Unlike hydrogen, the electricity needed to run the compressors is easy, efficient and cost effective to generate and distribute. And India is moving forward on nuclear power plants which would generate that electricity with very little emissions (although not without waste).
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Good point. But I was talking about zero emissions, not efficiency. Nuclear power would still be the best option but has its own problems (even though I think it is still the cleanest way to generate energy at this point).
This technology takes one problem and converts it into another problem, namely how do we get compressed air without creating emissions. Pretty much everything we learn from science is based on the idea of converting one problem into another one we can solve.
Basically what I said. There are many ways to generate compressed air. Unfortunately to cheapest way to generate energy is still to burn coal or oil (not having an army of people paddling on bicycles) and therefore this will most likely be a combustion engine in order to make it "cheap" as the article indicates.
Even if this really works, it does not take the energy that it takes to compress the air into the equation. This is the same as cars running on hydrogen. A hydrogen car has zero (harmful) emissions, but not many efficient ways to generate hydrogen are known at this time. Compressing air probably involves combustion-engine driven air compressors, so I don't see the real benefit here. But most likely the whole story is BS anyways..
Pure numbers of vulnerabilities mean nothing. What matters is the breakdown of the vulnerabilities. For exaple, Secunia reports 21% of critical vulnerabilities on Firefox, that may allow remote access. The same number for IE is 56% (This is for 2006).
This means that IE has more than twice the number of vulnerabilities leading to a complete system compromise than Firefox.
May be he should attend the presentation before making such bold statements as well. I attended her presentation in person, amd she addressed all the issues he claims are able to detect the virtualization.
It does NOT crash the latest CVS version of Konqueror. I just tested it, and it is very fast and stable. This means that KDE 3.4 will most likely make this feature available to all KDE users.
Yes, AFAIK it works fine on Windows, you need to install some Panasonic AVC driver. Check out the AV forums on the web, they have detailed instructions.
The new Comcast DVR (Motorola 6208) allows capturing of the HDTV stream through FireWire. It's a little tricky to get it working. I needed to patch libavc1394 to recognize the device correctly. Once that works you just need to send it a signal to start sending the stream (dvcont record) and then you can capture it with ddr1394. The Comcast DVR is $9.99 a month here, so that's a cheap way of capturing HDTV.
The article doesn't at all talk about how the fiber gets into the ground. That little detail seems pretty important to me. Putting it there costs millions, especially if you get it to every home. I just can't see how this will ever be widely available. Does anybody have any information on this?
I really don't see how you could improve Carnegie Mellon's wireless network. I have never been anywhere on campus where I couldn't get a strong signal. There are even power outlets everywhere - even outside - for the "weak-batteried". Bringing your laptop to class is as normal as bringing a pencil. Check out CMUSky, it gives great statistics about Andrew in real-time.
I've had it with the airline industry and their rather poor attempt at feel-good security (which isn't security at all). I have no intention of becoming part of the grand experiment of how an agency or company can screw up and compromise my financial records and my privacy even more. I simply will not be their guinea pig.
So what will you when every toll
road you travel on by car passes your travel details automatically to law enforcement based on your license plate? Or when one day every intersection has a camera collecting this kind of information? Or when there's a camera doing face recognition on every street corner, evaluating whether you are a terrorist or not? Will you just stay at home all day? I think a
more proactive stance is needed here. Just boycotting the airline industry is not going to do much at all.
Getting the general public to understand
the privacy implications of these systems so they stop voting for people that put them in place is probably a lot more effective.
As much as I welcome that the city of Munich has decided to use Linux, I am really pissed that the ruling party in Munich, the SPD, is now running a poster campaign all over Munich with the slogan:
Mehr Linux, Mehr Freiheit, SPD (More Linux, More Freedom, SPD)
Linux should not be misused by political parties to strengthen their chances for reelection.
So what do you suggest ? Handcuff gnome developers ? Erase gnome of every computer ? As long as someone wants to create open source software, there is nothing you can do. The choice is up to the user and not to marketers/managers/financials or whatsoever.
Of course not. But I would rather see the two teams to join forces, than see companies like RadHat messing with both Gnome and KDE so much by trying to make them one. How is such a design mess going to success on the desktop?
