Part of the problem is that ethanol was hyped up so much before it was able to deliver.
I know that in this region, it has been pumped up as a great way to diversify our agriculture, and a great way to prove that these feed lots are a good thing rather than a bad one.
An agriculture economics student that I am related to sought to prove how great ethanol was for her project class. She studied the many variables surrounding the plant that was to be built near here. Despite the fact that she was biased towards it, the economic numbers very plainly showed that what they wanted to do here was a stupid idea. There was no way for it to be economically feasible.
Of course the price of oil back then wasn't over $60/barrel, so that obviously changes any economic analysis. It doesn't change the fact that ethanol didn't come anywhere close to living up to the hype it had at the time. Things may have changed a bit over the last couple years, but it may take a while to convince people who've been tricked before.
It should be noted that although Wine does suffer from a WMF vulnerability as well, the behaviour is not the same one as described here. There is no special case for length==1 in Wine, and no way to have your exploit code right after the length field in the WMF. Wine simply implements the same abort routine that MS's API specifies (and can be argued to be a bad idea in itself, but that is MS's fault not Wine's). The way it can be exploited is completely different, and does not resemble a backdoor in any way.
In fact, the differences between the behaviour of Wine and Windows implies that there is indeed something very unusual about the way Windows handles this special case. Whether it is an intentional problem or just horribly bad coding, that is harder to say.
That is the biggest problem that I see with the nuclear industry where I live. Since there is no actual nuclear power right now, it is entirely a lobby group. And as all lobby groups do, they push things that are in their best interests, but not necessarily the public's best interests. They want to sell their product (in this case, a particular type of reactor), regardless of whether we need it at all or whether it is even the best way to go for nuclear power.
It is hard to trust such people, especially when they are lobbying the politicians and media, but seem to talk very little with the existing power utility (the actual experts on our power grid and needs).
It also doesn't help that they want to take the world's waste and bury it here. Though an entirely different proposition to building reactors here, people tend to link the two.
I actually agree with you, but I imagine the same sort of thinking was applied when we released all of our waste into the atmosphere. "The atmosphere is so big that this just isn't going to make a difference" - it is all about scale right? It turns out that didn't work out too well. Turns out we destroyed our ozone layer and have caused global warming. I doubt anyone thought of scenarios like those portrayed in "The Day after Tomorrow" when we started releasing waste into the atmosphere, but nowadays there does seem to be a slim (admittedly extremely unlikely) chance that parts of that crazy movie could happen.
The good thing is that there seems to be a lot of research happening on many different energy options. Wind power is coming along (though it can never be our only source), there is research into nuclear and hydrogen options, and there is research into cleaner burning (maybe even zero atmospheric emissions) of fossil fuels. The other good thing that is happening right now is that energy is getting expensive enough that people are starting to seriously look at reducing consumption. This very much needs to be encouraged, as we waste ridiculous amounts of energy.
Between saving energy and having decent batteries (this is probably the biggest problem for mobile devices and storage of renewable energy), we could have a much more efficient energy system.
You'll actually find that a lot of countries export their worst beer to the rest of the world. Brazil is another that comes to mind, though Fosters in Australia is probably the best example.
One major exception I can think of is Ireland. Guiness still is the #1 beer in Ireland, and one of the most imported beers in other countries. However I have heard that Budweiser is starting to gain on Guiness for the #1 spot.
If a sensor were to run TinyOS and communicate with ZigBee, and also claim to be 802.15.4 compliant, would that allow us to work with only the 802.15.4 layer? The MicaZ series that Crossbow (xbow.com) sells would be one example of something my research group would be looking at.
I think MS will still be able to compete on features, even with the format open. They have a pretty good team working on MS Office. Most people are not switching away from MS Office for its lack of features.
However, they will have a lot of trouble competing on a price basis. They may also find it hard to compete with programs that are unlike traditional office suites, but use the MS Office file formats (one example would be web based office, others would be little utilities that use the formats).
The OSS community may not be able to build a better MS Office than MS, but they will be able to build a cheaper one, and they will be able to build new and innovative applications.
I think if IBM was looking to settle, it would've been done a long time ago.
Short of giving UNIX entirely to IBM (which would destory their busiiness), I'm not sure what they could offer at this point that IBM would want.
I think IBM wants them dead, and wants to follow the money trail to get at the people who funded this farce. They will pursue the legal side until the judge's final ruling.
Or they could put it under a more permissive license like the BSD license. That way they can include it in their commercial JVM, but it would also let the community that is doing their testing work for them to use it in the open source alternatives.
