Hey, major kudos to you guys for addressing everyone's concerns here! It's great to be able to get answers in this forum. Your hard work is appreciated! I'm much more curious now about redhat linux after reading your answers to people's questions. I'm especially curious about up2date. I may just download 7.1.
I don't see what's so great about this thing. The only actual features they mention on that page are the accelerometer (which I doubt the usefulness of) and the camera (kind of cool, but who needs a camera on their PDA? If you want a camera, get a real digital camera). All the other "features" are simply the same features the regular iPAQ + PC card sleeve has. Bluetooth, GPS, 802.11b, 1GB MicroDrive, GSM, CDMA, those are all available through PC cards with the regular iPAQ.
The "audio interface with a headset jack" is built into the iPAQ, as is the 32 MB RAM and 16 MB Flash ROM (which they somehow confused with 32 MB "flash ram"). The Linux and X-windows software package is likewise available without this "backPAQ" thingy.
If I had to pick one reason why Intel is likely to sell lots of inferior P4s at higher prices than AMD's superior chips, I would have to say: GHz. P4s simply run at higher clock speeds than AMD's and Joe Consumer doesn't know that AMD chips are faster per Hz than Intel's. He'll simply buy the one with the bigger number. And the clueless sales people at consumer electronics stores don't help much either. I'm sure the following conversation is happening in stores across the country right now:
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Clerk: Can I help you?
Joe: Yeah, I'm looking for a computer.
Clerk: Oh, what you want is the new spiffy Intel Pentium IV that has 1.5 GHz!!!
Joe: What's a GHz?
Clerk: It's, uhhh, a thing that tells you how good your computer is. Having 1.5 is really, really good!!!
Joe: Oh, OK. What about that one over there? [points to a less expensive AMD-powered computer]
Clerk: Oh, well, that one only has 1.2 GHz. It's not a bad computer, but I'll tell you, personally, I'd never buy it. 1.2 GHz aren't nearly enough for today's demanding applications such as web browsing and e-mail!!!
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As much as I hate to admit it, Intel made a good decision when they increased the depth of that pipeline: They decreased the speed, but they increased the only thing that matters to computer buyers, the GHz number. What AMD really needs to do is start an advertising blitz showing how much faster their chips are at a lower clock speed (and a lower price). Otherwise, Joe Consumer (and those clueless clerks) will never hear about it.
No, Linus is not jealous of OS X. He most likely doesn't care at all about its user-friendliness. What he doesn't like is the fact that it uses a Mach-based kernel, and he happens to hate Mach.
Linus' comments in the article have to do ONLY with the Mach microkernel. The GUI is irrelevant to him. He didn't create Linux to be user-friendly, so he has no reason to envy OS X for being user-friendly.
Well, I think when they say "bigger," they're referring to mass, not actual physical size. They can't measure the size of the planets because they can't see them. They can only measure the mass of the planets from their effect on the parent star's motion.
This is undeniably cool. However, all these planets are Jupiter-size or bigger(!). This is of course not because those are the only planets out there, it's due to the methods of detection used.
I'm still waiting for the new, better detection methods that will allow us to actually find Earth-sized planets in their normal orbits. Not only that, but future missions will be able to tell the composition of the atmosphere around these planets - and if they find an atmosphere a lot like ours, that would be the first concrete evidence towards extrasolar life.
NOBODY has come out and offered what I really want - linux on a PDA with a nice keyboard, a la the Jornada! GCC to go, with a real keyboard. I could toss the vaio then.
I think what you want is an iPAQ with this! It's a full-size laptop-type keyboard that ingeniously folds up to be about the size of the iPAQ itself. This is no cramped "chicklet" keyboard! I'm seriously thinking about getting one. The only problem is I don't know if there are Linux drivers (probably not). I'll bet there will be soon, though!
I think timothy was so darn proud of himself for actually going out and finding the URLs of the stories from a year ago that he didn't bother to check the last few days!
I can just imagine what he was thinking:
Stories! Plural! Boy, those darn guys that are always on me for not checking for previous Slashdot stories on the same subject will be happy now!
If the guy who submitted the story hadn't mentioned it, he probably wouldn't have even done that.
Your proposal about free linux games will NEVER happen. What possible benefit would there be in releasing old games free on linux to game companies? First they'd have to spend money porting the games. Then they'd get no money in return. And, new game sales would probably drop because everyone would be busy playing the old games. Besides, most games take up at least one full CD. Game companies sure aren't going to create boxed copies of free games, so the only way to get them would be to download them. Most gamers still don't have access to broadband, and don't have the ability to download 650 MB CD images of old games.
