The posting mentions this, but the app is designed for iPhone displays, not iPad. So you have to do the terrible zoom to get it to not be tiny on your iPad.
We have a big investment in VMWare at the moment, but will seriously be looking at RedHat Enterprise Virtualization going forward. Their management client is starting to look as good as vCenter and the price is way way way less. We're looking at about a factor or 8 less. So do we want to spend $40,000 for finicky hardware requirements and constant marketing-driven name changes or do we want to pay $5000 to install RHEV on whatever nice servers we have already sitting around. We're going to be voting for the latter.
In a government agency we're charged internally $8/GB/yr for online storage. We have a hot replica ready to come online if the primary goes down for any reason, it's incrementally backed up to tape (using Tivoli) each night and the encrypted weekly tapes are transferred to an offsite location each week.
All that for $8/GB/yr. Supposedly that's the cost-neutral point for them including hardware maintenance, salaries, power, cooling, etc.
Since you seem to know a lot about this stuff, mekkab, maybe you can tell me what I like. The plethora of different terms bewilders me. I would like to see a breakdown of tracks into the subcategories on some site so I could figure it out for myself, actually, heh.
Just a warning. I do tend to like the poppier dance music like they play on BPM on XM Radio, so here goes.
I seem to like tracks by (in no particular order) 4 Strings ATB Benassi BT Chicane Darude Iio M ilky Motorcycle Tiesto Ferry Corsten Ian van Dahl Armin van Buuren Paul van Dyk probably some other vans the big stuff by Basement Jaxx and Daft Punk guilty pleasure is old stuff by Dune
and I tend to like remixes by Gabriel & Dresden and Tiesto
I know this is slashdot where no one reads the articles, but at least if you were going to smear a guy read the first couple pages of his work.
He is listed as an editor of TOSHARG, first of all, and did a huge amount of work adding content and making the thing into a book instead of just a bunch of HOWTO pages. In addition the entire contents of the book is available from samba.org, you idiot.
Not only is The Official Samba HOWTO and Reference Guide available from samba.org, but also his recent book Samba-3 by Example can be downloaded in its entirety for free. This thing is filled with a huge amount of his sweat and he gives it to the Samba community for nothing.
He has not worked for SCO for years, and the work he did for them was on the side of open source and was the cause of his parting of ways with them, but even a cursory search of the web for his bio would have told you that.
Anyway, he is one of the good guys in this world and I can't resist the hook of your stupid troll in this case defending him I guess.
Please moderators. Exercise at least a little bit of discretion and don't immediately mod up someone posting as anonymous which will start at 0 already just because they requested to be modded down.
He worked for SCO when it was still a good company and parted ways with them when it became apparent that it was no longer one.
Now let's see if I can get the facts right... but the job he did when he was at SCO was in large part an open source evangelist. So you can see why he did not exactly fit in with the current management.
Anyway, he is one of the good guys, and you are a tool for posting a smear anonymously and so is whoever modded you interesting.
How hard is it to read a barcode? Most barcode readers I have ever seen come with a keyboard wedge. They also are able to figure out what encoding was used just by scanning the code.
You just plug it in between your keyboard and your computer, and when you scan a barcode it dumps whatever was encoded to the keyboard interface.
By scanning codes printed in the manual you can program even the cheapest of them (sub $50) to append a linefeed (for instance) to the end of what you read, so write a perl script that just sits and listens for individual "keyboard" commands and do something with them and voila, you got yourself a barcode reader.
I didn't make any custom (non-GUI-originated) mods to the smb configuration file at all. I just made the guy at FOSE open up a terminal and show me that the GUI was actually editing the.conf files and then came back to work and promptly joined some of our Panther machines to our Windows AD.
Yes, and at the recent FOSE expo in DC the Apple guy that was standing under the sign in the Apple booth that said "LDAP and Kerberos" showed me how easy it was to use.
It uses all the normal Apple GUI type controls which basically take care of all of the configuration changes to smb.conf and krb5.conf. Basically a slick "apple looking" configuration file editor. I thought SWAT made samba configuration pretty easy, but this Apple stuff is great. Really cool stuff.
Looks like they made the right decision. He is clearly a blabbermouth. Sheesh. Writing up his experiences on the web and posting it in pdf form with references so that everyone knows exactly how it works?
I know he was not hired. I know it is probably not technically illegal to do. But this shows, in my opinion, that Mr. Clever who posted the whole thing likes to "expose" things. He likes to get a bit of attention and likes everyone to know what a smart cookie he is, even if he did post it quasi-anonymously.
