Hah, that's delicious... Oh Jack, you're a blue berry muffin of creamy fun. Seriously, we need to google bomb Jack Thompson's site with "blueberry muffin", and "creamy fun"... I dread to think of what people searching for "creamy fun" are looking for, but I guess they may be able to find it at his place
Totally, if he wanted to say something outrageous, he shoulda' said $100 Million! $10,000 sounds like a bet some lawyer would make on a golf game between his buddies, or how much he spent on cocaine last week--and $10,000 is entirely possible for most lawyers. Maybe it would be satire if he were homeless, and it would also be somewhat ironic if a homeless person said he would donate $10,000 to the Salvation Army, for instance. This guy's just an ass.
Seriously, though, if it came down to the bible thumpers winning because they say god has prior art, or having every bit of the human genome, and all of the plants and fish and everything else patented by mega-corps... Which side would YOU chose? So what about precedent? Chalk one up for freedom, and the bible thumpers by proxy.
I definitely DO like (and have dated) guys whose femininity and masculinity are relatively balanced.
And that's the thing, after all. So many people had it together so many thousands of years ago... Socrates, the Buddhists, and others. Moderation, balance, Yin/Yang, and all of that. Just like in other matters, this philosophy applies equally well to love and relationships, though it seems so few people see it today. As for attraction, without the primal, genetic chemistry stuff going on, can it last? Probably not.
This is just my observation of my own sex, extremely 'macho' guys, and deep down inside, are the most insecure of our species. Seriously. I think their egos to be so incredibly fragile, they have to dominate, possess and exude hostility through their personalities to make up for it. Everything is a fight. Women, deep down, want a real man, I think, and strength (of spirit) is part of that, and that's what some women come to falsely see in Mr. Macho. The women who don't fall for it realize what a chump such a guy is, right from the start. Mr. Macho may have muscles, and play the part sometimes, but I don't think he's a man--he's a child. Temperance and self-respect are more to being a man than how many muscles one has, how many road rage incidents in the last week he's been part of, or how he dominates his woman (though muscles aren't at all necessary for one to be macho) The trouble with rich men, powerful men is, yeah, they're mostly egocentric stuck-up pricks, and the gold diggers are the only women that will have 'em. Look at Donald Trump! In other words, they're macho; they just have metric assloads of money to back it up. It's the same personality deficit, I think. Real down to earth, wealthy Men still have personalities, charisma, charm and all that other good stuff... But they won't make it clear just how vast their fortune is until the time is right. That's called class, nothing wrong with that, and it's a social filter for them, too. I know how it goes. A humble guy with it goin' on can't afford to let a gold digger through.
You're not looking for a shopping partner-with benefits, are you? No, you've got friends for that. I have a very hard time believing that someone would honestly want to be in a long term relationship with someone who was so utterly whipped and predictable that you know by the 4th date he exfoliates every night at 10, loves Breakfast at Tiffany's, shaves his legs for reasons not related to a sport, and has made it clear that he takes longer to get prepped to go out than you do... Ick. But that's what many women let on that they want from men today. Being in touch with one's feminine side is a healthy thing for a man, and so is exfoliating, but darnit, one step at a time, please. I dunno, maybe it's just me, but is it wrong to expect a man to still have a backbone, be at least a bit chivalrous, and to not be beaten into a blithering, politically correct submissive by day time television, at least between facials?
The unique thing about geeks, I think, is that they are genuinely interested in all sorts of stuff, and want to learn how it all works, love being no different, should they be awakened to it. For that reason, I think geeks have the potential to become the best of mates, maybe you know this by intuition, besides being a geek yourself. Given enough time and motivation, even the densest nerd should be able to figure out what the female wants, and maybe with the right training... Well, who knows!
