What are the possibilities of channel bonding, though? WiFi has 11 channels, is it possible to build a sender/receiver pair that can move data over multiple channels at once? Perhaps soon there will be 7Gbit, then 14Gbit, then 21Gbit, etc implementations. Need more bandwidth? Add more radios.
We're already crowding the spectrum enough with wireless standards. Do we need more waste crowding in on an already crowded space?
Because Google has pretty much said "fuck you" (in far more polite terms) to a major world superpower when most world governments are afraid to do so.
Let's face it - The one thing the Chinese really didn't want was unfiltered search results, and Google is still providing that, just in a somewhat indirect manner.
Do some research. Google's claim of unfiltered searching is pre-mature.
Interestingly, Firefox compares poorly to other browsers when it comes to heavy rendering in "canvas". Here's a demo I made that allows measuring the speed of rendering in FPS (frames per second).
http://dionyziz.kamibu.com/3d/heli/
Chrome 6: 31 FPS
Opera 10.60: 46 FPS
Safari 5.0: 25 FPS; visually poor results
Internet Explorer 9: 19 FPS
Firefox 4.0 Beta 1: 19 FPS
Hardware specs, please.
I'm on a Pentium D 945 with 4GB Ram and an Nvidia 8600GTS with 256MB Ram. I'm getting 17FPS on Chrome Debian 64bit Linux, latest beta. Epiphany 2.30.2-3 locks up.
...Which brings us back to the "for now" part of the comment.
If you're a camcorder manufacturer, chances are you're using H.264 (and paying licensing fees to do so) precisely because it's convenient for people to upload to YouTube and otherwise muck with the video without having to transcode it. If that changes because YouTube and other mainstream sites and software support VP8, and you have the ability to offer consumers the option of doing the same thing without paying licensing fees by encoding in VP8, you'll likely do so to increase your profit margin.
Your logic here supports the chicken-and-egg scenario that MPEG is praying for: manufacturers unwilling to support a format not in common use, and a format won't get in common use because manufacturers won't support it. As Google and other companies break the cycle by convincing people that the format will come into common support, manufacturers will be more willing to jump on board, bringing consumers with them.
All the big camcorder manufacturers are H.264 licensees and license holders.
I'm happy with POSIX OSen. But I would not recommend them to a Joe Windows user, ever, since I don't want to be their Support Guy from now until there's a distro that actually Just Works.
Seriously? My POSIX compliant OS X is something I do recommend as it does Just Work.
Jobs doesn't care as long as he can by another yacht. Someone will mod this troll because they are an apple fanboy. But the truth is he is as unscrupulous as Balmer, Larry Ellison, and a world of corporations and lawyers. Apple, just like the rest, will only do as little as they need to as long as they have a bunch of sheep willing to buy whatever he trots out on stage next.
Jobs isn't a sailor. Larry Ellison is a yachtsman.
You forgot the back end cost. In order to make themselves feel good about a decisive victory, congresscritters will pay for rebuilding the country according to building standards the locals won't be able to meet -- or care to meet.
This rhetorical question amuses, as different law enforcement agencies in the US cannot even decide where they want it to be earned. You know, pretending they had a say in the matter and by fiat of law could make it so, the various agencies can't agree where it ought to be!
Frankly, I'm with Von Mises. Institute a tax on the unimproved value of land, and call it a wrap. No more income tax at all. Income taxes aren't just a logistics problem (and invasive! get rid of the state's interest in knowing what people do for a living, and how much money they make for gawdsake), the system is just too gameable. Land, now that's viewable from space.
C//
I don't need land to become a multi-billionaire. I can use virtual land to do that just fine. Sorry, but the land analogy is archaic. Corporations are screwing America and putting the burden of taxes on the lowest tax brackets while off-shoring their accounting to hide assets. I'm with raising the corporate tax rate up to 50% with the option to cap it at 30% if 20% of those taxes are turned back into job creation and R&D.
So ironic that we're considering implementing the financial equivalent of the Iron Curtain. This has come up for individuals, also. It's just unconscionable. Just exactly what sort of country do you want to live in? Next you'll be proposing we snipe the richies as they attempt to flee the border. That people are considering such extremes just tells me that the current system is broken. Income taxes just aren't the right vehicle for gathering revenue.
Hate to break it to you champ, but when Eisenhower was President, Corporations and the top tax bracket were 87%. In those days, fiscal conservation actually happened. The wealthy who reaped the benefits off of labors backs paid back and the nation built highways, dams [Eisenhower screwed up by not making rails first and highways second, but that's a separate issue], power grid expansions, etc.
