While I am fond of the idea that if you don't want my receiving your photons keep the off of my property that has nothing to do with the fact that walking on somebody else's property can be a crime.
In this case if you think about it using somebody else's Wifi isn't completely harmless. In most places our internet connections have a limited band width. If you are streaming some movie from Amazon on my wifi I might have issues with latency or that download I am making.
However like I said I do think that everybody has the right to receive any radio transmission and do with it what they will that doesn't apply in this case. With WiFi you are actively transmitting to somebody else's device. You are using their power and their bandwidth without permission. While most of the time it is really harmless it is also kind of rude.
Notice that these are supported systems. That doesn't mean that other OS's will not work. Novell probably agreed to help Microsoft support Suse Enterprise. Redhat isn't playing nicley with Microsoft so Microsoft isn't going to play nice with Redhat. Fedora? Not a chance. Fedora is cutting edge code. I have no idea why people use this for servers when there are better distros to use on a server. CentOS? Well this is a better distro to use on server than Fedora but it is Redhat without the support and price tag. Finally BSD? BSD is dieing..... Just kidding. I just don't think Microsoft feels that it is worth the time. What I didn't see is if Solaris is on the list.
So buy VMWare or use Xen folks. Really if you want to be a Microsoft shop and run Linux then you now have an option of a Microsoft blessed Linux. If you are not a "Microsoft" shop then you can use VMWare, Xen, or VirtuaBox and have a lot more options. I guess on the bright side they are supporting a Linux distro. It could have been a Windows only vm system.
Also that would make a really bad roll cage. The problem with Carbon fiber and I bet with carbon nano tubes is when they fail the shatter! While you would really not want your roll cage to deform it is muc better if it deforms a little instead of shattering.
Yes, no, and maybe. In the 70s car with aluminum engine blocks, fuel injection, anti-lock brakes, and traction control where very exotic and expensive stuff, even science fiction. Now they are cheap. I just want people to have reasonable expectations of this. What I don't want to hear but know that I will is this. "They had a 100 MPG car that won the X-Prize but I can't buy it! The government, oil companies, space aliens, and Fox News are in a massive conspiracy to prevent people from buying!" When the truth is that it costs $250,000 miles, will crumble to dust if a shopping cart bumps into it in a parking lot, and requires a complete overhaul every 20,000 miles.
On a positive note some good ideas may come from this that will be practical. VW is going to produce a TDI hybrid that should get close to 70 MPG and be totally practical.
Just to show what you can do when practicality isn't a requirement. In the 80s F1 engines could make more than 1,000 hp from a 1.5 liter engine. Don't ask how much it cost or how long it would run but it would do it.
Not really. They seemed to have left out a lot of practical requirements. Emissions and safety are the two big ones I see. All those requirements add a good bit of weight and influence the milage you can get from a motor. You also need to think about durability. To get super high millage you could make a super light turbo diesel with no emissions but it wouldn't last more than say 40,000 miles and would never pass emissions. The build a super light frame that would not hold up all that well in a crash and you could have a winner but would never be a good car.
Funny but when I first saw one on the Computer Chronicles I really wanted one. I had an early C64 and that was during the first few months when software was in short supply. The BBC micro seemed to have a great basic compared to the C64 and had that cool user port. Of course today we have massive computers on our desks that can do so much more. The problem is they are so massive that I don't think anybody knows them at the level they could know a BBC, Spectrum, Atari 400/800, or Apple.
I am hopping that the anti Linux feelings will soon be a thing of the past. I have used Linux for years but even I felt it was really good at being a server and as a hobby desktop. That is until I installed the latest Ubuntu. I was shocked how easy it was to use. I really didn't have to do too much mucking about to get it working. No fiddling with X windows at all. I just had to install it and go. There was the one stupid pet trick I had to do get DVD playback to work but other than that it really does just work. My wife asked me to put it on her desktop as well. She has no problem with it and is a long time user of GIMP on Windows. She thinks FSpot is great and finds Linux as easy to use as Windows. Once people find out that they use Linux every time they go to google or use their TIVO maybe they well get over the Linux is hard to use idea. It was true in the past but modern Linux system seem to be just as easy to use as Windows if not more so.