The only benefit provided by your scheme is that it would increase the number of Linux users. Well, game companies don't give a flying fig what OS their customers are running, as long as games are fairly easy to develop on it. Windows is the easiest right now. Game companies would gain NO benefit from your scheme. Therefore, they won't do it.
OK, I 'll get the last word. You didn't look at that datasheet referenced in an earlier comment, did you. Let me tell you another "known fact" from the official Compaq iPAQ datasheet:
Support chip - Intel StrongARM SA1111: NOTE this chip is not used in the core H3600 unit, and cannot be used in expansion packs because it does not support the full SA1110 bus.
How about yet another "known fact":
The iPAQ H3600 onboard audio system communicates to a Philips UDA1341 code through SA-1110 serial port 4 (MCP/SSP). The port is programmed in I2S and L3 mode. Digital audio sample rates (8 KHz, 11.025 KHz, 22.05 KHz, 44.1 Khz) are generated by a hardware clock generator.
There. 44.1Khz sound is possible on the iPAQ, in full stereo. Discussion over (for real this time).
I admit that the button bug is kind of annoying, but I don't know what you're talking about with the audio. It sounds merely OK from the built-in speaker (and it's LOUD!!!), but with headphones, it sounds great! I think it would make a great portable MP3 player if I had a CF sleeve and a 128 MB CF card.
And even with the button bug, Super Mario Bros. 3 is perfectly playable with the 4-way pad + onscreen buttons. I've already beat SMB 1 on it:-)
...is to get on a waiting list at your favorite tech store. I got on a Best Buy waiting list and got one in about a month, for retail price, not some inflated eBay price. They're doling them out in small increments to all the retail stores, so if you're on a list, you'll get one sooner or later. Don't fiddle around with online retailers who claim they have some or waste your money on eBay. It's not THAT important to have one RIGHT NOW (as opposed to a month from now).
For those of you wondering just how the heck this thing works - it uses a (really fast) conventional 2-D projector and a very complex array of lenses and mirrors to project a constantly changing image onto a 2-dimensional translucent screen that rotates at 600 rpm. By changing the image as the screen rotates, the illusion of a 3-D object is created.
More technical info (with pictures) can be found here and a shot of the screen while it's not moving can be seen here.
Copyright protection offers customers no benefit at all over devices with no copyright protection.
Wrong. The "benefit" that copyright protection offers consumers is the ability to play protected media.
Thanks to systems like Napster, that benefit is non-existent right now, because anyone can get all the free media they want. However, with the demise of Napster and the introduction of new content controls, it will start to become harder and harder to get media that isn't protected.
The big question, as I see it, is whether or not hackers will be able to crack the new protection schemes in a way that is easily duplicated by your average computer user. For example, if hackers come out with "SuperRip 2001 For Windows" that will rip all your new protected CDs, the situation will stay much as it is today - lots of people will rip their CDs and people will trade the un-protected files. However, if circumventing the new encryption schemes starts to require specialized hardware or something like that, pirating music will cease being the commonplace act that it is today. Fewer people will have the means to rip their CDs and unprotected music files will be harder to come by. As a result, you will start to NEED one of the new, secure PCs just to listen to popular music. There will be a benefit to buying the secure hardware - it will allow you to listen to music that cannot be listened to on older, more free hardware. Then SDMI and CRPM and their ilk will start to dominate.
Of course it does, as I note later on in my post. We are in agreement on that. However, that has nothing to do with my point there, which is that you can't say that it is impossible to clone an animal without introducing defects.
the large majority of mutations are dangerous for organisms.
I don't think that's true. Do you have any evidence to back that up or is it just your opinion? Anyway, that doesn't support your original point that cloning is and must be detrimental to the health of beings. Cloning on an EXTREMELY large scale for many millenia would stop natural selection (but not mutations) and therefore be bad for beings, but not because of any defects introduced by the cloning process itself.
However one can be pretty sure, based on a few theoretical basis, that cloning is real bad for beings. On one organism DNA may suffer tons of damages.
Huh? The only thing one can say now is that current methods of cloning may introduce defects in DNA. Cloning, as an idea, is simply the creation of an animal with the same genetic sequence as an existing one. There is no theoretical reason that cloning must produce defects in cloned DNA. Heck, cells "clone" DNA all the time during cell division, and it hardly ever introduces mutations (witness the millions of cells in your body with the exact same DNA).
