I agree but defining or limiting it to one codec is a fail. Theora I doubt will ever get hardware support. I could be wrong but I don't see it. Google's codec could if they created their own chip and made it part of Android but odds are they will not do that because they will have to support it on YouTube or look like fools if they don't. YouTube has already spent how much money support H.264 for the iPhone? Tnen you have Microsoft. They have not said they will support the video tag at all! My guess is that fantasize that SilverLight will be the new standard. So you have Apple and Google supporting H.264, Mozilla and Opera supporting Theora, and Microsoft ignoring everybody. Since Chrome is going to support both and it now has plugins odds are that I will be using Chrome. Will Google support Theora on it's mobile devices? Will Apple? If you can get Apple and Google to support Theora then you might have a win. If not it will be H.264
Gas turbines are not last time I checked more efficient than a steam turbine base load plant. In fact the most efficient gas turbine plants use steam turbines to recover some of the waste heat from the gas turbine. The real benefit to gas turbines for power generation is for peak load plants. They can go from a cold start to full power in just a minutes while a steam plant takes many hours or days.
Well if it helps your faith in the world let state that feel this is a terrible abuse of power. Even if you think this is okay which I do not the way it was dealt with is STUPID. Telling the kid would accomplish what? This was a criminal act IMHO by the school.
Back to your statement substantial doesn't mean majority and frankly I bet you would find a substantial number of people that never step into a church that also believe as you say. I didn't say where a bigot. In fact I am hoping that you are not. I just showed you that the statement was bigoted. What else can you call making an extremely negative statement about a HUGE group of people based you a very small sample? The real truth is that there are a HUGE number of people that believe that the end justifies the means. And of course there are those that do the flip side which is following the letter of the law but not the spirit. If you take a good look at Christian teachings you will see that both of failings are shown in a terrible light.
Which Evangelicals? I can probably find thousands as in ten or hundreds thousands of them that will agree with my statment of doctrine. How many can you find that will say I am wrong? When you start condemning a group and saying that they really mean this or that without firm documentation it is nothing but bigotry. It is your condemnation and interpretation of their beliefs. If wish to make a statment about a person or persons that make a statment or an act that feel that is wrong that is one thing. To make a broad statment like you made about a group again is just bigotry. Frankly I doubt that is your goal but it is a trap that is all to easy to fall into these days. Such statements are almost never useful or informative in anyway. Sort of like saying all followers of Islam are terrorists.
Truth is that Firefox should use the OS codec support anyway. Why should I have to update my browser to update Theora? Suppose I want to use a Theora that uses hardware acceleration? Suppose I want to build an FPGA that supports Theora hardware decoding? Should I have to re link Firefox everytime I test? Not using the OS's codec support is a bad technical choice made for political reasons. The only technical reason to not use the OS's codec support is for a platform that doesn't allow the user to add codecs.
And there is a real technical issue involved with supporting Theora over H.264. There are no mobile chipsets on the market today that support hardware decoding of Theora. If you only allow Theora then millions of mobile users will be locked out of using HTML 5 video apps.
Besides I think Dirac has more potental as a video codec than Theora does at this time.
So your comment is nothing but yet another statement of politics over usability.
Actually none of that matters. What does matter is did the school EVER turn on the web cams remotely without a warrant. Even if the laptop was stolen it is illegal to use it as a wiretap device. If it was activated without a warrant odds are it is a crime.
Yep when the lawyers get a look at this they will tell the school administration involved that they are in error or to put it in the words of Bender "Your boned meat tubes."
I doubt that the Bloom Box is more efficient that a base load power plant. Odds are they are cooking their numbers a bit by comparing the Bloom Box to a peak load gas turbine plant.
"There are people out there--probably a lot of them--who think that the ends justify the means. That's the entire premise of contemporary evangelical Christianity and other extremist religions." Actually that is not a teaching of the Christianity. If you have studied it at all you would see that The Pharisees acts involved in the killing of Christ was a condemnation of the ends justifies the means. There justification was that Rome would destroy the Jewish people if they didn't stop Jesus. The acts of Pilot where a condemnation of hiding behind the law showing that legal injustice was still a sin and a terrible crime. According to strict Christian doctrine on must obey the letter and spirit of the law unless that law was unjust. When the law is unjust one must openly oppose that law but only by doing good as Jesus taught by example by healing somebody on that sabbath. So not that is NOT a valid teaching of Christianity. Of course somebody could say that it is okay but if they do they are silly as Buddhist that beats somebody for saying Buddha was a fatso.
