I know, here in Brazil we do not have "truly" flex-fuel cars yet (if exists one, I do not know). They do not truly have the necessary "variable compression ratio" to work ideally with a mix of etanol and gasoline, then you will have a poor performance. We have cars using 100% etanol, but they are at most gasoline engines with corrosion-resistant parts to cut costs, only few are build to use etanol.
Well... To begin, the engine needs to be adapted to use gasoline with ethanol, if you use ethanol in a car that was designed to run on pure gasoline of course you will have problems.
Then, a car running on ethanol may be even more efficient than one that uses gasoline, if it is made especially for this (various settings, the most important is the compression ratio that is greater than would be possible with pure gasoline).
And finally, in fact will probably be more expensive than the equivalent using pure gasoline, given the changes that are needed (all parts in contact with the fuel need to be corrosion-resistant, best if corrosion-proof)
And ignore the sales-shark... He almost always did not know bullshit of what he is selling. For a car to be truly "flex-fuel" it has to be built to accept a more corrosive fuel (ethanol) and be able to vary its compression ratio to levels that would not be able to be used with pure gasoline, simply corrosion resistant is not enough.
interesting as many in the slashdot mark as "troll" any comments that they do not like....
Exactly. As many failed to notice, the main advantage of using ethanol is you can use the engine settings that are not possible using pure gasoline, making possible to use higher compression rates and thus increase the efficiency of the engine. The engine needs to be adapted to use ethanol, otherwise it would not be as efficient as using gasoline.
I'm from Brazil and I can say that the use of ethanol works. The trouble with you north-americans is that you are using corn to produce ethanol, corn is too important as food to be used to produce fuel. As your friend suggested, if you can not use sugarcane then should consider using grass or variants (yep, i know you do not have a grass industry yet).
Protip: Ethanol is not the only option, various oils from various plants can be used as an alternative to diesel, and this "biodiesel" can be used as alternative to gasoline if you change your car engine to a diesel engine.
Depends on what you're looking for. Roughly speaking, if you are looking for something popular you will find with some ease. If not, you will easily fall into some obscure forum or page where the answer - if any - will be "Google search, noob." But what to do if you got there exactly looking at Google? Go again to Google search, find another forum and get another "search on Google, loser"? More clear now the problem?
For the asker, maybe is something new and interesting. Not everyone knows how to proper configure wireless internet. And about Google, many times the Google results throws you exactly here or in some obscure forum, where the first response is "Search in the google, moron!". Interesting infinite loop problem.
F35? No, is a too ambitious money sinkhole. But an A-10, F-18, maybe an F-14? Yes, you will need. UAVs are good for many things, but you must remember that they also have obvious weaknesses, as the recent case shown in Iran. You can't fly a UAV against a competent enemy with ECM.
Ahhhh... To be clear then. I agree to the frameworks that are basically large usable "code libraries", you use them when it's convenient but have the option not to use them where they are inadequate. Things like "convenient small and simple library to upload and download files". My problem is with the big fucking frameworks that stupidly try to be "the solution to all problems in the universe" but they do the things in the most ineffective way imaginable (bloatware) and even worse, force you to do things in the most ineffective way possible.
when you do real coding and the framework goes on your way, putting megabytes of unnecessary code and many unnecessary layers of code on your execution stack, you will understand why frameworks is not a "silver bullet to all problems" and why in some cases yoy need to avoid then.
You do not understand the problem. Let us say that in a desktop program, the act of responding to user command in a GUI (C, VB, Delphi, etc.) can be represented by a single step. To do the same step using XML, HTML, etc., you need to go through the necessary framework to first translate the XML/HTML in runnable code and only then run the step corresponding to the initial example, based on the resulting translation (the same is not needed to the "native" application because he is already in runnable code).
That is, however fast your computer is, the application using XML / HTML will always be slower than the equivalent (native) on the same machine. Because it must run at least twice the work, until someone makes a processor capable of running HTML/XML directly.
You are a space nut, and this is good. Yep, what more tempting target than an asteroid with hundreds of tons of metals difficult to achieve on Earth as rare earths, titanium, chromium, etc.? Maybe even silver and gold. The problem is that unfortunately many people think:
1) can be transformed into a weapon?
2) can be transformed into a weapon? (not repeated unintentionally, seriously)
3) When will I profit from it in a month?
I agree with you. It's just stupid to want to make a desktop application using HTML, you need to double (or triple) the work required for the same result. You can make a Paint using HTML? Okay, it's possible. But at what cost?
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"The breach makes me wonder if Symantec is even dogfooding their own security products."
They are not crazy enough to do this
I do even better: I do not have a Facebook account, and I do not care about then.
I know, here in Brazil we do not have "truly" flex-fuel cars yet (if exists one, I do not know). They do not truly have the necessary "variable compression ratio" to work ideally with a mix of etanol and gasoline, then you will have a poor performance. We have cars using 100% etanol, but they are at most gasoline engines with corrosion-resistant parts to cut costs, only few are build to use etanol.