Corporations weren't drowning and being incapable of innovating. They invested heavily to grow innovations. This only happened after strict regulations were put into place post Depression. Political scumbags are complaining the tax burden on corporations is devastating today and they can't create jobs.
B.S. on all the falsehoods. These same corporations love the billions pouring into the Military complex. Cut the defense budget in half and redirect half of those cuts back into US infrastructure and you'll see them quickly fighting for that cash, but still bitching about drowning in tax burden.
The US needs a clean slate on high, strict regulations that are fair across board, drive tax incentives to innovate and not to maintain the status quo. This will force the big conglomerates to either innovate and spin off some of their assets or die for refusing to change. Too bad. It's We The People, not We The United Corporations Against The People.
Lyx is cool, but I like LaTeX by hand because it's just faster. Anything repetitive I write my own definitions (i.e. macros) for, so it's a huge time saver.
I really dislike WYSIWYG. I want to type, never use a mouse, and have the program format it for me.
One correction. LyX is WYSIWYM not WYSIWYG. Your entire LyX document can be one ERT embedded TeX/LaTeX document. I tend to use Kile, TeXShop and now TeXWorks and straight LaTeX as well with Memoir because until LyX 2.0 is ready I can count on all those environments to be clean and sift through the error messages very rapidly.
Two weeks ago, I had the following open at the same time (this is in addition to all my other "normal" tabs I leave open, like Facebook, Twitter, etc.): GameTrailers, Newgrounds, Kongregate, and,::blush:: Redtube. No problems, stability or otherwise.</p><p>For the record, I don't have a crazy PC either...quite average, by today's standards. From my [H]ard|Forum sig:</p><p>Display: Asus VH236H | Dell 2005FPW Foundation: Cooler Master Storm Scout | OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w System: Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H | AMD Athlon II X4 635 | Corsair XMS2 4GB DDR2 800 | ATI 4850 Internal Storage: Diamondmax 21 system | WD15EADS archives External Storage: 1.25TB in a KINGWIN DK-32U-S | WDMER1600TN Input: Kensington 64325 Expert Mouse | Saitek Eclipse II | M-Audio Axiom 25 Headphones: non-amped Audio Technica ATH-AD700</p></quote>
Nothing about your gear is average, by today's standards. They are mid-tier current.
If you have a 4,000 sq ft home you'll have two separate Heat Systems. You'll have two 95% efficient mult-stage heat exchanger and you'll have a subsystem to recycle outside air in and out of your home that meets insulation standards to keep your target temperature you want in your home. At $3k per furnace and depending on how many large rooms you have, with high ceiling fans and more you'll get that consistent temperature, but as others have pointed out, old fashioned large overhangs and more need to be part of this big home you cite. Most people I know don't live in 4,000 sq ft homes. Most people live in 1000-1400 sq ft homes, per floor. Most of those homes are between 2,000 - 2,800 sq ft.
I'm still quite astonished most people think one would put in fiber glass Owens Corning insulation in the attic to reach code when various forms of blow in foam insulation with much higher R density per cubic inch is the logical solution.
Then again having family members with Finish Carpentry and General Contracting backgrounds I don't have wasted conversations on ``that's impossible! who wants to pay x,y,z in insulation costs now!,'' economically proven fallacious arguments with them. Being a mechanical engineer and one who has construction experience there are many ways to upgrade one's home that saves you consistent costs, over time.
I've worked around contractors who charge home owners for R30 sub-flooring and put in R25, just to cite one example. States like Idaho are just now admitting their lack of regulations for construction inspectors has cost that state and it's home owners hundreds of millions, if not billions in energy costs over the past several decades. Washington state gets a bad rap for having higher regulations, yet those regulations are limited by the corruption of it's inspectors, just like Idaho. The contractors are more competent but equally greedy and often don't even file to make sure their projects are permitted properly. The amount of under-the-table bidding is pathetic.
It's incumbent on the home owner who wants to get the most out of their investment to make sure the proper permits are purchased. That still doesn't stop most people I've met give excuses that they don't need permits and that the contractor is competent, knows his craft and wouldn't screw them over. Tell that to your homeowners insurance when you have damage and they don't pay out.
Then again, in this flip this house America I don't expect anyone to grasp the simple idea of spending > 10 years in a home.
