I know it is more expensive, but you get what you pay for.
In a nutshell, pay less money, expect more issues.
People say that a lot, but it has NO basis in reality.
You can pay ridiculous sums of money for some even higher-end video hardware, only to find that the $50 videocard was better supported, had better drivers, and generally outperformed the more expensive device.
I've seen almost as much "expensive" equipment fail as the cheapest stuff.
When I installed Solaris last year, there were no drivers to support my hardware.
What hardware might that be?
There are 3rd parties developing drivers that work on Solaris, if you just look around.
For network cards, you can often find manufacturers officially supporting Solaris, and offering drivers for download. The BSD drivers are also commonly ported to Solaris, such as these: http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/
OSS offers soundcard drives for just about every popular card. It doesn't use the same API as Sun's native audio output, but most programs have no problem handling it (and some Linux-ported applications even _need_ OSS).
Sun offers a simple kit on their website to compile XFree86 drivers for Sun's commercial X11 server (with full display Postscript support). Or you can compile and use XFree/Xorg normally.
Imagine instead of "suspending", just setting a "blank the screen" screensaver, and ending up with about the same power usage as a suspended laptop of today, only your torrent is still going...
Your suggesting are inherently contradictory. If you're downloading a torrent, you can't power-down your CPU. Power management is getting better, but you'll never get near Suspend-level power usage with any CPU activity. Not to mention , when active, you need more power for accessing RAM. Your solid-state hard drive is not going to be an insignificant power drain. etc.
100% idle is different. However, at that, you wouldn't need advanced CPUs. You could have slightly larger ammounts of video RAM to keep the image on the screen (see OLPC), and put the system into Suspend mode. It only takes a couple seconds to resume when you hit a button, and start doing work again. Improvements in open source drivers (and open source firmware) could get that down even further.
as each step through the food chain is about 10% efficient.
That is an extremely narrow view of the food chain, which doesn't take everything into account, and isn't really applicable here.
First, try and name a plant that is 100% edible. EVERY food crop produces significant ammounts of cellulose, which can't be digested directly by humans, but can certainly be put to good use by herbivores. Goats in particular, REALLY will eat practically anything that biodegrades, and produce both milk and meat for human consumption.
While only 10% of the calories may be passed-on, much is left in dropping, which can be (and is) used to fertilize the next generation of crops.
People simply have a much easier time getting nutrition from meat than plants.
There have ALWAYS been numerous theories, and numerous tests, which could explain a FEW of the properties of ball lightning, but never ALL of them.
A gas ball sounds good, except for numerous accounts of ball lightning traveling THROUGH solid objects (comming out the other side) all without causing ANY damage to the stationary object at all. How does burning silicon gas do that?
How does this burning gas ball slowly float inches away from people, and not cause them to feel the intense heat from the object?
And how does silicon gas (from a ground lightning strike) suddenly appear floating down the isle of a commercial aircraft in-flight?
March 19, 1963 Eastern Airlines Flight EA539 From New York to Washington
Five minutes past midnight, the plane encountered a storm. There's a loud bang and a bright flash. Seconds later a glowing ball emerges from the pilots cabin. The blue light ball hovers above the isle and floats slowly towards the rear of the plane. It reaches the back of the plane and vanishes. Remarkably, the plane continues unharmed. (National Geographic: Naked Science)
The premise is ridiculous. Stupid people are insulted in every industry. See: "Dumb blonde" jokes.
If you pour antifreeze in your engine oil, and complain to the dealer about how confusing their cars are, you can bet you'll be seriously insulted... At least, if you're rude, and they can't brush you off quickly.
doctors don't call their patients "meatbags" -- at least, not publicly.
Doctors have about as much respect for their patients as farm vets do... You are cattle to them. If you decide to take Vitamin C instead of antibiotics, then complain to the doctor about how badly his treatment is going, expect to be insulted.
