Given that the largest proportion of fuel is mixed in to run richly, so as to provide a heat sink to slow and cool the combustion (there was a reason we added lead and/or MTBE to gasoline) to prevent knock or melting the engine, we are effectively throwing out half the gas unburned, or rather, spewing it out in a deliberately inefficient fashion. Now, we could (and have) inject other liquids in with the fuels, but they do bring their own problems, not the least of which is having to maintain two consumables tanks.
Grapher is the "version" of Graphing Calculator that currently ships with Snow Leopard, I don't know if it's too clumsy for quick transcription. As for TeX based stuff... I gave up in-line typesetting in the eighties for both proper layout and old-school word processing... *shudder*.
Gee, and it only took how long for this to be taken seriously as an idea? How long ago did I read about this idea of recipient determined email "toll" charge? Almost 8 years?
Made sense then. See "Release: 2.0" (since updated to 2.something, I believe) for details.
WAAAAAAy back (ok, '98? 99?) A Telco in Edmonton was doing some technology trials in Edmonton and Calgary that didn't quite run fibre to the home, but it ran fibre past the curb, and Cat-5 into the home.
Over this came telephone, xDSL, Digital cable, movies-on-demand and sundry. then 1 or two years later the whole thing was buttoned up and packed away. It was a pretty suite setup.
Back in 1987, in my first year CS program at the U of Alberta, I remember vividly the instant I deciphered the cumbersome learned-by-rote commands used to deliver our PASCAL programming assignments to the compiler... Virtual punch card decks... It wasn't long after that that they finally retired the MTS system and the Amdahl it was running on in favour of some Unix boxes. Gaah. MTS...evil evil evil.
Actually, if sum up all the taxes, and then factor the user costs of health care in on both sides of the border, Canadian taxation rates (adjusted in terms of local cash/buying power in the local economy) work out to a figure within 10% of combined US taxes... (and that's 30% vs. 33%, not 30% vs. 40%).
Of course, these figures are from a few years ago, but come out of an Macro-Economics class at Waterloo University, and before this whole "Surplus, surplus, who stole the surplus" business you've got going now.
-vaalrus
(who is currently paying CAN $38.oo/mo for asymetric but happy broadband)
Ah, the return of one of the basic tennants of "Whatever the traffic will bear"... That is, what the other guy don' know will profit you. After This much economic flux among the vendors, is anyone surprised that these companies yearn for the days of localized markets and price fluidity?
Capitalism despises a level playing field like nature abhors a vacuum. When a fickle consumer can shave half a buck off a purchase with only the click of a mouse, and a switch of a vendor it's going to drive these guys nuts trying to figure out a new variant of "the prisoners dilemma" so they don't get left holding the zero sum.
There is significant difference in engineering a device to fly through deep space, and a device you wish to continue to function AFTER it has been thrown at a planet's surface... How many G's has Pioneer been subjected to since it was launched?
Subsidize? What do think this is? Softwood lumber?
If the Gvt. is subsidizing my DSL and Cable access (which I have the option to get without TV if I want, and I'm seriously considering...) I'd like to know about it. And get my cut.
Given the aggressive rate that telco's have been privatising and deregulating, I find the thought of gov't subsidies kinda amusing. Heck, even my formerly municipally owned telco was swallowed up by the Telus goliath, after just finished replacing their entire switching network to digital and fibre (and a darn clean 'last mile'). (How convenient for Telus).
I'm not sure what the re-sale value would be here. DSL access is fairly cheap and common (and high performance) here. 1.5 to 4Mbit Down,.5 to 1Mbit up are the norm, and the hardware included in your line rate for almost free(the telco "buy your modem at our store, plug it in yourself" package is about $100, but saves $5.oo/mo). Unless you get into high-end xDSL or symetric DSL, the hardware isn't an issue. The hard part is the occaisional wait for an open port in your neighborhood.
vaalrus - early adopter DSL-1997,(1.5Mbitx768k) Cybersurfer cable at home:1997 also (shared 8Mbit down, 640k up). both services ~$40/mo (CAN- so about U$25.oo)
The others just happen to be on the keyboard... where your other hand just happens to be resting, near the shift, control, option, and command keys, just waiting to be used in tandem with the the click of the other button, under your index finger.
On the other hand, if you want, third party mice are plentiful, and with the modifiers mapped to the physical buttons, go nuts. The OS is designed to take advantage of the "extra" buttons (that have been there all along). I've a logitech three button scrollwheel on my G4. Heck, I've got a kensington trackball that has four buttons.
The mouse button issue is dead arguement. Leave the fossil lay, and lets move on to more important issues.
Doesn't anyone read Asimov anymore? In an essay disecting timekeeping and the evolution of calendars (The Tragedy of the Moon, Abelard-Schuman,1973) he proposes a static calender that repeated four times throughout the year, making it seasonal based, and used "solar" and "leap" days to soak up the extra day that throws off a repeating sequence.
Lots of usefull implications in his calendar.
(see
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Larry_Fre eman/calendar.htm#Weeks
http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/asimov_y2k_991 230.html
Slashdot Mirror
Given that the largest proportion of fuel is mixed in to run richly, so as to provide a heat sink to slow and cool the combustion (there was a reason we added lead and/or MTBE to gasoline) to prevent knock or melting the engine, we are effectively throwing out half the gas unburned, or rather, spewing it out in a deliberately inefficient fashion. Now, we could (and have) inject other liquids in with the fuels, but they do bring their own problems, not the least of which is having to maintain two consumables tanks.
