Not much detail in the article, but it doesn't sound like there's a compost heap INSIDE the car. Probably a compressed gas tank that you fill up from your compost heap at home. It all sounds like useless hype anyway. Biogas is mostly methane and other hydrocarbons. This car could just as easily fill up from your natural gas line at home, but CNG cars are old news. So let's call it "kompagas"! and all you'd have to do it collect 800lbs of vegetable waste a week instead of filling up 10 gallons of gas. I don't think an elephant even eats 800lbs a week.
Fuel cells are indeed an excellent mobile power source, but take off your green colored glasses for just a minute. It's true that water + electricity = hydrogen (the process is called electrolysis). And solar is by far one of the most expensive sources of electricity. Even with cheaper coal or oil generated electricity, electrolysis is not cost effective. Think about it. You're putting in the same amount of electrical energy back into the water that was released when the hydrogen and oxygen burned. The most commonly used process to generate hydrogen today is to crack it from hydrocarbons, usually natural gas.
If you're building a fuel cell car, I'd say the best bet is to use a mini chemical plant, called a reformer, to crack gasoline into hydrogen. Fill it up at any corner station and drive a 1000 miles on a tank.
You could say that users have an unreasonable expectation of support, and that is a direct result of the industry's marketing and promotion. They were sold an experience that was supposed to be fun and easy. Understandable from a marketing point of view because who else but geeks would buy computers if they weren't fun and easy.
To run with your car analogy. Technologically, computers today are about as mature as cars in the 1920s. Back then if you owned a car you had to be a good mechanic (or hire a chauffuer who was a good mechanic). You had to be an expert driver to attempt a long distance road trip because the roads were so primitive.
There may be two sides, but your argument essentially says "if you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about if we stop and search you". I know police have the right to ask you for license and registration when they pull you over. I have no problem with impounding a car if they stop someone for a real traffic violation and he has a suspended license or no insurance, but do they have the right to block the street and stop every single car to check papers?
These days, you have almost no constitutional protections in a motor vehicle. Cops will run roadside checkpoints on the thinnest of pretexts. Would you believe a Child Safety Seat Checkpoint? WHY DO YOU HAVE TO SHOW LICENSE AND REGISTRATION FOR A CHILD SAFETY SEAT CHECKPOINT? I've seen it in LA. If you turn around they'll pull you over. If you're papers aren't in order, they'll confiscate your car. And you thought we won the Cold War.
A 1Ghz tbird running at it's normal speed will burn up in 8 seconds without cooling. So if your clip pops off or if your heatsink isn't mounted exactly flat on the CPU, it's toast. It also doesn't help that the chip itself is very delicate and easy to crack, if you're not careful in mounting the heatsink. This was mostly a problem when people tried using Socket370 heatsinks with SocketA Athlons. It either didn't make full contact with the CPU or it was such a tight fit, it cracked the chip.
See here:
http://hardocp.com/articles/cooling/alpha&tbird/ in dex.html
>are the biggest gas pigs in this country.. We could help the envronment by NOT allowing
>cars with less then 30MPG to be on the road (thus FORCING manufacturers to get off the pots
>on this one
Fine, let's see you haul lumber or pull a boat in your 30mpg vehicle. Some people who own trucks actually have work to do. Dumbass.
You can't fight the marketplace by mandating minimum fuel economy standards. If gas is cheap, people will WANT to buy big cars. There's already a law called CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy), that mandates a fleet average of about 27.5mpg for cars (20.7mpg for trucks), with penalties if the average of all the cars you sell fall below that. It doesn't work. They build lots of small cars and practically sell at a loss just to keep their average up.
Just because farming is "natural", don't think it's all about ma' and pa' on the family farm. Family farms have been squeezed out by the brutal efficiency of industrialized farming. Having good lobbyists don't hurt either. See here for a case study on Archer Daniel Midlands:
Compaq's BIOS was a clean room implementation. One team read the books and disassembled the ROM and wrote the specs. The other team wrote the BIOS using only the first team's specs so that it wouldn't be tainted by IBM's intellectual property. Try a google search on "compaq reverse engineer ibm bios".