Not only do they make the assumption that their resources are better, which in all honesty is fair in almost all cases, but (in this instance) they make the grave assumption that they're smarter than Archimedes, or even normal, average people for that matter--and that's where they go wrong. I've lost count of the things they screw up that should be evident to many high school physics students. They're entertaining, and It's always fun to watch them blow stuff up, and that's their purpose, after all.
Let's see, three people call you on what an asshat you are, and you still don't get the message. Relating economics to the mind, specifically a state of mind is just plain ignorant because you assume even a mentally ill person is capable of consistently making sound judgment. By definition, this is obviously not the case!
Da-nile aint' just a river; it's also a part of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Now, you'll excuse me as I neglect to give your thoughts the attention you think they deserve, and hopefully everyone else can do the same.
I can totally believe it. My grandma had a traditional siamese way back when. He preferred dry dog food, and growled like a dog when he wasn't happy. I guess it's not so much a surprise as he was best friends with a schipperke, but it was funny as hell.
I really like siamese cats, they just seem to be more fun loving than average and have funny traits.
Indeed, I have a flame point siamese (a mutt, but that's what the vet calls him), he's always on his back, in some weird pose. It's pretty funny, because he often sleeps with all fours pointed straight up. Every siamese I've known acted contrary to most other cats. He also goes nuts for lettuce. Like I said... Weird.
I have to put it going under the roll, so that pulling it makes the roll rotate clockwise.... Why? Because it's the only option in small bathrooms, otherwise the lose paper tickles your leg. @$*#! I hate that. So, even with a ginornmous bathroom, I still do it. My own personal hell is sure to be mostly composed of barking dogs and poorly installed rolls of toilet paper. meh.
I think HBO should come out with a new show, called "The West Whig", set in 1849. It could be about Zachary Taylor, the bonus would be that no matter how much it sucked, it could run for only one season, and at the end the president dies of accute milk and cherries poisoning... Which is a fitting end for most presidents... That and pretzel choking.
I've had that thought, and it dosen't sound especially crazy, but I think the window of opportunity for a successful combo passed a few years ago. SGI used to have the hardware--and with Cray's switch interlink hardware, they still have stuff nobody else has in some areas. Apple has business sense, manufacturing capacity, and most importantly a relative lack of arrogance. SGI could have had the entire industry wrapped up hardware wise, but they were too arrogant to market a graphics accelerator for the PC, or to sell their hardware or software at less than 500% markup. There has never been a company so accidentally in position to take over, and they still screwed up. No, instead they had to waste billions trying to polish turds to put in Tiffany's display cases.
Yeah, he pretty much wanted to kill everyone. It could be because his one real love married the very gay Siegfried Wagner and had four kids with him, each party is thought to had a little fun on the side. And that's one of the funny things about him, Siegfried and Hitler were on good terms, even with all of his gay hating and whatnot, though probably because Hitler loved Siegs' old man's works, and being around his wife:P
In regards to how the perfect Aryan is supposed to look, well, none of the so-called Aryans I've ever seen look Iranian. Really, I have no idea how they equated pasty skin and blonde hair (which is the camp I belong to) to a race of people with dark olive color skin and typically black hair (which I'd more than happy with--far fewer sun burns!), other than they're supposed to be the beginners of the indo-European movement/seperation. I swear, my complexion is best suited for caves, and if that bright face shines on me for even a moment you can hear the freckels forming!
About Hitler's balls, I have no idea. Though, I'm sure there's volumes about it out there on the net.
The thing is, Hitler was very inconsistent in what he said and what he did, and what we think he believed, because (I think) he said what he said to get people behind him--politics at its finest. He was a mad person. You know, he was batshit crazy, but quite brilliant in many ways.
I've read quite a bit about his history, and to me, it's apparent that he was a confessed Catholic (even an altar boy in his youth), went crazy, began to hate Christianity, and later thought himself to be on a mission of God, or perhaps actually messiah incarnate--the one sure sign someone is off their rocker. From Mein Kampf: "I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. By fighting off the Jews. I am doing the Lord's work." He made all sorts of pro-Christianity statements in speeches and in Mein Kampf, and he even recognized that the people needed Christianity, and promised that he stamped out the "atheistic movement."
