Diesel engines would be a far better match than gasoline for American tastes (ie. lots of torque at low revs), I can't imagine why they don't use them.
Simple, there are 2 major issues that inhibit more widespread adoption of diesel engines in the US.
First, a diesel refueling infrastructure that would support larger usage of the fuel didn't exist in the states until recently and secondly, up until three to five years ago, the diesel engines sold in the US were quite simply shit. We never got any of the nice, clean, reliable, torque-happy engines on this side of the pond.
Please stop anthropomorphizing corporations. They get really pissed off when you do that.
I agree there was no corporate agenda to steal a dozen lines or so of code from the open source community. However, I could see the following:
1) Product A is behind schedule
2) Code Monkey B is under huge pressure to complete some feature for Product A. Luckily he finds some code on a blog which finishes off the routine he's working on. He doesn't perform due diligence to determine if this is GPL'd code or not. The blog doesn't provide references.
3) Manager C forgoes the code review process to ship Product A on time.
I have very little doubt that this is exactly what happened. This story is deserving of nothing more than a hanlonsrazor tag and migration off the front page of slashdot.
I upgraded my HP nc8430 from 9.04 to 9.10 on Monday and had a few problems. In the first day after the upgrade I had some stability issues, also the GRUB menu defaulted to an older kernel (2.6.28-14) so had to upgrade to GRUB2 to boot from the 2.6.30 kernel, which worked great. Touchpad wouldn't respond after that so I had to update the psmouse.modprobe file. ATI driver disabled my desktop effects and I couldn't fix it until I updated to GRUB2. Finally, pulseaudio had some issues, but nothing cleaning out the.pulse directory couldn't fix. Oddly enough, I'm seeing a slowdown in boot time compared to Jaunty, but I fully admit that's just a subjective opinion.
I don't really think that Karmic was ready for public release since while pieces of it are polished, these kind of issues would turn a new Ubuntu user off for one of those platforms that *shudder* just works. As has been previously stated, I think Canonical rushed it out the door to be available close to the Win7 release date.
That all being said, the upgrade still went smoother than reinstalling XP, Windows 2000, Vista, Windows98, Windows95, Windows 3.1....
Try thinking about your post from the other side. It's not that Iran is "demanding to be attacked" by Israel, it's that once the production facilities for a nuclear arsenal are in place, a preemptive strike doesn't seem to be all that bad of an option.
Look at it this way, assume Iran has an IRBM capability (which from the satellite launch article linked earlier it's fairly clear they do) and a large enough stockpile of enriched uranium for a few megaton-sized bomb.
Now, Israel launches a strike and destroys the uranium production facility, lots of people die, and the international community sanctions the hell out of them, and in a few years they all have a big clam bake and forget about it. All of their neighbors still want to wipe them off the map and their international reputation is somewhat damaged (or enhanced depending on who you ask).
So what happens if they do nothing while Iran makes nuclear weapon and pairs it up with an effective delivery system? Say the Iranian leadership gets it into their heads to bomb Tel Aviv, i.e. the city in Israel which has nearly all of their critical infrastructure. Lots of people die and the international community sanctions the hell out of Iran, however Israel effectively ends as a state because of the wholesale destruction of everything that allows it to function.
When given a choice between those two options (since, you know, a reasonable discussion of differences never seems to enter in to these situations) which do you think Israel will choose?
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Diesel engines would be a far better match than gasoline for American tastes (ie. lots of torque at low revs), I can't imagine why they don't use them.
Simple, there are 2 major issues that inhibit more widespread adoption of diesel engines in the US.
First, a diesel refueling infrastructure that would support larger usage of the fuel didn't exist in the states until recently and secondly, up until three to five years ago, the diesel engines sold in the US were quite simply shit. We never got any of the nice, clean, reliable, torque-happy engines on this side of the pond.
Please stop anthropomorphizing corporations. They get really pissed off when you do that.
I agree there was no corporate agenda to steal a dozen lines or so of code from the open source community. However, I could see the following:
1) Product A is behind schedule
2) Code Monkey B is under huge pressure to complete some feature for Product A. Luckily he finds some code on a blog which finishes off the routine he's working on. He doesn't perform due diligence to determine if this is GPL'd code or not. The blog doesn't provide references.
3) Manager C forgoes the code review process to ship Product A on time.
I have very little doubt that this is exactly what happened. This story is deserving of nothing more than a hanlonsrazor tag and migration off the front page of slashdot.
I upgraded my HP nc8430 from 9.04 to 9.10 on Monday and had a few problems. In the first day after the upgrade I had some stability issues, also the GRUB menu defaulted to an older kernel (2.6.28-14) so had to upgrade to GRUB2 to boot from the 2.6.30 kernel, which worked great. Touchpad wouldn't respond after that so I had to update the psmouse.modprobe file. ATI driver disabled my desktop effects and I couldn't fix it until I updated to GRUB2. Finally, pulseaudio had some issues, but nothing cleaning out the .pulse directory couldn't fix. Oddly enough, I'm seeing a slowdown in boot time compared to Jaunty, but I fully admit that's just a subjective opinion.
I don't really think that Karmic was ready for public release since while pieces of it are polished, these kind of issues would turn a new Ubuntu user off for one of those platforms that *shudder* just works. As has been previously stated, I think Canonical rushed it out the door to be available close to the Win7 release date.
That all being said, the upgrade still went smoother than reinstalling XP, Windows 2000, Vista, Windows98, Windows95, Windows 3.1 ....
Try thinking about your post from the other side. It's not that Iran is "demanding to be attacked" by Israel, it's that once the production facilities for a nuclear arsenal are in place, a preemptive strike doesn't seem to be all that bad of an option.
Look at it this way, assume Iran has an IRBM capability (which from the satellite launch article linked earlier it's fairly clear they do) and a large enough stockpile of enriched uranium for a few megaton-sized bomb.
Now, Israel launches a strike and destroys the uranium production facility, lots of people die, and the international community sanctions the hell out of them, and in a few years they all have a big clam bake and forget about it. All of their neighbors still want to wipe them off the map and their international reputation is somewhat damaged (or enhanced depending on who you ask).
So what happens if they do nothing while Iran makes nuclear weapon and pairs it up with an effective delivery system? Say the Iranian leadership gets it into their heads to bomb Tel Aviv, i.e. the city in Israel which has nearly all of their critical infrastructure. Lots of people die and the international community sanctions the hell out of Iran, however Israel effectively ends as a state because of the wholesale destruction of everything that allows it to function.
When given a choice between those two options (since, you know, a reasonable discussion of differences never seems to enter in to these situations) which do you think Israel will choose?