Well if the prisoner wants to be an organ donor then I don't have any more problem with it than I already have with the death penalty. I happen to be against the death penalty for personal religious reasons.
Not at all. Good programmers spend a lot more time writing code than compiling. Even then you tend to incremental compiles. Unless you are doing CAD, Games, Heavy Video, or other types of super heavy number crunching types of programing a faster computer just isn't all that big of an advantage. What you don't want is the downtime of swaping out a PC for no real improvement.
Yes I do and yes we run Windows. When Selecting new software we try to pick multi-platform solutions because we are going to have to start supporting Mac OSx soon. Too many of our current customers are requesting our software run on the Mac. You are right about custom software. The biggest lock-in isn't Office it is VB. I hate VB and we never drank the VB koolaid but I know many companies have. That is why I think.NET is such a bad idea. Notice I said better yet run Linux but I know some people must use Windows. I keep hoping that people will start weaning themselves from Windows dependencies but that will take time. After all why lock yourself into a single vendor solution if you can avoid it.
Antivirus software will not protect you from exploits. That is what a firewall is for. Antivirus software is usually for scanning files that you download for viruses and such. I run it on my windows machine but I have never gotten a warning on my home machine. I use it on my work machine and I have not heard any warnings for a good long while.
Well I hope it works out for you. It seems very Moller like to me so until there are some independent tests I will take those specks with a large grain of salt.
But that is the key here those breakthroughs have not been made yet. They are getting closer but they are not here yet. When they happen then the electrical car may be practical. The real problem to this day is recharge time. If you could fill the battery in the same amount of time it takes to fill your tank then it would be pretty dang practical. I am not saying never I am saying that the electrical car was killed by it's lack of value and not by some dastardly plot.
Well since the electric car has been around since... about 1900 then I would that over 100 years of it not being affordable to the masses is a pretty good track record. Anybody can build an electric car with a price and practicality is not object spec.
But on the bright side and there is a bright side. One police official is suggesting that this a good idea. Civil liberty people are up in arms about it and people are discussing it. That is sign of a healthy free society. There is nothing wrong with talking about doing this. It would be bad if they just started doing it.
The physics are that batteries don't have the energy density of liquid hydrocarbons. That part is the simple physics. Batteries are expensive and do wear out so that is another cost item. Is it better than paying for oil changes? Maybe but it is easier to pay for an oil change every few thousand miles than pay a lot for a battery swap every 50,000. Even then if you pay $40 for an oil change every 5,000 miles that is a lot less than than a battery swap. The GM electric car was just not a great car. It was expensive and small. Many people do have to go more than fifty miles from home at least once a week the big problem with electric cars is when they are low on power you can not go and recharge in 10 minutes. The 100 mile range isn't the real problem it is the long recharge time. I know a lot of people that ride motorcycles with a range of around 100 miles. The problem is when they get low they just stop and refuel. Electric cars have failed because they are not as practical as a gas car. But if you want one then buy one. There are companies that will convert a car for you. Put your money where your mouth is.
Who killed the electric car? Simple physics did. All electric cars have to short a range and are too expensive. They suck compared to ic cars. The Prius showed that people will buy a good car that gets good gas mileage.
Not off the top of my head. I kind of doubt that you will see flash becoming as fast as ram but if you do then it will become system and we will start wishing for those 128 bit CPUs to come out.
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Just use bluetooth and use your phone and you can have it now.
While I am fond of the idea that if you don't want my receiving your photons keep the off of my property that has nothing to do with the fact that walking on somebody else's property can be a crime.