To avoid serious mutations and rise the chance of survival there is sex.
I'm sorry, but that's not true. According to evolution and natural selection, the purpose of sex is to mix and match existing mutations, in order to get a large number of different combinations, to see which works the best. Sex does not either prevent or cause mutations. Mutations happen all the time, randomly, by natural processes. Most are too small to be noticed.
The reason animals have sex is not because cloning themselves is impractical or damaging, it's because it mixes up the gene pool and gives a greater variety of organisms. This increases a species' chances of survival, because it allows them to adapt through natural selection (the animals that get the bad genes die, the animals that get the good genes thrive and the good genes spread faster).
Unfortunately, this system is not (yet) practical for use in solving actual hard NP problems. From the article's conclusion:
The strength of this microfluidic system as an analog computational device is its high parallelism. Its weakness is the exponential increase in its physical size with the number of vertices. This space-time tradeoff is reminiscent of the limitations of using DNA for solving large NP problems (refs. 5-7). We estimate that the largest graph that might be solved with our algorithmby using 12-inch wafers (commercially available) and 200-nm channels (within the range of photolithography)is 20 vertices. If we use space more efficiently by encoding subgraphs in a plane and use the third dimension for fluid flow, we might solve 40-vertex graphs. By using a computer capable of performing 109 operations per second, a 40-vertex graph can be solved in about 20 min, which makes this microfluidic approach (in its current form) impractical to compete with traditional silicon computers for solving large search problems.
There are several problems with VMWare (and projects like it, such as the really cool and free Plex86) that make it unsuitable as a gaming platform.
First of all, and possibly most important, VMWare doesn't support DirectX, making it useless for the vast majority of Windows games. I don't know if this is because the VMWare developers don't care about games, or if it's actually not possible to run DirectX in VMWare (it may not be possible for technical reasons, and 3D accelerator cards may not be possible to use either).
Second, because of the method of emulation used, VMWare and projects like it will always be slower than natively running the code.
Third, VMWare requires a copy of Windows in order to run Windows. TransGaming's free DirectX implementation, along with WINE, completely eliminates the need to buy Windows. This isn't really a problem now, because everyone has Windows, but maybe in the future...
That's the old watch. This new watch is much better - it has a very bright OLED display running at 640X480!!! Yes, you read that right - less than a square inch of screen area, but it is a 640X480 display! In my opinion, that's the coolest thing about the watch. Running Linux on a watch is pointless, but this display is just incredible.
OK, as much as I like Linux, I think that it's pretty pointless to put it on a wristwatch. I mean, what benefits could Linux possibly provide to a WRISTWATCH!?!? Pre-emptive multitasking? The screen is too small to show ONE application, let alone two or more! Emacs? XFree? Apache? No current Linux applications will be useable on a wristwatch, requiring the programming of special software for the watch. While you're programming special watch software, why not make your own very small OS with only the features needed by a watch. You could probably do away with some hardware that Linux requires by doing this, and long battery life would be a design goal from the beginning, not something that has to be patched in later.
I'm not denying the coolness factor here, and it certainly is a great achievement in hardware and software hacking, but the simple fact is that there is no convievable use for Linux on a wristwatch. A custom solution would do the job much better.
Konqueror does Opera one better - it allows you to select specifically, site-by-site, how you want your cookies managed. Ban all but a few chosen sites, or have Konqueror ask you whenever it recieves a cookie from a new site. It works great - I have had it set on "Ask" for a while now. Whenever I go to a new site it asks me if I want to ban or accept this cookie, or all future cookies from this site if I want. Now I have a fairly large database of sites that I won't accept cookies from (ad.doubleclick.net) and sites that I will accept cookies from (slashdot.org) and it hardly ever asks me anymore.
Also, as if that wasn't good enough, Konqueror has a great GUI cookie manager built-in, allowing you to set the acceptance policy for any site, view all the policies you have, and it even allows you to view every single cookie on your computer - indexed by site and showing the cookie's content and expiration date. You can delete any individual cookie, and see just exactly what site XYZ wants to store in it's cookie.
This, combined with Konqueror's other great features (Full netscape plugin support, standards compatibility, javascript, amazing file manager, address bar searching, SMB browsing, CD ripping, icon image and text previews, terminal emulator, kitchen sink, etc etc) make Konqueror my browser and filemanager of choice.
