Met a girl from Miami that went to Oxford, and didn't like the song "Ohio." Seems a little less obscure, too. Yet, this school has 21,000 students? I mean...that's more than the real Oxford...the one that's not in Ohio, but has students from Miami...
Yeah, most see it being worth about $1 total, but it's really worth $1.25...
Is this really a big deal? AOL crap has been installed with MS OSs forever. They have similar feels to them...the only difference is that AOL didn't have something they could achieve lock-in with.
Two desperate monster giants of the 90's that might have been able to save each other if they paired up a decade ago. MS is nearing the top of their own hill, and will be going down from there. AOL has been going down for a while. They probably think that by combining their dirt, they can both start going up again - they're wrong. Product placement isn't the problem, it's the product itself
The point is that NOLA is on a shifting delta of a large river, which washes the city southward, and frequently gets hit by hurricane activity, washing it northward.
Regardless whether the cities in the netherlands are below sea level without having problems, I highly doubt a single one of them would survive a cat5 hurricane. Simply being "below sealevel" is only part of the issue. There's that whole river delta thing, the hurricanes...those do factor in somewhat.
yes, and since there are literally thousands upon thousands of hurricanes in the Netherlands every year, you all have a great knowledge-base for NOLA to draw from... ?
back in the day, Dell et al. didn't want to put Linux on a system because they only wanted to have to install 1 image, and support 1 OS.
Now, just to put windows on, they'll have to support seven? Did MS ok this with their vendors first? If they're going to be installing 7 images on those assembly lines, might as well install 8 or 9...
"Vint has put his heart and soul into making the Internet happen. I know he is going to jump right in here and start shoveling out new ideas for Google."
and a wheel is just a round object on the end of a shaft of some sort. I mean really, what's so inovative about that?
And flying! Birds have been doing it for millions of years! What the hell...screw the Wright Brothers. Where's the innovation?
Oh and please, just take the genetic material out of one cell, put it in an oocyte, and stimilate it to grow. What's so innovative about this whole "cloning" crap anyway?
not following you there. necar5 doesn't have additional outside power sources, it just has methanol.
The point of me saying pathways for hydrolizing exist that are all exothermic reactions is that all the reactions release energy, instead of requiring it (endothermic). So the process of taking it from methane to plain old hydrogen releases energy, then the hydrogen itself is used to supply the fuel cell. There isn't a generator driven by an IC engine that is supplying energy to hydrolyze the methane. There are several real-world power plants that actually produce power that are fed just methane (well, natual gas).
In the case of necar5, it was a complete system. No fuel cells, no nuclear reactor...just methanol in the tank. A 75 kilowatt (homes average what, like 2KW?) fuel cell then powered electric motors, which turned the wheels. There was certainly better than a zero-sum or negative-sum system involved, else...well, it wouldn't have been producing 75KW. I'm repeating things because I thought they were obvious before.
nor is transmitting power over power lines. And those IC engines! Yowza are they wasteful. Are they as wasteful as producing methanol, and using it in a necar5-line vehicle? Nope.
my point is that methanol production energy losses, then using the methanol in such a setup to eventually power fule cells, involves 0 fossil fuels and is less of a loss than burning fossil fuels, losing almost everything in transmission, and turning a light in your kitchen.
Rather, my point is that we can gain fossil fuel independence, without having to revert to coal or 100% nuclear power.
btw - pulling the hydrogen out of methanol can be done with a series of exothermic reactions, without a single endothermic reaction. The trick has been known for several years now. Again, do a search, and learn something about the tech that is less than a couple decades old.
Check in to the necar5. It ran off methanol, hydrolized *in the car* which was then supplied to the fuel cell floorboard. 75KW fuel cell, tiny car. You may find a few things have changed in the last few decades...do a search for "necar5" and learn a little.
Wow, this must be a few days old...When I passed the gas stations yesterday, the previously-cheapest place in town was selling it for $3.63. Will probably be up to $4 by tuesday.
then just what is it that we're beta-testing in beta1, if not the actual product? If new features are going to be added, shouldn't this instead be alpha-stage? And can you provide evidence that this "known fact" is true, or is it just a random retort pulled from no-where?
Know what? Despite everything else...if I were to buy a new car today, right now, this instant...
It would be from GM. Why? Because the car would be for my wife, and the "Onstar" thing GM has in all cars would just make me feel a lot better about some of the things she puts herself through. I know it makes me a chauvanist (sp?) but...it would make me feel better, feel like she was safer.
If the car wants to do the steering for me when I'm falling asleep...hey! Even better.