So, if it costs $15,000 to bring your home into a controlled environment, with a healthy mix of outside air in and your humidity index at a safe level, it's not surprising to me that if your power bill, per month goes from $250 to $80, amortized over 120 months [10 years], you'll be saving $20,400 [Of course this assumes a linear curve, when we know it's a non-linear approximation]. What's even less surprising to me is how come people would rather spend much more using any type of A/C solution that will ultimately leave you with a poorly insulated home and high utility bills.
They'd rather not invest in their home, and find a quick fix to those hot summer days by using A/C, instead of investing wisely in their home which ultimately will save them money and give them a greater return value later when they go to resell that investment.
I lost interest at this point. Wake me up when biochemists and medical doctors get a chance to run test case groups about the adverse effects of lithium in their localized atmosphere, typically inhaled into the lungs and later causing one's sense of reality to become skewed.
Promote better insulation solutions that are efficient and cheap to deploy. It's far easier to regulate a room at a fixed temperature when the control system is properly insulated and thus eliminates the need for A/C. Heat Transfer is a standard course for us Mechanical Engineers and though I do realize billions upon billions has been made by developing HVAC systems [Home A/C] for the average idiot, the average idiot is far better off fiscally making their homes standards efficient in insulation [R30 in the exterior walls, R45-60 [depending on your temperate zone] in the ceiling, R30 in the sub-flooring and a variable speed 95% efficient furnace at 68% year round than they are throwing in a damn A/C solution. The HVAC industry doesn't give two bits about the consumer. This energy savings is a means to sell people more unnecessary A/C at much higher prices when more conventional solutions apply.
Sell it to corporations. I'm sure they'd love to deploy multi-million dollar HVAC systems rather than bring their buildings up to code.
<quote><p>because TFA doesn't explain that google wrote it themselves. Heck, even the google blog announcement doesn't explain that google wrote it themselves. Guess what, it turns out google did not write it themselves, they're using <a href="http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/chrome/common/chrome_paths.cc">libpdf.so</a> which is <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpdf/">libpdf</a> </p></quote>
<p>I was referring to the Google blog post, which is linked from the Slashdot summary and thus counts as "TFA".</p><p>It says "Currently, we do not support 100% of the advanced PDF features found in Adobe Reader, such as certain types of embedded media" and "We would also like to work with the Adobe Reader team to bring the full PDF feature set to Chrome using the same next generation browser plug-in API", which I took to mean that:</p><p>1. it clearly isn't being written by Adobe, and 2. even if Google didn't write it, they are maintaining and improving it, so they "wrote it" in the same sense that Apple "wrote" WebKit.</p><p>As for the "libpdf.so", part, I assume you're looking at the part of the code that says</p><p><tt>#if defined(OS_WIN)
cur = cur.Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("PDF.plugin")); #else// Linux and Chrome OS
cur = cur.Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("libpdf.so")); #endif</tt></p><p>Which means that they're using a file called libpdf.so on Linux. As another one of your replies points out, this is doubtful to be the 9-year-old unmaintained incomplete C library you link to, and judging from the Windows and Mac filenames, this is nearly definitely a library written (or at least maintained) by Google.</p></quote>
Apple forked WebKit and rewrote it from the ground up. The tarball blobs back to KDE ended that moment. Sorry, but WebKit is a massive project that doesn't live off of KDE's legacy.
``Exactly. (I'm one of the Flock devs.)</p><p>Chromium is much more than just WebKit, and Flock is reusing most of that. Their UI was very well thought-out, and their V8 JavaScript engine is incredibly fast -- making it a perfect platform for Flock's application layer code which is almost entirely JavaScript.</p><p>BTW, since the original article doesn't contain links, here's the site where you can grab the beta if you're so inclined: http://beta.flock.com
Mac version is in the works.''
Here are my current results from a Pentium D 940 with 4GB RAM on Debian Sid Linux.
Sunspider 0.9 Benchmark results for Chrome and Epiphany
causes a modified bootloader and OS to be installed in the iPhone, resulting in infringement of Apple’s reproduction and derivative works rights.
So now we can't install a different OS on hardware that we own? Installing software on something isn't against the law. Distributing someone else's OS modified or not, without their consent is. Jailbreaking doesn't do this. It simply installs a different bootloader that allows you to modify your own device.
You're removing their bootloader and you don't see that as a violation? You deserve to lose all warranty rights, period.
