Stacking-optimization is one of the reasons I will never trade in my first-generation Scion xB. It dwarfs the cargo capacity to engine size (or MPG) ratio of anything else you could buy. I usually go over the cargo weight capacity before I run out of room.
I will keep rebuilding the engine on this thing until batteries become better, then I will put a 200kW motor the size of a grapefruit on it with a 100kWh battery or something. I love this car. Too bad they screwed it in 2008. The new Cube is ok, but the xB1 is still better.
this means that if your conscience compels you to mention confidentiality, you're probably up to no good, so i should watch out. of course, this doesn't help against those with no conscience.
Unix admins have been using some very basic parts of the unix toolkit for decades when they just need to toss around smallish flat files. You may have outgrown notepad, but I'm sure you haven't outgrown vi & awk, or libdb. Ask some people what they did before there were dozens of oss relational databases (actually, I bet their still doing what they used to do, when the size of the job requires it).
Well, if your date is your wife, she'd have to forgive you the indulgence and listen. Haha! Bait and switch, baby! She can't really ask for a divorce over some random geeking at the movies, can she! Until she thinks of some other thing you've been doing wrong and couches it in deviously incriminating yet nonetheless accurate language. Then you pipe down and reduce all comments to whimpers or grunts.
Even funnier verification. Check the dates, the servers. Very angry. Very not surprised.
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The only way I see the BS in software patents (and unbalanced copyright) coming to light is by the people who know the system doing the hard work of moving things along and educating the judiciary and public. The EFF is doing this. We can never contribute enough to compare to what the bad guys' lawyers have, but we don't have to. Just enough to knock some sense into people.
This is the Right Thing to have happened.
MS OOXML is not a standard:
6000 pages and still not a complete standard
paraphrased: 'to comply with standard, you must implement these hundreds of features from previous versions, which are not in this standard, and which may be covered by patent'
WTF!?!
Further evidence of MS's bad faith:
I had never really thought about it, but the standard is named to be confused with the Open Office standard. The MS non-standard is called OOXML (Office Open XML). The Open Office standard is called ODF (Open Document Format), but you might just as well call it OOXML (Open Office XML) (I did indeed call it that before this non-standard effort came from MS). All they did was switch the words 'open' and 'office' around! That's like calling a Linux distribution SoftMicro Windows LX and saying you don't intend to confuse anyone.
Ok, the *theory* is that the climate may be changing because we produce way more CO2 than we ever have. That's a fact. A stipulation. Agreed upon. Read it at NOAA, NASA, USGS, etc, etc. So, if we cut back on our hugely increased CO2 output, we won't be trying to artificially change the atmosphere, and so maybe, the climate, but instead we will be trying to reduce the already artificial change.
But, wait a minute, in your view, and the director of NASA's view, possible Global Warming due to extreme release of CO2 is not anthropogenic, but, however, cutting back on CO2 release is anthropogenic.
This is like when Fox News showed Mark Foley and printed under him "Mark Foley (D) Florida". They're just blatantly changing the reality. It's that crazy.
The major evolved characteristic which gave us our dominance lies in our cognitive ability. Once that was in, we didn't need anything else. Our advanced programmable computer gave us the need for no further very specialized hardware. How long we've had our cognition, that's something we're unsure of. But chimps have had need to continue evolving ever since that time, when we were able to a large degree to selectively slack off.
I wouldn't immediately say that we couldn't increase standard of living while remaining at the same power consumption level. There are 300M Americans, thats 5% of the population. I am not prepared to state that technology couldn't enable the same amount of useful work that is done by devices in a 2kW (average) household to be done with just 200W. Many devices are hugely inefficient and badly designed.
I only *just barely* agree with your thesis that development without increased energy output at the source (ie, not just increased efficiency) is impossible.
I'm not surprised to see comments by people who didn't read the bill, as it was linked. I am surprised the editor couldn't be bothered to:
(B) A wattage rating no less than 25 watts and no greater than 150
watts.
See, there is the efficiency standard. If you make a 25 Watt incandescent bulb, and it looks like 75 Watts, you can sell it. No problem.
