more likely to catch on than the gazillion Linux distros out there
But is it more likely to catch-on than Android?
The former should aim to be an FOSS XP, while the latter should aim to be an FOSS Windows 7. After all, Windows 7 loses some of its XP compatibility
They're targeting XP. There was a 64-bit version of XP, too. Re-targeting Windows 7 is exactly the kind of thing I expect them to do, but is a horrific and pointless idea all-around.
And you're still pretending this two-decades old project is going to go from pre-alpha to stable, tomorrow. In reality, they should be targeting "Windows 19" right now.
And remember, they won't be playing catch-up w/ Microsoft, since Windows 7 is good enough
And Windows XP was "good enough" before it...
Anyone can try to be a Red Hat to this software, and that alone will make them competitive w/ Microsoft.
Microsoft's relevance is quickly fading, so it's nothing to emulate. And copying/following someone else's platform is an inherently unwinable battle. Just ask Digital Research how their MS-DOS clone worked out, for instance...
The NT4 kernel is the base for 2000/XP/Vista/Win7/Win8/Win8.1
No, the NT6 kernel is the base for Win Vista/7/8/8.1. Of course that was based on the NT5 kernel from 2000/XP/2003. And that was based on the NT4 kernel from NT4.0. And the NT3.5 kernel is the base for NT4. And the NT3.1 kernel is the base for NT3.51.
And all of this has absolutely nothing to do with what I said. Regardless of what was based on what... ReactOS keeps changing their targets, and not getting anywhere.
It's an oddity, but why do we care about this project anymore? It started out back in '96 to be a clone of Windows 95. Then it was switched to be an NT4 clone. And every few years they update the website to say it's to be a clone of some newer version of Windows.
Meanwhile, it's still pre-alpha, (barely) runs on almost no hardware, and runs almost no programs. Wine is in a far better state. And in recent years, Windows' dominance has even been severely undermined by Android, providing a real, viable alternative OS that happens to be free and open source. And Linux has long since usurped it as the #1 server operating system. So after a couple decades of delays with almost no progress to be seen, ReactOS is on the verge of outliving its usefulness, before it ever started. Sort-of like GNU HURD for Windows fans.
There's plenty of open source OS projects out there that/. doesn't report on twice a year. Let's make ReactOS one of them!
I mean, is so hard to say that? that Islas Malvinas are 300 miles east of Argentina?
While that would be a slight improvement, Argentina spans over 1,000 miles north-south on the east-coastal region alone, so still not very specific.
If I was describing the location to somebody, I would call it "300 miles north-east of Cape Horn."
That seems much easier, obvious to folks without a strong background in prehistoric geography, and useful to real, normal people.
BTW, looking at the picture shown in the link, you can see how much closer is Islas Malvinas to Argentina than to other countries, like, for example, UK.
And? Alaska is closer to Russia and Canada than it is to the US. And let's not get started on the Philippines...
I should also mention that, yes, Plasma is one of those loop-hole cases, where most donors get a tiny amount of cash for their time. But any number of other factors can disqualify anyone from doing that.
And there's a good FDA write-up quite intelligently explaining the policy:
This assumes that you have a separate dryer, which assumes that you have space for a washer and a dryer...
I've looked-up combined washer/dryers, and they're incredibly expensive compared to separate units, which doesn't seem to match-up with your tiny, stolen refrigerator. And you can't really claim you don't have space, as you can always get a smaller and smaller (and stackable) washer/dryer pair.
(with a link that doesn't work)
That link is still working just fine.
When I moved house 3 years ago, I bought a new fridge and spent about 15% of that, including delivery.
I can't imagine how you did that... Even one about half that size is still $370. I'd be impressed to get a new mini-fridge or electric ice-chest (without freezer) for $75.
However, while an interesting distraction, that doesn't change my point in the slightest. If you've got a small refrigerator using less power, there's even less money (<$4) to be gained by your smart-grid idea. And with a lower-priced refrigerator, the cost of the additions would be even less-well hidden in the current price.
"Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep... This has been a test of the emergency broadcast system. If this had been an actual emergency, your TV would be engulfed in flames."
Most of the time when I run the washing machine, I want the clothes clean today, I don't care particularly when.
I'm pretty sure that's not true for nearly anybody else.
No idea when it's going to start washing means you have no idea when to go in and move them to the dryer. And since you have no idea when the dryer will start, you have no idea when you'll need to come and take them out. 9pm? 2am?