It could be that he thought he couldn't fight Christianity directly, so he garnered their support, and would later turn on them after they'd done his dirty work. The truth would probably come out if we could sit him down for a candid interview, but that's not gonna happen, is it? The fact is, he was a very complicated man. Nobody knows for sure where he was coming from, back then or now, and truncating a whole lot of history (enough to earn oneself a degree, to be sure) with one quote doesn't reveal a whole lot.
So instead of armor, the crusaders wear turtleneck sweaters and multi-colored chenille scarves, and instead of killing Muslims they bring them to tears with their incredible taste in decorating and skillfully crafted holiday table arrangements?
Sounds good to me, so long as there's a hat store.
Heck, that sounds like the voices in my head. I'd claim prior art, but I'd probably be sued by my company for keeping my voices to myself. Stupid company, stupid voic... We'll show em!
What you say is correct, modern 32bit machines with some OS cludgery can address more than 4GB, and addressing limitations of kernel/users/application space and all of that. I won't deny that going 64bit for consumer stuff will make sense some time in the future, but... Just not now.
Surely, even if we can map 3GB to a single application, this game isn't going to use anywhere near that, but maybe I underestimate how crazy they are. If they wanted to store huge amounts of textures in the system memory, it's going to be highly inefficient to exchange them with the graphics card all the time, but maybe this is more realistic with a newer hugely fast bus, PCI-X or whatever it's called anymore. Maybe we need them to liscense CrayLink or something!
P.S. You seem to know what you're talking about, and I wish my Swiss was as good as your English:)
Huh, that's intersting about the glows/alphas and stuff, and the latest gen cards supporting more than 24 bit--I'll admit that I haven't messed around too much with pixel shaders, but then again, I'm no game dev. Makes sense, though, and if John Carmack wants 128bit FPs on GPUs, I'm sure they'll make something beautiful that can use it...
And hey, besides games, I've no doubt that a well priced and comercially available processor capable of fast and precise 128bit floating point math could be useful in any number of situations:) Saddam should've held off a few years on that shipment of PS2s... *grin*
All of what they say pretty much pertains only to the graphics card's capabilities.
No compression for textures? Cards with 512MB are the hot things now, and there's not really a good use for it. With 32 bit addressing, we can address 4GB of memory. That's what? 8 times what's currently available on anything less than a ginormous SGI simulation center? Yeah. 64 bit doesn't help us there, not even in the long term.
There's not a graphics card alive that's going to need 64 bit addressing to render literally billions of particles, and there won't be for at least 10 years, barring some extreme advances, or the use of alien technology (teehee). Same with decals, even if you "only" had memory to store the location of 512 million of 'em, there's no way the system will handle displaying even a few thousand all at once.
Glows? Unless they need 64 precision math done on the CPU (which they don't), yeah, non-issue. Consumer GPUs are limited to what? 24 bit plus alpha? Same for pixel shaders, this has nothing to do with the CPU in almost all instances.
So yeah, for games, as with most general purpose computing, this is pretty much useless. What's really sad is that they've rallied around arguments for their 64 bit push that are essentially limited by the decidedly non-64 bit GPU. Brilliant.
You own Linux in the same way you can own lab rats with some nasty virulent disease. You're responsible for their care, but you can pretty much do anything to them that you could ever want to do: put 'em in a blender, squish 'em with fancy squishing machines, play table tennis with their heads, you know, whatever, so long as the SPCA dosen't find out, right?! But you can never, ever, put your special rat-jelly on your mother in law's English Muffin. That's a definite no-no. Understand?
So, yeah, you own it, in a way. Just not all the way. GPL is sorta' like the "third base" of ownership. Most of the perks without all the obligation.
