yep, it is easy to compare the already establish coal and fuel industry, with all the required equipment, jobs and know-how against the wind and solar, where you do not have anything or weak industry... that is why you get subsidies for green energy, you need to create the basic market, industry and known-how... to reduce the CO2 emissions, we all can not wait for years for the market to slowly emerge
USA really needs to improve that... Here in Portugal, annual wind power supply is already above 50%, with some months reaching 80-90%. Solar should be a little less than 10%
In the beginning, green energy was more expensive (so i needed subsidies to startup the market), but now its the same price as fossil energy and we do not any subsidies anymore.
tell that to the guy that was almost bullet proof, full of vests and protective suit, many years ago (sorry, cant recall the name nor location)... normal guns were useless and it took several polices with higher energy guns to kill him... during that time, we was free to shot anyone that come close
who should pay for fighting global warming? the country that do almost no pollution or the one that is huge polluter? If the USA do not want to pay any money, simple, be totally green... if you do that, you can even get some money from the other polluters!
yep, but by going via that road they will be a useless company and the once top high-tech shares will be downgraded to trash shares by each year doing nothing useful... exactly what is happening already
I have a radical idea to improve the company!! maybe stop selling everything you have to become a simple "government and big company" service provider (where you repack mostly open source tools with some in house tools)
yes, those pay big money, but those are only choosing IBM because of the name. New guys, companies, tech people now that IBM is expensive and do not have anything new to offer and bypass then and use open source directly without paying a fortune!
IBM have so many patents each year , yet IBM stopped producing anything... just start using the patents to improve the hardware, sell things that even the smaller companies want, sell things that even the end user wants
if you are a service company, you are just one more, that can be replaced in no time
storage and bandwidth is not a problem, FOR YOU! not everyone have big disks and pipes, you have from small phones and IOT devices to huge clusters, from dial-up to fiber, assuming that everyone is in the big side is a big mistake. Also, most people do not ear any difference between a (good) raw audio, flac, aac, mp3, ogg, whatever, so why waste extra resources? It is just like saying we should store every pictures as RAW, where (good) jpeg is perfectly normal, but 1/10 to 1/100 the size
So no, lossy compressions are good, when used with good settings, you get almost the same thing but with a huge difference in size. but you can even ignore ogg vorbis, there is a new kid in the block (sort of, it was born in 2013, but just last year it start to be used more) that i forgot, the ogg opus, even smaller, even better quality and lot more flexible, can use replace all other codecs in almost any place
It is not dead, but migrate to ogg vorbis anyway, it compress more with better quality and it is a totally open and free codec. Even the license (BSD) is one that allows anyone to add ogg vorbis support to any app or firmware
So yes, ignore mp3 and use ogg vorbis... and demand hardware with support for it
This is required and very useful. Most people DO look at then, specially on more expensive or consuming appliances. It keeps being improved and allows one to see how much energy or water they use per year. IIRC, newest version even show how much that energy cost in euros, so one can compare several appliances and see how much money one safe by going with a better ratting. Even if more expensive, some pay themselves.
The end result was that junk, consuming appliances quickly disappeared from market, even a uneducated users would look to 2 similar priced appliances, one with rating B and another with rating D, they would choose the B. sometimes simple tune ups from a brand could upgrade the rating, without affecting the price. Today energy efficiency are publicized by the brands and the even move those energy label to well visible areas, so people can compare
that is why they want to drop the old add-on support and use a model mostly compatible with chrome. Current add-ons are too close to the firefox code and they can not mess with the code without breaking add-on or creating never-ending compatibility layers.
With the new add-ons api, this will get more stable and easier to port add-ons back and forward from/to chrome
yes, but firefox was build as monolitic, separate each layer required lot of changes as every layer calls were all over the code. That was one of the reasons google started with chrome, trying to break firefox modules would be slower than rebuild... the problem with rebuild is instability, breaks with existent code and requires a huge amount of resources (just look to the netscape 4.x to mozilla migration)
mozilla have done that slowly and they started with plugins and then pick the next problematic layer (javascript, render, video/audio, etc)... only now firefox is turning multi-process and can finally apply sandbox to those layers
then update the OS! local users without security updates, you are looking for trouble, no matter what browser you use... better yet, install linux, run your app in wine, install freeNX, xpra, LTSP or even tightvnc (test to see what fits better your clients and app) and use it to run your app. Use native linux apps and only use wine for really support old apps
gnome is largely ignored today, not being totally ignored just because of gtk... that in turns forces you to use several gnome tools i only know one person that used gnome3 and mostly because he uses fedora, not because he likes it, he just didn't care enough to change it.
