The ecological impact was my first reaction. Rising ocean temperatures has been shown to increase toxic cyanobacterial algae bloom production. Heating water with megawatts of power and pumping it back into the ocean could have negative localized ecological effects.
As far as stainless steel, sure 316 is resistant, but it's a lot more expensive than 6061 aluminum alloy.
Most steel ships are painted to prevent corrosion. Paint is a thermal insulator. Coating the inside of your heat transfer pipes with a thermal insulator is like masturbating with sandpaper - it might work, but it doesn't work well.
Aluminum is a great thermal conductor and is saltwater resistant with the 6061 and 6063 alloys. Galvanic corrosive action does occur though, but this can be avoided with careful attention to construction methods and avoiding direct metal to aluminum contact.
My site runs squirrelmail, that's it. That is just for convenience, for when I'm at school and the wifi has portblocking turned on. The only ports they let through are HTTP, HTTPS and 8080.
Linux users are complacent about security because malware writers have often ignored them. The truth is that even if they follow best practices with regard to security, some personal information is still available.
Nothing prevents a malware writer from using a remote code execution bug in Firefox or some other internet connected Linux application that then has access to your entire home folder, including financial data or other private application data. No privilege escalation is needed, although if they had it they could permanently install a rootkit or other persistent malware.
Agreed. My girlfriend's 10 year old son is using a computer I built about 7 years ago with Ubuntu on it. It has much of the complexity he would see in Windows hidden. No control panel, no command line, no start menu with 10 levels of trees. It's so simple any idiot could use it.
The only thing he does online is webmail, flash games, youtube and listen to music. Linux fills that role perfectly.
Maybe some day I will tell him it's also hosting my SSH, ftps, telnet, web and email serving also:)
If Skype did this to anyone other than EBay, I would be kind of pissed. EBay has engaged in a lot of really anti-user policies of late, mostly because they (legally) garnered a monopoly in the online auction world. A lot has changed though over the last 10 years though and EBay doesn't have the same power they did in 2000.
Regardless, yeah it's pretty shifty what Skype did. I bet in talks they TOLD eBay they were buying everything, but held back copyrights and the eBay lawyers skimmed over it. Nobody would pay what eBay paid unless they really were, or thought they were buying everything, including copyrights.
It's kind of like the reverse of SCO claiming they bought everything, including copyrights from Novell for a pittance, when just years earlier Novell paid billions for it. SCO knew at the time they were paying pennies for it because they weren't getting copyrights.
I doubt Microsoft will be going anywhere any time soon. Food is a particularly intriguing category of products for this discussion because a lot of products sold in national retailers are produced very far from where they are sold. For instance, a lot of vegetables are grown in large hydro farming operations and shipped across the nation. Another example is foods grown in Mexico which very often are trucked across the US, or bananas or other tropical fruits that are shipped by sea from South America and Central America.
Some of those can't be grown economically in the US, but the increased cost might make consumers rethink the value of cheap bananas and bell peppers.
Two reasons. The first is that you can't track individual electrons to determine whether the power you used came from a coal plant or a hydroelectric dam. The government couldn't even determine if the person didn't generate the electricity themselves using a waterwheel in their back yard.
The second reason is that some energy production processes scale up in efficiency based on size. It would be better for the environment for everyone to rely on the grid for electricity as a whole than each person individually operate a gasoline operated vehicle.
I don't doubt what you say about hybrid versus electric only "greenness" though. Hybrids have come a long way and I personally believe there is much work to be done in developing the technology. In California, a lot of their power actually comes from pacific northwest hydro dams. A lot also comes from coal too.
Not really. The free market will sort out the inefficiency. If it turns out that trucking products across the US is still cheaper than producing it locally, then the market could bear the additional cost.
If producing it locally is cheaper, a company will start selling the locally produced product and eventually all other retailers in that category will follow suit.
Long story short, the market would sort it out, pretty quick too I think.
The MPG tax should address two fundamental aspects:
Direct green house gas emissions(meaning electric cars aren't taxed based on the green house gases released while producing the electricity to power it).
Miles driven, on a sliding scale that gets steeper as GVW increases(*).