In this case if you think about it using somebody else's Wifi isn't completely harmless. In most places our internet connections have a limited band width. If you are streaming some movie from Amazon on my wifi I might have issues with latency or that download I am making.
However like I said I do think that everybody has the right to receive any radio transmission and do with it what they will that doesn't apply in this case. With WiFi you are actively transmitting to somebody else's device. You are using their power and their bandwidth without permission. While most of the time it is really harmless it is also kind of rude.
Notice that these are supported systems. That doesn't mean that other OS's will not work.
Novell probably agreed to help Microsoft support Suse Enterprise. Redhat isn't playing nicley with Microsoft so Microsoft isn't going to play nice with Redhat.
Fedora? Not a chance. Fedora is cutting edge code. I have no idea why people use this for servers when there are better distros to use on a server.
CentOS? Well this is a better distro to use on server than Fedora but it is Redhat without the support and price tag.
Finally BSD? BSD is dieing..... Just kidding. I just don't think Microsoft feels that it is worth the time.
What I didn't see is if Solaris is on the list.
So buy VMWare or use Xen folks.
Really if you want to be a Microsoft shop and run Linux then you now have an option of a Microsoft blessed Linux. If you are not a "Microsoft" shop then you can use VMWare, Xen, or VirtuaBox and have a lot more options.
I guess on the bright side they are supporting a Linux distro. It could have been a Windows only vm system.
Also that would make a really bad roll cage. The problem with Carbon fiber and I bet with carbon nano tubes is when they fail the shatter! While you would really not want your roll cage to deform it is muc better if it deforms a little instead of shattering.
Emissions is common short had for mission control devices.
Yes, no, and maybe. In the 70s car with aluminum engine blocks, fuel injection, anti-lock brakes, and traction control where very exotic and expensive stuff, even science fiction. Now they are cheap. I just want people to have reasonable expectations of this.
What I don't want to hear but know that I will is this.
"They had a 100 MPG car that won the X-Prize but I can't buy it! The government, oil companies, space aliens, and Fox News are in a massive conspiracy to prevent people from buying!"
When the truth is that it costs $250,000 miles, will crumble to dust if a shopping cart bumps into it in a parking lot, and requires a complete overhaul every 20,000 miles.
On a positive note some good ideas may come from this that will be practical. VW is going to produce a TDI hybrid that should get close to 70 MPG and be totally practical.
Just to show what you can do when practicality isn't a requirement. In the 80s F1 engines could make more than 1,000 hp from a 1.5 liter engine. Don't ask how much it cost or how long it would run but it would do it.
"perhaps walking on their lawn should be criminalized too?"
It is called trespassing.
Not really.
They seemed to have left out a lot of practical requirements.
Emissions and safety are the two big ones I see. All those requirements add a good bit of weight and influence the milage you can get from a motor. You also need to think about durability.
To get super high millage you could make a super light turbo diesel with no emissions but it wouldn't last more than say 40,000 miles and would never pass emissions. The build a super light frame that would not hold up all that well in a crash and you could have a winner but would never be a good car.
Funny but when I first saw one on the Computer Chronicles I really wanted one. I had an early C64 and that was during the first few months when software was in short supply. The BBC micro seemed to have a great basic compared to the C64 and had that cool user port.
Of course today we have massive computers on our desks that can do so much more. The problem is they are so massive that I don't think anybody knows them at the level they could know a BBC, Spectrum, Atari 400/800, or Apple.
I am hopping that the anti Linux feelings will soon be a thing of the past. I have used Linux for years but even I felt it was really good at being a server and as a hobby desktop. That is until I installed the latest Ubuntu. I was shocked how easy it was to use. I really didn't have to do too much mucking about to get it working. No fiddling with X windows at all. I just had to install it and go. There was the one stupid pet trick I had to do get DVD playback to work but other than that it really does just work.
My wife asked me to put it on her desktop as well. She has no problem with it and is a long time user of GIMP on Windows. She thinks FSpot is great and finds Linux as easy to use as Windows.
