttle back to the hotel, I had a great conversation about enterprise networking with some guy from Atlanta. We talked about private WAP networks (which, I beleive, don't actually exist:), enterprise WANs (like, to Singapore), and idiot clients (like those who neglect to mention field offices in Singapore).
Even tho there aren't as many this year, you still get sweet Tshirts and other promotional items that are often only available at Comdex. (I'm happily enjoying my "techdrive@COMDEX" hat from Mercedes.)
128MB of RAM, a 10GB hard drive, a docking cradle, a USB (universal serial bus) keyboard and mouse, along with built-in local-area networking based on the 802.11.
Sounds strangely like a flat iMac. Besides the interesting fact that Microsoft is now in bed with the father of it's #1 enemy, we can't look past the fact that MS still has never come up with an idea of it's own.
Here we have a cheap, simple, attractive machine that comes AFTER Apple introduced a... cheap, simple, attractive machine (with a CRT).
Acutally, even if such a program were instituted at./, I probalby wouldn't pay anyway. Not because I don't want to pay for the service, but because./ ads are the only ads I ever click on. They're the only banner ads that are interesting enough.
I've purchased a couple products because I saw an ad on/., and without the ad, I would have never found the item.
Goes without saying, however, that if they became bigger or more intrusive, I'd then start to consider it more, but for now, they seem more like a feature than a nuisance.
First off, they prohibit any server of any kind, but then they forbade you from "posting" all sorts of stuff. If you can't run a server, where are you posting the stuff? Unless, of course, they mean you can't use their service to update your website, which is obsurd.
7.1.8 [You can't post materials that are used to] avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate or circumvent by any means, any process or system such as copy protection systems that are intended to protect the rights of a copyright owner;
Why don't they just come out and say "You can't post DeCSS." Would have been a more efficient use of space.
7.1.19 resell the Services or any other Sprint service to any third parties without prior express written consent from Sprint;
This is almost understandable, but still bugs me. If you pay for the service, you should be able to hack it up and sell little bits of it to whomever you please, imho. But then again, if three people who only require a third of the service go together on an account, then Sprint has lost two accounts that would not have used thier entire service. Understandable? Almost. Wrong and unfair? Almost.
7.4 The Internet contains unedited materials that may be offensive or objectionable to you. You access these materials at your own risk. Sprint has no control over and accepts no responsibility for these materials. Customer may wish to utilize software designed to limit access to certain material on the Internet.
But didn't they already rule out just about EVERYTHING objectionable a few paragrahs up?
And finally... Part of 10.6:...You agree that any IP Addresses provided by Sprint will be returned to Sprint on the termination date of this Agreement. ...as if you can just take the IP address and run away with it. **closes eyes and shakes head**
Very, very sad. This whole thing reminds me of Network Solutions--they make you pay for a service, but want you to live under the illusion that everything you're paying for still belongs to them, and you should be happy that they're taking time out of their busy schedule to do anything at all that you're paying them for...
Riiiiiiiiight. We should be toggling everything in from the front panel, isn't that so?
Have you ever tried making an outline in MS Word? And it "helps" you with the indenting? This is what I mean. I want the software to do what I tell it to do, not what it thinks I want it to do.
How about you try working on a project with a lot of other people sometime? This is a feature, not a bug.
He who writes the code should decide what to with errors, and where. Not the authors of the language. Case in point: CloneNotSupported exception.
I agree.
I hate to say it, but it's true. Windoze DOES HAVE a monopoly at this point, and whether you like it or not, you have to respect that. Like the saying goes, "If you want to write software, and you want to make money, you make software for windows."
They should really market toward Univerities and Colleges. They'd leap at this kind of bandwidth.
At my school, they actually have all the 100Mbps switches toggled down to 10Mbps to prevent burying the internet link.
If they could get a few 100Mbps links, that'd make life a lot easier for the peeps in the server room.
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That's right... one, single punch card. One. We have millions, but we're only selling one.
I will say this, though:
In the desert, there are no clouds 99% of the time, which means it IS always sunny.
A) The race went from Chicago to Claremont, CA. Most of that is not desert.
B) The second day was cloudy. Good luck raycing under your conditions of "few or no batteries at all."
It seems I'm one of the few that sees through that misconception.
Yes, you're right. It's amazing that a script kiddie like you can see the pointlessness in all of this while the folks at MIT, Michigan, Stanford, A&M, Berkeley, and Yale choose to foolishly continue. I think you should give them all a call and share your wisdom.
If you're desinging hovercars, you don't design one that will only work in perfect labratory conditions... That simply wastes time and money of developers that they could be using to make something that would work.
