First off, they obviously can put textbooks on CD rom. The only problem is that people do not buy them much. Most people in a college setting have a computer, and virtually every person on campus has access to a computer. The problem is that most people like to have their texts in class. Now I carry a laptop with me everywhere, but I am currently in the minority at my school. Even if everyone carried a laptop, there's still the issue of taking it to class. I get a whopping 8 hours of battery life out of my computer, but most other students are not as lucky. I rarely see someone carrying a windows machine that can make it the whole way through a lecture class. There are only a couple electrical outlets in the room... my point with this that portable computers need to advance a bit more, and become a hell of a lot cheaper. Then you will see almost all materials distributed electronically.
Most of my classes already post the sylibi online, and a lot of the homework assignments are given out this way as well. You can get textbooks on CD very easy though. Last year, I obtained two of my texts on CD rom. This year, I got a demo CD on campus that had a huge listing of books available.
I do care about the environment, and it may be on the selfish side, but I prefer to put my safety and my car's performance first.
What I'm saying is that we need better fuels, as well as alternate means of propulsion.
All these L/ZEVs make me sick.. they are too damn light and the performance is too low to be useful for anything other than driving to work 2 miles at 25 miles an hour.
What about those of use who have a 20+ mile commute at 65mph+ ???
I will never take a 60hp 1100 lbs car on the freeway, ever. All others be damned... it's not like I don't drive an illegal car illegally already.
But ALMOST means that it will break at some point or another. Yes, there is much less maintenance involved with electric vehicles.
Electric vehicles will have much simpler transmissions (if they even have one at all other than a one-speed transaxle),
Most electric vehicles to date have no transmission. Electric motors have the most torque at stall, and torque diminished exponentially with rotation speed. Though it does not diminish enough to require it to pull another gear. An operating range of 0 - 80 mph is good for a city car. (and it will hit the speed limit in rural areas.)
Stop and go traffic will be less of a waste energy (no idling gas engine), and
you don't have to worry about your electric car heating up the transmission/engine while stuck in rush hour.
What about lights, radio, and HVAC? Turning off everything while in rush hour is not very conveinient for most people. That's why I'd like a [serial] hybrid car better. I don't (usually) worry about running out of gas when I sit at a long light or in traffic, I don't want to worry about taking 30 miles off my trip because I want to keep the lights on.
Basically, all you have to do is keep air in the tires, and the batteries charged, and you'll be good to go in an electric car.
It would be nice if it was that simple. But just because you will not need oil changes and tune ups, does not mean all that much less work. Batteries don't last long, the lithium-ion battery in my laptop lasted less than two ears, and I took care of it. NiCads are no better.
In short pure electric is not a good idea. Electric traction is great. But what I would like to see is electric energy provided on board the car.. bateries charged by the sun, gas engine, or other more efficient source.
Until then, PapaSmurf is smurfing up the wrong tree.
Around here, a volkswagon jetta picks up chicks... they hate any loud, unpainted muscle car.
But me, I don't care.. I'm married. And the wife likes to put more dents in it as an extra measure to prevent any other chicks from gravitating towards it.
Sorry, but nothing is maintenance free. Everything will break at one time or another. Computers, cars, houses, even linux has broken on me a couple times.
Electric vehicles may get less wear and tear due to fewer moving parts than gas-burning cars. But electric cars are a lot different. You can't usually work on a 600 V power converter in your garage. (Well, maybe you can, but cars are getting less and less easy to work on.)
Most teenagers I've known drive trendy volkswagons and honda civics and such. In the teen world, it's trendy to drive cheep, light, and sometimes efficient cars.
Soccer moms and yuppies are the ones driving the suvs. I find it disgusting that they never go off-road.
I think that the younger people are going to buy up the hybrids and ZEV's first. All because of targeted marketing at colleges and tempting financing plans.
Me, I go against the grain. I buy something ugly, and build it up myself. I'll most likely build my own hybrid within the next few years. I hope to get my hands on a good 600 hp traction motor from a locomotive. Power that thing with two small V-8s or V-6s (one or both at a time), and I'll have something I'll like.
No seriously, this worries me. Every year, my dart becomes more and more illegal. I could never register my car in california, and someday soon it will not be legal here in utah.
I'm not driving a car such as this (dodge dart - 383 cid small block) in order to ruin the environment, but I would never consider driving a metro with a paltry 60 horsepower.
I think low emmission vehicles are a great idea, but I've usually found them weak, light, and slow. I'd rather see better fuels engineered, so I can keep my big engine.
(on a side note, my engine with no catalytic converters has passed smog check two years in a row.)
