They are not are not at all efficient to use. In fact about 1.2 to 1.4x the amount of energy is required to produce the hydrogen as the hydrogen is capable of releasing. So, of course, the emissions associated with the production of that hydrogen are also released.
The advantage comes as large scale production of "clean" energy (ie. wind/solar/tidal) is developed. It is hardly practical to install solar panels on the roof of your car, but a large solar plant in the middle of the desert could easily produce enough "clean" energy for a significant volume of hydrogen production.
"When do you need extra ringtones to make a cell phone work?"
You have obviously never been around an office filled with cellphones that all have the same ring. I was working in Indonesia for a while where cell phones are ubiquitous, as they are way cheaper than landlines and, well, mobile. It really is quite funny to see 10 people all reach for their pocket every 5 minutes when someones phone would ring. We would try changing ringtones, but all 4 of the built-in tones sounded pretty much the same and I'll let you do the math, but 4 ring tones and 30 people. The same thing would happen on buses or in other public places, where the same el-cheapo phones were extremely common.
U hereby acknowledge that this post contains some slight exaggerations for dramatic effect
Heck, why not take this one step further then. Since most telecom systems are digital nowadays The government wouldn't require a wiretap warrant for any phone calls either, because the carrier could be ordered to deliver the contents of the call jitter-buffer since the "data" is in storage on the phone switch, not in transit.
I guess this means that anyone leasing a computer is also guilty of distributing copyrighted materials, since the leased computer is still the property of the lessor until the machine is purchased outright.
I'm in a similar position to you. I am a UNIX sysadmin in a medium sized ISP. Daily duties include hacking scripts and I live in about 1/2 dozen ssh sessions at any given moment in time. We are stuck with the typical bullsh*t windows apps (about 4 of them) that are, unfortunately, a daily requirement.
My solution to this problem was to buy a macbook. I bought it myself, with my own money, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat. I have terminal at my fingertips--a full and proper shell. I run MS office (my boss is somewhat of an excel junkie and frequently distributes obscene spreadsheets to OO doesn't quite like--although I haven't tried for about 1 year) and any other windows apps, I either run via remote desktop to my "standard issue" POS windows box or I run in a parallels VM. (Parallels is frickin' awesome!)
I also invested in a cheap KVM switch, so when I'm at my desk I can jack in and save my backlight or flip up and run in dual-screen mode for added desktop realestate or, at the flip of a key I can drop over to my PC in the rare case that Remote desktop or Parallels don't cut it--I did some significant testing on a video conference platform for a while that required this.
And to top it all of I have a kick-a$$ laptop that I use personally as well.
many of you participating in this 2 minute hate, like the parent poster, are being absolutely fucking ridiculous.
This is exactly the attitude that allows corporations to drop any pretext of morality and run amok. Regardless of the fact that the Sony executives were presumable acting in alleged good faith that the rootkit was merely a harmless means of deterring copyright infingement, it is still their responsibility to know what it is and what it does. If the product they release breaks criminal laws then a crime has been committed. They haven't even been offered a day in court.
I'm not trying to put Sony above Microsoft or any other legitimized banditry, just keeping on topic.
Corporations today have such an absurd lack of accountability that I could rant on about it for days, and honestly, much more eloquent people than myself have done so already.
And as for being a "two minute hate" I'm afraid I have to take the moral high-ground on this one. I won't buy music produced on a Sony label, and Sony's other products certainly get pushed further down the list.
If more people actually gave a rats-ass and put their money where their mouth is we wouldn't have this problem, but the sad reality is nobody really cares, so the same people that spent hundreds of dollars to get their computers fixed will still go out and buy the next Britney Spears CD or whatever crap-du-jour Sony is pushing as entertainment.
If I hacked into thousands of computers and installed a root kit without permission, I'm pretty sure I would be facing enough jail-time to seriously stretch my sphincter. In Texas, I bet that would probably be enough to get the chair! Someone should be going to jail for this kinda crap, and Sony should have their corporate charter dismissed and the assets seized. (corporate death sentence)
yeah, but then what will we have to bring in to control the Red Lobster population explosion in 30 years! It's a delicate balance....soon you will have Red-Lobster-wanna-be franchises making cheaper and cheaper crab-dishes until the only survivors will be left trapped in stasis waiting for more lemon-scented napkins...