Well... To begin, the engine needs to be adapted to use gasoline with ethanol, if you use ethanol in a car that was designed to run on pure gasoline of course you will have problems.
Then, a car running on ethanol may be even more efficient than one that uses gasoline, if it is made especially for this (various settings, the most important is the compression ratio that is greater than would be possible with pure gasoline).
And finally, in fact will probably be more expensive than the equivalent using pure gasoline, given the changes that are needed (all parts in contact with the fuel need to be corrosion-resistant, best if corrosion-proof)
And ignore the sales-shark... He almost always did not know bullshit of what he is selling. For a car to be truly "flex-fuel" it has to be built to accept a more corrosive fuel (ethanol) and be able to vary its compression ratio to levels that would not be able to be used with pure gasoline, simply corrosion resistant is not enough.
interesting as many in the slashdot mark as "troll" any comments that they do not like....
Exactly. As many failed to notice, the main advantage of using ethanol is you can use the engine settings that are not possible using pure gasoline, making possible to use higher compression rates and thus increase the efficiency of the engine. The engine needs to be adapted to use ethanol, otherwise it would not be as efficient as using gasoline.
I'm from Brazil and I can say that the use of ethanol works. The trouble with you north-americans is that you are using corn to produce ethanol, corn is too important as food to be used to produce fuel. As your friend suggested, if you can not use sugarcane then should consider using grass or variants (yep, i know you do not have a grass industry yet).
Protip: Ethanol is not the only option, various oils from various plants can be used as an alternative to diesel, and this "biodiesel" can be used as alternative to gasoline if you change your car engine to a diesel engine.
Depends on what you're looking for. Roughly speaking, if you are looking for something popular you will find with some ease. If not, you will easily fall into some obscure forum or page where the answer - if any - will be "Google search, noob." But what to do if you got there exactly looking at Google? Go again to Google search, find another forum and get another "search on Google, loser"? More clear now the problem?
For the asker, maybe is something new and interesting. Not everyone knows how to proper configure wireless internet. And about Google, many times the Google results throws you exactly here or in some obscure forum, where the first response is "Search in the google, moron!". Interesting infinite loop problem.
At last, a sign of intelligent life in this barren world.
When you have a very good GUI admin tool on your server.
Now you know why many small countries are trying to build nukes. They need protection against a certain global abuser.
If you own the justice, is "legal".
F35? No, is a too ambitious money sinkhole. But an A-10, F-18, maybe an F-14? Yes, you will need. UAVs are good for many things, but you must remember that they also have obvious weaknesses, as the recent case shown in Iran. You can't fly a UAV against a competent enemy with ECM.
And caution with recursive problems :)
Why "flamebait" to this guy? Jobs reality distortion field in action!
You forgot "zumbi apocalipse", "giant meteor strike", "LHC goes wild"... :)
Ahhhh ... To be clear then. I agree to the frameworks that are basically large usable "code libraries", you use them when it's convenient but have the option not to use them where they are inadequate. Things like "convenient small and simple library to upload and download files". My problem is with the big fucking frameworks that stupidly try to be "the solution to all problems in the universe" but they do the things in the most ineffective way imaginable (bloatware) and even worse, force you to do things in the most ineffective way possible.
when you do real coding and the framework goes on your way, putting megabytes of unnecessary code and many unnecessary layers of code on your execution stack, you will understand why frameworks is not a "silver bullet to all problems" and why in some cases yoy need to avoid then.
80% from my headaches on actual and serious development are caused by big, bloated, and simply stupid frameworks.
You do not understand the problem. Let us say that in a desktop program, the act of responding to user command in a GUI (C, VB, Delphi, etc.) can be represented by a single step. To do the same step using XML, HTML, etc., you need to go through the necessary framework to first translate the XML/HTML in runnable code and only then run the step corresponding to the initial example, based on the resulting translation (the same is not needed to the "native" application because he is already in runnable code).
That is, however fast your computer is, the application using XML / HTML will always be slower than the equivalent (native) on the same machine. Because it must run at least twice the work, until someone makes a processor capable of running HTML/XML directly.
You are a space nut, and this is good. Yep, what more tempting target than an asteroid with hundreds of tons of metals difficult to achieve on Earth as rare earths, titanium, chromium, etc.? Maybe even silver and gold. The problem is that unfortunately many people think:
1) can be transformed into a weapon?
2) can be transformed into a weapon? (not repeated unintentionally, seriously)
3) When will I profit from it in a month?
I know this is off-topic, but how a forward pointed exhaust works?
I agree with Plato, but unfortunately the human being is too flawed to be possible for a government that is truly based on aristocracy.
I agree with you. It's just stupid to want to make a desktop application using HTML, you need to double (or triple) the work required for the same result. You can make a Paint using HTML? Okay, it's possible. But at what cost?
If you can use Flash.