Of course that will never happen, because one serious advantage Sun's JVM has is its security sandbox. The open source ones often have something that is nowhere near as secure, if there is any security checks at all (take a look at how much security you'd get if you ran Java applets with the gcj toolset for instance).
Sure, but they shouldn't be allowed to lie about their ability to support it. They are claiming that they are unable to support OpenDocument. That is a pretty dubious claim, being that they are one of the largest software companies in the world, and they specification for OpenDocument is quite available to them.
To say that they are unwilling to support OpenDocument would be telling the truth. To say that they are unable to do so is almost certainly a lie. If they truly do not have the capability to support this format in MS Office, I think that everyone has to be seriously worried about Microsoft's ability to create software at all. Though given the collosal failure that was the Longhorn development process, I guess that isn't necessarily so far fetched.
The problem that players identify people by names is something that really should be considered with these name changes.
It seems to me that the best way to handle a name change of an already very established player is to have their new name, with (formerly XXXX) in brackets behind it. This would be kept for a transition period, before the old name is completely removed. When the handle is first changed, people will still be able to identify who the player is, but after a time, they would be able to identify the player with the new handle, eliminating the need for the old one to be there.
It seems like this wouldn't be too terribly hard to do.
Possibly LPhoto from Linspire, though I have not used it, so I can't say.
Likely there are a lot of little utility programs that would work. But many distros just ship Gimp for the task, which will work if you know what your'e doing, but is very similar to iPhoto or Elements.
Actually, AOL did sue MS. The two companies settled. AOL got a license for certain Windows Media technologies, as well as IE. AOL also got a wad of cash. Sounds kind of familiar doesn't it?
Now that they've settled with AOL, Sun, and Real, there aren't very many huge competitors left. MS has successfully dodged any meaningful prosecution, as this really has to derail the EU case, and the US DOJ isn't about to do anything either.
They used to have poor resolution shots of the city, so I'm happy that they updated to something that you can zoom in on, but they really need to line up the images. I also have friends who have found images being miles out of place in some of the rural areas, or some things showing up in the right place, but also again a mile or two away. Some strange errors can be found if you know what you're supposed to be looking at.
However, I haven't had trouble with their routes at all - I find them better than what MapQuest used to give (though I have not tried them in a while). The only bad one it gave me is when it suggested I go offroading in a valley back in my hometown, since it wrongly thought there was a road there.
The multi-point routes would be very nice, as would the ability to mark and arbitrary point on the map, instead of using street addresses. Hopefully this will all come at some point.
You know I've always thought that a "100 mile high club" a great way to do profitable space tourism. You just know there would be people who would pay to join that club.
Actually OO can run fine on older machines. The startup time is rather bad, but it operates just fine. The biggest thing that helps machines like this is a good chunk of RAM. My PIII 733 was starting to hit its limits with the latest distros until I added another 512MB RAM. Now it runs the latest stuff just fine.
If you were a heavy OO user on an older system with sufficient RAM, you could always use the quickstarter or something like that to reduce start times.
Longhorn loses its next generation shell and filesystems, both of which are pretty core OS functionality.
Now they make up for it by adding RSS to their browser? At this rate Longhorn isn't going to be much more than Windows XP plus IE 7 (and yet still delivered late?). And IE hardly counts as OS functionality.
Maybe if they spent their time building an operating system, and let application developers build the applications for it, they'd be able to build an OS that has some really innovative technologies in it. Instead they spend all this time trying to "own the web", as well as compete with 3rd party software vendors like Adobe.
From a technology perspective, I think this strategy sucks. Time will tell whether this is a good business strategy or not.
I imagine the Jedi might've got a bit ticked off when the Trade Federation tried to kill the negotiators that they'd sent.
However it does appear that the Jedi are a bit too tight with the government, and are acting as generals in their army instead of peacekeepers. It is in fact their undoing, as Palpatine has them spread all across the galaxy doing his biding, allowing Order 66 to be effective. If they handn't all been away from the capital, he wouldn't have been able to obtain absolute power.
Actually no - I've already seen it. However that is a pretty big spoiler considering the protagonist spent the entire movie to find out that truth for himself.
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Part of the problem is that ethanol was hyped up so much before it was able to deliver.
I know that in this region, it has been pumped up as a great way to diversify our agriculture, and a great way to prove that these feed lots are a good thing rather than a bad one.
An agriculture economics student that I am related to sought to prove how great ethanol was for her project class. She studied the many variables surrounding the plant that was to be built near here. Despite the fact that she was biased towards it, the economic numbers very plainly showed that what they wanted to do here was a stupid idea. There was no way for it to be economically feasible.
