Assume that, for the sake of easy math, the diesel is burning 2 gallons of fuel every 100 miles and the gasoline engine is burning 3 gallons of fuel in the same distance. Does this mean that, for the diesel to be "dirtier" it must produce 50% more NOx (nitros oxide ?) and ozone than the gasoline engine per mile driven? Does a diesel engine actually produce 50% more polutants per mile driven?
4. People talk about fuel cell cars constantly, but here's the thing; a fuel cell car will have to be a highly streamlined, possibly drive-by-wire, light-body device with electronic drive components and regenerative brakes; you get there by developing hybrids, not by skipping them.
Particularly insightful comment. For my fellow environmentalists who are still carping about "how there's still a gas engine in those things", at least they are a step in the right direction.
If I go 50 miles on a gallon of diesel or 30 miles on a gallon of gasoline how is it that the diesel is dirtier? It's not like gasoline engines have a little filter that you empty out over your flower beds every 10,000 miles, is it?
About 30 posts and no one has mentioned the Slate article. That had to be the funniest thing I've read in a while.
To summarize, residential neighborhoods in California (many places actually, but the author was in California) have inadvertently forbidden large SUV's from driving down thier roads because the SUV exceeds the gross weight limit (6000lbs) that defines a truck.
Now I'm just waiting for a politician with the conjones to enforce this law.
It's unfortunate that the parent is anonymous because this is a nice statement of one side of the argument.
To simplify; I work at McDonalds making french fries. In my own time I invent a fancy new deep fryer. The ruling seems to state that McDonalds now owns my new idea for a deep fryer.
When he starts comparing languages or, to be more specific, makes the blanket statement that better hackers like Python over Perl I am reminded of the fact that the best hackers actually use OCAML and Objective-C.
"No they don't", you cry, "the best hackers user Assembly and Visual Basic".
"No, you're a fucking moron", someone else pipes up, "the best hackers use Pascal and COBOL."
"No, you are a fuckwit," a voice from the back of the croud screams, "Fortran and Algol are the languages of the best hackers".
"Quiet you fools," an elderly guru from the wings yells out, "I happen to know that the best hackers use Perl when they aren't dictating their programs to their secretaries to be outsourced to Taiwan to be compiled into Haskell"
"Shows what you know old man", a kid in the front row sneers, "the l33t hax0rs use Lisp and C++".
Well anyway, it looks like this might go on for a while, please enjoy the other comments while we try and work this out...
You's a lyier! All thems people was good old Americans! If your done gonna make them sounds liek intellekturals and libruls and socilaists I'm gona drive up from Texas and kick youur SORRRY ass!
Don't put me down as a SCO apologist, but at least is sounds like they were confident enough in their case that they went after real corporations rather than attacking some small mom-and-pop storefront first (which seems to be the MO of the worst of the patent whores).
You're complaining about "draconian self-censorship, bias, and occasional (but systematic) outright lies, rather than news coverage, to spread a political agenda" and you are turning to the _Drudge Report_? I guess FOX is always available for a second opinion, huh?
If you want to go really tinfoil hat (ie. reality under a Rupublican administration) here's some more info...
Diebold has long claimed it does not track votes on Election Day but Harris said this file of election data from San Luis Obispo County, California shows otherwise.
"It is impossible for this file to have existed if there wasn't some sort of illicit electronic communication going on for remote access," Harris said.
"It's against the law to start counting the votes before the polls have closed. But this file is date and time stamped at 3:31 in the afternoon on Election Day, and somehow all 57 precincts managed to call home add them themselves up in the middle of the day. Not only once but three times," Harris said. "If you have no electronic communications between the polling places and the main office, how does that happen? Because what would you literally have to do is to shut down the polling place in 57 places at once and get in a car and drive this card into the county office. That's not going to happen."
Technically, under the Diebold system that means it is possible for someone who has access to the system to monitor the progress of the voting results throughout the day and to potentially manipulate them. Common Dreams
Or how about...
A little less than eight months after steppind down as director of AIS [American Information Systems, another electronic voting Machine company], Hagel surprised national pundits and defied early polls by defeating Benjamin Nelson, the state's popular former governor. It was Hagel's first try for public office. Nebraska elections officials told The Hill that machines made by AIS probably tallied 85 percent of the votes cast in the 1996 vote, although Nelson never drew attention to the connection. Hagel won again in 2002, by a far healthier margin. That vote is still angrily disputed by Hagel's Democratic opponent, Charlie Matulka, who did try to make Hagel's ties to ES&S an issue in the race and who asked that state elections officials conduct a hand recount of the vote. That request was rebuffed, because Hagel's margin of victory was so large. Mother Jones
Here's a snippet from CNN. Their quote is, 'In August, O'Dell said in a fund-raising letter for the Ohio Republican Party that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes" to Bush.'