In short, I would like to see more performance to go along with low emissions. Civics are a decent start, but I would personally like to see more.
I thought that the computer of 2010 would have as many as 40,000 vacuum tubes, weigh only two tons, and cost only a few hundred thousand dollars. Plus fit in only one medium sized room.
I bet I had the world record for that when I was a kid. I'd set up huge cities in my room.. it would take weeks. (only took a few minutes to wreck and start over when I got bored.)
Aah, brio and legos, that takes me back. I still have a good big bucket of legos in my apartment. I play with them when I'm sick of life, work, homework, and my computers.
Unfortunately, that makes it's email features useless for most people like me. It should not be tied to one email program, especially outlook.
Unfortunately, I can't expect anyone to write software that would sync with anything. My linux notebook is thin and light... and yet another PDA is not going to make me leave my notebook at home.
Sorry, but I'll only buy one if it's a laptop replacement.
(ignore the sig.. I try not to break things like this.)
What it needs is a self-contained grit-petrification unit coupled to a high velocity grit cannon cluster.
Petrified grits would do more damage than some puny miliwatt-level laser. This is coming from someone who used to have hardened oatmeal fights as a child.
I agree with your point, but I find it a better idea to up the security on both boxes. Once the cracker breaks into the first box, make it hard to get to the rest of the network.
My main point is that you can never have too many locks on the door. It may be clumsy and excessive, but I think the time will pay off when that kiddie tries to poke around.
In that situation, I found it funny. It was more of a typo than a spelling error.
Besides, you should see my 31337 firewall d00d! It has no hard drive, but I striped two floppies and run a firewall/masq-from-floppy with raid-5. I'll be writing a HOWTO illustrating how I created a Scsi-2 based hardware raid floppy disk controller.
Just wait until you see my MSDOS-3.0 based super secure "enterprise solution" firewall.
Try telling that to people who have been cracked in the past. When I lived in the dorms, I had a freeBSD box ravaged for no reason, just people being assholes.
With security, overkill is not a bad thing. I can brag about my '31337' firewall / masq gate I made for my office all I want, but all it takes is one hole, and I might as well be running an NT server as my router.
"obsolete" computers are easy to get.. most of mine were given away to me. It's well worth the effort to set up some extra security. You never know when you will need it.
The author of the article mentions that he has an extra 486 sitting around. What should be done with it? Should his wife use it to run windows 3.1 and play solitaire? At least my wife uses linux, so I don't need to argue over all the computers in the house. I set up the network, and she gets work done.
Firewall, Masq, filter, and firewall again.. make it harder to break. (ignore the irony in the sig.)
386, 486, or old pentium lying around: stolen/borrowed/bought for $4 -- whatever.
IPv4 Masq gate (linux or OS of choice)
Mason - good firewall builder, very easy
Filter some ports
A copy of the TOS, so you know what you're violating.:)
It's not like I've violated most of the TOS for @home already. They are my only choice for office connectivity, unless my employer wishes to pay $800+ / month for T1 or something.
I took an old P133 some dumb secretary was playing solitaire on, then striped it, installed linux, and had a masq gate ready in under an hour. I put it on the network as the gateway, then explained to @home that we couldn't do much with the service, but my boss likes to browse around really fast at work, but everyone else uses a modem to send email. After the "haha, dumb boss" type of crap from them, I knew that they were clueless. I had a couple problems with the service, and even after explaining what I ran (which violated the terms of service), the customer service reps were too uneducated to even know that anything was wrong. (I was even asked if I had called linux.)
They do not care, nor have the resources to even detect most violations of their TOS.
It's all stupid, and maybe I should play by the rules.. but oh well.
There is a big difference between being hassled by clueless cops, and being killed by a nazi police force.
Though you could argue that one can lead to another. In other words, the police hassling/brutality could get out of hand and they'll start rounding up the "handicapped" (rapists, kiddie pornographers, etc.)
I've had my share of run ins with the law, and I do see some of the paralells with nazi germany. Try having long hair and driving a muscle car in utah. I had police "intervention" on a weekly basis.
... but we have a long way to go before those horrors start happening.
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First off, they obviously can put textbooks on CD rom. The only problem is that people do not buy them much. Most people in a college setting have a computer, and virtually every person on campus has access to a computer. The problem is that most people like to have their texts in class. Now I carry a laptop with me everywhere, but I am currently in the minority at my school. Even if everyone carried a laptop, there's still the issue of taking it to class. I get a whopping 8 hours of battery life out of my computer, but most other students are not as lucky. I rarely see someone carrying a windows machine that can make it the whole way through a lecture class. There are only a couple electrical outlets in the room... my point with this that portable computers need to advance a bit more, and become a hell of a lot cheaper. Then you will see almost all materials distributed electronically.
