That's great, because in all honesty, MS was kicking out ass in the low bitrate audio area. If you have heard the MS codec for low bitrate, you know what I am talking about, it's incredible. I believe Yahoo chat uses it for their voice chat.
That's all fine and dandy, and it works OK in the summer, but in the winter, when the heat pump has to make up for more than a couple degrees difference, it's going to throw on the auxillary coils which suck down tons of power in the least efficient method of heating, pure resistive. It's much more efficient to never move the thermostat more than 2 degrees or so in the winter.
During the fake california energy crisis there were a lot of public service ads regarding the thermostat, and turning it before you leave for work, so as to not waste energy on the house when no one is in it.
I don't particularly see how this saves energy, since if the house gets hotter/cooler during the day, the heat pump will have to run that much harder when you get home to bring the temperature back down to a comfortable level.
Anyway, I live in Virginia and I somehow managed to get these ads, so I think some were nationwide.
People seem surprised that Forbes would run a series such as this...
"(Full disclosure: VA Software owns OSDN, whose Slashdot Web site provides tech news to Forbes.com.) "
So this story is really more like some strange circle jerk, Slashdot provides the news to forbes.com, then links to forbes.com as if it is an independant source.
But if you avoid the Windows license fee, then you are violating the contract among you, M$, and the laptop manufacturer [and] subverting the law
What the fuck are you talking about. I didn't sign any contract, and there sure as hell not be any laws requiring MS products to be sold with every laptop. If the OEM sells me a laptop without an OS in violation of a contract they signed, that's their business.
Just study cult behavior. Cults aren't all just people with no testicles who believe aliens are going to come pick them up from behind a comet. If you work in the corporate world, you are probably part of a cult. Lets define cult in this sense as not necessarily the destructive cults you might think of, but more like a more formalized subculture.
The people who are joining the open source movement now, are doing so because it does the job better than what they were using. The reason they then would advocate Linux to others, isn't necessarily altruistic, but it builds the cult that they have become part of. Success of the cult has become a motivation in and of itself now.
Do you really think they won't break things if they are the epicenter of the actual development efforts? There really hasn't been one example of MS implementing a standard and not breaking it in some way so that is "works best with Windows(tm)".
Even if you could spin the hard disk at 100,000 rpm axle and friction wise, you would have a hell of a time keeping the platters from exploding.
Hell, even at 10,000 rpm, I wouldn't want to see what a platter physical failure would look like, that's a lot of energy in one spot.
Platters are pretty strong these days at least. I've taken apart old and modern hard disks, and the modern platters are a hell of a lot stronger than the old ones. It seems the older ones were made of some brittle glass/ceramic, and the newer ones are some metal alloy. The old ones also probably never went higher than 3600 rpm, if that.
But that's not true. A gasoline powerplant, or more correctly, an internal combustion engine is fundamentally different from something like an electric motor. An internal combustion engine has zero torque at zero RPM (it can't run at zero RPM). An electric motor can start from a dead stop and doesn't need to maintain a relatively narrow band of RPMs to produce power.
This is just one example, but an important one. Electric motors also scale differently, one example that others have pointed to is that it is feasible to have a small motor for each wheel, something that is not feasible for internal combustion engines.
I think there are fundamental differences between these technologies, and the redesign is warranted.
It definitely would cost more than grid electricity. If, by some miracle these small fuel cells are more efficient than a modern power generation facility, then everyone would just use them instead of getting on the grid. The power companies would all be out of business.
Oh yeah, so sorry that something you got for free isn't up to par. Thousands of hours of work have been made available for you to use for free, they even gave you access to the source code, so that you can do whatever you like with it, with few restrictions, and you bitch because you can't take a few minutes to figure out how to install it.
It would be a little different if you had paid the developers for their time, but the way I see it, you are an arrogant bastard for saying something like that to people who are donating their work for the benefit of everyone.
not everyone has the programming skills necessary to do so. The point is not that everyone should maintain their own source code;
And as an extension to that, you can always hire a consultant to fix up the software for you. That's not as expensive as it sounds, since once the software does what you want it to, it really doesn't need to be maintained much anymore.
At work we are running RPG code on a System/36 emulator from the 80s, and it rarely needs too much maintenence. The main concern is having the data in an accessible format, so that you have a migration path off the old software eventually. Flat EBCEDIC text files aren't quite the most portable, but it has output filters that let us synchronize the postgres database to it nightly. They will also eventually let us migrate off of it.
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That's great, because in all honesty, MS was kicking out ass in the low bitrate audio area. If you have heard the MS codec for low bitrate, you know what I am talking about, it's incredible. I believe Yahoo chat uses it for their voice chat.
Good job ogg team!
That's all fine and dandy, and it works OK in the summer, but in the winter, when the heat pump has to make up for more than a couple degrees difference, it's going to throw on the auxillary coils which suck down tons of power in the least efficient method of heating, pure resistive. It's much more efficient to never move the thermostat more than 2 degrees or so in the winter.
Havn't you followed this Enron thing at all?
During the fake california energy crisis there were a lot of public service ads regarding the thermostat, and turning it before you leave for work, so as to not waste energy on the house when no one is in it.