I've seen quite a few registers run xenix, even fairly recently. It was kind of funny, the POS software must've crashed or there was a hardware fault or something, because the poor machine would keep trying to reboot, proudly displaying something like "SCO Xenix copyright 1987" every time. Needless to say that their machines were ancient, probably the original 386's, but it was entertaining, nonetheless.
It's also not very hard to imagine large webmail providers exchanging email (say, gmail to hotmail) without SMTP. If we're ever able to get away from SMTP that's how it will happen.
Hahaha. Microsoft and Google, and pretty much everyone else for that matter would love to kill eachother in their overlapping markets. Why on Earth would they cooperate to develop a special, non-standard, non-SMTP way to exchange mail between their two services? For one, it would have to do something very, very, very big for the both of 'em. Maybe use less bandwidth? Be more secure? Right. They will never start down that road, even if the flying pigs in hell were having a snowball fight.
FYI, you can send mail with your gmail account via SMTP, from any client that supports it, however, last time I did use it, they rewrite your "from" and "forward to" to your gmail address. Dunno about msn, but I'm pretty sure the pay Yahoo! accounts allow SMTP and POP.
The thing is, moller's engines that ran on diesel fuel were not, infact, diesel engines. Diesels use compression ingnition, his still used sparks, and fuel was introduced into the air before the compression stroke, or rotation, as it were--unlike a diesel where fuel is injected into the cylinder just before the compression stroke is complete. I have a hard time beleiving that it ran well, but I can beleive that it did run--but barely, or at very reduced power. It's got to be very hard to vaporize diesel oil to the point where it will burn efficiently in a regular engine, and even if one did, spark timing will have to be advanced very far (because diesel will burn slower, sort of a lag for combustion) or power will suck, and it will blow smoke like mad due to incomplete combustion. I would think diesel to burn far too slowly to be at all effective in a rotary engine, where higher RPMs = more power.
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Hah, that's delicious... Oh Jack, you're a blue berry muffin of creamy fun. Seriously, we need to google bomb Jack Thompson's site with "blueberry muffin", and "creamy fun"... I dread to think of what people searching for "creamy fun" are looking for, but I guess they may be able to find it at his place
Totally, if he wanted to say something outrageous, he shoulda' said $100 Million! $10,000 sounds like a bet some lawyer would make on a golf game between his buddies, or how much he spent on cocaine last week--and $10,000 is entirely possible for most lawyers. Maybe it would be satire if he were homeless, and it would also be somewhat ironic if a homeless person said he would donate $10,000 to the Salvation Army, for instance. This guy's just an ass.
Wooh! We could go to New Orleans and forage for gold fillings (and prior art) (and phat hoes)!
Seriously, though, if it came down to the bible thumpers winning because they say god has prior art, or having every bit of the human genome, and all of the plants and fish and everything else patented by mega-corps... Which side would YOU chose? So what about precedent? Chalk one up for freedom, and the bible thumpers by proxy.
I definitely DO like (and have dated) guys whose femininity and masculinity are relatively balanced.
And that's the thing, after all. So many people had it together so many thousands of years ago... Socrates, the Buddhists, and others. Moderation, balance, Yin/Yang, and all of that. Just like in other matters, this philosophy applies equally well to love and relationships, though it seems so few people see it today. As for attraction, without the primal, genetic chemistry stuff going on, can it last? Probably not.
