I'll admit I don't visit auto manufacturer websites very often. Try InsightCentral. While it's mostly about the Insight it has some Civic Hybrid information too.
...rather than trying to force people to buy cars... try persuading them.
Consumers have clearly shown that they are not interested in higher mileage, lower-polluting cars, instead buying up low-mileage polluting cars with lots of horsepower. So unfortunately, we (as a society) need protection from our (as a society) preference for low-mileage, polluting cars. Tragedy of the commons and all that.
A higher tax on gasoline would force us to pay the true cost (including the externalities of pollution) for burning it. Consumers could still choose to pay more and pollute more, nobody would be forced. Or they could choose to buy a cleaner car, and get rewarded for it. It'd be like pollution trading schemes that the Bush administration has suggested.
All the car manufacturers are showing off green vehicle projects, but thats all they are, projects.
Agreed; concept cars like this, or GM's Hy-Wire, are interesting, but when vehicles like the Th!nk or the EV-1 are destroyed once their leases are up (without options for leasers to hang onto the vehicles), it's hard to take Detroit very seriously.
OTOH, I am pleased that Toyota and Honda continue to actually manufacture and ship the greenest vehicles we can buy (Toyota Prius, Toyota RAV4 EV, Honda Civic Hybrid, Honda Insight).
Unfortunately, all the green vehicles in the world won't do a bit of good if nobody buys them. Actual average fuel economy of all cars bought in the U.S. is currently as low as it was in 1980. To turn this around we either have to mandate better economy by raising the CAFE standards, or push it economically by raising the cost of gasoline with taxes, and then offset them by giving tax breaks to people who buy more fuel-efficient, less-polluting vehicles.
This is all quite interesting from a technical standpoint, but what can I gain as a user of Mail.app in MacOS X 10.2 (Jaguar) from this? My Junk filter catches spam and tosses it into a separate folder. I occasionally go through it and send the spam off to SpamCop. What I like about Mail.app is that it's easy to keep training by marking as Junk (for spam it failed to identify) or Not Junk (for occasional false positives). It seems to work well and doesn't require a lot of interaction from me except for interacting with SpamCop (my choice).
It doesn't catch all the spam, and it occasionally has a false positive. This will be true of any spam filter we implement, because spam continues to change. SpamAssassin runs on some of the mailservers I connect to, but it tends to perform worse than Mail.app. So until we can get each user's spam filter customized at the server, spam identification is going to have to stay client-based. It sounds like Paul Graham's tools are getting a little more efficient, but does any of this make a big difference for the end user?
Lots of Mac upgraders buy cards designed for Windows machines (they're cheaper) and flash them with Mac firmware. Maybe you could try the opposite, since most of the graphics cards bundled in Macs are dual digital output (one ADC and one DVI).
In his Dec 15th Cryptogram Bruce Schneier provides his argument against counter-attack, and there are some interesting reader responses to this in today's issue.
... and connect a stereo miniplug-to-RCA adapter from it to the analog ins on my receiver.
It gets better, we have some old multimedia Altec-Lansing "gaming" speakers (the ACS-56 ones I think) that I was going to ditch when I sold the machine they were originally connected to. With my wife's iPod, they gave us a fairly good stereo for a smaller room.
So what you're saying is that you'd like BOTH firewire AND usb ports?
Yes, because there's no reason for those low-power, low-bandwidth USB 1 devices to be on my FireWire chain, and the fact that they're on the USB 2 chain leads to problems (see the MacKiDo link I posted previously).
You mentioned parallel, serial, ps/2, and mouse ports. I agree, fuck that. But there's plenty of room on the existing PowerBook G4s for multiple FireWire and USB ports.
400 Mbps FireWire already carries better real-world bandwidth than USB 2, and unlike any version of USB it's also peer-to-peer, so your peripherals can communicate at high speeds without even going through the port on your PC. FireWire 2 is even better.
Well, good! What mouse needs to transmit data on the order of gigabits per second (IEEE 1394b specs with speeds of 0.8, 1.6, 3.2 Gbps which BTW also refutes your claim that its speed doesn't come close to Ethernet)?
Apple has it right. Use USB for low-power low-bandwidth serial devices like mice, most printers and scanners, and heck even Zip drives, and use FireWire for the high-bandwidth peripherals. The connectors are small enough that our laptops can handle multiples of each. So bring 'em all!
During the drought of the early 1990's, the City and County of Santa Barbara voted in both a connection to the California Water Project as well as building themselves a desalination plant (cost of $34 million).
Proponents hyped both as solutions to the crisis, even though the CWP never delivers to full capacity when it is most needed (during a drought), is much more expensive than was originally stated, and the desalination plant was never used yet must still be maintained yearly.
