I sat in on a speech in which the chief justice of their supreme court jumped through all sorts of logical hoops to try to convince everyone that Israel is not a religious state.
It was sad, really... just an obvious attempt to gartner support from the US by disassociating themselves from the other 'terrorist' states.
Ill will is right. They are steaming mad because: 1) They spent years alienating their users with crappy products. (VisionFS is a bug-ridden POS that crashes more often than Windows. I've locked-up OpenServer boxes before by altering *routing* tables.) 2) They ignored Linux until Caldera bought them out. 3) Caldera made a half-assed attempt to push existing SCO users towards Linux. 4) Their (already alienated) users didn't jump at this chance immediately.
I'm currently replacing as many SCO boxes as I can with RedHat, extra cheap. SCO has wrought what it hath sown.
[rant]Companies that are that stupid and backwards to insist on still using ancient versions of Windows on ancient hardware instead of moving on to Linux don't deserve free software to placate their miserliness,[/rant] but you forgot K-Meleon.
If the only thing that distinguishes you from me is that you know I'm an idiot, then you must also be an idiot and not know it. That should be okay because I won't know it either. Except... I do:)
Typically, in my experience the gateway services have better support for OSS technologies because they are mostly web based, but they come at a premium.
I'm glad to hear that that's wrong, though. It's been almost a year since I looked into it, and maybe I wasn't looking in the right places or maybe things have changed.
I would have said differently a year ago, but now is the time to give up on NS4. The only real reason anyone still uses it is because it is a lot faster on older hardware with less memory. Now that KMeleon is usable, Firebird is coming along nicely, and Opera is fast, supported, and uber-standards-compliant, no one needs NS4.
I wouldn't complain if you join all the other sites and stop supporting NS4, even if I had to upgrade my clients' for free.
electrolysis of water to produce H2 has an efficiency of 10%
I'm not saying I don't believe you, but that doesn't sound right. Does that include the efficiencies of creating the electricity to begin with, or what?
This site, for example, says Therefore, electrolysis can be (and is) performed at very high efficiencies close to 100%.
Translation for those slashdotters who are too young to have been whiny self-centered yuppies in the 'Reaganomics' 80's:
It turns out that the bags didn't degrade in landfills because they needed sunlight.
And, yes, a lot of them broke before you could get your groceries home.
That doesn't mean that such efforts are impossible or unimportant. It means that preserving the environment might end up being more expensive or less convenient in the short term than continuing to destroy it.
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What bullshit. No one is planning to distill ethanol with 'gasoline'. We can use our copious amounts of natural gas and coal, hell, even nuclear energy to create enough ethanol to last for centuries. The article you cite only reaches such absurd conclusions because it includes solar energy as an input.
In actual 'energy' usage, ethanol does require more energy to create than it offers. A lot of that energy comes from the sun, though, instead of from limited resources. Think of it as a way to convert sunlight and any random heat source around 200Â F into automotive fuel. In that regard, I'm pretty sure it's even more efficient to produce than hydrogen that is electrically 'cracked'.
Another benefit of ethanol is that it is a clean, safe liquid fuel that is completely compatible with existing combustion engines.
Yeah, they'll let you charge whatever you want through their internet services because the rates are absurd. The price is based on the assumption that an overly large number of your transactions will be fraudulent.
Banks love this because they get to charge more to make up for this 'risk'. They'll continue to push insecure solutions a la Explorer/Windows and make everyone else use their internet gateway because everyone knows they're insecure and that just means more money for them.
Mainstreet Credit Verification Engine is a cheap, well-documented, multi-platform processing backend that can be integrated with almost anything that you can find.
The Unix version of ICVerify has been discontinued, but they say they are 'working on' a new version that will support Linux.
(such as the Elastic Clause which permits congress all powers that it may "reasonably" claim)
Talk about privacy-advocates mis-quoting the Constitution... Here's the clause to which you refer. I don't think it means what you think it means:
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
This doesn't grant any new powers. It gives Congress lawmaking ability. It isn't extra or contradictory; it's necessary. There wouldn't be a legislature without it.