10 watt light bulb. Who still uses the kind that wastes 90% of the energy to heat?
There is a distinct difference between how hot it is in here when that mac is on, and how hot it is when the mac isn't on. Sorry if that puts a frown on your face. Why would I lie about this though? When one wakes up in the morning and says "huh...I'm going to call some random stranger a liar, for no reason" just what side of the bed is it that you get up on? I assume you have a choice, since there's obviously not anyone with you in the bed.
overload of certs tells me one thing about a person right off the bat, they spend TOO MUCH TIME on certifications and not enough time working.
YOu do realize that after an 8 hour (or even 10 hour) work day, there's still plenty of time to do other things...right? Me, for instance...I work as a UNIX admin, and I am back in college again. Other people could be using the time to get certs. Lets see...168 hours in a week, 40 for work, 40 for sleep, 10 for pre- and post- work work-related activities (driving, etc). That leaves 78 hours a week for getting certs (or going to school), cooking then eating dinner, having sex 4 or 5 times, and still a bit of time left to play in a band. Wait, that sounds familiar...
um, yes...I have. The point is that the Intel "mobile" chips are an alternative in the Intel world. There is no alternative in the PowerPC world. Which means that they can't make anything other than hot laptops, whereas cool intel or amd based laptops are easily available.
Was just saying I didn't realize until recently just *how* hot it was. With no alternative, I can see why that was a major platform change issue.
last week I finally experienced what is speculated as one of the major reasons Apple is moving to Intel from PowerPC. Friend let my wife borrow his mac laptop so she could run something that was mac-only. That thing is HOT. Heated up the whole damn room. Was suprized at just how hot it actually got.
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Miami University...in Oxford...Ohio.
Met a girl from Miami that went to Oxford, and didn't like the song "Ohio." Seems a little less obscure, too. Yet, this school has 21,000 students? I mean...that's more than the real Oxford...the one that's not in Ohio, but has students from Miami...
Yeah, most see it being worth about $1 total, but it's really worth $1.25...
Is this really a big deal? AOL crap has been installed with MS OSs forever. They have similar feels to them...the only difference is that AOL didn't have something they could achieve lock-in with.
Two desperate monster giants of the 90's that might have been able to save each other if they paired up a decade ago. MS is nearing the top of their own hill, and will be going down from there. AOL has been going down for a while. They probably think that by combining their dirt, they can both start going up again - they're wrong. Product placement isn't the problem, it's the product itself
sparcs have been 64bit for years, yes. A decade, to be precise. As for the x86 bit though...they've had Opteron-based systems for a while now too. I believe the quad-processor opteron-based V40z systems have been available for almost 2 years now? If not 2 years, then close.
I, personally, am not really sure what the "news" here is...other than a couple new product lines.
it's called sarcasm - look it up.
The point is that NOLA is on a shifting delta of a large river, which washes the city southward, and frequently gets hit by hurricane activity, washing it northward.
Regardless whether the cities in the netherlands are below sea level without having problems, I highly doubt a single one of them would survive a cat5 hurricane. Simply being "below sealevel" is only part of the issue. There's that whole river delta thing, the hurricanes...those do factor in somewhat.
yes, and since there are literally thousands upon thousands of hurricanes in the Netherlands every year, you all have a great knowledge-base for NOLA to draw from... ?
back in the day, Dell et al. didn't want to put Linux on a system because they only wanted to have to install 1 image, and support 1 OS.
Now, just to put windows on, they'll have to support seven ? Did MS ok this with their vendors first? If they're going to be installing 7 images on those assembly lines, might as well install 8 or 9...
I find it hard to believe that Exchange Server supports a million accounts in any sort of configuration that wouldn't barf on itse;f every 30 seconds.
Just what is it this is replacing?
"Vint has put his heart and soul into making the Internet happen. I know he is going to jump right in here and start shoveling out new ideas for Google."
No pressure at all! Now, go innovate!
and a wheel is just a round object on the end of a shaft of some sort. I mean really, what's so inovative about that?
And flying! Birds have been doing it for millions of years! What the hell...screw the Wright Brothers. Where's the innovation?
Oh and please, just take the genetic material out of one cell, put it in an oocyte, and stimilate it to grow. What's so innovative about this whole "cloning" crap anyway?
Yeah.
Linux can be build with "bsd-style process accounting" and as such, can this be made to work in Linux?
not following you there. necar5 doesn't have additional outside power sources, it just has methanol.
