Anyone who has run OO on Linux knows very well that it is bloated. Not only is it bloated, but it uses some homegrown toolkit for the GUI. I won't even use OO, personally. Normally I don't have a use for an office suite, but when I do I'd rather us MS Office, which isn't a problem because I now have a Mac sitting next to my Linux box. Of course, I have never paid for MS Office. Maybe if I had to pay for it I wouldn't use it.
I'm sorry, but OO is one of the worst examples of what open source is capable of.
I use Firefox with no features turned off (except for Adblock which, as I said, I disabled to see what the fuss was about). I saw nothing at all like what you describe. Just your average PC review type site with some banner ads. We are talking about the "retooling of the Mini-ITX" link right? I'm only pushing this because I am curious about the technology used to push ads.
What I don't understand is why they don't just supply power on the cables that they are climbing. I realize that in a real elevator, the cables would be carbon fiber or something else that isn't conductive material. Is it too much to run a metal wire for power? Does it add that much weight? If so, this is a serious limitation to the whole space elevator idea. It is going to take a lot of energy to take more than a token amount of cargo into orbit... even on an elevator.
Here I thought that the elevator itself was unrealistic. Now we have to figure out how to power it?
A good data model also allows one to dissociate the program from the database. If you rely on stored procedures in a specific database, you have to completely rewrite them if you want to run on a different database.
Why are there no cases that assume you will be using a DC-DC converter right on the main board? At lost of small cases are made specifically for EPIA boards, why not just supply a power supply that plugs directly into the ATX power?
Also, not only do these mini-ITX cases have a larger footprint, but they are usually much taller than a Mac mini.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Mac fanboy or anything, but doesn't it strike anyone as odd that this computer is still more than 3x times larger than a Mac Mini? And it is probably slower with worse video as well. Why can't we make a PC that compares to the Mac mini? Is it because of the assembled nature and not having specially designed parts?
I thought maybe Adblock was working better than I imagined, so I turned it off to see what you were talking about. Just a few ads on the side. Nothing obnoxious. What are you talking about?
Can these be used to replace the power supply on any desktop computer? I have a Shuttle PC where I'd like to try moving the PS external to get rid of that fan. 200W you say? Any recommendations?
The point is that I don't think mere ideas are worth anything at all in a capitalist sense. Did it cost you anything to have an idea? No. All the value is in the implementation. And FYI, I'm not really even a big fan of capitalism. I think "intellectual property" will one day make capitalism as unworkable as communism (for different reasons). The screwed up patent system is just one symptom. But I digress...
You do what any self-respecting capitalist does, you get investors and GET a budget. Now quit whining. I'm sick of people who think that they are owed something because a novel idea flashed through their head while drinking a beer in a pub. If you aren't willing to WORK at your idea and accept the challenge from "cloners" you don't deserve squat.
Meanwhile, someone else is going to have the same idea on their own and implement it while you are sitting on your ass whining.
I don't think they offer the victim $100 million dollars. I think that is more the amount they are supposed to help launder. The victim gets a fraction of it. It seems more likely to a victim that he or she would get a fraction of a very large amount. People hear all the time about governments handling money in the billions. $100 million doesn't really seem like all that much in comparison, does it?
You'd have to add something to the H2 to give it an odor like they do with NG so you could smell it if it leaked. And I imagine such an addative wouldfoul up a fuel cell.
Because fuel cells are expensive to build and maintain. It wouldn't scale to the size of power plant (it probably isn't cost effective on a small scale, such as a car, either). All those fossil fuel burning power plants could probably get 2x (or higher=) more energy out of the fuel with almost no pollution (aside from CO2, of course).
Compared to what? Burning natural gas in the car? Not many people do that anyway, so it is a moot point. How much energy is lost converting the NG to hydrogen?