The number of fields where an incompotent and rude customer WON'T be insulted is definately the minority. There just happen to be MORE incompotent computer users, that are, as a rule, more rude and just simply obstinate in the face of reality. They don't know the limits of computers, so anytime they don't get the magical result they WANT, many of them they get upset about it.
So in other words, what I wrote is pretty much right. It just wasn't right a few years ago.
It wasn't right a few years ago, WHEN IT MATTERED for DVD adoption.
In a few years, what you've said about HD-DVD won't be true anymore, either.
You have to go back probably a decade or more to find TVs with no SCART sockets
You're obviously in Europe. While my experience is based on the US. We don't have SCART today, let alone a decade ago. A/V inputs were uncommon on average (smaller) TVs until just a couple years before DVDs came into the picture. RF converters were being sold EVERYWHERE.
This is hardly comparable to the situation where someone who went out and bought an HDTV, whose main selling point was HD resolution, as little as a year ago, without HDCP,
I haven't seen any HDTVs in stores for SEVERAL YEARS that didn't have HDMI inputs. My own HDTV is a couple years old now, and absolutely everything had at least one HDMI input.
The point is that the DVD copy protection did not significantly inhibit the vast majority of legitimate users from basic use of the product. The HD versions may do so,
Yes, and I already explained why you're completely wrong on both accounts.
A spinoff that plays by its rules and doesn't need to compare the profit margin of an EV-1 with the profit margin of a Suburban, so it won't divert all its effort to building Suburbans.
Isn't that exactly what GM did with Saturn several decades ago?
A failed experiment that has just recently come to an end.
I can, however, put my DVD in any standard DVD player, or in my computer running whatever OS, and watch my movie/TV show/whatever.
No, you couldn't, unless "whatever OS" only includes Windows and MacOS. It took many many years before licensed DVD player software appeared for Linux.
For example, if your new HDTV cost you $2,000 but dates from pre-HDPC-as-standard days (which really isn't that long ago) then your new HD-DVD or Blu-ray player isn't going to give you full-res output
People without A/V inputs on their TV (which wasn't that long ago) had similar problems trying to play DVDs through their VCRs.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I predict, with considerable confidence, that if the big studios, Microsoft and everyone else involved push forward down this path, they will suffer the consumer backlash they have been avoiding so far.
MANY people were predicting that with DVDs as well... After all, nobody will accept copy protection like DVD CSS.
It seems that is more of a case layout and CPU issue than motherboard
No, cooling is decidely more a motherboard layout issue.
Ducting is much more effecient than the current system of numerous, unnecessarily power fans, half-fighting each other for airflow. DEC and HP workstations demonstrated this quite well over a decade ago. They were able to do this, because they didn't bother with ATX...
With ATX, the components on the motherboard can move anywhere. You have no way of knowing where anything is going to be, or it's orientation. Companies can make their own ducting solution, but that limits them to their own spec'ed motherboards, rather than being able to throw anything ATX in there. And their customers are really screwed if they need to swap motherboards.
Not to mention you can't know if the case is going to place (hot) hard drives right in-front of (hot) motherboard components, which may be right in-front of a (hot) PSU. So, for an ATX system, you just have to have the loudest, fastest fans you can find, to ensure there will be enough airflow in the worst case.
That's okay... The rest of the (Western) world doesn't like stuff made elsewhere, either.
That's why the majority of their music, and movies, were made in the US.
It would be only too ironic for music made in the US to be exported to the rest of the world, only to be streamed back to US listeners, due to utterly moronic copyright laws.
A few years back I made a big push to try to save money by using rechargeable batteries. I gave up on them.
Your experience is seriously out-of-date, and just about the exact opposite of reality now.
How well devices on 1.2V rechargeable batteries varies a lot from one device to another. Some work just fine. Quite a few work poorly enough to be a nuisance.
1) The more batteries a device has, the more chance that there will be a problem. Anything that only uses 2 batteries will be fine. 4 should be okay as well. 6-8 and you've got a real issue. In that case, some higher-end devices have extra compartments for extra rechargable batteries. On my Sega Nomad, I added a couple myself.
