Actually there is a significant amount of waste even from switchgrass ethanol production:
Lignin and protein, two important co-products, have the potential to significantly improve the economics of biorefineries. Lignin is a non-fermentable residue from the hydrolysis process. It has an energy content similar to coal and is employed to power the operation, thereby reducing production costs. "There is enough residue [lignin] left over to meet the energy needs of the process plus make additional ethanol or electricity," says Eric Larson, a research engineer at the Princeton Environmental Institute.
It seems that every discussion I've seen on the environment is a 'pick one technology over the other' argument. There is no one 'silver bullet' technology to our environmental or efficiency problems.
Why can't we take a measured approach that includes both technologies?
In this case, the study completely ignored the possibility of using an acre of switchgrass as an ethanol feedstock and then using the resulting 'waste' as a fuel to produce electricity.
As another example, what about harvesting corn as a foodstock, then using the leftover stover as an ethanol feedstock and finally using whatever is left for electricity generation?
Am I the only one who sees the synergestic possibilities?
Am I the only person on/. that thinks that both sides of this issue needs extremist?
I have no desire to live in a world that has no Copyright, no Trademarks and no Patent System, but I fully support this effort.
The Piratpartiet will never achieve it's stated goals because they are unreasonable. Their extreme view exists solely to counter the lopsided environment we are currently in. Democracy (if it is working correctly) will force the two sides into a compromise that will create a balanced framework that benefits everybody.
As an example, not many people like the world that RMS wants. But without his voice, Open Source Software would not thrive as it does today.
Intel originally issued the Pentium2 in a cartridge style using the 'Slot 1' interface. Intel stated that they would not change back to sockets. The major reason for the change was to move the L2 cache off the main processor die to improve manufacturing yields. AMD followed suit and announced 'Slot A' which was physically, but not electrically the same. Both AMD and Intel found that the overall system costs were substantially more that socket based processors and changed back to sockets within a few years.
I can understand that the second generation chips support unbuffered RAM, but why would that be important? Given that it's hard to find a FX chip in the first place, how long should we expect to wait for a second generation chip?
I'm not trying to be a smart-ass here, but I am looking at purchasing about 32 FX-based machines (the big draw is future 64-bit compatibility and >4GB RAM in our lab).
Unbuffered RAM has much lower latencies which in turn improves performance. Also, unbuffered, non-ECC RAM has a much lower price.
The initial impression that I received was that AMD is ready to go, and waiting on the third party chipset manufacturers (VIA, NVidia). We should see the 2nd generation AlthonFX and Athlon64 by the end of 2004Q2.
If you are in need of AMD64 platform immediately, I would recommend going with the Opteron 24x series since the processor cores are all currently identical. The price is half as much as the AthlonFX and the same or less than the Opteron 14x series. Also, when you retire these workstations, you can use the Opteron 24x processors in dual CPU 940-pin motherboards which will be fully supported for at least the next 3-5 years.
Here is a quick summary of the AMD64 line. It comes directly from an AMD Engineer working on the AMD64 projects. His recommendation was to wait for the 2nd generation motherboard chipsets sporting the 939-pin sockets.
Current parts
The processor cores for Athlon64/AthlonFX/Opteron are currently all the same.
Opteron
940-pin Socket
Dual channel DDR registered/ECC required.
84X series are 1/2/4/8 way system certified.
24X series are 1/2 way system certified.
14X series are 1 way system certified ( same as AthlonFX51).
Athlon FX
940-pin Socket
The FX is simply a relabeled Opteron chip. This chip has pinout for dual channel DDR (needs to be registered/ECC and I believe buffered, yuck)
Athlon64
754-pin Socket
Opteron 14X but with single channel DDR
Athlon64 comes in the 754 pin package now but only supports single channel DDR but can use unbuffered standard DDR.
Future parts
939 package Athlon64/FX is a new pinout to support dual channel unbuffered DDR, allows for 4 layer PCB motherboards (cheaper to make boards) and a faster HyperTransport external link.
