It's called a controlled roll-out. It saves bandwidth and if a bug is found that breaks users, you can roll back or fix it without causing everyone to be broken all at once. It's a much better way of doing things than having "Patch Tuesday"
See, this is why I'm waiting for the release of TF2 to buy a new box.. since I don't game much anymore, my athlon64 3000 works fine for running firefox and a few dozen xterms.:)
Just to nit-pick, if you read the article you linked, they do have transmissions just like the prius.. both the electric and piston drives are used to drive the bus.
I rode a hybrid bus in Minneapolis a few times.. Like you said, because they don't need as large a diesel engine, they are MUCH quieter. Almost as quiet as the electric only buses in San Francisco.
the value range is 0-61, where the higher the number is, the higher the power savings at idle
This adjusts the freqency divisor when linux is in an idle state. It won't help you if you run folding-at-home, but if your machine has any idle time, it can reduce your power consumtion, and CPU temps.
EPA restrictions have gotten tighter. cars have to run a tad bit more rich to do proper combustion. I'm sorry, I don't have any hard numbers to back this up.. but it was something I read somewhere.
safety regulations are also tighter. airbags, airbags, side-impact beams, more airbags. A modern car like a v5 VW Rabbit/Jetta can take a Tbone with a full size SUV and keep you intact. cars have gotten much heavier over the last 10 years in response to the SUV craze.
My 1985 Jetta v2 weighed around 2200lbs (90hp 1.8L)
My 2000 Jetta v4 weighs around 2600lbs (125hp 2.0L)
A 2006 Jetta v5 weighs around 3200lbs (150hp 2.5L)
Weight and "must have more HP than last year" marketing are what are driving the fuel economy numbers.
Ahh well, my 22lb bike has mostly replaced my need for a car.
Ugh, I have a nice Abloy set that I can't install because I don't own a house anymore. It really sucks that no one uses mortice locks in the US. Well, lots of commercial construction uses mortice locks, but no residential places do. I had a hard enough time finding a door manufacturer that would provide un-drilled doors, and then I had to move to a place where I can't afford the housing.
Don't forget all the sugar in cola/mt. dew style drinks.. 10-12 cans of coke a day is close to 400-450 grams of sugar.. or about a pound.. that's an insane amount of sugar.
nVidia now has a "Legacy" supported release for older cards. Ubuntu 6.06 has a "nvidia-glx-legacy" package that supports TNT through Geforce FX 5900 or so.. Should be no problem to run that on a TNT2.
connectors cause signal loss, I have a longish DVI->HDMI cable to link my PC from the basement up to my TV. This way i don't care how noisy the PC is, and it makes my living room less clusttered. I considered doing a DVI->HDMI converter+HDMI cable.. but I found the one thing I needed, and it wasn't expensive ($30 15' cable)
It's a 25 foot (7.62m) cable. You need decent shielding for the video signal over that long. Monster wants $170 for a 20 foot (6m) cable, that's way more stupid.:)
The old-timer - These posters, who hang around slashdot land, have forgotten to move on. They post just to show off their low slashdot id. This makes some druel, and others comment that low id does not mean more intelligent. However, they're all wrong anyway.
Yep, I spent a month visiting Dublin, IE for work.. I didn't check any bags going there or coming back.. Everything fit in my backpack, and a standard size garmet bag. Laptop, camera, clothing for 6 days, and and a pair of boots. I don't understand the line of people checking huge suit cases full of crap. Last time I checked a standard suit case was when I was transporting equipment to a server install.. I had a 1U machine, and a 1U switch, and various networking tools in a suit case.. I wonder what the baggage people thought as that got loaded.. haha!
I grew up in Minnesota, I never had anything but a manual tranny sub-compact sedan, or a rear-wheel-drive compact pickup (slightly more dificult to handle than the front-drive car). You don't need 4WD, you just have to learn how to drive properly.
check out wildfire server (jivesoftware.com). Yes, it's java.. but it works really well, and I have yet to see it crash. I communicate with many people with gmail accounts and a few other servers. I allow all the users of my machine to use it via their LDAP accounts, so they don't even have to setup stuff.. just put the config into Gaim/TrillianPro. ugh.. why can't Trillan make jabber part free:(
haha.. you're funny. You assume I judge, I simply point out a fact that statisticaly larger vehicles are not the safe hiding place they claim to be. Try trolling someone stupid next time.