Not good qualities in someone you are going to trust with your secrets.
Looks like the interviews and polygraph did exactly what they were supposed to do.
Depending on the type of data they get, however, it might mean that they will start making better ads. I have a ReplayTV, and I skip quite a few ads, but there are a few that I actually watch. I only watch them once during a show usually, though, cause seeing them every 5 minutes can make even the most fun ad tiresome.
I saw these things at the last FOSE expo in DC and was impressed. You stick a card in a PCI slot and then use Cat-5 to connect that card with their silent box which holds a PCI video card, USB, PS2, and line/mic in/out. You can then stick the box something like 100 meters away from where you are actually using it. Probably not for gamers since no AGP video, but good enough for a living room computer terminal and noiseless.
We are thinking of using em for some tight or dirty spots where it is inconvenient to stick a computer box and where it would be inconvenient to have someone hit the reset button (computers that control scientific equipment in a big hall).
I have driven both of them. One friend bought a Prius and one bought a Civic. The Civic was anticlimactic. It drove just like a regular Civic except for the fact that it was very very quiet.
However the Prius reminded me all the time that I was driving a very different car. The braking felt wierd as the regenerative brakes kicked in. The dashboard had this massive and distracting display in it with cutesy graphics showing where the power was coming from. When I started from a stop to back out of a parking spot the engine did not even turn on at all until I got going (my friend calls this "stealth mode"). The acceleration was not predictable for me since I guess the electric assist was determined by pressure on the gas pedal, and I did not know exactly where to expect the extra power. I assume I would get used to that in time.
One thing that was pretty cool about the Prius was the surprisingly huge trunk, but neither of them let you put the backseats forward to hold long things in the trunk (the batteries are in the way I guess).
The Civic felt more comfortable, gets almost exactly the same mileage (better mileage on the highway, iirc), and supposedly has slightly worse emmisions. The Prius is probably more high-tech and has a big goofy LCD in the dash that can be the display for a GPS mapping system. It also looks like something different, so that can be attractive as well.
After trying both of them I bought a Subaru Impreza. I am 6foot 3inches tall with long legs. With my foot on the brake pedal on either of these cars my knee touched the steering wheel, so I decided to just buy something I fit into well and would feel safe driving for about the same price.
Something I have never been clear on is the distinction between SULEV and ULEV. I had heard that SULEV is simply a California thing and the difference between the Prius and Civic was that one was Cali. certivied SULEV and one was not, but that the emissions were similar.
Nor in my mind does he fully answer the question of why the scientists remained motivated to produce the weapons after Germany had been conquered.
I assume you are talking about why they remained motivated to produce the weapons after Germany was conquered, but before Japan was. The reason which was discussed in the book was that they had already spent a lot of money, and it had been decided by then that the concept would work. Because of the perceived usefullness of the thing to end what looked at the time to be a protracted war with the Japanese they kept going. Just because the initial motivation was as a foil for Germany, it didn't mean it was a bad idea after Germany was gone. Plus by that time the scientists were genuinely interested in the idea and really wanted to see it go boom after living in the desert on the top of a mesa for a few years.
For the motivation after the end of World War II was over, you should read Rhodes' followup book, Dark Sun, The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. This book goes a lot more into the wholesale operation of Russia's espionage business here in the US after the war and details what was going on at Los Alamos while the Cold War was really building up steam.
How is 400,000 subscriptions worth $100M per year? At $10 per month ($120 per year) that is $48M.
And $1B a year sounds like way too much. They have a big square building here in DC filled with 100 little radio stations that operate very cost effectively (much cheaper than 100 separate stations) and a few huge antennas beaming a signal up to their satellites. Couple that with their 100 or so ground based repeaters, whatever marketing they are doing, and whatever they are paying the rest of the staff that does not actually work in the studios, and it just does not seem like it should be anywhere near $1B. Seems off by at least an order of magnitude to me.
Of course even if their costs are only $100M that still means way over a million subscribers, which I really hope happens cause I like my XM radio.
I agree with these points about local FM programming. I have had XM for about 3 months now, and I guess I like it because I only turn on the regular radio for AM traffic reports and FM NPR news.
It does sting me a bit that I am paying $10 per month for radio, but I compensated for it by dropping Comcast Digital Cable which is also an extra $10 per month. The big reason I wanted the digital cable was for the audio anyway, and my little Sony XM unit hooks into my home audio system just fine.