I remember the days when the Apple II user manual had the 6502 assembler source code to the ROM.
Now explain why US citizens flock to the borders (for those close enough to Canada or Mexico) to buy prescription drugs. US taxpayers subsidize drug R&D by funding lots of basic research, and yet we pay the highest prescription drug prices in the world.
But the real screamer is your claim of superior roads. Anybody who has driven in both Europe and America knows how absurd that is.
It all depends on how you compare them. European roads are usually more on the rustic side; narrow, winding and more challenging to navigate. There's a lot of cobblestone too. Not really a problem for them because their drivers have such better training. However, the quality of their paving is so much better. Even in relatively wealthy US neighborhoods, I've seen horrible potholed, cratered roads, and forget about the less wealthy parts of town.
Or if you really want to confuse their algorithm, edit together different songs to make medley mixes. Like 20 sec of Britney Spears, 20 sec of Metallica, 20 sec of Lawrence Welk, 20 sec of techno, etc. etc. It shouldn't be too hard to automate the process.
There's really four possible scenarios with this work for hire question:
1) You are employed by the university as a programmer writing internal administrative software.
2) You are a grad student writing software directly related to research for your thesis. The difference between this and the last is that you're not paid by the hour for this work, so it is harder to distinguish between work and non-work hours.
3) You are coding for personal projects on university-owned equipment.
4) You are coding for personal projects on your own equipment.
I took a look at underdogs and they have removed the download links on all IDSA companies's games and replaced it with something along the lines of:"please contact the original publisher to buy this title".
I would suggest everybody do this whether you actually want to buy the game or not. As other people pointed out, publishers hate old games because they're nightmares to support, especially on new systems (remember conventional mem, EMS, XMS, DOS mouse drivers?). Tech support is a big expense, and their call centers are usually poorly staffed as it is. If their phone banks get slashdotted and callers asked to buy some long forgotten game and specifically mention theunderdogs.org and IDSA, there just might be some backlash from the member companies.
I tried the same thing. Loopback encrypted/home on a samba server. I know the cleartext network traffic and the windows client defeats the purpose somewhat, but I was more worried about someone burglarizing my computer than breaking into my network while it was running.
-Performance wasn't bad on a K6-2 400. With 128bit Serpent I got 1 MB/s vs 4.5 MB/s for unencrypted files.
-The 2GB filesize limit means you can't make one big loopback filesystem for the whole disk.
-Patching and recompiling the losetup and mount utilities (part of linux-utils) is a pain. Make sure the linux-utils version exactly matches the one that the patch has.
Meaning you own it. And they can put NO restirictions on that ownership, including forcible eula's.
Would this also apply to unsolicited software sent through the mail? Say for instance.... free AOL software? My free AOL coaster happens to have Internet Explorer and some other stuff on it. Would anybody be interested in a copy of IE that was exempt from the EULA? As I understand it, in the absence of a license agreement, only copyright law will apply.
Meaning that by adopting a definition of what punk rock was, they thereby caused it to no longer exist? What a strange concept. Is this sort of like not being able to determine the exact location and energy of an electron at the same time?
No, what he means is that the power of a symbol is diluted and weakened when it's turned into a mainstream fashion statement. Back in the 50's ONLY bikers wore leather jackets. It was a very powerful symbol, and wearing one would get you ostracized from any "respectable" social circles. Has anybody experienced the stigma of wearing a leather jacket recently? You can see the same thing happening with baggy pants, body piercings, and colored hair. What was hardcore is now a fashion statement.
Don't be so smug on your BSD license high horse. The suits will still find a way to besmirch it. As one of its few conditions, the BSD license requires that you acknowledge the original authors in your copyright notice and AT&T couldn't even follow that. They incorporated BSD code into their System V Unix and claimed it was their own work. Here's a little Unix history lesson:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/ kirkmck.html
Is the concern over the fact that Sun isn't shipping the driver source with the driver binaries? Assuming that this is the only concern, does anyone really care? Unless they've changed the source,
The problem is that any developer porting Linux code using this toolkit probably WILL have to change the source thus making it a derivative work. I'd be very impressed if Sun's cross compiler can port Linux code with no patches required at all.