Drill Hammer
512kB cache instead of the 1MB on current products. Packaging should be same as other chips (754/939).
Claw Hammer
256kB cache instead of the 1MB on current products. Packaging should be same as other chips (754/939).
Now all we need is a way to embed an ISO image of a Linux system into the web page and use the same exploit to install an alternative operating system. Just think of the banner ads! "Click here to Install Linux!" and "Get That Windows Monkey Off Your Back! Hit the Monkey to Try!" and "Eliminate Windows Instabilities Forever. Click Now!". Then it won't be malicious. It'll be setting all those people FREE!;^D
You look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.
Wouldn't it make sense to have the "firewall" on the borders of your network, rather than in the middle?
The most common implimentation is to use a single firewall to protect a network. This configuration also provides a single point of failure. If a cracker can get past the single firewall, he can mount attacks on any internal systems.
With a firewall on every machine and a general network firewall, you have a layered defense that is exponentially harder to subvert. It will also help stop internal attacks by employees, which are much more likely to succeed than external attacks.
The main reason that per machine firewalls are not a common practice is the administration overhead for a heterogenous network. Putting the firewall in an OS independant and inexpensive hardware implimentation might change this.
Among others with PAC experience, you might want to talk to Bruce Perens. (The real one, that is.) This idea is somewhat aligned with the original intent behind the now-defunct technocrat.net.
Perhaps this is the time to revive technocrat.net. Using what Perens had already started would give this new PAC a good jump start.
Personally, I would love to see artists and actors donating thier money made from the enterainment industry for a TV ad campaign against the RIAA and MPAA that supposedly represents them.
then again, isnt that what intel got bashed for doing with their p4? i'm not sure on the specifics of the why's how's and when's of p4's power throttle, all i remember is people pointing at p4 and saying "bad". Doesnt sound so bad now tho.
Intel wasn't bashed for including the power throttle. They were bashed for the poor design that engaged the throttle during normal operations. When the P4 is pushed hard, it responds by reducing the amount of work it does to reduce heat. This means that its performance specs are in excess of the heat dissipation specs. This should never happen in a well designed processor. If Intel had properly engineered the P4, the only time the power throttle should be engaged is during an emergency, like a fan failure.
This problem discussed in the article is better solved by the type of licensing model Microsoft plans to adopt: subscription software. That way, you always have the latest, least buggy version of the software you use without having to shell out for a new copy, and the corporation that writes the software is motivated to eliminate bugs, rather than leave them in so they can sell you the new version. This way, you have all the advantages of open source, yet you can take comfort in the fact that your software is written by professionals.
This sounds a lot like Debian Linux, but without the subscription charge.
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I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought about this quote from Nostrodamus. I'm just glad that my vision of a nuclear attack against New York hasn't come true...yet.
NO. They should have arrested him in the middle of the presentation for maximum effect, and yes they can warn him but are under no burden to do so. However, it is unlikely that they were even present at the conference (in this capacity)-- and even if they were, maybe once they saw this complex and new "crime" being committed they felt they should wait for the okay from their own FBI lawyers (rather than the Adobe jackals) before proceeding.
Arresting him during his presentation would have been disastrous. I was at DefCon9. If the FBI were to attempt to arrest him during the presentation, they would have had to deal with over 500 people who would attempt to "protect" him.
This was proven during the Social Engineering competition. Due to feedback, the phone being used for the calls was moved out of the auditorium tent to the open rooftop. Humperdink, from dunkenwhores.com, was approached by two FBI agents outside when he announced that he was going to call the local FBI field office and report that aliens where speaking to him inside his head. The agents informed him that falsifying a report would lead to his arrest. The word that Humperdink would be arrested made its way back into the auditorium and literally EMPTIED the seats as people ran to put themselves between Humperdink and the agents. Were the agents right? Of course, but making an arrest with 5000 anti-authority hackers around is not a wise move.
Thanks go out to Priest who defused that situation. Without him, DefCon9 would have made the national news as the starting point of very large riot.