Perhaps it would be some kind of perpetual torrent where you never stopped downloading/sharing. Portions of the host file would be contantly replaced and updated. We could associate TTLs with each block. Each block would represent and entire "domain." Each machine on a network would hold an entire copy of the hosts, file. Could be interesting...
Yeah, put a single corporation at the center of ALL your internet needs. That's real smart. How does this in any way resemble ideal?
In case you hadn't noticed, there is more to the internet than the web. How, for example, do I connect to an IRC server without an DNS name? What about setting up my email SMTP/IMAP servers? IN the real world, DNS is becoming MORE important with things like Spammer and botnet blacklists.
What happens when the site, as indexed by Google, changes the IP address of its servers? All of those Google indexes are broken. You are totally underestimating the power of DNS.
Indeed. It would actually end up looking a lot like DNS. You might have a corporate LDAP server which would make a referral back to the ISP, which would ultimately refer back to some central "TLD" server. I guess there would be an arbitrary number of TLDs (or containers, in the case of LDAP). But the question remains, how do the LDAP servers communicate information about other LDAP server which might service referals? How is it secured for poisoning?
Also, consider teh overhead of LDAP (TCP w/ binding). DNS is simple and efficient protocol in comparison. I'm still puzzled as to what Bittorrent has to do with any of this. Sounds like the OP just picked a couple of internet buzzwords and called it a DNS replacement.
You haven't explained how, exactly, BT and LDAP can replace DNS. I'm interesting in hearing this. If I want to to to, say, my school's website. How do I get there under your decentralized system? IF they change the IP address of the site for some reason, how quickly (and reliably) does this change get reflected in this new system?
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Just what we need, a third application suite that has 10x more functionality than most people will ever use.
-matthew
Anyone who has run OO on Linux knows very well that it is bloated. Not only is it bloated, but it uses some homegrown toolkit for the GUI. I won't even use OO, personally. Normally I don't have a use for an office suite, but when I do I'd rather us MS Office, which isn't a problem because I now have a Mac sitting next to my Linux box. Of course, I have never paid for MS Office. Maybe if I had to pay for it I wouldn't use it.
I'm sorry, but OO is one of the worst examples of what open source is capable of.
-matthew
But if you've already got someone (or some people) on staff full time who is willing and able to work with free software, it doesn't really matter.
-matthew
I use Firefox with no features turned off (except for Adblock which, as I said, I disabled to see what the fuss was about). I saw nothing at all like what you describe. Just your average PC review type site with some banner ads. We are talking about the "retooling of the Mini-ITX" link right? I'm only pushing this because I am curious about the technology used to push ads.
-matthew
What I don't understand is why they don't just supply power on the cables that they are climbing. I realize that in a real elevator, the cables would be carbon fiber or something else that isn't conductive material. Is it too much to run a metal wire for power? Does it add that much weight? If so, this is a serious limitation to the whole space elevator idea. It is going to take a lot of energy to take more than a token amount of cargo into orbit... even on an elevator.
Here I thought that the elevator itself was unrealistic. Now we have to figure out how to power it?
-matthew
A good data model also allows one to dissociate the program from the database. If you rely on stored procedures in a specific database, you have to completely rewrite them if you want to run on a different database.
-mattew
How are stored procedures different than using an MVC code structure? You get the exact same effect with a well defined OO data model.
-matthew
Why are there no cases that assume you will be using a DC-DC converter right on the main board? At lost of small cases are made specifically for EPIA boards, why not just supply a power supply that plugs directly into the ATX power?
Also, not only do these mini-ITX cases have a larger footprint, but they are usually much taller than a Mac mini.
-matthew
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Mac fanboy or anything, but doesn't it strike anyone as odd that this computer is still more than 3x times larger than a Mac Mini? And it is probably slower with worse video as well. Why can't we make a PC that compares to the Mac mini? Is it because of the assembled nature and not having specially designed parts?
-matthew
I thought maybe Adblock was working better than I imagined, so I turned it off to see what you were talking about. Just a few ads on the side. Nothing obnoxious. What are you talking about?