Of course the price of oil back then wasn't over $60/barrel, so that obviously changes any economic analysis. It doesn't change the fact that ethanol didn't come anywhere close to living up to the hype it had at the time. Things may have changed a bit over the last couple years, but it may take a while to convince people who've been tricked before.
It should be noted that although Wine does suffer from a WMF vulnerability as well, the behaviour is not the same one as described here. There is no special case for length==1 in Wine, and no way to have your exploit code right after the length field in the WMF. Wine simply implements the same abort routine that MS's API specifies (and can be argued to be a bad idea in itself, but that is MS's fault not Wine's). The way it can be exploited is completely different, and does not resemble a backdoor in any way.
In fact, the differences between the behaviour of Wine and Windows implies that there is indeed something very unusual about the way Windows handles this special case. Whether it is an intentional problem or just horribly bad coding, that is harder to say.
That is the biggest problem that I see with the nuclear industry where I live. Since there is no actual nuclear power right now, it is entirely a lobby group. And as all lobby groups do, they push things that are in their best interests, but not necessarily the public's best interests. They want to sell their product (in this case, a particular type of reactor), regardless of whether we need it at all or whether it is even the best way to go for nuclear power.
It is hard to trust such people, especially when they are lobbying the politicians and media, but seem to talk very little with the existing power utility (the actual experts on our power grid and needs).
It also doesn't help that they want to take the world's waste and bury it here. Though an entirely different proposition to building reactors here, people tend to link the two.
I actually agree with you, but I imagine the same sort of thinking was applied when we released all of our waste into the atmosphere. "The atmosphere is so big that this just isn't going to make a difference" - it is all about scale right? It turns out that didn't work out too well. Turns out we destroyed our ozone layer and have caused global warming. I doubt anyone thought of scenarios like those portrayed in "The Day after Tomorrow" when we started releasing waste into the atmosphere, but nowadays there does seem to be a slim (admittedly extremely unlikely) chance that parts of that crazy movie could happen.
The good thing is that there seems to be a lot of research happening on many different energy options. Wind power is coming along (though it can never be our only source), there is research into nuclear and hydrogen options, and there is research into cleaner burning (maybe even zero atmospheric emissions) of fossil fuels. The other good thing that is happening right now is that energy is getting expensive enough that people are starting to seriously look at reducing consumption. This very much needs to be encouraged, as we waste ridiculous amounts of energy.
Between saving energy and having decent batteries (this is probably the biggest problem for mobile devices and storage of renewable energy), we could have a much more efficient energy system.
You'll actually find that a lot of countries export their worst beer to the rest of the world. Brazil is another that comes to mind, though Fosters in Australia is probably the best example.
One major exception I can think of is Ireland. Guiness still is the #1 beer in Ireland, and one of the most imported beers in other countries. However I have heard that Budweiser is starting to gain on Guiness for the #1 spot.
It is fairly common to see mail in rebates in Canada too, especially with electronics and computer junk.
Aren't 802.15.4 and ZigBee the same thing? There links seem to indicate that they are either the same, or very closely related:
http://www.caba.org/standard/zigbee.html
http://www.networkworld.com/details/6549.html
If a sensor were to run TinyOS and communicate with ZigBee, and also claim to be 802.15.4 compliant, would that allow us to work with only the 802.15.4 layer? The MicaZ series that Crossbow (xbow.com) sells would be one example of something my research group would be looking at.
I believe Konqueror 3.5 does include the fixes.
I think MS will still be able to compete on features, even with the format open. They have a pretty good team working on MS Office. Most people are not switching away from MS Office for its lack of features.
However, they will have a lot of trouble competing on a price basis. They may also find it hard to compete with programs that are unlike traditional office suites, but use the MS Office file formats (one example would be web based office, others would be little utilities that use the formats).
The OSS community may not be able to build a better MS Office than MS, but they will be able to build a cheaper one, and they will be able to build new and innovative applications.
I think if IBM was looking to settle, it would've been done a long time ago.
Short of giving UNIX entirely to IBM (which would destory their busiiness), I'm not sure what they could offer at this point that IBM would want.
I think IBM wants them dead, and wants to follow the money trail to get at the people who funded this farce. They will pursue the legal side until the judge's final ruling.
Or they could put it under a more permissive license like the BSD license. That way they can include it in their commercial JVM, but it would also let the community that is doing their testing work for them to use it in the open source alternatives.
Of course that will never happen, because one serious advantage Sun's JVM has is its security sandbox. The open source ones often have something that is nowhere near as secure, if there is any security checks at all (take a look at how much security you'd get if you ran Java applets with the gcj toolset for instance).