The audio quality both in the car and the house is good (now that I solved my noisy 12V DC problem in the car), but I mainly like it for the selection. I tend to like older alternative stuff and dance music. With two alternative channels (one older and one newer) and three dance channels (one with a mix of house/DnB/trance, one with more clubby tecnho, and one with electronica of all descriptions) I can usually find something I like listening to.
My other interest is classical choral music. This music has almost no place on traditional radio because classical stations are mostly playing symphonies or stuff the same Beethoven/Mozart that folks are familiar with. If you want to hear cool rennaisance stuff like Palestrina, Legrenzi, Gabrieli you may get lucky and catch it, but XM has a whole radio station (Vox) that is nothing but this stuff and opera (which I could take or leave).
I had a hard time deciding between Sirius and XM. Sirius has two NPR stations and one PRI. I would have loved to get those, but the deciding factor for me was the Sony XM unit. I just wanted to be able to listen to my $10/month radio both at home and in the car. To do that with Sirius I would have had to buy two units and two subscriptions because the only Sirius units I saw were fixed installation type things that had to wire directly into a Sirius enabled car stereo. The Sony portable package was just too attractive. It comes with everything needed, including an antenna which you have to buy separate with most Sirius receivers, and I was able to use it with out doing anything extra since my radio has AUXIN on the front of it (which I used to use for MP3).
Anyway, the future of classical music is probably in sattelite radio, sad to say. There are a lot of people across the country that listen to it, but not enough to make a good market in any one area. So I hope XM or Sirius or both survive for a good long time. If XM dies I will be pissed that I now have a $300 paperweight, but its successor would be wise to make a service that would allow folks to resubscribe with their old units (basically free money for them), so I am not too worried.
I just got one of the new Aiwa units that comes with an aux-in. I got the one that will also play an ISO-9660 CD filled with MP3 files. Cost was under $200. I like the unit a lot and use the aux-in for a Sony XM Radio receiver. However, there has been a big problem with this.
The XM receiver gets its power from the cigarette lighter. When I use a male-male minijack cable to plug it into the aux-in of the radio I get two horrible whines. One coming from the engine (pitch changes with RPM), one coming from the fan that is internal to the XM receiver.
I reasoned that the engine whine is the result of the cigarette lighter and the radio being grounded at different points setting up a big ground-loop so I bought a spare accessory jack from radio shack and wired it up behind the radio in parallel with the radio ground and power. This seemed to reduce the engine whine (didn't eliminate it completely), but it did nothing to the fan noise that the XM unit puts out. I have no idea how I will tackle that.
Anyway, in some cases a direct electrical connection to the stereo such as an aux-in provides will actually degrade the sound, especially in cars with such a large potential for ground loops. I guess that the XM fan noise is being transmitted along the common of the minijack conector now. I had none of these problems when I was just using the tape adapter that came with the XM receiver. If the stereo was not superior in every other way to the factory fm/am/cassette that had been installed I would put the factory radio back and just use the tape adapter.
Running mozilla-0.9.9-12.7.2 from RedHat here (I know, I am too lazy to update yet, and this one works fine for me so far), and I have been visiting the site regularly. It works great for me. The forums all look right, and even the javascript rollover jobbies on the front page work as expected. The biggest problems I have with Mozilla are with fonts (not really Mozilla's fault probably) and even those look all right on bioware.com.
Despite what it says they must make laptops run hotter. Adding electricity to something cannot bring a net cooling effect. If one side of this thing gets cooler by removing heat, then the other side gets hotter than the cool side gets cooler. (did that make sense)
Anyway, it is the reason you can't just stick an air conditioner in the middle of the room or leave the fridge door open and expect your house to get cooler. You have to have a heat exchanger outside to dump the heat removed from the cold side and the 20% waste heat that they are quoting.
Maybe they are talking about making the inside of the laptop cool while having a big funky heatsink on the outside which you could fry an egg on...
Hmm, the radio buttons on that page that you are asked to print out don't even show up in Netscape 4.x and in Mozilla I can never get the $1000 one unchecked. No biggie because it is not a submission, just a print and send in thing.
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The posting mentions this, but the app is designed for iPhone displays, not iPad. So you have to do the terrible zoom to get it to not be tiny on your iPad.