Bikes are less manuverable, they don't have the horizontal stability that a car does.
Yep, the back of my Nissan Altima crumpled like a tin can.. I was stoped at a stoplight and got plowed from behind by a chevy 2500 pickup going about 35mph. I saw it in the rear view before it happened, but there was nothing I could do because I was 5 feet from the caddy in front of me. I got pushed all the way up into caddy, and dented the caddy's bumper a bit.
1: I got out of the car and laughed, cause it was such a mess. No injuries at all.
2: I drove the car home.. mangled as the trunk was, it didn't move the frame around the passenger compartment an inch.
3: pop-ups arn't camping, I put my canoe on my VW Jetta, and carry the thing and my pack into the woods and lakes for a week. That's camping.
4: I don't like dogs, don't own any, don't want any.
5: My woman is sleeping, so I can't laugh so loudly.
fatalities per million vehicles shows that many smaller cars are safer than large vehicles. The active safety of stopping distance, agility, and unit-body construction are better than the passive saftey of size and weight.
The fact that people are just giving up and saying "I can't avoid crashes" is just retarded. These people are a danger to everyone around them and should be taken off the road.
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The other problem is density..
Texas: 20,851,820 people
France: 60,876,136 people
Texas: 30 people/km^2
France: 110 people/km^2
It's called a controlled roll-out. It saves bandwidth and if a bug is found that breaks users, you can roll back or fix it without causing everyone to be broken all at once. It's a much better way of doing things than having "Patch Tuesday"
See, this is why I'm waiting for the release of TF2 to buy a new box.. since I don't game much anymore, my athlon64 3000 works fine for running firefox and a few dozen xterms. :)
Hopefully the release doesn't break cedega.
What I want is a new version of Team Fortress so I can run around and smack people as a medic again. :)
Just to nit-pick, if you read the article you linked, they do have transmissions just like the prius.. both the electric and piston drives are used to drive the bus.
I rode a hybrid bus in Minneapolis a few times.. Like you said, because they don't need as large a diesel engine, they are MUCH quieter. Almost as quiet as the electric only buses in San Francisco.
Ouch, the best thing I've found is to lie to these type of retards.. "yes.. yes.. I'm running windows XP home"
This is also why I have speakeasy service.. when i call them, they answer the phone, understand what traceroute is, and don't ask me stupid questions.
Of course, I have to pay a crapton ($100/month) for this level of service. Thankfully my job lets me expense most of that.
and you can probably do even better than that by enabling halt loop power savings:
:)
lspci -xxxs 00:18.3 | awk '($1 == "80:") {print $9}'
lspci -xxxs 00:19.3 | awk '($1 == "80:") {print $9}'
the value range is 0-61, where the higher the number is, the higher the power savings at idle
This adjusts the freqency divisor when linux is in an idle state. It won't help you if you run folding-at-home, but if your machine has any idle time, it can reduce your power consumtion, and CPU temps.
setpci -s 00:18.3 87.b=61
setpci -s 00:19.3 87.b=61
(19 only affects dual socket machines)
I've tested this on several opteron machines of mine. My main server is a dual opteron 248, and I get a 15F temp drop when I enable it.
2 things have changed since the mid-80's cars:
EPA restrictions have gotten tighter. cars have to run a tad bit more rich to do proper combustion. I'm sorry, I don't have any hard numbers to back this up.. but it was something I read somewhere.
safety regulations are also tighter. airbags, airbags, side-impact beams, more airbags. A modern car like a v5 VW Rabbit/Jetta can take a Tbone with a full size SUV and keep you intact. cars have gotten much heavier over the last 10 years in response to the SUV craze.
My 1985 Jetta v2 weighed around 2200lbs (90hp 1.8L)
My 2000 Jetta v4 weighs around 2600lbs (125hp 2.0L)
A 2006 Jetta v5 weighs around 3200lbs (150hp 2.5L)
Weight and "must have more HP than last year" marketing are what are driving the fuel economy numbers.
Ahh well, my 22lb bike has mostly replaced my need for a car.
Ugh, I have a nice Abloy set that I can't install because I don't own a house anymore. It really sucks that no one uses mortice locks in the US. Well, lots of commercial construction uses mortice locks, but no residential places do. I had a hard enough time finding a door manufacturer that would provide un-drilled doors, and then I had to move to a place where I can't afford the housing.