If Gates may well be right, then that's the conversation we should be having. I don't care if your cat brought up the topic, the fact of the matter is that technology and energy are the only ways we know of to move forward past what was once agrarian, then manufacturing, and then service-based economy. I don't know about you, but I'd rather be working on new energy or technology than discussing Gates' motive while we stand on line at the unemployment office.
In any case, here's a link to what they propose.
[1] Create an independent national energy strategy board.
[2] Invest $16 billion per year in clean energy innovation. ($11b more than our current, about 1/875 of our GDP)
[3] Create Centers of Excellence with strong domain expertise.
[4] Fund ARPA-E at $1 billion per year.
[5] Establish and fund a New Energy Challenge Program to build large-scale pilot projects.
If this is some kind of big evil money grab, it certainly isn't a destructive one.
Since we gave the Oil refiners billions per year in tax deductions, under Bush 2.0, I'll be impressed if we invest $16 billion per year in clean energy innovation and recoup those tax deductions on Big Oil. Or make third party recipients of these deductions the winners of this investment, based on an 80-20 ratio to the traditional oil corporations
.
Create centers for excellence? Can they be more vague?
I see a lot of nothing in specifics from a quantitative viewpoint. Did it take them a weekend to come up with this or what?
I'm not too impressed when they don't bother to hire a typesetter who can create an actual hyperlinked Table of Contents.
This program should be structured as a partnership between the federal government and the energy industry, and should operate as an independent corporation outside of the federal government. It should report to the Energy Strategy Board (see Recommendation 1) and focus on the transition from pre-commercial, large-scale energy systems to integrated,
full-size system tests. The public sector should initially commit $20 billion over 10 years through a single federal appropriation, which would unleash significant private sector resources as projects are developed.
I have a much better idea. The billions in bailout funds for TARP that haven't been paid back will be mandatory from all those companies reaching their hands out and they will be required to invest back into this nation by investing all they still owe and must be required to pay back into this new Energy policy. That way we don't expand our debt on this until we break even or profit from these con artists who stole from this nation and the rest of the world.
I can't entirely disagree with what you are saying here, but there are two points to note: if you specify expensive parts and decent quality control in China, they will go your way. Just look at Apple - their products are widely considered to be better quality than for instance MSI, and they are both made in China. You will, of course, pay a premium for this - and most companies do not want this. So as an end-user, you are most familiar with crap quality from China.
The other point is that United States manufacturing is almost non-existent now. Trying to have a device manufactured in the US is hard - most of the remaining manufacturers are actually set up for military contracts with high margins and fairly old tech.
Manufacturing is non-existent because congressional leaders didn't give incentives to develop and manufacture at home, but actually encouraged and gave incentives to manufacture abroad to get dirt cheap crap coming in from overseas. As a mechanical engineer I never was less impressed with my fellow senior engineering students than I was with the chinese group. Nice guys but not at the head of the class, unless you consider mass cheating the head of the class. The Indian, Japanese, Persian students were always making connections with their American fellow engineering students to be at the top of the class. It was a nice group of cross cultures learning engineering, even if the chinese group kept to themselves.
It's hard to set up US manufacturing when US Senators don't want it.
Agreed. I don't even use Twitter, but I do use LinkedIn, and some moron there just had to copy a Twitter post from one of her friends saying "taking the kids to [some event]". Who cares?
Then be sure not to broadcast frivolous chit chat and keep to professional news, business contacts, events planning, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
What are the possibilities of channel bonding, though? WiFi has 11 channels, is it possible to build a sender/receiver pair that can move data over multiple channels at once? Perhaps soon there will be 7Gbit, then 14Gbit, then 21Gbit, etc implementations. Need more bandwidth? Add more radios.
We're already crowding the spectrum enough with wireless standards. Do we need more waste crowding in on an already crowded space?
Because Google has pretty much said "fuck you" (in far more polite terms) to a major world superpower when most world governments are afraid to do so.
Let's face it - The one thing the Chinese really didn't want was unfiltered search results, and Google is still providing that, just in a somewhat indirect manner.
Do some research. Google's claim of unfiltered searching is pre-mature.
Interestingly, Firefox compares poorly to other browsers when it comes to heavy rendering in "canvas". Here's a demo I made that allows measuring the speed of rendering in FPS (frames per second). http://dionyziz.kamibu.com/3d/heli/ Chrome 6: 31 FPS Opera 10.60: 46 FPS Safari 5.0: 25 FPS; visually poor results Internet Explorer 9: 19 FPS Firefox 4.0 Beta 1: 19 FPS
Hardware specs, please.