The efficiency isn't the only thing to consider, though. What about the other advantages of centralized power generation, such as:
The ability to use alternative energy sources as they become available. It's easy to convert a few power plants to use solar power (or some other technology that may become practical in the future), but changing millions of cars to use solar power is a process that would take decades and tons of $$$.
The ability to locate plants anywhere. Get pollution out of the cities where people live!
The ability to use sources of power that are impractical for use in cars, such as: geothermal, wind, and hydroelectric power.
These advantages, combined with the fact that centralized power generation can be FAR more efficient than your car, make hydrogen-fueled cars pretty attractive, even if the process of electrolysis isn't that efficient (yet!)
BTW, that Open Mind Speech Recognition thing looks pretty cool! Do you work on that? Will you get an actual working speech recognition engine in the near future? (or even far future?)
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P.S. Konqueror rocks! (Anti-Aliased fonts, oh yeah ;-)
The "audio interface with a headset jack" is built into the iPAQ, as is the 32 MB RAM and 16 MB Flash ROM (which they somehow confused with 32 MB "flash ram"). The Linux and X-windows software package is likewise available without this "backPAQ" thingy.
What's the big deal?
If I had to pick one reason why Intel is likely to sell lots of inferior P4s at higher prices than AMD's superior chips, I would have to say: GHz. P4s simply run at higher clock speeds than AMD's and Joe Consumer doesn't know that AMD chips are faster per Hz than Intel's. He'll simply buy the one with the bigger number. And the clueless sales people at consumer electronics stores don't help much either. I'm sure the following conversation is happening in stores across the country right now:
_________________________________
Clerk: Can I help you?
Joe: Yeah, I'm looking for a computer.
Clerk: Oh, what you want is the new spiffy Intel Pentium IV that has 1.5 GHz!!!
Joe: What's a GHz?
Clerk: It's, uhhh, a thing that tells you how good your computer is. Having 1.5 is really, really good!!!
Joe: Oh, OK. What about that one over there? [points to a less expensive AMD-powered computer]
Clerk: Oh, well, that one only has 1.2 GHz. It's not a bad computer, but I'll tell you, personally, I'd never buy it. 1.2 GHz aren't nearly enough for today's demanding applications such as web browsing and e-mail!!!
_________________________________
As much as I hate to admit it, Intel made a good decision when they increased the depth of that pipeline: They decreased the speed, but they increased the only thing that matters to computer buyers, the GHz number. What AMD really needs to do is start an advertising blitz showing how much faster their chips are at a lower clock speed (and a lower price). Otherwise, Joe Consumer (and those clueless clerks) will never hear about it.
Linus' comments in the article have to do ONLY with the Mach microkernel. The GUI is irrelevant to him. He didn't create Linux to be user-friendly, so he has no reason to envy OS X for being user-friendly.
Well, I think when they say "bigger," they're referring to mass, not actual physical size. They can't measure the size of the planets because they can't see them. They can only measure the mass of the planets from their effect on the parent star's motion.
I'm still waiting for the new, better detection methods that will allow us to actually find Earth-sized planets in their normal orbits. Not only that, but future missions will be able to tell the composition of the atmosphere around these planets - and if they find an atmosphere a lot like ours, that would be the first concrete evidence towards extrasolar life.
I think what you want is an iPAQ with this! It's a full-size laptop-type keyboard that ingeniously folds up to be about the size of the iPAQ itself. This is no cramped "chicklet" keyboard! I'm seriously thinking about getting one. The only problem is I don't know if there are Linux drivers (probably not). I'll bet there will be soon, though!
I can just imagine what he was thinking:
Stories! Plural! Boy, those darn guys that are always on me for not checking for previous Slashdot stories on the same subject will be happy now!
If the guy who submitted the story hadn't mentioned it, he probably wouldn't have even done that.
The only benefit provided by your scheme is that it would increase the number of Linux users. Well, game companies don't give a flying fig what OS their customers are running, as long as games are fairly easy to develop on it. Windows is the easiest right now. Game companies would gain NO benefit from your scheme. Therefore, they won't do it.
Support chip - Intel StrongARM SA1111: NOTE this chip is not used in the core H3600 unit, and cannot be used in expansion packs because it does not support the full SA1110 bus.
How about yet another "known fact":
The iPAQ H3600 onboard audio system communicates to a Philips UDA1341 code through SA-1110 serial port 4 (MCP/SSP). The port is programmed in I2S and L3 mode. Digital audio sample rates (8 KHz, 11.025 KHz, 22.05 KHz, 44.1 Khz) are generated by a hardware clock generator.