There has been a lot of good work, such as having a common *.desktop file standard, a similar dock-icon support etc, but that's just not enough.
"One complaint we have in the ease-of-use department is the integration of the KDE and Gnome user interfaces. Linux applications are generally built on one or the other, and while we ran Gnome applications without any problem with the KDE desktop, there were occasional glitches."
This is really bugging me the most about the current state of Linux on the desktop. We have two great Desktop Environments - thats one too much. I don't buy the argument of competition on the Linux desktop. There is enough to compete against out there (Windows, and especially Mac OS X).Both Gnome and KDE are great pieces of software, but Linux will not success before there is a common environment on which all GUI-centered software is based on.
I personally would vote for KDE as a basis since its IMO more advanced and has a better underlying design. The great stuff in Gnome that KDE is lacking should be ported over. I know this is not going to happen, but it would lead the Linux desktop to a quicker success.
Sorry, for the KDE endorsement, I couldn't resist. I really don't want to start the usual flame war again:)
Who writes these webpages? Did somebody look at the HTML source of this page? Ever heard of a tag?
And then people complain that some browsers can't render so many pages. I really can't blame anybody at KDE that Konqueror can't render this crap. Some web designers lack a brain. Sorry for this off-topic rant, but I really would like to read this without having to launch a different browser.
There is almost nothing new with this airplane. Its baiscally a modernized 757/767 with more fuel-efficient engines and light-weight material. Similar materials are used on the Airbus A380. I am not an airbus fan, but something like the A380 is just way more spectacular than this. Even the new 747-800 that was just announced is a way cooler airplane.
E for e-enabled? Come on! Conexxion by Boeing can be put into pretty much every Boeing and probably most other major aircraft as well. I had a lot of fun on Lufthansa LH418 surfing the net 30000 feet above Iceland and I would really like to see this on every long-haul flight. But there's no need for a new airplane to offer this, its already there. Lufthansa will soon offer this on most of their trans-atlantic flights.
They rely on marketing to make this plane look like something so spectacular that it deserves a "real" name (not sticking to the 7x7 tradition). But the technology is plain boring. I can understand their decision, given the current market situation, but trying to sell this as something extraordinary is prettty dumb.
I think I start to filter out topics with "License" in it. At least until there is a REAL license problem not involing 80 lines of copied code or some messed up wording in an EULA.
Licq offers secure channels using OpenSSL for a long time. And somehow I trust that a lot more than some strange AOL encryption solution:).
Its nice to see though that this will be supported natively by the protocol. Right now I can only securely IM other Licq users. Also, Licq encryption only works with direct client-to-client connections.
Since all the code released under the GNU license, who can stop anyone from taking the undisputed code and create a "new" OS?
If they are threatening to collect licensing fees from Linux user, why not just:
- Create a new version of Linux, call it differently if thats required for legal reasons - Adopt all the code except the problematic stuff - Rewrite the few lines of code from scratch
Or it might even be enough to rewrite the code and distribute updates and patches to everybody. IANAL but how can they collect licensing fees from people that didn't know they were using unlicensed code and will stop using it in the future?
"Apparently the most telling evidence is that parts of the SCO code and Linux code include identical annotations made by developers when they wrote the programs, says DiDio, who compares such notes to the signature or fingerprint of a developer's work."
That would be pretty interesting. If the comments are worded the same, that could be pretty convicing evidence. I hope the general public gets to see the evidence soon, so we can judge by ourselves and don't have to rely on some Yankee Group analyst.
"He invoked the physics equation that describes the amount of kinetic energy in a moving object, saying, "That's when it came home to me what 1/2mv2 means." The simple equation says that kinetic energy is one-half times an object's mass times the object's velocity squared, so that even something very light can carry a great deal of force if it is moving fast enough. In fact, he said, the force was equivalent to catching a basketball thrown at 500 miles per hour."
If it's such a simple formula and the facts where known after the shuttle launch, how can the responsible people rely on intuition rather than getting out a 1$ pocket calculator and determine the force of impact? Something's pretty fishy here..