Further, one commenter mentioned the need for incandescents in photography. Well, thats where you can use a 200W if you need that much lighting. I'm sure there's other helpful exceptions, if one would simply RTFB.
Trolltech provides the library in two licences - the free licence which mandates that the applications developed be released under GPL and a commercial non-free licence which allows one to develop closed source applications using Qt.
Does anybody know what the terms of the closed license actually are?
With LGPL'ed libraries (gtk, etc), I can make a program and flirt with selling it; that is, I guess, I can experiment with distributing something as shareware. With Qt, I might have to shell out something to Troll before I make the first penny, or at least I have to have a talk with them.
Wait a minute. Nevermind GTK. I don't even have to do that with Microsoft Windows libraries, either!! Also with GTK and Windows, I can go on past the shareware stage and sell the next big killer app and not pay anyone anything. (Well, MS will target me and destroy me on Windows, but I will have gotten farther without harrassment than I did with Qt.)
If memory serves, the powers that be quashed somebody trying to sell to send customers TV signals over the internet sourced from free over the air transmissions, precisely as cable is legally allowed to do, because the "content is altered" (degraded quality, I guess, because of compression/encoding).
This even though I am certain that I can see degradation from my local cable converting signals to mpeg over digital cable, and even though many people have chronically bad connections over the cable, degrading quality.
Now hopefully the fact that cable providers are compressing TV over IP themselves will allow competitors (anyone willing to invest in the serving bandwidth!) to show to the court, if they have to go to court, to get all this anti-free-market craziness to stop!
\Given that Spreadfirefox by its very mission had such sensitive information that could have been used to destroy so many users lives, it is deplorable that the admins were not more tight about security.\
Doesn't ISS have a soyuz re-entry module docked
for emergency crew escape and re-entry?
If an emergency shuttle trip was delayed, couldn't
the crew of the failed shuttle use that? Then the
ISS crew would be SOL if something happened until
another module was docked, but I'm saying there are
some options here, that Real Engineers (like Real
Programmers) -- and there still are some at NASA -- would find and be able to choose from.
Actually, the escape module may not be designed
to accomodate a re-entry with 7 people. The potential crew of the ISS was supposed to be on the order of 7 or even more (back when we were going to actually do enough science on it to get some sort of return-on-investment from it!) Maybe we should get cracking on getting a real escape module on the ISS that could accomodate the specced crew of the ISS! That would solve 2 problems at once.
An eminently qualified person gets appointed in the executive gov't, only to be ground to dust as the exec tries to push insane policy on everybody, and everybody (well, not everybody, but anyone who applies one point of IQ to the area affected by the policy) resists.
The Bush NASA policy shift is the crazy policy in this instance. During a war, when we have no money, we are going to embark on manned planetary exploration, taking money away from earth science, excellent unmanned planetary exploration, and civil aviation programs. Why? I have a funny,
unserious answer which is troublingly plausible:
Bush wants to ignore the global warming problem,
so he starves NASA of all its earth science spending, getting rid of a large fraction of the
data needed to characterize the problem!;p
Seriously, Bush wants to save the 2 jobs (I exagerate) Kyoto or other more real action would take away from the current economy, even though the long term economic growth caused by increasing efficiency society-wide would be immeasurable!
What a smart guy!
I have to take this oppurtunity, since someone has mentioned taking simple measures to decrease CO2, to give props the simplest way anyone reading this can start to do it: go to the lower power light bulbs they sell nowadays. Those twisty kind that go in normal incandescent sockets. (They're also sold with the twistyness covered by a normal looking outer shell.)
They don't have the
problems of past low power bulbs. They don't blink.
I've never noticed a blink rate, and I've been reading by them for 4 years. They do take 20-45seconds to get to full output. A 60-watt rated bulb (actually 15 or so watts) starts out at what I would say is 40-watt equivalent light, but it gets up to full in less than a minute. That's great, if you need more than 40W incandescent-equivalent light, you're going to have the light on for more than 20 seconds, so don't anyone think about complaining about that.