2) Panasonic's NiCD batteries are rated at 1.25 volts, which helps.
3) Alkaline batteries offer lower voltages over time, as they become drained, so just about everything has to be able to operate on 1.2V anyhow, otherwise it will have horendous battery life. NiCD batteries, unlike Alkalines, will hold their 1.2V until they're almost completely drained. That works great in most modern devices, but is considered a drawback in flashlights because you get no warning.
4) But more than that. Modern Ni-MH batteries, though rated at 1.2V, really offer 1.5V (in my own tests) when freshly charged, and slowly go down, like Alkalines.
Rechargeables store distinctly less energy, i.e. don't last anywhere near as long on a single charge as a disposable.
This hasn't been true for over a decade.
1) "High capacity" AA NiCDs from Radioshack (850mAH?) have just slightly less power than Alkalines, and have been sold for at least a decade now.
2) High Capacity AA Panasonic NiCDs (1100mAH) last as long or longer than Alkalines, DESPITE the lower voltage of NiCD.
3) NiMH AA batteries, as sold by Energizer and Duracell (2000+ mAH), last nearly TWICE as long as disposible Alkaline batteries.
Rechargeables lose energy if not kept in the charger.
1) True for NiCD, but absolutely not true for NiMH. NiMH batteries will hold their charge for months.
2) I haven't seen an always-on charger in well over a decade. So your experience is obviously very out-of-date, and not remotely applicable or helpful.
3) Recent batteries and chargers have gotten charge time down to 30 minutes, so unless you are in a situation desperately need a battery R
4) Leaving NiCD batteries constantly charging will significantly reduces their lifespan. That may have been causing some of the other issues you listed.
Rechargeables die fairly quickly, typically in about two years. And suffer reduced capacity as they age.
1) Really crappy NiCDs, under an extremely heavy duty cycle, may have the life you describe. The better ones will last far longer. And in more realistic usage, even the crappy ones will last far more than a year.
2) NiMH have no such problems. They'll last for many more years, and exhibit very little capacity loss.
you cannot just replace all the alkaline disposables in your house with rechargeables,
Not true. With NiMH batteries, EVERYTHING I have is operating on rechargables.
("the charger on the left is with the charged batteries that are ready for use and just being kept topped up...") you can't really share rechargeables with other family members
Yeah, 20 years ago that was a real problem. Ever since, it's been trivially easy.
it is not at all clear that you actually save money using them in a general way.
It's been overwhelmingly proven, time and time again, in study after study, that you save significant money, even with the cheapest, oldest rechargables.
Today, the situtation is worlds better, and extremely clear-cut.
Tell me, does your laptop computer operate on disposible Alkaline AA batteries, or does it use rechargeables? How about your iPod?
Meanwhile, genuine customers will get seriously annoyed at the fact that DRM in HD-world has now moved beyond a minor inconvenience or ethical question as it was with things like DVDs,
First you have to explain how the AACS DRM on HD-DVDs is any worse than CSS on DVDs...
Hell, it took several years before DVD-CSS was cracked.
I agree. That, however, has nothing to do with the topic of discussion at hand (that the "vocal nut jobs" are to blame for everything).
Arizona Clean Fuels has been working for a decade to get all of the permits and funding to build the first new refinery in thirty years. They've completed almost all of the paperwork, but they still need to find investors willing to bet billions of dollars on the project.
This single statement actually supports several of the points I have made.
The timing (10 years) is just what I said.
The environmental regulations apparently aren't what is holding up the project.
It's being done by a start-up company, looking for private investment... Showing that it is economical, as well as demonstrating the utter lack of interest, by the current major players in the oil industry, in building a new plant at all.
Microsoft does some incredibly stupid things, for no good reason...
The most major and glaring idiocy in Windows is hard disk controller drivers. For this reason alone, I wouldn't ever suggest using Windows as a server (or on ANY type of system that is remotely important in any way).