I'm sorry I don't have a paper copy to hand to you; ironically this is one of the issues that we are discussing on this thread.
Here's instructions for the future if you need information. 1. Type "www.google.com" in the location bar of your browser (you might refer to it as "that fancy web thing I've done been hearing so much about"). 2. Press the "enter" key. This submits the "location" you typed in to the "web". 3. When the "web page" appears, type in the words "diebold deliver ohio" in the little rectangular box. 4. Once, again, you need to press the "enter" key. 5. A list of "web pages" appears. Click on one of them using the "left button" of your "mouse". Try and choose a respectable source like "FOX News" or "Monster Truck Week".
Sorry to respond to myself, but this CEO is a fucking moron. Even if you are a rabid partisan, if your company has government contracts to supply voting machines you probably shouldn't shoot your mouth off about your commitment to deliver an election to a particular political party.
The board of directors of Diebold should bitch-slap this stupid SOB.
Why use ballots and make the user carry the piece of paper back to a desk where, as you say, the results could be tampered with.
What I envision in a paper trail is fairly simple. The printer is encased in the voting machine with the current user's votes visible under plexiglass (kind of like the old line printers or some of the cash registers).
When the voter is done, the vote scrolls up under an opaque section so the next voter can't tamper with it. The printer prints in a OCR compatible font, and if you need to verify the results you simply take the rolls of paper and take it to a verification system.
The voter can validate the vote there, but thier is no accidental wandering away with the receipt or risk of ballot box tampering.
'In a recent fund-raising letter Diebold's chief executive Walden O'Dell said he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."', The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Show of hands please: How many people over 50 had to read _1984_ in school? Okay how many people over 40? Over 30? Over 20?
_1984_ was a useful tool to scare kids in the 1950s through the 80s when the teachers could point to the big USSR on the map and say, "This book tells us what it is like over there!!".
It's a little more disconcerting when the teacher can point to Washington D.C. and say the same thing.
Linux Journal had an article talking about the RedHat team's efforts to natively compile Eclipse with gcj.
In response to your earlier point, your editor looks nice but I don't see using it versus using Eclipse are mutually exclusive. I switch between vim and Eclipse all of the time. Sometimes I want a light-weight editor and sometimes I want a heavyweight IDE with package organization and javadoc look up and code completion. As they say, YMMV.
A friend of a friend mentioned that when the iPod first came out he saw a student "jammin'" to some tunes while checking out the new Macintosh computers at the University Bookstore.
A closer look revealed that the student had the firewire cable attached to the demo mac and was busily downloading all of the applications on the mac.
Pretty clever though I would never condone such behavior.
I don't believe that centrifical momentum is the guiding principal here. In essense, the elevator is a geosynchronous sattelite; just a very, very, very long and narrow one. The center of gravity is in geosynchronous orbit, a ribbon hangs down to earth, and a counter balance weight hangs off the other side (which could be a ribbon that extends 2x geosynchronous orbit into space).
ribbon
\ EARTH)--------------O----------------- satteli te in orbit/
Agreed. In the real world which is more likely to happen?
I just upgraded to a 64 bit processor. And my application...
A. Suddenly gives my the ability to have 2^64 documents open at the same time rather than the previous limit of 2^32 documents
or
B. Suddenly all of my custom, binary files won't open properly because some programmer hard coded "4" in all the places where an byte offset over an int was required in the file.
This is a language independent problem, a properly coded C++ app with the sizeof ops used correctly should work correctly, right? However, in java, an int is an int is an int on a cell phone or on a PC or on a mainframe. Use of int correctly is, thankfully, taken out of the programmer's hands.
P.S. I love C++ (templates are cool) and I love Java (I can get so much done). I wish I had a job where I could learn Haskell or OCaml and I'd probably love that too.
IMHO, the two cool ideas from the screenshots don't require a 3D desktop.
I particularly like the scaled down windows when they are not in focus. In a 2D window manager I'd make sure that they scale away from the focused window. This would increase the probability that the non-focused window would not be overlapped by the focused window.
And, as another poster suggested, the flipping is just window shading with a quicker mouse action.