I'm on a Pentium D 945 with 4GB Ram and an Nvidia 8600GTS with 256MB Ram. I'm getting 17FPS on Chrome Debian 64bit Linux, latest beta. Epiphany 2.30.2-3 locks up.
He's living in a cloud if he thinks it's going to ``take over everything on the desktop.''
...Which brings us back to the "for now" part of the comment.
If you're a camcorder manufacturer, chances are you're using H.264 (and paying licensing fees to do so) precisely because it's convenient for people to upload to YouTube and otherwise muck with the video without having to transcode it. If that changes because YouTube and other mainstream sites and software support VP8, and you have the ability to offer consumers the option of doing the same thing without paying licensing fees by encoding in VP8, you'll likely do so to increase your profit margin.
Your logic here supports the chicken-and-egg scenario that MPEG is praying for: manufacturers unwilling to support a format not in common use, and a format won't get in common use because manufacturers won't support it. As Google and other companies break the cycle by convincing people that the format will come into common support, manufacturers will be more willing to jump on board, bringing consumers with them.
All the big camcorder manufacturers are H.264 licensees and license holders.
Diet Coke and Vodka?
Where do you live?
Where I grew up it's Rum and Coke.
I'm happy with POSIX OSen. But I would not recommend them to a Joe Windows user, ever, since I don't want to be their Support Guy from now until there's a distro that actually Just Works.
Seriously? My POSIX compliant OS X is something I do recommend as it does Just Work.
Jobs doesn't care as long as he can by another yacht. Someone will mod this troll because they are an apple fanboy. But the truth is he is as unscrupulous as Balmer, Larry Ellison, and a world of corporations and lawyers. Apple, just like the rest, will only do as little as they need to as long as they have a bunch of sheep willing to buy whatever he trots out on stage next.
Jobs isn't a sailor. Larry Ellison is a yachtsman.
They can store, but how do one extract the energy ?
Questioned like someone never having taken basic Chemistry.
You forgot the back end cost. In order to make themselves feel good about a decisive victory, congresscritters will pay for rebuilding the country according to building standards the locals won't be able to meet -- or care to meet.
Precedent: Japan.
Subsidizing non-economical power generation is not money well spent.
That argument will hold no water until the oil industry stops getting their subsidies.
Especially when they are getting 10:1 in subsidies while raking in 10 times in profits.
This rhetorical question amuses, as different law enforcement agencies in the US cannot even decide where they want it to be earned. You know, pretending they had a say in the matter and by fiat of law could make it so, the various agencies can't agree where it ought to be!
Frankly, I'm with Von Mises. Institute a tax on the unimproved value of land, and call it a wrap. No more income tax at all. Income taxes aren't just a logistics problem (and invasive! get rid of the state's interest in knowing what people do for a living, and how much money they make for gawdsake), the system is just too gameable. Land, now that's viewable from space.
C//
I don't need land to become a multi-billionaire. I can use virtual land to do that just fine. Sorry, but the land analogy is archaic. Corporations are screwing America and putting the burden of taxes on the lowest tax brackets while off-shoring their accounting to hide assets. I'm with raising the corporate tax rate up to 50% with the option to cap it at 30% if 20% of those taxes are turned back into job creation and R&D.
So ironic that we're considering implementing the financial equivalent of the Iron Curtain. This has come up for individuals, also. It's just unconscionable. Just exactly what sort of country do you want to live in? Next you'll be proposing we snipe the richies as they attempt to flee the border. That people are considering such extremes just tells me that the current system is broken. Income taxes just aren't the right vehicle for gathering revenue.
Hate to break it to you champ, but when Eisenhower was President, Corporations and the top tax bracket were 87%. In those days, fiscal conservation actually happened. The wealthy who reaped the benefits off of labors backs paid back and the nation built highways, dams [Eisenhower screwed up by not making rails first and highways second, but that's a separate issue], power grid expansions, etc.
Corporations weren't drowning and being incapable of innovating. They invested heavily to grow innovations. This only happened after strict regulations were put into place post Depression. Political scumbags are complaining the tax burden on corporations is devastating today and they can't create jobs.
B.S. on all the falsehoods. These same corporations love the billions pouring into the Military complex. Cut the defense budget in half and redirect half of those cuts back into US infrastructure and you'll see them quickly fighting for that cash, but still bitching about drowning in tax burden.