Once again. You ARE right. Henceforth, whenever engineers make something new, they should just skip the lab part and go straight to building third generation prototypes--just think of all the time and money saved not having to learn from generation one and two. Heck, why not save some REAL time and just skip the entire R&D phase in favor of going straight to mass production... What time savings there will be! I think you should make some calls to Ford, Chevy, and Honda, too--they'd be interested in this plan you have.
The technology in Indy cars certainly does not benefit consumer cars in any way. When was the last time you saw a car that went over 200MPH, had a roll cage, etc.
Call Goodyear and ask them why they're interested in Nascar. They'll have lots more to say besides that it's good advertising. But I suppose you're going to tell me that tires are also an "already developed, mature technology," so Goodyear should kill it's R&D department, too, because tires are perfect already. By the way, tell that to Bridgestone/Firestone, too, I'm sure they'd like to know that the recall last year wasn't their fault because that's as good as tires get.
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On the contrary, each car has a battery pack that's needed to power the vehicle. Ours had eight. And just because it's during daylight hours doesn't mean there's always sun.
Furthermore, going "as far [as] a requestion [of] the requirements for entry" includes going to a website. You want a cookie for that? If that's going far, then I highly doubt you'd've gone any farther to tackle design, fundraising, and actually building something as complex as a solar car.
Finally, I don't suppose it occurred to you that the designs the teams come up with, while sometimes not directly able to "become actual products", are in fact advancing solar car design. You're probably not going to find a lot of Indy 500 design go straight to your Chevy Malibu, but you can bet that a lot of the technology gets shifted in that direction. Above all, there's more to life than coming up with a product. Building teamwork among the members, gaining experience in your field of study, raising awareness of the possibilities of solar power, and a downright good time seem like pretty good reasons as well to get involved.
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They were the ones next to the big blow-up penguin chairs.
What company is that? I'm a bit skeptical about their system, and the guy refused to answer my questions... As soon as I asked him about security, he shyed away. (As in, blew me off.)
I forgot to take note of the name.
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Me: "Tell me you're giving that away."
Blonde: "We're not giving that away."
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Sounds strangely like a flat iMac. Besides the interesting fact that Microsoft is now in bed with the father of it's #1 enemy, we can't look past the fact that MS still has never come up with an idea of it's own.
Here we have a cheap, simple, attractive machine that comes AFTER Apple introduced a... cheap, simple, attractive machine (with a CRT).
And we wait...
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I've purchased a couple products because I saw an ad on /., and without the ad, I would have never found the item.
Goes without saying, however, that if they became bigger or more intrusive, I'd then start to consider it more, but for now, they seem more like a feature than a nuisance.
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7.1.8 [You can't post materials that are used to] avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate or circumvent by any means, any process or system such as copy protection systems that are intended to protect the rights of a copyright owner;
Why don't they just come out and say "You can't post DeCSS." Would have been a more efficient use of space.
7.1.19 resell the Services or any other Sprint service to any third parties without prior express written consent from Sprint;
This is almost understandable, but still bugs me. If you pay for the service, you should be able to hack it up and sell little bits of it to whomever you please, imho. But then again, if three people who only require a third of the service go together on an account, then Sprint has lost two accounts that would not have used thier entire service. Understandable? Almost. Wrong and unfair? Almost.
7.4 The Internet contains unedited materials that may be offensive or objectionable to you. You access these materials at your own risk. Sprint has no control over and accepts no responsibility for these materials. Customer may wish to utilize software designed to limit access to certain material on the Internet.
But didn't they already rule out just about EVERYTHING objectionable a few paragrahs up?
And finally... Part of 10.6: ...You agree that any IP Addresses provided by Sprint will be returned to Sprint on the termination date of this Agreement.
...as if you can just take the IP address and run away with it. **closes eyes and shakes head**
Very, very sad. This whole thing reminds me of Network Solutions--they make you pay for a service, but want you to live under the illusion that everything you're paying for still belongs to them, and you should be happy that they're taking time out of their busy schedule to do anything at all that you're paying them for...
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A bigger deal would be voice activation support working well. THAT'S something that has a pre-made niche in the handheld market.
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Kudos to you, and kudos to your mother.
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Have you ever tried making an outline in MS Word? And it "helps" you with the indenting? This is what I mean. I want the software to do what I tell it to do, not what it thinks I want it to do.
How about you try working on a project with a lot of other people sometime? This is a feature, not a bug.
He who writes the code should decide what to with errors, and where. Not the authors of the language. Case in point: CloneNotSupported exception.
Any more nuggets of wisdom, asshole?
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I hate to say it, but it's true. Windoze DOES HAVE a monopoly at this point, and whether you like it or not, you have to respect that. Like the saying goes, "If you want to write software, and you want to make money, you make software for windows."
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At my school, they actually have all the 100Mbps switches toggled down to 10Mbps to prevent burying the internet link.
If they could get a few 100Mbps links, that'd make life a lot easier for the peeps in the server room.
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