* This addresses the fact that high GVW vehicles certainly cause much more road damage than light passenger cars, and that much more so than motorcycles and other ultra-light vehicles. A million bicycles could roar down the freeway and cause effectively no wear and tear(excluding minuscule frictional wear of the road surface), while a single 18 wheeler can cause small but permanent levels of deformation to the road. Cars also can do this, but on a much smaller scale. Most roads aren't replaced because the surface is worn down from frictional losses, they are replaced because deformation caused by heavy rolling objects causes them to bow and crack.
Taxing miles driven at a rate determined by GVW is fair as it accurately taxes the driver based on the cost to the state in infrastructure costs. I realize this seems unfair to trucking companies, but companies need to start addressing the fact that buying things from very far away and trucking them across the country has a very real effect on the roads they use and the air we all breathe.
Actually, yeah he stands a good chance of winning. The AG would have to be insane to put this in front of a judge, as he would likely be dismissed quickly.
Thanks for the more complete reply. I was a bit skeptical you were anything but a troll who knew nothing of software development.
In truth, MS Visual Studio is light years beyond any other development environment on Windows, including Eclipse and Qt Creator. I'm not strictly anti-Microsoft, although I'm not a big fan of their abusive market practices. If I could effectively use Visual Studio to code Qt applications, I would be a happy camper.
As to languages, I'm not against GC in practice. I think it's a great idea. I just don't think GC alone is a reason to choose an application framework, GUI toolkit or language.
Yes, IMO Qt beats the pants off.NET/Winforms in developer productivity and ease of coding. The only exception being the contrived model/view architecture in Qt, specifically with using view item delegates to handle changes in model data. I'm not against subclassing QStyledItemDelegate - it's just very tiring to do it over and over and over and the number of classes needed to do this is asinine.
It's not all roses for Winforms though. The fact that it remains to this day a fancy wrapper for GDI controls is it's Achilles heel. When you reimplement classes like RichTextBox or ListBox, you often have to resort to passing WIN32 messages to your controls to get information you need. It's quite ridiculous that the API doesn't encapsulate the functionality of the control entirely.
Try creating a syntax highlighting rich text box in Qt. It's really a much easier proposition as document contents, syntax highlighting and text rendering are each handled in a separate, simpler class.
I have to sleep now, but maybe I'll post more gripes later.
My impression was that most repair shops are already equipped to deal with OBD-II cars, which would cover engine, emissions and transmission error codes. There are plenty of manufacturer specific codes, but as far as I know, the majority of them are already publicly available.
I haven't read the article yet. Does this just legislatively require manufacturers to release what is already known? Or does this go beyond OBD-II stuff?
I develop with Qt on Windows, so you can toss your Linux anti-user suppositions out the window.
Ease of coding is important for the developer because it allows them to use more logically use the API with less platform specific code. The experience for the end user is a more consistent interface across platforms, which is important when your product might be used by a single user on multiple platforms.
I'd be interested to hear of any specifics you have to offer about Qt 'quirkiness' on Windows.
Not really unsubstantiated dogma considering I have direct experience with both Qt and.NET/Winforms on windows.
What I say is only substantiation to the extent that you trust anonymous software developers on the internet. If you don't trust direct users of the software, the only way to substantiate what I say is for you to get off your ass and start coding in them both to see what I'm talking about.
If you're not a software developer at all, then just don't comment on the topic since you don't know what you're talking about.
OpenSolaris has no EAL rating either, but that doesn't mean it isn't secure.
Solaris has a long history of common criteria testing and OpenSolaris is largely based on the Solaris codebase, or so I've been told. The one doesn't require the other, but it does allow you to make some fairly safe assumptions about the fundamental design and security of the operating system, assuming it is set up properly.
If I were Larry Ellison, I would invest in a packaged Sparc based server running OpenSolaris with Oracle on top.
Call it a NAS/CMS/whatever-you-need in a box. And since it's from Oracle, who only have customers with deep pockets, they don't need to be shy about pricing it too high.
I grew up on Slackware. If Patrick switched to the dark side and forked OpenSolaris, I would probably drop Linux from my home server and switch just on principle.
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The ecological impact was my first reaction. Rising ocean temperatures has been shown to increase toxic cyanobacterial algae bloom production. Heating water with megawatts of power and pumping it back into the ocean could have negative localized ecological effects.
As far as stainless steel, sure 316 is resistant, but it's a lot more expensive than 6061 aluminum alloy.