In fact, the largest proponents of the addition of state water and the desal. plant were developers, who saw a way around the county's long-standing moratorium on new water hookups (the county essentially running Mulholland's famous "whoever brings the water brings the people" in reverse to keep development at bay).
In general, Marc Reisner's "Cadillac Desert" is a good review for those interested in the politics of water in the West. The issues faced by the semi-arid West are starting to appear elsewhere in the U.S. as our population grows, and we would do well to learn the lessons of the past.
Cmon now. You can do MP4 audio-only files, just like an MP3 file is really an MPEG-1 (or is it 2? whatever), audio-only file. People have even started to compare them since QuickTime 6.0 came out.
Apple should start researching OGG, as it seems much more likely than MP3 to remain un-DRM-contaminated...
MP3 is already un-DRM-contaminated. For it to become contaminated, it would have to be changed, at which point I would argue it's not really MP3 anymore. And all the old MP3 files and codecs would still work just fine, unless Apple starts playing games with our software. And as you noted, Apple's cultural position is opposed to that.
It's my understanding that OGG is a good format, but my gut says is you're more likely to see MP4 support on the iPod first.
On Mac OS X, the password is stored as a standard Unix-style crypt hash with eight significant characters. It's no more or less secure than most other Unix-style systems that use this system...
AFAIK other Unix-style systems are using more than 8 characters, but let's ignore passwords for a moment because we're talking about something else.
My PowerBook G4 has 26 letters, 10 numbers, and 11 other characters I can type, for a total of 47. With the shift key, that's 94. Even if we charitably assume a strong password, 94^8 combinations is only 6.1e15, which is slightly worse than 53 bits of entropy.
So by putting the password in the keychain, even if it is a good one (and quite often it is not), we are left with a disk image which is less protected than conventional, weak 56-bit DES encryption.
Since you're putting the password in the keychain, and most user passwords are the same as their keychain passwords, doesn't this present a potential weak point? (I've often read not to put AES-128-encrypted.dmg passwords into the Keychain) How secure is the password database in MacOS X?
Actually, they do have a list of failed also rans. The list reads like corny science fiction: flying cars, faxed newspapers, videophones, 3d movies, nuclear bombs for digging/construction, interactive TV, and spaced-based solar power collectors.
No mention of iTunes anywhere. Am I vulnerable? What about my iPod? Were they tested as well? Couldn't find any mention at the links provided and no test mp3s to try out.
T2 flowed naturally from the end of T1 (moreso if you watch the T1 DVD and see the deleted scenes that explicitly name the factory where the first terminator was crushed). I'd always wondered "what the hell happened to those smashed bits of Terminator?"
Plus it sets up a classic time travel conundrum: Terminator goes back in time to kill the mother of its enemy, fails and is destroyed, but its broken bits become the very meme that result in the creation of Skynet. T2 twists that around so that another terminator has to terminate itself in order to prevent Skynet's creation.
T2 was also profoundly anti-violent (not non-violent, anti-violent) for an action film. It was the only Schwarzenegger film to date in which he killed no people (I would have said nobody but he did kill the T-1000 and himself). And Sarah's dream was pretty damn scary! T2 still stands as an all-time S.F. film favorite of mine.
T3 has none of that appeal. At best T3 looks like it could be good in the same way that Star Trek IV was. Fun, winking at itself. Probably best ignored by serious fans, and it could really really suck.
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... collating and de-duping is easy, but sorting appropriately after that is tough.
Nah! Just sort by the sum of the ranks, from lowest (lowest possible being 4 = 1+1+1+1) to highest, and then renumber. Give the tiebreaker to a particular engine that the user can choose, and let him exclude up to 3 of the search sites. Easy! Get to work.
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Are the four cookies taking up too much space...
I said at least 10. I wasn't kidding (stopped counting at 10 and there were >1 left). It just slows me down in the Mozilla cookie manager, which I check somewhat frequently. Given that Google can apparently store a lot of preference data in just one lousy cookie (see, it's not a space issue, its a convenience issue), there's no good reason for Hotbot to clutter my life with 10... so they won't, I ain't goin' there.
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A higher tax on gasoline would force us to pay the true cost (including the externalities of pollution) for burning it. Consumers could still choose to pay more and pollute more, nobody would be forced. Or they could choose to buy a cleaner car, and get rewarded for it. It'd be like pollution trading schemes that the Bush administration has suggested.
OTOH, I am pleased that Toyota and Honda continue to actually manufacture and ship the greenest vehicles we can buy (Toyota Prius, Toyota RAV4 EV, Honda Civic Hybrid, Honda Insight).