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Good point. But I was talking about zero emissions, not efficiency. Nuclear power would still be the best option but has its own problems (even though I think it is still the cleanest way to generate energy at this point).
Basically what I said. There are many ways to generate compressed air. Unfortunately to cheapest way to generate energy is still to burn coal or oil (not having an army of people paddling on bicycles) and therefore this will most likely be a combustion engine in order to make it "cheap" as the article indicates.
Even if this really works, it does not take the energy that it takes to compress the air into the equation. This is the same as cars running on hydrogen. A hydrogen car has zero (harmful) emissions, but not many efficient ways to generate hydrogen are known at this time. Compressing air probably involves combustion-engine driven air compressors, so I don't see the real benefit here. But most likely the whole story is BS anyways..
Pure numbers of vulnerabilities mean nothing. What matters is the breakdown of the vulnerabilities. For exaple, Secunia reports 21% of critical vulnerabilities on Firefox, that may allow remote access. The same number for IE is 56% (This is for 2006).
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This means that IE has more than twice the number of vulnerabilities leading to a complete system compromise than Firefox.
More info here:
http://secunia.com/product/11/?task=statistics_20
May be he should attend the presentation before making such bold statements as well. I attended her presentation in person, amd she addressed all the issues he claims are able to detect the virtualization.
It does NOT crash the latest CVS version of Konqueror. I just tested it, and it is very fast and stable. This means that KDE 3.4 will most likely make this feature available to all KDE users.
Yes, AFAIK it works fine on Windows, you need to install some Panasonic AVC driver. Check out the AV forums on the web, they have detailed instructions.
The new Comcast DVR (Motorola 6208) allows capturing
of the HDTV stream through FireWire. It's a little tricky to get it working. I needed to patch libavc1394 to recognize the device correctly. Once that works you just need to send it a signal to start sending the stream (dvcont record) and then you can capture it with ddr1394. The Comcast DVR is $9.99 a month here, so that's a cheap way of capturing HDTV.
What about Konqueror?
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Diction ary&va=all%20but
all but
Function: adverb
: very nearly : ALMOST
In this case it actually makes sense, but lots of people misuse "all but" in a confusing way.
The article doesn't at all talk about how the fiber gets into the ground. That little detail seems pretty important to me. Putting it there costs millions, especially if you get it to every home. I just can't see how this will ever be widely available. Does anybody have any information on this?
I really don't see how you could improve Carnegie Mellon's wireless network. I have never been anywhere on campus where I couldn't get a strong signal. There are even power outlets everywhere - even outside - for the "weak-batteried". Bringing your laptop to class is as normal as bringing a pencil. Check out CMUSky, it gives great statistics about Andrew in real-time.
So what will you when every toll road you travel on by car passes your travel details automatically to law enforcement based on your license plate? Or when one day every intersection has a camera collecting this kind of information? Or when there's a camera doing face recognition on every street corner, evaluating whether you are a terrorist or not? Will you just stay at home all day? I think a more proactive stance is needed here. Just boycotting the airline industry is not going to do much at all.
Getting the general public to understand the privacy implications of these systems so they stop voting for people that put them in place is probably a lot more effective.
As much as I welcome that the city of Munich has decided to use Linux, I am really pissed that the ruling party in Munich, the SPD, is now running a poster campaign all over Munich with the slogan:
Mehr Linux, Mehr Freiheit, SPD
(More Linux, More Freedom, SPD)
Linux should not be misused by political parties to strengthen their chances for reelection.
Here's a screenshot of the poster.
So what do you suggest ? Handcuff gnome developers ? Erase gnome of every computer ? As long as someone wants to create open source software, there is nothing you can do. The choice is up to the user and not to marketers/managers/financials or whatsoever.
Of course not. But I would rather see the two teams to join forces, than see companies like RadHat messing with both Gnome and KDE so much by trying to make them one. How is such a design mess going to success on the desktop?
There has been a lot of good work, such as having a common *.desktop file standard, a similar dock-icon support etc, but that's just not enough.
"One complaint we have in the ease-of-use department is the integration of the KDE and Gnome user interfaces. Linux applications are generally built on one or the other, and while we ran Gnome applications without any problem with the KDE desktop, there were occasional glitches."