That I don't know but they ccould and I bet do use the grid as their backup. The Grid is a heck of a lot more reliable than a diesel or natural gas genset.
The problem would be if you had the FC fail at the same time as the Grid failed. Probably a lot less likely than having your genset fail during a black out.
Yes and no. By using these fuel cells as your main power source with the grid as a backup you can dispense with your standby generator and maybe even your UPS system in a data center. That and deduct the cost of maintaining the the backup generators and UPS and they payback time may drop even more. My guess that EBay worked out the math and it looked good.
I did read the article. I wasn't criticizing your article in anyway just the summary. In fact most of my summary came from your article. Including the name of the FOSS author, name of his FOSS project, and the fact that he paid for most of the lawsuit himself.
If you take a look at the front page that summary is the only summary that in anyway reference the author of the original article at all. I thought your article was just fine. The summary which you didn't write was terrible IMHO. I feel it did you a disservice by making you out to be terrible nihilistic while really dismissing the acts of Jacobsen. But you didn't write the summary at all so my criticism has nothing to do with your writing.
And exactly how many other articles on the front page of slashdot list the authors name? Heck I don't even have a problem with listing his name in the summary but listing it more that the principle of the article?
Well that assumes that power costs don't go up or that they don't go up as fast as the cost of natural gas. Also it makes you less relient on the grid so it can act as a massive UPS. For a place like EBay a backup generator is going to be a small power plant so over all it could be a huge win. The on thing that I wonder about is that 1000c temperature. That seems really high to me but the story is very short on details.
Why the heck is Bruce Perens' name all over this and in the summary TWICE while Bob Jacobsen's name is only listed in the summary in case name? It was Bob Jacobsen that paid for this case, risked his job, and wrote the software while Bruce Perens' did even go on the stand! Here is a much better summery.
"Open source programmer Bob Jacobsen wins an historic case establishing the legal validity of Open Source Licenses , The court awarded Mr. Jacobsen $100,000 after years of appeals and many thousands of dollors of personal expenses. The actual court ruling is almost like some kind of Hollywood movie ending for Open Source, with the judge so unequivocally siding with the underfunded open source developer. Here is a link to Mr. Jacobsen's project JMRI http://jmri.sourceforge.net/ where you can read about his software and contribute to his project to show your support and gratitude for the legal fight Mr. Jacobsen fought for all of our benefit."
Not at all. What web video standard does Android support? H.264 What web video standard does WebOS from Palm support? H.264 What web video standard does the WinCE and Windows Mobile 7 support? H.264 What web video standard does the Blackberry support? I am not sure on that one but I will bet on h.264 We are talking about smart phones for the most part right now but guess what video standard is supported in most cell phone chipsets? It is also h.264.
Just as the IBM PC wasn't the only computer back in the day. And just as Lotus 123 wasn't the only spreadsheet they became standards. h.264 is an even more entrenched standard because of the hardware support in mobile chip sets. So even if the iPhone never sells another set the standards that it has set for video will live on.
I have no doubt that H.264 is better than Theora right now. Frankly I think Ogg should start working on Dirac instead of Theora but that is just me. The thing is that H.264 can not be totally free unless they revoke software patents "Which I do thing they should do". Not being free means that it is very difficult to get them on every platform and device. For Linux it mans that if you want to watch an H.264 video you must download a codec from "another" source. Not a huge issue but it is a problem if you want to make it super user friendly to set up.
The simple truth is that every codec can be supported by even Firefox if they really want to without including the code. On Windows they just use Direct Show and they can use the provided H.264 codec. On the Mac they use Quicktime and use that supported H.264 codec. and on Linux they use Gstreamer and use that codec.
What the Mozilla foundation wants to do is keep H.264 from being part the the HTML 5 standard. I think that is a good idea but one that is probably destined to fail. They should just use the OS codec support and forget about this battle. I just don't think they can win.