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Not much detail in the article, but it doesn't sound like there's a compost heap INSIDE the car. Probably a compressed gas tank that you fill up from your compost heap at home. It all sounds like useless hype anyway. Biogas is mostly methane and other hydrocarbons. This car could just as easily fill up from your natural gas line at home, but CNG cars are old news. So let's call it "kompagas"! and all you'd have to do it collect 800lbs of vegetable waste a week instead of filling up 10 gallons of gas. I don't think an elephant even eats 800lbs a week.
Fuel cells are indeed an excellent mobile power source, but take off your green colored glasses for just a minute. It's true that water + electricity = hydrogen (the process is called electrolysis). And solar is by far one of the most expensive sources of electricity. Even with cheaper coal or oil generated electricity, electrolysis is not cost effective. Think about it. You're putting in the same amount of electrical energy back into the water that was released when the hydrogen and oxygen burned. The most commonly used process to generate hydrogen today is to crack it from hydrocarbons, usually natural gas.
If you're building a fuel cell car, I'd say the best bet is to use a mini chemical plant, called a reformer, to crack gasoline into hydrogen. Fill it up at any corner station and drive a 1000 miles on a tank.
You could say that users have an unreasonable expectation of support, and that is a direct result of the industry's marketing and promotion. They were sold an experience that was supposed to be fun and easy. Understandable from a marketing point of view because who else but geeks would buy computers if they weren't fun and easy.
To run with your car analogy. Technologically, computers today are about as mature as cars in the 1920s. Back then if you owned a car you had to be a good mechanic (or hire a chauffuer who was a good mechanic). You had to be an expert driver to attempt a long distance road trip because the roads were so primitive.
There may be two sides, but your argument essentially says "if you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about if we stop and search you". I know police have the right to ask you for license and registration when they pull you over. I have no problem with impounding a car if they stop someone for a real traffic violation and he has a suspended license or no insurance, but do they have the right to block the street and stop every single car to check papers?
These days, you have almost no constitutional protections in a motor vehicle. Cops will run roadside checkpoints on the thinnest of pretexts. Would you believe a Child Safety Seat Checkpoint? WHY DO YOU HAVE TO SHOW LICENSE AND REGISTRATION FOR A CHILD SAFETY SEAT CHECKPOINT? I've seen it in LA. If you turn around they'll pull you over. If you're papers aren't in order, they'll confiscate your car. And you thought we won the Cold War.
A 1Ghz tbird running at it's normal speed will burn up in 8 seconds without cooling. So if your clip pops off or if your heatsink isn't mounted exactly flat on the CPU, it's toast. It also doesn't help that the chip itself is very delicate and easy to crack, if you're not careful in mounting the heatsink. This was mostly a problem when people tried using Socket370 heatsinks with SocketA Athlons. It either didn't make full contact with the CPU or it was such a tight fit, it cracked the chip.
/ in dex.html
See here:
http://hardocp.com/articles/cooling/alpha&tbird
>are the biggest gas pigs in this country.. We could help the envronment by NOT allowing
>cars with less then 30MPG to be on the road (thus FORCING manufacturers to get off the pots
>on this one
Fine, let's see you haul lumber or pull a boat in your 30mpg vehicle. Some people who own trucks actually have work to do. Dumbass.
You can't fight the marketplace by mandating minimum fuel economy standards. If gas is cheap, people will WANT to buy big cars. There's already a law called CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy), that mandates a fleet average of about 27.5mpg for cars (20.7mpg for trucks), with penalties if the average of all the cars you sell fall below that. It doesn't work. They build lots of small cars and practically sell at a loss just to keep their average up.
Just because farming is "natural", don't think it's all about ma' and pa' on the family farm. Family farms have been squeezed out by the brutal efficiency of industrialized farming. Having good lobbyists don't hurt either. See here for a case study on Archer Daniel Midlands:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-241.html
Or more likely a TNT2 M64. This was the cheap ass ghetto version with the 64bit memory bus. Even slower than the original TNT2.