It's funny how quickly people will just happily download the latest plugin just because their browser popped up and told them to do it. Maybe Firefox should relase a "browser plugin" Basically, uninstall IE and replace it with firefox. I'm sure this would be quite simple to do considering how easily people can be socially engineered to click on just about anything...
I agree with your principal statement, but not the logic behind it. The problem is more with the people: Nobody wants to spend the time on the mailroom floor working up from the bottom so to speak. They are all just hoping for the instant gratification that is promised by Microsoft certification. Woo-f-ing-Hoo. You have a certificate and now you're a somebody. You are too great and mighty to spend a couple of years doing phone support and sound-card-swapping while trying to work up from the inside.
Get to know your network administrator...Learn your network--even if you don't have priviledges to administer anything.
Position yourself.
Good systems administrators are hard to find because they don't take shit and tend to be somewhat revered so they don't make it out onto the open job market. And you certainly don't get to be a good sysadmin wihtout being able to look forwards far enough to keep yourself in a good position.
blah, blah, blah...does any of that make any sense? damn...think I need another beer *hehe*
The whole problem with IT "certification" is that it is doesn't keep the people who don't know what they are doing out. It is, in fact handling them (the people who don't know what they are doing) the keys to the front door and inviting them in for tea and biscuits and telling them to make themselves quite comfortable as if they really belong.
I think one of the points that is often overlooked in this debate is the fact that they can freely charge whatever they want, BUT you are not allowed to resell it for whatever you want.
There are also many issues revolving around the fact that the Big Media corps. make it extremely difficult for anyone to independantly distibute their own works through mainstream channels.
Finally, keep in mind that copyright laws have largely been written by the Big Media corps as well. That a person can own a thought or idea, (i.e. Intellectual Property) really is a pretty nebulous concept designed to protect corporate interests more than anything.
Ericsson's One Phone is a PBX system that can treat any mobile phone as an extension...
Anyone with 1/2 a clue has been able to make a PBX do this for as long as there have been PBX's and cell phones. What's the news here? It also means that you are sucking up the minutes for every call. How is this any sort of cost saver?
I have been supporting HP large format printers for several years now, and usually when a customer buys a $20K printer they want a support contract with it. If anything is not right with the printer output, a tech is dispatched. The ink cartridges have an expiry date for the same reason a carton of milk does--it goes bad after sitting on the shelf for a long time. Enforcing an electronic expiry date has reduced the number of support calls for printers with colour balance problems, thus reducing the number off customers that get pissed off because they have to pay a $500 call-out fee for a tech to change a print cartridge.
Before anyone gets too worked up about this, keep in mind that anything in an insecure environment is inherently insecure. By putting a piece of encryption hardware out into the public where millions of people have access to it means that it will eventually be reverse engineered. They thought DVD would be a secure medium, but that didn't last very long, and now they are screwed because they have to maintain backwards compatabilty. The same thimg will happen with any sort of DRM hardware that is released. It will get hacked, and a software emulator will be built, or some sort of a mod chip, and then the whole system will eb compromised. Of course this will all be made so much easier bedcause of infighting in the industry that won't allow for a very well implemented system.
Better yet, Provide those addresses with the correct search results, but change all the links to the raunchiest porn (or pictures of little puppy dogs, if that better suits your sense of moral rectitude)
Slashdot Mirror
They are not are not at all efficient to use. In fact about 1.2 to 1.4x the amount of energy is required to produce the hydrogen as the hydrogen is capable of releasing. So, of course, the emissions associated with the production of that hydrogen are also released.
The advantage comes as large scale production of "clean" energy (ie. wind/solar/tidal) is developed. It is hardly practical to install solar panels on the roof of your car, but a large solar plant in the middle of the desert could easily produce enough "clean" energy for a significant volume of hydrogen production.
"When do you need extra ringtones to make a cell phone work?"