Pretty much lays it all out. Just like back in the old days the question was "Will it run Lotus 123" the question now is will it play on an iPhone. H.264 is most likely going to win because it already has. iPhones and iPods already support it. Most smart phones already support it. Video card makers are rushing to support it. You have hardware support for it now and that is what counts. I would love to have a free and open video codec but since h.264 is out there now it most likely going to be it for now. If Google can get Apple on board you may have a chance.
Well art is fixing stuff. It is fixing stuff to make it pretty. Same idea. Fixing, making, creating are all just becoming things of the past. Ten or twelve is a fine time get into computers. Even earlier may be fine for some children but kids are not playing as much any more. We are making them in to little adults at too early of an age.
But you see I am not sure that is helping. I am very fond of the idea of playing with stuff. Crayons, paste, paper, scissors, blocks, and Popsicle sticks. Way too many people can not fix the simplest things around the house or build anything. I think that a child that learns to use the physical world at an early age will be better able to use all the tools available.
I see to many kids and teens that think they know how to use technology but in reality they only know how to be technology users not creators.
Yes. The internet is a great example. You can find out anything and learn about anything you want. You have a huge amount of data, resources, and programs at your fingertips.
Where computers don't help much is at the elementary level.
Good point. I wouldn't be shocked if I failed to get a job programing in Lisp or ADA since I don't know them. Right now I am learning Objective C. I think I like it better than C++ but then I never really liked C++ all that much.
I didn't and frankly you know that it is happening and in the US they are supposed to have safe guards in place. But one doesn't have anything to to do with the other.
I don't think java is a terrible first language. Mine was Pascal but that was a long time ago. I have no idea if it was the school or the student but he also seemed to have problems with global vs local variables. He took over maintaining some code I wrote and made a total pigs breakfast of it. Did understand loops? Well I can not say that I am shocked. We had a young man in tech support that wanted to get into programing so we tried to help him. He claimed to know how to program in Foxpro. He didn't know what a prime number was.
Actually in Florida they have a program where at the end of High School you graduate with an AA degree. Seems like a better plan to me. Offer college level classes in high school so when you graduate you have the first two years done. Then go off to college at 18, or if you so want the military for two years, or work a year or what ever you want at 18 and still be on target to graduate by 22.
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I agree but defining or limiting it to one codec is a fail.
Theora I doubt will ever get hardware support. I could be wrong but I don't see it. Google's codec could if they created their own chip and made it part of Android but odds are they will not do that because they will have to support it on YouTube or look like fools if they don't. YouTube has already spent how much money support H.264 for the iPhone?
Tnen you have Microsoft. They have not said they will support the video tag at all! My guess is that fantasize that SilverLight will be the new standard.
So you have Apple and Google supporting H.264, Mozilla and Opera supporting Theora, and Microsoft ignoring everybody.
Since Chrome is going to support both and it now has plugins odds are that I will be using Chrome.
Will Google support Theora on it's mobile devices?
Will Apple?
If you can get Apple and Google to support Theora then you might have a win. If not it will be H.264
Gas turbines are not last time I checked more efficient than a steam turbine base load plant.
In fact the most efficient gas turbine plants use steam turbines to recover some of the waste heat from the gas turbine.
The real benefit to gas turbines for power generation is for peak load plants. They can go from a cold start to full power in just a minutes while a steam plant takes many hours or days.
Well if it helps your faith in the world let state that feel this is a terrible abuse of power. Even if you think this is okay which I do not the way it was dealt with is STUPID. Telling the kid would accomplish what?
This was a criminal act IMHO by the school.
Back to your statement substantial doesn't mean majority and frankly I bet you would find a substantial number of people that never step into a church that also believe as you say.
I didn't say where a bigot. In fact I am hoping that you are not. I just showed you that the statement was bigoted. What else can you call making an extremely negative statement about a HUGE group of people based you a very small sample?
The real truth is that there are a HUGE number of people that believe that the end justifies the means. And of course there are those that do the flip side which is following the letter of the law but not the spirit. If you take a good look at Christian teachings you will see that both of failings are shown in a terrible light.
Which Evangelicals? I can probably find thousands as in ten or hundreds thousands of them that will agree with my statment of doctrine. How many can you find that will say I am wrong?
When you start condemning a group and saying that they really mean this or that without firm documentation it is nothing but bigotry. It is your condemnation and interpretation of their beliefs.
If wish to make a statment about a person or persons that make a statment or an act that feel that is wrong that is one thing. To make a broad statment like you made about a group again is just bigotry. Frankly I doubt that is your goal but it is a trap that is all to easy to fall into these days.