These delays will also be multiplied by how many loads of laundry you're trying to get done that day, making it a completely unworkable scheme for most households.
you can either advance or delay the chilling by quite a bit without affecting the temperature. You can also run the compressor and chill the coolant a bit in advance of needing it,
No. Unless you think 10 minutes is quite a bit of time. Fluctuations in ambient temperatures (day versus night), frequency of access, and items being added/removed will substantially change the interior temperatures in very short order. If the compressor doesn't come on RIGHT AWAY, you're going to very quickly have frozen items melting, and refrigerated items going above the proper temperatures, and spoiling more quickly.
And predicting the future is a similarly bad idea. The thermostat can detect a temperature rise, then a few minutes later, the temperature could drop below the target, as cold items are removed and re-added, or the thermostat is subject to stray warm air pockets. So when you turn on the compressor in advance, you either risk over-chilling the contents, or you store that cold somewhere, and don't utilize it before it warms again.
you'd likely recoup that in a year if electricity prices fluctuated by 10% during the day.
I can't imagine how you calculated that... Looking-up a basic $500 refrigerator, I see an EnergyGuide rating of $41/yr. A 10% savings would be $4.10. You can't add practically ANYTHING to the design of that refrigerator for $4, never mind extra computer controls that are going to plot and predict future power demands, and the data connection to interface with this smart grid to tell it when electricity is cheaper...
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To make things worse, someone modded-up my little rant, in agreement, almost immediately. Nothing I can do about that.
And yet you write like a 15 year-old...
Nothing you've said about it hasn't been repeated innumerable times, over a decade ago.
But is it more likely to catch-on than Android?
They're targeting XP. There was a 64-bit version of XP, too. Re-targeting Windows 7 is exactly the kind of thing I expect them to do, but is a horrific and pointless idea all-around.
And you're still pretending this two-decades old project is going to go from pre-alpha to stable, tomorrow. In reality, they should be targeting "Windows 19" right now.
And Windows XP was "good enough" before it...
Microsoft's relevance is quickly fading, so it's nothing to emulate. And copying/following someone else's platform is an inherently unwinable battle. Just ask Digital Research how their MS-DOS clone worked out, for instance...
Wine will do that job just fine... You only need ReactOS if you *want* to use video/audio/chipset/etc. drivers written for Windows.
FreeDOS got to BETA releases in 4 years.
ReactOS is still calling their code "alpha" after two decades, and even that's being too kind...
The ReactOS project is very likely OLDER THAN YOU...
No, the NT6 kernel is the base for Win Vista/7/8/8.1. Of course that was based on the NT5 kernel from 2000/XP/2003. And that was based on the NT4 kernel from NT4.0. And the NT3.5 kernel is the base for NT4. And the NT3.1 kernel is the base for NT3.51.
And all of this has absolutely nothing to do with what I said. Regardless of what was based on what... ReactOS keeps changing their targets, and not getting anywhere.
It's an oddity, but why do we care about this project anymore? It started out back in '96 to be a clone of Windows 95. Then it was switched to be an NT4 clone. And every few years they update the website to say it's to be a clone of some newer version of Windows.
Meanwhile, it's still pre-alpha, (barely) runs on almost no hardware, and runs almost no programs. Wine is in a far better state. And in recent years, Windows' dominance has even been severely undermined by Android, providing a real, viable alternative OS that happens to be free and open source. And Linux has long since usurped it as the #1 server operating system. So after a couple decades of delays with almost no progress to be seen, ReactOS is on the verge of outliving its usefulness, before it ever started. Sort-of like GNU HURD for Windows fans.
There's plenty of open source OS projects out there that /. doesn't report on twice a year. Let's make ReactOS one of them!
And now they've disappeared in a puff of logic.
While that would be a slight improvement, Argentina spans over 1,000 miles north-south on the east-coastal region alone, so still not very specific.
If I was describing the location to somebody, I would call it "300 miles north-east of Cape Horn."
That seems much easier, obvious to folks without a strong background in prehistoric geography, and useful to real, normal people.
And? Alaska is closer to Russia and Canada than it is to the US. And let's not get started on the Philippines...
Easily? Sure, it'll be really easy if we're okay with $0.50/KWh electric rates.
Germany ALREADY had incredibly high electric rates, and the subsidies for renewables drove them much, much higher still.