Everyone that hears me should go out and buy these for their homes. I don't mean to sound demanding. I sincerely desire to know what would be a good reason not to use them, because I can't find one.
These bulbs are sold as long-lasting, or cost-saving, but they need to instead be sold as environmentally friendly, and as using 75% less fossil feuls while their on, 75% less CO2 created, etc, etc.
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Stacking-optimization is one of the reasons I will never trade in my first-generation Scion xB. It dwarfs the cargo capacity to engine size (or MPG) ratio of anything else you could buy. I usually go over the cargo weight capacity before I run out of room.
I will keep rebuilding the engine on this thing until batteries become better, then I will put a 200kW motor the size of a grapefruit on it with a 100kWh battery or something. I love this car. Too bad they screwed it in 2008. The new Cube is ok, but the xB1 is still better.
this means that if your conscience compels you to mention confidentiality, you're probably up to no good, so i should watch out. of course, this doesn't help against those with no conscience.
Unix admins have been using some very basic parts of the unix toolkit for decades when they just need to toss around smallish flat files. You may have outgrown notepad, but I'm sure you haven't outgrown vi & awk, or libdb. Ask some people what they did before there were dozens of oss relational databases (actually, I bet their still doing what they used to do, when the size of the job requires it).
Well, if your date is your wife, she'd have to forgive you the indulgence and listen. Haha! Bait and switch, baby! She can't really ask for a divorce over some random geeking at the movies, can she! Until she thinks of some other thing you've been doing wrong and couches it in deviously incriminating yet nonetheless accurate language. Then you pipe down and reduce all comments to whimpers or grunts.
If that is a program and it's only 4 years, it's not surprising they might leave some things out of one side or the other.
Even funnier verification. Check the dates, the servers. Very angry. Very not surprised.
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The only way I see the BS in software patents (and unbalanced copyright) coming to light is by the people who know the system doing the hard work of moving things along and educating the judiciary and public. The EFF is doing this. We can never contribute enough to compare to what the bad guys' lawyers have, but we don't have to. Just enough to knock some sense into people.
the Blue Star of Death!
Once again Microsoft is pushing an untested Operating System into service as a server, with this poorly-planned Windows 95-based data center.
This is the Right Thing to have happened. MS OOXML is not a standard:
- 6000 pages and still not a complete standard
- paraphrased: 'to comply with standard, you must implement these hundreds of features from previous versions, which are not in this standard, and which may be covered by patent'
- WTF!?!
Further evidence of MS's bad faith:But, wait a minute, in your view, and the director of NASA's view, possible Global Warming due to extreme release of CO2 is not anthropogenic, but, however, cutting back on CO2 release is anthropogenic.
This is like when Fox News showed Mark Foley and printed under him "Mark Foley (D) Florida". They're just blatantly changing the reality. It's that crazy.
That's why they form text with care.
Consider haiku.
I will make a script.
Replace commas with whitespace.
Make a bunch of loot!
wasting my leisure time on slashdot when i could contribute more by picking up some more php/xml/javascript skills to improve my site...
How much would they have had to pay to properly clean up that set in the 40-year-old Virgin where they burst like a dozen long fluorescents?
The major evolved characteristic which gave us our dominance lies in our cognitive ability. Once that was in, we didn't need anything else. Our advanced programmable computer gave us the need for no further very specialized hardware. How long we've had our cognition, that's something we're unsure of. But chimps have had need to continue evolving ever since that time, when we were able to a large degree to selectively slack off.
I wouldn't immediately say that we couldn't increase standard of living while remaining at the same power consumption level. There are 300M Americans, thats 5% of the population. I am not prepared to state that technology couldn't enable the same amount of useful work that is done by devices in a 2kW (average) household to be done with just 200W. Many devices are hugely inefficient and badly designed.
I only *just barely* agree with your thesis that development without increased energy output at the source (ie, not just increased efficiency) is impossible.
I'm not surprised to see comments by people who didn't read the bill, as it was linked. I am surprised the editor couldn't be bothered to:
See, there is the efficiency standard. If you make a 25 Watt incandescent bulb, and it looks like 75 Watts, you can sell it. No problem.
