Way too heavy on graphics and way too slow for people in rural areas without access to the kind of bandwidth people in large cities have! With the heavy graphics it will probably run me over my Hughesnet bandwidth allotment to use the new design.
I am not sure who came up with the idea of the redesign, but it will not work for folks with lower speed links. It is so painful on my satellite link that I have to believe that it will be worse on 2G or 3G wireless links (much of rural America does not have anything faster). I know most of my neighbors are still working on dialup because where we live there is NO DSL and NO CABLE. High speed in these parts is called a T1 at $500/month.
Slashdot readers do not visit the site for eye candy, we visit the site for the information. Please scrap the beta before wasting too much time and money on it. The only good thing I can say about beta.slashdot.org is that it seems to work properly in lynx. Maybe I will be forced to use lynx to view slashdot in the future.
FreeBSD 8.0 and a couple of Intel Pro100B nics or Gigabyte NICS installed on any x86 system built in the last 10 years should do just fine as a router.
The Bio-Medical Cartel are mentioned because they
everyday impact fair use and the public domain
in a negative way. Bio-Medical reesearch is
done with public funding by way of government grants to university research labs. This work that was paid for by tax payer dollars is then often sold off to the BM Cartel who lock it away
from public use with either patents or copyright
depending on the work. The company that has a lock on the technology then sells it at a high price to
the public.
Since the public paid for the research by way of taxes this research should be public doamin!
End result: John Q. Public pays twice and he gets screwed out of being able to use the results of the research he already payed for with his tax dollars because the englobulators have the results of the research locked up for their exclusive use untill long after JQP's death.
Greeting-
I own one of the first Toyota Prius that came into the country. The car really rocks! It is great both on the highway and in the city. The biggest variable on fuel consumption is use of heat/AC. On a nice spring or fall day with no heat/AC running I do right around the 50MPG that they claim in the EPA tests. These results are in the north east with highway speeds limited to 55. On a long trip from New York to Texas last year with a crusing speed of 70 Mph from West Virginia to Texas the millage was 42Mpg with the heat running.
Folks that claim the cars do not have enough pickup have probably never driven one! I also think that the prius is cute. It is about the same size as the new Honda 4 door hybrid offering, but gets better millage and offers less polution. The Honda runs the internal combustion engine all the time and uses the battries for a boost when needed. The Toyota actually shuts down the gasoline engine when it is not needed. I have had the ICE shutdown on the highway and been on total battery power even at highway speeds.
Due to changes in the electrical end of things and even better arodynamics the 2004 Toyota Prius is slightly bigger than the older ones, but has more power and gets better milage! This is the 4th year that the Prius is being sold in the USA and it was sold in Japan for several years before that.
The poster that commented on the American Hybrid pulled had the reason wrong. It has nothing to do with charging technology. You do not plug in a Hybrid. The electricity to charge the battery comes from regenerative breaking or surpluss power generated by the ICE when it is running. The ICE is set to run at nearly a constant RPM so it is at it's most effecient. If it is generating more power than the wheels need the surplus goes to the battery. The american offering was pulled because it was a Diesel-electric Hybrid and the US EPA rubber stamped the California EPA anti-diesel laws to become national law, so even though the deisel-electric was more effecient than a gasoline-electric and put out less real polution than current year model all gasoline cars the project had to be scrapped.
Slashdot may not be the best place to ask about hybrids. There are Hybrid owner websites and even a yahoo-groups devoted to hybrids.
One thing that many folks that have come to Linux in
the last 5 years may not be aware of is that AT&T
about 10 years ago (around the time of the first
releases of Linux) brought suit against the now
defunct BSDI claiming that there was ATT code in BSD. BSDI spent lots of $$, on it and in the end
it was found that AT&T had grabbed BSD code and
stripped out the copyright notices. In the
end the court said the BSD folks can't call their
stuff Unix (thus we no longer talk about BSD Unix,
only *BSD) and AT&T had to respect the BSD license
and put the notices back in the code.
So what does this have to do with the price of
ice in Alaska? Glad you asked..... BSD development
got very slow and many good developers that I know
went over to doing Linux development durring the
years of the suit, thus giving Linux a much needed
boost. These folks did this because they did not
want to lose their code to AT&T if BSDI lost the case. Since then the BSD family has not had the
popular or press following that Linux has, but
it has still grown to become the robust system it is today and the great thing is that SCO/Caldera can not move against the BSDs because the court already ruled against them (they bought what AT&T
had). So while the new owners of Unix, like many
recent Linux converts, have not learned from history and are doomed to repeat it the BSD groups
do not have to go through it all over again!
I sure hope that discovery in these trials shows
that SCO is in violation of the GPL. Sure
would love to see the FSF or some one get some damages on that one!
-bsdguy
--
DRM is theft! We are the stakeholders! - http://www.nyfairuse.org/
www.nyfairuse.org
has been trying for many weeks to get the word out
on this issue and we have submitted this to/. for about 4 weeks. I am glad some one has at last gotten the word out on slashdot. There is an article at
www.qrz.com that
has more info on the issue and this
page has a form to allow you to properly submit comments to the FCC. The FCC must have the
electronic submissions in a specific format. The
web form will put it in the proper format.