For firefox, you can check, they describe very well what is sent and almost all the data is technical related, no identifiable info, no browsing history... and they inform you of that and you can opt-out
Now compare that with MS, where it is full of identifiable info, browsing history and even command line (great to catch passwords, "interesting" paths and programs)
All this "news" is just FUD, probably paid by intel! AMD do have lower market share, but it is not one that you can ignore, if you look to steam, 20% of CPU share is still a huge market
- 4 times bigger IPs make harder to memorize then, but IP is for computers, users use dns. Also, first half is netwkork and stay the same (just like 192.168.1.) and the second half is usually the machine mac address, but can also be manually assign hex "numbers" (like dead:beef):) - requires ipv6 support in all network layer. that is why it took so long to deploy, each layer was expecting for the other layer to deploy. Now most bigger sites have ipv6, almost all backbones have ipv6, all OS have ipv6 support, all routers in the last 3-4 years have ipv6, now many ISPs also have ipv6... even AWS added ipv6 recently. so right now only smaller sites do not have ipv6 and lazy ISPs... that is why sixxs is doing this, so users pressure the lagging ISPs to move forward and stop postponing ipv6. If one ISP do not deploy ipv6, users can switch to another and report that they are leaving because of the lack of IPV6. a few users doing this may be enough to sound the alarm in some ISPs
-you get a rebuild protocol that tried to fixed many shortcomings of ipv4. you get encryption (ipsec) build in, dropped all the obsolete ICMP packets and now ICMP is useful to control the traffic (so no more drop all ICMP as you will lose features) -you get million of address and enabled you to get public IPs for all your machines, even internal machines. so NAT is not needed anymore. Firewall is still needed, but your home router will mostly stop being a router+NAT+firewall and be router+firewall -As no NAT, direct connect and p2p is a lot easier, no need for strange hacks and third party servers to punching holes in the firewall -dhcp, manual ip assignment and similar are past, with ipv6 the setup for users is just plug and use, even without dhcpv6 -header rebuild make routing a lot simpler, so faster connections and also easier to grow -you can get mobile IPs, that even on different locations, you still get your own IP
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yep, it is easy to compare the already establish coal and fuel industry, with all the required equipment, jobs and know-how against the wind and solar, where you do not have anything or weak industry... that is why you get subsidies for green energy, you need to create the basic market, industry and known-how... to reduce the CO2 emissions, we all can not wait for years for the market to slowly emerge
USA really needs to improve that... Here in Portugal, annual wind power supply is already above 50%, with some months reaching 80-90%. Solar should be a little less than 10%
In the beginning, green energy was more expensive (so i needed subsidies to startup the market), but now its the same price as fossil energy and we do not any subsidies anymore.
tell that to the guy that was almost bullet proof, full of vests and protective suit, many years ago (sorry, cant recall the name nor location)... normal guns were useless and it took several polices with higher energy guns to kill him... during that time, we was free to shot anyone that come close
well, i already acquired some humble bundles with bitcoins... i also got some subscriptions using then... does this count?!
who should pay for fighting global warming? the country that do almost no pollution or the one that is huge polluter?
If the USA do not want to pay any money, simple, be totally green... if you do that, you can even get some money from the other polluters!
and then join ISIL and attack US related targets
how much of those $40Billion return to the US because they are managed by US personal to acquire US based companies services and goods?
It is always so easy to forget the grand picture when you are focus in a detail
yep, but by going via that road they will be a useless company and the once top high-tech shares will be downgraded to trash shares by each year doing nothing useful ... exactly what is happening already
I have a radical idea to improve the company!! maybe stop selling everything you have to become a simple "government and big company" service provider (where you repack mostly open source tools with some in house tools)
yes, those pay big money, but those are only choosing IBM because of the name. New guys, companies, tech people now that IBM is expensive and do not have anything new to offer and bypass then and use open source directly without paying a fortune!
IBM have so many patents each year , yet IBM stopped producing anything... just start using the patents to improve the hardware, sell things that even the smaller companies want, sell things that even the end user wants
if you are a service company, you are just one more, that can be replaced in no time
do not worry, they already know from many months ago...
storage and bandwidth is not a problem, FOR YOU!
not everyone have big disks and pipes, you have from small phones and IOT devices to huge clusters, from dial-up to fiber, assuming that everyone is in the big side is a big mistake.
