This depends upon how it is refined. If governments would disallow sulfur and other impurities, the effects on the environment would not be as great. With it's lower emissions per amount of work produced, it really is a better alternative than gasoline.
"And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself-Well...How did I get here?"
Well, I'm a slave to The Man and I'm $200k in debt. That's how I got here.
Isn't it funny how the same phone company which sold your number to everyone and his brother now charges you so that you don't receive calls from these guys?
Verizon charges several dollars a month just to keep your number unlisted. Now that's a serious scam.
Plus I've had cell phones in US for more than 2 years and I've never received a single telemarketing call.
I'm coming up on my seventh year with a cellphone, and I've received a number of telemarketing calls. Recently during the (September 2002) MA primary elections I received a 2+ minute automated voicemail from a group supporting one of the candidates.
What am I going to do, sue them?
No, I'm going to rant on Slashdot. It's cheaper and takes less time.:-)
I don't pay to receive a call on my cell phone. I pay X$ for X minutes, and it doesn't matter whether its long distance or local.
It also matters not whether you are the caller or the called. That's the distinction. Get near the end of your minutes and you'll be pissed when you spend 2 minutes of airtime to get a telemarketer to stop calling you. Your minutes go away when anyone calls you, whether you want to talk to them or not.
In the civilized world a telemarketer would never call a cellphone, as it would cost them twice as much to do so as it would for them to call a land line.
As for your "unlimited local service" in the US - speak for yourself. Verizon imposes per-minute charges on local calls in Boston unless you pay a monthly fee for unlimited local calling.
I believe this is not a function of TDMA, but of the US service providers, who wish to tie their licensed phones to their services.
Any phone needs some sort of eeprom and there are no technical barriers I know of that prevent TDMA from using a similar SIM card device to store account information.
I personally use OmniPoint/VoiceStream/T-Mobile (whatever they're called today) and have finally moved to a triband phone after several years of swapping sim cards every time the plane touched down on the other side of the pond.
Anyone serious about preservation of his/her DNA would best save $498,000 and bank their blood or other bodily fluids for 10 or so years. Some companies even offer payment plans on that $2000 charge.
In ten years time the technology to sequence quickly will allow for this operation to be done at 1% of today's cost. (Yes, I will put money on that prediction.)
Of course when the time comes, if you really want to keep the sequence a long time, I wouldn't suggest CD-ROM. With a shelf-life of 50-200 years under optimal conditions, you'd be better with a book printed on acid-free paper. There you're looking at a shelf life of half a millenium or more under the same conditions.
If I go to a page and an applet pops up that says "You are about to run an app signed by foo.com. Geotrust asserts that this really is foo.com" I'm going to say "who the hell are Geotrust" and hit cancel.
In your comment you refer to a signed applet, which is quite a different thing from an SSL session. (the topic of discussion)
When your browser establishes an SSL session with a server, the only thing you see is a little lock icon and the fact that your URL is https and not http. Your browser won't establish the session if the server's certificate isn't trusted and valid. (Netscape and IE automatically trust certificates issued by several vendors) It's transparent to you.
This means that an SSL certificate from Geotrust is probably a very good thing, as browsers trust it and users will never need to know who Geotrust is.
An applet requiring permissions to play outside the sandbox, or in other words to fuck with your computer, will always ask your permission before doing so. The person writing the applet doesn't necessarily have to be a good or honest person, they just have to be who they say they are in order for Verisign or anyone else to allow them to sign their applet.
(this means stay away from anything that asks permission to install on your PC unless you have complete trust in the source of the app.)
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the Enlightenment window manager was still using DR (development release) in the versions?
I remember running E on my NT workstation! Don't remember how I did this, but it was most certainly the fault of Slashdot.
Of course I also remember running MkLinux DR1 on a PowerCC Macintosh Clone at least a year BSE (Before Slashdot Era)
the song is by clint mansell [clintatthecontrols.com], who also did the music for pi.
I'm a fan of both Mansell and Kronos, and used to listen to the soundtrack to "Requiem for a Dream" quite a bit. That is, until I actually saw the movie. Powerful bit of film, that was. I can't listen to the music anymore. It sits on the shelf.
Why would I need wireless anyways? To get so far from the screen that I can't see where it's pointing anymore?