Such statements are almost never useful or informative in anyway.
Sort of like saying all followers of Islam are terrorists.
Truth is that Firefox should use the OS codec support anyway.
Why should I have to update my browser to update Theora?
Suppose I want to use a Theora that uses hardware acceleration?
Suppose I want to build an FPGA that supports Theora hardware decoding? Should I have to re link Firefox everytime I test?
Not using the OS's codec support is a bad technical choice made for political reasons.
The only technical reason to not use the OS's codec support is for a platform that doesn't allow the user to add codecs.
And there is a real technical issue involved with supporting Theora over H.264.
There are no mobile chipsets on the market today that support hardware decoding of Theora.
If you only allow Theora then millions of mobile users will be locked out of using HTML 5 video apps.
Besides I think Dirac has more potental as a video codec than Theora does at this time.
So your comment is nothing but yet another statement of politics over usability.
Actually none of that matters.
What does matter is did the school EVER turn on the web cams remotely without a warrant.
Even if the laptop was stolen it is illegal to use it as a wiretap device.
If it was activated without a warrant odds are it is a crime.
Yep when the lawyers get a look at this they will tell the school administration involved that they are in error or to put it in the words of Bender "Your boned meat tubes."
I doubt that the Bloom Box is more efficient that a base load power plant.
Odds are they are cooking their numbers a bit by comparing the Bloom Box to a peak load gas turbine plant.
"There are people out there--probably a lot of them--who think that the ends justify the means. That's the entire premise of contemporary evangelical Christianity and other extremist religions."
Actually that is not a teaching of the Christianity.
If you have studied it at all you would see that The Pharisees acts involved in the killing of Christ was a condemnation of the ends justifies the means. There justification was that Rome would destroy the Jewish people if they didn't stop Jesus.
The acts of Pilot where a condemnation of hiding behind the law showing that legal injustice was still a sin and a terrible crime.
According to strict Christian doctrine on must obey the letter and spirit of the law unless that law was unjust. When the law is unjust one must openly oppose that law but only by doing good as Jesus taught by example by healing somebody on that sabbath.
So not that is NOT a valid teaching of Christianity.
Of course somebody could say that it is okay but if they do they are silly as Buddhist that beats somebody for saying Buddha was a fatso.
That I don't know but they ccould and I bet do use the grid as their backup. The Grid is a heck of a lot more reliable than a diesel or natural gas genset.
The problem would be if you had the FC fail at the same time as the Grid failed. Probably a lot less likely than having your genset fail during a black out.
Yes and no.
By using these fuel cells as your main power source with the grid as a backup you can dispense with your standby generator and maybe even your UPS system in a data center.
That and deduct the cost of maintaining the the backup generators and UPS and they payback time may drop even more.
My guess that EBay worked out the math and it looked good.
I did read the article. I wasn't criticizing your article in anyway just the summary.
In fact most of my summary came from your article. Including the name of the FOSS author, name of his FOSS project, and the fact that he paid for most of the lawsuit himself.
If you take a look at the front page that summary is the only summary that in anyway reference the author of the original article at all. I thought your article was just fine.
The summary which you didn't write was terrible IMHO. I feel it did you a disservice by making you out to be terrible nihilistic while really dismissing the acts of Jacobsen.
But you didn't write the summary at all so my criticism has nothing to do with your writing.
And exactly how many other articles on the front page of slashdot list the authors name?
Heck I don't even have a problem with listing his name in the summary but listing it more that the principle of the article?
Well that assumes that power costs don't go up or that they don't go up as fast as the cost of natural gas.
Also it makes you less relient on the grid so it can act as a massive UPS. For a place like EBay a backup generator is going to be a small power plant so over all it could be a huge win.
The on thing that I wonder about is that 1000c temperature. That seems really high to me but the story is very short on details.
Why the heck is Bruce Perens' name all over this and in the summary TWICE while Bob Jacobsen's name is only listed in the summary in case name?
It was Bob Jacobsen that paid for this case, risked his job, and wrote the software while Bruce Perens' did even go on the stand!
Here is a much better summery.
"Open source programmer Bob Jacobsen wins an historic case establishing the legal validity of Open Source Licenses ,
The court awarded Mr. Jacobsen $100,000 after years of appeals and many thousands of dollors of personal expenses.