Once people find out that they use Linux every time they go to google or use their TIVO maybe they well get over the Linux is hard to use idea. It was true in the past but modern Linux system seem to be just as easy to use as Windows if not more so.
Well if the prisoner wants to be an organ donor then I don't have any more problem with it than I already have with the death penalty. I happen to be against the death penalty for personal religious reasons.
Not at all. Good programmers spend a lot more time writing code than compiling. Even then you tend to incremental compiles. Unless you are doing CAD, Games, Heavy Video, or other types of super heavy number crunching types of programing a faster computer just isn't all that big of an advantage. What you don't want is the downtime of swaping out a PC for no real improvement.
Yes I do and yes we run Windows. .NET is such a bad idea.
When Selecting new software we try to pick multi-platform solutions because we are going to have to start supporting Mac OSx soon. Too many of our current customers are requesting our software run on the Mac.
You are right about custom software. The biggest lock-in isn't Office it is VB. I hate VB and we never drank the VB koolaid but I know many companies have. That is why I think
Notice I said better yet run Linux but I know some people must use Windows. I keep hoping that people will start weaning themselves from Windows dependencies but that will take time. After all why lock yourself into a single vendor solution if you can avoid it.
Antivirus software will not protect you from exploits. That is what a firewall is for.
Antivirus software is usually for scanning files that you download for viruses and such.
I run it on my windows machine but I have never gotten a warning on my home machine. I use it on my work machine and I have not heard any warnings for a good long while.
So get AVG and ditch Norton and McAfee.
I would say or better yet run Linux but I know some people must use Windows. Heck I do to run FSX.
I still find it scary that 1ghz and 512mb is considered low end for an office PC.
Well I hope it works out for you. It seems very Moller like to me so until there are some independent tests I will take those specks with a large grain of salt.
But that is the key here those breakthroughs have not been made yet. They are getting closer but they are not here yet. When they happen then the electrical car may be practical. The real problem to this day is recharge time. If you could fill the battery in the same amount of time it takes to fill your tank then it would be pretty dang practical.
I am not saying never I am saying that the electrical car was killed by it's lack of value and not by some dastardly plot.
Well since the electric car has been around since... about 1900 then I would that over 100 years of it not being affordable to the masses is a pretty good track record.
Anybody can build an electric car with a price and practicality is not object spec.
But on the bright side and there is a bright side.
One police official is suggesting that this a good idea. Civil liberty people are up in arms about it and people are discussing it. That is sign of a healthy free society. There is nothing wrong with talking about doing this. It would be bad if they just started doing it.
The physics are that batteries don't have the energy density of liquid hydrocarbons. That part is the simple physics. Batteries are expensive and do wear out so that is another cost item. Is it better than paying for oil changes? Maybe but it is easier to pay for an oil change every few thousand miles than pay a lot for a battery swap every 50,000. Even then if you pay $40 for an oil change every 5,000 miles that is a lot less than than a battery swap.
The GM electric car was just not a great car. It was expensive and small. Many people do have to go more than fifty miles from home at least once a week the big problem with electric cars is when they are low on power you can not go and recharge in 10 minutes. The 100 mile range isn't the real problem it is the long recharge time. I know a lot of people that ride motorcycles with a range of around 100 miles. The problem is when they get low they just stop and refuel.
Electric cars have failed because they are not as practical as a gas car. But if you want one then buy one. There are companies that will convert a car for you. Put your money where your mouth is.
How much does it cost?
How far can it go?
The Tesla is a toy like any other car in that price range.
Did you buy an electric car? Or lease one?
Who killed the electric car? Simple physics did.
All electric cars have to short a range and are too expensive. They suck compared to ic cars.
The Prius showed that people will buy a good car that gets good gas mileage.
Not off the top of my head. I kind of doubt that you will see flash becoming as fast as ram but if you do then it will become system and we will start wishing for those 128 bit CPUs to come out.