We have a big investment in VMWare at the moment, but will seriously be looking at RedHat Enterprise Virtualization going forward. Their management client is starting to look as good as vCenter and the price is way way way less. We're looking at about a factor or 8 less. So do we want to spend $40,000 for finicky hardware requirements and constant marketing-driven name changes or do we want to pay $5000 to install RHEV on whatever nice servers we have already sitting around. We're going to be voting for the latter.
In a government agency we're charged internally $8/GB/yr for online storage. We have a hot replica ready to come online if the primary goes down for any reason, it's incrementally backed up to tape (using Tivoli) each night and the encrypted weekly tapes are transferred to an offsite location each week.
All that for $8/GB/yr. Supposedly that's the cost-neutral point for them including hardware maintenance, salaries, power, cooling, etc.
Thanks radish. I was actually not sure if I liked trance or if "trance" just meant the really minimalist more ambient stuff.
Since you seem to know a lot about this stuff, mekkab, maybe you can tell me what I like. The plethora of different terms bewilders me. I would like to see a breakdown of tracks into the subcategories on some site so I could figure it out for myself, actually, heh.
M ilky
Just a warning. I do tend to like the poppier dance music like they play on BPM on XM Radio, so here goes.
I seem to like tracks by (in no particular order)
4 Strings
ATB
Benassi
BT
Chicane
Darude
Iio
Motorcycle
Tiesto
Ferry Corsten
Ian van Dahl
Armin van Buuren
Paul van Dyk
probably some other vans
the big stuff by Basement Jaxx and Daft Punk
guilty pleasure is old stuff by Dune
and I tend to like remixes by Gabriel & Dresden and Tiesto
Who is modding up these anonymous smears?
I know this is slashdot where no one reads the articles, but at least if you were going to smear a guy read the first couple pages of his work.
He is listed as an editor of TOSHARG, first of all, and did a huge amount of work adding content and making the thing into a book instead of just a bunch of HOWTO pages. In addition the entire contents of the book is available from samba.org, you idiot.
Not only is The Official Samba HOWTO and Reference Guide available from samba.org, but also his recent book Samba-3 by Example can be downloaded in its entirety for free. This thing is filled with a huge amount of his sweat and he gives it to the Samba community for nothing.
He has not worked for SCO for years, and the work he did for them was on the side of open source and was the cause of his parting of ways with them, but even a cursory search of the web for his bio would have told you that.
Anyway, he is one of the good guys in this world and I can't resist the hook of your stupid troll in this case defending him I guess.
Please moderators. Exercise at least a little bit of discretion and don't immediately mod up someone posting as anonymous which will start at 0 already just because they requested to be modded down.
Wrong.
He worked for SCO when it was still a good company and parted ways with them when it became apparent that it was no longer one.
Now let's see if I can get the facts right... but the job he did when he was at SCO was in large part an open source evangelist. So you can see why he did not exactly fit in with the current management.
Anyway, he is one of the good guys, and you are a tool for posting a smear anonymously and so is whoever modded you interesting.
How hard is it to read a barcode? Most barcode readers I have ever seen come with a keyboard wedge. They also are able to figure out what encoding was used just by scanning the code.
You just plug it in between your keyboard and your computer, and when you scan a barcode it dumps whatever was encoded to the keyboard interface.
By scanning codes printed in the manual you can program even the cheapest of them (sub $50) to append a linefeed (for instance) to the end of what you read, so write a perl script that just sits and listens for individual "keyboard" commands and do something with them and voila, you got yourself a barcode reader.
You are probably right.
.conf files and then came back to work and promptly joined some of our Panther machines to our Windows AD.
I didn't make any custom (non-GUI-originated) mods to the smb configuration file at all. I just made the guy at FOSE open up a terminal and show me that the GUI was actually editing the
Yes, and at the recent FOSE expo in DC the Apple guy that was standing under the sign in the Apple booth that said "LDAP and Kerberos" showed me how easy it was to use.
It uses all the normal Apple GUI type controls which basically take care of all of the configuration changes to smb.conf and krb5.conf. Basically a slick "apple looking" configuration file editor. I thought SWAT made samba configuration pretty easy, but this Apple stuff is great. Really cool stuff.
Looks like they made the right decision. He is clearly a blabbermouth. Sheesh. Writing up his experiences on the web and posting it in pdf form with references so that everyone knows exactly how it works?
I know he was not hired. I know it is probably not technically illegal to do. But this shows, in my opinion, that Mr. Clever who posted the whole thing likes to "expose" things. He likes to get a bit of attention and likes everyone to know what a smart cookie he is, even if he did post it quasi-anonymously.