Further, one commenter mentioned the need for incandescents in photography. Well, thats where you can use a 200W if you need that much lighting. I'm sure there's other helpful exceptions, if one would simply RTFB.
..nobody uses VTs anymore anyway. Everyone just uses X on vt7...geesh...
Trolltech provides the library in two licences - the free licence which mandates that the applications developed be released under GPL and a commercial non-free licence which allows one to develop closed source applications using Qt.
Does anybody know what the terms of the closed license actually are?
With LGPL'ed libraries (gtk, etc), I can make a program and flirt with selling it; that is, I guess, I can experiment with distributing something as shareware. With Qt, I might have to shell out something to Troll before I make the first penny, or at least I have to have a talk with them.
Wait a minute. Nevermind GTK. I don't even have to do that with Microsoft Windows libraries, either!! Also with GTK and Windows, I can go on past the shareware stage and sell the next big killer app and not pay anyone anything. (Well, MS will target me and destroy me on Windows, but I will have gotten farther without harrassment than I did with Qt.)
If memory serves, the powers that be quashed somebody trying to sell to send customers TV signals over the internet sourced from free over the air transmissions, precisely as cable is legally allowed to do, because the "content is altered" (degraded quality, I guess, because of compression/encoding).
This even though I am certain that I can see degradation from my local cable converting signals to mpeg over digital cable, and even though many people have chronically bad connections over the cable, degrading quality.
Now hopefully the fact that cable providers are compressing TV over IP themselves will allow competitors (anyone willing to invest in the serving bandwidth!) to show to the court, if they have to go to court, to get all this anti-free-market craziness to stop!
\Given that Spreadfirefox by its very mission had such sensitive information that could have been used to destroy so many users lives, it is deplorable that the admins were not more tight about security.\
Subject says it all. I'm sure its a redundant comment, but its worth repeating.
If an emergency shuttle trip was delayed, couldn't the crew of the failed shuttle use that? Then the ISS crew would be SOL if something happened until another module was docked, but I'm saying there are some options here, that Real Engineers (like Real Programmers) -- and there still are some at NASA -- would find and be able to choose from.
Actually, the escape module may not be designed to accomodate a re-entry with 7 people. The potential crew of the ISS was supposed to be on the order of 7 or even more (back when we were going to actually do enough science on it to get some sort of return-on-investment from it!) Maybe we should get cracking on getting a real escape module on the ISS that could accomodate the specced crew of the ISS! That would solve 2 problems at once.
An eminently qualified person gets appointed in the executive gov't, only to be ground to dust as the exec tries to push insane policy on everybody, and everybody (well, not everybody, but anyone who applies one point of IQ to the area affected by the policy) resists.
The Bush NASA policy shift is the crazy policy in this instance. During a war, when we have no money, we are going to embark on manned planetary exploration, taking money away from earth science, excellent unmanned planetary exploration, and civil aviation programs. Why? I have a funny, unserious answer which is troublingly plausible: Bush wants to ignore the global warming problem, so he starves NASA of all its earth science spending, getting rid of a large fraction of the data needed to characterize the problem! ;p
Seriously, Bush wants to save the 2 jobs (I exagerate) Kyoto or other more real action would take away from the current economy, even though the long term economic growth caused by increasing efficiency society-wide would be immeasurable! What a smart guy!
They don't have the problems of past low power bulbs. They don't blink. I've never noticed a blink rate, and I've been reading by them for 4 years. They do take 20-45seconds to get to full output. A 60-watt rated bulb (actually 15 or so watts) starts out at what I would say is 40-watt equivalent light, but it gets up to full in less than a minute. That's great, if you need more than 40W incandescent-equivalent light, you're going to have the light on for more than 20 seconds, so don't anyone think about complaining about that.
Everyone that hears me should go out and buy these for their homes. I don't mean to sound demanding. I sincerely desire to know what would be a good reason not to use them, because I can't find one.
These bulbs are sold as long-lasting, or cost-saving, but they need to instead be sold as environmentally friendly, and as using 75% less fossil feuls while their on, 75% less CO2 created, etc, etc.