:)
This is really bugging me the most about the current state of Linux on the desktop. We have two great Desktop Environments - thats one too much. I don't buy the argument of competition on the Linux desktop. There is enough to compete against out there (Windows, and especially Mac OS X).Both Gnome and KDE are great pieces of software, but Linux will not success before there is a common environment on which all GUI-centered software is based on.
I personally would vote for KDE as a basis since its IMO more advanced and has a better underlying design. The great stuff in Gnome that KDE is lacking should be ported over. I know this is not going to happen, but it would lead the Linux desktop to a quicker success.
Sorry, for the KDE endorsement, I couldn't resist. I really don't want to start the usual flame war again
Who writes these webpages? Did somebody look at the HTML source of this page? Ever heard of a tag?
And then people complain that some browsers can't render so many pages. I really can't blame anybody at KDE that Konqueror can't render this crap. Some web designers lack a brain. Sorry for this off-topic rant, but I really would like to read this without having to launch a different browser.
James Gosling, the creator of Java, recently mentioned that he favors an Open-Source Java. (See Infowork article).
Some people withing Sun seem to be scared though that an Open-Source Java standard could be "polluted" by Microsoft.
There is almost nothing new with this airplane. Its baiscally a modernized 757/767 with more fuel-efficient engines and light-weight material. Similar materials are used on the Airbus A380. I am not an airbus fan, but something like the A380 is just way more spectacular than this. Even the new 747-800 that was just announced is a way cooler airplane.
E for e-enabled? Come on! Conexxion by Boeing can be put into pretty much every Boeing and probably most other major aircraft as well. I had a lot of fun on Lufthansa LH418 surfing the net 30000 feet above Iceland and I would really like to see this on every long-haul flight. But there's no need for a new airplane to offer this, its already there. Lufthansa will soon offer this on most of their trans-atlantic flights.
They rely on marketing to make this plane look like something so spectacular that it deserves a "real" name (not sticking to the 7x7 tradition). But the technology is plain boring. I can understand their decision, given the current market situation, but trying to sell this as something extraordinary is prettty dumb.
Does anybody know if the new 802.11g chipsets support promiscuous mode? Or do we need to keep an old PrismII card around to go wardriving?
I think I start to filter out topics with "License" in it. At least until there is a REAL license problem not involing 80 lines of copied code or some messed up wording in an EULA.
Licq offers secure channels using OpenSSL for a long time. And somehow I trust that a lot more than some strange AOL encryption solution :).
Its nice to see though that this will be supported natively by the protocol. Right now I can only securely IM other Licq users. Also, Licq encryption only works with direct client-to-client connections.
Since all the code released under the GNU license, who can stop anyone from taking the undisputed code and create a "new" OS?
If they are threatening to collect licensing fees from Linux user, why not just:
- Create a new version of Linux, call it differently if thats required for legal reasons
- Adopt all the code except the problematic stuff
- Rewrite the few lines of code from scratch
Or it might even be enough to rewrite the code and distribute updates and patches to everybody. IANAL but how can they collect licensing fees from people that didn't know they were using unlicensed code and will stop using it in the future?
"Apparently the most telling evidence is that parts of the SCO code and Linux code include identical annotations made by developers when they wrote the programs, says DiDio, who compares such notes to the signature or fingerprint of a developer's work."
That would be pretty interesting. If the comments are worded the same, that could be pretty convicing evidence. I hope the general public gets to see the evidence soon, so we can judge by ourselves and don't have to rely on some Yankee Group analyst.
"He invoked the physics equation that describes the amount of kinetic energy in a moving object, saying, "That's when it came home to me what 1/2mv2 means." The simple equation says that kinetic energy is one-half times an object's mass times the object's velocity squared, so that even something very light can carry a great deal of force if it is moving fast enough. In fact, he said, the force was equivalent to catching a basketball thrown at 500 miles per hour."
If it's such a simple formula and the facts where known after the shuttle launch, how can the responsible people rely on intuition rather than getting out a 1$ pocket calculator and determine the force of impact? Something's pretty fishy here..