The point of me saying pathways for hydrolizing exist that are all exothermic reactions is that all the reactions release energy, instead of requiring it (endothermic). So the process of taking it from methane to plain old hydrogen releases energy, then the hydrogen itself is used to supply the fuel cell. There isn't a generator driven by an IC engine that is supplying energy to hydrolyze the methane. There are several real-world power plants that actually produce power that are fed just methane (well, natual gas).
In the case of necar5, it was a complete system. No fuel cells, no nuclear reactor...just methanol in the tank. A 75 kilowatt (homes average what, like 2KW?) fuel cell then powered electric motors, which turned the wheels. There was certainly better than a zero-sum or negative-sum system involved, else...well, it wouldn't have been producing 75KW. I'm repeating things because I thought they were obvious before.
nor is transmitting power over power lines. And those IC engines! Yowza are they wasteful. Are they as wasteful as producing methanol, and using it in a necar5-line vehicle? Nope.
"feasable" is a relative term.
my point is that methanol production energy losses, then using the methanol in such a setup to eventually power fule cells, involves 0 fossil fuels and is less of a loss than burning fossil fuels, losing almost everything in transmission, and turning a light in your kitchen.
Rather, my point is that we can gain fossil fuel independence, without having to revert to coal or 100% nuclear power.
btw - pulling the hydrogen out of methanol can be done with a series of exothermic reactions, without a single endothermic reaction. The trick has been known for several years now. Again, do a search, and learn something about the tech that is less than a couple decades old.
it's fun to see old-school thought like this.
Check in to the necar5. It ran off methanol, hydrolized *in the car* which was then supplied to the fuel cell floorboard. 75KW fuel cell, tiny car. You may find a few things have changed in the last few decades...do a search for "necar5" and learn a little.
Wow, this must be a few days old...When I passed the gas stations yesterday, the previously-cheapest place in town was selling it for $3.63. Will probably be up to $4 by tuesday.
then just what is it that we're beta-testing in beta1, if not the actual product? If new features are going to be added, shouldn't this instead be alpha-stage? And can you provide evidence that this "known fact" is true, or is it just a random retort pulled from no-where?
it's a fairly well balanced article, it is glaringly pro-microsoft
Ummm...explain how one doesn't preclude the other?
...an excellent comparison between the features of Apple Tiger and Windows Vista Beta 1...
Yes, I think it's perfectly fair to make a comparison of features, since if Vista is truly Beta, then new features shouldn't be added.
Explain why you disagree?
Know what? Despite everything else...if I were to buy a new car today, right now, this instant...
It would be from GM. Why? Because the car would be for my wife, and the "Onstar" thing GM has in all cars would just make me feel a lot better about some of the things she puts herself through. I know it makes me a chauvanist (sp?) but...it would make me feel better, feel like she was safer.
If the car wants to do the steering for me when I'm falling asleep...hey! Even better.
if you're working more than 8-10 hours a day, not only are you simply being exploited, your productivity is going down the tubes.
80 hour work weeks are by far NOT the norm. If you're doing it in IT, it's because you're not doing IT right.
10 watt light bulb. Who still uses the kind that wastes 90% of the energy to heat?
There is a distinct difference between how hot it is in here when that mac is on, and how hot it is when the mac isn't on. Sorry if that puts a frown on your face. Why would I lie about this though? When one wakes up in the morning and says "huh...I'm going to call some random stranger a liar, for no reason" just what side of the bed is it that you get up on? I assume you have a choice, since there's obviously not anyone with you in the bed.
overload of certs tells me one thing about a person right off the bat, they spend TOO MUCH TIME on certifications and not enough time working.
YOu do realize that after an 8 hour (or even 10 hour) work day, there's still plenty of time to do other things...right? Me, for instance...I work as a UNIX admin, and I am back in college again. Other people could be using the time to get certs. Lets see...168 hours in a week, 40 for work, 40 for sleep, 10 for pre- and post- work work-related activities (driving, etc). That leaves 78 hours a week for getting certs (or going to school), cooking then eating dinner, having sex 4 or 5 times, and still a bit of time left to play in a band. Wait, that sounds familiar...
um, yes...I have. The point is that the Intel "mobile" chips are an alternative in the Intel world. There is no alternative in the PowerPC world. Which means that they can't make anything other than hot laptops, whereas cool intel or amd based laptops are easily available.
Was just saying I didn't realize until recently just *how* hot it was. With no alternative, I can see why that was a major platform change issue.
last week I finally experienced what is speculated as one of the major reasons Apple is moving to Intel from PowerPC. Friend let my wife borrow his mac laptop so she could run something that was mac-only. That thing is HOT. Heated up the whole damn room. Was suprized at just how hot it actually got.