This is just my observation of my own sex, extremely 'macho' guys, and deep down inside, are the most insecure of our species. Seriously. I think their egos to be so incredibly fragile, they have to dominate, possess and exude hostility through their personalities to make up for it. Everything is a fight. Women, deep down, want a real man, I think, and strength (of spirit) is part of that, and that's what some women come to falsely see in Mr. Macho. The women who don't fall for it realize what a chump such a guy is, right from the start. Mr. Macho may have muscles, and play the part sometimes, but I don't think he's a man--he's a child. Temperance and self-respect are more to being a man than how many muscles one has, how many road rage incidents in the last week he's been part of, or how he dominates his woman (though muscles aren't at all necessary for one to be macho)
The trouble with rich men, powerful men is, yeah, they're mostly egocentric stuck-up pricks, and the gold diggers are the only women that will have 'em. Look at Donald Trump! In other words, they're macho; they just have metric assloads of money to back it up. It's the same personality deficit, I think. Real down to earth, wealthy Men still have personalities, charisma, charm and all that other good stuff... But they won't make it clear just how vast their fortune is until the time is right. That's called class, nothing wrong with that, and it's a social filter for them, too. I know how it goes. A humble guy with it goin' on can't afford to let a gold digger through.
You're not looking for a shopping partner-with benefits, are you? No, you've got friends for that. I have a very hard time believing that someone would honestly want to be in a long term relationship with someone who was so utterly whipped and predictable that you know by the 4th date he exfoliates every night at 10, loves Breakfast at Tiffany's, shaves his legs for reasons not related to a sport, and has made it clear that he takes longer to get prepped to go out than you do... Ick. But that's what many women let on that they want from men today. Being in touch with one's feminine side is a healthy thing for a man, and so is exfoliating, but darnit, one step at a time, please. I dunno, maybe it's just me, but is it wrong to expect a man to still have a backbone, be at least a bit chivalrous, and to not be beaten into a blithering, politically correct submissive by day time television, at least between facials?
The unique thing about geeks, I think, is that they are genuinely interested in all sorts of stuff, and want to learn how it all works, love being no different, should they be awakened to it. For that reason, I think geeks have the potential to become the best of mates, maybe you know this by intuition, besides being a geek yourself. Given enough time and motivation, even the densest nerd should be able to figure out what the female wants, and maybe with the right training... Well, who knows!
Not only do they make the assumption that their resources are better, which in all honesty is fair in almost all cases, but (in this instance) they make the grave assumption that they're smarter than Archimedes, or even normal, average people for that matter--and that's where they go wrong. I've lost count of the things they screw up that should be evident to many high school physics students. They're entertaining, and It's always fun to watch them blow stuff up, and that's their purpose, after all.
Let's see, three people call you on what an asshat you are, and you still don't get the message. Relating economics to the mind, specifically a state of mind is just plain ignorant because you assume even a mentally ill person is capable of consistently making sound judgment. By definition, this is obviously not the case!
Da-nile aint' just a river; it's also a part of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Now, you'll excuse me as I neglect to give your thoughts the attention you think they deserve, and hopefully everyone else can do the same.
I can totally believe it. My grandma had a traditional siamese way back when. He preferred dry dog food, and growled like a dog when he wasn't happy. I guess it's not so much a surprise as he was best friends with a schipperke, but it was funny as hell.
I really like siamese cats, they just seem to be more fun loving than average and have funny traits.
Indeed, I have a flame point siamese (a mutt, but that's what the vet calls him), he's always on his back, in some weird pose. It's pretty funny, because he often sleeps with all fours pointed straight up. Every siamese I've known acted contrary to most other cats. He also goes nuts for lettuce. Like I said... Weird.
I have to put it going under the roll, so that pulling it makes the roll rotate clockwise.... Why? Because it's the only option in small bathrooms, otherwise the lose paper tickles your leg. @$*#! I hate that. So, even with a ginornmous bathroom, I still do it. My own personal hell is sure to be mostly composed of barking dogs and poorly installed rolls of toilet paper. meh.
I think HBO should come out with a new show, called "The West Whig", set in 1849. It could be about Zachary Taylor, the bonus would be that no matter how much it sucked, it could run for only one season, and at the end the president dies of accute milk and cherries poisoning... Which is a fitting end for most presidents... That and pretzel choking.
The future of Apple? SGI.