Compaq's BIOS was a clean room implementation. One team read the books and disassembled the ROM and wrote the specs. The other team wrote the BIOS using only the first team's specs so that it wouldn't be tainted by IBM's intellectual property. Try a google search on "compaq reverse engineer ibm bios".
I remember the days when the Apple II user manual had the 6502 assembler source code to the ROM.
This is security based on a trusted client, the file viewer. If there's any way at all to tamper with the client, the security model breaks down.
Now explain why US citizens flock to the borders (for those close enough to Canada or Mexico) to buy prescription drugs. US taxpayers subsidize drug R&D by funding lots of basic research, and yet we pay the highest prescription drug prices in the world.
It all depends on how you compare them. European roads are usually more on the rustic side; narrow, winding and more challenging to navigate. There's a lot of cobblestone too. Not really a problem for them because their drivers have such better training. However, the quality of their paving is so much better. Even in relatively wealthy US neighborhoods, I've seen horrible potholed, cratered roads, and forget about the less wealthy parts of town.
Or if you really want to confuse their algorithm, edit together different songs to make medley mixes. Like 20 sec of Britney Spears, 20 sec of Metallica, 20 sec of Lawrence Welk, 20 sec of techno, etc. etc. It shouldn't be too hard to automate the process.
Doom for sysadmins
There's really four possible scenarios with this work for hire question:
1) You are employed by the university as a programmer writing internal administrative software.
2) You are a grad student writing software directly related to research for your thesis. The difference between this and the last is that you're not paid by the hour for this work, so it is harder to distinguish between work and non-work hours.
3) You are coding for personal projects on university-owned equipment.
4) You are coding for personal projects on your own equipment.
I have but one word:
Freejack
I would suggest everybody do this whether you actually want to buy the game or not. As other people pointed out, publishers hate old games because they're nightmares to support, especially on new systems (remember conventional mem, EMS, XMS, DOS mouse drivers?). Tech support is a big expense, and their call centers are usually poorly staffed as it is. If their phone banks get slashdotted and callers asked to buy some long forgotten game and specifically mention theunderdogs.org and IDSA, there just might be some backlash from the member companies.
Ooohhhh... a Prelude
Can I suck your dick?
Gamecenter did another story about the the top 10 worst of all time.
1 0worst
http://www.gamecenter.com/Features/Exclusives/Top
I tried the same thing. Loopback encrypted /home on a samba server. I know the cleartext network traffic and the windows client defeats the purpose somewhat, but I was more worried about someone burglarizing my computer than breaking into my network while it was running.
-Performance wasn't bad on a K6-2 400. With 128bit Serpent I got 1 MB/s vs 4.5 MB/s for unencrypted files.
-The 2GB filesize limit means you can't make one big loopback filesystem for the whole disk.
-Patching and recompiling the losetup and mount utilities (part of linux-utils) is a pain. Make sure the linux-utils version exactly matches the one that the patch has.
here's some help for people who want to try it:
Linux kernel crypto patches
encrypted loopback HOWTO
Would this also apply to unsolicited software sent through the mail? Say for instance.... free AOL software? My free AOL coaster happens to have Internet Explorer and some other stuff on it. Would anybody be interested in a copy of IE that was exempt from the EULA? As I understand it, in the absence of a license agreement, only copyright law will apply.
No, what he means is that the power of a symbol is diluted and weakened when it's turned into a mainstream fashion statement. Back in the 50's ONLY bikers wore leather jackets. It was a very powerful symbol, and wearing one would get you ostracized from any "respectable" social circles. Has anybody experienced the stigma of wearing a leather jacket recently? You can see the same thing happening with baggy pants, body piercings, and colored hair. What was hardcore is now a fashion statement.
Don't be so smug on your BSD license high horse. The suits will still find a way to besmirch it. As one of its few conditions, the BSD license requires that you acknowledge the original authors in your copyright notice and AT&T couldn't even follow that. They incorporated BSD code into their System V Unix and claimed it was their own work. Here's a little Unix history lesson:/ kirkmck.html
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book
The problem is that any developer porting Linux code using this toolkit probably WILL have to change the source thus making it a derivative work. I'd be very impressed if Sun's cross compiler can port Linux code with no patches required at all.