The US needs a clean slate on high, strict regulations that are fair across board, drive tax incentives to innovate and not to maintain the status quo. This will force the big conglomerates to either innovate and spin off some of their assets or die for refusing to change. Too bad. It's We The People, not We The United Corporations Against The People.
Lyx is cool, but I like LaTeX by hand because it's just faster. Anything repetitive I write my own definitions (i.e. macros) for, so it's a huge time saver.
I really dislike WYSIWYG. I want to type, never use a mouse, and have the program format it for me.
One correction. LyX is WYSIWYM not WYSIWYG. Your entire LyX document can be one ERT embedded TeX/LaTeX document. I tend to use Kile, TeXShop and now TeXWorks and straight LaTeX as well with Memoir because until LyX 2.0 is ready I can count on all those environments to be clean and sift through the error messages very rapidly.
Funny you mention that.
Two weeks ago, I had the following open at the same time (this is in addition to all my other "normal" tabs I leave open, like Facebook, Twitter, etc.): GameTrailers, Newgrounds, Kongregate, and, ::blush:: Redtube. No problems, stability or otherwise.</p><p>For the record, I don't have a crazy PC either...quite average, by today's standards. From my [H]ard|Forum sig:</p><p>Display: Asus VH236H | Dell 2005FPW
Foundation: Cooler Master Storm Scout | OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w
System: Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H | AMD Athlon II X4 635 | Corsair XMS2 4GB DDR2 800 | ATI 4850
Internal Storage: Diamondmax 21 system | WD15EADS archives
External Storage: 1.25TB in a KINGWIN DK-32U-S | WDMER1600TN
Input: Kensington 64325 Expert Mouse | Saitek Eclipse II | M-Audio Axiom 25
Headphones: non-amped Audio Technica ATH-AD700</p></quote>
Nothing about your gear is average, by today's standards. They are mid-tier current.
If you have a 4,000 sq ft home you'll have two separate Heat Systems. You'll have two 95% efficient mult-stage heat exchanger and you'll have a subsystem to recycle outside air in and out of your home that meets insulation standards to keep your target temperature you want in your home. At $3k per furnace and depending on how many large rooms you have, with high ceiling fans and more you'll get that consistent temperature, but as others have pointed out, old fashioned large overhangs and more need to be part of this big home you cite. Most people I know don't live in 4,000 sq ft homes. Most people live in 1000-1400 sq ft homes, per floor. Most of those homes are between 2,000 - 2,800 sq ft.
I'm still quite astonished most people think one would put in fiber glass Owens Corning insulation in the attic to reach code when various forms of blow in foam insulation with much higher R density per cubic inch is the logical solution.
Then again having family members with Finish Carpentry and General Contracting backgrounds I don't have wasted conversations on ``that's impossible! who wants to pay x,y,z in insulation costs now!,'' economically proven fallacious arguments with them. Being a mechanical engineer and one who has construction experience there are many ways to upgrade one's home that saves you consistent costs, over time.
I've worked around contractors who charge home owners for R30 sub-flooring and put in R25, just to cite one example. States like Idaho are just now admitting their lack of regulations for construction inspectors has cost that state and it's home owners hundreds of millions, if not billions in energy costs over the past several decades. Washington state gets a bad rap for having higher regulations, yet those regulations are limited by the corruption of it's inspectors, just like Idaho. The contractors are more competent but equally greedy and often don't even file to make sure their projects are permitted properly. The amount of under-the-table bidding is pathetic.
It's incumbent on the home owner who wants to get the most out of their investment to make sure the proper permits are purchased. That still doesn't stop most people I've met give excuses that they don't need permits and that the contractor is competent, knows his craft and wouldn't screw them over. Tell that to your homeowners insurance when you have damage and they don't pay out.
Then again, in this flip this house America I don't expect anyone to grasp the simple idea of spending > 10 years in a home.
So, if it costs $15,000 to bring your home into a controlled environment, with a healthy mix of outside air in and your humidity index at a safe level, it's not surprising to me that if your power bill, per month goes from $250 to $80, amortized over 120 months [10 years], you'll be saving $20,400 [Of course this assumes a linear curve, when we know it's a non-linear approximation]. What's even less surprising to me is how come people would rather spend much more using any type of A/C solution that will ultimately leave you with a poorly insulated home and high utility bills.
They'd rather not invest in their home, and find a quick fix to those hot summer days by using A/C, instead of investing wisely in their home which ultimately will save them money and give them a greater return value later when they go to resell that investment.