2) If this copyprotection gains any notoriety, CD drive makers will immediately update their firmware to allow "dumbing down" the drive and "really RAW" grabbing of the audio data.
This could be a blessing in disguise. Allowing users (or programs) to allow truely raw data reading would break (or signifigantly weaken) every known CD copy protection scheme. I could finally make backup copies of all my game CDs so I won't damage the originals at LAN parties.
This could be a good move back towards fair use rights.
3. Of all the groups working on a nice MPEG-4 codec, we have seen many die, fizzle, or simply lie. OpenCodex.com is pretty much off the face of the planet and now their website is just some virtual hosting site. 3ivx has said they have a supperior product, and that it will be open source, so far both have been false. That leaves it to ProjectMayo -- the group started by the creator of DivX. They haven't released anything yet but they sure seem to be the most professional. Perhaps we can appeal to them to become open source.
You seem to have missed Heroine Virtual as an opensource alternative. They are the programmers behind XMovie, Broadcast 2000, and a new MPEG library that rivals MPEG-4 in it's bitrates and quality. Currently they are only supporting *nix OSes, but the program and lib sources are there if anyone wants to port them to other desktop dominant systems.
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Actually there is a significant amount of waste even from switchgrass ethanol production:
Cellulosic Ethanol.
It seems that every discussion I've seen on the environment is a 'pick one technology over the other' argument. There is no one 'silver bullet' technology to our environmental or efficiency problems.
Why can't we take a measured approach that includes both technologies?
In this case, the study completely ignored the possibility of using an acre of switchgrass as an ethanol feedstock and then using the resulting 'waste' as a fuel to produce electricity.
As another example, what about harvesting corn as a foodstock, then using the leftover stover as an ethanol feedstock and finally using whatever is left for electricity generation?
Am I the only one who sees the synergestic possibilities?
Am I the only person on /. that thinks that both sides of this issue needs extremist?
I have no desire to live in a world that has no Copyright, no Trademarks and no Patent System, but I fully support this effort.
The Piratpartiet will never achieve it's stated goals because they are unreasonable. Their extreme view exists solely to counter the lopsided environment we are currently in. Democracy (if it is working correctly) will force the two sides into a compromise that will create a balanced framework that benefits everybody.
As an example, not many people like the world that RMS wants. But without his voice, Open Source Software would not thrive as it does today.
All I could focus on while reading this article was "What would flash through the mind of the flowers as they turned red?"
"Oh no, Not again."
Intel originally issued the Pentium2 in a cartridge style using the 'Slot 1' interface. Intel stated that they would not change back to sockets. The major reason for the change was to move the L2 cache off the main processor die to improve manufacturing yields. AMD followed suit and announced 'Slot A' which was physically, but not electrically the same. Both AMD and Intel found that the overall system costs were substantially more that socket based processors and changed back to sockets within a few years.
Unbuffered RAM has much lower latencies which in turn improves performance. Also, unbuffered, non-ECC RAM has a much lower price.
The initial impression that I received was that AMD is ready to go, and waiting on the third party chipset manufacturers (VIA, NVidia). We should see the 2nd generation AlthonFX and Athlon64 by the end of 2004Q2.
If you are in need of AMD64 platform immediately, I would recommend going with the Opteron 24x series since the processor cores are all currently identical. The price is half as much as the AthlonFX and the same or less than the Opteron 14x series. Also, when you retire these workstations, you can use the Opteron 24x processors in dual CPU 940-pin motherboards which will be fully supported for at least the next 3-5 years.
Here is a quick summary of the AMD64 line. It comes directly from an AMD Engineer working on the AMD64 projects. His recommendation was to wait for the 2nd generation motherboard chipsets sporting the 939-pin sockets.
Current parts
The processor cores for Athlon64/AthlonFX/Opteron are currently all the same.
Opteron
940-pin Socket
Dual channel DDR registered/ECC required.
84X series are 1/2/4/8 way system certified.
24X series are 1/2 way system certified.
14X series are 1 way system certified ( same as AthlonFX51).