Not good qualities in someone you are going to trust with your secrets.
Looks like the interviews and polygraph did exactly what they were supposed to do.
As I recall it wasn't cold fusion in that movie. It was some form of sonoluminescence that was energetic enough to cause fusion.
Good point.
Depending on the type of data they get, however, it might mean that they will start making better ads. I have a ReplayTV, and I skip quite a few ads, but there are a few that I actually watch. I only watch them once during a show usually, though, cause seeing them every 5 minutes can make even the most fun ad tiresome.
I saw these things at the last FOSE expo in DC and was impressed. You stick a card in a PCI slot and then use Cat-5 to connect that card with their silent box which holds a PCI video card, USB, PS2, and line/mic in/out. You can then stick the box something like 100 meters away from where you are actually using it. Probably not for gamers since no AGP video, but good enough for a living room computer terminal and noiseless.
We are thinking of using em for some tight or dirty spots where it is inconvenient to stick a computer box and where it would be inconvenient to have someone hit the reset button (computers that control scientific equipment in a big hall).
Link at http://www.avocent.com/ddd
I have driven both of them. One friend bought a Prius and one bought a Civic. The Civic was anticlimactic. It drove just like a regular Civic except for the fact that it was very very quiet.
However the Prius reminded me all the time that I was driving a very different car. The braking felt wierd as the regenerative brakes kicked in. The dashboard had this massive and distracting display in it with cutesy graphics showing where the power was coming from. When I started from a stop to back out of a parking spot the engine did not even turn on at all until I got going (my friend calls this "stealth mode"). The acceleration was not predictable for me since I guess the electric assist was determined by pressure on the gas pedal, and I did not know exactly where to expect the extra power. I assume I would get used to that in time.
One thing that was pretty cool about the Prius was the surprisingly huge trunk, but neither of them let you put the backseats forward to hold long things in the trunk (the batteries are in the way I guess).
The Civic felt more comfortable, gets almost exactly the same mileage (better mileage on the highway, iirc), and supposedly has slightly worse emmisions. The Prius is probably more high-tech and has a big goofy LCD in the dash that can be the display for a GPS mapping system. It also looks like something different, so that can be attractive as well.
After trying both of them I bought a Subaru Impreza. I am 6foot 3inches tall with long legs. With my foot on the brake pedal on either of these cars my knee touched the steering wheel, so I decided to just buy something I fit into well and would feel safe driving for about the same price.
Something I have never been clear on is the distinction between SULEV and ULEV. I had heard that SULEV is simply a California thing and the difference between the Prius and Civic was that one was Cali. certivied SULEV and one was not, but that the emissions were similar.
WTH?
How can the poster be a karma whore if they posted as an AC? Did you not even look at the post before accusing them of whoring?
somebody oughta sell tickets...
I assume you are talking about why they remained motivated to produce the weapons after Germany was conquered, but before Japan was. The reason which was discussed in the book was that they had already spent a lot of money, and it had been decided by then that the concept would work. Because of the perceived usefullness of the thing to end what looked at the time to be a protracted war with the Japanese they kept going. Just because the initial motivation was as a foil for Germany, it didn't mean it was a bad idea after Germany was gone. Plus by that time the scientists were genuinely interested in the idea and really wanted to see it go boom after living in the desert on the top of a mesa for a few years.
For the motivation after the end of World War II was over, you should read Rhodes' followup book, Dark Sun, The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. This book goes a lot more into the wholesale operation of Russia's espionage business here in the US after the war and details what was going on at Los Alamos while the Cold War was really building up steam.
This would be great. Much better than a bunch of guys in Tux suits showing up and giving them a punching.
How is 400,000 subscriptions worth $100M per year? At $10 per month ($120 per year) that is $48M.
And $1B a year sounds like way too much. They have a big square building here in DC filled with 100 little radio stations that operate very cost effectively (much cheaper than 100 separate stations) and a few huge antennas beaming a signal up to their satellites. Couple that with their 100 or so ground based repeaters, whatever marketing they are doing, and whatever they are paying the rest of the staff that does not actually work in the studios, and it just does not seem like it should be anywhere near $1B. Seems off by at least an order of magnitude to me.
Of course even if their costs are only $100M that still means way over a million subscribers, which I really hope happens cause I like my XM radio.