If you take the hard drive out of one machine (perhaps after it has become a smoldering pile of metal and circuit boards) and install it in different system, there's an extremely good chance Windows NT3.1/NT3.5/NT4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista/etc. will BSOD. It will crash and burn before you can even boot into safe mode.
You see, for some reason, Windows has a different, incompatible driver for every different brand of controller. For IDE/SATA-based systems, there are basically 4 (VIA, Intel, etc.). Microsoft's only official solution to this problem is for you to buy exactly the same hardware again.
To their credit, they now have an unofficial and unsupported fix... and it only took them a little more than a decade from the onset... Now that's a speedy response!
The solution is to basically extract all the drivers from a.CAB file on the hard drive, and add a load of registry entries that basically enables all 4 of them.
There are a few surprising things about this. First is how screwed you are if you don't know about this BEFORE your machine turns to mud, as you can't boot-up your system in order to add the necessary registry entries to begin with. Thanks to unofficial options like Bart'sPE and it's remote registry editor, you can spend a couple hours sorting out the mess, locating keys, copying, editing, and finally modifying the reg files so they can be added to the non-running system. EVENTUALLY, if you know enough about what you're doing, you can get it to work, and finally be able to boot-up your system.
The second surprising thing about this is that the problem is extremely serious, fixing it after-the-fact is extremely difficult even now, (it was borderline impossible before BartPE), yet the fix is minor and has no negative effects, and still, in the past decade of NT systems with this problem, Microsoft has NEVER made this behavior the default. The files and information are all already on the hard drive of every Windows system installed, the OS simply just won't consider using them.
For some reason Microsoft WANTS Windows to crash when you change the hard disk controller. ALL other hardware changes will be detected by the system, and proper drivers automatically installed by (recent versions of) Windows.
The number of registry fixes I add to any fresh Windows system to avoid bugs, stupid behaviors, bad defaults, and show-stoppers like this on, is absolutely staggering.
So you might be thinking to yourself, that sounds great, why don't we do that all year long?
Because then it wouldn't be DST, it would just be TIME. It would completely move us off the high-noon (sun) standard. You'd have a greater chance of getting up in the dark half the year, eliminating much of the benefits. And everyone would sooner or later just shift their schedules by 1 hour, completely eliminating any benefit at all.
After all, these companies aren't going to lose money for decades just to back a talking point to Congress.
You're missing the context. Oil companies AREN'T LOSING MONEY by failing to build new refineries. They are making more money by the very fact that there are less refineries.
So yes, they are only too happy to make more money, then tell Congress the "greens" are to blame.
The U.S. has some of the most polluting oil and coal burning plants because the vocal nut jobs won't let us build modern plants of any kind.
Actually, it's quite the opposite. When environmental regulations are improved, it's the industry that actively decides to stop building any new plants.
The best example of this is oil refineries. The last new plant was built decades ago, and construction of new plants stopped EXACTLY when stronger regulations would make them clean up their act. Then when they are forced to testify in front of congress, they blame their failure to build new facilities on the environmental regulations.
Retroactively applying new regulations to old facilities would entirely eliminate the problem. Grandfathering in old facilities is counter productive.
"vocal nut jobs" are always the scapegoat, of course.
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People say that a lot, but it has NO basis in reality.
You can pay ridiculous sums of money for some even higher-end video hardware, only to find that the $50 videocard was better supported, had better drivers, and generally outperformed the more expensive device.
I've seen almost as much "expensive" equipment fail as the cheapest stuff.
Price is no way to judge quality.
What hardware might that be?
There are 3rd parties developing drivers that work on Solaris, if you just look around.
For network cards, you can often find manufacturers officially supporting Solaris, and offering drivers for download. The BSD drivers are also commonly ported to Solaris, such as these: http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/
OSS offers soundcard drives for just about every popular card. It doesn't use the same API as Sun's native audio output, but most programs have no problem handling it (and some Linux-ported applications even _need_ OSS).