You have obviously never been around an office filled with cellphones that all have the same ring. I was working in Indonesia for a while where cell phones are ubiquitous, as they are way cheaper than landlines and, well, mobile. It really is quite funny to see 10 people all reach for their pocket every 5 minutes when someones phone would ring. We would try changing ringtones, but all 4 of the built-in tones sounded pretty much the same and I'll let you do the math, but 4 ring tones and 30 people. The same thing would happen on buses or in other public places, where the same el-cheapo phones were extremely common.
U hereby acknowledge that this post contains some slight exaggerations for dramatic effect
Heck, why not take this one step further then. Since most telecom systems are digital nowadays The government wouldn't require a wiretap warrant for any phone calls either, because the carrier could be ordered to deliver the contents of the call jitter-buffer since the "data" is in storage on the phone switch, not in transit.
I guess this means that anyone leasing a computer is also guilty of distributing copyrighted materials, since the leased computer is still the property of the lessor until the machine is purchased outright.
bah!
Also, as I've been finding out, a 'bright' room causes havoc with pointer detection.
I've had this problem too, and overcome it for the most part in the wii setup menu by adjusting the controller sensitivity.
FWIW, The wiimote is the most brilliant inovation in human interface design since well, since...ever. Some people just don't get it.
I'm in a similar position to you. I am a UNIX sysadmin in a medium sized ISP. Daily duties include hacking scripts and I live in about 1/2 dozen ssh sessions at any given moment in time. We are stuck with the typical bullsh*t windows apps (about 4 of them) that are, unfortunately, a daily requirement.
My solution to this problem was to buy a macbook. I bought it myself, with my own money, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat. I have terminal at my fingertips--a full and proper shell. I run MS office (my boss is somewhat of an excel junkie and frequently distributes obscene spreadsheets to OO doesn't quite like--although I haven't tried for about 1 year) and any other windows apps, I either run via remote desktop to my "standard issue" POS windows box or I run in a parallels VM. (Parallels is frickin' awesome!)
I also invested in a cheap KVM switch, so when I'm at my desk I can jack in and save my backlight or flip up and run in dual-screen mode for added desktop realestate or, at the flip of a key I can drop over to my PC in the rare case that Remote desktop or Parallels don't cut it--I did some significant testing on a video conference platform for a while that required this.
And to top it all of I have a kick-a$$ laptop that I use personally as well.
Oh Good! Maybe with all the money saved on superfluous CGI he can afford to hire a good writer!
many of you participating in this 2 minute hate, like the parent poster, are being absolutely fucking ridiculous.
This is exactly the attitude that allows corporations to drop any pretext of morality and run amok. Regardless of the fact that the Sony executives were presumable acting in alleged good faith that the rootkit was merely a harmless means of deterring copyright infingement, it is still their responsibility to know what it is and what it does. If the product they release breaks criminal laws then a crime has been committed. They haven't even been offered a day in court.
I'm not trying to put Sony above Microsoft or any other legitimized banditry, just keeping on topic.
Corporations today have such an absurd lack of accountability that I could rant on about it for days, and honestly, much more eloquent people than myself have done so already.
And as for being a "two minute hate" I'm afraid I have to take the moral high-ground on this one. I won't buy music produced on a Sony label, and Sony's other products certainly get pushed further down the list.
If more people actually gave a rats-ass and put their money where their mouth is we wouldn't have this problem, but the sad reality is nobody really cares, so the same people that spent hundreds of dollars to get their computers fixed will still go out and buy the next Britney Spears CD or whatever crap-du-jour Sony is pushing as entertainment.
If I hacked into thousands of computers and installed a root kit without permission, I'm pretty sure I would be facing enough jail-time to seriously stretch my sphincter. In Texas, I bet that would probably be enough to get the chair! Someone should be going to jail for this kinda crap, and Sony should have their corporate charter dismissed and the assets seized. (corporate death sentence)
No, that means that it will be out there, but it will no be difficult to locate and remove.
yeah, but then what will we have to bring in to control the Red Lobster population explosion in 30 years! It's a delicate balance....soon you will have Red-Lobster-wanna-be franchises making cheaper and cheaper crab-dishes until the only survivors will be left trapped in stasis waiting for more lemon-scented napkins...
Windows would be illegal as most hackers will use it as a part of their toolkit, and so will TCP/IP for that matter.