Most of my classes already post the sylibi online, and a lot of the homework assignments are given out this way as well. You can get textbooks on CD very easy though. Last year, I obtained two of my texts on CD rom. This year, I got a demo CD on campus that had a huge listing of books available.
You did not get my point all that well.
I do care about the environment, and it may be on the selfish side, but I prefer to put my safety and my car's performance first.
What I'm saying is that we need better fuels, as well as alternate means of propulsion.
All these L/ZEVs make me sick.. they are too damn light and the performance is too low to be useful for anything other than driving to work 2 miles at 25 miles an hour.
What about those of use who have a 20+ mile commute at 65mph+ ???
I will never take a 60hp 1100 lbs car on the freeway, ever. All others be damned... it's not like I don't drive an illegal car illegally already.
Read the GPL, or license agreement on almost all software. It usually says something such as this:
This software carries NO WARRANTY, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. blah blah blah
If the software isn't intended for air traffic control or controlling a nuclear reactor, too bad if it crashes.
I said ALMOST maintenance free...
But ALMOST means that it will break at some point or another. Yes, there is much less maintenance involved with electric vehicles.
Electric vehicles will have much simpler transmissions (if they even have one at all other than a one-speed transaxle),
Most electric vehicles to date have no transmission. Electric motors have the most torque at stall, and torque diminished exponentially with rotation speed. Though it does not diminish enough to require it to pull another gear. An operating range of 0 - 80 mph is good for a city car. (and it will hit the speed limit in rural areas.)
Stop and go traffic will be less of a waste energy (no idling gas engine), and you don't have to worry about your electric car heating up the transmission/engine while stuck in rush hour.
What about lights, radio, and HVAC? Turning off everything while in rush hour is not very conveinient for most people. That's why I'd like a [serial] hybrid car better. I don't (usually) worry about running out of gas when I sit at a long light or in traffic, I don't want to worry about taking 30 miles off my trip because I want to keep the lights on.
Basically, all you have to do is keep air in the tires, and the batteries charged, and you'll be good to go in an electric car.
It would be nice if it was that simple. But just because you will not need oil changes and tune ups, does not mean all that much less work. Batteries don't last long, the lithium-ion battery in my laptop lasted less than two ears, and I took care of it. NiCads are no better.
In short pure electric is not a good idea. Electric traction is great. But what I would like to see is electric energy provided on board the car.. bateries charged by the sun, gas engine, or other more efficient source.
Until then, PapaSmurf is smurfing up the wrong tree.
Around here, a volkswagon jetta picks up chicks... they hate any loud, unpainted muscle car.
.. I'm married. And the wife likes to put more dents in it as an extra measure to prevent any other chicks from gravitating towards it.
But me, I don't care
Maintenance free?
Sorry, but nothing is maintenance free. Everything will break at one time or another. Computers, cars, houses, even linux has broken on me a couple times.
Electric vehicles may get less wear and tear due to fewer moving parts than gas-burning cars. But electric cars are a lot different. You can't usually work on a 600 V power converter in your garage. (Well, maybe you can, but cars are getting less and less easy to work on.)
Most teenagers I've known drive trendy volkswagons and honda civics and such. In the teen world, it's trendy to drive cheep, light, and sometimes efficient cars.
Soccer moms and yuppies are the ones driving the suvs. I find it disgusting that they never go off-road.
I think that the younger people are going to buy up the hybrids and ZEV's first. All because of targeted marketing at colleges and tempting financing plans.
Me, I go against the grain. I buy something ugly, and build it up myself. I'll most likely build my own hybrid within the next few years. I hope to get my hands on a good 600 hp traction motor from a locomotive. Power that thing with two small V-8s or V-6s (one or both at a time), and I'll have something I'll like.
What is the future of high emission vehicles?
No seriously, this worries me. Every year, my dart becomes more and more illegal. I could never register my car in california, and someday soon it will not be legal here in utah.
I'm not driving a car such as this (dodge dart - 383 cid small block) in order to ruin the environment, but I would never consider driving a metro with a paltry 60 horsepower.
I think low emmission vehicles are a great idea, but I've usually found them weak, light, and slow. I'd rather see better fuels engineered, so I can keep my big engine.
(on a side note, my engine with no catalytic converters has passed smog check two years in a row.)
In short, I would like to see more performance to go along with low emissions. Civics are a decent start, but I would personally like to see more.
I thought that the computer of 2010 would have as many as 40,000 vacuum tubes, weigh only two tons, and cost only a few hundred thousand dollars. Plus fit in only one medium sized room.