I don't particularly see how this saves energy, since if the house gets hotter/cooler during the day, the heat pump will have to run that much harder when you get home to bring the temperature back down to a comfortable level.
Anyway, I live in Virginia and I somehow managed to get these ads, so I think some were nationwide.
People seem surprised that Forbes would run a series such as this...
"(Full disclosure: VA Software owns OSDN, whose Slashdot Web site provides tech news to Forbes.com.) "
So this story is really more like some strange circle jerk, Slashdot provides the news to forbes.com, then links to forbes.com as if it is an independant source.
I bet if you posted the color of his tie as another PS, you would get modded up too.
You might want to output a \n every now and then, sometimes extremely long lines can confuse some browsers.
But if you avoid the Windows license fee, then you are violating the contract among you, M$, and the laptop manufacturer [and] subverting the law
What the fuck are you talking about. I didn't sign any contract, and there sure as hell not be any laws requiring MS products to be sold with every laptop. If the OEM sells me a laptop without an OS in violation of a contract they signed, that's their business.
Or maybe you were just trolling?
I have Starband. Pings range from 600ms to 1200ms generally. I think the best ping in theory is something like 400ms, with geostationary satellites.
Just study cult behavior. Cults aren't all just people with no testicles who believe aliens are going to come pick them up from behind a comet.
If you work in the corporate world, you are probably part of a cult. Lets define cult in this sense as not necessarily the destructive cults you might think of, but more like a more formalized subculture.
The people who are joining the open source movement now, are doing so because it does the job better than what they were using. The reason they then would advocate Linux to others, isn't necessarily altruistic, but it builds the cult that they have become part of. Success of the cult has become a motivation in and of itself now.
Do you really think they won't break things if they are the epicenter of the actual development efforts? There really hasn't been one example of MS implementing a standard and not breaking it in some way so that is "works best with Windows(tm)".
You know, california should just simplify their laws and say what IS legal. It would be a short list.
Someone needs to start up a Peru chapter of FreeLinuxCd.org.
They already have chapters in Venezuela, Canada, Malaysia, England, and India.
Any volunteers?
Even if you could spin the hard disk at 100,000 rpm axle and friction wise, you would have a hell of a time keeping the platters from exploding.
Hell, even at 10,000 rpm, I wouldn't want to see what a platter physical failure would look like, that's a lot of energy in one spot.
Platters are pretty strong these days at least. I've taken apart old and modern hard disks, and the modern platters are a hell of a lot stronger than the old ones. It seems the older ones were made of some brittle glass/ceramic, and the newer ones are some metal alloy. The old ones also probably never went higher than 3600 rpm, if that.
But that's not true. A gasoline powerplant, or more correctly, an internal combustion engine is fundamentally different from something like an electric motor. An internal combustion engine has zero torque at zero RPM (it can't run at zero RPM). An electric motor can start from a dead stop and doesn't need to maintain a relatively narrow band of RPMs to produce power.
This is just one example, but an important one. Electric motors also scale differently, one example that others have pointed to is that it is feasible to have a small motor for each wheel, something that is not feasible for internal combustion engines.
I think there are fundamental differences between these technologies, and the redesign is warranted.
The fact that they feel the need to reinvent something that has over 100 years of refinement tells me they are doing something wrong.
I don't know where to start on this really.
The abacus had thousands of years of refinement, care to trade in your calculator or computer?
It definitely would cost more than grid electricity. If, by some miracle these small fuel cells are more efficient than a modern power generation facility, then everyone would just use them instead of getting on the grid. The power companies would all be out of business.
He is thinking of EPROM which are erased by UV exposure, a completely different type of ROM.
A photoflash does contain a lot of UV though.
I don't really know too much about the RPG stuff. I just know it has line numbers, and is pretty old fashioned.
Heh, Ironic, I'm a fucking retard. Nevermind. Iptables is Netfilter.
Don't correct people when you don't have a clue. IPFilter is iptables.
Better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
The "content of the data packet" include the various headers too. You are reading too much into the fairly generic wording.
ObToyStory:
Note: Not a flying rich guy.
lazy-ass, elitist, nerdy schmucks
Oh yeah, so sorry that something you got for free isn't up to par. Thousands of hours of work have been made available for you to use for free, they even gave you access to the source code, so that you can do whatever you like with it, with few restrictions, and you bitch because you can't take a few minutes to figure out how to install it.
It would be a little different if you had paid the developers for their time, but the way I see it, you are an arrogant bastard for saying something like that to people who are donating their work for the benefit of everyone.
not everyone has the programming skills necessary to do so.
The point is not that everyone should maintain their own source code;
And as an extension to that, you can always hire a consultant to fix up the software for you. That's not as expensive as it sounds, since once the software does what you want it to, it really doesn't need to be maintained much anymore.
At work we are running RPG code on a System/36 emulator from the 80s, and it rarely needs too much maintenence. The main concern is having the data in an accessible format, so that you have a migration path off the old software eventually. Flat EBCEDIC text files aren't quite the most portable, but it has output filters that let us synchronize the postgres database to it nightly. They will also eventually let us migrate off of it.