I should also mention that, yes, Plasma is one of those loop-hole cases, where most donors get a tiny amount of cash for their time. But any number of other factors can disqualify anyone from doing that.
And there's a good FDA write-up quite intelligently explaining the policy:
http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/BloodBloodProducts/QuestionsaboutBlood/ucm108186.htm
Except it's sorta completely illegal to pay someone for blood, tissue, or organ donations.
To be fair, there are some loop-holes, allowing "gifts" to donors, like so:
http://www.idle.slashdot.org/story/10/01/12/1713201/Bloodmobile-Offers-Beer-To-Blood-Donors
Do you know what a "sentence" is? I ask because I definitely quoted it in it's entirety, with the sole exception of omitting the period...
Let's try another quote:
In 1942: " Burckhardt added that since there was no place where they could be resettled, this could only mean one thing."
Except that really wasn't true, until Madagascar was recaptured by the British in November 1942:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan
That doesn't change the fact that being excluded from responsibilities is hardly persecution.
Your link says in no uncertain terms: "Unfortunately, documentary evidence is incomplete and leaves room for uncertainty"
That's not really persecution there... Being able to skip-out on blood drives and ditch military conscription seem like POSITIVES to me.
Now, if they wouldn't give TRANSFUSIONS *to* gay men, that would be something different entirely.
I've looked-up combined washer/dryers, and they're incredibly expensive compared to separate units, which doesn't seem to match-up with your tiny, stolen refrigerator. And you can't really claim you don't have space, as you can always get a smaller and smaller (and stackable) washer/dryer pair.
That link is still working just fine.
I can't imagine how you did that... Even one about half that size is still $370. I'd be impressed to get a new mini-fridge or electric ice-chest (without freezer) for $75.
However, while an interesting distraction, that doesn't change my point in the slightest. If you've got a small refrigerator using less power, there's even less money (<$4) to be gained by your smart-grid idea. And with a lower-priced refrigerator, the cost of the additions would be even less-well hidden in the current price.
$5.5 billion is a lot of money... however the USPS lost about $15.9 billion last year.
http://todaynewsgazette.com/usps-losses-2012/
Model S needs food badly.
Model S is about to die.
Wasn't that in the old EBS?
"Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep... This has been a test of the emergency broadcast system. If this had been an actual emergency, your TV would be engulfed in flames."
You don't know what you are talking about... adolf and I are old friends...
Yes you can!
mplayer -vo aa $FILENAME
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAlib
I'm pretty sure that's not true for nearly anybody else.
No idea when it's going to start washing means you have no idea when to go in and move them to the dryer. And since you have no idea when the dryer will start, you have no idea when you'll need to come and take them out. 9pm? 2am?
These delays will also be multiplied by how many loads of laundry you're trying to get done that day, making it a completely unworkable scheme for most households.
No. Unless you think 10 minutes is quite a bit of time. Fluctuations in ambient temperatures (day versus night), frequency of access, and items being added/removed will substantially change the interior temperatures in very short order. If the compressor doesn't come on RIGHT AWAY, you're going to very quickly have frozen items melting, and refrigerated items going above the proper temperatures, and spoiling more quickly.
And predicting the future is a similarly bad idea. The thermostat can detect a temperature rise, then a few minutes later, the temperature could drop below the target, as cold items are removed and re-added, or the thermostat is subject to stray warm air pockets. So when you turn on the compressor in advance, you either risk over-chilling the contents, or you store that cold somewhere, and don't utilize it before it warms again.
I can't imagine how you calculated that... Looking-up a basic $500 refrigerator, I see an EnergyGuide rating of $41/yr. A 10% savings would be $4.10. You can't add practically ANYTHING to the design of that refrigerator for $4, never mind extra computer controls that are going to plot and predict future power demands, and the data connection to interface with this smart grid to tell it when electricity is cheaper...
Oh, so now YOU pointed it out, huh? And here I though THAT SAME LINK WAS IN MY FIRST POST, WHICH YOU REPLIED TO.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4428845&cid=45380629
But since you're busy making-up imaginary "facts" all over the place, it really shouldn't surprise me at this point.
The janitor at the police station isn't law enforcement.
Sure... I'm in North West Ohio.
Yes. The EPA does.
Glad to hear that the article subby gets to learn about the subject AFTER posting a trolling summary.