When you use a 3072*1024 desktop and need precise movement over the entire screen, you quickly come to appreciate what a wireless mouse can do for you. (That and a 60*40 cm mousepad!)
I went to an M$ Wireless Intellimouse Explorer a few months back, and will never go back. I will however upgrade as soon as they have a rechargable version! I go through batteries once a month.
Without Intellectual Property laws, the Western world would be somewhat like China - developing processors in 2002 that equal Western processors from ten years ago.
"I have a 2 Ghz P4 with an IDE drive and a $300 nVidia card. GIVE ME BACK MY OLD PC. Disk swapping alone is killing me; with the disk work shifted to the processor, I'm doing so much foot tapping it's just silly."
Someone bought you the wrong PC. Trade in for an IBM Intellistation M-Pro which ships with a real workstation card, a Quadro4. The whole machine is $3500. Please tell me where you can get an SGI or Sun machine that matches this performance for under $20k.
"Incidentally, I'd take a single processor Ultra Sparc III box at 1.05 Ghz over a 2.0Ghz PC, even running *nix, any day of the week. As a matter of fact, I usually do."
My Intellistation MPro blows the doors off of the Sun Blade 1000 machines we have in the office at any imaginable task, and does so at 1/5 the cost. It also destroys the G4 I have sitting next to it, which I generally set to Sorenson encode video one day and check back the next.
I'm a huge Mac fan, and all my databases are on Sun boxes, but when it comes to workstations, Intel owns the market.
I wonder why the poster thinks satellite connectivity is difficult in Eurpoe... what is s/he comparing to? I found that there are more satellite Internet providers serving Europe and the Middle East than North America, by far!
1800 square feet? Larger then many studio apartments. Heck larger then most studio apartments. 1800 sq. feet is twice my two bedroom apartment in Boston, and six times a Studio...
The other option is to stop manufacturing these things in other countries, although you'd be trading the cheapness of labour for the clarity of the manuals... which do you prefer?
I haven't found the clarity of instructions from American produced items any better than that of European or Asian produced items. In fact, I've frequently found that European-produced goods have better instructions than their American counterparts.
I think the presence of such microchips isn't a bad idea at all.
While the Slashdot crew is busy arguing whether it was the rocket or the jet that crashed, and who in the world would fly on such a beast, no one is taking into account that this was just a scale model!
The superjet, a 1:10 scale model of a plane that would be able to fly twice as fast as the Concorde, dived into the ground shortly after take-off (Reuters)
Were this a crash of a real jet, yes, it would news. The crash of a model, no.
Review? No, this is not a review. This is marketing. It's a press release, or an "Advertorial." It's like paid programming on TV, but Slashdot didn't get paid.
I learned how to do this a few years ago in a class called "promotional writing" for my degree in Advertising. This is a textboox example.
Timothy, remove your head from your ass! Filter this stuff out! A genuine review with a geek slant (ie, how to deal with electricians who wire RJ45 jacks improperly) would be useful. This, is not.
The developed world is seriously addicted to high-sugar foods, such as soft drinks, white bread, and candy, and it's taking a toll on public health.
Not just the developed world... "Mexico's Coca-Cola consumption per person now stands at 462 bottles a year" This is the highest per capita anywhere in the world.
I wonder how many of their schools have coke machines?
The stock Lupo 1.2 liter TDI engine does in fact make 78 mpg. (a conversion of the measure from liters per 100km) That's the official rating. When they did their "round the world" they were going at sub-highway speeds and doing everything under their power to conserve fuel. Just as the official rating for the US Golf/Jetta manual TDI is 49 MPG, it can be made to get over 60 MPG just by being careful.
As for the "strategy" of the SDSU hybrid, there really is none. I took the time to read their pathetic website, and was disappointed that nothing innovative was going on.
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Diesel is a dirty fuel.
This depends upon how it is refined. If governments would disallow sulfur and other impurities, the effects on the environment would not be as great. With it's lower emissions per amount of work produced, it really is a better alternative than gasoline.
AND it could compete in a truly-free market with either petrochemicals or ethanol, were it not for the tax-and-spend war on (some) drugs.
:-)
It's perfectly legal to grow hemp engineered without THC. It's just not as fun.