Moreover, it is most definately not clear how the rules established in the Constitution... interface with contemporary laws.
Mostly, they don't. That's the problem. Two-hundred years of pansy-mis-interpretation of the Constitution have left the Judiciary confused and irrelevant. The President can now declare War, for Christ's sake! I might have some respect for the court if it started randomly striking-down new laws that are obviously outside the scope of Federal powers, but I don't see that happening.
There wouldn't be a need for lawyers or judges or The Supreme Court at all, since everyone would understand the laws.
I didn't say that everyone can understand the self-contradictory dribble that our illiterate lawmakers put out. I said that everyone can understand the Constitution, except, it seems, many of said lawmakers.
'Militia' may have a different connotation, maybe even a negative one to certain people, but the definition is the same as it always was. The National Guard is not the Militia. It is an instrument of National power, not of "the people".
if you're so happy to take the text of the Constitution/Bill of Rights perfectly literally, why aren't you happy to take all the laws of the day?
Good question. The Constitution is a very idealistic document. It is obvious that, while they were able to envision such ideals, even the founding fathers were unable to live by them. I would just expect that a country as rich as ours would be able to do a better job.
I am not impressed with what I see of the legal establishment. You should stop trying to 'awe' me with mention of the institutions and titles that these idiots have granted themselves. I've had political science professors try to tell me that the Amendments to the Constitution serve to restrict rights, rather than protect them. I've had logic professors who didn't know their ass from their face and spent the entire class lecturing about how lazy my generation is instead of teaching. Something is seriously wrong with most of their thought patterns, and I'll be damned if I'm going to let it affect my liberty.
On a side note, I recently read this book and found it to be an insightful and balanced look into these issues and more.
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Lots of countries have complicated wine laws that regulate what can be labeled as, for instance, 'Merlot' even though it contains 20% something else.
Those gallon-sized containers of soy sauce can be labelled as 'Naturally Brewed' even though they're made in tanks from a mix of chemicals and dye.
Microsoft provides the filesystem. It works for 90% of users that just want to store MP3's and catalogue them.
Microsoft provides the database. It works for the other 10% that need it but it costs a hefty penny.
Suprise, suprise, third-party databases no longer run as quickly on the new 'improved' filesystem. Welcome to M$ proprietary hell.
No, they all think it's a secular democracy, now.
I sat in on a speech in which the chief justice of their supreme court jumped through all sorts of logical hoops to try to convince everyone that Israel is not a religious state.
It was sad, really... just an obvious attempt to gartner support from the US by disassociating themselves from the other 'terrorist' states.
It says clearly that the patch was accepted into the kernel in 2002. IBM merged with Sequent in 1999. You do the math.
1) They spent years alienating their users with crappy products. (VisionFS is a bug-ridden POS that crashes more often than Windows. I've locked-up OpenServer boxes before by altering *routing* tables.)
2) They ignored Linux until Caldera bought them out.
3) Caldera made a half-assed attempt to push existing SCO users towards Linux.
4) Their (already alienated) users didn't jump at this chance immediately.
I'm currently replacing as many SCO boxes as I can with RedHat, extra cheap. SCO has wrought what it hath sown.
[rant]Companies that are that stupid and backwards to insist on still using ancient versions of Windows on ancient hardware instead of moving on to Linux don't deserve free software to placate their miserliness,[/rant] but you forgot K-Meleon.
If the only thing that distinguishes you from me is that you know I'm an idiot, then you must also be an idiot and not know it. That should be okay because I won't know it either. Except... I do :)
I'm glad to hear that that's wrong, though. It's been almost a year since I looked into it, and maybe I wasn't looking in the right places or maybe things have changed.
Unless those developers write online banking applications, this move will certainly hit Apple where it counts: business' adoption of alternative OS'.