I've had that thought, and it dosen't sound especially crazy, but I think the window of opportunity for a successful combo passed a few years ago. SGI used to have the hardware--and with Cray's switch interlink hardware, they still have stuff nobody else has in some areas. Apple has business sense, manufacturing capacity, and most importantly a relative lack of arrogance. SGI could have had the entire industry wrapped up hardware wise, but they were too arrogant to market a graphics accelerator for the PC, or to sell their hardware or software at less than 500% markup. There has never been a company so accidentally in position to take over, and they still screwed up. No, instead they had to waste billions trying to polish turds to put in Tiffany's display cases.
Yeah, he pretty much wanted to kill everyone. It could be because his one real love married the very gay Siegfried Wagner and had four kids with him, each party is thought to had a little fun on the side. And that's one of the funny things about him, Siegfried and Hitler were on good terms, even with all of his gay hating and whatnot, though probably because Hitler loved Siegs' old man's works, and being around his wife :P
In regards to how the perfect Aryan is supposed to look, well, none of the so-called Aryans I've ever seen look Iranian. Really, I have no idea how they equated pasty skin and blonde hair (which is the camp I belong to) to a race of people with dark olive color skin and typically black hair (which I'd more than happy with--far fewer sun burns!), other than they're supposed to be the beginners of the indo-European movement/seperation. I swear, my complexion is best suited for caves, and if that bright face shines on me for even a moment you can hear the freckels forming!
About Hitler's balls, I have no idea. Though, I'm sure there's volumes about it out there on the net.
Mama says that happiness comes from little rays of sunshine that shine down when your feeling blue, not from selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
The thing is, Hitler was very inconsistent in what he said and what he did, and what we think he believed, because (I think) he said what he said to get people behind him--politics at its finest. He was a mad person. You know, he was batshit crazy, but quite brilliant in many ways.
I've read quite a bit about his history, and to me, it's apparent that he was a confessed Catholic (even an altar boy in his youth), went crazy, began to hate Christianity, and later thought himself to be on a mission of God, or perhaps actually messiah incarnate--the one sure sign someone is off their rocker. From Mein Kampf: "I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. By fighting off the Jews. I am doing the Lord's work." He made all sorts of pro-Christianity statements in speeches and in Mein Kampf, and he even recognized that the people needed Christianity, and promised that he stamped out the "atheistic movement."
It could be that he thought he couldn't fight Christianity directly, so he garnered their support, and would later turn on them after they'd done his dirty work. The truth would probably come out if we could sit him down for a candid interview, but that's not gonna happen, is it? The fact is, he was a very complicated man. Nobody knows for sure where he was coming from, back then or now, and truncating a whole lot of history (enough to earn oneself a degree, to be sure) with one quote doesn't reveal a whole lot.
So instead of armor, the crusaders wear turtleneck sweaters and multi-colored chenille scarves, and instead of killing Muslims they bring them to tears with their incredible taste in decorating and skillfully crafted holiday table arrangements?
Sounds good to me, so long as there's a hat store.
Heck, that sounds like the voices in my head. I'd claim prior art, but I'd probably be sued by my company for keeping my voices to myself. Stupid company, stupid voic... We'll show em!
What you say is correct, modern 32bit machines with some OS cludgery can address more than 4GB, and addressing limitations of kernel/users/application space and all of that. I won't deny that going 64bit for consumer stuff will make sense some time in the future, but... Just not now.
:)
Surely, even if we can map 3GB to a single application, this game isn't going to use anywhere near that, but maybe I underestimate how crazy they are. If they wanted to store huge amounts of textures in the system memory, it's going to be highly inefficient to exchange them with the graphics card all the time, but maybe this is more realistic with a newer hugely fast bus, PCI-X or whatever it's called anymore. Maybe we need them to liscense CrayLink or something!
P.S. You seem to know what you're talking about, and I wish my Swiss was as good as your English
Huh, that's intersting about the glows/alphas and stuff, and the latest gen cards supporting more than 24 bit--I'll admit that I haven't messed around too much with pixel shaders, but then again, I'm no game dev. Makes sense, though, and if John Carmack wants 128bit FPs on GPUs, I'm sure they'll make something beautiful that can use it...