Athlon FX
940-pin Socket
The FX is simply a relabeled Opteron chip. This chip has pinout for dual channel DDR (needs to be registered/ECC and I believe buffered, yuck)
Athlon64
754-pin Socket
Opteron 14X but with single channel DDR Athlon64 comes in the 754 pin package now but only supports single channel DDR but can use unbuffered standard DDR.
Future parts
939 package Athlon64/FX is a new pinout to support dual channel unbuffered DDR, allows for 4 layer PCB motherboards (cheaper to make boards) and a faster HyperTransport external link.
Drill Hammer
512kB cache instead of the 1MB on current products. Packaging should be same as other chips (754/939).
Claw Hammer
256kB cache instead of the 1MB on current products. Packaging should be same as other chips (754/939).
You look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.
Apologies to the Wachowski brothers.
The most common implimentation is to use a single firewall to protect a network. This configuration also provides a single point of failure. If a cracker can get past the single firewall, he can mount attacks on any internal systems.
With a firewall on every machine and a general network firewall, you have a layered defense that is exponentially harder to subvert. It will also help stop internal attacks by employees, which are much more likely to succeed than external attacks.
The main reason that per machine firewalls are not a common practice is the administration overhead for a heterogenous network. Putting the firewall in an OS independant and inexpensive hardware implimentation might change this.
Perhaps this is the time to revive technocrat.net. Using what Perens had already started would give this new PAC a good jump start.
Personally, I would love to see artists and actors donating thier money made from the enterainment industry for a TV ad campaign against the RIAA and MPAA that supposedly represents them.
Intel wasn't bashed for including the power throttle. They were bashed for the poor design that engaged the throttle during normal operations. When the P4 is pushed hard, it responds by reducing the amount of work it does to reduce heat. This means that its performance specs are in excess of the heat dissipation specs. This should never happen in a well designed processor. If Intel had properly engineered the P4, the only time the power throttle should be engaged is during an emergency, like a fan failure.
This sounds a lot like Debian Linux, but without the subscription charge.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought about this quote from Nostrodamus. I'm just glad that my vision of a nuclear attack against New York hasn't come true...yet.
Arresting him during his presentation would have been disastrous. I was at DefCon9. If the FBI were to attempt to arrest him during the presentation, they would have had to deal with over 500 people who would attempt to "protect" him.
This was proven during the Social Engineering competition. Due to feedback, the phone being used for the calls was moved out of the auditorium tent to the open rooftop. Humperdink, from dunkenwhores.com, was approached by two FBI agents outside when he announced that he was going to call the local FBI field office and report that aliens where speaking to him inside his head. The agents informed him that falsifying a report would lead to his arrest. The word that Humperdink would be arrested made its way back into the auditorium and literally EMPTIED the seats as people ran to put themselves between Humperdink and the agents. Were the agents right? Of course, but making an arrest with 5000 anti-authority hackers around is not a wise move.
Thanks go out to Priest who defused that situation. Without him, DefCon9 would have made the national news as the starting point of very large riot.
This could be a blessing in disguise. Allowing users (or programs) to allow truely raw data reading would break (or signifigantly weaken) every known CD copy protection scheme. I could finally make backup copies of all my game CDs so I won't damage the originals at LAN parties.
This could be a good move back towards fair use rights.
3. Of all the groups working on a nice MPEG-4 codec, we have seen many die, fizzle, or simply lie. OpenCodex.com is pretty much off the face of the planet and now their website is just some virtual hosting site. 3ivx has said they have a supperior product, and that it will be open source, so far both have been false. That leaves it to ProjectMayo -- the group started by the creator of DivX. They haven't released anything yet but they sure seem to be the most professional. Perhaps we can appeal to them to become open source.
You seem to have missed Heroine Virtual as an opensource alternative. They are the programmers behind XMovie, Broadcast 2000, and a new MPEG library that rivals MPEG-4 in it's bitrates and quality. Currently they are only supporting *nix OSes, but the program and lib sources are there if anyone wants to port them to other desktop dominant systems.
A few examples of "Profound" Latin: