Did you also notice that in the midi tower configuration, the design gives 2 * 5 1/4 half heights (external), 1 * 3 1/2 (external), 2 * 3 1/2 internal. The air channel takes alot of space that is used in many peoples computers for hard disks. Also there is no fan in front of the hard disks, the temperature of those things these days I would not run a computer without a fan infront of the disks. I have to also admit I can not conviced about putting expansion cards at the top, cables from graphics cards etc can be very heavy and this will place extra strain on the connectors. Personally I hope the BTX form factor fails, rather than improving the cooling of the case they should improve the heat/power consumption of the CPUs!
You assume I am american, which I am not. Mostly I am pro nuclear, because I have worked in the nuclear industry so feel very comfortable risk/benefits, but whatever think what you like.
Imagine the fossile fuel required to fire the rocket carrying this waste into space! If we ever get space elevators that might solve the cost and the safety issue. However if we did we could use space based generation. Personally i think Texas would be a great place to store nuclear waste.
While I myself am pro nuclear, these do not provide "free" energy, To drive the turbines they produce steam (normally), the heat used to produce this steam gets vented to the outside, warming river/sea or increasing cloud cover if released as steam. When the electricity is used this eventually it is eventually turns to EM radation and heat. The "advantage" is its not putting out CO2 which increased the capture rate of energy from the sun. Fossil fuels are still required to build and maintain the nuke station so its not carbon free! Nuke stations WILL affect the global system as well, personally I think integrated power is the best way rather than putting all our eggs in one basket.
This is one way to reduce all these affects, less people in the world. We are locked into the idea the world can support more and more humans, having less of them will mean more resources to go round!
"Energy cannot be created nor destroyed" is the First law of themodynamics and can be credited to James Prescott Joule and Hermann von Helmholtz NOT Newton. He wrote the laws of motion!
Anyway this is nothing to do with the amount of energy in the system is to do with how the energy within the system is distributed, the wind fans increase the mixing of air levels (Turbulance). This has little affect during the day (apparently) but in the night results in warming air from higher up being mixed in.
Must not discount the fact that because speaking to exit pollsters is optional, democrates might have been more willing to say how they voted than republicans.
Personally I use memtest86 http://www.memtest86.com/ on all the tests, I found 5,7,10 very good at spotting my problems. You can burn and image on a cd or put it in lilo. When I got my latest PC, I had lots of problems which I traced back to the memory not working at DDR400 in dual channel mode. Another program is prime http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm in a torture test mode (but in windows). I noted some else suggested GCC the problem with that is that it does not test ALL memory, so will find some bit problems but many bus related ones.
If you have a Dual channel system and have memory problems try clocking back one speed, it made my memory rock solid.
Well, if it stored the lusers age it would become "outdated" every year so it would be only natural to make it also expire on lusers birthday at which point they could be issued with... sorry... sold a new one!
I recon a pedophile would be able to buy a token off a kid of a small ammount of money, if you were 12 and someone offered you 200 bucks for a silly bit of plastic someone gave you... I think there would be many takers.
The problem with all these ID shemes is aways tying the token to the right person until computers have mandated biometic id readers this is never going to work with remote computers.
Personally I think the best solution if for parents to take an interest in what their children are up to rather than seeing the internet as a why to keep them quiet. Someone will aways slip though the net, the best way for children to be kept safe is education, they need to know people lie, cheat, steal, and there are bad people in the world who would not think twice about killing someone else.
Don't forget to add the "oyster" cards used on London transport to the sevalance net. All have a unique IDs in them and the data is retained for 5 years. Every time you get on a bus, train or on or off a tube the date and place is record, to make people use them the are increasing the price of single tickets relative to "Oyster" prepay and of course you need to give a name and address to get one of those cards. "Oyster" cards also have RF tags in them so I would not be supprised to see readers for them in other places. Ken Livingstone (Elected Mayor of Greater London, NOT the mayor of the City of London) is on record staying he was more than happy to hand over any data the police required even without a warrant. But there again he does after all control the police.
I am glad someone else does that. I had my bag stolen from a hotel room once. I lost quite a few CDs and DVDs, many of the CDs just are not for sale any more, so now I have the policy of never allowing the orginals out of my house, I either use Mp3s or burn a copy and I don't take DVDs away from home any more (bought a replacement laptop without a DVD-Rom drive so I don't even get tempted).
I addressed this problem by putting what I want into a library and making it LGPL, this was more for protecting myself against any company who I might work from deciding that by including the code in there work I would now be giving them ownership of original. Having a library is also useful as its a clear thing you can state when you are employed as belonging to you. When I include the code I "trim" the library down to the functions I need. Of course being the owner of the copyright, I can include it any way I like and instantly "relicense" it how I please... However If I ever do that I am very careful to make sure no changes get included back, if I need I improve my library in my time then re-include it in.
Bush also has given himself the right to suspend the election if there is a terrorist attack before it! So attacks could well be in his interest, perhaps he would like to become life time president? He has already said thinks it would be easier if it was a dicatorship.