Most steel ships are painted to prevent corrosion. Paint is a thermal insulator. Coating the inside of your heat transfer pipes with a thermal insulator is like masturbating with sandpaper - it might work, but it doesn't work well.
Aluminum is a great thermal conductor and is saltwater resistant with the 6061 and 6063 alloys. Galvanic corrosive action does occur though, but this can be avoided with careful attention to construction methods and avoiding direct metal to aluminum contact.
My site runs squirrelmail, that's it. That is just for convenience, for when I'm at school and the wifi has portblocking turned on. The only ports they let through are HTTP, HTTPS and 8080.
Linux users are complacent about security because malware writers have often ignored them. The truth is that even if they follow best practices with regard to security, some personal information is still available.
Nothing prevents a malware writer from using a remote code execution bug in Firefox or some other internet connected Linux application that then has access to your entire home folder, including financial data or other private application data. No privilege escalation is needed, although if they had it they could permanently install a rootkit or other persistent malware.
Inkscape, IMO. If you like drawing, vector is the way to go.
If you like painting by hand, I guess there's GIMP but that is overkill for most people.
I wish it would, really. And have massive data corruption.
I would love to see short term day traders and high speed institutional investors lose their shirt.
Agreed. My girlfriend's 10 year old son is using a computer I built about 7 years ago with Ubuntu on it. It has much of the complexity he would see in Windows hidden. No control panel, no command line, no start menu with 10 levels of trees. It's so simple any idiot could use it.
The only thing he does online is webmail, flash games, youtube and listen to music. Linux fills that role perfectly.
Maybe some day I will tell him it's also hosting my SSH, ftps, telnet, web and email serving also :)
Fortran is better. You're doing it wrong.
If Skype did this to anyone other than EBay, I would be kind of pissed. EBay has engaged in a lot of really anti-user policies of late, mostly because they (legally) garnered a monopoly in the online auction world. A lot has changed though over the last 10 years though and EBay doesn't have the same power they did in 2000.
Regardless, yeah it's pretty shifty what Skype did. I bet in talks they TOLD eBay they were buying everything, but held back copyrights and the eBay lawyers skimmed over it. Nobody would pay what eBay paid unless they really were, or thought they were buying everything, including copyrights.
It's kind of like the reverse of SCO claiming they bought everything, including copyrights from Novell for a pittance, when just years earlier Novell paid billions for it. SCO knew at the time they were paying pennies for it because they weren't getting copyrights.
I doubt Microsoft will be going anywhere any time soon. Food is a particularly intriguing category of products for this discussion because a lot of products sold in national retailers are produced very far from where they are sold. For instance, a lot of vegetables are grown in large hydro farming operations and shipped across the nation. Another example is foods grown in Mexico which very often are trucked across the US, or bananas or other tropical fruits that are shipped by sea from South America and Central America.
Some of those can't be grown economically in the US, but the increased cost might make consumers rethink the value of cheap bananas and bell peppers.
Two reasons. The first is that you can't track individual electrons to determine whether the power you used came from a coal plant or a hydroelectric dam. The government couldn't even determine if the person didn't generate the electricity themselves using a waterwheel in their back yard.
The second reason is that some energy production processes scale up in efficiency based on size. It would be better for the environment for everyone to rely on the grid for electricity as a whole than each person individually operate a gasoline operated vehicle.
I don't doubt what you say about hybrid versus electric only "greenness" though. Hybrids have come a long way and I personally believe there is much work to be done in developing the technology. In California, a lot of their power actually comes from pacific northwest hydro dams. A lot also comes from coal too.
Not really. The free market will sort out the inefficiency. If it turns out that trucking products across the US is still cheaper than producing it locally, then the market could bear the additional cost.
If producing it locally is cheaper, a company will start selling the locally produced product and eventually all other retailers in that category will follow suit.
Long story short, the market would sort it out, pretty quick too I think.
The MPG tax should address two fundamental aspects:
* This addresses the fact that high GVW vehicles certainly cause much more road damage than light passenger cars, and that much more so than motorcycles and other ultra-light vehicles. A million bicycles could roar down the freeway and cause effectively no wear and tear(excluding minuscule frictional wear of the road surface), while a single 18 wheeler can cause small but permanent levels of deformation to the road. Cars also can do this, but on a much smaller scale. Most roads aren't replaced because the surface is worn down from frictional losses, they are replaced because deformation caused by heavy rolling objects causes them to bow and crack.