I agree with these points about local FM programming. I have had XM for about 3 months now, and I guess I like it because I only turn on the regular radio for AM traffic reports and FM NPR news.
It does sting me a bit that I am paying $10 per month for radio, but I compensated for it by dropping Comcast Digital Cable which is also an extra $10 per month. The big reason I wanted the digital cable was for the audio anyway, and my little Sony XM unit hooks into my home audio system just fine.
The audio quality both in the car and the house is good (now that I solved my noisy 12V DC problem in the car), but I mainly like it for the selection. I tend to like older alternative stuff and dance music. With two alternative channels (one older and one newer) and three dance channels (one with a mix of house/DnB/trance, one with more clubby tecnho, and one with electronica of all descriptions) I can usually find something I like listening to.
My other interest is classical choral music. This music has almost no place on traditional radio because classical stations are mostly playing symphonies or stuff the same Beethoven/Mozart that folks are familiar with. If you want to hear cool rennaisance stuff like Palestrina, Legrenzi, Gabrieli you may get lucky and catch it, but XM has a whole radio station (Vox) that is nothing but this stuff and opera (which I could take or leave).
I had a hard time deciding between Sirius and XM. Sirius has two NPR stations and one PRI. I would have loved to get those, but the deciding factor for me was the Sony XM unit. I just wanted to be able to listen to my $10/month radio both at home and in the car. To do that with Sirius I would have had to buy two units and two subscriptions because the only Sirius units I saw were fixed installation type things that had to wire directly into a Sirius enabled car stereo. The Sony portable package was just too attractive. It comes with everything needed, including an antenna which you have to buy separate with most Sirius receivers, and I was able to use it with out doing anything extra since my radio has AUXIN on the front of it (which I used to use for MP3).
Anyway, the future of classical music is probably in sattelite radio, sad to say. There are a lot of people across the country that listen to it, but not enough to make a good market in any one area. So I hope XM or Sirius or both survive for a good long time. If XM dies I will be pissed that I now have a $300 paperweight, but its successor would be wise to make a service that would allow folks to resubscribe with their old units (basically free money for them), so I am not too worried.
I just got one of the new Aiwa units that comes with an aux-in. I got the one that will also play an ISO-9660 CD filled with MP3 files. Cost was under $200. I like the unit a lot and use the aux-in for a Sony XM Radio receiver. However, there has been a big problem with this.
The XM receiver gets its power from the cigarette lighter. When I use a male-male minijack cable to plug it into the aux-in of the radio I get two horrible whines. One coming from the engine (pitch changes with RPM), one coming from the fan that is internal to the XM receiver.
I reasoned that the engine whine is the result of the cigarette lighter and the radio being grounded at different points setting up a big ground-loop so I bought a spare accessory jack from radio shack and wired it up behind the radio in parallel with the radio ground and power. This seemed to reduce the engine whine (didn't eliminate it completely), but it did nothing to the fan noise that the XM unit puts out. I have no idea how I will tackle that.
Anyway, in some cases a direct electrical connection to the stereo such as an aux-in provides will actually degrade the sound, especially in cars with such a large potential for ground loops. I guess that the XM fan noise is being transmitted along the common of the minijack conector now. I had none of these problems when I was just using the tape adapter that came with the XM receiver. If the stereo was not superior in every other way to the factory fm/am/cassette that had been installed I would put the factory radio back and just use the tape adapter.
Running mozilla-0.9.9-12.7.2 from RedHat here (I know, I am too lazy to update yet, and this one works fine for me so far), and I have been visiting the site regularly. It works great for me. The forums all look right, and even the javascript rollover jobbies on the front page work as expected. The biggest problems I have with Mozilla are with fonts (not really Mozilla's fault probably) and even those look all right on bioware.com.
Despite what it says they must make laptops run hotter. Adding electricity to something cannot bring a net cooling effect. If one side of this thing gets cooler by removing heat, then the other side gets hotter than the cool side gets cooler. (did that make sense)
Anyway, it is the reason you can't just stick an air conditioner in the middle of the room or leave the fridge door open and expect your house to get cooler. You have to have a heat exchanger outside to dump the heat removed from the cold side and the 20% waste heat that they are quoting.
Maybe they are talking about making the inside of the laptop cool while having a big funky heatsink on the outside which you could fry an egg on...
Hmm, the radio buttons on that page that you are asked to print out don't even show up in Netscape 4.x and in Mozilla I can never get the $1000 one unchecked. No biggie because it is not a submission, just a print and send in thing.