As a highway commuter, that is why I decided on a diesel (Jetta TDI) instead of a hybrid. But I have to admit, the extra guages in the Civic Hybrid really appealed to my geeky side.
I'm having trouble with this logic; "You also use plastic therefore it doesn't matter what type of car you drive." Moral relativism isn't going to solve any problems, you know. It's like the right-wingers justifying torture at Adu Grayab because Saddam also tortured people there. Aren't we supposed to be better than Saddam?
The original poster's point is valid. Putting a big American flag on your Hummer H2 is an insult to the troops fighting to keep that SUV filled with gas. However, your response is right on in one respect, the gas burned up in that SUV could have been better used to create a product such as an softdrink bottle (which can be recycled, by the way).
And, in your response to the last line, he isn't contributing to the demand for petroleum products as much as anyone else because he is making an effort to reduce his gas consumption starting with the choice of car that he drives.
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Assume that, for the sake of easy math, the diesel is burning 2 gallons of fuel every 100 miles and the gasoline engine is burning 3 gallons of fuel in the same distance. Does this mean that, for the diesel to be "dirtier" it must produce 50% more NOx (nitros oxide ?) and ozone than the gasoline engine per mile driven? Does a diesel engine actually produce 50% more polutants per mile driven?
Particularly insightful comment. For my fellow environmentalists who are still carping about "how there's still a gas engine in those things", at least they are a step in the right direction.
Please can someone explain this...
If I go 50 miles on a gallon of diesel or 30 miles on a gallon of gasoline how is it that the diesel is dirtier? It's not like gasoline engines have a little filter that you empty out over your flower beds every 10,000 miles, is it?
About 30 posts and no one has mentioned the Slate article. That had to be the funniest thing I've read in a while.
To summarize, residential neighborhoods in California (many places actually, but the author was in California) have inadvertently forbidden large SUV's from driving down thier roads because the SUV exceeds the gross weight limit (6000lbs) that defines a truck.
Now I'm just waiting for a politician with the conjones to enforce this law.
I'll be waiting a very, very, very long time...
It's unfortunate that the parent is anonymous because this is a nice statement of one side of the argument.
To simplify; I work at McDonalds making french fries. In my own time I invent a fancy new deep fryer. The ruling seems to state that McDonalds now owns my new idea for a deep fryer.
When he starts comparing languages or, to be more specific, makes the blanket statement that better hackers like Python over Perl I am reminded of the fact that the best hackers actually use OCAML and Objective-C.
"No they don't", you cry, "the best hackers user Assembly and Visual Basic".
"No, you're a fucking moron", someone else pipes up, "the best hackers use Pascal and COBOL."
"No, you are a fuckwit," a voice from the back of the croud screams, "Fortran and Algol are the languages of the best hackers".
"Quiet you fools," an elderly guru from the wings yells out, "I happen to know that the best hackers use Perl when they aren't dictating their programs to their secretaries to be outsourced to Taiwan to be compiled into Haskell"
"Shows what you know old man", a kid in the front row sneers, "the l33t hax0rs use Lisp and C++".
Well anyway, it looks like this might go on for a while, please enjoy the other comments while we try and work this out...
You's a lyier! All thems people was good old Americans! If your done gonna make them sounds liek intellekturals and libruls and socilaists I'm gona drive up from Texas and kick youur SORRRY ass!
Don't put me down as a SCO apologist, but at least is sounds like they were confident enough in their case that they went after real corporations rather than attacking some small mom-and-pop storefront first (which seems to be the MO of the worst of the patent whores).
You're complaining about "draconian self-censorship, bias, and occasional (but systematic) outright lies, rather than news coverage, to spread a political agenda" and you are turning to the _Drudge Report_? I guess FOX is always available for a second opinion, huh?
Or how about...
Here's a snippet from CNN. Their quote is, 'In August, O'Dell said in a fund-raising letter for the Ohio Republican Party that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes" to Bush.'
I'm sorry I don't have a paper copy to hand to you; ironically this is one of the issues that we are discussing on this thread.
Here's instructions for the future if you need information.
1. Type "www.google.com" in the location bar of your browser (you might refer to it as "that fancy web thing I've done been hearing so much about").
2. Press the "enter" key. This submits the "location" you typed in to the "web".
3. When the "web page" appears, type in the words "diebold deliver ohio" in the little rectangular box.
4. Once, again, you need to press the "enter" key.
5. A list of "web pages" appears. Click on one of them using the "left button" of your "mouse". Try and choose a respectable source like "FOX News" or "Monster Truck Week".
I hope this helps.