Comments need to be in to the FCC by 2002/12/05 at
the lattest.
Slashdot Mirror
Way too heavy on graphics and way too slow for people in rural areas without access to the kind of bandwidth people in large cities have! With the heavy graphics it will probably run me over my Hughesnet bandwidth allotment to use the new design.
I am not sure who came up with the idea of the redesign, but it will not work for folks with lower speed links. It is so painful on my satellite link that I have to believe that it will be worse on 2G or 3G wireless links (much of rural America does not have anything faster). I know most of my neighbors are still working on dialup because where we live there is NO DSL and NO CABLE. High speed in these parts is called a T1 at $500/month.
Slashdot readers do not visit the site for eye candy, we visit the site for the information. Please scrap the beta before wasting too much time and money on it. The only good thing I can say about beta.slashdot.org is that it seems to work properly in lynx. Maybe I will be forced to use lynx to view slashdot in the future.
-Brett
I love buffalo too! I like mine cooked rare! YUM!
FreeBSD 8.0 and a couple of Intel Pro100B nics or Gigabyte NICS installed on any x86 system
built in the last 10 years should do just fine as a router.
http://www.freebsd.org/
Check this page on conference day for a list of icecast servers. In the mean time you can test your player on one of the below streams.
We could use more streaming servers. Please contact us if you want to join our network of streaming servers.
Since the public paid for the research by way of taxes this research should be public doamin!
End result: John Q. Public pays twice and he gets screwed out of being able to use the results of the research he already payed for with his tax dollars because the englobulators have the results of the research locked up for their exclusive use untill long after JQP's death.
I invite you to really take a look at the list of folks that have signed on for panels and then decide if this is really a flash event. See the press release at http://www.nyfairuse.org/icc/media1.xhtml
FYI- we are already in planning for next year and congress 2005.
-Brett Wynkoop
Working member of NYFU
Just take a look at what happened at the NYU dental school at www.nyfairuse.org/ed.xhtml.
Greeting-
I own one of the first Toyota Prius that came
into the country. The car really rocks! It is
great both on the highway and in the city. The
biggest variable on fuel consumption is use of
heat/AC. On a nice spring or fall day with no
heat/AC running I do right around the 50MPG that
they claim in the EPA tests. These results are
in the north east with highway speeds limited to
55. On a long trip from New York to Texas last
year with a crusing speed of 70 Mph from West
Virginia to Texas the millage was 42Mpg with the
heat running.
Folks that claim the cars do not have enough
pickup have probably never driven one! I also
think that the prius is cute. It is about the
same size as the new Honda 4 door hybrid
offering, but gets better millage and offers
less polution. The Honda runs the internal
combustion engine all the time and uses the
battries for a boost when needed. The Toyota
actually shuts down the gasoline engine when it
is not needed. I have had the ICE shutdown
on the highway and been on total battery power
even at highway speeds.
Due to changes in the electrical end of things
and even better arodynamics the 2004 Toyota Prius
is slightly bigger than the older ones, but has
more power and gets better milage! This is the
4th year that the Prius is being sold in the USA
and it was sold in Japan for several years before
that.
The poster that commented on the American Hybrid
pulled had the reason wrong. It has nothing to
do with charging technology. You do not plug in
a Hybrid. The electricity to charge the battery
comes from regenerative breaking or surpluss
power generated by the ICE when it is running.
The ICE is set to run at nearly a constant
RPM so it is at it's most effecient. If it is
generating more power than the wheels need the
surplus goes to the battery. The american
offering was pulled because it was a
Diesel-electric Hybrid and the US EPA rubber
stamped the California EPA anti-diesel laws
to become national law, so even though the
deisel-electric was more effecient than a
gasoline-electric and put out less real polution
than current year model all gasoline cars
the project had to be scrapped.
Slashdot may not be the best place to ask about
hybrids. There are Hybrid owner websites and
even a yahoo-groups devoted to hybrids.
Hope this helps!
So what does this have to do with the price of ice in Alaska? Glad you asked..... BSD development got very slow and many good developers that I know went over to doing Linux development durring the years of the suit, thus giving Linux a much needed boost. These folks did this because they did not want to lose their code to AT&T if BSDI lost the case. Since then the BSD family has not had the popular or press following that Linux has, but it has still grown to become the robust system it is today and the great thing is that SCO/Caldera can not move against the BSDs because the court already ruled against them (they bought what AT&T had). So while the new owners of Unix, like many recent Linux converts, have not learned from history and are doomed to repeat it the BSD groups do not have to go through it all over again!
I sure hope that discovery in these trials shows that SCO is in violation of the GPL. Sure would love to see the FSF or some one get some damages on that one!
-bsdguy
--
DRM is theft! We are the stakeholders! - http://www.nyfairuse.org/
You can still get your comments in to the
FCC. They are accepting them until 2359 6 December 2002.
http://www.nyfairuse.org/action/fcc.flag/
will take you to a form that will properly format and send your comments to the FCC.
Comments need to be in to the FCC by 2002/12/05 at the lattest.