There. 44.1Khz sound is possible on the iPAQ, in full stereo. Discussion over (for real this time).
And even with the button bug, Super Mario Bros. 3 is perfectly playable with the 4-way pad + onscreen buttons. I've already beat SMB 1 on it :-)
...is to get on a waiting list at your favorite tech store. I got on a Best Buy waiting list and got one in about a month, for retail price, not some inflated eBay price. They're doling them out in small increments to all the retail stores, so if you're on a list, you'll get one sooner or later. Don't fiddle around with online retailers who claim they have some or waste your money on eBay. It's not THAT important to have one RIGHT NOW (as opposed to a month from now).
For those of you wondering just how the heck this thing works - it uses a (really fast) conventional 2-D projector and a very complex array of lenses and mirrors to project a constantly changing image onto a 2-dimensional translucent screen that rotates at 600 rpm. By changing the image as the screen rotates, the illusion of a 3-D object is created.
More technical info (with pictures) can be found here and a shot of the screen while it's not moving can be seen here.
Now just wait a gosh-darned minute here!
You can't beam DSL! Don't they even know what it stands for? It's a Digital Subscriber Line!
I'm having visions of streams of thousands of cables shooting out of the top of the Sears tower...
Copyright protection offers customers no benefit at all over devices with no copyright protection.
Wrong. The "benefit" that copyright protection offers consumers is the ability to play protected media.
Thanks to systems like Napster, that benefit is non-existent right now, because anyone can get all the free media they want. However, with the demise of Napster and the introduction of new content controls, it will start to become harder and harder to get media that isn't protected.
The big question, as I see it, is whether or not hackers will be able to crack the new protection schemes in a way that is easily duplicated by your average computer user. For example, if hackers come out with "SuperRip 2001 For Windows" that will rip all your new protected CDs, the situation will stay much as it is today - lots of people will rip their CDs and people will trade the un-protected files. However, if circumventing the new encryption schemes starts to require specialized hardware or something like that, pirating music will cease being the commonplace act that it is today. Fewer people will have the means to rip their CDs and unprotected music files will be harder to come by. As a result, you will start to NEED one of the new, secure PCs just to listen to popular music. There will be a benefit to buying the secure hardware - it will allow you to listen to music that cannot be listened to on older, more free hardware. Then SDMI and CRPM and their ilk will start to dominate.
And our environment doesn't produce mutations?
Of course it does, as I note later on in my post. We are in agreement on that. However, that has nothing to do with my point there, which is that you can't say that it is impossible to clone an animal without introducing defects.
the large majority of mutations are dangerous for organisms.
I don't think that's true. Do you have any evidence to back that up or is it just your opinion? Anyway, that doesn't support your original point that cloning is and must be detrimental to the health of beings. Cloning on an EXTREMELY large scale for many millenia would stop natural selection (but not mutations) and therefore be bad for beings, but not because of any defects introduced by the cloning process itself.
However one can be pretty sure, based on a few theoretical basis, that cloning is real bad for beings. On one organism DNA may suffer tons of damages.
Huh? The only thing one can say now is that current methods of cloning may introduce defects in DNA. Cloning, as an idea, is simply the creation of an animal with the same genetic sequence as an existing one. There is no theoretical reason that cloning must produce defects in cloned DNA. Heck, cells "clone" DNA all the time during cell division, and it hardly ever introduces mutations (witness the millions of cells in your body with the exact same DNA).
To avoid serious mutations and rise the chance of survival there is sex.
I'm sorry, but that's not true. According to evolution and natural selection, the purpose of sex is to mix and match existing mutations, in order to get a large number of different combinations, to see which works the best. Sex does not either prevent or cause mutations. Mutations happen all the time, randomly, by natural processes. Most are too small to be noticed.
The reason animals have sex is not because cloning themselves is impractical or damaging, it's because it mixes up the gene pool and gives a greater variety of organisms. This increases a species' chances of survival, because it allows them to adapt through natural selection (the animals that get the bad genes die, the animals that get the good genes thrive and the good genes spread faster).
GNU DirectLinux API?
Nah, I've got a better name. It would run on the X Window System, allowing more or less direct access to video hardware.
How about X-Direct!