Also, most people do not ear any difference between a (good) raw audio, flac, aac, mp3, ogg, whatever, so why waste extra resources? It is just like saying we should store every pictures as RAW, where (good) jpeg is perfectly normal, but 1/10 to 1/100 the size
So no, lossy compressions are good, when used with good settings, you get almost the same thing but with a huge difference in size.
but you can even ignore ogg vorbis, there is a new kid in the block (sort of, it was born in 2013, but just last year it start to be used more) that i forgot, the ogg opus, even smaller, even better quality and lot more flexible, can use replace all other codecs in almost any place
It is not dead, but migrate to ogg vorbis anyway, it compress more with better quality and it is a totally open and free codec. Even the license (BSD) is one that allows anyone to add ogg vorbis support to any app or firmware
So yes, ignore mp3 and use ogg vorbis... and demand hardware with support for it
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i do not know about the US Energy Star rating, in europe we have this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This is required and very useful. Most people DO look at then, specially on more expensive or consuming appliances. It keeps being improved and allows one to see how much energy or water they use per year. IIRC, newest version even show how much that energy cost in euros, so one can compare several appliances and see how much money one safe by going with a better ratting. Even if more expensive, some pay themselves.
The end result was that junk, consuming appliances quickly disappeared from market, even a uneducated users would look to 2 similar priced appliances, one with rating B and another with rating D, they would choose the B. sometimes simple tune ups from a brand could upgrade the rating, without affecting the price.
Today energy efficiency are publicized by the brands and the even move those energy label to well visible areas, so people can compare
that is why they want to drop the old add-on support and use a model mostly compatible with chrome.
Current add-ons are too close to the firefox code and they can not mess with the code without breaking add-on or creating never-ending compatibility layers.
With the new add-ons api, this will get more stable and easier to port add-ons back and forward from/to chrome
yes, but firefox was build as monolitic, separate each layer required lot of changes as every layer calls were all over the code. That was one of the reasons google started with chrome, trying to break firefox modules would be slower than rebuild... the problem with rebuild is instability, breaks with existent code and requires a huge amount of resources (just look to the netscape 4.x to mozilla migration)
mozilla have done that slowly and they started with plugins and then pick the next problematic layer (javascript, render, video/audio, etc)... only now firefox is turning multi-process and can finally apply sandbox to those layers
then update the OS!
local users without security updates, you are looking for trouble, no matter what browser you use...
better yet, install linux, run your app in wine, install freeNX, xpra, LTSP or even tightvnc (test to see what fits better your clients and app) and use it to run your app. Use native linux apps and only use wine for really support old apps
damn, out of moderation points... +5 for you!
gnome is largely ignored today, not being totally ignored just because of gtk ... that in turns forces you to use several gnome tools
i only know one person that used gnome3 and mostly because he uses fedora, not because he likes it, he just didn't care enough to change it.
For third party tools that they do not track... they will probably add then in the future :)
Just use linux and do not care about what MS do :D
For firefox, you can check, they describe very well what is sent and almost all the data is technical related, no identifiable info, no browsing history... and they inform you of that and you can opt-out
Now compare that with MS, where it is full of identifiable info, browsing history and even command line (great to catch passwords, "interesting" paths and programs)
All this "news" is just FUD, probably paid by intel!
AMD do have lower market share, but it is not one that you can ignore, if you look to steam, 20% of CPU share is still a huge market
no thank you... he probably wants to start using the computer before the summer arrives! :)
actually most ATM uses windows.... they used NT and win2k for years and when that getting hard, they switched to XP :D
i forgot the cons:
- 4 times bigger IPs make harder to memorize then, but IP is for computers, users use dns. Also, first half is netwkork and stay the same (just like 192.168.1.) and the second half is usually the machine mac address, but can also be manually assign hex "numbers" (like dead:beef) :)
- requires ipv6 support in all network layer. that is why it took so long to deploy, each layer was expecting for the other layer to deploy. Now most bigger sites have ipv6, almost all backbones have ipv6, all OS have ipv6 support, all routers in the last 3-4 years have ipv6, now many ISPs also have ipv6... even AWS added ipv6 recently.
so right now only smaller sites do not have ipv6 and lazy ISPs... that is why sixxs is doing this, so users pressure the lagging ISPs to move forward and stop postponing ipv6. If one ISP do not deploy ipv6, users can switch to another and report that they are leaving because of the lack of IPV6. a few users doing this may be enough to sound the alarm in some ISPs
-you get a rebuild protocol that tried to fixed many shortcomings of ipv4. you get encryption (ipsec) build in, dropped all the obsolete ICMP packets and now ICMP is useful to control the traffic (so no more drop all ICMP as you will lose features)
-you get million of address and enabled you to get public IPs for all your machines, even internal machines. so NAT is not needed anymore. Firewall is still needed, but your home router will mostly stop being a router+NAT+firewall and be router+firewall
-As no NAT, direct connect and p2p is a lot easier, no need for strange hacks and third party servers to punching holes in the firewall
-dhcp, manual ip assignment and similar are past, with ipv6 the setup for users is just plug and use, even without dhcpv6
-header rebuild make routing a lot simpler, so faster connections and also easier to grow
-you can get mobile IPs, that even on different locations, you still get your own IP
simply check this sites:
https://www.tutorialspoint.com...
http://ipv6.com/articles/gener...