I lost interest at this point. Wake me up when biochemists and medical doctors get a chance to run test case groups about the adverse effects of lithium in their localized atmosphere, typically inhaled into the lungs and later causing one's sense of reality to become skewed.
Promote better insulation solutions that are efficient and cheap to deploy. It's far easier to regulate a room at a fixed temperature when the control system is properly insulated and thus eliminates the need for A/C. Heat Transfer is a standard course for us Mechanical Engineers and though I do realize billions upon billions has been made by developing HVAC systems [Home A/C] for the average idiot, the average idiot is far better off fiscally making their homes standards efficient in insulation [R30 in the exterior walls, R45-60 [depending on your temperate zone] in the ceiling, R30 in the sub-flooring and a variable speed 95% efficient furnace at 68% year round than they are throwing in a damn A/C solution. The HVAC industry doesn't give two bits about the consumer. This energy savings is a means to sell people more unnecessary A/C at much higher prices when more conventional solutions apply.
Sell it to corporations. I'm sure they'd love to deploy multi-million dollar HVAC systems rather than bring their buildings up to code.
<quote>
// Linux and Chrome OS
<quote><p>because TFA doesn't explain that google wrote it themselves. Heck, even the google blog announcement doesn't explain that google wrote it themselves. Guess what, it turns out google did not write it themselves, they're using <a href="http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/chrome/common/chrome_paths.cc">libpdf.so</a> which is <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpdf/">libpdf</a> </p></quote>
<p>I was referring to the Google blog post, which is linked from the Slashdot summary and thus counts as "TFA".</p><p>It says "Currently, we do not support 100% of the advanced PDF features found in Adobe Reader, such as certain types of embedded media" and "We would also like to work with the Adobe Reader team to bring the full PDF feature set to Chrome using the same next generation browser plug-in API", which I took to mean that:</p><p>1. it clearly isn't being written by Adobe, and
2. even if Google didn't write it, they are maintaining and improving it, so they "wrote it" in the same sense that Apple "wrote" WebKit.</p><p>As for the "libpdf.so", part, I assume you're looking at the part of the code that says</p><p><tt>#if defined(OS_WIN)
cur = cur.Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("pdf.dll"));
#elif defined(OS_MACOSX)
cur = cur.Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("PDF.plugin"));
#else
cur = cur.Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("libpdf.so"));
#endif</tt></p><p>Which means that they're using a file called libpdf.so on Linux. As another one of your replies points out, this is doubtful to be the 9-year-old unmaintained incomplete C library you link to, and judging from the Windows and Mac filenames, this is nearly definitely a library written (or at least maintained) by Google.</p></quote>
Apple forked WebKit and rewrote it from the ground up. The tarball blobs back to KDE ended that moment. Sorry, but WebKit is a massive project that doesn't live off of KDE's legacy.
OS X has PDF system-wide.
``Exactly. (I'm one of the Flock devs.)</p><p>Chromium is much more than just WebKit, and Flock is reusing most of that. Their UI was very well thought-out, and their V8 JavaScript engine is incredibly fast -- making it a perfect platform for Flock's application layer code which is almost entirely JavaScript.</p><p>BTW, since the original article doesn't contain links, here's the site where you can grab the beta if you're so inclined:
http://beta.flock.com
Mac version is in the works.''
Here are my current results from a Pentium D 940 with 4GB RAM on Debian Sid Linux.
Sunspider 0.9 Benchmark results for Chrome and Epiphany
Chrome 5.0.375.70 beta
RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
Total: 574.2ms +/- 1.7%
3d: 93.4ms +/- 7.2%
cube: 31.2ms +/- 16.5%
morph: 35.0ms +/- 5.0%
raytrace: 27.2ms +/- 6.0%
access: 52.0ms +/- 6.1%
binary-trees: 3.2ms +/- 42.6%
fannkuch: 23.4ms +/- 4.8%
nbody: 19.6ms +/- 8.5%
nsieve: 5.8ms +/- 9.6%
bitops: 43.4ms +/- 20.2%
3bit-bits-in-byte: 5.2ms +/- 10.7%
bits-in-byte: 9.0ms +/- 9.8%
bitwise-and: 17.6ms +/- 53.0%
nsieve-bits: 11.6ms +/- 5.9%
controlflow: 4.2ms +/- 32.4%
recursive: 4.2ms +/- 32.4%<
crypto: 27.6ms +/- 6.0%
aes: 15.4ms +/- 7.2%
md5: 7.0ms +/- 12.6%
sha1: 5.2ms +/- 10.7%
date: 102.2ms +/- 2.3%
format-tofte: 35.6ms +/- 1.9%
format-xparb: 66.6ms +/- 4.3%
math: 83.0ms +/- 3.8%
cordic: 23.6ms +/- 4.7%
partial-sums: 43.8ms +/- 4.7%
spectral-norm: 15.6ms +/- 7.1%
regexp: 18.2ms +/- 8.9%
dna: 18.2ms +/- 8.9%
string: 150.2ms +/- 2.1%
base64: 18.0ms +/- 4.9%
fasta: 23.2ms +/- 4.5%
tagcloud: 37.6ms +/- 3.0%
unpack-code: 44.2ms +/- 3.7%
validate-input: 27.2ms +/- 3.8%
Epiphany 2.30.2
RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
Total: 572.6ms +/- 0.7%
3d:
causes a modified bootloader and OS to be installed in the iPhone, resulting in infringement of Apple’s reproduction and derivative works rights.
