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The cummins 6BT engine (that's the 6 cyclinder engine for light trucks and midsize equipment). You can find it in dodge 3/4 ton diesel pickups etc. this engine allows this 7,000 lb truck with a huge coefficient of friction (due to it's profile which pushes a lot of air) can get around 22MPG and still be able to generate 400 HP and 600 lb-ft of torque with a few upgrades. To put it in comparison, the gasoline version of this truck gets around 10MPG and has less power.
It uses an automatic fuel cutoff. Additionally, it does not use any glow plugs. Modern diesels use high pressure injection to cause the cylinder to burn. Mind you, this engine is probably 10 years old or more by now.
As for the low sulfur fuel is going to ruin a lot of the engines in the US because they use fuel pumps that are lubricated by the sulfur in the fuel. So, it will have a huge environmental and economic impact in the US to change fuels as it will mandate replacement of many engines and parts. It may cause more pollution than it prevetns.
Personally, i'd love to see more deisel passenger cars in the US as well as a mid size sport utility in turbo deisel with decent power in it.
Don't know about others, but Solaris 8 was able (according to sun) to run any Solaris compatible program from way back when without recompile.
Windows is in the unenvious position of running some old stuff, but not all of it, so customers can't count on old stuff working, but enough legacy code is there to make the OS spaggetti coded. (ie, enough modules are left because "someone might be using that" that there will always be tons of security and stability holes)
hear hear, I'm in the exact place right now except I did buy. Ithink i'll do well on the house, but it does make it more complex to move for a lot of reason.
I don't agree witht he needing two jobs thing. I think if you are blue collar manufacturing, maybe, but not for most jobs. you can live well on 40K even with a family. the key is to not "keep up with the joneses".
also, in the 50's, people fixed things and kept them longer. clothes, cars, dishwashers (if you had one) etc. houses were much smaller, etc. I think you could live the life of the 50's on one check just fine if you unsaddle yourself from debt and udnerstand that driving an old dodge to work is just fine so you can focus on your family.
Unless the massive amounts of consumer credit cause a crash in the real estate market as banks repossess and then offer to sell houses at a low value.
I own a home too, and this bothers me. thinking of liquidating it all (house, bimmer, etc), and living more simply until I can get into a job i feel more secure aobut (this one might end this week)
I've found their the best way to get a quick overview of a subject so that I can understand what experts are saying about it or take my knowledge further by going and reading more advanced books on the topics. For instance, learn unix in 24 hours is a good place to go before UNIX in a nutshell for someone who's never been at a UNIX terminal other than to type pine. also, they cover a lot of non-tech subjects. If you wanted to learn about real estate investing, they have books on that to get you started, or incorporating, or fly fishing or whatever. It's a great way to get a baseline understanding of a topic.
If you think this bill is a good idea, get out there immediately to http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html and write your representative. It only takes a few minutes total.
I can't find the bill yet on the house website, but don't let that stop you, just reference Rep. Zoe Lofgren, ``Digital Choice and Freedom Act,'' or find out what Boucher's bill will be called and support that.
As usual, sending a brief, logical, and courteous message is the way to get their attention. And please, don't bother to contact Lofgren and Boucher on this, contact YOUR representatives.
Best practices in security would dictate that this is just part of a strong authentication scheme. I would require users to still use login/password. The chances of the reader misreading and having someone's user/pass is very remote.
Theoritically, someone could record someone's palm print inline on the ps/2 port, and watch them type their user/pass, then come back later with the spoofing device containing the correct responses to hook inline to the ps/2 port again and log in as that person. But you're talking about a BIG operation to pull this off, plus a lot of chances of getting caught. (you have to physically access their computer twice, PLUS somehow get their user/pass).
I think it could have a use, but it will need to be integrated into NDS/AD elegantly for it to catch on in the enterprise. And it must be low hassle to implement.
cirix procs have always lagged in floating point, which is what encoding uses. they do "OK" for general purpose computing, but that crappy math unit really hurts a lot of performance. The old ones were HOT too, like, oven hot, not as in fast.
You can do something similar with Sun workstations. For $400, you can add a pci card that has an x86 processor, memory, etc. then you can either have a separate monitor attached or tab the desktops. It's actually pretty sweet and allows you to use Solaris/SPARC and LinuxorWindows/x86 on the same machine for pretty cheap and do it in hardware, not virtual software.
2.) Proprietary document formats that make later migration harder, having all your folks trained on the MS technology instead of competition (users and techs), "that's the way we've always done it", "that's what I use at home"
These are the same reasons why it's so hard for one US company or person to use something different. If you choose something non-MS, then you have to jump all these hurtles to read your old data and programs and to communicate with other people.