Yea, I also blocked Katz long, long ago...
:(
I'm still waiting for my Cringley and Dvorak filters.
Don't forget all the sugar in cola/mt. dew style drinks.. 10-12 cans of coke a day is close to 400-450 grams of sugar.. or about a pound.. that's an insane amount of sugar.
What about:
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/14/13232
and
http://news.com.com/2300-1030_3-6089390-5.html
Seems like there is a lot of hydroelectric power in Oregon.
nVidia now has a "Legacy" supported release for older cards. Ubuntu 6.06 has a "nvidia-glx-legacy" package that supports TNT through Geforce FX 5900 or so.. Should be no problem to run that on a TNT2.
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For machines with http://www.xubuntu.org/
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1
Just grab the Desktop live CD, and give it a try. (live CD probably uses the open source nv driver, just to warn you)
connectors cause signal loss, I have a longish DVI->HDMI cable to link my PC from the basement up to my TV. This way i don't care how noisy the PC is, and it makes my living room less clusttered. I considered doing a DVI->HDMI converter+HDMI cable.. but I found the one thing I needed, and it wasn't expensive ($30 15' cable)
It's a 25 foot (7.62m) cable. You need decent shielding for the video signal over that long. Monster wants $170 for a 20 foot (6m) cable, that's way more stupid. :)
And a cartel by another name is a union. Because of the nature of small busineses, this seems like it is on the border of worker's rights.
Yep, I spent a month visiting Dublin, IE for work.. I didn't check any bags going there or coming back.. Everything fit in my backpack, and a standard size garmet bag. Laptop, camera, clothing for 6 days, and and a pair of boots. I don't understand the line of people checking huge suit cases full of crap. Last time I checked a standard suit case was when I was transporting equipment to a server install.. I had a 1U machine, and a 1U switch, and various networking tools in a suit case.. I wonder what the baggage people thought as that got loaded.. haha!
What evidence do you have of this?
According to this:
http://www.videohelp.com/dvd
Standard NTSC DVD: 720x480
720p stands for the number of rows, not the number of columns. Standard DVD is 480p
approximately resolution, it can be higher or lower
See also: http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html#3.4
I grew up in Minnesota, I never had anything but a manual tranny sub-compact sedan, or a rear-wheel-drive compact pickup (slightly more dificult to handle than the front-drive car). You don't need 4WD, you just have to learn how to drive properly.
check out wildfire server (jivesoftware.com). Yes, it's java.. but it works really well, and I have yet to see it crash. I communicate with many people with gmail accounts and a few other servers. I allow all the users of my machine to use it via their LDAP accounts, so they don't even have to setup stuff.. just put the config into Gaim/TrillianPro. ugh.. why can't Trillan make jabber part free :(
Actualy, you can reliably checksum the audio data on redbook.. you do need to do a little more work.. but this could easily be automated.
Unfortunately, I have not found a linux implementation of this yet.
http://www.accuraterip.com/
Yea, how could you.. your slashdot UID is not nearly low enough.
haha.. you're funny. You assume I judge, I simply point out a fact that statisticaly larger vehicles are not the safe hiding place they claim to be. Try trolling someone stupid next time.
Bikes are less manuverable, they don't have the horizontal stability that a car does.
Yep, the back of my Nissan Altima crumpled like a tin can.. I was stoped at a stoplight and got plowed from behind by a chevy 2500 pickup going about 35mph. I saw it in the rear view before it happened, but there was nothing I could do because I was 5 feet from the caddy in front of me. I got pushed all the way up into caddy, and dented the caddy's bumper a bit.
1: I got out of the car and laughed, cause it was such a mess. No injuries at all.
2: I drove the car home.. mangled as the trunk was, it didn't move the frame around the passenger compartment an inch.
3: pop-ups arn't camping, I put my canoe on my VW Jetta, and carry the thing and my pack into the woods and lakes for a week. That's camping.
4: I don't like dogs, don't own any, don't want any.
5: My woman is sleeping, so I can't laugh so loudly.
bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.
fatalities per million vehicles shows that many smaller cars are safer than large vehicles. The active safety of stopping distance, agility, and unit-body construction are better than the passive saftey of size and weight.
The fact that people are just giving up and saying "I can't avoid crashes" is just retarded. These people are a danger to everyone around them and should be taken off the road.