Isn't it funny how the same phone company which sold your number to everyone and his brother now charges you so that you don't receive calls from these guys?
Verizon charges several dollars a month just to keep your number unlisted. Now that's a serious scam.
Plus I've had cell phones in US for more than 2 years and I've never received a single telemarketing call.
:-)
I'm coming up on my seventh year with a cellphone, and I've received a number of telemarketing calls. Recently during the (September 2002) MA primary elections I received a 2+ minute automated voicemail from a group supporting one of the candidates.
What am I going to do, sue them?
No, I'm going to rant on Slashdot. It's cheaper and takes less time.
I don't pay to receive a call on my cell phone. I pay X$ for X minutes, and it doesn't matter whether its long distance or local.
It also matters not whether you are the caller or the called. That's the distinction. Get near the end of your minutes and you'll be pissed when you spend 2 minutes of airtime to get a telemarketer to stop calling you. Your minutes go away when anyone calls you, whether you want to talk to them or not.
In the civilized world a telemarketer would never call a cellphone, as it would cost them twice as much to do so as it would for them to call a land line.
As for your "unlimited local service" in the US - speak for yourself. Verizon imposes per-minute charges on local calls in Boston unless you pay a monthly fee for unlimited local calling.
lets you do 1 key thing that TDMA dose not.
I believe this is not a function of TDMA, but of the US service providers, who wish to tie their licensed phones to their services.
Any phone needs some sort of eeprom and there are no technical barriers I know of that prevent TDMA from using a similar SIM card device to store account information.
I personally use OmniPoint/VoiceStream/T-Mobile (whatever they're called today) and have finally moved to a triband phone after several years of swapping sim cards every time the plane touched down on the other side of the pond.
Anyone serious about preservation of his/her DNA would best save $498,000 and bank their blood or other bodily fluids for 10 or so years. Some companies even offer payment plans on that $2000 charge.
In ten years time the technology to sequence quickly will allow for this operation to be done at 1% of today's cost. (Yes, I will put money on that prediction.)
Of course when the time comes, if you really want to keep the sequence a long time, I wouldn't suggest CD-ROM. With a shelf-life of 50-200 years under optimal conditions, you'd be better with a book printed on acid-free paper. There you're looking at a shelf life of half a millenium or more under the same conditions.
Maybe the recent hurricanes knocked over the trailer containing the routers.
In the bad old days (ok, 1994) an ISP called databank.net ran their NOC out of a trailer in Kansas.
They peered at Ameritech (Chicago) and MAE East.
"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
If I go to a page and an applet pops up that says "You are about to run an app signed by foo.com. Geotrust asserts that this really is foo.com" I'm going to say "who the hell are Geotrust" and hit cancel.
In your comment you refer to a signed applet, which is quite a different thing from an SSL session. (the topic of discussion)
When your browser establishes an SSL session with a server, the only thing you see is a little lock icon and the fact that your URL is https and not http. Your browser won't establish the session if the server's certificate isn't trusted and valid. (Netscape and IE automatically trust certificates issued by several vendors) It's transparent to you.
This means that an SSL certificate from Geotrust is probably a very good thing, as browsers trust it and users will never need to know who Geotrust is.
An applet requiring permissions to play outside the sandbox, or in other words to fuck with your computer, will always ask your permission before doing so. The person writing the applet doesn't necessarily have to be a good or honest person, they just have to be who they say they are in order for Verisign or anyone else to allow them to sign their applet.
(this means stay away from anything that asks permission to install on your PC unless you have complete trust in the source of the app.)
the Enlightenment window manager was still using DR (development release) in the versions?
I remember running E on my NT workstation! Don't remember how I did this, but it was most certainly the fault of Slashdot.
Of course I also remember running MkLinux DR1 on a PowerCC Macintosh Clone at least a year BSE (Before Slashdot Era)
the song is by clint mansell [clintatthecontrols.com], who also did the music for pi.
I'm a fan of both Mansell and Kronos, and used to listen to the soundtrack to "Requiem for a Dream" quite a bit. That is, until I actually saw the movie. Powerful bit of film, that was. I can't listen to the music anymore. It sits on the shelf.
Why would I need wireless anyways? To get so far from the screen that I can't see where it's pointing anymore?