Taxing miles driven at a rate determined by GVW is fair as it accurately taxes the driver based on the cost to the state in infrastructure costs. I realize this seems unfair to trucking companies, but companies need to start addressing the fact that buying things from very far away and trucking them across the country has a very real effect on the roads they use and the air we all breathe.
Code does not compute. The average internal temperature of a human is significantly warmer than the average temperature of a human's skin.
Actually, yeah he stands a good chance of winning. The AG would have to be insane to put this in front of a judge, as he would likely be dismissed quickly.
Why? The VIN might be an indicator for variables that are specific to a certain production batch, but really I'm not seeing the use.
FYI, I did replace the powertrain control module in a 2000 Plymouth Breeze and I didn't even have to reprogram it. It just worked.
Thanks for the more complete reply. I was a bit skeptical you were anything but a troll who knew nothing of software development.
In truth, MS Visual Studio is light years beyond any other development environment on Windows, including Eclipse and Qt Creator. I'm not strictly anti-Microsoft, although I'm not a big fan of their abusive market practices. If I could effectively use Visual Studio to code Qt applications, I would be a happy camper.
As to languages, I'm not against GC in practice. I think it's a great idea. I just don't think GC alone is a reason to choose an application framework, GUI toolkit or language.
Yes, IMO Qt beats the pants off .NET/Winforms in developer productivity and ease of coding. The only exception being the contrived model/view architecture in Qt, specifically with using view item delegates to handle changes in model data. I'm not against subclassing QStyledItemDelegate - it's just very tiring to do it over and over and over and the number of classes needed to do this is asinine.
It's not all roses for Winforms though. The fact that it remains to this day a fancy wrapper for GDI controls is it's Achilles heel. When you reimplement classes like RichTextBox or ListBox, you often have to resort to passing WIN32 messages to your controls to get information you need. It's quite ridiculous that the API doesn't encapsulate the functionality of the control entirely.
Try creating a syntax highlighting rich text box in Qt. It's really a much easier proposition as document contents, syntax highlighting and text rendering are each handled in a separate, simpler class.
I have to sleep now, but maybe I'll post more gripes later.
You'd have better luck hacking the in-dash entertainment system. Most auto powertrain control modules are fairly anemic by computing standards.
My impression was that most repair shops are already equipped to deal with OBD-II cars, which would cover engine, emissions and transmission error codes. There are plenty of manufacturer specific codes, but as far as I know, the majority of them are already publicly available.
I haven't read the article yet. Does this just legislatively require manufacturers to release what is already known? Or does this go beyond OBD-II stuff?
I develop with Qt on Windows, so you can toss your Linux anti-user suppositions out the window.
Ease of coding is important for the developer because it allows them to use more logically use the API with less platform specific code. The experience for the end user is a more consistent interface across platforms, which is important when your product might be used by a single user on multiple platforms.
I'd be interested to hear of any specifics you have to offer about Qt 'quirkiness' on Windows.
Not really unsubstantiated dogma considering I have direct experience with both Qt and .NET/Winforms on windows.
What I say is only substantiation to the extent that you trust anonymous software developers on the internet. If you don't trust direct users of the software, the only way to substantiate what I say is for you to get off your ass and start coding in them both to see what I'm talking about.
If you're not a software developer at all, then just don't comment on the topic since you don't know what you're talking about.
OpenSolaris has no EAL rating either, but that doesn't mean it isn't secure.
Solaris has a long history of common criteria testing and OpenSolaris is largely based on the Solaris codebase, or so I've been told. The one doesn't require the other, but it does allow you to make some fairly safe assumptions about the fundamental design and security of the operating system, assuming it is set up properly.
At the hands of an idiot, any OS can be insecure.
If I were Larry Ellison, I would invest in a packaged Sparc based server running OpenSolaris with Oracle on top.
Call it a NAS/CMS/whatever-you-need in a box. And since it's from Oracle, who only have customers with deep pockets, they don't need to be shy about pricing it too high.
I'm having a hard time deciphering why the license for the ZFS source code would affect the end user?
It smells like a red herring to me. Is it the license, or the additional support for Solaris that the customers are avoiding?
I grew up on Slackware. If Patrick switched to the dark side and forked OpenSolaris, I would probably drop Linux from my home server and switch just on principle.