Unfortunately, all the green vehicles in the world won't do a bit of good if nobody buys them. Actual average fuel economy of all cars bought in the U.S. is currently as low as it was in 1980. To turn this around we either have to mandate better economy by raising the CAFE standards, or push it economically by raising the cost of gasoline with taxes, and then offset them by giving tax breaks to people who buy more fuel-efficient, less-polluting vehicles.
It doesn't catch all the spam, and it occasionally has a false positive. This will be true of any spam filter we implement, because spam continues to change. SpamAssassin runs on some of the mailservers I connect to, but it tends to perform worse than Mail.app. So until we can get each user's spam filter customized at the server, spam identification is going to have to stay client-based. It sounds like Paul Graham's tools are getting a little more efficient, but does any of this make a big difference for the end user?
Lots of Mac upgraders buy cards designed for Windows machines (they're cheaper) and flash them with Mac firmware. Maybe you could try the opposite, since most of the graphics cards bundled in Macs are dual digital output (one ADC and one DVI).
Well, they just showed a shot of him. Thick black glasses, flat top, blue Star Trek : TOS shirt, no hat.
And oh, the story? I liked it... inconsequential stuff that reminded me a bit of Sterling and his Leggy Starlitz character ("Zeitgeist," anyone?).
In his Dec 15th Cryptogram Bruce Schneier provides his argument against counter-attack, and there are some interesting reader responses to this in today's issue.
It gets better, we have some old multimedia Altec-Lansing "gaming" speakers (the ACS-56 ones I think) that I was going to ditch when I sold the machine they were originally connected to. With my wife's iPod, they gave us a fairly good stereo for a smaller room.
You mentioned parallel, serial, ps/2, and mouse ports. I agree, fuck that. But there's plenty of room on the existing PowerBook G4s for multiple FireWire and USB ports.
400 Mbps FireWire already carries better real-world bandwidth than USB 2, and unlike any version of USB it's also peer-to-peer, so your peripherals can communicate at high speeds without even going through the port on your PC. FireWire 2 is even better.
Apple has it right. Use USB for low-power low-bandwidth serial devices like mice, most printers and scanners, and heck even Zip drives, and use FireWire for the high-bandwidth peripherals. The connectors are small enough that our laptops can handle multiples of each. So bring 'em all!
FYI, an old but still accurate response to the announcement of USB 2.0 from David Every.
Proponents hyped both as solutions to the crisis, even though the CWP never delivers to full capacity when it is most needed (during a drought), is much more expensive than was originally stated, and the desalination plant was never used yet must still be maintained yearly.
In fact, the largest proponents of the addition of state water and the desal. plant were developers, who saw a way around the county's long-standing moratorium on new water hookups (the county essentially running Mulholland's famous "whoever brings the water brings the people" in reverse to keep development at bay).
In general, Marc Reisner's "Cadillac Desert" is a good review for those interested in the politics of water in the West. The issues faced by the semi-arid West are starting to appear elsewhere in the U.S. as our population grows, and we would do well to learn the lessons of the past.
It's my understanding that OGG is a good format, but my gut says is you're more likely to see MP4 support on the iPod first.
My PowerBook G4 has 26 letters, 10 numbers, and 11 other characters I can type, for a total of 47. With the shift key, that's 94. Even if we charitably assume a strong password, 94^8 combinations is only 6.1e15, which is slightly worse than 53 bits of entropy.
So by putting the password in the keychain, even if it is a good one (and quite often it is not), we are left with a disk image which is less protected than conventional, weak 56-bit DES encryption.
Since you're putting the password in the keychain, and most user passwords are the same as their keychain passwords, doesn't this present a potential weak point? (I've often read not to put AES-128-encrypted .dmg passwords into the Keychain) How secure is the password database in MacOS X?
Am I the only one who was hoping to see that someone had done a Mac version of a gingerbread case mod?
Actually, they do have a list of failed also rans. The list reads like corny science fiction: flying cars, faxed newspapers, videophones, 3d movies, nuclear bombs for digging/construction, interactive TV, and spaced-based solar power collectors.
Buy a case on eBay. I did a search for "g4 tower case" and there was one selling w/ power supply right now.
Give me full disclosure...
Plus it sets up a classic time travel conundrum: Terminator goes back in time to kill the mother of its enemy, fails and is destroyed, but its broken bits become the very meme that result in the creation of Skynet. T2 twists that around so that another terminator has to terminate itself in order to prevent Skynet's creation.
T2 was also profoundly anti-violent (not non-violent, anti-violent) for an action film. It was the only Schwarzenegger film to date in which he killed no people (I would have said nobody but he did kill the T-1000 and himself). And Sarah's dream was pretty damn scary! T2 still stands as an all-time S.F. film favorite of mine.
T3 has none of that appeal. At best T3 looks like it could be good in the same way that Star Trek IV was. Fun, winking at itself. Probably best ignored by serious fans, and it could really really suck.