Grapher is the "version" of Graphing Calculator that currently ships with Snow Leopard, I don't know if it's too clumsy for quick transcription. As for TeX based stuff... I gave up in-line typesetting in the eighties for both proper layout and old-school word processing... *shudder*.
Gee, and it only took how long for this to be taken seriously as an idea? How long ago did I read about this idea of recipient determined email "toll" charge? Almost 8 years?
Made sense then. See "Release: 2.0" (since updated to 2.something, I believe) for details.
"Zero to seven? What about the Slashdot crowd?"
:)
I dunno, that seems to sum up the intellectual average of most posts... Slashdot is still firmly in the target niche.
Hyperlinking is unauthorized communication, citizen, and therefore treason. You AND your next two clones report for termination immediately.
WAAAAAAy back (ok, '98? 99?) A Telco in Edmonton was doing some technology trials in Edmonton and Calgary that didn't quite run fibre to the home, but it ran fibre past the curb, and Cat-5 into the home.
Over this came telephone, xDSL, Digital cable, movies-on-demand and sundry. then 1 or two years later the whole thing was buttoned up and packed away. It was a pretty suite setup.
Back in 1987, in my first year CS program at the U of Alberta, I remember vividly the instant I deciphered the cumbersome learned-by-rote commands used to deliver our PASCAL programming assignments to the compiler... Virtual punch card decks... It wasn't long after that that they finally retired the MTS system and the Amdahl it was running on in favour of some Unix boxes. Gaah. MTS...evil evil evil.
Aww, gee fish, you mean you miss the rrRRRrRRrRoCK!?
Actually, if sum up all the taxes, and then factor the user costs of health care in on both sides of the border, Canadian taxation rates (adjusted in terms of local cash/buying power in the local economy) work out to a figure within 10% of combined US taxes... (and that's 30% vs. 33%, not 30% vs. 40%). Of course, these figures are from a few years ago, but come out of an Macro-Economics class at Waterloo University, and before this whole "Surplus, surplus, who stole the surplus" business you've got going now. -vaalrus (who is currently paying CAN $38.oo/mo for asymetric but happy broadband)
Ah, the return of one of the basic tennants of "Whatever the traffic will bear"... That is, what the other guy don' know will profit you. After This much economic flux among the vendors, is anyone surprised that these companies yearn for the days of localized markets and price fluidity? Capitalism despises a level playing field like nature abhors a vacuum. When a fickle consumer can shave half a buck off a purchase with only the click of a mouse, and a switch of a vendor it's going to drive these guys nuts trying to figure out a new variant of "the prisoners dilemma" so they don't get left holding the zero sum.
There is significant difference in engineering a device to fly through deep space, and a device you wish to continue to function AFTER it has been thrown at a planet's surface... How many G's has Pioneer been subjected to since it was launched?
Subsidize? What do think this is? Softwood lumber? If the Gvt. is subsidizing my DSL and Cable access (which I have the option to get without TV if I want, and I'm seriously considering...) I'd like to know about it. And get my cut. Given the aggressive rate that telco's have been privatising and deregulating, I find the thought of gov't subsidies kinda amusing. Heck, even my formerly municipally owned telco was swallowed up by the Telus goliath, after just finished replacing their entire switching network to digital and fibre (and a darn clean 'last mile'). (How convenient for Telus).
I'm not sure what the re-sale value would be here. DSL access is fairly cheap and common (and high performance) here. 1.5 to 4Mbit Down, .5 to 1Mbit up are the norm, and the hardware included in your line rate for almost free(the telco "buy your modem at our store, plug it in yourself" package is about $100, but saves $5.oo/mo). Unless you get into high-end xDSL or symetric DSL, the hardware isn't an issue. The hard part is the occaisional wait for an open port in your neighborhood.
vaalrus - early adopter DSL-1997,(1.5Mbitx768k) Cybersurfer cable at home:1997 also (shared 8Mbit down, 640k up). both services ~$40/mo (CAN- so about U$25.oo)
The others just happen to be on the keyboard... where your other hand just happens to be resting, near the shift, control, option, and command keys, just waiting to be used in tandem with the the click of the other button, under your index finger. On the other hand, if you want, third party mice are plentiful, and with the modifiers mapped to the physical buttons, go nuts. The OS is designed to take advantage of the "extra" buttons (that have been there all along). I've a logitech three button scrollwheel on my G4. Heck, I've got a kensington trackball that has four buttons. The mouse button issue is dead arguement. Leave the fossil lay, and lets move on to more important issues.
Doesn't anyone read Asimov anymore? In an essay disecting timekeeping and the evolution of calendars (The Tragedy of the Moon, Abelard-Schuman,1973) he proposes a static calender that repeated four times throughout the year, making it seasonal based, and used "solar" and "leap" days to soak up the extra day that throws off a repeating sequence. Lots of usefull implications in his calendar. (see http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Larry_Fre eman/calendar.htm#Weeks
http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/asimov_y2k_991 230.html