So now we can't install a different OS on hardware that we own? Installing software on something isn't against the law. Distributing someone else's OS modified or not, without their consent is. Jailbreaking doesn't do this. It simply installs a different bootloader that allows you to modify your own device.
You're removing their bootloader and you don't see that as a violation? You deserve to lose all warranty rights, period.
If Gates may well be right, then that's the conversation we should be having. I don't care if your cat brought up the topic, the fact of the matter is that technology and energy are the only ways we know of to move forward past what was once agrarian, then manufacturing, and then service-based economy. I don't know about you, but I'd rather be working on new energy or technology than discussing Gates' motive while we stand on line at the unemployment office. In any case, here's a link to what they propose.
[1] Create an independent national energy strategy board. [2] Invest $16 billion per year in clean energy innovation. ($11b more than our current, about 1/875 of our GDP) [3] Create Centers of Excellence with strong domain expertise. [4] Fund ARPA-E at $1 billion per year. [5] Establish and fund a New Energy Challenge Program to build large-scale pilot projects.
If this is some kind of big evil money grab, it certainly isn't a destructive one.
Since we gave the Oil refiners billions per year in tax deductions, under Bush 2.0, I'll be impressed if we invest $16 billion per year in clean energy innovation and recoup those tax deductions on Big Oil. Or make third party recipients of these deductions the winners of this investment, based on an 80-20 ratio to the traditional oil corporations
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Create centers for excellence? Can they be more vague?
I see a lot of nothing in specifics from a quantitative viewpoint. Did it take them a weekend to come up with this or what?
I'm not too impressed when they don't bother to hire a typesetter who can create an actual hyperlinked Table of Contents.
I have a much better idea. The billions in bailout funds for TARP that haven't been paid back will be mandatory from all those companies reaching their hands out and they will be required to invest back into this nation by investing all they still owe and must be required to pay back into this new Energy policy. That way we don't expand our debt on this until we break even or profit from these con artists who stole from this nation and the rest of the world.
I can't entirely disagree with what you are saying here, but there are two points to note: if you specify expensive parts and decent quality control in China, they will go your way. Just look at Apple - their products are widely considered to be better quality than for instance MSI, and they are both made in China. You will, of course, pay a premium for this - and most companies do not want this. So as an end-user, you are most familiar with crap quality from China.
The other point is that United States manufacturing is almost non-existent now. Trying to have a device manufactured in the US is hard - most of the remaining manufacturers are actually set up for military contracts with high margins and fairly old tech.
Manufacturing is non-existent because congressional leaders didn't give incentives to develop and manufacture at home, but actually encouraged and gave incentives to manufacture abroad to get dirt cheap crap coming in from overseas. As a mechanical engineer I never was less impressed with my fellow senior engineering students than I was with the chinese group. Nice guys but not at the head of the class, unless you consider mass cheating the head of the class. The Indian, Japanese, Persian students were always making connections with their American fellow engineering students to be at the top of the class. It was a nice group of cross cultures learning engineering, even if the chinese group kept to themselves.
It's hard to set up US manufacturing when US Senators don't want it.
Agreed. I don't even use Twitter, but I do use LinkedIn, and some moron there just had to copy a Twitter post from one of her friends saying "taking the kids to [some event]". Who cares?
Then be sure not to broadcast frivolous chit chat and keep to professional news, business contacts, events planning, etc.
Google doesn't get to peak into Apple's sandbox anymore. Deal with it Google. You can still run standard Advertisements.