Unfortunately, this system is not (yet) practical for use in solving actual hard NP problems. From the article's conclusion:
The strength of this microfluidic system as an analog computational device is its high parallelism. Its weakness is the exponential increase in its physical size with the number of vertices. This space-time tradeoff is reminiscent of the limitations of using DNA for solving large NP problems (refs. 5-7). We estimate that the largest graph that might be solved with our algorithmby using 12-inch wafers (commercially available) and 200-nm channels (within the range of photolithography)is 20 vertices. If we use space more efficiently by encoding subgraphs in a plane and use the third dimension for fluid flow, we might solve 40-vertex graphs. By using a computer capable of performing 109 operations per second, a 40-vertex graph can be solved in about 20 min, which makes this microfluidic approach (in its current form) impractical to compete with traditional silicon computers for solving large search problems.
Wine hasn't successfully ported crap.
Yes it has! Just look at all the stuff you can run!
Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0
RealPlayer
AOL
Solitaire
Now, if that isn't successfully ported crap, I don't know what is.
There are several problems with VMWare (and projects like it, such as the really cool and free Plex86) that make it unsuitable as a gaming platform.
First of all, and possibly most important, VMWare doesn't support DirectX, making it useless for the vast majority of Windows games. I don't know if this is because the VMWare developers don't care about games, or if it's actually not possible to run DirectX in VMWare (it may not be possible for technical reasons, and 3D accelerator cards may not be possible to use either).
Second, because of the method of emulation used, VMWare and projects like it will always be slower than natively running the code.
Third, VMWare requires a copy of Windows in order to run Windows. TransGaming's free DirectX implementation, along with WINE, completely eliminates the need to buy Windows. This isn't really a problem now, because everyone has Windows, but maybe in the future...
That's the old watch. This new watch is much better - it has a very bright OLED display running at 640X480!!! Yes, you read that right - less than a square inch of screen area, but it is a 640X480 display! In my opinion, that's the coolest thing about the watch. Running Linux on a watch is pointless, but this display is just incredible.
OK, as much as I like Linux, I think that it's pretty pointless to put it on a wristwatch. I mean, what benefits could Linux possibly provide to a WRISTWATCH!?!? Pre-emptive multitasking? The screen is too small to show ONE application, let alone two or more! Emacs? XFree? Apache? No current Linux applications will be useable on a wristwatch, requiring the programming of special software for the watch. While you're programming special watch software, why not make your own very small OS with only the features needed by a watch. You could probably do away with some hardware that Linux requires by doing this, and long battery life would be a design goal from the beginning, not something that has to be patched in later.
I'm not denying the coolness factor here, and it certainly is a great achievement in hardware and software hacking, but the simple fact is that there is no convievable use for Linux on a wristwatch. A custom solution would do the job much better.
Konqueror does Opera one better - it allows you to select specifically, site-by-site, how you want your cookies managed. Ban all but a few chosen sites, or have Konqueror ask you whenever it recieves a cookie from a new site. It works great - I have had it set on "Ask" for a while now. Whenever I go to a new site it asks me if I want to ban or accept this cookie, or all future cookies from this site if I want. Now I have a fairly large database of sites that I won't accept cookies from (ad.doubleclick.net) and sites that I will accept cookies from (slashdot.org) and it hardly ever asks me anymore.
Also, as if that wasn't good enough, Konqueror has a great GUI cookie manager built-in, allowing you to set the acceptance policy for any site, view all the policies you have, and it even allows you to view every single cookie on your computer - indexed by site and showing the cookie's content and expiration date. You can delete any individual cookie, and see just exactly what site XYZ wants to store in it's cookie.
This, combined with Konqueror's other great features (Full netscape plugin support, standards compatibility, javascript, amazing file manager, address bar searching, SMB browsing, CD ripping, icon image and text previews, terminal emulator, kitchen sink, etc etc) make Konqueror my browser and filemanager of choice.
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The ability to use alternative energy sources as they become available. It's easy to convert a few power plants to use solar power (or some other technology that may become practical in the future), but changing millions of cars to use solar power is a process that would take decades and tons of $$$.
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The ability to locate plants anywhere. Get pollution out of the cities where people live!
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The ability to use sources of power that are impractical for use in cars, such as: geothermal, wind, and hydroelectric power.
These advantages, combined with the fact that centralized power generation can be FAR more efficient than your car, make hydrogen-fueled cars pretty attractive, even if the process of electrolysis isn't that efficient (yet!)BTW, that Open Mind Speech Recognition thing looks pretty cool! Do you work on that? Will you get an actual working speech recognition engine in the near future? (or even far future?)
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