Sorry to respond to myself, but this CEO is a fucking moron. Even if you are a rabid partisan, if your company has government contracts to supply voting machines you probably shouldn't shoot your mouth off about your commitment to deliver an election to a particular political party.
The board of directors of Diebold should bitch-slap this stupid SOB.
Why use ballots and make the user carry the piece of paper back to a desk where, as you say, the results could be tampered with.
What I envision in a paper trail is fairly simple. The printer is encased in the voting machine with the current user's votes visible under plexiglass (kind of like the old line printers or some of the cash registers).
When the voter is done, the vote scrolls up under an opaque section so the next voter can't tamper with it. The printer prints in a OCR compatible font, and if you need to verify the results you simply take the rolls of paper and take it to a verification system.
The voter can validate the vote there, but thier is no accidental wandering away with the receipt or risk of ballot box tampering.
'In a recent fund-raising letter Diebold's chief executive Walden O'Dell said he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."', The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Speaking of small editors, I was pretty impressed that I could download the sourcecode for AEditor in seconds.
46k in a gzipped tar file? That's great.
I've been interested in Ruby for a couple of years but I haven't given it the time it needs. I look forward to reading through your source.
"um, it has nothing to do with left/right wing."
You keep telling yourself that...
It'll make you feel better when you press the button for Kerry on the Diebold voting machine. (Look, one more vote for Cheney.)
Show of hands please:
How many people over 50 had to read _1984_ in school?
Okay how many people over 40?
Over 30?
Over 20?
_1984_ was a useful tool to scare kids in the 1950s through the 80s when the teachers could point to the big USSR on the map and say, "This book tells us what it is like over there!!".
It's a little more disconcerting when the teacher can point to Washington D.C. and say the same thing.
Linux Journal had an article talking about the RedHat team's efforts to natively compile Eclipse with gcj.
In response to your earlier point, your editor looks nice but I don't see using it versus using Eclipse are mutually exclusive. I switch between vim and Eclipse all of the time. Sometimes I want a light-weight editor and sometimes I want a heavyweight IDE with package organization and javadoc look up and code completion. As they say, YMMV.
A friend of a friend mentioned that when the iPod first came out he saw a student "jammin'" to some tunes while checking out the new Macintosh computers at the University Bookstore.
A closer look revealed that the student had the firewire cable attached to the demo mac and was busily downloading all of the applications on the mac.
Pretty clever though I would never condone such behavior.
Agreed. In the real world which is more likely to happen?
I just upgraded to a 64 bit processor. And my application...
A. Suddenly gives my the ability to have 2^64 documents open at the same time rather than the previous limit of 2^32 documents
or
B. Suddenly all of my custom, binary files won't open properly because some programmer hard coded "4" in all the places where an byte offset over an int was required in the file.
This is a language independent problem, a properly coded C++ app with the sizeof ops used correctly should work correctly, right? However, in java, an int is an int is an int on a cell phone or on a PC or on a mainframe. Use of int correctly is, thankfully, taken out of the programmer's hands.
P.S. I love C++ (templates are cool) and I love Java (I can get so much done). I wish I had a job where I could learn Haskell or OCaml and I'd probably love that too.
FYI, your shouldn't assume -1/+1 from a compareTo. The contract is that the result will be less than or greater than 0 for not equals.
IMHO, the two cool ideas from the screenshots don't require a 3D desktop.
I particularly like the scaled down windows when they are not in focus. In a 2D window manager I'd make sure that they scale away from the focused window. This would increase the probability that the non-focused window would not be overlapped by the focused window.
And, as another poster suggested, the flipping is just window shading with a quicker mouse action.
As a highway commuter, that is why I decided on a diesel (Jetta TDI) instead of a hybrid. But I have to admit, the extra guages in the Civic Hybrid really appealed to my geeky side.
I'm having trouble with this logic; "You also use plastic therefore it doesn't matter what type of car you drive." Moral relativism isn't going to solve any problems, you know. It's like the right-wingers justifying torture at Adu Grayab because Saddam also tortured people there. Aren't we supposed to be better than Saddam?
The original poster's point is valid. Putting a big American flag on your Hummer H2 is an insult to the troops fighting to keep that SUV filled with gas. However, your response is right on in one respect, the gas burned up in that SUV could have been better used to create a product such as an softdrink bottle (which can be recycled, by the way).
And, in your response to the last line, he isn't contributing to the demand for petroleum products as much as anyone else because he is making an effort to reduce his gas consumption starting with the choice of car that he drives.