Sun offers a simple kit on their website to compile XFree86 drivers for Sun's commercial X11 server (with full display Postscript support). Or you can compile and use XFree/Xorg normally.
Your suggesting are inherently contradictory. If you're downloading a torrent, you can't power-down your CPU. Power management is getting better, but you'll never get near Suspend-level power usage with any CPU activity. Not to mention , when active, you need more power for accessing RAM. Your solid-state hard drive is not going to be an insignificant power drain. etc.
100% idle is different. However, at that, you wouldn't need advanced CPUs. You could have slightly larger ammounts of video RAM to keep the image on the screen (see OLPC), and put the system into Suspend mode. It only takes a couple seconds to resume when you hit a button, and start doing work again. Improvements in open source drivers (and open source firmware) could get that down even further.
That is an extremely narrow view of the food chain, which doesn't take everything into account, and isn't really applicable here.
First, try and name a plant that is 100% edible. EVERY food crop produces significant ammounts of cellulose, which can't be digested directly by humans, but can certainly be put to good use by herbivores. Goats in particular, REALLY will eat practically anything that biodegrades, and produce both milk and meat for human consumption.
While only 10% of the calories may be passed-on, much is left in dropping, which can be (and is) used to fertilize the next generation of crops.
People simply have a much easier time getting nutrition from meat than plants.
Not to mention the utility of skins and furs.
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There have ALWAYS been numerous theories, and numerous tests, which could explain a FEW of the properties of ball lightning, but never ALL of them.
A gas ball sounds good, except for numerous accounts of ball lightning traveling THROUGH solid objects (comming out the other side) all without causing ANY damage to the stationary object at all. How does burning silicon gas do that?
How does this burning gas ball slowly float inches away from people, and not cause them to feel the intense heat from the object?
And how does silicon gas (from a ground lightning strike) suddenly appear floating down the isle of a commercial aircraft in-flight?
Wow.
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I'd swear today I was looking at the
After a little searching, I've found the exact same story, from April 2001:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/28/21192
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
I look forward to reading this story on
If you pour antifreeze in your engine oil, and complain to the dealer about how confusing their cars are, you can bet you'll be seriously insulted... At least, if you're rude, and they can't brush you off quickly.
Doctors have about as much respect for their patients as farm vets do... You are cattle to them. If you decide to take Vitamin C instead of antibiotics, then complain to the doctor about how badly his treatment is going, expect to be insulted.
The number of fields where an incompotent and rude customer WON'T be insulted is definately the minority. There just happen to be MORE incompotent computer users, that are, as a rule, more rude and just simply obstinate in the face of reality. They don't know the limits of computers, so anytime they don't get the magical result they WANT, many of them they get upset about it.
It wasn't right a few years ago, WHEN IT MATTERED for DVD adoption.
In a few years, what you've said about HD-DVD won't be true anymore, either.
You're obviously in Europe. While my experience is based on the US. We don't have SCART today, let alone a decade ago. A/V inputs were uncommon on average (smaller) TVs until just a couple years before DVDs came into the picture. RF converters were being sold EVERYWHERE.
I haven't seen any HDTVs in stores for SEVERAL YEARS that didn't have HDMI inputs. My own HDTV is a couple years old now, and absolutely everything had at least one HDMI input.
Yes, and I already explained why you're completely wrong on both accounts.
Isn't that exactly what GM did with Saturn several decades ago?
A failed experiment that has just recently come to an end.
No, you couldn't, unless "whatever OS" only includes Windows and MacOS. It took many many years before licensed DVD player software appeared for Linux.
People without A/V inputs on their TV (which wasn't that long ago) had similar problems trying to play DVDs through their VCRs.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
MANY people were predicting that with DVDs as well... After all, nobody will accept copy protection like DVD CSS.
No, cooling is decidely more a motherboard layout issue.