It's actually a great strategy as long as they are eventually able to charge for it, and it costs them nothing to let hte piracy go on, because they wouldn't have made those sales anyway right now.
you're not going to cluster desktop, so you'll be buying server licenses at *at least* $500/each, but more likely you're buying advanced server licenses at $2400/each http://www.microsoft.com/catalog/display.asp?site= 10188&subid=22&pg=10
that would be 20X2400 would be an extra $48K to add those 20 nodes just for windows server license.
the big benefit I see, is that you can have your card, then say every two years, you go to a VISA master reader, and it takes another 100 angles on it and the old angles expire as possible matches. Also, I can use the same card to go to my swiss bank, and provide as second factor authentication (against my password) where they use an entirely different set of angles/data and don't share those angles with anyone else. I can also now take it my local bank to access my checking account and they have 20 different angles that are not necessarily the same as VISA or my other bank.
The only big caveats are 1. Anyone that you treat as a "trusted reader" could concievably read all the angles, store all the date (12 terrabits?), and then fake the responses to visa in order to defraud you, but you'd think that you'd get suspicious standing at their trusted reader for 3 or 4 years while they read all the possible angles.
2. We'll still need account numbers, because otherwise the database and store don't know who you are and don't know who to authenticate against. So, you'll still need various account numbers in/on the card or in your memory (no thanks) so that when the terminal asks for authentication against VISA's server, VISA knows what angles to ask for and what the proper responses will be. Otherwise it's too big of a computing/security problem.
This comes back to what we've needed all along. A peer to peer service that can be easily restricted to a group of users or network of IP addresses for eitehr all of it's traffic or at least it's first preference. Then it only goes outside the router if it can't find the material inside the network. On a college campus, or even a 50 seat organization, the vast majority of material must already be on someone's computer, why clog the outbound pipes. Same with your ISP. Even a local ISP is likely to have a user on peer to peer with the file you need. It is horribly expensive and inefficient to do global or broad, nonsensical searches for files that someone on the next IP address probably has.
I know there are complexities, but it seems like it would be worth the effort for programs to take this into account. Or maybe it won't be until consumers pay for usage on networks.
IBM has been biding their time and not too happily about the whole Windows thing. MS is a HUGE threat and has cost IBM many fortunes through reduced sales of midrange and mainframe products and by taking a cut out of IBM for PC hardware and for killing IBM's own x86 OS. Not to mention that they compete on almost all layered applications (databases, development apps, etc). So I am sure that IBM would LOVE to free themselves more from MS and stop feeding their competitor. The reality is that they need to maintain a good relationship for now, but I bet IBM would drop MS in a heartbeat if they really could.
I think the average american buys stuff when they want it and then worries about the "payments". Very few people look at total cost of financing and make decisions about what s the best bang for my buck in various purchases (or, should I keep driving the beater, thereby saving 40K on a new rig, and get to eat out for $20/night 2000 times. Which would get me more pleasure?)
I can see your point about maybe "scaring off" companies that are "about to release" some awesome, enterprise class KDE tools. But I don't know of any, and as long as *NIX has been around, we haven't seen anything compete on the "everybody's desktop" level with Windows/office. So I would say that the market has had ample time to come up with alternatives. Your point about the german government releasing it free has some merit as well (that it might be a crimp on private industry), BUT, the german govt isn't going ot get into the support and package biz, so there will be room for someone to package this software up, and provide world class installation, design, and customization for large govt's/organizations that might want to use this alternative. So I think there will be a lot of private firms that may benefit from this as well. Obviously, MS will have to compete against a new product, but because of their alliances and their economies of scale and momentum, I don't see this being a huge detriment to them, and it definately will aid the consumers.
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except that we use punctuation and smileys in online media so that we can convey the grin we'd give someone. ie, if you make a jab at someone, but you're kidding, the grin is the only way for them to know you weren't ripping on them.
If I got rights to a copy of the ebook with the paper purchase, I'd be all over this, but I'm assuming it's a seperate purchase for about the same cost. There may be some books that I would not want a copy of in my library,but mostly, I like to accumulate books, but I also want to be able to easily take several books on trips without adding 10lbs to my bag. Any ideas?
What if we all purchased them all, and used them to create our own backbone, then not have to deal with junk.
sure, it's a huge undertaking, but an interesting thought. A philanthopist could do a lot for net privacy if they purchased these and held them so that we can build out the technology to have our own private, non snooped backbone.
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The cummins 6BT engine (that's the 6 cyclinder engine for light trucks and midsize equipment). You can find it in dodge 3/4 ton diesel pickups etc. this engine allows this 7,000 lb truck with a huge coefficient of friction (due to it's profile which pushes a lot of air) can get around 22MPG and still be able to generate 400 HP and 600 lb-ft of torque with a few upgrades. To put it in comparison, the gasoline version of this truck gets around 10MPG and has less power.