Perhaps the use of the letter E and the binary number 0 should also be considered illegal as they are useful tools used by hackers.
It's funny how quickly people will just happily download the latest plugin just because their browser popped up and told them to do it. Maybe Firefox should relase a "browser plugin" Basically, uninstall IE and replace it with firefox. I'm sure this would be quite simple to do considering how easily people can be socially engineered to click on just about anything...
I fully agree. Norton was great in the 'ol DOS days.
Same with ghost, and PC anywhere too
hmmm...starting to notice a trend here. A whole bunch of great products turned into festering crap-piles after being bought up by symantec...
Go! Corporate America! Go!
I think you missed a really important one:
/ducks
Big Objects Orbiting Binary Stars...
I agree with your principal statement, but not the logic behind it.
The problem is more with the people: Nobody wants to spend the time on the mailroom floor working up from the bottom so to speak. They are all just hoping for the instant gratification that is promised by Microsoft certification. Woo-f-ing-Hoo. You have a certificate and now you're a somebody. You are too great and mighty to spend a couple of years doing phone support and sound-card-swapping while trying to work up from the inside.
Get to know your network administrator...Learn your network--even if you don't have priviledges to administer anything.
Position yourself.
Good systems administrators are hard to find because they don't take shit and tend to be somewhat revered so they don't make it out onto the open job market. And you certainly don't get to be a good sysadmin wihtout being able to look forwards far enough to keep yourself in a good position.
blah, blah, blah...does any of that make any sense? damn...think I need another beer *hehe*
The whole problem with IT "certification" is that it is doesn't keep the people who don't know what they are doing out. It is, in fact handling them (the people who don't know what they are doing) the keys to the front door and inviting them in for tea and biscuits and telling them to make themselves quite comfortable as if they really belong.
I think one of the points that is often overlooked in this debate is the fact that they can freely charge whatever they want, BUT you are not allowed to resell it for whatever you want.
There are also many issues revolving around the fact that the Big Media corps. make it extremely difficult for anyone to independantly distibute their own works through mainstream channels.
Finally, keep in mind that copyright laws have largely been written by the Big Media corps as well. That a person can own a thought or idea, (i.e. Intellectual Property) really is a pretty nebulous concept designed to protect corporate interests more than anything.
Looks like it has been so long since 4 was released that everyone has forgotten how unreliable 4 was, up until about 4.5 or 4.6.
I think it's great to see the FreeBSD team setting some lofty goals and working towards them.
Ericsson's One Phone is a PBX system that can treat any mobile phone as an extension...
Anyone with 1/2 a clue has been able to make a PBX do this for as long as there have been PBX's and cell phones. What's the news here?
It also means that you are sucking up the minutes for every call. How is this any sort of cost saver?
I have been supporting HP large format printers for several years now, and usually when a customer buys a $20K printer they want a support contract with it. If anything is not right with the printer output, a tech is dispatched. The ink cartridges have an expiry date for the same reason a carton of milk does--it goes bad after sitting on the shelf for a long time.
Enforcing an electronic expiry date has reduced the number of support calls for printers with colour balance problems, thus reducing the number off customers that get pissed off because they have to pay a $500 call-out fee for a tech to change a print cartridge.
yeah, I think the tech is old nes, but it's _finally_ hit the shelves...
Before anyone gets too worked up about this, keep in mind that anything in an insecure environment is inherently insecure.
By putting a piece of encryption hardware out into the public where millions of people have access to it means that it will eventually be reverse engineered.
They thought DVD would be a secure medium, but that didn't last very long, and now they are screwed because they have to maintain backwards compatabilty.
The same thimg will happen with any sort of DRM hardware that is released. It will get hacked, and a software emulator will be built, or some sort of a mod chip, and then the whole system will eb compromised.
Of course this will all be made so much easier bedcause of infighting in the industry that won't allow for a very well implemented system.
Better yet, Provide those addresses with the correct search results, but change all the links to the raunchiest porn (or pictures of little puppy dogs, if that better suits your sense of moral rectitude)
Perhaps transcoding your pr0n would be necessary in soviet russia, but elsewhere the box streams video to you.