Ducting is much more effecient than the current system of numerous, unnecessarily power fans, half-fighting each other for airflow. DEC and HP workstations demonstrated this quite well over a decade ago. They were able to do this, because they didn't bother with ATX...
With ATX, the components on the motherboard can move anywhere. You have no way of knowing where anything is going to be, or it's orientation. Companies can make their own ducting solution, but that limits them to their own spec'ed motherboards, rather than being able to throw anything ATX in there. And their customers are really screwed if they need to swap motherboards.
Not to mention you can't know if the case is going to place (hot) hard drives right in-front of (hot) motherboard components, which may be right in-front of a (hot) PSU. So, for an ATX system, you just have to have the loudest, fastest fans you can find, to ensure there will be enough airflow in the worst case.
The current model is just horribly ineffecient.
That's okay... The rest of the (Western) world doesn't like stuff made elsewhere, either.
That's why the majority of their music, and movies, were made in the US.
It would be only too ironic for music made in the US to be exported to the rest of the world, only to be streamed back to US listeners, due to utterly moronic copyright laws.
Your experience is seriously out-of-date, and just about the exact opposite of reality now.
1) The more batteries a device has, the more chance that there will be a problem. Anything that only uses 2 batteries will be fine. 4 should be okay as well. 6-8 and you've got a real issue. In that case, some higher-end devices have extra compartments for extra rechargable batteries. On my Sega Nomad, I added a couple myself.
2) Panasonic's NiCD batteries are rated at 1.25 volts, which helps.
3) Alkaline batteries offer lower voltages over time, as they become drained, so just about everything has to be able to operate on 1.2V anyhow, otherwise it will have horendous battery life. NiCD batteries, unlike Alkalines, will hold their 1.2V until they're almost completely drained. That works great in most modern devices, but is considered a drawback in flashlights because you get no warning.
4) But more than that. Modern Ni-MH batteries, though rated at 1.2V, really offer 1.5V (in my own tests) when freshly charged, and slowly go down, like Alkalines.
This hasn't been true for over a decade.
1) "High capacity" AA NiCDs from Radioshack (850mAH?) have just slightly less power than Alkalines, and have been sold for at least a decade now.
2) High Capacity AA Panasonic NiCDs (1100mAH) last as long or longer than Alkalines, DESPITE the lower voltage of NiCD.
3) NiMH AA batteries, as sold by Energizer and Duracell (2000+ mAH), last nearly TWICE as long as disposible Alkaline batteries.
1) True for NiCD, but absolutely not true for NiMH. NiMH batteries will hold their charge for months.
2) I haven't seen an always-on charger in well over a decade. So your experience is obviously very out-of-date, and not remotely applicable or helpful.
3) Recent batteries and chargers have gotten charge time down to 30 minutes, so unless you are in a situation desperately need a battery R
4) Leaving NiCD batteries constantly charging will significantly reduces their lifespan. That may have been causing some of the other issues you listed.
1) Really crappy NiCDs, under an extremely heavy duty cycle, may have the life you describe. The better ones will last far longer. And in more realistic usage, even the crappy ones will last far more than a year.
2) NiMH have no such problems. They'll last for many more years, and exhibit very little capacity loss.
Not true. With NiMH batteries, EVERYTHING I have is operating on rechargables.
Yeah, 20 years ago that was a real problem. Ever since, it's been trivially easy.
It's been overwhelmingly proven, time and time again, in study after study, that you save significant money, even with the cheapest, oldest rechargables.
Today, the situtation is worlds better, and extremely clear-cut.
Tell me, does your laptop computer operate on disposible Alkaline AA batteries, or does it use rechargeables? How about your iPod?
First you have to explain how the AACS DRM on HD-DVDs is any worse than CSS on DVDs...
Hell, it took several years before DVD-CSS was cracked.
Getting hundreds of thousands of people to change their schedule by an hour at exactly the same time...
No, no it wouldn't.
Now that's just incredibly cool... A rover with self motivation.
I can't wait for the next news story that Sojourner is driving around Mars, stealing parts off other rovers to repair and improve itself...