It uses an automatic fuel cutoff. Additionally, it does not use any glow plugs. Modern diesels use high pressure injection to cause the cylinder to burn. Mind you, this engine is probably 10 years old or more by now.
As for the low sulfur fuel is going to ruin a lot of the engines in the US because they use fuel pumps that are lubricated by the sulfur in the fuel. So, it will have a huge environmental and economic impact in the US to change fuels as it will mandate replacement of many engines and parts. It may cause more pollution than it prevetns.
Personally, i'd love to see more deisel passenger cars in the US as well as a mid size sport utility in turbo deisel with decent power in it.
Don't know about others, but Solaris 8 was able (according to sun) to run any Solaris compatible program from way back when without recompile.
Windows is in the unenvious position of running some old stuff, but not all of it, so customers can't count on old stuff working, but enough legacy code is there to make the OS spaggetti coded. (ie, enough modules are left because "someone might be using that" that there will always be tons of security and stability holes)
I've done a bit of searching. Has anyone found a copy of this ad with her picture in it?
I'm quite curious to see it now.
I hope 1984 isn't working to make this an unevent...
hear hear, I'm in the exact place right now except I did buy. Ithink i'll do well on the house, but it does make it more complex to move for a lot of reason.
I don't agree witht he needing two jobs thing. I think if you are blue collar manufacturing, maybe, but not for most jobs. you can live well on 40K even with a family. the key is to not "keep up with the joneses".
also, in the 50's, people fixed things and kept them longer. clothes, cars, dishwashers (if you had one) etc. houses were much smaller, etc. I think you could live the life of the 50's on one check just fine if you unsaddle yourself from debt and udnerstand that driving an old dodge to work is just fine so you can focus on your family.
Unless the massive amounts of consumer credit cause a crash in the real estate market as banks repossess and then offer to sell houses at a low value.
I own a home too, and this bothers me. thinking of liquidating it all (house, bimmer, etc), and living more simply until I can get into a job i feel more secure aobut (this one might end this week)
I've found their the best way to get a quick overview of a subject so that I can understand what experts are saying about it or take my knowledge further by going and reading more advanced books on the topics. For instance, learn unix in 24 hours is a good place to go before UNIX in a nutshell for someone who's never been at a UNIX terminal other than to type pine. also, they cover a lot of non-tech subjects. If you wanted to learn about real estate investing, they have books on that to get you started, or incorporating, or fly fishing or whatever. It's a great way to get a baseline understanding of a topic.
If you think this bill is a good idea, get out there immediately to http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html and write your representative. It only takes a few minutes total.
I can't find the bill yet on the house website, but don't let that stop you, just reference Rep. Zoe Lofgren, ``Digital Choice and Freedom Act,'' or find out what Boucher's bill will be called and support that.
As usual, sending a brief, logical, and courteous message is the way to get their attention. And please, don't bother to contact Lofgren and Boucher on this, contact YOUR representatives.
Best practices in security would dictate that this is just part of a strong authentication scheme. I would require users to still use login/password. The chances of the reader misreading and having someone's user/pass is very remote.
Theoritically, someone could record someone's palm print inline on the ps/2 port, and watch them type their user/pass, then come back later with the spoofing device containing the correct responses to hook inline to the ps/2 port again and log in as that person. But you're talking about a BIG operation to pull this off, plus a lot of chances of getting caught. (you have to physically access their computer twice, PLUS somehow get their user/pass).
I think it could have a use, but it will need to be integrated into NDS/AD elegantly for it to catch on in the enterprise. And it must be low hassle to implement.
I wonder if something similar is a problem for L2TP, or is it just PPTP? Or, do they use something in common that makes them both vulnerable?
cirix procs have always lagged in floating point, which is what encoding uses. they do "OK" for general purpose computing, but that crappy math unit really hurts a lot of performance. The old ones were HOT too, like, oven hot, not as in fast.
You can do something similar with Sun workstations. For $400, you can add a pci card that has an x86 processor, memory, etc. then you can either have a separate monitor attached or tab the desktops. It's actually pretty sweet and allows you to use Solaris/SPARC and LinuxorWindows/x86 on the same machine for pretty cheap and do it in hardware, not virtual software.
2.) Proprietary document formats that make later migration harder, having all your folks trained on the MS technology instead of competition (users and techs), "that's the way we've always done it", "that's what I use at home"
These are the same reasons why it's so hard for one US company or person to use something different. If you choose something non-MS, then you have to jump all these hurtles to read your old data and programs and to communicate with other people.