I liked Tony Blairs comment, about wanting a mature debate about what freedoms we should give up here in the UK to pretect us from terrorism. We have not had a bomb here for years so I think the security services are doing an ok job... So how about ZERO tony!
Sadly I think your probably right, bush after all has already said how he prefers dicatorships to democracy, and he didn't even know pakisan was a dicatorship and hoped the new guy will bring stabilty!
Yes I see your point it was badly worded by me, there is no way to prove that the donations came cos of the GPL or just because it large. As clearly small projects are likely to attract less donations. However I do believe the GPL has helped attract contributions (both personal and corporate), as I believe the GPL offers better protection from the abuse of a gift of code. It is also interesting that BSD which was more advanced (some would claim still is) when Linux started yet failed to catch on. Perhaps that was more because of the development model rather than the license? As you point out, we can't know the answers.
I was just saying the GPL rather a good method for attracting contributions, not that it was the only way. Companies (who are the copyright owner) can even use it to showcase the code and allow commerical licencing to companies if required (trolltech for example). If trolltech offered a BSD version they would have never sold anything. XFree86 which was BSD had alot of problems attracting manufactures to contribute driver code, evenually having to go down the binary route as a result. GPL seems a better half way house to me... but thats me I like GPL alot more than BSD licence.
The point they miss (because they are looking back) is many corportate donors of software source in linux would never have done it if it was not GPL. As the GPL maintains a level playing field, if a competitor takes the code and uses it they have to give back (or rather forward). If Linux had been BSD all the donations could have just been torn out of linux and used in other things. I believe resulting in the donations not being made in the first place, do you think IBM would have dontated its filesystem if it thought Veritas could just take the good bits of the code?
But this is what people just don't get. Linux like all other GPL source is copyrighted, If the GPL licence agreement is proved to be invalid that does not mean suddenly linux and all other GPL code is now public domain. Linux would still be copyright and everyone who was not the copyright owner would not have a valid license to use it. Until issued with a new agreement from the copyright owner. This is one of the strenghs of the GPL, if your defeat it you can no longer play with the toys rather than being able to steal them.
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Did you also notice that in the midi tower configuration, the design gives 2 * 5 1/4 half heights (external), 1 * 3 1/2 (external), 2 * 3 1/2 internal. The air channel takes alot of space that is used in many peoples computers for hard disks. Also there is no fan in front of the hard disks, the temperature of those things these days I would not run a computer without a fan infront of the disks. I have to also admit I can not conviced about putting expansion cards at the top, cables from graphics cards etc can be very heavy and this will place extra strain on the connectors. Personally I hope the BTX form factor fails, rather than improving the cooling of the case they should improve the heat/power consumption of the CPUs!
James
James
You assume I am american, which I am not. Mostly I am pro nuclear, because I have worked in the nuclear industry so feel very comfortable risk/benefits, but whatever think what you like.
James
Imagine the fossile fuel required to fire the rocket carrying this waste into space! If we ever get space elevators that might solve the cost and the safety issue. However if we did we could use space based generation. Personally i think Texas would be a great place to store nuclear waste.
James
While I myself am pro nuclear, these do not provide "free" energy, To drive the turbines they produce steam (normally), the heat used to produce this steam gets vented to the outside, warming river/sea or increasing cloud cover if released as steam. When the electricity is used this eventually it is eventually turns to EM radation and heat. The "advantage" is its not putting out CO2 which increased the capture rate of energy from the sun. Fossil fuels are still required to build and maintain the nuke station so its not carbon free! Nuke stations WILL affect the global system as well, personally I think integrated power is the best way rather than putting all our eggs in one basket.
This is one way to reduce all these affects, less people in the world. We are locked into the idea the world can support more and more humans, having less of them will mean more resources to go round!
James
"Energy cannot be created nor destroyed" is the First law of themodynamics and can be credited to James Prescott Joule and Hermann von Helmholtz NOT Newton. He wrote the laws of motion!
Anyway this is nothing to do with the amount of energy in the system is to do with how the energy within the system is distributed, the wind fans increase the mixing of air levels (Turbulance). This has little affect during the day (apparently) but in the night results in warming air from higher up being mixed in.
James
Yes, but none of it ever works at the slightest sign of trouble.
Thats because the enterprise ran windows for star ships.
James
Must not discount the fact that because speaking to exit pollsters is optional, democrates might have been more willing to say how they voted than republicans.
James
The sun uses fussion not fisson, the only thing to use fussion in a "successful" way is the H-Bomb.
James
Personally I use memtest86 http://www.memtest86.com/ on all the tests, I found 5,7,10 very good at spotting my problems. You can burn and image on a cd or put it in lilo. When I got my latest PC, I had lots of problems which I traced back to the memory not working at DDR400 in dual channel mode. Another program is prime http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm in a torture test mode (but in windows). I noted some else suggested GCC the problem with that is that it does not test ALL memory, so will find some bit problems but many bus related ones.