-matthew
Can these be used to replace the power supply on any desktop computer? I have a Shuttle PC where I'd like to try moving the PS external to get rid of that fan. 200W you say? Any recommendations?
-matthew
The point is that I don't think mere ideas are worth anything at all in a capitalist sense. Did it cost you anything to have an idea? No. All the value is in the implementation. And FYI, I'm not really even a big fan of capitalism. I think "intellectual property" will one day make capitalism as unworkable as communism (for different reasons). The screwed up patent system is just one symptom. But I digress...
-matthew
You do what any self-respecting capitalist does, you get investors and GET a budget. Now quit whining. I'm sick of people who think that they are owed something because a novel idea flashed through their head while drinking a beer in a pub. If you aren't willing to WORK at your idea and accept the challenge from "cloners" you don't deserve squat.
Meanwhile, someone else is going to have the same idea on their own and implement it while you are sitting on your ass whining.
-matthew
As if half-assed clones of 5 year old games built on wholly different operating systems are really taking any businness away...
-matthew
I don't think they offer the victim $100 million dollars. I think that is more the amount they are supposed to help launder. The victim gets a fraction of it. It seems more likely to a victim that he or she would get a fraction of a very large amount. People hear all the time about governments handling money in the billions. $100 million doesn't really seem like all that much in comparison, does it?
-matthew
I guess the problem is that fuel cells are currently rather expensive to maintain. The membranes are not cheap and they get fouled up easily.
-matthew
What are you going to do with the H2 if not run it through a fuel cell to generate electricty?
Because fuel cells are expensive to build and maintain. It wouldn't scale to the size of power plant (it probably isn't cost effective on a small scale, such as a car, either). All those fossil fuel burning power plants could probably get 2x (or higher=) more energy out of the fuel with almost no pollution (aside from CO2, of course).
-matthew
Compared to what? Burning natural gas in the car? Not many people do that anyway, so it is a moot point. How much energy is lost converting the NG to hydrogen?
-matthew
You joke, but I'm starting to think that some kind of perpetual global hosts file torrent might be the way to go. :-P
Perhaps it would be some kind of perpetual torrent where you never stopped downloading/sharing. Portions of the host file would be contantly replaced and updated. We could associate TTLs with each block. Each block would represent and entire "domain." Each machine on a network would hold an entire copy of the hosts, file. Could be interesting...
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Nah, dumb idea.
-matthew
Yeah, put a single corporation at the center of ALL your internet needs. That's real smart. How does this in any way resemble ideal?
In case you hadn't noticed, there is more to the internet than the web. How, for example, do I connect to an IRC server without an DNS name? What about setting up my email SMTP/IMAP servers? IN the real world, DNS is becoming MORE important with things like Spammer and botnet blacklists.
What happens when the site, as indexed by Google, changes the IP address of its servers? All of those Google indexes are broken. You are totally underestimating the power of DNS.
-matthew
Indeed. It would actually end up looking a lot like DNS. You might have a corporate LDAP server which would make a referral back to the ISP, which would ultimately refer back to some central "TLD" server. I guess there would be an arbitrary number of TLDs (or containers, in the case of LDAP). But the question remains, how do the LDAP servers communicate information about other LDAP server which might service referals? How is it secured for poisoning?
Also, consider teh overhead of LDAP (TCP w/ binding). DNS is simple and efficient protocol in comparison. I'm still puzzled as to what Bittorrent has to do with any of this. Sounds like the OP just picked a couple of internet buzzwords and called it a DNS replacement.
-matthew
You haven't explained how, exactly, BT and LDAP can replace DNS. I'm interesting in hearing this. If I want to to to, say, my school's website. How do I get there under your decentralized system? IF they change the IP address of the site for some reason, how quickly (and reliably) does this change get reflected in this new system?
-matthew