We may have the first Mars ghost story.
The ice cream scoop fell off my cone and landed in the dirt.
No terrorist organizations have yet claimed responsibility.
I agree. That, however, has nothing to do with the topic of discussion at hand (that the "vocal nut jobs" are to blame for everything).
This single statement actually supports several of the points I have made.
The timing (10 years) is just what I said.
The environmental regulations apparently aren't what is holding up the project.
It's being done by a start-up company, looking for private investment... Showing that it is economical, as well as demonstrating the utter lack of interest, by the current major players in the oil industry, in building a new plant at all.
Microsoft does some incredibly stupid things, for no good reason...
.CAB file on the hard drive, and add a load of registry entries that basically enables all 4 of them.
The most major and glaring idiocy in Windows is hard disk controller drivers. For this reason alone, I wouldn't ever suggest using Windows as a server (or on ANY type of system that is remotely important in any way).
If you take the hard drive out of one machine (perhaps after it has become a smoldering pile of metal and circuit boards) and install it in different system, there's an extremely good chance Windows NT3.1/NT3.5/NT4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista/etc. will BSOD. It will crash and burn before you can even boot into safe mode.
You see, for some reason, Windows has a different, incompatible driver for every different brand of controller. For IDE/SATA-based systems, there are basically 4 (VIA, Intel, etc.). Microsoft's only official solution to this problem is for you to buy exactly the same hardware again.
To their credit, they now have an unofficial and unsupported fix... and it only took them a little more than a decade from the onset... Now that's a speedy response!
The solution is to basically extract all the drivers from a
There are a few surprising things about this. First is how screwed you are if you don't know about this BEFORE your machine turns to mud, as you can't boot-up your system in order to add the necessary registry entries to begin with. Thanks to unofficial options like Bart'sPE and it's remote registry editor, you can spend a couple hours sorting out the mess, locating keys, copying, editing, and finally modifying the reg files so they can be added to the non-running system. EVENTUALLY, if you know enough about what you're doing, you can get it to work, and finally be able to boot-up your system.
The second surprising thing about this is that the problem is extremely serious, fixing it after-the-fact is extremely difficult even now, (it was borderline impossible before BartPE), yet the fix is minor and has no negative effects, and still, in the past decade of NT systems with this problem, Microsoft has NEVER made this behavior the default. The files and information are all already on the hard drive of every Windows system installed, the OS simply just won't consider using them.
For some reason Microsoft WANTS Windows to crash when you change the hard disk controller. ALL other hardware changes will be detected by the system, and proper drivers automatically installed by (recent versions of) Windows.
The number of registry fixes I add to any fresh Windows system to avoid bugs, stupid behaviors, bad defaults, and show-stoppers like this on, is absolutely staggering.
Because then it wouldn't be DST, it would just be TIME.
It would completely move us off the high-noon (sun) standard.
You'd have a greater chance of getting up in the dark half the year, eliminating much of the benefits.
And everyone would sooner or later just shift their schedules by 1 hour, completely eliminating any benefit at all.
You're missing the context. Oil companies AREN'T LOSING MONEY by failing to build new refineries. They are making more money by the very fact that there are less refineries.
So yes, they are only too happy to make more money, then tell Congress the "greens" are to blame.
EVERYTHING costs more money than doing nothing.
Years of construction delays are THE scapegoat, even though a very minor part of the process.
Not in the past decade.
Actually, it's quite the opposite. When environmental regulations are improved, it's the industry that actively decides to stop building any new plants.
The best example of this is oil refineries. The last new plant was built decades ago, and construction of new plants stopped EXACTLY when stronger regulations would make them clean up their act. Then when they are forced to testify in front of congress, they blame their failure to build new facilities on the environmental regulations.
Retroactively applying new regulations to old facilities would entirely eliminate the problem. Grandfathering in old facilities is counter productive.
"vocal nut jobs" are always the scapegoat, of course.