If you have a Dual channel system and have memory problems try clocking back one speed, it made my memory rock solid.
James
and Diebold will even do it for you! no need to get off that sofa!
James
Well, if it stored the lusers age it would become "outdated" every year so it would be only natural to make it also expire on lusers birthday at which point they could be issued with... sorry... sold a new one!
James
And no FBI agent is a pedophile or just crookied? Issuing of "Fake" ids is very dangerous, as agents on the take could sell them.
James
I recon a pedophile would be able to buy a token off a kid of a small ammount of money, if you were 12 and someone offered you 200 bucks for a silly bit of plastic someone gave you... I think there would be many takers.
The problem with all these ID shemes is aways tying the token to the right person until computers have mandated biometic id readers this is never going to work with remote computers.
Personally I think the best solution if for parents to take an interest in what their children are up to rather than seeing the internet as a why to keep them quiet. Someone will aways slip though the net, the best way for children to be kept safe is education, they need to know people lie, cheat, steal, and there are bad people in the world who would not think twice about killing someone else.
James
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3805171. stm and this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3531986. stm both news stories from the BBC.
James
Everyone else changes there browsers to identify as the google brower when they access google, is the theoretical answer to that question.
James
So is this being released because of more riddick stories? Well the screen writer seems familiar http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923646/
James
Don't forget to add the "oyster" cards used on London transport to the sevalance net. All have a unique IDs in them and the data is retained for 5 years. Every time you get on a bus, train or on or off a tube the date and place is record, to make people use them the are increasing the price of single tickets relative to "Oyster" prepay and of course you need to give a name and address to get one of those cards. "Oyster" cards also have RF tags in them so I would not be supprised to see readers for them in other places. Ken Livingstone (Elected Mayor of Greater London, NOT the mayor of the City of London) is on record staying he was more than happy to hand over any data the police required even without a warrant. But there again he does after all control the police.
James
I am glad someone else does that. I had my bag stolen from a hotel room once. I lost quite a few CDs and DVDs, many of the CDs just are not for sale any more, so now I have the policy of never allowing the orginals out of my house, I either use Mp3s or burn a copy and I don't take DVDs away from home any more (bought a replacement laptop without a DVD-Rom drive so I don't even get tempted).
James
I addressed this problem by putting what I want into a library and making it LGPL, this was more for protecting myself against any company who I might work from deciding that by including the code in there work I would now be giving them ownership of original. Having a library is also useful as its a clear thing you can state when you are employed as belonging to you. When I include the code I "trim" the library down to the functions I need. Of course being the owner of the copyright, I can include it any way I like and instantly "relicense" it how I please... However If I ever do that I am very careful to make sure no changes get included back, if I need I improve my library in my time then re-include it in.
James
Bush also has given himself the right to suspend the election if there is a terrorist attack before it! So attacks could well be in his interest, perhaps he would like to become life time president? He has already said thinks it would be easier if it was a dicatorship.
I liked Tony Blairs comment, about wanting a mature debate about what freedoms we should give up here in the UK to pretect us from terrorism. We have not had a bomb here for years so I think the security services are doing an ok job... So how about ZERO tony!
James
Sadly I think your probably right, bush after all has already said how he prefers dicatorships to democracy, and he didn't even know pakisan was a dicatorship and hoped the new guy will bring stabilty!
James
Yes I see your point it was badly worded by me, there is no way to prove that the donations came cos of the GPL or just because it large. As clearly small projects are likely to attract less donations. However I do believe the GPL has helped attract contributions (both personal and corporate), as I believe the GPL offers better protection from the abuse of a gift of code. It is also interesting that BSD which was more advanced (some would claim still is) when Linux started yet failed to catch on. Perhaps that was more because of the development model rather than the license? As you point out, we can't know the answers.
James
I was just saying the GPL rather a good method for attracting contributions, not that it was the only way. Companies (who are the copyright owner) can even use it to showcase the code and allow commerical licencing to companies if required (trolltech for example). If trolltech offered a BSD version they would have never sold anything. XFree86 which was BSD had alot of problems attracting manufactures to contribute driver code, evenually having to go down the binary route as a result. GPL seems a better half way house to me... but thats me I like GPL alot more than BSD licence.
James
The point they miss (because they are looking back) is many corportate donors of software source in linux would never have done it if it was not GPL. As the GPL maintains a level playing field, if a competitor takes the code and uses it they have to give back (or rather forward). If Linux had been BSD all the donations could have just been torn out of linux and used in other things. I believe resulting in the donations not being made in the first place, do you think IBM would have dontated its filesystem if it thought Veritas could just take the good bits of the code?
James
But this is what people just don't get. Linux like all other GPL source is copyrighted, If the GPL licence agreement is proved to be invalid that does not mean suddenly linux and all other GPL code is now public domain. Linux would still be copyright and everyone who was not the copyright owner would not have a valid license to use it. Until issued with a new agreement from the copyright owner. This is one of the strenghs of the GPL, if your defeat it you can no longer play with the toys rather than being able to steal them.
James