I don't think it's Alfred E. Neumann
I wouldn't complain if you join all the other sites and stop supporting NS4, even if I had to upgrade my clients' for free.
I'm not saying I don't believe you, but that doesn't sound right. Does that include the efficiencies of creating the electricity to begin with, or what?
This site, for example, says Therefore, electrolysis can be (and is) performed at very high efficiencies close to 100%.
It turns out that the bags didn't degrade in landfills because they needed sunlight.
And, yes, a lot of them broke before you could get your groceries home.
That doesn't mean that such efforts are impossible or unimportant. It means that preserving the environment might end up being more expensive or less convenient in the short term than continuing to destroy it.
In actual 'energy' usage, ethanol does require more energy to create than it offers. A lot of that energy comes from the sun, though, instead of from limited resources. Think of it as a way to convert sunlight and any random heat source around 200Â F into automotive fuel. In that regard, I'm pretty sure it's even more efficient to produce than hydrogen that is electrically 'cracked'.
Another benefit of ethanol is that it is a clean, safe liquid fuel that is completely compatible with existing combustion engines.
Most other liquors are 'cut' with this cheap grain alcohol to make them more profitable.
BTW, does anyone know how to actually retrieve the SHA1 sum from a
Don't forget to ask for the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable.
Banks love this because they get to charge more to make up for this 'risk'. They'll continue to push insecure solutions a la Explorer/Windows and make everyone else use their internet gateway because everyone knows they're insecure and that just means more money for them.
The Unix version of ICVerify has been discontinued, but they say they are 'working on' a new version that will support Linux.
A Linux based POS will run on this. A WinCE system will only run on something that is less powerful and more expensive.
Send them a polite e-mail requesting every piece of GPL software you can think of. And please post it and the response on /.
Can't spell or write these people either. Work quality suffer.
And that's why the War on Iraq will only create more terrorists.
Socialism is the opposite. Discuss...
Talk about privacy-advocates mis-quoting the Constitution... Here's the clause to which you refer. I don't think it means what you think it means:
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
This doesn't grant any new powers. It gives Congress lawmaking ability. It isn't extra or contradictory; it's necessary. There wouldn't be a legislature without it.
Moreover, it is most definately not clear how the rules established in the Constitution... interface with contemporary laws.
Mostly, they don't. That's the problem. Two-hundred years of pansy-mis-interpretation of the Constitution have left the Judiciary confused and irrelevant. The President can now declare War, for Christ's sake! I might have some respect for the court if it started randomly striking-down new laws that are obviously outside the scope of Federal powers, but I don't see that happening.
There wouldn't be a need for lawyers or judges or The Supreme Court at all, since everyone would understand the laws.
I didn't say that everyone can understand the self-contradictory dribble that our illiterate lawmakers put out. I said that everyone can understand the Constitution, except, it seems, many of said lawmakers.
'Militia' may have a different connotation, maybe even a negative one to certain people, but the definition is the same as it always was. The National Guard is not the Militia. It is an instrument of National power, not of "the people".
if you're so happy to take the text of the Constitution/Bill of Rights perfectly literally, why aren't you happy to take all the laws of the day?
Good question. The Constitution is a very idealistic document. It is obvious that, while they were able to envision such ideals, even the founding fathers were unable to live by them. I would just expect that a country as rich as ours would be able to do a better job.
I am not impressed with what I see of the legal establishment. You should stop trying to 'awe' me with mention of the institutions and titles that these idiots have granted themselves. I've had political science professors try to tell me that the Amendments to the Constitution serve to restrict rights, rather than protect them. I've had logic professors who didn't know their ass from their face and spent the entire class lecturing about how lazy my generation is instead of teaching. Something is seriously wrong with most of their thought patterns, and I'll be damned if I'm going to let it affect my liberty.
On a side note, I recently read this book and found it to be an insightful and balanced look into these issues and more.