:) Saddam should've held off a few years on that shipment of PS2s... *grin*
And hey, besides games, I've no doubt that a well priced and comercially available processor capable of fast and precise 128bit floating point math could be useful in any number of situations
All of what they say pretty much pertains only to the graphics card's capabilities.
No compression for textures? Cards with 512MB are the hot things now, and there's not really a good use for it. With 32 bit addressing, we can address 4GB of memory. That's what? 8 times what's currently available on anything less than a ginormous SGI simulation center? Yeah. 64 bit doesn't help us there, not even in the long term.
There's not a graphics card alive that's going to need 64 bit addressing to render literally billions of particles, and there won't be for at least 10 years, barring some extreme advances, or the use of alien technology (teehee). Same with decals, even if you "only" had memory to store the location of 512 million of 'em, there's no way the system will handle displaying even a few thousand all at once.
Glows? Unless they need 64 precision math done on the CPU (which they don't), yeah, non-issue. Consumer GPUs are limited to what? 24 bit plus alpha? Same for pixel shaders, this has nothing to do with the CPU in almost all instances.
So yeah, for games, as with most general purpose computing, this is pretty much useless. What's really sad is that they've rallied around arguments for their 64 bit push that are essentially limited by the decidedly non-64 bit GPU. Brilliant.
You own Linux in the same way you can own lab rats with some nasty virulent disease. You're responsible for their care, but you can pretty much do anything to them that you could ever want to do: put 'em in a blender, squish 'em with fancy squishing machines, play table tennis with their heads, you know, whatever, so long as the SPCA dosen't find out, right?! But you can never, ever, put your special rat-jelly on your mother in law's English Muffin. That's a definite no-no. Understand?
So, yeah, you own it, in a way. Just not all the way. GPL is sorta' like the "third base" of ownership. Most of the perks without all the obligation.
I've seen quite a few registers run xenix, even fairly recently. It was kind of funny, the POS software must've crashed or there was a hardware fault or something, because the poor machine would keep trying to reboot, proudly displaying something like "SCO Xenix copyright 1987" every time. Needless to say that their machines were ancient, probably the original 386's, but it was entertaining, nonetheless.
It's also not very hard to imagine large webmail providers exchanging email (say, gmail to hotmail) without SMTP. If we're ever able to get away from SMTP that's how it will happen.
Hahaha. Microsoft and Google, and pretty much everyone else for that matter would love to kill eachother in their overlapping markets. Why on Earth would they cooperate to develop a special, non-standard, non-SMTP way to exchange mail between their two services? For one, it would have to do something very, very, very big for the both of 'em. Maybe use less bandwidth? Be more secure? Right. They will never start down that road, even if the flying pigs in hell were having a snowball fight.
FYI, you can send mail with your gmail account via SMTP, from any client that supports it, however, last time I did use it, they rewrite your "from" and "forward to" to your gmail address. Dunno about msn, but I'm pretty sure the pay Yahoo! accounts allow SMTP and POP.
Bwahaha. Nice. >:D
The thing is, moller's engines that ran on diesel fuel were not, infact, diesel engines. Diesels use compression ingnition, his still used sparks, and fuel was introduced into the air before the compression stroke, or rotation, as it were--unlike a diesel where fuel is injected into the cylinder just before the compression stroke is complete. I have a hard time beleiving that it ran well, but I can beleive that it did run--but barely, or at very reduced power.
It's got to be very hard to vaporize diesel oil to the point where it will burn efficiently in a regular engine, and even if one did, spark timing will have to be advanced very far (because diesel will burn slower, sort of a lag for combustion) or power will suck, and it will blow smoke like mad due to incomplete combustion. I would think diesel to burn far too slowly to be at all effective in a rotary engine, where higher RPMs = more power.