When you use a 3072*1024 desktop and need precise movement over the entire screen, you quickly come to appreciate what a wireless mouse can do for you. (That and a 60*40 cm mousepad!)
I went to an M$ Wireless Intellimouse Explorer a few months back, and will never go back. I will however upgrade as soon as they have a rechargable version! I go through batteries once a month.
Without IP law, the GPL would not NEED to exist.
Without Intellectual Property laws, the Western world would be somewhat like China - developing processors in 2002 that equal Western processors from ten years ago.
You! Drop and do twenty pushups NOW! Next get in the shower and wash your hair. Next go OUTSIDE and walk somewhere. (Not to a computer store)
When you get back, say hi to the nice co-eds and look them in the eye when you do so.
Repeat as necessary until you get a date.
"I have a 2 Ghz P4 with an IDE drive and a $300 nVidia card. GIVE ME BACK MY OLD PC. Disk swapping alone is killing me; with the disk work shifted to the processor, I'm doing so much foot tapping it's just silly."
Someone bought you the wrong PC. Trade in for an IBM Intellistation M-Pro which ships with a real workstation card, a Quadro4. The whole machine is $3500. Please tell me where you can get an SGI or Sun machine that matches this performance for under $20k.
"Incidentally, I'd take a single processor Ultra Sparc III box at 1.05 Ghz over a 2.0Ghz PC, even running *nix, any day of the week. As a matter of fact, I usually do."
My Intellistation MPro blows the doors off of the Sun Blade 1000 machines we have in the office at any imaginable task, and does so at 1/5 the cost. It also destroys the G4 I have sitting next to it, which I generally set to Sorenson encode video one day and check back the next.
I'm a huge Mac fan, and all my databases are on Sun boxes, but when it comes to workstations, Intel owns the market.
I wonder why the poster thinks satellite connectivity is difficult in Eurpoe... what is s/he comparing to? I found that there are more satellite Internet providers serving Europe and the Middle East than North America, by far!
Some of us paid $2200 for a 21" CRT back in the day... almost worthy of a loan.
1800 square feet? Larger then many studio apartments. Heck larger then most studio apartments. 1800 sq. feet is twice my two bedroom apartment in Boston, and six times a Studio...
The other option is to stop manufacturing these things in other countries, although you'd be trading the cheapness of labour for the clarity of the manuals ... which do you prefer?
I haven't found the clarity of instructions from American produced items any better than that of European or Asian produced items. In fact, I've frequently found that European-produced goods have better instructions than their American counterparts.
I think the presence of such microchips isn't a bad idea at all.
Try OpenOffice.org as a replacement for MS Office. You'll find you need the 2+ GHz processor to get anything done.
While the Slashdot crew is busy arguing whether it was the rocket or the jet that crashed, and who in the world would fly on such a beast, no one is taking into account that this was just a scale model!
The superjet, a 1:10 scale model of a plane that would be able to fly twice as fast as the Concorde, dived into the ground shortly after take-off (Reuters)
Were this a crash of a real jet, yes, it would news. The crash of a model, no.
Review? No, this is not a review. This is marketing. It's a press release, or an "Advertorial." It's like paid programming on TV, but Slashdot didn't get paid.
I learned how to do this a few years ago in a class called "promotional writing" for my degree in Advertising. This is a textboox example.
Timothy, remove your head from your ass! Filter this stuff out! A genuine review with a geek slant (ie, how to deal with electricians who wire RJ45 jacks improperly) would be useful. This, is not.
The developed world is seriously addicted to high-sugar foods, such as soft drinks, white bread, and candy, and it's taking a toll on public health.
Not just the developed world... "Mexico's Coca-Cola consumption per person now stands at 462 bottles a year" This is the highest per capita anywhere in the world.
I wonder how many of their schools have coke machines?
The stock Lupo 1.2 liter TDI engine does in fact make 78 mpg. (a conversion of the measure from liters per 100km) That's the official rating. When they did their "round the world" they were going at sub-highway speeds and doing everything under their power to conserve fuel. Just as the official rating for the US Golf/Jetta manual TDI is 49 MPG, it can be made to get over 60 MPG just by being careful.
As for the "strategy" of the SDSU hybrid, there really is none. I took the time to read their pathetic website, and was disappointed that nothing innovative was going on.