It's actually a great strategy as long as they are eventually able to charge for it, and it costs them nothing to let hte piracy go on, because they wouldn't have made those sales anyway right now.
you're not going to cluster desktop, so you'll be buying server licenses at *at least* $500/each, but more likely you're buying advanced server licenses at $2400/each http://www.microsoft.com/catalog/display.asp?site= 10188&subid=22&pg=10
that would be 20X2400 would be an extra $48K to add those 20 nodes just for windows server license.
Big Doc smith fan?
the big benefit I see, is that you can have your card, then say every two years, you go to a VISA master reader, and it takes another 100 angles on it and the old angles expire as possible matches. Also, I can use the same card to go to my swiss bank, and provide as second factor authentication (against my password) where they use an entirely different set of angles/data and don't share those angles with anyone else. I can also now take it my local bank to access my checking account and they have 20 different angles that are not necessarily the same as VISA or my other bank.
The only big caveats are
1. Anyone that you treat as a "trusted reader" could concievably read all the angles, store all the date (12 terrabits?), and then fake the responses to visa in order to defraud you, but you'd think that you'd get suspicious standing at their trusted reader for 3 or 4 years while they read all the possible angles.
2. We'll still need account numbers, because otherwise the database and store don't know who you are and don't know who to authenticate against. So, you'll still need various account numbers in/on the card or in your memory (no thanks) so that when the terminal asks for authentication against VISA's server, VISA knows what angles to ask for and what the proper responses will be. Otherwise it's too big of a computing/security problem.
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This comes back to what we've needed all along. A peer to peer service that can be easily restricted to a group of users or network of IP addresses for eitehr all of it's traffic or at least it's first preference. Then it only goes outside the router if it can't find the material inside the network. On a college campus, or even a 50 seat organization, the vast majority of material must already be on someone's computer, why clog the outbound pipes. Same with your ISP. Even a local ISP is likely to have a user on peer to peer with the file you need. It is horribly expensive and inefficient to do global or broad, nonsensical searches for files that someone on the next IP address probably has.
I know there are complexities, but it seems like it would be worth the effort for programs to take this into account. Or maybe it won't be until consumers pay for usage on networks.
IBM has been biding their time and not too happily about the whole Windows thing. MS is a HUGE threat and has cost IBM many fortunes through reduced sales of midrange and mainframe products and by taking a cut out of IBM for PC hardware and for killing IBM's own x86 OS. Not to mention that they compete on almost all layered applications (databases, development apps, etc). So I am sure that IBM would LOVE to free themselves more from MS and stop feeding their competitor. The reality is that they need to maintain a good relationship for now, but I bet IBM would drop MS in a heartbeat if they really could.
I think the average american buys stuff when they want it and then worries about the "payments". Very few people look at total cost of financing and make decisions about what s the best bang for my buck in various purchases (or, should I keep driving the beater, thereby saving 40K on a new rig, and get to eat out for $20/night 2000 times. Which would get me more pleasure?)
I can see your point about maybe "scaring off" companies that are "about to release" some awesome, enterprise class KDE tools. But I don't know of any, and as long as *NIX has been around, we haven't seen anything compete on the "everybody's desktop" level with Windows/office. So I would say that the market has had ample time to come up with alternatives. Your point about the german government releasing it free has some merit as well (that it might be a crimp on private industry), BUT, the german govt isn't going ot get into the support and package biz, so there will be room for someone to package this software up, and provide world class installation, design, and customization for large govt's/organizations that might want to use this alternative. So I think there will be a lot of private firms that may benefit from this as well. Obviously, MS will have to compete against a new product, but because of their alliances and their economies of scale and momentum, I don't see this being a huge detriment to them, and it definately will aid the consumers.
except that we use punctuation and smileys in online media so that we can convey the grin we'd give someone. ie, if you make a jab at someone, but you're kidding, the grin is the only way for them to know you weren't ripping on them.
I think that's the most common usage.
If I got rights to a copy of the ebook with the paper purchase, I'd be all over this, but I'm assuming it's a seperate purchase for about the same cost. There may be some books that I would not want a copy of in my library,but mostly, I like to accumulate books, but I also want to be able to easily take several books on trips without adding 10lbs to my bag. Any ideas?
What if we all purchased them all, and used them to create our own backbone, then not have to deal with junk.
sure, it's a huge undertaking, but an interesting thought. A philanthopist could do a lot for net privacy if they purchased these and held them so that we can build out the technology to have our own private, non snooped backbone.
which book? I can't remember the quote and would like to reread it in context.
Thanks.
Yes, in fact, i hear that they've emerged from bankruptcy protection, so hopefully they'll be on the mend.