Sure, but they shouldn't be allowed to lie about their ability to support it. They are claiming that they are unable to support OpenDocument. That is a pretty dubious claim, being that they are one of the largest software companies in the world, and they specification for OpenDocument is quite available to them.
To say that they are unwilling to support OpenDocument would be telling the truth. To say that they are unable to do so is almost certainly a lie. If they truly do not have the capability to support this format in MS Office, I think that everyone has to be seriously worried about Microsoft's ability to create software at all. Though given the collosal failure that was the Longhorn development process, I guess that isn't necessarily so far fetched.
The problem that players identify people by names is something that really should be considered with these name changes.
It seems to me that the best way to handle a name change of an already very established player is to have their new name, with (formerly XXXX) in brackets behind it. This would be kept for a transition period, before the old name is completely removed. When the handle is first changed, people will still be able to identify who the player is, but after a time, they would be able to identify the player with the new handle, eliminating the need for the old one to be there.
It seems like this wouldn't be too terribly hard to do.
Citizens Against Government Waste is also funded by Microsoft.
So two of the main founders of ATL are Microsoft, and another group funded my Microsoft. In other words, it might as well be Microsoft speaking.
Damn, I should proofread more. I meant to say that Gimp is capable of doing the same tasks, but is *NOT* similar to iPhoto or Elements interface-wise.
Whereas one assumes LPhoto would borrow a lot from the iPhoto interface.
Possibly LPhoto from Linspire, though I have not used it, so I can't say.
Likely there are a lot of little utility programs that would work. But many distros just ship Gimp for the task, which will work if you know what your'e doing, but is very similar to iPhoto or Elements.
I guess I forgot to mention IBM:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4643195.stm
I didn't even hear about that one. Really just leaves Google as the only huge player that hasn't been paid off by MS.
Actually, AOL did sue MS. The two companies settled. AOL got a license for certain Windows Media technologies, as well as IE. AOL also got a wad of cash. Sounds kind of familiar doesn't it?
Now that they've settled with AOL, Sun, and Real, there aren't very many huge competitors left. MS has successfully dodged any meaningful prosecution, as this really has to derail the EU case, and the US DOJ isn't about to do anything either.
Here is one more thing the need to fix:. 153477,-106.635307&spn=0.005384,0.006972&t=k&hl=en
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=saskatoon,+SK&ll=52
They used to have poor resolution shots of the city, so I'm happy that they updated to something that you can zoom in on, but they really need to line up the images. I also have friends who have found images being miles out of place in some of the rural areas, or some things showing up in the right place, but also again a mile or two away. Some strange errors can be found if you know what you're supposed to be looking at.
However, I haven't had trouble with their routes at all - I find them better than what MapQuest used to give (though I have not tried them in a while). The only bad one it gave me is when it suggested I go offroading in a valley back in my hometown, since it wrongly thought there was a road there.
The multi-point routes would be very nice, as would the ability to mark and arbitrary point on the map, instead of using street addresses. Hopefully this will all come at some point.
I have to laugh that "Harvard Medical School" shows up on your second search.
You know I've always thought that a "100 mile high club" a great way to do profitable space tourism. You just know there would be people who would pay to join that club.
Actually OO can run fine on older machines. The startup time is rather bad, but it operates just fine. The biggest thing that helps machines like this is a good chunk of RAM. My PIII 733 was starting to hit its limits with the latest distros until I added another 512MB RAM. Now it runs the latest stuff just fine.
If you were a heavy OO user on an older system with sufficient RAM, you could always use the quickstarter or something like that to reduce start times.
Longhorn loses its next generation shell and filesystems, both of which are pretty core OS functionality.
Now they make up for it by adding RSS to their browser? At this rate Longhorn isn't going to be much more than Windows XP plus IE 7 (and yet still delivered late?). And IE hardly counts as OS functionality.
Maybe if they spent their time building an operating system, and let application developers build the applications for it, they'd be able to build an OS that has some really innovative technologies in it. Instead they spend all this time trying to "own the web", as well as compete with 3rd party software vendors like Adobe.
From a technology perspective, I think this strategy sucks. Time will tell whether this is a good business strategy or not.
I imagine the Jedi might've got a bit ticked off when the Trade Federation tried to kill the negotiators that they'd sent.
However it does appear that the Jedi are a bit too tight with the government, and are acting as generals in their army instead of peacekeepers. It is in fact their undoing, as Palpatine has them spread all across the galaxy doing his biding, allowing Order 66 to be effective. If they handn't all been away from the capital, he wouldn't have been able to obtain absolute power.
Gee thanks, guess I won't bother renting it now!
Actually no - I've already seen it. However that is a pretty big spoiler considering the protagonist spent the entire movie to find out that truth for himself.