I bet I had the world record for that when I was a kid. I'd set up huge cities in my room .. it would take weeks. (only took a few minutes to wreck and start over when I got bored.)
Aah, brio and legos, that takes me back. I still have a good big bucket of legos in my apartment. I play with them when I'm sick of life, work, homework, and my computers.
Unfortunately, that makes it's email features useless for most people like me. It should not be tied to one email program, especially outlook.
.. I try not to break things like this.)
Unfortunately, I can't expect anyone to write software that would sync with anything. My linux notebook is thin and light... and yet another PDA is not going to make me leave my notebook at home.
Sorry, but I'll only buy one if it's a laptop replacement.
(ignore the sig
... I've said it before, and I will say it again.
Please test the KatzBot in tacohell ONLY.
Thank you
What it needs is a self-contained grit-petrification unit coupled to a high velocity grit cannon cluster.
Petrified grits would do more damage than some puny miliwatt-level laser. This is coming from someone who used to have hardened oatmeal fights as a child.
I got first post, and it was actually funny.
I agree with your point, but I find it a better idea to up the security on both boxes. Once the cracker breaks into the first box, make it hard to get to the rest of the network.
My main point is that you can never have too many locks on the door. It may be clumsy and excessive, but I think the time will pay off when that kiddie tries to poke around.
Taco: Please test the KatzBot in tacohell only.
Thank you.
Sorry, apmd doesn't support potato power yet. Plus my laptop's bios will not utilize advanced tuber power, only Lithium-Ion technology.
Look for it in the next stable release, or maybe netBSD will support it.
sarcasm doesn't help someone spell right
In that situation, I found it funny. It was more of a typo than a spelling error.
Besides, you should see my 31337 firewall d00d! It has no hard drive, but I striped two floppies and run a firewall/masq-from-floppy with raid-5. I'll be writing a HOWTO illustrating how I created a Scsi-2 based hardware raid floppy disk controller.
Just wait until you see my MSDOS-3.0 based super secure "enterprise solution" firewall.
Try telling that to people who have been cracked in the past. When I lived in the dorms, I had a freeBSD box ravaged for no reason, just people being assholes.
With security, overkill is not a bad thing. I can brag about my '31337' firewall / masq gate I made for my office all I want, but all it takes is one hole, and I might as well be running an NT server as my router.
"obsolete" computers are easy to get.. most of mine were given away to me. It's well worth the effort to set up some extra security. You never know when you will need it.
The author of the article mentions that he has an extra 486 sitting around. What should be done with it? Should his wife use it to run windows 3.1 and play solitaire? At least my wife uses linux, so I don't need to argue over all the computers in the house. I set up the network, and she gets work done.
Firewall, Masq, filter, and firewall again.. make it harder to break. (ignore the irony in the sig.)
386, 486, or old pentium lying around: stolen/borrowed/bought for $4 -- whatever.
IPv4 Masq gate (linux or OS of choice)
Mason - good firewall builder, very easy
Filter some ports
A copy of the TOS, so you know what you're violating.
some coffee (if that's your thing.)
priceless.
It's not like I've violated most of the TOS for @home already. They are my only choice for office connectivity, unless my employer wishes to pay $800+ / month for T1 or something.
.. but oh well.
I took an old P133 some dumb secretary was playing solitaire on, then striped it, installed linux, and had a masq gate ready in under an hour. I put it on the network as the gateway, then explained to @home that we couldn't do much with the service, but my boss likes to browse around really fast at work, but everyone else uses a modem to send email. After the "haha, dumb boss" type of crap from them, I knew that they were clueless. I had a couple problems with the service, and even after explaining what I ran (which violated the terms of service), the customer service reps were too uneducated to even know that anything was wrong. (I was even asked if I had called linux.)
They do not care, nor have the resources to even detect most violations of their TOS.
It's all stupid, and maybe I should play by the rules
People who take a phrase about JonKatz, and pervert it into something about Christ?
The fact that we replied to it now makes it a troll.
There is a big difference between being hassled by clueless cops, and being killed by a nazi police force.
... but we have a long way to go before those horrors start happening.
Though you could argue that one can lead to another. In other words, the police hassling/brutality could get out of hand and they'll start rounding up the "handicapped" (rapists, kiddie pornographers, etc.)
I've had my share of run ins with the law, and I do see some of the paralells with nazi germany. Try having long hair and driving a muscle car in utah. I had police "intervention" on a weekly basis.
I get more entertainment by watching /dev/random for a couple hours.
Like, who hasn't been hassled by the cops for no reason? They're only doing their job. What else is new?