The actual court ruling is almost like some kind of Hollywood movie ending for Open Source, with the judge so unequivocally siding with the underfunded open source developer.
Here is a link to Mr. Jacobsen's project JMRI http://jmri.sourceforge.net/ where you can read about his software and contribute to his project to show your support and gratitude for the legal fight Mr. Jacobsen fought for all of our benefit."
"
Not at all.
What web video standard does Android support?
H.264
What web video standard does WebOS from Palm support?
H.264
What web video standard does the WinCE and Windows Mobile 7 support?
H.264
What web video standard does the Blackberry support?
I am not sure on that one but I will bet on h.264
We are talking about smart phones for the most part right now but guess what video standard is supported in most cell phone chipsets?
It is also h.264.
Just as the IBM PC wasn't the only computer back in the day. And just as Lotus 123 wasn't the only spreadsheet they became standards.
h.264 is an even more entrenched standard because of the hardware support in mobile chip sets.
So even if the iPhone never sells another set the standards that it has set for video will live on.
I have no doubt that H.264 is better than Theora right now. Frankly I think Ogg should start working on Dirac instead of Theora but that is just me.
The thing is that H.264 can not be totally free unless they revoke software patents "Which I do thing they should do".
Not being free means that it is very difficult to get them on every platform and device. For Linux it mans that if you want to watch an H.264 video you must download a codec from "another" source.
Not a huge issue but it is a problem if you want to make it super user friendly to set up.
The simple truth is that every codec can be supported by even Firefox if they really want to without including the code.
On Windows they just use Direct Show and they can use the provided H.264 codec. On the Mac they use Quicktime and use that supported H.264 codec. and on Linux they use Gstreamer and use that codec.
What the Mozilla foundation wants to do is keep H.264 from being part the the HTML 5 standard. I think that is a good idea but one that is probably destined to fail. They should just use the OS codec support and forget about this battle. I just don't think they can win.
Pretty much lays it all out.
Just like back in the old days the question was "Will it run Lotus 123" the question now is will it play on an iPhone.
H.264 is most likely going to win because it already has. iPhones and iPods already support it. Most smart phones already support it. Video card makers are rushing to support it.
You have hardware support for it now and that is what counts. I would love to have a free and open video codec but since h.264 is out there now it most likely going to be it for now. If Google can get Apple on board you may have a chance.
Well art is fixing stuff. It is fixing stuff to make it pretty.
Same idea. Fixing, making, creating are all just becoming things of the past.
Ten or twelve is a fine time get into computers.
Even earlier may be fine for some children but kids are not playing as much any more. We are making them in to little adults at too early of an age.
But you see I am not sure that is helping. I am very fond of the idea of playing with stuff. Crayons, paste, paper, scissors, blocks, and Popsicle sticks.
Way too many people can not fix the simplest things around the house or build anything.
I think that a child that learns to use the physical world at an early age will be better able to use all the tools available.
I see to many kids and teens that think they know how to use technology but in reality they only know how to be technology users not creators.
Yes.
The internet is a great example. You can find out anything and learn about anything you want.
You have a huge amount of data, resources, and programs at your fingertips.
Where computers don't help much is at the elementary level.
Good point. I wouldn't be shocked if I failed to get a job programing in Lisp or ADA since I don't know them.
Right now I am learning Objective C. I think I like it better than C++ but then I never really liked C++ all that much.
I didn't and frankly you know that it is happening and in the US they are supposed to have safe guards in place.
But one doesn't have anything to to do with the other.
I don't think java is a terrible first language. Mine was Pascal but that was a long time ago.
I have no idea if it was the school or the student but he also seemed to have problems with global vs local variables. He took over maintaining some code I wrote and made a total pigs breakfast of it.
Did understand loops? Well I can not say that I am shocked.
We had a young man in tech support that wanted to get into programing so we tried to help him. He claimed to know how to program in Foxpro. He didn't know what a prime number was.
Actually in Florida they have a program where at the end of High School you graduate with an AA degree. Seems like a better plan to me. Offer college level classes in high school so when you graduate you have the first two years done.
Then go off to college at 18, or if you so want the military for two years, or work a year or what ever you want at 18 and still be on target to graduate by 22.